Why do you suggest our solar system? Those black holes at the centers of galaxies have been around for far longer. I for one, welcome our new gravitational overlords.
Was it Linus who said that Microsoft hating was a disease? I am a Linux user at home. I'm not much of a fan for Windows XP and I loath the Vista user interface. Windows 7 actually has me a little excited. And all of these are stable systems. The benefit to Windows XP being around for so long is that Microsoft had a long time to make it stable. I haven't had a blue screen of death on Windows in years. It's time for people to move on from knocking Windows for instability. It just makes them look like lackeys.
Pirates are born because it's too damn easy compared to the alternative. The RIAA/MPAA have failed to recognize that their product has become such shit that cheap knock-offs are actually better in almost every regard. Copyright piracy has come to the point where I can have what I want not only cheaper, but also faster, more convenient, and higher quality than the non-pirated version. The fashion industry has little to be concerned about when it comes to cheap knock-offs because they just can't be compared to the real thing. As long as the RIAA/MPAA fail to innovate with the product they are offering and how they are offering it, they are going to die a slow and painful death. It's also worth mentioning that they have a lot of catchup work to do at this point if they actually want to return to innovation.
And this is exactly why I play all of my CDs from burned copies of the ripped original. I keep the original safely stored as a master copy in case of catastrophic data loss (which actually happened recently due to my own temporary stupidity).
In order to actually be organic, they have to spend a lot of time and money getting approval from the USDA.
This is inaccurate. To be certified organic, they would need to spend this effort. I find the whole "certified organic" thing to be dubious at best. I know some of the farmers I buy from. Many of them grow using the best practices of organic farming. They do not go through any effort to be "certified organic" because they don't market their produce through main stream grocery store chains. Word of mouth on the quality of their produce is good enough.
I would love to grow my own produce (and did for a time when I had the space). But alas, I now live in an apartment complex with no more outdoor space than a 4x8 foot balcony that only receives moderate lighting. I am more than happy to support my local farmers at the farmers market when I'm getting better prices for a zucchini than I could get anywhere else in the area, most of whom engage in organic growing practices. "Organic" is a scam only in that it's a regulated term (which artificially drives up prices). Know where you're food is coming from, and that should be good enough.
Actually there is growing evidence that the early development is due to fat levels, not hormones. So the McBurgers are still to blame, but for a much more nefarious reason.
I would say that buying organic food is financial masterbation, except that's not fair to masterbation.
It would be more accurate to say that buying organic food in a grocery store is financial masturbation. I buy much of my produce at the farmers market every weekend. It's guaranteed to be locally grown, it's almost always cheaper (even with the organic growers), and my variety is better. I buy bulk organic grain when I can for a fraction of what it costs at the standard grocer.
Buying pre-packaged organic food is financial masturbation. Pre-packaged organic food completely defeats the point on so many levels.
"Organic" is an over-hyped trend however. A far better option is to buy your food from local producers.
I thought this was already complete. Sales tax, gas tax, entertainment tax, property tax, income tax, estate tax... what are we missing here? Hell I even have to pay tax to park my car in a national forest and go hiking.
Personally, I see the exact opposite happening. I find the obsession today with straight, unfeminine, twig like bodies down right freakish and creepy. Today it seems like if a woman has nice curves, she is labeled as "fat". The concept of what makes a woman "fat" has become so blown out of reality that I can only assume that we have an entire nation that's slowly turning gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) as we prefer images of women that are more and more boyish.
No, I'm simply arguing that it makes no difference whether you write by hand or type on a computer "riding" instead of "writing". As such, the argument made by the grammar nazi that I was responding to is a non-issue in context.
If you have to read all of your notes to search for something, then you are taking notes wrong. You should be able to flip through the pages and find what you are looking for pretty fast.
There is real world usefulness for being able to take notes while listening. Perfect example is project meetings where you need to make note of what multiple people are agreeing to and what they are reporting their progress to be.
The same way you had no problem reading his typing when he used the word riding instead of writing. If you are fluent in a language, you usually are able to use context to understand what people intended to write.
What do you do when you need to take a lot of notes fast (like in school?) and you don't have a computer handy? Even for note taking, computers are still a clumsy medium due to the inability to quickly jot down diagrams.
Honestly how often is hand soldering of surface mount components actually done? In my career I have seen it a frequent skill for prototyping or one-of-a-kind systems. Never have I seen it done in any mass form though.
What ever happen to trying to understand the root meaning of a word through it's origins? Agnostic has the root Latin word "gnostic" which generally means 'to have knowledge'. So "agnostic" simply means 'to be without knowledge'. This means that agnosticism and atheism are mutually exclusive. It is possible to be both or either. To say that you are agnostic simply is to admit that you have no idea about the nature of God. It is possible to be an agnostic atheist, which is to say that you do not believe in the existence of God, but you also do not believe that we know for certain.
From Merrian-Webster
Faith: 2,b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust
You might not like the idea of thinking of "faith" outside of the belief in magic, but the standard recognized English definition is what it is. Arguing about the difference in saying that you don't believe in the existence of God and saying that you believe in the non-existence of God is just sophistry. Face it, faith in many things is an important aspect of everyone's lives every day. Thinking of it in such narrow terms so that you can use it as an attack point just makes you an ass.
It just all sucks when you have a client that doesn't want the software that you are making for their internal processes to get into the hands of their competitors.
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Absolutely not. Parents are free to home school their children all they want.
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Why do you suggest our solar system? Those black holes at the centers of galaxies have been around for far longer. I for one, welcome our new gravitational overlords.
