This idea seems about as brilliant as treating ebola with the "kiss it to make it better" system. The problem: wealth inequality. The solution: tax consumption (which will affect the poor and middle class who spend more of their income on consumption). Meanwhile it will not affect the rich people's major form of income: investment.
I am an Ebola prince. I have a sum of FIVE BILLION YOUR CELLS (5,000,000.00 cells) in a bank account in Dallas, Texas. I need your help to repatriate it. If you could just lend me access to ONE CELL (1.00 cell) it would facilitate the transfer of control.
Better idea: don't mention you own patents in your job interview. Who wants to hire a patent troll? (I'm assuming this given how else would not using your "patent" affect your quality as an employee?)
I have heard a suggestion that they had some sort of poison that reacts differently when someone is anxious vs calm. Think of it like a polygraph test with potential physical consequences. It could well have had better than chance odds of affecting the guilty (anxious) more than the innocent (calm). And no doubt the priests could have helped with that, by telling them "don't worry, God knows" and all the ceremony. Of course, this is all speculation as no one knows exactly what the stuff was. And being "better than chance" isn't even saying much.
A self-respecting Christian would recognize that Christ fulfilled the Mosaic Law and it no longer applies to anyone.
Seriously, it's been 2 millennia now. Harp on something else for a while. Perhaps you won't seem so desperate.
Most Christians recognize that Christ fulfilled the part of the Mosaic Law that they don't like and it no longer applies to them. The parts they do like still apply to everyone.
Even ultra-strict Jews don't perform animal sacrifices or maintain the temple/tabernacle sanctuary or its implements anymore. Kinda makes you wonder why they bother with any of it, really. I guess "in for a penny, in for a pound" isn't really a Jewish thing (even if you swap out for shekels and talents).
Odds are, because the Muslims would be upset if a bunch of Jews went and replaced one of their favorite mosques with a Jewish temple, so that they could make sacrifices. And then they still need to get a consecrated priest, which is much harder to do if you can't find another consecrated priest to consecrate them, and don't remember who Aaron's sons are. So of course ultra-strict Jews aren't making sacrifices. If they were making imperfect sacrifices, they would not be ultra-strict (and would probably be heretics).
On the other hand, if this reactor works well it would be an even better rocket engine than a nuclear engine (at least once you get it into space). Hard to beat the exhaust velocity of fusion plasma.
Call me a luddite, but I still use the traditional method. I can't see why any self-respecting Christian would turn to this technology when the answer is right there in the Bible!
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[e] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”
The technology is currently being licensed by a company for eventual production.
Is it Tesla?
Of course not. When someone is bragging/hyping, when they miss an obvious opportunity it suggests said opportunity doesn't exist. It'll be some "who knows" company, not a famous one like Tesla.
It probably doesn't help that most programmers are male. And so when making a game (of their own initiative) would make a game that appeals to them. Of course this is changing now, but it is not surprise that it started skewed and it will be no surprise when it remains skewed for quite a while.
Can the sun realistically power data centers? Excepting for the regions which burn primordial elements - it's powering all data centers today.
There's no datacenters powered by fusion reactors. And the fission reactors split apart heavy elements, not primordial elements. Though I imagine there are plenty of datacenters in France, powered by long-gone supernovas rather than the Sun. Everything else is just indirectly solar-powered, like you said.
I can vouch for how exhausting it is to carry around a heavier tool.
Carrying around this huge penis can be exhausting.
I think you misunderstood. People were telling you that you are a big dick, not that you have a big dick. Same thing when they called you a massive tool. You'd probably have understood the metaphorical meanings if you weren't so dense.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
What, do you think that in case of a failure the captain nosedives the plane straight for the ground at Mach 3? No, they try to land as gently as possible. According to the allmighty google, 95.7% of people involved in an airplane crash survive (down to 76% for the more serious accidents).
because that alerts the spammer that they are detected and they need to change up their messsage/delivery
Except that is only true for private spam filters. In the case of public email accounts, the spammer can just sign up for the account and send himself test emails. Sure it takes a bit of extra work for them, but I think the big thing is that Gmail is missing out on the possibility of improving their email service by ensuring senders of the occasional spammy looking but important email, know it hasn't been delivered and can try alternate means of contacting you. I don't think it would significantly increase the amount of spam that gets through, but it would definitely lower the rate of false positives. After all, if you have to check your spam folder on occasion, what did you really gain by having one?
Confuse my email address for yours because your too fucking lazy to learn the difference....then enjoy the consequences.
If you did this to me, I would make a script to subscribe your email address to every mailing list ever. Not that I'm in the habit of putting other people's email address as my own, but if you aren't a decent person keep in mind that others can be mean SOBs as well.
