Mormons have not practiced polygamy since at least 1896. You are a hundred years behind the times.
There are a few breakoff groups that do, but they have no affiliation with the LDS church, which practicing polygamy is sufficient to get one excommunicated from.
it's not a change of doctrine as such-just a change in civil obedience.
Yes, and when it was announced in 1896 or thereabouts this was made entirely clear.
Of course, over a hundred years later of misunderstanding and misinformed opinion later, many of us have tired of the old stereotype and can't be bothered to explain that nuance.
There's a whole nationwide ISP that markets to Mormons (and others, I suppose) based on content filtering--mstar.net
I've had a couple run ins with it in the past few years, when it randomly blocked entirely unoffensive pages--e.g. hotmail. Usually they'd unblock it again after a couple hours, but it seems like a pain to me. I'd never sign up for anything like it...
The 'way' I am referring to is letting the kids come and go freely. There is no punishment for missing class, apart from, say, failing the exam if you never bothered to learn the stuff. Students are allowed to come and leave campus as they like.
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Not entirely correct on the AA bit--you get basic AA capabilities in the free version. There are a couple more advanced options in the pay version.
There are no FOSS applications that come close to Terragen. Terragen is really quite unique--the guy behind it got hired for a couple years to develop some proprietary extensions for Digital Domain, and it has been used in several high-budget films for special effects--the latest Star Trek movie and The Day After Tomorrow are the most recent examples, I think.
Even better, some of the stuff he developed there is filtering back to the rest of us now.
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There are only two places. The soviet athlete got the second = last = ultimate place, while the american got the first = second to last = penultimate place.
I read it (I speak a little Russian, but probably not enough to translate), and I have to say it's too bad. I visited an international school in Rabat, Morocco which uses a mixture of Linux (general use computers) and Macintosh (some low end ones for the little kids to use, and a few higher end ones for graphics work and such), and they had no problems at all. Of course, you have to have competent sysadmin, and many schools seem to have trouble with that. Somehow using Windows makes them think that they don't need to have a competent sysadmin.
However, I do not believe refering to the country as "Holland" is incorrect any more than refering to the USA as "America" is incorrect. It's common usage.
Common usage in some places, perhaps, but be careful when you travel. Some people actually do get offended when you refer to the USA as America (from personal experience, having lived and traveled through 5 of the 7 continents for 17 years...)
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The mormon church has opposed the practice of polygamy since at least 1896.
Too bad you and half the country are a hundred years behind the times.
(Utah mormon, sick and fed up with debunking this myth every time I tell somebody that.)
Dude, it's [b]optional[/b].
You might try reading the article before you decide to start talking next time...
That list is so false it's not even worth rebutting.
(I'm a Mormon, originally from Utah.)
Mormons have not practiced polygamy since at least 1896. You are a hundred years behind the times.
There are a few breakoff groups that do, but they have no affiliation with the LDS church, which practicing polygamy is sufficient to get one excommunicated from.
it's not a change of doctrine as such-just a change in civil obedience.
Yes, and when it was announced in 1896 or thereabouts this was made entirely clear.
Of course, over a hundred years later of misunderstanding and misinformed opinion later, many of us have tired of the old stereotype and can't be bothered to explain that nuance.
There's a whole nationwide ISP that markets to Mormons (and others, I suppose) based on content filtering--mstar.net
I've had a couple run ins with it in the past few years, when it randomly blocked entirely unoffensive pages--e.g. hotmail. Usually they'd unblock it again after a couple hours, but it seems like a pain to me. I'd never sign up for anything like it...
Then we must decide... is it worth losing Ebay and Overstock to get rid of SCO?
(Alright, alright. SCO isn't just an internet based company...)
Unless I'm mistaken, patents are currently good for 17 years, so the first of those should expire next year, and the second in 2009.
Yup. Where I am in Sweden right now, it is -10 C outside, and there's still an icecream truck that comes around every couple days.
Actually, it was -25 C this morning. Up to a balmy -5 in the early afternoon, though.
Could be... he is is poet, after all...
;-)
*shrug*
Actually, my parents had a friend--a poet--who visited a tree farm in Sweden once (the trees were for matches, not for paper, but whatever).
He said he got the distinct impression that the trees, which had been engineered to grow faster than normal, where unhealthy and distressed.
He's a geek. It's obviously hexadecimal.
Um, yeah.
So, you are going to keep these around long enough without losing them so you can put them back? Good luck.
The 'way' I am referring to is letting the kids come and go freely. There is no punishment for missing class, apart from, say, failing the exam if you never bothered to learn the stuff. Students are allowed to come and leave campus as they like.
All Swedish highschools (well, gymnasiums, 10-12th grades) run this way.
So yes, it obviously is possible.
That's only the license for the specifications; here the license for actually using the specifications to write software.
(from http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpaten tlicense.asp)
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Hmmm...
Now, more than ever before, I feel myself wishing I wasn't a poor student and had the money to shell out for a nice Apple Powerbook...
*sigh*
Not entirely correct on the AA bit--you get basic AA capabilities in the free version. There are a couple more advanced options in the pay version.
There are no FOSS applications that come close to Terragen. Terragen is really quite unique--the guy behind it got hired for a couple years to develop some proprietary extensions for Digital Domain, and it has been used in several high-budget films for special effects--the latest Star Trek movie and The Day After Tomorrow are the most recent examples, I think.
Even better, some of the stuff he developed there is filtering back to the rest of us now.
No...
There are only two places. The soviet athlete got the second = last = ultimate place, while the american got the first = second to last = penultimate place.
Yes, the original google server was built out of LEGO duplos. They have it on display in the CS building at Stanford now.
Years ago?
This year saw the 17th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. There's some fun stuff in there.
Unfortunately, it is neither quick nor a link.
Try this instead:
http://people.redhat.com/davidz/bootchart.png
Is anything one does to Microsoft evil, though?
Apart from, like, selling out to them, I mean.
I read it (I speak a little Russian, but probably not enough to translate), and I have to say it's too bad. I visited an international school in Rabat, Morocco which uses a mixture of Linux (general use computers) and Macintosh (some low end ones for the little kids to use, and a few higher end ones for graphics work and such), and they had no problems at all. Of course, you have to have competent sysadmin, and many schools seem to have trouble with that. Somehow using Windows makes them think that they don't need to have a competent sysadmin.
However, I do not believe refering to the country as "Holland" is incorrect any more than refering to the USA as "America" is incorrect. It's common usage.
Common usage in some places, perhaps, but be careful when you travel. Some people actually do get offended when you refer to the USA as America (from personal experience, having lived and traveled through 5 of the 7 continents for 17 years...)