As always text makes it impossible to tell if you're being ironic, but there IS an episode of southpark featuring an atheist alliance, its called Go God Go (s10e12/13) and is, shock horror, total genius.
Remember not to confuse "socialism" the political doctrine with "socialised" as in sharing costs across society. America does this for health (medicare), defense, roads, education, environmental health, etc etc etc. Europe is no more socialist than are obama's policies, that is to say, not very.
Socialism = public ownership of the means of production, anything that doesn't entail this is IN NO WAY socialist.
To "the eric conspiracy" below, you should bear in mind that the "europe" you're talking about nowadays includes romania, poland the old yugoslavia etc, I highly doubt your figures would stand if they only included the "old europe" say the nations of the EU prior to 1999. Its also worth pointing out that the scandinavian nations which have the highest tax rates and the most "socialist" policies have some of the best GDP/head and standards of living in the world.
i agree, a racist joke can be, (and i'd concede frequently is) a manifestation of racism, but i'd maintain using racial epithet doesn't mean you're racist, your intent and your actions should define that, although in the real world the words we use are an easy shorthand.
I'm not sure it matters if the "other" we're talking about is self selecting or otherwise, we can probably agree that anti semitism is just as bad as strict race-ism even though religion is a matter of choice, and jews can be of any origin and skin tone.
why yes, it is just humour, a nigger joke is no more racist than one that starts "there's an englishman, an irishman and a scotsman" Racism doesn't lie in the words you use but in the actions you take. Calling someone a nigger, kike, wop, etc etc doesn't make you racist. Not hiring someone because they happen to be black, refusing to allow your jewish daughter to marry a muslim, putting a sign on your hotel that says "no irish" those sort of things are racist. If the word itself is racist then most hip hop should be labeled hate speech, instead we use these words as a crude marker: "if you say x you believe y" isn't a good enough way to deal with whats a very contentious issue.
i see, so business success is a measure of intelligence is it? I'd say its far more a measure of luck, hard work and the number of subsidiaries you have in low/no tax countries.
I call shennanigans, there are better signifiers of someones value and knowledge than their net worth.
Just kidding, i love Murdoch really, and i NEVER ritually use what he calls newspapers as toilet paper. NEVER
I'd question that environmental degredation is overwhelmingly a problem of the last 100 years, there are plenty of examples from the 1800's onwards - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4239182,00.html
Space colonies obviously arent the answer to overpopulation or pollution, but they do solve the "big rock with our name on it" problem thats coming our way sometime.
C'mon man . . . you remember ikea knightly, but you forget orlando bland??
For a thoroughly impartial (if kermodian) review of verbinski's back catalogue with no anger or vitriol or anything have a look at the bbc's radio five website film reviews. The very best in wittertainment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml
In many parts of the world, the people cry out "revolution, revolution" . . . yeah well in tenessee they screaming "evolution, evolution . . . we want our opposable thumbs" I mean thats gotta really brown them off cos they see people with tumbs everyday.
All bow down in praise of Hicks, a shining light amongst commedians.
Seems the service you get depends on the product you buy and the people you speak to . . . the people posting with problems mostly have issues with computers and are going through telephone support rather than going to apple stores. For my two pence the support i've had for ipod problems ranks as the best i've ever had for any product ever.
Twice now i've gone along to a UK apple store with stuffed up harddrives and non functioning ipods, both times out of warranty, once by a couple of months, once by the best part of half a year. I shared a couple of "i hate helpdesk" stories with the guys at the genius bar and no questions asked they just gave me refurb iPods both times, no charge. I nearly fell off the stool i was sitting on!
The reciept they gave me as a warrenty was for nearly £200 each time.
This kind of customer service has earnt apple a bundle of great word of mouth advertising from me and been instumental in my dad's business switching.
Difference here is that people pay cash for the sun which employs professional reporters, thus we should be able to expect proper fact checking. Slashdot is a free resource (to most i guess) written by its users. While professionalism here is nice to see and not infrequent it should not be expected.
Oh, and the sun sucks, its the mouthpiece of people trying to pedestrianise ambition, entertain rather than inform,promote boy bands, drunken thuggery and god damm soccer (the most boring sport in the world except baseball) and generally lower the tone of this sceptered isle... ban it NOW
but then i think everybody should be forced to read the guardian so perhaps i'm really no better
Indeed, RUF is classed as an auto manufacturer not a tuner in their home country of germany.
Sweet motors too - 600BHP narrow body 911's and in the 80's i think one held the production lap record at the nurburgring.
As for EA exclusively licensing porsche cars, i'm not so sure, as they definately appear in project gotham racing 1 & 2. Pehaps EA have PS2 exclusivity?
Ahem . . .
Ludicrous = laughable or hilarious because of obvious absurdity.
Ludacris = dodgy yank MC.
