But of course this will get modded down because people here don't want to believe that Vista doesn't suck as much as they think it does.
It does suck, that's why people don't like it. If it didn't suck then I wouldn't have wasted my time installing XP on a laptop that doesn't properly support it.
There are lots of simple, foolproof ways of stopping bots that are still easy for humans to solve, but nobody bothers to implement them. Maybe website admins are just masochists who enjoy having this arms race against bots while humans have to reload the fucking thing five times because it's all just gibberish.
Are they actually Buddhists, and are their actions based on Buddhist religious principles? For instance, did Buddha ever teach his followers that they must wage perpetual warfare against infidels?
Even if we assume that there are terrorists there who are Buddhists and claim to fight for religious reasons, they are still just a meaningless drop in the ocean. An anomaly.
You said that if you upload something to a server, it becomes the server owner's property that he can use any way he chooses. Thus, uploading a copy of Wall-E to a server would make it the server owner's property.
Well, strikes can be effective in a fight against an novice opponent, but the situation in a boxing ring is nothing like a real life fight.
Boxing is far closer to real life than pretty much any non-contact martial art with compliant "and then you do this and I do that and now you fall down" drills. Boxing is limited in scope, but not unrealistic. It teaches you speed, timing, distance, footwork, technique, stamina and resilience.
Furthermore, real life fights are almost always over within a few seconds, always end up on the ground, and frequently occur against multiple opponents.
Except... not. Many fights last a lot longer than a few seconds because neither person has the ability and/or resolve to end it in a few seconds. The notion that fights always end on the ground is not only absurd but contradictory: if fights are over in a few seconds, at what point do the participants have time to wrestle on the ground?
How is boxing training going to help you avoid being the victim of ground & pound?
How is BJJ going to help you avoid a punch to the face? Oh snap. I guess that's why we've invented cross-training. Furthermore, a boxer is less likely to end up being ground-pounded since the attacker would first have to get within range without being hit, which is made difficult by the boxer's attacks and his movement abilities. If he does end up ground-pounded, then he's far better equipped to deal with it than an untrained individual.
Against an experienced opponent throwing a punch is just going to give them an opportunity to break your arm.
You watch too many kung fu movies. In real life catching the punch of a boxer or other well-trained striker is pretty unlikely.
Why "reasonably complete," and why non-sport use? The most effective systems are sports martial arts. BJJ is both non-complete and a sport martial art, yet it's also one of the most effective systems in the world.
Funnily enough, I feel that I am more likely to hurt my wrists when I'm using gloves. I should probably get into the habit of using wraps, but I've never found any use for gloves when hitting a bag.
In the meantime, when I teach self-defense classes I teach striking with the heel of the palm (a favorite of whoever choreographed the fights in ST:TNG and DS9, by the way), the elbow, and the hammerfist.
Boxing is not a martial art. Neither is fencing. And neither is Tae Kwon Do. In order to be a martial art, it is supposed to have a practical purpose in warfare or self-defense. Neither boxing nor fencing have any practical purpose for self-defense since the dumbest thing you can do in a fight is throw a punch and you're not likely to be in combat with a 4' metal toothpick. Learning how to properly fire a can of pepper spray is more of a martial art than boxing.
While it's true that punching a person in the head can be risky because you might damage your hands (the more training you have, the less likely this becomes), it doesn't mean that punching someone is "the dumbest thing you can do in a fight." Punching is undoubtedly the most common thing people do in fights. You're also forgetting that boxing doesn't just teach you how to hit someone, it also teaches you how to defend yourself against hits. Boxing is one of the most effective and practical martial arts in existence.
You apparently aren't aware of this, but swords used to be in common use all over the world. Crazy, I know.
Sport: Tae Kwon Do Martial Art: Karate
What is this based on? Karate is practised as a sport too. Kyokushin is perhaps the most effective and practical form of karate in existence, and - suprise suprise - it's practised as a sport. In fact, the most effective martial arts tend to be sports martial arts (boxing, wrestling, Judo, BJJ, Muay Thai etc.).
