Or phone manufacturers could just stop being dicks and go with mini/micro USB (depending on form factor, obviously some phones wouldn't handle a mini.) Serves dual purpose as a data port for those of us that actually like modding our phones. No inductive charging required, though, it would be handy to have as a supplemental option.
I've a task for you then. Please engrave your message on a Louisville Slugger and go pound the message into the heads of the people at the USPTO. They clearly missed the memo.
Missed one. When people started driving they built billboards.
I'm both looking forward to and dreading the day they figure out how to advertise in our dreams. It could be terrible for people with no willpower as they'd just buy everything that was subliminally advertised to them. Me? I don't waste my money, but I'd be willing to stomach some ads in my dreams if they also let me use the system to dream lucidly. That'd be a pretty fair trade.
Don't forget the failure to fact and spell check the story before posting it. Surely that's not something the slashdot editors have a patent on, is it?
By gum you're right! All the cars I see have some sort of metaloid wheels, with rubber tires wrapped around them. There must be a conspiracy by the metal industry to monopolize the wheel market! They just make it look like a non-monoply by setting up nemerous shell companies. Yeah, that must be it!
I'm not sure why that private school can afford first-place amenities at less than half the national average cost, but they do and we're glad for it.
I have two guesses.
1) They don't pay their administrators $100k+ per year.
2) They are more directly accountable to the people paying the bills, so make better use and less waste of the money they have.
Where I went to HS we had three (yes three!) principals for a body of probably 1500 students. None of them were ever observed to be particularly busy, and each made at least $75k a year. So there's $150k a year in wasted tax dollars. That goes to say nothing of all the other higher up administrators they had as well as school board members banking probably something in the range of $50k-$125k a year. I'd wager a guess they didn't need 75% of them, so that's at least another $500k a year in wasted taxes. Private schools generally have fewer administrators, and I doubt they pay them as much as my public school district paid ours. Public schools also have the advantage of collecting funds from all citizens that own land, rather than just from the people that have kids in the system. That's a large body of people paying in that aren't getting anything out (seems almost unfair if you think about it) and have no feedback from the system. So it is much easier for public schools to take money and not get complaints about what they are doing with it. Private schools only get money from enrollees, so their entire source of income is intimately familiar with how that money is being spent.
Well, I certainly don't live with my parents anymore, since ya know, I'm an adult and all. And I already know, and am friends with all my neighbors. I don't need carolers as an excuse to go meet the people I live around. While my previous post was meant more as a joke, I do despise carolers for two reasons. One, they're noisy, and I hate noisy people. Two, they are allowed to violate noise ordinances. If I stood in front of your house with a boombox blasting Megadeath, you call the cops and they'd escort me home. But you call the cops about carolers making too much noise and they ignore you. The only difference I see here is that carolers are singing songs tied to some religious following, and religion gets treated with kid gloves in this country. A little hypocritical wouldn't you agree?
I have always thought that World of Warcraft could do well with a spectator mode. Heroics, Raids, Battlegrounds, Arenas; all great places to sit and watch other players for entertainment, or even to learn how to play better. Being able to watch the top raiding guilds in the world plow through Firelands or watch some of the top arena teams compete would be a great way for anyone to learn new strategies and up their game. Or you could just get drunk and watch crappy players wipe/lose over and over; bonus points if you get to listen to vent too. I'd probably end up watching more than playing though, especially if I could hear their lamentations everytime RNG caused a wipe.
I have to respectfully disagree. Starcraft and other competitive online games are just as much a sport as baseball and football. Just like traditional sports, they require that you have good reflexes. They also require that you strategise and think ahead, predicting your opponent's moves better than they predict yours, in order to succeed. Just because the player isn't wearing protective gear and sweating in the sun doesn't mean it is any less intense; the focus is just shifted more off of the player's body and onto the mind. That also doesn't mean that the sport is less enjoyable or interesting to both the participants and the spectators. Different strokes for different folks ya know?
We live in America. Majority rules. If ten people want to watch the Sox play, and 20 want to watch Starcraft, the bar owner is going to change the TV. And if you start shit about it, they will happily tell you to leave. Money talks. Mouthy assholes who think the world should cater to them and their every whim walk.
You're not a true Christian who believes in the word of God.
And odds are, you aren't either. There are reportedly 38,000 Christian denominations. On the face of it there's about a 0.0026% chance you're actually a member of the 'winning' denomination. Remember, this is a blind grab. The only people that know which one got it right are God, and the people that actually got it right and are chillin' with God right now. And that's assuming the 'winning' religion is a Christian based faith (also assuming there is only one winner, since that is what the Christian based faiths claim.) Your odds are actually much lower, unless we're lucky and only Christians compete against each other, and Buddists and Islamics get their own 'Heaven'. At those odds I'd much rather spend my life not being a total douchbag telling others that I'm better than they are because the invisible sky man I believe in is the one that actually exists. I'd rather spend my life being good to people and enjoying the here and now, rather than living my life in some restricted way on the slim, slim, slim chance that it might get me something good after I die. The only God I see fit to be believed in is a God that doesn't give a damn what religion you follow, as long as you live a good life and aren't a total douche to everyone around you. But hey, that's me, you keep living your pipedream.
