Let me ask you this: Why go on foot? Why not fly some giant eagles to Mount Doom and fling the ring in? Frankly, I don't recall the last sections of the book that well, but in the movie the eagles make short work of those dragons.
Maybe because of thousands of Orc archers? And what happens if you miss the lava? Better swoop in and pick that baby back up.
I don't come to works of fiction with the idea that I should have to scrutinize or learn invented languages and read appendices and so on - that's just bad writing.
Maybe Tolkien wrote his books to suit someone else's tastes instead of yours.
Everything I need to know should be in the body of the text.
That is really lame. In the first place, you don't need to know any of it, unless there is an exam afterwards. The appendices supplement the text for the interested reader.
According to Dragon magazine, Chaosium obtained the rights to the Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythos shortly after the first printing of the Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia, which explains their absence in later editions. I suspect they obtained gaming rights. Arkham House still publishes Lovecraft's fiction.
The Cthulhu Mythos certainly has Geek appeal. All powerful gods (Yog Sothoth) that exist in multiple dimensions, alien creatures --- like the Mi-Go --- who capture humans, remove their brains, and stuff them into metal receptacles with electronics allowing them to communicate with others.
Read the fiction by H.P. Lovecraft and decide for yourself. A good place to start would be The Dunwich Horror or The Call of Cthulhu. His fiction is readilyavailable. Other authors in the original Mythos circle were Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth.
Anyone - *anyone* - can go to school, amass a certain amount of technical knowledge, and become a perfectly serviceable doctor or teacher or what have you.
It's amazing that such tripe gets modded up as "Insightful". So you are saying that the only thing different between Joe the Janitor and Ed the Engineer is the type of work they like to do? Unbelievable.
The fact is, some people are better at some things than others. At the extreme ends, a few are talented in many areas, and some have no talents at all.
Tell me, how many of them didn't get there laws from their God/Gods?
How many gods do you believe exist? If there is only one (as many believe) then the other gods are fictions. Therefore, the gods did not hand down the laws and morals; the people created the laws, morals, and the gods.
You may not be aware of this, but there were civilizations, with laws, that predate the old testament. Even after the ten commandments were written down, not all civilizations were aware of them. I know it's very tempting to believe that nothing exists outside of the United States; but, you will have to do a lot better than that to support "almost all laws and morals are based on religion."
Our government was not founded to be Aethiest.
Our government was not founded on any particular religion either.
... almost all laws and morals are based on religion,
Prove it. I keep hearing this crap. Show me.
... why should religion have no say at all in government?
Read some history and you will learn the answer. In brief, the church should stay out of government so that people are free to pursue whatever religion they like, or none at all. For example, if you are not a Catholic, would you like to bow down before the Pope and kiss his ring? If you are a Catholic, would you like women to keep their faces covered and be forced to recite the Koran? Which state religion should we have?
Before MAD, there was Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, etc. by the same bunch. I had never read any until recently. Wow! What a scream!
... and the government should pay you to read the entire governiing document for wherever you may live.
You know, that's not a bad idea. Maybe it would give them some incentive not to pass so damn many laws. I've always heard that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Fine. Except for one teeny tiny little thing --- attaining knowledge of all the laws you are expected to obey is practically impossible for most people. One has to have (1) access to the information, (2) the time to peruse it, (3) the ability to read English (in the U.S.), and (4) the ability to understand legalese.
Let me tell you a little story. I used to drop off/pick up my child at Kindergarten. The parking lot was usually packed, so I parked at the curb. Now, I was nowhere near an intersection, and there weren't any "No Parking" signs anywhere. As I headed back to the truck, a school janitor informed me that a cop had just told him that if I continued to park there, I would get a ticket. So, I conducted a little investigation.
I went to the cop shop and made an inquiry. Why would I get a ticket? Exactly what ordinance was I in violation of? Well, one officer said "I think there is some rule about parking on a street adjacent to a school building (which I later learned was false). Another told me that maybe the traffic would be congested --- you could not park at a curb if there was less than 10 feet between your car and the other side of the street (that condition was not satisfied in my case.) So, in other words, none of them knew. However, I was told to consult the book of city ordinances, of which 2 copies exist in our town of about 20,000 people. I went to the library and looked it up. The book is about 1000 pages long. I asked how much they cost --- $800 per copy! Now, do the math. Most people cannot afford or will not purchase one of these books. This book is in the reference section of the library, so cannot be checked out. With 20,000 people and 2 public copies for viewing between the hours of 8am and 8pm, and a conservative estimate of about 1 month per person to digest the book, I come to a figure of about 833 years for each citizen to be familiar with its contents --- and that is just to learn the city ordinances. If we are to be held accountable to the law, our government needs to make it simple and brief and plentily available.
Incidentally, after reading the entire corpus of ordinances pertaining to parking, I discovered that I was in the right after all, and photocopied the sections of the book for the occasion of receiving a ticket. Oops. Guess I broke some copyright laws there.
That is absurd. You have to be diligent to keep a machine secure. How many people have time for that? Who is going to train them? Do you jack up your car every week and check the bushings, differential grease, electrical connections, thickness of the tread on your tires, radiator fluid level, etc. Maybe the government should do that. If your car is out of spec it will be impounded.
