In reality, she wrote up our divorce agreement, and, if anything, I took advantage of her by accepting it. It's a prime example of how scrupulous she is! (In both senses of the word, no less.)
I can remember thinking of that experience, while reasonably enjoyable and positive, as not seeming to deserve anything like the degree of hype that most people associate with the act. Most of the people I've known seem to regard sex as being the pinnacle of human experience, and that is an attitude which I find deeply sad.
In an important, Darwinian sense sex is the pinnacle of human existence. And normal human beings are evolved to appreciate that experience. Did you care for the person you slept with? Did you abandon yourself to the experience? Are you sure you were doing it right?!
A life spent obsessing about sex is certainly wasted. But isn't it equally wasteful to reject a normal, natural, deeply pleasurable part of life?
Some of us honestly view reproduction as being the domain of animals.
News flash, dude. You're an animal. We're all animals. I am profoundly grateful for my ability to reason, but that doesn't change the fact that I am a man of flesh and blood.
this means that those of us who have that attitude are also able to persue [sic] the expansion and enhancement of our minds
You seem completely convinced of this obviously false dichotomy. Where on Earth did you get the notion that love-making is anti-intellectual?
And what will exist of that mind when you are gone? The only ways to pass any of that on are education and procreation. If you are truly the grand intellectual you seem to believe yourself to be, stop being selfish and pass your wonderful genes on!
Thanks for the back, but you really should resist the urge to feed the trolls. I imagine that this AC knows perfectly well that what he's saying doesn't make sense. For example, Etoile is based on GNUstep, not NeXTStep, which he must know, since he reads some history.
Once again, the "editors" have failed us. The linked news item doesn't mention Mac anywhere. Neither does the project "about" page. And the screenshots don't look particularly like a Mac. (The title bar icons are on the opposite side from MacOS!)
So, the submitter is out of phase with our collective reality, and the "editor" went ahead and posted it to the front page:(
It would be trivial to have forum users post their comments with some simplified markup, (like: [b]wow![/b]) and then convert that to something that works with your site's stylesheet on the server side. You gain multiple advantages, and the entire freaking WWW doesn't have to be stuck in the '90s.
Also, every line of my personal website (including the PHP and multiple style sheets) was written in GNU nano and debugged with Firefox and the W3C XHTML and CSS validators. Frontpage was not required!
The 600k figure is pretty wacko. It's some twenty times greater than even most politicized figures. It's (supposed to be) a statistical projection based on a rather dubious survey.
But, again, even if we assume it's true, it still leaves Stalin "in the lead" by millions.
Yes, but B and D are both major systems of government. (Though socialism is really in tension with capitalism, not democracy . ..) Since B and D are so directly comparable it is reasonable to assume that the original poster intended to compare A and C.
It isn't as if B was democracy and D was the rules at my apartment's swimming pool.
Get a sense of proportion! If we add all of the highest estimates, and then assume they're all gross under-estimates we still can't hang 1,000,000 deaths on Bush. (Please note that I'm not saying that his policies are swell, just establishing an order of magnitude.) The most conservative estimates put Stalin's body count at 3,000,000, and it is almost certainly greater than 10,000,000. This number ignores WWII related deaths!
Bush's policies are indefensible. Every human life is precious. But for the love of all that is good, have a sense of proportion! Comparing Bush to Stalin is simply frivolous.
I do software QA for a living, and I assure you that having a baseline to target helps developers do good work. Would you suggest they assume some users can only display 40 columns? Or 4?
There is surely benefit in making software adaptable, but you must always make some assumptions.
Finally, where in the Constitution does it say that Congress can not pass laws that are not already in the Constitution?
That isn't quite what I asserted. But I mentioned the 10th amendment. I'll quote it, since you seem to be unfamiliar:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.
Which words are giving you trouble?
If you really believe your argument, you must support the abolition of EVERY government program that is not specifically spelled out in the Constitution.
You're very close. We have enumerated powers. You seem to have conflated the ideas of "power", "law", and "program". The government can form a program by passing a law, given that they have the power to do so. Clearly, a program needn't be enumerated if the power to create it is granted Congress.
For example, the Constitution gives the Union government the power to conduct a census every ten years. Congress has passed a whole slew of laws that bring the census program into being. No problem.
