I can't wait to see how the SJws re-write Lord of the Rings. Defending the Borders of Gondor is clearly racist - Open Borders from Rhun to Dun. The Uruk Hai are subject to discriminatory Orcophobia and will have to settle freely in the lands of the Numeroean West. A statement that "It is Ok to be Elf" is clear bigotry. Stop fat-shaming the trolls ! And Sauron was just engaging in peaceful community outreach using the palantir. The deplorable dwarves and their Gadsen axes caused all the problems.
And if you knew anything about the IPCC AGW Hypothesis you would have known that it postulates that the Lower Tropical Troposphere (LTT) will warm faster than the surface. This is the litmus test of he hypothesis. Not only has this not been seen, but the opposite has been seen and at a much lower rate than predicted by AGW, but completely consistent with natural warming. Of course you knew this, right ? You were only pretending to be completely ignorant of the claims of the IPCC to allow me to expand on why the IPCC's CO2 Hypothesis has failed so badly. Right ?
Yes. We are seeing warming at 1/3rd the rate of the UN IPCC AGW models. That rate of warming is consistent with NATURAL effects due to solar magnetic variability and its effects on water vapor (a much more potent gas than CO2). This is a continuation of the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age. The following paper shows in Figure 7 how badly the AGW models are wrong; http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
The observed warming you are showing is consistent with NATURAL warming for the last 150 years. It is a whopping factor of 3 below what we would observe if CO2 caused water vapor effects that the UN claims.
You can call me any label you like, but you are not practicing science until you address the 3 satellite datasets and 7 balloon datasets that all show warming consistent with NATURAL causes. nb: the surface dataset is now 50% estimated and is completely worthless, but I'm sure you already know that, right?
Take a look at Figure 7 of the following paper. CO2 is not an issue, nor is the WATER VAPOR that is the core of the UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis. The computer simulations are wrong by a massive factor of 3 http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
The empirical data show the Transient Climate Response is 1/3rd the modeled value, down by nearly a factor of 10 from the modeled value a decade ago. The ECS is about half the modeled value. See Figure 7 of the following peer-reviewed paper: http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
Stop listening to people and look at the empirical evidence of the satellite and balloon datasets for yourself. The UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis is now falsified at the 95% level and the observed rate of warming matches the rate for the last 150 years where changes in solar magnetic activity cause the well-attested Little Ice Age and we've been warming out of it ever since. If you deny the 3 satellite and 7 balloon datasets in favor of the Lysenkoist Government position then you are an anti-scientific Flat Earther.
Buzz Aldrin (Second Man to walk on the Moon) and a lot of other astronauts are skeptical about the UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
You would think the doomsayers would be happy that the Earth was not being destroyed by modern technology. but no, they appear to want to cling to their apocalyptic delusion in defiance of the observed data.
ps. the surface data sets are completely worthless. Most people who cling to them don't know that nearly 50% of the data is now 'estimated' based on assuming the IPCC model is true. The surface data sets are no longer 'observations' according to the Scientific Method, they are in fact 'hypothesis'. The data are the satellite and balloon data sets.
That has always been the purpose of Identity Politics, to balkanize a society into tribal groups that can be pitted against each other and played off by the globalist 'elites'. That was the whole point of pushing it by the Post Modernists and Cultural Marxists. They think if they destroy 'The Evil Patriarchy' (which is, Enlightenment Civilization based on Individualism and the sovereign Nation State) then not only will thermonuclear war be avoided but also the Collectivist utopia can be instantiated - overseen by the 'elites', of course. The "Ends Justify the Means" and destruction of Individual Liberty is supposed to usher in utopia, of course it always ushers in a dystopian nightmare where Individuals are slaughtered by their own governments and liberty dies at the hands of dogmatisms of what we would now call 'Political Correctness'.
Whenever a group bigger than the Individual and Family becomes more important than the Individual then individuals suffer. Look at all the democides of the last century, nearly all were by big Collectives and Identity Groups who persecuted Individuals. The only known antidote to this is Classic Liberalism where the Individual is the protected unit of society, and economic transactions are voluntary, not an Identity Group who can harm Individuals with involuntary transactions coerced with State force.
Thanks to all the tax livestock out there paying for this. The Government forces the innovative and industrious to pay up, and then hands lots, and lots of money as 'incentives' to companies like Solyndra, and to keep the solar schemes running (they generally are not sustainable without taking money from the citizens).
It might not be Year of the Linux Desktop, but it has been Year of the Linux Mobile for a few years. Plus Java too ('Anrdoid' is the friendly brand for what is, at essence, Google's 'Java'-esque system on Linux).
I personally have an iPhone and a Mac, but if you count Android as a Linux then Linux is nearly everywhere - from tony mobile and embedded to zillions of servers running all over the Internet.
It is great Bill Gates has worked out that the Linux+Java+mobile hardware combination is a winner in terms of usability and feature set. I'm not holding my breath for Richard Stallman to do the inverse.
