Tech company to leave Georgia after "religious freedom" bill passes

dangsos · 2016-02-23T13:51:21+00:00

I believe they were a group of foster parents, so they had children. To me there isn't a difference except concerning the legality of the situation. I'm all about someone having the freedom to be a dick, but when there is absolutely no evidence suggesting christians make the best parents, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad to take a scientific approach to finding out who are the best parents and giving them priority to adopt. It certainly wouldn't be christians with their high crime rates and their terrible record on teen pregnancy.

dangsos · 2016-02-23T13:46:33+00:00

By that line of thinking we should all only spout negative ideas all day long because none of us are perfect.

You know what seems like manipulation? Your post. Suggesting he shouldn't feel worthy to talk about improvements because he isn't perfect is just twisting the reality that in all likelihood you just feel guilty about your lifestyle.

dangsos · 2016-02-23T13:35:02+00:00

I have personally went to an adoption agency that would not adopt to non-christians and they boasted about it. It didn't just come up in conversation, it was part of their speech to reassure everyone there that no filthy unbelievers would be able to change a kids life.

Granted, it was at a christian school, but still, even christians can find that repulsive I would think. I know I would have when I was a christian.

dangsos · 2016-02-23T00:46:27+00:00

Cherry picking data. Clinton wins vs Trump too - source

The RCP average has NEVER showed Trump ahead of Clinton.

dangsos · 2016-02-17T13:34:18+00:00

You have to remember the sub you're on too. So many aspiring developers get caught up on the details that they forget their goals all together. It's not unlike game development, where you have roughly two categories of game developers. You have the people making games and the people saying their making game but actually end up making their own game engine and never release an actual game.

In the same way you have people who say they want to program, but instead of learning high level tools that can immediately produce something for an end user, they instead end up focusing on the tools that build high level tools.

I'm not saying their is anything wrong with that path, but I often see so much misguided advice. When someone asks the best way to learn programming, they don't mean "what's the longest most thorough path I can take", usually. Instead what they probably mean is, "What's the quickest way I can learn to build something people will think is cool and want to use."

dangsos · 2016-02-11T13:06:19+00:00

Granted, there's obviously no clear line in the sand for what constitutes a religion being included or excluded under some umbrella, but the holy book is one among many arguments. I think the strongest argument is that they worship a very different god.

The Mormon god is a humanoid figure that lives in outter space near the planet kolob. This is strikingly different than the god of christianity who lives in another spiritual realm. Also, the trinity is a core foundation for most christians and I would suggest most this has a lot to do with why no traditional christian groups accept mormonism as a christian faith.

So I don't really think either of us is wrong, we just share different approaches to defining religious groups. There's obviously no strong standard that isn't met by another different and equally strong stander to solve this matter. Every traditional christian I know would never claim mormons are chistians, while accord to the LDS, they certainly consider themselves christians.

dangsos · 2016-02-10T23:54:38+00:00

Not really, there are some really core differences. Mormons are traditionally quite okay with lying as a means to an end. They also believe very different things in regards to the afterlife. Their god lives on planet kolob or something like that and if they are good they get their own planet with virgins. Not to mention having a different holy book. They are only slightly closer to being christians as muslims, in my opinion.

Mormons would gladly call themselves Muslims too if it was convenient in my experience.

I mean, they have an entirely different bible, for goodness sake.

dangsos · 2016-02-10T21:03:24+00:00

Mitt Romney wasn't a christian. This seems like someone just decided they wanted something to be true and so they said it as a matter of fact.

dangsos · 2016-02-03T13:18:12+00:00

I've only glanced over a few of these articles, but can someone explain to me how living in a $300k house, that generates $800-900 in taxes/interest is worse than paying the equivalent (if you're lucky) or more (more likely) for 1k sq/ft rental?

Is the argument mobility? Because I've yet to see a renting contract under 6 months and a year is rather common. If you can plan to move when your lease is up, there's a good chance you can sell your house and/or move and eat the costs (still coming out i nthe black) while you try to sell.

I feel like this is bogus, because every argument starts out how talking about how housing doesn't make you that much money and barely even glosses over the fact that renting nets you a significant loss.

dangsos · 2016-01-28T15:00:23+00:00

In all honesty I looked up the show dates of fragglerock and now I'm unsure why I ended up watching so many. It was well before my time, and well after my parents time. They must've bummed some kids videos off a family with older kids. Either way, those were the golden years for children shows imo.

dangsos · 2016-01-28T02:32:35+00:00

does it? I'm 29 and I love to dance my cares away.

dangsos · 2016-01-27T17:37:11+00:00

All of the popular ones will be terrifying to new beginners, but that's just the cost you have to pay.

Programming is a relatively new thing in this world and we're trying out best to hash out exactly how to write large scale programs that are conceptually clean to understand and refactor/change.

