Your grandma never sends you a birthday card with a check in it? Personally I'd rather pay for the fifty cent stamp than the buck fifty fee to pay my gas bill online.
But I agree, snail junk mail is worthless. But you (and I, even if I do still use the USPO) aren't normal people. We're nerds. Most people actually do still use the mail, or the Springfield Advertiser would have gone out of business long ago.
DUUUUUUUDE... It doesn't need air!!!! The gunpowder has its own oxidant. I'm not too sure how modern gunpowder is made, but the gunpowder used since the ancient chinese invented it was a mixture of carbon, sulphur, and saltpeter. The saltpeter is the oxidant, and without it you have no explosive.
The air has nothing whatever to do with a gunpowder explosion. It supplys its own oxidant.
eyes age, less and less sunlight gets through the lens to reach key cells in the retina that regulate the body's circadian rhythm, its internal clock that rallies the body to tackle the day's demands in the morning and slows it down at night, allowing the body to rest and repair.
I had a steroid-induced cataract in my left eye back in 2006 and it didn't bother my circadians any. What affects your eyes the most as you age, around age 40, is the lens getting hard so the muscles can no longer focus. That's why you need reading glasses.
And what of people born blind? Those who have had retina failures in both eyes at a young age?
I do notice that in the spring, sunlight on my skin seems to be cheerful, and that's probably more important - the vitamin D. Plus, you have more light in the summer than in the winter, how does that come into play? And like you and the GP, what of those who never leave the basement (or rock)?
Where's that biology lady go? I'd like to hear her take on this.
Who was where they shouldn't have been doing what they shouldn't have done? Not the hunters, on their private land, but the drone operators violating their privacy. If I was carrying a gun on my own property and a drone was spying on me, I'd likely take a shot or two also.
Like Deep Purple sang, it's not the kill but the thrill of the chase. Being against hunting while eating animals that live horrible lives in horrible conditions seems a bit hypocritical.
I still don't understand your objections to "blood sport." It's ok to eat animals but not to kill them? You don't see the disconnect there?
Again, most hunters eat their prey. What's your objection? If you were a card-carrying anti-gun peta nut who refused to drink milk I could understand, but a carnivorous gun owner? I haven't owned a firearm in decades, but some of my best memories are hunting with my dad when I was young. Best tasting meat I ever ate, too. I'm tempted to buy a dog and a gun just because they don't sell rabbit and venison at the grocery store.
As far as I can tell, aggressive species tend to be the most successful
Then why are lions, bears, tigers, and other agressive species going extinct rather than squirrels, rabbits, and cows?
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean survival of the meanest. It means that any species that fits well into its environment will survive, those that don't fit become extinct.
Someone in an earlier thread talked of lions and gazelles, noting that the slowest gazelle gets eaten -- but so does the one in the lead if he's heading away from one pride and into another. The one in the middle of the herd is the one most likely to survive. And the cats hunt in packs and share the food.
I tend to think the Neanderthals may have died while we didn't was perhaps because they lacked coherent social structures that we had. A man alone tames fire, the idea dies with him. If he teaches others, the idea lives.
Species aren't the only things that evolve, societal norms do as well. They, like the species, evolve to match their environments.
If you're not with Ron Paul and the Freedom movement, you're part of the problem.
I was with you until then. Sorry, but before the Clean Air Act was signed and the EPA implimented, it REALLY stank. The air was terrible. Before the Clean Water Act rivers actually caught fire.
I can't get behind anyone who wants to let some rich bastard ruin my air so he can make a few more million dollars.
The LPers say that private lawsuits will keep the air clean. Really? Then why was the air so horrible before the EPA?
As for the article's contention that splash screens are inherently bad... I disagree with that. They're sort of like the cover art for albums.
The "cover art" is on the install CD. I don't need "cover art" for a hammer, a chainsaw, photoshop, or any other damned tool. It's just a stupid waste of time, drive space, memory, and patience.
As for TFA whomever invented splash screens should be shot.
