Well we do know, you just disregarded the whole sentence about critical thinking removing belief in god. That isn't opinion, that is a study from Harvard. There are also many other similar studies. Nothing you mention has anything to do with god as people refer to it. It's just philosophy. I have no problem with the possibility of a higher level intelligence god like being. We will surely become such beings eventually. But to think such a being would be any of the gods people refer to in religion seems ridiculous to anyone who analyses the situation in depth.

His post was clear and to the point. It even rises nicely to a finish. The fact you think its complicated and twisty speaks volumes about your education level. This is standard stuff any high school level teenager could read. I wonder what you would think of the work of an author like James Joyce :p

You basically just proved the parents point. Congrats. Maybe if people had the intelligence to not believe in imaginary beings created by the brain we wouldn't be in this mess. Lack of critical thinking skills is correlated with belief in god. Better education will result in more critical thinking which allows people to see through the illusion of god. This process is well under way in many countries including Canada, Australia, Japan and large chunks of Europe. More than half of the people in Europe consider religion to be irrelevant.

Or you just might not care? I sure don't. All that goes up there are college docs and songs and shit. I can't even think of anything I have that would required encryption. Its not like I'd be uploading text docs with credit card info in it or something.

See thats becoming so much work and being so deceptive it would be easier to just talk to them about it if it really mattered :p I just tried to even find the settings you were on about and I don't know where they are, I didnt exactly look hard though, cause I dont care.

Cool, wasnt aware those controls were so fine grained. Still if you make it so that she cant see and comment on your posts then you have basically just blocked them and you are in the same situation as if you just unfriended and still have to explain. Or lie, which is not my style at all.

Sure, thats what i do, i hide them. That wouldn't help at all with the problem the parent was referring to though. Which is that exes are liking statues and things like that. If you hide them, they can still see and comment on all your items, you would have to block them, and thats basically the same as unfriending.

So you have to have a plan for all phones? You can't just buy a phone where you prepay for your costs by buying a top up card in a shop or using an ATM etc? That what I mean by pay as you go. There is no plan, just buy the phone and add money to it when you need. This is how the vast majority of phones work in Europe, I assumed you could do the same in America.

You'd have to explain why you are defriending then, or they will be very pissed off when they realise. For someone like an ex anyways. I've asked one before, during the breakup if i could unfriend her so as not to see posts in my stream, it didn't go down well. It's like the ex saying can we still be friends and you replying no.

What about pay as you go phones? Very few people I know have a contract only the uber geeks who actually use lots of mobile Internet data. Loads of people get pay as you go phones for Xmas.

It is due to the many socialized programs paid for with high taxes. Income tax rates are in the region of 50% if you make good money. Groceries have higher taxes than america too I believe, any luxury item is 20-25% extra tax. If the tax rates were as low as america things would probably seem a lot more even. It means we have to pay very little money for any healthcare, childcare, pensions, schools, college, etc. College is only 2k euro per year for me for example as a mature (over 25) student, and I get paid (a meager amount, 200 euros, which is just enough to live on) for attending as I was unemployed.

It does have lots of socialism type stuff, the pay is actually above the average for what fresh college grad would get in England. Loads of money obsessed people in this thread, lots of them not realising there's a huge difference in pay between America and Europe for similar living standards.

Had to read that six times to actually see what the problem was. Its so common to encounter both American English and British if you don't switch between them automatically you are failing.

Actually depends where you live. No product I buy in Ireland has any hcfs in it. There is a quota limit for how much hfcs you can produce a year in europe and its a small fraction of the real sugar produce.

Actually, if you can't understand what dark side of the moon means you are the idiot. Look at the moon at night from earth, light always shines on one side from our perspective, hence the other side is dark. It doesn't mean light never shines there.