Bah! not "inertia" but *momentum*. Inertia is the apparent result of conservation of momentum. We often think of inertia as 'resistance' to change in momentum, but really it is just the label we use for the idea that momentum won't change without application of a force.
Evolutionary Biology has been replaced with Lysenkoism - see the denial of biological sex now rampant in 'fashionable' parts of the West (and enforced by State force in Canada's case). if you believe that "Women have penises and Men have vaginas" (now Post Modernist orthodoxy, and part of madhouse Google's bathroom planning) then you are a Lysenkoist - and in denial of actual science.
Actually, scientists in this field have stated that Demore's claims are factual in scientific terms, although they are heresy for the current Cultural Marxist/Post Modernist denials of reality.
What is interesting is the propaganda claim that Demore's views are "Anti Diversity". This is counter-factual. Demore wants MORE DIVERISTY, with Diversity of Opinion being the greatest among these. If you read his manifesto before the reposters of it disgracefull edited it you will see this is true. The editing of his manifesto is proof that the thesis cannot be refuted, they have to edit and present a strawman for people to get enraged about.
We are not headed for Nineteen Eighty Four, we are in it. The media work for the enemy of Free People. If you haven't realized this yet then you are working for the wrong team. History will not judge you kindly.
These guys are pseudo-religious nutters with their repeated doomsday predictions. Life has never been as good as it is today, but their myopic perspective and toxic personalities prevents them from seeing how good life is today compared to any other time in the past.
Smart Slashdotters can also see how good things are compared to the past, and how bright the future can be if we work towards making greater scientific and technological progress. Leave the quasi-religious eschatons to their 'sky is falling' narratives.
I find that a very minor distinction. A lot of people are probably related to at least one of those groups (and there's more in other scriptures), or at least one could personally believe the "bad guy" is. The point is the Bible often had God give "believers" a blank check to slaughter non-believers.
COMPLETELY FALSE - and a libelous. There are ZERO open-ended references for Judeo-Christians to slaughter arbitrary non-believers, the references are specific to particular groups that existed three millennia ago. This is why there is also the verse "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" - meaning they are not permitted to extract vengeance. This is completely opposite to Islam which makes open-ended pronouncements against ALL non-believers until the 'Last Day' (Day of Judgement).
Why do you insist on libeling Judeo-Christians who reserve vengeance for YHWH alone while you defend the disgusting totalitarian Sharia theocracy with your fabrications. Is it because you are a homophobe who agrees with the Sharia commandment to throw gays off buildings before stoning them to death ? perhaps it is because you are a racist anti-Semite who likes Sharia's commandment to kill Jews were possible ? perhaps you are a sexist and like the fact that women are considered chattel under Sharia ? or is it the child marriage you are into, following the direct example of Mohammed ? is that why you are defending Islam by trying to draw an outrageously false 'moral equivalence' between the roots of Enlightenment Civilization and those of Sharia barbarism ?
You are either evil and the enemy of progressive human rights or you are deeply stupid, which one is it ?
They didn't change because of the text, but because of the Clue Stick of a century of bloody sectarian wars approx around 1600. The Middle East seems to not have finished that phase yet. The Clue Stick of death hasn't bashed them in the chops enough yet.
Completely wrong. Judeo-Christianity texts are considered divinely inspired but the work of mere men, so are subject to revision. Furthermore the progression in doctrine goes from Old Testament barbarity to New Testament tolerance. In contrast, Islam is considered the direct, universal and eternal word of Allah that cannot be changed. This means that Islam asserts Sharia applies every at all times, and all Muslims must strive hard ('jihada') to make this happen. Islam goes from the more moderate Meccan Suras to the much more brutal Medinan suras - which is the opposite trend to Enlightenment Civilization.
Since you are so retarded you are prepared to lie and distort dogmas in order to defend the Sharia Inquisition. In the age of nuclear weapons your actions are criminal, treasonous and disgustingly immoral - all because you are so arrogant and lazy to look up the actual doctrines.
You are exaggerating to the point of conspiracy theories.
"Conspiracy theory" is used when you are again too lazy to look up the facts. Which Bilderberger Meeting is open to the public or press? None of them you ignorant j-wad.
you demonstrate it is you who doesn't understand the detail of the real world,
I've already shown how you LIE to pretend doctrines are when the opposite is true. I've demonstrated this in detail. Your response is to make bs up from your own ignorant opinion instead of actually researching the primary sources. Your claim that you are a "detail person" is demonstrably false in many areas. It is clear it is delusion that leads you into your arrogant assumption about the breadth of your knowledge. What a douche you are.
No, it's a very very stupid argument. I cannot believe you are still trying to defend it. I'd feel ashamed if I were you.
