How long will that option be an option able to be used?
The black box shows the speed limiter was set to off? Any insurance is not approved if the speed limiter is not always on?
Police ask questions as to why the speed limiter was off?
The black box and speed limiter don't even have to be installed for them to do that. A lot of people think that you can claim insurance no matter how stupidly you behaved but insurance companies already have the right to refuse to pay out and they do it regularly. The thing is they are required to compensate you for damage resulting from reasonable behaviour, or due to random events such as forces of nature assuming you have taken reasonable precautions such as install a fire/burglar alarm or drove at a reasonable speed given the conditions. However, if you are testing out your flamethrower collection in your living room and burn your house down or drive your Porsche down an icy freeway at 200 kph they are well within their rights to refuse to pay out your insurance.
It is the anomalies that kill you and doing race track speeds without the associated safety systems in place, such as you have on a racetrack, you will end up with deaths of both safe and unsafe drivers.
The Autobahns are safer than the average motorway in the world.
German Autobahns are actually every bit as blood soaked as any other motorways in the world and these Autobahn accidents tend to be as ugly as they are elsewhere in the world: https://www.google.com/search?...
This is but one of the reason the German public has increasingly been polling in favour of a 130 kph speed limit.
Normally, I would disagree with the following quote:
The ranking Democrats say paper ballots are "basic necessities" for a reliable voting system, but the companies still produce machines that don't produce paper results.
But if these vendors can't even patch their systems, I don't trust them to implement an auditable system that guarantees privacy based on a solid understanding of modern crypto.
So, sadly, paper ballots seem necessary in 2019.
Yup, that is true. As things stand people can... oopsie daisy, wipe the database containing the key voting data whenever it is convenient: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...
Kemp's explanations sound hard enough to believe as it is. If there were paper copies he'd really have to stretch to explain why the paper copies accidentally caught fire and burned to ashes in an old old oil drum in the yard behind his office the very same day the database was wiped.
You are the first person I've seen praise the feel of that keyboard.
Now you've met two. Mostly I just don't give a toss about 'keyboard feel' and certainly not to the point where I have apoplectic rage fits about it like some people do, but the butterfly keyboard is kind of nice as keyboards go.
A keyboard has to be cleanable in some way. Dust goes down not up.
I'm on my 4th butterfly keyboard, apart from a few keys collapsing on my first keyboard necessitating a replacement, I've had no problems so far. Occasionally a key sticks because of dust but so far that problem has always been solvable by going over the keyboard with a vacuum cleaner or a compressed air bottle from the local electronics shop. It also helps not to eat your bagels or other crumb generating foods like a pig and spill the crumbs all over the keyboard into the key spaces. Having said that, even the crumbs have so far not proven a match for to the vacuum cleaner and the compressed air bottle.
Personally I’m highly suspicious of Huawei and I don’t think this was a flaw. “Intended design” is what I suspect is a better description.
I could make the exact same claim for every flaw in Microsoft Windows, Google Android and Apple iOS, those are “Intended design” to make it easy for the NSA to spy on the rest of the world.
The blockchain exudes technological determinism. It's built on the assumption that changing society is done by changing its technologies.
We've been here before. The distributed nature of the internet was meant to create a more egalitarian society, in its image. The project failed, and birthed surveillance capitalism.
The internet also created a level playing field where large fortunes could be made and entire very disruptive (to the established capitalist elites) industries built up while the established capitalist elites were able to do a relatively little to use their money and connections to appropriate or squash those industries. The current Republican efforts to kill net neutrality and censor the internet are to a large degree an attempt by the 'old money' to gain control of this level playing field and cement their ability do decides who rises, who gets squished and that you will never rise without kowtowing to them first as well as to stifle dissent.
No, but perhaps they want to annoy the Muslims, by placing a naked-eye visible cross on Moon's face.
Is that vengeance for those perfidious Muslims arranging for the moon to orbit the earth such that at regular intervals several times a year the earth's shadow forms a Muslim crescent on the moon's surface to sting Christians everywhere in the eye?
All of this is an attempt to save face looking at the various tangible Moon projects from China and others. I'll believe it when NASA says "we'll go to the Moon in 20xx" and xx<25.
They already did that and succeeding administrations changed the priorities. I'll believe NASA is going for a moon landing when they actually touch down. Then they can get busy building a wall to keep people from the Mexican part of the moon from invading their crater with 'caravans'.
