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General Discussion / Re: Congress drops SOPA and PIPA (for now)

« on: January 21, 2012, 04:59:46 PM »

Despite our government's serious flaws, there's no country I'd rather live in. And as for it's flaws...we've got no one to blame but ourselves. We're the one's that elect these people. We've been "asleep" for a pretty long time. And the amount of information the average voter still doesn't know about our government is pretty scary. Many don't even know who the candidates are. How can you vote if you don't know their names, let alone their positions!?

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General Discussion / Re: Congress drops SOPA and PIPA (for now)

« on: January 20, 2012, 03:26:08 PM »

According to an email I got, it appears Congress has dropped SOPA and PIPA, for now. We won! 

No we didn't. You missed two keywords in your own post, "for now." What they'll likely do is hold off until most have forgotten about it. Then they'll vote on it on a Friday or holiday, so it'll miss the news. Happens more often than you think.

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General Discussion / Re: Martial Law Bill Signed

« on: January 18, 2012, 10:47:54 AM »

And aren't there more pressing issues than creating a "right" for less than 10% of the population?

I'm sure people said the same thing in the 1950s and 1960s, seeing as only 13% of the American population is black.

There's three big problems with that. One, being black doesn't hurt anyone, but engaging in homosexual activity does. Two, being black is not a choice, but engaging in homosexual activity is. There are plenty of former homosexuals, but no former blacks. Well, unless you count Michael Jackson. And three, blacks were denied many of their fundamental rights. Currently, homosexuals are not being denied any rights. They have the same rights as the rest of us. What they're asking for are what I like to call "super rights." Rights that only apply to them. Atheists also want super rights. Actually, I think they already have them. There are lots of cases where an atheist got his/her wish of having a religious symbol taken down because it "offended" them, but no cases (that I know of) where a Christian won a case to have a religious symbol put up somewhere because they were "offended" that it wasn't there.

Also seeing as ten's of thousands of Americans don't have a basic right to get on their partners health insurance or visit them while their in the hospital or even claim them on their taxes solely based on some people's bias or religious views, I'd think that the issue would be toward the top of other issues.  One issue most of this country seems to be all gun-ho about is voter rights for the supposed "voter fraud" problem we have, when in fact in most states there is next to no voter fruad.  Just a waste of money and time creating pointless regulations.

One problem with that. Whether you go by God's laws or nature's, there is no universal "right" to health care. To the best of my knowledge, health care is mentioned no where in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Just because a group of people desire to have something, doesn't make it a "right." If the government said yes to every desire of its citizens it would go broke and society would implode.

Voter fraud is a real problem. It affects both parties (though Democrats seem to be much better at it) and has been going on for decades. There are numerous documented cases where hundreds of votes were made by convicts and/or dead people. Whether you choose to look at the evidence or be ignorant is up to you.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Show: Hurricane Hunters

« on: January 16, 2012, 06:27:47 PM »

Turbine Cowboys?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Show: Braving the Elements

« on: January 16, 2012, 10:32:44 AM »

Long form isn't going anywhere people. And for the last time, it's not NBC's fault.

Tyler is right. Its YOUR fault for watching this garbage!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Show: Hurricane Hunters

« on: January 16, 2012, 10:24:41 AM »

Sad that they will produce a show on this yet refuse to have a meteorologist who actually is a hurricane hunter work for them.

That's b/c they're only interested in the "drama" part of it.

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Contributions / Re: Cover art

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:38:20 PM »

Thanks Bryan!

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General Weather Chat / Re: This is awesome

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:36:56 PM »

I'm attending.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ind&storyid=40755&source=0

Very cool! I don't think they've ever offered anything like that here. At least not since I started visiting the NWS website on a regular basis.

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Contributions / Re: Cover art

« on: January 13, 2012, 09:11:28 PM »

Thanks! Keep 'em coming if you have more!

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Contributions / Re: Cover art

« on: January 12, 2012, 06:30:57 PM »

They look great! Thanks. When I added back the cover art to the playlists, I grabbed the cover art files from the 2003 site. I should look for the 2008(ish) one. I'm sure there's more files there.

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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: January 10, 2012, 10:38:45 AM »

Well, it was inevitable, but it finally happened. Our national debt is now 100% of our GDP and still rising.

Hasn't it been that way for a few weeks now? A friend posted this on Facebook last night. I think it's worth posting here.

DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY.

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General Discussion / Re: Year-Round Classes?!

« on: January 10, 2012, 10:37:46 AM »

Bad idea. Usually, the reason behind such a thing is because students are falling behind or whatever. I highly doubt forcing them to be in school more is going to change anything.

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TWC Classics News / Re: TWCC Archives

« on: January 09, 2012, 10:33:36 PM »

I added the Trammell songs this evening.

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General Discussion / Re: Martial Law Bill Signed

« on: January 09, 2012, 10:21:41 AM »

Saying marriage is a state issue is like saying we should go back to having each state have their own currency.

You're absolutely right. I've always been somewhat okay with other states giving the green light (as long as I don't live in one). But when you really think about it, it's really a bad idea for individual states to change the rules of marriage.

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General Discussion / Re: Martial Law Bill Signed

« on: January 09, 2012, 01:29:18 AM »

And aren't there more pressing issues than creating a "right" for less than 10% of the population?