Yeah, the Christians only did that whole Inquisition thing, and the Crusades.
Okay, easy enough to counter. Let's go with the convert or die from Islam. Millions dead. Still outnumbers the total of the Inquisition. And the Crusades were a two point counter to the Muslims who'd spend ~200 years pillaging, raping and burning Spain. That wasn't actually what triggered the crusades. What triggered the crusades itself, was the muslims declaring that no christian shall have access to the holy land.
That number is terribly inflated and I could easily come up with the same or even a larger number for crimes committed by Christians. Really, use your brain
Incorrect, they're all sourced on the website via the media that reports it. Every, single one. Which means that there is a good chance that the number is lower.
and how many people has christianity killed off in the last thousand years?
Still less than Muslims have killed in the last 800 funny enough. And that takes some work. Remember, between the two religions, which one has the mantra of "Convert or die" useful tip, it's not Christianity. And which one has a central theme of "leave and we'll kill you."
Tell me something, between Christianity and Islam, which one of the two has committed nearly 19,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11? I'll give you a hint, it's not Christianity.
To the mods now. Refute the point, and don't be an intellectual coward and moderate something because you don't like it.
I'll be perfectly honest, this is one of the reasons why I like open street maps. Some of the places I drive are in the middle of nowhere. I've driven all over north america and have driven this route a few times before, but recently I went through the northern US to southern alberta(I15 to Hwy4), my tomtom decided that I was driving through some farmers field while I was actually on Hwy4. The further north I went, the worse it got sometimes by dozens of KM, and even recommending that I correct by going off onto ranger roads. Especially when I was on hwy35, and the 'highway to alaska' in grand prarie.
Eco-anarchists have been terrorists for decades. Spiking trees, ever seen what a chainsaw chain can do when it hits one? People can be and have been killed by them.
FUNNY STORY TIME! Well no not so funny story time, okay so back in the early 2000's I was working at a lumber mill here in Canada. We got in a shipment of raw-cut(stuff that hadn't been debarked) from a tree farm, this stuff was being cut for a cabin for a customer who was going to debark, trim and chamfer his own logs. Just wanted rough-cut to save him some time. So we loaded the logs up in the machine to do the cuts and hit nails about 15% in. Shattering the blades(we used a double cut system), one blade segment went right through the control booth. The other blade shattered and parts hit another guy(the cullboy under the machine -- cullboys are the grunts who take the segments off that aren't used but are cut into smaller stock) who nearly bled to death while we were waiting for EMS to show up. Yeah fuck em.
Let's not forget, burning down homes? "Animal liberation" groups, for you know things like diabetic and cancer research. And of course we can always go on.
Yes, there's assholes on all extremes of the social/political/religious spectrums (sprectra, spectri?). The fact that there's asssholes on the other extreme doesn't make you less of an asshole.
This is true. Though there seems to be, more so of them, and in turn much a much higher coordinated movement of them doing so.
Muslims in the UK attacking their fellow students? Done, running mass scale sex grooming? Well that one's done too. Ensuring that there's a culture of PCness and fear in legal circles so that law looks the other way? Done. You have been paying attention to that right? Claiming victimization when committing rapes, and stating that "it's a part of their religion" yep they've done that one too. Muslims attacking other religions, and claiming victimization when caught? Hey...would you look at that. And I haven't even left the UK yet. Links are freely available via google.
To my fellow geeks, if you've never grilled now's the time to start! If you fail, don't worry. This is how you learn, like learning how much you hate java but don't mine C#. But the secret? The secret is to find a sauce, or make a sauce that's all your own. But grilling in itself? You don't need hightech junk, you need patience and the want to learn.
My personal recipe: All done to taste, Ketchup, yellow mustard, parmesan cheese (powder or bricked shredded), garlic powder, pepper(varieties are your friend), dried sweet red pepper, sweet dried onion. Dash of milk or cream, dash of sugar(icing, brown or white to sweeten, can also use honey), then 1/3 to 1/2c of your favorite beer or 1 to 2 shots of your favorite hard booze.
Would those be the same islamists who were spitting on people, harassing women, and posting their "anti-gay/anti-homosexual/anti-western stuff" along with general hate speech, as defined by UK law? I'm just curious, I mean the UK does seem to have a serious problem with islamists, captain hook(Abu Hamza al-Masri) comes to mind, but there are plenty of others and plenty more of them on the government welfare dole too.
Wait did you just quote Greenpeace? The same group that opposes any form of nuclear power whatsoever? Ah I thought you did. Now remind me that even with these subsidies how much the power in germany works out to via nuclear? I'm sure it'll be somewhere in the 0.06-0.012c/KWH range, and solar will be in the 0.40-0.90c/KWH range. I mean in Greece it hit an earth shattering $1.20/KWH for just wind, solar did hit 0.80c/KWH.
