God's commandments in the Old Testament for the descendents of Israel to enter and occupy the Promised Land were to the Jews, not to Christians, and are therefore not part of how a Christian should spread Christianity.
True enough. Alas, most so-called Christians still open their bibles to various old testament verses whenever it's convenient to support their fearful and ignorant need to make others believe and behave has they do. This makes theirs the "orthodox" view, and yours (however correct it is WRT your messiah's teachings) the unorthodox (some might even say heretical) view. So until "Christianity" dumps all that baggage, your argument is of little practical application in the real world. Don't get me wrong. It is refreshing to encounter a self-professed Christian who actually does credit to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but for every one like you, there are thousands who use their "word of god" to justify all manner of wrong-doing.
And where in Orthodox Christian doctrine or Scriptures does it require its adherents to perform stonings, suicide bombings or killing infidels?
You're kidding. Right? If you are, well played, sir. Well played indeed. If you're not joking, mercy demands that I resist the urge to illustrate how stupendously wrong you are and merely suggest that you read your Bible a bit more carefully.
Except that Islam is not about spirituality. It is a hateful cult that being slowly conquering the world by deception and violence since 7th century. When a muslim talk about Islam been a religion of peace they talk about the islamic peace, which is closer to pax romana then what we usually think peace mean. To the muslim, there will be peace when everyone is either converted or put to death*. This is what a 'religion of peace' mean in the context of Islam.
* Will all know that this Islamic peace will never happen because muslim fight each other all the time anyway. They are just sick fucks from the medieval time.
They very same thing may be said about Christianity, if it's printed collections of "the true and unerring word of god" may be used as evidence. Likely, religious scholars with a breadth greater than mine can offer similar statements about other religions. So how about we "get a fucking clue" and stop singling out Islam, m'kay? Either that, or recognize that it's the criminals, not the religion, that are the problem here.
On the contrary, blaming the religion is exactly the right approach because it is the religion that contains the evil. Most Muslims are quite decent human beings and are deserving of respect. Islam, on the other hand, is a set of ideas and philosophy and we should not hesitate to criticize it.
Then you must do the same for Christianity, and every other religion that contains as a part of it's dogma, the instruction to do evil (stoning, suicide bombing, whatever) to those who don't believe and act as you do (women who have the temerity to demand education, etc.). It's too much to keep track of, so I say let them believe whatever fucking loopy Bronze Age fairy tales they want, as long as the behave like civilized people and stop trying to force their twisted views on anybody else.
I am not one of the "OMG! Look at the religion of peace!" bozos.
I am. Islam is a blight on humanity and evil things like those emanating from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan flow directly from Islam.
Blaming the religion is the wrong approach. All you will accomplish by attacking a religion is to add to the resolve of those extremist followers who you seem to conflate with the vast majority of those followers who are not so fearful, ignorant, and hateful. Notice I said "a" religion. Not Islam. Christianity has it's share of nut-job followers too. They're not as well organized since The Enlightenment, but they are still there. We need to leave the religion out of it and deal with religious extremists for what they are, violent and anti-social criminals.
If your deity needs intercession by mortals to prevent others from speaking against him, he is probably not what you are thinking he is. So there's that, but the real thing I want to say, to anyone who would presume to limit my speech on religious grounds is "Piss off!". Seriously. Get a fucking clue and realize that your spiritual path is yours, and yours alone, to walk. The rest of us don't have to join you. Get it?
...well-funded scientists, most working in academic settings doing "pure" research, went out and found those things. Now, owing to the pervasive and deeply idiotic notion that such pursuits are "government waste", relatively little of that type of research is done. Now, "research" must have at least the potential of producing a profitable result if it is to receive funding, from any source.
I once valued my microwave at $1,100,000 but ended selling it for $20 on Craigslist. There was disappointment all around.
As well, I once had an idea for a jetpack that I valued at $20 billion AUS dollars ("billion" with a "b"). Unfortunately I sold that idea for a pint of Fosters to work colleague.
Yeah, but you didn't sell shares to clueless investors. Loser.