Was it Linus who said that Microsoft hating was a disease? I am a Linux user at home. I'm not much of a fan for Windows XP and I loath the Vista user interface. Windows 7 actually has me a little excited. And all of these are stable systems. The benefit to Windows XP being around for so long is that Microsoft had a long time to make it stable. I haven't had a blue screen of death on Windows in years. It's time for people to move on from knocking Windows for instability. It just makes them look like lackeys.
Pirates are born because it's too damn easy compared to the alternative. The RIAA/MPAA have failed to recognize that their product has become such shit that cheap knock-offs are actually better in almost every regard. Copyright piracy has come to the point where I can have what I want not only cheaper, but also faster, more convenient, and higher quality than the non-pirated version. The fashion industry has little to be concerned about when it comes to cheap knock-offs because they just can't be compared to the real thing. As long as the RIAA/MPAA fail to innovate with the product they are offering and how they are offering it, they are going to die a slow and painful death. It's also worth mentioning that they have a lot of catchup work to do at this point if they actually want to return to innovation.
And this is exactly why I play all of my CDs from burned copies of the ripped original. I keep the original safely stored as a master copy in case of catastrophic data loss (which actually happened recently due to my own temporary stupidity).
In order to actually be organic, they have to spend a lot of time and money getting approval from the USDA.
This is inaccurate. To be certified organic, they would need to spend this effort. I find the whole "certified organic" thing to be dubious at best. I know some of the farmers I buy from. Many of them grow using the best practices of organic farming. They do not go through any effort to be "certified organic" because they don't market their produce through main stream grocery store chains. Word of mouth on the quality of their produce is good enough.
I would love to grow my own produce (and did for a time when I had the space). But alas, I now live in an apartment complex with no more outdoor space than a 4x8 foot balcony that only receives moderate lighting. I am more than happy to support my local farmers at the farmers market when I'm getting better prices for a zucchini than I could get anywhere else in the area, most of whom engage in organic growing practices. "Organic" is a scam only in that it's a regulated term (which artificially drives up prices). Know where you're food is coming from, and that should be good enough.
Actually there is growing evidence that the early development is due to fat levels, not hormones. So the McBurgers are still to blame, but for a much more nefarious reason.
I would say that buying organic food is financial masterbation, except that's not fair to masterbation.
It would be more accurate to say that buying organic food in a grocery store is financial masturbation. I buy much of my produce at the farmers market every weekend. It's guaranteed to be locally grown, it's almost always cheaper (even with the organic growers), and my variety is better. I buy bulk organic grain when I can for a fraction of what it costs at the standard grocer.
Buying pre-packaged organic food is financial masturbation. Pre-packaged organic food completely defeats the point on so many levels.
"Organic" is an over-hyped trend however. A far better option is to buy your food from local producers.
Straight lines seem to be a bigger problem than curves. Straight shot tunnels are guaranteed to be a traffic jam center no matter where you go.
I'm taxed for the air I breath. At least if they use brain implants, maybe they'll stop taxing me for stimuli which I do not use.
I thought this was already complete. Sales tax, gas tax, entertainment tax, property tax, income tax, estate tax... what are we missing here? Hell I even have to pay tax to park my car in a national forest and go hiking.
Personally, I see the exact opposite happening. I find the obsession today with straight, unfeminine, twig like bodies down right freakish and creepy. Today it seems like if a woman has nice curves, she is labeled as "fat". The concept of what makes a woman "fat" has become so blown out of reality that I can only assume that we have an entire nation that's slowly turning gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) as we prefer images of women that are more and more boyish.
No, I'm simply arguing that it makes no difference whether you write by hand or type on a computer "riding" instead of "writing". As such, the argument made by the grammar nazi that I was responding to is a non-issue in context.
The point is to selectively take notes of key points, not to transcribe what the professor is saying.
If you have to read all of your notes to search for something, then you are taking notes wrong. You should be able to flip through the pages and find what you are looking for pretty fast.
There is real world usefulness for being able to take notes while listening. Perfect example is project meetings where you need to make note of what multiple people are agreeing to and what they are reporting their progress to be.
The same way you had no problem reading his typing when he used the word riding instead of writing. If you are fluent in a language, you usually are able to use context to understand what people intended to write.
What do you do when you need to take a lot of notes fast (like in school?) and you don't have a computer handy? Even for note taking, computers are still a clumsy medium due to the inability to quickly jot down diagrams.
Honestly how often is hand soldering of surface mount components actually done? In my career I have seen it a frequent skill for prototyping or one-of-a-kind systems. Never have I seen it done in any mass form though.
What ever happen to trying to understand the root meaning of a word through it's origins? Agnostic has the root Latin word "gnostic" which generally means 'to have knowledge'. So "agnostic" simply means 'to be without knowledge'. This means that agnosticism and atheism are mutually exclusive. It is possible to be both or either. To say that you are agnostic simply is to admit that you have no idea about the nature of God. It is possible to be an agnostic atheist, which is to say that you do not believe in the existence of God, but you also do not believe that we know for certain.
From Merrian-Webster
Faith: 2,b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust
You might not like the idea of thinking of "faith" outside of the belief in magic, but the standard recognized English definition is what it is. Arguing about the difference in saying that you don't believe in the existence of God and saying that you believe in the non-existence of God is just sophistry. Face it, faith in many things is an important aspect of everyone's lives every day. Thinking of it in such narrow terms so that you can use it as an attack point just makes you an ass.
It just all sucks when you have a client that doesn't want the software that you are making for their internal processes to get into the hands of their competitors.
Who uses words for strong passwords? If I was doing that, I wouldn't have this problem.