You don't have counter-facts, hence you go for the emotional words that are supposed to substitute for an evidence-based
1 Samuel 15:3 - "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"
Deuteronomy 20:16-18 - "However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them--the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God." [emph added]
Yes, completely disgusting. However, if you are not an Amalekite, Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, or Jebusite then none of these apply to you. Thus, the West has not used Christianity as the basis for conflict for centuries.
Islam differs because its call for jihad is against ALL non-believers, the hated kaffir. This jihad must continue until the globe is subjugated under Sharia. The fascinating thing is that the Left pretends that Islam doesn't say what it clearly says when it commits its 31000+ fatal jihad attacks (http://thereligionofpeace.com/) within the last decade and a half, and then accuses the Christians of some crimes from three thousands years ago when Christianity today explicitly rejects violence. This Left has to make this false moral equivalence because of Cultural Marxist Critical Theory which blames the West for everything it has done or not done, while whitewashing the vastly worse crimes being committed by anyone else.
Is Christianity problematic ? sure. But everything you hate about Christianity (the Old Testament stuff) is turned up to 11 in Islam. Yet Leftists don't seem to understand this at all - because your Cultural Marxism requires you to deny the reality.
Many evangelicals say the same about the Bible
Really? when and where ? my understanding of Christianity is that they consider the Bible as divinely inspired but the work of men, hence open to reformation and ammendment (which is what we see). In Islam the claim is that the Koran is the direct, unalterable and eternal word of Allah and it is an offense punishable by death (either for takfir, shirk or kufr) to alter it [here we ignore the archeological reality that Islam is fiction and is false, just like all superstitions - but Islam asserts at the point of a sword it is true].
As long as you Leftists continue to support Islam you will be on the wrong side of history. It is amazing to watch people who claim to be 'against superstition and bigotry' work so hard to support and expand the reach of the most stupid superstition and most bigoted system known to man.
That's got to be the dumbest "argument" I've heard in months.
You hate it because it is 100% true. The Democrat party in the past was the party of slavery. The Democrat party of today is also the party of slavery - enslaving productive citizens at the point of the guns of the State to pay for the vote bribes it wants to hand out, while keeping the non-productive citizens on their vote plantation. This is the reality you wish to deny.
People traded heavily before rich existed. Big co's can exist without having rich managers. No law of the universe says managers must be rich.
Huh? there have always been rich and poor. The thing today is that poverty is defined in relative terms. The most poor person in the US has vastly greater material wealth and access to incredible resources that the richest person a century ago did not. This is all due to the actions of the Scientific Method, Enlightenment Civilization and the Free Market.
Anyhow, Canada, Germany, and some N. European countries do fine without a bloated upper class.
There were already too many topics to discuss so I left AGW out. I probably should have trimmed others.
No problem. You can now give me the details that support your position and prove that your position is correct and the conservatives are wrong. Here are my questions again, for your convenience:
Could you please tell me the empirically observed ECS and TCS from the satellite and balloon datasets, and then compare them to the same values that come from the UN IPPC AGW hypothesis. It turns out that Trump and his advisors understand these details in setting their environmental policy and I'm sure as a 'details' person you know these values off the top of your head - because the values are related to $40 TRILLION in projected spending (which the Left wants to extract from taxpayers, and the Right does not).
The Bible also says violent stuff that is more or less a variation of "kill all unbelievers".
Where does it say that ? there is one specific commandment to kill the Amelekites, and no other such injunctions. Once the New Testament kicks into action it is all "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" and "turn the other cheek" and other hippy stuff. So I'm curious where you got the "kill all unbelievers" stuff from ? Of course in Islam the reverse happens, the Meccan Suras are tolerant and are replaced (abrogated) by the Medinan Suras, of which Koran 9:29 is the best non-abrogated example. Hence we see ISIS implementing Islam exactly as it was intended and exactly following the example of the evil Mohammed (who makes Hitler look like a piker).
So in this case again it seems the conservatives have the correct understanding based on the detail, and the progressives are not only wrong, they are 180-degrees wrong with their open support for the Islamization of the former Free World.
What's in written scriptures and what's in the mind of believers are not necessarily tightly connected, especially since a literal reading produces many contradictions. I'm not making a statement who about rich religion is more violent, only saying that scriptural text is not a difference maker and is not the main component of actual behavior.
Islam states that it is interpreted literally, since Muslims claim the Koran is eternal and universal. It is only clueless Westerners and misdirecting Muslims who claim otherwise, in complete contrast to Islamic doctrine. Hence, the Left gets Islam completely wrong and the conservatives get it right, because it is the latter who has analyzed the doctrines in detail. This is opposite to your assertion in your initial post. You are on the wrong side of history, and I'm trying to help you get on the right side.
As far as individuals associated with the Democrat party who may have said racist statements (or some other extremist position), sure I DON'T deny it happens.
