Problem: in my experience a lot of geeks are geeks because their bodies just don't come built for athleticism. Once I even saw a scientific study that seemed to confirm an inverse relationship between muscle mass and intelligence. Now, I know the two traits sometimes occur together and that an intelligent person can definitely bulk up, but it seems to me like there may actually be some genetic factor, some "Geek Gene", that increases mental ability at the cost of making it require more effort to build muscle.
Or it could just be that we build our physical selves like D&D characters before we're born and only have so many stat points to spend.
The problem with just telling nerds "be confident and it will work" is that they have the logical faculties to ask, "confident in what?". I don't think the average person will like the notion of having confidence in one's own confidence swaying others to like one. That seems too much like the notion that believing in fairies makes them real.
Yeah, let's not be mean to furries. They're going to cease conscious existence when they die just like all other sinners against God anyway, so in the end it's not worth it!
One has to keep in mind that joining a frat takes time and dedication to the group and its causes. I was going to join a frat earlier in college, but after a couple of semesters of not really being able to make it to their recruiting events, usually due to awkward timing (who gets up at 6AM on a Saturday to build a ramp?) or actually having something else to do in that time slot (my uni has nearly all of its extracurricular activities scheduled for at least one of Mon-Fri, 7-9PM), I just sort of went my own way. Me and the guys of that frat still get on real well and like each other, but it's sort of understood that I have too much of an outside life (namely 3 other extracurricular groups + studies) to join.
In the south they do discriminate against you on multiple levels for not being "ultra-evangelical" and compel you to observe their faith in public institutions. (Do you think I made the gym coach thing up? How would you like to be held down into a seat and compelled to engage in idolatry?)
Did you put up with it as halachah says, or did you idolat?
Yeah, whiny babies who have all the culture and make all the money that us upstaters leech off.
Oh we need this service oh we need that...
It's called "public transportation", and it's provided so that New Yorkers can have a decent lifestyle instead of having to fuel up the SUV and drive a mile or two, uphill in the snow both ways (seriously, Albany area can manage that this time of year), just to see a friend.
I don't see what is so adult about needing a high paying job to live life equivalent of a college dorm room.
Well for one thing there's the ability to understand that a higher population density will, by simple economics, create high housing prices.
I agree that city dwellers and country bumpkins aren't more adult or mature than one another, but stop getting self-righteous about the Simple Country Goodness (TM, copyright to the guy who wrote "Forrest Gump") of upstaters. I'm from Albany, I left the area to go to college, and by God when I graduate I'm moving to a large city.
And what if I have an issue with disregarding morals? I mean, it's one thing to be rude to people (most people deserve it, really), but violating a moral principle is well... immoral.
But I will go further, though not to the extent you imply. While I won't boil people, I'd be happy to add schizophrenics to the "non-viable" list. Mandatory sterilization once it manifests. The human race has had enough problems with people who claim to "hear voices" telling them what to do, or what is right, rather than making decisions based upon observation and testing. It's time we grew up, and put away childish things.
If your definition of "schizophrenic" includes religiousity or leadership of religious people you really need to moderate yourself. Remember that even the craziest religious people tend not to display any other symptoms of schizophrenia (including "hearing voices"... they read books).
Yes, but the idea isn't to create a monoculture of humans who carry no copies of these genes. The idea is that fetuses found to actually have double-copies of the disease-causing genes should be aborted (or simply never made in the first place), while ordinary recessive carriers should be allowed to come to term.
For example, you store your photographs across 3 hard disks, because your storage has grown organically with your usage. So you now have three places to go to access your pictures. If you set all three locations as import points for a Library, you get a consolidated view of all the locations as one. Very cool, and a nice new way to look at content.
God damn it. Windows is getting Plan 9 features into useful form before Linux?!
Oy gevalt, you anti-Semitic moron. Do you know how many Jewish individuals and orgs lost their goddamn money because they trusted Bernie Madoff? Apparently not, or you wouldn't think it was all some kind of Jewish conspiracy.
I mean DEAR FUCKING GOD, who let the Alex Jones morons on Slashdot? The country goes into one little economic recession and all of a sudden lending at interest is immoral again (funny how moral revivals tend to coincide with a culture reaping the catastrophic consequences of failing to obey more moderate moral advice in the first place*) and it's all the fault of the Jews!
