Well, acccording to betteridge's law... look, guys, just because someone proclaims something as a "law" doesn't make it one. Especially if the someone is a journalist.
Wikipedia backs me up in your own link: "Betteridge has admitted to breaking his own law, in an article published at his own site."
I don't understand why they're using deisel rather than natural gas. With natural gas they could have the generators on the roof. Illinois Secretary of State mainframes have two backup generators, both natural gas. I've lost electricity a whole lot of times, but I've never had a natural gas disruption in my six decades. Not even in 2006 when we were hit with two tornados and electricity was out for a week; I heated my apartment with the oven (the gas furnace needs electricity for blowers and theromostats).
Not only is your comment redundant, it's wrong. I'm redundant, too, when I point out (as has already been done) that it's extinct IN THE WILD. That's accurate. You just missed three words is all.
I doubt the fly is aware he'll die if he's swatted, that the fear is strictly instinctive, but it stands to reason that sentience would have evolved from emotion, rather than the other way around.
And yet we get something on a level of a dumb teenager.
Judging by the recent proliferation of folks who don't know when and when not to use an spostrophe, don't know who's from whose, or their from there, refusal to use capitalization, I'd say there are way too many ignorant teenagers here.
I guess what various folks said here are correct, Apple IS the new Microsoft! Suing someone over trademark when thy were using the mark first? That's more MS-like than MS!
The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Personal Pages
Firewalled off here, but if all you can link to is a personal page, your argument is pretty damned weak. I'll have a look at it when I get home, but I've run across no "show stoppers".
Meanwhile the rest of us can run brand new and decade old software, hell you can even run Vista drivers on 7,and it all "just works". Can YOU do that?
Not only can, but do. By superior I mean more hardware-fault tolerant; flacky hardware makes Windows flaky, Linux purrs along until the hardware breaks completely. I mean having more features -- when I decide to shut my Linux box down, it comes up with all the open apps and documents reopened. You can't do that in Windows, and with its necessity of being rebooted with every patch (unlike Linux) it really needs this missing feature.
Linux can use movies and animation for wallpaper. Windows can't.
Linux can "remember" a default log-in password. Windows can't without a registry hack.
Linux is compatible with Unix, Mac, BSD. Windows is compatible with nothing -- I'd call that defective by design, because MS doesn't want it to be compatible; they want to hold on to their desktop monopoly and Windows monoculture.
XP gets EOL this year. Meanwhile, the old Mandrake is still secure.
Your FUD is bullshit, but I understand why Linux threatens you: you earn your money from Windows' poor designs and ease of infection. I might, too, if I was in your place, but I earn no money when I fix Windows woes for folks.
Dora? Is that you? I had this same conversation with a lesbian just last week. I pointed out that my having sex with a woman (despite the fact that I'm a man) was just as much a sin as her having sex with a woman, and that her sins were paid in blood.
So are yours. Being gay isn't a sin, acting on sinful impulse is. As long as you repent, you're forgiven. Just remember that every time you do, jesus gets hit with that cat-o-nine-tails again.
God doesn't care that females sleep around and go from boyfriend to boyfriend to boyfriend.
On the contrary, he does. Have you even read the bible? I suspect you haven't. Unless you're just trolling and if you really consider yourself a Christian, read it! Especially read the first four books of the new testament.
If you accept Christ as your savior, and that he gave his life in payment for YOUR sins, you're going to heaven, gay or straight. Because all of us sin. Every one of us. Even the Cathiolic's Pope is a sinner. The apostle Paul's job before he met Christ was persecuting and murdering Christians!
I also suspect that your one tryst with a man is by far not your worst sin. Too many people go to church on Sunday and evict someone the next day to make more money, I assure you God is a lot more pissed at them than he is at you. Mitt Romney is a good example, considering himself Christain when he really worships money above all else. If he worshiped God rather than money, he would have had nothing to do with Bain Capital. Or Obama -- have a read what jesus said about lawyers. God doesn't like lawyers one little bit!
"Take up your cross and follow me." We all have our weaknesses, yours is homosexuality. That's your cross. You can't fight being attracted to men any more than I can fight being attracted to women, but you need to at least make the effort.
I know that god hates me and wants to burn me forever.
No. God loves you so much that he came down himself to die in agony for what you do. As to why he made you gay, I have no idea... but then, I'm not the one smart enough and powerful enough to create an entire universe.
