Being in the minority when was the last time someone tried to sue you for observing your faith in public?
When was the last time you were sued?
Depending on your faith, how many followers are killed every year for their beliefs? 'google' Christians killed, oh yea, we aren't persecuted at all.
The links I find show Christians being killed by Muslims - so yeah, religious people killing each other over their beliefs, that's hardly a ringing endorsement for religion, is it?
Furthermore, those links talk about other countries, so why does that cause you fear in the US?
Yes a presidential candidate who isn't christian will have a hard time being elected because a large part of the voting block has a moral compass.
Aha here we are - you claim non-Christians are immoral, and shouldn't be President, and you have the cheek to whine about you being oppressed?
If history is an indicator non-religious folk don't do all too well as political leaders.
Try walking into a science department in any University and profess to be a Christian, you would be lucky to graduate. Try being a Christian Science teacher who defends the theories of evolution, you would be lucky to get the job. This is where it starts, Christians are killed around the world every day for their faith, when was the last time you saw it in the news?
Citations for all of these? Or are they just yet more things you believe through "faith" rather than evidence?
Christians spend billions bringing healthcare and food to the nations, when was the last time anyone talked about that?
I'm confused - people of all and no religions do this, why do Christians deserve special mention?
you never feel the need to defend a christian who is being berated in a classroom because....it is socially acceptable.
Because I've never seen it happen. Here in the UK however, it's a legal requirement to preach Christianity in all schools (even state schools). Nevermind playground namecalling from other kids, we're talking about state-enforced pressure against non-Christians from figures of authority.
And also from my UK perspective - and what I've seen of the US too - if anything, the media is overall biased in favour of Christianity. E.g., consider how often it is that someone is referred to as a "churchgoer" or "having faith" in order to make them look good. And many tabloids constantly whine about how terrible things allegedly are for Christians (and much like you, they provide no evidence to back their claims, instead relying on anecdotes and myths).
You believe in science, and you believe that people can have virgin births, have magic powers, and rise from the dead. Right.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of us who believe in fairies and science at the same time. And then there are those who believe in magic and science at the same time. And those who believe in Creationism and science at the same time.
These aren't the markings of a religious person or mainstream religion in general and it is dishonest to attribute these kinds of things to everyone who is religious.
But there are still beliefs that are mainstream, and still fall under what the OP was talking about - e.g.:
Belief that Jesus was God, resulted from a virgin birth, and rose from the dead. Belief in a being that talks to them, and can answer their prayers. Belief that they'll go to heaven if they accept Jesus.
Indeed. They're way behind the UK Government though - who needs PS3s, when they can just make it illegal for someone to not decrypt any files they find...
If you're going to tie copyright to the death of the artist, please make it a couple of decades after the artist's death, otherwise it would be a strong incentive for exploiting an artist's death, or even for murder.
If someone is willing to commit the rather serious crime of murder, then won't they be more willing to simply commit copyright infringement in the first place, and not bother with murdering them?
And if they die otherwise, I don't see how "strong incentive for exploiting an artist's death" is a problem?
(Although yes, I'd have no problem with it being a fixed term rather than tied to a person's life.)
It's also frustrating in that browsing the "real" Internet has been commonplace on phones (even bog standard cheap ones, not just "smart" phones).
I guess they were comparing themselves to WAP, which was in fashion ooh, about 10 years ago.
Still, this is the same phone that brags "3G" in the name as the most advanced feature it has, as if 3G was something new (and not 5 years out of date).
These prefixes were around before the SI people used them - they come from Greek words. And when pre-existing words are used, it's commonplace that more than one field may use them, with different meanings. Furthermore, it's not true that they redefined terms - kilo etc only have their meaning when used as a prefix for an SI unit. Since the bit or byte aren't SI units, there is no redefinition.
But later on, some people did decide to redefine kilobyte etc to fudge and conflate it with the SI meaning.
Not every scientific branch should be free to do that, just to fuck with their peers in all other fields.
The only people who "fuck with their peers" are the ones who decided to redefine the terms kilobyte, etc, just to cause confusion.
But which is the base unit? If they're really SI units, there can only be one.
So either a bit is the base unit, in which case you should refer to a byte as 0.8 decabits (I meant deca, not deci), or a byte is the base unit, and you should refer to a bit as 0.125 bytes.
A byte is 8 bits, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and a kibibyte is 1024 bytes. It's simple.
8 bits to a byte, and 1000 bytes to kilobyte? And then kibibytes on top of that? Simple? That's nothing like the SI units that I know.
I'd like to see sources and dates for all of those.
first online phone store with 100,000 apps
This, if true, is only because they prevent you from installing from anywhere else. It's a bad thing for developers and consumers. Every other phone adopts the model of allowing you to download 100,000 apps from which website you want.
first phone vendor to inspect 3rd party apps
You mean "first phone vendor to require their approval to whether you can release a program on the platform". Other phone vendors have been inspecting apps long before Apple played catch-up in the phone market.
first phone to include desktop OS+framework
Eh? A desktop OS on a phone? Windows on phones has been around for years, anyway.
