The Ukrainians weren't cutting heads off or systematically slaughtering entire towns for being the wrong religion, so no, it's not "exactly as justified." Not even close.
I hate, hate, hate, hate large phones. If I needed a bigger screen, I'll pull out my tablet or my laptop. I'm a skinny guy, I wear tight-ish jeans (fiance hates it, but I gotta be me), and pulling a big-ass phone out of my front pocket is a pain in my ass, and that's with an IPhone 5S.
I'm going to pass on the 6 and hope they come out with a traditional-sized one for the 6S or 7.
When people listen to Tyson, they will generally hear a statement of what is believed to be true followed by some statements about the evidence which leads to that belief. People will often hear that and think it makes sense based on what they know. This is, in fact, the exact opposite of ignorance.
But from the perspective of the lay speaker, there is no functional difference. Ignorance is cloaked in the illusion of holding secret knowledge. This becomes most dangerous when this "secret knowledge" is fetishized (I don't know if that's a real word, but it gets my point across) and we start burning heretics.
We fell most smart when we are seen "liking" smart things. Hence the idiotic, pseudo-intellectual "I Fucking Love Science" Facebook posts that flood my feed with juvenile memes and puns. Liking smart people like Niel deGrass Tyson does not make you smart. Taking sides on a scientific controversy you do not fully understand does not make you smart (even if you happen to chose the factually correct side). These things are simply part of the cargo cult science has become.
Right now there are 3000 dead from Ebola. Europe lost a quarter of its population to the Spanish Flu just a 100 years ago, so I'd say there's no worries there.
I stopped reading after the first one. Jesus is quoting the priests' law and calling them hypocrites. So obviously the creator didn't read the passages he/she cited, either.
I gotta pick a nit with this. The Christian Dark Ages were NOT a period of scientific and cultural regression. Far from it, we now know that society advanced pretty linearly from the beginning of the Dark Ages on through the Renaissance. What makes it "dark" is that for the longest time we simply didn't know a whole lot about it; it was a lost period in history. Modern scholarship has largely debunked the traditional, mythical view of the so-called "Dark" Ages.
Libertarians often take the same positions conservatives do, but are much more dogmatic about it, which is why libertarians hate conservatives so much, whom they see as unprincipled. I, myself, dislike dogmatic philosophies, so some might call me a RINO or something. Yes, I generally want smaller government; no, I don't want to shut down the police or fire department. So, I figure I can be a pariah to at least 80% of Slashdot readership.
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The Ukrainians weren't cutting heads off or systematically slaughtering entire towns for being the wrong religion, so no, it's not "exactly as justified." Not even close.
That, and the fact that he is not obtaining or even seeking to obtain congressional authority to do so, unlike his predecessor.
I hate, hate, hate, hate large phones. If I needed a bigger screen, I'll pull out my tablet or my laptop. I'm a skinny guy, I wear tight-ish jeans (fiance hates it, but I gotta be me), and pulling a big-ass phone out of my front pocket is a pain in my ass, and that's with an IPhone 5S.
I'm going to pass on the 6 and hope they come out with a traditional-sized one for the 6S or 7.
It's never the fall that kills you. It's always the sudden stop at the end.
There aren't even hundreds of countries on earth. There are 195. That's a nickel short of "hundreds".
and the last lunatic imperialist regime on earth that routinely attacks other countries, in its own imperial interests
You need to pick up a newspaper some time. They contain information vital to making you not look like an idiot.
Also, they lack $100 wooden screws to hold the card in for hi-fi magnetic resonance.
What's amazing to me is that you believe an indoor breeze can fly a flag.
That Nvidia is in on the hoax!!!1!!one!!!!
Evidence is the difference a "best guess" and a "wild ass guess".
When people listen to Tyson, they will generally hear a statement of what is believed to be true followed by some statements about the evidence which leads to that belief. People will often hear that and think it makes sense based on what they know. This is, in fact, the exact opposite of ignorance.
No, that is exactly how evangelism works.
"Put your head in a microwave, and give yourself a tan..."
But from the perspective of the lay speaker, there is no functional difference. Ignorance is cloaked in the illusion of holding secret knowledge. This becomes most dangerous when this "secret knowledge" is fetishized (I don't know if that's a real word, but it gets my point across) and we start burning heretics.
We fell most smart when we are seen "liking" smart things. Hence the idiotic, pseudo-intellectual "I Fucking Love Science" Facebook posts that flood my feed with juvenile memes and puns. Liking smart people like Niel deGrass Tyson does not make you smart. Taking sides on a scientific controversy you do not fully understand does not make you smart (even if you happen to chose the factually correct side). These things are simply part of the cargo cult science has become.
In the case of Russia, the ability to obtain non-vetted or embarrassing information (like invading Ukraine) constitutes an emergency.
Right now there are 3000 dead from Ebola. Europe lost a quarter of its population to the Spanish Flu just a 100 years ago, so I'd say there's no worries there.
He always posted this schizoid stuff. Just ignore him.
No way, man. From the ruins of Baltimore to the nuclear wastes of upstate-NY... Mega-City 1.
The UK hasn't started killing off Scots yet, so the comparison is somewhat premature.
This sounds about right. But modern fundamentalist Christianity is not very similar to medieval Christianity.
I stopped reading after the first one. Jesus is quoting the priests' law and calling them hypocrites. So obviously the creator didn't read the passages he/she cited, either.
I gotta pick a nit with this. The Christian Dark Ages were NOT a period of scientific and cultural regression. Far from it, we now know that society advanced pretty linearly from the beginning of the Dark Ages on through the Renaissance. What makes it "dark" is that for the longest time we simply didn't know a whole lot about it; it was a lost period in history. Modern scholarship has largely debunked the traditional, mythical view of the so-called "Dark" Ages.
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Your equivalency of Islamic fundamentalism and Christian fundamentalism informs me that you understand neither.
Libertarians often take the same positions conservatives do, but are much more dogmatic about it, which is why libertarians hate conservatives so much, whom they see as unprincipled. I, myself, dislike dogmatic philosophies, so some might call me a RINO or something. Yes, I generally want smaller government; no, I don't want to shut down the police or fire department. So, I figure I can be a pariah to at least 80% of Slashdot readership.
Ask a protestant and they might not.
I dunnow... the French have killed a lot of Calvinists since then...