But he refuses to accept what will happen because the Bible says otherwise. What. The. Fuck.
It's not that surprising actually. That is precisely what the Christian faith teaches from day one. You are born, raised by Christian parents, brought to a Christian school once a week (more if you're extra special), and told continuously when you make an inquiry that, "God works in mysterious ways," "Well let's see what the Bible has to say about that," and, "The Bible tells us that if our faith is true, then God will protect us," and other stuff along those lines.
When you are fed an ideology like that continuously for the first 18 years of your life, and then you see your mentors (parents) react violently or offensively if anyone else comes along and proposes a different viewpoint, then by the time you are an independent adult, you may well consider statements like those made by the representative above to simply be fact, a given, as natural as 2 + 2 = 4.
That was the final straw that turned me away from my own faith when I hit my young adult years. I realized just how close to outright brainwashing religion was. The fact that some of my otherwise intelligent friends absolutely refused to dig deeper on certain paths of thought (evolution, big bang theory, etc.) simply because they were taught from day one that such types of thinking are, "dangerous," or "unacceptable." Personally, I couldn't force myself to support an institution that actively suppressed curiosity and the quest for knowledge. It just went against everything I felt was important.
Of course, such teachings aren't exactly the same across the entire religious spectrum. There are some sects of Christianity that actively promote coexistence with scientific research. There are also a lot of intelligent Christian folk out there. But when it comes right down to it, they type of thinking displayed by the representative is not that surprising or baffling to anyone that was raised in the church. It's pretty par for the course for someone of the Christian faith to turn to the Bible on matters or problems that are vexing or frustrating or even scary.
Well, that's an interesting perspective, but do you actually have a comment count or anything like that to back up your claims? I've been following just about every Slashdot thread on the Jasmine Revolutions since the revolt in Tunisia and so far I've witnessed, primarily, nothing but support and excitement by the Slashdot crowd. Granted, there is the typical number of cynics that keeps saying stuff like, "Yeah, protests are all fun and games until someone fire bombs you!" but I think those are primarily meant to lighten the mood and help intelligent people cope with the reality that hits them when they understand that there are still people dying for freedom in this world.
All in all, I would say that the/. crowd has been very supportive and even eager about the prospect of freedom revolutions both in the Middle East and elsewhere. Hell, I've even noticed a few folks talking about emulating the protests in their home countries. So, I don't know where you get the idea that we are all so apathetic. Perhaps it's just a self-imposed perspective thing?
After due consideration, Boston Dynamics decided to name the new robotic creature the Rapid, Advanced, Vigilant Autonomous Guard Entity or RAVAGE for short.
Open comments to news stories almost always have brought out the worst in people in every news site I've seen. There's almost never anything informative in them, and even if there is a comment that makes a valid point, it is lost in the crowd of other comments.
It just seems that as soon as the name Glenn Beck is mentioned on slashdot, some 'dotters shit their pants in an unholy crusade against him, without entertaining the notion that the whole thing may just be one finely done parody.
And the Obama administration supports it and would like it to continue, since it is already being done with great frequency. Change to can believe in and what not...Bastards.
I'm pretty sure Werner von Braun never designed a payload fairing separation system. He was more into the actual rocket design itself, as in, the engine and nozzle systems and such.
Show me a process that allows you to mass produce carbon nano-tubes at 18.5 cm long in quantities large enough to start meshing them together for a space elevator cable.
Well to start, we could start developing not-so-mega structures. For instance, if America could get the national momentum to develop a truly high speed rail system, not that wannabe crap that got passed in California a year or two ago, that would show that we could overcome the bureaucratic, legal, and technical challenges that high-power, high-cost, high-risk projects tend to run into. But if you look at how much kick back we get from simply trying to develop various not-so-mega infrastructure projects (repair the national highway system, deploy truly high speed internet everywhere in the country, develop a sustainable, redundant power system, etc.) then you can start to get a very basic idea of what kind of crap we would have to deal with trying to develop the most expensive and riskiest project ever attempted.
Right now the biggest obstacle to sci-fi style mega engineering projects is public willingness. We are, collectively, a country that doesn't want anything to change. Progress is seen as a dangerous, value-less game.
You would think this is one of those places where the technology would be constantly updated, but not so.
For mission critical systems the word, "update," translates to, "potential for new, unexpected bugs to crop up." If a system exists wherein which all of the bugs, problems, and gotchas have been documented, worked around, and patched then changing it is simply a means of opening the system up to new failure modes. You don't update mission critical systems unless there is a verifiable, valuable thing to be gained from the update. Otherwise you are just increasing risk and getting nothing in return.
I don't know where they hell you've been, but butthurt has been in the active vocabulary in my place of residence (California) for well over a decade now. My 55 year old boss at an engineering firm uses the term regularly and he's a Fortran coder (punch cards before that). I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you are reaching for things to criticize.
It most certainly isn't. Usually if you earn an insult like that on Slashdot and it gets modded up, it's because you've earned the title, unlike on 4chan.
