Dear Naughty-List-Person, Please proceed to the coal bin and extract one medium sized lump of coal for yourself. If you wanted a diamond, that is unfortunate as you will have to provide the extreme pressure over time by yourself. Might we suggest that you place it in your own anal cavity as it seems a fitting and proper place for it.
The venerable ancestors comments about getting a different provider are like telling someone to watch broadcast TV because you personally do not like the cable company.
In some places you either put up with Verizon's maniacally egotistical policies or you talk a lot on land lines....
4. Categorizers. The people who oversimplify and lump people into categories. Creators of/. replies, they love the feeling of having reduced real people and real issues into pigeonholes for easy, offhand dismissal. Main characteristics include political apathy and divisive behaviour along with prone, leg-kicking tantrums when identified. These people don't vote, but when accused of not voting, they become extremely blustery and defensive, dismissing their accusers as belonging to a category that they have already denegrated. Unfortunately, good or bad, they have contributed to absolutely nothing except egregious cases of revisionist history favoring the latest special interest who are claiming victimhood. They are deathly afraid of being categorized themselves and of the cross-cooperation of any categorized groups.
Had I the points at the time, I would have modded you down.
The one who wanted to homeschool their kids was presenting the controlling nature of the public school as justifying their position, not merely the one example of a content or site filter.
Your emotionally charged response was quite simply a personal attack....one with which I am all too familiar.
It is very interesting that I continue to hear the same arguments against homeschooling over and over: better socialization in public school, professional teachers, curriculum, resources of the school system.....
These arguments are blunt rocks, desperately grabbed out of the dirt by reactionaries full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
It is the fabrication of the nanotube with the circuit that is interesting. It seems that these are more exercises in the ability to create nanotubes on the same wafer with the other circuitry.
Then again it could be an exercise in IBM's ability to create news.
I disagree with the honest intent definition of music. I am sure that Yoko Ono honestly wanted to make music, but she didn't. It was just horrendous noise.
You know what, it doesn't matter what claims Jesus made for himself. His actions and results are sufficient for me. Indeed it becomes clearer to me that Jesus' purpose was not to bring the focus on himself, but to focus the rest of us on the Father (and with this I mean God.)
I thought Isaiah (and all of the "Old Testament") were originally in Aramaic. Maybe you are referring to quotations from Isaiah found in the New Testament. In any event a pattern found in prophetic scripture is dual reference. Many prophetic utterances are understood to refer to immediate events and future events at the same time. Consider it cosmic efficiency and an endorsement of somewhat cyclic history and the non-changing characteristics of human nature.
Well, no matter if you want to consider the prophecy as literally "young woman", Jesus still fulfills the prophecy. Additionally, the New Testament states that Joseph had no union with Mary before Jesus' birth. I personally believe the virgin version.
House of David descendancy is not screwed up. Both Joseph and Mary were house of David and Jewish tradition at the time figured matriarchal lineage strongly into determining descendancy (if your mom was Jewish, you were accepted as Jewish even if your dad wasn't, and you weren't Jewish if your mother wasn't, no matter your dad's lineage.)
Paul claims that he did meet Jesus. (road to Damascus, book of Acts)
I can easily understand, being adopted myself, how it could be perfectly reasonable to have more than one father. Both had an effect on my life and both fit the label. It doesn't confuse me in the least that Jesus was the son of Joseph and the Son of God at the same time.
Check out Powers and Perils from Avalon Hill sometime. It was not particularly dice heavy but it seems to have been designed by a mathematical theorist who moonlighted as an accountant. Every individual action could generate "experience points", even failure of the action.... and it all had to be tracked, added, checked against a chart, compared to opponent's numbers....blah blah blah...ad nauseum....
Let the early adopters spend their money and go ape**** over the lastest thing. Their volumes usually bring a wave of cost reduction for us later adopters.
If every manufacturer shipped the same stereo and the stereo company threatened to stop selling them stereos if they tried to ship any other stereo with any of their vehicles, that would be fairly monopolistic.
