I am taking a online religion course for college right now, and the instructor is enamored with the idea that primitive/tribal religions are superior to Western religions and also more ecologically friendly. All of her questions are variations of "How would modern technological society be improved by following tribal spiritual beliefs?" or other such nonsense. I actually had a friend of mine who is an archaeologist with a PhD send me some information about southwestern cultures who destroyed their environment back in the past, and used that information on a test. She did not like it, and sent me a nasty e-mail railing about the way modern science suppresses the truth about "primitive belief systems". Fricking whack job and she gets paid by my tax money. Anywhoo, at the beginning of the semester I raised hell with the dean about her crap, so she can't fail me, but she sure likes to mark down my papers for BS>
I have been running 4GB of RAM on my desktop for about two years now with Windows XP. Just last month it decided to cut off and not turn back on. Mother board is bad, according to my uber-techno geek buddy. So I am using a slightly older computer, with a crappy chip and video card and only 2GB of RAM while he builds me another computer(my funds are low, not his building speed). I can tell a definite difference in performance. And all we did was slap my C drive into the old computer and fired it up. So I know the install is exactly the same. Even opening two or three web pages while having a spreadsheet and document file open makes the computer crawl.So while a computer might run XP on 512MB of RAM, please keep it far, far away from me.Luckily I should have my new computer this week end. Better still is that my computer is for play and school work, so no loss of productivity due to down time from using this piece of crap.
Thanks NYCL.
Any way, what self-respecting pirate is going to be pulling torrents from facebook? My gawd it doesn't take much to get into private sites, or even into the warez top sites if you got an ounce of sense.Of course this is just an opinion and not from any personal experiences. i don't even know how these interweb tube things work.
Actually you are incorrect in the statement;
"We take people who try to kill us very seriously and act accordingly.",
if that was true, we would have acted in Iraq the same way we did while transversing Germany at the end of WWII. No BS about civilians, non-combatants, etc. We would have bombed the shit out of Afghanistan until we forced them to give us OBL, we would have bombed and destroyed the majority of Iraq's cities, infrastructure and wiped their army from the face of the earth. And Fallujah(where the four security guards were murdered) would have been razed and every person within the city would have been lined up and shot. That is how you wage war. Not the BS let's not make a mess or kill any of the people who supported and allowed this ruler or that ruler to do horrible ugly things or what ever it was Saddam was supposed to have done that caused us to go to Iraq.
I don't like war, but I do believe in doing things correctly. And waging war in the most brutal and bloody way possible, killing as many of your enemies as possible in the process, makes a strong statement to other enemies not to fuck with you, lessening the chance of having to go to war again in the near future.
you can vote, marry, sign contracts, join the military, be executed... but you commit a crime if you want to have a beer. What a fucking farce of a number. And it goes either way, old enough to be executed old enough to drink. Seems the number should be the same for either.
I can change lead to gold. Send me a few tons of lead, and help me get to the nearest star ready to go supernovae and presto-chango, lead to gold. I will even let you gather up all the gold.
I disagree. If I have a mass of data, and lack the time, energy and probably intellectual ability to understand it all, then I am forced to believe someone else's interpretation and conclusions. If the people I have to choose from have histories, then I have to make my basis of choice from those histories and their percentage of previous correct calls on other cases, along with the amount of understanding they show on the current case. Dyson, in his thoughts on global warming shows pretty sound ideas, throws out easily implemented solutions and makes the case that it is not something to be as alarmed about as the global warming supporters want us to be. With his track record, I make my choice to believe him. YMMV as it goes though.
