"Apart from a few liberal whiners, the 'greater good' argument doesn't mean dick here."
Yes because you're too far up your own asshole to see beyond your own colon. Hopefully you'll shoot someone in a redneck rage and get bumfucked to oblivion in prison. Now get back to polishing cock.
This is the trouble with business. This kid isn't a genius, after all:
...I've only just passed my driving test...
Now that's conclusive proof if ever I heard it! What do you do for an encore, prove Newton's laws of motion by jumpimg off a building? Just for the record here are some facts about the UK and its culture:
* The legal age of driving is 17
* People are not considered morons if they don't own a car, on the contrary
Perhaps you can remove your head from your arse before posting in the future and also try not to sound so jealous.
No-one *needs* a mini-van for 2 adults and two children. What would happen if you didn't have it? Would someone die? If you really wanted to you could get everyone in a small car. I think what you mean is it's more *convenient* to own a mini-van.
And I'm saying you only need a few people on a bus to make it more efficient than everybody driving cars... especially with the gaz-guzzling monsters some people drive. If people agreed on everything there'd be no interesting debate. Get over it.
Yes you can, so long as you've followed the OO panteon of programming to interface rather than implementation, but you would have to cast to a derived type.
Actually, that points to another place where objective-c trumps Java or.Net: you can add (your own) methods to classes you don't necessarily have the source code for
From TFA:
Categories provide an elegant solution to the fragile base class problem for methods.
Also from TFA:
A category has full access to all of the instance variables within the class, including private variables.
Seems kinda contradictory to the first statement. I don't see how this is any better than extending a class and overriding a method or providing a new on as you would in Java. Methods being virtual by default in Java, you can do this pretty easily as many developers don't bother to mark classes or methods as final (java.lang.String being an obvious exception).
I don't know if there's a silent majority of atheists
This could be the salient point of your post. Atheism is not about being religious, it's about not believing in religion, or more specifically, not believing in God. There's no need to preach the non-belief of something, hence the "silent majority". Ridiculing people who blindly believe and follow ("have faith") does not eqaute to religious fundamentalism, which is about preaching faith. Next time you see someone ridiculing, consider that the subject might be ridiculous.
I got modded a troll because people have trouble acknowledging that all belief could be defined as a religion
Oh dear.
1. All belief cannot be defined as religion.
Taking religion in the "God" sense of the word, faith is required. Other beliefs, e.g. scientific, do not require faith, we have realised these beliefs based on the evidence put before us.
2. lack of belief is not the same as belief in the lack of.
I can say I lack belief in something because there is insufficient evidence to prove something exists. Unlike belief in the lack of, I don't need any evidence to the contrary.
It's for these succinct reasons that it's very hard to accept that Aethism is a religion. I believe this is the reason you got modded troll!
It could also be described as a belief, just as easily.
Atheism is a reaction to religions that believe in god. If there was no belief in God, there would be no Aetheism. It makes a lot more sense to describe it as an absence of belief. Either way, I can't say Atheism is a religion any more than I can say not believing in ghosts, fairies or UFOs is a religion.
Perhaps you can explain what was so great about the post. Am I missing some hidden irony? I agree it's funny, but it's not *that* funny that it should be "the most under-rated/. post in history". I can also see how some people would see it as flamebait given the serious nature of the topic and the fact that some people have a limited or no sense of humour.
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"Apart from a few liberal whiners, the 'greater good' argument doesn't mean dick here."
Yes because you're too far up your own asshole to see beyond your own colon. Hopefully you'll shoot someone in a redneck rage and get bumfucked to oblivion in prison. Now get back to polishing cock.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need
The minivan example is a case in point. That's nice. I'm going to have a cup of tea later and probably doing some DIY on my house tomorrow, and I might go shopping
* The legal age of driving is 17
* People are not considered morons if they don't own a car, on the contrary
Perhaps you can remove your head from your arse before posting in the future and also try not to sound so jealous.
No-one *needs* a mini-van for 2 adults and two children. What would happen if you didn't have it? Would someone die? If you really wanted to you could get everyone in a small car. I think what you mean is it's more *convenient* to own a mini-van.
And I'm saying you only need a few people on a bus to make it more efficient than everybody driving cars... especially with the gaz-guzzling monsters some people drive. If people agreed on everything there'd be no interesting debate. Get over it.
Not much more than 4 cars.
A bus takes up the same space as 2 people in 2 cars...
No, even 15 people on a bus is far more efficient than 15 people driving 15 cars in terms of space and fuel economy.
From TFA:
Also from TFA:
Seems kinda contradictory to the first statement. I don't see how this is any better than extending a class and overriding a method or providing a new on as you would in Java. Methods being virtual by default in Java, you can do this pretty easily as many developers don't bother to mark classes or methods as final (java.lang.String being an obvious exception).
You might want to get rid of that IE browser instead of turning off JavaScript.
Yes, because you can draw reliable conclusions based on a handful of disks ;)
1. All belief cannot be defined as religion.
Taking religion in the "God" sense of the word, faith is required. Other beliefs, e.g. scientific, do not require faith, we have realised these beliefs based on the evidence put before us.
2. lack of belief is not the same as belief in the lack of.
I can say I lack belief in something because there is insufficient evidence to prove something exists. Unlike belief in the lack of, I don't need any evidence to the contrary.
It's for these succinct reasons that it's very hard to accept that Aethism is a religion. I believe this is the reason you got modded troll!
The way I understand it, Atheism is better described an absence of belief.
It would be ironic if they didn't also make an a$$load of money ;)
Sleep deprived people shouldn't attend firework displays. They're a hazard to others as well as themselves.
Perhaps you can explain what was so great about the post. Am I missing some hidden irony? I agree it's funny, but it's not *that* funny that it should be "the most under-rated /. post in history". I can also see how some people would see it as flamebait given the serious nature of the topic and the fact that some people have a limited or no sense of humour.