What you're saying is that most criminals are dumb, and that's why security manages to catch them. Smart criminals are unlikely to get caught.
Yes, i am saying that, but not only that ("are dumb"): they are also not so well "trained" in their criminal/terrorist "operations", not so calm, not so "invisible" as they usualy think, plus some other things that a profesional security officer usualy knows well.
If we accept that as true, and if we are willing to accept that life is never totally risk free, then all of TSA and Homeland Security could be abolished. Then the rest of the world could also stop complying with the idiotic restrictions (liquids, etc.) initiated by the US.
I must disagree: every "click" more of security is better security, even if that means more inconvenience - i am not a profesional security guy, so i can not decide what is the appropriate level of security(/inconvenience), but i can understand why a small bottle of water can be a security risk!
Anyway, there is absolutely no evidence that security today is any better than it was pre-9/11. Without the security theater, we would save such huge amounts of time. I still remember fondly being able to show up at the airport 30 minutes before flight departure, show my ticket, walk onto the airplane. That's the way is was, and the way it should be again.
I remember those days also - but i also remember this.
The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable.
I had to make it more clear (my fault): most people in the Greek military, both in my S.F. unit AND the "regular" forces, was and still are conscripts - the Greek military is a conscript based (all able men must serve), and actually my S.F. unit's professionals to conscripts ratio was higher than that of the regular forces'... so, in that analogy (TSA as Greek regular army) things are similar.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones.
I don't know the level of the TSA agents (i would never tried to outsmart them!), so i can't comment on your first point, BUT i have to agree about the "old methods of screening". Again, from my limited experiance (and because of my former S.F. experience), i have worked for some time in the civilian VIP security business (mostly as a "dumb" bodyguard, close to former police officers who were the "brains")...i am afraid that the "political correctness" on this site will punish me for mentioning some things but anyway:
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).
There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.
I understand. In a normal situation (i.e., a NON "political correct"), if the guy is NOT Muhammad but just a (real...) American you act the way you must act... you know, don't make it a "situation"! What can i say: some of my old buddies from the S.F. who continued to become pro bodyguards/private security officers went to Israel/Russia for training... where "political correctness" is ridiculed, THANK GOD!
Long time ago i served as a conscript in the Greek Special Forces: part of our training was to do infiltration inside (Greek) "regular" forces' bases - that was for us (S.F.) a training in missions we may do in a real war situation AND a test for the bases' security (on behalf of the regular army/navy/air force command)... while we (S.F.) almost always succeed (so, "regular" forces "failed"), i can guarantee the good status of Greek "regular" forces' base security.
My point is that the methods (and level of "fake enemy") on those "friendly" security checks are very different from what most people (most "bad guys" included) will ever use.
Yes, virgin birth... which in biblical times, in that area of the world, meant that the woman was a virgin when she MARRIED. Doesn't have dick to do with god, God, or gods, except in the eyes of someone ignorant of their own religion.
I am a (religious) Greek actually, reading the New Testament in its original Greek text - it is very clear that "Virgin (Greek:parthena) Birth (Greek:genesis)" means a birth from a virgin... NOT "a birth from someone who was a virgin at some time".... something that you don't even have to read in the original Greek to understand!
You can write that you don't believe it, but let's not change what it is writen and its very clear meaning.
Less dogmatic bullshit, more reality = better for everyone. It's not even all that uncommon of an event:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/to...
parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals. Parthenogenetic development also occurs in some plants species, such as roses and orange trees.
I just made a (not so off-topic) reference to God and the Virgin Birth my friend - we BOTH have science confirming reality: you have it for the parthenogenesis of what your link mentions, i have it for the parthenogenesis of Jesus Christ... no need to get upset, especially since my reality is confirmed from both SCIENCE and GOD!
Yes they were originally written in Greek. However they are stories written by Greeks about non-contemporaneous events in a part of the world that did not speak Greek and did not have Greek customs... in short you've done nothing to refute GP's point.
Sir, my primary refute is not based on the language but on the fact that i read the text (in the original Greek, but this fact is not so important) and it is very clear for the events it describes - for example, from Matthew 1:18-25 (the "New International Version", which i just checked against the Greek text and i can confirm it is a good translation):
"
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[a]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet[b] did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[c] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[d] (which means “God with us”).
