wait..no i got that backwards. it'd be like raising 4 kids on his salary....
yeah, the dollar was worth twice what it is now (more actually) and they mad half as much, so they earned the same value in the year of 1982 that he earns annually. just a bit more actually.
i know this is a 'friend of a friend' sort of deal, but i used to work in telecom doing installation and one of the guys i worked with used to do some cell tower stuff in texas. well one winter they were working on one tower (doing what exactly i don't know) but one of the new guys on the crew decided that since he felt warmer in one spot he'd stand there when he wasn't doing anything. he was kicked to the deck and hurried down the ladder and rushed to the hospital. i'm told he was pretty close to dying from the incident and ended up with some major health issues.
i wasn't there, i can't say for sure, but i spent alot of time with the guy who told me this and i believe that story and the basic facts, the exact details might be a bit embellished though.
i know, 'anecdote' != datum.
yes it is true, the US constitution first and foremost assumes that the Christian God exists, and secondly that our rights and personal sovereignty are assigned by that God, and then we assign a small piece of that sovereignty to elected officials to keep things running smoothly.
as far as Christianity being a net source of evil, BS. Stalin, Hitler, Pol pot, Mao, have collectively killed more people (several times over) than the entire world population during the time of the spanish inquisition. also, considering that the brand of socialism practiced by these leaders is diametrically opposed to having religion, i'd say that secularism has caused far more evil than religion.
Stalin outright banned religion in the USSR because the peoples belief in a God challenged Stalin's need to make the government the sole repository of power and the only entity that could assign rights to it's citizens. he later reinstated it because he needed something for people to hold onto when WWII started getting too hairy, in short he needed an opiate for his masses.
both the practice of religion and political power can substitute a persons innate need to act and be moral, when it's substituted by political power is when the absolute worst in humanity comes out, far worse than anything a christian could bring themselves to do.
the highest death toll i can find for the spanish inquisition is 31,912, that's *almost* 32 thousand people.
lets add it up, 20+40+1.6+9=70.6 million people dead from secular causes, and just the big name ones too.
compared to 32,000 for the inquisition secularity has killed 2,200 times MORE people than religion, all during more modern, supposedly more enlightened, times as well. now were not adding in the salem witch trials or the burning of witches in england but even if both of those witch hunts had killed off the entire world population in their time it wouldn't make much difference to the ratio.
religion has a lot of people to kill to catch up with secular causes, christianity alone has no hope of filling the gap. the things you say dont' even stand up to a little bit of critical analysis. people do heinous things in the name of religion, i'm not defending that. but when people are fighting in the name of their beleifs they at least have beliefs that they keep themselves to. when they fight in the name of political power they put no limits on themselves at all.
people forget that the reason pork was fatty was because it was raised to be fatty. the lard harvested from pigs was used year round on the farm now they raise them lean because of our half hearted health craze, and because the farms are corporate, no farmer to use all that lard year round.
also pork is healthier because pigs aren't fed meat scraps anymore, which has helped reduce the chance of getting trichinosis from undercooked pork. i wouldn't make a habit of risking it though.
well they're right about why it's illegal. but it's not really complicated. it started partly as an excuse later in the depression (1937) to kick mexicans out of the US so we could have more jobs for our own citizens, also i believe there was alot of racist and class discrimination that contributed. it was probably a strong mix of genuine ignorance about it and the purposeful manipulation of that ignorance to get a law passed. there was alot of "negroes get wild on pot and rape our women!" type propaganda floating around back when.
the biggest effect drug prohibition has these days is to fund criminal organizations.
anyways, alot of that 'conspiracy' bit is true, though i doubt it was a conspiracy of pure malice ("hey, lets get together and take pot away from the masses, that'll help keep them down!") and more a mix of ignorance and seeing it as a handy way to help along an ulterior motive. hippies just tend to get a bit childish when talking about it ("it's not fair, man!"), plus one effect pot has is to artificially stimulate the part of the brain that thinks things are cool and novel, which can help one see such 'conspiracies' as something other than mundane politics getting inconvenient for them.
i think we should build good cases against the biggest members of the drug cartels, legalize the drugs they sell, then track them down through the now well-documented distribution channels and prosecute for the crimes they've committed, more on the murder side of things though.
no i dont' smoke pot and i have no interest in it. yes people do get carried away with it and waste their lives away but you've no right to stop them as long as they don't go harming others.
