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Quote: Originally Posted by Voyager Education that puts you in line for a job difficult to export. If you are studying to be a doctor or a lawyer, fine, but it might make more sense to study car repair than computer science. A programming job is easy to export, fixing a car not so much. One of the options I've thought about is going to learn some engineering and then just make crazy gadgets using a 3D printer to make molds. Being able to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Boyo Jim What's the term for some of those closeted gay legislators or ministers who champion discrimination against gays? Are they homophobic, or does some other word apply? "Hypocrite." In my opinion to be a homophobe, you have to actually be afraid of or instinctively repelled by homosexuals. If you are opposed to them for some other reason, then you are a bigot, but not a homophobe....

Yeah, the professors are bald against their will!

begbert2, I apologize for my tone in this thread. You are quite right...it won't have a major impact on price...there is no good reason why they don't put the information on the menus or on the products (or, perhaps they do, and I just haven't been to a McDonald's lately). I will bow out and leave you all to it. -XT

Quote: Originally Posted by aruvqan So you would be OK with the principal marching down to some students house and removing a gun because it might present a danger? Sorry, if the weapon is NOT on school grounds, and is stored in a legal manner in the vehicle there is no way that law is constitutional. IF the gun was stored in the car improperly, it is still NOT the schools business, but the business of the police, as they enforce the laws,...

Chavez threads should really go in the Pit. They're nothing but cheap, plain wrap RO.

Quote: Originally Posted by DrDeth Right, and in Part II, where the Police Officer more or less agrees with part I, he does say, the first thing he does in "an interview" is read the suspect his rights. Thus, in both Part I and Part II, we are talking about a Interview as a suspect, where your rights have been given to you. Not as a witness or a victim. So- it's never talk to cops- when you are a suspect. Not only a...

Or leave the house, for that matter.

Quote: Originally Posted by BrandonR But that dated article is just as flawed, because it only considers deaths : http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdgaga.html There are plenty of times you can shoot an intruder and it not kill them. Or drive off an intruder without shooting them, or even firing a shot. I imagine that the vast majority of successful defensive uses of firearms involved simply making the attacker aware that the victim...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wesley Clark A So the argument of people like Kurzweil is that brain scanning to comprehend neurology will follow the same trends. I'll just point out that decoding the genome and understanding the genome are two very different things. Hell, I can get a number of different representations of the design of one of our processors in minutes, but that is a far cry from understanding it working up from even the...