I have indeed been to France. And, yes, I did see differences in physique, body language, facial expression. I just wouldn't go so far as to claim I can "easily spot" them, wherever. It isn't verifiable in the least, naively generalizing, and it speaks volumes about your exaggerated opinion of your anonymous self.
If you can "easily spot" them, I expect a ratio of well over 80% in a blind experiment where culturally adjusted appearance like racial background, clothing, hairstyle, makeup etc. are eliminated. Though I accept the fact that you believe you can, I sincerely doubt it's true.
FYI, I've never fucked my mother, but I dreamt about it once. Would you like to know more?
The problem is that no one seems to be willing to sell such a machine.
No, that's not it. It would be exceptionally easy to find a contractor willing to build you such a system, provided the government's paying and you know what you want. The schemes are out there, some of them proven to be unexploitable. This means that the decision makers either are dangerously ill-informed
or gain something from building an insecure one. Respectively, they should be either immediately removed from their offices or mediately moved to prison.
It's peculiar how your comment history oscillates between "X, Funny" and "-1 Troll".
You know the feeling when you hate something that no one else seems to hate? Next time your anger issues threaten to surface, why not use one of those, instead of one of your standard expletives?
Viz:
Hey, Buffy, "stupid" is relative, and criminals are criminals.
That way, you'll still feel the sweet satisfaction of handing one out while people won't be so distracted by the verbal abuse because they actually like or are at least ambivalent to your address. This, in turn, will lead to them not modding you Troll so much, which will make you feel more loved which, again, might help you with your anger issues and make you want to use your standard expletives less. This is what we in the know call a "virtuous circle". Try it.
You must not be from the US, same as I. I found this very confusing until I understood that the term liberal has been hijacked by a not so liberal group.
A gaming tournament on the Internet is like a 100m Backstroke contest out on the ocean.
Only LAN play offers a setting that flattens out confounding variables like ping and rate; it's the pure form of competitive network play. Now Blizzard, certainly a beneficiary of many a notable StarCraft tournament, eliminates the most suitable and basic environment for tournaments, for the sake of putting in DRM features that reduce the value of your game even further. Of course they'll try and spin it, but it's no less than a big, erect middle finger right in your face.
It seems you missed it. There was a brief flaring up of environmental conscience forty to twenty years ago. Over here in Europe, everyone knew plastic bags are bad for the environment, saving energy was a big topic and people would actually look at you funny for littering. Then we got new plastic bags that were supposedly biodegradable, used the new kind of energy saving lamps and hired more garbage men. That fixed everything that was or could ever be wrong. After that, the topic just vanished from the air and was replaced by ads for thriple-packed chocolate snacks, terrible news of our corrupted youth and wars on drugs, pedophiles and terror. Or maybe it was the other way around, I can't remember.
I think it's ambiguous, you can use it in both senses.
One way of constructing the word atheism would be to take your English "theism" and prepend your English "a-" for "not", meaning "not theistic". I see this is your way and would mean exactly what you argue.
The other way is taking the greek "theos" meaning "god" and prepending the greek "an-, a-" meaning "not, without". If you look at this greek root and where and how it's used, this would mean "against god" or "no god" and some people, especially the people who coined the term way back then, mean it that way. So really #3 and #4 don't support your definition because they're etymological and only look where it came from, not where it is.
Finally, I agree very much agnosticism shouldn't be used for "not sure" but mean "I believe you can never know and you shouldn't try". There is no need for a word to mean "I'm not sure" because you don't normally identify as someone whose persuasion is "unpersuaded". Much the same way you don't have a third party for people who will either vote Republican or Democrat, but aren't sure yet.
Anyway, this isn't a topic dear to my heart and really either way is fine with me because it's mostly semantics when most everyone knows what the other person means. Ambiguous statements exist en masse and we clarify by expanding on something all the time, if need be.
atheist
"noun: one who believes that there is no deity" (Merriam-Webster)
atheism "can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist." (Wikipedia)
atheist
"1571, from Fr. atheiste (16c.), from Gk. atheos "to deny the gods, godless," from a- "without" + theos "a god" (see Thea)." (Online Etymology Dictionary)
atheism
"derived from the Greek word atheos, using the Greek prefix a- (an- not, without)... derived from the Greek word theos (a deity...)" (MyEtymology)
My projection about titties might be way off. I'm not very good with them. Also, for me, it was more a way to sneak in that I'm worried about the current advances in authoritarianism than establishing my prophetic nature with regards to fetish porn.
