I don't steal anything. Neither does "everyone" else. Some people actually do follow their conscience and don't steal content. Morality is a concept which is ingrained in all of us; you have a God given conscience that tells you right from wrong.

Companies have the right to do what is legal for them to do. You have the right to turn off your television set, take off your head phones, get up from your computer desk and do something productive in your life. You're caught up in the lust of the world:

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

Proverbs 27:20

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Your cravings for these things will never end. If it isn't one thing, it will be the other. You need to set your eyes on Heavenly things, on the peace of Jesus Christ. You need to turn from sin and turn towards Jesus Christ. When you start life sanctified by the riches of His grace and mercy, you will find true fulfillment.

>> ^Thumper:

>> ^Hanover_Phist:

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" ~Gandhi


I think the title of this documentary is very misleading if it is indeed filming one farm. My Dad was a pig farmer for 20 years and although as far as I'm concerned it is cruel to keep farrowing pigs in those cages, I know that everything was always kept clean; when piglets were due to be born, the farmers working there would be on demand as much as possible. I know that I'm talking about just one man and his experience, but I still think it's a bit out of line to insinuate this is the good ol' British way.

>> ^lsue:

It's a little more complicated then this - rules and access vary provincially. In Alberta, for example, good luck finding a clinic which will preform an abortion past 20 weeks.
"Who Performs Late Term Abortions:
Hospitals and some clinics in Canada perform abortions on request up to about 20 weeks, and a
few centres do abortions up to 22 or 23 weeks. However, most of the very small number of
abortions performed over 20 weeks gestation in Canada are done to protect the woman’s physical
health, or because of serious fetal abnormalities. Such problems cannot be discovered until an
amniocentesis test is done on the fetus later in pregnancy. Rare abortions after 22 or 23 weeks
gestation are also done in Canada for some cases of lethal fetal abnormalities, where the fetus
cannot survive after birth.
Since abortion services after 20 weeks are not always readily accessible in all parts of Canada,
women are sometimes referred to clinics in the United States (Kansas, Washington State, and
Colorado). Such procedures and associated expenses may be funded in full or part by some
provincial governments."
http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/postionpapers/22-Late-term-Abortions.PDF
>> ^bcglorf:
>> ^EMPIRE:
he mentions a woman possibly coming into the ER 7 months pregnant after having been raped. Is it even possible, legally, to get an abortion at such a late stage? At 7 months, that is pretty much a formed baby. I mean... there have been cases of premature babies with a lot less than 7 months of development.

In Canada it's legal right up until the very last second before birth. And heaven forbid anyone in our country discuss that might be too far, you'll be branded some woman hating neo-con trying to remove the rights of everyone who isn't a white male.




Criminal laws on/against abortion are a federal matter though. And Canada has for some time now very clearly established that there is NO LAW against abortions. Current Canadian federal law in ALL provinces and territories makes all abortion, even up to 9 months, perfectly and completely legal.

It's a little more complicated then this - rules and access vary provincially. In Alberta, for example, good luck finding a clinic which will preform an abortion past 20 weeks.

"Who Performs Late Term Abortions:

Hospitals and some clinics in Canada perform abortions on request up to about 20 weeks, and a
few centres do abortions up to 22 or 23 weeks. However, most of the very small number of
abortions performed over 20 weeks gestation in Canada are done to protect the woman’s physical
health, or because of serious fetal abnormalities. Such problems cannot be discovered until an
amniocentesis test is done on the fetus later in pregnancy. Rare abortions after 22 or 23 weeks
gestation are also done in Canada for some cases of lethal fetal abnormalities, where the fetus
cannot survive after birth.

Since abortion services after 20 weeks are not always readily accessible in all parts of Canada,
women are sometimes referred to clinics in the United States (Kansas, Washington State, and
Colorado). Such procedures and associated expenses may be funded in full or part by some
provincial governments."

http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/postionpapers/22-Late-term-Abortions.PDF

>> ^bcglorf:

>> ^EMPIRE:
he mentions a woman possibly coming into the ER 7 months pregnant after having been raped. Is it even possible, legally, to get an abortion at such a late stage? At 7 months, that is pretty much a formed baby. I mean... there have been cases of premature babies with a lot less than 7 months of development.

