From what I recall, in Virginia you can also opt-out of car insurance. However, you have to pay a fee to do so. In 2004 or so, if memory serves, the fee was like $400 / year, but minimal insurance was like $800 year (and likely worth it, since if you opt-out you will likely be liable out of pocket for everything in an accident).
Yeah, the peaceful man was destined to die in a pool of his own blood and piss, but that's a completely different story.
You can stab the peaceful man Monday in a violent world, only to be stabbed in the back yourself on Tuesday. Or you can work to create a world where people don't get stabbed, or at least don't get stabbed so often.
Put your sword back in its scabbard, for all who live by the sword will die by the sword.
In all our long history I'm not sure if we've ever come across another society that believed as you did... that put these things above their own survival. Consider that that is odd because we've encountered many societies and civilizations. That we've never encountered one with your values implies one of two things. Either human beings are genetically predisposed to not value that view. Or any society that does embrace that view dies out. In the end the second would become the first... so perhaps it's all the same.
"All men are violent," said the violent man. "Are you violent?" the violent man asked a peaceful man. "No, I'm not." said the peaceful man. The violent man then stabbed the peaceful man. "All men are violent," said the violent man.
As the peaceful man died he asked "Why do you think that is?"
So reading this I realized I, myself, last night Googled for:
the weapon causes suffering should I be angry
Sounds vaguely threatening. You could read that as saying "If you get me angry I will cause you pain with a weapon." However, I was searching for a quote. If you type that into Google you actually get what I was searching for among the top links:
Both the weapon and my body
Are the causes of my suffering.
Since he gave rise to the weapon and I to the body,
With whom should I be angry? - Bodhisattvacaryvatra, 43
It's less on Wikipedia itself and more in the images that people upload to Wikipedia that can be accessed through certain searches. The problem is some of the searches, like "cucumber" in this case, are innocuous at face value.
You know what the weirdest part is? So many people believe in a literal creation story. If you ask those people they say the Bible is literally true and not metaphorical in any parts. But the question remains, if the Bible is literally true and to be followed literally, why do all those people not follow this:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.
So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not renounce all your possessions.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What intelligent person can imagine that there was a first “day,” then a second and a third “day”—evening and morning—without the sun, the moon, and the stars? [Sun, moon, and stars are created on the fourth "day."] And that the first “day”—if it makes sense to call it such—existed even without a sky? [The sky is created on the second "day."]
Who is foolish enough to believe that, like a human gardener, God planted a garden in Eden in the East and placed in it a tree of life, visible and physical, so that by biting into its fruit one would obtain life? And that by eating from another tree, one would come to know good and evil? And when it is said that God walked in the garden in the evening and that Adam hid himself behind a tree, I cannot imagine that anyone will doubt that these details point symbolically to spiritual meanings, by using an historical narrative which did not literally happen. (p.71)
Wow, so we live in the Perseus galaxy and Andromeda really does have a rock chained to her (the M33 galaxy). Oh yeah, and for those who think I'm speaking nonsense:
Andromeda is an Ethiopian princess from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband (Wikipedia).
The second issue is math should not be patentable because they are laws of nature and not manmade. Computer algorithms are just this and a process is simply math.
You're right, and that's why computer algorithms are not patentable by themselves. Instead, they must be explicitly tied to a machine or performed by a machine, because machines are not laws of nature, nor are they man-made.
Ah, I see you are one of those religious fundamentalists. Machines are far too complex to be man made! All those intricacies and complexities. They must be made by God. Amen brother!
On the 1st day God created computers. On the 0th day he rested. Then there was a recursive loop, a segfault and a buffer overflow, and that explains how things came to be. Hallelujah!
I'd have to agree with you entirely, minus the misdirected political assumptions.
The journalist is looking at it from the standpoint that SpaceX was supposed to launch today and something went wrong, so it's a setback. In reality, what happened today was somewhat impressive in-and-of itself. The Falcon rocket auto-detected a problem with software and half a second before liftoff shut itself down without any damage.
Would NASA have ever been able to do that? No. NASA would have sent the rocket into space with the problem because it had no such software. This already seems way better and safer.
However, the journalist probably just didn't think about it that in-depth and so sees the failure to launch as a small failure (which it is, albiet not a serious one and a strong success at the same time). His talk of government is just boilerplate background not a biased pro-government agenda.
Don't be silly. The leopard is kept in the local Guilford planning office. The basement of the Alpha Centauri planning office is completely free from such annoyances. You can tell from the sign above the door: "This premises guaranteed to be leopard free. Please keep your eyes focused on this sign until you reach the teller and whatever you do do not look directly at the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal."
