I don't know about the poster your responding to, but in general you pegged me. I believe the quote he was using was directly from Jefferson who said "The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.". One compremise will always lead to another the history of social security is proof of that. A volintary system with a dedicated untouchable account has turned into a mandatory tax which instead of saving overages to support future underruns we in our mighty wisdom transfer to the general fund and so we can support other important projects like bridges in alaska. Drivers licence are another fine example which we are watching turn into a government ID card before our vary eyes(papers, let me see your papers please). And as for medical licensing if I want to let the vodoo doctor down the street poke me with dead chickens instead of letting a harvard graduate give me a heart stent what buisness is it of yours. If the government did not license doctors there would be a private certification to indicate the validity of thier training.
The interesting thing is that there shall be no "LAW" made respecting an establishment of religion and no "LAW" made prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This has been twisted to mean that religious men and women in government can somehow not express their beliefs or base their decisions on them. This is in and of itself a support of secular humanism over "Religions" and violates the very meaning of the first amendment. A situation is created where a belief in a religion is regarded as somehow a bases to exclude practitioners (see current supreme court nominations) and victimizes those who dare to follow their religious beliefs. In the end the GP was wrong but that's because the 1st was not created to keep religions out of congress but to keep congress out of religion. We are in the end after all a democracy, if the majority of Americans believe that murder is wrong and we vote in such a way to support that belief it does not matter if it is based on religious views. Now from a personal standpoint, I am a small government kinda guy. I think the government should only make laws in so far as my actions affect the rights of others. If you want to smoke pot in your basement, have 10 wives, or watch playboy till 3 in the morning I don't think that's the governments business, or mine. I think the problem I have is when the government fells it necessary to specifically allow actions. I think all things should be legal unless specifically disallowed by law. For instance it is just as wrong for the government to force acceptance of "gay marriage" as it is for the government to force censorship of television programming. When they do this it forces people who are morally opposed to the action in question to vote against it or show acceptance of it. This is a difficult position for most religious people, who in the end don't want responsibility for what others do but when forced to decide must follow their conscience. That's one reason that this FCC measure is a good one. It allows me to decide what I pay for(by payment I am showing an acceptance of what I am paying for) and allows you to decide what you are paying for. If I don't want USA, MTV, SOAP, or any other channel on which I don't like the content I can choose to not support those channels. This alleviates the need for a moral judgment by the government and allows those with strong convictions to still enjoy the television medium.
I always thought of comments as pseudo code. In addition to the usual suspects (loops, etc...) I comment all variable declarations. I also place a comment on any overly complicated or uncommon code I use. I care for several large programs written around 1999 in C, C++, VB, Perl, FPL, and a little Assembler. None of the original staff are still here and I have been bitten more than once by odd techniques they used that leave me scratching my head and grabbing my books.
What software are you using for audio processing, A few months ago I bought a PowerMac and went completly digital in my recording. I'm always looking for new toys^H^H^ols to play with.
Every where I go I am inindated with ad's. I turn on the cable TV which I pay $50 a month for and get ad's, I drive down the road which I pay tax's for and get ad's, I use the internet and get ad's, I forget to run adaware and I get ad's, I pick up a magazine that I pay for and get ad's, I go to the theater pay $8 to watch a movie and set through a half hour of ad's for the mall before they even get to the half hour of previews. Oh, yea lets not forget about DVD's I pay $20 to "BUY" a dvd and get ad's(yea previews whatever) before the movie. Please just shoot me know before I am forced to view an ad before I take a crap or go to sleep or breath.
Actually, I don't have a problem with the theory of evolution. I believe that in the relatively near past life was created at a beginning state. Life has evolved since and is still evolving today, or perhaps it is better to say life is adapting. I see evolution as a tool with which God gave life the ability to survive and adapt. I do how ever have obvious problems with abiogenesis. I do not find it necessary that life started either as it is now or as bits of RNA in a pool of primordial ooze, to believe that evolution is happening around us. This neither negates or proves biblical creation. The idea of abiogenesis is the portion of the argument where I am afraid "evolutionist" will lose me. Next, the biblical story of Adam involves a God who breaths life into his creation and therefore life is not created from nothing but from the very breath of God (Genesis 2:7) life begat life. Third there are those who would say geology and astronomy tell a much different story, one of a young earth which has experienced a world wide flood. This is where the axiom with which one looks upon the evidence comes into play, that is the point I was making. Also, I realize that Geology, Astronomy, and Evolutionary Theory are independent of one another. However, in order to believe that life was created by chance and that random evolution has brought us this far you must have an earth of an extremely old age (I guess not in the scheme of things if you fall in to this category however). And for those who say where did God come from, I find this a pointless argument. God exist in a realm unmeasurable by us, or at-least our current level of understanding and technology.