In Canada it's legal right up until the very last second before birth. And heaven forbid anyone in our country discuss that might be too far, you'll be branded some woman hating neo-con trying to remove the rights of everyone who isn't a white male.

If i was the presenter - i don't care if i'd have been cut off, fired, or fucked in the ass - i'd have said "I'm giving you an opportunity to state that you are not funded by them - if you avoid the question you're clearly funding them. If you're not, please deny it - otherwise, i and the viewers at home will conclude that you are."

I'd have fucking shouted it to get it heard if necessary. Her mind is like a gaping void. Did they just get a porn actress to learn 20 phrases and repeat them as necessary, hoping her face would distract the population of men out there?

This is everything that is wrong with politics, debate, etc. nowadays. For me, this doesn't highlight how terrible she is and how underhanded the whole thing is. What this shows is how systemic the rot is.

> He wants to abolish auto safety

FUNNY!!!

I am sure when automaker 1 says "We got rid of seatbelts and our car is $20 cheaper!" and automaker 2 says "We've improved our seatbelts even more, and we still do expensive crash testing." that the buyers will set the policy for automotive safety.

Yes, I've seen all of this before..it is unconvincing. As soon as you start twisting scripture to support your conclusion, you've ceased being interested in the truth.

Revelation 20:10

and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.


>> ^SDGundamX:
This link is directed mostly @shinyblurry but is also for anyone who is interested in an analysis of what the different versions/translations of the Bible say about hell/Sheol/Hades. It comes to a similar conclusion as this bishop in the video that the idea of hell as a burning lake isn't supported by scripture.

Cheers, mate, pretty much the same here. I've poured hundreds of hours, possibly even a thousand hours into the Elder Scrolls series, and I don't regret that (ummm... much), but currently other activities are taking up too much of my time. Activities such as still-too-little-sleep Maybe half a year from now, with all the fantastic mods that fans will have created... Maybe. High-five for mental resilience against this apparent gem of a game though!

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
Thanks for the quality. It is an incredible looking game... even though I've yet to play it... and probably never will - I'm not sure I want to lose that much of my free time

In reply to this comment by EDD:
I haven't played a minute of Skyrim - not yet.

As I clicked on the Play button, I glanced at the 8:20 length, and thought, "No way in hell I'm going to watch all 8-minutes uninterrupted, not with my attention-span."

Boy, was I wrong. *quality

Thanks for the quality. It is an incredible looking game... even though I've yet to play it... and probably never will - I'm not sure I want to lose that much of my free time

In reply to this comment by EDD:
I haven't played a minute of Skyrim - not yet.

As I clicked on the Play button, I glanced at the 8:20 length, and thought, "No way in hell I'm going to watch all 8-minutes uninterrupted, not with my attention-span."

Boy, was I wrong. *quality

I haven't played a minute of Skyrim - not yet.

As I clicked on the Play button, I glanced at the 8:20 length, and thought, "No way in hell I'm going to watch all 8-minutes uninterrupted, not with my attention-span."

Boy, was I wrong. *quality

It was a 'really' good episode. The part about the mushrooms and acid was spot on. There are so many antidepressants and antipsychotics out there that are fucking people up more than fixing them. I had some mind-altering experiences with Acid and mushrooms in my 20's and I truly do believe I'm a wiser and more open person today because of them.

Granted I also once had a bad trip on some particularly nasty eye drops and woke up naked the next morning at a big party. But what the hell!