While I may be too pessimistic and choose my data a little biasedly, I prefer to err on freedom's side.
As society is headed more and more towards prudery again, it's likely that naked titties will be all that's needed to make you come in your pants in about a hundred years' time.
Remember, or look it up, sexual repression lies in the interests of an authoritarian state. And following current trends, there'll be plenty of those in a couple of decades.
These ISPs are SERIOUSLY overselling their network capacity to create an artificial scarcity. I would not be surprised if the number was upwards of 100 (or even 1000) (Customers):1 Unit of Bandwidth. I suspect as much as 10 years ago that the number might have been something more sane like 10 (Customer):1 Unit of Bandwidth.
"Vote with your buck and stay out of it," is not the end-all argument you desperately try to make it seem. If I see an ethically despicable action by a corporation, I may not be satisfied with simply not buying from them and otherwise twiddling my thumbs.
Maybe they committed a crime that hasn't even been named yet. Corporations are legal persons, but with a behavioral range that is bordering on psychopathy (cf. The Corporation) and an aggregation of wealth that is wildly out of the range of human possibilities.
I can directly or indirectly influence most about everything about legislature, I must be able to influence whether an unreal person may participate in the election of my representatives.
Also, this wasn't and isn't clear to the voter. It isn't particularly intuitive, either. A corporation cannot be nominated for presidency nor as a congressperson. Why are they allowed to heap money on convenient candidates? Do it when they're elected and it's bribe. Do it before and you're A-OK. There's something wrong with that.
More importantly, you're failing to see the mean intentions behind it all. This isn't just "Oh, sorry. We fucked up. For about... the 816th consecutive time." There is a method behind this madness and you're getting systematically robbed of everything you own, material and otherwise. My guesstimation is that you don't own about half of the stuff you believe to be yours. You just don't know there's a law.
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I have indeed been to France. And, yes, I did see differences in physique, body language, facial expression. I just wouldn't go so far as to claim I can "easily spot" them, wherever. It isn't verifiable in the least, naively generalizing, and it speaks volumes about your exaggerated opinion of your anonymous self.
If you can "easily spot" them, I expect a ratio of well over 80% in a blind experiment where culturally adjusted appearance like racial background, clothing, hairstyle, makeup etc. are eliminated. Though I accept the fact that you believe you can, I sincerely doubt it's true.
FYI, I've never fucked my mother, but I dreamt about it once. Would you like to know more?
We'd make a good team. I'm from somewhere else and I can easily spot liars by their cock-and-bull stories, particularly etc.
You must have watched a very different first season than I.
The problem is that no one seems to be willing to sell such a machine.
No, that's not it. It would be exceptionally easy to find a contractor willing to build you such a system, provided the government's paying and you know what you want. The schemes are out there, some of them proven to be unexploitable. This means that the decision makers either are dangerously ill-informed or gain something from building an insecure one. Respectively, they should be either immediately removed from their offices or mediately moved to prison.
It's peculiar how your comment history oscillates between "X, Funny" and "-1 Troll".
You know the feeling when you hate something that no one else seems to hate? Next time your anger issues threaten to surface, why not use one of those, instead of one of your standard expletives?
Viz:
Hey, Buffy, "stupid" is relative, and criminals are criminals.
That way, you'll still feel the sweet satisfaction of handing one out while people won't be so distracted by the verbal abuse because they actually like or are at least ambivalent to your address. This, in turn, will lead to them not modding you Troll so much, which will make you feel more loved which, again, might help you with your anger issues and make you want to use your standard expletives less. This is what we in the know call a "virtuous circle". Try it.
Uh, wait—
assfuck
Did you try to do this already?
You must not be from the US, same as I. I found this very confusing until I understood that the term liberal has been hijacked by a not so liberal group.
A gaming tournament on the Internet is like a 100m Backstroke contest out on the ocean.
Only LAN play offers a setting that flattens out confounding variables like ping and rate; it's the pure form of competitive network play. Now Blizzard, certainly a beneficiary of many a notable StarCraft tournament, eliminates the most suitable and basic environment for tournaments, for the sake of putting in DRM features that reduce the value of your game even further. Of course they'll try and spin it, but it's no less than a big, erect middle finger right in your face.
Why do you think they do?
It seems you missed it. There was a brief flaring up of environmental conscience forty to twenty years ago. Over here in Europe, everyone knew plastic bags are bad for the environment, saving energy was a big topic and people would actually look at you funny for littering. Then we got new plastic bags that were supposedly biodegradable, used the new kind of energy saving lamps and hired more garbage men. That fixed everything that was or could ever be wrong. After that, the topic just vanished from the air and was replaced by ads for thriple-packed chocolate snacks, terrible news of our corrupted youth and wars on drugs, pedophiles and terror. Or maybe it was the other way around, I can't remember.
