He was being sarcastic, although, evidently, not obviously so. Of course banks don't throw away the COBOL -- it's stable, proven over years, and that is worth many billions in liability to the banking industry, so it's far cheaper to pay some company like Unisys to maintain ancient hardware indefinitely than to risk one multi-hundred million dollar fiasco due to new software.
I worked on international funds transfer (SWIFT, if you've heard of it). They did shift their network to new hardware and software, but only after years of testing, and slow migration, ever so slow.
Anyhoo, the poster was sarcastic, but you caught that, didn't you. Good post.
> So how many dumps does it take to fill up the crapper tank?
Just wait until there's a snowstorm at Detroit Metro again, and Northwest planes are trapped for 8 hours or more with no effort to go get the people out with even a 1950's style push stairs and you'll learn how much poop will overflow a toilet.
One hopes the pilot can override the lockout, at least on the ground, or they'll start shitting in the galley instead. I hope these engineers thought of that. I'll bet not.
Mark Twain points out how the OT God was capricious and murderous, slaughtering children by the millions in the Flood (among many other incidents) even as their terrified and despairing mothers looked on helplessly, all while pleading with Him to stop.
But that wasn't good enough for good old Yaweh. No. He had to go and "get religion". Which is to say, leaving people dead wasn't good enough. With Christianity, now the dead won't even stay peacefully dead. Now he brings them back to life and tortures 99% of them for ever and ever, denying that final rest to them.
Oh, and, assuming your (generic your) end-times cosmology includes instant resurrection and sending to your destination, they are both currently alive somewhere with indestructible bodies, enduring indescribable agony as they lie in a pool of molten lava, him for 15 years now, her for 65.
Nice, kind "god", eh? Do not troll this statement as it needs to be said: And you Christians worship this fuck as "good"?!?!?
> Interesting... Americans do it by eliminating > sources of clean drinking water.
Interesting... Europeans do it by standing around while genocide occurs, or by comitting the genocide themselves, or by allowing at least 10 billion dollars of "food for oil" mercy money to instead line the pockets of a murderous dictator, which is to say, help prop him up instead of buying food and medicine, said lack which, umm, leads to death of children.
> And how do you do that after you've commited suicide?
You don't. That's why my dad's uncle strayed from the Catholic Church for the last 50 years of his life when his sister killed herself and they wouldn't let her be buried in the church cemetery.
> Homosexuality is a genetic trait. There is > nothing, and I mean *nothing*, they can do about it.
Actually, this belief is so hopelessly intertwined with the political need for it to be true that one should suspect it. Certainly the force with which it is asserted is derived from said need.
Having said that, I think that, properly, people do not authorize the government to regulate human (adult) sexuality. Hence the question of "born with it" should, in theory, be of academic interest only.
Have sex with whoever wants sex with you. Enter into contracts with whoever you want, including something labeled "marriage".
I'd love for a meaningful definition of free will whatsoever.
The only thing I can come up with is the freedom to do what you want (which says nothing about how it comes about as to what you want.)
This avoids the lower level issue of determination. Arguments about determination implying no free will are not solved by introducing randomness. If someone can point out a mechanism besides determination with a lil' randomness thrown in as a mechanism to instantiate a mind, I'd sure love to hear it.
> but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit > will not be forgiven, either in this age or in > the age to come
So when I say Yaweh is an asshole for sitting up there while children are raped and murdered -- and does nothing because he is good and could do something -- is a fucked up god who deserves to be shit upon......I have thus just FUBAR'd myself?
You would have to have an absolutely mathematically perfect distribution for this to be the case. The slightest deviation by one single particle and it all comes apart and galaxies start forming. With quantum mechanics, even a mathematically perfect distribution is not enough, due to the quantum randomness.
> The court ruled that the software, Spector, > violated Florida's wiretapping law - which > states that it is criminal to 'intentionally > intercept' any 'electronic communication.'"
And children surfing for porn everywhere rejoiced. Said one 10 year old to his dad, "You can't spyware where I'm going, ass! The government overrules you! Ass."
Sounds like a subject for Penn and Teller's Bullshit!
Thoughts by people could influence it -- detected in the '70's! Yet somehow it hasn't been mass produced nor overturned science and our understanding of physics. Curious.
Either that, or you're a completely ignorant ass who loves to emphasize technical details that, obviously, have nothing to do with what I stated.
Only people with severe mental problems focus on technically complete minutia in general statements. You probably get bent out of shape when someone says "I did such and such 20 minutes ago", and you fly off the handle screaming "It was actually 19 minutes and 47 seconds ago, not 20 minutes!"
I pity you. You are a wonder of everything wrong with humanity.
