Just remember that the religious right considers every life sacred, and that "letting grandma die in peace" is tantamount to murder. In fact, I think if they had there way, they would execute you for not doing everything possible to prolong your grandma's life, just to prove to you how sacred life really is!
And some people (e.g. George Burns) choose to smoke and drink and still live to be 100. The point is that both genetics AND lifestyle choices enter into the equation. For example, I'm 6' tall and have never weighed over 185 pounds, but I still have diabetes, not because I didn't eat right and exercise, but because it runs in my family. My grandmother died of diabetes, my mother has diabetes, and my sister has diabetes. None of them ever qualified as obese either. Jim Fixx's dad died of heart disease in his 50's, so Jim Fixx took up running every day to overcome his genetics -- and still died of heart attack at 52.
As I non-Muslim, I used terms intended to be respectful of Islam. I would ask you as a non-Christian to please do the same. Let me remind you that Muslims also believe in Jesus the prophet and in the God of the Old Testament. And that Islam, despite being somewhat more logical (e.g. not preaching the concept of the "Trinity", which is nowhere in the bible), also has it's share of dogmatic interpreters.
Very few medical conditions are caused purely by lifestyle choices. Genetics play a big role. Many catastrophic expenses are due to catastrophic events, like car accidents. Even HIV is not always caused by life style choices -- millions of babies are born with it, and there is no way of determining whether a health care worker contracted it because of their job or because of their choice of sex partners.
That being said, I agree with you in principle. Public health care should be targeted at prevention and diagnostics. Catastrophic health care should be covered by insurance; if you don't pay for insurance, you're out of luck. That still doesn't change the fact that 90% of most people's health care expenses are incurred in the last 5 months of their lives, but cutting off funding for that would amount to a real version of the "death panels" the Republicans have falsely associated with the new Health Care act. Health insurance is so expensive because we simply refuse to let people die in peace.
You're right; all archeology is a waste of time. Better we burn all those mummies for fuel! It's not like we could learn anything about ourselves by studying them.
Saudi Arabia has a HUGE tourism industry... every year it is visited by millions of people on their Haj to Mecca. Connect these sites to the Prophet (peace be with him) and you'd have more money than you know what to do with to examine these piles of rocks. You'd be surprised at how much money people spend to bring back souvenirs from Haj...
The problem is, "up to 9000" means these stones could have been piled up yesterday, or 9000 years ago. It would be more impressive if we could narrow the date range down a bit.
Couldn't tear drop shaped structures made of stones also be naturally occurring in a riverbed or flood plain? I won't believe these are actually tombs until someone excavates them. Dudes, you're getting excited about a pile of stones!
Joking is one thing. Using the revolution to pimp your new line of shoes goes way beyond comedy, into the realm of douche-baggery and assholery. While on the one hand, "Any publicity is good publicity!", on the other hand, I hope many people that hear of this will boycott him. So I'm not sure whether being a douche represents a net gain or net loss to his business. I wasn't going to buy any of his shoes anyway, and my wife... well, let's just say she already owns more pairs of shoes than Imelda Marcos, but I doubt she'd be willing to pay this asshat's prices.
Gee, what are the chances that the Facebook Terms of Service explicitly forbids scraping all the profile data and using it on another website? These two guys are probably going to have their Facebook accounts canceled! Other than that, I'm not sure what recourse Facebook has.
I believe the ToS also require you to be 13 or over. My 10 year old daughter and all her friends have Facebook accounts. This is why I laughed a few years back when Facebook bragged that they would now be checking new accounts to make sure they weren't registered sex offenders -- they'll only flag the really, really stupid ones!
Somebody explain to me again how Facebook guarantees the name you sign up for a Facebook account with is your real name and is traceable to your employer. Because you know, anybody stupid enough to use their real name when criticizing their employer probably should be fired for having bad judgement!
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"Why? What's wrong with the one I have?"
Just remember that the religious right considers every life sacred, and that "letting grandma die in peace" is tantamount to murder. In fact, I think if they had there way, they would execute you for not doing everything possible to prolong your grandma's life, just to prove to you how sacred life really is!
