Actually, a typo is when you mistype, "teh" is a typo, but adding two whole letters and forming a correctly spelled word that isn't appropriate for the sentece(sic) isn't a typo.
Gee I see pictures of Shinto priests blessing new car plants in Japan all the time. Imagine the fit if GM had a Catholic priest bless a car factory!
V. Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who has made heaven and earth.
V. The Lord be with you. R. And with your spirit.
Let us pray.
Lend a willing ear, Lord God, to our prayers, and bless this vehicle with Your holy right hand. Direct Your holy angels to accompany it, that they may free those who ride in it from all dangers, and always guard them. And just as by Your deacon Philip You gave faith and grace to the man of Ethiopia as he sat in his chariot reading the Sacred Word, so, point out to Your servants the way of salvation. Grant that, aided by Your grace, and with their hearts set on good works, they may, after all the joys and sorrows of this journey through life, merit to receive eternal joys, through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
(Then the automobile is sprinkled with holy water.)
yes, you on the other hand might want to learn to read.
I will do no such thing!
I am Indian. I do not say 'white culture' is superior. Kids need to have any culture. it is the lack of culture that is the problem.
They have a culture. It's a culture of consumerism, you don't like it and I can understand why, but it's a culture. They talk about their ephemeral pop stars, they wear their brands with pride, and I don't think their culture has as much value as ancient cultures with lots of accumulated practical details, like cultures of India, or the French, but it's theirs.
The POLICY of multiculturalism is actually creating a vacuum of culture by preventing cultural values from being passed on.
I haven't been where you've seen this, but nothing you've said has convinced me this is true, and nothing you've added has convinced me you aren't racist. So you're indian and you think people should stick to their color-coded cultures: sounds like racism to me. But you don't seem to wish harm to other races, you're just saying they shouldn't mix too much. I think you've just grown with a culture where racism was entrenched and it's not your fault if it stuck.
Wow do you know any nation where some kids don't want to rock stars, move stars, race car drivers, or soccer players?
Do you know any nation not awash in American 'cultural' products? Just because it's contagious doesn't mean it isn't real.
I wanted to be an astronautic myself.
But you couldn't spell "astronaut" so you had to give up your dream. Sad story, bro.
As far as religion as superstition... Go to India sometime or Japan. Shinto shines are common even in peoples homes.
70 percent of Japanese profess no religious membership[6] and possibly only one in five Japanese claim a belief in God[7]. However, polls generally show that two-thirds of Japanese profess no religion[8] and according to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God and 55% do not believe in Buddha[9]
It often amazes me how humanity has lost all sense when it comes to culture.
[...] I theorize that multi-culturalism is actually resulting in no-culture... aka... lost children. [...] I don't care what culture it is (Indian, Chinese, French... and yes... white people... you also have a culture...)
What I get from your post is that you're racist and you're used to hide that fact.
Also, you seem to think the French aren't white. That's... special. Anyway, good luck talking about how "white culture" is better than multiculturalism whilst hiding the inherent racism in that thought, you're putting a lot of effort in that obfuscation after all.
when some species are removed from existence, the whole ecosystem goes crazy because it's not built to operate at the sudden pace that we're pushing it at. Plus, we're hitting nearly every ecosystem with rapid change at once, which is taking a somewhat delicate system and playing Jenga with it.
In other words: Once we hit that bulls-eye, the dominoes will fall like a house of cards; checkmate.
I didn't say "Google has won the OS war", I said they're starting one. Microsoft has the Maginot wall, well established and unshakable, and Google has the Highway and high-speed tanks.
The thing is, right now it's 1939 and you're telling me "they only have tanks and highways at this point in time" and I think that in five years' time they'll have stuff that you wouldn't believe because you're too focused on how things are at this point in time.
P.S. I'm only comparing Google to Nazis in term of shininess of tech, not in morals or values. 'cause they may have been murderous maniacs, but DAMN they had cool toys.
> Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows.
Sorry, where does it say that they are aiming to compete with Windows, because it doesn't mention windows in TFA.
They are ditching windows internally, according to a recent article here, and now they're launching something they can use instead. Sounds like an act of OS war to me.
The other choices are real, you're just not voting for them. And yes, the system is broken, but it's out there, it's affecting your life for real, and you should do your part in it because it affects you a LOT even if you have very little effect on it.
If everyone who's tired of the two usual choices went out and voted for the others, things could change.
sucking Hollywood's cock. They keep trying to ram this shit through, I guess the bribes are still being paid in full.
I sincerely hope my fellow Canadians wake up and elect anyone other than Harper and his cronies. Anyone would be better, even Ignatieff.
Ignatieff has cock breath too, you know. Remember when the Liberals wanted to decriminalize cannabis possession? They sent the justice minister to Washington to ASK PERMISSION, and he came back from the Tsar's office with a "no". Canada is subservient to its neighbour.
Then STFU. If you don't bother with politics, politics will bother you.
If you can't in good conscience vote for the fuckers who are alternating their turns to screw us, do what I do: Vote for someone you'd like to win, even though they have no real chance. If we all bothered to do so, they would have a chance.
Clearly the copyright holders are asking for silly things and getting them.
We need to ask why that is.
It's because of corruption and bribes.
Is it because nobody is contacting their representative to say "hang on a minute here..."? Or is it because the arguments we put forward are viewed as being so pathetically weak that they may as well be ignored?
It's because of a variation on the second one: Our arguments don't come with a fat, plain brown envelope and/or a spoken agreement for a high paying job as soon as you leave office after changing the law to benefit my industry. This is how the world has always been, and we need to be aware of it to fight it.
as though anyone who demands extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims is just sticking their head in their sand. Though perhaps he just doesn't understand what people mean when they call something "bullshit".
I think he's talking about the ones who demand extraordinary proof for ordinary claims. There's people out there who just call things "bullshit" reflexively and they won't ever admit they're wrong, even as you show them more and more proof they just continue to pretend to be skeptics, but they aren't being cautious or critical: they just don't want to accept facts that contradict their established beliefs. And they call themselves skeptics, so we have reasons to be skeptical of the actual skeptical nature of self-described skeptics.
So there's people who irrationally believe things, and people who irrationally believe the contrary, and the second group likes to think of themselves as skeptics. Which they aren't, not really. But doing so reinforces their disbelief.
There are skeptics and there are "skeptics". "skeptics" make their first reaction to everything "this is BS"
That's a load of crap. Skeptics make their first reaction to anything for which there is not sufficient evidence present "this is BS." That's a critical difference.
You missed the fact that he talks about skeptics and "skeptics". Notice the ". He put double-quotes to indicate irony, and that went right over your head. He was wrong to attempt subtle irony on the internet, that's a recipe for misunderstanding, but you were nonetheless wrong for missing his irony and flaming him for something you misunderstood.
Again, you are leaping to the conclusion that skepticism against acupuncture was unwarranted
I don't think that's what he's doing. I think he's being ironic and you're missing out on it: He's saying 'skeptics' and '"skeptics"', and he's pointing out that the ones in double-quotes aren't really skeptical, they're really obtuse; they have decided that something is bullshit and nothing will ever make them stray from that position.
His mistake was using subtle irony; On the net, that's sure to get you burned.
His point is that skepticism is about having doubt, not certainty.
Ah! You think Yoga has no basis in fact? There's some very toned and flexible hotties out there proving you wrong.
Well, ridiculous health claims (eg, treating autoimmune disorders, etc) associated with yoga are pseudo-science.
Ok, yes, there's True Believers that will tell you yoga cures cancer, feeds the poor and plugs the gulf of mexico's oil hole. But there is significant merit in the practice of Yoga for health benefits, even if it doesn't protect us from asteroid strikes.
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Seriously, doesn't this yell corruption into everybody's ears? What right is held back next?
Nope. What it more likely yells at me is a bad translation from French political/legal speech to English.
No, he's right: it's corruption.
Actually, it was quite insulting for the President of France to come to Canada and state that Quebec should be free
Yeah, how dare he tell people they can be free? Freedom is bad! BOOO freedom! BOO!
There is a couple of pictures of the "sinkhole" there, and especially one of the bottom, it seems there is a big cave
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Guatemala-sinkhole/(photo)/2
THANK YOU, thank you, thank you!
I've been looking for a better view, and wondering where that big slice of earth went.
Looks like the holes the silver surfer drilled in the last Fantastic Four Movie....
One thing I hate about hollywood is how they take one cool aspect of a villain and use it for another villain.
It is called a typo. Dude.
Actually, a typo is when you mistype, "teh" is a typo, but adding two whole letters and forming a correctly spelled word that isn't appropriate for the sentece(sic) isn't a typo.
Gee I see pictures of Shinto priests blessing new car plants in Japan all the time. Imagine the fit if GM had a Catholic priest bless a car factory!
