What they meant was the Camel TOE was the gateway to heaven. Not really sure how the back door aspect comes into all this. However, this is the likely origin for the parable about walking a mile for a camel. And, presumably, a rich man could afford to do it in someone else's shoes. It may have also had some bearing as to whether or not it was one hump or two...
Even buckshot isn't all that dangerous falling back to ground. While larger and heavier, it is also just round lead balls and thus cannot maintain a ballistic trajectory and just falls back to the ground. Rifle bullets are the ones that are most dangerous, though pistol rounds can be as well. Since they are spin stabilized they can maintain a ballistic trajectory for long distances, miles even. As such they can potentially hit with lethal force even if fired at a pretty steep angle.
Ultimately it's all about lead poisoning. The only real question is the speed.
With the exception of federally-controlled routes, airspace over your property belongs to you, just as (without prior agreements to the contrary), the mineral rights under your property also belong to you. This is a long-standing legal principle, not just something I made up.
Right, you haven't fully read your deed, have you?
bird shot fired from a shot gun - upwards - is harmless. It comes down softly. The only way to hurt someone is to shoot them directly and they would still need to be within a few meters. There are other types of shotgun ammunition that can do a lot more harm but the shot for dove, pigeon, etc. is very small and light.
This, of course, is known as the Dick Cheney Unprinciple.
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
But Dude! If they did that, it would cost the spammers money to send you all that crap! I mean-- Christ! It would just sink the entire business model. Just think of all those poor, spammers you'd be putting out-of-work. I mean, you know-- not making the victim pay-- that's just un-American! Say, what kind of sick, anti-capitalist, socialist-commie-freak are you anyway? I just bet this is Barack Obama's doing....
Why stop there? If we put RFID tags on all the bills and commercial correspondence as well, then the identify thieves could just do their thing driving by, without even having to get out of their cars to dig through the trash! What a timesaver that would be. Might even go a ways toward making the profession a little more respectable-- more along the lines of, say, drug dealers. Or wall-street bankers.
Good idea. Then some bright spot will stand outside the warehouse with an RFID writer and a pringles can and re-write all the shipping labels to his house!:-)
Try something one time and if it doesn't work you give up.
Dude, if those people you elected won't do their jobs-- what they promised you they would do...
F I R E their fucking asses and get NEW ones.
Sheesh. I really can't believe how colossally S T U P I D the sheeple in this country can be.
We have 350 MILLION PEOPLE in this country, give or take a few. And even if you get rid of two-thirds of them, for any reason you like, that's still a whopping 100 million or more left to pick from. How come we only vote for TWO???
Its supposed to be by the people, of the people and for the people. But if all you ever get is a measly TWO or THREE candidates to pick from and its the SAME SCUMBAGS over and over-- you can't very well use that by the people of the people line of bullshit any longer.
So you're HONESTLY gonna tell me you just roll over and TAKE IT when it doesn't work the first time, eh?
I'm glad you don't work on MY team.
Now let's get out there and pick some of our OWN candidates for a change. People WE like. People who REALLY represent OUR values. People who will DO what they say they will do or KNOW they will go home as a result.
It's not just about THEM, the candidates, its also about US, the citizens. If all you care is that you cast a vote and it didn't work out-- what kind of a pathetic citizen are YOU anyway?
Get up, get mad, get even.
They got bucks and an army of lobbyists.
We got votes.
Its the votes that matter. They use MARKETING to sway votes. You can choose to listen to them, let them do your thinking for you-- or you can think for yourself and tell them to go pound sand and find someone you like better.
I actually agree with this. If people on Slashdot would stop BITCHING for a change (Yeah, I know...) and start VOTING instead, they could have practically anything their little Freedom-Loving Geeky hearts desire. But that's the problem with the Freedom-Loving Geeky heart types, they're so hell-bent on being independent and "free" about the only thing they CAN agree upon is access to the Internet, and even THAT only happens by sheer accident and coincidence.
