Well in general, it is the job of the vice president to make a complete ass out of himself, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Just think how much less flack Daddy Shrub got cause Dan Quail was a moron.
The problem for Al Gore was that there was absolutly no way that he could ever keep up with the controversy that Clinton was capable of stirring up. Clinton was just way too entertaining in comparision.
Lithosphere is defined as "The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere." Basically underground. It was theorized for some time that micro-organisms could be living on mars a couple feet below the surface.
I also ommited the obvious hydrosphere (oceans) as it has also been theorized for years (though recently mostly debunked) that life could exist on Europa beneath the ice caps that envelop it.
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Thats a pretty narrow definition of planet. Suddenly there would only be one planet in the current solar system. Maybe three if you count planets that could, or could have thoretically supported life at some time in the past or future. Though if that were the only criterion, I believe there are a couple moons that in theory at some portion of the atmophere or lithosphere could sustain life.
Actually The moon is 2,476 Km, and it does not maintain an atmosphere. So I would doubt that a 700 Km body could sustain one. (And yes I understand just be cause the moon does not have one, that it may very well be capable and that it is just lacking one.)
I have also seen KVMs that respond to double CTRL or double SHIFT..Though there are significantly more that respond to double SCROLL LOCK...On the more POS versions, I have had issues where the double SCROLL LOCK had to be X seconds apart(and the X was way too small a number) so it doesn't help when the music is too loud...:-)
Well in general XM would never be poised to kill radio. The basic fact of the matter is that radio is the way radio is, because most of the general public are lemmings. As the article states, the genres have gone to the crucible and spewing forth came 6-7 distinct flavors. These are there because the market for the programimg is.
For those that actually, fall in to those 6-7 categories of listeners, FM is just fine. They would have no need or desire to pay $10 a month for 100 stations of which 90%-95% fall out of their listening tastes.
XM really will find a niche in listeners who are disenfranchised by FM. I am sorry I cannot take another Creed song, less I go postal and slay all that I work with. My tastes sway a great deal and hardly ever fall in to a marketable segment. For me listening to FM is an utter waste of time. Just more time for the corporate masters to try and feed me marketing and lemming food.
The point of XM is to do something that could never be done on a local level, putting together niche entertainment for a small segment of consumers. The idea is that you reap in all the small segment audiences an in theory they will add up to a profitable number total listeners. This will in no way affect the general public's radio consumption, since they can get their fill on FM. It is a direct analogy to cable television. Cable was in no way a threat to free television. If all you wanted was CBS, NBC or ABC and you could already receive it; there would be no reason to get cable. Though if you wanted say an all science fiction channel, tough luck, because it would be impossible for a local television station, to produce a niche channel for such a small audience. With the advent of cable, you could have your cake and eat it too. You could get your CBS, NBC, and your all science fiction channel. Cable's succes is due to not its ablity to reach people that you could via the free method on a local level, it is about creating a large enough audience pool that you can support creating programming to reach the other people that are removed from the 6-7 most marketable genres. All in all, Cable has augmented television, even more so in the age of digital cable. XM has an equal capacity to augment and improve radio in general.
Local FM radio will always have its place. It most likely will change and adjust, but will never go away. What XM does have to compete with though is DMX and internet radio. Essentially FM is completely unphased by niche genre content provided for the reasons above, but XM is already competing with these other mediums.
The only, yet marketable component of XM when compared with the other two, is that it is portable (only in cars and hefty "boom boxes"). If they really want to have any chance at winning the niche genre market they need to produce a "walkman" sized receiver.
DMX is now provided by most digital cable providers as part of their basic service, so they may have a tough time dislodging them. Their best bet in the home market is to strike deals with cable providers to replace DMX with XM. With a deal such as that they could easily become a true household name and have a chance at getting the subscribership that they need to stay in business.
All in all, FM is in no danger from XM, simply because they are pointing at completely different market segments.
It is important to note that this legislation was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by a President who was also a Democrat (and a philanderer, and a liar.. but that's another story.)
Actually the house has been controled by republicans since 1995. And from 1995 until 2001 and now in the up coming congress, republicans have controled the senate as well.
