I'm going to be straight up with you. American Middle-East policy doesn't really matter all that much. When Islamists lack genuine grievances against the USA, they either make some up, or go back to attacking America for its support of Israel. The people doing those terrorist bombings are every bit as delusional and crazy as the "Jesus won't come back" fundamentalists.
And of course, the idea of a "human rights committee" chaired by Islamic countries is a total joke.
There will, eventually, come a day when the UN decides to clean out the human-rights council and make sure that only countries with good, UN-approved human-rights records can sit on it, let alone chair it. That will happen on the day Israel seeks a seat on the council.
What they see is a foreign country (used to be Britain, now America) coming into their country and supporting local tyrants in order to ensure the flow of oil, or to suppress any left wing politics and 'workers rights'.
Actually the suppression of left-wing politics takes place mainly in Latin America.
The problem with the perception Islamic terrorists have of America oppressing them for oil is its vast exaggeration. YES, the occupation of Iraq happened for oil. The takeover of Afghanistan happened to get back at the guys who armed and trained the 9/11 hijackers.
However, the Islamists also believe in quite a damned few delusions. For example, some of them think that Americans and Jews put cancer (yes, you read correctly, "put cancer") in soft drinks so that Muslims who drink them will die. Others believe that America is governed by the Devil or a Jewish conspiracy (yes, that's a pattern you see). Many deny that Muslims actually perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks and will blame the CIA or Mossad, and most of them call the Holocaust a fiction used to justify "stealing Muslim land". In general, if you ask them about a social problem in their own country they find some way to blame their chosen enemies.
We can't reason with these people because when we cease the genuine oppressions (which we should) they'll just keep attacking us for the oppressions they made up.
And not chased them won't change the targets... anyone that supports Israel is a target, according to their own statements.
Or anyone that supports India, or the United States, or Britain. Or generally opposes the resurrection of the Kalifa (Caliphate) over all land ever ruled by a Muslim empire, from the Iberian Peninsula across North Africa through the Middle East into Central Asia and finally down into India.
It's because you work in community college, which is primarily for people who couldn't get into real college because of their disabilities or because of their cash-flow problems.
Look, it isn't. I was diagnosed at age 17, when out of high school. It's real, it's biological, and it's genetic. It's just also about as overblown as terrorism.
Is the diagnosis rate that high? Normally I don't buy into this "society has oppressed human nature" bullcrap, but if it was found that a majority of the population has ADHD I'd suddenly have to seriously look at arguments that we're failing to accommodate our own natures.
As someone with ADD (not sure of the H, but exercise definitely helps so maybe), thank you. You've said exactly what I wanted to so that I can get off Slashdot and go to sleep.
I played it on the PC version from Steam with an XBox-360 controller. It was certainly harder than the rest of the game, but not as scrappy-level hard as everyone makes it out.
Psychonauts was a stand-alone game and not part of any franchise. It was *awesome*, and critics loved it. Unfortunately, nobody bought the thing. You can get it on Steam now, though.
Full of bugs? Idiotic copy protections? Ridiculously high prices? Needing much more CPU/GPU power than my high-end PC offers?
Of course, sometimes they actually produce a brilliant, excellent game, the critics love it, and nobody buys it. Let us all mourn the passing of "Psychonauts", and possibly go buy it on Steam.
Flamebait? That comment was flamebait? Bull, nice to see that some pro-open-borders moderator would rather use their mod points that comment back to something they disagree with.
Or maybe we could just up and admit that the people who do skilled work need decent wages and stop the outsourcing, stop the importation of illegal workers, and hire our own damn citizens to do skilled jobs for skilled-job wages!
The continuing drain of non-rock-star, non-creative jobs (ie: most of the truly necessary ones) into low-wage populations via crime and legal loopholes is not some natural force we're powerless to stop. It's a choice our society has made because it apparently values cheapness over both fairness and quality. And personally, it sickens me.
Look, I'm a rather good cook myself, and I can tell you that you don't even want to eat the crap they teach you to make in "home economics" classes. You're supposed to learn how to cook from your parents, not from some hack in a school who most likely lives off ramen packets.
"macaroni and cheese, fish sticks (do you like fishsticks? You like putting fishsticks in your mouth?) or grill some chicken properly"
Out of all of those, the grilled chicken's the only one that really gives you a healthy meal in the end. Learn to grill and roast meats, prepare salads (not those vegetables-on-lettuce things they sell you in restaurants, *salads*!), make soups, sautee, bake, and pan fry. Learn the uses of cumin, paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander seed, pepper, basil, and oregano. Buy a cookbook and get to figuring out what you can do with some vegetables. Learn to cook eggs, they're good sources of protein if you don't have cholesterol issues.
While despising the Baby Boomers is healthy, remember the destruction of American industry happened on the Greatest Generation's watch. And that bit of bad luck is what's made subsequent generations' selfishness seem so nihilistic.
Could you please explain? I was never much good at American history, but this sounds interesting.
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It's an operating system. It's supposed to leave the resources to the user programs.
What? Do you have some grievance you're attempting to point out, or are you just trolling?
I'm going to be straight up with you. American Middle-East policy doesn't really matter all that much. When Islamists lack genuine grievances against the USA, they either make some up, or go back to attacking America for its support of Israel. The people doing those terrorist bombings are every bit as delusional and crazy as the "Jesus won't come back" fundamentalists.