24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
"
No need to believe it, but also no need to know Greek for you to understand the events as described - right?
lol not just me who picked up on it then? Well, don't let me discourage you - just keep on keeping on. I don't think you're really APK, not nearly shrill or paranoid enough.;)
I Keep Calm - I Keep Walking... on the path some other Great Man already walked!
the way your mother can fuck tells me she is no virgin
Well, i am offended now: every Greek man believes his mother IS a virgin, and every Greek mother believes her son is God!
My Mother IS a Virgin (God bless her now she is with You).
Soccer isn't really our thing so we can be pretty impartial.
OK, i agree (although you are constantly getting better... actually you are already good enough to play with the big boys!).
Now, keep abusing the word 'football' for your barbarian sport and we will hunt down your soccer leaders.
Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yes, virgin birth... which in biblical times, in that area of the world, meant that the woman was a virgin when she MARRIED. Doesn't have dick to do with god, God, or gods, except in the eyes of someone ignorant of their own religion.
I am a (religious) Greek actually, reading the New Testament in its original Greek text - it is very clear that "Virgin (Greek:parthena) Birth (Greek:genesis)" means a birth from a virgin... NOT "a birth from someone who was a virgin at some time".... something that you don't even have to read in the original Greek to understand! You can write that you don't believe it, but let's not change what it is writen and its very clear meaning.
Less dogmatic bullshit, more reality = better for everyone. It's not even all that uncommon of an event:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/to...
parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals. Parthenogenetic development also occurs in some plants species, such as roses and orange trees.
I just made a (not so off-topic) reference to God and the Virgin Birth my friend - we BOTH have science confirming reality: you have it for the parthenogenesis of what your link mentions, i have it for the parthenogenesis of Jesus Christ... no need to get upset, especially since my reality is confirmed from both SCIENCE and GOD!
Your use of quotation marks and brackets (parentheses if you prefer) really reminds me of that old stalwart APK.
All Great Men use them - quotation marks AND par-en-thesis (i prefer that Greek word - by the way: i am a Greek!).
If you don't know who he is don't look him up the morbid fascination will lose you a day's work.
I know him - all Great Men we share the same Great Spirit...
Just a week ago, after a "difficult" but "interesting" discussion, a fellow Slashdoter (who had a "difficult" but "interesting" relation with him) mentioned that Great Man in a reply to me... another Great Man:
Agreement isn't necessary - and it makes for more interesting conversation, no? The way I figure it, anyone who agrees with everything I say is going to be both boring and wrong at least some of the time and be unable to point it out:-)
Heck, if APK had an account, I'd friend him despite the huge battles we've had - on many topics we don't see completely eye to eye but we're able to appreciate each other as human beings (I know, shock to everyone who's been here watching from the sidelines the last decade).
You just become friend to APK - SERIOUSLY! And now you have to help me as a friend: who is this APK?
In the few weeks (maximum a month) i have a Slasdot account, (not directly - mostly by others replying to people that replied to me) i was been called "APK" several times: "he become the Greek APK", "he is APK pretending to be a Greek", "he is APK registering an account", etc - i undestand that this was not a compliment (i am not so stupid!). so... hit me with the truth!
After that, my fellow Slashdoter hit me with the truth, providing details about him.
All Great Men are bound together by the Great Spirit...
I think that the only nation that can help clean up FIFA (international federation of association FOOTBALL) is the nation that plays its "football"... mostly with hands (yes my dear Yankee "barbarians", there is a reason we -the world- call it that way)! Yes, "FIFA does not belong to USA alone", but right now FIFA belongs to some really dirty individuals (not nations) that abuse the love of the people for the game, i trust USA to clean the shit because most Yankee "barbarians"... do NOT know "how the game is played"... if you know what i mean! I am ashamed to report that from the 7 high FIFA executives arrested, one is Greek (pretending to be a British... sorry about that lads!), and the next in the "soon to be arrested" list is... one more Greek! Keep in mind that we Greeks know few things about football (we won Euro 2004!), but we also know too much about "how the game is played", so...!
