Your first bug is a Xubuntu bug dealing with their implementation. It is not an XFCE bug. Ubuntu or the Xubuntu volunteer team need to fix this.
The second is an XFCE, or more specifically a Thunar (the xfce file manager) bug. Judging by the thread, it looks like it has already been fixed in Thunar. I do not know if Xubuntu has updated to used the fixed version yet.
XFCE definitely has an active development team. The biggest complaint is that there are not enough features or bling. Of course, part of the XFCE philosophy is to have fewer features and bling, but still be fully configurable so potential new users should keep that in mind.
In other words, Gore 'invented' the internet in much the same way as Thomas Edison 'Invented' the light bulb.
Edison did not invent the light bulb. They had been around for fifty years by the time he patented his.
Edison did not even invent the carbon element light bulb that he patented, it was invented by Joseph Swan in England. Edison's patents were eventually ruled invalid due to prior art. The carbon element version had even been 'invented' several times before Swan patented his.
Edison's electric company, along with George Westinghouse's competing company, did make electricity available as private utilities and this eventually led to the mass electrification of cities. This led to the usefullness of lightbulbs. Of course these private power companies were working hand in hand with local governments to obtain right of way using eminent domain for utility poles and such. It would have been much less profitable if right of way had to be purchased or rented through raising private equity. Oh darn, there's that nasty government again. It keeps cropping up in all our tales of private sector success.
Edison played a role in bringing lightbulbs to the public. Al Gore played a role in bringing the internet to the public.
Private funding is usually too focused on short term profits. It is good to have public sources of funding for societies' needs. Things like sewage treatment, roads, drinking water police and fire protection are worth the cost of government. One can only hope that someday all the fans of Atlas Shrugged are going to realize that those mighty empires of steel and coal they read about, the railroad companies, did not pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The government granted them land rights through eminent domain, thus funding their start up. It was help that was successfully lobied for by the founders of those companies, the same as lobbiests today seek to suckle from the government. If the railroads had had to raise private capital to buy the land they used, there would not have more than a few local carriers. Certainly no princley robber barrons. Of course the Rand fanbois would probably say that the government help was of no consequence ignoring or revising history.
Koch Industries = Huge multinational. Petroleum, timber, cattle, chemicals, fiber, plastics. They own georgia pacific.
Mason Capital Management = Financial services, manage hedge funds
Murray Energy = Largest coal company in America.
Boy, when introducing a bill like that, I would expect one of his top contributors to be a security services company of some kind.
Maybe Rand is introducing this legislation for a friend, and the friend will introduce a bill for the Coal industry for Rand.
I live in Chicago. We just had one mayor who privatized half the city services, now we've got Rahm Emanuel driving hard to privatize the rest. The taxes keep going up because all these private companies expect quarterly profits that keep increasing.
Under the old socialized city employee system we used to worry about the guys on disability who ran hot dog stands and cost the city tens of thousands a year each.
The companies that run the privatized services put those old city workers to shame. They have tens of millions in cost overruns!
Go ahead Rand, privatize everything. We can borrow a few trillion more from China, right?
Religion doesn't deal in Truth but instead in belief, and its viewpoints and beliefs change with time. As with any other human endeavor, religion is fallible and uncertain. religion evolves. religion makes mistakes. religion has believers some of whom are driven by political or monetary agendas.
In the interview tell them that they'll have to garbage collect their own memory and that you have a null pointer jar. Every time they reference a pointer to an object that has been deleted, they have to put $5.00 in the jar. That should frighten most of them away.
Ruby is a nice language. It is wonderful for creating domain specific languages. Advanced Ruby programmers should feel right at home in C and C++. The 'Duck typing' nature of ruby gives them the kind of mental gymnastics needed to handle languages that allow you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. Those advanced in Ruby have probaly written their own C extensions as well.
That being said, there are not really too many advanced ruby programmers around.
Remeber that the value we assign to gold, and other precious metals, is just as make-believe as the value we assign to paper money and to pieces of clay.
