As a vegetarian, I think now I never want to go to Japan:-/ It sounds worse than China.
In China and India, I noticed on pizza they don't put much pizza sauce on there at all... really almost nothing... it's mostly just bread and cheese and whatever topping. If they put any sauce on it, I think they just use a perfume atomizer bulb to give it a dusting.
But... they have tons of ketchup at each table for you to put on top of your pizza.
I don't think most vegans are vegan to avoid these "evil" substances.
The idea behind it is animal cruelty. There's nothing cruel about a mother giving her own milk.
Of course there may be "healthful" vegans out there, as opposed to the "moral" vegans... but even then there are studies showing the advantages of a mothers milk for an infant.
I know the idea may seem foreign to you, but you can still apply common sense to these things. It doesn't require alien logic to decide on being vegan or vegetarian.
That's the thing. Evolution is a theory in Biology, not Cosmology. They were showing their Scientific ignorance and why they aren't qualified to be deciding on science curriculum.
My part of EP was all the smaller, old early 80's split-level homes with painted wood siding. So maybe later generations were more spoiled. Even our small house is worth over $300k now according to one website I saw.
"...requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed."
I think most scientists would fully agree, actually, that Darwin's Theory of Evolution should not be taught as the reason the Universe formed.
Probably delivered by a kid who got picked on by the popular alcohol chugging kids.
I was in the EP school system from Kindergarten until halfway through 9th Grade... and I recall it was pretty clique-ish and people were particularly nasty and cruel to other kids.
Most people might say it's the same in every high school, but I went to 3 high schools my freshman year (EPHS inclusive). And the high school in Connecticut and especially the high school in Arizona were a LOT nicer in terms of students' attitudes and treatment of other students.
I was in the Eden Prairie school system all the way through the middle of my Freshman year of High School...
My impression of the school district was always EXTREMELY positive until now. It was very well funded. We went on tons of field trips every year. The schools were all very nice. (The only thing I didn't like was EPHS switched to four double-length classes in a day the year I started there, and that really screwed me up when I moved away and went to another HS with traditional 7/8 classes in a day.)
I can only hope that this was one person's screw up and the district will fix its position.
If I were in such a situation, I don't think believing in a God would make anything better, no. Life would still suck. And I don't think having someone to yell at would improve my life much.
When you get into quantum physics everything is governed by probability, it seems.
As for your question on the odds, I really don't understand what you mean. The odds may be small that things turned up how they are right now, but if it turned out another way, wouldn't you or someone like you be in that version of reality wondering the same thing? It had to end up somehow... it's not proof of God that you are a part of how it ended up.
If this is true and dreams are necessary simulations for dealing with life... I wonder what the effects of that snortable sleep replacing drug mentioned here 5 days ago would have on a person? Being rested and never physically ill from lack of sleep... but not benefiting from sleep's training scenarios.
I think a more relevant measure would be how many generations... a hundred years means quite different things to a fruit fly (lifespan about 30 days) as it does to a tortoise (100-200 years old)... or a sequoia tree (can be thousands of years old).
I felt like adding this to my original comment, but didn't until now:
Metropolis Records is not part of the RIAA but they do distribute music from European labels, who may have sister American labels who are part of the RIAA (e.g., I know some And One albums were released on Virgin).
Also of note, Dependant Records wikipedia article mentions they plan to go out of business because their music is just pirated too much. But the odd thing is, I wouldn't be listening to ANY music from Dependant (purchased through Metropolis Records) if it weren't for illegal downloads. I just wouldn't go out and buy the album, and honestly, where else am I going to hear this music? I don't even have very similar music taste with many of my own friends.
But as an example... I downloaded some VNV Nation from Napster back in the day, and have since purchased every one of their albums, including the limited Burning Empires, and a few singles/EP's. Plus bought two t-shirts and attended three concerts. I think the money lost from my illegal download has been more than made up for by now. I also own every And One, Apoptygma Berzerk, and Covenant album. Oh, and I have DVD's of VNV Nation and Apoptygma as well. Plus other bands. Metropolis Records and the labels that distribute through them have made a MINT off of me. Plus the friends I've taken to concerts of artists they've signed... and other friends I've turned on to this music. These smaller labels would be nowhere if not for file sharing... that's the simple truth.
As for net royalties, reasonably priced royalties seem perfectly fair to me. Especially when it's a website broadcasting for commercial purposes and they are making money off of other people's work (essentially). The main problem I have with the RIAA is their litigious nature, support of DRM, manipulation of government policies, influence over lawmaking, and how they have their heads up their butts over how to deal with "this Internet thing". They're just greedy. No one likes greedy. They don't play nice. Hopefully the A2IM (which I had never heard of before) continues to differentiate itself enough from the RIAA. I imagine many of these labels can easily do that since a lot of these labels were founded by band members (Dependant being a good example). And hopefully these labels can continue to produce the music I love.
I consider myself a music lover, and I think most of the artists I like are signed to Metropolis Records. I e-mailed them once about their RIAA affiliation and they promptly replied to inform me that they are in no way a part of the RIAA.
