AS for the German people, yes they need to shoulder some of the blame for supporting him at the time
The last one I knew who fought in WWII died a few years ago at age 87. How is a 70 year old German in any way responsible for what his parents' generation did?
No, the only Germans who shoulder the blame for Hitler are either did or very, very old. Today's Germans are no more responsible for Hitler than I am responsible for slavery.
Ah, you kids... back in the '70s they'd take a can of beer and a screwdriver, shake the can, poke it with the screwdriver and down it went. Mentos? God, the way they did it back then (notice I didn't say "we", I thought the practice was stupid) was bad enough!
And, does that work with beer? I thought it was just diet coke?
I agree that a shot is easier, faster, cleaner, and more compact, but a draft beer is $1.25 and the cheapest rotgut in the house is $2.75.
It depends on the rain. If it's pouring down, Rain-X gives you clear vision, but if it's just misting you need the wipers because the beads will just sit there on the windshield until they grow enough to roll off.
Some of us are just Brain Washed into believing in things that don't make any sense.
Yes, like believing without any proof whatever that there is no such thing as God, and believing despite all evidence that without God, anything you ever do will matter in the least, since you, the species, the world, the galaxy, the universe will come to an end. If there is no God there is no purpose to anything at all. Without God, life is nothing but a cruel joke.
And holding those beliefs despite people who have actuually experienced God's presence telling you that you're not thinking clearly. "I don't care that you've been to the zoo, there's no such thing as elephants! They're just illogical and only an idiot would believe such a stupid thing! And if you saw an elephant at the zoo, you must have been hallucinating. Because there's no such thin as elephants!"
Can you prove that sentience exists? I can't, but I know for a fact that it does.
"Organic" isn't a "bullshit marketing term," it's organic as opposed to inorganic. Bullshit for fertilizer instead of inorganic nitrogen fertilizer and the like.
It's not whether the plant is organic, it's whether it was grown using inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. The carrot is organic no matter what you fertilize it with, but it's not organically grown if you're using Roundup on your fields and using Monsanto fertilizers.
The "Ancients"??? What is this, a sifi show or something? 100 years ago is not "ancient".
100 years ago they farmed like people did thousands of years ago, with plows pulled by animals. So yes, like the ancients. As to "organic farming" I used to be skeptical, until I grew a garden. The food from the garden tasted WAY better than the stuff from the store, and was probably more nutritious as well.
Then a frend of mine started raising hogs, about a half dozen or so at a time. He had a friend who workd at a plant that produced ice cream, and would bring Mike a pickup truck load of ice cream mix that had gone out of date every week. Mike fed his hogs 50% hog feed and 50% ice cream mix.
That was the best tasting pork I ever ate. It's obvious that what an animal eats affects what it tastes like, and how a plant is grown affects what it tastes like (grow radishes and horseradish together and your radishes will be hot) Mike said the pig that bit him was the best pork he ever ate.
They're hard to break from the inside, too. I was driving a 1974 Gremlin at 50 mph in 1976 and had a left front tire blow out and was in the wrong lane watching a 3/4 ton pickup truck coming at me doing 70. No seat belt, the steering wheel was bent where I hung on to it, the dash was bent where my shoulder hit it, and my face was swollen badly from hitting the windshield. It didn't break. They're designed to be as hard to break as possible and to be the least dangerous when broken possible.
I agree that to a Christian, the most important part of the bible is the New Testament, especially the first 4 books, but the old testament is full of much wisdom (Psalms and Proverbs are especially good). Many of its stories are warnings about foolishness.
Science can't explain sentience. Religion can. So why is it that we are the unthinking ones? Does not compute!
We would find that the "resilient" inherit the earth.( Early church wanted meek parishioners as they are easier to control than resilient ones) The temple priests used cannabis rather than "calmus" as an unguent.
Interesting if true. Citation?
that bit about "rendering unto Caesar" gets misconstrued as instruction to obey mans governance rather than highlight the unimportance of earthly joys compared to the everlasting glory, which is what it was meant to do until "politically modified".
Um, which bible does that? Not the KJV or the NIV, the two most popular versions. Both say "render unto ceasar that which is ceasar's and to God that which is God's". Both texts are plain in that they are speaking of the question "is it ok to pay tax?"
We're too busy drowning in debt and getting yelled at for being leeches when we do get the government to throw us a frickin bone in the form of subsidies.
You ARE a leech! And you probably bitch about the government giving food stamps and medical cards to the poor, too.
I live in the middle of Illinois, a big farming state. Most of the state is covered in corn and soybeans. I have yet to see a farmhouse without a brand new F-150 in the driveway.
If you can't stay in business without government help, you're in the wrong business. Why in the hell should my tax money be going to YOU? Get a job, you goddamned bum!
