None of these should be taken as excusing things that the Church and priests, but I do note that the above reasons may explain why we don't see similar scandals rocking other churches. I highly doubt that the Catholics have cornered the market on molesting clergy.
The episcopal and anglican churches have similar structures to the Catholic church, as does (I believe) the presbyterian church.
Many churches have heirarchies, the problem with the catholic church is that it appears that the problem has been hidden rather than dealt with.
The church is guilty of hiding, downplaying, and generally facilitating this stuff, but lets be clear that responsibility for personal actions rests with the person who commits them-- NOT the church.
but an anti-theist because of the way faith and religion makes people behave.
Anyone who has studied any sort of history knows that people need no excuse or justification to "misbehave"; its just that if excuses or justifications are available they will use them.
Do you really think that the IRA bombings are purely religious? That the Holocaust wouldnt have happened without a religious target? That the people in the Westboro church would be cuddly kittens if only it werent for religion?
People like you are what's wrong with organized religion
Right, cause things like this are rampant in every other religion, right?
and one of the primary reasons of why I am atheist.
If the 20th century has taught us anything, its that all religions are messed up and all atheists are cuddly kittens. --This message has been approved by Pol Pot and Stalin
The RCC has a fair share of troubles, but that's largely a function of it abandoning any authority other than "what we say" all of those centuries ago. What do you suppose made up a huge portion of the grievances in Luther's 95 theses? Heres a hint, it starts "cor" and ends "ruption".
You should root for the people who arent running around doing extra-judical killing sprees, and instead root for the people who are trying to catch him.
Just because the world isnt perfect doesnt mean you lose track of perspective and stop caring about whether a serial killer is caught or not. Do you really mean to imply that you think that the cops who have been killed all deserved it?
The idea that somehow replacing 40g of HFCS with 40g of sugar (which is chemically very nearly the same thing as HFCS) will make a significant improvement is laughable.
It would be like worrying about what kind of oil is used to fry your french fries. Perhaps there is a small difference in there somewhere, but you really need to worry about the quantity of oil, not the type.
Our customers are looking for a way to start their day with yellow 5 and caffeine in the morning, and we've realized that giving it the veneer of health by throwing in some juice concentrate does the job well while also ratcheting up the sugar levels.
For the consumer who wants to embrace a sugar-loaded diet and a diabetic lifestyle, Kickstart is exactly what theyre looking for.
Can you explain to me why you think using actions to lead people to believe incorrect things is different than using words to do so?
Deception is deception, whether through actions or appearance or words. The goal is to lead someone to believe something untrue, and how it is done doesnt change that it is deception.
Of course you are deceiving them. The entire point is to make them think something is true, which isnt; thats basically the definition of deception.
Its like lying by omission. If your mother were to ask "did you eat the cookies" and you answer "no" since you only ate a singular cookie, you have lied / practiced deception. Technically your words were true but they were specifically phrased to make her believe something false.
It sounds good to quote Ayn Rand until you realize that when she says "moral" it has basically no connection to what would be generally understood as "morality".
Its modded down because its a broad generalization that cant possibly be made honestly unless he has actually see this behavior from a statistically significant number of libertarians. Its similar to BS like "All republicans are racist" (they arent), or "all Democrats are communist" (they arent), and should be modded down as such.
Youre missing the part where said unethical hacker could instead have made (tens of) thousands of dollars using his virus in a different way, as say a botnet, or spambots.
Linux runs happily on all sorts of crappy hardware because somewhere, at some point, a linux dev did a lot of heavy lifting to make that happen, not because linux magically works with all hardware.
I realized after posting that you were referring to "Java the language", but it should be realized that when non-developers say "Java has a security hole" they are generally referring to the JRE (in fact you see that in the ambiguous wording in my last sentence in the post above).
I dont know what a "security hole" in a programming language would look like, it seems like an absurd notion on the face of it. Security "holes" have to do with the fact that a program can be made to operate in a fashion unintentioned by its author; conceivably one could be caused by a bad compiler, but in all other cases it seems to me that it must be due to programmer error or ignorance of the language / compiler.
That is specifically a word for female dogs-- not all dogs.
Take the following with a grain of salt.
A ship is referred to using feminine pronouns.
That is not the same thing as grammatical gender. Look up ship in English; note how there is no indication of its gender, nor is there any difference in usage. Now look it up in German; note how it indicates "neuter" next to schiff, and it indicates that for neuter nouns, you use "das Schiff" as opposed to "der Schiff".
It also has nothing to do AFAIK with wither you use he or she vs it-- lets look at "teacher". It has no gender in english, and you would generally say "he" or "she" depending on whether the teacher in question was male or female. In german, "der Lehrer" is masculine, but once again, you would use "er" (he) or "sie" (she) depending on the gender of the teacher.
I am fairly certain we have no grammatical gender as I cannot name a single masculine noun, or their corresponding articles (eg, "[das / der / die] Noun").
You are right that many places teach foreign language but at least where I went to school that was always an elective, and my point was more that "gendered" words arent a native english concept.
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None of these should be taken as excusing things that the Church and priests, but I do note that the above reasons may explain why we don't see similar scandals rocking other churches. I highly doubt that the Catholics have cornered the market on molesting clergy.
The episcopal and anglican churches have similar structures to the Catholic church, as does (I believe) the presbyterian church.
Many churches have heirarchies, the problem with the catholic church is that it appears that the problem has been hidden rather than dealt with.
The church is guilty of hiding, downplaying, and generally facilitating this stuff, but lets be clear that responsibility for personal actions rests with the person who commits them-- NOT the church.
but an anti-theist because of the way faith and religion makes people behave.