The Democrats owned slaves. No Republican representative has ever own slaves. The Republicans were founded to end slavery and they fought a very bloody Civil War to do it. Then they went around the World with the British and ended slavery everywhere else too. The KKK was then founded by Democrats to continue maltreating blacks because the Republicans opposed using laws to do so. Then the Democrats had Jim Crow laws and Bull Conner. There is a false narrative that the "Republicans switched" sides but this is based solely on a handful of racist Democrats going to the Republicans (who used the extra votes to push for economic liberty). Democrat President Johnson, who was a racist, worked out that rather than keeping blacks on a physical plantation he could attain and retain power by keeping them on vote plantation, while pretending to consider blacks as something other than "pets". Meanwhile, the Republicans had internalized MLK's dictim to "not judge by the color of skin, but the content of charact
Except that Tesla is not 'capitalist' (the Marxist term for the 'Free Market'). Tesla is an organization that exploits Government cronyism - where a company uses tax dollars taken at gunpoint by the Government. This is a logical thing for any company to attempt, and the solution is to remove power from the Government to rob citizens at gunpoint.
Of course, the 'elites' that control the Government and profit massively from it would rather you blamed the corporations and left the Government to rib the citizens in peace. In fact, crushing the corporations gives the elites that run the Government even more power, since there will be no Free Market alternative to Government.
'Smashing the Corporations' seems like a solution until you realise that the problem lies in the fact that Governments have way too much power over citizens. Shrink Government power and neither it nor the corporations can no longer use coercion to deal with you. The Government and corporations then need to persuade you to hand over your cash, rather than coerce you using the threat of force (the current system).
Ok, so you don't know anything about the AGW hypothesis, not even the arguments of your own side let alone the empirical observations that destroy the hypothesis. These details matter a great deal, and your claim that you are a "detail" person and the Republicans are not is not only is unfounded, but the opposite is true. I'm not trying to be mean to you (and I'm not a Republican), I am trying to hold a mirror up so you can learn - your view of the world is 180-degrees opposite to the reality.
As far as violence in scriptures, ALL the major holy books have violent passages. They also have "get along" passages. Adherents can choose to emphasize what they want and be violent jerks or get along based on what they focus on.
The books are not precise algorithms, leaving lots of room to human interpretation. Experts suggest that the original text was probably often referring to specific situations, but the context got lost to antiquity.
You should know this. If not, you are naive.
You are COMPLETELY wrong on this when it comes to Islam. You project your Western perspective onto a set of doctrines that you don't understand at all. I gave you a hint with the Doctrine of Abrogation and even a direct reference to look up. A "details" person would understand they didn't know these terms and have looked them up. Instead you get it completely wrong, and then try the ad hominem "naive", when it is you who is completely ignorant about Islamic doctrine. Again, I'm demonstrating that your claim to be a details person is not only unfounded, it is the opposite of the truth, and it is the people you smugly look down on who actually know and use the details to formulate their position.
It's merely a theory and has not proven itself in practice.
The same could be said of most of physics due to the approach to falsifiability in the Scientific Method (nb: as I said, I have a PhD in Physics so understand very well the limits of theories). But here we can see you may know what the Laffer Curve is, you just disagree that raising taxes destroys economic growth (which would appear to be common sense, except that it is not common among the Left).
Examples?
BDS. SJP. The fact that the vile Sharia-supremacist Linda Sarsour leads Democrat rallies and is fawed on by the Democrats. The fact that Sharia-supremacists like Keith Ellison were favored contenders for the head of the DNC. The fact that the Far Left US universities allow Hamas and Hezbollah speakers, but no platform even moderate Jews. Completely disgusting bigotry from the race-obsessed Left.
Could you please tell me the empirically observed ECS and TCS from the satellite and balloon datasets, and then compare them to the same values that come from the UN IPPC AGW hypothesis. It turns out that Trump and his advisors understand these details in setting their environmental policy and I'm sure as a 'details' person you know these values off the top of your head - because the values are related to $40 TRILLION in projected spending (which the Left wants to extract from taxpayers, and the Right does not).
Or you could provide detail on why Koran 9:29 is the most significant aya, and the basis for nearly all the major conflict in the World. The Republicans understand the significant of it, including the Doctrine of Abrogation, so as a "detail" person you'll easily be able to demonstrate your deep knowlege of the Doctrines, right ? perhaps you'll also be able to explain why the Muslim Brotherhood put hadith Sahih Muslim 6985 in their Charter, which drives the intended genocide against Israel.
Perhaps you know the details of the National Socialist 25-point program and how they increasingly align with the Democrat Party's current manifesto (especially since the Democrats are openly mainstreaming anti-Semitism with the BDS movement these days).
Perhaps you know the details of the Laffer Curve, and how Crazy Bernie is well... *completely crazy* when it comes to economics and digging the US out of the hole the greedy entitlement and vote-bribe folks have been digging (which is both sides of the aisle, since all Big Government people shaft the citizens).