I asked if anyone could point out where the Congress gets the power to pass the Real ID act. As you have seen above, the Bill of Rights (which is part and parcel to the Constitution) sets up the ground rules. Congress, as the law making body of the Union government, can pass any law that pleases them, provided that the Constitution explicitly grants them the authority to do so (and their constituents will stand for it). If not, the power is reserved to the States or the People. If it is reserved to the States, Congress can't very well do it.
If that is truly the case, I would have guessed that you would have started with something other than nationalized ID's. Aren't there much bigger fish to fry, like... I don't know... The Air Force?
Are you saying that I should have hijacked this thread to grouse about spending on planes? Or are you presuming to set my priorities? Or do you think this is the first time I thought about this stuff?
If I apply the same logic to you, you must think that my post was the biggest problem in the world. Amazing.
Here's a reason. Can you point out where the Union government gets the authority to do such a thing? Okay, now can you do it without a tortured and grossly overly general interpretation of the interstate commerce clause? Have you read the 10th amendment?
What is the benefit of defining a new arbitrary limit? Assuming 80 columns is still useful. Do you think you can supplant 80 column? Or do you want to add another arbitrary limit, so that people can pick and choose?
Since 80 column is still immensely useful, why don't we stick with that where we can? For most other applications you can work in GUI land with dynamic wrapping and lovely variable-pitch fonts.
There is a relationship between how many characters you put on a line and how far apart the lines have to be to be readable. You might find that it is harder to improve on this venerable standard than you imagine.
Took seven hours for my phone to go from "slide for emergency" to actually being able to do anything. I'm still not getting incoming calls forty-odd hours later.
Also, reports that Edge is slow appear to be exaggerated. In reality it is worthless.
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Cute.
In reality, she wrote up our divorce agreement, and, if anything, I took advantage of her by accepting it. It's a prime example of how scrupulous she is! (In both senses of the word, no less.)
-Peter
My ex-wife is a lawyer. She's definitely scrupulous. She isn't any of those other things, though.
And she isn't very successful as a lawyer, due to her scruples.
-Peter
Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
(I had to make an exception to the rule in my sig for that one!)
-Peter
In an important, Darwinian sense sex is the pinnacle of human existence. And normal human beings are evolved to appreciate that experience. Did you care for the person you slept with? Did you abandon yourself to the experience? Are you sure you were doing it right?!
A life spent obsessing about sex is certainly wasted. But isn't it equally wasteful to reject a normal, natural, deeply pleasurable part of life?
News flash, dude. You're an animal. We're all animals. I am profoundly grateful for my ability to reason, but that doesn't change the fact that I am a man of flesh and blood.
You seem completely convinced of this obviously false dichotomy. Where on Earth did you get the notion that love-making is anti-intellectual?
And what will exist of that mind when you are gone? The only ways to pass any of that on are education and procreation. If you are truly the grand intellectual you seem to believe yourself to be, stop being selfish and pass your wonderful genes on!
-Peter
Sure. That makes sense. A typical PC takes up about twice as much square footage as my apartment.
-Peter
Unless your data center is full of doctors, you should really use an AED.
-Peter
Thanks for the back, but you really should resist the urge to feed the trolls. I imagine that this AC knows perfectly well that what he's saying doesn't make sense. For example, Etoile is based on GNUstep, not NeXTStep, which he must know, since he reads some history.
-Peter
Once again, the "editors" have failed us. The linked news item doesn't mention Mac anywhere. Neither does the project "about" page. And the screenshots don't look particularly like a Mac. (The title bar icons are on the opposite side from MacOS!)
:(
So, the submitter is out of phase with our collective reality, and the "editor" went ahead and posted it to the front page
-Peter
What a limited point of view. See "man system", for example.
-Peter
Seems like it ought to, but that clearly isn't the case.
-Peter
Half of the buttons on the iPhone are . . . volume buttons.
-Peter
I think it's adorable that you think those are two different things.
-Peter
It would be trivial to have forum users post their comments with some simplified markup, (like: [b]wow![/b]) and then convert that to something that works with your site's stylesheet on the server side. You gain multiple advantages, and the entire freaking WWW doesn't have to be stuck in the '90s.