You are given nude female workers and beer, and it's the beer you choose to fuck?
I question your self identity as a sexist.
That's because you are not sexist enough - i am so sexist that i will choose to fuck the beer... yeah, that's how sexist i am!
Shachar
Not convinced yet that i am ultra sexist? I am a racist also, but just because our Greek deity of dawn is the female Eos, i prefer to worship that barbarian Shachar...
They are not "unofficial privileges", they are "don't give a damn i'm outta here in a week" attitudes. They'll do their jobs, but they sure as hell won't act like scared newcomers in front of anyone. Generals are just humans, after all. In a week they have absolutely no authority over you. The worst that can happen is you spend the week in MPs custody, so why bother.
There are some other "unofficial privileges" (plus responsibilities - very often you end up doing *some* of the officers' duties), but i agree that this "i don't give a damn i'm outta here" also exists - but the worst that can happen is NOT "spend the week in MPs custody"... you can spend some months doing extra service (as some of my buddies did), and/or in case you serving in S.F. (as i did) to get send to regular army (not something good, since everyone in S.F. are volunteers, plus that way you lose some OFFICIAL priviliges, some of them existing even when you become a citizen).
I couldn't understand the parallel hierarchy thing. How come you have different ranks even before graduating from the army (school) ? Or are you referring to some advanced training courses you were taking while already having served in the army for quite some time ?
I am not the one you asked, but i am "the other Greek", so let me help with that: it is an "unofficial" hierarchy - when you are a conscript (even just a soldier) that have already served most of the obligatory time, you get some "unofficial privileges"... one of them is some "respect" (among both newer conscripts AND professional officers)... something existing in most (if not all) conscript based armies like the Greek. You may want to also read this.
I have been an American citizen for over 30 years ever since I took my oath back in the 1980's
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... I HONOR THOSE WHO HONOR THEIR OATH AS AMERICAN CITIZENS.
This is the day I can say that I feel proud as an American for at the very least the politicians in Washington D.C., for once, are doing something that the PEOPLE want them to do --- to kill that goddamn draconian bill that allows the government of the United States of America to act much like a totalitarian regime
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... i have no problem with Democracy doing what is supposed to do: pass the Patriot Act, and then kill it... no problem with me!
I think I am not the only one in America who will keep note of who is voting to keep American under the dictatorship of Obama - and we will make sure that all the supporters of dictator Obama will get booted from the Capitol Hill
I am not an American citizen, but i am a Greek... if i could vote as an American citizen then Rand Paul would had my vote (i liked his father also) - dictator Obama and his supporters can go fuck themselves (YES, THEY CAN).
Ron Paul is Mr McGoo. He is so fucking blind and senile, if he were president he would be the last one for sure, because he would drive the country into a brick wall. Fortunately the average American is significantly smarter than you.
As i wrote i respect both Pauls - Rand and his father Ron. And as i wrote i am just a Greek... i don't have the right to vote as an American citizen.
I expressed my opinion, you expressed yours - Democracy will do its "thing" and the average intelligence of Americans will be expressed!
I'm a Greek. ZITO I NIKI!
(German: "SIEG HEIL" - English: "HAIL VICTORY")
Watch Greeks saluting the Greek NaZi HERO Ioanni Metaxa... the men under whose regime Greeks fought against Italians/Germans (AND Soviets... Stalin and Hitler were still allies!)
Don't be scared my little Yankee "barbarian" friend, let a Greek hug you... everything will be o.k.! BUT: remember that EVIL BARBARIANS (not like those who voted for the Patriot Act) exist... please DON'T FORGET!
Thanks kindly. And hey --- on behalf of my country, I'm truly sorry we unleashed credit default swaps upon the world. That shit must have escaped from a lab somewhere.
Thanks kindly. And hey --- on behalf of my country, I'm truly sorry we made you believe that our problems is your (" barbarians' ") fault (although those "credit default swaps" was!)
I have been an American citizen for over 30 years ever since I took my oath back in the 1980's
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... I HONOR THOSE WHO HONOR THEIR OATH AS AMERICAN CITIZENS.
