only someone so tied up in their own belief that that can't think any other way would make such a stupid statement.
", can build in to something that leads to gulags, amazing photo manipulation, a great national anthem, and an unprecedented arms race." ah, I see. you are stupid.
I think you're stupid. I'll explain my reasoning if you go first in explaining yours.
Jesus wept! To consider atheism a religion is to completely belittle actual religion. Accepting that atheism can have at least two meanings (active disbelief or simple lack of belief), the notion that atheism is a religion has been debunked so many times. Question, is lack of belief in Hathor a religion? No, it's not. By knowing someone lacks belief (or actively disbelieves) in Hathor, what can you tell me about this person? Not much, eh? Funny then how this lack of belief in all gods, not just every god except one, can build in to something that leads to gulags, amazing photo manipulation, a great national anthem, and an unprecedented arms race.
Hell even cars use a MPG sticker on each window, they don't go into how they get that MPG number, and most are not reflected in real world tests of the car.
Or battery life on laptops. Four hours, back in the day? Sure, if usage consists of running Nethack on a screen so dim it's like playing an ASCII adaptation of Doom 3.
Isn't it kind of expected when the user disables filtering that a search for "tea bagging" will be more focused on nut-jobbery than porn?
Add a filter option for "make my wee wee hard". Problem solved. No more leaving onanists treading water while they find the magic words to find what they really want.
Had a similar experience with my Amiga. A Cortex expansion in the side, and another bit of ram in the trapdoor underneath. It was 2 meg or so, if memory serves. Stick the bulk of the system in to a RAM disk, set up to remain resident through reboot. Shit that thing was fast. Had a nice script on boot to test for the presence of the already loaded up RAM disk, and create it automatically if not prompted by me to do a normal boot. With that experience, my move to PCs and Macs was a bit of an anticlimax until I played Quake. Looking forward to moving to solid state new year.
In fairness, the editors are probably a team of American. Only reason to think of anything Britishes is when there's a tasty morsel in need of a good hard extradition.
Contact their ccAdvertising's clients. Don't be offensive or do something silly. Maybe a letter or email each week, explaining why associating with that company is a shitty idea. Might work on corporations. Probably wont work on the political clients, who by and large wont give a shit unless it's going to affect their re-election.
What's it like to live with being hated? You should know - there are people who hate you. Why doesn't it bother you too much? Probably because you don't see yourself as being an evil piece of shit.
While there are people aware that they're doing wrong, id suspect that most of them justify it to themselves. A religious fanatic who kills someone of an opposing view is doing it because they think its justified. What about a boss who sacks someone who by impartial measures is doing a good job? The boss probably isn't seated there on a throne in Castle Skull, giggling and imagining the ruination he visited upon the guy.
BPI and their like are no different. We all do things others would consider evil. Some are just more evil than others. It doesn't excuse their actions. What it does is to help us form a realistic way of tackling them.
Micro$oft and Windoze? Have you recently emerged from 15 years in stasis? To bring you up to date...
Madonna is still shit and now looks like Iggy Pop. 9/11 Year of Linux on the desktop is imminent The president's black The Rolling Stones aren't dead We sent cool shit to Mars World didn't end but will end again later this month
Coming from the world of email, I found SMS to be pretty clunky. In Europe its bern working fairly well now, in terms if cross-carrier messenging. Still a probkem though with group SMS and large messages. MMS though remains a mess of varying implementations and price gouging, and barely worth consideration.
Well done. For your next mission, join a conversation on a Subway franchisee forum and somehow link quality of chipotle dressing with the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Some achievements are bullshit, such as the ones that are based on purchases or effectively random events. As an example, I picked-up a rare mount in WOW, which shows as a feat of strength. I was lucky to get it on my first trip there with my druid. Even grinding for it is not what I'd consider an achievement when the thing has a less than 1% chance of dropping, and then it's only one attempt per day, probably with five people rolling for it.
Before achievements came to WoW I enjoyed trying unusual approaches to fights - as did many others. Go with an incredibly underpowered group to see if we were good enough anyway. Bring a lowbie and escort him through particularly nasty places where he was almost certain to aggro groups much larger than would be usually tackled.
Some achievements are fun to get and quite tricky. Many others are tedious and/or don't mean a great deal.
Ehhh - someone will come along directly to tell me that I've lost all credibility with the word sheeple. Whatever . .
Sounds a bit like you're ready at a moments notice to don spandex and take to the rooftops of Gotham, to setup a laptop and tweet. The sheeple thing, while bring trite, isn't the main reason I'd suspect you of being just another armchair revolutionary. Telling us what you make happen is a start, and why you're different from the legion of V/Neo wannabes who lurk in the shadows, ever vigilant and poised ready to write a blog post or something similar.
