That's why the city and state fields are editable, but in thousands of records I never saw it get it wrong once. Hell, Springfield is a little city with only 110k people and there are five zip codes here. Some big cities have buildings with their own zip code.
Telephone area codes are a completely different matter. Those do span more than one city and even state.
Your grandpa's either a liar or senile. I grew up two miles south of the Sauget, IL Monsanto plant. Even in the summer when it was 95 degrees (and no car AC back then, most folks' homes didn't even have AC) you had to roll the wondows up when driving past because the aire would burn your eyes and lungs. There were 100,000 55 gallon drums of highly toxic waste buried half mile away on the bank of the Mississippi. Dead Creek, which went past it and Cerro Copper, often caught fire.
By 1975 there was no odor at all, and the creek stopped catching fire.
Who's your grandpa, Ron Paul? He couldn't be more wrong. Tell him another geezer set you straight about his damned neocon lies.
IMO the PEBKAC problem indicates a design flaw. Most interface designs are badly flawed.
For example, the classic stories about people losing the data because wifey put it on the fridge with a magnet could easily be sidestepped by a simple "warning: keep away from magnets". Thinking a user knows how a floppy holds data is incredibly stupid. It isn't the ignorant who are stupid, it's the fool who thinks everyone knows what he knows. Everyone is ignorant of something, and to not realize and respect this simple fact is idiotic.
One of my pet peeves is web forms. You have to fill out street address, city, pull down the state with a dropdown list (stupid design in itself, considering any state is only two keystrokes), and zip code. Why?? If you have the zip code you already have the city and state. Twenty years ago I was designing database screens where after typing in address, the cursor went to the zip code field, and when the cursor left the field the city and state were filled in by a lookup table and could be changed by the user if incorrect. IMO to do otherwise is incredibly bad design, and lazy to boot.
Asimov's Foundation was written in 1945, the last of the trilogy in 1952 (the year I was born). It was published by Gnome Press, a tiny publisher without the clout to properly market it, and it languished until the '60s with Asimov not earning a dime from it until Doubleday bought the publication rights from Gnome. It was a Hugo award winner and a big moneymaker after Doubldeday bought it.
That's why.
As to your "ten years", iirc I started on my Paxil Diaries book almost ten years ago. I still need to design its dust jacket. BTW It's on TPB, I put it there myself.
Seventeen years may seem like a lifetime to someone in college, but it really isn't that long a time at all. You'll find that out if you live long enough. I wouldn't want copyright, even after a renewal, to last any longer than 30 years, though.
AFAIC, any news about a company that would deliberately install malware (XCP) on customers' computers, remove paid-for features afer a sale (OtherOS), and store sensitive customer information in plain text on an internet-facing database is news for nerds.
Normally people losing their jobs makes me sad, but I'll make an exception for Sony employees. As a victim of XCP I'll throw a big party when that God damned company ceases to exist. If you ARE a Sony employee, WTF is wrong with you???
Theology and Science are two very important methods of thoughts â" designed to asked different questions - Why are we hear and how things work.
Dew knot truss yore spill checker. I think you mean "why we are here" rather than "why we hear." If I'm wrong please correct me (and explain what it was you really meant, because it doesn't make any sense as written). If I'm right I hope I cleared up some folks' puzzlement.
It is funny how Angry Atheists and Conservative Christians [are].
There was a study a year or two ago that showed that Catholics, protestants, and agnostics had normal hippocampuses, while evangelicals and athiests have smaller than normal hippocampuses, which explains their obstinacy and anger.
However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge.
On the contrary, it isn't the desire for knowledge that causes pain, but ignorance. From Proverbs:
5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Although I think you're referring to Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good an evil. It was the tree of death and pain. You cannot know good and evil unless you know death and pain.
Ignorance is not bliss, there is such a thing as a free lunch, and you don't always get what you pay for. Don't just accept words blindly, think about what those words say.
The really weird thing to my mind is the fundamentalist Evangelicals who combine the non-Biblical overemphasis on Jesus
Jesus is central to Christianity. Christ IS Christianity. The old covenant with the Jews was obey every law, or spend eternity in hell. The new covenant is that your sins are forgiven; they were paid in blood by an innocent man, the son of God, who God sent to die so we may live.
As to the trinity, I never understood that myself until I was baptised a couple of years ago. I understood the father and son but not the holy ghost -- until I was filled with the holy ghost.
I'll bet some of those here who follow my journals have noticed the change in me the last couple of years without even ever having met me in the flesh. I've always been a Christian, so I didn't imagine how much being baptized would change me.
