Excellent points. Since my girlfriend got a Mac, I've been thinking that I must be doing something wrong, because I don't see the logic. I'm slowly learning how to use it, and it's basically by teaching myself not to take any convenient shortcuts, no matter how minute. No alt-tab, no click on background window controls, and so on. In the other systems I use, these actions are either consistently uniform (like in Windows) or consistently configurable (most Unix desktops). Admittedly, expose works beautifully. Unfortunately, my girlfriend hates it and disables it whenever she remembers to.
I saw kudos to those people, then. By the way, how does that church get the money to run? Just curious. I'm Spanish and there the Catholic church gets lots of tax money.
Well, the Muslims did send their people to convert the infidels. Just not through kind words, but the way the crusaders would centuries later. They're all the same load.
This is why there are new Christians converted every day. They want to believe (It is called FAITH) and they will throw out every ounce of scepticism, logic, knowledge and understanding that conflicts with what they want to believe.
Exactly. In Spain they teach religion in public schools for those students whose parents choose so. They say its faith-neutral, but it's the bishops who decide who teaches it, so it's all BS. Anyway, I remember one kid asked the priest who taught my class why he believed in Catholicism. His answer was simply "because it is so sad to think that after this life there is nothing else". I wonder why he didn't believe in winning the lotto that weekend; It's the same logic.
Heck, often times it's the same religious communities that scam honest people. For example, asking money to support missions that spend a great chunk of their time not helping but evangelizing.
Same here. When I was a kid, DST meant an extra hour of street play. Those memories carry on, even if I just get to see the sun on my way home from work.
Problem is, your statement is factually incorrect. You mention "the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary", implying that there is any scientific evidence that a god exists. Where is it?
Fair enough. I believe, on the other hand, that certain issues are so important that any country worth living in ought to provide for all its citizens. Namely law enforcement, education, health care and infrastructures. Otherwise, we wouldn't be providing equality of opportunities, which is ultimately what makes a country decent.
I always found it funny that the same people who promote waging hugely expensive wars (even if you don't consider the morality behind it) are the ones saying that universal health care is too expensive, even though it would be far cheaper than sending soldiers overseas, and it would have a direct positive impact in their lives.
Canada has an honorable record of being there when the world is in trouble, but then stopping short of jumping into arms races. When you decide to go the bully way, turning back is hard to do.
The problem with that approach is that it effectively removes the 2-way blindness from review systems that aim for it. Most conferences provide means for uploading supporting content, and you can use this for your code, properly anonymized. It's a different thing once the paper has been accepted.
Perhaps we need a tool, 'a la' StumbleUpon, that lets people classify content as serious or time waster. Then companies could use the tool to decide that gets filtered in their offices. Any takers?
The problem with Turkey is that they're composed of a pro-Western ruling class and a pro-Islamic populace. The current state of affairs is a dictatorship on paper, but allowing more freedom would make it look more like Syria, Lebanon or Egypt. Then again, perhaps you can't impose the thirst for freedom into someone who doesn't want it.
They all promote the suspension of critical thinking or, in the best cases, conveniently guide it. That can't be good. On the other hand, you're right that not all religions are equally despicable. Western ones would be around the top in that list.
I believe the GP was thinking on looking for prints on the keyboard. Having a fingerprint reader, I don't think that'd work that easily, but hey, it's an idea...
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Excellent points. Since my girlfriend got a Mac, I've been thinking that I must be doing something wrong, because I don't see the logic. I'm slowly learning how to use it, and it's basically by teaching myself not to take any convenient shortcuts, no matter how minute. No alt-tab, no click on background window controls, and so on. In the other systems I use, these actions are either consistently uniform (like in Windows) or consistently configurable (most Unix desktops). Admittedly, expose works beautifully. Unfortunately, my girlfriend hates it and disables it whenever she remembers to.
I saw kudos to those people, then. By the way, how does that church get the money to run? Just curious. I'm Spanish and there the Catholic church gets lots of tax money.
Which explains why they're trying new ways of making people pay, as we saw recently...
Well, the Muslims did send their people to convert the infidels. Just not through kind words, but the way the crusaders would centuries later. They're all the same load.
Leviticus is the way to go. One of these days I'm going to read it myself instead of just through quotes. I'm kinda excited. Saw VI excited, that is.
This is why there are new Christians converted every day. They want to believe (It is called FAITH) and they will throw out every ounce of scepticism, logic, knowledge and understanding that conflicts with what they want to believe.
Exactly. In Spain they teach religion in public schools for those students whose parents choose so. They say its faith-neutral, but it's the bishops who decide who teaches it, so it's all BS. Anyway, I remember one kid asked the priest who taught my class why he believed in Catholicism. His answer was simply "because it is so sad to think that after this life there is nothing else". I wonder why he didn't believe in winning the lotto that weekend; It's the same logic.
Heck, often times it's the same religious communities that scam honest people. For example, asking money to support missions that spend a great chunk of their time not helping but evangelizing.
If only we had a sort of Moore's law for gravity... Or at least batteries, for crying out loud!
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It never misses.
Same here. When I was a kid, DST meant an extra hour of street play. Those memories carry on, even if I just get to see the sun on my way home from work.
Stop the spears! He's only half black! (I keed, I keed...)
Besides, The Onion claims to be a news *source*, which I've always thought was clever.
Problem is, your statement is factually incorrect. You mention "the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary", implying that there is any scientific evidence that a god exists. Where is it?
I used to feel that way, and then I voted blank. It sends a direct message: "I don't like any of you; Change your ways".
Fair enough. I believe, on the other hand, that certain issues are so important that any country worth living in ought to provide for all its citizens. Namely law enforcement, education, health care and infrastructures. Otherwise, we wouldn't be providing equality of opportunities, which is ultimately what makes a country decent.
I always found it funny that the same people who promote waging hugely expensive wars (even if you don't consider the morality behind it) are the ones saying that universal health care is too expensive, even though it would be far cheaper than sending soldiers overseas, and it would have a direct positive impact in their lives.
Canada has an honorable record of being there when the world is in trouble, but then stopping short of jumping into arms races. When you decide to go the bully way, turning back is hard to do.
The problem with that approach is that it effectively removes the 2-way blindness from review systems that aim for it. Most conferences provide means for uploading supporting content, and you can use this for your code, properly anonymized. It's a different thing once the paper has been accepted.
Perhaps we need a tool, 'a la' StumbleUpon, that lets people classify content as serious or time waster. Then companies could use the tool to decide that gets filtered in their offices. Any takers?
The problem with Turkey is that they're composed of a pro-Western ruling class and a pro-Islamic populace. The current state of affairs is a dictatorship on paper, but allowing more freedom would make it look more like Syria, Lebanon or Egypt. Then again, perhaps you can't impose the thirst for freedom into someone who doesn't want it.
They all promote the suspension of critical thinking or, in the best cases, conveniently guide it. That can't be good. On the other hand, you're right that not all religions are equally despicable. Western ones would be around the top in that list.
I'm curious. Do you mind sharing with us the numbers on people who actually sent those $20?
I believe the GP was thinking on looking for prints on the keyboard. Having a fingerprint reader, I don't think that'd work that easily, but hey, it's an idea...
Wow, it's the first time I read someone in /. agree that he was wrong arguing something, anything. Bravo! Honestly.
I guess the first would imply the second.