Judge a tree by it's fruit. Christianity has provided some pretty rotten fruit. Islam too. You can't deny that, and you can't say "true christians" or "true islam." People kill each other over that too.
A big part of why I'm not religious is what religion has led to over the centuries. Atrocities and abominations. Again and again. Over and over. You'd have to be an idiot not to see the pattern.
I'm not spending any energy on pity (which is different from compassion in any case), I'm actually on the verge of a whole different attitude towards Christians.
I currently am fairly bitter and dismissive towards them. I see them as judgemental hypocrites overly interested in how other people live. I ascribed to them low and bitter motives. In short, I have a fairly low opinion and hostile attitude towards Christians.
Your statement put things in a new perspective. If Christians truly feel most of the time that they personally don't measure up, it becomes easier to have a more generous attitude. Their attempts to force their rules on me become more understandable. Their hatred of others is more comprehensible considering their self-hatred. Their hypocracy is much easier to stomach since there is no choice, given the unreasonably high standards set.
I don't want this to come off as snarky. I seriously am feeling my attitude soften a bit. It's kinda sad that this is an improvement, but it is sincere.
For what it's worth, my attitude is that life is a precious and amazing thing, to be treasured and revered. And I don't need a god to do it.
If this is true to the Left Behind novels, you're going to have a lot of work to do. These novels portray current days as the end times, and describe the book of revelation in a current events manner.
You'll have to rewrite revelation where the other team wins, then do all the coding to make that happen in the game.
Let's say, for example, that I live in a Sharia-based society. Should I just accept these crippling religious laws because it is wrong to judge groups of people? Can't I just reject the whole insane pile? Must I judge every single one of these woman-hating intolerant lunatics individually?
Or let's say that I live in a Xian theocracy. Again, is it wrong to judge these witch-burning adulturer-stoning fucktards en masse? Are you truly insisting that I shake every single narrow-minded pinched-souled puritanical tyrant's hand and get to know them?
I say that it is fine to judge groups of individuals if those individuals chose to join those groups. After all, it's what they want. They want to be grouped together with others of the group! Otherwise, why'd they join the group?!? I suspect many of them are weak-minded, but that's all the more reason to judge them all at once.
There are a couple of issues, but I think paying for results will be the future of advertising. You'll pay for actual sales, or for advertising revenue actually generated.
One way this could work would be for the advertiser to proxy the session. It could determine a sale was made and arrange appropriate payment. You don't want to have to trust the seller, or the advertiser.
If you're ever in Denver I'll give you a PII-350 for free. It boots into w2k in 45 secs. I've found better machines in dumpsters, but I've given them all away.
Seriously, put an ad on craigslist or something. I'd bet that PIII and even slower P4s are getting mulched every day near you, unless you live in a developing country.
You're quite right. I use withholding to avoid giving Uncle Sam an interest-free loan. I've heard if you underpay by a certain threshold you'll be subject to crippling "backup withholding" so I try to keep it minimal. Things got complicated for me after I started itemizing deductions.
My point, however, was that a certain person with a certain withholding can see strange things. When I did payroll I noticed several flukes. Most people did the "standard" w-4 so it was easy to see discrepencies. A $999 check would turn into a $700 check and a $1001 check would turn into a $650 check. (numbers are approximate - this was many years ago) In effect, there were windows where making more money resulted in a smaller paycheck. Naturally, this all was evened out come tax time but I think situations like this lead to the misconception that making more can equal less after tax pay. Some workers lived paycheck to paycheck and a smaller-than-usual check would cause overdrafts etc. These workers learned to avoid overtime unless it was at least a certain number of hours.
Studios have been releasing defective DVDs for years. Most players deal OK but you need special ripping software.
Here is one I had to deal with recently. You can't tell by the box if/what copy protection they have. There are half a dozen commercial schemes right now.
The reason for the stories is simple - they're true. The way withholding is calculated can be strange on a specific check. An extra amount of money on a paycheck might bump withholding percentage up, resulting in a smaller paycheck after withholding. You end up getting a refund, but people don't look that far.
Agreed. However, this person had a history of aggressive driving, including sudden braking to deter tailgaters. In this incident the victim was tailgating the suspect and the suspect slammed on his brakes. The victim passed the suspect, infuriating him, at which point he passed and slammed on his brakes again.
Obviously the "brake to teach tailgaters a lesson" mindset can be toxic and can be taken too far.
I've noticed that when I'm driving my 1981 diesel datsun pickup with massive rust and front-end damage NOBODY cuts me off. The vehicle practically screams "Worthless" and "Couldn't care less" and all the bumper damage indicates that it wouldn't be the first time I've rammed something. People give me plenty of leeway, which is good because I can't stop very well in it. When driving my new looking compact car, people cut me off all day long unless I follow closer than I think is optimal. It's truly like night and day the way drivers act around me, depending on which vehicle I'm in.
I was stopped at a bar watching the traffic snarl in a mountain town and realized that nearly all of the people doing this were merging back onto the highway!! Ever since that realization I'll crowd the shoulder if I see someone trying this asshole move. The frickin tow truck couldn't get through to clear the wreck because so many assholes were clogging the shoulder!