Prison toilets are stainless steel. What prisoners do is empty the toilets out, then use a cup to force the water from the trap and create a chimney through the drainage system. Sewage drains have both a drain for solids/liquids, and also a gas escape to atmosphere.Once that is done, they make a burner out of toilet paper, usually forming a cone many layers thick and tightly wrapped, fashion a cooking vessel from aluminum foil, and use the interior of the toilet with a piece of card board with a hole to allow air in which forces the smoke out the drain, as a type of enclosed oven. They can cook stuff without filling their cells with smoke and without(usually) getting caught by COs and getting in trouble. Prisoners are very inventive. Take the habit of them using pencils to decrease DC voltage in order to operate radios,(older prisons which have exposed light incandescent light bulbs use an 12 volt DC system to power the lights within the cells to prevent the prisoners from wiring the doors up to 120V AC current, and other mischief.
You can call it intuition, but more probably it is your experience and knowledge being accessed unconsciously rather than actually thinking it out in entirety. I used to do the same things with HVAC/R equipment, hydraulics, and electrical systems. The vast amount of information you gather while working on these systems(whatever systems they may be) is not often noticed or remembered in a clearly recallable form, yet your mind can and does manage to sift through these memories, draw similar and related factoids out, and then when you are looking at some other situation, present the answer or most likely problem to you in a form that seems as it is "intuition", but is not. It is just your own personal knowledge.
to be driven into bankruptcy. The BS of dropping the suit because they see they can not win is just that, BS. The judge should prevent them from filing anymore cases in his district, since logically they can't win this one(their POV) so they could not win any others.
Fuck that. I am in college and the kangaroo courts ran by liberal left-over hippies are the biggest threat to students Constitutional rights, even more than the Constitution shredding monkey we had for 8 years a president. As a 40 year old man, who pays for college out of pocket with no grants, loans or scholarships, I was told two semesters ago that I could face disciplinary action over the picture of me on my MySpace account. Seems that I was supposedly violating some school policy by wearing a Confederate Flag hat in my private life. Luckily, I am not some stupid kid and I raised holy hell with the Dean, more accurately, my lawyer raised holy fucking hell while I sat quietly as he had instructed me to do. Just for a factoid, I live in North Carolina, so the hat is not out of place around here.
I wonder if i stripped searched my non-existent daughter, and the media found out, what the result would be? Methinks I would be in jail and my daughter in foster care.
They will administer the test verbally if they think you are screwing with them (in correctional facilities). They use a set of flash cards and will randomly ask you the questions and mark the answer sheet. This is supposed to keep a person from going back to refer to previous answers to similar questions. Of course, if you are fucking with the test results, then it is no harder to do it taking the test verbally than in the written form. One good tactic is to answer all the "K" scale questions to show you are honest, then answer all the other questions as if you believe actively in demons, hate your parents, and believe that your physical problems are all important.
lol, the MMPI and variants are scored on several scales showing "purported" psychological tendencies. The most notorious is the "K" scale which shows honesty. Pretty much if the questions says always or never you say false. The rest, just go for what seems like a common sense type response, demons are not real so false, evil spirits the same, stealing is wrong so answer those accordingly. Just as a note, if you are ever incarcerated do not decide to fuck with the test for lulz. It ends badly every time.
Eh, I have downloaded a bunch of music because various girlfriends have told me this band or that band is really good. I have found that most of the discographies have maybe one or two strong songs, and the rest of the entire collection is crap. I have come to the conclusion that the 20 somethings would not know good music if it bit their heads off and pissed down their throats.
On the other hand, Everlast, IMNSHO, has put out some good strong albums, including his last one. Coherent overall theme, similar sounds with enough variation that it does not sound like one extended song, and tight editing. Of course, with music YMMV.
lol, as a non-"certified" geek, I have spent 21 years of my life doing HVAC/R, electrical, Plant maintenance,and assorted skilled "blue" collar type work. Am back in school after a divorce and deciding I no longer wanted the headaches of owning a business. The classes are full of idiotic, spoiled children who can't process what the lectures are about, understand the textbooks, or draw logical conclusions from an assorted set of facts. Thankfully, I am working towards a degree in substance abuse counseling, because if it was an engineering program, I would be forced to eliminate my entire class in order to protect society from their incompetency. They actually got mad at a instructor because he refused to go over an exam, and tell them the answers, prior to taking said exam. i just wish I could drink, as if I could, I would down a fifth before class each day.
