Bigotry is thinking less of someone for their beliefs (or being). Thinking their beliefs are stupid while not thinking any less of the person who believes them is not bigotry.
I thought the key point about bigotry is that it's wrong, in the sense of being an inaccurate description of reality. If you think that all black people are criminals, or that all Irish people are lazy (or whatever), that's simply untrue.
If someone holds an untrue belief, it is hard not to think of that as stupidity. It's not bigotry to dislike bigotry in others.
I'm not asking you to come to Jesus or anything. I'm just asking you to dial back the contempt a little, and recognize that like it or not, that 2000 year old book of fairy tales has had a profound and enduring influence on Western civilization. And even to entertain the possibility that its influence was not all bad.
Well, obviously it has had an impact, it would be silly to pretend otherwise. And no one (well, hardly anyone) would say that Christianity is all bad. It's a question of whether the good bits outweigh the bad bits. And one of the bad bits, for a rationalist, is the whole "God" thing. It's quite hard to strip God out of the bible and be left with anything much at all.
Fuck Christianity. The only thing it has going for it is that it's not quite as evil as Islam.
So that whole thing about "do unto others as you would have them do to you" is, according to you, complete bullshit and not worth considering?
No, it's called the golden rule and dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
There are many sensible, as well as many ridiculous things in the Bible. If you're allowed to cherry pick what suits you, you can make Christianity pretty much anything you want.
As a Catholic, disproving the Bible means little to me since it is only a part of my faith
But I'm sure there are parts of the Bible which you would say were true. Off the top of my head, all the stuff about Jesus being the Son of God is presumably quite important if you're a Christian?
So how are people supposed to know which bits are true and which bits are just good stories?
Nice anecdote, but you blew it with the girlfriend reference and the fact that you can't sit in a chair for hours without getting bored. You therefore lost at least 90% of the slashdot audience.
I'm Scottish, I'm about 40, I've never heard it in common usage. My mum says it used to be common before the war.
From a bit of investigating, it looks like 60 "lb" is really 27kg, which isn't very heavy - about normal for a smallish car battery, the sort of thing you could pick up like a lunchbox and carry about.
I'm English and it's definitely in everyday usage. If you ask someone what they weigh they are they will say "7 and a half stone" or ""just under 15 stone" or whatever. (If they're on a diet they'll say "10 stone and 12 1/2 pounds".)
I suppose if you're a Youf you'd use kilograms, but I've never heard a non-American say "I weigh 290 pounds".
There should be no such thing as immunity, it is almost as much a monstrosity as plea bargaining in the US. You should get some credit for co-operation, being remorseful or whatever in terms of a reduced sentence, but that's it. If you and your boyfriend murdered someone, both you and your boyfriend should go to prison for it.
Maybe the camera shows me making a rolling right turn on red 10 minutes before the accident and I don't want to have a $500 red light violation on my record just because I had a camera. Or maybe I don't want the right turn on red used as evidence against me to show that I'm a reckless driver even if the red light violation had nothing to do with the accident.
Or maybe you could just not break the law.
Seriously, if you were stupid enough to film yourself robbing a bank or cutting someone's head off with a chainsaw, why should you expect any sympathy if the police find your video on YouTube?
What I do with my mistress is my own business, what my wife and I think about it is *our* business, there should be no reason to fear that what my own camera records will someday become part of a court record despite my own objection.
How fucking difficult can it be to not have sex in front of your own camera, which you control?
This is one of the most outlandishly improbable privacy excuses I have ever heard.
If I'm in an accident 30 minutes after a quick romp on the hood of my car with my mistress, I sure don't want my wife seeing that video when they play it back in court.
Why would law enforcement care about the romp? Why would it ever get shown in court if it wasn't relevant? And if it is relevant (e.g. you actually were fucking on the hood when you said you were driving) then you are attempting to destroy evidence and pervert the course of justice, and get absolutely no sympathy from me whatsoever.
the udachny account is a sock puppet of roman_mir. do not encourage his sock puppetry by moderating it up.
I don't think any account associated with roman_mir would be able to make a post without referring to the evils of government, regardless of the subject at hand.
Seriously, who even USES yahoo any more? I honestly have not heard a single person I know utter their name in at least 5 years.
Why do people keep posting shite like this on slashdot? We know yahoo! aren't all cool and trendy like the beloved Google or Apple, but they're still a company with turnover of $1 billion a quarter (quick Google) so they're doing something all right.
the money transfer is probably some type of money laundering or tax scam, rather than payment for rights to a technology.
That is a serious accusation based on no evidence or logic whatsoever. It is at times like this that I wish you couldn't post anonymously on the internet, so that this kid and/or yahoo! could sue you for criminal libel and reducing the overall intelligence level of the internet.
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Bigotry is thinking less of someone for their beliefs (or being). Thinking their beliefs are stupid while not thinking any less of the person who believes them is not bigotry.
I thought the key point about bigotry is that it's wrong, in the sense of being an inaccurate description of reality. If you think that all black people are criminals, or that all Irish people are lazy (or whatever), that's simply untrue.
If someone holds an untrue belief, it is hard not to think of that as stupidity. It's not bigotry to dislike bigotry in others.
I'm not asking you to come to Jesus or anything. I'm just asking you to dial back the contempt a little, and recognize that like it or not, that 2000 year old book of fairy tales has had a profound and enduring influence on Western civilization. And even to entertain the possibility that its influence was not all bad.
