Lawsuit. Google as well. In fact, if I was Megaload, I'd be suing both of them. However, the actual takedown came from UMG. On the other hand, I said "I can hope"... so.. I'll keep hoping
You did imply it. In fact the rest of the previous post, the one I responded to, clearly shows that you can't reason clearly. You ascribe evil to a philosophical/religious institutions, but "good" to men. Of course you've simply ignored that you have two standards of which you evaluate something. "Bad" must be religion, not the person practicing it, good must be the person, and not the religion he is practicing.
You repeating yourself doesn't make it reality, only delusional.
Ha! Postman doesn't know shit, or at least doesn't give a shit. S/HE still delivers mail for the previous owners after 4 years of NOT living there. In addition, even if they did pay attention, the only things I regularly get are bills (Utilities) and used books (cheaper than Kindle/Nook ebooks) for my wife. Yawn.
"I"m at work right now, and my credit card is at home, can I get your phone number so that I can call you back with that information once I get it? Thanks."
Well, when your post is without balance, going after religion as the cause of evil, you necessarily imply that it is the SOLE cause of evil. Without mentioning the good religion does you clearly make it out to be the boogieman of evil. And if you can't accept that the good is done by religion ("it is the people themselves") then why can you also then blame religion, and not the people themselves, for the bad.
Basically, you're a hypocrite for saying "people do good, religion does bad". And no, I'm not twisting your words.
Evil isn't the sole realm of religions. All of mankind is evil, even Atheists can be evil. Pinning Evil on Religion, and not man is the greatest threat to clear thinking than anything. Thinking Atheism is free from mankind's tendency to do evil is just... well... stupid.
Rest in Peace is a religious term, Hitchens is dead, he is not "resting". Please do not use Religious Euphemisms for those that were clearly and staunchly atheists.
Last time I tried to use the QR coded display at the store, it presented me with exactly the same information as the display, from the store's own website. That just Spells "I don't get it" IMHO. You're not helping anyone with that crap.
If I was a store manager, and someone clicked the QR code on the display, I'd offer them something, a discount, a addon, some promotional value if they presented that information at the time of purchase, within the next 30 minutes. Something along the line of "if you buy this product, you'll get $5 off" (or whatever).
This is why we need a Constitutional Amendment that defines "human rights" do not apply to artificial legal constructs (Corporations and other legal entities)
Heroin. You're hooked, but instead of having to search the lowest of the low of the human species, never knowing what you're gonna get, you can go to a normal store and get a known quantity. Yeah, you're fucked either way, you're just less fucked the latter way. Additionally, taxes paid to the government are used to support treatment centers where you can go get yourself cleaned up.
Most people won't start shooting heroin, and those that will, are going to anyway. Heroin is easily found by those looking, and end up being held hostage to their supplier.
Heroin isn't the part of the Drug War problem, Coke, Pot, and Meth are. Pot has already been pretty much "legalized", but still we don't collect taxes on it, because it is also still illegal. Coke is mostly comes across the border and is the result of the war you see there. Meth is an industrial compound that leaves hazardous waste that is very expensive to cleanup, and nobody to hold accountable for the mess.
If we legalized Meth, Coke and pot, we'd be better off now, because we would have better control of the enterprises that produce them. As of right now, the government has no control except over crowded prisons. Those prisons are expensive to operate and don't provide a disincentive to those that are participating in the criminal enterprises surrounding drug supply chains.
Let me ask you this way, for every heroin addict out there, how many innocent people are being killed every day in Mexico for threatening the drug cartels? Hell, there are some cities in Mexico that don't have a police force because they are all dead.
The real solution is to legalize drugs, and tax them. Instead of spending all sorts of tax dollars on a losing proposition, the government could be making hand over fist in revenue AND take the narco gangs out of the picture. Mexico isn't a dangerous place because of drugs, it is a dangerous place because of the WAR on drugs.
