Comment Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score 1) 1582
There should be a "Patient" achievement for waiting more than a minute for the comment preview to actually show you a preview...
There should be a "Patient" achievement for waiting more than a minute for the comment preview to actually show you a preview...
AH. Missed one. However, this article apparently doesn't count for the "April Fools Day" achievement.
Hmm. No achievements for user journals?
Seriously, this whole free will debate is pointless.
Of course, you couldn't help but say that.
Are we looking at the same numbers? Because the references I quoted you pretty much disagree with your statements. For the record, from the wikipedia article on the 1964 CRA:
Totals are in "Yea-Nay" format:
The original House version:[9]
* Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
* Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)The Senate version:[9]
* Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
* Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)The Senate version, voted on by the House:[9]
* Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
* Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)
Ok. Tell me how 80% of a party voting for the 1964 Civil Rights Act is, in fact, "opposing civil rights"?
As for the "lying Republicans like you" comment - frankly, I'm disgusted. I've cited facts and figures from a (famously) unbiased source, and yet, you still insist that I am the one who's making things up?
As for your ad hominem attacks... you apparently have zero knowledge of me, or my personal views or beliefs, other than that I'm an avowed Republican. And yet, based solely on that one choice - my political party - you have the unmitigated gall not only to judge and condemn me, but to do so based off of your inference of my beliefs? Isn't that the very definition of prejudice?
You, sir, are not just an ass. You have demonstrated yourself to be a bigot of the worst sort.
My three daughters were born in China, so this story of gross incompetence and arrogance strikes close to home:
Via the Geek Etiquette blog, I came across a link to a request for donations of "gently pre-loved technical books" to help the he local IT users group of Vanuatu build a lending library. The island nation of Vanuatu is, as the request states, "a bloody long way from anywhere", and technical
if multi-touch is as cool as it looks, i would love it if it would replace the mouse. imagine having a better touchpad that gave you multi-touch for your desktop? that would be very cool. a few gestures to shrink the screen and control windows more "intuitively" than the mouse.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.