Christians are betting that Satan hasn't killed God and isn't currently ruling the afterlife. By praying to God and worshipping him you are incurring the wrath of Satan. And you will be forced to burn in fiery hell for your godliness.
Nah, stomp on their beliefs with science repeatedly until they either give up or move far far away from rational folks.
Science IS religion's enemy. They contradict one another, as you say 'mix very badly'. As such one is right and another is wrong. Just obliterate the irrational views until they paint themselves into a very tiny corner and leave them there. We are playing too nice and it is hurting us (us being atheists).
Watch the glenn beck rally of a few days ago. And realize that the religious are moving to try and obliterate atheism. The words used were scary. Part of the speech he talked about coming together and working together. Saying that everyone has differences in opinion that we can debate about anything in America, even the fundamentals. Ending on a 'but we are united in our belief that GOD is the only true answer'. 35% of americans support the tea party movement.
At this rate, playing it nice, atheists are going to get steamrolled and forced back into the closet before we get it together at all. It'd be more pathetic than the gay movement 1950-1970. I think I'll end this rant on a quote.
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." -- G.W. Bush
Winamp lags my computer then crashes whenever I'm indexing more than 70,000 songs. No idea what to do to fix it. (I'm a bit worried that winamp doesn't allow more than INT songs indexed at once.
Lol well... the AVERAGE of the right wing is much more religious than the left. Much much more war mongering. And caused the war on terrorism which was viewed basically as a terrorist act by most places outside of the united states.
There is a difference between a lone crazy taking hostages. And hundreds of thousands of crazy people gathering on martin luther king day. The lone nut might do some damage the tea party could break america.
BTW his manifesto talks about anchor babies which isn't left wing to begin with. Though some of his ideas do coincide with the left for sure.
Thats hilarious. I could design an ap on any current OS that could do bad things. Do you really expect an OS to protect itself from explicitly trusted programs? How could it even do that without psychic powers? I'm certain an ap that deletes every document on the computer would work in every OS... the computer doesn't know that you didn't intend for that to happen...
"If you think 90% of the world's population has any chance of successfully installing, using, and maintaining any stable distro of Linux, you should try to help my grandmother find the word count on her computer sometimes, it will open your eyes to what level most of the worlds people compute on."
Where was it that I said linux was good for grandmothers? Or anything about linux OR grandmothers. Geez.
MS is bad for OSS' ideals and goals most of the time.
Apple is bad for OSS' ideals and goals. Also bad for nerd ideals and goals. And bad for computers in general. Seriously, iTunes in past has acted like malware same w/ quicktime.
Google is actually good. BUT the potential for evil that they have is so incredibly huge that it would make anyone paranoid. So people keep their eyes on it.
"A monopoly that is trying to
maximize profit actually will charge predictable rates based on consumer demand." which would be w/e the hell they wanted...
Ok, not a true new market but close enough. People were talking about asteroids being worth many many many billions of dollars given current markets. That would make them so competitive that they are effectively in a separate market. The ability to get a mineral at 1/50th the cost means that your competition does not exist.
You still have a shot. Elon Musk pretty much made the company because he was disappointed with NASA as you are. And the goal/purpose is to put a man on mars... perhaps by 2020-2025 (he has made a bet to that end).
It is basically a 100% untapped market. If you are the only supplier you can charge w/e the fuck you want. Of course there is a cap on how much demand the market has but you could probably sell a few billion dollars of these precious metals each year. Which makes it worth the effort. It is huge investment with monumental payoffs but fairly high risks.
The only reason this hasn't been done is because there are only a handful of people that could possibly attempt this. And they aren't exactly visionaries (re us/russian government). Once some group leads the way with a proof of concept (which significantly lowers the risk) expect others to follow. Hopefully SpaceX and the renewed interest in space will make something like this happen.
I agree that people are painting Brazil rosier than it really is but...
You do know that places like Ethiopia, Egypt, Russia and Pakistan have better economic equality than the US? Along with some ~90 other countries with higher rates of equality. Which includes the bulk or all of the EU.
And while crime rates in the US are lower than brazil's, they ARE comparable to pakistan's (nearly tied homicide rates). Which is around 3~4x what the EU rates.
And the US can't exactly brag about race equality. Black men are 6.5x as likely to be jailed as whites in present day America (worse than south africa during apartheid...). Brown people and any Sikh or Muslim living in America today will attest to the terrifying racism going on today. And your track record isn't great either...
And to put this back on topic, according to wikipedia (which could never lie:p) you are wrong. Brazil is part of 'the west'. I think south america doesn't make the cut for you due to language. The countries you listed speak english quite comfortably. South america not so much. But they DO speak a european based language. Just one not as familiar to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_west
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Funny. Americans breaking into Canada to steal health-care seems to be just as common.
'anchor babies' have nothing to do with immigration. It is irrational right-wing brand FUD. Immigration is only vaguely related.
Christians are betting that Satan hasn't killed God and isn't currently ruling the afterlife. By praying to God and worshipping him you are incurring the wrath of Satan. And you will be forced to burn in fiery hell for your godliness.
Pascal's wager sucks.
"god doesn't play dice" is often used to 'prove' that Einstein was religious. Which is worrisome... since he was very much non-religious.
So I'd say you aren't alone.
Nah, stomp on their beliefs with science repeatedly until they either give up or move far far away from rational folks.
