Read the Bible. The (Christian/Jewish) GOD is an inhuman, moronic, cruel, paedophilic bastard. They did perfectly fine cutting that out and still holding on to their religion, just as modern Muslims are capable of cutting out those dirty bits and only focusing on the aspects that fit with their modern culture.
Where exactly does Christianity say you can kill infidels? Look here. Being Deuteronomy, those passages also apply to Judaism.
Buddhism and Hinduism are pretty strongly pacifist, so they don't really qualify. However, even though the religion opposes it, if you look at the nations of that religion, you'll find they don't really follow that and still have a tendency to kill non-believers.
It may be tossing the baby out with the bath water to condemn religion for intolerence, but I'm fine with throwing out religion for teaching that blind acceptance of authority is a positive trait, even when in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
No, the actual difference is that most Christan and Jewish cultures managed to leap forward in wealth and technology, which has "softened" their views, while most Muslim countries are extremely impoverished (the average person, if not the country itself). If history had gone a bit differently, and the Muslim countries had economically crushed the westernized countries, they would probably be looking at us as backward barbarians for following what the Bible actually taught (stoning, killing, torturing, for minor offenses).
Google seems to be doing everything they can to tank G+ for some reason. The "accidental" deletion of email when closing a G+ account at the beginning, requiring real names and 18+ years old, censoring photos, and, as you mentioned, buying beloved companies every month just to shut them down (a la Microsoft?) rather than integrating... someone over there needs to be sacked.
After 500 years it's pretty likely you'll get killed by an accident, but it's absolutely not a certainty. Statistically, some people will just plain luck out and manage to live for 5,000 years without getting run over. Aside from that, it would be fairly easy to manage risk and be more statistically likely to avoid "the inevitable" for a few more centuries.
I work hard and am honest, and I expect those things of myself as well. I don't change that based on who I'm dealing with.
Giving two-weeks notice, however, is a polite act reserved for others who are, well, polite to myself. People who treat you like scum do not deserve to be treated with the same respect as people who actually treat you like a human.
Ron Paul is a kook because he is a racist anti-abortion creationist who, if elected, would basically just try to kill off all social programs back to pre-Great Depression levels while using "states rights" as a shield to roll civil/human rights back to the feudal system.
I also try to improve the world by being a better person. I'm helpful, courteous, and genuinely happy and friendly with virtually everyone I meet. When I'm driving and someone cuts me off, I generally assume it was either a mistake or that they had a valid reason.
However, giving respect and courtesy to obviously bad people (or things in the case of a company) makes a worse world. If someone believes you are expendable and treats you like shit, and you still give them respect, that just reinforces that they can keep on being a jerk with no consequences. In fact, that's why shitheads get ahead in the world, because if all you're doing is taking from and abusing people, and they don't call you on it, they have a clear advantage.
Life is not a movie, and nobody will ever say "oh wow, I treated this guy like shit and yet he still respected me, I should be a nicer person"
Personally? Because I actually trust my wife and she trusts me. I know, that's exceptionally rare these days. We live together, share bank accounts, have a child together, have a mortgage together, etc.
Oh no, if things go sour she could post things on my Facebook account or reset my Slashdot password. She could also change the locks on the house, flee the state with my kid, or any number of other things that are far worse, and yet I *gasp* trust her not to do them.
99.99% of every system in existence is a "poorly developed user permissions system", I'd rather have the convenience of being able to check bank account info while my wife is not at home, or to be able to call and have her forward an email from my account to someone while I'm on the road.
It really depends on the company. Would the company you work for kick you to the curb without a moment's notice to save a buck? If so, why give them the decency of 2+ weeks notice?
I wouldn't say always. At some point (in thousands of years) we'll probably have robots that do all menial tasks, including repairing each other, so the only jobs remaining for humans to do will be research, which will be done by those who choose to do it because they enjoy it while everyone else just chills and enjoys slave robot labor.
I can't imagine how bad an ebook designed by artists/editors would turn out. 90% of designers still think the web is print, even the ones who grew up using the web. If artists were in charge, an eBook would be a 500mb PDF with rendered graphics of every page.
