jewish: would God have a "chosen people" on another planet? would their torah be in hebrew? would their temple still exist? would their messiah have come? could the jewish people accept converts from them?
buddhist: had any buddha manifested among them yet?
islam: is their koran in arabic?
i'm considering these questions from the most "orthodox" point of view within each religion.
it is interesting to consider the theology of the trinity in this light. the coeternal father, son, and spirit would be evident on any other world, but the timing of his/their manifestation to that world's sentient beings may be on a different scale. i don't think there's any necessary uniqueness to the role of Jesus Christ if you consider it in the light of bringing an understanding of the trinity to humans. another kind of being may have been introduced to the concept a similar or different way. (how would the trinity have been revealed if there hadn't been the fall?) also, perhaps there's a more precise understanding of God (read: an even bigger mindfuck than the trinity) that they have than we do, in which case being "converted" by them, i would think, would not be anathema to at least the orthodox. it would hopefully fulfill the things in christianity that are difficult in the way that christianity fulfilled the things in judaism that were difficult. (i understand this is not the case from a jewish point of view. none of this post is relevent from a non-christian point of view.)
regarding: "The one advantage that Ruby has over Smalltalk and Logo is that it's included with every copy of OS X. So is Perl, but please, please, please nobody teach children to program using Perl. It could doom us all!", I would like to say That's even funnier than the emails I'm getting from the man who's causing me to smile those creepy "i'm thinking about a man" smiles at work these days.
regarding: "The one advantage that Ruby has over Smalltalk and Logo is that it's included with every copy of OS X. So is Perl, but please, please, please nobody teach children to program using Perl. It could doom us all!", I would like to say That's even funnier than the emails I'm getting from the man who's giving me those creepy "i'm thinking about a man" smiles at work these days.
> Secondly, most birds that conservationists... are really worried about don't live in built-up areas so the impact with glass is likely to be less of a problem.
in cambridge (ma), some hawks have moved in, and occasionally fall for diving into glass. perhaps they are worried about the re-introduction of such species into urban areas.
and the assignments are sufficiently varied, i recommend the following: if any two assignments are identical but incorrect, they are marked 0. this permits collaboration, but each student must understand the result to make sure it is correct. my best high school teacher did this and we collaborated, but it helped rather than hindered our learning.
that is, not in terms of how much you paid, but how much you know. for instance, i've been using the program "matlab" for 10 years. i have an id card - i enter its number when i contact tech support. therefore, when i ask a question, i get directed to the journal papers supporting this or that algorithmic decision. my coworkers with less experience are directed to the step-by-step faqs. judging from the speed of their response, i'm escalated to "third-tier" immediately. of course, i'm suitably appalled when it turns out my question is simple (which does, rarely, happen). in general the kind of support is reflective of the kind of user i am. so, i don't know how other tech support would qualify your expertise without running you through a script, but it seems reasonable to expect that an individual user would only have to ever do that once, to establish the appropriate level of support.
it takes me about half a sentence to switch. dv->qw i'm just really slow those 5 words, because i have to look. qw->dv i make alot of mistakes that i have to correct, but then my accuracy and speed are back to normal. i switched because i never learned to properly touch-type qwerty, so starting over with dvorak got me major speed and accuracy gains.
doing this kind of thing by phone is often useless. send them a letter (like, on paper, via usps - you can even print it out from your computer). it works. if i can't get any dispute resolved in a single phone call, it's correspondence from then on out. i've never had to send more than that first letter.
trivia: many men have red-green color-blindness, while just as many women have an "extra" green detection ability. so when a woman tells a man he's wearing something that doesn't match, it may really be that he just can't tell. evolutionists hypothesize this is because it was more important for the women to distinguish between this or that particular shade of a potentially poisonous berry. to get back on topic, perhaps color subtleties are more important for women to navigate desktops.
i have verizon dsl. i send mail with a return address other than @verizon.net . you may want to check again. or maybe you live in another state with stupid local rules.
(almost all) women who weight train will not bulk up. their muscle tone and definition will increase as they get stronger, but they will not get big the way (many) men do. strength and size are not that deterministicly bound for men either - you train differently to gain mass vs. strength. this is great because it means women's strength can be significantly underestimated by appearance.
same here. a friend sent me info on how to get on my state's do not call list when i got land line service (for dsl). i told her turning off the ringer seemed to be working pretty well. i haven't gotten a telemarketing call in 3 years.
norbert wiener once proposed a birth control system consisting of transmitters with a 28-day cycle so all the women's fertile moments would be precisely predictable, based on the same principle
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i'd like to see a comparison of the ecological impact of throwing out a to-do list every day vs. throwing out (and manufacturing) an electronic device every year or two.
actually, it's really cool. her parents immigrated to the us and gave her an american name, but when she got to school there were tons of Jennifer Lee's with similar stories, so they figured she needed a middle name, and couldn't come up with anything better than a lucky number.
it's actually Jennifer 8 Lee, the 8 isn't short for anything.
