I don't get why Christians / Catholics get so pissy about Darwin being a theory and that a maker must've just spawned everything out of thin air. Both theories aren't mutually exclusive. The initial spores could've spawned out of thin air, then evolved into men and women.
Fear and hatred are the easiest ways to control the masses. Worked for Hitler. (Sorry for the Hitler reference, but it really IS germane. No, wait, that's a pun.)
I'd love to have a literature elective in high school called "Creation Stories and Mythology from Around the World." It could begin and end with Genesis, but also touch on everything from Coyote sneezing out mountains to examples of new creation stories from modern literature, as well as some of the more out-there science hypothesis such as multiverses and parallel dimensions, and how they are used in speculative fiction.
I went to a Jesuit high school, and that is pretty much what we were taught. There's a reason that the Jesuits are feared by other Christians. Many are prominent scientists.
Not everything worth doing is going to make a profit, and when you start letting "the market" determine what is good for space exploration, you are at best going to have areas not explored and at worst dead astronauts.
The market demands an 80 hour work week for slave wages. Great for the guys on Wall Street. Not so much for the workers.
Calculus is virtually unused in computers. It was designed as a shorthand for a world that didn't have computers. What you need to be learning instead is Linear Algebra.
Agreed that it is not used practically, but it is very useful to understand calculus. There are many situations where the intuitive understanding of differentials can be useful. For example, the difference between location, velocity, acceleration, and the change in acceleration.
The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you won't be "mowing" anything down with it. It is a conventional semi-automatic rifle that can be legally owned just about everywhere. Also, it is in a large caliber that makes it better suited for hunting than for rapid fire.
Enough with the BS that this is a BB gun. How about a direct quote from the sigsaur website: www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductDetails/sig716-patrol-rifle.aspx
Familiar Handling, Unfamiliar Power, SIG SAUER® has taken the proven features of the SIG516 and applied them into a potent AR-based rifle chambered in 7.62 x 51mm. Utilizing the short stroke pushrod operating system, an M1913 Mil-Std rail, free-floating barrel, aluminum quad rail forend, telescoping stock, and Magpul® PMAG®, the SIG716 is the rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger caliber carbine.
You can't legally buy assault rifles, or select fire battle rifles for that matter, if you're a civilian living in a first world nation. Doesn't matter what you might see in the news that says otherwise, go try it at your local gun store and see how far you get.
No, but you can go to a gun show and buy a kit that allows you to mod your gun to full auto. I have two uncles who are gun collectors, and this is no urban legend.
I hate to be trite, but this ends the discussion. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, aka, Cordwainer Smith was an absolutely brilliant writer, possibly the most brilliant ever in the field. His stories put you in another place, another time, another reality. Not just a spectator, but a participant. It's hard to describe. And the kittens. Oh, fear the kittens.
First, the political damage is not that huge. Second, it's very likely that Romney has paid little income tax, though quite large amounts of other taxes, given that most of his income is from investments, which are taxed as capital gains.
Wrong. They never cash in their investments, so they never pay that tax. They leverage their assets for cheap loans. Jobs was a master of this, as is Ellison.
I still don't get this. If you want to call what you do a "sport", as in a structure competition or whatever gets to be a sport these days, OK then. But I thought "athlete" still implied some sort of extreme physical activity. Becoming dehydrated or mentally exhausted with a lightning quick mousing hand doesn't exactly qualify in my book.
Golf, the most notorious of the multi-million dollar non-sports.
Seems like a pretty big gap... they're saying they've identified 3 factors that together make up (if they can be believed) about 21.7% of the "variation in intelligence". So where's the other 78.3%?
That's the nurture part, e.g. upbringing, economic background, schooling, family support, etc.
Meanwhile hundreds of people will be killed this week throughout the middle east and most of Africa with guns that were made in a tent by someone with no formal training in machining, who probably can't read or write, and has never seen even a conventional printer let alone a 3D one. He'll make a dozen AK 47s today and tomorrow and so on until someone kills him or he has to pack up and flee or some similar thing.
Make an AK47 in a tent? Please people, don't mod up such drivel, whatever your political views.
