I'm not agnostic about the Ancient Egyptian or Greek or Aztec gods: they don't exist.
Not any more. Thor was the cave man who invented the hammer, which gave him god-like powers compared to his contemporaries. Prometheus tamed fire. Zeus invented the flaming spear. Etc....
Hmmm... Well, he should of course try it out before installing it. Most distros will run from the CD or DVD and allow you to see your Windows files and see if you can connect to the inetrnet, there are still a few devices out there without proper drivers.
It's not hard to see how the bastardification of "I couldn't care less" came about. "As if I could care less" was misheard by someone who never readss and never pays attention.
I have no idea how you can get "it's ok to judge" from that passage. In essence it's saying that you're no better than the person you're judging. Judging others makes you a hypocrite.
Why just the new testament BTW? Leviticus says gays should be killed.
So should you and I. We're all sinners, gay or straight. But the only sinless man who lived paid for your wrongdoings with his blood and pain. You get a free ride, so long as you repent your wrongdoings.
I'm neither gay nor christian, but I'd have a hard time reconciling them if I was.
It's impossible to live free of sin. The gays' sins are no worse than mine; fornication is likewise taboo, but sometimes I get laid...
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
You assume God is human. We are made in his image, meaning that you are to God what Van Gogh's self-portrait is to Van Gogh. Wouldn't he be fine with destroying his own painting? Is it wrong for you to delete a program you wrote, especially if you discover some show-stopping bugs?
A heavy meet eater lives to be 75, someone with a well balanced diet will live to be 85.
Time shrinks when you age. Christmas takes forever to get there for a five year old, he has to wait 1/5th of a lifetime. I'm 60, a year lasts as long for a six year old as a decade does for me. When I was in the Air Force it seemed like that four years would never be up, now four years is a piece of cake.
So when you're talking about octogenarians and septigenarians, ten years is nothing.
The problem with all electric cars is the charging... until an electric vehicle can be charged in the same time that a gasoline based car can be fueled, they will all be unacceptable to vast majority of drivers.
Actually, think about it for a minute. Electric: get home from work, plug in the car, done. Gasoline: DRIVE to a gas station, stand there in zero degree cold or hundred degree heat while you wait for it to fill, go inside, stand in line to pay, pay, get back in the car and drive home.
Seems to me the electric is far more convenient. If you had to stand there while it was charging you would have a point, but you DON'T have to stand there while it charges.
The amount of beef you need to eat on a daily basis for your protein needs would be a cube (raw) is about 1.5 inches on a side, anything after that is just clogging up your colon and your arteries.
Odd, I've been eating beef (and pork and chicken and rabbit and venison and fish) for six decades and neither my colon nor arteries are clogged.
Do you know what you get with a lifelong diet like you prescribe? Very short people. When I was in Thailand in 1974 the average there was about five feet tall, and that was the kind of diet they had. Now that they're eating a lot more meat? They're as tall as us.
I agree, Linux. If you want to be free of viruses, buy a Mac or install Linux or BSD. Your AV isn't going to do a damned thing when you get hit by a zero-day exploit, and Windows is the only PC OS with viruses in the wild. Whoever modded the AC "troll" should never get mod points; it was insightful (as another moderator noted). If you're worried about viruses, you shouldn't be running Windows.
That said, there are vew actual viruses out there, most are trojans, so I don't worry too much about my W7 notebook. But I don't worry at all about my Linux tower.
Fine, I've been paying SS tax for 45 years and intend to collect what I put in. You want to get rid of SS? Fine, give me back all the money I've been paying for decades, with the highest interest rate that was charged while I was earning it (and interest rates were damned high in the eighties).
I have a better idea -- how about we stop using SS and Medicare taxes for the general fund? How about removing the income cap on taxes paid while retaining a maximum amount you can get back? I'm sick of subsidizing rich people; you want to talk entitlement mentality? The only people I've met who weren't actually entitled (like old people, damn you, if I pay for a thing I'm entitled to it) are the rich.
Get your priorities straight, you stupid kid. Good luck on that 401k bullshit... how was your retirement looking in 2008?
Oh wait, your American. find a fucking immigrant the first day then follow him to wear he eats If you EVERY see two people argue
And here I thought it was OUR educational system that sucks... atleast we're semi-literate here. This diatribe against American food from a continent that has given us such delights as haggis, blood pudding, saurkraut...
