they shouldn't be allowed to refuse to pay for blood transfusions either...

sounds like the t-bagger rants about jack-booted govt oppression, but somehow i doubt they'll support a moroccan:-[

i'm webmaster for bostoncamerata.org, the medieval music group mr. razgui has performed with:

http://bostoncamerata.org/blog/over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-have/

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/usps_sat_delivery/?p=usps_sat_delivery&r=6996486&id=54647-6492083-C9f%3DyFx

gotta agree w'""The post office is one of the few things that makes our nation great." that was ben franklin's plan, and i think he would agree w/ ur idea of ip-physical mapping as the 21st cent. implementation of his original vision.

and then an personal/email-physical mapping would allow seamless snail/email integration, eliminating the vendor lock-in of addresses: it's such a p-i-t-a to change all your creditcard/banking/whatever email contacts that people just hang onto their aol.com addrs (and i think that's all that's keeping aol afloat;-)

since we already give our financial providers our physical addr, the usps could allow a single-point update of contact email.

or pass the time as a jitney, generating income & reducing the need 4 expensive fixed-route rail;-)

i've been kludging an mp3 player page & got it to play on clicking in both osX & winXP, but none of the linuces i've tried recently(fc16, mint12, ubuntu12) will play anything in the browser out-of-the-box, even tho they'll gladly play mp3s locally:-\

so would u let me know if u can play any of the mp3s on http://bostoncamerata.org/camradioNew.html from ur browser?

10q

not is is not is not

oops...2nd amendment;-)

updated 4 the 21st century: to include the right to keep & bear compilers;-)

that offended my sensibilities, 2 (the throwing away, not ur post;-) i also ripped them out & saved 'em...made gr8 handwarmers when shorted;-)

what i said above;-)

and have u noticed the new commercial holy water, dispensed in convenient pop-up tissues @ every grocery store entrance, or in wall-mounted pumps, for a ritual handwashing on entry;-)

as a form of nasal innoculation with whatever pathogens are floating around;-}

no, celebrity _is_ the new religion;-}

isn't it the very definition of evolutionary advantageous behavior? religions exist because they are good at motivating & organizing the efforts of large #s ( >small kinship bands) of people to accomplish works that provide survival value. doesn't the bible have helpful advice such as: get ur drinking water_upstream_from ur latrine?

religion is folk-psychology, using behavioral modification techniques that work on the individual, transmitting valuable information, in a pre-literate world, by way of mnemonic stories, ensuring that subsequent generations don't have to reinvent the wheel.

> people's behavior (in this case, children) was distinctly impacted positively by the concept of 'an invisible being watching me'.

what the rabid atheists overlook is that the target audience of religious teachings, which aren't intended to withstand rational, critical examination, is the _pre_rational mind, ie: children. a conscience must be created while still possible...isn't the age of reason a long-established concept in law & religion?

so habituating the pre-rational mind to moral behavior while it is still influenced by magical thinking is necessary to produce moral adults.

and that is imho the primary function of religion: socializing each new batch of barbarians;-)

doesn't the bible also mention getting drinking water _upstream_ from the latrine? religion is a way, in pre-literate times, of preserving & passing on knowledge by wrapping them in mnemonic stories, as well as explaining the unexplained (thunder&lightning? da' gods;-)

but imho, the atheists miss the primary function of religion: socializing each new batch of barbarians, before a conscience can be instilled in a child. religion is indigenous psychology... and what better way to make people listen than to threaten eternal damnation?

who perhaps don't know, given the sad state of education in the u.s., that all of europe was rebuilt about 60 years ago under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan