Controllable in the sense of voting either democrat or republican to maintain the status quo
The people in the country where the detention took place don't have that choice. They do have the choice of voting either Conservative or Labour or Liberal Democrat to, I suspect, maintain the status quo, or voting for various minor parties.
Imagine what we have now, but without any good in the world. Imagine if people had no moral reason to do anything but look out for themselves. Imagine if all we did is what we could to get ahead at any cost to others. Then imagine a world where that was everyone. How much "weeping and gnashing of teeth" do you expect there would be? According to the Bible, that is the world without God. It doesn't take God punishing anyone, according to the Bible, that would just be our natural state.
I've seen nothing to believe the Bible is correct on that point.
because the only evidence (in the sense of "something connected with the real world as observed through the senses and extensions thereof") is that "is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead" (there are certainly enough people preaching that, so it's hard to deny that it is so preached). Presumably "you" in "some of you" refers to Christians, so "because we're not Christians and don't believe Christ has been raised from the dead" is not an answer.
Now, "Christ was raised, but he's a special case" is, in the context of that translation, a valid answer; it doesn't say "it is preached that we shall all be raised from the dead", it just says "Christ has been raised from the dead".
As for the rest of the if-then statements, well, perhaps the "then" statements he makes are true; maybe the people to whom he wrote those letters wouldn't have wanted to hear that, but that just leaves them with a choice - if you hear "if A, then B", and don't like hearing "B", you can either grit your teeth and accept "B" or abandon "A".
As for verses 35 on, I see no evidence, I just see a bunch of assumptions, such as "If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body."
I'm religious because there's a mathematical proof of the existence of God, by Kurt Godel none-the-less, and his math looks good.
"His math looks good" just means "if the axioms are held true, then the conclusions are also true". Another if-then there, and be very careful about saying "the axioms must be true, they're self-evident". Some might think the parallel postulate self-evident, but we don't live on a flat sheet, so it's not true for the geometry of the surface on which we live.
The drone sent out to kill someone is armed. Stop trying to be rabulistic.
OK, then, you should have said "a drone sent to kill someone is an offensive weapon. So it's offensive per definition." to make it clearer what you actually meant and to make it clearer that you don't think all drones are offensive weapons.
[Citation needed] for that broad statement. The Predator can be "Remotely piloted or fully autonomous". (And if you're going to claim that "drone" refers only to the fully autonomous ones, please provide a citation for that claim.)
When was the last time Fox suggested that the poor should be fingerprinted for the crime of being poor.
Sounds like there's a jackboot thug a-stirring in NYC. The left will never admit it but it's still true.
Define left. "Left" no more means "everything that I don't like" than do "right", "fascist", "Communist", "Marxist", "socialist", "libertarian", "conservative", "liberal", etc..
Not really hate speech. Obama has use drone strikes against individuals, so really all the tweet was doing is drawing attention to our president indiscriminately murdering individuals without a warrant or like means. The Internet would be a much better place if we had sarcasm tags. I think that was the reporters intent.
anything more than 28 years old is out of copyright according to the original Constitution
The United States Constitution said, and still says, only
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
...
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
The original Copyright Act of 1790 was what granted a 14-year copyright with a 14-year extension if the author was still alive.
so I have a hard time understanding why it still has 70 years or so of restrictions.
Because the US Congress passed new laws and either 1) nobody's ever taken a case to the US Supreme Court to see whether 70 years counts as "limited" or 2) they did and the Supreme Court said "hey, it's not infinite, so it's still "limited"" or something such as that.
"Lavabit - an encrypted email service which is used by pedophiles and terrorist networks - was shut down after refusing to give the government access to important data that could have lead to arrests."
At least from what Google News indicates, it's more like "ignore" than "spin". The one news article I could find from a US newspaper was this one from the Sioux City Journal, which is an Associated Press story not spun to the extent you suggest. It does speak of Snowden as a "leaker" rather than a "whistleblower". There's a New Yorker blog post that's somewhat opposed to the NSA.
And, in fact, there's an article from a Kansas City public radio station that quotes a Wired article that says "Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland.", so it's not saying that Lavabit is a pedophile haven.
An SSD in your desktop is for the OS. A sane person has a spinning rust device for actual storage
Just out of curiosity, if you carry a laptop around without paying attention to the risk of head crashes, how likely are modern HDDs to have a head crash, rather than parking the heads in time or otherwise managing to avoid the head crash? (My current model of laptop didn't offer an HDD, and I wasn't interested in other models, so that wasn't an option for me.)