0 of course. That's when they're buying power from France's nukes though. Not to forget that they're already scrambling to find some way to subsidizeall of this, because it cost too much taxpayer money. At the end of the day, the government is going off about how it'll pay all for itself, and the public is still left wondering where all the money is coming from, while the euro is tanking, and the economy looks like shit.
But really, do you know what life was like in Tsarist Russia? Lenin and Stalin managed to effect huge amounts of change to improve life for most people, the same as Mao did in China.
Hah. Hahaha.
Okay, I've posted this family story before but sure let's rehash it. See my mother was born over in what was east Germany. Her father was Ukrainian, see where I'm going here? Now to the part where he spent 25 years in a soviet gulag because they took all but one of his cows, and he couldn't provide the same the following year. Not seeing a problem here? Oh sure he made "Great amount of change" for the people in Kiev, not so much for anyone else. Everyone else starved, or were close to starving. After all, the jewel must be protected and well fed. Along with the military.
Yeah I shouldn't get started on Hitler either.
They didn't put out any fires, they used human bodies to light the greatest conflagrations in our modern time. Using tears and misery as the kindling.
Oh bullcrap. The west built it's industry through the industrial revolution - machines increasing productivity.
Okay, you're ignorant. No way around it, you're simply ignorant.
In the last 400 years when north america was settled and went through the industrial revolution, europe shoveled off all of their 'heavy' industry here to the americas. In Canada in particular back int he 1700's they would pay children to work in the mills, to make wagon wheels. These would then be subsidized by the crown and sent back to england at less than cost to undercut the industry there to send more of it over here. The dutch did it, the french did it, the germans did it, every-single-one of them did it. And that's one example of many.
We were a backwater still 180-200 years ago. And they were still shipping their medium and heavy industry off to here. The difference between Japan and us was? We bombed the shit out of them, and fully rebuilt their economy. They were already working to be fully industrialized and on par with the west even during the Boshin war. Which slowed things down a bit.
I think they could have a much larger problem. Since a diabetics eyes can change drastically in a 2-3 month period, and depending on who's data you're using. You're looking at anywhere between 3% and as high as 25% of the average population having a problem with this system.
Yeah I mean it's not like other people haven't made money or anything. Making money when the economy is on the downturn is the easy part. It's keeping it when it's booming that's the hard part.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
Of course it doesn't. Though it usually does, and one doesn't get anywhere without taking risks. The reality is traditional media as it stands isn't a risk, or even a worthwhile risk. It's a poor risk with no ROI, the deadtree form of media is just that dead. The electronic form of media is and quickly been subverted by free media, and a round of large aggregate services.
The smaller papers which have gone to paywalls have quickly killed any viewership unless they have very unique content which is being offered up. Especially when they simply rehash the news 2-3 days old which was already available, offering nothing in return. The days of the citizen reporter offering news are pretty much back, especially that which the print media turned their back on. I suppose that's a good thing, since it's getting people involved in their community affairs again.
Canada also has reasonable tort laws and malicious prosecution rules that would have prevented this case from ever getting before a judge in the first place.
Yeah that doesn't stop people from going insane, and trying to make it like the US though. At least sanity rules the day.
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
Well in law, at least in Canada accidents are described to something that is done by fault with no malice or direct negligence intended. Criminal negligence causing bodily harm is what this case amounts to.
"I used to be a developer like you, but then I took a Skyrim to my sales figures."
The people who didn't know what skyrim was found out what it was through the meme, followed by exploisve word of mouth. The game has been on steam's top 10 sales lists for over 6mo now. Which should tell you something, it's not the $60 barrier, it's the quality + mod barrier that killed KoA.
Well he hasn't made money for a bit to be honest, and has made some seriously bad blue-chip gambles that fell flat on their face too. Which has a lot of people wondering if he's simply hit the senile point and he's out of touch with the markets. I remember reading hmm was it zerohedge or somewhere else, that he hasn't made money in over 3 years on any investments he's done.
All of the drive manufacturers did this back in the very early 2000's, and then there was this huge collusion case against the entire lot of them. About fixing drive prices, and warranties. I have a feeling the same thing will happen again, just a feeling. Only because I see the similarities.
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Yeah, the Christians only did that whole Inquisition thing, and the Crusades.
Okay, easy enough to counter. Let's go with the convert or die from Islam. Millions dead. Still outnumbers the total of the Inquisition. And the Crusades were a two point counter to the Muslims who'd spend ~200 years pillaging, raping and burning Spain. That wasn't actually what triggered the crusades. What triggered the crusades itself, was the muslims declaring that no christian shall have access to the holy land.