And of course, the idea of a "human rights committee" chaired by Islamic countries is a total joke.
There will, eventually, come a day when the UN decides to clean out the human-rights council and make sure that only countries with good, UN-approved human-rights records can sit on it, let alone chair it. That will happen on the day Israel seeks a seat on the council.
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What they see is a foreign country (used to be Britain, now America) coming into their country and supporting local tyrants in order to ensure the flow of oil, or to suppress any left wing politics and 'workers rights'.
Actually the suppression of left-wing politics takes place mainly in Latin America.
The problem with the perception Islamic terrorists have of America oppressing them for oil is its vast exaggeration. YES, the occupation of Iraq happened for oil. The takeover of Afghanistan happened to get back at the guys who armed and trained the 9/11 hijackers.
However, the Islamists also believe in quite a damned few delusions. For example, some of them think that Americans and Jews put cancer (yes, you read correctly, "put cancer") in soft drinks so that Muslims who drink them will die. Others believe that America is governed by the Devil or a Jewish conspiracy (yes, that's a pattern you see). Many deny that Muslims actually perpetrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks and will blame the CIA or Mossad, and most of them call the Holocaust a fiction used to justify "stealing Muslim land". In general, if you ask them about a social problem in their own country they find some way to blame their chosen enemies.
We can't reason with these people because when we cease the genuine oppressions (which we should) they'll just keep attacking us for the oppressions they made up.
And not chased them won't change the targets... anyone that supports Israel is a target, according to their own statements.
Or anyone that supports India, or the United States, or Britain. Or generally opposes the resurrection of the Kalifa (Caliphate) over all land ever ruled by a Muslim empire, from the Iberian Peninsula across North Africa through the Middle East into Central Asia and finally down into India.
Well that's just bullshit. Possibly Buddhist bullshit, but it remains bullshit.
I believe the correct answer was that the wind moves the flag.
So just wait until they're adults to diagnose it, like a proper medical establishment.
And in the meantime make school suck balls less.
It's because you work in community college, which is primarily for people who couldn't get into real college because of their disabilities or because of their cash-flow problems.
Look, it isn't. I was diagnosed at age 17, when out of high school. It's real, it's biological, and it's genetic. It's just also about as overblown as terrorism.
Is the diagnosis rate that high? Normally I don't buy into this "society has oppressed human nature" bullcrap, but if it was found that a majority of the population has ADHD I'd suddenly have to seriously look at arguments that we're failing to accommodate our own natures.
As someone with ADD (not sure of the H, but exercise definitely helps so maybe), thank you. You've said exactly what I wanted to so that I can get off Slashdot and go to sleep.
Now, let's all go ride bikes!
It's when they tried to teach math to children from the "ground up" based on set theory and logic. Needless to say, it didn't work that well.
Average usually means mean rather than median. Oh, and the fact that 50% are above and 50% are below the median comes from its definition.
I played it on the PC version from Steam with an XBox-360 controller. It was certainly harder than the rest of the game, but not as scrappy-level hard as everyone makes it out.
Psychonauts was a stand-alone game and not part of any franchise. It was *awesome*, and critics loved it. Unfortunately, nobody bought the thing. You can get it on Steam now, though.
Then maybe they should fix the problems:
Full of bugs? Idiotic copy protections? Ridiculously high prices? Needing much more CPU/GPU power than my high-end PC offers?
Of course, sometimes they actually produce a brilliant, excellent game, the critics love it, and nobody buys it. Let us all mourn the passing of "Psychonauts", and possibly go buy it on Steam.
Flamebait? That comment was flamebait? Bull, nice to see that some pro-open-borders moderator would rather use their mod points that comment back to something they disagree with.
Or maybe we could just up and admit that the people who do skilled work need decent wages and stop the outsourcing, stop the importation of illegal workers, and hire our own damn citizens to do skilled jobs for skilled-job wages!
The continuing drain of non-rock-star, non-creative jobs (ie: most of the truly necessary ones) into low-wage populations via crime and legal loopholes is not some natural force we're powerless to stop. It's a choice our society has made because it apparently values cheapness over both fairness and quality. And personally, it sickens me.
Look, I'm a rather good cook myself, and I can tell you that you don't even want to eat the crap they teach you to make in "home economics" classes. You're supposed to learn how to cook from your parents, not from some hack in a school who most likely lives off ramen packets.
"macaroni and cheese, fish sticks (do you like fishsticks? You like putting fishsticks in your mouth?) or grill some chicken properly"
Out of all of those, the grilled chicken's the only one that really gives you a healthy meal in the end. Learn to grill and roast meats, prepare salads (not those vegetables-on-lettuce things they sell you in restaurants, *salads*!), make soups, sautee, bake, and pan fry. Learn the uses of cumin, paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander seed, pepper, basil, and oregano. Buy a cookbook and get to figuring out what you can do with some vegetables. Learn to cook eggs, they're good sources of protein if you don't have cholesterol issues.
Then you've got a good start.
While despising the Baby Boomers is healthy, remember the destruction of American industry happened on the Greatest Generation's watch. And that bit of bad luck is what's made subsequent generations' selfishness seem so nihilistic.
Could you please explain? I was never much good at American history, but this sounds interesting.
I'm 20. And by God I wish I could mod you up.
What kind of "stupid stuff"? Are we talking coke and hookers or did some kid just get arrested for underage drinking?
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