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The way it works for us is that the job ends up "over budget" and "late but not really" in the form of contract mods to add this and that that wasn't covered in the original contract.... "Oh, you mean you wanted a mouse with your computer??? That's gonna cost you." (My...

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The economic section pretty much broke down how you'd expect it to right/left. McCain is for smaller government, lower taxes, and attracting business; Obama is for progressive taxes, regulating business, and expanding the benefits govenment offers people. That's pretty much the definition of the rig...

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Per obligation (but fair warning, I'll likely disappear for another two weeks henceforth) . . . Honestly, there are a couple of things that trouble me about that particular explanation. I understand it was just a 'quick synopsis', but it's an argument I'm familiar with, so I'm curious how you and/or...

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You can say creationism is a theological idea because it references God, but I think this is just trickery with language. It's also a scientific idea, grounded in arguments from the natural world. Creation--if it occured--is a historical event, just like the formation of the Grand Canyon; you can to...

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Mmmmm, yummy cyberpunk.

Puzzles were pretty meh, though.

What is this Tesseract you speak of? Just hypercubes in general, or is this a game?

Drakona

Drak, did you listen to the audio? It largely says what you just posted. Like I have time for that :P. Glad to hear other folks saying it, though. It's an unusual perspective, but I'm pretty sure it's true. Edit: Okay, I listened. Painfully. He gets a C- for logical content--barely a passing grade....

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I am of the opinion that, ultimately, God created evil to destroy it, and for us to overcome it, for the sake of what we would both become in the process. It's easy to be nice when everyone else is; it's in responding to injustice that we show our true colors. It's easy to be a judge when everyone b...

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Well, you can consider it a dimension if it's convenient or appropriate for the problem you're working on. If you want to chart, say, the path of an airplane, it's four-dimensional with time as one of the dimensions. If you just want a chart of a building's structure, then not so much. Time can be t...

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Heh. Now I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all night.

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Yeah, lots of other countries have good national anthems. I like the British one in particular. Should be a familiar melody; we copied it, added new words, and used it for a national anthem long ago. We were so totally British. :D I like the sentiment expressed by the words of The Star Spangled Bann...

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Which is why things like deadly genetic diseases don't exist. Not that I'm arguing homosexuality is genetic. Just that that's a bad argument that it isn't. Natural selection hasn't managed to eliminate a disease which is already rare and which, without fail, kills you by age 5. Not even with a lot o...

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Hah, I remember 18 being such a letdown. Great now I can go, uh, buy porn. No wait, I don't want to do that. I can go buy cigarettes! No wait, I don't want to do that either. Some sort of a weapon, maybe? I think I can buy big knives now . . . no wait, I know! I'll JOIN THE ARMY! Seriously, I made s...

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why did i just watch an ad Your ambiguous statement invites punctuation. Why did I just watch an ad? Why, did I just watch an ad! Why did I just watch? An ad! Why, did I just. Watch an ad! But the ad was funny. I do like to see Apple get called on their whole "our stuff is so awesome, it just ...

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Leadership requires a degree of aggression, proactiveness, assertiveness, and just outright trailblazing that women usually don't possess. While women as a whole don't meet those criteria well, there are outliers. The women who do occupy those positions usually do just as well as the men. You can ac...

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I still have my original D1 floppies, too, in a big brown box, along with a disk of expansion levels my best friend downloaded from the internet (we weren't connected). Disk 3 is corrupt, and has been for like 10 years now. I have no idea how many of the others have become corrupt since, well, I no ...

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The girls said no... ...But she changed her mind? ... And then changed it again? I'm sorry, I don't buy that. Sounds much more like these guys were pressuring her from the very beginning, and at some point (when they got her alone) that pressure became full-fledged force. Nah. Romance is emotional ...

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Dungeons & Dragons (Game of choice for about 2 years now. We play little else.)
Nethack
Half Life 2
Portal
Starcraft: Brood Wars

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Hah! I don't care if it sounds like a whole army of those things, that's the coolest robot ever. I'm amazed it didn't fall down. I sure would have. Funny, isn't it? Robots in sci-fi are supersentient, and we can barely get AI to handle things as well-constrained as chess. On the other hand, sci-fi r...

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Also I wish people like Snoopy, Drakona, Lothar, etc would spend more time in these discussions instead of posting "all or nothing" kinds of posts. I know time is not always on their side but a few lines could be useful. Thank you. I'll try, but you have to understand I'm pretty busy. I o...

