For some reason after a Christian zealot beheaded his roommate in Stillwater, I never heard my pastor denouce that kind of violence perpeuated in Christianity's name.
I'm guessing your pastor will denounce that kind of violence if he learns significant amount of his congregation thought killing a man for practicing witchcraft was acceptable.
Oh please... your poor attempt at mocking Republicans because of sterotypes driven mostly by the liberal media is pathetic. Democrats have their own large mass of uneducated or anti-science people so what is your point? Does it really impact your life if someone wants to view life through the lens of their Christian faith? Why should you insult or mock someone just because you don't agree with them?
It's actually been proven by studies that among all the political orientations, conservative republicans are the most scientifically literate groups.
Knowing that Astrology is not scientific:
Democrat 49%
Independent 53%
Conservative Republican 70%
Knowing that Earth takes a year to revolve around the Sun:
Democrat 49%
Independent 55%
Conservative Republican 67%
So the US has committed acts of war against Germany by tapping their head of state's phone, etc. Or is it only an act of war when it's against US interests?
Germany's top public prosecutor said an investigation into suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone by U.S. spies had so far failed to find any concrete evidence.
On Wednesday he said however, "the document presented in public as proof of an actual tapping of the mobile phone is not an authentic surveillance order by the NSA. It does not come from the NSA database.
"There is no proof at the moment which could lead to charges that Chancellor Merkel's phone connection data was collected or her calls tapped."
Unfortunately, that's not true. Global warming denial is common in many places of the world, especially in the formerly communist countries, middle eastern countries, south asian countries, and anglo countries. The USA has similar levels of global warming denial as Russia, India, the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, and many other places.
Interestingly Japan had the second highest percentage of believers in that study from 2007, but now they have the highest number of skeptics (PDF). I wonder what happened. After that media quickly found out anti-nuclear scaremongering was more effective clickbait than anti-carbon scaremongering.
kakaku.com is a price comparison site and its popularity ranking is based on page views and not sales. It is a testimony to iPhone's popularity in Japan that a product without a need for price comparison still rank that high on price comparison site's list. As for sales number, let's go to the people who actually studies and publish those kind of number:
In Japan, consumers' desire for all things Apple continued into the final quarter of 2013, with iOS taking 68.7% share of smartphone sales.
According to that linked "study", Fox News viewers are stupid because "91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs" and "72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit" and so forth. Such a high percentage of Fox News viewers believe in these obvious falsehood is a proof that Fox News makes you stupid! or so that article claims.
Apparently not buying into White House's propaganda and disagreeing with liberal's worldview make Fox News viewers stupid. At least they weren't accused of being racist.
You obviously didn't RTFA but try to read the summary at least:
Derbyshire has been fired from his position at the conservative National Review magazine (the offending article appeared in a different publication called Taki's Magazine).
As far as I can tell, only thing Apple did was to change the guideline to disallow "Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies" but no actual app has been banned. Considering all checkpoints has to be published publicly, this seem more like a rebuke of senators idiotic demand. So why are slashdot crowds directing their anger toward Apple and not to those stupid senators?
U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are named as senders in the letter
Actual sales numbers are rather more useful than customers' desires as a way of measuring market share.
Huh? Whether Apple is the "most wanted brand" of smartphones or not is the point of contention here. Sales numbers being useful for measuring of market share is neither here nor there.
Given the data, it doesn't appear that Apple is even close to the "most wanted" brand of smartphone, let alone phones in general.
Apples status = Told.
Instead of inferring customer's desire from current market share numbers, wouldn't it be more accurate to survey them directly about which smartphone they would want to buy? And somebody helpfully did:
Apple Inc.'s iPhone is the most desired device among users shopping for smartphones, beating the BlackBerry and Google Inc.'s Android as consumers prepare for the holiday season, according to Nielsen Co.
In a survey of U.S. shoppers looking for a smartphone, 30 percent said they wanted to buy an iPhone, according to a Nielsen survey from August through October. Phones running Google's Android software placed second with 28 percent.
Do Americans know that no one else in the world does this? Not in Europe, not in Asia. They sell you the service and you use it how you want.
I'm surprised sophisticated cosmopolitan such as yourself are not aware of Japan not even allowing tethering on iPhone (or iPad) and throttling uplink at 64kbps while promoting 1.4Mbps uplink.
Even then, "Windows" is more of a creative name than "Window System." If they had called it "Window System" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
Even then, "App Store" is more of a creative name than "Application Store." If they had called it "Application Store" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
While seeing word like 'fujoshi' in government study was kind of funny, I had to stop reading it after the author introduced something he calls 'voice actor/actress points variable". It's supposedly calculated from number of threads dedicated to voice actor/actress at 2chan. Seriously, he got to be joking.
