The Biblical answer is that such laws changed at multiple points in history. Two such points would be Mt. Sinai (the giving of the Torah to Israel) and the cross (end of sacrifices, and possibly much of the rest of Old Testament law). If you look at Moses' genealogy, you find that his father, Amram, married his own aunt, Jochebed. But then you have the Torah given through Moses, which explicitly forbade such relationships. The literal reading then would be that before the giving of the Torah such relationships were allowed, or at least tolerated, and afterward they were forbidden. Just like the passing of a new law today. A few years ago in Texas, it was legal for a 14 year old girl to get married. Now she has to be 16. A new law was passed.
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Do you realize the range of things for which a credit check is run?
Do you realize you could have just added details to explain the situation? As far as I understand, you are upset that you couldn't get a credit card at a store because you weren't trusted because you didn't have a previous credit card, or you are upset because you couldn't spend cash at a store because you weren't trusted because you didn't have a previous credit card. Neither one of those really sounds reasonable, but I can only go on the information you have revealed, and being in the dark makes it hard to reply with a good +1, Informative or +1, Insightful post. Maybe we'll both get points for snark or something, at least.:)
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If you don't want any credit, then you don't need to be trusted. Just pay cash. I don't understand what you're making a big deal about.
I am an anarchist. It used to say so in my slashdot profile, but I'm finding that slashdot has changed so much that I can't figure out how to view those profiles any more.
I make no secret of the fact I'm an anarchist, and I see no more shame in it than being a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent. It's my political point of view, just like anyone else has their political point of view.
I find it interesting that you seem to believe a person could only be an anarchist if they don't think very hard. I came to my beliefs after much thought.
Author is Paul Foerster. The institute used the entire series for the other courses, except for Geometry. Strangely, they used a geometry book from a different series. When I got back to school in the fall, the Algebra I book I had there was from the same series, and I went on to use the same Geometry book the next year. I thought it was pretty good, but the Algebra book from that series was nowhere near as good as the Foerster book.
After participating in Duke University's TIP, I went to Intensive Mathematics Institute (IMI) at University of North Texas. Three weeks and I learned Algebra from one of the best textbooks I've ever seen. There was some socializing, too, but honestly, the best part was the math. Sad, I know. We did take a trip to Six Flags one weekend.
The program had classes for Algebra I & II, Geometry, Pre-calculus, and Calculus. I had thought the program was gone, but I see that UNT now has an SMI program that looks very similar, but doesn't offer Calculus. I remember there were kids there with perfect SAT scores, in the seventh grade.:)
This was the part of my life where I first started staying up late. I didn't quite go to "all-nighters," but I started violating the lights out policy and staying up for hours in the bathroom doing the assignments. As a result I was one of the kids who finished the program.:) But I sure was sleepy! I learned there was no real way to make up for that lack of sleep. But it didn't stop me, and it set a life-long pattern that continues to this day. And should probably stop!
When I got back to school in the fall for eighth grade, I had been under the impression I was going to get credit for Algebra I and go straight to 9th grade Geometry. Alas, such was not the case; and I repeated Algebra I, using a crappier book, and taking all year instead of three weeks. I was pretty discouraged.
Years later I met a sweet, smart girl who had been homeschooled. When we got married and started having children, she sold me on the idea of homeschooling our children, and we started collecting textbooks of all levels and subjects. I was delighted to find the same Algebra I textbook I'd used at IMI, and once I knew the name, publisher, and author, I looked it up online and found it got rave reviews. I don't know if my kids will do Algebra I in three weeks, but they will have a good textbook for it.
I think I predicted 2001 was going to be the year HURD finally took off. People were really nice to me about that. I'm surprised they didn't mock me mercilessly.
Frankly I haven't expected HURD to take off since about 2002 or so...
Winning a stupid popularity contest did not give people the moral right to take the money of other people, even for allegedly good causes. Taxation is simply theft.
