Until of course the Nazis decide that your particular racial heritage becomes a bad thing. Instead of stopping the suffering at the end of WWII, the Nazis would have continued it forever.
The ACLU is not argueing for the Atheistic view of evolution in the science class, just that theology not be in the science class. ID is not science. If an experiment or observation does not meet your preconcieved idea in ID, you can simply say the creator made it that way. There is no way to disprove it, that's not science. Put it in the theology class or philosphy, but not science. Check out talkorigins.com, most of the arguments that ID uses aren't particularly valid. All those complicated things and bad metaphors they use can be explained quite simply.
BTW, what really bugs me about ID is that it's usually put forth by christians who are trying to promote a creationist view point in a science class, but don't want to say creationism. It's deceitful and they are denying their god. It's been a long time since I read the bible, but I seem to remember some very specific passages mentioning that as being a bad idea. If you're a creationist because of faith, that's great, but don't lie about it, that just makes you a crappy christian.
Yeah, but aren't all of Baxter's books morbid? I really enjoy them (everything except moonseed), but damn I'm depressed after reading them.
He seems to have a recurring theme. Humans create or influence something else, humans go extinct, the something else populates the galaxy (Titan, two of the Manifold books, Evolution). In his lighter books, he skips the something else and we just go extinct (the Xeelee books).
That's why I buy crappy wireless products. Sure I have to park my laptop within 17 inches of my base, but nobody's sniffen my network without them sitting on my lap!
You aren't kidding. I got a Dell precision 470 a few months back. Basically a dual Xeon with the 64-bit extensions. It's delightfully fast for what I do, but throws off as much heat as a small space heater even with the enhanced speed step.
This only helps if the particular alien you're being held captive by happens to care about math. If he's like 90% of Earth's popuplation he's just going to be annoyed because you're making a bunch of noise in your cell then shoot you with whatever ray gun he has available because he wouldn't know a prime number if it came up and bit him on the rear.
Or perhaps the stone happened to pass about the time of the first saline injection and they had a low tolerance for the pain killer.
One patient does not make a good study.
I get kidney stones, lots of kidney stones, about every 6 months for about 5 years and now down to about once every other year. I've actually lost count of how many I had. One of the amazing things about kidney stones is that you can be intolerable pain and 5 minutes later, it's like it never happened. The pain doesn't come from the stone itself, it comes from pressure caused by a blocked urethera (?). Taking fluids (like the saline solution) increases the pressure and pushes the stone through. Once the blockage is removed, pain goes away entirely. It's not like an injury where there is healing required. The worst after effect you might get is a bladder infection if the stone causes some damage after it's passed the urethera but hasn't been expelled, but that doesn't show up until the next day or so.
Because you have all your playlist, music, etc. set up on your home computer. Because your company won't let you put unapproved software on your machine to play your music. Because your company still puts 20gig harddrives in brand new machines, the corporate image only needs 15gig, and best of all because you're hoping you'll meet one of those fabled hot chicks that want to plug their headphones into your ipod (only to find out that you're a closet show tunes fan).
Lots of reasons to carry a portable even when you sit in front of a machine.
I connect to my banks, credit cards, and get stock prices, are all those outside of the service covered by the 2 years? I have a newer version of Money that came with a new computer, but was afraid to use it after reading their warning.
I wonder if anyone has studied the correlation between someone who plays a lot of video games and other recreational activities we've been told will make us go blind. What's really at fault?
You mean you actually got keychains to work in OSX? Everytime I go to the same resource on my network I check the little remember in keychain option...and everytime, it forgets. As far as I can tell keychain doesn't actually work.
It really is one of the fun things in Windows. Here at work, we'd find developers with weak or known sa passwords on desktop sql servers they were running. Use the stored procedure that lets you run command line stuff remotely to do net sends from thier machine hitting on same sex coworkers or to start fights. Watch the fireworks ensue. Now that is entertainment!
Do you remember Brisco County Jr.? Great Bruce Campbell series, western, good characters, quirky humor, started and cancelled in the same season they started X-Files. Folks these days are turned off by the whole western theme and don't look past that to the core of the story.
Hmmm, am I seeing a pattern? If it's on Fox and I like it, it's doomed.
Brisco County Jr. Space Above and Beyond The Tick Firefly
If it isn't a bootlegged reality concept or something about attacking critters, Fox isn't interested.
Even cheaper, co-worker just got a wireless b 4 port w/ NAT, normal stuff, for $10 with rebate. At that price, next year they will be putting routers in Frosted Flakes boxes as kiddie toys.
They can take my VCR when they pry it from my cold dead hands
If they outlaw peer to peer filesharing, only outlaws will have peer to peer filesharing.