Twenty years ago I hated splash screens with a passion. But since I got a DVD player, they're nothing compared to unskippable piracy warnings and often unskippable trailers. Compared to the shit we put up with from Hollywood, any more splash screens don't bother me that much. I'd still like them banished, but I'd even moreso like the DVD bullshit banished.
Come to think of it, we can probably blame Hollywood for splash screens. Hollywood, I don't want to watch your trailers and if I needed a piracy warning I'd just have downloaded your damned movie and not seen it at all, idiots.
Programmers, If I want entertainment I'll read a book or watch a movie. Just open the damned application already!
I got sunshine On a cloudy day When the cloud goes down Data don't go away I hear you say What can make me feel this way? Server, server, server, Talkin' 'bout MY SERVER MY SERVER!
(Apologies to Smokey Robisnon or whoever it was I just parodied)
If you're tromping around with weapons killing stuff, you're "expectation of privacy" is somewhat attenuated
I have a friend who lives on fifteen acres he owns. Why should his right to privacy be negated on his own property just because he's carrying a perfectly legal tool?
Those pheasants you just blew into pieces were probably expecting a little privacy, too.
They' not people. AFAIK humans are the only species with the concept of "privacy".
a pretty tolerant person, but blood sport is one of my bright red lines. It puts you in a special category. It's not that I care so much about animals, that I'm some animal hugger. I eat polish sausage, which I am told contains something that was once an animal (and judging from my digestive reaction, an animal that died of ebola).
Most hunters eat what they kill. So you're OK with eating that pig that was raised in inhumane conditions and killed, but you're not OK with killing it yourself? There's a bit of a disconnect there, don't you think?
Hunting is in our blood. Hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of years of evolution is at play here.
There's nothing whatever wrong with hunting. To be an anti-hunting omnivore smacks of hypocricy.
If you can predict the future, why are you not rolling in money from winning every lottery?
Because it's not predictable. What follows I chalk up to fantastic coincidence, but I've seen many other fantastic coincidences in my life.
Back when I was still married and the kids were young teens, we were watching a movie and my youngest came down the stairs in tears, shaking. She's had a horrible dream and was sure it was real. She described a big building falling down with lots and lots of people getting crushed, burned, and falling. It took us an hour to convice her it was just a dream and go back to sleep.
The date that night was November 10, 2001. None of her other dreams have come true, though.
Before Ronald Reagain slashed the Capital Gains Tax to half the income tax rate from above it. Before that, almost everyone in the stock market were long term investors.
The movie you linked on imdb is the same movie I linked at wikipedia. Surrogates, Bruce Willis. And yes, it is older than Avatar but not as well known.
Bullshit project? Are you trolling, on crack, or just stupid? This is the kind of research that saves soldiers' lives, plus there will certainly be non-military applications down the road.
Illinois is similar. If you own a house when you get married, you own it when you get divorced, but if you buy it after marriage it's the property of both spouses. Even your pension.
My faith teaches me to be kind and respectful to people, to be obedient to the law, to work hard and support my family, not to get into too much debt, to spend time with my wife, and in turn with my children, to be honest and have integrity, and to live a healthy lifestyle.
Harry Houdin became furious with people who claimed his feats of escape and stage magic were done with mystical powers... this fascination with the miraculous was infuriating to someone like Houdine
Who are you talking about? Robert-Houdin or Erik Weisz (AKA "Harry Houdini)? If the latter, you are incorrect. Stage magic was a hobby in my youth and I read at least half a dozen biographies of the man.
He did debunk fraudsters in the '20s, but in none of the biographies I read did anyone claim that Houdini was supernatural. Until today when I looked it up on wikipedia, and it says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle claimed he did it supernaturally, but it doesn't mention anyone else.
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Oh for.... TGS itself said "he cites his own breach of ethics". Sounds to me like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
I think he did the right thing. It would be even more unethical to let the bastards keep lying.
Your grandma never sends you a birthday card with a check in it? Personally I'd rather pay for the fifty cent stamp than the buck fifty fee to pay my gas bill online.
