You caught me on nothing. The quote is perfectly valid for a rape case unless you choose to water it down or pick and choose what part of the scriptures you live by.
Well, your incoherrent xenophobic rants make you hardly a posterboy for western values.
Fortunately I do not live in the USA, but in Europe where we do not blindly go about supporting anything the Israel does. Illegal occupation of land, mass arrests of thousands of Palestinians and equally indiscriminate killing of hundreds of them in Jenin as well as the routine use of torture cannot be excused by anything. The fact that Israel is (supposed to be) a democratic nation makes it even more offensive.
Murder your own family and friends if any one of them attempts to persuade you to abandon Christianity.
Deuteronomy13
God commands the murder of innocent infants.
I Samuel 15:3
Murder your own son...if he's rebellious.
Deuteronomy 21:18
God commands excecution of man for gathering wood during the Sabbath.
Numbers 15:32
God commands murder for working on the Sabbath.
Exodus 35:2
God commands death if you curse at your parents.
Exodus 21:17 and Leviticus 20:9
God commands death for cursing the lord.
Leviticus 24:16
God commands death for a stranger entering a temple.
Numbers 1:51, 3:10, 18:10
Burn to death any daughter of a priest who sells her body.
Leviticus 21:9
God commands murder for speaking to the dead.
Leviticus 20:27
Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion.
Deuteronomy 13 and Numbers 25
God kills Lot's wife for being curious.
Genesis 19:24
At God's command, men, women, and children are mercilessly slaughtered. Deuteronomy 2:34
Death Sentence for being rude to strangers.
Matthew 10:14-15 and Luke 10:7
God commands murder for those who lied about church donations.
Acts 5:1-11
God threatens to 'rip pregnant women open and dash little ones to pieces' for disobedience.
Hosea 13:16
Remember all those women who were accused of witchcraft and burned alive? You'll find God's command for it right here.
Exodus 22:18
A Virgin who has intercourse before marriage? Stone her to death! Deuteronomy 20 and 22:13-21
Rape victim must marry rapist (and rapist pays her father some money).
Deuteronomy 22:28
Soldiers are allowed to marry and engage in forced intercourse with female captives (maybe you shouldn't send the Bible w/ your son when he goes off to war).
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Lot offers his daughters to be gang-raped by a mob.
Genesis 19
There was no punishment for Lot's abhorrent act. In fact, God sent two angels to save Lot from the upcoming destruction of his city right after the above incident.
Genesis 19:15
Sadistic ritual a wife is supposed to endure if her husband is 'jealous' or suspects adultery. The ritual is performed by a priest and is supposed to induce an abortion.
Numbers 5:11-29
If a husband questions the virginity of his wife, she is to be examined before the elders of the city.
Deueteronomy 22:13-
It's quite sad actually when the defenders of Israel's terror regime resort to similar historical revisionism as the neo-nazis.
It's quite revealing that you don't even bother revealing the source of these pathetic rants. It most certainly is not a respected, unbiased, world class news office like BBC but probably some sleazy sweatshop grinding out bad copies of ridiculous pro-apartheid bullshit like above. Sharon's Israel is the South Africa of the Middle East.
It will be a great day when the war criminal Sharon and his generals are dragged to Hague and are made to face the same court as "Balkan butcher" Milosevic.
They have a choice, of letting that employee go crazy, and stare at a wall, for 3 hours out of every 8
I've never quite figured this one out.
If you think your workplace and job are so horrible that you would go crazy without "entertainment at work", why don't you go and do something else then? When you are at work, you're supposed to concentrate on the task at hand. You're not supposed to be instant messaging any more than you are supposed to waste time chatting at the watercooler with your coworkers.
I share an office with a guy who insists on listening to music at work. He says exactly the same thing. If he is not allowed to listen to music at work, he would be less productive and probably go crazy. The worst thing is that our spineless boss believes him. Ok, he might now be more productive (although I doubt it), but I am distracted by his music. I have become less productive because of the noise that doesn't belong to a workplace. The asshole won't even use headphones because they "make his ears sweaty and itchy".
You are wrong my smarmy drunken friend. Of course Linux was around back then...
By October 1991 Linux 0.02 was announced to the world. In two years, through the hard work of Linus and many other people, Linux, currently at version 0.99, has become an extremely useful and popular operating system.
You are assuming that job gets done even if the employees are trusted with free IM/mail/browser use.
I wouldn't be so trusting. The more opportunities the employees are given to waste time at work, the more they will waste company time. It's the human nature, plain and simple.
I agree that this system is a crutch and probably quite inefficient but it's better than nothing. At least the knowledge of IM logging keeps the potential slackers on their toes and makes them think twice before wasting time.
Give me encryption that's easy and effortless to use. If encryption and decryption is not transparent even I, who have been using Linux since 1992, won't bother using it, so you can imagine why the use of encryption is not widespread.
PGP/GPG key and passphrase management is too complicated for a layman and in general too cumbersome for those who in principle could use it.
