I also worked for a post-startup. It took 9 months for the backers to pull out and stop writing paychecks when our product was less than a month away from release. And awesomely, they retain their share of the IP, so no one could actually keep working on it and push it out on their own. Failure is what happens 99 times out of 100. And 99 out of 100 of the successes just kinda hang on and pay the bills.
Brainwashing is a fundamental aspect of all religion. Repetition by rote until you can't help but believe what you are saying. Brainwashing inhibits free will and is evil, even if it is used to spread ideas that are not always evil. And it is forced on children in all religious households from before the child is capable of full language and thought. That is extremely evil because it destroys the wondrous potential of a child's mind before it is even fully formed.
And yes, faith is a mental illness. Faith requires that you continue to believe even in the presence of contradiction and evidence of falsehood. This produces a state of mind that is inconsistent with objective reality. That is a mental illness.
Religion acts exactly like a virus. It hijacks the machinery of the human mind for self replication to the detriment of its host. Religion often manifests destructive and even deadly symptoms as different vectors struggle for the top place in the food chain. A food chain with humans at the bottom. The only way out from underneath that food chain is to abandon all faith and live by reason alone.
I grew up in a fundamentalist christian household. And inflicting the communicable memetic disease of faith on children and brainwashing them to believe in the evil of religion is absolutely child abuse. It imposes a severe mental, emotional and ethical harm to children's minds before they are capable of fighting off the infection. In most cases this harm is permanent, and the child never recovers and becomes healthy again.
No. There is no scientific rational for biblical creation. It should not be taught outside a comparative religion class that also mentions elephants standing on turtles, the aboriginal dream time, and the incestuous bestiality that is the ancient greek/roman religion.
No it is not. As a former fundamentalist biblical literalist, I can say firmly that you have to discount the idea that science is valid in order to hold onto those ideals. I am extremely happy that I woke up and saved myself from the sickness of faith.
You don't have to just accept it. Challenge it, test it, prove it invalid if you can. That is called science.
And the theory of evolution has been placed in that crucible and come out the other side intact, even if it is shaped a bit differently than it started.
Steam on linux is going to start with valve engine games. It may eventually port most of its collection. But its more likely that NEW steam games will support linux, while the older ones are allowed to continue as windows/mac exclusive.
Its an ecosystem of software that allows group policy to determine what can and can not be done with a computer. Standardize antivirus? Want to spy on web traffic to prevent porn/games on company time? Want to bog down a developer box so that their IDE is so slow you have to wait for shit to pop up when you click, and you can waste 45 minutes building the application while norton dismembers your hard drive, and then cause a Permgen Space error half the time because the JVM isn't allowed to use more than 256megs of ram?
Enterprise level support is the answer. I'm not the least bit frustrated that I waste 2 hours a day because I am trying to get shit done while my computer gags on a bag of cocks that it is forced on developer and marketing douchebag alike.
Hateful text is a lot less destructive than the ethnic cleansing the Israelis are actively committing in order to make room for Jewish settlers.
And yes, if the Palestinians continue to wage war, I would destroy the dome of the rock, every mosque in the middle east and put a nuclear weapon right on top of the big black cube in mecca. My scorn is not reserved for the eldest branch that follows the dark god of Abraham, Christians and Muslims are just as guilty of their own atrocities. Religion itself is a crime against humanity.
The unregulated market is not an even playing field at all, for anyone. As those who have large amounts of capital will gain more, and those who have little will have theirs siphoned off because they are subject to the demands of those who have leverage over them.
Except that the unregulated market leads to exactly the same result, and not even by accident, the explicit goal is the dominate.
The only way to promote liberty for all is the through combined effort of a well regulated market and a government built explicitly to reduce (but not necessarily eliminate) the inequity of economic power that naturally manifests through the market.
All roads of socialism do not necessarily lead to Stalin, the Amish have been socialist for generations. Nor do all roads of capitalism lead to the East India Company.
There is no ideologically pure left wing. Though some are closer than others. Both the green and libertarian parties have left wing aspects along with a few irrational and counterproductive positions, and the democrats have minor left wing aspects along with their right wing aspects. True socialists* would be more left than either, but those don't exist in America.
True socialists being those who don't use a false appeal to socialism to advance their own niche to positions of wealth and authority. Stalin is the text book example of creating a kingship and noble class in the guise of egalitarianism.
I thought for sure that with the "earth shaking" comment, they would announce that they detected an earthquake, demonstrating that mars is still geologically active.
Stalin was right wing also, and most likely Mao was too. Despite the appeal to collectivism, both were strong authoritarians who created a new ruling class to replace the old. That makes them right wing.
The only propaganda I see are the people insisting that Israel should be allowed to continue existing in the face of their genocide of the Palestinians.
If I had power I would end all trade and aid to Israel until they acknowledge the right to exist of the Palestinian people, recognize them as an independent nation and withdraw all illegal settlers. I would also demand a cease fire within 7 days under threat of the annihilation of every holy site and every mosque, synagog and church in the middle east. The god of Abraham (god of all these petty squabbling faiths) is a vile and despicable creature and the world can never be safe as long those infected with its taint are allowed to kill in its blasphemous name.
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I also worked for a post-startup. It took 9 months for the backers to pull out and stop writing paychecks when our product was less than a month away from release. And awesomely, they retain their share of the IP, so no one could actually keep working on it and push it out on their own. Failure is what happens 99 times out of 100. And 99 out of 100 of the successes just kinda hang on and pay the bills.
You failed to point out ANY logical fallacies in my post.
That is not a burger
Cutting entitlements? You means social security and medicaid? You can't make substantial cuts there unless you are willing to kill people.
