In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves.:-)
So, the mankind fends for itself, just like it has for eons, but all the religious zealots will be gone. Is there anything I can do to speed up the Rapture?
Paint "666" on your forehead, marry someone of your own gender, and vote for the Democratic Party.
After all, the Earth is about be destroyed in the Rapture anyways, so why do we care?
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves.:-)
That's why I don't understand why (American) Christians seem to love the "Left Behind" series.
At this point, she has as much evidence for her world-view as you have for your prophecy that "east coast of America is submerged under the sea" is a real prospect.
Oh, it is - and it doesn't even have to with Global Warming, just a "little" landslide on La Palma.
While what you say is true to an extent, I still don't understand the use of 171 threads - especially on an operating system that has "spotty" lotsa thread handling performance at best (when compared to... well, anything else).
Well, it seems IE 8 actually uses a thread for each Tab - and as a user of Firefox I can tell you that it could use such a "bloated" non-blocking design.
Well, the good thing is that the price binding doesn't exist for foreign books - that's why they can be sold as cheap as the store owner wants - which seems to be about four times sticker price. Yeah, Capitalism - it obviously works.
Quite the nitpicker, heh? Then you shouldn't mind: one and a half years, not one year. Didn't come with a monitor either, which helps to bring the price down.
That's a good one - care to actually read that article? Next you'll blame Apple for the KDE-Krew locking the code to X11 and Qt. Guess why Nokia used the cleaned up Webkit code instead of KHTML for their browser?
This "Mac clones nearly killed Apple" is always brought up as some sort of gospel proof that open hardware is bad for Apple. While there is probably some truth to this, the main things that nearly killed Apple in the mid 90s were lackluster machines with clone-like industrial design sold at a premium and an aging operating system. Jobs came in and rectified these issues starting with the iMac and then OSX. That the clone Mac were competitive is really more an indicator of Apple's mid 90s lack on innovation.
So how exactly did it help Apple than that the cloners build machines that were almost identical apart form case, marketed solely to existing Mac users? And how exactly did that make the cloners innovative?
PS: from http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/cosmoclimatology-tired-old-arguments-in-new-clothes/#more-412 (feel free to ignore):
"The irony is that Svensmark ignores (in addition to the lack of trend in GCR) the fact that the night-time temperature has risen faster than the day-time temperature, which I did pester him about on a Nordic Meteorology Meeting in Copenhagen in 2002. A journalist from Jyllands Posten present at the conference got the message, as my criticism was echoed in a news report the following day ("Klimaforskere i åben krig" [translation 'Climate researchers in open war'], May 28, 2002): It's tricky to explain how a warming caused by decreasing albedo would be stronger at the night-side (dark) of the planet."
Sure, "make-it-happen" is hard, but "let-it-happen" is oh so damn easy, all you have to do is basically nothing. Like ignore "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" reports. Maybe put two or three "war games" up on the day (one of them involving a plane hijacking) to keep the response time of the Air Force a little longer.
but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn't look good.
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So, the mankind fends for itself, just like it has for eons, but all the religious zealots will be gone. Is there anything I can do to speed up the Rapture?
Paint "666" on your forehead, marry someone of your own gender, and vote for the Democratic Party.
(disclaimer: I'm a christian with a CS degree)
After all, the Earth is about be destroyed in the Rapture anyways, so why do we care?
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves. :-)
That's why I don't understand why (American) Christians seem to love the "Left Behind" series.
At this point, she has as much evidence for her world-view as you have for your prophecy that "east coast of America is submerged under the sea" is a real prospect.
Oh, it is - and it doesn't even have to with Global Warming, just a "little" landslide on La Palma.
While what you say is true to an extent, I still don't understand the use of 171 threads - especially on an operating system that has "spotty" lotsa thread handling performance at best (when compared to... well, anything else).
Well, it seems IE 8 actually uses a thread for each Tab - and as a user of Firefox I can tell you that it could use such a "bloated" non-blocking design.
This may come as a surprise to you, but you can't implement an idea if you have no idea first.
