Rights exist by virtue of your existence. It doesn't matter if you believe sky zombie Jesus made you from silly putty or you that are the result of some monkeys gettin it on.
Rights are not GRANTED nor DENIED by law. Their expression can only be protected or restricted by law.
No. You don't need a government to enforce your rights. As long as you exist, you can express them.You might get punished or killed for it, but you can always express that right.
Entitlements? not so. It is something that you do not naturally have, but is given to use.
No, because its the same gun capable of use in both direct and indirect fire.
A gun is only used for direct fire.
A mortar is only used for indirect fire.
A howitzer does both.
Since a laser is always direct fire it can never be a mortar or howitzer unless you have gravity strong enough to screw up the path of light to a significant degree.
Since a howitzer is capable of both direct and indirect fire, I doubt you would want to laser one up unless you are shooting in proximity to a black hole.
A bullets kinetic energy is going up against the crush and shear resistance of the targets tissue. Human tissue is pretty weak against this.
A lasers thermal energy is going up against the heat capacity of the targets tissue. Water to a slightly lesser degree water saturated tissue that humans have has a ridiculously high heat capacity.
The kinetic energy of an ak-47 bullet converted to pure thermal energy and applied with 100% efficiency would destroy much less than a cubic centimeter of human tissue.
Until energy weapons get several orders of magnitude more energy than bullets, they won't be useful as an anti personnel weapon.
A sniper at a range that this thing wouldn't be blinding would have to deal with enough muzzle drop and windage that the laser is going to be off by a couple feet at least from where the bullet is going to hit.
Well, I am fed up with xml and html specifically. I had my hopes set on xhtml2. I had even started working on tools for it. That got screwed over by the mess that is html5. I would love to create something even leaner and cleaner than xhtml2. But html is now a titan, I don't see room for anything to gain significant use.
What do you mean by non-textual? a markup language that can only be assembled in an WYSIWYG IDE?
Its not an insult. It is a statement based entirely on the post that you made.
Truth aka Tautology is a fundamental concept of mathematics. Science is the process of proving that untrue things are not true through testing a hypothesis. It only "finds the truth" by the process of elimination.
The great grandparent post you made is full of the inconsistencies you just mentioned yourself.
Mainstream Christianity really did believe in zero reproduction at one time, some Christians still pray every single day that the human race be wiped out. It really did believe that the only pleasure should be the contemplation of god at one time, and still do to a lesser degree that varies from sect to sect. The bible really is full of god, his representatives and followers actively participated in and promoted murder, genocide, rape, slavery, hatred, fear, lies, etc.
I really believe that the world would be a better place if good people realized just how screwed up Christianity is and decided to disassociate themselves from it and find something more rational and less corrupt to believe in.
I assume you have never read the whole bible because most of the remotely sympathetic Christians that I have known never have. It is impossible for a rational non psychopathic person to read and understand the whole bible and believe that is both true and a valid basis for a good and moral religion.
You can say "but they are not the real Christians" all you want. History shows different, they have been the real Christians far longer than the kind that you believe in has existed. You want to pick and choose the tiny nuggets of good out of the cesspool of filth and lies that is the bible, go ahead. Some people think I have done the same, they are wrong. I forged my morality on reason alone.
The bible is neither true nor a valid basis for a good and moral religion. Faith is the lock that holds fast the chains of ignorance that imprisons your mind. I am an atheist, I believe in no god, no heaven and no hell. I do not need to be a subservient plaything to a god either wicked or benign. I do not need to fear eternal punishment or desire eternal bliss. I am good for none of these reasons. I am good because it is right and just, because it matters, because I want the world to be a better place.
Size of a planet, distance from its star and the magnitude of that star are the 3 most easily measurable parameters that affect atmospheric chemistry and temperature.
who the hell said 100% sure life exists on this planet? I sure don't remember that. I just remember them saying it is a planet about twice the size of earth in an orbit that would produce an insolation similar to earth.
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I happen to have a very easy way to factor prime numbers.
for prime N its factors are {1, N}
I was going for a more artistic interpretation, and only rattling off a few that popped into my head, but yes.
Rights exist by virtue of your existence. It doesn't matter if you believe sky zombie Jesus made you from silly putty or you that are the result of some monkeys gettin it on.
Rights are not GRANTED nor DENIED by law. Their expression can only be protected or restricted by law.
And if they had called it the entitlement to instruction instead, it would have been more correct.
