There IS a biological root for FAITH. Or as call it when not talking about magical creatures and forces - instinct. When we "feel" something is a certain way but can't quite put our finger onto why we think it is so. When we have faith that something is a certain way.
Some stimuli has triggered something somewhere in our evolutionary and personal memories and our brain is telling us that... just not in precise terms. Will the rope hold? It feels like it might. Will it rain? It feels like it might. Will this hurt? It feels like it should. There is another word we use much more often for that describes that feeling of certainty about unknown. Maybe.
That's what "faith" is. Taking an "I don't know" and making it into a "Maybe."
Religion is taking those feelings that come with built-in uncertainties and putting them into rigid frames of dogma in order to "explain" and control them. It's telling, and often forcing, people to not only think - but to feel a certain way. Or else... And that's abuse.
Most people don't have a psychological or any other kind of propensity towards being abused. Those who do... we consider them mentally ill.
There is a long list of cognitive biases to which ALL humans with biological brains and nervous systems are susceptible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Many of them come down to nonsense and noise appearing to make sense. Because that is the primary function of our brains - making sense and information out of completely random stimuli generated by the world around us.
It's not a game. It's a necessity for a crushable biological entity to quickly make sense of those vibrations it's sensors are picking up. Is it thunder, wind or is something heavy coming down on it from above? Quick! Milliseconds mean life or... too late. We get pareidolia cause those who didn't recognize that bear-shaped object in the distance didn't make it through the evolutionary process. Not cause we adapted to think that teddy bears are cute or so that we could interpret smileys and emoji.
And when we can't make sense of some stimuli - we start getting anxious and afraid. And that makes us stupid. And then we get hurt and then we die. Which is why we'll jump on any quick and easy explanation like "ghosts" or "aliens" or conspiracy theories. Cause they can provide easy and simple solutions to ANY unsolvable problem. And they provide it quickly.
Why am I poor? Because secret world government keeps me that way. Why am I ugly? Because aliens made me so. Why did I get an incurable disease when I'm really a nice person? Because chemtrails. Why will I and everyone else I love eventually have to die? So we can live forever in a much better place. Why did my tire blow out? Bad luck. Or gremlins.
Actually, it would be FAR easier to run a propaganda campaign while drowning the opposing side's comments in silence, today. Internet is FAR more fragile than radio and far easier to control or simply to cut off. Meanwhile, people age at the same rate and bullets only got better and airstrikes got cheaper.
Only thing that is lacking is an actual willingness to go full hog with the extermination of the opposition. Spain was a fascist dictatorship back then. And nobody wants to go full jackboots goose-stepping mustache twirling evil any more. Even terrorists are selling the story that they are actually fighting on the side of the angels. Everyone wants to be the liberator, the freedom fighter, the righteous crusader... or at least a grieving victim, wronged and abused.
And silencing the other side's propaganda is sure a good place to start if you want to make your version of the story the official truth.
It seems legit, it seems like there are huge returns, it seems relevant... But without actual sales numbers we don't know if an item with a 50% return rate is one out of two sold, or five out of ten or fifty out of a hundred...
As for WD Black drives... They are slightly pricier - and they come with a 5-year warranty. Most other WD drives come with a 2- or 3-year warranty. Which gives those WD Black drives more time to start "acting suspiciously".
So the customer is incentivised to send it back and most likely get a new one if in ANY doubt - as it is marketed as a "special guaranty" high end product. If it is broken you get a new one - if it is not, you just got a free check-up by manufacturer. It's a win-win to take it back to the store.
It's a case of a quality product's good warranty working as it should - keeping the customer satisfied and returning instead of going somewhere else.
Cause I linked (and quoted) a video of him hearing, thinking over and replying to an explicit "MUSLIM-tracking question". He replied with a YES. Adding that there should be "a lot" of tracking systems, beyond databases.
Which makes your either-or question a deliberate lie. Not just a terribly embarrassingly set up false dichotomy. I'm getting fremdschamen just thinking of it.
So it's not a question did I hear the actual exchange. The question is are you just a troll, an idiot, delusional or some combination thereof. Now, to that the answer would be irrelevant. To me. But you should check that and hope that you're just a dickhead troll. Mental illness is not something to be taken lightly.
I gave you a link to a video where he is explicitly asked should there be a MUSLIM tracking database. Not refugee, not immigrant, not Bosnian, Syrian, French, Belgian or Vulcan. He was explicitly asked should there be a religion-based tracking system. To which he replied yes, expanding it to "a lot of systems".
The "out of context" situation you are imagining never happened. Explicit question - followed by a mindbogglingly retarded answer.
Now... you can prattle on about him talking about something else, or being confused, or senile, or drunk... which caused him to hear "MUSLIM-tracking" and translate that to "whatever it is that YOU think is less volatile". The fact is that this is just another case of him showing that he is thinking in "ferner" generalizing metaphors - mostly about brown people. You know... like those Mexican drug-dealers, criminals and rapists.
He is explicitly asked should there be a Muslim-tracking database system to which he replies the whole nonsense about "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases" and "signing up at different places" when asked about signing people up at mosques.
