Because "math" translates as "hard", "discrete mathematics" translates as "incomprehensible" (i.e. super-hard) and "coding" translates as "being smart" and "making money with magic and chat apps/games".
Don't you watch the internets? You want your kids to grow up to be Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergses (i.e. rich) - not some math teacher teaching idiots how to add or whatever it is they do with math.
It's an important qualification for being a president. Unwashed masses want their ruler to be big and strong. Which is why they've been selecting and electing bigger and bigger candidates all through the 20th century.
"No" can be used as answer (and it will be a correct answer) to any HEADLINE which ends with a question mark. Because, if the answer were "Yes" - paper (or website) would NOT have used a question mark. Headline would have been an affirmative statement instead.
I.e. They are covering their ass, knowing that their headline is bullshit/clickbait.
Betterige's law is not about some underlining force of nature, or a mathematical rule which magically decides answers to headlines in the form of a question. It's about sensationalism and CYA mentality of people who sensationalize crap.
Trying to get Trump to admit defeat (or anything else) is like trying to get water to stick to a duck.
There's an easy way to get water to stick to a duck. You cook the duck.
I see no real issue with doing the same with Trump. As long as I don't have to eat that soup. Maybe bottle it and sell it to his souporters? I don't think that Ferengi Futures Exchange would mind, as after all, he's only part Ferengi and he clearly lacks lobes for anything but boasting. His remains would have a pitiful resale value. Sad.
You pay... and Twitter disappears from your world. It would probably require cranial surgery in order to get the necessary hardware in... but it might be worth it.
Then again, one could get lobotomy for free... and it's equally tempting as getting a Twitter account.
First of all, trying to untie Koran from the Bible doesn't really work cause it contains the same damn stories and same damn people. Only real difference being that Jesus is not the son of god but just another prophet. So that "Islam by one hand" is a crock of shit regardless if that one hand is Allah's or Uthman's as you put it.
Second, saying shit like that "Islam is the work of one man. (Not counting nameless scribes, no one ever credits them.)" is basically proof that you don't know jack shit about Islam. Or you would have known of hadith. Which is basically an attempt to expand the Koran after the death of its writer - by compiling quotes attributed to him by various sources. All of which are specifically and strictly credited because... well... some might choose not to believe some sources.
There are many flavors of Islam. Just like with Judaism or Christianity Painting it with a generalization-brush of "one Islam by one hand", particularly in today's climate of CLEAR AND OBVIOUS EXAMPLES of Shia-Sunni divisions is beyond ignorant or retarded.
Third turd... Just like the Bible which was not written in modern languages it suffers from transcription and translation errors. Which compound when most of the text is metaphoric in nature - as is the case with all religious texts. Saying it is consistent requires more than just belief - it requires blind faith.
Fourth... The Bible is plentiful with DIRECT commands to murder anyone from witches and gays to infidels. And both Koran and Bible, old testament and new give even more reasons for hate and murder of everyone.
Fifth... Islam is as "compatible with the civilized world" as any ancient religion, cooked up by schizophrenic hermits in a cave, desert or jungle somewhere, edited by lunatics, crooks and child molesters and left "unchanged" for thousands of years. You know... like all those flavors of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism...
Not that newer religions cooked up by loons and crooks are any better! Mormonism, Scientology and Moonism are the same kind of shit. Just with fewer genocides to their name. So far.
That's because whether you're a Turk in the Netherlands or a white American in Mexico or Asia, you are nothing more than a guest. Therefore, you have no right to participate in the workings of your host and your political activity with regard to your former homeland is tolerable only to the extent it creates no disturbances for your host.
By that logic, they should also pay no taxes.
What? You never heard of "No taxation without representation"? And why would you tax your guests? Just what kind of a host are you? What's next? Paying for food and lodging?
Oh wait... did you perhaps mean "slaves" but mistyped it as "guests"? Cause that's what you're describing. Foreign citizens with no rights. I.e. Slaves.
1. De-islamize the Netherlands - Zero asylum seekers and no immigrants anymore from Islamic countries: close the borders - Withdraw all asylum residence permits which have already been granted for specific periods, close the asylum centers - No Islamic headscarves in public functions - Prohibition of other Islamic expressions which violate public order - Preventive detention of radical Muslims - Denaturalization and expulsion of criminals with a dual nationality - Jihadists who went to Syria will not be allow to return to the Netherlands - Close all mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran 2. The Netherlands independent again. Leave the EU 3. Direct democracy: a binding referendum, power to the citizens 4. Completely abolish health care deductibles 5. Lower housing fees 6. Retirement age at 65, indexation of supplementary pensions 7. No public money for development aid, windmills, art, innovation, broadcasting, etc. 8. Rollback cuts in home care and elderly care, more hands on the bed 9. A lot of extra money for defense and police 10. Lower income taxes 11. Halving of car taxes
Banning books, closing churches, abolishing healthcare, canceling representative democracy while amassing more power, militarization + police state, no more public money for freeloaders like artists, engineers, media and "etc." - but hey... free money and cheap cars! And according to his back of the envelope calculation - it will cost nothing. He actually tries to balance the budget by guesstimating costs for things like "De-islamize the Netherlands" - which according to him will create 7.2 billion Euros.
