The only magic that exists is David Copperfield trickery, and I say that as a Christian. Miracles aren't magic, they are occurrences with incredibly low probabilities (like several that have happened to me, including my surviving an "unsurvivable" auto wreck).
That is absurd. The whole point about Jesus performing miracles was that they proved he was the Son of God, i.e. a supernatural or magic being.
If they're just lucky flukes or party tricks, they're meaningless.
As an atheist, I don't understand how you could call yourself a Christian without believing in the divinity of Jesus.
Modern churches, even here in the deep south are pretty diverse places, and the general policy seems to be "if you think this is going to start an argument, and is not vitally important, don't talk about it."
I cannot see the point of an organisation that you go to voluntarily (i.e. excluding work) where you aren't allowed to have any meaningful discussions.
Even going out for after work drinks you're likelyto argue about football, politics or something.
Foxfire has been doing this the mid 1960s. How to raise and slaughter animals. How to grow crops. How to bootstrap iron working, including gunsmithing. Everything you need, and with all the mammy-pamby crap from "urban homesteaders" and preppers. Practical knowledge from people that were doing it daily.
Hope they've got one on a quick, painless way to kill yourself. I wouldn't want to live like that for the rest of my life.
Apple equates to an it, not a plural, so you use doesn't instead of don't.
In the UK we quite often refer to organisations/corporations in the plural (e.g. "Tesco are cutting the price of petrol" or "BP are guilty of appalling safety management").
I'm not sure if there's a rule about when you're allowed or supposed to do it, but that's irrelevant if people do anyway.
While the end of civilisation would be generally a Bad Thing, the thought of never having to read the phrase "Adobe Software" again would almost make it worth while.
A flash grenade is an incendiary and concussion based device capable of killing in a metre blast radius.
Plastic bullets, water cannons, riot shields and batons can all kill people, they're just less likely to than heavy machine gun fire when used for crowd control.
I would actually tend to agree with you that flash bangs are more of a military than police tool, but I suppose the argument is that it's better to severely disorientate and possibly long term affect the hearing of a dangerous suspect rather than shoot them dead.
Like insurgents who hide their weapons behind children hoping to vilify their attackers, it seems quite strange someone would place a baby's crib blocking their own front door.
You have presumably been lucky enough not to have any dealings with serious drug dealers. They'd use their dear old mum and new born baby as human shields if necessary.
I have gathered from this thread that "social justice freak" or "SFW" is a term (like "political correctness") used by extreme reactionary right wing fuckbags to describe someone who does not believe that women should be treated as third class citizens.
I believe the same thing as with what the people who stole those celebrity pictures. I believe that would be unauthorized use of a computer as defined by the computer fraud and abuse act. That's a federal level felony you know.
And if it's applied to cops (but not teenage hackers with autism, of course) that's good, right?
If peeing behind a dumpster is enough to get someone on the sex offender's list, surely sharing private nude photos without authorization should get them listed.
Just to get it straight in my mind, this applies to anyone who shares nude photos without authorization?
If so, I imagine about half the people who use the internet would become registered sex offenders.
The Black Panthers had the only answer. The only thing that can stop a bad cop with a gun is a good citizen with a gun.
The only way to stop a bad cop is a bunch of good cops. If there aren't enough good cops, you're fucked beyond the ability of a single citizen with a gun to do much about it.
But surely they were just copying digital information, not stealing it?
So, therefore, no criminal offence has occurred, and at most they could be sued in a civil court for any actual financial losses incurred by the "creators" of the pix?
I personally wouldn't invest in Amazon. That said, overall the company seems sustainable, it can afford to make losses like the one last quarter in part because it can easily reverse those losses if it ever becomes a serious problem.
No other business would be allowed to handwave away losses like that., nor would they be allowed to operate with a business model reliant on becoming a monopoly in various different sectors like "all online retail" or "all online data services" as this is never going to happen. .
Amazon's model depends on endless growth, but you can't grow forever.
This is also the problem a lot of us have with the valuation of Apple. Yes, it does actually make a profit (unlike Amazon), but it also can't go on growing infinitely, and its valuation seems to imply something approaching this.
