There are numerous FSM ( Flying Spaghetti Monster ) and CFI meetups across the country that would beg to differ.
Pastafarianism is a religion, it is not atheism (in fact it is just as antithetical to atheism as any other religion would be).
And of course, if the standard for determining what is or isn't a religion is "regular meetings are held", then your local PTA and book club are religions as well.
It's amazing to me that anyone with an engineering background could have blind (I.E. without tangible proof) faith in any religion.
The key is that anything you learned before you were 6 or so was installed before any critical-thinking filters were acquired, and thus may be permanent. All your logical engineering skills can co-exist with your early childhood learning, and your brain can compartmentalize the two modes of thinking so that it never has any problems with the contradictions.
So once you have (a) your early-childhood beliefs that allow you to conclude that (people X) are a problem, combined with your engineer's training, and the engineer's belief that any problem (even social/religious problems) can be solved simply by applying the right physical materials to the problem, you have your recipe for becoming a bright, talented young terrorist.
I'm waiting for the entire archive to be posted to WikiLeaks. That ought to be fun; and the right wing has acknowledged the legitimacy of posting huge archives of other peoples' private email, as long as you can pull out a few nice quotes that look incriminating, so they won't mind if someone leaks it.
If Google is capable of this what do you think the NSA and friends are capable of?
I'm confused -- I thought government was a bunch of hopelessly incompetent bunglers, capable only of wasting taxpayer money, stifling Free Enterprise, and making baby Atlas shrug. Does it turn out that they are super-elite technical wizards, after all?
For the same reason they have so many ineffective security policies that busy airports often have security checkpoint lines containing more people than a plane, which makes for extremely easy bombing targets (no security!)?
There are lots of places where many people gather together. The critical difference is that those places don't also contain several thousand gallons of jet fuel, and you you can't fly them into a skyscraper.
When you're working on code that requires a lot of manipulation of a variable, typing a long, descriptive name 65 times is a bit of a PITA, and subject to its own bugs, when you misspell it a few times!
Only in a language that doesn't require you to explicitly declare variables. In a reasonable language, any typos in your long variable name will result in compile-time errors and will therefore be caught and fixed the next time you compile the program.
In fact, the only time when a typo in a variable name should compile is if there is another variable declared with the typo name. The chances of that happening are much smaller when you're using long variable names than short ones.
Physically and thoroughly, say with a sledge hammer. Then bury the pieces underneath Jimmy Hoffa.
Of course, physically destroying hard drives with a sledge hammer would itself look very suspicious, if the act were later to come to light in a child-porn case. You can't win here:^P
Yup... The SPs/MPs will happily do a free sniff of your recently purchased used car. Can't beat a good training opportunity.
And if their free sniff finds some hidden drugs, what then? Will the congratulate you on your honest, or arrest you for possession of illegal drugs? Hopefully the former, but do you want to bet the next N years of your life on that?
Obama won't make a stand on this issue because he already got into hot water for a vote he made that the republicans tried to twist into him supporting child predators
It seems like there ought to be a word for that -- obvious good ideas that nevertheless few politicians are willing to consider, because they are aware of how the opposition would deliberately misconstrue the idea if given a chance to do so. It's a real problem, it makes our government less effective when useful ideas are rendered politically impossible by partisan gamesmanship.
One option for those who have an inkjet printer and don't want to keep buying new ink cartridges is to buy a continuous ink resupply system and some bottles of ink, instead. I did that, it works, although it can be messy if you're not careful with the ink bottles.
Although I like this idea. Won't it just deplete our supply of fresh water? If we're constantly running our fresh water through a membrane into salt water, won't our "fuel" of fresh water run out?
Really, this is what passes for insightful these days?
Every time it rains, the rain is composed fresh water that was evaporated from the ocean and desalinated in the process. That process has occurred for millions of years, and will continue for the foreseeable future, no matter what we do. All the fresh water that gets salinated on its way through this plant would have been salinated anyway, when it entered the ocean.
Those are gender roles, taught by parenting. If you stick a child in a room with a bunch of girl and boy toys, without showing them which they should be playing with, they would play with all of them.
That's the popular ideal, but it's simply not true. Social experiments and have shown that even in isolated communities, even if every attempt is made to treat boys and girls the same (so as not to condition them one way or the other), the boys will prefer playing with traditionally-male toys, and the girls will prefer playing with traditionally-female toys.
Nature, it seems, is not always politically correct.
But do you even remember being intact? If you have nothing to compare it to, you wouldn;t know what you are missing.