...but it was actually just self-aggrandizement, same as that prick Assange. For that, he needs to be made an example of.
If attention whoring and self-aggrandizement are crimes that need to be prosecuted we should probably start rounding up all the 16 year olds in the country now. It will take awhile to prosecute them all.
Dude is guilty, dude needs to stand trial and stay in prison if found guilty.
Really? I didn't realize a verdict had already been reached. What's that? It hasn't? You're just making shit up?
Ah, well in that case I am going to stand back and wait for the trial and, you know, that important thing called evidence, before accepting such blatantly naive claims.
Well, you can read about how some of your diplomats handle certain sensitive matters regarding foreign entities. This information could be used to aid you in making an informed decision come election day. Take note of the diplomats that are doing their job well, and pay attention to who appointed them. Also take note of the diplomats whose tactics you don't agree with. Vote accordingly.
Of course, this only aids you if you consider being well informed to be a useful or helpful thing when voting on your representatives. If you don't consider information to be useful when making a decision regarding your vote then, no, you haven't really been aided by Manning's actions I suppose.
At one point I was telling some of my coworkers a story about how I saw a local cop walking down my street and looking inside all of the parked cars. I quized him on what he was up to and why. He had a legitimate reason, it turned out someone had phoned in that a person had locked their dog in the car because it was misbehaving. But, anyways, when I was relating this story to my coworkers, the first thing out of one of their mouths was, "Why would you even draw attention to yourself like that? He's not peeking in your car. Keep your head down."
Or something along those lines. Needless to say, I was somewhat disappointed in my coworkers that day.
More appropriately, about half of the state supports the rights of the homosexual community, and about half of the state opposes the notion of homosexuals having equal rights. Now, whether someone supports homosexual rights because they, themselves are homosexuals or whether someone opposes equal rights for the homosexual community as a matter of faith may vary from case to case. But the state is very nearly evenly divided on the issue for whatever reason.
It's funny, for all our talk about being a forward looking state, and about being one of the strongest states in The Union, California sure likes to bend over and take it from the Federal Government regarding issues like this. Maybe we should start a rumor that the Real ID will allow the Federal Government to put homosexuals in concentration camps. That might get folks in this state thinking about privacy some....
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make same-sex or multi-partner sex legal
Um, I am pretty sure both of those things already are legal. It's that marriage issue that gets folks all in a huff, if I'm not mistaken.
The article says 1 MW. Where did you come up with the 1 kW number?
Have you ever seen the faces of the kids that win at the Special Olympics? They might be retarded, but I'll be damned if they aren't stoked on life.
But he refuses to accept what will happen because the Bible says otherwise. What. The. Fuck.
It's not that surprising actually. That is precisely what the Christian faith teaches from day one. You are born, raised by Christian parents, brought to a Christian school once a week (more if you're extra special), and told continuously when you make an inquiry that, "God works in mysterious ways," "Well let's see what the Bible has to say about that," and, "The Bible tells us that if our faith is true, then God will protect us," and other stuff along those lines.
When you are fed an ideology like that continuously for the first 18 years of your life, and then you see your mentors (parents) react violently or offensively if anyone else comes along and proposes a different viewpoint, then by the time you are an independent adult, you may well consider statements like those made by the representative above to simply be fact, a given, as natural as 2 + 2 = 4.
That was the final straw that turned me away from my own faith when I hit my young adult years. I realized just how close to outright brainwashing religion was. The fact that some of my otherwise intelligent friends absolutely refused to dig deeper on certain paths of thought (evolution, big bang theory, etc.) simply because they were taught from day one that such types of thinking are, "dangerous," or "unacceptable." Personally, I couldn't force myself to support an institution that actively suppressed curiosity and the quest for knowledge. It just went against everything I felt was important.
Of course, such teachings aren't exactly the same across the entire religious spectrum. There are some sects of Christianity that actively promote coexistence with scientific research. There are also a lot of intelligent Christian folk out there. But when it comes right down to it, they type of thinking displayed by the representative is not that surprising or baffling to anyone that was raised in the church. It's pretty par for the course for someone of the Christian faith to turn to the Bible on matters or problems that are vexing or frustrating or even scary.
Well, that's an interesting perspective, but do you actually have a comment count or anything like that to back up your claims? I've been following just about every Slashdot thread on the Jasmine Revolutions since the revolt in Tunisia and so far I've witnessed, primarily, nothing but support and excitement by the Slashdot crowd. Granted, there is the typical number of cynics that keeps saying stuff like, "Yeah, protests are all fun and games until someone fire bombs you!" but I think those are primarily meant to lighten the mood and help intelligent people cope with the reality that hits them when they understand that there are still people dying for freedom in this world.
/. crowd has been very supportive and even eager about the prospect of freedom revolutions both in the Middle East and elsewhere. Hell, I've even noticed a few folks talking about emulating the protests in their home countries. So, I don't know where you get the idea that we are all so apathetic. Perhaps it's just a self-imposed perspective thing?
All in all, I would say that the
In fifty years people may well look back upon our manual driving culture as next to insane.
