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by rubato
Sun May 16, 2010 9:10 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: Drugs on the road...
Replies: 12
Views: 2447

Re: Drugs on the road...

Yep, but does the dose/response include time since ingestion, or just peak effect? If it does, then we should be able to formulate laws which reflect that. Unfortunately, due to the "drugs bad!!" mentality, I think these tests would be used to prove presence alone, and not effect. What do you think...
by rubato
Sun May 16, 2010 12:22 am
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!
Replies: 41
Views: 6814

Re: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!

I think what this boils down to is one culture is feeling pushed out for another. It is similar to things that are happening in the US with respect to immigrants, illegal and otherwise, and how we respond to them. People are sensitive to seeing their own culture being engulfed and will react accord...
by rubato
Sat May 15, 2010 11:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Blow Job Bill is a Prize
Replies: 22
Views: 3827

Re: Blow Job Bill is a Prize

" I tore open my blouse and shook my full firm young breasts at him AND HE LOOKED. The bastard! "


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rubato
by rubato
Sat May 15, 2010 6:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Elena Kagan?
Replies: 32
Views: 5216

Re: Elena Kagan?

Elena F***ing Kagan??!?!?! Nigga pleeze! Oh well, so much for restoring a liberal wing to the Court. ETA: GAH! What specific decisions or guiding principles would you expect from your idea of a 'liberal' appointment vs Kagan? Or are you complaining just so the Right-Wing will take pleasure in your,...
by rubato
Sat May 15, 2010 5:55 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Goodbye Gordon
Replies: 14
Views: 2536

Re: Goodbye Gordon

He did the right thing responding to the financial crisis.

If that turns out to be his One Big Moment he can be proud of his career.


yrs,
rubato
by rubato
Sat May 15, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Tea party starting to have effect?
Replies: 9
Views: 1998

Re: Tea party starting to have effect?

The Tea Party = Letting the most stupid people in the country drive policy.

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rubato
by rubato
Sat May 15, 2010 5:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Blow Job Bill is a Prize
Replies: 22
Views: 3827

Re: Blow Job Bill is a Prize

Big RR wrote:Or principles.

The only principle which matters is to leave office with the country better off than he found it.

And he succeeded at that.



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rubato
by rubato
Fri May 14, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!
Replies: 41
Views: 6814

Re: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!

He added: 'There are two reasons for these visits. One is that the scheme of work in religious studies REQUIRES children to have knowledge and understanding of other world religions. 'The second is that the school is REQUIRED to promote tolerance respect and understanding. This is known as communit...
by rubato
Fri May 14, 2010 3:21 am
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: Philosophy? Piece of cake...
Replies: 10
Views: 1951

Re: Philosophy? Piece of cake...

Has anyone done a study on famous philosophers and seen whether they were above the norm in the weight stakes? The ones I can think of were generally pretty lean. Although in one of the dialogues Socrates mentions that he hopes to lose weight by dancing. Tycho Brahe was famously fat but not a philo...
by rubato
Fri May 14, 2010 12:22 am
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: Drugs on the road...
Replies: 12
Views: 2447

Re: Drugs on the road...

That was my understanding too. And lets not forget the problem is not that detection is possible or not, it's that the effects of the drug detected are not quantifiable. That depends on the drug. For most drugs you can establish a dose/response curve which gives a good correlation between titre and...
by rubato
Thu May 13, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: Drugs on the road...
Replies: 12
Views: 2447

Re: Drugs on the road...

That's why I was asking. The site I found says the test will detect pot for four hours and speed for 24 hours. Is this bullshit just to lull people into not protesting, and would it really detect drugs that had been taken several days before? I don't know about this specific test but ... By commonl...
by rubato
Thu May 13, 2010 12:57 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!
Replies: 41
Views: 6814

Re: You will learn tolerance respect and understanding!

A Catholic schoolgirl has been branded a 'truant' by her teachers after she refused to dress as a Muslim for a school field trip to a mosque. ... In a stern letter to her family with words in block capitals and underlined, the school's headmaster Peter Lee said the visit was 'as compulsory as a geo...
by rubato
Sun May 09, 2010 10:17 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Religion
Topic: Philosophy today?
Replies: 36
Views: 6942

Re: Philosophy today?

When was that time?

To the best of my knowledge philosophers have nearly always been considered major pains in the ass and not really liked very much.

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rubato