College is a joke. In my classes now, I have none of the texts, doodle and daydream during class, and still maintain a 3.7GPA. Have classes filled with idiots who are not qualified to be there and the instructors go over the material time and time again while these refugees from the work force fail to get it. If they actually had to pay for classes and texts, most of them would not be there. It drives me nuts because I pay my way with no aid, grants, loans or other types of financial help.
except when you have a good camera that won't use anything larger than a 512MB SD card. I have to reformat my SD cards and set their size to 512MB, or I have a very pretty paperweight.
If we are at war with another country, then we should be trying to kill as many as possible, men,women, children, soldiers, civilians. Duh, war is about forcing the other country to quit fighting and what better way than to kill everyone there. It quickly causes public pressure on the government of the the country to stop, or has/. forgot about Vietnam and the excellent example of a country who loses it's will to fight?
bought a TV there several years ago. good knowledgeable salesman, steered me away from an idiot mistake i was trying to make, matched my price range and excellent service. Went back several times and paid a higher price than on-line or what it would have cost for BB. when they sacked him and the rest of the competent salesmen, i never went back.
I would rather pay 10% more and get excellent service, and 20% more for excellent service and convenience.
That logic is perilously close to the "She was asking for it wearing that tight skirt" rape defense.Stating your sexual preference is considered provoking a fight or attack where? The middle east is about the only place that comes to mind right now.
You are a slave when you decide to be a slave. Until that point, you may be shackled and gagged, beat and tortured, but you are still free. When the desire to fight, to escape, to search for physical freedom is lost, then you are a slave. Until then you are a prisoner.
hmm, making a corporation provide the medium for a message that it does not support. You are correct, that is not a violation of free speech. It would be more like coerced speech, or speech made at the point of a gun.
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I am taking a online religion course for college right now, and the instructor is enamored with the idea that primitive/tribal religions are superior to Western religions and also more ecologically friendly. All of her questions are variations of "How would modern technological society be improved by following tribal spiritual beliefs?" or other such nonsense. I actually had a friend of mine who is an archaeologist with a PhD send me some information about southwestern cultures who destroyed their environment back in the past, and used that information on a test. She did not like it, and sent me a nasty e-mail railing about the way modern science suppresses the truth about "primitive belief systems". Fricking whack job and she gets paid by my tax money. Anywhoo, at the beginning of the semester I raised hell with the dean about her crap, so she can't fail me, but she sure likes to mark down my papers for BS>
Try working for a bible banging, jesus shouting evangelical. Been there, done that, and left rather quickly.
I have been running 4GB of RAM on my desktop for about two years now with Windows XP. Just last month it decided to cut off and not turn back on. Mother board is bad, according to my uber-techno geek buddy. So I am using a slightly older computer, with a crappy chip and video card and only 2GB of RAM while he builds me another computer(my funds are low, not his building speed). I can tell a definite difference in performance. And all we did was slap my C drive into the old computer and fired it up. So I know the install is exactly the same. Even opening two or three web pages while having a spreadsheet and document file open makes the computer crawl.So while a computer might run XP on 512MB of RAM, please keep it far, far away from me.Luckily I should have my new computer this week end. Better still is that my computer is for play and school work, so no loss of productivity due to down time from using this piece of crap.
Thanks NYCL. Any way, what self-respecting pirate is going to be pulling torrents from facebook? My gawd it doesn't take much to get into private sites, or even into the warez top sites if you got an ounce of sense.Of course this is just an opinion and not from any personal experiences. i don't even know how these interweb tube things work.
