Jews (mixed or not) look at their racial/ethnic background as a unifying force and something positive of which to be proud.
Which is another load of bullshit. You can't be proud of being jewish, let me tell you why:
First thing: you must only be proud of achievements. Belonging to a religion or ethnicity is not an achievement. Just as well, you can't be proud of being black or white, there was no choice or effort, you're simply born into it. If anything, getting out of your family's religion is the true achievement: rejecting labels, debunking the irrational, and standing against your parents' judgement -- now that takes some intellectual work and courage.
Second: even with achievements, you can only be proud of those to which you contributed significantly. For example, an athlete from your country wins a gold medal. Do you feel proud? Well, why? The only people who have the right to be proud are: the athlete himself, the coach and the support team, and perhaps their immediate families, who truly supported them in their careers. You can admire someone else's achievement, not feel proud of it -- because it's not yours.
No, the "jews as race" view is the wrong one -- the nazis just happened to believe the same bullshit as you do. See an interesting rebuke here.
European history is in large part a story of invasion, conquest, and the resulting ethnic and sexual mixing. Some Jews may still hold to the myth that their ancestors managed to hold themselves aloof from all of this homogenizing, but this is to choose mythology over history. After all, if the myth of racial purity were true, modern European (and American and Australian and South African, etc.) Jews would look (and act) just like those Jews whose ancestors remained in the Middle East and never joined the Diaspora. But instead, those Middle Eastern Jews look and act very much like (surprise!) Arabs. I've been told (but never confirmed) that there are very old Jewish communities in the Orient whose members look quite Oriental. Then there are the Falashas of Ethiopa, Jews who claim to trace their ancestry directly back to the Jews of biblical Israel; they are quite black. Even the Levantine nose is not universal among European Jews. It is, on the other hand, common in the Levant, and not just among Levantine Jews.
It's a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, famously adapted to film in 1972 by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its main theme is the impossibility of communication between humans and a completely non-humanoid alien life form.
Cyberdog had some serious problems. It was based on OpenDoc, which made it a resource hog by the day's standards. Also, most absurdly, files saved from it couldn't be opened by non-OpenDoc apps. I actually liked Cyberdog back then, but thinking about those issues... good riddance!
In a way, it makes sense: objectivism and libertarianism have many similar views in politics and economics. However, there are differences. Rand thought libertarians lacked the philosophy behind the politics. For example, you can be a libertarian and religious conservative, while she rejected religion completely.
And no, "because Mac does it" is not a good reason.
Actually, that must be the reason: they want to make Ubuntu more "user-friendly", so they just rip off the Mac. Sadly, it seems they don't truly understand what gives the Mac such reputation. So they can't even rip it off correctly: they completely fucked up everything by having "close" as the third button!
Apple's order actually makes sense, and it's even color-coded: [red X] [yellow -] [green +]. Or, respectively: close, minimize, expand. By order of "seriousness" of the result of clicking it. By the way, the "classic" Mac OS made even more sense: the close button was on the left, and the others on the right. So you would never close a window by accident when you just meant to expand it. If you're going to copy Apple anyway, why not copy that instead?
The copyright clause says "limited times". Well, they could extend copyright to a billion years, it'd still satisfy the letter of the constitution. But NOT its spirit.
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"Simplicity" can mean different things.
Ask a regular user: a "simple" system hides any complexity; in this sense, Ubuntu is simple - everything is automated or set by GUI-based tools.
Ask a developer: a "simple" system is transparent; in this sense, Slackware is simple - there are few GUI-based tools to set the system.
If Rupert Murdoch praises something, it just can't be good.
Screw them all. Daytona USA is what racing is all about.
Perhaps the solution is to make war a financially poor choice to pick instead of say, transportation infrastructure?
Unless you are a weapons manufacturer, I'm quite sure war already is a disastrous financial choice.
Jews (mixed or not) look at their racial/ethnic background as a unifying force and something positive of which to be proud.
