Yeah, use anything from the Qur'an in jest or light, and you can expect a bombing of your headquarters by muslims. Make fun of the Bible or Christians and expect to be prayed for, but never told you can't do it.
Which is the religion of peace again?
Umm... what? Yeah, maybe SOME Christians choose that option, just as some Muslims don't kill people over shit like that, but really... don't try to say all Christians are saints who wouldn't raise a hand against another soul. (btw IAAC)
At any rate, no one was upset about this. Sony decided to do this proactively.
... God: Oh right, a few thousands years early on those, aren't I? Um, how are you with Calculus?
Abraham: Calcu-what?
God: Non-euclidean algebra?
Abraham:...
God: Right, fuck it. New clay tablet. In the beginning I said, "Let there be light!" and there was, and it was good. Still with me?
Not to be pedantic, but you mean Moses, right? Abraham was the one with the wrinkly old barren wife who thought he was too old to have kids. Just so we're clear.
You're right! Trying to find explanations for observed phenomena isn't what science is about. WTF to these scientists think they're doing?~
4 Insightful, eh mods?
Plus, if you are being passed on the right you are driving too slow. If you were driving in any civilized country besides the US you would have people flashing and honking at you.
Not true. I don't know about other people, but as a rule when I get passed on the right it's while I am passing someone else! Say someone is going 62 in a 65, whereas I want to drive about 68-70 (along with most of the traffic). So, I start passing at 70, maybe 72, when some dick-off cruises up behind me around 85 or 90 and swerves around me on the right before I get next to the guy I'm passing. This is what really pisses me off.
Oh great, so because you can site one instance where the law was broken, that means it doesn't work? We should use this as the litmus for revoking all laws; they won't last a week!
When are schools are more concerned with teaching junk science (global warming, polar bears, spotted owls), junk politics (socialism, marxism), and how to be spineless cowards, than they are with teaching math, science, history, and other factual subjects, it's not a surprise that we're falling farther and farther behind on the global scale.
+5 insightful... really? I only graduated a few years ago (from a US school) and I don't remember ever going to "global warming" class or "spotted owl" class. Do you really believe that propaganda that that is all our schools are teaching? You think they "teach" Marxism (other than in an historical context)? You really think there is such little emphasis on math/history/etc.? If so, then you are waaay off.
When are schools are more concerned with teaching junk science...
Yeah, and I don't know if I've ever seen a car driver who obeys all the traffic laws. Most commonly, it's speeding, failing to stop at a stop sign, or changing lanes without checking a blind spot. What's your point?
Sounds like you have a classic case of confirmation bias. There are many drivers who obey laws (almost) all the time, you only notice the ones who do not, so it seems like people always disregard laws.
Tax cuts disproportionately affect "the rich" because the "the rich" pay a disproportionate amount of taxes. If you do a 1% tax cut, the guy who pays 100k a year in taxes will clearly get more back, in real dollars, than the person who pays zero in taxes (i.e, makes under $30k a year or so).
Be that as it may, that's completely beside the point. McCain still wants to give a higher percentage back to the richer folks. From cnn.com:
[In McCain's tax plan] those in the lowest income groups would only see their after-tax income rise by less than 1% (or between $19 and $319). By contrast, the highest-income households - those with incomes of at least $603,000 - would see a boost in after-tax income of 3.4%, or more than $40,000.
Speaking of idiots, the only mention of "aggro" that I can find in the review is that 4e doesn't have it.
It's called "marking". You target (usually) one monster, and they take penalties/damage if they attack anyone else, depending on the skill you used to mark them. It isn't exactly like aggro, but it feels the same way to me.
It doesn't even show Chad playing the drum pads. All that told us is that they're pressure sensitive... great. I would have like to have seen his reaction to playing it; not just his reaction to hearing about what it was.
Other research (http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/funk1.html) shows that those drawn to violent video games may already be socially maladjusted. Since we have no real way to target those individuals, it's far better not to allow these games to exist. This is like throwing gasoline on a grass fire.
