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by jqm 12y ago
I agree. The problem is I believe, a society does some great things and then the bureaucrats step in. Game over. People lived in Egypt long after the pyramids were built, and they didn't build any more. Giving money to Washington or Br
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by jqm 12y ago
Lets hope not.
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by jqm 12y ago
Maybe they don't set out to be bad teachers. But the way it is set up now, education does seem to get a fair share of people looking for an easy path. Not sure this is the best group to be educating our youth.
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by jqm 12y ago
http://nypost.com/2014/01/30/rutgers-university-offers-class... I'm sure you are mostly correct. My concern is that given free subsistence, I believe the plague of nonsense will grow. I also believe that
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by jqm 12y ago
Good read. I remember a few dedicated influential teachers. Unfortunately, they are but a few and surrounded in my memory by a large number that were simply going through the motions. That was 20 years ago, and it sounds like maybe things h
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by jqm 12y ago
I'm all for education, but so much of what passes for it is pure nonsense (IMHOP). And I'm not sure taxpayers ought to pay for, nor encourage, nonsense. That's what parents are for. They have an incentive to say "no&quot
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by jqm 12y ago
I don't mean to be negative, but ARS Technica appears to have been for sale for a long time... I don't even bother visiting the site anymore.
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by jqm 12y ago
I'd be surprised if they didn't. Look at comments on a site like Washington Post for instance. In addition to pro-government positions, there appears to be a pro Obama bunch that is strident beyond reason. I mean... Obama could ea
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by jqm 12y ago
At an earlier point in our evolutionary history we no doubt ate plenty of insects. Grubs, grasshoppers, crickets, ants, termites... pretty much whatever we could get our hands on. This practice was generally discarded by humanity except for
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by jqm 12y ago
Consciousness certainly is affected by matter. Anyone who doubts this can do a little informal research with a bottle of vodka.
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by jqm 12y ago
No, I don't think they did. Nor did their kids have ADD nor their wives depression. Instead the whole family had moral character flaws... (probably the thinking at the time).
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by jqm 12y ago
Maybe they had more trouble scoring dope when they got home? It's certainly one way to clean up, and I didn't see this possibility addressed in the article.
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by jqm 12y ago
https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Francisco-Oa... Roswell, NM >> "Uh-oh! Looks like we don't have enough data for this MSA yet. Please try another selection" (no surprise). >&
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by jqm 12y ago
Eh, I don't know... I don't really fuss with it much. Admittedly I did the first few times setting up, but now my desktop dot-files move with me, get a minor edit every so often, and once every couple of years I have to rebuild so
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by jqm 12y ago
The three verses cited on blood atonement are from the NT. I realize the idea is that the blood of Jesus was supposed to end blood atonement and usher in a new era. However, I never thought this idea was reasonable, never identified with a
856.
by jqm 12y ago
Back to where you started. Slackware.
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by jqm 12y ago
No, it has it's own terminal. Pretty nice too. I use it at work when I have to use Windows.
858.
by jqm 12y ago
I don't agree. Occasionally there are lingering problems. Not very often in my experience.
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by jqm 12y ago
On KDE I use konsole, on i3, urxvt. I've never noticed the lack of text wrapping and reflow until you mentioned it, but you are correct, at least on KDE that I'm using at the moment. I think the reason I've never consciously
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by jqm 12y ago
Admittedly I've never used OS X and have been a Linux user for years (so I may have picked up some things along the way that seem like second nature now), but I've not had any troubles that so many talk about. i3 and KDE do everyt
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by jqm 12y ago
I realize modern religion has tried to blunt the concept (it's all about love etc)... but blood atonement figures very prominently in the doctrine presented in the bible... Romans3:25, Hebrews9:22, Rev1:5 for instance. There are plenty
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by jqm 12y ago
Mormons claim Christianity and espouse some Christian principals (i.e. blood atonement for sins of the world), although many of their beliefs (i.e. God is an evolved man and through adherence to Mormon doctrine men can become Gods after dea
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by jqm 12y ago
Maybe "forget studies" (i.e "embrace this particular faith to provide relevant knowledge") could be the reason for the down votes?
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by jqm 12y ago
So.. per this article, shouldn't Mormons and Muslims have stronger immune systems? I wonder if they do. Or are otherwise are more healthy because of this practice. I would be a bit surprised if this were the case, although I could be w
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by jqm 12y ago
Per your statement, (number of universes >= 1) is testable and true ("demonstrated"). Maybe you mean (number of universes > 1)?
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by jqm 12y ago
The real potential trouble makers probably don't last too long. We aren't talking house arrest either. And I'm guessing this might be true for many more countries than China.
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by jqm 12y ago
Eh... in my experience, most people simply aren't worth watching very closely. Favorite part of the article... "he used Craigslist to hire somebody to help him improve his productivity. The idea was that the person would come sit
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by jqm 12y ago
Maybe what we really need is an increase in VC's? Possibly grant resident status to anyone (with lot of money of course... after all, it's only the exceptional we are talking about here) who wants to fund and run a VC company? Bec
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by jqm 12y ago
-Increased effort by other countries to move away from US internet and tech dominance. -More global economic shock towards years end. -North Korea in the news more than last few years. Possible increase in US troop deployed on the Korean pe
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by jqm 12y ago
Yes, I know what the original quote says. I'm not stupid:) I believe when big well funded parties do things that appear simply stupid, sometimes there is more at play than stupidity. Quite often it involves money.

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