I think that Harper's made a big national survey in 2005(?) about the actual beliefs of american people who profess to be Christians (more than 50% of whose thought that Joan of Ark was Noah's wife, per example).
Long story short, the vast majority of American christians believe and worship the God who elected America as the Chosen People. You may be knowledgeable enough to understand that it's not exactly the Gospel one...
There are people who shorten these episodes to cut the repeats and some of the filler
http://www.reddit.com/r/smyths
"These 'Streamline' edits run shorter because they are missing teasers, cartoons, flashbacks, repetition, idents, history lessons, fun facts, "we're experts", and anything else that slows down the show."
I'd be happy to skip teasers, flashbacks, repetitions and idents; but to keep history lessons and fun facts (I don't remember seeing cartoons nor what is "we"re experts")...
Why did they cut these?
The Tories-- afraid of losing votes to UKIP (the UK Independence party) who are pushing this policy- are pandering to *their* potential voters by promising a referendum on EU membership in 2017, which- if they win- would result in the UK leaving the EU.
Indeed? Really?
Please please please, pretty please with sugar on top, could you let them do it?
Accepting the UK was the worst mistake than EU ever made...
How do you fairly compensate the people who spend the many man hours producing the movie?
Patreon, or a public service equivalent.
Once one can't find a movie that nobody has pledged for (since it hasn't been shot in the absence of pledges), even the mythical freerider will find a good reason to patron artists and projects...
Good point, and I don't think they will benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. America has had to compensate for lack of a cheap labor force by implementing technology.
And had so many countries/populations to prey upon in order to finance this implementation of technology...
China is doing shady deals in Africa, but nowhere (except maybe Burma) do they have the means to exert really heavy predation.
It's particularly stupid because there is not any limit of number of pages that Wikipedia can have...
I really don't understand why so much power of destruction is given to people that are obviously not up to this task.
A young guy from Alberta moves to Vancouver and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”
The kid says, “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Alberta.”
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
“How many customers bought something from you today?”
The kid says, “one”.
The boss says, “Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?”
The kid says, “$101,237.65.
The boss says, “$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook.
Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?”
The kid said, “No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, Dude, your weekend’s shot. You should go fishing.”
1. Rationale: We need the "fragmentation" problem to be addressed, and I would suggest that a good start would to have a standard interface that is common across all of "Linux".
No, that's not a point.
As long as there is ONE distribution of Linux that just works and is built to be easily accessible to newbies, you can have all the flavors of the world besides this one, it won't matter.
That's what Canonical tried, and it quite worked for a while.
He had no teeth left, since he couldn't look after them they had to all be removed. He was heavily medicated but was still liable to fits of anger and hitting other patients for something simple like sitting in his chair. He was barely able to speak and never managed more than a couple of mumbled, often unintelligible words. There was a rec room where we could watch a TV which was behind a plexiglass panel we needed to lift up to change channels. He had a tic that meant every 1-2 minutes he needed to get up, walk to the TV, life the plexiglass, run his hand over the top of the TV, then sit down again. He might do this 100+ times in a day.
You understand that the very heavy effects that you describe are most likely the results of the heavy medication he's on, much more than of his psychotic trouble or marijuana?
Read Roger Gentis, it's a bit old now but still relevant...
Well, if Space Planction can came as close to earth as to cling on the ISS, it probably can fall on earth itself too...
So where would you find DNA differences?
Trolls are not "people who have a different enough opinion"; they are people who insist on claiming their opinions as the truth even when it brings no good to the discussion.
Case study: there are frequently libertalians posts on Slashdot. Obviously, as nobody outside the US is stupid enough to lose time with such a bullshit philosophy, I don't care for such discourses.
But I don't have anything particularly relevant to say to counter them, so I do not waste everybody's time by flaming these posts.
Once, I wrote that Galt's speech "I owe nobody nothing" is so utterly stupid and so at the opposite of all that makes civilization and wisdom (which are both about acknolewdging one's debts rather than speaking like a spoiled brat taking for granted all the help he ever got) that it removes the need to read the rest of Rand's writings in order to understand how she's a self-inflated quack.
That's probably "different enough opinion" to many slashdotters, and it is agressively worded indeed, but that's not flame: it's an analysis of a speech, and it's an argument, which means somebody disagreeing with me can challenge it with arguments of his own, not only flame me or insult me.
And I wrote this on topic, I do not reply to random libertalian posts to explain them why they're wrong - I know they won't change their opinions, and I won't either, so I spare us all the trouble.
Climatic change deniers or bible-thumping creationnists do not usually come here with argumentation and a desire to listen to contradiction, but only to assert their beliefs.
