Take one example: Americans gorging themselves on McDonald's
Even Americans we know that there's more to life than McDonalds.
For example, there's Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts and all sorts of other places.
That karma is very, very real and eventually even fat stupid Americans catch on and figure out that you're abusing them. It just takes them a long time. Anyone with a fully developed conscience stopped giving Microsoft money 15 years ago when they realized what they would have been funding. The rest care about only their own convenience and jump ship when an alternative is obviously superior. One way or another the result is inevitable.
So what will these "fat stupid Americans" switch to? Linux? Or will Apple start selling machines at a reasonable price and achieve larger market share? Something else I am not aware of? Curious to know.
Apple is already achieving a larger market share. Right now the question is: how high can they go?
(The moral failings of the German protestants were different but no less serious.)
Yeah, they actually voted for Hitler.
The Catholic parts of Germany were the parts of Germany least favorable to the Nazi party. You are referring to a parliamentary vote to pass the Ermächtigungsgesetz of 1933 that cemented Hitler's power. While it certainly can be argued that the Center party should not have agreed to vote for the Ermächtigungsgesetz, and indeed the party itself was deeply divided over it, with all members knowing that it was a bad deal, but the majority of the party hoping to avoid open persecution of the party and of the Catholic Church, it was not the decisive act that erected the third reich.
What was meant by communism with reference to the USSR, it's satellites, China, and North Korea, was specifically a state controlled economy with central planning of economic (especially industrial and agricultural) activity. This is still largely the case in North Korea.
Isn't it the other way around? If there is a God then he/she/it can just remake humanity if it dies out (isn't that the plan anyway?)
If there ISN'T a God, then once we die out we're gone forever.
Yeah, but who would care if we're gone forever? I don't see how it would inconvenience us since, having ceased to exist, we won't regret the end of the humanity.
On the other hand, if there is a God, then we would probably have to answer for our actions, even though we no longer have physical existence, and it might be hard to explain away that whole "oops, we destroyed the earth" thing.
Please do not be influenced by the Christian fanatics, Korea. I have high hopes for you. You have a great and glorious culture for so many years. Please do not abandon it for an inferior culture propagated by these Christian extremists who based their myths on barbaric bronze-age hebrew tribe superstitions. More power to you Korea. Listen to your scientists!
Korean myths are pretty weird themselves: fan death, electromagnetic-absorption charcoal, blood types, the health effects of dog stew, etc...
American Evangelical churches have money to burn, and are mostly the ones, who are behind this sort of nonsense. This sort of stuff is happening in many other countries too, including India, China (albeit in deep secracy), and many other Asian/African countries.
Interestingly enough, Korean evangelical churches send missionaries to the USA.
According to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Korea
Only 53% percent of South Koreans claim any religious affiliation, and 55% of those are Buddhists.... So my comment is: What? What's going on here?
Need some Korean person to explain.
I'm not Korean but I know something about Korea: 1) Those numbers are probably out of date. There are large numbers of Koreans converting to Christianity every year. 2) Korean Christians are very active and organized. Korean Buddhists not so much 3) The "no religion" Koreans aren't usually atheists, they're agnostics who don't really care much about religion. Often they have Christian family members and are perfectly happy to go along with their family members in religious matters as long as it doesn't inconvenience them too much.
Is it just me, or does anybody else get that the theocrats are seriously getting on a fetish where they attribute everything negative to non-believers?
Not to mention how they try to get us to believe they are persecuted martyrs for their faith.
Rating this to "zero" is a clear case of someone with mod points to burn and no ethics what-so-ever. It might be sharp, but there does seem to be empirical evidence that followers of an organized religion seem to want those who oppose them to disappear.
For the iPhone-MacBook-iPad-owning-environmentalists this presents a dilemma (which I think will be hilarious to watch).
Why? Where's the dilemma? The only issue is that the Apple products can't be easily disassembled. It's not that Apple is using environmentally damaging materials in the manufacture of their products.
The environmentalist wackos can buy Apple gear and then, when it's useful life is over, give it to Apple for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling.
as long as they ship their products to europe it has to adhear to the much much stricter european ROHS...
Apples and Oranges: It's a completely different type of standard.
