If an orphan baby is adopted by parents from a different race, and is surrounded by people of that race, how would he even know what his "own" race is? As long as you keep him away from mirrors, he would not even be able to tell that his face looks different, and althought he could see that he has a different skin color than everyone else, as a toddler he would also have different size and proportions, a far greater difference.
Well, I can choose not to own/drive a car, and escape that mandate. What do I have to do to escape this one? (And yes, I agree that there are, and will be, very many exceptions and exemptions, but that only serves to stink up the bill, not to make it nice.)
In other news, Cassandra developers are celebrating the fact that their database is now used to store the largest amount of worthless information in history.
I used to think that also applied to Slashdot. But no...
You know what's funny - if the story were about metric vs. U.S. vs. Imperial measurements, the conversation would devolve into a global warming flame-fest.
Persistent databases - made me impatient with Relational DBs and it's one reason why I never want to write another line of SQL or use a Relational DB ever again.
Please forgive my ignorance - I searched quickly on Google, but only found things about "persistent database connections" - what is a persistent database?
Thank you, that's an excellent response to all the China v. America doom-saying that's going on these days. Twenty years ago - and I am old enough to remember it first hand - it was Japan that was going to bury us. There are very good reasons that China's prospects look bleak rather than promising.
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They had to make room for such quality programming as "The War at Home" and "The Cleveland Show."
I never did trust those guys.
You know she's geeky because she didn't round down to 3 hours.
My new sig, when I get tired of this one - or possibly for use on other forums.
Yes, but they're brave enough to take on the Bush administration!
I did watch this movie - on YouTube, 10 minutes at a time!
Nonsense! Learn some hobo markings, grab a bindle, and hop on board!
Yes, and they made a documentary.
It will be a return to the golden age of the animated GIF!
So true. I hope whoever modded it "Redundant" did so ironically!
It's usually the last place you look.
Good game all right, better than Video Oujja.
I'm not the Messiah, and so's my wife.
Well, I can choose not to own/drive a car, and escape that mandate. What do I have to do to escape this one? (And yes, I agree that there are, and will be, very many exceptions and exemptions, but that only serves to stink up the bill, not to make it nice.)
I don't know how mandating citizens to purchase health insurance is going to pass Constitutional muster.
Mod parent up, informative! Or bet yet, mod me up so that my post will call attention to his/hers!
And one kid seems to *love* the Speedo man!
Correct - Slashdot doesn't use Cassandra!
You know what's funny - if the story were about metric vs. U.S. vs. Imperial measurements, the conversation would devolve into a global warming flame-fest.
Thanks for the info.
Please forgive my ignorance - I searched quickly on Google, but only found things about "persistent database connections" - what is a persistent database?
Ha ha ha! Wait, that's not funny... Did you mean something like "In Soviet Russia, diversity tracks you!"?
I thought I was number one in her life, but she told me I wasn't worth number two...
You mean +1 Luddite.
Thank you, that's an excellent response to all the China v. America doom-saying that's going on these days. Twenty years ago - and I am old enough to remember it first hand - it was Japan that was going to bury us. There are very good reasons that China's prospects look bleak rather than promising.