Well, if 100% doesn't mean 100% then what does it mean? 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%? Or does it mean that a 0.1 mL sample passed through an HPLC produces a single spike? Since you like links, please provide one that officially states exactly what fraction below unity is the cutoff for 100%.
I'm not being a douche. You took issue with something I said, and I'm defending my statement. I want to know what YOU think 100% means.
I stand by my statement. Prove me wrong. Show me one liter of pure ethanol without a single molecule of anything else in it, and I'll lick your ass until it's 100% free of anything but living skin.
You don't need hard science to back up my claim. You just have to think about it.
I don't know what you mean by calling chemistry the 'real world'. When you're talking about the effects of alcohol on the body, you're talking biology. Is this some sort of scientific pissing contest I walked into? You don't explain reactions to alcohol with chemistry anymore than you explain circuit diagrams with quantum theory or bridges with the general theory of relativity.
Do you have any clue at all what you are talking about? Biology - Chemistry = Nomenclature. In other words, biology is almost entirely chemistry. How can you talk about metabolic processes without chemistry? Have you ever heard of Kreb's cycle? Photosynthesis? Fermentation?
How is ethanol made? Chemistry.
How is ethanol dealt with in the body? Chemistry.
When the cop gives you a breath test, what is going on in the device? Chemistry.
How does ethanol manifest its physiological effects? Chemistry.
Chemistry --- it's more than just labs, white coats, and goggles.
Of course water doesn't cause a hangover; I didn't mean to imply that it did. And yes, by my logic, you can't drink 100% pure anything. In the real world (in particular, in chemistry) air and water are NOT completely ignored. For example, sodium hydride can spontaneously combust in the presence of oxygen in the air. If you make nitroglycerin, you want your nitric and sulfuric acids as dry (water free) as possible, since the yield decreases rapidly with an increase in water. There are many, many more examples.
If water doesn't count as an impurity, then what do you mean by pure substance?
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Let me ask you this: Why go on foot? Why not fly some giant eagles to Mount Doom and fling the ring in? Frankly, I don't recall the last sections of the book that well, but in the movie the eagles make short work of those dragons.
Maybe because of thousands of Orc archers? And what happens if you miss the lava? Better swoop in and pick that baby back up.
I don't come to works of fiction with the idea that I should have to scrutinize or learn invented languages and read appendices and so on - that's just bad writing.
Maybe Tolkien wrote his books to suit someone else's tastes instead of yours.
Everything I need to know should be in the body of the text.
That is really lame. In the first place, you don't need to know any of it, unless there is an exam afterwards. The appendices supplement the text for the interested reader.
The tyke has a copy of the Necronomicon under his pillow! Good boy!
According to Dragon magazine, Chaosium obtained the rights to the Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythos shortly after the first printing of the Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia, which explains their absence in later editions. I suspect they obtained gaming rights. Arkham House still publishes Lovecraft's fiction.
What's the big deal?
The Cthulhu Mythos certainly has Geek appeal. All powerful gods (Yog Sothoth) that exist in multiple dimensions, alien creatures --- like the Mi-Go --- who capture humans, remove their brains, and stuff them into metal receptacles with electronics allowing them to communicate with others.
Read the fiction by H.P. Lovecraft and decide for yourself. A good place to start would be The Dunwich Horror or The Call of Cthulhu. His fiction is readily available. Other authors in the original Mythos circle were Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian), Frank Belknap Long, and August Derleth.
Anyone - *anyone* - can go to school, amass a certain amount of technical knowledge, and become a perfectly serviceable doctor or teacher or what have you.
It's amazing that such tripe gets modded up as "Insightful". So you are saying that the only thing different between Joe the Janitor and Ed the Engineer is the type of work they like to do? Unbelievable.
The fact is, some people are better at some things than others. At the extreme ends, a few are talented in many areas, and some have no talents at all.
Unfortunately, sometimes the baby just wants to cry.
When I pop one in, I immediately cycle through TRACK FORWARD, MENU, and ENTER --- about 3 times each. It brings me to the menu about 90% of the time.
Would you, as a juror, side with the spyware/adware companies?
If they gave me some free penis enlargement pills I would!
Reason # 1: Oil
Possible Reason # 2: To fight a Holy War and precipitate Armageddon.
Read some background on these fundamentalist nutjobs. Check out theocracywatch to see what our "leaders" have in mind for America.
It makes us no different from them.
There is one difference: Spammers are asking for it, spam recipients are not.
According to this Fahrenheit chose 96 degrees as the human body temperature. The article gives a brief explanation.
Tell me, how many of them didn't get there laws from their God/Gods?
How many gods do you believe exist? If there is only one (as many believe) then the other gods are fictions. Therefore, the gods did not hand down the laws and morals; the people created the laws, morals, and the gods.
You may not be aware of this, but there were civilizations, with laws, that predate the old testament. Even after the ten commandments were written down, not all civilizations were aware of them. I know it's very tempting to believe that nothing exists outside of the United States; but, you will have to do a lot better than that to support "almost all laws and morals are based on religion."