Well, many of us don't like the MSM, and are now getting our news raw and unfiltered. I don't care that the MSM controls 90% of the content, because it is the same old crappy content they've always controlled. With the internet, there is a whole new world of content waiting to be discovered. Singers that can sing without autotune, bands that can play instruments, actors that can actually change personality to suit the role, and artists that can create lasting works of beauty, with subtle messages on the human condition, and chefs that can make a gourmet meal out of twinkies and a can of beans.
The 90% of the people can't really appreciate the finer nuanced artistic works, let them have the MSM.
Actually, there is another method of learning math (additional, not replacement) that includes learning to "count by" method. As in Count by 2s.. 2, 4, 6, 8..
This makes it easy to know basics, and counting bys up to say 100 for small numbers (1-9) and 1000 for those larger. This form or ROTE memorization is helpful when looking at larger math problems in that you can often find odd factors, such as 47*3 (given above) being 141... 47, 94, 141, 188...
It is those exercises that taught me more about mathematical relationships of numbers than any other.
You're saying 150 is base 10 friendly, and 141 is not.
You can divide it easily by 2, 5,10, 25 and 50. The 10 being more important, but the others easily as well.
This is because we were taught how to count by these multiples early on, but rarely by other numbers. 5,10, 15, 20,26 etc. It only SEEMS easier because we have the ROTE factorization down.
Additionally, 141 is one of those rare numbers that is factored by only two prime numbers (3, 47) and you just don't see very often in math. Which is why you probably don't like it much. However, if you were taught to count using 47s to say.. about 1000, by ROTE, you'd not have to worry about figuring out 3*47 as you'd just "know" it, and it wouldn't be so alien to you.
It is like when I tell people I can count to 1023 on my hands... they look at me weird. It is not only possible, but it is a great bar bet;) Even among math / science wizards. However on/. I suspect I'd not get that bet.
Mankind is violent, have been from the beginning. Religion (or lack thereof) doesn't change it. Atheists have kill MILLIONS in the name of Atheism (USSR, China etc).
Christmas is an amalgamation of other religious celebrations into a Christian one, and then entitled "Christmas" by the Church. Christmas has been and always will be a made up holiday (even by Religious standards). The reason why nobody remember it as Jesus' birthday, is because it really isn't his birthday, nor even close to his birthday.
And apart from that glaring problem (not his birthday), almost nothing else about "Christmas" as it is celebrated by Christians has nothing to do with Christ at all. And for some of the traditions, the Bible itself speaks against (Christmas Trees / Jer 10:1-5).
That being said, it is sad when people are so fixated on what OTHERS believe that they feel compelled to react in such a manner. It just proves how little control over their own lives they really have that they feel compelled to lash out, even when it is completely uncalled for. If you don't like Christmas so much, please show up at your workplace and refuse to take it as a Holiday. Same for Saturday and Sunday days of rest per Judeo/Christian ethics.In fact, refuse all "Holy Day" celebrations, because those all point back to some belief system that you can't ascribe to.
The problem with affordable healthcare, is not realizing how affordable healthcare has really become, multiplied by the obfuscated cost structures (Insurance).
Simply put, we take for granted the "HealthCare" we have that is cheap (or even free), while bemoaning that which seems out of reach except by contracting through third party cost reducers (Insurance Co).
When you have a company skimming off the top a large percentage, while increasing costs and overhead required by Doctors (who increase prices to cover those costs), you end up with the monstrosity we have today.
To fix the problem, we must first de-obfuscate pricing in healthcare .
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Lawsuit. Google as well. In fact, if I was Megaload, I'd be suing both of them. However, the actual takedown came from UMG. On the other hand, I said "I can hope" ... so .. I'll keep hoping
This will come and bite UMG in the ass, and hopefully hard. Well, I can hope.
