While this group sounds a bunch of xenophobic assholes, I find the idea of flouting the "prohibition" on drawing Mohammed quite laudable. The fact that they indeed got some armed gunmen to show up and confirm the stereotype that there are two many of these f*ing nutjobs seems to confirm the worst about these fanatics.
I wished that in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo the media and everybody on social networks would have responded by reposting their picture of Mohammed far and wide. Give 'em a taste of the Barbra Streisand effect! But instead, all of the media cowered, and only a noteworthy one or two outlets showed the picture. If everyone had done it, it would have given a power in numbers that prevented the targeting of individual outlets for retaliation. I think a twitter/facebook viral meme would have been awesome, but I am not savvy enough in such things to know how to instigate it.:/
I'm not worried at all if Assange/Manning "hurt" governments. But I'm *outraged* that they put the lives of people resisting repressive and violent regimes at risk by publishing their names and actions. If all they had done was whistle blowing against governments I would laud them, as I do Snowden.
What is needed is better police, intelligent, diligent, honest, capable police. What we have is dull thugs who shoot first and ask questions later. What is needed is a professional police force, independent from political whim. We need a police conduct authority independent of political whim and police who must investigate EVERY police weapons discharge. What we need is politicians who are not on the take and use police to enforce their dishonesty. What we need is honest, intelligent politicians FFS Michelle Bachman.... please, why ?
It's called herd immunity. And it only works when few enough people don't participate. Thus, we grant exemptions for people with medical disorders (not including the stupid-enough-to-follow-jenny-mccarthy gene).
Wait, what? China has just performed some ethically questionable medical research?! I really didn't expect such behavior from the country that puts poison in their cough syrup, toothpaste, and baby formula.
Yes, but the part you're missing is that it is not my job to provide you with herd immunity.
And that's why, under the law, you and your spawn are free to continue your miserable existences in your own parallel world, ostracized and isolated from the rest of us.
Bravo, California! This state led the way in recognizing the second hand harm of cigarette smoke. Hope they do the same with antivaxer idiots.
...last week hundreds of people protested at the Capitol, arguing that it infringed on their rights and that it would unfairly shut their children out of schools.
Cry me a river, you morons. Your stupidity in unfairly infringing on the rights of others to not die of completely preventable diseases.
This post is a perfect case study for when the "Oxford comma" would really improve ease of reading!!!!
Like this....
Earlier this week Recon Instruments started shipping their long-awaited Recon Jet heads up display for sports, to real-life actual consumers. Jet's core features are designed for the cyclist and runner, [sic] and allow automatic upload of stats to activity tracking services. They feature an on-board GPS generating real-time performance metrics, an on-board high definition camera for short videos and photos, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ANT+ for connectivity to 3rd party sensors for heart rate, cadence, and power data, and smartphone connectivity for caller ID, text messages, and music player access and control. Initial review by DCRainmaker.
Except that those terms [racism, sexism,...] are subjective and, really, based on emotions.. Atoms are not.
That the mind uses stereotypes to classify and categorize information is neither "subjective" nor an "emotion." This is what researchers actually study. Subsequently, inferences can perhaps be generalized that relate to the functioning of the subjective terms the previous poster used.
"Racism", "sexism", "patriarchy" and related topics of study within the social "sciences" inherently can't be quantitatively analyzed in any meaningful way.
You sound as silly now as the people who used to think atoms were the *inherent* limit of divisibility and exploration. Then electrons... In science, as in politics, innovation tends to come from the death of the old stalwarts rather than their enlightenment. Even Einstein became an obstructionist to quantum mechanics in his later years.
I was hoping the rocket would be recovered this time. I'm hoping they will release the video like last time, and we can see what happened. The rocket recovery was the most exciting aspect of this launch. (Apart, of course, from the espresso machine. Ha ha.)
Not sure you are the same A.C. or not? Anyhow, you misread my post. I simply stated an amusing and, as I said, "unrelated" pair of facts based serendipitously on what the previous respondent happened to write. They bear no relation to the price of rice in China. So calm down. =)
And no in fact, no, years of martial arts preparation should do very little to protect you from a random, unprovoked, and stealthy assailant.
Nonetheless, since you asked, I think there are other very good reasons however for studying martial arts. May I assume you are not a practitioner? I can tell you that in sports, well-being, and critical reaction-based situations, my martial arts experience has been invaluable to me.
My friend actually was punched without warning while randomly walking down the street, and his nose was broken. And I have studied martial arts. Unrelated facts. =)
I can't say I'm any happier about the idea of random people being able to peer into a house and see who's home or not anymore than I am enamored of the idea of cops doing it without warrants. I wonder what is a burglar's time-to-break-even for an investment in building one of these?
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In the immortal words of Ben Franklin: "Those who are willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
While this group sounds a bunch of xenophobic assholes, I find the idea of flouting the "prohibition" on drawing Mohammed quite laudable.
The fact that they indeed got some armed gunmen to show up and confirm the stereotype that there are two many of these f*ing nutjobs seems to confirm the worst about these fanatics.
