The parable of the Good Samaritan is a non-specific tragedy that Jesus told to make a point about an event that probably never happened in those exact details but whose basic jist was realistic and poignant.
From a theological and historical perspective, the story of Jesus is not new even to Christians or Jews, since his coming was foretold by Jewish prophets hundreds and thousands of years beforehand (which he cited periodically).
These stories were well-distributed and told commonly so I've never seen it as strange that anyone else would tell similar ones.
And yet its a common attitude. I think it comes from a basic belief that the laws are not in fact just or right.
For example, why avoid speeding if you can afford the tickets? Quite a few people will speed despite the possible penalty knowing they can afford a small speeding ticket. Why? Because they don't honestly believe the speed they're travelling at is unsafe (and in many places I've been, the speed limits are ludicrously low for the roads in question).
I'm already there -- we do not travel to the USA anymore. Period.
I live up here in that free country we call Canada. I refuse to sign over enough rights to be in a movie about 1970's Russia to visit an otherwise fine country.
Statistically we live in a world where the vast majority of the population falls right around the 'average' mark, a few people are geniuses and a few are really stupid. There is a significant but not large percentage above average and below genius.
If I had to guess from the numbers I've seen, well over 50% of the population really is approximately of average intelligence.
Having just beaten the main campaign in Resistance 2 (PS3), I had to look up ESRB's summary of the game:
Platform: PlayStation 3
Rating: Mature
Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
Rating summary: Resistance 2 is a first-person shooter set in an alternate 1950's environment where the Earth has been overrun by aliens. Players must shoot their way through hordes of aliens, large-scale bosses and sometimes robots, using a variety of guns and grenades. Aliens and humans get blown up, torn apart, shot, impaled and killed in gushes of red blood and body parts. During cutscenes, team members are killed by aliens, and in one instance, executed by another character. Characters use strong profanity (e.g., "f*ck" and "sh*t") during gameplay and cutscenes.
Yeah, its fun. Loads of fun. Working my way through it for the second time and thoroughly enjoying the online 8 player co-op campaign too.
Just wait, and we'll get games that are as buggy as a Ford truck and they'll start charging me the value of a virtual 'transmission' to get my patch updates.
As an AC responded already, if they have recurring costs, they should be passing these along to the consumer or requiring unique keys to access them.
I can sell my copy of Neverwinter Nights, but if I continue to use the CD keys while someone else does, they're disabled and I lose online access in the game.
You want to transfer rights, you stop using the keys, no additional costs, very simple.
Indeed, this is very clear in most places that I've looked (here in Canada too). Software developers have forgotten they're selling a product and think they're selling licenses. Courts disagree, and Microsoft still tries to bully you into not selling your copy of Windows on EBay.
Whether or not the mutations result in viable carriers of those mutations does not change the nature of the mutations.
Your attempt to exclude some of the mutations from the pool, thereby resulting in mutations being something less than random is not valid.
The mutations may or may not result in a viable organism which may or may not be able to pass on its genetic make-up, but this has nothing to do with the randomness of the mutations themselves.
Over the long term of course, the result is that only viable mutations result in more contributed mutations and non-viable branches instantly or slowly die off or become non-primary, which is not of course like a bag of watch parts resulting in a watch.
Doctrine of first sale still applies to other properties that can be purchased and re-sold, despite the fact that authors make no money off sales of used books, nor Ford off sales of used cars and trucks.
Its like the music industries attitude problem has somehow infiltrated the thinking of other digital organizations worldwide.
Harry Potter will have had way more readers than it had sales (probably more than twice as many) before accounting for privacy at all.
I don't use fmt on a regular basis, but I know that "fold -s -w72" will break on whitespace at 72 columns, thus preserving words, without otherwise modifying layout.
I see no valid difference from a security or usability perspective between using an OBJECT tag or Flash for showing videos. Both require a third party embedded object on the website. One is very heavily used and therefore probably slightly more well-audited for bugs.
I've always found it entertaining as an outsider how much emphasis Americans can put on personal freedoms, especially freedom of thought and belief, and then be so quick to label specific types of thinking as dangerous and needing of expulsion.
Doing battle to save your people from an idea is the enforcement of some other idea on them. You aren't truly free unless Americans are free to elect a communist government. The fact that they vote against such a thing is democracy; stifling it by government force is censorship.
I'm from Canada too, and I'd like you to go do some homework on the force of our military. While we could use some new equipment still (and the current government has done a lot in that regard despite being in minority), we have the ability to deploy very well-trained troops very rapidly for a wide variety of conflict types.
It gives you great insight into the workings of someone's mind when they think requiring this amount of community service is akin to slavery, both in their inability to understand the role of school in society as well as of the significance of real slavery.
The school system isn't making kids stamp license plates or cut down trees or fill reactor rods here, this is community service chosen by the youth in school. They may decide to help out at a boys & girls club of some form, or do some reading to seniors at a hospital, or whatever tickles their fancy.
I think a lot of previous generations would be better off if they had more exposure to being engaged in this way.
Like many other things in life, a lot of people never realize how they can help in society without being shown first. Requiring a minimum of basic community service is just the exposure someone might require before deciding to spend the rest of their lives involved in community or deciding never to do it again.
Its like being forced to learn basic geography and history. Lots of kids hate that too, geez, why don't we take math out of school; people should want to do math voluntarily too.
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is a non-specific tragedy that Jesus told to make a point about an event that probably never happened in those exact details but whose basic jist was realistic and poignant.
