That article makes no sense : an animal doesn't consume more natural resources than a car. If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources . And after digestion , a dog fertilizes the soil , so the resources are giving back the ground . That the cycle of life , and it works much better than how a car works.
And when your pet dies , you burry it , or maybe burn it , etc , but it's remains also come back to the ground. Which will be the same of you eat your pet , but then it takes until you die to be completely returned to the soil.
But in the mean time , you are talking about it , and thus doing the marketing for them. When it annoys you , it is even better than when you like it , because you will surely talk about it then.
The problem is not just about the country's economy , but it can only be a strain on companies.
Companies spend money to educate their people , so they are better at their job , and more productive. However, many people than use the experience they gained , to get better jobs at other companies. So the company ends up paying the education , and they get nothing in return for it.
Offcourse , it's normal that people do this : if you have the chance to make more money , you would be silly not to. But for companies , this can be a disaster.
It's exactly the opposite : wikileaks protects the identity of the whistleblower.
When the whistleblower can't do it anonymously , then he actually risks his life ( or , more likely , his job , depending on the situation ).
So wikileaks is actually saving lifes this way.
That is offcourse , if they can ensure everything is anonymous. The problem is that wikileaks is a single point, where all the information is, so it's a big target. If wikileaks is compromised, that means information on a lot of whistleblowers gets out.
Where i live , there are not , but i can get them for free at the company i work. Pretty much for the same reason : it costs my company more to pay me when i'm sick , than the costs of the flu shots.
You are joking , offcourse , but i'm pretty sure that , for people who take scrabble serious enough , the same mechanism applies. I mean , even in such games , i'm sure you get the testosterone boost , when beating a stranger.
However , it's also true that if you play it with family or close friends, that feeling is a lot less . It's much more about having fun , and less about winning then. Well , at least for me.
"Karate is a very nice sport but that's it - a sport"
No , karate is not just a sport by origin. Sadly , it has become that way for many , but it's much more , if only you which to seek it.
People talk about Krav Maga , as something new , but they have forgotten that karate still has all that potential, but they refuse to use it like that.Offcourse , karate also required morality , which Krav Maga doesn't care about.
Well , actually , those comma's are there to make it more readable . I was in a hurry , so i didn't have time to check the grammar. But that's what the grammar nazis are for.
Your analogy is also flawed. It's not me hiring someone convicted for tax evasion.
A more correct analogy would be this : a very good bookkeeper made a mistake , and had to pay for the consequences ( received a drop in salary , and nearly got fired ).
Now add to it that the bookkeeper had to make decisions , in less than a second . How likely is he to make mistakes ?
My point is , you are going over this , as is it's something everyday , as if he miscalculated his income tax and now has to pay for it.
The situation is not so easy , not so predictable. I'm sure that , looking back on it , he would have wished he took other actions , and so he learns from it . But you can't know that , until you get into this situation. Not only that , but other people also learn from it , because he's their teacher.
You can't know beforehand how you are going to react. Well , there are ways to train it , but that would bring me to far . I would say google tengu no michi , but it's mostly french and german texts.
That may be true in theory , but that doesn't necessarily make it so in practice . That's why i said , you can't judge the situation. Criminals mainly acts by taking you by suprise , before you realize it .
Also , he might have made good or bad decisions , but in such a situation , you have to decide so fast , that you are bound to make mistakes . I find it a bit arrogant of you to be pointing fingers.
Not everything is textbook. Certainly not in situations like this.
"Karate has a couple of weaknesses over other martial arts, but the primary one is that you almost never do a serious, round-based full contact fight in competition. "
Competition itself , is the weakness . It teaches the wrongs things ( round based ? ) , which won't help you in a real situation.
There is nothing that is , as a real world fight , has no definition to it. It has no rules.
But karate can teach you techniques , which can help in such situations. As can any other martial arts , as they have a lot of common ground ( the human body is , after all , the same in all martial arts ).
But you have a point , that this won't keep your childeren safe, simply because it takes a lot of time to learn karate , and it requires a certain maturity , to really be able to defend yourself , and deal with the consequences of your actions.