Actually you are incorrect in the statement; "We take people who try to kill us very seriously and act accordingly.", if that was true, we would have acted in Iraq the same way we did while transversing Germany at the end of WWII. No BS about civilians, non-combatants, etc. We would have bombed the shit out of Afghanistan until we forced them to give us OBL, we would have bombed and destroyed the majority of Iraq's cities, infrastructure and wiped their army from the face of the earth. And Fallujah(where the four security guards were murdered) would have been razed and every person within the city would have been lined up and shot. That is how you wage war. Not the BS let's not make a mess or kill any of the people who supported and allowed this ruler or that ruler to do horrible ugly things or what ever it was Saddam was supposed to have done that caused us to go to Iraq. I don't like war, but I do believe in doing things correctly. And waging war in the most brutal and bloody way possible, killing as many of your enemies as possible in the process, makes a strong statement to other enemies not to fuck with you, lessening the chance of having to go to war again in the near future.
you can vote, marry, sign contracts, join the military, be executed... but you commit a crime if you want to have a beer. What a fucking farce of a number. And it goes either way, old enough to be executed old enough to drink. Seems the number should be the same for either.
I can change lead to gold. Send me a few tons of lead, and help me get to the nearest star ready to go supernovae and presto-chango, lead to gold. I will even let you gather up all the gold.
I disagree. If I have a mass of data, and lack the time, energy and probably intellectual ability to understand it all, then I am forced to believe someone else's interpretation and conclusions. If the people I have to choose from have histories, then I have to make my basis of choice from those histories and their percentage of previous correct calls on other cases, along with the amount of understanding they show on the current case. Dyson, in his thoughts on global warming shows pretty sound ideas, throws out easily implemented solutions and makes the case that it is not something to be as alarmed about as the global warming supporters want us to be. With his track record, I make my choice to believe him. YMMV as it goes though.
Prison toilets are stainless steel. What prisoners do is empty the toilets out, then use a cup to force the water from the trap and create a chimney through the drainage system. Sewage drains have both a drain for solids/liquids, and also a gas escape to atmosphere.Once that is done, they make a burner out of toilet paper, usually forming a cone many layers thick and tightly wrapped, fashion a cooking vessel from aluminum foil, and use the interior of the toilet with a piece of card board with a hole to allow air in which forces the smoke out the drain, as a type of enclosed oven. They can cook stuff without filling their cells with smoke and without(usually) getting caught by COs and getting in trouble. Prisoners are very inventive. Take the habit of them using pencils to decrease DC voltage in order to operate radios,(older prisons which have exposed light incandescent light bulbs use an 12 volt DC system to power the lights within the cells to prevent the prisoners from wiring the doors up to 120V AC current, and other mischief.
You can call it intuition, but more probably it is your experience and knowledge being accessed unconsciously rather than actually thinking it out in entirety. I used to do the same things with HVAC/R equipment, hydraulics, and electrical systems. The vast amount of information you gather while working on these systems(whatever systems they may be) is not often noticed or remembered in a clearly recallable form, yet your mind can and does manage to sift through these memories, draw similar and related factoids out, and then when you are looking at some other situation, present the answer or most likely problem to you in a form that seems as it is "intuition", but is not. It is just your own personal knowledge.
to be driven into bankruptcy. The BS of dropping the suit because they see they can not win is just that, BS. The judge should prevent them from filing anymore cases in his district, since logically they can't win this one(their POV) so they could not win any others.
Fuck that. I am in college and the kangaroo courts ran by liberal left-over hippies are the biggest threat to students Constitutional rights, even more than the Constitution shredding monkey we had for 8 years a president. As a 40 year old man, who pays for college out of pocket with no grants, loans or scholarships, I was told two semesters ago that I could face disciplinary action over the picture of me on my MySpace account. Seems that I was supposedly violating some school policy by wearing a Confederate Flag hat in my private life. Luckily, I am not some stupid kid and I raised holy hell with the Dean, more accurately, my lawyer raised holy fucking hell while I sat quietly as he had instructed me to do. Just for a factoid, I live in North Carolina, so the hat is not out of place around here.
