Ah, you've studied at the NPower school of percentages, haven't you? "If you have both electricity and gas with us, you get 7% off each bill, which is 14% total!" Er, no.
Not really - I don't see them releasing a service pack containing the differences. If they were REALLY responding to consumer demand, which is really only for the extra stuff for those that already have the shows, then they would release a differences pack so that you only have to buy what you haven't already got.
However, you're right about JDBI. Unfortunately there will be enough gullible Trekkies out there to buy the whole lot over just to get the new bits. And there are people like me, who haven't got the old lot and would consider buying the new set now that it's (presumably) better VFM.
That's what I liked so much about the C64 screen editor. Instead of selecting lines, copying them, changing them (Sinclair), or even worse (Oric), just move the cursor onto the 3, hit 4 CR; then move it onto the second digit of either 10 or 11, hit 3 CR and problem solved. So smooth and easy, just made everything else look clunky.
Well, if Ep3 is a prequel to Ep4 (or wherever it was we saw DV for the first time), and if DV is wearing something different from what he wore, er, I mean, will wear, in Ep4, then what he wore in Ep4 will be the new costume and what he wore/will wear/wioll haven wear/whatever in Ep3 will be the old one.
Where was the electronics made that's all over your place? America or Taiwan?
Where were the clothes made that you were wearing? America or China?
Of course, you can buy American-made clothes and electronics, but it's a damn sight more expensive. That, my friends, is the future of IT. The majority of stuff will be produced cheaply, and there will be a small domestic market for specialist niches that can't be shipped abroad. And as with clothes and electronics the stuff the majority wants will be produced very cheaply.
The domestic clothing market is fancy designer stuff, so the domestic IT market will also only be for fancy designer stuff. Nobody in their right minds would start a company making jeans for everyone, there's just no way to compete with the foreign factories.
There is also a domestic electronics market and this runs along the same lines.
So in the long term:
(a) the politicians won't do anything about this because it's just the market operating as it's meant to, and it's already happened at least twice without the economy going tits up - in fact, the benefit to society of clothing and electronics being exported to the East cannot be ignored;
(b) those of us in outsourceable jobs WILL lose them and WILL have to find something that cannot be outsourced, either in fancy designer shops, the IT equivalent of those poncy clothes shops that charge a fortune for a pair of socks that look no different from bog-standard stuff except for the label, or in other fields, such as face to face teaching (although a lot of teaching will be outsourceable as well).
TV Licence is an inaccurate name. Check the back of the licence; the truth, as usual, is in the small print. I can't remember what it says exactly, but the licence allows you to receive broadcast signals. You don't need a licence to have the ability to receive broadcast signals, only actually to receive them. So technically you don't even need to detune your telly, but if you did voluntarily undergo a TV inspection (which you don't have to), they might try to argue that since you have only unplugged the aerial you could have been watching. TV inspectors rely on confessions to convict, so even if you have been watching, insist on seeing what evidence they have before fessing up. TV detector vans are apparently a huge fraud - if they weren't, there should be at least one case that was prosecuted on detector van evidence alone. Let me know if you find one. Google for "BBCResistance" for more info.
Gaim worked reasonably well from what I remember of my brief trial with it but the main problem I had with it was the size of the icons - they were fscking massive and it only took about five icons to fill my 1152x864 screen. Fine if you only have five contacts, but I have about 200. It was clunky in other respects as well, but I can't remember what now. So I went back to Trillian.
The problem with Windows is that it's *too* secure. Yeah, you heard me. Try using a Windows box without admin rights. I did, once, never again. It was some time ago so I can't remember what the problem was. And you can't just supply the Admin password, you have to logout, kill all your apps, login as admin, do what you were trying to do in the first place, if you haven't forgotten because of some other app whinging about losing data or something, logout again, restart everything....it just isn't worth it.
So with Windows you have to run as admin all the time, which is why trojans can get in so easily. Win9x effectively runs as admin all the time anyway unless you have a fancy administrator who configures it for you, which most home users don't.
If "user friendly" = "run as root by default" then yes, Linux would end up having the same problems as Windows. But it doesn't have to. Prompting for root password when attempting a privileged operation is one possible solution; if a trojan attempts to run and the root pw prompt appears, hopefully the user will be prompted to think "er, why did clicking on that MP3 cause a root prompt?" and give the game away. I'm sure there must be other solutions.
