The fact that Communists (who are only a small subset of atheists, and do not represent atheism), or more accurately the tyrannical leaders of tyrannical Communist countries, killed lots of people does not in any way negate what American Evangelicals are doing primarily to America, and also exporting to the rest of the world.
You should perhaps also acquaint yourself with this logical fallacy. Just because Communist dictators and Islamic fundamentalists were and are killing and oppressing lots of people does not somehow magically mean that American Evangelicals are not doing the same, and would not do as bad or worse given the chance.
Also, I am not an atheist. The world is not divided into Evangelicals and Atheists. It is far more complex than your simple-minded little world.
But had my parents or peers been spouting off about taking dominion and winning back America for Christ, I would have been capable of causing a lot of harm. American Evangelical Christianity is toxic. It spreads easily and it expressly encourages mayhem, dishonesty, and brutal tactics when fighting any non-believer. (But otherwise peaceful when all sides are Evangelicals.)
Not to say the school was justified in handcuffing him, but the kid's devotion to Evangelical Christianity (if any) should definitely be taken into consideration when making a threat assessment.
FTFY. Seriously, have you even read anything by people like Pat Robertson, the late Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, and so on? I grew up with Evangelical nutters, and they are just as bad as ISIS. The only reason we're not hearing about people being slaughtered for their beliefs is that they don't run the government. They consider non-believers to be like insects, and if they ran the US government, they would try to have a "Godly fumigation" as Pat Robertson calls it.
"sincere apologies". This is really lacking in our society. Non-apologies with the mitigation discussed alongside the offence to deflect blame are the norm, for some weird reason. This is something children learn to do by instinct, but somehow there are a bunch of adults running around with this attitude. I'm sure it will sound something like "Out of an abundance of caution" and "this young man was unfortunately caught up in etc" Instead of "we fucked up and we're sorry".
The reason for these non-apologies is because, if you do the right thing and admit that you were wrong, you can not only get sued, but you just admitted liability. Welcome to the wonderful world of American jurisprudence!
I like the idea of some religions that there are gods, but they don't generally interact with mankind because we are smelly, coarse savages, filled with anger, lust and stupidity. I think if there is intelligent and technologically advanced life out there, they have more sense than to contact us.
Now, all they need do is swivel-mount it in a rotating head that looks something like an upended bowl, and mount the head on a salt shaker looking base with motorised wheels. If they can include a creepy modulation to the voice, that would be a nice bonus.
Biomass (what you're referring to) only makes up for a very small proportion of energy consumption. It's actually considered to be 'low carbon' because if those plants weren't harvested then they'd decompose on the forest floor anyway, producing CO2. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, mature forests don't act as effective carbon sinks. Only newly-growing forests have the ability to sequester significant amounts of carbon. Burning biomass is only carbon positive if it results from clearing forests and preventing new growth. The time scale of this new growth is measured in decades (i.e. it's in the global carbon cycle already), whereas fossil fuels represent carbon that has been stored up for millions of years (carbon that is being newly introduced into the biosphere).
So long story short, stop making up excuses and face up to reality.
But I'm an American! I don't want to face up to reality, and you can't make me! We'll do whatever we want, and we have the guns to back it up. Oh, and, um, FREEDOM!!!
Bullshit. They have primaries, and a process for putting anybody on the ballot they want. Voters are just lazy and submissive, and antipathic towards each other.
Yes, the primaries, where we get to choose between a small group of pre-vetted candidates, thus giving us the illusion of choice.
Actually, the statute of limitations on some of the charges has expired. There are other more serious charges who's statute of limitations hasn't yet run out.
Indeed. "Pissing off the United States Government" is a charge that will only expire when he does. Perhaps not even then if he has any children.
Explain how locating and transporting 11 million people, who by their very nature are not on record, is going to be "easy" and "cheap". While you're at it, explain how you will do this without accidentally capturing and transporting US citizens.
But, to Trump and his ilk, brown people aren't "real Americans", so it doesn't matter if some US citizens get sent south of the border in some sweeping dragnet.
What about people who don't deny the holocaust but are just sorry it wasn't finished?
They are arrested, taken to prison, dropped into a disused STASI cell, strapped to a chair, and forced to listen to an oom-pah band until they expire. And, if that doesn't work, they send away to Scotland for bagpipes!
Let's see how she reacts when we turn up the power on this microwave here, just a second... there we go.. and see if her head pops. Get your cameras ready...
Ah well, whaddya gonna do? Soon we will discover that maybe we need an alternative to majority rule. We'll know for sure if any of the Scandinavian countries start to follow the same path.