This is the day I can say that I feel proud as an American for at the very least the politicians in Washington D.C., for once, are doing something that the PEOPLE want them to do --- to kill that goddamn draconian bill that allows the government of the United States of America to act much like a totalitarian regime
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... i have no problem with Democracy doing what is supposed to do: pass the Patriot Act, and then kill it... no problem with me!
I think I am not the only one in America who will keep note of who is voting to keep American under the dictatorship of Obama - and we will make sure that all the supporters of dictator Obama will get booted from the Capitol Hill
I am not an American citizen, but i am a Greek... if i could vote as an American citizen then Rand Paul would had my vote (i liked his father also) - dictator Obama and his supporters can go fuck themselves (YES, THEY CAN).
Don't be scared my little Yankee "barbarian" friend, let a Greek hug you... everything will be o.k.! BUT: remember that EVIL BARBARIANS (not like those who voted for the Patriot Act) exist... please DON'T FORGET!
First of all: When i wrote my reply i did not know you are a fellow Greek, i thought you are a "barbarian"!
Hmm. I don't remember having that problem in Greek army boot camp. Maybe because by that time I was well trained after figuring out how to tell Chinese actors apart?;)
If you already could tell Chinese actors apart then you surely did not had that problem! But what i described was not only my problem but everyone else i know also (because of the "A.S.M." thing, i was in "Megalo Peuko" with many old buddies from my home town).
Funny relevant story, while a conscript I was sent as an escort of a Chinese officer party (12 generals, 1 captain) that was doing a tour. Their captain wanted to play a joke on me so while at cape Sounio he showed me a group of Asian tourists and asked me "those tourists, are they like us?". No, I told him, they are Japanese. "How do you know?" he asked me startled. "They speak Japanese." I tell him. More startled he asks "You can tell the difference?". So I ask him back, "what do you mean, does Japanese sound anything at all like Chinese?" to which he says "eeh, no". And I left him there to think it over a bit...
Ha! You made your fellow Greeks proud... we should never let "barbarians" play jokes on us!
That Chinese Captain was even more bewildered as he watched me and another conscript interact with our own Captain and Colonel. He told me that he could not understand our hierarchy, while he could see that we were just privates, we behaved like we were the same or above the Colonel when interacting with him. I had to explain to him that we were not privates in that sense, we were conscripts and we had a different hierarchy which was separate & parallel to the hierarchy of the rest of the army, and your level in the hierarchy was based on how close you were to graduating from the army. I explained that with less than a month left, me and the other attached conscript were at about the level of a Major General in our hierarchy so we could damn well be casual with just a Colonel if we wished... Not sure if he could grasp it...
With less than a month left? I am suprised you did not send that Chinese Captain to bring you some coffee! Oh, well, i guess you just wanted to show this "barbarian" our hospitality... good jod again my fellow Greek! To be honest, the "official hierarchy" was enforced with a little more strictness where i was serving, but (since we were often trained with NATO partners), when we were in our latest month(s) of our service we were always asked from our officers to try to be as less "malakes" as possible in front of "barbarians"... you know, try to pretend that this "separate & parallel" hierarchy did not existed! Of course we never did that (except for one time: when participating in a joint NATO exercise where... Turks were also present! Yes, we acted like real soldiers then...).
Fun times...
Imagine that my friend... here in Slashdot and we are telling stories from our military service... i always feel bad for the poor ladies who have to listen to us every time we go out and at least 2 Greeks are present - but i guess they can always talk to each-other about their girly stuff, so!
Absolutely not a joke - if you are a white European like me you have problems facialy recognizing Black and/or (eastern) Asian individuals apart, and the same happens for them -Blacks, (eastern) Asians- also.
But you may have problems recognizing people of your own general race in some situations: when, as a conscript in the Greek armed forces, i was in boot camp, because everyone was "the same" (same uniform, same haircut, same "facial expression of terror"), for the first week or so i had problems facialy recognize people i know for years, the they had same problems - visually, there were only those *groups* of people: tall/sort, fat/thin, and compinations of them...
Slashdot Mirror
Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yank here...1) We don't give a fuck 2) See 1.