Nobody in real life cares about what people call Net Neutrality.
In reality, NN is about corporations trying to force other corporations to pay for infrastructure and access. Everything else is just a sideshow, and it's pathetic how so-called geeks have gotten suckered into taking sides in this fight.
NN isn't about the consumer, it's about who pays.
Believe you me, people in real life care about the inflated bill for crappy internet service from their local telecommunications monopoly and they are pissed off about the crappy service so they care about what people call Net Neutrality even if they might call the lack of it price gouging and crappy service.
I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store
Reminds me of my great joy with shopping recently where it freezes and says "Help is on the way" and I look around, seeing 5 other people looking around for the attendant to come over, swipe their card, and type their number in so that the transaction can continue. Ends up taking me 10 minutes to check out because it takes 9 for the customer service person to walk over and not even look at the machine (it was bitching that I didn't put the meat in the bag / on the scale, something it didn't complain about until the second the meat was in the bag on the scale). This is also made better when the reason you are waiting is that the person is nowhere near their station, or is just talking to a fellow coworker and ignoring the line.
Yeah, that is also annoying too, Even so, I'd consider using a self checkout if they could iron that out and build a version that can tell a medium sized hairy Scandinavian cave troll form a pimple faced 10 year old.
Not so. If you only look for extreme hot meausremensts and disregard extreme cold ones, like the climatologists now do, you add a lot of bias to your so called measurements.
So we are talking about a global conspiracy of all climate scientists to convince humanity that the world is getting warmer?... to what end?
To my surprise I have found that I tend to know more about Christian holy texts and the history of Christianity than the average Christian seems to do which is saying something because I don't really remember all that much from reading the bible.
Should not be a surprise, but I agree with the rest of your post, too.
Maybe I'm naive but if you dedicate your entire life to a region, I always figured the first thing everybody does in read the manual. I mean it's your entire life we're talking about here. I only read the thing to get a handle on what the hell they are talking about when they dive into scripture.
A Republic and a Democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. The US for example is a federal republic that also has a democratically elected assembly of representatives of the people that do the legislating and governing. That is why it is called the United States House of Representatives in case you ever wondered. The Senate is these days also democratically elected.
"Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion."
Yea, gonna have to stop you right there and called that a bald faced lie. There is even a famous yak about just this exact thing.
---The German physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."---
Scientists are humans too... and many scientists are religious or agnostic. In many ways a scientist that is an atheist is the worst scientist of all because they take the non-existence of any superior beings on faith alone. The absence of evidence is no proof of anything, and you seem to lack the understanding of why this is.
But the people Planck talked about all still based their work on observation, experimentation and math. Later generations may have corrected their theories with better data but they also based that on observation, experimentation and math. No scientist ever took the fact that the earth is round or that barnacle geese hatch from eggs as opposed to growing on trees on 'faith' without any evidence. Somebody did the math and proved the earth is round, somebody else went to wherever barnacle geese breed and observed them laying eggs and hatching them like all other birds.
Science is as much of a religion for most people as religion is...
Surely you donâ(TM)t understand every aspect of climate science in order to verify the findings, right? So you accept some stuff on faith.
Worst case I can get somebody who does know climate change to verify the research results because they are physical mesuralbe observable and verifieable. Come to think of it, science already does that, it's called peer review. Now will you please submit your evidence for the existence of god and hell and explain why only designated clergy and prophets have a direct line to god and why god is so obsessed with the way the general public lives their lives?
Firing supermarket checkout assistants and installing self-checkout lanes that force customers to do the work is not automation, its fuck the consumer business as usual.
Before Woolworths opened the first "department store" in the 1880s, customers would enter the store, hand their list to a clerk, who would then go back into the "store" and retrieve the items. It was quite a revolution to allow the customers to go into the "store" area and select their own items.
So instead of whining about the check-outs, you should be outraged that you have to walk into the store at all. Why should you do the clerk's job?
I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store and every time I buy a heavy duty cleaning chemical an energy drink or a packet of pipe tobacco for my dad the damn things call for a store employee to verify that I'm older than 16. I'm almost 7 feet tall, I'm built like Shrek the Ogre and I have a long black beard all the way down to my chest, a supermarket teller does not mistake me for a 16 year old and finishes the check-out procedure much faster.