So this was a bill produced by a republican house and senate.
This is an absolutely horrible invention...Just think, before women only "thought" men were near emotionless pigs...Now they will have diffinitive proof...
The one benfit is that, the machine that processes the information could probably be something like a Commador 64, since we tend to have so few emotional states...
Yup. They had NOTHING to do with the decisions made by Union Carbide some 25-30 years ago when this Bhopal facility was being planned.
Correct, but they are now responsible for the enviornmental impact, that the plant has caused. If you choose to work for a corperation that does not own up to its responsibilities and are aware of this, ethically you are as guilty as the CEO.
Making some low level employee of one company accountable for the actions of another company acquired in a financial transaction is the most perverse, twisted notion I have ever encountered.
No one made the single Dow employee that ventured out in the to Bombay parking lot acountable. Neither did any of the protesters hurl the tainted soil at the "poor working stiff". There was no physical attack of any sort. Nor was the the employee halled of in shackles because of the sins of his employer.
Yup. Somebody dropping chemical waste into my immediate environment surely qualifies as an assault on me.
The protesters were not inside the building. They didn't scoop up the tainted soil and plop it on any one's desk. They didn't drop bits in the coffee filters. In essance, for the past two years, the protesters, have been forced to live in the waste that dow is so fearful of. And obviously that was the point of the protest. The protesters brought a sample of the tainted soil as a symbol, if the company's employees would not have anything to do with it, why should those souls have to live in it?
The point of the matter is that Dow does not feel it is responsible for the results of negligence and ineptitue that its purchased company commited. If Dow had just purchased UC rescently and pledged to clean up the mess, I would agree that they have no copablility here, but the fact of the matter is that they have owned UC for nearly two years. They have made no efferts to clean up the mess and completely renounced any responsibility in cleaning up the mess.
Dow didn't kill any of these people. A company that Dow acquired 2 years ago in a financial transaction made some mistakes - and Dow now inherits the liabilities associated with those mistakes.
Yes you are correct, they did not kill the anyone due to the original spill, but in the the past 2 years they have, through negligence, continued to forgo the oppertinuty to make right what was the responsibility of the company it purchased. As you stated, they now own the liability of UC, which they currently deny responibility for.
That does not justify criminal acts against Dow in any way.
There were no criminal charges brough forward. Dow is suing for time lost. It is a tort, not a criminal acusation. If they were violent, or destructive in this case, Dow's actions would not be so deplorable. The fact of the matter is they did not stand in the way of Dow going about its business. Peacefully protesting the criminal neglect commited by a corperation should always be protected.
Bottom line. Dow bought UC, because of its profit potential. Actually last year Dow's revenues raised nearly 5%. The survivors of the tragedy, cannot sue UC. UC is now part of dow, and because of that fact dow is now responsible for cleaning up.
Most Germanic languages tend to make nouns very long. A lot of nouns are composites of other smaller nouns. This is also seen in english(which also is Germanic) but we also us slang to shorten words and phrases. A good example is the word goodbye...In old english, goodbye was actually a phase..."God be with ye"...It was shortened to "goodbye"...Now you find more and more people just say "bye"...
Unfortuanately the shortening of words is usually rather regional. Many times neiboring contries with their own languages, german and danish for example, can converse well since they both share a common root language.
The more proper language is used the better chance for understanding...Whereas if something is ladent with many local slang words, its useful ness declines...Of course this is not always the case with commonly rooted languages...
Add to your list, companies like Redhat, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, oh yeah and Slashdot too.
For Software, the model of giving something away to make a profit is the halmark of the 90's and early 00's. The reason is thoretically when support is factored in software can have an infinate cost to the company that produces it. For most propietary software, where the software support cost is bundled with the cost of purchasing the product, the actual support cost is unknown. For some products after the second or third call, the income from the sale of the software has already been eaten up. Many companies have moved to giving the software away for free and selling the content, the service, support or all three.
A good example is Redhat. They give away, their brand of linux every day. Thousands of people download their product off their website for free. Yes free. What they sell is service and support subscriptions. Also beyond the scope of actual products, Redhat gives away a lot of code and integration time, back to the community. Things like gcc development, kernel code etc.