The value of gold fluctuates up and down with the desire and demand for it, even when the supply is rather steady. One of the big reasons for ending the gold standard was due to the fact that the majority of new gold being mined in the world was, at the time, supplied by the Soviet Union and South Africa. This meant that nations who were not alligned with America's interests could exert control over the value of a gold-backed dollar by hoarding or dumping gold on the market. The inability to exert control over the fluctuating price of gold would have ceded control of the value of our currency to foreign powers (kind of like borrowing massively from foreign powers to finance our spending does now).
Whenever you hear the term 'gold standard', substitute the term 'gold variable'. It is a more accurate way of comprehending the real situation. Think about how wildly the price of gold has inflated in the last decade.
There's nothing 'standard' about the price of gold.
I believe you have given a very insightful answer.
I know that this is only based on my experience, but between long term contracts I do a lot of free lance development. I'm usually parked at a local coffee shop working on my Dell laptop. Because of the Dell, most people know its not from Apple. I often get asked:
Is that the latest version of Windows?
How did you get Mac on your laptop?
To which I answer:
No, it's Linux.
I didn't, it's Linux.
Most people reply 'Oh.', but you can tell they don't have a clue what I'm talking about. A few say something like "I've heard of that". Maybe its true, maybe not.
A very few say they've tried it and are positive, negative or indifferent.
Most just have no clue that Linux even exists. They use Android, Google stuff all day, shop on ebay and Amazon, use Roku and Tivo. Linux surrounds their lives everyday, yet they could care less about it.
That's Linux's niche. People's desktop needs are met with othe OS's. Why use something else?
The Parent you replied to could have written: " There was nothing stopping Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon from starting a Nuclear War with the Soviet Union."
Or Maybe: "All these people allowed to drive cars on public roads could, with a turn of their steering wheel, run into a crowd of school children!"
It may be technically possible for any modern President to do a great number of things that infringe individual rights, but it would be political suicide to do so.
I don't think the poster you are responding to gets the difference between what is technically possible and what actually happens. Just because someone can do something does not mean that they have to do it, or that they will do it.
Woz never had the reality distortion effect that affected people the way that Jobs did, but he did have a different kind of cult hero effect.
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, Woz was probably more highly regarded by Apple users than Jobs was. Of course, those were the days of 'hobby' computers and that group made up a large portion of Apple II users.
Woz created good hardware that simplified and reduced the cost of many components. He was also interested in bringing computing to the masses, but didn't dumb it down. Woz had a lifelong love of education and he really pushed creating an informed and educated user base.
His attitude was a key part of Apple's early success. They produced documentation that enabled users to learn and enhance their systems and to promote a good level of code quality.
There were many heros from the home-brew era of computers, and Woz was one of the top heros.
I haven't seen a DOS installation since the mid 1970's. By then DOS had been replaced by DOS/VMS on those old IBM Mainframes. Of course so many never needed updating, it wouldn't suprise me if there weren't a few DOS computers operating today.
If you meant MS/DOS instead of DOS, I completely understand your ranking. Sure there might be a lot more people that know about MS/DOS than know about Linux.
There are probably a lot more people who use Linux (Roku, Tivo, Sony Bravia TV's, Googling something, Android, Tom Tom, etc) than used MS/DOS, they just have no clue that they use Linux day in and day out.
Also, most of the people who remember MS/DOS have no clue that there was an operating system called DOS 15 years before MS/DOS and that Microsoft (or Micro Soft as it used to be called) never sold an operating system called DOS.
You will go through a metal detector. You will empty your pockets, take off your shoes and belt. You will have to show an official photo ID.
You may be wanded down, if the metal detector keeps beeping. If the wanding shows an area that is setting off the wand, the agent will search that area with their hand (groping). They are not going to do a full search unless you refuse all electronic means. If you have a pacemaker, you may choose groping over metal detectors.
The important thing is to pay attention to the rules about liquids and containers sizes. Put everything you can through the luggage x-ray. Don't forget a metal nail file in your pocket.
