Comment Re:This is religious intolerance. (Score 1) 562
Such ridicule is the work of uneducated, uncivilised, barbarians too. Educated, cultured, civilised people don't resort to such immaturity. LOL.
Such ridicule is the work of uneducated, uncivilised, barbarians too. Educated, cultured, civilised people don't resort to such immaturity. LOL.
And how conveniently did you forget about that about 800 year period where you send people off to kill and die in order to capture foreign lands where your imaginary friend had a son to control trade routes under the auspices of serving your imaginary friend. There were about six of these.
The roots of the Crusades were also political and economic i.e. secular. People paint a very simplified picture of the Crusades, yet half of Europe fell to Islamic invasion at one stage.
Or there was that Spanish mob, I forgot what they were called but no body expected them. Where it was punishable by torture or death simply to have another religion or not follow the accepted religion to an appropriate level, that went for about 150 years.
Whose influence was also exaggerated and whose death counts were probably less than those of secular courts, not to mention that it only ran in handful of the Catholic European states. Oh yes, English Protestant Propaganda you say? Once again politically inspired?
I'm not saying these things did not happen but they were not as bad as depicted and not done for entirely religious reasons meaning that without Christianity Europe and the Muslim world would also have clashed after all the Babylonians and Greeks also clashed etc.
Lets not get into the involuntary immolation of wicca shall we?
Keep playing the victim card good sir.
Not very accurate. You could get access to porn before 1994. Various pornographic magazines had stars on nipples though but even in high school in the early 90s kids would exchange BBS/internet porn (on floppy disks).
SA was pretty much a police state before 94 and like in Eastern Europe violent crime outside of politically inspired crime was pretty low because of the large numbers of police. Then again one could attribute this to surge in rape after 94 to an increase in reporting.
The cynic in me says that the priority is for various morality groups make it seem like they're doing something, possibly to themselves.
The problem is that if ANC actually listened to some morality groups then SA would be in a better shape. This has absolutely nothing to do with morality groups but is a about copying what everyone else is doing - China, Germany, Australia etc. Even Japan is considering banning cartoon porn. This is just an easy way out. Most people in SA do not have access to internet. The real problem in SA is a deeply misogynist society where women only recently discovered they could say NO to sex and what rape is. SA's HIV problem stems also from a culture of multiple sex partner concurrency - http://www.harvardaidsprp.org/research/halperin&epstein-why-is-hiv-prevalence-so-severe.pdf yet the government's way of controlling HIV was merely handing out condoms. The problem is that people don't want to wear them - and not for religious reasons but for cultural ones - men mostly have last say. Even outside of SA condoms in long term relationships tend not to be used consistently but that's another story.
If it wasn't for America you'd be waving the Swastika right now.
www.caritas.pl and many other things including helping support Polish national identity through 200 years of oppression. Good enough for you? What have you done for us?
The man is a national hero. You're not Polish and so you don't understand but try to get this - for almost 200 years Poland did not exist and Polish language, culture and identity were suppressed and systematically eliminated by Russia, Prussia, Austo-Hungary, then Germany and then the Soviet Union. We therefore value people like Chopin, Marie Curie-Sklodowska and Copernicus as national heroes to help preserve our identity. Hence the man is being honoured.
You have a problem with Poland beating its chest? Which country doesn't beat its chest over its own achievements and heroes?
Copernicus is a great hero in Poland, an example to aspire to.
The Catholic Church of Poland, a nation historically far more religiously tolerant than yours probably (with Jews, Protestants, Muslims, etc finding refuge there) relied on the Catholic Church to help support Polish national identity through the years of Poland's non-existence as a nation, including after it was sold out by liberal West to the Soviets (after 1945). The Church stood by us, when no-one else did. It also helped to demarcate who belonged to the Communist Party and collaborated with the Soviets and who kept his national identity and didn't.
...if Medicine wasn't such a members-only club. There's the "In" crowd and then there's the "Rest" of us.
