In grander picture, I'm not even sure if he can be called "new level of ruthlessness", sadly... (regarding humanity)
For one example: Indonesian purges of the 60s + East Timor (making it much more recent) - quite possibly at least a million deaths.
Oh, wait, that was done by the "good guys" & to the "bad guys"; with our direct support, sympathy & admiration, even lists of names provided. Nvm then, carry on.
So, do you try hard to ignore all involved in such NATO operations as ex-Yugoslavia or Afghanistan or just are blissfully unaware? (and remember, "per capita" is what matters; also, "who has the largest due payments to the UN")
(and, I assume you hold such view towards pretty much any religion?:> )
Homosexual trait appears to increase reproductive success of a group, in humans. For one, sisters (and their offspring) of homosexual men end up significantly more fertile.
Well, being uncomfortable with anything which can upset your simple ancient answers to the questions is also natural...
I would be surprised. If anything, you can expect some silly (but working, easily offsetting sales losses) movement by religious bigots to "support a righteous company"...
(plus - suddenly iOS products aren't widely successful?;) Also - I'm not sure if "richer" is a big part, not when contract / living off credit hides cost of a (sort of) positional goods)
An invasion of a country justifies military intervention (Iraq and Kuwait)
Well, the funny thing with this one is how it was apparently almost green-lit... (love how cabkle leaks (quite interesting, this one) seem to be used now among sources for such;> )
And that questionable intelligence was propagated by every major intel agency in the world, not just the US
Continuing to believe in such myths doesn't make them true...
Heck, and check sometimes how large part of the US population (or... even US troops in Iraq) still thinks Iraq was involved in 9/11, and how that was the reason for the invasion.
There, fixed for you that "unbiased perspective" of yours:
(especially if you just do the math on the probability of something which is not the subject of evolutionary theory and convince yourself of (popular among creationists) delusions that evolution operates on pure chance)
(that said, Groupon seems to have quite a momentum; it might be able to direct lots of people where to buy maybe even "better" (as far as profiteers are concerned) than Adsense)
Too bad they're largely useless for dealing with aftermath of certain physiological functions of the body; typically a bit too small for that...
(worse, same goes for various flyers handed out at tram & bus stops, underpasses, etc. - and I bet that's the goal of choosing glossy paper to make virtually all of them)
Engineering approach might be somewhat in kinship with ancient styles of answer to the question "who is in charge of the Earth?"? Styles which are very much one of core elements of humanity, most likely were (and very possibly still are) an evolutionary advantage. Couple them with oversensitive alertness + improvements to the ability of the mind to internalize surrounding entities (in both cases: with false positives not getting in the way of survival so much), and there you have it...
Besides, people uncomfortable with anything that can possibly shatter their ancient answer to that question aren't exactly limited to engineers; bringing one under "in defense of creationists" umbrella seems misapplied. And they're not even particularly, say, Christian for that matter... considering the Catholics alone are enough to have a majority of Christians; and, via Vatican: (emphasis mine)
How do the conclusions reached by the various scientific disciplines coincide with those contained in the message of revelation? And if, at first sight, there are apparent contradictions, in what direction do we look for their solution? We know, in fact, that truth cannot contradict truth ...
It is necessary to determine the proper sense of Scripture, while avoiding any unwarranted interpretations that make it say what it does not intend to say. In order to delineate the field of their own study, the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences
...
new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory
There are quite a few places which did secede from the EU (and its various forms over the decades). I don't think anybody here considered it to be a reason for war...
As time went on, the procedure was actually explicitly codified in highest laws of the EU, very recently (and when it wasn't, it evidently didn't harm wishes to leave); also how to implement smaller changes - say, limit the scope of EU laws.
If some place, their people want to leave - they can. Y'know, voicing an opinion in so called "referendum" / voting.
(plus the membership can be largely suspended by a decision of the Community (except the state in question) if one of its members fails to uphold founding principles of the EU (TITLE I—Common provisions, Article 2))
Most importantly, Le Mans tech advancements are more directly related to tech improvements in usual cars. That should be ultimately the primary point behind any "technology excellence" motorsport... (granted, F1 aren't anywhere as horrible in it as, say, mentioned by grandparent poster dragsters - but drastic lowering of max RPM & compression ratios (while allowing for greater displacements to compensate) would be a good start; would make them sound better, too)
Huh? TDI (turbocharger...) like pretty much every car diesel engine of the last 5 years? (most of the last 10, many of last 15; including / especially those used in inexpensive superminis)
In "oh those soviets. what cards." terms, those tests probably top the scale... but you have to remember they weren't unique at all (the article gives some starting point about similar tests by "the good guys")
(then there's the biggest irony of history: how the life expectancy in Soviet Union, in the times of Stalin and some time after, dramatically increased - from the level of very backwards & impoverished country, to one which surpasses US - despite all the victims or WW2)
I checked again (after some time), in few clients... and chats are (still?) very much not among IMAP folders visible to local client (also when a conversation has both chat and mail component); they are quite distinct. They are not labels, too, for that matter (which don't work so well as folders...). Basically it makes even using random local clients not very practical / except for few mobile ones... / Google could really push for slight extension of IMAP standard / OTOH - they want eyeballs kept in their UI...
