Pretty much. I doubt there's an insurer who would touch me with a 10' pole outside of insurance from my employer. I'm a type I diabetic (diagnosed at 12 [5 days before my 13th birthday]) with a family history of heart problems on my mother's side (as in my uncles have all had heart attacks, and are under 65, and my mother [closer to 50] has an arrhythmia) and a history of cancer on my father's side (who all die of cancer before they hit 60, or live to be *very* old with cancer being the more common route). Couple that with my being the only one in the family with a decent set of lungs so far (allergies + asthma on mom's side, though according to her it often doesn't set in until later on in life), and a handful of comparatively minor generally undiagnosed "quirks" that are part and parcel of being part of the family.
Is it bad that I look at retirement savings as "money to bury me with"? =)
In common parlance? About a decade ago.
If they're 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 59 seconds old, their older partner is *clearly* a pedophile.
In a medical sense, however, it's more interesting. By the DSM, pedophilia only refers to such an interest in those who are prepubescent. Ehpebophilia isn't in the DSM at all, as from the current medical/psychological standpoint someone who is interested solely in postpubescent persons as partners is normal.
Pretty much. Note that they expect to get ~200 arrests/convictions out of 3261 people's data. What does that tell you? It tells me that 94% of their targets have really good lawyers and a ton of money, are innocent, or are underage themselves.
Appalachia?
Where I'm from at least, and yeah, since there aren't nearly so many deer predators as there used to be, they really need to be hunted to control their population. Being shot is less painful than starving to death, I'm sure. Not a hunter myself, but you can't live around where I do without seeing at least the occasional deer or bear.
We even have a "roadkill" law here, which has been endlessly mocked, but people don't get that a meaningful number of animals get hit on the road that are animals typically hunted and eaten otherwise (deer again being the obvious example). Making it legal to haul it off if you desire makes less work for gov't cleanup crews and puts less venison to waste.
Most likely, it's more like EvilHat won't be able to publish their adventure for both 4e and another OGL system, such as 3E, 3.5E, or Paizo's Pathfinder. They had a lot of 3rd party supplements released after 3.5 that had rules for 3E and 3.5E, which probably hurt sales of 3.5, and as the purpose (in their minds) of the OGL was to allow 3rd parties to produce supplements that would increase sales of the current generation core books, this is bad. I'll put odds when concrete information is released, it will only be a per product restriction or something only vaguely more restrictive than that (basically enough to keep you from releasing a single product for 4e [sells the most WotC core books], 3.5e [sells some WotC core books], and Pathfinder [sells no WotC core books]).
There are plenty of good reasons to be carrying a knife, it is a useful tool. But then, around here almost literally everyone has a pocketknife, so it may just be a l.
Yeah, and Moses commands his people at Sinai to go murder each other because they had disobeyed rules they hadn't received yet under the direct purview of their divinely appointed religious leader. Not to mention that another of those rules they hadn't received yet was "Thou shalt not kill". =p
While police and judges fill different roles, *BOTH* need to appear to be acting in the interests of the government, as opposed to a private interest. A police officer being employed by the people who are a party in an investigation he is actively involved with is just as wrong, in a fundamental sense, as say a judge ruling on a case against a company whose CEO takes him on vacation (actual case in my home state, vacation photos of him paling around with the CEO got out, and there were immediate demands that he recuse himself from the case).
More like the middle-class pay for everything.
The poor lack the wealth to tax, and the very rich can find ways to reduce their axes in manners which are unavailable to the middle-class.
I'd seen an interview on TV who made a point of noting that he'd offered his staff the opportunity to voluntarily compare taxes to see how the scale went, and found that his secretary was being taxed at a final rate (comparing final amount of taxes to gross income) that was three times his own, and that he was doing nothing unusual specifically to lessen his taxes.
Heh, thankfully I work with most of my close personal friends (all guys I met in college and we ended up working together), elsewise my 6AM-??(usually 4:30PM, once as late as 10PM, 5-6PM at least once weekly) workday (not including the hour commute each way) would be impossible to get through. =p
I can't really smell much either. Food, smoke, the odorant in natural gas, the odorants in the *other* sort of natural gas, all nothing. Stuff like stong acids (HCl, H2NO4) burn my nose though, and bizarrely enough I can smell *people* pretty strongly.