Cause " Islamic headscarves in public functions" cost money. You wouldn't think it does... but you aren't thinking it through. Cause when you let the women start wearing scarves, they're gonna keep buying scarves until their closets are bursting with scarves - and then they'll just buy more closets. Those things are made out of silk too, you know? That shit ain't cheap.
We just get everyone in the world to shift their work hours one hour earlier. Call it "Early Bird Time".
Fuck it... What's the problem? With daylight starting at around 4 A.M. and twilight breaking around 3 A.M. from May to August, for everyone living below the 51st parallel, everyone might as well be up, right? It's not like anyone will miss that extra hour of darkness in the morning throughout those hot summer nights when you're lucky if you manage to fall asleep by 2 A.M. Just like no one will miss waking up and going to work/school while there's light outside in the sky for the other half of the year.
But let's talk more about how turning the clocks back-forward twice per year hurts people.
There's always a corner where the wall meets the ceiling (or floor). Unless it's a sphere. Or an igloo.
In which case you punish your kids by showing them photos of people living in warmer climates. Or if you're a real asshole, photos of people sunbathing on a beach somewhere.
This is neat, because you no longer need to setup a cheap double-wide for living while you build your own home by hand. If your willing to deal with a flimsy plastic roof while your doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles.
Make it a bit more modular in design (say a wall which can be knocked out later without messing up the structural integrity of the whole building) and turn it into a garage later.
Then again... what you are describing as "doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles" is how homes are often built in the poorer parts of the world.
Only, instead of building a small home to live in while building a bigger and better one next to it - it's usually just dropping a square structure on as many square meters of land affordable to you at the time. Then, get living inside that ground floor tiny house with no insulation and complete disregard for architectural or esthetic norms. If you end up needing more space, such as when your kids grow enough to need their own rooms, you build upward. Add another floor. And another. It's OK. Foundations will hold. And you can always use lighter materials for upper floors. Plus you get the heat insulation as a bonus, and it is usually cheaper than using bricks. What's the worst that could happen? What do you mean "land slides"?
Most "hassle" people avoid revolves around (cutting) costs and (not) following rules. Be it building codes, laws or common sense and logic. And it might all be just fine for years... until some long ignored issue raises its ugly head - and the roof over yours ends up collapsing. Regardless of its esthetic qualities.
If you cared about data, you would know that seats != control.
If you cared about data AND if you weren't just guided by your irrational fears and hate - you'd know that two and two make four. Thus... more seats == more control of legislative chambers.
But fuck kindergarten arithmetic! Just looking at the graph shows that Republicans have been holding what they took under Obama. But you'd have to use witchcraft to find that out. Like clicking on a link and reading what's there. Which is clearly witchcraft! Creating text and images from thin air! BURN IT! BURN IT!
Granted... being not insane (paranoid and delusional) IS also necessary in order to actually understand what the squiggly line on the graph means.
I like the bit where you go "I don't know if what I'm saying is true, but it is true cause it is supported by my hate."
Cause that is where you both fuck up ANY credibility your data might have (cause you don't give a fuck about data) - AND you cement your judgment in hate and prejudice.
Guess what? Republicans held those positions since Obama's second term, enlarging them from the lead they had since his first term. If you think it's the "witch" - how come Republicans GAINED AND KEPT GAINING seats under Obama, starting from the last population census?
But you just go on believing in witches bro. And enjoying yourself. After all, Trump won. Why are you still so hung up on the other side losing? Get over it already. Sing Hallelujah, come on, get happy... and all that jazz. Don't be such a sore winner.
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Surely you mean the "Traveling Golfer" problem?
Because "math" translates as "hard", "discrete mathematics" translates as "incomprehensible" (i.e. super-hard) and "coding" translates as "being smart" and "making money with magic and chat apps/games".
Don't you watch the internets?
You want your kids to grow up to be Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergses (i.e. rich) - not some math teacher teaching idiots how to add or whatever it is they do with math.
By the end of the century candidate debates will be replaced with 1-on-1 basketball games.
At 6' 2" I'd say that Bill is of above average size.
It's an important qualification for being a president. Unwashed masses want their ruler to be big and strong.
Which is why they've been selecting and electing bigger and bigger candidates all through the 20th century.
You're missing the point.
"No" can be used as answer (and it will be a correct answer) to any HEADLINE which ends with a question mark.
