...anyone can connect to a tracker, anyone can get the list of peers from the tracker... In your opinion, is there any greater "protection" from authorities if the tracker you're connecting to requires some kind of authentication based on membership at their website? Do such trackers really have a good way to keep out the bad guys?
Okay, I'm just trying to make a point here, of course. I'm not saying I entirely disagree with you, but we'll forever fight uphill battles if we hold too tightly to original Latin, and so forth.;)
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There is only a small few religions that take this stance And then you said:
"According to a 2007 Gallup poll, about 43% of Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." This is only slightly less than the 46% reported in a 2006 Gallup poll.[64] Only 14% believe that "human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process."
Now, to be fair, the first spoke of "religions". I think most people would define this as the set of beliefs intended to be propagated by an identifiable, organized religion. On the other hand, your quote asks what "Americans believe". If you took a poll asking all Roman Catholics whether they believed in evolution, what percentage would reply in the negative, despite officials at the vatican stating that evolution and creation were "perfectly compatible"?
Well, shouldn't most of the microorganisms be killed by the boil itself? Granted, the boil doesn't filter chemicals, but if you're simply trying to kill giardia, e. coli and cryptosporidium, you probably only need to bring the water to a boil and that's it.
http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-long-do-you-need-to-boil-water/
If you disagree, I would like to know more about which points the URL above got wrong -- I'm always open to learning.
Honest Bible scholars can tell you that, for example, the Gospels frequently describe the same events but with different dialogue and different people present. Take the story of Jesus' tomb after his crucifixion: Who went to his tomb? How many were present? What did they find? To whom did they reveal their discovery upon leaving the tomb? The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John frequently present different accounts of the same events.
For those who claim the Bible is a verbatim account of historical events, these things can present problems, certainly. Many Christian faiths (say, Lutheranism) do not read the Bible literally.
Even the Pope (hey, Catholics, are you listening?) has acknowledged that Creationism can coexist with evolution. Many Evangelicals, on the other hand, have decided that they are polar opposites.
Content aside, that's the funniest misheard/mistyped term I've seen in a while. It's not roarshark, it's Rorschach. I'm normally not a pedant on things like this, but had to correct this one.
[Parents] need to know and act like kids are the responsibility they really are
I completely agree. I think it's generally agreed upon that parents pass on their values to their children. Particularly if the parents value education, that's likely to rub off on the kids. My parents each had a year or two of post-secondary education at a technical college, but not any kind of degree to show for it. I got to go to college, get a Bachelor's degree. I had my difficulties along the way, but found the drive AND support to get it done.
Now my wife and I have two boys. The oldest is still a few months from his 2nd birthday, but he's building a good vocabulary. At his present rate, he'll have LONG mastered the alphabet, numbers and more before pre-school. I think about how I'd like to personally help him get a jump on mathematics and science -- subjects that were very difficult for me as a child. There are indeed parents who take an active role in parenting in the very manner you suggest, and for all the right reasons (not simply the arms race of "my kid is smarter than yours").
Just remember, the "56k" is a theoretical limit. In reality, you're bound to meet the demand 33.6k to 52k times over, and you should be thankful for anything approaching 50k. Back in my day, we had 14.4k and we LIKED it!
Married men across the world await to purchase your product, sir! My wife can make a 60-word phrase and turn it into a 500-word essay. And she wonders why I tune her out, waiting for the important bits!
I've been doing web programming for about 8 years -- and it gives me a certain perspective; it may be "easy" to learn HTML and JS, but it takes a LOT LONGER to do it well and deal with browser rendering inconsistencies, JS engine differences, and so on. I work with people who don't test in multiple browsers, don't use JS try/catch, put SCRIPT tags after the closing BODY tag, put INPUTs between a pair of TRs, and so on. Seriously, wtf!?
Fascinating... but what's the catch? TANSTAAFL. Sure, I can't hold them liable for lost/missing data, and their TOS says they could start charging a fee at any time (at which point they'd send users an email).
How does this business recoup their costs, and what is the ultimate "cost" to me? Again, TANSTAAFL.
If it's for real, I might start using this service today.
Reminds me of a car prank I heard from Car Talk on NPR. If you want to easily ruin someone's day, yet do no real harm, get a bag of sugar half-full, sprinkle some on the ground beside their car's gas tank, leave the bag sitting in plain view on the ground beside it. BUT -- don't put any sugar in the tank! That'd be property damage.
Instead, just let them worry about it, get it checked out at the local garage (paying for an inspection), all to find there's no damage whatsoever.:)
I've got to plug SpamGourmet.com. It's perfect for temporary throw-away addresses, like "slashdot.5.myalias@spamgourmet.com" which is my way of saying, "I've given my email address to a site called slashdot. They're only allowed to send mail to this address 5 times. After that, they bounce. The first five that make it through will be forwarded to an email address of my specification."
Of course there's the risk that a spammer would learn about spamgourmet and decide to exploit it by sending 115ASG123.20.myalias@spamgourmet.comm, but then they'd need to know my spamgourmet alias.
