At the end of the day, you have a God-given right to defend yourself and your dignity. End of story.
No, after those books of the Bible was written, there was this guy called Jesus yeah, and one of the things he said was "turn the other cheek". It pays to read to the end.
However hardly any people who call themselves Christians ever took any notice of that, except maybe the Quakers. I can't say I've taken much account of it myself (and Revelations is just freaky).
However, I have seen your attitude ("so hit him back then!" from parents) in action with young kids in a waiting room - in a prison (where they are presumably waiting to visit their elder brothers), so I am unconvinced of its efficacy.
In the back of new scientist, its like "Ph.D required to cure (cancer/bse/aids), with experience in (x,y,z) - 5000 pounds/dollars/euros per year" or something like that.
And in the IT field, look at the HR section of a taiwanese company - even the CEO has a masters degree!
Is very common, works fine over there and has pretty colours. But the keys are too fiddly. And the early ones had some problems I think. And their version of Q-Bert sucks. When will the One True Phone arrive?
390 - Roman Emperor Valentinian decreed burning at the stake as a fit punishment for homosexuals.
506 Visigoth Alaric II - burning at stake.
529 Byzantine Emperor Justinian - castration, torture then stake.
650 Spanish King Kindasvinth - castration.
etc. etc.
1307 King Philip le Bel - Knights Templar - torture then burned.
1484 Pope Innocent VIII - Inquisition - "Convicted and burned."
14th & 15th century Florence - (over 18yo) - burned at stake.,
1616 Malta - burnt in ashes
However, after looking it up a little, that association of the word might be quite new (1914, USA) since the punishment in England was generally hanging rather than the stake.
I think in recent times the laws has mostly been against individuals rather than organisations, although the recent events in Malaysia (deputy prime minister jailed) would show such accusations are still used for political purposes.
1533 English Henry VII - hanging until dead.
This law (which was in force on and off in England for centuries)
was adopted by the 13 colonies.
1624 USA - Richard William Cornish - hanged (claimed non-consent).
1646 Manhatten - Jan Creoli - choked to death and burned to ashes (non-consent, but victim flogged also!)
etc.etc.
So the majority of killing probably predates the USA.
UKians includes Ian Paisley but at the same time pisses him off:-)
(Full disclosure: I am a Nigerian, and it brings me grief to no end that the first thing people think of when my country is mentioned is 419 scams).
But the second thing that comes to mind is that they have the death penalty for being a single mother (still not carried out yet I hope).
and the third thing was that in my phone contract it says... direct dial calls to all countries are allowed except Nigeria and Pakistan. Is this a crime prevention measure?
And the fourth thing is that Shell is not exactly loved - people keep blowing themselves up by collecting oil from leaky pipelines.
OTOH for the sake of balance, Nigeria might be being helpful in the region by supplying UN troups to Sierra Leone etc. but I don't know much about that.
IIRC "fag" and "faggot" both mean kindling wood (never mind about the meatballs in gravy!).
Cigarettes are generally burned (or placed behind the ear at a rakish angle). UKians sometimes refer to this usage.
In the olden days homosexuals (and witches and heretics) were burned. USians seems to want to keep that memory alive.
That is why I consider that word to be a meaningful (i.e. serious) insult, like for example asking a Jew to get "disinfected" (or whatever the german word was).
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you crunch the numbers) for most gamers, the GPU is actually more important than the CPU today, though you still need enough of a CPU to get things moving.
Woah, but according to Intel's (dong ding dong dit!) TV advertising, if I use their brand of CPU, my internet connection speed will increase, i'll be able to write CD-ROMs and my polygons will be smoother!
The N64 only had a 100Mhz CPU but they sold it on its bus bandwidth (pity it had such a small on-chip texture cache and cartridges) - on my 1000Mhz PC I think someone gave it a teensy cache, so it runs like a dog on certain programs.
20x faster than a GBA (a 200MHz ARM) is ~40% the speed of a 100MHz Pentium (in other words, a mid to high-end 4x86),
Woah, can I have your GBA please? Mine is only the standard 16.7Mhz ARM7TDMI and I didn't know you could overclock them like that! I guess 20 times that would be a 333Mhz RISC chip with decent memory - hardly beyond the realms of possibility for a PDA or cellphone.
