Interestingly, they're the only insects which are kosher, too. I often wondered why people in such plagues wouldn't try to capture them and eat them, but I'm sure there are many difficulties catching them.
While it may not be such a good idea to find stray cats to fill up your car, I think the development is certainly interesting.
If you take BSE for instance, where tens of thousands of cows are slaughtered 'just in case' and are unfit for consumption - what if we could use those animals for fuel? Or maybe even insects or Republicans. Ridding your house of pests may fill your car up at the same time. Africa may be able sell its grasshopper plague with enough profit to buy more food.
Here in Holland legal video and movie content has been available for a while.
From all public channels and some commercial ones, pretty much everything that is aired is afterwards available via the internet, indefinitely, for free (streamed, no DRM) from here and here. You can watch entire seasons of shows online without commercials, which is really great.
""Success for us isn't that Linux goes away. Success for us is getting past all the hype and emotion and where people choose technology on its merits," [the MS rep] said."
Out of pure boredom and a little curiosity, it seems that with complete combustion or fission, you get approximately 8KWh of heat out of 1kg of coal.
There seem to be about four different kinds of coal (Anthracite Solid and Broken, Bituminous Solid and Broken), and the previous link doesn't specify a type of coal, I'll go with the average of the cleaner burning two Anthracite coals (+-1300kg/m3).
The GPP doesn't state what kind of swimming pools we're talking about, but a single olympic swimming pool is (50*25*3*1300) 4875000 kg of coal, which is (4875000*8) 39000000 KWh. Assuming the coal doesn't burn completely, but only say 90% to it's potential, that's (39000000/365) 106849 years worth of continuous computing pleasure.
Assuming the GPP was talking about a backyard swimming pool, it seems they are about 70m3 on average, or 249 years worth of computing pleasure.
I'm out of mod points, but I agree. Most of the time it's greed that causes people to go blind and send money, failing to notice the obvious scam.
These scams have been around for years and generations, and people should know better than to send lots of money to strangers when promised mountains of gold.
It's not compassion that causes people to send money. My mother is one of the most compassionate people I know (although it's true! I might have a slight bias) she would give her last penny to help someone else, but she knows better than to participate in something like this.
If you read the stories of the people who got stung, they almost always say they got blinded by greed. Scamming is wrong, but if you live by the idea that nothing comes for free but God's grace, you'll be able to avoid all of these.
It's gone up so much in fact, that instead of trying everything they can to find loopholes in the law or workarounds, retailers are now successfully changing laws so that what they do is no longer illegal, and the legal things we did are now illegal.
I notice you don't refute any of the points I brought up.
What for? I doubt you would accept any valid point I make. I doubt you brought up those points specifically for friendly debate or discussion, but instead to make a statement. Nor do I need to waste my time on it; if you really do want answers, Google will help you. Some of the world's most brilliant minds were Bible studying Christians, and all the points on the site will have been addressed at one time or another.
You say I'm presumptuous but you're the one giving my answers to your questions which you never asked, nor I ever answered.
I do see a strong dislike towards Christianity and the Bible in your post, almost bordering hatred. Why is that? Did we rape and murder your family?
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
If you care for the truth, and not just your truth, you will read the entire Bible and the law which Jesus preaches. You seem happy enough to believe a random sceptic website without doing any research, just so long as it "proves" the Bible wrong. Are you afraid of the Bible?
The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party)
Well, you are flamebaiting. The Republican party calls itself Christian, but that doesn't mean it represents the whole Christian faith, or everyone who carries this faith. Aren't most Democrats Christians too? What about the Christians that give their last money, and work every day all day in poverty to help those in worse poverty? Can't you base your opinion on those? Or are they evil too, professing their faith and beliefs much like you are now?
If you had done a little research instead of jumping to conclusions, and read some Bible, you would certainly know better than what you say.
after all, one need only look as far as Job's daughters antics in the book of Genesis to see that the Bible is no authority on sexual morality
How did you reach that conclusion? The Bible speaks of many acts in detail, including murder, theft, rape, adultery. The Bible explains what Job's daughters did, and why they did it, much like the Bible explains how John was decapitated and why he was decapitated. Does the Bible suggest decapitation is right and we should go around decapitating people? Of course not!
Or is it that you just wanted to find something seemingly incorrect in the Bible so you could put your conscience to rest?
The Bible doesn't say sex is wrong, the Bible does say pornography is wrong, and lusting after another woman in your heart means you already comitted adultery. The Bible also says adulterers, fornicators, liars, thieves, murderers and drunks will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Lest they repent and abandon their ways.
Is pornography wrong? As a Christian, I obviously think so. I used to be addicted to it from an early age, but thanks to God I am free from it now.
Republican party's religious mantra on those who do not want and care about it.
You guys voted for him, now you'll have to sit it out. You can at least take some comfort in knowing that there are enough Christians who oppose Bush and his party.
I don't think you can effectively outlaw pornography, but to put a tax on it is a great idea I think. At least, if you have a responsible government, it would be a great idea.
