I remember when one of these events occured and Johnny Carson made a reference to it saying it wouldn't happen again for a hundred years, or some such statement. Well the beauty of the American love of AM and PM meant it happened again exactly 12 hours later.;-)
There are differences in the way this is handled. Responsible Christians won't try to convert a person who is happy and healthy in their own faith. The more proper candidate for conversion is a person who is in a very bad way. Perhaps depressed, lonely, disenfranchised, victimized. I know all too often the church has been guilty of causing a lot of that. Just because the church does it, doesn't make it good Christianity. And I also don't mean to prey on the weak but be there for the weak. Support the poor and if through the good that is done in Jesus' name a person decides to become a part of that faith that's great. Conversion should be brought on by example not by force. Of course I understand a lot of what I say is in contrast to the loud obnoxious branches of Christianity and in contrast to the historical behaviors of the Roman Church. What's been done is done. I can't change it but it also doesn't change the root message of Jesus which is to love your neighbor. So many of the crimes of the church have been commited in the political spectrum, both in the past when the church was THE political power in Europe and in the present with the rise of the "religious right." Point is not all of us are standing on street corners handing out disgusting comics telling people they'll go to some fictitious version of Hell if they don't stop reading Harry Potter.;-)
I know I'm stepping on a land mine even getting into this thread, but there are Christians who believe the whole point of their religion and following Christ is that if you love your fellow person and treat people well, the future, not to mention the present, will be better. For Christians who feel this way, myself included, we're not all that interested in how accurately the Bible predicts the future. It seems pretty clear to me the future is in our hands. Either we get our acts together and play nice or it'll be just more of the same luke warm happiness and misery.
Well, this is my history with CD burning. When I first did it I was a Windows user and naturally used GUI programs to burn my CDs. It was OK I couldn't complain. Then I made teh switch to Linux and tried a couple GUI CD burning applications and hated them. I was so relieved when I found how easy the two step process of mkisofs and cdrecord was on the CLI that that's all I used for a long time. Then I discovered k3b. I don't use KDE, but I really like the ease of use that k3b provides, so I've switched back from CLI to GUI.
I can think of another example, that was at least or more accurately transferred from book to film. The first two Harry Potter movies, which left stuff out to be sure but fairly accurately portrayed everything that got put in. The LOTR movies made some serious derivations but on the whole were much more accurate than most movie to film adaptations. Just ask Stephen King!;-)
Yes, what the other reply said . . . you can deduct sales tax paid to other states from your taxes. This mainly comes up in the case of online and catalog orders where the retailer will not charge you sales tax unless you live in the state the retailer is located in.
Not exactly. In Michigan we're supposed to declare out of state purchases, so we can pay the proper sales tax come tax time. If you don't keep your receipts there is a default amount you can use if you so choose. So out of state purchases are taxable, the state just has to put the burden of declaring those on the consumer as obviously the state can't regulate out of state businesses.
No, it's not like saying that, because in the gum chewing dentist sentence, the verbiage 'who chew gum' is in there. So that would be more like saying 'More people who voted, voted for Bush than Kerry.' That would be a true sentence, but to say 'More people voted for Bush than didn't' isn't true because that sentence doesn't limit it only to people who voted. Or even Americans for that matter, but I was actually making THAT assumption.
There was a reason. The sponge in question became a bigger star on Nickelodian than anyone expected. Although the sponge, we'll call him "Bob" was more than enthusiastic to go, his agent wouldn't allow it.
Sun and SGI are dead. BSD is dead. Linux will be dead by adding a Windows driver infastructure to it. Old people in Korea aren't dead though, they still send email. SCO is undead. When will this culture of death end?
Well seeing as how the imperial system is really only used inside the US for the US consumer and all our industry uses metric internally, I suspect the cost of maintaining two systems that don't really compete is fairly low.
