The only place where the religious element bothered me was at the end of Dawn Treader (which I believe was originally seen as the end of the series).
There are other places where it was apparent -- most of The Last Battle I had the feeling he was retelling some other story that I hadn't read -- but it didn't bother me then or now (and I'm not religious and wasn't when I first read them at 10 or so).
I have mixed feelings about the movie -- my other experiences with Hollywood turning beloved books into movies have not been reassuring. Peter Jackson did a better job than I expected with Tolkien, but I still prefer the books. I expect the same result for Narnia.
Why should junk addresses (president@whitehouse.gov, for example) in the remove list be a problem?
When the remove list is used properly, it should just be a case of "this address isn't on my list, I can ignore it". Granted, if the fake addresses were swamping out the real ones it would increase their processing time -- but still shouldn't be a major problem.
Of course, if the remove list is used as a source of e-mail addresses, then the fake addresses will be a problem. But in that case, annoying the spammer is a plus not a minus.
That way, it will cost them an extra fee (35 cents per call, if I remember correctly) in addition to the time charges, which are probably just pennies.
I call for every fax I get that lists a removal number (just once per fax).
I don't think this is really an anti-Jewish statement, since it's immediately followed by
Debts owed to persons other than Jews are to be dealt with similarly.
It's just that if you borrowed money back then, you probably had borrowed it from a Jew. Replace "Jew" with "bank" and you probably get a better sense of how it fit into the economy of the time.
The part about an underage heir not being charged interest on an inherited debt sounds pretty reasonable.
The second part, well, that's just the Crown trying to get an edge in general, not just putting it to the Jews (not that that didn't happen at various times and places, with or without a "law" to back it up).
Right. There was a full-page ad with my morning newspaper, folded in on top of the front page.
It was for... let me think... someone or other. I mean, it did pass across my field of vision on its way to the recycle bin. I should remember who it was, right?
Or, we could treat these like TV ads. Open a site, go take a leak. Open another site, go get something to drink. (Repeat as desired:-)
2. We'll add a new "overlay" area code, meaning that it covers the same geographical area as the existing area code.
3. People won't remember to dial the new 1+areacode, because they're used to dialing only the last 7 digits when calling within their own geographical area.
As I recall, the rationalization for requiring 11-digit dialing in this case was that someone (don't remember exactly who) was concerned that businesses who got the "new" area code would be discriminated against because customers would prefer to dial competitors they could reach by dialing 7-digits.
The main justification was that businesses with the old area code would look more "established" than businesses with the new area code, who couldn't have been around long if they had a phone number with the new area code. Possible other reasons might have been customers fearing long-distance charges when calling to an unfamiliar area code, or just that it's easier to dial 7 digits than 11.
I think they had a point, but a) people definitely did not want to be forced to dial 11 digits for every call; b) this discrimination would diminish over time as more homes and businesses were assigned the new area code; and c) personally, it wouldn't make that much difference how many digits I had to dial.
The meter, for instance, was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the north pole and the south pole.
Actually, that was the distance between the North Pole and the Equator (measured along the meridian of Paris) -- i.e., one-fourth of the Earth's circumference. (40000 km ~ 25000 mi)
Another proposal around the same time for the basic unit of length was the length of a one-second pendulum -- which is fairly close to a meter.
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Taking a DNR machine's output without review sounds like taking all the suggestions from the spill chucker when sending e-mail to your boss.
Does anyone else out there still think of Alderaan as "Basketball"?
There are other places where it was apparent -- most of The Last Battle I had the feeling he was retelling some other story that I hadn't read -- but it didn't bother me then or now (and I'm not religious and wasn't when I first read them at 10 or so).
I have mixed feelings about the movie -- my other experiences with Hollywood turning beloved books into movies have not been reassuring. Peter Jackson did a better job than I expected with Tolkien, but I still prefer the books. I expect the same result for Narnia.
Why should junk addresses (president@whitehouse.gov, for example) in the remove list be a problem?
When the remove list is used properly, it should just be a case of "this address isn't on my list, I can ignore it". Granted, if the fake addresses were swamping out the real ones it would increase their processing time -- but still shouldn't be a major problem.
Of course, if the remove list is used as a source of e-mail addresses, then the fake addresses will be a problem. But in that case, annoying the spammer is a plus not a minus.
You might use a pay phone to call the 800 number.
That way, it will cost them an extra fee (35 cents per call, if I remember correctly) in addition to the time charges, which are probably just pennies.
I call for every fax I get that lists a removal number (just once per fax).
Debts owed to persons other than Jews are to be dealt with similarly.
It's just that if you borrowed money back then, you probably had borrowed it from a Jew. Replace "Jew" with "bank" and you probably get a better sense of how it fit into the economy of the time.
The part about an underage heir not being charged interest on an inherited debt sounds pretty reasonable.
The second part, well, that's just the Crown trying to get an edge in general, not just putting it to the Jews (not that that didn't happen at various times and places, with or without a "law" to back it up).
Right. There was a full-page ad with my morning newspaper, folded in on top of the front page.
:-)
It was for... let me think... someone or other. I mean, it did pass across my field of vision on its way to the recycle bin. I should remember who it was, right?
Or, we could treat these like TV ads. Open a site, go take a leak. Open another site, go get something to drink. (Repeat as desired
3. People won't remember to dial the new 1+areacode, because they're used to dialing only the last 7 digits when calling within their own geographical area.
As I recall, the rationalization for requiring 11-digit dialing in this case was that someone (don't remember exactly who) was concerned that businesses who got the "new" area code would be discriminated against because customers would prefer to dial competitors they could reach by dialing 7-digits.
The main justification was that businesses with the old area code would look more "established" than businesses with the new area code, who couldn't have been around long if they had a phone number with the new area code. Possible other reasons might have been customers fearing long-distance charges when calling to an unfamiliar area code, or just that it's easier to dial 7 digits than 11.
I think they had a point, but a) people definitely did not want to be forced to dial 11 digits for every call; b) this discrimination would diminish over time as more homes and businesses were assigned the new area code; and c) personally, it wouldn't make that much difference how many digits I had to dial.
Actually, that was the distance between the North Pole and the Equator (measured along the meridian of Paris) -- i.e., one-fourth of the Earth's circumference. (40000 km ~ 25000 mi)
Another proposal around the same time for the basic unit of length was the length of a one-second pendulum -- which is fairly close to a meter.
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Is that what weather.com is trying to do when I get the "Do you want plug-ins to run" dialog?
I just automatically hit "no", since I wasn't expecting them to start a plugin, and I seemed to be getting all the content I expected to.
I turned off Javascript, animations, sounds, etc. a long time ago. Much more enjoyable surfing.
> $a = $b.$c;
> print "Hello: ".$you."\n";
>
> becomes
>
> $a = $b _ $c;
> print "Hello: " _ $you _ "\n";
Or just
$a = "$b$c";
print "Hello: $you\n";
like you can do right now.
I can't tell yet whether "$a:b" will change, but presumably the Perl5 clarification "${a}:b" would still work.