No. You don't need a government to enforce your rights. As long as you exist, you can express them.You might get punished or killed for it, but you can always express that right.
Entitlements? not so. It is something that you do not naturally have, but is given to use.
Beauty? fear? death? sleep? anti-magic? disintegration? transformation? levitation? slowness? suffering? Sure.
Now they get WIMAX as well?
Privileges can work, but can be granted by non government entities. Entitlement is still more correct.
Those are entitlements. I know some people use it as a dirty word, but its meaning is correct.
Visual Studio is pretty damn good. May not be the best, but it is certainly way up there. And I can easily see a lot of people preferring it.
No, because its the same gun capable of use in both direct and indirect fire.
A gun is only used for direct fire.
A mortar is only used for indirect fire.
A howitzer does both.
Since a laser is always direct fire it can never be a mortar or howitzer unless you have gravity strong enough to screw up the path of light to a significant degree.
Then it would be called a gun. Not a howitzer.
Since a howitzer is capable of both direct and indirect fire, I doubt you would want to laser one up unless you are shooting in proximity to a black hole.
Nope:
A bullets kinetic energy is going up against the crush and shear resistance of the targets tissue. Human tissue is pretty weak against this.
A lasers thermal energy is going up against the heat capacity of the targets tissue. Water to a slightly lesser degree water saturated tissue that humans have has a ridiculously high heat capacity.
The kinetic energy of an ak-47 bullet converted to pure thermal energy and applied with 100% efficiency would destroy much less than a cubic centimeter of human tissue.
Until energy weapons get several orders of magnitude more energy than bullets, they won't be useful as an anti personnel weapon.
A sniper at a range that this thing wouldn't be blinding would have to deal with enough muzzle drop and windage that the laser is going to be off by a couple feet at least from where the bullet is going to hit.
FPS are not even very good on a console. Controls are sluggish and imprecise.
He also said British.
Well, I am fed up with xml and html specifically. I had my hopes set on xhtml2. I had even started working on tools for it. That got screwed over by the mess that is html5. I would love to create something even leaner and cleaner than xhtml2. But html is now a titan, I don't see room for anything to gain significant use.
What do you mean by non-textual? a markup language that can only be assembled in an WYSIWYG IDE?
Rome was a republic, but it was not a democracy.
That is an unlikely answer for q2.
You are more likely to hear: The devil did it.
Its not an insult. It is a statement based entirely on the post that you made.
Truth aka Tautology is a fundamental concept of mathematics. Science is the process of proving that untrue things are not true through testing a hypothesis. It only "finds the truth" by the process of elimination.
The great grandparent post you made is full of the inconsistencies you just mentioned yourself.
I have not said one false thing here.
Mainstream Christianity really did believe in zero reproduction at one time, some Christians still pray every single day that the human race be wiped out.
It really did believe that the only pleasure should be the contemplation of god at one time, and still do to a lesser degree that varies from sect to sect.
The bible really is full of god, his representatives and followers actively participated in and promoted murder, genocide, rape, slavery, hatred, fear, lies, etc.
I really believe that the world would be a better place if good people realized just how screwed up Christianity is and decided to disassociate themselves from it and find something more rational and less corrupt to believe in.
You have just shown that you don't understand science because you don't understand the concept of truth.
I assume you have never read the whole bible because most of the remotely sympathetic Christians that I have known never have. It is impossible for a rational non psychopathic person to read and understand the whole bible and believe that is both true and a valid basis for a good and moral religion.
You can say "but they are not the real Christians" all you want. History shows different, they have been the real Christians far longer than the kind that you believe in has existed. You want to pick and choose the tiny nuggets of good out of the cesspool of filth and lies that is the bible, go ahead. Some people think I have done the same, they are wrong. I forged my morality on reason alone.
The bible is neither true nor a valid basis for a good and moral religion. Faith is the lock that holds fast the chains of ignorance that imprisons your mind. I am an atheist, I believe in no god, no heaven and no hell. I do not need to be a subservient plaything to a god either wicked or benign. I do not need to fear eternal punishment or desire eternal bliss. I am good for none of these reasons. I am good because it is right and just, because it matters, because I want the world to be a better place.
Size of a planet, distance from its star and the magnitude of that star are the 3 most easily measurable parameters that affect atmospheric chemistry and temperature.
who the hell said 100% sure life exists on this planet? I sure don't remember that. I just remember them saying it is a planet about twice the size of earth in an orbit that would produce an insolation similar to earth.