Kinda of a stupid thought, but I'll through it out there.
What if we have a nationwide vote every year to decide what catagory gets funding for science?
x% goes to funding Biology.
x% goes to physic's.
x% goes to astronomy.
x% goes to socialigy.
Then which ever system you vote for, you pick which sub catagory gets funding, based on the overall catagories funding.
say Biology gets 40%, 50% might go toward drug research, and 50% to new surgery techniques
And we don't have to pay higher taxes. How about taking away from the military?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. You claim we don't have to pay taxes to pay taxes for science, we just need to cut the military's funding., Where do you think the military gets its money? TAX!
Just because we can cut the military funding, doesn't mean we need to spend money on other stuff!
We could just let people keep their own money rather then giving it to the goverment.
Yet people seemt to think that a tax cut == goverment giving money to the people, it's not. Its people giving less money to the goverment.
Now at the same time, I do support blue sky research, practical reseach, being done by the Goverment. Since it does produce many good things, that corporations wouldn't bother with.
However if the goverment spends 20 million dollars trying to the average skin color the common bullfrog, then I think the goverment is getting a tad too much of my money for research.
And how would you know what gives you the biggest bang per buck? In the 1500's how would you know necessarily that studies by Galileo would lead to a man landing on the moon?
That is actually my point, I don't know for sure which research will or will not lead to results, but I might have personal favoriates. Why should I be forced to give up a portion of my paycheck to fulfil someone else's idea of research?
Giving to a scientific cause, is definitally a good thing, but being forced to is definially a bad thing.
When the goverment decides to fund research, it does so by using money they took out of my paycheck to do it, regardless of my opinion.
Elections tend to keep reckless spending under some control, but not always.
My main concern, is that I've seen so many people who believe we should spend a fortune on reseach, or whatever, and have no clue that they personally have to pay that money in the form of higher taxes.
Things have to make money in order to be researched or experimented with and people have to make money to survive. So everyone gets a 9 to 5 job and works their tail off until they go into business for themselves or find some niche that makes them happy that also pays them. Hmm, spending the bulk of your time working on the best possible way to get what you want seems very practical to me.
I.E. "why should my taxes fund that research? If I have to give up 15% of my paycheck on research they may or may not be usefull, I would prefer that it go toward whatever is likly to give me the biggest bang per buck. (At one point 15% of the US budget was going toward space reseach, to keep up Russia had 50% of its budjet), 15% gave us a lot of cool techology, and a massive debt. Russia got a ruined economy.
Is a massive national debt really worth having some better tech?
And worse, in the US, so many people have less hobby time than they used to because people are working longer hours in the US.
I don't know, those linux hobbist seem to have an awefull lot of free time.
Scientists of old had more significant hobby time than dop typical US citizens. Last I checked, 100 years ago, a 14 hour workday 6 days a week was considered normal. Granted many people still do that, most do not, or don't need to.
No, the Major point of the New Testment is this. That Jesus came to die for your sins, and by believes in him (as the Christ) would not perish but have eternal life.
People who do not wish to believe in Jesus as the Christ, prefer to reduce him to the role of being a great "Teacher".
The Bible claims that Jesus is the son of God, not just a teacher.
This leave you with 3 choices. 1. You believe Jesus was smoking crack, but had some good things to say. 2. You belive Jesus is the son of God, and that it is through him you must be saved. 3. You don't believe there was a Jesus.
My Beef with the Cathlic church is they seem to be of the opinion that you can "earn" your way into heaven, which is contrary to the Bible. Many Catholic's do believe in Jesus, so their fine. It's the ones that try to get there by "earning" their way that concerns me.
Quote "NIV" version. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[6] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[7] 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[8]
Anything that makes us flesh and blood beings with desires, joy and drive is animalistic and must be expunged. Show me where in the Bible it says or even hints that. It's not there.
Also, the core catholic church is considered by many (Not ALL) christians to be little more then a Cult. At the same time many people who are true christians belong to the catholic church.
Let me briefly try and explain this oddity. The Catholic Church has most of the major points of the Bible correct. However the Key Difference is that they put themselfs before the Bible, and to some extent God., For Christians there is nothing higher then God, and anything a man says (priest or otherwise) must fall in line with what the Bible says.
The Catholic church wants people to trust them to tell people what the Bible says and how it should be interpeted. Many of the priests truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and you must be saved through him, sadly many do not, they view Jesus as a great teacher, or perhaps the Son of God, but you don't have to go through him to get to heaven.)
If you read Mathew Mark Luke and John, you will see many times the conflict Jesus had with corrupt Priests.
Ok, you've read this far, now you can mark this as Flame bait.
I Showed up about 11:00pm last night, figured that the line might be half way around the building, Turns out the line went around the building twice, took up most of the parking lot, and then for good measure it went down the street a couple hundred yards.