That number is terribly inflated and I could easily come up with the same or even a larger number for crimes committed by Christians.
Really, use your brain
Incorrect, they're all sourced on the website via the media that reports it. Every, single one. Which means that there is a good chance that the number is lower.
and how many people has christianity killed off in the last thousand years?
Still less than Muslims have killed in the last 800 funny enough. And that takes some work. Remember, between the two religions, which one has the mantra of "Convert or die" useful tip, it's not Christianity. And which one has a central theme of "leave and we'll kill you."
Ah that's okay. Warmists happily ignore anything that doesn't fit their narrative. See how that works?
Tell me something, between Christianity and Islam, which one of the two has committed nearly 19,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11? I'll give you a hint, it's not Christianity.
To the mods now. Refute the point, and don't be an intellectual coward and moderate something because you don't like it.
I'll be perfectly honest, this is one of the reasons why I like open street maps. Some of the places I drive are in the middle of nowhere. I've driven all over north america and have driven this route a few times before, but recently I went through the northern US to southern alberta(I15 to Hwy4), my tomtom decided that I was driving through some farmers field while I was actually on Hwy4. The further north I went, the worse it got sometimes by dozens of KM, and even recommending that I correct by going off onto ranger roads. Especially when I was on hwy35, and the 'highway to alaska' in grand prarie.
Well that's only for DirectX. And there are hacks to get DX10/11 to run under XP.
Eco-anarchists have been terrorists for decades. Spiking trees, ever seen what a chainsaw chain can do when it hits one? People can be and have been killed by them.
FUNNY STORY TIME! Well no not so funny story time, okay so back in the early 2000's I was working at a lumber mill here in Canada. We got in a shipment of raw-cut(stuff that hadn't been debarked) from a tree farm, this stuff was being cut for a cabin for a customer who was going to debark, trim and chamfer his own logs. Just wanted rough-cut to save him some time. So we loaded the logs up in the machine to do the cuts and hit nails about 15% in. Shattering the blades(we used a double cut system), one blade segment went right through the control booth. The other blade shattered and parts hit another guy(the cullboy under the machine -- cullboys are the grunts who take the segments off that aren't used but are cut into smaller stock) who nearly bled to death while we were waiting for EMS to show up. Yeah fuck em.
Let's not forget, burning down homes? "Animal liberation" groups, for you know things like diabetic and cancer research. And of course we can always go on.
Yes, there's assholes on all extremes of the social/political/religious spectrums (sprectra, spectri?).
The fact that there's asssholes on the other extreme doesn't make you less of an asshole.
This is true. Though there seems to be, more so of them, and in turn much a much higher coordinated movement of them doing so.
Muslims in the UK attacking their fellow students? Done, running mass scale sex grooming? Well that one's done too. Ensuring that there's a culture of PCness and fear in legal circles so that law looks the other way? Done. You have been paying attention to that right? Claiming victimization when committing rapes, and stating that "it's a part of their religion" yep they've done that one too. Muslims attacking other religions, and claiming victimization when caught? Hey...would you look at that. And I haven't even left the UK yet. Links are freely available via google.
To my fellow geeks, if you've never grilled now's the time to start! If you fail, don't worry. This is how you learn, like learning how much you hate java but don't mine C#. But the secret? The secret is to find a sauce, or make a sauce that's all your own. But grilling in itself? You don't need hightech junk, you need patience and the want to learn.
My personal recipe: All done to taste,
Ketchup, yellow mustard, parmesan cheese (powder or bricked shredded), garlic powder, pepper(varieties are your friend), dried sweet red pepper, sweet dried onion. Dash of milk or cream, dash of sugar(icing, brown or white to sweeten, can also use honey), then 1/3 to 1/2c of your favorite beer or 1 to 2 shots of your favorite hard booze.
Would those be the same islamists who were spitting on people, harassing women, and posting their "anti-gay/anti-homosexual/anti-western stuff" along with general hate speech, as defined by UK law? I'm just curious, I mean the UK does seem to have a serious problem with islamists, captain hook(Abu Hamza al-Masri) comes to mind, but there are plenty of others and plenty more of them on the government welfare dole too.
Wait did you just quote Greenpeace? The same group that opposes any form of nuclear power whatsoever? Ah I thought you did. Now remind me that even with these subsidies how much the power in germany works out to via nuclear? I'm sure it'll be somewhere in the 0.06-0.012c/KWH range, and solar will be in the 0.40-0.90c/KWH range. I mean in Greece it hit an earth shattering $1.20/KWH for just wind, solar did hit 0.80c/KWH.
0 of course. That's when they're buying power from France's nukes though. Not to forget that they're already scrambling to find some way to subsidize all of this, because it cost too much taxpayer money. At the end of the day, the government is going off about how it'll pay all for itself, and the public is still left wondering where all the money is coming from, while the euro is tanking, and the economy looks like shit.