Americans are like bagpipes (except bagpipes are more subtle.) Both polarise people; the vast majority either love them or hate them. Very few fall into the "take it or leave it" camp.
American sympathisers wouldn't say this sort of thing. I wouldn't for a minute expect Bliar to say stuff like "um, George, you're not thinking this one through..."
Those at the other pole have tried saying this sort of thing and found it not to work, hence resorting to terrorism and blowing themselves up and that sort of stuff. Because one thing you can say for 11/9 - it changed America. The train bomb changed Spain. The IRA got loads of concessions. Palestinian suicide bombers keep Israel from feeling secure. The fact is - terrorism works when nothing else does, although it has a hell of a price.
Yeah, that'll really calm the terrorists down won't it. We can all be certain of global peace and happiness now.
BTW, if you can't find them now to shoot at them (OBL still at large IIRC), what makes you think that having a bunch of shooters in space is going to change this? And do you think that having a bunch of shooters in space is going to make anti-American sentiment (a) weaker or (b) stronger, particularly when (NOT if) they misfire and zap some perfectly innocent soul. (Clue: the answer isn't (a).)
Alternative routes are useless (other than providing a sometimes welcome change of scenery), as a previous poster pointed out, because eventually they become known to everyone, and equally clogged. Then councils install schemes to stop the traffic clogging up those roads and you're back to the main road. Sat Nav may provide some short term gains, but eventually when everyone has it there'll be no benefit. Sat Nav will probably only help with one-off journeys.
Cue usual posts about death and destruction, although let me point out that many motorcyclists _don't_ die on (or having recently "dismounted") their bikes, and that car drivers converting their tin boxes to crypts are not entirely unheard of. Advanced Motorcycling certainly helps (TVAM).
The 22 mile commute I used to take took anything from 45 minutes to 2 hours and 45 minutes depending on the number and severity of accidents. By motorbike that dropped to a fairly consistent 35 minutes. Now I live in the same town I work in, I cross the town centre starting any time from 8.15 to 8.45 and it takes 25 minutes tops to cross the town centre (5 miles). In a car? No idea. At least an hour, probably, but I haven't attempted it. I keep thinking I should perhaps try it one day when I have some leave, but when I'm not at work I'm usually too busy inspecting the insides of my eyelids.
If you look at the picture you can see it's surrounded by tall trees. I would have thought that would be a bit of a problem for an OPTICAL telescope. IANAA so perhaps it wouldn't be an issue for other types, but the article seems to describe an optical scope fairly clearly.
The article also refers to spokes in Saturn's rings. I thought the rings were a bunch of floating rocks organised into nice flat circular shapes (although could have been watching too much Voyager). So what are the spokes? (My mental image here is of the spokes on a bicycle wheel that hold the hub and rim at a fixed distance, but I thought gravity - not observable by an optical scope - did that job.)
Nice 'scope. Shame he built it under a bunch of trees. Shady location of course, keeps the sun off nicely. Also keeps off the light from Saturn's spokes (huh? WTF is THAT about?)
It would make the point, and is substantially cheaper than suing. And if they sued, PG could simply point out that they did it first and make some use of the words "sauce", "goose" and "gander."
no, my email address does not reflect said employer.
True, but a WHOIS on your domain identifies an ISP. Of course, there is no way of knowing if this is who you work for.
Would a smart person trust that the 'free' antivirus tools are indeed what they claim to be without some way of independently verifying that? I sure wouldn't.
Good question. Here's one for you: Would a smart person trust a corporation whose raison d'etre is profit, and whose profits depend on a steady stream of new viruses making it into the public domain? How exactly do you know that Symantec doesn't have a department, or secret links to one, that does what is necessary to ensure continued profit?
Your approach sounds good though. If you just popup a message, it will be ignored. A previous poster suggested redirecting people to a sandbox where they could only download virus killers, and otherwise do no harm - is that approach feasible?
The article boils down to: what do you charge for software?
If you release over the internet, or for "free" with prebuilt PCs, then you have no manufacturing cost, and any number you identify as "price" is going to be a number pulled out from where the sun don't shine.