Tired of DRM, DMCA, Fucked-up Patents and Copyrights gone Wild?
DO something about it for a change. Vote AGAINST the Congress-critters that don't support your views. Get together with fellow Slashdotters (probably need to ask your Moms if you can have friends over in her basement) and form Political Action Committees and CHANGE the system.
The wealthy elite and corporations have MONEY on their side, but the Slashdot crowd has raw VOTES, which even in today's totally warped and corrupt system, still win, over the dollars.
And stop buying into the candidates that THEY push foward-- let's push out some of our OWN.
The solution to all this is simple, wrap your money in a EULA and a plastic bag which says "Opening this bag and depositing the money constitutes acceptance of the Monetary Remuneration End User License Agreement", and then use the EULA to state what the recipient can and cannot do with the money. They *can* use it to give their employees a raise, the *cannot* use it to buy Jaguars and Jacuzzis, etc. Personally, I'd vote for putting some really whacked-out stuff in there, just to get even a bit. Like maybe they're only allowed to use it in small bills bearing serial numbers which correspond to the Fibonacci sequence, or maybe they are only allowed to put it into the bank and not spend it at all. Maybe just visit is on alternate Thursdays.
If enough consumers did it, it wouldn't take very long for the purveyors and peddlers of gadget-porn to get the point. And while we're at it, maybe we could expand that concept to include payments to the RIAA, MPAA, Oil & Gas companies, and all of the other companies who are so busy trying to jam it down our throats. Let THEM see what its like to be on the RAW end for awhile.
This is as so often the silly debating of the law of little kiddies and the reason lawyers in general are so reluctant to discuss law.
Oh, is that why? I always thought it was because of their Hypocritical Oaf-- "Do no wrong", until the bill is paid.
First year law teachers hate their job because of the constant attempts by students to re-examine the laws that has already been re-examined for hundreds of years by far greater minds then the average student... like cats.
Many students do like cats, but I fail to understand the relevance here...
An execution is written down as a murder. Every executed prisoner in the US is a murder victim. Just that the law has ways of allowing such a thing to happen, in certain circumstances while murder in general is forbidden.
Actually it depends on whether or not its an Election year.
You can see kiddies at work when it comes to the police speeding without lights or sirens. Allowed? YES, regardless of what you think the law says, especially traffic law
Well, actually its not allowed, but they have to put that stuff on the police car and fill it up with guns and bullets or else hardly anybody would want to sign up to be a cop. Besides, the siren is there for a very important reason. If they didn't use it to warn the bad guys they're coming, they might catch all the bad guys, and that would be bad for them in the cop business. Just think about all those poor cops you'd be putting out of work. And the worst part about it is that they'd probably have to get jobs that didn't have sirens or guns or allowed them to drive at excessive speeds any time they felt like it. Did you ever think of that, huh? I'll bet not.
IF the police has good reasons to do so and with a high expectation of the police not to endanger others.
Ah-- there's the problem-- you entirely misunderstand the purpose of the police in the United States. Other countries employ policemen to assist in the reduction of crime. Whereas in the United States, they are typically there to ensure the city or State gets a cut.
But if the police on their way to a crime scene feel the need to turn of the siren to avoid alerting the criminals and you jump in front of them on a zebra crossing... don't expect much sympathy from a judge.
Unless of course the judge is a Zebra. Or maybe married to one. On the other hand, if you jump in front of them at an Aardvark crossing, that's a whole 'nuther matter, and you can expect overwhelming sympathy. You know, they even have a special support group for that.
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology.
Yeah, you're right. Just try to read the Torah in a dark elevator on Saturday night without a working flashlight... In fact, that's where we get the term "Black Sabbath". Seriously, look it up.
Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart?
