If I'm alive in 1000 years, I'll be happy to have lived so long (assuming it wasn't 900 years bedridden), and if I find I'm wrong (I'm currently an atheist), I'll gladly change my ways (God says you only need to repent before death to be accepted in to the kingdom of Heaven).
While this is technically true, there's problems with this. The bumper sticker message that applies here is "Those who plan to seek God in the 11th hour often die at 10:30." There's a famous story about Jesus telling one of the thieves being crucified next to him that he would be in heaven with him that day. So it's technically possible to be saved on your death bed. But it's still very possible to be killed instantly and not have the chance. There's also a suggestion in the bible that not everyone will be equal in heaven, with the differences depending on what happened here.
On the other hand, if I'm dead before I realize I was wrong, then either: 1) I'm in heaven. I'd like to think this it what would happen. I live a good life (I'm kind, honest, generous, fair, etc), and I'd like to think God is more interested in rewarding good people that in stroking his ego over not being worshipped (however, the bible gives evidence to suggest that may not be the case).
Evidence?:-) It's stated everywhere in the bible and it's really clear. It doesn't matter how good you were here. If you're not saved before death, you're hosed. It seems like it sucks to us because lots of jerks and otherwise nasty people will end up in heaven simply because they were saved just in time. I'm sure we'll see death row inmates there. But I'd be careful not to apply the world's standards of right and wrong or maybe what our selection criteria for entry into heaven might be. I guess part of faith is trusting that God must know what he's doing and have a good reason for this particular set of rules. I think it's obvious that not everything in the bible makes sense or seems intuitive to us, and probably never will be.
2) I'm in hell (or someplace else that's not heaven). If I end up there, despite the type of life I lived, then I'd have to think that heaven was run by a spiteful and vengeful God on a power trip. He'd be a brutal dictator, punishing anyone who doesn't do exactly as he says. He's more concerned about being treated with reverence than he is that his people are treated well. In that case, despite the popular depiction, I'd have to believe the place I ended up was the better option.
Trust me, based on the descriptions in the bible, it's not a better option. The phrase that's used is "gnashing teeth", that is, that's how bad the pain will be. That doesn't leave a lot of room for rational thought. In spite of that, the bible says that they worst part will be the separation from God.
It sounds to me like you're more undecided than atheist. I'd suggest that you stop into a church, wait for everyone to leave and ask the pastor some questions. I think you'll find that you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain from christianity.
Yeah, right! Like the rest of the world is voting out their corrupt politicians...
... and replacing them with... that's right, other corrupt politicians.
I'm telling you... blood is the only thing that will stop this. It's the only thing that matters more to the politicians than money. Blood. As in guillotines. I'm generally against violence. So I won't be the one shooting. But it's the only thing that can work now... Goldman Sachs execs and senators hanging from street lights.
I have the same problem. My wife has a serious problem with judging time and distance. She knows this and overcompensates by being way too careful. The end result is no accidents. But she does frequently piss of people behind her. My daughter (now 17, just had her first accident on friday) has the same time and distance judgment problem. Only she's an indestructible teenager who's personal life is so important, she needs red and blue lights on her car. After nearly two years of me trying to teach my daughter how to drive, i still don't like to be in the car with her. Her friends, sisters, and younger brother all refuse to ride with her. It's that scary. And she still isn't ready for the snow we'll get next month.:-/
I bought an HP 4100. I had to replace much of the maintenance items (my fault for not paying attention at purchase time), but even with all of that, I'll probably have $200 in it. One toner cartridge good for 30,000 pages. It comes with network support. XP talks to it without stupid drivers or software. And it's fast.
I also have an HP Laserjet 3. It's slow, but indestructible. And the price was right. It was free.
I'll never buy a new consumer grade printer again. It's ex-office printers for me from now on... in 10 years when I finally need to replace my printer.
About a year ago, I worked on a project in a backwards location that was unfortunately within driving distance of the major city where I live. The rate was good though so I took the job. These people were dumb for a lot of reasons. (it takes a lot for me to call my customers dumb) But the one that really made me laugh was the server rack strategically placed in the server room so that the server room door would smack into it whenever someone came in the room.
In panic stops, we already have trouble with not-so-good drivers slamming on the accelerator instead of the brake. Then there's the effect of the driver's body inertia on the stick. Is pushing the stick forward the same as accelerating? What if you slam on the brakes? Will your body moving forward make you stop braking and start accelerating when you brace yourself? Same things for turns, move the stick to the left, body leans to the right. The steering wheel is a rotational device. It's independent of the driver's body motion. And you can hold on to it.
As someone with Asperger's Syndrome, I'd like to point out that the engineers you speak of may be unable to learn the people skills you say are required. Should they still be allowed to be productive members of society? Be careful who you exclude. You may be excluding someone important.
