The Hebrews never had an Empire. Sorry, that's just the way it is (this is a credit to them, in my opinion--they affected change through ideas rather than brute force, even if I disagree with many of the ideas). Venice had a bigger empire than the Hebrews ever had, as did Crete, but you never see the former, and I don't think I've ever seen the latter outside of scenarios. Today they are a city state (in the game's mechanics) at best.
Have you not read the Old Testament? Canaan? Jericho? They were at least as warlike as any other culture at the time, probably moreso.
"I was not aware the right to life was an inherent right, if the government was not here to grant it to you, anyone can come along and stab you all they want."
Union Carbide did not standup and say they will pay claims. Union Carbide did not startup an entire department dedicated to cleaning up the mess. Union Carbide did not start an independent system of processing claims. Union Carbide did not setup a $20bn restoration fund.
Union Carbide didn't have a world-class PR and astroturfing department.
I would say, to be a bit more realistic, that no matter how much we discover and can explain of the universe, no matter how many other worlds and civilizations we discover. There will always be people who can't be arsed to try to understand, and instead take the simple microwave meal version of the universe. That and the indoctrination of children is a powerful and evil force.
The AMD thing should attract geeks because hey, all you need is a pencil to upgrade! No, this is different. You have to imagine all the bullshit Intel will have to shovel to make sure no one jailbreaks their chip. You might wind up seeing the BSA, the DMCA, and god know what else involved. No one wants that, lease of all geeks.
We use salesforce all day long and yet none of us at work use "chatter". It's almost as if it's a clunky, superfluous facebook-alike shoehorned into what's otherwise a good CRM system.
American Express, Discover, Visa, Mastercard et al. aren't banks, for one. Don't confuse the Bank of the Americas or Wachovia that provides the line of credit. As CC64love said, the credit card companies designed the system. Them being at fault for stolen cards would provide the incentive needed to secure the system they designed. The card holder has enough trouble already with card fraud, and the chump merchant with their $8/hr cashiers can't be expected to tell a fake card from a real one. So tell me why shouldn't the card companies be held responsible?
To put his argument in software terms, the genome is more like an 800 MB config file for a much larger program, which is the brain. The compiler and source are integrated as the womb.
A historical example? Is the current recession bad enough for you? Eight years of tax cuts on top of the previous decades' cuts haven't helped economy in the slightest. They have made the wealth distribution worse. They have led to a ballooning of the debt. How can you possibly argue that the Bush tax cuts helped?
It looks like they could use this to retrofit current or proposed solar thermal installations. They're talking solar concentrators and temperatures well over 200C + combined cycle, so it would probably be a pretty minor change on the whole.
Have you looked at the sponsors of PBS? Monsanto, BP, et al. It's gotten to the point where if I see a company I haven't heard of is a sponsor of PBS, I can pretty safely assume they're more evil than Satan's BO. If PBS got uppity and started reporting real news they'd be off the air for lack of funding in a moment.
The fool is you. At this point we can change 1000 times faster. The third-order effect of mosquitoes is nothing compared to the genetic engineering techniques we already have.
Unfortunately, Monsanto already patented those techniques...
Most people are really bad at dealing with ambiguities and shades of gray. To them the problem is a dichotomy Since the problem isn't really a dichotomy, it doesn't have a solution as a dichotomy, hence the endless arguing.
It is. When Lieberman demanded that the public option be left out, the Dems no longer had 60 votes for cloture. If it hadn't been for the filibuster, we would have a public option.
Your IQ may have been 5 or 10 points higher than it is if you hadn't been playing with lead and mercury. The great thing about lack of intelligence, though, is that you aren't smart enough to know what you're missing. Probably has to do with Godel's theorem.
I'm sick and tired of NIMBYs being called environmentalists. Every time someone has an opinion an environmentalist might also have, people start bitching about environmentalists. If you don't see the difference there then you need to stop and figure it out before posting again.
Further, "environmentalist" is a broad category. The thing that unifies them (us) is that they want the biosphere to retain its ecological diversity, abundance and capability for supporting complex life (these three are interrelated). Some want to do that by going back to the stone age, some want to do it by advancing to sufficiently clean technologies while sensibly designing our infrastructure and generally not being wasteful (me). You will find people everywhere in between.
Yet further, there is a lot of information out there and people grok it in different ways, or not so much at all. Rather than complaining about them and calling them disingenuous, perhaps you could educate them and help them see whether their priorities are straight and whether their actions are helping them achieve those goals.
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The Hebrews never had an Empire. Sorry, that's just the way it is (this is a credit to them, in my opinion--they affected change through ideas rather than brute force, even if I disagree with many of the ideas). Venice had a bigger empire than the Hebrews ever had, as did Crete, but you never see the former, and I don't think I've ever seen the latter outside of scenarios. Today they are a city state (in the game's mechanics) at best.
