Being the only one "making things up" here, I'll take your word for it.
If you think the bible represents the literal word of the lord, then I'm not the one taking someones word for it.
If you like, though, as noted elsewhere, this verse can also be interpreted as a countdown to "the flood". I'm guessing you'd not prefer that view, though.
I have absolutely no biblical scholarship background, so I can't comment. I can only say that this particular passage in the bible, taken literally and out of context, has been proven wrong. That tells me that I shouldn't take things out of the bible literally or out of context. If I have a question about the meaning of something in the bible, I'm going to ask a professional.
Who said she was a man? The "his" in my comment was referring to God. I suppose I should have capitalized it to stick to Catholic convention.
I don't buy your argument that 120 has two significant digits. The zero is significant. At the very least it is ambiguous, and so we get into issues of interpretation. At least He didn't say "No man shall live longer than two times the life of my favorite donkey plus the time it takes an egg to decay" or something.
Her birth record is solid.
Of course, once you start making things up, you might as well go whole hog. Since elsewhere it says that God can't be wrong, we'll just go with that. I mean, any attempt to use logic in theology can only lead to apostasy, so we should just stop.
It follows the same policy that they have for their iOS devices - you only buy apps once and then they work on all of your devices. I don't know why this comes as such a big shock to people.
Microsoft will sell you an OS for $100 or so and then update it for 10 years or so, new OS or SR becomes available every year or so.
Apple will sell you an OS for $30 or so and then update it for 3 years or so, new OS becomes available every year or so.
It's almost exactly the same from the consumer's point of view unless you include time value of money and all that jazz. Frankly if you are sweating over the $30 for an OS update each year, you probably have larger problems than whether or not you are running the latest awesome. I tend to leave my computers alone until support for the OS becomes a problem. I stuck with Windows 98SE until well into the XP lifecycle, and I will keep XP until either support runs out or Application stop supporting it. On the Mac side, I only just updated to Lion from 10.5, and only because applications stopped supporting 10.5. That said, Mac upgrades tend to be way faster and more painless than Windows upgrades - why MS can't use their SP infrastructure to install major OS updates is beyond me. Usually the SP installations go smoothly.
I would expect a similar story about the newest version of Windows as well - in fact we've heard lots about Windows 8 and Metro. It's one of the only two mainstream desktop OSes, and as such will effect a lot of the readers of Slashdot.
It's true - sure we no longer have to endure the GNAA posts, but there were only ever a few of those per story, and they never got modded up. Seems like a solution looking for a problem.
While that is often true of other very old people, if you actually clicked on the link, you would have found out that her birth date was very thoroughly confirmed.
So yeah, God was off by 2 years. He's changed the rules before, so there's no reason he can't issue a new edict any time he wants.
The creator can license the patent to anyone, so shouldn't need to sell it.
It has to be treated as property so that there is a chain of succession. You don't want it to enter the public domain when the inventor dies, or there would be incentive for people to kill the inventor - and inventors of advanced age or ill health wouldn't be able to license their inventions for as much as younger inventors.
That's only true AFTER you've implemented patent law. Prior to patent law, the original creator's idea has no inherent value since there is no scarcity once he reveals it.
My friend's dad was going on and on about steering alignment - his old GTO, he claimed - he could take his hands off the wheel and drive straight for a mile on the highway. Nowadays, he continued, they can't get the alignment right.
I asked him how many miles he'd get out of a pair of tires on his GTO and he said somewhere around 12,000. I asked him if the wear was even and he said not unless you rotated them and flipped them. I told him that the reason his GTO flew so straight was that the tires had more toe-in, so the wheel was self-centering but that this cost him tire life, and that if he likes he can have the mechanics do the same thing to his current car but it'll be hell on his tires. I'm not sure if he believes me or not, but he did stop talking about it:)
The consumers eventually caught on to the value proposition for this business model and this led to the Japanese car manufacturers caputuring a larger part of the market in the '70s and '80s (the oil prices spiking during that time favoring the smaller Japanese cars didn't hurt either).
I totally buy into your thesis, but even Japanese cars of the 70s were a pile of steaming dung compared to even American cars of the 2010s. You get better reliability, much much much much better performance (just try getting a 70s Civic up to highway speed with a full load!), and much less maintenance (no points to set, no carburetor to mess with). And the most amazing thing is that you can still get something like a Versa for $11,000. The little tiny 1971 Honda 600 was about $1500 ($8000 in today's dollars) for much less car... and I mean that both literally and figuratively. No crumple zones, no airbags, no air conditioning, 0-60 in never with it's whopping 36HP. You could instead compare the 1975 Honda Civic, but that only had 50HP and was $2200 or so, but you could at least fit a Western adult in it.
The "new" thinking and practice on landfills is not to hermetically seal the thing, but to keep it moist and bio-reactive. They basically put a big impermeable mat down, throw garbage and dirt on top, and then pour water on it. They suck methane out and run generators with it locally if they can, and they pump the nasty water out of the bottom and pour it right back on top. They keep doing this until the water that comes out the bottom isn't quite as nasty and the methane production tapers off. Then they add more garbage and continue the cycle.