That's what makes them trolls, not the fact that they are GW deniers or creationists.
(I chose to use the meaning of the word that TFA uses, even if "troll" has a precise definition, since the parent seemed to use the same misleading meaning)
In the case of vaccines, the small risk of the vaccine causing some harm is dwarfed by the huge risk of the disease it prevents.
Actually, the costs/benefits analysis has to be done for each vaccine: it was obvious for vaccines against highly epidemic lethal diseases, even with the badly prepared nurses of the time (I believe that it's for the polio vaccine that many lost leg mobility after a badly done injection touched the nerve?), it may not be for vaccines against rare diseases.
Actually, sliced bread is pretty awful, but that's a different story.
Well, you shouldn't get your bread in Germany if you say that...
Lightly toasted sliced bread with une noix de beurre and a touch of lemon marmelade... yummmmm!!!
Well, TL;DR Wikipedia explained it better than you did, but you both may have failed to take a new factor into account...
From MSF claims it appears that local population have begun to consider that prophylactic measures are what causes Ebola, and so forbid medical teams to enter their villages.
Considering that in the whole rainforest africa, at the core of social regulations and relations are witchcraft and poison (witchcraft for the theory, the social conception of causality, poison for the actual means of action), these beliefs are here to stay, especially in the countries where there were nearly no development and where the educational system have been destroyed - not counting a horrible civil war in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Without prophylaxy and with the local way of life, Ebola is here to stay: it's becoming endemic. And once it reaches the big cities's slums, it probably will not only stay but thrive.
So, yes, it is now a very big health concern, even if as you said it wasn't before.
Well, summer vacation is excellent when the kids spend it in the countryside, less so when they have to spend it in the same shitty neighborhood where they are stuck all year long...
I guess that could explain the contradiction between your statistics and the fond memories of nearly everyone here.
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I think that Harper's made a big national survey in 2005(?) about the actual beliefs of american people who profess to be Christians (more than 50% of whose thought that Joan of Ark was Noah's wife, per example).
Long story short, the vast majority of American christians believe and worship the God who elected America as the Chosen People. You may be knowledgeable enough to understand that it's not exactly the Gospel one...
By the way, does anybody know how to use QQ/WeiXin on Linux?
There are people who shorten these episodes to cut the repeats and some of the filler http://www.reddit.com/r/smyths "These 'Streamline' edits run shorter because they are missing teasers, cartoons, flashbacks, repetition, idents, history lessons, fun facts, "we're experts", and anything else that slows down the show."
I'd be happy to skip teasers, flashbacks, repetitions and idents; but to keep history lessons and fun facts (I don't remember seeing cartoons nor what is "we"re experts")...
Why did they cut these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Tories-- afraid of losing votes to UKIP (the UK Independence party) who are pushing this policy- are pandering to *their* potential voters by promising a referendum on EU membership in 2017, which- if they win- would result in the UK leaving the EU.
Indeed? Really?
Please please please, pretty please with sugar on top, could you let them do it?
Accepting the UK was the worst mistake than EU ever made...
How do you fairly compensate the people who spend the many man hours producing the movie?
Patreon, or a public service equivalent.
Once one can't find a movie that nobody has pledged for (since it hasn't been shot in the absence of pledges), even the mythical freerider will find a good reason to patron artists and projects...
Good point, and I don't think they will benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. America has had to compensate for lack of a cheap labor force by implementing technology.
And had so many countries/populations to prey upon in order to finance this implementation of technology...
China is doing shady deals in Africa, but nowhere (except maybe Burma) do they have the means to exert really heavy predation.
Your parents and grandparents were able to buy a house, two cards, and send 2 children to college on a single income. You can't.
Oh, I still can buy two cards, they just won't be Moxes nor Black Lotuses...
It's particularly stupid because there is not any limit of number of pages that Wikipedia can have...
I really don't understand why so much power of destruction is given to people that are obviously not up to this task.
Patreon?
It should be a public service, by the way...
I guess you know of this joke?
A young guy from Alberta moves to Vancouver and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”
The kid says, “Yeah. I was a salesman back in Alberta.”
Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
“How many customers bought something from you today?”
The kid says, “one”.
The boss says, “Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?”
The kid says, “$101,237.65.
The boss says, “$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “First, I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook.
Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a BOAT and a TRUCK?”
The kid said, “No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, Dude, your weekend’s shot. You should go fishing.”
How Linux wins the Desktop
1. Rationale: We need the "fragmentation" problem to be addressed, and I would suggest that a good start would to have a standard interface that is common across all of "Linux".
