why in the hell does writing "G-d" not offend, but writing "God" does?
I mean
I mean you're just moving one link back in a chain. "God" isn't like the given name of the deity even. I mean why not be double certain and just use "G--" or "---"?
This has bugged me for a while.
People who do this are idiots fullstop
Or Jewish.
But hey, whatever floats your boat... Hitler.
"God" ≠ the tetragrammaton
don't even try and pretend it does
fuck gendered marketing
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
also, loud songs can totally be recontextualized to be awesome soft, and vice versa
Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
neato. I am hell of curious what kind of DLC they will be releasing.
what happens in the video, for people who can't be assed to try and analyze multimedia right now?
in the new patch they have added more kill-animations for the various kinds of attacks and sort of camera-cuts to make you look awesome when you drop someone with a ranged or magic attack.
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I worked as a computer science tutor 4 nights a week for 2 years. I saw hundreds of students, mostly students on the verge of failing out of their programs. I helped a lot of them. 3 times out of 4, I could walk away knowing that I helped someone understand something. But there were a sizable number of people who were, simply put, terrible at the discipline. They could memorize the words, they could remember bits and pieces of functional code, but they never, not after weeks and weeks of intensive one on one sessions, managed to create a novel structure or solve a problem they hadn't already seen the solution to before.
What do you call that? They were getting proper instruction. Many of them cared desperately. Had staked their entire identities on going to college and becoming a computer programmer! But it never worked out. I can't reconcile that with a view that anyone can have a basic proficiency in any mental pursuit if they try hard enough.
The deficiency that I had to overcome in order to learn properly was a lack of observational skills. They aren't seeing and analyzing the information at a deep level, is my thinking.
why in the hell does writing "G-d" not offend, but writing "God" does?
I mean
I mean you're just moving one link back in a chain. "God" isn't like the given name of the deity even. I mean why not be double certain and just use "G--" or "---"?
This has bugged me for a while.
People who do this are idiots fullstop
Or Jewish.
But hey, whatever floats your boat... Hitler.
Yeah you anti-semetic son of a bitch I was just asking but you good ---.
But okay yeah I mean I guess it's just an idiosyncratic aspect of the practice. Though knowing Judaism, there are dozens of pages of discussion about it if I feel like looking it up.
Math never really clicked with me until I started studying logic because I would always try to think about things in real world terms.
We really need to find a better way to get kids interested in the abstract nature of math.
that is a tricky one.
They could introduce some parts of set theory and group theory early on. That doesn't require a foundation in calculus or even algrebra (well, at least not right away). That's more interesting abstract stuff.
is that what the whole "new math" thing in the 70's was?
I don't think so no.
Wait, what do you mean by "new math". I'm not familiar with the term.
I thought in the 70's there was a big shift in the way that math was taught, and it started focusing on set theory.
hmm, if there was it was over by the time I was in school.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
I worked as a computer science tutor 4 nights a week for 2 years. I saw hundreds of students, mostly students on the verge of failing out of their programs. I helped a lot of them. 3 times out of 4, I could walk away knowing that I helped someone understand something. But there were a sizable number of people who were, simply put, terrible at the discipline. They could memorize the words, they could remember bits and pieces of functional code, but they never, not after weeks and weeks of intensive one on one sessions, managed to create a novel structure or solve a problem they hadn't already seen the solution to before.
What do you call that? They were getting proper instruction. Many of them cared desperately. Had staked their entire identities on going to college and becoming a computer programmer! But it never worked out. I can't reconcile that with a view that anyone can have a basic proficiency in any mental pursuit if they try hard enough.
ssssaaassuukeeee!!!!!
I forgot that I was posting here when that happened! Greatest comp-sci rage quit ever.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Isn't that above high school math? And if so how would >50% be able to know it? I have no idea but I'll guess maybe 20% ever attend above high school education.
According to wikipedia, about 57 percent of Americans have some college experience and 40 percent have an associate's or bachelor's degree.
Oh shit!
Then please explain how rednecks get so much media presence.
Because American culture lionizes the shit parts of the country and the shit people in them for some reason.
I blame the Senate for perpetuating this nonsense.
