Also, poptarts lack proteain and vitamins. If you're living off of the things, A powerbar is probably a lot better than a pop tart.
But powerbars are nasty. I prefer cliff bars and these new snickers energy bars. darn tasty, though a bit much like candy, which is great osmetimes and sometimes not.
And no excuse for being poor other than being lazy. And no excuse for being stupid other than being lazy. No excuse for being black other than being lazy. Only reason there are drug addicts is that they're too lazy.
Sorry, that attitude is bullshit. Don't get me wrong, being a fattie has a lot to do with a lack of will, but that it is simply being "lazy" is a cop-out.
Running sucks anyway. I highly reccomend jujutsu or another martial art for nerds looking to get into shape- incremental and fun.
However, I feel quite confident in my assumption that they don't.
But then again, it's still an assumption. In all the infinite span of the universe, there is a chance- however tiny- that there is some triangular space horse, somewhere. It's just statistics. You can assume such a thing doesn't exist- and it probably doesn't- but it's still an assumption. In science and everyday life, assumptions are useful, but one should recognize that.
So with God. I can start making up all sorts of stories about a supreme being or the creation of the world.
Sure you can! People do it all the time. Some of them make a good dollar doing it- c.f. David Koresh.
Because the common stories have emotional pull. Your story about a monkey with a giant club doesn't, at least for my usian-eurocentric-worldview. Maybe some culture somewhere would dig it, who knows. Or, you could start a cult!
Perhaps they just feel pissed off that so many people in this day and age still cling to beliefs in invisible boogymen.
Nope. I don't doubt that there are people with that sentiment in the world, but for a lot of people with the attitude I'm talking about that isn't the case. There is a distinct difference- I'm one of those people that you mention. But, I don't cling to atheism like folks cling to christianity- there is the difference.
Hopefully you'd have the courage to speak out aginst this crap. But I doubt it.
A christian may speak out, but I likely wouldn't. I'm generally a rational person; unless I had some chance of success, I wouldn't get myself killed for no good reason. Many christians - at least, classic ones- would have the courage to speak out against wrong no matter the consequences. There is an irony here for those who can handle it.
Belief in the existence or non-existence of God are equally incredible. The only honest and credible path is to admit that we really don't know and have no real evidence to support either side. That happens to be the reason that I'm agnostic.
it's about time someone else thought that!
I can't prove it one way or another. Just because you don't know if something exists, you cannot assume it doesn't.
Another good one is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Hell of a title, but pretty accessable, not too thick, but full of science. A lot of interesting info about how the brain worked, especially the transition between primitive ones and our modern brains.
I've known a million teenaged atheists who call those with a religion 'weak minded,' and call their religion a 'crutch.' which is true in a lot of situations- but we all have crutches and are weak minded to an extent. I lean on my family, on drugs, whatever rather than religion, but for the most part, I'm really no different than most other people.
That attitude is really a 14 year old atheist's one. Instead of leaning on a god, they lean on the imagined superiority they have, they feel good because they're better- stronger minded, more intelligent, etc. Not much better, IMHO. While I'm not christian or religious at all for that matter, I think that's a pretty shitty attitude to have.
Then there are atheists who just don't think there's any god. fine and dandy. But for those who use atheism as a crutch- get off of it.
someone should do some big time LBRP or something to clean slashdot up...
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I was going to say the same thing. LSD has a GIGANTIC tolerance; usually one has to wait a couple days before the next dose. Maybe the guy took some mega-gigantic-huge, but still, it seems unlikely that could last something so long as a week.
Maybe he was taking a big mishmash of drugs- the kind of people that trip for a week straight usually do. Acid on day one, then some crank, maybe some H... and then we're back to acid on day 4! There is also some cross-tolerance with psilocybe mushrooms if I'm not mistaken.
My S.O. pulled a stunt like this, though it was just a joke, not real. We've been together for a long time- 6.5 years now- so a lot of folks believed it. A few of our friends wouldn't talk to us for a while, insulted that we didn't tell them in person. heh.
