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| 2008/5/16-23 [Science/Biology] UID:49966 Activity:nil |
5/16 Catholicism has no problem with evolution. Judaism
is down. Most of the mainstream Protestant denominations are
fine with it too. Dunno about Mormons. Why do the Christian
spinoffs in the USA hate science?
\_ None of the Dynasty spinoffs were very good.
\_ Catholicism *had* problem with evolution. They had to change their
view when faced with the facts in order to survive. I think the
Christian spinoffs will have to to change their views as well in
order to survive. It's just a matter of time. It's similar to the
Gallelio case.
Galileo case.
\_ Official LDS doctrine says precisely nothing about evolution.
Evolution is taught at the BYU biology department.
\_ LDS completely ignores the book of Genesis? |
| 2008/5/16 [Health/Women] UID:49967 Activity:insanely high |
5/16 Tuesday marked 3 months from the date of my breast surgery! I went
from a J cup to a DD cup (I asked to go down to a D but believe me,
I'm not complaining! I'm trying to lose weight anyways, so that might
help them go down even more). I bought my first dress EVER without
needing to alter it last week! I'm so so so happy I did this :)
\_ Some women would kill for the 1 2 3 4 5 6 cup sizes you lost |
| 2008/5/16-21 [Reference/Religion] UID:49968 Activity:nil |
5/16 "Einstein's musings about religion sells for $400K"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_en_bu/britain_einstein_letter
\_ Yes but computer science god Knuth was very very religious.
I failed to see the point you're trying to make.
\_ Since when do posts on motd always have points to make? |
| 2008/5/16-21 [Transportation/Car] UID:49969 Activity:nil |
5/15 Here's a picture of San Francisco in 1971
http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/midpano/sf71.jpg
check out the freeway! - danh
\_ A double-deck freeway along the Embarcadero? Is it fake?
\_ No, it was demolished soon after the 1988 earthquake.
\_ 1989
\_ and a great example of how removal of freeways can make
a city more attractive and liveable. -tom
\_ Only fire would make SF more attractive.
\_ Only a nuke would make LA more attractive. |
| 2008/5/16-17 [Uncategorized] UID:49970 Activity:nil |
5/15 bay bridge closure sched:
http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/Display.aspx?ID=52 |
| 2008/5/16 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Japan, Reference/History/WW2/Japan] UID:49971 Activity:moderate |
5/15 i may post some lame stuff but the underage japanese youtube
video of girl staring at camera is pretty stupid
\_ She's not even japanese
\_ Yes she is japanese, 1/2, you FUCKING DUMB ASS.
Your Japanese is horrible and your brain has been classified
as: narrow minded. Now go back to school and expand your mind. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:49972 Activity:nil |
5/16 fans of gay people, here is coverage and numerous photos
of reaction to gay marriage decision in San Fran-sissy:
http://jameth.livejournal.com/tag/gay+marriage
\_ Why the hell are the justices mostly Republicans?
\_ Why do you ask? What does it matter?
\_ The Republican Party should excommunicate these RINOs.
Schwartzenegger too, he is not of sufficient ideological
Schwarzenegger too, he is not of sufficient ideological
purity. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:49973 Activity:nil |
5/16 Congress passes huge pork bill.
http://tinyurl.com/4wwys7
http://tinyurl.com/44fywg
\_ Hello NATIONAL REVIEW crap!
\_ Is it wrong?
\_ No. NationalReview is right. Very RIGHT. Righteous.
Right wing. Right.
\_ Is this an interesting line of discussion to you?
Partisan line-drawing and team-based politics?
Left, right: it's all bullshit. Both left and right
wing politicians do stupid and corrupt things. The
rational individual will evaluate criticism impartially.
\_ The rational individual learns that some sources
are untrustworthy propaganda. While there may be
a story here, I'm not going to pay much attention
to the National Review's framing because I know they
are mendacious idealouges. (That being said I
am anti-farm subsidy, but there are plenty of sane
op eds out there declaiming the current bill.)
\_ Context seems to mean that you are saying
that there are lots of sane op-eds out there
supporting this bill. URL please? (if so)
\_ Untrustworthy propaganda? It's an op-ed. It is
not even a source. Find me a better op-ed then.
You talk as if you have no brain and can't
judge an argument on its own merits. Where's the
outcry from a mainstream source?
\_ If it's an op-ed, then label it as such. Posting
a bunch of shortened urls with a label that
appears to be about news is misleading. -10 pts.
\_ It is now. Any fact given in NRO immediately becomes untrue
by virtue of being printed there.
\_ Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Reference/History/WW2/Germany] UID:49974 Activity:nil |
5/16 Seattle Times editor defends Hitler, Chamberlain. WTF?
