What if I was a slashdot reader who had just had a miscarriage?
Are you seriously getting offended on behalf of other people who may not even find it offensive? You know nothing bad actually happens to you when you get offended right? It's a waste of time, just move on.
Next time an American school demands their textbooks "teach the controversy" of intelligent design or some other bullshit, we should show them this Indian textbook as an example of how doctoring our textbooks is making us look to the rest of the world.
But...but....creationism is just a lie. Where as, technically its true that meat eaters most certainly do lie, cheat and commit sex crimes, but so do vegetarians. Just not all of them.
Insulted because someone doesn't believe in your version of reality... Sounds like you both believe in a religion to me. Next time you might be better off with a well reasoned response.
Atheism is no more a religion than naked is a brand of clothing. (note the lowercase 'n' in naked)
Although the prior post was unnecessarily aggressive, it does bring up the valid point of religious belief sets, especially in the US are typically lumped in a package deal together political beliefs and a lack of trust in the world wide scientific community, typically manipulated with falsified information such as this. I've actually had some wild unemployed troll telling me he would rather die of some dreaded but easily curable disease than accept 'faggoty european commie free health care'. ( I couldn't find the original link he sent me about oil wells magically refilling but it was a huge url with 'wall-street-journal' written near the end of it).
Does these holy books really have such a level of control over these kinds of people or is it just some innate brainwashed gullibility that they will aggressively defend?
Laughing about the end of these sorts of values is not hate, it is joy. Try not to cry yourself to sleep again. That was a joke by the way. In a few weeks you might even be able to laugh at it.
You don't need to fabricate things for them to be funny. Sometimes the truth is more hilarious http://www.inquisitr.com/241677/study-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-than-those-who-watch-no-news-at-all/
But how would you feel if you were the most successful salesman in your company, working on a 6% commission, and the boss came to you claiming he needed to pay everyone their "fair share"? Therefore, since you were the most successful, he was reducing your commission to 3% so that he could raise everyone else's to 10%? This is what a progressive tax does.
Poor analogy because it implies that rich people work proportionately harder for their extra share; but lets play with your analogy a little. Assume your average salesman earns 30k per year. Now given the statistic that US executives earn 380 times the average salary (see link at the bottom) we know that you Mr successful salesman earns.
Your example successful salesman earns a staggering 11,400,000. But he loses a horrific 3% of his income because he's so successful and suffers only taking home 11,058,000, boo-hoo his life is now ruined and now the other commie bastard employees unfairly gain 4% income now take home an extra 1200 giving a grand total of 31200. Maybe they can buy some clothes for their kids now. What kind of perverted society would do this? Luckily we live in a society where mister executive pays little to no tax and so the average wage guys have to pay a third of theirs to make it up.
I'm not sure many people here will have a frame of reference for this considering its unlikely many people here have been in this situation frequently.
1 John 3:15: Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
It's pretty hard to go to war with someone if you don't hate them.
I'm glad a lot of people out there don't stay true to the word of the Bible. I for one have probably at some point made a 'your mom' joke. In Matthew 15:4 "God says, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.'".
Many might (and do) argue that the silence of the New Testament on the subject of war apparently rests on the assumption that the subject had been adequately treated and did not call for any addition or modification. You certainly cannot argue that the old testament takes great revelry in war and God directly orders numerous atrocities that nowadays would be considered the worst kind of war crimes.
Modern Christianity seems to be about picking and choosing which parts of the books support their own personal belief system or political agenda. You display this yourself by referencing only the New Testament. It's just that other people select different parts such as the gay haters or the pro-life terrorists.
If a species has gone extinct in the wild should humans reintroduce them? I assume species go extinct because they are nonviable...who the heck are we to play God when the reintroduced species will most likely suffer and/or perish again.
They became nonviable because we destroyed their habitat. It seems strange that you consider undoing damage we have caused as somehow playing God, but not the actual acts of habitat destruction, extinction of species and land modification. What is it about Bible thumping that goes hand in hand with corporate cash flow without moral recompense?
Nonsense. Unless you count potentially buggy(buggier?) games with frequently painful install procedures, possible Trojans and viruses and often other game experience limitations.
Pirated games are only free if your time is worthless.
If its pictures of you smiling into the camera while you cook meth then sure.... don't post them. But don't believe people will ever give a shit about your self taken gangsta' pose pictures. Seriously, stop living with fear and try just living.
That's a typical cut for a lawyer working on a contingency fee. Apple's not short on funds, so they pay lawyers on an hourly fee/retainer basis.
-jcr
Perhaps, but people who get paid by the hour, win or lose can sometimes lack motivation. The lawyers will have a much greater incentive for winning if they get a cut of the 'winnings'.