It's more that creation science isn't science. It not only doesn't make predictions that we can currently test, it doesn't make potentially testable predictions either, which makes it fundamentally not science.
I took AP Physics, Calc, and Comp Sci and received 3, 4, and 5 in them, respectively. I was told by the dept head that they wouldn't except the APCS score as the test was in Pascal (last year it was offered as such), and strongly suggested I take Calc 1 anyways, though they could accept that test grade (I did, and was glad as Calc 2 is an evil, evil thing at that school, drawn forth from the bowels of the ninth to feast on the misery of poor innocent students, much like Technical English [my Tech English class was referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the professor, and when I went to ask him how I did on our final paper, I was told that he didn't actually *grade* it per se, and I got a C in the class]), AP Physics would have worked as well, but due to scheduling issues I ended up taking Chem instead (on the upside, the early extra hell paid for a relaxing 12 hour/semester senior year, due to some truly fortunate scheduling situations that wouldn't have happened otherwise). =)
I took the AB exam in '98. In Pascal no less (last year it was offered in Pascal). Was the only AP CS student in the school. Only had one CS teacher, and all three years were taught simultaneously. This had it's share of upsides and downsides:
1. You had to be really motivated at a personal level to achieve anything in those classes, as you got at best 1/3 instructor time directed at your class.
2. If you weren't the one at the top of the pile, there was a great support structure in place. In order to alleviate 1 to some extent, students were expected to assist those in the lower classes, which encouraged those in the higher classes to understand the material more fully. "If I am busy with another student, CS 1 students please ask a CS 2 student; CS 2 students please as the AP student; and Don, you're on your own. =)"
3. The AP class largely consisted of a copy of the case study library, and a list of topics on the exam, which I was asked to devise a series of programming assignments that I felt were "interesting" and made use of the items in question, which were then approved by the teacher (and in one case our network admin since I used some inline ASM to write network code), things like writing some code that played blackjack where the cards were actual objects in a stack, just to have an excuse to abuse some stack code.
Ended up going to our local science and engineering fair for bonus points (something she offered every year -- this actually tripped up her grading scale for me however, as she offered a flat number of points to everyone and neglected to notice that I had *MUCH* fewer maximum points available). Did a three man "group project", and everyone from our school who attended got 2nd place in something: we got 2nd group project, my gf got 2nd place comp sci, and the other girl who joined us got 3rd place comp sci and 2nd place in something else (I honestly forget what).
There are already billboards and ad posters on walls all over the city (advertising in game companies and things of that nature) for precisely this reason: an advertising free city is unrealistic. Their entire plan is to rent the "ad space" already present in the world to advertisers for some extra cash, and allow anyone who is truly offended by the idea to opt out.
So some of the existing billboards will change from being for Crey technologies and Portal Corp to being for Wal-Mart and Pepsi. Some of the drink machines might look like "real" drink machines. Some movie marquees might change to show a new release instead of the same movie about the Rikti invasion that has been playing for 3 years now.
Unless the advertising space becomes a primary source of income, I don't think it will effect them much.
I assume in referring to Muhammad as a paedophile you are referring to Aisha? The girl whose father betroved her to him at the age of 6, and was consummated as soon as society at the time deemed her old enough (as in puberty -- the idea that you need to be nearly 2 decades old before you are old enough to determine if you want to have sex is a relatively new invention; for most of history "puberty" was old enough [at the same time, for most of history average life expectancy was under half a century]).
By modern standards basically all of our ancestors beyond about 5 generations back were paedophiles (in the common sense of the word, rather than the DSM-IV sense thereof).
Disclaimer -- not a Muslim, may have gotten Aisha's name wrong, may have misspelled any of it. Simply read up on the claim when I first heard it because usually sensationalist sounding claims like that are at least exaggerated, if not outright fabricated.
