I'm thinking more of a disease that could kill nearly everyone on earth within a year or two. We aren't so homogeneous that that's a real danger, but that's why the genetic diversity we do have is important.
Is that really something the LGBT community wants to claim credit for? It seems more like an ugly truth of the "Yes, we have flaws like everyone else." variety, like the beltway shooter.
Other species would develop thicker fur in colder climates. We simply wear thicker clothes. It's not like all diversity is necessary or useful for people that reshape the environment to fit them instead. It's important for disease resistance, if nothing else.
My daughter was not taught how to read using phonics, she was taught using "sight words." How often do you read using phonics? If you are consciously sounding out words, people generally interpret that as "can't read".
English spelling is based on half a dozen different sets of phonics rules (English, Latin, Greek, French, and probably others). I don't know about you, but I only learned the very simplest of them when I was in first grade in 1982. Getting a feel for the rest came from just seeing words that looked similar.
I asked the teacher she wasn't learning the multiplication table and the teacher said that it was not taught anymore because they prefered 'concepts.' Right, because those apply to things that are still important. My son is in 7th grade, and not as good at long multiplication and division as I was then, but he's learning geometry and algebra I didn't get until 9th and 10th grade.
usually, people who die to preventable diseases are displayed as heroes for sticking with their belief system. Like in Steel Magnolias. Saying that Julia Roberts' character deserved to die tends not to win points with the ladies.
Still, you can actually access these volumes in a more "modern" fashion by using their volume names directly But there's no way to use a UNC as the current directory in DOS, is there? Would there be if I took some time to learn PowerShell?
After all, VB6 couldn't be automatically upgraded to VB.net. That's because just about every detail of how VB6 worked was a consequence of either how older MS Basics going back to 1975 had worked (the bizarre boolean rules) or how COM works. The different memory model alone would make it nearly impossible to automatically upgrade projects directly, and is why Office (still COM) Automation still doesn't work well under.Net. VB.Net is essentially just an alternate syntax of C#, plus optional parameter support.
Neither C# nor VB.net forms projects can be automatically upgraded to ASP.net You mean automatically converting WinForms projects? How could that possibly work? WebForms already denies the basic properties of the web way too much.
Yes, we're all enjoying the benefits of that wonderful CIL. It's just provided the folks on the ground *so* many benefits like, um, er... Real inheritance. Collections other than arrays and "Collection". Fewer arbitrary "you can't combine these features because we didn't think of that" restrictions. Better performance without the COM reference-counting overhead. Much better string performance if you learn how to use it. Worthwhile built-in libraries. Dynamic form controls without invisible "control array" seeds. Initial values in variable declarations. Not so much of this kinda thing: "Left(Upper(LTrim(RTrim(txtStuff))), Len(LTrim(RTrim(txtStuff)))-1)". XCopy installation. Console app support. IDE tooltips showing any expression's current value.
While I certainly like to see plenty of detail, the external cumshots are always a big minus for me, because I want to see people enjoying themselves (or at least convincing me that they are), and that's one area that's clearly reducing the guy's sensation. And half the time, the camera cuts away in between, and I think the cumshot probably wasn't even related to the sex.
The creampie porn that's been gaining popularity lately is an improvement in that you can see that it was actually the sex that led to the orgasm, but still seems contrived when they freeze to almost pull out and cum just inside the entrance. I think appeal is supposed to be less about improved realism than just making it raunchier, but it seems like the frothy mess you get from normal unprotected sex would do that better.
if sperm were long lived, parentage of offspring would always be in doubt - Is the daddy the guy she screwed yesterday or a month ago? That might be nice for the woman, but it's not going to help the man whose sperm only lives three days instead of a week to reproduce.
Sedation is a pretty decent middle ground, on price, risk and not noticing what they're doing.
It's about $100, or a bit less, and generally something along the lines of taking one pill (nothing I was familiar with) the night before and then an Ambien an hour or so before the procedure. I like to combine it with music on headphones, and very little sleep; I had two root canals that way, and have almost no memory of them.
Good lord, that was ten years ago, wasn't it? It seems like only two or three years ago that a coworker and I went to the Metallica / Ted Nugent / Kid Rock New Years Eve concert and then back to work at 2am to see if everything seemed to still be basically working.
I wouldn't call it redemption, either, but I think that's kinda cool. Anakin never cared a whit about ideals or even much about power. He cared about the people who were close to him, and was driven by that all the way through.
I've been using Oracle for the last two and a half years, after a year or two of 50/50 Oracle and SQL Server at another company (with occasional MySQL and Informix). Before that, I did a whole bunch of SQL Server 7 and 2000 work for about six years.
