Why are you only looking at the short-term and completely ignoring the long term benefits???
i.e. Someone eating fast-food crap, daily, is only compounding their health problems down the road.
Investing into your health, is exactly that, an investment into yourself.
-- Pay-to-Win (P2), noun, (video) games where any multiplayer non-cosmetic content is available for purchase using Real-Life currency. Examples include Hearthstone, Clash of Clans, Dungeon Keeper, Maple Story , World of Tanks, Warframe, anything developed/published by Zynga.
> what does knowing who came up with it accomplish?
If someone at M$, the FBI, or Never-A-Straight-Answer had invented it then it would be looked at as extremely suspicious and an alternatively would have extremely high motivation.
But you're right -- it is probably over-reacting.
Why is knowing who invented the wheel important? It isn't.
> it was better than Slashdot and had features that Slashdot still doesn't have.
Agreed, aside from the hard-to-type domain name.
One of my favorite Kuro5hin articles was this one:
Macaulay on dangers of Copyright in 1841
"The easiest form of parochialism to fall into is to assume that we are smarter than the past generations, that our thinking is necessarily more sophisticated. This may be true in science and technology, but not necessarily so in wisdom."
> True Christian vs non true Christian is arguing semantics.
Incorrect.
1. Claiming I'm the pope doesn't make me one. Hijacking a term by some people doesn't make the claim magically valid.
2. The **only** true Christian was Yeshua. He specifically said that "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." and "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."
Clearly we have a group of followers who aren't true Christians.
3. Where specifically did Jesus preach about masturbation being sinful or hating gays?
Wherespecifically is masturbation proclaimed in Genesis or Leviticus as being sin??
The story in Genesis 38:8-10 is not about masturbation but about a man fulfilling his legal duty to carry on the family's name and refusing to do that.
8 Then Judah told Onan, âoeGo in to your brotherâ(TM)s widow, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law [under the levirate marriage custom]; [be her husband and] raise children for [the name of] your brother.â 9 Onan knew that the child (heir) would not be his [but his dead brotherâ(TM)s]; so whenever he lay with his brotherâ(TM)s widow, he spilled his seed on the ground [to prevent conception], so that he would not give a child to his brother. 10 But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; therefore He killed him also [in judgment].
1, Neither of those verses say anything about masturbation.
2. You're quoting a book written by men who (allegedly) claimed they were listing to god. Neither of those 2 verses are proof about a man in the sky saying those things.
This shenanigans of modern science having a whitepaper behind a paywall with _no ability_ to reproduce the data, let alone look at it to verify the initial analysis was correct is total bullshit and the complete antithesis of what Science is all about.
Science was the first open source philosophy; namely to share questions, data, and results for the benefit of everyone; not sell them off to the highest bidder all in the name of greed / capitalism. This modern behavior is a complete perversion of Science, Knowledge, and Truth.
-- Cult, noun; a myopic belief held by a group that their "way" is the only way. Examples include stupid justice whiners, fundamental theists, fundamental atheists, pseduoskeptics such as Randi, etc.
Because's Microsoft didn't try to pull this upgrade ad shit with Windows XP, WIndows 7, or Windows 8 -- it wasn't until Windows 10 that they started spamming everyone.
The blames lies with both parties:
* Microsoft for spamming ads * Anyone dumb enough to use Windows 10
/sarcasm Obviously, we should listen to some random dude off the internet who claims an astronomer is wrong because clearly some random dude has years of experience, and published papers demonstrating that knowledge. Oh wait, he doesn't !
Gee, if only we had a name for a person pretending they know more then a credited and published scientist... Oh wait we do.
An idiot.
> The scientific community has long moved past nonsense like the electric universe.
[[Citation]]
-- "Better to remain silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
> Random guy on Internet claims physicists are wrong,
Riiiight, because you know more then Halton C. Arp, a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, was Edwin Hubble's assistant, and that you've personally verified he made mistake in every object documented in his "Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies", right?