I would see this as a first step introduction of large scale RFID tags. Most people won't care much about the tourists. Next will be (ex) convicts, immigrants (except those from the middle east) and the unemployed. Until it's too late for people to say 'oh no, not us!', and everyone will have to have a tag, because without one you won't be able to buy stuff or use public transportation.
For ease of use, you're encouraged to wear one on your hand or forehead.
Perhaps we should have a national (or international) printer swap day, where we all swap our printers with someone else who has the same model printer.
I bet that would really mess up their records. Mine too, if my swappee decided to go on a counterfitting spree;[
I don't normally reply to AC. Your reply was reasonable; why post as AC?
You say that most unknowledgeable people wouldn't install VNC. Most of my family members are unknowledgeable people, and they all call me for help with their computers. I've installed VNC on most of their computers (properly secured) so I can easily fix problems if I need to.
It would be reasonable if MSASW would warn on VNC being set to run at startup.
It's also a lot harder to set up VNC insecurely now; you're forced to pick and set a password if you want to run it at all.
To me it makes me wonder where they put all that R&D funding into. Bill claims they spend more on R&D than any other company in the world, and I certainly believe him. It's just that I don't see it anywhere in their products.
I mean, I certainly see improvements, but nothing more from the other guys, even the open source guys who don't have an R&D department.
is that they're also using AntiSpyware for motivating people to remove competing products. For instance, MSN Plus and RealVNC will come up in a search, and although I don't particularly like MSN Plus myself, I don't think it's really fair.
The small print says they may not be actual spyware, but potentially dangerous items, most unknowledgable people will just remove them anyway, because it's the default option.
I have 8mbit at the moment, and I'm a fairly heavy user in downloading (legal!) isos and multimedia. Unless I'm having to download many complete DVDs soon, this is more than fast enough. I could do with a quarter of the speed and be happy enough as it is.
I remember the 14K BBS days and downloading 300MB files with a 56K modem. 1Mbit is the minimum I really want to have, although I need less. Truth is, most sites can't keep up with my 8mbit anyway, I usualy download big files at 100/200 kb/s, it's rare that I can download at 500kb/s or faster.
I wouldn't stand in line for anything faster. But I would like something cheaper or have the upload speed go up instead.
Under OS X, installation consists of downloading the application, and optionally extracting it from an archive. That's it, nothing more. You can run the app from any location (although the "standard" is the Applications folder), including right out of the DMG archive! File associations are easy: Just have the program on your hard drive. That's it! The OS takes care of querying the program for its associations. If you move the program, the OS knows. And if you delete the program, the OS removes the association. No mucking around with manual configuration. The *only* thing you can change is the default program!
You mean like Gentoo's emerge or Debian's apt-get? They don't even require you to download the application; they calculate all the dependencies, download them, install them, then download and install the main application.
AFAICT, there is no mention that this intel processor will be x86. If it is, I think this will only boost Linux, because apps on the Mac OSX will run under Linux too (or even with minor modification).
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Interestingly, they're the only insects which are kosher, too. I often wondered why people in such plagues wouldn't try to capture them and eat them, but I'm sure there are many difficulties catching them.
While it may not be such a good idea to find stray cats to fill up your car, I think the development is certainly interesting.
If you take BSE for instance, where tens of thousands of cows are slaughtered 'just in case' and are unfit for consumption - what if we could use those animals for fuel? Or maybe even insects or Republicans. Ridding your house of pests may fill your car up at the same time. Africa may be able sell its grasshopper plague with enough profit to buy more food.
From all public channels and some commercial ones, pretty much everything that is aired is afterwards available via the internet, indefinitely, for free (streamed, no DRM) from here and here. You can watch entire seasons of shows online without commercials, which is really great.
There's nothing like waking up with a good laugh.
Out of pure boredom and a little curiosity, it seems that with complete combustion or fission, you get approximately 8KWh of heat out of 1kg of coal.
There seem to be about four different kinds of coal (Anthracite Solid and Broken, Bituminous Solid and Broken), and the previous link doesn't specify a type of coal, I'll go with the average of the cleaner burning two Anthracite coals (+-1300kg/m3).
The GPP doesn't state what kind of swimming pools we're talking about, but a single olympic swimming pool is (50*25*3*1300) 4875000 kg of coal, which is (4875000*8) 39000000 KWh. Assuming the coal doesn't burn completely, but only say 90% to it's potential, that's (39000000/365) 106849 years worth of continuous computing pleasure.
Assuming the GPP was talking about a backyard swimming pool, it seems they are about 70m3 on average, or 249 years worth of computing pleasure.
The last game I anticipated was Duke Nukem Forever, but that was years and years ago too.
I'll change my name to John Smi\0th: They'll never catch me!
These scams have been around for years and generations, and people should know better than to send lots of money to strangers when promised mountains of gold.
It's not compassion that causes people to send money. My mother is one of the most compassionate people I know (although it's true! I might have a slight bias) she would give her last penny to help someone else, but she knows better than to participate in something like this.
