Remember, Christians are tax exempt in many countries. The own huge amounts of land. Have huge political influence. Are responsible for more death and destruction than any other group in history. The other major monotheistic religions aren't any better (Judaism and Muslim).
I'd be curious to see what large-scale death and destruction Judaism has caused, especially since it hasn't ever been a significant military power for any large period of time. My Muslim history is much weaker, but I think a lot of what is now considered problems with militaristic Muslim nations is relatively recent.
Ya can't just pick and choose the bits that make sense to you and then get surprised when people paint you with the same brush as your insane fellow cultists.
You sure can. Plenty of people have been doing it for hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of years. The Torah has plenty of laws about animal sacrifices, but those haven't been done for almost two thousand years, and even some of the Prophets were concerned that the sacrificial system would become something that people did just because they felt that they should do it without thinking about why it was done, or even become a way to show off wealth or shame the poor.
It's not like you should feel like you're paying dues or have a mentality where you expect to get something back.
I guess you could at least say that most Jewish synagogues are more up front about it (whether or not it's a "better" way is certainly debatable). In all the synagogues I'm familiar with, you get a letter every year with how much dues are for the next year. The money goes primarily to pay both the office and religious staff (being a rabbi is definitely a full-time job) and for upkeep of the building, all of which can get fairly expensive. I don't know exactly how much anyone gets paid, but as a paying member at my synagogue, I could probably ask someone on the executive board. I'm sure that nobody working there is becoming what I would consider wealthy. Of course, if you aren't able to pay the normal dues, you just talk to someone about it and pay what you can.
I'm the council president and former treasurer, so I know of what I speak.
Not to take away from what you're saying, but I've always wondered what it is about religion that makes people talk like Yoda.
I'd say it's not so much religion, but more likely the English rule (or suggestion, depending on whom you ask) that you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
Just a "Slashdot is US-centric!" comment here, but damn, it's already 4 PM in Europe, and I think past midnight in Australia.. couldn't you have posted this story earlier, for the geeks in the other parts of the world?
Are you kidding? Only 12 hours late is an amazing feat for Slashdot.
That basically just confirms the behavioral difference between cats and dogs. Dogs are pack animals, so they'll often accept a human as the pack leader. Cats aren't pack animals, so a human is just a convenient source of food.
As many as you can make up, though I admit that I can't think of anything reasonable off the top of my head. I'm not sure why you're still stuck on the fact that the word "dimension" is not limited to the three normal spatial dimensions.
I wasn't always a fan of Babylon 5, but you have to admire the coherency of the plot. Straczynski designed the plot for the first 4 seasons before he even started making the first.
He actually had the main plot threads laid out for all five seasons several years before the show started filming. The uncertainty of the show being picked up for a fifth season forced him to rush the end of the fourth season a bit, so he had to fill in a few episodes for the fifth season. If I remember correctly, the fourth season was supposed to end with what became episode 17 or 18, so most of the fifth season was part of the original plan.
In this case they were undoubtedly using dimension in the mathematics sense and not the physics sense.
No, it's the correct physics sense as well (hence the term dimensional analysis, which has almost nothing to do with spatial dimensions). It's only common layperson English where the word is normally limited to spatial dimensions.
Could I make a CD that records data not as pits but as pits painted with color and say I've gotten more dimensions out of it? NO!
Well, one more dimension at least. In theory, you could add as many dimensions as different wavelengths of light that you could measure the intensity of.
This is a tax deductible donation to a 501(c)3 charitable foundation, agreed to as part of a out of court settlement. It was freely given, Cisco could have gone to trial instead.
If the alternative is being taken to court, you can hardly call it a "freely given" donation.
Assuming it was legalized....If women/men choose of their own free will to work in that industry, who is being exploited? I would have to argue the consumer.
See, they'd fit right in with plenty of other businesses.
Huh? The conservatives are the main group advocating legalization. Among those conservatives, are the hardcore conservatives who say, "and once it's legalized, problem is solved," and the moderate-conservatives who say, "but once it's legal, regulate and tax it."
It's the nanny-government libs who advocate keeping it illegal. They know what's best for everyone.
Dude, can I come live in your world that doesn't have any religious zealots?
Right. Excuse my use of an anecdote, but I had this friend who would drive me to college every morning. He had a shitty old Peugeot 205, but that idiot thought it was a real thrill to push it to 90 mph on stretches limited to 55. It got us into a minor accident and a near miss. This type of accident would never happen if his car wouldn't allow him to go over the limit. No matter how hard you push the brakes it takes a while to avoid an accident when the car before you braked too hard and you're 30 mph over the limit.
