"Freedom OF religion" also means "freedom FROM religion"
How do you figure?
Fucking jesus lord shit christ fuck almighty!!! I can't believe I have to explain that on Slashdot!!! You must be fuckingly brain-damaged by your fucking religion to ask such a question. You must be a morm^hon, are you?
Well, lemme explain, morm^hon. If you're allowed to believe whatever pea-brain crap you want, you ought to be allowed NOT to believe it, no?
Let's say I like to masturbate. I really like handling my dick, fantasizing about the turn-on du jour (today, it's blue and yellow spandex), geting it (the dick, not the spandex) hard, then vigorously stroking it until it ejaculates some sperm. Sometimes, whenever I masturbate in the shower, I also shove a finger up my asshole, and fondle my prostate from behind - presto, instant super-orgasm. Of course, this is prohibited by many religions. However, I do not see anything wrong with that.
Likewise, right now, it is summer. So I can't be bothered to wear clothing, even when I go in the park to sunbathe. Of course, this is also prohibited by many religions, and, like the above, I do not see anything wrong with that.
So, tellme, you fuckhead, why does your restrictive view (that's only due to some retardation in your brain) should be binding on ME???
Your freedom to believe whatever shit you want doesn't mean you have to force your beliefs on others. What if I FORCED you to masturbate three times a day (like I do on a good day), or have a walk in the park naked? You would be pissed-off, no? Well, that's exactly how I feel when you tell me I should not masturbate or sunbathe naked in the park.
Whenever you make a statement about what Jews believe, you're bound to be wrong, because you'll find some group of Jews who do believe the opposite.
That's true... A friend of mine says that the arabs are stupid; otherwise, they'd make peace with the jews, and within a month, they would have all killed each-other...
Hardly. I'm Jewish. Now imagine how I'd feel if "under Jesus" was in the PoA. I don't believe in Jesus as the messiah, but I'd be pissed as hell. Same thing.
I am sure all the communists, fascists and nazis would agree with this or your beloved State would kill them. Oh wait, most of their countries have fallen so maybe they can disagree now. Actually, I can't believe that any rational person could take this position. A strong State will not guard individual rights, it will eliminate them. Don't think so? Check a little history: Soviet Union, China, any third world dictator you want. All extremely strong states.
France, too, is a pretty strong State and has a very decent welfare system. Surprise: even more so than the USA, it is universally known as a beacon of Liberty and Freedom, because thanks to that powerful State, Liberty and Freedom is available to ALL, not just those who can afford it, like in the USA.
And if the US has a stronger State, there is a good chance that no plane would have been flown into buildings, because everybody would see as a matter of course that plane security should not be entrusted to untrained minimum-wage workers with criminal records, but, instead to highly-skilled professionnals.
The best way to insure your employer treats you well is a strong economy. During the dot com boom most of us jumped to a new job several times a year. Remember all the perks we could get? If a company knows a better paying job with more benefits can be had before the end of the day, they'll treat you like a king to make sure you stay. If they don't, take the other job and get the better deal anyway. If you think the State can mandate a strong economy, check your history again.
History shows plainly that the economy doesn't give a flying fuck about people having enough to eat. It also doesn't care whether people are housed decently. It could not care less if people can have medical care or not. It could not be bothered whether people can enjoy political rights or not. It even doesn't give a shit if the houses are properly built following strictly-enforced building codes in hurricane/earthquaque zones; hell, it even likes it better when there is a natural disaster: the reconstruction efforts make the gross national product grow!!!
In short, the economy cares less about people than you care about all the e. coli bacteria you just shitted last time you had a dump!!! The economy is important, for sure, but it is not the only thing in life!!!
It's alarming that anyone could seriously propose this ideaology much less believe it.
Billions of people worldwide believe it strongly, and have fought epic battles to have it implemented. They certainly can't be wrong!!!
It's even more alarming that someone would be so blind as to parrot the big croporation rhetoric that wants to eradicate the power of States as much as possible in order to occupy it...
So, you want to be able to quit your job, and have me pay you money, so you can look for another one? What gives you the right to claim my income as your own? And what is the societal effect if we can all do that? Who pays the freight? The scheme isn't sustainable.
It is not your income that I take, but what every workers contributes to the unemployment insurance fund, to which you are also perfectly entitled to.
Surprise! That employment insurance was instituted at the request of big croporations so they could lay-off their seasonal workforce without any pangs of social guilt (like if a croporation would have pangs of social guilt)...
No, he didn't. Despite all being a progressive thinker and that, he still was an anglo-saxon, and his most famous writing, 1984, was totally soaked by the most prevalent anglo-saxon neurosis: fear of the State. Hence the State being turned into that evil omnipresent surveillor that crushes any smidgeon of individuality.
