Oy gevalt, we've got a Jew for Jesus on Slashdot? Please stop debasing the language of proper Jews by naming your so-called "king" in it.
He can reign when he gets his ass out of the ground, down from heaven -- from wherever he's supposedly gone! -- and imposes his rule by force. 'Til then, sod off while we wait for the real Maschiach who ain't afraid to get involved in politics.
As a Gen-Yer I'd like to serve as a counter-data-point to your assertion.
I get around the dichotomy of work and friends simply by choosing not to have too much stuff. Everyone else in my dorm (I'm a 19-ish freshman in university, comp sci major) have big gaming machines, XBox 360s, Playstation 3s, and HD-TVs. They have toys, and that was the chief reason I've never fit in with them. I only got a new laptop this year because my 2001 Dell desktop experienced its 5th critical hardware failure last June and had a 20GB hard drive. I still use my old Nintendo 64 and bought a Wii out of my own resources, but I don't actually own my own television. I don't own a car either, and plan to save money on insurance and gas by not buying one until I absolutely can't avoid it. Most money I get by gifts or jobs, I save or invest. By the end of my college degree I'll probably have had the grades to transfer to a much better school, but will have passed up the opportunity to avoid student loans. My big luxury this summer, as I'll probably live away from home with a job, will be to buy fresh food instead of the cheaper prepared crap.
So while, like many kids my age, I get a lot of help from my parents, I might just have the resources to go totally independent when out of college. It's called saving and not indulging in unnecessary luxuries, and it doesn't exactly require working 50 hours a week.
Why does your translation of the New Testament use Hebrew names?
Just asking, because we Jews usually find it a little taboo to quote the New Testament in Hebrew. It gives the thing an air of Jewish authenticity we don't like to lend to such heresies as God taking a human form.
Monads are a way of explicitly bolting state and imperative programming onto a pure-functional language. By using them, you lose many of the benefits of a pure-functional language.
I dunno. I don't have that much stuff. I've gotten a lot more stuff since I moved into college (like a minifridge, microwave, touchtone phone, and a few posters), but I still don't really own much more than fits into my bedroom or my half of a dorm room and I have no car.
Apparently gadgets == stuff in some people's eyes. Yes, younger folks own proportionally more gadgets than older folks. But in terms of total stuff we own, most of us still don't own much. How many young people can afford to furnish an apartment all on their own?
You are confused son. Its a class struggle, not an age struggle. Stop attacking people on the basis of age; you're just making yourself into a useless annoyance to everyone and not accomplishing anything at all. You are also advertising the fact that you are basically an ignorant thug. I think damburger's anger is pretty damn stupid, but please read this.
The younger generation isn't spoilt, they're just overly pissed off because they don't remember the days when being screwed meant you were shipped off to Vietnam.
That said, a great many young people are screwed in a great many ways nowadays. The cost of education skyrockets while neither us nor our parents get any richer. High divorce rates have broken families to the point that I had to berate my own father to get his half of my tuition paid. I'm 19 and the most money I've ever made so far in my life is roughly $8 an hour. The job was great experience and if I was given the choice to get another job last summer, I would still choose that one. But it still only paid a dollar and a bit above minimum wage. I have no idea how I would support myself if I really needed to.
Nonetheless, the fact is that I have 2 parents and a step-father to support me who all have decent jobs. Most people my age are in much more trouble than I am. My generation grew up in the '90s, with increasing restrictions on young people, and went on to come of age in the 2000s, with increasing restrictions on everybody. We're a little pissed and extremely cynical.
Expect my generation to have children very late, because all-and-all it's taking us longer than it used to to set ourselves up in secure lives in which we can afford to settle down and raise kids of our own. This pisses off those of us who don't want to live a childish lifestyle forever.
I'm just going to interject to say that if your career started 20 years ago than college was a heck of a lot cheaper when you worked your way through. Remember, all these student loans have made prices for education go up much, much faster than the general rate of inflation.
