The Bible is a work of fiction. Seriously. Most of the stories are variations of stories that appeared in many ancient civilizations. Some undoubtedly had a historical component, but really, it has no more validity as a historical reference than the Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia.
How anyone can delude themselves into believing that it represents some literal truth is astounding. The power of brainwashing children is truly awesome.
Yeah, whenever one of them wakes me up I have to remind myself how loud my car stereo was when I was 18. It makes me cringe and want to mail out apology letters to people in my hometown:/
Canada would (our CO2 growth is actually faster than the US), and we did sign it. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like our politicians have any intention of coming up with a way to actually implement it.
Stealing money from your neighbours to enrich bureaucrats and pass what's left to whoever comprises the cause of the month has not proven to be particularly effective, nor is it "charity". Charity is voluntarily giving your own time or resources to those in need. If you can persuade others to do so as well, more power to you.
The commandment reads "thou shalt not steal". Not, "thou shalt not steal, but if you get politicians and bureacrats to do it for you, well that's OK". Note - I am not religious, but it's not a bad rule to live by.
Instead of saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX and, by the way, M$FT Blows" they would be saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX but here's how it could be made better"
They did say that, Microsoft just ignored them. For months. That's why the IETF didn't endorse SenderID.
Of the large ISP's, AOL has done probably the best job of solving their outbound spam problem. Compared to sewers like MCI, SBC or Savvis, they look and act like utter angels.
LoL $800 a year. We also pay over 60% of our provincial taxes (all, including revenue and sales taxes), and something like 30% or more of federal taxes to pay for health care. Considering that the total tax load for anyone making over $40K or so a year is well over 50%, that basically means we're paying a shitload for health care every year.
The $800 a year is what they charge to keep us registered for provincial health care, basically as a way of keeping track of who lives where. It does not pay for delivery of the services.
No kidding. Here in Canada they're talking 3-4 month waiting lists for cancer surgery. I mean WTF? If I have cancer, I want it cut out out of me yesterday. It's not like waiting improves your chances of survival.
Laser eye surgery is not covered by the Canadian government. If it was, it couldn't be performed by private companies, and you'd have to wait in line for 6 months like you do for anything serious here.
Ah, but it's trivial to do all that in your application code. Never mind if multiple applications need to access the data, or if programmers don't necessarily like thinking about RI all the time./sarcasm off
Well, the real problem is that the US wasn't supposed to have a standing military. It was the Civil War that resulted in the federal government arming itself, and the pork and power that allowed has created a self-perpetuating need for it ever since.
Of course, the Bill of Rights was not intended to be an exhaustive list of rights. Several of the founders argued strongly against including the Bill of Rights at all, as they expected misinformed judges to look at it as such, rather than seeing the Constitution as an exhaustive list of government powers, with all other rights devolved to the people, as intended.
That can be explained by looking at our ludicrous tax rates. Anyone making over $50K whose job allows flexibility of locale should definitely not choose to stay in Canada.
The US government has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians throughout the Moslem world over the last 15 years, and yet their publicists seem to manage to spin that positively, at least internally.
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I hate to break it to you, but there's a lot less than 117 years of oil left.
The Bible is a work of fiction. Seriously. Most of the stories are variations of stories that appeared in many ancient civilizations. Some undoubtedly had a historical component, but really, it has no more validity as a historical reference than the Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia.
How anyone can delude themselves into believing that it represents some literal truth is astounding. The power of brainwashing children is truly awesome.
What do you consider to be "serious"? Liposuction? Facelifts? Bigger tits? Brain replacement?
Try cancer or bypass surgery.
'portage' is only really an advantage over Red Hat. Other distros have ways to get packages via something like emerge, like apt-get. Even BSD.
Uh, so does RedHat. Try yum someday.
Yeah, whenever one of them wakes me up I have to remind myself how loud my car stereo was when I was 18. It makes me cringe and want to mail out apology letters to people in my hometown :/
Canada would (our CO2 growth is actually faster than the US), and we did sign it. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like our politicians have any intention of coming up with a way to actually implement it.
Stealing money from your neighbours to enrich bureaucrats and pass what's left to whoever comprises the cause of the month has not proven to be particularly effective, nor is it "charity". Charity is voluntarily giving your own time or resources to those in need. If you can persuade others to do so as well, more power to you.
The commandment reads "thou shalt not steal". Not, "thou shalt not steal, but if you get politicians and bureacrats to do it for you, well that's OK". Note - I am not religious, but it's not a bad rule to live by.
Instead of saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX and, by the way, M$FT Blows" they would be saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX but here's how it could be made better"
They did say that, Microsoft just ignored them. For months. That's why the IETF didn't endorse SenderID.
Their current license prohibits redistribution of any source code implementing SenderID, regardless of license. BSD vs. GPL this is not.
Of the large ISP's, AOL has done probably the best job of solving their outbound spam problem. Compared to sewers like MCI, SBC or Savvis, they look and act like utter angels.
Google for Moon and He3 sometime, and you might find that the two policies are more related than you might think.
Yep, when your heating oil bill gets to be larger than your mortgage, nuclear power will start looking really good.
Well, it does seem hypocritical to lock up millions of people for doing exactly the same thing you used to do.
We have a funny way of looking at things in Canada. If you can legally steal the money from someone else to pay for something, it makes it "free".
LoL $800 a year. We also pay over 60% of our provincial taxes (all, including revenue and sales taxes), and something like 30% or more of federal taxes to pay for health care. Considering that the total tax load for anyone making over $40K or so a year is well over 50%, that basically means we're paying a shitload for health care every year.
The $800 a year is what they charge to keep us registered for provincial health care, basically as a way of keeping track of who lives where. It does not pay for delivery of the services.
No kidding. Here in Canada they're talking 3-4 month waiting lists for cancer surgery. I mean WTF? If I have cancer, I want it cut out out of me yesterday. It's not like waiting improves your chances of survival.
Laser eye surgery is not covered by the Canadian government. If it was, it couldn't be performed by private companies, and you'd have to wait in line for 6 months like you do for anything serious here.
Trust me, you don't want public health care.
Ah, but it's trivial to do all that in your application code. Never mind if multiple applications need to access the data, or if programmers don't necessarily like thinking about RI all the time. /sarcasm off
PostgreSQL has real transactions and multi-version concurrency :)
Well, the real problem is that the US wasn't supposed to have a standing military. It was the Civil War that resulted in the federal government arming itself, and the pork and power that allowed has created a self-perpetuating need for it ever since.
Of course, the Bill of Rights was not intended to be an exhaustive list of rights. Several of the founders argued strongly against including the Bill of Rights at all, as they expected misinformed judges to look at it as such, rather than seeing the Constitution as an exhaustive list of government powers, with all other rights devolved to the people, as intended.
That can be explained by looking at our ludicrous tax rates. Anyone making over $50K whose job allows flexibility of locale should definitely not choose to stay in Canada.
The US government has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians throughout the Moslem world over the last 15 years, and yet their publicists seem to manage to spin that positively, at least internally.
That had better not be a Monsanto apple.
Antarctica wasn't always located over the south pole.
But yeah, even just a few million years ago the Earth was much warmer than it is now.