heh - i have all my email going back to '98 in Outlook Express. Best email program ever! It's nearly perfect for what i want. (Any way to get it to do inline spell checking, ie, underlines misspelled words as you type?) Still running it on an XP box. Been using Windows Live Essentials a bit for Win8, it's not horrific, but lacks some of the characteristics..hope MS injects some of the OE spirit into it..
Not necessarily... Where i live in Victoria, BC, in my basement suite i can just barely get a connection with my Rogers supplier, but when friends on Bell visit, they have no bars. (Yes, i'm centrally located IN the city, in Fairfield.) This would be evidence that they aren't sharing at least some towers...
3. I'd also like the see the footprints of more foods. There's probably a 10x, if not 100x, difference between the highest and lowest foods, and as you say, we don't all eat just asparagus.
I've read similar stories about set steps being better able to deal with certain medical emergencies than just 'doing what's standard', and thought the IBM Big Blue computer and the way it operates would be a boon to medical sciences...and this would have been an amazing episode of House: where he competes against something like a medical version of Big Blue. =)
Dawkins is fantastic, and also his book 'The Greatest Show On Earth' should put to rest the thoughts of anyone questioning evolution...but in this area, i think Sam Harris' book really takes the cake. He didn't even write it for an atheist audience (doesn't even like the term, questions our use of it, we don't have a name for people who don't believe in Santa Claus, so why should we identify ourselves for other fictional characters?), but it's a slam dunk home run. The writing style is also fantastic...i swear my IQ temporarily goes up 10pts when i read a chapter.
To answer the OP, this is the most influential book i've come across, and really shook up the way i think about things. Harris isn't perfect of course, and certainly some holes in some of his positions, but on the whole it's very good stuff.
I was going to comment on the gender issue as well, although the OP here took it in the wrong direction. I'm more inclined to suggest that women are less able to succeed because they're expected to dress up significantly more than men in many cases... How many men also put on make-up as well as choose from the clothes they wear? And how successful do you think any women would be if she wore the same outfit or two every day at work? (And what does it say that this even has to be asked??!) It seems a tad unbalanced, and something like this article could comment on that.
If it's becoming anything like TPB website, there'll be ads everywhere.. What's happened to the site? Ever other click now brings up a full-screen ad. =(
Anyone updated their iPod? I've got a 4th Gen, any point in going to iOS6? I suppose at some point it'll pretty much be mandatory..but until then...? I think mine's become quite a bit more sluggish since going from iOS4 to 5, so worries this will be even slower... It's weird that when hitting the top button, it takes 1-5 seconds for it to 'click' and turn off the screen....
Same here in British Columbia (Canada) - there have been a few municipal elections which were very close, and went back and forth in the recounts, but eventually they came to a proper conclusion. Why *wouldn't* they do a recount somewhere if requested...? That's just bizarre to me. But so is a two-party system that puts down a one-party system (Communism) claiming to be the herald of freedom and democracy...two choices instead of one does not a real democracy make. It's still a bit too much of an ultimatum, imo.
I think you might be mistaking (anti-cruelty) laws with actual rights. Consider if i were somehow able to take away your rights, and instead provide you with just anti-cruelty 'protection'....you'd have a very different life. However, IANAL...
I dunno if this is entirely fair, patch 1.0.4 has improved things quite a bit and i've been enjoying my time playing a lot more....but i do have to wonder what on earth they spent 10 years 'developing' - i suspect it will take another 6mos before it's considered polished. Will be keen to try out Torchlight 2 tho.
..except there were many centuries of 'anti-science' in there as well, i'm sure more questions will be answered more quickly - probably a large portion of that 25% have been discovered pretty recently as well. (But unfortunately, some of that anti-science culture is making a come-back in portions of the US.)
Not quite. WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) is standing behind USADA's decision, and they do have much more authority. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) is one such body that will be influenced, and any body under the IOC will likely have to play along - and thus i believe the UCI (International Cycling Union).
Also, USADA's case *is* being continued - next up is Lance's long-time team manager Johan Bruyneel, who will likely make a similar decision (although will be surprising to see him leave the cycling world.) Then, i believe the USADA will provide the IOC and UCI with their findings, and THEN we'll see Lance's titles stripped from him. Given that these bodies all have to play nice, i would be very surprised if the UCI challenged the findings. Yes, it will implicate themselves, but they're pretty much damned either way as i see it..if their real goal is to eliminate doping from cycling, then they'll have to shape up. I think the evidence is pretty strong that there has been corruption, and they won't be able to hide it much longer...
Question when oldversioning - i have a bunch of torrents that i'm saving for a rainy day in the queue, if i go back to 2.2.1, will it still retain that database? Or will they all go missing...? Can i have two versions of uTorrent? TIA!
I was going to ask about this - in my own experience, Wikipedia editors don't seem to take kindly to people updating pages in areas that they're actually involved in...so i'd be surprised if they were to allow campaign members to 'clean up' entries.
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heh - i have all my email going back to '98 in Outlook Express. Best email program ever! It's nearly perfect for what i want. (Any way to get it to do inline spell checking, ie, underlines misspelled words as you type?) Still running it on an XP box. Been using Windows Live Essentials a bit for Win8, it's not horrific, but lacks some of the characteristics..hope MS injects some of the OE spirit into it..
Not necessarily... Where i live in Victoria, BC, in my basement suite i can just barely get a connection with my Rogers supplier, but when friends on Bell visit, they have no bars. (Yes, i'm centrally located IN the city, in Fairfield.) This would be evidence that they aren't sharing at least some towers...