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or "the la brea tar pits" ("the 'the tar' tar pits")
jewish: would God have a "chosen people" on another planet? would their torah be in hebrew? would their temple still exist? would their messiah have come? could the jewish people accept converts from them?
buddhist: had any buddha manifested among them yet?
islam: is their koran in arabic?
i'm considering these questions from the most "orthodox" point of view within each religion.
it is interesting to consider the theology of the trinity in this light. the coeternal father, son, and spirit would be evident on any other world, but the timing of his/their manifestation to that world's sentient beings may be on a different scale.
i don't think there's any necessary uniqueness to the role of Jesus Christ if you consider it in the light of bringing an understanding of the trinity to humans. another kind of being may have been introduced to the concept a similar or different way. (how would the trinity have been revealed if there hadn't been the fall?)
also, perhaps there's a more precise understanding of God (read: an even bigger mindfuck than the trinity) that they have than we do, in which case being "converted" by them, i would think, would not be anathema to at least the orthodox. it would hopefully fulfill the things in christianity that are difficult in the way that christianity fulfilled the things in judaism that were difficult. (i understand this is not the case from a jewish point of view. none of this post is relevent from a non-christian point of view.)
regarding: "The one advantage that Ruby has over Smalltalk and Logo is that it's included with every copy of OS X. So is Perl, but please, please, please nobody teach children to program using Perl. It could doom us all!", I would like to say
That's even funnier than the emails I'm getting from the man who's causing me to smile those creepy "i'm thinking about a man" smiles at work these days.
regarding: "The one advantage that Ruby has over Smalltalk and Logo is that it's included with every copy of OS X. So is Perl, but please, please, please nobody teach children to program using Perl. It could doom us all!", I would like to say
That's even funnier than the emails I'm getting from the man who's giving me those creepy "i'm thinking about a man" smiles at work these days.
> Secondly, most birds that conservationists ... are really worried about don't live in built-up areas so the impact with glass is likely to be less of a problem.
in cambridge (ma), some hawks have moved in, and occasionally fall for diving into glass. perhaps they are worried about the re-introduction of such species into urban areas.
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buy your clothing second-hand, at least then you're one more step removed from the production, and it's cheap.
and the assignments are sufficiently varied, i recommend the following: if any two assignments are identical but incorrect, they are marked 0. this permits collaboration, but each student must understand the result to make sure it is correct. my best high school teacher did this and we collaborated, but it helped rather than hindered our learning.
that is, not in terms of how much you paid, but how much you know. for instance, i've been using the program "matlab" for 10 years. i have an id card - i enter its number when i contact tech support. therefore, when i ask a question, i get directed to the journal papers supporting this or that algorithmic decision. my coworkers with less experience are directed to the step-by-step faqs. judging from the speed of their response, i'm escalated to "third-tier" immediately. of course, i'm suitably appalled when it turns out my question is simple (which does, rarely, happen). in general the kind of support is reflective of the kind of user i am.
so, i don't know how other tech support would qualify your expertise without running you through a script, but it seems reasonable to expect that an individual user would only have to ever do that once, to establish the appropriate level of support.
I cancelled by sending them a letter, by us post. no irritating hold time, no irritating operator, no further bills.
was it this one?
heh. see you at reloaded this afternoon, as you see it for the nth time.
it takes me about half a sentence to switch. dv->qw i'm just really slow those 5 words, because i have to look. qw->dv i make alot of mistakes that i have to correct, but then my accuracy and speed are back to normal.
i switched because i never learned to properly touch-type qwerty, so starting over with dvorak got me major speed and accuracy gains.
doing this kind of thing by phone is often useless. send them a letter (like, on paper, via usps - you can even print it out from your computer). it works. if i can't get any dispute resolved in a single phone call, it's correspondence from then on out. i've never had to send more than that first letter.
trivia: many men have red-green color-blindness, while just as many women have an "extra" green detection ability. so when a woman tells a man he's wearing something that doesn't match, it may really be that he just can't tell. evolutionists hypothesize this is because it was more important for the women to distinguish between this or that particular shade of a potentially poisonous berry. to get back on topic, perhaps color subtleties are more important for women to navigate desktops.
i have verizon dsl. i send mail with a return address other than @verizon.net . you may want to check again. or maybe you live in another state with stupid local rules.
(almost all) women who weight train will not bulk up. their muscle tone and definition will increase as they get stronger, but they will not get big the way (many) men do. strength and size are not that deterministicly bound for men either - you train differently to gain mass vs. strength.
this is great because it means women's strength can be significantly underestimated by appearance.
true haiku are also written in japanese.
"haiku" in english are on a variety of topics.
same here. a friend sent me info on how to get on my state's do not call list when i got land line service (for dsl). i told her turning off the ringer seemed to be working pretty well. i haven't gotten a telemarketing call in 3 years.
norbert wiener once proposed a birth control system consisting of transmitters with a 28-day cycle so all the women's fertile moments would be precisely predictable, based on the same principle
i'd like to see a comparison of the ecological impact of throwing out a to-do list every day vs. throwing out (and manufacturing) an electronic device every year or two.
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hehee! poll! I am screwed most often by
my congressperson
my partner
a barfly
my boss
cowboy neal
actually, it's really cool. her parents immigrated to the us and gave her an american name, but when she got to school there were tons of Jennifer Lee's with similar stories, so they figured she needed a middle name, and couldn't come up with anything better than a lucky number.
it's actually Jennifer 8 Lee, the 8 isn't short for anything.