As bad as the fundamentalist Christians are, I've never seen them worry too much about dressing "modestly" and run around calling people who don't meet their standards "whores".
Ok, so you had one tough year after moving out of home, I spent the entire 1980's living like that while working a 60hr week to support a young family. You may have had poor parents, but you have yet to walk a mile in a poor adults shoes. Until you have done so, how about you stop telling them what to do?
Just spare us the bit about how there is no other choice. I was there.
Where did I say there was no other choice? If you read the context I was actually arguing against someone who wants to make choices for others and was asking if he had ever "walked a mile in their shoes". Unsurprisingly it turns out he hasn't, a year of eating noodles when he left home doesn't cut it in my book.
Great post. In the 1980's I only knew one other person who owned a General Computing Device (GCD), phones were attached to the wall and did one thing, the term "appliance computing" was unheard of. Nowadays most people own at least one (GCD) and they can now walk around with their phone that does a million things precisely because it's a locked down GCD. In fact GDC's have become so powerful and ubiquitous that even traditional appliances like washing machines are now locked down GCD's. Are we expected to believe that washing machines are taking away Cory's freedom?.
The availability and affordability of GCD's and appliance like devices have exploded over the last 20yrs and have revolutionised society and industry in less than half my lifetime. There are now more geeks than ever tinkering with GCDs, and non-geeks can now buy 'intelligent' devices that "just work" without any tinkering. Claiming that 'freedom' is somehow being lost, or that for some reason the government is going to ban any of it, is nothing more than a paranoid delusion.
In other words, like the MAFIAA's claims of lost sales, the claims of lost freedom in TFA do not conform to anything that resembles the observable universe.
I don't understand the constant Slashdot slurring against MBAs.
Dunning-Kruger effect, they have never had the job, they see you as the roadblock because your the guy holding the stop sign, they can't see the road is still being built just around the next bend.
Damm, I've got mod points but I've already posted. Reading the comments to this story has been like wandering around the stalls at a spiritual festival.
I'm a firm believer that Homo sapien sapiens have evolved to consume mostly animal fat and protein.
While I agree, I think the "mostly" part is taking it too far. I'm not sure where I read it but before the advent of agriculture humans got ~85% of their food from gathering and ~15% from hunting, a similar ratio can be seen in wild chimpanzee's in the modern world*. A little over ten thousand years ago we became super-predators and learnt to domesticate our prey, meat consumption increased considerably simply because to most people who still have teeth a steak sandwich is much tastier than a dandelion sandwich.
However ten thousand years is not long enough to do a lot of evolving of the digestive system ( although lactose tolerance may be one example). We had already evolved to be omnivores long before we were human and the advantage of being an omnivore such as a pig or a human is not individual health but rather a population that can survive radical changes in diet and therefore take advantage of a wide variety of environments.
In other words the "natural human diet" is stuffing whatever you find edible into your face.
Yep looks like the consolidation stage of a typical "land rush". From what I have read $1.00/watt is the magic economic hurdle everyone in the green energy industry is aiming for because of the competition from coal.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the reason why the US economy is in the toilet now, socialism (in the form of bi-partisan bailouts) saved it from being flushed. And yes I'm sure there are plenty of opposite examples since AFAIK, reality is still steadfastly refusing to conform to any particular political philosophy.
It's the same fallacy at work when someone gets into an accident and survives. They are counted as being lucky to survive, when the person was in fact extremely unlucky to be in an accident in the first place.
What fallacy? You're talking about two different events, the unlucky event is the accident AND the lucky one is surviving to tell the tale. Both can be true statements for the same person in the same accident (assuming luck exists).
There are enough contradictions in the bible to suit any interpretation you can think off. For example I interpret "...the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." to mean he was claiming to be the "lamb" the prophets spoke of in the old testament.
Thanks, I too am wary of "faith based" charities, now that I have informed my self a bit more I think they are a great charity and a worthy cause.
No matter what large charity you look at, their ideology and practise are going to be imperfect, the question is; are they overall a GoodThing(TM) from a secular POV, I would say the answer is "yes" in this case, just as I would say yes to that other imperfect faith-based organisation, the Red Cross.
Also, from your own link; "IJM does have a protocol for their foreign police partners which includes these requirements: that the police protect the sex workers from the media, that the police assure the sex workers that they are not being arrested, and that organizations that provide social services to sex workers not be implicated in police enforcement operations."
Sounds to me like the Thai authorities in the MJ article dishonoured this agreement in order to co-opt the IJM investigation for it's own purposes. I would also put the blame on Thai authorities for the deplorable situation whereby a government orphanage is a fate worse than child prostitution.
The Catholic church needs to get it's own house in order. They could start by not creating ridiculous scapegoats in order to absolve the paedophiles in their ranks of any responsibility for their actions.
Union and corporate interests should be represented through their members and employees, not through the union leadership and corporate CEOs with the political connections and big checkbooks.
Union members and stockholders already vote for their representatives because 100,000 shareholders/employees are not going to fit into the senator's office, so what's your alternative?
The problem for anyone representing a group is that the individuals in any group hold contradictory ideas and priorities. In other words; there is no true Scotsman so we pick the ginger haired guy in a kilt.
Slashdot Mirror
As bad as the fundamentalist Christians are, I've never seen them worry too much about dressing "modestly" and run around calling people who don't meet their standards "whores".
I miss the 70's too.
Ok, so you had one tough year after moving out of home, I spent the entire 1980's living like that while working a 60hr week to support a young family. You may have had poor parents, but you have yet to walk a mile in a poor adults shoes. Until you have done so, how about you stop telling them what to do?
Alchemists are NOT chemists.
Creationists are NOT biologists.
Poor people ARE poor, not fucking stupid.