I've seen it go both ways. One time on a road trip through nebraska, a sudden freezing rain/sleet turned to slushy snow and the roads were awfully slick. It was a carnival-like atmosphere - all the spinning vehicles, flipped-over SUVs, pickups in ditches. It went on like this for a hundred miles. I kept thinking people would slow down, but they didn't. A giant dualie would blow by me on the 2-lane country road, start spinning and go into the ditch. Repeat every 5 minutes.
It's as if the wrecked vehicles were invisible to everyone but me. One dude even flipped me off right before he slid off the road. I just kept going 30 in a 65. It was funny, but people could have been hurt. Property damage was definitely extensive.
My favorite part was seeing 3 oncoming vehicles spinning at the same time 2 behind me were spinning. I had to go on the shoulder to avoid getting hit and the spinning trucks all narrowly missed each other. Like some farmer ice ballet.
To clarify a bit, a Jake Brake isn't a magically powerful brake. It is used to avoid overheating of brake pads, especially on long downhill stretches. It's most often used to maintain a constant speed while descending a grade.
An empty trailer will stop surprisingly fast. You have 18 wheels worth of traction.
You are very very wrong. Check this out - a man was charged with murder for a road rage accident where he slammed on his brakes in order to punish someone. The car behind him flipped over into oncoming traffic killing 2 innocent people. And the bastard is going to jail for life.
You don't specify, but if you get out of the left lane while this is going on I salute you. If you stay in the left lane you're punishing innocent drivers.
I don't tailgate, but I see a lot of tailgaters on the road. Many times someone will get angry about the tailgation and go slowly in the passing lane, pacing a RV or big rig to "teach them a lesson" and I sit behind all this at a safe distance, marveling that their little pissing contest is inconveniencing scores of innocent drivers. I've even seen this idiocy cause a wreck.
I'd suggest in addition to this metamoderation. If you mod too many drivers unfairly you don't get as many mod points. Drivers with excellent "carma" could drive at +2.
I was looking at your sig's website and found some hilarious things. Do you suffer from "Death and Buttock Numbness?" "Death and Inattention?" "Death and Limping?"
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Same way anyone knows anything about religion. He made it up.
Judge a tree by it's fruit. Christianity has provided some pretty rotten fruit. Islam too. You can't deny that, and you can't say "true christians" or "true islam." People kill each other over that too.
A big part of why I'm not religious is what religion has led to over the centuries. Atrocities and abominations. Again and again. Over and over. You'd have to be an idiot not to see the pattern.
I'm not spending any energy on pity (which is different from compassion in any case), I'm actually on the verge of a whole different attitude towards Christians.
I currently am fairly bitter and dismissive towards them. I see them as judgemental hypocrites overly interested in how other people live. I ascribed to them low and bitter motives. In short, I have a fairly low opinion and hostile attitude towards Christians.
Your statement put things in a new perspective. If Christians truly feel most of the time that they personally don't measure up, it becomes easier to have a more generous attitude. Their attempts to force their rules on me become more understandable. Their hatred of others is more comprehensible considering their self-hatred. Their hypocracy is much easier to stomach since there is no choice, given the unreasonably high standards set.
I don't want this to come off as snarky. I seriously am feeling my attitude soften a bit. It's kinda sad that this is an improvement, but it is sincere.
For what it's worth, my attitude is that life is a precious and amazing thing, to be treasured and revered. And I don't need a god to do it.
If this is true to the Left Behind novels, you're going to have a lot of work to do. These novels portray current days as the end times, and describe the book of revelation in a current events manner.
You'll have to rewrite revelation where the other team wins, then do all the coding to make that happen in the game.
That's one of the saddest things I've ever read. I've never thought of it that way before.
I actually have greater understanding of Christians now, greater compassion for them. It must be horrible to live like that.
You approve of portraying Christians as a bunch of cowards who will slit your throat if you don't convert to their religious beliefs?!?
Are you retarded? Or just naive?
Let's say, for example, that I live in a Sharia-based society. Should I just accept these crippling religious laws because it is wrong to judge groups of people? Can't I just reject the whole insane pile? Must I judge every single one of these woman-hating intolerant lunatics individually?
Or let's say that I live in a Xian theocracy. Again, is it wrong to judge these witch-burning adulturer-stoning fucktards en masse? Are you truly insisting that I shake every single narrow-minded pinched-souled puritanical tyrant's hand and get to know them?
I say that it is fine to judge groups of individuals if those individuals chose to join those groups. After all, it's what they want. They want to be grouped together with others of the group! Otherwise, why'd they join the group?!? I suspect many of them are weak-minded, but that's all the more reason to judge them all at once.
There are a couple of issues, but I think paying for results will be the future of advertising. You'll pay for actual sales, or for advertising revenue actually generated.
One way this could work would be for the advertiser to proxy the session. It could determine a sale was made and arrange appropriate payment. You don't want to have to trust the seller, or the advertiser.
Your story makes me sad.
