You do realize that decrying homosexual marriage restrictions and claiming theocracy in the same post is hypocritical right? You realize that if it wasn't for a theocracy (Christian/Rome) the state would have no interest in a... wait for it... SACRED institution like Marriage.
"Marriage" isn't sacred. It's a social construct, not a religious one. That's not opinion; that's global history.
Almost all of the marriage legal tomfoolery comes from nitpicking about the definition, or is based on a particular religion's interpretation (read: subset) of marriage.
We absolutely have laws in the USA which provide benefits to one particular subset of marriages. That's similar to endorsing only some religions, or any other social subset of humans. You make a particular social choice, we give you kickbacks. Pick another (including no choice at all!), tough rocks, you don't get squat. Even though your choice doesn't harm others, it doesn't fall in line with what we've deemed "good".
Which is bollocks.
Any law which gives a benefit or a punishment for being a particular race, nationality, gender, social group (religion being one, knitting club being another), or choosing or not choosing a socially-recognized life partner is bollocks. Affirmative action is bollocks. State benefits for marriage is bollocks.
Tax-exempt status for religious institutions is bollocks. Religion is the only selective qualifying category listed under 501(c)(3). The rest are beneficial to the whole of society, not a subset (though the sporting inclusion in 501(c)(e) is arguably not in line as well, but also sneaks in under the very broad "charitable" definition). I digress.
Recognizing same-sex or other particular subsets of marriage and giving them the same benefits of male-female marriage doesn't solve the problem. What about group marriages, shouldn't they get the same rights? "Oh, no...we don't recognize group marriages or polygamy, those are wrong..." Same logic core as being against same-sex marriage though, 'eh? Though I bet most of you are a bit more squeamish about saying polygamy is kosher even if you're for same-sex marriage... Abolish the whole mess of recognizing any subset, and you eliminate the legal problem.
IAAAudio Engineer...he says that a 10 dB difference sounds to human ears like a doubling of the level. That's just wrong. Human hearing is logarhythmic, which is why the decibel scale makes so much sense. 80 dB sounds like double 40 dB.
No, the article is correct, you're completely wrong. Phons and sones are measurements of perceived loudness, and are defined based on experimental results that a 10dB sound level increase corresponds to an approximate doubling in perceived loudness.
"Normal conversation" is about 60dB. An F/A-18 takeoff is just short of 120dB. The takeoff is a helluva lot "louder" than double that of normal conversation. About 50 times louder.
Except for the iced-mocha crowd, everyone expects coffee to be served hot. Ideal brewing temperature is 195 to 205 degrees F, so a fresh cup is going to be damn toasty.
The lady in question did a dangerous thing, and got burned...
"Mrak" [pronounced mruck] means total darkness in russian. So based on that Mrakovision would mean something like vision in complete darkness if you go word-for-word translation. The more accurate and understandable translation would, however, be - the ability to see a bad thing coming, because [Mrak] also translates as something completely bad, unacceptable, horrible.
Huh? Cg is not another API. Cg is a tool that allows programmers to write shaders and other functions in an OpenGL/DirectX independent fashion. Yes, both Cg and OpenGL2 are trying to simplify writing shaders, but Cg is not a new API that card manufacturers have to support. I won't hold my breath for an OpenGL->DirectX converter either; why convert open to proprietary?
(I am not necessarily a supporter of Cg. I'd rather see DirectX dropped on its face, and have OpenGL support in every application. In the mean time, Cg appears to be a viable, work-saving solution for graphics programmers who want to support both APIs.)
I am not defending the quality of McDonald's coffee in any way here, but the ideal temperature for brewing most types of coffee is around 195 degress F. Thus, it's not surprising that their "fresh" coffee is 180 degrees or more. I'd rather have a fresh cup of HOT joe than a stale one that they let sit for 10 minutes to cool down to "reasonable serving temperature." If I burn myself, it's my own damn fault.
As a condition of the AOL Time Warner merger, that company was forced to offer its consumers a choice of Internet service providers on its high-speed lines.
A lot of good that "requirement" did, as the ISP I work for has been waiting about two years for the ability to resell cable-internet service. TW is happily giving us, and every other ISP in Lincoln, Nebraska, the run-around while they soak up the vast majority of the customer base. But as crappy as their service is, Alltel manages to do worse. Seven days minimum to provision a DSL circuit? Oh how they must enjoy their monopoly...
Looks like recent legislation is only going to make things worse. Not only are we not being given our merger-granted right to resell cable, but there's legislation threatening our ability to sell DSL as well. I mistakenly assumed we learned the benefits of enforced competiton rights, back when they broke up the bells.
About a year ago, I bought two 45GB 75GXP drives, and set them up to do RAID-0. Within a month, one had slowed to a near halt, so I had it replaced. Less than 3 months ago, another one died (not sure which one); this time, good ol' head-clicking failure. Haven't RMA'd it yet, but that's because I'm lazy.
I thought I just had bad luck, but if this is commonplace...well, they do have a 3 year warranty:)
I just finished reading Every Employees Guide to the Law, and according to it employers are allowed to monitor your calls. But, as soon as they realize that it's a personal call, they are required to stop listening.
email is an entirely different ballgame though...I recommend PGP/GPG.
There is a use for names not tied to a locality: mobility. What if I have name.city.state.us, and I move to Newcity, Newstate? Either I have to
change my domain name -- killing all of the functionality of having a domain name except not having to remember an IP -- or use the outdated name (if allowed). In that case, an IP "phonebook" would be just as functional.
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Why must we fund this monumental international waste of money when there are people starving here on Earth ?
"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."