Take other fields.... writing, education, programming, painting, online stock trading -- anyone can hop online or go down to their local bookstore,
I'm a doctor.
You mean a multi-billion investment fund will take my advice where to invest their clients' money? I should just email them after having read some books?
Or perhaps the city will let me design a bridge? Or maybe I could learn to fly on Microsoft Flight Simulator and give my airline pilot advice during the next turbulent flight I encounter?
Maybe I should barge in and tell the magistrate in court what they should do - I've seen Perry Mason do it and read some books.
"I just feel the Internet brings so much misinformation to the (exam) room that we have to fight through all that before we can get to the problem at hand."
It's very good advice. People are not specialists. You can't be a stock broker or a computer programmer and expect to be a doctor too. It's nice to be able to read up information but don't presume you will understand it, let alone be able apply it.
So here's one for you: Why can't you fight that misinformation before the patient even steps foot in the exam room? Why don't doctors create peer-reviewed, well-written websites to counter all of the confusion and pseudo-science currently available online?
There are many such sites. In the UK the NHS has sites with information for patients. In the US the CDC (among other agencies) has similar sites. There is also WebMD. http://www.webmd.com/
It's usually helpful to start with your local Health Ministry websites and work from there. As said in the UK, this would be NHS.
There's also the Health on the Net Foundation which 'certifies' sites which contain credible medical information. http://www.hon.ch/
The knowledge is there already or do you want you doctor to spell it all out for you. Should he also take you down to your local library to point out the right section for you?
As someone who was born and grew up in Eastern Europe I think countries such as those making up the Visegrad Group should push the EC, and citizens of those countries should petition the European Parliament to FINE Apple until they equalise their inventory across the EU. If Apple refuse, Apple should be kicked out of Europe. They can peddle their wares in Japan, China and the US. That's really the only approach. The European Union is meant to mean something and foreign companies which disregard that should be forced out or change their ways.
Most people don't need an ultra-portable PC. Most people just need a toy to do a little bit of web browsing (FaceBook), some IM and some portable entertainment. Those people don't need a netbook or an ultraportable PC like a tiny C2D Vaio or similar. A netbook with a decent SSD (eg Toshiba), a reasonable amount of RAM and a 1.86 GHz Atom or dual core 1.66 will be more than enough to run a VPN connection, IM, Skype, web browser, Open or Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat (not reader), Photoshop, Lotus Notes, etc and be as fast as most current laptops - at least my VersaPro UltraLite from NEC is. So this just proves that most people use laptops and netbooks as toys and not as work or productivity devices.
Well, why didn't Neil Armstrong plant a McDonald's flag then instead of the US one? Patriotism exists outside of the USA too. Gee....Japanese also love their country?
The Church did what it thought was best - in most cases rehabilitation was attempted. In some cases some Bishops covered up. Your statement is false that the whole church covered up every abuse - because they didn't. Of course I could also say that all of NASA covered up cost cutting and hence two shuttles blew up - I mean should we now no longer have space exploration because of that? Should NASA be disbanded?
Pedophilia is a difficult problem to treat. We still don't know the best way other than separating the sufferers (it's a mental condition and as such involuntary) from children. The Church was deficient and negligent in some cases but not in all. With the current fad of Catholic Church bashing in the Western media the cases where they messed up are highlighted and exaggerated but surely as you don't obtain your knowledge of rocket building from lawyers and newspapers you should not judge the church until a fair, impartial, contextualized assessment has been made.
Irrespective of the greed behind Google's ideas, time for the people of Europe to vote. The EP or EC can easily kick them out and then Google can map Wifi networks in China.
What if you know for sure you will never buy or use any of the products advertised - is it still bad? I live in a different country and most of these ads advertise services not applicable to me or my profession, the online shops don't ship to my address and so on. When you block the ad you're also saving site bandwidth and also reducing impressions and the amount of money the advertiser has to pay for displaying ads to non target audience visitors.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