We made schema updates all the time in SQL Server, and never took the database down for it.
You mentioned "long-running transactions" in another post as an Oracle advantage, which I suppose is true, but the SQL Server solution of "Don't do that." really isn't that much trouble. You arrange your T-SQL to get all the answers into temp tables or table variables before starting a transaction to avoid locking trouble, and then discover it makes testing easier, anyway. I'd do it in Oracle, too, if temp tables weren't such a nuisance. It's certainly not enough of a problem to outweigh mutating table errors.
consistency in language means you don't have to learn 5 or so to do meaningful work. Unfortunately, whilst MS appears to agree with me (everything in C#), the rest of the world doesn't. I don't mind learning several languages, but JavaScript on both the client and the server does give you the possibility of running the same input validation code both places.
since California is in fine shape, with no farmers in the Central Valley going without water, without widespread corruption, brutality, and incarceration And power shortages.
As long as it's fair, and we can all see the same things, sure, why not? You're taking a chance that someone is looking, anyway; it just changes the odds a bit.
Besides, my wife generally knows when I'm likely to be having sex with someone else, and I make it a point not to lie about why I was late.
If it's okay for the government to watch us on the public street, then it's equally okay for us to watch THEM with our handycams. That's not going far enough. If these are public areas, and the cameras are paid for with public money, we should be able to watch them, or whatever we want, on *their* cameras.
Why did they never build empires or develop technology (on the same scale as civilizations like the Romans, Arabs, or Chinese)? Why didn't they [re-]discover the New World and go enslave the Europeans Because African native crops and wildlife aren't well suited to domestication, so they couldn't develop an agricultural society that allowed people to be specialists.
The current methods might be the worst they think they can get past the courts. Yes, I realize they could always do breaking on the wheel, a headcrusher, or some modern updates.
if you have a 'tension hedache' and you're seeking prescription medication Tension headaches are best treated with sex, followed by a upper neck muscle rub.
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I'm thinking more of a disease that could kill nearly everyone on earth within a year or two. We aren't so homogeneous that that's a real danger, but that's why the genetic diversity we do have is important.
Is that really something the LGBT community wants to claim credit for? It seems more like an ugly truth of the "Yes, we have flaws like everyone else." variety, like the beltway shooter.
Other species would develop thicker fur in colder climates. We simply wear thicker clothes. It's not like all diversity is necessary or useful for people that reshape the environment to fit them instead.
It's important for disease resistance, if nothing else.
My daughter was not taught how to read using phonics, she was taught using "sight words."
How often do you read using phonics? If you are consciously sounding out words, people generally interpret that as "can't read".
English spelling is based on half a dozen different sets of phonics rules (English, Latin, Greek, French, and probably others). I don't know about you, but I only learned the very simplest of them when I was in first grade in 1982. Getting a feel for the rest came from just seeing words that looked similar.
I asked the teacher she wasn't learning the multiplication table and the teacher said that it was not taught anymore because they prefered 'concepts.'
Right, because those apply to things that are still important. My son is in 7th grade, and not as good at long multiplication and division as I was then, but he's learning geometry and algebra I didn't get until 9th and 10th grade.
usually, people who die to preventable diseases are displayed as heroes for sticking with their belief system.
Like in Steel Magnolias. Saying that Julia Roberts' character deserved to die tends not to win points with the ladies.
I'll keep the legs, thanks. Although if I could get built-in high heels like Angelina Jolie in Beowulf...
If you experience a boner lasting more than four hours, call more ladies!
It's also succeeded in being far more cross-platform than any other *NIX.
Has it caught up with NetBSD?
Still, you can actually access these volumes in a more "modern" fashion by using their volume names directly
But there's no way to use a UNC as the current directory in DOS, is there? Would there be if I took some time to learn PowerShell?
After all, VB6 couldn't be automatically upgraded to VB.net. .Net. VB.Net is essentially just an alternate syntax of C#, plus optional parameter support.
That's because just about every detail of how VB6 worked was a consequence of either how older MS Basics going back to 1975 had worked (the bizarre boolean rules) or how COM works. The different memory model alone would make it nearly impossible to automatically upgrade projects directly, and is why Office (still COM) Automation still doesn't work well under
Neither C# nor VB.net forms projects can be automatically upgraded to ASP.net
You mean automatically converting WinForms projects? How could that possibly work? WebForms already denies the basic properties of the web way too much.
Yes, we're all enjoying the benefits of that wonderful CIL. It's just provided the folks on the ground *so* many benefits like, um, er...