Apple, on the other hand, straight-up refuses to compete. At all. A threat in one of their markets? Sue them out of existence.
Bullshit. Apple is not trying to sue Samsung out of business. They want them to change the look of their product so that it doesn't look like an iPad. They are not trying to stop Samsung from selling tablets, only ones that look like theirs. Silly, maybe. Too image conscious, definitely. But this is NOT Netscape, Word Perfect, Novell, ad nauseum. Microsoft is the true king of delaying innovation by destroying competing products.
I don't remember Microsoft ever being quite as evil as Apple now are.
Absurd. Has Apple partnered with companies only to back stab them with their own cloned product? Has Apple "innovated" by buy a company's product and dumping it on the market, or else "bundling" it on all computers by strong arming the PC sellers, to put a competitor out of business? Apple has always been litigious bastards, all the way back to look-and-feel. But evil like Microsoft? Not even close.
For those commenting that there is too much art and fluff, too many books to buy, etc. that's the whole point. Hasbro wants to design a game that will sell the maximum number of books. OD&D could be played with just a few dollars invested by one person, the DM. That's just the model that Hasbro does NOT want to emulate.
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
There's no love for billg here that's for sure but poo-pooing his attempts (however imperfect) at doing good in the world is just petty.
There is no difference between Gates donating money to worthy causes and Al Capone donating money to worthy causes, which he did to try to improve his image. Lot's of crooks do it. Gates is a criminal sociopath, and should be serving time in prison, just like every other robber baron this country has ever produced. Instead people admire him? It's beyond my comprehension.
(Burning karma to try to bring some sanity back to the world.)
MS has always hired some of the best and brightest, but for years the output has been unable to match. So if you have top people, but you can't produce stuff people want than what is the issue? Management. Duh. I know, and I'm sure many others do too plenty of smart people in the biz. The difference between the Apple, Google, and MS guys is slim at best. But what gets produced is obviously not favorable to MS in quality or innovation. Innovation to Balmer seems too "out of box" and scary to be worth it, so instead he comes late to every. single. party. in the last 10 years.
That's true, as did Gates for 20 years before that. Microsoft NEVER innovated, never risked, always claimed that emerging technology was a fad and whatever market they already dominated was the only way to go. They let other companies develop technologies, and when the times is right, Microsoft swoops in and buys them out, and rebrands the products as their own. The difference is that Gates was good at this form of evil. Ballmer not so much.
Yeah, running a massive charity that helps eradicate disease around the world and improve education? What a selfish jerk.
When he shouldn't have a penny of that money except by illegally crushing other people's life work? No, this man should be in either a prison getting ass fucked by Bubba, or else in a psych ward with the rest of the sociopaths. Giving a few pennies to charities later in life does not make up for the evils of youth.
We buy most of our oil from Canada but oil is a global market, so this will only help drive down prices long term.
If you buy any oil, you can't really say you are not buying or contributing anything to "Arab" countries, even if you only buy it from one place due to oil's global nature.
This has nothing to do with lowing the price of oil, and everything to do with making the oil companies richer. They've proven that all it takes is to raise the prices $2 for a while until everyone is upset, and then drop it down a $1, and everyone is happy again. Kaching. $1 price increase and no one seems to care. The price of oil right now is based purely on the highest rate that the customer is willing to bear, and has little to nothing to do with availability.
We're concerned about an employee either accidentally or maliciously transferring customer data or other sensitive data to an unauthorized party.
Do you also inspect every USB port for thumb drives? How about printers, you know, printing out data and walking out with it in your brief case? How about encrypting the file BEFORE sending it through the network. So you deny all encrypted files? If any answers to this are no, then you are wasting your time sniffing https.
Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access), but it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been.
For how long? For which version? How many times have we been burned by "embrace and extend?"
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I don't get why Christians / Catholics get so pissy about Darwin being a theory and that a maker must've just spawned everything out of thin air. Both theories aren't mutually exclusive. The initial spores could've spawned out of thin air, then evolved into men and women.
Fear and hatred are the easiest ways to control the masses. Worked for Hitler. (Sorry for the Hitler reference, but it really IS germane. No, wait, that's a pun.)