Don't even talk to me. I'm a computer science student; I don't even know anyone in banking. Come back when you're not just trying to vent your frustration at some lost money by picking on the nearest ethnic group in the headlines. It isn't your people under constant scorn for fighting the most vicious and virulent brand of religious fundamentalism seen in the world today; it isn't your people who have to defend themselves against wannabe Nazis.
* -- This is my official statement on the matter of the United States debt collapse and ensuing depression, left for 'net archaeologists of the future. If everyone hadn't insisted on buying shit they couldn't afford - houses, cars, useless educations that led nowhere professionally, iPhones, cell-phone plans, vacations, food (especially food in this nation of obesity), drink, whores, and every other vice of overindulgence America has gorged itself on like a squirrel packing in for winter - this would never have happened. I repeat the simple financial advice of Saturday Night Live: don't buy things you can't afford. When you don't buy things you can't actually afford and only take loans you can realistically pay back in the future (like investment capital or student loans for an engineering degree), you will not suffer any credit crunches. When you're not so obsessed with the idea of something for nothing that you stop producing things and try to just move paper around for a living, your economy will hold up under bad conditions because it will produce real value -- real things that real people need.
But personally, I don't think you'll follow this advice. My prediction for the future is more of the same: you'll go wildly out of control in good times and then find a scapegoat to blame in bad times. I can comfort myself with the barest glimmer of hope that perhaps your future scapegoat, when you again feel the need to blame someone for what you know deep down is your addiction to unnecessary consumption, won't just be the Jews again.
I correct myself, Wikipedia indicates that the Knesset has a 2% electoral threshold for a seat. That remains extraordinarily low compared to many countries, and compared to most with stable coalition governments.
Unfortunately, illegal settling takes place under nearly every Israeli government. That's why it's called "illegal": it violates local law. The Israeli government isn't like the American one; it's not divided into branches that get held by one majority party each.
Kadima (center on The Situation, center-right economics) and Labor (left on both, but not far enough to the Left to be morons) are not extremist parties, but they often have to form governing coalitions with extremist parties because Israel's parliamentary system is too democratic: it literally takes less than one percent of the vote to win one of the 120 Knesset seats. And it only takes 10 or so seats to become a jackass little kingmaker party that goes for one coalition or another based on who will give you the most special privileges.
Also, Israel doesn't have a civil service as we understand the term here in America. They have "state employees". The sheer laziness and corruption of those in a month people would, from what I've heard, give the American media scandal fodder for a year.
So yes, settlements continue to be built under governments led by mainstream, moderate parties like Kadima and Labor because no single political party has the power to stop them: that would require at least a supermajority of the Knesset by a single party and a complete clean-out of Israel's executive branch of government. Well, that or a peace deal with the Arabs.
Well, you did say this, and while I did quote you out of context, it is a bit racist to assume that you have the right to appropriate the land due to what happened 1800 years ago to the followers of a religion that you identify with, but you are not closely related to.
Slight problem: I am in fact descended from those people. So are the rest of the non-convert Jews I know. Seriously, population genetic studies have been done. They show that both the Jewish and Palestinian populations have genetic links back to the ancient Israelites and Canaanites, but that the Jews have a closer link (leading to more diseases of inbreeding among Jews...) since the Arabs are well... Arabs. They are descended from people who abandoned one culture (the Jewish one) to join the Arabic one, and quite freely from what I remember of my history. So they don't get to claim the rights of Jews while calling themselves Arabs, acting Arabic, speaking Arabic, and following an Arabic religion. Instead, they have the rights of Arabs, much as Englishmen don't have the rights of French people to France despite sharing some genetic descent.
It's all very messy, but the thing is that the Arabs have 22 Arabic states, one of them Palestinian (Jordan, which is composed of all of the British Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan river). We only have and only want the one tiny little Jewish state. We think that holding the land of our ancestors is perfectly reasonable when the Arabs have so many other places to live! We Jews don't even all want all the land our ancestors lived on, just enough of it to live on now.
If the government that you impose is an explicitly and extensively theocratic state with a thin veneer of democracy.
Honest to God, it's "ISRAEL IS A THEOCRACY OMFG!" guys like you who make secular Jews like me less effective in getting across our message that Israel should separate religion from state even in those matters wherein such separation doesn't already exist. Please understand that Zionism began as and remains a secular movement. Attacking secular Zionism only leads to an increase in religiosity.
