> It may be more difficult for a new life form to evolve from scratch in a harsh evironment.
Wasn't Earth a "harsh environment" when life supposedly originated? Also, wouldn't a harsh environment cause more/different chemical reactions to occur? Maybe that is what causes life?
> it's fumes or gasoline in it's gasious state is.
If you are on a planet covered in gasoline, chances are pretty good that a good bit of it has evaporated. Especially if you are able to survive long enough (ie, close enough to 1atm pressure) to strike a match, the gasoline will evaporate. You are right, in a way, but it was a joke close enough to the facts.
> And do you really think that it's perfectly OK for a DJ to just take other musicians' work, and press and sell a commercial CD, and give them nothing in return?
That is a bit too simplified. A DJ (well, a good one, anyway) will take those recordings & change them. A lot. Therefore, it has a similarity, but it is still a different song.
It takes a lot less work to remix a song than to write one from scratch, but it still takes work. For it to come out right & sound good, it takes a lot of work and more importantly, a lot of talent. Puff Daddy, P-Diddy, whatever does not have talent. He just plays a good old song that people love and raps badly (uh... uh huh... yeah, *repeat*) over it. "Every Step You Take" was a blatant ripoff, he barely changed it, and probably took him 5 minutes -- not to mention, it sucked. What's worse is that stupid kids think he's brilliant for writing the music ("The Police?" What's that?). Regardless, I still don't consider it illegal.
> Would it also be prefectly OK with you if the NRA just decided to use samples from "Happiness is a Warm Gun"?
Yes.
Something else that strikes me about P-Dippy. What would that fat guy think when his best friend writes a song for him after his death -- and it isn't even slightly original. Man, I'd be pissed off & lobbying God to keep him out. Well, B.I.G. may not have much pull in heaven.
First off, don't be a fucking dick. I can begin a sentence any goddamned way I want. You think you're so fucking smart (and maybe you are, but I don't care or want to hear your shit), but if your last statement was true the phrase "goes without saying" would not exist. Therefore, you, sir, are a moron who is grasping at straws to insult me.
> He says 90, and he is the most reliable source for that information
So any time an anonymous coward says something unlikely, you automatically believe him? Wow. BTW, I don't doubt you can type 60 wpm.
Did you read his comment? He said if I would get off my ass & read a book I would make 40k/yr. That is absolutely false and even more rude than what I said. Of course, you are probobly the AC, otherwise you would not care. Assuming you are not, however, he also said he was "lazy and retarded" so am I supposed to automatically believe that too?
> telling me that I can't makes you look like the liar.
What? You really have zero grasp of the English language. It does not make me a liar, it means I doubt a dubious statement from an even more dubious source. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone with your double-digit IQ to understand that.
> I can't belive I'm actually seeing this shit, even on the interweb
You make yourself look so smart using words like "interweb." BTW, you misspelled "Intarweb."
> if you insist on being an asshole, you could at least be an entertaining one.
> 40k a year is not hard to make even for the moderately ambitious. I'm lazy AND retarded and I still make 90k.
First off, you are full of shit on all points. 40K may be easy if you live in NYC, but that's not what I meant. You do not make 90k, although you may very well be lazy. Retarded goes without saying.
Ignoring that most of that was not really there (overvalued everything in the 90s), growth in a government is not really desireable. The government is here to support its citizens, not to turn a profit. If they make money AT ALL, there is something wrong -- that money should immediately be put back into "the system" so that it can be pushed around some more. A good economy isn't about an absolute dollar figure, it is more like the rate at which money changes hands.
Disclaimer: I don't care any more, so I am just explaining things as I see them, not as someone tells me. Therefore, I could be a bit wrong in places -- I am not an economist and chances are, you aren't either. But then again, I'm no statistician either...
> My parents had to pay 500 more to the school in our area for property tax. The health care costs rose up a bitch
Well, Education is a "local" concern, so blame your local government. Even if that isn't 100% true, the property tax certainly is. Health care costs... well, that depends on what you mean. Health care in general is more expensive because greedy lawyers & their lawsuits, and greedy doctors & their new pair of His & Hers Humvees every year. Doctors, Lawyers, and government workers need a real frikkin reality check on what they think they are worth.
> you do not have a god-given right to live in the United States
This pisses me off. A lot. I have the right to live where I damn well choose. Who gave it to me? Well, God (if you believe, I don't) chose for me to be born in the U.S. so.. yeah, it really IS a god-given right. I was born here whether the people who appointed themselves my master like it or not. I guess I'm just a lonely anarchist.
