People have raped, slaughtered, robbed, and a plethora of other not-very-nice-things to people in the name of Jesus.
And back when that was happening regularly, you could have probably nailed your theses to the door of a church and caused at least a minor sensation. Nowadays, that's ancient history, and common knowledge. Nobody denies it and nobody condones it.
What do you mean "the most important religious figures in history?"
Mohammed's only relevance in the past 500 years is due to recent concerns over petroleum in the (until quite recently) virtually unpopulated tribal desert areas and it's relation to local politics in countries where 90% of the population had only heard of him as a footnote in 7th grade history.
Before that, there were some minor wars in Spain, and an ongoing dispute over Jewish archaeological sites.
And every study should be *required*, by law, to be accompanied with cites to whatever agendas they were created to support.
And every agenda should be *required*, by law, to be registered with every backer of that agenda.
And every backer should be *required*, by law, to declare his gross income and total wealth.
And every employer or employee of every backer should be *required*, by law, to specify which mainstream media they consume regularly.
But what if you found out later that the guy you sacked was just framed by a co-worker who just wanted to move into the scapegoat's office himself? Now you're responsible for costing 1001 people their jobs. I guess the bright side is, it bothers you less as the numbers get bigger doesn't it. Fire another thousand and one and you won't even remember how you felt about the first thousand. You're my kind of CEO.
And the second coming of Jesus Christ is now almost universally accepted within the fundamentalist Christian community. And the superiority of Captain Kirk over Captain Picard is now almost universally accepted within the alt.sf.startrek.tos community. What is your point?
Surely those trucking companies should get tax credits for reducing *your* pollution output. Just think how much fossil fuel you'd burn in a Prius driving to Iowa for corn, Kansas for wheat, Nebraska for beef, Arkansas for chicken, Utah for salt, Wisconsin for milk, Washington for apples half the year and Chile for Apples the other half, and to Texas for every tank of gas.
The pollution saved by Walmart and Peterbuilt is staggering!
Think how many buyers and sellers has. It has practically all of the ebay clients, plus every other web site they crawl. If good searches returning correct results to sellers gives them a cut of every transaction, you'll see search improve drastically.
premature optimization == money?
I'm going to unroll some loops in this webapp I've been working on... It's a social networking site for VOIP driven real estate day trading.
Anything with a bunch of points around a circle can be used as an "astronomical clock" What do you think a sextant is -- it's just a sighting of two points. The missing part is the calculations that make the sighting worthwhile.
Yes! Unlimited free access to droning speeches from our fearless leader downloaded via lossless compression over 300 baud high speed free internet! Maybe we can get statistics from 5 year plans that always match estimates, and when then don't: pay-per-view quality beheadings at no additional cost! Fully indexed and easily searchable, just don't search for the wrong thing...
What Chomsky doesn't realize is that he's just a small cog in that media machine, designed to keep stupid people like you distracted from real problems by having you wade through his tripe and talk about how you were able to wade through his self-aggrandizing navel-gazing and somehow feel that getting his diarrhea all over you makes you feel special.
T-Bills have value because the US government always pays it's debts (so far). The dollar has dropped 25% but the value of US Bonds stays strong. It doesn't matter what currency oil trades in, because if you have Euros, Pesos, or Yuan you're still going to use them to buy US assets.
The housing bubble is the primary (remaining) cause (or effect?) of the plummeting dollar. Real wealth doesn't get any more substantial than real estate. Even gold is only as good as how much food or land it can buy. Real estate in the USA is worth more than anywhere else, and more food is grown here than almost everywhere else combined. We're also the worlds second largest producer of oil, another commodity that has real value. If property values go down, the dollar goes up by definition.
The Pound is doing good (check out real estate in London) but the Euro is just high because it is scarce.
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People have raped, slaughtered, robbed, and a plethora of other not-very-nice-things to people in the name of Jesus.
And back when that was happening regularly, you could have probably nailed your theses to the door of a church and caused at least a minor sensation. Nowadays, that's ancient history, and common knowledge. Nobody denies it and nobody condones it.