Nobody is putting words in his mouth. He IS an idiot that does not think or listen to other people and talks in thought-terminating cliches but he clearly understood those questions and replied to them in his poorly thought through manner.
That must be a very tiny room.. No way any full grown human can fit in there. Now... mice-archeologist might be able to fit in there, but there are other obvious issues with that solution as well.
According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates and students who identified as queer or transgender said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services.
TFS:
According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services.
Don't know where you got that highly specific flavor of transsexual, but it is not in the article, summary OR the study. Study specifically bundles all transsexuals into a single category in order to have anything that looks like a percentage.
Using responses to this question, students were classified into one of four groups: (1) female, (2) male, (3) transgender, genderqueer or nonconforming, questioning or not listed (TGQN), and (4) decline to state. Groups were collapsed into TGQN to maintain adequate sample size for generating estimates.
And when those, "when we sum up everything and anything and just call all of it rape" percentages, get converted to real cases they come out to about 20705.93 female, 3484.93 male and 388.64 TGQN cases of unwanted sexual... something. So... Even with their VERY weird and inflated numbers - trans-numbers are SO LOW that the other category's errors are eating them up. It is really NOT about "transexual / queer gendered females". Sorry.
But since "transsexual" is a better click-bait than nine times that many males reporting the exact same thing... Fuck the males. Must be some kinda pansy faggots if they're being afraid of sex or if they are getting raped. Fuckin commie pinko pansies. Fuck em. They don't deserve to be in the article. What do you mean "lower report rate"? There should be NO report rate at all if they want to call themselves men. Do you think John Wayne would report "unwanted sexual activity"? FUCK NO! He was so manly his girly name became a boy name all on it's own! Scratch that! Not a boy name! A MAN NAME! JOOOOOHHHHHHNNNNNN!!!
Wait... what was I talking about... ah yes... shitty study and survey. BTW... Asking someone repeatedly (though they've said no) to go out, have dinner or drinks - is the same as asking them repeatedly for sex.
D5. Since you have been a student at [University], has a student, or someone employed by or otherwise associated with [University]continued to ask you to go out, get dinner, have drinks or have sex even though you said, "No"? Yes Never experienced
Which is all the same as telling crude jokes. And here I thought my ex-boss was only fucking with our minds and our wallets.
The numbers won't add up if there are individuals who were victim of more than one subcategory.
They have additional "both X and Y" categories. Numbers still don't match. You simply can't get those sums from those numbers.
As for oral sex... A gives oral to B, though A doesn't really like doing that, but still does it cause A thinks that will keep their relationship stronger or cause A expects some quid pro quo later, or is returning a favor for an earlier case of sexual pleasuring by B. By said definition of penetration, A would answer "Yes" to unwanted penetration.
And should A be in a 69 with B on top - A would also say "Yes" to being penetrated while being "physically forced".
Overall, 11.7 percent of students across the 27 universities reported experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation since enrolling at the IHE.
Which is about HALF of the fabled 25%.
The magic 25% (i.e. the long parroted and continuously debunked legend of 1 in 4 women being raped) was reached through following fiddling of numbers. Again, from TFS:
To assess the overall risk of nonconsensual sexual contact, prevalence measures were estimated that combine the two behaviors that constitute sexual contact (penetration and sexual touching) and the four tactics discussed above (physical or threat of physical force; incapacitation; coercion; AAC [Absence of Affirmative Consent]).
Absence of Affirmative Consent being a catch-all category for any kind of "explicit" and "active, ongoing voluntary agreement" of "both partners".
The question that makes 11.7% into "1 in 4 women" being:
Since you have been a student at [University], has someone had contact with you involving penetration or oral sex without your active, ongoing voluntary agreement? Examples include someone: - initiating sexual activity despite your refusal - ignoring your cues to stop or slow down - went ahead without checking in or while you were still deciding - otherwise failed to obtain your consent
When that question, which no longer talks about rape but about failure to read minds and thus tell if someone is still deciding and a failure to "otherwise obtain consent" (possibly in written form) we get the magical 1 in 4 numbers. Which would dictate that every family that has at least one female child, also has at least one rape victim (two grandmas + mom + daughter = 1 of them must be have been raped).
But even then more fiddling with numbers is needed to reach the magic 1 in 4 value. Such as limiting the survey response to seniors only.
According to the AAU survey, 16.5 percent of seniors experienced sexual contact involving penetration or sexual touching as a result of physical force or incapacitation. Senior females (26.1%) and those identifying as TGQN (29.5%) are, by far, the most likely to experience this type of victimization.
And if it needs to be more obvious that they get those numbers by padding the set and expanding the time frame...
Students who are relatively new to school may experience higher risk because they are not as familiar with situations that may lead to an incident of sexual assault or misconduct. Examination of the rates for the current academic year show this pattern holds for undergraduate females. Among freshmen, 16.9 percent of females reported sexual contact by physical force or incapacitation. This percentage steadily declines by year in school to a low of 11.1 percent for seniors.
And then there are other issues... Like defining "penetration" as "when someone's mouth or tongue makes contact with someone else's genitals", without defining whose mouth and whose genitals are in question. The way question is defined, both giving and receiving oral sex constitutes penetration. On whom? Well... On both giver and receiver of oral sex, according to such a loose definition.