Science IS religion's enemy. They contradict one another, as you say 'mix very badly'. As such one is right and another is wrong. Just obliterate the irrational views until they paint themselves into a very tiny corner and leave them there. We are playing too nice and it is hurting us (us being atheists).
Watch the glenn beck rally of a few days ago. And realize that the religious are moving to try and obliterate atheism. The words used were scary. Part of the speech he talked about coming together and working together. Saying that everyone has differences in opinion that we can debate about anything in America, even the fundamentals. Ending on a 'but we are united in our belief that GOD is the only true answer'. 35% of americans support the tea party movement.
At this rate, playing it nice, atheists are going to get steamrolled and forced back into the closet before we get it together at all. It'd be more pathetic than the gay movement 1950-1970. I think I'll end this rant on a quote.
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." -- G.W. Bush
Fuck you uncan! maybe I will sue you!
Winamp lags my computer then crashes whenever I'm indexing more than 70,000 songs. No idea what to do to fix it. (I'm a bit worried that winamp doesn't allow more than INT songs indexed at once.
That was funny. I feel like linux deserves a prize for orchestrating it.
A)Oh yeah, apple sucks but linux does the same thing!
B) Nah, they have a good reason and you can get around it now.
A) My bad.
You can still not agree. You might get in trouble and the agreement might be enforced. But you still have to agree. (There is a difference)
If you are in the states you can just say something like "glenn beck is such a leader" and whoever agrees with you... tada.
:( your future includes AOL. I can't subscribe to your beliefs.
Lol well... the AVERAGE of the right wing is much more religious than the left. Much much more war mongering. And caused the war on terrorism which was viewed basically as a terrorist act by most places outside of the united states.
There is a difference between a lone crazy taking hostages. And hundreds of thousands of crazy people gathering on martin luther king day. The lone nut might do some damage the tea party could break america.
BTW his manifesto talks about anchor babies which isn't left wing to begin with. Though some of his ideas do coincide with the left for sure.
lol no. 19 is freakshow at any point in human history in any society.
Thats hilarious. I could design an ap on any current OS that could do bad things. Do you really expect an OS to protect itself from explicitly trusted programs? How could it even do that without psychic powers? I'm certain an ap that deletes every document on the computer would work in every OS... the computer doesn't know that you didn't intend for that to happen...
"If you think 90% of the world's population has any chance of successfully installing, using, and maintaining any stable distro of Linux, you should try to help my grandmother find the word count on her computer sometimes, it will open your eyes to what level most of the worlds people compute on."
Where was it that I said linux was good for grandmothers? Or anything about linux OR grandmothers. Geez.
MS is bad for OSS' ideals and goals most of the time.
Apple is bad for OSS' ideals and goals. Also bad for nerd ideals and goals. And bad for computers in general. Seriously, iTunes in past has acted like malware same w/ quicktime.
Google is actually good. BUT the potential for evil that they have is so incredibly huge that it would make anyone paranoid. So people keep their eyes on it.
"A monopoly that is trying to maximize profit actually will charge predictable rates based on consumer demand."
which would be w/e the hell they wanted...
Ok, not a true new market but close enough. People were talking about asteroids being worth many many many billions of dollars given current markets. That would make them so competitive that they are effectively in a separate market. The ability to get a mineral at 1/50th the cost means that your competition does not exist.
Exactly, I think GP is joking though. He can't be serious. Right? ...right?
More people care about shatner than know what the CRTC is. So 10k is comparatively a lot. Maybe not compared to the Caribou Rodeo but still.
http://www.spacex.com/
You still have a shot. Elon Musk pretty much made the company because he was disappointed with NASA as you are. And the goal/purpose is to put a man on mars... perhaps by 2020-2025 (he has made a bet to that end).
It is basically a 100% untapped market. If you are the only supplier you can charge w/e the fuck you want. Of course there is a cap on how much demand the market has but you could probably sell a few billion dollars of these precious metals each year. Which makes it worth the effort. It is huge investment with monumental payoffs but fairly high risks.
The only reason this hasn't been done is because there are only a handful of people that could possibly attempt this. And they aren't exactly visionaries (re us/russian government). Once some group leads the way with a proof of concept (which significantly lowers the risk) expect others to follow. Hopefully SpaceX and the renewed interest in space will make something like this happen.
Division isn't that fucking hard. Jesus christ.
Totally true. He should knock out the wall an inset a 50"+ screen.
I agree that people are painting Brazil rosier than it really is but...
:p) you are wrong. Brazil is part of 'the west'. I think south america doesn't make the cut for you due to language. The countries you listed speak english quite comfortably. South america not so much. But they DO speak a european based language. Just one not as familiar to you.
You do know that places like Ethiopia, Egypt, Russia and Pakistan have better economic equality than the US? Along with some ~90 other countries with higher rates of equality. Which includes the bulk or all of the EU.
And while crime rates in the US are lower than brazil's, they ARE comparable to pakistan's (nearly tied homicide rates). Which is around 3~4x what the EU rates.
And the US can't exactly brag about race equality. Black men are 6.5x as likely to be jailed as whites in present day America (worse than south africa during apartheid...). Brown people and any Sikh or Muslim living in America today will attest to the terrifying racism going on today. And your track record isn't great either...
And to put this back on topic, according to wikipedia (which could never lie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_west
That is what you think apple's release system is? really? ... It may be a bit more complicated.
http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/