For example, an insurance company might be able to sell you a car policy by phone. They havent seen the car and they dont know if its in a good condition or even if it was stolen 15 minutes ago, but the cost of checking against every possible fraud would be way too high. So they sell you a policy in good faith assuming that you are not trying to defraud them.
Of course if they find that you did try to defraud, they will set loose the dogs of war.
Oh and by the way, I cant add any more airport codes to my sig. I am already at the character limit
"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Though I have asserted above that in truth a legitimate conflict between religion and science cannot exist, I must nevertheless qualify this assertion once again on an essential point, with reference to the actual content of historical religions. This qualification has to do with the concept of God. During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favor by means of magic and prayer. The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old concept of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes."
Albert Einstein: "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium", published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York (1941)
As a side note, I strongly urge you not to build furniture from mahogany, a beautiful wood and easy to work with surely, but its already becoming endangered.
I suggest walnut or koa, which have very good properties, look beautiful and is a much better ecological compromise.
Except that it isn't the same time. Otherwise the markings would say "Do not open before 23:00 15/07/05 GMT/UTC"
But its the same policy used by Starwars and other "worldwide premiere" stunts. A few hours difference between asian, european and american midnight bookstore romps won't affect it.
The point is they want to have the book in stores (thus accesible legally) before people scan it and share it via p2p...
if the fastest way to get it is to get online and donwload it ilegally, then the myriads of obsessed fans will do that.
on the other hand,
if the fastest way to get it is to get in a line and purchase it legally, then the myriads of obsessed fans will do that.
Every time I want to go to yahoo, wikipedia, or other easily recognizable site that I dont happen to have on my bookmarks, I use the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
Well, I routinely have to deal with sites that open pop up menus behind the main text in firefox, yet open fine in explorer.
I understand its the web designers fault, but in the meantime I have to close the firefox window and open IE (these are work-related sites and I cant boicot them)
Well, its been a while since the last time I created a.gif image, but certianly I would expect Photoshop 2010 to be able to recognize and edit one, wouldnt you?
Well, about the short names, remember that in some societies that supported slavery, slaves were not entitled to a "full" or "real" name, but they had to live being just another "tom" or "nan" or "jim"
The fact that the droids are the "negroes" of the Star Wars universe is quite evident. They are bought and sold by slaving raiders, people go around them without aknowledging their presence... and a long list of etc.
In such a society, where "every negro is just like the others", it makes perfect sense that Owen or even Obiwan would not recognize droids from 15 years past.
Its just that sometimes we latin-americans get bad reputations about being too close to our parents and immediate families.
Some people dont realize that most of it comes from interest rates here are impossibly high when it comes to consumer credit.
For example, I just finished paying for my first car, its original list price was around $8,600.00 USD, but I ended up paying 60 months of $230.00 USD (60 x 230= $13,800.00USD aprox.)
Unfortunately, for many of us outside the USA, housing credit is only for the rich (or for those working for the goverment).
The rest of us have to rent an apartment, or live with the parents until one of the following happens: you get a job in the goverment, you get a job where you can afford to rent an apartment, or your parents die and then you get to inherit the house (but now you have to wait for your 30 year old children to move out)
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, especially when you can get sent to Guantanamo
Its called Bona Fide (good faith) principle.
For example, an insurance company might be able to sell you a car policy by phone. They havent seen the car and they dont know if its in a good condition or even if it was stolen 15 minutes ago, but the cost of checking against every possible fraud would be way too high. So they sell you a policy in good faith assuming that you are not trying to defraud them.
Of course if they find that you did try to defraud, they will set loose the dogs of war.
Oh and by the way, I cant add any more airport codes to my sig. I am already at the character limit
Thank you for telling us...
"Honey? Im going to Walmart, you want anything?"
Some of us think that God _designed_ evolution.
"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Though I have asserted above that in truth a legitimate conflict between religion and science cannot exist, I must nevertheless qualify this assertion once again on an essential point, with reference to the actual content of historical religions. This qualification has to do with the concept of God. During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favor by means of magic and prayer. The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old concept of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes."
Albert Einstein: "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium", published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York (1941)
Going to Irak? No thanks!
It's O'Neill. Two L's.
I thought it was "MacGyver"
One thing I find myself wondering about -- what happens to all those pocket TVs when it all goes digital?
They get sold in Mexico
fsck me if i'm wrong
Maaan! careful with what you say!
As a side note, I strongly urge you not to build furniture from mahogany, a beautiful wood and easy to work with surely, but its already becoming endangered.
I suggest walnut or koa, which have very good properties, look beautiful and is a much better ecological compromise.
Best regards
Yeah! We want autopr0n!
Sorry if Im too young to fully understand the joke... But what was the 4 bit processor MS-DOS was written for?
Except that it isn't the same time. Otherwise the markings would say "Do not open before 23:00 15/07/05 GMT/UTC"
But its the same policy used by Starwars and other "worldwide premiere" stunts. A few hours difference between asian, european and american midnight bookstore romps won't affect it.
The point is they want to have the book in stores (thus accesible legally) before people scan it and share it via p2p...
if the fastest way to get it is to get online and donwload it ilegally, then the myriads of obsessed fans will do that.
on the other hand,
if the fastest way to get it is to get in a line and purchase it legally, then the myriads of obsessed fans will do that.
Every time I want to go to yahoo, wikipedia, or other easily recognizable site that I dont happen to have on my bookmarks, I use the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
So I end up using it daily, once or twice.
Often I only get a chance to visit Slashdot once or twice a day...
/. every couple of days and I never feel I missed anything.
Once or twice a day? My Friend, you need to get out more often!
I check
Thank you, it works.
Dont forget the Lance of Longinus and the frozen bodies of the greys who crashed in New Mexico
Well, now that you ask... yes, there's Alta California and Baja California
Well, I routinely have to deal with sites that open pop up menus behind the main text in firefox, yet open fine in explorer.
I understand its the web designers fault, but in the meantime I have to close the firefox window and open IE (these are work-related sites and I cant boicot them)
Well, its been a while since the last time I created a .gif image, but certianly I would expect Photoshop 2010 to be able to recognize and edit one, wouldnt you?
AAAAAAAARRRRRGGHH!!
Oh my god! He actually poses!
A poster below mentioned the great quantities of Helium 3 in the moon as a possible rocket fuel
6 30.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000
in this rediculous, hypothetical situation where apple no longer existed... there would still be people using and writing software for Mac OS X
Yeah, people used to say that about the Amiga
Well, about the short names, remember that in some societies that supported slavery, slaves were not entitled to a "full" or "real" name, but they had to live being just another "tom" or "nan" or "jim"
The fact that the droids are the "negroes" of the Star Wars universe is quite evident. They are bought and sold by slaving raiders, people go around them without aknowledging their presence... and a long list of etc.
In such a society, where "every negro is just like the others", it makes perfect sense that Owen or even Obiwan would not recognize droids from 15 years past.
True, I was being offtopic.
Its just that sometimes we latin-americans get bad reputations about being too close to our parents and immediate families.
Some people dont realize that most of it comes from interest rates here are impossibly high when it comes to consumer credit.
For example, I just finished paying for my first car, its original list price was around $8,600.00 USD, but I ended up paying 60 months of $230.00 USD (60 x 230= $13,800.00USD aprox.)
Go figure
Unfortunately, for many of us outside the USA, housing credit is only for the rich (or for those working for the goverment).
The rest of us have to rent an apartment, or live with the parents until one of the following happens: you get a job in the goverment, you get a job where you can afford to rent an apartment, or your parents die and then you get to inherit the house (but now you have to wait for your 30 year old children to move out)