You don't associate with anyone who drinks alcohol? I'd heard about geek basement-recluses, but I never thought you could go a day without associating with anyone who didn't drink alcohol.
I mean, I only recently found out that I could actually stomach whiskey without gagging (Irish, at least. Scotch leaves a nasty taste in my mouth), so I didn't drink prior to that. But pretty much the entire world drinks.
Point the first: The commandment typically reads "Thou shalt have no other gods before me", implying that Judaism recognizes other gods (and they'd be fools not to, with paganism rampant), more specifically as being inferior to the one God.
Point the second: Historical references are confused, mainly because they were often written long after the fact, but most likely Jesus did not claim to be divinity. He had it bestowed upon him some 30-100 years later, in the various gospels (some of which portray old-testament God as completely different than new-testament God, for example)
No, Jesus was an exemplary Jew. However, he was an apocalyptic rabbi. He preached about the end of times and how it would happen soon, possibly right after his own generation. Presumably because he believed in it.
Judaism was rather divided on the subject, and had heated debates. This could be construed as being against Jesus. The Pharisees (oft considered his enemies) were rather innovative with religious interpretation, while simulatenously adhering strictly to the letter of their interpretations.
Jesus, OTOH, was more open to the spirit of the laws, and more of a traditionalist, going by his trackrecord.
Look, when you've rescued some hostages but forgot a few, do you want to drag their sorry butts through the entire map? No, so you cap 'em and win the round.
I can see how this would not be beneficial to international relationships, but Counterstrike solves this by not having this 'international' thing; just terrorists and counter-terrorists.
That would be too simple. Make it one beer, laced with component 1 of some tasty epoxy. Let's call it Beer 1. Make all other beer present, Beer 2, contain component 2 of some tasty epoxy.
Serve Beer 2 to winner quickly after he finishes Beer 1. Everyone else will be fine, and for some mysterious reason, the winner collapses into a painful heap.
Finding a tasty epoxy is going to be tricky though. -- Frank
Read. Comprehended. Considered. His analogy is still a crock of milk. My idea, here, is that paying ultra-low wages is dehumanizing and directly harmful to people, and should be forbidden, whereas if you could buy a gallon of milk for $0.02, that would not dehumanizing, and thus would require no restrictions
The idea wasn't to benefit society by increasing those wages of Walmart wageslaves, the idea is to stop underpaying people who need the money to actually be able to live without holding three jobs. The milk thing was just totally unfounded, pointless, etc.
We're actually allowed to have backup copies of movies and music. Nothing illegal in having a DivX of some movie, and no need to own the original.
Movies not out yet, of course, could be problematic.
Anyway, empty DVDs get a tax of either.5 or 1 Euro (depending on the type) per disc. So I buy them from Germany, where I can buy whole quality discs for as low as 30-40 cents per disc. The same will happen with MP3 players.
I'm Dutch, and have been for the past 26 years. For the past 20 years or so I've been capable of naming coins. No, it isn't.
Given that farthings have also gone right out of fashion, it might've been, once, but to say that a doit is a Dutch coin is like saying that the US is a fine colony of the British Empire.
But thanks for the old term, I like stuff like that. Never heard of it before. We do (did) have: cent, stuiver, duppie/dubbeltje, heitje/kwartje, kwartje, gulden/piek, knaak/rijksdaalder. Now, of course, we have those crappy Euro things, which have made things expensive and have about as much character as the Dutch Prime Minister.
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True. They could always switch it with the exhaust fan, of course.
The X-box has existed for three years and is still going strong. In that time I have purchased a new computer already, as most gamers do. It was more expensive than an X-Box.
The graphics aren't bad, and it's easy to just pop in a disc and start playing, which is less so on a PC.
While I prefer PC gaming as a whole, there ain't nothing wrong with consoles.
(some of) Your points are the exact things that the braindead spout out. About what I'd expect from a Rick, of the Young Ones. Your use of the word "fascist", therefore, was amusing.
