This murder is no different from a gang hit. Your cynical views of religion are moot. You think if we ban religion it will stop all the violence you see it causing? Stop being so smart, moron. Be tolerant and understanding instead.
Allow me to make this 100% clear: I will be tolerant and understanding of people who are tolerant and understanding.
But the drooling morons who kill in the name of religion, and those who support/encourage them... I most certainly will not be tolerant and understanding.
This goes for Buddhists, Muslims, Hindu, Jew, Christian, Jain, Sikh, and any other form of religion.
I am not singling out a particular religion.
I'm saying if you use your religion to justify crap like this, you are a worthless person. If your religious leaders suggest your religion supports this.. then either your religious leaders, or your religion itself is flawed.
If people wrap ignorance and stupidity up in religion, then either religion needs to fix this, or it is simply a tool for ignorance and stupidity. And if that's what it is, it is fundamentally evil.
Again, this applies to all religions.
So piss off and go hump someone else's leg, asshole.
But let's not pretend that there exist religious leaders who advocate the killing of people who do not match their specific version of religion. Because that would be complete and utter bullshit.
The biggest risks to us isn't us, it's the clowns they hire ostensibly to keep us safe.
The cops. The TSA agents. Customs agents. The baggage claims people. The people who processes passports.
All of these people have FAR more access to really make a mess and break the law.
So, as usual, the watchers are the ones who aren't watched nearly enough and who do the most damage. The rest of us get treated like cattle, and they never find anything.
If publishers start posting their stuff direct to people facebook pages, I hope they're prepared for an endless stream of profanity laced responses from people who don't necessarily want that.
Careful what you wish for, you might not like the results.
"But if you think this murder would have happened independent of religion, then I'm afraid I can't buy that" because no murders ever happen without religion. fuck off ass hat
LOL, fuck you too, princess.
I never said no murder happens without religion... but I did say this murder sure as hell happened because of religion, which someone feels the need to couch as "politics".
Is the poor little baby upset that his god won't make the world stop being mean?
I'm sorry, but what ideology are you accusing me of?
Pointing out that religious extremists of a particular bent feel killing is OK? In which case, sure.
But if you're somehow pretending that religious extremists among that particular religion don't exist, and that they don't commit acts of violence... well, you're full of crap.
Feel free to use actual facts instead of mere innuendo... or fuck off.
The researchers built a prototype eight-terminal device consisting of a magnetic matrix with micro-antennas to excite and detect the spin waves. The micro-antennas allow the researchers to generate and recognize any input phase pattern
Resulting in improved leveraging of synergies and a minty fresh taste.
Honestly, I hope that makes sense to someone, because it sounds like computer generated gibberish to me.:-P
Except there are most definitely religious leaders who advocate this crap.
It's not merely random depravity, it's systemic.
Ask Salman Rushdie if this kind of thing is isolated to a few nut jobs.
On 14 February 1989, the day of the funeral of his close friend Bruce Chatwin, a fatwÄ requiring Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphemous against Islam" (chapter IV of the book depicts the character of an Imam in exile who returns to incite revolt from the people of his country with no regard for their safety). A bounty was offered for Rushdie's death, and he was thus forced to live under police protection for several years. On 7 March 1989, the United Kingdom and Iran broke diplomatic relations over the Rushdie controversy.
The publication of the book and the fatwÄ sparked violence around the world, with bookstores firebombed. Muslim communities in several nations in the West held public rallies, burning copies of the book. Several people associated with translating or publishing the book were attacked, seriously injured, and even killed.[note 1] Many more people died in riots in some countries.
This has nothing at all to do with a 'normal distribution', and everything to do with officially sanctioned violence.
Of course the problem with that statement is that it is not uncommon for religious people to treat this as a prescription and a set of rules.
Not nearly uncommon enough.
There more certainly are people who want to have a literal interpretation of the bible... and therefore assert the Earth is only 6000 years old, and that dinosaur fossils are a ruse put there by god.
Honestly, atheists seldom go around killing people over irrational things in their holy book. Maybe for random irrational reasons, but not because god told them to do it.