From the New York Times and other places I saw this morning, it may have been started by guards. Which makes me wonder, why do they need guards in dorms? But it does appear to be work-related:
Many of the protests this year appear to be related to the countryâ(TM)s economic slowdown, as employees demand the payment of overdue wages from financially struggling companies, or insist on compensation when money-losing factories in coastal provinces are closed and moved to lower-cost cities in the interior.
But the level of labor unrest in China this year has not yet matched 2010, when a surge in inflation sparked a wave of worker demands for higher pay, Mr. Crothall said.
Mr. Crothall said that while the cause of the latest dispute in Taiyuan remained unclear, his group had found an online video of police there using a megaphone to address âoeworkers from Henanâ â" the adjacent province to the south of Shanxi. The police officer said that the workersâ(TM) concerns would be addressed.
There was a big riot in Tennesee just this past spring after a basketball playoff that resulted in many injuries and much destruction. It isn't unknown here, although it is more prevalent in Europe.
I can't see how feeding them gummy worms will turn out well.
I can. I had a freined who raised a few hogs several years ago. He had a friend who worked in an ice cream plant, and would bring a pickup truck full of outdated ice cream mix every coupld of weeks. Mike would feed his hogs a mixture of 50% commercial hog feed and 50% ice cream mix.
That was the best tasting pork I ever ate. Maybe gummy bears will do the same for cows? The only reason I think it might not is that cows are herbivores and pigs are omnivores, but at least the gummy bears aren't made of meat. It should be interesting to see how it turns out.
He's a member of a party that exists solely because people are pissed off about antiquated copyright laws (as am I).
I'm pissed off because they got rid of the antiquated copyright laws that said a work must be in a fixed AND TANGIBLE medium and only lasted 30 years. If we rolled copyright back to what it was in 1900, file sharing would be legal and Led Zeppelin songs would now be in the public domain.
The DMCA and Bono act are less than 20 years old. It's not the antiquated parts that need to go, it's the new parts.
And for the record, the Old Testament of the Bible also condones and recommends killing to spread the religion
The Old Testament is the basis of Judism, Islam, and Christianity, but in the Christian faith the old covenant was overturned and a new covenant was put in its place. I haven't read the koran but it's possible Muhammed similarly changed the rules. But in Christianity at least, it is decidedly NOT ok to kill, period. Not for land, not for money (Christ was decidedly anti-greed), not even to spread Christianity. Just because some British and Italian big shots in the dark ages thought it was OK didn't change what Christ said.
Variables like government subsidies for farmers to plant particular crops, suited or not to an area.
Where are they doing that? I haven't seen it here in Illinois, and we're one of the biggest ag powerhouses in the world.
Senseless fallowing of arable lands with the same programs.
Citation?
Reliance on "patented" crops for supposed higher yields and disease resistance, tying farmers to overly expensive seed, forcing farmers to eventually sell out to corporate farming while driving traditional seeds (which evolved to grow on Earth) to extinction.
OK, I fixed your aliterate mistakes, now I'll fix your factual ones. We'll use corn as an example. First, the Monsanto seed is patented, no need for quotes. Second, nobody's forcing farmers to use GM seed, and most seed isn't GM. There are many varieties of seed corn sold by many seed corn firms, most of which use traditional non-GM methods of changing a seed's DNA, such as cross breeding.
If a farmer grew soybeans last year, traditional corn is a good plant this year. He will use broadleaf herbicides which won't harm corn, and most likely won't need grass herbicides because that was used on the soybeans. However, if last year's crop was wheat he may want to use roundup-resistant GM seed to get rid of the grasses that will surely be there, as well as "volunteer" wheat.
I'm sorry, but you're woefully ignorant of agriculture.
It is such a huge PITA to install google as the default search provide in the kiosk internet explorer computers at my university. Seriously, M$ should win awards for the number of clicks and scrolls it takes.
In Microsoft's defense, that's how all their software is. It seems their motto is "never use two clicks when ten will do, and always make the user scroll." It's one of my pet peeves about their poorly designed software. For the life of me I don't understand how MS got a reputation of being user-frindly as they seem to go out of their way to make their products as frustrating as possible. Of course, I can't figure out why some poor people vote Republican, either. Maybe it stems from the same cause?
