I shouldn't post in this thread, but...
You make it sound like charity isn't a mitzvah in Judaism. Now, all mitzvot are supposedly equal, but I would say that charity is more important than remembering to wash your hands and say a blessing before you eat. Liturgy would bear this out. There is a pray that is said between Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the liturgical year, and Yom Kippur, the day of judgement ten days later, that talks about how God uses this time to decide what will happen to people during the new year, and that onlly Penitance, Prayer and Charity can change the judgement. I will also note that 'tzedakah' (charity) and 'tzadik' (righteous) are similar for a reason in Hebrew.
I wonder how anyone can think Jews don't give charitably after going to just about any hospital or place of learning in the country and looking at the names of the buildings. I will further note that in order for charity to be truly righteous for Jews, it is supposed to be given in secret, so that you aren't just doing it for the praise of others. Finally, I've never understood what any of this has to do with Israelis (who may or may not be particularly observant) in general or the Zionists (who were socialists and avowed atheists) in particular. It's not like all Jews around the world are Israeli, or even support the Israeli government in it's race to the moral bottom with whatever nutroll comes along to pick a fight. Though this lack of support is lamentably hard to see sometimes, what with all the Likud cock-sucking our (Christian!) Congresspeople do here in the US at the drop of a hat.
I once had to explain to my 6th grade class that no, not all jews hate arabs, and not even all israelis hate arabs, despite the shorthand the US media uses to describe all Middle East conflict as a 'religious war'. I guess 'there isn't enough water to go around and everyone's grandpa shot at everyone else's grandpa and it's really in the Arab governments' best interests to never solve this conflict because it distracts from their horrible treatment of their own citizens and the way they keep the palestinian refugees in their own territories in camps 60 years later and oh yeah it was also a useful proxy battlefield int he Cold War and now it's gone on so long everyone is likely to remain pissed' is to difficult to explain to the US public. Of course I also had to explain, to my Humanities class in high school no less, that no, Jews did not worship Jesus. No not even a little bit. Yay US public school education in the south.
Are you honestly asserting, or willing to believe someone else's assertion that there was no organized crime before prohibition? Or (just as bad) that without our current drug prohibition organized crime will go away entirely?
It's a revenue issue, really the original revenue issue (viz. Shay's Rebellion). The ATF and it's predecessors existed long before the FDA (and before the IRS) not as regulatory bodies per se (nobody cared what you ate/drank/smoked before the 20th cen. other than the church), but as tax collectors. Booze, tobacco and firearms were all sources of income for the government. It wasn't until much later that any sort of safety or possession issues were a concern, just so long as you paid your taxes to the 'revenoors'. There's a reason people made Moonshine before Prohibition.
'if you don't pay your fair share to support the VFD, they *will* just stand by and let your house burn. Usually it only takes one such example.'
[citation needed]
Yeah, it's even like there must have been a reason they couldn't talk to one another...
Snark aside I'll admit I cheated and saw the report on BBC World news, since the details aren't actually in TFA. Being in the middle of nowhere Congo, he was getting really shitty signal on his phone and couldn't hear anything the guy in London was saying, so they texted the instructions instead.
And 95% of statistics are made up....but anecdotaly, why I taught in Japan, I would say more than 65% of the high school students in my class couldn't find Great Britain on a map, and more worrying had difficulty finding China. And these were students a an 'academic' school, not vocational students (Japan streams students after junior high).
I would argue that Libertarianism is right-wing extremism, and that Fascism is independent of any right-left political spectrum. Rather, Fascism is at an extreme of a separate 'statist-anarchist' spectrum. This nicely illustrates why boiling every conceivable political question down to 'left vs. right' is useless at best and deliberately obfuscatory at worst.
I would agree that group-think is a defining characteristic of pretty much all human cultures , but as someone who has taught in Japan I can say that the US is a land of insane non-conformists compared to the Japanese. My favorite example:
Sacred Assumption 1) all people in Japanese schools are Japanese (this isn't actually true, and there are in fact ethnic Koreans, Ainu, Okinawans and *gasp* people with a foreign parent, but don't mention that.)
Sacred Assumption 2) All Japanese people have straight, black hair. (This isn't even true for people who are 'completely Japanese'.)
Thus the result: At the high school where I taught any students with even sightly wavy or brown hair had to dye/straighten it, in the interests of a 'harmonic school environment' as one teacher put it. "The nail that sticks up is hammered down." indeed.