When the religious people start being able to distinguish between what is a tenet and what is an account, awesome.
But don't blame this on non-religious people who look at some irrational stuff done in the name of religion.
Four masked assailants chased him down in broad daylight and attacked him with cleavers and machetes.
Honestly, do you really think this would have happened anyway?
Since 2013, at least five bloggers have been attacked by Islamists after another hardline group, Hefazat-e-Islam, publicly sought the execution of atheists who organised mass protests against the rise of political Islam.
I'm going to assume religion is very much a factor here.
I'm not going to disagree on that, but that doesn't mean that student loans are anywhere near a good answer.
Well, what are your options?
Government backed student loans.
Convincing private lenders to make a loan to some kid out of highschool with no credit history or job.
Free tuition.
Suck it up if your parents can't afford to pay.
If governments didn't back student loans, there's no way in hell banks would give them. And then you're back to the realization that without government backing of the loans, or free tuition... a huge amount of people who don't have rich parents would simply never be able to get an education past highschool.
I'd far rather see government working to ensure an educated populace than spending resources advancing the international copyright interests of multinational corporations or acting as a police force for those same corporations.
Society at least gets some benefit from an educated populace.
Until, of course, government gets conned by industry to allow them to bring in cheaper international labor to alter the structure of their beloved market by introducing externalities to tilt the game in favor of corporations.
A better question may be, why do "federally-guaranteed loans" need to exist in the first place...
Because, it is better for society to have an educated populace, and not just have the children of the wealthy be able to afford to have one.
Another victim of the government monopoly...
Another person operating under the delusion they sprang into existence a fully formed human without any of the benefits provided by society.
Did you go to public school? Did you enjoy the benefits of living in a mostly lawful society? Do you drive on public roads? Do you use any public infrastructure like water?
Do you honestly believe you exist through sheer force of your own will and that you did not reap the rewards of your parent society? If so, you should probably seek some therapy, because you're delusional.
Because a society in which only the children of the wealthy can afford an education, and everyone else is relegated to not having one and working in medial tasks.. well, that society is a complete shithole.
So essentially you are saying "I wish to live in a society in which we have the wealthy and the peasants, and if the peasants wish to rise above their station, too damned bad".
You may want to live in that society, but the rest of us don't.
What princely patron paid for your smug self to get an education and rise up from the gutter? Or are you just some rich kid who thinks having daddy pay for your education is the natural order of things?
If you want to arrive unmolested you might try not taking part in an ongoing criminal conspiracy
Bullshit.
TSA et al have done the exact same thing with the laptops of people who aren't suspected of any criminal activity. And even if they are suspected of criminal activity, they're still entitled to due process.
What you're saying is "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide".
Have we actually reached the point where people are willing to accept fascists bypassing the law to make their lives easier? Or bullshit searches defended by the notion that innocent people have nothing to fear?
Because what yo're saying is "a little fascism is OK if we think they're bad guys". Fuck that.
This was not a random search without basis or probable cause.
Then get a fucking warrant. Bypassing legal obligations because you think you can game the system and get the TSA to do it for you means you should lose your fucking job.
It's bloody well time law enforcement was actually penalized when they do crap like this. And parallel construction should be grounds for criminal perjury charges.
None of this "oh we had to lie to get a conviction and keep our sources secret". Because that's a crock of shit.
But, honestly, with the bullshit "we can do a border search at an airport and within 100 miles of the border", they probably figured they didn't need to.
They've already been told they have search powers that are effectively unconstitutional, but some how magically legal.
Which means they felt they could bypass the law by doing the search in an airport, and then using that as grounds for a warrant.
Evidence that, once again, law enforcement is taking advantage of all of the stupid rules which allow them to bypass the law.
As much as the judge shut them down, you can bet your ass this was a conscious strategy and not a mistake.
Surprisingly, these materials aren't all that expensive, according to Gupta--the raw materials are common, and there are many factories that make syntactic foams. The difficulty is in the basic science of creating them and evaluating their properties. Gupta's lab has all sorts of machines to bend, twist, compress, pull, and otherwise stress-test a material.
