Actually, this is a good example of the strength of a true democracy and even a civil society
I think it's an illustration about how California's initiative system is broken. It should be easy to stop an initiative that is clearly unconstitutional, but instead much time and money is wasted by letting them linger. Californians will even vote in unconstitutional initiatives and then act surprised when courts strike them down. Bad initiatives should get caught sooner.
Not necessarily, no. I'm a moderate Muslim and like any religion Islam has some pretty out dated text that nobody observes.
I'm not trying to be hostile here, I'm generally curious, coming from the standpoint of an unbeliever. This is hardly a Muslim-only problem, in fact this is an argument I hear all the time from Christians, but its the first time I've heard it acknowledged by a Muslim. I suppose my question would be how do you draw the line? If the Koran is a holy book, and each part is just as holy and true as every other part (I'm assuming that's the case) just as the Bible is for Christians, then how do you know what parts are God/Allah's inerrant word, and which parts are "out dated text that nobody observes?" Who makes that distinction? ISIS/ISIL certainly draw a different line from mainstream Muslims, emphasizing barbarism over any enlightenment.
You may like being irresponsible, but respectable news organizations don't report who it is until they know who it is. Not that CNN et all have been respectable for awhile now.
The last thing we want to do now is militarize Paris. I was disgusted to hear a British MP on the TV tonight using these attacks as justification for the Snooper's Charter spying laws he wants to introduce. I'm not afraid, I will walk down the street without clutching my sword, and I don't need weak minded idiots who buy into all this "over-running Europe" crap protecting me thanks.
For those who want more control and power, there is no disaster that they won't take advantage of to push through the plans they had all the time. Like how the PATRIOT Act was suddenly all ready after 9/11. It'd been sitting, the supporters waiting until the public was panicked enough in the aftermath to strike.
What they want is for France, Germany, Italy, the US, Turkey*, and other non-Islamic forces* (Russia now?) to invade ISIS-controlled lands. The little fairy tale that ISIS believes fanatically is that the Prophet Muhammad predicted that the Day of Judgement will come after Islamic forces defeat "Rome" at Dabiq, a small, non-militarily-important town in northern Syria that ISIS forces fought crazily to take. Dabiq features very heavily now in ISIS propaganda, and their English-language propaganda magazine is called Dabiq. The legend states that "80 flags" will gather, where the Caliphate will triumph militarily and Western forces be defeated. They do everything they can now to draw in as many countries as possible into the conflict, believing that they can trigger the Day of Judgement.
*Not to say that Turkey is not a nation of Islamic, but they are not Islamic from the perspective of ISIS. The government is secular, a grave crime.
But I haven't seen firefox devs do this. What I -have- seen:
Step 1: Add bloat and decent features. Step 2: Remove decent features, but leave bloat that people -don't- like, and then add other stupid features that people don't like. Step 3: People wonder why firefox loses the features they liked and yet doesn't run any faster. Step 4: "Let's add bullshit like Pocket and Hello. Surely that couldn't be considered bloat! And we'll hire some UX-tards to fuck up the firefox interface and then remove the ability to not make it look like ass."
Are you the same AC posting irrelevant bullshit up above?
Either there are more than the usual number of AC trolls on this story, or someone has been working his ass off with the annoying spew and insults today.
It makes it annoying as hell to use Chrome on a phone when you reach down to tap a link and then because some add or picture finally loaded, the page jumps right before you touch it and you end up clicking something else. Phone data connections are already slow enough, having to hit back and reload a bunch of things is worse.
What I really... REALLY miss in chrome, a feature firefox still has, is the ability to paste a url while hovering over a webpage. It just makes that tab go to that url, rather than screwing around with the location/address bar. Chrome lets you do that if you paste into the new tab button, but sometimes I like to replace the current tab.
Or he likes his culture and his country and he'd like to see it remain the way it is. It's nationalistic, but not necessarily racist.
