"Oddly enough, many so-called Christians support the death penalty, but not abortion. Why?"
There are plenty of people with inconsistent or seemingly inconsistent views. Why are so many people, atheist and religious alike, against reproductive cloning but for therapeutic cloning?
An answer, of course, is ignorance. But is it the answer? This is the problem that you are faced with. It is not enough to simply observe that a group of people have a seemingly contradictory view. It's contradictory to you but can you imagine a moral framework under which it would not be a contradiction?
It is easy to cherry pick facts to support your conclusions. We all do it. You did it your very post. Just a small fact, concerning the moral equivalence of one religion you don't like, and an other religion you don't have contact with. That is the fact of celebrations in the streets. Muslims did it after 9/11. Name one abortion bombing or gay murder that was followed by Christians rioting in the streets in support of bombings and murders.
The comment was silly. If you aren't talking about extensions of spacetime, then you aren't talking about physical dimensions; you aren't talking about physics. For a dating website, you could have all of those dimensions be colors or answers to meaningless questions, or whatever, and they can still be useful, but you're really just using the word "dimensions" as a substitute for "variables."
A simple test as to whether you're talking about physical dimensions or not: whether you calculate the inner product.
You probably believe you have an open mind. Or at least that others are more close minded than you, but you have absolutely zero compassion and reveal yourself through the vitriol in your comment.
There is a vast difference between the two things you have mentioned, even assuming the abortion clinics in question are not unoccupied at the time of their destruction.
Would you kill someone who was about to murder a homosexual to prevent that murder? What if there were several homosexuals about to be murdered?
People who bomb abortion clinics do so to prevent what they believe is murder. It is certainly a desperate act of limited results, and you equate the bombing with murdering gays because you do not believe that a fetus is human enough that its destruction is murder.
That is your belief, but you should consider that there are others who believe that they are human. What would you do if you believed that hundreds of thousands of murders were occurring every year?
Perhaps we should consider why people have felt no recourse but to commit such a violent and desperate act. Even so, you will find many Christians who will condemn both of the acts you have described and zero crowds cheering in the streets over the deaths.
I also use dimmable CFL. Took me a while to find one that actually dimmed significantly*, but it's really nice to be able to adjust the level just like a regular bulb.
But whereas a standard dimmer will damage a CFL, it can only improve the working lifetime of an incandescent bulb. At a cost of brightness and efficiency.
*I have what I suspect is the same problem with audio equipment, especially computer audio equipment. For some reason, the producers like to put linear adjustment on outputs which we sense logarithmically. So the digital control on my speakers is barely noticeable over three quarters of its range and more than a few lamp manufacturers seem to think that 100%-50% of intensity is a useful range.
Except he's not doing that any more. He's just posting the article, like any other submitter. The fact that you *can* visit his blog isn't relevant, since you are no longer *forced* to go through his blog to get to the article.
The time for forgiveness is now. Do you really want to be the kind of person that holds a grudge across generations? I mean, I guess you could star in your very own Shakespearian tragedy, but those all seem to end with fake-poisoning followed by being stabbed, or stabbing followed by real-poisoning.
If Microsoft themselves switched entirely to open source, and turned over their patents and copyrights to the FSF, you'd probably still rail against them and boycott them because they used to be so aggressively proprietary. Which, ironically, is one reason they won't ever do that: Because of that attitude, there's only unlimited downside potential and zero upside potential at all.
He stopped doing the thing-that-we-hate. And the articles he points out are still interesting enough to get through the firehose gauntlet. So stop complaining about things he used to do. If you have a current grievance, let it be known.
How hard? More like, impossible. You wouldn't send plaintext to the shell account and have them encrypt it. You'd store the ciphertext on the shell's servers and decrypt it on your home computer when you needed the information.
But if you're engaged in illegal activity, how much documentation are you really going to require, anyway...
"Well, we wouldn't have caught the bank robbers, except that they were also meticulous accountants, carefully recording every step in their complicated laundering scheme."
Stop putting CFLs in your bathroom. They might have "lifetime hours" printed on the packaging to be able to compare them to incandescent, but the mechanism for failure is quite different.
The incandescent will fail after roughly the specified number hours no matter how you use it*. The fluorescent will fail after a number of starts equivalent to moderate usage over that specified number of hours. If you conserve starts, they should last for far longer than the indicated time. If you flip them on&off a lot, they should fail much sooner.
*except if you use a dimmer. The useful lifetime depends on the temperature of the filament, which is also what determines the brightness.
There are like 60 million Britons, 300 million Americans, 30 million Canadians, 20 million Australians, and those aren't even all of the countries that speak primarily English. So where does this 309 million figure come from?