If your name is on a watch list, you may be talked to on the side. I have had this happen. My name is the same as a former IRA member who later became a Republican politician in the ROI and was even involved in the Peace talks with US Senator Mitchell. I'm guessing this is the connection. A more senior TSA agent at the security check-in talked to me for about 30 seconds, re-viewed my ID, and allowed me to pass. I would be about 30 years too young to be the other me. I guess if you were African American and your name was 'Bobby Rush', you might expect the same treatment, so don't wear a 'Black Panther' super hero t-shirt.
Also my name is the same as 2 people who were killed in the twin towers on September 11th. Yes, 2 people with the same name were killed. Lists of names are not always accurate ways to identify terrorists and tell them apart from terrorist victims.
TSA personnel seem a lot like postal workers. They are just doing a job. They follow their training manuals and don't have to think outside their protocols. Go with the flow and you won't even be noticed by them.
We elected the people who made all these rules, don't blame the TSA. The fault, ultimately, belongs to those of us who vote. If you don't like the way it works, start voting for someone else.
Re-read it and I still get big differences between chapters 1 and 2.
Chapter 1:
Fish
Fowl
Terrestrial animals
Man and woman at the same time
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them
Chapter 2:
Man
Terrestrial animals
Fowl
Woman
No Fish in the second story of creation?
I know that these two stories of creation are from seperate sources in history and were gathered together to form the first chapters of the bible. The are seperated by many years in their origins and probably originate from different peoples. The second one, begining around Chapter 2 verse 4, is older and more in keeping with ancient Hebrew sources. Chapter 1 and the first verses of Chapter 2 are much younger. Just listen to the 'voice' of the author to denote the change.
It's quite interesting to read the bible oldest to youngest passages. It is amazing how the view of God depicted in the Bible transforms over time from a local deity among otthers into an all powerful, universal, super-god. I'm not sure how fundamentalists handle that. Since I don't read the Bible literally, I've got no problem with it.
Thanks. Adam 2.5, I like it! Good name for a band.
But the Bible says Adam and Eve were created at the same time (as well as the story of Eve's later creation with the rib thing).
What's the explanation there, 2 Eve's? Which one is the sinner? Or was one killed off before the second season episodes, the second story is true and the first story was just a dream Like on Dallas? Or could it be like the 2 Darins on Bewitched?
A better way to get a fundamentalist confused is to ask them "Who was created first, Adam and Eve or the animals?"
Tell them to check both the first and second chapter of Genesis. If they stop after the first, they will only have one answer. It cannot have hapened both ways, it must be one or the other (or neither), so therefore the Bible is not 100% true. At minimum one chapter or the other must be false. It could be that both are false, but they might burn you at the stake for saying that.
If you don't know the answer, it only takes a few minutes to read both chapters. Then follow up and ask 'Was Adam or Eve created first? Or, were they created at the same time?" (the answer is both. Adam was created first and they were created at exactly the same time).
Self consistency is not a strong point in the Bible. That is very strange because any scientist will tell you that the universe is amazingly self consistent. Any seeming paradoxes are usually signs that our understanding and knowledge is lacking. If Both the universe and the bible are both from the same author, you would think that they would show the same level of self consistency.
How do I know the Bible isn't 100% true? Because my Bible tells me so.
The only thing I can see in Genesis that is an absolute truth is near the start of chapter 2. The bit about the harvest being ready and not a man to be found. Any woman will confirm that when there is work to be done there is never a Man around:)
'The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea.'
This assumption is flawed. Where does the idea of choosing the 'best' even come into the democratic process. Citizens are choosing someone to represent them in the democratic process, not the 'best' of anything. You might hope that the person chosen 'best' represents your interests, but that does not necessarily have to be true.
Citizens are choosing a candidate to represent them. 'Best' or 'worst' doesn't usually enter in to it.
'Optimal' might be the most accurate word to use.
Its kind of like making a decision when buying a car. Does it have the best mileage? Does it have the best performance? Does it have the best price? Does it have the best towing capacity? Does it have the best safety rating? Does it have the best looks? Does it have the best Insurance rates?...
The real question is: Does the car have the optimal mix of attributes that satisfy the most of my needs? It may not be the best in any single category, but the overall mix might make it the winner.