If you're ever in Denver I'll give you a PII-350 for free. It boots into w2k in 45 secs. I've found better machines in dumpsters, but I've given them all away.
Seriously, put an ad on craigslist or something. I'd bet that PIII and even slower P4s are getting mulched every day near you, unless you live in a developing country.
You're quite right. I use withholding to avoid giving Uncle Sam an interest-free loan. I've heard if you underpay by a certain threshold you'll be subject to crippling "backup withholding" so I try to keep it minimal. Things got complicated for me after I started itemizing deductions.
My point, however, was that a certain person with a certain withholding can see strange things. When I did payroll I noticed several flukes. Most people did the "standard" w-4 so it was easy to see discrepencies. A $999 check would turn into a $700 check and a $1001 check would turn into a $650 check. (numbers are approximate - this was many years ago) In effect, there were windows where making more money resulted in a smaller paycheck. Naturally, this all was evened out come tax time but I think situations like this lead to the misconception that making more can equal less after tax pay. Some workers lived paycheck to paycheck and a smaller-than-usual check would cause overdrafts etc. These workers learned to avoid overtime unless it was at least a certain number of hours.
Perhaps they could vote an astronaut "out the airlock" every week.
Geeks have their own language. Lots of them. Perl, java, c++, mathematical notation, the geekcode, etc.
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at the end of lines. Pressing enter doesn't mean anything to html.
Studios have been releasing defective DVDs for years. Most players deal OK but you need special ripping software.
Here is one I had to deal with recently. You can't tell by the box if/what copy protection they have. There are half a dozen commercial schemes right now.
The reason for the stories is simple - they're true. The way withholding is calculated can be strange on a specific check. An extra amount of money on a paycheck might bump withholding percentage up, resulting in a smaller paycheck after withholding. You end up getting a refund, but people don't look that far.
Agreed. However, this person had a history of aggressive driving, including sudden braking to deter tailgaters. In this incident the victim was tailgating the suspect and the suspect slammed on his brakes. The victim passed the suspect, infuriating him, at which point he passed and slammed on his brakes again.
Obviously the "brake to teach tailgaters a lesson" mindset can be toxic and can be taken too far.
I've noticed that when I'm driving my 1981 diesel datsun pickup with massive rust and front-end damage NOBODY cuts me off. The vehicle practically screams "Worthless" and "Couldn't care less" and all the bumper damage indicates that it wouldn't be the first time I've rammed something. People give me plenty of leeway, which is good because I can't stop very well in it. When driving my new looking compact car, people cut me off all day long unless I follow closer than I think is optimal.
It's truly like night and day the way drivers act around me, depending on which vehicle I'm in.
I was stopped at a bar watching the traffic snarl in a mountain town and realized that nearly all of the people doing this were merging back onto the highway!! Ever since that realization I'll crowd the shoulder if I see someone trying this asshole move. The frickin tow truck couldn't get through to clear the wreck because so many assholes were clogging the shoulder!
I've seen it go both ways. One time on a road trip through nebraska, a sudden freezing rain/sleet turned to slushy snow and the roads were awfully slick. It was a carnival-like atmosphere - all the spinning vehicles, flipped-over SUVs, pickups in ditches. It went on like this for a hundred miles. I kept thinking people would slow down, but they didn't. A giant dualie would blow by me on the 2-lane country road, start spinning and go into the ditch. Repeat every 5 minutes.
It's as if the wrecked vehicles were invisible to everyone but me. One dude even flipped me off right before he slid off the road. I just kept going 30 in a 65. It was funny, but people could have been hurt. Property damage was definitely extensive.
My favorite part was seeing 3 oncoming vehicles spinning at the same time 2 behind me were spinning. I had to go on the shoulder to avoid getting hit and the spinning trucks all narrowly missed each other. Like some farmer ice ballet.
To clarify a bit, a Jake Brake isn't a magically powerful brake. It is used to avoid overheating of brake pads, especially on long downhill stretches. It's most often used to maintain a constant speed while descending a grade.
An empty trailer will stop surprisingly fast. You have 18 wheels worth of traction.
I am impressed by the way you handled that. The world would be a better place if more people would defuse situations instead of escalating them.
You are very very wrong. Check this out - a man was charged with murder for a road rage accident where he slammed on his brakes in order to punish someone. The car behind him flipped over into oncoming traffic killing 2 innocent people. And the bastard is going to jail for life.
You don't specify, but if you get out of the left lane while this is going on I salute you. If you stay in the left lane you're punishing innocent drivers.
I don't tailgate, but I see a lot of tailgaters on the road. Many times someone will get angry about the tailgation and go slowly in the passing lane, pacing a RV or big rig to "teach them a lesson" and I sit behind all this at a safe distance, marveling that their little pissing contest is inconveniencing scores of innocent drivers. I've even seen this idiocy cause a wreck.
I'd suggest in addition to this metamoderation. If you mod too many drivers unfairly you don't get as many mod points. Drivers with excellent "carma" could drive at +2.
I was looking at your sig's website and found some hilarious things. Do you suffer from "Death and Buttock Numbness?" "Death and Inattention?" "Death and Limping?"