BLESSING OF AN AUTOMOBILE
V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who has made heaven and earth.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with your spirit.
Let us pray.
Lend a willing ear,
Lord God,
to our prayers,
and bless this vehicle with Your holy right hand.
Direct Your holy angels to accompany it,
that they may free those who ride in it from all dangers,
and always guard them.
And just as by Your deacon Philip You gave faith
and grace to the man of Ethiopia
as he sat in his chariot reading the Sacred Word,
so, point out to Your servants the way of salvation.
Grant that,
aided by Your grace,
and with their hearts set on good works,
they may, after all the joys
and sorrows of this journey through life,
merit to receive eternal joys,
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
(Then the automobile is sprinkled with holy water.)
Copyright © 2007 Catholic Doors Ministry
yes, you on the other hand might want to learn to read.
I will do no such thing!
I am Indian.
I do not say 'white culture' is superior. Kids need to have any culture.
it is the lack of culture that is the problem.
They have a culture. It's a culture of consumerism, you don't like it and I can understand why, but it's a culture. They talk about their ephemeral pop stars, they wear their brands with pride, and I don't think their culture has as much value as ancient cultures with lots of accumulated practical details, like cultures of India, or the French, but it's theirs.
The POLICY of multiculturalism is actually creating a vacuum of culture by preventing cultural values from being passed on.
I haven't been where you've seen this, but nothing you've said has convinced me this is true, and nothing you've added has convinced me you aren't racist. So you're indian and you think people should stick to their color-coded cultures: sounds like racism to me. But you don't seem to wish harm to other races, you're just saying they shouldn't mix too much. I think you've just grown with a culture where racism was entrenched and it's not your fault if it stuck.
Why are Indian kids so bad as basketball?
They can never find the wickets!
Wow do you know any nation where some kids don't want to rock stars, move stars, race car drivers, or soccer players?
Do you know any nation not awash in American 'cultural' products? Just because it's contagious doesn't mean it isn't real.
I wanted to be an astronautic myself.
But you couldn't spell "astronaut" so you had to give up your dream. Sad story, bro.
As far as religion as superstition... Go to India sometime or Japan. Shinto shines are common even in peoples homes.
70 percent of Japanese profess no religious membership[6] and possibly only one in five Japanese claim a belief in God[7]. However, polls generally show that two-thirds of Japanese profess no religion[8] and according to Demerath (2001:138), 64% do not believe in God and 55% do not believe in Buddha[9]
the teacher thought "atmosphere" was spelled "atomosphere" and refused to let me get the dictionary and prove I was right.
I had a teacher telling us that the ISS would be the first space station. Mentioning MIR and SpaceLab only made the bitch angy.
That kind of mindless authoritarianism should be punishable by summary execution.
It often amazes me how humanity has lost all sense when it comes to culture.
[...] I theorize that multi-culturalism is actually resulting in no-culture... aka... lost children. [...] I don't care what culture it is (Indian, Chinese, French... and yes... white people... you also have a culture...)
What I get from your post is that you're racist and you're used to hide that fact.
Also, you seem to think the French aren't white. That's... special. Anyway, good luck talking about how "white culture" is better than multiculturalism whilst hiding the inherent racism in that thought, you're putting a lot of effort in that obfuscation after all.
I love the weasel words that come out in these kinds of discussions.
echo(parse(" we're doing a better job making our products more secure"));
We used to not give a shit about security, but we're playing catch-up now!
echo(parse("third-party influentials and industry leaders like Cisco tell us regularly that our focus and investment continues to surpass others."));
The guys I golf with tell me the others guys who golf with them aren't throwing as much money at this problem as us.
when some species are removed from existence, the whole ecosystem goes crazy because it's not built to operate at the sudden pace that we're pushing it at. Plus, we're hitting nearly every ecosystem with rapid change at once, which is taking a somewhat delicate system and playing Jenga with it.
In other words: Once we hit that bulls-eye, the dominoes will fall like a house of cards; checkmate.
potentially
That's what I'm talking about.
They don't have a product that does all the things windows does, but they're working on it, expanding its reach niche by niche. It's war, I tell you.
At this point in time
We are living in interesting times.
I didn't say "Google has won the OS war", I said they're starting one. Microsoft has the Maginot wall, well established and unshakable, and Google has the Highway and high-speed tanks.
The thing is, right now it's 1939 and you're telling me "they only have tanks and highways at this point in time" and I think that in five years' time they'll have stuff that you wouldn't believe because you're too focused on how things are at this point in time.