Apparently this is lost on the people of Slate, however, if they feel that "by all ethical and civic standards, Amazon's position is unsound." They are dismissing my standard of ethics out of hand, unconsidered, unrefuted, and I feel that the burden of proof is on them to prove that taxation is ethical in the first place. My ethical position may be a minority position, but a majority is not always correct, and I have yet to see a justification for taxation that does not amount to "the end justifies the means," which is not even close to ethical.
Moreover, I have a lot of MP3s that I downloaded because I was too lazy to rip the CD version that I own
How can they tell the difference between an MP3 that you ripped from a CD that you own, and an MP3 that somebody else ripped from another copy of a CD that you own?
The coins haven't made it into the faucet yet. The faucet founder, Gavin Andresen (one of the core bitcoin developers), is still trying to determine when and how he will bring the donations in. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20185.0
Meanwhile, the faucet funding has been pretty flaky, at least in the last 24 hours. Yesterday morning (US time), it was dry, yesterday evening it had some small funding, and now apparently it is dry again. I'm curious how big the EFF donation will really be.
Distributed solutions for distributed problems. Personally I would probably make an agreement with my family. I would expect other people to handle their own affairs. I would expect people who are being impacted by someone with a mental illness to make a proportionate response, localized.
"Bonkers crazy" is often a subjective opinion. In fact it's a phrase often used simply to take away individual rights.
I am currently of sound health and mind, and I have not granted the government the right to take over for me in the event of future mental incapacity on my part.
I wonder if Terry Pratchett has considered cryonic suspension. It might go well with what he is considering. Except that for an optimal cryonic suspension one probably needs to be in Arizona, where euthanasia is not currently legal.
I never figured out how to use the last redesign, and this one just makes it whiter and adds new problems. At the moment, I can't seem to figure out how to view comments that rank below a 5. There's some kind of slider widget on the right with comment scores (or at least numbers ranging from 5 to -1), and a pointer pointing to 0. I started sliding it around and it split into two pointers. I put them both on -1 and clicked "Get 2206 more comments," and all I got back was several more score 5 comments.
I wish I had a clue what I was doing.
Please don't fund protection for me, against force and fraud, against my will. Even this service should not be provided for with socialism in a monopolistic way, but by the free market. Let people make their own decisions about how much and what type of protective services to subscribe to.
Well, I read every word. Most of it was just disrespect. It might surprise you to learn that decent people actually tolerate differences of opinion. I do.
I'm not sure what you're on about with the pyramids and iron forging. I can't remember the pyramids ever being mentioned in the Bible. If this is your reason for refuting it, then it's obvious you're the one who hasn't done five minutes of honest inquiry. I had a friend in college who repeatedly told me how wrong the Bible was because of the things it did or did not say about space aliens. I kept pulling out my Bible (yes, I carried one in those days) and asking him to show me what it said, over a course of several months, but he never took me up on that offer.
We remained friends, and neither one of us held the other in contempt. I've read the Bible tens of times since then and have yet to see anything about space aliens. Or pyramids.
Yes, I was raised a question. Yes, it makes me second guess myself. However, my mother ceased to be a Christian and ceased indoctrinating me in my teen years. Does that make me any more credible? Bonus question: I think for a lot of ancient people, like a lot of modern people, religion was a matter of patriotism and culture, rather than direct historical actions of God. I doubt many average Greeks conducted historical research into what really happened at Troy.
The interesting thing for me is the random Greeks who left classical mythology for belief in Jesus and the God of Judaism.
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The Biblical answer is that such laws changed at multiple points in history. Two such points would be Mt. Sinai (the giving of the Torah to Israel) and the cross (end of sacrifices, and possibly much of the rest of Old Testament law). If you look at Moses' genealogy, you find that his father, Amram, married his own aunt, Jochebed. But then you have the Torah given through Moses, which explicitly forbade such relationships. The literal reading then would be that before the giving of the Torah such relationships were allowed, or at least tolerated, and afterward they were forbidden. Just like the passing of a new law today. A few years ago in Texas, it was legal for a 14 year old girl to get married. Now she has to be 16. A new law was passed.