Right, so holding up a definition from your favourite dictionary wins. Unless you've truly given this very little thought and study, you surely must be aware that it's nowhere near as clear-cut as you claim. Have you read the Oxford English Dictionary definitions?
Atheist: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods
Agnostic: a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God
Hey, wait. You as an agnostic are specifically claiming that nothing can be known about the existence or nature of God? That seems a bold statement and a very large burden of proof. Nope, I won't assume that because I know that it's just one usage of the word. I'll do you the courtesy of asking you what you believe.
I'm an atheist in the sense of lacking belief in gods. With particular gods though I'd go so far as to say that they certain gods are internally inconsistent and probably don't exist. If a believer told me that their god is the universe then to that extent I'd agree that their god exists. Where it's likely to break-down is when the believer begins to ascribe self-serving attributes and desires to their god.
Your agnosticism appears rooted in a straw man of atheism. Are you the type who's trying to rise above the melee by adopting the view that theists and atheists are just as bad as each other? In reality atheists and agnostics generally hold the same basic view. Do you believe God exists? If your answer is "I don't know", then by default you lack belief in God. You are an atheist in the sense of lacking belief, and you would also be an agnostic in the sense of not claiming knowledge of God's existence or non-existence.
By all means use the agnostic term if it feels more comfortable. Don't use atheism as a straw man to make agnosticism seem the rational rising above the irrationality of atheism and theism. Read, and maybe consider discussing this with atheists and agnostics.
which is why DuckDuckGo, a so called "privacy oriented browser", uses bing for it's underlying searches. Any time you hear "anticompetitive search", it's 100% microsoft/fairsearch funded. It's not even remotely about privacy or security as a result of that. Anyone who believes duckduckgo is about your privacy when bing has your information, is misinformed.
Are you sure you're understanding how the site works? Standard searches made via DuckDuckGo will not result in you personally being tracked by the underlying search engines. This is because your client isn't making direct contact with the underlying search engines - DuckDuckGo is collating the results together and presenting them. In that context, what you're saying is that buying a can of Heinz Beans from a supermarket results in Heinz tracking me - even though I have no direct contact with them (and assuming the supermarket isn't passing on personally identifying purchaser information to Heinz).
Using a bang (such as !bing or !image) is where tracking can kick in because at that point you're most likely hitting a source site. This is comparable to ordering beans directly from Heinz.
DuckDuckGo is a multi-search engine. You're only making contact with the underlying search providers when you choose to, and at that point it's pretty clear because you're seeing a Google/Bing page.
As well as Superdave80's points, stock is a nice perk for management and employees. It's a far better incentive when it's likely to appreciate in value. I wouldn't expect to join MS today and become a millionaire through stock, but I would like to see that options granted (or stock offered through discount schemes) would do more than remain largely flat for years on end.
I generally only block ads that are incredible intrusive (in which case I probably stop visiting that site), or from sources that push dishonest bullshit adverts, like: the "[insert name of nearest city] mom is hated by aerospace engineers for discovering a [Insert local currency] tip for decreasing the fuel requirements of a rocket capable of achieving escape velocity".
Aside from that, adverts don't bother me. Some are interesting, and sites have to pay the bills.
The negative score is telling about how much liberals like to suppress opposition. You basically said the exact thing as the +4 post you responded to (except to state a positive action,) and your post got modded as flamebait.
The fact that someone actually used one of their few mod points to hide your post is key to their insecurity.
It cuts both ways. Slashdot tends to have a liberal slant, ergo there'll be liberals with mod points who think downmodding is the way to deal with opposing views. Head over to forums/sites with a conservative bent and you'll see the same. This isn't a phenomena exclusive to any particular ideology.
Chick-fil-a as a company is perfectly entitled to sponsor anti-gay efforts. Hell, let them fund efforts against interracial marriage if they wish. I'd defend their right to be utterly unpleasant, while still considering anyone who supports their right-wing fundie positions to be vile bigots.
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(active disbelief or simple lack of belief)
only someone so tied up in their own belief that that can't think any other way would make such a stupid statement.
", can build in to something that leads to gulags, amazing photo manipulation, a great national anthem, and an unprecedented arms race."
ah, I see. you are stupid.
I think you're stupid. I'll explain my reasoning if you go first in explaining yours.
