The *States* have the death penalty, not the U.S. government. This is an important distinction because although the U.S. Declaration may have certain rights listed, the States are still free to run their own affairs. This is why for a long time freedom of religion did not exist in states like Virginia, since they were not bound by the U.S. Constitution. It's also why U.S. law no longer includes a death penalty, but places like Texas do.
As for liberty, there are two ways you can lose it and be in prision. (1) Harm another being, thereby violating his rights, so you lose yours for a temporary amount of time. This is necessary because you certain persons, for whatever reason, must be restrained. As Founder of the Democratic Party Thomas Jefferson remarked, "No man has a right to harm another. And that is all the government should restrain him."
(2) Sell yourself into servitude. You're allowed to do this because you own your body and can what you please with it.
It's also worth nothing that societies often make mistakes. Like the Alien & Sedition Acts of the 1790s that prevented free speech (and violated amendment 10). Well it's a shame that happened, but we learned from it, and hopefully it won't happen again. The U.S. has often not lived-up to its ideals, but they are still worth striving for.
The word "ye" was never used to replace the word "the" or "(thorn)e". Yes I know it's common in tourist traps to see "Ye Old Tavern" but this is just bastardization of the old tongue. Nobody spoke or printed like that in 1500.
The actual meaning of the word "ye" was you-plural. It's the same as the original Germanic language had primitive forms of "du" and "ihr" for singular and plural "you". It's the loss of the word "ye" that has created slang terms like "youse" or "you-guys" and I think when teachers hear that slang, they should encourage a revival of the original pronoun. It may be archaic but it's better to say "Hey ye, come look at this" rather than "Hey youse..."
It's also worthy noting that the word "thee" or "thine" is a familiar term used for families. So if you read the King James Bible and it says, "A closer walk with thee God," it's not reverence that is displayed but a familial relationship.
The verse you cite is an example of (1) not having a dictionary to standardize the language such as "frends", and (2) english people still speaking with an old accent like pronounced "e" in "uncleane", and applying french accents to french words like "enmetie"
However now that dictionaries exist, and teachers prescribe how words are supposed to be spoken, the language has stabilized.
Not according to University of California (and Stanford) professor Seth Lehrer who, during his lecture, demonstrated for us how Shakespeare spake....er, spoke. It's why many of Shakespeare's works don't seem to rhyme, but the *did* rhyme prior to the vowel shift.
>>>4 days in she get's a text that her Boyfriend is dumping her for someone else because she is not around.
Jeez. You're problem is not the phone, but the social scene. You need to talk some sense into her. I'd start the conversation like so: "Are you planning to get married soon?" "No." "Then you don't need to date men. The purpose of dating is to find a husband, and since you're not looking for one, you don't need a man hanging around."
And no I don't buy into that "practicing" nonsense. Practice what? Getting felt-up by randy males???
Like a CD or DVD player, but instead of a shiny disc and a laser to read the pits, these old record-playing devices used a black plastic disc and a needle to read the grooves. Although primarily used for music, some record players stored videos (1 hour per side).
>>>"Say no to your kids, it gets them used to hearing it"
That's about right. I certainly hear the word "no" a lot as an adult: - "Can I have a raise?" No. - "Can I use this 10%-off coupon?" No. - "Can we go out on a date?" No.
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>>>simply don't think about security.
Perhaps because we know "locking" our computer is as pointless as locking the car or locking the house. The thieves can just ignore the lock and come-in through the window. Most our safety relies upon the fact that 99.9% of our neighbors are moral and don't want to break-in.
There have been similar studies with mice. They drop a mouse in a tub of water, the mouse swims around and then it finds the "island" so it doesn't drown. After a couple times of this the mouse immediately goes to the island.
Enter Mr. Surgeon to remove part of the mouse's brain. Now the mouse swims in circles until it drowns (or the researcher rescues it). Put the brain-damaged mouse in the mouse-equivalent of Disneyland - lots of wheels and slides and blocks and other stimulative things for about a month. Now drop the mouse in the water, and he swims right to the island. The stimulation caused the brain's cells to grow new connections and restore the memory that had been "lost"
It appears playing games for humans is equivalent to Mousy Disneyland - it stimulates the brain's cells to grow new connections.