So if you don't need to cover costs, the remaining factor is: how much can we charge and still get away with it? Which is a question long since answered, I'm sure. They charge $45 because they can, not for any other reason. I can't really see any reason why they don't charge $450 or, for that matter, $4.50.
This won't stop an anecdote though. A friend of mine wrote a word processor and sold it for 50. He didn't sell many copies. He asked a consultant about it who said "quadruple the price". At 200 it sold like hot cakes. The price made all the difference to the perceived quality of the software. Naturally my friend wasn't complaining...
But are you confusing "evidence" with "interpretation of evidence"?
Man walks into room, sees bloody knife on floor. Picks it up, wondering what it is. Walks round back of sofa. Sees dead body. Enter Police.
What is the evidence? Dead body, bloody knife.
What is the/interpretation/ of that evidence? Man holding knife is the murderer. But police didn't see what happened before they entered the room.
Evolution scientists tend to suffer from what's called circular reasoning. A piece of evidence appears. Because we believe in evolution, this evidence must mean X. X supports evolution. Therefore evolution must be true. Logicians shake heads sadly.
If you assume God doesn't exist, then of course Genesis 1 is impossible. However, if you assume God/does/ exist, and your (observable, repeatable) experience of God is that everything he says is completely reliable, then accepting Genesis 1 in literal form is not difficult.
That's what he says he did, and I not only have no reason not to believe him but also have loads of reasons TO believe him. In a nutshell, that's why I believe in a literal six day creation.
I know some Christians don't accept Gen.1 literally. I know evolutionists think I'm nuts. But I know my Redeemer lives.
To some extent yes, but it seems that the refining process is sorting this out over time.
I am a Christian (and a literal 6 day creationist as well), so I looked up "creation science" as an ideal example. It appears biased, because it refers almost straight away to "creation myth."
So I looked up "myth" in dictionary.com. In common use the word "myth" implies that the story is false - see definition 3. If you call my beliefs a myth(3), then you offend me, just as I would offend you if I called your beliefs a myth(3) (compare using he(2) in front of a feminist).
Myth(1) could include the theory of evolution (because it says "or", not "and", and evolution _is_ a myth(1) about ancestors). If creation and evolution are both myth(1), then the Wiki entry is technically unbiased.
However, due to common usage, calling creation science a myth is inflammatory at best (cf he(2)), therefore use of "creation beliefs" would be much better (to which you get redirected, in fact, if you click on "creation myth").
> The amount of water required to make a ton of steel is less than, equal to, or greater than 100 tons.
Incredible. And that's not all. In China, the amount of water it takes just to cook a single grain of rice is less than, equal to, or greater than all the water in the Pacific Ocean!!!
And in India, the amount of water used by a single red chili, from seedling to mature pepper, would be enough to, or not enough to, or more than enough to dwarf the planet Jupiter!!!!!
We should get these bar stewards before they destroy the entire Universe!!!!!!!
>> I've used computers every day for 17 years and I couldn't figure something out! This is a sign of a chronic usability issue
> Photoshop and The GIMP are very complicated pieces of software
Yeah but what exactly was it that they couldn't figure out? Are they half an hour into running GIMP and still can't find whatever button does File Open? OK you wouldn't expect it to be immediately obvious how to wrap a rectangular image round a sphere with multiple light sources and a starry background, but in my experience of attempting to switch from Paint Shop Pro to Gimp it's the/really basic/ stuff that is impossible to find.
Transition is not a problem that hasn't been solved before. Microsoft have a WordPerfect mode thingy for Word. You can use Excel with 1-2-3 keystrokes. So what the Gimp could use is a mode for Windows users where basic stuff like File Open* is in the obvious place.
* Or whatever it was I couldn't find. It might not have been that, but it was/basic/, and eventually I just gave up looking and went back to PSP.
Britain should have been bombed even more then, because not only do our women vote, and most of the rest also apply, but we even had a woman Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher). And there's the Queen of course.
I realise your last line is probably a signature, but imagine the following hypothetical conversation:
Arabs: Here are our problems. Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening! Arabs: Here are our problems. Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening! Arabs: Here are our problems. Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening! Arabs: Right, we want you dead. Americans: Blimey, there's no reasoning with you people!
