Part of it is how we're wired - a lot of that is determined before we're born, by a number of genetic and hormonal influences. Part of it, though, is how society EXPECTS us to act, and tells us that we're "suppsed" to act. I've run into people who think there's something wrong with me because...
I think I'd try to take the current American classics, and extrapolate from there. I think I might at least stick with spices that are grown in the Americas... but I'm no cook, so that's about as far as I can take it :-)
Because they're stupid and lazy enough to buy into some crack-pot's notions of what's right and wrong, instead of thinking for themselves, and judging by the evidence.
You might as well ask if people can be good without secular law. The answer? Sure, some people can, but many people need a more structured framework to at least LEARN to be decent human beings. Our morals come from somewhere - parents, or society, or a church, or a set of laws (secular or...
A lot is dependent upon your family, of course; if they're very strict, they may be unhappy for a while, but most families will eventually come around.
Depending on the branch of Judaism you convert in, you may or may not have to learn Hebrew (it's really not as tough as you might think); if...
Because that's what their religion teaches, and they're arrogant and ethno-centric enough to believe that everybody sees the world in the same way they do.
Annoying, isn't it?
I was about 40; I'd gone to work for Northern Telecom (aka Nortel), and we were doing some of the software for the switches in a sort of oddball variant of Pascal; that was around 1988-1990.
I would be VERY suprised if the iPhone has sufficient memory for an entire movie of that length. However, if it does, then if you have the appropriate software to link it to your computer (drivers would be necessary), you should be able to treat it as a drive, and drag-and-drop the movie from...