Agreed, I'm sometimes subjected to my Wife's religious friends (she isn't religious herself) who have some rather pushy views on religion, and are constantly posting about thanking this that and the other deity for whatever circumstantial good luck they're currently experiencing. I get the feeling that people who wear their religion on the sleeve as you put it are perhaps leaning a little too heavily upon it.
With all due respect, it sounds like she was just a bit of a dog regardless of whether or not she was religious. I've been with plenty of ladies who have held things against me forever and for absolutely no reason. It's definitely a deal breaker.
Well it's funny that you say that, because I'm not actually religious. I don't view religious people as somewhat insane, although some of the folks down south in America certainly are frightening in their conviction. I think your mileage and personal view of religion will vary depending upon the type of religious people you've been exposed to.
Yep that is what im criticising them for, they're implying it (albeit a little faintly) with their little edgey joke about religion. Normally it doesn't really bother me enough to be complaining about it, but in this case it was the edgeyness that tipped me over the threshold. Perhaps it's all the Wired magazines that everyone at work reads.
I think it's obvious you're subtly steering this thread away from its original intention. I'm not arguing about the data at all, I'm focused on their jokey dig at religious types which I feel is somewhat inappropriate. But even beyond that, and upon closer inspection it's not that they suggest forgetting your religion would improve your chances that bothers me, it's the way they suggest it - In that tongue in cheek "it's just a joke" fashion, which poorly masks how utterly retarded that entire paragraph is.
Well that's fine in extreme situations, and there's certainly no sense in being with someone who's utterly incompatible with you, but I do find it surprising that the article implies that you should drop your religion, instead of suggesting that people should actually get to know someone a little better before becoming Judge Dredd.
I have plenty of religious friends who drink and party. In fact, the most drunk I've ever been was at a Christian friend's new years eve party. If you happen to meet the love of your life, but being with him or her means you have to give up a few things to be with them... well once again, compromise. There will always be outliers at both ends of the religious spectrum, but that doesn't change the validity of my original statement - just because someone's religious, doesn't mean you should flat out ignore them as a prospective partner in crime, which doesn't pay.
Well, say what you will about religion, but I simply don't believe that it should factor into dating that heavily. Ignoring someone simply because they are religious is extremely snobbish and sort of goes against what a lot of atheists apparently believe in (free speech and all that). By the way, are you autistic?
And here I was thinking that relationships were all about compromise and opening yourself up to another persons world view. Ideally I should disbelieve the whole thing, might improve my love life.
I get the impression the article was written by someone who thinks they're "quite good" at understanding this whole e-dating concept. The fact that they make fun of religion (despite it apparently affecting your reply rates negatively) on a dating site comes across as quite arrogant:
"But ideally you should just disbelieve the whole thing. It can help your love life, and, besides, if there really was a god, wouldn’t first messages always get a reply?"
I suppose they had to end the article in an edgey way though. They're a little too cool for me, I'll just have to stick with the one wife.
I don't know the details of the case of The Workers vs Verizon, but sometimes the instigators are in fact a vocal minority who manage to gain traction by convincing others that they're being shat on. So the 45,000 workers may not have ALL been angry enough to strike, but mob mentality could have taken care of that.
I feel the same way as you. I personally took up jogging to get away from all the retarded shit going on in the IT world, and although footwear manufacturers over the world are hellbent on selling me THEIR perfect running product, at least with Americans being by and large as lazy as they are, the ads aren't continuously shoved in my face. I can't even get away from reality with gaming anymore, because people's strange ideas of progress and innovation (social this, social that, always online) have crippled that as well. It seems that, the public at large, couldn't care less about something as long as it's really easy to use and gives them instant gratification. It's truly a shame when your hobby, job or passion gets focus fired by the general public, and suddenly every joe shmoe has an idea of how to improve it. I walked passed an HMV today with big signs up proclaiming "EPIC SALE!", I imagined walking in there with a chaingun.
