There's no word for the difference, but when you hear someone is married, do you just assume they're religious? I don't, but is it likely they got married in a religious ceremony? Yes.
And if you get married in a civil ceremony, how is that a religious institution? 'Marriage' describes a religious insitution as well as a legal arrangement. You don't know which and people don't clarify readily. For evidence of this, read the rest of the thread.
people don't assume you believe in God and go to church just because you're married But a lot of people do assume (wrongly) that you were married in a religious ceremony leading to questions like "Where did you get married?" and expecting an anwer other than "The registrar's office, of course!" even though ALL people get married there.
#5 is something that my wife and I have already agreed to with our kids. They can be on the Internet all they want/need, but they will not be doing it in their room where no one can watch them. It's possible that they could sneak downstairs while we're asleep, but if they can just get out of bed and go to their desk, that makes it virtually impossible for us to police them. When I was a kid, my parents had internet access in my room:) I think we're seeing the first generation now where a significant proportion of parents are more computer savvy than their kids. In my case, I got into trouble for using more that 500MB of 'internet' every month because I spent 3x as much time on the computer as my parents. It didn't matter that I was writing C++ code and they were sharing family pics with the whole world (including some of me as baby in diapers). Fortunately, they weren't arrested for child pornography.
P.S. How many of you abstained from looking at bewbs on the tubes because anti-virus sucked and your computer was 'too precious to risk'?
Wait a second... does this mean that people who contribute to WikiNews aren't considered journalists, but mudslinging bloggers who have adwords accounts are?
I call BS on this regulation. Maybe journalists ought to be defined by a certification course on journalistic ethics similar to CITI for researchers?
Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon - longtime partners; not married. IMO marriage is a religious institution that has legal implications which is just wrong. There is no distinction in our language for a purely legal partnership vs. a religious commitment until death do us part and stuff. This causes most of the confusion:)
I thought the article was about a guy's girlfriend welding as well, but it's actually says 'screwdriver wielding'. What king of home computer building requires welding anyway?
If I hold a gun to your head as you vote, and you live because you vote the way I tell you, that is fair because you got your life Quite true! Because getting mugged is EXACTLY the same thing as buying a condom...
but considering the fact that probably only a very small proportion of the electorate actually participated, it won't matter much Were there any people from FL who used these websites?
Contracts to perform an illegal act are non-binding But the act of voting is not illegal... It seems adhering to the contract is the only illegal thing here.
In the US, can you be convicted for 'you are a criminal either way' situations?
Suppose men enter a building separately (they don't know each other) and both commit unrelated crimes at the exact same time. The police get there to apprehend both of them, but don't know which one committed which crime. Can they be convicted? If the crimes were NOT at the same time, then can they both use the defense that the other one did both?
So first the astronaut expels as much air as possible. Then he step into the vacuum and the air escapes through the airways rather than rupture the lungs (because there's not much air in there...) and then the oxygen gets depleted... Guess that explain it - Thanks! Didn't get the part about the lungs working in reverse though... The lungs can't 'extract' oxygen from the blood, can they?
I agree.. hence the 'as best as I could'... Which probably applied to the NASA guy in near vacuum and will apply any astronaut who is forced to get out into space in an emergency.
I just expelled all the air out of my lungs as best as I could and it was exactly 24 seconds before it was physically impossible to hold my breath... I felt a weird kind of giddiness -almost a mild 'hit'. Sort of like when you smoke a strong cigar and inhale.
Surely, astronauts ought to have better lung capacity than yours truly?
I get the impression that some recruiters think that employees should be grateful for even being considered for a post. Especially true of HR folk hiring from colleges. They think that all college students are desperate for an internship/entry level without realizing that some of us already have jobs lined up or have other options (grad school)
This is also very true when you are trying to switch job roles or look into another industry. They waste your time at the interview and try to convince you that you actually want a different role in their company. I'd rather they reject me outright.
I've always wondered about what would happen if/when a time machine is discovered. You can patent it only for so many years, but with free travel possible in the temporal dimension, just thinking about a profitable business model makes my head hurt.
Wouldn't it violate the second law of thermodynamics? I'd assume there's no violation unless the surfaces move closer to each other as a result of the force since no work gets done. But the validity of that statement lies with my rephrased question: "Does any potential energy get 'created' in the process of increased attraction?"
How does one get negative speed IANAP, but I would wager a guess that negative (directionless) speed would involve some kind of phase shift by 180deg which would 'negate' the orginal wave. That would be EXACTLY the kind of senseless convention that scientists use;) .
