So accountants and programmers and all dreg office workers should really be crammed into little hobbit house cubes? I'm already shoved into a windowless cave, now I lose my headroom too?
You don't need sophisticated sensors for this; in most situations, your vision alone is enough to give you 60 seconds of forewarning, or close to it, if you choose to drive "intelligently."
Maybe its just me, but that seems like alot of forewarning. Thats an entire mile at 60 mph, 1/2 mile at 30. Unless you're talking about rural Kansas, I think that forewarning is exaggerated by a factor of 10.
Still a good idea to attempt to drive intrelligently whenever and however possible. People don't tend to do this because they are:
1. Distracted
2. On the Phone
3. Late
4. Giant pickup driving hillbillies who don't give two shits about the environment or anyone else.
Are you serious? Do you really, genuinely, think that congress and the president (the last one) made outsourcing legal? Do you really think outsourcing is something new?
Sorry, I should have said "profitable", not "legal" - you are correct. I concur with your sentiment, and support complete free trade and open competition without government control or interference... that was my point.
To which particular Monday Morning quarterback are you referring? Without that piece of information your indictment makes no sense.
There is no collective mind running things and voicing opinions, FOX NEWS and Bill O'Reilly just makes it seem that way.
Personally, I tend to think armed teachers with a license to kill would go a long way - plus it may finally pull our math scores up to par with the Chinese.
the statement is obvously designed to be at least initially interpretted as "the purpose for which men were created was to worship god, god created us to worship him"
"God created us to worship him" clearly has a different primary interpretation from "Men were created to worship God." The subject of the sentence is different. Honestly, don't they teach people why and when to use passive voice anymore? It's not always anathema.
If you don't believe I know "why and when" to use passive voice, why would I know the word "anathema"?
most religious people probably perform these sorts of logical contortions without batting an eye daily if not continuously
How do you justify this claim? Why can't religious people say that the non-religious are the ones making logical contortions to make religious beliefs look inherently silly?
Indeed, from the believer's point of view that is exactly what they must do.
In fact, they must take it a step further and insist that even other types of believers are doing the same thing, since their God can kick everyone elses Gods' collective asses, metaphysically speaking.
they are not content with your atheism
So? Also, note that many religious people would take issue with the secondary interpretation of this sentence (and many would therefore take issue with the sentence as a whole), so I'm not sure why this is relevant, even if the concern made sense.
Religious people do not condone atheism in any way; I don't understand how taking issue with an interpretation of the statement is relevant to the argument you are circumscribing.
While I agree your interpretation makes more sense, I do not agree that it is the one they most likely meant, given their point of view and the context of the sign on the Mosque.
I have to disagree with your interpretation of a pretty straightforward phrase, "men were created to worship god". Although it could be seen as meaning what you suggest, that men benefit from worship, the statement is obvously designed to be at least initially interpretted as "the purpose for which men were created was to worship god, god created us to worship him". You have to bend over pretty far backward to see the other interpretation as primary, but most religious people probably perform these sorts of logical contortions without batting an eye daily if not continuously.
theres no need to justify them, controversy is supposed to occur. they are not content with your atheism
Pan Am didn't build LAX. This is a port, and they are not built by commercial interests - they facilitate commercial and thereby public interests. It is an investment of exactly the same nature as a highway, also pretty hard to charge the cost of to its users directly, but it could be argued that taxes from subsequent revenue do indeed recoup public investment.
Ideally, businesses who use the service alone should be taxed to foot the bill, hence the obvious argument here should be against personal income tax - not really against a spaceport. But if the port eventually facilitates personal tranportation, the consumer is eventually even more directly served by the investment, but its kind of difficult to get the taxes out of the future ticket sales in advance.
It may also interest you to know, your tax revenue supports the Post Office, Homeland Security, and a plethora of acronymic agencies within the federal and local governments under whose purveyance you reside, which also do not directly benefit your singularly consumer type interests.
Trying to prove or disprove the existence of a diety is intellectual masturbation. So stop it, or you could go mentally blind.
You can't prove/disprove Santa Claus, either. But damned if my stocking doesn't get filled every Jesus' Birthday morning, just like the Bible predicts. And I think the Easter Baskets go without saying, eh?