An allegory for what exactly? Adam, Eve, The Garden, The Apple, The Snake, if it's an allegory then all of those are symbols for something else, and aren't taken to have actually existed. Were Adam and Eve two amino acids that combined in a special way to start creating life? Is the garden the ocean? Isn't God mentioned in there somewhere too? What's he a symbol for? The lightning that struck the ocean? Wait, if he's just a symbol and doesn't exist, why do so many claim he does? What about the apple and snake? I can't think of anything for those two. Maybe they were thrown in for moral flair and weren't themselves allegory. Maybe the same is true for god. Maybe he got tossed in as the great manager of the universe to keep all the worker bees in check and keep them from killing one another.
My point is, you cannot categorically call the bible or any specific chapter an allegory. If you do you're admitting that the entire thing is fiction, which I'm pretty sure is not what you were trying to say. You have to pick out bits and pieces and say this is allegory, but this passage here is irony, and this other one is hyperbole. It's all down to interpretation, as to what parts qualify as what, and that's a problem when you try to base your entire belief system and moral code around something that is entirely subjective.
I could easily slip into a tail-spin and start bashing religion here, but I'll leave it at that. I'd be more than happy to keep the exchange civilized if anyone has anything insightful to add to the topic.
The word is 'Fiction'. It appears once, just after the dedication.
The following is a work of fiction. Characters, names, situations, events, and locations described in this novel are purely the invention of the author's mind. Any resemblance to people - living or dead, names and locations is purely coincidental.
What do you mean you've never seen that page? It's in my copy...
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Or phone manufacturers could just stop being dicks and go with mini/micro USB (depending on form factor, obviously some phones wouldn't handle a mini.) Serves dual purpose as a data port for those of us that actually like modding our phones. No inductive charging required, though, it would be handy to have as a supplemental option.
I've a task for you then. Please engrave your message on a Louisville Slugger and go pound the message into the heads of the people at the USPTO. They clearly missed the memo.
Do you mean Bullet For My Valentine? My Bloody Valentine was a movie. Both are terrible.
You just brought up old memories of Food Fighters. Oh God. It burns.
Which would be at least somewhat acceptable if that were the time they ticket against. It is not.
Haha, sounds like every meeting I've ever been a party to!
Maybe you could pay him to teach you how to format comments properly.
At current ticket prices it sure feels like we're paying for the movie.
Missed one. When people started driving they built billboards.
I'm both looking forward to and dreading the day they figure out how to advertise in our dreams. It could be terrible for people with no willpower as they'd just buy everything that was subliminally advertised to them. Me? I don't waste my money, but I'd be willing to stomach some ads in my dreams if they also let me use the system to dream lucidly. That'd be a pretty fair trade.
Well? Cat got your tongue? We're stilling waiting.
Don't forget the failure to fact and spell check the story before posting it. Surely that's not something the slashdot editors have a patent on, is it?
Indeed. If XKCD had a mod system similar to slashdot I could see there being just as many insightful and interesting comics as funny ones.
By gum you're right! All the cars I see have some sort of metaloid wheels, with rubber tires wrapped around them. There must be a conspiracy by the metal industry to monopolize the wheel market! They just make it look like a non-monoply by setting up nemerous shell companies. Yeah, that must be it!
I'm not sure why that private school can afford first-place amenities at less than half the national average cost, but they do and we're glad for it.
I have two guesses.
1) They don't pay their administrators $100k+ per year.
2) They are more directly accountable to the people paying the bills, so make better use and less waste of the money they have.
Where I went to HS we had three (yes three!) principals for a body of probably 1500 students. None of them were ever observed to be particularly busy, and each made at least $75k a year. So there's $150k a year in wasted tax dollars. That goes to say nothing of all the other higher up administrators they had as well as school board members banking probably something in the range of $50k-$125k a year. I'd wager a guess they didn't need 75% of them, so that's at least another $500k a year in wasted taxes. Private schools generally have fewer administrators, and I doubt they pay them as much as my public school district paid ours. Public schools also have the advantage of collecting funds from all citizens that own land, rather than just from the people that have kids in the system. That's a large body of people paying in that aren't getting anything out (seems almost unfair if you think about it) and have no feedback from the system. So it is much easier for public schools to take money and not get complaints about what they are doing with it. Private schools only get money from enrollees, so their entire source of income is intimately familiar with how that money is being spent.