Or "physical force" being defined as "holding you down with his or her body weight, pinning your arms, hitting or kicking you, or using or threatening to use a weapon against you". Which equates physical violence and a gun to your head with "being on the bottom".
Or how numbers reported don't really match up. Like penetration numbers for fem
That doesn't mean that the majority of the refugees are terrorists, nor even a sizable minority, but the argument does seem to have some merit.
...to tell that someone is a prejudiced racist cunt?
If they tell you a thing like "You are an idiot if you don't imagine some terrorists are coming in with the hundreds of thousands" as if it is a rock solid argument - BEFORE any identification has taken place. I.e. Prejudice [prej-uh-dis] noun 1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. 2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable. 3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.
Oh and BTW, no. One of the attackers, at this time, has NOT yet been identified as a Syrian refugee. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22a0...
Ahmad al Mohammad, 25
A Syrian passport in that name was found near the body of one of the men who detonated a suicide vest at the stadium. Fingerprints from the body matched those of a man who entered Greece via the island of Leros as an asylum seeker in early October. He is said to have travelled through Turkey, Serbia and Croatia on his way to Paris.
FranÃois Molins, Paris public prosecutor, said the authenticity of the passport "had yet to be verified". Unconfirmed reports from AFP suggest that the passport may have belonged to a Syrian soldier of President Bashar al-Assad regime who was killed several months ago.
At the same time, the same passport is found at another location hundreds of kilometers away from Paris. http://www.theguardian.com/wor... With another guy's face in it. On another guy.
So... Why not another guy's hand at the scene too? I mean... if we're gonna make wild unconfirmed guesses about smuggling guns (which are much easier to just buy locally), finding a refugee with a passport, already in France, and cutting off his hand there in France... Seems a lot easier than marching across a dozen borders just to be the only non-local to blow himself up in Paris. As far as wild unconfirmed guesses go... it seems a lot simpler.
But not in the mind of our resident prejudiced racist cunt, SuperKendall. Or his pal, gay358. Nah... see... they imagine brown people smuggling guns and bombs across borders - cause that is what they LIKE to imagine. That is the way they are set in their minds, and that is the way they see the world. As racist, chauvinist, prejudiced cunts they are.
ISIS has said they have several hundred operatives coming in with refugees. What reason have we to doubt that, especially now?
Yeah... what reason do we have to doubt people who kill people solely for propaganda? Sure they wouldn't stoop down to !GASP!... lying? Whoever heard of lying for propaganda, right?
And your vision of how those people are making it across ALL THOSE borders is ignorant and retarded. Nobody is bypassing anything. They are being herded like cattle, collected, counted, tagged, detained locally if needed (i.e. if they as for asylum right there), tear-gassed and batoned... but also given shelter, food, medical supplies, admitted into camps and even pushed around in wheelchairs if they can't walk.
As for guns... Why would anyone haul any over two continents - when they can just go to Belgium and buy whatever they want? Just like what happened the last time there was a terrorist attack in France. And that time before that.
But nice to see you declaring yourself as a racist and chauvinist cunt. Particularly considering that you have no clue about any of the perpetrators of the terrorist act above (as there aren't any yet and you are no psychic) AND the fact that so far, every time, terrorists were either locals OR perfectly legal immigrants. Also, considering that terrorist attacks were taking place LONG before the refugees started poring in.
So you basically just imagined yourself "hordes" of brown infidels coming for your... whatever... Must be great for you to be a cunt like that. Don't even have to buy yourself dinner or anything. You can just go fuck yourself any time you want!
34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.
37 Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:34
36 He said to them, But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:24-32
8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsâ"they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Basically... it's the very god those terrorists are bowing down to. One that solves problems by killing, particularly regarding gays and "infidels".
...are the cause of terrorism? Got it! Thanks for all that insight. Into schizophrenia.
Next thing you'll say it's all those people who were shot that are to blame. After all, if they weren't in a public place, nobody could have shot them in a public place.
(1) Narrow-band signals, of order 1 Hz in width, such as would be generated as a "hailing signal" for societies wishing to announce their presence. This is the type of signal most frequently looked for by radio SETI experiments. (2) Broad-band signals that might be due to beamed propulsion within this star system.
If astroengineering projects are really underway in the vicinity of KIC 8462852, one might reasonably expect the presence of spacecraft to service this activity. If these craft are propelled by intense microwave beams, some of that energy might manifest itself as broad-band radio leakage.
They are looking for possible "engine noise" too. So far... well... nothing.
From the data (n = 450,394), the reported mean AQ score was 19.83 (SD = 8.71), and tests of normality (Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling) revealed this data had a positive skew of 0.47 and a kurtosis of -0.27.
Further... STEM or no-STEM means about... the diddly part of the diddly squat.
When sex, age, and occupation are entered into a multiple linear regression model, less than 4% of the variance in AQ in the current sample is explained, indicating that other unmeasured variables contribute to autistic traits as measured by the AQ.
I.e. IF we are to take this study at face value - there is no significant difference between sex, age or occupation.
On the other hand... It was an anonymous online-survey. Of people who have just seen a documentary on autism. Who were then invited to take the BIGGEST TEST EVER.
