Comment Re:Do I buy it? (Score 1) 235
This did not deserve a flamebait mod. Somebody mod it back up again.
This did not deserve a flamebait mod. Somebody mod it back up again.
If PUBLIC philanthropy does not achieve its goal, the general population has been looted and received no benefit in return.
That's a pretty broad brush. What exactly is your definition of "public" philanthropy? And how do you define its success or failure?
AC is right: I was defending Ol Olsoc from towermac. Ol Olsoc defended himself four minutes before I did, but I didn't see his post until after I submitted my own. As AC said, he probably mixed up the threads.
"sometimes they tell you to kill gay people"
You made that shit up. Not one of the big 3 guys said to kill gay people. And I'm pretty sure Buddhists are okay with gays so there's 4.
Leviticus 20:13 (King James version):
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
Not that I agree with it, of course. I'm just pointing out that you're wrong.
I'm waiting for the jeans market to catch up and make pockets big enough to carry the Nexus 6, then I'll look at the phone.
There is prior art (sort of) per the Sony TR-63 transistor radio.
Would you really want to send your son or daughter to die in North Korea because crackers broke into a company's servers?
The cast of "Duck Dynasty" did North Korea's hacking for them? I didn't know this...
Cracker is also a term for a malicious hacker. The media has corrupted the term hacker from its original meaning: someone who is obsessed with the internal details of a system and is able to manipulate it in unconventional ways.
I think of the difference between a cracker and a hacker as similar to the difference between a burglar and a locksmith.
The older humans lived 20 - 30 years MAX.
Bull. The Bible itself tells us the full span of a man's years is "threescore and ten". That's from the Book of Psalms, and was probably written around 700 BC.
Not that I agree with the GP's 20-30 numbers, but I think he refers to humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago, not in relatively recent biblical times. You deleted his point that humans who lived more recently (which I parse to mean starting around biblical times) lived up to 70-100 years. I think those larger numbers are likely true of earlier humans too, but the premature mortality of those times cuts the average down.
Modern human skeletons have shifted quite recently towards lighter—more fragile, if you like—bodies.
Sweet! Maybe we will also start evolving wings and finally be able to fly without manufactured air foils! I for one intend to sit on the couch more and make this happen faster!
If humans could fly, we'd consider it exercise and never do it.
-- origin unknown
Considering Santa must travel at about 650 miles per second, Rudolph's nose would need to be so bright to illuminate a safe distance ahead that he would incinerate himself and anything else nearby.
It's no wonder the other reindeer didn't let him play in any reindeer games.
Now for a catchy name. I propose Santa's Annual Tracking Announcement Network or SATAN for short.
Unfortunately, that name is taken. And so is SANTA, by the same program.
...so why not "virtual" shooting?
The latter. Thanks for the improvement.
We'll never know what happened last weekend to little Robert: he either helped his uncle, jack, off a horse or he helped his uncle jack off a horse.
And the horse has four legs and flies.
According to Merriam Webster, "hit man" should not be hyphenated
Alas, Merriam-Webster is part of the problem. A "hit-man" is an assassin, but a "hit man" is a man who has been hit.
I confess that my opinion on hyphens has been influenced strongly by an article I read years ago, and for which I can no longer find a link. The author of that piece ranted in particular about irregularities in Merriam-Webster on the matter of hyphens. For example, "bee-eater", a beautiful bird whose diet includes stinging insects, becomes in Merriam-Webster a "bee eater", a bee who eats.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
[For some reason, I'm hearing Flight of the Valkyries right now...]
System going down in 5 minutes.