Hydrogen is quite a bit trickier to store than liquid fuels. You need either a pressure vessel, cryogenic storage, or a gigantic gas bag. All of which have their issues, and that's before considering diffusion (H2 is really, really small and will diffuse through just about anything given enough time) and its related problem, hydrogen embrittlement.
It is not at all unintuitive to believe that the cars of the future will be powered by liquid hydrocarbons, with only the source of those hydrocarbons in question.
But does the 4G of unused stuff even need to be loaded in the first place? From what I've gathered, A lot of the stuff that goes into swap is present almost verbatim in the original files on the disk. I really question the wisdom of dumping an entire seldom-used daemon into a swapfile when those the vast majority of those bits are already present on the disk. I mean, does it really matter whether you load a file from a disk or a page from a disk?
The problem is conceptual, and practical: Application programmers have been able to offload quite a bit of memory management to the OS to handle in a "dumb" but fairly reliable way. In the age of cheap, long-lasting magnetic disk, this makes a certain amount of sense. But if every write is counted, it makes sense to be a little more careful about when you really need to put there.
Why even have swap files? Shouldn't caching decisions be done a bit more intelligently at the application level? I have 10 times more RAM in my current PC than all of the memory (including the HDD) on my first PC. At some point, can't we drop swap?
Causing enough economic trouble to force a nation of a billion people to seriously consider going to war if you're not extradited is likely to stamp your Chinese Organ Donor card pretty quickly. Even if the US doesn't have any treaties specifically stating cooperation on counterfeiting, and has in general a policy of forbidding extradition to China.
I'm sure those whose labor you require during your retirement will be grateful there aren't more people to spread the burden around. And hey, if your money becomes worth less because there aren't enough people chasing after it, you can just tax the remaining people to provide your benefits. I mean, they should be more compassionate, right?
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But... MATLAB is a FORTRAN wrapper.
I prefer inertial dampers. They're just as functional, but more than 20% faster.
They want to be pharmaceutical manufacturers?
"Oddly enough, many so-called Christians support the death penalty, but not abortion. Why?"
There are plenty of people with inconsistent or seemingly inconsistent views. Why are so many people, atheist and religious alike, against reproductive cloning but for therapeutic cloning?
An answer, of course, is ignorance. But is it the answer? This is the problem that you are faced with. It is not enough to simply observe that a group of people have a seemingly contradictory view. It's contradictory to you but can you imagine a moral framework under which it would not be a contradiction?
It is easy to cherry pick facts to support your conclusions. We all do it. You did it your very post. Just a small fact, concerning the moral equivalence of one religion you don't like, and an other religion you don't have contact with. That is the fact of celebrations in the streets. Muslims did it after 9/11. Name one abortion bombing or gay murder that was followed by Christians rioting in the streets in support of bombings and murders.
The comment was silly. If you aren't talking about extensions of spacetime, then you aren't talking about physical dimensions; you aren't talking about physics. For a dating website, you could have all of those dimensions be colors or answers to meaningless questions, or whatever, and they can still be useful, but you're really just using the word "dimensions" as a substitute for "variables."
A simple test as to whether you're talking about physical dimensions or not: whether you calculate the inner product.
What is the dot product of "red" with "fuzzy"?
You probably believe you have an open mind. Or at least that others are more close minded than you, but you have absolutely zero compassion and reveal yourself through the vitriol in your comment.
There is a vast difference between the two things you have mentioned, even assuming the abortion clinics in question are not unoccupied at the time of their destruction.
Would you kill someone who was about to murder a homosexual to prevent that murder? What if there were several homosexuals about to be murdered?
People who bomb abortion clinics do so to prevent what they believe is murder. It is certainly a desperate act of limited results, and you equate the bombing with murdering gays because you do not believe that a fetus is human enough that its destruction is murder.
That is your belief, but you should consider that there are others who believe that they are human. What would you do if you believed that hundreds of thousands of murders were occurring every year?
Perhaps we should consider why people have felt no recourse but to commit such a violent and desperate act. Even so, you will find many Christians who will condemn both of the acts you have described and zero crowds cheering in the streets over the deaths.
I also use dimmable CFL. Took me a while to find one that actually dimmed significantly*, but it's really nice to be able to adjust the level just like a regular bulb.
But whereas a standard dimmer will damage a CFL, it can only improve the working lifetime of an incandescent bulb. At a cost of brightness and efficiency.
*I have what I suspect is the same problem with audio equipment, especially computer audio equipment. For some reason, the producers like to put linear adjustment on outputs which we sense logarithmically. So the digital control on my speakers is barely noticeable over three quarters of its range and more than a few lamp manufacturers seem to think that 100%-50% of intensity is a useful range.