Because, if the answer were "Yes" - paper (or website) would NOT have used a question mark. Headline would have been an affirmative statement instead.
I.e. They are covering their ass, knowing that their headline is bullshit/clickbait.
Betterige's law is not about some underlining force of nature, or a mathematical rule which magically decides answers to headlines in the form of a question.
It's about sensationalism and CYA mentality of people who sensationalize crap.
You forgot sad. You must end messages with "Sad".
It's part of the protocol now.
Trying to get Trump to admit defeat (or anything else) is like trying to get water to stick to a duck.
There's an easy way to get water to stick to a duck. You cook the duck.
I see no real issue with doing the same with Trump. As long as I don't have to eat that soup. Maybe bottle it and sell it to his souporters?
I don't think that Ferengi Futures Exchange would mind, as after all, he's only part Ferengi and he clearly lacks lobes for anything but boasting.
His remains would have a pitiful resale value. Sad.
Captain being French, it's no wonder there was so much menage a Troi on Enterprise.
You gave birth to a car?
You sure you didn't just swallow a Hot Wheels or a Matchbox one? Perhaps while drunk?
Did it grow? Or did it remain Matchbox-size?
Sounds like the mouse problem UK had back in the '70s.
Just ask Denis Voronenkov.
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Maybe it's the "No Twitter" pay service?
You pay... and Twitter disappears from your world.
It would probably require cranial surgery in order to get the necessary hardware in... but it might be worth it.
Then again, one could get lobotomy for free... and it's equally tempting as getting a Twitter account.
Only instead of starring Eric Stoltz, this one was filmed with Michael J. Fox in the lead role.
Bottle. Lightning. All 1.21 gigawatts of it.
Read something, you putz.
First of all, trying to untie Koran from the Bible doesn't really work cause it contains the same damn stories and same damn people.
Only real difference being that Jesus is not the son of god but just another prophet.
So that "Islam by one hand" is a crock of shit regardless if that one hand is Allah's or Uthman's as you put it.
Second, saying shit like that "Islam is the work of one man. (Not counting nameless scribes, no one ever credits them.)" is basically proof that you don't know jack shit about Islam.
Or you would have known of hadith.
Which is basically an attempt to expand the Koran after the death of its writer - by compiling quotes attributed to him by various sources.
All of which are specifically and strictly credited because... well... some might choose not to believe some sources.
There are many flavors of Islam. Just like with Judaism or Christianity
Painting it with a generalization-brush of "one Islam by one hand", particularly in today's climate of CLEAR AND OBVIOUS EXAMPLES of Shia-Sunni divisions is beyond ignorant or retarded.
Third turd... Just like the Bible which was not written in modern languages it suffers from transcription and translation errors.
Which compound when most of the text is metaphoric in nature - as is the case with all religious texts.
Saying it is consistent requires more than just belief - it requires blind faith.
Fourth... The Bible is plentiful with DIRECT commands to murder anyone from witches and gays to infidels.
And both Koran and Bible, old testament and new give even more reasons for hate and murder of everyone.
Fifth... Islam is as "compatible with the civilized world" as any ancient religion, cooked up by schizophrenic hermits in a cave, desert or jungle somewhere, edited by lunatics, crooks and child molesters and left "unchanged" for thousands of years.
You know... like all those flavors of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism...
Not that newer religions cooked up by loons and crooks are any better!
Mormonism, Scientology and Moonism are the same kind of shit.
Just with fewer genocides to their name.
So far.
Yep, all those Buddhist suicide bombers trying to kill all Jews are a threat to us all.
Who's the "dim twit"?
Those were called "kamikaze" you twit.
That's because whether you're a Turk in the Netherlands or a white American in Mexico or Asia, you are nothing more than a guest.
Therefore, you have no right to participate in the workings of your host and your political activity with regard to your former homeland is tolerable only to the extent it creates no disturbances for your host.
By that logic, they should also pay no taxes.
What? You never heard of "No taxation without representation"?
And why would you tax your guests? Just what kind of a host are you? What's next? Paying for food and lodging?
Oh wait... did you perhaps mean "slaves" but mistyped it as "guests"?
Cause that's what you're describing. Foreign citizens with no rights. I.e. Slaves.
http://www.geertwilders.nl/ind...
