If you're an atheist. then you don't believe in God, or hell. It's therefore a totally hollow threat within your belief system. A nonexistent deity is going to send you to a nonexistent place if you don't follow some rules.
Oooooh...scary!!!
The only way it becomes a legitimate coercive threat to you is if you acknowledge the truth of God from the person relaying the "threat".
Your attack on atheism is funny. It's certainly easier than defense.
You're all assholes because you don't believe the crap I believe, I find that insulting, and calling you names is the only avenue left to me to defend my fairy tale god.
Do you have any idea just how hypocritical that is?
It's only a national capital according to the treasonous separatist Parti Quebecois provincial government they've got. Legally, Quebec is a province in Canada.
What's the significant difference between a "cattle waiting to be slaughtered" analogy, and a "sheep following the status quo" analogy we use *all the time* here on/.?
Copyright in the US is automatic, so they are taking copyrighted information. Absent a specific licence for use, there is no licence. Posting on a public website does not constitute a licence; certainly not a commercial use licence. This means they are using it without permission. So they are, in fact, pirating this information.
Incidently, in regards to your claim that Netflix not stealing anything: neither are the pirates.
Last time I ran antivirus was 10 years ago, too, and I still run Windows. Take your egotistical smugness and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. There's malware for every OS, including OS X. Are the OS X malware samples trojans that are installed by user choice? Sure. Exactly the same as Android.
In Canada. North American Internet providers are some of the greediest bastards in the world. In some ways, they make the RIAA/MPAA look generous. Canada isn't as bad as the US, from what I've read on here, but Bell Canada, which is one of the largest providers in the eastern half of Canada, is trying to buy up some other companies to decrease competition at the moment, which will undoubtedly make things worse.
I realize you were nowhere near as radical as some comments I've heard along this line. I did come across a little harshly, and for that I apologize.
For your comment, it was the "better off going vegetarian for a year rather than have people starve" part. That's the main part I was responding to. If I tried to go vegetarian, I *would* starve.
The problem with Christians is that they blabber on about God "creating" the entire universe. It's pretty fucking clearly written in the bible that God terraformed ONE planet, gave it a clear atmosphere to see the stars, and genetically engineered one race of intelligent beings.
First verse in the Bible: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In what sense do "created" and "terraformed" mean the same thing? And how about that "the heavens" thing? Wouldn't that mean, in the context of the people of the time "everything above earth"? Which would be, of course, "the universe"?
In Africa, it's quite "normal" to have HIV. Does that mean those people are not sick? Other places have high rates of other diseases; malaria, TB, measles, not to mention just plain old malnutrition. In these places, all these sicknesses are normal, but they're still sick.
Well, I just wasted their bandwidth by playing their stupid game, and completely ignoring (as in, not even loading when it prompted) their video. I think I'll write a script to continually download the game over and over again, piping it to/dev/null, as I have one of the few actually unlimited internet accounts still in existence. (Yes, it's grandfathered. No, you can't get it anymore.)
European cars will frequently not meet North American emission regulations. Virtually every European performance car that has been eventually sold in the US/Canadian market had to have an engine change to meet emissions targets. Cars that are sold in both markets (Mercedes, BMW, etc) are not the same cars in both markets. The engines may be the same at a block/piston level, but the various technological bits and pieces that bolt onto them to make them run frequently aren't.
Meeting the higher (for the most part) regulations for the US market usually results in lower fuel economy and power for the same car.
Well, just just heat the Lithium Ion batteries with an ethanol flame, too. After a few minutes, the battery heating is self-sustaining, and you can turn the flame off.:)
Meat takes a lot of grain, and, in effect, is an inefficient system of distributing nutrition, except that there are health benefits to eating some meat. But in the case of serious drought or crop failure we'd be be better off to go vegetarian for a year than have a few million people starve to death so we can keep having steaks
Every time someone says something like this, implying that the meat eaters among us are assisting in destroying the planet, it bothers me. I've got low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). It's basically the opposite of diabetes, genetic, and runs in the family. One of the methods of managing this is to eat larger than normal amounts of protein. It helps to stabilize blood sugar, avoiding dangerous crashes. Some vegetables provide a reasonable amount of protein for a normal person, but as soon as you throw in something like hypoglycemia, you'd be sick of lentils after a week with how much you'd have to eat, although it would be possible to survive.
Coupled with hypoglycemia, I've also got a very high metabolism. This makes the need for protein even larger. Basically, for me, the only foods that provide enough protein are meat, milk, and cheese. Any of these require feeding "vegetarian" foods to livestock. If I tried to go vegetarian for a year, I'd have either starved to death with a full stomach before I was halfway there, or had a blood sugar crash, gone into a coma, and possibly not come out of it.
Livestock may be "an inefficient system of distributing nutrition" but it's the most efficient protein generator and concentrator that we know of. You can go vegetarian if you want. I'm keeping my meat.
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But if you believe there is a God that can make those claims, then you're not an atheist, and this whole conversation doesn't apply to you.
If you're an atheist. then you don't believe in God, or hell.
It's therefore a totally hollow threat within your belief system. A nonexistent deity is going to send you to a nonexistent place if you don't follow some rules.
Oooooh...scary!!!
The only way it becomes a legitimate coercive threat to you is if you acknowledge the truth of God from the person relaying the "threat".
Your attack on atheism is funny. It's certainly easier than defense.
