I'm really curious about where Slashdotters live that they keep encountering all these fundamentalists who refuse to accept the scientific explanations for how the universe works.
I've got a fairly broad range of friends, a couple who are fairly religious and have always been so. And I know a few others who are born-agains and frequent the kind of church you'd expect to be a problem. But they all accept the concept of evolution, the big bang, and everything else that's been proposed by science. I don't know a single person, religious or otherwise who doesn't generally accept any of this.
And the big irony here is that these fundamentalists would embrace all this. A universe billions of years old, where life evolved, is far and away more impressive than a 6,000 year universe where everything was created as it exists now.
I mean, how awesome are dinosaurs, or the life cycles of stars, or quantum mechanics? If you want to believe in a creator it takes a staggering one to have come up with all that. Not the feeble, unimaginative one fundamentalists adhere to.
They aren't running into them. they just think that they are the majority. It seems to me that the more extreme you are, the louder you are and the more people will hear you. Do you think american politics are completely dominated by right wing nut jobs? Do you think that British politics are dominated by xenophobes? Do you think Islam is completely dominated by suicide bombers?
Like I said, you're going to get heard more if your viewpoint is extreme, but that doesn't mean the vast majority of people are going to think like you.
Trade disputes with the US don't just involve china. Go look up the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the US for a prime of example of the US being a bunch of dicks. NAFTA and WTO sided with Canada and yet Canada STILL had to negotiate its way out of that dispute.
What I mean by abuse is people who receive welfare, then do nothing to get off of it.
The government should pressure those on welfare who are capable of working to find a job by any means necessary. If this means relocation, or education, so be it. the government should offer to fund these initiatives and get people off of welfare ASAP. I'll be the first to say that in some extreme cases, someone may have to remain on welfare indefinitely, and I don't believe in time limits for welfare. But I get pissed when I see some lazy 20 year old squandering welfare money on booze and cable TV and does nothing to get himself off of welfare.
I feel the same way about Canada's healthcare system. I consider it abuse of the healthcare system when my tax money has to pay for search & rescue & medical treatment when a skier willingly and knowingly veers off a ski course onto dangerous areas of the mountain and gets sucked up by an avalanche. If that person manages to survive, they should be responsible for paying some if not all of the bills. Taking risks is fine, but if you do, you should be prepared to face the consequences of your actions, not me. I pay taxes into the social system so that me, my family, my friends, etc get worry free healthcare, have a security net to fall on during hard times, and various other "socialism" services. But when that tax money gets abused by a select few, I get upset.
So no, this isn't about kicking people when their down. This is about making sure we help those who want to help themselves. American individualism mixed with european socialism I think is a good mix.
here here! I live in Canada. Same situation. High taxes, lots of free services, no worry. And our economy is good enough that it can all be paid for. Americans love to say "well well well, in Canada, there is long waits!!!". Well yes, that's true. But it's not a flaw of the system, it's a flaw of the government allocating funds in a stupid manner. Like, $1,000,000,000 for the G7/G20 summits, a MASSIVE amount of money that gave us nothing at all but riots and nonsense. Another problem with Canada is that welfare is too easy to abuse. I fully support welfare, but in 99.9% of cases, it should never be a no-strings-attached deal. Want welfare because your life turned to shit? Fine, you can get welfare, only if you demonstrably do something to get out of welfare. Right now that's not really the case.
However, while our health care system certainly isn't perfect, it's ALWAYS around. The firetrucks are ALWAYS around. The ambulances are ALWAYS around. And if a foreigner or other non-citizen or someone who hasn't filed the paperwork yet for medicare gets into an accident, the first people they will call are doctors and nurses, not accountants and lawyers.
There are a lot of things that are good with America, social services is not one of them, and the way americans perceive social services is something I can never understand.
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most likely Israel or US?
I'm sure there are a lot of countries, like China, that would want to Iran stfu before they get blown up and the oil stops running. It's in the interest of pretty much any industrialised nation that war doesn't break out over Iran.
It's temporary--this is pretty common. A new name will be created to clearly demarcate that a Change Has Happened, and then a real name is sorted out over time.
Which hurts brand recognition even more! You shouldn't constantly change the name of a product around. If we want to see OpenOffice have influence and support beyond the OSS community, then there is more to consider than just functionality. I could create the world's single greatest suite of software for the office, and name it "OMGWTFBBQ (Office Management Gurus Would Totally Force Boss to be Better at Questions)" and it would never displace or influence a grain of sand, let alone established players. I use OpenOffice whenever I have to use software and I would like to see it become more dominant, or at least influence the major players to go in a particular direction (I couldn't care less if IBM or Microsoft steals ideas from OO, when I'm forced to make powerpoint decks, I just want things to work well, and OO works well).
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I'm really curious about where Slashdotters live that they keep encountering all these fundamentalists who refuse to accept the scientific explanations for how the universe works.
I've got a fairly broad range of friends, a couple who are fairly religious and have always been so. And I know a few others who are born-agains and frequent the kind of church you'd expect to be a problem. But they all accept the concept of evolution, the big bang, and everything else that's been proposed by science. I don't know a single person, religious or otherwise who doesn't generally accept any of this.
And the big irony here is that these fundamentalists would embrace all this. A universe billions of years old, where life evolved, is far and away more impressive than a 6,000 year universe where everything was created as it exists now.