Yes, but REAL ID requires the active cooperation and participation of state and local agencies. Changing the name won't change the fact that in order to get what they wanted they will still have to for example issue new ids etc. States that already vowed not to cooperate with the program won't suddenly decided to help out when they change the name, since the burdens it threatens to place on them are the same. Carnivore, on the other hand was a covert intelligence gathering operation. When everyone found out about it they could disavow it then come back and change the name and carry on when the furor died down.
... instantaneously. It can't be used to transfer information faster than the speed of light. This is different from not being able to transfer information.
You mean like 'The New York World', a now defunct newspaper that was the original sponsor of the first MLB championship? I know we like to bash US cluelessness here, but, this particular bit of misinformation always irks me.
Their Op-Ed pieces will (once again) be free. I imagine they faound that when they made them pay-only people just didn't read them. After all, it's not like they are news.
Exactly. Let's see, what ads don't I block...oh yeah Google text ads. Why? because they are just text off in a corner. I have no reason to want to block static text off in a corner. Giant blinking flash ads that cover the screen on the other hand I have no regrets blocking. Those advertisers can go to hell for all I care.
I really don't see how this is abuse. The very nature of 'sponsored' means that someone can buy the right to show up when someone searches for a given term, No guarantee is made to the user that the returned 'sponsored' links will correspond exactly to what they were searching for. That is what the non-sponsored links are for, and even ther I don't see how Google would be liable, as their service is free. If Apple wants to buy a sponsored link so that every time a user searches for 'windows' an ad saying 'Windows sucks. Buy a Mac instead.' appears in the sponsored section, who is being harmed in a legally redressable way?
I'm not certain what you are implying. Are you trying to say that thought experiments have no valid place in science? If so, you are sadly mistaken. While not 'experiments' in the strictest sense, thought experiments are a vital tool for the exposition of difficult concepts. Go read Einstein's relativity papers.
If you know of a 99% reflective material, patent it now and make lots of money. In the real world however, even precision mirrors top out at 80% or so. That means the other 20% of incoming energy is heating the incoming shell (assuming every shell is polished in a lab before being fired out of perfectly smooth barrels).
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I shouldn't post in this thread, but... You make it sound like charity isn't a mitzvah in Judaism. Now, all mitzvot are supposedly equal, but I would say that charity is more important than remembering to wash your hands and say a blessing before you eat. Liturgy would bear this out. There is a pray that is said between Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the liturgical year, and Yom Kippur, the day of judgement ten days later, that talks about how God uses this time to decide what will happen to people during the new year, and that onlly Penitance, Prayer and Charity can change the judgement. I will also note that 'tzedakah' (charity) and 'tzadik' (righteous) are similar for a reason in Hebrew. I wonder how anyone can think Jews don't give charitably after going to just about any hospital or place of learning in the country and looking at the names of the buildings. I will further note that in order for charity to be truly righteous for Jews, it is supposed to be given in secret, so that you aren't just doing it for the praise of others. Finally, I've never understood what any of this has to do with Israelis (who may or may not be particularly observant) in general or the Zionists (who were socialists and avowed atheists) in particular. It's not like all Jews around the world are Israeli, or even support the Israeli government in it's race to the moral bottom with whatever nutroll comes along to pick a fight. Though this lack of support is lamentably hard to see sometimes, what with all the Likud cock-sucking our (Christian!) Congresspeople do here in the US at the drop of a hat. I once had to explain to my 6th grade class that no, not all jews hate arabs, and not even all israelis hate arabs, despite the shorthand the US media uses to describe all Middle East conflict as a 'religious war'. I guess 'there isn't enough water to go around and everyone's grandpa shot at everyone else's grandpa and it's really in the Arab governments' best interests to never solve this conflict because it distracts from their horrible treatment of their own citizens and the way they keep the palestinian refugees in their own territories in camps 60 years later and oh yeah it was also a useful proxy battlefield int he Cold War and now it's gone on so long everyone is likely to remain pissed' is to difficult to explain to the US public. Of course I also had to explain, to my Humanities class in high school no less, that no, Jews did not worship Jesus. No not even a little bit. Yay US public school education in the south.
Thissssssssss! I really think Vagrant story is one of the better games made post-SNES-era.
Didn't slow Lance Armstrong down much... It helps that the remaining ball is streamlined and aerodynamic.
Are you honestly asserting, or willing to believe someone else's assertion that there was no organized crime before prohibition? Or (just as bad) that without our current drug prohibition organized crime will go away entirely?
It's a revenue issue, really the original revenue issue (viz. Shay's Rebellion). The ATF and it's predecessors existed long before the FDA (and before the IRS) not as regulatory bodies per se (nobody cared what you ate/drank/smoked before the 20th cen. other than the church), but as tax collectors. Booze, tobacco and firearms were all sources of income for the government. It wasn't until much later that any sort of safety or possession issues were a concern, just so long as you paid your taxes to the 'revenoors'. There's a reason people made Moonshine before Prohibition.