Okay, so it's not the paragon of truth that some of us wish it could be, but it seems that Wikipedia disagrees with you. Of course, the beauty of it is that if you've got facts to back up that the area is completely recovered and long-term affects are zero, do edit the page so we can all be more enlightened.
When you say "worth it", presumably you mean "worth the cost". What cost?
How about, not worth the measly drop by $0.50USD/barrel according to USDOE? As well as the impact on wildlife, but more on that in a moment.
When was your last vacation in ANWR? How about your friends? Their friends? Anyone you've heard about in the news vacationing there? Anyone planning to vacation there?
Ah, I see. Land has no intrinsic value unless it makes for a good holiday. Interesting argument.
ANWR is a wasteland. It's only fit for mosquitoes and reindeer and the reindeer aren't particularly bothered by oil drilling.
How about the impact on polar bears, arctic foxes and the millions of migratory birds that you didn't mention? The drilling pipelines plus the roads would weave a network across the area. The caribou calving grounds are there as well, as you mentioned. Consider not only the impact of drilling, but other unforseen consequences. *cough*VALDEZ*cough*
Quick, do the math. 7.7 billion divided by 20.7 million per day gives us... 371 days -- just over a year's worth. And it will take about 10 years for the drilling to come online.
Personally, I don't think it's worth it -- but I'm not an oil investor.;)
Phew. Hopefully that "ignore" action is based on consensus (multiple reports). Otherwise it could be easily abused, couldn't it? Imagine a scenario where two players meet: Player A decides he doesn't like Player B for whatever reason. Later, Player B sends Player A a "tell" (maybe annoying but not spammy), so Player A decides to smack him down with a spam report. Insta-boot!
Of course I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, never having played the game (*gasp* blasphemy?).
And just in case you were confused, the common usage of "Americans" refers to citizens of the United States of America, not the entire population of North and South America.
As much as I want to believe this to be true, I've been told that if you're in Central America or South America and say to a native (who speaks Spanish), "Soy americano", the reply might be, "Sí? Yo también!" Or at least said a Spanish teacher I had who was a native of Colombia.
I'd be pleased to hear if this was perhaps a bit of truth stretched thin.
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...anyone can connect to a tracker, anyone can get the list of peers from the tracker... In your opinion, is there any greater "protection" from authorities if the tracker you're connecting to requires some kind of authentication based on membership at their website? Do such trackers really have a good way to keep out the bad guys?For those who haven't seen the movie in a while... Dynamo ain't exactly sexy.
Which begs the question, why don't people use words and language the ways in which they were intended? I say we decimate the lot!
Okay, I'm just trying to make a point here, of course. I'm not saying I entirely disagree with you, but we'll forever fight uphill battles if we hold too tightly to original Latin, and so forth. ;)
Now, to be fair, the first spoke of "religions". I think most people would define this as the set of beliefs intended to be propagated by an identifiable, organized religion. On the other hand, your quote asks what "Americans believe". If you took a poll asking all Roman Catholics whether they believed in evolution, what percentage would reply in the negative, despite officials at the vatican stating that evolution and creation were "perfectly compatible"?
Are you willing to bank on the fact that their registration form or URL will never change?
Well, shouldn't most of the microorganisms be killed by the boil itself? Granted, the boil doesn't filter chemicals, but if you're simply trying to kill giardia, e. coli and cryptosporidium, you probably only need to bring the water to a boil and that's it.
http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-long-do-you-need-to-boil-water/
If you disagree, I would like to know more about which points the URL above got wrong -- I'm always open to learning.
Honest Bible scholars can tell you that, for example, the Gospels frequently describe the same events but with different dialogue and different people present. Take the story of Jesus' tomb after his crucifixion: Who went to his tomb? How many were present? What did they find? To whom did they reveal their discovery upon leaving the tomb? The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John frequently present different accounts of the same events.
For those who claim the Bible is a verbatim account of historical events, these things can present problems, certainly. Many Christian faiths (say, Lutheranism) do not read the Bible literally.
Even the Pope (hey, Catholics, are you listening?) has acknowledged that Creationism can coexist with evolution. Many Evangelicals, on the other hand, have decided that they are polar opposites.
Content aside, that's the funniest misheard/mistyped term I've seen in a while. It's not roarshark, it's Rorschach . I'm normally not a pedant on things like this, but had to correct this one.
Indeed. As a former band member, our drummer used to say, "You know, you can only 'Come Around' so many times..."
I completely agree. I think it's generally agreed upon that parents pass on their values to their children. Particularly if the parents value education, that's likely to rub off on the kids. My parents each had a year or two of post-secondary education at a technical college, but not any kind of degree to show for it. I got to go to college, get a Bachelor's degree. I had my difficulties along the way, but found the drive AND support to get it done.
Now my wife and I have two boys. The oldest is still a few months from his 2nd birthday, but he's building a good vocabulary. At his present rate, he'll have LONG mastered the alphabet, numbers and more before pre-school. I think about how I'd like to personally help him get a jump on mathematics and science -- subjects that were very difficult for me as a child. There are indeed parents who take an active role in parenting in the very manner you suggest, and for all the right reasons (not simply the arms race of "my kid is smarter than yours").