I also occasionally receive someone else's mail, but it is mostly his friends who forget to put the extra number at the end (yay early adapter!).
Remember, this is slashdot, and he's technically correct. The withdrawal system works if you withdraw before any physical or emotional contact with a female.
Being in financial trouble will fail you for any security clearance. Not only does it show bad judgement, but it is a strong indication of susceptibility to bribes. While I'm sure you personally would not do that, how would they know?
My IQ is 54 points higher, net earnings 45% higher, Oh, and I am Young Earth Creationist.
Well, it may interest you to know that no scientist who pretends to believe creationism, actually believes it. If they did, you could tell because of the research they would do (which would then be published in a prestigious journal and convert almost all scientists to creationism). Here's some of the things they're not looking into:
Creationism (literal reading of Genesis) makes the following predictions:
Living things predicted to look like they were intelligently designed, and then cursed.
Population bottlenecks in all land animals 4000 years ago, down to population size 1 pair for all unclean land animals, and 7 for clean land animals. For humans, population bottleneck down to a population of 1 man and 4 women, one of whom did not pass on her mitochondria. (Genetically, Noah’s children count as the DNA from Noah and his wife, unless they were born of adultery)
Ancient oceans predicted to look like 2000 years of marine life, plus a year’s worth of catastrophic flood sediment, plus 4000 years more. Ancient land predicted to look like 2000 years of all modern land flora and fauna, covered with a year’s worth of catastrophic flood sediment and marine life, plus 4000 more years. Unknown effect on land plants and salt and freshwater aquatic organisms.
Predict large layer of sediments and fossils in an arrangement consistent with a single catastrophic flooding. In particular, fossils in this layer should consist of a mix of all modern species sorted by Flood. The clearest predictions could probably be concerning microscopic fossils, palynology, since they’re basically dust and should behave more predictably than complex organisms, and exist in large quantities.
All of these things would leave a mark detectable to this day, so how come they're too busy to study these things? The answer is, creationism is about giving people a reasonable sounding explanation. Meanwhile science is about making accurate and precise predictions about the real world.
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To be fair, they are pushing economics boundaries. Which are the only boundaries really holding us back from colonizing the system (and then galaxy).
Start.
This idea seems about as brilliant as treating ebola with the "kiss it to make it better" system. The problem: wealth inequality. The solution: tax consumption (which will affect the poor and middle class who spend more of their income on consumption). Meanwhile it will not affect the rich people's major form of income: investment.
Did they find any genes that help with initiative?
DEAR SIR OR MADAM:
I am an Ebola prince. I have a sum of FIVE BILLION YOUR CELLS (5,000,000.00 cells) in a bank account in Dallas, Texas. I need your help to repatriate it. If you could just lend me access to ONE CELL (1.00 cell) it would facilitate the transfer of control.
Better idea: don't mention you own patents in your job interview. Who wants to hire a patent troll? (I'm assuming this given how else would not using your "patent" affect your quality as an employee?)
I have heard a suggestion that they had some sort of poison that reacts differently when someone is anxious vs calm. Think of it like a polygraph test with potential physical consequences. It could well have had better than chance odds of affecting the guilty (anxious) more than the innocent (calm). And no doubt the priests could have helped with that, by telling them "don't worry, God knows" and all the ceremony. Of course, this is all speculation as no one knows exactly what the stuff was. And being "better than chance" isn't even saying much.
A self-respecting Christian would recognize that Christ fulfilled the Mosaic Law and it no longer applies to anyone.
Seriously, it's been 2 millennia now. Harp on something else for a while. Perhaps you won't seem so desperate.
Most Christians recognize that Christ fulfilled the part of the Mosaic Law that they don't like and it no longer applies to them. The parts they do like still apply to everyone.
Even ultra-strict Jews don't perform animal sacrifices or maintain the temple/tabernacle sanctuary or its implements anymore. Kinda makes you wonder why they bother with any of it, really. I guess "in for a penny, in for a pound" isn't really a Jewish thing (even if you swap out for shekels and talents).
Odds are, because the Muslims would be upset if a bunch of Jews went and replaced one of their favorite mosques with a Jewish temple, so that they could make sacrifices. And then they still need to get a consecrated priest, which is much harder to do if you can't find another consecrated priest to consecrate them, and don't remember who Aaron's sons are. So of course ultra-strict Jews aren't making sacrifices. If they were making imperfect sacrifices, they would not be ultra-strict (and would probably be heretics).
On the other hand, if this reactor works well it would be an even better rocket engine than a nuclear engine (at least once you get it into space). Hard to beat the exhaust velocity of fusion plasma.
Call me a luddite, but I still use the traditional method. I can't see why any self-respecting Christian would turn to this technology when the answer is right there in the Bible!