Apple isn't pulling out of EPEAT so they can use hazardous or environmentally damaging materials in the manufacture of their products. They are pulling out of EPEAT so they can glue stuff together instead of using screws.
Apple's move is driven by a design / certification dichotomy, not a profit / environment dichotomy.
Whether a given device is EPEAT certified says absolutely nothing about whether it is actually more or less likely to be recycled or whether it is more or less a burden on the environment. All is says is that the device can be relatively easily disassembled for recycling by unskilled labor without special equipment.
If Apple is willing to take all old devices for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling (and I believe they are), then the EPEAT certification is of no great value to the environment in the case of Apple's devices.
My understanding is that EGlibc happened because Glibc didn't accept patches for clearly wrong behaviour (expecting/bin/sh to be/bin/bash for example) and didn't look after the embedded architecture ports well enough
Yeah that was Drepper saying he didn't care about effeminate toy architectures like ARM, because glibc was being developed for manly real architectures like x86.
I think most astronauts would be ok with a cheap suit made in the maldives or vietnam.
After all, there's no need to waste money on designer outfits when all that's really important is a good vacuum seal and a few life support functions.
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Take one example: Americans gorging themselves on McDonald's
Even Americans we know that there's more to life than McDonalds.
For example, there's Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts and all sorts of other places.
That karma is very, very real and eventually even fat stupid Americans catch on and figure out that you're abusing them. It just takes them a long time. Anyone with a fully developed conscience stopped giving Microsoft money 15 years ago when they realized what they would have been funding. The rest care about only their own convenience and jump ship when an alternative is obviously superior. One way or another the result is inevitable.
So what will these "fat stupid Americans" switch to? Linux? Or will Apple start selling machines at a reasonable price and achieve larger market share? Something else I am not aware of? Curious to know.
Apple is already achieving a larger market share. Right now the question is: how high can they go?
(The moral failings of the German protestants were different but no less serious.)
Yeah, they actually voted for Hitler.
The Catholic parts of Germany were the parts of Germany least favorable to the Nazi party. You are referring to a parliamentary vote to pass the Ermächtigungsgesetz of 1933 that cemented Hitler's power. While it certainly can be argued that the Center party should not have agreed to vote for the Ermächtigungsgesetz, and indeed the party itself was deeply divided over it, with all members knowing that it was a bad deal, but the majority of the party hoping to avoid open persecution of the party and of the Catholic Church, it was not the decisive act that erected the third reich.
What was meant by communism with reference to the USSR, it's satellites, China, and North Korea, was specifically a state controlled economy with central planning of economic (especially industrial and agricultural) activity. This is still largely the case in North Korea.
Isn't it the other way around? If there is a God then he/she/it can just remake humanity if it dies out (isn't that the plan anyway?) If there ISN'T a God, then once we die out we're gone forever.
Yeah, but who would care if we're gone forever? I don't see how it would inconvenience us since, having ceased to exist, we won't regret the end of the humanity.
On the other hand, if there is a God, then we would probably have to answer for our actions, even though we no longer have physical existence, and it might be hard to explain away that whole "oops, we destroyed the earth" thing.
Atheist will twist theory to fit facts, and theist will rather twist facts to fit theories. Where does materialism come in to picture ?
There is not a single fact in existence that wouldn't be materialistic. The rest are stories about facts, meta stories and meta-meta stories.
That depends on your definition of fact. If a fact is a just true statement, then it could be completely unsupported by evidence and still be a fact.
Wait, what? I thought I misread it, but this is actually SOUTH Korea? So much for making fun of the other side. What have we done there...
It's true that North Korea is the land of no religion. Which makes it practically utopia according to slashdot commenters.
Please do not be influenced by the Christian fanatics, Korea. I have high hopes for you. You have a great and glorious culture for so many years. Please do not abandon it for an inferior culture propagated by these Christian extremists who based their myths on barbaric bronze-age hebrew tribe superstitions. More power to you Korea. Listen to your scientists!
Korean myths are pretty weird themselves: fan death, electromagnetic-absorption charcoal, blood types, the health effects of dog stew, etc...
time to get some pitch forks and end the world leadership and its 1% eleite that are destroying any chance we will have to survive on this world
i fear carl sagan was wrong when he said we have a 1% chance to survive ....this type a crap it makes it ZERO.