P.S. I'm only comparing Google to Nazis in term of shininess of tech, not in morals or values. 'cause they may have been murderous maniacs, but DAMN they had cool toys.
> Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows.
Sorry, where does it say that they are aiming to compete with Windows, because it doesn't mention windows in TFA.
They are ditching windows internally, according to a recent article here, and now they're launching something they can use instead. Sounds like an act of OS war to me.
only limited to two real choices.
The other choices are real, you're just not voting for them. And yes, the system is broken, but it's out there, it's affecting your life for real, and you should do your part in it because it affects you a LOT even if you have very little effect on it.
If everyone who's tired of the two usual choices went out and voted for the others, things could change.
sucking Hollywood's cock. They keep trying to ram this shit through, I guess the bribes are still being paid in full.
I sincerely hope my fellow Canadians wake up and elect anyone other than Harper and his cronies. Anyone would be better, even Ignatieff.
Ignatieff has cock breath too, you know. Remember when the Liberals wanted to decriminalize cannabis possession? They sent the justice minister to Washington to ASK PERMISSION, and he came back from the Tsar's office with a "no".
Canada is subservient to its neighbour.
I never vote in general elections
Then STFU. If you don't bother with politics, politics will bother you.
If you can't in good conscience vote for the fuckers who are alternating their turns to screw us, do what I do: Vote for someone you'd like to win, even though they have no real chance. If we all bothered to do so, they would have a chance.
Clearly the copyright holders are asking for silly things and getting them.
We need to ask why that is.
It's because of corruption and bribes.
Is it because nobody is contacting their representative to say "hang on a minute here..."? Or is it because the arguments we put forward are viewed as being so pathetically weak that they may as well be ignored?
It's because of a variation on the second one: Our arguments don't come with a fat, plain brown envelope and/or a spoken agreement for a high paying job as soon as you leave office after changing the law to benefit my industry. This is how the world has always been, and we need to be aware of it to fight it.
as though anyone who demands extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims is just sticking their head in their sand. Though perhaps he just doesn't understand what people mean when they call something "bullshit".
I think he's talking about the ones who demand extraordinary proof for ordinary claims. There's people out there who just call things "bullshit" reflexively and they won't ever admit they're wrong, even as you show them more and more proof they just continue to pretend to be skeptics, but they aren't being cautious or critical: they just don't want to accept facts that contradict their established beliefs. And they call themselves skeptics, so we have reasons to be skeptical of the actual skeptical nature of self-described skeptics.
So there's people who irrationally believe things, and people who irrationally believe the contrary, and the second group likes to think of themselves as skeptics. Which they aren't, not really. But doing so reinforces their disbelief.
There are skeptics and there are "skeptics". "skeptics" make their first reaction to everything "this is BS"
That's a load of crap. Skeptics make their first reaction to anything for which there is not sufficient evidence present "this is BS." That's a critical difference.
You missed the fact that he talks about skeptics and "skeptics". Notice the ". He put double-quotes to indicate irony, and that went right over your head.
He was wrong to attempt subtle irony on the internet, that's a recipe for misunderstanding, but you were nonetheless wrong for missing his irony and flaming him for something you misunderstood.
Now kiss and make up.
Again, you are leaping to the conclusion that skepticism against acupuncture was unwarranted
I don't think that's what he's doing. I think he's being ironic and you're missing out on it: He's saying 'skeptics' and '"skeptics"', and he's pointing out that the ones in double-quotes aren't really skeptical, they're really obtuse; they have decided that something is bullshit and nothing will ever make them stray from that position.
His mistake was using subtle irony; On the net, that's sure to get you burned.
His point is that skepticism is about having doubt, not certainty.
Um... This is slashdot, after all.
Touché.
Ah! You think Yoga has no basis in fact? There's some very toned and flexible hotties out there proving you wrong.
Well, ridiculous health claims (eg, treating autoimmune disorders, etc) associated with yoga are pseudo-science.
Ok, yes, there's True Believers that will tell you yoga cures cancer, feeds the poor and plugs the gulf of mexico's oil hole. But there is significant merit in the practice of Yoga for health benefits, even if it doesn't protect us from asteroid strikes.
So just to be clear: acupuncture is a cult, a pseudo-science without basis in fact, just like its home companions homeopathy, yoga and Reiki.
Ah! You think Yoga has no basis in fact? There's some very toned and flexible hotties out there proving you wrong.