You find me a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu whose god is any more real than the flying spaghetti monster and I'll find you a pastafarian that actually believes.
The entire point of the FSM is to influence the law. It holds up religion to ridicule and demonstrates the stupidity of pandering to religious demands by making ridiculous religious demands - that have every bit as much validity as any other religious demands.
That's why the school board in question backed down from teaching creationism as science. That's why the laws on photographs are now demonstrably ridiculous. That's why the law will either be changed, or be ineffective.
The outcome is the very thing you're demanding. The method is one you would prefer not to adopt, but it's fucking effective, and also good fun. It's a win all round.
3: Contempt. Wearing an OS related hat would break the law.
Wearing religious paraphanalia doesn't break the law. That's illogical (see reasons posted above), and the person being celebrated was merely highlighting the lack of logic.
Had he claimed that the great God Linus had proclaimed that wearing a Windows hat was an essential form of worship then the response would've been a combination of 1/ and 3/ - but the ridicule would've been for believing in the great God Linus.
Although, that _does_ have a good sound to it. Hmm.
There is no faith needed to state that "There is no god", because there's no fucking evidence to suggest that there might be.
Other faithless statements - I do not own a billion dollars - There is no flying armadillo that shits raw diamonds - Religious people lack basic reasoning skills
Look for your 'single points of failure', including the cloud you're hosting in. Are you certain the cloud service is giving you redundancy on network, power, cooling, compute capacity, storage, physical location? What's their DR approach, and is your use of their service going to benefit from it?
Why are you using only one cloud hosting service, if uptime's that important to you.
I just tried that. I was offered a choice: 'Paint', the MS provided basic image editor, or 'Paint.NET', the full featured system I installed.
Oddly enough, I knew the name of that one. I also know the names of Lightroom and GIMP, so I can type those too.
If you don't know what you're looking for, use the clumsy visual search capabilities, but don't go knocking the quick simple way for people that are familiar with the system to interact with it.
No, the point here is that the OS is highly configurable and you're using a setup that's been configured to prevent you doing something you feel is your inalienable right.
Try bitching at the management at your employer, instead of blaming the perfectly capable software that they don't trust you to use.
Number of Islamic friends: no idea Number of Christian friends: Many, but no idea how many Number of Jewish friends: Several, but no idea how many. It'll change if you're talking race or religion anyway. Number of Atheist friends: Many, but no idea how many Number of friends with other religions: no idea
Does it actually fucking matter? Why are you so certain about the Muslim count, and how are you planning to keep it at 0?
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
This led to him getting an enhanced pat-down with an explosive swab test
Last time I flew to the US I had the privilege of being tested for explosives too. The test came back negative, which is why I didn't go through several hours of interrogation.
Sadly your paranoid prejudiced stupid theory falls apart: I'm not Indian.
Now this raises the question, is this how they treat anyone who they think is a Muslim? Explosive swab test and then run them through the wringer if it tests positive, complete with searching their home?
Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.
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You may not be able to sue the government, but the army can sue the manufacturer for damaging its property - i.e. you.
You could make an argument that employing the stupidest thugs
Ok. Now I want to see analysis on crime rates within easy commute distance of international airports in America.
Bet they've dropped since the introduction of the TSA - once you exclude crimes within airports.
In 10 years, the population will look at Android/iOS and think we were insane for carrying such risky devices.
They have an element of risk, but that has to be balanced against the benefits they provide.
The risks aren't really all that high.
You find me a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu whose god is any more real than the flying spaghetti monster and I'll find you a pastafarian that actually believes.
Trust me, my job is easier.
If you want to change things, get the law changed
The entire point of the FSM is to influence the law. It holds up religion to ridicule and demonstrates the stupidity of pandering to religious demands by making ridiculous religious demands - that have every bit as much validity as any other religious demands.
That's why the school board in question backed down from teaching creationism as science. That's why the laws on photographs are now demonstrably ridiculous. That's why the law will either be changed, or be ineffective.
The outcome is the very thing you're demanding. The method is one you would prefer not to adopt, but it's fucking effective, and also good fun. It's a win all round.
