Misspelling "lose" sn't an Americanism, it's from aliteracy and ignorance. The first time I saw it was in a warning while installing Suse (a German distro) that "you may loose data" (which of course meant you'd set your data free, isn't that what you want?)
And no, for the aliterates out there, "aliterate" isn't a misspelling of "illiterate". But if you were literate you'd know that.
If you say "I could care less" or "you may loose data" or "It was band in Syria" I'll assume that either English is a second languge to you, or you're just an uneducated moron.
Yes, the original idiom was "couldn't care less", but the "not" has been dropped for any of a variety of proposed reasons, none of them having to do with abject stupidity
No, in fact abject stupidity (or at least ignorance) is the only reason or you could have listed at least one non-stupid reason.
And as people become more educated, they become less religious.
Then why do half of all scientists consider themselves Christian? The thing is, unless you have experienced God personally, the only logical belief is agnosticism. Your blind faith that there is no god takes just as much faith as someone who has not actually experienced God but believes anyway, and perhaps even more, because your belief assures you that you're going to die, while the religious see this "life" as a transitory thing. Nothing you do on this earth will ever have any effect on anything important when you look a geological time scales. Nothing you do will ever matter, period.
You want tolerance? Behave like civilized humans rather than rabid dogs.
There's a passage in the Christian bible that says nearly the exact same thing.
It's okay to hate fags, but don't you dare say anything about the make-believe magic-man behind my faith that I use to enable my hatred!
It may be OK for Muslims to hate gays, but anyone who calls himself Christian who "hates fags" is fooling himself and needs to read the New Testamment. It has a few choice passages such as "love your enemies" and "judge not." It also has a few choice words about hypocrites that some "Christians" should read.
Who in the hell thought it was a good idea to turn the fricking Pi, a device designed to be cheap above all, into a fricking MEDIA CENTER?
If it does the job, why not? I'm using a ten year old HP running kubuntu as a media center, and it works fine as one. Why spend a couple hundred bucks building something when you can do it for less than a hundred? There's no point in wasting money on unnecessarily overspeced hardware.
Indeed. I had a friend (actually my ex-wife's brother in law) who worked in a factory. His boss would bring him a widget their competitor had come up with and ask "can we make these?" The first time they asked that he said "sure, but they'll sue for patent infringement." His boss replied "that's why we have a legal department." He said that often, you could build the exact same device and get around the patents by making it out of a different material.
Additionally, if you admit that intellectual property issues are real owing to the fact that real people must do real work producing them, the entire "pirate" thing falls apart. Sure, it's good to have an opposing viewpoint to the draconian IP laws being pushed by big media, but don't expect IP ownership issues to go away.
"My" intellectual property does NOT belong to me; I merely have a "limited" time monopoly on its use. I no more own The Paxil Diaries than I own the house I'm renting.
Studies show that pirates spend more on media than non-pirates. If your "piracy is killing authors" were true, the public libraries would have killed authorship a long time ago, but on the contrary, I would not have those dozen Asimov titles on my shelf if I hadn't read hundreds of other Asimov books I'd checked out from the library -- and the internet is the 21st century library.
Nobody's going to buy your record if they've never heard your songs. Only an idiot buys a pig in a poke.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY! Today, that's the internet.
On the one hand, churches do not force their members to tithe at gunpoint
Indeed they don't, tithing is entirely voluntary. As to the IRS, most people love their God but don't feel too kindly toward the government. It would take a massive ad campaign to get people to voluntarily fund government. And church only asks for ten percent, the feds get way more than that and my state, Illinois, gets at least that much (6% income tax, 7% sales tax plus road taxes on gasoline, beer taxes, cigarettes taxes, etc).
Well hello there, Mr. Ballmer! Glad to meet your acquaintence. That was the most blatant shill I've seen in a long time, the shills are really getting thick lately. How fucking stupid do you think we nerds are, anyway?
iPhone and Win7 when Win7's market share is tiny and Android has three times the sales as iPhones, and you omit Android? Again, Redmond, why do you think we're so damned stupid? Thank you for reminding me how evil MS is and to avoid their poorly designed, user-unfriendly software and OSes.