Avoiding the RIAA is an option, and it's one I apparently started to take even before I was aware of it.
Not only that but it is entirely impossible to prove there is a hidden volume there or not unless you know the pass phrase/files to apply.
Even if you keep a.tc file on your desktop (instead of renaming it to anything else), and are forced to provide the password... there is no proof there is anything going on with the blank space inside that encrypted volume.
The only thing they could do I guess then is force you to take a lie detector test.
The nested volume is encrypted... it is indistinguishable from the random data that would normally be there, unless you actually try to decrypt it. You can tell TrueCrypt to try to process any file as an encrypted volume, giving it any passphrase and/or key file you want... but it will only work and become some meaningful data if it all matches.
That's almost my story exactly except for me the blow was fatal (dropped out after 3 semesters as a Physics major), but I resurrected 2 years later (finished a degree in Computer Science). And I can pretty much attribute it entirely to the academic laziness I developed in high school, because it just wasn't challenging at all. I still don't think I ever developed really disciplined study skills. If I ever have kids, they are going to a college prep school, no doubt about that.
The public school districts I was in all had advanced/accelerated/gifted courses. So I was in that track starting in 4th grade. In high school I flirted with just taking the regular version of English instead of the advanced English course and it was MIND-NUMBING how bad it was. The accelerated English course had a lot of discussion and debate, in addition to reading challenging material outside of class. The regular English course had just taking turns reading aloud something I could have read 4 years earlier. And even the reading aloud itself was MIND-NUMBING because half the class couldn't read at the same pace normal people talk (they were averaging maybe half normal talking speed at best, and stumbling on any word that was 3 syllables or more). The next year I made sure to get back into advanced English... it was stressful, but at least it wasn't making me dumber.
My teachers didn't even mind me skipping entire homework assignments. I'd check the posted grades and only do homework if I was starting to slip below an 'A'.
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As a vegetarian, I think now I never want to go to Japan :-/ It sounds worse than China.
In China and India, I noticed on pizza they don't put much pizza sauce on there at all... really almost nothing... it's mostly just bread and cheese and whatever topping. If they put any sauce on it, I think they just use a perfume atomizer bulb to give it a dusting.
But... they have tons of ketchup at each table for you to put on top of your pizza.
MST Poopie.
I don't think most vegans are vegan to avoid these "evil" substances.
The idea behind it is animal cruelty. There's nothing cruel about a mother giving her own milk.
Of course there may be "healthful" vegans out there, as opposed to the "moral" vegans... but even then there are studies showing the advantages of a mothers milk for an infant.
I know the idea may seem foreign to you, but you can still apply common sense to these things. It doesn't require alien logic to decide on being vegan or vegetarian.
A local vegan restaurant makes great vegan "tsoynamis".
I've seen vegan ice cream in grocery stores before, but this is actually vegan "soft serve"... like dairy queen style stuff.
Fuck... so now even ice cream has to have dead animals in it?
I guess I'll have to start making my own if I want it, if this catches on in a big way.
Note to self: check back on this later on to make sure I know the name to watch out for on the ingredients labels.
Using "one" in a sentence is a right not to be abused.
One might think one would choose one's words more considerately for other ones when reading one's posts posted from one's computer.
Yes I read it right.
That's the thing. Evolution is a theory in Biology, not Cosmology. They were showing their Scientific ignorance and why they aren't qualified to be deciding on science curriculum.
My part of EP was all the smaller, old early 80's split-level homes with painted wood siding. So maybe later generations were more spoiled. Even our small house is worth over $300k now according to one website I saw.
"...requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed."
I think most scientists would fully agree, actually, that Darwin's Theory of Evolution should not be taught as the reason the Universe formed.
As long as the Big Bang Theory is still A-OK!
How do you see evidence that people need it?
If a large part of the population deals with stress by smoking, does that mean they need it, too?
'Need' must mean something different to you than it does to me.
Probably delivered by a kid who got picked on by the popular alcohol chugging kids.
I was in the EP school system from Kindergarten until halfway through 9th Grade... and I recall it was pretty clique-ish and people were particularly nasty and cruel to other kids.
Most people might say it's the same in every high school, but I went to 3 high schools my freshman year (EPHS inclusive). And the high school in Connecticut and especially the high school in Arizona were a LOT nicer in terms of students' attitudes and treatment of other students.
Sounds like revenge!
(From EP...) In school I remember we all thought Edina kids were spoiled.
I was in the Eden Prairie school system all the way through the middle of my Freshman year of High School...
My impression of the school district was always EXTREMELY positive until now. It was very well funded. We went on tons of field trips every year. The schools were all very nice. (The only thing I didn't like was EPHS switched to four double-length classes in a day the year I started there, and that really screwed me up when I moved away and went to another HS with traditional 7/8 classes in a day.)
I can only hope that this was one person's screw up and the district will fix its position.
If I were in such a situation, I don't think believing in a God would make anything better, no. Life would still suck. And I don't think having someone to yell at would improve my life much.
