Good for you. Have fun living on top of your neighbors, with constant noise, overcrowding, everything asphalted / concreted over, and paying $2000 / month for a 400 sq. foot apartment. Don't assume that everyone wants to live the way you do just because it your opinion it's "better."
What blows is that it it's him and not you forking that amount over every month for your lifestyle of convenience.
This April I went skiing in Austria. I got the bus from my house to Reading railway station; got the bus there to Heathrow; flew to Munich; got on the mass transit from the airport to central Munich; got a long-distance train to Jenbach; got on the Zillertalbahn mountain railway to Mayrhofen; and then got on the Postbus from Mayrhofen to the guest house where I was staying; I got dropped off at the door. Sounds complicated? I went to the Deutschbahn website, told it I wanted to go from Reading, UK to Juns, Austria and it routed the whole lot for me. Through three countries. Everything was on time, too.
Over the years, I've sent girlfriend's out with my credit card to buy things. Only once has one been refused. It's pretty obvious that it's a guy's name on the card, and a girl trying to use it. Even if they checked ID's, they'd see the last names weren't even similar.
So if the Sun disappeared right now, the earth would continue to orbit it for around 8 minutes.
that is not true. the event of the sun self-annihilating cannot be viewed by / communicatde to an earth-observer until 8 minutes. disappeared is entirely the wrong word to use here, it refers to the observation made by the earth-observer, and that is confusing and wrong.
The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.
The East Asian police also did a background check, and it turned out two of them were registered sex offenders.
this happens all the time. sensationalism, irrelevant or not, increases readership and sales.
... Ronaldo scored his 14th world cup goal tying him with the record holder Just Fontaine... Ronaldo's ex-wife Milene Dominguez was surprisingly present at the game cheering him on... <img src=md-in-bra.jpg>
voila! now every 15yo is logging onto the internet irrespective of whether he knows who Just Fontaine is.
... or the third time the server asks, "Can I get you anything else?"...
if you're black/yellow/full-bearded/freckled/fat/ugly/brown you can wait till an extra fourth time with benefit of doubt. sufficiently many coffeeshop employees are biased about such issues so as to maintain an appearance of "normal" customer clientele. i'm not pointing fingers, but i doubt they've really thought enough about issues to know better.
to be honest.. if it was going on for 3 months.. why didnt' they just filter his MAC.. sure he could just get another card.. but you block that one and quickly the guy would leave.
i highly doubt coffee shop owners are computer-savvy enough to be able to isolate his MAC address from that of other legit customers by asking everyone to right-click-control-panel-blah-blah. thats what WEP passwords are for.
Print that day's nocat code on the recipts and that stops the leechers.
All the leechers have to do is find a discarded receipt - they're sure to be all over the place.
The coffee shop where I hang out does exactly this; set a new WEP password everyday and print it on my coffee receipt, ONLY if i explicitly ask for it.
Plus I doubt people who wish to surf the net (instead of watching the telly till it sucks their cranium and creativity empty) would go to the trouble of finding a discarded receipt from the trash can EVERYDAY.
... next you could sue slashdot for not hooking you up with several 19yo high school quarterbacks who take you out in their car and hump you in the backseat. btw, does slashdot even have $30M?
Plus, some of the precepts of Christianity are pretty much notions, ideals or moral judgments. How do you scientifically disprove "love thy neighbour"? How would you scientifically disprove "thou shalt not kill"? No, seriously. They're moral precepts that reflect a certain set of values, not something you can run through a spectrograph or whatever other instrument.
The one main precept of Christianity is Jesus Christ himself, and there are notions regarding this figure that believers refuse to investigate. Christians believe that Christ was "human" - god in flesh, and born of humans. And yet:
miracles - how was it possible for him to do them?
resurrection - what does this even mean, and how did he do it?
