You know, that's the first time I've seen someone raise this point, and it is a very good one. The sad thing is, the security council is pretty much, well, a stopping point for any effectiveness of the UN. It'd only get worse if we didn't keep ourselves there - at least we (theoretically) can push for our voice there to say something (if the people of the US could stop watching Miley Cyrus' twerking and stuffing their faces for the 2 minutes it takes to call their congress critters). To my knowledge, China doesn't offer that. And I won't say I have enough knowledge of Russia's civic system to venture a guess one way or the other.
That was something that always fascinated me. It seems like nearly all religions are organized against it. Even the normally super-tolerant Jains and Buddhists are anti-homosexual. Almost all cite it as "unnatural," and yet it's incredibly common in the natural world which completely guts that argument. So far as I know, the only older religions I've read about which were accepting of homosexuality were held by the Greeks and Romans, and some Native American tribes. Now, there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of religions I'm unaware of, so there could be more. It just always seemed weird.
You mean the people are supporting the only group in the area that is offering to build and staff schools, give them food, add some stability, and provide some sense of a security force? I am shocked, I say, SHOCKED!
You mean a country that had a democratically elected leader until the US and UK organized a coup and then spent several years training secret police to murder and torture any secularists who didn't support the friendly puppet that they put in place? What do you have left when you have paid for all of the secularists to be killed? Let's be entirely honest about the history there. I admit that that country does have a grudge against us, but they have a really, REALLY good reason for it.
Fair enough, what I was reading apparently was misquoted. However, I am sure that there are negative things in the Jewish holy books, just like there are in the Christian ones and Islamic ones. None of them are innocent - that's my real point.
Fair enough - I am not a Talmud scholar, and I honestly don't care to be. It is a shame that most searches for the Talmud automatically bring up some pretty nasty things. Either way, all of the religious texts have horrible things. The bible talks about rape and murder in the name of God, incest to carry on the family name, murdering children for talking back to you, etc. I'm sure there is gruesome stuff in the Torah, Talmud, Zohar, and other texts. Likewise there is bad stuff in the Quran. All of them are guilty, probably due to having common Abrahamic roots. My real point is that despite the nasty things that are in them, most people realize that it's either dated or misquoted or injected due to racism and personal bias and not indicative of the religion as a whole. Christians in the west seem to be especially blind to this - some going so far as trumpeting how homosexuals should be killed, while talking about how Islam is an overtly evil religion that celebrates murder.
Prove me wrong on the other fronts. And so far as I know, most Muslims don't want to be associated with extremists, or those advocating for extremism (you know, like WBC advocates for violence against people). Likewise Christians don't want to be associated with those groups.
Now piss off.
It's also sad because almost every religion has bad examples. Hell, the Talmud says that all gentiles should be slaughtered like animals simply for not being Jewish, but we don't keep Jews off of planes.
You realize, that Muslim extremists are to Islam what the Westboro Baptist Church, Tripura, Assam, Odisha, anti-abortion bombers, and Hutaree are for Christianity, right? Sickening examples that leave the majority just as disgusted as you, the outside observer.
I think that's pretty solidly grey hat. You're technically breaking the law by accessing a system you're not supposed to and without authorization, but you're doing it entirely for benevolent reasons directly benefitting the party whose security you're compromising.
Screw them, the onus is on them to take action when someone reports a bug. If you don't have enough information when there is a security problem, maybe, JUST MAYBE, you should follow up with the submitter. If I was the submitter I'd just publish the exploit and be done with it.
The whole "officially eradicated" thing makes no sense to me, especially when we still see outbreaks. In 2011 there was a sizable outbreak in Jakarta. So how can something be eradicated if it still pops up in the wild?
The old death rate from measle pneumonia was 30%, and it still is for anyone who is immunocompromised (though with modern medicine it has dropped to as low as.3% for healthy people). 90% of unvaccinated people will get the disease when they come in contact with an infected person. Not disagreeing with you at all, those death rates only include the pneumonia side-effect.
