Blasphemous! Blasphemous!!! I am just... speechless that some people still use that word. So here's some more 'blasphemy': Jesus wasn't the son of god, he was just some guy with delusions of granduer, he DIDN'T rise after 3 days, and the book of Genesis is NOT factually correct.
I just don't get the concerns about this issue. Personally I think DNA samples should be collected from every baby born and entered into a national database. This would have an incredible benefit for law enforcement. I'd volunteer my DNA for it, for I don't plan on doing anything illegal.
About the Catholic Church opposing vernacular translations of the Bible, I sure your right about that, that was one of Martin Luther's problems with the Church, the fact that normal folk never read the Bible because it was only in Latin, so people had to rely on preists for all the interpretation, giving them very much power. But you could say the Church's objection to anyone interpreting the Bible wasn't completely unreasonable, just look at how many effing deffierent Christian sects developed after the reformation. Prior to that the Church only had one major split, the Eastern Othodox.
Actually I think tribal societis can be considered anarchic at the tribe level rather than the individual level, with all the feuds and raids and stuff. Its basically organized anarchy.
The biggest distinction between Laissez-faire capitalism and anarchy is that the former depends on a state and police to enforce property rights, along with myriad other laws like murder, rape, civil courts, prisons, etc. Who handles all that in a truly anarchic society? The concept of private property would be severly limited to only the things you can prevent other people from taking, and it would be a really nast free-for-all since there would be nothing to dissuade others from trying, except maybe lethal force from your gun. The closest thing to anarchy i can think of is extremely tribal societies with very little law enfocrement, like in rural pakistan and afghanistan (where guns are VERY abundant, along with bombs and RPGs), and the chaos of Ethiopia.
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Actually there is a trick to make HD_DVDs play in standard DVDs, wich is to encode one layer as a standard DVD that can be read by the old players and a the second layer as a HD format wich can only be read by the new players, but this has the BIG problem of cutting the storage available by a large margin.
I've read about high dynamic range displays that have a grid based backlight that is turned on and off to increase the dynamic range, which is rather crappy on regular displays (like only 300 to 1), while the eye has a range of closer to a million to one. (actually the the ration of the brightest light level to the lowest light level a well-adapted eye can work in is about a TRILLION to one!! Ask any digital camera manufacturer, thats very ipressive)
I've been a Slashdot reader for many years now an I have been struck by certian reader's attitudes about software. The most sriking have been the people who flat out REFUSE to run any software that isn't open source. Reminds me of hardcore Vegans. Also the people don't understand why most people have NO DESIRE WHATSOEVER to compile there own software. Some people are really out of touch.
You should really play Resident Evil 4 if you don't think the gamecube is cabable of the BEST graphics. The game is litterally jaw-droppingly pretty. I remember looking at the screen and then at the gamecube wondering "this came out of a gamecube!?"
Since these crimes affect so many people so seroiously and are so hard to actually punish appropiatly, I feel that the law should just be that if a company goes bad due to illegal activities and an executive SHOULD have known about it he automatically goes to jail. No need to actually prove any knowledge. Sure this may be unfair but it would probably motivate executives to be a lot more vigilant!
I'm kinda an extremist materialist in that I firmly believe that even things like emotions and mental states can be fully described in terms of the physical state of the brain. We just can't examine the operating brain in enough detail yet.
I really like the new construction system called structural insulated panals, or sips. They consist of a 4 to 8 inch thick layer of polystyrene or polyurethane foam sandwiched between two layers of oriented strand board. They go together in a tongue and groove fashion and the seams are injected with foam and taped. They can be strctural and non-structural, and are amazeingly strong. They can be used for floors, wall, and roofs. You end up with a nearly perfectly airtight house with a perfectly uniform R-value of 30 to 40. Obviously this greatly reduces the energy needed to heat and cool a house. Combine this with reversible geothermal heatpumps and TOTAL ANUAL heating and cooling costs in states like Wisconsin are less than 200 dollars for a large home. Plus the use of OSB allows the use of samll, fast growing trees and scrap wood. And sure the foam is oil based but over the the life span of the home it actually saves and enormous amount of oil from heating saveings.