This is what the PVV will do:
1. De-islamize the Netherlands
- Zero asylum seekers and no immigrants anymore from Islamic countries: close the borders
- Withdraw all asylum residence permits which have already been granted for specific periods, close the asylum centers
- No Islamic headscarves in public functions
- Prohibition of other Islamic expressions which violate public order
- Preventive detention of radical Muslims
- Denaturalization and expulsion of criminals with a dual nationality
- Jihadists who went to Syria will not be allow to return to the Netherlands
- Close all mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran
2. The Netherlands independent again. Leave the EU
3. Direct democracy: a binding referendum, power to the citizens
4. Completely abolish health care deductibles
5. Lower housing fees
6. Retirement age at 65, indexation of supplementary pensions
7. No public money for development aid, windmills, art, innovation, broadcasting, etc.
8. Rollback cuts in home care and elderly care, more hands on the bed
9. A lot of extra money for defense and police
10. Lower income taxes
11. Halving of car taxes
Banning books, closing churches, abolishing healthcare, canceling representative democracy while amassing more power, militarization + police state, no more public money for freeloaders like artists, engineers, media and "etc." - but hey... free money and cheap cars!
And according to his back of the envelope calculation - it will cost nothing.
He actually tries to balance the budget by guesstimating costs for things like "De-islamize the Netherlands" - which according to him will create 7.2 billion Euros.
Cause " Islamic headscarves in public functions" cost money. You wouldn't think it does... but you aren't thinking it through.
Cause when you let the women start wearing scarves, they're gonna keep buying scarves until their closets are bursting with scarves - and then they'll just buy more closets.
Those things are made out of silk too, you know? That shit ain't cheap.
We just get everyone in the world to shift their work hours one hour earlier. Call it "Early Bird Time".
Fuck it... What's the problem?
With daylight starting at around 4 A.M. and twilight breaking around 3 A.M. from May to August, for everyone living below the 51st parallel, everyone might as well be up, right?
It's not like anyone will miss that extra hour of darkness in the morning throughout those hot summer nights when you're lucky if you manage to fall asleep by 2 A.M.
Just like no one will miss waking up and going to work/school while there's light outside in the sky for the other half of the year.
But let's talk more about how turning the clocks back-forward twice per year hurts people.
There's always a corner where the wall meets the ceiling (or floor). Unless it's a sphere. Or an igloo.
In which case you punish your kids by showing them photos of people living in warmer climates.
Or if you're a real asshole, photos of people sunbathing on a beach somewhere.
This is neat, because you no longer need to setup a cheap double-wide for living while you build your own home by hand.
If your willing to deal with a flimsy plastic roof while your doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles.
Make it a bit more modular in design (say a wall which can be knocked out later without messing up the structural integrity of the whole building) and turn it into a garage later.
Then again... what you are describing as "doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles" is how homes are often built in the poorer parts of the world.
Only, instead of building a small home to live in while building a bigger and better one next to it - it's usually just dropping a square structure on as many square meters of land affordable to you at the time.
Then, get living inside that ground floor tiny house with no insulation and complete disregard for architectural or esthetic norms.
If you end up needing more space, such as when your kids grow enough to need their own rooms, you build upward. Add another floor. And another.
It's OK. Foundations will hold. And you can always use lighter materials for upper floors.
Plus you get the heat insulation as a bonus, and it is usually cheaper than using bricks.
What's the worst that could happen? What do you mean "land slides"?
Most "hassle" people avoid revolves around (cutting) costs and (not) following rules. Be it building codes, laws or common sense and logic.
And it might all be just fine for years... until some long ignored issue raises its ugly head - and the roof over yours ends up collapsing. Regardless of its esthetic qualities.
If you cared about data, you would know that seats != control.
If you cared about data AND if you weren't just guided by your irrational fears and hate - you'd know that two and two make four.
Thus... more seats == more control of legislative chambers.
But fuck kindergarten arithmetic!
Just looking at the graph shows that Republicans have been holding what they took under Obama.
But you'd have to use witchcraft to find that out. Like clicking on a link and reading what's there. Which is clearly witchcraft!
Creating text and images from thin air! BURN IT! BURN IT!
Granted... being not insane (paranoid and delusional) IS also necessary in order to actually understand what the squiggly line on the graph means.
I like the bit where you go "I don't know if what I'm saying is true, but it is true cause it is supported by my hate."
Cause that is where you both fuck up ANY credibility your data might have (cause you don't give a fuck about data) - AND you cement your judgment in hate and prejudice.
Guess what?
Republicans held those positions since Obama's second term, enlarging them from the lead they had since his first term.
If you think it's the "witch" - how come Republicans GAINED AND KEPT GAINING seats under Obama, starting from the last population census?
Two words.
Jerry and mandarin.
Oh and BTW, Democrats actually ended up with a net gain chamber-wise while most governor positions weren't even up for election.
But you just go on believing in witches bro. And enjoying yourself. After all, Trump won.
Why are you still so hung up on the other side losing? Get over it already.
Sing Hallelujah, come on, get happy... and all that jazz.
Don't be such a sore winner.
More like from the 1950s...
Except that whole "Operation Wetback" thing.
It didn't work then, apart from causing all the civil rights issues that it did, and it would work even less now.