Why embarrassed? Does it work for you? If so, what's the problem? As much flack as Americans take around here for using those units, it's important to remember a couple things. Where it really matters, American industries ARE using the metric system. Also, I'm of the opinion that our inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, pounds and farenheit degrees are more practical for day to day use for the average person. This is just an example but there is no way to divide metric units of mass or distance in thirds. The inch is conveniently larger than the centimeter and the foot is just right. You can tell instantly if a person is short if they're less than five feet and tall if they're more than six feet tall. With the exception of very tall people, nearly all adults are 1 meter-something. With temperature, in celcius less than 10 degrees is fairly chilly but by 30 degrees it's hot. For me it's not hot till it gets over 80F. Celcius degrees being bigger allow for a lower level of subtlety in the weather temperature. Anyway the metric system is great and has it's places, but don't feel embarrassed that you buy a gallon of milk or a pound of butter. Oddly enough, in America we've really taken to the 2 liter bottle for our carbonated drinks.
I agree about Anakin. I was watching that and thinking when Yoda sent him on his little mission "Hey, Yoda, I know the force is supposed to be diminished and all for you, but damn! The kid's got issues. It doesn't take a jedi master to see that. What are you thinking? Look at him! He's crazy. He wants to dance his wild flashy crowd pleasing steps!" . .. Whoops! Wrong Star Wars actor, wrong Baz Lurhman film.
There may be two schools of thought on this but I believe the lakes and rivers are full of Hydrogen hydroxide (HOH). The more common belief is that it's Dihydrogen oxide (H2O). It's certainly not HO2 as you suggest.
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Not if he was mentioning an event occuring at 12:34 AM.
I remember when one of these events occured and Johnny Carson made a reference to it saying it wouldn't happen again for a hundred years, or some such statement. Well the beauty of the American love of AM and PM meant it happened again exactly 12 hours later. ;-)
There are differences in the way this is handled. Responsible Christians won't try to convert a person who is happy and healthy in their own faith. ;-)
The more proper candidate for conversion is a person who is in a very bad way. Perhaps depressed, lonely, disenfranchised, victimized. I know all too often the church has been guilty of causing a lot of that. Just because the church does it, doesn't make it good Christianity.
And I also don't mean to prey on the weak but be there for the weak. Support the poor and if through the good that is done in Jesus' name a person decides to become a part of that faith that's great. Conversion should be brought on by example not by force.
Of course I understand a lot of what I say is in contrast to the loud obnoxious branches of Christianity and in contrast to the historical behaviors of the Roman Church. What's been done is done. I can't change it but it also doesn't change the root message of Jesus which is to love your neighbor. So many of the crimes of the church have been commited in the political spectrum, both in the past when the church was THE political power in Europe and in the present with the rise of the "religious right."
Point is not all of us are standing on street corners handing out disgusting comics telling people they'll go to some fictitious version of Hell if they don't stop reading Harry Potter.
I know I'm stepping on a land mine even getting into this thread, but there are Christians who believe the whole point of their religion and following Christ is that if you love your fellow person and treat people well, the future, not to mention the present, will be better.
For Christians who feel this way, myself included, we're not all that interested in how accurately the Bible predicts the future. It seems pretty clear to me the future is in our hands. Either we get our acts together and play nice or it'll be just more of the same luke warm happiness and misery.
Well, this is my history with CD burning. When I first did it I was a Windows user and naturally used GUI programs to burn my CDs. It was OK I couldn't complain.
Then I made teh switch to Linux and tried a couple GUI CD burning applications and hated them. I was so relieved when I found how easy the two step process of mkisofs and cdrecord was on the CLI that that's all I used for a long time.
Then I discovered k3b. I don't use KDE, but I really like the ease of use that k3b provides, so I've switched back from CLI to GUI.