Our government was not founded to be Aethiest.
Our government was not founded on any particular religion either.
... almost all laws and morals are based on religion,
... why should religion have no say at all in government?
Prove it. I keep hearing this crap. Show me.
Read some history and you will learn the answer. In brief, the church should stay out of government so that people are free to pursue whatever religion they like, or none at all. For example, if you are not a Catholic, would you like to bow down before the Pope and kiss his ring? If you are a Catholic, would you like women to keep their faces covered and be forced to recite the Koran? Which state religion should we have?
Before MAD, there was Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, etc. by the same bunch. I had never read any until recently. Wow! What a scream!
You left out role playing games --- in particular, D&D.
... and the government should pay you to read the entire governiing document for wherever you may live.
You know, that's not a bad idea. Maybe it would give them some incentive not to pass so damn many laws. I've always heard that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Fine. Except for one teeny tiny little thing --- attaining knowledge of all the laws you are expected to obey is practically impossible for most people. One has to have (1) access to the information, (2) the time to peruse it, (3) the ability to read English (in the U.S.), and (4) the ability to understand legalese.
Let me tell you a little story. I used to drop off/pick up my child at Kindergarten. The parking lot was usually packed, so I parked at the curb. Now, I was nowhere near an intersection, and there weren't any "No Parking" signs anywhere. As I headed back to the truck, a school janitor informed me that a cop had just told him that if I continued to park there, I would get a ticket. So, I conducted a little investigation.
I went to the cop shop and made an inquiry. Why would I get a ticket? Exactly what ordinance was I in violation of? Well, one officer said "I think there is some rule about parking on a street adjacent to a school building (which I later learned was false). Another told me that maybe the traffic would be congested --- you could not park at a curb if there was less than 10 feet between your car and the other side of the street (that condition was not satisfied in my case.) So, in other words, none of them knew. However, I was told to consult the book of city ordinances, of which 2 copies exist in our town of about 20,000 people. I went to the library and looked it up. The book is about 1000 pages long. I asked how much they cost --- $800 per copy! Now, do the math. Most people cannot afford or will not purchase one of these books. This book is in the reference section of the library, so cannot be checked out. With 20,000 people and 2 public copies for viewing between the hours of 8am and 8pm, and a conservative estimate of about 1 month per person to digest the book, I come to a figure of about 833 years for each citizen to be familiar with its contents --- and that is just to learn the city ordinances. If we are to be held accountable to the law, our government needs to make it simple and brief and plentily available.
Incidentally, after reading the entire corpus of ordinances pertaining to parking, I discovered that I was in the right after all, and photocopied the sections of the book for the occasion of receiving a ticket. Oops. Guess I broke some copyright laws there.
Are you sure? Look closely at the label.
What the market will bear. What a lovely sentiment. It occurs to me that an antibiotic or vaccine isn't the same as the new Star Wars DVD.
Parabolic trajectory, if air resistance is eliminated.
That is absurd. You have to be diligent to keep a machine secure. How many people have time for that? Who is going to train them? Do you jack up your car every week and check the bushings, differential grease, electrical connections, thickness of the tread on your tires, radiator fluid level, etc. Maybe the government should do that. If your car is out of spec it will be impounded.
Well, if 100% doesn't mean 100% then what does it mean? 99%, 99.9%, 99.99%? Or does it mean that a 0.1 mL sample passed through an HPLC produces a single spike? Since you like links, please provide one that officially states exactly what fraction below unity is the cutoff for 100%.
I'm not being a douche. You took issue with something I said, and I'm defending my statement. I want to know what YOU think 100% means.
I stand by my statement. Prove me wrong. Show me one liter of pure ethanol without a single molecule of anything else in it, and I'll lick your ass until it's 100% free of anything but living skin.
You don't need hard science to back up my claim. You just have to think about it.
I don't know what you mean by calling chemistry the 'real world'. When you're talking about the effects of alcohol on the body, you're talking biology. Is this some sort of scientific pissing contest I walked into? You don't explain reactions to alcohol with chemistry anymore than you explain circuit diagrams with quantum theory or bridges with the general theory of relativity.
Do you have any clue at all what you are talking about? Biology - Chemistry = Nomenclature. In other words, biology is almost entirely chemistry. How can you talk about metabolic processes without chemistry? Have you ever heard of Kreb's cycle? Photosynthesis? Fermentation?
How is ethanol made? Chemistry.
How is ethanol dealt with in the body? Chemistry.
When the cop gives you a breath test, what is going on in the device? Chemistry.
How does ethanol manifest its physiological effects? Chemistry.
Chemistry --- it's more than just labs, white coats, and goggles.
Of course water doesn't cause a hangover; I didn't mean to imply that it did. And yes, by my logic, you can't drink 100% pure anything. In the real world (in particular, in chemistry) air and water are NOT completely ignored. For example, sodium hydride can spontaneously combust in the presence of oxygen in the air. If you make nitroglycerin, you want your nitric and sulfuric acids as dry (water free) as possible, since the yield decreases rapidly with an increase in water. There are many, many more examples.
If water doesn't count as an impurity, then what do you mean by pure substance?