I object to your portrayal of an atheistic life as something so dismal and depressing.
I'm an atheist, and I feel I have a very full, rewarding, rich, enjoyable, and fulfilling life.
When you get into quantum physics everything is governed by probability, it seems.
As for your question on the odds, I really don't understand what you mean. The odds may be small that things turned up how they are right now, but if it turned out another way, wouldn't you or someone like you be in that version of reality wondering the same thing? It had to end up somehow... it's not proof of God that you are a part of how it ended up.
If this is true and dreams are necessary simulations for dealing with life... I wonder what the effects of that snortable sleep replacing drug mentioned here 5 days ago would have on a person? Being rested and never physically ill from lack of sleep... but not benefiting from sleep's training scenarios.
I think a more relevant measure would be how many generations... a hundred years means quite different things to a fruit fly (lifespan about 30 days) as it does to a tortoise (100-200 years old)... or a sequoia tree (can be thousands of years old).
I felt like adding this to my original comment, but didn't until now:
Metropolis Records is not part of the RIAA but they do distribute music from European labels, who may have sister American labels who are part of the RIAA (e.g., I know some And One albums were released on Virgin).
Also of note, Dependant Records wikipedia article mentions they plan to go out of business because their music is just pirated too much. But the odd thing is, I wouldn't be listening to ANY music from Dependant (purchased through Metropolis Records) if it weren't for illegal downloads. I just wouldn't go out and buy the album, and honestly, where else am I going to hear this music? I don't even have very similar music taste with many of my own friends.
But as an example... I downloaded some VNV Nation from Napster back in the day, and have since purchased every one of their albums, including the limited Burning Empires, and a few singles/EP's. Plus bought two t-shirts and attended three concerts. I think the money lost from my illegal download has been more than made up for by now. I also own every And One, Apoptygma Berzerk, and Covenant album. Oh, and I have DVD's of VNV Nation and Apoptygma as well. Plus other bands. Metropolis Records and the labels that distribute through them have made a MINT off of me. Plus the friends I've taken to concerts of artists they've signed... and other friends I've turned on to this music. These smaller labels would be nowhere if not for file sharing... that's the simple truth.
As for net royalties, reasonably priced royalties seem perfectly fair to me. Especially when it's a website broadcasting for commercial purposes and they are making money off of other people's work (essentially). The main problem I have with the RIAA is their litigious nature, support of DRM, manipulation of government policies, influence over lawmaking, and how they have their heads up their butts over how to deal with "this Internet thing". They're just greedy. No one likes greedy. They don't play nice. Hopefully the A2IM (which I had never heard of before) continues to differentiate itself enough from the RIAA. I imagine many of these labels can easily do that since a lot of these labels were founded by band members (Dependant being a good example). And hopefully these labels can continue to produce the music I love.
I consider myself a music lover, and I think most of the artists I like are signed to Metropolis Records. I e-mailed them once about their RIAA affiliation and they promptly replied to inform me that they are in no way a part of the RIAA.
Avoiding the RIAA is an option, and it's one I apparently started to take even before I was aware of it.
Not only that but it is entirely impossible to prove there is a hidden volume there or not unless you know the pass phrase/files to apply.
.tc file on your desktop (instead of renaming it to anything else), and are forced to provide the password... there is no proof there is anything going on with the blank space inside that encrypted volume.
Even if you keep a
The only thing they could do I guess then is force you to take a lie detector test.
The nested volume is encrypted... it is indistinguishable from the random data that would normally be there, unless you actually try to decrypt it. You can tell TrueCrypt to try to process any file as an encrypted volume, giving it any passphrase and/or key file you want... but it will only work and become some meaningful data if it all matches.
Now someone will claim w00p stands for "we own others' porn" instead of being lamespeak for whoop (as in ass).
Was w00p used as a transitive verb, as in "w00p their ass" or was it used like w00t as an interjection?
That's almost my story exactly except for me the blow was fatal (dropped out after 3 semesters as a Physics major), but I resurrected 2 years later (finished a degree in Computer Science). And I can pretty much attribute it entirely to the academic laziness I developed in high school, because it just wasn't challenging at all. I still don't think I ever developed really disciplined study skills. If I ever have kids, they are going to a college prep school, no doubt about that.
The public school districts I was in all had advanced/accelerated/gifted courses. So I was in that track starting in 4th grade. In high school I flirted with just taking the regular version of English instead of the advanced English course and it was MIND-NUMBING how bad it was. The accelerated English course had a lot of discussion and debate, in addition to reading challenging material outside of class. The regular English course had just taking turns reading aloud something I could have read 4 years earlier. And even the reading aloud itself was MIND-NUMBING because half the class couldn't read at the same pace normal people talk (they were averaging maybe half normal talking speed at best, and stumbling on any word that was 3 syllables or more). The next year I made sure to get back into advanced English... it was stressful, but at least it wasn't making me dumber.
My teachers didn't even mind me skipping entire homework assignments. I'd check the posted grades and only do homework if I was starting to slip below an 'A'.