If you insist on being a pedent perhaps you might want to check things first
Hurrah bring back the short CD - an album shouldn't be longer than 11 or so songs and 45 mins. When was the last time you heard an 80 min album that didnt have @ least 4 filler tracks on it? And while we're on the subject why are singles now all around 4-5 min? bring back beatles esque 3minute pop perfection.
as harrison ford put it, "george, you write this shit but you sure can't speak it".
Shout it high from the roof-tops brother. I've been trying vainly to make this point to loads of people since Phantom Menace came out. Star wars are the best disengage brain movies in the world ever and i love them for it. Judge the prequels the same way you did the origonals and you go away happy.
I had a similar thing with starship troopers - hated the film first time around, i'd just read the book and was so disappointed at how dumb Verhoven played it. Then i watched it pissed and loved it - still do. Now i justify liking it by painting it as a comment on (not just) the USA's gung-ho nature - but its still for the most part dumb-ass / kick-ass action movie
i really like the idea of a joe average operating system, but you're missing the piont. joe average doesnt want a joe average operating system he wants a joe average computer, and counldnt give a monkeys how it works, so long as it does.
computers are tools nothing more. Microsoft products offer people a perfectly adequate out of the box solution that beyond pressing the windows update button they need not think about until the time comes to retire their PC.
Open source is meaningless to the average joe because they neither want nor need to access source code. telling they why they want open source and why its can be better - the whole cathedral and bazzar arguement - isn't in my experience goiong to get you very far.
If you tell them that its free and works better than microsoft they might be interensted, but nobody likes change.
think of lusers as a third world country, and then start thinking about what technology is appropriate, not the coolest or the best.
Now, given that you probably don't even know what a derivative is, let alone how to take the derivative of a super-complicated function like e^x, I'm not going to bother to explain to you that calculus is central to *any* economics, engineering, science or even political science degree.
three years of a PPE degree and . . . nope didn't use excel ONCE to perform statistical analysis - in my admittedly narrow experience of using stats dedicated stats tools were always used, by the staff as well as the students.
But this might have been because the university was too tight to buy new copies of excel that looked all pretty, shiny and new.
if open office will more than do the trick for most microsoft office users, clearly being good enough, isnt good enough.
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As always text makes it impossible to tell if you're being ironic, but there IS an episode of southpark featuring an atheist alliance, its called Go God Go (s10e12/13) and is, shock horror, total genius.
Yesterday transcontinental high speed rail, today this. Beyond awesome, the 2020's could be good.
Remember not to confuse "socialism" the political doctrine with "socialised" as in sharing costs across society. America does this for health (medicare), defense, roads, education, environmental health, etc etc etc. Europe is no more socialist than are obama's policies, that is to say, not very.
Socialism = public ownership of the means of production, anything that doesn't entail this is IN NO WAY socialist.
To "the eric conspiracy" below, you should bear in mind that the "europe" you're talking about nowadays includes romania, poland the old yugoslavia etc, I highly doubt your figures would stand if they only included the "old europe" say the nations of the EU prior to 1999. Its also worth pointing out that the scandinavian nations which have the highest tax rates and the most "socialist" policies have some of the best GDP/head and standards of living in the world.
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A thoughtful response, thanks!
i agree, a racist joke can be, (and i'd concede frequently is) a manifestation of racism, but i'd maintain using racial epithet doesn't mean you're racist, your intent and your actions should define that, although in the real world the words we use are an easy shorthand.
I'm not sure it matters if the "other" we're talking about is self selecting or otherwise, we can probably agree that anti semitism is just as bad as strict race-ism even though religion is a matter of choice, and jews can be of any origin and skin tone.
Grey areas, always a pain in the ass!
why yes, it is just humour, a nigger joke is no more racist than one that starts "there's an englishman, an irishman and a scotsman" Racism doesn't lie in the words you use but in the actions you take. Calling someone a nigger, kike, wop, etc etc doesn't make you racist. Not hiring someone because they happen to be black, refusing to allow your jewish daughter to marry a muslim, putting a sign on your hotel that says "no irish" those sort of things are racist. If the word itself is racist then most hip hop should be labeled hate speech, instead we use these words as a crude marker: "if you say x you believe y" isn't a good enough way to deal with whats a very contentious issue.
oh come on, "we only have morality because of god"?
Really?? REALLY??
My incredulity is matched only by my overuse of the question mark.
really? i didnt know we were the only ones who did that! But peter below is right, teachers nowadays put the period in its traditional location.
i see, so business success is a measure of intelligence is it? I'd say its far more a measure of luck, hard work and the number of subsidiaries you have in low/no tax countries. I call shennanigans, there are better signifiers of someones value and knowledge than their net worth. Just kidding, i love Murdoch really, and i NEVER ritually use what he calls newspapers as toilet paper. NEVER
I'd question that environmental degredation is overwhelmingly a problem of the last 100 years, there are plenty of examples from the 1800's onwards - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4239182,00.html Space colonies obviously arent the answer to overpopulation or pollution, but they do solve the "big rock with our name on it" problem thats coming our way sometime.