From a theological and historical perspective, the story of Jesus is not new even to Christians or Jews, since his coming was foretold by Jewish prophets hundreds and thousands of years beforehand (which he cited periodically).
These stories were well-distributed and told commonly so I've never seen it as strange that anyone else would tell similar ones.
Its funny because its true :)
Someone call Cleese, I want to see this sketch series.
And yet its a common attitude. I think it comes from a basic belief that the laws are not in fact just or right.
For example, why avoid speeding if you can afford the tickets? Quite a few people will speed despite the possible penalty knowing they can afford a small speeding ticket. Why? Because they don't honestly believe the speed they're travelling at is unsafe (and in many places I've been, the speed limits are ludicrously low for the roads in question).
It should be noted that several places (including Miami I believe) now forbid high-speed police chases for the sake of public safety.
I believe its the right move, and the police should be more aware of the double-standard citizens often observe about police behaviour.
I'm already there -- we do not travel to the USA anymore. Period.
I live up here in that free country we call Canada. I refuse to sign over enough rights to be in a movie about 1970's Russia to visit an otherwise fine country.
Those of us with an IQ score only a few points below 140 felt stupid in special classes with those 150+ kids.
Statistically we live in a world where the vast majority of the population falls right around the 'average' mark, a few people are geniuses and a few are really stupid. There is a significant but not large percentage above average and below genius.
If I had to guess from the numbers I've seen, well over 50% of the population really is approximately of average intelligence.
A) You can't read, I made a statement of opinion, not provable fact.
B) You can't test the statement I made until you invent a time machine.
Having just beaten the main campaign in Resistance 2 (PS3), I had to look up ESRB's summary of the game:
Yeah, its fun. Loads of fun. Working my way through it for the second time and thoroughly enjoying the online 8 player co-op campaign too.
Just wait, and we'll get games that are as buggy as a Ford truck and they'll start charging me the value of a virtual 'transmission' to get my patch updates.
As an AC responded already, if they have recurring costs, they should be passing these along to the consumer or requiring unique keys to access them.
I can sell my copy of Neverwinter Nights, but if I continue to use the CD keys while someone else does, they're disabled and I lose online access in the game.
You want to transfer rights, you stop using the keys, no additional costs, very simple.
Indeed, this is very clear in most places that I've looked (here in Canada too). Software developers have forgotten they're selling a product and think they're selling licenses. Courts disagree, and Microsoft still tries to bully you into not selling your copy of Windows on EBay.
Whether or not the mutations result in viable carriers of those mutations does not change the nature of the mutations.
Your attempt to exclude some of the mutations from the pool, thereby resulting in mutations being something less than random is not valid.
The mutations may or may not result in a viable organism which may or may not be able to pass on its genetic make-up, but this has nothing to do with the randomness of the mutations themselves.
Over the long term of course, the result is that only viable mutations result in more contributed mutations and non-viable branches instantly or slowly die off or become non-primary, which is not of course like a bag of watch parts resulting in a watch.
I was waiting for someone to bring up Blackbox -- it and Enlightenment were my two addictions for years.
I'm often sure that all Gnome needs to do is lock menus and icons into memory so they don't get swapped out; when my memory's low, my menus are slow.
If we're operating a user-centric UI then the UI should be responsive at all times.
Doctrine of first sale still applies to other properties that can be purchased and re-sold, despite the fact that authors make no money off sales of used books, nor Ford off sales of used cars and trucks.
Its like the music industries attitude problem has somehow infiltrated the thinking of other digital organizations worldwide.
Harry Potter will have had way more readers than it had sales (probably more than twice as many) before accounting for privacy at all.
"Get over it" comes to mind.
I don't use fmt on a regular basis, but I know that "fold -s -w72" will break on whitespace at 72 columns, thus preserving words, without otherwise modifying layout.
You're obviously illiterate. Nothing in what I said made claims of provable fact. Have a nice day arguing random non-existent points.
Its called a Red Herring.
I see no valid difference from a security or usability perspective between using an OBJECT tag or Flash for showing videos. Both require a third party embedded object on the website. One is very heavily used and therefore probably slightly more well-audited for bugs.
Its funny, I thought "we can do it!" meant the American people, not the government.
I've always found it entertaining as an outsider how much emphasis Americans can put on personal freedoms, especially freedom of thought and belief, and then be so quick to label specific types of thinking as dangerous and needing of expulsion.
Doing battle to save your people from an idea is the enforcement of some other idea on them. You aren't truly free unless Americans are free to elect a communist government. The fact that they vote against such a thing is democracy; stifling it by government force is censorship.
I'm from Canada too, and I'd like you to go do some homework on the force of our military. While we could use some new equipment still (and the current government has done a lot in that regard despite being in minority), we have the ability to deploy very well-trained troops very rapidly for a wide variety of conflict types.
It gives you great insight into the workings of someone's mind when they think requiring this amount of community service is akin to slavery, both in their inability to understand the role of school in society as well as of the significance of real slavery.
The school system isn't making kids stamp license plates or cut down trees or fill reactor rods here, this is community service chosen by the youth in school. They may decide to help out at a boys & girls club of some form, or do some reading to seniors at a hospital, or whatever tickles their fancy.
I think a lot of previous generations would be better off if they had more exposure to being engaged in this way.
Like many other things in life, a lot of people never realize how they can help in society without being shown first. Requiring a minimum of basic community service is just the exposure someone might require before deciding to spend the rest of their lives involved in community or deciding never to do it again.
Its like being forced to learn basic geography and history. Lots of kids hate that too, geez, why don't we take math out of school; people should want to do math voluntarily too.
Canada's closer.