All the supposed "proofs" I've read for God (including St. Thomas Aquinas) are based on some assumption that I simply don't agree with. A logical conclusion, no matter how valid, is only as good as the assumptions and axioms it is based on.
I agree 100% it's just like that other crackpot theory that starts with the axiom that life on earth began with abiogenesis and that the universe has existed, well for however long they need to fit the current theory.
We had a snow storm this week and the cable(I have cable boradband) was out for 3 day's. I don't know if I could have survived much longer with out my internet. I wasn't realy woried though until the convulsions started.
I have one of these mythical devices. I load the camera with a plastic strip covered in light sensitive silver impregnated gelatin emulshin. I then wind a small lever on the side of the camera which stores mechanical energy to be used later to release a small slide in front of the "Film" I described earlier. This "Film" is exposed momentarily to light from the scene and later developed to expose the recored scene. This entire operation requires no power storage device and can be operated with the push of a button.
While I realize this device cannot turn a person into a robot, I wonder if it could be used to completly paralyze prisoners during transportation, or implanted so that they could be paralyzed durring a riot. I am assuming if you give a constant signle a person would adapt rather quickly(I have not RTFA) so you may need to alter the signle(from left to right or something).
I can't agree more. I like to call this the Great American Insurance Sudo Lottery. I think we as a country have created this since of entitlement amongst ourselves and now people think that they are entitled to everything they want without working for it. This is one of my biggest gripes with most of the social programs enacted in the "New Deal".
This is not and LCD despite the articles persistence that it is. An LCD uses an array of semi liquid crystals that are in the shape of a coil. When voltage is applied they uncoil allowing an image to be displayed. This uses Positively and Negatively charged pigment chips, which are attracted or repelled to create an image. As far as I can tell this has nothing to to with liquid crystals of any type.
Why do we have to think TV, I would love to have "WallPaper" that can change color or images daily to mach my mood swings. Just think of the aplications(pron think pron) that one could use wall sized monitors for. Perhaps you could even use this to give your walls a transparent effect so that images from outside your room/house are displayed in real time on the wall, and if your realy perverted I guess you could put images from inside on the outside of your house. And lets go even more crazy. If these can be transparent(I don't think they can but hey, you never know) the could be used for HUD displays, Window Tint, Clothing:D, etc...
I agree and there is yet another POV on price points. I pay $50 a month for cable + boradband and $12 a month for Tivo. I believe my cable was acutaly $39 before broadband but its all a package now so who knows how to break it down. I watch 5 shows a week that I would want to buy if I got rid of my cable, Stargate SGI, Atlantis, Batlestar Galactica, CSI, and Lost. If I pay $2 a per episode and thier are 4 episodes a month I am paying $40 a month for crapy quality downloadable shows and I don't have the added bonus of NGC, FoodTV, and the Local news when I am realy board. So for me theer are zero advantages to the iTunes modle. About the only savings would be that I could cancel my Tivo account. So in total I would pay $29 for my broadband as standalone and I would spend $40 a month on iTunes. I belive that puts me at $70 a month or $8 in the hole.
I guess you don't follow industry trends, I will explain. When your traditional modle is thretened and you must either adapt or die you sue your customers and force congress to pass arcain laws that require people to give you money for outdated services they don't want. I hope this has been helpfull
I had the same though,
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Hey, youz know this can be a dangerous Neighborhood. I think ita probaly be in your best intrest to pay me not to, er I mean pay me to protect youz, yea thats it to protect youz from all the uh bad peoples that live round here.
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I don't know about the poster your responding to, but in general you pegged me. I believe the quote he was using was directly from Jefferson who said "The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.". One compremise will always lead to another the history of social security is proof of that. A volintary system with a dedicated untouchable account has turned into a mandatory tax which instead of saving overages to support future underruns we in our mighty wisdom transfer to the general fund and so we can support other important projects like bridges in alaska. Drivers licence are another fine example which we are watching turn into a government ID card before our vary eyes(papers, let me see your papers please). And as for medical licensing if I want to let the vodoo doctor down the street poke me with dead chickens instead of letting a harvard graduate give me a heart stent what buisness is it of yours. If the government did not license doctors there would be a private certification to indicate the validity of thier training.
