You were conscripted into the military. But I bet you volunteered _and_ qualified for the SF.
Yes Sir, you are right, i conscripted into the military (since every Greek men must do a mandatory service) but i volunteered for the S.F (most do it in a "pre-selection" phase about a year before their service starts, but you can also do it in the first week of your military service, when officers from S.F. visits every base for new concripts and does this "pre-selection") and then i qualified (2 months of more advanced selection and training phase in the S.F. central base and then 2 months more in specialized bases before officialy accepted in the S.F. - after that you get out of S.F. only if you ask, if you get seriously hurt, if you fail some major periodic tests or you can not perform in training for other reasons, or if you do something very stupid). But i was still a conscript, and while i served for 1.5 years (having the same training as a pro, with the pros in my unit), i can safely claim that i was of lower quality compared to profesional S.F. soldiers/officers - this is not out of modesty, just a honest criticism of my (and every other conscript's actually) "quality".
it is not so easy for the Islamic "Peace Corp" to find a white blond Adolf that will try to make connection with his 72 virgins in an airplane
It's much easier than you'd think. In Russia, for example, islamists from the "Caucasian Emirate" have quite a few ethnic Europeans (mostly Russians) fighting for them. And remember, you only need one - and you can spare him and coddle him until he's needed for such a mission.
Of course you are right - that is why i wrote "it is not so easy".
As English is your second language, your word choice isn't making it obvious what side you're taking. It is not clear to me if you are using sarcasm or are actually calling someone out as a racist.
I'm thinking sarcasm, but I could be wrong. Others will not bother to think about it and think you just called them a racist, which will get you an angry response. As you have seen.
Yes, i struggle with my bad English, but as a RACIST AND SEXIST Greek i think i know about sarcasm and how to use it for OTHER racist and/or sexist persons, supporting race and/or sex discrimination, for privileges based on race and/or sex... plus, my signature is: Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
Many diseases that were rare or unknown in developed European nations twenty years ago have been making a comeback lately. The reasons are obvious, but no-one is allowed to talk about them in SJW^H^H^Hpolite society.
"With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!"
That joke about the West Nile virus posted on twitter by the Greek triple jumper athlete Voula Papachristou few days before the 2012 Olympics was the reason to be expelled from the games...
So, you are a racist and/or sexist person, supporting race and/or sex discrimination, for privileges based on race and/or sex! Am I right, or am I right?
A know a great lock: a sign depicting a gun and the warning "due to price increase on ammo do not expect a warning shot"... some other great "locks" also exist
What exactly is your point here?
*His* point? That guns are great locks!
Trying to discredit advocates of encryption?
I hope the other "encryption advocates" get the point.
But how many people will support this argument when the subject is encryption but rail against it when the subject is firearms and self-defense?
You already know the answer to your rhetorical question my fellow G[r]eek...
Free Greek language lesson for barbarians:
How the "I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand" English phrase is "translated" in Greek? MOLON LABE!
That alternative explanation for the "football" word was interesting - i would not give it "equal weight", but i can not claim it is "false" (since it is very reasonable actually). Now... let's agree like gentlemen that *real* football should involve more *foot* than *hand*!
I don't have a link* and i meant Daimler actually (not exactly MB), plus with "same tech" i meant Li-ion generaly, but such packs are provided (i know for sure from its defence wing - note: some are the same thing as this new Tesla's "residential" type...).
* actually, TFA (that i had not read before i wrote my first comment... surprise!) mention Daimler's ACCUmotive (note: i am not sure that provides the packs of the Daimler's *defence* wing)
I want to make clear that i never intented to claim Daimler's products are better (i would not be suprised if Daimler becomes a customer of Tesla), but this "Copies Tesla" title was rediculus - we have them in special military equipment for some years now.
It is even mentioned along side of the etymology of football.
O.K., Sir... so based on that (Although the accepted etymology of the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. An alternative explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.) i can still claim that football is a game... "of a foot kicking a ball"! Right?
I am afraid that "it is pointless" Sir, for many reasons (i hope not because i am an unreasonable person) - i quoted something from the New Testament to prove something about what virginity was supposed to mean...
