Did it ever occur to you that perhaps you were the one with the contradiction on your hands and that you are the one who needs to recheck his axioms to resolve it? Like, I don't know "Gee, maybe this poster doesn't beleive in this superstitious non-sense."
I think you're missing the point. We don't NEED the writings now. We already understand calculus. It was needed in Archimedes times. It's because of those ignorant monks who didn't care for "worldly knowledge" and instead preffered to write the same old love letters to invisible men that mathematics was set back 2000 years.
The reasons universities don't teach people to most effectively code for a given platform is because it will be next to worthless 10 years down the road. You say they need to know "how computers work", but computers never work the same way one year to the next. The hypothetical high level stuff doesn't change.
I have sitting on my shelf at home Michael Abrash's infamous "Black Book of Graphics Programming". Is any of the code in there relevant to graphics\animation coding today? Not at all. However, the high level concepts it explains are still useful.
Many security clearences require you to take a polygraph and ask you really uncomfortable questions to make sure you can't be blackmailed. Atleast the stuff they had was stuff voluntarily put on facebook anyway.
Young drivers may have quicker reflexes, but they tend to reflexively do stupid things like slam on their breaks or forget to check their mirrors before swerving into the lane next to them. Not to mention they are more likely to do stupid stuff like play with their radio or cell phone in the car.
Inexperienced drivers also have a tendency not to keep proper following distance and they also don't tend to evaluate things like "is my car boxed in? Could I escape if the guy in front of me quickly stopped?"
The medical benefit is quick unique identification that can be cross referenced with your medical records. It makes it less likely that the doctors\nurses will misidentify you and potentially do something that might kill you. (Yes, there will still be problems, but far less I'm sure.)
Also, they arn't being forced. It's the price of admission to America.
I disagree. "Nobody remembers the armenians". Possibly because they wern't tagged? Heck, hardly anybody remembers the Tutsis. Everybody remembers the Jews, because there was extensive documentation and paper trails on most of them.
The reason they come here is to work. It's not to stop Illegals from coming in, it's to stop US companies from claiming they didn't know their employees were illegals.
RFID tags are extremely useful. Stop with the FUD. Identification Tags are not going to cause the next halocaust any more than tattooing prisoners caused the first one.
Coffee is a stimulant. It does not impair judgement and the withdrawl symptoms are the shakes and a headache for a few hours.
The social rammifications of caffeine abuse are tiny and the benefits of caffeine consumption far outweigh the costs. The same can not be said of Alcohol and Marijuana, both are depressants that impair judgement and stifle productivity.
1) Tax cuts don't redistribute money, they allow people to keep their own money. When the rich have more money they spend more money and the economy grows. When the economy grows the standard of living for the poor does as well.
2) It's not a success story, but the liberals are just as much responsible for entering the war as the conservatives. The difference is that the conservatives arn't suggesting we "pull everybody out" and leave Iraq in shambles.
3) Most people can't deal. People who abuse drugs and alcohol tend to also abuse others around them. We probably should legalize drugs. The same idiots would probably still be in jail for some other crime related to supporting their habit. Reality persists despite your attempts to block it with intoxicants.
4) Once a woman let's her pregnancy progress to the stage of a fetus her body is shared with another human being. She shouldn't be able to kill a fetus any more than conjoined twins should be allowed to kill each other.
You accuse people of being mindless media zombies then you quote Stephen Colbert.
Yes, reality comes from actors on "The Daily Show". Where is the John Stewart we saw after 9/11 who was nearly in tears saying how he "just sits in the back of the classroom and throws spitballs". That is the reality of the situation.
It's funny how liberals complain about the "AM Drivetime prattle" when almost every other form of media has a liberal bias. If any party has a monopoly on media "zombies", it's not the republicans.
Maybe if the college students, union workers and minorities would stop smoking pot long enough to vote they might actually get it legalized. But no, they are too cool for school. A vote for nobody is a vote against the system maaaaan. Pass the bong!
The liberal motto used to be "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Back when liberals actually cared about something other than themselves. Now, every fucking liberal issue is like:
Issue: Abortion Sure, TECHNICALLY a fetus is biologically no different from a born child, but since I can't see it very easily I can also easily turn it into an abstraction. It's not a baby, it's just a "blob that needs to be removed". That's a load off my mind.