In the US, a general piece of advice given to people who are arming themselves for self defense; When using lethal force (a gun), use it with intent to kill,
No. Use it with intent to stop the threat, as promptly and certainly as possible. Nothing more, nothing less. For all practical purposes, we're splitting hairs; if you do it right, they're probably dead. But if it's the subsequent litigation you're concerned about, stopping the threat is all one need, or should, offer as the reason for using lethal force.
That would certainly deter me from buying products that were manufactured or contained parts that were manufactured abroad. People would be determined to buy domestic products (assuming they even exist these days). That said, it was clear that I could sell my car without permission when I bought it - changing the terms after the sale seems very wrong. If they implement this rule, they should specify that it applies to sales after a point in time in the future.
You'd have to change a lot more than the automotive industry. Otherwise, you would not be able to afford that "all American made" vehicle. That's right. The simple fact is that it costs more to build a car in the U.S. than it does to build, and deliver, a car made in Japan or Korea. But damage to the economy, done by off-shoring huge chunks of our jobs, is so widespread that only a fortunate few now have the income to be such "patriotic" consumers. This is by design. Yes, it is, and TFA is nothing if not yet another indication of that design. Look of the word "serfdom". You are on the path to it.
Until we have instant run-off elections (or the significant number of voters magically do the same thing) , voting Libertarian (or any "third party") is wasting your vote. Sucks, but that's reality for you.
Yea, I've been seeing that strawman pop up here pretty much daily for the last decade: "Oh, there's a bunch of posters with whom I disagree, Slashdot is falling apart, becoming a haven for the [insert group you don't like]!
If you think that's all it is, you have not been paying attention. Informed, well-reasoned disagreements are part of what made/. what it is, or was perhaps. Sadly, those have been largely supplanted by ill-informed and logically flawed disagreements. So yeah, even though it's to be expected as more and more of the retards find their way here, it is still lamentable. Wading through the dross, to get to something interesting/insightful/informative, grows more wearisome with each passing week, it seems.
This is a foolish over-simplification of a complex problem. Religion, by definition, requires belief, sometimes passionate belief. I have no problem with passionate belief, as long as it doesn't involve others in any way. To suggest that we should tolerate, appease, or "avoid inflaming" this or that religion's passionate followers is to focus on the wrong thing and legitimizes, tacitly at least, their irrational and anti-social behavior.
While I would never do it, because I don't believe in deliberately offending people, I should be able to publish a video of someone pissing on an image of "The Prophet", or Jesus, or TFSM, without having to fear that some religious idiot will kill me over it.
They have added a link saying "For more on this story: Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization, Fars." with a link so a screen cap of the story on Fars.
I always love it when a yet another fake news organization, run by incompetent partisan hacks gets punked by the Onion:).
TFTFY. By and large, "real" news organizations don't make mistakes like that.
I always liked how space combat was portrayed in Babylon 5. It mostly adhered to proper physics of spaceflight, and the battles always seemed to be more realistic to me.
Agreed, and that's a big part of why Babylon 5 sucked so hard as entertainment.
Note that I'm no noob... its just that I can't figure out what openstack is. I've done tons of NFS/AFS/Samba over the decades and some virtualization stuff with vmware and I have a little 4 node 20-30 LXC image "cluster" at home. LXC because its simple and the hardware is ancient aka free so I can't do "fancy" hardware virtualization.
If you can't grasp what Open Stack "is", then you are definitely a noob in the areas where Open Stack plays.
It was surprisingly easy. First we got them all whipped up about things that it might be reasonable to be afraid of, like terrorists. That gave us a little credibility and we cemented that with all kinds of theater (an unnecessary war, the TSA, The Patriot Act) to make them feel safer from this "threat". Then we got them whipped up about things that they were already afraid of, like homosexuals, and made a lot of noise about "protecting the institution of marriage". I know, I know. It was all bullshit, but those sheep just lapped it up. They placed their trust in us, "their leaders". So we doubled down, and dusted off the old "commie" bogey man, and got them to thinking that their protectors would always do the right thing by them. By now, the sheep were just a glassy-eyed, unthinking mass, so we started emptying their pockets. It's amazing what you can sell when you can capitalize on a little fear. Just ask Hitler. By them time the German people collectively woke up and realized what huge fucking mistake they had made, it was all over but the crying.