Yahoo, AOL and MSN all give a way product every day. Yahoo has tons of games, content, free e-mail, all for the minimal price of looking at some advertising. They also have a number of upsells to improve the quality of the free product, but the key is they give it away first. AOL and MSN do simmilar things.
Slashdot, while albiet questionable, provides content that get thousands of comments a day. All for the price of watching the pretty banner add at the top of the screen.
I don't claim to attribute anything to religion. I only comment about the general public's ability to twist and misinterpret religion. The fact of the matter is, in the religious sence all attrocities that are committed, are done by men(human, but mostly men:-)); therefore they are inherently descendant from some sin of some kind(remember god doesn't do sin).
Religion is just a tool. Many use it to accomplish great things for humanity or their community or just themselves. Of course, those are definatele the boring tales. The ones that catch everyones attention are the ones were some one has gone off the deep end, and has taken his followers with him.
Whether it is the greedy or powermonger who wields the tool, the atrocities are generally perpetrated by people at large.
As for bluring the church and state, in most cultures predating the modern age, the church was the state. There was no bluring, they were one in the same.
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Well since we are talking about bringing back the old code, I was wondering if someone could answer these questions sent in to doctor Laura after she said "homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance."
1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)?
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Nothing in the world makes people do more insane and idiotic things, then the belief that their invisible man in the sky is more right and valid then your invisible man in the sky...
Last I heard, China was a communist country?!? Did that suddenly change? I would think that as a good communist, it is your duty, no moral imperitive to make movies availible for for public consumption...These black market vendors are only doing, what the producers of the movie should have done in the first place...
Yeah so they are making a little money on the side, thats just capitolism right? I thought that was a good thing...From the sound of it, I would think that the American government would want to support the black market vendors duplicating chinese produced films since it only helps propogate capitolism and consumerism...:-)
I think you are quite confused...Red light and blue light travel at the same speed, but blue light has a higher frequency...Frequency is the mear measurement at a single point of how many pulses you will would pass you in a given time intervul(sp)...In the prism example, angle of refraction is dependant on the frequency...But that is due to wave theory, not an increase in speed...The speed of light in a meduim is a constant....
As for distance, unobstructed, two different frequencies will travel the the same difference...But though higher frequencies do have much more penetrating power, they also have the abilty to be defracted or scattered more easily...The oldest example is "Why is the sky blue and sunsets are red?"...When the sun is over head blue light strikes particles in the air causing blue light to scatter...Since the sky over head is relitivly close the sky looks blue...For a sunset all of the blue light is scattered hundreds of miles away, the only bits left are the red waves when they get scattered near you...This all is do to the shorter wavelenth of higher frequencies....Basically yes higher frequencies do in fact penitrate more, but due to the fact that the wavelenth is shorter they also interact with much more...This is why it is usually easier to get AM stations in remote areas...FM is much more powerful and can send much more data, but it is much easier to obstruct...
I personally like curose chips...For mobile devices...For laptops the technology is great(if it ever delivers), since it should significantly extend battery life...
As a desktop, the chip is utterly useless...Typically the cost of the morfing code its 20-30% reduction in apparent speed...So basically a 900 MHz crusoe would actually feel like a 600-700 MHz equivilent pentium processor...But this does buy you the fact that the chip is using significally lower power...Unfortunatly in a desktop, the decreased power usage really doesn't do anything for you and in no way makes up for the very poor performance....
Adding to the sad state of affairs with this desktop is price...For a third of the cost one can have themselves a machine with a processor that performs almost 2 to 2.5 faster just based purely on processor speed(the actuall performance differance is significantly higher due to other considerations such as pipelining and such)...I am not sure any fool would spend $1600 for a desk top that is clearly inferror then an e machine...(Well not counting Mac users..:-) )
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Well in general, it is the job of the vice president to make a complete ass out of himself, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Just think how much less flack Daddy Shrub got cause Dan Quail was a moron.
The problem for Al Gore was that there was absolutly no way that he could ever keep up with the controversy that Clinton was capable of stirring up. Clinton was just way too entertaining in comparision.
