I would view the loss of my mind and identity the same way I'd view my death. Which I guess is why I wonder if we'd be doing someone a favour by "saving" them, when it won't really be the same person who comes out the other side. You mean like what happened in Maine once?
Approaching child birth as a desease that should be treated at the hospital is wrong and is entirely a Western invention.
Since I have direct knowledge of cases where women chose to give birth at home, resulting in the death of their child due to simple, easily treated problems like myconium inhalation, I have no misgivings about calling you an uneducated fool. Childbirth is not considered a "disease," but it is considered a potentially dangerous situation both for mother and infant. Another case: woman with failure to completely expel the placenta starts a major bleed. Hospital care saves her easily. Try doing that at home.
+5+22+R50C3 should be a valid formula without touching the = key. The reason for this is that it allows you to use the numeric keypad -- and the = button isn't part of it. There's an "=" key on my numeric keypad. You need to get a Mac:-)
All spreadsheets since Visicalc recongize any of the numeric operations (+ - / *) as the beginning of a formula -- Calc doesn't (it only recongizes the = sign).
Well, that may be an incompatibility problem, but I suggest that Excel et. al. are stupid to allow numeric operation symbols to do this in the first place. If you have to provide an initial symbol to indicate a formula, why create a muck pile by allowing more than one? Other than insipid things like "= -C3" you're not saving a whole bunch of keystrokes. BTW, at least in Excel98, only + and - work. * and / do not.
Social engineering, or con game, whatever you call it: read this week's The New Yorker for an article about some twit from Concord MA who got sucked all the way in. He's headed to jail for his part in kiting bad checks for the Nigerians. And yet he still believes there is a real person behind the e-mails, just waiting to get out of Nigeria with a gazillion dollars.
If Apple wants Windows users to switch, they have to stop sticking to their guns on the "Apple way" of doing things -- Command-C instead of Ctrl-C is a perfect example How about, instead, Windows stops using a keystroke that has meant "kill this process RIGHT NOW" for over 20 years? You know, Control-C ? And, yes, it still does make me cringe when I have to use Ctrl-C for "copy," and Ctrl-D for "duplicate," and a few other keystrokes that Unix and VMS defined back in the paleolithic age.
The essence of the pro-life movement's motivation is the belief that abortion is murder. Murder requires two things -- that the victim be considered human and that the action be deliberate. Natural death may be a tragedy even if it's a very common occurence, but it's not murder. It's comparing apples and oranges (or heart attacks and serial killers if you will) in the minds of pro-lifers. That may be true, but this is not the only point of contention. The pro-lifers also believe any "soul" that doesn't get baptized is doomed to eternal something-or-other-bad. So if these 1-week cell blobs are human life, then they've all missed out on the baptism thing, regardless of the reason for their death. That adds up to a hell (sorry for thepun) of a lot of condemmned souls that nobody cares about in least.
Not true. The standard Interstate speed limit is 65 MPH, although it frequently drops to 55 in urban areas. Out South and West (basically anywhere except New England), on long stretches of rural freeway, it's very common to have 75 MPH zones. Yeah but on the 65mph Mass Pike you'll get blown off the road if you're not going 70 (or 80-85 in the passing lane). I suspect there's a similar differential in most locales:-)
Get the thinner lenses too - they reduce distortion.
this is not true. To get the same power in a thinner lens, you have to go to higher index of refraction material. This will lead to chromatic distortion (colored edges to objects) as well as image field distortion.
Related to this: no matter how well eyeglasses correct, they can only do so on axis because your eyeball rotates behind the glases. Contact lenses allow off-axis viewing to have the same image quality as on-axis.
Anyone that believes in "blind faith" - the type of faith that essentially amounts to wishful thinking - is a religious nut in my opinion. That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF FAITH makes the same sort of judgement about people whose faith differs from their own. You think it's unacceptable for atheists to reject your view of religion but at the same time it's OK for you to reject other religious viewpoints.
You are self-inconsistent. Unfortunately for the human race, unlike THGTGG, you don't now vanish in a puff of smoke.