The funnest things are always the least sane.
After due consideration, Boston Dynamics decided to name the new robotic creature the Rapid, Advanced, Vigilant Autonomous Guard Entity or RAVAGE for short.
Open comments to news stories almost always have brought out the worst in people in every news site I've seen. There's almost never anything informative in them, and even if there is a comment that makes a valid point, it is lost in the crowd of other comments.
Um, why are you a member of Slashdot then?
I laughed.
It just seems that as soon as the name Glenn Beck is mentioned on slashdot, some 'dotters shit their pants in an unholy crusade against him, without entertaining the notion that the whole thing may just be one finely done parody.
And the Obama administration supports it and would like it to continue, since it is already being done with great frequency. Change to can believe in and what not...Bastards.
I'm pretty sure Werner von Braun never designed a payload fairing separation system. He was more into the actual rocket design itself, as in, the engine and nozzle systems and such.
Show me a process that allows you to mass produce carbon nano-tubes at 18.5 cm long in quantities large enough to start meshing them together for a space elevator cable.
Well to start, we could start developing not-so-mega structures. For instance, if America could get the national momentum to develop a truly high speed rail system, not that wannabe crap that got passed in California a year or two ago, that would show that we could overcome the bureaucratic, legal, and technical challenges that high-power, high-cost, high-risk projects tend to run into. But if you look at how much kick back we get from simply trying to develop various not-so-mega infrastructure projects (repair the national highway system, deploy truly high speed internet everywhere in the country, develop a sustainable, redundant power system, etc.) then you can start to get a very basic idea of what kind of crap we would have to deal with trying to develop the most expensive and riskiest project ever attempted.
Right now the biggest obstacle to sci-fi style mega engineering projects is public willingness. We are, collectively, a country that doesn't want anything to change. Progress is seen as a dangerous, value-less game.
You would think this is one of those places where the technology would be constantly updated, but not so.
For mission critical systems the word, "update," translates to, "potential for new, unexpected bugs to crop up." If a system exists wherein which all of the bugs, problems, and gotchas have been documented, worked around, and patched then changing it is simply a means of opening the system up to new failure modes. You don't update mission critical systems unless there is a verifiable, valuable thing to be gained from the update. Otherwise you are just increasing risk and getting nothing in return.
I don't know where they hell you've been, but butthurt has been in the active vocabulary in my place of residence (California) for well over a decade now. My 55 year old boss at an engineering firm uses the term regularly and he's a Fortran coder (punch cards before that). I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you are reaching for things to criticize.
It most certainly isn't. Usually if you earn an insult like that on Slashdot and it gets modded up, it's because you've earned the title, unlike on 4chan.
...but it was actually just self-aggrandizement, same as that prick Assange. For that, he needs to be made an example of.
If attention whoring and self-aggrandizement are crimes that need to be prosecuted we should probably start rounding up all the 16 year olds in the country now. It will take awhile to prosecute them all.
Dude is guilty, dude needs to stand trial and stay in prison if found guilty.
Really? I didn't realize a verdict had already been reached. What's that? It hasn't? You're just making shit up?
Ah, well in that case I am going to stand back and wait for the trial and, you know, that important thing called evidence, before accepting such blatantly naive claims.
Well, you can read about how some of your diplomats handle certain sensitive matters regarding foreign entities. This information could be used to aid you in making an informed decision come election day. Take note of the diplomats that are doing their job well, and pay attention to who appointed them. Also take note of the diplomats whose tactics you don't agree with. Vote accordingly.
Of course, this only aids you if you consider being well informed to be a useful or helpful thing when voting on your representatives. If you don't consider information to be useful when making a decision regarding your vote then, no, you haven't really been aided by Manning's actions I suppose.
As a proud American citizen, this list makes me want to move to Canada....
First they came for the editors, but I did not say anything because I was a journalist....
Have things gotten that bad?
Yep.
At one point I was telling some of my coworkers a story about how I saw a local cop walking down my street and looking inside all of the parked cars. I quized him on what he was up to and why. He had a legitimate reason, it turned out someone had phoned in that a person had locked their dog in the car because it was misbehaving. But, anyways, when I was relating this story to my coworkers, the first thing out of one of their mouths was, "Why would you even draw attention to yourself like that? He's not peeking in your car. Keep your head down."
Or something along those lines. Needless to say, I was somewhat disappointed in my coworkers that day.
More appropriately, about half of the state supports the rights of the homosexual community, and about half of the state opposes the notion of homosexuals having equal rights. Now, whether someone supports homosexual rights because they, themselves are homosexuals or whether someone opposes equal rights for the homosexual community as a matter of faith may vary from case to case. But the state is very nearly evenly divided on the issue for whatever reason.
It's funny, for all our talk about being a forward looking state, and about being one of the strongest states in The Union, California sure likes to bend over and take it from the Federal Government regarding issues like this. Maybe we should start a rumor that the Real ID will allow the Federal Government to put homosexuals in concentration camps. That might get folks in this state thinking about privacy some....
Excommunication.