I think you've confused "atheism" with "puritanism
No, he didn't. A Christian isn't afraid to die, whether Puritan or Protestant; a Christian looks forward to it. "The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." -- John 12:25.
OTOH, an athiest believes that when you die, you cease to exist. As evolution has us fearing death, an athiest should naturally fear it more than someone who doesn't believe that death is death, and would take better care of his health.
So many danger deniers, despite the research. There's an article about it in today's local paper.
WASHINGTON -- When someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what's being said - even if you're in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic.
That's why drivers get distracted during cellphone conversations, even when using hands-free phones, researchers say. It's also part of the reason why the National Transportation Safety Board made a recommendation this week it knows a lot of drivers won't like - that states ban hands-free, as well as hand-held, cellphone use while driving.
It's not where your hands are, but where your mind is that counts, NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman told reporters.
The board doesn't have the power to force states to impose a ban, but its recommendations carry significant weight. And, judging from the public reaction, they've already started a national conversation on the subject. NTSB has been swamped with calls, emails and tweets from drivers both praising and condemning the action.
It's the proposed hands-free ban that has generated the most controversy.
What's next? No passengers? No kids? No tuning the radio? Maybe NTSB will ban driving altogether, was the tenor of the response on Twitter.
The scientific evidence, however, is generally with NTSB, researchers said.
I don't think I'm good at multitasking, does that mean I'm good at it?
TFS says "But on looking at the NTSB report, it appears that the big problem was a school bus driver who was following too closely, and another school bus driver who wasn't watching the road." But despite that, the direct cause of the accident was the guy texting. I'm flabbergasted that anyone would try to argue that texting while driving is safe. I can think of no stupider an action, except maybe texting while walking a tightrope with no net (which isn't far from the danger you face in your car).
1% o fthe population is smart enough to join MENSA. And it's not the 1% that Occupy is protesting, it's more like 50% of slashdotters. Or used to be, I think there are fewer smart people here than there were in the past.
Yes, there are televisions with a web browser. Why? Because some people like the idea.
I like the idea; I have a computer plugged into my TV. With that setup I have no use for cable at all; most of the channels are on Hulu, most of the networks stream their shows from their websites, and I don't actually have to be in front of the TV at 7:00 Thursday night to see BBT. All I have to do is log on to CBS's web site and get the latest stream. It's like having a DVR and not having to take the bother to set it up for recording.
Actually, according to the Christian religion, he won't find out either way. He's dead, Jim.
I can't find the passage, but somewhere in the New Testament is a passage that says that those who don't know God simply die when they die, that only those who know God and disobey him (and don't accept Christ's payment for their sins) go to hell. So, he's just dead, just like the Monty Python parrot.
The Government does not protect people from rich corporations.
Then what are the EPA, FDA, and OSHA for? EPA prevents corporations from turning the US into the polluted hellhole it was before 1970. If you'd lived anywhere near a factory back then, you'd know. The FDA protects me from unscrupulous farmers, food processors*, and drug manufacturers. When I buy a 200 mg tablet of Naproxin, I know it's Naproxin Sodium and not acetaminiphin, and that it's relly a 200 mg dose. My grandfather had a horrible accident in 1959 that left him a vegetable, an accident that wouldn't have happened if there had been an OSHA with its safety regs. I still feel that Purina murdered my grandfather. The courts did my grandmother no good at all.
Did you know that hair stylists are licensed?
First, those are state licenses, not Federal licenses. Second, I'm glad they have to be licensed. The license ensures competence, and hair stylists use a lot of very toxic stuff. My stepfather is a retired barber who always had sores on his hands from the chemicals, and is now dependant on an oxygen tank.
Keep the Govt weak and people with money can't buy the votes they need.
Keep the government weak and the rich don't have to buy votes.
As for the environment, we don't need heavy regulation. All we need is a court system that recognizes property rights.
Then why could you not drive past a Monsanto in 1965 with the windows rolled down? The air literally burned your lungs! If your vaunted property rights and courts could prevent the awful pollution we had, the EPA would have never existed. You're ignoring history and being very irrational and illogical.
There are more tools to fix society's problems than just more regulation
Examples?
* The owner of the filthy, rat and roach infested factory that produced the poison peanut butter and peanut oil actually went to prison.
Don't know, I'd guess there may be some glitch in your registry (that damned registry is one thing I hate about Windows). The notebook's OS updated without a hitch, as has Firefox and FreeAVG.
Maybe there's a problem with your antivirus? It could be screwed up somehow and keeping your machine from updating. Try uninstalling MSSE and see what happens.
You're right, that's the story. It was indeed Niven, and it was a neutron star rather than a black hole. Been a couple of decades since I've read it. Iirc, I saw the story in a collection of stories by different authors, but I don't remember what book.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations". I love how you set that straw man up.
