That was well said, but why guilt? Guilt implies you are doing something "wrong", of which you are guilty.
Without starting a flamewar on moral philosophy, I'd say no action by any man, in times of war or peace, has to be fraught with guilt. Killing people is horrible, but if you are not knowingly killing innocent people, what is there to guilty of? Defending yourself from raving barbarians who cannot even to understand this rhetoric? It is horrible and unpleasant and hopefully something we try to avoid doing, but it is not "wrong".
The problem is that some of these missions end up being very "wrong" indeed. Poor planning and the willingness to sacrifice innocent unarmed human beings to achieve targets, is something we should not accept. Getting reports of an entire village being bombed into oblivion with dozens of harmless people losing their lives for no reason is "wrong". It is not merely "horrible", like killing an enemy combatant.. it is "wrong". I keep using the quotes but bear with me, they're there for good reason. I'm just trying to avoid any moral preaching because I am not worthy of any high ground there, I'm only talking about what is generally understood by human beings in the contemporary first world as being ethically negative. We should not have to kill children with the technology we have today. We should be able to use propaganda, science, and human trust-building to expose and defeat enemies that hide, and normal military means to defeat enemies that don't.
If we have things to be guilty of, however - things that we could help - then we defeat nobody at all. They become heroes through our actions. And that's just plain sad.
No. Where is this magnificent part of the US, of which you speak, and do you have women over there?
Over here (in North California, no less) I try to avoid the highway when possible because the smaller roads are nicer. Welcome to America. I wish they would experiment with them, I really do.
Because speculation can drive short term market fluctuations. The general direction is not determined by speculation, nor can it be. Daily activity dwarfs speculation on any market.
One would hope the FBI did some serious reconsideration before a charging a guy who "was awarded the highest honor for defense department civilian staff for his anthrax vaccine work." (BBC news)
Not to mention that the previous wrongly accused Dr got 5 mil off them in lawsuits.
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Parents, talk to your kids about Linux, before somebody else does: http://xkcd.com/456/
The problem with research like this is that any inconvenient truth that comes of it would never make it into publication. It's not just about superficial political correctness, it's about the immense number of people who would be offended. Can you imagine research showing Ashkenazi Jews to be possessive of genes that allow for greater higher-math ability on average than, say, South American natives? Or Africans? What if boys really were better at real math and physics(modern graduate level), on average? I just can't see that being published. Society wants to blame injustice and make movies and give speeches, not make depressing statements about human evolution to people who have indeed suffered injustice in the past. Most people are just not objective or "scientific" enough to be able to grasp this. Minsky put it perfectly: we are the "Emotion Machine".
Pray, and ask Christ to defend you. But as a potentially mentally ill person, if you're going to defend yourself, you're in trouble anyhow. So give that one up, and put your trust in God as your defender:
Please read my second reply to him to understand why curing psychological problems with irrational beliefs - beliefs so irrational the GP himself has to call them "song", with an Analogy to Aerosmith - is correctly seen by slashdot as just another form of instability. I was not being disrespectful of him, either. Only of what he "believed" in. Nobody can expect the slashdot crowd to shut up while somebody tells us the only way to cure illness is to believe in imaginary beings. That pretty crazy, dude;)
I don't think The Lord would take kindly to your equating him with Aerosmith's druggie musicians, young man (although they probably make more sense even when quite high).:-)
Look, I made my post very short, and posted after much hesitation, because I've "been there, done that" with the whole religious experience myself at a younger age (i.e 5 years back) - and I know how much of an affront it is to those who hold "beliefs" about supernatural things when people speak ill of them, even if they are making perfect logical sense. I was not trying to offend you, just to point out that while your turning your focus on one illusion to cure the other, you should not be openly suggesting those things to people on a forum supposedly involved with science unless you want significant backlash. Save yourself the trouble over these lost souls and concern yourself instead with the Lord and the other good people whom he has raised on His Hand, and made to shine like the Sun.
"You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, who abide in His shadow for Life; say to the Lord 'my refuge, my rock in whom I trust'. And he will raise you up on eagle's wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, and make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of His hand."
And that, I am afraid, is not something that sounds sane at all.. but each to his own.
I agree, although the emphasis placed on the religion in your post is misplaced (for Egypt - you are spot on for Saudi). Egypt's dictator does not care much for religion, besides showing up for annual religious festivals..etc to court the media. Egypt actually employs some of the most draconian measures of torture on its Islamist dissidents, and is well known for sweeping-style arrests and continuous civil rights violations under the Emergency Law (their gory version of the patriot act). There are places in Egypt that have refused work for women wearing a head-scarf/hair-covering, and in general, the governmental attitude is fairly secular. Whenever you hear about anything favoring religion coming from the government in places like Egypt and Syria, you should know that this is plain propaganda to please the local population. It is the people who are becoming fanatic, not the governments. Dictators want only one thing: to stay in power.