I'd love to have a literature elective in high school called "Creation Stories and Mythology from Around the World." It could begin and end with Genesis, but also touch on everything from Coyote sneezing out mountains to examples of new creation stories from modern literature, as well as some of the more out-there science hypothesis such as multiverses and parallel dimensions, and how they are used in speculative fiction.
I went to a Jesuit high school, and that is pretty much what we were taught. There's a reason that the Jesuits are feared by other Christians. Many are prominent scientists.
Not everything worth doing is going to make a profit, and when you start letting "the market" determine what is good for space exploration, you are at best going to have areas not explored and at worst dead astronauts.
The market demands an 80 hour work week for slave wages. Great for the guys on Wall Street. Not so much for the workers.
Calculus is virtually unused in computers. It was designed as a shorthand for a world that didn't have computers. What you need to be learning instead is Linear Algebra.
Agreed that it is not used practically, but it is very useful to understand calculus. There are many situations where the intuitive understanding of differentials can be useful. For example, the difference between location, velocity, acceleration, and the change in acceleration.
The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you won't be "mowing" anything down with it. It is a conventional semi-automatic rifle that can be legally owned just about everywhere. Also, it is in a large caliber that makes it better suited for hunting than for rapid fire.
Enough with the BS that this is a BB gun. How about a direct quote from the sigsaur website: www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductDetails/sig716-patrol-rifle.aspx
Familiar Handling, Unfamiliar Power, SIG SAUER® has taken the proven features of the SIG516 and applied them into a potent AR-based rifle chambered in 7.62 x 51mm. Utilizing the short stroke pushrod operating system, an M1913 Mil-Std rail, free-floating barrel, aluminum quad rail forend, telescoping stock, and Magpul® PMAG®, the SIG716 is the rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger caliber
carbine.
You can't legally buy assault rifles, or select fire battle rifles for that matter, if you're a civilian living in a first world nation. Doesn't matter what you might see in the news that says otherwise, go try it at your local gun store and see how far you get.
No, but you can go to a gun show and buy a kit that allows you to mod your gun to full auto. I have two uncles who are gun collectors, and this is no urban legend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
I hate to be trite, but this ends the discussion. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, aka, Cordwainer Smith was an absolutely brilliant writer, possibly the most brilliant ever in the field. His stories put you in another place, another time, another reality. Not just a spectator, but a participant. It's hard to describe. And the kittens. Oh, fear the kittens.
First, the political damage is not that huge. Second, it's very likely that Romney has paid little income tax, though quite large amounts of other taxes, given that most of his income is from investments, which are taxed as capital gains.
Wrong. They never cash in their investments, so they never pay that tax. They leverage their assets for cheap loans. Jobs was a master of this, as is Ellison.
I still don't get this. If you want to call what you do a "sport", as in a structure competition or whatever gets to be a sport these days, OK then. But I thought "athlete" still implied some sort of extreme physical activity. Becoming dehydrated or mentally exhausted with a lightning quick mousing hand doesn't exactly qualify in my book.
Golf, the most notorious of the multi-million dollar non-sports.
Seems like a pretty big gap... they're saying they've identified 3 factors that together make up (if they can be believed) about 21.7% of the "variation in intelligence". So where's the other 78.3%?
That's the nurture part, e.g. upbringing, economic background, schooling, family support, etc.
Meanwhile hundreds of people will be killed this week throughout the middle east and most of Africa with guns that were made in a tent by someone with no formal training in machining, who probably can't read or write, and has never seen even a conventional printer let alone a 3D one. He'll make a dozen AK 47s today and tomorrow and so on until someone kills him or he has to pack up and flee or some similar thing.
Make an AK47 in a tent? Please people, don't mod up such drivel, whatever your political views.
All I want is a flat rate, one stop shop for streaming anything ever made. Completely possible techwise, utterly undoable from an IP standpoint.
Unless the BBC re-used the archive tapes.
Apple, on the other hand, straight-up refuses to compete. At all. A threat in one of their markets? Sue them out of existence.
