I think that's where the line is drawn for a lot of people myself included. I program a lot at home but my home PC was built primarily for gaming. I could care less if my compile times could be slightly faster on Linux. The games I enjoy aren't now or ever will be ported to Linux. Nearly everything I do happens almost instantaneously on my Win7 machine so for all the claims that its faster, I don't see how the times I'm seeing could possibly be faster unless Linux users claim supernatural speeds or time distortion. If you are running on a junk rig or are worried about microseconds, more power to you for finding an OS that improves what you do. For the overwhelmingly vast majority of us out there 'good enough' will never be trumped by marginal issues or the pain in the ass of worrying about hardware and software compatibility.
Windows user here. Have never had an issue from a patch and definitely glad I paid for Win7. Quite nice being able to play games that are fun. For everything else that can be done on Linux, why bother?
"Wake me when I can buy/sell games 2nd hand over Steam. THAT would actually make me happy.. =)" That's a nonsense reason to be mad at Steam. Every penny that you think you would be getting is more than made up for by being able to buy at steep discounts. I got Black Ops 2 for half price shortly after it was released. It's still going for 50 bucks pre-owned at Game Stop on 360. Even following a trade in process like that I would be at the same place monetarily but no longer the owner of the game. The only thing that would be remotely close to being worth it monetarily would be an open market where people could trade/sell games but that won't happen. For Steam to even keep on existing it can't happen. The liability issues alone would make them never even think of implementing such a stupid idea. How could they possibly endorse a system that had no ability to cross reference the millions of transactions that would take place with every system out there to find out if that cd key had been banned from online play? VAC would be easy but that's not the only ban you would have to worry about. Do you think, even with a seven thousand page TOS, that people wouldn't be suing the crap out of Valve every time someone sold them a game that they couldn't play online? Its a PR nightmare, a litigation nightmare and would screw the rest of us that are smart enough to see that only suckers buy games at full price instead of waiting a couple of months and getting a 50-90% discount.
"Radiometric dating is a tool of the devil, clearly." "The principles of radioactive decay were established more than a century ago, and tens of thousands of experiments have been performed that verify it. " And here come the sheep. Baaah! Speak on brother. Tell me again how the FACT that a certain isotope decays at a set rate somehow provides a strong enough correlation between its own age and the age of the item in question that it becomes fact. Please, Preacher Man, give this ignorant heathen your wisdom! How can anyone but the basest, most profoundly stupid person jump from; We know the rate of decay of C14 is 5730 years so we now can say with certainty, (specifically and only because we know this one fact), that:
1. The rate of carbon 14 creation in the upper atmosphere has been constant for the entirety of Earth's existence even though the atmospheric conditions that allow its creation have been anything but constant. Which means...
2. The proportions of Carbon 14 and Carbon 12 to all other elements on the Earth has been constant for the last 5 Billion years.
3. The proportion of all isotopes of Carbon to other elements in a creature's mass has remained constant since the first life crawled out of the primordial ooze.
3. It is a complete and verifiable truth that every specimen tested for its age was found today with exactly the same number of C12 and C14 as the moment it died EXCEPT for those created due to radioactive decay.
4. The equipment used to determine how many C14 and C12 atoms a specimen has is infallible and is guaranteed to not miss a single atom.
5. When dating the same sample multiple times finds that a specimen is between an range of ages in the hundreds of millions that it is perfectly acceptable to discard every date in that range but the one that fits the one you want it to be.
Tell me what science magically turns those five ASSUMPTIONS into FACTS and I will gladly join your system of beliefs. You have faith that those assumptions are indeed facts because someone smarter than you said they were and you lack the intelligence to think for yourself. Its a religion of stupidity, not science. Any one of those things not being exactly what you assume it to be, (without even the smallest bit of proof to back up your claim), means that the end result could be radically different and therefore scientifically useless.
From someone who has driven over a million miles in my life it is absolutely not a myth. Maybe saying all traffic jams but I've watched entire stretches of highway have a collective drop of over 30 mph just because of a few stupid people hitting their brakes too hard. Its easily proven as well. Start paying attention around traffic lights with a lot of cars and without exception, the lane with morons stomping the gas will quickly become the lane with the morons over-breaking to compensate and the lane where more cars than not are no longer accelerating at all. You can watch it cascade down the lane for dozens of cars. I've also driven through Atlanta, GA with wall to wall cars, more than I've ever seen across six lanes of highway and everyone doing over 65mph. One jackass cut someone off then three entire lanes dropped to less than 30mph as everyone saw one guy break then panicked.
