True enough. I always note that people make God in their own image, as their God just so happens to hate the very same things they do. So the zealots do their evil in the name of their God who happens to, well you know the rest..
"What God wants, God gets! God helps us all!" (from Radio K.A.O.S.)
Remember that in the middle, and late middle ages, the Islamic world was the advanced, progressive, cultured and tolerant civilization, far ahead of western Europe. Christian Europe was a place of endless war and bickering and of religious zealots.
From 700 to 1400, roughly. Then they fell into obscurantism. We should be good for another 100 years before we fall too.
Of course it is. That's the whole basis of the secret american gay bomb, which russian intelligence reports was in development 20 years ago, so it must be completed by now.
Way longer than that... Enola Gay.
And don't be fooled by the minor spelling change, that african epidemic is a failed experiment.
The Greeks had figured that out nearly 2000 years before Columbus ever accidentally ran into the Americas on his way to China.
And IIRC, academician gave Columbus lots of trouble because the ignorant fool believed Cathay to be way closer than it was. He really conned Queen Isabella.
The big joke is that half of what you need to do for documentation, you need to do for regression testing. Might as well explain what you are testing and why.
Most people I know who shit on D&D either never played it, or had a lame experience in a lame campaign.
Your friend the Computer disagrees and reminds you that D&D is a gateway drug into secret societies revering Cthulhu, mutants calling themselves "superheroes" or knowledge of the Outside such as "mouse" and "vineyard".
While I am not religious, I do respect the rights of religious people. It is unconscionable for them to be forced to provide benefits that are in opposition to their morals. However, I am in favor of ubiquitously available contraception (for everyone, not just women, I'm egalitarian that way...).
I don't know. They are forced to pay for many things through taxes, which includes blood transfusion and the like.
If we define a minimum set of benefits for all citizens, noone should have the right to forbid them. It's not the corporation's right to decide how its employees will behave, it's the employee's right to decide not to use those benefits because it goes against the employee's religion.
Should an atheist be penalized because he works for a religious corporation?
The simplest way to do this is to remove assessment from the teacher's responsibilities. Let teachers teach, let section, unit, quarter, and semester tests be a function of the school district or the state, and use curriculum services to ensure that what the teachers are asked to teach actually matches what the district or state expects them to do.
Homework and exams are used to discover which part of the curriculum is well understood and which require a detailed explaination. You cannot blindly talk to the kids, you need to assess where are the weaknesses.
Of course, when you start the year you expect those kids to be at a certain point, and when it ends you should hand them out to the next teacher far enough that he can carry them further. You also have to drag the lower tier back up and keep the higher tier interested.
But the first job of teachers is assessing their kids. That's the foundation on which they are building.
Books aren't some Unique And Sacred Category Unto Themselves; but the characteristics listed above are pretty significantly unlike those of, say, consumer appliances.
Yep, if only because literature is the sole mean to save the masses from analphabetism. It is a source of self-education that allows to understand the difference between principle and principal, capitol and capital, affect and effect, and all those weird ways to expand your vocabulary beyond the 1000 mark or the 10,000 mark.
RTFA, used momensin antibiotic on the foam to deflate it. Moreover, foam does not occur from distillers grain only, there's an unknown trigger agent at work.
Well of course Real Time programming is a special beast, but I don't think it is representative of whatever programming the OP is trying to learn. Basing your whole critique on optimization needs is off-base.
OOP is a good tool to encapsulate UI, it has brought Angular, DOM and javascript prototype-based system.
For heavy work, functional programming simplifies parallel processes. Scheme can handle this and offers a very different syntax to learn. If you can wrap your head around both the ((parenthesis)) and the {imperative;} syntax, you can understand any new language.
I say that with 10y in C++ and 10y in Scheme with a dabble of other languages. Which is why I can say Scheme is a much better learning tool than OOP imperative languages, although its blessings carry the Lisp curse. {Using Scheme for eulerproject.net is almost cheating, its numerical tower makes them a breeze.}
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True enough. I always note that people make God in their own image, as their God just so happens to hate the very same things they do. So the zealots do their evil in the name of their God who happens to, well you know the rest..
"What God wants, God gets! God helps us all!" (from Radio K.A.O.S.)
Remember that in the middle, and late middle ages, the Islamic world was the advanced, progressive, cultured and tolerant civilization, far ahead of western Europe. Christian Europe was a place of endless war and bickering and of religious zealots.
From 700 to 1400, roughly. Then they fell into obscurantism. We should be good for another 100 years before we fall too.
Of course it is. That's the whole basis of the secret american gay bomb, which russian intelligence reports was in development 20 years ago, so it must be completed by now.
Way longer than that... Enola Gay.
And don't be fooled by the minor spelling change, that african epidemic is a failed experiment.