Like voting, for some a single issue may be the only deciding factor. Experience tells me that most people decide on a range of issues and that a minority decide on a single issue. Of course in countries where voter turn out is low the single issue voters become a larger percent of the actual decision makers to cast their votes. If only 35% of the eligible voters go to the polls, a single candidate only needs 18% of the eligible voters to win an election. A candidate could pretty much build a winning platform by appealing to only 2 or 3 groups of single issue voters.
Pretty much explains the current state of affairs.
The recession started in 2007, so it was already blamed on the Bush administartion. Obama took office in January of 2009.
The main reason the Democrats did so well in 2008 was not that many people supported them. It was an anti-Republican vote more than a pro-Democrat vote.
It could be that you mean that McCain predicted it would take more than 4 years to fix and that the worst was yet to come.
transferring is so bad states have law forcing them to take community colleges credits.
If States thought it was bad to transfer, they would pass laws to discourage transfering college credits. If they are passing laws that require college credits to transfer, they must believe it is a good thing to transfer. The lawmakers seem to want to encourage it. Or did you mean 'BAD' as 'GOOD' like: 'That is one BAD A** M***** F***** transfering all those college credits from their community college'?
But over all that is a sing that the collage system needs change / reworking.
Does this statement have to do with art school? I'm not sure what singing and collages have to do with the topic.
I say brake it up in to smaller chunks / badges
Just call quizes 'chunks'. Then call tests 'badges'. Finally call semesters or quarters or trimesters 'patches' and you have implemented the new educational model. Baden Powell would be proud.
1991 was the year windows 3.1 came out, but the windows socket API did not appear until 1992.
email was almost exclusively a Unix thing and a little on the mainframe. Mac had a pretty good stack for email but everything else was hit or miss. A lot of Mainframe and some Mid-frame (Honeywell, Unisys) systems defaulted to all caps.
Windows, Apple II, and others usually did email through BBS's or BBS-like providers like Prodigy and Delphi.
And we had to walk to and from school through 6 feet of snow, uphill both ways!
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Your first bug is a Xubuntu bug dealing with their implementation. It is not an XFCE bug. Ubuntu or the Xubuntu volunteer team need to fix this.
The second is an XFCE, or more specifically a Thunar (the xfce file manager) bug. Judging by the thread, it looks like it has already been fixed in Thunar. I do not know if Xubuntu has updated to used the fixed version yet.
XFCE definitely has an active development team. The biggest complaint is that there are not enough features or bling. Of course, part of the XFCE philosophy is to have fewer features and bling, but still be fully configurable so potential new users should keep that in mind.
XFCE is not shooting for the bleeding edge.
In other words, Gore 'invented' the internet in much the same way as Thomas Edison 'Invented' the light bulb.
Edison did not invent the light bulb. They had been around for fifty years by the time he patented his.
Edison did not even invent the carbon element light bulb that he patented, it was invented by Joseph Swan in England. Edison's patents were eventually ruled invalid due to prior art. The carbon element version had even been 'invented' several times before Swan patented his.
Edison's electric company, along with George Westinghouse's competing company, did make electricity available as private utilities and this eventually led to the mass electrification of cities. This led to the usefullness of lightbulbs. Of course these private power companies were working hand in hand with local governments to obtain right of way using eminent domain for utility poles and such. It would have been much less profitable if right of way had to be purchased or rented through raising private equity. Oh darn, there's that nasty government again. It keeps cropping up in all our tales of private sector success.
Edison played a role in bringing lightbulbs to the public. Al Gore played a role in bringing the internet to the public.
Private funding is usually too focused on short term profits. It is good to have public sources of funding for societies' needs. Things like sewage treatment, roads, drinking water police and fire protection are worth the cost of government. One can only hope that someday all the fans of Atlas Shrugged are going to realize that those mighty empires of steel and coal they read about, the railroad companies, did not pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The government granted them land rights through eminent domain, thus funding their start up. It was help that was successfully lobied for by the founders of those companies, the same as lobbiests today seek to suckle from the government. If the railroads had had to raise private capital to buy the land they used, there would not have more than a few local carriers. Certainly no princley robber barrons. Of course the Rand fanbois would probably say that the government help was of no consequence ignoring or revising history.
