The point of the ban is to try and force non-muslims to accept Muslim rules.
An interesting thought experiment would be to imagine that Muslims must take an oath to renounce Islam(not having to choose another religion, just renouncing Islam) upon immigration to generic, prosperous Western countries. How many would give up a safe and comfortable lifestyle and a good education, for themselves and their families, for the sake of religious self-righteousness?
Another principle-related thought experiment: Would the number of abortions increase if men were not obligated to pay child support?
Why? I think it would do more to hurt their cause if we let them linger. The more the civilized world sees them being trolled by simple drawings, the more ammo they give us to ridicule them and laugh at their infantile, Donald Duck-esque temper tantrums. Muslim immigrants, particularly those in Western countries, are biting the hands that feed them.
Additionally, I get a chuckle from seeing so many Muslim groups on Facebook, a company started and headed by a Jewish man(and an evil one at that).
That's wrong. We only laugh when we know that the person/animated character is not seriously hurt.
A surprisingly large portion of the movie audienced laughed when Heath Ledger's Joker performed his "disappearing pencil trick." Also: 4chan's/b/. Dark animal urges dwell in all of us, even if we never act on them.
The same is true of real life. If someone falls, our first reaction is the need to know whether they are OK or not.
(Of course there are sociopaths to whom this general rule may not apply...In fact the laugh probably originates as an "all clear" signal amongst ape ancestors. When danger has disappeared, or it was a false alarm, we laugh. Thus the association between laughing and pleasure.
While I agree with you, there may be other reasons to laugh besides relief -- see 4chan's/b/.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph, but apathy and lack of empathy go hand-in-hand in the United States. As you correctly pointed out, it's mostly about getting as much money doing as little work as possible. To participate in a lynch mob would mean having to crowbar oneself out of their La-Z-Boy chair.
Besides, we prefer to keep our government-sanctioned lynch mobs in others' countries. That way we can cheer 'em on from our sofas, as if our military were our favorite sports team at an away game.
It's much more sinister than that. Gotta look at it from 2 perspectives: ideal and pragmatic. Everybody daydreams about a Star-trek utopia, where all races without a need for money hold hands and dance around the replicator without a care in the world.
But - humans, like everything else that walks or swims or flagellates in nature, are just animals. The primitive, tribalist pack mentality is seen at all levels of human interaction, from sports teams to H.O.A.'s to the ethnocentricism of entire corporations, countries, and races. Modern technology enables the development and prosperity of more and more lone wolves. People are becoming greedier and greedier with unprecedented thirst for power and control. Think about the countless empires of the past, and recently Nazi Germany and now the United States.
Only the naive believe that their bleeding-heart protests and righteous indignation will force the arm of nature itself. We are wicked creatures. The meek will not inherit the Earth.
Why do we find pleasure in others' pain? Why do we laugh when Wile. E. Coyote has an anvil dropped on his head or when Dick Van Dyke trips over the ottoman? Simple: more resources are available to us when others are taken outta the game.
We. Are. Fucked. The best thing you can do is just get yours -- live your life under the radar, grab a bag of popcorn, and chuckle bitterly at the evening news.
As a caucasian man who has an African-American girlfriend, Yes, they do. Just like every other race does. African americans and caucasians alike use flash drives on a regular basis when they upload their digital photos and download their media files onto portable players if not directly plugging an SD card into a PC drive.
You, sir, are bigot scum. I hope your love interest leaves you for an eight-foot Nigerian.
Why would I recommend a linux/Windows, or even Apple computer to anyone, when the vast majority of them can surf the web/IM/email with an iPad.
Uh, because a Linux PC with a full-size monitor can do more than an iPad can at half the price or less? What makes you think that an old technophobe will abandon the familiar point-and-click interface to squint at a tiny screen and futz with gestures? Not all old people have cushy retirements to spend on toys, and many who do are often frugal.
The unpaid support calls would drop off the chart.