Hell he called me once to bring out my truck because one of the local telecos were tossing their old towers when they upgraded. i got nearly 40 towers with nothing but the windows password between me and ALL their data.
The Windows password doesn't protect shit. Just put a Linux install CD in, run it in the "test this out to see if you like it mode" and all those data are there for you to take.
All the Windows pasword does is protect Microsoft.
We would be much better off without 'guards'. People already know what to do in case of an emergency in an airplane these days. Stop wasting money in the TSA.
People already know what to do in case of a crime, why bother with police?
In case of crime, you CALL THE POLICE. In case of a hijacking, the TSA is nowhere around and you can't call them so you have to do THEIR jobs. They're completely useless. They should have spent the money putting an armed (tazer) air marshall on every flight.
Considering that belief is the opposite of thinking
Rationalization is thinking, overthinking can lead to as bad an answer is underthinking. But do you have to think to know the rose is red and smells good? You don't have to think to know.
Fictional doctor on TV? Is there any straw you poor fools won't grasp at? Here's some reasoning for you -- your entire existance is completely meaningless. You will die, all you do will crumble to dust, humanity will become extinct and everything it has ever done and known will be gone. Life itself will become extinct, and the universe itself will come to an end.
So why bother? Nothing matters, why go on living? What is the fucking point of it all?
The original Hebrew Torah, which the Christian New Testament is from, doesn't say "day" but rather "period of time". It was translated to "day" by scholars translating the bible to English and other languages.
Rationalization is another form of analytic thinking. Like the athiest GP continuing with the "six days" nonsense. Even in the US there are but a tiny minority of Christians that think "day" is literal, yet these ignorant yahoos keep spouting their fallacious statements.
Thank you for that. The most telling part is at the very top:
Republican 206 yes 28 no 7 abstain Democratic 42 yes 140 no 8 abstain
Er, guys, didn't you conservative types say the Republicans are the ones trying to protect your freedoms and the Democrats are hell-bent on a police state? These numbers tell me the exact opposite.
The signal is already processed. Light get detected in the deeper layer of the retina (where the cones and rods lives), transmitted to the upper layer (nerves cells doing this transmission plays the same role as peripheral nerves) and gets processed in the upper layer.
That's new to me, can you give a citation where I can learn more detail about this? It goes against my own experience, what I learned in a physics class, and whay my retina surgeon said.
In college I took a physics class concerning light and optics, and the professor said that seeing isn't a function of the eye, but of the brain. Perhaps it was a matter of his being a physicist and not a biologist. Perhaps more has been learned in the last 40 years.
Several years ago I had a detached retina, and had many visits to my retina specialist afterward. One day I had symptoms that worried the hell out of me, but he said it was simply an "optical migrane" and had nothing whatever to do with the eye.
Fertilizers are broadly divided into organic fertilizers (composed of organic plant or animal matter), or inorganic or commercial fertilizers. The "manufactured" is a bit bogus. Bulls manufacture very good fertilizer.
What advantage would this have over normal glass for a whale tank? What's wrong with regular glass, unless you needed it to, I don't know, transport whales in a Klingon bird of prey or something?
I want the windshield of my next car to be made of this stuff! It might not even need windshield wipers. It'll put the Rain-X people right out of business.
Drinking glasses would be another good use. EYEGLASSES! God but I hated my glasses. Walk in the rain and you can't see. Walk inside in the cold and they fog up and you can't see. Spectacles made of this wouldn't have those problems. Glad I had the implant so I don't need them any more, but this would be great for you guys.
You are correct; many baseball players with 20/20 get LAISIK to improve their vision to better than 20/20.
But this device isn't going to give anyone super vision. "The eye consists of 98 electrodes". That's some damned low resolution. This is for those with no vision at all, someone who has had their eye poked out completely. It will give a very tiny amount of vision to someone who was formerly completely blind. You wouldn't want to replace a working eyeball with this thing.
Actually the article seemed rational and logical to me, and I'm a Christian. This paragraph especially:
The findings, Gervais says, are based on a longstanding human psychology model of two distinct, but related cognitive systems to process information: an âoeintuitiveâ system that relies on mental shortcuts to yield fast and efficient responses, and a more âoeanalyticâ system that yields more deliberate, reasoned responses.
âoeOur study builds on previous research that links religious beliefs to âintuitiveâ(TM) thinking,â says study co-author and Associate Prof. Ara Norenzayan, UBC Dept. of Psychology. âoeOur findings suggest that activating the âanalyticâ(TM) cognitive system in the brain can undermine the âintuitiveâ(TM) support for religious belief, at least temporarily.â
Anaylitic thinking isn't needed to tell your mother from your sister. They should study to see if athiests are lacking an intuitive thinking. As it notes, both kinds of thinking are useful.
