The same could be said of geometry. If you discovered that parallel lines on a 2 dimensional plane do in fact intersect, then geometry as we know it would crumble and would have to be revised.
He, check this out, it just came out... In mathematics you can pick axioms and play with them. Sometimes contradictory axioms can both prove useful. I'm not so sure in real life...
When I was young, the library was where I used to hang out.
Couple years ago I took a climbing road trip of the SW US, and on rainy days we would just go hang out in small town libraries. I was really surprised to see them often crowded by very varied crowds (bums, students, kids, tourists, old timers, etc...)
I've seen plenty of penguins and even been bitten by one: came out behind me as I was chatting with a friend, decided I was in _his_ path and bite me on the knee tendon while hitting me very hard with his bony flippers. I jumped 10 feet in the air. He ended up as a football before I could think about it. I had a limp for a week but he just walked away (fat is very good protection...)
You can salt fields. The Romans did this thousands of years ago, and the areas they ravaged are, to this day, incapable of meaningful agriculture.
This is a myth. Salt was way too valuable at the time to waste as a sterilizer. You'd have to dump millions of tons of it to kill a field. And think that at the time the legionaries were paid in salt because. Hence the word 'salary'. Now would you cover a field with money in order to sterilize it ? Hmmm, now that's a novel way to think about the bank bailouts...
I have so many problems with those ridiculous religious statements that i don't know where to begin:
1. God is real and is perfect
There's not even a decent definition of 'God' (the usual christian ones are fraught with paradoxes). And perfection is a judgment call.
2. Anyone who wants to return to Him must be perfect
Huh, why ?
3. Nobody is perfect (enter the paradox)
Hmm, okay, but as before, personal judgment is involved here.
4. Christ willingly takes upon Himself the imperfections (sins) of the world.
If that's figurative sense, it means nothing. If it's literal, it's absolutely haha ridiculous.
5. Then as the creditor, He, and He alone, has the authority to redefine the terms of returning to God
Another good sounding but empty sentence. How many times have I seen people move their head like they agree with such empty drivel when 2 seconds of bullshit-o-meter will just expose it for what it is...
Oh yes, Vatican radio... The most powerful radio in the world (after some cold war ultra-low freq submarine comm systems). Also cause of many cancers in the villagers living near the gigantic antennas, but it is absolute taboo to talk about those stats in Italy. There is much to comment here, from the need to have such a gospel sending device, to the fact that you want to hide a dangerous antenna with 'green solar energy'.
Note that I'm not exaggerating: it takes a good half hour to drive around the antenna.
Strangely enough, I do some of my best coding with the laptop on the sofa in the middle of the living room of my italian in laws... And they are fairly stereotypical... I'd say it's stimulating ! I used to write letters to girlfriends in noisy bars...
Religions are false (easy to prove since there are many of them and they contradict themselves), so anything 'anti-religion' stands a good chance of being true. In short.
All you have to do is look at LEDs to see why caps were used.
Wrong again. On 7 segment LEDs (used for digits), you can make more lower-case than upper-case chars: b or d but not B=8 or D=0. If you extend them with diagonals, you can still make more lower-case.
I will go one step further and tell you your post makes you look like a bigot.
And I will tell you to stop posting ignorant information if you don't want us to conflate religion and ignorance.
Every quirk in the world is not the fault of religion, get over it already.
Certainly: when we have to look in a history book to see what religion was.
...tackled this idea a couple generations ago in a short story where humans are completely germ-free, live in sterile environments and must wear spacesuits to wander outside to meet some 'stinky natives' that escaped.
Why don't website in korean hosted out of the country spring up all over the place to provide the much needed anonymity ? After all there are a lot of korean speakers in the US who could stand to make a buck or two providing this service. Why don't they ?
Their underlying hatred of the west has far more to do with the equality of women than it does with prophets and gods.
I was very neutral towards religion, which I'd never been exposed to, until at about 20 I met a moslem exchange student at a party. While doing small talk he said exactly about the West: "How do you want us to respect a country where women sing ?"
This quote opened my eyes and ever since I've been very aware of all the damages that (all) religions bring.
I expected this reply... C;-) Just to say that I copied different things on it, to ever increasing slowness (or ever decreasing speed ?). Until I gave up.
