If you've ever stood next to a running jet engine (F-15 at full AB) oyu'd understand why.
Of course the T-58 is only 400 pounds thrust, wchih is only about 1% that of an F-15. I'm sure it's loud, but not nearly so loud as an F-15, nor as much of a kick in the seat.
That's what I have been saying for years. Electric cars just pass the buck upstream, making the evil electric corporation responsible for polluting instead of the car. Now the electric company burns fuels in bulk, is able to get a better energy conversion rate, and is better able to restrict emmissions, but then you also lose energy as the electricity goes along the power lines, as you convert it in order to energize the batteries, as you store it in the battery, and as you reconvert it to locomotive power. I'd like to see a comparison of the true end result of a gallon of gas poured into a car versus a gallon of gas poured into the electric plant to eventually get to powering the electric car.
I heard this weekend that the newest generation is expected to be the first one in centuries to have a shorter life expectancy than the preious generation, due to eating and exercise habits. That should help the SS program in about 60 years.
impoverished old as no savings are possible for most at present.
I could save 6.2% of my income if it were not being syphoned away for social security, and I would probably be getting paid another 6.2% if my company didn't have to pay their share of the social security.
> So even if the original texts properly translate directly to fornicate, which of those three definitions do we use?
All of them. (C.F. 1 Cor)
I find it intersting that the link you provided does show three definitions, but none of the three says anything about sex outside of marriage. Unless of course, you do it for money, or it is against the law in your country to have sex oustide of marriage.
I can gaurentee that anything you find in a video game, i can find something worse in an R rated movie, and yet nobody is making a huge fuss how we need a law banning minors from seeing R rated movies.
Perhaps the reason is that society sees a difference between observing violence (as in a movie) and participating in it, as in a video game. Of course you are not participating physically, and it is virtual violence. But a movie is also virtual, and you participate more in a video game where you make you character do things, than in a movie where the things happen regardless of your input.
Is premarital sex immoral? I did it, and I don't think it is. Maybe according to Christianity, since the Bible does say it is immoral, but I am atheist.
Actually, whether the Bible says premarital sex is wrong depends on what the original root word was that is usually translated as fornicate. I don't know myself, since I do not know Greek or Hebrew, but I do know in English that fornicate itself has several different definitions including sex without being married, sex with prostitutes, and unlawful sex. So even if the original texts properly translate directly to fornicate, which of those three definitions do we use?
Frankly, I think our societal morals tend to fudge their way into our interpretation of scriptures. Since the whole point of the Bible is that there is an absolute right and an absolute wrong as determined by God, then Christians should condemn the influence of societal morals on the Bibles interpretation.
The FCC freaks out because people freak out. The FCC got tons of calls complaining about Janet's breast, but doesn't get near as many calls about violence on TV. I bet they didn't even get one call about the football game itself.
Society is the one that sees sex as worse than violence, not the FCC or the Oklahoma Legislature. They are just trying to satisfy their constituents.
I live in Oklahoma, too, and I would have to say that most of the parents here don't bother to do any parenting. I don't like the government being a parent, but somebody needs to be one.
I guess I must be out of synch because I thought it was already illegal for kids to buy violent video games. Or is the warning label only there to warn parents who actually shop with their children instead of sending their kids off with money to go buy violent vido games, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, or whatever.
Gilmour IS touring again, for his solo album, and I believe one or maybe two of the Floyd are playing with him. Unfortunately, the closest show to me in the U.S. is probably about 800 miles. I don't know that I would pay that much to see them either. If it was over $50, I'd have to think about it. $35 seems about right, given inflation.
People who will do what's needed without having to be told to are more valuable to employers.
Not my company. They value people who do what they're told and not what's needed.