You're right -- I don't remember being intact, and I don't know what I'm missing. I'm not sure how that's relevant though; if someone had cut off my legs at birth, I wouldn't now know what it's like to have legs either -- but that wouldn't mean it was acceptable to chop off infants' legs.
Psystar may not have operated within the letter of the law, but they certainly operated within the spirit, and their process would have been legal with some minor tweaks. They lost on a technicality.
Agreed, and I think this is good evidence that Psystar really was/is just some geeks with more enthusiasm than legal knowledge, and not a front for a shadowy Dell-backed conspiracy. A serious attempt at getting the law to recognize the rights of 3rd parties to sell Mac clones would have spent a lot more time and money on lawyers reading the legal fine print before selling their first hackintosh, and would have been very careful to do everything "just so" and document everything extremely carefully. (For an example of how to do this sort of thing properly, recall how the IBM PC BIOS was reverse-engineered in a legal manner back in the 80's -- IBM's legions of winged lawyers couldn't stop them, because they made triply-sure that they followed the law to the letter at all times)
For both. Apple is making lots of money, and consumers are happy with Apple's products (as evidenced by the fact that they continue to buy them despite Apple's higher prices).
How about judging a company by the contribution it makes to society rather its profits (or are you a shareholder) ?
Since when are companies primarily about "contribution to society"? I think you are confusing them with charitable organizations.
I never understood why people are so against circumcision.
I don't think many people are against circumcision per se -- if you want one, have one. What people are against is forcibly circumcising people who did not agree to be circumsized.
I am not sure why this item was introduced as "moderately disturbing". [...] The material is essentially a poly-pharmaceutical packaged in a living material. The raw materials come from donated foreskins.
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Is called "Jeremi pays you $5". If you're one of the first 100,000 people to download it, it will paypal $5 to your account
everybody wins! ;)
There is no scarcity of the "resource" to begin with, only design flaws
The scarcity may be caused by design flaws, but that doesn't mean the scarcity doesn't exist.
... can't get a DHCP address .... Film at 11
The Film at 11 has been cancelled, because the television's NAT gateway wasn't configured properly.
If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.
Someone should ask Dorfl if he's stopped beating his wife yet.
There are numerous FSM ( Flying Spaghetti Monster ) and CFI meetups across the country that would beg to differ.
Pastafarianism is a religion, it is not atheism (in fact it is just as antithetical to atheism as any other religion would be).
And of course, if the standard for determining what is or isn't a religion is "regular meetings are held", then your local PTA and book club are religions as well.
It's amazing to me that anyone with an engineering background could have blind (I.E. without tangible proof) faith in any religion.
The key is that anything you learned before you were 6 or so was installed before any critical-thinking filters were acquired, and thus may be permanent. All your logical engineering skills can co-exist with your early childhood learning, and your brain can compartmentalize the two modes of thinking so that it never has any problems with the contradictions.
So once you have (a) your early-childhood beliefs that allow you to conclude that (people X) are a problem, combined with your engineer's training, and the engineer's belief that any problem (even social/religious problems) can be solved simply by applying the right physical materials to the problem, you have your recipe for becoming a bright, talented young terrorist.
now, we'll never really know.
I'm waiting for the entire archive to be posted to WikiLeaks. That ought to be fun; and the right wing has acknowledged the legitimacy of posting huge archives of other peoples' private email, as long as you can pull out a few nice quotes that look incriminating, so they won't mind if someone leaks it.
Why would you try not to laugh? Afraid of hurting the octo's feelings?
Afraid of losing control of his air regulator and swallowing a lot of seawater.
If Google is capable of this what do you think the NSA and friends are capable of?
I'm confused -- I thought government was a bunch of hopelessly incompetent bunglers, capable only of wasting taxpayer money, stifling Free Enterprise, and making baby Atlas shrug. Does it turn out that they are super-elite technical wizards, after all?
For the same reason they have so many ineffective security policies that busy airports often have security checkpoint lines containing more people than a plane, which makes for extremely easy bombing targets (no security!)?
There are lots of places where many people gather together. The critical difference is that those places don't also contain several thousand gallons of jet fuel, and you you can't fly them into a skyscraper.
When you're working on code that requires a lot of manipulation of a variable, typing a long, descriptive name 65 times is a bit of a PITA, and subject to its own bugs, when you misspell it a few times!
Only in a language that doesn't require you to explicitly declare variables. In a reasonable language, any typos in your long variable name will result in compile-time errors and will therefore be caught and fixed the next time you compile the program.