Except that only works in theory and for very few people at that. For the vast majority of people, their faith in their fellow man leads to a 'belief' in things that are called science but far from it. Loving science is what has turned me into a very harsh critic of many so-called sciences. The more I read about carbon dating, and how little science is actually involved, the more I realized that most people who hate religion have just as much faith in their false beliefs. " the authority of science derives from empirical testing and reason, not belief." I agree completely. There isn't any empirical testing or reason that would lead one to believe that an assumption, based on other assumptions, taken along with yet more assumptions, (all of which could radically alter the end result), somehow make for good science. If its something that could, at a future date, be proven correctly then the journey is worthy by scientific standards. In the case of carbon dating there is absolutely zero reason for anyone to even begin to make those assumptions except to take a contrary position against a religion that says the Earth is young. There really can't be any arguments for pushing for certain results except that one thing. That to me makes the fact that millions of people who strive to maintain faith in it as a real science are wrongfully standing proud under nothing more than a broken system of belief. What you say sounds good, but only in a world where "scientists" don't proclaim pseudo-science as fact and where most people gladly accept it as such.
I'm curious why you feel it necessary to say "terr'ist sand-nigger." without any evidence of having ever heard that come from a TSA worker's mouth? Without that evidence you are racist yourself for typing it. Sorry, but fuck racists, you included. That said, unless this guy can prove that the swab test was rigged, failed or somehow didn't work he can't really complain too much if a test indicated that he was exposed to explosive substances. Anyone running an airline would be stupid to allow someone on their airplanes who had evidence of explosives on them. And I can very easily see a person being pissed off enough to make a bunch more shit up in order to make their story more likely to make the news. I'm white and was also pulled out of line for 'extra' screening on half of the flights I've ever flown on. I guess those racist TSA agents must have thought I was a "terr'ist sand-cracker"?
Tesla Motors? You mean the only car company that got government loans and has already made enough money to pay them off early? You mean the same Tesla Motors that posted a quarterly PROFIT in May?
Sorry to say, but this boycott is without merit. Marriage is not a right. Its a religious institution that corrupt politicians unconstitutionally applied tax breaks and additional rights to when they shouldn't have. Their greed in wanting votes and the greed of Americans wanting more than they deserved is the only thing that has kept this issue alive. Anyone claiming that gays should have the right to marry are not fighting the right fight. They are simply fighting to allow another group of people to have unconstitutional advantages over their fellow citizens.The laws will always be geared to pander to whoever brings in the most votes at the time the laws are created. The simple response should have been civil unions. Not just for gay and lesbian couples but all couples. A Christian couple wants tax breaks too but has a marriage certificate? So what, go to the courthouse and get your civil union license. Strike the term marriage out of every law and replace it with civil union. Problem solved and no one would have a right to complain. But that would be way too easy and wouldn't allow our politicians to create division among the citizens so that the assholes running the show could paint themselves as fighting for the people and keep the votes coming in.
My mature and reasonable response is go ahead and mark the entire state of Kentucky in the app. If that keeps people away who only believe criminals have guns, then we're better for it. We may have more than our fair share of issues of but we don't have muggings where I live. There are no murders, rapes or home invasions any where near where I live. We may only have 200,000 people within 100 miles but even at that, our crime stats are no where near what they are in places where people think owning a gun is wrong. We have only had one attempted car jacking and that was ten years ago. Guy pulled a gun and the grandmother driving the car shot the attacker point blank in the crotch. Problem solved.
Under optimal working conditions the human heart will last 120 years. You want to fault the Creator of the heart because people don't care for it like they should? It's definitely not normal for someone's heart to just stop or build up clogs on its own.
Pure stupidity right here. If I went on to FB, got into an argument then posted"I'm going to just break into your house, tie you up and rape you until dawn", what's the likelihood of the police coming by my house? Context is not needed when a phrase has one meaning. Like here on/. when I say "Fuck you, pixelpusher, and fuck your ignorant argument" there will be a grand total of ZERO people on the planet who read it and say, "wow, how deranged must this guy be. I mean he wants to not only have sex with pixelpusher but also wants to copulate with his argument as well? For shame!".
