Halos aren't biblical, as was explained earlier. You could've cited, though, Jesus' transfiguration and Moses' glowing face. Not halos per se, but still biblical glowing people.
Can't say I ever played with vixens (at least, none that were single), but I can say that I was seduced by a D&D playing siren.
Actually, D&D taught me how to interact with my fellow males. I'd largely forgotten in high school, and my college years were significantly richer for the extremely intelligent, down-to-earth and wise people I had around the gaming table.
Shame you got modded 'troll' - religious institutions are a spectacular way to meet people. Granted, I live in DC where just about everyone's a master's student and thus has a bit of geek in them. Why, just today I met a music history nerd who, over after-church dinner, related a lovely story about a composer that had an affair with a nun and got castrated for it. Insinuations aside, we got along great and I just made a new friend whom I can count on seeing next week.
Now, if you're not the religious type, meetup.com and dancing classes are a good start. Make sure you don't declare "geek" by your presence, of course: buy some non-printed & long-sleeve shirts, start the slow (deliberately slow) process of improving your physical health (Plato says that a beautiful mind begets a beautiful body because the former knows how to make the latter) and swallow your shyness at least once per day. The slowness is so you don't get burned out and can see the benefits more than the efforts, and the health/dress is to help with self-consciousness.
To address your points:
A) Generally a road-side location in the sticks isn't going to get you the Milky Way. Generally, you need to go a ways away from civilization - including roads - if you want to see the band.
B) Light pollution is, in my understanding, any photon that goes up rather than down. It's most noticable when the city is overcast and it's bright enough to read by because of all of the light reflected back down by the clouds. Thus, it's both your headlights and Wal-Mart, but I'd argue that you would get better returns for limiting it at the Wal-Mart than your car.
C) The advancement of technology and the departure of us humans from our natural state is not a consistent good. It is often good, yes, but not always. One should always be mindful of what should and should not be left behind. Turning off all the lights is not a good solution to this particular problem, but there are ways to mitigate the side-effects.
Waitwaitwait - a saddle curves opposite to how a saddle curves? No wonder string theory's so crazy!
In all seriousness, that does make more sense. In essence, we usually think of spacetime as curved into a symmetric convex shape - a sphere - whose opposite is a symmetric concave space - a saddle. The first is called de Sitter space, second is anti de Sitter space. Flat is Minkowski, and that's that. Neat!
Oh, if only... last I heard an atmospheric analysis of the dinosaur's era showed a significantly higher oxygen content than our own atmosphere, meaning any clone would probably be unable to breathe properly. And, since our sauropod problem deals with blood, something tells me the atmosphere would wreck the posture experiment. Damn shame, too, although at least we won't get anybody wondering what a t-rex was like and cloning one of it.
I think it also has to do with curiosity. For example, a friend of mine is involved in cancer research and recently finished some long-term research she was doing and got published. Now, biology is NOT my strong point, not in the least, but after listening to her talk about protein expression, mitocondria, DNA and a host of technical terms, I can say that I have a better understanding of what cancer research does and the barriers to a cure. It wasn't that she's a superb orator or teacher, but simply that I was interested enough to ask clarifying questions and she was patient enough to answer them.
If the listener is curious and the speaker patient, then knowledge on a specialized subject can be transferred.
And how many bytes of data were left by the Egyptians? How much can you fit on a square inch? Square foot? I'm talking text here, of course, but I don't think rock carving is a very high-bandwidth means of data transfer from present to future.
Dude, I think you missed a couple economics classes. Any GDP measure you have of the footprint of government is what proportion of GDP is government-created. That is to say - assuming your numbers are correct - 36% of our GDP is government produced not "swallowed". Our federal tax burden is around 28% of GDP. That means that the government takes in 28% of GDP while providing 36% of GDP, indicating that it actually adds a significant amount of value (28.3%, to be precise). I don't think that counts as parasitic.
Oh, the autopen is used for so much more than just signing letters. When I worked for a certain elected official, we kept a stack of autopen-signed papers so we could do floor orders and the like. Nothing big, of course, like "move to add Member X as cosponsor to my Bill Y", but there's no reason why they couldn't have been used for more sinister ends. If I ever wanted to write a racist, pro-Nazi diatribe I could've gotten my boss's signature on it without any hassle. Needless to say, it requires a lot of trust to put one of those machines in the back room of the office.
To me, that's more along the lines of the nullification doctrine: declaring that states and local government have a right to ignore anything the federal government mandates. Hence the "rejection of federal authority" rather than "preference against federal authority". Coincidentally, anarchists get labeled right-wing extremists in this passage - provided there isn't clarifying context, of course.