Greek here... 1) Because your dicks are smaller when using the Imperial system! 2) See 1.
Which brings us back to the topic of corruption.
Exactly: it all starts at 0... you have zero corruption until you have some corruption!
What you're saying is that most criminals are dumb, and that's why security manages to catch them. Smart criminals are unlikely to get caught.
Yes, i am saying that, but not only that ("are dumb"): they are also not so well "trained" in their criminal/terrorist "operations", not so calm, not so "invisible" as they usualy think, plus some other things that a profesional security officer usualy knows well.
If we accept that as true, and if we are willing to accept that life is never totally risk free, then all of TSA and Homeland Security could be abolished. Then the rest of the world could also stop complying with the idiotic restrictions (liquids, etc.) initiated by the US.
I must disagree: every "click" more of security is better security, even if that means more inconvenience - i am not a profesional security guy, so i can not decide what is the appropriate level of security(/inconvenience), but i can understand why a small bottle of water can be a security risk!
Anyway, there is absolutely no evidence that security today is any better than it was pre-9/11. Without the security theater, we would save such huge amounts of time. I still remember fondly being able to show up at the airport 30 minutes before flight departure, show my ticket, walk onto the airplane. That's the way is was, and the way it should be again.
I remember those days also - but i also remember this.
The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable.
I had to make it more clear (my fault): most people in the Greek military, both in my S.F. unit AND the "regular" forces, was and still are conscripts - the Greek military is a conscript based (all able men must serve), and actually my S.F. unit's professionals to conscripts ratio was higher than that of the regular forces'... so, in that analogy (TSA as Greek regular army) things are similar.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones.
I don't know the level of the TSA agents (i would never tried to outsmart them!), so i can't comment on your first point, BUT i have to agree about the "old methods of screening". Again, from my limited experiance (and because of my former S.F. experience), i have worked for some time in the civilian VIP security business (mostly as a "dumb" bodyguard, close to former police officers who were the "brains")...i am afraid that the "political correctness" on this site will punish me for mentioning some things but anyway:
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).
There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.
I understand. In a normal situation (i.e., a NON "political correct"), if the guy is NOT Muhammad but just a (real...) American you act the way you must act... you know, don't make it a "situation"! What can i say: some of my old buddies from the S.F. who continued to become pro bodyguards/private security officers went to Israel/Russia for training... where "political correctness" is ridiculed, THANK GOD!
My point is that the methods (and level of "fake enemy") on those "friendly" security checks are very different from what most people (most "bad guys" included) will ever use.
Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yank here...1) We don't give a fuck 2) See 1.
Greek here...
1) Because your dicks are smaller when using the Imperial system!
2) See 1.
Yes, virgin birth... which in biblical times, in that area of the world, meant that the woman was a virgin when she MARRIED. Doesn't have dick to do with god, God, or gods, except in the eyes of someone ignorant of their own religion.
I am a (religious) Greek actually, reading the New Testament in its original Greek text - it is very clear that "Virgin (Greek:parthena) Birth (Greek:genesis)" means a birth from a virgin... NOT "a birth from someone who was a virgin at some time".... something that you don't even have to read in the original Greek to understand! You can write that you don't believe it, but let's not change what it is writen and its very clear meaning.
Less dogmatic bullshit, more reality = better for everyone. It's not even all that uncommon of an event: http://www.encyclopedia.com/to...
parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals. Parthenogenetic development also occurs in some plants species, such as roses and orange trees.
I just made a (not so off-topic) reference to God and the Virgin Birth my friend - we BOTH have science confirming reality: you have it for the parthenogenesis of what your link mentions, i have it for the parthenogenesis of Jesus Christ... no need to get upset, especially since my reality is confirmed from both SCIENCE and GOD!
Yes they were originally written in Greek. However they are stories written by Greeks about non-contemporaneous events in a part of the world that did not speak Greek and did not have Greek customs... in short you've done nothing to refute GP's point.