No it doesn't. I can measure climate change, I can observe it and I can feel it's impact on my surroundings.
Funny, it reminds me of Chris Reimer's video channel audience that is shrinking by the minute. For sure he ain't no god although he likes to think he is somehow.
A bowl of Pasta can be god if you choose to worship it. That's how religion works.
So can climate models. That's how religion works.
Ever notice how when you see the predictions from multiple hurricane projection models, there often is one or two that are utterly different from the consensus of all the other 10-15 models used to predict hurricanes?
Why don't any of the climate models predictions we see ever do that? They're all really, really close. That's preposterous. How could they ALL BE ABOUT THE SAME?
That REALLY should be causing a lot of questions to be raised about what process could be forcing all the models to agree.
But yet you worship the output from those models, and expect the rest of the human race to agree with you and expend trillions of dollars over decades to address YOUR beliefs, to the point of using non-scientific words dripping with emotional content to denounce the disbelievers: DENIALISTS!! You might as well drop the hypocrisy and just call them heretics.
You got the balls to actually look at your own beliefs critically?
No I don't, worship has nothing to do with it. You will not find the word worship used anywhere in science except in the study religion and even then only because worship is a central concept in religion. I don't think climate models are an omnipresent entity that only scientists can hear. So far no scientist has delivered to me a message from climate models that only they can hear that instructs me on how to live my life or else the almighty climate models will cast me into hell for an eternity of sadistic torture for refusing to 'believe'. That's how religion works. Climate science, like all science, is a method of procedure that consists of systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion.
I'm not religious, I'm just sick and tired of people blaming Christians for everything that is wrong with the world when they are clearly not.
Hindis have way more (insanely retarded) shit to prove than Muslims and Christians do, but nobody blames them for anything.
Muslims are less educated per capita, but no, Christians are the ignorant group.
Fuck off.
I just pointed out that it is irrational to: believe in an entity whose existence cannot be proven and whose priests tell you how to live your life so you follow their instructions for fear that this invisible entity whose existence cannot be proven will toss you into a hell that nobody can prove exists. My statement applies to the irrationality of religion in general. The reason I picked on Christians is that in my neck of the woods they are the most pervasive, and tend to be the most kooky and irritating. It's their missionaries who keep shoving stacks of leaflets into letter box, it is their fundamentalists who complain and pour pigs blood on the ground when somebody wants to build a mosque and it is they who show up at public schools and try to evangelise my kids. To their credit the Pagans, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'í and the Jews don't behave like that. If I lived somewhere else, like India, I'd probably be complaining abut Hindus, the hygiene issues I have with their temple of the rat god down the street and their obsession with cows. Finally, you have obviously not read the Book of Revelation if you think that Hindus have way more (insanely retarded) shit to prove than Christians do.
As for the rest of your post I'm going to have to decline your kind offer to 'sexual intercourse off' (N-American slang is very amusing to us foreigners).
Wasn't there a a thing in the book about camels and eyes of needles?
What about the part that tells you to sell all your Apple products, SUVS and plasma TVs and give the money to the poor? That doing so accumulates riches in the afterlife...?
I'm an atheist, as far as I know there is no afterlife so I am planning my life based on that fact. What that means is that I'm going to acquire as much wealth as I can and live my life as comfortably as I can. It's the US Christian community that has turned Christianity into a cult of Mammon which, having read the bible, I find immensely amusing given what the scriptures (particularly Jesus) had to say. To my surprise I have found that I tend to know more about Christian holy texts and the history of Christianity than the average Christian seems to do which is saying something because I don't really remember all that much from reading the bible. The main reason for my superior knowledge seems to be that unlike your average Christian I've actually read the bible cover to cover. The only people who seem to have any worthwhile knowledge of the Bible are formally educated priests and Atheists who debate the religious a lot.
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How long will that option be an option able to be used? The black box shows the speed limiter was set to off? Any insurance is not approved if the speed limiter is not always on? Police ask questions as to why the speed limiter was off?
The black box and speed limiter don't even have to be installed for them to do that. A lot of people think that you can claim insurance no matter how stupidly you behaved but insurance companies already have the right to refuse to pay out and they do it regularly. The thing is they are required to compensate you for damage resulting from reasonable behaviour, or due to random events such as forces of nature assuming you have taken reasonable precautions such as install a fire/burglar alarm or drove at a reasonable speed given the conditions. However, if you are testing out your flamethrower collection in your living room and burn your house down or drive your Porsche down an icy freeway at 200 kph they are well within their rights to refuse to pay out your insurance.