How would digitization of human consciousness help someone know what's going to happen 328,000 years from now? Its the same as a robot but with a dead human's personality. Cryogenics, like you said, or some other form of stasis is about the only way any human will see something outside our solar system for the next dozen generations or more.
Your games won't be attached to a console but attached to your account. If you want to play that game at a friend's house just log in to their box and play all you want. Also claiming that you have to start a new xbox live account when your xbox dies? Get your shit straight. Oh yea, and fuck consoles, all of them.
People said the same thing years ago when they ruined Dark Age of Camelot trying to make believe they could force a better game in Warhammer. So to be completely honest, they seem to be getting better since now each decision only f's up one game instead of two at the same time. I haven't bought anything by EA since and will never buy a game that needs Origin regardless of what studio makes it. Too many other choices to waste time with a company like EA.
What substantiates its is simple. On a forum where no one knows anyone else, words are meaningless compared to real life experiences. To professionals talking shop about products that they use to make their jobs easier, or even possible, its nearly always the case that free does not compare. Free is always usable and sometimes nearly as good but always has tradeoffs in time spent trying to make it so. If you were using these software as your primary source of income, you wouldn't need validation from some random person online. You would already know what's the best from years in your career talking to people that you know on a professional level. Spend some time going through the channels and forums that professional artists use and for every person saying GIMP is just fine, there are hundreds more laughing at them. You can stand back and demand empirical evidence proving it, but we're talking about personal opinions to begin with. Most professionals would never waste their lives spending enough time with an inferior product to give you anything close to something that could be considered substantial evidence.
Having used both of those professionally I can say, with 100% certainty that GIMP got, and deserved less than one week on my machine. If you are a non-professional wanting to make meme pictures or do minor edits to pictures for your personal website, go for GIMP. If you have even the slightest desire to be productive in a professional setting PS is the only way to go. Your post is more about being a fanboy yourself than it is others being fanboys for Adobe products. Do you honestly think that people spending thousands of dollars for PS over the years haven't looked at cheaper options? Most of the plugins I use are unavailable for GIMP and all but a few are incompatible with the GIMP. How is that just as good? Nearly everything I can do in Photoshop, including macros that I MUST use can be done in GIMP except everything takes more work and goes slower. When I tried it out it was get me some GIMP#, fight with python, find PSPI, learn a new, complicated way to find out that your plugins you paid for don't work and most macros had to be rewritten then not work. Genius system that only goes to make light of the fact that GIMP is inferior. Same goes for people trying to say Linux has better or as good options for Excel. You may feel good fighting for the underdog. It might feel good enough for whatever it is you're doing, but when it comes to professional programs, stop with the 'my free, adequate for personal use, programs are just as good' arguments. Fails in every single way.
Thank you for spending all that time getting around the fact that scripture is what matters to people that believe and you couldn't come up with a single verse to back up God making Evil or the Bible saying God is responsible for everything. Good job.
"Except that they both use the same original scriptures. Islam just adds on the words of their prophet similar to what Christianity does." Incorrect. Muslims believe that many people from the Old Testament actually existed, but they definitely do not use the same scriptures. The Koran was the real word according to them and anything else was tainted and not wholly true including the Torah as they say it was wrongfully changed by man and is no longer fully trustworthy.
"The problem is that none of the mythologies make any sense unless you are already a believer." Kindly wish to back that up? Simply repeating ignorant arguments that you've heard like a parrot is meaningless. Including your next bit of ignorance: "When you have a monotheistic religion where EVERYTHING was created by a single omnipotent, omniscient god then arguing about whether that god created "evil" or "sin" is kind of silly." Where does the Bible say that God created EVERYTHING including the acts of men who were given free will to make their own choices? I'm not here to argue for or against anything but allowing stupid people to get away with saying stupid things.
Of course you feel it doesn't make any sense. Regardless of its own merits you seem to lack the intelligence to even know what it says, much less make a judgment on its contents.