An example is: "Creativity enhancing drugs like Cannabis"? It might make a person more susceptible to loose association, but it's nothing that a little work and training won't be able to achieve. Besides, productivity counts for something, and people who are stoned are typically aproductive..
Drugs cause paranoia and inferiority anxiety. See the proof above you.
For the chemical example, I once had some classmates who found the recipe for some sort of nerve toxin, requiring relatively simple chemical ingredients. They got pretty close to possibly getting the thing done during lab, as I understand it, judging by the teacher's reaction.
Thought without curiosity provides cultural death. Curiosity without thought provides Darwin Awards. Both must be equally guarded against.
Case 1: Hence the very strong reusable container, and the potential expansion with an alarm. Case 2: Every single day? That could get annoying. Bad-idea-charity requiring a commitment is less likely to succeed, I think.
Biometrics as a security measure has its drawbacks, mainly because some people will not worry too much over cutting off a victim's finger. But there are other areas where biometric identification can apply.
I could imagine getting pain or sleeping medication in a secure container that checked your fingerprint, and distributed the appropriate dosage only to the correct individual, for example. This would prevent someone swallowing the all the pills in the bottle (ie., attempted suicide), or giving medication to someone who shouldn't have it (painkillers and sleeping pills can become addictive, and some people ask 'friends' for them). Return the container to get your new dose.
To get really fancy, install a screamer circuit that alerts the local pharmacist or housedoctor when the container is breached; this would require a widely and cheaply available wireless network, though.
While this may technically be 'security', it's unlikely people will cut off fingers to get through it.
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You don't associate with anyone who drinks alcohol? I'd heard about geek basement-recluses, but I never thought you could go a day without associating with anyone who didn't drink alcohol.
I mean, I only recently found out that I could actually stomach whiskey without gagging (Irish, at least. Scotch leaves a nasty taste in my mouth), so I didn't drink prior to that. But pretty much the entire world drinks.
Point the first: The commandment typically reads "Thou shalt have no other gods before me", implying that Judaism recognizes other gods (and they'd be fools not to, with paganism rampant), more specifically as being inferior to the one God.
Point the second: Historical references are confused, mainly because they were often written long after the fact, but most likely Jesus did not claim to be divinity. He had it bestowed upon him some 30-100 years later, in the various gospels (some of which portray old-testament God as completely different than new-testament God, for example)
No, Jesus was an exemplary Jew. However, he was an apocalyptic rabbi. He preached about the end of times and how it would happen soon, possibly right after his own generation. Presumably because he believed in it.
Judaism was rather divided on the subject, and had heated debates. This could be construed as being against Jesus. The Pharisees (oft considered his enemies) were rather innovative with religious interpretation, while simulatenously adhering strictly to the letter of their interpretations.
Jesus, OTOH, was more open to the spirit of the laws, and more of a traditionalist, going by his trackrecord.
So you're saying that, rather than the default install, you want a custom install. And to do this, you have to select custom install.
How, precisely, does this deviate from the only sane method of software installation under Windows?
God damn you, you just described me perfectly. Of course, I'm only staying home 'cause I'm still in college.
All keys can be 'any' key, so just hit any key. ...
Doh!
Look, when you've rescued some hostages but forgot a few, do you want to drag their sorry butts through the entire map? No, so you cap 'em and win the round.
I can see how this would not be beneficial to international relationships, but Counterstrike solves this by not having this 'international' thing; just terrorists and counter-terrorists.
That would be too simple. Make it one beer, laced with component 1 of some tasty epoxy. Let's call it Beer 1. Make all other beer present, Beer 2, contain component 2 of some tasty epoxy.
Serve Beer 2 to winner quickly after he finishes Beer 1. Everyone else will be fine, and for some mysterious reason, the winner collapses into a painful heap.
Finding a tasty epoxy is going to be tricky though.
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They got 1TB of memory and 25TB of drivespace.
There's the slightest possibility that they might also have webservers capable of withstanding the onslaught of the Geekish Horde.
Slashdot is nothing if not redundant. In this case, though, the story is not (yet) a dupe.