Now go tell your boss the slashdot nerds outed you, dumbass.
I once saw one while I was traveling across the US. It looked similar to the one in the video, except it appeared to shoot straight up and was bright green.
No mention of it in the news the next day, but they did mention that the Russians had thrown a big computer they had replaced out of Mir. That would explain it, even the bright green color.
That's the danger of going for "funny". It used to be more dangerous when "funny" gained no karma. Back then a "+5, funny" was proof you weren't a karma whore (or you had karma to spare).
you mean the second one, of those people remaining after the Unity / GNOME3 rendered any concept of multi-task workflow useless
I never did like Gnome, but I've been running kubuntu and it looks like I'll be going back to Mandriva. I always did like Mandriva and only switched because it looked like it was dying. Maybe Canonical will come to their senses in time.
Style sheets are for the ability to redesign an entire site by rewriting one document, the style sheet. IMO the CSS implementation should have been added while not deprecating the font HTML tag. Style sheets shouldn't be mandatory and neither should CSS.
Heh, that's what I get for not checking. It's been decades since I did any assembly programming. Th gp was correct, you were correct, I made a stupid math error.
I'm guessing that by "developing properly" it's meant "developing like a normal brain". Perhaps eating fish is what made us evolve to be smarter than the average ape, and these pre-human hominids that didn't eat fish were still smarter than gorillas but mentally retarded compared to others of his species.
TFS was worse than the normal FS. First off, the "vegetarian" bit. Now that I've RTFA, we were omnivores, but we needed fish or our brains wouldn't develop propery, so we were stuck living near the ocean. Once we could live without fish we could live anywhere.
It had nothing to do with vegetarians, the sumitter is probably one of those PETA vegan nuts.
Unlike Carter, Obama did nothing prior, during, and likely after his term
Indeed, I thought I'd never see a worse President than Carter, and I voted for him. Well, actually I voted against Ford. Unhappily, Bush proved me wrong about thinking I'd never see a worse President than Carter. Carter did nothing, but unfortunately Bush did -- got our country attacked, got us into two wars, couldn't catch Bin Laden (or seemingly anyone else), had gasoline prices more than quadruple, crashed the stock market and brought us into the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. And it only took him eight years!
Odd how people think Obama can fix a huge mess that was eight years in the making in only half the time it took to make the mess. How long does it take to clean your house after your eight year old's two hour party? You can't say he did "nothing"; one war is over, the other is winding down, the economy is slowly getting back on its feet, gasoline is still a tiny bit lower than the heights it rose to under Bush, Bin Laden is dead, and he did it despite a Republican Congress whose primary job was to make Obama fail. The only thing I fault Obama for is the health care bill; we need a system like Europe and Canada.
If you earn more than $200k per year and vote for Obama, you're a fool. If you make under $200k per year and vote for Romney (whose campaign platform is "do it like Bush did), you're just retarded.
BTW: what is the difference between "ethics" and "morality?"
Ethics is a code of conduct for a given organization or profession: a written code. It's unethical for a medical doctor to have sex with her patients, but it's not unethical for her to have sex with her dog.
Morals are your own compass of what's right and wrong. If you feel bad after doing something, that's morals -- and some people have none. That's why we need codes of conduct, or "ethics".
The switch, which allowed humans to process vegetables, meant that humans were able to move away from water sources and spread across the continent.
Without water there's no plants, without water and plants there are no animals. But it seems to me that the mutation didn't make us herbivores, it made us able to greatly expand our sources of nutrition. We not only could eat meat, but veggies as well.
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Misspelling "lose" sn't an Americanism, it's from aliteracy and ignorance. The first time I saw it was in a warning while installing Suse (a German distro) that "you may loose data" (which of course meant you'd set your data free, isn't that what you want?)
And no, for the aliterates out there, "aliterate" isn't a misspelling of "illiterate". But if you were literate you'd know that.