Cisco's strength was derived from teams of cracked engineers churning out amazing communication hardware. Was. Now that the cracked teams of engineers have mostly left Cisco has turned more and more like an Indian company.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.
If your fundamental business model is a fantasy, then so is your business.
If Amazon can't generate profits, they don't have a business, and there is surely a limit to how long the "jam tomorrow" excuse can be used.
"Journeys & Notes - This is a social app meant for the space between an origin and a destination: It connects you to a community of people who have traveled the same path that youâ(TM)re on. Whether youâ(TM)re taking the bus to work or jet-setting across the globe, you can both leave behind notes for others to discover and read what others have shared."
If I'm in Barcelona and want to know about Barcelona, what does it matter what my source point was and my destination point? Is a restaurant different in flavour if I arrived at it North to South than East to West? Does it make great tapas if I came down from Girona, but not if I drove up from Sitges?
Until someone invents instantaneous teleportation, getting from A to B involves things happening in between. If you spent several hours driving from Sitges to Barcelona, other people might be interested in the sights you saw, what the roads were like, how good the roadside cafe halfway was, and so on.
Meanwhile, in the real world, many businesses require continuing access to Windows XP, and so a working open source alternative would be very useful in the short term, and a potential introduction to FOSS in the longer term.
I find that not lying to yourself about your actual body measurements helps.
If those 34 inch waist jeans are too tight to do the fly up, it's most likely that you are in fact a 38 waist, rather than that the jeans are mislabelled.
Top tip: most people don't have the same statistics at 38 that they did at 18.
Asda, Morrison, Tesco and Sainsbury are all pretty similar in terms of quality and price, whatever people try and pretend.
They're all equalled in quality and undercut in price by Lidl and Aldi, it's just that you generally have more choice in Asda et al as they have bigger shops.
But if you want an aspirational carrier bag you go to Waitrose,or M&S.
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The only magic that exists is David Copperfield trickery, and I say that as a Christian. Miracles aren't magic, they are occurrences with incredibly low probabilities (like several that have happened to me, including my surviving an "unsurvivable" auto wreck).
That is absurd. The whole point about Jesus performing miracles was that they proved he was the Son of God, i.e. a supernatural or magic being.
If they're just lucky flukes or party tricks, they're meaningless.
As an atheist, I don't understand how you could call yourself a Christian without believing in the divinity of Jesus.
Modern churches, even here in the deep south are pretty diverse places, and the general policy seems to be "if you think this is going to start an argument, and is not vitally important, don't talk about it."
I cannot see the point of an organisation that you go to voluntarily (i.e. excluding work) where you aren't allowed to have any meaningful discussions.
Even going out for after work drinks you're likelyto argue about football, politics or something.
Is there a difference between trolling and insanity?
Yes, trolls choose to do what they do.
It's easy reply to this with a 'what the f* did you smoke'
Saying "I'm not insane" is not, in itself, a proof of sanity.
Foxfire has been doing this the mid 1960s. How to raise and slaughter animals. How to grow crops. How to bootstrap iron working, including gunsmithing. Everything you need, and with all the mammy-pamby crap from "urban homesteaders" and preppers. Practical knowledge from people that were doing it daily.
Hope they've got one on a quick, painless way to kill yourself. I wouldn't want to live like that for the rest of my life.
Ironically, the one group of people you would least want to survive the Apocalypse.
Apple doesn't* use smart batteries
Apple equates to an it, not a plural, so you use doesn't instead of don't.
In the UK we quite often refer to organisations/corporations in the plural (e.g. "Tesco are cutting the price of petrol" or "BP are guilty of appalling safety management").
I'm not sure if there's a rule about when you're allowed or supposed to do it, but that's irrelevant if people do anyway.
tl;dr OP might be English, sorry British
While the end of civilisation would be generally a Bad Thing, the thought of never having to read the phrase "Adobe Software" again would almost make it worth while.
Heart disease kills 600 million americans a year.
Out of a population of 300 million, that is pretty horrendous.
It seems to me that people without a strong sense of identity are finding something to give them one.
Alternatively, they're fucking mentalists.
