I don't. Not because or despite being an atheist, more because I'm a bitter Scrooge. Buying gifts for people you don't see all year (and when you see them you get reminded WHY you avoided them all year over), pushing and shoving in overheated stores (while you're wearing the big jackets because it's freezing outside, pretty much ensuring that you sweat inside and catch a cold as soon as you're back out), trying to snatch that last unit of some favorite toy for one of the spoiled brats one of your relatives pumps out every fucking year and fighting over that toy with someone who is just as desperate as you are, then having to move from one relative to the next, each and every single one of them stuffing you with the same crappy Christmas cookies you started to hate by the end of November already, nearly as much as "Last Christmas". Fuck it, George Michaels died last year but that song still gets played, why not the other way 'round?
I honestly admire the patience and longanimity of salespeople that they can stomach hearing that fucking song every 10 or 15 minutes!
No. Sorry. I can't enjoy Christmas. I enjoy the few days after when I finally am back at home, because that's the moment when it's the longest until that horror starts all over again.
The values you cite are not religious values. Religious laws concerning not lying/stealing/killing only apply to others from the same religious group. I hope I needn't field examples where god himself told his chosen people that it's more than ok to kill, pillage and go on a rampage among the "other peoples" that they conquered, usually in the name of the lord or even with his aid.
So please, don't gimme that "Christian values of not lying/stealing/murdering". Like every religion, these "values" were meant to ensure that WE can cooperate to bash THEM. Not to find a sensible way to coexist with others who think differently. If you read the book closely, you'll notice that "thinking differently" is often a good enough reason to kill that person altogether.
And yes, the same applies to a lot of other religions, but that doesn't make it any better. It only makes these religions just as despicable.
Well, people who aren't privileged don't need to feel the need, they are shooed from one "do this" to the next "do that" anyway, no need to come up with things to occupy themselves with.
Unlike the heaven lie, people can see through the materialistic one. That's why communism failed while religion still works. They both technically promise the same thing: Work hard today and you'll be living in paradise tomorrow.
Communism was just stupid enough to claim that this paradise will be while people are still alive, so they could easily see that they're bullshitted. Way harder to do with religions that promise the whole paradise bit for an afterlife where you can't simply debunk their lie.
I want to be able when I close my eyes forever to say that I got the most enjoyment out of what's been possible. I want to be able to look back and say "Yup. Was worth it."
It's just like we saw the flaws in colonialism. You not only have to pacify the area, you have to do administration and these ingrates hate you for bringing civilization, progress and diseases.
It's way better to let them administer themselves and pay for their resources with guns so they can shoot each other instead of your soldiers.
Imagine that you're going to die today when you lie in bed and close your eyes, it's going to be forever. Try to be able to say "Yup. Had a good run, it's been worth it".
There is of course more to "life" than just reproduction. A metabolism for example. The definition is not easy and I am fairly sure that the transition from "dead matter" to "living matter" is quite fluid without a hard cut you could point to and say "that's it" without some arbitrary definition.
And no, icicles are not self replicating. Water changing its aggregate state has nothing to do with self-replication. If you talked about crystals forming, you'd actually be closer to it, still no cigar, though. What's missing is the rearranging of molecules along with redox-reactions to form new molecules out of them. Basically what we consider a metabolism. What a growing crystal does is basically ordering already pre-existing molecules.
But, again, I am fairly sure that it is anything but easy to pinpoint exactly at what point we're only dealing with some curious chemical reactions and at what point we're actually dealing with "life". I'd guess the moment you can speak of life with some certainty is when carbon fixation becomes possible for an "organism" (I'll use the term loosely here).
Fortunately it ain't THAT bad for Europe where there are actually uncapped mobile plans... but not the bandwidth required to make this feasible because even though NGMS promises data rates of 100mbit and more, the bandwidth simply isn't there. In other words, yes, you can transmit 100mbit... if you're the only one. On a cellphone network, you probably usually aren't. And certainly not in New York.
There also is a limit to how many transmitters you can put into a certain area, at some point they start to interfere with each other. So in the end, mobile data, even uncapped, is not a silver bullet.
What I acknowledge is what I can see, that is every time someone tries to create competition for the entrenched ISPs you can see them go to their government hos and buy some new laws to ensure that competition does not see the light of day.
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The problem is, it is broke.
Fine, I'll not wish anyone anything. Next one to wish me Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas or whatever else will get a heartfelt "Yeah, fuck you, too!"
Could we just be thankful for 3 days off and not waste them on some superstitious nonsense? Just once?