Lithosphere is defined as "The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere." Basically underground. It was theorized for some time that micro-organisms could be living on mars a couple feet below the surface.
I also ommited the obvious hydrosphere (oceans) as it has also been theorized for years (though recently mostly debunked) that life could exist on Europa beneath the ice caps that envelop it.
Thats a pretty narrow definition of planet. Suddenly there would only be one planet in the current solar system. Maybe three if you count planets that could, or could have thoretically supported life at some time in the past or future. Though if that were the only criterion, I believe there are a couple moons that in theory at some portion of the atmophere or lithosphere could sustain life.
Actually The moon is 2,476 Km, and it does not maintain an atmosphere. So I would doubt that a 700 Km body could sustain one. (And yes I understand just be cause the moon does not have one, that it may very well be capable and that it is just lacking one.)
I have also seen KVMs that respond to double CTRL or double SHIFT..Though there are significantly more that respond to double SCROLL LOCK...On the more POS versions, I have had issues where the double SCROLL LOCK had to be X seconds apart(and the X was way too small a number) so it doesn't help when the music is too loud...:-)
Isn't that what a laptop keyboard is now? :-)
Well in general XM would never be poised to kill radio. The basic fact of the matter is that radio is the way radio is, because most of the general public are lemmings. As the article states, the genres have gone to the crucible and spewing forth came 6-7 distinct flavors. These are there because the market for the programimg is.
For those that actually, fall in to those 6-7 categories of listeners, FM is just fine. They would have no need or desire to pay $10 a month for 100 stations of which 90%-95% fall out of their listening tastes.
XM really will find a niche in listeners who are disenfranchised by FM. I am sorry I cannot take another Creed song, less I go postal and slay all that I work with. My tastes sway a great deal and hardly ever fall in to a marketable segment. For me listening to FM is an utter waste of time. Just more time for the corporate masters to try and feed me marketing and lemming food.
The point of XM is to do something that could never be done on a local level, putting together niche entertainment for a small segment of consumers. The idea is that you reap in all the small segment audiences an in theory they will add up to a profitable number total listeners. This will in no way affect the general public's radio consumption, since they can get their fill on FM. It is a direct analogy to cable television. Cable was in no way a threat to free television. If all you wanted was CBS, NBC or ABC and you could already receive it; there would be no reason to get cable. Though if you wanted say an all science fiction channel, tough luck, because it would be impossible for a local television station, to produce a niche channel for such a small audience. With the advent of cable, you could have your cake and eat it too. You could get your CBS, NBC, and your all science fiction channel. Cable's succes is due to not its ablity to reach people that you could via the free method on a local level, it is about creating a large enough audience pool that you can support creating programming to reach the other people that are removed from the 6-7 most marketable genres. All in all, Cable has augmented television, even more so in the age of digital cable. XM has an equal capacity to augment and improve radio in general.
Local FM radio will always have its place. It most likely will change and adjust, but will never go away. What XM does have to compete with though is DMX and internet radio. Essentially FM is completely unphased by niche genre content provided for the reasons above, but XM is already competing with these other mediums.
The only, yet marketable component of XM when compared with the other two, is that it is portable (only in cars and hefty "boom boxes"). If they really want to have any chance at winning the niche genre market they need to produce a "walkman" sized receiver.
DMX is now provided by most digital cable providers as part of their basic service, so they may have a tough time dislodging them. Their best bet in the home market is to strike deals with cable providers to replace DMX with XM. With a deal such as that they could easily become a true household name and have a chance at getting the subscribership that they need to stay in business. All in all, FM is in no danger from XM, simply because they are pointing at completely different market segments.
It is important to note that this legislation was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by a President who was also a Democrat (and a philanderer, and a liar.. but that's another story.)
Actually the house has been controled by republicans since 1995. And from 1995 until 2001 and now in the up coming congress, republicans have controled the senate as well.
So this was a bill produced by a republican house and senate.
This is an absolutely horrible invention...Just think, before women only "thought" men were near emotionless pigs...Now they will have diffinitive proof...
The one benfit is that, the machine that processes the information could probably be something like a Commador 64, since we tend to have so few emotional states...