Talking to the Fry's Employee, he said that they had 2 or 3 truck loads of games on the way, but doubted thier would be enough for everyone.
The poor guy seemed rather alarmed and stressed seeing several thousand gamers surrounding the store.
According to him, the line started forming around 1pm.
Although everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I didn't stick around.
Showed up about 11:00pm last night, figured that the line might be half way around the building, Turns out the line went around the building twice, took up most of the parking lot, and then for good measure it went down the street a couple hundred yards.
Talking to the Fry's Employee, he said that they had 2 or 3 truck loads of games on the way, but doubted thier would be enough for everyone.
The poor guy seemed rather alarmed and stressed seeing several thousand gamers surrounding the store.
According to him, the line started forming around 1pm.
Although everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I didn't stick around.
Of course the Liberal Arts guys are the ones who came up with the rules.
Now if programmers came up with the rules for speaking / writing, the rules would be very logical. Of course only computers would be able to understand what people are saying. Thus no more human interaction.
Last I checked, you had to pass both a writen and a Driving test before you are allowed on the road, since odds are, you would be a danger to other without the training & Certification.
While it does not elimite the change your going to mow down a bus full of Nuns, it lower the odds to a reasonable level.
While computers are rarely life and death, a badly infected computer can make life miserable for nearby computers. (not to mention the relative who keeps having to fix the mess).
I am of the strong opinion that people should be required to pass a test before getting anywhere near a computer hooked to a network. (A friend suggested this idea many years ago, and at the time I thought he was nuts, but after fixing a ton of relatives computers, I have changed my tune.)
Hmm, last I check through almost every major emergency the phone lines are about the last thing to go out, heck even power loss doesn't effect corded telephones.
Cell Phones while improving, simply don't have the same reputation. And Internet Service can be very flaky at times.
Have you played a recent Final Fantasy Game?
It's all audio, subtitles are optional.
Personally I like it better with out the voices.
You relize quickly that you ignore most of what is said in a game, or just speed read through it. When your having to sit there watching people carry on a coversation, that is taking 10 times longer to listen to then it would to just read...
Well it's just very annoying.
Re:Open Beta is going to be awefully short then!
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I was one of the Open Beta Testers for Diablo 2,
Man that was a blast.
It was heavily restricted on levels, characters weapons and such, so the super rare stuff then was the stuff "No one " would bother with now.
Also, no one had any clue to what worked and what didn't, so you couldn't go on the internet and find the ultimate build. At least not for several days. And even then there was tons of experminting you could do.
I started playing diablo 2 again couple weeks ago, and man, totally different experience. Everyone has all the best combo's figured out. Heck even the game algorithons have all been published.
No varity in the game ether, every one just rushes to get to baal, then spends endless hours killing his minons. Only thing that changes is trying out different ways to kill them. (Course almost every possible way has been tried.)
Still I was reading the journels of one guy who went through the whole game without killing anything, that wasn't required to complete a quest.
Now thats cool.
More then got my money out of the game, but after awhile it gets (EXTREMALY) repetative.
Hopefully WoW will keep this from happening.
Heck if they can just put and end to dupes, that would well worth it right there.
It came with a strip of Super Duct Tape for repair.
I actually could have repaired it if I could have found it.
It is important to know that the wallet is not normal Duct tape, It doesn't have the smell, and is a "tad" more cloth like it functionility.
Actually I owned one for about a year, and finally threw it out due to wear and tear a couple of months ago.
It peformed decent as far as wallets go; though I don't think I'll buy another one.
Still the coolness factor was very high, and I got a lot of positive comments about it.
A $20.00 tri-fold I picked up to replace it, has actually creased all my cards, some I am going to have to replace, so my next wallet will be a bi-fold.
Thats note the point.
The point is that is FAR more effient then current technologies. The exact implemention is trival.
Every so often technology makes a huge jump in performance that has a major impact on an industray. (Like moving from Hand Saws to Chain Saws for lumber: for example)
This looks like it might be one of those times.
I worked in one of those kind of places for awhile.
Customers didn't want to hear about the number of scan lines, or any technical details.
They wanted to be told that it was a Better Picture.
About once in a blue moon someone would come in and want to know the technical specs.
