For you Paxil may have been nasty. But SSRIs are known to have vastly different effects on different people. I wouldn't give a broad recommendation to stay away from them unless you're highly depressed.
I played a bit of Rogue when I was younger, but Nethack was my first true roguelike love. I've ascended about 50 times/brag. Roguelikes are my favorite genre of games.
I have to take this opportunity to plug Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It gets my vote for best roguelike by a large margin, though I probably haven't played enough ToME (which is also highly-regarded) to make a fair comparison. DCSS is best played online via the telnet/SSH interfaces. It's not multiplayer, but being able to watch others play and leaving your game available for the world to see makes it even better. The ##crawl channel at freenode.net is the unofficial official gathering place for online play.
Oh, and DCSS also has a tiles-mode. I consider it reasonably blasphemous, but it has led to a browser-based version of the game (https://tiles.crawl.develz.org/> ) which is kinda awesome. You can watch others play to get a sense of what you're getting into.
seeds accidentally fall on your farm by natural dispersion...they feel they can sue you for the leaked material.
Okay, can you give me a citation for this? In Percy Schmeiser's case, the court ruled (correctly) that he purposefully experimented for and then grew Monsanto seeds. I've never come across a case where a farmer was sued for accidental contamination, yet this argument comes up repeatedly every time Monsanto is mentioned.
I can see why you would think that, but the science doesn't confirm what you're thinking. I know of at least three potential explanations:
1) You don't feel the subconcious pressure to keep talking when someone's in the car with you. It's not considered "awkward" to shut up for 3-10 seconds in the middle of a conversation when you're driving. It feels awkward to do this on the phone.
2) It's far easier to understand someone in the car than someone over a cell network. Phones demand more brainpower.
3) You have a second set of eyes in the vehicle with you. Well, not so much in your example.
My guess is the the first reason I outlined is the biggest issue. Often when I'm driving with passengers I'll pause mid-sentence for some time while doing something that requires my full attention and nobody says anything or thinks twice about it. When on the phone, pausing that long prompts "Hello? Are you there? Did I lose you?" from the person I'm talking to.
I think if you did a test comparing people holding a cell-phone shaped device up to their ear while talking to a passenger to people actually talking on a cell phone, the former group would score higher. But the performance degradation of talking on a phone, in my opinion, is too great to be explained by having one hand occupied.
If even one gay person cannot become heterosexual, then the analogy between race and sexual orientation is reasonable. Since Santorum was disputing the analogy, I think it's fair to assume that he meant all gay people can become heterosexual. Let's not feign ignorance.
No, because firing someone generally isn't illegal. Even if the firing was illegal, it's not the type of crime that falls under the potential-hate-crime umbrella.
The gay community needs to get over themselves. I'm starting to hate the gay community not because they're gay, but because they slam out stupid lawsuits like this that try to paint EVERYTHING as "hate crimes" when they're not.
The prosecutor, whose sexual orientation I don't know, is the one pressing charges. With that in mind, can you point to one case the "gay community" (whatever that is) is bringing you don't like? It should be easy since there are so many of these lawsuits it's actually making you hate gay people.
Sure, but other members of the victim's minority don't feel that they're potential future targets. All "hate crime" means is that the motivation was one of, well, hate. And yes, motivation is often taken into consideration in legal matters.
The filming was a crime. He's being charged with a hate-crime because of the motivation of the filming. It's not at all uncommon for laws to consider the perpetrator's motivation.
You could have just said "I think his supporters over-value his accomplishments and rhetorical ability". It would have saved you from having to construct such a massive straw-man.
They document 1763 wars overall, of which 123 (7%) have been classified to involve a religious conflict.
and then
Many wars that are considered religious wars have economic or political ramifications (land acquisition, control of trade routes, dynasty changes, etc.) that could call into question the true reasons behind the conflict.
I'm an agnostic and an atheist, but I don't think the argument that religion is a prime cause of war is at all compelling. I think are good things that come from religion and bad things that come from religion, but it's hard to gauge whether the net effect is positive or negative. I learn towards negative, but it's important to address each argument individually and be fair in our judgements.
Agnostics claim that the existence or non-existence of a god cannot be known. Gnostics believe that it can be known.
Atheists don't think/believe a god exists, while theist do.
One can be any combination of these. Most atheistics are agnostic, while most theists are gnostic. But there are gnostic atheists and agnostic theists.
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One, two, five (three sir!), three.
Also, Google tells me that Grailux doesn't exist. Yet, anyway.
Compare this to something like climate science where both the data and the models are private.
Your data to support this argument? There's tons and tons of data and source code you can download...who doesn't share?
For you Paxil may have been nasty. But SSRIs are known to have vastly different effects on different people. I wouldn't give a broad recommendation to stay away from them unless you're highly depressed.
I played a bit of Rogue when I was younger, but Nethack was my first true roguelike love. I've ascended about 50 times /brag. Roguelikes are my favorite genre of games.