"What God wants God gets God help us all!"
Same word, 3 different meanings.
Albedo Anthropomorphics...
The Greeks had figured that out nearly 2000 years before Columbus ever accidentally ran into the Americas on his way to China.
And IIRC, academician gave Columbus lots of trouble because the ignorant fool believed Cathay to be way closer than it was. He really conned Queen Isabella.
Even solar and wind have some negative affects.
Do not anthropomorphize power generators. They don't like it.
Nonsense, real CS people should have a year studying butterflies.
Oblig. ref : http://xkcd.com/378/
The big joke is that half of what you need to do for documentation, you need to do for regression testing. Might as well explain what you are testing and why.
Blame the idiots who poorly crafted a law.
I am sure they were masterfully crafted. Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
lol @ clueless troll moderator
Most people I know who shit on D&D either never played it, or had a lame experience in a lame campaign.
Your friend the Computer disagrees and reminds you that D&D is a gateway drug into secret societies revering Cthulhu, mutants calling themselves "superheroes" or knowledge of the Outside such as "mouse" and "vineyard".
I'm sick and tired of the notion that it's OK to pollute, as long as you don't pollute "too much."
If it isn't "too much", it isn't pollution.
In a sense, breathing and pissing are polluting but as long as the ecosystem can handle it you are in a sustainable pattern.
If you can master vi, you are possibly ready to cope with DF's interface.
God, I wish that wasn't true. Not that it will stop me from having fun again ><
I hope you're beginning to grasp the idea. Lacking belief in a god or gods is not "believing there is no god or gods",
Agnostic then?
If you cannot prove there is no god, then it is just a belief.
While I am not religious, I do respect the rights of religious people. It is unconscionable for them to be forced to provide benefits that are in opposition to their morals. However, I am in favor of ubiquitously available contraception (for everyone, not just women, I'm egalitarian that way...).
I don't know. They are forced to pay for many things through taxes, which includes blood transfusion and the like.
If we define a minimum set of benefits for all citizens, noone should have the right to forbid them. It's not the corporation's right to decide how its employees will behave, it's the employee's right to decide not to use those benefits because it goes against the employee's religion.
Should an atheist be penalized because he works for a religious corporation?
Ahem!
Theism: Belief that there is at least one god.
Atheism: Belief that there is no god.
Both are beliefs.
Buckaroo Banzai, is that you?
The simplest way to do this is to remove assessment from the teacher's responsibilities. Let teachers teach, let section, unit, quarter, and semester tests be a function of the school district or the state, and use curriculum services to ensure that what the teachers are asked to teach actually matches what the district or state expects them to do.
Homework and exams are used to discover which part of the curriculum is well understood and which require a detailed explaination. You cannot blindly talk to the kids, you need to assess where are the weaknesses.
Of course, when you start the year you expect those kids to be at a certain point, and when it ends you should hand them out to the next teacher far enough that he can carry them further. You also have to drag the lower tier back up and keep the higher tier interested.
But the first job of teachers is assessing their kids. That's the foundation on which they are building.
If your interview and hiring process ends up with a random sample, you're doing it wrong.
Higher mean, lower deviation. It could still be a bell curve if it wasn't for the low sampling.
Books aren't some Unique And Sacred Category Unto Themselves; but the characteristics listed above are pretty significantly unlike those of, say, consumer appliances.
Yep, if only because literature is the sole mean to save the masses from analphabetism. It is a source of self-education that allows to understand the difference between principle and principal, capitol and capital, affect and effect, and all those weird ways to expand your vocabulary beyond the 1000 mark or the 10,000 mark.
Not that Hachette helps in any way there.
Shouldn't this fuel an antitrust investigation?
Isn't antitrust when you use your strength in a market to sell at loss in another?
RTFA, used momensin antibiotic on the foam to deflate it. Moreover, foam does not occur from distillers grain only, there's an unknown trigger agent at work.
Well of course Real Time programming is a special beast, but I don't think it is representative of whatever programming the OP is trying to learn. Basing your whole critique on optimization needs is off-base.
OOP is a good tool to encapsulate UI, it has brought Angular, DOM and javascript prototype-based system.
For heavy work, functional programming simplifies parallel processes. Scheme can handle this and offers a very different syntax to learn. If you can wrap your head around both the ((parenthesis)) and the {imperative;} syntax, you can understand any new language.
I say that with 10y in C++ and 10y in Scheme with a dabble of other languages. Which is why I can say Scheme is a much better learning tool than OOP imperative languages, although its blessings carry the Lisp curse. {Using Scheme for eulerproject.net is almost cheating, its numerical tower makes them a breeze.}
Why, thank you!
I am glad to see some can maintain a NPOV on this subject. We need more like you.