You are worse than them. They are saying that any teacher will be free to practice her/his own faith. You are saying that all teachers have to practice your faith.
Because you think of it, everything comes to faith. You don't have any rational knowledge of black holes, dark matter or exact origins of a particular species. If someone given you a glofish, you would successfully explain the steps in its evolution from a similar non-glowing fish and dismiss the fanatics who claimed that it was created by an intelligent being. Numerous scientific assumptions, such as formula being as good as breast milk for babies, have been successfully refuted in favor of traditionalists.
That is why perhaps government-funded schools is a terrible idea where students will be brainwashed by the current political sentiments and there freedom of thought will be compromised by forbidden areas of inquiry. Just give everyone vouchers and let them get education of their choice.
If I hired you for $10000/hour, issued you a corporate blackberry and asked you to be on call 24/7 as well as frequently check in and inquire weather the car has crashed and needs to be restored, your claim sounds legit.
During regular hours, people are usually in office and for occasional evening calls people can just burn through a few rollover minutes on their personal cell and in the worst case submit an $5 expense report. If a company is willing to pay $100/month for your wireless plan, you can bet they are not giving you the phone for texting with your girlfriend.
Jesus Christ was tried, convicted and executed by the laws of his country. He even got a trial by jury by people deciding which of two detainees will be pardoned. So you think you get a pass from your God just because your actions are sanctioned by your government? Better think again.
If it really comes to you walking in on your wife having sex with another man, I doubt you will see the situation as "humans lawfully and consensually having sex" right at that moment. You might even get more angry than you would be at a house robber or mugger. All murders must be punished, but some consideration must be given to the degree to which you were provoked and weather many reasonable people would react in the same way as you.
Surely this is even more of a stretch than intellectual property? People are not depriving me of anything per se if they violate my privacy. It's only if they use the information obtained to affect my credit history, my job or my relationships that the breach becomes something I have to care about. Most privacy breeches are benign - even the case of a peeping tom that takes no action besides secretly watching - hence lack of public interest in enduring inconvenience for the sake of privacy.
Talk to people about dieting or brushing teeth and they might do it in immediate future. Privacy is a chore that can cause quite a bit of inconvenience. Damage from it being breeched only happens rarely and takes a lot of time to manifest itself.
Thankfully there is abundant sunshine at night, when people want to turn on lights and watch their huge plasma TVs. Well, there is in some places in summer, but I doubt you will get hot there without large amounts of Vodka.
Ok tell me honestly - if you somehow decided it was a good idea to off a healthy male in his 20th, how much confidence would you have in your success without a gun?
Sure, a gun by itself does not cause a person to commit murder. Other social factors, such as unemployment, break down of marriages and extended families, and a culture of anonymity and alienation from one's community all play a role. I am sorry that UK is catching up with US in these aspects, but according to your article one is still 3.5 times less likely to be killed by a gun than in America. Might the fact that guns are less available for casual criminals or distraught individuals have anything to do with that? Or the fact that many US states and cities passed stricter gun laws off late? In Iraq gun ownership is not real restrictive. The policy is to allow for one AK-47 per family for self defense. I don't see violence rates plummeting.
Large US city -> strict gun control laws -> lots of "gun related deaths".
Large US city -> outlying agricultural areas and neighboring states with loose gun control laws -> lots of "gun related deaths".
How many are criminals killing each other? How many are police killing criminals? How many are kids grabbing the guns of the criminals their mothers are dating? How many are criminals killed by honest citizens defending themselves?
Surely none of these deaths are justifiable unless we are talking about an armed (or frigging muscular) criminal with an obvious intent to commit a violent act? Does a drug addict really deserve to die for non-payment to his dealer? Would police be so eager to shoot a guy reaching into his pocket if only 1% of criminals are armed? I really don't see how you justify deaths of the kids, but probably more grab guns of their NRA member fathers. And a teenager who decided to rummage through your house doesn't deserve to die, even if he does cause you a great deal of grief.
In short, yes, the point of all those guns is so crowds of angry citizens can overthrow their corrupt leaders. Whenever they want.