If I'm heading from San Francisco to Seattle, I have two choices: 12-24 hour train (yes, that's how long it is often late), 3 hour flight (plus 2 hours for airport whatnot), or 15-17 hour car trip. What do I usually do? Drive. I usually have a good number of friends I'm visiting around the Seattle and Vancouver areas and the flexibility afforded by having a car is worth the effort. I'd rent, but I'm a 24-year-old male with mediocre grades that wants to cross an international border on my trip, which means I'd have to pay through the nose for a vehicle upon arrival. If the Coast Starlight would offer car service, I'd gladly take them up on the offer. Not only would I not need to risk my life on the Oregon-California passes, but I'd actually be able to sit back and enjoy the trip. The moral of the story? Go auto rail!
This was an interesting article in that I don't believe it would actually apply to me were I to own a Kindle, as I find paying for bits to be a little unpleasant. Rather, I'd end up using it for the internet and for all the free, public-domain books I would have access to. That way, if I ever wanted to look up something in the Prince or by Chaucer it's right there. But if I'm going to buy that swanky new translation of War and Peace, I'd better be getting a physical thing to put on my bookshelf: not only is it prettier, but it's there if I ever need to raise my monitor by a couple of inches.
Line-item vetos are tricky, though - it gives the President huge power to legislate spending. A better proposal is the concept of royal prerogative: every spending measure must come from the Government in power. Canada used to have a problem with earmarks until they reinstated this practice. Still, I have no idea how this could work in the US, so I'll leave that up to the constitutional experts.
Shouldn't something similar to Perl be able to do just that? A bill contains references to every section of law it changes ("Public Law 103-34 Section 21a, Subsection B, line 32 shall read..."). If a script were written that could identify and read those references, couldn't that form the backbone of what you're referring to?
That 1,000 pages thing is misleading: bills are printed on half-sized pages, double-spaced, in rather large font (Times New Roman 16 or 18) with wide margins (at least 0.75"). Were it a normal ol' book, it would probably be in the 200-300 range.
I think Ms. Shetty would also like to caution the public against popularizing computer programming languages, which could lead to self-propagating computer viruses, botnets, and a deluge of spam
Wouldn't some blackhat gene hacker simply not do that? At least right now there is a purpose, whether to make a biological weapon (which is, by its nature, controlled) or have medicated goat milk. But out of all the things I think we can rely upon, I think the fundamental ability of humans to be evil and idiotic should caution us against popularizing such gene hacking.
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Halos aren't biblical, as was explained earlier. You could've cited, though, Jesus' transfiguration and Moses' glowing face. Not halos per se, but still biblical glowing people.
Can't say I ever played with vixens (at least, none that were single), but I can say that I was seduced by a D&D playing siren.
Actually, D&D taught me how to interact with my fellow males. I'd largely forgotten in high school, and my college years were significantly richer for the extremely intelligent, down-to-earth and wise people I had around the gaming table.
Shame you got modded 'troll' - religious institutions are a spectacular way to meet people. Granted, I live in DC where just about everyone's a master's student and thus has a bit of geek in them. Why, just today I met a music history nerd who, over after-church dinner, related a lovely story about a composer that had an affair with a nun and got castrated for it. Insinuations aside, we got along great and I just made a new friend whom I can count on seeing next week.
Now, if you're not the religious type, meetup.com and dancing classes are a good start. Make sure you don't declare "geek" by your presence, of course: buy some non-printed & long-sleeve shirts, start the slow (deliberately slow) process of improving your physical health (Plato says that a beautiful mind begets a beautiful body because the former knows how to make the latter) and swallow your shyness at least once per day. The slowness is so you don't get burned out and can see the benefits more than the efforts, and the health/dress is to help with self-consciousness.
Good luck to you, sir!
To address your points: A) Generally a road-side location in the sticks isn't going to get you the Milky Way. Generally, you need to go a ways away from civilization - including roads - if you want to see the band.
B) Light pollution is, in my understanding, any photon that goes up rather than down. It's most noticable when the city is overcast and it's bright enough to read by because of all of the light reflected back down by the clouds. Thus, it's both your headlights and Wal-Mart, but I'd argue that you would get better returns for limiting it at the Wal-Mart than your car.
C) The advancement of technology and the departure of us humans from our natural state is not a consistent good. It is often good, yes, but not always. One should always be mindful of what should and should not be left behind. Turning off all the lights is not a good solution to this particular problem, but there are ways to mitigate the side-effects.
Waitwaitwait - a saddle curves opposite to how a saddle curves? No wonder string theory's so crazy!
In all seriousness, that does make more sense. In essence, we usually think of spacetime as curved into a symmetric convex shape - a sphere - whose opposite is a symmetric concave space - a saddle. The first is called de Sitter space, second is anti de Sitter space. Flat is Minkowski, and that's that. Neat!
Suddenly, I have a greater respect for Star Trek technobabble, as well as the simple analogies that often follow.