Math is not consider cool (not in India though), I am not entirely sure when/where in India you were educated, but given my experiences from '88 - '03, mathematics is definitely NOT COOL. Notwithstanding that I played cricket and soccer for the school, my grades were definitely something I hid from people for as long as possible when I did well. When I got selected for olympiads in math/CS and stuff, I tried not to tell people about it while bragging about my exploits in the previous day's post-school cricket match. MATH IS SO NOT COOL!! I would have been the first to smack anybody who suggested a math club right in the face... although this teacher started one and appointed me captain:( The fun part was that being a nerd was like a secret alternate persona... and I loved it!
just the same way Asterix&Obelix makes me want to learn French Ok... now you're just empowering them nerds who show off their Japanese skillz while they walk around dressed like Pikachu. What you think is 'cool' needs to align with what everyone thinks is 'cool'... otherwise, keep it your little dirty secret. Doing otherwise is not good for anyone...
I agree with you that there are very, very few people in first world countries who are in poverty. (I qualify poverty as not being able to afford nutritious food & shelter from the elements). I disagree that there aren't "the poor" in the US. Poor is relative, and there are plenty of people who end up homeless or go for a week eating nothing or nothing but rice or noodles because they had some unavoidable mishap. I agree with the general sentiment, especially the part where you say 'Poor is relative'. That was exactly my point. It is possible to survive and death from poverty is virtually unheard of. Unavoidable mishaps happen to a very few people and the rest simply have to work hard to elevate themselves.
I couldn't go to school for a week because my old shoes wore out and we couldn't afford new ones. My toys were mostly junk I got from junkyards. My school lunches were paid for by me working in the school lunchroom - although we qualified for the free lunch program, we were too proud to take advantage of it. We had no TV for years, and often ate nothing but beans, rice, and stuff we grew in our garden. My mother worked long hours in a factory hanging chicken carcasses on hooks. The core point is that 'we were too proud to take advantage of it'. Child support and other means exist for people in abject poverty. While in reality, you may have been poorer than a lot of the people who DID leech off the system, you did not consider yourself incapable to rising above these things. My dad went to school barefoot for a few years because his family would not take advantage of social support unless the REALLY needed it. Point is, your family probably considered themselves 'lower class' rather than 'in poverty'. The latter is demeaning to one's ego and I commend your family for sacrifices you made to avoid draining the system.
By southern african or afghani standards, we were middle class. By US standards, we were pretty abjectly poor. Exactly. I am not saying 'X is poor, Y is not'. I am saying that it is your perception that puts you in the 'Poor' category. e.g. Students call themselves 'poor' when they can't afford going out for lunch with the gang. I just found it unfair that someone would say 'You don't know what poor is'
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P.S. How many of you abstained from looking at bewbs on the tubes because anti-virus sucked and your computer was 'too precious to risk'?
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Wait a second... does this mean that people who contribute to WikiNews aren't considered journalists, but mudslinging bloggers who have adwords accounts are?
I call BS on this regulation. Maybe journalists ought to be defined by a certification course on journalistic ethics similar to CITI for researchers?
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Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon - longtime partners; not married. IMO marriage is a religious institution that has legal implications which is just wrong. There is no distinction in our language for a purely legal partnership vs. a religious commitment until death do us part and stuff. This causes most of the confusion :)
I thought the article was about a guy's girlfriend welding as well, but it's actually says 'screwdriver wielding'. What king of home computer building requires welding anyway?
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Cigarette: "Oh my! What big lungs you have!!"
Me: "All the better to smoke you with, my dear!"
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Two wrongs don't make a +1, Insightful?
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Which is what the parent should be modded! For valid reasons though
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In the US, can you be convicted for 'you are a criminal either way' situations?
Suppose men enter a building separately (they don't know each other) and both commit unrelated crimes at the exact same time. The police get there to apprehend both of them, but don't know which one committed which crime. Can they be convicted? If the crimes were NOT at the same time, then can they both use the defense that the other one did both?
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So first the astronaut expels as much air as possible. Then he step into the vacuum and the air escapes through the airways rather than rupture the lungs (because there's not much air in there...) and then the oxygen gets depleted... Guess that explain it - Thanks! Didn't get the part about the lungs working in reverse though... The lungs can't 'extract' oxygen from the blood, can they?
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I agree.. hence the 'as best as I could'... Which probably applied to the NASA guy in near vacuum and will apply any astronaut who is forced to get out into space in an emergency.
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I just expelled all the air out of my lungs as best as I could and it was exactly 24 seconds before it was physically impossible to hold my breath... I felt a weird kind of giddiness -almost a mild 'hit'. Sort of like when you smoke a strong cigar and inhale.
Surely, astronauts ought to have better lung capacity than yours truly?
Cheers!
This is also very true when you are trying to switch job roles or look into another industry. They waste your time at the interview and try to convince you that you actually want a different role in their company. I'd rather they reject me outright.
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I've always wondered about what would happen if/when a time machine is discovered. You can patent it only for so many years, but with free travel possible in the temporal dimension, just thinking about a profitable business model makes my head hurt.
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If and when they are available, am I the only one that thinks the pink edition would be the bestseller of the lot? Thanks a lot, Calvin!
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Just in case... you saw it here first
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It tends to collect in parents' basements There. Fixed that for you
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