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I'm not agnostic about the Ancient Egyptian or Greek or Aztec gods: they don't exist.
Not any more. Thor was the cave man who invented the hammer, which gave him god-like powers compared to his contemporaries. Prometheus tamed fire. Zeus invented the flaming spear. Etc....
I could tell it was a typo, I just thought it was humorous.
Hmmm... Well, he should of course try it out before installing it. Most distros will run from the CD or DVD and allow you to see your Windows files and see if you can connect to the inetrnet, there are still a few devices out there without proper drivers.
I alluded to that hypocritical wolf in sheep's clothing in my original comment. I doubt God takes kindly to people who sin in his name.
It's not hard to see how the bastardification of "I couldn't care less" came about. "As if I could care less" was misheard by someone who never readss and never pays attention.
I have no idea how you can get "it's ok to judge" from that passage. In essence it's saying that you're no better than the person you're judging. Judging others makes you a hypocrite.
Why just the new testament BTW? Leviticus says gays should be killed.
So should you and I. We're all sinners, gay or straight. But the only sinless man who lived paid for your wrongdoings with his blood and pain. You get a free ride, so long as you repent your wrongdoings.
I'm neither gay nor christian, but I'd have a hard time reconciling them if I was.
It's impossible to live free of sin. The gays' sins are no worse than mine; fornication is likewise taboo, but sometimes I get laid...
Here is the whoe passage:
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
In short: judge not.
That God is a stone killer.
You assume God is human. We are made in his image, meaning that you are to God what Van Gogh's self-portrait is to Van Gogh. Wouldn't he be fine with destroying his own painting? Is it wrong for you to delete a program you wrote, especially if you discover some show-stopping bugs?
Death is a part of life. Everybody dies.
Almost. What they needed in their diet that we no longer need was fish. The mutation allowed us to move away from the ocean.
A heavy meet eater lives to be 75, someone with a well balanced diet will live to be 85.
Time shrinks when you age. Christmas takes forever to get there for a five year old, he has to wait 1/5th of a lifetime. I'm 60, a year lasts as long for a six year old as a decade does for me. When I was in the Air Force it seemed like that four years would never be up, now four years is a piece of cake.
So when you're talking about octogenarians and septigenarians, ten years is nothing.
The problem with all electric cars is the charging... until an electric vehicle can be charged in the same time that a gasoline based car can be fueled, they will all be unacceptable to vast majority of drivers.
Actually, think about it for a minute. Electric: get home from work, plug in the car, done. Gasoline: DRIVE to a gas station, stand there in zero degree cold or hundred degree heat while you wait for it to fill, go inside, stand in line to pay, pay, get back in the car and drive home.
Seems to me the electric is far more convenient. If you had to stand there while it was charging you would have a point, but you DON'T have to stand there while it charges.
The amount of beef you need to eat on a daily basis for your protein needs would be a cube (raw) is about 1.5 inches on a side, anything after that is just clogging up your colon and your arteries.
Odd, I've been eating beef (and pork and chicken and rabbit and venison and fish) for six decades and neither my colon nor arteries are clogged.
Do you know what you get with a lifelong diet like you prescribe? Very short people. When I was in Thailand in 1974 the average there was about five feet tall, and that was the kind of diet they had. Now that they're eating a lot more meat? They're as tall as us.
I agree, Linux. If you want to be free of viruses, buy a Mac or install Linux or BSD. Your AV isn't going to do a damned thing when you get hit by a zero-day exploit, and Windows is the only PC OS with viruses in the wild. Whoever modded the AC "troll" should never get mod points; it was insightful (as another moderator noted). If you're worried about viruses, you shouldn't be running Windows.
That said, there are vew actual viruses out there, most are trojans, so I don't worry too much about my W7 notebook. But I don't worry at all about my Linux tower.
Fine, I've been paying SS tax for 45 years and intend to collect what I put in. You want to get rid of SS? Fine, give me back all the money I've been paying for decades, with the highest interest rate that was charged while I was earning it (and interest rates were damned high in the eighties).
I have a better idea -- how about we stop using SS and Medicare taxes for the general fund? How about removing the income cap on taxes paid while retaining a maximum amount you can get back? I'm sick of subsidizing rich people; you want to talk entitlement mentality? The only people I've met who weren't actually entitled (like old people, damn you, if I pay for a thing I'm entitled to it) are the rich.