hmm...'plain old text' isn't preserving my whitespace, i bet it will after i put this line in.
if you have a higher fps than your monitor can physically accomodate then what happens (i believe) is that the top part of the image will be one frame and the lower parts will be rendered from the next frame or two. all of this still helps produce a smoother image (up to a point)
but the biggest benefit of a really high FPS for most gaming is that when the fps slows down during really high activity scenes the slowed speed will still be at a high enough fps to look smooth.
i thought the problem with a 32 bit OS was that 32 bits for an instruction just isn't long enough to address anything past the 4 GB mark, not just more than 4 GB per process.
black lights can really show off a fresh c-section scar. for every strip club where most of the women are actually attractive, there's two across teh tracks where...well, not so much.
actually google has been a good example of this. for the most part what google does it look at what yahoo does, then think up ways to do it better. google maps vs. the orignal yahoo maps, gmail vs. the original yahoo mail. yahoos few online applications vs. googles whole host of online applications. yahoo's search engine vs. google's search engine
well it makes sense. by removing DRM they've increased the value of the songs to us, so an increase in price is justified there.
but a buck a song is $10 for your average album and that's where i think the price should be without DRM. but it's a good step, i think things will balance out much more after the giants lose their control and start to die off.
but these companies rarely invest in actual artists. much more often it's just some plastic talking head that teenagers will bully thier parents into buying music from and whos skirts the paparazzi will shove cameras up.
if we lose the major lables the world will be lesser *for a little while* any decent bands with major labels will either break up, go with a smaller more indie label, or start their own. we don't need millionaire rockstars, we need good musicians who can make a better living doing music than they can being garbage men and that's about it.
the fact that these labels got that big tells us that the money is out there, we can still have huge albums with lots of engineering and technical marvel, but instead of having 8 vocal tracks of the exact same lines just to get some certain effect we can put that effort and money into making really interesting stuff instead of just making mediocre people sound better.
as for the newer artits that need 'a few albums' to hone their craft, that's what live shows are for, that's what a whole afternoon with your cheek down on your guitar so you can hear the sound through your bones is for. yes the bar will be raised, the labels that remain will be less willing to spend resources on a band that's not as talented. but the current labels aren't willing to spend the money on bands that they don't think are 'safe' or that they don't think they can mold into something boring and safe.
i want to hear musicians making an album without that investment, i want to hear them having to invent new ways of doing things. recording a guitar and getting decent quality sound is easy, i can do that with a peice of foam, a good mic, audacity and cooperative roommates. what's hard is making the recording worthwhile.
and high quality recording, to be honest, is way overrated. how many fantastic songs from way back sounded like shit? hedrix's "burning of the midnight lamp" was low fi at best, and it was magical for it. the stone's "street fighting man", how many underground bands that had talent but not equipment whose homemade cd's did you love?
and if you truly believe that the quality of a recording is essential to the enjoyment of music then you need to get a clue and learn to love music for the sake of music. there are instruments that you need to hear recorded very well or live to appreciate because they sound fantastic. but you will never ever need that just to appreciate the construction of a song. go buy a buddy holly 'best of' sometime for proof.
the major labels are doing more harm than good, the sooner they die the better. the decline in quality that we may get after that happens will be nothing more than the soreness after surgery.
you can die of cancer, or if you're lucky you can have the tumor removed. well guess what, we're getting lucky.
we can't keep the cancer around for the welfare of a few pretty good bands.
i thought the point of good encryption was that the computational resources required to crack it in a timely fashion do not exist on earth even when summed.
why isn't there a way to pull only the functions out of a library that you need to use, so you can still use libraries for efficiency when writing but still not have to have the space for the whole thing?
or are things like that possible or not enough for an application like this?
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wait..no i got that backwards. it'd be like raising 4 kids on his salary.... yeah, the dollar was worth twice what it is now (more actually) and they mad half as much, so they earned the same value in the year of 1982 that he earns annually. just a bit more actually.
he won't do it, it's a factor of 2.23 for the time difference. so it'd be like raising 4 kids on a quarter of what the gp makes.
i know this is a 'friend of a friend' sort of deal, but i used to work in telecom doing installation and one of the guys i worked with used to do some cell tower stuff in texas. well one winter they were working on one tower (doing what exactly i don't know) but one of the new guys on the crew decided that since he felt warmer in one spot he'd stand there when he wasn't doing anything. he was kicked to the deck and hurried down the ladder and rushed to the hospital. i'm told he was pretty close to dying from the incident and ended up with some major health issues. i wasn't there, i can't say for sure, but i spent alot of time with the guy who told me this and i believe that story and the basic facts, the exact details might be a bit embellished though. i know, 'anecdote' != datum.
