It's not a search engine, it's a database of facts with a fairly good way to analyze input. Don't ask it to go looking through the web for information on translating Chinese to English, because it won't even look. That's not what it does. Ask it instead to divide the GDP of China by the GDP of England.
No. The "out of Africa" idea says that humans originated in Africa, but this is a find of a much earlier period of our evolutionary history. They're not necessarily in conflict because that would still give our later ancestors dozens of millions of years to find their way to Africa.
The idea of a judgment after death didn't really come into existence until Zoroaster, and his ideas didn't really come into prominence until the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Until then, which would have been in the first millennium BCE, the thinking went (with little variation) that when you died you just went to a really boring place. The Jews called it Sheol. The ancient Sumerian city-states didn't even have the idea of an afterlife- so you'd have an incentive to live your life to the fullest while you still had it. The Egyptian masses had kind of the same thing, though their ideas about the afterlife changed a lot over time.
Maybe the link between Hell and Hades had to do with its portrayals in verse. I remember in the Odyssey, when Odysseus called up all the dead spirits trying to find Teiresias (or however the hell you spell it), NOBODY liked Hades, and from the sound of it he talked to like everybody who died in the Iliad and then some. Surely one or two of the people he talked to would have gone to the nicer spots out of random chance? Like maybe one of the Aiantes?
Great quote, but as far as I can tell the rules don't even require you to see anything to honk the horn;). I think the rule is: if you have a horn, honk it. Especially if you have a novelty horn that makes a funny tune.
Dude, have you ever been to India? You're likely to hit ANYTHING in a city. Cars, people on foot, people bicycles, rickshaws (human-powered and automotive),and Shiva forbid a cow wanders into the road at the wrong moment.
Indian traffic is a good example of anarchy in practice.
Monetizing law like that sounds kind of evil to me. Yes, yes, lawyers have to eat and I have no problem with them making a good living from their job- I know some lawyers and it's a tough job, not just to get but to keep. But some of the shit that comes out of legal departments these days is just saddening. Getting mired in a lawsuit can really fuck you up badly, even if you win. That's a lot of time and work and money down the drain because some lawyer decided there was money to be made convincing a trier of fact that your e-mail address might possibly have misled someone with an IQ in the double-digits.
There are two that I know of and both, in my opinion, don't offer a sufficiently representative sampling of the average potsmoker.
The first one was done in 2008 by the NIH and found that if you smoked between 2 to 9 ounces per week over long periods of time that your brain would have abnormalities, and there was another in the same year by researchers at the University of Melbourne that found abnormally small hippocampuses and amygdalae in the brains of people who smoked at least 5 joints daily for 20 years.
I think those are problematic however because you need to be seriously dependent to be able to finish off two ounces in a week. I've got a friend who's basically constantly stoned and it takes him about a week to finish an 1/8 of an ounce, and while I could easily smoke 5 joints in a day I couldn't keep it up for 20 years.
Just because Windows and Mac do it doesn't mean Ubuntu should follow suite. Should they get started porting malware too?
And as far as I know the Win7 taskbar/start menu/systray/clock configuration is still there, it's just that the taskbar now works slightly more like the Dock.
If you open up the menu editor there should be a hidden preferences applet in there that lets you configure the notifications. I found it on my system which I installed fresh from Beta.
Nowhere in mrcaseyj's post that parent "fixed" did he suggest that Congress should retroactively withdraw the credit. It takes a fertile imagination indeed to insert a "retroactively" where none was in the first place.
I would have thought asking the IRS to withold payout of the credit would have aroused ire and I could see the ex post facto-ity then but fixing a law to make its effects meet the intent in the future?
It's just FreeBSD with KDE and a convenient package manager- in addition to ports and conventional binary packages PC-BSD also supports PBI's, which are closer to.app bundles that you find on OS X than a traditional Linux package. It also comes with a (imho) well-designed installer that makes installing faster and easier than the normal FBSD installer.
Basically, if you like FreeBSD and KDE but don't really have the time or inclination to set it all up yourself, PC-BSD is convenient.
AIUI it, Bill Joy started BSD as a Pascal compiler and an alternate text-editor and grew from there into a project to rewrite UNIX to evade AT&T's copyrights. I wouldn't call the lack of a Pascal compiler a bug.
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It's not a search engine, it's a database of facts with a fairly good way to analyze input. Don't ask it to go looking through the web for information on translating Chinese to English, because it won't even look. That's not what it does. Ask it instead to divide the GDP of China by the GDP of England.
No. The "out of Africa" idea says that humans originated in Africa, but this is a find of a much earlier period of our evolutionary history. They're not necessarily in conflict because that would still give our later ancestors dozens of millions of years to find their way to Africa.
