"if they shared domesticability in common with the Indian elephant and the extinct Atlas elephant"
I don't know about the Atlas elephant, but the Indian elephant is not domesticated. Individual Indian elephants are caught and tamed, but they won't breed in captivity, so they aren't a domesticated animal.
if your moral argument leads to the conclusion that killing is never justified under any circumstances
I think this would make you part of the ‘pacifists, Quakers and other bourgeois fools’ as someone said, who indulge in ‘pacifist-Quaker-vegetarian prattle about the sanctity of human life’, as someone else said from the quote from Ken above.
Any suggestions at all would thrill and amaze and make my day.
Oh yeah?
Ghostbusters II!
Is there any sequence of actions that will not come to seem to users the normal way to get a task accomplished, if they repeat it often enough?
mousepress swipe release
Damn! shuffle shuffle mouseclick
Control Alt Delete
When's a blast door not a blast door?
When it's a Jar-Jar!
So, who's the candidate from Tatooine?
[jawa]
Kucinich!
[/jawa]
I like the doggie haikus.
Why do you pick up
my turds in a plastic bag?
Here, have a hot one!
So, who's been wondering why the Martians didn't shoot down the Spirit probe?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_mysterons/
Two comments from the papers today:
Saddam getting his oral exam, caption: "Search for Bin Laden continues".
In the other, after the capture of Saddam, Bin Laden retains the Middle-East Hide-and-Seek title.
Bob, I think that answer depends on your interpretation of the question. Free fall is an example of when a person is under the full force of gravity but has no perception or sensation of it. You feel weightless, but not because there is no force of gravity acting on you.
I think "Parse tricksy questions involving basic physics" would be a better title for the test.
Look, at In God We Trust, it's the General! But why is he no his usual happy self? Did someone do something to make Jesus cry?
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
95%, and no argument from me on the two I got wrong, the explanations given are correct. Both questions I got wrong concerned heat, temperature and heat transfer.
I went to look at the first Bush-Gore debate to see what Bush said about Saddam, and I was struck by this answer from Governor Bush:
LEHRER: New question.
How would you go about, as president, deciding when it was in the national interest to use U.S. force? Generally.
BUSH: Well, if it's in our vital national interests. And that means whether or not our territory -- our territory is threatened, our people could be harmed, whether or not our alliances -- our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force.
Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear, whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be.
Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win, whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped.
And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy.
I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don't think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we've got to be very careful when we commit our troops.
The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation-building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders.
BUSH: I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
And so I take my responsibility seriously. And it starts with making sure we rebuild our military power.
Morale in today's military is too low. We're having trouble meeting recruiting goals. We met the goals this year, but in the previous years, we have not met recruiting goals. Some of our troops are not well-equipped. I believe we're overextended in too many places.
And, therefore, I want to rebuild the military power. It starts with a billion dollar pay raise for the men and women who wear the uniform, a billion dollars more than the president recently signed into law, to make sure our troops are well-housed and well-equipped; bonus plans to keep some of our high-skilled folks in the services; and a commander in chief who clearly sets the mission, and the mission is to fight and win war, and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
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