Why don't these fuckers get a better voice synthesizer.

Life is more than a dick-waving contest where you accumulate the most power, money, and fancy shit.

Of all the reasons for legalizing prostitution, the economic advancement of young prostitutes is not one of them.

And have a better way of educating and providing for the poor and homeless so that no one is ever *forced* economically into prostitution.

Prohibition of prostitution is impossible to justify or enforce, so we might as well bring it above board so both parties involved can be better protected by the law.

Ah here's the link: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/05/muslim-group-wants-prayer-in-public-school-stopped

Muslims, Hindus, and Jews are all coming together against public school prayer.

Prayers organized by public schools violate separation of church and state.

Imagine how pissed you would be if your school roped off the cafeteria and brought in Pat Robertson to preach there every week.

The school board is creating both an impermissible entanglement with religion and an implicit endorsement of it by donating the use of their cafeteria to particular imams. Not all students go to see the same mosque, btw. Only some subset of even the Muslim students would benefit from this. This definitely would not fly under US case law.

Not to mention the absurd fundamentalism that would lead people to cut class instead of going to a later service. There are Muslim organizations in Canada that oppose the school board's decision.

The permissible version of this would be to just designate an area (not the whole cafeteria if it would interfere with other students) for individuals of any religion or no religion to go and pray or goof off, and not bring in religious leaders from the outside.

CSI Miami is written by retarded 12 year olds, apparently.

>> ^SDGundamX:

After reading this article and this article on the topic it doesn't seem like hypocrisy. Rather, it seems like Canada is similar to the U.S. in that all students have a constitutional right to pray at school so long as that prayer does not interfere with learning. The prayer service isn't costing the school any money, nor are they requiring any students to attend the prayers. The school is a free speech forum and that speech is protected even if it is religious in nature. In the U.S. there's lots of case law to back that up (see, for example, US Supreme Court cases Widmar v. Vincent and Good News Club v. Milford Central School for more info).
If Hindis or Christians want to have a prayer services or atheists have meetings, they are free too also. Seems like sour grapes to me that they didn't think of it first.
EDIT: What has been banned since 1982 is school-led prayer, not an individual's right to pray.


It's not about individuals praying on their own. It's about the school organizing the prayer and bringing in an imam of their choice.

It's not a first person perspective of the asshole driver. To do that it would have to be a dash cam inside the asshole driver's car.

It tends to get better.

Those old farts were raised at a time when fewer people gave a shit about their douchebaggery.

>> ^sadicious:

>> ^Sagemind:
Since the average is always made up from 100%
Half of the schools will always be 50% (or depending on the numbers, very close).
And the "Better" the schools are doing, the margin gets slimmer that it could be less than 50%
Some schools would have to be doing VERY bad indeed if you wanted to say "60% of the schools are ABOVE average."

I could have 99 students in a class getting 90% and 1 student getting 89%, and I can say that almost all (but not all) students are above class average. The same could also be said if the two percentages I used were 10% and 9% respectively.


There are three kinds of average: mean, median, and mode.
If he means median or assumes a normal distribution, he's fine.

The ontological argument is wrong on so many levels. Jefferson said the best response to unintelligible propositions is ridicule. This is it.

If all things that actually exist were ranked by "greatness" on some single well-defined continuum, then yes, there would of course have to be a maximum. "God exists in the understanding..." is just a sleight of hand that adds nothing to the argument but aids in conflating that narrow definition with the usual meaning of the word god. Also, they do not bother to define "greatness", or even show that it is logically possible to do so in a consistent way across an infinite number of possible types of measurement.

I was there in the front row. Jealous?

Also, even if you're not a jock, joining a sports team like cross country to get in shape helps. Getting ripped will make bullies think twice and make you fast enough to run away whenever necessary. It's good for your health and your academics too.