Well if there isn't a God, what does it matter anyway if we all die?
American Evangelical churches have money to burn, and are mostly the ones, who are behind this sort of nonsense. This sort of stuff is happening in many other countries too, including India, China (albeit in deep secracy), and many other Asian/African countries.
Interestingly enough, Korean evangelical churches send missionaries to the USA.
According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Korea Only 53% percent of South Koreans claim any religious affiliation, and 55% of those are Buddhists. ... So my comment is: What? What's going on here?
Need some Korean person to explain.
I'm not Korean but I know something about Korea: 1) Those numbers are probably out of date. There are large numbers of Koreans converting to Christianity every year. 2) Korean Christians are very active and organized. Korean Buddhists not so much 3) The "no religion" Koreans aren't usually atheists, they're agnostics who don't really care much about religion. Often they have Christian family members and are perfectly happy to go along with their family members in religious matters as long as it doesn't inconvenience them too much.
I think that belief in such things in this day and age is pretty sold proof that for some starins of people there truly has been zero evolution.
Evolution has nothing to do with it. The fact that you think evolution has anything to do with it shows that you have no idea what evolution is.
Is it just me, or does anybody else get that the theocrats are seriously getting on a fetish where they attribute everything negative to non-believers?
Not to mention how they try to get us to believe they are persecuted martyrs for their faith.
Rating this to "zero" is a clear case of someone with mod points to burn and no ethics what-so-ever. It might be sharp, but there does seem to be empirical evidence that followers of an organized religion seem to want those who oppose them to disappear.
OP is an anonymous coward, rated zero by default.
For the iPhone-MacBook-iPad-owning-environmentalists this presents a dilemma (which I think will be hilarious to watch).
Why? Where's the dilemma? The only issue is that the Apple products can't be easily disassembled. It's not that Apple is using environmentally damaging materials in the manufacture of their products.
The environmentalist wackos can buy Apple gear and then, when it's useful life is over, give it to Apple for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling.
as long as they ship their products to europe it has to adhear to the much much stricter european ROHS...
Apples and Oranges: It's a completely different type of standard.
Apple isn't pulling out of EPEAT so they can use hazardous or environmentally damaging materials in the manufacture of their products. They are pulling out of EPEAT so they can glue stuff together instead of using screws.
Profit > The Environment
Apple's move is driven by a design / certification dichotomy, not a profit / environment dichotomy.
Whether a given device is EPEAT certified says absolutely nothing about whether it is actually more or less likely to be recycled or whether it is more or less a burden on the environment. All is says is that the device can be relatively easily disassembled for recycling by unskilled labor without special equipment.
If Apple is willing to take all old devices for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling (and I believe they are), then the EPEAT certification is of no great value to the environment in the case of Apple's devices.
built-in superconducting magnets in the souls
Is that how ghosts are made?
That may seem like a long time but many engineering projects take on those time scales (the stabalising of the tower of pizza is one trivial example).
That tower of pizza sure is wobbly. How tall is it anyway? Is Papa John's involved in the stabilization efforts?
Sounds like a good plan to me.
*YAWN*
Job was, however, a "tech exec" in his first stint at Apple -- just not CEO.
That's German ATC, GP is talking about *American* ATC.
You know, the guys who were running vacuum tube computers up into the 80s.
Don't give us any of that Linux/Qt crap, you crazy Kraut!
You'll have to pry our APL and ADA out of our cold, dead hands!
Apple will be screwed if Google manages to snag the patent for Android's notification system. Karma is a b****.
Actually, karma is just an integer in a database.
My understanding is that EGlibc happened because Glibc didn't accept patches for clearly wrong behaviour (expecting /bin/sh to be /bin/bash for example) and didn't look after the embedded architecture ports well enough
Yeah that was Drepper saying he didn't care about effeminate toy architectures like ARM, because glibc was being developed for manly real architectures like x86.
I think most astronauts would be ok with a cheap suit made in the maldives or vietnam.
After all, there's no need to waste money on designer outfits when all that's really important is a good vacuum seal and a few life support functions.