If there is a one in a billion chance that my daughter could be attacked, the drop is bigger than the bucket.
You're the kind of fsking moron who won't get his kids immunized because there's a nonzero chance of contracting the disease from the immunization (no matter the chance of getting the disease in the wild is 1E6 greater), or won't wear a seatbelt because in 1 of every million accidents a seatbelt exacerbates the injury. And finally, since there's about 1E8 greater chance that you, rather than a MyFace participant, is going to rape your daughter, what will you do now?
I always laughed at the kids that played games on their TI-85 calcs but couldn't figure out how to graph a simple parabola. Going OT, but: anyone who thinks that pushing buttons on a calculator has anything to do with learning to graph functions (or anything to do with learning math whatsoever) knows nothing at all about mathematics.
Back OT: the only justification, albeit a good one, for schools to block site access is so that those few:-) kids who want to use school computers to do their homework can actually get onto the machines. Otherwise the computers get hogged by the kids who just want to play. Not that I think a whitelist or blacklist will ever work very well in practice.
The uncracked, apparently garbled messages are in fact a set of hyperbolic functions. They were generated to obscure the fact that the original messages (which remain hidden in a trunk in someone's attic) contain the Lat. and Long. to a cave full of loot the Japanese hid near the end of the war.
Her: But do you love me? Meat Loaf: Baby, baby let me sleep on it and I'll tell you in the morning.
He should have waited until morning to decide about home plate as well as his profession of undying love, but.... Unfortunately, as the song plays out, he doesn't sleep on it and regrets his decision almost immediately:-(
To be considered a mature adult you should be able to beat a 2yr old at their own game.
The fun of being a mature adult is allowing the two-year-old to win. (I would have PM'd you but I guess/. doesn't have that feature) Funny but true: I tried the "let the kid win" trick w/ my daughter when she was 4 or 5, and she got really upset. "Daddy, I wanted YOU to win," she said. So much for parental psych:-)
Well, then, you appear to be living in a black & white world, and not the one where there are a myriad of issues, and you won't agree with all of the positions taken by any given president. I'm at a loss as to how you came up with that, when I clearly said you'd chosen to vote some personal issue and ignore the main, important, general position that all Republicans are taking. Just how many Senators and Representatives have voted against the party line in the last few years? Major issues do matter more than small ones, no matter how important the small ones may feel to you.
I love all this sterotyping of Republicans. It truely shows that you have no concept of the meaning of the word, or the demographic. Just because I tend to vote Republican doesn't mean that I've got anything in common with Jessie Helms, or George Bush. How's this one for you...I don't go to church, I'm pro-choice, against the Patriot Act, and against wiretapping without getting the damn warrents...and, oh yeah, I like science. Well, then,you have a problem. Apparently you either don't understand or don't care that teh Republicans you vote for do exactly what Bush or other party leaders tell them to do. So if you oppose Bush, Patriot Act, etc., you have been voting against your own interests. Another possibility, I suppose, is that (like far too many people) you have some minor "hot button" issue and allow that one thing to bias your voting choices.
(This is pretty much the first troll I've ever posted to/., but considering the incredible amount of time and $$ wasted on pointless pseudoantiterrorism efforts since 11/9/01, I just got pissed off this time).
How do you fit 12 astronauts into a Volkswagen? 2 in the front, 3 in the back and 7 in the ash tray That's a straight steal from a rather well-known anti-Jewish joke.
Exactly. There's no statistics quoted in TFA, and I'm not personally aware of ANY cases of abduction from within a school, so why all this idiotic spending? Most child abductions are perpetrated by family members (and there are stats on that). Just another example of a solution lacking a problem.
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I would view the loss of my mind and identity the same way I'd view my death. Which I guess is why I wonder if we'd be doing someone a favour by "saving" them, when it won't really be the same person who comes out the other side.
You mean like what happened in Maine once?
Approaching child birth as a desease that should be treated at the hospital is wrong and is entirely a Western invention.
Since I have direct knowledge of cases where women chose to give birth at home, resulting in the death of their child due to simple, easily treated problems like myconium inhalation, I have no misgivings about calling you an uneducated fool.
