" Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. "
I think you meant to say Catholicism.
I am a christian but not a catholic.
in a related note, I also never killed anyone in the middle ages, maybe we should just consider the acts of violence rather than the justifications of those who commit the acts, as the justifications are rather moot.
I would care less about why someone is killed my family than the actual act, and if i took revenge on that act it would have less to do with my hatred of their reasoning and more about the act they committed against me.
"An airliner in the pattern is doing well over 100 MPH just to stay in the air. They are way too busy checking lists, communicating with ATC and flying the plane to spot some 48" Quadcopter off their wingtip"
I'm pretty sure not only do they have multiple pilots in the cockpit (isn't minimum two for commercial flight?) but i'm very sure they aren't "checking lists" when they are 700 ft off the ground on approach.
When all you have in front of you is less and less sky and more and more earth coming towards you fast, you tend to notice small things in the path of your plane (be it wires, blinking lights, or birds of the same size), especially since birds cause crashes all the time.
take off the hat "once" in a while. (although that's how they "get ya")
"By pushing against them. Pushing against a wire usually won't break it. The wire will move a half an inch one way or the other, and then the root goes right past it."
"So it's because wires are tougher, and nothing to do with nutrients at all?"
No by the opposite, because cables resist less and are able to be moved easily, they are better than walls that don't tend to move one inch one way or another very well.
"Every accident which has been my fault has happened while I was stone sober"
"Every? Implying a lot? I think you need to recuse yourself as an expert on driving in this thread."
they're called accidents not mentadoos.
I'd rather be in a car with someone who has been in multiple accidents than someone who has been in none, there is a level of expertise there in one and not the other in dealing with situations where accidents arise and how to deal with them when they do...
he's talking about the r and d that goes into proving people are intoxicated with cannibas.. if you can't keep up with the conversation best not to try to contribute.
"ctually that could be a sci-fi plot, you've "trapped" the AI in traditional software preventing it from doing anything unwanted and the AI tries to subvert it, like trying to escape from a prison."
That's the sci-fi plot of every AI movie. Trapping the AI and it breaking free. Congrats
the first one doesn't even go into marijuana use, it alludes to a "commonly know fact" but gives no reaseach findings for this and then delves into how the brain functions.
The second one describes correlation between use/age and brain matter but as we all know, correlation DOES NOT MEAN CAUSATION:
"Decrease in hippocampal volume in regular cannabis smokers has been correlated with lifetime consumption (Ashtari et al, 2011; Yücel et al, 2008) and psychotic symptoms (Yücel et al, 2008). In Cousijn et al (2012), volume reduction in the amygdala and the hippocampus does not differ significantly between regular cannabis users and controls but still correlates with the amount of cannabis used and the severity of cannabis dependence, respectively."
the third one is is about adolescence use and how it can impair brain development, which is pretty much true for anything given (like alcohol) or not given (proper nutrition) to a developing brain.
So i guess not smoking makes you stupid too, at least that's the correlation i find when reading your post and using your standard for judging the same.
" It also lowers reflex response time, and it makes you apathetic." Not getting enough sleep does the same thing, have you ever stayed up late? because staying up late is STUPID.
see i can make egregious arguments without any rationality too.. fun right?
The key variable in this is the age of onset for marijuana use and the brain's development, Meier said. Study subjects who didn't take up pot until they were adults with fully-formed brains did not show similar mental declines. Before age 18, however, the brain is still being organized and remodeled to become more efficient, she said, and may be more vulnerable to damage from drugs."
so STFU, no one is talking about legalizing pot for minors, you don't want to smoke pot FINE, fuck off and let everyone else run their own lives.
The best fairness concept i have ever seen involves two people trying to split one thing evenly, the way it works is one person does the splitting and the other gets to make the first choice of which half they want. this article reminds me of this concept.
they got all of the infrastructure FOR FREE ALREADY by federal subsidies when they first started offering data/internet access.
then they used that infrastructure to make billions over the last 15 years.. now they don't want to upgrade the last mile, and the only real reason is to keep artifically low connection rates.
TFB. nationalize our data highways. they can go take a flying F the same way they have treated their "customers" for years.
"You say that, for every "sucker" who pays $60, there are "100s willing to pay a sensible price." Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies on its first day, in the US and UK, at $60/copy. You really believe that, at $10, it would have sold 650 million copies? That's more than the combined population of those two countries put together."
how about 10? if they sold them for 10 dollars, it would be the same as selling to the 60$ buyers at 100$ and it would only need 65 million from those two countries...
i'd pretty sure most middle income families can afford a relatively small number of 60$ games, but could buy 12 10$ games quite easily, so that 65mill customer # doesn't seem to hard to reach, does it.. but then games would have to be made from quality to compete, so...
