Comment Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree (Score -1) 258
Ah, subtlety 3
No, my position has been clear throughout: no generation is somehow more intellectual or significantly more educated than the others. I never said "no philosopher kings," but simply that if you were to essentially put a 15 year old kid now against a 15 year old kid from the 80s, 70s, 60s, etc. you are, on average, not going to notice that extreme a difference. In every generation you are going to have a small yet not insignificant number of people who are smart and well-educated. It's unfair to the current generation to somehow portray them as ignorant savages.
Might be slightly off from your discussion, but academic standards (in Ireland at least) are certainly dropping. That may not mean they're less "intellectual" these days, but probably not so well educated.
College degrees mean less than they used to, and the leaving cert has certainly become a lot easier over time.
Ireland just passed a blasphemy law.
I do have to point out (while I think the law is absolutely ridiculous, as do most of our population), they deliberately made it so that it's next to impossible to convict anyone for it.
Apparently it was only introduced to fulfil some part of our constitution. Why they didn't have a referendum/amendment is the obvious question; but the main point is that this law isn't to be taken seriously at all.
There's a morbid mathematical-legal job called an actuary...
Hey, we're not morbid! We just like predicting when everyone will die.
Since you just need to remove yourself from the gene pool, you don't have to lose your life. You could just horribly maim your genitals!
seems to be what happened here http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-14.html
You clearly pulled that number out of your ass. People can go through all sorts of trauma and lead fairly normal lives after. Kids are especially known for being able to "rebound" from trauma. Being sexually abused doesn't make you somehow less-human and less capable of being "normal". This is a stereotype that's more damaging than you realize.
"trauma" like parents divorcing, maybe. Sexual abuse, no. See for example: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/victim-became-suicidal-over-sex-assaults-in-church-sacristy-1978724.html
Define innocent civilian. If a person is housing a terrorist are they innocent? In the US if you house a criminal you can go to jail also - you do realize that?
I fell into the trap of "innocent civilian" myself, while quoting the original. Civilian is civilian. And since US law has nothing to do with me, I didn't know. But it surely makes sense.
If it's thought to be an explosive device and they don't have a bomb unit then shooting it up, at distance, makes a lot of sense actually
I'm sure it makes sense, that wasn't my point. My original point was disbelief that they were complaining about something relatively very minor as bags being shot, and portraying this as being part of their long-suffering victim status. In the grand scheme of things, it might be an inconvenience, but it's not something to add to the "look how we suffer" list considering what's going on on THEIR side.
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game! Why, in MY day, we had broken laptops IN bombed UN schools!
It's a story about a fucking laptop, you twit. If there was ever a comment more deserving of an "off topic" mod, I haven't seen it.
Uh huh? Yeah, I play that game on my laptop all the time.
So which part do you disagree with? You don't feel that it's unfortunate? Or you don't believe it is reality?
I disagree with the emotive language implying that Palestinians are the only ones killing innocent civilians. Particularly given differences in death counts e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/gaza-city-fighiting-israel-un or the lack of running water for so many people
More than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water, while 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless; 80 government buildings were hit.[30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War or the ongoing dispute about construction of wells/water buildings + farming which Israel are preventing them from building (there are further links about the below, especially relating to actual construction and needs, and differences in water consumption, but no time to look them up at this moment)
According to reports, Israeli soldiers shoot towards farmers working on their lands along the buffer zone nearly every week...During Operation "Cast Lead" which ended in January 2009, private houses, workshops, cattle farms, tree groves, agricultural roads, water wells and rain-fed crop fields located within the area were demolished by the Israeli army.
So "unfortunate reality" that the poor israelis might have some bags and laptops shot given all the above, well yes, it does make me question if they have a sense of reality. Or perspective.
To respond to another post:-
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game!
I'm not on anybody's side, except maybe the "let's not be hypocrites about this" side.
"I know many Jewish Israeli people who had their bag shot just because they left it unwatched for a couple of minutes. Yes, this is the unfortunate reality that Israelis live in, where Palestinian terrorist would do anything (such as put bombs cowardly hidden in laptops) to intentionally hurt innocent civilians..."
I can hardly believe some people. Broken laptop vs white phosphorus? Broken laptop vs bombed UN school?! "Unfortunate reality" my backside, I really wonder if some of them know anything whatsoever about reality.
Text messaging is much cheaper outside of the US, even in western Europe. We're getting the short end of the stick on this one
Indeed, there are a lot of "free texts to 1 network", or even "free texts to all networks" price plans.
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