And it's that third dimension that sets Apple apart from the rest of the crowd. While competitors are still struggling with the concept of four edges at ninety degrees to each other (that's pi/2 radians to all you archaic android lovers who can't grasp the concept of innovation over mathematical simplicity), Apple has truly set the bar high. The possibility of viewing the device from any angle is truly a revolution in communication, gaming, and running more than one application at the same time. The fact that the edges of the tablet are, in fact, curved where they meet each other is a subtlety lost to all who subscribe to that so called slashdot wisdom, and its straight edged way.
If I were in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, my cuboid overlords, for one, would welcome me.
While they did make a fantastic film about that, it's a flawed concept. Consider what might happen if the US got their intel wrong (shock!) and bombed the wrong people in retaliation, or if fanatical US citizens orchestrated a bombing to place the blame on culture x that they really don't like.
I was going to comment on the spin applied to the headline "...caught stealing" that seems to make the debate a foregone conclusion, and mention Epic's rebuttle, but after reading the articles I had the same issue as you - who exactly is correct here? It would still be nice to not see such inflammatory headlines though.
The front-man from VNV Nation described humans in an interesting way that relates to this - that we're like drivers who bomb it down the motorway at 120mph, knowing that eventually we'll get caught. Yet we do it anyway and even celebrate it.
Unless he means inherently evil in the sense of 'power corrupts', which would imply that eventually Riot games will cave in to temptation and start using micro-transactions in an evil way.
Hi, I'm English, and for the longest time I've had difficulty understanding the excitement of Nascar. However after reading the comments in this thread I think I understand; you guys are absolutely terrified of driving in anything that approximates a circle! So the adrenaline rush when you see cars turning and continuing to do so must be astounding.
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+1 insightful, not troll. Lots of fruit lovers on slashdot today.
Agreed, I'm sometimes subjected to my Wife's religious friends (she isn't religious herself) who have some rather pushy views on religion, and are constantly posting about thanking this that and the other deity for whatever circumstantial good luck they're currently experiencing. I get the feeling that people who wear their religion on the sleeve as you put it are perhaps leaning a little too heavily upon it.
With all due respect, it sounds like she was just a bit of a dog regardless of whether or not she was religious. I've been with plenty of ladies who have held things against me forever and for absolutely no reason. It's definitely a deal breaker.
Well it's funny that you say that, because I'm not actually religious. I don't view religious people as somewhat insane, although some of the folks down south in America certainly are frightening in their conviction. I think your mileage and personal view of religion will vary depending upon the type of religious people you've been exposed to.
Yep that is what im criticising them for, they're implying it (albeit a little faintly) with their little edgey joke about religion. Normally it doesn't really bother me enough to be complaining about it, but in this case it was the edgeyness that tipped me over the threshold. Perhaps it's all the Wired magazines that everyone at work reads.
I think it's obvious you're subtly steering this thread away from its original intention. I'm not arguing about the data at all, I'm focused on their jokey dig at religious types which I feel is somewhat inappropriate. But even beyond that, and upon closer inspection it's not that they suggest forgetting your religion would improve your chances that bothers me, it's the way they suggest it - In that tongue in cheek "it's just a joke" fashion, which poorly masks how utterly retarded that entire paragraph is.
Well that's fine in extreme situations, and there's certainly no sense in being with someone who's utterly incompatible with you, but I do find it surprising that the article implies that you should drop your religion, instead of suggesting that people should actually get to know someone a little better before becoming Judge Dredd.
Oh I see, so it's one of those "we're serious but not" deals. It certainly is enjoyable hiding behind the proverbial tongue and cheek.
I have plenty of religious friends who drink and party. In fact, the most drunk I've ever been was at a Christian friend's new years eve party. If you happen to meet the love of your life, but being with him or her means you have to give up a few things to be with them... well once again, compromise. There will always be outliers at both ends of the religious spectrum, but that doesn't change the validity of my original statement - just because someone's religious, doesn't mean you should flat out ignore them as a prospective partner in crime, which doesn't pay.