I can think of another example, that was at least or more accurately transferred from book to film. The first two Harry Potter movies, which left stuff out to be sure but fairly accurately portrayed everything that got put in. The LOTR movies made some serious derivations but on the whole were much more accurate than most movie to film adaptations. Just ask Stephen King! ;-)
Hmm, I've got mod points, but I don't see one that says "-1 nasty"
Yes, what the other reply said . . . you can deduct sales tax paid to other states from your taxes. This mainly comes up in the case of online and catalog orders where the retailer will not charge you sales tax unless you live in the state the retailer is located in.
Not exactly. In Michigan we're supposed to declare out of state purchases, so we can pay the proper sales tax come tax time. If you don't keep your receipts there is a default amount you can use if you so choose.
So out of state purchases are taxable, the state just has to put the burden of declaring those on the consumer as obviously the state can't regulate out of state businesses.
Oh sure . . . she looks all "sugar and spice" but it's that "chemical X" that wasn't disclosed before the contest.
No, it's not like saying that, because in the gum chewing dentist sentence, the verbiage 'who chew gum' is in there. So that would be more like saying 'More people who voted, voted for Bush than Kerry.' That would be a true sentence, but to say 'More people voted for Bush than didn't' isn't true because that sentence doesn't limit it only to people who voted. Or even Americans for that matter, but I was actually making THAT assumption.
Actually, that would only be true if 100% of the people voted. It was a record turnout, but it wasn't really close to 100%.
Hey, cut him some slack. He's techinally minded. That doesn't make him a cunning linguist.
There was a reason. The sponge in question became a bigger star on Nickelodian than anyone expected. Although the sponge, we'll call him "Bob" was more than enthusiastic to go, his agent wouldn't allow it.
Man, a few weeks back there were all sorts of rumors that RBS was going to buy the bank I work for. Now I REALLY hope they were just rumors! ;-)
Sun and SGI are dead. BSD is dead. Linux will be dead by adding a Windows driver infastructure to it. Old people in Korea aren't dead though, they still send email. SCO is undead. When will this culture of death end?
Well seeing as how the imperial system is really only used inside the US for the US consumer and all our industry uses metric internally, I suspect the cost of maintaining two systems that don't really compete is fairly low.
Why embarrassed? Does it work for you? If so, what's the problem? As much flack as Americans take around here for using those units, it's important to remember a couple things. Where it really matters, American industries ARE using the metric system. Also, I'm of the opinion that our inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces, pounds and farenheit degrees are more practical for day to day use for the average person.
This is just an example but there is no way to divide metric units of mass or distance in thirds.
The inch is conveniently larger than the centimeter and the foot is just right. You can tell instantly if a person is short if they're less than five feet and tall if they're more than six feet tall. With the exception of very tall people, nearly all adults are 1 meter-something.
With temperature, in celcius less than 10 degrees is fairly chilly but by 30 degrees it's hot. For me it's not hot till it gets over 80F. Celcius degrees being bigger allow for a lower level of subtlety in the weather temperature.
Anyway the metric system is great and has it's places, but don't feel embarrassed that you buy a gallon of milk or a pound of butter.
Oddly enough, in America we've really taken to the 2 liter bottle for our carbonated drinks.
Hey, I've cleaned many a sink in my day.
I agree about Anakin. I was watching that and thinking when Yoda sent him on his little mission "Hey, Yoda, I know the force is supposed to be diminished and all for you, but damn! The kid's got issues. It doesn't take a jedi master to see that. What are you thinking? Look at him! He's crazy. He wants to dance his wild flashy crowd pleasing steps!" . . .
Whoops! Wrong Star Wars actor, wrong Baz Lurhman film.
But if you were to say the battery had 100% more power, you wouldn't be saying it had no more power. You'd be saying it was twice as powerful.
Must be sportin' a small form factor there yourself, eh big fella?
There may be two schools of thought on this but I believe the lakes and rivers are full of Hydrogen hydroxide (HOH). The more common belief is that it's Dihydrogen oxide (H2O). It's certainly not HO2 as you suggest.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Why not then just use BASH for the shell? That aughta counter any pesky demonic mischief.