I'm not going to bother cleaning up the UTF errors, I wish/. coders would fix that.
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AS for the German people, yes they need to shoulder some of the blame for supporting him at the time
The last one I knew who fought in WWII died a few years ago at age 87. How is a 70 year old German in any way responsible for what his parents' generation did?
No, the only Germans who shoulder the blame for Hitler are either did or very, very old. Today's Germans are no more responsible for Hitler than I am responsible for slavery.
Ah, you kids... back in the '70s they'd take a can of beer and a screwdriver, shake the can, poke it with the screwdriver and down it went. Mentos? God, the way they did it back then (notice I didn't say "we", I thought the practice was stupid) was bad enough!
And, does that work with beer? I thought it was just diet coke?
I agree that a shot is easier, faster, cleaner, and more compact, but a draft beer is $1.25 and the cheapest rotgut in the house is $2.75.
It depends on the rain. If it's pouring down, Rain-X gives you clear vision, but if it's just misting you need the wipers because the beads will just sit there on the windshield until they grow enough to roll off.
Some of us are just Brain Washed into believing in things that don't make any sense.
Yes, like believing without any proof whatever that there is no such thing as God, and believing despite all evidence that without God, anything you ever do will matter in the least, since you, the species, the world, the galaxy, the universe will come to an end. If there is no God there is no purpose to anything at all. Without God, life is nothing but a cruel joke.
And holding those beliefs despite people who have actuually experienced God's presence telling you that you're not thinking clearly. "I don't care that you've been to the zoo, there's no such thing as elephants! They're just illogical and only an idiot would believe such a stupid thing! And if you saw an elephant at the zoo, you must have been hallucinating. Because there's no such thin as elephants!"
Can you prove that sentience exists? I can't, but I know for a fact that it does.
"Organic" isn't a "bullshit marketing term," it's organic as opposed to inorganic. Bullshit for fertilizer instead of inorganic nitrogen fertilizer and the like.
It's not whether the plant is organic, it's whether it was grown using inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. The carrot is organic no matter what you fertilize it with, but it's not organically grown if you're using Roundup on your fields and using Monsanto fertilizers.
The "Ancients"???
What is this, a sifi show or something?
100 years ago is not "ancient".
100 years ago they farmed like people did thousands of years ago, with plows pulled by animals. So yes, like the ancients. As to "organic farming" I used to be skeptical, until I grew a garden. The food from the garden tasted WAY better than the stuff from the store, and was probably more nutritious as well.
Then a frend of mine started raising hogs, about a half dozen or so at a time. He had a friend who workd at a plant that produced ice cream, and would bring Mike a pickup truck load of ice cream mix that had gone out of date every week. Mike fed his hogs 50% hog feed and 50% ice cream mix.
That was the best tasting pork I ever ate. It's obvious that what an animal eats affects what it tastes like, and how a plant is grown affects what it tastes like (grow radishes and horseradish together and your radishes will be hot) Mike said the pig that bit him was the best pork he ever ate.
They're hard to break from the inside, too. I was driving a 1974 Gremlin at 50 mph in 1976 and had a left front tire blow out and was in the wrong lane watching a 3/4 ton pickup truck coming at me doing 70. No seat belt, the steering wheel was bent where I hung on to it, the dash was bent where my shoulder hit it, and my face was swollen badly from hitting the windshield. It didn't break. They're designed to be as hard to break as possible and to be the least dangerous when broken possible.
I agree that to a Christian, the most important part of the bible is the New Testament, especially the first 4 books, but the old testament is full of much wisdom (Psalms and Proverbs are especially good). Many of its stories are warnings about foolishness.
Science can't explain sentience. Religion can. So why is it that we are the unthinking ones? Does not compute!
We would find that the "resilient" inherit the earth.( Early church wanted meek parishioners as they are easier to control than resilient ones)
The temple priests used cannabis rather than "calmus" as an unguent.
Interesting if true. Citation?
that bit about "rendering unto Caesar" gets misconstrued as instruction to obey mans governance rather than highlight the unimportance of earthly joys compared to the everlasting glory, which is what it was meant to do until "politically modified".
Um, which bible does that? Not the KJV or the NIV, the two most popular versions. Both say "render unto ceasar that which is ceasar's and to God that which is God's". Both texts are plain in that they are speaking of the question "is it ok to pay tax?"
We're too busy drowning in debt and getting yelled at for being leeches when we do get the government to throw us a frickin bone in the form of subsidies.
You ARE a leech! And you probably bitch about the government giving food stamps and medical cards to the poor, too.
I live in the middle of Illinois, a big farming state. Most of the state is covered in corn and soybeans. I have yet to see a farmhouse without a brand new F-150 in the driveway.
If you can't stay in business without government help, you're in the wrong business. Why in the hell should my tax money be going to YOU? Get a job, you goddamned bum!