I wouldn't pay for the show, but I'd pay $50.00 for a pay per view of Hoshi and T'Pol deeply french kissing for two hours. And don't forget the, gloriously, now standard Trek lesbian kiss saliva strings.
> Now, since you're such a hotshot engineer, how > do you propose to fix it?
Drugs that grow redundant blood vessels in the heart (no redundancy is one of Yaweh-the-perfect's fuckups -- he forsaw sin, and, umm, the heart disease sin would, umm, cause) are currently being tested (or shortly will be) on humans. They seem to work on animals.
Yep, one of many ways we're improving on God's design.:rollseyes
"God", "Pharoah", jesus christ, can't you call these things by their actual names? You sound like a rich Englishman telling his guest that if he gets hungery late at night, to go ask "Cook" to make some pork chops.
While the science of "born with it" may be more driven by politics than real (isn't it sad people have to say they were born with something just not to be thrown in jail?) nevertheless there's no reason to suggest it is something that needs to be "treated".
In a free society, the people do not grant the government the power to regulate sexual activity.
From the comical (nipples for men) to the irritating (large neural cluster prone to "head aches") to the legally actionable sloppy engineering (lack of redundant blood supplies to vital areas, esp. brain and heart, inability for modern bodies to handle a wealth of food supply once capitalism slapped "by the sweat of your brow shall you till the soil" down like a redheadded stepchild.)
Fuck Yaweh and the scapegoat he rode in on. Grow some (cancer prone) balls, people.
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> you all keep talking about clarity, but: why,
> oh why, is NULL considered to be more clear than 0?
As usual, my intellect so vastly supercedes those around me, I find myself fantasizing about sex with a 16 year old girl's vollyball team.
Technically speaking, in the C language, pointers are either valid or NULL (neglecting garbage pointers.) NULL is usually -- but not always -- zero.
So to be correct, one should never test vs. 0, but rather vs. NULL.
"OK, GIRLS! Practice is over. Let's get into the showers!"
He was being sarcastic, although, evidently, not obviously so. Of course banks don't throw away the COBOL -- it's stable, proven over years, and that is worth many billions in liability to the banking industry, so it's far cheaper to pay some company like Unisys to maintain ancient hardware indefinitely than to risk one multi-hundred million dollar fiasco due to new software.
I worked on international funds transfer (SWIFT, if you've heard of it). They did shift their network to new hardware and software, but only after years of testing, and slow migration, ever so slow.
Anyhoo, the poster was sarcastic, but you caught that, didn't you. Good post.
God damn, son. Just be glad they didn't open the box and see a Flintstones bird in there chisling away on a stone tablet.
> So how many dumps does it take to fill up the crapper tank?
Just wait until there's a snowstorm at Detroit Metro again, and Northwest planes are trapped for 8 hours or more with no effort to go get the people out with even a 1950's style push stairs and you'll learn how much poop will overflow a toilet.
One hopes the pilot can override the lockout, at least on the ground, or they'll start shitting in the galley instead. I hope these engineers thought of that. I'll bet not.
Mark Twain points out how the OT God was capricious and murderous, slaughtering children by the millions in the Flood (among many other incidents) even as their terrified and despairing mothers looked on helplessly, all while pleading with Him to stop.
But that wasn't good enough for good old Yaweh. No. He had to go and "get religion". Which is to say, leaving people dead wasn't good enough. With Christianity, now the dead won't even stay peacefully dead. Now he brings them back to life and tortures 99% of them for ever and ever, denying that final rest to them.
Yeah, let's worship this god.
Oh, and, assuming your (generic your) end-times cosmology includes instant resurrection and sending to your destination, they are both currently alive somewhere with indestructible bodies, enduring indescribable agony as they lie in a pool of molten lava, him for 15 years now, her for 65.
Nice, kind "god", eh? Do not troll this statement as it needs to be said: And you Christians worship this fuck as "good"?!?!?
> Interesting... Americans do it by eliminating
> sources of clean drinking water.
Interesting... Europeans do it by standing around while genocide occurs, or by comitting the genocide themselves, or by allowing at least 10 billion dollars of "food for oil" mercy money to instead line the pockets of a murderous dictator, which is to say, help prop him up instead of buying food and medicine, said lack which, umm, leads to death of children.
> And how do you do that after you've commited suicide?
You don't. That's why my dad's uncle strayed from the Catholic Church for the last 50 years of his life when his sister killed herself and they wouldn't let her be buried in the church cemetery.
> Homosexuality is a genetic trait. There is
> nothing, and I mean *nothing*, they can do about it.
Actually, this belief is so hopelessly intertwined with the political need for it to be true that one should suspect it. Certainly the force with which it is asserted is derived from said need.
Having said that, I think that, properly, people do not authorize the government to regulate human (adult) sexuality. Hence the question of "born with it" should, in theory, be of academic interest only.
