I think you're missing the point. I was telling someone last night how even though, the more you study the history of the world, the more confusing any statement about ANYTHING becomes, especially religion, I still have been born again and accept Jesus as my personal savior. That is an internal mental state which I have no problem communicating to other rational individuals, no different than when I communicate the internal mental state "the sky is blue."
She said her son moved away from religion after learning science. I said - tell him to keep going, the mystery comes back. For me it's in Goedel / the incompletness theorem and Broeuwer / Intuitionism / the separate existence of mathematical entities. Wittgensteins "That the world is, is the mystery."
All human descriptions of the mystery are filled with foibles, and any drug / biochem expalanations for mental states for me don't challenge the philosophical questions. And for me the internal mental state "jesus is my personal savior" has a very real, measurable effect on my life - I know exactly what it means - I can communicate it with others.
All humans tend to get bewitched by their own languages. The mental state of operating outside of religion is very similar to the state of operating inside religion, if you're lazy. If you're rigorous, the Mystery is always present.
Does this mean Bill Gates is a super genius? And maybe flawed at execution, but Gates has been touting Pen computing since before Windows 95. I mean seriously touting, even when other people at MS weren't all that into it. Doesn't the ipad adoration prove Gates was a visionary?
I have incredibly shitty health care options (contractor) - HSAs with high deductibles, limited PPOs with annual caps, and I LOATHE this health care bill. Because I'm already paying the way for all the other fat-ass schlubs in america to live off MY income, and it's only going to get worse.
The only thing that makes me happy is gradually the rest of you are going to start having the options I've had for years. You ain't going to like it.
Sorry, you're not going to get any treatment. I'm going to have to pick and choose who I give treatment to, because I have these other people the government will put me in jail for unless I come up with the right metrics. You don't fit the formula, so I don't have any time for you.
I have been getting these emails for years, and I *always* knew it was a fake - I never logged on to actually see that it was a fake robot posting, because that would have been too depressing.
I think probably everyone on this sight has enough experience with "popular" not to have fallen for this:-)
If you did fall for it, well what a pathetic loser you are!:-)
Doctors are wrong all the time. He might have been much better otherwise, or maybe the doctors could have been right. The point is, they aren't infallible, so don't base reasoning on that implicit assumption.
A friend of mine who read the Obama bill said they DEFINITELY had tiered levels of coverage by age - older people won't get the same level of care. I guess that's one way to keep health care costs down - don't give it to people!
It's TOTALLY worth $600K to stay alive two more years. What the fuck kind of moron thinks otherwise? If you want to off your own self, go ahead. But me personally, I have a billion years to be dead, and I have made it clear that I want all extraordinary measures taken. I want to be a huge financial and emotional burden, a brain in a jar connected to wires, just wheel me out of the closet every year and say hey.
Because whether or not that's better than being dead, it really doesn't change the amount of time I have to be dead, and in my world being on this planet is a pretty damn good thing. Dignity be damned.
So stop with the Joseph Mengele type "praticalities"...
I never buy this line of reasoning. I think the VStudio MSDN help is a lot easier, especially when you want to learn about 50 different methods all in a couple of seconds. Online, it requires 50 different page reloads. In the MSDN help, the pages load instantly. I guess I always use the index - the search itself is useless. Must be because I've been using it for a bazillion years.
I rememeber when the first MSDN was just a bundle of KB docs, and they put a little index on it. Boolean searches! More powah!
In the old days you actually had to THINK to figure out how to do something on the PC. Real actual honest to god research and thinkin about something. No foolin!
Ah, gee, I feel sorry for you guys who didn't get to play with Windows 3.0 in the Spring of '90:-) Back then we read all the help files cover to cover, cause it was nearly the only thing you could do on the thing.
I read the aluminum used to be really hard to smelt, and Napoleon's most prized possession was a set of aluminum dishes that he only brought out for the most important guests - the regular people could have silver or gold.
It takes a major moron to think that making a joke about a bomb threat in today's world isn't the dumbest frickin thing to do. Duh. How about some common sense.
Doesn't China make like almost all the computer parts? We are happy enough to get hardware from them. Hell, they make most everything we use nowadays. Are you ready to give all that up?
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I think you're missing the point. I was telling someone last night how even though, the more you study the history of the world, the more confusing any statement about ANYTHING becomes, especially religion, I still have been born again and accept Jesus as my personal savior. That is an internal mental state which I have no problem communicating to other rational individuals, no different than when I communicate the internal mental state "the sky is blue."
She said her son moved away from religion after learning science. I said - tell him to keep going, the mystery comes back. For me it's in Goedel / the incompletness theorem and Broeuwer / Intuitionism / the separate existence of mathematical entities. Wittgensteins "That the world is, is the mystery."