Then, we simply prove that she's bat-shit insane, and eligible for disability anyway.
" could not prove that his particular cellphone records had been swept up in NSA dragnets."
U.S. federal judges, you are fucking cowards with your bullshit deference to executive-branch "privilege". You let the administration use bullshit tactics to pervert justice, and you use that as an excuse to not protect citizens' fundamental, Constitutionally enumerated rights. You demand that citizens prove that which cannot be proven without committing a crime, but let the administration just bleat "executive privilege" or "state secrets" or "it's for the kids", and consider that doing your job.
Assholes.
They are not cowards. They are vile, complicit scumbags who want things to be this way.
I do not even remotely understand and do not care to find out any facts about the current mechanisms of our changing climate. To think we can proactively alter the climate with our childlike understanding of climatic systems is testament to the arrogance (and greed?) of climate "scientists"
FTFY. Plus, it seems like your "solution" is to lay down and die. Great plan!
You do not believe that the USA is governed by the major corporate shareholders?
Well, that was ultimately my point. We are not supposed to be a "capitalist form of government." But apparently, those in charge already considered our government to be a plutocracy back in the 1950's. Not that this is any surprise, and of course it was a plutocracy long before the 1950's. It's just interesting to see it taken as such a given in a FBI report.
One of the reports mentions "he noticed that some of Bradbury's stories have been definitely slated against the United States and its capitalistic form of government." Strange, I thought we had a constitutional republic. I didn't realize "capitalism" was a form of government. But, it does show what those in power, especially then (but especially now), think of how things are meant to be run.
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I'm shocked. I really had no idea. Seeing kids locked into their mobile devices 24/7 did nothing to clue me in.
Well, to be fair, you were probably too busy posting on /. to notice.
We h ave to know how they encode the communications h oned towards us. Far be it for us to assume it will be EM waves.
You really think today's generation of limp wristed skinny panced vape smokers could hack it in such a critical battle?
Um, who is getting shot at in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? Dumbass.
Atheism kill. Stalim, Mao, Pol Pot and the Kims.
FTFY
The fact that Communists (who are only a small subset of atheists, and do not represent atheism), or more accurately the tyrannical leaders of tyrannical Communist countries, killed lots of people does not in any way negate what American Evangelicals are doing primarily to America, and also exporting to the rest of the world.
You should perhaps also acquaint yourself with this logical fallacy. Just because Communist dictators and Islamic fundamentalists were and are killing and oppressing lots of people does not somehow magically mean that American Evangelicals are not doing the same, and would not do as bad or worse given the chance.
Also, I am not an atheist. The world is not divided into Evangelicals and Atheists. It is far more complex than your simple-minded little world.
But had my parents or peers been spouting off about taking dominion and winning back America for Christ, I would have been capable of causing a lot of harm. American Evangelical Christianity is toxic. It spreads easily and it expressly encourages mayhem, dishonesty, and brutal tactics when fighting any non-believer. (But otherwise peaceful when all sides are Evangelicals.)
Not to say the school was justified in handcuffing him, but the kid's devotion to Evangelical Christianity (if any) should definitely be taken into consideration when making a threat assessment.
FTFY. Seriously, have you even read anything by people like Pat Robertson, the late Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, and so on? I grew up with Evangelical nutters, and they are just as bad as ISIS. The only reason we're not hearing about people being slaughtered for their beliefs is that they don't run the government. They consider non-believers to be like insects, and if they ran the US government, they would try to have a "Godly fumigation" as Pat Robertson calls it.
"sincere apologies". This is really lacking in our society. Non-apologies with the mitigation discussed alongside the offence to deflect blame are the norm, for some weird reason. This is something children learn to do by instinct, but somehow there are a bunch of adults running around with this attitude. I'm sure it will sound something like "Out of an abundance of caution" and "this young man was unfortunately caught up in etc" Instead of "we fucked up and we're sorry".
The reason for these non-apologies is because, if you do the right thing and admit that you were wrong, you can not only get sued, but you just admitted liability. Welcome to the wonderful world of American jurisprudence!
I like the idea of some religions that there are gods, but they don't generally interact with mankind because we are smelly, coarse savages, filled with anger, lust and stupidity. I think if there is intelligent and technologically advanced life out there, they have more sense than to contact us.
Now, all they need do is swivel-mount it in a rotating head that looks something like an upended bowl, and mount the head on a salt shaker looking base with motorised wheels. If they can include a creepy modulation to the voice, that would be a nice bonus.
