If you are logically minded, you know that from false premises, one can prove anything.
Anyone who actually paid attention in logic classes knows that this is only true in classical logic. Most logics do not have this property, most notably intuitionistic logics and paraconsistent logics.
Exactly. Jonas Brothers albums are typically listened to through small earbuds or while driving in a car. There's no point spending lots on production quality.
Oddly enough, when I read the headline, I assumed "Alan Parsons Rips Jonas Brothers" meant he was using samples of them.
I even started imagining the result. Let's all sing along, now...
There are pyramids in my head
There's one underneath my bed
And my lady's getting cranky.
(I can't get your smile outta my mind.)
Every possible location
Has a simple explanation
And it isn't hanky panky.
(Modesty is just so hard to find.)
And who, exactly, would you put in her place? The Mad Monk? Or do you want Howard back?
Going by our experience with the Internet censorship thing, I'd say your best bet is to letterbomb Q&A. Tim Wilson is coming up soon; he should have a pretty strong opinion on this.
And thirding. I wouldn't say it's "one of the nicest GUI libraries", but if you're a Java person who wants to write Javascript, it's by far the cleanest option.
No, the religious martyrs die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as faith.
It's usually considered gauche to do this on Slashdot, but in this case, I must ask you for your psychiatric qualifications or the qualifications of the person who made that diagnosis.
I consider it an insult to physicists when new agers throw around words like "energy" and "vibration". Psychiatrists deserve the same defence when others misuse perfectly good scientific words like "mental illness" or "delusion". Indeed, it's less excusable if the person perpetrating the misuse claims to be on the side of science.
Religion, like sexual orientation, is part of a person's identity. The main difference is that religion is more malleable than sexual orientation, at least in theory.
Consider ethnicity. For the purpose of this post I'm going to define "race" as a loosely-defined phenotype (including, for example, skin colour) which we understand to be correlated with having ancestors from some region of the world, and "ethnicity" as a similarly loosely-defined cultural heritage to which a person feels they belong. "Race" is not really malleable, but "ethnicity" is, at least in principle. However, we correctly understand ethnicity as being part of a person's identity. The fact that you can change it is beside the point.
People can and do suffer horrific atrocities because of how they self-identify, even if that self-identification could in principle be altered..
I don't think that second-hand sales are a problem. I'm just pointing out that even some of the best games can be completed (for some definition of "completed") within a typical rental period.
I just bought the Ultimate Genesis Collection. My kids have been enjoying it immensely.
I see the used games market as rental - it probably is harder to rent a game (like a movie) because you might want to play it for longer than a day, so you buy it and then sell it as used for less.
FWIW, my ten-year-old daughter just completed Portal 2 in five days, less than the one-week rental period. Probably serves me right for letting her know that walkthroughs exist. And admittedly this isn't including finding all of the easter eggs, playing the co-op mode or going through all the commentaries. Still, there's one data point for you.
There are running jobs. Why don't you go chase them?