Why shouldn't a 3rd world country worshiping cows make better decisions than a 3rd world country worshiping a corpse nailed onto two poles? Just because the latter has nukes? So does the former.
Try a two-dimensional political compass if you want to see something that resembles reality more closely. "Right" and "Left" fail when you look at the fact that Stalin and Hitler were on the opposite ends of the economy spectrum (State-planned economy vs. Fascist corporatism) but resided on the same end on the liberal vs. authoritarian spectrum.
In other words, try something like this if you really want to place people accurately. You might discover that a one dimensional "left" vs "right" scheme isn't able to actually display political reality accurately.
I find meat tastes about the same no matter how it is prepared [...] but vegetables are so varied - if you know how to cook them and especially when to stop cooking.
Same is true for meat. Of course, if "burned to perfection" is the only way you know how to grill your meat, it will all taste like a piece of leather pasted in whatever marinade you use.
Nah. That's only those vegans that don't really want to be vegans but "must" be for some odd reason. These are also the ones that rant and rave without end in an attempt to get everyone else to suffer with them, for shared pain is easier to endure. The others, the ones that just don't want to eat meat and be done with it, are actually cool. And as far as I can tell the majority.
But as always, it's the loudmouthed majority that gives the whole bunch a bad name.
This has a lot of a religious sermon: Lots of postulation, little in terms of evidence. Or at least any kind of hint resembling something akin to a shred of an inkling that any of this is based in reality and that we should believe any of it on anything other than "I told you so".
You can grow this stuff in a controlled environment. No antibiotics needed because when there are no bacteria there is no need to use something to kill them.
To the rest of the drivel, well, "chemistry baaaad" sums it up pretty nicely. Why do I have the feeling I'm dealing with a homeopathetic anti-vaxer?
So far I thought one of the key reasons why vegans try to talk us out of eating our our tuna pizza is animal cruelty. That meat never saw an animal, so what's the reason now?
EULAs are pretty much unenforceable in civilized countries. And in Germany, too.
Germany has something in their consumer protection laws that is worded like "if there's anything in your contract that could be considered special or unusual, you have to stress it and the customer has to explicitly agree to explicitly that". And not only is it a computer illiterate judge that gets to determine what's "unusual" in terms of computer related contracts, on top of that you have a lot of consumer protection laws that include the "cannot waive this right" clause.
For the educated the decision is already decided at "Is there a local server or do I get to send my command to some server outside my control that in turn controls my (insert gadget name here)?"
Who with an IQ above room temperature makes himself and the insanely expensive piece of bullshit he bought 100% absolutely dependent on a third party's ability and willingness to continue the service?
Why anyone buys anything where you hand over total control over a portion of your home including its security is beyond me. This is about some crappy stereo system, but people are buying LOCKS for their homes that are controlled by someone else.
You know, in the good ol' days, you'd gather your friends, grab some lead pipes and tell the shady salesman in no uncertain terms that his change of heart isn't in his best interest. Most learn after a broken shin or two.
The point here is not to associate with Nazis, the point is that someone who wants to harm you associates you with them and tells your employer that you are one, which will get you easily into hot water without you ever even considering associating with anything resembling a conservative, let alone an extremist conservative ideology.
All it takes today is to speak your mind and make it something that someone who is easily offended doesn't like to hear.
Yes, and in the end it was rightfully called "The Sick man of Europe. With the only debatable portion thereof being the "Europe" but certainly not the sick part. It was a shadow of its former self. It had nothing of the vitality and threat that it was to Europe a mere 300 years earlier when it conquered half of Europe before being stopped by the Polish king at the gates of Vienna.
A service Austria repaid about a 100 years later by dividing up what was left of Poland between it, Prussia and Russia, but let's not engage in negligible petty sentiments like thankfulness. In international politics? Pfff, get real.
Any empire, in history, had a birth, a high time, a decline and a demise. Every single one. Some went down faster, some lasted longer, but none lasted forever. The Egyptians, the Hittites, Romans, Franks, Russians, Spaniards, English and now the US... Empires came and went.
It is quite easy to topple an empire in the end. The end of the Roman empire came when it needed to staff its legions with more and more foreign soldiers, to the point where the Romans didn't do any work at all anymore and pretty much relied on slaves and foreign soldiers to defend their way of life. That was pretty much the death spell of the empire. Which lasted longer in the East, actually, but even that had an expiration date. Yes, the Ottoman Empire eventually conquered the last bits of it, Constantinople itself, but that was already at the point where it didn't really take that much to fell it anymore. That was more pulling the plug on a patient on life support rather than assassination of a capable fighter.
Hey, the justification is even older than that, given the age of the holy scriptures they draw their justification from, a mere millennium is kinda recent.
Pretty much any religion contains some sort of justification for Lebensraum. Our people need more room, and the heathens have it, so club their heads in. Deus vult!
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Only if it's grown naturally and without pesticides. Which makes sense, ergot has no chance to grow with modern fungicides...
Why shouldn't a 3rd world country worshiping cows make better decisions than a 3rd world country worshiping a corpse nailed onto two poles? Just because the latter has nukes? So does the former.
Try a two-dimensional political compass if you want to see something that resembles reality more closely. "Right" and "Left" fail when you look at the fact that Stalin and Hitler were on the opposite ends of the economy spectrum (State-planned economy vs. Fascist corporatism) but resided on the same end on the liberal vs. authoritarian spectrum.