But I agree, snail junk mail is worthless. But you (and I, even if I do still use the USPO) aren't normal people. We're nerds. Most people actually do still use the mail, or the Springfield Advertiser would have gone out of business long ago.
DUUUUUUUDE... It doesn't need air!!!! The gunpowder has its own oxidant. I'm not too sure how modern gunpowder is made, but the gunpowder used since the ancient chinese invented it was a mixture of carbon, sulphur, and saltpeter. The saltpeter is the oxidant, and without it you have no explosive.
The air has nothing whatever to do with a gunpowder explosion. It supplys its own oxidant.
Nice hypothesis, but I don't buy it.
eyes age, less and less sunlight gets through the lens to reach key cells in the retina that regulate the body's circadian rhythm, its internal clock that rallies the body to tackle the day's demands in the morning and slows it down at night, allowing the body to rest and repair.
I had a steroid-induced cataract in my left eye back in 2006 and it didn't bother my circadians any. What affects your eyes the most as you age, around age 40, is the lens getting hard so the muscles can no longer focus. That's why you need reading glasses.
And what of people born blind? Those who have had retina failures in both eyes at a young age?
I do notice that in the spring, sunlight on my skin seems to be cheerful, and that's probably more important - the vitamin D. Plus, you have more light in the summer than in the winter, how does that come into play? And like you and the GP, what of those who never leave the basement (or rock)?
Where's that biology lady go? I'd like to hear her take on this.
Who was where they shouldn't have been doing what they shouldn't have done? Not the hunters, on their private land, but the drone operators violating their privacy. If I was carrying a gun on my own property and a drone was spying on me, I'd likely take a shot or two also.
Like Deep Purple sang, it's not the kill but the thrill of the chase. Being against hunting while eating animals that live horrible lives in horrible conditions seems a bit hypocritical.
I still don't understand your objections to "blood sport." It's ok to eat animals but not to kill them? You don't see the disconnect there?
Again, most hunters eat their prey. What's your objection? If you were a card-carrying anti-gun peta nut who refused to drink milk I could understand, but a carnivorous gun owner? I haven't owned a firearm in decades, but some of my best memories are hunting with my dad when I was young. Best tasting meat I ever ate, too. I'm tempted to buy a dog and a gun just because they don't sell rabbit and venison at the grocery store.
As far as I can tell, aggressive species tend to be the most successful
Then why are lions, bears, tigers, and other agressive species going extinct rather than squirrels, rabbits, and cows?
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean survival of the meanest. It means that any species that fits well into its environment will survive, those that don't fit become extinct.
Someone in an earlier thread talked of lions and gazelles, noting that the slowest gazelle gets eaten -- but so does the one in the lead if he's heading away from one pride and into another. The one in the middle of the herd is the one most likely to survive. And the cats hunt in packs and share the food.
I tend to think the Neanderthals may have died while we didn't was perhaps because they lacked coherent social structures that we had. A man alone tames fire, the idea dies with him. If he teaches others, the idea lives.
Species aren't the only things that evolve, societal norms do as well. They, like the species, evolve to match their environments.
perhaps it was a copyright violation? they received a take down notice?
Hardly. Botticelli died in 1510.
If you're not with Ron Paul and the Freedom movement, you're part of the problem.
I was with you until then. Sorry, but before the Clean Air Act was signed and the EPA implimented, it REALLY stank. The air was terrible. Before the Clean Water Act rivers actually caught fire.
I can't get behind anyone who wants to let some rich bastard ruin my air so he can make a few more million dollars.
The LPers say that private lawsuits will keep the air clean. Really? Then why was the air so horrible before the EPA?
I'm pretty sure if you're very close to a neutron star, bullets are the least of your worries.
As for the article's contention that splash screens are inherently bad... I disagree with that. They're sort of like the cover art for albums.
The "cover art" is on the install CD. I don't need "cover art" for a hammer, a chainsaw, photoshop, or any other damned tool. It's just a stupid waste of time, drive space, memory, and patience.
As for TFA whomever invented splash screens should be shot.
