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Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]”We are being tested”. I hear religious people say that a lot. Does God test people?
Do you put a cupcake in front of a dessert addict to see if he will resist? I don’t have even knowledge of religion to understand.[/quote]
If they take the cupcake, you torture them with fire for eternity.
If they resist the cupcake, you reward them with fluffy clouds and harps for eternity.Makes sense.
December 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM in reply to: OT: How can it be a “Hoverboard” if it can’t hover? #792845Participant[quote=moneymaker]Does the battery explode while riding or when left charging longer than it is supposed to? Directions say to unplug it when fully charged.[/quote]
Lithium batteries can be extremely dangerous, especially when they are part of a cheap Chinese made product.
A “safe” lithium battery requires expensive components within the battery to detect temperatures during charging and discharging as well as expensive charging components that charge the battery at the correct rate without over filling it and while also balancing the charge across the cells. On top of that, you need to produce the battery properly using quality components and also make sure the battery did not get damaged during manufacture and also protect it post manufacture.You will not find any of these things in a cheap Chinese product! Use caution when charging them!
One of my hobbies is flying RC helicopters, and I buy the cheap Chinese knockoffs because it costs less when you inevitably crash it.
I do not charge these batteries in the house, they get charged outside and are stored in the fireplace. Search for “lithium battery on fire” and you’ll see why. There’s a reason high quality batteries cost over 3 times more than low quality ones.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]It was a crime in colonial puritan america,to celebrate xmas.
They are rolling over in their Graves at our utter commercialization of the Lord.[/quote]
Third generation atheist here and even I celebrate Christmas: tree, lights, food, decorations, presents, cards.
Yeah, it’s totally lost it’s original meaning, but it’s still a fun holiday and you get time off work 🙂Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]I’m trying to find where in the bible it says how much cash we need before we dont have to worry anymore?[/quote]
You don’t have to worry about cash, all you need is god’s love, so feel free to tithe well.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=doofrat]I’d say this Johnny Cash quote is appropriate:
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.[/quote]I guess, but didn’t he go bankrupt at some point?[/quote]
Yep, but that only added one more worry 😉
ParticipantI’d say this Johnny Cash quote is appropriate:
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.Participant[quote=svelte][quote=flyer]
Imo, as long as life and death exist, the search for immortality will continue. Personally, I think the scientific and spiritual premises of this quest are quite compatible. More so than one might think.[/quote]Those religions that believe in a supreme being are at odds with science, IMO. It is only in the last ten years or so that I have heard Christians start adopting some of the scientific constructs and proposing that they aren’t at odds. Christianity is morphing, as it always has done and always will do.
[/quote]All those times when science trumped religion, and religion has yet to trump science once.
Participant[quote=poorgradstudent]Satanism has always struck me as a little… childish. I mean, without Christianity and the Bible, you don’t have Satan. Satan is a character of the New Testament. So it’s sort of odd branding for Atheists/Secular Humanists to take on. I realize part of that is historical and part of it is intended for shock value, but in 2015 it seems more than a little silly.[/quote]
What’s silly is that people (the god fearing, fanciful story believing, letting little Jimmy go camping with Father McDonough type) actually believe in Satan. I think the “Satanists” are just having a little fun pointing that back at them.
It’s kind of like drawing Mohammad, it’s a silly exercise, but it really get’s the true believers “goat”.Participant[img_assist|nid=25652|title=Heaven|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=71]
Wow, there’s a lot of these on Google Images. Highly saturated colorful paradise, people of every race, and they really like showing people interacting with carnivorous wildlife.
The style is something you saw when you read books in the 1st grade, but this is targeted to adults.
ParticipantI was just looking at that yesterday and wondering the exact same thing!
I just restored the spreadsheet that has all the salaries from the recycle bin and if you sort by Total Pay and Benefits, Kyle Kutzke (the fireman) is # 2 in total pay ($271,318) just behind the Chief Operating Officer.ParticipantYou definitely have to be self driven in a big way. If you’re the type to procrastinate, or to get up late, or put off big and little decisions like doofrat is, then you will do better working for “The Man”
If you’re the driven type, then your own business can be the gateway to freedom and unlimited riches. There’s the positive, now some negatives from someone who’s been there and couldn’t hack it:
If you don’t have any employees, any second you are not working, you are not making money. Go to the bathroom, you’re not making money, post on piggington.com, go on vacation, Etc, Etc, Etc., you’re not making money.
When you work for The Man, they provide sales support, marketing, accounting, payroll, Internet service, e-mail, etc. etc. etc. When you work for yourself, you have to supply all this.
The things like renting office space and paying for Internet service just take money, so that’s the easy part.
If you’re competent at your specialty, again, that’s the easy part.
No matter what your specialty is, you also need to be the expert at marketing, sales, customer support, shipping, accounting, tax, etc. etc. etc., that’s the hardest part in my opinion, and it really takes a lot of your time and energy that would be better spent focusing on what your business specializes in.Also expect a fair amount of bullshit you’ll have to deal with as far as regulations go. In the US in general there aren’t too many roadblocks to interfere with business relative to other countries, but there are some things that can be a pain in the ass. In my case, we were buying normally taxable items tax free using a wholesale license and then shipping them out of the country. As a result, the tax board was expecting a lot of sales tax that they weren’t getting. Dealing with the Franchise Tax Board over and over on this every year was a total pain in the butt and caused a lot of stress.
And speaking of taxes, expect to pay quite a bit more in tax. There are some taxes (Social Security and Medicare) that an employer pays that you don’t even see, and you’ll have to cover these now. To help save on taxes, just remember that the more you procrastinate and the later you get in, the less you earn, which means you’ll pay less in tax!
ParticipantI say Assad stays and the Chargers go.
Participant[quote=Hobie]Hacker group Anonymous just announced they will be targeting ISIS.
I think it would be better to leave their digital trail intact and use it to direct strikes back at them.[/quote]
I just saw that article with the picture:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/16/us-france-shooting-anonymous-idUSKCN0T519Z20151116
All I could think of was this:
Participant[quote=no_such_reality]Am I the only one the watches the news and think what the hell you taking about. Masterminds, complex attacks yards yadda and what I see is eight guys with machine guns and crowded popular venues.
What’s complicated or masterminded about that?[/quote]
If France’s bombs miss ISIS, then what we need to do is have the NSA:
1)Locate the main ISIS computer
2)Install Linux
3)Issue the command rm -rfThen, using remote drones operated out of Nevada, we can locate ISIS’s tape storage facility and bomb it too.
All their complex plans will be lost and they’ll have no backups.
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