Right. So unions are always a bad thing..., because of your limited experience. See: provincialism. When you've finished learning why your argument is bullshit, please take the time to study some history, and learn why your premise is bullshit as well. There was a time, not that long ago, when working conditions, virtually everywhere, were nowhere near what they are now. The only thing that made that change was unionization and laws that allowed them to exist.
I'd rather build hundreds of nuclear reactors based on the yet to have a major accident associated with it liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology instead in the short to medium term, and in the longer term build space-based solar power arrays parked in geosynchronous or near-geosynchronous orvbit.
TFTFY. Not that it matters much, because your (apparently serious) suggestion that space-based solutions are a viable solution is just as out-of-touch. Do try to apply a little rational thought to distinguishing between sci-fi and reality.
Just put it off for a while. It can be done safely. The path is obvious.
Uhm...., yeah. Until "the 2030's" would qualify as " a while". Jeez, if you can't read TFA, at least read TFS. But you're right, the path is obvious. Move to technologies that don't run the risks of poisoning huge swaths of their nation's limited land.
Another issue is that unenforced regulation can still end up with society paying for a bunch of regulators. It's just regulators that aren't for whatever reason doing their jobs. Self-regulation doesn't have this diversion of resources.
It (self regulation) is just so much bullshit without severe penalties to actually "self regulate". Corporations have one over-arching imperative - make money. The board member who fails to act in such a way that maximizes profit is guilty of malfeasance. If a director can legally give the corporate finger to the environment because the corporation makes more money that way, he/she must do so, and moreover, we should expect that behavior and stop with all the naive self-regulation horseshit.
DHS exists because It's a great way to dump US tax dollars into privatized money machines. It's hear to stay, voting or not.
That doesn't sound like the thinking of a good citizen. We may have to look into your background, finances, social network activity, phone records, etc. Wrong thinking is punishable, you know. Besides, it's unpatriotic to question the Department of Fatherland..., erm, Homeland Security.
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God's commandments in the Old Testament for the descendents of Israel to enter and occupy the Promised Land were to the Jews, not to Christians, and are therefore not part of how a Christian should spread Christianity.
True enough. Alas, most so-called Christians still open their bibles to various old testament verses whenever it's convenient to support their fearful and ignorant need to make others believe and behave has they do. This makes theirs the "orthodox" view, and yours (however correct it is WRT your messiah's teachings) the unorthodox (some might even say heretical) view. So until "Christianity" dumps all that baggage, your argument is of little practical application in the real world. Don't get me wrong. It is refreshing to encounter a self-professed Christian who actually does credit to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but for every one like you, there are thousands who use their "word of god" to justify all manner of wrong-doing.
And where in Orthodox Christian doctrine or Scriptures does it require its adherents to perform stonings, suicide bombings or killing infidels?
You're kidding. Right? If you are, well played, sir. Well played indeed. If you're not joking, mercy demands that I resist the urge to illustrate how stupendously wrong you are and merely suggest that you read your Bible a bit more carefully.
Except that Islam is not about spirituality. It is a hateful cult that being slowly conquering the world by deception and violence since 7th century. When a muslim talk about Islam been a religion of peace they talk about the islamic peace, which is closer to pax romana then what we usually think peace mean. To the muslim, there will be peace when everyone is either converted or put to death*. This is what a 'religion of peace' mean in the context of Islam.
* Will all know that this Islamic peace will never happen because muslim fight each other all the time anyway. They are just sick fucks from the medieval time.
They very same thing may be said about Christianity, if it's printed collections of "the true and unerring word of god" may be used as evidence. Likely, religious scholars with a breadth greater than mine can offer similar statements about other religions. So how about we "get a fucking clue" and stop singling out Islam, m'kay? Either that, or recognize that it's the criminals, not the religion, that are the problem here.
Why is that?
On the contrary, blaming the religion is exactly the right approach because it is the religion that contains the evil. Most Muslims are quite decent human beings and are deserving of respect. Islam, on the other hand, is a set of ideas and philosophy and we should not hesitate to criticize it.