As I said, purely hypothetical. Who, exactly, can't be reasoned with in this completely made up, imaginary, hypothetical, and probably thoroughly inaccurate scenario?
Yes, but terrorism happens when people *don't* have other choices. Israel was founded in 1948. Sept 11 happened in 2001. IANAMEE so they may not be linked, but if they are, what exactly was happening for those 53 years?
Here's a novel idea for you (not just Americans, but us Brits as well, although we suffer terrorism to a lesser extent)
Since you can't (a) bomb terrorists into submission (bombing Afghanistan and Iraq didn't work, how many more countries will you bomb before you realise this? With our direct experience of the IRA I would have thought we of all people would have known that) and (b) defend effectively against terrorism (another poster mentioned Israel's inability to stop Palestinian suicide bombers), how about considering option (c) - trying to figure out why these people hate you so much and trying to defuse the hatred? Surely that is a far better way of achieving peace than passing Acts which only serve to restrict normal people without actually doing something about the problem?
Patriot Act and others are part of the vicious circle, not the solution. Terrorist strikes. Government doesn't want to consider (c) because it would mean admitting it was wrong. Government restricts people's liberties without fixing the problem. People grow resentful. Government manages to pull the spin that terrorists caused this problem, rather than Government power-hunger and short-sightedness. People decide they hate terrorists more than power-hungry politicians and vote for governments that hate terrorists. Governments continue to piss terrorists off for their own ends, who continue to strike, and so the circle continues.
Solution: Government admits it was wrong, fixes what drives people to blow themselves up in protest, circle of hatred ends, everyone lives happily ever after. How difficult would it REALLY be to give Israel its own state within the USA, or some other Israel-friendly nation (Jerusalem, I know, but you can build a bigger better New Jerusalem, point out that God is not limited to one small country, and that once we have peace with the Palestinians, Jews can visit the Original Jerusalem(TM) just like Muslims can freely visit Mecca, or Christians can freely visit Rome)?
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Ah, you've studied at the NPower school of percentages, haven't you? "If you have both electricity and gas with us, you get 7% off each bill, which is 14% total!" Er, no.
Not really - I don't see them releasing a service pack containing the differences. If they were REALLY responding to consumer demand, which is really only for the extra stuff for those that already have the shows, then they would release a differences pack so that you only have to buy what you haven't already got.
However, you're right about JDBI. Unfortunately there will be enough gullible Trekkies out there to buy the whole lot over just to get the new bits. And there are people like me, who haven't got the old lot and would consider buying the new set now that it's (presumably) better VFM.
That's what I liked so much about the C64 screen editor. Instead of selecting lines, copying them, changing them (Sinclair), or even worse (Oric), just move the cursor onto the 3, hit 4 CR; then move it onto the second digit of either 10 or 11, hit 3 CR and problem solved. So smooth and easy, just made everything else look clunky.
Well, if Ep3 is a prequel to Ep4 (or wherever it was we saw DV for the first time), and if DV is wearing something different from what he wore, er, I mean, will wear, in Ep4, then what he wore in Ep4 will be the new costume and what he wore/will wear/wioll haven wear/whatever in Ep3 will be the old one.
Where was the electronics made that's all over your place? America or Taiwan?
Where were the clothes made that you were wearing? America or China?
Of course, you can buy American-made clothes and electronics, but it's a damn sight more expensive. That, my friends, is the future of IT. The majority of stuff will be produced cheaply, and there will be a small domestic market for specialist niches that can't be shipped abroad. And as with clothes and electronics the stuff the majority wants will be produced very cheaply.
The domestic clothing market is fancy designer stuff, so the domestic IT market will also only be for fancy designer stuff. Nobody in their right minds would start a company making jeans for everyone, there's just no way to compete with the foreign factories.
There is also a domestic electronics market and this runs along the same lines.
So in the long term:
(a) the politicians won't do anything about this because it's just the market operating as it's meant to, and it's already happened at least twice without the economy going tits up - in fact, the benefit to society of clothing and electronics being exported to the East cannot be ignored;
(b) those of us in outsourceable jobs WILL lose them and WILL have to find something that cannot be outsourced, either in fancy designer shops, the IT equivalent of those poncy clothes shops that charge a fortune for a pair of socks that look no different from bog-standard stuff except for the label, or in other fields, such as face to face teaching (although a lot of teaching will be outsourceable as well).
