No pledge. And "God bless America" should be dropped in favor of "Yippie-Ki-Yay, motherfucker".
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I don't really like America's Test Kitchen, but I believe anything Lan Lam says.
Shit, even in America we know FIFA is corrupt.
Trump should learn the history of the Praetorian guard before requesting one.
It's ironic that a pair of soldiers who are expected to go into the most dangerous situations and are prepared to mitigate those risks as far as possible would get taken out by an OSHA violation.
I notice that military and police are often vexed by threats that can't be solved by shooting it.
This would be a lot funnier if SA wasn't so common among the militaries of the world.
Some malicious USB drives have a capacitor that will discharge and fry your whole system. Unless you have an air-gap system that you don't care about, unknown USB drives should be disposed of.
Oh, and all this and more can be accomplished with a sneaky charging cable too. So you have to dial in your level of paranoia to suit your situation. The person most likely to tamper with your computer is a spouse. Search and chat histories as well as GPS devices are becoming common in divorce cases.
This is theater. Kaliningrad has a land border with Lithuania, but not with Russia. Invading from there would require a buildup that would be obvious and create logistics that would be insane. If Russia moves tanks to Kaliningrad, it'll be through Lithuania.
A friend once told me that the South could never have won due to the industrial superiority of the North. I said that sounds like wisdom in English, but it's a joke in Vietnamese.
Because Arabic and Jewish culture value the uniqueness and singularity of God, while the Pagan cultures of Greece and Rome (where Western Christianity developed) valued multiple persons in divinity with responsibilities over different aspects of life.
When Christians were oppressed by Rome, their crime was not worshiping Jesus. But rather their refusal to participate in ritual or pay respects to the other official State gods.
One of the most common mistakes is assuming that political opponents are ignorant. If only they had the right education; consumed the right media; or had the correct experience, they’d surely see things properly. The error is believing that we arrived at our values through reason. Values like hierarchy or equity are adopted by a complex process of disposition, emotion, and experience. Reason may be a component of this process, it may be a value unto itself, but it cannot support values.
Even simple moral claims like “it’s wrong to steal” cannot be supported by logic. Give it a try and you’ll come up with arguments like: “stealing is wrong because it harms the victim”. But you’ve not solved the problem, just pushed it back a step because now you have to defend the claim “it’s wrong to harm”. You cannot use observations about how the world is to calculate how it ought to be. Justifying moral claims with other moral claims dooms you to circular reasoning and infinite regression.
For those of you clever enough to argue deontology or utilitarianism, I’ll point out that these systems are ethical. Only concerned with how one should behave; helpless to prove something just or wicked. The moral principles of deontology and utilitarianism are assumed, not proven. Both systems will endorse ridiculous, intolerable, and outrageous actions in particular circumstances.
Objective morality probably doesn’t exist and has never been justified.
Say what you want about Google products, but they're all built to be functional without touchscreens or mice. I fucking love that.
I've been daily driving firefox since the early 2000s, but Mozilla is just about the worst offender, because keyboard options exist, but are obviously programing afterthoughts. In firefox settings, there are some "alt" letters (underlined letters that you can select by pressing alt+that letter) But some of those letters are capitalized, so now, you have to press shift+alt+letter. PAIN
Carrot browsing (navigate websites with the keyboard) can be activated with F7. A dialogue box pops up to confirm and it has the option "do not show this again", but that option is a checkbox only the mouse can check. (no tab over). RAGE
Using Linux is often about ethics, it just doesn't make you a good person.
Science in the front, Science in the back.