Well, obviously it has had an impact, it would be silly to pretend otherwise. And no one (well, hardly anyone) would say that Christianity is all bad. It's a question of whether the good bits outweigh the bad bits. And one of the bad bits, for a rationalist, is the whole "God" thing. It's quite hard to strip God out of the bible and be left with anything much at all.
So that whole thing about "do unto others as you would have them do to you" is, according to you, complete bullshit and not worth considering?
No, it's called the golden rule and dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
There are many sensible, as well as many ridiculous things in the Bible. If you're allowed to cherry pick what suits you, you can make Christianity pretty much anything you want.
But it's all a house built on sand.
As a Catholic, disproving the Bible means little to me since it is only a part of my faith
But I'm sure there are parts of the Bible which you would say were true. Off the top of my head, all the stuff about Jesus being the Son of God is presumably quite important if you're a Christian?
So how are people supposed to know which bits are true and which bits are just good stories?
Nice anecdote, but you blew it with the girlfriend reference and the fact that you can't sit in a chair for hours without getting bored. You therefore lost at least 90% of the slashdot audience.
I'm sure they had to get them to dry land to see how they walked.
Say you're the Syrian government and you don't want the world to have proof that you are beginning to gas the dissidents.
Stop with the war mongering please.
Always nice to hear from peace-loving Russian friend.
Do the ones in your bathroom go up to 11?
I'm Scottish, I'm about 40, I've never heard it in common usage. My mum says it used to be common before the war.
From a bit of investigating, it looks like 60 "lb" is really 27kg, which isn't very heavy - about normal for a smallish car battery, the sort of thing you could pick up like a lunchbox and carry about.
I'm English and it's definitely in everyday usage. If you ask someone what they weigh they are they will say "7 and a half stone" or ""just under 15 stone" or whatever. (If they're on a diet they'll say "10 stone and 12 1/2 pounds".)
I suppose if you're a Youf you'd use kilograms, but I've never heard a non-American say "I weigh 290 pounds".
There should be no such thing as immunity, it is almost as much a monstrosity as plea bargaining in the US. You should get some credit for co-operation, being remorseful or whatever in terms of a reduced sentence, but that's it. If you and your boyfriend murdered someone, both you and your boyfriend should go to prison for it.
Maybe the camera shows me making a rolling right turn on red 10 minutes before the accident and I don't want to have a $500 red light violation on my record just because I had a camera. Or maybe I don't want the right turn on red used as evidence against me to show that I'm a reckless driver even if the red light violation had nothing to do with the accident.
Or maybe you could just not break the law.
Seriously, if you were stupid enough to film yourself robbing a bank or cutting someone's head off with a chainsaw, why should you expect any sympathy if the police find your video on YouTube?
What I do with my mistress is my own business, what my wife and I think about it is *our* business, there should be no reason to fear that what my own camera records will someday become part of a court record despite my own objection.
How fucking difficult can it be to not have sex in front of your own camera, which you control?
This is one of the most outlandishly improbable privacy excuses I have ever heard.
If I'm in an accident 30 minutes after a quick romp on the hood of my car with my mistress, I sure don't want my wife seeing that video when they play it back in court.
Why would law enforcement care about the romp? Why would it ever get shown in court if it wasn't relevant? And if it is relevant (e.g. you actually were fucking on the hood when you said you were driving) then you are attempting to destroy evidence and pervert the course of justice, and get absolutely no sympathy from me whatsoever.
Did they wink while they made the offer?
Asking to "buy" an iPhone is the 2013 equivalent of asking strangers for the time while openly displaying your own wristwatch.
Is this some elaborate gay code for random strangers who want unprotected anal sex, or something?
Shouldn't the precious snowflake just be fucking grateful their doting parents have given them an over-priced unnecessasry toy?
If you choose an iPhone, you're knowingly going with a locked-down platform
Not everybody who uses an iPhone chose an iPhone. What should somebody who received an iPhone as a gift do?
Wow, talk about a First World Problem.
I think they might have made a bit more of a fuss about this if they'd stumbled upon actual emergent artificial intelligence, don't you?
You sure it's not "aircraftses"?
Cause, they look barely visible at 1080p, with or without the background lights.
I blame the smog.
Cor blimey me ol China, there's a right pea souper tonight, chim-chimminee, stroike a loight, up the apple and pears to the rub a dub dub.
No one cares about Dr. Who
No offence, but go fuck yourself with a cricket bat.
It's not like it's hard to identify and ignore if you want.
That's what she said.
the udachny account is a sock puppet of roman_mir. do not encourage his sock puppetry by moderating it up.
I don't think any account associated with roman_mir would be able to make a post without referring to the evils of government, regardless of the subject at hand.
Seriously, who even USES yahoo any more? I honestly have not heard a single person I know utter their name in at least 5 years.
Why do people keep posting shite like this on slashdot? We know yahoo! aren't all cool and trendy like the beloved Google or Apple, but they're still a company with turnover of $1 billion a quarter (quick Google) so they're doing something all right.
the money transfer is probably some type of money laundering or tax scam, rather than payment for rights to a technology.
That is a serious accusation based on no evidence or logic whatsoever. It is at times like this that I wish you couldn't post anonymously on the internet, so that this kid and/or yahoo! could sue you for criminal libel and reducing the overall intelligence level of the internet.