I'd suggest you pick up a HP. I've got a HP deskjet (I can look up the model when I get back to my computer- I'm in a computer lab at the moment) that works perfectly thanks to the HP linux printing stuff. My parents had a lexmark I couldn't get to work on dapper- it would scan but not print.
Peer to peer filesharing is ILLEGAL AND COMMUNIST AND COSTS US $$$BILLIONS$$$ A YEAR AND WE'RE GOING TO SUE EVERYONE THAT TOUCHES IT AND, AND, and, i'm going to go cry to my mommy because i can't afford three lamborghinis this year!
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. In the short term it'll have lots of holes because it's a slower process than what Wiki had, but in the long term it'll be better quality than Wikipedia. Seems like a win-win situation to me.
The whole point of wikipedia was to create a large body of knowledge, and putting everyone on equal footing did just that. Being able to take the "large body of knowledge" and give it expert vetting is going to be a slower process, but
It's not "cheating" to copy the cards. It doesn't give you any sort of advantage- it just levels the playing field. Now, everyone's got access to every card regardless of how much money they've spent, and gameplay comes down entirely to skill (and the luck of deck randomization). This is a good thing.
The words do not have to be there in order for the principle to exist. You are a blithering idiot if you're going to say "well it doesn't actually SAY separation of church and state" when it specifically declares that there can be no law respecting the establishment of religion.
Banning states from putting up the ten commandments in a courtroom isn't persecuting religion. There's exactly zero attempt being made at government persecution of religion. Christians being "persecuted" (in the US, at least) is a myth that's brainwashed into their kids so they'll grow up to be theocrats.
These people are actively trying to destroy the separation of church and state. A simple test to see if people actually know the rules of the constitution would go a long way to ensuring that people stop getting elected on unconstitutional principles.
Ah yes, because the population should be held hostage to the whims of a bunch of undereducated morons who are hellbent on forcing their religion on everyone else.
Nevermind the fact that the Constitution is intended to protect the rights of the minority even if the majority is full of blithering morons. (This ignores the fact that the Constitution has been pathetic at actually fulfilling this role, and America has consistently been held hostage by blithering morons. See: slavery, Jim Crow, gay marriage, etc.)
The idiocy of the American public is the other half of the problem. The creationists deserve nothing more than unending ridicule and ostracism.
Shit, if it wasn't for the racial history, a simple test to see whether or not your vote would count would be a great benefit to this country. They wouldn't even have to be hard questions, just things like "does America have an official language", "does America have an official religion", and so on.
Exposing their ignorance in and of itself would be a good thing. Nobody who denies scientific facts should be voted president. I'm not asking for someone who understands the ins and outs of quantum mechanics and relativity, but someone who doesn't deny evolution because some dead guy on a stick 2000 years ago told him not to would be nice.
It'll never happen as long as the religious anti-any-science-that-my-holy-book-says-is-wrong crowd continues to hold any real weight in American politics.
That's actually pretty cool. As someone who played around with the life simulator in Windows 3.1 as a kid, I find the whole thing quite fascinating. Thanks!
You're right, taxing someone making $20,000 the same percentage as someone making $200,000 makes PERFECT sense. After all, it's not like the first guy is having to spend a greater percentage of his income on necessities, if not all of it. The whole point of graduated income tax (in theory at least) is to tax "discretionary" income, so you're not screwing over people who need every cent they earn just to pay their bills. In truth, America doesn't do enough- we shouldn't be taxing a cent under $30k at least, if not more. Instead, we tax capital gains at a lower rate than income, which favors the rich the most- so the extremely poor get a break and the extreme rich get a break, and the middle class gets fucked over.
I don't give a rat's ass about democracy. I care about freedom- democracy is the means to the end, and a damn poor one at that. The "benevolent dictator" model works much better, right up until the benevolent dictator dies and his jackass son takes over.
Have you seen Nethack? There's something like 20 potions, 20 scrolls, etc; and they all do different things blessed/cursed/uncursed, and Nethack is older than I am.
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As an addendum: It's a deskjet 3847. Obviously there's probably a newer model on the market in this line, but there you go.
I have no problem with a tax on stupidity. We need more of them. Merit-based taxes beat the hell out of aristocracy-benefiting taxes.
I'd suggest you pick up a HP. I've got a HP deskjet (I can look up the model when I get back to my computer- I'm in a computer lab at the moment) that works perfectly thanks to the HP linux printing stuff.
