Don't banks need it to report interest? SSN is pretty much your tax ID number.
As for stores and stuff, I say they can't have it and that it's technically against federal law to even ask for it (the sales help generally don't know one way or the other and it sounds ominus) and I've always gotten away with it.
I've seen the same thing with my friend's cats. They have different personalities and clearly get into moods of various sorts.One even woke them up for a prowler (turned out to be a drunk neighbor not quite knowing what yard he was in).
I haven't watch any SW since I sat through Phantom Menace at the theater. It's an embarrassment to the geekverse that anyone still cares. Look, it was silly fun for a while, but then it went wrong and stupid. Abandon it already and move on. Sheesh.
Wow, a "people willingly buying a product" == "they are being robbed by someone invading their home" comparison. Well, this *is* Slashdot.
It's more like the guys over at Ain't It Cool News who bemoan all the crappy movies, and then when certain movies come out they are all "What a shitpile this thing will be. I can't wait to see it!" Derp.
Well, you certainly solidified your point by linking to a furry cartoon.
Geez, the guy asked an honest question about conducting a claim of the paranormal, the bread butter of real skeptics, as opposed to the amateur armchair skeptics that infest this place. That's hardly a reason to launch into a histrionic rant about the death of... something in our society. You know atheism is on the rise, right?
When did the world abandon progress?
Yeah, that's a sound statement that flows directly from the submitter's questions. (facepalm)
Some dude asks how to conduct a skeptical investigation, therefore society is doomed.
Demowhat and republiwho? What gibberish is this, foul creature? To the stake with ye! Burn the witch! Burn all who lie with the cloven hooved man goat!
I meant more the slavery aspect. How does adding "slave" 219 times allow parents to avoid discussions of slavery? Actually, I think the fault here lies with the summary writer.;-)
The racist caricatures of Powerful Pierre and Crazy Coyote will be edited out of Huckleberry Hound cartoons and replaced with a multicultural selection of the characters from Captain Planet series and a "feminine positive" version of Cheetara from The Thundercats.
parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America.
How does replacing it with the word "SLAVE" accomplish *that* exactly?
Or am I looking for reason where reason does not exist?
Now, now. We could also edit the existence of religion out of history. That would be interesting. I'd love to set up an isolated control group (composed of orphan babies and robot nannies), give them a fabricated history of humanity and see if religion spontaneously redevelops.
Yeah, it's a good thing I'm not a billionaire. There's an evil scientist within me just waiting to be unleashed.:-)
There's a supervillain there, too. Once the experiment is done, I make the colony my minions by introducing myself as their god.:-D
Aside from the impossibility of it, anything not the truth is bullshit, so you are proposing a world constructed of bullshit.
And people will just invent new horrors and hates and hates.
Why focus on the pain and resentment when we can reinvent ourselves as something much better?
*shrug* Intelligent people can do that now. People of many different backgrounds can and do get along outside of corporate stock photography. It's the idiots who carry on ancestral hate. They'd just find other reasons to hate.
Make for a good novel or movie, though. I'm curious how you get 7 billion people to agree to hide the truth from every human born from this moment onward. It's an interesting puzzle.
Didn't humanity in Brin's Uplift series have to sanitize a lot of human history (for example, mistreatment of lower species) before the aliens arrived to take a look?
James P. Hogan had a book where a seed ship sent to colonize another world sent no living humans. Embryos were generated and raised by machines. You'd almost have to go to that length to hide the past from a generation of humans. You just put whatever history you want into the ship's computers.
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Don't banks need it to report interest? SSN is pretty much your tax ID number.
As for stores and stuff, I say they can't have it and that it's technically against federal law to even ask for it (the sales help generally don't know one way or the other and it sounds ominus) and I've always gotten away with it.
I've seen the same thing with my friend's cats. They have different personalities and clearly get into moods of various sorts.One even woke them up for a prowler (turned out to be a drunk neighbor not quite knowing what yard he was in).
We hardware engineers are your gods. :-) Without us, what would you run your software on? Hey, I tease. Mostly. :-D
Nah, that's more of a purgatory offense.