Hell he called me once to bring out my truck because one of the local telecos were tossing their old towers when they upgraded. i got nearly 40 towers with nothing but the windows password between me and ALL their data.
The Windows password doesn't protect shit. Just put a Linux install CD in, run it in the "test this out to see if you like it mode" and all those data are there for you to take.
All the Windows pasword does is protect Microsoft.
People already know what to do in case of a crime, why bother with police?
In case of crime, you CALL THE POLICE. In case of a hijacking, the TSA is nowhere around and you can't call them so you have to do THEIR jobs. They're completely useless. They should have spent the money putting an armed (tazer) air marshall on every flight.
Considering that belief is the opposite of thinking
Rationalization is thinking, overthinking can lead to as bad an answer is underthinking. But do you have to think to know the rose is red and smells good? You don't have to think to know.
Fictional doctor on TV? Is there any straw you poor fools won't grasp at? Here's some reasoning for you -- your entire existance is completely meaningless. You will die, all you do will crumble to dust, humanity will become extinct and everything it has ever done and known will be gone. Life itself will become extinct, and the universe itself will come to an end.
So why bother? Nothing matters, why go on living? What is the fucking point of it all?
Say that without the cowardly mantle of anonymity and it might mean something.
The original Hebrew Torah, which the Christian New Testament is from, doesn't say "day" but rather "period of time". It was translated to "day" by scholars translating the bible to English and other languages.
Rationalization is another form of analytic thinking. Like the athiest GP continuing with the "six days" nonsense. Even in the US there are but a tiny minority of Christians that think "day" is literal, yet these ignorant yahoos keep spouting their fallacious statements.
Thank you for that. The most telling part is at the very top:
Republican 206 yes 28 no 7 abstain
Democratic 42 yes 140 no 8 abstain
Er, guys, didn't you conservative types say the Republicans are the ones trying to protect your freedoms and the Democrats are hell-bent on a police state? These numbers tell me the exact opposite.
The signal is already processed. Light get detected in the deeper layer of the retina (where the cones and rods lives), transmitted to the upper layer (nerves cells doing this transmission plays the same role as peripheral nerves) and gets processed in the upper layer.
That's new to me, can you give a citation where I can learn more detail about this? It goes against my own experience, what I learned in a physics class, and whay my retina surgeon said.
In college I took a physics class concerning light and optics, and the professor said that seeing isn't a function of the eye, but of the brain. Perhaps it was a matter of his being a physicist and not a biologist. Perhaps more has been learned in the last 40 years.
Several years ago I had a detached retina, and had many visits to my retina specialist afterward. One day I had symptoms that worried the hell out of me, but he said it was simply an "optical migrane" and had nothing whatever to do with the eye.
Fertilizers are broadly divided into organic fertilizers (composed of organic plant or animal matter), or inorganic or commercial fertilizers. The "manufactured" is a bit bogus. Bulls manufacture very good fertilizer.
What advantage would this have over normal glass for a whale tank? What's wrong with regular glass, unless you needed it to, I don't know, transport whales in a Klingon bird of prey or something?
I want the windshield of my next car to be made of this stuff! It might not even need windshield wipers. It'll put the Rain-X people right out of business.
Drinking glasses would be another good use. EYEGLASSES! God but I hated my glasses. Walk in the rain and you can't see. Walk inside in the cold and they fog up and you can't see. Spectacles made of this wouldn't have those problems. Glad I had the implant so I don't need them any more, but this would be great for you guys.
Physics itself. I mean, how many people have died because of the harnessing of fire and the invention of the wheel?
Knowledge is never bad. Even though one can use one's knowledge for evil, the knowledge itself is never evil.
You are correct; many baseball players with 20/20 get LAISIK to improve their vision to better than 20/20.
But this device isn't going to give anyone super vision. "The eye consists of 98 electrodes". That's some damned low resolution. This is for those with no vision at all, someone who has had their eye poked out completely. It will give a very tiny amount of vision to someone who was formerly completely blind. You wouldn't want to replace a working eyeball with this thing.
In twenty years? Who knows?
Actually the article seemed rational and logical to me, and I'm a Christian. This paragraph especially:
Anaylitic thinking isn't needed to tell your mother from your sister. They should study to see if athiests are lacking an intuitive thinking. As it notes, both kinds of thinking are useful.
I'm not going to bother cleaning up the UTF errors, I wish /. coders would fix that.
Iraq was a clusterfuck. We should not have invaded, but Bush wanted revenge on Saddam for trying to kill his dad.
Please point me to the open-source equivalent of TurboTax
Without the need for money, there is no need for boring business software.
You greatly overestimate the willingness of people to boring jobs for free.
One man's boring job is another man's hobby.