My parents had a lexmark I couldn't get to work on dapper- it would scan but not print.
Peer to peer filesharing is ILLEGAL AND COMMUNIST AND COSTS US $$$BILLIONS$$$ A YEAR AND WE'RE GOING TO SUE EVERYONE THAT TOUCHES IT AND, AND, and, i'm going to go cry to my mommy because i can't afford three lamborghinis this year!
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. In the short term it'll have lots of holes because it's a slower process than what Wiki had, but in the long term it'll be better quality than Wikipedia. Seems like a win-win situation to me.
Wow, something went wrong there. That should read "but it should be worth it in the end".
The whole point of wikipedia was to create a large body of knowledge, and putting everyone on equal footing did just that. Being able to take the "large body of knowledge" and give it expert vetting is going to be a slower process, but
It's not "cheating" to copy the cards. It doesn't give you any sort of advantage- it just levels the playing field. Now, everyone's got access to every card regardless of how much money they've spent, and gameplay comes down entirely to skill (and the luck of deck randomization). This is a good thing.
Theology isn't worth knowing about. It would be better if everyone knew nothing about theology, and as much as they could about science.
Technically he's right. A digital file can contain as much data as the disk can hold.
The words do not have to be there in order for the principle to exist. You are a blithering idiot if you're going to say "well it doesn't actually SAY separation of church and state" when it specifically declares that there can be no law respecting the establishment of religion.
A benevolent dictatorship is perfectly fine. The problem comes with figuring out what to do once the dictator dies.
Banning states from putting up the ten commandments in a courtroom isn't persecuting religion. There's exactly zero attempt being made at government persecution of religion. Christians being "persecuted" (in the US, at least) is a myth that's brainwashed into their kids so they'll grow up to be theocrats.
I don't give a rat's ass about democracy. I care about freedom. Democracy is merely a means to an end.
These people are actively trying to destroy the separation of church and state. A simple test to see if people actually know the rules of the constitution would go a long way to ensuring that people stop getting elected on unconstitutional principles.
Ah yes, because the population should be held hostage to the whims of a bunch of undereducated morons who are hellbent on forcing their religion on everyone else.
Nevermind the fact that the Constitution is intended to protect the rights of the minority even if the majority is full of blithering morons. (This ignores the fact that the Constitution has been pathetic at actually fulfilling this role, and America has consistently been held hostage by blithering morons. See: slavery, Jim Crow, gay marriage, etc.)
The idiocy of the American public is the other half of the problem. The creationists deserve nothing more than unending ridicule and ostracism.
Shit, if it wasn't for the racial history, a simple test to see whether or not your vote would count would be a great benefit to this country. They wouldn't even have to be hard questions, just things like "does America have an official language", "does America have an official religion", and so on.
Exposing their ignorance in and of itself would be a good thing. Nobody who denies scientific facts should be voted president. I'm not asking for someone who understands the ins and outs of quantum mechanics and relativity, but someone who doesn't deny evolution because some dead guy on a stick 2000 years ago told him not to would be nice.
It'll never happen as long as the religious anti-any-science-that-my-holy-book-says-is-wrong crowd continues to hold any real weight in American politics.
Because Microsoft owns a significant chunk of the American political machine, but owns very little of the European one.
That's actually pretty cool. As someone who played around with the life simulator in Windows 3.1 as a kid, I find the whole thing quite fascinating. Thanks!
You're right, taxing someone making $20,000 the same percentage as someone making $200,000 makes PERFECT sense. After all, it's not like the first guy is having to spend a greater percentage of his income on necessities, if not all of it. The whole point of graduated income tax (in theory at least) is to tax "discretionary" income, so you're not screwing over people who need every cent they earn just to pay their bills. In truth, America doesn't do enough- we shouldn't be taxing a cent under $30k at least, if not more. Instead, we tax capital gains at a lower rate than income, which favors the rich the most- so the extremely poor get a break and the extreme rich get a break, and the middle class gets fucked over.
What's the difference between "coincidence" and "random coincidence"?
I don't give a rat's ass about democracy. I care about freedom- democracy is the means to the end, and a damn poor one at that. The "benevolent dictator" model works much better, right up until the benevolent dictator dies and his jackass son takes over.
Have you seen Nethack? There's something like 20 potions, 20 scrolls, etc; and they all do different things blessed/cursed/uncursed, and Nethack is older than I am.