The odd part is that somehow I don't want to correct my stunning lack of car knowledge. Or a lot of other topics. I call it the "benefit per study". My van only breaks something (wheel rod, shocks, whatever) say twice a year, so I just don't enjoy studying something I would never use. (I'm not about to try to replace a wheel rod!)
Sorta the same thing with the Manly Pursuits - it's just too steep of a curve for me in my tired old age (joking!) to learn how to sail a boat. Or get a hunting license.
Computers are fun to learn on, I got started early enough and quietly kept at it. So here I am.
It doesn't bother you that you're a co-dependent little bitch? That your effectiveness in all aspects of life rests solely on the one silly-pet-trick you learned remaining interesting to others?
You really don't deserve to participate in a democracy. Too irresponsible.
First off, those civilizations are not the source of the midwinter traditions. The midwinter traditions come from the northern cultures.
And secondly, depression is one of the seven deadly sins. Clearly, people from the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean thought it was pretty serious.
How about "Prevent Seasonal Affective Disorder Induced Suicide By Putting Up Lots Of Lights And Reminders That Things Will Get Better In The Spring While Getting Drunk And Exchanging GIfts Day"
It served a much more important and practical purpose before pervasive electric lighting came along. It kept you alive.
Personally, I like a woman I can pick up, carry through the house, throw across the room onto the bed and whip around the room like a rag doll. Marilyn Monroe is too fat, sorry.
I really don't give a fuck about what's healthy, natural or politically correct. I want a woman with an ass like two grapefruits in a pillowcase.
The really funny part of it all is, the advertisers didn't do anything to those women that those women aren't trying to do to us every time they put their makeup on in the morning.
Different argument. The discussion was about how to allow land travel to resource rich areas through former permafrost areas that are now impassible bog, not implement commercial farming for it's own sake.
If the permafrost thaws, the way to recover the land would be to borrow from permaculture principles and let nature do most of the work.
First, plant fast growing, cold tolerant plants that fix atmospheric nitrogen like Russian Olives, Bog Myrtles, Northern Bayberries and Buffalo Berries. They'll grow like mad and firm up what soil is there. Then you run an annual slash-and-drop program to build soil. You wouldn't need heavy equipment, just chain saws, because you wouldn't be letting anything get particularly large, and you won't be carting anything in or out, so costs would be relatively low.
Using heavy equipment to cart in material to build up the land when you can let nature do the work would just be stupid.
Personally, I would like to die of a heart attack. While having sex with 3 women each 1/3 my age and under the influence of copious amounts of cocaine and state funded Viagra.
Exactly. They never should have been allowed to create the drug or sell it in the first place. The whole idea of "whoever does the work is the one who should get the reward" is evil. Pharma companies should not be allowed to engage in research, earn profit, or do anything except bleed money into the pockets of lawyers and socialists. Anyone should be able to simultaneously cash in on another company's research and sue that company. Drugs happen by magic, and don't tell me otherwise; effort has nothing to do with it. Screw people with high cholesterol, they're old while entitlement-driven people are young, it doesn't affect the young so to hell with anyone except the young. I'm ENTITLED.
May you die of a heart attack for want of an effective drug.
Which variety of organ failure is it that you would prefer to die from?
The earth wants us to transform her into a gigantic electronic brain. She thinks the Internet is awesome progress. Oh, and she doesn't really give a fuck about lions, tigers or baby seals...
But does warfare against industrial sites count as terrorism, where the primary intent is to damage that site's abilities rather than instill fear of death in the general population, really count as terrorism?
If the answer to your question is no, then 9/11 was not a terrorist attack.
Oh, and the answer to your question is no. Attacking infrastructure is not terrorism.
Like I keep repeating - there's only 40 years of oil left. That's a generous estimate that does not take into account growth. So drill baby drill can drill all they want, the total CO2 released from fossil fuels is just going to reach equilibrium faster. When the oil/coal is gone, it's gone forever.
Well, unless the proponents of abiotic oil theories are correct...
Abrahamic religions and modern scientific thought both rely upon faith. They both presume that reality has rules which can be used to predict what will happen, that a model can be created and our existence will be improved if we use the model to govern our behavior.
Contrast this with religions that consider this world to be no more predictable than the worlds they encounter in their dreams, and they start to look more similar than different.
Personally, I consider the drive to have humanity to acknowledge "one true God" to have been an essential step towards modern scientific thought. It was about uniting multiple primitive knowledge systems into one and creating a common framework for the propagation and dissemination of untapped tribal knowledge.
It was a good idea in the past, but at this point they're at least 3 versions of Windows behind all but ensuring that they're not going to catch up any time soon.
If that was as big an issue as you think it is, I wouldn't be forced to write code that runs properly in IE6 so cubicle drones with decade old machines can access it.
I'm interested in a pair of glasses that are suitable for use as a monitor replacement.
I'm not particularly interested in 3D viewing or augmented reality... but I would like to be able to connect my glasses to my laptop, lie on my back and do computer programming work with either a split keyboard that straps to my wrists or a chording keyboard. I would also want to be able to watch movies using them.
I would also want to be able to use this in public places, like while I'm riding the bus or sitting on a park bench.
Anyone got any good suggestions?
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* The excessively flatulent need not apply.
Define "excessively".
Volume?
Frequency?
Decibels?
Parts Per Million
Unfortunately, this is true. Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Evil will never truly triumph over Good because if it does it will have nothing left to eat next season.
Hi AC!
The odd part is that somehow I don't want to correct my stunning lack of car knowledge. Or a lot of other topics. I call it the "benefit per study". My van only breaks something (wheel rod, shocks, whatever) say twice a year, so I just don't enjoy studying something I would never use. (I'm not about to try to replace a wheel rod!)