What do you mean "the most important religious figures in history?" Mohammed's only relevance in the past 500 years is due to recent concerns over petroleum in the (until quite recently) virtually unpopulated tribal desert areas and it's relation to local politics in countries where 90% of the population had only heard of him as a footnote in 7th grade history. Before that, there were some minor wars in Spain, and an ongoing dispute over Jewish archaeological sites.
And every study should be *required*, by law, to be accompanied with cites to whatever agendas they were created to support. And every agenda should be *required*, by law, to be registered with every backer of that agenda. And every backer should be *required*, by law, to declare his gross income and total wealth. And every employer or employee of every backer should be *required*, by law, to specify which mainstream media they consume regularly.
Apparently if you don't get divorced, you are more likely to have more children, and thus more likely to have a son.
Tell them to invent their own damn automatons, or to enslave one another.
Except for when the rope wears out, or something gets in his way. Aging and decay, interaction with the unexpected. Oh the trials of mortality!
But what if you found out later that the guy you sacked was just framed by a co-worker who just wanted to move into the scapegoat's office himself? Now you're responsible for costing 1001 people their jobs. I guess the bright side is, it bothers you less as the numbers get bigger doesn't it. Fire another thousand and one and you won't even remember how you felt about the first thousand. You're my kind of CEO.
As cool as a flying cow and some ping pong balls look on TV, Helen Hunt in a wet t-shirt is no match for the data produced by a weather satellite.
And the second coming of Jesus Christ is now almost universally accepted within the fundamentalist Christian community. And the superiority of Captain Kirk over Captain Picard is now almost universally accepted within the alt.sf.startrek.tos community. What is your point?
There are no polar ice caps on Mars.
Surely those trucking companies should get tax credits for reducing *your* pollution output. Just think how much fossil fuel you'd burn in a Prius driving to Iowa for corn, Kansas for wheat, Nebraska for beef, Arkansas for chicken, Utah for salt, Wisconsin for milk, Washington for apples half the year and Chile for Apples the other half, and to Texas for every tank of gas. The pollution saved by Walmart and Peterbuilt is staggering!
Think how many buyers and sellers has. It has practically all of the ebay clients, plus every other web site they crawl. If good searches returning correct results to sellers gives them a cut of every transaction, you'll see search improve drastically.
premature optimization == money? I'm going to unroll some loops in this webapp I've been working on... It's a social networking site for VOIP driven real estate day trading.
Dummy, try ctrl+x, ctrl+c
Anything with a bunch of points around a circle can be used as an "astronomical clock" What do you think a sextant is -- it's just a sighting of two points. The missing part is the calculations that make the sighting worthwhile.
The low end PCs blow midrange Macs out of the water.
Yes! Unlimited free access to droning speeches from our fearless leader downloaded via lossless compression over 300 baud high speed free internet! Maybe we can get statistics from 5 year plans that always match estimates, and when then don't: pay-per-view quality beheadings at no additional cost! Fully indexed and easily searchable, just don't search for the wrong thing...
What Chomsky doesn't realize is that he's just a small cog in that media machine, designed to keep stupid people like you distracted from real problems by having you wade through his tripe and talk about how you were able to wade through his self-aggrandizing navel-gazing and somehow feel that getting his diarrhea all over you makes you feel special.
It wasn't English the whole time, but it was originally! Don't you know that the Q's E is G's own L?
At least we don't have to worry about it from the likes of you.
T-Bills have value because the US government always pays it's debts (so far). The dollar has dropped 25% but the value of US Bonds stays strong. It doesn't matter what currency oil trades in, because if you have Euros, Pesos, or Yuan you're still going to use them to buy US assets.
The housing bubble is the primary (remaining) cause (or effect?) of the plummeting dollar. Real wealth doesn't get any more substantial than real estate. Even gold is only as good as how much food or land it can buy. Real estate in the USA is worth more than anywhere else, and more food is grown here than almost everywhere else combined. We're also the worlds second largest producer of oil, another commodity that has real value. If property values go down, the dollar goes up by definition. The Pound is doing good (check out real estate in London) but the Euro is just high because it is scarce.
Does he use Lotus Notes?
I sure don't want your old chili-splatters in the ground water -- and God forbid a three-pronged electrical socket contaminates the local stream!
Gather together a thousand circuit boards and someone will probably give you a shiny nickel for the precious metals (mostly nickel) on them.