Yup. They had NOTHING to do with the decisions made by Union Carbide some 25-30 years ago when this Bhopal facility was being planned.
Correct, but they are now responsible for the enviornmental impact, that the plant has caused. If you choose to work for a corperation that does not own up to its responsibilities and are aware of this, ethically you are as guilty as the CEO.
Making some low level employee of one company accountable for the actions of another company acquired in a financial transaction is the most perverse, twisted notion I have ever encountered.
No one made the single Dow employee that ventured out in the to Bombay parking lot acountable. Neither did any of the protesters hurl the tainted soil at the "poor working stiff". There was no physical attack of any sort. Nor was the the employee halled of in shackles because of the sins of his employer.
Yup. Somebody dropping chemical waste into my immediate environment surely qualifies as an assault on me.
The protesters were not inside the building. They didn't scoop up the tainted soil and plop it on any one's desk. They didn't drop bits in the coffee filters. In essance, for the past two years, the protesters, have been forced to live in the waste that dow is so fearful of. And obviously that was the point of the protest. The protesters brought a sample of the tainted soil as a symbol, if the company's employees would not have anything to do with it, why should those souls have to live in it?
The point of the matter is that Dow does not feel it is responsible for the results of negligence and ineptitue that its purchased company commited. If Dow had just purchased UC rescently and pledged to clean up the mess, I would agree that they have no copablility here, but the fact of the matter is that they have owned UC for nearly two years. They have made no efferts to clean up the mess and completely renounced any responsibility in cleaning up the mess.
Dow didn't kill any of these people. A company that Dow acquired 2 years ago in a financial transaction made some mistakes - and Dow now inherits the liabilities associated with those mistakes.
Yes you are correct, they did not kill the anyone due to the original spill, but in the the past 2 years they have, through negligence, continued to forgo the oppertinuty to make right what was the responsibility of the company it purchased. As you stated, they now own the liability of UC, which they currently deny responibility for.
That does not justify criminal acts against Dow in any way.
There were no criminal charges brough forward. Dow is suing for time lost. It is a tort, not a criminal acusation. If they were violent, or destructive in this case, Dow's actions would not be so deplorable. The fact of the matter is they did not stand in the way of Dow going about its business. Peacefully protesting the criminal neglect commited by a corperation should always be protected.
Bottom line. Dow bought UC, because of its profit potential. Actually last year Dow's revenues raised nearly 5%. The survivors of the tragedy, cannot sue UC. UC is now part of dow, and because of that fact dow is now responsible for cleaning up.
Most Germanic languages tend to make nouns very long. A lot of nouns are composites of other smaller nouns. This is also seen in english(which also is Germanic) but we also us slang to shorten words and phrases. A good example is the word goodbye...In old english, goodbye was actually a phase..."God be with ye"...It was shortened to "goodbye"...Now you find more and more people just say "bye"... Unfortuanately the shortening of words is usually rather regional. Many times neiboring contries with their own languages, german and danish for example, can converse well since they both share a common root language. The more proper language is used the better chance for understanding...Whereas if something is ladent with many local slang words, its useful ness declines...Of course this is not always the case with commonly rooted languages...
Add to your list, companies like Redhat, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, oh yeah and Slashdot too.
For Software, the model of giving something away to make a profit is the halmark of the 90's and early 00's. The reason is thoretically when support is factored in software can have an infinate cost to the company that produces it. For most propietary software, where the software support cost is bundled with the cost of purchasing the product, the actual support cost is unknown. For some products after the second or third call, the income from the sale of the software has already been eaten up. Many companies have moved to giving the software away for free and selling the content, the service, support or all three.
A good example is Redhat. They give away, their brand of linux every day. Thousands of people download their product off their website for free. Yes free. What they sell is service and support subscriptions. Also beyond the scope of actual products, Redhat gives away a lot of code and integration time, back to the community. Things like gcc development, kernel code etc.
Yahoo, AOL and MSN all give a way product every day. Yahoo has tons of games, content, free e-mail, all for the minimal price of looking at some advertising. They also have a number of upsells to improve the quality of the free product, but the key is they give it away first. AOL and MSN do simmilar things.