> add 10 oz Organic Dark Maple Syrup > add 10 oz Organic Fresh squeezed Lemon Juice
Here's a dumb question: If your lemon juice is "Fresh-squeezed," how in the hell can it be nonorganic? If you have "Real Maple Syrup," again, it is automatically organic. I frikking hate that word. It's almost as bad as "natural." What, and I thought my Wheaties were some sort of supernatural baked & flaked ghosts or demons or something.
> posting AC as you can never tell how USans react when discussing their armed forces - no offense
None taken where (un)intended, but where you didn't even think of it. You lump Americans (USans is not a word) as one group, which by itself is wrong. The U.S. is a friggin' huge country, yet you consider us all the same. Obviously, I don't know where you live, but if I said "All Germans are socialists" or "All French are Rude" I would be flamed, and (in a sense) rightfully so. I have met rude French people; I have met many more extremely pleasant French people. I don't consider them the same even though they live in the same place.
> It's not that they are subsets of a larger 'blue' concept (like in english, 'navy blue' is a subset of 'blue'), they are, to native Russian speakers, different colors.
Although Cyan has a similarity to blue, it is not blue. English considers Navy Blue and Cyan separate colors. Actually, English doesn't consider anything at all -- I would argue that it is the people who make the connections, not the language. I don't think Forest green & Lime green are the same colors... Hell, Lime Green is closer to yellow than it is green, sometimes.
> if you dont know how to test rs232 and parallel from knoppix then you need to get the hell out of the computer field.
Yes, because obviously, if you don't know every useless little detail from an OS no one uses (knoppix, not Linux) then you are an idiot. Idiot. Are you a politician? Because you act like one... wit-less.
> > The article says it has had the slowest growth rate, not that it is shrinking. > The article says: "RedHat has a far greater number of sites but a slower growth rate, and actually fell this month"
Yes, the growth rate fell. Meaning they are not growing as fast, not that they have stopped growing.
> Why do I say "wallet" for a leather case, cards, cash and ID
I don't know why you do it, but I do not. My wallet is a wallet regardless of what is in it, even if it is empty. If I say "I'm going to grab my wallet," I don't empty it out first, I grab it & it is assumed what most people have in it. Regardless of the language used, I believe this would be the same everywhere/when (ignoring, of course, that certain cultures would not know what a wallet is). If you tell someone (in any language) to pick up your luggage, do you expect to receive your clothes that are in them as well?
> "packet of fish and chips" for paper wrapping, fish pieces and chips?
Well, that seems like a pretty intuitive thing, if you know what "chips" are. I think I get the idea of what you mean, but don't think you explained it very well. When you say...
> The way we choose to divide our world is not the same between languages
... do you mean how we construct our sentences and words? In German, nouns can have pre-/suffixes attached that change (slightly) the meaning of the word. In English these are usually separate words. Are you talking about that kind of difference in language construction?
> a forest full of beautiful women speaking a long-forgotten language?
You left out the best part!!! If you don't understand what the women are saying, you can't hear them bitch incessantly! Plus, maybe they'll think you are a god if you show them your wristwatch.
> That gives me an idea for a paper "GOBOLDLYTO considered harmfull".
So what does that function do? I assume it's like a GOTO, but does it bold the text too? Must be VB. Perhaps it's an optimized GOTO that works much faster? Or does it just go so boldly that no other bits are courageous enough to get in its way?
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> like there is not enough garbage in space already...
Like there is not enough garbage buried in the ground already. Seriously, you wanna talk about overpopulation? If we gave every person dead & alive a burial plot for the next 1000 years, the world will be one giant cemetary. The only forseeable problem with this is that if it took off in popularity, we lose earth resources (in the form of a mammal/the chemicals that make it up) for each person we send off. What we SHOULD do is cremate them & throw their ashes on their kids' land to put those resources back into nature instead of putting them in a airtight box to keep nature from doing its part in the cycle of light.
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> For what he thought was H20
H 20? I didn't know hydrogen could DO that.
> It may be more difficult for a new life form to evolve from scratch in a harsh evironment.
Wasn't Earth a "harsh environment" when life supposedly originated? Also, wouldn't a harsh environment cause more/different chemical reactions to occur? Maybe that is what causes life?
> why couldnt it have just been mars colliding with the earth?
Because Mars would then not exist.
> it's fumes or gasoline in it's gasious state is.
If you are on a planet covered in gasoline, chances are pretty good that a good bit of it has evaporated. Especially if you are able to survive long enough (ie, close enough to 1atm pressure) to strike a match, the gasoline will evaporate. You are right, in a way, but it was a joke close enough to the facts.