This may surprise you, but Oktoberfest is not a national holiday in Germany.
Just in case somebody wonders what the job of the German "Zoll" is: Their English homepage.
And more to the point: When can customs authorities take action?
Well, the good thing is that the price binding doesn't exist for foreign books - that's why they can be sold as cheap as the store owner wants - which seems to be about four times sticker price. Yeah, Capitalism - it obviously works.
If I understand this right, the rate of decay will increase with distance from the sun.
Graphite is for-evah, shiny graphite is for-evah, unless you use a bloody rubber, for you Americans that's an eraser...
On the Intarwebs, nobody knows you read Slashdot - unless you put it in your sig or something.
0. The routing algorithm may cut off one node to make sure the network remains healthy.
Don't use deep packet inspection for routing.
Quite the nitpicker, heh? Then you shouldn't mind: one and a half years, not one year. Didn't come with a monitor either, which helps to bring the price down.
Legal definition of 'exact copy' != technical definition of 'exact copy'.
Legal definition of 'exact copy' != "replacing files of the copy with different ones".
Under your interpretation, software that is modified is not modified. So your interpretation is obviously wrong.
You act as if Apple wanted to contribute back to KHTML. You were on Slashdot for that year-long debate. You have a short memory. But don't let facts stop you.
That's a good one - care to actually read that article? Next you'll blame Apple for the KDE-Krew locking the code to X11 and Qt. Guess why Nokia used the cleaned up Webkit code instead of KHTML for their browser?
This "Mac clones nearly killed Apple" is always brought up as some sort of gospel proof that open hardware is bad for Apple. While there is probably some truth to this, the main things that nearly killed Apple in the mid 90s were lackluster machines with clone-like industrial design sold at a premium and an aging operating system. Jobs came in and rectified these issues starting with the iMac and then OSX. That the clone Mac were competitive is really more an indicator of Apple's mid 90s lack on innovation.
So how exactly did it help Apple than that the cloners build machines that were almost identical apart form case, marketed solely to existing Mac users? And how exactly did that make the cloners innovative?
Heh. I guess you haven't heard of the first sale doctrine. They can resell whatever they want.
So the first sale doctrine says it is legal to resell Cocaine or stolen goods? Or, for that matter, manipulated copyrighted works?
PS: from http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/cosmoclimatology-tired-old-arguments-in-new-clothes/#more-412 (feel free to ignore):
"The irony is that Svensmark ignores (in addition to the lack of trend in GCR) the fact that the night-time temperature has risen faster than the day-time temperature, which I did pester him about on a Nordic Meteorology Meeting in Copenhagen in 2002. A journalist from Jyllands Posten present at the conference got the message, as my criticism was echoed in a news report the following day ("Klimaforskere i åben krig" [translation 'Climate researchers in open war'], May 28, 2002): It's tricky to explain how a warming caused by decreasing albedo would be stronger at the night-side (dark) of the planet."
Well, if you're actually that interested -- hey, go straight to the source!
http://www.amazon.com/Chilling-Stars-Theory-Climate-Change/dp/1840468157
And we are back to something that can explain modulations on the trend, but not (as Svensmark claims) the trend itself.
Sure, "make-it-happen" is hard, but "let-it-happen" is oh so damn easy, all you have to do is basically nothing. Like ignore "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" reports. Maybe put two or three "war games" up on the day (one of them involving a plane hijacking) to keep the response time of the Air Force a little longer.
Do they mean to say that a fire can cause a building to collapse?
Name another steel skyscraper fire where the building collapsed.
There was certainly smoke coming out of the towers where the planes hit. I don't remember a lot of smoke around WTC7.
Well, you probably weren't a firefighter there, then. Some of their eye-witness accounts
but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn't look good.
How about this video of a lot of smoke around WTC7?
I have a simple, intuitive explanation for 9/11 that should satisfy everyone: some shit got fucked up.
Well, doesn't satisfy me - nobody got fired for their part of the shit.
Okay, taking the dates from here, I calculated the length of the cycles - and I still don't see a correlation to the temperature record:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7seVpGqgK5eM8_ovacAaQw