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Oh, I see what you mean. Right. I suppose my responses to a particular poster, who clearly demonstrated a lack, was supposed to "advance the discussion forward." I can see that my responses to this specific user did not do that. I'll keep that in mind for the future when I post. Thanks for pointing this out, it really helps. Keep up the good work! You are making the Internet a better place for everyone!

I'll keep this in mind for the future. But thanks for your input. I really appreciate it. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether something will go over well or not, or the tone might not be spot on, etc. But your intelligent well-meaning reply has clarified all of that. You are a credit to the Internet. I look forward to more of your insightful views. Keep up the good work Moonbox!

Hyperbole of the Week: Hyperbole of the Week: The guy pushes some woman's arm out of his face and you call it assault. That says far more about you than it does Jack Layton.

Quiet reflection in a calm and peaceful environment. Sometimes it helps to put things into perspective as best you can, even when dealing with severe grief as B-C points out above.

Let's see if you get it: ... Nope. You still don't get it. Which, at this point, is not surprising.

Your getting it or "buying it" is completely inconsequential. And you still don't get it.

You don't get it either.

Canada 2 USA 0 So are the ladies apparently. However, according to the IOC and Hockey Canada, ladies should not celebrate by smoking cigars and drinking beer on the ice after everyone has left. And especially not 18 year olds like Marie-Philip Poulin who scored both of Canada's goals.

Nope. You still don't get it.

This is curious. You then follow this up with: So tell me, what part of the US is like Quebec eh?

I think what they are referring to is a different brand of terrorism. Sure the West has been involved in small 't' terrorism, rapes, murders, burning villages, bombing civilians, sponsoring death squads and such, but that is much different from the capital 'T' Terrorism. You know with the car bombings, planes into buildings, anthrax and Terror Levels. Small 't' terrorism isn't really terrorism because it is justified through the negation of the human qualities of 'the other' through ideology. Killing 'the other' in this context is no worse than euthanizing dogs or getting rid of herds of cattle because of Mad Cow Disease. Capital 'T' Terrorism however is simply not playing by the rules. I mean anthrax for gawdsakes, that is just Terrible! (BTW, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols don't count because, even though they were "West" they were crazy-West. Everyone knows that.) On the other hand, the re-branding of Terror for commercial purposes has given a boost to the graphic arts industry through the urgent need for eye catching Terror logos, Terror news graphics and more informative Terror Threat Level meters. Anyone know if there is an app for that yet? Synchronize your iPhone with Homeland Security. Now that'd be cool!

Do you think we can handle the Russians now? The REAL Team Canada finally showed up with all lines playing like they ought. Bring on the Slovaks; and yeah, we all want a grudge match for the Gold. But the US has to beat Finland first. Hope you can handle them. GO CANADA GO!

No, they are not a "US lacrosse team." You obviously missed the point of the articles.

Please do!

Of course, but the impetus behind such a 'courtesy' is fairly significant. For instance, why bother? Try using a Las Vegas passport in England. For the immediate concerns, an Iroquois passport that satisfies the security requirements of Homeland Security can address border crossing and adhere to the elements of the Jay Treaty.

There is no refutation intended since we are talking about the same thing. However I see a problem that needs to be solved and that - even if we don't solve it - the discussion is still worthy. The problem I see is that when the question is first raised there is a process that could - and usually does in the larger moral questions - span generations before the effects become historically significant. Feminism is a great case in point about this. What was the time span between woman getting the vote in the US & the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment? It is surprising. Another good example, based on a complex question with a simple answer was the US anti-slavery movement and the means to an end. I don't think we can minimize the sheer importance of all of the discrete steps taken in the previous generations, steps which are usually only discerned through careful study, as with the case of feminism and anti-slavery. Sure our generation got to see the effects of the feminist movement through acts of legislative change, but we cannot mistake the effects for the whole process. With the problem at hand, let's take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a case in point: How well are we doing so far on the fairly simple question and answer of torture?

Frequency, polarity, magnitude, and size are the basis of many of the filters that we encounter in day to day life. What sort of characteristics might discriminate quantum noise containing a signal from quantum noise that's just quantum noise? Here's what I'm getting at: if there's a signal that can be recovered, it's not noise anymore. If there's a way to recover the signal out of it, it's because there is some discernible characteristic that allows us to differentiate that signal from the noise. Show me that discernible characteristic, and I'll show you how your quantum noise isn't quantum noise anymore. Here, let me do it for you. Now you are asking silly questions and providing silly answers in an attempt to construct a strawman. So let's review shall we, to evaluate, among other things, your comprehension of English: So - as an answer to a open ended question - are you saying that it is impossible that noise at the quantum level can be a signal carrier of some type of data or another?

