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Shakesthecoffecan:
Indeed, that is progress. being gay needent been all serious and stuff. :-*
Wayne:
:'( The European Union and Cowboy Wayne oppose the death penalty in all cases and under all circumstances.
These people went to Libya to help children. Libya has had them on death row for 7 years.
Firing Squad
The defendants were first sentenced in Benghazi in 2004 to face a firing squad. The Benghazi court rejected testimony from Luc Montagnier, the French researcher who first isolated HIV, and from Swiss and Italian scientists. The scientists said the infection started before the nurses worked there.
The Tripoli court refused to allow defense witnesses to testify.
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday
Wayne:
:D Gah!
The most famous examples of Cargo Cult behavior have been the airstrips, airports, and radios made out of coconuts and straw. The cult members built them in the belief that the structures would attract transport aircraft full of cargo. Believers stage "drills" and "marches" with twigs for rifles and military-style insignia and "USA" painted on their bodies to make them look like soldiers.
The cargo cult has been used as an analogy to describe certain phenomena in the First World, particularly in the area of business. After any substantial commercial success—whether it is a new model of car, a vacuum cleaner, a toy or a motion picture—there typically arise imitators who produce superficial copies of the original, but with none of the original's substance.
The term is perhaps best known because of a speech by physicist Richard Feynman at a Caltech commencement called cargo cult science, which became a chapter in the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. In the speech, Feynman pointed out that cargo cultists create all the appearance of an airport right down to headsets with bamboo "antennas", yet the airplanes don't come. Feynman argued that some scientists often produce studies with all the trappings of real science, but which are nonetheless pseudoscience and unworthy of either respect or support.
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 19, 2006, 01:02:05 pm --- :'( The European Union and Cowboy Wayne oppose the death penalty in all cases and under all circumstances.
These people went to Libya to help children. Libya has had them on death row for 7 years.
Firing Squad
The defendants were first sentenced in Benghazi in 2004 to face a firing squad. The Benghazi court rejected testimony from Luc Montagnier, the French researcher who first isolated HIV, and from Swiss and Italian scientists. The scientists said the infection started before the nurses worked there.
The Tripoli court refused to allow defense witnesses to testify.
A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday
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and the Bulgarian Prime Minister can only say he is disappointed??!
Bulgaria condemned death sentences imposed by a Libyan court on Tuesday against five of its nationals and a Palestinian doctor.
Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin called the decision "deeply disappointing."
I think this is one case where a little stronger language is needed! >:(
ridiculous...is Lybia living in the dark ages??
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 19, 2006, 01:53:44 pm --- :D Gah!
The most famous examples of Cargo Cult behavior have been the airstrips, airports, and radios made out of coconuts and straw. The cult members built them in the belief that the structures would attract transport aircraft full of cargo. Believers stage "drills" and "marches" with twigs for rifles and military-style insignia and "USA" painted on their bodies to make them look like soldiers.
The cargo cult has been used as an analogy to describe certain phenomena in the First World, particularly in the area of business. After any substantial commercial success—whether it is a new model of car, a vacuum cleaner, a toy or a motion picture—there typically arise imitators who produce superficial copies of the original, but with none of the original's substance.
The term is perhaps best known because of a speech by physicist Richard Feynman at a Caltech commencement called cargo cult science, which became a chapter in the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. In the speech, Feynman pointed out that cargo cultists create all the appearance of an airport right down to headsets with bamboo "antennas", yet the airplanes don't come. Feynman argued that some scientists often produce studies with all the trappings of real science, but which are nonetheless pseudoscience and unworthy of either respect or support.
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this is amazing...I had never heard of this...I mean I know about the joke about someone dropping a coke bottle out of a plane and starting a new religion...but that people these days still do this kind of thing?? You would think we had gotten farther up the evolutionary ladder than that...
(of course I am not saying I understand what you are saying about Feynman??) I think I am missing something...you have to type R E A L slow for me...but I would like it if you would!! :)
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