It is the anomalies that kill you and doing race track speeds without the associated safety systems in place, such as you have on a racetrack, you will end up with deaths of both safe and unsafe drivers.
Really?
The real world called, they disagree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety:_international_comparison
The Autobahns are safer than the average motorway in the world.
German Autobahns are actually every bit as blood soaked as any other motorways in the world and these Autobahn accidents tend to be as ugly as they are elsewhere in the world: https://www.google.com/search?... This is but one of the reason the German public has increasingly been polling in favour of a 130 kph speed limit.
Normally, I would disagree with the following quote:
The ranking Democrats say paper ballots are "basic necessities" for a reliable voting system, but the companies still produce machines that don't produce paper results.
But if these vendors can't even patch their systems, I don't trust them to implement an auditable system that guarantees privacy based on a solid understanding of modern crypto.
So, sadly, paper ballots seem necessary in 2019.
Yup, that is true. As things stand people can ... oopsie daisy, wipe the database containing the key voting data whenever it is convenient: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...
Kemp's explanations sound hard enough to believe as it is. If there were paper copies he'd really have to stretch to explain why the paper copies accidentally caught fire and burned to ashes in an old old oil drum in the yard behind his office the very same day the database was wiped.
You are the first person I've seen praise the feel of that keyboard.
Now you've met two. Mostly I just don't give a toss about 'keyboard feel' and certainly not to the point where I have apoplectic rage fits about it like some people do, but the butterfly keyboard is kind of nice as keyboards go.
A keyboard has to be cleanable in some way. Dust goes down not up.
I'm on my 4th butterfly keyboard, apart from a few keys collapsing on my first keyboard necessitating a replacement, I've had no problems so far. Occasionally a key sticks because of dust but so far that problem has always been solvable by going over the keyboard with a vacuum cleaner or a compressed air bottle from the local electronics shop. It also helps not to eat your bagels or other crumb generating foods like a pig and spill the crumbs all over the keyboard into the key spaces. Having said that, even the crumbs have so far not proven a match for to the vacuum cleaner and the compressed air bottle.
Personally I’m highly suspicious of Huawei and I don’t think this was a flaw. “Intended design” is what I suspect is a better description.
I could make the exact same claim for every flaw in Microsoft Windows, Google Android and Apple iOS, those are “Intended design” to make it easy for the NSA to spy on the rest of the world.
The blockchain exudes technological determinism. It's built on the assumption that changing society is done by changing its technologies.
We've been here before. The distributed nature of the internet was meant to create a more egalitarian society, in its image. The project failed, and birthed surveillance capitalism.
The internet also created a level playing field where large fortunes could be made and entire very disruptive (to the established capitalist elites) industries built up while the established capitalist elites were able to do a relatively little to use their money and connections to appropriate or squash those industries. The current Republican efforts to kill net neutrality and censor the internet are to a large degree an attempt by the 'old money' to gain control of this level playing field and cement their ability do decides who rises, who gets squished and that you will never rise without kowtowing to them first as well as to stifle dissent.
No, but perhaps they want to annoy the Muslims, by placing a naked-eye visible cross on Moon's face.
Is that vengeance for those perfidious Muslims arranging for the moon to orbit the earth such that at regular intervals several times a year the earth's shadow forms a Muslim crescent on the moon's surface to sting Christians everywhere in the eye?
By any chance, is there a "christian" prophecy which includes human presence on the moon?
Yes, it says that a group of space cadets will go there in the reign of god-emperor Trump to build a wall.
All of this is an attempt to save face looking at the various tangible Moon projects from China and others. I'll believe it when NASA says "we'll go to the Moon in 20xx" and xx<25.
They already did that and succeeding administrations changed the priorities. I'll believe NASA is going for a moon landing when they actually touch down. Then they can get busy building a wall to keep people from the Mexican part of the moon from invading their crater with 'caravans'.
Nobody in real life cares about what people call Net Neutrality.
In reality, NN is about corporations trying to force other corporations to pay for infrastructure and access. Everything else is just a sideshow, and it's pathetic how so-called geeks have gotten suckered into taking sides in this fight.