I must repeat that -for many reasons- Slashdot in not the place for me to discuss theological/biblical matters - i don't expect to convince anyone about my religion but i also have problems to be convinced by people who write "whoever wrote Matthew obviously found one to repurpose according to his needs"... if we start from a base where for you the New Testament is the product of some conspiracy, while for me the persons writing it are (at least) historic valid, we can not really discuss the matter, right?
I just hope you will not think of me as some "totaly stupid Christian"!
This is Slashdot. Did you really expect anything other than rampant, hard-core bias in favor of Tesla? It matters not that Daimler and dozens of other companies have been doing battery storage power facilities for decades before Tesla existed.
Well, i must agree with you! I know that i wrote 'Let's not make it "Europe against USA"', but i hope some German (or even an Austrian!) will do his "nationalistic duty" and inform with more details our Yankee friends about that...
Historically, football was the word for any sport played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking a ball. It was to distinguish itself from polo and other mounted sports.
Hmmm... do you know a (great) game called handball?
Let's not make it "Europe against USA" but Mercedes (Daimler) was in the energy-storage (battery-pack) business (think industrial and defence sectors, plus -much more limited- residential storage - with the same technology as Tesla) looong before Tesla even existed - i don't mean that it is better than Tesla, but please... not "Copies Tesla"!
I already read some of his posts, but thanks, i will search that.
He's the resident troll here, hasn't been seen in a couple months I think. His schtick is that he thinks that the hosts file is the only way to block malware. Don't take a side on that issue, no one wants to hear anything about it ever again.
Hmmm... what if i take the right side and agree with him? Relax... i don't understand so much about this technical issue so i will not take a side!
I don't believe in Great Men, nor do I think you are one, and most people are not going to respond positively to this pseudo-machismo. If there are Great Men then the distinguishing mark is humility.
So, what if you and/or other people don't believe in Great Men? We Great Men still exist...
> EVERY COMMENT THAT I WILL MAKE WILL BE MODED DOWN... and soon i will be a "stupid Christian" with a "terrible"/. karma......only because you are, ffs.
YOU BELIEVE A FAIRY TALE. And it's not even original - read Fraser's "Golden Bough" to learn how often the claim of virgin birth was used to confer demigod status on a person, usually but not exclusively for people attempting to claim a mandate and consolidate power.
So... you want me to read Fraser's "Golden Bough" and believe him - ok... but can i suggest to read the Bible and believe in Him?
Have there been scientifically documented cases of parthenogenesis in humans? If there has been, then please reference them. Otherwise, your religious musings have no more relevance to this article than that episode of ST:TNG where Troi gave birth to a lens flare.
I don't know any "scientifically documented cases of parthenogenesis in humans", i just mentioned God and the "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) in a story related to... "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis)! I realy don't find an important reason some people (in Slashdot) must get so upset with this... so relax your "great scientific mind" and just accept that my "religious musings" is a "naive" criticism to Slashdoters!
When you have limited human and/or other resources you don't check a white woman's child just because... you know why (!)... you check Muhammad (plus his wife, and their children).
When you're a terrorist and you see the TSA feeling up Muhammad and his wife and children because of how they look, you naturally find a Robert who won't be searched because he doesn't look like Muhammad or his family.
What then? You'll start feeling up Muhammad and Robert and their families? What about David?
What about Elias who belongs to a completely different group and has a completely different mission than destroying a plane or building? Say he just wants to assassinate a specific passenger.
I try to simplify my examples, but basicaly you must check the Muhammads... plus some random obviously NON-Muhammads as a deterrent - it is not so easy for the Islamic "Peace Corp" to find a white blond Adolf that will try to make connection with his 72 virgins in an airplane (that is the main reason for the existance of TSA - not to prevent Adolf from killing a passenger because he disagreed with the winner of the Eurovision music contest...)
To add to the above: Greek regular army mainly consists of regular citizens (between 18-28 years old) doing their 9month **mandatory** military service/obligation. You can imagine that an army that consists of people(young too) that are there only for 9 months of their life isn't terribly professional...
The TSA doesn't do any real screening of people like the Israelis do (I have dealt with them and they are very professional and have their shit together). The TSA basically pick people at random give them a rub and tug and send them on their way.