But what if you "don't need" health care, ever, in your life, because you're the kryptonian exile Kal-El come to earth and never get infections, injuries, cancer, or any other medical problem ever?
IBM and company's use of variously-capitalized forms of "Power" can be a bit confusing. When the RS/6000s first came out, IBM described the instruction set architecture they implemented as POWER, for "Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC"; see the "IBM POWER Instruction Set Architecture" Wikipedia article and its references. Starting with the second-generation RS/6000 processor, they started naming the processors "POWERn" as well.
PowerPC was an instruction set architecture based on the POWER ISA; a few instructions were removed, and a number were added; more were added to PowerPC over time. The POWER3 processor implemented the full 64-bit version of PowerPC, and I think it also implemented some of the POWER instructions removed from PowerPC. PowerPC ended up getting renamed "Power ISA" - not to be confused with the all-caps "POWER ISA" mentioned earlier - as part of the "Power Architecture".
I don't know what stuff this consortium is dealing with. There's already Power.org for the Power Architecture, including the Power ISA. I'm guessing that this is for licensing the microarchitecture of the POWERn microprocessors; that seems to be what some of the articles are saying. Then again, some articles are calling it OpenPOWER and other articles are calling it OpenPower, so who knows?
while if it is a democrat their affiliation is conveniently left out
Its worse than that. What you actually see is: "Rep. Harry Reid" when its a story that makes Harry Reid, a Democrat, look bad.
Actually, a story referring to "Rep. Harry Reid" and not referring to the time period from 1983 to 1986 would either 1) be referring to somebody other than the Harry Reid most likely to appear in US news stories or 2) make its author (or editor) look bad, given that Harry Reid's been a senator since 1987....
no equations doesn't mean no math. Equations generally do a pretty poor job in explaining things.
Yes, they do a poor job in explaining things to people who don't know what the terms in the equation mean; raw math often says little if anything, by itself, about the real world, as you have to connect the mathematical items to items in the real world.
But, BTW:
I'd much rather read an article containing "because acceleration is inversely proportional to mass" than one containing "because F=ma"
...I'd rather read an article containing "because, for the same amount of force applied, acceleration is inversely proportional to mass"; my mass is much less than that of a Porsche 911, but I can't even get to 100 km/h on foot or on a bicycle, much less do so as fast as a 911 can. Given equal driving skill and the same driving techniques, however, I could probably get to 100 km/h in a 911 slightly faster than somebody weighing 100kg could in the same 911.
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And you're absolutely certain those messages from Windows are the result of structural flaws in the NT kernel (rather than problems well above the kernel)? If not, that's the equivalent of saying whatever annoys you about {GNOME,KDE,whatever command-line shell you're using,etc.} on Linux is the fault of structural flaws in the Linux kernel.
And rather a lot of the programming interface for kernel modules, and the system call interface to the kernel, comes from the BSD part, not the Mach part.
OSX has an Unix personality but it isn't a proper one.
And what might be a "proper" personality for OS X? If you've actually looked at the bits atop the core OS (yes, I have), it's a combination of BSD calls and Mach messaging to other processes.
October 25, 1977 - V1.0 VAX-11/780, Initial commercial release
March 9, 1978 - 1BSD
May 1979 - 2BSD
December 1979 - 3BSD with VAX support. ie. Virtual memory, etc.
November 1980 - 4BSD
"1BSD" was an add-on to V6 UNIX (which was PDP-11 only), and 2BSD was also based on PDP-11 UNIX, so the "BSD" that contributed to OS X was more like 4.4-Lite, which dates back more to 4BSD and 3BSD than the PDP-11 BSDs..
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Controllable in the sense of voting either democrat or republican to maintain the status quo
The people in the country where the detention took place don't have that choice. They do have the choice of voting either Conservative or Labour or Liberal Democrat to, I suspect, maintain the status quo, or voting for various minor parties.
Imagine what we have now, but without any good in the world. Imagine if people had no moral reason to do anything but look out for themselves. Imagine if all we did is what we could to get ahead at any cost to others. Then imagine a world where that was everyone. How much "weeping and gnashing of teeth" do you expect there would be? According to the Bible, that is the world without God. It doesn't take God punishing anyone, according to the Bible, that would just be our natural state.
I've seen nothing to believe the Bible is correct on that point.
No, no it isn't. Drones have autonomy.
How much autonomy did the Radioplane Company's RP-5A / OQ-2A / TDD-1 have? (And, yes, the middle "D" in "TDD" stands for "Drone".)