NN isn't about the consumer, it's about who pays.
Believe you me, people in real life care about the inflated bill for crappy internet service from their local telecommunications monopoly and they are pissed off about the crappy service so they care about what people call Net Neutrality even if they might call the lack of it price gouging and crappy service.
I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store
Reminds me of my great joy with shopping recently where it freezes and says "Help is on the way" and I look around, seeing 5 other people looking around for the attendant to come over, swipe their card, and type their number in so that the transaction can continue. Ends up taking me 10 minutes to check out because it takes 9 for the customer service person to walk over and not even look at the machine (it was bitching that I didn't put the meat in the bag / on the scale, something it didn't complain about until the second the meat was in the bag on the scale). This is also made better when the reason you are waiting is that the person is nowhere near their station, or is just talking to a fellow coworker and ignoring the line.
Yeah, that is also annoying too, Even so, I'd consider using a self checkout if they could iron that out and build a version that can tell a medium sized hairy Scandinavian cave troll form a pimple faced 10 year old.
Wait, are you a noodelist or rigatonist? I just want to make sure I don't sit down with a heretic!
Our noodly lord god's mysterious ways cause him to appear in many forms.
Not so. If you only look for extreme hot meausremensts and disregard extreme cold ones, like the climatologists now do, you add a lot of bias to your so called measurements.
So we are talking about a global conspiracy of all climate scientists to convince humanity that the world is getting warmer? ... to what end?
To my surprise I have found that I tend to know more about Christian holy texts and the history of Christianity than the average Christian seems to do which is saying something because I don't really remember all that much from reading the bible. Should not be a surprise, but I agree with the rest of your post, too.
Maybe I'm naive but if you dedicate your entire life to a region, I always figured the first thing everybody does in read the manual. I mean it's your entire life we're talking about here. I only read the thing to get a handle on what the hell they are talking about when they dive into scripture.
No, that's called a republic.
A Republic and a Democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. The US for example is a federal republic that also has a democratically elected assembly of representatives of the people that do the legislating and governing. That is why it is called the United States House of Representatives in case you ever wondered. The Senate is these days also democratically elected.
"Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion."
Yea, gonna have to stop you right there and called that a bald faced lie. There is even a famous yak about just this exact thing.
---The German physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."---
Scientists are humans too... and many scientists are religious or agnostic. In many ways a scientist that is an atheist is the worst scientist of all because they take the non-existence of any superior beings on faith alone. The absence of evidence is no proof of anything, and you seem to lack the understanding of why this is.
But the people Planck talked about all still based their work on observation, experimentation and math. Later generations may have corrected their theories with better data but they also based that on observation, experimentation and math. No scientist ever took the fact that the earth is round or that barnacle geese hatch from eggs as opposed to growing on trees on 'faith' without any evidence. Somebody did the math and proved the earth is round, somebody else went to wherever barnacle geese breed and observed them laying eggs and hatching them like all other birds.
Ramen, brother!
Sunday services at 12 noon, we will consume our lord in the form of Pasta Neapolitano with a nice Chianti.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas Iâ(TM)ll never know.
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Tried to remove the tusks but they were imbedded too firmly. Of course in Alabama the tusks' a' loosa'
A stumbling step is often one floor above you.
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Science is as much of a religion for most people as religion is...
Surely you donâ(TM)t understand every aspect of climate science in order to verify the findings, right? So you accept some stuff on faith.
Worst case I can get somebody who does know climate change to verify the research results because they are physical mesuralbe observable and verifieable. Come to think of it, science already does that, it's called peer review. Now will you please submit your evidence for the existence of god and hell and explain why only designated clergy and prophets have a direct line to god and why god is so obsessed with the way the general public lives their lives?
Firing supermarket checkout assistants and installing self-checkout lanes that force customers to do the work is not automation, its fuck the consumer business as usual.
Before Woolworths opened the first "department store" in the 1880s, customers would enter the store, hand their list to a clerk, who would then go back into the "store" and retrieve the items. It was quite a revolution to allow the customers to go into the "store" area and select their own items.
So instead of whining about the check-outs, you should be outraged that you have to walk into the store at all. Why should you do the clerk's job?