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Kinda of a stupid thought, but I'll through it out there. What if we have a nationwide vote every year to decide what catagory gets funding for science? x% goes to funding Biology. x% goes to physic's. x% goes to astronomy. x% goes to socialigy. Then which ever system you vote for, you pick which sub catagory gets funding, based on the overall catagories funding. say Biology gets 40%, 50% might go toward drug research, and 50% to new surgery techniques
And we don't have to pay higher taxes. How about taking away from the military? This is exactly what I'm talking about. You claim we don't have to pay taxes to pay taxes for science, we just need to cut the military's funding., Where do you think the military gets its money? TAX! Just because we can cut the military funding, doesn't mean we need to spend money on other stuff! We could just let people keep their own money rather then giving it to the goverment. Yet people seemt to think that a tax cut == goverment giving money to the people, it's not. Its people giving less money to the goverment. Now at the same time, I do support blue sky research, practical reseach, being done by the Goverment. Since it does produce many good things, that corporations wouldn't bother with. However if the goverment spends 20 million dollars trying to the average skin color the common bullfrog, then I think the goverment is getting a tad too much of my money for research.
And how would you know what gives you the biggest bang per buck? In the 1500's how would you know necessarily that studies by Galileo would lead to a man landing on the moon? That is actually my point, I don't know for sure which research will or will not lead to results, but I might have personal favoriates. Why should I be forced to give up a portion of my paycheck to fulfil someone else's idea of research? Giving to a scientific cause, is definitally a good thing, but being forced to is definially a bad thing. When the goverment decides to fund research, it does so by using money they took out of my paycheck to do it, regardless of my opinion. Elections tend to keep reckless spending under some control, but not always. My main concern, is that I've seen so many people who believe we should spend a fortune on reseach, or whatever, and have no clue that they personally have to pay that money in the form of higher taxes.
Things have to make money in order to be researched or experimented with and people have to make money to survive. So everyone gets a 9 to 5 job and works their tail off until they go into business for themselves or find some niche that makes them happy that also pays them.
Hmm, spending the bulk of your time working on the best possible way to get what you want seems very practical to me.
I.E. "why should my taxes fund that research?
If I have to give up 15% of my paycheck on research they may or may not be usefull, I would prefer that it go toward whatever is likly to give me the biggest bang per buck.
(At one point 15% of the US budget was going toward space reseach, to keep up Russia had 50% of its budjet), 15% gave us a lot of cool techology, and a massive debt. Russia got a ruined economy.
Is a massive national debt really worth having some better tech?
And worse, in the US, so many people have less hobby time than they used to because people are working longer hours in the US.
I don't know, those linux hobbist seem to have an awefull lot of free time.
Scientists of old had more significant hobby time than dop typical US citizens. Last I checked, 100 years ago, a 14 hour workday 6 days a week was considered normal. Granted many people still do that, most do not, or don't need to.
Ah what I wouldn't give to see the look on there faces when they relieze this!
Course since I looked at the image, I am sure now they will try and charge me $699.00.
No, the Major point of the New Testment is this.
That Jesus came to die for your sins, and by believes in him (as the Christ) would not perish but have eternal life.
People who do not wish to believe in Jesus as the Christ, prefer to reduce him to the role of being a great "Teacher".
The Bible claims that Jesus is the son of God, not just a teacher.
This leave you with 3 choices.
1. You believe Jesus was smoking crack, but had some good things to say.
2. You belive Jesus is the son of God, and that it is through him you must be saved.
3. You don't believe there was a Jesus.
My Beef with the Cathlic church is they seem to be of the opinion that you can "earn" your way into heaven, which is contrary to the Bible.
Many Catholic's do believe in Jesus, so their fine. It's the ones that try to get there by "earning" their way that concerns me.
Quote "NIV" version.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[6] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[7]
19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."[8]
Anything that makes us flesh and blood beings with desires, joy and drive is animalistic and must be expunged.
Show me where in the Bible it says or even hints that. It's not there.
Also, the core catholic church is considered by many (Not ALL) christians to be little more then a Cult. At the same time many people who are true christians belong to the catholic church.
Let me briefly try and explain this oddity.
The Catholic Church has most of the major points of the Bible correct. However the Key Difference is that they put themselfs before the Bible, and to some extent God., For Christians there is nothing higher then God, and anything a man says (priest or otherwise) must fall in line with what the Bible says.
The Catholic church wants people to trust them to tell people what the Bible says and how it should be interpeted. Many of the priests truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and you must be saved through him, sadly many do not, they view Jesus as a great teacher, or perhaps the Son of God, but you don't have to go through him to get to heaven.)
If you read Mathew Mark Luke and John, you will see many times the conflict Jesus had with corrupt Priests.
Ok, you've read this far, now you can mark this as Flame bait.
I believe the guy who wrote BitTorrent, is working at blizzard, and wrote that app.
I Showed up about 11:00pm last night, figured that the line might be half way around the building, Turns out the line went around the building twice, took up most of the parking lot, and then for good measure it went down the street a couple hundred yards. Talking to the Fry's Employee, he said that they had 2 or 3 truck loads of games on the way, but doubted thier would be enough for everyone. The poor guy seemed rather alarmed and stressed seeing several thousand gamers surrounding the store. According to him, the line started forming around 1pm. Although everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I didn't stick around.
