I'm pro-choice up until the point where the fetus develops a conscious brain.
Animals almost certainly have "conscious brains" and yet it's okay to kill them for their scrumptious meat. If you accept that a fetus doesn't have "magic pixie dust" at or before the moment of conception and if you think it's okay to eat meat (or exterminate vermin), then you also accept there needs to be a certain minimum level of intellectual capacity before killing is wrong. What is your earliest memory? Mine is around three years old. This tends to indicate that a human's brain is not coherent enough to be considered to pass this minimum level of intellectual capacity until it is a couple of years old. The other, other white meat.
At least some of the families of those he swindled are struggling to get by.
If you're stupid enough to put all your eggs in one basket, then you deserve to get screwed. I think the law should be changed to require you to get screwed. Rich people should know better. Retirees shouldn't be investing in equities in the first place. BTW, how's you life's-savings single-company pension plan doing? How will it be doing next week when you employer goes bankrupt?
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I made a bet two years ago with a friend that the Hubble repair will not happen before the end of 2009 (if ever) and my money is looking pretty safe. The premise of my wager is that the Americans have wussed out of space exploration, so we can count them out. We'll have to rely on the Chinese, who put the glory of the empire over the welfare of its citizens, for future space exploration.
Wow...was that ever fun. Then came the exciting times when I could actually find a friend of mine that also knew what the 'internet' was...and had a working email address!!
I bet it will be all kinds of fun to try to get your data from one application into another, especially competitors applications.
How about from one version of an application to another? What if OO-Office 2009 uses slightly modified classes from OO-Office 2008? How do you access your OO-Office 2008 document persistent objects?
So I accidentally write a bug into my program that creates objects in a tight loop until all virtual memory is exhausted. Is my system now hosed? Do I need to wipe it clean, reinstall the OS, and start over?
We have no right to overthrow other people's governments
Dictatorships are not legitimate governments. They have no right to exist. I realize that leftists have a love affair with totalitarian dictatorships, but I have never understood why. They don't actually share your values.
Marge: Where's Bart? I haven't seen him since you came home.
Homer: [Sarcastically'] Oh, you haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen.
Marge: I didn't say that.
Homer: [still sarcastic] I know what you think... when stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey.
Marge: [concerned] I could never think of something that horrible!
Homer: [still sarcastic] And now I'm using sarcasm to confess the whole thing, so later I can say that I already told you!
Marge: Sorry I asked. [leaves.]
Lisa: Dad, you can't keep this up for long.
Homer: [still sarcastic] Oh, you're so right, I guess I should be more concerned with Bart's safety than covering my own butt! And maybe I'm talking like this, because I can't stop! HELP ME LISA! I HAVE SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS!
If the threats are just paranoia, why is Novell paying Microsoft for patent coverage for all their GPL distributions?
Because Novell and one or two other nearly-bankrupt Linux distributors were paid hundreds of millions of dollars by Microsoft to pretend that Microsoft's patents weren't bogus. Sounds like a good deal to me. Say, Microsoft, if you want to toss a few million dollars my way, I'll say that your patents are A-ok, too.
Yes most chinese workers can't afford two SUVs/trucks, a big house with a TV in each room (and the heating/cooling bill), a big slab of meat for every meal.
It's kind of ironic how it's been the Chinese who have been financing so many Americans to be able to live beyond their means as described above.
Don't tell religious people about this research. They will be mortified to learn that they have no 'soul' -- that their mind is just a phenomenon of computation. Actually, you should keep all laypeople away from this research.
She needs to impose a fine, say $2-million per day for non-compliance, retroactive to 2003. That'll be $3.6-billion and counting. If there's a Democrat win in November, Microsoft won't be able to slip off the noose quite so easily this time.
just like with evolution you have millions of years and trillions of molecules to handle the "chance" part.
Why limit yourself so severely? You have billions of years, sextillions of planets, and decillions of molecules to play with on each planet. If we had evolved on some other planet than Earth, we would call that Earth and we wouldn't even know about this planet. Also remember that the dice are loaded.
global warming activists kill us all because of an understudied field of science (ecology) led us to ignore other possible cause and effect relationships.
It's a lack of people wearing full pirate regalia!
In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves.:-)
So, the mankind fends for itself, just like it has for eons, but all the religious zealots will be gone. Is there anything I can do to speed up the Rapture?
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More accurately, Religion makes up ludicrous, self-contradictory stories about /why/ things work.