The fact that not every possible mathmatical equation describes reality is not very surprising, but the REAL question is the inverse, namely wether everything possible is described by an equation. This gets to the heart of the limitations of math at describing the universe.
Yes, China is incredibly ethnocentric, but then so is Korea and Japan. Its a common trait stemming from such a long history of ethnic homogenity and isolation. I read that it is still very common for blacks to be called "black devils".
Where and with what caliber? THAT is the question! Personally I'd like to see what one of these would do at a close range. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m546.htm
Hopefully the two very different Koreas will be reunified in my lifetime (I can't imagine how the current North Korean 'government' will survive after 'Dear Leaders' passing, but if NK is good at nothing else its good at surprising people!), and I am really looking forward to it. Its gonna be really intersting to see how 20 million North Koreans stuck in a 50 year cultural and technological deep freeze will react to finally seeing how the southerners live. I mean for God's sake, for all intents and purpopses NK has no internet or cell phones!
Are you kidding, that would only cost a few hundred dollars if using DVDs or a few thousand if using hard drives. Storage is getting so damn cheap these days. I can't wait to have a 200 disk jukebox with terabyte holographic discs.
Its not just about rehabilitation, but about justice. Look at Susan Atkins, who famously butchered the very pregnant Sharon Tate. Shes been in prison ever since. Now I believe she is no threat to society if she were released but I still think she should stay in prison. Just the thought of her being free after what she did makes me cringe. Its not in any way fair for her to be free to live her life after what she did. And due to a stupid loophole invoving the supreme court, she can't be executed. Oh, and killing 3 people like that isn't "error of his ways" its a truly heinous act that permantly and irrovacbly loses you any rights you had to freedom and happiness. Even if he does "see the errors of his ways" he should never have the right to freedom.
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Blasphemous! Blasphemous!!! I am just ... speechless that some people still use that word. So here's some more 'blasphemy': Jesus wasn't the son of god, he was just some guy with delusions of granduer, he DIDN'T rise after 3 days, and the book of Genesis is NOT factually correct.
I always thought we should just have a two tier HS system, one for those students who WANT to be there and one for those students who DON'T.
...Is what I've heard it called by some confederate sympahtisers. Very expressive name.
I just don't get the concerns about this issue. Personally I think DNA samples should be collected from every baby born and entered into a national database. This would have an incredible benefit for law enforcement. I'd volunteer my DNA for it, for I don't plan on doing anything illegal.
About the Catholic Church opposing vernacular translations of the Bible, I sure your right about that, that was one of Martin Luther's problems with the Church, the fact that normal folk never read the Bible because it was only in Latin, so people had to rely on preists for all the interpretation, giving them very much power. But you could say the Church's objection to anyone interpreting the Bible wasn't completely unreasonable, just look at how many effing deffierent Christian sects developed after the reformation. Prior to that the Church only had one major split, the Eastern Othodox.
Actually I think tribal societis can be considered anarchic at the tribe level rather than the individual level, with all the feuds and raids and stuff. Its basically organized anarchy.
The biggest distinction between Laissez-faire capitalism and anarchy is that the former depends on a state and police to enforce property rights, along with myriad other laws like murder, rape, civil courts, prisons, etc. Who handles all that in a truly anarchic society? The concept of private property would be severly limited to only the things you can prevent other people from taking, and it would be a really nast free-for-all since there would be nothing to dissuade others from trying, except maybe lethal force from your gun. The closest thing to anarchy i can think of is extremely tribal societies with very little law enfocrement, like in rural pakistan and afghanistan (where guns are VERY abundant, along with bombs and RPGs), and the chaos of Ethiopia.
Actually there is a trick to make HD_DVDs play in standard DVDs, wich is to encode one layer as a standard DVD that can be read by the old players and a the second layer as a HD format wich can only be read by the new players, but this has the BIG problem of cutting the storage available by a large margin.