This accomplishes a few things. First, it makes reduces any long-term leaching problems because they already rinsed most of the nasty stuff that was going to leach out. Second, the landfill compresses considerably in size, so it stays open longer and can accept more garbage. It also reduces the amount of nasty water that needs to be pumped from the bottom and sent to the local water treatment plant.
You hit the nail on the head. That Sunbeam toaster is still useful, but don't use mom's refrigerator, even if it is still in new condition... a brand new refrigerator would pay for itself in very short order due to the energy savings. Computers, phones, and other modern electronics progress so quickly that "durability" need only be measured in years. Who the hell would still be walking around with a brick phone, even if it still worked and the analog network were still running? For that matter, who would use a Star Tac, which was the iPhone of 1998? Who wants my 1980 23" cabinet Zenith TV?
A kitchen should last 30 years, not a piece of electronics.
And some things are built far better than they were in ye olden days - cars being the best example. Show me a car from the 50s, 60s, or 70s that could go 100,000 miles with just oil changes and brake pads. Show me a 5 year, 50,000 mile warranty from back then.
There is no one besides NASA funding the development of a Saturn V magnitude rocket. This thing carries 5-6x the payload of the largest commercial rockets. If we ever even want the option of sending astronauts beyond Earth orbit, this is it unless we can get the Russians to resurrect Energia.
They are almost exactly the same. The only things they uniformly disagree on are the "wedge issues" like gay marriage and abortion. Since most wedge issues (like abortion) are, as a practical matter, off the table and forever stuck in status quo - this makes them the same for all practical purposes. It's a team sport - which team are YOU on? LOL.
Presumably he wouldn't buy a tablet that was difficult to root.
And he doesn't need to lock it down too hard - after all, the user will have physical access to the device. If anything goes awry you just restore it from backup.
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The verse stipulating the bound says "man" and "his".
It's clearly talking about the human race, and "his" is the English neuter pronoun. Some translations don't even use gender at all:
Being the only one "making things up" here, I'll take your word for it.
If you think the bible represents the literal word of the lord, then I'm not the one taking someones word for it.
If you like, though, as noted elsewhere, this verse can also be interpreted as a countdown to "the flood". I'm guessing you'd not prefer that view, though.
I have absolutely no biblical scholarship background, so I can't comment. I can only say that this particular passage in the bible, taken literally and out of context, has been proven wrong. That tells me that I shouldn't take things out of the bible literally or out of context. If I have a question about the meaning of something in the bible, I'm going to ask a professional.
Who said she was a man? The "his" in my comment was referring to God. I suppose I should have capitalized it to stick to Catholic convention.
I don't buy your argument that 120 has two significant digits. The zero is significant. At the very least it is ambiguous, and so we get into issues of interpretation. At least He didn't say "No man shall live longer than two times the life of my favorite donkey plus the time it takes an egg to decay" or something.
Her birth record is solid.
Of course, once you start making things up, you might as well go whole hog. Since elsewhere it says that God can't be wrong, we'll just go with that. I mean, any attempt to use logic in theology can only lead to apostasy, so we should just stop.
It follows the same policy that they have for their iOS devices - you only buy apps once and then they work on all of your devices. I don't know why this comes as such a big shock to people.
The difference is this, and is very simple:
Microsoft will sell you an OS for $100 or so and then update it for 10 years or so, new OS or SR becomes available every year or so.
Apple will sell you an OS for $30 or so and then update it for 3 years or so, new OS becomes available every year or so.
It's almost exactly the same from the consumer's point of view unless you include time value of money and all that jazz. Frankly if you are sweating over the $30 for an OS update each year, you probably have larger problems than whether or not you are running the latest awesome. I tend to leave my computers alone until support for the OS becomes a problem. I stuck with Windows 98SE until well into the XP lifecycle, and I will keep XP until either support runs out or Application stop supporting it. On the Mac side, I only just updated to Lion from 10.5, and only because applications stopped supporting 10.5. That said, Mac upgrades tend to be way faster and more painless than Windows upgrades - why MS can't use their SP infrastructure to install major OS updates is beyond me. Usually the SP installations go smoothly.
I would expect a similar story about the newest version of Windows as well - in fact we've heard lots about Windows 8 and Metro. It's one of the only two mainstream desktop OSes, and as such will effect a lot of the readers of Slashdot.
It's true - sure we no longer have to endure the GNAA posts, but there were only ever a few of those per story, and they never got modded up. Seems like a solution looking for a problem.
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While that is often true of other very old people, if you actually clicked on the link, you would have found out that her birth date was very thoroughly confirmed.
So yeah, God was off by 2 years. He's changed the rules before, so there's no reason he can't issue a new edict any time he wants.
Do you have an oil tank as well as a fuel tank? :)
What are you going to buy when it dies? Or do we not speak of that?
