I'd argue that Zen Buddhism is as you said, but there are other forms (e.g. Mahayana, Tibetan) that have all manner of dieties and the like that make it more akin to a polytheistic religion than pure Buddhist philosophy.
As for Unitatians, yeah, we've got no dogma. I've even known Christian UU's, Jewish UU's, etc, so I think you're right in not classifying it as a religion per se.
One can't even prove Newton's second law, of course you can't rigorously, 100% prove that he was lying. That said, you're an idiot. Being willfully blind to Bush's obvious, egregious lies reflects poorly on you. You're like a kindergartener just repeating the same stupid denials over and over./flame
I believe what they're saying is that altruism is a drive in and of itself. For instance, you don't seek food because it will lead to sex, just like you don't seek sex because it will somehow get you food. You desire food because it makes you feel good, you desire sex because it makes you feel good, you desire to commit altruistic acts because they make you feel good.
I don't understand why the government doesn't demand the upgrades first, then paying for it. It doesn't seem unreasonable. Maybe offer them incentives if they get it done quickly. Once the government has tested that in fact, the upgrades have been made, they pay the money. No upgrades, no money. Simple, right? right??
Foreign cars have to meet the same standards as domestics. The sorry state of the US auto industry is NOT the fault of efficieny/pollution standards.
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to harsh your buzz. Here: The government is bad, always. Unrestricted industry will self-regulate to the betterment of everyone. Adam Smith knows less than economics than you. Sulfur oxides are better than candy.
A few months ago I redid the sound system in my 1990 Miata, which at the time had the stock radio/tape deck and 1 (semi)working door speaker. Having an ipod, I looked around at some of those FM transmitters and the other devices. It seems the choices are either shell out $50+ for shitty sound quality, or $200+ for a new head unit that can connect to the ipod.
I realized that I can't stand listening to radio, what with its 8 songs total intermixed with annoying ads. My solution was to wire an RCA cable from the cupholder in the center console to the trunk, directly to the amp. The stock head unit is still there, still works, just isn't plugged into any speakers. All I have to do is plug in the ipod to the cable and start it playing. Sounds great, cost all of $9 for the cable, ipod is close at hand and easy to control. And, as an extra bonus, I can take it with me when I leave the car so there's nothing to steal.
The computer has to make a request, though. The receiving computer has a chance to deny the incomer depending on his ID, and can be set who to allow and who to disallow.
Another example is the doors at my university. The keycard system gives the university the ability to admit or deny someone based on identity, time of day, etc. If my keycard works in a door, I'm only able to assume that I'm allowed to enter the door, else they'd have denied me access. I don't need notarized written permission to enter every door I come across.
Say I place a sign on my house that says "Are you (the reader) allowed to come in and take a nap on the couch inside this house? Pull the tab for answer." with a pull-tab that says "yes" I think that that would qualify as permission. This is essentially what's happening here. Automated system that I could easily change allowing entry to anyone who asks.
When I'm browsing, NoScript tells me that tons and tons of sites have Google Analytics scripts on them. I keep all scripts blocked by default, so I sometimes have to enable one on a page. I don't have any statistics, but seems like more often than not there's GA script trying to run. Bastards.
That gives me an idea: if I were more savvy with scripting I'd write something to keep track for me how often what site tries to run scripts when I browse.
If it requires more energy to produce the ethanol than you get from burning it then (assuming initial energy is in the form of fossil fuels, which it will be for farming) you get C02 burned initially - C02 absorbed by corn plant + C02 released by burning corn ethanol. That's _more_ CO2 than would be released otherwise. You're burning _more_ oil to produce the ethanol than it would take to just run the cars, AND you're paying Big Farm America via subsidies for the privilege! So OPEC gets their money, BFA gets theirs, there's more CO2 in the atmosphere, the soil is further depleted, and Mexicans can't afford enough tortillas. CORN ETHANOL IS A BAD IDEA!
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Yarr, all your war3z are belong to us!...except for 1/4 share which are belong to the Queen.
