People hunger to believe in something, and the evangelical faith is giving them just that in a fun, easily accessible fashion.
I agree that its a lot easier for the youth to move from Catholicism to Evangelicalism. Catholicism involves looking at yourself and making decisions to not go out and do some fun sinning. Fundamental Christianity is more about looking at what those gays are doing and feeling like a better person than those sinners. The 700 club's tape of that same gay rights parade of everyone in leather must be worn down at this point.
I refuse to believe far right Christians are taking over everything. Most Americans watch Will and Grace/Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and don't care if people are homosexual. Moderation will happen. It has happened again and again in the 200 years of American politics. It's like a pendulum that swings back and forth.
Religion is a powerful force in people's lives, and the numbers of evangelical christians (you know, the ones pushing this crap?) are growing.
No, I don't think that is the case. I think more of them were motivated to vote in 2004 because of the gay marriage issue. Karl Rove's is an evil genius to use the gay marriage issue to motivate far right Christians to show up for election day. You don't lose any votes by proposing a "Defend Marriage" amendment to the constitution. Most mainstream voters like myself couldn't care less about gay marriage. You might of lost the five gay and lesbian voters who where going to vote Republican. It was kinda funny to see Bush drop the "Defend Marriage" amendment mighty fast after the election. I guess Republicans need to save it again for 2008.
Intelligent Design is something most Christians reject and even a lot of fundamental Christians reject. Intelligent Design was created for political purposes and no religion has publicly supported the theory. You know when Rick Santorum hates Intelligent Design, it is dead. After the Bush clan leaves office, we will never hear about it again.
Most major religions do not reject the idea of evolution. After all God could have created man through evolution. Fundamental Christians (Bible literalists) actually believe God everything in seven days. Most other Christian religions don't interpret the Book of Genesis literally.
To say Christians are against science is nonsense. Some of the greatest scientists of our times were Christians.
On the first day, man created God and he was pleased with what he'd achieved. On the second day, man worshiped God and life was good. On the third day, different men had different ideas about God and their cultures diverged. On the fourth day, men spilt blood over these differences and it has been this way ever since.
Yeah because man wouldn't have wars if it wasn't for religion. All of John Lennon's lyrics are true if you just "imagine". If men were all the same except some people had blue eyes and other brown eyes, there would be wars between brown eye people and blue eyed people.
You seem to have a cartoon view of Christians I won't be able to change but go ahead and live in ignorance.
I would say more than 80% of job postings are for fictious jobs that don't exist, never existed, and never will.
Dude, I think that number is high. I have been interviewed by some shady guys looking for sales contacts. As a consultant, I should never be expected to give names of clients. If they ask, I never say the company names. One guy kept asking and finally ended the interview aruptly. I think he was just a sales guy looking for names. I wouldn't hire a guy who gave me the name of one of his clients.
An employer who deosn't provide healthcare but who does provide compensation that more than makes up for that cost of healthcare may be a better deal.
Yeah it's a better deal for the employer not the employee. I wouldn't even consider a company that doesn't provide health care. Why should I get more money instead of health care coverage. So I can pay taxes on my money for health care coverage?? Why should I deal with the paperwork when HR experts at companies can handle all of that crap. No thanks.
Why not pay everything directly to the employee and let them get their own damn healthcare.
Dude have you looked into getting your own health care insurance? I would suspect not. Without the group rates health insurance is insanely expensive. There are organizations starting these days you can join to get the group rates but in reality your not going to get the group rate of a major corporation.
If he does dismally (say he takes four weeks to do this two week job), his pay is down enormously and he might even want to leave the company.
This is assuming that if a project fails it is the fault of everyone on the project. I have been on many projects where it didn't do well because of one developer out of five or six. Should you lose your 5 good employees because of the failure of one? No, in that case you should fire yourself for letting the one bad employee ruin the project. Why would I work for you and not make my rent because you or another employee messed up the project? I can only imagine you have very small projects or else there is no way you would stay in business.
Your conscience actually bothers you if you play, for free, games that should rightly be freeware by now?