Have you actually thought about how this scenario would actually play out in practice? Gangs in a place like New Orleans overthrowing the local police department by having a superior firepower and imposing laws more to their liking? Single mothers having to protect their 3 kids from these new warlords with an AK-47? Sounds like a nice place to live, kind of like Baghdad.
but more research is required before we can dismiss it outright. More research than needed into Christianity, Islam or Buddhism? Why, because it has those complicated-looking mathematical equations that require physics beyond high school level to comprehend? It's amazing how much scientists, especially astrophysicists neglect the same scientific method that they ridicule the general population for ignoring. We don't really know what happens inside black holes or if they actually exist as described in textbooks. We can scarcely comprehend the conditions that exists in the core of our own Sun, much less seconds after the Big Bang. Most of the current universe is comprised of so called "dark matter", which is another way to say that we don't understand most of the physics happening on cosmological scale.
I would hope for some textbooks that present proven facts about cosmology separately from the most popular current non-scientific theory. The later belongs to a philosophy course along with intelligent design.
Only when discriminate against men, whites, straights or muslims. Try to walk into Curves (whose founder is a male who finances anti-abortion groups) and get a membership as a man, with or without claiming that you are a pre-op transsexual.
You can make a safe, lightweight car, such as a Formula 1, but it's going to cost you. Carbon composite isn't cheap. Easy, just make a car out of paper. After all, it is stronger than steel and not terribly expensive.
It was written in a proprietary language, it was only accessible via an application that would run on just one, proprietary, operating system, and this operating system would only run on hardware from one particular manufacturer. So basically it was like IE6-based world wide web around 5 years ago?
Viruses up to date have been using conventional encryption, with the obvious problem that the key is found in the virus. If only general population improves their computer literacy in proportion to malware writers, headlines such as this one will become the thing of the past.
I am however disappointed that the author used only 1024 bit key length, which is no longer recognized as unconditionally secure. Hopefully he or she at least generated a secure random seed for the key pair.
Well, the stock brokers better be doing it for free. Imagine Safeway asking you to buy stake based on the price it was sold for 20 minutes ago. Not sure what's in it for Google. Maybe computing power to produce realtime quotes is now low enough to be paid for by text ads.
How do I know that the consumer organization hasn't been paid to give this certification without whatever requirements are usually required being met ? In other words, what makes it any different than a government agency ? Just the fact that they have to gain popularity purely by reputation rather than the law. I trust Amnesty International a bit more than Department of Homeland Security on the question of how well the detainees are treated in Guatemala bay.
How are a hunter who shoots wildly around in the forest because he wants the deer and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process and a mafia hitman who kills for money because he wants money and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process really any different from one another ? I don't know, one is more likely to reoffend than the other? One is more likely to feel remorse and try to make reparations? One's mind is better understood by an average person? For whatever reason, most jurisdictions make a big difference between premeditated murder and involuntary manslaughter.
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Don't eat the Large Hadron Collider.
I guess you haven't heard about cold and shrinkage then.
You are worse than them. They are saying that any teacher will be free to practice her/his own faith. You are saying that all teachers have to practice your faith.
Because you think of it, everything comes to faith. You don't have any rational knowledge of black holes, dark matter or exact origins of a particular species. If someone given you a glofish, you would successfully explain the steps in its evolution from a similar non-glowing fish and dismiss the fanatics who claimed that it was created by an intelligent being. Numerous scientific assumptions, such as formula being as good as breast milk for babies, have been successfully refuted in favor of traditionalists.
That is why perhaps government-funded schools is a terrible idea where students will be brainwashed by the current political sentiments and there freedom of thought will be compromised by forbidden areas of inquiry. Just give everyone vouchers and let them get education of their choice.
If I hired you for $10000/hour, issued you a corporate blackberry and asked you to be on call 24/7 as well as frequently check in and inquire weather the car has crashed and needs to be restored, your claim sounds legit.
During regular hours, people are usually in office and for occasional evening calls people can just burn through a few rollover minutes on their personal cell and in the worst case submit an $5 expense report. If a company is willing to pay $100/month for your wireless plan, you can bet they are not giving you the phone for texting with your girlfriend.
You have to pay for people to work. What a novel concept.
Jesus Christ was tried, convicted and executed by the laws of his country. He even got a trial by jury by people deciding which of two detainees will be pardoned. So you think you get a pass from your God just because your actions are sanctioned by your government? Better think again.