Issue: War on Drugs It's a victimless crime, right? Well, except for crack babies and those with fetal alchol syndrome. But then again, a fetus isn't a human anyway so still no victims, hooray! Yeah, there are the unintended consquences of having people intoxicated all the time, but if drugs were legal, people wouldn't abuse them.. just look at all the good alcohol has done for our society.. or something... whatever, too much thinking, pass the bong again.
Issue: War in Iraq Liberals, being moral and peace loving, HATE war! Err, Except for the liberals in congress, who mostly all voted for it. Oh, but they were "mislead". The poor dears are just such trusting people that when the administration of the opposing party gives them intelligence that they automatically assume it's good. Isn't congress supposed to be part of a system of "checks and balances"? Apparently not.
Issue: Welfare Income redistribution for all! It's great for the economy! I can't wait to invest my money in a company knowing that most the dividends I receive will end up being redistributed to the poor by the government (which I trust to do wholeheartedly). Sure, people could just give out of the goodness of their heart -- but then the poor might feel less entitled to other people's money because they arn't taking it from a gigantic faceless bureaucratic entity.
I don't recall "Anonymous phone calls over communications networks owned by major corporations" being an essential liberty. Franklin would probably laugh at you for thinking of such a novelty as essential.
1) Society promotes what is healthy and good. 2) Society tries to discourage what is bad. 3) Society tries to isolate what is bad. 4) Society tries to destroy what is bad. 5) Society learns to tolerate what is bad.
Lieberman and Clinton are in stage 4. Most the people on this board are in Stage 5.
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They are using the electricity you are wasting by leaving a PS2 running while it's not being used.
As for bandwidth it probably uses in a year what most people use in a hour of playing Halo.
If you don't like it, turn it off or just don't buy a playstation 2.
Oh, also look up "Calvinism" and you'll find that free will isn't as deeply ingrained into Judeo-Christian mythology as you'd like to think.
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Did it ever occur to you that perhaps you were the one with the contradiction on your hands and that you are the one who needs to recheck his axioms to resolve it? Like, I don't know "Gee, maybe this poster doesn't beleive in this superstitious non-sense."
God created everything knowing full well what it would do, so anything that happens is as God intended. It's rather moot.
I think you're missing the point. We don't NEED the writings now. We already understand calculus. It was needed in Archimedes times. It's because of those ignorant monks who didn't care for "worldly knowledge" and instead preffered to write the same old love letters to invisible men that mathematics was set back 2000 years.
*SIIGH* MOVE!
The reasons universities don't teach people to most effectively code for a given platform is because it will be next to worthless 10 years down the road. You say they need to know "how computers work", but computers never work the same way one year to the next. The hypothetical high level stuff doesn't change.
I have sitting on my shelf at home Michael Abrash's infamous "Black Book of Graphics Programming". Is any of the code in there relevant to graphics\animation coding today? Not at all. However, the high level concepts it explains are still useful.
Many security clearences require you to take a polygraph and ask you really uncomfortable questions to make sure you can't be blackmailed. Atleast the stuff they had was stuff voluntarily put on facebook anyway.
Insightful? This is simply not true.
Young drivers may have quicker reflexes, but they tend to reflexively do stupid things like slam on their breaks or forget to check their mirrors before swerving into the lane next to them. Not to mention they are more likely to do stupid stuff like play with their radio or cell phone in the car.
Inexperienced drivers also have a tendency not to keep proper following distance and they also don't tend to evaluate things like "is my car boxed in? Could I escape if the guy in front of me quickly stopped?"
The medical benefit is quick unique identification that can be cross referenced with your medical records. It makes it less likely that the doctors\nurses will misidentify you and potentially do something that might kill you. (Yes, there will still be problems, but far less I'm sure.)
Also, they arn't being forced. It's the price of admission to America.
I disagree. "Nobody remembers the armenians". Possibly because they wern't tagged? Heck, hardly anybody remembers the Tutsis. Everybody remembers the Jews, because there was extensive documentation and paper trails on most of them.
The reason they come here is to work. It's not to stop Illegals from coming in, it's to stop US companies from claiming they didn't know their employees were illegals.
