...is why so many Americans have come to have such a low regard for federal workers, and that in turn is what made Trump's pledge to shrink federal government and "drain the swamp" resonate so strongly with voters.
But you're apparently not familiar with basic Christian theology. See, the Old Testament is only part of the Christian bible as it provides the prologue on what is a millennials-long story arc. Mosaic Law (which over-wrote the Code of Hammurabi etc.) is itself over-written by Christ's "Mosaic Anti-theses:" "Love your neighbor as yourself," "Do unto others..." "Let he without sin cast the first stone," etc. No Christian sect (again, outside the 40 people in the Westboro Baptist Church) follow OT writings as canon when they are specifically over-written by NT writings. That's sort of the whole focus of Christianity.
You Leviticus-citing anti-Christian Internet "theologians" are even more pathetic than the Internet "tough guys."
It's actually Sharia law -- Islam -- with the edicts that require gays to be stoned to death. The Westboro Baptist Church (membership: 40, per Wikipedia) is the only Christian sect that I know of that "wants to kill" homosexuals.
For the complete set of stats re which barbaric and medieval Islamic laws are still practiced today and where, see this link. Hopefully you are open to being educated and are not just a woefully ignorant bigot.
Really? That young blonde girl getting pepper-sprayed in the Berkeley footage was a neo-Nazi? The owner of the Starbucks that had its windows smashed... he was a neo-Nazi too?? Man o man, California must be crawling with neo-Nazis! Who knew?
And Bundy was a cattle rancher who believed the government was taking his land. It was a legal property dispute, not an ideological debate. Most importantly, neither Bundy nor anyone who took up his cause hurt anyone or destroyed anything! You're just proving my point with that citation, son. Thanks for playing...
>>Harboring a culture of hatred, letting it be acceptable to let those kinds of ideas flourish, ones in which someone wants to kill people (entire races of people, in fact), is not acceptable
See, and I call that Abortion Culture, and there are millions like me, but if I walked up onto the platform during the Abortion March a few weeks back and expressed my opinion by punching creepy old Madonna, I'd have been arrested. As would be proper. Because this is a nation of laws, and we do not end one form of barbarism by resorting to another.
>>Free Speech only means the government can't (or legally shouldn't) censor you. It does not mean that if you speak Nazi-like remarks that you won't get a fist thrown at you.
Correct. But about a dozen other laws will get you tossed into jail if you throw a fist at me because you disagree with what I am saying. Not to mention all the fire-starting, window-smashing and random property damage.
Now that I think about it... geez... why is everyone on the Left so violent? Left-wing thought has *owned* college campuses for the last 40-50 years. Are you guys really so fragile and insecure that one guy giving voice to a different point of view throws you into a tailspin? If y'all are trying to move past that "snowflake" stereotype, pepper-spraying people with whom you disagree is really the wrong approach...
When I heard, at first cursorily, about the Berkeley riots *against* free speech, I was certain someone was describing a new South Park plot or Onion jibe. Imagine my surprise...
Silly Partisan Slashdot Editors want to make this into a Trump Thing, but they are too young or uneducated to remember things like the (first, of many) Food Pyramid, job creation data scams, alternative energy revelations, and... the list is long. Google "erroneous government data." And stop contributing to the Fake News epidemic with these disingenuous strawman-centric pseudo-stories...
OMG, You're Right! You nailed me! I'm a shill for Google, who is paying me and around 70 others to artfully denigrate DDG and other search engines every time they are mentioned favorably on various public forums because Eric Schmidt is terrified they're starting to eat into his market share! Gosh, now that I have been outed, I'll lose my job...! How will I ever provide for my family?!
They can't NOT improve. It looks and behaves like a first-year CompSci student's summer project. I applaud the spirit behind what they are doing, but if Google is Photoshop, DDG is an Etch-A-Sketch.
Don't be disingenuous. Of course people use Google, Capital "E" Evil or not. And DDG is crap. I really wanted to like it, because I dislike Google, but every time I do I feel like I am test-driving a First Year CompSci student's summer project.
Nothing on Google is free. Your choices, selections, opinions, cookies, bookmarks, contents of your email, YouTube habits are continually feeding their algorithms. They control your search results, and return to you that which makes the most profit to them. They'll keep it "correct enough" so as to still be useful and not piss you off. How could it be otherwise? And I am inevitably met with disbelief, as if I am telling them their beloved Uncle Bob has been a closet pedophile for years. We have somehow raised a generation of people who really believe there are free lunches and benign global corporations.
It is NOT a waste of front page space, Fool! Amazon paid a nice chunk of change for the placement. Probably enough to keep all the slackjawed editors in Diet Dew and Mike&Ikes for a month. Learn to tell the difference between actual slashdot editorial and paid placement, your blood pressure will stay lower...
Exactly! How bad does your campaign management have to be when your candidate wins the popular vote by 3 million and she still loses the election? Pretty fuckin' horrendous. Especially when the grass roots organizers out in the battleground states were on record as warning the Brooklyn HQ that they needed to shift focus. Again: Hillary Clinton's campaign management had the most smug and incompetent senior staff in the history of presidential politics. Love her, hate her, believe the Rooskie story or not, there is no denying that Podesta and Mook screwed the pooch.
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You lost me when you became incomprehensible toward the end there...
He should quit. Or move to where the Cost of Living/Wage for His Expertise ratio is friendlier.
...is why so many Americans have come to have such a low regard for federal workers, and that in turn is what made Trump's pledge to shrink federal government and "drain the swamp" resonate so strongly with voters.