I too have gotten tired of the rigamarole you have to go through just to get an application in. They won't just take your resume and a cover letter anymore. Now you hav eto fill out an application, which could tak e up to 30 minutes per employer. Too much time, considering that 90+% of the time your resume goes directly into the trash bin. (note the sign on the side of the trash bin which says "all resumes are kept on file for 6 months and all applicants will be considered for applicable positions during that period").
Even worse, I have applied for two jobs in the past year which required me to take multiple skill tests in the subject areas. This took several hours of my time, for which I was not compensated, and although they both said I did very good on the test, only one of them gave me an interview.
Due to the non-standardization of tests and the large number of testing bodies, and the fact that each company seems to affiliate and trust only one testing body, I have had to take tests with Oracle Corp, Sybase Corp, Cheetah, TeckChek, Brainbench, and a couple of others.
I'd go out on a limb here and say that the application may have been working fine, but was not prepared to deal with his data. Like maybe the software isn't prepared to deal with someone with a Junior or a II or III in their name. Or maybe it can't deal with someone with no previous work experience, and you have to lie to it to get it to work. I can't count the number of online application forms I have had to fake out because they wouldn't accept my input.
Until an application can be created to deal with every infinite possiblity (which is impossible), we either have to fake out the application, which could cause you to lose a job you were qualified for, or get one you're for which you are not qualified, or the company has to bite the bullet and make a paper application that someone has to look at.
Having a feature makes you more primitive than not having a feature?
Losing features is entirely consistent with genetic science. Gaining new features is apparently accepted in the scientific community, but doesn't make any sense to me.
if I ever discover a new species? I'm naming it "snap", so that textbooks will have to type O. snap for hundreds of years into the future.
And so that six weeks from now, people will not think it is funny, because everyone will have forgotten that people used to say, Oh, snap.
The only types of people I know with crackberries are attorneys, hedge fund managers and accountants that would have zero patience for learning a new way to type.
All of the management types where I work have corporate sponsored BBs so that everyone can keep in touch with them no matter where they are.
IT is also perfectly willing to set up your personal BB so that the company can reach you anywhere as well. Of course, the company won't pay for grunt level BBs, but they will at least pay for the time for an IT guy to hook up Outlook to bug you at lunch.
I can't see getting a BB myself. Why should I shell out money for a device and for communication costs, just so my company can bug me during lunch, evenings and weekends?
Once google is finished indexing EVERYTHING, it will then index itself, thus destroying the universe. Better hurry. Google's already indexed 805,000 pages on "Beavers mate for life".
Absolutely. Almost all of the science articles on/. lately have grossly misleading titles. It usually involves an invention that is, for all practical purposes, the same as someones existing product except that it will be capable of some stupendous thing when some non-existent technology becomes available.
I myself have invented a car that runs on water. It says so right on the sticker I put on the window. It looks like a regular car, and runs on gasoline, but when the technology comes along to make cars run on water, all I have to do is a simple motor swap, and I will have a car that runs on water. I should post an article about it on/.
Why Oklahoma?
Because Oklahoma is trying like mad to become a progressive state. I live in Oklahoma, and the state definitely has a stigma of being unimportant, stuck in the past, backwoods, you name it. Even our local radio jockeys often quip "Welcome to Oklahoma, please set your watch back 50 years". However, the government in Oklahoma is attempting to make the state more mainstream. Even though many Oklahoma businesses have no web presence, the state has built web site portals to create at least some web presence for practically any business in Oklahoma. Oklahoma was the first state to regulate medicines that were being used to make methamphetamines. Oklahoma doles out big incentives to companies like Dell to bring high tech industry into the state. I can't say I'm crazy about them choosing Microsoft as a partner, but at least the state is doing something constructive.
If the probe finds water, then environmentally speaking, they SHOULDN'T have smacked the moon with a 2 ton projectile. On the other hand, if the probe finds NO water, then they NEEDN'T have smacked the moon with a 2 ton projectile.
The moon, being 27% the mass of the earth, does not orbit the earth anyway. In effect, the earth and the moon orbit each other in a binary planet configuration. The larger mass of the earth makes our orbit of the moon appear as little more than a wobble on our path around the sun.