Get your priorities straight, you stupid kid. Good luck on that 401k bullshit... how was your retirement looking in 2008?
The goal of a sectoral party is to influence other parties so that their ideas get adopted in global platforms. Good example are greed parties:
The Republicans are a sectoral party??
Oh wait, your American.
find a fucking immigrant the first day then follow him to wear he eats
If you EVERY see two people argue
And here I thought it was OUR educational system that sucks... atleast we're semi-literate here. This diatribe against American food from a continent that has given us such delights as haggis, blood pudding, saurkraut...
From the New York Times and other places I saw this morning, it may have been started by guards. Which makes me wonder, why do they need guards in dorms? But it does appear to be work-related:
So really, there is no downside to taxing the rich except that they could maybe be only 100 times as rich as us instead of 1000 times.
When the income tax was first instituted when my grandpa was a young man, ONLY the rich paid tax.
There was a big riot in Tennesee just this past spring after a basketball playoff that resulted in many injuries and much destruction. It isn't unknown here, although it is more prevalent in Europe.
I can't see how feeding them gummy worms will turn out well.
I can. I had a freined who raised a few hogs several years ago. He had a friend who worked in an ice cream plant, and would bring a pickup truck full of outdated ice cream mix every coupld of weeks. Mike would feed his hogs a mixture of 50% commercial hog feed and 50% ice cream mix.
That was the best tasting pork I ever ate. Maybe gummy bears will do the same for cows? The only reason I think it might not is that cows are herbivores and pigs are omnivores, but at least the gummy bears aren't made of meat. It should be interesting to see how it turns out.
He's a member of a party that exists solely because people are pissed off about antiquated copyright laws (as am I).
I'm pissed off because they got rid of the antiquated copyright laws that said a work must be in a fixed AND TANGIBLE medium and only lasted 30 years. If we rolled copyright back to what it was in 1900, file sharing would be legal and Led Zeppelin songs would now be in the public domain.
The DMCA and Bono act are less than 20 years old. It's not the antiquated parts that need to go, it's the new parts.
And for the record, the Old Testament of the Bible also condones and recommends killing to spread the religion
The Old Testament is the basis of Judism, Islam, and Christianity, but in the Christian faith the old covenant was overturned and a new covenant was put in its place. I haven't read the koran but it's possible Muhammed similarly changed the rules. But in Christianity at least, it is decidedly NOT ok to kill, period. Not for land, not for money (Christ was decidedly anti-greed), not even to spread Christianity. Just because some British and Italian big shots in the dark ages thought it was OK didn't change what Christ said.
Variables like government subsidies for farmers to plant particular crops, suited or not to an area.
Where are they doing that? I haven't seen it here in Illinois, and we're one of the biggest ag powerhouses in the world.
Senseless fallowing of arable lands with the same programs.
Citation?
Reliance on "patented" crops for supposed higher yields and disease resistance, tying farmers to overly expensive seed, forcing farmers to eventually sell out to corporate farming while driving traditional seeds (which evolved to grow on Earth) to extinction.
OK, I fixed your aliterate mistakes, now I'll fix your factual ones. We'll use corn as an example. First, the Monsanto seed is patented, no need for quotes. Second, nobody's forcing farmers to use GM seed, and most seed isn't GM. There are many varieties of seed corn sold by many seed corn firms, most of which use traditional non-GM methods of changing a seed's DNA, such as cross breeding.
If a farmer grew soybeans last year, traditional corn is a good plant this year. He will use broadleaf herbicides which won't harm corn, and most likely won't need grass herbicides because that was used on the soybeans. However, if last year's crop was wheat he may want to use roundup-resistant GM seed to get rid of the grasses that will surely be there, as well as "volunteer" wheat.
I'm sorry, but you're woefully ignorant of agriculture.
It is such a huge PITA to install google as the default search provide in the kiosk internet explorer computers at my university. Seriously, M$ should win awards for the number of clicks and scrolls it takes.
In Microsoft's defense, that's how all their software is. It seems their motto is "never use two clicks when ten will do, and always make the user scroll." It's one of my pet peeves about their poorly designed software. For the life of me I don't understand how MS got a reputation of being user-frindly as they seem to go out of their way to make their products as frustrating as possible. Of course, I can't figure out why some poor people vote Republican, either. Maybe it stems from the same cause?