> If fuel is easy to come by, who cares about efficiency?
The interstellar environmentalists.
> you could use it as a source of energy to make something more potent (LH2 and LOX)
LOX?? Holy Cow, just tell the Jews & the bagel shops and we'll be there in a few months!
*JEEEEWWWS IIIN SPAAAAAAAAAAACE*
(apologies to "History of the World, Part 1" fans and Jewish people)
> And do you really think that it's perfectly OK for a DJ to just take other musicians' work, and press and sell a commercial CD, and give them nothing in return?
That is a bit too simplified. A DJ (well, a good one, anyway) will take those recordings & change them. A lot. Therefore, it has a similarity, but it is still a different song.
It takes a lot less work to remix a song than to write one from scratch, but it still takes work. For it to come out right & sound good, it takes a lot of work and more importantly, a lot of talent. Puff Daddy, P-Diddy, whatever does not have talent. He just plays a good old song that people love and raps badly (uh... uh huh... yeah, *repeat*) over it. "Every Step You Take" was a blatant ripoff, he barely changed it, and probably took him 5 minutes -- not to mention, it sucked. What's worse is that stupid kids think he's brilliant for writing the music ("The Police?" What's that?). Regardless, I still don't consider it illegal.
> Would it also be prefectly OK with you if the NRA just decided to use samples from "Happiness is a Warm Gun"?
Yes.
Something else that strikes me about P-Dippy. What would that fat guy think when his best friend writes a song for him after his death -- and it isn't even slightly original. Man, I'd be pissed off & lobbying God to keep him out. Well, B.I.G. may not have much pull in heaven.
First off, don't be a fucking dick. I can begin a sentence any goddamned way I want. You think you're so fucking smart (and maybe you are, but I don't care or want to hear your shit), but if your last statement was true the phrase "goes without saying" would not exist. Therefore, you, sir, are a moron who is grasping at straws to insult me.
> He says 90, and he is the most reliable source for that information
So any time an anonymous coward says something unlikely, you automatically believe him? Wow. BTW, I don't doubt you can type 60 wpm.
Did you read his comment? He said if I would get off my ass & read a book I would make 40k/yr. That is absolutely false and even more rude than what I said. Of course, you are probobly the AC, otherwise you would not care. Assuming you are not, however, he also said he was "lazy and retarded" so am I supposed to automatically believe that too?
> telling me that I can't makes you look like the liar.
What? You really have zero grasp of the English language. It does not make me a liar, it means I doubt a dubious statement from an even more dubious source. Of course, I wouldn't expect someone with your double-digit IQ to understand that.
> I can't belive I'm actually seeing this shit, even on the interweb
You make yourself look so smart using words like "interweb." BTW, you misspelled "Intarweb."
> if you insist on being an asshole, you could at least be an entertaining one.
Pot...Kettle...
Christ man, get a fucking clue.
Oh yeah... YHBT. IHBT too, evidently.
> 40k a year is not hard to make even for the moderately ambitious. I'm lazy AND retarded and I still make 90k.
First off, you are full of shit on all points. 40K may be easy if you live in NYC, but that's not what I meant. You do not make 90k, although you may very well be lazy. Retarded goes without saying.
> the top 20 percent of tax returns is $79,375 of household income.
Shit, to me, that is rich. I'd give both of my nuts (hell, I'm not using them anyway) to make that much.
> the economy grew 4% year on year
Ignoring that most of that was not really there (overvalued everything in the 90s), growth in a government is not really desireable. The government is here to support its citizens, not to turn a profit. If they make money AT ALL, there is something wrong -- that money should immediately be put back into "the system" so that it can be pushed around some more. A good economy isn't about an absolute dollar figure, it is more like the rate at which money changes hands.
Disclaimer: I don't care any more, so I am just explaining things as I see them, not as someone tells me. Therefore, I could be a bit wrong in places -- I am not an economist and chances are, you aren't either. But then again, I'm no statistician either...
> My parents had to pay 500 more to the school in our area for property tax. The health care costs rose up a bitch
Well, Education is a "local" concern, so blame your local government. Even if that isn't 100% true, the property tax certainly is. Health care costs... well, that depends on what you mean. Health care in general is more expensive because greedy lawyers & their lawsuits, and greedy doctors & their new pair of His & Hers Humvees every year. Doctors, Lawyers, and government workers need a real frikkin reality check on what they think they are worth.
