I will be tweeting and celebrating only when the tide of intolerance, and evil fanaticism is eradicated totally, and myself and my family can look forward to living free in a world where we do not have to fear that a person is plotting to kill me, just because my views of life and liberty is different to theirs.
That's not why they want to kill you, they want to kill you because you do not believe in the same religion they do.
To be more precise, they want to kill everyone who does not believe as fervently as they do in the same interpretation of their religion.
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;"
Question: who is "natural born"? I propose all candidates must prove they are natural born.
A caesarean section is obviously not a natural way of being born, therefore all candidates must prove they were born by vaginal birth, otherwise they are not eligible.
It's just like how if 90% of the variance in height is explained by genes, it doesn't mean that genes control 90% of your height.
Does this mean that the difference between my height and a mouse's height is not controlled by genes?
TLDR VERSION: Just because half the difference can be explained by genes doesn't mean that genes account for 50% of the brain efficiency. There is no substitute for raw talent nurtured by a stimulating and engaging environment.
Hmmm, I wonder where did this raw talent thingie come from?
Yes, tha's *YOU*. You have an all or nothing, black or white thinking. If the countries who have their governments elected by the people do not follow the policies you think they should follow then they aren't truly democratic, their peoples' opinions do not count, it's only *your* opinion that's valid, ain't that so?
I repeat, if you think that the NATO countries are not true democracies, then what exactly is your notion of a truly democratic country? Give me one example, please. One country which, in your opinion is truly democratic.
soldiers mistook civilians for soldiers, killed them, then tried to cover up that fact
If you confuse a soldier's mistake with NATO policy don't you think you are biased?
My father once told me this: you can't be neutral between good and evil.
There are times when we don't have the full facts at hand, yet we must take sides, we must make decisions, because staying neutral means supporting the evil side.
When I see reports that a woman's fingers were chopped off for the crime of using nail polish, when i see the videos of public stonings at the football stadium, when I see the street pictures of women wearing burkas, I MUST take sides against evil.
I don t need fully confirmed reports to believe the Taliban commits atrocities, having seen so many pieces of evidence that they do. On the other hand, having personally known people who work for the NATO military, i find it hard to believe that it is a formal NATO policy to commit acts of atrocity and cover it up. People at NATO may fuck up at different levels, they may try to cover up their asses, but it's not the organization's policy to do so.
Actually, the Taliban kill far more civilians than NATO
Do you have sources for that (not trolling, really interested)? Documented direct killings of civilians by OEF troops are around 4000, according to wikipedia. Most probably more,
You don't seem like someone who would believe anything good about NATO or anything bad about the Taliban, so why bother getting sources?
Demanding absolute, incontrovertible, proof of innocence from NATO, and still not believing it because it's "probably a cover-up", while waving away the Taliban atrocities with a vague "couldn't find sources" assertion, do you think that's a balanced POV?
As punishment for your disbelief, the Lord has sent the worst tornado season and the worst floods ever recorded. This is His new Commandment: "Thou shalt believe that burning fossil fuels cause global warming".
There is more evidence in Creationism - as well as it making more sense.
But if we take Bronze Age myths as evidence, then there's much more evidence for theories other than Judeo-Christian creationism. There are hundreds, thousands of different creationist myths out there.
If you think an old book is evidence enough you have to consider all other old books as equally valid, don't you?
Stalin's grandson excuses it saying genocide was not illegal in 1930's
Yes, it was: "The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law."
The only reason why Stalin wasn't tried at Nuremberg was because a high level bureaucrat at the US government was a Soviet agent. This book shows some interesting plans the US and Britain had to invade Europe from the south, instead of northern France. According to the author, it was Soviet influence that made the allies chose the much riskier and harder invasion through the English channel.
After invading Italy in 1943 it would have been relatively easy to invade through Trieste, which would have had the advantage of cutting off the Nazi oil supply from Romania. The reason that they picked Normandy was that this route would leave all Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union .
"His father, Noni Gopal Bose, was a Bengali freedom revolutionary,[3] who having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Calcutta in the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by the British colonial police."
Maybe if "American" students started fighting for what they believe instead of demanding that everything be given to them they would find it easier to get a PhD.