When the parent says the sentence is missing an article, he is correct. It should read "the US Justice Department has sent a letter." The word before the quotation, "the," is also an article but it modifies "US Justice Department" not "letter," which itself needs an article.
Additionally, missed by all of you, "Police Departments" should not be capitalized as it is not a proper noun. You would capitalize "Boston Police Department," because it is a specific named department but "Police Departments" should instead read as "police departments," as it not referring to any named department specifically.
Yet, the thrust of your argument is correct in my opinion. The general sentence structure of the original statement is sound and the sentence does not represent a run-on. Some ill-informed teachers may wrongly mark such sentences as run-ons, but if that is the case they themselves are incorrect in doing so.
Still, sometimes teachers request a sentence be simplified so the reading of it is smoother, rather than any actual infractions against the laws of grammar having been committed — and that case may very well apply to the sentence in question. For example, the above sentence would read better if "(PDF)" was omitted or if the same information was stated in a less jarring form, such as "the US Justice Department has sent a letter in the form of a PDF" or ""the US Justice Department has sent a PDF letter," rather then placing "PDF" inside a parenthetic expression.
Thus, we could say that the sentence could be improved in some ways, but is not technically a run-on, even though other grammatical errors are present.
You are both wrong. Red is not the the color of fear or alarm (though you aren't completely offtrack). Red is also not completely culturally based (though also not completely offtrack).
Human color vision is an evolved characteristic. Specifically only humans and birds have trichromatic color vision, which allows easy apprehension of reds against green and blue backgrounds. It is theorized the reason this is the case, is to find food sources which are often red/orange/yellow on a green background. For example, rasberries or oranges or bananas or apples.
Evolutionarily red meant "hey! look here! stop!" (like "alarm") but the rest of the message is "there might be something good and tasty here!" (like "luck" or "cheer" or "positivity").
Blues and greens are more soothing though, and likely for the same evolutionary reasons.
Those who deliberately engineer masterpieces, those who "inadvertently" engineer masterpieces and those who write the (cough) software that causes the other two groups to act.
In this case, these accidental geniuses are responsible for work that mainstream GIMP developers had long claimed was impossible. From the looks of it, six impossible things were achieved, so said developers should round things off with a meal at Milliways.
Clearly they will when they attempt to add Photoshop plugin compatibility to GIMP inadvertently create the world's first time machine.
Wow, this is just amazing and surprising news...that people still use GIMP. One word...Pixelmator. That's a word, isn't it? It's sort of like an alligator for pixels. GIMP is well...uh...gimp.
'I think the worst scenario might be where someone who hates gays uses Facebook's targeting to identify gay users and later attack them,'says Paul Francis, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems."
I think the best scenario might be where someone who hates Justin Bieber uses Facebook's targeting to identify Justin Beeber and later attack him.
Excuse me, sir, I don't believe you did a peer-reviewed study to determine if he was a troll or not. Until you can show me some data in a proper scientific journal that he is a worthless troll, I think it's an open question still.
Plus, if he is a troll they have those big pointy ears, so that's clearly how he got his great hearing. You know they live under bridges for the acoustics, right?
Though in fairness, I do collect historically-significant Linux distro ISOs.
Wow, I'm really impressed by that. Do you have the Linux disto that Jefferson wrote the constitution on or the one Hitler used to build the V2 rockets?
There will be a Mayan Apocalypse. The Mayan Apocalypse is not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning...
Why you'd want bars at top AND bottom of the screen is a mystery to me, but XFCE does support it.
I understand why you say this but really there is a menu at the top and a dock at the bottom. In the early days Gnome and KDE were cloning Windows-like paradigms, but increasingly they clone Mac paradigms, which is why they opted for a dock I'm sure.
Honestly, unless you are stuck on a small monitor, there is no real reason to cram UI elements in the corner and even Windows these days is becoming much-much more doc-like. First, they made their task bar into a large pseudo-dock and with Windows 8 they are going to remove the start button, making it even more Mac-like.
Yes, but according the authoritative Dictionary of Christianity crusade is defined as "A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Christ... enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Christianity and repelling evil from Christians."
Yet, if you went on "a crusade against bad music" it doesn't mean you plan to murder Justin Bieber.
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From what I recall, in Virginia you can also opt-out of car insurance. However, you have to pay a fee to do so. In 2004 or so, if memory serves, the fee was like $400 / year, but minimal insurance was like $800 year (and likely worth it, since if you opt-out you will likely be liable out of pocket for everything in an accident).
Yeah, the peaceful man was destined to die in a pool of his own blood and piss, but that's a completely different story.