You did imply it. In fact the rest of the previous post, the one I responded to, clearly shows that you can't reason clearly. You ascribe evil to a philosophical/religious institutions, but "good" to men. Of course you've simply ignored that you have two standards of which you evaluate something. "Bad" must be religion, not the person practicing it, good must be the person, and not the religion he is practicing.
You repeating yourself doesn't make it reality, only delusional.
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Ha! Postman doesn't know shit, or at least doesn't give a shit. S/HE still delivers mail for the previous owners after 4 years of NOT living there. In addition, even if they did pay attention, the only things I regularly get are bills (Utilities) and used books (cheaper than Kindle/Nook ebooks) for my wife. Yawn.
"I"m at work right now, and my credit card is at home, can I get your phone number so that I can call you back with that information once I get it? Thanks."
Well, when your post is without balance, going after religion as the cause of evil, you necessarily imply that it is the SOLE cause of evil. Without mentioning the good religion does you clearly make it out to be the boogieman of evil. And if you can't accept that the good is done by religion ("it is the people themselves") then why can you also then blame religion, and not the people themselves, for the bad.
Basically, you're a hypocrite for saying "people do good, religion does bad". And no, I'm not twisting your words.
Evil isn't the sole realm of religions. All of mankind is evil, even Atheists can be evil. Pinning Evil on Religion, and not man is the greatest threat to clear thinking than anything. Thinking Atheism is free from mankind's tendency to do evil is just ... well ... stupid.
Rest in Peace is a religious term, Hitchens is dead, he is not "resting". Please do not use Religious Euphemisms for those that were clearly and staunchly atheists.
OMG, I'd so click that link. Freaking Genius.
Last time I tried to use the QR coded display at the store, it presented me with exactly the same information as the display, from the store's own website. That just Spells "I don't get it" IMHO. You're not helping anyone with that crap.
If I was a store manager, and someone clicked the QR code on the display, I'd offer them something, a discount, a addon, some promotional value if they presented that information at the time of purchase, within the next 30 minutes. Something along the line of "if you buy this product, you'll get $5 off" (or whatever).
In other words, give us a reason for using them.
This is why we need a Constitutional Amendment that defines "human rights" do not apply to artificial legal constructs (Corporations and other legal entities)
73% of all internet quotes are false - Abraham Lincoln
Heroin. You're hooked, but instead of having to search the lowest of the low of the human species, never knowing what you're gonna get, you can go to a normal store and get a known quantity. Yeah, you're fucked either way, you're just less fucked the latter way. Additionally, taxes paid to the government are used to support treatment centers where you can go get yourself cleaned up.
Most people won't start shooting heroin, and those that will, are going to anyway. Heroin is easily found by those looking, and end up being held hostage to their supplier.
Heroin isn't the part of the Drug War problem, Coke, Pot, and Meth are. Pot has already been pretty much "legalized", but still we don't collect taxes on it, because it is also still illegal. Coke is mostly comes across the border and is the result of the war you see there. Meth is an industrial compound that leaves hazardous waste that is very expensive to cleanup, and nobody to hold accountable for the mess.
If we legalized Meth, Coke and pot, we'd be better off now, because we would have better control of the enterprises that produce them. As of right now, the government has no control except over crowded prisons. Those prisons are expensive to operate and don't provide a disincentive to those that are participating in the criminal enterprises surrounding drug supply chains.
Let me ask you this way, for every heroin addict out there, how many innocent people are being killed every day in Mexico for threatening the drug cartels? Hell, there are some cities in Mexico that don't have a police force because they are all dead.
I guess that makes it worth it to you.
The real solution is to legalize drugs, and tax them. Instead of spending all sorts of tax dollars on a losing proposition, the government could be making hand over fist in revenue AND take the narco gangs out of the picture. Mexico isn't a dangerous place because of drugs, it is a dangerous place because of the WAR on drugs.
But then again, that is pure fantasy of mine.