Damn, and you were doing so well there for a minute....But then you criticised the NHS (National Health Service, for non-Brits).
Gotta agree on that one. The USA is the laughing stock of the west in regards to healthcare. The fact that they can brainwash their citizens into aggressively defending their morally bankrupt health care system that has many people crushed with anxiety over the mere cost of visiting a doctor and leaves the USA with some of the lowest life expectancy in the western world.
And if they were the child porn party? Would it still be censorship to ban their adds? Google have to draw a line somewhere and this is where they chose to do it.
Do Kaspersky get to name them? Being that they are seemingly the only security company in the world capable of detecting viruses written by Israel and paid for by US tax dollars... ahem sorry by anarchists.
In the UK (this was about 8 years ago so values will have changed a bit) if there was a dangerous junction where there were a lot of road accidents, if the cost was greater than a three quarters of a million pounds to change the junction to something safer such as a roundabout, they would have to wait until somebody died before fixing it. Placing the value of life of a citizen clearly in that figure.
If anything, more applications should have command lines.
This is the approach that in my opinion kills Linux for casual users. Sure its got a nice and smooth GUI but most Linux users sit with the terminal open and when something breaks or needs a bit of messing around to make it compatible, any helpful suggestions on the internet tend to involve heavy terminal usage which to the uninitiated seems to be an unnecessary learning time investment and will turn the vast majority users away to something more user friendly.
GUIs are getting better and more intuitive with each OS generation. Now even very old people can typically handle a smart phone or browse the web on a laptop. I'm not advocating we remove consoles, quite the opposite but I agree that things targeted at mass consumersmarkets should definitely have everything doable by GUI. I'm not sure why people are so negative about this article, seems most of the comments below are talking abut industry professional users or IT technicians running batch macros.
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The internet may be contributing to divorces (thanks, Facebook!)
Or you could instead say that its facilitating the catching of cheating rats.
What if I was a slashdot reader who had just had a miscarriage?
Are you seriously getting offended on behalf of other people who may not even find it offensive? You know nothing bad actually happens to you when you get offended right? It's a waste of time, just move on.
Next time an American school demands their textbooks "teach the controversy" of intelligent design or some other bullshit, we should show them this Indian textbook as an example of how doctoring our textbooks is making us look to the rest of the world.
But...but....creationism is just a lie. Where as, technically its true that meat eaters most certainly do lie, cheat and commit sex crimes, but so do vegetarians.
Just not all of them.
Insulted because someone doesn't believe in your version of reality... Sounds like you both believe in a religion to me. Next time you might be better off with a well reasoned response.
Atheism is no more a religion than naked is a brand of clothing.
(note the lowercase 'n' in naked)
Although the prior post was unnecessarily aggressive, it does bring up the valid point of religious belief sets, especially in the US are typically lumped in a package deal together political beliefs and a lack of trust in the world wide scientific community, typically manipulated with falsified information such as this.
I've actually had some wild unemployed troll telling me he would rather die of some dreaded but easily curable disease than accept 'faggoty european commie free health care'. ( I couldn't find the original link he sent me about oil wells magically refilling but it was a huge url with 'wall-street-journal' written near the end of it).
Does these holy books really have such a level of control over these kinds of people or is it just some innate brainwashed gullibility that they will aggressively defend?
Well, now that Microsoft wants to compete with Apple, they'll have to deal with over-sensationalist news as well.
Though I suspect they may find themselves in a patent infringement lawsuit regarding this.
I am not democrat, did not vote for Obama either.
Laughing about the end of these sorts of values is not hate, it is joy. Try not to cry yourself to sleep again. That was a joke by the way. In a few weeks you might even be able to laugh at it.
You don't need to fabricate things for them to be funny. Sometimes the truth is more hilarious
http://www.inquisitr.com/241677/study-fox-news-viewers-less-informed-than-those-who-watch-no-news-at-all/
But how would you feel if you were the most successful salesman in your company, working on a 6% commission, and the boss came to you claiming he needed to pay everyone their "fair share"? Therefore, since you were the most successful, he was reducing your commission to 3% so that he could raise everyone else's to 10%? This is what a progressive tax does.
Poor analogy because it implies that rich people work proportionately harder for their extra share; but lets play with your analogy a little. Assume your average salesman earns 30k per year. Now given the statistic that US executives earn 380 times the average salary (see link at the bottom) we know that you Mr successful salesman earns.
