A thin film of water or oil can fill the crevases and make the bonding much stronger, if you want to try sticking your fingers to things.
Ah HAH!! That's how Dr. Hfuhruhurr was able to lick his hands and stick to the wall in "The Man With Two Brains" - I always thought it was a suction effect, but it must have been Van der Waals forces.
Expensive discs (per MB, compared to CD-R), expensive players (compared to MP3-capable CD players), proprietary format controlled by evil giant Sony, none of my friends have them, can't store them on my hard drive, can't download them off the 'net, can't burn to audio CD (without going to analog or using a pro CD burner which defeats SCMS), what's to like?
Jedis dont go around trying to convert all non-jedis to their beleifs.. Nor do they Kill and salughter people just because that have a different religous beleif.
Well, you could say that at least one Jedi has gone around slaughtering everyone with a different religious belief. You'd need to define "Jedi" a bit loosely to include Anakin/Vader, much in the manner you have to define "Muslim" to include Osama bin Laden.
See, now if your little Jedi mind trick actually worked, then I'd call you a Jedi. It didn't work, so you're not a Jedi.
If his trick had worked, you would call him whatever he told you to call him, wouldn't you?
Even if it didn't work, it wouldn't prove he's not a Jedi, it could just mean that you're not weak-minded enough. Perhaps you have a bit of Hutt or Toydarian in you and you don't know it!
Make them use the force to move some shit around the room. If they can do it, let them have their religion.
Couldn't they be followers of the Jedi faith without actually being Jedi Knights? After all, Catholicism claims that a priest has the ability to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, but the average Catholic in the street can't do it. Likewise, the Jedi faith could believe that a Jedi Knight has special abilities, but the followers wouldn't have them and shouldn't be expected to prove that they exist.
Christianity has one thing that no other religion, past or present, has: the Resurrected Christ.
Christianity isn't the only religion with a resurrection.
Egyptians had Osiris, who died and rose again on the third day. Syrians had Adonis, who died and was found risen by his women followers on the third day. Mithrasim had (obviously) Mithra, who died, was buried, and rose again. Greco-Romans had Dionysus, who was torn to pieces and resurrected by his mother - to celebrate his resurrection, followers ate bread and drank wine.
Besides, with similar logic to yours, I could argue that the Church of the Subgenius is the only religion with Slack, and therefore is the One True Religion.
The rest of the world's religions are basically just hateful mockeries of things pure.
One could say the same thing about modern Christianity and how the pure teachings of Jesus (love, tolerance, peace) are followed only when they are convenient.
It is for this reason that I am a Christian and it is for this reason that you should be a Christian.
And mindless drivel like this from the mouth (or typing fingers) of Christians is the reason I'm almost ashamed to call myself Christian.
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(Note: I just picked Lutheran out of a hat as an example. Don't read more into it than that.)
Oh, I thought it was because you had created them in a petri dish from one of your teeth and some cola.
Damn it, is there any topic that can't have a Simpsons reference thrown into it?
My suggestion would be Horses, since they are not haram/non-kosher in any religion. Or dogs.
The reason pigs are being used is because their anatomy is very similar to human anatomy. This is also why high school biology classes dissect fetal pigs (at least, mine did, that may not be common any more). Horses and dogs probably wouldn't work - in particular, dog parts seem likely to be too small.
If there were another animal equally appropriate for the task and kosher as well, don't you think it would have been chosen instead?
Yep, it's part of the wonderful circle of life (cue Mr. Hankey and Cornwallis singing "Circle of Poo"). The little yeasties turn sugar into alcohol, and synthesize vitamin B. When your body tries to break down the alcohol, it depletes vitamin B reserves. Having the yeast in the beer helps you out a bit by giving you back some extra B.
It won't do the whole trick though, because the majority of fermentation takes place before bottling, and the yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tank are typically discarded. Also, a hangover is primarily due to dehydration, so drink plenty of water while you're getting drunk and it won't be nearly as bad.
Worst-case scenario, you wake up massively hungover - take aspirin, Gatorade, and a teaspoonful of brewer's yeast (you could scavenge this off the bottom of the aforementioned fermentation tank if you're a homebrewer, otherwise buy it at the grocery store).