I will whine about self checkouts all I want. They don't work all that well, they keep setting off the alarm because I wasn't quick enough put 10 cans of soda onto the scales so they sound off an alarm because they have falsely determined I'm somehow trying to cheat the store and every time I buy a heavy duty cleaning chemical an energy drink or a packet of pipe tobacco for my dad the damn things call for a store employee to verify that I'm older than 16. I'm almost 7 feet tall, I'm built like Shrek the Ogre and I have a long black beard all the way down to my chest, a supermarket teller does not mistake me for a 16 year old and finishes the check-out procedure much faster.
No it doesn't. I can measure climate change, I can observe it and I can feel it's impact on my surroundings.
Funny, it reminds me of Chris Reimer's video channel audience that is shrinking by the minute. For sure he ain't no god although he likes to think he is somehow.
A bowl of Pasta can be god if you choose to worship it. That's how religion works.
So can climate models. That's how religion works.
Ever notice how when you see the predictions from multiple hurricane projection models, there often is one or two that are utterly different from the consensus of all the other 10-15 models used to predict hurricanes?
Why don't any of the climate models predictions we see ever do that? They're all really, really close. That's preposterous. How could they ALL BE ABOUT THE SAME?
That REALLY should be causing a lot of questions to be raised about what process could be forcing all the models to agree.
But yet you worship the output from those models, and expect the rest of the human race to agree with you and expend trillions of dollars over decades to address YOUR beliefs, to the point of using non-scientific words dripping with emotional content to denounce the disbelievers: DENIALISTS!! You might as well drop the hypocrisy and just call them heretics.
You got the balls to actually look at your own beliefs critically?
No I don't, worship has nothing to do with it. You will not find the word worship used anywhere in science except in the study religion and even then only because worship is a central concept in religion. I don't think climate models are an omnipresent entity that only scientists can hear. So far no scientist has delivered to me a message from climate models that only they can hear that instructs me on how to live my life or else the almighty climate models will cast me into hell for an eternity of sadistic torture for refusing to 'believe'. That's how religion works. Climate science, like all science, is a method of procedure that consists of systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Nothing in science is taken 'on faith' without any proof like in religion.
German racism isn't amusing to anyone, particularly German law enforcement.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.
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Your turn
I'm not religious, I'm just sick and tired of people blaming Christians for everything that is wrong with the world when they are clearly not.
Hindis have way more (insanely retarded) shit to prove than Muslims and Christians do, but nobody blames them for anything.
Muslims are less educated per capita, but no, Christians are the ignorant group.
Fuck off.
I just pointed out that it is irrational to: believe in an entity whose existence cannot be proven and whose priests tell you how to live your life so you follow their instructions for fear that this invisible entity whose existence cannot be proven will toss you into a hell that nobody can prove exists. My statement applies to the irrationality of religion in general. The reason I picked on Christians is that in my neck of the woods they are the most pervasive, and tend to be the most kooky and irritating. It's their missionaries who keep shoving stacks of leaflets into letter box, it is their fundamentalists who complain and pour pigs blood on the ground when somebody wants to build a mosque and it is they who show up at public schools and try to evangelise my kids. To their credit the Pagans, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'í and the Jews don't behave like that. If I lived somewhere else, like India, I'd probably be complaining abut Hindus, the hygiene issues I have with their temple of the rat god down the street and their obsession with cows. Finally, you have obviously not read the Book of Revelation if you think that Hindus have way more (insanely retarded) shit to prove than Christians do.
As for the rest of your post I'm going to have to decline your kind offer to 'sexual intercourse off' (N-American slang is very amusing to us foreigners).
Wasn't there a a thing in the book about camels and eyes of needles?
What about the part that tells you to sell all your Apple products, SUVS and plasma TVs and give the money to the poor? That doing so accumulates riches in the afterlife...?
I'm an atheist, as far as I know there is no afterlife so I am planning my life based on that fact. What that means is that I'm going to acquire as much wealth as I can and live my life as comfortably as I can. It's the US Christian community that has turned Christianity into a cult of Mammon which, having read the bible, I find immensely amusing given what the scriptures (particularly Jesus) had to say. To my surprise I have found that I tend to know more about Christian holy texts and the history of Christianity than the average Christian seems to do which is saying something because I don't really remember all that much from reading the bible. The main reason for my superior knowledge seems to be that unlike your average Christian I've actually read the bible cover to cover. The only people who seem to have any worthwhile knowledge of the Bible are formally educated priests and Atheists who debate the religious a lot.