A Rabbi is probably going to give you the clearest answer on how Rabbinical decisions are come to. I'm in no way promoting religion, I'm actually agnostic. The reason I think Judaism is kind of neat is that they have clear cut, reasoned* answers for their beliefs that most Jews adhere to, and makes religious debates a lot more fun and interesting since you've got a good set of ground rules. Christianity has so many sects and interpretations of their religious texts that it's like arguing politics. There are definitely some bigoted orthodox Jews but nobody likes talking to them:)
Consult your local Rabbi. Rabbis love to discuss this sort of thing at length and can probably give you a great answer. I don't agree with Israel's politics, but Judaism is actually a very well reasoned religion and have revised their decisions on various things in modern times such as use of electricity on the sabbath, etc. They actually publish these decisions, and I'm sure an actual Jew will chime in here with the name of this collection of published "decisions" that you can then refer to regarding organ donation. I'm willing to bet it falls in the same "vein" as Tattooed Jews can't be buried in a formal Jewish cemetery. As I understand it, (again, someone feel free to jump in here and correct me) man is created in God's image, therefore is as close to perfection as you can already make it (i.e. body is temple, etc). To alter your body (tattoos, organ donations) is to desecrate it (the temple of God) is to disrespect God. So you could donate your organs, but you couldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetery, which as far as I can tell is their form of excommunication.
Whats the point of buying the digital version if you have to buy an extra hard drive to back up the file?? You might as well buy the physical version and save yourself the trouble of making a backup (which you can resell later to pay rent if you have to).
Pretty much obliterated Blue Security, I had to google them to figure out what the hell he was talking about. He used a fairly generic term, but the end result is the same.
A lot of people now recommend SLRs for old/ancient family photos that have been framed. In most cases an SLR is going to give you the quality you need. For internet caching purposes, 72dpi is plenty good enough.
IF you can keep your ad up to buy/sell one long enough to get a potential buyer/seller. There's none up for grabs on Ebay, and Craigslist keeps pulling my WTB ads. Something about having the word "Counterfeit" in the title... if anyone has one, shoot me an email, you've got an interested buyer. I'm not going to pay "full price" for one though:)
It seems most people who are serious about PC gaming are average weight to slender. I've seen this on mosaics of pictures people posted on gaming forums, also pictures of game mappers, and also at places like QuakeCon (where Quake 3 tends to be the core game featured every year) year after year. Of course these people tend to have some competitive spirit so that might have something to do with it. Even the people I know who play WoW, most are average weight. There is the occasional fatty here and there, but in my experience PC gamers tend to be slimmer than average.
Roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO
Does "Farmville" count as an MMO? Along with Mafia Wars and god knows what else? If so, then that number is probably conservatively low, judging from my Facebook newsfeed.
Cancer of the tendon isn't common, until you start injecting stuff like stem cells in there. Even if one in 10 million stem cells is cancerous, you've still got cancer in that region. If one in 20 million is cancerous, you've still got a 50/50 chance of getting cancer there immediately, and whos to say our stem cell techniques don't cause cancer 10 years down the road?
Great! I'd been eyeing the CRS-1 for a while, but now that the CRS-3 is out, the price on the CRS-1 will finally drop down enough that I can complete my beowulf cluster of failed linux PDAs. Looks like CRS-1s are going for $20,000 on ebay used.
I too am a bit worried about the cancerous implications of this. Of course, if you're age 40+ have a gimp leg (knee), and you gain use of it for 10 years, but then have to have it amputated due to it going cancerous, is that better or worse than hobbling about during the last active years of your life? That's a hard decision to make, but I think I would rather have 50 good years with a leg and lose functionality later, than lose most of the functionality now and be hobbled for the rest of my life.
Right, and currently you need a SS card to work so your employer can pay their share of your SS. Your SS card already has your full name on it, which they can cross reference with your driver's licence and any references you list. The problem is that employers don't always do this (especially with more obvious possible immigrants, like those who don't speak english and don't have a name on their SS card that fits their ethnic background). Right now counterfeiting a SS card is pretty easy. All you're doing is raising the bar on what counterfeiters have to do to sell their ID cards.
How many construction companies are really going to scan the veins (for the card, as suggested by the article) of their spanish speaking construction workers?
Adding another ID card does nothing but add more paperwork, more complexity, and more counterfeits. It doesn't solve the root cause and at best it's a band-aid for immigration problems.
Netbooks these days will output 1080p. Not sure about oblivion, but a $500-600 budget will do you fine. Hell, a crap computer off of craigslist for $50-100 with a $65 videocard from newegg (choose any one, really!) will do what he asks.
And Dallas, TX gets 35" of rain a year, but we still have droughts in the summer since all of our rain comes between Dec-April and then it just *stops* until Halloween. I remember coming to Texas at age 14 and goofing off in the front yard of a rental property that our tenant had abandoned two months prior, meaning the lawn hadn't been watered in almost three months; there were cracks in the front yard long/deep/wide enough for me to stick my entire arm in, straight down.
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Thanks for adding to the discussion and backing your points up with links! I would mod you up if I could :) I bookmarked that wikipedia link you added.
