Any place that still puts Grady Booch on parade is "process over product", same as UML was, which is why UML failed so spectacularly in not being the magic bullet that everyone said it would be.
There is no proof of the existence of any $god, so why would I even give a crap about yet another purported "son of $diety"? It's all pretty stupid when you look at it this way.
The bible is a collection of fairy tales and myths from previous religions, nothing more. After all, if you're going to plagiarize, might as well steal from stuff that has previously worked.:-)
No, they want to verify an individual's genitals (perverts will just LOVE this job), and their birth records, to see if the two match. And if they don't, they not only want to forbid you taking your leak, but also fine you.
Stupidly enough, they haven't thought of what happens if they force trans-men (many with beards) to use the women's washroom. Hilarity will certainly ensue, along with LOTS of youtube videos:-)
Learn the process. Every citizen's initiative bill has to go through public ballot. If it succeeds, the bill becomes law. If it fails, the bill doesn't become law. We even say "bills that die at the end of a session", not "proposals that die at the end of a session." Not all bills become law..
Let me put it this way - geography aside, would you rather live in a nation generally run by Judeo-Christian values (e.g. US), or Islamic ones (e.g. Saudi Arabia)?
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa 198, that allows transsexual women in Iran to live as women, have surgical reassignment, have their birth certificates and all official documents issued to them in their new gender, and get married to men. Too many "christians" still claim that a male-to-female transsexual is "a man in a dress" and that their religion would consider it a same-sex relationship, and not allow them to marry.
Because people like you sure as shit aren't going to do it. You're too busy whining about your lack of taxpayer-funded free-fuck pills.
Really? Why in the world would women like myself ever need "fuck pills", free or otherwise? Just the thought is ludicrous. And I've sat through too many baptist sermons preaching about how god hates gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. Fundamentalist Christian churches are the problem, not the solution. Good people don't need religion to force them to do right.
As I pointed out elsewhere, some places abolished slavery before christianity even existed, and other non-christian societies banned the practice before the US civil war, while many of the "good white christians" of the united states fought to support it. Even Thomas Jefferson owned over 600 slaves.
What a load of horse crap from a false initial premise. The enlightenment opposed religious dogma, including christian dogma. Also, see this non-christian society's ban on slavery more than 2,000 years ago. And Japan abandoned slavery in 1590. Hardly Christians... And then there's the Taipign Heavenly Kingdom in 1851... again, not christian. That was 10 years before the US civil war, which was basically about the economics of slavery.
Also, it was clause 30 of the Magna Carta (1215) that formed the basis of england's later abolition of slavery, not any religious pressure.
I guess you missed the war in Syria - "Christian" countries are bombing the sh*t out of the place, 250,000 dead so far, and no way out. And all this arose from foreign policy from "christian nations" that gave rise to al quada and isis.
They're running test builds. They probably have to restart every once in a while, so it's not like they would have that much memory eaten up before something else cause a problem. And we're the testers of the final product.
Well, that is the nail in the coffin for me. I've been using Firefox for the past ~4 years due to convenience and, frankly, have been too lazy to switch. Time to switch to Chrome.
Very intelligent move. So you are about to turn to the browser made by a gargantuan surveillance corporation. I can't think of anything smarter that that [rollseyes]
Like Mozilla's survival hasn't been dependent on making money by setting the default search on first installation, first to google, and now yahoo? How many people change defaults?
Most of the contributions to many open-source projects, including linux, are made by a small group of people. People have complained for a long time that linux ignores the user community to cater more to servers. You won't find many "community-driven" open source projects out there, since the core group has its own priorities, and since they're the ones doing 95% of the work...
So the bill literally said "kill gays" or some variation thereof, right?
Oh, wait - it most likely didn't.
Ohh yes it does. It also called for anyone to do the same if the state refuses to enforce the law for 1 year. The actual text:
a) The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
b) Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.
c) No person shall distribute, perform, or transmit sodomistic propaganda directly or indirectly by any means to any person under the age of majority. Sodomistic propaganda is defined as anything aimed at creating an interest in or an acceptance of human sexual relations other than between a man and a woman. Every offender shall be fined $1 million per occurrence, and/or imprisoned up to 10 years, and/or expelled from the boundaries of the state of California for up to life.
d) No person shall serve in any public office, nor serve in public employment, nor enjoy any public benefit, who is a sodomite or who espouses sodomistic propaganda or who belongs to any group that does.
e) This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective nor invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder.
f) The state has an affirmative duty to defend and enforce this law as written, and every member of the public has standing to seek its enforcement and obtain reimbursement for all costs and attorney’s fees in so doing, and further, should the state persist in inaction over 1 year after due notice, the general public is empowered and deputized to execute all the provisions hereunder extra-judicially, immune from any charge and indemnified by the state against any and all liability.
g) This law shall be known as “The Sodomite Suppression Act” and be numbered as section 39 in Title 3 of the Penal Code, pertaining to offences [sic] against the sovereignty of the state. The text shall be prominently posted in every public school classroom. All laws in conflict with this law are to that extent invalid.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a good tool for business networking if you treat it as a service for just that, and limit your connections to people whom you actually know.
If you already know these people, why do you need linkdink?
Any place that still puts Grady Booch on parade is "process over product", same as UML was, which is why UML failed so spectacularly in not being the magic bullet that everyone said it would be.
