some will say that there is no evidence save the christian bible (and they'd be correct)
I would argue that. There is an interesting book called Evidence That Demands a Verdict that talks about this (among other things). I'll even point you to a skeptic site . He talks about Evidence's list of extra-biblical references to Jesus and attacks their reliability, but even this critic in the beginning of his article says, "Although I agree with McDowell that there was a historical Jesus,...".
... there is Evidence That Good Moods Prevent Colds. The obvious conclusion is that bad web sites cause colds! I guess I can stop washing my hands now and work on improving my web surfing habits instead.
it wants to block wholesale export of coins to countries where recycling them for their metal content could be economically viable.
Okay, I found some numbers and the profit (metal value - face value) is $1.08 / kg for cents, and $4 / kg for nickels. I don't know what the cost of melting and processing 1 kg of coins would be in the U.S., but I think shipping costs would likely kill any international coin melting efforts.
It seems to me that the best thing the U.S. Mint could do for itself is to beat everyone to the punch - it should work with banks to collect, melt down, re-mint all the existing coins! Problem solved! The coin collectors would support this because their old coins would suddenly increase in rarity value!
You know, I said that in jest, but the more I think about it... I don't see a downside.
It's just that I was not aware that notepad had any features to speak of, while emacs has about a kajillion. That said, my wife has created many web pages with notepad. I could probably have taught her to use elvis, but then where's the mystique? She's amazed at how I can navigate, cut, paste, global search and replace, etc without taking my hands off the keyboard.
I started to RTFA, and once I saw that this was about a court case, I lost interest. Lawyers are paid to make an argument, and when no sane argument will work for their client, they pretty much have to go with an insane argument. Hey, don't blame the lawyers! Blame the juries and judges who actually fall for arguments like this!
OTOH, if there truly is an addiction in this case, the lawyer is a textbook "enabler" because he's trying to shield the addict from the consequences of his actions.
A little trivia: "Christ" is not a last name, it is a word that comes from the Greek translation of "Messiah". So Muslims and Jews do believe in Jesus as a historical person (few question that), and may even respect some of his teachings about God, but to say they believe in "Jesus Christ" is probably not accurate.
I get so worked up sometimes at how we Christians are misrepresented, but what can you do? I presume that the game's producers are not Christian, so whether or not they believe this game accurately portrays Christian principles, they likely don't think they are casting Christians in a bad light. They would probably say, "hey, it's armageddon, the final battle of good vs evil! Of course the good guys kill the bad guys!". I really don't think this will mislead anyone who really wants to know what Christianity is about, and I doubt that was even their intent.
What's really too bad is that they are capitalizing on the "Left Behind" series, which is IMO a very entertaining and thought-provoking series that is totally unlike this game. I wonder if they could be sued for copyright infringement because of the name?
I was recently looking at a Core2Duo review, and noticed something interesting. At each brand's bottom end (E6300 vs. X2 3800), Intel outperformed AMD. The problem in my mind, however, is that Intel's bottom-end starts at a higher price point than AMD's. Very smart marketing move by Intel. However, If you match the processors price-to-price, the E6300 matches up against the X2 4200 (both currently around $180), and there is relatively little performance difference. In other words, the price/performance metric really isn't in anyone's favor.
That's exactly what you would expect in a demand-driven market: the price is based on actual performance. Maybe buyers really do know what they're doing after all. I guess most chips are bought by either OEMs or computer nerds and neither group is going to be fooled by marketing terms or misleading specs.
A first step would be to disallow political parties taking money from corporations. I know this is what US politics is based on, but still, the rest of the world calls that corruption, or at least a conflict of interest...
So the "rest of the world" doesn't allow corporations to fund politicians? Are you quite sure of that?
A few things you might not have realized/thought about:
Not enough room. You need to have a sizeable room for front projection if you really want to get to that 100" size. Being able to project the image is only part of the equation. Optimal viewing distance for a 50" set is between 6 and 10 feet (depending on HD or SD content). Do you really have a room big enough to accomodate a 20ft viewing distance for your 100" image?
OTOH, if you want a 50" projected image, you just move the projector closer to the wall. The 4x brightness boost you get from that will help with ambient light problems, etc.
Also, I've had a good experience projecting onto a wall. I painted a "screen" in off-white, flat finish paint, and I don't see any texture or roughness in the image. It's not high-def, but I use it mostly for DVDs.
I don't understand exactly why this would be, but I've heard from several sources that a very sharp nail is more likely to split the wood, so you may want to widen that point a little.
What's wrong with you? Can't you communicate normally? I mean, posts in verse?
Does it get any worse?
In fact, it's outrageous!....
Oh, no! It's contagious!
That's just semantics. By that logic, Child != Adult. Just because someone used the wrong technical term for that stage of development doesn't invalidate their point. You have human embryos that are being created for research purposes. Don't you find that just a little bit creepy?
If these embryos are not implanted in a womb within a certain amount of time, even frozen, they stop being viable. Furthermore, most in vitro clinics destroy the unwanted embryos after the couple has successfully conceived.
Well, I'm not too happy about the fertility clinics for that very reason. Sure, in the natural course of things not all pregnancies go successfully to term, but that's different from creating numerous human embryos with the expectation that most of them will die.
Right now, these embryos are just being destroyed, but instead, they could be use to cure people!
The idea of performing experiments with them so they don't "go to waste" is even more distasteful to me. What we are allowing is killing some human life to (maybe) save other human lives. I don't see how anyone with any respect for human life can sanction this. If we allow this, then what's next? If it's okay for an embryo, why not a fetus? Why not a full term baby? Remember we already consider killing a full term baby a "right" as long as it's still in the womb. What about the severely mentally handicapped or brain damaged? They have a lot of organs that some might consider to be "going to waste" that could be used instead to cure people!