Then you must do the same for Christianity, and every other religion that contains as a part of it's dogma, the instruction to do evil (stoning, suicide bombing, whatever) to those who don't believe and act as you do (women who have the temerity to demand education, etc.). It's too much to keep track of, so I say let them believe whatever fucking loopy Bronze Age fairy tales they want, as long as the behave like civilized people and stop trying to force their twisted views on anybody else.
I am. Islam is a blight on humanity and evil things like those emanating from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan flow directly from Islam.
Blaming the religion is the wrong approach. All you will accomplish by attacking a religion is to add to the resolve of those extremist followers who you seem to conflate with the vast majority of those followers who are not so fearful, ignorant, and hateful. Notice I said "a" religion. Not Islam. Christianity has it's share of nut-job followers too. They're not as well organized since The Enlightenment, but they are still there. We need to leave the religion out of it and deal with religious extremists for what they are, violent and anti-social criminals.
If your deity needs intercession by mortals to prevent others from speaking against him, he is probably not what you are thinking he is. So there's that, but the real thing I want to say, to anyone who would presume to limit my speech on religious grounds is "Piss off!". Seriously. Get a fucking clue and realize that your spiritual path is yours, and yours alone, to walk. The rest of us don't have to join you. Get it?
How is a phone number "not safe"?
Seriously? Dude, use your imagination just a little bit here...
...well-funded scientists, most working in academic settings doing "pure" research, went out and found those things. Now, owing to the pervasive and deeply idiotic notion that such pursuits are "government waste", relatively little of that type of research is done. Now, "research" must have at least the potential of producing a profitable result if it is to receive funding, from any source.
OK. I'll take COM (Chief Odds Maker), the guy who figures out when it's time to bail and leave the investors holding the bag.
I once valued my microwave at $1,100,000 but ended selling it for $20 on Craigslist. There was disappointment all around.
As well, I once had an idea for a jetpack that I valued at $20 billion AUS dollars ("billion" with a "b"). Unfortunately I sold that idea for a pint of Fosters to work colleague.
Yeah, but you didn't sell shares to clueless investors. Loser.
In the US, a general piece of advice given to people who are arming themselves for self defense; When using lethal force (a gun), use it with intent to kill,
No. Use it with intent to stop the threat, as promptly and certainly as possible. Nothing more, nothing less. For all practical purposes, we're splitting hairs; if you do it right, they're probably dead. But if it's the subsequent litigation you're concerned about, stopping the threat is all one need, or should, offer as the reason for using lethal force.
That would certainly deter me from buying products that were manufactured or contained parts that were manufactured abroad. People would be determined to buy domestic products (assuming they even exist these days). That said, it was clear that I could sell my car without permission when I bought it - changing the terms after the sale seems very wrong. If they implement this rule, they should specify that it applies to sales after a point in time in the future.
You'd have to change a lot more than the automotive industry. Otherwise, you would not be able to afford that "all American made" vehicle. That's right. The simple fact is that it costs more to build a car in the U.S. than it does to build, and deliver, a car made in Japan or Korea. But damage to the economy, done by off-shoring huge chunks of our jobs, is so widespread that only a fortunate few now have the income to be such "patriotic" consumers. This is by design. Yes, it is, and TFA is nothing if not yet another indication of that design. Look of the word "serfdom". You are on the path to it.
Until we have instant run-off elections (or the significant number of voters magically do the same thing) , voting Libertarian (or any "third party") is wasting your vote. Sucks, but that's reality for you.
Yea, I've been seeing that strawman pop up here pretty much daily for the last decade: "Oh, there's a bunch of posters with whom I disagree, Slashdot is falling apart, becoming a haven for the [insert group you don't like]!
If you think that's all it is, you have not been paying attention. Informed, well-reasoned disagreements are part of what made /. what it is, or was perhaps. Sadly, those have been largely supplanted by ill-informed and logically flawed disagreements. So yeah, even though it's to be expected as more and more of the retards find their way here, it is still lamentable. Wading through the dross, to get to something interesting/insightful/informative, grows more wearisome with each passing week, it seems.
This is a foolish over-simplification of a complex problem. Religion, by definition, requires belief, sometimes passionate belief. I have no problem with passionate belief, as long as it doesn't involve others in any way. To suggest that we should tolerate, appease, or "avoid inflaming" this or that religion's passionate followers is to focus on the wrong thing and legitimizes, tacitly at least, their irrational and anti-social behavior.
