God created the world in seven days because it sounded good to put it that way -- the author wasn't trying to say anything deep or important by saying "seven days".
Actually, I think the author was trying to show where weeks come from, and why the seventh day (Sabbath) is a day off....
The advantages are that (1) geeks love swords, (2) there's no temptation to use it in a fistfight, and (3) in my experience, there are always hot chicks in fencing classes.:D x 1 million
If there is one thing that I'll certainly support is help for farmers. Hey, they put food on my table.
Oh, thank you for saying this. So many people who've lived all their lives in major cities just can't get this point through their heads. Here in Canada, we once had a Prime Minister who had the nerve to say to farmers, "Why should I sell your wheat?":p
Well, you could use the model that much of Europe uses, in which post-secondary education is free, but you need to pass really, really hard tests to get in. Then it's completely merit-based, and Daddy's money won't help you. (Come to think of it, the CEO's kid could end up doing menial labour.):D
Why would I want a global economy?? From what I can see, it is beneficial to everyone EXCEPT the US.
Well, how's this. I'm Canadian, and after NAFTA came in, Wal-Mart bought out Wolco and now competes with Zellers (a Canadian company).
Now, Wal-Mart's an American business, right? And it's got a good (well, for it) business model: undercut the hell out of the competition until they go out of business, then raise the prices. So, say 10 years from now, Wal-Mart kills Zellers. Then all the Canadian money that would have gone to Zellers and stayed in the Canadian economy goes to Wal-Mart, and into the American economy. (As a point of comparison, Canada's population is about the same as California's, and our GDP is roughtly-equal to that of Texas.)
So, sure the global economy may shaft the US on labour (does the same thing to Canada all first-world countries, BTW). But when the rest of us have to let your powerful corporations operate in our countries and kill off local businesses, then you, my friends, are the ones shafting us.
Another point that a lot of you seem to be missing is that it isn't your government's job to do what's "right", it's job is to look out for you. So if you're getting shafted by the outshore off-sourcing, then it has every right to penalize companies who do it. Of course, the other governments have the right to do the same (the "trade war" some people have been talking about).
So folks in the UK have tyres on their autos? Hey, cool, I thought the only difference between British and North American cars was that the Britishones ran on petrol instead of gas!;-)
Actually, in Canada, we use a somewhat inconsistent mix of British and American spellings, ie.:
We must defend the honour of our organization.
Of course, that example is completely contrived, but it illustrates the point: British "honour" instead of American "honor", and American "organization" instead of British "organisation". Most people here are okay with either spelling (us zealots aside;-) ).
If you're truly serious, you'll find that the exact words are unimportant if you're able to understand their intent. That's what the NIV Bible is trying to accomplish (although I don't agree with their results, but that's another matter). This ain't easy, however -- it generally requires a pretty good understanding of the era in which the sources were written, the sorts of mythology from which certain portions are lifted or evolved from, etc.
I've found the New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV) and the Complete Gospels to do a good job of putting stuff in its historical context. They're both good study resources, from both a spiritual and a secular viewpoint.
In Canada, each province used to have a publicly-owned telephone system (SaskTel, MTS, etc.). In the past 10-20 years (roughly, since NAFTA), they've been going private (I think SaskTel is the exception). So huge telephone companies are a bit of a new thing up here.:-)
all we need is an anchor on CNN (they're AOLTIMEWARNER, RIGHT? They *could* easily push firebird/mozilla) to do a 1 minute piece about how IE sucks and Firebird is better.
If Microsoft did this, the whole Slashdot community would denounce the action as evil; ergo, it's just as evil for our guys to do it.
Besides, there's already enough propaganda on CNN!:-)
Yet, I don't think westerners have much to do with the Egyptian ban on Islamist parties. The Egyptian constitution does ban them, not the US or EU or whoever else.
Quite right, certainly. I just meant that we Westerners seem to be adamantly against Islamist politics in the Middle East, regardless of what the majority in the Islamic countries think.
\begin{controversy} Case in point: post-war Iraq. Many in the Shiite majority would like Iraq to be an Islamic state. (Makes sense: Hussein & Company -> secular devils who killed many Iraqis. USA -> secular devils who killed many Iraqis.) But Rumsfeld has said something to the effect of, "That isn't going to happen," and the US, last I checked, plans to install a pro-Western government in Iraq.\end{controversy} Of course, that issue itself is a whole big complicated can of worms with many ethical sides.