Over simplification. Thats the whole problem. Climate is way more complex than just "add CO2, temp increases" as if temperature was based solely on co2 levels. Just because its higher today than ever does not mean its the only cause of the current warming trend. Really it makes you (and others) sounds like cult zealots, and some of us aren't dumb enough to buy it. Seriously, 30 years ago it was global cooling and we were overdue for an ice age. Now its obvious all glaciers and both polar caps are melting and the sea is going to rise 20 feet any minute now. Sea levels raise and lower, glaciers advance and retreat, and the phenomenon is not well understood, and people who claim its figured out, and the science is "settled", are being met with deserved cynicism. IMHO
Rather than curling up and waiting to die (which you theoretically embrace with the utter calm of a Jesuite monk awaiting penance), I suggest we should collectively attempt to do something about it... the ones of us at least who are not picking flowers and waiting to die, of course. Pool our worthless money and try to come up with a solution. Fire off a couple nukular warheads in the general vicinity if nothing else... at least put a few mating pairs of humans into orbit in a life boat space shuttle on the off chance the entire physical mass of the planet is not vaporized.
Computers don't kill people - network lags kill people.
Computer errors exist because people program computers and it is possible to tell a computer perform a function incorrectly/inadequately. The error is in the model of the problem or in the pipe - me, I usually blame the pipe or the user. The pipe doesn't get offended and fire you, though.
If a 24 year old makes 40000/year, even if they could or did in college they will not try to live on 10000 so they can pay 30000 per year towards debt. If people had the will to do that, student loans, bankruptcies, second mortgages, and credit cards would all be unnecessary.
It also misses the point that $20000 is a very high tuition, relatively speaking, and US tuitions are high PRECISELY BECAUSE there are government guaranteed student loans. Tuition rates have risen steadily 5+% per year since the 70's outpacing inflation right along with 2 other government subsidized industries - healthcare and real estate (in this country, US of A - yay).
I agree. There is an undercurrent to the sentiment we are taught from our forebears, that animals are inferior and somehow do not understand or cognize (and therefore do not FEEL) as we do, therefore it is morally ok to eat and otherwise use them.
Despite this latest revelation, I'm sure their consumption will continue because fortunately, they are delicious;)
"Wow, look at that pig composing a sonet. Mmmmmm bacon...."
It's far easier to construct an argument against changing ones lifestyle (or an entire planet's) than it is the change the lifestyle. Talk is cheap; throwing money at problems is relatively easy too, easier than changing the simplest habits in any lasting or dramatic way. Human nature, like water, follows the course of least resistance. Politics, econonomics, psychology, all work like that. Public opinion will change on a very predictable schedule - exactly at the moment it is required to by the immediate problem. Until then, Crichton and you and everyone else will bandy words like confetti at a pep rally, but in the end, the truth will be seen for what it is and the fools whose folly distracted us from problems will be discredited (or simply forgotten) and those who foresaw the real outcome will be heralded as visionaries, whether they deserve it or not.
I picked the Colts in the Superbowl, but I didn't know much about football, really. Am I a genius or just lucky once in a while? Picking sides on an issue like this is exactly the same thing.
So like any good policy maker might say when confronted with this problem, I believe it is being looked at by the most capable professionals and when they determine what, if anything, needs to be done about it (besides continue to study it ad infinitum), I am sure they will let the proper people know. Meanwhile, I continue to have to earn a living, put my kids through school, and live my life in the relative comfort of my intense amusement and total lack of fear despite the fear mongering I am showered with on a daily basis if I so much as pick up a magazine or turn on my tv.
I really doubt the US military would try to use the return IP addr of a series of packets to aim a missile in retaliation to a distributed DOS attack. They are just stating they have the authority to retaliate by force, if deemed necessary.
Just make a decent (acceptable) starting bid, add a buy it now for something near what the market will bear and sit back and wait. No need to shill, no hassle no fuss - for example, this 5th gen video iPod I have listed:
You'll notice no reserve. I could have started at $1, but experience has taught me you can get ripped off occassionally that way - so I didn't do it, instead I started at the minimum I thought I would be able to accept.
I don't need to shill, all I need is one bid.
The BIG rip off on eBay comes from non-paying fraud buyers, such as I had the first time I listed this. The guy claimed to be a resident of NY buying it for his son at university in Nigeria (big tip off there, unfortunately).
The guy picked the buy it now option and sent me a lovely email in disjointed English. Then later (to eBays credit) I received notice from them that this gentleman's account had been suspended, as he was suspected of being a fraud - non-payment of auctions. His scam was to get you to send it before he tendered payment. He wasn't very clever about it, but it only takes 1 in, say 50, to make it worth his while, and rake in a months salary.
1) One isn't paying much attention, snoozing, playing Xbox, viewing pr0n.
2) Something hits one in the head.
3) One looks around and see nothing they know it could have been.
4) One concludes to ones terror the sky is falling.
5) One rings the town bell everyone arrives, and one dutifully fills naive masses in on one's revelatory conclusion.
6) Naive masses scoff, poo poo, go home.
7) One becomes angry and concludes naive masses are going to cause one to die as sky collapses, since they refuse to devote resources to building much needed sky-scaffolding.
8) One decries said naive masses on slashdot periodically to make one feel superior.