If 95% of the earths mass were moved to the moon, the moon would be the major planet in the pair and would have even less off a wobble than the earth currently does.
I hear you on that one. My stepson was in a car accident with his uncle driving a few years back. He had no broken bones, but hit his head on the dash and got a bad bruis across his chest and stomach from the seatbelt. He was in the hospital for two days. Every doctor that walked by and saw his name on the clipboard sent us a bill. I refused payment on all of them as his uncle's car insurance should have paid, but it only had a $5,000 medical coverage, and all of the doctors walking by added up to over $12,000. For a cut forehead and bruises. The doctors threatened to report me to collection agencies and several of them actually did, but eventually (14 months later) I was fortunate to get a settlement from the uncle's insurance company and paid off all the bills. Otherwise, a cut forehead and chest bruises would probably have ruined me financially.
2. Accelerate shifting the burden of medical care to the individual.
That works for me. I don't mind paying my own way, as long as they go ahead and bump up my salary since they aren't paying par of my healthcare expenses anymore. Unfortunately, they won't want to bump you up 100% of the cost, because they get a tax break for their sahre of the benefit. Also, your premium will go up for an individual plan versus a group plan. But hey, you are in IEEE or something, right? They have group plans.
As for me, my current employer pays $0 for my insurance anyway. My last employer paid 50% for me and nothing for my family. Before that, they paid 100% minus $1 for me and nothing for my family. And back when I first started working, it was 100% for me and my family.
Nowadays, in addition to footing the whole bill, I also have to spend approximately two hours per hour of medical service on the phone with the insurance company and the doctors because they always deny the bill the first time. They will even deny preapproved services. Can't fault them for that because it says right in their contract that just because they preapprove a service doesn't necessarily mean they will pay for it.
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If you've ever stood next to a running jet engine (F-15 at full AB) oyu'd understand why.
Of course the T-58 is only 400 pounds thrust, wchih is only about 1% that of an F-15. I'm sure it's loud, but not nearly so loud as an F-15, nor as much of a kick in the seat.
"We gave it das BOOT!"
We gave it the boat?
That's what I have been saying for years. Electric cars just pass the buck upstream, making the evil electric corporation responsible for polluting instead of the car. Now the electric company burns fuels in bulk, is able to get a better energy conversion rate, and is better able to restrict emmissions, but then you also lose energy as the electricity goes along the power lines, as you convert it in order to energize the batteries, as you store it in the battery, and as you reconvert it to locomotive power. I'd like to see a comparison of the true end result of a gallon of gas poured into a car versus a gallon of gas poured into the electric plant to eventually get to powering the electric car.
I heard this weekend that the newest generation is expected to be the first one in centuries to have a shorter life expectancy than the preious generation, due to eating and exercise habits. That should help the SS program in about 60 years.
impoverished old as no savings are possible for most at present.
I could save 6.2% of my income if it were not being syphoned away for social security, and I would probably be getting paid another 6.2% if my company didn't have to pay their share of the social security.
> So even if the original texts properly translate directly to fornicate, which of those three definitions do we use?
All of them. (C.F. 1 Cor)
I find it intersting that the link you provided does show three definitions, but none of the three says anything about sex outside of marriage. Unless of course, you do it for money, or it is against the law in your country to have sex oustide of marriage.
I can gaurentee that anything you find in a video game, i can find something worse in an R rated movie, and yet nobody is making a huge fuss how we need a law banning minors from seeing R rated movies.
Perhaps the reason is that society sees a difference between observing violence (as in a movie) and participating in it, as in a video game. Of course you are not participating physically, and it is virtual violence. But a movie is also virtual, and you participate more in a video game where you make you character do things, than in a movie where the things happen regardless of your input.
