Yeah, but if the pitcher throws four times outside accepted range of the batter, the batter gets a base.
Not if the batter chooses to swing at the 'outside' ball. Four 'balls' equals a walk, but if the batter swings (and misses), it's a strike even if it is not in the strike zone.
True, but the existence of randomness would not move us from a deterministic-no-choice model to a freewill-choice-model. It would move us to a random-no-choice model.
If I want to sit around in my home, my restaurant, or my office
Your home is private property, but when you open your restaurant to the public, it becomes a 'public accomodation', and is not private property. This was an issue with a case against the Boy Scouts of America. They were sued because they discriminate against homosexuals. The courts ruled that the Boy Scouts were a private club, not a public accomodation, and that they were free to discriminate.
Some bars and restautants are also run as private clubs (playboy clubs (defunct), bottle clubs, etc). Most are public accomodations, with restricted 'property rights'.
Also, if you hire a person to work in your business, you are bound by labor laws. This includes not creating a 'hostile work environment' and other EEOC restrictions. If you don't like it, don't hire people in America.
Don't think of it as "cleaning up the mess the last guy got fired for". Think of it as "making a mess, that is compatible with your prejudices, for your successor to clean-up."
Ask? Let me introduce you to the concept of a tithe. And if that isn't compulsory enough for you, let me introduce you to the concept of and Established religion (see antidisestablishmentarianism).
Likewise, science can't prove everything, such as why there is anything at all, what is the meaning of life, love, etc which leaves plenty of room for metaphysical beliefs.
Religious leaders could stop feeling threatened by science, if they understood that they have a place that science cannot encroach upon. They should cede the What and the How to science, secure in the knowledge that the Why is their domain. Science can never be about the Why.
Unfortunately, the Christian fundies (and possibly other fundies) have a canon that they are not allowed to abridge or interpret (hence the term fundamentalist), which includes chunks of: history, biology, cosmology, linguistics (babel), nutrition, fashion (colored threads), etc. They've painted themselves into a corner such that they cannot allow that anything in the Bible is wrong. So if you make any statement that contradicts the Bible in any way, your statement is wrong, your evidence is manufactured, your logic is flawed, and you are probably a tool of Satan. Good luck in the debate.
I'm very happy that our company is using Oracle - it's expensive, that's why! That high expense reflects back on me, in a good way.
I'm glad that raw leather is so expensive. That makes my salary look small in comparison. And our buggy-whip sales have been going up, up, up! I am so set for life.
Here you're wrong. It's the bug report that is invalid.
The problem with ID (from a scientific perspective) is that it is not actually a 'bug report'. You can't submit a bug report claiming that you don't like the color of the bits that make up the executable file.
There are an absolute crap load of people who think God exists... I like to think that He put it together personally
Really, the word believe would be a better fit than think in these cases. Look at the most used noun form; these are beliefs, not thoughts, that people hold.
So you are saying, that evolution researchers have an unfair advantage, because they not only have a theory (evolution), but also facts (fossil record) to prove the theory is sound?
Creationists have facts, too. Just look at humanity as it exists today. How could pedophiles have evolved (there's no evolutionary advantage to having sex with someone who is too young to bear offspring). How can the fetish of stomping small creatures to death have come into being through evolution? No, humans as they exist today could only have been the product of a cruel and twisted god.
Your superior parrallel parking skillz just proves you live in a shitty euro town riddled with moronic city planners.
Thanks for trying to stick-up for Americans, but I fear that you have only proven that (many) Americans are stupid. When talking about European cities (especially the downtown areas), the 'city planners' (if there were any) died up to 3,000 years ago, and predated their countries exposure to algebra. It might seem unnecessary, but I also feel compelled to point-out that automobiles came along *after* algebra and said city planners.
Pick something with keys - keyboard, piano, organ, etc - and one note per key.