3: Contempt. Wearing an OS related hat would break the law.
Wearing religious paraphanalia doesn't break the law. That's illogical (see reasons posted above), and the person being celebrated was merely highlighting the lack of logic.
Had he claimed that the great God Linus had proclaimed that wearing a Windows hat was an essential form of worship then the response would've been a combination of 1/ and 3/ - but the ridicule would've been for believing in the great God Linus.
Although, that _does_ have a good sound to it. Hmm.
Good. You go and help the current generation. He's helping make sure your work wont be needed by the next one.
I agree, but apparently we have to be tolerant of these Sikhs, muslims and other obnoxious spoiled brats.
Atheist: I believe
No. Atheism is a lack of belief. I do not believe.
Atheism is holding a belief
No. Atheism is a lack of belief.
Failing to believe that there is a god is not a belief in anything.
There is no faith needed to state that "There is no god", because there's no fucking evidence to suggest that there might be.
Other faithless statements
- I do not own a billion dollars
- There is no flying armadillo that shits raw diamonds
- Religious people lack basic reasoning skills
My point is that I've cleared a 20 year mortgage paying only 55% of the principle in interest, not the 400% you're claiming.
I've paid it off early by a couple of years but that hasn't saved me a miraculous 350% interest.
Home loans can be managed and even with stagnant house prices work out far better value than renting.
I'm 31 with zero credit and zero debt
That doesn't mean you have zero credit history.
But you're welcome to fuck him anyway.
Been there, done that. Didn't pay even twice the loan amount back, and far less if you factor in the time value of money.
So I'm confused, why do his words mean nothing?
I very strongly get the impression that's not the culture or type of person that works there.
Are the rest of us just not using it correctly?
Oddly, yes.
Look for your 'single points of failure', including the cloud you're hosting in. Are you certain the cloud service is giving you redundancy on network, power, cooling, compute capacity, storage, physical location? What's their DR approach, and is your use of their service going to benefit from it?
Why are you using only one cloud hosting service, if uptime's that important to you.
I just tried that. I was offered a choice: 'Paint', the MS provided basic image editor, or 'Paint.NET', the full featured system I installed.
Oddly enough, I knew the name of that one. I also know the names of Lightroom and GIMP, so I can type those too.
If you don't know what you're looking for, use the clumsy visual search capabilities, but don't go knocking the quick simple way for people that are familiar with the system to interact with it.
Sounds like you've never worked at a major corporation - especially not one that handles sensitive data.
No, the point here is that the OS is highly configurable and you're using a setup that's been configured to prevent you doing something you feel is your inalienable right.
Try bitching at the management at your employer, instead of blaming the perfectly capable software that they don't trust you to use.
Odd. Me..
Number of Islamic friends: no idea
Number of Christian friends: Many, but no idea how many
Number of Jewish friends: Several, but no idea how many. It'll change if you're talking race or religion anyway.
Number of Atheist friends: Many, but no idea how many
Number of friends with other religions: no idea
Does it actually fucking matter? Why are you so certain about the Muslim count, and how are you planning to keep it at 0?
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Racist fuck. It's cunts like you causing the racial tensions.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
This led to him getting an enhanced pat-down with an explosive swab test
Last time I flew to the US I had the privilege of being tested for explosives too. The test came back negative, which is why I didn't go through several hours of interrogation.
Sadly your paranoid prejudiced stupid theory falls apart: I'm not Indian.
Now this raises the question, is this how they treat anyone who they think is a Muslim? Explosive swab test and then run them through the wringer if it tests positive, complete with searching their home?
Explosive test comes up positive in an airport and you wonder why they react strongly? You truly are a fuckwit.
Wait, 'Anonymous Coward' has a sex?
I always thought of you as some genderless bovine.
No interest in flaming, just fascinated that you seem to think transgenderism is in some way unstable or untrustworthy.
Care to elaborate?
My understanding is that most transgendered people retain their straight/gay preference in accordance with their current body.
So a MTF TG that fancied women will start to fancy men.
I'm working from a decade old review of the research though so there may be better informaton out there now.