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I'm not sure what you're trying to say in the first part but as for the second, I mean store bought pesticide for home use. I don't have much hope that the person who buys that stuff will use it sparingly when they could spend some time outdoors with a trowel.

Maybe regulations was the wrong word. I'll use that other scary word TAXES here but I think curbing home use of pesticides would be good.

As for the bedbugs, I'm of two minds here. It would be good to get rid of them and responsible use of DDT (you know, this vs coated netting and spot spraying) but on the other hand, anything less than overkill could leave survivors who could breed with other survivors to create better ones and so on and so forth... but while looking for a link to DDT coated netting, I came across this: http://www.awitness.org/column/bed_bug_science.html

I don't know how accurate the website is but DDT resistant bedbugs gives lots of results on google.

Why can't bees adapt? Different breeding habits. I don't know a whole lot about bedbugs but I'm confident what they do is closer to an orgy vs the queen bees male harem. There would be far more DNA combinations with the former than the latter.

Indeed.
http://blog.ju29ro.com/uploaded_images/hooligans-reuters-735894.jpg
http://www.ilga-europe.org/var/ilga/storage/images/europe/photo_galleries/budapest_pride_5_july_2008/budapest_pride_2008_hooligans__5/70616-1-eng-GB/budapest_pride_2008_hooligans.jpg
http://www.awitness.org/eden2003/kosovogenlg.jpg
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/paris_riots_day_9.jpg

What the fuck are you rambling about?
Are you actually equalizing legal police actions in western Europe during civil riots with homophobic fascists' organized attacks on gay-pride marches and examples of Serbian war crimes in Bosnia?
As a reply to a comment disagreeing with OP's (somewhat delusional) idea of the stance Europeans have regarding USian prison and legal system?

What the fuck have you been smoking and why aren't you sharing with everyone?

cheers from europe.

Indeed.

http://blog.ju29ro.com/uploaded_images/hooligans-reuters-735894.jpg

http://www.ilga-europe.org/var/ilga/storage/images/europe/photo_galleries/budapest_pride_5_july_2008/budapest_pride_2008_hooligans__5/70616-1-eng-GB/budapest_pride_2008_hooligans.jpg

http://www.awitness.org/eden2003/kosovogenlg.jpg

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/paris_riots_day_9.jpg

Yes because the bible was in no way edited and redacted edited again and translated.
http://www.awitness.org/nt/ntvary.html
mmmk?


It boils down to this you can't say man kind has free will and turn around and say God guided the editing of the scriptures. Man wrote the book and even if I do believe in a God I do not believe in the bible, man wrote the book and the book is fictitious and flawed as with the ideals of it's writers.

"So tell me genius, how else would you implement such a function without copying? if (a==1)
{
x+=b;
}

if (a==2)
{
x+=b;
x+=b;
}

if (a==3)
{
x+=b;
x+=b;
x+=b;
}" - by 4D6963 (933028) on Sunday July 20, @10:17AM (#24261957) Homepage

Well, ok (even though I am not this "genius" person you are quoting!)

Case statements, anyone?

Specifically, switch & case, for C++ folks:

(An example that fits YOUR code example, & how it would benefit by this (for readability AND performance), per this page ->)

The Switch statement in C++:

http://www.awitness.org/delphi_pascal_tutorial/c++_delphi/switch.html

It'd be a big help for readability in your example(s), since you have a lot of a==1, a==2, a==3 stuff going on there (to aid in processing speed via break statements)... stopping excessive + unneeded evaluations from occuring!

(For NOT executing comparisons that do NOT need evaluation (by using the break statement to pass them by once a solution/situation that satisifies has already been found, saving processing time))...

Delphi (my fav) has CASE statements for this...

APK

The problem is that there is not a clear view of a 747 running into the pentagon. Just a streak and a fireball. Kinda like those UFO pictures and videos.

Well, yes, that's a problem for people that only believe what they see on what they presume to be un-alterable video tape... but why not just ask the people that watched it happen.

I don't have a machine that OS X will run on. I don't want to pay the 'full retail at the Apple Store' tax.