I haven't watch any SW since I sat through Phantom Menace at the theater. It's an embarrassment to the geekverse that anyone still cares. Look, it was silly fun for a while, but then it went wrong and stupid. Abandon it already and move on. Sheesh.
Wow, a "people willingly buying a product" == "they are being robbed by someone invading their home" comparison. Well, this *is* Slashdot.
It's more like the guys over at Ain't It Cool News who bemoan all the crappy movies, and then when certain movies come out they are all "What a shitpile this thing will be. I can't wait to see it!" Derp.
Well, you certainly solidified your point by linking to a furry cartoon.
Geez, the guy asked an honest question about conducting a claim of the paranormal, the bread butter of real skeptics, as opposed to the amateur armchair skeptics that infest this place. That's hardly a reason to launch into a histrionic rant about the death of... something in our society. You know atheism is on the rise, right?
When did the world abandon progress?
Yeah, that's a sound statement that flows directly from the submitter's questions. (facepalm)
Some dude asks how to conduct a skeptical investigation, therefore society is doomed.
Ha!
Big media: quit saying "XYZ is dead" every time you're starved for attention.
Big media is dead!
I'm so lonely. :-(
Huh? I thought it was free verse. Sort of open mike poetry night here at the Slashdot fun house.
:-) I said I teez. :-)
Demowhat and republiwho? What gibberish is this, foul creature? To the stake with ye! Burn the witch! Burn all who lie with the cloven hooved man goat!
Wait... hooved? Hoofed? Hoofa? Hoover? Hoo... vvvffff... yeah.
No need to have my face plastered anywhere. Seriousy, no one would want that, secret lair or not. *shudder*
Is it me or did other people take my post way too seriously? I mean, geez...
No need to spend billions and kidnap orphan babies.
Other than the "fun" aspect of it, of course.
I guess I'm just not clear on what it is you're testing for.
A sense of humor.
I meant more the slavery aspect. How does adding "slave" 219 times allow parents to avoid discussions of slavery? Actually, I think the fault here lies with the summary writer. ;-)
The racist caricatures of Powerful Pierre and Crazy Coyote will be edited out of Huckleberry Hound cartoons and replaced with a multicultural selection of the characters from Captain Planet series and a "feminine positive" version of Cheetara from The Thundercats.
Town square is all booked up with witch burnings.
How long until the witch hunts begin, and we start removing undesirable thoughts/people/etc?
Begin??!1! Dude, it started ages ago.
parents might provide their children the ability to study the classic without fear of properly addressing the torturous history of racism and slavery in The United States of America.
How does replacing it with the word "SLAVE" accomplish *that* exactly?
Or am I looking for reason where reason does not exist?
Now, now. We could also edit the existence of religion out of history. That would be interesting. I'd love to set up an isolated control group (composed of orphan babies and robot nannies), give them a fabricated history of humanity and see if religion spontaneously redevelops.
Yeah, it's a good thing I'm not a billionaire. There's an evil scientist within me just waiting to be unleashed. :-)
There's a supervillain there, too. Once the experiment is done, I make the colony my minions by introducing myself as their god. :-D
Aside from the impossibility of it, anything not the truth is bullshit, so you are proposing a world constructed of bullshit.
And people will just invent new horrors and hates and hates.
Why focus on the pain and resentment when we can reinvent ourselves as something much better?
*shrug* Intelligent people can do that now. People of many different backgrounds can and do get along outside of corporate stock photography. It's the idiots who carry on ancestral hate. They'd just find other reasons to hate.
Make for a good novel or movie, though. I'm curious how you get 7 billion people to agree to hide the truth from every human born from this moment onward. It's an interesting puzzle.
Didn't humanity in Brin's Uplift series have to sanitize a lot of human history (for example, mistreatment of lower species) before the aliens arrived to take a look?
James P. Hogan had a book where a seed ship sent to colonize another world sent no living humans. Embryos were generated and raised by machines. You'd almost have to go to that length to hide the past from a generation of humans. You just put whatever history you want into the ship's computers.
Max Planck (sort of)
Who was it who said, "You know how to use a search engine, right?" ;-) I teez!
Unless we hit Peak Facebook