I'm religious because St. Paul gave a good evidence based argument for belief in life after death in Corinthians
Presumably you're not referring to
because the only evidence (in the sense of "something connected with the real world as observed through the senses and extensions thereof") is that "is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead" (there are certainly enough people preaching that, so it's hard to deny that it is so preached). Presumably "you" in "some of you" refers to Christians, so "because we're not Christians and don't believe Christ has been raised from the dead" is not an answer.
Now, "Christ was raised, but he's a special case" is, in the context of that translation, a valid answer; it doesn't say "it is preached that we shall all be raised from the dead", it just says "Christ has been raised from the dead".
As for the rest of the if-then statements, well, perhaps the "then" statements he makes are true; maybe the people to whom he wrote those letters wouldn't have wanted to hear that, but that just leaves them with a choice - if you hear "if A, then B", and don't like hearing "B", you can either grit your teeth and accept "B" or abandon "A".
As for verses 35 on, I see no evidence, I just see a bunch of assumptions, such as "If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body."
I'm religious because there's a mathematical proof of the existence of God, by Kurt Godel none-the-less, and his math looks good.
"His math looks good" just means "if the axioms are held true, then the conclusions are also true". Another if-then there, and be very careful about saying "the axioms must be true, they're self-evident". Some might think the parallel postulate self-evident, but we don't live on a flat sheet, so it's not true for the geometry of the surface on which we live.
keep in mind that, according to the Bible, death and destruction is what we would all have if God wasn't intervening
As opposed to what we have now.
The drone sent out to kill someone is armed. Stop trying to be rabulistic.
OK, then, you should have said "a drone sent to kill someone is an offensive weapon. So it's offensive per definition." to make it clearer what you actually meant and to make it clearer that you don't think all drones are offensive weapons.
Drones have autonomy.
[Citation needed] for that broad statement. The Predator can be "Remotely piloted or fully autonomous". (And if you're going to claim that "drone" refers only to the fully autonomous ones, please provide a citation for that claim.)
When was the last time Fox suggested that the poor should be fingerprinted for the crime of being poor.
Sounds like there's a jackboot thug a-stirring in NYC. The left will never admit it but it's still true.
Define left. "Left" no more means "everything that I don't like" than do "right", "fascist", "Communist", "Marxist", "socialist", "libertarian", "conservative", "liberal", etc..
Not really hate speech. Obama has use drone strikes against individuals, so really all the tweet was doing is drawing attention to our president indiscriminately murdering individuals without a warrant or like means. The Internet would be a much better place if we had sarcasm tags. I think that was the reporters intent.
Was Grunwald also being sarcastic when he said "Fair point. I'll delete. @rober1236Jua my main problem with this is it gives Assange supporters a nice safe persecution complex to hide in"?
anything more than 28 years old is out of copyright according to the original Constitution
The United States Constitution said, and still says, only
The original Copyright Act of 1790 was what granted a 14-year copyright with a 14-year extension if the author was still alive.
so I have a hard time understanding why it still has 70 years or so of restrictions.
Because the US Congress passed new laws and either 1) nobody's ever taken a case to the US Supreme Court to see whether 70 years counts as "limited" or 2) they did and the Supreme Court said "hey, it's not infinite, so it's still "limited"" or something such as that.
"Lavabit - an encrypted email service which is used by pedophiles and terrorist networks - was shut down after refusing to give the government access to important data that could have lead to arrests."
At least from what Google News indicates, it's more like "ignore" than "spin". The one news article I could find from a US newspaper was this one from the Sioux City Journal, which is an Associated Press story not spun to the extent you suggest. It does speak of Snowden as a "leaker" rather than a "whistleblower". There's a New Yorker blog post that's somewhat opposed to the NSA.
And, in fact, there's an article from a Kansas City public radio station that quotes a Wired article that says "Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland.", so it's not saying that Lavabit is a pedophile haven.
An SSD in your desktop is for the OS. A sane person has a spinning rust device for actual storage
Just out of curiosity, if you carry a laptop around without paying attention to the risk of head crashes, how likely are modern HDDs to have a head crash, rather than parking the heads in time or otherwise managing to avoid the head crash? (My current model of laptop didn't offer an HDD, and I wasn't interested in other models, so that wasn't an option for me.)
But what if you "don't need" health care, ever, in your life, because you're the kryptonian exile Kal-El come to earth and never get infections, injuries, cancer, or any other medical problem ever?