While I would never do it, because I don't believe in deliberately offending people, I should be able to publish a video of someone pissing on an image of "The Prophet", or Jesus, or TFSM, without having to fear that some religious idiot will kill me over it.
They have added a link saying "For more on this story: Please visit our Iranian subsidiary organization, Fars." with a link so a screen cap of the story on Fars.
I always love it when a yet another fake news organization, run by incompetent partisan hacks gets punked by the Onion :).
TFTFY. By and large, "real" news organizations don't make mistakes like that.
I always liked how space combat was portrayed in Babylon 5. It mostly adhered to proper physics of spaceflight, and the battles always seemed to be more realistic to me.
Agreed, and that's a big part of why Babylon 5 sucked so hard as entertainment.
What could possibly go wrong? It's not like anyone would astroturf their patents. Right?
Note that I'm no noob... its just that I can't figure out what openstack is. I've done tons of NFS/AFS/Samba over the decades and some virtualization stuff with vmware and I have a little 4 node 20-30 LXC image "cluster" at home. LXC because its simple and the hardware is ancient aka free so I can't do "fancy" hardware virtualization.
If you can't grasp what Open Stack "is", then you are definitely a noob in the areas where Open Stack plays.
It was surprisingly easy. First we got them all whipped up about things that it might be reasonable to be afraid of, like terrorists. That gave us a little credibility and we cemented that with all kinds of theater (an unnecessary war, the TSA, The Patriot Act) to make them feel safer from this "threat". Then we got them whipped up about things that they were already afraid of, like homosexuals, and made a lot of noise about "protecting the institution of marriage". I know, I know. It was all bullshit, but those sheep just lapped it up. They placed their trust in us, "their leaders". So we doubled down, and dusted off the old "commie" bogey man, and got them to thinking that their protectors would always do the right thing by them. By now, the sheep were just a glassy-eyed, unthinking mass, so we started emptying their pockets. It's amazing what you can sell when you can capitalize on a little fear. Just ask Hitler. By them time the German people collectively woke up and realized what huge fucking mistake they had made, it was all over but the crying.
Right. So unions are always a bad thing..., because of your limited experience. See: provincialism. When you've finished learning why your argument is bullshit, please take the time to study some history, and learn why your premise is bullshit as well. There was a time, not that long ago, when working conditions, virtually everywhere, were nowhere near what they are now. The only thing that made that change was unionization and laws that allowed them to exist.
I'd rather build hundreds of nuclear reactors based on the yet to have a major accident associated with it liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology instead in the short to medium term, and in the longer term build space-based solar power arrays parked in geosynchronous or near-geosynchronous orvbit.
TFTFY. Not that it matters much, because your (apparently serious) suggestion that space-based solutions are a viable solution is just as out-of-touch. Do try to apply a little rational thought to distinguishing between sci-fi and reality.
Just put it off for a while. It can be done safely. The path is obvious.
Uhm...., yeah. Until "the 2030's" would qualify as " a while". Jeez, if you can't read TFA, at least read TFS. But you're right, the path is obvious. Move to technologies that don't run the risks of poisoning huge swaths of their nation's limited land.
Another issue is that unenforced regulation can still end up with society paying for a bunch of regulators. It's just regulators that aren't for whatever reason doing their jobs. Self-regulation doesn't have this diversion of resources.
It (self regulation) is just so much bullshit without severe penalties to actually "self regulate". Corporations have one over-arching imperative - make money. The board member who fails to act in such a way that maximizes profit is guilty of malfeasance. If a director can legally give the corporate finger to the environment because the corporation makes more money that way, he/she must do so, and moreover, we should expect that behavior and stop with all the naive self-regulation horseshit.
DHS exists because It's a great way to dump US tax dollars into privatized money machines. It's hear to stay, voting or not.
That doesn't sound like the thinking of a good citizen. We may have to look into your background, finances, social network activity, phone records, etc. Wrong thinking is punishable, you know. Besides, it's unpatriotic to question the Department of Fatherland..., erm, Homeland Security.