This whole Twitter phenomenon seems to reinforce the narcissistic personality common in today's 25 or younger crowd. They think 'Everyone will want to know I watched Top Model tonight, and 90210 and Gossip Girl last night.'
>>>>> True, they cut off a perhaps sizable group who haven't refreshed for years and years, but they do so with an eye to the future both for their bottom lines (they are a hardware company too) and for their customers. >>>>>
>>Like... refurbished G5s that Apple sold in 2007? I mean, we are talking about an OS sold in 2009 that won't run in that hardware
Shush! Just drink your Apple Kool Aid and stop bringing rationality into this discussion!;-) .
An Anonymous Coward writes: >>>>Apple doesn't cater to the thrift store shopping crowd
That's true. Apple is a luxury brand like Lexus or Acura or Chrysler. If you want luxury, fine, but I just prefer to drive "ordinary" Hondas or Dodges instead, because they are cheaper to purchase and cheaper to maintain.
>>If some new tech comes out it could take MS 4 years to even consider it. Apple doesn't have to wait that long.
Normally I would agree with this statement, except that MS provides free service packs about once a year, so that's how they keep their users up-to-date with latest trends.
>>>If you updated XP -> Vista -> 7 you pay $400+, while going OS 1.4 -> 1.5 -> 1.6 only costs you a total of $158.
Your numbers are incorrect and also the timespan is not the same (fall 2001 to present). Plus you have to include the cost of new equipment, because while PCs that originally shipped with XP can still run Win7, the Macs that shipped with 1.1 can not run 1.5 or 1.6 due to minimum *required* processor speeds. Therefore:
XP -> Vista -> 7 == $120*2 = $240 + $25 1 gig RAM upgrade == about $300 1.1 ->... -> 1.6 == $90*5 == $450 + $1500.00 for new Mac == about $2000
>>>>>You can't do that with Macs. They'll stop running the latest software. For example I wouldn't be able to run Firefox 3 or 3.5 on my G4 Mac's original OS (10.1). I had to upgrade.
>>>I'd like to run Office 2008 on WinME or Win2K... wait, I can't.
Apples/oranges. 10.1 was released in Fall 2001, which is the same time as WinXP was released. Can you run Office2008 on XP? Yes. Can you run Firefox 3 (2008) on XP? Yes. Can you run either of these programs on 10.1? Not even close. ----- Apples have an obsolescence schedule that is approximately half the Wintel PC's schedule (about 4 versus 9), which is why, in my opinion, they are more costly to keep operational.
>>>because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them. >>>
No. First off, if I were Apple I'd do the same thing, because having an OS update every 1.8 years is a good way to keep a steady income and make sure there's plenty of cash available to pay the engineers.
But as a consumer, I'd much prefer they release the 10.x updates for free so I could have upgraded my G4 PowerMac from 10.1 to 10.4 at no cost.
That's true. The main bottleneck is when Windows starts using a hard drive as memory, then things slow to a crawl. Upgrade your RAM so that doesn't have to happen, and you can get by with just a 1 gigahertz machine. No problem.
>>>possible that the people who instated Israel as a state were influenced by the prophesy of it's existence.
There's not even that prophecy in the bible. They are making-up stuff. Furthermore the Bible claims the sun stopped moving through the sky for 3 whole days. The only way to make that happen is to make the earth stop spinning, and leave the opposite side of the world (California) in the dark. That seems extremely unlikely, which why during the Age of Reason (1600-1700s) it was concluded that the Bible is not a science book, but a religious text.
>>>Big asteroids hit about every 68 million years. If one hit tomorrow it would kill 6.8 billion people.
So in the entire existence of not just homo sapiens, but the whole mammal kingdom, not one asteroid has ever hit. I go back to my original point- We're more likely to die of suicide than a giant rock. In fact, we'll probably evolve into creatures like Q or the Ancients* before the next big rock hits.