I agree completely, something must be done! Sure gasoline is useful as a fuel for cars and generator and the like, but it can be used wrongly to make grass fires much worse. Gasoline has already been used to horrific extent in many arsons, and people are dying! Even though hundreds of millions of people safely and lawfully use gasoline on a daily basis, we must outlaw gasoline rather than look at the cause of arsonist behavior!
This argument is completely silly. Of course mathematical results exist before someone thought of them. Were there any integer solutions to x^n + y^n = z^n for n > 2 before Wiles?
I disagree. I think of it this way: yes, the truths existed before math did, but we had no elegant way to describe them. You may as well say that we 'discovered' language because the phrase "The ball is red" is true of a red ball before we came up with language to say so.
It seems to me that the question really is "Does mathematics exist the way it does because that is the only way to describe things in reality (discovered), or is it completely dependent on our subjective point of view and the labels that we assign to things (invented)?
First off, just about any company named E* isn't going to be a company worth doing business with. Didn't anybody learn anything from the dot-bomb bullshit just a few years ago?
Okay, I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but... really? Do you really thing that names caused the.com bust? If so, perhaps you should avoid anything that ends in ".com". That... um... that'll work.
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Umm... what? Yeah, maybe SOME Christians choose that option, just as some Muslims don't kill people over shit like that, but really... don't try to say all Christians are saints who wouldn't raise a hand against another soul. (btw IAAC)
At any rate, no one was upset about this. Sony decided to do this proactively.
Not to be pedantic, but you mean Moses, right? Abraham was the one with the wrinkly old barren wife who thought he was too old to have kids. Just so we're clear.
...when they could have just let it roll over to -$9,999,999,999? That's what I call surplus!
Except that these are _recent_ findings. The outer core of the Earth has been molten for a long, long time. (At least, heck, 6000 years or so)
You're right! Trying to find explanations for observed phenomena isn't what science is about. WTF to these scientists think they're doing?~ 4 Insightful, eh mods?
Giggity!
Not true. I don't know about other people, but as a rule when I get passed on the right it's while I am passing someone else! Say someone is going 62 in a 65, whereas I want to drive about 68-70 (along with most of the traffic). So, I start passing at 70, maybe 72, when some dick-off cruises up behind me around 85 or 90 and swerves around me on the right before I get next to the guy I'm passing. This is what really pisses me off.
I wasn't trying to say you were wrong, merely that your argument was emotional and anecdotal rather than valid.
Oh great, so because you can site one instance where the law was broken, that means it doesn't work? We should use this as the litmus for revoking all laws; they won't last a week!
Good point, I actually meant Availability Heuristic. ...damn.
Be that as it may, that's completely beside the point. McCain still wants to give a higher percentage back to the richer folks. From cnn.com:
[In McCain's tax plan] those in the lowest income groups would only see their after-tax income rise by less than 1% (or between $19 and $319). By contrast, the highest-income households - those with incomes of at least $603,000 - would see a boost in after-tax income of 3.4%, or more than $40,000.
Possibly as much as eleventy million billion times as strong!
It doesn't even show Chad playing the drum pads. All that told us is that they're pressure sensitive... great. I would have like to have seen his reaction to playing it; not just his reaction to hearing about what it was.
It seems to me that the question really is "Does mathematics exist the way it does because that is the only way to describe things in reality (discovered), or is it completely dependent on our subjective point of view and the labels that we assign to things (invented)?
but it seems like perseverance, personal resilience, or finding power within oneself is a very common theme in anime.
Those things are common _Japanese_ motifs. They aren't specific to anime by a long shot
We would still have horse buggies if we subsidized outdated businesses
I'm Amish you insensitive clod!
Could someone tell me what they mean by "operation near absolute zero."?
It means bring your coat...
er... Since when does (taxes & spending) -> socialism?