Fine them for what? For not handing the info to the NSA so they could spy on the world instead? Could I be present for that trial? And that reason for the judgement? Because that's the ONLY thing you could sensibly cite as a reason. Care to explain that to the rest of the world?
There is exactly nothing the US can (officially) do now without looking ridiculous and provoke some kettle and pot comparisons.
The very last thing the USA could want is if the economic power of Europe united with the raw materials, the political and military power and the workforce of Russia.
The difference is that the economies of Germany and France (you know, the arch-enemies from a century ago) are so fundamentally dependent on each other that it would be economic suicide for either nation to start a war against the other one.
It's similar with the rest of Europe. We're about to see what happens to an economy that is by no means as tightly coupled but still quite heavily interwoven with the rest of (western) Europe in a bit when the UK leaves for good. And when you look at how this goes down, imagine this times a hundred if any nation of Europe was stupid enough to try their hand at war against some other European country again.
Don't mistake official EU doctrine from actual opinion. Nobody in the EU believes the bullshit story about a military experienced with coups stages such an idiotic one. But Erdogan holds the finger on the plug to the flood of migrants. You don't piss someone like that off unless you want another million or two invading your country.
If we didn't need him for that, for all we care he could rot in Anatolia like the son of a rotten bitch that he is.
We're talking about a military that routinely ousts governments. Thrice so far since WW2 alone. They know how to do something like this. They are well trained and equipped, I mean, we're talking about a neighbor of Syria after all. In that area, you want a well staffed, well run and well equipped military.
And that military, of all the militaries in the world, runs a coup d'etat that does not try to occupy information centers, does not try to cut communication of the enemy, does not try to arrest the government (actually, the "coup" happened while Erdogan was on vacation and nobody knew where he was).
Really? There is anyone on this planet who believes that?
This is the time when it should be legal to harvest the organs of CEOs to compensate the damaged party. The heart's probably unusable (provided it's present) but the rest should be usable.
Not filthier than all the other fast food restaurants around here. Mostly 'cause our health inspectors are quick to shut down any restaurant that doesn't look like a pre-op operating room.
I don't care what someone sells when the question is what programming language is easy to learn.
He might be someone to listen to when it comes to the question which programming language sells well, but aside of that, what's his expertise when it comes to programming?
First off, please point to three countries in the last 1000 years conquered by a Christian country whose population was forced at sword (or gun) point to convert to Christianity from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc...
Are the Americas allowed? And Asia, Australia... where we "discovered" the people and brought them the shining light of Christianity and civilization, or do only "real" religions count and not the fake stuff those uncivilized barbarians believed in?
Second off, the ten commandments were given to the Jews, not to the entire world, and mainstream Christianity has held since the beginning 1986 years ago that choosing to follow Christ was a personal decision that could not be forced.
If you tried to be an atheist in, say, 1500, you probably met a speedy end by premature cremation. So no, that's not a personal decision. It's not a personal decision if your choice is to do it or to get murdered. That's like saying everyone in the Soviet Union made the personal decision to love daddy Stalin.
While Judaic laws regarding interpersonal activities (murder, theft, adultery, etc.) have been codified into laws that virtually no one disputes
Murder and theft... interesting how always those two get paraded out. Why not the silly ones? Like not making images of anything on earth and not wanting stuff? Yes, there are some commandments that make sense. Well, they would if they were meant that way, but "murder" only means "killing someone from our own", killing foreigners is fine. But the rest... let's not get started on the god-related ones, they sure are self serving.
This is why when the Christian founding fathers of the USA (100% of whom were Christians, based on actual, historical fact) [...] they put into the framework of the country both the freedom to practice any religion and prevented the government from sponsoring any specific religion (though their explicit intent was never to take God out of the public square, that is a 20th century perversion by the atheists.).
Again, up until the late 1800s it was not too beneficial for your well being to not at least pretend to have an imaginary friend. I doubt that you can spin it in such a way that Jefferson was too much of a Christian person.
Be it as it may, people develop and so do nations. I live in a country that fought in the thirty years war, which was at least partly a confessional war between Catholics and Protestants in the early 1600s. Guess what? We outgrew that bullshit. Today we're a secular country and anyone who tries to push religion into laws will get laughed out the parliament. Times change. And people progress.