Do you realize the range of things for which a credit check is run?
Do you realize you could have just added details to explain the situation? As far as I understand, you are upset that you couldn't get a credit card at a store because you weren't trusted because you didn't have a previous credit card, or you are upset because you couldn't spend cash at a store because you weren't trusted because you didn't have a previous credit card. Neither one of those really sounds reasonable, but I can only go on the information you have revealed, and being in the dark makes it hard to reply with a good +1, Informative or +1, Insightful post. Maybe we'll both get points for snark or something, at least. :)
If you don't want any credit, then you don't need to be trusted. Just pay cash. I don't understand what you're making a big deal about.
I am an anarchist. It used to say so in my slashdot profile, but I'm finding that slashdot has changed so much that I can't figure out how to view those profiles any more.
I make no secret of the fact I'm an anarchist, and I see no more shame in it than being a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent. It's my political point of view, just like anyone else has their political point of view.
I find it interesting that you seem to believe a person could only be an anarchist if they don't think very hard. I came to my beliefs after much thought.
Then people should be allowed to only fund the portions they believe in, and the parts that can't attract enough support can die.
Author is Paul Foerster. The institute used the entire series for the other courses, except for Geometry. Strangely, they used a geometry book from a different series. When I got back to school in the fall, the Algebra I book I had there was from the same series, and I went on to use the same Geometry book the next year. I thought it was pretty good, but the Algebra book from that series was nowhere near as good as the Foerster book.
http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Grades-9-11-Mcdougal-Littell/dp/0395977274/ref=pd_sim_b_55
After participating in Duke University's TIP, I went to Intensive Mathematics Institute (IMI) at University of North Texas. Three weeks and I learned Algebra from one of the best textbooks I've ever seen. There was some socializing, too, but honestly, the best part was the math. Sad, I know. We did take a trip to Six Flags one weekend.
The program had classes for Algebra I & II, Geometry, Pre-calculus, and Calculus. I had thought the program was gone, but I see that UNT now has an SMI program that looks very similar, but doesn't offer Calculus. I remember there were kids there with perfect SAT scores, in the seventh grade. :)
This was the part of my life where I first started staying up late. I didn't quite go to "all-nighters," but I started violating the lights out policy and staying up for hours in the bathroom doing the assignments. As a result I was one of the kids who finished the program. :) But I sure was sleepy! I learned there was no real way to make up for that lack of sleep. But it didn't stop me, and it set a life-long pattern that continues to this day. And should probably stop!
When I got back to school in the fall for eighth grade, I had been under the impression I was going to get credit for Algebra I and go straight to 9th grade Geometry. Alas, such was not the case; and I repeated Algebra I, using a crappier book, and taking all year instead of three weeks. I was pretty discouraged.
Years later I met a sweet, smart girl who had been homeschooled. When we got married and started having children, she sold me on the idea of homeschooling our children, and we started collecting textbooks of all levels and subjects. I was delighted to find the same Algebra I textbook I'd used at IMI, and once I knew the name, publisher, and author, I looked it up online and found it got rave reviews. I don't know if my kids will do Algebra I in three weeks, but they will have a good textbook for it.
I think I predicted 2001 was going to be the year HURD finally took off. People were really nice to me about that. I'm surprised they didn't mock me mercilessly. Frankly I haven't expected HURD to take off since about 2002 or so...
Winning a stupid popularity contest did not give people the moral right to take the money of other people, even for allegedly good causes. Taxation is simply theft. Apparently this is lost on the people of Slate, however, if they feel that "by all ethical and civic standards, Amazon's position is unsound." They are dismissing my standard of ethics out of hand, unconsidered, unrefuted, and I feel that the burden of proof is on them to prove that taxation is ethical in the first place. My ethical position may be a minority position, but a majority is not always correct, and I have yet to see a justification for taxation that does not amount to "the end justifies the means," which is not even close to ethical.
