Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World
"Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
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According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians--the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government--were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."
>In the sense that it gives a false sense of security -- you see 'https', you see the padlock, you think, "Oh, I'm safe."
Umm, no. If the cert is different from the last time you connected, you get a nasty error message - just like you would from any other site who's cert has changed.
Torture is tortue. It is always wrong and should be punished. If you think you have a good reason for doing it, the reason should be good enough for you to take the punishment for being a walking pile of shit. Not to mention that it is against both US and international laws regardless the situation.
I hope you are joking in regards to applying torture for such petty reasons (or for any reason, really). If not, go fuck yourself you subhuman creature.
If you believe that there is no such thing as human nature, you have quite a bit to learn. From our innate ability to form languages, to our universal preference to find symmetric facial features beautiful, there are countless examples of attributes that apply to all of us. Money may be a human invention, but even monkeys will trade food for sex. We cannot choose to be other than what our nature makes us, any more than we can choose to have 8 limbs.
>I observed a flock of birds in a huge V today. I noticed how every bird knew to immediately repeat the bird ahead of itself, and so they moved in a very short-time delayed unison. You could see the wave of reaction move from front to rear. I couldn't help but think about how we've developed a culture of individualism and self interest; that we could never get 100+ humans together and have them all cascade each others actions for a greater good
Have you never been to a big city? If so, did you notice all of those really tall buildings? How many people do you think it takes to create each of those? What do you think motivates those people to spend their time working in such a dangerous place?
>In effect, Amazon is doing business in my county, so it's up to them to comply with the tax laws in my county.
No, they are not. It is exactly the same as ordering from a catalog. You are not walking into your local Amazon store, you are purchasing a product from a company in a different state. It is not their responsibility to pay your taxes for you.
If you'd like to try and survive longer by relying on doctors and a medical industry that aren't in it for profit, all I can say is good luck to you. While it would be nice if everyone worked out of their concern for their fellow man, that isn't the world we live in, and it won't ever be.
I've got a 10 gig.tar.bz2 file that I've only been partially able to recover due to a couple of bad blocks on a hard drive. I ran bzip2recover on it, which broke it into many, many pieces, and then put them back together into a partially recoverable tar file. Now I just can't figure out how to get past the corrupt pieces.:(
If you look at the record of the ice ages going back the past couple of million years, you will notice that we should already be well on our way into another ice age by now. Instead, the temperature is rising higher than at any point in that time range. What could be the difference now?
How is it a lot less? We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're only giving real trials to a handful of the people at Guantanamo, the rest are either getting military tribunals or will rot forever with no charges being brought. We're still getting our phones and email tapped without a warrant. What bad idea of Bush's has Obama actually changed so far?
Sure, nuclear fusion isn't unlimited in the sense of comparing it to infinity. For us puny humans though, it is for all practical purposes unlimited. We know from daily experience that fusion power is attainable. We also know that once we attain it, all other power sources will be obsolete. How this does not deserve a much larger portion of our resources boggles my mind.
I would think that anyone running an ssh server should also be running something like the Denyhosts daemon. After a set number of failed logon attempts, it will automatically add the connecting ip address to hosts.deny and their hack attempt is over.
Right. IQ doesn't correlate to income, longer life, greater health, or inversely to committing violent crime. Oh wait a minute, yes, it does. While IQ is not some kind of end-all measurement of human worth, it is definitely measuring more than just test-taking ability.
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If they don't reproduce, it's going to be a little difficult.
From The Onion:
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World
"Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
YIR numbers web 5
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians--the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government--were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass."
I don't think so. Vitamin D can either be synthesized by the skin through exposure to sunlight or it can be ingested and absorbed like most vitamins.
>In the sense that it gives a false sense of security -- you see 'https', you see the padlock, you think, "Oh, I'm safe."
Umm, no. If the cert is different from the last time you connected, you get a nasty error message - just like you would from any other site who's cert has changed.
>I think it subhuman to put someone in jail for a decade, rather than torture them for five minutes, which is exactly what you do.
Don't presume to know anything about what I'd do. You barely count as human in my book, but even you don't deserve torture,
>Typical slavemaking leftists tyrant.