Oh I wouldn't disagree with this, but it's effects are based on modifications of it's original proposals. No one stood up in a house of government and said we shall accept it on the face of it. There was a fairly lengthy period of debate, revision, etc., before major legislative efforts were enacted. And, even though there are incontestable differences, that legislation is still on the books. I dunno. There still seems to be sects or groups in our part of the world that holds these old views. There is still the machismo movement in many areas of Western culture; there are recent immigrants from cultures that bring those old views with them. Heck, even the federal government has GDS organizations that are still trying to sort things out. Plus, while some (male or female) might not publicly state their assertion about the status of women, this doesn't mean they don't act on in in subtle and influencial ways. Slavery is ancient too. So is the notion of 'the conquered' and that the victors write history. Of course we can agree about the value of every human being, but let's be fair here: the US Constitution starts with "We the People..." and they spent the next 150 years figuring that part out. We stil have people who firmly believe that everyone is equal, but some or more equal than others. Which brings me back to the point of, if not money then what? It is a complex question that unfortunately requires a simple answer that is capable of being understood in a general way. I don't think I have heard the simple answer. I have heard very complex answers for sure, but nothing approaching an idea such as same-sex marriage.

Iroquois Passports Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team (1995 article) I believe this team still uses the passport and as recently as 2007 for the U19 team at the World Championships. More? Let me google that for you... It would be interesting to note whether or not they have secured a passport/ID card that meets the US rules.

Me too! Thanks!

Come on now. It could just as well be that I understand what "he's actually said" a little different from you, which is just as much as possibility than any advocation for his ideas on my behalf. I think the delineating point is that you are opposed to his ideas whereas I am willing to look at them and try to see possibilities. No harm in that and neither is there any contest. No. But I think he sees television as a part of it. It appears to me that cr is looking at the quantum reality and revising his spiritual views according to his knowledge of it. Does this require a PhD in physics? I dunno. But does it prevent him from holding such views? No. And if it does say, in Monarch butterflies, then that little information keeps them alive and is key in propagating their species. A fairly important piece of information despite its minimal size. Interesting thought. Don't forget to calibrate your compass when you trek into the bush. Because the information you receive from magnetic north (which is actively shifting) might lead you to your doom. All it would take is a filter of some type I would think.

How many times in society has cultural change been affected by radical views? It seems to me that by the time those views are acted upon, they have been modified, disseminated and digested by the population at large and have become mainstream. You say yourself, culture is complex. It is indeed. As long as feminism as been around in Western Culture (and Wollestonecraft had her influences as well) how often do you h ear feminist history or feminist anthropology cited in mainstream media? Almost never. You've come a long way baby, but you have a long way to go yet. And why is this? Are those moral girders really all that old? If they are, how widespread can they be if you have to espouse a radical view to communicate them? The problem being is that if the issues cannot be communicated in such a way that the mainstream can access the ideas, they will remain radical and affect little change.

Here is a decent story on the issue from the Toronto Star and how this action has contributed to the on-going split in sensibilities on the reserve. It is interesting to note that 'traditionally' the Kahnawake Mohawks always have the concept of 'adoption' as a means for integrating people into the community proper. I am curious as to why this avenue has not been used. Wampum use, within the Mohawk communities, was primarily as a mnemonic device in strings or belt forms. One of the earliest uses of this sort of device was noted in the ancient story of the Peacemaker whose friend, Ayenwatha, used strings of wampum beads (said to be made of sumac) in his mourning ritual after his family was killed. It was this ability to overcome grief that gives this mnemonic method it's cultural value. In later times beads made from quahog shells were used as 'wampum.' In the literature, I have never encountered the use of wampum in the Iroquoian world as any sort of internal currency other than that of informal exchange. Outside of Iroquoia, wampum was used as an exchange medium, but wasn't any more of a "currency" than beaver pelts. And of course, as everyone knows, the word 'wampum' is a borrowed word since there are no native Mohawk words that contain the letters 'm' or 'p.'

Recently for me. I think it appeared on Thursday.

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