And yet this is exactly what a certain Japanese manufacturer does in the car parts market.
Yeah...should have been "Poke-Yoke'd". A Japa-lish word for a method of making things idiot proof. The dang gear should have had a feature that totally prevented incorrect insertion.
I am smart (IQ 140+), I know how to prevent kids (birth control, surgery, abstinence, etc...) and yet I chose and love all six of my kids and my wife.
Smart does not equal Grinch, smart does not equal wise, and wisdom is not the exclusive purview of the politically correct.
Smart says "Here is the valley or peak of the function, let us dwell there!" Wisdom says "That is just a localized peak or valley, let us grit our teeth, and press beyond it to the true peak or valley!"
I would remind the company that along with the implied meaning of "unlimited" there is an implied expectation on my part that they won't oversubscribe the frequency or cable and will increase and upgrade the connection to the backbone as necessary.
I'm paying for the service and I have yet to see reports from them on connection quality, availability, etc...
An Imaginary One-Sided Conversation w/ My Cable Co.:
You don't like how much throughput I am using, then throttle my connection back to exactly the rate you sold me. I agreed to pay for a constant maximum information velocity, not a total information volume per month!....And no!....I am not downloading anything illegal Mr. Cable Company. I like collecting Linux distributions, freeware, shareware, drivers, and more. Additionally your tech people KNEW I had multiple computers behind a router when you installed the service because I called and gave the technician the MAC address and discussed it with him.
Oh, you do have a new user agreement posted online? That's nice, but I have yet to encounter one that allows you to make veiled threats without legal repercussion concerning my online activities.
Yes, I am aware that my activities may be affecting the quality of other customer's service. But that sir is a technical issue that can be handled technically and does not require termination-of-service threats from you just because my network use patterns do not fit your economic business model of an average broadband subscriber.
This is like IBM messing up the keyboard layout to slow down fast typers. (This was actually done because some people could acutally jam the old non-electric manual typewriters by typing too fast. Thus the QWERTY key layout was invented to slow down typing.)
It may work for the present email design, but it will probably be a bad design for the future. We need a DVORAK solution to spam, rapidity for the machine to blow through spam and keep up with the user.
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Dear Naughty-List-Person,
Please proceed to the coal bin and extract one medium sized lump of coal for yourself. If you wanted a diamond, that is unfortunate as you will have to provide the extreme pressure over time by yourself. Might we suggest that you place it in your own anal cavity as it seems a fitting and proper place for it.
Thank you,
Santa Inc.
The venerable ancestors comments about getting a different provider are like telling someone to watch broadcast TV because you personally do not like the cable company.
In some places you either put up with Verizon's maniacally egotistical policies or you talk a lot on land lines....
Yes, Your Honor....that's right.....we, the Police, don't know exactly who searched the house.....but we did find a gun.
Sorry we can't point a finger at the cop who actually did the illegal search. Can we take the felon to jail now?
...to confuse the interchange of numeric data between Europe and America.
["Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."]
...errr...adopted.
But thankfully the DAT didn't make it and something with a much faster seek (CDs) was asopted.
Halliburton.......?
4. Categorizers. The people who oversimplify and lump people into categories. Creators of /. replies, they love the feeling of having reduced real people and real issues into pigeonholes for easy, offhand dismissal. Main characteristics include political apathy and divisive behaviour along with prone, leg-kicking tantrums when identified. These people don't vote, but when accused of not voting, they become extremely blustery and defensive, dismissing their accusers as belonging to a category that they have already denegrated. Unfortunately, good or bad, they have contributed to absolutely nothing except egregious cases of revisionist history favoring the latest special interest who are claiming victimhood. They are deathly afraid of being categorized themselves and of the cross-cooperation of any categorized groups.
Had I the points at the time, I would have modded you down.
The one who wanted to homeschool their kids was presenting the controlling nature of the public school as justifying their position, not merely the one example of a content or site filter.