Just remember, the "56k" is a theoretical limit. In reality, you're bound to meet the demand 33.6k to 52k times over, and you should be thankful for anything approaching 50k. Back in my day, we had 14.4k and we LIKED it!
Married men across the world await to purchase your product, sir! My wife can make a 60-word phrase and turn it into a 500-word essay. And she wonders why I tune her out, waiting for the important bits!
Certain scientific speculation may have its merits, but I could do without this kind!
You must be a very special kind of geek (or I'm particularly dull-witted), because I don't get the reference.
I've been doing web programming for about 8 years -- and it gives me a certain perspective; it may be "easy" to learn HTML and JS, but it takes a LOT LONGER to do it well and deal with browser rendering inconsistencies, JS engine differences, and so on. I work with people who don't test in multiple browsers, don't use JS try/catch, put SCRIPT tags after the closing BODY tag, put INPUTs between a pair of TRs, and so on. Seriously, wtf!?
/rant off
Fascinating... but what's the catch? TANSTAAFL. Sure, I can't hold them liable for lost/missing data, and their TOS says they could start charging a fee at any time (at which point they'd send users an email).
How does this business recoup their costs, and what is the ultimate "cost" to me? Again, TANSTAAFL.
If it's for real, I might start using this service today.
If the NSA wasn't doing illegal warrantless searches...
Hey. If you're not hiding anything, you've nothing to fear. Why do you hate America so much?
[tongue firmly in cheek]
[clinton-esque]: I did not have political relations with that country!
... scurries to hide his cigar ...
Reminds me of a car prank I heard from Car Talk on NPR. If you want to easily ruin someone's day, yet do no real harm, get a bag of sugar half-full, sprinkle some on the ground beside their car's gas tank, leave the bag sitting in plain view on the ground beside it. BUT -- don't put any sugar in the tank! That'd be property damage.
:)
Instead, just let them worry about it, get it checked out at the local garage (paying for an inspection), all to find there's no damage whatsoever.
I've got to plug SpamGourmet.com. It's perfect for temporary throw-away addresses, like "slashdot.5.myalias@spamgourmet.com" which is my way of saying, "I've given my email address to a site called slashdot. They're only allowed to send mail to this address 5 times. After that, they bounce. The first five that make it through will be forwarded to an email address of my specification."
Of course there's the risk that a spammer would learn about spamgourmet and decide to exploit it by sending 115ASG123.20.myalias@spamgourmet.comm, but then they'd need to know my spamgourmet alias.
http://www.spamgourmet.com/.
Okay, so it's not the paragon of truth that some of us wish it could be, but it seems that Wikipedia disagrees with you. Of course, the beauty of it is that if you've got facts to back up that the area is completely recovered and long-term affects are zero, do edit the page so we can all be more enlightened.
When you say "worth it", presumably you mean "worth the cost". What cost?
How about, not worth the measly drop by $0.50USD/barrel according to USDOE? As well as the impact on wildlife, but more on that in a moment.
When was your last vacation in ANWR? How about your friends? Their friends? Anyone you've heard about in the news vacationing there? Anyone planning to vacation there?
Ah, I see. Land has no intrinsic value unless it makes for a good holiday. Interesting argument.
ANWR is a wasteland. It's only fit for mosquitoes and reindeer and the reindeer aren't particularly bothered by oil drilling.
How about the impact on polar bears, arctic foxes and the millions of migratory birds that you didn't mention? The drilling pipelines plus the roads would weave a network across the area. The caribou calving grounds are there as well, as you mentioned. Consider not only the impact of drilling, but other unforseen consequences. *cough*VALDEZ*cough*
According to the CIA World Factbook of 2007, the US is currently consuming 20.7 million barrels of oil per day. Let's suppose that "the amount of technically recoverable oil in the ANWR 1002 area 'is estimated to be between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels ... with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels.'"
Quick, do the math. 7.7 billion divided by 20.7 million per day gives us ... 371 days -- just over a year's worth. And it will take about 10 years for the drilling to come online.
Personally, I don't think it's worth it -- but I'm not an oil investor. ;)
Phew. Hopefully that "ignore" action is based on consensus (multiple reports). Otherwise it could be easily abused, couldn't it? Imagine a scenario where two players meet: Player A decides he doesn't like Player B for whatever reason. Later, Player B sends Player A a "tell" (maybe annoying but not spammy), so Player A decides to smack him down with a spam report. Insta-boot!
Of course I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, never having played the game (*gasp* blasphemy?).
And just in case you were confused, the common usage of "Americans" refers to citizens of the United States of America, not the entire population of North and South America.
As much as I want to believe this to be true, I've been told that if you're in Central America or South America and say to a native (who speaks Spanish), "Soy americano", the reply might be, "Sí? Yo también!" Or at least said a Spanish teacher I had who was a native of Colombia.
I'd be pleased to hear if this was perhaps a bit of truth stretched thin.