I have to take this opportunity to plug Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It gets my vote for best roguelike by a large margin, though I probably haven't played enough ToME (which is also highly-regarded) to make a fair comparison. DCSS is best played online via the telnet/SSH interfaces. It's not multiplayer, but being able to watch others play and leaving your game available for the world to see makes it even better. The ##crawl channel at freenode.net is the unofficial official gathering place for online play.
Oh, and DCSS also has a tiles-mode. I consider it reasonably blasphemous, but it has led to a browser-based version of the game (https://tiles.crawl.develz.org/> ) which is kinda awesome. You can watch others play to get a sense of what you're getting into.
First-world solutions to world-wide problems.
Google seem to go out of its ways to pissed of long time customers.
Now you're being silly.
Oh no I'm being overwhelmed with choices!
Quentin Tarantino.
Rick Moranis.
Nope.
But I think you knew that already.
seeds accidentally fall on your farm by natural dispersion...they feel they can sue you for the leaked material.
Okay, can you give me a citation for this? In Percy Schmeiser's case, the court ruled (correctly) that he purposefully experimented for and then grew Monsanto seeds. I've never come across a case where a farmer was sued for accidental contamination, yet this argument comes up repeatedly every time Monsanto is mentioned.
I can see why you would think that, but the science doesn't confirm what you're thinking. I know of at least three potential explanations:
1) You don't feel the subconcious pressure to keep talking when someone's in the car with you. It's not considered "awkward" to shut up for 3-10 seconds in the middle of a conversation when you're driving. It feels awkward to do this on the phone.
2) It's far easier to understand someone in the car than someone over a cell network. Phones demand more brainpower.
3) You have a second set of eyes in the vehicle with you. Well, not so much in your example.
My guess is the the first reason I outlined is the biggest issue. Often when I'm driving with passengers I'll pause mid-sentence for some time while doing something that requires my full attention and nobody says anything or thinks twice about it. When on the phone, pausing that long prompts "Hello? Are you there? Did I lose you?" from the person I'm talking to.
I think if you did a test comparing people holding a cell-phone shaped device up to their ear while talking to a passenger to people actually talking on a cell phone, the former group would score higher. But the performance degradation of talking on a phone, in my opinion, is too great to be explained by having one hand occupied.
Not to everyone, he wasn't.
If even one gay person cannot become heterosexual, then the analogy between race and sexual orientation is reasonable. Since Santorum was disputing the analogy, I think it's fair to assume that he meant all gay people can become heterosexual. Let's not feign ignorance.
No, because firing someone generally isn't illegal. Even if the firing was illegal, it's not the type of crime that falls under the potential-hate-crime umbrella.
This stuff isn't all that complicated, folks.
The gay community needs to get over themselves. I'm starting to hate the gay community not because they're gay, but because they slam out stupid lawsuits like this that try to paint EVERYTHING as "hate crimes" when they're not.
The prosecutor, whose sexual orientation I don't know, is the one pressing charges. With that in mind, can you point to one case the "gay community" (whatever that is) is bringing you don't like? It should be easy since there are so many of these lawsuits it's actually making you hate gay people.
Sure, but other members of the victim's minority don't feel that they're potential future targets. All "hate crime" means is that the motivation was one of, well, hate. And yes, motivation is often taken into consideration in legal matters.
It's really not that difficult a concept.
So, hate crime is thoughtcrime?
Erm...no.
The filming was a crime. He's being charged with a hate-crime because of the motivation of the filming. It's not at all uncommon for laws to consider the perpetrator's motivation.
...is that it falls between two chairs
I wonder if anyone at Microsoft is capable of moving these chairs?
And six months after Google releases it, Apple will invent it.
You could have just said "I think his supporters over-value his accomplishments and rhetorical ability". It would have saved you from having to construct such a massive straw-man.
Can you give an example of a case where rape is a product of "miscommunication"? What "behaviour" are you referring to?
Along with a healthy dose of "I like calling rape victims retarded whores" and victim-blaming. Pure class, that anonymous coward.
Why take just the last 100 years? Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war
Erm...be careful what you link to. From the wiki:
They document 1763 wars overall, of which 123 (7%) have been classified to involve a religious conflict.
and then
Many wars that are considered religious wars have economic or political ramifications (land acquisition, control of trade routes, dynasty changes, etc.) that could call into question the true reasons behind the conflict.
I'm an agnostic and an atheist, but I don't think the argument that religion is a prime cause of war is at all compelling. I think are good things that come from religion and bad things that come from religion, but it's hard to gauge whether the net effect is positive or negative. I learn towards negative, but it's important to address each argument individually and be fair in our judgements.
Agnostics claim that the existence or non-existence of a god cannot be known. Gnostics believe that it can be known.
Atheists don't think/believe a god exists, while theist do.
One can be any combination of these. Most atheistics are agnostic, while most theists are gnostic. But there are gnostic atheists and agnostic theists.
With your karma bonus, your post started as a 2. A mod decided that your post was unworthy of a 2. Overrated != previously unfairly upmodded.