Considering Jeanne Calment lived to be 122, I'd say God needs to update his manual.
The creator can license the patent to anyone, so shouldn't need to sell it.
It has to be treated as property so that there is a chain of succession. You don't want it to enter the public domain when the inventor dies, or there would be incentive for people to kill the inventor - and inventors of advanced age or ill health wouldn't be able to license their inventions for as much as younger inventors.
There's incentive to kill the inventor by a non-licensee, if the patent suddenly goes public domain upon his death.
That's only true AFTER you've implemented patent law. Prior to patent law, the original creator's idea has no inherent value since there is no scarcity once he reveals it.
My friend's dad was going on and on about steering alignment - his old GTO, he claimed - he could take his hands off the wheel and drive straight for a mile on the highway. Nowadays, he continued, they can't get the alignment right.
I asked him how many miles he'd get out of a pair of tires on his GTO and he said somewhere around 12,000. I asked him if the wear was even and he said not unless you rotated them and flipped them. I told him that the reason his GTO flew so straight was that the tires had more toe-in, so the wheel was self-centering but that this cost him tire life, and that if he likes he can have the mechanics do the same thing to his current car but it'll be hell on his tires. I'm not sure if he believes me or not, but he did stop talking about it :)
I just thought root and delete might be easier than making a custom launcher.
Pretty cool that you have a half-million-mile car! You are either being modest in your claims for care of the car or you are one lucky SOB :)
The consumers eventually caught on to the value proposition for this business model and this led to the Japanese car manufacturers caputuring a larger part of the market in the '70s and '80s (the oil prices spiking during that time favoring the smaller Japanese cars didn't hurt either).
I totally buy into your thesis, but even Japanese cars of the 70s were a pile of steaming dung compared to even American cars of the 2010s. You get better reliability, much much much much better performance (just try getting a 70s Civic up to highway speed with a full load!), and much less maintenance (no points to set, no carburetor to mess with). And the most amazing thing is that you can still get something like a Versa for $11,000. The little tiny 1971 Honda 600 was about $1500 ($8000 in today's dollars) for much less car... and I mean that both literally and figuratively. No crumple zones, no airbags, no air conditioning, 0-60 in never with it's whopping 36HP. You could instead compare the 1975 Honda Civic, but that only had 50HP and was $2200 or so, but you could at least fit a Western adult in it.
Good point! I never actually thought about that, but it is a serious case of selection bias.
North America has less than 9% of the original old growth forest it had before mankind landed here.
I can't imagine that many of the forests from 14,000 years ago would resemble their old selves by now, man or no man.
I don't know, so I'm being honest with this question: Does a forest still count as "old growth" if it is wiped out by a natural fire?
The "new" thinking and practice on landfills is not to hermetically seal the thing, but to keep it moist and bio-reactive. They basically put a big impermeable mat down, throw garbage and dirt on top, and then pour water on it. They suck methane out and run generators with it locally if they can, and they pump the nasty water out of the bottom and pour it right back on top. They keep doing this until the water that comes out the bottom isn't quite as nasty and the methane production tapers off. Then they add more garbage and continue the cycle.
This accomplishes a few things. First, it makes reduces any long-term leaching problems because they already rinsed most of the nasty stuff that was going to leach out. Second, the landfill compresses considerably in size, so it stays open longer and can accept more garbage. It also reduces the amount of nasty water that needs to be pumped from the bottom and sent to the local water treatment plant.
You hit the nail on the head. That Sunbeam toaster is still useful, but don't use mom's refrigerator, even if it is still in new condition... a brand new refrigerator would pay for itself in very short order due to the energy savings. Computers, phones, and other modern electronics progress so quickly that "durability" need only be measured in years. Who the hell would still be walking around with a brick phone, even if it still worked and the analog network were still running? For that matter, who would use a Star Tac, which was the iPhone of 1998? Who wants my 1980 23" cabinet Zenith TV?
A kitchen should last 30 years, not a piece of electronics.
And some things are built far better than they were in ye olden days - cars being the best example. Show me a car from the 50s, 60s, or 70s that could go 100,000 miles with just oil changes and brake pads. Show me a 5 year, 50,000 mile warranty from back then.
There is no one besides NASA funding the development of a Saturn V magnitude rocket. This thing carries 5-6x the payload of the largest commercial rockets. If we ever even want the option of sending astronauts beyond Earth orbit, this is it unless we can get the Russians to resurrect Energia.
They are almost exactly the same. The only things they uniformly disagree on are the "wedge issues" like gay marriage and abortion. Since most wedge issues (like abortion) are, as a practical matter, off the table and forever stuck in status quo - this makes them the same for all practical purposes. It's a team sport - which team are YOU on? LOL.
Presumably he wouldn't buy a tablet that was difficult to root.
And he doesn't need to lock it down too hard - after all, the user will have physical access to the device. If anything goes awry you just restore it from backup.
If the unit runs Android or iOS, it's trivial to jailbreak/root and delete or move the built-in applications.