Do I want the games to be free? Sure, everybody wants stuff for free. Do I think someone else has the right to declare someone else's property freeware? No.
The best one is Capcom Classics Collection not mentioned in the article. Those Street Fighter games still rock. Commando and Ghosts and Goblins still rock. I buy all these compilations. They don't make simple games for consoles like in the old days.
Some compilations are better than others. Midway totally needs to do a better job as they were clearly designed for an X-box controller and there is no way to change the controls. Taito's collection was just sad.
I don't want to sit in front of a PC when I get home after staring at a PC all day. The PS2 controller is better on my thumbs then my Nintendo when playing Mega Man all day. Messing with a emulator and shifty websites to download the ROMS isn't worth the $10 for a disc that just plays. A clear conscience is just bonus.
What this new ISP movement really is all about is to remold the Internet into what Gore invisioned originally, that is a wholly owned and controlled network primary based on cable technology.
Yes, because Al Gore has so much power these days. The original lawmakers creating the Internet, Al Gore being one of them, had a vision of the Internet created for the military expanding to academic purposes. Somewhere along the line it was controled by corporations and now corporations want to expand thier power and the current adminstration is taking the the bribes (lobby money) and giving corporations full control.
Dude how do you know it was the TSA?? I have gotten stuff stolen before the TSA started going through bags. More likely it was baggage handler. Never put anything valuable in a checked bag. My dad thought it would be a good idea to check his laptop. It is probably good somebody stole it because it would've broke if someone didn't steal it.
I was watching Fox News and they made it seem like he was beaten because he wanted to teach an Intelligent Design course. Man you can't even trust the time in the corner of the screen on that channel.
Hi Alan, thanks for inviting me. I'm the stereotypical Guy On The Internet who apparently has nothing better to do than post anonymously on Firingsquad's horrible comments section.
I would have cut that part out. This nobody is asked to give his opinion and he slaps the people giving him a voice.
I agree. And what is with this word "sandwich"? All it is meat and bread? Why don't we just call it what it is meat and bread? Is it a revolutionary thing to just put some damn meat on some bread??? Sure it is easier to say than meat and bread but why do we need these trendy words?
That's how I learned UNIX in computer science in the 90's. I was assigned a C program in UNIX due by the end of the week and the professor just expected you to know UNIX already or something. There was list of UNIX commands on the wall of the lab as my only guidence.
I think that foreign workers are better trained for computer programming jobs is incorrect. Corporations aren't pushing for more H1B workers because they are better qualified than domestic workers. Corporations want a guy who will take what they give them or else they get sent home. How much technical education is really applicable to a real world programming job? Probably less than ten percent of what is taught in higher education.
I have worked with some great H1B workers. I also have worked with some terribly unqualified H1B workers. Just like domestic workers some are good at programming and some just can't do it. I would say some of the H1B workers do more resume padding because they are desperate to stay and I would probably do it too. One H1B worker, when applying, listed the company he was applying for as one of the companies he previously worked. I guess he didn't check the name on the cut and past job he was doing because he never worked for the company.
I am not afraid to compete against foreign workers. I think it will be great for technology in general. I just want to compete on an even playing field. Let the programmers immigrate as Americans. You never hear Microsoft ask the government to allow immigration for foreign workers. They don't want to pay them more and worry about a worker leaving for another job.
So lower class people have money to spend too?? Great. Why should we give tax breaks to rich people?
Lets say instead of a rich guy getting $10 back 10 people get a $1 back. So $10 goes back into the economy if given to poor people just like if $10 was given to a rich guy. Right? So what is the difference you might ask? The poor people will spend the $1 for food and clothes for thier children. The rich guy will spend $10 on a SUV.
I never used any kind of adjective to describe the selfishness Ayn Rand describes as a "philosophy". If you complete the sentence you chop out of the article:
Their ruthless pursuit of self-interest was more easily accomplished in the white-collar realm, which their backgrounds had groomed them for, rather than the criminal one, which comes with much lousier odds.
Not sure what that quote has to do with anything I talked about or what I think you are talking about.