But it's not cheaper from a political embarrassment viewpoint. If the protesters in say, Egypt, could be put down by bullets without the word "protesters killed" in the local papers, it would happen.
It is in most governments' interest to infringe on your basic rights, and they are all guilty of it. Having said this, Bush's administration is definitely responsible for more evil things than any president in recent history, so why not bash him for it? It's only fair. If we don't do that, all evilness would be made equal, and any president would do as he wishes, because the other bastard also did so-and-so.
The question is: why does a man get in the news - and be forced to lie to a nation - for a blowjob, while he is responsible for something like this that nobody probably cared about? Child protection acts are awfully boring as a topic I guess. Nobody really wants to think about the children.
Update: I RTFS and now know that corporate America is not responsible for this idea, but instead a kinesiology professor, whatever the hell that is. I'm sure even being a mass-market Batman trumps being a kinesiology professor. It doesn't pass spellcheck for Gates' sake.
Not sure if it matters, but you look just as handsome hanging from the Bat-Rope.
Philosophically, it must suck to be a batman clone. I mean, you go from being the epitome of uniqueness and mysterious living, to being a completely dispensable production-line statistic, less remarkable than any *normal* citizen. Why the hell do companies assume you want to do this? I would rather be Joe Suspenders, the local superhero mechanic.
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That was well said, but why guilt? Guilt implies you are doing something "wrong", of which you are guilty.
Without starting a flamewar on moral philosophy, I'd say no action by any man, in times of war or peace, has to be fraught with guilt. Killing people is horrible, but if you are not knowingly killing innocent people, what is there to guilty of? Defending yourself from raving barbarians who cannot even to understand this rhetoric? It is horrible and unpleasant and hopefully something we try to avoid doing, but it is not "wrong".
The problem is that some of these missions end up being very "wrong" indeed. Poor planning and the willingness to sacrifice innocent unarmed human beings to achieve targets, is something we should not accept. Getting reports of an entire village being bombed into oblivion with dozens of harmless people losing their lives for no reason is "wrong". It is not merely "horrible", like killing an enemy combatant.. it is "wrong". I keep using the quotes but bear with me, they're there for good reason. I'm just trying to avoid any moral preaching because I am not worthy of any high ground there, I'm only talking about what is generally understood by human beings in the contemporary first world as being ethically negative. We should not have to kill children with the technology we have today. We should be able to use propaganda, science, and human trust-building to expose and defeat enemies that hide, and normal military means to defeat enemies that don't.
If we have things to be guilty of, however - things that we could help - then we defeat nobody at all. They become heroes through our actions. And that's just plain sad.
Check the stories for horrifying editing mistakes.. if you don't find any by the end of the day, I guess we'll have to notify Taco about being owned.
Nothing, other than the toilet crashing again. But I understand that is a major issue for you mortals.
PS: do deities pee? Yes this is as offtopic as it gets, but you have to admit it's an interesting question. I'm sure some of them do, right?
No. Where is this magnificent part of the US, of which you speak, and do you have women over there?
Over here (in North California, no less) I try to avoid the highway when possible because the smaller roads are nicer. Welcome to America. I wish they would experiment with them, I really do.
Because speculation can drive short term market fluctuations. The general direction is not determined by speculation, nor can it be. Daily activity dwarfs speculation on any market.
One would hope the FBI did some serious reconsideration before a charging a guy who "was awarded the highest honor for defense department civilian staff for his anthrax vaccine work." (BBC news)
Not to mention that the previous wrongly accused Dr got 5 mil off them in lawsuits.
I can do better than oven roasted steak.
Parents, talk to your kids about Linux, before somebody else does:
http://xkcd.com/456/
I live in the Midwest, where many other people do too.
Nonsense. Your usage of the word "many" is misguided.
Then what does he propose that we nuke?
Paris Hilton. If we don't, the terrorists win.
The problem with research like this is that any inconvenient truth that comes of it would never make it into publication. It's not just about superficial political correctness, it's about the immense number of people who would be offended. Can you imagine research showing Ashkenazi Jews to be possessive of genes that allow for greater higher-math ability on average than, say, South American natives? Or Africans? What if boys really were better at real math and physics(modern graduate level), on average? I just can't see that being published. Society wants to blame injustice and make movies and give speeches, not make depressing statements about human evolution to people who have indeed suffered injustice in the past. Most people are just not objective or "scientific" enough to be able to grasp this. Minsky put it perfectly: we are the "Emotion Machine".