No, you missed my point entirely, and apparently you did so willfully. The rest of the paragraph explains it.
For me it means having a government that doesn't rule by fiat and prohibit exercising of rights by the people.
If by "people" you mean human beings and not the fiction the SCOTUS came up with, then I agree with you. But I want my government to protect my rights against the rich and powerful who have the means to take those rights away. Too bad it's failing so miserably at that.
Some people are afraid of new technology, particularly when they hear news stories of people's accounts being hacked or other related items.
Old folks watched TV and movies in the '50s and '60s and are actually afraid the computer will explode if they push the wrong button!
those who don't care about being connected are most likely much happier and less frazzled people.
Not necessarily; my phone broke right when a picture my dad snailmailed came. He left an annoyed message on my work email "why don't you answer your phone?" He called the next day, I told him if he'd get in the 21st century and buy a computer I'd have emailed him. Good luck with that, though.
He's the only one I could vote for, except for his stance on environmental regs. That old fool had to have been impacted by the horrible pollution we had before the EPA.
He has one more little problem -- getting people to vote for him because of the "wasted vote" fallacy; they were doing "man on the street" interviews with Republicans last week, and more than one said he'd like to see Paul nominated but "I didn't want to waste my vote."
A takedown request is either grossly incompetent or malicious.
Before anybody trots out Hanlon's Razor (which I'm going to quote even though everyone knows it: never assume malice for what incompetence will explain) I have my own razor: Never assume incompetence for that which greedy self-interest explains.
Because we believe in no taxation without representation. Corporations get taxed, so they get a say in politics. They're not allowed to vote, so all they can do is lobby and donate.
Wow, the convoluted "logic" of some of you guys... Corporate taxes come out of corporate profits. You're not taxing the corporation, you're taxing the shareholder, who does in fact have a vote and speech. A corporation isn't a person no matter what the Supremes say.
If you take this "it's all run and paid for by people in the end" viewpoint, then there's no difference between taxing the employer and taxing the employee.
Are you on cocaine, by chance? You sound like some of the hookers I've known. The employee has NO say. In anything. He has his own taxes, his own speech, and can contribute if he wants, same as management and customers, but he has no say in the company's policies or politics.
I don't understand why you want YOUR taxes raised an BP's taxes lowered. Are you just trolling, or do you believe your own bullshit?
Wow, an AC gets a "+4 interesting" for a comment that was redundantly repeated rather redundantly and then redundantly redundanted again. Hell, this offtopic comment will probably be modded "insightful". Come on, guys, you can do better than that.
If, as Wikipedia claims, KISS's major success started circa 1975, hadn't Alice Cooper already been successful doing something like that for four or so years already at that point (i.e. "scary-for-the-time" light-horror schtick enough to upset more conservative parents while still getting mainstream TV and radio exposure)?
Indeed, he started in the late sixties with such hits as "Billion Dollar Babies" ("I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands"), "School's Out" ("No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks... School's been blown to pieces")
The difference was that Alice and Led and Jimi were only on the progressive rock stations, while KISS was benign and commercial enough to play on the top-40 stations.
And in a manner that would be more convincing to the 14-18 year olds you mention?
Actually, most hard rockers were in their 20s in the '70s. The teenagers were all listening to disco.
Well, it wasn't a Catholic church. It was the sort of place where consumption of alcohol - at all, ever, in any quantity - was frowned upon.
You're Muslim? Mormon? What kind of "Christian" church frowns upon an activity Jesus himself engaged in? Hell, one of his miracles was turning water into wine! The bread and wine isn't a Catholic thing, and in fact the Baptist church I used to attend had communion, as does a Methodist church I recently visited one Sunday, as does the nondenominational church I attend now.
I mention the Mormon cult because my ex-wife converted to Mormonism, and according to my daughter they frown on just about everything, including drink. And alcohol is strictly forbidden for Muslims. But a Christain church? WTF?
to really understand the success of KISS, you had to be around in the 1970's. black sabbath was still "underground" (far too scary for the masses), and music was still harmless, sappy, and/or depressing.
Not in St Louis -- we had KSHE. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Stones, Joplin, Hendrix. Their motto "real rock radio" was true.
God but I missed that station when I was in Deleware in the Air Force in 1971. But there were other good stations if you were lucky to be within range; KZAP in San Fransisco (1974) was a good station, for example (I don't think they play rock any more though).
their music was too melodic and "bluesy" to qualify.
"Bluesy?" Far from it, Led Zeppelin, Cream, George Thorogood played actual blues, written by the likes of T-Bone Walker, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker. More than half the songs on Zeppelin's first album were old blues songs.
pre 1980's new wave, KISS was THE way to freak out parents.
