Islamists pick and choose verses to follow out of the Koran, just as Christians do with the Bible. The Koran also calls for mandatory assistance to the poor(it is in fact one of the central rules of Islam), if you give food or drink to a person you are bound to protect them with your life and can do them no harm (think the story of Sodom and Gamorrah/Lot), and mercy; meanwhile plenty of Christians get divorced or remarry, let women speak in church, judge other people , and very few donate 10% of their incomes/possessions to the poor. I took care to only mention rules from the New Testament to avoid the whole "Christianity focuses on the NT vs the OT" argument, even though that argument itself furthers my argument that both sides pick and choose which rules of their religion they follow.
the Palestinians weren't negotiating in good faith before - they've never recognized Israel's right to exist.
Because Israeli policies are so focused towards a two-state policy. Except they keep building heavily fortified and armed Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land (these settlers are armed by the Israeli government and are afforded practical immunity for killings of Palestinians), have cracked down on elected Arab members of the Knesset (and also passed a law that allows them to be expelled from the Knesset by a 2/3 vote), deny Palestinian building permits and access to reliable water and electricity, and will shoot dead teenagers who throw rocks at armored vehicles.
But in all fairness, Israel and Palestine really are true "co-belligerents", but since the leaders of both sides need the status quo to remain in power the possibility of both sides negotiating in good faith is extremely small. At this point any solution that doesn't involve the eradication or expulsion of one side will have to be enforced. With emphasis on "force".
So,... this system reduces the number of rear end collisions by slamming on the breaks after it hits something?
It's probably designed to prevent issues of runaway trucks where the driver is in someway incapacitated (asleep, passed out, heart attack, whatever) or simply inattentive. It applies after the first strike to keep from plowing on down the road or pushing the first car it hit into the car in front and cascading on down the road.
marriage is for creating stability and commitment for raising healthy well adjusted children. any other use of it is an abomination to nature....
And what is more stable for a child than being raised by 2 loving parents? It's sure as hell a lot more stable than kids raised by single parents, divorced parents, or grandparents because the biological parents are completely absent. Are homosexual people incapable of stability and commitment (I've known a lot more promiscuous straight people than I know promiscuous gay people)? As long as one person plays the father role and another plays the mother role, does it matter what bits they have between their legs? And how weak is your marriage to begin with if it can be affected by other people getting married?
If you haven't yet read Leckie's book as well. Obviously the battles he was involved in are a lot more detailed than the rest of his book but it gives a really good bird's eye view of much of the Pacific Theater.
Reading the Face of Battle by John Keegan. A study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. Only on the intro right now, but any book that spends the first 100 pages solely on the historiography of battlefield accounts has to be good.
And within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have we knew that we had gone too far
Did those "listening systems" include computers with freshly installed without permission Windows 10 sending home recordings of their owners going "What the hell is this shit? I didn't agree to this!"?
Well, there was already that one Finding Bigfoot episode where they split up and investigated with 2 different groups: one of whom thought bigfoot was supernatural/paranormal and the other that thought it was aliens. So we are already almost there.
a court which has nothing to do with Britain has decided that our laws are rubbish and its will is imposed on the people of Britain.
You democratically chose for that to be possible when you decided to join the EU. Of course, now that you democratically chose to leave the EU, once you do leave you can simply democratically re-pass the Snooper's Charter. Of course that may be the least of your worries as, as condition for your continued access to trade with and easy travel access to EU members, the EU basically forces you to abide by all current and future EU regulations. Regulations you now have no ability to change, challenge, or contest. Also, the irony of hearing someone complain about the will of a foreign body imposing it's will on the British people is palpable considering the centuries-long history of the global British Empire.
Not just Jews. There were also Roma, mentally and physically disabled people, intellectuals, political opponents, and people the Nazis simply didn't like.
but the credibility of these people is utterly destroyed by the political pressures surrounding the supposed events. Not to mention that they are advocating for the side that won.
Eastern Inferno. War memoir of a soldier who not only fought for but died for the losing side. Mentions not only the summary executions of civilians but of also knowing about Einsatzgruppen and personally witnessing what is quite possibly the massacre at Babi Yar (as well as how it made him sick watching all those civilians being murdered).
I didn't say Uber was making money. I said the drivers were. Ubers net revenue is $1.7 billion, up 240% since last year with slowing loss rates. You guys should stick to computers, not commenting about business or investing.
