Well, worse than Israel, that's for sure. Israel has legitimate security concerns, most of which, by the way, stem from Russian geo-political policies rather than from any of their own doing. It was Russia that goaded Egypt into wars with Israel. It was Russia that built both of Iran's nuclear reactors. It was Russia that supplied Syria with tanks that almost over-ran Israel. I don't recall Israel supplying half of Russia's neighbors with weapons to attack Israel, so I am pretty sure Israel has a higher moral ground in this one.
What exactly? US government putting on payrolls people who would troll the net trashing a particular country in order to benefit election outcomes of a political party in the US? Well, there is any number of laws which this would break in the US.
Someone got hold of the emails which actually connected Russia and China to the AGW proponents, the circle would be complete. But, in general, I am anything but surprised.
The "market" price is the price at which it last sold. But it's not guaranteed to be available to sell at that price again. We DO have mark-to-market taxation on zero coupon bonds. But that's because a bond is a legal contract that someone has guaranteed to repay. A common stock share give no legal guarantees. So it would be patently unfair to tax it until it's sold.
If Palestinian Arabs are "mud people" as you put it, then why didn't they populate that region over the centuries that they lived there? Any chance that it is because there were no resources to sustain a larger population? Any chance that because of Israel more resources for sustaining life are now available to Arabs who live in Israel? And if so, then how does that amount to Israel "exterminating Palestinians"? Wouldn't part of exterminating, at least, require to not increase the amount of life-sustaining resources?
Ah... so Hindus in muslim-dominated Pakistan enjoy job reservations and have political parties out to appease them?
Not sure why this is relevant. I wasn't making any statements about Islam. I was making a statement about Hinduism. The original statement to which I replied tried to paint Hinduism as much more pacifist than it really is in practice. I am not saying that Islam is better or worse in comparison. But I am saying and, I stand by that statement, that Hindus preserve status quo through a threat of explosive violence. I am not saying it's uncalled for. I am just saying that it is what it is.
Unknown is not as rich a concept as a variable. Oh, and you should research Greeks more. You are giving them credit for works based on their works, which is to say for knowledge they didn't have.
Lawyers are still called solicitors in England. England makes a distinction between barristers (lawyer who argue points of law before the court) and solicitors (lawyers who have the power of attorney to represent a person's interests in legal matters). The distinction is not as strong as it once was, but its existence is there to allow specialization of different functions that lawyers perform. In US bar membership allows a lawyer to practice both aspects of the law; while in England these two legal professions have their own separate licenses.
It's not a matter of absolutes. It's a matter of proportions. Christians are treated with mild suspicion in the US because the pro-life movement, supported largely by Christian dogma, has at times proven to be violent. But the practice of Islam has proven to be violent on much more occasions. So it elicits more suspicion. You can try arguing that the amount of suspicion is overblown, but you can't make the argument that it has no justifiable root causes.
Oh, don't sell Europe short. It's been casual participant in slaughtering of innocent Jews since before Christ. But to your larger point, the way to tell truly offensive from that which simply pinches some egos is that truly offensive ignores history of mass murder. This is why it's in poor taste to mock Holocaust, lynchings, Armenian genocide, etc.
Save for some lunatic fringe groups, hindus in general,
Umm, that's a view very favorable to hindus and very bias. The only reason Islam hasn't spread through violence in India is that hindus are equally prone to violence to preserve status quo religious affiliation. When you hear of religious riots in India, the muslims' death toll is often in hundreds.
This is absolutely false. Pythagorean Theorem is a good way to demonstrate this point. It was stated in terms of areas of squares on the sides of a right triangle. This is because they had no concept of a variable. If they had the concept of a variable, they would have talked about the product of a variable by itself. Instead they talked about areas as a mathematically undefinable concept -- something akin to space enclosed by a closed perimeter. Geometry (Euclidean) was developed in Greece, and had they had algebra, they would been able to develop De Cartes' "Cartesian" geometry.
And just as importantly, why does God <longpause></longpause> need a spaceship?