Oh, and to avoid being completely off topic, a bacon and egg biscuit from the greasiest fast food place you can find.
I'm sure the brief lives of these pigs will be a lot more pleasant than the animals we raise to be eaten.
If by "more pleasant" you mean they'll have less time to be miserable, you might be right. If you think transplant pigs are going to be put up in cushy hotel rooms with free HBO, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I expect they'll have healthier diets than food pigs though, to keep the heart as healthy as possible.
Death did not occur until *after* the fall of Adam and Eve.
This is assuming we're talking about physical death. A good point could be made that: 1) God told Adam that on the day he ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he would die 2) Adam and Eve ate, and did not (physically) die 3) Jesus was promised to defeat death by his own death and resurrection 4) Jesus has completed this work (he said "it is finished" upon the Cross) and yet, physical death still occurs 5) Therefore, the "death" brought about by Adam's sin must mean not physical death, but a severing of the perfect relationship with God that we would have without sin. Jesus's sacrifice has enabled us to escape this "death" but not the physical one. Of course, since our souls are immortal anyway, the physical death is of no concern.
If physical death is not of any importance in the biblical story, then there is no theological reason for us to believe animals (even proto-humans) didn't die before the Garden of Eden incident. Besides, if God's plan didn't include death, how were the animals going to eat (even if they were all herbivores, plants would have to die), and what would happen when the earth filled up with immortal animals being fruitful and multiplying?
The universe was created in six days. According to Genesis 1, which is almost a carbon copy of other creation stories which predate the Jewish faith. Surely you didn't fail to notice the entirely different literary style and the lack of continuity between chapters 1 and 2? Anyway, the entirety of chapter 1 can be taken as a metaphorical description of creation without having the slightest impact on your faith. The important fact is that God is primarily responsible for our existence, how and when he did it and how long it took should be irrelevant.
Phht. I get my SMS messages on my Visor Prism, with a 160x160 16-bit color screen (not that the color serves any purpose for SMS).
Unfortunately, the only person I know who knows how to uses SMS is my wife, so they're limited to things like "don't forget to get the baby's medicine" and "i wanna *** you when we get home".
Yeah, if you think $0.50 is a lot of money - and I've seen that kind of pricing in quantities of a few thousand, I can only guess how low it gets if you press millions.
Perhaps you meant to include the cost of recording, mixing, mastering, graphic design, and such, but those are one-time expenditures and get spread over all the CDs, adding another fraction of a dollar to the cost (at least for major labels).
That said, you're probably right that folks would be willing to pay $0.50/song for downloads, but only if none of their friends had already downloaded it and copied it for them.
Judging by the acceptability of the words on TV, I would guess that fuckload > shitload > assload > buttload but, there's no way to determine from that if fuckload > shitload * assload so the answer to your question is unknown.
On the other hand, you asked if it was "more or less" so the answer is much more likely to be "yes" (it is more or less) than "no" (they are equal).
Heck, you can do it with Mandrake. Just do urpmi.addmedia -h cooker ftp://your/favorite/cooker/mirror to add Cooker to your update sources. Now, do urpmi --auto-select to upgrade everything except the kernel. You'll need to urpmi kernel separately, then reboot, and voila, you've got the latest beta.
Oh, you need to make sure you have a buttload of space on your/var partition, or symlink/var/cache/urpmi to somewhere with plenty of room.
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good than all your box will belong to me and read them all of your word doc's and put them up on slashdot.
No, all your box are belong to me!
A thin film of water or oil can fill the crevases and make the bonding much stronger, if you want to try sticking your fingers to things.
Ah HAH!! That's how Dr. Hfuhruhurr was able to lick his hands and stick to the wall in "The Man With Two Brains" - I always thought it was a suction effect, but it must have been Van der Waals forces.
Wish I had mod points, that's f'in hilarious. Too bad it probably went right over the head of anyone reading who hasn't had a reptile as a pet.