Having said that, I recognize that people skills are important. I work on mine every day of my life.
I actually took a sci-fi and fantasy class in my high school back in 1988. We read starship troopers, the hobbit, lord of the rings (we had to pick one of the three), 2001, and some books of our choosing. I chose soylent green iirc. We watched a few sci-fi movies. The teacher did an in-class analysis of the complexity of the lights and buttons of darth vader's suit as he progressed through 4, 5, and 6. We did a few book reports and some art projects. I did a poster of the horses in the river that did in the ring wraiths. It was one of the few brights spots of my high school experience. The teacher was awesome.
No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. "His crops are being irradiated by an unshielded fusion reactor! And he's putting dihydrogen monoxide on his crops!"
I haven't built my own computer in years. So I'm not up on the latest technology. But wouldn't putting it on the motherboard allow for a fatter pipe between ram and the cache? That could be a lot faster than.. what are we using today? Serial-ATA?
"Good Enough" is the mantra of business. You don't succeed by selling the best. You succeed by selling the most (market share), arriving first to market, and erecting barriers to keep others out. This is why software ships while it should still be in the QA department. It's why you should avoid the first year of a new car model. And it's why new drugs are often later pulled when they start killing people. What we're experiencing is the tyranny of capitalism. Capitalism can, under the right conditions, create the best. But the needed competition that is so beneficial to the consumer is the bane of corporate America. In the absence of sane government regulation, corporate America's goal is to sell us cheap-to-produce crap at the highest price possible... not exactly a goal that encourages innovation.
No, it isn't obviously false, because it is possible that a poor helmet design could increase brain damage in situations where without the helmet a lesser amount or no damage would occur.
I have to wonder how many of those safer helmet-free situations would save the soldier from brain damage only to kill them with shrapnel or the initial concussion that the helmet would have blocked.
It wont take 400 years, it won't be a general, and it will all be done without firing a shot. There's a plan in action that's been operating for a while. The step we're on right now is the "destroy the dollar as a reserve currency" step. I'm not sure who's really executing the plan, or how things will finally end up. But I know that Goldman Sachs is central to the plan. I also know that the Bank of International Settlements and the World Bank are key as well. I give it between 5 and 30 years depending on how long it takes the dollar to die.
The bible says that what happens to the body after death is inconsequential. The post-resurrected body is nothing like the present body. I think we're missing some pieces God will have no trouble filling in the blanks.
I plan to donate, but I didn't fill out the donor card at my wife's request. She wants to have complete control over those decisions. She used to work in an emergency room and saw some troubling things with regard to donor cards and when people were declared officially dead.
I'd like to interject something here. I tend to be (maybe used to be) republican. But I'm majorly in favor of public health care. I don't expect them to do it perfectly, not even close. But they have to start somewhere. I pay roughly $3000 a month to get group health insurance. Individual policies are useless for be because they refuse to cover half of my children simply because they used to be asthmatic. When I was a poor college student, I was on medicaid. The only problem I ever had with it had everything to do with the attitudes of the doctors, nurses, and hospitals I had to deal with.
This is a public option. You'll be able to choose between public and private just like you can choose between USPS and UPS. If you don't want to use it, then don't.
It will be interesting to me how much under $3000 a month the government option will cost me. That will be telling.
I was born in 1970. I frequently have this kind of conversation with my kids. When I was a kid...
There were no cd players, no dvd players, no vcrs, and therefore no blockbuster. if you wanted to see a movie, you had to either see it in the theater or wait years until ended up on regular tv (no wonder the mpaa is pissed). My parents had an 8-track player and records. My mother had a collection of 50s and 60s 45 rpm records that she bought when they came out while she was growing up.
There were no microwave ovens. Making your own popcorn either involved jiffypop or a hot-air popper that we couldn't afford.
We lived in Los Angeles and had four channels on TV: abc, nbc, cbs, and pbs. If the president was speaking that night, you were screwed.
There were no cell phones and pay phones were everywhere. Long distances calls were so expensive that we only called my grandmother in florida once a month for 5 minutes.
When I was a baby, I had skin problems that made my mother switch to the "new" disposable diapers even though they were really expensive.
At school, seeing films meant using an actual film projector, or worse, those film strip projectors that beeped to tell you to switch slides. Teachers used chalk boards and chalk, had never seen dry-erase before.
And police still managed to catch speeders without radar.
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If I'm alive in 1000 years, I'll be happy to have lived so long (assuming it wasn't 900 years bedridden), and if I find I'm wrong (I'm currently an atheist), I'll gladly change my ways (God says you only need to repent before death to be accepted in to the kingdom of Heaven).