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I think that's where the line is drawn for a lot of people myself included. I program a lot at home but my home PC was built primarily for gaming. I could care less if my compile times could be slightly faster on Linux. The games I enjoy aren't now or ever will be ported to Linux. Nearly everything I do happens almost instantaneously on my Win7 machine so for all the claims that its faster, I don't see how the times I'm seeing could possibly be faster unless Linux users claim supernatural speeds or time distortion. If you are running on a junk rig or are worried about microseconds, more power to you for finding an OS that improves what you do. For the overwhelmingly vast majority of us out there 'good enough' will never be trumped by marginal issues or the pain in the ass of worrying about hardware and software compatibility.
Windows user here. Have never had an issue from a patch and definitely glad I paid for Win7. Quite nice being able to play games that are fun. For everything else that can be done on Linux, why bother?
"Wake me when I can buy/sell games 2nd hand over Steam. THAT would actually make me happy.. =)"
That's a nonsense reason to be mad at Steam. Every penny that you think you would be getting is more than made up for by being able to buy at steep discounts. I got Black Ops 2 for half price shortly after it was released. It's still going for 50 bucks pre-owned at Game Stop on 360. Even following a trade in process like that I would be at the same place monetarily but no longer the owner of the game. The only thing that would be remotely close to being worth it monetarily would be an open market where people could trade/sell games but that won't happen. For Steam to even keep on existing it can't happen. The liability issues alone would make them never even think of implementing such a stupid idea. How could they possibly endorse a system that had no ability to cross reference the millions of transactions that would take place with every system out there to find out if that cd key had been banned from online play? VAC would be easy but that's not the only ban you would have to worry about. Do you think, even with a seven thousand page TOS, that people wouldn't be suing the crap out of Valve every time someone sold them a game that they couldn't play online? Its a PR nightmare, a litigation nightmare and would screw the rest of us that are smart enough to see that only suckers buy games at full price instead of waiting a couple of months and getting a 50-90% discount.
I wonder if I could use that excuse in court by installing a speedometer that only went to 70mph?
"Radiometric dating is a tool of the devil, clearly."
"The principles of radioactive decay were established more than a century ago, and tens of thousands of experiments have been performed that verify it. "
And here come the sheep. Baaah! Speak on brother. Tell me again how the FACT that a certain isotope decays at a set rate somehow provides a strong enough correlation between its own age and the age of the item in question that it becomes fact. Please, Preacher Man, give this ignorant heathen your wisdom! How can anyone but the basest, most profoundly stupid person jump from;
We know the rate of decay of C14 is 5730 years so we now can say with certainty, (specifically and only because we know this one fact), that:
1. The rate of carbon 14 creation in the upper atmosphere has been constant for the entirety of Earth's existence even though the atmospheric conditions that allow its creation have been anything but constant. Which means...
2. The proportions of Carbon 14 and Carbon 12 to all other elements on the Earth has been constant for the last 5 Billion years.
3. The proportion of all isotopes of Carbon to other elements in a creature's mass has remained constant since the first life crawled out of the primordial ooze.
3. It is a complete and verifiable truth that every specimen tested for its age was found today with exactly the same number of C12 and C14 as the moment it died EXCEPT for those created due to radioactive decay.
4. The equipment used to determine how many C14 and C12 atoms a specimen has is infallible and is guaranteed to not miss a single atom.
5. When dating the same sample multiple times finds that a specimen is between an range of ages in the hundreds of millions that it is perfectly acceptable to discard every date in that range but the one that fits the one you want it to be.
Tell me what science magically turns those five ASSUMPTIONS into FACTS and I will gladly join your system of beliefs. You have faith that those assumptions are indeed facts because someone smarter than you said they were and you lack the intelligence to think for yourself. Its a religion of stupidity, not science. Any one of those things not being exactly what you assume it to be, (without even the smallest bit of proof to back up your claim), means that the end result could be radically different and therefore scientifically useless.
From someone who has driven over a million miles in my life it is absolutely not a myth. Maybe saying all traffic jams but I've watched entire stretches of highway have a collective drop of over 30 mph just because of a few stupid people hitting their brakes too hard. Its easily proven as well. Start paying attention around traffic lights with a lot of cars and without exception, the lane with morons stomping the gas will quickly become the lane with the morons over-breaking to compensate and the lane where more cars than not are no longer accelerating at all. You can watch it cascade down the lane for dozens of cars. I've also driven through Atlanta, GA with wall to wall cars, more than I've ever seen across six lanes of highway and everyone doing over 65mph. One jackass cut someone off then three entire lanes dropped to less than 30mph as everyone saw one guy break then panicked.