Your example successful salesman earns a staggering 11,400,000. But he loses a horrific 3% of his income because he's so successful and suffers only taking home 11,058,000, boo-hoo his life is now ruined and now the other commie bastard employees unfairly gain 4% income now take home an extra 1200 giving a grand total of 31200. Maybe they can buy some clothes for their kids now. What kind of perverted society would do this? Luckily we live in a society where mister executive pays little to no tax and so the average wage guys have to pay a third of theirs to make it up.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.htm
I'm not sure many people here will have a frame of reference for this considering its unlikely many people here have been in this situation frequently.
Sounds like a plan, now how about you explain away the fact that Google, Samsung, LG, Dell, HTC, IBM, Motorola, and Nokia ALL do the exact same thing.
Citation needed
1 John 3:15: Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
It's pretty hard to go to war with someone if you don't hate them.
I'm glad a lot of people out there don't stay true to the word of the Bible. I for one have probably at some point made a 'your mom' joke.
In Matthew 15:4 "God says, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.'".
Many might (and do) argue that the silence of the New Testament on the subject of war apparently rests on the assumption that the subject had been adequately treated and did not call for any addition or modification. You certainly cannot argue that the old testament takes great revelry in war and God directly orders numerous atrocities that nowadays would be considered the worst kind of war crimes.
Modern Christianity seems to be about picking and choosing which parts of the books support their own personal belief system or political agenda. You display this yourself by referencing only the New Testament. It's just that other people select different parts such as the gay haters or the pro-life terrorists.
atheism is a lack of belief.
Yes in the same way that bald cannot be described as a hair colour.
If a species has gone extinct in the wild should humans reintroduce them? I assume species go extinct because they are nonviable...who the heck are we to play God when the reintroduced species will most likely suffer and/or perish again.
They became nonviable because we destroyed their habitat. It seems strange that you consider undoing damage we have caused as somehow playing God, but not the actual acts of habitat destruction, extinction of species and land modification. What is it about Bible thumping that goes hand in hand with corporate cash flow without moral recompense?
Nonsense. Unless you count potentially buggy(buggier?) games with frequently painful install procedures, possible Trojans and viruses and often other game experience limitations.
Pirated games are only free if your time is worthless.
Laughed myself sick when I saw this story right next to Monkeys made smarter with prosthetic device.
One more reason to not post stuff on Facebook.
If its pictures of you smiling into the camera while you cook meth then sure.... don't post them. But don't believe people will ever give a shit about your self taken gangsta' pose pictures. Seriously, stop living with fear and try just living.
That's a typical cut for a lawyer working on a contingency fee. Apple's not short on funds, so they pay lawyers on an hourly fee/retainer basis.
-jcr
Perhaps, but people who get paid by the hour, win or lose can sometimes lack motivation. The lawyers will have a much greater incentive for winning if they get a cut of the 'winnings'.
People peddling mobile phone security produce frighting figures of what happens when you don't own their product....
The U.S. is becoming a nation where sick and poor people are simply obstacles towards expansion.
There I fixed it for you.
Damn, and you were doing so well there for a minute....But then you criticised the NHS (National Health Service, for non-Brits).
Gotta agree on that one. The USA is the laughing stock of the west in regards to healthcare. The fact that they can brainwash their citizens into aggressively defending their morally bankrupt health care system that has many people crushed with anxiety over the mere cost of visiting a doctor and leaves the USA with some of the lowest life expectancy in the western world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Is this the new font that the iPhone /. app?
And if they were the child porn party? Would it still be censorship to ban their adds? Google have to draw a line somewhere and this is where they chose to do it.
Do Kaspersky get to name them? Being that they are seemingly the only security company in the world capable of detecting viruses written by Israel and paid for by US tax dollars... ahem sorry by anarchists.
In the UK (this was about 8 years ago so values will have changed a bit) if there was a dangerous junction where there were a lot of road accidents, if the cost was greater than a three quarters of a million pounds to change the junction to something safer such as a roundabout, they would have to wait until somebody died before fixing it. Placing the value of life of a citizen clearly in that figure.
There I fixed it for you.
If anything, more applications should have command lines.
This is the approach that in my opinion kills Linux for casual users. Sure its got a nice and smooth GUI but most Linux users sit with the terminal open and when something breaks or needs a bit of messing around to make it compatible, any helpful suggestions on the internet tend to involve heavy terminal usage which to the uninitiated seems to be an unnecessary learning time investment and will turn the vast majority users away to something more user friendly.
GUIs are getting better and more intuitive with each OS generation. Now even very old people can typically handle a smart phone or browse the web on a laptop. I'm not advocating we remove consoles, quite the opposite but I agree that things targeted at mass consumersmarkets should definitely have everything doable by GUI. I'm not sure why people are so negative about this article, seems most of the comments below are talking abut industry professional users or IT technicians running batch macros.