I've read about high dynamic range displays that have a grid based backlight that is turned on and off to increase the dynamic range, which is rather crappy on regular displays (like only 300 to 1), while the eye has a range of closer to a million to one. (actually the the ration of the brightest light level to the lowest light level a well-adapted eye can work in is about a TRILLION to one!! Ask any digital camera manufacturer, thats very ipressive)
I've been a Slashdot reader for many years now an I have been struck by certian reader's attitudes about software. The most sriking have been the people who flat out REFUSE to run any software that isn't open source. Reminds me of hardcore Vegans. Also the people don't understand why most people have NO DESIRE WHATSOEVER to compile there own software. Some people are really out of touch.
No, Intra means WITHIN. As in intrascholastic athletics, etc.
Man with house prices that high why aren't people building houses like crazy, thus bringing the price back to reasonable levels?
You should really play Resident Evil 4 if you don't think the gamecube is cabable of the BEST graphics. The game is litterally jaw-droppingly pretty. I remember looking at the screen and then at the gamecube wondering "this came out of a gamecube!?"
MegaPeople. I see these all the time, especially at all-you-can-eat restaraunts. I think there number is increasing rapidly in America.
I wonder if the two dead crews would consider themselves lucky?
Since these crimes affect so many people so seroiously and are so hard to actually punish appropiatly, I feel that the law should just be that if a company goes bad due to illegal activities and an executive SHOULD have known about it he automatically goes to jail. No need to actually prove any knowledge. Sure this may be unfair but it would probably motivate executives to be a lot more vigilant!
I'm kinda an extremist materialist in that I firmly believe that even things like emotions and mental states can be fully described in terms of the physical state of the brain. We just can't examine the operating brain in enough detail yet.
I really like the new construction system called structural insulated panals, or sips. They consist of a 4 to 8 inch thick layer of polystyrene or polyurethane foam sandwiched between two layers of oriented strand board. They go together in a tongue and groove fashion and the seams are injected with foam and taped. They can be strctural and non-structural, and are amazeingly strong. They can be used for floors, wall, and roofs. You end up with a nearly perfectly airtight house with a perfectly uniform R-value of 30 to 40. Obviously this greatly reduces the energy needed to heat and cool a house. Combine this with reversible geothermal heatpumps and TOTAL ANUAL heating and cooling costs in states like Wisconsin are less than 200 dollars for a large home. Plus the use of OSB allows the use of samll, fast growing trees and scrap wood. And sure the foam is oil based but over the the life span of the home it actually saves and enormous amount of oil from heating saveings.
The fact that not every possible mathmatical equation describes reality is not very surprising, but the REAL question is the inverse, namely wether everything possible is described by an equation. This gets to the heart of the limitations of math at describing the universe.
Well, at least regarding the criminal system its notorious for being VERY biased against supects, as in a 99% conviction rate.
Yes, China is incredibly ethnocentric, but then so is Korea and Japan. Its a common trait stemming from such a long history of ethnic homogenity and isolation. I read that it is still very common for blacks to be called "black devils".
Where and with what caliber? THAT is the question! Personally I'd like to see what one of these would do at a close range. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m546.htm
Hopefully the two very different Koreas will be reunified in my lifetime (I can't imagine how the current North Korean 'government' will survive after 'Dear Leaders' passing, but if NK is good at nothing else its good at surprising people!), and I am really looking forward to it. Its gonna be really intersting to see how 20 million North Koreans stuck in a 50 year cultural and technological deep freeze will react to finally seeing how the southerners live. I mean for God's sake, for all intents and purpopses NK has no internet or cell phones!
Are you kidding, that would only cost a few hundred dollars if using DVDs or a few thousand if using hard drives. Storage is getting so damn cheap these days. I can't wait to have a 200 disk jukebox with terabyte holographic discs.
Its not just about rehabilitation, but about justice. Look at Susan Atkins, who famously butchered the very pregnant Sharon Tate. Shes been in prison ever since. Now I believe she is no threat to society if she were released but I still think she should stay in prison. Just the thought of her being free after what she did makes me cringe. Its not in any way fair for her to be free to live her life after what she did. And due to a stupid loophole invoving the supreme court, she can't be executed. Oh, and killing 3 people like that isn't "error of his ways" its a truly heinous act that permantly and irrovacbly loses you any rights you had to freedom and happiness. Even if he does "see the errors of his ways" he should never have the right to freedom.