Twenty years ago I hated splash screens with a passion. But since I got a DVD player, they're nothing compared to unskippable piracy warnings and often unskippable trailers. Compared to the shit we put up with from Hollywood, any more splash screens don't bother me that much. I'd still like them banished, but I'd even moreso like the DVD bullshit banished.
Come to think of it, we can probably blame Hollywood for splash screens. Hollywood, I don't want to watch your trailers and if I needed a piracy warning I'd just have downloaded your damned movie and not seen it at all, idiots.
Programmers, If I want entertainment I'll read a book or watch a movie. Just open the damned application already!
I got sunshine
On a cloudy day
When the cloud goes down
Data don't go away
I hear you say
What can make me feel this way?
Server, server, server,
Talkin' 'bout MY SERVER
MY SERVER!
(Apologies to Smokey Robisnon or whoever it was I just parodied)
If you're tromping around with weapons killing stuff, you're "expectation of privacy" is somewhat attenuated
I have a friend who lives on fifteen acres he owns. Why should his right to privacy be negated on his own property just because he's carrying a perfectly legal tool?
Those pheasants you just blew into pieces were probably expecting a little privacy, too.
They' not people. AFAIK humans are the only species with the concept of "privacy".
a pretty tolerant person, but blood sport is one of my bright red lines. It puts you in a special category. It's not that I care so much about animals, that I'm some animal hugger. I eat polish sausage, which I am told contains something that was once an animal (and judging from my digestive reaction, an animal that died of ebola).
Most hunters eat what they kill. So you're OK with eating that pig that was raised in inhumane conditions and killed, but you're not OK with killing it yourself? There's a bit of a disconnect there, don't you think?
Hunting is in our blood. Hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of years of evolution is at play here.
There's nothing whatever wrong with hunting. To be an anti-hunting omnivore smacks of hypocricy.
Waddya know, PETA drones gots mod points! Got yer shotgun ready, kyrio?
If you can predict the future, why are you not rolling in money from winning every lottery?
Because it's not predictable. What follows I chalk up to fantastic coincidence, but I've seen many other fantastic coincidences in my life.
Back when I was still married and the kids were young teens, we were watching a movie and my youngest came down the stairs in tears, shaking. She's had a horrible dream and was sure it was real. She described a big building falling down with lots and lots of people getting crushed, burned, and falling. It took us an hour to convice her it was just a dream and go back to sleep.
The date that night was November 10, 2001. None of her other dreams have come true, though.
If I had mod points I'd mod you insightful. What you say is very true. The woman I divorced was not the woman I married.
Before Ronald Reagain slashed the Capital Gains Tax to half the income tax rate from above it. Before that, almost everyone in the stock market were long term investors.
The movie you linked on imdb is the same movie I linked at wikipedia. Surrogates, Bruce Willis. And yes, it is older than Avatar but not as well known.
If it were avatar the word and not Avatar the movie it wouldn't be capitalized and italicised.
Bullshit project? Are you trolling, on crack, or just stupid? This is the kind of research that saves soldiers' lives, plus there will certainly be non-military applications down the road.
Illinois is similar. If you own a house when you get married, you own it when you get divorced, but if you buy it after marriage it's the property of both spouses. Even your pension.
My faith teaches me to be kind and respectful to people, to be obedient to the law, to work hard and support my family, not to get into too much debt, to spend time with my wife, and in turn with my children, to be honest and have integrity, and to live a healthy lifestyle.
You're Jewish?
I think these are good things?
I do.
Harry Houdin became furious with people who claimed his feats of escape and stage magic were done with mystical powers... this fascination with the miraculous was infuriating to someone like Houdine
Who are you talking about? Robert-Houdin or Erik Weisz (AKA "Harry Houdini)? If the latter, you are incorrect. Stage magic was a hobby in my youth and I read at least half a dozen biographies of the man.
He did debunk fraudsters in the '20s, but in none of the biographies I read did anyone claim that Houdini was supernatural. Until today when I looked it up on wikipedia, and it says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle claimed he did it supernaturally, but it doesn't mention anyone else.