Actually, new American-history mention the cultures of the Native Americans in some detail and describe the extermination of Native Americans from their own land by European settlers.
What about offending Jewish students who are offended by the Muslim student's Holocaust denial, and may have even lost relatives in a camp? Thanks to the Holocaust and Europe's long history of anti-Semitism, there just aren't that many Jewish students.
"regimenting all industry"? See also: Haliburton? (Okay, you got me on this one...) Aren't we talking about sugar tariffs and corn subsidies over in another article? The government has manipulated the American economy for decades before the Bushiviks.
Find a store that sells to Jews during Passover (usually around early April, but it's on a lunar calendar). Strict Judaic law forbids the consumption of corn during Passover, so stores sell sodas, chocolate sauces, and other sweets made with cane sugar just before and during Passover.
It means that people now need money to afford to eat healthily. Poor people have to get the most calories for the least dollars, so they end up buying junk food. That explains the otherwise bizarre correlation in this country between poverty and obesity.
So basically, he's a traditional, good Republican instead of a neo-conservative fascist? That still makes him a Republican, unless you want to openly admit that the Republican Party now belongs mostly to the fascists.
Honestly, should anyone really care? If the next-generation Palm operating system is based on a Linux kernel but has the capability of running Palm OS apps in an emulation mode, should we care about what code base it runs on? YES! Because us geeks care about avoiding software mono-culture, even Linux mono-culture!
Also, I personally can't stand the hegemony of Unix work-alike operating systems.
Not to be disrespectful, but I won't care about picking your religion's interpretations apart until you start believing everyone has to be a Jew, and soon. I completely fail to understand the logic there. I merely said that if you want an explanation for the contradictions of the Written Torah's text, you should check out the Oral Torah. What does that have to do with making everyone Jewish?
First, this ignores the long history of Jewish criticism of the Tanakh, which was quite active long before the Christian church was formalized. Todah rabah! So many of these supposedly intelligent, educated "critics" of the Bible have simply never heard of vast body of Jewish commentaries and interpretive material, most of which existed hundreds of years before the organized Christianity they love to hate.
It's called the Talmud people, and nowadays we don't fear anti-Semites burning our books anymore, so you can see one if you ask nicely.
Nintendo will never change the Zelda formula. They tested the waters with Windwaker and the fanbois all screamed bloody murder. Not over some major game mechanic change or dramatic change in roles of Link/Ganon/Zelda. No, they lit the torches and sharpened the pitchforks because of the ART DIRECTION. There was also the sailing. I stopped playing Wind Waker when I realized that I had to warp+sail around the world looking for 8 Triforce Charts and then do more warping+sailing in numerous side quests to actually obtain the Triforce pieces before I could resume Real Zelda.
Zelda games should be about voluntarily exploration of the over-world, not involuntary shlepping around it using a dismally slow mode of travel (because anywhere you would actually want to go is at least one diagonal square from a warp).
OK, seriously, the GP wrote the worst troll I've ever read. He wrote so stupidly that I almost think he really believes we Jews fuck with the human genome.
I quite realize. The War on Underaged Drinking has a similar nature to the War on Drugs: it began long after lawmakers prohibited the thing in question, as said lawmakers (and lobbyists) needed a reason to justify their continued existence.
Lawmakers need a scapegoat and (avra k'dabra) we must tighten our ID laws to better enforce the drinking age!
Unfortunately, some people have begun to use "racism" as a generic term for all discrimination. I've seen it used for:
Actual racism Sexism French-bashing (this time) religion bashing (against Islam), and finally Anti-Semitism (what will it take to convince people that we Jews are not a race?!)
So I've decided to capitalize on this phenomenon. Buy your ticket to redefine the word "racism" today for the low, low price of $5!
Partly this IS the biology field's problem: everyone perceives it as classification/soft science, and teaching focuses on memorization (quick, what are the major kinds of biological molecules? A: Lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids, if I recall). Well, that's what it *is*. Biology just doesn't have the hard causation that we geeks like. Oh, and you forgot carbohydrates.
Chemistry is rather similar, but closer to hard science than soft. Is there any reason for why polyatomic ions come together the way they do? Not really, says the teacher, you just have to memorize them and their charges.
Relationships, especially mathematical ones, are most interesting to us. My perception is that if you like science but hate math, biology is the field to go into. I kind of agree. My perception is that if you have some intelligence and want to whore yourself to the field with the most money nowadays, you major in Biology. I couldn't tell you (being a Comp. Sci. who loathes biology) whether Biology simply doesn't need that much math or whether they've relaxed the math requirements for all their hopeful little future biotechnologists, genetic engineers, custom protein designers and other whores.
And so our students remain "well rounded", by which I mean they all take the same courses that cover much of the same ground they've already been exposed to. I honestly don't see where or why a student needs biology to have a well-rounded degree. Once you mandate a certain level of laboratory science, requiring a particular one seems like further overspecializing your students.
But I am all in favor of being well-rounded. I was going to choose a different school until I found out that the 90-required-credit Computer Science major at my school requires most of that heavy load in 4-credit courses, leaving a hard-working student space to take "well-rounding" subjects like music.
Actually, I think he's got a legitimate complaint. From the sound of things, his degree ("programming"!?) requires Biology. Not "physical or biological science", just "biology". He says he wants to take Physics.