The idea of a judgment after death didn't really come into existence until Zoroaster, and his ideas didn't really come into prominence until the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Until then, which would have been in the first millennium BCE, the thinking went (with little variation) that when you died you just went to a really boring place. The Jews called it Sheol. The ancient Sumerian city-states didn't even have the idea of an afterlife- so you'd have an incentive to live your life to the fullest while you still had it. The Egyptian masses had kind of the same thing, though their ideas about the afterlife changed a lot over time.
if you reread the original post you'll notice it was overturned by the state supreme court, not the SCOTUS.
And poor Hades was stuck with the underworld.
Yah, cause Satan is so thrilled with Hell.
Maybe the link between Hell and Hades had to do with its portrayals in verse. I remember in the Odyssey, when Odysseus called up all the dead spirits trying to find Teiresias (or however the hell you spell it), NOBODY liked Hades, and from the sound of it he talked to like everybody who died in the Iliad and then some. Surely one or two of the people he talked to would have gone to the nicer spots out of random chance? Like maybe one of the Aiantes?
Great quote, but as far as I can tell the rules don't even require you to see anything to honk the horn ;). I think the rule is: if you have a horn, honk it. Especially if you have a novelty horn that makes a funny tune.
Dude, have you ever been to India? You're likely to hit ANYTHING in a city. Cars, people on foot, people bicycles, rickshaws (human-powered and automotive),and Shiva forbid a cow wanders into the road at the wrong moment.
Indian traffic is a good example of anarchy in practice.
Considering the number of moblins I've killed playing Zelda they could probably have picked a better name. ;)
Monetizing law like that sounds kind of evil to me. Yes, yes, lawyers have to eat and I have no problem with them making a good living from their job- I know some lawyers and it's a tough job, not just to get but to keep. But some of the shit that comes out of legal departments these days is just saddening. Getting mired in a lawsuit can really fuck you up badly, even if you win. That's a lot of time and work and money down the drain because some lawyer decided there was money to be made convincing a trier of fact that your e-mail address might possibly have misled someone with an IQ in the double-digits.
"I can't believe they found a lawyer who thought this was a good idea."
Anything that makes paid work for him/her is a good idea to a lawyer.
Soy ink? Why the hell not?
Tackle the biggest issues first, the smaller issues become the biggest.
You can't tackle them in parallel?
It wouldn't make sense. The Bible was in the process of being written when these events occurred.
Because nobody who speaks Klingon would ever think to utter that phrase in any language?
Now that I think about it there's bailouts. Or is there a bigger elephant I'm missing?
IIRC defense accounts for half a trillion dollars per annum in the last few budgets. What's the bigger drain?
There are two that I know of and both, in my opinion, don't offer a sufficiently representative sampling of the average potsmoker.
The first one was done in 2008 by the NIH and found that if you smoked between 2 to 9 ounces per week over long periods of time that your brain would have abnormalities, and there was another in the same year by researchers at the University of Melbourne that found abnormally small hippocampuses and amygdalae in the brains of people who smoked at least 5 joints daily for 20 years.
I think those are problematic however because you need to be seriously dependent to be able to finish off two ounces in a week. I've got a friend who's basically constantly stoned and it takes him about a week to finish an 1/8 of an ounce, and while I could easily smoke 5 joints in a day I couldn't keep it up for 20 years.
Just because Windows and Mac do it doesn't mean Ubuntu should follow suite. Should they get started porting malware too?
And as far as I know the Win7 taskbar/start menu/systray/clock configuration is still there, it's just that the taskbar now works slightly more like the Dock.
The problem is Time-Warner doesn't like that and is trying to legislate the competition out of existence. A time-honored capitalist tradition.
If you open up the menu editor there should be a hidden preferences applet in there that lets you configure the notifications. I found it on my system which I installed fresh from Beta.
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php
It's the last two download links. Good luck compiling it on F10 since it looks like a Windows app...
Nowhere in mrcaseyj's post that parent "fixed" did he suggest that Congress should retroactively withdraw the credit. It takes a fertile imagination indeed to insert a "retroactively" where none was in the first place.
I would have thought asking the IRS to withold payout of the credit would have aroused ire and I could see the ex post facto-ity then but fixing a law to make its effects meet the intent in the future?
How is it ex post facto to close a tax loophole?
It's just FreeBSD with KDE and a convenient package manager- in addition to ports and conventional binary packages PC-BSD also supports PBI's, which are closer to .app bundles that you find on OS X than a traditional Linux package. It also comes with a (imho) well-designed installer that makes installing faster and easier than the normal FBSD installer.
Basically, if you like FreeBSD and KDE but don't really have the time or inclination to set it all up yourself, PC-BSD is convenient.
AIUI it, Bill Joy started BSD as a Pascal compiler and an alternate text-editor and grew from there into a project to rewrite UNIX to evade AT&T's copyrights. I wouldn't call the lack of a Pascal compiler a bug.
According to the summary Thoggen is having issues with the chapters on his discs.