[8.5 ??? profit ? ]
9) One goes back to viewing pr0n and stalking Al Gore.
10) One isn't paying much attention, snoozing, playing Xbox, viewing pr0n.
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So accountants and programmers and all dreg office workers should really be crammed into little hobbit house cubes? I'm already shoved into a windowless cave, now I lose my headroom too?
This research sucks.
Maybe its just me, but that seems like alot of forewarning. Thats an entire mile at 60 mph, 1/2 mile at 30. Unless you're talking about rural Kansas, I think that forewarning is exaggerated by a factor of 10.
Still a good idea to attempt to drive intrelligently whenever and however possible. People don't tend to do this because they are:
1. Distracted
2. On the Phone
3. Late
4. Giant pickup driving hillbillies who don't give two shits about the environment or anyone else.
I read that to mean how close the object will pass in relation to the star.
... without clubbing a few baby seals.
IBM is just keeping up; if you don't like outsourcing, you shouldn't have let congress, the senate, and the president (the last one) make it legal.
To which particular Monday Morning quarterback are you referring? Without that piece of information your indictment makes no sense.
There is no collective mind running things and voicing opinions, FOX NEWS and Bill O'Reilly just makes it seem that way.
Personally, I tend to think armed teachers with a license to kill would go a long way - plus it may finally pull our math scores up to par with the Chinese.
Oh... and Run, Imus, Run !!
In fact, they must take it a step further and insist that even other types of believers are doing the same thing, since their God can kick everyone elses Gods' collective asses, metaphysically speaking.
Religious people do not condone atheism in any way; I don't understand how taking issue with an interpretation of the statement is relevant to the argument you are circumscribing.
While I agree your interpretation makes more sense, I do not agree that it is the one they most likely meant, given their point of view and the context of the sign on the Mosque.
I have to disagree with your interpretation of a pretty straightforward phrase, "men were created to worship god". Although it could be seen as meaning what you suggest, that men benefit from worship, the statement is obvously designed to be at least initially interpretted as "the purpose for which men were created was to worship god, god created us to worship him". You have to bend over pretty far backward to see the other interpretation as primary, but most religious people probably perform these sorts of logical contortions without batting an eye daily if not continuously. theres no need to justify them, controversy is supposed to occur. they are not content with your atheism
Pan Am didn't build LAX. This is a port, and they are not built by commercial interests - they facilitate commercial and thereby public interests. It is an investment of exactly the same nature as a highway, also pretty hard to charge the cost of to its users directly, but it could be argued that taxes from subsequent revenue do indeed recoup public investment.
Ideally, businesses who use the service alone should be taxed to foot the bill, hence the obvious argument here should be against personal income tax - not really against a spaceport. But if the port eventually facilitates personal tranportation, the consumer is eventually even more directly served by the investment, but its kind of difficult to get the taxes out of the future ticket sales in advance.
It may also interest you to know, your tax revenue supports the Post Office, Homeland Security, and a plethora of acronymic agencies within the federal and local governments under whose purveyance you reside, which also do not directly benefit your singularly consumer type interests.
Trying to prove or disprove the existence of a diety is intellectual masturbation. So stop it, or you could go mentally blind.
You can't prove/disprove Santa Claus, either. But damned if my stocking doesn't get filled every Jesus' Birthday morning, just like the Bible predicts. And I think the Easter Baskets go without saying, eh?
Over simplification. Thats the whole problem. Climate is way more complex than just "add CO2, temp increases" as if temperature was based solely on co2 levels. Just because its higher today than ever does not mean its the only cause of the current warming trend. Really it makes you (and others) sounds like cult zealots, and some of us aren't dumb enough to buy it. Seriously, 30 years ago it was global cooling and we were overdue for an ice age. Now its obvious all glaciers and both polar caps are melting and the sea is going to rise 20 feet any minute now. Sea levels raise and lower, glaciers advance and retreat, and the phenomenon is not well understood, and people who claim its figured out, and the science is "settled", are being met with deserved cynicism. IMHO
Rather than curling up and waiting to die (which you theoretically embrace with the utter calm of a Jesuite monk awaiting penance), I suggest we should collectively attempt to do something about it... the ones of us at least who are not picking flowers and waiting to die, of course. Pool our worthless money and try to come up with a solution. Fire off a couple nukular warheads in the general vicinity if nothing else... at least put a few mating pairs of humans into orbit in a life boat space shuttle on the off chance the entire physical mass of the planet is not vaporized.
Sheesh...
Where do you live? (In general, if it's not a personal question
I might like to park under the money fairies a while, too...
no, no, this is nothing to be concerned about. the market will sort it all out - do not panic.
Computers don't kill people - network lags kill people.