I guess that the reason "the TSA basically pick people at random" is because -thanks to "political corectness"- it is not allowed to do a screening based on race/religion/gender/etc (OR it must do unnecessary checks to obviously non-threats so it can "cover" its screening...?)
The ones manning the x-ray machine don't seem to know what they are looking at and can't identify a gun, knife, or bullets when someone sends a bag through, and even if someone has a large knife and walks through the old style metal detector it doesn't set it off. Elsewhere in this thread I listed some of the items I have accidentally brought through ever since they implemented their enhanced security measures, none of them were caught, no effort was made to try to sneak them past, they were as obvious as it could have been but they were missed every time. Yet if I bring my camera it will take me about 20 extra minutes to get through security.
If you have to check everyone's bag many things will slip (but many wanna-bee "bad guys" will think twice before trying to do their "thing") - if you only have to check Muhammad's bag (and few of those non-Muhammads that will serve as deterrent for the "crowd")... things are better (for both the security guys AND passengers)
Also if you ask the Israeli security people they will joke and tell you that they reverse profile, if you don't fit the profile then they deal with you.
Of course they do that also, but everything is determined by the available resources: security (must) start at the big risks - between Muhammad and someone that may be Muhammad you always check Muhammad!
Slashdot is not a good place for me (a religious person) to make a theological/biblical discussion - EVERY COMMENT THAT I WILL MAKE WILL BE MODED DOWN... and soon i will be a "stupid Christian" with a "terrible"/. karma... thank God the Colosseum is not open anymore!
I am not trying to convince anyone - i just mentioned the SCIENTIFIC "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) and God's "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) because it is related to the/. story, so... next time people here may think more before making fun of the "stupid Christian" who believes in "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis)!
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You were conscripted into the military. But I bet you volunteered _and_ qualified for the SF.
Yes Sir, you are right, i conscripted into the military (since every Greek men must do a mandatory service) but i volunteered for the S.F (most do it in a "pre-selection" phase about a year before their service starts, but you can also do it in the first week of your military service, when officers from S.F. visits every base for new concripts and does this "pre-selection") and then i qualified (2 months of more advanced selection and training phase in the S.F. central base and then 2 months more in specialized bases before officialy accepted in the S.F. - after that you get out of S.F. only if you ask, if you get seriously hurt, if you fail some major periodic tests or you can not perform in training for other reasons, or if you do something very stupid). But i was still a conscript, and while i served for 1.5 years (having the same training as a pro, with the pros in my unit), i can safely claim that i was of lower quality compared to profesional S.F. soldiers/officers - this is not out of modesty, just a honest criticism of my (and every other conscript's actually) "quality".
it is not so easy for the Islamic "Peace Corp" to find a white blond Adolf that will try to make connection with his 72 virgins in an airplane
It's much easier than you'd think. In Russia, for example, islamists from the "Caucasian Emirate" have quite a few ethnic Europeans (mostly Russians) fighting for them. And remember, you only need one - and you can spare him and coddle him until he's needed for such a mission.
Of course you are right - that is why i wrote "it is not so easy".
A (Japanese hi-tech) hybrid Toilet-Bidet
As English is your second language, your word choice isn't making it obvious what side you're taking. It is not clear to me if you are using sarcasm or are actually calling someone out as a racist.
I'm thinking sarcasm, but I could be wrong. Others will not bother to think about it and think you just called them a racist, which will get you an angry response. As you have seen.
Yes, i struggle with my bad English, but as a RACIST AND SEXIST Greek i think i know about sarcasm and how to use it for OTHER racist and/or sexist persons, supporting race and/or sex discrimination, for privileges based on race and/or sex... plus, my signature is: Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
Many diseases that were rare or unknown in developed European nations twenty years ago have been making a comeback lately. The reasons are obvious, but no-one is allowed to talk about them in SJW^H^H^Hpolite society.
"With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!"
That joke about the West Nile virus posted on twitter by the Greek triple jumper athlete Voula Papachristou few days before the 2012 Olympics was the reason to be expelled from the games...