You can stab the peaceful man Monday in a violent world, only to be stabbed in the back yourself on Tuesday. Or you can work to create a world where people don't get stabbed, or at least don't get stabbed so often.
Put your sword back in its scabbard, for all who live by the sword will die by the sword.
In all our long history I'm not sure if we've ever come across another society that believed as you did... that put these things above their own survival. Consider that that is odd because we've encountered many societies and civilizations. That we've never encountered one with your values implies one of two things. Either human beings are genetically predisposed to not value that view. Or any society that does embrace that view dies out. In the end the second would become the first... so perhaps it's all the same.
"All men are violent," said the violent man. "Are you violent?" the violent man asked a peaceful man. "No, I'm not." said the peaceful man. The violent man then stabbed the peaceful man. "All men are violent," said the violent man.
As the peaceful man died he asked "Why do you think that is?"
So reading this I realized I, myself, last night Googled for:
the weapon causes suffering should I be angry
Sounds vaguely threatening. You could read that as saying "If you get me angry I will cause you pain with a weapon." However, I was searching for a quote. If you type that into Google you actually get what I was searching for among the top links:
A peaceful Buddhist quote, in this link in a book of the Dalai Lama.
Both the weapon and my body Are the causes of my suffering. Since he gave rise to the weapon and I to the body, With whom should I be angry? - Bodhisattvacaryvatra, 43
Don't blame me. You asked for it!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dede_Cucumber_0433.jpg
It's less on Wikipedia itself and more in the images that people upload to Wikipedia that can be accessed through certain searches. The problem is some of the searches, like "cucumber" in this case, are innocuous at face value.
"claiming...in an arrogant manner just makes you sound like an ass and makes people more inclined to distrust what you have to say"
WRONG.
http://www.trump.com/Donald_J_Trump/Biography.asp
And that one link right there blows the rest of your argument away.
You know what the weirdest part is? So many people believe in a literal creation story. If you ask those people they say the Bible is literally true and not metaphorical in any parts. But the question remains, if the Bible is literally true and to be followed literally, why do all those people not follow this:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.
So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not renounce all your possessions.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What intelligent person can imagine that there was a first “day,” then a second and a third “day”—evening and morning—without the sun, the moon, and the stars? [Sun, moon, and stars are created on the fourth "day."] And that the first “day”—if it makes sense to call it such—existed even without a sky? [The sky is created on the second "day."]
Who is foolish enough to believe that, like a human gardener, God planted a garden in Eden in the East and placed in it a tree of life, visible and physical, so that by biting into its fruit one would obtain life? And that by eating from another tree, one would come to know good and evil? And when it is said that God walked in the garden in the evening and that Adam hid himself behind a tree, I cannot imagine that anyone will doubt that these details point symbolically to spiritual meanings, by using an historical narrative which did not literally happen. (p.71)
-- Origen (c.185-254 CE) “De Principiis“
Wow, so we live in the Perseus galaxy and Andromeda really does have a rock chained to her (the M33 galaxy). Oh yeah, and for those who think I'm speaking nonsense:
Andromeda is an Ethiopian princess from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband (Wikipedia).
in the anti-pint glass the vortex rotates in the opposite direction, causing an upward flow of fluid and bubbles near the wall of the glass
Just don't drink too many anti-pints of beer. I tried it once and woke up with a hell of a hangunder.
Yeah, but who cares about Iran's puny booster, when they've developed flying saucer technology!
The second issue is math should not be patentable because they are laws of nature and not manmade. Computer algorithms are just this and a process is simply math.
You're right, and that's why computer algorithms are not patentable by themselves. Instead, they must be explicitly tied to a machine or performed by a machine, because machines are not laws of nature, nor are they man-made.
Ah, I see you are one of those religious fundamentalists. Machines are far too complex to be man made! All those intricacies and complexities. They must be made by God. Amen brother!
On the 1st day God created computers. On the 0th day he rested. Then there was a recursive loop, a segfault and a buffer overflow, and that explains how things came to be. Hallelujah!
For some reason every time I look at that photo of the moon, I see this.
I'd have to agree with you entirely, minus the misdirected political assumptions.
The journalist is looking at it from the standpoint that SpaceX was supposed to launch today and something went wrong, so it's a setback. In reality, what happened today was somewhat impressive in-and-of itself. The Falcon rocket auto-detected a problem with software and half a second before liftoff shut itself down without any damage.
Would NASA have ever been able to do that? No. NASA would have sent the rocket into space with the problem because it had no such software. This already seems way better and safer.
However, the journalist probably just didn't think about it that in-depth and so sees the failure to launch as a small failure (which it is, albiet not a serious one and a strong success at the same time). His talk of government is just boilerplate background not a biased pro-government agenda.
