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Posted in: Iraqi Election: 2005
  toms
04-01-2005, 11:06 AM
#54
Originally posted by Spider AL Once again you're putting words in my mouth. I do wish you'd desist. Sorry!!! :eek: :( I'm not sure that we are arguing about much at all, apart from semantics......  [Read More]
Posted in: Iraqi Election: 2005
  toms
03-31-2005, 9:24 AM
#51
Originally posted by Spider AL Sorry, are you saying that an election in which the voters didn't know who the candidates were until the last minute, and in which an occupying foreign force vetted the list of candidates for those they found undesirab...  [Read More]
Posted in: Texas may ban gay foster parents
  toms
04-22-2005, 12:47 PM
#21
ok, lets say i accepted that homosexuality was wrong, and homosexuals were somehow lesser humans. Would it be better for a child to be left in an orphanage or childrens home, or to be brought up in a less than ideal home? I'd say the latter. Unles...  [Read More]
Posted in: The New Pope
  toms
04-21-2005, 12:52 PM
#10
Originally posted by JediLiberator I heard from one person I know that Ratzinger used to be in the hitler youth corp. I don't know if that's true or not. But if it is then my religion is very screwed. I wasn't that suprised by his election though....  [Read More]
Posted in: The New Pope
  toms
04-20-2005, 11:19 AM
#3
Its possible he may change his tune now he is pope, like a lot of public figures do when they change roles.... but on the whole he is a very disappointing choice from both a compassion and a modern world standpoint. sigh....  [Read More]
Posted in: Should organ donation and blood donation be compulsory?
  toms
04-21-2005, 1:00 PM
#20
I never even considered you were meaning "compulsory" as mandatory, with no opt-out. I don't think you would ever find ANYONE who supported that. But an opt-out system instead of the current opt-in system would seem to me to be just as go...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should organ donation and blood donation be compulsory?
  toms
04-20-2005, 11:21 AM
#15
Originally posted by Lady Jedi Bottom line: No, on compulsory organ donation. Even if anyone could easily opt-out of it if they wished?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Should organ donation and blood donation be compulsory?
  toms
04-19-2005, 12:28 PM
#10
I don't think blood donation should be compulsory, but they should encourage it. I don't think organ donation should be "compulsory" but i do think it should be the default. Anyone who is against it (for religious reasons, personal reasons...  [Read More]
Posted in: A more convenient measurement system - when?
  toms
04-21-2005, 1:03 PM
#20
You can't change seconds. Think what it would do to all electronics and computer systems that run based on seconds (or milli or micro seconds). Odd that below seconds its done on a decimal system, but after seconds its a mix of base 60, base 24, ba...  [Read More]
Posted in: A more convenient measurement system - when?
  toms
04-20-2005, 11:24 AM
#17
So a day would be 8.64 hours long? (with 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute) That might work. but even trying to think in another time system is making my head hurt......  [Read More]
Posted in: A more convenient measurement system - when?
  toms
04-14-2005, 10:52 AM
#6
Decimal "internet time": http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html...  [Read More]
Posted in: A more convenient measurement system - when?
  toms
04-13-2005, 9:13 AM
#2
The origins of lots of these systems are shrouded in mystery... but non-metric systems aren't actually that much harder to use, once you are familiar with them. The origin of the Sumerian/Babylonian sexagesimal system of counting has not yet been tr...  [Read More]
Posted in: Twisted Media Intrest of the public
  toms
04-14-2005, 10:58 AM
#30
I will admit i used to get a certain pleasure from reading the daily mail (my housemate got it on some sort of student offer) because i didn't agree with ANYTHING they wrote. Not sure why getting irritated was fun, but it was. I'd never actually BU...  [Read More]
Posted in: Twisted Media Intrest of the public
  toms
04-12-2005, 7:54 AM
#27
I wouldn't count on it. In general people in the west are much better off than they were back then. Even the poor these days are much better off than they used to be (eg: not starving), its just that the gap between rich and poor has gotten much bi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Twisted Media Intrest of the public
  toms
04-11-2005, 11:28 AM
#25
Its something that has me permanently intruiged as well. I'm sure that psychologists could find some deep psychological reason why the Cult of Celebrity has become so important in people's lives. (If all the psychologists weren't on tv analysing bi...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code & Dan Brown
  toms
04-13-2005, 9:39 AM
#8
you can find the UK documentary "The Real Davinci Code" as a torrent with a quick google search. As i said, it was very tabloid-like in its presentation... and sometimes took too long to get to the important bits. But it did debunk a lot...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code & Dan Brown
  toms
04-07-2005, 2:12 PM
#6
This type of religious thriller/ mystery (however you categorize it) is one of my favourites and I really expected to enjoy 'The Da Vinci Code'. Unfortunately the Author spent a lot of time on creating codes and answering them and virtually nothing o...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Da Vinci Code & Dan Brown
  toms
04-06-2005, 8:56 AM
#3
What AL said. The Tony Robinson documentary was actually a bit tabloidy for my tastes... but it did demolish almost all of Dan Brown's claims. The most important being that the so called Priory of Sion was a hoax... they even talked to the guy that...  [Read More]
Posted in: Spreading Democracy: Georgia or Iraq?
  toms
04-06-2005, 11:48 AM
#3
That said, the coverage of the so called "lebanese revolt" has been rather one-sided. Its true that thousands demonstrated against Syria's involvement.... but a week or so later a million or more demonstrated FOR their involvement. It is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Free Thoughts on Serious Topics
  toms
04-11-2005, 10:52 AM
#10
From slashdot: First Monday runs a great article this month from Canadian law professor Michael Geist that dismantles the recording industry's claims about the peer-to-peer. Using actual data from Canada, Piercing the P2P Myths, demonstrates that th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  toms
04-06-2005, 11:22 AM
#134
Originally posted by SkinWalker To quote the New York Times, “the idea of Congress convening a weekend session to push through a potentially precedent-setting law for one single individual, with little regard to the long-term consequences, is prof...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  toms
04-04-2005, 12:31 PM
#132
Originally posted by lukeskywalker1 It explains God's viewpoint on euthanasia, suicide, murder.. etc. Of course, you'll likley scrub it off as a biased, unreasonable, and irrational source. :rolleyes: Kind of. Surely it is verry arrogant to try an...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  toms
04-01-2005, 9:56 AM
#110
Originally posted by ET Warrior Well, when I marry that is one thing my wife will know. If anything like that EVER happens to me, where I can be classified as a vegetable, she is to divorce me and find somebody else. (Hopefully she can get them to p...  [Read More]
Posted in: Beat Bullying
  toms
04-06-2005, 10:55 AM
#47
I'd agree on the lack of empathy point. It seems to me that a lot of the anti-social behaviour (both by kids and adults) around these days comes from the fact that people seem a lot more self centred and a lot less empathetic to their affect on oth...  [Read More]
Posted in: Whitehouse Has Ties to Gay Prostitution
  toms
04-06-2005, 10:41 AM
#16
Its kind of hard to overcome the nazi image though, as it is so heavily associated with it. Unless you include a "this is a non-nazi swastika" disclaimer with it all the time. Maybe if we make a pink and flowery one? PS/ I remember seei...  [Read More]
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