You seem fringe left to me. But hey, perhaps you're just trolling. Difficult to tell.
I am NOT trolling...
(replacing my last "Am I right, or am I right?" phrase with just "Right?")
my revised reply to you:
Google is being evil here.
So, you are a racist and/or sexist person, supporting race and/or sex discrimination, for privileges based on race and/or sex!
Right?
Google is being evil here.
So, you are a racist and/or sexist person, supporting race and/or sex discrimination, for privileges based on race and/or sex!
Am I right, or am I right?
Good point!
Oh yeah, now you're comparing locks to guns?
A know a great lock: a sign depicting a gun and the warning "due to price increase on ammo do not expect a warning shot" ...
some other great "locks" also exist
What exactly is your point here?
*His* point? That guns are great locks!
Trying to discredit advocates of encryption?
I hope the other "encryption advocates" get the point.
But how many people will support this argument when the subject is encryption but rail against it when the subject is firearms and self-defense?
You already know the answer to your rhetorical question my fellow G[r]eek...
Free Greek language lesson for barbarians:
How the "I will give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand" English phrase is "translated" in Greek? MOLON LABE!
It really is impossible for you to write anything without saying that you are Greek, is it?
Of course it is possible for me to write something without saying that i am Greek.
The bigger question is "can you write anything without saying you are Great?"
Without saying that i am Great? Sure...!
That alternative explanation for the "football" word was interesting - i would not give it "equal weight", but i can not claim it is "false" (since it is very reasonable actually). Now... let's agree like gentlemen that *real* football should involve more *foot* than *hand*!
* actually, TFA (that i had not read before i wrote my first comment... surprise!) mention Daimler's ACCUmotive (note: i am not sure that provides the packs of the Daimler's *defence* wing)
I want to make clear that i never intented to claim Daimler's products are better (i would not be suprised if Daimler becomes a customer of Tesla), but this "Copies Tesla" title was rediculus - we have them in special military equipment for some years now.
Yes, I have heard the term handball.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
It is even mentioned along side of the etymology of football.
O.K., Sir... so based on that (Although the accepted etymology of the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. An alternative explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.) i can still claim that football is a game... "of a foot kicking a ball"! Right?
I am afraid that "it is pointless" Sir, for many reasons (i hope not because i am an unreasonable person) - i quoted something from the New Testament to prove something about what virginity was supposed to mean...
I must repeat that -for many reasons- Slashdot in not the place for me to discuss theological/biblical matters - i don't expect to convince anyone about my religion but i also have problems to be convinced by people who write "whoever wrote Matthew obviously found one to repurpose according to his needs"... if we start from a base where for you the New Testament is the product of some conspiracy, while for me the persons writing it are (at least) historic valid, we can not really discuss the matter, right?
I just hope you will not think of me as some "totaly stupid Christian"!
This is Slashdot. Did you really expect anything other than rampant, hard-core bias in favor of Tesla? It matters not that Daimler and dozens of other companies have been doing battery storage power facilities for decades before Tesla existed.
Well, i must agree with you!
I know that i wrote 'Let's not make it "Europe against USA"', but i hope some German (or even an Austrian!) will do his "nationalistic duty" and inform with more details our Yankee friends about that...
Historically, football was the word for any sport played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking a ball. It was to distinguish itself from polo and other mounted sports.
Hmmm... do you know a (great) game called handball?
Mercedes-Benz Copies Tesla
Let's not make it "Europe against USA" but Mercedes (Daimler) was in the energy-storage (battery-pack) business (think industrial and defence sectors, plus -much more limited- residential storage - with the same technology as Tesla) looong before Tesla even existed - i don't mean that it is better than Tesla, but please... not "Copies Tesla"!
Search: "site:slashdot.org apk -android"
I already read some of his posts, but thanks, i will search that.
He's the resident troll here, hasn't been seen in a couple months I think. His schtick is that he thinks that the hosts file is the only way to block malware. Don't take a side on that issue, no one wants to hear anything about it ever again.
Hmmm... what if i take the right side and agree with him? Relax... i don't understand so much about this technical issue so i will not take a side!
