--Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead.
You're confusing cause an effect. A person says they are dead because they have determined that they have ascended to Heaven (or descended to Hell).
I'm just guessing but maybe he's refering to the Christian belief in "Judgement day". You know, When Jesus returns, the "dead shall rise", and all are judged. Those worthy get an E ticket to heaven (at that point in time) and the rest are left here on earth to suffer horribly amoung the poisonous locusts and the newly crated lakes of fire.
Please, someone who has a clue about this Judgement thingy please pipe up. It does seem to conflict with the "Mommy's in heaven now" statements you always hear from the clergy.
When the Chinese looked towards Japan (east) they see a rising sun, so the chinese characters for Japan represent a sun (ri4) and its origin (ben3). Japan didn't have a writing system of their own and through a protracted process adopted the Chinese characters even tho the language was totally different (approx 5th century). The character for ri4 meant "sun" and was mapped by the japanese to the word 'Ni' which meant the same. The chinese character (ben3) which meant "origin" was mapped by the japanese to the word 'hon' which also meant "origin"
Hence the Chinese (and thus Japanese) characters for Japan mean "Land of the rising Sun" AS SEEN FROM CHINA.
We have a DBA with skills in both "kiss-ass" and "BS" making 95K/yr even though it turns out we all know SQL better than he does. But no matter how good he impresses the PHBs, he never would have gotten the position if he didn't have a CS degree.
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Also the Apple Intel Dev boxs seem to ship with BIOS.
The AC may be wrong, but I havent seen anything to indicate that. If you could cite something, that would be helpful since I'm really interested in the Apple X86 Laptops but the EFI turns me cold.
Should she still be in jail after he is age 18, if, as an adult, he can retroactively say he was not victimized?
Reminds me of a case in Illinois. 16 yr old male dates 14 yr old female. They fall in love, Two years later she's pregnant, but now he's 18 and she's 16. Even tho they have plans to get married, the girls parents like the guy, etc, the state comes in, like the spanish inquisition, stating that the pregnancy was due to sex between an adult and a minor. Despite the protesting of everyone involved, they arrest, convict, and incarcerate the father/husband for the betterment of mankind.
it's certainly not racist unless.. it is a prejudice based on race.
I hope I did not construe meaning that you did not intent, my appologies if this paraphrase is not correct.
Being overly suspicious and untrusting of [white] society because of your past experiences can hardly be called racism.
I see a contridiction here. Blacks assume whites are always racist, yet this is not a racial prejudice against white people? How is this not racism?
As a child, I went through a "Beat up the whities day" at Miramar Elementary, FL (pure racism). If I am overly suspicious and untrusting of Blacks am I NOT racist because I had an experience?
it's certainly not racist unless it implies an innate inferiority of certain races
Understand that racism has nothing to do with Minority or Majority status. It's merely making an assumption based upon race. If you think that Chinese people are smarter, that Blacks are better at sports, that Jews are better scientists then you are guilty of racism.
Don't confuse and mix up the definitions of racism, discrimination, and the experiences of the Black people in america. They experience a lot of racism, but that doesn't redefine the word so that it only applies to thier situation.
If they look like they're forcing their results to fit ID, science won't like it. And if they look like they're deriving some theory that could be ID but also couldn't be, the Church won't like it.
Which Church? The Vatican seems to be leaning away from ID.
"Today, nearly half a century after appearance of the encyclical, fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis." -- Pope John Paul II, 1996
"'Intelligent Design' isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms" -- Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, 2005
"A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false.. (Evolution) is more than a hypothesis because there is proof." -- Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of the Vatican project STOQ, 2005
"The faithful have the obligation to listen to that which secular modern science has to offer, just as we ask that knowledge of the faith be taken in consideration as an expert voice in humanity" -- Cardinal Paul Poupard, the Pontifical Council for Culture, 2005
But then there is the current Pope.
"These people, fooled by atheism, believe and try to demonstrate that it's scientific to think that everything is free of direction and order.." -- Pope Benedict XVI, 2005
By that argument, almost any member of an oppressed minority is likely to be a "racist" since oppressive social conditions often lead to that kind of thinking/behavior
Maybe you can't blame them, but that doesn't change the fact that it is still racism.
That anti-social dog of yours is still anti-social regardless of the root cause.
It seems that the large, flat expanses of Africa are more conducive to the evolution of bipedal locomotion; which is the most effecient form of leg-based movement for endurance and traversing long distances (bepedalism is essentially a pendulum).