If you read the stories of the people who got stung, they almost always say they got blinded by greed. Scamming is wrong, but if you live by the idea that nothing comes for free but God's grace, you'll be able to avoid all of these.
It's gone up so much in fact, that instead of trying everything they can to find loopholes in the law or workarounds, retailers are now successfully changing laws so that what they do is no longer illegal, and the legal things we did are now illegal.
What for? I doubt you would accept any valid point I make. I doubt you brought up those points specifically for friendly debate or discussion, but instead to make a statement. Nor do I need to waste my time on it; if you really do want answers, Google will help you. Some of the world's most brilliant minds were Bible studying Christians, and all the points on the site will have been addressed at one time or another.
You say I'm presumptuous but you're the one giving my answers to your questions which you never asked, nor I ever answered.
I do see a strong dislike towards Christianity and the Bible in your post, almost bordering hatred. Why is that? Did we rape and murder your family?
Your reply makes little sense. Please read what you reply to.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
If you care for the truth, and not just your truth, you will read the entire Bible and the law which Jesus preaches. You seem happy enough to believe a random sceptic website without doing any research, just so long as it "proves" the Bible wrong. Are you afraid of the Bible?
Well, you are flamebaiting. The Republican party calls itself Christian, but that doesn't mean it represents the whole Christian faith, or everyone who carries this faith. Aren't most Democrats Christians too? What about the Christians that give their last money, and work every day all day in poverty to help those in worse poverty? Can't you base your opinion on those? Or are they evil too, professing their faith and beliefs much like you are now?
If you had done a little research instead of jumping to conclusions, and read some Bible, you would certainly know better than what you say.
after all, one need only look as far as Job's daughters antics in the book of Genesis to see that the Bible is no authority on sexual morality
How did you reach that conclusion? The Bible speaks of many acts in detail, including murder, theft, rape, adultery. The Bible explains what Job's daughters did, and why they did it, much like the Bible explains how John was decapitated and why he was decapitated. Does the Bible suggest decapitation is right and we should go around decapitating people? Of course not!
Or is it that you just wanted to find something seemingly incorrect in the Bible so you could put your conscience to rest?
The Bible doesn't say sex is wrong, the Bible does say pornography is wrong, and lusting after another woman in your heart means you already comitted adultery. The Bible also says adulterers, fornicators, liars, thieves, murderers and drunks will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Lest they repent and abandon their ways.
Is pornography wrong? As a Christian, I obviously think so. I used to be addicted to it from an early age, but thanks to God I am free from it now.
Republican party's religious mantra on those who do not want and care about it.
You guys voted for him, now you'll have to sit it out. You can at least take some comfort in knowing that there are enough Christians who oppose Bush and his party.
I don't think you can effectively outlaw pornography, but to put a tax on it is a great idea I think. At least, if you have a responsible government, it would be a great idea.
For an interesting testimony on what pornography can do, read this interview with Ted Bundy; honor student, local hero, serial rapist and murderer. http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/deadly/intervie w.php
I'd like to volunteer for the trust position if no-one else will
For ease of use, you're encouraged to wear one on your hand or forehead.
I bet that would really mess up their records. Mine too, if my swappee decided to go on a counterfitting spree ;[
You say that most unknowledgeable people wouldn't install VNC. Most of my family members are unknowledgeable people, and they all call me for help with their computers. I've installed VNC on most of their computers (properly secured) so I can easily fix problems if I need to.
It would be reasonable if MSASW would warn on VNC being set to run at startup.
It's also a lot harder to set up VNC insecurely now; you're forced to pick and set a password if you want to run it at all.
Is it a coincidence that both ME and MS are also life destroying illnesses? :-?
I mean, I certainly see improvements, but nothing more from the other guys, even the open source guys who don't have an R&D department.
The small print says they may not be actual spyware, but potentially dangerous items, most unknowledgable people will just remove them anyway, because it's the default option.
You could see he instantly regretted mentioning Google, too
I remember the 14K BBS days and downloading 300MB files with a 56K modem. 1Mbit is the minimum I really want to have, although I need less. Truth is, most sites can't keep up with my 8mbit anyway, I usualy download big files at 100/200 kb/s, it's rare that I can download at 500kb/s or faster.
I wouldn't stand in line for anything faster. But I would like something cheaper or have the upload speed go up instead.
How do you integrate RSS into the heart of your OS?
Or more importantly, why?
Under OS X, installation consists of downloading the application, and optionally extracting it from an archive. That's it, nothing more. You can run the app from any location (although the "standard" is the Applications folder), including right out of the DMG archive! File associations are easy: Just have the program on your hard drive. That's it! The OS takes care of querying the program for its associations. If you move the program, the OS knows. And if you delete the program, the OS removes the association. No mucking around with manual configuration. The *only* thing you can change is the default program!
You mean like Gentoo's emerge or Debian's apt-get? They don't even require you to download the application; they calculate all the dependencies, download them, install them, then download and install the main application.
AFAICT, there is no mention that this intel processor will be x86. If it is, I think this will only boost Linux, because apps on the Mac OSX will run under Linux too (or even with minor modification).