You could use something like BackOrifice 2k with ButtTrumpet installed. Sounds horrible, yes, but BO2k can at times really be a useful and legally useful tool. ButtTrumpet lets you - whwever you are- know the IP address of the box. Once the machine was plugged in, you could then connect to it VNC-ish style to watch what they were doing, cap keys, etc etc.
I remember a story like this that wasn't an April fool a few years back. The guy was a Mac user and found his computer by some PC Anywhere like tool. I can't recall what the package was called, but when connected, it contacted his computer to tell him it was online and available for admin'ing, and sure enough he reocvered it!
No, people certainly don't use Prothon. And there is only a small group of people using Slate. However, there was once a lot of folks using an older proto-oo language with a biggish installed base and lots of apps to be found written in it: NewtonScript, the preferred language on the Newton PDA lines.
But that can be brushed aside- the Newton is all but dead. There happens to be another proto-oo language that is used quite a bit- Lua. It is a pretty heavily used scripting language, incidentally a lot like NewtonScript. It is small- 100KB runtime and base lib, very easily embeddable (esp compared to monsters like Python and Perl), and used a lot in gaming scripting languages.
In Java and C++ you have classes. In a prototyped language usually not, there you only have objects.
But then again, in real OO languages like Smalltalk, you only have objects. Classes are an object just like any string, number or Dictionary (~= hashtable) is.:)
But then again, in a proto-oo language as flexible as Slate, one could easily impose the same restrictions- each new proto derives from some other one, its parent. You could implement a class-ish system, something that had the same restraints, pretty easily in a language like Slate.
But then again, similarily, in a flexible enough class-based OO language- like Smalltalk- you can add protos incredibly easily. Sure, you could implement a proto-oo system in any language, but in a language like Smalltalk it is incredibly easy and sometimes quite useful.
Slate isn't one of those kinds of languages. There was actual research involved, a couple papers- even though it is an "amateur" show- they're not CS profs. But then again, nor are they CS undergrads, who created something like Lua in a compilers/language class, but with a C++-ish method invocation syntax.
Slate has been worked on for a few years now- not a hack done in a semester.
A non-trivial reason is that OOP is still a big buzzword in company software groups. Yes, yes, *I* know that you can code in an OO style using C and GTK+, but a lot of folks don't. When they're out shopping for a toolkit they see one that uses C- old news and one that uses C++- what is now, or at least a little closer to now that C is.
ie, you can't develop proprietary internal apps with the free Qt version. As opposed to the GPL which only deals with release
Sure you can. The GPL does not require that you *RELEASE* your software to the rest of the world. This would work quite well, if your users were mostly ignorant, and didn't go on demanding the source and sharing with the outside world. But for most internal business users, they wouldn't care less.
However, you cannot use the free Qt version to create software that you intend to keep closed- whether you're giving it away as freeware or if you're selling it. Or, if you want to use a license other than the GPL- for example, the LGPL, BSD or MIT. For that you need the commercial license.
Then why not just add an "a" sound at the end of a word? I mean, in English, something along those lines usually has to be done, some sort of conjugation. In the google example:
I google for "swedish meatballs." I googled for "swedish meatballs." I am googling for "swedish meatballs."
etc etc
Now, I don't know anything about how Swedish does those other kinds of modifications, but note that you have to do something in english. Why not just add an a at the end, or for words like "google" word making it "googlea" would be awkward, do what languages often do- put a consonant in between.
RFC 8301.13: Proposal for a Protocol for the Verbification of Words in the Swedish Language
For nouns ending in a consonant, add "a" at the end to make it a verb. For example, let's use the inferior search engine, "hotbot." In english, "I am hotboting." In Swedish: "Jag hotbota."
And for words ending in a vowel, add "da" to the end. In English: "I google for love in all the wrong places!" Or, in Swedish: "Jag googleda."
/me lifts the shackles from the Swedish people who have long been oppressed by this limitation!
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Yeah, like I said- "cliff bars." Cliff bars are quite good, and I'd eat them over a powerbar any- and every- day. Some good flavors.