Imagine all the money you could make by blackmailing all those users (just spice up the 14-yo from penn transcript a bit - call it artistic license)...
Why would he be wasting his Saturday night getting not laid but humiliated by women who cannot appreciate his geeky sensitivity and the need for real sex as opposed to solitary wanking sessions in front of the monitor?
His kind of people are better of if they mentally self castrate themselves and accept the fact that they are never going to get laid. After that the next best form of Saturday night entertainment, trolling on Slashdot, follows naturally.
Maybe some of us are not allowed to install unauthorized software on our computer at work. You install encryption software and encrypt your mail and messagin. Boss gets a report on your traffic and sees nothing but garbage. Boss goes and complains to the administrator. Administrator adds encryption software to the install-this-software-and-you-are- fired-list. That takes care of the problem.
Of course the companies have the right to restrict messaging (IRC, ICQ, mail, news, browsing and whatever) that's not related to work. They pay for the resources, they control the use.
I don't think there is any reason to ask any such questions.
Of course the state needs to know about its citizens to properly fulfil its function. Things like an accurate population count, demographics and addresses are essential for long term taxation and state finance plans and the issuance of official travel documents such as passports.
What do you mean "why"? Because the services provided by the society are meant only for the members of the society. Want an official document like passport? Prove that you're a citizen. Want state sponsored health care? Prove that you're a citizen. Want to start a business? Prove who you are to get a license from the state.
Of course you can drop out of the society and enjoy your total IDless "freedom". Just don't come back crying when you cannot enjoy the benefits of the organized society anymore.
"don't mind me, I'm just here to provide you better service."
Well, I don't mind better service. Where I live, we have a national health database that can be accessed by the doctors. It's a marvellous system. I can go to any doctor anywhere in the country and using my unique social security number as the key, he/she gets an immediate access to my medical history.
If you want to take advantage of the services provided by the state you must register for it. You have an opt-in system, whereas where I live it's more like an opt-out system. You get a social security number at birth, but you could, in principle, revoke it and drop out of the society (giving up free health care and other services).
Christ! Why is it so hard for you people to understand that New York Times is providing a FREE SERVICE? All they ask from you is to volunteer them a bit of information about yourself in return.
Don't all American newborns or immigrants, for instance, get entered into somekind of a citizen register? How else would the government keep track of the population and demographics?
There aren't real Linux games. There's only one that even remotely resembles a game (Tux Racer), but the rest of it all is just pathetic. Just look at the Linux Game Tome. It's the SourceForge of games: thousands of started-but-never-finished projects.
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You caught me on nothing. The quote is perfectly valid for a rape case unless you choose to water it down or pick and choose what part of the scriptures you live by.
Fortunately I do not live in the USA, but in Europe where we do not blindly go about supporting anything the Israel does. Illegal occupation of land, mass arrests of thousands of Palestinians and equally indiscriminate killing of hundreds of them in Jenin as well as the routine use of torture cannot be excused by anything. The fact that Israel is (supposed to be) a democratic nation makes it even more offensive.
Deuteronomy13
God commands the murder of innocent infants.
I Samuel 15:3
Murder your own son...if he's rebellious.
Deuteronomy 21:18
God commands excecution of man for gathering wood during the Sabbath.
Numbers 15:32
God commands murder for working on the Sabbath.
Exodus 35:2
God commands death if you curse at your parents.
Exodus 21:17 and Leviticus 20:9
God commands death for cursing the lord.
Leviticus 24:16
God commands death for a stranger entering a temple.
Numbers 1:51, 3:10, 18:10
Burn to death any daughter of a priest who sells her body.
Leviticus 21:9
God commands murder for speaking to the dead.
Leviticus 20:27
Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion.
Deuteronomy 13 and Numbers 25
God kills Lot's wife for being curious.
Genesis 19:24
At God's command, men, women, and children are mercilessly slaughtered.
Deuteronomy 2:34
Death Sentence for being rude to strangers.
Matthew 10:14-15 and Luke 10:7
God commands murder for those who lied about church donations.
Acts 5:1-11
God threatens to 'rip pregnant women open and dash little ones to pieces' for disobedience.
Hosea 13:16
Remember all those women who were accused of witchcraft and burned alive? You'll find God's command for it right here.
Exodus 22:18
A Virgin who has intercourse before marriage? Stone her to death!
Deuteronomy 20 and 22:13-21
Rape victim must marry rapist (and rapist pays her father some money).
Deuteronomy 22:28
Soldiers are allowed to marry and engage in forced intercourse with female captives (maybe you shouldn't send the Bible w/ your son when he goes off to war).
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Lot offers his daughters to be gang-raped by a mob.
Genesis 19
There was no punishment for Lot's abhorrent act. In fact, God sent two angels to save Lot from the upcoming destruction of his city right after the above incident.
Genesis 19:15
Sadistic ritual a wife is supposed to endure if her husband is 'jealous' or suspects adultery. The ritual is performed by a priest and is supposed to induce an abortion.