This is where most Slashdotters get it wrong. If they're too technophobic to set up their own computer then they'll also need you to hold their hand through setting up a paypal account, using ebay, paying for just about anything online, setting up an e-mail account, setting up a Facebook or Flickr account, etc.
In our SECRET-level avionics shop, we had to use an access code for entry and we had to account for all of our classified T.O.'s and disk drives at the end of every shift, but our terminals for ordering parts and entering maintenance data were on unclassified T1 connections.
We had to use the STU-III secure modem to receive the sekrit stuff over the wire.
The creation of America's most senior cyber warrior comes just days after the US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from technical support "to the frontlines of cyber warfare".
Whoa, boy. You'd better be skeered. Most of the comm squad monkeys I knew never even touched computers before tech school.
The complex issues facing Cyber Command were thrown into relief earlier this year when the Washington Post revealed details of a so-called "dot-mil" operation by Fort Meade's cyber warfare unit, backed by Alexander, to shut down a "honeytrap website" set up by the Saudis and the CIA to target Islamist extremists planning attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Right arm, meet left arm. Hey, no...stop punching each other! Stop that....quit it!
Finally, if your AFSC dosen't begin with "2A", you are a weenie. Bonus points for 2A0XX, 2A3XX, and 2A5XX.
Sounds like some politicians sure have a thing for big girls and feel bothered when they have to sort through a lot of small chested girls to get their fix.
More likely that they break a sweat and feel their heart racing and their trousers tightening as they stumble upon pics of 18 year old Japanese chicks or high school volleyball games.
Then they punish everybody else for their own guilt.
Hmm. I think "soul" in a musical context means individual mannerisms and embellishments. Take for example this video of savant Glenn Gould and observe how he feels the music(skip to 2:05 for some coolness). You could view "soul" as the non-musical movements, kinda like interpretive dance.
Technically, soul is the unique personal interpretation of the sheet music. Experienced musicians who know a piece well will, for example, play a certain passage more slowly because it's implied in the sheet music, even though there is no indication to slow down. A violinist or vocalist may or may not accent arbitrary notes and end long notes with trailing vibrato. The intensity and speed of a vibrato as well as changes in speed an intensity of a single vibrato are a good indication of individual style.
Portamento is a powerful tool for puttin' a little soul into vocals. The best way to explain portamento is This - I alredy skipped it for you, so just let'er rip.
All of those douchebag "pseudo-campfire" musicians like Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, and John Mayer only serve to induce further rage on the scale of an incredible Hulk-out.
Wanna make us smile? Play some Cannibal Corpse or G.G. Allin.
Which means that he should've at least waited for god to materialize in a bright light and have a fireside chat with him before he assumed that god existed.
What exists outside of it is only our educated guess.
The belief of a deity amidst overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not an "educated guess," it's wishful thinking.
No, the point of food is to maintain health and strength. Whether you enjoy eating it is secondary to that.
Back when humans were picking berries and hunting for a living, yes. But nowdays it's the other way around -- ask any 400-pound fatass who routinely chooses Big Macs over the bean salad.
Don't any of you know what's going on? This so-called disaster is just a smoke screen for setting up a secret weapon able to control and manipulate the flow of all information with its powerful AI.
How can we hold the NSA accountable for something they're doing in international waters? Nothing to see here, move along.
Being an American living in a Southern border city, I cross several DHS checkpoints to travel laterally across the country and each and every time my ass puckers up. They run dogs around my car and send me to secondary because I lose the staring contest or they're in a bad mood. I HATE being asked where I'm going and what I'm doing even though I'm the lone person in the car, Caucasian, never having travelled to Mexico.
Worse, the constitution-free zone extends 100 miles inland. That region is where I spend 95% of my time.
Why just Texas? All states East of New Mexico and South of Maryland should secede from the union and become the Confederacy of Dumbfuckistan. And this time, the North'll simply wave "bye-bye" instead of wage civil war.