What is needed is a modern typesetter profession, with a mix of design/UI sense and logical/programming skills, who can design "books" with various requirements that can be viewed on a multitude of devices with different sizes and capabilities, with minimal time invested in each individual book.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up, because that's a very succinct way of putting it.
I've lived both inside and outside of the US, and in my experience nearly every medical story that takes places in the US is a horror story that ends in pain, bankruptcy, disability, or death, while most stories coming from elsewhere are merely horror stories about inconvenience, delays, or the occasional mistake.
I absolutely can't stand dubbing, but I'm totally fine with subtitles. I imagine some people are the opposite, while some people just plain can't stand either one.
If I were one of those people who couldn't stand either, I'd be super sad, because, in my experience, about 95% of all remakes are horrible abortions of cinema.
Song of the South was my sister's favorite thing to watch growing up, and she was born in the late 80s in the USA. So it was definitely released as NTSC VHS format at some point.
That may be true for a lot of people, but I haven't been bored since I was a kid a couple decades ago... and even then, it was only really complaining "I'm bored" and then heading to do one of the millions of things I enjoyed doing.
I've got so much work, so many hobbies, so much to read and watch, and and so many future hobbies that I could live another hundred years and never get bored. Even when I'm stuck in a waiting situation with nothing to do, my own thoughts can keep me busy for at least a couple days.
There are a bazillion scripts that show originality, and a million movies that have it. You just don't see any of them in theaters... they're mostly independent productions or foreign films. You might see the Hollywood remake though, the one where they change major plot and thematic points to make it more "palatable".
Just like a lot of people release anger by yelling at other people, some people feel the need to stress other people in order to relieve their own stress.
Both of those sorts of people deserve to be smacked down every time they attempt it.
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Read the Bible. The (Christian/Jewish) GOD is an inhuman, moronic, cruel, paedophilic bastard. They did perfectly fine cutting that out and still holding on to their religion, just as modern Muslims are capable of cutting out those dirty bits and only focusing on the aspects that fit with their modern culture.
By saying "Western" instead of Christian or Jewish, you nailed it without even realizing it.
It's an issue of culture, politics, money, etc. Not religion. Religion is just the aspect that bigots tend to focus on.
Where exactly does Christianity say you can kill infidels? Look here. Being Deuteronomy, those passages also apply to Judaism.
Buddhism and Hinduism are pretty strongly pacifist, so they don't really qualify. However, even though the religion opposes it, if you look at the nations of that religion, you'll find they don't really follow that and still have a tendency to kill non-believers.
It may be tossing the baby out with the bath water to condemn religion for intolerence, but I'm fine with throwing out religion for teaching that blind acceptance of authority is a positive trait, even when in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
After two people/posts in a row making the same mistake, I can't help but say that it's "pore over", not "pour over"
That's not to say it's acceptable, however, just understandable.
No, the actual difference is that most Christan and Jewish cultures managed to leap forward in wealth and technology, which has "softened" their views, while most Muslim countries are extremely impoverished (the average person, if not the country itself). If history had gone a bit differently, and the Muslim countries had economically crushed the westernized countries, they would probably be looking at us as backward barbarians for following what the Bible actually taught (stoning, killing, torturing, for minor offenses).
Because it wasn't a "death to America" tweet, it was an innocuous tweet about meeting up with friends to party.
Google seems to be doing everything they can to tank G+ for some reason. The "accidental" deletion of email when closing a G+ account at the beginning, requiring real names and 18+ years old, censoring photos, and, as you mentioned, buying beloved companies every month just to shut them down (a la Microsoft?) rather than integrating... someone over there needs to be sacked.
After 500 years it's pretty likely you'll get killed by an accident, but it's absolutely not a certainty. Statistically, some people will just plain luck out and manage to live for 5,000 years without getting run over. Aside from that, it would be fairly easy to manage risk and be more statistically likely to avoid "the inevitable" for a few more centuries.
I work hard and am honest, and I expect those things of myself as well. I don't change that based on who I'm dealing with.