If you say "I could care less" or "you may loose data" or "It was band in Syria" I'll assume that either English is a second languge to you, or you're just an uneducated moron.
Yes, the original idiom was "couldn't care less", but the "not" has been dropped for any of a variety of proposed reasons, none of them having to do with abject stupidity
No, in fact abject stupidity (or at least ignorance) is the only reason or you could have listed at least one non-stupid reason.
And as people become more educated, they become less religious.
Then why do half of all scientists consider themselves Christian? The thing is, unless you have experienced God personally, the only logical belief is agnosticism. Your blind faith that there is no god takes just as much faith as someone who has not actually experienced God but believes anyway, and perhaps even more, because your belief assures you that you're going to die, while the religious see this "life" as a transitory thing. Nothing you do on this earth will ever have any effect on anything important when you look a geological time scales. Nothing you do will ever matter, period.
You want tolerance? Behave like civilized humans rather than rabid dogs.
There's a passage in the Christian bible that says nearly the exact same thing.
All limits are political. Can't be more true than that.
I see you've never taken a physics course.
Hemp is band in many many countries
Or learned to read.
It's okay to hate fags, but don't you dare say anything about the make-believe magic-man behind my faith that I use to enable my hatred!
It may be OK for Muslims to hate gays, but anyone who calls himself Christian who "hates fags" is fooling himself and needs to read the New Testamment. It has a few choice passages such as "love your enemies" and "judge not." It also has a few choice words about hypocrites that some "Christians" should read.
Who in the hell thought it was a good idea to turn the fricking Pi, a device designed to be cheap above all, into a fricking MEDIA CENTER?
If it does the job, why not? I'm using a ten year old HP running kubuntu as a media center, and it works fine as one. Why spend a couple hundred bucks building something when you can do it for less than a hundred? There's no point in wasting money on unnecessarily overspeced hardware.
Indeed. I had a friend (actually my ex-wife's brother in law) who worked in a factory. His boss would bring him a widget their competitor had come up with and ask "can we make these?" The first time they asked that he said "sure, but they'll sue for patent infringement." His boss replied "that's why we have a legal department." He said that often, you could build the exact same device and get around the patents by making it out of a different material.
Additionally, if you admit that intellectual property issues are real owing to the fact that real people must do real work producing them, the entire "pirate" thing falls apart. Sure, it's good to have an opposing viewpoint to the draconian IP laws being pushed by big media, but don't expect IP ownership issues to go away.
"My" intellectual property does NOT belong to me; I merely have a "limited" time monopoly on its use. I no more own The Paxil Diaries than I own the house I'm renting.
Studies show that pirates spend more on media than non-pirates. If your "piracy is killing authors" were true, the public libraries would have killed authorship a long time ago, but on the contrary, I would not have those dozen Asimov titles on my shelf if I hadn't read hundreds of other Asimov books I'd checked out from the library -- and the internet is the 21st century library.
Nobody's going to buy your record if they've never heard your songs. Only an idiot buys a pig in a poke.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY! Today, that's the internet.
On the one hand, churches do not force their members to tithe at gunpoint
Indeed they don't, tithing is entirely voluntary. As to the IRS, most people love their God but don't feel too kindly toward the government. It would take a massive ad campaign to get people to voluntarily fund government. And church only asks for ten percent, the feds get way more than that and my state, Illinois, gets at least that much (6% income tax, 7% sales tax plus road taxes on gasoline, beer taxes, cigarettes taxes, etc).
What's innovative is luring them with Jobs... what, did they cut him up and package him lke the Ferengi do with their dead?
Well hello there, Mr. Ballmer! Glad to meet your acquaintence. That was the most blatant shill I've seen in a long time, the shills are really getting thick lately. How fucking stupid do you think we nerds are, anyway?
iPhone and Win7 when Win7's market share is tiny and Android has three times the sales as iPhones, and you omit Android? Again, Redmond, why do you think we're so damned stupid? Thank you for reminding me how evil MS is and to avoid their poorly designed, user-unfriendly software and OSes.