You absolutely CAN have free speech in someone else's home. They also have the right to ask you to leave, but you absolutely, most certainly are FREE to hold and express whatever opinions you want.
You're also free to have whatever opinion you want in, say, Iran, but the government can "ask" you to stop.
This whole attitude about being unfit for parenting is a crock.
I know. Alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals and pedophiles make for excellent parents.
If you really hate your kids that much, and you hate my kids, and other peoples kids, then I want you to fucking die and get out of my way...
How am I getting in your way?
... so we can rape your wife into pregnancy and beat her into lifelong submission. If she can't be made into a fit mother, well, she can die too. Shitty, but if she were a good woman, it wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
Yes, I can tell that your children will grow up to be model citizens (read: they will likely die before reaching puberty).
If you don't like lifes responsibilities, die on the point of a sword.
As we all know, the only responsibility anyone can possibly have in their lives is raising a child. Society runs all by itself as long as people are making enough babies. Hell, just look at how successful third world countries are.
Here's my arbitrary, pulled-out-of-my-ass definition for humanity: if you don't play World of Warcraft, you're not human! IT'S TRUE!
But hey, you've got a great philosophy going on there. Apparently people should get children if they hate them and are utterly unfit for parenthood. I'm sure that won't backfire at all. Also fuck adoption because obviously the only possible way to get a child is through labor.
I didn't say that. Technology and social infrastructure has advanced considerably since those days.
Yeah, because that's exactly what I was referring to.
The Middle East and Western cultures are far more similar than you give credence. For example, the idea of a university comes out of the Greek academies. But it passed through the Islamic (and Byzantine) worlds before Europe again started making universities. The two oldest degree-granting universities (according to wikipedia) that are still active are both Islamic and created before 1000 AD. The oldest lore of the Western world, the Greek and Roman philosophers, scientists, poets, and playwrights, as I understand it, all survived due to Muslim libraries.
This is Pro-Islam Historical Revisionism 101 that's been refuted to death. No wonder you're so clueless.
At one time, Muslim scholars were at the forefront of science and mathematics to the extent that many scientific terms come from Arabic, such as algebra, zero, algorithm, star names like Fomalhaut. I guess my point here is that these two cultures actually share a lot and have a long common history.
Ugh. Please stop.
And frankly the belief systems of Christianity and Islam are not that different. They both borrow heavily from Judaism to the point that they technically worship the same god.
Except... they don't. They have entirely different deities.
As I see it, the key difference between the two religions is that Islam had its centers of culture shattered by the invasion of the Mongolians in the 13th century.
No, they key difference is that our beliefs are polar opposites. Have you ever actually looked at what kind of places Islamic countries and societies are?
The only major nation to survive was Egypt. Ever since, that part of the world has heavily lagged Europe in its pace of development. It still was ahead in technology at first, but the heart had been cut out. My take is that if the roles had been reversed, the end result would have been much the same.
Yes, how convinient. It was someone else's fault. Nothing to do with the fact that Islam is inherently broken and backwards and will result in broken, backwards societies.
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It does suck, that's why people don't like it. If it didn't suck then I wouldn't have wasted my time installing XP on a laptop that doesn't properly support it.
There are lots of simple, foolproof ways of stopping bots that are still easy for humans to solve, but nobody bothers to implement them. Maybe website admins are just masochists who enjoy having this arms race against bots while humans have to reload the fucking thing five times because it's all just gibberish.
And my point has been proven. Thank you and good night.
News at 11: Slashdot moderators still clueless retards.
Are they actually Buddhists, and are their actions based on Buddhist religious principles? For instance, did Buddha ever teach his followers that they must wage perpetual warfare against infidels?
Even if we assume that there are terrorists there who are Buddhists and claim to fight for religious reasons, they are still just a meaningless drop in the ocean. An anomaly.
Yes, because most releases are adaptations of video games (which is somehow not the same thing as an adaptation of a book).
This is nothing more than a variation of the theory of universal moral equivalence (AKA "let's drag everyone down to the same level").
This is the part where I roll my eyes.
Oh.