I mean, how awesome are dinosaurs, or the life cycles of stars, or quantum mechanics? If you want to believe in a creator it takes a staggering one to have come up with all that. Not the feeble, unimaginative one fundamentalists adhere to.
They aren't running into them. they just think that they are the majority. It seems to me that the more extreme you are, the louder you are and the more people will hear you. Do you think american politics are completely dominated by right wing nut jobs? Do you think that British politics are dominated by xenophobes? Do you think Islam is completely dominated by suicide bombers?
Like I said, you're going to get heard more if your viewpoint is extreme, but that doesn't mean the vast majority of people are going to think like you.
So?
I look forward to seeing how this annoyance will evolve into a serious threat
amen brother. Python has become my scripting language of choice, but its syntax sometimes infuriates me
And that's why it got cancelled.
Flash Forward on the other hand, who knows...
mainly because liberals are just as rational as conservatives. The idea of centralism is long gone, all you've got left are extremists on both sides.
I don't know of anything that can replace it.
Acadian or Quebecois?
...then what?
so... China and the US have established the economic equivalent of MAD?
Trade disputes with the US don't just involve china. Go look up the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the US for a prime of example of the US being a bunch of dicks. NAFTA and WTO sided with Canada and yet Canada STILL had to negotiate its way out of that dispute.
The reasons for Afghanistan were not dubious. You're thinking of Iraq.
amen brother
What I mean by abuse is people who receive welfare, then do nothing to get off of it.
The government should pressure those on welfare who are capable of working to find a job by any means necessary. If this means relocation, or education, so be it. the government should offer to fund these initiatives and get people off of welfare ASAP. I'll be the first to say that in some extreme cases, someone may have to remain on welfare indefinitely, and I don't believe in time limits for welfare. But I get pissed when I see some lazy 20 year old squandering welfare money on booze and cable TV and does nothing to get himself off of welfare.
I feel the same way about Canada's healthcare system. I consider it abuse of the healthcare system when my tax money has to pay for search & rescue & medical treatment when a skier willingly and knowingly veers off a ski course onto dangerous areas of the mountain and gets sucked up by an avalanche. If that person manages to survive, they should be responsible for paying some if not all of the bills. Taking risks is fine, but if you do, you should be prepared to face the consequences of your actions, not me. I pay taxes into the social system so that me, my family, my friends, etc get worry free healthcare, have a security net to fall on during hard times, and various other "socialism" services. But when that tax money gets abused by a select few, I get upset.
So no, this isn't about kicking people when their down. This is about making sure we help those who want to help themselves. American individualism mixed with european socialism I think is a good mix.
here here! I live in Canada. Same situation. High taxes, lots of free services, no worry. And our economy is good enough that it can all be paid for. Americans love to say "well well well, in Canada, there is long waits!!!". Well yes, that's true. But it's not a flaw of the system, it's a flaw of the government allocating funds in a stupid manner. Like, $1,000,000,000 for the G7/G20 summits, a MASSIVE amount of money that gave us nothing at all but riots and nonsense. Another problem with Canada is that welfare is too easy to abuse. I fully support welfare, but in 99.9% of cases, it should never be a no-strings-attached deal. Want welfare because your life turned to shit? Fine, you can get welfare, only if you demonstrably do something to get out of welfare. Right now that's not really the case.
However, while our health care system certainly isn't perfect, it's ALWAYS around. The firetrucks are ALWAYS around. The ambulances are ALWAYS around. And if a foreigner or other non-citizen or someone who hasn't filed the paperwork yet for medicare gets into an accident, the first people they will call are doctors and nurses, not accountants and lawyers.
There are a lot of things that are good with America, social services is not one of them, and the way americans perceive social services is something I can never understand.
most likely Israel or US?
I'm sure there are a lot of countries, like China, that would want to Iran stfu before they get blown up and the oil stops running. It's in the interest of pretty much any industrialised nation that war doesn't break out over Iran.
I win!!!
Maybe it has a ghost that developed from the data inputs of over a billion individuals...
It's temporary--this is pretty common. A new name will be created to clearly demarcate that a Change Has Happened, and then a real name is sorted out over time.
Which hurts brand recognition even more! You shouldn't constantly change the name of a product around. If we want to see OpenOffice have influence and support beyond the OSS community, then there is more to consider than just functionality. I could create the world's single greatest suite of software for the office, and name it "OMGWTFBBQ (Office Management Gurus Would Totally Force Boss to be Better at Questions)" and it would never displace or influence a grain of sand, let alone established players. I use OpenOffice whenever I have to use software and I would like to see it become more dominant, or at least influence the major players to go in a particular direction (I couldn't care less if IBM or Microsoft steals ideas from OO, when I'm forced to make powerpoint decks, I just want things to work well, and OO works well).
Vive l'Office! Vive l'Office libre!
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Lots of people won't be able to pronounce it properly. They will call it "Leeber Office". I think it will hurt the brand.
no, they build it out of technologies invented in Asia and produced in Asia.
tell that to Quebec, where competition in telephony, internet, and tv are heating up extremely fast.
Bell vs Rogers/Fido vs Videotron
It is shaping up to be an epic fight
You're undressing in the kitchen?