It is a college that aims to prepare people to do full-time Christian ministry. Since most of these graduates wind up in fields that don't have great earning potential,
Dollars per square meter (or perhaps kilowatt-hour) is the only really relevant measure. Once it's cheaper to make electricity this way it will take off.
Limited by the fact that maximum solar power is a bit over one kilowatt per square meter. How much does real estate cost? Or transmission lines from somewhere the price of land is low enough?
Also limited by the fact that the sun does not shine all the time. Solar power at zero cost is useless at night if you don't have cheap enough batteries.
You can hit tail-first without backing up. Try a 90 degrees change in pitch or yaw.
After all, no plane would ever crash if it were on a perfectly controlled flight. One of the reasons for a plane crash is if it suffers, for any reason, a big change in orientation ("attitude" in aeronautical terms).
In these days it pays to find a unique name for your project.
You need to qualify a search with other words if you want to google an acronym that makes a common word. Finding which extra words to use in your search is a complicating factor and you are sure to miss many pages.
When I create a new project, the first step is to google each name I come up with until I find one that returns no google results.
It's really a shame that this greed for personal information to sell has set back the role that palmtop tech may otherwise have headed toward in our lives.
It's not only palmtop tech that has been affected. Back in 1994 I read an article in a magazine about comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. I found the author's email and wrote him with some questions, he promptly answered me. These days I doubt my email would have got past his anti-spam.
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It took the death of the most hated man alive
What? Justin Bieber died?
I will be tweeting and celebrating only when the tide of intolerance, and evil fanaticism is eradicated totally, and myself and my family can look forward to living free in a world where we do not have to fear that a person is plotting to kill me, just because my views of life and liberty is different to theirs.
That's not why they want to kill you, they want to kill you because you do not believe in the same religion they do.
To be more precise, they want to kill everyone who does not believe as fervently as they do in the same interpretation of their religion.
Article II - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;"
Question: who is "natural born"? I propose all candidates must prove they are natural born.
A caesarean section is obviously not a natural way of being born, therefore all candidates must prove they were born by vaginal birth, otherwise they are not eligible.
It's just like how if 90% of the variance in height is explained by genes, it doesn't mean that genes control 90% of your height.
Does this mean that the difference between my height and a mouse's height is not controlled by genes?
TLDR VERSION: Just because half the difference can be explained by genes doesn't mean that genes account for 50% of the brain efficiency. There is no substitute for raw talent nurtured by a stimulating and engaging environment.
Hmmm, I wonder where did this raw talent thingie come from?
Hard physical work is more rewarding and less demanding
What?
I must agree with GP. Hard physical work is so rewarding people pay for the privilege of doing it.
All or nothing, black or white thinking eh?
Yes, tha's *YOU*. You have an all or nothing, black or white thinking. If the countries who have their governments elected by the people do not follow the policies you think they should follow then they aren't truly democratic, their peoples' opinions do not count, it's only *your* opinion that's valid, ain't that so?
I repeat, if you think that the NATO countries are not true democracies, then what exactly is your notion of a truly democratic country? Give me one example, please. One country which, in your opinion is truly democratic.
soldiers mistook civilians for soldiers, killed them, then tried to cover up that fact
If you confuse a soldier's mistake with NATO policy don't you think you are biased?
My father once told me this: you can't be neutral between good and evil.
There are times when we don't have the full facts at hand, yet we must take sides, we must make decisions, because staying neutral means supporting the evil side.
When I see reports that a woman's fingers were chopped off for the crime of using nail polish, when i see the videos of public stonings at the football stadium, when I see the street pictures of women wearing burkas, I MUST take sides against evil.
I don t need fully confirmed reports to believe the Taliban commits atrocities, having seen so many pieces of evidence that they do. On the other hand, having personally known people who work for the NATO military, i find it hard to believe that it is a formal NATO policy to commit acts of atrocity and cover it up. People at NATO may fuck up at different levels, they may try to cover up their asses, but it's not the organization's policy to do so.
It would have been much satisfying to have him go through a court and truly adhere our values and principles.
True but, unfortunately, he disagreed. He shot back.