Also, every line of my personal website (including the PHP and multiple style sheets) was written in GNU nano and debugged with Firefox and the W3C XHTML and CSS validators. Frontpage was not required!
-Peter
Afghanistan is an order of magnitude less bloody.
The 600k figure is pretty wacko. It's some twenty times greater than even most politicized figures. It's (supposed to be) a statistical projection based on a rather dubious survey.
But, again, even if we assume it's true, it still leaves Stalin "in the lead" by millions.
-Peter
Yes, but B and D are both major systems of government. (Though socialism is really in tension with capitalism, not democracy . . .) Since B and D are so directly comparable it is reasonable to assume that the original poster intended to compare A and C.
It isn't as if B was democracy and D was the rules at my apartment's swimming pool.
-Peter
Get a sense of proportion! If we add all of the highest estimates, and then assume they're all gross under-estimates we still can't hang 1,000,000 deaths on Bush. (Please note that I'm not saying that his policies are swell, just establishing an order of magnitude.) The most conservative estimates put Stalin's body count at 3,000,000, and it is almost certainly greater than 10,000,000. This number ignores WWII related deaths!
Bush's policies are indefensible. Every human life is precious. But for the love of all that is good, have a sense of proportion! Comparing Bush to Stalin is simply frivolous.
-Peter
They can pry my Fender P/J out of one cold, dead hand, and my Dan Wesson .44 out of the other!
-Peter
Statutory licensing only applies to recordings. Has nothing to do with performances.
Also, the amount is per recording and dependent on the length of the recording. Profits don't enter the equation.
-Peter
How so?
I do software QA for a living, and I assure you that having a baseline to target helps developers do good work. Would you suggest they assume some users can only display 40 columns? Or 4?
There is surely benefit in making software adaptable, but you must always make some assumptions.
-Peter
That isn't quite what I asserted. But I mentioned the 10th amendment. I'll quote it, since you seem to be unfamiliar:
Which words are giving you trouble?
You're very close. We have enumerated powers. You seem to have conflated the ideas of "power", "law", and "program". The government can form a program by passing a law, given that they have the power to do so. Clearly, a program needn't be enumerated if the power to create it is granted Congress.
For example, the Constitution gives the Union government the power to conduct a census every ten years. Congress has passed a whole slew of laws that bring the census program into being. No problem.
I asked if anyone could point out where the Congress gets the power to pass the Real ID act. As you have seen above, the Bill of Rights (which is part and parcel to the Constitution) sets up the ground rules. Congress, as the law making body of the Union government, can pass any law that pleases them, provided that the Constitution explicitly grants them the authority to do so (and their constituents will stand for it). If not, the power is reserved to the States or the People. If it is reserved to the States, Congress can't very well do it.
Are you saying that I should have hijacked this thread to grouse about spending on planes? Or are you presuming to set my priorities? Or do you think this is the first time I thought about this stuff?
If I apply the same logic to you, you must think that my post was the biggest problem in the world. Amazing.
-Peter
Here's a reason. Can you point out where the Union government gets the authority to do such a thing? Okay, now can you do it without a tortured and grossly overly general interpretation of the interstate commerce clause? Have you read the 10th amendment?
-Peter
Allow me to rephrase: I'm the guy telling you that operating under the assumption that your users have an 80 column display is still very useful.
-Peter
What is the benefit of defining a new arbitrary limit? Assuming 80 columns is still useful. Do you think you can supplant 80 column? Or do you want to add another arbitrary limit, so that people can pick and choose?
Since 80 column is still immensely useful, why don't we stick with that where we can? For most other applications you can work in GUI land with dynamic wrapping and lovely variable-pitch fonts.
There is a relationship between how many characters you put on a line and how far apart the lines have to be to be readable. You might find that it is harder to improve on this venerable standard than you imagine.
-Peter
Took seven hours for my phone to go from "slide for emergency" to actually being able to do anything. I'm still not getting incoming calls forty-odd hours later.
Also, reports that Edge is slow appear to be exaggerated. In reality it is worthless.
The thing is awesome on Wi-Fi, though.
-Peter
Any feature can be abused. Should we have pulled the plug on humanity the first time an H. sapiens clubbed another H. sapiens instead of game?
-Peter