My definition: Achieving what you think is right.
Popular definition: Being rewarded by the majority.
I like mine better.
But.. but... I didn't tell you mine. :)
I think it's ambiguous, you can use it in both senses.
One way of constructing the word atheism would be to take your English "theism" and prepend your English "a-" for "not", meaning "not theistic". I see this is your way and would mean exactly what you argue.
The other way is taking the greek "theos" meaning "god" and prepending the greek "an-, a-" meaning "not, without". If you look at this greek root and where and how it's used, this would mean "against god" or "no god" and some people, especially the people who coined the term way back then, mean it that way. So really #3 and #4 don't support your definition because they're etymological and only look where it came from, not where it is.
Finally, I agree very much agnosticism shouldn't be used for "not sure" but mean "I believe you can never know and you shouldn't try". There is no need for a word to mean "I'm not sure" because you don't normally identify as someone whose persuasion is "unpersuaded". Much the same way you don't have a third party for people who will either vote Republican or Democrat, but aren't sure yet.
Anyway, this isn't a topic dear to my heart and really either way is fine with me because it's mostly semantics when most everyone knows what the other person means. Ambiguous statements exist en masse and we clarify by expanding on something all the time, if need be.
I hope this makes a little sense.
examine the wording
atheist
"noun: one who believes that there is no deity" (Merriam-Webster)
atheism "can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist." (Wikipedia)
atheist
"1571, from Fr. atheiste (16c.), from Gk. atheos "to deny the gods, godless," from a- "without" + theos "a god" (see Thea)." (Online Etymology Dictionary)
atheism ... derived from the Greek word theos (a deity...)" (MyEtymology)
"derived from the Greek word atheos, using the Greek prefix a- (an- not, without)
etc.
I know how you feel. And I know how they feel:
Plenty more where you came from.
I'd prefer "nukefromorbit".
My projection about titties might be way off. I'm not very good with them. Also, for me, it was more a way to sneak in that I'm worried about the current advances in authoritarianism than establishing my prophetic nature with regards to fetish porn.
While I may be too pessimistic and choose my data a little biasedly, I prefer to err on freedom's side.
You just wait those hundred years, you'll see!
As society is headed more and more towards prudery again, it's likely that naked titties will be all that's needed to make you come in your pants in about a hundred years' time.
Remember, or look it up, sexual repression lies in the interests of an authoritarian state. And following current trends, there'll be plenty of those in a couple of decades.
sensationalise
libellous
Psst. He was West German. Also, he hasn't been forgotten. He lives on as a side note to hagbard on Wikipedia.
These ISPs are SERIOUSLY overselling their network capacity to create an artificial scarcity. I would not be surprised if the number was upwards of 100 (or even 1000) (Customers):1 Unit of Bandwidth. I suspect as much as 10 years ago that the number might have been something more sane like 10 (Customer):1 Unit of Bandwidth.
What, exactly, is a "Unit of Bandwidth"?
Indeed, who would pay for an aggregation of otherwise free software?
pull
-noun
29. Informal. influence, as with persons able to grant favors.
"Vote with your buck and stay out of it," is not the end-all argument you desperately try to make it seem. If I see an ethically despicable action by a corporation, I may not be satisfied with simply not buying from them and otherwise twiddling my thumbs.
Maybe they committed a crime that hasn't even been named yet. Corporations are legal persons, but with a behavioral range that is bordering on psychopathy (cf. The Corporation) and an aggregation of wealth that is wildly out of the range of human possibilities.
I can directly or indirectly influence most about everything about legislature, I must be able to influence whether an unreal person may participate in the election of my representatives.
Also, this wasn't and isn't clear to the voter. It isn't particularly intuitive, either. A corporation cannot be nominated for presidency nor as a congressperson. Why are they allowed to heap money on convenient candidates? Do it when they're elected and it's bribe. Do it before and you're A-OK. There's something wrong with that.
More importantly, you're failing to see the mean intentions behind it all. This isn't just "Oh, sorry. We fucked up. For about... the 816th consecutive time." There is a method behind this madness and you're getting systematically robbed of everything you own, material and otherwise. My guesstimation is that you don't own about half of the stuff you believe to be yours. You just don't know there's a law.
Please don't let them take your weapons.