Cool - I'm in the U.S. so that probably wasn't an option for me. I have heard people talking about Bitcoin backed debit cards for a couple years now, but never knew if anything came to market.
I have a similar debit card (not Coinbase) which lets me spend out of my Bitcoin wallet, converting on-the-fly to target currency
I use Coinbase and will probably be getting the new Shift Card, but I didn't know there were other options available. Can you provide more information?
So, you're saying that because some atheists have done bad things, one shouldn't condemn people who murder in the name of religion? Or we shouldn't point out religious fanaticism is a bad idea?
I am a religious fanatic who teaches my children that killing in the name of religion or even trying to straighten people out in the name of religion is wrong. I teach them about Nagasaki and Hiroshima and other horrific killings of the twentieth century and other centuries. I teach them this is unequivocally wrong. I teach them that Christ wants us to abstain from all violence and anger, and that he wants us to be fanatical about it.
I wish people were actually fanatical about what God actually said. Like Thou shalt not kill.
Thank you. I saw this Friday and am trying this out today for some of the things I still have to use the Windows console for. Just being able to highlight and copy text easily is a breath of fresh air!
This is just another thinly veiled attack on Christianity and other religions. As a Christian I find this offensive, but I expect no one cares since I'm also a white male.
As a corollary of this while anyone can consider something to be offensive, NO ONE should have the right to demand that other people do not offend them. As a christian you ought be particulary willing to defend this freedom; particularly given the persecution those of your religion face in some parts of the world.
For the record, I am a fundamentalist Christian, and I agree.
This is just another thinly veiled attack on Christianity and other religions. As a Christian I find this offensive, but I expect no one cares since I'm also a white male.
I'm a fundamentalist Christian and I don't feel that way at all. This is a highlight of how some beliefs are singled out for special legal privilege, which is a serious problem. The law ought not to discriminate between religious belief and beliefs that are not religious. The law ought to uphold freedom.
The problem is that I think state law IS religious bullshit. I don't see any evidence for the proposition that state law works. It's just a tool of tyranny and control. It's just proof that we are animals on big giant farms being herded for the benefit of others. I'd rather lots of small, tiny, vulnerable, distributed bullshit systems than one big system over everybody.
I'm duplicating what I put in another post, but you might be a bit interested in trying out mintty with Cygwin. mintty was forked from PuTTY awhile back and is pretty nice, and you get all the UNIX commands local on your Windows machine that you are stuck with (like me).
I use mintty with Cygwin on Windows 7. mintty was originally developed from PuTTY. It's clean and robust. It recently got a new maintainer and started seeing updates, and the new maintainer added in my favorite removed feature that I had asked about 3-4 years ago. I use it all the time at home and at work.
"Fixing" this problem means creating a sure-fire way to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country, so nothing is done about it. One party doesn't want to fix it because they want to make these people citizens so they'll vote for that party. An influential fraction of the other party doesn't want to fix it because they want these people to remain as a source of cheap labor.
Hmm. Is it okay if I don't want there to be a sure fire way to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country, but still want the problem to be fixed somehow?
Also Discourse breaks the web browser model in many tablety ways that drive me nuts. My keys are hijacked. New stuff loads if I get to the wrong place on the page.
And Discourse users are always disrespectful to me if I post a question that has another thread on it, even if the other thread is two years old and I can't find it. And then if I do reply on that thread, they are disrespectful to me for necro-ing an old thread. There's just something in the culture there that justifies this, and so I shy away from it.
Most of our children have been born at home, but we still had to do the heel prick tests (in Texas). I think there was a way to opt out of them storing the blood samples, but I don't trust them to actually do that.
relatively recent scripting languages like Perl... Functionally, the operators are equivalent, so which ones you use is largely a matter of personal preference
That is not the case in Perl at all! In Perl, operators like gt and lt are for string comparisons, and operators like are for numeric comparisons. Since in Perl you can conveniently transmute numbers intro strings and vice versa, which operator you use can make a whole lot of difference!