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Yeah, but what if I prefer some kind of enjoyable activity to just pumping iron for an hour or two thrice a week?
Problem: in my experience a lot of geeks are geeks because their bodies just don't come built for athleticism. Once I even saw a scientific study that seemed to confirm an inverse relationship between muscle mass and intelligence. Now, I know the two traits sometimes occur together and that an intelligent person can definitely bulk up, but it seems to me like there may actually be some genetic factor, some "Geek Gene", that increases mental ability at the cost of making it require more effort to build muscle.
Or it could just be that we build our physical selves like D&D characters before we're born and only have so many stat points to spend.
The problem with just telling nerds "be confident and it will work" is that they have the logical faculties to ask, "confident in what?". I don't think the average person will like the notion of having confidence in one's own confidence swaying others to like one. That seems too much like the notion that believing in fairies makes them real.
Yeah, let's not be mean to furries. They're going to cease conscious existence when they die just like all other sinners against God anyway, so in the end it's not worth it!
One has to keep in mind that joining a frat takes time and dedication to the group and its causes. I was going to join a frat earlier in college, but after a couple of semesters of not really being able to make it to their recruiting events, usually due to awkward timing (who gets up at 6AM on a Saturday to build a ramp?) or actually having something else to do in that time slot (my uni has nearly all of its extracurricular activities scheduled for at least one of Mon-Fri, 7-9PM), I just sort of went my own way. Me and the guys of that frat still get on real well and like each other, but it's sort of understood that I have too much of an outside life (namely 3 other extracurricular groups + studies) to join.
In the south they do discriminate against you on multiple levels for not being "ultra-evangelical" and compel you to observe their faith in public institutions. (Do you think I made the gym coach thing up? How would you like to be held down into a seat and compelled to engage in idolatry?)
Did you put up with it as halachah says, or did you idolat?
I'm sorry, what's this about the Northeast being Godless and atheistic? Everyone here has a religion!
NYC are a bunch of Whiny Babies...
Yeah, whiny babies who have all the culture and make all the money that us upstaters leech off.
Oh we need this service oh we need that...
It's called "public transportation", and it's provided so that New Yorkers can have a decent lifestyle instead of having to fuel up the SUV and drive a mile or two, uphill in the snow both ways (seriously, Albany area can manage that this time of year), just to see a friend.
I don't see what is so adult about needing a high paying job to live life equivalent of a college dorm room.
Well for one thing there's the ability to understand that a higher population density will, by simple economics, create high housing prices.
I agree that city dwellers and country bumpkins aren't more adult or mature than one another, but stop getting self-righteous about the Simple Country Goodness (TM, copyright to the guy who wrote "Forrest Gump") of upstaters. I'm from Albany, I left the area to go to college, and by God when I graduate I'm moving to a large city.
Dude, who the fuck modded this guy down? He's exactly right.
And anyone who disagrees can have the Israel Defense Force remind your "master race" of why that idea is no longer allowed.
And what if I have an issue with disregarding morals? I mean, it's one thing to be rude to people (most people deserve it, really), but violating a moral principle is well... immoral.
But I will go further, though not to the extent you imply. While I won't boil people, I'd be happy to add schizophrenics to the "non-viable" list. Mandatory sterilization once it manifests. The human race has had enough problems with people who claim to "hear voices" telling them what to do, or what is right, rather than making decisions based upon observation and testing. It's time we grew up, and put away childish things.
If your definition of "schizophrenic" includes religiousity or leadership of religious people you really need to moderate yourself. Remember that even the craziest religious people tend not to display any other symptoms of schizophrenia (including "hearing voices"... they read books).
Yes, but the idea isn't to create a monoculture of humans who carry no copies of these genes. The idea is that fetuses found to actually have double-copies of the disease-causing genes should be aborted (or simply never made in the first place), while ordinary recessive carriers should be allowed to come to term.
It didn't declare anything about non-Microsoft devices or invade/bomb a foreign country, but it did attempt to exterminate the Jews.
For example, you store your photographs across 3 hard disks, because your storage has grown organically with your usage. So you now have three places to go to access your pictures. If you set all three locations as import points for a Library, you get a consolidated view of all the locations as one. Very cool, and a nice new way to look at content.