Which is another load of bullshit. You can't be proud of being jewish, let me tell you why:
First thing: you must only be proud of achievements. Belonging to a religion or ethnicity is not an achievement. Just as well, you can't be proud of being black or white, there was no choice or effort, you're simply born into it. If anything, getting out of your family's religion is the true achievement: rejecting labels, debunking the irrational, and standing against your parents' judgement -- now that takes some intellectual work and courage.
Second: even with achievements, you can only be proud of those to which you contributed significantly. For example, an athlete from your country wins a gold medal. Do you feel proud? Well, why? The only people who have the right to be proud are: the athlete himself, the coach and the support team, and perhaps their immediate families, who truly supported them in their careers. You can admire someone else's achievement, not feel proud of it -- because it's not yours.
European history is in large part a story of invasion, conquest, and the resulting ethnic and sexual mixing. Some Jews may still hold to the myth that their ancestors managed to hold themselves aloof from all of this homogenizing, but this is to choose mythology over history. After all, if the myth of racial purity were true, modern European (and American and Australian and South African, etc.) Jews would look (and act) just like those Jews whose ancestors remained in the Middle East and never joined the Diaspora. But instead, those Middle Eastern Jews look and act very much like (surprise!) Arabs. I've been told (but never confirmed) that there are very old Jewish communities in the Orient whose members look quite Oriental. Then there are the Falashas of Ethiopa, Jews who claim to trace their ancestry directly back to the Jews of biblical Israel; they are quite black. Even the Levantine nose is not universal among European Jews. It is, on the other hand, common in the Levant, and not just among Levantine Jews.
Wait, are you one of those wacko scientologists who believes men evolved from clams?
How can one test that which does not exist?
Asking science to study God is like asking it to study Tom Bombadil. It can't. It's FICTION.
Deus Ex was mentioned. Someone will reinstall it now.
(Not me... it's already installed here.)
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." - Noam Chomsky
What do you mean, "1st" Matrix movie...?
The SunBlade 1000 is a very picky machine. Get the Criterion Collection release next time.
Solaris? What's that?
It's a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, famously adapted to film in 1972 by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its main theme is the impossibility of communication between humans and a completely non-humanoid alien life form.
No, he means this. It's no surprise Thompson got disbarred, the guy is crazy!
Cyberdog had some serious problems. It was based on OpenDoc, which made it a resource hog by the day's standards. Also, most absurdly, files saved from it couldn't be opened by non-OpenDoc apps. I actually liked Cyberdog back then, but thinking about those issues... good riddance!
In a way, it makes sense: objectivism and libertarianism have many similar views in politics and economics. However, there are differences. Rand thought libertarians lacked the philosophy behind the politics. For example, you can be a libertarian and religious conservative, while she rejected religion completely.
Thank you, Captain Obvious! Here, have this rock.
A "GTA: London" is nothing new -- the mission packs for the first GTA were set in London.
Taiwan is the legit China. The other, bad one is "Red China".
No, I'm not suggesting that Jesus was black. But he probably wasn't white.
Not black, nor white... then what's left? Are you saying Jesus was oriental?
Suddenly this legend starts to make sense!
And no, "because Mac does it" is not a good reason.
Actually, that must be the reason: they want to make Ubuntu more "user-friendly", so they just rip off the Mac. Sadly, it seems they don't truly understand what gives the Mac such reputation. So they can't even rip it off correctly: they completely fucked up everything by having "close" as the third button!
Apple's order actually makes sense, and it's even color-coded: [red X] [yellow -] [green +]. Or, respectively: close, minimize, expand. By order of "seriousness" of the result of clicking it. By the way, the "classic" Mac OS made even more sense: the close button was on the left, and the others on the right. So you would never close a window by accident when you just meant to expand it. If you're going to copy Apple anyway, why not copy that instead?
He mentioned that the last time the French tested a nuke in the pacific (?)
Why the question mark there? FYI, France is notorious for its love of nukes.
Anyway, who says they'll be talking to the humans? Maybe they'll go straight to the dolphins (or even the mice).
Or humpback whales.
Don't worry about what your wife will think: chicks dig yaoi.
The copyright clause says "limited times". Well, they could extend copyright to a billion years, it'd still satisfy the letter of the constitution. But NOT its spirit.