I have done the "dreaming you are in the game" thing before. It's just the subconscious continuing to try to figure the game out while you are asleep. I've actually failed at a game in the past, slept on it, and dreamed the right strat to use. Been a while since it's happened, but it's been a while since I wasn't working 50+ hours a week, so...
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...
That is the prophecy verbatim. Dumbledore had a look of "something like triumph" in his eyes when Harry described Voldemort's resurrection, specifically the blood used. Personally I think the following:
1. Harry is a horcrux. Voldemort planned on using the fragmentation of his soul caused by the murder of the Potter family to create horcrux number 7, but the failed Avada Kedavra spell, in killing his physical form, forced that fragment to go SOMEWHERE. This somewhere is the scar.
2. "for neither can live while the other survives". They will both die in book 7, or neither of them will. No other outcome is allowed. Voldemort could have won at some point prior to his ressurection in book 4 however. Harry cannot simply kill Voldemort because a part of Voldemort would still exist (the horcruxes, most notably the scar, even if it ISN'T a horcrux, is still a part of Voldemort). Accordingly, Voldemort cannot simply kill Harry, as part of Harry would continue to survive (his blood used in the ressurection ritual). Either they will both die or it will be a stalemate.
3. Snape is a good guy. His killing Dumbledore was a mercy killing combined with not breaking his cover for the Order and not breaking his Unbreakable Oath. Between the three, I'm pretty sure he wasn't in a position to have any choice in the scenario. Hopefully when Harry confronts Snape again, Llegimency will be involved, and Harry will understand the truth.
4. A horcrux has been brought up in each book, even if only as a side note.
Book 1: The scar.
Book 2: The journal.
Book 3: Honestly not sure on this one, need to reread the book.
Book 4: The snake (Nagini).
Book 5: The locket (they found a strange locket none of them could open while they were cleaning; mentioned in one sentence as a side note, but I am going to bet that it is the *real* locket that was originally in the cave in book 6).
Book 6: The ring (this one was basically given).
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Pretty much. I doubt there's an insurer who would touch me with a 10' pole outside of insurance from my employer. I'm a type I diabetic (diagnosed at 12 [5 days before my 13th birthday]) with a family history of heart problems on my mother's side (as in my uncles have all had heart attacks, and are under 65, and my mother [closer to 50] has an arrhythmia) and a history of cancer on my father's side (who all die of cancer before they hit 60, or live to be *very* old with cancer being the more common route). Couple that with my being the only one in the family with a decent set of lungs so far (allergies + asthma on mom's side, though according to her it often doesn't set in until later on in life), and a handful of comparatively minor generally undiagnosed "quirks" that are part and parcel of being part of the family. Is it bad that I look at retirement savings as "money to bury me with"? =)
In common parlance? About a decade ago. If they're 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 59 seconds old, their older partner is *clearly* a pedophile. In a medical sense, however, it's more interesting. By the DSM, pedophilia only refers to such an interest in those who are prepubescent. Ehpebophilia isn't in the DSM at all, as from the current medical/psychological standpoint someone who is interested solely in postpubescent persons as partners is normal.
Pretty much. Note that they expect to get ~200 arrests/convictions out of 3261 people's data. What does that tell you? It tells me that 94% of their targets have really good lawyers and a ton of money, are innocent, or are underage themselves.
Appalachia? Where I'm from at least, and yeah, since there aren't nearly so many deer predators as there used to be, they really need to be hunted to control their population. Being shot is less painful than starving to death, I'm sure. Not a hunter myself, but you can't live around where I do without seeing at least the occasional deer or bear. We even have a "roadkill" law here, which has been endlessly mocked, but people don't get that a meaningful number of animals get hit on the road that are animals typically hunted and eaten otherwise (deer again being the obvious example). Making it legal to haul it off if you desire makes less work for gov't cleanup crews and puts less venison to waste.