I'm not being sarcastic. There's nothing to stop these countries from building their own networks that support unicode (or whatever character set) domain names. How many western users can display arabic, say, in the URL, much less read it or type it in? If there is really a lot of demand for this, that is what will probably happen.
My first thought would be to use unicode, but then TFA pointed out a big problem: URLs that LOOK exactly the same but are not (as in, Oh, that's "ebay" in Latin Extended-A, not the Basic Latin "ebay"). Unicode is great for displaying things, but bad for uniquely identifying things. How many domains would you have to register?
Funny. Well, my head still feels ungood after reading the oldspeak fullwise rewrite. You've apparently got double plus unbusy time on your hands to anteknow how to do that!
The best thing about the media today is that it's so easy to get to the truth. Not only that, but you can find whatever version of the truth you are looking for!
I seriously question whether these groups do in fact keep each other honest. If you have multiple groups lying, and each accusing the others of lying, that doesn't help anyone find the truth, because the accusations may be lies as well.
You insensitive clod! Don't you see that for every greedy b-----d who scalps a PS3, some poor child will wake up Christmas morning and find that Santa didn't give him the console he asked for, and to add insult to injury Bill Gatesaclaus left him an XBOX 360 instead? Will someone please think of the children?
That's the pain in the ass of a democracy: it's not just the smart people who get to have a say in running things. If you can't convince the non-scientists of why you need money, you're not going to get it.
Boo hoo! You're darn right you need to convince people to let you spend their tax dollars! If you're upset because Joe sixpack prioritizes economic or social issues above landing a human being on an asteroid (or planet or moon), I, for one, would rather have Joe sixpack running things than you -- which is exactly why I voted for him:-)
While the article was somewhat interesting, I find it's data very suspect. It sounds like it was thrown together to make a point, not prove one. I'm not saying they don't have a point, I just suspect it's exaggerated. You can't just say - how many computers are there? How many run windows? How many are left on 24x7?... There are just way too many variables to get anything like an accurate measure of what the power savings would be. Are we including servers? Are the computers actually in use 24x7? Are we comparing power used in some ACPI mode to power used when idle, or are we just comparing average power used to zero? What about all those distributed programs people run on their computers (SETI, folding@home, etc)?
Even accepting the premise, how would this make MS a "green" company? The power saving features are really hardware features that are just supported by the software. In the end it is up to the computer owners to save power.
The options are already there. If you really want a "green" computer, use the power saving settings. Or maybe buy a computer with a eden processor , or use a normal processor and
underclock it!
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... there is Evidence That Good Moods Prevent Colds. The obvious conclusion is that bad web sites cause colds! I guess I can stop washing my hands now and work on improving my web surfing habits instead.
It seems to me that the best thing the U.S. Mint could do for itself is to beat everyone to the punch - it should work with banks to collect, melt down, re-mint all the existing coins! Problem solved! The coin collectors would support this because their old coins would suddenly increase in rarity value!
You know, I said that in jest, but the more I think about it ... I don't see a downside.
It's just that I was not aware that notepad had any features to speak of, while emacs has about a kajillion. That said, my wife has created many web pages with notepad. I could probably have taught her to use elvis, but then where's the mystique? She's amazed at how I can navigate, cut, paste, global search and replace, etc without taking my hands off the keyboard.
OTOH, if there truly is an addiction in this case, the lawyer is a textbook "enabler" because he's trying to shield the addict from the consequences of his actions.
What's really too bad is that they are capitalizing on the "Left Behind" series, which is IMO a very entertaining and thought-provoking series that is totally unlike this game. I wonder if they could be sued for copyright infringement because of the name?
Maybe they can do aerial dispersion over a large area to show up trip mines. The military could pay for R&D of a silly string bomb or artillery shell.
That's exactly what you would expect in a demand-driven market: the price is based on actual performance. Maybe buyers really do know what they're doing after all. I guess most chips are bought by either OEMs or computer nerds and neither group is going to be fooled by marketing terms or misleading specs.
So did they call it the "2 imllion amn amrch"?
Also, I've had a good experience projecting onto a wall. I painted a "screen" in off-white, flat finish paint, and I don't see any texture or roughness in the image. It's not high-def, but I use it mostly for DVDs.
I don't understand exactly why this would be, but I've heard from several sources that a very sharp nail is more likely to split the wood, so you may want to widen that point a little.
What's wrong with you? Can't you communicate normally? I mean, posts in verse? ....
Does it get any worse?
In fact, it's outrageous!
Oh, no! It's contagious!
My first thought would be to use unicode, but then TFA pointed out a big problem: URLs that LOOK exactly the same but are not (as in, Oh, that's "ebay" in Latin Extended-A, not the Basic Latin "ebay"). Unicode is great for displaying things, but bad for uniquely identifying things. How many domains would you have to register?
posted on slashdot, but apparently his user name is "jamie".
Funny. Well, my head still feels ungood after reading the oldspeak fullwise rewrite. You've apparently got double plus unbusy time on your hands to anteknow how to do that!
I seriously question whether these groups do in fact keep each other honest. If you have multiple groups lying, and each accusing the others of lying, that doesn't help anyone find the truth, because the accusations may be lies as well.
You insensitive clod! Don't you see that for every greedy b-----d who scalps a PS3, some poor child will wake up Christmas morning and find that Santa didn't give him the console he asked for, and to add insult to injury Bill Gatesaclaus left him an XBOX 360 instead? Will someone please think of the children?
Even accepting the premise, how would this make MS a "green" company? The power saving features are really hardware features that are just supported by the software. In the end it is up to the computer owners to save power. The options are already there. If you really want a "green" computer, use the power saving settings. Or maybe buy a computer with a eden processor , or use a normal processor and underclock it!