Alliance Resource Partners = Coal producer
Koch Industries = Huge multinational. Petroleum, timber, cattle, chemicals, fiber, plastics. They own georgia pacific.
Mason Capital Management = Financial services, manage hedge funds
Murray Energy = Largest coal company in America.
Boy, when introducing a bill like that, I would expect one of his top contributors to be a security services company of some kind. Maybe Rand is introducing this legislation for a friend, and the friend will introduce a bill for the Coal industry for Rand.
I live in Chicago. We just had one mayor who privatized half the city services, now we've got Rahm Emanuel driving hard to privatize the rest. The taxes keep going up because all these private companies expect quarterly profits that keep increasing.
Under the old socialized city employee system we used to worry about the guys on disability who ran hot dog stands and cost the city tens of thousands a year each.
The companies that run the privatized services put those old city workers to shame. They have tens of millions in cost overruns!
Go ahead Rand, privatize everything. We can borrow a few trillion more from China, right?
You left out 'Zen Judaism'.
Here, let me FTFY:
In the interview tell them that they'll have to garbage collect their own memory and that you have a null pointer jar. Every time they reference a pointer to an object that has been deleted, they have to put $5.00 in the jar. That should frighten most of them away.
Ruby is a nice language. It is wonderful for creating domain specific languages. Advanced Ruby programmers should feel right at home in C and C++. The 'Duck typing' nature of ruby gives them the kind of mental gymnastics needed to handle languages that allow you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. Those advanced in Ruby have probaly written their own C extensions as well.
That being said, there are not really too many advanced ruby programmers around.
Remeber that the value we assign to gold, and other precious metals, is just as make-believe as the value we assign to paper money and to pieces of clay.
The value of gold fluctuates up and down with the desire and demand for it, even when the supply is rather steady. One of the big reasons for ending the gold standard was due to the fact that the majority of new gold being mined in the world was, at the time, supplied by the Soviet Union and South Africa. This meant that nations who were not alligned with America's interests could exert control over the value of a gold-backed dollar by hoarding or dumping gold on the market. The inability to exert control over the fluctuating price of gold would have ceded control of the value of our currency to foreign powers (kind of like borrowing massively from foreign powers to finance our spending does now).
Whenever you hear the term 'gold standard', substitute the term 'gold variable'. It is a more accurate way of comprehending the real situation. Think about how wildly the price of gold has inflated in the last decade.
There's nothing 'standard' about the price of gold.
I believe you have given a very insightful answer.
I know that this is only based on my experience, but between long term contracts I do a lot of free lance development. I'm usually parked at a local coffee shop working on my Dell laptop. Because of the Dell, most people know its not from Apple. I often get asked:
To which I answer:
Most people reply 'Oh.', but you can tell they don't have a clue what I'm talking about. A few say something like "I've heard of that". Maybe its true, maybe not.
A very few say they've tried it and are positive, negative or indifferent.
Most just have no clue that Linux even exists. They use Android, Google stuff all day, shop on ebay and Amazon, use Roku and Tivo. Linux surrounds their lives everyday, yet they could care less about it.
That's Linux's niche. People's desktop needs are met with othe OS's. Why use something else?
Good Points.
The Parent you replied to could have written: " There was nothing stopping Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon from starting a Nuclear War with the Soviet Union."
Or Maybe: "All these people allowed to drive cars on public roads could, with a turn of their steering wheel, run into a crowd of school children!"
It may be technically possible for any modern President to do a great number of things that infringe individual rights, but it would be political suicide to do so.
I don't think the poster you are responding to gets the difference between what is technically possible and what actually happens. Just because someone can do something does not mean that they have to do it, or that they will do it.
Thanks for your comment!
FTFA:
They probably hired the cable guy that got fired from CERN a few months ago.
Woz never had the reality distortion effect that affected people the way that Jobs did, but he did have a different kind of cult hero effect.
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, Woz was probably more highly regarded by Apple users than Jobs was. Of course, those were the days of 'hobby' computers and that group made up a large portion of Apple II users.
