Now if they only leverage their know-how and implement top-of-the-line solutions thanks to their syniergies, they'll be buzzword 1.0 compliant, too! I can't wait!
You are so emo it's not even funny. I would suggest a simple treatment: get out a bit, chat with someone. You might find that the world is not *really* run by dictators hellbent on stealing your stash.
They are breaking the law! So? That was not the point. If you feel offended when people tell you that you belong in hell, either you believe them (in which case you don't belong in hell at all) or you don't (in which case their words don't matter). Besides, if you expect any gov't to protect you, you are both a wimp and gravely mistaken.
Progressive pussification of the world is indeed proceeding at an alarming rate.
There are other countries outside the USA which are not communist - anyway after the latest elections we have become a communist country indeed. But what has that got to do with the discussion?
"Christianity" has nothing to do with that - first of all, it's *people* who proselytize, just like it's people who kill people and not guns. Secondly, I have been subject to all kinds of "preaching" while in public schools and nonetheless I managed to come out as a normal guys - and guess what: most preachers were trying to spread the word of communism. People like to explain what they think. Get over it.
While I sympathize with you - I don't know how I would handle such a situation! - I disagree on the point that he was not allowing you to believe in what you like. Being rude and obnoxious is not exactly like burning down your church or whipping you until you "believe". Of course it's not the ideal of tolerance, either.
You know what, by the looks of this discussion (in general), it seems that I am simply not able to relate to this whole Fundamentalist Christian thing. I feel like I'm constantly missing some piece of the puzzle. You all (I mean you guys from the US) talk to each other as if you shared some kind of experience with such fundamentalists but I have no idea what it might be. But for the life of me I cannot fathom why people would make such a big deal about their religion, unless we're talking about young apostles or some such. I used to be quite confrontational on this issue some time ago, then I stopped when I realized that nobody cared anyway and I was just alienating potentially good people away from me. And being kind of a jerk.
I am in Western Europe and I define civilized world by "the vast majority of people lead comfortable lives, working, raising families, pursuing studies and various occupations, basic needs such as housing and food don't require a great deal of effort to be met, etc" you get the point.
What I meant anyway was not that people are shallow or anything like that. I simply noticed that most of the people I met, who belonged to the Christian, Islamic, Hebrew, and whatnot religion, seem to lead more or less the same kind of life, at the end of the day. "Very visible things" like casting away your possessions and joining the poor, or searching for Nirvana while not caring the current moment, are what *define* two of the religions that many, many profess to follow. So my point was that sure, everybody likes Christmas and most everyone here in Italy is baptized, even I am, though I don't believe in anything, but really it looks to me like "rituals and small things" are pretty much everything that's left of religion. Then again this might have to do with the fact that I live in a spoiled and pretentious society. Ot maybe I am bit jaded and there is more to it than meets the (my) eye.
You seem to think that the Aboriginals themselves regard their religion as a mythology and not as *facts*. It is not so. And anyway, an experience in what a huge group of people believe is inherently educational.
It looks to me like you are afraid that people might actually believe them. Well, go on, exercise your freedom to make fun of them. That's very... mature.
Well, some of those guys had a religion, other ones did not, either way it did not play a big role unless as a tool to manipulate the masses.
Anyway I don't understand why people in the civilized world still make such a big deal about religion nowadays. Just pick yours if you want one, or do without - it's not like it really changes anything: I still have to meet people whose religious beliefs play an important role in their lives. Sure, rituals and all the small things... but nothing life-changing. Unless we're talking about zealots, but I don't see any around here (= the aforementioned civilized world). There must be something about religion in the USA, because you're always arguing over it.
I strongly hope you're joking and have terrible taste. First of all, there's BOUND to be an Inuit Creation museum somewhere, and if I ever find one in my travels I'll definitely visit it. Similarly, Australian Aboriginals' museums can be found down under, I've visited them and have taken tours describing the Dreamtime etc. Yet if you were to joke about them you'd be labeled a bigoted fascist or some such utter crap. The main difference between this Creationist Museum and the ones I mentioned is that the religion this one is based on is alive and well, while the other ones are, how to say, fringe? Niche religions?
Sometimes I wonder why an atheist alwasy has to defend Christianity by attacks of idiots like you. It must be because I like freedom. Including their freedom to build their museum. You know what, you can build yours, too. Though I doubt anyone will find it interesting.