Now you're just being silly. Who would want to use an elevator that had a bad heart? Why the poor thing. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking of such a thing. Now just think about all those poor, tired, overworked elevators out there-- many of whom have never had a proper tuneup in their entire existence. And on the Sabbath, no less. Tsk. Tsk.
It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Yes, I suppose we should pause for a moment to reflect on the sad state of modern medicine. Its really terrible, if all those doctors and nurses weren't having to moonlight at high-rise construction workers, just think of all the great innovations and modern medical miracles that could ensue! I think its high time that the medical profe
This is as so often the silly debating of the law of little kiddies and the reason lawyers in general are so reluctant to discuss law.
Oh, is that why? I always thought it was because of their Hypocritical Oaf-- "Do no wrong", until the bill is paid.
First year law teachers hate their job because of the constant attempts by students to re-examine the laws that has already been re-examined for hundreds of years by far greater minds then the average student... like cats.
Many students do like cats, but I fail to understand the relevance here...
An execution is written down as a murder. Every executed prisoner in the US is a murder victim. Just that the law has ways of allowing such a thing to happen, in certain circumstances while murder in general is forbidden.
Actually it depends on whether or not its an Election year.
You can see kiddies at work when it comes to the police speeding without lights or sirens. Allowed? YES, regardless of what you think the law says, especially traffic law
Well, actually its not allowed, but they have to put that stuff on the police car and fill it up with guns and bullets or else hardly anybody would want to sign up to be a cop. Besides, the siren is there for a very important reason. If they didn't use it to warn the bad guys they're coming, they might catch all the bad guys, and that would be bad for them in the cop business. Just think about all those poor cops you'd be putting out of work. And the worst part about it is that they'd probably have to get jobs that didn't have sirens or guns or allowed them to drive at excessive speeds any time they felt like it. Did you ever think of that, huh? I'll bet not.
IF the police has good reasons to do so and with a high expectation of the police not to endanger others.
Ah-- there's the problem-- you entirely misunderstand the purpose of the police in the United States. Other countries employ policemen to assist in the reduction of crime. Whereas in the United States, they are typically there to ensure the city or State gets a cut.
But if the police on their way to a crime scene feel the need to turn of the siren to avoid alerting the criminals and you jump in front of them on a zebra crossing... don't expect much sympathy from a judge.
Unless of course the judge is a Zebra. Or maybe married to one. On the other hand, if you jump in front of them at an Aardvark crossing, that's a whole 'nuther matter, and you can expect overwhelming sympathy. You know, they even have a special support group for that.
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology.
Yeah, you're right. Just try to read the Torah in a dark elevator on Saturday night without a working flashlight... In fact, that's where we get the term "Black Sabbath". Seriously, look it up.
Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart?
Now you're just being silly. Who would want to use an elevator that had a bad heart? Why the poor thing. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking of such a thing. Now just think about all those poor, tired, overworked elevators out there-- many of whom have never had a proper tuneup in their entire existence. And on the Sabbath, no less. Tsk. Tsk.
It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Yes, I suppose we should pause for a moment to reflect on the sad state of modern medi
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What they meant was the Camel TOE was the gateway to heaven. Not really sure how the back door aspect comes into all this. However, this is the likely origin for the parable about walking a mile for a camel. And, presumably, a rich man could afford to do it in someone else's shoes. It may have also had some bearing as to whether or not it was one hump or two...
Yes, he is the Most Interesting Programmer in the World.
"Friends, I don't always use parametric polymorphism, but when I do, I prefer hand-rolled Assembly."
Even buckshot isn't all that dangerous falling back to ground. While larger and heavier, it is also just round lead balls and thus cannot maintain a ballistic trajectory and just falls back to the ground. Rifle bullets are the ones that are most dangerous, though pistol rounds can be as well. Since they are spin stabilized they can maintain a ballistic trajectory for long distances, miles even. As such they can potentially hit with lethal force even if fired at a pretty steep angle.
Ultimately it's all about lead poisoning. The only real question is the speed.