I'm glad my karma is excellent, because any athiests with mod points are going to rip me a new one.
PS: Yes, I confess I sinned with Dora, even though she's a lesbian (not the first lesbian to be attracted to me). We were drunk and I regret it.
You're calling Heinlein a bad author?? Sure, I don't care for his politics but his books and stories are mostly good reads (he had a few stinkers, like most authors). He's not as good as Asimov, but then, Asimov was a real scientist and wrote nonfiction as well as fiction. He's not as good as Niven, but Niven had some stinkers, too. If you want to read some bad sci-fi, have a look at Fred Pohl's latest book All the Lives He Led. I got about a third of the way through it and returned it to teh library in boredom. Which seemed strange because I remember I used to like his stuff.
Any article that calls an important piece of technology a "gadget" is neither serious nor credible.
Why? What's wrong with "gadget?" Do you have a problem with the British calling scientists "boffins"? There's no difference between "device" and "gadget"; they're synonyms. Do you trash articles that say "count" rather than "enumerate"?
They were mostly founded by former residents of the cities whose names they "stole". But who was the original Springfield? There is one in almost every state in the union, there's one in Australia and one in Canada. There are probably more elsewhere.
You have to remember that the US had no cities 200 years ago. And Glasgow sounds suspiciously Russian...
I'd argue that "feeling good" exists purely because without it, we wouldn't have motivation to do stuff... In simpler creatures (insects, simple fish, coral, etc) I doubt there's enough consciousness to have a concept of happiness
I think you have that backwards. All thought is simply chemical processes, and the simplest thoughts of all are those of pain and pleasure. I would posit that happiness and sadness came along way before sentience. As to insects, why do they fly away when you try to swat flies? because they're conscious of the fact that they'll die if you squash them, or simply afraid without understanding why?
F1 is having drivers 'red out' and there have been some detached retinas under braking.
From BRAKING? Sorry, without a citation I simply don't believe that. From smashing into the wall at 200 mph, sure, but not braking. If that were true you'ld have shitloads of fighter pilots getting vitrectomies, let alone prize fighters.
It's a mater of constitutionality. The constitution is the supreme law of the land, and to change it you need 2/3ds of both houses to pass it, the President to sign it, and it has to be ratified by 2/3rds of the state legislatures. Not an easy thing to do.
In 2000, Bush lost the popular vote, but won the Presidency. We don't directly vote for the President, we vote for electors. For anyone to push through an amendment, ypu would have to have an incredible occurrance, like a popular vote landslide that was undone by the Electoral College.
IMO that was the most interesting one. He used the thiotimoline gag in a couple other short stories. The interesting part is when he did his doctoral dissertation. From wikipedia:
The story of the genesis of this spoof was one of Asimov's favorite personal anecdotes, one he retold a number of times in print. In the spring of 1947, Asimov was engaged in doctoral research in biochemistry and, as part of his experimental procedure, he needed to dissolve catechol in water. As he observed the crystals dissolve as soon as they hit the water's surface, it occurred to him that if catechol were any more soluble, then it would dissolve before it encountered the water.
By that time Asimov had been writing professionally for nine years and was shortly to face the challenge of writing up his research as a doctoral dissertation. He feared that the experience of writing readable prose for publication might have impaired his ability to write the prose typical of academic discourse, and decided to practice with a spoof article (including charts, graphs, tables, and citations of fake articles in nonexistent journals) describing experiments on a compound, thiotimoline, that was so soluble that it dissolved in water up to 1.12 seconds before the water was added.
Asimov wrote the article on 8 June 1947, but he was uncertain as to whether the resulting work of fiction was publishable. He finally offered it to John W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, his preferred publication outlet. Campbell was delighted with the piece, and accepted it for publication, agreeing to Asimov's request that it appear under a pseudonym in deference to Asimov's concern that he might alienate potential doctoral examiners at Columbia University if he were revealed as the author.
Some months later Asimov was shocked to see the piece appear in the March 1948 issue of Astounding under his own name. In later years Campbell insisted that this was an oversight, though Asimov maintained a suspicion that Campbell had acted deliberately out of greater worldliness, for, in Asimov's words, "The Columbia Chemistry Department proved far less stuffy than I had feared" and his examiners effectively delivered their favorable verdict on his dissertation by good-naturedly asking him a final question about thiotimoline. In Opus 100 (1969) Asimov called the thiotimoline article "an utter success", and noted that the New York Public Library "was pestered for days by eager youngsters trying to find the nonexistent journals so they could read more on the subject".