I want to add something to your point. My friend works in middle schools in her country (Spain) and tells me that parents pretty much formed a union or some such and behave very confrontationally when they meet teachers, also they have stated flat out that the school's task is to keep their kids until the parents are back from work - as long as this is done anything goes and they don't care what their children do. So of course you get no respect from the kids and insults from the parents; my friend is young and motivated but I wonder how long she'll be able to keep this travesty up.
In private schools, I have noticed that kids know they are accountable to their parents and to their teachers and everyone behaves in such a way as to facilitate their learning *and* maturing. They study harder and learn more and generally are more mature when they come out. BTW I always attended public schools until university, when I decided I really had enough of the public system.
f you want to eliminate classes for students with low mental performance, someone else could make the same argument that classes for gifted students (especially advanced placement classes, which need to be taught by teachers with Master's degrees) should be eliminated to save money.
Of course that's the way it should be. Everyone should pay for his own education, and buy the service that he thinks is best; in the case of kids of course parents would take care of this. And don't think for a moment that a gifted kid is happy to be kept locked into a classroom full of (what he perceives to be) stupid kids.
I feel like nitpicking... so bear with me for a second: you would be insulting his knowledge/education, but not his intelligence. MANY clever people have no idea who Turing was and why he was so important. Just like I have no idea who the first guy was who thought about brain surgery.
In fact, maybe we should get rid of all government intervention since it's obviously a complete failure, and never provides any benefit to anyone.
There, fixed it for you.
Wrong solution. If a mail server admin does not want to receive spam from residential IPs, he has the means to block before it even reaches the server. Lists of such IPs abound.
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Now if they only leverage their know-how and implement top-of-the-line solutions thanks to their syniergies, they'll be buzzword 1.0 compliant, too! I can't wait!
Wow my sarcasm detector must be on strike - my bad
BAD censorship
Which means all censorship. Your point was?
Canada does not censor the internet? So if you put up hate speech they don't take you down? How about slander? How about kiddie porn?
1. I'm young and healthy but I can see the PP is an idiot.
2. Never mistake malice for incompetence.
So basically he is chaotic good?
Indeed, bittorrent is based on IP fairies and only magical pixie dust is exchanged over it.
You are so emo it's not even funny. I would suggest a simple treatment: get out a bit, chat with someone. You might find that the world is not *really* run by dictators hellbent on stealing your stash.
At first I thought "slashdotprod" was some kind of daemon that turns you into a /. professional moderator... then I got the joke. Brilliant idea BTW.
They are breaking the law! So? That was not the point. If you feel offended when people tell you that you belong in hell, either you believe them (in which case you don't belong in hell at all) or you don't (in which case their words don't matter). Besides, if you expect any gov't to protect you, you are both a wimp and gravely mistaken.
Progressive pussification of the world is indeed proceeding at an alarming rate.
There are other countries outside the USA which are not communist - anyway after the latest elections we have become a communist country indeed. But what has that got to do with the discussion?
"Christianity" has nothing to do with that - first of all, it's *people* who proselytize, just like it's people who kill people and not guns. Secondly, I have been subject to all kinds of "preaching" while in public schools and nonetheless I managed to come out as a normal guys - and guess what: most preachers were trying to spread the word of communism. People like to explain what they think. Get over it.
While I sympathize with you - I don't know how I would handle such a situation! - I disagree on the point that he was not allowing you to believe in what you like. Being rude and obnoxious is not exactly like burning down your church or whipping you until you "believe". Of course it's not the ideal of tolerance, either.
You know what, by the looks of this discussion (in general), it seems that I am simply not able to relate to this whole Fundamentalist Christian thing. I feel like I'm constantly missing some piece of the puzzle. You all (I mean you guys from the US) talk to each other as if you shared some kind of experience with such fundamentalists but I have no idea what it might be. But for the life of me I cannot fathom why people would make such a big deal about their religion, unless we're talking about young apostles or some such. I used to be quite confrontational on this issue some time ago, then I stopped when I realized that nobody cared anyway and I was just alienating potentially good people away from me. And being kind of a jerk.
