I think that contains a subset of the real problem. The real problem is people thinking that, because they belong to a certain group (country, religion, secret club), they are somehow better than people not in the same group. Nations and religions are not the problem, it's the idea that "I'm better than you" because of some group.

I was getting at the fact that the "short" routes in specific areas are still long compared to routes in other countries. The routes in the proposed system are 600-700 miles, that's wider than Germany.

The routes may work for some people but it has a very targeted audience, and the only possible benefit would be cost.

The argument still holds. The proposed rail connections are few and far between. The only place in the US that rail works well is in the North East where the population density is very high. In more rural parts of the country (Texas for example). There are a few large cities but they are very spread apart. Texas by itself is almost twice as large as Germany. There are two proposed rail lines in Texas, and they don't even intersect.

For the US to have a rail network as interconnected as in France or Germany, we would have to build the largest rail network in the world. Similar to how we currently have the largest highway network of any country.

When talking about mass transit for countries the size of the US most definitely applies.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on that.

The moral guidelines in the Bible are pretty simple to understand. The theological ideas are the tricky ones and I don't claim to have the "right" interpretation of the Bible.

The Bible includes the Old Testament, but they have two distinctly different messages.

But while Christians still have and use the Old Testament, the laws within it do not apply to Christians, and therefore the comparison the the laws within the Koran for Muslims does not apply to the laws within the Bible for Christians (There are laws in the Bible for Christians, but the majority of the Old Testament ones do not apply. As they were fulfilled by Christ)

Unfortunately that is an example of extremist Christians who are adding onto the Bible, the Bible does declare certain actions to be sin, but it doesn't call for the out casting of the people who do those things (in the New Testament). Instead, it calls for Christians to love them, just as Christ did.

Once again, unfortunately there are those who claim to be Christian but don't follow what is actually written. The world would be a much better place if Christians actually did what was is written for them to do in the Bible.

I think if you were to read the Bible, New Testament in particular, you would find that the extremist Christians are the ones who add, take away or distort what the bible actually says, rather than extremist Muslims who follow the Koran to the letter.

Christians who follow the Bible should be no threat, except to one's pride. Christianity is based on a God who loves his creation, and sent His Son to die for their sins. The New Testament doesn't instruct the killing of enemies, but loving them, as exampled by Christ.

Who knows, but we better reply to all of them to get the achievement.

let's just hope this doesn't mean google will start aggregating tweets

I think he gets an achievement for that...

according to google it did: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers

I don't think they can be called a freeloader. They are doing the same thing other sites do to get the agencies news feed. They pay for it.

OK so to take it to the extreme, go try and shoot yourself. If you succeed it was meant to happen if it doesn't then it wasn't. If you won't do it, you don't believe what you are saying.

If free will doesn't exist why bother with anything? Everything has already been "decided" for you and you are just following a path. In essence everything we worry about or fight over is totally pointless as it doesn't matter who or what is right or wrong, one of them will happen regardless of the what we think. I pity someone with that outlook.

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