But really, do you know what life was like in Tsarist Russia? Lenin and Stalin managed to effect huge amounts of change to improve life for most people, the same as Mao did in China.
Hah. Hahaha.
Okay, I've posted this family story before but sure let's rehash it. See my mother was born over in what was east Germany. Her father was Ukrainian, see where I'm going here? Now to the part where he spent 25 years in a soviet gulag because they took all but one of his cows, and he couldn't provide the same the following year. Not seeing a problem here? Oh sure he made "Great amount of change" for the people in Kiev, not so much for anyone else. Everyone else starved, or were close to starving. After all, the jewel must be protected and well fed. Along with the military.
Yeah I shouldn't get started on Hitler either.
They didn't put out any fires, they used human bodies to light the greatest conflagrations in our modern time. Using tears and misery as the kindling.
Oh bullcrap. The west built it's industry through the industrial revolution - machines increasing productivity.
Okay, you're ignorant. No way around it, you're simply ignorant.
In the last 400 years when north america was settled and went through the industrial revolution, europe shoveled off all of their 'heavy' industry here to the americas. In Canada in particular back int he 1700's they would pay children to work in the mills, to make wagon wheels. These would then be subsidized by the crown and sent back to england at less than cost to undercut the industry there to send more of it over here. The dutch did it, the french did it, the germans did it, every-single-one of them did it. And that's one example of many.
We were a backwater still 180-200 years ago. And they were still shipping their medium and heavy industry off to here. The difference between Japan and us was? We bombed the shit out of them, and fully rebuilt their economy. They were already working to be fully industrialized and on par with the west even during the Boshin war. Which slowed things down a bit.
I think they could have a much larger problem. Since a diabetics eyes can change drastically in a 2-3 month period, and depending on who's data you're using. You're looking at anywhere between 3% and as high as 25% of the average population having a problem with this system.
Yeah I mean it's not like other people haven't made money or anything. Making money when the economy is on the downturn is the easy part. It's keeping it when it's booming that's the hard part.
The one making tangible products. FB is another dotbomb in the making, it's akin to the idiots that valued Yahoo's IPO above P&G's stock.
Except its not. Higher risk does not automatically guarantee higher payoff.
Of course it doesn't. Though it usually does, and one doesn't get anywhere without taking risks. The reality is traditional media as it stands isn't a risk, or even a worthwhile risk. It's a poor risk with no ROI, the deadtree form of media is just that dead. The electronic form of media is and quickly been subverted by free media, and a round of large aggregate services.
The smaller papers which have gone to paywalls have quickly killed any viewership unless they have very unique content which is being offered up. Especially when they simply rehash the news 2-3 days old which was already available, offering nothing in return. The days of the citizen reporter offering news are pretty much back, especially that which the print media turned their back on. I suppose that's a good thing, since it's getting people involved in their community affairs again.
Canada also has reasonable tort laws and malicious prosecution rules that would have prevented this case from ever getting before a judge in the first place.
Yeah that doesn't stop people from going insane, and trying to make it like the US though. At least sanity rules the day.
If your time-horizon is three years, you're not even playing the same game as Mr. Buffet. And you're far less likely to make money at whatever it is you are doing...
Right. I play in currencies, which unlike stocks is by far riskier and has a much nastier bite, requiring you to understand not only companies, but government policy and how it will effect your trading. But make less money? No, hardly that. The riskier the game, the higher the payoff. And it doesn't get riskier than the currency market.
Well in law, at least in Canada accidents are described to something that is done by fault with no malice or direct negligence intended. Criminal negligence causing bodily harm is what this case amounts to.
"I used to be a developer like you, but then I took a Skyrim to my sales figures."
The people who didn't know what skyrim was found out what it was through the meme, followed by exploisve word of mouth. The game has been on steam's top 10 sales lists for over 6mo now. Which should tell you something, it's not the $60 barrier, it's the quality + mod barrier that killed KoA.
Well he hasn't made money for a bit to be honest, and has made some seriously bad blue-chip gambles that fell flat on their face too. Which has a lot of people wondering if he's simply hit the senile point and he's out of touch with the markets. I remember reading hmm was it zerohedge or somewhere else, that he hasn't made money in over 3 years on any investments he's done.
All of the drive manufacturers did this back in the very early 2000's, and then there was this huge collusion case against the entire lot of them. About fixing drive prices, and warranties. I have a feeling the same thing will happen again, just a feeling. Only because I see the similarities.
Maybe you should have stuck around for Economics 102.
This is the part where everyone learns about nVidia and ATI colluding to set videocard prices right?
But they call themselves "true muslims" see the problem already?