-- Johnny Hart
Nothing short of a subpoena. We've been asked for information in the past, and we basically told them they'd have to force our hand. Of course, spam from our servers and we'll hand out colored flyers with your name and home address on them =).
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You do realize that decrying homosexual marriage restrictions and claiming theocracy in the same post is hypocritical right? You realize that if it wasn't for a theocracy (Christian/Rome) the state would have no interest in a ... wait for it ... SACRED institution like Marriage.
"Marriage" isn't sacred. It's a social construct, not a religious one. That's not opinion; that's global history.
Almost all of the marriage legal tomfoolery comes from nitpicking about the definition, or is based on a particular religion's interpretation (read: subset) of marriage.
We absolutely have laws in the USA which provide benefits to one particular subset of marriages. That's similar to endorsing only some religions, or any other social subset of humans. You make a particular social choice, we give you kickbacks. Pick another (including no choice at all!), tough rocks, you don't get squat. Even though your choice doesn't harm others, it doesn't fall in line with what we've deemed "good".
Which is bollocks.
Any law which gives a benefit or a punishment for being a particular race, nationality, gender, social group (religion being one, knitting club being another), or choosing or not choosing a socially-recognized life partner is bollocks. Affirmative action is bollocks. State benefits for marriage is bollocks.
Tax-exempt status for religious institutions is bollocks. Religion is the only selective qualifying category listed under 501(c)(3). The rest are beneficial to the whole of society, not a subset (though the sporting inclusion in 501(c)(e) is arguably not in line as well, but also sneaks in under the very broad "charitable" definition). I digress.
Recognizing same-sex or other particular subsets of marriage and giving them the same benefits of male-female marriage doesn't solve the problem. What about group marriages, shouldn't they get the same rights? "Oh, no...we don't recognize group marriages or polygamy, those are wrong..." Same logic core as being against same-sex marriage though, 'eh? Though I bet most of you are a bit more squeamish about saying polygamy is kosher even if you're for same-sex marriage... Abolish the whole mess of recognizing any subset, and you eliminate the legal problem.
IAAAudio Engineer...he says that a 10 dB difference sounds to human ears like a doubling of the level. That's just wrong. Human hearing is logarhythmic, which is why the decibel scale makes so much sense. 80 dB sounds like double 40 dB.
No, the article is correct, you're completely wrong. Phons and sones are measurements of perceived loudness, and are defined based on experimental results that a 10dB sound level increase corresponds to an approximate doubling in perceived loudness.
"Normal conversation" is about 60dB. An F/A-18 takeoff is just short of 120dB. The takeoff is a helluva lot "louder" than double that of normal conversation. About 50 times louder.
It's _coffee_.
Except for the iced-mocha crowd, everyone expects coffee to be served hot. Ideal brewing temperature is 195 to 205 degrees F, so a fresh cup is going to be damn toasty.
The lady in question did a dangerous thing, and got burned...
From my Russian-speaking friend:
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"Mrak" [pronounced mruck] means total darkness in russian. So based on that Mrakovision would mean something like vision in complete darkness if you go word-for-word translation. The more accurate and understandable translation would, however, be - the ability to see a bad thing coming, because [Mrak] also translates as something completely bad, unacceptable, horrible.
Even more appropriate than "see the darkness"
Why try creating yet another new standard?
Huh? Cg is not another API. Cg is a tool that allows programmers to write shaders and other functions in an OpenGL/DirectX independent fashion. Yes, both Cg and OpenGL2 are trying to simplify writing shaders, but Cg is not a new API that card manufacturers have to support. I won't hold my breath for an OpenGL->DirectX converter either; why convert open to proprietary?
(I am not necessarily a supporter of Cg. I'd rather see DirectX dropped on its face, and have OpenGL support in every application. In the mean time, Cg appears to be a viable, work-saving solution for graphics programmers who want to support both APIs.)
You seem to have missed the pretty pictures that show Cg is an abstraction layer above OpenGL and DirectX. Wham, bam, two APIs in one, Sam.
I am not defending the quality of McDonald's coffee in any way here, but the ideal temperature for brewing most types of coffee is around 195 degress F. Thus, it's not surprising that their "fresh" coffee is 180 degrees or more. I'd rather have a fresh cup of HOT joe than a stale one that they let sit for 10 minutes to cool down to "reasonable serving temperature." If I burn myself, it's my own damn fault.
A lot of good that "requirement" did, as the ISP I work for has been waiting about two years for the ability to resell cable-internet service. TW is happily giving us, and every other ISP in Lincoln, Nebraska, the run-around while they soak up the vast majority of the customer base. But as crappy as their service is, Alltel manages to do worse. Seven days minimum to provision a DSL circuit? Oh how they must enjoy their monopoly...
Looks like recent legislation is only going to make things worse. Not only are we not being given our merger-granted right to resell cable, but there's legislation threatening our ability to sell DSL as well. I mistakenly assumed we learned the benefits of enforced competiton rights, back when they broke up the bells.
I thought I just had bad luck, but if this is commonplace...well, they do have a 3 year warranty :)
email is an entirely different ballgame though...I recommend PGP/GPG.
There is a use for names not tied to a locality: mobility. What if I have name.city.state.us, and I move to Newcity, Newstate? Either I have to change my domain name -- killing all of the functionality of having a domain name except not having to remember an IP -- or use the outdated name (if allowed). In that case, an IP "phonebook" would be just as functional.
"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
Nothing short of a subpoena. We've been asked for information in the past, and we basically told them they'd have to force our hand. Of course, spam from our servers and we'll hand out colored flyers with your name and home address on them =).