Childbirth is not considered a "disease," but it is considered a potentially dangerous situation both for mother and infant.
Another case: woman with failure to completely expel the placenta starts a major bleed. Hospital care saves her easily. Try doing that at home.
+5+22+R50C3 should be a valid formula without touching the = key. The reason for this is that it allows you to use the numeric keypad -- and the = button isn't part of it. :-)
There's an "=" key on my numeric keypad. You need to get a Mac
All spreadsheets since Visicalc recongize any of the numeric operations (+ - / *) as the beginning of a formula -- Calc doesn't (it only recongizes the = sign).
Well, that may be an incompatibility problem, but I suggest that Excel et. al. are stupid to allow numeric operation symbols to do this in the first place. If you have to provide an initial symbol to indicate a formula, why create a muck pile by allowing more than one? Other than insipid things like "= -C3" you're not saving a whole bunch of keystrokes.
BTW, at least in Excel98, only + and - work. * and / do not.
Social engineering, or con game, whatever you call it: read this week's The New Yorker for an article about some twit from Concord MA who got sucked all the way in. He's headed to jail for his part in kiting bad checks for the Nigerians. And yet he still believes there is a real person behind the e-mails, just waiting to get out of Nigeria with a gazillion dollars.
If Apple wants Windows users to switch, they have to stop sticking to their guns on the "Apple way" of doing things -- Command-C instead of Ctrl-C is a perfect example
How about, instead, Windows stops using a keystroke that has meant "kill this process RIGHT NOW" for over 20 years? You know, Control-C ?
And, yes, it still does make me cringe when I have to use Ctrl-C for "copy," and Ctrl-D for "duplicate," and a few other keystrokes that Unix and VMS defined back in the paleolithic age.
The essence of the pro-life movement's motivation is the belief that abortion is murder. Murder requires two things -- that the victim be considered human and that the action be deliberate. Natural death may be a tragedy even if it's a very common occurence, but it's not murder. It's comparing apples and oranges (or heart attacks and serial killers if you will) in the minds of pro-lifers.
That may be true, but this is not the only point of contention. The pro-lifers also believe any "soul" that doesn't get baptized is doomed to eternal something-or-other-bad. So if these 1-week cell blobs are human life, then they've all missed out on the baptism thing, regardless of the reason for their death. That adds up to a hell (sorry for thepun) of a lot of condemmned souls that nobody cares about in least.
Plus their speed limit is only 55mph
:-)
Not true. The standard Interstate speed limit is 65 MPH, although it frequently drops to 55 in urban areas. Out South and West (basically anywhere except New England), on long stretches of rural freeway, it's very common to have 75 MPH zones.
Yeah but on the 65mph Mass Pike you'll get blown off the road if you're not going 70 (or 80-85 in the passing lane). I suspect there's a similar differential in most locales
Get the thinner lenses too - they reduce distortion.
this is not true. To get the same power in a thinner lens, you have to go to higher index of refraction material. This will lead to chromatic distortion (colored edges to objects) as well as image field distortion.
Related to this: no matter how well eyeglasses correct, they can only do so on axis because your eyeball rotates behind the glases. Contact lenses allow off-axis viewing to have the same image quality as on-axis.
Win ;)
Mac
*nix
Religions
Emacs beats vi
OK, I give up: how do you pronounce ";)" ? Apparently it's got zero syllables.
Anyone that believes in "blind faith" - the type of faith that essentially amounts to wishful thinking - is a religious nut in my opinion.
That's very nice, but what you fail to comprehend is that EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF FAITH makes the same sort of judgement about people whose faith differs from their own. You think it's unacceptable for atheists to reject your view of religion but at the same time it's OK for you to reject other religious viewpoints.
You are self-inconsistent. Unfortunately for the human race, unlike THGTGG, you don't now vanish in a puff of smoke.
"Oh, a BOREDOM meter. That'll be reeeally useful"
[machine explodes]
(yes, I know the original is "sarcasm meter")
Googlefight.