I'm not sure if you meant "most efficient for humans".
Otherwise Studies show otherwise..
1. our Miocene hominoid ancestor was probably not an efficient quadruped since modern hominoids are inefficient quadrupeds, and 2. hominid bipedalism is as efficient as average mammalian quadrupedalism at normal speeds. The first point was proved by Taylor & Rowntree, who tested two chimpanzees for energetic efficiency during bipedalism and quadrupedalism and found the surprising result that the two patterns used about the same amount of energy. Both gaits used 50% more energy than the average quadrupedal mammal. Such a result makes sense because the hominoid body is adapted to a certain style of arboreal locomotion which makes terrestrial gait energetically costly. The second point is confirmed by recalculating the energy expenditure of humans and chimpanzees walking at normal speeds: the human energetic cost is about average for the mammals, but the chimpanzee still uses about 50% more energy per body weight.
To sum up:
For non-human hominids, their is no efficiency gain for bipedalism.
For humans, bipedalism is the most efficient and we are the best at it,
but our best is only equal to the average mammalian quadruped gait.
and it just plain sucks to be a chimpanze on the ground no matter what.
Reuters: "Security guards smashed their way into an official limousine with sledgehammers on Monday to rescue Thailand's finance minister after his car's computer failed."
If you don't want to be monitored, buckle down and put a different OS on it. With XP, your always going to be risking something when you install a game or play a CD.
My wifes Thinkpad's going to get OpenSuse as soon as I can get from her.
but they dont take down the daemons it's using, or screw up the module for the executable format too. there are other apps with a bunch more bugs and memory leaks but they dont do the damage that java does.
I've heard a lot of commnets about Java, both positive and negative. But I've never heard anyone suggest that it, an interpreted language, can cause a Unix system to become unstable. Is that what you are trying to say?
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You're confusing cause an effect. A person says they are dead because they have determined that they have ascended to Heaven (or descended to Hell).
I'm just guessing but maybe he's refering to the Christian belief in "Judgement day". You know, When Jesus returns, the "dead shall rise", and all are judged. Those worthy get an E ticket to heaven (at that point in time) and the rest are left here on earth to suffer horribly amoung the poisonous locusts and the newly crated lakes of fire.
Please, someone who has a clue about this Judgement thingy please pipe up. It does seem to conflict with the "Mommy's in heaven now" statements you always hear from the clergy.
When the Chinese looked towards Japan (east) they see a rising sun, so the chinese characters for Japan represent a sun (ri4) and its origin (ben3). Japan didn't have a writing system of their own and through a protracted process adopted the Chinese characters even tho the language was totally different (approx 5th century). The character for ri4 meant "sun" and was mapped by the japanese to the word 'Ni' which meant the same. The chinese character (ben3) which meant "origin" was mapped by the japanese to the word 'hon' which also meant "origin"
Hence the Chinese (and thus Japanese) characters for Japan mean "Land of the rising Sun" AS SEEN FROM CHINA.
We have a DBA with skills in both "kiss-ass" and "BS" making 95K/yr even though it turns out we all know SQL better than he does. But no matter how good he impresses the PHBs, he never would have gotten the position if he didn't have a CS degree.
Some functions limited to XP? I can deal with that. But what does Excel have to do with 3D Graphic rendering?
I'm pretty sure he means "mils" as in 1000ths of an inch.
You can dumb down the inteface but you'll never dumb it down enough for everybody.
I really don't want to get into a pissing war between you and an AC, but
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Also the Apple Intel Dev boxs seem to ship with BIOS.
Apple's Developer Transition Kit features a Pentium 4 660 processor running at 3.6 GHz.. run Microsoft Windows without issue.. feature a standard Phoenix BIOS
The AC may be wrong, but I havent seen anything to indicate that. If you could cite something, that would be helpful since I'm really interested in the Apple X86 Laptops but the EFI turns me cold.
Reminds me of a case in Illinois. 16 yr old male dates 14 yr old female. They fall in love, Two years later she's pregnant, but now he's 18 and she's 16. Even tho they have plans to get married, the girls parents like the guy, etc, the state comes in, like the spanish inquisition, stating that the pregnancy was due to sex between an adult and a minor. Despite the protesting of everyone involved, they arrest, convict, and incarcerate the father/husband for the betterment of mankind.