Have you not read the Old Testament? Canaan? Jericho? They were at least as warlike as any other culture at the time, probably moreso.
Fantastically well-said. Thanks. They're going at this all backward, trying to build emotion from logic instead of logic from emotion.
"I was not aware the right to life was an inherent right, if the government was not here to grant it to you, anyone can come along and stab you all they want."
See what I did there?
Oil is a fungible commodity. The gas stations could all be McDonalds-branded and it wouldn't make any difference.
Union Carbide did not standup and say they will pay claims. Union Carbide did not startup an entire department dedicated to cleaning up the mess. Union Carbide did not start an independent system of processing claims. Union Carbide did not setup a $20bn restoration fund.
Union Carbide didn't have a world-class PR and astroturfing department.
I would say, to be a bit more realistic, that no matter how much we discover and can explain of the universe, no matter how many other worlds and civilizations we discover. There will always be people who can't be arsed to try to understand, and instead take the simple microwave meal version of the universe. That and the indoctrination of children is a powerful and evil force.
The AMD thing should attract geeks because hey, all you need is a pencil to upgrade! No, this is different. You have to imagine all the bullshit Intel will have to shovel to make sure no one jailbreaks their chip. You might wind up seeing the BSA, the DMCA, and god know what else involved. No one wants that, lease of all geeks.
We use salesforce all day long and yet none of us at work use "chatter". It's almost as if it's a clunky, superfluous facebook-alike shoehorned into what's otherwise a good CRM system.
Does anyone here on /. actually use chatter?
American Express, Discover, Visa, Mastercard et al. aren't banks, for one. Don't confuse the Bank of the Americas or Wachovia that provides the line of credit. As CC64love said, the credit card companies designed the system. Them being at fault for stolen cards would provide the incentive needed to secure the system they designed. The card holder has enough trouble already with card fraud, and the chump merchant with their $8/hr cashiers can't be expected to tell a fake card from a real one. So tell me why shouldn't the card companies be held responsible?
Wow, yeah... ASCII doesn't lend itself to symbolic logic at all. I don't suppose you can clarify.
"What would Zeus Do?"
Turn into a duck and have sex with it.
I got one recently with subject "Sperms of Endearment"
To put his argument in software terms, the genome is more like an 800 MB config file for a much larger program, which is the brain. The compiler and source are integrated as the womb.
A historical example? Is the current recession bad enough for you? Eight years of tax cuts on top of the previous decades' cuts haven't helped economy in the slightest. They have made the wealth distribution worse. They have led to a ballooning of the debt. How can you possibly argue that the Bush tax cuts helped?
It looks like they could use this to retrofit current or proposed solar thermal installations. They're talking solar concentrators and temperatures well over 200C + combined cycle, so it would probably be a pretty minor change on the whole.
Do not meddle in the C++ of Googlers, for it is subtle and quick to segfault?
Have you looked at the sponsors of PBS? Monsanto, BP, et al. It's gotten to the point where if I see a company I haven't heard of is a sponsor of PBS, I can pretty safely assume they're more evil than Satan's BO. If PBS got uppity and started reporting real news they'd be off the air for lack of funding in a moment.
So many bad things are done for good reasons... When a good thing is done for middling reasons I'll take it.
The fool is you. At this point we can change 1000 times faster. The third-order effect of mosquitoes is nothing compared to the genetic engineering techniques we already have.
Unfortunately, Monsanto already patented those techniques...
Most people are really bad at dealing with ambiguities and shades of gray. To them the problem is a dichotomy Since the problem isn't really a dichotomy, it doesn't have a solution as a dichotomy, hence the endless arguing.
It is. When Lieberman demanded that the public option be left out, the Dems no longer had 60 votes for cloture. If it hadn't been for the filibuster, we would have a public option.
Your IQ may have been 5 or 10 points higher than it is if you hadn't been playing with lead and mercury. The great thing about lack of intelligence, though, is that you aren't smart enough to know what you're missing. Probably has to do with Godel's theorem.
I'm sick and tired of NIMBYs being called environmentalists. Every time someone has an opinion an environmentalist might also have, people start bitching about environmentalists. If you don't see the difference there then you need to stop and figure it out before posting again.
Further, "environmentalist" is a broad category. The thing that unifies them (us) is that they want the biosphere to retain its ecological diversity, abundance and capability for supporting complex life (these three are interrelated). Some want to do that by going back to the stone age, some want to do it by advancing to sufficiently clean technologies while sensibly designing our infrastructure and generally not being wasteful (me). You will find people everywhere in between.
Yet further, there is a lot of information out there and people grok it in different ways, or not so much at all. Rather than complaining about them and calling them disingenuous, perhaps you could educate them and help them see whether their priorities are straight and whether their actions are helping them achieve those goals.
It could be more than one third. Remember your significant figures!
How does it deal with words like "fuck"? T9 is horrible if you like to use any sort of colorful language.