There may be other manners of failure. I have a recent 2Gb USB thumb drive that started going ever more slowly after a few days of use. I last measured a "dd if=/dev/random of=/media/device/test" of no more than 0.5kB/s. If somebody wants to have some fun analyzing it, I can put it in an envelope free of charge.
Well, sorry about the cursing, but you sounded too much like an automated FUD machine. I see now that you are actually human (or a rather good Turing). I (re)install(ed) Windows regularly, at work and family, but I truly dislike its installation process (and by that I mean all the extra time wasted to reinstall the apps) which has wasted enough months of my life to justify the cursing.
Except now Windows is as secure, easier to install, has more products, and behaves 'smother' then Linux.
Strange, I think the opposite, having shifted to Ubuntu a month ago for those very reasons. Reason one: Confiker & Co. Reason 2: click install, select all the software you want, after 10 minutes it's done with extra software, on Windows you spend 3 days hunting down software on google, downloading, installing, setting options and configurations, etc... 'Smother' I don't know, but smoother, certainly not. Go FUD somewhere else, troll.
And one final thing: I never want to install an OS again. I just want to see an upgrade option in Adept or whatever, click it and be done with it. As often as necessary so that the process is as smooth as possible. So MS is saying I shouldn't do an upgrade but instead waste 3 fucking days just to reinstall everything ?!? Excuse me, but fuck you.
I was initially afraid of the flicker factor [...] especially when it's cold
I noticed that too: they flicker and take much longer to ramp up to full brightness when it's cold, even normal winter room-temperature cold. The problem is that I often work in Antarctica and I wonder how those would fare at -80C !
I've always wondered... where does the rainwater go ? Do you pump it off into the sea or does it simply evaporates ? And in the latter case, how come the ground doesn't become ever more salty due to runoffs ?
I got a spam with a pretty poetic title yesterday: "The magic melody for your flute". I read it to my wife but she said she prefers the trombone... 8-|
OK, yet another music provider. Why not. Let's take a look to see if they have some stuff I may like... well as usual with those services you can't even run a search to see their selection. Next!
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The same could be said of geometry. If you discovered that parallel lines on a 2 dimensional plane do in fact intersect, then geometry as we know it would crumble and would have to be revised.
He, check this out, it just came out... In mathematics you can pick axioms and play with them. Sometimes contradictory axioms can both prove useful. I'm not so sure in real life...
Henrik Pont©n - Lawyer at Swedish anti-piracy organisation.
I find it funny that a copyright symbol shows up in his name when it fails the notorious great UTF support of slashdot...
When I was young, the library was where I used to hang out.
Couple years ago I took a climbing road trip of the SW US, and on rainy days we would just go hang out in small town libraries. I was really surprised to see them often crowded by very varied crowds (bums, students, kids, tourists, old timers, etc...)
I've seen plenty of penguins and even been bitten by one: came out behind me as I was chatting with a friend, decided I was in _his_ path and bite me on the knee tendon while hitting me very hard with his bony flippers. I jumped 10 feet in the air. He ended up as a football before I could think about it. I had a limp for a week but he just walked away (fat is very good protection...)
You can salt fields. The Romans did this thousands of years ago, and the areas they ravaged are, to this day, incapable of meaningful agriculture.
This is a myth. Salt was way too valuable at the time to waste as a sterilizer. You'd have to dump millions of tons of it to kill a field. And think that at the time the legionaries were paid in salt because. Hence the word 'salary'. Now would you cover a field with money in order to sterilize it ? Hmmm, now that's a novel way to think about the bank bailouts...
The strain they distributed had the trait of not producing viable seed.
And that gene is called the Terminator gene. I'm not making this up. Lemme guess... their mainframe is called Skynet and their moto is 'do be evil' ?
1. God is real and is perfect
There's not even a decent definition of 'God' (the usual christian ones are fraught with paradoxes). And perfection is a judgment call.
2. Anyone who wants to return to Him must be perfect
Huh, why ?
3. Nobody is perfect (enter the paradox)
Hmm, okay, but as before, personal judgment is involved here.
4. Christ willingly takes upon Himself the imperfections (sins) of the world.
If that's figurative sense, it means nothing. If it's literal, it's absolutely haha ridiculous.
5. Then as the creditor, He, and He alone, has the authority to redefine the terms of returning to God
Another good sounding but empty sentence. How many times have I seen people move their head like they agree with such empty drivel when 2 seconds of bullshit-o-meter will just expose it for what it is...