While this is technically true, there's problems with this. The bumper sticker message that applies here is "Those who plan to seek God in the 11th hour often die at 10:30." There's a famous story about Jesus telling one of the thieves being crucified next to him that he would be in heaven with him that day. So it's technically possible to be saved on your death bed. But it's still very possible to be killed instantly and not have the chance. There's also a suggestion in the bible that not everyone will be equal in heaven, with the differences depending on what happened here.
On the other hand, if I'm dead before I realize I was wrong, then either:
1) I'm in heaven. I'd like to think this it what would happen. I live a good life (I'm kind, honest, generous, fair, etc), and I'd like to think God is more interested in rewarding good people that in stroking his ego over not being worshipped (however, the bible gives evidence to suggest that may not be the case).
Evidence? :-) It's stated everywhere in the bible and it's really clear. It doesn't matter how good you were here. If you're not saved before death, you're hosed. It seems like it sucks to us because lots of jerks and otherwise nasty people will end up in heaven simply because they were saved just in time. I'm sure we'll see death row inmates there. But I'd be careful not to apply the world's standards of right and wrong or maybe what our selection criteria for entry into heaven might be. I guess part of faith is trusting that God must know what he's doing and have a good reason for this particular set of rules. I think it's obvious that not everything in the bible makes sense or seems intuitive to us, and probably never will be.
2) I'm in hell (or someplace else that's not heaven). If I end up there, despite the type of life I lived, then I'd have to think that heaven was run by a spiteful and vengeful God on a power trip. He'd be a brutal dictator, punishing anyone who doesn't do exactly as he says. He's more concerned about being treated with reverence than he is that his people are treated well. In that case, despite the popular depiction, I'd have to believe the place I ended up was the better option.
Trust me, based on the descriptions in the bible, it's not a better option. The phrase that's used is "gnashing teeth", that is, that's how bad the pain will be. That doesn't leave a lot of room for rational thought. In spite of that, the bible says that they worst part will be the separation from God.
It sounds to me like you're more undecided than atheist. I'd suggest that you stop into a church, wait for everyone to leave and ask the pastor some questions. I think you'll find that you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain from christianity.
Just look at their name: Kentucky Frickin Chicken.
Yeah, the fear detector won't work. They're unflappable.
Just keep pushing the button. The elevator will arrive faster... (off to file a patent for a placebo button powered space elevator...)
Yeah, right! Like the rest of the world is voting out their corrupt politicians...
I'm telling you... blood is the only thing that will stop this. It's the only thing that matters more to the politicians than money. Blood. As in guillotines. I'm generally against violence. So I won't be the one shooting. But it's the only thing that can work now... Goldman Sachs execs and senators hanging from street lights.
I have the same problem. My wife has a serious problem with judging time and distance. She knows this and overcompensates by being way too careful. The end result is no accidents. But she does frequently piss of people behind her. My daughter (now 17, just had her first accident on friday) has the same time and distance judgment problem. Only she's an indestructible teenager who's personal life is so important, she needs red and blue lights on her car. After nearly two years of me trying to teach my daughter how to drive, i still don't like to be in the car with her. Her friends, sisters, and younger brother all refuse to ride with her. It's that scary. And she still isn't ready for the snow we'll get next month. :-/
I bought an HP 4100. I had to replace much of the maintenance items (my fault for not paying attention at purchase time), but even with all of that, I'll probably have $200 in it. One toner cartridge good for 30,000 pages. It comes with network support. XP talks to it without stupid drivers or software. And it's fast.
I also have an HP Laserjet 3. It's slow, but indestructible. And the price was right. It was free.
I'll never buy a new consumer grade printer again. It's ex-office printers for me from now on... in 10 years when I finally need to replace my printer.
Arabs are Caucasian. Caucasian is wider term than Aryan so that it includes Semitic people like Jews and Arabs.
So are indians and pakistanis. Shhhh... don't tell the white supremacists.
Saying Are and Is are both correct.
Saying Are and Is are both correct, is correct.
Both are, is correct. Are is both are saying is.
That depends on what your definition of is is.
Don't they need any good old corn-fed Midwestern American boys on this mission?
An american would be poisoned by the poor air quality caused by a lack of deodorant use. Europeans are immune.
About a year ago, I worked on a project in a backwards location that was unfortunately within driving distance of the major city where I live. The rate was good though so I took the job. These people were dumb for a lot of reasons. (it takes a lot for me to call my customers dumb) But the one that really made me laugh was the server rack strategically placed in the server room so that the server room door would smack into it whenever someone came in the room.
In panic stops, we already have trouble with not-so-good drivers slamming on the accelerator instead of the brake. Then there's the effect of the driver's body inertia on the stick. Is pushing the stick forward the same as accelerating? What if you slam on the brakes? Will your body moving forward make you stop braking and start accelerating when you brace yourself? Same things for turns, move the stick to the left, body leans to the right. The steering wheel is a rotational device. It's independent of the driver's body motion. And you can hold on to it.