Egyptian law actually bans Islamist political parties. Because Egypt has a HUGE problem with radical Islamism.
Err, on a purely abstract, pro-democracy level, if the majority of a nation's citizens genuinely want a fundamentalist Islamic state, then don't they have a right to it, whether we Westerners like it or not?
I'm not really trying to argue with the parent poster here... I'm just surprised that this idea doesn't seem to be entering into anyone's thoughts.
One nice thing about a laptop is that if you have to give any presentations, you can bring in your own laptop to connect to a projector. (Having your own laptop is nice for this when you use OpenOffice on an MS-centric campus).
Of course, laptops have the downside of high price, and low upgradability... I can't play any new games on my laptop.:-p
Neal H. Walfield is in charge of porting the Hurd to L4. He's waiting for the Pistachio implementation to be released (which is
promised to be soon).
L4 is independent of the Hurd. It's a research-project started by Prof. Jochen Lietdke. It's performance seems to be good (unlike Mach's), and its structure is very different from that of Mach, so the Hurd developers want to port the Hurd to L4.
Universities (i.e. locations where you get Bachelor degrees, not sure if they are called that in the U.S.)
An American I know told me that is the U.S., an institution is a college if it just offers Bachelor's degrees, and a university if it has Masters' programs.
All that, and I didn't have to use a strange tree-structured pager that poorly identifies links and doesn't behave like lynx or any other similar text-mode document navigation tool I am familiar with.
info, the program, is just one (default) info file viewer. There's also pinfo (which is Lynx-like), Emacs, and the KDE and GNOME help browsers, among other things that read info-format files.
Slashdot Mirror
No, take my pants off and you have the world's finest lady-pleasuring device.
Trust me, it works.
Except for the whole age of consent thing.... ;)
Actually, I think the author was trying to show where weeks come from, and why the seventh day (Sabbath) is a day off....
Or maybe not.... :p
He says it's all moot now.
Of course, being a fencer, I'm highly biased. :)
The advantages are that (1) geeks love swords, (2) there's no temptation to use it in a fistfight, and (3) in my experience, there are always hot chicks in fencing classes. :D x 1 million
No... no, I can honestly say I didn't.
That IS strange.
Right here.
My ex said this looked cool AFTER we broke up. Grrrrr.....
Seiously, though, I think this'd be every geek's dream come true.
Paul Martin seems promising.
I've heard that Paul Martin also favours closer ties to the US, which has the potential to run Canadian sovreignty entirely.
If there is one thing that I'll certainly support is help for farmers. Hey, they put food on my table.
Oh, thank you for saying this. So many people who've lived all their lives in major cities just can't get this point through their heads. Here in Canada, we once had a Prime Minister who had the nerve to say to farmers, "Why should I sell your wheat?" :p
Well, you could use the model that much of Europe uses, in which post-secondary education is free, but you need to pass really, really hard tests to get in. Then it's completely merit-based, and Daddy's money won't help you. (Come to think of it, the CEO's kid could end up doing menial labour.) :D
Why would I want a global economy?? From what I can see, it is beneficial to everyone EXCEPT the US.
Well, how's this. I'm Canadian, and after NAFTA came in, Wal-Mart bought out Wolco and now competes with Zellers (a Canadian company).
Now, Wal-Mart's an American business, right? And it's got a good (well, for it) business model: undercut the hell out of the competition until they go out of business, then raise the prices. So, say 10 years from now, Wal-Mart kills Zellers. Then all the Canadian money that would have gone to Zellers and stayed in the Canadian economy goes to Wal-Mart, and into the American economy. (As a point of comparison, Canada's population is about the same as California's, and our GDP is roughtly-equal to that of Texas.)
So, sure the global economy may shaft the US on labour (does the same thing to Canada all first-world countries, BTW). But when the rest of us have to let your powerful corporations operate in our countries and kill off local businesses, then you, my friends, are the ones shafting us.
Another point that a lot of you seem to be missing is that it isn't your government's job to do what's "right", it's job is to look out for you. So if you're getting shafted by the outshore off-sourcing, then it has every right to penalize companies who do it. Of course, the other governments have the right to do the same (the "trade war" some people have been talking about).