I don't know of any European country that has ONE culture. Take for example Spain: Castilia is not Basque is not Catalonia. Germany: Eastern Germany is not Western Germany. So when he says something like that, I am reminded of members of the Ku Klux Klan and how they want to keep American to traditional white roots. Bear in mind they are talking about a country founded by immigrants who displaced the natives that lived there.
I'm thinking a little more of countries like France, which are very protective of "French culture," and the French Language in particular. I mean, they're not exactly unified/homogenized even there, but it's a strong current that runs through society.
The current federal minimum wage would give a full-time worker about $15k / year. A two-person household's poverty level is $16k, according to politifact's figuring. That's the federal government's stated income level, but I can't think of too many places in this country where that will even pay for rent, and if you're in a big city, you're either homeless, have a two-hour commute, or making well well above minimum wage.
When indexed to inflation, the minimum wage has fallen by nearly 10% since the 60s.
That works fine until Civ2 reaches a point on a map where it just crashes. Repeatedly, consistently. The only way to keep playing is to start a totally brand-new map. Wish I knew why.:-(
When you signal, or indicate, or make obvious; your righteous, virtuous feelings and opinions on a subject. This is in order to establish your reputation as virtuous.
But people need to know how much better I am than the unenlightened. How are they supposed to understand that in a short thread or Slashdot story without just coming right out with the outrage?
Legal or illegal Mexican immigrants? I live in San Antonio and we are extremely tolerant toward legal Mexican immigrants. The Mexican Americans are not please with the illegal ones due to the jobs and resources they lose/share. For the most part, they really look down on them.
Maybe that's just a San Antonio thing. In the rest of the country, Mexican Americans are trying every rhetorical and legal trick they can to make illegal immigrants welcomed. That includes:
*) Lobbying for "sanctuary city" status, where the local government is prohibited from working with state/feds unless the subject is suspected of non-immigration-related crimes. *) Opposition to the phrase "illegal immigrants," because they say a person can't be illegal. Even though their very presence is a continued, illegal action, that there's pretty much nothing they can do short of returning across the border without it being illegal. *) Using "immigrant" as much as possible to describe both legal and illegal immigrants. They want to blur that line as much as possible so they can attack politicians and other groups for being "anti-immigrant," when they only oppose illegal immigrants. *) The usual cries about pulling apart families, etcetc. *) Not bring up the issue of legal immigrants going through the legal process and waiting to become US citizens. They don't want to talk about that at all.
I disagree with the assertion that most of the support comes from white people. Just listen to Latino USA on NPR, watch Univision, or other Hispanic or Mexican American channels. It's stated by both sides without controversy that the reason Republicans have so little support with Hispanic/Mexican-American is their illegal immigration stance, and their attempts to court those ethnicities is a big reason why Republicans have blocked action on illegal immigration matters.
So, let me be clear; you're saying it's alright for the government to deny one the natural right to protect ones body and life from mortal danger, if they don't like some activity you engage in?
He's saying that first, the men entered, then pulled the gun. And he's also saying that chasing someone down the street to stab them repeatedly is more akin to murder and not self-defense. Self-defense is saving yourself from imminent threat. Killing someone fleeing from you is not self-defense.
At some point you have to say "ok, that was bad and unjust, but at this point we have to let it go". The question is where that point is.
That's pretty much my mantra through all of this, but I'm despairing that it will ever be the case. There's just too much cultural identity in totally hating Israel, and there's too much benefit in the existence of Israel for leaders of Islamic countries in the Middle East. Yes, Israel is very good for them, it gives leaders a nearby scapegoat to blame all their problems on, a clear "them" to contrast with themselves. Nothing brings people together under your banner like an external threat.
That's why I think a very line has to be drawn at the '67 borders, because as long as they think they can keep annexing land for good there's no incentive for peace. As soon as they start seeing the settlements for the massive liability they should be then peace becomes far more attractive.