Is premarital sex immoral? I did it, and I don't think it is. Maybe according to Christianity, since the Bible does say it is immoral, but I am atheist.
Actually, whether the Bible says premarital sex is wrong depends on what the original root word was that is usually translated as fornicate. I don't know myself, since I do not know Greek or Hebrew, but I do know in English that fornicate itself has several different definitions including sex without being married, sex with prostitutes, and unlawful sex. So even if the original texts properly translate directly to fornicate, which of those three definitions do we use?
Frankly, I think our societal morals tend to fudge their way into our interpretation of scriptures. Since the whole point of the Bible is that there is an absolute right and an absolute wrong as determined by God, then Christians should condemn the influence of societal morals on the Bibles interpretation.
The FCC freaks out because people freak out. The FCC got tons of calls complaining about Janet's breast, but doesn't get near as many calls about violence on TV. I bet they didn't even get one call about the football game itself.
Society is the one that sees sex as worse than violence, not the FCC or the Oklahoma Legislature. They are just trying to satisfy their constituents.
I live in Oklahoma, too, and I would have to say that most of the parents here don't bother to do any parenting. I don't like the government being a parent, but somebody needs to be one.
I guess I must be out of synch because I thought it was already illegal for kids to buy violent video games. Or is the warning label only there to warn parents who actually shop with their children instead of sending their kids off with money to go buy violent vido games, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, or whatever.
Gilmour IS touring again, for his solo album, and I believe one or maybe two of the Floyd are playing with him. Unfortunately, the closest show to me in the U.S. is probably about 800 miles. I don't know that I would pay that much to see them either. If it was over $50, I'd have to think about it. $35 seems about right, given inflation.
People who will do what's needed without having to be told to are more valuable to employers.
Not my company. They value people who do what they're told and not what's needed.
I too have gotten tired of the rigamarole you have to go through just to get an application in. They won't just take your resume and a cover letter anymore. Now you hav eto fill out an application, which could tak e up to 30 minutes per employer. Too much time, considering that 90+% of the time your resume goes directly into the trash bin. (note the sign on the side of the trash bin which says "all resumes are kept on file for 6 months and all applicants will be considered for applicable positions during that period").
Even worse, I have applied for two jobs in the past year which required me to take multiple skill tests in the subject areas. This took several hours of my time, for which I was not compensated, and although they both said I did very good on the test, only one of them gave me an interview.
Due to the non-standardization of tests and the large number of testing bodies, and the fact that each company seems to affiliate and trust only one testing body, I have had to take tests with Oracle Corp, Sybase Corp, Cheetah, TeckChek, Brainbench, and a couple of others.
I'd go out on a limb here and say that the application may have been working fine, but was not prepared to deal with his data. Like maybe the software isn't prepared to deal with someone with a Junior or a II or III in their name. Or maybe it can't deal with someone with no previous work experience, and you have to lie to it to get it to work. I can't count the number of online application forms I have had to fake out because they wouldn't accept my input.
Until an application can be created to deal with every infinite possiblity (which is impossible), we either have to fake out the application, which could cause you to lose a job you were qualified for, or get one you're for which you are not qualified, or the company has to bite the bullet and make a paper application that someone has to look at.
Having a feature makes you more primitive than not having a feature?
Losing features is entirely consistent with genetic science. Gaining new features is apparently accepted in the scientific community, but doesn't make any sense to me.
I'm not sure which is more likely; that the seven animals were part of a pack, or that they all crashlanded in the same spaceship.
if I ever discover a new species? I'm naming it "snap", so that textbooks will have to type O. snap for hundreds of years into the future.
And so that six weeks from now, people will not think it is funny, because everyone will have forgotten that people used to say, Oh, snap.
The only types of people I know with crackberries are attorneys, hedge fund managers and accountants that would have zero patience for learning a new way to type.
All of the management types where I work have corporate sponsored BBs so that everyone can keep in touch with them no matter where they are.
