All regions that did not have the bible, or had it taken from them, are wastelands at best, although "constant warzones for more than 1000 years" would not be all that inaccurate.
That's just absolutely false. What about Japan, where only 2% of the population is Christian, and they're a thriving nation? Turkey? Large parts of Russia? How about Sweden and Vietnam? Denmark? Norway? All nations with a small minority of Christians, and presumably very few churches. You do realize that the majority of the world is not Christian, right?
The rest of your argument is cruft. Santa Claus definitively has more evidence than Yaweh; he left you some presents and ate those cookies, didn't he?
The installer took 40 minutes for me. I didn't even think that was possible, considering that copying everything off the DVD manually takes all but 4 minutes.
I agree that private business owners should be allowed to conduct business as they see fit, but, as the current laws stand, it's hypocritical to be allowed to discriminate discrimination.
It wouldn't be too hard to prove that the ring was set off without exposure to water. Taking apart the device and inspecting its components should show that no damage had actually been done and that water had not entered into the device.
I always put tape over my water damage indicator stickers when I get a new phone. Even if the phone is completely covered in water inside, as long as the stickers aren't red you can get a new phone. I once left my phone in the yard and the sprinklers got it. When I found it the screen was completely busted and there was no sound when It turned on. The tape had preserved the stickers perfectly, so after I dried it out with a hairdryer I took it over to Verizon, who happily replaced it with a new phone.
...did you read that to yourself after you wrote it?
The sad thing is, you didn't used to have to. Things came with 3,5,10, even lifetime warranties -- even electronics. Nowadays every consumer electronics company either wants to nickle-and-dime you with "insurance", or doesn't care for the expense and offers as little as a 30 day warranty.
That said, the problem is a lot worse in the normal consumer market than in the enthusiast one. An HP computer bought from Best Buy will cost you $350 for a three year warranty (that sucks), but most motherboards will have a 3 year warranty, hard drives have 5, some vendors of RAM and PSU's have lifetime warranties.
I'd buy a shuffle in an instant, if it had volume up / volume down / play-pause buttons on the device.
Why?
It's an MP3 player only the ability to play songs randomly. No playlists, no equalizer, no flippin' screen, yet it costs at least double what any other device with twice (or more) the memory (and many more features) and headphones that are probably less crappy than the apple earbuds that blow after a month.
The shuffle is seriously the crappiest MP3 player ever designed by anyone, from any perspective except that of apple (who I'm sure were very happy with the "me too" market).
I know you were joking, but just for anyone else...
The nature of the game was that it could take upwards of 20 minutes just to GET to the actual missions. And then the missions themselves took 5. Quicksave was necessary to prevent suicidal thoughts in case of random instant-death-by-grenade-jeep.
just look at Far Cry 2: The "professional" rating is near perfect and the aggregade of ~500+ user ratings is pretty much the opposite.
That's because the "professional" reviewers don't play the whole game. So for something like Far Cry 2, they only got slightly bored with the repetitive gameplay, the game-stopping glitches, and the woefully terrible savegame system (I was wondering why my game had become terribly slow...turns out my save folder was 5 GB from quicksaving).
I am no religious fanatic. I will continue to work in science. I accept that I will become a priest of yet another religion called "science"; it is no different from tasks that religious priests performed in the past, when they did work we would consider science, math, or botany. Our lives today are no less ruled by faith than in times past; we merely place the faith in a secular materialist view of the world. Today, we live in a world governed by materialist extremism.
If you call science a religion of materialism, you're clearly missing the point.
Even if you shave your inner ears, the electrical signalling in your brain can have a minute effect on how you perceive sounds. True audiophiles remove their brain.
Pretty much, but everything is also uncompressed. Just compressing the audio would save tons of space (do you really need 20 minutes of uncompressed radio hiss?)
Not to mention that it would be preferable to having to wait 5 minutes between chapters of the game for it to install on the HDD (I miss carts...)
The point of the monarchy is that you have a check for politicians. The Queen has been in the government for her whole life; she served in the second world war, watched how the economy works throughout the ages, and knows politics inside and out (having dealt with a dozen PM's in her life, of differing views), but doesn't subscribe to any one political party. She's neutral -- she's, ironically, the real voice of the people in gov't, not just the voice of the majority party, in a perfect system.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with your post. Maher pretty much religiously believes in the "Eastern"/"Western" medicine divide, as well as the conspiracies inherent to the anti-vax campaign. It's borderline religion in of itself.
I don’t believe in vaccination either. That’s a well, that’s a what? That’s another theory that I think is flawed, that we go by the Louis Pasteur theory, even though Louis Pasteur renounced it on his own deathbed and said that Beauchamp(s) was right: it’s not the invading germs, it’s the terrain. It’s not the mosquitoes, it’s the swamp that they are breeding in.
-Bill Maher, germ theory denialist.
Same tactics as every other pseudoscientific belief system.
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Sweden is definitely not mostly Christian. In fact, Sweden is the most non-religious country in the world.
All regions that did not have the bible, or had it taken from them, are wastelands at best, although "constant warzones for more than 1000 years" would not be all that inaccurate.
That's just absolutely false. What about Japan, where only 2% of the population is Christian, and they're a thriving nation? Turkey? Large parts of Russia? How about Sweden and Vietnam? Denmark? Norway? All nations with a small minority of Christians, and presumably very few churches. You do realize that the majority of the world is not Christian, right?