In the episode, the TV presenters (both medical doctors) introduced the topic of autism by giving population prevalence estimates, and explained that many individuals in the general population have autistic traits. They invited viewers by saying, "Why not go onto our website and take the My MindChecker test to measure the extent of any autistic traits you might have, and whilst your results are confidential, the overall data will form the biggest national survey of its kind." The program continued by explaining the symptoms of autism: difficulty with social interaction, trouble understanding aspects of humour such as sarcasm, feelings of anxiety associated with sensory stimulation, and intense special interests and hobbies. The presenters concluded, "If you are experiencing similar symptoms [...] and want to find out if you have a condition that affects how you interact with the world and other people, then take part now in our self test." The link to the data collection site was displayed at the outset of the autism segment and at intervals throughout the episode. The presenters announced approximately 30 minutes after the initial mention of the website that 40,000 individuals had already completed the survey.
BTW, do you suffer headaches? Are you frequently tired? Do you forget things? You might be having A DISEASE - take our test to find out. COME ON! Everyone else is doing it!
Oh... and then there's the test. Which, at it's higher specificity and reliability level, WHEN ADMINISTERED on people already referred to an autism clinic (i.e. someone with a degree in mental health sent them to be checked for autism) - guessed right in 3 out of 4 cases. And it doesn't work for lower IQ individuals. Online test had no such limitation. All you had to do is click links.
at a cut-off score of 26, 83% of people referred to an adult autism clinic were correctly identified (sensitivity 0.95, specificity 0.52, positive predictive value 0.84, negative predictive value 0.78), while a cut-off score of 32 was found to correctly identify 76% of people (sensitivity 0.77, specificity 0.74) [3]. The AQ was designed for adults with average IQ or above [1], so is suitable for use in the general population and for at least 50% of people on the autism spectrum [24]. The questionnaire is not suitable for individuals with low IQ or language impairment, as it relies on the comprehension of the 50 questions.
Make false convictions essentially a career ender for everyone in the chain and watch how quick things shape up.
False positives replaced by wall to wall false negatives out of fear of MAYBE convicting a wrong person, so better safe than sorry... so everyone walks. Now watch how quick THAT shapes up into an "unexplainable crime wave" AND a Wild West situation where everyone caters to their own "justice" WHILE cops start shooting people "just in case" cause it was "the only way to be sure".
Hey... everyone's gonna walk anyway cause everyone in the chain is now afraid that SOMEONE in the chain already made that career ending mistake, causing everyone to end up in jail. Unless...
You're basically suggesting that an administrative error like a typo that turns Tuttle into Buttle should get a person into more trouble than killing both Buttle and Tuttle. After all, it MAY NOT have been your bullets from your gun fired by you that ended up in their brains. Maybe someone else made an error while collecting or filing evidence and because they can't find their ass with a map and candle, now EVERYONE in the chain will be hung out to dry? Safer for everyone to just mark all evidence as "no match". And let's scrub the database, just in case. Phew! That was a close one. What's next? Jill Layton getting shot, AGAIN?! See? This is the kind of thing that will end us all one day. Some idiot double-filing something. Better get down to filing and clean up there too. Or just burn the whole building and blame it all on terrorists... there being no terrorists, the person to blame won't really exist... and everyone will literally be chasing no one. Holy shit, that's brilliant!
There are reasons why the chain is used as a metaphor for command and management structures where a pyramid or a path or a tree would and could work as well - at a first glance. One of them is that a link in a chain can be singled out, reforged, removed or replaced (maybe with more links this time) without throwing the entire chain to scrap iron and replacing it with a new one on account of a single weak link. Can't slice off a middle part of the pyramid and add two more levels or reassemble the complete pyramid out of remaining parts. Can't just make a new path if the faulty link is a broken bridge or a tunnel. Can't cut off a branch, fix it, and put it back on the tree, or just make the tree grow another one, just like the old one.
And then there's that whole thing where no person should be liable for something someone else did and there being more outcomes to making an error than just "suffer forever" and "go free".
On a side note - this could make every person into a Daredevil, with gloves for reading print in the dark. While coupled with air-moisture sensors this could mean that in the future no one would be caught in the rain again, with streets suddenly emptying of people just before it starts.
On the other hand people would be able to tell how long ago their chair or seat was occupied by someone else's ass and maybe even how big that ass was according to the heat still trapped in the chair. Wonder how that would affect public transportation, cafes, restaurants, theaters...
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There IS a biological root for FAITH.
Or as call it when not talking about magical creatures and forces - instinct.
When we "feel" something is a certain way but can't quite put our finger onto why we think it is so.
When we have faith that something is a certain way.
Some stimuli has triggered something somewhere in our evolutionary and personal memories and our brain is telling us that... just not in precise terms.
Will the rope hold? It feels like it might. Will it rain? It feels like it might. Will this hurt? It feels like it should.
There is another word we use much more often for that describes that feeling of certainty about unknown. Maybe.
That's what "faith" is. Taking an "I don't know" and making it into a "Maybe."
Religion is taking those feelings that come with built-in uncertainties and putting them into rigid frames of dogma in order to "explain" and control them.