"If there's a way to break something, we can do it here," he told me.
From the sounds of it, this aint his first rodeo, and has already thought of this stuff.
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Allow me to make this 100% clear: I will be tolerant and understanding of people who are tolerant and understanding.
But the drooling morons who kill in the name of religion, and those who support/encourage them ... I most certainly will not be tolerant and understanding.
This goes for Buddhists, Muslims, Hindu, Jew, Christian, Jain, Sikh, and any other form of religion.
I am not singling out a particular religion.
I'm saying if you use your religion to justify crap like this, you are a worthless person. If your religious leaders suggest your religion supports this .. then either your religious leaders, or your religion itself is flawed.
If people wrap ignorance and stupidity up in religion, then either religion needs to fix this, or it is simply a tool for ignorance and stupidity. And if that's what it is, it is fundamentally evil.
Again, this applies to all religions.
So piss off and go hump someone else's leg, asshole.
But let's not pretend that there exist religious leaders who advocate the killing of people who do not match their specific version of religion. Because that would be complete and utter bullshit.
The biggest risks to us isn't us, it's the clowns they hire ostensibly to keep us safe.
The cops. The TSA agents. Customs agents. The baggage claims people. The people who processes passports.
All of these people have FAR more access to really make a mess and break the law.
So, as usual, the watchers are the ones who aren't watched nearly enough and who do the most damage. The rest of us get treated like cattle, and they never find anything.
If publishers start posting their stuff direct to people facebook pages, I hope they're prepared for an endless stream of profanity laced responses from people who don't necessarily want that.
Careful what you wish for, you might not like the results.
LOL, fuck you too, princess.
I never said no murder happens without religion ... but I did say this murder sure as hell happened because of religion, which someone feels the need to couch as "politics".
Is the poor little baby upset that his god won't make the world stop being mean?
I'm sorry, but what ideology are you accusing me of?
Pointing out that religious extremists of a particular bent feel killing is OK? In which case, sure.
But if you're somehow pretending that religious extremists among that particular religion don't exist, and that they don't commit acts of violence ... well, you're full of crap.
Feel free to use actual facts instead of mere innuendo ... or fuck off.
Nope, stupid human can't type ... magnonic is apparently a real thing.
Well, a Google search for "magonic" yields an on-line branding company, but no actual word.
The rest are words, but I can't say I understand them as combined.
Maybe this is a viral marketing campaign?
Spinners, a big antenna, and fuzzy dice make for one bitchin' ride.
Beyond that, I got nothing.
Resulting in improved leveraging of synergies and a minty fresh taste.
Honestly, I hope that makes sense to someone, because it sounds like computer generated gibberish to me. :-P
If by 'political motive' you mean "you disagree with my religion therefore I will kill you", sure.
But if you think this murder would have happened independent of religion, then I'm afraid I can't buy that.
For some people, 'politics' are 100% drive by religion, and are indistinguishable.
But when you have people saying "our religion demands your death", that sure as hell isn't politics. It's religious fanaticism.
Except there are most definitely religious leaders who advocate this crap.
It's not merely random depravity, it's systemic.
Ask Salman Rushdie if this kind of thing is isolated to a few nut jobs.
This has nothing at all to do with a 'normal distribution', and everything to do with officially sanctioned violence.
Of course the problem with that statement is that it is not uncommon for religious people to treat this as a prescription and a set of rules.
Not nearly uncommon enough.
There more certainly are people who want to have a literal interpretation of the bible ... and therefore assert the Earth is only 6000 years old, and that dinosaur fossils are a ruse put there by god.
Honestly, atheists seldom go around killing people over irrational things in their holy book. Maybe for random irrational reasons, but not because god told them to do it.
When the religious people start being able to distinguish between what is a tenet and what is an account, awesome.
But don't blame this on non-religious people who look at some irrational stuff done in the name of religion.
Honestly, do you really think this would have happened anyway?
I'm going to assume religion is very much a factor here.
LOL ... you mean 'round'?
Well, what are your options?
Government backed student loans.
Convincing private lenders to make a loan to some kid out of highschool with no credit history or job.