Redbox only carries new releases. I don't want to see the new crap. I want to see old stuff that I consider to be classics.
Moreover, I have a lot of MP3s that I downloaded because I was too lazy to rip the CD version that I own
How can they tell the difference between an MP3 that you ripped from a CD that you own, and an MP3 that somebody else ripped from another copy of a CD that you own?
I think others should be blamed. Others are the ones who made it illegal. It was presumably not his choice to make that law in the first place.
The coins haven't made it into the faucet yet. The faucet founder, Gavin Andresen (one of the core bitcoin developers), is still trying to determine when and how he will bring the donations in. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20185.0 Meanwhile, the faucet funding has been pretty flaky, at least in the last 24 hours. Yesterday morning (US time), it was dry, yesterday evening it had some small funding, and now apparently it is dry again. I'm curious how big the EFF donation will really be.
Distributed solutions for distributed problems. Personally I would probably make an agreement with my family. I would expect other people to handle their own affairs. I would expect people who are being impacted by someone with a mental illness to make a proportionate response, localized.
"Bonkers crazy" is often a subjective opinion. In fact it's a phrase often used simply to take away individual rights. I am currently of sound health and mind, and I have not granted the government the right to take over for me in the event of future mental incapacity on my part.
I wonder if Terry Pratchett has considered cryonic suspension. It might go well with what he is considering. Except that for an optimal cryonic suspension one probably needs to be in Arizona, where euthanasia is not currently legal.
How do comments get modded up, anyway? Noone can see anything, as far as I can tell. What am I missing?
I never figured out how to use the last redesign, and this one just makes it whiter and adds new problems. At the moment, I can't seem to figure out how to view comments that rank below a 5. There's some kind of slider widget on the right with comment scores (or at least numbers ranging from 5 to -1), and a pointer pointing to 0. I started sliding it around and it split into two pointers. I put them both on -1 and clicked "Get 2206 more comments," and all I got back was several more score 5 comments. I wish I had a clue what I was doing.
And I for one welcome our new GFAJ-1 overlords. Whatever. Here's a link to the Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1
I'm a little confused. Reading archaic print journalism is a sign of intelligence and being well educated?
Allowing your children's education to be determined by a majority vote of the general public is pretty close to the definition of insanity.
Please don't fund protection for me, against force and fraud, against my will. Even this service should not be provided for with socialism in a monopolistic way, but by the free market. Let people make their own decisions about how much and what type of protective services to subscribe to.
Well, I read every word. Most of it was just disrespect. It might surprise you to learn that decent people actually tolerate differences of opinion. I do.
I'm not sure what you're on about with the pyramids and iron forging. I can't remember the pyramids ever being mentioned in the Bible. If this is your reason for refuting it, then it's obvious you're the one who hasn't done five minutes of honest inquiry. I had a friend in college who repeatedly told me how wrong the Bible was because of the things it did or did not say about space aliens. I kept pulling out my Bible (yes, I carried one in those days) and asking him to show me what it said, over a course of several months, but he never took me up on that offer.
We remained friends, and neither one of us held the other in contempt. I've read the Bible tens of times since then and have yet to see anything about space aliens. Or pyramids.
Um, I was raised a Christian, not a question. Apparently I wasn't raised to proofread...
Yes, I was raised a question. Yes, it makes me second guess myself. However, my mother ceased to be a Christian and ceased indoctrinating me in my teen years. Does that make me any more credible? Bonus question: I think for a lot of ancient people, like a lot of modern people, religion was a matter of patriotism and culture, rather than direct historical actions of God. I doubt many average Greeks conducted historical research into what really happened at Troy.
The interesting thing for me is the random Greeks who left classical mythology for belief in Jesus and the God of Judaism.