FNC runs racilly-driven stories all of the time. Recently, they were the major pushers (though not the only) of the stories of "widespread rapes and looting" in the aftermath of Katrina, the stories of blacks shooting at aid helicopters, and so on... all stories which turned out to have no basis in fact whatsoever (don't expect an apology or retraction from them, though). Just because they don't say "black people look like monkeys" in those terms doesn't mean that they don't make it very clear that they consider minorities to be sub-human savages.
One of the reasons that America is so racially diverse today is because those Christians brought those black people over as slaves, forbade them from learning how to read or practicing their own culture, forbade them from speaking their own language, forbade them from observing their own religion and forced them to be Christian, controlled their lives with imprisonment and forced labor, and killed the ones who disobeyed. Black people aren't slaves, but they are still in economic thrall to the white people. Blacks are tolerated as long as they stay on their side of the fence and believe in Jesus Christ.
If you call that "success," well, that speaks volumes more bad things about you than it does about what you call "secular humanism."
By the way, multi-culturalism doesn't have to do with the accepting of the color of one's skin. The color of your skin is not your culture. Your language, spirituality, and social customs are your culuture. The collective values of your society are your culture. This comment makes it absolutely clear how AGAINST multi-culturalism you are, since only Christians are welcome in your world.
Not on television, you wouldn't, at least not on a mainstream program. That was the point. In any country anywhere in the world, you can find someone bigoted who will spew that kind of tripe, but in the US, that is generally not something you catch in mainstream media.
Be sure never to turn on TBN/700 Club or the Fox News Channel.. I'd hate to burst your bubble.
Please get off your high horse. A book puts stuff together in a way that someone with no prior experience to a subject (who doesn't really know what to "google" for, and would like a comprehensive guide to a subject instead of trolling for a dozen links.
What I hate about comments like these is that they're almost always bragging in a thinly-veiled way... "*I* figured it out on my own, why can't time-strapped IT professionals do the same?" The answer is the time it would take to compile such a comprehensive resource is worth MORE to some people than the price of the book. Books also tend to have a more comprehensive goal in mind (ie, you build on what you learned in the last chapter), whereas most websites and HOWTOs are atrocious resources except for the individual task the websites is dedicated to. Also, books tend to be written by professionals, editied by professional editors, as opposed to random people spewing on the net. My experience is that googled examples tend to be much less insightful, more likely to be contradictory, tutorials thrown together, etc.. In the OSS world especially, so populated by hackers, documentation that makes sense to non-hackers is very low on the list of priorities.
If you learned this stuff with nothing but google and loads of spare time, congratulations, give yourself a gold star.
It's in the EULA or similar agreement (that long document everyone scrolls through without reading and hits agree), and the reason they have that particular rule is because they have a PVP ranking system that uses military style titles. So someday you may be Commander CmdrTaco.
I understand why they have this policy, but it really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If Commander CmdrTaco doesn't look stupid to you, then I don't see the problem. You're the one who's stuck with it. It's also clear that none of the Blizzard devs have ever read Catch 22 (particularly Major Major).
This sort of misunderstands the point of satire. A news article with a picture of the president attached is typically either about the president or the president's statements. The Onion's articles are about the president, but they are fictional... The exact same arguments you would use for the appropriateness of using the president's likeness (or ANYONE'S likeness really, the president isn't supposed to be THAT special) could be used for using the seal... people might think an article about George Bush with an image of George Bush is actually about George Bush.
I also find it amusing for a White House that has spent so much time, energy and political capital badmouthing lawyers that they have initiated so much frivilous lawyering themselves. If the Bush White House doesn't want to be made fun of, my personal suggestion is that they stop being such a laughable administration.. But, I won't hold my breath. Why do that when you can sue your critics into oblivion? If that doesn't work.. I hear outing spouses' classified status to the news media for retaliation can work wonders, too.
America encourages greed. You have to be greedy (or at least on top of your financial situation at all times) to get by, or greedy people will find a way to take all of your money.