Expensive discs (per MB, compared to CD-R), expensive players (compared to MP3-capable CD players), proprietary format controlled by evil giant Sony, none of my friends have them, can't store them on my hard drive, can't download them off the 'net, can't burn to audio CD (without going to analog or using a pro CD burner which defeats SCMS), what's to like?
Not true, anything can be a cult, but for a full blow religion you need at least a few hundred thousand followers!
There is a saying which goes something like, "The difference between a cult and a religion is a couple hundred years."
Jedis dont go around trying to convert all non-jedis to their beleifs.. Nor do they Kill and salughter people just because that have a different religous beleif.
Well, you could say that at least one Jedi has gone around slaughtering everyone with a different religious belief. You'd need to define "Jedi" a bit loosely to include Anakin/Vader, much in the manner you have to define "Muslim" to include Osama bin Laden.
See, now if your little Jedi mind trick actually worked, then I'd call you a Jedi. It didn't work, so you're not a Jedi.
If his trick had worked, you would call him whatever he told you to call him, wouldn't you?
Even if it didn't work, it wouldn't prove he's not a Jedi, it could just mean that you're not weak-minded enough. Perhaps you have a bit of Hutt or Toydarian in you and you don't know it!
Make them use the force to move some shit around the room. If they can do it, let them have their religion.
Couldn't they be followers of the Jedi faith without actually being Jedi Knights? After all, Catholicism claims that a priest has the ability to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, but the average Catholic in the street can't do it. Likewise, the Jedi faith could believe that a Jedi Knight has special abilities, but the followers wouldn't have them and shouldn't be expected to prove that they exist.
The Bible says that people who are True Believers can move mountains with their faith.
Note that it doesn't say they can't use bulldozers to help out their faith!
Christianity has one thing that no other religion, past or present, has: the Resurrected Christ.
Christianity isn't the only religion with a resurrection.
Egyptians had Osiris, who died and rose again on the third day.
Syrians had Adonis, who died and was found risen by his women followers on the third day.
Mithrasim had (obviously) Mithra, who died, was buried, and rose again.
Greco-Romans had Dionysus, who was torn to pieces and resurrected by his mother - to celebrate his resurrection, followers ate bread and drank wine.
Besides, with similar logic to yours, I could argue that the Church of the Subgenius is the only religion with Slack, and therefore is the One True Religion.
The rest of the world's religions are basically just hateful mockeries of things pure.
One could say the same thing about modern Christianity and how the pure teachings of Jesus (love, tolerance, peace) are followed only when they are convenient.
It is for this reason that I am a Christian and it is for this reason that you should be a Christian.
And mindless drivel like this from the mouth (or typing fingers) of Christians is the reason I'm almost ashamed to call myself Christian.
(Note: I just picked Lutheran out of a hat as an example. Don't read more into it than that.)
Oh, I thought it was because you had created them in a petri dish from one of your teeth and some cola.
Damn it, is there any topic that can't have a Simpsons reference thrown into it?
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl goatse.cx"
"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits for the giver."
If you've seen all these books, shouldn't you have learned to spell the word "coming" by now?
I liked the Ghostbusters reference though.
My suggestion would be Horses, since they are not haram/non-kosher in any religion. Or dogs.
The reason pigs are being used is because their anatomy is very similar to human anatomy. This is also why high school biology classes dissect fetal pigs (at least, mine did, that may not be common any more). Horses and dogs probably wouldn't work - in particular, dog parts seem likely to be too small.
If there were another animal equally appropriate for the task and kosher as well, don't you think it would have been chosen instead?
Yep, it's part of the wonderful circle of life (cue Mr. Hankey and Cornwallis singing "Circle of Poo"). The little yeasties turn sugar into alcohol, and synthesize vitamin B. When your body tries to break down the alcohol, it depletes vitamin B reserves. Having the yeast in the beer helps you out a bit by giving you back some extra B.
It won't do the whole trick though, because the majority of fermentation takes place before bottling, and the yeast from the bottom of the fermentation tank are typically discarded. Also, a hangover is primarily due to dehydration, so drink plenty of water while you're getting drunk and it won't be nearly as bad.