And some people (e.g. George Burns) choose to smoke and drink and still live to be 100. The point is that both genetics AND lifestyle choices enter into the equation. For example, I'm 6' tall and have never weighed over 185 pounds, but I still have diabetes, not because I didn't eat right and exercise, but because it runs in my family. My grandmother died of diabetes, my mother has diabetes, and my sister has diabetes. None of them ever qualified as obese either. Jim Fixx's dad died of heart disease in his 50's, so Jim Fixx took up running every day to overcome his genetics -- and still died of heart attack at 52.
As I non-Muslim, I used terms intended to be respectful of Islam. I would ask you as a non-Christian to please do the same. Let me remind you that Muslims also believe in Jesus the prophet and in the God of the Old Testament. And that Islam, despite being somewhat more logical (e.g. not preaching the concept of the "Trinity", which is nowhere in the bible), also has it's share of dogmatic interpreters.
Very few medical conditions are caused purely by lifestyle choices. Genetics play a big role. Many catastrophic expenses are due to catastrophic events, like car accidents. Even HIV is not always caused by life style choices -- millions of babies are born with it, and there is no way of determining whether a health care worker contracted it because of their job or because of their choice of sex partners.
That being said, I agree with you in principle. Public health care should be targeted at prevention and diagnostics. Catastrophic health care should be covered by insurance; if you don't pay for insurance, you're out of luck. That still doesn't change the fact that 90% of most people's health care expenses are incurred in the last 5 months of their lives, but cutting off funding for that would amount to a real version of the "death panels" the Republicans have falsely associated with the new Health Care act. Health insurance is so expensive because we simply refuse to let people die in peace.
Oh come on, I know some Sumo Wrestlers that are in great shape!
He's not a God, he's a prophet. And he's not my God, I'm a Buddhist.
Fuck political correctness, as long as people aren't hurting anyone and want to be douche-bags and assholes let them.
Isn't that the motto of the producers of Jersey Shore?
You're right; all archeology is a waste of time. Better we burn all those mummies for fuel! It's not like we could learn anything about ourselves by studying them.
Saudi Arabia has a HUGE tourism industry... every year it is visited by millions of people on their Haj to Mecca. Connect these sites to the Prophet (peace be with him) and you'd have more money than you know what to do with to examine these piles of rocks. You'd be surprised at how much money people spend to bring back souvenirs from Haj...
The problem is, "up to 9000" means these stones could have been piled up yesterday, or 9000 years ago. It would be more impressive if we could narrow the date range down a bit.
"Even Jared Loughner is impressed by how crazy our new fall line is!"
Couldn't tear drop shaped structures made of stones also be naturally occurring in a riverbed or flood plain? I won't believe these are actually tombs until someone excavates them. Dudes, you're getting excited about a pile of stones!
Can I interest you in some 9/11 Commemorative Coins?
Joking is one thing. Using the revolution to pimp your new line of shoes goes way beyond comedy, into the realm of douche-baggery and assholery. While on the one hand, "Any publicity is good publicity!", on the other hand, I hope many people that hear of this will boycott him. So I'm not sure whether being a douche represents a net gain or net loss to his business. I wasn't going to buy any of his shoes anyway, and my wife... well, let's just say she already owns more pairs of shoes than Imelda Marcos, but I doubt she'd be willing to pay this asshat's prices.
Gee, what are the chances that the Facebook Terms of Service explicitly forbids scraping all the profile data and using it on another website? These two guys are probably going to have their Facebook accounts canceled! Other than that, I'm not sure what recourse Facebook has.
It's seems their "facial recognition algorithm" has categorized me as a "stalker" and "potential date-rapist"!
She does now!
I believe the ToS also require you to be 13 or over. My 10 year old daughter and all her friends have Facebook accounts. This is why I laughed a few years back when Facebook bragged that they would now be checking new accounts to make sure they weren't registered sex offenders -- they'll only flag the really, really stupid ones!
I see what you did there.
Are we any closer to our goal of being able to sneak into women's locker rooms undetected?
Somebody explain to me again how Facebook guarantees the name you sign up for a Facebook account with is your real name and is traceable to your employer. Because you know, anybody stupid enough to use their real name when criticizing their employer probably should be fired for having bad judgement!
So, it's perfectly acceptable to tell someone "If you want to work for me, you're not allowed to tell anyone that I'm embezzling funds!"
It's not quite that simple.
Jared Loughner, when did you get a slashdot account?
Kill the slathering grue with your bare hands... oh wait, that was the dragon.