I think this happens in almost every branch of medicine, and it doesn't specifically require 3rd world hacks. For instance, I have a history of getting peritonsillar abscesses about every other year (basically pre-tonsillitis, the cell barrier around the tonsil has been breached and if I get a bad sore throat, the whole thing turns into a massive abscess that has to be lanced, drained, and I have to be given huge amounts of antibiotics). I can't get my tonsil's removed because the recovery time for an adult is more than a month out of work. Several times now I have gone to the hospital, told the attending doctor exactly what the issue was, how it needed to be treated, what antibiotics work, what anabolic steroid to use, and how much liquified vicodin I need to be able to start eating again (your throat almost swells shut). More than 3/4ths of the time, the attending doctor would tell me it was just strep throat and give me some minor meds. I finally got fed up with it and pay the extra for no-referral insurance. I call the ENT, make an appointment, get my throat lanced, and am relieved in about 3 hours. I think the issue may have something to do with lots of resident hospitals using almost exclusively resident physicians. A resident is not the same thing as a full experienced doctor, and hospitals seem to forget that. Especially when it isn't your usual broken arm, gunshot wound or case of the sniffles.
We need a good plague to get idiots to realize how immunity works. We're about due anyways - it's been what, nearly a hundred years since the Spanish flu pandemic? It just makes me sad when you have people in Haiti and Africa literally begging for vaccinations so their kids might have a chance at survival, and affluent anti-vaxxers who are so deadset against it because there is a miniscule chance reported by a retracted study that their kid MIGHT get an ultimately survivable disease. Because you know, their kid becoming infected with a disease and spreading it to the rest of the susceptible population is SO much better. The dichotomy is heartbreaking. Buy the damn vaccine and send it overseas if you don't want it so someone who isn't a moron can have a chance.
Exactly. My kids are not more or less important than anyone else's kids. And that's the exact reason why they will be vaccinated. No one should be forced to deal with some disease because some looney decided to punch a gaping hole in our herd immunity. Sacrifice yourself, don't sacrifice others.
No, it means that the tested hypothesis has not been proven, and you must yield to the current null hypothesis. If you run an experiment and the results don't support the test, that *is* the result. When you start saying that you don't have a result, you end up with things like the Vioxx case.
Your friend is most likely right next to the antenna, and that sucks. Comcast has the FCC license to broadcast at a way higher power than what is alotted for a home device. He should be able to use any wifi tool panel and see what channel it is on, and pick another for his home device. The WAP's only broadcast on a single channel, so far as I know. That gives your friend a lot of options.
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Technically, we already have a reason to attack, and we did the second one of their missiles hit our ally, Turkey. This is just casus belli.
For having a higher amount of melanin in his skin, and for not being George Bush.
You know, that's the first time I've seen someone raise this point, and it is a very good one. The sad thing is, the security council is pretty much, well, a stopping point for any effectiveness of the UN. It'd only get worse if we didn't keep ourselves there - at least we (theoretically) can push for our voice there to say something (if the people of the US could stop watching Miley Cyrus' twerking and stuffing their faces for the 2 minutes it takes to call their congress critters). To my knowledge, China doesn't offer that. And I won't say I have enough knowledge of Russia's civic system to venture a guess one way or the other.
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That was something that always fascinated me. It seems like nearly all religions are organized against it. Even the normally super-tolerant Jains and Buddhists are anti-homosexual. Almost all cite it as "unnatural," and yet it's incredibly common in the natural world which completely guts that argument. So far as I know, the only older religions I've read about which were accepting of homosexuality were held by the Greeks and Romans, and some Native American tribes. Now, there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of religions I'm unaware of, so there could be more. It just always seemed weird.
What say I? I say spend 2 months in the UAE, Qatar, or Bahrain. Not every place is what your caricature of the Middle East describes.
You mean the people are supporting the only group in the area that is offering to build and staff schools, give them food, add some stability, and provide some sense of a security force? I am shocked, I say, SHOCKED!
You mean a country that had a democratically elected leader until the US and UK organized a coup and then spent several years training secret police to murder and torture any secularists who didn't support the friendly puppet that they put in place? What do you have left when you have paid for all of the secularists to be killed? Let's be entirely honest about the history there. I admit that that country does have a grudge against us, but they have a really, REALLY good reason for it.
Fair enough, what I was reading apparently was misquoted. However, I am sure that there are negative things in the Jewish holy books, just like there are in the Christian ones and Islamic ones. None of them are innocent - that's my real point.
Fair enough - I am not a Talmud scholar, and I honestly don't care to be. It is a shame that most searches for the Talmud automatically bring up some pretty nasty things. Either way, all of the religious texts have horrible things. The bible talks about rape and murder in the name of God, incest to carry on the family name, murdering children for talking back to you, etc. I'm sure there is gruesome stuff in the Torah, Talmud, Zohar, and other texts. Likewise there is bad stuff in the Quran. All of them are guilty, probably due to having common Abrahamic roots. My real point is that despite the nasty things that are in them, most people realize that it's either dated or misquoted or injected due to racism and personal bias and not indicative of the religion as a whole. Christians in the west seem to be especially blind to this - some going so far as trumpeting how homosexuals should be killed, while talking about how Islam is an overtly evil religion that celebrates murder.