Fail. I said people are free to enjoy their coffee. They just don't have to be public poseurs about it. Learning to read is a good thing, you ought to try it someday.
Are there any other non-coffee drinkers who welcome this? I'm hoping beyond all hope that the hipster poseurs w@nking about their addictive beans might stop yapping about it for a few minutes ? If you enjoy coffee, wonderful, but pretending one cup of seemingly burnt toast scrapings differs much from another cup of seemingly burnt toast scrapings warrants the same sniffy pontification as wine tasting is even more tedious than it is comical (I live in the city with the highest ratio of coffee outlets to citizens, and whose citizens are uberserious about their coffee, but it still tastes vile to me).
Indeed. Control freaks want to ban everything (but always only the things they don't personally use much). The modern-day puritanical 'wowsers' who want to use State force to impose their ideas onto others have got to go !
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I can't wait to see how the SJws re-write Lord of the Rings. Defending the Borders of Gondor is clearly racist - Open Borders from Rhun to Dun. The Uruk Hai are subject to discriminatory Orcophobia and will have to settle freely in the lands of the Numeroean West. A statement that "It is Ok to be Elf" is clear bigotry. Stop fat-shaming the trolls ! And Sauron was just engaging in peaceful community outreach using the palantir. The deplorable dwarves and their Gadsen axes caused all the problems.
And if you knew anything about the IPCC AGW Hypothesis you would have known that it postulates that the Lower Tropical Troposphere (LTT) will warm faster than the surface. This is the litmus test of he hypothesis. Not only has this not been seen, but the opposite has been seen and at a much lower rate than predicted by AGW, but completely consistent with natural warming. Of course you knew this, right ? You were only pretending to be completely ignorant of the claims of the IPCC to allow me to expand on why the IPCC's CO2 Hypothesis has failed so badly. Right ?
Yes. We are seeing warming at 1/3rd the rate of the UN IPCC AGW models. That rate of warming is consistent with NATURAL effects due to solar magnetic variability and its effects on water vapor (a much more potent gas than CO2). This is a continuation of the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age. The following paper shows in Figure 7 how badly the AGW models are wrong;
http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
The observed warming you are showing is consistent with NATURAL warming for the last 150 years. It is a whopping factor of 3 below what we would observe if CO2 caused water vapor effects that the UN claims.
You can call me any label you like, but you are not practicing science until you address the 3 satellite datasets and 7 balloon datasets that all show warming consistent with NATURAL causes. nb: the surface dataset is now 50% estimated and is completely worthless, but I'm sure you already know that, right?
Take a look at Figure 7 of the following paper. CO2 is not an issue, nor is the WATER VAPOR that is the core of the UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis. The computer simulations are wrong by a massive factor of 3
http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
Sorry amigo, you are quite wrong. Look at Figure 7 of the following paper:
http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
The empirical data show the Transient Climate Response is 1/3rd the modeled value, down by nearly a factor of 10 from the modeled value a decade ago. The ECS is about half the modeled value. See Figure 7 of the following peer-reviewed paper:
http://www.iieta.org/sites/def...
Stop listening to people and look at the empirical evidence of the satellite and balloon datasets for yourself. The UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis is now falsified at the 95% level and the observed rate of warming matches the rate for the last 150 years where changes in solar magnetic activity cause the well-attested Little Ice Age and we've been warming out of it ever since. If you deny the 3 satellite and 7 balloon datasets in favor of the Lysenkoist Government position then you are an anti-scientific Flat Earther.
Buzz Aldrin (Second Man to walk on the Moon) and a lot of other astronauts are skeptical about the UN IPCC AGW Hypothesis:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
You would think the doomsayers would be happy that the Earth was not being destroyed by modern technology. but no, they appear to want to cling to their apocalyptic delusion in defiance of the observed data.
ps. the surface data sets are completely worthless. Most people who cling to them don't know that nearly 50% of the data is now 'estimated' based on assuming the IPCC model is true. The surface data sets are no longer 'observations' according to the Scientific Method, they are in fact 'hypothesis'. The data are the satellite and balloon data sets.
Why are you a racist, David ?
So use System Tests as well in your Continuous Integration setup. Have you never heard of them ?
That is the essence of identity politics gone bad
That has always been the purpose of Identity Politics, to balkanize a society into tribal groups that can be pitted against each other and played off by the globalist 'elites'. That was the whole point of pushing it by the Post Modernists and Cultural Marxists. They think if they destroy 'The Evil Patriarchy' (which is, Enlightenment Civilization based on Individualism and the sovereign Nation State) then not only will thermonuclear war be avoided but also the Collectivist utopia can be instantiated - overseen by the 'elites', of course. The "Ends Justify the Means" and destruction of Individual Liberty is supposed to usher in utopia, of course it always ushers in a dystopian nightmare where Individuals are slaughtered by their own governments and liberty dies at the hands of dogmatisms of what we would now call 'Political Correctness'.
