Can you provide ONE example of his Bigotry? I can name thousands of example how Religions around the world are Bigots to non-believers!
Calling all religious believers "delusional" by definition, meets your criteria fully.
Is it really bigotry if it's true? Typical religious beliefs *are* delusions. The real world does not work the way religions typically describe. I know because for many years I used to suffer from such a delusion. Now that my eyes are opened, it's the only way to explain how I could have possibly believed such nonsense without ANY evidence to back it up.
The only place religion really belongs is in the DSM.
If corporations are people, how is it legal for one corporation (i.e. person) to own another? I thought the US outlawed the owning of people as property?
There is a cost to produce. Writers, editors, designers, artists, typesetters, and the rest cost money.
Printing and distribution is a small portion of the overhead for book publication.
Authors get upwards of 10% of the cover price. Editors are typically paid a flat fee (per page, per book, etc.), as is the cover artist (a few hundred to maybe a thousand), and the typesetter (something like $30 per page).
The publisher gets around half the money from the sale, not a "small portion".
At one factory where I worked 12 hour days seven days a week with three days off was the normal schedule.
The trucking fleet worked the legal maximum to save money: 14 hours a day six days a week.
What's sad is that there are business owners who actually think this sort of scheduling *increases* productivity when we have a hundred years of science that says otherwise.
There is also compelling evidence that Jesus was raised from the dead, or at least it is difficult to find a compelling argument that can account for the apostles' later actions and the lives of all who followed after (there are many extra-biblical sources that tell us of this). We could believe that one or two people might have been hypnotised or crazy, but not tens or hundreds. Many who would have known the truth first-hand (whether Jesus rose from the dead) suffered immense persecution in order to promote the message. If they knew it was all a lie, why would they persevere with it? I'm not talking about people dying for their faith, I'm talking about people dying for what they KNEW first-hand.
I think your trouble here is that you are making the assumption that the claims in the NT about Jesus' resurrection are true and the claims that his disciples saw him resurrected were not added in after the fact decades later.
I recommend checking out some of Bart D. Ehrman's books or talks on youtube. He's a NT scholar who writes books for non-scholars. I found his book, Jesus, Interrupted, to be quite eye opening. Once you gain an understanding of how and when the Bible came to be, everything else about Christianity falls into place.
It's also a good idea to consider the case with more modern religions like Mormonism (I always feel there's a superfluous 'm' in the middle there...). There you have a known con-artist who was able to eventually fool millions of people into believing his bullshit. The criminal organization known as Scientology -- which masquerades as a religion -- has also duped thousands of people into believing in space aliens and ghosts, despite being invented by a science fiction writer a few decades ago.
If Jesus' disciples didn't see Jesus raised from the dead (which, in all likelihood, they didn't) and actually continued preaching, etc., it's not at all an unreasonable leap to believe that they simply convinced themselves that what they had invested their life in was still true despite their dead Messiah. We see this sort of behavior -- belief in things despite evidence to the contrary right in our faces -- every day among humans.
Whether it's "spying" or not, Microsoft is collecting certain information with SmartScreen â" the key is what's done with it
No, the key is that it's being done at all, regardless of what they plan on using the information for. Once they have it, it can be stolen, or MS could be lying or change their minds, etc.
for people who have no idea that an ODB II readers is, the additional information that ah O2 sensor is broken won't keep them from taking it to a dealer anyway.
Maybe not, but if the additional happens to be "gas tank cap not properly screwed on" (OBDII code P0455*), that might save the user a trip to the dealer.
(*Yes I know that's not what the code actually is, but a loose gas cap is, by far, the most common cause of the problem that raises that error code.)
While I love my Android and pay for the apps I use -- although I don't consider piracy a problem but, rather, a good thing for society -- I have to say that the shittiness of the Google Play Store app might have something to do with the amount piracy on the Android.
Why can't I exclude all apps in my search results which show ads or that want to see my contact list or which demand some other ludicrously intrusive and unnecessary access to my phone? Why can't I just get a result list of free apps, or apps within a certain price range? I guess I'm forced to look for apps I want on my PC via Google, oh, and look, here's the.apk I can just download without having to bother with the Play Store...
A good way to do this would be to have some sort of law whereby a company would be allowed the right to be the sole controller of the distribution of the software for a limited time -- say, a short period of a few years -- in exchange for requiring the release of the software -- source code, binaries, and all -- into the public domain at the end of such time. A law like this would, I think, greatly benefit the useful arts and sciences, given that the period of control was suitable short (say, two to five years).
A better way would be to require, by law, that any software released to the public -- for free or by sale/rental -- be distributed along with its source code.
It's become crystal clear over the years that it is everyone's moral imperative to ignore copyright law.
That is the only way we, as a society, are going to conquer the science-and-arts-crippling concept known as "intellectual property" and move forward as a civilization.
Ignoring the unrealistic nature of having small, one-manned fighters in space at all, if I was piloting a ship that had super-powerful guns that had the potential to overheat and explode, I would want them as far away from the cockpit as possible.
[Evolution] cannot be the whole picture. The basic tenet behind evolution is that a mutation helps an organism survive better and thus is kept. How does this explain the reproductive system? Without pretty much every part of the male and female anatomy working perfectly, none of it would help an organism survive, and in fact some argument can be made that requiring a baby to be carried around and live birth to happen hurts survivability.