I think you do have Ayn Rand's philosophy of writing long rambling meaningless rants. A thousand more pages and you will have Fountainhead dude.
Just in few months she succeeded to turn the whole management board againts this guy. He suddenly became a lazy and unreliable worker, who created a bad athmosphere to the whole office. When I found about the claims, it was too late. I tried to stand up for him, but couldn't defend him. The director was too cunning and I was too naive -- although I'm not anymore.
I know exactly what you are talking about. She didn't target him because he was fat and sloppy. She just targeted him because he was an easy target. I have seen this many times. It gives the psychopath a lot of power when they target someone and bring them down. People fear them and don't cross them because they have seen thier power. It is working on you. Not pointing fingers because I have been guilty of letting it go too. There really isn't anything you can do.
In American society, it seems like this kind of selfishness is a virtue Ayn Rand crap is increasingly becoming an accepted part of the culture. The crap that American is more successful because we have sociopaths running the government and corporations makes no sense. The Enrons and Haliburtons are draining our society and only bringing American down. Selfish politicians are killing the government.
People who subscribe to the philosophy that selfishness is a virtue need people who have a consciences to feed on. A world full of Ayn Rand sociopaths would not even be a place were Ayn Rand sociopaths want to live in.
I have to admit there are awkward moments on MNF but I kinda find it amusing. It's kinda funny to see Al Michaels try to recover from Madden's obscure player references.
I like college ball better when it is a good game. Unfortunately there are too many college matchups between a great team and a terrible team. NFL games usually aren't blow outs like in college. The other bad thing about college football is the bowl system is terrible. At least in the NFL we really know who is the best team.
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People hunger to believe in something, and the evangelical faith is giving them just that in a fun, easily accessible fashion.
I agree that its a lot easier for the youth to move from Catholicism to Evangelicalism. Catholicism involves looking at yourself and making decisions to not go out and do some fun sinning. Fundamental Christianity is more about looking at what those gays are doing and feeling like a better person than those sinners. The 700 club's tape of that same gay rights parade of everyone in leather must be worn down at this point.
I refuse to believe far right Christians are taking over everything. Most Americans watch Will and Grace/Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and don't care if people are homosexual. Moderation will happen. It has happened again and again in the 200 years of American politics. It's like a pendulum that swings back and forth.
Religion is a powerful force in people's lives, and the numbers of evangelical christians (you know, the ones pushing this crap?) are growing.
No, I don't think that is the case. I think more of them were motivated to vote in 2004 because of the gay marriage issue. Karl Rove's is an evil genius to use the gay marriage issue to motivate far right Christians to show up for election day. You don't lose any votes by proposing a "Defend Marriage" amendment to the constitution. Most mainstream voters like myself couldn't care less about gay marriage. You might of lost the five gay and lesbian voters who where going to vote Republican. It was kinda funny to see Bush drop the "Defend Marriage" amendment mighty fast after the election. I guess Republicans need to save it again for 2008.
Intelligent Design is something most Christians reject and even a lot of fundamental Christians reject. Intelligent Design was created for political purposes and no religion has publicly supported the theory. You know when Rick Santorum hates Intelligent Design, it is dead. After the Bush clan leaves office, we will never hear about it again.
Most major religions do not reject the idea of evolution. After all God could have created man through evolution. Fundamental Christians (Bible literalists) actually believe God everything in seven days. Most other Christian religions don't interpret the Book of Genesis literally.
To say Christians are against science is nonsense. Some of the greatest scientists of our times were Christians.
On the first day, man created God and he was pleased with what he'd achieved. On the second day, man worshiped God and life was good. On the third day, different men had different ideas about God and their cultures diverged. On the fourth day, men spilt blood over these differences and it has been this way ever since.
Yeah because man wouldn't have wars if it wasn't for religion. All of John Lennon's lyrics are true if you just "imagine". If men were all the same except some people had blue eyes and other brown eyes, there would be wars between brown eye people and blue eyed people.
You seem to have a cartoon view of Christians I won't be able to change but go ahead and live in ignorance.
I would say more than 80% of job postings are for fictious jobs that don't exist, never existed, and never will.
