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Seriously? Before the digital storage of information, microfilms were used for archiving. Microfilms are incredibly small pictures of whatever information you wish to record, from books, records, charts, but most often its newspapers. My school has several microfilm readers in its basement, for loo...

Well I like bell peppers. I'll eat that one.
On the other paw, what microfilm?

maxgoof wrote:

They're not spelled the same????????

Actually it can be marquise or marquee for the theater sign, marquis or marquess for the nobleman.

And just to muddy the water some more - a marquise can be a female marquis!

Ain't English fun!

Squeaky Bunny wrote:

Narnian wrote:

Sharuuk wrote: Coming from a ferret????? YOU gotta lotta room to talk!?!?!

Hey, I'm descented

And a whole hob to boot

I could say something about hobnobbing, but that might be misconstrued.

Ditto for hobgobbling?

Squeaky Bunny wrote:

Sharuuk wrote:

Narnian wrote: Don't worry, you'all always be pretty rank ...

Coming from a ferret????? YOU gotta lotta room to talk!?!?!

S'aaruuk

Maybe he's rankled

Nah, I just like to rank on people

Well, it looks like we're all getting a lot of fiber at least.

Sharuuk wrote:

Narnian wrote:

Sharuuk wrote:Where did our "ranking" and post counts since joining that were in our 'avatar boxes' go???

Don't worry, you'all always be pretty rank ...

Coming from a ferret????? YOU gotta lotta room to talk!?!?!

Hey, I'm descented

And a whole hob to boot

Sharuuk wrote:Where did our "ranking" and post counts since joining that were in our 'avatar boxes' go???

Don't worry, you'all always be pretty rank ...

Considering how old they live any possibility Quentyn finds Quentyn?

No, it is "you joined me for the benefits you wanted, now you have to follow the rules that make those benefits possible". Might does not MAKE right, and in most cases might is not required for the right thing to be done. How many people out there joined a society to obtain its benefits? I don't se...

In practice, that's exactly right. The morality of a culture depends on its collective agreement to behave in conformity with a set of rules. The -origin- of those rules may be legislative, religion-based, philosophy-based, or simply pragmatism that has grown up over the years as to what works. The...

Not at all. Might has nothing to do with moral authority. Moral authority comes from collective agreement. If you choose to take advantage of the benefits of a given society, then you are tacitly agreeing to take responsibility for anything that society requires of you. It is, for example, entirely...

To a large extent, TIME establishes what is moral and what is not, by the simple method of "Does it function well in the long run?", with the most basic principle being "Do you want to be treated like this ? No? Then don't treat other people that way." The Golden Rule. Everything else is just varia...

Because you agree to them by living there. If you don't agree with them, you can either move or try and change them, which ever is better for you and the community in the long run. It is the people that make the laws, via their representivies in governemnet (or taht's how it should be) so they can ...

That's why there is a set of laws agreed upon by the community. You commit a crime once you go against those laws and, therefore, against the agreed upon morality of the community. That's also why laws differ from area to area, because the communities agree that differant moral codes, and thus laws...

There is no universally applicable set of moral standards by which to judge people. What repulses one person might be perfectly okay to another. Then how can anybody be held liable for any crime? How can you define crime? By your definition any moral standard is relative and as such canot have any ...

Gengar003 wrote:That is a question that cannot be universally answered.

For some it is God, for others logic, some gut feeling.

OK, say I have a gut feeling child rape is right. Does that make it morally acceptable?

Mjolnir wrote:

Narnian wrote:What establishes a moral position as right or wrong? What gives it authority?

The perceptions of those involved. There is no absolute, really.

Then how can we say it was wrong for the 9/11 attackers to do what they did?

This type of sting is typical - police women posing as prostitutes, detectives selling fake drugs, etc. Solicitation itself is a crime so a crime has been committed. Never said a crime wasn't committed. Soliciting for sex is a crime, and that is what he should be charged with. However, he did not s...

What establishes a moral position as right or wrong? What gives it authority?