Just what the planet needs.
3. I'd also like the see the footprints of more foods. There's probably a 10x, if not 100x, difference between the highest and lowest foods, and as you say, we don't all eat just asparagus.
Scroll down about four panels: http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/at-a-glance-brochure/
Life tip for ya: generally, it's more helpful to present your evidence, rather than just question something with a vague notion.
I've read similar stories about set steps being better able to deal with certain medical emergencies than just 'doing what's standard', and thought the IBM Big Blue computer and the way it operates would be a boon to medical sciences...and this would have been an amazing episode of House: where he competes against something like a medical version of Big Blue. =)
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Do they mean 'signing up' will always be free? You just can't do anything else?
Maybe they don't have expensive power. Maybe we (Canada & US) have power that's too inexpensive.
...and perhaps something like this is the source of the ridiculous 'turn off ALL electronic devices' warnings on flight take-off and landings...?
As a vegan it's probably more like every 16hrs. ;)
Maybe now they're saving money they can disable the 888 Poker pop-ups that occur when you click on anything on the site? So. Damn. Annoying.
Dawkins is fantastic, and also his book 'The Greatest Show On Earth' should put to rest the thoughts of anyone questioning evolution...but in this area, i think Sam Harris' book really takes the cake. He didn't even write it for an atheist audience (doesn't even like the term, questions our use of it, we don't have a name for people who don't believe in Santa Claus, so why should we identify ourselves for other fictional characters?), but it's a slam dunk home run. The writing style is also fantastic...i swear my IQ temporarily goes up 10pts when i read a chapter.
To answer the OP, this is the most influential book i've come across, and really shook up the way i think about things. Harris isn't perfect of course, and certainly some holes in some of his positions, but on the whole it's very good stuff.
I was going to comment on the gender issue as well, although the OP here took it in the wrong direction. I'm more inclined to suggest that women are less able to succeed because they're expected to dress up significantly more than men in many cases... How many men also put on make-up as well as choose from the clothes they wear? And how successful do you think any women would be if she wore the same outfit or two every day at work? (And what does it say that this even has to be asked??!) It seems a tad unbalanced, and something like this article could comment on that.
If it's becoming anything like TPB website, there'll be ads everywhere.. What's happened to the site? Ever other click now brings up a full-screen ad. =(
Anyone updated their iPod? I've got a 4th Gen, any point in going to iOS6? I suppose at some point it'll pretty much be mandatory..but until then...? I think mine's become quite a bit more sluggish since going from iOS4 to 5, so worries this will be even slower... It's weird that when hitting the top button, it takes 1-5 seconds for it to 'click' and turn off the screen....
Same here in British Columbia (Canada) - there have been a few municipal elections which were very close, and went back and forth in the recounts, but eventually they came to a proper conclusion. Why *wouldn't* they do a recount somewhere if requested...? That's just bizarre to me. But so is a two-party system that puts down a one-party system (Communism) claiming to be the herald of freedom and democracy...two choices instead of one does not a real democracy make. It's still a bit too much of an ultimatum, imo.
I see laws and rights in most of the world... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals
I think you might be mistaking (anti-cruelty) laws with actual rights. Consider if i were somehow able to take away your rights, and instead provide you with just anti-cruelty 'protection'....you'd have a very different life. However, IANAL...
I might be mistaken, but i don't think pets have rights... Their owners do, but pets are treated as property (in legal terms) in most places..?
I dunno if this is entirely fair, patch 1.0.4 has improved things quite a bit and i've been enjoying my time playing a lot more....but i do have to wonder what on earth they spent 10 years 'developing' - i suspect it will take another 6mos before it's considered polished. Will be keen to try out Torchlight 2 tho.
..except there were many centuries of 'anti-science' in there as well, i'm sure more questions will be answered more quickly - probably a large portion of that 25% have been discovered pretty recently as well. (But unfortunately, some of that anti-science culture is making a come-back in portions of the US.)
There is value if 10 former dopers all tell a similar story about Lance, yet no evidence of them corroborating to make that story...
Not quite. WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) is standing behind USADA's decision, and they do have much more authority. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) is one such body that will be influenced, and any body under the IOC will likely have to play along - and thus i believe the UCI (International Cycling Union).
Also, USADA's case *is* being continued - next up is Lance's long-time team manager Johan Bruyneel, who will likely make a similar decision (although will be surprising to see him leave the cycling world.) Then, i believe the USADA will provide the IOC and UCI with their findings, and THEN we'll see Lance's titles stripped from him. Given that these bodies all have to play nice, i would be very surprised if the UCI challenged the findings. Yes, it will implicate themselves, but they're pretty much damned either way as i see it..if their real goal is to eliminate doping from cycling, then they'll have to shape up. I think the evidence is pretty strong that there has been corruption, and they won't be able to hide it much longer...
That's my two cents. =)
Question when oldversioning - i have a bunch of torrents that i'm saving for a rainy day in the queue, if i go back to 2.2.1, will it still retain that database? Or will they all go missing...? Can i have two versions of uTorrent? TIA!
I was going to ask about this - in my own experience, Wikipedia editors don't seem to take kindly to people updating pages in areas that they're actually involved in...so i'd be surprised if they were to allow campaign members to 'clean up' entries.
I'm guessing the pollution is not from urine, but all the coffee (and other caffeinated products) that are poured down the sink...?