Anyhow, your points a historical. The "Mac" of today is nothing to do with the Mac referred to in your points - you might as well list the many firsts of the Amiga. Todays Macs are just another brand of PC, so it's clear who won in the end.
What sort of argument is that? It's okay for the US Government to execute people, because Nazi Germany murdered millions? A great sense of ethics you have there...
It's sad that every discussion on Slashdot that involves a European country has to turn into some US vs Europe dick waving contest. You do realise that countries are made up of millions of people, and aren't single entities? Oh wait, you probably don't.
...and just to add, if you're so obsessed with applying SI terms to information units, why do we have bytes? 8 bits to a byte? That's hardly in line with SI is it, surely you should replace all references to "byte" with "0.8 decibits"?
Indeed - as someone who did a mere three years at a UK university, I'm amused at the idea that this somehow means I'm not up to the job. You can't really compare degrees simply by the number of years.
AFAIK, three years is common for most UK universities, and I imagine the difference is they're more specialised - there's no need for the extra year, if you're not required to do random other subjects that have nothing to do with your chosen area. Whilst a broad education is important, I feel the time for that is during general school education.
So a single anecdote disproves him? What about girls who don't do those things, or boys who do? Do you think that desire for frillyness is somehow hardcoded into female DNA or something?
...and just to add, I find it sad that despite taking opposing views, both the OP you replied to, and the article, take the viewpoint that boys being "feminine" is a bad thing. I wish some people would just grow up.
I agree - it's one thing if chemicals are "feminising" boys in a biological sense (e.g., giving them female sex organs), but it's annoying to see this conflated by things that have nothing to do with biology, such as clothes.
Who decides what "female" clothes are? Is the female-ness of skirts hardcoded into DNA? Of course, it's nonsense. Are women "masculinised" because they wear "male" clothes like trousers, do "male" jobs, and can vote?
The irony is that if enough men started wearing so-called "female" clothes, they'd no longer be seen as "female" clothes.
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They may be benefits for some people to believe in bullshit, but that doesn't stop it being bullshit.
Communism isn't a religion, and there was the infamous "stanford prison experiment".
How does that disprove the quote? It doesn't imply that religion is the only thing that cause make people do evil things.
And it's only a saying, it's not meant to be a system of belief that people hold(!)
Being in the minority when was the last time someone tried to sue you for observing your faith in public?
When was the last time you were sued?
Depending on your faith, how many followers are killed every year for their beliefs? 'google' Christians killed, oh yea, we aren't persecuted at all.
The links I find show Christians being killed by Muslims - so yeah, religious people killing each other over their beliefs, that's hardly a ringing endorsement for religion, is it?
Furthermore, those links talk about other countries, so why does that cause you fear in the US?
Yes a presidential candidate who isn't christian will have a hard time being elected because a large part of the voting block has a moral compass.
Aha here we are - you claim non-Christians are immoral, and shouldn't be President, and you have the cheek to whine about you being oppressed?
If history is an indicator non-religious folk don't do all too well as political leaders.
Citation?
Try walking into a science department in any University and profess to be a Christian, you would be lucky to graduate. Try being a Christian Science teacher who defends the theories of evolution, you would be lucky to get the job. This is where it starts, Christians are killed around the world every day for their faith, when was the last time you saw it in the news?
Citations for all of these? Or are they just yet more things you believe through "faith" rather than evidence?
Christians spend billions bringing healthcare and food to the nations, when was the last time anyone talked about that?
I'm confused - people of all and no religions do this, why do Christians deserve special mention?
you never feel the need to defend a christian who is being berated in a classroom because....it is socially acceptable.
Because I've never seen it happen. Here in the UK however, it's a legal requirement to preach Christianity in all schools (even state schools). Nevermind playground namecalling from other kids, we're talking about state-enforced pressure against non-Christians from figures of authority.
And also from my UK perspective - and what I've seen of the US too - if anything, the media is overall biased in favour of Christianity. E.g., consider how often it is that someone is referred to as a "churchgoer" or "having faith" in order to make them look good. And many tabloids constantly whine about how terrible things allegedly are for Christians (and much like you, they provide no evidence to back their claims, instead relying on anecdotes and myths).
You believe in science, and you believe that people can have virgin births, have magic powers, and rise from the dead. Right.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of us who believe in fairies and science at the same time. And then there are those who believe in magic and science at the same time. And those who believe in Creationism and science at the same time.
These aren't the markings of a religious person or mainstream religion in general and it is dishonest to attribute these kinds of things to everyone who is religious .
But there are still beliefs that are mainstream, and still fall under what the OP was talking about - e.g.:
Belief that Jesus was God, resulted from a virgin birth, and rose from the dead.
Belief in a being that talks to them, and can answer their prayers.
Belief that they'll go to heaven if they accept Jesus.
"God wills it" doesn't satisfy "explain the data".
There's still 1GB on my PC and it does fine, but then I'm not running Vista.
I wanna know how he knows how much memory my computer has!