@blankfist

Research that purporting that teaching is a difficult job based on 6 criteria. I suggest the whole document but here's the jest of it.
______________________________________________
---------->Societal Attitude:
The participants in this study believed that the attitude of society toward the teaching profession was unfair and detrimental to their overall functioning. They did not believe that they were valued, despite their advanced levels of education. In a recent nationwide survey of over 11,000 teachers and teacher candidates, Henke, Chen, Geis, and Knepper (2000) found that only 14.6% of the teachers surveyed were satisfied with the esteem in which society held the teaching profession.

--->Denise, a high school English teacher addressed the issue of respect:

"There is a lack of respect for teachers. It's not just the money, but also the attitude I get from administrators and politicians that teachers are trying to get away with something. We have taken these cushy jobs where all we have to do is stand up in front of a bunch of kids and BS for a few hours, and only work ten months of the year, at that teachers have it easy! Every time we ask for something (like, in my county, that the county pay our contribution to the state retirement system, for example), they make us out to look like whiners - give 'em an inch; they'll take a mile. The truth is, though, that teachers care so deeply and work SO much beyond our "contract hours." I can't tell you how many come in for weeks during the summer, as I do, and take on clubs after school (for which we are not compensated), and work during vacations. This lack of respect for teachers gets me down."
______________________________________________
---------->Financial Issues:
On top of the perception that they are not being valued by society, teachers are notoriously underpaid in our country. Four years after their graduation, Henke et al. (2000) surveyed a large sample of college graduates between 1992-1993. They found that the teachers were tied with clerical staff and service workers for the lowest salaries. A recent report from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT, 2000) found the following to be the case for the 2000-2001 school year:

For new teachers, the $28,986 average beginning salary lagged far behind starting salary offers in other fields for new college graduates. For example, accounting graduates were offered an average $37,143; sales/marketing, $40,033; math/statistics, $49,548; computer science, $49,749; and engineering, $50,033.
The $43,250 average teacher salary fell short of average wages of other white-collar occupations, the report found. For example, mid-level accountants earned an average $52,664, computer system analysts, $71,155; engineers, $74,920; and attorneys, $82,712.
The majority of the participants in this study related that they were simply not paid enough to live comfortably. They drove old cars and lived in inexpensive apartments. Others struggled to save enough money to buy a home.

--->Calvin, a high school science teacher, talked about his pay:

"I love teaching, but I don't know if I love it enough to deprive my family and myself of necessities. I have a baby and another on the way. I can't see how I can ever save enough to make a down payment on a house, even with a second job in the summer."
______________________________________________
---------->Time Scarcity:
Many new teachers were physically and emotionally fatigued to the point of exhaustion. They reported that they worked long days at school, and then took home lesson plans to create, papers to grade, and parents to call. They also worked nights and weekends on school-related work.

--->Jessica, a high school math teacher:

"I work 70 hours a week, and after 3 years it's not getting any better. When Friday night rolls around, all I want to do is fall asleep at 8 p.m.! Obviously that doesn't lead to a very exciting social life, or much of a "life" at all, if I can hardly stay awake long enough to go out to dinner with my friends and family. Even at holidays there are always papers to grade."

--->Fred, a high school English teacher also had difficulty with the amount of time required to do his job, pointing to the effect the time constraints had on family relationships:

The time commitment is the worst. During my first two years of teaching I worked 70-80 hour weeks, including time worked during the school day, in the evenings and over the weekend. Time commitment varies with the subject taught and with experience, but this aspect of the job nearly ran me out of teaching on several occasions and I witnessed one great new teacher leave teaching for this very reason. "It's my job or my marriage," she explained. "I never see my husband, and we're living under the same roof."

______________________________________________
---------->Workload:
The data reveal that it is nearly impossible for a conscientious teacher to complete all that is expected of them in one school day. At the high school level, teachers were teaching five or more classes in a traditional school, and three in a block schedule school. For each class this meant that the teacher's task was to design a complete lesson lasting at least one hour. This lesson had to follow the state curriculum, be engaging and interesting to students, and include various components as required by the school district, such as a warm-up, class activities, and homework. The teachers wanted to use outside resources such as the Internet to connect the material to real world applications. Additionally, they reported that there were often several special needs students in the class, and each of them needed some special accommodation. They found that planning was not a trivial task; it took several hours to design one effective instructional plan.