It's still better than most IM, which generally keep only local archive (would be lost several times in the meantime), but...
Not really particularly surprising. Maybe, at most, in the context of the other myths; how we like to convince ourselves about reliability of our memory (heck, not even only collective one, also individual - how not very conscious of ourselves, of our minds we are: a list of cognitive biases here, pointing out how split-brain people are almost unchanged, how when older we start to believe myths about greatness of our youth, how we are generally closer to our peers than to ourselves at distant life stages, mention of one localized brain trauma resulting in people becoming completely blind without them realizing it - fits Plato...)
While we... not so much "forget", but just "don't particularly care" even about our direct & very, very recent ancestors (quick, without checking tell me the date and place of birth of your grandparents! Which is rather important to us, deals with "from where you are?" and apparent age, a very powerful determinants of our view of others, of social interactions); vs. popular myths of "hey, we are so important, gods exist and love us, more of us are alive now than have ever lived!" (ignoring 100+ billion already dead homo sapiens sapiens... at least we will be similarly ignored very quickly, so there's some "balance") and other harmful bullshit lies, many of them basically about ancient history and still living in present societies. And as always, "the victors wrote history" / etc.
Nah, it's not surprising.
And time of our lives would fit few pages in average history book from distant future...
Well duh, that's what makes it hard to exclude possibilities between propensity for expensive gadgets (generally the most expensive per capita medical system - despite large numbers of non- & under-insured, despite that being just average driven by top spenders - for less than stellar results) and, somehow, one of quite few developed places where myths play such (at the least outwardly) role...
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Well, the rebels hold very substantial part of Libyan oil-producing areas...
Do you? (fully, not PR version for the masses; few quick examples: first, second, third; curiously even some(!) parallels with...)
In grander picture, I'm not even sure if he can be called "new level of ruthlessness", sadly... (regarding humanity)
For one example: Indonesian purges of the 60s + East Timor (making it much more recent) - quite possibly at least a million deaths.
Oh, wait, that was done by the "good guys" & to the "bad guys"; with our direct support, sympathy & admiration, even lists of names provided. Nvm then, carry on.
So, do you try hard to ignore all involved in such NATO operations as ex-Yugoslavia or Afghanistan or just are blissfully unaware? (and remember, "per capita" is what matters; also, "who has the largest due payments to the UN")
:> )
(and, I assume you hold such view towards pretty much any religion?
Homosexual trait appears to increase reproductive success of a group, in humans. For one, sisters (and their offspring) of homosexual men end up significantly more fertile.
Well, being uncomfortable with anything which can upset your simple ancient answers to the questions is also natural...
Yes, keep remembering those few which were "fooled"... And don't forget Poland. (or Blix, OTOH)
;) (html ones)) More than with Saudi Arabia, our "ally"? You mean yellowcake document forgeries?
What Al Qaeda links? (links?
I would be surprised. If anything, you can expect some silly (but working, easily offsetting sales losses) movement by religious bigots to "support a righteous company"...
;) Also - I'm not sure if "richer" is a big part, not when contract / living off credit hides cost of a (sort of) positional goods)
(plus - suddenly iOS products aren't widely successful?
What is the highest / most prominent / most expensive / etc. building in most human settlements?
;> )
(that said, there's also the possibility of religious bigotry gay porn...
An invasion of a country justifies military intervention (Iraq and Kuwait)
Well, the funny thing with this one is how it was apparently almost green-lit... (love how cabkle leaks (quite interesting, this one) seem to be used now among sources for such ;> )
And that questionable intelligence was propagated by every major intel agency in the world, not just the US
Continuing to believe in such myths doesn't make them true...
Heck, and check sometimes how large part of the US population (or... even US troops in Iraq) still thinks Iraq was involved in 9/11, and how that was the reason for the invasion.
The difference between a 15 & 14-inch pizza.
A difference dwarfed by Moon illusion, twice a day... (if the sky is clear close to moonrise and moonset)
Even better: via binoculars, DSLR with appropriate lens, or a telescope.
(especially if you just do the math on the probability of something which is not the subject of evolutionary theory and convince yourself of (popular among creationists) delusions that evolution operates on pure chance)
(too bad it won't fix what you call "faith"...)
Fog. Fog computing.