RFID tags are extremely useful. Stop with the FUD. Identification Tags are not going to cause the next halocaust any more than tattooing prisoners caused the first one.
Coffee is a stimulant. It does not impair judgement and the withdrawl symptoms are the shakes and a headache for a few hours.
The social rammifications of caffeine abuse are tiny and the benefits of caffeine consumption far outweigh the costs. The same can not be said of Alcohol and Marijuana, both are depressants that impair judgement and stifle productivity.
1) Tax cuts don't redistribute money, they allow people to keep their own money. When the rich have more money they spend more money and the economy grows. When the economy grows the standard of living for the poor does as well.
2) It's not a success story, but the liberals are just as much responsible for entering the war as the conservatives. The difference is that the conservatives arn't suggesting we "pull everybody out" and leave Iraq in shambles.
3) Most people can't deal. People who abuse drugs and alcohol tend to also abuse others around them. We probably should legalize drugs. The same idiots would probably still be in jail for some other crime related to supporting their habit. Reality persists despite your attempts to block it with intoxicants.
4) Once a woman let's her pregnancy progress to the stage of a fetus her body is shared with another human being. She shouldn't be able to kill a fetus any more than conjoined twins should be allowed to kill each other.
You accuse people of being mindless media zombies then you quote Stephen Colbert.
Yes, reality comes from actors on "The Daily Show". Where is the John Stewart we saw after 9/11 who was nearly in tears saying how he "just sits in the back of the classroom and throws spitballs". That is the reality of the situation.
It's funny how liberals complain about the "AM Drivetime prattle" when almost every other form of media has a liberal bias. If any party has a monopoly on media "zombies", it's not the republicans.
Maybe if the college students, union workers and minorities would stop smoking pot long enough to vote they might actually get it legalized. But no, they are too cool for school. A vote for nobody is a vote against the system maaaaan. Pass the bong!
The liberal motto used to be "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Back when liberals actually cared about something other than themselves. Now, every fucking liberal issue is like:
Issue: Abortion
Sure, TECHNICALLY a fetus is biologically no different from a born child, but since I can't see it very easily I can also easily turn it into an abstraction. It's not a baby, it's just a "blob that needs to be removed". That's a load off my mind.
Issue: War on Drugs
It's a victimless crime, right? Well, except for crack babies and those with fetal alchol syndrome. But then again, a fetus isn't a human anyway so still no victims, hooray! Yeah, there are the unintended consquences of having people intoxicated all the time, but if drugs were legal, people wouldn't abuse them.. just look at all the good alcohol has done for our society.. or something... whatever, too much thinking, pass the bong again.
Issue: War in Iraq
Liberals, being moral and peace loving, HATE war! Err, Except for the liberals in congress, who mostly all voted for it. Oh, but they were "mislead". The poor dears are just such trusting people that when the administration of the opposing party gives them intelligence that they automatically assume it's good. Isn't congress supposed to be part of a system of "checks and balances"? Apparently not.
Issue: Welfare
Income redistribution for all! It's great for the economy! I can't wait to invest my money in a company knowing that most the dividends I receive will end up being redistributed to the poor by the government (which I trust to do wholeheartedly). Sure, people could just give out of the goodness of their heart -- but then the poor might feel less entitled to other people's money because they arn't taking it from a gigantic faceless bureaucratic entity.
Best prank ever? Damn, public schools really have destroyed our children's minds. Maybe next year he can pull the fire alarm! Dude, that'd be so rad.
I don't recall "Anonymous phone calls over communications networks owned by major corporations" being an essential liberty. Franklin would probably laugh at you for thinking of such a novelty as essential.
The US has agreed to do the same provided that there is evidence. Why the UK agreed to drop this requirement I don't know.
The difference is we have extradition treaties with the UK. If somebody in America hacked into MOD systems they would probably be extradited as well.
If gravity were to suddenly reverse itself would you be ready?
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1) Society promotes what is healthy and good.
2) Society tries to discourage what is bad.
3) Society tries to isolate what is bad.
4) Society tries to destroy what is bad.
5) Society learns to tolerate what is bad.
Lieberman and Clinton are in stage 4. Most the people on this board are in Stage 5.