No there is a christion bible and I will not support it. You know it is total gibberish

The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) although I think it was renamed Tiger Tiger. There are lots to read. Some are shit. Many are good.

Try Ken Macleod or Alister Renolds. Both are excelant authours. I like Ian M banks too. Asimov is cool too. Try Edgar Rice Buroughs if you want a taste of the past. John Carter of mars.

The earth has been cooling since it's creation. Unless you prefer a ball of molten rock to be your ideal habitat. I have a "feeling" that the formation of the planet has little to do with the current arguments :) A lot has changed since then such as life appearing.

have to agree with this anon coward. Jews were hunted down and killed and it started quite a long time before WW2. The current problems are in part due to that; but mostly because the UK (along with the rest of the world) decided that a reparation for the holocaust (I don't like the way that name has been hi-jacked) created Israel. Yep stick a dispossessed ideological concept into the middle of one of the most fought over areas of the planet, call it a new country, and shout out "come all yea faithful". What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

Yep. Empathy is not just a genetic thing. It requires training to override/re-enforce the urge to help someone. Why help some stranger? I do not know. It gives you a feeling of smug self satisfaction...perhaps. Or just because you can. The other person needs the help though.

I have noticed it.
How many people lying on the floor have you just walked past? If they look home less?
I fell down the stairs to the platform of a very popular train station. I knocked myself out. I know I elbowed a few people as I fell. They did not help me. I was wearing a suit, I had a brief case and a laptop bag. After I came around it was still some minutes before any of the people who were looking from a distance came forward to help me. (whoever you are mate, I am very grateful). I was bruised all over had a cut on my head which was bleeding lots and concussion.

  Even in the western world you will be ignored if helping you would interfere with someones life. Well most of the time.

This stranger danger thing is hampering. There is now too much risk involved in trying to help a child. A kid screaming and saying "this is not my dad" could mean anything. Perhaps a tantrum with her real dad or perhaps a step dad. How many times have you seen kids misbehave like that in a supermarket? Lots.

I found a lost toddler in a super market and I had second thoughts about trying to help him. I decided to. On the way to the checkout, where they could put an announcement out, I was accosted by his mum.

In that video people where looking. People were taking note. That was not happening in the case of Yue Yue.

Perhaps the people who care are the ones that live there. I do not live in Iceland but I do understand America pissing over people.

Real time systems encounter this ordering problem. They are simple by comparison to most software running today. Priority inversion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion
It is not common. Engineers spend a lot of time trying to ensure it does not occur. It is a result of the ordering of access to a shared resource causing a high priority task to be de-scheduled. That is a specific circumstance. pre-emptive schedulers do cause problems so please do not discount them.