Stupid justice whiners are ignorant of a few things:
* Why are they disrespectful to everyone who doesn't kowtow to their ideology? * Why are they so insecure that someone has a different opinion? * ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, * When opinions are so homogenized that it leads to cargo cult science you effectively have created reverse discrimination -- the very definition of intolerance, * How the fuck is incorrect information supposed to be corrected with factual information, since by definition that could be seen as 'dissenting opinion' ?
When speech has to resort to censorship, you've already "lost." All that has changed is you've changed _what_ is being censored. How about growing the fuck up and stop being so insecure that you feel the need to impose _your_ values on every else who disagrees with your narrow-minded myopic perspective? True freedom in speech is respecting everyone's opinion even if it disagree with yours. America was founded upon the ideology of I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it.
Not everyone shares the same opinion, and that's OK. When individuality is marginalized then you have become the very thing you originally fighting against.
-- Cult, noun, A belief system that "Our way is the only way". Modern common examples include: Stupid Justice Whiners, Fundamental Atheism, Fundamental Theism, etc.
> All housing, even privately owned housing, has rules attached to it. I can't dig a big ass moat around my property, nor can I build a five hundred foot tower.
HINT: If you ask for permission for something you think you "own", then you don't own it.
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That's a good point.
Technically fire isn't "gadget", but I guess "torch" qualifies. :-)
Agreed. The 4 most influential gadgets have been:
* Wheel
* Gun
* Printing Press
* Computer
How would one even begin to quantify "how much" influence they have had though??
Interesting and inspiring story, but over in America no one really gives a fuck about street vendors (unless you are annoyed by them.)
Why are you only looking at the short-term and completely ignoring the long term benefits???
i.e. Someone eating fast-food crap, daily, is only compounding their health problems down the road.
Investing into your health, is exactly that, an investment into yourself.
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Pay-to-Win (P2), noun, (video) games where any multiplayer non-cosmetic content is available for purchase using Real-Life currency. Examples include Hearthstone, Clash of Clans, Dungeon Keeper, Maple Story , World of Tanks, Warframe, anything developed/published by Zynga.
Focusing on the messenger and ignoring the message doesn't make it any less valid.
i.e.
Why the fucks was TPP signed in secret in the first place??
> A single judge is for all intents & purposes above the law.
You keep using this word judge. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
A judge doesn't make the law; the judge enforces the law, based on their interpretation of the spirit vs the letter.
> There is no (effective) law that constrains the orders of a single judge.
Uh, Hello McFly. The constitution. Federal Law and State Law.
A judge just can't make up an illegal orders -- the courts MUST follow due process
> and he should be in prison for it.
So jail the whistleblower ... and do what again with the other government officials that broke the law ??
> Why is any part of a multi national trade deal classified information ?
The answer to that is classified. :-)
You mean you don't trust a government where the FBI director wants expanded law enforcement access to encrypted data but yet still has the gall to make laws in secret?
What are you? A commie for pointing out the government officials are hypocrites? :-)
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First Contact is coming ~2022. Are you ready for a larger perspective?
> what does knowing who came up with it accomplish?
If someone at M$, the FBI, or Never-A-Straight-Answer had invented it then it would be looked at as extremely suspicious and an alternatively would have extremely high motivation.
But you're right -- it is probably over-reacting.
Why is knowing who invented the wheel important? It isn't.
> it was better than Slashdot and had features that Slashdot still doesn't have.
Agreed, aside from the hard-to-type domain name.
One of my favorite Kuro5hin articles was this one:
Macaulay on dangers of Copyright in 1841
* http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/...
RIP
> True Christian vs non true Christian is arguing semantics.
Incorrect.
1. Claiming I'm the pope doesn't make me one. Hijacking a term by some people doesn't make the claim magically valid.
2. The **only** true Christian was Yeshua. He specifically said that "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." and "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."
Clearly we have a group of followers who aren't true Christians.
3. Where specifically did Jesus preach about masturbation being sinful or hating gays?
4. **Everything else** is words **by men**.
Where specifically is masturbation proclaimed in Genesis or Leviticus as being sin??