I wonder if i stripped searched my non-existent daughter, and the media found out, what the result would be? Methinks I would be in jail and my daughter in foster care.
They will administer the test verbally if they think you are screwing with them (in correctional facilities). They use a set of flash cards and will randomly ask you the questions and mark the answer sheet. This is supposed to keep a person from going back to refer to previous answers to similar questions. Of course, if you are fucking with the test results, then it is no harder to do it taking the test verbally than in the written form. One good tactic is to answer all the "K" scale questions to show you are honest, then answer all the other questions as if you believe actively in demons, hate your parents, and believe that your physical problems are all important.
lol, the MMPI and variants are scored on several scales showing "purported" psychological tendencies. The most notorious is the "K" scale which shows honesty. Pretty much if the questions says always or never you say false. The rest, just go for what seems like a common sense type response, demons are not real so false, evil spirits the same, stealing is wrong so answer those accordingly. Just as a note, if you are ever incarcerated do not decide to fuck with the test for lulz. It ends badly every time.
Eh, I have downloaded a bunch of music because various girlfriends have told me this band or that band is really good. I have found that most of the discographies have maybe one or two strong songs, and the rest of the entire collection is crap. I have come to the conclusion that the 20 somethings would not know good music if it bit their heads off and pissed down their throats. On the other hand, Everlast, IMNSHO, has put out some good strong albums, including his last one. Coherent overall theme, similar sounds with enough variation that it does not sound like one extended song, and tight editing. Of course, with music YMMV.
lol, as a non-"certified" geek, I have spent 21 years of my life doing HVAC/R, electrical, Plant maintenance,and assorted skilled "blue" collar type work. Am back in school after a divorce and deciding I no longer wanted the headaches of owning a business. The classes are full of idiotic, spoiled children who can't process what the lectures are about, understand the textbooks, or draw logical conclusions from an assorted set of facts. Thankfully, I am working towards a degree in substance abuse counseling, because if it was an engineering program, I would be forced to eliminate my entire class in order to protect society from their incompetency. They actually got mad at a instructor because he refused to go over an exam, and tell them the answers, prior to taking said exam. i just wish I could drink, as if I could, I would down a fifth before class each day.
College is a joke. In my classes now, I have none of the texts, doodle and daydream during class, and still maintain a 3.7GPA. Have classes filled with idiots who are not qualified to be there and the instructors go over the material time and time again while these refugees from the work force fail to get it. If they actually had to pay for classes and texts, most of them would not be there. It drives me nuts because I pay my way with no aid, grants, loans or other types of financial help.
except when you have a good camera that won't use anything larger than a 512MB SD card. I have to reformat my SD cards and set their size to 512MB, or I have a very pretty paperweight.
If we are at war with another country, then we should be trying to kill as many as possible, men,women, children, soldiers, civilians. Duh, war is about forcing the other country to quit fighting and what better way than to kill everyone there. It quickly causes public pressure on the government of the the country to stop, or has /. forgot about Vietnam and the excellent example of a country who loses it's will to fight?
bought a TV there several years ago. good knowledgeable salesman, steered me away from an idiot mistake i was trying to make, matched my price range and excellent service. Went back several times and paid a higher price than on-line or what it would have cost for BB. when they sacked him and the rest of the competent salesmen, i never went back. I would rather pay 10% more and get excellent service, and 20% more for excellent service and convenience.
At least 8% of us have it right.
That logic is perilously close to the "She was asking for it wearing that tight skirt" rape defense.Stating your sexual preference is considered provoking a fight or attack where? The middle east is about the only place that comes to mind right now.
You are a slave when you decide to be a slave. Until that point, you may be shackled and gagged, beat and tortured, but you are still free. When the desire to fight, to escape, to search for physical freedom is lost, then you are a slave. Until then you are a prisoner.
hmm, making a corporation provide the medium for a message that it does not support. You are correct, that is not a violation of free speech. It would be more like coerced speech, or speech made at the point of a gun.