The rest of your argument is cruft. Santa Claus definitively has more evidence than Yaweh; he left you some presents and ate those cookies, didn't he?
Or he just isn't foolishly running things like "AssassinsCreedIICrackedFullGameTotallyNotAVirus.rar.exe (52KB)"
The installer took 40 minutes for me. I didn't even think that was possible, considering that copying everything off the DVD manually takes all but 4 minutes.
I agree that private business owners should be allowed to conduct business as they see fit, but, as the current laws stand, it's hypocritical to be allowed to discriminate discrimination.
If it were 10% of black people, it would be illegal to ban anyone with a skin tone in a certain range.
But it's just 10% of young people, so it's perfectly okay to ban anyone with an age in a certain range.
Maybe they could give a 10% discount to Jewish customers, so that they'd attract more...
It wouldn't be too hard to prove that the ring was set off without exposure to water. Taking apart the device and inspecting its components should show that no damage had actually been done and that water had not entered into the device.
I always put tape over my water damage indicator stickers when I get a new phone. Even if the phone is completely covered in water inside, as long as the stickers aren't red you can get a new phone. I once left my phone in the yard and the sprinklers got it. When I found it the screen was completely busted and there was no sound when It turned on. The tape had preserved the stickers perfectly, so after I dried it out with a hairdryer I took it over to Verizon, who happily replaced it with a new phone.
...did you read that to yourself after you wrote it?
Solution: Don't Buy Warranties
The sad thing is, you didn't used to have to. Things came with 3,5,10, even lifetime warranties -- even electronics. Nowadays every consumer electronics company either wants to nickle-and-dime you with "insurance", or doesn't care for the expense and offers as little as a 30 day warranty.
That said, the problem is a lot worse in the normal consumer market than in the enthusiast one. An HP computer bought from Best Buy will cost you $350 for a three year warranty (that sucks), but most motherboards will have a 3 year warranty, hard drives have 5, some vendors of RAM and PSU's have lifetime warranties.
I'd buy a shuffle in an instant, if it had volume up / volume down / play-pause buttons on the device.
Why?
It's an MP3 player only the ability to play songs randomly. No playlists, no equalizer, no flippin' screen, yet it costs at least double what any other device with twice (or more) the memory (and many more features) and headphones that are probably less crappy than the apple earbuds that blow after a month.
The shuffle is seriously the crappiest MP3 player ever designed by anyone, from any perspective except that of apple (who I'm sure were very happy with the "me too" market).
No, because it's OS X only.
It's not propaganda, it's education.
I know you were joking, but just for anyone else...
The nature of the game was that it could take upwards of 20 minutes just to GET to the actual missions. And then the missions themselves took 5. Quicksave was necessary to prevent suicidal thoughts in case of random instant-death-by-grenade-jeep.
just look at Far Cry 2: The "professional" rating is near perfect and the aggregade of ~500+ user ratings is pretty much the opposite.
That's because the "professional" reviewers don't play the whole game. So for something like Far Cry 2, they only got slightly bored with the repetitive gameplay, the game-stopping glitches, and the woefully terrible savegame system (I was wondering why my game had become terribly slow...turns out my save folder was 5 GB from quicksaving).
I'm not sure why that posted anonymously.
I am no religious fanatic. I will continue to work in science. I accept that I will become a priest of yet another religion called "science"; it is no different from tasks that religious priests performed in the past, when they did work we would consider science, math, or botany. Our lives today are no less ruled by faith than in times past; we merely place the faith in a secular materialist view of the world. Today, we live in a world governed by materialist extremism.
If you call science a religion of materialism, you're clearly missing the point.
Yet, as we're discovering, "junk" DNA is really a misnomer.
It was never meant to denote that it did nothing, just that we hadn't discovered its function yet, so it got put aside for the moment.
And there's no scientific evidence that there's anything wrong with corn syrup.
Yeah! That's right!
Except for, you know, all the scientific evidence
You mean, hotmail (or windows live mail now, whatever it is called, it's the same one as 1995)?
No, it's not the same as from 1995. It's been Web 2.0'd.
It got worse.
I don't even understand how that accident was possible. Do people close their eyes while talking or something? She walked into a semi!
Even if you shave your inner ears, the electrical signalling in your brain can have a minute effect on how you perceive sounds. True audiophiles remove their brain.
You assume I'm British.
Well, I'm not. I'm Canadian. And I see the effects of the Queens' decisions (albeit, through a representative) directly.
Pretty much, but everything is also uncompressed. Just compressing the audio would save tons of space (do you really need 20 minutes of uncompressed radio hiss?)
Not to mention that it would be preferable to having to wait 5 minutes between chapters of the game for it to install on the HDD (I miss carts...)
The point of the monarchy is that you have a check for politicians. The Queen has been in the government for her whole life; she served in the second world war, watched how the economy works throughout the ages, and knows politics inside and out (having dealt with a dozen PM's in her life, of differing views), but doesn't subscribe to any one political party. She's neutral -- she's, ironically, the real voice of the people in gov't, not just the voice of the majority party, in a perfect system.
I don’t believe in vaccination either. That’s a well, that’s a what? That’s another theory that I think is flawed, that we go by the Louis Pasteur theory, even though Louis Pasteur renounced it on his own deathbed and said that Beauchamp(s) was right: it’s not the invading germs, it’s the terrain. It’s not the mosquitoes, it’s the swamp that they are breeding in.
-Bill Maher, germ theory denialist.
Same tactics as every other pseudoscientific belief system.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
How about a real study?