Most likely, it's more like EvilHat won't be able to publish their adventure for both 4e and another OGL system, such as 3E, 3.5E, or Paizo's Pathfinder. They had a lot of 3rd party supplements released after 3.5 that had rules for 3E and 3.5E, which probably hurt sales of 3.5, and as the purpose (in their minds) of the OGL was to allow 3rd parties to produce supplements that would increase sales of the current generation core books, this is bad. I'll put odds when concrete information is released, it will only be a per product restriction or something only vaguely more restrictive than that (basically enough to keep you from releasing a single product for 4e [sells the most WotC core books], 3.5e [sells some WotC core books], and Pathfinder [sells no WotC core books]).
There are plenty of good reasons to be carrying a knife, it is a useful tool. But then, around here almost literally everyone has a pocketknife, so it may just be a l.
Yeah, and Moses commands his people at Sinai to go murder each other because they had disobeyed rules they hadn't received yet under the direct purview of their divinely appointed religious leader. Not to mention that another of those rules they hadn't received yet was "Thou shalt not kill". =p
While police and judges fill different roles, *BOTH* need to appear to be acting in the interests of the government, as opposed to a private interest. A police officer being employed by the people who are a party in an investigation he is actively involved with is just as wrong, in a fundamental sense, as say a judge ruling on a case against a company whose CEO takes him on vacation (actual case in my home state, vacation photos of him paling around with the CEO got out, and there were immediate demands that he recuse himself from the case).
That it's stolen, condemned, or she's underaged? I know, not your point, but someone can always find a case where something will be deemed wrong. =)
More like the middle-class pay for everything. The poor lack the wealth to tax, and the very rich can find ways to reduce their axes in manners which are unavailable to the middle-class. I'd seen an interview on TV who made a point of noting that he'd offered his staff the opportunity to voluntarily compare taxes to see how the scale went, and found that his secretary was being taxed at a final rate (comparing final amount of taxes to gross income) that was three times his own, and that he was doing nothing unusual specifically to lessen his taxes.
Heh, thankfully I work with most of my close personal friends (all guys I met in college and we ended up working together), elsewise my 6AM-??(usually 4:30PM, once as late as 10PM, 5-6PM at least once weekly) workday (not including the hour commute each way) would be impossible to get through. =p
I can't really smell much either. Food, smoke, the odorant in natural gas, the odorants in the *other* sort of natural gas, all nothing. Stuff like stong acids (HCl, H2NO4) burn my nose though, and bizarrely enough I can smell *people* pretty strongly.
It's more that creation science isn't science. It not only doesn't make predictions that we can currently test, it doesn't make potentially testable predictions either, which makes it fundamentally not science.
I took AP Physics, Calc, and Comp Sci and received 3, 4, and 5 in them, respectively. I was told by the dept head that they wouldn't except the APCS score as the test was in Pascal (last year it was offered as such), and strongly suggested I take Calc 1 anyways, though they could accept that test grade (I did, and was glad as Calc 2 is an evil, evil thing at that school, drawn forth from the bowels of the ninth to feast on the misery of poor innocent students, much like Technical English [my Tech English class was referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the professor, and when I went to ask him how I did on our final paper, I was told that he didn't actually *grade* it per se, and I got a C in the class]), AP Physics would have worked as well, but due to scheduling issues I ended up taking Chem instead (on the upside, the early extra hell paid for a relaxing 12 hour/semester senior year, due to some truly fortunate scheduling situations that wouldn't have happened otherwise). =)
I took the AB exam in '98. In Pascal no less (last year it was offered in Pascal). Was the only AP CS student in the school. Only had one CS teacher, and all three years were taught simultaneously. This had it's share of upsides and downsides: 1. You had to be really motivated at a personal level to achieve anything in those classes, as you got at best 1/3 instructor time directed at your class. 2. If you weren't the one at the top of the pile, there was a great support structure in place. In order to alleviate 1 to some extent, students were expected to assist those in the lower classes, which encouraged those in the higher classes to understand the material more fully. "If I am busy with another student, CS 1 students please ask a CS 2 student; CS 2 students please as the AP student; and Don, you're on your own. =)" 3. The AP class largely consisted of a copy of the case study library, and a list of topics on the exam, which I was asked to devise a series of programming assignments that I felt were "interesting" and made use of the items in question, which were then approved by the teacher (and in one case our network admin since I used some inline ASM to write network code), things like writing some code that played blackjack where the cards were actual objects in a stack, just to have an excuse to abuse some stack code. Ended up going to our local science and engineering fair for bonus points (something she offered every year -- this actually tripped up her grading scale for me however, as she offered a flat number of points to everyone and neglected to notice that I had *MUCH* fewer maximum points available). Did a three man "group project", and everyone from our school who attended got 2nd place in something: we got 2nd group project, my gf got 2nd place comp sci, and the other girl who joined us got 3rd place comp sci and 2nd place in something else (I honestly forget what).
