I like to use webmail because I can access it anywhere. If I were downloading all my mail to my hard drive, I'd be concerned about my hard drive crashing. Either that or I'd have to bother with transferring it all when I get a new machine.
I never was very happy with the original Hotmail (I stopped it using it when MS took over), Yahoo, or whatever webmail davidbowie.com used to use... but GMail is simply the best email out there. I like how it threads messages, and being able to have a really good search tool and set up labels and such is just really efficient. I never search through emails anymore. With Hotmail I used to go back through pages and pages of messages to find what I wanted, but with GMail I just search and it's there.
If anyone out there is interested in purchasing a device now is probably the worst time. Give Apple a year or so and we'll start seeing further consolidation into a more stable product line
If I like the product they are offering now, then just how does the "stability" of Apple's product line even enter the picture? Will I buy an iPod, take it home, only to have it fluctuate into a different product I didn't want when I'm not looking? Sheesh.
I think claims of not buying the first generation are pretty valid, but saying "this product isn't very good right now, because of other products the company is also selling at the same time" is the lamest excuse for now being the "worst time to buy" I've ever heard.
Recently I was at Wal-Mart (no other option) to buy some pop for a trip with some co-workers. After I paid for the pop, I tossed the receipt into the trash near the optometrist area since I didn't want to hold on to it. Of course, then the Wal-Mart greeter wanted to see my receipt. I had to go back to the optometrist area and fish it out of the trash just to please the old bag that I didn't steal pop.
I don't really care what the Bible says, or how historically accurate it is (my guess: not very). I just care about what crazy things it says that crazy people use to crazily justify their crazy actions ("I can do this because the Bible says I can, and you must do that because the Bible commands it, end of story!") in the world of today.
"People hailing from Western Africa have darker skin than those from Western Europe"
This implies all West Africans are darker than all Western Europeans. I think you meant to say "The average person hailing from Western Africa has darker skin than the average person from Western Europe".
And it still holds up today, I think, upon repeat viewing. One thing I like about it, is that it is a little bit dark and exciting. It's chilling when Mombie wakes up without her head. It's creepy at the beginning what Dorothy is about to get electro-shock treatment.
I really take issue with the screen writer here who wants to make something tame. It should be good enough to give kids chills where appropriate... that's what kept me watching it over again as a kid. If it was just a feel good movie, I doubt I'd have enjoyed it much at all.
The Skype blog had info being posted all during the outage, and will have a summary of what happened soon. They never indicated it was anything related to any outside intrusion.
"Personally, I've never really understood the concept of morality apart from some belief in divine judgment."
And this has never made sense to me. It's as though you are admitting the only reason you do good or are decent to others is because you're afraid of getting punished. It's like admitting you have no internal moral compass of your own, and need some external source to keep you in line. But that does fit in with what a lot of Christian faiths that teach we are all sinners at heart.
Me, personally... I am an atheist. And yet I am much more charitable than most people. I also am a vegetarian and have been since I was 15 (that would make it 11 years now) and I think it's crazy when Christian use the Bible to tell me that it says they can do whatever they want with animals and never have to feel guilty about it at all, since they're just put here for our use (never mind thinking about evolution and animals who were here before us and will be here after us). I view that as immoral. Also, I'm gay. How do you think I feel about Christians who cite the Bible (cherry picked from sections that also say you can stone your kids and shouldn't wear mixed fabrics or eat shellfish) as a reason why it's okay to not give me equal rights. I don't think discrimination is moral. And these are just a few of the modern examples. I believe the KKK is still around somewhere and consider themselves to be Christians. And that's just last century (I didn't feel like bringing up the Nazis in too much detail... but they weren't Godless). Going further back we have all sorts of other wars and inquisitions.
And that's just Christianity.... The 9/11 attackers felt they had a divine judgment coming. Really, I'd say that given all of this, religion is a POOR guide to morality. If anyone is willing to accept someone else's views of morality over their own, listening to the pastor's sermon more than his or her own sense of decency... I see the potential for many, many problems.