It's true that a lot of Republicans are unhappy with Bush and co. Even so, party loyalty seems to have more influence than that dissatisfaction, thus part of my disdain for political parties in general. That point granted, it's undeniable that Washington is the mother of all networking circles and that people are attracted to power like flies to shit. There are tons of people involved with the administration (lots of neo-cons, especially), including his cabinet, who could (do, probably) tell Bush every move to make. That man couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag without someone to point him in the right direction.
I suppose I should have specified that the set of all people who are involved conspiracy-like with him overlaps significantly with, but isn't exactly the same thing as, the republican party.
As to your other point, at most points in recent history one could make that point, that "the FEDs have raked in record tax collections this last tax season", notably most of Bush's terms notwithstanding. Also note that the tax receipts are growing more slowly than in Clinton's terms. I hardly see this as proof that the cut-taxes-and-spend policy is working.
Good luck combining fermions with photons. Photons are very much a type of boson, which means they're very much _not_ fermions. Perhaps the biologists should just combine mitochondria and chromosomes too, you know, to simplify the math?
Indeed. It would be the area of perpetual twilight, a sort of "twilight zone".
Also, as an above poster mentioned, there would be crazy convection currents in that atmosphere from the constant cycling of hot and cold air to redistribute the heat from Gliese 581. This would probably make windmills a cheap, ideal energy source for whomever lived there.
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I'd argue that Zen Buddhism is as you said, but there are other forms (e.g. Mahayana, Tibetan) that have all manner of dieties and the like that make it more akin to a polytheistic religion than pure Buddhist philosophy.
As for Unitatians, yeah, we've got no dogma. I've even known Christian UU's, Jewish UU's, etc, so I think you're right in not classifying it as a religion per se.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis/
Really, I think they should provide it fur and make it look like a wookie. Plus, the fur would help keep desert sand out of the joints.
I can just imagine fields of robots, far as the eye can see, mining gold and trying to hawk their ebay merchant site to anyone within earshot.
One can't even prove Newton's second law, of course you can't rigorously, 100% prove that he was lying. That said, you're an idiot. Being willfully blind to Bush's obvious, egregious lies reflects poorly on you. You're like a kindergartener just repeating the same stupid denials over and over. /flame
I too was disappointed about the lack of spideriness, even though I hate spiders. This just looks goofy.
*mumbles something about Asians and giant walking robots...*
IIRC it was John Bell. He was the one who disproved the hidden variable theories. This was after Einstein had died, in the 60's.
I believe what they're saying is that altruism is a drive in and of itself. For instance, you don't seek food because it will lead to sex, just like you don't seek sex because it will somehow get you food. You desire food because it makes you feel good, you desire sex because it makes you feel good, you desire to commit altruistic acts because they make you feel good.
I don't understand why the government doesn't demand the upgrades first, then paying for it. It doesn't seem unreasonable. Maybe offer them incentives if they get it done quickly. Once the government has tested that in fact, the upgrades have been made, they pay the money. No upgrades, no money. Simple, right? right??
Foreign cars have to meet the same standards as domestics. The sorry state of the US auto industry is NOT the fault of efficieny/pollution standards.
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to harsh your buzz. Here: The government is bad, always. Unrestricted industry will self-regulate to the betterment of everyone. Adam Smith knows less than economics than you. Sulfur oxides are better than candy.
A few months ago I redid the sound system in my 1990 Miata, which at the time had the stock radio/tape deck and 1 (semi)working door speaker. Having an ipod, I looked around at some of those FM transmitters and the other devices. It seems the choices are either shell out $50+ for shitty sound quality, or $200+ for a new head unit that can connect to the ipod.
I realized that I can't stand listening to radio, what with its 8 songs total intermixed with annoying ads. My solution was to wire an RCA cable from the cupholder in the center console to the trunk, directly to the amp. The stock head unit is still there, still works, just isn't plugged into any speakers. All I have to do is plug in the ipod to the cable and start it playing. Sounds great, cost all of $9 for the cable, ipod is close at hand and easy to control. And, as an extra bonus, I can take it with me when I leave the car so there's nothing to steal.