Just spare us the bit about how there is no other choice. I was there.
Where did I say there was no other choice? If you read the context I was actually arguing against someone who wants to make choices for others and was asking if he had ever "walked a mile in their shoes". Unsurprisingly it turns out he hasn't, a year of eating noodles when he left home doesn't cut it in my book.
Great post. In the 1980's I only knew one other person who owned a General Computing Device (GCD), phones were attached to the wall and did one thing, the term "appliance computing" was unheard of. Nowadays most people own at least one (GCD) and they can now walk around with their phone that does a million things precisely because it's a locked down GCD. In fact GDC's have become so powerful and ubiquitous that even traditional appliances like washing machines are now locked down GCD's. Are we expected to believe that washing machines are taking away Cory's freedom?.
The availability and affordability of GCD's and appliance like devices have exploded over the last 20yrs and have revolutionised society and industry in less than half my lifetime. There are now more geeks than ever tinkering with GCDs, and non-geeks can now buy 'intelligent' devices that "just work" without any tinkering. Claiming that 'freedom' is somehow being lost, or that for some reason the government is going to ban any of it, is nothing more than a paranoid delusion.
In other words, like the MAFIAA's claims of lost sales, the claims of lost freedom in TFA do not conform to anything that resembles the observable universe.
I don't understand the constant Slashdot slurring against MBAs.
Dunning-Kruger effect, they have never had the job, they see you as the roadblock because your the guy holding the stop sign, they can't see the road is still being built just around the next bend.
Import your Coke from Australia, it's made with cane sugar over here.
Damm, I've got mod points but I've already posted. Reading the comments to this story has been like wandering around the stalls at a spiritual festival.
I'm a firm believer that Homo sapien sapiens have evolved to consume mostly animal fat and protein.
While I agree, I think the "mostly" part is taking it too far. I'm not sure where I read it but before the advent of agriculture humans got ~85% of their food from gathering and ~15% from hunting, a similar ratio can be seen in wild chimpanzee's in the modern world*. A little over ten thousand years ago we became super-predators and learnt to domesticate our prey, meat consumption increased considerably simply because to most people who still have teeth a steak sandwich is much tastier than a dandelion sandwich.
However ten thousand years is not long enough to do a lot of evolving of the digestive system ( although lactose tolerance may be one example). We had already evolved to be omnivores long before we were human and the advantage of being an omnivore such as a pig or a human is not individual health but rather a population that can survive radical changes in diet and therefore take advantage of a wide variety of environments.
In other words the "natural human diet" is stuffing whatever you find edible into your face.
* Although wild chimps are skilled ambush hunters they are yet to learn how to steal meat from a pride of lions and do not have the anatomy for persistence hunting.
I'm fully aware of what that $50 is worth to them.
Are you really? When you are dictating what the working poor should and shouldn't do, are you speaking from personal experience?
Compared to the economy of where I live the US economy is definitely in the toilet and it has nothing to do with mythical BMW give-aways.
Here's what they did, I don't understand a word of it but it was simple enough to google.
Plenty of people want what they are selling, the problem is that not enough of them can justify the price.
Yep looks like the consolidation stage of a typical "land rush". From what I have read $1.00/watt is the magic economic hurdle everyone in the green energy industry is aiming for because of the competition from coal.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the reason why the US economy is in the toilet now, socialism (in the form of bi-partisan bailouts) saved it from being flushed. And yes I'm sure there are plenty of opposite examples since AFAIK, reality is still steadfastly refusing to conform to any particular political philosophy.
It's the same fallacy at work when someone gets into an accident and survives. They are counted as being lucky to survive, when the person was in fact extremely unlucky to be in an accident in the first place.
What fallacy? You're talking about two different events, the unlucky event is the accident AND the lucky one is surviving to tell the tale. Both can be true statements for the same person in the same accident (assuming luck exists).
That's not what the pigs say.
There are enough contradictions in the bible to suit any interpretation you can think off. For example I interpret "...the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." to mean he was claiming to be the "lamb" the prophets spoke of in the old testament.
Not really. Scotsmen do exist, and they're generally found in Scotland, not Burma.
Thanks, I too am wary of "faith based" charities, now that I have informed my self a bit more I think they are a great charity and a worthy cause.
No matter what large charity you look at, their ideology and practise are going to be imperfect, the question is; are they overall a GoodThing(TM) from a secular POV, I would say the answer is "yes" in this case, just as I would say yes to that other imperfect faith-based organisation, the Red Cross.
Also, from your own link; "IJM does have a protocol for their foreign police partners which includes these requirements: that the police protect the sex workers from the media, that the police assure the sex workers that they are not being arrested, and that organizations that provide social services to sex workers not be implicated in police enforcement operations."
Sounds to me like the Thai authorities in the MJ article dishonoured this agreement in order to co-opt the IJM investigation for it's own purposes. I would also put the blame on Thai authorities for the deplorable situation whereby a government orphanage is a fate worse than child prostitution.
The Catholic church needs to get it's own house in order. They could start by not creating ridiculous scapegoats in order to absolve the paedophiles in their ranks of any responsibility for their actions.
Most commercial games these days require an internet connection to play which gives much more control over pirates than DRM.
Union and corporate interests should be represented through their members and employees, not through the union leadership and corporate CEOs with the political connections and big checkbooks.
Union members and stockholders already vote for their representatives because 100,000 shareholders/employees are not going to fit into the senator's office, so what's your alternative?
The problem for anyone representing a group is that the individuals in any group hold contradictory ideas and priorities. In other words; there is no true Scotsman so we pick the ginger haired guy in a kilt.
BadAnalogyGuy posting as AC?
Agree with somersault, please award the parent post the converted +5 troll.