,,, then anytime you're sworn to tell the truth, the prosecutor would simply have to ask "what have you done in the last X years that is considered an offence, a felony, or a crime?" and throw the book at you from your own testimony. Failure to answer would get you perjury.
To the lawyer raising an objection to that question, it could said they are establishing character...
your example is no more and no less applicable to imperial units. In each case, you get a third. How do you write a third of a cake? Maybe you take the perimeter or the area and divide by three. Suppose the perimeter is 11 inches. What's that divided by 3? 3.66666(...) inches. Since the inch is subdivided by powers of 2, you won't get a clean fraction.
So your example only highlights the inability to write down irrational numbers in either systems.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. You boast the 6 sub-division of base 12 (namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12) as being better because it's more than in base 10. You are mistaken however as in base 10, there are 10 sub-divisions. (.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9) and each of those also have 10 sub-divisions, and each of those also have... you get the idea.
Everytime I watch a documentary on the topic, they say that this temple and that pyramid are aligned with such and such constellation or other celestial body, but I never caught the part about being "at the time of construction" so I thought it meant they were still aligned.
So I stand corrected, thank you all for your input and glad to see one can still draw good stuff from the well of knowledge of the Slashdot crowd.
I got thinking that many Aztec, Mayan, Egyptian and other nations have left us with structures (pyramids, temples, etc) strongly aligned with stars and other celestial items. Seems they are still aligned, despise 1000s of years. If the Earth has been shifting since eons, how come those are still aligned?
If you are tempted to say the time scale isn't the same, remember that in only 8 years, it's moved 20cm according to the fine summary and we're not experiencing the first GW.
The points of this post is not to discredit GW, nor the shift we observe, nor the Grand History of mankind as we know it, but to gather opinions on how to reconcile those 2 seemingly incompatible points.
This is probably the most thought-provoking post I've read on Slashdot this year. I congratulate you for exposing it with precision and accuracy. Thank you.
I heard the trick is to play the "happy birthday" song in your head. Like some comment said, when the brain plays the song from start to finish, it moves on. The Happy Birthday song will very rapidly replace the song stuck in your head and when it comes to the finish, the brain will naturally move on from songs.
You'd have to make a voluntary effort to go back to the song you wanted to remove from your head.
I'd like to say that I don't see much difference between prostitution and porn. Either way, it's providing sex for money. The only difference is the the number of people watching.
Actually, one theory is that instead of years they were referring to lunar months for the ages, which makes 900 equal to about 75 years.
This theory doesn't hold water for the following reasons: * Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened". If a year is in fact a lunar month, what is this "second month" and even more this "seventeenth day"? * Gen 8:13,14 "Now in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, it came about that the waters had drained from off the earth; and Noah proceeded to remove the covering of the ark and to look, and here the surface of the ground had drained dry. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried off". So it took one whole year (plus 10 days) for the flood to come and go completely. It cannot be one lunar month since Gen 8:3,4 "And the waters began receding from off the earth, progressively receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lacking. And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat". So 150 days is identified to 5 months (7th month - 2nd month), time it took for the water to start receding. * Gen 5:12 "And Kenan lived on for seventy years. Then he became father to Mahalalel". If a year was in fact a lunar month, that would make him a father at 5 years old!
One conclusion you can take from this account is that a biblical month is 30 days and a biblical year is 360 days.
I have taken a cursory look at Git but never really developed with it. I understand most of its fundamental characteristics however.
Personally (and professionally), I chose fossil for my development needs. It's small, fast, correct (so far Git is the same), easy, and integrated with a bug tracker and a wiki (all which cannot be said of Git). The author is no lame duck either, he's the guy who created SQLite.
If you're about to start doing decentralized development, check it out. It's worth your time.
I thought the same approach could be used with user authentication on websites. You enter your (correct) password, it kicks you out saying "wrong password". You enter it a second time, this time is accepts you.
Right there, you've doubled the amount of time to bruteforce your password.
Or you could combine the port knocking approach. Pick 2 simple passwords. Enter first password, and get a "wrong password" message, enter the second password and you're accepted.
