So services are useless? I suppose you think garbage men shouldn't be paid, since all they do is feed off the remnants of society and do a job that anyone could easily do themselves?
Kids will be kids, unfortunately. Everybody fucks up at some point in their younger years; this kid now has all his grandfathers' posessions and three beloved pets' lives on his conscience for the rest of his life. Have a little pity.
Hate speech is about inciting violence. You can say whatever you want about the WBC, so long as you're not saying "They're evil scumbags, so we should round them up and shoot them!"
Vaccines are good, but most of the diseases they treat (especially those targetted in infant vaccines) were already in sharp decline before vaccination against them became popular.
Polio was in decline, yes, in the same way that the flu is in decline every year around spring. Polio epidemics were seasonal.
It kills in cycles. We stopped the cycle after it hit its low point.
There is no money for any luxury spending. There is no money for vacations. It's survival and thats it.
Some people are content with the happiness they receive from friends, family, and shared life. "Stuff" is what costs money, and stuff isn't what always makes people happy.
Nothing came into being at the big bang. The Big Bang wasn't a bang that created things, it was a rapid expansion of things that were already there. Strong and weak forces were already in play. The only thing that was "made" was empty space between things.
Pantheism isn't theism (words don't always mean the same things in different configurations; some pantheists might take offense to be grouped as believers in a personal god), and it was more of an example than a statement that Buddhism is pantheism. You need to work on your reading comprehension; it was analogous, a comparison. There's no creator god in Buddhism, nor are there any supernatural beings, nor is the universe a stand-in for supernatural beings. It's atheistic, without gods, full stop. Argue all you want, but it doesn't change the facts.
At the outset, let me state that Buddhism is not atheistic as the term is ordinarily understood. It has certainly a God, the highest reality and truth, through which and in which this universe exists. However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience... To define more exactly the Buddhist notion of the highest being, it may be convenient to borrow the term very happily coined by a modern German scholar, 'panentheism', according to which God is... all and one and more than the totality of existence.... As I mentioned before, Buddhists do not make use of the term God, which characteristically belongs to Christian terminology. An equivalent most commonly used is Dharmakaya... When the Dharmakaya is most concretely conceived it becomes the Buddha, or Tathagata...
The "god" he's describing to Christians isn't a deity. It's pantheism at best, but it's not much of a distinction from Atheism, as there's no deity, just the universe.
No, they're not. You may have noticed that the word "atheism" contains the word "theism". I know, it's hard to see, but it's in there.
Yeah, try actually looking to see what "theism" means. It means a belief in a deity. Buddha isn't a god. Hence Buddhists are atheists with spiritual beliefs (such as reincarnation).
I don't know what "definition" of [a]theism you're using, but it isn't the correct one.
He might be an atheist, but he definitely has some very strong religious convictions regarding nature. I wouldn't be surprised if Mother Nature was his deity, in fact.
YMMV. I find that my desktop shuts down fast if it's shut down regularily, but if I leave it on 24/7 (which I do) and try to shut down or restart after over a week of uptime, it just won't shut down. It gets stuck doing something at the "logging off" screen, and I'm far too impatient to wait longer than 5 minutes for it to stop doing something
My server2003 machine, on the other hand, doesn't care how long it's been running, it shuts down when I tell it to.
there are lots of little things like this that help the latest generation of swimmers go a couple fractions of a second faster than the last.
To which end the sport becomes a measure of both skill and technology, and the swimmers of today cannot be compared to the swimmers of yesterday even remotely objectively.
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No. When it comes to Highlander, There can be only one.
Full screen "apps"? An "App Store" (aka repository)? Alt Tabbing!? Webcam chat? Icons you can click to open "apps"!!!!?
And people said that Windows 7 was a meaningless redress of Vista...
You must be new here.
So services are useless? I suppose you think garbage men shouldn't be paid, since all they do is feed off the remnants of society and do a job that anyone could easily do themselves?
Kids will be kids, unfortunately. Everybody fucks up at some point in their younger years; this kid now has all his grandfathers' posessions and three beloved pets' lives on his conscience for the rest of his life. Have a little pity.
Because people are dumb? They want "True HD", it doesn't really matter how well it works in practice.