There is no proof of the existence of any $god, so why would I even give a crap about yet another purported "son of $diety"? It's all pretty stupid when you look at it this way.
The bible is a collection of fairy tales and myths from previous religions, nothing more. After all, if you're going to plagiarize, might as well steal from stuff that has previously worked. :-)
No, they want to verify an individual's genitals (perverts will just LOVE this job), and their birth records, to see if the two match. And if they don't, they not only want to forbid you taking your leak, but also fine you.
Stupidly enough, they haven't thought of what happens if they force trans-men (many with beards) to use the women's washroom. Hilarity will certainly ensue, along with LOTS of youtube videos :-)
"Prominent discussion sites?" That would be facebook, not slashdot. It is what it is.
Learn the process. Every citizen's initiative bill has to go through public ballot. If it succeeds, the bill becomes law. If it fails, the bill doesn't become law. We even say "bills that die at the end of a session", not "proposals that die at the end of a session." Not all bills become law..
Jesus' silence on the issue of owning people speaks for itself.
Don't use the bible as an argument - most christians haven't read it all. Heck, many, if not most, pastors and priests haven't read it all.
Has nothing to do with jewish customs. Totally off-topic.
Let me put it this way - geography aside, would you rather live in a nation generally run by Judeo-Christian values (e.g. US), or Islamic ones (e.g. Saudi Arabia)?
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa 198, that allows transsexual women in Iran to live as women, have surgical reassignment, have their birth certificates and all official documents issued to them in their new gender, and get married to men. Too many "christians" still claim that a male-to-female transsexual is "a man in a dress" and that their religion would consider it a same-sex relationship, and not allow them to marry.
Because people like you sure as shit aren't going to do it. You're too busy whining about your lack of taxpayer-funded free-fuck pills.
Really? Why in the world would women like myself ever need "fuck pills", free or otherwise? Just the thought is ludicrous. And I've sat through too many baptist sermons preaching about how god hates gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. Fundamentalist Christian churches are the problem, not the solution. Good people don't need religion to force them to do right.
As I pointed out elsewhere, some places abolished slavery before christianity even existed, and other non-christian societies banned the practice before the US civil war, while many of the "good white christians" of the united states fought to support it. Even Thomas Jefferson owned over 600 slaves.
Also, it was clause 30 of the Magna Carta (1215) that formed the basis of england's later abolition of slavery, not any religious pressure.
I guess you missed the war in Syria - "Christian" countries are bombing the sh*t out of the place, 250,000 dead so far, and no way out. And all this arose from foreign policy from "christian nations" that gave rise to al quada and isis.
Same as the Norwegian Blue parrot pining for the fjords.
They're running test builds. They probably have to restart every once in a while, so it's not like they would have that much memory eaten up before something else cause a problem. And we're the testers of the final product.
You kind of have to to know which cookies to block.
Well, that is the nail in the coffin for me. I've been using Firefox for the past ~4 years due to convenience and, frankly, have been too lazy to switch. Time to switch to Chrome.
Very intelligent move. So you are about to turn to the browser made by a gargantuan surveillance corporation. I can't think of anything smarter that that [rollseyes]
Like Mozilla's survival hasn't been dependent on making money by setting the default search on first installation, first to google, and now yahoo? How many people change defaults?
Yahoo? Hahahahahahaha.
Most of the contributions to many open-source projects, including linux, are made by a small group of people. People have complained for a long time that linux ignores the user community to cater more to servers. You won't find many "community-driven" open source projects out there, since the core group has its own priorities, and since they're the ones doing 95% of the work ...
The two are equivalent in this case. The ballot proposal is for a bill that would change the law.
So the bill literally said "kill gays" or some variation thereof, right?
Oh, wait - it most likely didn't.
Ohh yes it does. It also called for anyone to do the same if the state refuses to enforce the law for 1 year. The actual text:
a) The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
b) Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.
c) No person shall distribute, perform, or transmit sodomistic propaganda directly or indirectly by any means to any person under the age of majority. Sodomistic propaganda is defined as anything aimed at creating an interest in or an acceptance of human sexual relations other than between a man and a woman. Every offender shall be fined $1 million per occurrence, and/or imprisoned up to 10 years, and/or expelled from the boundaries of the state of California for up to life.
d) No person shall serve in any public office, nor serve in public employment, nor enjoy any public benefit, who is a sodomite or who espouses sodomistic propaganda or who belongs to any group that does.
e) This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective nor invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder.
f) The state has an affirmative duty to defend and enforce this law as written, and every member of the public has standing to seek its enforcement and obtain reimbursement for all costs and attorney’s fees in so doing, and further, should the state persist in inaction over 1 year after due notice, the general public is empowered and deputized to execute all the provisions hereunder extra-judicially, immune from any charge and indemnified by the state against any and all liability.
g) This law shall be known as “The Sodomite Suppression Act” and be numbered as section 39 in Title 3 of the Penal Code, pertaining to offences [sic] against the sovereignty of the state. The text shall be prominently posted in every public school classroom. All laws in conflict with this law are to that extent invalid.
There's also the lessons of Fukushima Daiichi. Don't build close to water in earthquake zones unless you want to glow in the dark.
Pumped storage is reversible by it's very nature, and is used on a much larger scale.