There are good cops. They do, when they are able, turn in the bad ones. Were this not the case, there would be literally zero cops ever arrested, anywhere. Since this is not the case, each and every instance of this happening utterly obliterates your dishonest premise.
You are missing at least a couple possibilities, the possibility that the cops who were arrested are simply scapegoats. Arrested when the court of public opinion won't let things pass with no one reprimanded. Like in organized crime, the arrested person does the time instead of a higher up, and come out a made man or something of that sort. Or the flip side, the arrested cop is innocent, and simply wouldn't go along with whatever scheme the rest were up to. Therefore they were gotten rid of / taught a lesson. Not saying those are the only possibilities or that your possibility was wrong though.
The real problem is not just Islam (although it is the worst). All of the monotheistic religions command such barbarism. If you consider yourself a true Jew/Muslim/Christian you are supposed to do the sick, evil and wicked things demanded by your deity. This is what makes these religions (and others) so bad - they make otherwise morally good people do terrible, terrible things.
Ignore the fact that it's monotheistic. Those '3' religions are all similarly awful not because of the number of gods, but the specific god, as they're all Abrahamic religions. They all worship the same god.
Well, if you go back to the days of slavery, neither slaves nor women were real people. I was under the impression it was rather common for slave owners to rape and abuse their slaves. I also seem to recall it wasn't (isn't?) rape if a husband did it to their wife legally speaking. So I imagine the rape and molestation have at times been widespread, because they were being done to non-people. Now, I have no citations for any of this but I'm sure it would be easy enough to find, as that is a side effect of dehumanizing, or making certain groups property. The banality of evil and all that. That said, if a person makes a song and people just take it, I don't know that it's treating them as less of a person or in any way evil. If you think an idea is property and a person has the right to sue you for using their idea, well that's another thing. There are different balances between the idea maker and the idea user. I'm sure that some people out there would like to charge every time you hear a song, read a book or watch a movie debited directly from your bank account upon consuming the media, as determined by an implanted system on a chip, and if you don't want to pay or can't pay your sensory input is hijacked, but that's a little too far one way on the balance.
Would you reject them before or after they're downloaded such that you can determine they're only a single pixel?
That aside, a lot of web designers would use single pixel transparent gifs scaled to different sizes to effect changes in the layout such as shifting things over or down so many pixels. While this practice isn't ideal, blocking single pixel images would break this as well.
Most people who believe in God/god(s) also don't believe in God/god(s). It's just the atheists are more thorough in their disbelief.
Christians/Muslims/Jews don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Ra or Shiva. Atheists don't either, they just add one more god to the list of gods they don't believe in. Which, if you think about it what's the difference in not believing in 1000 vs 1001 gods. If the first thousand don't exist, why would you believe in the thousand and first.
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There are good cops. They do, when they are able, turn in the bad ones. Were this not the case, there would be literally zero cops ever arrested, anywhere. Since this is not the case, each and every instance of this happening utterly obliterates your dishonest premise.
You are missing at least a couple possibilities, the possibility that the cops who were arrested are simply scapegoats. Arrested when the court of public opinion won't let things pass with no one reprimanded.
Like in organized crime, the arrested person does the time instead of a higher up, and come out a made man or something of that sort. Or the flip side, the arrested cop is innocent, and simply wouldn't go along with whatever scheme the rest were up to. Therefore they were gotten rid of / taught a lesson. Not saying those are the only possibilities or that your possibility was wrong though.
The real problem is not just Islam (although it is the worst). All of the monotheistic religions command such barbarism. If you consider yourself a true Jew/Muslim/Christian you are supposed to do the sick, evil and wicked things demanded by your deity. This is what makes these religions (and others) so bad - they make otherwise morally good people do terrible, terrible things.
Ignore the fact that it's monotheistic. Those '3' religions are all similarly awful not because of the number of gods, but the specific god, as they're all Abrahamic religions. They all worship the same god.
Are you in orbit? The site says:
"Who: FREE to anyone on the planet"
Since when has it been a human right to not be offended?
I always preferred the nose-wiggling image of the divine.
Ah, you must not be familiar with the subfamily know as the American-Engrish dialect.
Loose could feasibly be used in this context in the same sense that you loose the dogs of war, and are letting go of the grammar nazi act.
Don't tell that to Micheal Jackson.
Freedom scanners?
Well, if you go back to the days of slavery, neither slaves nor women were real people.
I was under the impression it was rather common for slave owners to rape and abuse their slaves. I also seem to recall it wasn't (isn't?) rape if a husband did it to their wife legally speaking.
So I imagine the rape and molestation have at times been widespread, because they were being done to non-people.
Now, I have no citations for any of this but I'm sure it would be easy enough to find, as that is a side effect of dehumanizing, or making certain groups property. The banality of evil and all that.
That said, if a person makes a song and people just take it, I don't know that it's treating them as less of a person or in any way evil.
If you think an idea is property and a person has the right to sue you for using their idea, well that's another thing. There are different balances between the idea maker and the idea user.
I'm sure that some people out there would like to charge every time you hear a song, read a book or watch a movie debited directly from your bank account upon consuming the media, as determined by an implanted system on a chip, and if you don't want to pay or can't pay your sensory input is hijacked, but that's a little too far one way on the balance.
Would you reject them before or after they're downloaded such that you can determine they're only a single pixel?
That aside, a lot of web designers would use single pixel transparent gifs scaled to different sizes to effect changes in the layout such as shifting things over or down so many pixels. While this practice isn't ideal, blocking single pixel images would break this as well.
Unless they're hiring for the CEO position.
Most people who believe in God/god(s) also don't believe in God/god(s). It's just the atheists are more thorough in their disbelief.
Christians/Muslims/Jews don't believe in Odin, Zeus, Ra or Shiva. Atheists don't either, they just add one more god to the list of gods they don't believe in. Which, if you think about it what's the difference in not believing in 1000 vs 1001 gods. If the first thousand don't exist, why would you believe in the thousand and first.
I imagine someone could synthesize some sort of gel which would transport oxygen and 'breath' that instead of air. But that's just getting pedantic.
Firefox will balloon in memory for me, but despite that I still prefer it to the other browsers due to a number of add-ons.
Well, you know what they say.... Soylent green is people.
You could look at porn on the "free internet" at libraries....
Well, you did buy a dell... and it was a laptop.
KDE maybe?
Or they can get an injunction granted in Germany preventing the injunction granted in the USA from preventing the injunction granted in Germany.
Maybe the silicondust hdhomerun prime? it is a cable card tuner, allowing more HD to be recorded if the provider uses cable cards.
Sounds like Zombo.com
Frequencies of energy = Radiation
Give you nukes until nukes are feasible?
Or how about saying "they lied to get elected" since that is the most likely scenario.