In AOL world, the ones who know about IE are the smart ones.. To most of the AOL subscribers I know, "the internet" is the horrible built-in AOL web browser.
China has a track record of honoring treaties and peace when they have larger goals in sight. Once they have achieved those goals... The West will see how much they really care what the rest of the world has to say and tell it what opinion it should share of the great PRC.
Just as the West (particularly the US) is showing the same thing to the rest of the world right now.
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All types of subcultures are represented there. All types of drugs are too. Other than that, your comment is right on the money.
I'm not a scientist and don't know how close to true it is, but this line is used by people to justify doing nothing when it comes to modifying our habits (even though it makes a measurable effect on the environment) when we really should be doing these things anyway, until we know they aren't causing global warming. That way, if we're wrong, we can go back to our SUVs.. This way, if we're wrong, we won't realize it until the damage has been done. That's just dumb.
Why does someone always have to be an idiot (or even a novice) in the linux world to enjoy an easier interface? It's amazing that you guys wonder why most users won't touch Linux. Even in the world of computer nerds, it seems you can't escape the machismo mentality. All other things being equal, easier should be better even if you're a guru.
Even when I'm fully proficient with a program, I appreciate an easy, intuitive interface. It lets me get my work done quicker. It's less of a strain on my mind. I can spend those brain-hourse thinking about my next algorithm, learning more new programs, or whatever.
I hope you keep that in mind when your appointment gets cut short because, hey, even though you're still discussing your care, they gotta get to the person who had an appointment at that time. So sorry, better luck next time.
I'm sure you wouldn't be a drama queen in a situation like that..
Robertson has been diversifying his revenue sources for a while.. His 700 Club money has been going into diamond mine ventures with horrible human rights records.
While I agree more or less with your assessment (some companies are more socially responsible than others, I doubt any of the people flagging against the RIAA bother to compare), I would say that it knocks some of the preachy moral high ground out of grandparent's sermonizing.
I can debate the validity in a lot of these things but the one I've never been able to understand is the soul shard issue. It blows me away that someone could take the time and effort to get a warlock to 60 and still not know how to manage soul shards. Maybe exposure to after-60 raid group content will change my tune, but I doubt it.
I have a warlock (level 56, and yes I PVP with him) and a hunter (level 30something) and I can say without hesitation that the maintainence of keeping my hunter full of meat and arrows has been far more annoying than keeping my warlock full of soul shards. Usually sharding is so ingrained in my habits that I've got way more shards than I need. I couldn't tell you how many shards I've thrown away/made healthstones out of and given away like candy even though I keep one full bag dedicated to them as a cushion.
I also think, with the exception of getting jumped by a rogue, that warlocks are extremely formidable in pretty much every PVP scenario. Not that I haven't given a few rogues with more levels than me nasty surprises when their backstab is rewarded with a seduce/heal/nuke into oblivion. On top of that, i find warlocks to be very versatile with many nasty little tricks under their sleeves.
I hope someone taking your position that you have to "put your values first" isn't shopping at Wal-Mart or buying any of the products that benefit directly or indirectly from outsourced slave labor, which nowadays is pretty much anything. I think the RIAA is bad and are fighting against the interests of the average person, but they have nothing on REAL corporate evil-doers.
Maybe they're too busy fighting crime to fight the good fight removing Microsoft's stranglehold on the vertical monopoly. Maybe they just want to get work done.
Not only has Bush stated it (as referenced in many of the children posts), but McClellan has gone on the record as saying that he has championed this particular view since his days as Texas Governor.
So if it's a fabrication, it's one perpetuated by Bush's press secretary (and Bush himself for that matter).
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FNC runs racilly-driven stories all of the time. Recently, they were the major pushers (though not the only) of the stories of "widespread rapes and looting" in the aftermath of Katrina, the stories of blacks shooting at aid helicopters, and so on... all stories which turned out to have no basis in fact whatsoever (don't expect an apology or retraction from them, though). Just because they don't say "black people look like monkeys" in those terms doesn't mean that they don't make it very clear that they consider minorities to be sub-human savages.