> you do not have a god-given right to live in the United States
This pisses me off. A lot. I have the right to live where I damn well choose. Who gave it to me? Well, God (if you believe, I don't) chose for me to be born in the U.S. so.. yeah, it really IS a god-given right. I was born here whether the people who appointed themselves my master like it or not. I guess I'm just a lonely anarchist.
> add 10 oz Organic Dark Maple Syrup
> add 10 oz Organic Fresh squeezed Lemon Juice
Here's a dumb question: If your lemon juice is "Fresh-squeezed," how in the hell can it be nonorganic? If you have "Real Maple Syrup," again, it is automatically organic. I frikking hate that word. It's almost as bad as "natural." What, and I thought my Wheaties were some sort of supernatural baked & flaked ghosts or demons or something.
Not attacking you, just bored.
> posting AC as you can never tell how USans react when discussing their armed forces - no offense
None taken where (un)intended, but where you didn't even think of it. You lump Americans (USans is not a word) as one group, which by itself is wrong.
The U.S. is a friggin' huge country, yet you consider us all the same. Obviously, I don't know where you live, but if I said "All Germans are socialists" or "All French are Rude" I would be flamed, and (in a sense) rightfully so. I have met rude French people; I have met many more extremely pleasant French people. I don't consider them the same even though they live in the same place.
> You might as well abolish the whole thing.
Brilliant! Umm... that's what I want...
> GOTO but you might be making First Contact
Doh! I didn't make the "boldly" connection. I'm ashamed, I can no longer call myself a geek. *sob* Oh, wait... I guess that's a Good Thing.
> It's not that they are subsets of a larger 'blue' concept (like in english, 'navy blue' is a subset of 'blue'), they are, to native Russian speakers, different colors.
Although Cyan has a similarity to blue, it is not blue. English considers Navy Blue and Cyan separate colors. Actually, English doesn't consider anything at all -- I would argue that it is the people who make the connections, not the language. I don't think Forest green & Lime green are the same colors... Hell, Lime Green is closer to yellow than it is green, sometimes.
> if you dont know how to test rs232 and parallel from knoppix then you need to get the hell out of the computer field.
Yes, because obviously, if you don't know every useless little detail from an OS no one uses (knoppix, not Linux) then you are an idiot. Idiot. Are you a politician? Because you act like one... wit-less.
> > The article says it has had the slowest growth rate, not that it is shrinking.
> The article says: "RedHat has a far greater number of sites but a slower growth rate, and actually fell this month"
Yes, the growth rate fell. Meaning they are not growing as fast, not that they have stopped growing.
> What would Chinese characters trickling down a green-phosphor screen represent?
A Chinese alphabet soup screensaver? That has gone bad? REALLY bad?
> Why do I say "wallet" for a leather case, cards, cash and ID
... do you mean how we construct our sentences and words? In German, nouns can have pre-/suffixes attached that change (slightly) the meaning of the word. In English these are usually separate words. Are you talking about that kind of difference in language construction?
I don't know why you do it, but I do not. My wallet is a wallet regardless of what is in it, even if it is empty. If I say "I'm going to grab my wallet," I don't empty it out first, I grab it & it is assumed what most people have in it. Regardless of the language used, I believe this would be the same everywhere/when (ignoring, of course, that certain cultures would not know what a wallet is). If you tell someone (in any language) to pick up your luggage, do you expect to receive your clothes that are in them as well?
> "packet of fish and chips" for paper wrapping, fish pieces and chips?
Well, that seems like a pretty intuitive thing, if you know what "chips" are. I think I get the idea of what you mean, but don't think you explained it very well. When you say...
> The way we choose to divide our world is not the same between languages
> a forest full of beautiful women speaking a long-forgotten language?
You left out the best part!!! If you don't understand what the women are saying, you can't hear them bitch incessantly! Plus, maybe they'll think you are a god if you show them your wristwatch.
> That gives me an idea for a paper "GOBOLDLYTO considered harmfull".
So what does that function do? I assume it's like a GOTO, but does it bold the text too? Must be VB. Perhaps it's an optimized GOTO that works much faster? Or does it just go so boldly that no other bits are courageous enough to get in its way?
> like there is not enough garbage in space already...
Like there is not enough garbage buried in the ground already. Seriously, you wanna talk about overpopulation? If we gave every person dead & alive a burial plot for the next 1000 years, the world will be one giant cemetary. The only forseeable problem with this is that if it took off in popularity, we lose earth resources (in the form of a mammal/the chemicals that make it up) for each person we send off. What we SHOULD do is cremate them & throw their ashes on their kids' land to put those resources back into nature instead of putting them in a airtight box to keep nature from doing its part in the cycle of light.