-1, redundant. Must have been a half dozen other clueless said the same thing. I am a Christian and I know a hell of a lot of other Christians, and I don't know a single one who denies science. Evolution? Even the Pope says evolution is real. Why must you lie? You must be terribly afraid of the truth.
global warming
Christianity, and no Christian sect, denies global warming. The political right wing, controlled by the oil companies, are behind that, not Christianity. Again, why must you spread lies about us? Is the truth so frightening?
complete lack of evidence of their favorite deity
You cannot deny an entity who has revealed himself to you. You're a man who has never seen an elephant and believes they're impossible, while I've been to the zoo. I need no faith to know of God's existance, but your insistance that he is impossible is nothing but faith.
You've obviously been going to the wrong church with the wrong people. If none of you believe in God, what in the hell are you doing in church in the first place?? Bunch of damned hypocrites. Jesus Himself spoke of you andf your kind:
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
That's not church, that's fraud. There are a whole lot of people who don't any more believe in God than Richard Dawkins does that use the faithful's faith to extract the mammon they worship from them.
Thank you for that, it appears that the one I attend may be one of these (WSCC). Here's a link for the lazy to what wikipedia says about the "emergent church" -- which I'd not heard of. So thank you again for expansing my knowledge.
The difference is that interpreting economics from a Marxist or capitalist viewpoint does not require ignoring well-established physical laws.
Neither does belief in a deity or lack of one. Religion and science ask and answer different questions. Do I believe in miracles? Yes, I've witnessed them personally. Do I believe that they occured despite physical laws? No, I do not. God made those physical laws, and I don't believe he'd break his own laws.
I'm not a Catholic, but I find your "joke" to be incredibly offensive and hope that so many people mod you down that the rest of your comments start at -2.
Actually, as a Linux user I find your comment to be a direct insult to ME and all other Linux users. You imply that pedophiles use Linux. Linux users and Catholics with mod points, Sic him!
Indeed. You have asshats like the Florida guy (with his clean-shaven face and necktie, Satan's leash and symbol of wealth and power) directly contradicting Jesus' teachings by disrupting funerals with "god hates fags" signs... he's going straight to hell. God doesn't hate anyone, but he does hate things you do no matter who you are. That hypocrite that scrapes a secondary sexual characteristic off his face should look at where the bible says not to make your self look like a woman. He's worse than any gay I know (actually the gays I know are good people whose sins are no worse than mine or yours).
Jesus spoke of people like him and Newt Gingich -- "beware of wolves in sheep's clothing."
My own church just finished a series of sermons titled "save a life -- break the rules." The first one was "don't have sinners in your life" and recomended (and had new ones available for five bucks) Arron Chambers' Eats With Sinners. Everyone got an envelope with a twenty dollar bill to spend eating with a lost soul that Sunday. The Chambers book mentions the very thing you mention, "you can't be a democrat and a Christian" and answers it with "Hogwash".
even to the point of denying the science that makes the 21st century technology possible.
Where do you people come up with this bullshit? Do you have a link to any of these? I know of no religion that denies science. Hell, even the Pope recognises and acknowledges that evolution is real.
You discredit the ancients, does that include Plato and Aristotle? Why do young people think that today's humans are any smarter than people three thousand years ago? We're not smarter, we just know more. Fruit flies evolve quickly because they have tiny lifespans, people don't. Tortuises live hundreds of years and evolve even more slowly.
In geological timeframes, two thousand years is nothing.
It's also pretty old news. Preachers have been broadcasting sermons and hymns on TV for decades, on radio before that. What church doesn't list a phone number?
Is there still a church that lacks an internet presence? Even the tiny, poor church I attended (in the poorest neighborhood in town) over five years ago had the computerized large screen. The one I attend now is very large, rich, high-tech church, with two giant screens, professional stage lighting, electric musical instruments, all computerized. Flat screens all over the concourse.
You're right, churches (except perhaps the Amish) have embraced technology before I was born, and that was a LONG time ago.
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That's why the city and state fields are editable, but in thousands of records I never saw it get it wrong once. Hell, Springfield is a little city with only 110k people and there are five zip codes here. Some big cities have buildings with their own zip code.
Telephone area codes are a completely different matter. Those do span more than one city and even state.
The link was wrong, sorry, here's the correct one.