Slashdot, while albiet questionable, provides content that get thousands of comments a day. All for the price of watching the pretty banner add at the top of the screen.
I don't claim to attribute anything to religion. I only comment about the general public's ability to twist and misinterpret religion. The fact of the matter is, in the religious sence all attrocities that are committed, are done by men(human, but mostly men :-)); therefore they are inherently descendant from some sin of some kind(remember god doesn't do sin).
Religion is just a tool. Many use it to accomplish great things for humanity or their community or just themselves. Of course, those are definatele the boring tales. The ones that catch everyones attention are the ones were some one has gone off the deep end, and has taken his followers with him.
Whether it is the greedy or powermonger who wields the tool, the atrocities are generally perpetrated by people at large.
As for bluring the church and state, in most cultures predating the modern age, the church was the state. There was no bluring, they were one in the same.
Well since we are talking about bringing back the old code, I was wondering if someone could answer these questions sent in to doctor Laura after she said "homosexuality is an abomination according to
Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance."
1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a
pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They
claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus
21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her
period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I
tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and
female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of
mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you
clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2
clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill
him myself?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an
abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality.
I don't agree. Can you settle this?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a
defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my
vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair
around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.
19:27. How
should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me
unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different
crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two
different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse
and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble
of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't
we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with
people
who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)?
Nothing in the world makes people do more insane and idiotic things, then the belief that their invisible man in the sky is more right and valid then your invisible man in the sky...
Shhhhh! Don't give the RIAA, MPAA or the representive from Disney any ideas...
Just what we need Micky Mouse with and electric chair..
How many bad dubs of Jackie chan and Jet Li do we have to suffer though before we can claim chinese movies are forced on the rest of the world?
How many operation condors do we need to have before we can claim that china forces their shite on the rest of the world?
Last I heard, China was a communist country?!? Did that suddenly change? I would think that as a good communist, it is your duty, no moral imperitive to make movies availible for for public consumption...These black market vendors are only doing, what the producers of the movie should have done in the first place... :-)
Yeah so they are making a little money on the side, thats just capitolism right? I thought that was a good thing...From the sound of it, I would think that the American government would want to support the black market vendors duplicating chinese produced films since it only helps propogate capitolism and consumerism...
I think you are quite confused...Red light and blue light travel at the same speed, but blue light has a higher frequency...Frequency is the mear measurement at a single point of how many pulses you will would pass you in a given time intervul(sp)...In the prism example, angle of refraction is dependant on the frequency...But that is due to wave theory, not an increase in speed...The speed of light in a meduim is a constant.... As for distance, unobstructed, two different frequencies will travel the the same difference...But though higher frequencies do have much more penetrating power, they also have the abilty to be defracted or scattered more easily...The oldest example is "Why is the sky blue and sunsets are red?"...When the sun is over head blue light strikes particles in the air causing blue light to scatter...Since the sky over head is relitivly close the sky looks blue...For a sunset all of the blue light is scattered hundreds of miles away, the only bits left are the red waves when they get scattered near you...This all is do to the shorter wavelenth of higher frequencies....Basically yes higher frequencies do in fact penitrate more, but due to the fact that the wavelenth is shorter they also interact with much more...This is why it is usually easier to get AM stations in remote areas...FM is much more powerful and can send much more data, but it is much easier to obstruct...
I personally like curose chips...For mobile devices...For laptops the technology is great(if it ever delivers), since it should significantly extend battery life...
As a desktop, the chip is utterly useless...Typically the cost of the morfing code its 20-30% reduction in apparent speed...So basically a 900 MHz crusoe would actually feel like a 600-700 MHz equivilent pentium processor...But this does buy you the fact that the chip is using significally lower power...Unfortunatly in a desktop, the decreased power usage really doesn't do anything for you and in no way makes up for the very poor performance....
Adding to the sad state of affairs with this desktop is price...For a third of the cost one can have themselves a machine with a processor that performs almost 2 to 2.5 faster just based purely on processor speed(the actuall performance differance is significantly higher due to other considerations such as pipelining and such)...I am not sure any fool would spend $1600 for a desk top that is clearly inferror then an e machine...(Well not counting Mac users..:-) )