So folks in the UK have tyres on their autos? Hey, cool, I thought the only difference between British and North American cars was that the Britishones ran on petrol instead of gas! ;-)
Seriously, though, thanks for enlighening me. =)
Actually, in Canada, we use a somewhat inconsistent mix of British and American spellings, ie.:
We must defend the honour of our organization.
Of course, that example is completely contrived, but it illustrates the point: British "honour" instead of American "honor", and American "organization" instead of British "organisation". Most people here are okay with either spelling (us zealots aside ;-) ).
If you're truly serious, you'll find that the exact words are unimportant if you're able to understand their intent. That's what the NIV Bible is trying to accomplish (although I don't agree with their results, but that's another matter). This ain't easy, however -- it generally requires a pretty good understanding of the era in which the sources were written, the sorts of mythology from which certain portions are lifted or evolved from, etc.
I've found the New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV) and the Complete Gospels to do a good job of putting stuff in its historical context. They're both good study resources, from both a spiritual and a secular viewpoint.
In Canada, each province used to have a publicly-owned telephone system (SaskTel, MTS, etc.). In the past 10-20 years (roughly, since NAFTA), they've been going private (I think SaskTel is the exception). So huge telephone companies are a bit of a new thing up here. :-)
BTW, Legal Aid Manitoba has switched its desktops to Linux, saved a bunch of money, and they're on the whole, very happy with the switch.
They're also promoting Linux to other government departments in Manitoba.
all we need is an anchor on CNN (they're AOLTIMEWARNER, RIGHT? They *could* easily push firebird/mozilla) to do a 1 minute piece about how IE sucks and Firebird is better.
If Microsoft did this, the whole Slashdot community would denounce the action as evil; ergo, it's just as evil for our guys to do it.
Besides, there's already enough propaganda on CNN! :-)
Yet, I don't think westerners have much to do with the Egyptian ban on Islamist parties. The Egyptian constitution does ban them, not the US or EU or whoever else.
Quite right, certainly. I just meant that we Westerners seem to be adamantly against Islamist politics in the Middle East, regardless of what the majority in the Islamic countries think.
\begin{controversy} Case in point: post-war Iraq. Many in the Shiite majority would like Iraq to be an Islamic state. (Makes sense: Hussein & Company -> secular devils who killed many Iraqis. USA -> secular devils who killed many Iraqis.) But Rumsfeld has said something to the effect of, "That isn't going to happen," and the US, last I checked, plans to install a pro-Western government in Iraq.\end{controversy} Of course, that issue itself is a whole big complicated can of worms with many ethical sides.
BTW, love your sig!
Egyptian law actually bans Islamist political parties. Because Egypt has a HUGE problem with radical Islamism.
Err, on a purely abstract, pro-democracy level, if the majority of a nation's citizens genuinely want a fundamentalist Islamic state, then don't they have a right to it, whether we Westerners like it or not?
I'm not really trying to argue with the parent poster here... I'm just surprised that this idea doesn't seem to be entering into anyone's thoughts.
One nice thing about a laptop is that if you have to give any presentations, you can bring in your own laptop to connect to a projector. (Having your own laptop is nice for this when you use OpenOffice on an MS-centric campus).
:-p
Of course, laptops have the downside of high price, and low upgradability... I can't play any new games on my laptop.
Actually, many of us Debian users don't wait for it to hit the offical stable archives. From my /etc/apt/sources.list:
# I want my KDE3, dammit!
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main
Neal H. Walfield is in charge of porting the Hurd to L4. He's waiting for the Pistachio implementation to be released (which is promised to be soon).
L4 is independent of the Hurd. It's a research-project started by Prof. Jochen Lietdke. It's performance seems to be good (unlike Mach's), and its structure is very different from that of Mach, so the Hurd developers want to port the Hurd to L4.
I've been wanting a standalone Mozilla-based mail client for a while. Kudos to the Minotaur team! I'm looking forward to trying it out. =)
Universities (i.e. locations where you get Bachelor degrees, not sure if they are called that in the U.S.)
An American I know told me that is the U.S., an institution is a college if it just offers Bachelor's degrees, and a university if it has Masters' programs.
All that, and I didn't have to use a strange tree-structured pager that poorly identifies links and doesn't behave like lynx or any other similar text-mode document navigation tool I am familiar with.
info, the program, is just one (default) info file viewer. There's also pinfo (which is Lynx-like), Emacs, and the KDE and GNOME help browsers, among other things that read info-format files.