I don't believe in Great Men, nor do I think you are one, and most people are not going to respond positively to this pseudo-machismo. If there are Great Men then the distinguishing mark is humility.
So, what if you and/or other people don't believe in Great Men? We Great Men still exist...
> EVERY COMMENT THAT I WILL MAKE WILL BE MODED DOWN... and soon i will be a "stupid Christian" with a "terrible" /. karma.. ....only because you are, ffs.
YOU BELIEVE A FAIRY TALE. And it's not even original - read Fraser's "Golden Bough" to learn how often the claim of virgin birth was used to confer demigod status on a person, usually but not exclusively for people attempting to claim a mandate and consolidate power.
So... you want me to read Fraser's "Golden Bough" and believe him - ok... but can i suggest to read the Bible and believe in Him?
Have there been scientifically documented cases of parthenogenesis in humans? If there has been, then please reference them. Otherwise, your religious musings have no more relevance to this article than that episode of ST:TNG where Troi gave birth to a lens flare.
I don't know any "scientifically documented cases of parthenogenesis in humans", i just mentioned God and the "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) in a story related to... "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis)! I realy don't find an important reason some people (in Slashdot) must get so upset with this... so relax your "great scientific mind" and just accept that my "religious musings" is a "naive" criticism to Slashdoters!
When you have limited human and/or other resources you don't check a white woman's child just because... you know why (!)... you check Muhammad (plus his wife, and their children).
When you're a terrorist and you see the TSA feeling up Muhammad and his wife and children because of how they look, you naturally find a Robert who won't be searched because he doesn't look like Muhammad or his family.
What then? You'll start feeling up Muhammad and Robert and their families? What about David?
What about Elias who belongs to a completely different group and has a completely different mission than destroying a plane or building? Say he just wants to assassinate a specific passenger.
I try to simplify my examples, but basicaly you must check the Muhammads... plus some random obviously NON-Muhammads as a deterrent - it is not so easy for the Islamic "Peace Corp" to find a white blond Adolf that will try to make connection with his 72 virgins in an airplane (that is the main reason for the existance of TSA - not to prevent Adolf from killing a passenger because he disagreed with the winner of the Eurovision music contest...)
To add to the above: Greek regular army mainly consists of regular citizens (between 18-28 years old) doing their 9month **mandatory** military service/obligation. You can imagine that an army that consists of people(young too) that are there only for 9 months of their life isn't terribly professional...
I agree (i already mentioned our "UN-profesionalism") - i did a 1.5 years of service (i.e., double than what is currenly mandatory), but i never felt trained enough.
The TSA doesn't do any real screening of people like the Israelis do (I have dealt with them and they are very professional and have their shit together). The TSA basically pick people at random give them a rub and tug and send them on their way.
I guess that the reason "the TSA basically pick people at random" is because -thanks to "political corectness"- it is not allowed to do a screening based on race/religion/gender/etc (OR it must do unnecessary checks to obviously non-threats so it can "cover" its screening...?)
The ones manning the x-ray machine don't seem to know what they are looking at and can't identify a gun, knife, or bullets when someone sends a bag through, and even if someone has a large knife and walks through the old style metal detector it doesn't set it off. Elsewhere in this thread I listed some of the items I have accidentally brought through ever since they implemented their enhanced security measures, none of them were caught, no effort was made to try to sneak them past, they were as obvious as it could have been but they were missed every time. Yet if I bring my camera it will take me about 20 extra minutes to get through security.
If you have to check everyone's bag many things will slip (but many wanna-bee "bad guys" will think twice before trying to do their "thing") - if you only have to check Muhammad's bag (and few of those non-Muhammads that will serve as deterrent for the "crowd")... things are better (for both the security guys AND passengers)
Also if you ask the Israeli security people they will joke and tell you that they reverse profile, if you don't fit the profile then they deal with you.
Of course they do that also, but everything is determined by the available resources: security (must) start at the big risks - between Muhammad and someone that may be Muhammad you always check Muhammad!
I am not trying to convince anyone - i just mentioned the SCIENTIFIC "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) and God's "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis) because it is related to the /. story, so... next time people here may think more before making fun of the "stupid Christian" who believes in "Virgin Birth" (parthenogenesis)!