God damn it. Windows is getting Plan 9 features into useful form before Linux?!
No YOUR side is the obvious aggressor! It said so in my Alex Jones informational video on YouTube!
Ninjas are East-Asian imperialism. All the people of God rely not on edit-ninjas but upon the Edit-Hashshashin!
Why do you think it's come up for a third time on Slashdot?
Oy gevalt, you anti-Semitic moron. Do you know how many Jewish individuals and orgs lost their goddamn money because they trusted Bernie Madoff? Apparently not, or you wouldn't think it was all some kind of Jewish conspiracy.
I mean DEAR FUCKING GOD, who let the Alex Jones morons on Slashdot? The country goes into one little economic recession and all of a sudden lending at interest is immoral again (funny how moral revivals tend to coincide with a culture reaping the catastrophic consequences of failing to obey more moderate moral advice in the first place*) and it's all the fault of the Jews!
Don't even talk to me. I'm a computer science student; I don't even know anyone in banking. Come back when you're not just trying to vent your frustration at some lost money by picking on the nearest ethnic group in the headlines. It isn't your people under constant scorn for fighting the most vicious and virulent brand of religious fundamentalism seen in the world today; it isn't your people who have to defend themselves against wannabe Nazis.
Damn you, don't encourage the chavs!
Let me tell you, I know hippies, and the South Park stereotypes are pretty much accurate.
I correct myself, Wikipedia indicates that the Knesset has a 2% electoral threshold for a seat. That remains extraordinarily low compared to many countries, and compared to most with stable coalition governments.
Unfortunately, illegal settling takes place under nearly every Israeli government. That's why it's called "illegal": it violates local law. The Israeli government isn't like the American one; it's not divided into branches that get held by one majority party each.
Kadima (center on The Situation, center-right economics) and Labor (left on both, but not far enough to the Left to be morons) are not extremist parties, but they often have to form governing coalitions with extremist parties because Israel's parliamentary system is too democratic: it literally takes less than one percent of the vote to win one of the 120 Knesset seats. And it only takes 10 or so seats to become a jackass little kingmaker party that goes for one coalition or another based on who will give you the most special privileges.
Also, Israel doesn't have a civil service as we understand the term here in America. They have "state employees". The sheer laziness and corruption of those in a month people would, from what I've heard, give the American media scandal fodder for a year.
So yes, settlements continue to be built under governments led by mainstream, moderate parties like Kadima and Labor because no single political party has the power to stop them: that would require at least a supermajority of the Knesset by a single party and a complete clean-out of Israel's executive branch of government. Well, that or a peace deal with the Arabs.
Well, you did say this, and while I did quote you out of context, it is a bit racist to assume that you have the right to appropriate the land due to what happened 1800 years ago to the followers of a religion that you identify with, but you are not closely related to.
Slight problem: I am in fact descended from those people. So are the rest of the non-convert Jews I know. Seriously, population genetic studies have been done. They show that both the Jewish and Palestinian populations have genetic links back to the ancient Israelites and Canaanites, but that the Jews have a closer link (leading to more diseases of inbreeding among Jews...) since the Arabs are well... Arabs. They are descended from people who abandoned one culture (the Jewish one) to join the Arabic one, and quite freely from what I remember of my history. So they don't get to claim the rights of Jews while calling themselves Arabs, acting Arabic, speaking Arabic, and following an Arabic religion. Instead, they have the rights of Arabs, much as Englishmen don't have the rights of French people to France despite sharing some genetic descent.
It's all very messy, but the thing is that the Arabs have 22 Arabic states, one of them Palestinian (Jordan, which is composed of all of the British Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan river). We only have and only want the one tiny little Jewish state. We think that holding the land of our ancestors is perfectly reasonable when the Arabs have so many other places to live! We Jews don't even all want all the land our ancestors lived on, just enough of it to live on now.
If the government that you impose is an explicitly and extensively theocratic state with a thin veneer of democracy.
Honest to God, it's "ISRAEL IS A THEOCRACY OMFG!" guys like you who make secular Jews like me less effective in getting across our message that Israel should separate religion from state even in those matters wherein such separation doesn't already exist. Please understand that Zionism began as and remains a secular movement. Attacking secular Zionism only leads to an increase in religiosity.
Yes, Haifa is very secular, but it's not just Jews. It's a roughly half/half Jewish-Arab city.