It's telling, and often forcing, people to not only think - but to feel a certain way. Or else...
And that's abuse.
Most people don't have a psychological or any other kind of propensity towards being abused.
Those who do... we consider them mentally ill.
There is a long list of cognitive biases to which ALL humans with biological brains and nervous systems are susceptible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Many of them come down to nonsense and noise appearing to make sense.
Because that is the primary function of our brains - making sense and information out of completely random stimuli generated by the world around us.
It's not a game.
It's a necessity for a crushable biological entity to quickly make sense of those vibrations it's sensors are picking up.
Is it thunder, wind or is something heavy coming down on it from above?
Quick! Milliseconds mean life or... too late.
We get pareidolia cause those who didn't recognize that bear-shaped object in the distance didn't make it through the evolutionary process.
Not cause we adapted to think that teddy bears are cute or so that we could interpret smileys and emoji.
And when we can't make sense of some stimuli - we start getting anxious and afraid. And that makes us stupid. And then we get hurt and then we die.
Which is why we'll jump on any quick and easy explanation like "ghosts" or "aliens" or conspiracy theories.
Cause they can provide easy and simple solutions to ANY unsolvable problem. And they provide it quickly.
Why am I poor? Because secret world government keeps me that way.
Why am I ugly? Because aliens made me so.
Why did I get an incurable disease when I'm really a nice person? Because chemtrails.
Why will I and everyone else I love eventually have to die? So we can live forever in a much better place.
Why did my tire blow out? Bad luck. Or gremlins.
Actually, it would be FAR easier to run a propaganda campaign while drowning the opposing side's comments in silence, today.
Internet is FAR more fragile than radio and far easier to control or simply to cut off.
Meanwhile, people age at the same rate and bullets only got better and airstrikes got cheaper.
Only thing that is lacking is an actual willingness to go full hog with the extermination of the opposition.
Spain was a fascist dictatorship back then.
And nobody wants to go full jackboots goose-stepping mustache twirling evil any more.
Even terrorists are selling the story that they are actually fighting on the side of the angels.
Everyone wants to be the liberator, the freedom fighter, the righteous crusader... or at least a grieving victim, wronged and abused.
And silencing the other side's propaganda is sure a good place to start if you want to make your version of the story the official truth.
Would such a block, even assuming it would hold and be effective for Youtube and Facebook, even help?
Ask the Spanish Maquis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Who decides where the line is?
Youtube/Google management?
From what I gather that's why Israeli Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister is meeting them and not the management of McDonald's or Obama.
It seems legit, it seems like there are huge returns, it seems relevant...
But without actual sales numbers we don't know if an item with a 50% return rate is one out of two sold, or five out of ten or fifty out of a hundred...
As for WD Black drives...
They are slightly pricier - and they come with a 5-year warranty. Most other WD drives come with a 2- or 3-year warranty.
Which gives those WD Black drives more time to start "acting suspiciously".
So the customer is incentivised to send it back and most likely get a new one if in ANY doubt - as it is marketed as a "special guaranty" high end product.
If it is broken you get a new one - if it is not, you just got a free check-up by manufacturer.
It's a win-win to take it back to the store.
It's a case of a quality product's good warranty working as it should - keeping the customer satisfied and returning instead of going somewhere else.
Had you said a glorified brick salesman it would have made more sense while being less of an exaggeration.
As for obfuscation, he must have went to the Giorgio A. Tsoukalos school of obfuscation and denial.
Cause I linked (and quoted) a video of him hearing, thinking over and replying to an explicit "MUSLIM-tracking question".
He replied with a YES. Adding that there should be "a lot" of tracking systems, beyond databases.
Which makes your either-or question a deliberate lie. Not just a terribly embarrassingly set up false dichotomy.
I'm getting fremdschamen just thinking of it.
So it's not a question did I hear the actual exchange. The question is are you just a troll, an idiot, delusional or some combination thereof.
Now, to that the answer would be irrelevant. To me.
But you should check that and hope that you're just a dickhead troll. Mental illness is not something to be taken lightly.
I gave you a link to a video where he is explicitly asked should there be a MUSLIM tracking database.
Not refugee, not immigrant, not Bosnian, Syrian, French, Belgian or Vulcan.
He was explicitly asked should there be a religion-based tracking system.
To which he replied yes, expanding it to "a lot of systems".
The "out of context" situation you are imagining never happened. Explicit question - followed by a mindbogglingly retarded answer.
Now... you can prattle on about him talking about something else, or being confused, or senile, or drunk... which caused him to hear "MUSLIM-tracking" and translate that to "whatever it is that YOU think is less volatile".
The fact is that this is just another case of him showing that he is thinking in "ferner" generalizing metaphors - mostly about brown people.
You know... like those Mexican drug-dealers, criminals and rapists.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...
He is explicitly asked should there be a Muslim-tracking database system to which he replies the whole nonsense about "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases" and "signing up at different places" when asked about signing people up at mosques.
Nobody is putting words in his mouth.
He IS an idiot that does not think or listen to other people and talks in thought-terminating cliches but he clearly understood those questions and replied to them in his poorly thought through manner.
That must be a very tiny room..