Giving two-weeks notice, however, is a polite act reserved for others who are, well, polite to myself. People who treat you like scum do not deserve to be treated with the same respect as people who actually treat you like a human.
Ron Paul is a kook because he is a racist anti-abortion creationist who, if elected, would basically just try to kill off all social programs back to pre-Great Depression levels while using "states rights" as a shield to roll civil/human rights back to the feudal system.
I also try to improve the world by being a better person. I'm helpful, courteous, and genuinely happy and friendly with virtually everyone I meet. When I'm driving and someone cuts me off, I generally assume it was either a mistake or that they had a valid reason.
However, giving respect and courtesy to obviously bad people (or things in the case of a company) makes a worse world. If someone believes you are expendable and treats you like shit, and you still give them respect, that just reinforces that they can keep on being a jerk with no consequences. In fact, that's why shitheads get ahead in the world, because if all you're doing is taking from and abusing people, and they don't call you on it, they have a clear advantage.
Life is not a movie, and nobody will ever say "oh wow, I treated this guy like shit and yet he still respected me, I should be a nicer person"
Personally? Because I actually trust my wife and she trusts me. I know, that's exceptionally rare these days. We live together, share bank accounts, have a child together, have a mortgage together, etc.
Oh no, if things go sour she could post things on my Facebook account or reset my Slashdot password. She could also change the locks on the house, flee the state with my kid, or any number of other things that are far worse, and yet I *gasp* trust her not to do them.
99.99% of every system in existence is a "poorly developed user permissions system", I'd rather have the convenience of being able to check bank account info while my wife is not at home, or to be able to call and have her forward an email from my account to someone while I'm on the road.
It really depends on the company. Would the company you work for kick you to the curb without a moment's notice to save a buck? If so, why give them the decency of 2+ weeks notice?
I wouldn't say always. At some point (in thousands of years) we'll probably have robots that do all menial tasks, including repairing each other, so the only jobs remaining for humans to do will be research, which will be done by those who choose to do it because they enjoy it while everyone else just chills and enjoys slave robot labor.
I can't imagine how bad an ebook designed by artists/editors would turn out. 90% of designers still think the web is print, even the ones who grew up using the web. If artists were in charge, an eBook would be a 500mb PDF with rendered graphics of every page.
What is needed is a modern typesetter profession, with a mix of design/UI sense and logical/programming skills, who can design "books" with various requirements that can be viewed on a multitude of devices with different sizes and capabilities, with minimal time invested in each individual book.
Except that marriage has nothing to do with reproduction.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up, because that's a very succinct way of putting it.
I've lived both inside and outside of the US, and in my experience nearly every medical story that takes places in the US is a horror story that ends in pain, bankruptcy, disability, or death, while most stories coming from elsewhere are merely horror stories about inconvenience, delays, or the occasional mistake.
I absolutely can't stand dubbing, but I'm totally fine with subtitles. I imagine some people are the opposite, while some people just plain can't stand either one.
If I were one of those people who couldn't stand either, I'd be super sad, because, in my experience, about 95% of all remakes are horrible abortions of cinema.
Song of the South was my sister's favorite thing to watch growing up, and she was born in the late 80s in the USA. So it was definitely released as NTSC VHS format at some point.
That may be true for a lot of people, but I haven't been bored since I was a kid a couple decades ago... and even then, it was only really complaining "I'm bored" and then heading to do one of the millions of things I enjoyed doing.
I've got so much work, so many hobbies, so much to read and watch, and and so many future hobbies that I could live another hundred years and never get bored. Even when I'm stuck in a waiting situation with nothing to do, my own thoughts can keep me busy for at least a couple days.
There are a bazillion scripts that show originality, and a million movies that have it. You just don't see any of them in theaters... they're mostly independent productions or foreign films. You might see the Hollywood remake though, the one where they change major plot and thematic points to make it more "palatable".
You're right. And their censorship was offensive enough for me to close my G+ account.
Just like a lot of people release anger by yelling at other people, some people feel the need to stress other people in order to relieve their own stress.
Both of those sorts of people deserve to be smacked down every time they attempt it.