Animals almost certainly have "conscious brains" and yet it's okay to kill them for their scrumptious meat. If you accept that a fetus doesn't have "magic pixie dust" at or before the moment of conception and if you think it's okay to eat meat (or exterminate vermin), then you also accept there needs to be a certain minimum level of intellectual capacity before killing is wrong. What is your earliest memory? Mine is around three years old. This tends to indicate that a human's brain is not coherent enough to be considered to pass this minimum level of intellectual capacity until it is a couple of years old. The other, other white meat.
If you're stupid enough to put all your eggs in one basket, then you deserve to get screwed. I think the law should be changed to require you to get screwed. Rich people should know better. Retirees shouldn't be investing in equities in the first place. BTW, how's you life's-savings single-company pension plan doing? How will it be doing next week when you employer goes bankrupt?
Obama is on track to run up much more than $8-trillion in debt in his first term.
You'll need to adopt two of them for that.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I made a bet two years ago with a friend that the Hubble repair will not happen before the end of 2009 (if ever) and my money is looking pretty safe. The premise of my wager is that the Americans have wussed out of space exploration, so we can count them out. We'll have to rely on the Chinese, who put the glory of the empire over the welfare of its citizens, for future space exploration.
Shouldn't your user id be three digits long?
How about from one version of an application to another? What if OO-Office 2009 uses slightly modified classes from OO-Office 2008? How do you access your OO-Office 2008 document persistent objects?
So I accidentally write a bug into my program that creates objects in a tight loop until all virtual memory is exhausted. Is my system now hosed? Do I need to wipe it clean, reinstall the OS, and start over?
Dictatorships are not legitimate governments. They have no right to exist. I realize that leftists have a love affair with totalitarian dictatorships, but I have never understood why. They don't actually share your values.
Feeding the people who would otherwise be rising up to overthrow their brutal dictators, thereby ensuring said brutal dictators' grip on power?
I see them everywhere. On the street, at the mall, at work. They don't even know they're self-replicating-self-assembling robots.
Marge: Where's Bart? I haven't seen him since you came home.
Homer: [Sarcastically'] Oh, you haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen.
Marge: I didn't say that.
Homer: [still sarcastic] I know what you think... when stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey.
Marge: [concerned] I could never think of something that horrible!
Homer: [still sarcastic] And now I'm using sarcasm to confess the whole thing, so later I can say that I already told you!
Marge: Sorry I asked. [leaves.]
Lisa: Dad, you can't keep this up for long.
Homer: [still sarcastic] Oh, you're so right, I guess I should be more concerned with Bart's safety than covering my own butt! And maybe I'm talking like this, because I can't stop! HELP ME LISA! I HAVE SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS!
Hey, I'm a centimillionaire, a multicentimillionaire, in fact, given that "centi" means 1/100th. Perhaps they mean "hectomillionaires".
In a strange coincidence, the odds of Facebook collecting any money from the spammer are also 873-million to one.
Because Novell and one or two other nearly-bankrupt Linux distributors were paid hundreds of millions of dollars by Microsoft to pretend that Microsoft's patents weren't bogus. Sounds like a good deal to me. Say, Microsoft, if you want to toss a few million dollars my way, I'll say that your patents are A-ok, too.
It's kind of ironic how it's been the Chinese who have been financing so many Americans to be able to live beyond their means as described above.
Just make your password "I confess to jaywalking on 2008-10-16 iiGH%5". Sorry, but I cannot tell you my password without confessing to a crime. QED.
Don't tell religious people about this research. They will be mortified to learn that they have no 'soul' -- that their mind is just a phenomenon of computation. Actually, you should keep all laypeople away from this research.
She needs to impose a fine, say $2-million per day for non-compliance, retroactive to 2003. That'll be $3.6-billion and counting. If there's a Democrat win in November, Microsoft won't be able to slip off the noose quite so easily this time.
Is 50% a passing grade? If so, then this gives students a reason to do nothing and get passed anyway.
Quantifying 'spin' in political speeches is very easy to do:
spinLevel = strlen(speech);
Why limit yourself so severely? You have billions of years, sextillions of planets, and decillions of molecules to play with on each planet. If we had evolved on some other planet than Earth, we would call that Earth and we wouldn't even know about this planet. Also remember that the dice are loaded.
It's a lack of people wearing full pirate regalia!
So, the mankind fends for itself, just like it has for eons, but all the religious zealots will be gone. Is there anything I can do to speed up the Rapture?