And with that net revenue of $1.7 billion they still posted a loss of $800 million, meaning they lost $2.5 billion total this quarter, and are on track to post a net loss of over $3 billion for the year.
what's different here is they aren't pushing the worthless stock onto your everyday people like in the late 90's. back then the banks knew the companies were worthless and they went on CNBC and lied to get people to buy the stock. now most of these seem to be hedge funds and other High Net Worth people willing to invest and no chance for us peons.
Except us peons will still get screwed when all these millions and billion dollar valued startups fold because they have no revenue stream and our current record-high markets crash. There goes your 401k, personal investments, your pension (if you are lucky enough to have one), etc. It's going to be painful when it happens, but my plan is even if my 401k takes a big hit, we have enough cash saved up so that come recovery time I'll buy some index fund stocks cheap and ride the recovery wave.
- China can, not only easily find but also, pluck U.S. military technology from a very large ocean as a demonstration of technical superiority that should not be ignored.
The "drone", along with another one, was being towed behind a USN research vessel that was being trailed by a Chinese ship. The US ship probably can only bring aboard one at a time, so the Chinese ship lowered a launch and swooped over and grabbed the other drone while ignoring the radio calls from the US ship. As a research vessel it's going to be unarmed so they really couldn't do anything to stop them. It's not like the Chinese were secretly tracking the drone and used a helicopter and some special forces to snag it out of the ocean. It was the oceanic version of a target of opportunity smash and grab.
Right now Amazon is pretty much going to expand into everything possible because they need to keep expanding, so they will be experimenting with various industries, I wouldn't be surprised if they started selling their own branded TV's, laptops, refrigerators, washers, dryers, or pretty much anything you have in the house soon.
Yep, just like Apple has done with the Apple TV and their famous iPhone branded stoves.
Ever think that maybe you don't have relevant skills anymore?
How about the cases where those being replaced have to train their H1-B replacements? Their skills and knowledge are good enough to teach the job but not enough to actually do it?
And you exhibit another part of the problem: if I offer any sort of criticism I must automatically support the "other side". In reality I've been against the increasing hostility and unwillingness to compromise for years. And then with this last election we got dangerously close to the spectre of arresting political opponents. Not a very good direction for a democracy to take.
At least we dont have to worry about your F35 shooting down our planes though;)
To be fair, there's so few of them and they are so bug-ridden that there wasn't much chance of that happening anyway. We would have gotten more strategic value out of them by selling large numbers of them to Russia or China than we would if he had to use them against Russia or China.
This is what losing an election like this means...it means your time of screwing over the other side is up and now you best lube up yourself. Then it will sawp back and be same as always.
And this is what is wrong with America. So many people want to cheer and say "screw the other side" or "lube up" as you put it. Well, you realize the "other side" is a good 30-40% minimum of the population of America. You screw that many people over and what you are really doing is screwing the country over, yourself included. I mean hell, Americans didn't hate each other as much during the Civil War as they do now. We are on a downward path of animosity, fiery rhetoric, obstructionism, and retribution that would leave America in such a state that even Nero would put down his lyre. Make America great again? With the current state of our politics I'm not so sure we deserve to be great anymore.
Even though we're perfectly capable of performing a swap out of your phone and applying to Samsung to get the credit for the phone you swapped to,
They've been doing precisely that. The thing is, the number of phones experiencing this type of failure is extremely small compared to the number of phones that shipped, so a lot of people that like the Note 7 made the decision to hold on to their phones as long as possible. This even includes actual Verizon employees. Pretty much all Note 7 owners have been made aware that there are options for returns and exchanges for their phones. Those who haven't yet taken advantage of those options have chosen not to.
One curious outcome can be seen in the clothing of the period. Europeans somehow got significantly taller over the following Century, after being stuck at Roman heights for over a thousand years. (Check out Suits Of Armor for a striking example.)
I remember a line from (I believe) Timeline by Michael Crichton, and while it is obviously a fictional book the line makes sense on it's face: most of the suits of armor surviving today were either display pieces or ceremonial. As such, the craftsmen and artisans working on them went for smaller and more ornate in order to demonstrate their skill. Actual combat armor would have been larger for the comfort and protection of the wearer, but due to the nature of combat most pieces would not survive to today.
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Show us a democratic country that is majority Muslim.
All of these are either Islamic democracies or Islamic republics:
Iraq
Iran
Egypt
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Tunisia
Lebanon
Morocco
Turkey
Kuwait
Gambia
Mauritania
Now, to be fair they do have different degrees of freedom, but they all qualify as democratic governments.