I think it may be the opposite in the US, more financial aid and such stuff for lower income people (ie: you can be poor, go to a top grade university and not spend 10 years paying it off). Not really. If you're really, really poor and you win admission to a top, well-endowed private university (ie: Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, etc) the school will usually give you a mostly free ride.
If you're only so poor that you had to eat macaroni and cheese with canned pineapple but not so poor that you couldn't make rent, you'll probably take on some, but not so much, debt.
And if you have the audacity to be middle class, God help you.
All of this goes double for the "Public Ivies". For example, UC Berkeley currently lists their tuition for a student living on-campus from in-state as roughly $26,000. It's a lot, but most middle-class folk can afford it with minimal debt and the truly poor receive grants. But try to go there from out-of-state and BAM you're paying an additional $20,000.
If you grew up with people hating you simply because you're a kid how would you react? Given that that's how kids are generally treated nowadays, I would just go find a kid and ask him how he reacts to blatant ageism.
I'm too old to give an accurate and current account, especially since I left high school at 16.
The Israeli Defense Force is a secular organization that actually rather dislikes that division of ultra-Orthodox Jews who would actually worry about leaving a life-saving weapon on during Shabat. In fact, they rather hate the ultra-Orthodox, and would happily piss them off.
Israel's Sabbath Laws only require that humans not be forced to work on Shabat except for vital national defense, saving lives, etc. Tzahal leaving a laser on during Shabat will piss off the blackhats, but Tzahal will happily piss off blackhats.
The Negev is the southern desert of Israel. Lots of Bedouin still live there, even though the Israeli government refuses to recognize some of their illegally-founded villages.
Israel has never seriously proposed the expulsion of its Arab population. It has seriously proposed to "land-swap" heavily Arab areas of Israel for Jewish settlements in Palestine, thus transferring the Arabs to a sovereign Arab state without moving them an inch.
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Bad poster. Ha'aretz doesn't know jackshit about Italian politics.
If they believe the New Testament was anything more than fiction they are, by definition, Christians. Or perhaps Muslims.
But not Jews.
Oy gevalt, we've got a Jew for Jesus on Slashdot? Please stop debasing the language of proper Jews by naming your so-called "king" in it.
He can reign when he gets his ass out of the ground, down from heaven -- from wherever he's supposedly gone! -- and imposes his rule by force. 'Til then, sod off while we wait for the real Maschiach who ain't afraid to get involved in politics.
Actually, we believe the New Testament is outright fiction and that Jesus was a heretic.
As a Gen-Yer I'd like to serve as a counter-data-point to your assertion.
I get around the dichotomy of work and friends simply by choosing not to have too much stuff. Everyone else in my dorm (I'm a 19-ish freshman in university, comp sci major) have big gaming machines, XBox 360s, Playstation 3s, and HD-TVs. They have toys, and that was the chief reason I've never fit in with them. I only got a new laptop this year because my 2001 Dell desktop experienced its 5th critical hardware failure last June and had a 20GB hard drive. I still use my old Nintendo 64 and bought a Wii out of my own resources, but I don't actually own my own television. I don't own a car either, and plan to save money on insurance and gas by not buying one until I absolutely can't avoid it. Most money I get by gifts or jobs, I save or invest. By the end of my college degree I'll probably have had the grades to transfer to a much better school, but will have passed up the opportunity to avoid student loans. My big luxury this summer, as I'll probably live away from home with a job, will be to buy fresh food instead of the cheaper prepared crap.
So while, like many kids my age, I get a lot of help from my parents, I might just have the resources to go totally independent when out of college. It's called saving and not indulging in unnecessary luxuries, and it doesn't exactly require working 50 hours a week.
Naw, but it could, just possibly, make Richard Dawkins and the like a little less hostile to religion.
OTOH, how many of us religious folks have really figured that one out yet?
Why does your translation of the New Testament use Hebrew names?
Just asking, because we Jews usually find it a little taboo to quote the New Testament in Hebrew. It gives the thing an air of Jewish authenticity we don't like to lend to such heresies as God taking a human form.