And yes, PC's 100Mhz (or 133Mhz) busses suck - I reckon if you are thrashing memory a 450Mhz PC can be slower than a zero-wait-state 333Mhz RISC chip (of course the usual answer is "so don't thrash memory then!").
I saw a channel that seemed to be showing the unedited raw footage for "world's scariest police chases", with extra pauses while they waited for something to happen.
I think it was called "Fox News".
For foreign news, it informed viewers that drunk loutish teenagers were called "yobs" in England, and that police would like to discourage them from behaving badly.
Look on the bright side. There is no chance Bush will win the next election. I'm a hard-core republican, and there is no way I'm voting for Bush again.
Don't worry, your vote will be electronically counted as being for him anyway.
I prefer the argument that crime in the US was all the fault of that guy Noah Webster, who couldn't spell.
Back in the day, the British had really uncomfortable shirts with buttons on their cuffs. What the founding fathers really wanted was the right to bare arms.
The land doesn't just disappear just because someone dies. Death taxes mean it is split between the community and the descendants, and encourages the descendants to not just sit on their ass if they want to keep a high standard of living.
The government or community are not necicarily more worthy than somebodies decendants
They should get jobs like anybody else who is able. I merely don't see why someone (even if he is a nice guy) should have extreme wealth and power just because his great great great great grandfather was a pimp for the King.
And unlike the corporate welfarists who cheat their employees and the country to get their vast assets while running their companies into the ground, I have a proper job (slashdot postings aside) but see some things as better dealt with on the national or even supernational level rather than on the individual level.
I regularly walk faster than cars or SUVs travel on my way to work, and I am not a fast walker. The idea of a car travelling at 70mph on my road (at 9am anyway) is a bit of a fantasy (on school holidays they do travel faster than walking speed though, so I catch the bus).
Damn cyclists are certainly the fastest vehicles on that road (or rather, veering all over the footpath next to the road) at that time of day.
I'm sure there was a Windows 286 and a Windows 386 version in there somewhere, not to mention NT 3.1 and 4.0.
And they called Windows 96 and Windows 97 "Win 95 SR1" and "Win 95 SR2" for some reason.
OK, it's pretty bad when you keep electing B-movie actors to govern California (at least the current one had a decent budget for special effects!), but most UK "newspapers" have a similar obsession with the mundane affairs of famous people, and I am sure that applies to other countries as well.
For instance, if an expensive football player goes to the hairdresser, that is front-page news on all the tabloid newspapers.
I sympathise with your complaint that outsiders critisise the "wrong things" about the USA (e.g. unbridled gung-ho military power, calorie intake, geography, death penalty, human rights) which are things that are prioritised differently in the USA by a large chunk of its population, but that is the nature of inter-culture comparisons. We can at least agree on the lawyers. I would add spammers:-) (and yeah, I'm sure they *must* be korean even though they advertise fake viagra in english through US phone numbers. Pretty much all my spam comes from the USA, apart from C++ job offers (UK recruiters) and the occasional Nigerian millionaire.)
At the same time, USians make feeble attacks at British things (e.g. cars still driving on the left since we were never Napoleonised, bad dental care, eating fruit (limes) to prevent vitamin C deficiency, using the word "liberal" as an adjective not a swearword) and miss the wide open targets that matter to locals (double the death rates from some cancers, Victorian public transport, schizophrenic attitude to USA/EU, binge drinking).
And at the french, they (USians) forget about the French navy saving their ass in the war against the British, and focus on WW2 - Germany invades Poland: France and UK declare war: USA says "yeah, go on guys, here's some IBM computers" until they get attacked by Japan a few years later. God, I hate defending the French:-) But if you're going to attack them, how about mentioning that they're always on strike or burning lambs when they're not working 35 hour weeks or blowing up greenpeace boats. But yeah, the surveys about hygiene do still come out in the newspapers.
As for geography, the papers keep printing surveys that e.g. most florida teachers couldn't find florida on a map of the USA (and that's a bloody easy one!) so I might have a decent chance there:-)
Had Bush 2nd even left the country (or got a passport) before he became president?
IIRC it is the descendants of the agent (Slesinger) of the creator (A.A. Milne) that are suing, and the descendants of the creator are on Disney's side.
It's partly about whether US video game royalties were included in the agent's contract (Pooh stories were written decades before video games were invented).