Uhm, Karate is a bludgeoning martial art. You punch, hit with your wrists, forearms, elbows, kick, hit with the knee. You don't "let them do the work". You defend yourself with active blocking and a strong physique (to absorb blows that make it through) and pummel them until they give up. It is a lot like boxing.
Sorry , but that's all nonsense.
Karate is a lot more than just strength. First , it's not about hitting with your wrists , it uses your entire body . That's what makes it powerfull , and clearly seperates it from boxing .
Second , karate is much more than closed fists . Most open hand techniques , require almost no strength , to use effectively.
Also , who thought you that karate is about absorbing blows ? most interesting parts of karate are about avoiding the attacker , and moving into a position where you have the advantage.
Also , you shouldn't 'pummel them until they give up' . after a succefull strike (the idea being one very effective strike ) , you should try to put them on the ground , or in an other position where you can control them.
Sorry to put it so blunt , but you kind off hurt my feelings with your reaction.
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That article makes no sense : an animal doesn't consume more natural resources than a car.
If you give your dog the left overs from the table , instead of throwing it in the garbage can , i can't see it consume any natural resources . And after digestion , a dog fertilizes the soil , so the resources are giving back the ground . That the cycle of life , and it works much better than how a car works.
And when your pet dies , you burry it , or maybe burn it , etc , but it's remains also come back to the ground.
Which will be the same of you eat your pet , but then it takes until you die to be completely returned to the soil.
But in the mean time , you are talking about it , and thus doing the marketing for them.
When it annoys you , it is even better than when you like it , because you will surely talk about it then.
It's publicity . Good are bad , doesn't matter .
Clever , is exactly the word :everyone knows the name , and will speak about it ( like we are doing here ) , so most of the marketing is already done.
If they turn off the internet , we will create our own version, which will be better than the previous.
The problem is not just about the country's economy , but it can only be a strain on companies.
Companies spend money to educate their people , so they are better at their job , and more productive.
However, many people than use the experience they gained , to get better jobs at other companies. So the company ends up paying the education , and they get nothing in return for it.
Offcourse , it's normal that people do this : if you have the chance to make more money , you would be silly not to. But for companies , this can be a disaster.
How do you kick ass of an organisation that didnt exist in first place?
if you tell a lie often enough....
It does exists , but due to lack of funding , it wasn't beeing maintained anymore , so the authors decided to open source it.
Not if they can't prove that it's warez.
I guess that's the point open for discussion : is it a new cloud or not.
I guess this is as interesting for meteorologists as the discussion whether Pluto is a planet or not , is for astronomers .
Most people won't care as the name will be to difficult to remember anyway.
Well , if you don't cheat on your wife , your opponents can't 'politically' assassinate you with that.
So they will assassinate you for real instead.
So , the reason so many politicians cheat their wives , might just be out of fear for their lives :-)
That may look like a good solution , but it's a dangerous path : fixing people by killing the 'undesired' braincells.
"An illegal thought has been detected. The brain cells producing that thought will now be destroyed. Have good day"
It's exactly the opposite : wikileaks protects the identity of the whistleblower.
When the whistleblower can't do it anonymously , then he actually risks his life ( or , more likely , his job , depending on the situation ).
So wikileaks is actually saving lifes this way.
That is offcourse , if they can ensure everything is anonymous. The problem is that wikileaks is a single point, where all the information is, so it's a big target.
If wikileaks is compromised, that means information on a lot of whistleblowers gets out.
It's more like a private investigation of a crime , finding proof and then making it public.
This is something journalists do all the time.
Where i live , there are not , but i can get them for free at the company i work.
Pretty much for the same reason : it costs my company more to pay me when i'm sick , than the costs of the flu shots.
On a large scale , yes , they certainly work.
12) Profit ?
These days , there is barely a difference in protection between free and paid versions.
They use the same virus databases.
The only difference is the interface , and the rate of updates.
AVG works fine for me.