Real inheritance.
Collections other than arrays and "Collection".
Fewer arbitrary "you can't combine these features because we didn't think of that" restrictions.
Better performance without the COM reference-counting overhead.
Much better string performance if you learn how to use it.
Worthwhile built-in libraries.
Dynamic form controls without invisible "control array" seeds.
Initial values in variable declarations.
Not so much of this kinda thing: "Left(Upper(LTrim(RTrim(txtStuff))), Len(LTrim(RTrim(txtStuff)))-1)".
XCopy installation.
Console app support.
IDE tooltips showing any expression's current value.
While I certainly like to see plenty of detail, the external cumshots are always a big minus for me, because I want to see people enjoying themselves (or at least convincing me that they are), and that's one area that's clearly reducing the guy's sensation. And half the time, the camera cuts away in between, and I think the cumshot probably wasn't even related to the sex.
The creampie porn that's been gaining popularity lately is an improvement in that you can see that it was actually the sex that led to the orgasm, but still seems contrived when they freeze to almost pull out and cum just inside the entrance. I think appeal is supposed to be less about improved realism than just making it raunchier, but it seems like the frothy mess you get from normal unprotected sex would do that better.
if sperm were long lived, parentage of offspring would always be in doubt - Is the daddy the guy she screwed yesterday or a month ago?
That might be nice for the woman, but it's not going to help the man whose sperm only lives three days instead of a week to reproduce.
Watching a Blu-Ray movie is already the only time I put on my glasses in my living room. It doesn't really sound like a stretch.
Sedation is a pretty decent middle ground, on price, risk and not noticing what they're doing.
It's about $100, or a bit less, and generally something along the lines of taking one pill (nothing I was familiar with) the night before and then an Ambien an hour or so before the procedure. I like to combine it with music on headphones, and very little sleep; I had two root canals that way, and have almost no memory of them.
Good lord, that was ten years ago, wasn't it? It seems like only two or three years ago that a coworker and I went to the Metallica / Ted Nugent / Kid Rock New Years Eve concert and then back to work at 2am to see if everything seemed to still be basically working.
I wouldn't call it redemption, either, but I think that's kinda cool. Anakin never cared a whit about ideals or even much about power. He cared about the people who were close to him, and was driven by that all the way through.
I've been using Oracle for the last two and a half years, after a year or two of 50/50 Oracle and SQL Server at another company (with occasional MySQL and Informix). Before that, I did a whole bunch of SQL Server 7 and 2000 work for about six years.
We made schema updates all the time in SQL Server, and never took the database down for it.
You mentioned "long-running transactions" in another post as an Oracle advantage, which I suppose is true, but the SQL Server solution of "Don't do that." really isn't that much trouble. You arrange your T-SQL to get all the answers into temp tables or table variables before starting a transaction to avoid locking trouble, and then discover it makes testing easier, anyway. I'd do it in Oracle, too, if temp tables weren't such a nuisance. It's certainly not enough of a problem to outweigh mutating table errors.
consistency in language means you don't have to learn 5 or so to do meaningful work. Unfortunately, whilst MS appears to agree with me (everything in C#), the rest of the world doesn't.
I don't mind learning several languages, but JavaScript on both the client and the server does give you the possibility of running the same input validation code both places.
since California is in fine shape, with no farmers in the Central Valley going without water, without widespread corruption, brutality, and incarceration
And power shortages.
As long as it's fair, and we can all see the same things, sure, why not? You're taking a chance that someone is looking, anyway; it just changes the odds a bit.
Besides, my wife generally knows when I'm likely to be having sex with someone else, and I make it a point not to lie about why I was late.
If it's okay for the government to watch us on the public street, then it's equally okay for us to watch THEM with our handycams.
That's not going far enough. If these are public areas, and the cameras are paid for with public money, we should be able to watch them, or whatever we want, on *their* cameras.
Why did they never build empires or develop technology (on the same scale as civilizations like the Romans, Arabs, or Chinese)? Why didn't they [re-]discover the New World and go enslave the Europeans
Because African native crops and wildlife aren't well suited to domestication, so they couldn't develop an agricultural society that allowed people to be specialists.
Read Guns, Germs and Steel.
The current methods might be the worst they think they can get past the courts. Yes, I realize they could always do breaking on the wheel, a headcrusher, or some modern updates.
I always figured deterrent value was why they didn't just use a whole lot of chloroform.
if you have a 'tension hedache' and you're seeking prescription medication
Tension headaches are best treated with sex, followed by a upper neck muscle rub.
Just don't ever try sex for a migraine.