Jesus wept! To consider atheism a religion is to completely belittle actual religion. Accepting that atheism can have at least two meanings (active disbelief or simple lack of belief), the notion that atheism is a religion has been debunked so many times. Question, is lack of belief in Hathor a religion? No, it's not. By knowing someone lacks belief (or actively disbelieves) in Hathor, what can you tell me about this person? Not much, eh? Funny then how this lack of belief in all gods, not just every god except one, can build in to something that leads to gulags, amazing photo manipulation, a great national anthem, and an unprecedented arms race.
There's an axiom that covers that:
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Not that I agree with being imprisoned for posting a video (much the opposite), just making an observation.
Why did you make that observation?
Hell even cars use a MPG sticker on each window, they don't go into how they get that MPG number, and most are not reflected in real world tests of the car.
Or battery life on laptops. Four hours, back in the day? Sure, if usage consists of running Nethack on a screen so dim it's like playing an ASCII adaptation of Doom 3.
Isn't it kind of expected when the user disables filtering that a search for "tea bagging" will be more focused on nut-jobbery than porn?
Add a filter option for "make my wee wee hard". Problem solved. No more leaving onanists treading water while they find the magic words to find what they really want.
Had a similar experience with my Amiga. A Cortex expansion in the side, and another bit of ram in the trapdoor underneath. It was 2 meg or so, if memory serves. Stick the bulk of the system in to a RAM disk, set up to remain resident through reboot. Shit that thing was fast. Had a nice script on boot to test for the presence of the already loaded up RAM disk, and create it automatically if not prompted by me to do a normal boot. With that experience, my move to PCs and Macs was a bit of an anticlimax until I played Quake. Looking forward to moving to solid state new year.
In fairness, the editors are probably a team of American. Only reason to think of anything Britishes is when there's a tasty morsel in need of a good hard extradition.
Contact their ccAdvertising's clients. Don't be offensive or do something silly. Maybe a letter or email each week, explaining why associating with that company is a shitty idea. Might work on corporations. Probably wont work on the political clients, who by and large wont give a shit unless it's going to affect their re-election.
http://www.ccadvertising.biz/clients.html
How about Burger King as a starting point?
What's it like to live with being hated? You should know - there are people who hate you. Why doesn't it bother you too much? Probably because you don't see yourself as being an evil piece of shit.
While there are people aware that they're doing wrong, id suspect that most of them justify it to themselves. A religious fanatic who kills someone of an opposing view is doing it because they think its justified. What about a boss who sacks someone who by impartial measures is doing a good job? The boss probably isn't seated there on a throne in Castle Skull, giggling and imagining the ruination he visited upon the guy.
BPI and their like are no different. We all do things others would consider evil. Some are just more evil than others. It doesn't excuse their actions. What it does is to help us form a realistic way of tackling them.
Just stopping to ask those questions is probably why you won't be celebrating retirement by ending up on a sex offenders register.
And Duke Nukem Forever was released.
Steady on there. We don't want to overwhelm him.
Micro$oft and Windoze? Have you recently emerged from 15 years in stasis? To bring you up to date...
Madonna is still shit and now looks like Iggy Pop.
9/11
Year of Linux on the desktop is imminent
The president's black
The Rolling Stones aren't dead
We sent cool shit to Mars
World didn't end but will end again later this month
Coming from the world of email, I found SMS to be pretty clunky. In Europe its bern working fairly well now, in terms if cross-carrier messenging. Still a probkem though with group SMS and large messages. MMS though remains a mess of varying implementations and price gouging, and barely worth consideration.
Well done. For your next mission, join a conversation on a Subway franchisee forum and somehow link quality of chipotle dressing with the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Good spellings and the Kelsey Grammer aren't necessary in the crafting if the erotic fiction for the morbidly obese, no?
Achievements are stupid and mean nothing.
Some achievements are bullshit, such as the ones that are based on purchases or effectively random events. As an example, I picked-up a rare mount in WOW, which shows as a feat of strength. I was lucky to get it on my first trip there with my druid. Even grinding for it is not what I'd consider an achievement when the thing has a less than 1% chance of dropping, and then it's only one attempt per day, probably with five people rolling for it.
Before achievements came to WoW I enjoyed trying unusual approaches to fights - as did many others. Go with an incredibly underpowered group to see if we were good enough anyway. Bring a lowbie and escort him through particularly nasty places where he was almost certain to aggro groups much larger than would be usually tackled.
Some achievements are fun to get and quite tricky. Many others are tedious and/or don't mean a great deal.
Changed the name. Don Hitler wasn't playing very well in my career writing erotic fiction for overweight women.
Ehhh - someone will come along directly to tell me that I've lost all credibility with the word sheeple. Whatever . .