Too bad "the market" is stupid, selfish and short-sighted. These traits make it a bad choice to dictate the future of world-wide connectivity.
One of the reasons that America is so racially diverse today is because those Christians brought those black people over as slaves, forbade them from learning how to read or practicing their own culture, forbade them from speaking their own language, forbade them from observing their own religion and forced them to be Christian, controlled their lives with imprisonment and forced labor, and killed the ones who disobeyed. Black people aren't slaves, but they are still in economic thrall to the white people. Blacks are tolerated as long as they stay on their side of the fence and believe in Jesus Christ.
If you call that "success," well, that speaks volumes more bad things about you than it does about what you call "secular humanism."
By the way, multi-culturalism doesn't have to do with the accepting of the color of one's skin. The color of your skin is not your culture. Your language, spirituality, and social customs are your culuture. The collective values of your society are your culture. This comment makes it absolutely clear how AGAINST multi-culturalism you are, since only Christians are welcome in your world.
Not on television, you wouldn't, at least not on a mainstream program. That was the point. In any country anywhere in the world, you can find someone bigoted who will spew that kind of tripe, but in the US, that is generally not something you catch in mainstream media.
Be sure never to turn on TBN/700 Club or the Fox News Channel.. I'd hate to burst your bubble.
Nope, we're only smart enough to post on Slashdot.
Please get off your high horse. A book puts stuff together in a way that someone with no prior experience to a subject (who doesn't really know what to "google" for, and would like a comprehensive guide to a subject instead of trolling for a dozen links.
What I hate about comments like these is that they're almost always bragging in a thinly-veiled way... "*I* figured it out on my own, why can't time-strapped IT professionals do the same?" The answer is the time it would take to compile such a comprehensive resource is worth MORE to some people than the price of the book. Books also tend to have a more comprehensive goal in mind (ie, you build on what you learned in the last chapter), whereas most websites and HOWTOs are atrocious resources except for the individual task the websites is dedicated to. Also, books tend to be written by professionals, editied by professional editors, as opposed to random people spewing on the net. My experience is that googled examples tend to be much less insightful, more likely to be contradictory, tutorials thrown together, etc.. In the OSS world especially, so populated by hackers, documentation that makes sense to non-hackers is very low on the list of priorities.
If you learned this stuff with nothing but google and loads of spare time, congratulations, give yourself a gold star.
It's in the EULA or similar agreement (that long document everyone scrolls through without reading and hits agree), and the reason they have that particular rule is because they have a PVP ranking system that uses military style titles. So someday you may be Commander CmdrTaco.
I understand why they have this policy, but it really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If Commander CmdrTaco doesn't look stupid to you, then I don't see the problem. You're the one who's stuck with it. It's also clear that none of the Blizzard devs have ever read Catch 22 (particularly Major Major).
This sort of misunderstands the point of satire. A news article with a picture of the president attached is typically either about the president or the president's statements. The Onion's articles are about the president, but they are fictional... The exact same arguments you would use for the appropriateness of using the president's likeness (or ANYONE'S likeness really, the president isn't supposed to be THAT special) could be used for using the seal... people might think an article about George Bush with an image of George Bush is actually about George Bush.
I also find it amusing for a White House that has spent so much time, energy and political capital badmouthing lawyers that they have initiated so much frivilous lawyering themselves. If the Bush White House doesn't want to be made fun of, my personal suggestion is that they stop being such a laughable administration.. But, I won't hold my breath. Why do that when you can sue your critics into oblivion? If that doesn't work.. I hear outing spouses' classified status to the news media for retaliation can work wonders, too.
America encourages greed. You have to be greedy (or at least on top of your financial situation at all times) to get by, or greedy people will find a way to take all of your money.