"This leaves me the reality of No coverage in about a year, or quitting work and selling the house to get on Obama Care."
if you got downsized you can reapply for obamacare, my household making under 70k/yr got us 100% covered (read: no copays) in california.
so i'm not sure what you're talking about... i have a coworker who was also wrong about obamacare, he didnt even apply because he listened to all of this right wing talk show crap, turns out he could have had full coverage too but now has to wait because he told them he didnt want it. Poor guy has an austistic kid too and could really use some financial help. oh well. fuck obamacare amirite?
"Using that experiment purely as an analogy, these researchers have found a way to observe the particles that form the interference patterns so that each can be studied individually."
what happens after being studied individually..can they still be collapsed into each of the various states?
Well, I'm hardly a physicist, but it reads like they cut Schrodinger's box in half, pulled a dead kitty out of one and a live kitty out of the other. Is this incorrect?
"The same company that made thalidomide also made penicillin. "
You mean produced, sold and profited from penicillin?
they didn't discover or figure out how to mass produce penicillin mind you, just knew it would be profitable to do so and thus did so to turn a profit.
what's your point exactly?
on to "Also, I had wrongly thought your "killed more people" actually related to *food related* products. It doesn't, so it's even more tangential to the discussion of GMOs."
if a company produces a product that knowingly kills people because it is profitable, then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to develop food products or run healthcare. so no not very tangential and more the fucking point.
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" Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. "
I think you meant to say Catholicism.
I am a christian but not a catholic.
in a related note, I also never killed anyone in the middle ages, maybe we should just consider the acts of violence rather than the justifications of those who commit the acts, as the justifications are rather moot.
I would care less about why someone is killed my family than the actual act, and if i took revenge on that act it would have less to do with my hatred of their reasoning and more about the act they committed against me.
"Apart from the fact that WTC1 and 2 were both designed to withstand the impact of an aircraft (albeit one not laden with fuel)? "
How would you fly a plane into a building unladen with fuel?
"An airliner in the pattern is doing well over 100 MPH just to stay in the air. They are way too busy checking lists, communicating with ATC and flying the plane to spot some 48" Quadcopter off their wingtip"
I'm pretty sure not only do they have multiple pilots in the cockpit (isn't minimum two for commercial flight?) but i'm very sure they aren't "checking lists" when they are 700 ft off the ground on approach.
When all you have in front of you is less and less sky and more and more earth coming towards you fast, you tend to notice small things in the path of your plane (be it wires, blinking lights, or birds of the same size), especially since birds cause crashes all the time.
take off the hat "once" in a while. (although that's how they "get ya")
haha funny. i wonder how many people understand your joke.
"By pushing against them. Pushing against a wire usually won't break it. The wire will move a half an inch one way or the other, and then the root goes right past it."
"So it's because wires are tougher, and nothing to do with nutrients at all?"
No by the opposite, because cables resist less and are able to be moved easily, they are better than walls that don't tend to move one inch one way or another very well.
"Every accident which has been my fault has happened while I was stone sober"
"Every? Implying a lot? I think you need to recuse yourself as an expert on driving in this thread."
they're called accidents not mentadoos.
I'd rather be in a car with someone who has been in multiple accidents than someone who has been in none, there is a level of expertise there in one and not the other in dealing with situations where accidents arise and how to deal with them when they do...
FTFA
Abbott told police he was changing lanes in his 1967 Mustang about 10:10 p.m., when he lost control of the car and it went onto the sidewalk"
OMG POT CAUSED IT WTF
he's talking about the r and d that goes into proving people are intoxicated with cannibas.. if you can't keep up with the conversation best not to try to contribute.
""Give up all your hobbies" "
means i want to spend more time with you because i miss the courting we used to do and all the attention you gave me.
""get some new hobbies, you need to get out of the house more""
means she has accepted that the courting is over, she has accepted her new life and now needs "me time".
although one could ponder what that me time could entail.
"You should be on WiFi when at home"
unfortunately when usig the wifi on my S3 the battery drains in 4 hours so i have to keep it plugged in, kind of like a land line =|
"ctually that could be a sci-fi plot, you've "trapped" the AI in traditional software preventing it from doing anything unwanted and the AI tries to subvert it, like trying to escape from a prison."
That's the sci-fi plot of every AI movie. Trapping the AI and it breaking free. Congrats
the first one doesn't even go into marijuana use, it alludes to a "commonly know fact" but gives no reaseach findings for this and then delves into how the brain functions.