With the exception of federally-controlled routes, airspace over your property belongs to you, just as (without prior agreements to the contrary), the mineral rights under your property also belong to you. This is a long-standing legal principle, not just something I made up.
Right, you haven't fully read your deed, have you?
bird shot fired from a shot gun - upwards - is harmless. It comes down softly. The only way to hurt someone is to shoot them directly and they would still need to be within a few meters. There are other types of shotgun ammunition that can do a lot more harm but the shot for dove, pigeon, etc. is very small and light.
This, of course, is known as the Dick Cheney Unprinciple.
(Smirk)
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
But Dude! If they did that, it would cost the spammers money to send you all that crap! I mean-- Christ! It would just sink the entire business model. Just think of all those poor, spammers you'd be putting out-of-work. I mean, you know-- not making the victim pay-- that's just un-American! Say, what kind of sick, anti-capitalist, socialist-commie-freak are you anyway? I just bet this is Barack Obama's doing....
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Dig it!
Why stop there? If we put RFID tags on all the bills and commercial correspondence as well, then the identify thieves could just do their thing driving by, without even having to get out of their cars to dig through the trash! What a timesaver that would be. Might even go a ways toward making the profession a little more respectable-- more along the lines of, say, drug dealers. Or wall-street bankers.
when I can just push my grocery cart through a halo and slide my card.
Uh, don't you mean a set of HORNS and not a halo? After all, RFID is the mark of the beast!
Good idea. Then some bright spot will stand outside the warehouse with an RFID writer and a pringles can and re-write all the shipping labels to his house! :-)
Apathetic, perhaps.
Worthless?
Certainly not.
That's how Slashdot makes a TON of money.
Why waste perfectly good apathy?
Or better yet, pack a SHIT SANDWICH and then CHARGE HIM for your bottle of water.
So STOP BUYING stuff from them!
That's where they get their money.
From you and a million others just like you.
If you would consider your OWN interests for a change, and could put off the INSTANT GRATIFICATION for JUST A MOMENT...
You could have your cake and eat it too.
$1,000 for every download.
How come its always DEATH rays. Why not make a LIFE ray???
And you're even more powerless if you don't even try.
So that's it, huh?
You must be an awful engineer.
Try something one time and if it doesn't work you give up.
Dude, if those people you elected won't do their jobs-- what they promised you they would do...
F I R E their fucking asses and get NEW ones.
Sheesh. I really can't believe how colossally S T U P I D the sheeple in this country can be.
We have 350 MILLION PEOPLE in this country, give or take a few. And even if you get rid of two-thirds of them, for any reason you like, that's still a whopping 100 million or more left to pick from. How come we only vote for TWO???
Its supposed to be by the people, of the people and for the people. But if all you ever get is a measly TWO or THREE candidates to pick from and its the SAME SCUMBAGS over and over-- you can't very well use that by the people of the people line of bullshit any longer.
So you're HONESTLY gonna tell me you just roll over and TAKE IT when it doesn't work the first time, eh?
I'm glad you don't work on MY team.
Now let's get out there and pick some of our OWN candidates for a change. People WE like. People who REALLY represent OUR values. People who will DO what they say they will do or KNOW they will go home as a result.
It's not just about THEM, the candidates, its also about US, the citizens. If all you care is that you cast a vote and it didn't work out-- what kind of a pathetic citizen are YOU anyway?
Get up, get mad, get even.
They got bucks and an army of lobbyists.
We got votes.
Its the votes that matter. They use MARKETING to sway votes. You can choose to listen to them, let them do your thinking for you-- or you can think for yourself and tell them to go pound sand and find someone you like better.
It REALLY IS that simple.
How about:
"Computer-Oblivious, No-Good Repugnant Elitist Sophist Scumbags"
Or just "C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S." for short...
So STOP BUYING them!
Sheesh.
Just STOP.
When they can't sell any more of them, they'll get the message.
