I've always referred to it as the Boiling Frog Effect. Try to put a frog into a boiling pot and it'll jump out. But if you put him in there while the pot's cold and slowly heat it up he won't notice the temperature change and will be boiled alive. People are the same way - make an aggressive move and they'll fight back. Make a few less aggressive moves and, even if they have the same effect, people will stay docile.
You *need* food, water, shelter, air, and social interaction. Smart-phones, and anything else not on the list, are wants. Anything else, no matter how useful or important it is to you, is a want.
They have revised the date a bit. Sextus Julius put it at 5500 BC, while the current estimates, based on the Masoritic text of the Tanakh, are all around 4000 BC. (This also conveniently pushed the date sextus picked for the apocalypse (6000 years after creation) up by about 1500 years.)
Because he's selling a "treatment" as medicine without testing or proof of efficacy. That's the very definition of quackery. The fact that the treatment is extracted from his own urine is just gravy.
Small, independent companies innovate, but they're still operating on a top-down model. That means they still contain the seeds of giant megacorporations. Google, Amazon, and Apple stated as "small independent companies", and they took advantage of their employees' innovative ideas to become giant monopolies. What we *really*need are more worker and customer-owned co-operatives. We need to make businesses that spread wealth around, not businesses that focus wealth in the hands of a few people.
Burzynski is peddling snake oil and taking advantage of people dying of an incurable disease, and is suing an under-18 year old for calling him out on the scam. The FDA has nothing to do with it.
A youtube video by the quack himself is not proof of a conspiracy.
I wouldn't call a place where the media can't say anything negative about rich people or politicians for fear of being sued for libel "a reasonable legal system".
Until they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve *weren't* capable of understanding higher concepts like say, "mortality". Yeah, they were told they'd die if they ate the fruit, but remember - they lived in a paradise where nothing ever dies. They had no self-consciousness, no concept of death. Without eating the forbidden fruit, they had no understanding of the consequences of eating the fruit.
"Freedom of choice" is a theological cop-out. God is 2 things: omniscient and omnipresent. He's everywhere and - this is important - everywhen. He knew Adam and Eve would eat the fruit, but he still put the Tree right in the middle of the garden to tempt them.
The Abrahamic God is every bit as malicious as the Greek and Mesopotamian gods his stories were plagiarised from.
The Old Testament establishes the fact that God is a total dick early on. It's pretty obvious that God didn't create humanity to laze around the Garden of Eden for all eternity (that would violate the laws of narrative causality - there would be no story, and therefore no religion). That forbidden tree was put there with full knowledge that Adam and Eve would fuck up and eat from it. Even worse, God created the Serpent to trick them. Humans are the only ones with Free Will, so the Serpent was *fated* to trick Eve. (I don't want to hear any bullshit about the Serpent being Satan - those characters weren't linked until Revelations, which doesn't really count. The New Testament is just Old Testament fanfic.)
Plagues, genocide, and torture are small potatoes. We're talking about the guy who INVENTED SUFFERING.
I don't understand why anyone today would follow a deity that raped a child. According to Jewish custom, Mary would have married at age 12. Jesus was born about a year later.
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And why shouldn't he be allowed to do that?
[citation needed]
They're still resistant as ever to refund the cost of the Microsoft license to US customers.
No-one should be forced to buy something they don't want.
"THE INTERNETS ARE BEING MEAN!"
*bangs table*
*throws strained peas at the wall*
I've always referred to it as the Boiling Frog Effect. Try to put a frog into a boiling pot and it'll jump out. But if you put him in there while the pot's cold and slowly heat it up he won't notice the temperature change and will be boiled alive. People are the same way - make an aggressive move and they'll fight back. Make a few less aggressive moves and, even if they have the same effect, people will stay docile.
Are spoons responsible for obesity?
You *need* food, water, shelter, air, and social interaction. Smart-phones, and anything else not on the list, are wants. Anything else, no matter how useful or important it is to you, is a want.
Switch to a credit union. They generally don't use every interaction with customers as an opportunity to bend you over and fuck you in the arse.
They have revised the date a bit. Sextus Julius put it at 5500 BC, while the current estimates, based on the Masoritic text of the Tanakh, are all around 4000 BC. (This also conveniently pushed the date sextus picked for the apocalypse (6000 years after creation) up by about 1500 years.)
Must've been a confusing time for the Sumerians. http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/
Poe's Law is a bitch, ain't it?
Look up Sextus Julius Africanus.
The Christians have been saying the world is 6000 years old for nearly 2000 years.
Bungie released the source code in 1999. It's been off the mac for a long time. Version 1.0 =/= first release.
Idon't think that word means what you think it means.
Because he's selling a "treatment" as medicine without testing or proof of efficacy. That's the very definition of quackery. The fact that the treatment is extracted from his own urine is just gravy.
except my genitals. I do wear trousers for a reason.
Small, independent companies innovate, but they're still operating on a top-down model. That means they still contain the seeds of giant megacorporations. Google, Amazon, and Apple stated as "small independent companies", and they took advantage of their employees' innovative ideas to become giant monopolies. What we *really*need are more worker and customer-owned co-operatives. We need to make businesses that spread wealth around, not businesses that focus wealth in the hands of a few people.
Burzynski is peddling snake oil and taking advantage of people dying of an incurable disease, and is suing an under-18 year old for calling him out on the scam. The FDA has nothing to do with it.
A youtube video by the quack himself is not proof of a conspiracy.
I wouldn't call a place where the media can't say anything negative about rich people or politicians for fear of being sued for libel "a reasonable legal system".
People would rather read something that isn't completely true but makes a good story, than know the full unvarnished truth.
Until they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve *weren't* capable of understanding higher concepts like say, "mortality". Yeah, they were told they'd die if they ate the fruit, but remember - they lived in a paradise where nothing ever dies. They had no self-consciousness, no concept of death. Without eating the forbidden fruit, they had no understanding of the consequences of eating the fruit.
"Freedom of choice" is a theological cop-out. God is 2 things: omniscient and omnipresent. He's everywhere and - this is important - everywhen. He knew Adam and Eve would eat the fruit, but he still put the Tree right in the middle of the garden to tempt them.
The Abrahamic God is every bit as malicious as the Greek and Mesopotamian gods his stories were plagiarised from.
The Old Testament establishes the fact that God is a total dick early on. It's pretty obvious that God didn't create humanity to laze around the Garden of Eden for all eternity (that would violate the laws of narrative causality - there would be no story, and therefore no religion). That forbidden tree was put there with full knowledge that Adam and Eve would fuck up and eat from it. Even worse, God created the Serpent to trick them. Humans are the only ones with Free Will, so the Serpent was *fated* to trick Eve. (I don't want to hear any bullshit about the Serpent being Satan - those characters weren't linked until Revelations, which doesn't really count. The New Testament is just Old Testament fanfic.)
Plagues, genocide, and torture are small potatoes. We're talking about the guy who INVENTED SUFFERING.
I don't understand why anyone today would follow a deity that raped a child. According to Jewish custom, Mary would have married at age 12. Jesus was born about a year later.
just realised I responded to a response to the question. Such are the dangers of posting from the feed reader view...