Comment Re:Wow only -254K (Score 1) 271
Wow. Winnipeg MB must be really damned cold.
Wow. Winnipeg MB must be really damned cold.
I use dialup/stolen wireless, you insensitive clod!
Is better reading comprehension supposed to help me magically work out your unsourced statistics and thereby find myself in agreement with your conclusion?
By the way, not counting the opinions of political criminals and radical dissidents, the PRC has the highest citizen satisfaction rating, and is therefore obviously the best place in the world to live.
the US not only has the highest life expectancy in the world
...What?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Not even close to the highest.
The official record speed is the average over two runs.
...some beta win7 drivers...
I mean, seriously? What'd you expect?
Can you click on two things at once with a mouse? How about four? Ten?
Try thinking outside the box sometimes.
Huh? You didn't have to memorize 1s 2p etc in high school chemistry?
Using solar to preheat the water instead of more coal to preheat it just admits that solar is a more effective tech for generating energy than coal is.
That's ludicrous. Does using lithium-ion battery packs instead of gas in cars admit that lithium-ion is a more effective tech for storing energy than gasoline is?
(It's not, in case if you're puzzled by the analogy.)
How is that a result of betrayed trust?
The only one you can blame for how your money does "in the market" is yourself.
I think the only conclusion we can draw from your anecdotes is that your workplace is full of idiots.
If only Japan could somehow magically create more open, unfarmable, and uninhabited land where the turbines could be placed without taking away already scarce farm land or slowly deafen anyone within a kilometer!
And also completely wrong!
I'll admit that it was a momentarily amusing thought with no solid base, and that there are obviously a thousand other factors involved, but you're actually the one that's completely wrong.
If the US has the highest murder rate (which is the assumption you are basing this "proportion" on), then all countries with lower (or zero) execution rates (ie. the overwhelming majority (>90%) of countries in the world) would have lower murder rates.
Are you suggesting that they all have... higher murder rates instead? Does Slashdot not understand basic mathematical relationships anymore?
Inversely proportional means one stat goes up as the other goes down. The US has a higher homicide rate and a lower execution rate than the other four countries, therefore the relationship between homicide rate and execution rate is inversely proportional. This place used to have math nerds...
Correlation also does not equal non-causation. Which is why it's interesting.
Do you people ever stop for a second and think about stuff or just burp out the first cliche that comes to mind?
Ok, it seems that you are chinese.
Is this relevant, or are you already applying bias against the Chinese?
Why are trying so hard to criticize Falun Gong ?
Why are you questioning my motive, instead of my argument? I'm presenting cold hard evidence to support my argument, but you're just going for a cheap ad hominem shot.
They don't have a god, so I don't see why it should be called cult.
Did you read my post at all? Note the quote by the founder presenting himself as "the best god", not to mention all the references to higher beings and how much above "ordinary people" the writer is in the official Falun Gong books. If that doesn't fit into your definition of a cult I'm not sure what you think a cult is.
The Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_gong [wikipedia.org]
clearly exposes China's techniques to demonize Falun Gong (calling it a cult).
I don't deny that China has been running a smear campaign on Falun Gong, but Falun Gong seems to be doing a much better job of a smear campaign against the government. Based on previous point, I would say it's fair to call them a cult.
But more importantly, do you think their members deserve death ?
Why do you think that? I didn't say they deserve death. Or is that your own biased view that anyone who questions Falun Gong must be trying to persecute the members by seeking their deaths? I see Falun Gong's indoctrination has worked well.
If you think so, you have a real problem, because you are completely endoctrined by the national propaganda.
Even though I didn't repeat one line of "national (I assume you mean Chinese?) propaganda". In fact, I have never even read any "national propaganda" on the issue before today. All my quotes are from researching primary sources, one being the official Falun Gong teachings, the other being a reporter who worked firsthand with Falun Gong. So without a single shred of evidence, how did you conclude that I'm indoctrinated by propaganda? Or am I simply that way because all Chinese (as you assume I must be) who are critical of Falun Gong must have been thoroughly brainwashed for the government and unable to process facts for themselves? Aren't these assumptions the truly scary brainwashing? Ironic, in a way.
Following your point of view, I'm pretty sure that Tibetans also deserve death.
Even the government doesn't advocate the death of Tibetans (notice that they do not advocate the death of Falun Gong practitioners either...), so I'm assuming this is another case of too much Western media coolaid.
Finally, I'd like to add another point:
when a country has real (and unsolvable) problems piling up, they try to find scapegoats.
In Germany in the 30s, they used the Jews as scapegoats.
Now, China is just attacking everybody that refuse their model, starting by the people in their own country, and slowly attacking people in their neighbourhood.
Since China concentrates so much power (and money !) now, I hope they won't try to dominate the whole world, like the Germans in their time.
Wow, so Godwin was your last point? Well played.
Since as you say China has so much power and money, what are their real, unsolvable problems?
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