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SilentScope001

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Posted in: Will Republicans Keep the White House?
  SilentScope001
08-20-2007, 3:38 PM
#1
:-) And that is why, short of another terror attack(which isn't all that unlikely), whoever the Democrats nominate will be a shoe-in at the general election. Convention wisdom would agree but...the polls shows a different story. From RealClearPoli...  [Read More]
Posted in: Religion, Science, and the unknown
  SilentScope001
08-19-2007, 11:15 PM
#14
It seems to me that when religion comes across something it can't explain, it just chalks it up to "god" and then moves on - never investigating or seeking deeper understanding. On the other hand, it seems that science revels in the unknown...  [Read More]
Posted in: "Thought Crime, and Preventive Dentention"
  SilentScope001
08-18-2007, 12:50 AM
#1
I am posting this here, alright. A note: I am not criticizing the American response. I am merely stating that this is what one news person is claiming. And that this may be true. Padilla Case Offers a New Model of Terror Trial (http://www.nytimes.c...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rudy Giuliani on Immigration
  SilentScope001
08-16-2007, 6:12 PM
#10
Increase the quotas. Once we do so, we can increase the amount of legal immigration and decrease the amount of illegal immigration. After all, legal immigration is good, and illegal immigration is bad, so if we just make it easier to immigrate legall...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rudy Giuliani on Immigration
  SilentScope001
08-16-2007, 12:32 AM
#4
And that is why, short of another terror attack(which isn't all that unlikely), whoever the Democrats nominate will be a shoe-in at the general election. Or a Bloomberg candiancy. If Bloomberg runs for election (and he will do so if both parties ele...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  SilentScope001
08-18-2007, 12:34 AM
#33
@SS: He did kill a lot of people he simply didn't like or opposed him. He also didn't give much of a damn about international relations, and Chrysogonus, who was bound up in the case of Sextus Roscius (excellent speech by Cicero - much better than hi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  SilentScope001
08-17-2007, 2:19 PM
#31
@SS: You gotta be kidding. Sulla was responsible for massed murders of any and all political opponents. DI: But he did it all for the Roman Senate! He may be a bad violator of Human Rights (as, say, the rest of the Roman Republic), but he did not do...  [Read More]
Posted in: Chavez to propose constitutional reforms
  SilentScope001
08-16-2007, 12:39 PM
#13
Name one politician who isn't a power hungry idiot. Sulla, the first Roman "Consul For Life", who took the job to rebuild Rome after its destruction by Marius, and resigned his position after 2 years once he reformed the Senate to make sur...  [Read More]
Posted in: Look Out! It's the Apocalypse!
  SilentScope001
08-15-2007, 11:29 AM
#20
The best bet? The human race grows into an uber-powerful race that is immortal and all-mighty... And then it just grows so bored that it kills itself. The End....  [Read More]
Posted in: Look Out! It's the Apocalypse!
  SilentScope001
08-14-2007, 7:05 PM
#4
Final option, FTW....  [Read More]
Posted in: Loose Change
  SilentScope001
08-13-2007, 6:42 PM
#4
I actually do believe in conspiracy theories. It because we don't know everything about how the world runs. There can be some things that happen behind our knowledge, hidden committees. However, the best conspriacy theories are the ones we'll never...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is Bush a bad president?
  SilentScope001
08-16-2007, 5:57 PM
#57
He only was taking what you said. Don't get bent out of shape. Sometimes your own wording puts the wrong idea in. Okay, yeah. Sorry for the, um, confusion that I make via my statements. I'd probraly be best off backing away from what I said....  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is Bush a bad president?
  SilentScope001
08-15-2007, 7:26 PM
#49
To defend myself: The only problem with this statement is it's meaningless as you support the PATRIOT ACT. Don't put words in my mouth. Please. I hate lots of stuff that America is doing, including the Patroit Act, but it doesn't matter what I thi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is Bush a bad president?
  SilentScope001
08-13-2007, 9:09 PM
#15
Yay! I finally get to educate a member of Generation Next! Just so you know, I wanted to vote for Bush in 2000 and 2004, but am not in any way a Bush loyalist. I do dislike Bush, but for different reasons, and he is not a bad President. As Midnight...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why is Bush a bad president?
  SilentScope001
08-13-2007, 7:01 PM
#9
"Uh. I like Bush. Well, he promised never to get us into forigen adventures in that one debate with Al Gore. He seen the effects of the wars in Somaila and Serbia, and vowed never to waste our money that would be better spent helping America, p...  [Read More]
Posted in: Future Shock: Bad thing?
  SilentScope001
08-12-2007, 1:55 AM
#1
It seems that with society progressing at an ever-rapid pace, well, uh, we might not get used to it. Okay, so maybe I'll be fine with more advanced computers with features that I can't understand, but what about, say in 5 years something totally rev...  [Read More]
Posted in: Genetics...
  SilentScope001
08-13-2007, 6:47 PM
#27
I think the difference between antibiotics and gene therapy is that antibiotics is a temporary solution. When you decide if someone should get a disease or not, rather than just curing the disease, its just not right. Hm. I don't know. Somehow, I'm...  [Read More]
Posted in: Genetics...
  SilentScope001
08-13-2007, 10:28 AM
#21
I know some geneticists had tried an experiment with gene therapy about 15-ish years ago on a kid with a very rare and serious genetic disorder, using I believe a cold virus as the vehicle to bring the correct gene into his system. The kid unfortunat...  [Read More]
Posted in: Genetics...
  SilentScope001
08-12-2007, 1:35 AM
#16
Just so you know, genetic engineering is already being done in live humans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy Somehow, it is possible to pop a pill and then change your DNA. There we go. Gene Th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Sex sells
  SilentScope001
08-12-2007, 12:58 AM
#12
Sex sells, but we have to blame Evolution for it. For some strange reason, evolution want us to have sex so that we can reproduce, but they realize that we want to be happy, and if sex does not make us happy, we would be discouraged from having sex....  [Read More]
Posted in: US Fair Tax debate
  SilentScope001
08-09-2007, 2:22 PM
#13
Listen, can't we take control of one state, test out this new Sales Tax over there? I would love to go that state, and so would many people. It's simple, it got advantages. It got problems, but that why we do it for ONE state, and not for the whole U...  [Read More]
Posted in: US Fair Tax debate
  SilentScope001
08-09-2007, 2:21 AM
#4
NO. From what I see, the sales tax would just be simple. That's the problem. It's simple. Meaning it is likely that the government won't get much reveune. I would love a tax break, I would love to be rewarded for saving money. I would love this. It...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yes! Yes! Corporate Brainwashing For The Win!
  SilentScope001
08-07-2007, 7:25 PM
#1
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2007/08/07/2007-08-07_for_kids_it_tastes_better_if_its_in_a_mc.html A shocking study of preschoolers finds they think anything in a McDonald's wrapper - even a vegetable - tastes better than the same food...  [Read More]
Posted in: Oblivious to the Nines
  SilentScope001
08-08-2007, 4:59 PM
#57
Ah, alright. I checked the strat guides. You are right, the only way to complete that quest is to be thrown in jail. Shame for railroading....  [Read More]
Posted in: Oblivious to the Nines
  SilentScope001
08-07-2007, 7:31 PM
#54
That quest annoyed me that the only way of doing it is to get thrown in prison, so I haven't done it in any of my games yet Uh, there is another way. Find one of the beggers and speak with them about "Amusei" to learn that he was arrested...  [Read More]
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