The Test for an Unfaithful Wife
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[e] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”
Numbers 5:11-31
Is it Tesla?
Of course not. When someone is bragging/hyping, when they miss an obvious opportunity it suggests said opportunity doesn't exist. It'll be some "who knows" company, not a famous one like Tesla.
It probably doesn't help that most programmers are male. And so when making a game (of their own initiative) would make a game that appeals to them. Of course this is changing now, but it is not surprise that it started skewed and it will be no surprise when it remains skewed for quite a while.
Can the sun realistically power data centers? Excepting for the regions which burn primordial elements - it's powering all data centers today.
There's no datacenters powered by fusion reactors. And the fission reactors split apart heavy elements, not primordial elements. Though I imagine there are plenty of datacenters in France, powered by long-gone supernovas rather than the Sun. Everything else is just indirectly solar-powered, like you said.
I can vouch for how exhausting it is to carry around a heavier tool.
Carrying around this huge penis can be exhausting.
I think you misunderstood. People were telling you that you are a big dick, not that you have a big dick. Same thing when they called you a massive tool. You'd probably have understood the metaphorical meanings if you weren't so dense.
I'll take my chances that even if I did brace for impact it wouldn't make a significant difference in my survival or chance of injury.
What, do you think that in case of a failure the captain nosedives the plane straight for the ground at Mach 3? No, they try to land as gently as possible. According to the allmighty google, 95.7% of people involved in an airplane crash survive (down to 76% for the more serious accidents).
I bet if one of these bite you, you'll end up with the fussy diet of a goat, and the brains of a spider.
Basically, indistinguishable from your average American.
The weak link in Tor security has always been its users.
because that alerts the spammer that they are detected and they need to change up their messsage/delivery
Except that is only true for private spam filters. In the case of public email accounts, the spammer can just sign up for the account and send himself test emails. Sure it takes a bit of extra work for them, but I think the big thing is that Gmail is missing out on the possibility of improving their email service by ensuring senders of the occasional spammy looking but important email, know it hasn't been delivered and can try alternate means of contacting you. I don't think it would significantly increase the amount of spam that gets through, but it would definitely lower the rate of false positives. After all, if you have to check your spam folder on occasion, what did you really gain by having one?
Confuse my email address for yours because your too fucking lazy to learn the difference....then enjoy the consequences.
If you did this to me, I would make a script to subscribe your email address to every mailing list ever. Not that I'm in the habit of putting other people's email address as my own, but if you aren't a decent person keep in mind that others can be mean SOBs as well.
I also occasionally receive someone else's mail, but it is mostly his friends who forget to put the extra number at the end (yay early adapter!).
...but I decided it was just a bunch of crap.
She was just dying to scratch that itch?
Remember, this is slashdot, and he's technically correct. The withdrawal system works if you withdraw before any physical or emotional contact with a female.
Being in financial trouble will fail you for any security clearance. Not only does it show bad judgement, but it is a strong indication of susceptibility to bribes. While I'm sure you personally would not do that, how would they know?
My IQ is 54 points higher, net earnings 45% higher, Oh, and I am Young Earth Creationist.
Well, it may interest you to know that no scientist who pretends to believe creationism, actually believes it. If they did, you could tell because of the research they would do (which would then be published in a prestigious journal and convert almost all scientists to creationism). Here's some of the things they're not looking into:
Creationism (literal reading of Genesis) makes the following predictions:
Living things predicted to look like they were intelligently designed, and then cursed.
Population bottlenecks in all land animals 4000 years ago, down to population size 1 pair for all unclean land animals, and 7 for clean land animals. For humans, population bottleneck down to a population of 1 man and 4 women, one of whom did not pass on her mitochondria. (Genetically, Noah’s children count as the DNA from Noah and his wife, unless they were born of adultery)
Ancient oceans predicted to look like 2000 years of marine life, plus a year’s worth of catastrophic flood sediment, plus 4000 years more. Ancient land predicted to look like 2000 years of all modern land flora and fauna, covered with a year’s worth of catastrophic flood sediment and marine life, plus 4000 more years. Unknown effect on land plants and salt and freshwater aquatic organisms.
Predict large layer of sediments and fossils in an arrangement consistent with a single catastrophic flooding. In particular, fossils in this layer should consist of a mix of all modern species sorted by Flood. The clearest predictions could probably be concerning microscopic fossils, palynology, since they’re basically dust and should behave more predictably than complex organisms, and exist in large quantities.
All of these things would leave a mark detectable to this day, so how come they're too busy to study these things? The answer is, creationism is about giving people a reasonable sounding explanation. Meanwhile science is about making accurate and precise predictions about the real world.
Says =/= Intended