Dude, I think that number is high. I have been interviewed by some shady guys looking for sales contacts. As a consultant, I should never be expected to give names of clients. If they ask, I never say the company names. One guy kept asking and finally ended the interview aruptly. I think he was just a sales guy looking for names. I wouldn't hire a guy who gave me the name of one of his clients.
An employer who deosn't provide healthcare but who does provide compensation that more than makes up for that cost of healthcare may be a better deal.
Yeah it's a better deal for the employer not the employee. I wouldn't even consider a company that doesn't provide health care. Why should I get more money instead of health care coverage. So I can pay taxes on my money for health care coverage?? Why should I deal with the paperwork when HR experts at companies can handle all of that crap. No thanks.
Why not pay everything directly to the employee and let them get their own damn healthcare.
Dude have you looked into getting your own health care insurance? I would suspect not. Without the group rates health insurance is insanely expensive. There are organizations starting these days you can join to get the group rates but in reality your not going to get the group rate of a major corporation.
If he does dismally (say he takes four weeks to do this two week job), his pay is down enormously and he might even want to leave the company.
This is assuming that if a project fails it is the fault of everyone on the project. I have been on many projects where it didn't do well because of one developer out of five or six. Should you lose your 5 good employees because of the failure of one? No, in that case you should fire yourself for letting the one bad employee ruin the project. Why would I work for you and not make my rent because you or another employee messed up the project? I can only imagine you have very small projects or else there is no way you would stay in business.
All politicians have stupid issues they use to keep the masses busy so they don't pay attention to the real issues.
Democrat -> Rap Music/Videogames/Violence on TV
Republicans -> Flag Burning/War on Christmas/Gay Marriage
Your conscience actually bothers you if you play, for free, games that should rightly be freeware by now?
Do I want the games to be free? Sure, everybody wants stuff for free. Do I think someone else has the right to declare someone else's property freeware? No.
The best one is Capcom Classics Collection not mentioned in the article. Those Street Fighter games still rock. Commando and Ghosts and Goblins still rock. I buy all these compilations. They don't make simple games for consoles like in the old days.
Some compilations are better than others. Midway totally needs to do a better job as they were clearly designed for an X-box controller and there is no way to change the controls. Taito's collection was just sad.
I don't want to sit in front of a PC when I get home after staring at a PC all day. The PS2 controller is better on my thumbs then my Nintendo when playing Mega Man all day. Messing with a emulator and shifty websites to download the ROMS isn't worth the $10 for a disc that just plays. A clear conscience is just bonus.
What this new ISP movement really is all about is to remold the Internet into what Gore invisioned originally, that is a wholly owned and controlled network primary based on cable technology.
Yes, because Al Gore has so much power these days. The original lawmakers creating the Internet, Al Gore being one of them, had a vision of the Internet created for the military expanding to academic purposes. Somewhere along the line it was controled by corporations and now corporations want to expand thier power and the current adminstration is taking the the bribes (lobby money) and giving corporations full control.
Dude how do you know it was the TSA?? I have gotten stuff stolen before the TSA started going through bags. More likely it was baggage handler. Never put anything valuable in a checked bag. My dad thought it would be a good idea to check his laptop. It is probably good somebody stole it because it would've broke if someone didn't steal it.
I was watching Fox News and they made it seem like he was beaten because he wanted to teach an Intelligent Design course. Man you can't even trust the time in the corner of the screen on that channel.
Hi Alan, thanks for inviting me. I'm the stereotypical Guy On The Internet who apparently has nothing better to do than post anonymously on Firingsquad's horrible comments section.
I would have cut that part out. This nobody is asked to give his opinion and he slaps the people giving him a voice.
I agree. And what is with this word "sandwich"? All it is meat and bread? Why don't we just call it what it is meat and bread? Is it a revolutionary thing to just put some damn meat on some bread??? Sure it is easier to say than meat and bread but why do we need these trendy words?
That's how I learned UNIX in computer science in the 90's. I was assigned a C program in UNIX due by the end of the week and the professor just expected you to know UNIX already or something. There was list of UNIX commands on the wall of the lab as my only guidence.