Well geez, sounds like we agree on everything. Let's just put that all into a plan and get Obama, Kerry, Netanyahu and Rivlin, and the leaders of the various Muslim countries and faiths (the real leaders, not necessarily the Presidents) including Hamas together, get them all roaring drunk, and they'll wake up a day later finding they'd signed it. The real challenge would be getting the followers of Islam to drink. Well. We'll have to find a way. It's probably easier than than getting a peace deal any other way.
Awww, screw it. We all know that even if everyone agreed to a peace deal, SOMEONE would start lobbing rockets and the whole thing would fall apart. And you can bet any plan which would remove recent settlers from newly-created settlements would be absolute political suicide for any Israeli leader anyway. Maybe real suicide, considering the history of what the Israelis have done to their own peacemakers.
Feel free to come to Generistan to arrest me. Please call ahead so I can prepare an appropriate welcome. Never mind that, I'm always prepared.
No problem, you can you do as much business as you want with the peasants in Generistan. Of course, we'll freeze every asset you have outside its borders, inspect or confiscate shipments in and out, and require that all other countries do the same against the rogue nation of Generistan as a condition for trading with us. And when that doesn't work, the long-suppressed opposition groups who have been trying to overthrow the government of Generistan will find themselves in possession of shiny new weapons and paramilitary training. Why, maybe one of their bullets might find their way into your shack despite you not being a government official.
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Actually, this is a good example of the strength of a true democracy and even a civil society
I think it's an illustration about how California's initiative system is broken. It should be easy to stop an initiative that is clearly unconstitutional, but instead much time and money is wasted by letting them linger. Californians will even vote in unconstitutional initiatives and then act surprised when courts strike them down. Bad initiatives should get caught sooner.
Not necessarily, no. I'm a moderate Muslim and like any religion Islam has some pretty out dated text that nobody observes.
I'm not trying to be hostile here, I'm generally curious, coming from the standpoint of an unbeliever. This is hardly a Muslim-only problem, in fact this is an argument I hear all the time from Christians, but its the first time I've heard it acknowledged by a Muslim. I suppose my question would be how do you draw the line? If the Koran is a holy book, and each part is just as holy and true as every other part (I'm assuming that's the case) just as the Bible is for Christians, then how do you know what parts are God/Allah's inerrant word, and which parts are "out dated text that nobody observes?" Who makes that distinction? ISIS/ISIL certainly draw a different line from mainstream Muslims, emphasizing barbarism over any enlightenment.
You may like being irresponsible, but respectable news organizations don't report who it is until they know who it is. Not that CNN et all have been respectable for awhile now.
My favorite statements: "I do not tolerate intolerance" is now joined by "kick in the teeth of anyone who promotes violence."
The last thing we want to do now is militarize Paris. I was disgusted to hear a British MP on the TV tonight using these attacks as justification for the Snooper's Charter spying laws he wants to introduce. I'm not afraid, I will walk down the street without clutching my sword, and I don't need weak minded idiots who buy into all this "over-running Europe" crap protecting me thanks.
For those who want more control and power, there is no disaster that they won't take advantage of to push through the plans they had all the time.
Like how the PATRIOT Act was suddenly all ready after 9/11. It'd been sitting, the supporters waiting until the public was panicked enough in the aftermath to strike.
What they want is for France, Germany, Italy, the US, Turkey*, and other non-Islamic forces* (Russia now?) to invade ISIS-controlled lands. The little fairy tale that ISIS believes fanatically is that the Prophet Muhammad predicted that the Day of Judgement will come after Islamic forces defeat "Rome" at Dabiq, a small, non-militarily-important town in northern Syria that ISIS forces fought crazily to take. Dabiq features very heavily now in ISIS propaganda, and their English-language propaganda magazine is called Dabiq. The legend states that "80 flags" will gather, where the Caliphate will triumph militarily and Western forces be defeated. They do everything they can now to draw in as many countries as possible into the conflict, believing that they can trigger the Day of Judgement.
*Not to say that Turkey is not a nation of Islamic, but they are not Islamic from the perspective of ISIS. The government is secular, a grave crime.