Your grandpa's either a liar or senile. I grew up two miles south of the Sauget, IL Monsanto plant. Even in the summer when it was 95 degrees (and no car AC back then, most folks' homes didn't even have AC) you had to roll the wondows up when driving past because the aire would burn your eyes and lungs. There were 100,000 55 gallon drums of highly toxic waste buried half mile away on the bank of the Mississippi. Dead Creek, which went past it and Cerro Copper, often caught fire.
By 1975 there was no odor at all, and the creek stopped catching fire.
Who's your grandpa, Ron Paul? He couldn't be more wrong. Tell him another geezer set you straight about his damned neocon lies.
I want Fry's with that, too.
FTFY. Before someone bashes me for the apostrophe, it's a possessive.
IMO the PEBKAC problem indicates a design flaw. Most interface designs are badly flawed.
For example, the classic stories about people losing the data because wifey put it on the fridge with a magnet could easily be sidestepped by a simple "warning: keep away from magnets". Thinking a user knows how a floppy holds data is incredibly stupid. It isn't the ignorant who are stupid, it's the fool who thinks everyone knows what he knows. Everyone is ignorant of something, and to not realize and respect this simple fact is idiotic.
One of my pet peeves is web forms. You have to fill out street address, city, pull down the state with a dropdown list (stupid design in itself, considering any state is only two keystrokes), and zip code. Why?? If you have the zip code you already have the city and state. Twenty years ago I was designing database screens where after typing in address, the cursor went to the zip code field, and when the cursor left the field the city and state were filled in by a lookup table and could be changed by the user if incorrect. IMO to do otherwise is incredibly bad design, and lazy to boot.
Wht is it with you kids, anyway?
The fortress of solitude? I thought Superman was supposed to be the good guy?
Asimov's Foundation was written in 1945, the last of the trilogy in 1952 (the year I was born). It was published by Gnome Press, a tiny publisher without the clout to properly market it, and it languished until the '60s with Asimov not earning a dime from it until Doubleday bought the publication rights from Gnome. It was a Hugo award winner and a big moneymaker after Doubldeday bought it.
That's why.
As to your "ten years", iirc I started on my Paxil Diaries book almost ten years ago. I still need to design its dust jacket. BTW It's on TPB, I put it there myself.
Seventeen years may seem like a lifetime to someone in college, but it really isn't that long a time at all. You'll find that out if you live long enough. I wouldn't want copyright, even after a renewal, to last any longer than 30 years, though.
AFAIC, any news about a company that would deliberately install malware (XCP) on customers' computers, remove paid-for features afer a sale (OtherOS), and store sensitive customer information in plain text on an internet-facing database is news for nerds.
Normally people losing their jobs makes me sad, but I'll make an exception for Sony employees. As a victim of XCP I'll throw a big party when that God damned company ceases to exist. If you ARE a Sony employee, WTF is wrong with you???
Theology and Science are two very important methods of thoughts â" designed to asked different questions - Why are we hear and how things work.
Dew knot truss yore spill checker. I think you mean "why we are here" rather than "why we hear." If I'm wrong please correct me (and explain what it was you really meant, because it doesn't make any sense as written). If I'm right I hope I cleared up some folks' puzzlement.
It is funny how Angry Atheists and Conservative Christians [are].
There was a study a year or two ago that showed that Catholics, protestants, and agnostics had normal hippocampuses, while evangelicals and athiests have smaller than normal hippocampuses, which explains their obstinacy and anger.
However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge.
On the contrary, it isn't the desire for knowledge that causes pain, but ignorance. From Proverbs:
Although I think you're referring to Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good an evil. It was the tree of death and pain. You cannot know good and evil unless you know death and pain.
Ignorance is not bliss, there is such a thing as a free lunch, and you don't always get what you pay for. Don't just accept words blindly, think about what those words say.
If you don't believe in God, why do you go to church? How can a Bhuddist priest be a Christian preacher? Your post makes no sense at all.
I was with you up until this point:
The really weird thing to my mind is the fundamentalist Evangelicals who combine the non-Biblical overemphasis on Jesus
Jesus is central to Christianity. Christ IS Christianity. The old covenant with the Jews was obey every law, or spend eternity in hell. The new covenant is that your sins are forgiven; they were paid in blood by an innocent man, the son of God, who God sent to die so we may live.
As to the trinity, I never understood that myself until I was baptised a couple of years ago. I understood the father and son but not the holy ghost -- until I was filled with the holy ghost.