I think that foreign workers are better trained for computer programming jobs is incorrect. Corporations aren't pushing for more H1B workers because they are better qualified than domestic workers. Corporations want a guy who will take what they give them or else they get sent home. How much technical education is really applicable to a real world programming job? Probably less than ten percent of what is taught in higher education.
I have worked with some great H1B workers. I also have worked with some terribly unqualified H1B workers. Just like domestic workers some are good at programming and some just can't do it. I would say some of the H1B workers do more resume padding because they are desperate to stay and I would probably do it too. One H1B worker, when applying, listed the company he was applying for as one of the companies he previously worked. I guess he didn't check the name on the cut and past job he was doing because he never worked for the company.
I am not afraid to compete against foreign workers. I think it will be great for technology in general. I just want to compete on an even playing field. Let the programmers immigrate as Americans. You never hear Microsoft ask the government to allow immigration for foreign workers. They don't want to pay them more and worry about a worker leaving for another job.
another possibility is that 5 years from now that you want more storage on the box or on the network and be able to take advantage of that
Who cares?? In 5 years Microsoft will replace the Xbox 360 and only certain games will be compatible.
The workers did. They got paid as well.
So lower class people have money to spend too?? Great. Why should we give tax breaks to rich people?
Lets say instead of a rich guy getting $10 back 10 people get a $1 back. So $10 goes back into the economy if given to poor people just like if $10 was given to a rich guy. Right? So what is the difference you might ask? The poor people will spend the $1 for food and clothes for thier children. The rich guy will spend $10 on a SUV.
WTF?
I never used any kind of adjective to describe the selfishness Ayn Rand describes as a "philosophy". If you complete the sentence you chop out of the article:
Their ruthless pursuit of self-interest was more easily accomplished in the white-collar realm, which their backgrounds had groomed them for, rather than the criminal one, which comes with much lousier odds.
Not sure what that quote has to do with anything I talked about or what I think you are talking about.
I think you do have Ayn Rand's philosophy of writing long rambling meaningless rants. A thousand more pages and you will have Fountainhead dude.
Just in few months she succeeded to turn the whole management board againts this guy. He suddenly became a lazy and unreliable worker, who created a bad athmosphere to the whole office. When I found about the claims, it was too late. I tried to stand up for him, but couldn't defend him. The director was too cunning and I was too naive -- although I'm not anymore.
I know exactly what you are talking about. She didn't target him because he was fat and sloppy. She just targeted him because he was an easy target. I have seen this many times. It gives the psychopath a lot of power when they target someone and bring them down. People fear them and don't cross them because they have seen thier power. It is working on you. Not pointing fingers because I have been guilty of letting it go too. There really isn't anything you can do.
In American society, it seems like this kind of selfishness is a virtue Ayn Rand crap is increasingly becoming an accepted part of the culture. The crap that American is more successful because we have sociopaths running the government and corporations makes no sense. The Enrons and Haliburtons are draining our society and only bringing American down. Selfish politicians are killing the government.
People who subscribe to the philosophy that selfishness is a virtue need people who have a consciences to feed on. A world full of Ayn Rand sociopaths would not even be a place were Ayn Rand sociopaths want to live in.
I am not sure I want my porn in HD-TV.
Ron Jeremy in high defintion on a 90 inch TV would cause nightmares.
Why did the Sony Playstation crush the N64? Because you can copy easily for the Playstation.
No. There were many reasons the PS1 did better than N64. Easily pirated media was probably #45,333 on the list of reasons.
It is quite self centric to think that your reason for a decision was everyone else's reason.
My friend has a unmodded Xbox (gasp). Reason for buying an Xbox? Halo.
I have to admit there are awkward moments on MNF but I kinda find it amusing. It's kinda funny to see Al Michaels try to recover from Madden's obscure player references.
I like college ball better when it is a good game. Unfortunately there are too many college matchups between a great team and a terrible team. NFL games usually aren't blow outs like in college. The other bad thing about college football is the bowl system is terrible. At least in the NFL we really know who is the best team.