Well, many of us don't like the MSM, and are now getting our news raw and unfiltered. I don't care that the MSM controls 90% of the content, because it is the same old crappy content they've always controlled. With the internet, there is a whole new world of content waiting to be discovered. Singers that can sing without autotune, bands that can play instruments, actors that can actually change personality to suit the role, and artists that can create lasting works of beauty, with subtle messages on the human condition, and chefs that can make a gourmet meal out of twinkies and a can of beans.
The 90% of the people can't really appreciate the finer nuanced artistic works, let them have the MSM.
Yes, I do, because they themselves admit it. You're denying Atheism having anything to do with it is just willful ignorance.
Denial of facts doesn't negate them. USSR and China have killed millions simply because they practiced faith.
Yes, I agree that religion doesn't prevent violence, exactly the same way Atheism doesn't prevent violence.
B.S. = Bull S***
M.S.= More S***
Ph.D.= Piled Higher n Deeper
Actually, there is another method of learning math (additional, not replacement) that includes learning to "count by" method. As in Count by 2s .. 2, 4, 6, 8 ..
This makes it easy to know basics, and counting bys up to say 100 for small numbers (1-9) and 1000 for those larger. This form or ROTE memorization is helpful when looking at larger math problems in that you can often find odd factors, such as 47*3 (given above) being 141 ... 47, 94, 141, 188 ...
It is those exercises that taught me more about mathematical relationships of numbers than any other.
You're saying 150 is base 10 friendly, and 141 is not.
You can divide it easily by 2, 5,10, 25 and 50. The 10 being more important, but the others easily as well.
This is because we were taught how to count by these multiples early on, but rarely by other numbers. 5,10, 15, 20,26 etc. It only SEEMS easier because we have the ROTE factorization down.
Additionally, 141 is one of those rare numbers that is factored by only two prime numbers (3, 47) and you just don't see very often in math. Which is why you probably don't like it much. However, if you were taught to count using 47s to say .. about 1000, by ROTE, you'd not have to worry about figuring out 3*47 as you'd just "know" it, and it wouldn't be so alien to you.
It is like when I tell people I can count to 1023 on my hands ... they look at me weird. It is not only possible, but it is a great bar bet ;) Even among math / science wizards. However on /. I suspect I'd not get that bet.
Mankind is violent, have been from the beginning. Religion (or lack thereof) doesn't change it. Atheists have kill MILLIONS in the name of Atheism (USSR, China etc).
http://www.loyola.edu/amnesty/chinapers.htm
Christmas is an amalgamation of other religious celebrations into a Christian one, and then entitled "Christmas" by the Church. Christmas has been and always will be a made up holiday (even by Religious standards). The reason why nobody remember it as Jesus' birthday, is because it really isn't his birthday, nor even close to his birthday.
And apart from that glaring problem (not his birthday), almost nothing else about "Christmas" as it is celebrated by Christians has nothing to do with Christ at all. And for some of the traditions, the Bible itself speaks against (Christmas Trees / Jer 10:1-5).
That being said, it is sad when people are so fixated on what OTHERS believe that they feel compelled to react in such a manner. It just proves how little control over their own lives they really have that they feel compelled to lash out, even when it is completely uncalled for. If you don't like Christmas so much, please show up at your workplace and refuse to take it as a Holiday. Same for Saturday and Sunday days of rest per Judeo/Christian ethics.In fact, refuse all "Holy Day" celebrations, because those all point back to some belief system that you can't ascribe to.
The problem with affordable healthcare, is not realizing how affordable healthcare has really become, multiplied by the obfuscated cost structures (Insurance).
Simply put, we take for granted the "HealthCare" we have that is cheap (or even free), while bemoaning that which seems out of reach except by contracting through third party cost reducers (Insurance Co).
When you have a company skimming off the top a large percentage, while increasing costs and overhead required by Doctors (who increase prices to cover those costs), you end up with the monstrosity we have today.
To fix the problem, we must first de-obfuscate pricing in healthcare .