Har har! No, the Mothers of Invention was the way to freak out parents, with such greats as "My Dick Is A Monster" and "Billy The Mountain".
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I think you've confused "atheism" with "puritanism
No, he didn't. A Christian isn't afraid to die, whether Puritan or Protestant; a Christian looks forward to it. "The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." -- John 12:25.
OTOH, an athiest believes that when you die, you cease to exist. As evolution has us fearing death, an athiest should naturally fear it more than someone who doesn't believe that death is death, and would take better care of his health.
So many danger deniers, despite the research. There's an article about it in today's local paper.
I don't think I'm good at multitasking, does that mean I'm good at it?
TFS says "But on looking at the NTSB report, it appears that the big problem was a school bus driver who was following too closely, and another school bus driver who wasn't watching the road." But despite that, the direct cause of the accident was the guy texting. I'm flabbergasted that anyone would try to argue that texting while driving is safe. I can think of no stupider an action, except maybe texting while walking a tightrope with no net (which isn't far from the danger you face in your car).
...Says the blind songwriter.
"I swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell, but I'll never know by livin', only dyin' will tell. Only my, only my dyin' will tell."
Blood, Sweat and Tears, When I die
1% o fthe population is smart enough to join MENSA. And it's not the 1% that Occupy is protesting, it's more like 50% of slashdotters. Or used to be, I think there are fewer smart people here than there were in the past.
Yes, there are televisions with a web browser. Why? Because some people like the idea.
I like the idea; I have a computer plugged into my TV. With that setup I have no use for cable at all; most of the channels are on Hulu, most of the networks stream their shows from their websites, and I don't actually have to be in front of the TV at 7:00 Thursday night to see BBT. All I have to do is log on to CBS's web site and get the latest stream. It's like having a DVR and not having to take the bother to set it up for recording.
Actually, according to the Christian religion, he won't find out either way. He's dead, Jim.
I can't find the passage, but somewhere in the New Testament is a passage that says that those who don't know God simply die when they die, that only those who know God and disobey him (and don't accept Christ's payment for their sins) go to hell. So, he's just dead, just like the Monty Python parrot.
Yes, that's about the same amount of alcohol. Two pints is roughly three 12 oz bottles of "American" beer.
The Government does not protect people from rich corporations.
Then what are the EPA, FDA, and OSHA for? EPA prevents corporations from turning the US into the polluted hellhole it was before 1970. If you'd lived anywhere near a factory back then, you'd know. The FDA protects me from unscrupulous farmers, food processors*, and drug manufacturers. When I buy a 200 mg tablet of Naproxin, I know it's Naproxin Sodium and not acetaminiphin, and that it's relly a 200 mg dose. My grandfather had a horrible accident in 1959 that left him a vegetable, an accident that wouldn't have happened if there had been an OSHA with its safety regs. I still feel that Purina murdered my grandfather. The courts did my grandmother no good at all.
Did you know that hair stylists are licensed?
First, those are state licenses, not Federal licenses. Second, I'm glad they have to be licensed. The license ensures competence, and hair stylists use a lot of very toxic stuff. My stepfather is a retired barber who always had sores on his hands from the chemicals, and is now dependant on an oxygen tank.
Keep the Govt weak and people with money can't buy the votes they need.
Keep the government weak and the rich don't have to buy votes.
As for the environment, we don't need heavy regulation. All we need is a court system that recognizes property rights.
Then why could you not drive past a Monsanto in 1965 with the windows rolled down? The air literally burned your lungs! If your vaunted property rights and courts could prevent the awful pollution we had, the EPA would have never existed. You're ignoring history and being very irrational and illogical.
There are more tools to fix society's problems than just more regulation
Examples?
* The owner of the filthy, rat and roach infested factory that produced the poison peanut butter and peanut oil actually went to prison.
Indeed. Lots of stupid people out there.
Don't know, I'd guess there may be some glitch in your registry (that damned registry is one thing I hate about Windows). The notebook's OS updated without a hitch, as has Firefox and FreeAVG.
Maybe there's a problem with your antivirus? It could be screwed up somehow and keeping your machine from updating. Try uninstalling MSSE and see what happens.
That would be cool, but I'll wager you'll see HUD glasses long before you see HUD contacts.
You're right, that's the story. It was indeed Niven, and it was a neutron star rather than a black hole. Been a couple of decades since I've read it. Iirc, I saw the story in a collection of stories by different authors, but I don't remember what book.
The powerful are powerful because they're rich.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations". I love how you set that straw man up.
No, you missed my point entirely, and apparently you did so willfully. The rest of the paragraph explains it.
For me it means having a government that doesn't rule by fiat and prohibit exercising of rights by the people.
If by "people" you mean human beings and not the fiction the SCOTUS came up with, then I agree with you. But I want my government to protect my rights against the rich and powerful who have the means to take those rights away. Too bad it's failing so miserably at that.