The pitfall being that by not trusting the State, anglo-saxons do the utmost to emasculate it's power, whereas the power vacuum left is promptly filled by private croporatitions who answer to nobody, certainly not the people, as the State doe.
As long as the anglo-saxons insist that the State be as small as possible, individual rights will be trampled by big croporations. Do not forget that a strong State is the best guardian of individual rights, simply by the virtue of ruling-in and checking the power of big croporations over the people.
For example, if you lose your job and can get 60% of yout former salary by virtue of the State's unemployment insurance, you can bet that companies don't push their workers around, as people simply quit and take the time to look for a proper job. And when the State provides you with medical insurance, people don't lose their jobs because the collective insurer doesn't threaten to withdraw coverage for all employees when one employees becomes unprofitably ill.
I defy anyone to refute this argument (communism not being of any relevance, it won't be accepted as an argument. A past example, maybe, but not an actual argument).
Ah, mais c'est très bien, ça, au moins, vous êtes un peu moins endoffé que le reste des amerloks.
Quant à VOTRE "nouvel ordre mondial", celui que dubya & ses petits amis (lire: "mondialisation" qui, en réalité, n'est que de l'amerdicanisation), vous pouvez vous le foutre dans l'oigne.
The rest of the world speaks english because the yankees are too stupid to learn other languages, everyone (but the yanks) know that...
As of the Karma, that's because yanks aren't alone on Slashdot; plenty of folks here know that the yanks have their head shoved into their arses quite far...
So Marketing only focuses on the english speaking clientel or what ?
That's because dim-witted morons (the majority of people out there) think that the yankees are the best thing since sliced bread, so if you want to sell anything to the majority of dim-witted morons, you kave to make it look like it's a merry can...
Such radical mods are silly, because of Moore's Law. I mean, what's the point in sweating blood for something that looks k001 that will be so much dragging it's feet in less than 6 months that you'll want to kick it everytime you boot the darn thing? Of course, one can plan ahead and make room for improvements, say, swapping the motherboard.
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
Well, Kananaskis is PRECISELY in the middle of NOWHERE [gov.ab.ca]. That's the reason why the have the summit there, to keep the rabble away.
Hopefully, a stray jumbo-jet will wander in the vicinity while the big cheeses are there, and suddenly lose power and lift while flying over the hotel...
(Reposted, account being moderated into oblivion - notice to moderators: don't waste your moderation points on me, I repost as soon as you moderate down)
So I guess I'm puzzled. If Canada's system has broken down, what term do we use to describe the US system? A complete failure?
Indeed, it is a complete failure. For the same cost per capita of the canadian universal health care system, the american one only covers 40% of the people. The nice thing with a government run health-care system is that there is only 3% overhead, because there is no money wasted on a capitalistic bureaucracy involved to check if such procedure is covered or not, and more importantly, there is no money wasted on dividends to shareholders.
Try to raise the noise floor on all frequencies would require the energy of a nuclear bomb. No one would survive the energy required to saturate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Is this what Canada plans to do?
Indeed, a nuclear bomb detonated over Kananaskis would solve a lot of the world's problems...
Besides, if it's a public place, there should be a public phone nearby. It's not like these people are on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
Well, Kananaskis is PRECISELY in the middle of NOWHERE. That's the reason why the have the summit there, to keep the rabble away.
Hopefully, a stray jumbo-jet will wander in the vicinity while the big cheeses are there, and suddenly lose power and lift while flying over the hotel...
I put my carryon bags in the machine, walked through the detector, which beeped. A girl waved a wand around to verify that it was my belt buckle that set off the detector, I grabbed my bags, and went on my way.
I knew that, but it was brillantly confirmed by a class on computer project management I took 2 years ago.
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.
I knew that, but it was brillantly confirmed by a class on computer project management I took 2 years ago.
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.
I knew that, but it was brillantly confirmed by a class on computer project management I took 2 years ago.
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.
The limit was reached in the mid 1990s, at least as far as I'm concerned. I really can't tell the difference between a generic motherboard sound chipset played through okay speakers and an overpriced sound card. I think that quite a few people fall into the same category. Certainly, upgrading one's sound card is about fiftieth on the list of pressing computer problems.
Maybe that's because you've reached that age where you can't hear the difference between a crappy sound card and a fancy one...
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Well, lemme explain, morm^hon. If you're allowed to believe whatever pea-brain crap you want, you ought to be allowed NOT to believe it, no?
Let's say I like to masturbate. I really like handling my dick, fantasizing about the turn-on du jour (today, it's blue and yellow spandex), geting it (the dick, not the spandex) hard, then vigorously stroking it until it ejaculates some sperm. Sometimes, whenever I masturbate in the shower, I also shove a finger up my asshole, and fondle my prostate from behind - presto, instant super-orgasm. Of course, this is prohibited by many religions. However, I do not see anything wrong with that.
