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Chiroptera
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Message 65 of 160 (237690)
08-27-2005 11:53 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Nuggin
08-27-2005 3:53 AM


Re: Caution about internet information
quote:
It's not illegal for the non-profit org to lease it's equipment.
This is true, but you have to admit, it's pretty shady when an organization run by PR is leasing equipment to a business run by PR.
I'm not sure I agree with this. If the non-profit made a "profit" on its leasing and then used the money to further its mission, then I'm not sure I would call it shady.
On the other hand, as a teacher I understand that one of the purposes of professional ethics is to avoid even the appearance of impropiety. If that is your point, then I would agree that it is a good point.

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Chiroptera
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Message 67 of 160 (237707)
08-27-2005 1:35 PM
Reply to: Message 66 by Nuggin
08-27-2005 1:25 PM


Ah, I see.
Yeah, that would be pretty shady alright.

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Chiroptera
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Message 81 of 160 (237761)
08-27-2005 4:46 PM
Reply to: Message 79 by Theodoric
08-27-2005 4:37 PM


As long as we're terminally off-topic:
From an old column by Katha Pollitt (because she says it much better than I) about the idea that the the commandments somehow form the basis of American law:
Consider Commandment One: God identifies himself as God--as if you didn't know! Who else crashes about with thunder and lightning? He reminds the Jews that he brought them out of Egypt and orders that "thou shalt have no other gods before me." What does that mean, exactly? No other gods, period, or no other gods come first? No other gods because they don't exist, or no other gods because they are minor and inferior and God doesn't like them? His need for constant reassurance is one of God's more perplexing characteristics. If you had created the universe and everything in it down to the seven-day week, would you care if people believed in you? Wouldn't it be enough that you knew you existed? Why can't God give anonymously? So what if people give Baal or Ishtar the credit?
In any case, God's status anxiety has precious little to do with the civil and criminal codes of the state of Alabama, where worshiping Baal and Ishtar is legal. Commandments Two, Three and Four continue God's preoccupation with himself. No graven images, indeed, no "likeness" of anything in nature, to which he holds the copyright; no taking his name in vain; no work on the Sabbath. Representational art and sculpture, swearing a blue streak and working on Saturday (or, in Alabama, Sunday) are all legal; nor does the law require that we honor our fathers and mothers as enjoined in the Fifth Commandment, despite God's barely veiled threat of death and/or exile if we sass them. Adultery is legal (well, actually, not in Alabama), as is coveting your neighbor's house, wife, servants, livestock--or husband, a possibility God seems either not to have considered or not to have minded. In fact, the only activities banned by the Ten Commandments that are also crimes under American law are murder, theft and perjury. But those are illegal (I'm guessing) under just about every civil and religious code. Even Baal and Ishtar presumably took a dim view of them.

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Chiroptera
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Message 129 of 160 (240378)
09-04-2005 12:33 PM
Reply to: Message 128 by RAZD
09-04-2005 7:23 AM


Re: Pat Robertson Kills {Activitst} Chief Justice
That's too bad. However conservative Rehnquist, he wasn't a totally crazy f*** like Scalia.

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