Woz created good hardware that simplified and reduced the cost of many components. He was also interested in bringing computing to the masses, but didn't dumb it down. Woz had a lifelong love of education and he really pushed creating an informed and educated user base.
His attitude was a key part of Apple's early success. They produced documentation that enabled users to learn and enhance their systems and to promote a good level of code quality.
There were many heros from the home-brew era of computers, and Woz was one of the top heros.
I checked the date to make sure it wasn't from April 1st.
Still, I cannot see how it could ever be considered a joke. By the end I was thinking "what kind of drugs is this guy on?"
Wicked.
That's pretty bad. I've never seen TSA agents who were actually motivated enough to do all that.
I'm a COBOL programmer.
I haven't seen a DOS installation since the mid 1970's. By then DOS had been replaced by DOS/VMS on those old IBM Mainframes. Of course so many never needed updating, it wouldn't suprise me if there weren't a few DOS computers operating today.
If you meant MS/DOS instead of DOS, I completely understand your ranking. Sure there might be a lot more people that know about MS/DOS than know about Linux.
There are probably a lot more people who use Linux (Roku, Tivo, Sony Bravia TV's, Googling something, Android, Tom Tom, etc) than used MS/DOS, they just have no clue that they use Linux day in and day out.
Also, most of the people who remember MS/DOS have no clue that there was an operating system called DOS 15 years before MS/DOS and that Microsoft (or Micro Soft as it used to be called) never sold an operating system called DOS.
You will go through a metal detector. You will empty your pockets, take off your shoes and belt. You will have to show an official photo ID.
You may be wanded down, if the metal detector keeps beeping. If the wanding shows an area that is setting off the wand, the agent will search that area with their hand (groping). They are not going to do a full search unless you refuse all electronic means. If you have a pacemaker, you may choose groping over metal detectors.
The important thing is to pay attention to the rules about liquids and containers sizes. Put everything you can through the luggage x-ray. Don't forget a metal nail file in your pocket.
If your name is on a watch list, you may be talked to on the side. I have had this happen. My name is the same as a former IRA member who later became a Republican politician in the ROI and was even involved in the Peace talks with US Senator Mitchell. I'm guessing this is the connection. A more senior TSA agent at the security check-in talked to me for about 30 seconds, re-viewed my ID, and allowed me to pass. I would be about 30 years too young to be the other me. I guess if you were African American and your name was 'Bobby Rush', you might expect the same treatment, so don't wear a 'Black Panther' super hero t-shirt.
Also my name is the same as 2 people who were killed in the twin towers on September 11th. Yes, 2 people with the same name were killed. Lists of names are not always accurate ways to identify terrorists and tell them apart from terrorist victims.
TSA personnel seem a lot like postal workers. They are just doing a job. They follow their training manuals and don't have to think outside their protocols. Go with the flow and you won't even be noticed by them.
We elected the people who made all these rules, don't blame the TSA. The fault, ultimately, belongs to those of us who vote. If you don't like the way it works, start voting for someone else.
Botulism is 100% organic, so is syphilis.
They are both 100% natural too. Asbestos and cyanide are 100% natural too, although not organic.
'Organic' the advertising slogan is a term of art and has little basis in reality.
Re-read it and I still get big differences between chapters 1 and 2.
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
I know that these two stories of creation are from seperate sources in history and were gathered together to form the first chapters of the bible. The are seperated by many years in their origins and probably originate from different peoples. The second one, begining around Chapter 2 verse 4, is older and more in keeping with ancient Hebrew sources. Chapter 1 and the first verses of Chapter 2 are much younger. Just listen to the 'voice' of the author to denote the change.
It's quite interesting to read the bible oldest to youngest passages. It is amazing how the view of God depicted in the Bible transforms over time from a local deity among otthers into an all powerful, universal, super-god. I'm not sure how fundamentalists handle that. Since I don't read the Bible literally, I've got no problem with it.
Thanks again.
Thanks. Adam 2.5, I like it! Good name for a band.
But the Bible says Adam and Eve were created at the same time (as well as the story of Eve's later creation with the rib thing).
What's the explanation there, 2 Eve's? Which one is the sinner? Or was one killed off before the second season episodes, the second story is true and the first story was just a dream Like on Dallas? Or could it be like the 2 Darins on Bewitched?