Have sex with whoever wants sex with you. Enter into contracts with whoever you want, including something labeled "marriage".
I'd love for a meaningful definition of free will whatsoever.
The only thing I can come up with is the freedom to do what you want (which says nothing about how it comes about as to what you want.)
This avoids the lower level issue of determination. Arguments about determination implying no free will are not solved by introducing randomness. If someone can point out a mechanism besides determination with a lil' randomness thrown in as a mechanism to instantiate a mind, I'd sure love to hear it.
> but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit
...I have thus just FUBAR'd myself?
> will not be forgiven, either in this age or in
> the age to come
So when I say Yaweh is an asshole for sitting up there while children are raped and murdered -- and does nothing because he is good and could do something -- is a fucked up god who deserves to be shit upon...
You would have to have an absolutely mathematically perfect distribution for this to be the case. The slightest deviation by one single particle and it all comes apart and galaxies start forming. With quantum mechanics, even a mathematically perfect distribution is not enough, due to the quantum randomness.
> What uses are there for gignatic prime numbers
> like this other than showing off computing power?
If you don't understand the following, you'll never get it: Ahhhh...Slashdot has lived up to its subtitle for the first time in a long time. =D
> One calculation has the giant flare on SGR
> 1806-20 unleashing about 10,000 trillion
> trillion trillion watts.
Bah! Superman could take it from one nanometer away!
Thor would be easily fried, though.
> The court ruled that the software, Spector,
> violated Florida's wiretapping law - which
> states that it is criminal to 'intentionally
> intercept' any 'electronic communication.'"
And children surfing for porn everywhere rejoiced. Said one 10 year old to his dad, "You can't spyware where I'm going, ass! The government overrules you! Ass."
Clearly they don't grasp the concept of the Internet.
It's like saying, "Without prior written permission, you may not look at me while I walk around in public, naked."
Sounds like a subject for Penn and Teller's Bullshit!
Thoughts by people could influence it -- detected in the '70's! Yet somehow it hasn't been mass produced nor overturned science and our understanding of physics. Curious.
Either that, or you're a completely ignorant ass who loves to emphasize technical details that, obviously, have nothing to do with what I stated.
Only people with severe mental problems focus on technically complete minutia in general statements. You probably get bent out of shape when someone says "I did such and such 20 minutes ago", and you fly off the handle screaming "It was actually 19 minutes and 47 seconds ago, not 20 minutes!"
I pity you. You are a wonder of everything wrong with humanity.
I wouldn't pay for the show, but I'd pay $50.00 for a pay per view of Hoshi and T'Pol deeply french kissing for two hours. And don't forget the, gloriously, now standard Trek lesbian kiss saliva strings.
Noooooooooooooo! It cannot be cancelled! Not before Hoshi and T'silicone have their lesbian saliva-string kiss!
DAMNIT! Who's with me, fellas?!?!?
> The show's fate was probably sealed when last
:rollseyes
> Friday's episode reached only 2.5 million
> viewers
I am a diehard Star Trek fan. Here's all you need to know: Oh, is that the day it was on lately?
It's Wednesday night, I go to the listings for UPN at 8 and 9, no Star Trek. Strange, I haven't seen it in awhile. I wonder why it's not on?
I repeat, "Oh, it's on Friday."
...unless it was a painting scrubbed off a cloth for some reason...or was a deliberate fraud...in which case you'd be missing the point.
> Now, since you're such a hotshot engineer, how
:rollseyes
> do you propose to fix it?
Drugs that grow redundant blood vessels in the heart (no redundancy is one of Yaweh-the-perfect's fuckups -- he forsaw sin, and, umm, the heart disease sin would, umm, cause) are currently being tested (or shortly will be) on humans. They seem to work on animals.
Yep, one of many ways we're improving on God's design.
"God", "Pharoah", jesus christ, can't you call these things by their actual names? You sound like a rich Englishman telling his guest that if he gets hungery late at night, to go ask "Cook" to make some pork chops.
While the science of "born with it" may be more driven by politics than real (isn't it sad people have to say they were born with something just not to be thrown in jail?) nevertheless there's no reason to suggest it is something that needs to be "treated".
In a free society, the people do not grant the government the power to regulate sexual activity.
Well, his engineering sure sucks.
From the comical (nipples for men) to the irritating (large neural cluster prone to "head aches") to the legally actionable sloppy engineering (lack of redundant blood supplies to vital areas, esp. brain and heart, inability for modern bodies to handle a wealth of food supply once capitalism slapped "by the sweat of your brow shall you till the soil" down like a redheadded stepchild.)
Fuck Yaweh and the scapegoat he rode in on. Grow some (cancer prone) balls, people.