Prove me wrong on the other fronts. And so far as I know, most Muslims don't want to be associated with extremists, or those advocating for extremism (you know, like WBC advocates for violence against people). Likewise Christians don't want to be associated with those groups. Now piss off.
It's also sad because almost every religion has bad examples. Hell, the Talmud says that all gentiles should be slaughtered like animals simply for not being Jewish, but we don't keep Jews off of planes.
You realize, that Muslim extremists are to Islam what the Westboro Baptist Church, Tripura, Assam, Odisha, anti-abortion bombers, and Hutaree are for Christianity, right? Sickening examples that leave the majority just as disgusted as you, the outside observer.
I think that's pretty solidly grey hat. You're technically breaking the law by accessing a system you're not supposed to and without authorization, but you're doing it entirely for benevolent reasons directly benefitting the party whose security you're compromising.
Screw them, the onus is on them to take action when someone reports a bug. If you don't have enough information when there is a security problem, maybe, JUST MAYBE, you should follow up with the submitter. If I was the submitter I'd just publish the exploit and be done with it.
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The whole "officially eradicated" thing makes no sense to me, especially when we still see outbreaks. In 2011 there was a sizable outbreak in Jakarta. So how can something be eradicated if it still pops up in the wild?
The old death rate from measle pneumonia was 30%, and it still is for anyone who is immunocompromised (though with modern medicine it has dropped to as low as .3% for healthy people). 90% of unvaccinated people will get the disease when they come in contact with an infected person. Not disagreeing with you at all, those death rates only include the pneumonia side-effect.
Ah yes, I suppose the mentality is, "it is better to risk death from measles than to live with a special needs child who is mostly functional."
There have been isolated outbreaks of smallpox, so you may be a trend setter.
I think this happens in almost every branch of medicine, and it doesn't specifically require 3rd world hacks. For instance, I have a history of getting peritonsillar abscesses about every other year (basically pre-tonsillitis, the cell barrier around the tonsil has been breached and if I get a bad sore throat, the whole thing turns into a massive abscess that has to be lanced, drained, and I have to be given huge amounts of antibiotics). I can't get my tonsil's removed because the recovery time for an adult is more than a month out of work. Several times now I have gone to the hospital, told the attending doctor exactly what the issue was, how it needed to be treated, what antibiotics work, what anabolic steroid to use, and how much liquified vicodin I need to be able to start eating again (your throat almost swells shut). More than 3/4ths of the time, the attending doctor would tell me it was just strep throat and give me some minor meds. I finally got fed up with it and pay the extra for no-referral insurance. I call the ENT, make an appointment, get my throat lanced, and am relieved in about 3 hours. I think the issue may have something to do with lots of resident hospitals using almost exclusively resident physicians. A resident is not the same thing as a full experienced doctor, and hospitals seem to forget that. Especially when it isn't your usual broken arm, gunshot wound or case of the sniffles.
We need a good plague to get idiots to realize how immunity works. We're about due anyways - it's been what, nearly a hundred years since the Spanish flu pandemic? It just makes me sad when you have people in Haiti and Africa literally begging for vaccinations so their kids might have a chance at survival, and affluent anti-vaxxers who are so deadset against it because there is a miniscule chance reported by a retracted study that their kid MIGHT get an ultimately survivable disease. Because you know, their kid becoming infected with a disease and spreading it to the rest of the susceptible population is SO much better. The dichotomy is heartbreaking. Buy the damn vaccine and send it overseas if you don't want it so someone who isn't a moron can have a chance.
Exactly. My kids are not more or less important than anyone else's kids. And that's the exact reason why they will be vaccinated. No one should be forced to deal with some disease because some looney decided to punch a gaping hole in our herd immunity. Sacrifice yourself, don't sacrifice others.
No, it means that the tested hypothesis has not been proven, and you must yield to the current null hypothesis. If you run an experiment and the results don't support the test, that *is* the result. When you start saying that you don't have a result, you end up with things like the Vioxx case.
Your friend is most likely right next to the antenna, and that sucks. Comcast has the FCC license to broadcast at a way higher power than what is alotted for a home device. He should be able to use any wifi tool panel and see what channel it is on, and pick another for his home device. The WAP's only broadcast on a single channel, so far as I know. That gives your friend a lot of options.