Except that only works in theory and for very few people at that. For the vast majority of people, their faith in their fellow man leads to a 'belief' in things that are called science but far from it. Loving science is what has turned me into a very harsh critic of many so-called sciences. The more I read about carbon dating, and how little science is actually involved, the more I realized that most people who hate religion have just as much faith in their false beliefs.
" the authority of science derives from empirical testing and reason, not belief." I agree completely. There isn't any empirical testing or reason that would lead one to believe that an assumption, based on other assumptions, taken along with yet more assumptions, (all of which could radically alter the end result), somehow make for good science. If its something that could, at a future date, be proven correctly then the journey is worthy by scientific standards. In the case of carbon dating there is absolutely zero reason for anyone to even begin to make those assumptions except to take a contrary position against a religion that says the Earth is young. There really can't be any arguments for pushing for certain results except that one thing. That to me makes the fact that millions of people who strive to maintain faith in it as a real science are wrongfully standing proud under nothing more than a broken system of belief.
What you say sounds good, but only in a world where "scientists" don't proclaim pseudo-science as fact and where most people gladly accept it as such.
I'm curious why you feel it necessary to say "terr'ist sand-nigger." without any evidence of having ever heard that come from a TSA worker's mouth? Without that evidence you are racist yourself for typing it. Sorry, but fuck racists, you included.
That said, unless this guy can prove that the swab test was rigged, failed or somehow didn't work he can't really complain too much if a test indicated that he was exposed to explosive substances. Anyone running an airline would be stupid to allow someone on their airplanes who had evidence of explosives on them. And I can very easily see a person being pissed off enough to make a bunch more shit up in order to make their story more likely to make the news.
I'm white and was also pulled out of line for 'extra' screening on half of the flights I've ever flown on. I guess those racist TSA agents must have thought I was a "terr'ist sand-cracker"?
I only wish I had mod points today. For both points really:)
Tesla Motors? You mean the only car company that got government loans and has already made enough money to pay them off early? You mean the same Tesla Motors that posted a quarterly PROFIT in May?
Sorry to say, but this boycott is without merit. Marriage is not a right. Its a religious institution that corrupt politicians unconstitutionally applied tax breaks and additional rights to when they shouldn't have. Their greed in wanting votes and the greed of Americans wanting more than they deserved is the only thing that has kept this issue alive. Anyone claiming that gays should have the right to marry are not fighting the right fight. They are simply fighting to allow another group of people to have unconstitutional advantages over their fellow citizens.The laws will always be geared to pander to whoever brings in the most votes at the time the laws are created. The simple response should have been civil unions. Not just for gay and lesbian couples but all couples. A Christian couple wants tax breaks too but has a marriage certificate? So what, go to the courthouse and get your civil union license. Strike the term marriage out of every law and replace it with civil union. Problem solved and no one would have a right to complain. But that would be way too easy and wouldn't allow our politicians to create division among the citizens so that the assholes running the show could paint themselves as fighting for the people and keep the votes coming in.
My mature and reasonable response is go ahead and mark the entire state of Kentucky in the app. If that keeps people away who only believe criminals have guns, then we're better for it. We may have more than our fair share of issues of but we don't have muggings where I live. There are no murders, rapes or home invasions any where near where I live. We may only have 200,000 people within 100 miles but even at that, our crime stats are no where near what they are in places where people think owning a gun is wrong. We have only had one attempted car jacking and that was ten years ago. Guy pulled a gun and the grandmother driving the car shot the attacker point blank in the crotch. Problem solved.
Under optimal working conditions the human heart will last 120 years. You want to fault the Creator of the heart because people don't care for it like they should? It's definitely not normal for someone's heart to just stop or build up clogs on its own.
Pure stupidity right here. If I went on to FB, got into an argument then posted"I'm going to just break into your house, tie you up and rape you until dawn", what's the likelihood of the police coming by my house? /. when I say "Fuck you, pixelpusher, and fuck your ignorant argument" there will be a grand total of ZERO people on the planet who read it and say, "wow, how deranged must this guy be. I mean he wants to not only have sex with pixelpusher but also wants to copulate with his argument as well? For shame!".