In other words, try something like this if you really want to place people accurately. You might discover that a one dimensional "left" vs "right" scheme isn't able to actually display political reality accurately.
Unless of course this isn't your goal.
Reminds me of the study to turn shit into butter where they claimed a 50% success. It spreads perfectly, but the taste is still off.
I find meat tastes about the same no matter how it is prepared [...] but vegetables are so varied - if you know how to cook them and especially when to stop cooking.
Same is true for meat. Of course, if "burned to perfection" is the only way you know how to grill your meat, it will all taste like a piece of leather pasted in whatever marinade you use.
Nah. That's only those vegans that don't really want to be vegans but "must" be for some odd reason. These are also the ones that rant and rave without end in an attempt to get everyone else to suffer with them, for shared pain is easier to endure. The others, the ones that just don't want to eat meat and be done with it, are actually cool. And as far as I can tell the majority.
But as always, it's the loudmouthed majority that gives the whole bunch a bad name.
This has a lot of a religious sermon: Lots of postulation, little in terms of evidence. Or at least any kind of hint resembling something akin to a shred of an inkling that any of this is based in reality and that we should believe any of it on anything other than "I told you so".
You can grow this stuff in a controlled environment. No antibiotics needed because when there are no bacteria there is no need to use something to kill them.
To the rest of the drivel, well, "chemistry baaaad" sums it up pretty nicely. Why do I have the feeling I'm dealing with a homeopathetic anti-vaxer?
Now I'm curious: Why?
So far I thought one of the key reasons why vegans try to talk us out of eating our our tuna pizza is animal cruelty. That meat never saw an animal, so what's the reason now?
Why shouldn't you be able to? I doubt that the way to keep the suit in place is that invasive that you can't squeeze one out.
Just because the media don't have to tell the same lies as the politicians doesn't mean they are in any way required to tell the truth.
Sure you do, I'm also just asking for a friend.
EULAs are pretty much unenforceable in civilized countries. And in Germany, too.
Germany has something in their consumer protection laws that is worded like "if there's anything in your contract that could be considered special or unusual, you have to stress it and the customer has to explicitly agree to explicitly that". And not only is it a computer illiterate judge that gets to determine what's "unusual" in terms of computer related contracts, on top of that you have a lot of consumer protection laws that include the "cannot waive this right" clause.
In other words, forget it, pal.
Yes, this was the important part of the posting. Good job. It's up there with pointing out a missing apostrophe.
That's what you get when you remove and remove features, at one point you might remove one that is crucial.
In the name of pedestrians everywhere, thanks for putting the brakes back onto your damn cars!
For the educated the decision is already decided at "Is there a local server or do I get to send my command to some server outside my control that in turn controls my (insert gadget name here)?"
Who with an IQ above room temperature makes himself and the insanely expensive piece of bullshit he bought 100% absolutely dependent on a third party's ability and willingness to continue the service?
Buy a couple spares and distribute them strategically across your home.
Still cheaper than Alexa.
Why anyone buys anything where you hand over total control over a portion of your home including its security is beyond me. This is about some crappy stereo system, but people are buying LOCKS for their homes that are controlled by someone else.
Talk about creepy.
You know, in the good ol' days, you'd gather your friends, grab some lead pipes and tell the shady salesman in no uncertain terms that his change of heart isn't in his best interest. Most learn after a broken shin or two.
Talk for your country. In my country some laws have a provision that you "cannot waive this right contractually".
Yes, there are rights that you have, even if you explicitly say you don't want to have them.
The point here is not to associate with Nazis, the point is that someone who wants to harm you associates you with them and tells your employer that you are one, which will get you easily into hot water without you ever even considering associating with anything resembling a conservative, let alone an extremist conservative ideology.
All it takes today is to speak your mind and make it something that someone who is easily offended doesn't like to hear.
Not really. Forcing me to use a certain version, or just disallowing me to use a certain version, is not acceptable.
Yes, and in the end it was rightfully called "The Sick man of Europe. With the only debatable portion thereof being the "Europe" but certainly not the sick part. It was a shadow of its former self. It had nothing of the vitality and threat that it was to Europe a mere 300 years earlier when it conquered half of Europe before being stopped by the Polish king at the gates of Vienna.
A service Austria repaid about a 100 years later by dividing up what was left of Poland between it, Prussia and Russia, but let's not engage in negligible petty sentiments like thankfulness. In international politics? Pfff, get real.
Any empire, in history, had a birth, a high time, a decline and a demise. Every single one. Some went down faster, some lasted longer, but none lasted forever. The Egyptians, the Hittites, Romans, Franks, Russians, Spaniards, English and now the US... Empires came and went.
It is quite easy to topple an empire in the end. The end of the Roman empire came when it needed to staff its legions with more and more foreign soldiers, to the point where the Romans didn't do any work at all anymore and pretty much relied on slaves and foreign soldiers to defend their way of life. That was pretty much the death spell of the empire. Which lasted longer in the East, actually, but even that had an expiration date. Yes, the Ottoman Empire eventually conquered the last bits of it, Constantinople itself, but that was already at the point where it didn't really take that much to fell it anymore. That was more pulling the plug on a patient on life support rather than assassination of a capable fighter.
'Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.'
A dangerous proposition in a world that is obviously full of masochists.
Hey, the justification is even older than that, given the age of the holy scriptures they draw their justification from, a mere millennium is kinda recent.
Pretty much any religion contains some sort of justification for Lebensraum. Our people need more room, and the heathens have it, so club their heads in. Deus vult!