You're all assholes because you don't believe the crap I believe, I find that insulting, and calling you names is the only avenue left to me to defend my fairy tale god.
Do you have any idea just how hypocritical that is?
It's only a national capital according to the treasonous separatist Parti Quebecois provincial government they've got. Legally, Quebec is a province in Canada.
We already do recognize this in Ontario. I don't know how high the ruling was, so I don't know how far it goes into the rest of Canada.
What's the significant difference between a "cattle waiting to be slaughtered" analogy, and a "sheep following the status quo" analogy we use *all the time* here on /.?
Copyright in the US is automatic, so they are taking copyrighted information.
Absent a specific licence for use, there is no licence. Posting on a public website does not constitute a licence; certainly not a commercial use licence. This means they are using it without permission.
So they are, in fact, pirating this information.
Incidently, in regards to your claim that Netflix not stealing anything: neither are the pirates.
So the oil industry and the electronics/computing industry are the same thing in your mind?
Last time I ran antivirus was 10 years ago, too, and I still run Windows.
Take your egotistical smugness and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. There's malware for every OS, including OS X. Are the OS X malware samples trojans that are installed by user choice? Sure. Exactly the same as Android.
Hey, give them a break!
They're running it on Windows, after all.....
In Canada. North American Internet providers are some of the greediest bastards in the world. In some ways, they make the RIAA/MPAA look generous.
Canada isn't as bad as the US, from what I've read on here, but Bell Canada, which is one of the largest providers in the eastern half of Canada, is trying to buy up some other companies to decrease competition at the moment, which will undoubtedly make things worse.
I realize you were nowhere near as radical as some comments I've heard along this line. I did come across a little harshly, and for that I apologize.
For your comment, it was the "better off going vegetarian for a year rather than have people starve" part. That's the main part I was responding to. If I tried to go vegetarian, I *would* starve.
That's a derivative work. Copyright violation.
Like the saying goes: Speed costs; how fast you want to go?
Isn't that: "How fast can you afford to go"?
Errr...well...for the most part, yes. Although I didn't want to turn this into a political debate.....
The problem with Christians is that they blabber on about God "creating" the entire universe. It's pretty fucking clearly written in the bible that God terraformed ONE planet, gave it a clear atmosphere to see the stars, and genetically engineered one race of intelligent beings.
First verse in the Bible: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In what sense do "created" and "terraformed" mean the same thing? And how about that "the heavens" thing? Wouldn't that mean, in the context of the people of the time "everything above earth"? Which would be, of course, "the universe"?
"Normal" and "sick" are not mutually exclusive.
In Africa, it's quite "normal" to have HIV. Does that mean those people are not sick? Other places have high rates of other diseases; malaria, TB, measles, not to mention just plain old malnutrition. In these places, all these sicknesses are normal, but they're still sick.
Well, I just wasted their bandwidth by playing their stupid game, and completely ignoring (as in, not even loading when it prompted) their video. /dev/null, as I have one of the few actually unlimited internet accounts still in existence. (Yes, it's grandfathered. No, you can't get it anymore.)
I think I'll write a script to continually download the game over and over again, piping it to
Exactly. Just like Europeans _all_ think they need something like this to do the same thing, right?
European cars will frequently not meet North American emission regulations. Virtually every European performance car that has been eventually sold in the US/Canadian market had to have an engine change to meet emissions targets. Cars that are sold in both markets (Mercedes, BMW, etc) are not the same cars in both markets. The engines may be the same at a block/piston level, but the various technological bits and pieces that bolt onto them to make them run frequently aren't.
Meeting the higher (for the most part) regulations for the US market usually results in lower fuel economy and power for the same car.
Well, just just heat the Lithium Ion batteries with an ethanol flame, too. After a few minutes, the battery heating is self-sustaining, and you can turn the flame off. :)
I've seen a 1970 Triumph 650 with 3 people on it before....
Now imagine that '68 Nova with a 580 HP ZL1 Camaro engine. :)
Meat takes a lot of grain, and, in effect, is an inefficient system of distributing nutrition, except that there are health benefits to eating some meat. But in the case of serious drought or crop failure we'd be be better off to go vegetarian for a year than have a few million people starve to death so we can keep having steaks
Every time someone says something like this, implying that the meat eaters among us are assisting in destroying the planet, it bothers me. I've got low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). It's basically the opposite of diabetes, genetic, and runs in the family.
One of the methods of managing this is to eat larger than normal amounts of protein. It helps to stabilize blood sugar, avoiding dangerous crashes. Some vegetables provide a reasonable amount of protein for a normal person, but as soon as you throw in something like hypoglycemia, you'd be sick of lentils after a week with how much you'd have to eat, although it would be possible to survive.
Coupled with hypoglycemia, I've also got a very high metabolism. This makes the need for protein even larger. Basically, for me, the only foods that provide enough protein are meat, milk, and cheese. Any of these require feeding "vegetarian" foods to livestock. If I tried to go vegetarian for a year, I'd have either starved to death with a full stomach before I was halfway there, or had a blood sugar crash, gone into a coma, and possibly not come out of it.
Livestock may be "an inefficient system of distributing nutrition" but it's the most efficient protein generator and concentrator that we know of. You can go vegetarian if you want. I'm keeping my meat.
A UK gallon is bigger, you're right. But let's apply some common sense to this:
If you can go 54.4 miles on a US gallon in a given car, how can the same car only do 45.3 miles on the larger Imperial gallon?
My sibling post is correct. You're an imbecile.