According to the teachers in this study, class sizes were another difficult feature of the teacher's day. In public high schools, most class sizes ranged from 25 to 35 students for a total of 125-175 students in a traditional school, and 75-105 in a four period block school. Henke et al. (2000) reported that the average number of students taught by secondary teachers each day is 115.8.

--->Abby, a high school history teacher explained the effect of large class sizes:

"Imagine any other professional trying to deal with the needs of this many "customers" at one time. If a physician were seeing patients, and grouped this many together, it is readily apparent how ridiculous it would be to expect her or him to address the needs of each person. The same is true for teachers.
Each student is an individual, with needs and issues that must be addressed. In a class period, the teachers expressed frustration because they could not address the needs of 25 or more students. "

--->Gina, a former high school science teacher described the variety in her workload as well as in her students' abilities:

"What I least expected was the amount of paperwork I had to do. Grading papers, progress reports, parent conferences, English-as-a-Second Language, exceptional students, ADD paperwork, and even work for absent students seem to take more time than "teaching."

To compound the issue, teachers also related many learning issues, where students had questions or misunderstandings that could easily have been cleared up with a few minutes of one-on-one time. They also reported discipline issues that got more serious when they were not addressed. Some students were bored. Some lacked basic skills and could not perform without help. In general, the teachers expressed being frustrated because they are educated professionals who could address these issues, if there were time to get to everyone. There was simply not enough time to address the variety of issues that simultaneously too place. Farkas et al. (2000) reported that 86% of new teachers report that the change most likely to improve teaching is reducing class size.

--->Eva, a high school English teacher summed up her frustration with large class sizes.

"This was not a matter of poor time management; it was a matter of too many students with too many needs and one harried teacher trying to be superhuman. There were times that I had a great lesson plan, only to have it totally derailed because of one or two students who needed individual attention and could not get it."

The total number of students that this professional was expected to evaluate, plan, and care for each day was as many as 150.
______________________________________________
---------->Working Conditions:
School administrators varied in their support of young teachers, and many teachers reported that this support was inadequate. The new teachers felt that they were evaluated and judged, but they would have preferred real feedback and suggestions for improvement of their teaching. They felt that they were often not supported in discipline issues or in conflicts with parents.

--->Carol, a former high school math teacher:

"I was very frustrated with the lack of support from my principal/administration in that after three observations I never got any feedback either in written or verbal form. I never really knew how I was doing. I felt I was doing a good job, but did not think the administration cared one way or the other."

--->Fran, a high school mathematics teacher expressed a need for more funds:

"Teachers should be given all the supplies that they need - $25 is not enough! At all other jobs that I have worked at, whatever you need to do your job is provided."
______________________________________________
---------->Relationships with Students and Parents:
A common problem reported by beginning teachers was student apathy. Many of the novice teachers reported that students had no interest in learning. In addition to attendance problems, a number of students often came to class without pencil, paper, and textbook. It was difficult to force or entice them to participate in classwork, and virtually impossible to get them to do homework.

--->Owen, a former high school mathematics teacher, was frustrated by his students' apathy:

"The vast majority of my students had no interest in learning math and I quickly tired of trying to force them (or entice them). They refused to bring paper or pencil to class, refused to do homework or classwork, and frequently came to class late or not at all. Most of them, to my great surprise, were not at all belligerent or confrontational about their refusal to do anything in class; they just had no intention of working at anything."

--->Mattie, a former high school history teacher, could not deal with the frustration:

"I just became very frustrated teaching to a class of 20 students and about 5 were interested or at least concerned with their grades. I decided not to return, because I was so exhausted and depressed at the end of the year. I just couldn't see "wasting" my time in a classroom where the kids don't care about themselves or what you're trying to accomplish."