Lets not forget that these are crucial events that attest his power and command his faith. Christians may step up and defend these beliefs in different ways, or they might turn a deaf ear and suck it all in. Which is what leads to religion-bashing a.k.a the lack of theological or religious philosophy that must support the beliefs.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. -Mahatma Gandhi
philosophy or not, the pope should have added a disclaimer to his words being a philosophical statement and not an interpretation of the work of the god he believes in.
he has around 1 billion people who will take his word without dissent, and further twist it to ignore science. scientists, and even people with a scientific ideology, number possibly a few million and are already debating among themselves without a united front.
You tell 'em, hippie boy. Except--and here's where reality hits your politics in the tiny little balls--how well off would people be in the rest of the world if we didn't "excessively" consume? Sure, the trees would be happy, but the people would be even more starving than they are right now. Do you really care more about the environment than the people in it? Should we pay the workers more? Hard to argue against that. But if we pay them too much nobody will buy, or worse yet, we'll start actually hiring Americans to do it. And then they have no job.
Emphasizes my point even more. Consume more regardless of who is producing it. Which is a mindset that needs to be relooked at.
Fortunately, America and the rest of the first world does not help the third world only through importing cheap goods. Foreign investment, technology transfer, world stability and commerce are as (if not more) effective as foreign trade in bringing about change and a equal playing ground.
As an aside, I fail to see why MIT students need debate testicle proportions.
It's too early to be ranting, but let's be honest, in most first world countries, MANY aspects of our lives were produced in third world countries on the backs of sweatshop workers.
excellent post, but i'd like to modify that last line with some attributes.
-- in most first world countries that prize convenience and excessive consumption over economizing and saving the environment, MANY aspects --
Apple deserves focus because Apple is cashing in bigtime.
So you are saying that it is ok to exploit people if you aren't making money on it? This type of reasoning is what is at the core of Marxism, and I do not agree with it.
No, it says Apple has financial incentive to exploit, so it deserves focus. Everyone else deserves examination, but not focussed examination. In other words, priorities.
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cant believe you DONT want to run naked across the neighbors lawn.. ah forget it lawn has a different meaning for you now.
is it possible for people to suppress caller ID for outgoing calls? and if so, why?
by comparison, people who send email are forced to reveal their address, or are forced to forge them.
this happens all the time. sensationalism, irrelevant or not, increases readership and sales.
... Ronaldo scored his 14th world cup goal tying him with the record holder Just Fontaine ... Ronaldo's ex-wife Milene Dominguez was surprisingly present at the game cheering him on ... <img src=md-in-bra.jpg>
voila! now every 15yo is logging onto the internet irrespective of whether he knows who Just Fontaine is.
Plus I doubt people who wish to surf the net (instead of watching the telly till it sucks their cranium and creativity empty) would go to the trouble of finding a discarded receipt from the trash can EVERYDAY.
... next you could sue slashdot for not hooking you up with several 19yo high school quarterbacks who take you out in their car and hump you in the backseat. btw, does slashdot even have $30M?
if you're not getting it, read up about it!
at first glance, it looks like the woman's boob is hanging out!
Lets not forget that these are crucial events that attest his power and command his faith. Christians may step up and defend these beliefs in different ways, or they might turn a deaf ear and suck it all in. Which is what leads to religion-bashing a.k.a the lack of theological or religious philosophy that must support the beliefs.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. -Mahatma Gandhi
hail peragrin! give your selves and souls to peragrinity! inscribe the holy number 659227 on your left wrists!
he has around 1 billion people who will take his word without dissent, and further twist it to ignore science. scientists, and even people with a scientific ideology, number possibly a few million and are already debating among themselves without a united front.
in iran and north korea. oops. on iran and north korea.
Fortunately, America and the rest of the first world does not help the third world only through importing cheap goods. Foreign investment, technology transfer, world stability and commerce are as (if not more) effective as foreign trade in bringing about change and a equal playing ground.
As an aside, I fail to see why MIT students need debate testicle proportions.
-- in most first world countries that prize convenience and excessive consumption over economizing and saving the environment, MANY aspects --