Anyone who has studied any sort of history knows that people need no excuse or justification to "misbehave"; its just that if excuses or justifications are available they will use them.
Do you really think that the IRA bombings are purely religious? That the Holocaust wouldnt have happened without a religious target? That the people in the Westboro church would be cuddly kittens if only it werent for religion?
People like you are what's wrong with organized religion
Right, cause things like this are rampant in every other religion, right?
and one of the primary reasons of why I am atheist.
If the 20th century has taught us anything, its that all religions are messed up and all atheists are cuddly kittens.
--This message has been approved by Pol Pot and Stalin
The RCC has a fair share of troubles, but that's largely a function of it abandoning any authority other than "what we say" all of those centuries ago. What do you suppose made up a huge portion of the grievances in Luther's 95 theses? Heres a hint, it starts "cor" and ends "ruption".
You should root for the people who arent running around doing extra-judical killing sprees, and instead root for the people who are trying to catch him.
Just because the world isnt perfect doesnt mean you lose track of perspective and stop caring about whether a serial killer is caught or not. Do you really mean to imply that you think that the cops who have been killed all deserved it?
The idea that somehow replacing 40g of HFCS with 40g of sugar (which is chemically very nearly the same thing as HFCS) will make a significant improvement is laughable.
It would be like worrying about what kind of oil is used to fry your french fries. Perhaps there is a small difference in there somewhere, but you really need to worry about the quantity of oil, not the type.
Our customers are looking for a way to start their day with yellow 5 and caffeine in the morning, and we've realized that giving it the veneer of health by throwing in some juice concentrate does the job well while also ratcheting up the sugar levels.
For the consumer who wants to embrace a sugar-loaded diet and a diabetic lifestyle, Kickstart is exactly what theyre looking for.
The Us are particularly expensive; do you want the price to go even higher? Theyre just barely recouping the costs of translating the code!
None of you guys get how expensive it is to translate C++ to Australian.
Wait, its DHS's fault that they did something that they havent done yet?
Gotta love slashdot logic.
Can you explain to me why you think using actions to lead people to believe incorrect things is different than using words to do so?
Deception is deception, whether through actions or appearance or words. The goal is to lead someone to believe something untrue, and how it is done doesnt change that it is deception.
"Intent" plays a big part in whether you can be considered to be deceiving someone.
Of course you are deceiving them. The entire point is to make them think something is true, which isnt; thats basically the definition of deception.
Its like lying by omission. If your mother were to ask "did you eat the cookies" and you answer "no" since you only ate a singular cookie, you have lied / practiced deception. Technically your words were true but they were specifically phrased to make her believe something false.
It sounds good to quote Ayn Rand until you realize that when she says "moral" it has basically no connection to what would be generally understood as "morality".
Its modded down because its a broad generalization that cant possibly be made honestly unless he has actually see this behavior from a statistically significant number of libertarians. Its similar to BS like "All republicans are racist" (they arent), or "all Democrats are communist" (they arent), and should be modded down as such.
Because there is a substantial market for things that arent laptops but try to be laptops, as shown by the popularity of iPad keyboards.
IIRC it did not happen for the PS3, which was lamented as a failure for quite some time before it got momentum.
Also, its easier to fix security bugs once reported than to fix "Your software is clunky and unpolished".
Im sure youre a blast to have at parties.
"Stop all of this illogical merrymaking! We should be acting as productive members of society!"
We're not in Palestine / Bethlehem / where-ever, but Christmas & Easter are among our biggest sets of holidays.
Well, seeing as Christmas and Easter are not days that would be celebrated by Jewish or Muslim populations, that isnt surprising.
Youre missing the part where said unethical hacker could instead have made (tens of) thousands of dollars using his virus in a different way, as say a botnet, or spambots.
Linux runs happily on all sorts of crappy hardware because somewhere, at some point, a linux dev did a lot of heavy lifting to make that happen, not because linux magically works with all hardware.
Luckily, the whole "cause havok for the heck of it" virus craze kind of died out years ago.
If theres no money to be had, theres no real threat except from people you know "pranking" you.
I realized after posting that you were referring to "Java the language", but it should be realized that when non-developers say "Java has a security hole" they are generally referring to the JRE (in fact you see that in the ambiguous wording in my last sentence in the post above).
I dont know what a "security hole" in a programming language would look like, it seems like an absurd notion on the face of it. Security "holes" have to do with the fact that a program can be made to operate in a fashion unintentioned by its author; conceivably one could be caused by a bad compiler, but in all other cases it seems to me that it must be due to programmer error or ignorance of the language / compiler.
Don't call my canine a dog. She's a bitch.
That is specifically a word for female dogs-- not all dogs.
Take the following with a grain of salt.
A ship is referred to using feminine pronouns.
That is not the same thing as grammatical gender.
Look up ship in English; note how there is no indication of its gender, nor is there any difference in usage.
Now look it up in German; note how it indicates "neuter" next to schiff, and it indicates that for neuter nouns, you use "das Schiff" as opposed to "der Schiff".
It also has nothing to do AFAIK with wither you use he or she vs it-- lets look at "teacher". It has no gender in english, and you would generally say "he" or "she" depending on whether the teacher in question was male or female. In german, "der Lehrer" is masculine, but once again, you would use "er" (he) or "sie" (she) depending on the gender of the teacher.
I am fairly certain we have no grammatical gender as I cannot name a single masculine noun, or their corresponding articles (eg, "[das / der / die] Noun").
You are right that many places teach foreign language but at least where I went to school that was always an elective, and my point was more that "gendered" words arent a native english concept.