Thank you so much! Why oh why oh why isn't that the default setting?
Advertisers hate it.
Step 1: People bitch about bloated firefox
Step 2: Remove bloat
Step 3: People bitch about lost features
But I haven't seen firefox devs do this. What I -have- seen:
Step 1: Add bloat and decent features.
Step 2: Remove decent features, but leave bloat that people -don't- like, and then add other stupid features that people don't like.
Step 3: People wonder why firefox loses the features they liked and yet doesn't run any faster.
Step 4: "Let's add bullshit like Pocket and Hello. Surely that couldn't be considered bloat! And we'll hire some UX-tards to fuck up the firefox interface and then remove the ability to not make it look like ass."
Are you the same AC posting irrelevant bullshit up above?
Either there are more than the usual number of AC trolls on this story, or someone has been working his ass off with the annoying spew and insults today.
It makes it annoying as hell to use Chrome on a phone when you reach down to tap a link and then because some add or picture finally loaded, the page jumps right before you touch it and you end up clicking something else. Phone data connections are already slow enough, having to hit back and reload a bunch of things is worse.
What I really... REALLY miss in chrome, a feature firefox still has, is the ability to paste a url while hovering over a webpage. It just makes that tab go to that url, rather than screwing around with the location/address bar. Chrome lets you do that if you paste into the new tab button, but sometimes I like to replace the current tab.
Or he likes his culture and his country and he'd like to see it remain the way it is. It's nationalistic, but not necessarily racist.
I don't know of any European country that has ONE culture. Take for example Spain: Castilia is not Basque is not Catalonia. Germany: Eastern Germany is not Western Germany. So when he says something like that, I am reminded of members of the Ku Klux Klan and how they want to keep American to traditional white roots. Bear in mind they are talking about a country founded by immigrants who displaced the natives that lived there.
I'm thinking a little more of countries like France, which are very protective of "French culture," and the French Language in particular. I mean, they're not exactly unified/homogenized even there, but it's a strong current that runs through society.
The current federal minimum wage would give a full-time worker about $15k / year. A two-person household's poverty level is $16k, according to politifact's figuring. That's the federal government's stated income level, but I can't think of too many places in this country where that will even pay for rent, and if you're in a big city, you're either homeless, have a two-hour commute, or making well well above minimum wage.
When indexed to inflation, the minimum wage has fallen by nearly 10% since the 60s.
Just use APK's hosts and be done with it. ;-)
I'm sure he has to have something in the works, this story is a godsend.
I wouldn't mind doing that, but does MS let you set up a 32-bit XP, or do you have to get your hands on a pirated version?
I've found in my experience that there is almost always some way to install anything legacy. Sometimes it is difficult. Sometimes not.
I haven't tried this but here is a way to get the old Civ 2 to play on 64-bit systems allegedly.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/...
That works fine until Civ2 reaches a point on a map where it just crashes. Repeatedly, consistently. The only way to keep playing is to start a totally brand-new map. Wish I knew why. :-(
When you signal, or indicate, or make obvious; your righteous, virtuous feelings and opinions on a subject.
This is in order to establish your reputation as virtuous.
But people need to know how much better I am than the unenlightened. How are they supposed to understand that in a short thread or Slashdot story without just coming right out with the outrage?
He states his reason as the following:
So, considering his concern for the loss of "European genetic and cultural heritage", I think it is safe to say there is some racism involved.
Or he likes his culture and his country and he'd like to see it remain the way it is. It's nationalistic, but not necessarily racist.
Did you just contradict yourself? If immigrants get jobs then how is he paying more taxes to feed them if they have jobs?
Because the wages have been driven down enough that the jobs are not enough to support the family. They're in poverty even though they have a job.
Legal or illegal Mexican immigrants? I live in San Antonio and we are extremely tolerant toward legal Mexican immigrants. The Mexican Americans are not please with the illegal ones due to the jobs and resources they lose/share. For the most part, they really look down on them.