No way any full grown human can fit in there.
Now... mice-archeologist might be able to fit in there, but there are other obvious issues with that solution as well.
TFA:
According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates and students who identified as queer or transgender said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services.
TFS:
According to a recent study of 27 schools, about one-quarter of female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college, but most of the students said they did not report it to school officials or support services.
Don't know where you got that highly specific flavor of transsexual, but it is not in the article, summary OR the study.
Study specifically bundles all transsexuals into a single category in order to have anything that looks like a percentage.
Using responses to this question, students were classified into one of four groups: (1) female, (2) male, (3) transgender, genderqueer or nonconforming, questioning or not listed (TGQN), and (4) decline to state.
Groups were collapsed into TGQN to maintain adequate sample size for generating estimates.
And when those, "when we sum up everything and anything and just call all of it rape" percentages, get converted to real cases they come out to about 20705.93 female, 3484.93 male and 388.64 TGQN cases of unwanted sexual... something.
So... Even with their VERY weird and inflated numbers - trans-numbers are SO LOW that the other category's errors are eating them up.
It is really NOT about "transexual / queer gendered females". Sorry.
But since "transsexual" is a better click-bait than nine times that many males reporting the exact same thing...
Fuck the males. Must be some kinda pansy faggots if they're being afraid of sex or if they are getting raped. Fuckin commie pinko pansies.
Fuck em. They don't deserve to be in the article. What do you mean "lower report rate"?
There should be NO report rate at all if they want to call themselves men.
Do you think John Wayne would report "unwanted sexual activity"? FUCK NO!
He was so manly his girly name became a boy name all on it's own! Scratch that! Not a boy name! A MAN NAME!
JOOOOOHHHHHHNNNNNN!!!
Wait... what was I talking about... ah yes... shitty study and survey.
BTW...
Asking someone repeatedly (though they've said no) to go out, have dinner or drinks - is the same as asking them repeatedly for sex.
D5. Since you have been a student at [University], has a student, or someone employed by or otherwise associated with [University]continued to ask you to go out, get dinner, have drinks or have sex even though you said, "No"?
Yes
Never experienced
Which is all the same as telling crude jokes.
And here I thought my ex-boss was only fucking with our minds and our wallets.
The numbers won't add up if there are individuals who were victim of more than one subcategory.
They have additional "both X and Y" categories. Numbers still don't match.
You simply can't get those sums from those numbers.
As for oral sex...
A gives oral to B, though A doesn't really like doing that, but still does it cause A thinks that will keep their relationship stronger or cause A expects some quid pro quo later, or is returning a favor for an earlier case of sexual pleasuring by B.
By said definition of penetration, A would answer "Yes" to unwanted penetration.
And should A be in a 69 with B on top - A would also say "Yes" to being penetrated while being "physically forced".
And thus consensual sex becomes rape.
From TFS:
https://www.aau.edu/uploadedFi...
Overall, 11.7 percent of students across the 27 universities reported experiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation since enrolling at the IHE.
Which is about HALF of the fabled 25%.
The magic 25% (i.e. the long parroted and continuously debunked legend of 1 in 4 women being raped) was reached through following fiddling of numbers.
Again, from TFS:
To assess the overall risk of nonconsensual sexual contact, prevalence measures were estimated that combine the two behaviors that constitute sexual contact (penetration and sexual touching) and the four tactics discussed above (physical or threat of physical force; incapacitation; coercion; AAC [Absence of Affirmative Consent]).
Absence of Affirmative Consent being a catch-all category for any kind of "explicit" and "active, ongoing voluntary agreement" of "both partners".
The question that makes 11.7% into "1 in 4 women" being:
Since you have been a student at [University], has someone had contact with you involving penetration or oral sex without your active, ongoing voluntary agreement? Examples include someone:
- initiating sexual activity despite your refusal
- ignoring your cues to stop or slow down
- went ahead without checking in or while you were still deciding
- otherwise failed to obtain your consent
When that question, which no longer talks about rape but about failure to read minds and thus tell if someone is still deciding and a failure to "otherwise obtain consent" (possibly in written form) we get the magical 1 in 4 numbers.
Which would dictate that every family that has at least one female child, also has at least one rape victim (two grandmas + mom + daughter = 1 of them must be have been raped).
But even then more fiddling with numbers is needed to reach the magic 1 in 4 value. Such as limiting the survey response to seniors only.
According to the AAU survey, 16.5 percent of seniors experienced sexual contact involving penetration or sexual touching as a result of physical force or incapacitation. Senior females (26.1%) and those identifying as TGQN (29.5%) are, by far, the most likely to experience this type of victimization.
And if it needs to be more obvious that they get those numbers by padding the set and expanding the time frame...
Students who are relatively new to school may experience higher risk because they are not as familiar with situations that may lead to an incident of sexual assault or misconduct.
Examination of the rates for the current academic year show this pattern holds for undergraduate females.
Among freshmen, 16.9 percent of females reported sexual contact by physical force or incapacitation.
This percentage steadily declines by year in school to a low of 11.1 percent for seniors.
And then there are other issues...
Like defining "penetration" as "when someone's mouth or tongue makes contact with someone else's genitals", without defining whose mouth and whose genitals are in question.