Sir, my primary refute is not based on the language but on the fact that i read the text (in the original Greek, but this fact is not so important) and it is very clear for the events it describes - for example, from Matthew 1:18-25 (the "New International Version", which i just checked against the Greek text and i can confirm it is a good translation):
" 18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[a]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet[b] did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[c] because he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[d] (which means “God with us”). 24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. "
No need to believe it, but also no need to know Greek for you to understand the events as described - right?
lol not just me who picked up on it then? Well, don't let me discourage you - just keep on keeping on. I don't think you're really APK, not nearly shrill or paranoid enough. ;)
I Keep Calm - I Keep Walking... on the path some other Great Man already walked!
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.
Life, uh, finds a way.
God! God finds a way...
note before down-mod: "Virgin Birth"!
the way your mother can fuck tells me she is no virgin
Well, i am offended now: every Greek man believes his mother IS a virgin, and every Greek mother believes her son is God!
My Mother IS a Virgin (God bless her now she is with You).
Soccer isn't really our thing so we can be pretty impartial.
OK, i agree (although you are constantly getting better... actually you are already good enough to play with the big boys!).
Now, keep abusing the word 'football' for your barbarian sport and we will hunt down your soccer leaders.
Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yes, virgin birth... which in biblical times, in that area of the world, meant that the woman was a virgin when she MARRIED. Doesn't have dick to do with god, God, or gods, except in the eyes of someone ignorant of their own religion.
I am a (religious) Greek actually, reading the New Testament in its original Greek text - it is very clear that "Virgin (Greek:parthena) Birth (Greek:genesis)" means a birth from a virgin... NOT "a birth from someone who was a virgin at some time".... something that you don't even have to read in the original Greek to understand!
You can write that you don't believe it, but let's not change what it is writen and its very clear meaning.
Less dogmatic bullshit, more reality = better for everyone. It's not even all that uncommon of an event: http://www.encyclopedia.com/to...
parthenogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. It is particularly common amongst arthropods and rotifers, can also be found in some species of fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, but not in mammals. Parthenogenetic development also occurs in some plants species, such as roses and orange trees.
I just made a (not so off-topic) reference to God and the Virgin Birth my friend - we BOTH have science confirming reality: you have it for the parthenogenesis of what your link mentions, i have it for the parthenogenesis of Jesus Christ... no need to get upset, especially since my reality is confirmed from both SCIENCE and GOD!
Your use of quotation marks and brackets (parentheses if you prefer) really reminds me of that old stalwart APK.
All Great Men use them - quotation marks AND par-en-thesis (i prefer that Greek word - by the way: i am a Greek!).
If you don't know who he is don't look him up the morbid fascination will lose you a day's work.
I know him - all Great Men we share the same Great Spirit...
Just a week ago, after a "difficult" but "interesting" discussion, a fellow Slashdoter (who had a "difficult" but "interesting" relation with him) mentioned that Great Man in a reply to me... another Great Man:
Agreement isn't necessary - and it makes for more interesting conversation, no? The way I figure it, anyone who agrees with everything I say is going to be both boring and wrong at least some of the time and be unable to point it out :-)
Heck, if APK had an account, I'd friend him despite the huge battles we've had - on many topics we don't see completely eye to eye but we're able to appreciate each other as human beings (I know, shock to everyone who's been here watching from the sidelines the last decade).
You just become friend to APK - SERIOUSLY! And now you have to help me as a friend: who is this APK?
In the few weeks (maximum a month) i have a Slasdot account, (not directly - mostly by others replying to people that replied to me) i was been called "APK" several times: "he become the Greek APK", "he is APK pretending to be a Greek", "he is APK registering an account", etc - i undestand that this was not a compliment (i am not so stupid!). so... hit me with the truth!
After that, my fellow Slashdoter hit me with the truth, providing details about him.
All Great Men are bound together by the Great Spirit...
Life, uh, finds a way.
God! God finds a way...
note before down-mod: "Virgin Birth"!
I think that the only nation that can help clean up FIFA (international federation of association FOOTBALL) is the nation that plays its "football"... mostly with hands (yes my dear Yankee "barbarians", there is a reason we -the world- call it that way)! Yes, "FIFA does not belong to USA alone", but right now FIFA belongs to some really dirty individuals (not nations) that abuse the love of the people for the game, i trust USA to clean the shit because most Yankee "barbarians"... do NOT know "how the game is played"... if you know what i mean! I am ashamed to report that from the 7 high FIFA executives arrested, one is Greek (pretending to be a British... sorry about that lads!), and the next in the "soon to be arrested" list is... one more Greek! Keep in mind that we Greeks know few things about football (we won Euro 2004!), but we also know too much about "how the game is played", so...!