The interesting thing is that there shall be no "LAW" made respecting an establishment of religion and no "LAW" made prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This has been twisted to mean that religious men and women in government can somehow not express their beliefs or base their decisions on them. This is in and of itself a support of secular humanism over "Religions" and violates the very meaning of the first amendment. A situation is created where a belief in a religion is regarded as somehow a bases to exclude practitioners (see current supreme court nominations) and victimizes those who dare to follow their religious beliefs. In the end the GP was wrong but that's because the 1st was not created to keep religions out of congress but to keep congress out of religion. We are in the end after all a democracy, if the majority of Americans believe that murder is wrong and we vote in such a way to support that belief it does not matter if it is based on religious views. Now from a personal standpoint, I am a small government kinda guy. I think the government should only make laws in so far as my actions affect the rights of others. If you want to smoke pot in your basement, have 10 wives, or watch playboy till 3 in the morning I don't think that's the governments business, or mine. I think the problem I have is when the government fells it necessary to specifically allow actions. I think all things should be legal unless specifically disallowed by law. For instance it is just as wrong for the government to force acceptance of "gay marriage" as it is for the government to force censorship of television programming. When they do this it forces people who are morally opposed to the action in question to vote against it or show acceptance of it. This is a difficult position for most religious people, who in the end don't want responsibility for what others do but when forced to decide must follow their conscience. That's one reason that this FCC measure is a good one. It allows me to decide what I pay for(by payment I am showing an acceptance of what I am paying for) and allows you to decide what you are paying for. If I don't want USA, MTV, SOAP, or any other channel on which I don't like the content I can choose to not support those channels. This alleviates the need for a moral judgment by the government and allows those with strong convictions to still enjoy the television medium.
I always thought of comments as pseudo code. In addition to the usual suspects (loops, etc...) I comment all variable declarations. I also place a comment on any overly complicated or uncommon code I use. I care for several large programs written around 1999 in C, C++, VB, Perl, FPL, and a little Assembler. None of the original staff are still here and I have been bitten more than once by odd techniques they used that leave me scratching my head and grabbing my books.
What software are you using for audio processing, A few months ago I bought a PowerMac and went completly digital in my recording. I'm always looking for new toys^H^H^ols to play with.
I was going to make a comment about 6.24 a kwh times 3 computers but I did the math and came up with something like $4 a month so nevermind.
I believe this was answered in 2003 by David Kay http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/200 3/david_kay_10022003.html
Every where I go I am inindated with ad's. I turn on the cable TV which I pay $50 a month for and get ad's, I drive down the road which I pay tax's for and get ad's, I use the internet and get ad's, I forget to run adaware and I get ad's, I pick up a magazine that I pay for and get ad's, I go to the theater pay $8 to watch a movie and set through a half hour of ad's for the mall before they even get to the half hour of previews. Oh, yea lets not forget about DVD's I pay $20 to "BUY" a dvd and get ad's(yea previews whatever) before the movie. Please just shoot me know before I am forced to view an ad before I take a crap or go to sleep or breath.
Actually, I don't have a problem with the theory of evolution. I believe that in the relatively near past life was created at a beginning state. Life has evolved since and is still evolving today, or perhaps it is better to say life is adapting. I see evolution as a tool with which God gave life the ability to survive and adapt. I do how ever have obvious problems with abiogenesis. I do not find it necessary that life started either as it is now or as bits of RNA in a pool of primordial ooze, to believe that evolution is happening around us. This neither negates or proves biblical creation. The idea of abiogenesis is the portion of the argument where I am afraid "evolutionist" will lose me. Next, the biblical story of Adam involves a God who breaths life into his creation and therefore life is not created from nothing but from the very breath of God (Genesis 2:7) life begat life. Third there are those who would say geology and astronomy tell a much different story, one of a young earth which has experienced a world wide flood. This is where the axiom with which one looks upon the evidence comes into play, that is the point I was making. Also, I realize that Geology, Astronomy, and Evolutionary Theory are independent of one another. However, in order to believe that life was created by chance and that random evolution has brought us this far you must have an earth of an extremely old age (I guess not in the scheme of things if you fall in to this category however). And for those who say where did God come from, I find this a pointless argument. God exist in a realm unmeasurable by us, or at-least our current level of understanding and technology.