I don't. Not because or despite being an atheist, more because I'm a bitter Scrooge. Buying gifts for people you don't see all year (and when you see them you get reminded WHY you avoided them all year over), pushing and shoving in overheated stores (while you're wearing the big jackets because it's freezing outside, pretty much ensuring that you sweat inside and catch a cold as soon as you're back out), trying to snatch that last unit of some favorite toy for one of the spoiled brats one of your relatives pumps out every fucking year and fighting over that toy with someone who is just as desperate as you are, then having to move from one relative to the next, each and every single one of them stuffing you with the same crappy Christmas cookies you started to hate by the end of November already, nearly as much as "Last Christmas". Fuck it, George Michaels died last year but that song still gets played, why not the other way 'round?
I honestly admire the patience and longanimity of salespeople that they can stomach hearing that fucking song every 10 or 15 minutes!
No. Sorry. I can't enjoy Christmas. I enjoy the few days after when I finally am back at home, because that's the moment when it's the longest until that horror starts all over again.
The values you cite are not religious values. Religious laws concerning not lying/stealing/killing only apply to others from the same religious group. I hope I needn't field examples where god himself told his chosen people that it's more than ok to kill, pillage and go on a rampage among the "other peoples" that they conquered, usually in the name of the lord or even with his aid.
So please, don't gimme that "Christian values of not lying/stealing/murdering". Like every religion, these "values" were meant to ensure that WE can cooperate to bash THEM. Not to find a sensible way to coexist with others who think differently. If you read the book closely, you'll notice that "thinking differently" is often a good enough reason to kill that person altogether.
And yes, the same applies to a lot of other religions, but that doesn't make it any better. It only makes these religions just as despicable.
Huh? Since when is religion as valid as science?
I mean, outside of Texas.
Well, people who aren't privileged don't need to feel the need, they are shooed from one "do this" to the next "do that" anyway, no need to come up with things to occupy themselves with.
Unlike the heaven lie, people can see through the materialistic one. That's why communism failed while religion still works. They both technically promise the same thing: Work hard today and you'll be living in paradise tomorrow.
Communism was just stupid enough to claim that this paradise will be while people are still alive, so they could easily see that they're bullshitted. Way harder to do with religions that promise the whole paradise bit for an afterlife where you can't simply debunk their lie.
I want to be able when I close my eyes forever to say that I got the most enjoyment out of what's been possible. I want to be able to look back and say "Yup. Was worth it."
It's just like we saw the flaws in colonialism. You not only have to pacify the area, you have to do administration and these ingrates hate you for bringing civilization, progress and diseases.
It's way better to let them administer themselves and pay for their resources with guns so they can shoot each other instead of your soldiers.
But a thousand bloggers, given money for clicks, will just BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!
Basically it's "stay busy so you don't notice how you get bullshitted".
The ultimate top 10 things that WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!!!
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Imagine that you're going to die today when you lie in bed and close your eyes, it's going to be forever. Try to be able to say "Yup. Had a good run, it's been worth it".
If you can say that: You win.
There is of course more to "life" than just reproduction. A metabolism for example. The definition is not easy and I am fairly sure that the transition from "dead matter" to "living matter" is quite fluid without a hard cut you could point to and say "that's it" without some arbitrary definition.
And no, icicles are not self replicating. Water changing its aggregate state has nothing to do with self-replication. If you talked about crystals forming, you'd actually be closer to it, still no cigar, though. What's missing is the rearranging of molecules along with redox-reactions to form new molecules out of them. Basically what we consider a metabolism. What a growing crystal does is basically ordering already pre-existing molecules.
But, again, I am fairly sure that it is anything but easy to pinpoint exactly at what point we're only dealing with some curious chemical reactions and at what point we're actually dealing with "life". I'd guess the moment you can speak of life with some certainty is when carbon fixation becomes possible for an "organism" (I'll use the term loosely here).
Fortunately it ain't THAT bad for Europe where there are actually uncapped mobile plans... but not the bandwidth required to make this feasible because even though NGMS promises data rates of 100mbit and more, the bandwidth simply isn't there. In other words, yes, you can transmit 100mbit... if you're the only one. On a cellphone network, you probably usually aren't. And certainly not in New York.
There also is a limit to how many transmitters you can put into a certain area, at some point they start to interfere with each other. So in the end, mobile data, even uncapped, is not a silver bullet.
What I acknowledge is what I can see, that is every time someone tries to create competition for the entrenched ISPs you can see them go to their government hos and buy some new laws to ensure that competition does not see the light of day.
True, true...
Ok, how about
"Scientists want to have truth, everyone else just wants to have it their way"?
Go for it, find some MBA patsy and con him!
Now why the fuck would I want to touch such a superficial bitch with anything but a ten foot pole?
And I'm not talking about my dick.
No.
Want proof? Windows 10.
Please. MS is more of an old-boys club than any tech company I could think of. Maybe with the exception of IBM.
Easy. About every Silly Con Valley company is today staffed with SJWs. Sue-happy SJWs. MS so far dodged this bullet.
In other words, they try to keep the competition's lawyers busy.
We now have mainboards that ain't good for nothing but mining cryptocurrency.
That's even weird by my standards.