Brainwashing is a fundamental aspect of all religion. Repetition by rote until you can't help but believe what you are saying. Brainwashing inhibits free will and is evil, even if it is used to spread ideas that are not always evil. And it is forced on children in all religious households from before the child is capable of full language and thought. That is extremely evil because it destroys the wondrous potential of a child's mind before it is even fully formed.
And yes, faith is a mental illness. Faith requires that you continue to believe even in the presence of contradiction and evidence of falsehood. This produces a state of mind that is inconsistent with objective reality. That is a mental illness.
Religion acts exactly like a virus. It hijacks the machinery of the human mind for self replication to the detriment of its host. Religion often manifests destructive and even deadly symptoms as different vectors struggle for the top place in the food chain. A food chain with humans at the bottom. The only way out from underneath that food chain is to abandon all faith and live by reason alone.
There is no such thing as fundamentalist atheism.
Atheism is devoid of faith.
Atheism is devoid of the inherent evil of religion.
Your attempt was not well formed.
I think you misunderstood me.
I grew up in a fundamentalist christian household. And inflicting the communicable memetic disease of faith on children and brainwashing them to believe in the evil of religion is absolutely child abuse. It imposes a severe mental, emotional and ethical harm to children's minds before they are capable of fighting off the infection. In most cases this harm is permanent, and the child never recovers and becomes healthy again.
No. There is no scientific rational for biblical creation. It should not be taught outside a comparative religion class that also mentions elephants standing on turtles, the aboriginal dream time, and the incestuous bestiality that is the ancient greek/roman religion.
Science is never wrong.
When science adjusts or overthrows previously held beliefs based on empirical experimentation or new evidence, it becomes more right.
No it is not. As a former fundamentalist biblical literalist, I can say firmly that you have to discount the idea that science is valid in order to hold onto those ideals. I am extremely happy that I woke up and saved myself from the sickness of faith.
You don't have to just accept it. Challenge it, test it, prove it invalid if you can. That is called science.
And the theory of evolution has been placed in that crucible and come out the other side intact, even if it is shaped a bit differently than it started.
Steam on linux is going to start with valve engine games. It may eventually port most of its collection. But its more likely that NEW steam games will support linux, while the older ones are allowed to continue as windows/mac exclusive.
Its an ecosystem of software that allows group policy to determine what can and can not be done with a computer. Standardize antivirus? Want to spy on web traffic to prevent porn/games on company time? Want to bog down a developer box so that their IDE is so slow you have to wait for shit to pop up when you click, and you can waste 45 minutes building the application while norton dismembers your hard drive, and then cause a Permgen Space error half the time because the JVM isn't allowed to use more than 256megs of ram?
Enterprise level support is the answer. I'm not the least bit frustrated that I waste 2 hours a day because I am trying to get shit done while my computer gags on a bag of cocks that it is forced on developer and marketing douchebag alike.
For Y2K you had a hard limit. No harm done before the clock rolls over.
AGW isn't like that. The damage builds up over time and continues to build even after you cut back. Every delay increases the costs that will occur.
AGW increases the number and severity of storms.
No, all of Japans trans species genetic experiments involve actual physical breeding. Just ask the squid monster.
Hateful text is a lot less destructive than the ethnic cleansing the Israelis are actively committing in order to make room for Jewish settlers.
And yes, if the Palestinians continue to wage war, I would destroy the dome of the rock, every mosque in the middle east and put a nuclear weapon right on top of the big black cube in mecca. My scorn is not reserved for the eldest branch that follows the dark god of Abraham, Christians and Muslims are just as guilty of their own atrocities. Religion itself is a crime against humanity.
The unregulated market is not an even playing field at all, for anyone. As those who have large amounts of capital will gain more, and those who have little will have theirs siphoned off because they are subject to the demands of those who have leverage over them.
Except that the unregulated market leads to exactly the same result, and not even by accident, the explicit goal is the dominate.
The only way to promote liberty for all is the through combined effort of a well regulated market and a government built explicitly to reduce (but not necessarily eliminate) the inequity of economic power that naturally manifests through the market.
All roads of socialism do not necessarily lead to Stalin, the Amish have been socialist for generations. Nor do all roads of capitalism lead to the East India Company.
There is no ideologically pure left wing. Though some are closer than others. Both the green and libertarian parties have left wing aspects along with a few irrational and counterproductive positions, and the democrats have minor left wing aspects along with their right wing aspects. True socialists* would be more left than either, but those don't exist in America.
True socialists being those who don't use a false appeal to socialism to advance their own niche to positions of wealth and authority. Stalin is the text book example of creating a kingship and noble class in the guise of egalitarianism.
I thought for sure that with the "earth shaking" comment, they would announce that they detected an earthquake, demonstrating that mars is still geologically active.
Sorry, but when science figures out that an assumption is wrong. It is a victory, not a flop. Even if the assumption would have been cool to be true.
Stalin was right wing also, and most likely Mao was too. Despite the appeal to collectivism, both were strong authoritarians who created a new ruling class to replace the old. That makes them right wing.
The only propaganda I see are the people insisting that Israel should be allowed to continue existing in the face of their genocide of the Palestinians.
If I had power I would end all trade and aid to Israel until they acknowledge the right to exist of the Palestinian people, recognize them as an independent nation and withdraw all illegal settlers. I would also demand a cease fire within 7 days under threat of the annihilation of every holy site and every mosque, synagog and church in the middle east. The god of Abraham (god of all these petty squabbling faiths) is a vile and despicable creature and the world can never be safe as long those infected with its taint are allowed to kill in its blasphemous name.