Your emotionally charged response was quite simply a personal attack....one with which I am all too familiar.
It is very interesting that I continue to hear the same arguments against homeschooling over and over: better socialization in public school, professional teachers, curriculum, resources of the school system.....
These arguments are blunt rocks, desperately grabbed out of the dirt by reactionaries full of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
It's all in the bacterial strains passed on to you by the people around you (who shared spit with you one way or the other).
It is the fabrication of the nanotube with the circuit that is interesting. It seems that these are more exercises in the ability to create nanotubes on the same wafer with the other circuitry.
Then again it could be an exercise in IBM's ability to create news.
I disagree with the honest intent definition of music. I am sure that Yoko Ono honestly wanted to make music, but she didn't. It was just horrendous noise.
You know what, it doesn't matter what claims Jesus made for himself. His actions and results are sufficient for me. Indeed it becomes clearer to me that Jesus' purpose was not to bring the focus on himself, but to focus the rest of us on the Father (and with this I mean God.)
I thought Isaiah (and all of the "Old Testament") were originally in Aramaic. Maybe you are referring to quotations from Isaiah found in the New Testament. In any event a pattern found in prophetic scripture is dual reference. Many prophetic utterances are understood to refer to immediate events and future events at the same time. Consider it cosmic efficiency and an endorsement of somewhat cyclic history and the non-changing characteristics of human nature.
Well, no matter if you want to consider the prophecy as literally "young woman", Jesus still fulfills the prophecy. Additionally, the New Testament states that Joseph had no union with Mary before Jesus' birth. I personally believe the virgin version.
House of David descendancy is not screwed up. Both Joseph and Mary were house of David and Jewish tradition at the time figured matriarchal lineage strongly into determining descendancy (if your mom was Jewish, you were accepted as Jewish even if your dad wasn't, and you weren't Jewish if your mother wasn't, no matter your dad's lineage.)
Paul claims that he did meet Jesus. (road to Damascus, book of Acts)
I can easily understand, being adopted myself, how it could be perfectly reasonable to have more than one father. Both had an effect on my life and both fit the label. It doesn't confuse me in the least that Jesus was the son of Joseph and the Son of God at the same time.
You mean College Station.
Check out Powers and Perils from Avalon Hill sometime. It was not particularly dice heavy but it seems to have been designed by a mathematical theorist who moonlighted as an accountant. Every individual action could generate "experience points", even failure of the action.... and it all had to be tracked, added, checked against a chart, compared to opponent's numbers....blah blah blah...ad nauseum....
here here. ...
hear hear.
T,FTFY
Let the early adopters spend their money and go ape**** over the lastest thing. Their volumes usually bring a wave of cost reduction for us later adopters.
If every manufacturer shipped the same stereo and the stereo company threatened to stop selling them stereos if they tried to ship any other stereo with any of their vehicles, that would be fairly monopolistic.
And yet this is exactly what a certain Japanese manufacturer does in the car parts market.
...I was sweating my a$$ off!
Yeah...should have been "Poke-Yoke'd". A Japa-lish word for a method of making things idiot proof. The dang gear should have had a feature that totally prevented incorrect insertion.
I am smart (IQ 140+), I know how to prevent kids (birth control, surgery, abstinence, etc...) and yet I chose and love all six of my kids and my wife.
Smart does not equal Grinch, smart does not equal wise, and wisdom is not the exclusive purview of the politically correct.
Smart says "Here is the valley or peak of the function, let us dwell there!" Wisdom says "That is just a localized peak or valley, let us grit our teeth, and press beyond it to the true peak or valley!"
I shall now shut up before pedanticism occurs.
This is like IBM messing up the keyboard layout to slow down fast typers. (This was actually done because some people could acutally jam the old non-electric manual typewriters by typing too fast. Thus the QWERTY key layout was invented to slow down typing.)
It may work for the present email design, but it will probably be a bad design for the future. We need a DVORAK solution to spam, rapidity for the machine to blow through spam and keep up with the user.