Well, say what you will about religion, but I simply don't believe that it should factor into dating that heavily. Ignoring someone simply because they are religious is extremely snobbish and sort of goes against what a lot of atheists apparently believe in (free speech and all that). By the way, are you autistic?
Implying I must have done something right, if you take another gander at the post you may detect a hint of sarcasm.
And here I was thinking that relationships were all about compromise and opening yourself up to another persons world view. Ideally I should disbelieve the whole thing, might improve my love life.
I get the impression the article was written by someone who thinks they're "quite good" at understanding this whole e-dating concept. The fact that they make fun of religion (despite it apparently affecting your reply rates negatively) on a dating site comes across as quite arrogant:
"But ideally you should just disbelieve the whole thing. It can help your love life, and, besides, if there really was a god, wouldn’t first messages always get a reply?"
I suppose they had to end the article in an edgey way though. They're a little too cool for me, I'll just have to stick with the one wife.
I don't know the details of the case of The Workers vs Verizon, but sometimes the instigators are in fact a vocal minority who manage to gain traction by convincing others that they're being shat on. So the 45,000 workers may not have ALL been angry enough to strike, but mob mentality could have taken care of that.
I feel the same way as you. I personally took up jogging to get away from all the retarded shit going on in the IT world, and although footwear manufacturers over the world are hellbent on selling me THEIR perfect running product, at least with Americans being by and large as lazy as they are, the ads aren't continuously shoved in my face. I can't even get away from reality with gaming anymore, because people's strange ideas of progress and innovation (social this, social that, always online) have crippled that as well. It seems that, the public at large, couldn't care less about something as long as it's really easy to use and gives them instant gratification. It's truly a shame when your hobby, job or passion gets focus fired by the general public, and suddenly every joe shmoe has an idea of how to improve it. I walked passed an HMV today with big signs up proclaiming "EPIC SALE!", I imagined walking in there with a chaingun.
And it's that third dimension that sets Apple apart from the rest of the crowd. While competitors are still struggling with the concept of four edges at ninety degrees to each other (that's pi/2 radians to all you archaic android lovers who can't grasp the concept of innovation over mathematical simplicity), Apple has truly set the bar high. The possibility of viewing the device from any angle is truly a revolution in communication, gaming, and running more than one application at the same time. The fact that the edges of the tablet are, in fact, curved where they meet each other is a subtlety lost to all who subscribe to that so called slashdot wisdom, and its straight edged way.
If I were in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, my cuboid overlords, for one, would welcome me.
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Well you certainly were thinking of the children
While they did make a fantastic film about that, it's a flawed concept. Consider what might happen if the US got their intel wrong (shock!) and bombed the wrong people in retaliation, or if fanatical US citizens orchestrated a bombing to place the blame on culture x that they really don't like.
I was going to comment on the spin applied to the headline "...caught stealing" that seems to make the debate a foregone conclusion, and mention Epic's rebuttle, but after reading the articles I had the same issue as you - who exactly is correct here? It would still be nice to not see such inflammatory headlines though.
Oh man I loved Gods, I never did beat the final boss though, hard bastard he was!
The front-man from VNV Nation described humans in an interesting way that relates to this - that we're like drivers who bomb it down the motorway at 120mph, knowing that eventually we'll get caught. Yet we do it anyway and even celebrate it.
Unless he means inherently evil in the sense of 'power corrupts', which would imply that eventually Riot games will cave in to temptation and start using micro-transactions in an evil way.
Well, I'm glad someone is thinking of the children! Oh, wait. Sorry.
Hi, I'm English, and for the longest time I've had difficulty understanding the excitement of Nascar. However after reading the comments in this thread I think I understand; you guys are absolutely terrified of driving in anything that approximates a circle! So the adrenaline rush when you see cars turning and continuing to do so must be astounding.