Also, poptarts lack proteain and vitamins. If you're living off of the things, A powerbar is probably a lot better than a pop tart.
But powerbars are nasty. I prefer cliff bars and these new snickers energy bars. darn tasty, though a bit much like candy, which is great osmetimes and sometimes not.
No excuse to be overweight... other then lazy.
And no excuse for being poor other than being lazy. And no excuse for being stupid other than being lazy. No excuse for being black other than being lazy. Only reason there are drug addicts is that they're too lazy.
Sorry, that attitude is bullshit. Don't get me wrong, being a fattie has a lot to do with a lack of will, but that it is simply being "lazy" is a cop-out.
Running sucks anyway. I highly reccomend jujutsu or another martial art for nerds looking to get into shape- incremental and fun.
However, I feel quite confident in my assumption that they don't.
But then again, it's still an assumption. In all the infinite span of the universe, there is a chance- however tiny- that there is some triangular space horse, somewhere. It's just statistics. You can assume such a thing doesn't exist- and it probably doesn't- but it's still an assumption. In science and everyday life, assumptions are useful, but one should recognize that.
So with God. I can start making up all sorts of stories about a supreme being or the creation of
the world.
Sure you can! People do it all the time. Some of them make a good dollar doing it- c.f. David Koresh.
Because the common stories have emotional pull. Your story about a monkey with a giant club doesn't, at least for my usian-eurocentric-worldview. Maybe some culture somewhere would dig it, who knows. Or, you could start a cult!
Perhaps they just feel pissed off that so many people in this day and age still cling to beliefs in invisible boogymen.
Nope. I don't doubt that there are people with that sentiment in the world, but for a lot of people with the attitude I'm talking about that isn't the case. There is a distinct difference- I'm one of those people that you mention. But, I don't cling to atheism like folks cling to christianity- there is the difference.
Hopefully you'd have the courage to speak out aginst this crap. But I doubt it.
A christian may speak out, but I likely wouldn't. I'm generally a rational person; unless I had some chance of success, I wouldn't get myself killed for no good reason. Many christians - at least, classic ones- would have the courage to speak out against wrong no matter the consequences. There is an irony here for those who can handle it.
Belief in the existence or non-existence of God are equally incredible. The only honest and credible path is to admit that we really don't know and have no real evidence to support either side. That happens to be the reason that I'm agnostic.
it's about time someone else thought that!
I can't prove it one way or another. Just because you don't know if something exists, you cannot assume it doesn't.
Another good one is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Hell of a title, but pretty accessable, not too thick, but full of science. A lot of interesting info about how the brain worked, especially the transition between primitive ones and our modern brains.
I've known a million teenaged atheists who call those with a religion 'weak minded,' and call their religion a 'crutch.' which is true in a lot of situations- but we all have crutches and are weak minded to an extent. I lean on my family, on drugs, whatever rather than religion, but for the most part, I'm really no different than most other people.
That attitude is really a 14 year old atheist's one. Instead of leaning on a god, they lean on the imagined superiority they have, they feel good because they're better- stronger minded, more intelligent, etc. Not much better, IMHO. While I'm not christian or religious at all for that matter, I think that's a pretty shitty attitude to have.
Then there are atheists who just don't think there's any god. fine and dandy. But for those who use atheism as a crutch- get off of it.
well, man.
someone should do some big time LBRP or something to clean slashdot up...
I was going to say the same thing. LSD has a GIGANTIC tolerance; usually one has to wait a couple days before the next dose. Maybe the guy took some mega-gigantic-huge, but still, it seems unlikely that could last something so long as a week.
Maybe he was taking a big mishmash of drugs- the kind of people that trip for a week straight usually do. Acid on day one, then some crank, maybe some H... and then we're back to acid on day 4! There is also some cross-tolerance with psilocybe mushrooms if I'm not mistaken.