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Well, the only place I advocated \"monitoring\" was for someone in a position to teach, and you should actually do this whether it's a believer or not. Everyone has the capability to teach falsely, whether they are good or ill-intentioned, and that can be extremely destructive. I would be ...

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Disapproval of homosexual activity, and disapproval of its promotion, is not hatred of homosexuals.

You all can feel free to stop equivocating that any time now.

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Oh, you're just academically interested in the etymology? Here it is, reproduced from my copy of Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends , with apologies to the swear filter. Popular etymologies agree, unfortunately incorrectly, that ★■◆● is an acronym meaning either Fornication under Consent...

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Ha! I didn't mean to imply that I thought the US had the same motives and power as God. But I do think there's a strong parallel in this particular situation. I'm fairly alert for counterexamples to the problem of evil, since it comes up on forums so much. If the US is powerful enough to solve Haiti...

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Don't know what passes for necroposting around here, but if this is it, I apologize. I don't come by these boards much, but I'm trying to make an effort to answer people who direct questions to me. I feel like it's kind of lame to run away and leave people hanging, even if that's not my intent . . ....

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The church as we know it today has been through long, historical development, and is very far removed from the church of the new testament. I think everybody knows that, though I think some people would be surprised how very different the two are. I love to make the point that the letters in the new...

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The offensiveness of the word has nothing to do with the meaning, and everything to do with the fact that the word is intended to be offensive. The literal meaning is no more inherently offensive that the verbal combination of sounds is. But connotation is a genuine part of language; obscenity or po...

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The group is Improv Everywhere. I've wasted many hours on that site.

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Uhh... thanks, I guess. I think maybe you guys kinda need to get over me. No offense. Just, it's kind of disturbing that I can write about starvation and child slavery happening in our back yard, and the reaction is more along the lines of \"Wow, your research is awesome and you are awesome\&qu...

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Power reveals corruption. Your moral nature is defined by the choices you make, and is undeveloped and unrevealed in any context in which you're restrained, even when restrained only by social convention. You find out what sort of person you are by what you do in a realm in which you have absolute p...

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I dont know what to change in my diet, I dont drink, I dont have much caffeine if at all, I dont consume many sweets and when I do its just dessert at 7 PM. I always try to have a bit of tomatoes with my sandwiches every day and I take vitamins like magnesium and vitamin C every day. And yet I stil...

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Oh yeah. I remember this awesome 8-player game in Ugh with like half of UF. We had Jeds and KidThunder and I don't know who else. I think Sirian even joined us for a bit, but quickly left after deciding we all were nuts. We were. :) Lothar and I are doing pretty well. Loving marriage (it's been 5 ye...

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Awww... I recall hearing initially that d0ggY was a new name for someone we were supposed to all know, and I've wondered for years (years!) who it was.

And here you go randomly spit it out and I've never heard of a \"griffin\" before in my life.

I just got oldsk00led.

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It is well-known that the birth rate is much higher in poor countries than in rich ones. I did some statistical analysis to prove it to myself, but perusing the birth rate Wikipeda list (consulting the per-capita income list as necessary) ought to convince you. Testi criticizes this as stupidity, an...

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I got a 25.

Though, that's hardly an IQ test. More of a quick-access-to-trivia test. Interesting to see how many subjects I have a good knee-jerk reaction on, though.

Drakona

I'm sure it's been posted here before (in fact, I think I became aware of it through the DBB), but this is an excellent optical illusions website, worthy of wasting many hours on.

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A different major problem with public tactics development is that it's, well . . . it's public. Any useful tactics the gamers developed would be usable by any military, both good guys and bad guys. Because, well, they're publicly developed on the internet. A gamer wants to advance the state of the ...

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Well, it's a nice idea, but it wouldn't work out well. True, there are a lot of gamers out there; if you get a lot of brilliant minds thinking about a problem, they might come up with a brilliant solution. That's where the advantages end, though. Here are some of the problems. Gaming is something yo...

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That being said, I read a little of some of your blog to find out your perspective outside of this movie and I respect the fact that you have distanced yourself from the actions of past/present Christians who carry a sword/gun in one hand and a cross in the other. Correct me if I am wrong, but I se...

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What, they're not all one big ocean?

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Just a Google easter egg. Number of horns on a unicorn = 1; the rest of the units are just normal units. It doesn't have legs on an octopus or humps on a camel. I'd imagine the unicorn thing is just for fun. A while back, the driving directions from New York to London included \"swim across the...

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