A flash grenade is an incendiary and concussion based device capable of killing in a metre blast radius.
Plastic bullets, water cannons, riot shields and batons can all kill people, they're just less likely to than heavy machine gun fire when used for crowd control.
I would actually tend to agree with you that flash bangs are more of a military than police tool, but I suppose the argument is that it's better to severely disorientate and possibly long term affect the hearing of a dangerous suspect rather than shoot them dead.
Like insurgents who hide their weapons behind children hoping to vilify their attackers, it seems quite strange someone would place a baby's crib blocking their own front door.
You have presumably been lucky enough not to have any dealings with serious drug dealers. They'd use their dear old mum and new born baby as human shields if necessary.
I have gathered from this thread that "social justice freak" or "SFW" is a term (like "political correctness") used by extreme reactionary right wing fuckbags to describe someone who does not believe that women should be treated as third class citizens.
I believe the same thing as with what the people who stole those celebrity pictures. I believe that would be unauthorized use of a computer as defined by the computer fraud and abuse act. That's a federal level felony you know.
And if it's applied to cops (but not teenage hackers with autism, of course) that's good, right?
There's also the matter of the sex crime.
If peeing behind a dumpster is enough to get someone on the sex offender's list, surely sharing private nude photos without authorization should get them listed.
Just to get it straight in my mind, this applies to anyone who shares nude photos without authorization?
If so, I imagine about half the people who use the internet would become registered sex offenders.
Or is this just for cops?
The Black Panthers had the only answer. The only thing that can stop a bad cop with a gun is a good citizen with a gun.
The only way to stop a bad cop is a bunch of good cops. If there aren't enough good cops, you're fucked beyond the ability of a single citizen with a gun to do much about it.
So, therefore, no criminal offence has occurred, and at most they could be sued in a civil court for any actual financial losses incurred by the "creators" of the pix?
I personally wouldn't invest in Amazon. That said, overall the company seems sustainable, it can afford to make losses like the one last quarter in part because it can easily reverse those losses if it ever becomes a serious problem.
No other business would be allowed to handwave away losses like that., nor would they be allowed to operate with a business model reliant on becoming a monopoly in various different sectors like "all online retail" or "all online data services" as this is never going to happen. .
Amazon's model depends on endless growth, but you can't grow forever.
This is also the problem a lot of us have with the valuation of Apple. Yes, it does actually make a profit (unlike Amazon), but it also can't go on growing infinitely, and its valuation seems to imply something approaching this.
Cisco's strength was derived from teams of cracked engineers churning out amazing communication hardware. Was. Now that the cracked teams of engineers have mostly left Cisco has turned more and more like an Indian company.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.
If your fundamental business model is a fantasy, then so is your business.
If Amazon can't generate profits, they don't have a business, and there is surely a limit to how long the "jam tomorrow" excuse can be used.
"Journeys & Notes - This is a social app meant for the space between an origin and a destination: It connects you to a community of people who have traveled the same path that youâ(TM)re on. Whether youâ(TM)re taking the bus to work or jet-setting across the globe, you can both leave behind notes for others to discover and read what others have shared."
If I'm in Barcelona and want to know about Barcelona, what does it matter what my source point was and my destination point? Is a restaurant different in flavour if I arrived at it North to South than East to West? Does it make great tapas if I came down from Girona, but not if I drove up from Sitges?
Until someone invents instantaneous teleportation, getting from A to B involves things happening in between. If you spent several hours driving from Sitges to Barcelona, other people might be interested in the sights you saw, what the roads were like, how good the roadside cafe halfway was, and so on.
Meanwhile, in the real world, many businesses require continuing access to Windows XP, and so a working open source alternative would be very useful in the short term, and a potential introduction to FOSS in the longer term.
If those 34 inch waist jeans are too tight to do the fly up, it's most likely that you are in fact a 38 waist, rather than that the jeans are mislabelled.
Top tip: most people don't have the same statistics at 38 that they did at 18.
They're all equalled in quality and undercut in price by Lidl and Aldi, it's just that you generally have more choice in Asda et al as they have bigger shops.
But if you want an aspirational carrier bag you go to Waitrose,or M&S.