The funny thing is, 16:10 is closer to the golden ratio (16.618) than 16:9.
their appliances tend to be bloody heavy
I've found that judging a lot of different things by weight gives you a good indication of the quality of that product.
Heavier furniture? They didn't use cheap wood. Heavy fridge? It's metal, not plastic. Heavy powersupply? It has quality caps and sinks. Heavy metal...
Imprisoning and deporting minorities by force sounds pretty violent to me. Hate speech applies to denying rights and freedoms as well.
Hate speech is about inciting violence. You can say whatever you want about the WBC, so long as you're not saying "They're evil scumbags, so we should round them up and shoot them!"
Vaccines are good, but most of the diseases they treat (especially those targetted in infant vaccines) were already in sharp decline before vaccination against them became popular.
Polio was in decline, yes, in the same way that the flu is in decline every year around spring. Polio epidemics were seasonal.
It kills in cycles. We stopped the cycle after it hit its low point.
There is no money for any luxury spending. There is no money for vacations. It's survival and thats it.
Some people are content with the happiness they receive from friends, family, and shared life. "Stuff" is what costs money, and stuff isn't what always makes people happy.
Shh, nobody tell him about 12chan.
Think about it... Have they attacked anyone who hasnt deserved it?
LOL
In b4 habbo
Because Slashdot isn't about the stories, it's about the comments.
Nothing came into being at the big bang. The Big Bang wasn't a bang that created things, it was a rapid expansion of things that were already there. Strong and weak forces were already in play. The only thing that was "made" was empty space between things.
I always found the "moral code" argument to be just... asinine.
Only someone truly ignorant could believe that drawing your morals from compassion and empathy is worse than from fear of judgement.
Pantheism isn't theism (words don't always mean the same things in different configurations; some pantheists might take offense to be grouped as believers in a personal god), and it was more of an example than a statement that Buddhism is pantheism. You need to work on your reading comprehension; it was analogous, a comparison. There's no creator god in Buddhism, nor are there any supernatural beings, nor is the universe a stand-in for supernatural beings. It's atheistic, without gods, full stop. Argue all you want, but it doesn't change the facts.
At the outset, let me state that Buddhism is not atheistic as the term is ordinarily understood. It has certainly a God, the highest reality and truth, through which and in which this universe exists. However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience ... To define more exactly the Buddhist notion of the highest being, it may be convenient to borrow the term very happily coined by a modern German scholar, 'panentheism', according to which God is ... all and one and more than the totality of existence .... As I mentioned before, Buddhists do not make use of the term God, which characteristically belongs to Christian terminology. An equivalent most commonly used is Dharmakaya ... When the Dharmakaya is most concretely conceived it becomes the Buddha, or Tathagata ...
The "god" he's describing to Christians isn't a deity. It's pantheism at best, but it's not much of a distinction from Atheism, as there's no deity, just the universe.
Buddhists are atheists, for example.
No, they're not. You may have noticed that the word "atheism" contains the word "theism". I know, it's hard to see, but it's in there.
Yeah, try actually looking to see what "theism" means. It means a belief in a deity. Buddha isn't a god. Hence Buddhists are atheists with spiritual beliefs (such as reincarnation).
I don't know what "definition" of [a]theism you're using, but it isn't the correct one.
Atheists don't believe in a deity, but they might still have some spiritual component. Buddhists are atheists, for example.
He might be an atheist, but he definitely has some very strong religious convictions regarding nature. I wouldn't be surprised if Mother Nature was his deity, in fact.
Windows 7 shuts down very fast
YMMV. I find that my desktop shuts down fast if it's shut down regularily, but if I leave it on 24/7 (which I do) and try to shut down or restart after over a week of uptime, it just won't shut down. It gets stuck doing something at the "logging off" screen, and I'm far too impatient to wait longer than 5 minutes for it to stop doing something
My server2003 machine, on the other hand, doesn't care how long it's been running, it shuts down when I tell it to.
Maybe it's a cultural difference. Things in Japan tend to be ordered right to left (think pages in a book).
there are lots of little things like this that help the latest generation of swimmers go a couple fractions of a second faster than the last.
To which end the sport becomes a measure of both skill and technology, and the swimmers of today cannot be compared to the swimmers of yesterday even remotely objectively.