Computer errors exist because people program computers and it is possible to tell a computer perform a function incorrectly/inadequately. The error is in the model of the problem or in the pipe - me, I usually blame the pipe or the user. The pipe doesn't get offended and fire you, though.
Yes a master of manipulation indeed, slipping in a mention of Global Warming while accepting an award for a movie about Global Warming. Diabolical...
If a 24 year old makes 40000/year, even if they could or did in college they will not try to live on 10000 so they can pay 30000 per year towards debt. If people had the will to do that, student loans, bankruptcies, second mortgages, and credit cards would all be unnecessary.
It also misses the point that $20000 is a very high tuition, relatively speaking, and US tuitions are high PRECISELY BECAUSE there are government guaranteed student loans. Tuition rates have risen steadily 5+% per year since the 70's outpacing inflation right along with 2 other government subsidized industries - healthcare and real estate (in this country, US of A - yay).
I agree. There is an undercurrent to the sentiment we are taught from our forebears, that animals are inferior and somehow do not understand or cognize (and therefore do not FEEL) as we do, therefore it is morally ok to eat and otherwise use them.
;)
Despite this latest revelation, I'm sure their consumption will continue because fortunately, they are delicious
"Wow, look at that pig composing a sonet. Mmmmmm bacon...."
It's far easier to construct an argument against changing ones lifestyle (or an entire planet's) than it is the change the lifestyle. Talk is cheap; throwing money at problems is relatively easy too, easier than changing the simplest habits in any lasting or dramatic way. Human nature, like water, follows the course of least resistance. Politics, econonomics, psychology, all work like that. Public opinion will change on a very predictable schedule - exactly at the moment it is required to by the immediate problem. Until then, Crichton and you and everyone else will bandy words like confetti at a pep rally, but in the end, the truth will be seen for what it is and the fools whose folly distracted us from problems will be discredited (or simply forgotten) and those who foresaw the real outcome will be heralded as visionaries, whether they deserve it or not.
I picked the Colts in the Superbowl, but I didn't know much about football, really. Am I a genius or just lucky once in a while? Picking sides on an issue like this is exactly the same thing.
So like any good policy maker might say when confronted with this problem, I believe it is being looked at by the most capable professionals and when they determine what, if anything, needs to be done about it (besides continue to study it ad infinitum), I am sure they will let the proper people know. Meanwhile, I continue to have to earn a living, put my kids through school, and live my life in the relative comfort of my intense amusement and total lack of fear despite the fear mongering I am showered with on a daily basis if I so much as pick up a magazine or turn on my tv.
Besides: I already live in the desert.
I really doubt the US military would try to use the return IP addr of a series of packets to aim a missile in retaliation to a distributed DOS attack. They are just stating they have the authority to retaliate by force, if deemed necessary.
So don't even think about it, Osama!
is not a myth - I've seen it!
(sorry)
Just make a decent (acceptable) starting bid, add a buy it now for something near what the market will bear and sit back and wait. No need to shill, no hassle no fuss - for example, this 5th gen video iPod I have listed:
m &ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item =250077077194&rd=1&rd=1[/shameless plug]
[shameless plug]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte
You'll notice no reserve. I could have started at $1, but experience has taught me you can get ripped off occassionally that way - so I didn't do it, instead I started at the minimum I thought I would be able to accept.
I don't need to shill, all I need is one bid.
The BIG rip off on eBay comes from non-paying fraud buyers, such as I had the first time I listed this. The guy claimed to be a resident of NY buying it for his son at university in Nigeria (big tip off there, unfortunately).
The guy picked the buy it now option and sent me a lovely email in disjointed English. Then later (to eBays credit) I received notice from them that this gentleman's account had been suspended, as he was suspected of being a fraud - non-payment of auctions. His scam was to get you to send it before he tendered payment. He wasn't very clever about it, but it only takes 1 in, say 50, to make it worth his while, and rake in a months salary.
1) One isn't paying much attention, snoozing, playing Xbox, viewing pr0n.
2) Something hits one in the head.
3) One looks around and see nothing they know it could have been.
4) One concludes to ones terror the sky is falling.
5) One rings the town bell everyone arrives, and one dutifully fills naive masses in on one's revelatory conclusion.
6) Naive masses scoff, poo poo, go home.
7) One becomes angry and concludes naive masses are going to cause one to die as sky collapses, since they refuse to devote resources to building much needed sky-scaffolding.
8) One decries said naive masses on slashdot periodically to make one feel superior. [8.5 ??? profit ? ] 9) One goes back to viewing pr0n and stalking Al Gore.
10) One isn't paying much attention, snoozing, playing Xbox, viewing pr0n.
um... what did you connect the other end of the jumper cables to? Maybe you had a bad battery?