FOX News broadcasts 24 hours of opinion shrouded as news.
In AOL world, the ones who know about IE are the smart ones.. To most of the AOL subscribers I know, "the internet" is the horrible built-in AOL web browser.
China has a track record of honoring treaties and peace when they have larger goals in sight. Once they have achieved those goals... The West will see how much they really care what the rest of the world has to say and tell it what opinion it should share of the great PRC.
Just as the West (particularly the US) is showing the same thing to the rest of the world right now.
All types of subcultures are represented there. All types of drugs are too. Other than that, your comment is right on the money.
I'm not a scientist and don't know how close to true it is, but this line is used by people to justify doing nothing when it comes to modifying our habits (even though it makes a measurable effect on the environment) when we really should be doing these things anyway, until we know they aren't causing global warming. That way, if we're wrong, we can go back to our SUVs.. This way, if we're wrong, we won't realize it until the damage has been done. That's just dumb.
Why does someone always have to be an idiot (or even a novice) in the linux world to enjoy an easier interface? It's amazing that you guys wonder why most users won't touch Linux. Even in the world of computer nerds, it seems you can't escape the machismo mentality. All other things being equal, easier should be better even if you're a guru.
Even when I'm fully proficient with a program, I appreciate an easy, intuitive interface. It lets me get my work done quicker. It's less of a strain on my mind. I can spend those brain-hourse thinking about my next algorithm, learning more new programs, or whatever.
I hope you keep that in mind when your appointment gets cut short because, hey, even though you're still discussing your care, they gotta get to the person who had an appointment at that time. So sorry, better luck next time.
I'm sure you wouldn't be a drama queen in a situation like that..
You guys can mod this as funny, but I remember the game fondly too.
I probably use this link too much, but.. can't help it..
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Robertson has been diversifying his revenue sources for a while.. His 700 Club money has been going into diamond mine ventures with horrible human rights records.
Though, I know you just said this to be funny..
While I agree more or less with your assessment (some companies are more socially responsible than others, I doubt any of the people flagging against the RIAA bother to compare), I would say that it knocks some of the preachy moral high ground out of grandparent's sermonizing.
I can debate the validity in a lot of these things but the one I've never been able to understand is the soul shard issue. It blows me away that someone could take the time and effort to get a warlock to 60 and still not know how to manage soul shards. Maybe exposure to after-60 raid group content will change my tune, but I doubt it.
I have a warlock (level 56, and yes I PVP with him) and a hunter (level 30something) and I can say without hesitation that the maintainence of keeping my hunter full of meat and arrows has been far more annoying than keeping my warlock full of soul shards. Usually sharding is so ingrained in my habits that I've got way more shards than I need. I couldn't tell you how many shards I've thrown away/made healthstones out of and given away like candy even though I keep one full bag dedicated to them as a cushion.
I also think, with the exception of getting jumped by a rogue, that warlocks are extremely formidable in pretty much every PVP scenario. Not that I haven't given a few rogues with more levels than me nasty surprises when their backstab is rewarded with a seduce/heal/nuke into oblivion. On top of that, i find warlocks to be very versatile with many nasty little tricks under their sleeves.
I hope someone taking your position that you have to "put your values first" isn't shopping at Wal-Mart or buying any of the products that benefit directly or indirectly from outsourced slave labor, which nowadays is pretty much anything. I think the RIAA is bad and are fighting against the interests of the average person, but they have nothing on REAL corporate evil-doers.
The bad news is we just lost our lawsuit and now have to cough up damages and legal fees. The good news is I just saved a bunch on my car insurance!
Maybe they're too busy fighting crime to fight the good fight removing Microsoft's stranglehold on the vertical monopoly. Maybe they just want to get work done.
Not only has Bush stated it (as referenced in many of the children posts), but McClellan has gone on the record as saying that he has championed this particular view since his days as Texas Governor.
So if it's a fabrication, it's one perpetuated by Bush's press secretary (and Bush himself for that matter).