I suspect that in your analogy, mapping the statements onto the symbols would be where most of the "interpretation" so dear to non-fundamentalist Christians (and probably others) takes place. That is to say, because of the fundamentally vague nature of language, Christians can and do come up with very far-fetched interpretations of what their holy book "really means" in order to get rid of any contradiction you can throw at them.
The most powerful such technique is, of course, the idea that the Bible (or whatever other book) is not infallible, and is rather the product of humans making mistakes. Then even if you refute it completely, you haven't refuted the religion.
It's not double-counting. Cloth makers and food producers are usually businesses, not people, and so the water they use won't be directly counted as any person's water use. Thus the only way of counting water used per person that makes sense is to divide the total amount of water used in the country by the population, which I suspect is what they did to arrive at the numbers in the article.
They are also implementing it so that they can control the competitive and professional scenes and try to monetize them, rather than leaving that to shady third-party operations in Korea.
If you don't have Internet access, you really have no need to play StarCraft 1 or 2. The whole point is the online play. I can see why people would get angry at online-activation for other games, but for competitive RTS games whose main purpose is online play, it really isn't an issue.
My definition of "Christians" is people who believe that a man named Jesus Christ with magical powers who was the son of God lived 2000 years ago who will save some or all people from their sins. Anything else is the interpretation of various branches. Lots of Christians (by this definition) don't believe the whole Bible, especially Revelations. I think this is a good time to point out that since the Bible contradicts itself so many times, it's impossible to take the whole thing at face value without either having a logically inconsistent worldview or doing some serious interpretive work, which is very subjective.
This might not be clear, because my name is "koreaman" and I have a quote about French politics in French as my signature, but by "this country" I meant the United States.
You aren't Christian then, as you have the facts wrong.
No true Scotsman fallacy. There are so many different interpretations of Christianity that it's ludicrous to assume that someone who doesn't agree with yours is "not Christian".
A huge number of self-professed Christians, at least in this country, believe that every person's soul survives forever, either in heaven or hell.
I know the policy. The reality is that local managers try to cut corners, because they don't always realize that the scientists who designed the policy know a lot more about running a taylorist food factory than they do.
At least that is my experience where I worked. I usually got one break no matter how long I worked. I knew people who voluntarily skipped their break(s), even when working 12+ hours.
6. When it was a product of outsourcing to a foreign country. God, maintaining that shit is the bane of my existence. At least they've upgraded to VB 2005.
In case it wasn't clear, my point is that fast food workers are not treated this well at all. I worked at McDonald's, and we got one 30 minute break no matter how many hours we worked.
Do you really believe the average firefox user has the technical know-how to even understand what a DNS server is, let alone how to setup and configure one, even if it is "trivially easy" for you? Please...
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I don't see how allowing a higher error rate will enable them to put more transistors on a chip.
I suspect that in your analogy, mapping the statements onto the symbols would be where most of the "interpretation" so dear to non-fundamentalist Christians (and probably others) takes place. That is to say, because of the fundamentally vague nature of language, Christians can and do come up with very far-fetched interpretations of what their holy book "really means" in order to get rid of any contradiction you can throw at them.
The most powerful such technique is, of course, the idea that the Bible (or whatever other book) is not infallible, and is rather the product of humans making mistakes. Then even if you refute it completely, you haven't refuted the religion.
It's not double-counting. Cloth makers and food producers are usually businesses, not people, and so the water they use won't be directly counted as any person's water use. Thus the only way of counting water used per person that makes sense is to divide the total amount of water used in the country by the population, which I suspect is what they did to arrive at the numbers in the article.
Or grow rice.
In that case, I was wrong, and I apologize for the mistake.
However, I think it makes more sense to blame your government for this problem than it does to blame Blizzard...
Your assumption is correct. No hard limit.
They are also implementing it so that they can control the competitive and professional scenes and try to monetize them, rather than leaving that to shady third-party operations in Korea.
If you don't have Internet access, you really have no need to play StarCraft 1 or 2. The whole point is the online play. I can see why people would get angry at online-activation for other games, but for competitive RTS games whose main purpose is online play, it really isn't an issue.
Blog got hacked?
You, sir, win fifty slashdots.
I'm not the original person you were talking to.
My definition of "Christians" is people who believe that a man named Jesus Christ with magical powers who was the son of God lived 2000 years ago who will save some or all people from their sins. Anything else is the interpretation of various branches. Lots of Christians (by this definition) don't believe the whole Bible, especially Revelations. I think this is a good time to point out that since the Bible contradicts itself so many times, it's impossible to take the whole thing at face value without either having a logically inconsistent worldview or doing some serious interpretive work, which is very subjective.
you americans need to wake up to the fact there's more to the world then democrat vs republican.
I friended you for this comment.
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This might not be clear, because my name is "koreaman" and I have a quote about French politics in French as my signature, but by "this country" I meant the United States.
You aren't Christian then, as you have the facts wrong.
No true Scotsman fallacy. There are so many different interpretations of Christianity that it's ludicrous to assume that someone who doesn't agree with yours is "not Christian".
A huge number of self-professed Christians, at least in this country, believe that every person's soul survives forever, either in heaven or hell.
YES! Mod parent up to +10000 insightful.
I know the policy. The reality is that local managers try to cut corners, because they don't always realize that the scientists who designed the policy know a lot more about running a taylorist food factory than they do.
At least that is my experience where I worked. I usually got one break no matter how long I worked. I knew people who voluntarily skipped their break(s), even when working 12+ hours.
6. When it was a product of outsourcing to a foreign country. God, maintaining that shit is the bane of my existence. At least they've upgraded to VB 2005.
In case it wasn't clear, my point is that fast food workers are not treated this well at all. I worked at McDonald's, and we got one 30 minute break no matter how many hours we worked.
Ten minute break every hour? What country do you live in? Here in the U.S., that would be extremely abnormal for fast food workers.
How do you know Obama is a Christian? I think it's perfectly likely that privately, he is not one.
(Note: I'm not attacking Obama. I'd have loved to vote for him had I not been too busy voting for Nader.)
"libertarian", maybe?
I learned in geography class that "legal" opium comes primarily from Tazmania. Don't have a source to back it up, though.
Do you really believe the average firefox user has the technical know-how to even understand what a DNS server is, let alone how to setup and configure one, even if it is "trivially easy" for you? Please...
ASU is publicly funded and is steered by a committee appointed by the governor, but calling it part of "the government" is a bit of a stretch.
Wrong.