Oh, if only... last I heard an atmospheric analysis of the dinosaur's era showed a significantly higher oxygen content than our own atmosphere, meaning any clone would probably be unable to breathe properly. And, since our sauropod problem deals with blood, something tells me the atmosphere would wreck the posture experiment. Damn shame, too, although at least we won't get anybody wondering what a t-rex was like and cloning one of it.
So what you're saying is, Wikipedia is wrong, and rather than correct it there you correct it here? For shame!
No, wait, it's been revised...
I think it also has to do with curiosity. For example, a friend of mine is involved in cancer research and recently finished some long-term research she was doing and got published. Now, biology is NOT my strong point, not in the least, but after listening to her talk about protein expression, mitocondria, DNA and a host of technical terms, I can say that I have a better understanding of what cancer research does and the barriers to a cure. It wasn't that she's a superb orator or teacher, but simply that I was interested enough to ask clarifying questions and she was patient enough to answer them.
If the listener is curious and the speaker patient, then knowledge on a specialized subject can be transferred.
But would it run on Linux?
And how many bytes of data were left by the Egyptians? How much can you fit on a square inch? Square foot? I'm talking text here, of course, but I don't think rock carving is a very high-bandwidth means of data transfer from present to future.
Dude, I think you missed a couple economics classes. Any GDP measure you have of the footprint of government is what proportion of GDP is government-created. That is to say - assuming your numbers are correct - 36% of our GDP is government produced not "swallowed". Our federal tax burden is around 28% of GDP. That means that the government takes in 28% of GDP while providing 36% of GDP, indicating that it actually adds a significant amount of value (28.3%, to be precise). I don't think that counts as parasitic.
Probably cheaper than hurricane insurance, though.
Oh, the autopen is used for so much more than just signing letters. When I worked for a certain elected official, we kept a stack of autopen-signed papers so we could do floor orders and the like. Nothing big, of course, like "move to add Member X as cosponsor to my Bill Y", but there's no reason why they couldn't have been used for more sinister ends. If I ever wanted to write a racist, pro-Nazi diatribe I could've gotten my boss's signature on it without any hassle. Needless to say, it requires a lot of trust to put one of those machines in the back room of the office.
To me, that's more along the lines of the nullification doctrine: declaring that states and local government have a right to ignore anything the federal government mandates. Hence the "rejection of federal authority" rather than "preference against federal authority". Coincidentally, anarchists get labeled right-wing extremists in this passage - provided there isn't clarifying context, of course.
If I'm heading from San Francisco to Seattle, I have two choices: 12-24 hour train (yes, that's how long it is often late), 3 hour flight (plus 2 hours for airport whatnot), or 15-17 hour car trip. What do I usually do? Drive. I usually have a good number of friends I'm visiting around the Seattle and Vancouver areas and the flexibility afforded by having a car is worth the effort. I'd rent, but I'm a 24-year-old male with mediocre grades that wants to cross an international border on my trip, which means I'd have to pay through the nose for a vehicle upon arrival. If the Coast Starlight would offer car service, I'd gladly take them up on the offer. Not only would I not need to risk my life on the Oregon-California passes, but I'd actually be able to sit back and enjoy the trip. The moral of the story? Go auto rail!
This was an interesting article in that I don't believe it would actually apply to me were I to own a Kindle, as I find paying for bits to be a little unpleasant. Rather, I'd end up using it for the internet and for all the free, public-domain books I would have access to. That way, if I ever wanted to look up something in the Prince or by Chaucer it's right there. But if I'm going to buy that swanky new translation of War and Peace, I'd better be getting a physical thing to put on my bookshelf: not only is it prettier, but it's there if I ever need to raise my monitor by a couple of inches.
It would make sense if you wanted to cut out the cool and add utility in its place.
Line-item vetos are tricky, though - it gives the President huge power to legislate spending. A better proposal is the concept of royal prerogative: every spending measure must come from the Government in power. Canada used to have a problem with earmarks until they reinstated this practice. Still, I have no idea how this could work in the US, so I'll leave that up to the constitutional experts.
Shouldn't something similar to Perl be able to do just that? A bill contains references to every section of law it changes ("Public Law 103-34 Section 21a, Subsection B, line 32 shall read..."). If a script were written that could identify and read those references, couldn't that form the backbone of what you're referring to?
That 1,000 pages thing is misleading: bills are printed on half-sized pages, double-spaced, in rather large font (Times New Roman 16 or 18) with wide margins (at least 0.75"). Were it a normal ol' book, it would probably be in the 200-300 range.
But you already did! In the Tales of Interest! It was alternate reality, but your soul shouldn't care.
Wouldn't some blackhat gene hacker simply not do that? At least right now there is a purpose, whether to make a biological weapon (which is, by its nature, controlled) or have medicated goat milk. But out of all the things I think we can rely upon, I think the fundamental ability of humans to be evil and idiotic should caution us against popularizing such gene hacking.