You are joking , offcourse , but i'm pretty sure that , for people who take scrabble serious enough , the same mechanism applies. I mean , even in such games , i'm sure you get the testosterone boost , when beating a stranger.
However , it's also true that if you play it with family or close friends, that feeling is a lot less . It's much more about having fun , and less about winning then. Well , at least for me.
Well, you are the first person to make a fuss about that here. So i never really noticed.
While i don't see my text as unreadable, I will try to improve this in the future.
Thanks for your remarks.
"Karate is a very nice sport but that's it - a sport"
No , karate is not just a sport by origin.
Sadly , it has become that way for many , but it's much more , if only you which to seek it.
People talk about Krav Maga , as something new , but they have forgotten that karate still has all that potential, but they refuse to use it like that.Offcourse , karate also required morality , which Krav Maga doesn't care about.
Well , actually , those comma's are there to make it more readable . I was in a hurry , so i didn't have time to check the grammar. But that's what the grammar nazis are for.
Your analogy is also flawed. It's not me hiring someone convicted for tax evasion.
A more correct analogy would be this : a very good bookkeeper made a mistake , and had to pay for the consequences ( received a drop in salary , and nearly got fired ).
Now add to it that the bookkeeper had to make decisions , in less than a second . How likely is he to make mistakes ?
I'm sure you know the answer to that.
Feel free to remove any excess commas and spaces.
I knew this would come up.
As you said , Krav Maga is very dirty and ugly.
It lacks morality , and thus teaches the wrong things.
If you want it with morality , go for tengu-no-michi
My point is , you are going over this , as is it's something everyday , as if he miscalculated his income tax and now has to pay for it.
The situation is not so easy , not so predictable. I'm sure that , looking back on it , he would have wished he took other actions , and so he learns from it . But you can't know that , until you get into this situation. Not only that , but other people also learn from it , because he's their teacher.
You can't know beforehand how you are going to react. Well , there are ways to train it , but that would bring me to far . I would say google tengu no michi , but it's mostly french and german texts.
That may be true in theory , but that doesn't necessarily make it so in practice . That's why i said , you can't judge the situation. Criminals mainly acts by taking you by suprise , before you realize it .
Also , he might have made good or bad decisions , but in such a situation , you have to decide so fast , that you are bound to make mistakes . I find it a bit arrogant of you to be pointing fingers.
Not everything is textbook. Certainly not in situations like this.
"Karate has a couple of weaknesses over other martial arts, but the primary one is that you almost never do a serious, round-based full contact fight in competition. "
Competition itself , is the weakness . It teaches the wrongs things ( round based ? ) , which won't help you in a real situation.
' it's not practical in a real-world fight '
There is nothing that is , as a real world fight , has no definition to it. It has no rules.
But karate can teach you techniques , which can help in such situations. As can any other martial arts , as they have a lot of common ground ( the human body is , after all , the same in all martial arts ).
But you have a point , that this won't keep your childeren safe, simply because it takes a lot of time to learn karate , and it requires a certain maturity , to really be able to defend yourself , and deal with the consequences of your actions.
Uhm, Karate is a bludgeoning martial art. You punch, hit with your wrists, forearms, elbows, kick, hit with the knee. You don't "let them do the work". You defend yourself with active blocking and a strong physique (to absorb blows that make it through) and pummel them until they give up. It is a lot like boxing.
Sorry , but that's all nonsense.
Karate is a lot more than just strength. First , it's not about hitting with your wrists , it uses your entire body . That's what makes it powerfull , and clearly seperates it from boxing .
Second , karate is much more than closed fists . Most open hand techniques , require almost no strength , to use effectively.
Also , who thought you that karate is about absorbing blows ? most interesting parts of karate are about avoiding the attacker , and moving into a position where you have the advantage.
Also , you shouldn't 'pummel them until they give up' . after a succefull strike (the idea being one very effective strike ) , you should try to put them on the ground , or in an other position where you can control them.
Sorry to put it so blunt , but you kind off hurt my feelings with your reaction.