Except that I'm not leftist, not even a little.
I'm one. If it were proved that torture occurred, I don't care what the situation, the person would never walk if I were on the jury.
Torture is tortue. It is always wrong and should be punished. If you think you have a good reason for doing it, the reason should be good enough for you to take the punishment for being a walking pile of shit. Not to mention that it is against both US and international laws regardless the situation.
I hope you are joking in regards to applying torture for such petty reasons (or for any reason, really). If not, go fuck yourself you subhuman creature.
>Heroin does damage at a much faster rate, and then chemically created drugs, such as meth and ex- can be deadly/permanent damage the first use.
Heroin, in and of itself, is not damaging at all assuming you're not overdosing. They still use it for pain relief in the UK, afaik.
Meth is still given out as a prescription drug in the US, and ecstasy is no more dangerous than alcohol.
Your beliefs about drugs are mostly uninformed.
I thought that it was more about the expectation of privacy that people have inside their own homes and not just the ability to peer inside it.
If you believe that there is no such thing as human nature, you have quite a bit to learn. From our innate ability to form languages, to our universal preference to find symmetric facial features beautiful, there are countless examples of attributes that apply to all of us. Money may be a human invention, but even monkeys will trade food for sex. We cannot choose to be other than what our nature makes us, any more than we can choose to have 8 limbs.
>I observed a flock of birds in a huge V today. I noticed how every bird knew to immediately repeat the bird ahead of itself, and so they moved in a very short-time delayed unison. You could see the wave of reaction move from front to rear. I couldn't help but think about how we've developed a culture of individualism and self interest; that we could never get 100+ humans together and have them all cascade each others actions for a greater good
Have you never been to a big city? If so, did you notice all of those really tall buildings? How many people do you think it takes to create each of those? What do you think motivates those people to spend their time working in such a dangerous place?
The same could be said of the bible.
>In effect, Amazon is doing business in my county, so it's up to them to comply with the tax laws in my county.
No, they are not. It is exactly the same as ordering from a catalog. You are not walking into your local Amazon store, you are purchasing a product from a company in a different state. It is not their responsibility to pay your taxes for you.
If you'd like to try and survive longer by relying on doctors and a medical industry that aren't in it for profit, all I can say is good luck to you. While it would be nice if everyone worked out of their concern for their fellow man, that isn't the world we live in, and it won't ever be.
No, it can't. You might wish you were dead, but there are no cases of heroin withdrawal killing anyone.
I've got a 10 gig .tar.bz2 file that I've only been partially able to recover due to a couple of bad blocks on a hard drive. I ran bzip2recover on it, which broke it into many, many pieces, and then put them back together into a partially recoverable tar file. Now I just can't figure out how to get past the corrupt pieces.:(
If you look at the record of the ice ages going back the past couple of million years, you will notice that we should already be well on our way into another ice age by now. Instead, the temperature is rising higher than at any point in that time range. What could be the difference now?
The Canadian midwest would love it.
How is it a lot less? We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're only giving real trials to a handful of the people at Guantanamo, the rest are either getting military tribunals or will rot forever with no charges being brought. We're still getting our phones and email tapped without a warrant. What bad idea of Bush's has Obama actually changed so far?
>Some random nutcase grabs and AK to fight a "war" and suddenly you want to afford him all sorts of legal protections?
Umm, yes. Either that person is actually waging war, or he is just a plain old criminal. Either way, he still has rights.
Sure, nuclear fusion isn't unlimited in the sense of comparing it to infinity. For us puny humans though, it is for all practical purposes unlimited. We know from daily experience that fusion power is attainable. We also know that once we attain it, all other power sources will be obsolete. How this does not deserve a much larger portion of our resources boggles my mind.
I would think that anyone running an ssh server should also be running something like the Denyhosts daemon. After a set number of failed logon attempts, it will automatically add the connecting ip address to hosts.deny and their hack attempt is over.
I saw that one too and almost gave myself a heart attack from laughing so much.
Right. IQ doesn't correlate to income, longer life, greater health, or inversely to committing violent crime. Oh wait a minute, yes, it does. While IQ is not some kind of end-all measurement of human worth, it is definitely measuring more than just test-taking ability.