But we all know donuts belong in the realm of theoretical physics. I quote the great Stephen Hawking, who said, "Your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing Homer, I may have to steal it."
As a layman, I thought the whole "donut-shaped universe" thing was just a joke, until I read A brief History of Time and realized the genius of that gag. Was David X. Cohen a writer for The Simpsons back then?
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An interesting thought experiment would be to imagine that Muslims must take an oath to renounce Islam(not having to choose another religion, just renouncing Islam) upon immigration to generic, prosperous Western countries. How many would give up a safe and comfortable lifestyle and a good education, for themselves and their families, for the sake of religious self-righteousness?
Another principle-related thought experiment: Would the number of abortions increase if men were not obligated to pay child support?
Why? I think it would do more to hurt their cause if we let them linger. The more the civilized world sees them being trolled by simple drawings, the more ammo they give us to ridicule them and laugh at their infantile, Donald Duck-esque temper tantrums. Muslim immigrants, particularly those in Western countries, are biting the hands that feed them.
Additionally, I get a chuckle from seeing so many Muslim groups on Facebook, a company started and headed by a Jewish man(and an evil one at that).
A surprisingly large portion of the movie audienced laughed when Heath Ledger's Joker performed his "disappearing pencil trick." Also: 4chan's /b/. Dark animal urges dwell in all of us, even if we never act on them.
Kitty Genovese.
While I agree with you, there may be other reasons to laugh besides relief -- see 4chan's /b/.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph, but apathy and lack of empathy go hand-in-hand in the United States. As you correctly pointed out, it's mostly about getting as much money doing as little work as possible. To participate in a lynch mob would mean having to crowbar oneself out of their La-Z-Boy chair.
Besides, we prefer to keep our government-sanctioned lynch mobs in others' countries. That way we can cheer 'em on from our sofas, as if our military were our favorite sports team at an away game.
It's much more sinister than that. Gotta look at it from 2 perspectives: ideal and pragmatic. Everybody daydreams about a Star-trek utopia, where all races without a need for money hold hands and dance around the replicator without a care in the world.
But - humans, like everything else that walks or swims or flagellates in nature, are just animals. The primitive, tribalist pack mentality is seen at all levels of human interaction, from sports teams to H.O.A.'s to the ethnocentricism of entire corporations, countries, and races. Modern technology enables the development and prosperity of more and more lone wolves. People are becoming greedier and greedier with unprecedented thirst for power and control. Think about the countless empires of the past, and recently Nazi Germany and now the United States. Only the naive believe that their bleeding-heart protests and righteous indignation will force the arm of nature itself. We are wicked creatures. The meek will not inherit the Earth.
Why do we find pleasure in others' pain? Why do we laugh when Wile. E. Coyote has an anvil dropped on his head or when Dick Van Dyke trips over the ottoman? Simple: more resources are available to us when others are taken outta the game.
We. Are. Fucked. The best thing you can do is just get yours -- live your life under the radar, grab a bag of popcorn, and chuckle bitterly at the evening news.
As a caucasian man who has an African-American girlfriend, Yes, they do. Just like every other race does. African americans and caucasians alike use flash drives on a regular basis when they upload their digital photos and download their media files onto portable players if not directly plugging an SD card into a PC drive.
You, sir, are bigot scum. I hope your love interest leaves you for an eight-foot Nigerian.
Uh, because a Linux PC with a full-size monitor can do more than an iPad can at half the price or less? What makes you think that an old technophobe will abandon the familiar point-and-click interface to squint at a tiny screen and futz with gestures? Not all old people have cushy retirements to spend on toys, and many who do are often frugal.
This is where most Slashdotters get it wrong. If they're too technophobic to set up their own computer then they'll also need you to hold their hand through setting up a paypal account, using ebay, paying for just about anything online, setting up an e-mail account, setting up a Facebook or Flickr account, etc.