Because logic is objective, and for presumably sentient beings, universal.
Governments can't keep blowjobs secret. They can't keep a probably-going-to-be-embarrassing speech secret.
Conspiracy theorists are people who are wrong 99.9999999% of the time, and when they are right, it usually doesn't matter.
He is in for a baad life. However, no intelligent wife-of-a-delinquent rescues his husband
Ah, thank you for that clarification, we all for a crazy second thought she was female. Sanity returns to the slashdot masses.
The common thread here is that they will only reveal themselves to people who the general population will never believe.
If that is true, my friend, then we need to introduce them to one very dark part of our society:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Lawyer
He's respectful about it, he doesn't preach
Are you sure?
Pray, and ask Christ to defend you. But as a potentially mentally ill person, if you're going to defend yourself, you're in trouble anyhow. So give that one up, and put your trust in God as your defender:
Please read my second reply to him to understand why curing psychological problems with irrational beliefs - beliefs so irrational the GP himself has to call them "song", with an Analogy to Aerosmith - is correctly seen by slashdot as just another form of instability. I was not being disrespectful of him, either. Only of what he "believed" in. Nobody can expect the slashdot crowd to shut up while somebody tells us the only way to cure illness is to believe in imaginary beings. That pretty crazy, dude ;)
I don't think The Lord would take kindly to your equating him with Aerosmith's druggie musicians, young man (although they probably make more sense even when quite high). :-)
Look, I made my post very short, and posted after much hesitation, because I've "been there, done that" with the whole religious experience myself at a younger age (i.e 5 years back) - and I know how much of an affront it is to those who hold "beliefs" about supernatural things when people speak ill of them, even if they are making perfect logical sense. I was not trying to offend you, just to point out that while your turning your focus on one illusion to cure the other, you should not be openly suggesting those things to people on a forum supposedly involved with science unless you want significant backlash. Save yourself the trouble over these lost souls and concern yourself instead with the Lord and the other good people whom he has raised on His Hand, and made to shine like the Sun.
"You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, who abide in His shadow for Life; say to the Lord 'my refuge, my rock in whom I trust'. And he will raise you up on eagle's wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, and make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of His hand."
And that, I am afraid, is not something that sounds sane at all.. but each to his own.
I agree, although the emphasis placed on the religion in your post is misplaced (for Egypt - you are spot on for Saudi). Egypt's dictator does not care much for religion, besides showing up for annual religious festivals..etc to court the media. Egypt actually employs some of the most draconian measures of torture on its Islamist dissidents, and is well known for sweeping-style arrests and continuous civil rights violations under the Emergency Law (their gory version of the patriot act). There are places in Egypt that have refused work for women wearing a head-scarf/hair-covering, and in general, the governmental attitude is fairly secular. Whenever you hear about anything favoring religion coming from the government in places like Egypt and Syria, you should know that this is plain propaganda to please the local population. It is the people who are becoming fanatic, not the governments. Dictators want only one thing: to stay in power.
But it's not cheaper from a political embarrassment viewpoint. If the protesters in say, Egypt, could be put down by bullets without the word "protesters killed" in the local papers, it would happen.
It is in most governments' interest to infringe on your basic rights, and they are all guilty of it. Having said this, Bush's administration is definitely responsible for more evil things than any president in recent history, so why not bash him for it? It's only fair. If we don't do that, all evilness would be made equal, and any president would do as he wishes, because the other bastard also did so-and-so.
The question is: why does a man get in the news - and be forced to lie to a nation - for a blowjob, while he is responsible for something like this that nobody probably cared about? Child protection acts are awfully boring as a topic I guess. Nobody really wants to think about the children.
And I see a lot of new sigs.
"Tonight, you will all be part of a social experiment!" -- The Joker.
Update: I RTFS and now know that corporate America is not responsible for this idea, but instead a kinesiology professor, whatever the hell that is. I'm sure even being a mass-market Batman trumps being a kinesiology professor. It doesn't pass spellcheck for Gates' sake.
I am not the real Batman.
Not sure if it matters, but you look just as handsome hanging from the Bat-Rope.
Philosophically, it must suck to be a batman clone. I mean, you go from being the epitome of uniqueness and mysterious living, to being a completely dispensable production-line statistic, less remarkable than any *normal* citizen. Why the hell do companies assume you want to do this? I would rather be Joe Suspenders, the local superhero mechanic.
I understand. You are missing the point behind my reply ;)
Godel was a mathematician.