The way question is defined, both giving and receiving oral sex constitutes penetration.
On whom? Well... On both giver and receiver of oral sex, according to such a loose definition.
Or "physical force" being defined as "holding you down with his or her body weight, pinning your arms, hitting or kicking you, or using or threatening to use a weapon against you".
Which equates physical violence and a gun to your head with "being on the bottom".
Or how numbers reported don't really match up.
Like penetration numbers for fem
That doesn't mean that the majority of the refugees are terrorists, nor even a sizable minority, but the argument does seem to have some merit.
...to tell that someone is a prejudiced racist cunt?
If they tell you a thing like "You are an idiot if you don't imagine some terrorists are coming in with the hundreds of thousands" as if it is a rock solid argument - BEFORE any identification has taken place.
I.e. Prejudice [prej-uh-dis]
noun
1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.
Oh and BTW, no. One of the attackers, at this time, has NOT yet been identified as a Syrian refugee.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22a0...
Ahmad al Mohammad, 25
A Syrian passport in that name was found near the body of one of the men who detonated a suicide vest at the stadium.
Fingerprints from the body matched those of a man who entered Greece via the island of Leros as an asylum seeker in early October.
He is said to have travelled through Turkey, Serbia and Croatia on his way to Paris.
FranÃois Molins, Paris public prosecutor, said the authenticity of the passport "had yet to be verified".
Unconfirmed reports from AFP suggest that the passport may have belonged to a Syrian soldier of President Bashar al-Assad regime who was killed several months ago.
At the same time, the same passport is found at another location hundreds of kilometers away from Paris.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
With another guy's face in it. On another guy.
So... Why not another guy's hand at the scene too?
I mean... if we're gonna make wild unconfirmed guesses about smuggling guns (which are much easier to just buy locally), finding a refugee with a passport, already in France, and cutting off his hand there in France...
Seems a lot easier than marching across a dozen borders just to be the only non-local to blow himself up in Paris.
As far as wild unconfirmed guesses go... it seems a lot simpler.
But not in the mind of our resident prejudiced racist cunt, SuperKendall. Or his pal, gay358.
Nah... see... they imagine brown people smuggling guns and bombs across borders - cause that is what they LIKE to imagine.
That is the way they are set in their minds, and that is the way they see the world.
As racist, chauvinist, prejudiced cunts they are.
ISIS has said they have several hundred operatives coming in with refugees. What reason have we to doubt that, especially now?
Yeah... what reason do we have to doubt people who kill people solely for propaganda?
Sure they wouldn't stoop down to !GASP!... lying?
Whoever heard of lying for propaganda, right?
And your vision of how those people are making it across ALL THOSE borders is ignorant and retarded.
Nobody is bypassing anything.
They are being herded like cattle, collected, counted, tagged, detained locally if needed (i.e. if they as for asylum right there), tear-gassed and batoned... but also given shelter, food, medical supplies, admitted into camps and even pushed around in wheelchairs if they can't walk.
As for guns... Why would anyone haul any over two continents - when they can just go to Belgium and buy whatever they want?
Just like what happened the last time there was a terrorist attack in France. And that time before that.
But nice to see you declaring yourself as a racist and chauvinist cunt.
Particularly considering that you have no clue about any of the perpetrators of the terrorist act above (as there aren't any yet and you are no psychic) AND the fact that so far, every time, terrorists were either locals OR perfectly legal immigrants.
Also, considering that terrorist attacks were taking place LONG before the refugees started poring in.
So you basically just imagined yourself "hordes" of brown infidels coming for your... whatever...
Must be great for you to be a cunt like that. Don't even have to buy yourself dinner or anything. You can just go fuck yourself any time you want!
34 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.
37 Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:34
36 He said to them, But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:24-32
8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsâ"they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Basically... it's the very god those terrorists are bowing down to.
One that solves problems by killing, particularly regarding gays and "infidels".
Religion of love. Sure, sure...
...are the cause of terrorism?
Got it! Thanks for all that insight. Into schizophrenia.
Next thing you'll say it's all those people who were shot that are to blame.
After all, if they weren't in a public place, nobody could have shot them in a public place.
Two different types of radio signals were sought:
(1) Narrow-band signals, of order 1 Hz in width, such as would be generated as a "hailing signal" for societies wishing to announce their presence.
This is the type of signal most frequently looked for by radio SETI experiments.
(2) Broad-band signals that might be due to beamed propulsion within this star system.
If astroengineering projects are really underway in the vicinity of KIC 8462852, one might reasonably expect the presence of spacecraft to service this activity.
If these craft are propelled by intense microwave beams, some of that energy might manifest itself as broad-band radio leakage.
They are looking for possible "engine noise" too.
So far... well... nothing.
Thanks.
Raw AQ distribution
From the data (n = 450,394), the reported mean AQ score was 19.83 (SD = 8.71), and tests of normality (Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling) revealed this data had a positive skew of 0.47 and a kurtosis of -0.27.
http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
Further... STEM or no-STEM means about... the diddly part of the diddly squat.
When sex, age, and occupation are entered into a multiple linear regression model, less than 4% of the variance in AQ in the current sample is explained, indicating that other unmeasured variables contribute to autistic traits as measured by the AQ.