I am in Western Europe and I define civilized world by "the vast majority of people lead comfortable lives, working, raising families, pursuing studies and various occupations, basic needs such as housing and food don't require a great deal of effort to be met, etc" you get the point.
What I meant anyway was not that people are shallow or anything like that. I simply noticed that most of the people I met, who belonged to the Christian, Islamic, Hebrew, and whatnot religion, seem to lead more or less the same kind of life, at the end of the day. "Very visible things" like casting away your possessions and joining the poor, or searching for Nirvana while not caring the current moment, are what *define* two of the religions that many, many profess to follow. So my point was that sure, everybody likes Christmas and most everyone here in Italy is baptized, even I am, though I don't believe in anything, but really it looks to me like "rituals and small things" are pretty much everything that's left of religion. Then again this might have to do with the fact that I live in a spoiled and pretentious society. Ot maybe I am bit jaded and there is more to it than meets the (my) eye.
You seem to think that the Aboriginals themselves regard their religion as a mythology and not as *facts*. It is not so. And anyway, an experience in what a huge group of people believe is inherently educational.
It looks to me like you are afraid that people might actually believe them. Well, go on, exercise your freedom to make fun of them. That's very... mature.
Well, some of those guys had a religion, other ones did not, either way it did not play a big role unless as a tool to manipulate the masses.
Anyway I don't understand why people in the civilized world still make such a big deal about religion nowadays. Just pick yours if you want one, or do without - it's not like it really changes anything: I still have to meet people whose religious beliefs play an important role in their lives. Sure, rituals and all the small things... but nothing life-changing. Unless we're talking about zealots, but I don't see any around here (= the aforementioned civilized world).
There must be something about religion in the USA, because you're always arguing over it.
I strongly hope you're joking and have terrible taste. First of all, there's BOUND to be an Inuit Creation museum somewhere, and if I ever find one in my travels I'll definitely visit it. Similarly, Australian Aboriginals' museums can be found down under, I've visited them and have taken tours describing the Dreamtime etc.
Yet if you were to joke about them you'd be labeled a bigoted fascist or some such utter crap. The main difference between this Creationist Museum and the ones I mentioned is that the religion this one is based on is alive and well, while the other ones are, how to say, fringe? Niche religions?
Sometimes I wonder why an atheist alwasy has to defend Christianity by attacks of idiots like you. It must be because I like freedom. Including their freedom to build their museum. You know what, you can build yours, too. Though I doubt anyone will find it interesting.
I want to add something to your point. My friend works in middle schools in her country (Spain) and tells me that parents pretty much formed a union or some such and behave very confrontationally when they meet teachers, also they have stated flat out that the school's task is to keep their kids until the parents are back from work - as long as this is done anything goes and they don't care what their children do. So of course you get no respect from the kids and insults from the parents; my friend is young and motivated but I wonder how long she'll be able to keep this travesty up.
In private schools, I have noticed that kids know they are accountable to their parents and to their teachers and everyone behaves in such a way as to facilitate their learning *and* maturing. They study harder and learn more and generally are more mature when they come out. BTW I always attended public schools until university, when I decided I really had enough of the public system.
f you want to eliminate classes for students with low mental performance, someone else could make the same argument that classes for gifted students (especially advanced placement classes, which need to be taught by teachers with Master's degrees) should be eliminated to save money.
Of course that's the way it should be. Everyone should pay for his own education, and buy the service that he thinks is best; in the case of kids of course parents would take care of this. And don't think for a moment that a gifted kid is happy to be kept locked into a classroom full of (what he perceives to be) stupid kids.
Yeah! Kinda like what your communist friends should be doing in Tibet! But hey as long as it's For The People, it's OK.
I feel like nitpicking... so bear with me for a second: you would be insulting his knowledge/education, but not his intelligence. MANY clever people have no idea who Turing was and why he was so important. Just like I have no idea who the first guy was who thought about brain surgery.
In fact, maybe we should get rid of all government intervention since it's obviously a complete failure, and never provides any benefit to anyone.
There, fixed it for you.
Wrong solution. If a mail server admin does not want to receive spam from residential IPs, he has the means to block before it even reaches the server. Lists of such IPs abound.
... and we have a winner!
Someone please give Red Moose a cookie.
Governments fail. Shocking!
Remember, kids: government intervention is good.