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• Post #610131

  False. The Bush Admin wasn't competent enough to plan a self-attack. They just managed to jump on a crisis (caused by their own ineptness) and use it to their benefit. And everyone went along with it for fear of being called a traitor. Doesn't change the point. This Admin is far dumber and more evil because of what they've been doing, and the latest is just more of that.

• Post #540554

  I don't see how it implies that, as that empire or any others never stopped and said, "yep, that's good enough".

• Post #382637

  Pace car speed in NASCAR is 45-60 mph, with pre-start getting around 100 mph before letting them go. Fast, but hardly flat out in a sports car. The point was that at those speeds that normal people drive regularly, it is very slow on a track built for high speeds.

• Post #250115

  I guess it's consent. The master/deity or their aide comes to the servant and tells them of master's will, the great plan. The servant says, yeah, okay. Yet another fail in writing. Why not make it so God and Gabriel give her the choice, and she adamantly agrees? Remove all doubt from the story's plot. Or better yet, add some drama, have Mary unsure, and Gabriel explains the importance (not that it's already planned, but why her choice is key to the direction of salvation and a...

• Post #248634

  No, just debating which set of rules we're playing by.

• Post #247937

  Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?

• Post #247624

  There wasn't consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.

• Post #244620

  It's a weak loss.

• Post #244544

  That seems optimistic.

• Post #243024

  That's the "I might be okay" moment, followed by the body's too early, "oh, we're there?" at the last few feet. Sometimes you can distract the mind a bit more by focusing on something else while you make the last steps. A lot like how flying works in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you have to notice something totally off-topic and forget you're about to hit the ground.

• Post #241497

  It definitely is. But you know what's worse? Returning a used lawnmower at the end of summer, expecting a refund. Regularly.

• Post #241487

  Speaking as a guy, not always true. I've lost some of the skill, but there was a time when I worked with paints mixing colors, and I was very good at finding the right shades for people who were lost (men and women). I understand that there are subtleties within every color. My sarcasm would always come out though, when someone would bring in a piece of wood and ask to color match it. I'd ask "which brown"... but then would give them excellent service and figure out what work...

• Post #210512

  The engineering is incredible. Imagine if it had been applied to a better purpose.

• Post #188931

  One of my random Linux boot-up sounds is the WinXP boot theme.

• Post #188915

  When GIMP's version 3 came out, it got a lot of great reviews. I can't tell you what's different or better, but in using it myself since then, it doesn't "feel" as daunting. Very subjective, but definitely try it out again; it might work for you this time around.

• Post #188424

  Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.

• Post #187305

  Oh no...

• Post #178724

  "I'll remember THAT, it's such a trivial thing."

• Post #173658

  And occasionally the curtains.

• Post #157236

  Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it. The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.

• Post #151225

  It's not necessarily garbage, but it sure isn't curated either. Throwing everything into the blender and hoping the mechanism will usually spit out good info is a scientific spinning of the roulette wheel. Sometimes the odds are pretty good. Sometimes they're horrible, and you should know better than to expect anything but. But AI has become the shiniest hammer, and every damn thing is a nail now.

• Post #150436

  Using Linux and everything else not Microsoft: "I'm doing my part!"

• Post #147478

  It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.

• Post #143798

  The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.

• Post #143766

  Never apologize for giving your opinion. If you do it badly, then do what you did and expand on it. I don't like olives either. Nasty things. :D But I get other people do, and probably don't like things I do. I can appreciate why people may like them, even prefer them over lots of things, I just don't myself. Can't change that. And the olives are always there if I ever get a craving for them, just not my thing.

• Post #143315

  Don't. Everyone has their preferences, which was the point.

• Post #133731

  It also means the OS is in total control of the things it's running. This goes for running programs, shutting down, and crashing. The only crashes I have on my Linux are when I use up memory, and I'm still convinced that even though everything looks seized up, if I left it for hours or days it would probably end up resolving itself. I've had some cases where the OS saw the program wasn't going in a good direction fast enough and killed it.

• Post #131334

  This is good parenting. You can't always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.

• Post #124018

  The book that came with the C-64 was a good primer for first-time computer users, but I ended up needing more and bought the "Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide," which was far more useful, and then "Mapping the Commodore 64" and "Machine Language for Beginners." Yes, I still have them. You never know... :D

• Post #119482

  Jack's a keeper, clearly, but Ryan got the party popper, also. Something is going on there.