...except for some forms of radiation poisoning.
You'd think that people that are at least nominally commies would more open to FOSS.
I think that's the magic word. For another example of "nominally", I think Vietnam could power the entire country by hooking up a generator, given how fast he must be spinning.
PowerPC was an instruction set architecture based on the POWER ISA; a few instructions were removed, and a number were added; more were added to PowerPC over time. The POWER3 processor implemented the full 64-bit version of PowerPC, and I think it also implemented some of the POWER instructions removed from PowerPC. PowerPC ended up getting renamed "Power ISA" - not to be confused with the all-caps "POWER ISA" mentioned earlier - as part of the "Power Architecture".
I don't know what stuff this consortium is dealing with. There's already Power.org for the Power Architecture, including the Power ISA. I'm guessing that this is for licensing the microarchitecture of the POWERn microprocessors; that seems to be what some of the articles are saying. Then again, some articles are calling it OpenPOWER and other articles are calling it OpenPower, so who knows?
I work for Xerox. I specifically support these machines in a tier 3 capacity. I have not seen or heard a single case of this.
So does Francis Tse, and he's apparently heard of it.
My group handles calls from all of North America, and some South.
You might want to talk to somebody who handles calls from Western Europe - Germany, in particular.
while if it is a democrat their affiliation is conveniently left out
Its worse than that. What you actually see is: "Rep. Harry Reid" when its a story that makes Harry Reid, a Democrat, look bad.
Actually, a story referring to "Rep. Harry Reid" and not referring to the time period from 1983 to 1986 would either 1) be referring to somebody other than the Harry Reid most likely to appear in US news stories or 2) make its author (or editor) look bad, given that Harry Reid's been a senator since 1987....
no equations doesn't mean no math. Equations generally do a pretty poor job in explaining things.
Yes, they do a poor job in explaining things to people who don't know what the terms in the equation mean; raw math often says little if anything, by itself, about the real world, as you have to connect the mathematical items to items in the real world.
But, BTW:
I'd much rather read an article containing "because acceleration is inversely proportional to mass" than one containing "because F=ma"
...I'd rather read an article containing "because, for the same amount of force applied, acceleration is inversely proportional to mass"; my mass is much less than that of a Porsche 911, but I can't even get to 100 km/h on foot or on a bicycle, much less do so as fast as a 911 can. Given equal driving skill and the same driving techniques, however, I could probably get to 100 km/h in a 911 slightly faster than somebody weighing 100kg could in the same 911.
"WTF are they collecting this data for?"
To identify conservatives for "random" IRS audits.
Not that this ever happened under other Presidencies.
Wears black turtlenecks?
Says "boom!" a lot?
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And you're absolutely certain those messages from Windows are the result of structural flaws in the NT kernel (rather than problems well above the kernel)? If not, that's the equivalent of saying whatever annoys you about {GNOME,KDE,whatever command-line shell you're using,etc.} on Linux is the fault of structural flaws in the Linux kernel.
Well, you know, that New Technology Technology is what powers Automated Teller Machine Machines.
...into which you type your Personal Identification Number Number.
The core of OSX is a Mach microkernel,
Nothing "micro" about it, sorry.
BSD sits on top of Mach.
And rather a lot of the programming interface for kernel modules, and the system call interface to the kernel, comes from the BSD part, not the Mach part.
OSX has an Unix personality but it isn't a proper one.
And what might be a "proper" personality for OS X? If you've actually looked at the bits atop the core OS (yes, I have), it's a combination of BSD calls and Mach messaging to other processes.
If you call 6 months substantially:
October 25, 1977 - V1.0 VAX-11/780, Initial commercial release March 9, 1978 - 1BSD May 1979 - 2BSD December 1979 - 3BSD with VAX support. ie. Virtual memory, etc. November 1980 - 4BSD
"1BSD" was an add-on to V6 UNIX (which was PDP-11 only), and 2BSD was also based on PDP-11 UNIX, so the "BSD" that contributed to OS X was more like 4.4-Lite, which dates back more to 4BSD and 3BSD than the PDP-11 BSDs..
Famous African mathematicians: ? ? ? ?
"Famous", dunno, but I also dunno how many significant mathematicians are famous.
I also don't know whether the guy whose doctoral thesis was "Mod-2 K-Theory of the Second Iterated Loop Space on a Sphere" should have been famous as a mathematician, but then again, I don't know what a "Mod-2 K-Theory of the Second Iterated Loop Space on a Sphere" is. Do you?