Remember folks, you first saw it here! (or not in case this is totally obvious)
By the way, just in case our younger readers here didn't know it, when the movie was filmed, the actors were told that Darth Vader's line was "Obi-wan killed your father". Hence the reaction from Luke. Only in the studio, and under very strict gag orders was the line dubbed "I am your father". Only James Earl Jones (Vader's voice) and George Lucas and maybe the director knew the truth.
It came as a great surprise to everyone involved when the version you know came out.
I moved to Canada, and this was a major frustration point at the beginning for me. Things are slowly starting to change. For instance, last week, a law went in effect so that prices for flights and trips must include all taxes and fees when advertised. Hopefully, this will become a trend and all prices will be all-taxes included.
(From the summary) Yet it's also something that you've never seen before
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I've seen this technology about 20 YEARS ago in a theme-park designed for technology and sound/visual effects in France called 'le Futuroscope'. On the same trip I saw a 3D movie using active shutters and a functional VR game (think what The Plague was playing in the movie Hackers).
I have no idea what sort of new stuff they have there, but it was a fabulous destination for any kids sorta interested in techs.
This is an interesting argument. I notice you hypothesize the presence of something that always existed. As hard it is to understand that concept,* If you were to accept that, why not accept also a God that always existed?
* nothing we know always existed. Humans understand the concept of forward infinity (having no end) but not its inverse (having no beginning). There is always that lingering question "what about before"?
Slashdot Mirror
,,, then anytime you're sworn to tell the truth, the prosecutor would simply have to ask "what have you done in the last X years that is considered an offence, a felony, or a crime?" and throw the book at you from your own testimony. Failure to answer would get you perjury.
To the lawyer raising an objection to that question, it could said they are establishing character...
JigJag
your example is no more and no less applicable to imperial units. In each case, you get a third. How do you write a third of a cake? Maybe you take the perimeter or the area and divide by three. Suppose the perimeter is 11 inches. What's that divided by 3? 3.66666(...) inches. Since the inch is subdivided by powers of 2, you won't get a clean fraction.
So your example only highlights the inability to write down irrational numbers in either systems.
JigJag
thanks for posting this interesting comment. A shame though they don't use YYYY-MM-DD for dates like they recommend in Canada.
JigJag
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. You boast the 6 sub-division of base 12 (namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12) as being better because it's more than in base 10. .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9) and each of those also have 10 sub-divisions, and each of those also have ... you get the idea.
You are mistaken however as in base 10, there are 10 sub-divisions. (.0,
JigJag
Everytime I watch a documentary on the topic, they say that this temple and that pyramid are aligned with such and such constellation or other celestial body, but I never caught the part about being "at the time of construction" so I thought it meant they were still aligned.
So I stand corrected, thank you all for your input and glad to see one can still draw good stuff from the well of knowledge of the Slashdot crowd.
JigJag
I got thinking that many Aztec, Mayan, Egyptian and other nations have left us with structures (pyramids, temples, etc) strongly aligned with stars and other celestial items. Seems they are still aligned, despise 1000s of years. If the Earth has been shifting since eons, how come those are still aligned?
If you are tempted to say the time scale isn't the same, remember that in only 8 years, it's moved 20cm according to the fine summary and we're not experiencing the first GW.
The points of this post is not to discredit GW, nor the shift we observe, nor the Grand History of mankind as we know it, but to gather opinions on how to reconcile those 2 seemingly incompatible points.
JigJag
cue the Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourcing-own-jobs-oversea,14329/
not sure if Montreal qualifies, but check out Teksavvy. Minimum offer is 300 GB limit, can upgrade to unlimited.
This is probably the most thought-provoking post I've read on Slashdot this year. I congratulate you for exposing it with precision and accuracy. Thank you.
I heard the trick is to play the "happy birthday" song in your head. Like some comment said, when the brain plays the song from start to finish, it moves on. The Happy Birthday song will very rapidly replace the song stuck in your head and when it comes to the finish, the brain will naturally move on from songs.
You'd have to make a voluntary effort to go back to the song you wanted to remove from your head.
Funny that, just the other day I crossed a word I didn't know that sort of fit what you are talking about: gentrification.
that's why biometrics should be used for the *username* part of authentication and not for the *password* part.