I don't see it happening even with the high quality. There's just something about going to the movies. I just took my 3 year old to the movies for the first time to see Shrek 2. He has never watched a DVD with such wonder and amazement.
I don't want interativity, I just want to watch the movie. I seldom watch the outtakes, cut footage, commetaries, etc., I'd rather see a couple of bucks knocked of the price.
I would like to see all those movies that I can only get in the directors cut, have the original theatrical release on the disc too. Often there is really good reason why that scene the director was so fond of was pulled.
Wouldn't the same technology to filter spam be a good way to find terrorists? Just teach your Bayesian filter that this folder is spam, this folder is terrorist messages, this is just plain email.
I don't understand the religious fervor over codecs. I'm 34, I was in high school and college when listening to rap and/or hair metal at high db in a small car was cool. I worked in the construction industry to put myself through school. With my abused ears, I can't tell the difference between 128 bit WMA, AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or original source.
Plus, I've got kids now, who cares how high quality the latest Kindermusic or Barney CD sounds when ripped. That's all I get to listen to at home anyways.
All I care is that all the stuff I've ripped over the years can be played in my favorite portable music player. Unfortunately it's a little too late, I reripped everything to stuff it on the iPod, but I can see how this would save a lot of HP customers some serious time. It's a good thing.
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I wouldn't lump code escrow into the same category as moving IT jobs to India. It's just a way to ensure you get the product you pay for if the vender goes out of business. I worked for a tech start up in the late 90s. We had a great product, but weren't very good a marketing it. We struck a deal with a much larger company to market the product. Part of that deal is that we put the code in escrow in case we went out of business. Shortly afterwards of course, we did go out of business and the much larger company got the code. So did all of our customers. The much larger company continued development and most of us ended up working for them + had some lucrative consulting gigs working for ex-customers of company 1 since the ex-customers all had a copy of the source too. For a closed source solution, it is an excellent way of making sure you don't take everyone down with you.
My first job out of college, Dec 92 was programming VB. They had just moved to VB 2. So I've been doing it for 11 years all without being Alan Cooper. I don't know how long VB 1 was out before that so there probably aren't many with more, but there might be a few folks who can say 12 years of VB experience.
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Until of course the Nazis decide that your particular racial heritage becomes a bad thing. Instead of stopping the suffering at the end of WWII, the Nazis would have continued it forever.
The ACLU is not argueing for the Atheistic view of evolution in the science class, just that theology not be in the science class. ID is not science. If an experiment or observation does not meet your preconcieved idea in ID, you can simply say the creator made it that way. There is no way to disprove it, that's not science. Put it in the theology class or philosphy, but not science. Check out talkorigins.com, most of the arguments that ID uses aren't particularly valid. All those complicated things and bad metaphors they use can be explained quite simply.
BTW, what really bugs me about ID is that it's usually put forth by christians who are trying to promote a creationist view point in a science class, but don't want to say creationism. It's deceitful and they are denying their god. It's been a long time since I read the bible, but I seem to remember some very specific passages mentioning that as being a bad idea. If you're a creationist because of faith, that's great, but don't lie about it, that just makes you a crappy christian.
But we have already lost important movies, Yellowbeard never made it to DVD!
Yeah, but aren't all of Baxter's books morbid? I really enjoy them (everything except moonseed), but damn I'm depressed after reading them.
He seems to have a recurring theme. Humans create or influence something else, humans go extinct, the something else populates the galaxy (Titan, two of the Manifold books, Evolution). In his lighter books, he skips the something else and we just go extinct (the Xeelee books).
That's why I buy crappy wireless products. Sure I have to park my laptop within 17 inches of my base, but nobody's sniffen my network without them sitting on my lap!
You aren't kidding. I got a Dell precision 470 a few months back. Basically a dual Xeon with the 64-bit extensions. It's delightfully fast for what I do, but throws off as much heat as a small space heater even with the enhanced speed step.
This only helps if the particular alien you're being held captive by happens to care about math. If he's like 90% of Earth's popuplation he's just going to be annoyed because you're making a bunch of noise in your cell then shoot you with whatever ray gun he has available because he wouldn't know a prime number if it came up and bit him on the rear.