Sorta the same thing with the Manly Pursuits - it's just too steep of a curve for me in my tired old age (joking!) to learn how to sail a boat. Or get a hunting license.
Computers are fun to learn on, I got started early enough and quietly kept at it. So here I am.
It doesn't bother you that you're a co-dependent little bitch? That your effectiveness in all aspects of life rests solely on the one silly-pet-trick you learned remaining interesting to others?
You really don't deserve to participate in a democracy. Too irresponsible.
First off, those civilizations are not the source of the midwinter traditions. The midwinter traditions come from the northern cultures.
And secondly, depression is one of the seven deadly sins. Clearly, people from the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean thought it was pretty serious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Acedia
How about "Prevent Seasonal Affective Disorder Induced Suicide By Putting Up Lots Of Lights And Reminders That Things Will Get Better In The Spring While Getting Drunk And Exchanging GIfts Day"
It served a much more important and practical purpose before pervasive electric lighting came along. It kept you alive.
Personally, I like a woman I can pick up, carry through the house, throw across the room onto the bed and whip around the room like a rag doll. Marilyn Monroe is too fat, sorry.
I really don't give a fuck about what's healthy, natural or politically correct. I want a woman with an ass like two grapefruits in a pillowcase.
The really funny part of it all is, the advertisers didn't do anything to those women that those women aren't trying to do to us every time they put their makeup on in the morning.
Different argument. The discussion was about how to allow land travel to resource rich areas through former permafrost areas that are now impassible bog, not implement commercial farming for it's own sake.
and the other 800,000,000 are looking for employment elsewhere ?
No, they're just Occupying space.
When you're really, truly cold, a snowbank feels like a feather pillow, and you just want to snuggle up to it and go to sleep.
If the permafrost thaws, the way to recover the land would be to borrow from permaculture principles and let nature do most of the work.
First, plant fast growing, cold tolerant plants that fix atmospheric nitrogen like Russian Olives, Bog Myrtles, Northern Bayberries and Buffalo Berries. They'll grow like mad and firm up what soil is there. Then you run an annual slash-and-drop program to build soil. You wouldn't need heavy equipment, just chain saws, because you wouldn't be letting anything get particularly large, and you won't be carting anything in or out, so costs would be relatively low.
Using heavy equipment to cart in material to build up the land when you can let nature do the work would just be stupid.
Personally, I would like to die of a heart attack. While having sex with 3 women each 1/3 my age and under the influence of copious amounts of cocaine and state funded Viagra.
Exactly. They never should have been allowed to create the drug or sell it in the first place. The whole idea of "whoever does the work is the one who should get the reward" is evil. Pharma companies should not be allowed to engage in research, earn profit, or do anything except bleed money into the pockets of lawyers and socialists. Anyone should be able to simultaneously cash in on another company's research and sue that company. Drugs happen by magic, and don't tell me otherwise; effort has nothing to do with it. Screw people with high cholesterol, they're old while entitlement-driven people are young, it doesn't affect the young so to hell with anyone except the young. I'm ENTITLED.
May you die of a heart attack for want of an effective drug.
Which variety of organ failure is it that you would prefer to die from?
The answer is hypocrisy.
The earth wants us to transform her into a gigantic electronic brain. She thinks the Internet is awesome progress. Oh, and she doesn't really give a fuck about lions, tigers or baby seals...
I didn't say that I personally subscribe to the theory... it was intended as a quip, really.
But does warfare against industrial sites count as terrorism, where the primary intent is to damage that site's abilities rather than instill fear of death in the general population, really count as terrorism?
If the answer to your question is no, then 9/11 was not a terrorist attack.
Oh, and the answer to your question is no. Attacking infrastructure is not terrorism.
Like I keep repeating - there's only 40 years of oil left. That's a generous estimate that does not take into account growth. So drill baby drill can drill all they want, the total CO2 released from fossil fuels is just going to reach equilibrium faster. When the oil/coal is gone, it's gone forever.
Well, unless the proponents of abiotic oil theories are correct...
Abrahamic religions and modern scientific thought both rely upon faith. They both presume that reality has rules which can be used to predict what will happen, that a model can be created and our existence will be improved if we use the model to govern our behavior.
Contrast this with religions that consider this world to be no more predictable than the worlds they encounter in their dreams, and they start to look more similar than different.
Personally, I consider the drive to have humanity to acknowledge "one true God" to have been an essential step towards modern scientific thought. It was about uniting multiple primitive knowledge systems into one and creating a common framework for the propagation and dissemination of untapped tribal knowledge.
What does the % of population believing something have to do with it being fact or fiction?
Sometimes it's just the way things are. Here's a perfect example:
Your money has value.
Why would you choose to express it in such an awkward way?
It's 91 cubic chains.
Viruses are not alive, and never die. You can catch smallpox from a 2000 year old mummy's tomb.
You know what would really make my drill press better? A disco ball. And lasers.
Cause everything is better with Bling.
It was a good idea in the past, but at this point they're at least 3 versions of Windows behind all but ensuring that they're not going to catch up any time soon.
If that was as big an issue as you think it is, I wouldn't be forced to write code that runs properly in IE6 so cubicle drones with decade old machines can access it.
I'm interested in a pair of glasses that are suitable for use as a monitor replacement. I'm not particularly interested in 3D viewing or augmented reality... but I would like to be able to connect my glasses to my laptop, lie on my back and do computer programming work with either a split keyboard that straps to my wrists or a chording keyboard. I would also want to be able to watch movies using them. I would also want to be able to use this in public places, like while I'm riding the bus or sitting on a park bench. Anyone got any good suggestions?