Numbers 5:11-29
If a husband questions the virginity of his wife, she is to be examined before the elders of the city.
Deueteronomy 22:13-
It's quite revealing that you don't even bother revealing the source of these pathetic rants. It most certainly is not a respected, unbiased, world class news office like BBC but probably some sleazy sweatshop grinding out bad copies of ridiculous pro-apartheid bullshit like above. Sharon's Israel is the South Africa of the Middle East.
It will be a great day when the war criminal Sharon and his generals are dragged to Hague and are made to face the same court as "Balkan butcher" Milosevic.
A very revealing sentence.
I don't about your job, but where I work I am supposed to do something all the time. That's what I am being paid for, anyway.
I've never quite figured this one out.
If you think your workplace and job are so horrible that you would go crazy without "entertainment at work", why don't you go and do something else then? When you are at work, you're supposed to concentrate on the task at hand. You're not supposed to be instant messaging any more than you are supposed to waste time chatting at the watercooler with your coworkers.
I share an office with a guy who insists on listening to music at work. He says exactly the same thing. If he is not allowed to listen to music at work, he would be less productive and probably go crazy. The worst thing is that our spineless boss believes him. Ok, he might now be more productive (although I doubt it), but I am distracted by his music. I have become less productive because of the noise that doesn't belong to a workplace. The asshole won't even use headphones because they "make his ears sweaty and itchy".
By October 1991 Linux 0.02 was announced to the world. In two years, through the hard work of Linus and many other people, Linux, currently at version 0.99, has become an extremely useful and popular operating system.
I wouldn't be so trusting. The more opportunities the employees are given to waste time at work, the more they will waste company time. It's the human nature, plain and simple.
I agree that this system is a crutch and probably quite inefficient but it's better than nothing. At least the knowledge of IM logging keeps the potential slackers on their toes and makes them think twice before wasting time.
Give me encryption that's easy and effortless to use. If encryption and decryption is not transparent even I, who have been using Linux since 1992, won't bother using it, so you can imagine why the use of encryption is not widespread.
PGP/GPG key and passphrase management is too complicated for a layman and in general too cumbersome for those who in principle could use it.
That's true waste of resources and any manager who accepts that should be called on the carpet.
Imagine all the money you could make by blackmailing all those users (just spice up the 14-yo from penn transcript a bit - call it artistic license)...
His kind of people are better of if they mentally self castrate themselves and accept the fact that they are never going to get laid. After that the next best form of Saturday night entertainment, trolling on Slashdot, follows naturally.
Maybe some of us are not allowed to install unauthorized software on our computer at work. You install encryption software and encrypt your mail and messagin. Boss gets a report on your traffic and sees nothing but garbage. Boss goes and complains to the administrator. Administrator adds encryption software to the install-this-software-and-you-are- fired-list. That takes care of the problem.
Of course the companies have the right to restrict messaging (IRC, ICQ, mail, news, browsing and whatever) that's not related to work. They pay for the resources, they control the use.
Of course the state needs to know about its citizens to properly fulfil its function. Things like an accurate population count, demographics and addresses are essential for long term taxation and state finance plans and the issuance of official travel documents such as passports.
What do you mean "why"? Because the services provided by the society are meant only for the members of the society. Want an official document like passport? Prove that you're a citizen. Want state sponsored health care? Prove that you're a citizen. Want to start a business? Prove who you are to get a license from the state.
Of course you can drop out of the society and enjoy your total IDless "freedom". Just don't come back crying when you cannot enjoy the benefits of the organized society anymore.
"don't mind me, I'm just here to provide you better service."
Well, I don't mind better service. Where I live, we have a national health database that can be accessed by the doctors. It's a marvellous system. I can go to any doctor anywhere in the country and using my unique social security number as the key, he/she gets an immediate access to my medical history.
And what is wrong with identification?
Of course there must be a way for the society (and service providers like the police and health care community) to identify its members.
I agree. There's nothing like a one-party system. Witness the success of countries like North Korea, Soviet Union and Iraq.
If you want to take advantage of the services provided by the state you must register for it. You have an opt-in system, whereas where I live it's more like an opt-out system. You get a social security number at birth, but you could, in principle, revoke it and drop out of the society (giving up free health care and other services).
Well, that's quite a narrow definition.
In general, if you can get something without paying for it, it is considered to be free.
But how can a census give accurate information? It would be ridiculously easy to give false information or avoid being registered completely.
New York Times is the big brother.
Christ! Why is it so hard for you people to understand that New York Times is providing a FREE SERVICE? All they ask from you is to volunteer them a bit of information about yourself in return.
Don't all American newborns or immigrants, for instance, get entered into somekind of a citizen register? How else would the government keep track of the population and demographics?
There aren't real Linux games. There's only one that even remotely resembles a game (Tux Racer), but the rest of it all is just pathetic. Just look at the Linux Game Tome. It's the SourceForge of games: thousands of started-but-never-finished projects.