It's just not self consistent enough for me.
1. Animals per se 2. Pre-adamic humans 3. -Eve-. 4. Adam's animals So Adam isn't in the list of those created?
Sure they have 4 legs. And 2 arms!
A better way to get a fundamentalist confused is to ask them "Who was created first, Adam and Eve or the animals?"
Tell them to check both the first and second chapter of Genesis. If they stop after the first, they will only have one answer. It cannot have hapened both ways, it must be one or the other (or neither), so therefore the Bible is not 100% true. At minimum one chapter or the other must be false. It could be that both are false, but they might burn you at the stake for saying that.
If you don't know the answer, it only takes a few minutes to read both chapters. Then follow up and ask 'Was Adam or Eve created first? Or, were they created at the same time?" (the answer is both. Adam was created first and they were created at exactly the same time).
Self consistency is not a strong point in the Bible. That is very strange because any scientist will tell you that the universe is amazingly self consistent. Any seeming paradoxes are usually signs that our understanding and knowledge is lacking. If Both the universe and the bible are both from the same author, you would think that they would show the same level of self consistency.
How do I know the Bible isn't 100% true? Because my Bible tells me so.
The only thing I can see in Genesis that is an absolute truth is near the start of chapter 2. The bit about the harvest being ready and not a man to be found. Any woman will confirm that when there is work to be done there is never a Man around :)
This assumption is flawed. Where does the idea of choosing the 'best' even come into the democratic process. Citizens are choosing someone to represent them in the democratic process, not the 'best' of anything. You might hope that the person chosen 'best' represents your interests, but that does not necessarily have to be true.
Citizens are choosing a candidate to represent them. 'Best' or 'worst' doesn't usually enter in to it.
'Optimal' might be the most accurate word to use.
Its kind of like making a decision when buying a car. Does it have the best mileage? Does it have the best performance? Does it have the best price? Does it have the best towing capacity? Does it have the best safety rating? Does it have the best looks? Does it have the best Insurance rates? ...
The real question is: Does the car have the optimal mix of attributes that satisfy the most of my needs? It may not be the best in any single category, but the overall mix might make it the winner.
Like voting, for some a single issue may be the only deciding factor. Experience tells me that most people decide on a range of issues and that a minority decide on a single issue. Of course in countries where voter turn out is low the single issue voters become a larger percent of the actual decision makers to cast their votes. If only 35% of the eligible voters go to the polls, a single candidate only needs 18% of the eligible voters to win an election. A candidate could pretty much build a winning platform by appealing to only 2 or 3 groups of single issue voters.
Pretty much explains the current state of affairs.
The solution? Vote.
The recession started in 2007, so it was already blamed on the Bush administartion. Obama took office in January of 2009.
The main reason the Democrats did so well in 2008 was not that many people supported them. It was an anti-Republican vote more than a pro-Democrat vote.
It could be that you mean that McCain predicted it would take more than 4 years to fix and that the worst was yet to come.
If States thought it was bad to transfer, they would pass laws to discourage transfering college credits. If they are passing laws that require college credits to transfer, they must believe it is a good thing to transfer. The lawmakers seem to want to encourage it. Or did you mean 'BAD' as 'GOOD' like: 'That is one BAD A** M***** F***** transfering all those college credits from their community college'?
Does this statement have to do with art school? I'm not sure what singing and collages have to do with the topic.
Just call quizes 'chunks'. Then call tests 'badges'. Finally call semesters or quarters or trimesters 'patches' and you have implemented the new educational model. Baden Powell would be proud.
1991 was the year windows 3.1 came out, but the windows socket API did not appear until 1992.
email was almost exclusively a Unix thing and a little on the mainframe. Mac had a pretty good stack for email but everything else was hit or miss. A lot of Mainframe and some Mid-frame (Honeywell, Unisys) systems defaulted to all caps.
Windows, Apple II, and others usually did email through BBS's or BBS-like providers like Prodigy and Delphi.
And we had to walk to and from school through 6 feet of snow, uphill both ways!