I actually agree with this. If people on Slashdot would stop BITCHING for a change (Yeah, I know...) and start VOTING instead, they could have practically anything their little Freedom-Loving Geeky hearts desire. But that's the problem with the Freedom-Loving Geeky heart types, they're so hell-bent on being independent and "free" about the only thing they CAN agree upon is access to the Internet, and even THAT only happens by sheer accident and coincidence.
Tired of DRM, DMCA, Fucked-up Patents and Copyrights gone Wild?
DO something about it for a change. Vote AGAINST the Congress-critters that don't support your views. Get together with fellow Slashdotters (probably need to ask your Moms if you can have friends over in her basement) and form Political Action Committees and CHANGE the system.
The wealthy elite and corporations have MONEY on their side, but the Slashdot crowd has raw VOTES, which even in today's totally warped and corrupt system, still win, over the dollars.
And stop buying into the candidates that THEY push foward-- let's push out some of our OWN.
The solution to all this is simple, wrap your money in a EULA and a plastic bag which says "Opening this bag and depositing the money constitutes acceptance of the Monetary Remuneration End User License Agreement", and then use the EULA to state what the recipient can and cannot do with the money. They *can* use it to give their employees a raise, the *cannot* use it to buy Jaguars and Jacuzzis, etc. Personally, I'd vote for putting some really whacked-out stuff in there, just to get even a bit. Like maybe they're only allowed to use it in small bills bearing serial numbers which correspond to the Fibonacci sequence, or maybe they are only allowed to put it into the bank and not spend it at all. Maybe just visit is on alternate Thursdays.
If enough consumers did it, it wouldn't take very long for the purveyors and peddlers of gadget-porn to get the point. And while we're at it, maybe we could expand that concept to include payments to the RIAA, MPAA, Oil & Gas companies, and all of the other companies who are so busy trying to jam it down our throats. Let THEM see what its like to be on the RAW end for awhile.
Yes, that's what I said, one hard drive they HOPE has evidence.
No, they have a hard drive containing gibberish that they HOPE is evidence. Not quite the same thing.
This is as so often the silly debating of the law of little kiddies and the reason lawyers in general are so reluctant to discuss law.
Oh, is that why? I always thought it was because of their Hypocritical Oaf-- "Do no wrong", until the bill is paid.
First year law teachers hate their job because of the constant attempts by students to re-examine the laws that has already been re-examined for hundreds of years by far greater minds then the average student... like cats.
Many students do like cats, but I fail to understand the relevance here...
An execution is written down as a murder. Every executed prisoner in the US is a murder victim. Just that the law has ways of allowing such a thing to happen, in certain circumstances while murder in general is forbidden.
Actually it depends on whether or not its an Election year.
You can see kiddies at work when it comes to the police speeding without lights or sirens. Allowed? YES, regardless of what you think the law says, especially traffic law
Well, actually its not allowed, but they have to put that stuff on the police car and fill it up with guns and bullets or else hardly anybody would want to sign up to be a cop. Besides, the siren is there for a very important reason. If they didn't use it to warn the bad guys they're coming, they might catch all the bad guys, and that would be bad for them in the cop business. Just think about all those poor cops you'd be putting out of work. And the worst part about it is that they'd probably have to get jobs that didn't have sirens or guns or allowed them to drive at excessive speeds any time they felt like it. Did you ever think of that, huh? I'll bet not.
IF the police has good reasons to do so and with a high expectation of the police not to endanger others.
Ah-- there's the problem-- you entirely misunderstand the purpose of the police in the United States. Other countries employ policemen to assist in the reduction of crime. Whereas in the United States, they are typically there to ensure the city or State gets a cut.
But if the police on their way to a crime scene feel the need to turn of the siren to avoid alerting the criminals and you jump in front of them on a zebra crossing... don't expect much sympathy from a judge.