This has been an allusion to the worst Star Trek movie ever. If this was an allusion to a better Star Trek movie, you wouldn't have that look on your face right now.
lawyers provide advice and speak on your behalf in defending your rights under the law. That's all they do.
Oh? So the verb "advocacy" derived from the noun synonym for a lawyer, "advocate", never describes the professional behavior of lawyers? They never advocate for bad causes in order to benefit financially? Sure, other professions might do it as well, but lawyers are the ones who formally do it.
Your problem is with your legislature, a corrupt shower of bastards voted in by an ignorant population.
Pure nonsense. The legislature has been stripped of virtually all power at this point. You'd be hard pressed to name a legislative power which the executive branch has not also claimed for itself.
I have provided an explanation for why the conditions are as bad as they are. You just keep dismissing it. They were worse. They improved. They haven't improved to the point of being acceptable to your standards. But since we are talking about a choice of alternatives, the alternatives for these workers are previous conditions which existed before Foxconn or current conditions which exist under Foxconn. If the latter conditions are better, then why would you argue for the former? Do workers have to work in these factories? No. Did Africans line up to be taken on slave ships to plantations? No. Does the comparison to slavery not hold up because working in these factories is a choice? No, it doesn't hold up. Stop trying to use "you are employing poor people" as an argument for making someone evil. Employment is not slavery. Human beings are not trained monkeys. Foxconn workers don't work on a chain gang. As for being awoken in the middle of the night because of a production emergency, I am sure plenty of IT workers in the US have had the same experience.
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Umm... cute. I assume you are trying to imply that you forgot to substitute the values of the macros in that post?
PR stunt #37: assume the position opposite of the one you promote and make sure you sound extremely stupid when you defend it.
Well, worse than Israel, that's for sure. Israel has legitimate security concerns, most of which, by the way, stem from Russian geo-political policies rather than from any of their own doing. It was Russia that goaded Egypt into wars with Israel. It was Russia that built both of Iran's nuclear reactors. It was Russia that supplied Syria with tanks that almost over-ran Israel. I don't recall Israel supplying half of Russia's neighbors with weapons to attack Israel, so I am pretty sure Israel has a higher moral ground in this one.
What exactly? US government putting on payrolls people who would troll the net trashing a particular country in order to benefit election outcomes of a political party in the US? Well, there is any number of laws which this would break in the US.
Someone got hold of the emails which actually connected Russia and China to the AGW proponents, the circle would be complete. But, in general, I am anything but surprised.
The "market" price is the price at which it last sold. But it's not guaranteed to be available to sell at that price again. We DO have mark-to-market taxation on zero coupon bonds. But that's because a bond is a legal contract that someone has guaranteed to repay. A common stock share give no legal guarantees. So it would be patently unfair to tax it until it's sold.
If Palestinian Arabs are "mud people" as you put it, then why didn't they populate that region over the centuries that they lived there? Any chance that it is because there were no resources to sustain a larger population? Any chance that because of Israel more resources for sustaining life are now available to Arabs who live in Israel? And if so, then how does that amount to Israel "exterminating Palestinians"? Wouldn't part of exterminating, at least, require to not increase the amount of life-sustaining resources?
Ah... so Hindus in muslim-dominated Pakistan enjoy job reservations and have political parties out to appease them?
Not sure why this is relevant. I wasn't making any statements about Islam. I was making a statement about Hinduism. The original statement to which I replied tried to paint Hinduism as much more pacifist than it really is in practice. I am not saying that Islam is better or worse in comparison. But I am saying and, I stand by that statement, that Hindus preserve status quo through a threat of explosive violence. I am not saying it's uncalled for. I am just saying that it is what it is.
Unknown is not as rich a concept as a variable. Oh, and you should research Greeks more. You are giving them credit for works based on their works, which is to say for knowledge they didn't have.
Donald Knuth, a name that should be familiar on Slashdot, is another one.