Do I have to sign a terms of service to buy groceries at a grocery store?
That's one reason I won't buy ANYTHING online unless I have little or no other choice. When I order computer parts from California, I'll first look at the web site, then call them over the phone to prder the parts, and pay with a paper check when the goods are delivered.
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Well, acccording to betteridge's law... look, guys, just because someone proclaims something as a "law" doesn't make it one. Especially if the someone is a journalist.
Wikipedia backs me up in your own link: "Betteridge has admitted to breaking his own law, in an article published at his own site."
I don't understand why they're using deisel rather than natural gas. With natural gas they could have the generators on the roof. Illinois Secretary of State mainframes have two backup generators, both natural gas. I've lost electricity a whole lot of times, but I've never had a natural gas disruption in my six decades. Not even in 2006 when we were hit with two tornados and electricity was out for a week; I heated my apartment with the oven (the gas furnace needs electricity for blowers and theromostats).
Not only is your comment redundant, it's wrong. I'm redundant, too, when I point out (as has already been done) that it's extinct IN THE WILD. That's accurate. You just missed three words is all.
Yes, yogis aren't badassed at all. Well, unless they learn a martial art or two.
Nice pun, someone mod the parent funny!
I doubt the fly is aware he'll die if he's swatted, that the fear is strictly instinctive, but it stands to reason that sentience would have evolved from emotion, rather than the other way around.
And yet we get something on a level of a dumb teenager.
Judging by the recent proliferation of folks who don't know when and when not to use an spostrophe, don't know who's from whose, or their from there, refusal to use capitalization, I'd say there are way too many ignorant teenagers here.
Microsoft sure is ballsy... wait, this is Apple?
I guess what various folks said here are correct, Apple IS the new Microsoft! Suing someone over trademark when thy were using the mark first? That's more MS-like than MS!
Please enjoy this list of show stopping bugs
Firewalled off here, but if all you can link to is a personal page, your argument is pretty damned weak. I'll have a look at it when I get home, but I've run across no "show stoppers".
Meanwhile the rest of us can run brand new and decade old software, hell you can even run Vista drivers on 7,and it all "just works". Can YOU do that?
Not only can, but do. By superior I mean more hardware-fault tolerant; flacky hardware makes Windows flaky, Linux purrs along until the hardware breaks completely. I mean having more features -- when I decide to shut my Linux box down, it comes up with all the open apps and documents reopened. You can't do that in Windows, and with its necessity of being rebooted with every patch (unlike Linux) it really needs this missing feature.
Linux can use movies and animation for wallpaper. Windows can't.
Linux can "remember" a default log-in password. Windows can't without a registry hack.
Linux is compatible with Unix, Mac, BSD. Windows is compatible with nothing -- I'd call that defective by design, because MS doesn't want it to be compatible; they want to hold on to their desktop monopoly and Windows monoculture.
XP gets EOL this year. Meanwhile, the old Mandrake is still secure.
Your FUD is bullshit, but I understand why Linux threatens you: you earn your money from Windows' poor designs and ease of infection. I might, too, if I was in your place, but I earn no money when I fix Windows woes for folks.
The best I can do is give you a citation.
I was amused at he headline, either Earl Hickey or a Hindu must have written it.
I guess it will be a while before Fisker gets mod points! So what got Fisker downmodded enough to hurt its karma? Too much flamebait!
I'm going to hell because I'm gay.
Dora? Is that you? I had this same conversation with a lesbian just last week. I pointed out that my having sex with a woman (despite the fact that I'm a man) was just as much a sin as her having sex with a woman, and that her sins were paid in blood.
So are yours. Being gay isn't a sin, acting on sinful impulse is. As long as you repent, you're forgiven. Just remember that every time you do, jesus gets hit with that cat-o-nine-tails again.
God doesn't care that females sleep around and go from boyfriend to boyfriend to boyfriend.
On the contrary, he does. Have you even read the bible? I suspect you haven't. Unless you're just trolling and if you really consider yourself a Christian, read it! Especially read the first four books of the new testament.
If you accept Christ as your savior, and that he gave his life in payment for YOUR sins, you're going to heaven, gay or straight. Because all of us sin. Every one of us. Even the Cathiolic's Pope is a sinner. The apostle Paul's job before he met Christ was persecuting and murdering Christians!