All human descriptions of the mystery are filled with foibles, and any drug / biochem expalanations for mental states for me don't challenge the philosophical questions. And for me the internal mental state "jesus is my personal savior" has a very real, measurable effect on my life - I know exactly what it means - I can communicate it with others.
All humans tend to get bewitched by their own languages. The mental state of operating outside of religion is very similar to the state of operating inside religion, if you're lazy. If you're rigorous, the Mystery is always present.
Does this mean Bill Gates is a super genius? And maybe flawed at execution, but Gates has been touting Pen computing since before Windows 95. I mean seriously touting, even when other people at MS weren't all that into it. Doesn't the ipad adoration prove Gates was a visionary?
I have incredibly shitty health care options (contractor) - HSAs with high deductibles, limited PPOs with annual caps, and I LOATHE this health care bill. Because I'm already paying the way for all the other fat-ass schlubs in america to live off MY income, and it's only going to get worse.
The only thing that makes me happy is gradually the rest of you are going to start having the options I've had for years. You ain't going to like it.
Horseshit. This is a summary of how you choose to view it; the "script" as it were. It ain't reality.
Sorry, you're not going to get any treatment. I'm going to have to pick and choose who I give treatment to, because I have these other people the government will put me in jail for unless I come up with the right metrics. You don't fit the formula, so I don't have any time for you.
Is that because you don't like black people? Just curious.
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If I have to like crap to like black people, then I don't like black people.
A neighbor of mine uses Flashy Girl as her SSID. It's actually a variation of that, I don't want to give out the whole thing, that would be creepy :-)
I used to keep my WEP/WPA off until one day I saw Big Pimpin' as a registered device on my network. After that I got a little less neighborly.
I have been getting these emails for years, and I *always* knew it was a fake - I never logged on to actually see that it was a fake robot posting, because that would have been too depressing.
I think probably everyone on this sight has enough experience with "popular" not to have fallen for this :-)
If you did fall for it, well what a pathetic loser you are! :-)
1/pi is not pi. It's like celebrating the third time something happened by doing something one third of the way through and then stopping!
"When a circle's diameter is one unit, then the cirmcumference is pi units." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi]
So if a year is "one unit", we should celebrate pi every 3.14 years or something.
Probably the last time they'll get to use it.
I guess you forgot Harvard Graphics :-)
It's safe to say at least some of the people who modded you up won't feel that way when they're 80.
i can't believe my own personal wishes about what I want done with my own body get modded troll - speaks volumes
Doctors are wrong all the time. He might have been much better otherwise, or maybe the doctors could have been right. The point is, they aren't infallible, so don't base reasoning on that implicit assumption.
A friend of mine who read the Obama bill said they DEFINITELY had tiered levels of coverage by age - older people won't get the same level of care. I guess that's one way to keep health care costs down - don't give it to people!
It's TOTALLY worth $600K to stay alive two more years. What the fuck kind of moron thinks otherwise? If you want to off your own self, go ahead. But me personally, I have a billion years to be dead, and I have made it clear that I want all extraordinary measures taken. I want to be a huge financial and emotional burden, a brain in a jar connected to wires, just wheel me out of the closet every year and say hey.
Because whether or not that's better than being dead, it really doesn't change the amount of time I have to be dead, and in my world being on this planet is a pretty damn good thing. Dignity be damned.
So stop with the Joseph Mengele type "praticalities"...
I think a better analogy would be to say that today's programmers are more like a Cargo Cult.
I never buy this line of reasoning. I think the VStudio MSDN help is a lot easier, especially when you want to learn about 50 different methods all in a couple of seconds. Online, it requires 50 different page reloads. In the MSDN help, the pages load instantly. I guess I always use the index - the search itself is useless. Must be because I've been using it for a bazillion years.
I rememeber when the first MSDN was just a bundle of KB docs, and they put a little index on it. Boolean searches! More powah!
In the old days you actually had to THINK to figure out how to do something on the PC. Real actual honest to god research and thinkin about something. No foolin!
Ah, gee, I feel sorry for you guys who didn't get to play with Windows 3.0 in the Spring of '90 :-) Back then we read all the help files cover to cover, cause it was nearly the only thing you could do on the thing.
Then play some Door programs :-)
I read the aluminum used to be really hard to smelt, and Napoleon's most prized possession was a set of aluminum dishes that he only brought out for the most important guests - the regular people could have silver or gold.
Yeah, I knew this hardcore tweaker chick once too, but then she started getting all these holes in her cheeks and really bad teeth.
Maybe they can run Mono on it and have a big ol' circle jerk :-)
It takes a major moron to think that making a joke about a bomb threat in today's world isn't the dumbest frickin thing to do. Duh. How about some common sense.
Doesn't China make like almost all the computer parts? We are happy enough to get hardware from them. Hell, they make most everything we use nowadays. Are you ready to give all that up?