Lawyers are still called solicitors in England. England makes a distinction between barristers (lawyer who argue points of law before the court) and solicitors (lawyers who have the power of attorney to represent a person's interests in legal matters). The distinction is not as strong as it once was, but its existence is there to allow specialization of different functions that lawyers perform. In US bar membership allows a lawyer to practice both aspects of the law; while in England these two legal professions have their own separate licenses.
Every time bigotry was stopped?
It's not a matter of absolutes. It's a matter of proportions. Christians are treated with mild suspicion in the US because the pro-life movement, supported largely by Christian dogma, has at times proven to be violent. But the practice of Islam has proven to be violent on much more occasions. So it elicits more suspicion. You can try arguing that the amount of suspicion is overblown, but you can't make the argument that it has no justifiable root causes.
Israel has been exterminating Palestinians since 1948
Why, then, are there more Arab citizens of Israel today then the entire Arab population of Palestine in 1948?
Oh, don't sell Europe short. It's been casual participant in slaughtering of innocent Jews since before Christ. But to your larger point, the way to tell truly offensive from that which simply pinches some egos is that truly offensive ignores history of mass murder. This is why it's in poor taste to mock Holocaust, lynchings, Armenian genocide, etc.
Save for some lunatic fringe groups, hindus in general,
Umm, that's a view very favorable to hindus and very bias. The only reason Islam hasn't spread through violence in India is that hindus are equally prone to violence to preserve status quo religious affiliation. When you hear of religious riots in India, the muslims' death toll is often in hundreds.
This is absolutely false. Pythagorean Theorem is a good way to demonstrate this point. It was stated in terms of areas of squares on the sides of a right triangle. This is because they had no concept of a variable. If they had the concept of a variable, they would have talked about the product of a variable by itself. Instead they talked about areas as a mathematically undefinable concept -- something akin to space enclosed by a closed perimeter. Geometry (Euclidean) was developed in Greece, and had they had algebra, they would been able to develop De Cartes' "Cartesian" geometry.
Yes, but Islamic world didn't discover it through the practice of religion. It developed algebra to assist in keeping trade records.
And just as importantly, why does God <longpause></longpause> need a spaceship?
This has been an allusion to the worst Star Trek movie ever. If this was an allusion to a better Star Trek movie, you wouldn't have that look on your face right now.
lawyers provide advice and speak on your behalf in defending your rights under the law. That's all they do.
Oh? So the verb "advocacy" derived from the noun synonym for a lawyer, "advocate", never describes the professional behavior of lawyers? They never advocate for bad causes in order to benefit financially? Sure, other professions might do it as well, but lawyers are the ones who formally do it.
Your problem is with your legislature, a corrupt shower of bastards voted in by an ignorant population.
Pure nonsense. The legislature has been stripped of virtually all power at this point. You'd be hard pressed to name a legislative power which the executive branch has not also claimed for itself.
I have posted rentals. I am in NYC area. I was never requested to pay a fee.
Oh? News to me. I've advertised rentals there for free plenty of times (albeit not within the last year).
Well, we didn't know the exact cause. Since the disease slowly spreads throughout the brain, one hypothesis was that it was a virus.
Why? This wasn't a discovery of a cure. It was a discovery of the cause. If someone provides a cure, why shouldn't they charge what they want?
I have provided an explanation for why the conditions are as bad as they are. You just keep dismissing it. They were worse. They improved. They haven't improved to the point of being acceptable to your standards. But since we are talking about a choice of alternatives, the alternatives for these workers are previous conditions which existed before Foxconn or current conditions which exist under Foxconn. If the latter conditions are better, then why would you argue for the former? Do workers have to work in these factories? No. Did Africans line up to be taken on slave ships to plantations? No. Does the comparison to slavery not hold up because working in these factories is a choice? No, it doesn't hold up. Stop trying to use "you are employing poor people" as an argument for making someone evil. Employment is not slavery. Human beings are not trained monkeys. Foxconn workers don't work on a chain gang. As for being awoken in the middle of the night because of a production emergency, I am sure plenty of IT workers in the US have had the same experience.