His sig is meant to say "it's okay to have public options" for healthcare. What he fails to consider is that while people have the option for private school to get a better education, few can afford it because they are burdened with a ~$5000 a year school tax.*
He also failed to consider that the USPS is a monopoly, not an option, which is what the Uncle Sam healthcare is going to become effective 2013 (according to the Senate bill). Yes if you're a grandma or grandpa you can keep the private plan you've had for years and years, but the rest of us will no longer be able to choose a private insurer.
* * My proposal is that people who send their kids to private or home school, will be exempt from paying the school tax. That way they can have the extra cash needed to choose those options, using their OWN money (not taxpayer money), but are still supporting the local government school after their kid grows up.
I'm sure you can but my internet still downloads movies/TV shows faster than I can keep up (in other words my HDD is full), and it only costs $14.99 a month. How much is yours?
And while we're discussing budgeting here's some other ways I save money: - cable TV - $0.00.* I use an antenna instead and get ~35 channels - cellphone - $0 a month at 18 cents/minute - credit cards - most give1% off; one of them gives 5% for gasoline & food purchases
* * another alternative I've considered is Dish which is only $20/month
>>>when most big TV series are on a break (and as a consequence there is a lot less to download).
You have it backwards. Because tv is on hiatus, people are searching sites like nbc.com or hulu.com to catch-up on shows they missed. For example I watched Heroes latest season. That would make the P2P traffic go down relative to these other bandwidth-heavy sites.
I download over dialup when traveling. It takes about 7 hours per television episode, or 3 episodes per day... just enough to keep me busy after getting back from the job.
>>>pain to surf while some torrent is sucking up all your bandwidth.... reminds me of being back on dial up
All you have to do is dial-down your Torrent software's speed to 60 kilobyte/second. That's what I do which allows me 25 KB/s for browsing.... or about five times faster than dialup.
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The *States* have the death penalty, not the U.S. government. This is an important distinction because although the U.S. Declaration may have certain rights listed, the States are still free to run their own affairs. This is why for a long time freedom of religion did not exist in states like Virginia, since they were not bound by the U.S. Constitution. It's also why U.S. law no longer includes a death penalty, but places like Texas do.
As for liberty, there are two ways you can lose it and be in prision. (1) Harm another being, thereby violating his rights, so you lose yours for a temporary amount of time. This is necessary because you certain persons, for whatever reason, must be restrained. As Founder of the Democratic Party Thomas Jefferson remarked, "No man has a right to harm another. And that is all the government should restrain him."
(2) Sell yourself into servitude. You're allowed to do this because you own your body and can what you please with it.
It's also worth nothing that societies often make mistakes. Like the Alien & Sedition Acts of the 1790s that prevented free speech (and violated amendment 10). Well it's a shame that happened, but we learned from it, and hopefully it won't happen again. The U.S. has often not lived-up to its ideals, but they are still worth striving for.
The word "ye" was never used to replace the word "the" or "(thorn)e". Yes I know it's common in tourist traps to see "Ye Old Tavern" but this is just bastardization of the old tongue. Nobody spoke or printed like that in 1500.
The actual meaning of the word "ye" was you-plural. It's the same as the original Germanic language had primitive forms of "du" and "ihr" for singular and plural "you". It's the loss of the word "ye" that has created slang terms like "youse" or "you-guys" and I think when teachers hear that slang, they should encourage a revival of the original pronoun. It may be archaic but it's better to say "Hey ye, come look at this" rather than "Hey youse..."
It's also worthy noting that the word "thee" or "thine" is a familiar term used for families. So if you read the King James Bible and it says, "A closer walk with thee God," it's not reverence that is displayed but a familial relationship.
The verse you cite is an example of (1) not having a dictionary to standardize the language such as "frends", and (2) english people still speaking with an old accent like pronounced "e" in "uncleane", and applying french accents to french words like "enmetie"
However now that dictionaries exist, and teachers prescribe how words are supposed to be spoken, the language has stabilized.