Years ago I signed up for internet service (dialup) from a company that said they had a special and that my rate would never increase. At some point after that they proved themselves incompetent by claiming my credit card was denied when trying to bill me (they had MM and DD swapped in my expiration date), and shortly after that they tried to raise my rates. I confronted them with the promise that the rates would never rise and they simply played dumb (or were possibly not playing).
I was pretty distraught that they were no longer willing to honor their agreement, but I couldn't think of anything I could do. I was angry and wanted to sue them, punish them, make them do what they said they do, etc. But there was no way to do that.
Shortly after that DSL came out and rather than upgrading my service, I simply switched, and was glad I did. Each time I thought back on the situation, I realized there was no way I could force them to honor their agreement, and I also realized more and more how that was an agreement noone could ever keep (what with inflation and rising costs and all). Eventually I just accepted that the whole thing was doomed from the start and I moved on emotionally. That was difficult for me. I think for some people that would have been a lot easier.
When I read complaints about unlimited internet service not being unlimited, I see what seems to be a very situation: an agreement that, in my opinion, is doomed from the start, and a lot of people who are very vocally upset about it. I hope they will be able to find the peace that I eventually did. I don't think they will be able to make anybody give them true unlimited service.
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Cool - I'm in the U.S. so that probably wasn't an option for me. I have heard people talking about Bitcoin backed debit cards for a couple years now, but never knew if anything came to market.
I have a similar debit card (not Coinbase) which lets me spend out of my Bitcoin wallet, converting on-the-fly to target currency
I use Coinbase and will probably be getting the new Shift Card, but I didn't know there were other options available. Can you provide more information?
What can account for the enduring myth of Red Mercury
We had almost stamped out that myth, and then Star Trek (2009) came out with red matter, and it started up all over again.
Meh. My kids are grown and gone. I wish them luck.
My kids are not grown. We homeschool them.
So, you're saying that because some atheists have done bad things, one shouldn't condemn people who murder in the name of religion? Or we shouldn't point out religious fanaticism is a bad idea?
I am a religious fanatic who teaches my children that killing in the name of religion or even trying to straighten people out in the name of religion is wrong. I teach them about Nagasaki and Hiroshima and other horrific killings of the twentieth century and other centuries. I teach them this is unequivocally wrong. I teach them that Christ wants us to abstain from all violence and anger, and that he wants us to be fanatical about it.
I wish people were actually fanatical about what God actually said. Like Thou shalt not kill.
No, it's called sacrificing some for the sake of many.
If it's okay to sacrifice some for the sake of many, then it is okay to kill embryos for their stem cells.
No, it's called sacrificing some for the sake of many. Nuke 'em if they can't prevent these scumbags from running their countries.
Oh my God - you call yourself a Christian and advocate killing innocent children? No wonder atheists hate us.
Is it okay if I am fanatical about not killing people?
http://www.theonion.com/article/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-kill-rule-222
Thank you. I saw this Friday and am trying this out today for some of the things I still have to use the Windows console for. Just being able to highlight and copy text easily is a breath of fresh air!
This is just another thinly veiled attack on Christianity and other religions. As a Christian I find this offensive, but I expect no one cares since I'm also a white male.
I went and looked at your posting history and saw you calling people fools and calling for people to be killed with nuclear attacks. As a Christian, this is distressing and offensive to me. Our Lord said "whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. ".
As a corollary of this while anyone can consider something to be offensive, NO ONE should have the right to demand that other people do not offend them. As a christian you ought be particulary willing to defend this freedom; particularly given the persecution those of your religion face in some parts of the world.
For the record, I am a fundamentalist Christian, and I agree.
This is just another thinly veiled attack on Christianity and other religions. As a Christian I find this offensive, but I expect no one cares since I'm also a white male.
