I worked in the mortgage industry in IT and I can assure you when I saw the quality of loans that were being funded, I KNEW that the fan was about to get filthy...
We need to realize that cooking, cleaning, shopping, and budgetting aren't things that people just know
Seriously. Our church is doing Dave Ramsey's stuff right now and I'm blown away by how crowded it is. Many people in the room don't have any idea how to budget or manage money at all. It's shocking.
She does know what she's talking about. Unless you are allergic, it would be better in EVERY WAY. I'm allergic to soy, but that doesn't cause me to go off on rants about how it's bad for everyone when it has nice health benefits, especially for women.
Actually, I have the same experience. I'll wake up at 2, 3, 4 am and not be tired for a while. Sometimes, not even until 7 AM. But if I take a nap for 15-20 minutes, I'll even dream and I feel great when I wake up. It's like an additional hour of uninterrupted sleep. A couple times, I've even done it twice in the morning.
I am a Christian and many people would say I am fairly devout. But I would never force anyone to pray that didn't want to. I also am against forcing people not to pray who want to. I don't think it's a big deal for people to sit by quietly while someone prays, the same way that Jehovah's Witnesses sit by quietly while kids pledge allegiance.
“The biggest thing holding us back in the U.S. is land use patterns,” says Brian Ferris, a Google Transit engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland. “European cities are more compact, so public transportation dollars go a lot farther. In the U.S., huge parts of our cities were built after the automobile came to prominence. But we can’t change American cities tomorrow.
California doesn't want to change in order to be like Switzerland. What makes him think that we would? We don't see Southern California as a problem that needs to be fixed. We see it as an improvement over compacted cities.
If a creationist says that the Oort Cloud is unscientific, people mock them. But the reality is, it doesn't follow a single tenet of the scientific method. It exists purely because without it, the presence of comets in the solar system would prove that the solar system is too young. So a theoretical "comet-holding" cloud is invented out of thin air because long ages require it, not because of any sort of observation or because the facts led anyone there.
There have been several problems with climate science (both sides) presented here on Slashdot. Even so, many people continue to be ardent supporters that our every gallon of gas speeds us toward oblivion, and likewise others believe that there is no climate change whatsoever, especially none caused by man. The truth is quite obviously in the middle somewhere, but because people prefer to choose sides rather than to seek the truth, we won't be able to find a compromise that 1. addresses some of the problems and 2. everyone can live with.
Jewish rabbis get a prohibition on cheeseburgers from this lone (half-)verse:
Exodus 34:26b: Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
From here, they have entire separate milk and meat dishes and can't have even chicken with cheese.
If you even applied logic to the verses themselves, there are already a great number of things that Jewish people could eat, but don't because a rabbi put a fence around the law.
Well, you had better hope that the research showing that MSG is a cause of Alzheimer's is false, otherwise in a couple decades you could find out that it had an effect on you after all.
To the OP, I knew a COBOL programmer that didn't show up to work one day at 74. He died suddenly in the night. While that was sad for all of us, I can tell you that he was really happy and thought he would be depressed if he retired (probably true). I definitely lean more this way.
But the current software (us) is FAR MORE BUGGY. Traffic accidents are the most common cause of death in the US. Autonomous cars could take that down from #1, but human drivers never will.
Cops are not allowed to be color-blind. I have a friend who is not allowed to join the force because of very slight colorblindness, even though he is unbelievably accurate at naming colors.
To do that, we would have to reduce the inevitable accidents that happen every day. If only we could come up with a way of eliminating most accidents...
Yeah, but I won't have a bum who just vomited on himself and is currently shooting up heroine in my car... (A vivid memory from riding a bus as a kid.)
But California scientists always say, "A major earthquake is a definite possibility." Still, I can't believe a Californian would go over to Italy to put people in jail for 12 years over a missed prediction. Is this guy paid? It's hard to come up with any other explanation.
I have an 8MB SD card from the first camera I bought (in about 2003). Because of the small size, we immediately replaced it. I found it the other day (late 2011) and I was able to read a couple test pictures just fine over 8 years later. I can read my first CD-R's still too. I don't believe any of this digital media rot stuff. I haven't seen it happen at all in anything that supposedly rots.
One time, my wife's cousin (who was studying RAM at MIT and is now a brain specialist teaching at Stanford) said that "you will never be able to put more than 40MB on a PCMCIA card."
I replied, "Within 5 years, we'll be carrying a GB around in our pocket the size of a postage stamp." I was right. Sometimes smart guys are so focused on their area that they fail to see the realities of supply and demand combined with Moore's law.
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I worked in the mortgage industry in IT and I can assure you when I saw the quality of loans that were being funded, I KNEW that the fan was about to get filthy...
We need to realize that cooking, cleaning, shopping, and budgetting aren't things that people just know
Seriously. Our church is doing Dave Ramsey's stuff right now and I'm blown away by how crowded it is. Many people in the room don't have any idea how to budget or manage money at all. It's shocking.
Because then it would be too easy for you to debunk the obviously PC-inspired paper...