It has been demonstrated that citizens of the so called "democracies"
Just curious, what would you call a true Democracy? Cuba, perhaps? Or North Korea? Or would that be Afghanistan under the Taliban regime?
Actually, the Taliban kill far more civilians than NATO
Do you have sources for that (not trolling, really interested)? Documented direct killings of civilians by OEF troops are around 4000, according to wikipedia. Most probably more,
You don't seem like someone who would believe anything good about NATO or anything bad about the Taliban, so why bother getting sources?
Demanding absolute, incontrovertible, proof of innocence from NATO, and still not believing it because it's "probably a cover-up", while waving away the Taliban atrocities with a vague "couldn't find sources" assertion, do you think that's a balanced POV?
They also used some needles made of bone, so the magnet was useless. Dunking in water did the trick, hay floats bone sinks.
As punishment for your disbelief, the Lord has sent the worst tornado season and the worst floods ever recorded. This is His new Commandment: "Thou shalt believe that burning fossil fuels cause global warming".
There is more evidence in Creationism - as well as it making more sense.
But if we take Bronze Age myths as evidence, then there's much more evidence for theories other than Judeo-Christian creationism. There are hundreds, thousands of different creationist myths out there.
If you think an old book is evidence enough you have to consider all other old books as equally valid, don't you?
Stalin's grandson excuses it saying genocide was not illegal in 1930's
Yes, it was: "The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law."
The only reason why Stalin wasn't tried at Nuremberg was because a high level bureaucrat at the US government was a Soviet agent. This book shows some interesting plans the US and Britain had to invade Europe from the south, instead of northern France. According to the author, it was Soviet influence that made the allies chose the much riskier and harder invasion through the English channel.
After invading Italy in 1943 it would have been relatively easy to invade through Trieste, which would have had the advantage of cutting off the Nazi oil supply from Romania. The reason that they picked Normandy was that this route would leave all Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union .
Napoleon was a Corsican
There was an Italian saying "non tutti corsicani sono banditi ma buona parte"[sp?]
funding *American* (not just foreign) PhD students
According to Wikipedia:
"His father, Noni Gopal Bose, was a Bengali freedom revolutionary,[3] who having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Calcutta in the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by the British colonial police."
Maybe if "American" students started fighting for what they believe instead of demanding that everything be given to them they would find it easier to get a PhD.
It is a college that aims to prepare people to do full-time Christian ministry. Since most of these graduates wind up in fields that don't have great earning potential,
Huh? Say again?
It's amazing that there were no major tornado outbreaks prior to the planet's current catastrophic global warming.
There were tornado seasons before, but this one is the worst ever recorded
Is it a weird coincidence, or those tornados happen exactly when the average global temperature reaches the highest levels since the last ice age?
Dollars per square meter (or perhaps kilowatt-hour) is the only really relevant measure. Once it's cheaper to make electricity this way it will take off.
Limited by the fact that maximum solar power is a bit over one kilowatt per square meter. How much does real estate cost? Or transmission lines from somewhere the price of land is low enough?
Also limited by the fact that the sun does not shine all the time. Solar power at zero cost is useless at night if you don't have cheap enough batteries.
Sure, planes back into mountains all the time.
You can hit tail-first without backing up. Try a 90 degrees change in pitch or yaw.
After all, no plane would ever crash if it were on a perfectly controlled flight. One of the reasons for a plane crash is if it suffers, for any reason, a big change in orientation ("attitude" in aeronautical terms).
Say, how many petrodollars did the 137 Slashdot ID cost?
In these days it pays to find a unique name for your project.
You need to qualify a search with other words if you want to google an acronym that makes a common word. Finding which extra words to use in your search is a complicating factor and you are sure to miss many pages.
When I create a new project, the first step is to google each name I come up with until I find one that returns no google results.
Funny, I read that as
"HARLOT
Horny-Analog Realistic Lexigraphic Ornithological Tabulator"
and thought, "Hmmm, yeah, tits! "
It's really a shame that this greed for personal information to sell has set back the role that palmtop tech may otherwise have headed toward in our lives.
It's not only palmtop tech that has been affected. Back in 1994 I read an article in a magazine about comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. I found the author's email and wrote him with some questions, he promptly answered me. These days I doubt my email would have got past his anti-spam.