Not according to University of California (and Stanford) professor Seth Lehrer who, during his lecture, demonstrated for us how Shakespeare spake....er, spoke. It's why many of Shakespeare's works don't seem to rhyme, but the *did* rhyme prior to the vowel shift.
>>>4 days in she get's a text that her Boyfriend is dumping her for someone else because she is not around.
Jeez. You're problem is not the phone, but the social scene. You need to talk some sense into her. I'd start the conversation like so: "Are you planning to get married soon?" "No." "Then you don't need to date men. The purpose of dating is to find a husband, and since you're not looking for one, you don't need a man hanging around."
And no I don't buy into that "practicing" nonsense. Practice what? Getting felt-up by randy males???
I don't see any need for that.
>>>if the book was good then I'd use a torch under the covers.
Wow. You're lucky you didn't set your bed on fire!
>>>What's a record player?
Like a CD or DVD player, but instead of a shiny disc and a laser to read the pits, these old record-playing devices used a black plastic disc and a needle to read the grooves. Although primarily used for music, some record players stored videos (1 hour per side).
>>>"Say no to your kids, it gets them used to hearing it"
That's about right. I certainly hear the word "no" a lot as an adult:
- "Can I have a raise?" No.
- "Can I use this 10%-off coupon?" No.
- "Can we go out on a date?" No.
>>>simply don't think about security.
Perhaps because we know "locking" our computer is as pointless as locking the car or locking the house. The thieves can just ignore the lock and come-in through the window. Most our safety relies upon the fact that 99.9% of our neighbors are moral and don't want to break-in.
There have been similar studies with mice. They drop a mouse in a tub of water, the mouse swims around and then it finds the "island" so it doesn't drown. After a couple times of this the mouse immediately goes to the island.
Enter Mr. Surgeon to remove part of the mouse's brain. Now the mouse swims in circles until it drowns (or the researcher rescues it). Put the brain-damaged mouse in the mouse-equivalent of Disneyland - lots of wheels and slides and blocks and other stimulative things for about a month. Now drop the mouse in the water, and he swims right to the island. The stimulation caused the brain's cells to grow new connections and restore the memory that had been "lost"
It appears playing games for humans is equivalent to Mousy Disneyland - it stimulates the brain's cells to grow new connections.
This whole Twitter phenomenon seems to reinforce the narcissistic personality common in today's 25 or younger crowd. They think 'Everyone will want to know I watched Top Model tonight, and 90210 and Gossip Girl last night.'
>>>>> True, they cut off a perhaps sizable group who haven't refreshed for years and years, but they do so with an eye to the future both for their bottom lines (they are a hardware company too) and for their customers.
>>>>>
>>Like... refurbished G5s that Apple sold in 2007? I mean, we are talking about an OS sold in 2009 that won't run in that hardware
Shush! Just drink your Apple Kool Aid and stop bringing rationality into this discussion! ;-)
.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
>>>>Apple doesn't cater to the thrift store shopping crowd
That's true. Apple is a luxury brand like Lexus or Acura or Chrysler. If you want luxury, fine, but I just prefer to drive "ordinary" Hondas or Dodges instead, because they are cheaper to purchase and cheaper to maintain.
>>If some new tech comes out it could take MS 4 years to even consider it. Apple doesn't have to wait that long.
Normally I would agree with this statement, except that MS provides free service packs about once a year, so that's how they keep their users up-to-date with latest trends.
>>>If you updated XP -> Vista -> 7 you pay $400+, while going OS 1.4 -> 1.5 -> 1.6 only costs you a total of $158.
Your numbers are incorrect and also the timespan is not the same (fall 2001 to present). Plus you have to include the cost of new equipment, because while PCs that originally shipped with XP can still run Win7, the Macs that shipped with 1.1 can not run 1.5 or 1.6 due to minimum *required* processor speeds. Therefore:
XP -> Vista -> 7 == $120*2 = $240 + $25 1 gig RAM upgrade == about $300 ... -> 1.6 == $90*5 == $450 + $1500.00 for new Mac == about $2000
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>>>>>You can't do that with Macs. They'll stop running the latest software. For example I wouldn't be able to run Firefox 3 or 3.5 on my G4 Mac's original OS (10.1). I had to upgrade.