Maybe that's just a San Antonio thing. In the rest of the country, Mexican Americans are trying every rhetorical and legal trick they can to make illegal immigrants welcomed. That includes:
*) Lobbying for "sanctuary city" status, where the local government is prohibited from working with state/feds unless the subject is suspected of non-immigration-related crimes.
*) Opposition to the phrase "illegal immigrants," because they say a person can't be illegal. Even though their very presence is a continued, illegal action, that there's pretty much nothing they can do short of returning across the border without it being illegal.
*) Using "immigrant" as much as possible to describe both legal and illegal immigrants. They want to blur that line as much as possible so they can attack politicians and other groups for being "anti-immigrant," when they only oppose illegal immigrants.
*) The usual cries about pulling apart families, etcetc.
*) Not bring up the issue of legal immigrants going through the legal process and waiting to become US citizens. They don't want to talk about that at all.
I disagree with the assertion that most of the support comes from white people. Just listen to Latino USA on NPR, watch Univision, or other Hispanic or Mexican American channels. It's stated by both sides without controversy that the reason Republicans have so little support with Hispanic/Mexican-American is their illegal immigration stance, and their attempts to court those ethnicities is a big reason why Republicans have blocked action on illegal immigration matters.
Did OkCupid act like an asshole when they blocked Firefox to demonstrate their disdain for Mozilla's CEO?
Yeah, pretty much. They were both dicks. Restricting access to software to those whose political beliefs you share is going down a pretty dark path.
or you can pay a decent wage?
That's not very "business friendly."
So, let me be clear; you're saying it's alright for the government to deny one the natural right to protect ones body and life from mortal danger, if they don't like some activity you engage in?
He's saying that first, the men entered, then pulled the gun.
And he's also saying that chasing someone down the street to stab them repeatedly is more akin to murder and not self-defense. Self-defense is saving yourself from imminent threat. Killing someone fleeing from you is not self-defense.
At some point you have to say "ok, that was bad and unjust, but at this point we have to let it go". The question is where that point is.
That's pretty much my mantra through all of this, but I'm despairing that it will ever be the case. There's just too much cultural identity in totally hating Israel, and there's too much benefit in the existence of Israel for leaders of Islamic countries in the Middle East. Yes, Israel is very good for them, it gives leaders a nearby scapegoat to blame all their problems on, a clear "them" to contrast with themselves. Nothing brings people together under your banner like an external threat.
That's why I think a very line has to be drawn at the '67 borders, because as long as they think they can keep annexing land for good there's no incentive for peace. As soon as they start seeing the settlements for the massive liability they should be then peace becomes far more attractive.
Well geez, sounds like we agree on everything. Let's just put that all into a plan and get Obama, Kerry, Netanyahu and Rivlin, and the leaders of the various Muslim countries and faiths (the real leaders, not necessarily the Presidents) including Hamas together, get them all roaring drunk, and they'll wake up a day later finding they'd signed it. The real challenge would be getting the followers of Islam to drink. Well. We'll have to find a way. It's probably easier than than getting a peace deal any other way.
Awww, screw it. We all know that even if everyone agreed to a peace deal, SOMEONE would start lobbing rockets and the whole thing would fall apart. And you can bet any plan which would remove recent settlers from newly-created settlements would be absolute political suicide for any Israeli leader anyway. Maybe real suicide, considering the history of what the Israelis have done to their own peacemakers.
Feel free to come to Generistan to arrest me. Please call ahead so I can prepare an appropriate welcome. Never mind that, I'm always prepared.
No problem, you can you do as much business as you want with the peasants in Generistan. Of course, we'll freeze every asset you have outside its borders, inspect or confiscate shipments in and out, and require that all other countries do the same against the rogue nation of Generistan as a condition for trading with us. And when that doesn't work, the long-suppressed opposition groups who have been trying to overthrow the government of Generistan will find themselves in possession of shiny new weapons and paramilitary training. Why, maybe one of their bullets might find their way into your shack despite you not being a government official.
See how this works?