I wished that in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo the media and everybody on social networks would have responded by reposting their picture of Mohammed far and wide. Give 'em a taste of the Barbra Streisand effect! But instead, all of the media cowered, and only a noteworthy one or two outlets showed the picture. If everyone had done it, it would have given a power in numbers that prevented the targeting of individual outlets for retaliation. I think a twitter/facebook viral meme would have been awesome, but I am not savvy enough in such things to know how to instigate it. :/
I'm not worried at all if Assange/Manning "hurt" governments. But I'm *outraged* that they put the lives of people resisting repressive and violent regimes at risk by publishing their names and actions. If all they had done was whistle blowing against governments I would laud them, as I do Snowden.
Their actions go well beyond US borders.
Yep, Assange and Manning put the lives of many activists and resisters at risk all around the world by outing them.
Why do people insist on conflating Snowden's patriotic actions with the well-meaning but naively harmful actions of Assange and [wo]Manning?!
What is needed is better police, intelligent, diligent, honest, capable police. What we have is dull thugs who shoot first and ask questions later.
What is needed is a professional police force, independent from political whim. We need a police conduct authority independent of political whim and police
who must investigate EVERY police weapons discharge.
What we need is politicians who are not on the take and use police to enforce their dishonesty.
What we need is honest, intelligent politicians FFS Michelle Bachman.... please, why ?
Yes, we do. I would also like a pet unicorn.
It's called herd immunity. And it only works when few enough people don't participate. Thus, we grant exemptions for people with medical disorders (not including the stupid-enough-to-follow-jenny-mccarthy gene).
Wait, what? China has just performed some ethically questionable medical research?! I really didn't expect such behavior from the country that puts poison in their cough syrup, toothpaste, and baby formula.
Yes, but the part you're missing is that it is not my job to provide you with herd immunity.
And that's why, under the law, you and your spawn are free to continue your miserable existences in your own parallel world, ostracized and isolated from the rest of us.
Bravo, California! This state led the way in recognizing the second hand harm of cigarette smoke. Hope they do the same with antivaxer idiots.
...last week hundreds of people protested at the Capitol, arguing that it infringed on their rights and that it would unfairly shut their children out of schools.
Cry me a river, you morons. Your stupidity in unfairly infringing on the rights of others to not die of completely preventable diseases.
Not to mention the Windows-like version numbering scheme!
...gnu11 instead of the older gnu89
Obviously!
This post is a perfect case study for when the "Oxford comma" would really improve ease of reading!!!!
Like this....
Earlier this week Recon Instruments started shipping their long-awaited Recon Jet heads up display for sports, to real-life actual consumers.
Jet's core features are designed for the cyclist and runner, [sic] and allow automatic upload of stats to activity tracking services. They feature an on-board GPS generating real-time performance metrics, an on-board high definition camera for short videos and photos, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ANT+ for connectivity to 3rd party sensors for heart rate, cadence, and power data, and smartphone connectivity for caller ID, text messages, and music player access and control. Initial review by DCRainmaker.
Except that those terms [racism, sexism, ...] are subjective and, really, based on emotions.. Atoms are not.
That the mind uses stereotypes to classify and categorize information is neither "subjective" nor an "emotion." This is what researchers actually study. Subsequently, inferences can perhaps be generalized that relate to the functioning of the subjective terms the previous poster used.
Even Einstein became an obstructionist to quantum mechanics in his later years.
"God does not play dice with the universe." ;-)
"Racism", "sexism", "patriarchy" and related topics of study within the social "sciences" inherently can't be quantitatively analyzed in any meaningful way.
You sound as silly now as the people who used to think atoms were the *inherent* limit of divisibility and exploration. Then electrons...
In science, as in politics, innovation tends to come from the death of the old stalwarts rather than their enlightenment.
Even Einstein became an obstructionist to quantum mechanics in his later years.
It's bullshit news. It only glorifies shame and schadenfreude.
Elon has just tweeted a video of the landing taken from an airplane:
https://t.co/4Te0BfT2Qn
Looks like there is a rough video of today's failed landing now...
https://t.co/4Te0BfT2Qn
Yeah, that's from the last time. Saw that one. Interesting. Looking forward to the new one.
They should land it in a net or something that springs up around it to catch it.
I was hoping the rocket would be recovered this time. I'm hoping they will release the video like last time, and we can see what happened. The rocket recovery was the most exciting aspect of this launch. (Apart, of course, from the espresso machine. Ha ha.)
If it didn't survive, it can't be reused. Thus, both are accurate here. The reverse is not necessarily true.
Not sure you are the same A.C. or not?
Anyhow, you misread my post.
I simply stated an amusing and, as I said, "unrelated" pair of facts based serendipitously on what the previous respondent happened to write. They bear no relation to the price of rice in China.
So calm down. =)
And no in fact, no, years of martial arts preparation should do very little to protect you from a random, unprovoked, and stealthy assailant.
Nonetheless, since you asked, I think there are other very good reasons however for studying martial arts. May I assume you are not a practitioner? I can tell you that in sports, well-being, and critical reaction-based situations, my martial arts experience has been invaluable to me.
My friend actually was punched without warning while randomly walking down the street, and his nose was broken. And I have studied martial arts. Unrelated facts.
=)
I can't say I'm any happier about the idea of random people being able to peer into a house and see who's home or not anymore than I am enamored of the idea of cops doing it without warrants. I wonder what is a burglar's time-to-break-even for an investment in building one of these?