Because the baby being aborted cannot defend its life. A convict given the death penalty can take 20+ years to defend his or her chance to live.

Hell no! The biggest question is whether this experiment makes it to air on an episode. I wanna see the looks on their faces when that cannon ball misses everything and goes flying off into the sunset.

Then and only then do I want to know if they will be allowed to keep using the range.

In the case of nmap, the license forbids such wrappers. It is *NOT* a GPL license that nmap is under, even though it *is* an open source license. Fyodor's letter explains the details...

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away mens initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

---Abraham Lincoln

Yeah jobs grow the economy...but who pays those salaries? Rich people. Do the math. Make them less rich and they can't pay as many salaries.

...and yet people keep voting for Democrats who just love to tell them what to do.
You want your freedoms back? Stop voting Democrat.

Umps do a remarkable job at balls and strikes considering they have less than 2 seconds to see a pitch moving between 85 and 100 mph and judge whether it is in a small zone to call a strike.

Agree about tennis though. I loved watching Johnny Mac rant and more often than not, he was right about the calls and had every right to be upset. That said, it's really nice that players can "have their day in court" (pun intended) when they disagree w/ a call and it takes all of 15 seconds to resolve.

As for baseball, if the powers that be setup a challenge system such as 2 incorrect challenges per game w/ a correct one granting more, replay could be used on all plays quickly and easily. I'd reserve balls and strikes for the umpires unless you intend to to completely eliminate them as challenging pitches would slow an already sluggish game to a snail's pace. You could make an exception for a strikeout maybe. A blown fair/foul call on a regular hit might be a "ground-rule single" upon video reversal w/ any base runners picking up the next base (same advancement rules as ground-rule doubles would apply except 1 base instead of 2). Blown call at a base (especially first) could solve a host of arguments. Even piddly-ant blurry low-res replay from 1985 showed how bad the call was at first in the Royals/Cardinals WS. We could see it clear as crystal now. Replays would, of course, have to show overwhelming evidence (similar to NFL) to overturn calls sans a computer system like tennis has...

Baseball needs to get with the times on this.

This is the only part of your post that is even remotely on topic. The problem w/ your argument is that in order to come to a conclusion regarding someone's intelligence and/or compassion, you'd have to have contact w/ them. Those I had contact w/ were not "friends" in the sense that your post implies. I did not know them closely in the sense of them being a personal friend...simply as people I'd come across in every day life there... I still had to have contact with them in some way and it was obvious to me that they were both intelligent and compassionate people thus my original post pointing out the fallacy of the parent's argument.

You make very valid points here but what does this have to do with my post?
For the record, in my opinion, cops should be treated the same under the law as anyone else. It is due to abuse of power and corruption that they are above the law in many cases...not "because there are good cops too" as you state.

I will repeat again. My original post was not on the topic of police corruption. It was to show evidence that the parent's comment that all Texas cops and judges are crooked is a false statement.

Actually GOP and DEMs have instituted unheard of levels of surveillance increases in the last 20 years...not "just as much" as you claim.

You state as what appears to be universal truth that no police or judges in Texas have intelligence or compassion. I lived in Texas for 5 years and while I didn't know any judges, I knew several police officers, both local and DPS (state police). Those that I knew were both intelligent and compassionate people. I am sorry your son was wrongly convicted. That doesn't mean the entire state, without exception, are inconsiderate morons.

You, sir, are a bigot. Conservatives and others not named Democrats are not the great evil of the world. Stop blaming them for the world's ills. Blame this officer for what he did. Don't blame those were not involved.

Don't punish people for the act of driving while using a cell phone. Many many people are perfectly capable of doing so safely. Punish them if they hit someone. There's no need for these laws. Use the laws already on the books for things such as manslaughter. Wait til someone actually harms someone else to punish them.

You're mixing up formula w/ ingredients. No food or beverage manufacturer has to put their recipe out for the world to see...only the ingredients list. These drillers are asking not to have to reveal their "exact formula". Emphasis on FORMULA.

FWIW: I had a poly-sci prof who *was* left-leaning and his test questions were not based on facts but on his interpretations of said facts. You answered the way he wanted or you did not get credit.

Typical progressive liberal mindset. Can't take a lick of responsibility for your own actions. Always blaming someone else.

With great freedom comes great responsibility (yes I changed the quote but it applies).