I think it's a matter of wanting them to be on record, and to get them to actually try to justify their irrationality.
From the summary, to me it's more about trying to be tactful so that we don't make ourselves look bad while asking.
For any view out there, there's the fringe. You may have a perfectly valid and sane position, and yet the media will highlight the guy who "goes too far" or the guy who is rude or the the guy who is just a plain lunatic. If that happened when someone asked about evolution... they get some guy up there who looks slightly evil and is really insulting or doesn't phrase it perfectly... I would feel like I (and my views) were poorly represented.
What our leaders believe is important, and I want someone who bases their beliefs off sane, rational, and scientific judgment... not their gut or their culture or their religion.
To me it matters because it would demonstrate someone who thinks rationally and has an appreciation for science (after this administration which flat out hates scientists)... it also would demonstrate to me someone who is willing to stand up for what makes sense even when a sizable portion of the population is against it.
Imagine if an atheist ran for president.
I want someone... for a change... who represents my view. We don't need to keep electing more-of-the-same candidates who are "willing to listen" to my side of things. It's about time the other sides actually had... well... actual representation in government.
I think Dettol has an anti-bacterial agent called Chloroxylenol (looked it up on wikipedia, though I could have sworn the bottle says some other name for the anti-bacterial). I wonder how it stacks up against soaps that use Triclosan. I think they work in different ways to kill bacteria.
I'm happy with my Mac Mini, but I'll be buying a MacBook once the new OS is released. Just need to wait a little bit. Why would I buy right now when there's a big release soon?
I don't think their pollutants instantly mix into the entire of Lake Michigan. Most likely there will be one (or a couple) exceptionally nasty spot(s) near the shore, and too bad for any plants or animals who lived there or people who used to like that spot or think it was nice in any way.
It's a problem with the corrupt government and whatever part of the population that blindly supports them... and the American media and news outlets are HUGELY to blame as well.
America is on the decline. We're getting dumber as a nation, more in debt, more into irresponsible consumerism and displays of wealth (even if we can't really afford it), eating junk that kills us slowly, becoming a nation of philistines who listen to manufactured bands and watch formulaic movies with no artistic value... our industries are going overseas even though we overwork ourselves and the greedy companies give us crap for vacation time, we aren't self-sustaining in the slightest as a nation... the government is corrupt and probably won't get reformed, as most people don't care enough to do anything about it... moreover, they don't even want to care. America is ignorant and trashy, and damn it, we're proud of it!
We're not the world leader in any area anymore... not healthcare, not education, nothing. We've got nothing to be proud of as a nation. And we're jerks to the rest of the world. The divisions between rich and poor in our country are increasing rapidly.
With this trend continuing, America is going into a (higher-tech) middle ages. There's the aristocracy (or maybe 'investment class') which is just plain greedy and sociopathic... and then there's the MUCH more populous lower working class which becomes depraved and miserable.
Anyone in their right mind would high-tail it out of here and go someplace more sane like Canada or Western Europe where quality of life is just plain better.
Hopefully Sally homemaker isn't stupid and doesn't think learning about what happened with Osama Bin Laden will make her kid a member of Al Qaeda.... and doesn't think learning about Satanism will turn her kid into a Satanist.
"How would you feel about someone coming to your school and teaching your kids about Wicca, Scientology, Raelism? How about Satanism? If you're going to open that door and force all kids to be exposed to that, then who gets to choose which religions are appropriate? Maybe the parents who are raising their kids as Satanists don't want their kids to be exposed to that Jesus stuff. I agree with your sentiments, but I think it's more difficult to actually implement, you can't just teach the "acceptable" religions."
Sounds good to me, I'd say the yardstick to use is to teach about any religions that are particularly relevant. Kids learn about Nazis, they can learn about the most inhuman religious cults, as well. I would argue it's a good thing to let them know the full range of religion and its effects instead of making it sound like all religions are wonderful and to be embraced with an open-mind. Let them teach about religion in a completely non-biased way, not glossing over even more modern-day atrocities of good-old friendly Christianity (never mind the Crusades) and trying to win converts.