Unless of course the judge is a Zebra. Or maybe married to one. On the other hand, if you jump in front of them at an Aardvark crossing, that's a whole 'nuther matter, and you can expect overwhelming sympathy. You know, they even have a special support group for that.
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology.
Yeah, you're right. Just try to read the Torah in a dark elevator on Saturday night without a working flashlight... In fact, that's where we get the term "Black Sabbath". Seriously, look it up.
Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart?
Now you're just being silly. Who would want to use an elevator that had a bad heart? Why the poor thing. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking of such a thing. Now just think about all those poor, tired, overworked elevators out there-- many of whom have never had a proper tuneup in their entire existence. And on the Sabbath, no less. Tsk. Tsk.
It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Yes, I suppose we should pause for a moment to reflect on the sad state of modern medicine. Its really terrible, if all those doctors and nurses weren't having to moonlight at high-rise construction workers, just think of all the great innovations and modern medical miracles that could ensue! I think its high time that the medical profe
This is as so often the silly debating of the law of little kiddies and the reason lawyers in general are so reluctant to discuss law.
Oh, is that why? I always thought it was because of their Hypocritical Oaf-- "Do no wrong", until the bill is paid.
First year law teachers hate their job because of the constant attempts by students to re-examine the laws that has already been re-examined for hundreds of years by far greater minds then the average student... like cats.
Many students do like cats, but I fail to understand the relevance here...
An execution is written down as a murder. Every executed prisoner in the US is a murder victim. Just that the law has ways of allowing such a thing to happen, in certain circumstances while murder in general is forbidden.
Actually it depends on whether or not its an Election year.
You can see kiddies at work when it comes to the police speeding without lights or sirens. Allowed? YES, regardless of what you think the law says, especially traffic law
Well, actually its not allowed, but they have to put that stuff on the police car and fill it up with guns and bullets or else hardly anybody would want to sign up to be a cop. Besides, the siren is there for a very important reason. If they didn't use it to warn the bad guys they're coming, they might catch all the bad guys, and that would be bad for them in the cop business. Just think about all those poor cops you'd be putting out of work. And the worst part about it is that they'd probably have to get jobs that didn't have sirens or guns or allowed them to drive at excessive speeds any time they felt like it. Did you ever think of that, huh? I'll bet not.
IF the police has good reasons to do so and with a high expectation of the police not to endanger others.
Ah-- there's the problem-- you entirely misunderstand the purpose of the police in the United States. Other countries employ policemen to assist in the reduction of crime. Whereas in the United States, they are typically there to ensure the city or State gets a cut.
But if the police on their way to a crime scene feel the need to turn of the siren to avoid alerting the criminals and you jump in front of them on a zebra crossing... don't expect much sympathy from a judge.
Unless of course the judge is a Zebra. Or maybe married to one. On the other hand, if you jump in front of them at an Aardvark crossing, that's a whole 'nuther matter, and you can expect overwhelming sympathy. You know, they even have a special support group for that.
It is the INTENT of the law vs the actual wording in a changing world. Jews do it all the time, the Sabbath rules are hard to deal with in a modern world of electricity, batteries and essential technology.
Yeah, you're right. Just try to read the Torah in a dark elevator on Saturday night without a working flashlight... In fact, that's where we get the term "Black Sabbath". Seriously, look it up.
Can you use an elevator on the Sabbath? In a skyscaper? With a bad heart?
Now you're just being silly. Who would want to use an elevator that had a bad heart? Why the poor thing. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking of such a thing. Now just think about all those poor, tired, overworked elevators out there-- many of whom have never had a proper tuneup in their entire existence. And on the Sabbath, no less. Tsk. Tsk.
It didn't matter when there were no elevators or when the highest floor could be reached by anyone able to survive for that long. But modern medicine has allowed people to continue to live when they became feeble and created housing so high that even top fit humans would need to take a breather.
Yes, I suppose we should pause for a moment to reflect on the sad state of modern medi