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Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Al-Qaeda's official online propaganda magazine, Inspire, contains a montage of violent images -- things like guns and blood -- next to an image of Bill Gates. The terrorist group is urging its followers to murder successful business folks, such as Gates, which is absolutely sickening. The terrorist group says that murdering high ranking people can damage the U.S. economy.
what happens if you kill the .01% and keep culling until it doesn't exist anymore?
You're left with just the people who don't understand percentages.
Maybe people call you a bigot because of your bigotry. From the point of view of agnostics and atheists and people form more peaceful religions, the entire jeudo-Christian complex, which includes judaism, islam, Christianity and other variants, is inherently violent. There's plenty of violent requirements for Christians and plenty of peaceful requirements in Islam. People just ignore the parts they want to ignore and do the parts they want to do and then insist that it's the one true path.
Now, I am assuming you'really a Christian based on context. Tell me if I am wrong. Assuming you are, when was the last time you shaved off all of a woman's hair because she didn't wear a headscarf? If you're christian, you are required to. It'seems not just in the old testament either, if you want to play the "new covenant" card. Look in corinthians.
Coffee and sugar used to come in one or five pound bags. Now it is all sub-16 ounces.
Huh? Just this morning, I bought a 7-pound bag of sugar. Granted, that's about a year's supply for the two of us. (And it's mostly an artifact of my local reputation as a maker of good margaritas. ;-) It isn't at all hard to find sugar packaged in 2- or 5-pound bags hereabouts; most of the food stores that I frequent sell it that way.
Coffee I've always bought in sub-pound packages, mostly because the taste tends to decay slowly, and it's more noticeable the larger the package is. The advent of home and in-store coffee grinding machines was the main cause of the switch to smaller packages, rather than the price. (The real coffee connoisseurs buy the beans green, and roast and grind it themselves, but their numbers are too small to seriously affect prices. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
The bombers of the airport in Brussels exploded their bombs in the check-in area (before the passport control and even further from the baggage scanners). When the airport reopened, they had pushed the security as far back as they could.
There are now military+police checkpoints for cars before you get near the airport, just off the highway exits. It would be difficult to get a car bomb past. You have to get dropped off in a specific car park and walk up to 2 km to get to the security queue to get into the temporary airport buildings.
The queue for the next security check, where they check bags is about 500m long. Everyone is in a very long, thin queue. If there were bombs in the bags to be checked in, the best they could do is explode in the queue outside of the building, which would cause little damage, except to the few within 10m or so.
The end result is a nightmare of an airport, with people avoiding it and not flying. Passenger numbers are way down. A friend who flew recently took 4 hours to get through the security lines and to his flight. He just made it, even though it was a morning flight, and he arrived 4 hours in advance, at around 6am. I would hate to see the queue at 10am or later.
It hasn't crippled the economy, but has really screwed the operators of the airport and all of the airlines using it.
"The best part? I became an ordained minister while not wearing pants." -- CleverNickName