Likewise, right now, it is summer. So I can't be bothered to wear clothing, even when I go in the park to sunbathe. Of course, this is also prohibited by many religions, and, like the above, I do not see anything wrong with that.
So, tellme, you fuckhead, why does your restrictive view (that's only due to some retardation in your brain) should be binding on ME???
Your freedom to believe whatever shit you want doesn't mean you have to force your beliefs on others. What if I FORCED you to masturbate three times a day (like I do on a good day), or have a walk in the park naked? You would be pissed-off, no? Well, that's exactly how I feel when you tell me I should not masturbate or sunbathe naked in the park.
You're jewish, and jews don't believe in hell...
And if the US has a stronger State, there is a good chance that no plane would have been flown into buildings, because everybody would see as a matter of course that plane security should not be entrusted to untrained minimum-wage workers with criminal records, but, instead to highly-skilled professionnals.
History shows plainly that the economy doesn't give a flying fuck about people having enough to eat. It also doesn't care whether people are housed decently. It could not care less if people can have medical care or not. It could not be bothered whether people can enjoy political rights or not. It even doesn't give a shit if the houses are properly built following strictly-enforced building codes in hurricane/earthquaque zones; hell, it even likes it better when there is a natural disaster: the reconstruction efforts make the gross national product grow!!!In short, the economy cares less about people than you care about all the e. coli bacteria you just shitted last time you had a dump!!! The economy is important, for sure, but it is not the only thing in life!!!
Billions of people worldwide believe it strongly, and have fought epic battles to have it implemented. They certainly can't be wrong!!!It's even more alarming that someone would be so blind as to parrot the big croporation rhetoric that wants to eradicate the power of States as much as possible in order to occupy it...
Surprise! That employment insurance was instituted at the request of big croporations so they could lay-off their seasonal workforce without any pangs of social guilt (like if a croporation would have pangs of social guilt)...
The pitfall being that by not trusting the State, anglo-saxons do the utmost to emasculate it's power, whereas the power vacuum left is promptly filled by private croporatitions who answer to nobody, certainly not the people, as the State doe.
As long as the anglo-saxons insist that the State be as small as possible, individual rights will be trampled by big croporations. Do not forget that a strong State is the best guardian of individual rights, simply by the virtue of ruling-in and checking the power of big croporations over the people.
For example, if you lose your job and can get 60% of yout former salary by virtue of the State's unemployment insurance, you can bet that companies don't push their workers around, as people simply quit and take the time to look for a proper job. And when the State provides you with medical insurance, people don't lose their jobs because the collective insurer doesn't threaten to withdraw coverage for all employees when one employees becomes unprofitably ill.
I defy anyone to refute this argument (communism not being of any relevance, it won't be accepted as an argument. A past example, maybe, but not an actual argument).
Quant à VOTRE "nouvel ordre mondial", celui que dubya & ses petits amis (lire: "mondialisation" qui, en réalité, n'est que de l'amerdicanisation), vous pouvez vous le foutre dans l'oigne.
As of the Karma, that's because yanks aren't alone on Slashdot; plenty of folks here know that the yanks have their head shoved into their arses quite far...
Such radical mods are silly, because of Moore's Law. I mean, what's the point in sweating blood for something that looks k001 that will be so much dragging it's feet in less than 6 months that you'll want to kick it everytime you boot the darn thing? Of course, one can plan ahead and make room for improvements, say, swapping the motherboard.
Hopefully, a stray jumbo-jet will wander in the vicinity while the big cheeses are there, and suddenly lose power and lift while flying over the hotel...
(Reposted, account being moderated into oblivion - notice to moderators: don't waste your moderation points on me, I repost as soon as you moderate down)
Hopefully, a stray jumbo-jet will wander in the vicinity while the big cheeses are there, and suddenly lose power and lift while flying over the hotel...
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.
(Reposted, account being moderated into oblivion)
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.
(Reposted, account being moderated into oblivion)
The teacher was a moonlighter, having a day job for the political police as a senior project manager. First of all, the class had three times the ordinary number of people, so we wasted three weeks splitting the group in three.
Then we had to work on our projects in teams of 10 people, which made managing the meetings as much work as doing the project itself.
Then I was canned, because when you're 38 years old, you just cannot learn by heart a 50 paragraph text like a 18 year old can (and then the teacher said that there was plenty of erroneous information in the text). I was canned despite our group project ending at second place when it was evaluated by the second in command of the political police...
So, if you like bullshit and nonsense stuff, go for project management.