Whenever a group bigger than the Individual and Family becomes more important than the Individual then individuals suffer. Look at all the democides of the last century, nearly all were by big Collectives and Identity Groups who persecuted Individuals. The only known antidote to this is Classic Liberalism where the Individual is the protected unit of society, and economic transactions are voluntary, not an Identity Group who can harm Individuals with involuntary transactions coerced with State force.
Thanks to all the tax livestock out there paying for this. The Government forces the innovative and industrious to pay up, and then hands lots, and lots of money as 'incentives' to companies like Solyndra, and to keep the solar schemes running (they generally are not sustainable without taking money from the citizens).
This is quite the Ponzi Scheme.
It might not be Year of the Linux Desktop, but it has been Year of the Linux Mobile for a few years. Plus Java too ('Anrdoid' is the friendly brand for what is, at essence, Google's 'Java'-esque system on Linux).
I personally have an iPhone and a Mac, but if you count Android as a Linux then Linux is nearly everywhere - from tony mobile and embedded to zillions of servers running all over the Internet.
It is great Bill Gates has worked out that the Linux+Java+mobile hardware combination is a winner in terms of usability and feature set. I'm not holding my breath for Richard Stallman to do the inverse.
This created an inertia in Microsoft's favor.
Bah! not "inertia" but *momentum*. Inertia is the apparent result of conservation of momentum. We often think of inertia as 'resistance' to change in momentum, but really it is just the label we use for the idea that momentum won't change without application of a force.
Evolutionary Biology has been replaced with Lysenkoism - see the denial of biological sex now rampant in 'fashionable' parts of the West (and enforced by State force in Canada's case). if you believe that "Women have penises and Men have vaginas" (now Post Modernist orthodoxy, and part of madhouse Google's bathroom planning) then you are a Lysenkoist - and in denial of actual science.
I'm prepared to do my duty to humanity and mirror the torrent (hmmm, 'torrent' might be the aggregated net effect).
Actually, scientists in this field have stated that Demore's claims are factual in scientific terms, although they are heresy for the current Cultural Marxist/Post Modernist denials of reality.
What is interesting is the propaganda claim that Demore's views are "Anti Diversity". This is counter-factual. Demore wants MORE DIVERISTY, with Diversity of Opinion being the greatest among these. If you read his manifesto before the reposters of it disgracefull edited it you will see this is true. The editing of his manifesto is proof that the thesis cannot be refuted, they have to edit and present a strawman for people to get enraged about.
We are not headed for Nineteen Eighty Four, we are in it. The media work for the enemy of Free People. If you haven't realized this yet then you are working for the wrong team. History will not judge you kindly.
Is this the same Paul Ehrlich who predicted humans would be reduced to cannibalism by the 1990's ?
http://reason.com/blog/2015/06...
https://www.masterresource.org...
These guys are pseudo-religious nutters with their repeated doomsday predictions. Life has never been as good as it is today, but their myopic perspective and toxic personalities prevents them from seeing how good life is today compared to any other time in the past.
Smart Slashdotters can also see how good things are compared to the past, and how bright the future can be if we work towards making greater scientific and technological progress. Leave the quasi-religious eschatons to their 'sky is falling' narratives.
COMPLETELY FALSE - and a libelous. There are ZERO open-ended references for Judeo-Christians to slaughter arbitrary non-believers, the references are specific to particular groups that existed three millennia ago. This is why there is also the verse "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" - meaning they are not permitted to extract vengeance. This is completely opposite to Islam which makes open-ended pronouncements against ALL non-believers until the 'Last Day' (Day of Judgement).
Why do you insist on libeling Judeo-Christians who reserve vengeance for YHWH alone while you defend the disgusting totalitarian Sharia theocracy with your fabrications. Is it because you are a homophobe who agrees with the Sharia commandment to throw gays off buildings before stoning them to death ? perhaps it is because you are a racist anti-Semite who likes Sharia's commandment to kill Jews were possible ? perhaps you are a sexist and like the fact that women are considered chattel under Sharia ? or is it the child marriage you are into, following the direct example of Mohammed ? is that why you are defending Islam by trying to draw an outrageously false 'moral equivalence' between the roots of Enlightenment Civilization and those of Sharia barbarism ?
You are either evil and the enemy of progressive human rights or you are deeply stupid, which one is it ?
Completely wrong. Judeo-Christianity texts are considered divinely inspired but the work of mere men, so are subject to revision. Furthermore the progression in doctrine goes from Old Testament barbarity to New Testament tolerance. In contrast, Islam is considered the direct, universal and eternal word of Allah that cannot be changed. This means that Islam asserts Sharia applies every at all times, and all Muslims must strive hard ('jihada') to make this happen. Islam goes from the more moderate Meccan Suras to the much more brutal Medinan suras - which is the opposite trend to Enlightenment Civilization.