I'm not a great fan of the heriditary system anyway - why should you inherit your ancestors book characters (copyright), or wealth (death taxes help) or Presidency/PM (USA, India)? Get a job yourself! My Uncle bought my Grandad's farm off him, which is fair.
In England they have embankments to keep drivers from seeing the scenery:-( (it's slightly better going by train). NZ highways are flat on the ground, so have great views. I guess since US highways tend to raised rather than lowered they probably have good views (e.g. along the west coast).
Well Australia was of course called "New Holland" before the pommies got there.
In Australia they have signs on the road every 50km or so saying "Drowsy Drivers Die". In other countries they have an alternative to keep them awake, called "scenery".
In Sweden, when they recently changed from driving on the left to driving on the right (a sort of delayed reaction to germany being invaded by napoleon), they converted over all on the same day!
No doubt in the UK or USA it would have taken years for everyone to change over to the new side.
After all, the US tax department starts its year in April, thinking that that Julius Caesar bloke's reforms to the calender would never catch on.
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No, after those books of the Bible was written, there was this guy called Jesus yeah, and one of the things he said was "turn the other cheek". It pays to read to the end.
However hardly any people who call themselves Christians ever took any notice of that, except maybe the Quakers. I can't say I've taken much account of it myself (and Revelations is just freaky).
However, I have seen your attitude ("so hit him back then!" from parents) in action with young kids in a waiting room - in a prison (where they are presumably waiting to visit their elder brothers), so I am unconvinced of its efficacy.
And in the IT field, look at the HR section of a taiwanese company - even the CEO has a masters degree!
I see glass (white/green/brown), paper (always full to overflowing, damn junkmailers) and clothes - where are the ones for aluminium cans?
Is very common, works fine over there and has pretty colours. But the keys are too fiddly. And the early ones had some problems I think. And their version of Q-Bert sucks. When will the One True Phone arrive?
However, after looking it up a little, that association of the word might be quite new (1914, USA) since the punishment in England was generally hanging rather than the stake.
I think in recent times the laws has mostly been against individuals rather than organisations, although the recent events in Malaysia (deputy prime minister jailed) would show such accusations are still used for political purposes.
So the majority of killing probably predates the USA.
UKians includes Ian Paisley but at the same time pisses him off :-)
But the second thing that comes to mind is that they have the death penalty for being a single mother (still not carried out yet I hope).
and the third thing was that in my phone contract it says... direct dial calls to all countries are allowed except Nigeria and Pakistan. Is this a crime prevention measure?
And the fourth thing is that Shell is not exactly loved - people keep blowing themselves up by collecting oil from leaky pipelines.
OTOH for the sake of balance, Nigeria might be being helpful in the region by supplying UN troups to Sierra Leone etc. but I don't know much about that.
Cigarettes are generally burned (or placed behind the ear at a rakish angle). UKians sometimes refer to this usage.
In the olden days homosexuals (and witches and heretics) were burned. USians seems to want to keep that memory alive.
That is why I consider that word to be a meaningful (i.e. serious) insult, like for example asking a Jew to get "disinfected" (or whatever the german word was).
What annoys me now is that some games developers (e.g. Rare) are being called "2nd party" because they are owned by a manufacturer.
The correct terms are: 1st party = manufacturer, 2nd party = end-user, 3rd party = anyone else.
Woah, but according to Intel's (dong ding dong dit!) TV advertising, if I use their brand of CPU, my internet connection speed will increase, i'll be able to write CD-ROMs and my polygons will be smoother!
The N64 only had a 100Mhz CPU but they sold it on its bus bandwidth (pity it had such a small on-chip texture cache and cartridges) - on my 1000Mhz PC I think someone gave it a teensy cache, so it runs like a dog on certain programs.
Woah, can I have your GBA please? Mine is only the standard 16.7Mhz ARM7TDMI and I didn't know you could overclock them like that! I guess 20 times that would be a 333Mhz RISC chip with decent memory - hardly beyond the realms of possibility for a PDA or cellphone.
And yes, PC's 100Mhz (or 133Mhz) busses suck - I reckon if you are thrashing memory a 450Mhz PC can be slower than a zero-wait-state 333Mhz RISC chip (of course the usual answer is "so don't thrash memory then!").
I saw a channel that seemed to be showing the unedited raw footage for "world's scariest police chases", with extra pauses while they waited for something to happen.
