Comment Re:The UK Government Are Massively Out Of Touch (Score 2) 191
You realise you are stating wild theories with zero evidence as if they were facts?
You realise you are stating wild theories with zero evidence as if they were facts?
So, for capital crimes, relying on people's judgement is ok, but not for money matters? I think your priorities may be a bit screwed up.
The simple fact is that the government is already making those judgements. As someone who has founded three religions (one of which had as many as five members at one point), I assure you my ability to write off church expenses is precisely nil.
I agree, "common sense" is not sufficient by itself for such matters, but since these judgements are already being made (see my earlier reference to the Mormons), why can't they be applied to Scientology? I don't know the gory details, but I'm pretty sure the criteria for becoming a tax-deductable church are rather more complicated than "just some guy who decides". I'm pretty sure there are laws and precedence.
If some random guy (like me) could just declare himself a church and stop paying taxes, and the government weren't allowed to decide whether that's a valid claim (as OP seems to think), I'm pretty sure the amount of taxes collected in this country would be pretty close to zero!
As someone who has been using AMD Linux drivers (the built-in ones in the kernel) for the past year+, without noticing any of these problems you mention, I'm curious if you can document any of this. I'm certainly not going to claim you're wrong, since I don't push the drivers, and they may well have problems I've never noticed. But all I know is they've sped up incredibly since 3.9 or so, and now seem to do everything I ask of them. If there are problems I should be wary of, I'd really like to know.
how are we deciding what is or is not a religion?
Using these things called "judgement" and perhaps even "common sense". The same tools used to distinguish Murder One from mere Manslaughter (fer example).
If there's no legal criteria to refer to, then you're setting a precedent for revoking the legal protections for any religion that you don't like.
There's already precedent: the LDS church was not considered a valid religion for a long time. Once they cleaned up their act, the decision was reconsidered.
Actually, it's not that silly (though I admit it is silly). God is supposed to have miraculous powers, and, in theory, could accept some of the money thrown in the air, if He so desired. The poor, on the other hand, have no such ability. So the sillyness levels are not equivalent.
But yes, what he's describing is not what is formally known as a tithe, although the word has come to have a much broader meaning over the last century or so. And what he's describing is quite silly--a fact I'm sure he's aware of.
I hope it doesn't indicate regression of our whole culture.
It does seem to. This isn't exactly an isolated incident.
No, what's funny is you trying to deny the massive overlap between those groups.
So if they haven't even accounted for a significant fraction of our own galaxy, what does that mean about dark matter?
As far as I can tell from a bit of quick research, absolutely zilch. Since dark matter is mainly hypothesized to explain the observed motion of galaxies, and most of the evidence for it comes from observing other galaxies and, especially, galactic clusters, the size of the Milky Way has no bearing.
Also, as someone else pointed out, this is about volume in any case; the actual mass of the Milky Way is probably not a lot different from previous estimates—but all estimates of the size and or mass of the Milky Way are necessarily rough in any case, since it's too close to see very well.
Yes, that's the kind of sociopathy I was talking about, thanks for the example.
Yes, that's the kind of sociopathy I am talking about, thanks for the example.
That would make sense if it was big companies who use that word, but it isn't.
You realise that the people here who can actually "report all movement" are Uber?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...
And they're not really very concerned about privacy either when it suits them:
I find it strange that Uber doesn't try harder to fix this problem.
Not at all strange. They are sociopathic libertarian company devoted to "disruption", which is generally code for "we break the law if it gets in the way of us making money and we think we can get away with it".
Nobody said lynch mob. That term has a connotation of violence without cause.
No, it doesn't. At all. It means exactly what you are talking about.
Do you realise at all that people die in wars?
Like, people who are not Kim Jong-Un?
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