You are given nude female workers and beer, and it's the beer you choose to fuck?
I question your self identity as a sexist.
That's because you are not sexist enough - i am so sexist that i will choose to fuck the beer... yeah, that's how sexist i am!
Shachar
Not convinced yet that i am ultra sexist? I am a racist also, but just because our Greek deity of dawn is the female Eos, i prefer to worship that barbarian Shachar...
eponymous (Greek language lesson intended)
They are not "unofficial privileges", they are "don't give a damn i'm outta here in a week" attitudes. They'll do their jobs, but they sure as hell won't act like scared newcomers in front of anyone. Generals are just humans, after all. In a week they have absolutely no authority over you. The worst that can happen is you spend the week in MPs custody, so why bother.
There are some other "unofficial privileges" (plus responsibilities - very often you end up doing *some* of the officers' duties), but i agree that this "i don't give a damn i'm outta here" also exists - but the worst that can happen is NOT "spend the week in MPs custody"... you can spend some months doing extra service (as some of my buddies did), and/or in case you serving in S.F. (as i did) to get send to regular army (not something good, since everyone in S.F. are volunteers, plus that way you lose some OFFICIAL priviliges, some of them existing even when you become a citizen).
I couldn't understand the parallel hierarchy thing. How come you have different ranks even before graduating from the army (school) ? Or are you referring to some advanced training courses you were taking while already having served in the army for quite some time ?
I am not the one you asked, but i am "the other Greek", so let me help with that: it is an "unofficial" hierarchy - when you are a conscript (even just a soldier) that have already served most of the obligatory time, you get some "unofficial privileges"... one of them is some "respect" (among both newer conscripts AND professional officers)... something existing in most (if not all) conscript based armies like the Greek. You may want to also read this.
I have been an American citizen for over 30 years ever since I took my oath back in the 1980's
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... I HONOR THOSE WHO HONOR THEIR OATH AS AMERICAN CITIZENS.
This is the day I can say that I feel proud as an American for at the very least the politicians in Washington D.C., for once, are doing something that the PEOPLE want them to do --- to kill that goddamn draconian bill that allows the government of the United States of America to act much like a totalitarian regime
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... i have no problem with Democracy doing what is supposed to do: pass the Patriot Act, and then kill it... no problem with me!
I think I am not the only one in America who will keep note of who is voting to keep American under the dictatorship of Obama - and we will make sure that all the supporters of dictator Obama will get booted from the Capitol Hill
I am not an American citizen, but i am a Greek... if i could vote as an American citizen then Rand Paul would had my vote (i liked his father also) - dictator Obama and his supporters can go fuck themselves (YES, THEY CAN).
Ron Paul is Mr McGoo. He is so fucking blind and senile, if he were president he would be the last one for sure, because he would drive the country into a brick wall. Fortunately the average American is significantly smarter than you.
As i wrote i respect both Pauls - Rand and his father Ron. And as i wrote i am just a Greek... i don't have the right to vote as an American citizen.
I expressed my opinion, you expressed yours - Democracy will do its "thing" and the average intelligence of Americans will be expressed!
I'm a German. SIEG HEIL!
I'm a Greek. ZITO I NIKI!
(German: "SIEG HEIL" - English: "HAIL VICTORY")
Watch Greeks saluting the Greek NaZi HERO Ioanni Metaxa... the men under whose regime Greeks fought against Italians/Germans (AND Soviets... Stalin and Hitler were still allies!)
Don't be scared my little Yankee "barbarian" friend, let a Greek hug you... everything will be o.k.! BUT: remember that EVIL BARBARIANS (not like those who voted for the Patriot Act) exist... please DON'T FORGET!
Thanks kindly. And hey --- on behalf of my country, I'm truly sorry we unleashed credit default swaps upon the world. That shit must have escaped from a lab somewhere.