The story in Genesis 38:8-10 is not about masturbation but about a man fulfilling his legal duty to carry on the family's name and refusing to do that.
1, Neither of those verses say anything about masturbation.
2. You're quoting a book written by men who (allegedly) claimed they were listing to god. Neither of those 2 verses are proof about a man in the sky saying those things.
> there's a man in the sky who forbids them to masturbate and tells them to hate gay people.
[[Citation]]
> It does provide a nice example of the worst possible way to define a front page to a website.
Agreed. Guess it is the classic case of over-engineered. Jack of all trades, master of none.
Agree 100%.
This shenanigans of modern science having a whitepaper behind a paywall with _no ability_ to reproduce the data, let alone look at it to verify the initial analysis was correct is total bullshit and the complete antithesis of what Science is all about.
Science was the first open source philosophy; namely to share questions, data, and results for the benefit of everyone; not sell them off to the highest bidder all in the name of greed / capitalism. This modern behavior is a complete perversion of Science, Knowledge, and Truth.
--
Cult, noun; a myopic belief held by a group that their "way" is the only way. Examples include stupid justice whiners, fundamental theists, fundamental atheists, pseduoskeptics such as Randi, etc.
I guess everyone needs a hobby, but yup, that would be funny to see! :-)
Because's Microsoft didn't try to pull this upgrade ad shit with Windows XP, WIndows 7, or Windows 8 -- it wasn't until Windows 10 that they started spamming everyone.
The blames lies with both parties:
* Microsoft for spamming ads
* Anyone dumb enough to use Windows 10
/sarcasm Obviously, we should listen to some random dude off the internet who claims an astronomer is wrong because clearly some random dude has years of experience, and published papers demonstrating that knowledge. Oh wait, he doesn't !
Gee, if only we had a name for a person pretending they know more then a credited and published scientist ... Oh wait we do.
An idiot.
> The scientific community has long moved past nonsense like the electric universe.
[[Citation]]
--
"Better to remain silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
> Random guy on Internet claims physicists are wrong,
Riiiight, because you know more then Halton C. Arp, a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, was Edwin Hubble's assistant, and that you've personally verified he made mistake in every object documented in his "Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies", right?
And you're published papers are where again?
Why block on a file per device when you could just block at the router instead?
> Software is pathetically easy to steal.
You keep using this word "steal". It doesn't mean what you think it means.
When you steal something you deprive the original owner the ability to use it.
When you "illegally copy" something the original owner _still_ has the ability to use it, if just means you've also gained the ability to use it.
Stop hijacking words in an attempt to redefine them, all you've done is fallen for the propaganda of the delusion of ownership of numbers.
That's a good summary!
Stupid justice whiners are ignorant of a few things:
* Why are they disrespectful to everyone who doesn't kowtow to their ideology?
* Why are they so insecure that someone has a different opinion?
* ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away,
* When opinions are so homogenized that it leads to cargo cult science you effectively have created reverse discrimination -- the very definition of intolerance,
* How the fuck is incorrect information supposed to be corrected with factual information, since by definition that could be seen as 'dissenting opinion' ?
When speech has to resort to censorship, you've already "lost." All that has changed is you've changed _what_ is being censored. How about growing the fuck up and stop being so insecure that you feel the need to impose _your_ values on every else who disagrees with your narrow-minded myopic perspective? True freedom in speech is respecting everyone's opinion even if it disagree with yours. America was founded upon the ideology of I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it.
Not everyone shares the same opinion, and that's OK. When individuality is marginalized then you have become the very thing you originally fighting against.
--
Cult, noun, A belief system that "Our way is the only way". Modern common examples include: Stupid Justice Whiners, Fundamental Atheism, Fundamental Theism, etc.
That's a great video.
Another great read is What Has Government Done to Our Money?
> All housing, even privately owned housing, has rules attached to it. I can't dig a big ass moat around my property, nor can I build a five hundred foot tower.
HINT: If you ask for permission for something you think you "own", then you don't own it.
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