Some people are afraid of new technology, particularly when they hear news stories of people's accounts being hacked or other related items.
Old folks watched TV and movies in the '50s and '60s and are actually afraid the computer will explode if they push the wrong button!
those who don't care about being connected are most likely much happier and less frazzled people.
Not necessarily; my phone broke right when a picture my dad snailmailed came. He left an annoyed message on my work email "why don't you answer your phone?" He called the next day, I told him if he'd get in the 21st century and buy a computer I'd have emailed him. Good luck with that, though.
He's the only one I could vote for, except for his stance on environmental regs. That old fool had to have been impacted by the horrible pollution we had before the EPA.
He has one more little problem -- getting people to vote for him because of the "wasted vote" fallacy; they were doing "man on the street" interviews with Republicans last week, and more than one said he'd like to see Paul nominated but "I didn't want to waste my vote."
I read a lot, but mostly paper and compuer screens. I haven't had an e-ink device.
In kubuntu it was right where you would expect it to be in KDE's version of Control Panel. Took less than a minute to find.
A takedown request is either grossly incompetent or malicious.
Before anybody trots out Hanlon's Razor (which I'm going to quote even though everyone knows it: never assume malice for what incompetence will explain) I have my own razor: Never assume incompetence for that which greedy self-interest explains.
Because we believe in no taxation without representation. Corporations get taxed, so they get a say in politics. They're not allowed to vote, so all they can do is lobby and donate.
Wow, the convoluted "logic" of some of you guys... Corporate taxes come out of corporate profits. You're not taxing the corporation, you're taxing the shareholder, who does in fact have a vote and speech. A corporation isn't a person no matter what the Supremes say.
If you take this "it's all run and paid for by people in the end" viewpoint, then there's no difference between taxing the employer and taxing the employee.
Are you on cocaine, by chance? You sound like some of the hookers I've known. The employee has NO say. In anything. He has his own taxes, his own speech, and can contribute if he wants, same as management and customers, but he has no say in the company's policies or politics.
I don't understand why you want YOUR taxes raised an BP's taxes lowered. Are you just trolling, or do you believe your own bullshit?
Flamebait? Wow, who's modding today, Darth Bader Ginsburg?
Wow, an AC gets a "+4 interesting" for a comment that was redundantly repeated rather redundantly and then redundantly redundanted again. Hell, this offtopic comment will probably be modded "insightful". Come on, guys, you can do better than that.
If, as Wikipedia claims, KISS's major success started circa 1975, hadn't Alice Cooper already been successful doing something like that for four or so years already at that point (i.e. "scary-for-the-time" light-horror schtick enough to upset more conservative parents while still getting mainstream TV and radio exposure)?
Indeed, he started in the late sixties with such hits as "Billion Dollar Babies" ("I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands"), "School's Out" ("No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks... School's been blown to pieces")
The difference was that Alice and Led and Jimi were only on the progressive rock stations, while KISS was benign and commercial enough to play on the top-40 stations.
And in a manner that would be more convincing to the 14-18 year olds you mention?
Actually, most hard rockers were in their 20s in the '70s. The teenagers were all listening to disco.
Well, it wasn't a Catholic church. It was the sort of place where consumption of alcohol - at all, ever, in any quantity - was frowned upon.
You're Muslim? Mormon? What kind of "Christian" church frowns upon an activity Jesus himself engaged in? Hell, one of his miracles was turning water into wine! The bread and wine isn't a Catholic thing, and in fact the Baptist church I used to attend had communion, as does a Methodist church I recently visited one Sunday, as does the nondenominational church I attend now.
I mention the Mormon cult because my ex-wife converted to Mormonism, and according to my daughter they frown on just about everything, including drink. And alcohol is strictly forbidden for Muslims. But a Christain church? WTF?
to really understand the success of KISS, you had to be around in the 1970's. black sabbath was still "underground" (far too scary for the masses), and music was still harmless, sappy, and/or depressing.
Not in St Louis -- we had KSHE. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Stones, Joplin, Hendrix. Their motto "real rock radio" was true.
God but I missed that station when I was in Deleware in the Air Force in 1971. But there were other good stations if you were lucky to be within range; KZAP in San Fransisco (1974) was a good station, for example (I don't think they play rock any more though).
their music was too melodic and "bluesy" to qualify.
"Bluesy?" Far from it, Led Zeppelin, Cream, George Thorogood played actual blues, written by the likes of T-Bone Walker, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker. More than half the songs on Zeppelin's first album were old blues songs.
pre 1980's new wave, KISS was THE way to freak out parents.
Har har! No, the Mothers of Invention was the way to freak out parents, with such greats as "My Dick Is A Monster" and "Billy The Mountain".