'if you don't pay your fair share to support the VFD, they *will* just stand by and let your house burn. Usually it only takes one such example.' [citation needed]
Yeah, it's even like there must have been a reason they couldn't talk to one another... Snark aside I'll admit I cheated and saw the report on BBC World news, since the details aren't actually in TFA. Being in the middle of nowhere Congo, he was getting really shitty signal on his phone and couldn't hear anything the guy in London was saying, so they texted the instructions instead.
God called: He wants Richard Dawkins back...
This is why we didn't elect you. Hopefully those we did elect will ignore you in the search for solutions that benefit all their constituents
And 95% of statistics are made up....but anecdotaly, why I taught in Japan, I would say more than 65% of the high school students in my class couldn't find Great Britain on a map, and more worrying had difficulty finding China. And these were students a an 'academic' school, not vocational students (Japan streams students after junior high).
I would argue that Libertarianism is right-wing extremism, and that Fascism is independent of any right-left political spectrum. Rather, Fascism is at an extreme of a separate 'statist-anarchist' spectrum. This nicely illustrates why boiling every conceivable political question down to 'left vs. right' is useless at best and deliberately obfuscatory at worst.
I would agree that group-think is a defining characteristic of pretty much all human cultures , but as someone who has taught in Japan I can say that the US is a land of insane non-conformists compared to the Japanese. My favorite example: Sacred Assumption 1) all people in Japanese schools are Japanese (this isn't actually true, and there are in fact ethnic Koreans, Ainu, Okinawans and *gasp* people with a foreign parent, but don't mention that.) Sacred Assumption 2) All Japanese people have straight, black hair. (This isn't even true for people who are 'completely Japanese'.) Thus the result: At the high school where I taught any students with even sightly wavy or brown hair had to dye/straighten it, in the interests of a 'harmonic school environment' as one teacher put it. "The nail that sticks up is hammered down." indeed.
Can we replace pedants with Wikipedia?
What about the guy who stands outside your house with a catchers mitt and catches the keys you toss out the window?
Yes, but REAL ID requires the active cooperation and participation of state and local agencies. Changing the name won't change the fact that in order to get what they wanted they will still have to for example issue new ids etc. States that already vowed not to cooperate with the program won't suddenly decided to help out when they change the name, since the burdens it threatens to place on them are the same. Carnivore, on the other hand was a covert intelligence gathering operation. When everyone found out about it they could disavow it then come back and change the name and carry on when the furor died down.
Or hit them center mass with a 30/30, like my friend did one time... The resulting pieces made good soup though.
... instantaneously. It can't be used to transfer information faster than the speed of light. This is different from not being able to transfer information.
You mean like 'The New York World', a now defunct newspaper that was the original sponsor of the first MLB championship? I know we like to bash US cluelessness here, but, this particular bit of misinformation always irks me.
Their Op-Ed pieces will (once again) be free. I imagine they faound that when they made them pay-only people just didn't read them. After all, it's not like they are news.
Exactly. Let's see, what ads don't I block...oh yeah Google text ads. Why? because they are just text off in a corner. I have no reason to want to block static text off in a corner. Giant blinking flash ads that cover the screen on the other hand I have no regrets blocking. Those advertisers can go to hell for all I care.
I really don't see how this is abuse. The very nature of 'sponsored' means that someone can buy the right to show up when someone searches for a given term, No guarantee is made to the user that the returned 'sponsored' links will correspond exactly to what they were searching for. That is what the non-sponsored links are for, and even ther I don't see how Google would be liable, as their service is free. If Apple wants to buy a sponsored link so that every time a user searches for 'windows' an ad saying 'Windows sucks. Buy a Mac instead.' appears in the sponsored section, who is being harmed in a legally redressable way?
That statment is equally as true as it is meaningless. The same could be said of any law. Are you suggesting that no laws are worth making?
I'm not certain what you are implying. Are you trying to say that thought experiments have no valid place in science? If so, you are sadly mistaken. While not 'experiments' in the strictest sense, thought experiments are a vital tool for the exposition of difficult concepts. Go read Einstein's relativity papers.
If you know of a 99% reflective material, patent it now and make lots of money. In the real world however, even precision mirrors top out at 80% or so. That means the other 20% of incoming energy is heating the incoming shell (assuming every shell is polished in a lab before being fired out of perfectly smooth barrels).
Though I know you are being intentionally silly, Eris has a highly inclined orbit and is very rarely in any traditional zodiac sign.