I'm probably much more of an economic socialist than most Slashdot readers, but the thought of the government attempting to legislate away stupidity scares the hell out of me. I would rather see your moronic friend not allowed to drive at all than to have the rest of us punished for his being a complete idiot. Either that or have him taken far enough away to let Darwin deal with him.
That only works in the small scale. AFAIK the only places it's been successful in all of history are religious communes. It's ironic that the only place communism works is in religious communities.
I don't think it's the religious aspect as much as it is the size of the community. Communism has worked well on kibbutzim in Israel, which aren't particularly religious. They are, however, pretty small, and it's fairly easy to unify a small group of people with the goal of raising crops. It's also much easier to say "fuck the poor" when you'll most likely never see them face-to-face than it is when you live a few hundred feet away from them and see them every day.
With a "dumb" electorate, you get "leaders" who have little or no training in economics, business, international relations or governance.
Thus we get people who often have money or married it and smile enough in good looking cloths with cute one sentence sound bites to amuse people who get their news & "analysis" in one sentence sound bites and the electorate then ELECT those, hmm, 'political actors'.
We should not be surprised at the empty heads in WDC. Rather to be expected.
Except Biden is pretty much the opposite of that. He knows what he's doing, there's just a loose connection somewhere between his brain and his mouth.
Yes, if there's one North American politician of the last decade who's been well-known for his verbal gaffes, the first name to leap to mind is of course none other than Joe Biden.
But if there are two politicians, Biden would be second.
Either you're delusional or you haven't met many idiots. In that entire paragraph, the only difference I could pick out was needing to enter a password. I honestly can't imagine why you think that's a barrier to stupid people.
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Remember, Christians are tax exempt in many countries. The own huge amounts of land. Have huge political influence. Are responsible for more death and destruction than any other group in history. The other major monotheistic religions aren't any better (Judaism and Muslim).
I'd be curious to see what large-scale death and destruction Judaism has caused, especially since it hasn't ever been a significant military power for any large period of time. My Muslim history is much weaker, but I think a lot of what is now considered problems with militaristic Muslim nations is relatively recent.
Ya can't just pick and choose the bits that make sense to you and then get surprised when people paint you with the same brush as your insane fellow cultists.
You sure can. Plenty of people have been doing it for hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of years. The Torah has plenty of laws about animal sacrifices, but those haven't been done for almost two thousand years, and even some of the Prophets were concerned that the sacrificial system would become something that people did just because they felt that they should do it without thinking about why it was done, or even become a way to show off wealth or shame the poor.
It's not like you should feel like you're paying dues or have a mentality where you expect to get something back.
I guess you could at least say that most Jewish synagogues are more up front about it (whether or not it's a "better" way is certainly debatable). In all the synagogues I'm familiar with, you get a letter every year with how much dues are for the next year. The money goes primarily to pay both the office and religious staff (being a rabbi is definitely a full-time job) and for upkeep of the building, all of which can get fairly expensive. I don't know exactly how much anyone gets paid, but as a paying member at my synagogue, I could probably ask someone on the executive board. I'm sure that nobody working there is becoming what I would consider wealthy. Of course, if you aren't able to pay the normal dues, you just talk to someone about it and pay what you can.
Not to take away from what you're saying, but I've always wondered what it is about religion that makes people talk like Yoda.
I'd say it's not so much religion, but more likely the English rule (or suggestion, depending on whom you ask) that you shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition.
And the source documents for Islam are out of copyright, available for free, and written in a language that's isn't dead.
So, I'd say Islam has you beat.
The same could be said for Judaism.
It reminds me of the word "ubiquitous". Prior to 1997 or so no one had ever heard of this word...
Some quick and dirty research tells me that it comes from the Latin ubique ("everywhere"). I'm fairly certain that Latin existed before 1997.
Just a "Slashdot is US-centric!" comment here, but damn, it's already 4 PM in Europe, and I think past midnight in Australia.. couldn't you have posted this story earlier, for the geeks in the other parts of the world?
Are you kidding? Only 12 hours late is an amazing feat for Slashdot.
That basically just confirms the behavioral difference between cats and dogs. Dogs are pack animals, so they'll often accept a human as the pack leader. Cats aren't pack animals, so a human is just a convenient source of food.
a music video on MTV
Hahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
-deep breath-
Hahahahahahaha
So how many dimensions is my car's radio?