Thirdly, the witch hunts seem to indeed be a tragic mistake based on the likely slanted history we have been fed by modern scholars (I wasn't actually there, all we can do is look back hundreds of years and try to judge the activity.)
Sorry to say it, but the records are pretty good. The RCC did actually run pretty "decent" witch trials with lots of documents still existing. I'm not talking about what we commonly associate with witch hunts these days, i.e. a mob assembling and burning those they don't like because "deus vult". We are talking about a process that was very well organized and actually a progress in the justice system (compared to the earlier used "judgement of god" where the accused had to do something potentially lethal and if god wanted them to survive, he'd probably come to their rescue). We have contemporary records of those proceedings. They did happen.
Witches, mediums and demons are in fact very real (if you haven't experienced the real deal, count yourself lucky) and there is good reason that witchcraft and speaking to the dead are death penalty activities in Judaic law.
Take it a step further. Have an email address for every company you deal with (password safes make it easily manageable). That way you can actually see which companies sell your address and to whom and when. It's actually pretty fun to see which are the worst offenders.
They are desperately trying to find ways to predict which customers will cause what insurance claims so they can avoid the ones that will actually cost them money while offering favorable rates to those that will just keep paying without ever having an insurance claim. That's the business they're in.
That can (and does) take very bizarre forms. Like this one.
(It's not like the rest of the world has not noticed what you did, we still think it would be a cool sitcom if it didn't involve him being able to launch nukes)
Actually my fear would be that these smartphone junkies are the ones that get laid the most in the future with apps making sure that even the least desirable idiot to procreate could find someone to do it with.
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Fine them for what? For not handing the info to the NSA so they could spy on the world instead? Could I be present for that trial? And that reason for the judgement? Because that's the ONLY thing you could sensibly cite as a reason. Care to explain that to the rest of the world?
There is exactly nothing the US can (officially) do now without looking ridiculous and provoke some kettle and pot comparisons.
Ain't worth the bullet. Use stones.
Doesn't sound like Erdogan, he ain't the patient kind.
Ok, you have to do without spine and heart, but compensate with an extra helping of guts...
The very last thing the USA could want is if the economic power of Europe united with the raw materials, the political and military power and the workforce of Russia.
The difference is that the economies of Germany and France (you know, the arch-enemies from a century ago) are so fundamentally dependent on each other that it would be economic suicide for either nation to start a war against the other one.
It's similar with the rest of Europe. We're about to see what happens to an economy that is by no means as tightly coupled but still quite heavily interwoven with the rest of (western) Europe in a bit when the UK leaves for good. And when you look at how this goes down, imagine this times a hundred if any nation of Europe was stupid enough to try their hand at war against some other European country again.
He isn't the good guy. Erdogan and Gulen are like Hitler and Thälmann. Both threats to democracy, but one of them is now in power.
Don't make the mistake and oust the one to let the other one take power. They both have to go if you want a democratic rule.
What good is a 2nd if you don't even have a 1st?
Don't mistake official EU doctrine from actual opinion. Nobody in the EU believes the bullshit story about a military experienced with coups stages such an idiotic one. But Erdogan holds the finger on the plug to the flood of migrants. You don't piss someone like that off unless you want another million or two invading your country.
If we didn't need him for that, for all we care he could rot in Anatolia like the son of a rotten bitch that he is.
We're talking about a military that routinely ousts governments. Thrice so far since WW2 alone. They know how to do something like this. They are well trained and equipped, I mean, we're talking about a neighbor of Syria after all. In that area, you want a well staffed, well run and well equipped military.
And that military, of all the militaries in the world, runs a coup d'etat that does not try to occupy information centers, does not try to cut communication of the enemy, does not try to arrest the government (actually, the "coup" happened while Erdogan was on vacation and nobody knew where he was).
Really? There is anyone on this planet who believes that?
Customers don't specifically want batteries that aren't easily user-replaceable, but they want thinness and battery life
Somehow I doubt that "thinness" is the one on top of the triad
battery life
user-serviceable
thinness
This is the time when it should be legal to harvest the organs of CEOs to compensate the damaged party. The heart's probably unusable (provided it's present) but the rest should be usable.
Not filthier than all the other fast food restaurants around here. Mostly 'cause our health inspectors are quick to shut down any restaurant that doesn't look like a pre-op operating room.
Well, hopefully they'll make the connection that they can't get what they want unless they pay through the nose. That would be good enough.