And Obama won a Nobel Prize. For getting elected.
I thought it was for bombing the moon.
Biomass (what you're referring to) only makes up for a very small proportion of energy consumption. It's actually considered to be 'low carbon' because if those plants weren't harvested then they'd decompose on the forest floor anyway, producing CO2. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, mature forests don't act as effective carbon sinks. Only newly-growing forests have the ability to sequester significant amounts of carbon. Burning biomass is only carbon positive if it results from clearing forests and preventing new growth. The time scale of this new growth is measured in decades (i.e. it's in the global carbon cycle already), whereas fossil fuels represent carbon that has been stored up for millions of years (carbon that is being newly introduced into the biosphere).
So long story short, stop making up excuses and face up to reality.
But I'm an American! I don't want to face up to reality, and you can't make me! We'll do whatever we want, and we have the guns to back it up. Oh, and, um, FREEDOM!!!
Bullshit. They have primaries, and a process for putting anybody on the ballot they want. Voters are just lazy and submissive, and antipathic towards each other.
Yes, the primaries, where we get to choose between a small group of pre-vetted candidates, thus giving us the illusion of choice.
Actually, the statute of limitations on some of the charges has expired. There are other more serious charges who's statute of limitations hasn't yet run out.
Indeed. "Pissing off the United States Government" is a charge that will only expire when he does. Perhaps not even then if he has any children.
If you were the father or brother of those adult women your opinion on the matter would probably be different.
FTFY. Your propaganda is leaking all over the place...
Explain how locating and transporting 11 million people, who by their very nature are not on record, is going to be "easy" and "cheap". While you're at it, explain how you will do this without accidentally capturing and transporting US citizens.
But, to Trump and his ilk, brown people aren't "real Americans", so it doesn't matter if some US citizens get sent south of the border in some sweeping dragnet.
Christie and his entourage must be completely incapable of critical thought to consider this idea for more that 10 seconds.
I think you are beginning to understand the nature of the problem.
So what if someone denies that there is holocaust denial? Is that also illegal in Germany?
What about people who don't deny the holocaust but are just sorry it wasn't finished?
They are arrested, taken to prison, dropped into a disused STASI cell, strapped to a chair, and forced to listen to an oom-pah band until they expire. And, if that doesn't work, they send away to Scotland for bagpipes!
Let's see how she reacts when we turn up the power on this microwave here, just a second... there we go.. and see if her head pops. Get your cameras ready...
Ah well, whaddya gonna do? Soon we will discover that maybe we need an alternative to majority rule. We'll know for sure if any of the Scandinavian countries start to follow the same path.
Then, we simply prove that she's bat-shit insane, and eligible for disability anyway.
What do you expect from a "modern" welfare state?
I guess instead they should do what the US does, and give boatloads of money to the "Defence" industry.
U.S. federal judges, you are fucking cowards with your bullshit deference to executive-branch "privilege". You let the administration use bullshit tactics to pervert justice, and you use that as an excuse to not protect citizens' fundamental, Constitutionally enumerated rights. You demand that citizens prove that which cannot be proven without committing a crime, but let the administration just bleat "executive privilege" or "state secrets" or "it's for the kids", and consider that doing your job.
Assholes.
They are not cowards. They are vile, complicit scumbags who want things to be this way.
I've seen Highlander 2. I know how this will end.
Fortunately, I have still not seen Highlander 2. There should have been only one!
I do not even remotely understand and do not care to find out any facts about the current mechanisms of our changing climate. To think we can proactively alter the climate with our childlike understanding of climatic systems is testament to the arrogance (and greed?) of climate "scientists"
FTFY. Plus, it seems like your "solution" is to lay down and die. Great plan!
You do not believe that the USA is governed by the major corporate shareholders?
Well, that was ultimately my point. We are not supposed to be a "capitalist form of government." But apparently, those in charge already considered our government to be a plutocracy back in the 1950's. Not that this is any surprise, and of course it was a plutocracy long before the 1950's. It's just interesting to see it taken as such a given in a FBI report.
One of the reports mentions "he noticed that some of Bradbury's stories have been definitely slated against the United States and its capitalistic form of government." Strange, I thought we had a constitutional republic. I didn't realize "capitalism" was a form of government. But, it does show what those in power, especially then (but especially now), think of how things are meant to be run.
Nice dig....
I wonder how many people get this... Although, I disagree with your point. I think the bad intolerant people are on the left this time..
I didn't realize I was only talking about the right. I think bad, intolerant people are well entrenched on both sides.