--->Eugene, a former high school math teacher, also reported problems with apathy:

"I was frustrated with the apathy of the students. Many days I felt as though I was standing up there talking to myself. It was the longest year of my life. I was an emotional wreck because I felt as if the kids/parents didn't care enough to try or participate."

Is this for real? Looks shit enough to be a fake trailer. I mean jesus, I wouldn't watch that shit if they paid me anything under 100€.

Okay, 50€.

Okay I'm too poor to turn down a 20€+popcorn and soda offer, but anything under that, NO way.

@mgittle I think we agree in the broad strokes, and overall conclusion, but I think you have some of the minor details wrong.

You and others here have asserted that banks can "loan out more than they have". This is false, according to everything I've ever read or seen happen in my own work life (in financial services).

Here's my own version of a logical proof. If I want to take out a loan from the bank to buy something, the bank actually has to give real money to someone. But, the Federal Reserve is the only agency that can create dollars legally. Therefore, the bank must have enough dollars in some account in order to pay out the initial loan amount, or it can't issue the loan.

So where do banks get the money to lend out? Well, for a traditional bank, it comes from the checking and savings accounts of regular people, as well as out of capital accumulated from profits. This is that "some account" whose name is actually the bank's "reserve account" at...the Federal Reserve. To cover withdrawals from those savings accounts, banks are legally required to keep a fraction of their total capital in reserve -- hence the name "fractional reserve banking".

So, how does the Fed inject new money into the economy? It anonymously buys government bonds from banks, using freshly created money. What if the Fed wants to take money out of the economy? Well, it sells government bonds, and destroys the cash it gets in return for the sale. No physically currency really gets created or destroyed, of course, it's just adding and subtracting numbers from the relevant reserve accounts.

Here's wikipedia's explanation of the Fed's monetary policy process, which is more detailed and authoritative than mine.

You also make the case that paying off debt hurts the economy because it shrinks the money supply. That's true! Which is why right now the economy is seriously in need of the Fed expanding the monetary base. Right now everyone's trying to pay down their debts (deleverage, in the financial lingo), and it's sucking all the money out of the economy. The Fed needs to work overtime to pump more money into the economy to take up the slack. Unfortunately, the banks have been wanting to keep way more than their usual in reserves -- they aren't loaning out the money the Fed is creating, they're just piling it up in their account at the Fed.

Because of that, it's never leaving the building, much less entering into the economy where it might potentially cause inflation. That's why I've been trying to tell marbles that monetary base expansion != inflation...they're two different terms for a reason!

It's also why I think abolishing the Fed or returning to a gold standard just makes things worse for everyone. One can argue that the Fed is pursuing the wrong monetary policy (for exmaple most liberal economists say it's been too timid about expanding the money supply), but this whole attempt to make the whole seem like some sort of illegitimate scam grates on me.

Without the Fed trying to expand the monetary base, you'd get something like 20% unemployment, and outright deflation, rather than just a low and declining rate of inflation.

Boys boys, settle down. He's close, but not exactly. Are we all agreed? Let's move on.
>> ^Duckman33:

>> ^schlub:
>> ^Duckman33:
Right, the fact that I was actually paid for it, which means I was a professional means absolutely nothing.

How exactly does your ability to perform a cover of someone else's song improve your hearing and ability to discern two different voices, hmm?
>> ^Duckman33:
I would consider that to be very close. I doubt anyone could match his voice perfectly.
Well, fucking, well... you're arguing that this guy's voice is EXACTLY the same as Freddie Mercury and then you turn around and say it isn't, it's just that it's "very close". So, hey hotshot, what was the point I've been making all along? Why the hell are you arguing with me in the first place!? Yes, he sounds similar, he doesn't sound the same. Stop wasting my time, troll.

You mad bro?
Where did I say he sounded exactly like him? Please point that out to me. I never said anything of the sort, and to answer your other question. Since I'm a singer and have been for over 20 years AND was paid to imitate other singers for a living which I assume you are not and have not, I think that qualifies my ear to be able to hear the differences in singing voices.