I have you all beat. I once worked in an office where 3/4 of the people were scientologists.
As someone with Asperger's Syndrome, I'd like to point out that the engineers you speak of may be unable to learn the people skills you say are required. Should they still be allowed to be productive members of society? Be careful who you exclude. You may be excluding someone important.
Having said that, I recognize that people skills are important. I work on mine every day of my life.
I actually took a sci-fi and fantasy class in my high school back in 1988. We read starship troopers, the hobbit, lord of the rings (we had to pick one of the three), 2001, and some books of our choosing. I chose soylent green iirc. We watched a few sci-fi movies. The teacher did an in-class analysis of the complexity of the lights and buttons of darth vader's suit as he progressed through 4, 5, and 6. We did a few book reports and some art projects. I did a poster of the horses in the river that did in the ring wraiths. It was one of the few brights spots of my high school experience. The teacher was awesome.
No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. "His crops are being irradiated by an unshielded fusion reactor! And he's putting dihydrogen monoxide on his crops!"
The buffer should obviously be on the hard disk.
I haven't built my own computer in years. So I'm not up on the latest technology. But wouldn't putting it on the motherboard allow for a fatter pipe between ram and the cache? That could be a lot faster than.. what are we using today? Serial-ATA?
"Good Enough" is the mantra of business. You don't succeed by selling the best. You succeed by selling the most (market share), arriving first to market, and erecting barriers to keep others out. This is why software ships while it should still be in the QA department. It's why you should avoid the first year of a new car model. And it's why new drugs are often later pulled when they start killing people. What we're experiencing is the tyranny of capitalism. Capitalism can, under the right conditions, create the best. But the needed competition that is so beneficial to the consumer is the bane of corporate America. In the absence of sane government regulation, corporate America's goal is to sell us cheap-to-produce crap at the highest price possible... not exactly a goal that encourages innovation.
No, it isn't obviously false, because it is possible that a poor helmet design could increase brain damage in situations where without the helmet a lesser amount or no damage would occur.
I have to wonder how many of those safer helmet-free situations would save the soldier from brain damage only to kill them with shrapnel or the initial concussion that the helmet would have blocked.
It wont take 400 years, it won't be a general, and it will all be done without firing a shot. There's a plan in action that's been operating for a while. The step we're on right now is the "destroy the dollar as a reserve currency" step. I'm not sure who's really executing the plan, or how things will finally end up. But I know that Goldman Sachs is central to the plan. I also know that the Bank of International Settlements and the World Bank are key as well. I give it between 5 and 30 years depending on how long it takes the dollar to die.
The bible says that what happens to the body after death is inconsequential. The post-resurrected body is nothing like the present body. I think we're missing some pieces God will have no trouble filling in the blanks.
I plan to donate, but I didn't fill out the donor card at my wife's request. She wants to have complete control over those decisions. She used to work in an emergency room and saw some troubling things with regard to donor cards and when people were declared officially dead.
I'd like to interject something here. I tend to be (maybe used to be) republican. But I'm majorly in favor of public health care. I don't expect them to do it perfectly, not even close. But they have to start somewhere. I pay roughly $3000 a month to get group health insurance. Individual policies are useless for be because they refuse to cover half of my children simply because they used to be asthmatic. When I was a poor college student, I was on medicaid. The only problem I ever had with it had everything to do with the attitudes of the doctors, nurses, and hospitals I had to deal with.
This is a public option. You'll be able to choose between public and private just like you can choose between USPS and UPS. If you don't want to use it, then don't.
It will be interesting to me how much under $3000 a month the government option will cost me. That will be telling.
I'm afraid of the 900 number ads in the backs of magazines.
I was born in 1970. I frequently have this kind of conversation with my kids. When I was a kid...
There were no cd players, no dvd players, no vcrs, and therefore no blockbuster. if you wanted to see a movie, you had to either see it in the theater or wait years until ended up on regular tv (no wonder the mpaa is pissed). My parents had an 8-track player and records. My mother had a collection of 50s and 60s 45 rpm records that she bought when they came out while she was growing up.
There were no microwave ovens. Making your own popcorn either involved jiffypop or a hot-air popper that we couldn't afford.
We lived in Los Angeles and had four channels on TV: abc, nbc, cbs, and pbs. If the president was speaking that night, you were screwed.
There were no cell phones and pay phones were everywhere. Long distances calls were so expensive that we only called my grandmother in florida once a month for 5 minutes.
When I was a baby, I had skin problems that made my mother switch to the "new" disposable diapers even though they were really expensive.
At school, seeing films meant using an actual film projector, or worse, those film strip projectors that beeped to tell you to switch slides. Teachers used chalk boards and chalk, had never seen dry-erase before.
And police still managed to catch speeders without radar.
$35K - $45K
I didn't know JP Morgan Chase was using Scala. (rolls eyes)