No, that's not a point. As long as there is ONE distribution of Linux that just works and is built to be easily accessible to newbies, you can have all the flavors of the world besides this one, it won't matter.
That's what Canonical tried, and it quite worked for a while.
He had no teeth left, since he couldn't look after them they had to all be removed. He was heavily medicated but was still liable to fits of anger and hitting other patients for something simple like sitting in his chair. He was barely able to speak and never managed more than a couple of mumbled, often unintelligible words. There was a rec room where we could watch a TV which was behind a plexiglass panel we needed to lift up to change channels. He had a tic that meant every 1-2 minutes he needed to get up, walk to the TV, life the plexiglass, run his hand over the top of the TV, then sit down again. He might do this 100+ times in a day.
You understand that the very heavy effects that you describe are most likely the results of the heavy medication he's on, much more than of his psychotic trouble or marijuana?
Read Roger Gentis, it's a bit old now but still relevant...
Well, if Space Planction can came as close to earth as to cling on the ISS, it probably can fall on earth itself too...
So where would you find DNA differences?
At least the worst has been avoided...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, MS Money was the reason my father refused to switch to Linux after trying Ubuntu, as Quicken isn't (wasn't?) nearly as powerful.
Trolls are not "people who have a different enough opinion"; they are people who insist on claiming their opinions as the truth even when it brings no good to the discussion.
Case study: there are frequently libertalians posts on Slashdot. Obviously, as nobody outside the US is stupid enough to lose time with such a bullshit philosophy, I don't care for such discourses.
But I don't have anything particularly relevant to say to counter them, so I do not waste everybody's time by flaming these posts.
Once, I wrote that Galt's speech "I owe nobody nothing" is so utterly stupid and so at the opposite of all that makes civilization and wisdom (which are both about acknolewdging one's debts rather than speaking like a spoiled brat taking for granted all the help he ever got) that it removes the need to read the rest of Rand's writings in order to understand how she's a self-inflated quack.
That's probably "different enough opinion" to many slashdotters, and it is agressively worded indeed, but that's not flame: it's an analysis of a speech, and it's an argument, which means somebody disagreeing with me can challenge it with arguments of his own, not only flame me or insult me.
And I wrote this on topic, I do not reply to random libertalian posts to explain them why they're wrong - I know they won't change their opinions, and I won't either, so I spare us all the trouble.
Climatic change deniers or bible-thumping creationnists do not usually come here with argumentation and a desire to listen to contradiction, but only to assert their beliefs. That's what makes them trolls, not the fact that they are GW deniers or creationists.
(I chose to use the meaning of the word that TFA uses, even if "troll" has a precise definition, since the parent seemed to use the same misleading meaning)
I just actually read the article, and the comments. Oh, and tried to understand them, too.
(and actually, yeah, that's hilarious)
In the case of vaccines, the small risk of the vaccine causing some harm is dwarfed by the huge risk of the disease it prevents.
Actually, the costs/benefits analysis has to be done for each vaccine: it was obvious for vaccines against highly epidemic lethal diseases, even with the badly prepared nurses of the time (I believe that it's for the polio vaccine that many lost leg mobility after a badly done injection touched the nerve?), it may not be for vaccines against rare diseases.
So what?
Women admitting that spousal violence is not only a man-towards-women problem and trying to adress it is feminazi?
Actually, sliced bread is pretty awful, but that's a different story.
Well, you shouldn't get your bread in Germany if you say that...
Lightly toasted sliced bread with une noix de beurre and a touch of lemon marmelade... yummmmm!!!
I'm already able to destroy my neighbour's living room from across the street using only their cat and a laser-pointer...
Well, TL;DR Wikipedia explained it better than you did, but you both may have failed to take a new factor into account...
From MSF claims it appears that local population have begun to consider that prophylactic measures are what causes Ebola, and so forbid medical teams to enter their villages.
Considering that in the whole rainforest africa, at the core of social regulations and relations are witchcraft and poison (witchcraft for the theory, the social conception of causality, poison for the actual means of action), these beliefs are here to stay, especially in the countries where there were nearly no development and where the educational system have been destroyed - not counting a horrible civil war in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Without prophylaxy and with the local way of life, Ebola is here to stay: it's becoming endemic. And once it reaches the big cities's slums, it probably will not only stay but thrive.
So, yes, it is now a very big health concern, even if as you said it wasn't before.
Well, summer vacation is excellent when the kids spend it in the countryside, less so when they have to spend it in the same shitty neighborhood where they are stuck all year long...
I guess that could explain the contradiction between your statistics and the fond memories of nearly everyone here.
Reading James Ballard's "The Burning World" I found the scientific premise difficult to believe.
But apparently it's not that ludicrous...