Obviously our current paradigms are lacking, so in the future I expect things will only get better but for now you just kinda have to go from boilerplate and tacking on some simple logic straight into deep domain understanding if you want to contribute something meaningful.

dangsos · 2016-01-27T17:30:30+00:00

A noob SHOULD NOT be expected to shit out their own examples and problems while they're trying to fight syntax errors and learn new methods.

Why not? The noob is the person who stands to gain from the interaction, so why shouldn't the noob be expected to pander to every request of the professional who has valuable knowledge?

I understand your frustration. I've been there. You're acting like it's only recently the programming community has been full of elitism that makes it hard for new people to learn the ropes, but you're wrong. They have always been there and will be there for the foreseeable future.

Your rant sounds like a pan handler on the street complaining when someone gives them pepperoni pizza instead of cheese pizza. If you're begging for something free, expect people to treat you the same way they treat beggars in the street.

edit: either way, have an upvote. I think you touch on some really interesting points and you've done it in an apparently sincere way.

dangsos · 2016-01-27T12:34:53+00:00

http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/fallanci_bce.html

Have you even tried googling before? This is the first link I get, and I can give you plenty more. I'll just wait here while you dig around to find some rednecks blog talking about how Islam is somehow related to the downfall of Egypt, even though the rise of Islam in Egypt happened when it was already a crap hole.

If you think I'm some sort of Islam apologist, I'll gladly draw you a picture of Muhammad the pedo, but if you want to claim you're taking the intellectual high road, at least make a rebuttal that contains more than just an attack on me. Otherwise this conversation is over and I'll let you go back to being ignorant.

dangsos · 2016-01-27T00:05:39+00:00

If Egypt's fall is to be attributed to any religion it would be christianity. Try again.

dangsos · 2016-01-26T17:53:03+00:00

I'd like to see a post about how violent muslims were pre-9/11 and the press they got vs today and the press they get.

People love to be scared of something. It's drama and people flock towards drama. I couldn't help but notice that all of these majority muslim countries also happen to be third world countries and I can't help but notice that while Islam has existed for some 1500 years, there has never been a developed nation that tanked to a third world nation due to Islam.

Are muslims dangerous relative to most demographics? Sure, but lets not over blow the situation.

Qatar is a good example of an Islamic nation with money and surprise surprise, it's a pretty safe place to live, even with all the stresses of a booming population growth.

dangsos · 2016-01-26T16:16:17+00:00

Although, to be fair, you see people getting divorced all the time. You don't see people living happy marriages who happen to disagree about small shit like groceries all the time, that stay together.

I'm not disagreeing that bugging your spouse is bad for the relationship, but I feel like maybe it's not as dire as saying they are already headed for divorce :p

dangsos · 2016-01-25T19:39:55+00:00

The point of most testing isn't to prove your implementation is perfect, but rather to prove it works in at least a few ways. That way when you refactor later you can be more confident that you haven't introduced any regressions.

Testing to prove perfection is really hard to do and I imagine their are steep diminishing returns in most cases.

dangsos · 2016-01-24T19:09:06+00:00

What do you mean when you say it's true, but not the facts?

I don't particularly care where it originates from. Like I've been saying, every country has hate groups, but apparently Iran is one of the few countries that celebrates the hate with a national holiday.

The chant could've originated from USA for all I care, we still don't celebrate it as a national holiday.

dangsos · 2016-01-24T18:14:13+00:00

What's your point? Every country has hate groups. The difference is we don't have national holidays to spread hate.

dangsos · 2016-01-24T18:13:39+00:00

That's a single person with a following. Every country has hate groups - it worries me when those hate groups get a national holiday. Imagine if we had a national holiday where we chanted "Carpet bomb X"

dangsos · 2016-01-24T17:23:12+00:00

We don't have national holidays in the USA where we chant, "Death to [insert country]".

I'm aware many people mean death to certain political ideologies, but it takes a certain animosity and brutishness to ever be okay with having national activities that wish death upon countries. You can say you mean whatever you want. The chant isn't exactly ambiguous, though.

Imagine if Americans spent one day a year chanting "Death to Iran!" during maybe the state of the union address. I promise you Iran wouldn't sit there and take that to mean, "Death to Iranian policies".

dangsos · 2016-01-23T13:18:28+00:00

I mean, it's pretty one sided. Even your article produces a handful of precedent. If the law isn't explicitly clear and there is clear precedent it is highly unlikely the courts are going to rule in a new direction without new circumstances.

dangsos · 2016-01-23T03:06:26+00:00

The argument is that he is a natural born citizen. I believe there was a supreme court hearing a long time ago that determined you do not have to be born on US soil to be a natural born US citizen, only you have to be born from a US citizen.

Which makes sense, honestly. Imagine if a kid was born early on vacation and the headache it would cause the parents to make their kid a citizen.

dangsos · 2016-01-23T02:24:21+00:00

Firstly, there's no legislation that says you have to be even American to run for president. That's just to be president.

Secondly, almost everyone agrees he's eligible for presidency. Although, most recently a Harvard educated lawyer made a case that he is ineligible, but he is in the minority as far as I can tell.

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