Or perhaps the stone happened to pass about the time of the first saline injection and they had a low tolerance for the pain killer. One patient does not make a good study. I get kidney stones, lots of kidney stones, about every 6 months for about 5 years and now down to about once every other year. I've actually lost count of how many I had. One of the amazing things about kidney stones is that you can be intolerable pain and 5 minutes later, it's like it never happened. The pain doesn't come from the stone itself, it comes from pressure caused by a blocked urethera (?). Taking fluids (like the saline solution) increases the pressure and pushes the stone through. Once the blockage is removed, pain goes away entirely. It's not like an injury where there is healing required. The worst after effect you might get is a bladder infection if the stone causes some damage after it's passed the urethera but hasn't been expelled, but that doesn't show up until the next day or so.
when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
Because you have all your playlist, music, etc. set up on your home computer. Because your company won't let you put unapproved software on your machine to play your music. Because your company still puts 20gig harddrives in brand new machines, the corporate image only needs 15gig, and best of all because you're hoping you'll meet one of those fabled hot chicks that want to plug their headphones into your ipod (only to find out that you're a closet show tunes fan).
Lots of reasons to carry a portable even when you sit in front of a machine.
I connect to my banks, credit cards, and get stock prices, are all those outside of the service covered by the 2 years? I have a newer version of Money that came with a new computer, but was afraid to use it after reading their warning.
I wonder if anyone has studied the correlation between someone who plays a lot of video games and other recreational activities we've been told will make us go blind. What's really at fault?
You mean you actually got keychains to work in OSX? Everytime I go to the same resource on my network I check the little remember in keychain option...and everytime, it forgets. As far as I can tell keychain doesn't actually work.
Since you don't have currency, exactly how many chickens would you have to carry to the car dealer to get a new car?
It really is one of the fun things in Windows. Here at work, we'd find developers with weak or known sa passwords on desktop sql servers they were running. Use the stored procedure that lets you run command line stuff remotely to do net sends from thier machine hitting on same sex coworkers or to start fights. Watch the fireworks ensue. Now that is entertainment!
Do you remember Brisco County Jr.? Great Bruce Campbell series, western, good characters, quirky humor, started and cancelled in the same season they started X-Files. Folks these days are turned off by the whole western theme and don't look past that to the core of the story.
Hmmm, am I seeing a pattern? If it's on Fox and I like it, it's doomed.
Brisco County Jr.
Space Above and Beyond
The Tick
Firefly
If it isn't a bootlegged reality concept or something about attacking critters, Fox isn't interested.
Even cheaper, co-worker just got a wireless b 4 port w/ NAT, normal stuff, for $10 with rebate. At that price, next year they will be putting routers in Frosted Flakes boxes as kiddie toys.
They can take my VCR when they pry it from my cold dead hands
If they outlaw peer to peer filesharing, only outlaws will have peer to peer filesharing.
I don't see it happening even with the high quality. There's just something about going to the movies. I just took my 3 year old to the movies for the first time to see Shrek 2. He has never watched a DVD with such wonder and amazement.
I don't want interativity, I just want to watch the movie. I seldom watch the outtakes, cut footage, commetaries, etc., I'd rather see a couple of bucks knocked of the price. I would like to see all those movies that I can only get in the directors cut, have the original theatrical release on the disc too. Often there is really good reason why that scene the director was so fond of was pulled.
Wouldn't the same technology to filter spam be a good way to find terrorists? Just teach your Bayesian filter that this folder is spam, this folder is terrorist messages, this is just plain email.
There is no evidence that man and dinosaur lived together except in cartoons.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy.html
I don't understand the religious fervor over codecs. I'm 34, I was in high school and college when listening to rap and/or hair metal at high db in a small car was cool. I worked in the construction industry to put myself through school. With my abused ears, I can't tell the difference between 128 bit WMA, AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or original source. Plus, I've got kids now, who cares how high quality the latest Kindermusic or Barney CD sounds when ripped. That's all I get to listen to at home anyways. All I care is that all the stuff I've ripped over the years can be played in my favorite portable music player. Unfortunately it's a little too late, I reripped everything to stuff it on the iPod, but I can see how this would save a lot of HP customers some serious time. It's a good thing.
I wouldn't lump code escrow into the same category as moving IT jobs to India. It's just a way to ensure you get the product you pay for if the vender goes out of business. I worked for a tech start up in the late 90s. We had a great product, but weren't very good a marketing it. We struck a deal with a much larger company to market the product. Part of that deal is that we put the code in escrow in case we went out of business. Shortly afterwards of course, we did go out of business and the much larger company got the code. So did all of our customers. The much larger company continued development and most of us ended up working for them + had some lucrative consulting gigs working for ex-customers of company 1 since the ex-customers all had a copy of the source too. For a closed source solution, it is an excellent way of making sure you don't take everyone down with you.
My first job out of college, Dec 92 was programming VB. They had just moved to VB 2. So I've been doing it for 11 years all without being Alan Cooper. I don't know how long VB 1 was out before that so there probably aren't many with more, but there might be a few folks who can say 12 years of VB experience.