Sounds a bit like you're ready at a moments notice to don spandex and take to the rooftops of Gotham, to setup a laptop and tweet. The sheeple thing, while bring trite, isn't the main reason I'd suspect you of being just another armchair revolutionary. Telling us what you make happen is a start, and why you're different from the legion of V/Neo wannabes who lurk in the shadows, ever vigilant and poised ready to write a blog post or something similar.
Right, so holding up a definition from your favourite dictionary wins. Unless you've truly given this very little thought and study, you surely must be aware that it's nowhere near as clear-cut as you claim. Have you read the Oxford English Dictionary definitions?
Atheist: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods
Agnostic: a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God
Hey, wait. You as an agnostic are specifically claiming that nothing can be known about the existence or nature of God? That seems a bold statement and a very large burden of proof. Nope, I won't assume that because I know that it's just one usage of the word. I'll do you the courtesy of asking you what you believe.
I'm an atheist in the sense of lacking belief in gods. With particular gods though I'd go so far as to say that they certain gods are internally inconsistent and probably don't exist. If a believer told me that their god is the universe then to that extent I'd agree that their god exists. Where it's likely to break-down is when the believer begins to ascribe self-serving attributes and desires to their god.
Your agnosticism appears rooted in a straw man of atheism. Are you the type who's trying to rise above the melee by adopting the view that theists and atheists are just as bad as each other? In reality atheists and agnostics generally hold the same basic view. Do you believe God exists? If your answer is "I don't know", then by default you lack belief in God. You are an atheist in the sense of lacking belief, and you would also be an agnostic in the sense of not claiming knowledge of God's existence or non-existence.
By all means use the agnostic term if it feels more comfortable. Don't use atheism as a straw man to make agnosticism seem the rational rising above the irrationality of atheism and theism. Read, and maybe consider discussing this with atheists and agnostics.
which is why DuckDuckGo, a so called "privacy oriented browser", uses bing for it's underlying searches. Any time you hear "anticompetitive search", it's 100% microsoft/fairsearch funded. It's not even remotely about privacy or security as a result of that. Anyone who believes duckduckgo is about your privacy when bing has your information, is misinformed.
Are you sure you're understanding how the site works?
Standard searches made via DuckDuckGo will not result in you personally being tracked by the underlying search engines. This is because your client isn't making direct contact with the underlying search engines - DuckDuckGo is collating the results together and presenting them. In that context, what you're saying is that buying a can of Heinz Beans from a supermarket results in Heinz tracking me - even though I have no direct contact with them (and assuming the supermarket isn't passing on personally identifying purchaser information to Heinz).
There's no Bing/Google tracking happening here:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test%20search
Using a bang (such as !bing or !image) is where tracking can kick in because at that point you're most likely hitting a source site. This is comparable to ordering beans directly from Heinz.
This link would result in tracking from bing:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!bing+test+search
DuckDuckGo is a multi-search engine. You're only making contact with the underlying search providers when you choose to, and at that point it's pretty clear because you're seeing a Google/Bing page.
I would if I weren't so creeped out by this Saudi gent being in a face.
And it's a playground for scammers. I wouldn't use a .tk domain for anything more important than a blog with fewer visitors anually than the ISS.
As well as Superdave80's points, stock is a nice perk for management and employees. It's a far better incentive when it's likely to appreciate in value. I wouldn't expect to join MS today and become a millionaire through stock, but I would like to see that options granted (or stock offered through discount schemes) would do more than remain largely flat for years on end.
I generally only block ads that are incredible intrusive (in which case I probably stop visiting that site), or from sources that push dishonest bullshit adverts, like: the "[insert name of nearest city] mom is hated by aerospace engineers for discovering a [Insert local currency] tip for decreasing the fuel requirements of a rocket capable of achieving escape velocity".
Aside from that, adverts don't bother me. Some are interesting, and sites have to pay the bills.
The negative score is telling about how much liberals like to suppress opposition. You basically said the exact thing as the +4 post you responded to (except to state a positive action,) and your post got modded as flamebait.
The fact that someone actually used one of their few mod points to hide your post is key to their insecurity.
It cuts both ways. Slashdot tends to have a liberal slant, ergo there'll be liberals with mod points who think downmodding is the way to deal with opposing views. Head over to forums/sites with a conservative bent and you'll see the same. This isn't a phenomena exclusive to any particular ideology.
Chick-fil-a as a company is perfectly entitled to sponsor anti-gay efforts. Hell, let them fund efforts against interracial marriage if they wish. I'd defend their right to be utterly unpleasant, while still considering anyone who supports their right-wing fundie positions to be vile bigots.