I'll bet some of those here who follow my journals have noticed the change in me the last couple of years without even ever having met me in the flesh. I've always been a Christian, so I didn't imagine how much being baptized would change me.
theists who actively deny science
-1, redundant. Must have been a half dozen other clueless said the same thing. I am a Christian and I know a hell of a lot of other Christians, and I don't know a single one who denies science. Evolution? Even the Pope says evolution is real. Why must you lie? You must be terribly afraid of the truth.
global warming
Christianity, and no Christian sect, denies global warming. The political right wing, controlled by the oil companies, are behind that, not Christianity. Again, why must you spread lies about us? Is the truth so frightening?
complete lack of evidence of their favorite deity
You cannot deny an entity who has revealed himself to you. You're a man who has never seen an elephant and believes they're impossible, while I've been to the zoo. I need no faith to know of God's existance, but your insistance that he is impossible is nothing but faith.
To paraphrase Mr. T, "I pity da saltydog".
"Corporate" worship? Don't you mean communal worship?
You've obviously been going to the wrong church with the wrong people. If none of you believe in God, what in the hell are you doing in church in the first place?? Bunch of damned hypocrites. Jesus Himself spoke of you andf your kind:
That's not church, that's fraud. There are a whole lot of people who don't any more believe in God than Richard Dawkins does that use the faithful's faith to extract the mammon they worship from them.
Thank you for that, it appears that the one I attend may be one of these (WSCC). Here's a link for the lazy to what wikipedia says about the "emergent church" -- which I'd not heard of. So thank you again for expansing my knowledge.
Loving your enemies isn't worth teaching? Tolerance isn't worth teaching? Refraining from violence, murder, theft, adultery aren't worth teaching?
I pity you.
The difference is that interpreting economics from a Marxist or capitalist viewpoint does not require ignoring well-established physical laws.
Neither does belief in a deity or lack of one. Religion and science ask and answer different questions. Do I believe in miracles? Yes, I've witnessed them personally. Do I believe that they occured despite physical laws? No, I do not. God made those physical laws, and I don't believe he'd break his own laws.
I'm not a Catholic, but I find your "joke" to be incredibly offensive and hope that so many people mod you down that the rest of your comments start at -2.
Actually, as a Linux user I find your comment to be a direct insult to ME and all other Linux users. You imply that pedophiles use Linux. Linux users and Catholics with mod points, Sic him!
Indeed. You have asshats like the Florida guy (with his clean-shaven face and necktie, Satan's leash and symbol of wealth and power) directly contradicting Jesus' teachings by disrupting funerals with "god hates fags" signs... he's going straight to hell. God doesn't hate anyone, but he does hate things you do no matter who you are. That hypocrite that scrapes a secondary sexual characteristic off his face should look at where the bible says not to make your self look like a woman. He's worse than any gay I know (actually the gays I know are good people whose sins are no worse than mine or yours).
Jesus spoke of people like him and Newt Gingich -- "beware of wolves in sheep's clothing."
My own church just finished a series of sermons titled "save a life -- break the rules." The first one was "don't have sinners in your life" and recomended (and had new ones available for five bucks) Arron Chambers' Eats With Sinners. Everyone got an envelope with a twenty dollar bill to spend eating with a lost soul that Sunday. The Chambers book mentions the very thing you mention, "you can't be a democrat and a Christian" and answers it with "Hogwash".
I want to add to what emperic said and as for a LINK, damn it. Prove your absurd accusations or STFU.
No scientist has ever said "only evolution occurs"
True, but athiests do.
even to the point of denying the science that makes the 21st century technology possible.
Where do you people come up with this bullshit? Do you have a link to any of these? I know of no religion that denies science. Hell, even the Pope recognises and acknowledges that evolution is real.
You discredit the ancients, does that include Plato and Aristotle? Why do young people think that today's humans are any smarter than people three thousand years ago? We're not smarter, we just know more. Fruit flies evolve quickly because they have tiny lifespans, people don't. Tortuises live hundreds of years and evolve even more slowly.
In geological timeframes, two thousand years is nothing.
It's also pretty old news. Preachers have been broadcasting sermons and hymns on TV for decades, on radio before that. What church doesn't list a phone number?
Is there still a church that lacks an internet presence? Even the tiny, poor church I attended (in the poorest neighborhood in town) over five years ago had the computerized large screen. The one I attend now is very large, rich, high-tech church, with two giant screens, professional stage lighting, electric musical instruments, all computerized. Flat screens all over the concourse.
You're right, churches (except perhaps the Amish) have embraced technology before I was born, and that was a LONG time ago.