Since you are so retarded you are prepared to lie and distort dogmas in order to defend the Sharia Inquisition. In the age of nuclear weapons your actions are criminal, treasonous and disgustingly immoral - all because you are so arrogant and lazy to look up the actual doctrines.
"Conspiracy theory" is used when you are again too lazy to look up the facts. Which Bilderberger Meeting is open to the public or press? None of them you ignorant j-wad.
I've already shown how you LIE to pretend doctrines are when the opposite is true. I've demonstrated this in detail. Your response is to make bs up from your own ignorant opinion instead of actually researching the primary sources. Your claim that you are a "detail person" is demonstrably false in many areas. It is clear it is delusion that leads you into your arrogant assumption about the breadth of your knowledge. What a douche you are.
You don't have counter-facts, hence you go for the emotional words that are supposed to substitute for an evidence-based
Yes, completely disgusting. However, if you are not an Amalekite, Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, or Jebusite then none of these apply to you. Thus, the West has not used Christianity as the basis for conflict for centuries.
Islam differs because its call for jihad is against ALL non-believers, the hated kaffir. This jihad must continue until the globe is subjugated under Sharia. The fascinating thing is that the Left pretends that Islam doesn't say what it clearly says when it commits its 31000+ fatal jihad attacks (http://thereligionofpeace.com/) within the last decade and a half, and then accuses the Christians of some crimes from three thousands years ago when Christianity today explicitly rejects violence. This Left has to make this false moral equivalence because of Cultural Marxist Critical Theory which blames the West for everything it has done or not done, while whitewashing the vastly worse crimes being committed by anyone else.
Is Christianity problematic ? sure. But everything you hate about Christianity (the Old Testament stuff) is turned up to 11 in Islam. Yet Leftists don't seem to understand this at all - because your Cultural Marxism requires you to deny the reality.
Really? when and where ? my understanding of Christianity is that they consider the Bible as divinely inspired but the work of men, hence open to reformation and ammendment (which is what we see). In Islam the claim is that the Koran is the direct, unalterable and eternal word of Allah and it is an offense punishable by death (either for takfir, shirk or kufr) to alter it [here we ignore the archeological reality that Islam is fiction and is false, just like all superstitions - but Islam asserts at the point of a sword it is true].
As long as you Leftists continue to support Islam you will be on the wrong side of history. It is amazing to watch people who claim to be 'against superstition and bigotry' work so hard to support and expand the reach of the most stupid superstition and most bigoted system known to man.
You hate it because it is 100% true. The Democrat party in the past was the party of slavery. The Democrat party of today is also the party of slavery - enslaving productive citizens at the point of the guns of the State to pay for the vote bribes it wants to hand out, while keeping the non-productive citizens on their vote plantation. This is the reality you wish to deny.
Huh? there have always been rich and poor. The thing today is that poverty is defined in relative terms. The most poor person in the US has vastly greater material wealth and access to incredible resources that the richest person a century ago did not. This is all due to the actions of the Scientific Method, Enlightenment Civilization and the Free Market.
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No problem. You can now give me the details that support your position and prove that your position is correct and the conservatives are wrong. Here are my questions again, for your convenience:
Where does it say that ? there is one specific commandment to kill the Amelekites, and no other such injunctions. Once the New Testament kicks into action it is all "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" and "turn the other cheek" and other hippy stuff. So I'm curious where you got the "kill all unbelievers" stuff from ? Of course in Islam the reverse happens, the Meccan Suras are tolerant and are replaced (abrogated) by the Medinan Suras, of which Koran 9:29 is the best non-abrogated example. Hence we see ISIS implementing Islam exactly as it was intended and exactly following the example of the evil Mohammed (who makes Hitler look like a piker).
So in this case again it seems the conservatives have the correct understanding based on the detail, and the progressives are not only wrong, they are 180-degrees wrong with their open support for the Islamization of the former Free World.
Islam states that it is interpreted literally, since Muslims claim the Koran is eternal and universal. It is only clueless Westerners and misdirecting Muslims who claim otherwise, in complete contrast to Islamic doctrine. Hence, the Left gets Islam completely wrong and the conservatives get it right, because it is the latter who has analyzed the doctrines in detail. This is opposite to your assertion in your initial post. You are on the wrong side of history, and I'm trying to help you get on the right side.