Now for the bad news: if you type really well/fast, then piano might be especially hard. Unlike a computer keyboard, when you play piano, you are expected to hit more than one key at the same time. Imagine typing on a keyboard where every letter is like shift/alt/ctrl. If you did that, they should probably call it 'chording', in honor of the piano.:-)
We see this attitude all of the time, but I don't understand it. Wal*Mart is a nearly perfect incarnation of the capitalist system. Why should they pay American prices for American goods? Their sole function, like every other publicly-traded corporation in America, is to maximize shareholder value. If they don't do everything possible, screw every employee, supplier, and consumer, to make that extra buck, then they can be sued by their shareholders.
It would be actionable if Wal*Mart chose to give pay or benefits in excess of what they must give in order to attract the optimum set of employees. It would be actionable if they chose to 'buy American' out of a sense of patriotism (however, if they can posit that a cynical 'buy American' scheme might garner higher profits, then it's OK).
I don't blame Wal*Mart one bit. If you want their workers to get higher pay, vote to raise the minimum wage. If you want their workers to have health insurance, vote to make health insurance mandatory for all employees of all companies (why single-out one company?). If you want American companies to sell American-made products, vote for tariffs, duties, or quotas. It is the government's job to act in the interests of the American people; that is definitely not the job of corporations. Don't bitch about Wal*Mart, if what you hate is capitalism.
Have you considered renting some warehouse space, and buying 6 years worth of *everything* (machines, spare parts, cables, peripherals, etc)? Sure, you're paying up front, and paying for storage, and fielding 'old' equipment, but then you could upgrade once every six years, instead of junking perfectly good equipment every 18 months.
Couldn't say admit once and for all that they're thinking MS-Windows and MS-Office are now mature products and that they won't release new versions anymore ?:)
Still, you'd want to be careful with this, it would suck to back up all the temp files generated by random processes.
In UNIX systems, all temp files usually reside in/tmp, which need not be on a RAID partition (unless you want those processes to stay up when you lose one of your drives).
I think Microsoft should stand up for itself and show the EU weenies what's what by pulling all Microsoft software off the European market.
That would be great for Linux, except that the EU would probably declare Microsoft to be a "criminal enterprise" (using whatever passes for a RICO statute in Europe), and declare their copyrights null and void within Europe. That could actually hurt Linux adoption.
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Not if the batter chooses to swing at the 'outside' ball. Four 'balls' equals a walk, but if the batter swings (and misses), it's a strike even if it is not in the strike zone.
Decaf seems to give me Tourettes Syndrome (characterized by loud, uncontrollable outbursts laced with profanity). Any diagnosis?
/.'ers don't have to settle for ponies. Virgins can play with unicorns.
We can't 'blame' you, but we can punish you so that your brain has a dissenting input, for the next time it is deciding to produce such a comment.
WINE Is Not an Emulator
True, but the existence of randomness would not move us from a deterministic-no-choice model to a freewill-choice-model. It would move us to a random-no-choice model.
The proper contraction is "in-curious"...no, that's not going to work.
Redmond.
Your home is private property, but when you open your restaurant to the public, it becomes a 'public accomodation', and is not private property. This was an issue with a case against the Boy Scouts of America. They were sued because they discriminate against homosexuals. The courts ruled that the Boy Scouts were a private club, not a public accomodation, and that they were free to discriminate.
Some bars and restautants are also run as private clubs (playboy clubs (defunct), bottle clubs, etc). Most are public accomodations, with restricted 'property rights'.
Also, if you hire a person to work in your business, you are bound by labor laws. This includes not creating a 'hostile work environment' and other EEOC restrictions. If you don't like it, don't hire people in America.
Don't think of it as "cleaning up the mess the last guy got fired for". Think of it as "making a mess, that is compatible with your prejudices, for your successor to clean-up."
The problem usually starts with an MSCE and ends with an MBA.
Ask? Let me introduce you to the concept of a tithe . And if that isn't compulsory enough for you, let me introduce you to the concept of and Established religion (see antidisestablishmentarianism).
