what's all this bullshit anyway? my default search engine in IE7 is google, and i didn't do anything, and i just installed IE7 on my parents computer and it's default search engine was also google without changing a thing. so WTF is this all about?
if it is a noun then don't use it as a qualifying adjective (what kind of display? an lcd display!) just use it as a noun, LCD. it is what it is. and it is a kind of display. so you're completely wrong. PIN is the word for the number, no need to remind people that it's a number. there's no such thing as a PIN hieroglyph, PIN doodle, or PIN secret handshake ATM is the word for the machine, no need to remind people it's a machine. there's no such thing as a ATM dog, ATM grocer, or ATM baseball bat NIC is a type of card, etc.
just because a bunch of people say it doesn't mean it's right.
how is this breaking the 1st law or whatever if they haven't been programmed with the law? it's not like the 'law' in this sense is the same 'law' used in science
are there really people who know american sign language but don't know how to read english? (ps-this is an actual question as i have no idea about that kind of stuff)
but that definition doesn't include retards, people in comas, or people under the age of (let's say around) 5 years old.
no, a skin cell is not human life because it is only part of an organism, and are not needed to keep that complex organisation of living cells alive. i think it's kind of retarded to compare a couple of non-essential living cells of an organism to a whole fetus, or even to just a zygote or embryo as they are the whole living organism. if you were made up of those skin cells scraped off into a petri dish then, yes that would be the same and that would be wrong, but you're not. you are composed of many more cells. billions and billions.
i don't really see it as a human rights issue. maybe i'm just jealous though--if i can't go around killing people less intelligent than i am, then people shouldn't be able to use the "fetuses are dumb" excuse.
what? are you implying a parasitic worm lodged in my colon would inherently cease to be an individual? an embryo is a homo sapien and it is certainly alive. it's DNA is unique and it's cells are easily understood as being its own and not of the mother, therefore it is an individual. geez where did all the logic go?
are you retarded? this has nothing to do with some mysterious higher level physics. it's plane old delay caused by distance at a determined rate. this happens with sound too. you know when lightning strikes and you don't hear the thunder until a couple seconds later because of the distance? this is the same thing, except instead of compression waves travelling through air it's photons travelling through mostly empty space
demand [...] voting machine to produce a paper receipt
what's the point if you're not going to demand that your vote is an actual vote for the president and not just a vote for which political party from your state gets to send a group of people to go vote for the president?
but why would they have the "right" to sell it? (assuming they've never worked on it). if a giant community of people work for free to create something, how can someone come along and claim "right to sell"?
so people can sell firefox on cd? like not just charge for a service associated with it, or reimbursement for materials and time? actual money for something that's completely free? man, you foss people blow my mind. it's like communist hookers or some other really weird analogy
"blue banana" eww i was just trying to be random, not make a crazy fruit euphemism
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_031.html
what's all this bullshit anyway? my default search engine in IE7 is google, and i didn't do anything, and i just installed IE7 on my parents computer and it's default search engine was also google without changing a thing. so WTF is this all about?
yeh? well your a towel!
lol plagiarism? http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/200604 27p2g00m0fe016000c.html
if it is a noun then don't use it as a qualifying adjective (what kind of display? an lcd display!) just use it as a noun, LCD. it is what it is. and it is a kind of display. so you're completely wrong.
PIN is the word for the number, no need to remind people that it's a number. there's no such thing as a PIN hieroglyph, PIN doodle, or PIN secret handshake
ATM is the word for the machine, no need to remind people it's a machine. there's no such thing as a ATM dog, ATM grocer, or ATM baseball bat
NIC is a type of card, etc.
just because a bunch of people say it doesn't mean it's right.
australia doesn't strike me as the 'military' type. even without the "disasters" of which you speak, why would they want some new spiffy fighter jets?
how is this breaking the 1st law or whatever if they haven't been programmed with the law? it's not like the 'law' in this sense is the same 'law' used in science
funniest line in the article: "a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings"
you know russia is in asia right? and is filled with white people. i don't know how many of them claim to be christian, though
i can make a link, but that doesn't mean slashdot doesn't fuck up links when you put without the http:///
shit faced mother fucker!
a species, a sexually reproducing one, going unchanged for millions of years* has nothing to do with evolution**?? WOW
*why no, i haven't RTFM'd
**preemptive: i'm not arguing against evolution and i don't believe in "id"
you forgot to mention that 'anyways' is not a word.
mutant lobster, named kiwaida?
sounds like something that would attack tokyo
you must be a horrible sleepwalker
are there really people who know american sign language but don't know how to read english? (ps-this is an actual question as i have no idea about that kind of stuff)
but that definition doesn't include retards, people in comas, or people under the age of (let's say around) 5 years old.
no, a skin cell is not human life because it is only part of an organism, and are not needed to keep that complex organisation of living cells alive. i think it's kind of retarded to compare a couple of non-essential living cells of an organism to a whole fetus, or even to just a zygote or embryo as they are the whole living organism. if you were made up of those skin cells scraped off into a petri dish then, yes that would be the same and that would be wrong, but you're not. you are composed of many more cells. billions and billions.
i don't really see it as a human rights issue. maybe i'm just jealous though--if i can't go around killing people less intelligent than i am, then people shouldn't be able to use the "fetuses are dumb" excuse.
what? are you implying a parasitic worm lodged in my colon would inherently cease to be an individual? an embryo is a homo sapien and it is certainly alive. it's DNA is unique and it's cells are easily understood as being its own and not of the mother, therefore it is an individual. geez where did all the logic go?
Would these same kids have done this thing if they didn't live in a society that places so little value on human life? Not likely!
are you retarded? this has nothing to do with some mysterious higher level physics. it's plane old delay caused by distance at a determined rate. this happens with sound too. you know when lightning strikes and you don't hear the thunder until a couple seconds later because of the distance? this is the same thing, except instead of compression waves travelling through air it's photons travelling through mostly empty space
Would these same kids have done this anyway without being made to go to school? Maybe not.
demand [...] voting machine to produce a paper receipt
what's the point if you're not going to demand that your vote is an actual vote for the president and not just a vote for which political party from your state gets to send a group of people to go vote for the president?
Which is clearly why cars (which are primarilly designed to run over small children) are legal in the US...
but why would they have the "right" to sell it? (assuming they've never worked on it). if a giant community of people work for free to create something, how can someone come along and claim "right to sell"?
so people can sell firefox on cd? like not just charge for a service associated with it, or reimbursement for materials and time? actual money for something that's completely free? man, you foss people blow my mind. it's like communist hookers or some other really weird analogy
"blue banana" eww i was just trying to be random, not make a crazy fruit euphemism