Everyday I see an advertisement on TV that touts being able to talk to a "real person."
Well what is the point of talking to a real person if they are just some clueless automaton following some script. This Verizon policy is just another example.
Personally, I dread the day when I have to call customer service, and I dread calling tech support double.
I see two penguins when I start up my acer aspire one that I bought two years ago.
I see four penguins when I boot up my foxconn atom sytem.
Am I missing something or have we had dual and quad core atom for a long time now?
Wow, you are actually proud that you have never entered a public library?
I assume you got your degrees from private universities?
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Hey we could also just throw them into debtors prison if lowering their credit rating doesn't work. Fact is, a signifigant number of people just won't pay.
I really don't know where Obama and you get these idiotic ideas. If I go to the emergency room, I'll have to pay for it. I seriously doubt that I can just show up and say, "treat me for free"
You call me an idiot and then you show that you have no idea what you are talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act passed in 1986 during the Reagan administration.
Slavery?? REally?
I would bet that your 100 watt server running 24/7 is just a small fraction or your overall usage.
Save money in other places first, have you replaced all your light bulbs with CFL's yet? You won't notice the difference between a 100 watt incandescent and the equivelant 24 watt CFL, but you probably will notice the difference between a 100 and 30 watt server.
Haven't read the rest the previous discussion but...
of course there are good evidence based reasons for abstinence. The problem is that these are not the reasons that religions use. The reason they use is that "god says so".
If the reasons were known, instead of divine edicts, we could modify our moral positions when conditions change. For instance, today there is no reason any woman who does not wish too should get pregnant. We have extrememly effective birth control these days -- a very recent development. Our religious morals have not caught up.
In a very backwards form of reasoning, many religions now say that birth control is immoral.... only because it would invalidate the moral rules that they have internalized without question for so long.
summary: of course most "moral values" have reasonable evidence based rationales. The problem comes when we do not understand that these are real reasons, and instead attribute the moral rules it some absolute rigid moral standard.
very interesting, this might also explain why he seems to win every fight and the women are always attracted to him.
There is a trippy dream-like feel all throughout.
PBS is the number one reason IMHO to get HD. Nova, frontline, nature, the newshour have all been in HD for a while now. Directv in their infinite wisdom has deemed my local pbs affiliate as not worthy of an HD channel on their sattelite. It makes me angry but I am still able to get my HD PBS OTA with an antenna.
hehe ok. Nietzche is interesting to read because he likes to challenge the tradional morality of good/evil. If you want to read him, start with Zarathustra (a fictional Zoroaster), I find his other works hard to read though I have not read the new translations. Zarathustra gives the advice that you should call your enemies "bad" not "evil."
The last part of your comment is also nicely confirmed by the game theory concept of Iterated Prisoners Dilemma.
100% relative humidity is when the dewpoint is reached and water condenses out of the air (aka fog).
The popular idea that 100% rel humidity = rain is not accurate.
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hmm so in other words we will never see the uptake of tor and freenet
Well what is the point of talking to a real person if they are just some clueless automaton following some script. This Verizon policy is just another example.
Personally, I dread the day when I have to call customer service, and I dread calling tech support double.
Our car analogies will become apt!
Not unless you count 1956 as early history.
If you do your homework, our system of government has indeed borrowed from the Bible
"the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" Treaty of Tripoli - 1797
You sir have been conned.
I know that someone has a link to the image in question here.
Please provide a link so that we can judge for ourselves whether it is "porn" or not.
I see two penguins when I start up my acer aspire one that I bought two years ago. I see four penguins when I boot up my foxconn atom sytem. Am I missing something or have we had dual and quad core atom for a long time now?
I assume you got your degrees from private universities?
Hey we could also just throw them into debtors prison if lowering their credit rating doesn't work. Fact is, a signifigant number of people just won't pay. I really don't know where Obama and you get these idiotic ideas. If I go to the emergency room, I'll have to pay for it. I seriously doubt that I can just show up and say, "treat me for free" You call me an idiot and then you show that you have no idea what you are talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act passed in 1986 during the Reagan administration. Slavery?? REally?
maybe not on slashdot though
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Save money in other places first, have you replaced all your light bulbs with CFL's yet? You won't notice the difference between a 100 watt incandescent and the equivelant 24 watt CFL, but you probably will notice the difference between a 100 and 30 watt server.
of course there are good evidence based reasons for abstinence. The problem is that these are not the reasons that religions use. The reason they use is that "god says so".
If the reasons were known, instead of divine edicts, we could modify our moral positions when conditions change. For instance, today there is no reason any woman who does not wish too should get pregnant. We have extrememly effective birth control these days -- a very recent development. Our religious morals have not caught up .
In a very backwards form of reasoning, many religions now say that birth control is immoral.... only because it would invalidate the moral rules that they have internalized without question for so long.
summary: of course most "moral values" have reasonable evidence based rationales. The problem comes when we do not understand that these are real reasons, and instead attribute the moral rules it some absolute rigid moral standard.
Don't *you* have unit tests? In perl it is very easy to create a test suite, that is why modules on CPAN are already being tested against 5.11.
so I guess you prefer to be lied to?
No software update can claim without a doubt that it will not break anything. Also notice that this is a "development" release...
very interesting, this might also explain why he seems to win every fight and the women are always attracted to him. There is a trippy dream-like feel all throughout.
from the new scientist article:
for now, the robots rely on mains power
Also I can imagine that these "bacterial fuel cells" don't smell very good.
"Linux" does not have packages. "Linux" is a kernel.
"Most linux distros" have packages. "Most linux distros" have to worry about the versioning and configuration of these packages.
From TFA:
The new study also showed that people who had a high caffeine intake were NOT more likely to think that others were out to get them
PBS is the number one reason IMHO to get HD. Nova, frontline, nature, the newshour have all been in HD for a while now. Directv in their infinite wisdom has deemed my local pbs affiliate as not worthy of an HD channel on their sattelite. It makes me angry but I am still able to get my HD PBS OTA with an antenna.
The last part of your comment is also nicely confirmed by the game theory concept of Iterated Prisoners Dilemma.
you should cite your source.
100% relative humidity is when the dewpoint is reached and water condenses out of the air (aka fog). The popular idea that 100% rel humidity = rain is not accurate.
the web != the Internet
there are several included now, polytopes (the coolest looking), hypercube and hyperball