He means as condescending as the people who write books about Gen Y. Search Amazon for "Generation Y" or "Millenials" to find out what he means.
Monads are a way of explicitly bolting state and imperative programming onto a pure-functional language. By using them, you lose many of the benefits of a pure-functional language.
Dayyum, I must be in the right field.
I dunno. I don't have that much stuff. I've gotten a lot more stuff since I moved into college (like a minifridge, microwave, touchtone phone, and a few posters), but I still don't really own much more than fits into my bedroom or my half of a dorm room and I have no car.
Apparently gadgets == stuff in some people's eyes. Yes, younger folks own proportionally more gadgets than older folks. But in terms of total stuff we own, most of us still don't own much. How many young people can afford to furnish an apartment all on their own?
For reference, I'm almost 19.
The younger generation isn't spoilt, they're just overly pissed off because they don't remember the days when being screwed meant you were shipped off to Vietnam.
That said, a great many young people are screwed in a great many ways nowadays. The cost of education skyrockets while neither us nor our parents get any richer. High divorce rates have broken families to the point that I had to berate my own father to get his half of my tuition paid. I'm 19 and the most money I've ever made so far in my life is roughly $8 an hour. The job was great experience and if I was given the choice to get another job last summer, I would still choose that one. But it still only paid a dollar and a bit above minimum wage. I have no idea how I would support myself if I really needed to.
Nonetheless, the fact is that I have 2 parents and a step-father to support me who all have decent jobs. Most people my age are in much more trouble than I am. My generation grew up in the '90s, with increasing restrictions on young people, and went on to come of age in the 2000s, with increasing restrictions on everybody. We're a little pissed and extremely cynical.
Expect my generation to have children very late, because all-and-all it's taking us longer than it used to to set ourselves up in secure lives in which we can afford to settle down and raise kids of our own. This pisses off those of us who don't want to live a childish lifestyle forever.
I'm just going to interject to say that if your career started 20 years ago than college was a heck of a lot cheaper when you worked your way through. Remember, all these student loans have made prices for education go up much, much faster than the general rate of inflation.
If you're only so poor that you had to eat macaroni and cheese with canned pineapple but not so poor that you couldn't make rent, you'll probably take on some, but not so much, debt.
And if you have the audacity to be middle class, God help you.
All of this goes double for the "Public Ivies". For example, UC Berkeley currently lists their tuition for a student living on-campus from in-state as roughly $26,000. It's a lot, but most middle-class folk can afford it with minimal debt and the truly poor receive grants. But try to go there from out-of-state and BAM you're paying an additional $20,000.
I'm too old to give an accurate and current account, especially since I left high school at 16.
Fuck that. My son's gonna be a little bastard just like I was at his age.
And I turned out fine, except for an arrest by a wanker cop whose charges were dismissed in court.
Got a source for that?
The Israeli Defense Force is a secular organization that actually rather dislikes that division of ultra-Orthodox Jews who would actually worry about leaving a life-saving weapon on during Shabat. In fact, they rather hate the ultra-Orthodox, and would happily piss them off.
Israel's Sabbath Laws only require that humans not be forced to work on Shabat except for vital national defense, saving lives, etc. Tzahal leaving a laser on during Shabat will piss off the blackhats, but Tzahal will happily piss off blackhats.
The Negev is the southern desert of Israel. Lots of Bedouin still live there, even though the Israeli government refuses to recognize some of their illegally-founded villages.
Israel has never seriously proposed the expulsion of its Arab population. It has seriously proposed to "land-swap" heavily Arab areas of Israel for Jewish settlements in Palestine, thus transferring the Arabs to a sovereign Arab state without moving them an inch.
Actually, wrong. The Israeli Jewish population surpassed the American Jewish one somewhere in 2005 or 2006.
They now make up the plurality of the world's Jewish population, if not the majority.
We need guns. Lots of guns. Woah.
So just run Gentoo or LFS and only install what you want, when you want, how you want.
The great thing about Linux is that Linux From Scratch and Ubuntu can both be Linux.