TV Licence is an inaccurate name. Check the back of the licence; the truth, as usual, is in the small print. I can't remember what it says exactly, but the licence allows you to receive broadcast signals. You don't need a licence to have the ability to receive broadcast signals, only actually to receive them. So technically you don't even need to detune your telly, but if you did voluntarily undergo a TV inspection (which you don't have to), they might try to argue that since you have only unplugged the aerial you could have been watching. TV inspectors rely on confessions to convict, so even if you have been watching, insist on seeing what evidence they have before fessing up. TV detector vans are apparently a huge fraud - if they weren't, there should be at least one case that was prosecuted on detector van evidence alone. Let me know if you find one. Google for "BBCResistance" for more info.
Gaim worked reasonably well from what I remember of my brief trial with it but the main problem I had with it was the size of the icons - they were fscking massive and it only took about five icons to fill my 1152x864 screen. Fine if you only have five contacts, but I have about 200. It was clunky in other respects as well, but I can't remember what now. So I went back to Trillian.
The problem with Windows is that it's *too* secure. Yeah, you heard me. Try using a Windows box without admin rights. I did, once, never again. It was some time ago so I can't remember what the problem was. And you can't just supply the Admin password, you have to logout, kill all your apps, login as admin, do what you were trying to do in the first place, if you haven't forgotten because of some other app whinging about losing data or something, logout again, restart everything....it just isn't worth it.
So with Windows you have to run as admin all the time, which is why trojans can get in so easily. Win9x effectively runs as admin all the time anyway unless you have a fancy administrator who configures it for you, which most home users don't.
If "user friendly" = "run as root by default" then yes, Linux would end up having the same problems as Windows. But it doesn't have to. Prompting for root password when attempting a privileged operation is one possible solution; if a trojan attempts to run and the root pw prompt appears, hopefully the user will be prompted to think "er, why did clicking on that MP3 cause a root prompt?" and give the game away. I'm sure there must be other solutions.
Americans are like bagpipes (except bagpipes are more subtle.) Both polarise people; the vast majority either love them or hate them. Very few fall into the "take it or leave it" camp.
American sympathisers wouldn't say this sort of thing. I wouldn't for a minute expect Bliar to say stuff like "um, George, you're not thinking this one through..."
Those at the other pole have tried saying this sort of thing and found it not to work, hence resorting to terrorism and blowing themselves up and that sort of stuff. Because one thing you can say for 11/9 - it changed America. The train bomb changed Spain. The IRA got loads of concessions. Palestinian suicide bombers keep Israel from feeling secure. The fact is - terrorism works when nothing else does, although it has a hell of a price.
Yeah, that'll really calm the terrorists down won't it. We can all be certain of global peace and happiness now.
BTW, if you can't find them now to shoot at them (OBL still at large IIRC), what makes you think that having a bunch of shooters in space is going to change this? And do you think that having a bunch of shooters in space is going to make anti-American sentiment (a) weaker or (b) stronger, particularly when (NOT if) they misfire and zap some perfectly innocent soul. (Clue: the answer isn't (a).)
Filtering.
Also in many parts of the UK bikes can use bus lanes.
I avoid traffic by driving round it.
Alternative routes are useless (other than providing a sometimes welcome change of scenery), as a previous poster pointed out, because eventually they become known to everyone, and equally clogged. Then councils install schemes to stop the traffic clogging up those roads and you're back to the main road. Sat Nav may provide some short term gains, but eventually when everyone has it there'll be no benefit. Sat Nav will probably only help with one-off journeys.
Cue usual posts about death and destruction, although let me point out that many motorcyclists _don't_ die on (or having recently "dismounted") their bikes, and that car drivers converting their tin boxes to crypts are not entirely unheard of. Advanced Motorcycling certainly helps (TVAM).
The 22 mile commute I used to take took anything from 45 minutes to 2 hours and 45 minutes depending on the number and severity of accidents. By motorbike that dropped to a fairly consistent 35 minutes. Now I live in the same town I work in, I cross the town centre starting any time from 8.15 to 8.45 and it takes 25 minutes tops to cross the town centre (5 miles). In a car? No idea. At least an hour, probably, but I haven't attempted it. I keep thinking I should perhaps try it one day when I have some leave, but when I'm not at work I'm usually too busy inspecting the insides of my eyelids.
