There will be crimes and misconduct among refugees for sure. That is a statistical certainty when you have hundreds of thousands of people. But considering the hardships and unimaginable emotional stress that refugees have had to endure, I would say the vast majority of them are remarkably peaceful and calm.
Almost haf of Syrian refugees have high school or university education. Also the vast majority of them are not interested at all in fundamentalist Islam, but are progressive and simply want to lead a free life of opportunity, like the rest of us. That's why they are coming to Europe. If they agreed with fanatics like ISIS they would join them and not walk over to the "enemy".
The problem of morons like you is that for you every muslim is a fanatic, because all you hear in the news are associations of terrorism with Islam. In reality, the majority of muslims are normal people like you and me that want to live and let live. The Islamists are a much bigger threat and pain in the ass to them than they are for us, because they are the ones being killed and driven from their homes.
I'm not sure this is the same thing. I think I am a considerably introverted person (probably more than the average introverted guy). It really wears me out in the office when people are talking with me or next to me for longer periods, and sometimes I leave home with a headache because of it. And I feel most happy and relaxed when I am working on my own.
But in school I enjoyed being involved in class, joining discussions with the teacher, asking questions, etc.
Not sure how this stark difference came to be. Maybe I changed between school and work. But actually I think there is a real difference between "socializing talk" and talking with people on an intellectual level about a concrete, specific topic.
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I'm sure there is a huge psychological discrepancy between being in orbit around Earth in a space station equipped with an emergency escape capsule, and being out in the middle of space with little to no hope of rescue.
The ISIS war in the Middle East is Muslim against Muslim. Any action from the U.S. or other civilized nations is irrelevant. It's Muslim against Muslim, they cooked their own stew,
Not quite right. ISIS was founded by former Sunni members of Saddam Husseins armed forces. After the invasion of Iraq, the US had the genius idea of sanctioning all military personnel that served under Saddam by permanently excluding them from serving under any new government. This left thousands of officers and ten thousands of other enlisted personnel without any perspective at all in the new, Shia dominated Iraq. The leadership of ISIS are disgruntled, unemployed former officers of the Iraqi army. The whole religious undertone is a means to attract foot soldiers and to keep the simple minded folk in line. The real war is about power and control of resources, as it has always been. Had the US followed a policy of reconciliation and inclusion, none of this might have happened.
I'm not "giving Islam a free pass". As I said, if current Islamists keep it up, their atrocities will overtake those committed by Christianity "soon", on a historical scale.
Also, you seem to reduce all my points to a contrast of the crusades vs. jihad. The crusades are just one of my points.
The "expert" video you link at is a bit ironic considering that in the middle ages, during Islamic expansion, Islam was in general way more tolerant, progressive and enlightened in the arts, sciences and treatment of other religions than we (christians) were. And yes, Islam expanded and there were wars. So? The Mongols also expanded via war. So did the Japanese, and the Nazis, and the Roman empire, and the Aztechs, and the Persians, and the Greeks, and the Chinese red army, and... Powerful empires made wars and expanded. Religion is just one of many reasons to do so. Not sure what this has to do with anything.
Also your comment shows a poor understanding of other cultures and religious beliefs and how they were used to manipulate people.
Sure, the powerful will almost always use their power to shape their world, and religion is a nice means to move the masses. But I find it difficult to imagine any other religion having caused quite as much damage as Christianity, which in its basic form incites bad conscience for many human drives and that advocates repent and corporeal punishment, among other things. I mean, which other religion worships a bloody, crucified dead man that was practically tortured to death? I find many things about Christianity are inherently violent to the point of being macabre. Enter a cathedral in catholic Spain and you are likely to find carvings or paintings of martyrs and the violent ways in which they died, which is regarded as something worth of admiration. During mass you eat "the body of christ" and drink "the blood of christ". I mean... Jesus!
For sure, you also had guys like the Aztechs, which conducted blood rituals and sacrificed hundreds of captives to their gods in a single day. But Christianity also "wins" simply thanks to its scale and global reach. No other civilizations have had quite the influence and global impact as the christian ones.
Historically, it's very likely that Christianity has caused the most harm to human beings and humanity as a whole thus far. If you think about the dark ages, witch hunts, torture during the inquisition, crusades, sanctions against unbelievers, such as expulsions and acquisitions of their assets, forced conversions, colonization, abuse and culture shock of natives...
Most of this bad Karma was accumulated in the early to late middle ages, until the age of enlightenment finally put a stop to most of it. Of course today you still have popes condemning contraceptives, abortion and other modern solutions to age old problems, which is still creating a considerable amount of hurt. Then of course you also also have fundamentalist christians, such as the "God Hates Fags" nutjobs, dishing out a sizeable portion of distress to some people, even today.
I think Islam still has some catching up to do if it wants to reach christianity's accumulated level of harm. But I have to admit that current Islamists are trying pretty hard at the moment. If they go on like this, they might catch up in only a century or two.
One of my memories of visiting the US during a school trip as a kid, was meeting an air force fighter pilot in the airport of Detroit. I was pretty excited to meet a real air force pilot, but unfortunately I blew it when he told me he flied a C-130 Hercules and my reaction to it was "Really? Isn't that an old plane?"