Except he's not doing that any more. He's just posting the article, like any other submitter. The fact that you *can* visit his blog isn't relevant, since you are no longer *forced* to go through his blog to get to the article.
The time for forgiveness is now. Do you really want to be the kind of person that holds a grudge across generations? I mean, I guess you could star in your very own Shakespearian tragedy, but those all seem to end with fake-poisoning followed by being stabbed, or stabbing followed by real-poisoning.
If Microsoft themselves switched entirely to open source, and turned over their patents and copyrights to the FSF, you'd probably still rail against them and boycott them because they used to be so aggressively proprietary. Which, ironically, is one reason they won't ever do that: Because of that attitude, there's only unlimited downside potential and zero upside potential at all.
He stopped doing the thing-that-we-hate. And the articles he points out are still interesting enough to get through the firehose gauntlet. So stop complaining about things he used to do. If you have a current grievance, let it be known.
No, Wii is the singular form. I'm not sure what the plural is, but Wiis sounds pretty silly. Maybe Wiii?
How hard? More like, impossible. You wouldn't send plaintext to the shell account and have them encrypt it. You'd store the ciphertext on the shell's servers and decrypt it on your home computer when you needed the information.
But if you're engaged in illegal activity, how much documentation are you really going to require, anyway...
"Well, we wouldn't have caught the bank robbers, except that they were also meticulous accountants, carefully recording every step in their complicated laundering scheme."
Stop putting CFLs in your bathroom. They might have "lifetime hours" printed on the packaging to be able to compare them to incandescent, but the mechanism for failure is quite different.
The incandescent will fail after roughly the specified number hours no matter how you use it*. The fluorescent will fail after a number of starts equivalent to moderate usage over that specified number of hours. If you conserve starts, they should last for far longer than the indicated time. If you flip them on&off a lot, they should fail much sooner.
*except if you use a dimmer. The useful lifetime depends on the temperature of the filament, which is also what determines the brightness.
Except waitresses make less than waiters on average even in the same restaurant.
It does, though. If you return free software, you get your money back. Exactly the same as if you return a physical device.
Indeed. But when have they ever been different?
There are like 60 million Britons, 300 million Americans, 30 million Canadians, 20 million Australians, and those aren't even all of the countries that speak primarily English. So where does this 309 million figure come from?
I think you may have conflated diode detectors with photomultiplier tubes.
Why do they call them "License Plates" when they contain only the car's registration number and confer no actual privileges?
That depends on whether you use Greek or Latin prefixes. Penta- is Greek, as is Hexa- but Duo is Latin, as is Sexa-
So it looks like they're already mingling.
Hydrogen is quite a bit trickier to store than liquid fuels. You need either a pressure vessel, cryogenic storage, or a gigantic gas bag. All of which have their issues, and that's before considering diffusion (H2 is really, really small and will diffuse through just about anything given enough time) and its related problem, hydrogen embrittlement.
It is not at all unintuitive to believe that the cars of the future will be powered by liquid hydrocarbons, with only the source of those hydrocarbons in question.
It's not only common, it's the law of the land. At least in the US, you have the right to confront your accuser. (6th amendment).
But does the 4G of unused stuff even need to be loaded in the first place? From what I've gathered, A lot of the stuff that goes into swap is present almost verbatim in the original files on the disk. I really question the wisdom of dumping an entire seldom-used daemon into a swapfile when those the vast majority of those bits are already present on the disk. I mean, does it really matter whether you load a file from a disk or a page from a disk?
The problem is conceptual, and practical: Application programmers have been able to offload quite a bit of memory management to the OS to handle in a "dumb" but fairly reliable way. In the age of cheap, long-lasting magnetic disk, this makes a certain amount of sense. But if every write is counted, it makes sense to be a little more careful about when you really need to put there.
Which brings to mind an interesting point..
Why even have swap files? Shouldn't caching decisions be done a bit more intelligently at the application level? I have 10 times more RAM in my current PC than all of the memory (including the HDD) on my first PC. At some point, can't we drop swap?
One word: Extradition.
Causing enough economic trouble to force a nation of a billion people to seriously consider going to war if you're not extradited is likely to stamp your Chinese Organ Donor card pretty quickly. Even if the US doesn't have any treaties specifically stating cooperation on counterfeiting, and has in general a policy of forbidding extradition to China.
You just don't know how to ask the right question.
I'm sure those whose labor you require during your retirement will be grateful there aren't more people to spread the burden around. And hey, if your money becomes worth less because there aren't enough people chasing after it, you can just tax the remaining people to provide your benefits. I mean, they should be more compassionate, right?