Worst-case scenario, you wake up massively hungover - take aspirin, Gatorade, and a teaspoonful of brewer's yeast (you could scavenge this off the bottom of the aforementioned fermentation tank if you're a homebrewer, otherwise buy it at the grocery store).
Oh, and to avoid being completely off topic, a bacon and egg biscuit from the greasiest fast food place you can find.
I'm sure the brief lives of these pigs will be a lot more pleasant than the animals we raise to be eaten.
If by "more pleasant" you mean they'll have less time to be miserable, you might be right. If you think transplant pigs are going to be put up in cushy hotel rooms with free HBO, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I expect they'll have healthier diets than food pigs though, to keep the heart as healthy as possible.
A free honey-glazed ham with every heart transplant!
What if we grind up the criminals and feed them to the hungry? Two birds with one stone, ya know.
Future think, Grab monkey from future, set it on fire, we get energy from future.
I don't see that as a big deal.
It's a big deal to the monkey, you insensitive bastard!
Death did not occur until *after* the fall of Adam and Eve.
This is assuming we're talking about physical death. A good point could be made that:
1) God told Adam that on the day he ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he would die
2) Adam and Eve ate, and did not (physically) die
3) Jesus was promised to defeat death by his own death and resurrection
4) Jesus has completed this work (he said "it is finished" upon the Cross) and yet, physical death still occurs
5) Therefore, the "death" brought about by Adam's sin must mean not physical death, but a severing of the perfect relationship with God that we would have without sin. Jesus's sacrifice has enabled us to escape this "death" but not the physical one. Of course, since our souls are immortal anyway, the physical death is of no concern.
If physical death is not of any importance in the biblical story, then there is no theological reason for us to believe animals (even proto-humans) didn't die before the Garden of Eden incident. Besides, if God's plan didn't include death, how were the animals going to eat (even if they were all herbivores, plants would have to die), and what would happen when the earth filled up with immortal animals being fruitful and multiplying?
The universe was created in six days.
According to Genesis 1, which is almost a carbon copy of other creation stories which predate the Jewish faith. Surely you didn't fail to notice the entirely different literary style and the lack of continuity between chapters 1 and 2? Anyway, the entirety of chapter 1 can be taken as a metaphorical description of creation without having the slightest impact on your faith. The important fact is that God is primarily responsible for our existence, how and when he did it and how long it took should be irrelevant.
in a year expect to be working on my PhD at University of Virginia
Heh heh. Where was your God last Thursday when UVA was crushed by the mighty (ha!) CSU Rams?
And don't tell me God doesn't watch football - how do you think Notre Dame has won so many games?
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Phht. I get my SMS messages on my Visor Prism, with a 160x160 16-bit color screen (not that the color serves any purpose for SMS).
Unfortunately, the only person I know who knows how to uses SMS is my wife, so they're limited to things like "don't forget to get the baby's medicine" and "i wanna *** you when we get home".
It costs a lot of money to manufacture a CD...
Yeah, if you think $0.50 is a lot of money - and I've seen that kind of pricing in quantities of a few thousand, I can only guess how low it gets if you press millions.
Perhaps you meant to include the cost of recording, mixing, mastering, graphic design, and such, but those are one-time expenditures and get spread over all the CDs, adding another fraction of a dollar to the cost (at least for major labels).
That said, you're probably right that folks would be willing to pay $0.50/song for downloads, but only if none of their friends had already downloaded it and copied it for them.
Judging by the acceptability of the words on TV, I would guess that
fuckload > shitload > assload > buttload
but, there's no way to determine from that if
fuckload > shitload * assload
so the answer to your question is unknown.
On the other hand, you asked if it was "more or less" so the answer is much more likely to be "yes" (it is more or less) than "no" (they are equal).
Heck, you can do it with Mandrake. Just do urpmi.addmedia -h cooker ftp://your/favorite/cooker/mirror to add Cooker to your update sources. Now, do urpmi --auto-select to upgrade everything except the kernel. You'll need to urpmi kernel separately, then reboot, and voila, you've got the latest beta.
/var partition, or symlink /var/cache/urpmi to somewhere with plenty of room.
Oh, you need to make sure you have a buttload of space on your