The Democrats owned slaves. No Republican representative has ever own slaves. The Republicans were founded to end slavery and they fought a very bloody Civil War to do it. Then they went around the World with the British and ended slavery everywhere else too. The KKK was then founded by Democrats to continue maltreating blacks because the Republicans opposed using laws to do so. Then the Democrats had Jim Crow laws and Bull Conner. There is a false narrative that the "Republicans switched" sides but this is based solely on a handful of racist Democrats going to the Republicans (who used the extra votes to push for economic liberty). Democrat President Johnson, who was a racist, worked out that rather than keeping blacks on a physical plantation he could attain and retain power by keeping them on vote plantation, while pretending to consider blacks as something other than "pets". Meanwhile, the Republicans had internalized MLK's dictim to "not judge by the color of skin, but the content of charact
Except that Tesla is not 'capitalist' (the Marxist term for the 'Free Market'). Tesla is an organization that exploits Government cronyism - where a company uses tax dollars taken at gunpoint by the Government. This is a logical thing for any company to attempt, and the solution is to remove power from the Government to rob citizens at gunpoint.
Of course, the 'elites' that control the Government and profit massively from it would rather you blamed the corporations and left the Government to rib the citizens in peace. In fact, crushing the corporations gives the elites that run the Government even more power, since there will be no Free Market alternative to Government.
'Smashing the Corporations' seems like a solution until you realise that the problem lies in the fact that Governments have way too much power over citizens. Shrink Government power and neither it nor the corporations can no longer use coercion to deal with you. The Government and corporations then need to persuade you to hand over your cash, rather than coerce you using the threat of force (the current system).
Ok, so you don't know anything about the AGW hypothesis, not even the arguments of your own side let alone the empirical observations that destroy the hypothesis. These details matter a great deal, and your claim that you are a "detail" person and the Republicans are not is not only is unfounded, but the opposite is true. I'm not trying to be mean to you (and I'm not a Republican), I am trying to hold a mirror up so you can learn - your view of the world is 180-degrees opposite to the reality.
You are COMPLETELY wrong on this when it comes to Islam. You project your Western perspective onto a set of doctrines that you don't understand at all. I gave you a hint with the Doctrine of Abrogation and even a direct reference to look up. A "details" person would understand they didn't know these terms and have looked them up. Instead you get it completely wrong, and then try the ad hominem "naive", when it is you who is completely ignorant about Islamic doctrine. Again, I'm demonstrating that your claim to be a details person is not only unfounded, it is the opposite of the truth, and it is the people you smugly look down on who actually know and use the details to formulate their position.
The same could be said of most of physics due to the approach to falsifiability in the Scientific Method (nb: as I said, I have a PhD in Physics so understand very well the limits of theories). But here we can see you may know what the Laffer Curve is, you just disagree that raising taxes destroys economic growth (which would appear to be common sense, except that it is not common among the Left).
BDS. SJP. The fact that the vile Sharia-supremacist Linda Sarsour leads Democrat rallies and is fawed on by the Democrats. The fact that Sharia-supremacists like Keith Ellison were favored contenders for the head of the DNC. The fact that the Far Left US universities allow Hamas and Hezbollah speakers, but no platform even moderate Jews. Completely disgusting bigotry from the race-obsessed Left.
You like detail. Wonderful.
Could you please tell me the empirically observed ECS and TCS from the satellite and balloon datasets, and then compare them to the same values that come from the UN IPPC AGW hypothesis. It turns out that Trump and his advisors understand these details in setting their environmental policy and I'm sure as a 'details' person you know these values off the top of your head - because the values are related to $40 TRILLION in projected spending (which the Left wants to extract from taxpayers, and the Right does not).
Or you could provide detail on why Koran 9:29 is the most significant aya, and the basis for nearly all the major conflict in the World. The Republicans understand the significant of it, including the Doctrine of Abrogation, so as a "detail" person you'll easily be able to demonstrate your deep knowlege of the Doctrines, right ? perhaps you'll also be able to explain why the Muslim Brotherhood put hadith Sahih Muslim 6985 in their Charter, which drives the intended genocide against Israel.
Perhaps you know the details of the National Socialist 25-point program and how they increasingly align with the Democrat Party's current manifesto (especially since the Democrats are openly mainstreaming anti-Semitism with the BDS movement these days).
Perhaps you know the details of the Laffer Curve, and how Crazy Bernie is well ... *completely crazy* when it comes to economics and digging the US out of the hole the greedy entitlement and vote-bribe folks have been digging (which is both sides of the aisle, since all Big Government people shaft the citizens).
Fail. I said people are free to enjoy their coffee. They just don't have to be public poseurs about it. Learning to read is a good thing, you ought to try it someday.
Are there any other non-coffee drinkers who welcome this? I'm hoping beyond all hope that the hipster poseurs w@nking about their addictive beans might stop yapping about it for a few minutes ? If you enjoy coffee, wonderful, but pretending one cup of seemingly burnt toast scrapings differs much from another cup of seemingly burnt toast scrapings warrants the same sniffy pontification as wine tasting is even more tedious than it is comical (I live in the city with the highest ratio of coffee outlets to citizens, and whose citizens are uberserious about their coffee, but it still tastes vile to me).
Indeed. Control freaks want to ban everything (but always only the things they don't personally use much). The modern-day puritanical 'wowsers' who want to use State force to impose their ideas onto others have got to go !