As many as you can make up, though I admit that I can't think of anything reasonable off the top of my head. I'm not sure why you're still stuck on the fact that the word "dimension" is not limited to the three normal spatial dimensions.
I wasn't always a fan of Babylon 5, but you have to admire the coherency of the plot. Straczynski designed the plot for the first 4 seasons before he even started making the first.
He actually had the main plot threads laid out for all five seasons several years before the show started filming. The uncertainty of the show being picked up for a fifth season forced him to rush the end of the fourth season a bit, so he had to fill in a few episodes for the fifth season. If I remember correctly, the fourth season was supposed to end with what became episode 17 or 18, so most of the fifth season was part of the original plan.
In this case they were undoubtedly using dimension in the mathematics sense and not the physics sense.
No, it's the correct physics sense as well (hence the term dimensional analysis, which has almost nothing to do with spatial dimensions). It's only common layperson English where the word is normally limited to spatial dimensions.
Could I make a CD that records data not as pits but as pits painted with color and say I've gotten more dimensions out of it? NO!
Well, one more dimension at least. In theory, you could add as many dimensions as different wavelengths of light that you could measure the intensity of.
A more accessible example might be an object's position in space (3 dimensions), its color, and its temperature.
This is a tax deductible donation to a 501(c)3 charitable foundation, agreed to as part of a out of court settlement. It was freely given, Cisco could have gone to trial instead.
If the alternative is being taken to court, you can hardly call it a "freely given" donation.
Assuming it was legalized....If women/men choose of their own free will to work in that industry, who is being exploited? I would have to argue the consumer.
See, they'd fit right in with plenty of other businesses.
Huh? The conservatives are the main group advocating legalization. Among those conservatives, are the hardcore conservatives who say, "and once it's legalized, problem is solved," and the moderate-conservatives who say, "but once it's legal, regulate and tax it."
It's the nanny-government libs who advocate keeping it illegal. They know what's best for everyone.
Dude, can I come live in your world that doesn't have any religious zealots?
Right. Excuse my use of an anecdote, but I had this friend who would drive me to college every morning. He had a shitty old Peugeot 205, but that idiot thought it was a real thrill to push it to 90 mph on stretches limited to 55. It got us into a minor accident and a near miss. This type of accident would never happen if his car wouldn't allow him to go over the limit. No matter how hard you push the brakes it takes a while to avoid an accident when the car before you braked too hard and you're 30 mph over the limit.
I'm probably much more of an economic socialist than most Slashdot readers, but the thought of the government attempting to legislate away stupidity scares the hell out of me. I would rather see your moronic friend not allowed to drive at all than to have the rest of us punished for his being a complete idiot. Either that or have him taken far enough away to let Darwin deal with him.
Even if the passenger exits the vehicle, you have to come to a complete stop for several seconds to reset the system
If you aren't coming to a complete stop when someone gets out of your car, remind me never to get into a car with you driving.
Queue mip-mapped, 8xAA, subpixel rendered, fogged, PhysX enhanced flyby of a 'Whoosh' passing over your head.
What, this thing runs on AA batteries? Sweet.
And as a side note, unless you were talking about a long line of whooshes, the word you were looking for is "cue".
That only works in the small scale. AFAIK the only places it's been successful in all of history are religious communes. It's ironic that the only place communism works is in religious communities.
I don't think it's the religious aspect as much as it is the size of the community. Communism has worked well on kibbutzim in Israel, which aren't particularly religious. They are, however, pretty small, and it's fairly easy to unify a small group of people with the goal of raising crops. It's also much easier to say "fuck the poor" when you'll most likely never see them face-to-face than it is when you live a few hundred feet away from them and see them every day.
But then when do you have time to read Slashdot?
With a "dumb" electorate, you get "leaders" who have little or no training in economics, business, international relations or governance. Thus we get people who often have money or married it and smile enough in good looking cloths with cute one sentence sound bites to amuse people who get their news & "analysis" in one sentence sound bites and the electorate then ELECT those, hmm, 'political actors'. We should not be surprised at the empty heads in WDC. Rather to be expected.
Except Biden is pretty much the opposite of that. He knows what he's doing, there's just a loose connection somewhere between his brain and his mouth.
Yes, if there's one North American politician of the last decade who's been well-known for his verbal gaffes, the first name to leap to mind is of course none other than Joe Biden.
But if there are two politicians, Biden would be second.
Either you're delusional or you haven't met many idiots. In that entire paragraph, the only difference I could pick out was needing to enter a password. I honestly can't imagine why you think that's a barrier to stupid people.