Now I know why those moon-landing photos looked faked to me! Armstrong was smoking a cigarette!
I'm cool with this as long as it doesn't lead to Reploids too. My designs for Megaman aren't quite complete yet.
Well, I certainly don't live with my parents anymore, since ya know, I'm an adult and all. And I already know, and am friends with all my neighbors. I don't need carolers as an excuse to go meet the people I live around. While my previous post was meant more as a joke, I do despise carolers for two reasons. One, they're noisy, and I hate noisy people. Two, they are allowed to violate noise ordinances. If I stood in front of your house with a boombox blasting Megadeath, you call the cops and they'd escort me home. But you call the cops about carolers making too much noise and they ignore you. The only difference I see here is that carolers are singing songs tied to some religious following, and religion gets treated with kid gloves in this country. A little hypocritical wouldn't you agree?
I have always thought that World of Warcraft could do well with a spectator mode. Heroics, Raids, Battlegrounds, Arenas; all great places to sit and watch other players for entertainment, or even to learn how to play better. Being able to watch the top raiding guilds in the world plow through Firelands or watch some of the top arena teams compete would be a great way for anyone to learn new strategies and up their game. Or you could just get drunk and watch crappy players wipe/lose over and over; bonus points if you get to listen to vent too. I'd probably end up watching more than playing though, especially if I could hear their lamentations everytime RNG caused a wipe.
The Grand Theft Auto: 18 shots of rum and costs $200. So they steal your money, then take your keys because you're too wasted to drive.
I have to respectfully disagree. Starcraft and other competitive online games are just as much a sport as baseball and football. Just like traditional sports, they require that you have good reflexes. They also require that you strategise and think ahead, predicting your opponent's moves better than they predict yours, in order to succeed. Just because the player isn't wearing protective gear and sweating in the sun doesn't mean it is any less intense; the focus is just shifted more off of the player's body and onto the mind. That also doesn't mean that the sport is less enjoyable or interesting to both the participants and the spectators. Different strokes for different folks ya know?
We live in America. Majority rules. If ten people want to watch the Sox play, and 20 want to watch Starcraft, the bar owner is going to change the TV. And if you start shit about it, they will happily tell you to leave. Money talks. Mouthy assholes who think the world should cater to them and their every whim walk.
I believe they call those 'Logic', 'Faith', and 'Stubborness', respectively. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
You're not a true Christian who believes in the word of God.
And odds are, you aren't either. There are reportedly 38,000 Christian denominations. On the face of it there's about a 0.0026% chance you're actually a member of the 'winning' denomination. Remember, this is a blind grab. The only people that know which one got it right are God, and the people that actually got it right and are chillin' with God right now. And that's assuming the 'winning' religion is a Christian based faith (also assuming there is only one winner, since that is what the Christian based faiths claim.) Your odds are actually much lower, unless we're lucky and only Christians compete against each other, and Buddists and Islamics get their own 'Heaven'. At those odds I'd much rather spend my life not being a total douchbag telling others that I'm better than they are because the invisible sky man I believe in is the one that actually exists. I'd rather spend my life being good to people and enjoying the here and now, rather than living my life in some restricted way on the slim, slim, slim chance that it might get me something good after I die. The only God I see fit to be believed in is a God that doesn't give a damn what religion you follow, as long as you live a good life and aren't a total douche to everyone around you. But hey, that's me, you keep living your pipedream.
But hopefully we'll lose the insane religious nuttery that goes with it.
You and I both friend, but frankly I'd be happy if those damned carolers would just get off my lawn.
An allegory for what exactly? Adam, Eve, The Garden, The Apple, The Snake, if it's an allegory then all of those are symbols for something else, and aren't taken to have actually existed. Were Adam and Eve two amino acids that combined in a special way to start creating life? Is the garden the ocean? Isn't God mentioned in there somewhere too? What's he a symbol for? The lightning that struck the ocean? Wait, if he's just a symbol and doesn't exist, why do so many claim he does? What about the apple and snake? I can't think of anything for those two. Maybe they were thrown in for moral flair and weren't themselves allegory. Maybe the same is true for god. Maybe he got tossed in as the great manager of the universe to keep all the worker bees in check and keep them from killing one another.
My point is, you cannot categorically call the bible or any specific chapter an allegory. If you do you're admitting that the entire thing is fiction, which I'm pretty sure is not what you were trying to say. You have to pick out bits and pieces and say this is allegory, but this passage here is irony, and this other one is hyperbole. It's all down to interpretation, as to what parts qualify as what, and that's a problem when you try to base your entire belief system and moral code around something that is entirely subjective.
I could easily slip into a tail-spin and start bashing religion here, but I'll leave it at that. I'd be more than happy to keep the exchange civilized if anyone has anything insightful to add to the topic.
What do you mean you've never seen that page? It's in my copy...