When presented in front of a login screen, swiping your finger should say: "I know now that you are JigJag. Please enter your password: "
I'd like to say that I don't see much difference between prostitution and porn. Either way, it's providing sex for money. The only difference is the the number of people watching.
Mu!
Actually, one theory is that instead of years they were referring to lunar months for the ages, which makes 900 equal to about 75 years.
This theory doesn't hold water for the following reasons:
* Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened". If a year is in fact a lunar month, what is this "second month" and even more this "seventeenth day"?
* Gen 8:13,14 "Now in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, it came about that the waters had drained from off the earth; and Noah proceeded to remove the covering of the ark and to look, and here the surface of the ground had drained dry. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried off". So it took one whole year (plus 10 days) for the flood to come and go completely. It cannot be one lunar month since Gen 8:3,4 "And the waters began receding from off the earth, progressively receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lacking. And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat". So 150 days is identified to 5 months (7th month - 2nd month), time it took for the water to start receding.
* Gen 5:12 "And Kenan lived on for seventy years. Then he became father to Mahalalel". If a year was in fact a lunar month, that would make him a father at 5 years old!
One conclusion you can take from this account is that a biblical month is 30 days and a biblical year is 360 days.
I have taken a cursory look at Git but never really developed with it. I understand most of its fundamental characteristics however.
Personally (and professionally), I chose fossil for my development needs. It's small, fast, correct (so far Git is the same), easy, and integrated with a bug tracker and a wiki (all which cannot be said of Git). The author is no lame duck either, he's the guy who created SQLite.
If you're about to start doing decentralized development, check it out. It's worth your time.
JigJag
I thought the same approach could be used with user authentication on websites. You enter your (correct) password, it kicks you out saying "wrong password". You enter it a second time, this time is accepts you.
Right there, you've doubled the amount of time to bruteforce your password.
Or you could combine the port knocking approach. Pick 2 simple passwords. Enter first password, and get a "wrong password" message, enter the second password and you're accepted.
Remember folks, you first saw it here! (or not in case this is totally obvious)
JigJag
By the way, just in case our younger readers here didn't know it, when the movie was filmed, the actors were told that Darth Vader's line was "Obi-wan killed your father". Hence the reaction from Luke.
Only in the studio, and under very strict gag orders was the line dubbed "I am your father". Only James Earl Jones (Vader's voice) and George Lucas and maybe the director knew the truth.
It came as a great surprise to everyone involved when the version you know came out.
JigJag
Hear hear!
I moved to Canada, and this was a major frustration point at the beginning for me. Things are slowly starting to change. For instance, last week, a law went in effect so that prices for flights and trips must include all taxes and fees when advertised. Hopefully, this will become a trend and all prices will be all-taxes included.
JigJag
if you're registered, you see people's signatures. In this case, the OP's signature is:
--
A Libertarian is just a Republican who doesn't want to feel guilty when he ignores homeless people.
Now you understand:
1) the reason for the parent's response
2) the reason why you want/don't want to register
JigJag
if you select products imported from countries who recently switched from Imperial, naturally it wouldn't be in metric.
Now look at imports from metric countries
I see your 'factors' (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12),and I raise you 'decimals'. Metric has 10 of them. .0, .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, and .9. Metric wins
JigJag
There could also have been rules against unhealthy things such as shitting close to your drinking water.
You mean as in Deut 23:12-14 ?
(From the summary) Yet it's also something that you've never seen before
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I've seen this technology about 20 YEARS ago in a theme-park designed for technology and sound/visual effects in France called 'le Futuroscope'. On the same trip I saw a 3D movie using active shutters and a functional VR game (think what The Plague was playing in the movie Hackers).
I have no idea what sort of new stuff they have there, but it was a fabulous destination for any kids sorta interested in techs.
This is an interesting argument. I notice you hypothesize the presence of something that always existed. As hard it is to understand that concept,* If you were to accept that, why not accept also a God that always existed?
* nothing we know always existed. Humans understand the concept of forward infinity (having no end) but not its inverse (having no beginning). There is always that lingering question "what about before"?