Um, I was countering DMiax and other liberals' "OMG! Palin caused the shooting!!" hysteria. 'Inciting the mobs' and 'applaud violence' were the terms used by DMiax and I used in mine to mock him. I was pointing out the hypocrisy in freaking out about politicians using a war terminology when it is a common practice on both sides. Since DMiax mistakenly believed only Republicans use such language, I helpfully pointed out example of Democrats using the same language in a hope to subdue his moral outrage.
And, finally, how many are dead now due to violence from the left?
Hopefully Giffords and others wounded will all make a successful recovery and it won't grow anymore than six.
Yes, hot-heads are everywhere, this is why the leaders should be very careful with words and discourage this instincts. Instead it seems that Palin caters to the worst impulses and gives these guys the idea that she would applaud violence. I do not find a similar behavior in the democratic party, do you?
I am questioning the leaders' behavior. Inciting the mobs is not ethical. Maybe they are careful with rhetorics and could claim that they never said "she/he should be dead" directly, but this is the message they pass to the followers.
Criticizing the government, protesting and even hating is not a problem. Violence and incitement to violence is the problem. I do not know a poster similar to the crosshair one against Bush. Surely not endorsed by a democrat governor (or VP candidate!). Nothing like this either: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2011/1/8/13371/41091/21#c21
1. The USA is a democracy and you hold power by getting most of the voters to vote for you.
2. McDonald's is the largest and most successful restaurant chain in the USA, yet the food is utter crap and kills the customers.
After they put these two facts together, they figured out that if they use mass advertising campaigns and catchy slogans to appeal to emotion with a pack of lies, they can hold power while simultaneously raping and pillage The Middle Class and The Middle Class would thank them and ask for some more. Ya gotta hand it to them, since Reagan started it, they've been remarkably effective while the Democrats have better, more honorable ideas, they are completely ineffective mass communicators.
You do know that President Hopechange isn't a Republican, right?
Would that be before or after the US blows up said country to hell and shoots everyone? Seriously dude, when the fuck has the US ever parked a "hospital ship" or did you get that mixed up with "hostile ship"?
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For some reason after a Christian zealot beheaded his roommate in Stillwater, I never heard my pastor denouce that kind of violence perpeuated in Christianity's name.
I'm guessing your pastor will denounce that kind of violence if he learns significant amount of his congregation thought killing a man for practicing witchcraft was acceptable.
Maybe it has something to do with thing like this: The Cult of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Oh please... your poor attempt at mocking Republicans because of sterotypes driven mostly by the liberal media is pathetic. Democrats have their own large mass of uneducated or anti-science people so what is your point? Does it really impact your life if someone wants to view life through the lens of their Christian faith? Why should you insult or mock someone just because you don't agree with them?
It's actually been proven by studies that among all the political orientations, conservative republicans are the most scientifically literate groups.
Knowing that Astrology is not scientific:
Democrat 49%
Independent 53%
Conservative Republican 70%
Knowing that Earth takes a year to revolve around the Sun:
Democrat 49%
Independent 55%
Conservative Republican 67%
So the US has committed acts of war against Germany by tapping their head of state's phone, etc. Or is it only an act of war when it's against US interests?
That story was a hoax.
No proof so far that NSA bugged Merkel's phone: prosecutor
Germany's top public prosecutor said an investigation into suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone by U.S. spies had so far failed to find any concrete evidence.
On Wednesday he said however, "the document presented in public as proof of an actual tapping of the mobile phone is not an authentic surveillance order by the NSA. It does not come from the NSA database.
"There is no proof at the moment which could lead to charges that Chancellor Merkel's phone connection data was collected or her calls tapped."
Unfortunately, that's not true. Global warming denial is common in many places of the world, especially in the formerly communist countries, middle eastern countries, south asian countries, and anglo countries. The USA has similar levels of global warming denial as Russia, India, the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, and many other places.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Interestingly Japan had the second highest percentage of believers in that study from 2007, but now they have the highest number of skeptics (PDF). I wonder what happened. After that media quickly found out anti-nuclear scaremongering was more effective clickbait than anti-carbon scaremongering.
Android phones far outsell iPhones in Japan. See these charts as just one example http://kakaku.com/keitai/smart...
kakaku.com is a price comparison site and its popularity ranking is based on page views and not sales. It is a testimony to iPhone's popularity in Japan that a product without a need for price comparison still rank that high on price comparison site's list. As for sales number, let's go to the people who actually studies and publish those kind of number:
In Japan, consumers' desire for all things Apple continued into the final quarter of 2013, with iOS taking 68.7% share of smartphone sales.
It's not an accident that the average Fox News fan is less informed than people that don't watch any news at all, it is on purpose.
According to that linked "study", Fox News viewers are stupid because "91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs" and "72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit" and so forth. Such a high percentage of Fox News viewers believe in these obvious falsehood is a proof that Fox News makes you stupid! or so that article claims.
91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs.
Study: stimulus created 450,000 government sector jobs and destroyed 1,000,000 private sector jobs.
72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit.
