The telepath story of season five was always meant to be there, though not quite exactly as it played out (Ivanova was supposed to be part of that story). Maybe it would have been one or two episodes shorter, for better or worse. The long-term purpose of that story was to set up the Telepath War, which never ended up appearing on screen anywhere.
No, it was always meant to be five seasons. The renewal for the fifth season came very late, though, so some of what should have been in the fifth season got moved up to the end of the fourth. If the renewal had been definite earlier, the fourth season would have ended about four episodes earlier, story-wise.
Babylon 5 does use a small amount of time travel, and it is summed up nicely in a single line from the character Jeffrey Sinclair: "It all happened, just the way I remember it". You can travel backwards in time, but everything happens as if you had done so. There is no changing history.
The basic fundamental problem is that the patent office receives money to grant patents. Instead, it must receive money to evaluate patents. They get a small amount of money when you file, and a larger amount when they grant.
This is how it already works, depending on your definitions for "small" and "large". You pay a fee to file your patent application, and when it's allowed by the examiner, you pay a fee to have the patent issued. Of course, there's always room for discussion about how much those fees should be.
Like it or not, you are simply denying the fact that most people, if they even know what linux is...
You mention the fact, then completely ignore it. "Most people" don't see Linux as anything, because they've either never heard of it at all, or have maybe heard the name once or twice as being a "computer thing" and then completely forgot about it. There are some people who have a negative association with Linux, but I doubt that it's more than a small percentage of all people.
It's almost as if there's an enormous amount of the population between the super rich and the poor. It might even be an important group. Maybe the middle class or something?
I hear they're working on that problem, and it should be taken care of in the next few years.
Muslims who hold Israeli citizenship have *exactly* the same rights as Jews...
And they frequently have more rights than they would if they were living in a predominantly-Muslim country. I've met a journalist who is Arab and an Israeli citizen, and he much prefers being able to criticize the decisions made by the Israeli government over living in any of the surrounding countries where doing so would get him executed.
But that's only stating that you have some item for sale, and a description of the item. There is no implication that you're a representative of Chevrolet.
It doesn't really have anything to do with "Brown" or 'Spicy With" but rather the fact that they make it seem like they have a partnership with Brown and Brown's food service. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm curious to know what legal grounds Brown has to stand on.
Your first sentence is the answer to your second sentence. You aren't allowed to advertise that you have a relationship with a company (or some similar organization) when you don't have such a relationship. I haven't looked at the details of this case, so I can't say who's right or wrong, but that seems to have been the complaint.
I'm not going by Wikipedia. If you're talking about Exodus 20:12, I'm going by the fact that I know what the Hebrew word means, while you apparently don't.
In the Judea-Christian tradition, they have "Thou shalt not kill" But as a moral statement, that is pretty subjective, at least in practice. Is it always wrong to kill? What about self-defense? What about in war? What about to protect not life, but property? Obviously, killing and the prohibition against it cannot be objectively held as wrong as sometimes it is permissable.
No, they don't have that. The Hebrew is quite clear, and it means murder, not kill.
My grandmother had some shares in a regional bank, which, through a couple of acquisitions, ended up as Bank of America. My cousin, brother, and I each got 1/3 of the shares, so, at $0.01 per share dividend, I get a check for $0.18 every three months. My mother insists that we cash them.
Not saying this is evil or greedy, but it is more one-sided in Google's favor than I was expecting.
Really? You don't expect Google to defend themselves if they get attacked? People that don't fight back when attacked are an extraordinarily rare exception. I don't know why anyone would think Google would be any different.
I cannot read Hebrew myself, but those who can that I have asked have all answered that there is no order implied in Genesis one, it just comes through that way in English.
I'd be interested in hearing their reasoning for that, because the Hebrew refrain is fairly clear: "And there was evening, and there was morning, a first [second, third, etc.] day"
There are people who believe that women have one more rib than men. After all, Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs.
Now that is impressive. Do they also believe that if a man loses an arm because of an accident, all of his children born after the accident will only have one arm?
Elohim transliterates as "god" - the generic term for deity.
Two nitpicks. First, "god" is the translation (English word with the same meaning), "Elohim" is the transliteration (Hebrew word written in English letters with the same pronunciation). Second, "Elohim" is plural, so it should translate to "gods". The singular form is "El". This fact brings up all kinds of interesting discussions.
That would explain that first inconsistency, but then we have another problem - there could conceivably be humans descended from the Other People who are not from Cain's family. As such, we don't all have original sin.
I'm not Christian, but wasn't the "original sin" committed by Adam and Eve? If it were committed by Cain, then the descendants of Seth also wouldn't have original sin.
Ever notice how they call it the first COMMANDMENT, not the first suggestion?
Which is incorrect anyway. The Hebrew word is d'varim, which literally means "words", though the singular d'var is also used to mean a statement or speech. So the actual translation is something like "Ten Statements". The first of these ten isn't even a commandment; it's the declaration, "I am your God who brought you out of Egypt."
By the way, the Hebrew word for commandment is mitzvah (plural, mitzvot). There are a total of 613 in the Torah. The actual first commandment? "Be fruitful and multiply."
You don't need to go even that far in - genesis 1 - 3 god creates earth before light which is comprehensively disproven.
Light is the very first thing created. Maybe you meant that the sun isn't created until the fourth day? That would be three days after the creation of light, and one day after the creation of plant life. Most educated people (not four years of theological seminary education, but anyone smart enough for a college degree) see that and quickly realize that it's a story, not a historical account.
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The telepath story of season five was always meant to be there, though not quite exactly as it played out (Ivanova was supposed to be part of that story). Maybe it would have been one or two episodes shorter, for better or worse. The long-term purpose of that story was to set up the Telepath War, which never ended up appearing on screen anywhere.