The second one describes correlation between use/age and brain matter but as we all know, correlation DOES NOT MEAN CAUSATION:
"Decrease in hippocampal volume in regular cannabis smokers has been correlated with lifetime consumption (Ashtari et al, 2011; Yücel et al, 2008) and psychotic symptoms (Yücel et al, 2008). In Cousijn et al (2012), volume reduction in the amygdala and the hippocampus does not differ significantly between regular cannabis users and controls but still correlates with the amount of cannabis used and the severity of cannabis dependence, respectively."
the third one is is about adolescence use and how it can impair brain development, which is pretty much true for anything given (like alcohol) or not given (proper nutrition) to a developing brain.
So i guess not smoking makes you stupid too, at least that's the correlation i find when reading your post and using your standard for judging the same.
" It also lowers reflex response time, and it makes you apathetic."
Not getting enough sleep does the same thing, have you ever stayed up late? because staying up late is STUPID.
see i can make egregious arguments without any rationality too.. fun right?
"Every one of them had the option of walking away."
like every one of the Jews had the option of not getting on the trains.
Life, so full of options.
"Maybe you meant to say, "I wish things that I personally don't have a problem with would be decriminalized.""
No he meant what he wrote and we all understand him, you are just an overeager hall monitor who wants to nanny state the rest of us.
The key variable in this is the age of onset for marijuana use and the brain's development, Meier said. Study subjects who didn't take up pot until they were adults with fully-formed brains did not show similar mental declines. Before age 18, however, the brain is still being organized and remodeled to become more efficient, she said, and may be more vulnerable to damage from drugs."
so STFU, no one is talking about legalizing pot for minors, you don't want to smoke pot FINE, fuck off and let everyone else run their own lives.
thanks.
and in rush to post my brilliant info i faled to notice the 50 other people who know this already.. yay!
it should ALWAYS be that the person sitting is in charge of making sure it is down.
Men sit down to poop, i don't hear them ever argue about who left the seat up, they just check before sitting.
common sense?
The best fairness concept i have ever seen involves two people trying to split one thing evenly, the way it works is one person does the splitting and the other gets to make the first choice of which half they want. this article reminds me of this concept.
they got all of the infrastructure FOR FREE ALREADY by federal subsidies when they first started offering data/internet access.
then they used that infrastructure to make billions over the last 15 years.. now they don't want to upgrade the last mile, and the only real reason is to keep artifically low connection rates.
TFB. nationalize our data highways. they can go take a flying F the same way they have treated their "customers" for years.
"You say that, for every "sucker" who pays $60, there are "100s willing to pay a sensible price." Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies on its first day, in the US and UK, at $60/copy. You really believe that, at $10, it would have sold 650 million copies? That's more than the combined population of those two countries put together."
how about 10? if they sold them for 10 dollars, it would be the same as selling to the 60$ buyers at 100$ and it would only need 65 million from those two countries...
i'd pretty sure most middle income families can afford a relatively small number of 60$ games, but could buy 12 10$ games quite easily, so that 65mill customer # doesn't seem to hard to reach, does it.. but then games would have to be made from quality to compete, so...
so you're an over-reactionary dick with issues of self entitlement. got it.
"This leaves me the reality of No coverage in about a year, or quitting work and selling the house to get on Obama Care."
if you got downsized you can reapply for obamacare, my household making under 70k/yr got us 100% covered (read: no copays) in california.
so i'm not sure what you're talking about... i have a coworker who was also wrong about obamacare, he didnt even apply because he listened to all of this right wing talk show crap, turns out he could have had full coverage too but now has to wait because he told them he didnt want it. Poor guy has an austistic kid too and could really use some financial help. oh well. fuck obamacare amirite?
"Using that experiment purely as an analogy, these researchers have found a way to observe the particles that form the interference patterns so that each can be studied individually."
what happens after being studied individually..can they still be collapsed into each of the various states?
Well, I'm hardly a physicist, but it reads like they cut Schrodinger's box in half, pulled a dead kitty out of one and a live kitty out of the other. Is this incorrect?
almost...
"Ever seen the movie Cube? Like that."
But less than Cube 2: Hypercube
"The same company that made thalidomide also made penicillin. "
You mean produced, sold and profited from penicillin?
they didn't discover or figure out how to mass produce penicillin mind you, just knew it would be profitable to do so and thus did so to turn a profit.
what's your point exactly?
on to
"Also, I had wrongly thought your "killed more people" actually related to *food related* products. It doesn't, so it's even more tangential to the discussion of GMOs."
if a company produces a product that knowingly kills people because it is profitable, then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to develop food products or run healthcare. so no not very tangential and more the fucking point.