Indeed. They're way behind the UK Government though - who needs PS3s, when they can just make it illegal for someone to not decrypt any files they find...
If you're going to tie copyright to the death of the artist, please make it a couple of decades after the artist's death, otherwise it would be a strong incentive for exploiting an artist's death, or even for murder.
If someone is willing to commit the rather serious crime of murder, then won't they be more willing to simply commit copyright infringement in the first place, and not bother with murdering them?
And if they die otherwise, I don't see how "strong incentive for exploiting an artist's death" is a problem?
(Although yes, I'd have no problem with it being a fixed term rather than tied to a person's life.)
It's also frustrating in that browsing the "real" Internet has been commonplace on phones (even bog standard cheap ones, not just "smart" phones).
I guess they were comparing themselves to WAP, which was in fashion ooh, about 10 years ago.
Still, this is the same phone that brags "3G" in the name as the most advanced feature it has, as if 3G was something new (and not 5 years out of date).
These prefixes were around before the SI people used them - they come from Greek words. And when pre-existing words are used, it's commonplace that more than one field may use them, with different meanings. Furthermore, it's not true that they redefined terms - kilo etc only have their meaning when used as a prefix for an SI unit. Since the bit or byte aren't SI units, there is no redefinition.
But later on, some people did decide to redefine kilobyte etc to fudge and conflate it with the SI meaning.
Not every scientific branch should be free to do that, just to fuck with their peers in all other fields.
The only people who "fuck with their peers" are the ones who decided to redefine the terms kilobyte, etc, just to cause confusion.
But which is the base unit? If they're really SI units, there can only be one.
So either a bit is the base unit, in which case you should refer to a byte as 0.8 decabits (I meant deca, not deci), or a byte is the base unit, and you should refer to a bit as 0.125 bytes.
A byte is 8 bits, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and a kibibyte is 1024 bytes. It's simple.
8 bits to a byte, and 1000 bytes to kilobyte? And then kibibytes on top of that? Simple? That's nothing like the SI units that I know.
Sure, that was the term invented by some people to replace a pre-existing term, but I'm curious if you really say "Gibibyte" to people?
I'd like to see sources and dates for all of those.
first online phone store with 100,000 apps
This, if true, is only because they prevent you from installing from anywhere else. It's a bad thing for developers and consumers. Every other phone adopts the model of allowing you to download 100,000 apps from which website you want.
first phone vendor to inspect 3rd party apps
You mean "first phone vendor to require their approval to whether you can release a program on the platform". Other phone vendors have been inspecting apps long before Apple played catch-up in the phone market.
first phone to include desktop OS+framework
Eh? A desktop OS on a phone? Windows on phones has been around for years, anyway.
Anyhow, your points a historical. The "Mac" of today is nothing to do with the Mac referred to in your points - you might as well list the many firsts of the Amiga. Todays Macs are just another brand of PC, so it's clear who won in the end.
Windows Mobile was around long before the niche product that the Iphone is was even thought of.
What sort of argument is that? It's okay for the US Government to execute people, because Nazi Germany murdered millions? A great sense of ethics you have there...
It's sad that every discussion on Slashdot that involves a European country has to turn into some US vs Europe dick waving contest. You do realise that countries are made up of millions of people, and aren't single entities? Oh wait, you probably don't.
Enjoy your country full of anonymous murderers.
Yes, I do enjoy my country with the far lower murder rate than the US. So how is that an argument in favour of the death penalty?
...and just to add, if you're so obsessed with applying SI terms to information units, why do we have bytes? 8 bits to a byte? That's hardly in line with SI is it, surely you should replace all references to "byte" with "0.8 decibits"?
it's about using the SI units for the larger units
A bit isn't an SI unit.
And if you reply, answer me this: how much RAM does your computer have? Are you going to answer 2GB, or 2.147483648GB?
Indeed - as someone who did a mere three years at a UK university, I'm amused at the idea that this somehow means I'm not up to the job. You can't really compare degrees simply by the number of years.
AFAIK, three years is common for most UK universities, and I imagine the difference is they're more specialised - there's no need for the extra year, if you're not required to do random other subjects that have nothing to do with your chosen area. Whilst a broad education is important, I feel the time for that is during general school education.
So a single anecdote disproves him? What about girls who don't do those things, or boys who do? Do you think that desire for frillyness is somehow hardcoded into female DNA or something?
...and just to add, I find it sad that despite taking opposing views, both the OP you replied to, and the article, take the viewpoint that boys being "feminine" is a bad thing. I wish some people would just grow up.
I agree - it's one thing if chemicals are "feminising" boys in a biological sense (e.g., giving them female sex organs), but it's annoying to see this conflated by things that have nothing to do with biology, such as clothes.
Who decides what "female" clothes are? Is the female-ness of skirts hardcoded into DNA? Of course, it's nonsense. Are women "masculinised" because they wear "male" clothes like trousers, do "male" jobs, and can vote?
The irony is that if enough men started wearing so-called "female" clothes, they'd no longer be seen as "female" clothes.
You could copy and paste.