Don't be silly. The leopard is kept in the local Guilford planning office. The basement of the Alpha Centauri planning office is completely free from such annoyances. You can tell from the sign above the door: "This premises guaranteed to be leopard free. Please keep your eyes focused on this sign until you reach the teller and whatever you do do not look directly at the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal."
When the parent says the sentence is missing an article, he is correct. It should read "the US Justice Department has sent a letter." The word before the quotation, "the," is also an article but it modifies "US Justice Department" not "letter," which itself needs an article.
Additionally, missed by all of you, "Police Departments" should not be capitalized as it is not a proper noun. You would capitalize "Boston Police Department," because it is a specific named department but "Police Departments" should instead read as "police departments," as it not referring to any named department specifically.
Yet, the thrust of your argument is correct in my opinion. The general sentence structure of the original statement is sound and the sentence does not represent a run-on. Some ill-informed teachers may wrongly mark such sentences as run-ons, but if that is the case they themselves are incorrect in doing so.
Still, sometimes teachers request a sentence be simplified so the reading of it is smoother, rather than any actual infractions against the laws of grammar having been committed — and that case may very well apply to the sentence in question. For example, the above sentence would read better if "(PDF)" was omitted or if the same information was stated in a less jarring form, such as "the US Justice Department has sent a letter in the form of a PDF" or ""the US Justice Department has sent a PDF letter," rather then placing "PDF" inside a parenthetic expression.
Thus, we could say that the sentence could be improved in some ways, but is not technically a run-on, even though other grammatical errors are present.
Elephant Writers - Dull website, sharp writers.
You are both wrong. Red is not the the color of fear or alarm (though you aren't completely offtrack). Red is also not completely culturally based (though also not completely offtrack).
Human color vision is an evolved characteristic. Specifically only humans and birds have trichromatic color vision, which allows easy apprehension of reds against green and blue backgrounds. It is theorized the reason this is the case, is to find food sources which are often red/orange/yellow on a green background. For example, rasberries or oranges or bananas or apples.
Evolutionarily red meant "hey! look here! stop!" (like "alarm") but the rest of the message is "there might be something good and tasty here!" (like "luck" or "cheer" or "positivity").
Blues and greens are more soothing though, and likely for the same evolutionary reasons.
Those who deliberately engineer masterpieces, those who "inadvertently" engineer masterpieces and those who write the (cough) software that causes the other two groups to act.
In this case, these accidental geniuses are responsible for work that mainstream GIMP developers had long claimed was impossible. From the looks of it, six impossible things were achieved, so said developers should round things off with a meal at Milliways.
Clearly they will when they attempt to add Photoshop plugin compatibility to GIMP inadvertently create the world's first time machine.
Wow, this is just amazing and surprising news...that people still use GIMP. One word...Pixelmator. That's a word, isn't it? It's sort of like an alligator for pixels. GIMP is well...uh...gimp.
'I think the worst scenario might be where someone who hates gays uses Facebook's targeting to identify gay users and later attack them,'says Paul Francis, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems."
I think the best scenario might be where someone who hates Justin Bieber uses Facebook's targeting to identify Justin Beeber and later attack him.
Excuse me, sir, I don't believe you did a peer-reviewed study to determine if he was a troll or not. Until you can show me some data in a proper scientific journal that he is a worthless troll, I think it's an open question still.
Plus, if he is a troll they have those big pointy ears, so that's clearly how he got his great hearing. You know they live under bridges for the acoustics, right?
Though in fairness, I do collect historically-significant Linux distro ISOs.
Wow, I'm really impressed by that. Do you have the Linux disto that Jefferson wrote the constitution on or the one Hitler used to build the V2 rockets?
There will be a Mayan Apocalypse. The Mayan Apocalypse is not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning...
Why you'd want bars at top AND bottom of the screen is a mystery to me, but XFCE does support it.
I understand why you say this but really there is a menu at the top and a dock at the bottom. In the early days Gnome and KDE were cloning Windows-like paradigms, but increasingly they clone Mac paradigms, which is why they opted for a dock I'm sure. Honestly, unless you are stuck on a small monitor, there is no real reason to cram UI elements in the corner and even Windows these days is becoming much-much more doc-like. First, they made their task bar into a large pseudo-dock and with Windows 8 they are going to remove the start button, making it even more Mac-like.
Yes, but according the authoritative Dictionary of Christianity crusade is defined as "A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Christ ... enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Christianity and repelling evil from Christians."
Yet, if you went on "a crusade against bad music" it doesn't mean you plan to murder Justin Bieber.