Not to browbeat you or anything, but this here is called an "argument from ignorance". You can't say "I don't know how Y could come to be, therefore X must be true". That's a logical fallacy. "I don't know how such-and-such could evolve, therefore something else must be also acting to produce new species."
"I don't know" cannot be used as evidence of anything.
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Is it really bigotry if it's true? Typical religious beliefs *are* delusions. The real world does not work the way religions typically describe. I know because for many years I used to suffer from such a delusion. Now that my eyes are opened, it's the only way to explain how I could have possibly believed such nonsense without ANY evidence to back it up.
The only place religion really belongs is in the DSM.
I was trying to make sense of the grammar in that Spanish bit, but now I'm lost.
If corporations are people, how is it legal for one corporation (i.e. person) to own another? I thought the US outlawed the owning of people as property?
Maybe she wanted to take it to the track on weekend?
Authors get upwards of 10% of the cover price. Editors are typically paid a flat fee (per page, per book, etc.), as is the cover artist (a few hundred to maybe a thousand), and the typesetter (something like $30 per page).
The publisher gets around half the money from the sale, not a "small portion".
What's sad is that there are business owners who actually think this sort of scheduling *increases* productivity when we have a hundred years of science that says otherwise.
? The OP made two mistakes in an eleven word quote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk
I think your trouble here is that you are making the assumption that the claims in the NT about Jesus' resurrection are true and the claims that his disciples saw him resurrected were not added in after the fact decades later.
I recommend checking out some of Bart D. Ehrman's books or talks on youtube. He's a NT scholar who writes books for non-scholars. I found his book, Jesus, Interrupted, to be quite eye opening. Once you gain an understanding of how and when the Bible came to be, everything else about Christianity falls into place.
It's also a good idea to consider the case with more modern religions like Mormonism (I always feel there's a superfluous 'm' in the middle there...). There you have a known con-artist who was able to eventually fool millions of people into believing his bullshit. The criminal organization known as Scientology -- which masquerades as a religion -- has also duped thousands of people into believing in space aliens and ghosts, despite being invented by a science fiction writer a few decades ago.
If Jesus' disciples didn't see Jesus raised from the dead (which, in all likelihood, they didn't) and actually continued preaching, etc., it's not at all an unreasonable leap to believe that they simply convinced themselves that what they had invested their life in was still true despite their dead Messiah. We see this sort of behavior -- belief in things despite evidence to the contrary right in our faces -- every day among humans.
Maybe the OP meant an inch of *length*? ;-)
I don't know, but I'm sure the UK can.
No, the key is that it's being done at all, regardless of what they plan on using the information for. Once they have it, it can be stolen, or MS could be lying or change their minds, etc.
The problem is not the file-sharing sites nor the linking sites: it's copyright law.
Maybe not, but if the additional happens to be "gas tank cap not properly screwed on" (OBDII code P0455*), that might save the user a trip to the dealer.
(*Yes I know that's not what the code actually is, but a loose gas cap is, by far, the most common cause of the problem that raises that error code.)
"This time"? Verhoeven has explicitly said he made the movie so that either interpretation was possible and that neither was actually *correct*.
While I love my Android and pay for the apps I use -- although I don't consider piracy a problem but, rather, a good thing for society -- I have to say that the shittiness of the Google Play Store app might have something to do with the amount piracy on the Android.
Why can't I exclude all apps in my search results which show ads or that want to see my contact list or which demand some other ludicrously intrusive and unnecessary access to my phone? Why can't I just get a result list of free apps, or apps within a certain price range? I guess I'm forced to look for apps I want on my PC via Google, oh, and look, here's the .apk I can just download without having to bother with the Play Store...
A good way to do this would be to have some sort of law whereby a company would be allowed the right to be the sole controller of the distribution of the software for a limited time -- say, a short period of a few years -- in exchange for requiring the release of the software -- source code, binaries, and all -- into the public domain at the end of such time. A law like this would, I think, greatly benefit the useful arts and sciences, given that the period of control was suitable short (say, two to five years).
A better way would be to require, by law, that any software released to the public -- for free or by sale/rental -- be distributed along with its source code.
So what? I have a pet rabbit that I can keep alive with regular oxygen particles.
And I don't even have to inject them or anything. They just go into the holes in his face.
It's become crystal clear over the years that it is everyone's moral imperative to ignore copyright law.
That is the only way we, as a society, are going to conquer the science-and-arts-crippling concept known as "intellectual property" and move forward as a civilization.
Good lord, you can't be serious. A mixed economy combined with basic income would be orders of magnitude better than pure Capitalism.
How do you know he's never voluntarily used their services?
Dammit Bill...
Look, just give us a new TIE Fighter or X-wing vs TIE Fighter game already, okay? That is what the market has been demanding for years.
God I hate IP laws. With LucasArts sitting on the Star Wars IP, it's impossible for any competitors to come out and make a TIE Fighter game.
Ignoring the unrealistic nature of having small, one-manned fighters in space at all, if I was piloting a ship that had super-powerful guns that had the potential to overheat and explode, I would want them as far away from the cockpit as possible.
Or the Democrats' "Support me or you might get Republicans"...
Not to browbeat you or anything, but this here is called an "argument from ignorance". You can't say "I don't know how Y could come to be, therefore X must be true". That's a logical fallacy. "I don't know how such-and-such could evolve, therefore something else must be also acting to produce new species."
"I don't know" cannot be used as evidence of anything.