If it really comes to you walking in on your wife having sex with another man, I doubt you will see the situation as "humans lawfully and consensually having sex" right at that moment. You might even get more angry than you would be at a house robber or mugger. All murders must be punished, but some consideration must be given to the degree to which you were provoked and weather many reasonable people would react in the same way as you.
Why are you so sure we'll all lose rather than seeing a police and legal system reform that will make it safer to cooperate with cops?
Surely this is even more of a stretch than intellectual property? People are not depriving me of anything per se if they violate my privacy. It's only if they use the information obtained to affect my credit history, my job or my relationships that the breach becomes something I have to care about. Most privacy breeches are benign - even the case of a peeping tom that takes no action besides secretly watching - hence lack of public interest in enduring inconvenience for the sake of privacy.
Talk to people about dieting or brushing teeth and they might do it in immediate future. Privacy is a chore that can cause quite a bit of inconvenience. Damage from it being breeched only happens rarely and takes a lot of time to manifest itself.
Thankfully there is abundant sunshine at night, when people want to turn on lights and watch their huge plasma TVs. Well, there is in some places in summer, but I doubt you will get hot there without large amounts of Vodka.
That and a whole lot more, thanks for asking.
Ok tell me honestly - if you somehow decided it was a good idea to off a healthy male in his 20th, how much confidence would you have in your success without a gun?
Sure, a gun by itself does not cause a person to commit murder. Other social factors, such as unemployment, break down of marriages and extended families, and a culture of anonymity and alienation from one's community all play a role. I am sorry that UK is catching up with US in these aspects, but according to your article one is still 3.5 times less likely to be killed by a gun than in America. Might the fact that guns are less available for casual criminals or distraught individuals have anything to do with that? Or the fact that many US states and cities passed stricter gun laws off late? In Iraq gun ownership is not real restrictive. The policy is to allow for one AK-47 per family for self defense. I don't see violence rates plummeting.
Large US city -> strict gun control laws -> lots of "gun related deaths".
Large US city -> outlying agricultural areas and neighboring states with loose gun control laws -> lots of "gun related deaths".
How many are criminals killing each other? How many are police killing criminals? How many are kids grabbing the guns of the criminals their mothers are dating? How many are criminals killed by honest citizens defending themselves?
Surely none of these deaths are justifiable unless we are talking about an armed (or frigging muscular) criminal with an obvious intent to commit a violent act? Does a drug addict really deserve to die for non-payment to his dealer? Would police be so eager to shoot a guy reaching into his pocket if only 1% of criminals are armed? I really don't see how you justify deaths of the kids, but probably more grab guns of their NRA member fathers. And a teenager who decided to rummage through your house doesn't deserve to die, even if he does cause you a great deal of grief.
In short, yes, the point of all those guns is so crowds of angry citizens can overthrow their corrupt leaders. Whenever they want.
Have you actually thought about how this scenario would actually play out in practice? Gangs in a place like New Orleans overthrowing the local police department by having a superior firepower and imposing laws more to their liking? Single mothers having to protect their 3 kids from these new warlords with an AK-47? Sounds like a nice place to live, kind of like Baghdad.
about 500 serious injuries a year
You have no frigging clue about how bad it is in US. A large city with population way less than 60M can easily have 500 gun-related DEATH per year.
I would hope for some textbooks that present proven facts about cosmology separately from the most popular current non-scientific theory. The later belongs to a philosophy course along with intelligent design.
Only when discriminate against men, whites, straights or muslims. Try to walk into Curves (whose founder is a male who finances anti-abortion groups) and get a membership as a man, with or without claiming that you are a pre-op transsexual.
They are best off using a large botnet then. Perhaps modify the extortion virus itself so that it's part of solution rather than part of the problem.
Viruses up to date have been using conventional encryption, with the obvious problem that the key is found in the virus. If only general population improves their computer literacy in proportion to malware writers, headlines such as this one will become the thing of the past.
I am however disappointed that the author used only 1024 bit key length, which is no longer recognized as unconditionally secure. Hopefully he or she at least generated a secure random seed for the key pair.
Well, the stock brokers better be doing it for free. Imagine Safeway asking you to buy stake based on the price it was sold for 20 minutes ago. Not sure what's in it for Google. Maybe computing power to produce realtime quotes is now low enough to be paid for by text ads.
With your username, I am surprised that you failed to grasp an alternative conclusion.