Free tuition.
Suck it up if your parents can't afford to pay.
If governments didn't back student loans, there's no way in hell banks would give them. And then you're back to the realization that without government backing of the loans, or free tuition ... a huge amount of people who don't have rich parents would simply never be able to get an education past highschool.
I'd far rather see government working to ensure an educated populace than spending resources advancing the international copyright interests of multinational corporations or acting as a police force for those same corporations.
Society at least gets some benefit from an educated populace.
Until, of course, government gets conned by industry to allow them to bring in cheaper international labor to alter the structure of their beloved market by introducing externalities to tilt the game in favor of corporations.
Because, it is better for society to have an educated populace, and not just have the children of the wealthy be able to afford to have one.
Another person operating under the delusion they sprang into existence a fully formed human without any of the benefits provided by society.
Did you go to public school? Did you enjoy the benefits of living in a mostly lawful society? Do you drive on public roads? Do you use any public infrastructure like water?
Do you honestly believe you exist through sheer force of your own will and that you did not reap the rewards of your parent society? If so, you should probably seek some therapy, because you're delusional.
Because a society in which only the children of the wealthy can afford an education, and everyone else is relegated to not having one and working in medial tasks .. well, that society is a complete shithole.
So essentially you are saying "I wish to live in a society in which we have the wealthy and the peasants, and if the peasants wish to rise above their station, too damned bad".
You may want to live in that society, but the rest of us don't.
What princely patron paid for your smug self to get an education and rise up from the gutter? Or are you just some rich kid who thinks having daddy pay for your education is the natural order of things?
Bullshit.
TSA et al have done the exact same thing with the laptops of people who aren't suspected of any criminal activity. And even if they are suspected of criminal activity, they're still entitled to due process.
What you're saying is "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide".
Have we actually reached the point where people are willing to accept fascists bypassing the law to make their lives easier? Or bullshit searches defended by the notion that innocent people have nothing to fear?
Because what yo're saying is "a little fascism is OK if we think they're bad guys". Fuck that.
Then get a fucking warrant . Bypassing legal obligations because you think you can game the system and get the TSA to do it for you means you should lose your fucking job.
It's bloody well time law enforcement was actually penalized when they do crap like this. And parallel construction should be grounds for criminal perjury charges.
None of this "oh we had to lie to get a conviction and keep our sources secret". Because that's a crock of shit.
But, honestly, with the bullshit "we can do a border search at an airport and within 100 miles of the border", they probably figured they didn't need to.
They've already been told they have search powers that are effectively unconstitutional, but some how magically legal.
Which means they felt they could bypass the law by doing the search in an airport, and then using that as grounds for a warrant.
Evidence that, once again, law enforcement is taking advantage of all of the stupid rules which allow them to bypass the law.
As much as the judge shut them down, you can bet your ass this was a conscious strategy and not a mistake.
LOL ... that now creates one of the coolest mental images I've had in a while.
Slobber flying to the wind, and doggy eyes safely behind goggles.
he he he .. LOL ... awesome!!!
Sure, but presumably people mean safely.
Any clown can crash into the surface of the Earth in a spectacular fireball. I should think it's the keeping them alive part that's the tricky part.
Must ... not ... oh, fuck it ...
In Soviet Russia, rocket assesses you!
I'm in favor of the doggy goggles, that would be awesome.
LOL, that husky was thinking "bah, you whiny humans, this is snow, it's supposed to be fun, why the hell do you think I have all this fur?"
I think Disney and Pixar need to make an entire movie focused on Dug from Up ... the single most awesome portrayal of a dog in film ever.
You listening guys? I guarantee you it will have a huge target audience.
In my best John Wayne voice ... that's just how some of us do things, there Pilgrim.
Oh, did you mean diameter? Never mind then.
From the sounds of it, this aint his first rodeo, and has already thought of this stuff.
Maybe, just maybe, the man isn't an idiot?
Well, it does say it's currently used by the Navy ... so one presumes whatever they use it for they've done testing.
At least, you hope they have. :-P
"Admiral, the ships hull is on fire .... Ensign bring me my brown pants"