yes it is true, the US constitution first and foremost assumes that the Christian God exists, and secondly that our rights and personal sovereignty are assigned by that God, and then we assign a small piece of that sovereignty to elected officials to keep things running smoothly.
as far as Christianity being a net source of evil, BS. Stalin, Hitler, Pol pot, Mao, have collectively killed more people (several times over) than the entire world population during the time of the spanish inquisition. also, considering that the brand of socialism practiced by these leaders is diametrically opposed to having religion, i'd say that secularism has caused far more evil than religion.
Stalin outright banned religion in the USSR because the peoples belief in a God challenged Stalin's need to make the government the sole repository of power and the only entity that could assign rights to it's citizens. he later reinstated it because he needed something for people to hold onto when WWII started getting too hairy, in short he needed an opiate for his masses.
both the practice of religion and political power can substitute a persons innate need to act and be moral, when it's substituted by political power is when the absolute worst in humanity comes out, far worse than anything a christian could bring themselves to do.
stats:
the total world population in 1850 is estimated at 1,262,000
the spanish inquisition started in 1478 but ran until 1830 so lets use that 1.26 million people figure.
the holocaust is estimated to have killed between 9 and 11 million people. so lets call it 9 million just to be safe.
stalin's regime is estimated to have killed about 20 million, and i don't think that counts people who just got sent to gulags and later were freed.
Pol Pot and the khmer rouge are estimated to have killed 1.6 million people
China, under Mao Tse Tung, lost 40 million people due to starvation
the highest death toll i can find for the spanish inquisition is 31,912, that's *almost* 32 thousand people.
lets add it up, 20+40+1.6+9=70.6 million people dead from secular causes, and just the big name ones too.
compared to 32,000 for the inquisition secularity has killed 2,200 times MORE people than religion, all during more modern, supposedly more enlightened, times as well. now were not adding in the salem witch trials or the burning of witches in england but even if both of those witch hunts had killed off the entire world population in their time it wouldn't make much difference to the ratio.
religion has a lot of people to kill to catch up with secular causes, christianity alone has no hope of filling the gap. the things you say dont' even stand up to a little bit of critical analysis. people do heinous things in the name of religion, i'm not defending that. but when people are fighting in the name of their beleifs they at least have beliefs that they keep themselves to. when they fight in the name of political power they put no limits on themselves at all.
that's not important, the name alone will be sufficient to milk the phobics for good money.
people forget that the reason pork was fatty was because it was raised to be fatty. the lard harvested from pigs was used year round on the farm now they raise them lean because of our half hearted health craze, and because the farms are corporate, no farmer to use all that lard year round.
also pork is healthier because pigs aren't fed meat scraps anymore, which has helped reduce the chance of getting trichinosis from undercooked pork. i wouldn't make a habit of risking it though.
well they're right about why it's illegal. but it's not really complicated. it started partly as an excuse later in the depression (1937) to kick mexicans out of the US so we could have more jobs for our own citizens, also i believe there was alot of racist and class discrimination that contributed. it was probably a strong mix of genuine ignorance about it and the purposeful manipulation of that ignorance to get a law passed. there was alot of "negroes get wild on pot and rape our women!" type propaganda floating around back when.
the biggest effect drug prohibition has these days is to fund criminal organizations.
anyways, alot of that 'conspiracy' bit is true, though i doubt it was a conspiracy of pure malice ("hey, lets get together and take pot away from the masses, that'll help keep them down!") and more a mix of ignorance and seeing it as a handy way to help along an ulterior motive. hippies just tend to get a bit childish when talking about it ("it's not fair, man!"), plus one effect pot has is to artificially stimulate the part of the brain that thinks things are cool and novel, which can help one see such 'conspiracies' as something other than mundane politics getting inconvenient for them.
i think we should build good cases against the biggest members of the drug cartels, legalize the drugs they sell, then track them down through the now well-documented distribution channels and prosecute for the crimes they've committed, more on the murder side of things though.
no i dont' smoke pot and i have no interest in it. yes people do get carried away with it and waste their lives away but you've no right to stop them as long as they don't go harming others.