Showed up about 11:00pm last night, figured that the line might be half way around the building, Turns out the line went around the building twice, took up most of the parking lot, and then for good measure it went down the street a couple hundred yards.
Talking to the Fry's Employee, he said that they had 2 or 3 truck loads of games on the way, but doubted thier would be enough for everyone.
The poor guy seemed rather alarmed and stressed seeing several thousand gamers surrounding the store.
According to him, the line started forming around 1pm.
Although everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I didn't stick around.
The way the series is going, you'll die of old age before we reach the ending.
:)
lets see, I was 19 when half life came out
25 for Half Life 2
31 for Half Life 3
37 for Half Life 4
43 for Half Life 5
49 for Half Life 6
55 for Half Life 7
61 for Half Life 8
I'd go further, but I figure by age 67 I won't be able to remember who Gorden Freeman is.
Besides, more then Half my Life, would be over by then.
contenderministries
Of course the Liberal Arts guys are the ones who came up with the rules. Now if programmers came up with the rules for speaking / writing, the rules would be very logical. Of course only computers would be able to understand what people are saying. Thus no more human interaction.
Perhaps because DVD's die at the drop of a hat?
I have an old beat up starcraft cd, major scratches and everything, put in last night for the heck of it , and it fired right up.
I have had several DVD based games (PS2) die with only the slighest of Defects, Extremly annoying.
Last I checked, you had to pass both a writen and a Driving test before you are allowed on the road, since odds are, you would be a danger to other without the training & Certification.
While it does not elimite the change your going to mow down a bus full of Nuns, it lower the odds to a reasonable level.
While computers are rarely life and death, a badly infected computer can make life miserable for nearby computers. (not to mention the relative who keeps having to fix the mess).
I am of the strong opinion that people should be required to pass a test before getting anywhere near a computer hooked to a network. (A friend suggested this idea many years ago, and at the time I thought he was nuts, but after fixing a ton of relatives computers, I have changed my tune.)
Hmm, last I check through almost every major emergency the phone lines are about the last thing to go out, heck even power loss doesn't effect corded telephones. Cell Phones while improving, simply don't have the same reputation. And Internet Service can be very flaky at times.
Have you played a recent Final Fantasy Game? It's all audio, subtitles are optional. Personally I like it better with out the voices. You relize quickly that you ignore most of what is said in a game, or just speed read through it. When your having to sit there watching people carry on a coversation, that is taking 10 times longer to listen to then it would to just read... Well it's just very annoying.
I was one of the Open Beta Testers for Diablo 2,
Man that was a blast.
It was heavily restricted on levels, characters weapons and such, so the super rare stuff then was the stuff "No one " would bother with now.
Also, no one had any clue to what worked and what didn't, so you couldn't go on the internet and find the ultimate build. At least not for several days. And even then there was tons of experminting you could do.
I started playing diablo 2 again couple weeks ago, and man, totally different experience. Everyone has all the best combo's figured out.
Heck even the game algorithons have all been published.
No varity in the game ether, every one just rushes to get to baal, then spends endless hours killing his minons. Only thing that changes is trying out different ways to kill them. (Course almost every possible way has been tried.)
Still I was reading the journels of one guy who went through the whole game without killing anything, that wasn't required to complete a quest.
Now thats cool.
More then got my money out of the game, but after awhile it gets (EXTREMALY) repetative.
Hopefully WoW will keep this from happening.
Heck if they can just put and end to dupes, that would well worth it right there.
Worst Quote Ever!
Think I'll go to the Comic Store...
It came with a strip of Super Duct Tape for repair. I actually could have repaired it if I could have found it. It is important to know that the wallet is not normal Duct tape, It doesn't have the smell, and is a "tad" more cloth like it functionility.
My Wallet
Actually I owned one for about a year, and finally threw it out due to wear and tear a couple of months ago.
It peformed decent as far as wallets go; though I don't think I'll buy another one.
Still the coolness factor was very high, and I got a lot of positive comments about it.
A $20.00 tri-fold I picked up to replace it, has actually creased all my cards, some I am going to have to replace, so my next wallet will be a bi-fold.
Thats note the point. The point is that is FAR more effient then current technologies. The exact implemention is trival. Every so often technology makes a huge jump in performance that has a major impact on an industray. (Like moving from Hand Saws to Chain Saws for lumber: for example) This looks like it might be one of those times.
I worked in one of those kind of places for awhile. Customers didn't want to hear about the number of scan lines, or any technical details. They wanted to be told that it was a Better Picture. About once in a blue moon someone would come in and want to know the technical specs.
Eye for an Eye. If murder was a one month in jail punishment, I'm sure many more people would go around killing people.
Many bad people behave only because they fear punishment if they get cought.
Yes I know this is off topic, mod me down anyway.