Religious leaders could stop feeling threatened by science, if they understood that they have a place that science cannot encroach upon. They should cede the What and the How to science, secure in the knowledge that the Why is their domain. Science can never be about the Why. Unfortunately, the Christian fundies (and possibly other fundies) have a canon that they are not allowed to abridge or interpret (hence the term fundamentalist), which includes chunks of: history, biology, cosmology, linguistics (babel), nutrition, fashion (colored threads), etc. They've painted themselves into a corner such that they cannot allow that anything in the Bible is wrong. So if you make any statement that contradicts the Bible in any way, your statement is wrong, your evidence is manufactured, your logic is flawed, and you are probably a tool of Satan. Good luck in the debate.
I'm glad that raw leather is so expensive. That makes my salary look small in comparison. And our buggy-whip sales have been going up, up, up! I am so set for life.
The problem with ID (from a scientific perspective) is that it is not actually a 'bug report'. You can't submit a bug report claiming that you don't like the color of the bits that make up the executable file.
Really, the word believe would be a better fit than think in these cases. Look at the most used noun form; these are beliefs, not thoughts, that people hold.
Creationists have facts, too. Just look at humanity as it exists today. How could pedophiles have evolved (there's no evolutionary advantage to having sex with someone who is too young to bear offspring). How can the fetish of stomping small creatures to death have come into being through evolution? No, humans as they exist today could only have been the product of a cruel and twisted god.
Thanks for trying to stick-up for Americans, but I fear that you have only proven that (many) Americans are stupid. When talking about European cities (especially the downtown areas), the 'city planners' (if there were any) died up to 3,000 years ago, and predated their countries exposure to algebra. It might seem unnecessary, but I also feel compelled to point-out that automobiles came along *after* algebra and said city planners.
Now for the bad news: if you type really well/fast, then piano might be especially hard. Unlike a computer keyboard, when you play piano, you are expected to hit more than one key at the same time. Imagine typing on a keyboard where every letter is like shift/alt/ctrl. If you did that, they should probably call it 'chording', in honor of the piano. :-)
We see this attitude all of the time, but I don't understand it. Wal*Mart is a nearly perfect incarnation of the capitalist system. Why should they pay American prices for American goods? Their sole function, like every other publicly-traded corporation in America, is to maximize shareholder value. If they don't do everything possible, screw every employee, supplier, and consumer, to make that extra buck, then they can be sued by their shareholders.
It would be actionable if Wal*Mart chose to give pay or benefits in excess of what they must give in order to attract the optimum set of employees. It would be actionable if they chose to 'buy American' out of a sense of patriotism (however, if they can posit that a cynical 'buy American' scheme might garner higher profits, then it's OK).
I don't blame Wal*Mart one bit. If you want their workers to get higher pay, vote to raise the minimum wage. If you want their workers to have health insurance, vote to make health insurance mandatory for all employees of all companies (why single-out one company?). If you want American companies to sell American-made products, vote for tariffs, duties, or quotas. It is the government's job to act in the interests of the American people; that is definitely not the job of corporations. Don't bitch about Wal*Mart, if what you hate is capitalism.
Have you considered renting some warehouse space, and buying 6 years worth of *everything* (machines, spare parts, cables, peripherals, etc)? Sure, you're paying up front, and paying for storage, and fielding 'old' equipment, but then you could upgrade once every six years, instead of junking perfectly good equipment every 18 months.
Blasphemer!
In UNIX systems, all temp files usually reside in /tmp, which need not be on a RAID partition (unless you want those processes to stay up when you lose one of your drives).
That would be great for Linux, except that the EU would probably declare Microsoft to be a "criminal enterprise" (using whatever passes for a RICO statute in Europe), and declare their copyrights null and void within Europe. That could actually hurt Linux adoption.
This is slashdot. People will correct you even if you agree with them.