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/edcetera/2008/05/bush_and_his_use_of_appeasemen.html
\_ Uh, did you even read the article?
\_ Uhhh.. yes. "What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable."
\_ it is kind of cool that he self Godwin'ed
\_ Uh, did you read the *whole* article? |
| 2008/5/16-6/13 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:49975 Activity:nil |
5/16 Planned free public transit day on June 19, 2008:
http://www.sparetheair.org
\_ Except BART.
\_ Where's it say that?
\_ Sorry, no free rides on spare the air day (March 15th).
My bad...
\_ You meant May 15th (and 16th), right?
\_ ^free^taxpayer funded
\_ Is there any kind of "free" that's not funded by someone /
something?
\_ Free as in freedom?
\_ "Free" in the sense that the first reply was saying it
wasn't "free".
\_ Yes. But in this case, no. The government can not
give anyone anything for free in the real sense of the
word because the government produces nothing. The
government, on a good day, only transfer wealth from
producers to non-producers. On a typical day, the
government destroys a good portion of that wealth along
the way. On a bad day, the government flat out
destroys wealth or prevents the creation of wealth.
\_ You should move somewhere nice, like Iraq.
\_ You should actually read what I said before
snapping off a brainless one liner.
\_ So why don't anarchies like Somalia have the
world's best economies?
\_ Because no one is advocating anarchy. The
government has a role collecting taxes to raise
a common defense, building roads/bridges and
other infrastructure projects. The government
has no business taking from one group of people
to benefit another group to empower themselves
at the ballot box. The government does not create
wealth. The government can enable/assist others
to do by so building infrastructure or destroy
wealth creation through taxation and regulations.
\_ Some regulations are good of course. E.g. to
protect common resources like air quality, to
prevent fraud, or prevent cabals/monopolies
from screwing people.
\_ But the govt is taking from one group
(taxpayers) to build toll-free highways to
benefit another group (drivers).
\_ What % of taxpayers drive? Honest question.
\_ "The government does not create wealth" is
a completely meaningless statement. Want to
\_ It's not meaningless, it's false. Learn the
difference. -- ilyas
know the #1 employer in California? UC.
UC also does more research and invents more
things than any company in California.
Unless your definition of "creating wealth"
is limited to "giving money to the CEO",
it is obvious that the government can and
does create wealth. -tom
\_ So UC is the #1 employeer. So what? Its
not like UC is self-sustaining - w/o tax
revenues, government, including UC, can't
operate. When the government starts making
a profit independent of tax revenue and
starts sharing that profit with the people,
then one can say that government has
created wealth. Since that day will almost
certainly never come, government cannot
create wealth.
\_ I was going to respond to this, but
it's simply too stupid. But here's
a hint: wealth takes forms other than
cash. -tom
\_ I'm not pro-socialism but this is not
accurate. In the simplest case, if the
state owns a mine and operates it then
technically it creates wealth. Maybe
you should define "create wealth".
\_ Well my definition is pretty simple:
wealth is created when an operation
is able to repay its creditors, cover
its operational expenses, and still
has money left over that can be
distributed to its members/investors.
Can government run its operations
such that repays its creditors (the
taxpayers), covers its operational
expenses, and then still has money
left over that can be distributed
to the taxpayers?
I can agree that parts of the
government can create wealth under
this standard (e.g. the USPTO or a
mine in your example), but as a whole,
government cannot create wealth. There
is no incentive for it to create
wealth and most of its operations are
not designed for wealth creation (I
suppose if our government started to
follow the British colonial model and
plundered from the places it invades,
then our government could generate
wealth, but I hope this is not where
we are headed).
Perhaps tom is right that government
can create wealth in non-quantifiable
ways. But, that kind of "wealth,"
unlike dollars, euros, &c. can't be
used to better your life independent
of location, so I don't think it
counts.
\_ It's obvious that education
hasn't bettered your life. -tom
\_ Actually my UC engineering
degree was quite worthless.
Mostly the moderate financial
success I have had was due to
things I did outside of my ug
education along with private
professional school. And the
cost of my ug degree was more
than paid for by my tuition
and the taxes I and my parents
have paid over the years.
\_ yes, but some people make
it through Cal and actually
are not complete morons
afterwards. Sorry you
couldn't manage it. -tom
\_ Yes. For instance sea water is free.
\_ Sure. "Planned free sea water day on June 19, 2008!"
\_ "All you can drink!" |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Reference/Tax] UID:49976 Activity:nil |
5/16 "You'd be taxing success here," Kevin Casey, Harvard's associate
vice president for government, community and public affairs complained
in a quote that will soon be framed and hung in my office. "Over time,
this would put us at a real competitive disadvantage, which would
drastically hurt the Commonwealth."