The law is truly pathetic at times.
Dont forget that Africa is becoming the rape caital of the world. It's pretty tough to get your generic rapist to use a condom.
One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by CIET Africa, non-governmental organisation, said they had been raped in the past year.... In a related survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that 'jackrolling' - a South African term for recreational gang rape - was fun.
I hope I did not construe meaning that you did not intent, my appologies if this paraphrase is not correct.
Being overly suspicious and untrusting of [white] society because of your past experiences can hardly be called racism.
I see a contridiction here. Blacks assume whites are always racist, yet this is not a racial prejudice against white people? How is this not racism?
As a child, I went through a "Beat up the whities day" at Miramar Elementary, FL (pure racism). If I am overly suspicious and untrusting of Blacks am I NOT racist because I had an experience?
it's certainly not racist unless it implies an innate inferiority of certain races
Understand that racism has nothing to do with Minority or Majority status. It's merely making an assumption based upon race. If you think that Chinese people are smarter, that Blacks are better at sports, that Jews are better scientists then you are guilty of racism.
Don't confuse and mix up the definitions of racism, discrimination, and the experiences of the Black people in america. They experience a lot of racism, but that doesn't redefine the word so that it only applies to thier situation.
Which Church? The Vatican seems to be leaning away from ID.
"Today, nearly half a century after appearance of the encyclical, fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis." -- Pope John Paul II, 1996
"'Intelligent Design' isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms" -- Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, 2005
"A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false.. (Evolution) is more than a hypothesis because there is proof." -- Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of the Vatican project STOQ, 2005
"The faithful have the obligation to listen to that which secular modern science has to offer, just as we ask that knowledge of the faith be taken in consideration as an expert voice in humanity" -- Cardinal Paul Poupard, the Pontifical Council for Culture, 2005
But then there is the current Pope.
"These people, fooled by atheism, believe and try to demonstrate that it's scientific to think that everything is free of direction and order.." -- Pope Benedict XVI, 2005
venus probes
Maybe you can't blame them, but that doesn't change the fact that it is still racism.
That anti-social dog of yours is still anti-social regardless of the root cause.
Just to add to mix, the specification "z notation" mentioned in the article can be found here
At least they didn't claim it was a weapon and confiscate it.
I'm not sure if you meant "most efficient for humans". Otherwise Studies show otherwise..
1. our Miocene hominoid ancestor was probably not an efficient quadruped since modern hominoids are inefficient quadrupeds, and 2. hominid bipedalism is as efficient as average mammalian quadrupedalism at normal speeds. The first point was proved by Taylor & Rowntree, who tested two chimpanzees for energetic efficiency during bipedalism and quadrupedalism and found the surprising result that the two patterns used about the same amount of energy. Both gaits used 50% more energy than the average quadrupedal mammal. Such a result makes sense because the hominoid body is adapted to a certain style of arboreal locomotion which makes terrestrial gait energetically costly. The second point is confirmed by recalculating the energy expenditure of humans and chimpanzees walking at normal speeds: the human energetic cost is about average for the mammals, but the chimpanzee still uses about 50% more energy per body weight.
To sum up:
For non-human hominids, their is no efficiency gain for bipedalism.
For humans, bipedalism is the most efficient and we are the best at it,
but our best is only equal to the average mammalian quadruped gait.
and it just plain sucks to be a chimpanze on the ground no matter what.
Wish I had mod points.. +5 commonsense
"In the real world, real honest people don't have anything to hide" -- Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30, @10:00AM
I'm just curious as to the method that you've used to test Slashdotters for their IQ?
Observation: Agrees with me. Conclusion: IQ over 120.
Observation: Disagrees with me. Conclusion: IQ below 120.
That is the price of stability.
May 12, 2003
Windows BMW
Reuters: "Security guards smashed their way into an official limousine with sledgehammers on Monday to rescue Thailand's finance minister after his car's computer failed."
Yeah its old, but it's still funny..
I always thought we should do this with Siberia. We send them money, lets use the payments and make them useful.
Australia is too touristy to be a threat, but who would risk a stint in Siberia.
You want Mandarin. My wife and I will be taking such a course this January.
My wifes Thinkpad's going to get OpenSuse as soon as I can get from her.
I've heard a lot of commnets about Java, both positive and negative. But I've never heard anyone suggest that it, an interpreted language, can cause a Unix system to become unstable. Is that what you are trying to say?