'nuff said. That's a lotta retirement money the get to keep.
Seconded, HP ink smears and pollutes the tips of hi-lighter markers, even hours after print.
If anything, their R&D is making things worse by cutting quality and costs, all while charging the same exorbitant prices.
is also misleading. At first I shook my head in disbelief that it took 4.8 million of Google's man-hours to code the Pac-Man.
/pedantry
A better title would have been 4.8M hours of productivity lost to Google PAC-MAN
*sniff*
In our SECRET-level avionics shop, we had to use an access code for entry and we had to account for all of our classified T.O.'s and disk drives at the end of every shift, but our terminals for ordering parts and entering maintenance data were on unclassified T1 connections.
We had to use the STU-III secure modem to receive the sekrit stuff over the wire.
Whoa, boy. You'd better be skeered. Most of the comm squad monkeys I knew never even touched computers before tech school.
Right arm, meet left arm. Hey, no...stop punching each other! Stop that....quit it!
Finally, if your AFSC dosen't begin with "2A", you are a weenie. Bonus points for 2A0XX, 2A3XX, and 2A5XX.
More likely that they break a sweat and feel their heart racing and their trousers tightening as they stumble upon pics of 18 year old Japanese chicks or high school volleyball games.
Then they punish everybody else for their own guilt.
"Best Customers" being Grandmas who pay fifty American dollars a month just to check e-mail.
Hmm. I think "soul" in a musical context means individual mannerisms and embellishments. Take for example this video of savant Glenn Gould and observe how he feels the music(skip to 2:05 for some coolness). You could view "soul" as the non-musical movements, kinda like interpretive dance.
Technically, soul is the unique personal interpretation of the sheet music. Experienced musicians who know a piece well will, for example, play a certain passage more slowly because it's implied in the sheet music, even though there is no indication to slow down. A violinist or vocalist may or may not accent arbitrary notes and end long notes with trailing vibrato. The intensity and speed of a vibrato as well as changes in speed an intensity of a single vibrato are a good indication of individual style.
Portamento is a powerful tool for puttin' a little soul into vocals. The best way to explain portamento is This - I alredy skipped it for you, so just let'er rip.
Rules of Slashdot trolling #262:
Never apologize for your trolls. Shut up and take the downmod or defend your troll to the death.
All of those douchebag "pseudo-campfire" musicians like Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, and John Mayer only serve to induce further rage on the scale of an incredible Hulk-out.
Wanna make us smile? Play some Cannibal Corpse or G.G. Allin.
The belief of a deity amidst overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not an "educated guess," it's wishful thinking.
Back when humans were picking berries and hunting for a living, yes. But nowdays it's the other way around -- ask any 400-pound fatass who routinely chooses Big Macs over the bean salad.
Don't any of you know what's going on? This so-called disaster is just a smoke screen for setting up a secret weapon able to control and manipulate the flow of all information with its powerful AI.
How can we hold the NSA accountable for something they're doing in international waters? Nothing to see here, move along.
Being an American living in a Southern border city, I cross several DHS checkpoints to travel laterally across the country and each and every time my ass puckers up. They run dogs around my car and send me to secondary because I lose the staring contest or they're in a bad mood. I HATE being asked where I'm going and what I'm doing even though I'm the lone person in the car, Caucasian, never having travelled to Mexico.
Worse, the constitution-free zone extends 100 miles inland. That region is where I spend 95% of my time.
Why just Texas? All states East of New Mexico and South of Maryland should secede from the union and become the Confederacy of Dumbfuckistan. And this time, the North'll simply wave "bye-bye" instead of wage civil war.
As a layman, I thought the whole "donut-shaped universe" thing was just a joke, until I read A brief History of Time and realized the genius of that gag. Was David X. Cohen a writer for The Simpsons back then?
The original Apple computers were green monochrome, but the first Macintosh was grayscale.