hmm...'plain old text' isn't preserving my whitespace, i bet it will after i put this line in.
my ammeter reads positive energy flow though...who do we believe?
wait i remember from highschool electronics, we need to take the RMS of the waveform...ok lets send Stallman to the UK and sort these folks out.
if you have a higher fps than your monitor can physically accomodate then what happens (i believe) is that the top part of the image will be one frame and the lower parts will be rendered from the next frame or two. all of this still helps produce a smoother image (up to a point)
but the biggest benefit of a really high FPS for most gaming is that when the fps slows down during really high activity scenes the slowed speed will still be at a high enough fps to look smooth.
i thought the problem with a 32 bit OS was that 32 bits for an instruction just isn't long enough to address anything past the 4 GB mark, not just more than 4 GB per process.
have i got it wrong?
"look but not touch."
i'm never getting married then.
one problem with that: fetal development seems to depend on gravity for orientation for at least certain stages.
natalie portman perhaps?
black lights can really show off a fresh c-section scar. for every strip club where most of the women are actually attractive, there's two across teh tracks where...well, not so much.
actually google has been a good example of this. for the most part what google does it look at what yahoo does, then think up ways to do it better. google maps vs. the orignal yahoo maps, gmail vs. the original yahoo mail. yahoos few online applications vs. googles whole host of online applications. yahoo's search engine vs. google's search engine
we are beaming your ideas straight from your mind, and you can't stop us! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
people wined? man, i could never get iTunes to work with wine.
well it makes sense. by removing DRM they've increased the value of the songs to us, so an increase in price is justified there.
but a buck a song is $10 for your average album and that's where i think the price should be without DRM. but it's a good step, i think things will balance out much more after the giants lose their control and start to die off.
but these companies rarely invest in actual artists. much more often it's just some plastic talking head that teenagers will bully thier parents into buying music from and whos skirts the paparazzi will shove cameras up.
if we lose the major lables the world will be lesser *for a little while* any decent bands with major labels will either break up, go with a smaller more indie label, or start their own. we don't need millionaire rockstars, we need good musicians who can make a better living doing music than they can being garbage men and that's about it.
the fact that these labels got that big tells us that the money is out there, we can still have huge albums with lots of engineering and technical marvel, but instead of having 8 vocal tracks of the exact same lines just to get some certain effect we can put that effort and money into making really interesting stuff instead of just making mediocre people sound better.
as for the newer artits that need 'a few albums' to hone their craft, that's what live shows are for, that's what a whole afternoon with your cheek down on your guitar so you can hear the sound through your bones is for. yes the bar will be raised, the labels that remain will be less willing to spend resources on a band that's not as talented. but the current labels aren't willing to spend the money on bands that they don't think are 'safe' or that they don't think they can mold into something boring and safe.
i want to hear musicians making an album without that investment, i want to hear them having to invent new ways of doing things. recording a guitar and getting decent quality sound is easy, i can do that with a peice of foam, a good mic, audacity and cooperative roommates. what's hard is making the recording worthwhile.
and high quality recording, to be honest, is way overrated. how many fantastic songs from way back sounded like shit? hedrix's "burning of the midnight lamp" was low fi at best, and it was magical for it. the stone's "street fighting man", how many underground bands that had talent but not equipment whose homemade cd's did you love?
and if you truly believe that the quality of a recording is essential to the enjoyment of music then you need to get a clue and learn to love music for the sake of music. there are instruments that you need to hear recorded very well or live to appreciate because they sound fantastic. but you will never ever need that just to appreciate the construction of a song. go buy a buddy holly 'best of' sometime for proof.
the major labels are doing more harm than good, the sooner they die the better. the decline in quality that we may get after that happens will be nothing more than the soreness after surgery.
you can die of cancer, or if you're lucky you can have the tumor removed. well guess what, we're getting lucky.
we can't keep the cancer around for the welfare of a few pretty good bands.
i thought the point of good encryption was that the computational resources required to crack it in a timely fashion do not exist on earth even when summed.
funny, i've never found the feature on my GPS unit that lets me put in a name and drive right to someone
we don't know exactly what Obama will do, but we do know that the beliefs he has, upon which he will base his actions, are fundamentally flawed.
why isn't there a way to pull only the functions out of a library that you need to use, so you can still use libraries for efficiency when writing but still not have to have the space for the whole thing?
or are things like that possible or not enough for an application like this?
a gram of fairy dust costs way more than just a pound sterling.