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If you look at the picture you can see it's surrounded by tall trees. I would have thought that would be a bit of a problem for an OPTICAL telescope. IANAA so perhaps it wouldn't be an issue for other types, but the article seems to describe an optical scope fairly clearly.
The article also refers to spokes in Saturn's rings. I thought the rings were a bunch of floating rocks organised into nice flat circular shapes (although could have been watching too much Voyager). So what are the spokes? (My mental image here is of the spokes on a bicycle wheel that hold the hub and rim at a fixed distance, but I thought gravity - not observable by an optical scope - did that job.)
Nice 'scope. Shame he built it under a bunch of trees. Shady location of course, keeps the sun off nicely. Also keeps off the light from Saturn's spokes (huh? WTF is THAT about?)
...by renaming themselves "World eBook Library Consortia 2".
It would make the point, and is substantially cheaper than suing. And if they sued, PG could simply point out that they did it first and make some use of the words "sauce", "goose" and "gander."
no, my email address does not reflect said employer.
True, but a WHOIS on your domain identifies an ISP. Of course, there is no way of knowing if this is who you work for.
Would a smart person trust that the 'free' antivirus tools are indeed what they claim to be without some way of independently verifying that? I sure wouldn't.
Good question. Here's one for you: Would a smart person trust a corporation whose raison d'etre is profit, and whose profits depend on a steady stream of new viruses making it into the public domain? How exactly do you know that Symantec doesn't have a department, or secret links to one, that does what is necessary to ensure continued profit?
Your approach sounds good though. If you just popup a message, it will be ignored. A previous poster suggested redirecting people to a sandbox where they could only download virus killers, and otherwise do no harm - is that approach feasible?
The article boils down to: what do you charge for software?
If you release over the internet, or for "free" with prebuilt PCs, then you have no manufacturing cost, and any number you identify as "price" is going to be a number pulled out from where the sun don't shine.
So if you don't need to cover costs, the remaining factor is: how much can we charge and still get away with it? Which is a question long since answered, I'm sure. They charge $45 because they can, not for any other reason. I can't really see any reason why they don't charge $450 or, for that matter, $4.50.
This won't stop an anecdote though. A friend of mine wrote a word processor and sold it for 50. He didn't sell many copies. He asked a consultant about it who said "quadruple the price". At 200 it sold like hot cakes. The price made all the difference to the perceived quality of the software. Naturally my friend wasn't complaining...
But are you confusing "evidence" with "interpretation of evidence"?
/interpretation/ of that evidence? Man holding knife is the murderer. But police didn't see what happened before they entered the room.
/does/ exist, and your (observable, repeatable) experience of God is that everything he says is completely reliable, then accepting Genesis 1 in literal form is not difficult.
Man walks into room, sees bloody knife on floor. Picks it up, wondering what it is. Walks round back of sofa. Sees dead body. Enter Police.
What is the evidence? Dead body, bloody knife.
What is the
Evolution scientists tend to suffer from what's called circular reasoning. A piece of evidence appears. Because we believe in evolution, this evidence must mean X. X supports evolution. Therefore evolution must be true. Logicians shake heads sadly.
If you assume God doesn't exist, then of course Genesis 1 is impossible. However, if you assume God
That's what he says he did, and I not only have no reason not to believe him but also have loads of reasons TO believe him. In a nutshell, that's why I believe in a literal six day creation.
I know some Christians don't accept Gen.1 literally. I know evolutionists think I'm nuts. But I know my Redeemer lives.
To some extent yes, but it seems that the refining process is sorting this out over time.
I am a Christian (and a literal 6 day creationist as well), so I looked up "creation science" as an ideal example. It appears biased, because it refers almost straight away to "creation myth."
So I looked up "myth" in dictionary.com. In common use the word "myth" implies that the story is false - see definition 3. If you call my beliefs a myth(3), then you offend me, just as I would offend you if I called your beliefs a myth(3) (compare using he(2) in front of a feminist).
Myth(1) could include the theory of evolution (because it says "or", not "and", and evolution _is_ a myth(1) about ancestors). If creation and evolution are both myth(1), then the Wiki entry is technically unbiased.