I could practically read his aggrieved expression from his eyes as he told me that it ain't that old.
For some reason, that's one of the most memorable moments of the trip.:)
Until basic common sense measures like these happen, then we can rightly conclude this is just another "climate change hysteria" study. If the government doesn't believe in their own studies, then it is wrong to use them to force actions on others.
You expect government to act sensibly?
And you propose we ignore scientific studies until governments take action?
Yeah, if you're a regular on Slashdot, it seems like we've been finding a cure for cancer and HIV for the last 20 years or so. Also, we will have a space elavator, fusion energy, flying cars and Linux on the desktop in just 5 more years!.
I realize this is amazingly complex stuff and that research takes time... but I really do hope that scientists are not just fishing for a Nobel price, and performing endless theoretical research without ever thinking about practical applications.
Plants... they consume CO2, which seems to be the big issue in climate change.
How about projects to plant more plants in cities globally? Like forcing coal-powered power plants to surround their plant with plants? Plan to plant more plants in your plants.
most people will elect to play something from the past 15 years rather than something from 40 years ago.
If you only look at the last 15 years, you will miss some great games, like "El Grande", and of course the classic, "Settlers of Catan" which was released in 1995.
Its probably worth mentioning, that the US is also no longer the richest country in the world by total GDP, when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). It has been overtaken by China this year.
It is only the richest country in the world by total, nominal GDP.
FYI, per capita, the US is not the richest country in the world. Its about 10th place.
And if you factor out the wealthiest 2%, which in the US own almost half the country, and only consider average Toms, then the US would probably rank around 25th place.
And if you factor out how the US likes to spend tax money producing F-35 instead of reinvesting it into the neediest parts of the populace via social programs and welfare, then the US would probably rank around 30th place.
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Sources, you racist idiot?
There will be crimes and misconduct among refugees for sure. That is a statistical certainty when you have hundreds of thousands of people. But considering the hardships and unimaginable emotional stress that refugees have had to endure, I would say the vast majority of them are remarkably peaceful and calm.
Almost haf of Syrian refugees have high school or university education. Also the vast majority of them are not interested at all in fundamentalist Islam, but are progressive and simply want to lead a free life of opportunity, like the rest of us. That's why they are coming to Europe. If they agreed with fanatics like ISIS they would join them and not walk over to the "enemy".
The problem of morons like you is that for you every muslim is a fanatic, because all you hear in the news are associations of terrorism with Islam. In reality, the majority of muslims are normal people like you and me that want to live and let live. The Islamists are a much bigger threat and pain in the ass to them than they are for us, because they are the ones being killed and driven from their homes.
I'm not sure this is the same thing. I think I am a considerably introverted person (probably more than the average introverted guy). It really wears me out in the office when people are talking with me or next to me for longer periods, and sometimes I leave home with a headache because of it. And I feel most happy and relaxed when I am working on my own.
But in school I enjoyed being involved in class, joining discussions with the teacher, asking questions, etc.
Not sure how this stark difference came to be. Maybe I changed between school and work. But actually I think there is a real difference between "socializing talk" and talking with people on an intellectual level about a concrete, specific topic.
Obama is not sending jobs to China. Corporations are.
The one very important thing on Mars that we absolutely can't get on Earth is another place to be in case something happens to this planet we're on.
All our eggs are in one basket right now.
Er, whatever. Sad thing is, I'm not making this shit up..
I'm sure there is a huge psychological discrepancy between being in orbit around Earth in a space station equipped with an emergency escape capsule, and being out in the middle of space with little to no hope of rescue.
They hate it because
Black, muslim Obama, born in Africa. Dirty liberal communism and praise our Lord and Savior Donald Trump.
Is what about half of US population has in their heads. Courtesy of Fox News.
You stole my line!
And since reality has such as liberal bias, conservatives have been forced to create their own version of Wikipedia
Obviously you have accumulated too much knowledge for anything to be still interesting to you.
You're getting old. If you're lucky you will develop altzheimers and all of this old stuff will be exciting for you once again.
It's better to grow by buying stuff and having "expenses" than having to pay taxes on your profits.
The ISIS war in the Middle East is Muslim against Muslim. Any action from the U.S. or other civilized nations is irrelevant. It's Muslim against Muslim, they cooked their own stew,
Not quite right. ISIS was founded by former Sunni members of Saddam Husseins armed forces. After the invasion of Iraq, the US had the genius idea of sanctioning all military personnel that served under Saddam by permanently excluding them from serving under any new government. This left thousands of officers and ten thousands of other enlisted personnel without any perspective at all in the new, Shia dominated Iraq.
The leadership of ISIS are disgruntled, unemployed former officers of the Iraqi army. The whole religious undertone is a means to attract foot soldiers and to keep the simple minded folk in line. The real war is about power and control of resources, as it has always been.
Had the US followed a policy of reconciliation and inclusion, none of this might have happened.
I'm not "giving Islam a free pass". As I said, if current Islamists keep it up, their atrocities will overtake those committed by Christianity "soon", on a historical scale.