The idea wasn't to benefit society by increasing those wages of Walmart wageslaves, the idea is to stop underpaying people who need the money to actually be able to live without holding three jobs. The milk thing was just totally unfounded, pointless, etc.
You are accusing him of being a heartless bastard to gallons of milk for not giving them more dollars.
Whose logic are you calling amusing, again?
What kind of SICK world is this where carrying a gun to the office is frowned upon, but unleashing a lawyer is actually recommended?
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There is NO excuse for bringing legal aids into this. Remember, kids, people don't sue people, lawyers sue people.
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We're actually allowed to have backup copies of movies and music. Nothing illegal in having a DivX of some movie, and no need to own the original.
.5 or 1 Euro (depending on the type) per disc. So I buy them from Germany, where I can buy whole quality discs for as low as 30-40 cents per disc. The same will happen with MP3 players.
Movies not out yet, of course, could be problematic.
Anyway, empty DVDs get a tax of either
Fuck 'em, I say.
Of course, hit grammar sucks, as it should be:
(note commas)I'm Dutch, and have been for the past 26 years. For the past 20 years or so I've been capable of naming coins. No, it isn't.
Given that farthings have also gone right out of fashion, it might've been, once, but to say that a doit is a Dutch coin is like saying that the US is a fine colony of the British Empire.
But thanks for the old term, I like stuff like that. Never heard of it before. We do (did) have: cent, stuiver, duppie/dubbeltje, heitje/kwartje, kwartje, gulden/piek, knaak/rijksdaalder. Now, of course, we have those crappy Euro things, which have made things expensive and have about as much character as the Dutch Prime Minister.
True. They could always switch it with the exhaust fan, of course.
The X-box has existed for three years and is still going strong. In that time I have purchased a new computer already, as most gamers do. It was more expensive than an X-Box.
The graphics aren't bad, and it's easy to just pop in a disc and start playing, which is less so on a PC.
While I prefer PC gaming as a whole, there ain't nothing wrong with consoles.
(some of) Your points are the exact things that the braindead spout out. About what I'd expect from a Rick, of the Young Ones. Your use of the word "fascist", therefore, was amusing.
An example is: "Creativity enhancing drugs like Cannabis"? It might make a person more susceptible to loose association, but it's nothing that a little work and training won't be able to achieve. Besides, productivity counts for something, and people who are stoned are typically aproductive..
Drugs cause paranoia and inferiority anxiety. See the proof above you.
For the chemical example, I once had some classmates who found the recipe for some sort of nerve toxin, requiring relatively simple chemical ingredients. They got pretty close to possibly getting the thing done during lab, as I understand it, judging by the teacher's reaction.
Thought without curiosity provides cultural death.
Curiosity without thought provides Darwin Awards.
Both must be equally guarded against.
We have CD's now. They're like 'records', but smaller, and shiny!
Maybe they DID have a space program and they'll be back to wipe us all out once we try to bust out of their wildlife reserve?
Case 1: Hence the very strong reusable container, and the potential expansion with an alarm.
Case 2: Every single day? That could get annoying. Bad-idea-charity requiring a commitment is less likely to succeed, I think.
Biometrics as a security measure has its drawbacks, mainly because some people will not worry too much over cutting off a victim's finger. But there are other areas where biometric identification can apply.
I could imagine getting pain or sleeping medication in a secure container that checked your fingerprint, and distributed the appropriate dosage only to the correct individual, for example. This would prevent someone swallowing the all the pills in the bottle (ie., attempted suicide), or giving medication to someone who shouldn't have it (painkillers and sleeping pills can become addictive, and some people ask 'friends' for them). Return the container to get your new dose.
To get really fancy, install a screamer circuit that alerts the local pharmacist or housedoctor when the container is breached; this would require a widely and cheaply available wireless network, though.
While this may technically be 'security', it's unlikely people will cut off fingers to get through it.
That's a horrible joke, and you deserve to be sent consecutively to each dimension of Hell for that.
:-)
But this is Slashdot, so at least your audience has been desensitized.
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