A Rabbi is probably going to give you the clearest answer on how Rabbinical decisions are come to. I'm in no way promoting religion, I'm actually agnostic. The reason I think Judaism is kind of neat is that they have clear cut, reasoned* answers for their beliefs that most Jews adhere to, and makes religious debates a lot more fun and interesting since you've got a good set of ground rules. Christianity has so many sects and interpretations of their religious texts that it's like arguing politics. There are definitely some bigoted orthodox Jews but nobody likes talking to them :)
Congratulations, your post adds nothing to the. Go post your atheist agenda elsewhere, we've all heard it here before.
Consult your local Rabbi. Rabbis love to discuss this sort of thing at length and can probably give you a great answer. I don't agree with Israel's politics, but Judaism is actually a very well reasoned religion and have revised their decisions on various things in modern times such as use of electricity on the sabbath, etc. They actually publish these decisions, and I'm sure an actual Jew will chime in here with the name of this collection of published "decisions" that you can then refer to regarding organ donation. I'm willing to bet it falls in the same "vein" as Tattooed Jews can't be buried in a formal Jewish cemetery. As I understand it, (again, someone feel free to jump in here and correct me) man is created in God's image, therefore is as close to perfection as you can already make it (i.e. body is temple, etc). To alter your body (tattoos, organ donations) is to desecrate it (the temple of God) is to disrespect God. So you could donate your organs, but you couldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetery, which as far as I can tell is their form of excommunication.
Click here for a list of state agencies that handle organ donation:
http://organdonor.gov/donor/registry.shtm
It only takes about 30 seconds to register online.
Hell, I'll pay triple! Where do I sign up? I only buy a new pair of glasses maybe every 3 years.
Whats the point of buying the digital version if you have to buy an extra hard drive to back up the file?? You might as well buy the physical version and save yourself the trouble of making a backup (which you can resell later to pay rent if you have to).
Laws don't mean anything unless you enforce them.
Pretty much obliterated Blue Security, I had to google them to figure out what the hell he was talking about. He used a fairly generic term, but the end result is the same.
Downmodded - oh, the irony.
A lot of people now recommend SLRs for old/ancient family photos that have been framed. In most cases an SLR is going to give you the quality you need. For internet caching purposes, 72dpi is plenty good enough.
IF you can keep your ad up to buy/sell one long enough to get a potential buyer/seller. There's none up for grabs on Ebay, and Craigslist keeps pulling my WTB ads. Something about having the word "Counterfeit" in the title... if anyone has one, shoot me an email, you've got an interested buyer. I'm not going to pay "full price" for one though :)
Why are they removing it? It seems odd that they would remove one of the few structures on the continent.
Only if you push the machine to 105% for extra resolution.
It seems most people who are serious about PC gaming are average weight to slender. I've seen this on mosaics of pictures people posted on gaming forums, also pictures of game mappers, and also at places like QuakeCon (where Quake 3 tends to be the core game featured every year) year after year. Of course these people tend to have some competitive spirit so that might have something to do with it. Even the people I know who play WoW, most are average weight. There is the occasional fatty here and there, but in my experience PC gamers tend to be slimmer than average.
Does "Farmville" count as an MMO? Along with Mafia Wars and god knows what else? If so, then that number is probably conservatively low, judging from my Facebook newsfeed.
Cancer of the tendon isn't common, until you start injecting stuff like stem cells in there. Even if one in 10 million stem cells is cancerous, you've still got cancer in that region. If one in 20 million is cancerous, you've still got a 50/50 chance of getting cancer there immediately, and whos to say our stem cell techniques don't cause cancer 10 years down the road?
Great! I'd been eyeing the CRS-1 for a while, but now that the CRS-3 is out, the price on the CRS-1 will finally drop down enough that I can complete my beowulf cluster of failed linux PDAs. Looks like CRS-1s are going for $20,000 on ebay used.
I too am a bit worried about the cancerous implications of this. Of course, if you're age 40+ have a gimp leg (knee), and you gain use of it for 10 years, but then have to have it amputated due to it going cancerous, is that better or worse than hobbling about during the last active years of your life? That's a hard decision to make, but I think I would rather have 50 good years with a leg and lose functionality later, than lose most of the functionality now and be hobbled for the rest of my life.
Right, and currently you need a SS card to work so your employer can pay their share of your SS. Your SS card already has your full name on it, which they can cross reference with your driver's licence and any references you list. The problem is that employers don't always do this (especially with more obvious possible immigrants, like those who don't speak english and don't have a name on their SS card that fits their ethnic background). Right now counterfeiting a SS card is pretty easy. All you're doing is raising the bar on what counterfeiters have to do to sell their ID cards.
How many construction companies are really going to scan the veins (for the card, as suggested by the article) of their spanish speaking construction workers?
Adding another ID card does nothing but add more paperwork, more complexity, and more counterfeits. It doesn't solve the root cause and at best it's a band-aid for immigration problems.
Netbooks these days will output 1080p. Not sure about oblivion, but a $500-600 budget will do you fine. Hell, a crap computer off of craigslist for $50-100 with a $65 videocard from newegg (choose any one, really!) will do what he asks.
And Dallas, TX gets 35" of rain a year, but we still have droughts in the summer since all of our rain comes between Dec-April and then it just *stops* until Halloween. I remember coming to Texas at age 14 and goofing off in the front yard of a rental property that our tenant had abandoned two months prior, meaning the lawn hadn't been watered in almost three months; there were cracks in the front yard long/deep/wide enough for me to stick my entire arm in, straight down.
Jokes on you, nobody rtfa
I doubt this material "breathes" the same way gore-tex does. Enjoy your sweat bath! :)
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