If there's room for 10 eggs in a basket and there are 5 eggs in there, is the basket 50% full or is it not full at all? I would say it's not full at all. It would be full if there were 10 eggs in there, but at it is, it's not full. Not 50% full, not half full, not full at all.
There are no degrees of "full", "empty", "unique" and similar words. So the glass is neither half full, nor half empty, it's not full at all and not empty at all.
This means that you can borrow a friend's equipment and music to make a copy for yourself, but your friend would not be allowed to make a copy for you (even though the end result is the same, it's the intent that's different.) The end result is the same if you only have one friend. If you have 100 friends, there's a big difference between burning 100 CDs and loaning your CD to your 100 friends, so they can copy it.
So when I make fun of people, they don't get it, and when I don't, they think I do.
I wasn't mocking you, I just wanted to back you and the parent up and while "me too" would have sufficed, I decided to try something different for the same reason as you.:)
So I wasn't trolling, just wanted to say that I felt the same way.:)
I agree with my sibling poster. Me too
I have signatures disabled too. Same.
The "brief message from the bottom of your heart" is just an off-topic advertisement and detracts from the forum. True.
But I'm glad to hear you say you'll remove it. Indeed.
I have the same problem when reading books (to myself, in my head). Sometimes I get bored and my mind starts wandering, thinking about other things, while I continue reading. Several pages later, I will have absolutely no idea what I read, and I'll have to go back to the last point I remember.:(
I always thought the "NO CARRIER" posts were kind of silly, since the comments are submitted by forms and if the connection is cut, nothing gets submitted.
Thank you for giving me a somewhat plausible explanation that will let me enjoy the "NO CARRIER" jokes.:)
I think you're either giving yourself a bit too much credit or giving the Bible too little. I'm not religious myself, but I think there's a lot of smart stuff in there, stuff I hadn't thought of myself. Now, perhaps these things are obvious to you, but they weren't to me, at least until I read them. I've actually considered going to church to hear if maybe the priest could offer some comments I could mod +1 Insightful in my head, but I've kinda decided not to, since being an atheist I don't pay church taxes.
I disagree with a lot of what the Bible says. (It starts with how God created man, then yelled at him for something he did. When I build robots, I don't yell at them when they do something wrong, since I programmed them myself. Even if I could somehow give my robots free will, I still don't think I should yell at them for messing up, since *I* created them and whatever they do is a result of me. If God knows everything, then he knew they'd eat the apples, why was he surprised and upset then?) Even so, I think there's a lot of good stuff in there too, especially about how you should treat other people. I agree that with such a big book, they're bound to get SOMETHING right, but even so, I still think there's a lot to learn from the Bible.
So when you say all the truths in the Bible are obvious, do you mean obvious after you've read them or something you've always known to be true?
I'll end with a Michael Stipe quote from the R.E.M. song "New Test Leper":
I can't say that I love Jesus, that would be a hollow claim. He did make some observations and I quote him everyday.* "Judge not lest ye be judged", what a beautiful refrain.
*) It's actually "I'm quoting them today", but I first heard it like this and like it better this way.:)
I don't know if Michael Stipe is an atheist too, but I agree with him that there's some very insightful stuff in the Bible, even if there's some pretty stupid stuff in there as well.:)
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Question.
If there's room for 10 eggs in a basket and there are 5 eggs in there, is the basket 50% full or is it not full at all? I would say it's not full at all. It would be full if there were 10 eggs in there, but at it is, it's not full. Not 50% full, not half full, not full at all.
There are no degrees of "full", "empty", "unique" and similar words. So the glass is neither half full, nor half empty, it's not full at all and not empty at all.
Agree/disagree?
I agree with everything you said.
Exactly, so I think it's safe to say that when no one watches, Santa Claus puts on a costume and becomes Jesus.
So some people got it and modded the joke funny. Other people didn't get it until the second time and modded the repeated joke funny. Go figure. :)
Ouch, that one hurt, well said.
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So when I make fun of people, they don't get it, and when I don't, they think I do.
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I wasn't mocking you, I just wanted to back you and the parent up and while "me too" would have sufficed, I decided to try something different for the same reason as you.
So I wasn't trolling, just wanted to say that I felt the same way.
its a lot not alot stupid
I'm sure it is, but we'd still like to hear the rest of it!
I have the same problem when reading books (to myself, in my head). Sometimes I get bored and my mind starts wandering, thinking about other things, while I continue reading. Several pages later, I will have absolutely no idea what I read, and I'll have to go back to the last point I remember. :(
The universe is infinite, but the number of planets certainly isn't.
I always thought the "NO CARRIER" posts were kind of silly, since the comments are submitted by forms and if the connection is cut, nothing gets submitted.
:)
Thank you for giving me a somewhat plausible explanation that will let me enjoy the "NO CARRIER" jokes.
That's funny, but I doubt many people will know what you're talking about, this being Slashdot and all. :)
No, his write and your definately wrong.
I just heard that song this morning, good old Jenny. :)
I think you're either giving yourself a bit too much credit or giving the Bible too little. I'm not religious myself, but I think there's a lot of smart stuff in there, stuff I hadn't thought of myself. Now, perhaps these things are obvious to you, but they weren't to me, at least until I read them. I've actually considered going to church to hear if maybe the priest could offer some comments I could mod +1 Insightful in my head, but I've kinda decided not to, since being an atheist I don't pay church taxes.
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I disagree with a lot of what the Bible says. (It starts with how God created man, then yelled at him for something he did. When I build robots, I don't yell at them when they do something wrong, since I programmed them myself. Even if I could somehow give my robots free will, I still don't think I should yell at them for messing up, since *I* created them and whatever they do is a result of me. If God knows everything, then he knew they'd eat the apples, why was he surprised and upset then?) Even so, I think there's a lot of good stuff in there too, especially about how you should treat other people. I agree that with such a big book, they're bound to get SOMETHING right, but even so, I still think there's a lot to learn from the Bible.
So when you say all the truths in the Bible are obvious, do you mean obvious after you've read them or something you've always known to be true?
I'll end with a Michael Stipe quote from the R.E.M. song "New Test Leper":
I can't say that I love Jesus,
that would be a hollow claim.
He did make some observations
and I quote him everyday.*
"Judge not lest ye be judged",
what a beautiful refrain.
*) It's actually "I'm quoting them today", but I first heard it like this and like it better this way.
I don't know if Michael Stipe is an atheist too, but I agree with him that there's some very insightful stuff in the Bible, even if there's some pretty stupid stuff in there as well.
Just kidding. :)