GAO report: In rosy scenario, where everything goes perfect, it could decrease deficit by $13.25 trillion!!! or it could increase the deficit by $6.2 trillion.
Apparently not buying into White House's propaganda and disagreeing with liberal's worldview make Fox News viewers stupid. At least they weren't accused of being racist.
If you go against the consensus you are anti-science!
Stop wasting her time with facts, she's already made up her mind on those subjects.
A negative story about politician doesn't provide political affiliation of said politician?
It's time to play the classic game of: Name that Party.
Derbyshire has been fired from his position at the conservative National Review magazine (the offending article appeared in a different publication called Taki's Magazine).
The graphic seems to be a crop of actual "content ratings table" found on App World.
You can see it in this article. If you go to app page linked in the article and click on its rating, the aforementioned table does appear.
U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are named as senders in the letter
Oh, of course.
Actual sales numbers are rather more useful than customers' desires as a way of measuring market share.
Huh? Whether Apple is the "most wanted brand" of smartphones or not is the point of contention here. Sales numbers being useful for measuring of market share is neither here nor there.
Given the data, it doesn't appear that Apple is even close to the "most wanted" brand of smartphone, let alone phones in general.
Apples status = Told.
Instead of inferring customer's desire from current market share numbers, wouldn't it be more accurate to survey them directly about which smartphone they would want to buy? And somebody helpfully did:
Apple Inc.'s iPhone is the most desired device among users shopping for smartphones, beating the BlackBerry and Google Inc.'s Android as consumers prepare for the holiday season, according to Nielsen Co.
In a survey of U.S. shoppers looking for a smartphone, 30 percent said they wanted to buy an iPhone, according to a Nielsen survey from August through October. Phones running Google's Android software placed second with 28 percent.
Apples status = Real.
Do Americans know that no one else in the world does this? Not in Europe, not in Asia. They sell you the service and you use it how you want.
I'm surprised sophisticated cosmopolitan such as yourself are not aware of Japan not even allowing tethering on iPhone (or iPad) and throttling uplink at 64kbps while promoting 1.4Mbps uplink.
Even then, "Windows" is more of a creative name than "Window System." If they had called it "Window System" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
Even then, "App Store" is more of a creative name than "Application Store." If they had called it "Application Store" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.
Google Voice still isn't on iPhone.
Then what's this?
While seeing word like 'fujoshi' in government study was kind of funny, I had to stop reading it after the author introduced something he calls 'voice actor/actress points variable". It's supposedly calculated from number of threads dedicated to voice actor/actress at 2chan. Seriously, he got to be joking.
And, finally, how many are dead now due to violence from the left?
Hopefully Giffords and others wounded will all make a successful recovery and it won't grow anymore than six.
Yes, hot-heads are everywhere, this is why the leaders should be very careful with words and discourage this instincts. Instead it seems that Palin caters to the worst impulses and gives these guys the idea that she would applaud violence. I do not find a similar behavior in the democratic party, do you?
I am questioning the leaders' behavior. Inciting the mobs is not ethical. Maybe they are careful with rhetorics and could claim that they never said "she/he should be dead" directly, but this is the message they pass to the followers.
Yeah their presidential candidate applauds violence by saying thing like "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun". Their House candidate incite the mobs by running a campaign ad with his opponent in a crosshair. And most horrifyingly, they make US maps marked with "targets" for their followers to shoot up.
I would have to concede that it would be difficult for me to find Democrats doing similar stuff... oh wait.
Criticizing the government, protesting and even hating is not a problem. Violence and incitement to violence is the problem. I do not know a poster similar to the crosshair one against Bush. Surely not endorsed by a democrat governor (or VP candidate!). Nothing like this either: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2011/1/8/13371/41091/21#c21
Yes, when left protested against Bush it was all very peaceful and civilized.
The Republicans noticed two facts:
1. The USA is a democracy and you hold power by getting most of the voters to vote for you. 2. McDonald's is the largest and most successful restaurant chain in the USA, yet the food is utter crap and kills the customers.
After they put these two facts together, they figured out that if they use mass advertising campaigns and catchy slogans to appeal to emotion with a pack of lies, they can hold power while simultaneously raping and pillage The Middle Class and The Middle Class would thank them and ask for some more. Ya gotta hand it to them, since Reagan started it, they've been remarkably effective while the Democrats have better, more honorable ideas, they are completely ineffective mass communicators.
You do know that President Hopechange isn't a Republican, right?
Didn't wikileaks wiki leak the climategate emails..?
Climategate files were uploaded to Russian FTP server and link to it was provided in a comment on this blog post at Air Vent(comment #10).
Wikileaks had nothing to do with leak in Climategate.
Would that be before or after the US blows up said country to hell and shoots everyone? Seriously dude, when the fuck has the US ever parked a "hospital ship" or did you get that mixed up with "hostile ship"?
No, he meant "hospital ship". And it has been used without US blowing up a country, but you probably think US caused the earthquake to occupy Haiti.