No, it was always meant to be five seasons. The renewal for the fifth season came very late, though, so some of what should have been in the fifth season got moved up to the end of the fourth. If the renewal had been definite earlier, the fourth season would have ended about four episodes earlier, story-wise.
Babylon 5 does use a small amount of time travel, and it is summed up nicely in a single line from the character Jeffrey Sinclair: "It all happened, just the way I remember it". You can travel backwards in time, but everything happens as if you had done so. There is no changing history.
The basic fundamental problem is that the patent office receives money to grant patents. Instead, it must receive money to evaluate patents. They get a small amount of money when you file, and a larger amount when they grant.
This is how it already works, depending on your definitions for "small" and "large". You pay a fee to file your patent application, and when it's allowed by the examiner, you pay a fee to have the patent issued. Of course, there's always room for discussion about how much those fees should be.
There should be a penalty for submitting bad patents.
There is. You don't get your money back if your patent is rejected.
Like it or not, you are simply denying the fact that most people, if they even know what linux is...
You mention the fact, then completely ignore it. "Most people" don't see Linux as anything, because they've either never heard of it at all, or have maybe heard the name once or twice as being a "computer thing" and then completely forgot about it. There are some people who have a negative association with Linux, but I doubt that it's more than a small percentage of all people.
Well played, sir.
That's why education is so important.
What are you, some kind of liberal ivory tower academic elitist?
Maybe I'm just not part of the target audience, but does that paragraph from Forbes actually say anything?
It's almost as if there's an enormous amount of the population between the super rich and the poor. It might even be an important group. Maybe the middle class or something?
I hear they're working on that problem, and it should be taken care of in the next few years.
Muslims who hold Israeli citizenship have *exactly* the same rights as Jews...
And they frequently have more rights than they would if they were living in a predominantly-Muslim country. I've met a journalist who is Arab and an Israeli citizen, and he much prefers being able to criticize the decisions made by the Israeli government over living in any of the surrounding countries where doing so would get him executed.
But that's only stating that you have some item for sale, and a description of the item. There is no implication that you're a representative of Chevrolet.
It doesn't really have anything to do with "Brown" or 'Spicy With" but rather the fact that they make it seem like they have a partnership with Brown and Brown's food service. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm curious to know what legal grounds Brown has to stand on.
Your first sentence is the answer to your second sentence. You aren't allowed to advertise that you have a relationship with a company (or some similar organization) when you don't have such a relationship. I haven't looked at the details of this case, so I can't say who's right or wrong, but that seems to have been the complaint.
Nitpick, you cant PROVE anything historical, because history isnt something you can test in a lab.
Scientists deal in hypotheses, experiments, and theories. Proofs are for mathematicians.
Nah, up in Maine we use the term "hicks" instead.
I'm not going by Wikipedia. If you're talking about Exodus 20:12, I'm going by the fact that I know what the Hebrew word means, while you apparently don't.
In the Judea-Christian tradition, they have "Thou shalt not kill" But as a moral statement, that is pretty subjective, at least in practice. Is it always wrong to kill? What about self-defense? What about in war? What about to protect not life, but property? Obviously, killing and the prohibition against it cannot be objectively held as wrong as sometimes it is permissable.
No, they don't have that. The Hebrew is quite clear, and it means murder, not kill.
Wow, I didn't know my mother posted on Slashdot.
My grandmother had some shares in a regional bank, which, through a couple of acquisitions, ended up as Bank of America. My cousin, brother, and I each got 1/3 of the shares, so, at $0.01 per share dividend, I get a check for $0.18 every three months. My mother insists that we cash them.
Not saying this is evil or greedy, but it is more one-sided in Google's favor than I was expecting.
Really? You don't expect Google to defend themselves if they get attacked? People that don't fight back when attacked are an extraordinarily rare exception. I don't know why anyone would think Google would be any different.
I cannot read Hebrew myself, but those who can that I have asked have all answered that there is no order implied in Genesis one, it just comes through that way in English.
I'd be interested in hearing their reasoning for that, because the Hebrew refrain is fairly clear: "And there was evening, and there was morning, a first [second, third, etc.] day"
There are people who believe that women have one more rib than men. After all, Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs.
Now that is impressive. Do they also believe that if a man loses an arm because of an accident, all of his children born after the accident will only have one arm?
Elohim transliterates as "god" - the generic term for deity.
Two nitpicks. First, "god" is the translation (English word with the same meaning), "Elohim" is the transliteration (Hebrew word written in English letters with the same pronunciation). Second, "Elohim" is plural, so it should translate to "gods". The singular form is "El". This fact brings up all kinds of interesting discussions.
That would explain that first inconsistency, but then we have another problem - there could conceivably be humans descended from the Other People who are not from Cain's family. As such, we don't all have original sin.
I'm not Christian, but wasn't the "original sin" committed by Adam and Eve? If it were committed by Cain, then the descendants of Seth also wouldn't have original sin.
Ever notice how they call it the first COMMANDMENT, not the first suggestion?
Which is incorrect anyway. The Hebrew word is d'varim, which literally means "words", though the singular d'var is also used to mean a statement or speech. So the actual translation is something like "Ten Statements". The first of these ten isn't even a commandment; it's the declaration, "I am your God who brought you out of Egypt."
By the way, the Hebrew word for commandment is mitzvah (plural, mitzvot). There are a total of 613 in the Torah. The actual first commandment? "Be fruitful and multiply."
You don't need to go even that far in - genesis 1 - 3 god creates earth before light which is comprehensively disproven.
Light is the very first thing created. Maybe you meant that the sun isn't created until the fourth day? That would be three days after the creation of light, and one day after the creation of plant life. Most educated people (not four years of theological seminary education, but anyone smart enough for a college degree) see that and quickly realize that it's a story, not a historical account.