I think it was called "Fox News".
For foreign news, it informed viewers that drunk loutish teenagers were called "yobs" in England, and that police would like to discourage them from behaving badly.
Don't worry, your vote will be electronically counted as being for him anyway.
Back in the day, the British had really uncomfortable shirts with buttons on their cuffs. What the founding fathers really wanted was the right to bare arms.
The land doesn't just disappear just because someone dies. Death taxes mean it is split between the community and the descendants, and encourages the descendants to not just sit on their ass if they want to keep a high standard of living.
The government or community are not necicarily more worthy than somebodies decendants
They should get jobs like anybody else who is able. I merely don't see why someone (even if he is a nice guy) should have extreme wealth and power just because his great great great great grandfather was a pimp for the King.
And unlike the corporate welfarists who cheat their employees and the country to get their vast assets while running their companies into the ground, I have a proper job (slashdot postings aside) but see some things as better dealt with on the national or even supernational level rather than on the individual level.
Damn cyclists are certainly the fastest vehicles on that road (or rather, veering all over the footpath next to the road) at that time of day.
I'm sure there was a Windows 286 and a Windows 386 version in there somewhere, not to mention NT 3.1 and 4.0. And they called Windows 96 and Windows 97 "Win 95 SR1" and "Win 95 SR2" for some reason.
For instance, if an expensive football player goes to the hairdresser, that is front-page news on all the tabloid newspapers.
I sympathise with your complaint that outsiders critisise the "wrong things" about the USA (e.g. unbridled gung-ho military power, calorie intake, geography, death penalty, human rights) which are things that are prioritised differently in the USA by a large chunk of its population, but that is the nature of inter-culture comparisons. We can at least agree on the lawyers. I would add spammers :-) (and yeah, I'm sure they *must* be korean even though they advertise fake viagra in english through US phone numbers. Pretty much all my spam comes from the USA, apart from C++ job offers (UK recruiters) and the occasional Nigerian millionaire.)
At the same time, USians make feeble attacks at British things (e.g. cars still driving on the left since we were never Napoleonised, bad dental care, eating fruit (limes) to prevent vitamin C deficiency, using the word "liberal" as an adjective not a swearword) and miss the wide open targets that matter to locals (double the death rates from some cancers, Victorian public transport, schizophrenic attitude to USA/EU, binge drinking).
And at the french, they (USians) forget about the French navy saving their ass in the war against the British, and focus on WW2 - Germany invades Poland: France and UK declare war: USA says "yeah, go on guys, here's some IBM computers" until they get attacked by Japan a few years later. God, I hate defending the French :-) But if you're going to attack them, how about mentioning that they're always on strike or burning lambs when they're not working 35 hour weeks or blowing up greenpeace boats. But yeah, the surveys about hygiene do still come out in the newspapers.
As for geography, the papers keep printing surveys that e.g. most florida teachers couldn't find florida on a map of the USA (and that's a bloody easy one!) so I might have a decent chance there :-)
Had Bush 2nd even left the country (or got a passport) before he became president?
Is sung to a Scottish folk tune IIRC. But the words are Aussie (Banjo Patterson).
It's partly about whether US video game royalties were included in the agent's contract (Pooh stories were written decades before video games were invented).
I'm not a great fan of the heriditary system anyway - why should you inherit your ancestors book characters (copyright), or wealth (death taxes help) or Presidency/PM (USA, India)? Get a job yourself! My Uncle bought my Grandad's farm off him, which is fair.
In England they have embankments to keep drivers from seeing the scenery :-( (it's slightly better going by train). NZ highways are flat on the ground, so have great views. I guess since US highways tend to raised rather than lowered they probably have good views (e.g. along the west coast).
In Australia they have signs on the road every 50km or so saying "Drowsy Drivers Die". In other countries they have an alternative to keep them awake, called "scenery".
But how come they still have such bad traffic jams, when every pickup truck has 10 people in the back?
Failing that, you might want to put a semi-attractive person of the opposite sex in the passenger seat (non-inflatable is more convincing).
No doubt in the UK or USA it would have taken years for everyone to change over to the new side.
After all, the US tax department starts its year in April, thinking that that Julius Caesar bloke's reforms to the calender would never catch on.
Presumably by tearing up whichever treaty it was.