Printers are WORSE. Back then, my HP InkJet 500 did none of those things.
She does know what she's talking about. Unless you are allergic, it would be better in EVERY WAY. I'm allergic to soy, but that doesn't cause me to go off on rants about how it's bad for everyone when it has nice health benefits, especially for women.
Actually, I have the same experience. I'll wake up at 2, 3, 4 am and not be tired for a while. Sometimes, not even until 7 AM. But if I take a nap for 15-20 minutes, I'll even dream and I feel great when I wake up. It's like an additional hour of uninterrupted sleep. A couple times, I've even done it twice in the morning.
I am a Christian and many people would say I am fairly devout. But I would never force anyone to pray that didn't want to. I also am against forcing people not to pray who want to. I don't think it's a big deal for people to sit by quietly while someone prays, the same way that Jehovah's Witnesses sit by quietly while kids pledge allegiance.
“The biggest thing holding us back in the U.S. is land use patterns,” says Brian Ferris, a Google Transit engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland. “European cities are more compact, so public transportation dollars go a lot farther. In the U.S., huge parts of our cities were built after the automobile came to prominence. But we can’t change American cities tomorrow.
California doesn't want to change in order to be like Switzerland. What makes him think that we would? We don't see Southern California as a problem that needs to be fixed. We see it as an improvement over compacted cities.
And yet, driving your car from downtown to the beach is cheaper and more convenient...
If a creationist says that the Oort Cloud is unscientific, people mock them. But the reality is, it doesn't follow a single tenet of the scientific method. It exists purely because without it, the presence of comets in the solar system would prove that the solar system is too young. So a theoretical "comet-holding" cloud is invented out of thin air because long ages require it, not because of any sort of observation or because the facts led anyone there.
There have been several problems with climate science (both sides) presented here on Slashdot. Even so, many people continue to be ardent supporters that our every gallon of gas speeds us toward oblivion, and likewise others believe that there is no climate change whatsoever, especially none caused by man. The truth is quite obviously in the middle somewhere, but because people prefer to choose sides rather than to seek the truth, we won't be able to find a compromise that 1. addresses some of the problems and 2. everyone can live with.
Jewish rabbis get a prohibition on cheeseburgers from this lone (half-)verse:
Exodus 34:26b: Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
From here, they have entire separate milk and meat dishes and can't have even chicken with cheese.
If you even applied logic to the verses themselves, there are already a great number of things that Jewish people could eat, but don't because a rabbi put a fence around the law.
I don't drink wine or take pills... I seem to be surviving OK.
Well, you had better hope that the research showing that MSG is a cause of Alzheimer's is false, otherwise in a couple decades you could find out that it had an effect on you after all.
Are you kidding? Monsanto has already seen to it that GMO crops cannot be marked in any way. Here is the tinfoil-hat summary: http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/facts.shtml#1
Or you could join a denomination that follows the Bible more than its traditions, since the Bible has no mention of Lent.
You'd be surprised how much it costs to get by.
FTFY. You don't live in California, do you?
To the OP, I knew a COBOL programmer that didn't show up to work one day at 74. He died suddenly in the night. While that was sad for all of us, I can tell you that he was really happy and thought he would be depressed if he retired (probably true). I definitely lean more this way.
"Each year, the flu is reported to be responsible for almost 36,000 deaths" http://pediatrics.about.com/od/kidsandtheflu/a/0607_flu_update.htm
So, H5N1 was responsible for 1% of deaths... Why are we so scared of this flu again?
But the current software (us) is FAR MORE BUGGY. Traffic accidents are the most common cause of death in the US. Autonomous cars could take that down from #1, but human drivers never will.
Cops are not allowed to be color-blind. I have a friend who is not allowed to join the force because of very slight colorblindness, even though he is unbelievably accurate at naming colors.
To do that, we would have to reduce the inevitable accidents that happen every day. If only we could come up with a way of eliminating most accidents...
Yeah, but I won't have a bum who just vomited on himself and is currently shooting up heroine in my car... (A vivid memory from riding a bus as a kid.)
But California scientists always say, "A major earthquake is a definite possibility." Still, I can't believe a Californian would go over to Italy to put people in jail for 12 years over a missed prediction. Is this guy paid? It's hard to come up with any other explanation.
I have an 8MB SD card from the first camera I bought (in about 2003). Because of the small size, we immediately replaced it. I found it the other day (late 2011) and I was able to read a couple test pictures just fine over 8 years later. I can read my first CD-R's still too. I don't believe any of this digital media rot stuff. I haven't seen it happen at all in anything that supposedly rots.
One time, my wife's cousin (who was studying RAM at MIT and is now a brain specialist teaching at Stanford) said that "you will never be able to put more than 40MB on a PCMCIA card."
I replied, "Within 5 years, we'll be carrying a GB around in our pocket the size of a postage stamp." I was right. Sometimes smart guys are so focused on their area that they fail to see the realities of supply and demand combined with Moore's law.
Easy: Lawyers get involved.
(I'm happily married to my first wife, so I have only the experience of others to draw on.)