In fact, the only time when a typo in a variable name should compile is if there is another variable declared with the typo name. The chances of that happening are much smaller when you're using long variable names than short ones.
Physically and thoroughly, say with a sledge hammer. Then bury the pieces underneath Jimmy Hoffa.
Of course, physically destroying hard drives with a sledge hammer would itself look very suspicious, if the act were later to come to light in a child-porn case. You can't win here :^P
Yup... The SPs/MPs will happily do a free sniff of your recently purchased used car. Can't beat a good training opportunity.
And if their free sniff finds some hidden drugs, what then? Will the congratulate you on your honest, or arrest you for possession of illegal drugs? Hopefully the former, but do you want to bet the next N years of your life on that?
Obama won't make a stand on this issue because he already got into hot water for a vote he made that the republicans tried to twist into him supporting child predators
It seems like there ought to be a word for that -- obvious good ideas that nevertheless few politicians are willing to consider, because they are aware of how the opposition would deliberately misconstrue the idea if given a chance to do so. It's a real problem, it makes our government less effective when useful ideas are rendered politically impossible by partisan gamesmanship.
One option for those who have an inkjet printer and don't want to keep buying new ink cartridges is to buy a continuous ink resupply system and some bottles of ink, instead. I did that, it works, although it can be messy if you're not careful with the ink bottles.
Although I like this idea. Won't it just deplete our supply of fresh water? If we're constantly running our fresh water through a membrane into salt water, won't our "fuel" of fresh water run out?
Really, this is what passes for insightful these days?
Every time it rains, the rain is composed fresh water that was evaporated from the ocean and desalinated in the process. That process has occurred for millions of years, and will continue for the foreseeable future, no matter what we do. All the fresh water that gets salinated on its way through this plant would have been salinated anyway, when it entered the ocean.
I want a "zoom feature" for the OS. Hold ctrl-mouse wheel and resize EVERYTHING on the damn machine.
MacOS/X has that feature, FWIW.
Those are gender roles, taught by parenting. If you stick a child in a room with a bunch of girl and boy toys, without showing them which they should be playing with, they would play with all of them.
That's the popular ideal, but it's simply not true. Social experiments and have shown that even in isolated communities, even if every attempt is made to treat boys and girls the same (so as not to condition them one way or the other), the boys will prefer playing with traditionally-male toys, and the girls will prefer playing with traditionally-female toys.
Nature, it seems, is not always politically correct.
There's no known way to override this : it has been tried.
As the article points out, there is a way... exposure to PCBs and dioxins.
But do you even remember being intact? If you have nothing to compare it to, you wouldn;t know what you are missing.
You're right -- I don't remember being intact, and I don't know what I'm missing. I'm not sure how that's relevant though; if someone had cut off my legs at birth, I wouldn't now know what it's like to have legs either -- but that wouldn't mean it was acceptable to chop off infants' legs.
Psystar may not have operated within the letter of the law, but they certainly operated within the spirit, and their process would have been legal with some minor tweaks. They lost on a technicality.
Agreed, and I think this is good evidence that Psystar really was/is just some geeks with more enthusiasm than legal knowledge, and not a front for a shadowy Dell-backed conspiracy. A serious attempt at getting the law to recognize the rights of 3rd parties to sell Mac clones would have spent a lot more time and money on lawyers reading the legal fine print before selling their first hackintosh, and would have been very careful to do everything "just so" and document everything extremely carefully. (For an example of how to do this sort of thing properly, recall how the IBM PC BIOS was reverse-engineered in a legal manner back in the 80's -- IBM's legions of winged lawyers couldn't stop them, because they made triply-sure that they followed the law to the letter at all times)
For who, apple or consumers ?
For both. Apple is making lots of money, and consumers are happy with Apple's products (as evidenced by the fact that they continue to buy them despite Apple's higher prices).
How about judging a company by the contribution it makes to society rather its profits (or are you a shareholder) ?
Since when are companies primarily about "contribution to society"? I think you are confusing them with charitable organizations.
I never understood why people are so against circumcision.
I don't think many people are against circumcision per se -- if you want one, have one. What people are against is forcibly circumcising people who did not agree to be circumsized.
I am not sure why this item was introduced as "moderately disturbing". [...] The material is essentially a poly-pharmaceutical packaged in a living material. The raw materials come from donated foreskins.
Heh, I believe you have your answer.
Not exactly useful, but see http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/K/killer-poke.html
Yep -- run that on your iPhone, and it will totally blow out your iPhone's CRT :^)