Islamists pick and choose verses to follow out of the Koran, just as Christians do with the Bible. The Koran also calls for mandatory assistance to the poor(it is in fact one of the central rules of Islam), if you give food or drink to a person you are bound to protect them with your life and can do them no harm (think the story of Sodom and Gamorrah/Lot), and mercy; meanwhile plenty of Christians get divorced or remarry, let women speak in church, judge other people , and very few donate 10% of their incomes/possessions to the poor. I took care to only mention rules from the New Testament to avoid the whole "Christianity focuses on the NT vs the OT" argument, even though that argument itself furthers my argument that both sides pick and choose which rules of their religion they follow.
the Palestinians weren't negotiating in good faith before - they've never recognized Israel's right to exist.
Because Israeli policies are so focused towards a two-state policy. Except they keep building heavily fortified and armed Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land (these settlers are armed by the Israeli government and are afforded practical immunity for killings of Palestinians), have cracked down on elected Arab members of the Knesset (and also passed a law that allows them to be expelled from the Knesset by a 2/3 vote), deny Palestinian building permits and access to reliable water and electricity, and will shoot dead teenagers who throw rocks at armored vehicles.
But in all fairness, Israel and Palestine really are true "co-belligerents", but since the leaders of both sides need the status quo to remain in power the possibility of both sides negotiating in good faith is extremely small. At this point any solution that doesn't involve the eradication or expulsion of one side will have to be enforced. With emphasis on "force".
So, ... this system reduces the number of rear end collisions by slamming on the breaks after it hits something?
It's probably designed to prevent issues of runaway trucks where the driver is in someway incapacitated (asleep, passed out, heart attack, whatever) or simply inattentive. It applies after the first strike to keep from plowing on down the road or pushing the first car it hit into the car in front and cascading on down the road.
marriage is for creating stability and commitment for raising healthy well adjusted children. any other use of it is an abomination to nature....
And what is more stable for a child than being raised by 2 loving parents? It's sure as hell a lot more stable than kids raised by single parents, divorced parents, or grandparents because the biological parents are completely absent. Are homosexual people incapable of stability and commitment (I've known a lot more promiscuous straight people than I know promiscuous gay people)? As long as one person plays the father role and another plays the mother role, does it matter what bits they have between their legs? And how weak is your marriage to begin with if it can be affected by other people getting married?
If you haven't yet read Leckie's book as well. Obviously the battles he was involved in are a lot more detailed than the rest of his book but it gives a really good bird's eye view of much of the Pacific Theater.
Reading the Face of Battle by John Keegan. A study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. Only on the intro right now, but any book that spends the first 100 pages solely on the historiography of battlefield accounts has to be good.
And within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have we knew that we had gone too far
Did those "listening systems" include computers with freshly installed without permission Windows 10 sending home recordings of their owners going "What the hell is this shit? I didn't agree to this!"?
Well, there was already that one Finding Bigfoot episode where they split up and investigated with 2 different groups: one of whom thought bigfoot was supernatural/paranormal and the other that thought it was aliens. So we are already almost there.
a court which has nothing to do with Britain has decided that our laws are rubbish and its will is imposed on the people of Britain.
You democratically chose for that to be possible when you decided to join the EU. Of course, now that you democratically chose to leave the EU, once you do leave you can simply democratically re-pass the Snooper's Charter. Of course that may be the least of your worries as, as condition for your continued access to trade with and easy travel access to EU members, the EU basically forces you to abide by all current and future EU regulations. Regulations you now have no ability to change, challenge, or contest. Also, the irony of hearing someone complain about the will of a foreign body imposing it's will on the British people is palpable considering the centuries-long history of the global British Empire.
can't think of any other possibilities.
Questioning the size and impact of the holocaust.
Was it 6 million jews?
Not just Jews. There were also Roma, mentally and physically disabled people, intellectuals, political opponents, and people the Nazis simply didn't like.
but the credibility of these people is utterly destroyed by the political pressures surrounding the supposed events. Not to mention that they are advocating for the side that won.
Eastern Inferno. War memoir of a soldier who not only fought for but died for the losing side. Mentions not only the summary executions of civilians but of also knowing about Einsatzgruppen and personally witnessing what is quite possibly the massacre at Babi Yar (as well as how it made him sick watching all those civilians being murdered).
I didn't say Uber was making money. I said the drivers were. Ubers net revenue is $1.7 billion, up 240% since last year with slowing loss rates. You guys should stick to computers, not commenting about business or investing.