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I like to use webmail because I can access it anywhere. If I were downloading all my mail to my hard drive, I'd be concerned about my hard drive crashing. Either that or I'd have to bother with transferring it all when I get a new machine.
I never was very happy with the original Hotmail (I stopped it using it when MS took over), Yahoo, or whatever webmail davidbowie.com used to use... but GMail is simply the best email out there. I like how it threads messages, and being able to have a really good search tool and set up labels and such is just really efficient. I never search through emails anymore. With Hotmail I used to go back through pages and pages of messages to find what I wanted, but with GMail I just search and it's there.
If I like the product they are offering now, then just how does the "stability" of Apple's product line even enter the picture? Will I buy an iPod, take it home, only to have it fluctuate into a different product I didn't want when I'm not looking? Sheesh.
I think claims of not buying the first generation are pretty valid, but saying "this product isn't very good right now, because of other products the company is also selling at the same time" is the lamest excuse for now being the "worst time to buy" I've ever heard.
Recently I was at Wal-Mart (no other option) to buy some pop for a trip with some co-workers. After I paid for the pop, I tossed the receipt into the trash near the optometrist area since I didn't want to hold on to it. Of course, then the Wal-Mart greeter wanted to see my receipt. I had to go back to the optometrist area and fish it out of the trash just to please the old bag that I didn't steal pop.
"just like when NeXT was bought by Apple"
Did any other NeXT management end up in charge at Apple other than Steve Jobs?
I don't really care what the Bible says, or how historically accurate it is (my guess: not very). I just care about what crazy things it says that crazy people use to crazily justify their crazy actions ("I can do this because the Bible says I can, and you must do that because the Bible commands it, end of story!") in the world of today.
This implies all West Africans are darker than all Western Europeans. I think you meant to say "The average person hailing from Western Africa has darker skin than the average person from Western Europe".
On average, men have larger penises than women.
I loved Return to Oz as a kid.
And it still holds up today, I think, upon repeat viewing. One thing I like about it, is that it is a little bit dark and exciting. It's chilling when Mombie wakes up without her head. It's creepy at the beginning what Dorothy is about to get electro-shock treatment.
I really take issue with the screen writer here who wants to make something tame. It should be good enough to give kids chills where appropriate... that's what kept me watching it over again as a kid. If it was just a feel good movie, I doubt I'd have enjoyed it much at all.
The Skype blog had info being posted all during the outage, and will have a summary of what happened soon. They never indicated it was anything related to any outside intrusion.
It really is the guiding principle by which everyone should live by. The one commandment.
And this has never made sense to me. It's as though you are admitting the only reason you do good or are decent to others is because you're afraid of getting punished. It's like admitting you have no internal moral compass of your own, and need some external source to keep you in line. But that does fit in with what a lot of Christian faiths that teach we are all sinners at heart.
Me, personally... I am an atheist. And yet I am much more charitable than most people. I also am a vegetarian and have been since I was 15 (that would make it 11 years now) and I think it's crazy when Christian use the Bible to tell me that it says they can do whatever they want with animals and never have to feel guilty about it at all, since they're just put here for our use (never mind thinking about evolution and animals who were here before us and will be here after us). I view that as immoral. Also, I'm gay. How do you think I feel about Christians who cite the Bible (cherry picked from sections that also say you can stone your kids and shouldn't wear mixed fabrics or eat shellfish) as a reason why it's okay to not give me equal rights. I don't think discrimination is moral. And these are just a few of the modern examples. I believe the KKK is still around somewhere and consider themselves to be Christians. And that's just last century (I didn't feel like bringing up the Nazis in too much detail... but they weren't Godless). Going further back we have all sorts of other wars and inquisitions.
And that's just Christianity.... The 9/11 attackers felt they had a divine judgment coming. Really, I'd say that given all of this, religion is a POOR guide to morality. If anyone is willing to accept someone else's views of morality over their own, listening to the pastor's sermon more than his or her own sense of decency... I see the potential for many, many problems.