Bullshit. Apple is not trying to sue Samsung out of business. They want them to change the look of their product so that it doesn't look like an iPad. They are not trying to stop Samsung from selling tablets, only ones that look like theirs. Silly, maybe. Too image conscious, definitely. But this is NOT Netscape, Word Perfect, Novell, ad nauseum. Microsoft is the true king of delaying innovation by destroying competing products.
I don't remember Microsoft ever being quite as evil as Apple now are.
Absurd. Has Apple partnered with companies only to back stab them with their own cloned product? Has Apple "innovated" by buy a company's product and dumping it on the market, or else "bundling" it on all computers by strong arming the PC sellers, to put a competitor out of business? Apple has always been litigious bastards, all the way back to look-and-feel. But evil like Microsoft? Not even close.
WSJ is no better than Fox News these days.
For those commenting that there is too much art and fluff, too many books to buy, etc. that's the whole point. Hasbro wants to design a game that will sell the maximum number of books. OD&D could be played with just a few dollars invested by one person, the DM. That's just the model that Hasbro does NOT want to emulate.
Gimme a Laptop Air that runs Windows or hell, Linux, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat...
OK, it's called the Macbook Air, and it runs Windows and Linux. Now off to the Apple Store with you. Bring your credit card.
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
There's no love for billg here that's for sure but poo-pooing his attempts (however imperfect) at doing good in the world is just petty.
There is no difference between Gates donating money to worthy causes and Al Capone donating money to worthy causes, which he did to try to improve his image. Lot's of crooks do it. Gates is a criminal sociopath, and should be serving time in prison, just like every other robber baron this country has ever produced. Instead people admire him? It's beyond my comprehension.
(Burning karma to try to bring some sanity back to the world.)
MS has always hired some of the best and brightest, but for years the output has been unable to match. So if you have top people, but you can't produce stuff people want than what is the issue? Management. Duh. I know, and I'm sure many others do too plenty of smart people in the biz. The difference between the Apple, Google, and MS guys is slim at best. But what gets produced is obviously not favorable to MS in quality or innovation. Innovation to Balmer seems too "out of box" and scary to be worth it, so instead he comes late to every. single. party. in the last 10 years.
That's true, as did Gates for 20 years before that. Microsoft NEVER innovated, never risked, always claimed that emerging technology was a fad and whatever market they already dominated was the only way to go. They let other companies develop technologies, and when the times is right, Microsoft swoops in and buys them out, and rebrands the products as their own. The difference is that Gates was good at this form of evil. Ballmer not so much.
Yeah, running a massive charity that helps eradicate disease around the world and improve education? What a selfish jerk.
When he shouldn't have a penny of that money except by illegally crushing other people's life work? No, this man should be in either a prison getting ass fucked by Bubba, or else in a psych ward with the rest of the sociopaths. Giving a few pennies to charities later in life does not make up for the evils of youth.
We buy most of our oil from Canada but oil is a global market, so this will only help drive down prices long term.
If you buy any oil, you can't really say you are not buying or contributing anything to "Arab" countries, even if you only buy it from one place due to oil's global nature.
This has nothing to do with lowing the price of oil, and everything to do with making the oil companies richer. They've proven that all it takes is to raise the prices $2 for a while until everyone is upset, and then drop it down a $1, and everyone is happy again. Kaching. $1 price increase and no one seems to care. The price of oil right now is based purely on the highest rate that the customer is willing to bear, and has little to nothing to do with availability.
We're concerned about an employee either accidentally or maliciously transferring customer data or other sensitive data to an unauthorized party.
Do you also inspect every USB port for thumb drives? How about printers, you know, printing out data and walking out with it in your brief case? How about encrypting the file BEFORE sending it through the network. So you deny all encrypted files? If any answers to this are no, then you are wasting your time sniffing https.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ajax
Every single thing that we complain about Iran being is our fucking fault and now we blatantly continue with our evil foreign policy.
Every single thing that I was told this country stood for is a lie.
Someone should post that link every time someone spews "Islam is evil. They hate us for our freedoms."
Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access), but it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been.
For how long? For which version? How many times have we been burned by "embrace and extend?"