I am.
But you're apparently not familiar with basic Christian theology. See, the Old Testament is only part of the Christian bible as it provides the prologue on what is a millennials-long story arc. Mosaic Law (which over-wrote the Code of Hammurabi etc.) is itself over-written by Christ's "Mosaic Anti-theses:" "Love your neighbor as yourself," "Do unto others..." "Let he without sin cast the first stone," etc. No Christian sect (again, outside the 40 people in the Westboro Baptist Church) follow OT writings as canon when they are specifically over-written by NT writings. That's sort of the whole focus of Christianity.
You Leviticus-citing anti-Christian Internet "theologians" are even more pathetic than the Internet "tough guys."
For the complete set of stats re which barbaric and medieval Islamic laws are still practiced today and where, see this link. Hopefully you are open to being educated and are not just a woefully ignorant bigot.
Indian artifacts? Really? Well, gosh, I guess that makes everything even-Steven then, doesn't it...?
And Bundy was a cattle rancher who believed the government was taking his land. It was a legal property dispute, not an ideological debate. Most importantly, neither Bundy nor anyone who took up his cause hurt anyone or destroyed anything! You're just proving my point with that citation, son. Thanks for playing...
>>Harboring a culture of hatred, letting it be acceptable to let those kinds of ideas flourish, ones in which someone wants to kill people (entire races of people, in fact), is not acceptable
See, and I call that Abortion Culture, and there are millions like me, but if I walked up onto the platform during the Abortion March a few weeks back and expressed my opinion by punching creepy old Madonna, I'd have been arrested. As would be proper. Because this is a nation of laws, and we do not end one form of barbarism by resorting to another.
>>Free Speech only means the government can't (or legally shouldn't) censor you. It does not mean that if you speak Nazi-like remarks that you won't get a fist thrown at you.
Correct. But about a dozen other laws will get you tossed into jail if you throw a fist at me because you disagree with what I am saying. Not to mention all the fire-starting, window-smashing and random property damage.
Now that I think about it... geez... why is everyone on the Left so violent? Left-wing thought has *owned* college campuses for the last 40-50 years. Are you guys really so fragile and insecure that one guy giving voice to a different point of view throws you into a tailspin? If y'all are trying to move past that "snowflake" stereotype, pepper-spraying people with whom you disagree is really the wrong approach...
When I heard, at first cursorily, about the Berkeley riots *against* free speech, I was certain someone was describing a new South Park plot or Onion jibe. Imagine my surprise...
Libre Office will forever be Showtime to Microsoft's HBO.
...without Matt Drudge showing them what's news, slashdot editors wouldn't know what stories to run more than half the time.
Are you saying that the Swedes are so mentally challenged they can't fix their rape gang and copyright infringement problems at the same time?
It is self-absorbed sociopaths like you that give Nerds a bad name.
>>the project still needs to complete its permitting process...
Yes, well, good luck with that...
And I'm All A-Titter!!! Oooooh!
Silly Partisan Slashdot Editors want to make this into a Trump Thing, but they are too young or uneducated to remember things like the (first, of many) Food Pyramid, job creation data scams, alternative energy revelations, and... the list is long. Google "erroneous government data." And stop contributing to the Fake News epidemic with these disingenuous strawman-centric pseudo-stories...
The best scientific research, as judged by a robot.
This'll be good...
Knowing how prickly so many in the scientific research community get about their work, I reckon that the exploding head quotient will be quite high...
>>suspect astroturfing
OMG, You're Right! You nailed me! I'm a shill for Google, who is paying me and around 70 others to artfully denigrate DDG and other search engines every time they are mentioned favorably on various public forums because Eric Schmidt is terrified they're starting to eat into his market share! Gosh, now that I have been outed, I'll lose my job...! How will I ever provide for my family?!
They can't NOT improve. It looks and behaves like a first-year CompSci student's summer project. I applaud the spirit behind what they are doing, but if Google is Photoshop, DDG is an Etch-A-Sketch.
Don't be disingenuous. Of course people use Google, Capital "E" Evil or not. And DDG is crap. I really wanted to like it, because I dislike Google, but every time I do I feel like I am test-driving a First Year CompSci student's summer project.
Nothing on Google is free. Your choices, selections, opinions, cookies, bookmarks, contents of your email, YouTube habits are continually feeding their algorithms. They control your search results, and return to you that which makes the most profit to them. They'll keep it "correct enough" so as to still be useful and not piss you off. How could it be otherwise? And I am inevitably met with disbelief, as if I am telling them their beloved Uncle Bob has been a closet pedophile for years. We have somehow raised a generation of people who really believe there are free lunches and benign global corporations.
It is NOT a waste of front page space, Fool! Amazon paid a nice chunk of change for the placement. Probably enough to keep all the slackjawed editors in Diet Dew and Mike&Ikes for a month. Learn to tell the difference between actual slashdot editorial and paid placement, your blood pressure will stay lower...
If that was totally life-changing then your life was really, really in need of a change. Congrats.
Exactly! How bad does your campaign management have to be when your candidate wins the popular vote by 3 million and she still loses the election? Pretty fuckin' horrendous. Especially when the grass roots organizers out in the battleground states were on record as warning the Brooklyn HQ that they needed to shift focus. Again: Hillary Clinton's campaign management had the most smug and incompetent senior staff in the history of presidential politics. Love her, hate her, believe the Rooskie story or not, there is no denying that Podesta and Mook screwed the pooch.