\_ ugh you again
\_ You don't see the irony?
\_ NO FUCKER. TELL ME WHERE THE HUMOR IS.
\_ Clearly you were Harvard-educated... Okay, do you support
the current progressive tax system?
\_ ok dude do you really think we should start
taxing the endowments of universities?
\_ Okay, so you won't answer the question. Why do you
think we shouldn't tax them?
\_ I find you uninteresting and boring, glenn beck
\_ You too e e cummings
\_ Yeah. Why should the ivory tower get a pass on
taxes?
\_ because they're non-profit.
\_ They are private and very profitable. Their
non-profit status is a legal fiction. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:49977 Activity:nil |
5/16 motd not getting laid guy here. I'm back from vacation.
\_ did you get laid on vacation?
\_ that would make me 'motd getting laid guy'
\_ actually, 'motd got laid guy'
\_ Either could be correct.
\_ 'getting' tends to imply he will continue to do so
on a regular basis. Probably not true unless he is
permanently on vacation (say, in thailand).
\_ Could also imply he was getting laid at the very
moment he typed it. Ew.
\_ Was that a vacation from the motd or did you actually go
someplace special? |
| 2008/5/16 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:49978 Activity:nil 80%like:49980 |
5/16 German Chancellor deploying Weapons of Mass Distraction at national
opera house in Norwey:
http://news.ifeng.com/photo/200804/0414_24_489359.shtml |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:49979 Activity:nil |
5/1 Huckabee's lame Obama joke
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/huckabee-jokes.html
\_ He might have been referring to this:
http://www.banhandgunsnow.org/everyhandgun/index.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5582268
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4fvb83 [democratic underground] |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:49980 Activity:nil 80%like:49978 |
5/16 German Chancellor Merkel deploying Weapons of Mass Distraction at
national opera house in Norwey:
http://www.csua.org/u/lko (Yahoo! News) |
| 2008/5/16-17 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:49981 Activity:moderate |
5/15 Cute underaged girls who looks like someone in anime. You'll appreciate
this if you're into anime. Otherwise, you're probably think this is
stupid. Bad teeth, big eyes, good Japanese. Yay! -Asianphile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gty73p4AYuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_IroQwcjQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_C7VLrCnqo
link:tinyurl.com/6jgxyu
http://tinyurl.com/4m2rzv
\_ Dude, no one wants to see this stupid video. No one on YouTube
likes it and it has been deleted from MOTD repeatedly (not just
\_ no one? the rating's pretty high. YOU don't like it, fine,
but don't speak for others, fucking dimwit
\_ Read the comments and the first video got 2 stars out of 5.
\_ what about the rest? and all the other videos she has?
what is the average? ANSWER ME.
by me). The video sucks by any definition. Why is this crappy
video of a bland, unattractive girl doing nothing of note of
interest to anyone? --dim
interest to anyone? Post the one where she takes her top off
\_ look, i don't like jackie johnson. you are the most narrow
minded piece of crap i've ever met. fuck off
\_ If I spam MOTD with youtube videos of JJ then feel
free to delete. You sure are defensive.
or something. --dim
\_ to each his own. Fuck off dim.
\_ Yes, let's just post all of our favorite 25 youtube links
to MOTD. What are you trying to accomplish here? You say
yourself that people will probably think it's stupid. It is.
\_ Why are her eyes so big?
\_ I see motd boob guy had a kid named motd weirdo asian fetish
I never thought of before guy. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:49982 Activity:nil |
5/16 Why did Social Security ever get passed in 1935? Stupid.
\_ because you're an idiot?
\_ Correlation does not imply causation.
\_ FDR was a communist who hated America, see also, the
New Deal and the Yalta Conference.
\_ Because no one envisioned that some day population growth will
slow down and the pay-as-you go scheme will collapse. Actually,
it is predicted that the social security will not be able to
honor the currently promissed retirement payments some time in
the 2050s. Not bad for such a "badly" designed system. Still,
something should be done about it soner rather than later. |
| 2008/5/16-23 [Uncategorized] UID:49983 Activity:nil |
5/16 Don't you hate it when this happens? Try touch typing on this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobgordon/2455618195/in/photostream |
| 2008/5/16-17 [Uncategorized] UID:49984 Activity:nil |
5/16 RIP Robert Mondavi |
| 2008/5/16 [Uncategorized] UID:49985 Activity:nil |
5/15 This is stupid. |
| 2008/5/16 [Uncategorized] UID:49986 Activity:nil |
5/16 Dim, why don't you FUCK OFF |
| 5/17 |