I also suspect that your one tryst with a man is by far not your worst sin. Too many people go to church on Sunday and evict someone the next day to make more money, I assure you God is a lot more pissed at them than he is at you. Mitt Romney is a good example, considering himself Christain when he really worships money above all else. If he worshiped God rather than money, he would have had nothing to do with Bain Capital. Or Obama -- have a read what jesus said about lawyers. God doesn't like lawyers one little bit!
"Take up your cross and follow me." We all have our weaknesses, yours is homosexuality. That's your cross. You can't fight being attracted to men any more than I can fight being attracted to women, but you need to at least make the effort.
I know that god hates me and wants to burn me forever.
No. God loves you so much that he came down himself to die in agony for what you do. As to why he made you gay, I have no idea... but then, I'm not the one smart enough and powerful enough to create an entire universe.
I'm glad my karma is excellent, because any athiests with mod points are going to rip me a new one.
PS: Yes, I confess I sinned with Dora, even though she's a lesbian (not the first lesbian to be attracted to me). We were drunk and I regret it.
Beware of people who quote bad authors
You're calling Heinlein a bad author?? Sure, I don't care for his politics but his books and stories are mostly good reads (he had a few stinkers, like most authors). He's not as good as Asimov, but then, Asimov was a real scientist and wrote nonfiction as well as fiction. He's not as good as Niven, but Niven had some stinkers, too. If you want to read some bad sci-fi, have a look at Fred Pohl's latest book All the Lives He Led. I got about a third of the way through it and returned it to teh library in boredom. Which seemed strange because I remember I used to like his stuff.
Any article that calls an important piece of technology a "gadget" is neither serious nor credible.
Why? What's wrong with "gadget?" Do you have a problem with the British calling scientists "boffins"? There's no difference between "device" and "gadget"; they're synonyms. Do you trash articles that say "count" rather than "enumerate"?
Given they're past failure to fix this issue over the last 6 years, I have no hopes of them fixing it with 11.
Well, if they are past failure over the last six years, why do you think they won't be past failure this time?
They were mostly founded by former residents of the cities whose names they "stole". But who was the original Springfield? There is one in almost every state in the union, there's one in Australia and one in Canada. There are probably more elsewhere.
You have to remember that the US had no cities 200 years ago. And Glasgow sounds suspiciously Russian...
In a Race Between a Self-Driving Car and a Pro Race-Car Driver, what is that wooshing sound?
I'd argue that "feeling good" exists purely because without it, we wouldn't have motivation to do stuff... In simpler creatures (insects, simple fish, coral, etc) I doubt there's enough consciousness to have a concept of happiness
I think you have that backwards. All thought is simply chemical processes, and the simplest thoughts of all are those of pain and pleasure. I would posit that happiness and sadness came along way before sentience. As to insects, why do they fly away when you try to swat flies? because they're conscious of the fact that they'll die if you squash them, or simply afraid without understanding why?
F1 is having drivers 'red out' and there have been some detached retinas under braking.
From BRAKING? Sorry, without a citation I simply don't believe that. From smashing into the wall at 200 mph, sure, but not braking. If that were true you'ld have shitloads of fighter pilots getting vitrectomies, let alone prize fighters.
Sorry, I'm calling bullshit.
Taxi's what would get a whole lot cheaper? Their spare tires? Their gasoline? What??
It's a mater of constitutionality. The constitution is the supreme law of the land, and to change it you need 2/3ds of both houses to pass it, the President to sign it, and it has to be ratified by 2/3rds of the state legislatures. Not an easy thing to do.
In 2000, Bush lost the popular vote, but won the Presidency. We don't directly vote for the President, we vote for electors. For anyone to push through an amendment, ypu would have to have an incredible occurrance, like a popular vote landslide that was undone by the Electoral College.
IMO that was the most interesting one. He used the thiotimoline gag in a couple other short stories. The interesting part is when he did his doctoral dissertation. From wikipedia:
In the context of the article, the word used to decelerate when coming into a corner should be "brake" not "break".
Only if you're literate.
You're not going to cheer anyone up if you're unhappy yourself, dumbass.
Do I have to sign a terms of service to buy groceries at a grocery store?
That's one reason I won't buy ANYTHING online unless I have little or no other choice. When I order computer parts from California, I'll first look at the web site, then call them over the phone to prder the parts, and pay with a paper check when the goods are delivered.