It's badly worded because the first paragraph makes it seem like they all made it.
Clearly you have not used LCDs. I would never go back to a CRT.
Your link says that no crew members died.
You said that if you upload something to a server, it becomes the server owner's property that he can use any way he chooses. Thus, uploading a copy of Wall-E to a server would make it the server owner's property.
It's not complete because it only covers grappling on the ground. BJJ was derived from Judo which in turn was derived from Jujutsu.
BJJ's effectiveness has been proven again and again without any doubt (and the same goes for Judo).
Boxing is far closer to real life than pretty much any non-contact martial art with compliant "and then you do this and I do that and now you fall down" drills. Boxing is limited in scope, but not unrealistic. It teaches you speed, timing, distance, footwork, technique, stamina and resilience.
Except... not. Many fights last a lot longer than a few seconds because neither person has the ability and/or resolve to end it in a few seconds. The notion that fights always end on the ground is not only absurd but contradictory: if fights are over in a few seconds, at what point do the participants have time to wrestle on the ground?
How is BJJ going to help you avoid a punch to the face? Oh snap. I guess that's why we've invented cross-training. Furthermore, a boxer is less likely to end up being ground-pounded since the attacker would first have to get within range without being hit, which is made difficult by the boxer's attacks and his movement abilities. If he does end up ground-pounded, then he's far better equipped to deal with it than an untrained individual.
You watch too many kung fu movies. In real life catching the punch of a boxer or other well-trained striker is pretty unlikely.
Why "reasonably complete," and why non-sport use? The most effective systems are sports martial arts. BJJ is both non-complete and a sport martial art, yet it's also one of the most effective systems in the world.
Funnily enough, I feel that I am more likely to hurt my wrists when I'm using gloves. I should probably get into the habit of using wraps, but I've never found any use for gloves when hitting a bag.
The hammerfist is a very neglected technique.
While it's true that punching a person in the head can be risky because you might damage your hands (the more training you have, the less likely this becomes), it doesn't mean that punching someone is "the dumbest thing you can do in a fight." Punching is undoubtedly the most common thing people do in fights. You're also forgetting that boxing doesn't just teach you how to hit someone, it also teaches you how to defend yourself against hits. Boxing is one of the most effective and practical martial arts in existence.
You apparently aren't aware of this, but swords used to be in common use all over the world. Crazy, I know.
What is this based on? Karate is practised as a sport too. Kyokushin is perhaps the most effective and practical form of karate in existence, and - suprise suprise - it's practised as a sport. In fact, the most effective martial arts tend to be sports martial arts (boxing, wrestling, Judo, BJJ, Muay Thai etc.).
If this were true then you could legally host copyrighted data such as movies on your server. But you can't.
You're also free to have whatever opinion you want in, say, Iran, but the government can "ask" you to stop.
I know. Alcoholics, drug addicts, criminals and pedophiles make for excellent parents.
How am I getting in your way?
Yes, I can tell that your children will grow up to be model citizens (read: they will likely die before reaching puberty).
As we all know, the only responsibility anyone can possibly have in their lives is raising a child. Society runs all by itself as long as people are making enough babies. Hell, just look at how successful third world countries are.
Here's my arbitrary, pulled-out-of-my-ass definition for humanity: if you don't play World of Warcraft, you're not human! IT'S TRUE!
But hey, you've got a great philosophy going on there. Apparently people should get children if they hate them and are utterly unfit for parenthood. I'm sure that won't backfire at all. Also fuck adoption because obviously the only possible way to get a child is through labor.
Great. This case is closed, then.
No, the soul is a religious concept.
Yeah, because that's exactly what I was referring to.
This is Pro-Islam Historical Revisionism 101 that's been refuted to death. No wonder you're so clueless.
Ugh. Please stop.
Except... they don't. They have entirely different deities.
No, they key difference is that our beliefs are polar opposites. Have you ever actually looked at what kind of places Islamic countries and societies are?
Yes, how convinient. It was someone else's fault. Nothing to do with the fact that Islam is inherently broken and backwards and will result in broken, backwards societies.