However, due to common usage, calling creation science a myth is inflammatory at best (cf he(2)), therefore use of "creation beliefs" would be much better (to which you get redirected, in fact, if you click on "creation myth").
Judging by Marco's drumming, particularly in KotWF, I'd say probably adamantium.
> The amount of water required to make a ton of steel is less than, equal to, or greater than 100 tons.
Incredible. And that's not all. In China, the amount of water it takes just to cook a single grain of rice is less than, equal to, or greater than all the water in the Pacific Ocean!!!
And in India, the amount of water used by a single red chili, from seedling to mature pepper, would be enough to, or not enough to, or more than enough to dwarf the planet Jupiter!!!!!
We should get these bar stewards before they destroy the entire Universe!!!!!!!
>> I've used computers every day for 17 years and I couldn't figure something out! This is a sign of a chronic usability issue
/really basic/ stuff that is impossible to find.
/basic/, and eventually I just gave up looking and went back to PSP.
> Photoshop and The GIMP are very complicated pieces of software
Yeah but what exactly was it that they couldn't figure out? Are they half an hour into running GIMP and still can't find whatever button does File Open? OK you wouldn't expect it to be immediately obvious how to wrap a rectangular image round a sphere with multiple light sources and a starry background, but in my experience of attempting to switch from Paint Shop Pro to Gimp it's the
Transition is not a problem that hasn't been solved before. Microsoft have a WordPerfect mode thingy for Word. You can use Excel with 1-2-3 keystrokes. So what the Gimp could use is a mode for Windows users where basic stuff like File Open* is in the obvious place.
* Or whatever it was I couldn't find. It might not have been that, but it was
Fair comment. Do they?
Britain should have been bombed even more then, because not only do our women vote, and most of the rest also apply, but we even had a woman Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher). And there's the Queen of course.
I realise your last line is probably a signature, but imagine the following hypothetical conversation:
Arabs: Here are our problems.
Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening!
Arabs: Here are our problems.
Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening!
Arabs: Here are our problems.
Americans: (fingers in ears) La la la I'm not listening!
Arabs: Right, we want you dead.
Americans: Blimey, there's no reasoning with you people!
As I said, purely hypothetical. Who, exactly, can't be reasoned with in this completely made up, imaginary, hypothetical, and probably thoroughly inaccurate scenario?
Yes, but terrorism happens when people *don't* have other choices. Israel was founded in 1948. Sept 11 happened in 2001. IANAMEE so they may not be linked, but if they are, what exactly was happening for those 53 years?
Here's a novel idea for you (not just Americans, but us Brits as well, although we suffer terrorism to a lesser extent)
:-)
Since you can't (a) bomb terrorists into submission (bombing Afghanistan and Iraq didn't work, how many more countries will you bomb before you realise this? With our direct experience of the IRA I would have thought we of all people would have known that) and (b) defend effectively against terrorism (another poster mentioned Israel's inability to stop Palestinian suicide bombers), how about considering option (c) - trying to figure out why these people hate you so much and trying to defuse the hatred? Surely that is a far better way of achieving peace than passing Acts which only serve to restrict normal people without actually doing something about the problem?
Patriot Act and others are part of the vicious circle, not the solution. Terrorist strikes. Government doesn't want to consider (c) because it would mean admitting it was wrong. Government restricts people's liberties without fixing the problem. People grow resentful. Government manages to pull the spin that terrorists caused this problem, rather than Government power-hunger and short-sightedness. People decide they hate terrorists more than power-hungry politicians and vote for governments that hate terrorists. Governments continue to piss terrorists off for their own ends, who continue to strike, and so the circle continues.
Solution: Government admits it was wrong, fixes what drives people to blow themselves up in protest, circle of hatred ends, everyone lives happily ever after. How difficult would it REALLY be to give Israel its own state within the USA, or some other Israel-friendly nation (Jerusalem, I know, but you can build a bigger better New Jerusalem, point out that God is not limited to one small country, and that once we have peace with the Palestinians, Jews can visit the Original Jerusalem(TM) just like Muslims can freely visit Mecca, or Christians can freely visit Rome)?
Yes, I am considering running for PM