42: 1,730,000,000 results
pi: 232,000,000 results
Just out of interest: of all you folks posting claims about evolution, anthropology, and intelligence, how many have read any of the following:
Bryson's Short History of Everything (not exact title)
Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel
Gould's Panda's Thumb (or any of many collections)
If there is a one in a billion chance that my daughter could be attacked, the drop is bigger than the bucket.
You're the kind of fsking moron who won't get his kids immunized because there's a nonzero chance of contracting the disease from the immunization (no matter the chance of getting the disease in the wild is 1E6 greater), or won't wear a seatbelt because in 1 of every million accidents a seatbelt exacerbates the injury. And finally, since there's about 1E8 greater chance that you, rather than a MyFace participant, is going to rape your daughter, what will you do now?
I always laughed at the kids that played games on their TI-85 calcs but couldn't figure out how to graph a simple parabola.
:-) kids who want to use school computers to do their homework can actually get onto the machines. Otherwise the computers get hogged by the kids who just want to play. Not that I think a whitelist or blacklist will ever work very well in practice.
Going OT, but: anyone who thinks that pushing buttons on a calculator has anything to do with learning to graph functions (or anything to do with learning math whatsoever) knows nothing at all about mathematics.
Back OT: the only justification, albeit a good one, for schools to block site access is so that those few
The uncracked, apparently garbled messages are in fact a set of hyperbolic functions. They were generated to obscure the fact that the original messages (which remain hidden in a trunk in someone's attic) contain the Lat. and Long. to a cave full of loot the Japanese hid near the end of the war.
Her: But do you love me?
:-(
Meat Loaf: Baby, baby let me sleep on it and I'll tell you in the morning.
He should have waited until morning to decide about home plate as well as his profession of undying love, but....
Unfortunately, as the song plays out, he doesn't sleep on it and regrets his decision almost immediately
To be considered a mature adult you should be able to beat a 2yr old at their own game.
The fun of being a mature adult is allowing the two-year-old to win.
(I would have PM'd you but I guess
Funny but true: I tried the "let the kid win" trick w/ my daughter when she was 4 or 5, and she got really upset. "Daddy, I wanted YOU to win," she said. So much for parental psych
Well, then, you appear to be living in a black & white world, and not the one where there are a myriad of issues, and you won't agree with all of the positions taken by any given president.
I'm at a loss as to how you came up with that, when I clearly said you'd chosen to vote some personal issue and ignore the main, important, general position that all Republicans are taking. Just how many Senators and Representatives have voted against the party line in the last few years? Major issues do matter more than small ones, no matter how important the small ones may feel to you.
I love all this sterotyping of Republicans. It truely shows that you have no concept of the meaning of the word, or the demographic. Just because I tend to vote Republican doesn't mean that I've got anything in common with Jessie Helms, or George Bush. How's this one for you...I don't go to church, I'm pro-choice, against the Patriot Act, and against wiretapping without getting the damn warrents...and, oh yeah, I like science.
Well, then,you have a problem. Apparently you either don't understand or don't care that teh Republicans you vote for do exactly what Bush or other party leaders tell them to do. So if you oppose Bush, Patriot Act, etc., you have been voting against your own interests.
Another possibility, I suppose, is that (like far too many people) you have some minor "hot button" issue and allow that one thing to bias your voting choices.
Republicans?
/., but considering the incredible amount of time and $$ wasted on pointless pseudoantiterrorism efforts since 11/9/01, I just got pissed off this time).
(This is pretty much the first troll I've ever posted to
How do you fit 12 astronauts into a Volkswagen? 2 in the front, 3 in the back and 7 in the ash tray
That's a straight steal from a rather well-known anti-Jewish joke.
I play Visual Pinball all the time.
/. get tricky? :-(
Does that count as a vid?
How about my Dad, who plays Go online?
OT: what the heck happened to the Start a New Thread link? I can't start a new thread so far as I can tell. Did I get stupid or did
Exactly.
There's no statistics quoted in TFA, and I'm not personally aware of ANY cases of abduction from within a school, so why all this idiotic spending? Most child abductions are perpetrated by family members (and there are stats on that).
Just another example of a solution lacking a problem.