Also, you seem to reduce all my points to a contrast of the crusades vs. jihad. The crusades are just one of my points.
The "expert" video you link at is a bit ironic considering that in the middle ages, during Islamic expansion, Islam was in general way more tolerant, progressive and enlightened in the arts, sciences and treatment of other religions than we (christians) were. And yes, Islam expanded and there were wars. So? The Mongols also expanded via war. So did the Japanese, and the Nazis, and the Roman empire, and the Aztechs, and the Persians, and the Greeks, and the Chinese red army, and...
Powerful empires made wars and expanded. Religion is just one of many reasons to do so. Not sure what this has to do with anything.
Caused? This was the religion of their time.
I don't understand what you mean by this.
Also your comment shows a poor understanding of other cultures and religious beliefs and how they were used to manipulate people.
Sure, the powerful will almost always use their power to shape their world, and religion is a nice means to move the masses. But I find it difficult to imagine any other religion having caused quite as much damage as Christianity, which in its basic form incites bad conscience for many human drives and that advocates repent and corporeal punishment, among other things. I mean, which other religion worships a bloody, crucified dead man that was practically tortured to death? I find many things about Christianity are inherently violent to the point of being macabre. Enter a cathedral in catholic Spain and you are likely to find carvings or paintings of martyrs and the violent ways in which they died, which is regarded as something worth of admiration. During mass you eat "the body of christ" and drink "the blood of christ". I mean... Jesus!
For sure, you also had guys like the Aztechs, which conducted blood rituals and sacrificed hundreds of captives to their gods in a single day. But Christianity also "wins" simply thanks to its scale and global reach. No other civilizations have had quite the influence and global impact as the christian ones.
Historically, it's very likely that Christianity has caused the most harm to human beings and humanity as a whole thus far.
If you think about the dark ages, witch hunts, torture during the inquisition, crusades, sanctions against unbelievers, such as expulsions and acquisitions of their assets, forced conversions, colonization, abuse and culture shock of natives...
Most of this bad Karma was accumulated in the early to late middle ages, until the age of enlightenment finally put a stop to most of it. Of course today you still have popes condemning contraceptives, abortion and other modern solutions to age old problems, which is still creating a considerable amount of hurt.
Then of course you also also have fundamentalist christians, such as the "God Hates Fags" nutjobs, dishing out a sizeable portion of distress to some people, even today.
I think Islam still has some catching up to do if it wants to reach christianity's accumulated level of harm. But I have to admit that current Islamists are trying pretty hard at the moment. If they go on like this, they might catch up in only a century or two.
As a hobbyist game developer myself, I know what I would do.
Buy a nice home somewhere, and use most of my free time to make and play games.
But keep a low profile, so I can still take walks, order a coffee and visit wherever I like.
One of my memories of visiting the US during a school trip as a kid, was meeting an air force fighter pilot in the airport of Detroit. I was pretty excited to meet a real air force pilot, but unfortunately I blew it when he told me he flied a C-130 Hercules and my reaction to it was "Really? Isn't that an old plane?"
I could practically read his aggrieved expression from his eyes as he told me that it ain't that old.
For some reason, that's one of the most memorable moments of the trip. :)
Most civil first post on Slashdot, ever?
Autonomous cars are for the lazy and the inept
Im only drunnk, you insendsitive clod!
Until basic common sense measures like these happen, then we can rightly conclude this is just another "climate change hysteria" study. If the government doesn't believe in their own studies, then it is wrong to use them to force actions on others.
You expect government to act sensibly?
And you propose we ignore scientific studies until governments take action?
Sounds like a recipe for doom.
Yeah, if you're a regular on Slashdot, it seems like we've been finding a cure for cancer and HIV for the last 20 years or so. Also, we will have a space elavator, fusion energy, flying cars and Linux on the desktop in just 5 more years!.
I realize this is amazingly complex stuff and that research takes time... but I really do hope that scientists are not just fishing for a Nobel price, and performing endless theoretical research without ever thinking about practical applications.
And, all in all I have probably used more bytes downloading Linux related stuff than Pamela Anderson GIF:s
That's a very big 'probably' you got there, friend.
Plants... they consume CO2, which seems to be the big issue in climate change.
How about projects to plant more plants in cities globally? Like forcing coal-powered power plants to surround their plant with plants? Plan to plant more plants in your plants.
most people will elect to play something from the past 15 years rather than something from 40 years ago.
If you only look at the last 15 years, you will miss some great games, like "El Grande", and of course the classic, "Settlers of Catan" which was released in 1995.
Jeez, time passes quickly.
Its probably worth mentioning, that the US is also no longer the richest country in the world by total GDP, when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). It has been overtaken by China this year.
It is only the richest country in the world by total, nominal GDP.
GDP (PPP)
GDP (nominal)
FYI, per capita, the US is not the richest country in the world. Its about 10th place.
And if you factor out the wealthiest 2%, which in the US own almost half the country, and only consider average Toms, then the US would probably rank around 25th place.
And if you factor out how the US likes to spend tax money producing F-35 instead of reinvesting it into the neediest parts of the populace via social programs and welfare, then the US would probably rank around 30th place.