(that said, Groupon seems to have quite a momentum; it might be able to direct lots of people where to buy maybe even "better" (as far as profiteers are concerned) than Adsense)
Or you can just face how it was a (self-marvel kind of) myth all along.
Too bad they're largely useless for dealing with aftermath of certain physiological functions of the body; typically a bit too small for that...
(worse, same goes for various flyers handed out at tram & bus stops, underpasses, etc. - and I bet that's the goal of choosing glossy paper to make virtually all of them)
Besides, people uncomfortable with anything that can possibly shatter their ancient answer to that question aren't exactly limited to engineers; bringing one under "in defense of creationists" umbrella seems misapplied. And they're not even particularly, say, Christian for that matter... considering the Catholics alone are enough to have a majority of Christians; and, via Vatican: (emphasis mine)
How do the conclusions reached by the various scientific disciplines coincide with those contained in the message of revelation? And if, at first sight, there are apparent contradictions, in what direction do we look for their solution? We know, in fact, that truth cannot contradict truth
...
It is necessary to determine the proper sense of Scripture, while avoiding any unwarranted interpretations that make it say what it does not intend to say. In order to delineate the field of their own study, the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences
...
new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory
There are quite a few places which did secede from the EU (and its various forms over the decades). I don't think anybody here considered it to be a reason for war...
As time went on, the procedure was actually explicitly codified in highest laws of the EU, very recently (and when it wasn't, it evidently didn't harm wishes to leave); also how to implement smaller changes - say, limit the scope of EU laws.
If some place, their people want to leave - they can. Y'know, voicing an opinion in so called "referendum" / voting.
(plus the membership can be largely suspended by a decision of the Community (except the state in question) if one of its members fails to uphold founding principles of the EU (TITLE I—Common provisions, Article 2))
Most importantly, Le Mans tech advancements are more directly related to tech improvements in usual cars. That should be ultimately the primary point behind any "technology excellence" motorsport... (granted, F1 aren't anywhere as horrible in it as, say, mentioned by grandparent poster dragsters - but drastic lowering of max RPM & compression ratios (while allowing for greater displacements to compensate) would be a good start; would make them sound better, too)
Huh? TDI (turbocharger...) like pretty much every car diesel engine of the last 5 years? (most of the last 10, many of last 15; including / especially those used in inexpensive superminis)
In "oh those soviets. what cards." terms, those tests probably top the scale... but you have to remember they weren't unique at all (the article gives some starting point about similar tests by "the good guys")
(then there's the biggest irony of history: how the life expectancy in Soviet Union, in the times of Stalin and some time after, dramatically increased - from the level of very backwards & impoverished country, to one which surpasses US - despite all the victims or WW2)
I checked again (after some time), in few clients... and chats are (still?) very much not among IMAP folders visible to local client (also when a conversation has both chat and mail component); they are quite distinct. They are not labels, too, for that matter (which don't work so well as folders...). Basically it makes even using random local clients not very practical / except for few mobile ones... / Google could really push for slight extension of IMAP standard / OTOH - they want eyeballs kept in their UI...
It's still better than most IM, which generally keep only local archive (would be lost several times in the meantime), but...
I'm slightly surprised nobody seems to be making a connection between "hydrogen explosion" and "hydrogen bomb"... yet?
Not really particularly surprising. Maybe, at most, in the context of the other myths; how we like to convince ourselves about reliability of our memory (heck, not even only collective one, also individual - how not very conscious of ourselves, of our minds we are: a list of cognitive biases here, pointing out how split-brain people are almost unchanged, how when older we start to believe myths about greatness of our youth, how we are generally closer to our peers than to ourselves at distant life stages, mention of one localized brain trauma resulting in people becoming completely blind without them realizing it - fits Plato...)
While we... not so much "forget", but just "don't particularly care" even about our direct & very, very recent ancestors (quick, without checking tell me the date and place of birth of your grandparents! Which is rather important to us, deals with "from where you are?" and apparent age, a very powerful determinants of our view of others, of social interactions); vs. popular myths of "hey, we are so important, gods exist and love us, more of us are alive now than have ever lived!" (ignoring 100+ billion already dead homo sapiens sapiens... at least we will be similarly ignored very quickly, so there's some "balance") and other harmful bullshit lies, many of them basically about ancient history and still living in present societies. And as always, "the victors wrote history" / etc.
Nah, it's not surprising.
And time of our lives would fit few pages in average history book from distant future...
Antennas? The "rigors" of engineering which missed "death brush"? (more apt than "... grip")
Well duh, that's what makes it hard to exclude possibilities between propensity for expensive gadgets (generally the most expensive per capita medical system - despite large numbers of non- & under-insured, despite that being just average driven by top spenders - for less than stellar results) and, somehow, one of quite few developed places where myths play such (at the least outwardly) role...