Mmm... Nothing better than getting stoned on theobromine! Reminds me of my days working for the Company... good times. :)
You're right- xoom.com is long gone. But that is why I said *used to do*, rather than saying folks do this now. tsk tsk tsk! ;)
My S.O. pulled a stunt like this, though it was just a joke, not real. We've been together for a long time- 6.5 years now- so a lot of folks believed it. A few of our friends wouldn't talk to us for a while, insulted that we didn't tell them in person. heh.
Well, just maybe.
As everyone knows: Belkin owners never lie!
Finally, someone else has to realize that Austrailia really is fucked up!
You could use something like BackOrifice 2k with ButtTrumpet installed. Sounds horrible, yes, but BO2k can at times really be a useful and legally useful tool. ButtTrumpet lets you - whwever you are- know the IP address of the box. Once the machine was plugged in, you could then connect to it VNC-ish style to watch what they were doing, cap keys, etc etc.
I remember a story like this that wasn't an April fool a few years back. The guy was a Mac user and found his computer by some PC Anywhere like tool. I can't recall what the package was called, but when connected, it contacted his computer to tell him it was online and available for admin'ing, and sure enough he reocvered it!
Drinking a ton of water will get you drunk! I hear all the kool kids do it these days.
Coffee doesn't contain electrolytes? Heh.
Plenty of folks used to do that with xoom, etc accounts. FUN!
No, people certainly don't use Prothon. And there is only a small group of people using Slate. However, there was once a lot of folks using an older proto-oo language with a biggish installed base and lots of apps to be found written in it: NewtonScript, the preferred language on the Newton PDA lines.
But that can be brushed aside- the Newton is all but dead. There happens to be another proto-oo language that is used quite a bit- Lua. It is a pretty heavily used scripting language, incidentally a lot like NewtonScript. It is small- 100KB runtime and base lib, very easily embeddable (esp compared to monsters like Python and Perl), and used a lot in gaming scripting languages.
In Java and C++ you have classes. In a prototyped language usually not, there you only have objects.
:)
But then again, in real OO languages like Smalltalk, you only have objects. Classes are an object just like any string, number or Dictionary (~= hashtable) is.
But then again, in a proto-oo language as flexible as Slate, one could easily impose the same restrictions- each new proto derives from some other one, its parent. You could implement a class-ish system, something that had the same restraints, pretty easily in a language like Slate.
But then again, similarily, in a flexible enough class-based OO language- like Smalltalk- you can add protos incredibly easily. Sure, you could implement a proto-oo system in any language, but in a language like Smalltalk it is incredibly easy and sometimes quite useful.
Slate isn't one of those kinds of languages. There was actual research involved, a couple papers- even though it is an "amateur" show- they're not CS profs. But then again, nor are they CS undergrads, who created something like Lua in a compilers/language class, but with a C++-ish method invocation syntax.
Slate has been worked on for a few years now- not a hack done in a semester.
A non-trivial reason is that OOP is still a big buzzword in company software groups. Yes, yes, *I* know that you can code in an OO style using C and GTK+, but a lot of folks don't. When they're out shopping for a toolkit they see one that uses C- old news and one that uses C++- what is now, or at least a little closer to now that C is.
ie, you can't develop proprietary internal apps with the free Qt version. As opposed to the GPL which only deals with release
Sure you can. The GPL does not require that you *RELEASE* your software to the rest of the world. This would work quite well, if your users were mostly ignorant, and didn't go on demanding the source and sharing with the outside world. But for most internal business users, they wouldn't care less.
However, you cannot use the free Qt version to create software that you intend to keep closed- whether you're giving it away as freeware or if you're selling it. Or, if you want to use a license other than the GPL- for example, the LGPL, BSD or MIT. For that you need the commercial license.
I google for "swedish meatballs."
I googled for "swedish meatballs."
I am googling for "swedish meatballs."
etc etc
Now, I don't know anything about how Swedish does those other kinds of modifications, but note that you have to do something in english. Why not just add an a at the end, or for words like "google" word making it "googlea" would be awkward, do what languages often do- put a consonant in between.
RFC 8301.13: Proposal for a Protocol for the Verbification of Words in the Swedish Language
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