IT is also perfectly willing to set up your personal BB so that the company can reach you anywhere as well. Of course, the company won't pay for grunt level BBs, but they will at least pay for the time for an IT guy to hook up Outlook to bug you at lunch.
I can't see getting a BB myself. Why should I shell out money for a device and for communication costs, just so my company can bug me during lunch, evenings and weekends?
Once google is finished indexing EVERYTHING, it will then index itself, thus destroying the universe.
Better hurry. Google's already indexed 805,000 pages on "Beavers mate for life".
Absolutely. Almost all of the science articles on /. lately have grossly misleading titles. It usually involves an invention that is, for all practical purposes, the same as someones existing product except that it will be capable of some stupendous thing when some non-existent technology becomes available. /.
I myself have invented a car that runs on water. It says so right on the sticker I put on the window. It looks like a regular car, and runs on gasoline, but when the technology comes along to make cars run on water, all I have to do is a simple motor swap, and I will have a car that runs on water. I should post an article about it on
Why Oklahoma?
Because Oklahoma is trying like mad to become a progressive state. I live in Oklahoma, and the state definitely has a stigma of being unimportant, stuck in the past, backwoods, you name it. Even our local radio jockeys often quip "Welcome to Oklahoma, please set your watch back 50 years". However, the government in Oklahoma is attempting to make the state more mainstream. Even though many Oklahoma businesses have no web presence, the state has built web site portals to create at least some web presence for practically any business in Oklahoma. Oklahoma was the first state to regulate medicines that were being used to make methamphetamines. Oklahoma doles out big incentives to companies like Dell to bring high tech industry into the state. I can't say I'm crazy about them choosing Microsoft as a partner, but at least the state is doing something constructive.
If the probe finds water, then environmentally speaking, they SHOULDN'T have smacked the moon with a 2 ton projectile. On the other hand, if the probe finds NO water, then they NEEDN'T have smacked the moon with a 2 ton projectile.
The moon, being 27% the mass of the earth, does not orbit the earth anyway. In effect, the earth and the moon orbit each other in a binary planet configuration. The larger mass of the earth makes our orbit of the moon appear as little more than a wobble on our path around the sun.
If 95% of the earths mass were moved to the moon, the moon would be the major planet in the pair and would have even less off a wobble than the earth currently does.
I hear you on that one. My stepson was in a car accident with his uncle driving a few years back. He had no broken bones, but hit his head on the dash and got a bad bruis across his chest and stomach from the seatbelt. He was in the hospital for two days. Every doctor that walked by and saw his name on the clipboard sent us a bill. I refused payment on all of them as his uncle's car insurance should have paid, but it only had a $5,000 medical coverage, and all of the doctors walking by added up to over $12,000. For a cut forehead and bruises. The doctors threatened to report me to collection agencies and several of them actually did, but eventually (14 months later) I was fortunate to get a settlement from the uncle's insurance company and paid off all the bills. Otherwise, a cut forehead and chest bruises would probably have ruined me financially.
2. Accelerate shifting the burden of medical care to the individual.
That works for me. I don't mind paying my own way, as long as they go ahead and bump up my salary since they aren't paying par of my healthcare expenses anymore. Unfortunately, they won't want to bump you up 100% of the cost, because they get a tax break for their sahre of the benefit. Also, your premium will go up for an individual plan versus a group plan. But hey, you are in IEEE or something, right? They have group plans.
As for me, my current employer pays $0 for my insurance anyway. My last employer paid 50% for me and nothing for my family. Before that, they paid 100% minus $1 for me and nothing for my family. And back when I first started working, it was 100% for me and my family.
Nowadays, in addition to footing the whole bill, I also have to spend approximately two hours per hour of medical service on the phone with the insurance company and the doctors because they always deny the bill the first time. They will even deny preapproved services. Can't fault them for that because it says right in their contract that just because they preapprove a service doesn't necessarily mean they will pay for it.