What's wrong with just requiring some combination of X semesters general-education science classes? You get well-rounded students who also had a satisfactory degree of choice in what they took.
Well, if you keep most of the software in read-only memory or firmware and don't build in the hardware for network access, you can make it pretty much un-crackable. Some dedicated kid will still find a way to use the built-in scripting language (or something else) to put pr0n on his, but that just means he has a bright future in computers.
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Actually, new American-history mention the cultures of the Native Americans in some detail and describe the extermination of Native Americans from their own land by European settlers.
He means we should hang the bastards.
Find a store that sells to Jews during Passover (usually around early April, but it's on a lunar calendar). Strict Judaic law forbids the consumption of corn during Passover, so stores sell sodas, chocolate sauces, and other sweets made with cane sugar just before and during Passover.
It means that people now need money to afford to eat healthily. Poor people have to get the most calories for the least dollars, so they end up buying junk food. That explains the otherwise bizarre correlation in this country between poverty and obesity.
So basically, he's a traditional, good Republican instead of a neo-conservative fascist? That still makes him a Republican, unless you want to openly admit that the Republican Party now belongs mostly to the fascists.
Also, I personally can't stand the hegemony of Unix work-alike operating systems.
OK, that was perhaps the greatest semantic error ever made on Slashdot. Mod me troll.
It should read "'Don't rape children' is an absolute moral, no matter where you live."
Was that like the Law of Grammar Nazis or something, wherein a grammar Nazi makes a grammar mistake while reprimanding someone else?
Actually, I'm pretty sure that "Don't rape children." is absolutely wrong, no matter where you live.
"I remember when all this will be again." - Azrael, the Great Attractor
What is this "proto-Judaism" of which you speak?
First, this ignores the long history of Jewish criticism of the Tanakh, which was quite active long before the Christian church was formalized.
Todah rabah! So many of these supposedly intelligent, educated "critics" of the Bible have simply never heard of vast body of Jewish commentaries and interpretive material, most of which existed hundreds of years before the organized Christianity they love to hate.
It's called the Talmud people, and nowadays we don't fear anti-Semites burning our books anymore, so you can see one if you ask nicely.
Wait, I don't get it. You would keep your Midna dolls intact, instead of sacrificing them to Asmodeus for sheer cruel enjoyment?
Zelda games should be about voluntarily exploration of the over-world, not involuntary shlepping around it using a dismally slow mode of travel (because anywhere you would actually want to go is at least one diagonal square from a warp).
And I almost always use the dash forms with dash noses, because I'm Jewish ;-).
Would you like soy sauce on your falafel?
OK, seriously, the GP wrote the worst troll I've ever read. He wrote so stupidly that I almost think he really believes we Jews fuck with the human genome.
I quite realize. The War on Underaged Drinking has a similar nature to the War on Drugs: it began long after lawmakers prohibited the thing in question, as said lawmakers (and lobbyists) needed a reason to justify their continued existence.
Lawmakers need a scapegoat and (avra k'dabra) we must tighten our ID laws to better enforce the drinking age!
It's all the same.
Of course, that was all back before the War on Underage Drinking.
Unfortunately, some people have begun to use "racism" as a generic term for all discrimination. I've seen it used for:
Actual racism
Sexism
French-bashing (this time)
religion bashing (against Islam), and finally
Anti-Semitism (what will it take to convince people that we Jews are not a race?!)
So I've decided to capitalize on this phenomenon. Buy your ticket to redefine the word "racism" today for the low, low price of $5!
Chemistry is rather similar, but closer to hard science than soft. Is there any reason for why polyatomic ions come together the way they do? Not really, says the teacher, you just have to memorize them and their charges. Relationships, especially mathematical ones, are most interesting to us. My perception is that if you like science but hate math, biology is the field to go into. I kind of agree. My perception is that if you have some intelligence and want to whore yourself to the field with the most money nowadays, you major in Biology. I couldn't tell you (being a Comp. Sci. who loathes biology) whether Biology simply doesn't need that much math or whether they've relaxed the math requirements for all their hopeful little future biotechnologists, genetic engineers, custom protein designers and other whores. And so our students remain "well rounded", by which I mean they all take the same courses that cover much of the same ground they've already been exposed to. I honestly don't see where or why a student needs biology to have a well-rounded degree. Once you mandate a certain level of laboratory science, requiring a particular one seems like further overspecializing your students.
But I am all in favor of being well-rounded. I was going to choose a different school until I found out that the 90-required-credit Computer Science major at my school requires most of that heavy load in 4-credit courses, leaving a hard-working student space to take "well-rounding" subjects like music.
Actually, I think he's got a legitimate complaint. From the sound of things, his degree ("programming"!?) requires Biology. Not "physical or biological science", just "biology". He says he wants to take Physics.
What's wrong with just requiring some combination of X semesters general-education science classes? You get well-rounded students who also had a satisfactory degree of choice in what they took.
Well, if you keep most of the software in read-only memory or firmware and don't build in the hardware for network access, you can make it pretty much un-crackable. Some dedicated kid will still find a way to use the built-in scripting language (or something else) to put pr0n on his, but that just means he has a bright future in computers.