Thanks kindly. And hey --- on behalf of my country, I'm truly sorry we made you believe that our problems is your (" barbarians' ") fault (although those "credit default swaps" was!)
I have been an American citizen for over 30 years ever since I took my oath back in the 1980's
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... I HONOR THOSE WHO HONOR THEIR OATH AS AMERICAN CITIZENS.
This is the day I can say that I feel proud as an American for at the very least the politicians in Washington D.C., for once, are doing something that the PEOPLE want them to do --- to kill that goddamn draconian bill that allows the government of the United States of America to act much like a totalitarian regime
I am not an American citizen, but a Greek... i have no problem with Democracy doing what is supposed to do: pass the Patriot Act, and then kill it... no problem with me!
I think I am not the only one in America who will keep note of who is voting to keep American under the dictatorship of Obama - and we will make sure that all the supporters of dictator Obama will get booted from the Capitol Hill
I am not an American citizen, but i am a Greek... if i could vote as an American citizen then Rand Paul would had my vote (i liked his father also) - dictator Obama and his supporters can go fuck themselves (YES, THEY CAN).
Don't be scared my little Yankee "barbarian" friend, let a Greek hug you... everything will be o.k.! BUT: remember that EVIL BARBARIANS (not like those who voted for the Patriot Act) exist... please DON'T FORGET!
Hmm. I don't remember having that problem in Greek army boot camp. Maybe because by that time I was well trained after figuring out how to tell Chinese actors apart? ;)
If you already could tell Chinese actors apart then you surely did not had that problem! But what i described was not only my problem but everyone else i know also (because of the "A.S.M." thing, i was in "Megalo Peuko" with many old buddies from my home town).
Funny relevant story, while a conscript I was sent as an escort of a Chinese officer party (12 generals, 1 captain) that was doing a tour. Their captain wanted to play a joke on me so while at cape Sounio he showed me a group of Asian tourists and asked me "those tourists, are they like us?". No, I told him, they are Japanese. "How do you know?" he asked me startled. "They speak Japanese." I tell him. More startled he asks "You can tell the difference?". So I ask him back, "what do you mean, does Japanese sound anything at all like Chinese?" to which he says "eeh, no". And I left him there to think it over a bit...
Ha! You made your fellow Greeks proud... we should never let "barbarians" play jokes on us!
That Chinese Captain was even more bewildered as he watched me and another conscript interact with our own Captain and Colonel. He told me that he could not understand our hierarchy, while he could see that we were just privates, we behaved like we were the same or above the Colonel when interacting with him. I had to explain to him that we were not privates in that sense, we were conscripts and we had a different hierarchy which was separate & parallel to the hierarchy of the rest of the army, and your level in the hierarchy was based on how close you were to graduating from the army. I explained that with less than a month left, me and the other attached conscript were at about the level of a Major General in our hierarchy so we could damn well be casual with just a Colonel if we wished... Not sure if he could grasp it...
With less than a month left? I am suprised you did not send that Chinese Captain to bring you some coffee! Oh, well, i guess you just wanted to show this "barbarian" our hospitality... good jod again my fellow Greek! To be honest, the "official hierarchy" was enforced with a little more strictness where i was serving, but (since we were often trained with NATO partners), when we were in our latest month(s) of our service we were always asked from our officers to try to be as less "malakes" as possible in front of "barbarians"... you know, try to pretend that this "separate & parallel" hierarchy did not existed! Of course we never did that (except for one time: when participating in a joint NATO exercise where... Turks were also present! Yes, we acted like real soldiers then...).
Fun times...
Imagine that my friend... here in Slashdot and we are telling stories from our military service... i always feel bad for the poor ladies who have to listen to us every time we go out and at least 2 Greeks are present - but i guess they can always talk to each-other about their girly stuff, so!
But you may have problems recognizing people of your own general race in some situations: when, as a conscript in the Greek armed forces, i was in boot camp, because everyone was "the same" (same uniform, same haircut, same "facial expression of terror"), for the first week or so i had problems facialy recognize people i know for years, the they had same problems - visually, there were only those *groups* of people: tall/sort, fat/thin, and compinations of them...