Wow, whoever wrote that advertisement really hates men. Somehow I don't think any guys will be buying any of those for their girls.
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Good night, Linux. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely sue you in the morning.
The computer has to make a request, though. The receiving computer has a chance to deny the incomer depending on his ID, and can be set who to allow and who to disallow.
Another example is the doors at my university. The keycard system gives the university the ability to admit or deny someone based on identity, time of day, etc. If my keycard works in a door, I'm only able to assume that I'm allowed to enter the door, else they'd have denied me access. I don't need notarized written permission to enter every door I come across.
I think they call that "martyring" someone; last I heard, it tends to be a bad idea if you want to shut them up.
Damnit, put a spoiler warning on that! Some of us haven't read the book yet.
Say I place a sign on my house that says "Are you (the reader) allowed to come in and take a nap on the couch inside this house? Pull the tab for answer." with a pull-tab that says "yes" I think that that would qualify as permission. This is essentially what's happening here. Automated system that I could easily change allowing entry to anyone who asks.
When I'm browsing, NoScript tells me that tons and tons of sites have Google Analytics scripts on them. I keep all scripts blocked by default, so I sometimes have to enable one on a page. I don't have any statistics, but seems like more often than not there's GA script trying to run. Bastards.
That gives me an idea: if I were more savvy with scripting I'd write something to keep track for me how often what site tries to run scripts when I browse.
Someone mod parent "-1, doesn't get it".
If it requires more energy to produce the ethanol than you get from burning it then (assuming initial energy is in the form of fossil fuels, which it will be for farming) you get C02 burned initially - C02 absorbed by corn plant + C02 released by burning corn ethanol. That's _more_ CO2 than would be released otherwise. You're burning _more_ oil to produce the ethanol than it would take to just run the cars, AND you're paying Big Farm America via subsidies for the privilege! So OPEC gets their money, BFA gets theirs, there's more CO2 in the atmosphere, the soil is further depleted, and Mexicans can't afford enough tortillas. CORN ETHANOL IS A BAD IDEA!
Yarr, all your war3z are belong to us! ...except for 1/4 share which are belong to the Queen.
It's true that a lot of Republicans are unhappy with Bush and co. Even so, party loyalty seems to have more influence than that dissatisfaction, thus part of my disdain for political parties in general. That point granted, it's undeniable that Washington is the mother of all networking circles and that people are attracted to power like flies to shit. There are tons of people involved with the administration (lots of neo-cons, especially), including his cabinet, who could (do, probably) tell Bush every move to make. That man couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag without someone to point him in the right direction.
I suppose I should have specified that the set of all people who are involved conspiracy-like with him overlaps significantly with, but isn't exactly the same thing as, the republican party.
As to your other point, at most points in recent history one could make that point, that "the FEDs have raked in record tax collections this last tax season", notably most of Bush's terms notwithstanding. Also note that the tax receipts are growing more slowly than in Clinton's terms. I hardly see this as proof that the cut-taxes-and-spend policy is working.
You don't believe in the GOP? What's next, you're going to tell me you don't believe in any political parties? Oh, the naivete.
Good luck combining fermions with photons. Photons are very much a type of boson, which means they're very much _not_ fermions. Perhaps the biologists should just combine mitochondria and chromosomes too, you know, to simplify the math?
Damn, I wish I hadn't already posted so I could mod you up.
I wouldn't call it random, but there's your evidence. I'm sure there are a few decent members, but on the whole....
Indeed. It would be the area of perpetual twilight, a sort of "twilight zone".
Also, as an above poster mentioned, there would be crazy convection currents in that atmosphere from the constant cycling of hot and cold air to redistribute the heat from Gliese 581. This would probably make windmills a cheap, ideal energy source for whomever lived there.