All the supposed "proofs" I've read for God (including St. Thomas Aquinas) are based on some assumption that I simply don't agree with. A logical conclusion, no matter how valid, is only as good as the assumptions and axioms it is based on.
I agree 100% it's just like that other crackpot theory that starts with the axiom that life on earth began with abiogenesis and that the universe has existed, well for however long they need to fit the current theory.
I though you where dead.
We had a snow storm this week and the cable(I have cable boradband) was out for 3 day's. I don't know if I could have survived much longer with out my internet. I wasn't realy woried though until the convulsions started.
I have one of these mythical devices. I load the camera with a plastic strip covered in light sensitive silver impregnated gelatin emulshin. I then wind a small lever on the side of the camera which stores mechanical energy to be used later to release a small slide in front of the "Film" I described earlier. This "Film" is exposed momentarily to light from the scene and later developed to expose the recored scene. This entire operation requires no power storage device and can be operated with the push of a button.
While I realize this device cannot turn a person into a robot, I wonder if it could be used to completly paralyze prisoners during transportation, or implanted so that they could be paralyzed durring a riot. I am assuming if you give a constant signle a person would adapt rather quickly(I have not RTFA) so you may need to alter the signle(from left to right or something).
I can't agree more. I like to call this the Great American Insurance Sudo Lottery. I think we as a country have created this since of entitlement amongst ourselves and now people think that they are entitled to everything they want without working for it. This is one of my biggest gripes with most of the social programs enacted in the "New Deal".
Your right, if I understand corectly they can use the same TFT matrix to drive this as LCD's currently use.
Dinar, Drachma, Franc, Mark, Euro, Pound, or the Almighty Dollar. There is seven good reasons to tax e-mail.
This is not and LCD despite the articles persistence that it is. An LCD uses an array of semi liquid crystals that are in the shape of a coil. When voltage is applied they uncoil allowing an image to be displayed. This uses Positively and Negatively charged pigment chips, which are attracted or repelled to create an image. As far as I can tell this has nothing to to with liquid crystals of any type.
Flash is bad, is worse.
Why would you want to, I assumed getting POP UPS was the point of the magazine. Maybee you just read it for the articles though.
Why do we have to think TV, I would love to have "WallPaper" that can change color or images daily to mach my mood swings. Just think of the aplications(pron think pron) that one could use wall sized monitors for. Perhaps you could even use this to give your walls a transparent effect so that images from outside your room/house are displayed in real time on the wall, and if your realy perverted I guess you could put images from inside on the outside of your house. And lets go even more crazy. If these can be transparent(I don't think they can but hey, you never know) the could be used for HUD displays, Window Tint, Clothing :D, etc ...
I agree and there is yet another POV on price points. I pay $50 a month for cable + boradband and $12 a month for Tivo. I believe my cable was acutaly $39 before broadband but its all a package now so who knows how to break it down. I watch 5 shows a week that I would want to buy if I got rid of my cable, Stargate SGI, Atlantis, Batlestar Galactica, CSI, and Lost. If I pay $2 a per episode and thier are 4 episodes a month I am paying $40 a month for crapy quality downloadable shows and I don't have the added bonus of NGC, FoodTV, and the Local news when I am realy board. So for me theer are zero advantages to the iTunes modle. About the only savings would be that I could cancel my Tivo account. So in total I would pay $29 for my broadband as standalone and I would spend $40 a month on iTunes. I belive that puts me at $70 a month or $8 in the hole.
I guess you don't follow industry trends, I will explain. When your traditional modle is thretened and you must either adapt or die you sue your customers and force congress to pass arcain laws that require people to give you money for outdated services they don't want. I hope this has been helpfull
I had the same though, Dear lUser, Your keyfob has incured a temporal shift and our system must be adjusted to compensate. Please use the following link to fix the problem. You will enter your username, secId, and PIN. You should wait for a new number to apear on your keyfob so that the adjustment is as accurate as possible. Have a nice day.
Hey, youz know this can be a dangerous Neighborhood. I think ita probaly be in your best intrest to pay me not to, er I mean pay me to protect youz, yea thats it to protect youz from all the uh bad peoples that live round here.
I don't know about metal but there are a couple punk versions.