Now go tell your boss the slashdot nerds outed you, dumbass.
From your link: Most commercial earth observing satellites use retrograde orbit[4], and almost all communication satellites use prograde orbits.[5]
I once saw one while I was traveling across the US. It looked similar to the one in the video, except it appeared to shoot straight up and was bright green.
No mention of it in the news the next day, but they did mention that the Russians had thrown a big computer they had replaced out of Mir. That would explain it, even the bright green color.
That's the danger of going for "funny". It used to be more dangerous when "funny" gained no karma. Back then a "+5, funny" was proof you weren't a karma whore (or you had karma to spare).
BTW, I'm offtopic, mods.
You mean if it was a meatier meteor?
you mean the second one, of those people remaining after the Unity / GNOME3 rendered any concept of multi-task workflow useless
I never did like Gnome, but I've been running kubuntu and it looks like I'll be going back to Mandriva. I always did like Mandriva and only switched because it looked like it was dying. Maybe Canonical will come to their senses in time.
Style sheets are for the ability to redesign an entire site by rewriting one document, the style sheet. IMO the CSS implementation should have been added while not deprecating the font HTML tag. Style sheets shouldn't be mandatory and neither should CSS.
Heh, that's what I get for not checking. It's been decades since I did any assembly programming. Th gp was correct, you were correct, I made a stupid math error.
I'm guessing that by "developing properly" it's meant "developing like a normal brain". Perhaps eating fish is what made us evolve to be smarter than the average ape, and these pre-human hominids that didn't eat fish were still smarter than gorillas but mentally retarded compared to others of his species.
TFS was worse than the normal FS. First off, the "vegetarian" bit. Now that I've RTFA, we were omnivores, but we needed fish or our brains wouldn't develop propery, so we were stuck living near the ocean. Once we could live without fish we could live anywhere.
It had nothing to do with vegetarians, the sumitter is probably one of those PETA vegan nuts.
Unlike Carter, Obama did nothing prior, during, and likely after his term
Indeed, I thought I'd never see a worse President than Carter, and I voted for him. Well, actually I voted against Ford. Unhappily, Bush proved me wrong about thinking I'd never see a worse President than Carter. Carter did nothing, but unfortunately Bush did -- got our country attacked, got us into two wars, couldn't catch Bin Laden (or seemingly anyone else), had gasoline prices more than quadruple, crashed the stock market and brought us into the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. And it only took him eight years!
Odd how people think Obama can fix a huge mess that was eight years in the making in only half the time it took to make the mess. How long does it take to clean your house after your eight year old's two hour party? You can't say he did "nothing"; one war is over, the other is winding down, the economy is slowly getting back on its feet, gasoline is still a tiny bit lower than the heights it rose to under Bush, Bin Laden is dead, and he did it despite a Republican Congress whose primary job was to make Obama fail. The only thing I fault Obama for is the health care bill; we need a system like Europe and Canada.
If you earn more than $200k per year and vote for Obama, you're a fool. If you make under $200k per year and vote for Romney (whose campaign platform is "do it like Bush did), you're just retarded.
We did not have a recession starting more than 4 years before 1979
Bullshit, the recession started when Ford was in office and didn't end until Reagan's 2nd term.
BTW: what is the difference between "ethics" and "morality?"
Ethics is a code of conduct for a given organization or profession: a written code. It's unethical for a medical doctor to have sex with her patients, but it's not unethical for her to have sex with her dog.
Morals are your own compass of what's right and wrong. If you feel bad after doing something, that's morals -- and some people have none. That's why we need codes of conduct, or "ethics".
What changed your mind, PWORA?
The switch, which allowed humans to process vegetables, meant that humans were able to move away from water sources and spread across the continent.
Without water there's no plants, without water and plants there are no animals. But it seems to me that the mutation didn't make us herbivores, it made us able to greatly expand our sources of nutrition. We not only could eat meat, but veggies as well.
We're not herbivores, we're omnivores.