For a good take on the subject of church and sex and the people in between, read the funny (and eye-opening) novel by David Lodge: How Far Can You Go?
Note that I'm not exaggerating: it takes a good half hour to drive around the antenna.
Here, fast, show the Balmer peak to your boss as a justification!
Strangely enough, I do some of my best coding with the laptop on the sofa in the middle of the living room of my italian in laws... And they are fairly stereotypical... I'd say it's stimulating ! I used to write letters to girlfriends in noisy bars...
It is anti-religion so it must be true.
Religions are false (easy to prove since there are many of them and they contradict themselves), so anything 'anti-religion' stands a good chance of being true. In short.
All you have to do is look at LEDs to see why caps were used.
Wrong again. On 7 segment LEDs (used for digits), you can make more lower-case than upper-case chars: b or d but not B=8 or D=0. If you extend them with diagonals, you can still make more lower-case.
I will go one step further and tell you your post makes you look like a bigot.
And I will tell you to stop posting ignorant information if you don't want us to conflate religion and ignorance.
Every quirk in the world is not the fault of religion, get over it already.
Certainly: when we have to look in a history book to see what religion was.
...tackled this idea a couple generations ago in a short story where humans are completely germ-free, live in sterile environments and must wear spacesuits to wander outside to meet some 'stinky natives' that escaped.
If this was applied extensively, you'd get arrested for having watched porn or drank beer some day or other as soon as you set foot in Saudi Arabia...
Why don't website in korean hosted out of the country spring up all over the place to provide the much needed anonymity ? After all there are a lot of korean speakers in the US who could stand to make a buck or two providing this service. Why don't they ?
Their underlying hatred of the west has far more to do with the equality of women than it does with prophets and gods.
I was very neutral towards religion, which I'd never been exposed to, until at about 20 I met a moslem exchange student at a party. While doing small talk he said exactly about the West: "How do you want us to respect a country where women sing ?"
This quote opened my eyes and ever since I've been very aware of all the damages that (all) religions bring.
I expected this reply... C;-) Just to say that I copied different things on it, to ever increasing slowness (or ever decreasing speed ?). Until I gave up.
There may be other manners of failure. I have a recent 2Gb USB thumb drive that started going ever more slowly after a few days of use. I last measured a "dd if=/dev/random of=/media/device/test" of no more than 0.5kB/s. If somebody wants to have some fun analyzing it, I can put it in an envelope free of charge.
Well, sorry about the cursing, but you sounded too much like an automated FUD machine. I see now that you are actually human (or a rather good Turing). I (re)install(ed) Windows regularly, at work and family, but I truly dislike its installation process (and by that I mean all the extra time wasted to reinstall the apps) which has wasted enough months of my life to justify the cursing.
Except now Windows is as secure, easier to install, has more products, and behaves 'smother' then Linux.
Strange, I think the opposite, having shifted to Ubuntu a month ago for those very reasons. Reason one: Confiker & Co. Reason 2: click install, select all the software you want, after 10 minutes it's done with extra software, on Windows you spend 3 days hunting down software on google, downloading, installing, setting options and configurations, etc... 'Smother' I don't know, but smoother, certainly not. Go FUD somewhere else, troll.
And one final thing: I never want to install an OS again. I just want to see an upgrade option in Adept or whatever, click it and be done with it. As often as necessary so that the process is as smooth as possible. So MS is saying I shouldn't do an upgrade but instead waste 3 fucking days just to reinstall everything ?!? Excuse me, but fuck you.
I was initially afraid of the flicker factor [...] especially when it's cold
I noticed that too: they flicker and take much longer to ramp up to full brightness when it's cold, even normal winter room-temperature cold. The problem is that I often work in Antarctica and I wonder how those would fare at -80C !
I've always wondered... where does the rainwater go ? Do you pump it off into the sea or does it simply evaporates ? And in the latter case, how come the ground doesn't become ever more salty due to runoffs ?
I got a spam with a pretty poetic title yesterday: "The magic melody for your flute". I read it to my wife but she said she prefers the trombone... 8-|
I also enjoy Spotify a great bit
OK, yet another music provider. Why not. Let's take a look to see if they have some stuff I may like... well as usual with those services you can't even run a search to see their selection. Next!
I've been following the Android saga with interest. Are there development phones with it available out of the US, in Europe ?