And with that net revenue of $1.7 billion they still posted a loss of $800 million, meaning they lost $2.5 billion total this quarter, and are on track to post a net loss of over $3 billion for the year.
what's different here is they aren't pushing the worthless stock onto your everyday people like in the late 90's. back then the banks knew the companies were worthless and they went on CNBC and lied to get people to buy the stock. now most of these seem to be hedge funds and other High Net Worth people willing to invest and no chance for us peons.
Except us peons will still get screwed when all these millions and billion dollar valued startups fold because they have no revenue stream and our current record-high markets crash. There goes your 401k, personal investments, your pension (if you are lucky enough to have one), etc. It's going to be painful when it happens, but my plan is even if my 401k takes a big hit, we have enough cash saved up so that come recovery time I'll buy some index fund stocks cheap and ride the recovery wave.
- China can, not only easily find but also, pluck U.S. military technology from a very large ocean as a demonstration of technical superiority that should not be ignored.
The "drone", along with another one, was being towed behind a USN research vessel that was being trailed by a Chinese ship. The US ship probably can only bring aboard one at a time, so the Chinese ship lowered a launch and swooped over and grabbed the other drone while ignoring the radio calls from the US ship. As a research vessel it's going to be unarmed so they really couldn't do anything to stop them. It's not like the Chinese were secretly tracking the drone and used a helicopter and some special forces to snag it out of the ocean. It was the oceanic version of a target of opportunity smash and grab.
Right now Amazon is pretty much going to expand into everything possible because they need to keep expanding, so they will be experimenting with various industries, I wouldn't be surprised if they started selling their own branded TV's, laptops, refrigerators, washers, dryers, or pretty much anything you have in the house soon.
Yep, just like Apple has done with the Apple TV and their famous iPhone branded stoves.
Ever think that maybe you don't have relevant skills anymore?
How about the cases where those being replaced have to train their H1-B replacements? Their skills and knowledge are good enough to teach the job but not enough to actually do it?
Seems like using "self-driving car" and "hit" in the same sentence might be a bad combination.
Sorry, meant to reply to the AC above you
And you exhibit another part of the problem: if I offer any sort of criticism I must automatically support the "other side". In reality I've been against the increasing hostility and unwillingness to compromise for years. And then with this last election we got dangerously close to the spectre of arresting political opponents. Not a very good direction for a democracy to take.
At least we dont have to worry about your F35 shooting down our planes though ;)
To be fair, there's so few of them and they are so bug-ridden that there wasn't much chance of that happening anyway. We would have gotten more strategic value out of them by selling large numbers of them to Russia or China than we would if he had to use them against Russia or China.
This is what losing an election like this means...it means your time of screwing over the other side is up and now you best lube up yourself. Then it will sawp back and be same as always.
And this is what is wrong with America. So many people want to cheer and say "screw the other side" or "lube up" as you put it. Well, you realize the "other side" is a good 30-40% minimum of the population of America. You screw that many people over and what you are really doing is screwing the country over, yourself included. I mean hell, Americans didn't hate each other as much during the Civil War as they do now. We are on a downward path of animosity, fiery rhetoric, obstructionism, and retribution that would leave America in such a state that even Nero would put down his lyre. Make America great again? With the current state of our politics I'm not so sure we deserve to be great anymore.
Maybe we should wait until his ASS ACTUALLY HITS THE CHAIR IN THE FUCKING OVAL OFFICE BEFORE WHINING ABOUT HIM BREAKING HIS PROMISES.
Why? He's already broken promises. In fact, he's pretty much admitted that some of the things he said was only to get elected.
Even though we're perfectly capable of performing a swap out of your phone and applying to Samsung to get the credit for the phone you swapped to,
They've been doing precisely that. The thing is, the number of phones experiencing this type of failure is extremely small compared to the number of phones that shipped, so a lot of people that like the Note 7 made the decision to hold on to their phones as long as possible. This even includes actual Verizon employees. Pretty much all Note 7 owners have been made aware that there are options for returns and exchanges for their phones. Those who haven't yet taken advantage of those options have chosen not to.
One curious outcome can be seen in the clothing of the period. Europeans somehow got significantly taller over the following Century, after being stuck at Roman heights for over a thousand years. (Check out Suits Of Armor for a striking example.)
I remember a line from (I believe) Timeline by Michael Crichton, and while it is obviously a fictional book the line makes sense on it's face: most of the suits of armor surviving today were either display pieces or ceremonial. As such, the craftsmen and artisans working on them went for smaller and more ornate in order to demonstrate their skill. Actual combat armor would have been larger for the comfort and protection of the wearer, but due to the nature of combat most pieces would not survive to today.