I'm a fundamentalist Christian and I don't feel that way at all. This is a highlight of how some beliefs are singled out for special legal privilege, which is a serious problem. The law ought not to discriminate between religious belief and beliefs that are not religious. The law ought to uphold freedom.
The problem is that I think state law IS religious bullshit. I don't see any evidence for the proposition that state law works. It's just a tool of tyranny and control. It's just proof that we are animals on big giant farms being herded for the benefit of others. I'd rather lots of small, tiny, vulnerable, distributed bullshit systems than one big system over everybody.
That's how I did it for years, until mintty came out. Now I'm an unabashed mintty fanboy.
One of the first things I throw on a new Windows box is Cygwin
You and me both. mintty+cygwin makes Windows bearable.
(in fact it makes it into a mere host for my terminal windows and browser)
I'm duplicating what I put in another post, but you might be a bit interested in trying out mintty with Cygwin. mintty was forked from PuTTY awhile back and is pretty nice, and you get all the UNIX commands local on your Windows machine that you are stuck with (like me).
The GUI is just a manager for my 37 terminal windows.
I use mintty with Cygwin on Windows 7. mintty was originally developed from PuTTY. It's clean and robust. It recently got a new maintainer and started seeing updates, and the new maintainer added in my favorite removed feature that I had asked about 3-4 years ago. I use it all the time at home and at work.
I'm married with three daughters, and all the women and girls in this house like Star Wars.
"Fixing" this problem means creating a sure-fire way to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country, so nothing is done about it. One party doesn't want to fix it because they want to make these people citizens so they'll vote for that party. An influential fraction of the other party doesn't want to fix it because they want these people to remain as a source of cheap labor.
Hmm. Is it okay if I don't want there to be a sure fire way to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country, but still want the problem to be fixed somehow?
Also Discourse breaks the web browser model in many tablety ways that drive me nuts. My keys are hijacked. New stuff loads if I get to the wrong place on the page.
And Discourse users are always disrespectful to me if I post a question that has another thread on it, even if the other thread is two years old and I can't find it. And then if I do reply on that thread, they are disrespectful to me for necro-ing an old thread. There's just something in the culture there that justifies this, and so I shy away from it.
Most of our children have been born at home, but we still had to do the heel prick tests (in Texas). I think there was a way to opt out of them storing the blood samples, but I don't trust them to actually do that.
relatively recent scripting languages like Perl ... Functionally, the operators are equivalent, so which ones you use is largely a matter of personal preference
That is not the case in Perl at all! In Perl, operators like gt and lt are for string comparisons, and operators like are for numeric comparisons. Since in Perl you can conveniently transmute numbers intro strings and vice versa, which operator you use can make a whole lot of difference!
I want people to be called to account for making impossible promises in the first place.
What are you looking for, specifically?
Years ago I signed up for internet service (dialup) from a company that said they had a special and that my rate would never increase. At some point after that they proved themselves incompetent by claiming my credit card was denied when trying to bill me (they had MM and DD swapped in my expiration date), and shortly after that they tried to raise my rates. I confronted them with the promise that the rates would never rise and they simply played dumb (or were possibly not playing).
I was pretty distraught that they were no longer willing to honor their agreement, but I couldn't think of anything I could do. I was angry and wanted to sue them, punish them, make them do what they said they do, etc. But there was no way to do that.
Shortly after that DSL came out and rather than upgrading my service, I simply switched, and was glad I did. Each time I thought back on the situation, I realized there was no way I could force them to honor their agreement, and I also realized more and more how that was an agreement noone could ever keep (what with inflation and rising costs and all). Eventually I just accepted that the whole thing was doomed from the start and I moved on emotionally. That was difficult for me. I think for some people that would have been a lot easier.
When I read complaints about unlimited internet service not being unlimited, I see what seems to be a very situation: an agreement that, in my opinion, is doomed from the start, and a lot of people who are very vocally upset about it. I hope they will be able to find the peace that I eventually did. I don't think they will be able to make anybody give them true unlimited service.