Man, get a job and pay $500 and get a mini and hook it up to one of your monitors. You will be pleasantly suprised.

Back when 'Personal Computers' started you had a prompt to stare at and it was up to you to make it do more, and doing so involved figuring out how it works.

Now most people turn on their computer, and see a 'Start' menu. If they figure out how to launch internet explorer and find google.com they can then search for 'Windows Start menu', and get googlebombed worthless information on what to do. You get things like http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/16/ , and then usiful information like from the Windows Pop-up Start Menu, or even on the third link, cryptic stuff like:

By simulating the pressing of the "Windows" menu - or better yet, of the Ctrl-Escape key combination, which also works on older keyboards - you can programmatically bring up the Start menu. You can't use the SendKeys function to do so, though, and you have to resort to the keybd_event API function:
Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, _
        ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2

' Press the Ctrl-Esc key
keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, 0, 0
keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, 0, 0
DoEvents

' Release the two keys
keybd_event vbKeyControl, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
keybd_event vbKeyEscape, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
DoEvents

So, we have all learned that Windows starts and ends about the same. Fun.

http://www.awitness.org/journal/real_iraq_war.html

http://www.awitness.org/journal/real_iraq_war.html

Yes, but it would only be a temporary solution:

http://www.awitness.org/journal/melt_ice_cap_glaci er.html

This was forecast 2000 years ago.

Genesis would be a good place to start. Only Earth is ever mentioned as the place where god created life.

Genesis does say that god created the heavens and the earth but nowhere does it say that god created life anywhere but Earth.

Of course the excuse, the same that is used to explain the story of Noah, is that god created life elsewhere but it just wasn't written down.

For reference

It should be clear to any rational thinker that the most, if not all, of the Bible is intended to be metaphorical rather than literal. EG, the Book of Job is allegorical rather than a record of actual events. The basic problem with the literal interpretation theory is that even if you accept that the Bible is the result of Divine Inspiration, it is still a *human*, and therefore flawed, interpretation of God's word. (IIRC) According to (self-contridictory) Judeo-Christian tradition [Specifically Exodus 24:12-15], the only physical writing to come directly from God was on the first set of stone tables Moses carried down from the mountian.

Careful here. MS is known for creative accounting. The R&D figure includes things that other companies with stricter accounting policies put in marketing expenses, e.g. organizing expos and giving free software copies. Their R&D figures are not all research. You cannot trust the figures they publicize.

That's "domesday book". The "doomsday book" would be something else.

re: fear.
Good point. I guess we'd have to go back to the hebrew to have a better extraction of the meaning as it was written. Did they mean to imply "feeling of awe" or did they mean "Oh shit! Here's that God dude again! Run!" :-)

re: common grace. Interesting. I *have* heard that there are Christians who are taught that you don't have to be explicitly saved by Christ, as long as you don't sin too much. :) Something about Christ dying for everyones sins on the cross, so you aren't required to know about it to get the benefit of Gods love.
But that's another discussion :)

re: concience..
Of course.
That's a very neat argument too. Cuts out the middle man. God gives you your instinctive knowledge of right and wrong - and for a more reasoned version check this handy book :)
I like it. Of course it's pretty obvious watching children grow up that conscience is a learned trait, but lets not go there :)

re: Consistency

The Bible isn't really just a story. It's a library of stories and letters and so on. Given that many of the books were written centuries apart from each other, there's no expectation on my part that there should be any consistency.

However, I don't want to be sucked into a discussion of the details of the Bible. For 2 reasons. Firstly, I personally don't believe biblical literalism is relevant to faith. I know lots of people feel the need to take every single word of the bible as infallible truth. I don't feel that God (if He exists) would care that much about what was exactly said (especially given the fallibility of human translators). Much more relevant is the underlying message. (Of course that requires you to be able to extract the underlying message, and for the imagination-challenged literalists, this might be too difficult). In that sense I tend to agree with the point of view this person expresses.
Secondly - I don't *know* enough of the details of the bible to make my points effectively.

Telling the truth about Israel's WMDs was just the last straw.