I think it's a matter of wanting them to be on record, and to get them to actually try to justify their irrationality.
From the summary, to me it's more about trying to be tactful so that we don't make ourselves look bad while asking.
For any view out there, there's the fringe. You may have a perfectly valid and sane position, and yet the media will highlight the guy who "goes too far" or the guy who is rude or the the guy who is just a plain lunatic. If that happened when someone asked about evolution... they get some guy up there who looks slightly evil and is really insulting or doesn't phrase it perfectly... I would feel like I (and my views) were poorly represented.
Yep... he said that. :-/
What our leaders believe is important, and I want someone who bases their beliefs off sane, rational, and scientific judgment... not their gut or their culture or their religion.
Wow... seriously? And in a country where more than 1 in 5 adults have HIV?
To me it matters because it would demonstrate someone who thinks rationally and has an appreciation for science (after this administration which flat out hates scientists)... it also would demonstrate to me someone who is willing to stand up for what makes sense even when a sizable portion of the population is against it.
Imagine if an atheist ran for president.
I want someone... for a change... who represents my view. We don't need to keep electing more-of-the-same candidates who are "willing to listen" to my side of things. It's about time the other sides actually had... well... actual representation in government.
That's the number e... unless e and planck's constant are related somehow I didn't realize.
I think Dettol has an anti-bacterial agent called Chloroxylenol (looked it up on wikipedia, though I could have sworn the bottle says some other name for the anti-bacterial). I wonder how it stacks up against soaps that use Triclosan. I think they work in different ways to kill bacteria.
I'm happy with my Mac Mini, but I'll be buying a MacBook once the new OS is released. Just need to wait a little bit. Why would I buy right now when there's a big release soon?
I don't think their pollutants instantly mix into the entire of Lake Michigan. Most likely there will be one (or a couple) exceptionally nasty spot(s) near the shore, and too bad for any plants or animals who lived there or people who used to like that spot or think it was nice in any way.
No need to recompile for different architectures for which there is a VM?
It's a problem with the corrupt government and whatever part of the population that blindly supports them... and the American media and news outlets are HUGELY to blame as well.
America is on the decline. We're getting dumber as a nation, more in debt, more into irresponsible consumerism and displays of wealth (even if we can't really afford it), eating junk that kills us slowly, becoming a nation of philistines who listen to manufactured bands and watch formulaic movies with no artistic value... our industries are going overseas even though we overwork ourselves and the greedy companies give us crap for vacation time, we aren't self-sustaining in the slightest as a nation... the government is corrupt and probably won't get reformed, as most people don't care enough to do anything about it... moreover, they don't even want to care. America is ignorant and trashy, and damn it, we're proud of it!
We're not the world leader in any area anymore... not healthcare, not education, nothing. We've got nothing to be proud of as a nation. And we're jerks to the rest of the world. The divisions between rich and poor in our country are increasing rapidly.
With this trend continuing, America is going into a (higher-tech) middle ages. There's the aristocracy (or maybe 'investment class') which is just plain greedy and sociopathic... and then there's the MUCH more populous lower working class which becomes depraved and miserable.
Anyone in their right mind would high-tail it out of here and go someplace more sane like Canada or Western Europe where quality of life is just plain better.
Posted by an AC, that's pretty ironic.
Hopefully Sally homemaker isn't stupid and doesn't think learning about what happened with Osama Bin Laden will make her kid a member of Al Qaeda.... and doesn't think learning about Satanism will turn her kid into a Satanist.
Sounds good to me, I'd say the yardstick to use is to teach about any religions that are particularly relevant. Kids learn about Nazis, they can learn about the most inhuman religious cults, as well. I would argue it's a good thing to let them know the full range of religion and its effects instead of making it sound like all religions are wonderful and to be embraced with an open-mind. Let them teach about religion in a completely non-biased way, not glossing over even more modern-day atrocities of good-old friendly Christianity (never mind the Crusades) and trying to win converts.