There are already billboards and ad posters on walls all over the city (advertising in game companies and things of that nature) for precisely this reason: an advertising free city is unrealistic. Their entire plan is to rent the "ad space" already present in the world to advertisers for some extra cash, and allow anyone who is truly offended by the idea to opt out. So some of the existing billboards will change from being for Crey technologies and Portal Corp to being for Wal-Mart and Pepsi. Some of the drink machines might look like "real" drink machines. Some movie marquees might change to show a new release instead of the same movie about the Rikti invasion that has been playing for 3 years now. Unless the advertising space becomes a primary source of income, I don't think it will effect them much.
I assume in referring to Muhammad as a paedophile you are referring to Aisha? The girl whose father betroved her to him at the age of 6, and was consummated as soon as society at the time deemed her old enough (as in puberty -- the idea that you need to be nearly 2 decades old before you are old enough to determine if you want to have sex is a relatively new invention; for most of history "puberty" was old enough [at the same time, for most of history average life expectancy was under half a century]). By modern standards basically all of our ancestors beyond about 5 generations back were paedophiles (in the common sense of the word, rather than the DSM-IV sense thereof). Disclaimer -- not a Muslim, may have gotten Aisha's name wrong, may have misspelled any of it. Simply read up on the claim when I first heard it because usually sensationalist sounding claims like that are at least exaggerated, if not outright fabricated.
I have done the "dreaming you are in the game" thing before. It's just the subconscious continuing to try to figure the game out while you are asleep. I've actually failed at a game in the past, slept on it, and dreamed the right strat to use. Been a while since it's happened, but it's been a while since I wasn't working 50+ hours a week, so...
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives...the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies... That is the prophecy verbatim. Dumbledore had a look of "something like triumph" in his eyes when Harry described Voldemort's resurrection, specifically the blood used. Personally I think the following: 1. Harry is a horcrux. Voldemort planned on using the fragmentation of his soul caused by the murder of the Potter family to create horcrux number 7, but the failed Avada Kedavra spell, in killing his physical form, forced that fragment to go SOMEWHERE. This somewhere is the scar. 2. "for neither can live while the other survives". They will both die in book 7, or neither of them will. No other outcome is allowed. Voldemort could have won at some point prior to his ressurection in book 4 however. Harry cannot simply kill Voldemort because a part of Voldemort would still exist (the horcruxes, most notably the scar, even if it ISN'T a horcrux, is still a part of Voldemort). Accordingly, Voldemort cannot simply kill Harry, as part of Harry would continue to survive (his blood used in the ressurection ritual). Either they will both die or it will be a stalemate. 3. Snape is a good guy. His killing Dumbledore was a mercy killing combined with not breaking his cover for the Order and not breaking his Unbreakable Oath. Between the three, I'm pretty sure he wasn't in a position to have any choice in the scenario. Hopefully when Harry confronts Snape again, Llegimency will be involved, and Harry will understand the truth. 4. A horcrux has been brought up in each book, even if only as a side note. Book 1: The scar. Book 2: The journal. Book 3: Honestly not sure on this one, need to reread the book. Book 4: The snake (Nagini). Book 5: The locket (they found a strange locket none of them could open while they were cleaning; mentioned in one sentence as a side note, but I am going to bet that it is the *real* locket that was originally in the cave in book 6). Book 6: The ring (this one was basically given).