Because it's (probably) not the consumer that pays (directly) for the preferred treatment. But in the end that's who will foot the bill, so...
Mission accomplished.
You don't use the company name in the email address, c'mon, that's obvious and a red flag for them to filter.
I don't care what someone sells when the question is what programming language is easy to learn.
He might be someone to listen to when it comes to the question which programming language sells well, but aside of that, what's his expertise when it comes to programming?
First off, please point to three countries in the last 1000 years conquered by a Christian country whose population was forced at sword (or gun) point to convert to Christianity from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc...
Are the Americas allowed? And Asia, Australia... where we "discovered" the people and brought them the shining light of Christianity and civilization, or do only "real" religions count and not the fake stuff those uncivilized barbarians believed in?
Second off, the ten commandments were given to the Jews, not to the entire world, and mainstream Christianity has held since the beginning 1986 years ago that choosing to follow Christ was a personal decision that could not be forced.
If you tried to be an atheist in, say, 1500, you probably met a speedy end by premature cremation. So no, that's not a personal decision. It's not a personal decision if your choice is to do it or to get murdered. That's like saying everyone in the Soviet Union made the personal decision to love daddy Stalin.
While Judaic laws regarding interpersonal activities (murder, theft, adultery, etc.) have been codified into laws that virtually no one disputes
Murder and theft... interesting how always those two get paraded out. Why not the silly ones? Like not making images of anything on earth and not wanting stuff? Yes, there are some commandments that make sense. Well, they would if they were meant that way, but "murder" only means "killing someone from our own", killing foreigners is fine. But the rest... let's not get started on the god-related ones, they sure are self serving.
This is why when the Christian founding fathers of the USA (100% of whom were Christians, based on actual, historical fact) [...] they put into the framework of the country both the freedom to practice any religion and prevented the government from sponsoring any specific religion (though their explicit intent was never to take God out of the public square, that is a 20th century perversion by the atheists.).
Again, up until the late 1800s it was not too beneficial for your well being to not at least pretend to have an imaginary friend. I doubt that you can spin it in such a way that Jefferson was too much of a Christian person.
Be it as it may, people develop and so do nations. I live in a country that fought in the thirty years war, which was at least partly a confessional war between Catholics and Protestants in the early 1600s. Guess what? We outgrew that bullshit. Today we're a secular country and anyone who tries to push religion into laws will get laughed out the parliament. Times change. And people progress.
Thirdly, the witch hunts seem to indeed be a tragic mistake based on the likely slanted history we have been fed by modern scholars (I wasn't actually there, all we can do is look back hundreds of years and try to judge the activity.)
Sorry to say it, but the records are pretty good. The RCC did actually run pretty "decent" witch trials with lots of documents still existing. I'm not talking about what we commonly associate with witch hunts these days, i.e. a mob assembling and burning those they don't like because "deus vult". We are talking about a process that was very well organized and actually a progress in the justice system (compared to the earlier used "judgement of god" where the accused had to do something potentially lethal and if god wanted them to survive, he'd probably come to their rescue). We have contemporary records of those proceedings. They did happen.
Witches, mediums and demons are in fact very real (if you haven't experienced the real deal, count yourself lucky) and there is good reason that witchcraft and speaking to the dead are death penalty activities in Judaic law.
Ok, sanity and Elvis have left the building...
However, I took your term "fanatic" in erro
The research to turn shit into butter has already reached the 50% mark.
It spreads already as it should, just the taste is still slightly off.
Take it a step further. Have an email address for every company you deal with (password safes make it easily manageable). That way you can actually see which companies sell your address and to whom and when. It's actually pretty fun to see which are the worst offenders.
When I can change gender and race at whim by signing up with a new one, you have a case.
Religion... ok, I give you that one.
They are desperately trying to find ways to predict which customers will cause what insurance claims so they can avoid the ones that will actually cost them money while offering favorable rates to those that will just keep paying without ever having an insurance claim. That's the business they're in.
That can (and does) take very bizarre forms. Like this one.
The annoying orange? Yeah, I noticed.
(It's not like the rest of the world has not noticed what you did, we still think it would be a cool sitcom if it didn't involve him being able to launch nukes)
Actually my fear would be that these smartphone junkies are the ones that get laid the most in the future with apps making sure that even the least desirable idiot to procreate could find someone to do it with.