Context is not needed when a phrase has one meaning. Like here on
How would digitization of human consciousness help someone know what's going to happen 328,000 years from now? Its the same as a robot but with a dead human's personality. Cryogenics, like you said, or some other form of stasis is about the only way any human will see something outside our solar system for the next dozen generations or more.
So long as I get a cybernetic body, I'm down to serve my future robot overlords.
Your games won't be attached to a console but attached to your account. If you want to play that game at a friend's house just log in to their box and play all you want. Also claiming that you have to start a new xbox live account when your xbox dies? Get your shit straight.
Oh yea, and fuck consoles, all of them.
If you amend that to "fuck all the lawyers except for Dr. Gonzo" I will back you 100%
People said the same thing years ago when they ruined Dark Age of Camelot trying to make believe they could force a better game in Warhammer. So to be completely honest, they seem to be getting better since now each decision only f's up one game instead of two at the same time.
I haven't bought anything by EA since and will never buy a game that needs Origin regardless of what studio makes it. Too many other choices to waste time with a company like EA.
What substantiates its is simple. On a forum where no one knows anyone else, words are meaningless compared to real life experiences. To professionals talking shop about products that they use to make their jobs easier, or even possible, its nearly always the case that free does not compare. Free is always usable and sometimes nearly as good but always has tradeoffs in time spent trying to make it so. If you were using these software as your primary source of income, you wouldn't need validation from some random person online. You would already know what's the best from years in your career talking to people that you know on a professional level. Spend some time going through the channels and forums that professional artists use and for every person saying GIMP is just fine, there are hundreds more laughing at them. You can stand back and demand empirical evidence proving it, but we're talking about personal opinions to begin with. Most professionals would never waste their lives spending enough time with an inferior product to give you anything close to something that could be considered substantial evidence.
Having used both of those professionally I can say, with 100% certainty that GIMP got, and deserved less than one week on my machine. If you are a non-professional wanting to make meme pictures or do minor edits to pictures for your personal website, go for GIMP. If you have even the slightest desire to be productive in a professional setting PS is the only way to go. Your post is more about being a fanboy yourself than it is others being fanboys for Adobe products. Do you honestly think that people spending thousands of dollars for PS over the years haven't looked at cheaper options? Most of the plugins I use are unavailable for GIMP and all but a few are incompatible with the GIMP. How is that just as good? Nearly everything I can do in Photoshop, including macros that I MUST use can be done in GIMP except everything takes more work and goes slower. When I tried it out it was get me some GIMP#, fight with python, find PSPI, learn a new, complicated way to find out that your plugins you paid for don't work and most macros had to be rewritten then not work. Genius system that only goes to make light of the fact that GIMP is inferior.
Same goes for people trying to say Linux has better or as good options for Excel. You may feel good fighting for the underdog. It might feel good enough for whatever it is you're doing, but when it comes to professional programs, stop with the 'my free, adequate for personal use, programs are just as good' arguments. Fails in every single way.
A criminal is one who has committed a crime. Whether they get caught, tried and convicted is irrelevant to whether or not they are a criminal.
Thank you for spending all that time getting around the fact that scripture is what matters to people that believe and you couldn't come up with a single verse to back up God making Evil or the Bible saying God is responsible for everything. Good job.
"Except that they both use the same original scriptures. Islam just adds on the words of their prophet similar to what Christianity does."
Incorrect. Muslims believe that many people from the Old Testament actually existed, but they definitely do not use the same scriptures. The Koran was the real word according to them and anything else was tainted and not wholly true including the Torah as they say it was wrongfully changed by man and is no longer fully trustworthy.
"The problem is that none of the mythologies make any sense unless you are already a believer." Kindly wish to back that up? Simply repeating ignorant arguments that you've heard like a parrot is meaningless. Including your next bit of ignorance:
"When you have a monotheistic religion where EVERYTHING was created by a single omnipotent, omniscient god then arguing about whether that god created "evil" or "sin" is kind of silly."
Where does the Bible say that God created EVERYTHING including the acts of men who were given free will to make their own choices? I'm not here to argue for or against anything but allowing stupid people to get away with saying stupid things.
Of course you feel it doesn't make any sense. Regardless of its own merits you seem to lack the intelligence to even know what it says, much less make a judgment on its contents.
I feel the same way about people who actually use the Post Anonymously check box instead of standing behind what they believe.