I.e. IF we are to take this study at face value - there is no significant difference between sex, age or occupation.
On the other hand...
It was an anonymous online-survey.
Of people who have just seen a documentary on autism.
Who were then invited to take the BIGGEST TEST EVER.
In the episode, the TV presenters (both medical doctors) introduced the topic of autism by giving population prevalence estimates, and explained that many individuals in the general population have autistic traits.
They invited viewers by saying, "Why not go onto our website and take the My MindChecker test to measure the extent of any autistic traits you might have, and whilst your results are confidential, the overall data will form the biggest national survey of its kind."
The program continued by explaining the symptoms of autism: difficulty with social interaction, trouble understanding aspects of humour such as sarcasm, feelings of anxiety associated with sensory stimulation, and intense special interests and hobbies.
The presenters concluded, "If you are experiencing similar symptoms [...] and want to find out if you have a condition that affects how you interact with the world and other people, then take part now in our self test."
The link to the data collection site was displayed at the outset of the autism segment and at intervals throughout the episode.
The presenters announced approximately 30 minutes after the initial mention of the website that 40,000 individuals had already completed the survey.
BTW, do you suffer headaches? Are you frequently tired? Do you forget things?
You might be having A DISEASE - take our test to find out.
COME ON! Everyone else is doing it!
Oh... and then there's the test.
Which, at it's higher specificity and reliability level, WHEN ADMINISTERED on people already referred to an autism clinic (i.e. someone with a degree in mental health sent them to be checked for autism) - guessed right in 3 out of 4 cases.
And it doesn't work for lower IQ individuals. Online test had no such limitation. All you had to do is click links.
A "drinking bird" would probably score slightly above average.
at a cut-off score of 26, 83% of people referred to an adult autism clinic were correctly identified (sensitivity 0.95, specificity 0.52, positive predictive value 0.84, negative predictive value 0.78), while a cut-off score of 32 was found to correctly identify 76% of people (sensitivity 0.77, specificity 0.74) [3].
The AQ was designed for adults with average IQ or above [1], so is suitable for use in the general population and for at least 50% of people on the autism spectrum [24].
The questionnaire is not suitable for individuals with low IQ or language impairment, as it relies on the comprehension of the 50 questions.
Can someone sum it up in a more tabloid-click-bait-like form for me?
"You won't believe how Solar system ACTUALLY formed..." or some such thing.
Make false convictions essentially a career ender for everyone in the chain and watch how quick things shape up.
False positives replaced by wall to wall false negatives out of fear of MAYBE convicting a wrong person, so better safe than sorry... so everyone walks.
Now watch how quick THAT shapes up into an "unexplainable crime wave" AND a Wild West situation where everyone caters to their own "justice" WHILE cops start shooting people "just in case" cause it was "the only way to be sure".
Hey... everyone's gonna walk anyway cause everyone in the chain is now afraid that SOMEONE in the chain already made that career ending mistake, causing everyone to end up in jail. Unless...
You're basically suggesting that an administrative error like a typo that turns Tuttle into Buttle should get a person into more trouble than killing both Buttle and Tuttle.
After all, it MAY NOT have been your bullets from your gun fired by you that ended up in their brains.
Maybe someone else made an error while collecting or filing evidence and because they can't find their ass with a map and candle, now EVERYONE in the chain will be hung out to dry?
Safer for everyone to just mark all evidence as "no match". And let's scrub the database, just in case.
Phew! That was a close one. What's next? Jill Layton getting shot, AGAIN?!
See? This is the kind of thing that will end us all one day. Some idiot double-filing something. Better get down to filing and clean up there too.
Or just burn the whole building and blame it all on terrorists... there being no terrorists, the person to blame won't really exist... and everyone will literally be chasing no one.
Holy shit, that's brilliant!
There are reasons why the chain is used as a metaphor for command and management structures where a pyramid or a path or a tree would and could work as well - at a first glance.
One of them is that a link in a chain can be singled out, reforged, removed or replaced (maybe with more links this time) without throwing the entire chain to scrap iron and replacing it with a new one on account of a single weak link.
Can't slice off a middle part of the pyramid and add two more levels or reassemble the complete pyramid out of remaining parts.
Can't just make a new path if the faulty link is a broken bridge or a tunnel.
Can't cut off a branch, fix it, and put it back on the tree, or just make the tree grow another one, just like the old one.
And then there's that whole thing where no person should be liable for something someone else did and there being more outcomes to making an error than just "suffer forever" and "go free".
...lieutenant.
They may be having an intoxicating effect on you.
For one... you seem to be able to talk about them until you're blue in the face.
Came to see if anyone remembered that. You did not disappoint.
On a side note - this could make every person into a Daredevil, with gloves for reading print in the dark.
While coupled with air-moisture sensors this could mean that in the future no one would be caught in the rain again, with streets suddenly emptying of people just before it starts.
On the other hand people would be able to tell how long ago their chair or seat was occupied by someone else's ass and maybe even how big that ass was according to the heat still trapped in the chair.
Wonder how that would affect public transportation, cafes, restaurants, theaters...