>>>I'd like to run Office 2008 on WinME or Win2K... wait, I can't.
Apples/oranges. 10.1 was released in Fall 2001, which is the same time as WinXP was released. Can you run Office2008 on XP? Yes. Can you run Firefox 3 (2008) on XP? Yes. Can you run either of these programs on 10.1? Not even close. ----- Apples have an obsolescence schedule that is approximately half the Wintel PC's schedule (about 4 versus 9), which is why, in my opinion, they are more costly to keep operational.
>>>because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them.
>>>
No. First off, if I were Apple I'd do the same thing, because having an OS update every 1.8 years is a good way to keep a steady income and make sure there's plenty of cash available to pay the engineers.
But as a consumer, I'd much prefer they release the 10.x updates for free so I could have upgraded my G4 PowerMac from 10.1 to 10.4 at no cost.
That's all.
>>>the processor is really not the bottleneck.
That's true. The main bottleneck is when Windows starts using a hard drive as memory, then things slow to a crawl. Upgrade your RAM so that doesn't have to happen, and you can get by with just a 1 gigahertz machine. No problem.
>>>possible that the people who instated Israel as a state were influenced by the prophesy of it's existence.
There's not even that prophecy in the bible. They are making-up stuff. Furthermore the Bible claims the sun stopped moving through the sky for 3 whole days. The only way to make that happen is to make the earth stop spinning, and leave the opposite side of the world (California) in the dark. That seems extremely unlikely, which why during the Age of Reason (1600-1700s) it was concluded that the Bible is not a science book, but a religious text.
>>>Big asteroids hit about every 68 million years. If one hit tomorrow it would kill 6.8 billion people.
So in the entire existence of not just homo sapiens, but the whole mammal kingdom, not one asteroid has ever hit. I go back to my original point- We're more likely to die of suicide than a giant rock. In fact, we'll probably evolve into creatures like Q or the Ancients* before the next big rock hits.
*
* Star Trek/Stargate reference
I like Opera. It's the only browser that still supports my ancient G3 Mac.
His sig is meant to say "it's okay to have public options" for healthcare. What he fails to consider is that while people have the option for private school to get a better education, few can afford it because they are burdened with a ~$5000 a year school tax.*
He also failed to consider that the USPS is a monopoly, not an option, which is what the Uncle Sam healthcare is going to become effective 2013 (according to the Senate bill). Yes if you're a grandma or grandpa you can keep the private plan you've had for years and years, but the rest of us will no longer be able to choose a private insurer.
*
* My proposal is that people who send their kids to private or home school, will be exempt from paying the school tax. That way they can have the extra cash needed to choose those options, using their OWN money (not taxpayer money), but are still supporting the local government school after their kid grows up.
I'm sure you can but my internet still downloads movies/TV shows faster than I can keep up (in other words my HDD is full), and it only costs $14.99 a month. How much is yours?
And while we're discussing budgeting here's some other ways I save money:
- cable TV - $0.00.* I use an antenna instead and get ~35 channels
- cellphone - $0 a month at 18 cents/minute
- credit cards - most give1% off; one of them gives 5% for gasoline & food purchases
*
* another alternative I've considered is Dish which is only $20/month
>>>when most big TV series are on a break (and as a consequence there is a lot less to download).
You have it backwards. Because tv is on hiatus, people are searching sites like nbc.com or hulu.com to catch-up on shows they missed. For example I watched Heroes latest season. That would make the P2P traffic go down relative to these other bandwidth-heavy sites.
I download over dialup when traveling. It takes about 7 hours per television episode, or 3 episodes per day... just enough to keep me busy after getting back from the job.
>>>pain to surf while some torrent is sucking up all your bandwidth.... reminds me of being back on dial up
All you have to do is dial-down your Torrent software's speed to 60 kilobyte/second. That's what I do which allows me 25 KB/s for browsing.... or about five times faster than dialup.