C'mon man . . . you remember ikea knightly, but you forget orlando bland?? For a thoroughly impartial (if kermodian) review of verbinski's back catalogue with no anger or vitriol or anything have a look at the bbc's radio five website film reviews. The very best in wittertainment. http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml
In many parts of the world, the people cry out "revolution, revolution" . . . yeah well in tenessee they screaming "evolution, evolution . . . we want our opposable thumbs" I mean thats gotta really brown them off cos they see people with tumbs everyday. All bow down in praise of Hicks, a shining light amongst commedians.
Seems the service you get depends on the product you buy and the people you speak to . . . the people posting with problems mostly have issues with computers and are going through telephone support rather than going to apple stores. For my two pence the support i've had for ipod problems ranks as the best i've ever had for any product ever. Twice now i've gone along to a UK apple store with stuffed up harddrives and non functioning ipods, both times out of warranty, once by a couple of months, once by the best part of half a year. I shared a couple of "i hate helpdesk" stories with the guys at the genius bar and no questions asked they just gave me refurb iPods both times, no charge. I nearly fell off the stool i was sitting on! The reciept they gave me as a warrenty was for nearly £200 each time. This kind of customer service has earnt apple a bundle of great word of mouth advertising from me and been instumental in my dad's business switching.
Difference here is that people pay cash for the sun which employs professional reporters, thus we should be able to expect proper fact checking. Slashdot is a free resource (to most i guess) written by its users. While professionalism here is nice to see and not infrequent it should not be expected. Oh, and the sun sucks, its the mouthpiece of people trying to pedestrianise ambition, entertain rather than inform ,promote boy bands, drunken thuggery and god damm soccer (the most boring sport in the world except baseball) and generally lower the tone of this sceptered isle ... ban it NOW
but then i think everybody should be forced to read the guardian so perhaps i'm really no better
Indeed, RUF is classed as an auto manufacturer not a tuner in their home country of germany.
Sweet motors too - 600BHP narrow body 911's and in the 80's i think one held the production lap record at the nurburgring.
As for EA exclusively licensing porsche cars, i'm not so sure, as they definately appear in project gotham racing 1 & 2. Pehaps EA have PS2 exclusivity?
Ahem . . . Ludicrous = laughable or hilarious because of obvious absurdity. Ludacris = dodgy yank MC. If you insist on being a pedent perhaps you might want to check things first
Hurrah bring back the short CD - an album shouldn't be longer than 11 or so songs and 45 mins. When was the last time you heard an 80 min album that didnt have @ least 4 filler tracks on it? And while we're on the subject why are singles now all around 4-5 min? bring back beatles esque 3minute pop perfection.
as harrison ford put it, "george, you write this shit but you sure can't speak it". Shout it high from the roof-tops brother. I've been trying vainly to make this point to loads of people since Phantom Menace came out. Star wars are the best disengage brain movies in the world ever and i love them for it. Judge the prequels the same way you did the origonals and you go away happy. I had a similar thing with starship troopers - hated the film first time around, i'd just read the book and was so disappointed at how dumb Verhoven played it. Then i watched it pissed and loved it - still do. Now i justify liking it by painting it as a comment on (not just) the USA's gung-ho nature - but its still for the most part dumb-ass / kick-ass action movie
i really like the idea of a joe average operating system, but you're missing the piont. joe average doesnt want a joe average operating system he wants a joe average computer, and counldnt give a monkeys how it works, so long as it does. computers are tools nothing more. Microsoft products offer people a perfectly adequate out of the box solution that beyond pressing the windows update button they need not think about until the time comes to retire their PC. Open source is meaningless to the average joe because they neither want nor need to access source code. telling they why they want open source and why its can be better - the whole cathedral and bazzar arguement - isn't in my experience goiong to get you very far. If you tell them that its free and works better than microsoft they might be interensted, but nobody likes change. think of lusers as a third world country, and then start thinking about what technology is appropriate, not the coolest or the best.
The megadrive was the european/japanese genesis. very much the same thing, unless you mean something entirely diffrent . . .
Now, given that you probably don't even know what a derivative is, let alone how to take the derivative of a super-complicated function like e^x, I'm not going to bother to explain to you that calculus is central to *any* economics, engineering, science or even political science degree. three years of a PPE degree and . . . nope didn't use excel ONCE to perform statistical analysis - in my admittedly narrow experience of using stats dedicated stats tools were always used, by the staff as well as the students. But this might have been because the university was too tight to buy new copies of excel that looked all pretty, shiny and new. if open office will more than do the trick for most microsoft office users, clearly being good enough, isnt good enough.