People have been hoarding stuff as long as history has been recorded.
11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.' "
13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer [a] for each person you have in your tent.' "
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19 Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning."
20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
It could have been written by a newbie programmer. A lot of ODBC/JDBC/[Insert DB connector] tutorials I saw even a few years ago do dodgy stuff like string concatenation with the user input instead of proper parametrization. Even at uni the databases lecturer didn't mention parameter queries while teaching about JDBC. All his examples joined strings. Parameters should have been one of the first things he mentioned about DB programming and not using them in an assignment should have been an auto-fail.
I agree with some of your points near the end of your rant. The loss of individualism and the peer pressure to conform to one uniform culture is a bad thing. People should think for themselves and we should encourage diversity.
I disagree with the points you raise at the start of your rant though. Not all regulation is an assault on personal liberties.
Mandating the use of seatbelts hardly impacts on your liberty to travel where you like in the country. You might as well have argued that the man is keeping you down by forcing you to drive on the right hand side of the road. How dare the government tell me which side of the road to drive on!
Companies being force to consider occupational health and safety (OH&S) is a good thing for society too. How is forcing employers to have an obligation to keep their employees safe while at work a bad thing? They should have a duty of care. How dare the government deprive our companies of their right to hire children to repair running machines! (Note this happened in Britain at the start of the Industrial Revolution). How dare they be forced to spend money on keeping their employees alive and uninjured!
Have people like yourself and many of the other posters in this thread even looked at the cover picture? (I know I'm new here and no one RTFAs). The only similarity to the average 5 year old's work is that it was done using fingers. I think the cover is beautiful how it hints at the city street, and much more powerful than a photograph of the same scene would have been.
I'd read that Polaroid have a patent on their film. Kodak or someone else were going to product Polaroid film for exactly the niche market you mentioned but were told to cease and desist.
Other religious groups might want to render an opinion to the courts defending Scientology. How many religions can't be accused of targeting vulnerable people?
I think you'll find that France like most of Western Europe upholds the right to freedom of religion. Scientology isn't on trial as a religion. It's (rightly IMHO) not a registered religion in France and its on trial for fraud. I somehow don't think any of the other organized religions there will be rushing to the defense of Scientology.
First, Whoosh!
Second, Free market libertarianism if it ever got into power would set up the government to fail by stripping it of almost all its power to govern.
Third, 5th last in the world on GDP still isn't a good place to be. Hardly a convincing argument for free market economics.
You don't "need" access to the net to entertain yourself. Why not just pack a good book and read for a bit. Or go for a walk around the terminal. You're going to have your arse on a seat for the next $LOTS hours, so you might as well move around a bit while you can.
You can get Sydney to Vancouver non-stop flights. Much better than having a stop-over in Honolulu and getting fingerprinted, going through DHS inspection bullshit, filling out immigration papers and video taped while taking a piss in a real toilet. All this happens despite the fact that you're in transit and not spending any time in the USA.
You received extra attention because you kept your wallet in your left pocket. What sort of a freak are you? Good upstanding Americans know that the wallet goes in the right hand side pocket:P. Why do you hate freedom?
Western women presently pass out such rewards based in large part upon status -- or more precisely: upon status displays. Big ridiculous cars are an approved status display, which means they increase their owners' mating opportunities, which means people buy them.
I thought owners of big ridiculous cars were compensating for something. Wouldn't that make them less desirable for mating?
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That particular case has been thoroughly debunked. No government ever increased revenue by lowering the tax rate. Friedman's theories are full of it.
It could have been written by a newbie programmer. A lot of ODBC/JDBC/[Insert DB connector] tutorials I saw even a few years ago do dodgy stuff like string concatenation with the user input instead of proper parametrization. Even at uni the databases lecturer didn't mention parameter queries while teaching about JDBC. All his examples joined strings. Parameters should have been one of the first things he mentioned about DB programming and not using them in an assignment should have been an auto-fail.
Corporations are more like Feudalism than Communism.
I agree with some of your points near the end of your rant. The loss of individualism and the peer pressure to conform to one uniform culture is a bad thing. People should think for themselves and we should encourage diversity.
I disagree with the points you raise at the start of your rant though. Not all regulation is an assault on personal liberties.
Mandating the use of seatbelts hardly impacts on your liberty to travel where you like in the country. You might as well have argued that the man is keeping you down by forcing you to drive on the right hand side of the road. How dare the government tell me which side of the road to drive on!
Companies being force to consider occupational health and safety (OH&S) is a good thing for society too. How is forcing employers to have an obligation to keep their employees safe while at work a bad thing? They should have a duty of care. How dare the government deprive our companies of their right to hire children to repair running machines! (Note this happened in Britain at the start of the Industrial Revolution). How dare they be forced to spend money on keeping their employees alive and uninjured!
What part of "I'm looking for a C++ IDE" didn't you understand?
A friend at uni had this theory that any program can be written in a single line of Perl.
Have people like yourself and many of the other posters in this thread even looked at the cover picture? (I know I'm new here and no one RTFAs). The only similarity to the average 5 year old's work is that it was done using fingers. I think the cover is beautiful how it hints at the city street, and much more powerful than a photograph of the same scene would have been.
I'd read that Polaroid have a patent on their film. Kodak or someone else were going to product Polaroid film for exactly the niche market you mentioned but were told to cease and desist.
I think you'll find that France like most of Western Europe upholds the right to freedom of religion. Scientology isn't on trial as a religion. It's (rightly IMHO) not a registered religion in France and its on trial for fraud. I somehow don't think any of the other organized religions there will be rushing to the defense of Scientology.
I wish I had mod points today. The parent post deserves an insightful or two.
First, Whoosh! Second, Free market libertarianism if it ever got into power would set up the government to fail by stripping it of almost all its power to govern. Third, 5th last in the world on GDP still isn't a good place to be. Hardly a convincing argument for free market economics.
They harvest the sugar from the sugarcane and use the leftover cane.
You don't "need" access to the net to entertain yourself. Why not just pack a good book and read for a bit. Or go for a walk around the terminal. You're going to have your arse on a seat for the next $LOTS hours, so you might as well move around a bit while you can.
Maybe it should be renamed to Crackdot?
You can get Sydney to Vancouver non-stop flights. Much better than having a stop-over in Honolulu and getting fingerprinted, going through DHS inspection bullshit, filling out immigration papers and video taped while taking a piss in a real toilet. All this happens despite the fact that you're in transit and not spending any time in the USA.
You're joking about ice-tea being healthy right? I seriously hope you are. That stuff is just as full of sugar as soft drink.
Your sig is perfect for that post.
You received extra attention because you kept your wallet in your left pocket. What sort of a freak are you? Good upstanding Americans know that the wallet goes in the right hand side pocket :P. Why do you hate freedom?
Who said anything about destroying the plane with a handgun? How about pointing it at the pilot's head?
I thought owners of big ridiculous cars were compensating for something. Wouldn't that make them less desirable for mating?
I believe in that case the pictures will be sent to FailBlog instead of google.
Hey man, make regulations not war!
Hmm... we might have to work on that slogan. It hasn't got the needed zing.
1. You shall not let a human first post.
BOFH is that you?