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Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
neato. I am hell of curious what kind of DLC they will be releasing.
what happens in the video, for people who can't be assed to try and analyze multimedia right now?
in the new patch they have added more kill-animations for the various kinds of attacks and sort of camera-cuts to make you look awesome when you drop someone with a ranged or magic attack.
oh good
I only killed people with arrows or magic or magic arrows so hopefully it's a welcome change
fuck gendered marketing
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Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
why in the hell does writing "G-d" not offend, but writing "God" does?
I mean
I mean you're just moving one link back in a chain. "God" isn't like the given name of the deity even. I mean why not be double certain and just use "G--" or "---"?
This has bugged me for a while.
People who do this are idiots fullstop
Or Jewish.
But hey, whatever floats your boat... Hitler.
Yeah you anti-semetic son of a bitch I was just asking but you good ---.
But okay yeah I mean I guess it's just an idiosyncratic aspect of the practice. Though knowing Judaism, there are dozens of pages of discussion about it if I feel like looking it up.
It's something in one of the biblical books about not defacing "The Name of God." Observant Jews don't write down any of The Names of God because of the risk that someone may deface them at some point, unknowingly or uncaringly.
That being said, why, exactly, "God" qualifies as a Name of God and "G-d" doesn't, I don't know. Like most religious tenets, it makes no sense to me.
I worked as a computer science tutor 4 nights a week for 2 years. I saw hundreds of students, mostly students on the verge of failing out of their programs. I helped a lot of them. 3 times out of 4, I could walk away knowing that I helped someone understand something. But there were a sizable number of people who were, simply put, terrible at the discipline. They could memorize the words, they could remember bits and pieces of functional code, but they never, not after weeks and weeks of intensive one on one sessions, managed to create a novel structure or solve a problem they hadn't already seen the solution to before.
What do you call that? They were getting proper instruction. Many of them cared desperately. Had staked their entire identities on going to college and becoming a computer programmer! But it never worked out. I can't reconcile that with a view that anyone can have a basic proficiency in any mental pursuit if they try hard enough.
Caring and actually doing it aren't the same thing. I cared a shitload about being a physicist, it took a year in college for me to realize that I didn't want to be one.
And they only got the proper instruction that you saw.
It's the fundamental attribution error. Other people can/can't do things due to inherent traits because that's an easy way to think about it.
You see a tiny portion of a larger picture, and extrapolate.
Math never really clicked with me until I started studying logic because I would always try to think about things in real world terms.
We really need to find a better way to get kids interested in the abstract nature of math.
that is a tricky one.
They could introduce some parts of set theory and group theory early on. That doesn't require a foundation in calculus or even algrebra (well, at least not right away). That's more interesting abstract stuff.
is that what the whole "new math" thing in the 70's was?
I don't think so no.
Wait, what do you mean by "new math". I'm not familiar with the term.
I thought in the 70's there was a big shift in the way that math was taught, and it started focusing on set theory.
Yeah, you got it right. They also included non-base-10 arithmetic and basic symbolic logic.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
I picked up the electronic copy of The Lord of the Rings to read on my phone (from the android market).
It has a pretty interesting forward from the publisher about all the different printings there have been over the years and the various corrections / errors introduced with each one.
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why in the hell does writing "G-d" not offend, but writing "God" does?
I mean
I mean you're just moving one link back in a chain. "God" isn't like the given name of the deity even. I mean why not be double certain and just use "G--" or "---"?
This has bugged me for a while.
People who do this are idiots fullstop
Or Jewish.
But hey, whatever floats your boat... Hitler.
Yeah you anti-semetic son of a bitch I was just asking but you good ---.
But okay yeah I mean I guess it's just an idiosyncratic aspect of the practice. Though knowing Judaism, there are dozens of pages of discussion about it if I feel like looking it up.
It's something in one of the biblical books about not defacing "The Name of God." Observant Jews don't write down any of The Names of God because of the risk that someone may deface them at some point, unknowingly or uncaringly.
That being said, why, exactly, "God" qualifies as a Name of God and "G-d" doesn't, I don't know. Like most religious tenets, it makes no sense to me.
Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
Adele?
the eponymous fat lady of the phrase "when the fat lady sings"
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I was thrilled to get the Kitty Harness and be able to get our 2 year old tom out of the house. I followed the instructions and he accepted the harness without a problem and on the second day I took him outside. We did this for three more consecutive days without incident because the harness appeared to work as advertised. On the fourth day, we had been outside about 30 minutes when something spooked him and he lunged stretching the leash to full length and he squirmed half way out of the harness. Before I could catch him, he lunged again and got free. That was three weeks ago and we have not seen him since. If you purchase this item, I suggest you adjust it to near strangling tightness.
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Math never really clicked with me until I started studying logic because I would always try to think about things in real world terms.
We really need to find a better way to get kids interested in the abstract nature of math.
that is a tricky one.
They could introduce some parts of set theory and group theory early on. That doesn't require a foundation in calculus or even algrebra (well, at least not right away). That's more interesting abstract stuff.
is that what the whole "new math" thing in the 70's was?
I don't think so no.
Wait, what do you mean by "new math". I'm not familiar with the term.
I thought in the 70's there was a big shift in the way that math was taught, and it started focusing on set theory.
hmm, if there was it was over by the time I was in school.
When I was in high school (early 90s) I'd heard of it, but only in passing, and derisively, like that Tom Lehrer song above.
I really encountered it when I was working as a math tutor in college, because my boss was into it. He'd quietly incorporated some of the ideas into his remedial math classes (we're talking college-age students who were unable to do introductory algebra) because, well, they worked.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
why in the hell does writing "G-d" not offend, but writing "God" does?
I mean
I mean you're just moving one link back in a chain. "God" isn't like the given name of the deity even. I mean why not be double certain and just use "G--" or "---"?
This has bugged me for a while.
People who do this are idiots fullstop
Or Jewish.
But hey, whatever floats your boat... Hitler.
Yeah you anti-semetic son of a bitch I was just asking but you good ---.
But okay yeah I mean I guess it's just an idiosyncratic aspect of the practice. Though knowing Judaism, there are dozens of pages of discussion about it if I feel like looking it up.
It's something in one of the biblical books about not defacing "The Name of God." Observant Jews don't write down any of The Names of God because of the risk that someone may deface them at some point, unknowingly or uncaringly.
That being said, why, exactly, "God" qualifies as a Name of God and "G-d" doesn't, I don't know. Like most religious tenets, it makes no sense to me.
Neither do
hence: idiots
The belief that eventually came about (after the exilic period and just after when most of the old testament was written) that the proper name for the god of Moses (Yahweh, or when written in a script that doesn't use vowels YHWH) was not supposed to be spoken aloud except in inner sanctum of the temple in Jerusalem. Eventually of course the temple was destroyed and out of that destruction (and the times and world events that led to it) both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism were created (and at about the same time). The old restriction kind of stuck but of course now there was no temple in which one could speak the name.
It's not really supported well in the bible itself. But it was a pretty common idea among religions of that age and region.
So it's an oddity but not a unique or unusual oddity.
Math never really clicked with me until I started studying logic because I would always try to think about things in real world terms.
We really need to find a better way to get kids interested in the abstract nature of math.
that is a tricky one.
They could introduce some parts of set theory and group theory early on. That doesn't require a foundation in calculus or even algrebra (well, at least not right away). That's more interesting abstract stuff.
is that what the whole "new math" thing in the 70's was?
I don't think so no.
Wait, what do you mean by "new math". I'm not familiar with the term.
I thought in the 70's there was a big shift in the way that math was taught, and it started focusing on set theory.
hmm, if there was it was over by the time I was in school.
When I was in high school (early 90s) I'd heard of it, but only in passing, and derisively, like that Tom Lehrer song above.
I really encountered it when I was working as a math tutor in college, because my boss was into it. He'd quietly incorporated some of the ideas into his remedial math classes (we're talking college-age students who were unable to do introductory algebra) because, well, they worked.
After watching the video I think the way I was taught subtraction was what that guy was calling "new math". Only I don't know what he is rambling about it being difficult or not working / not giving the right answer.
Whoever made that video just seems like an old wanker who can't comprehend that there might be multiple logicially valid ways to work through a problem.
Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
Adele?
the eponymous fat lady of the phrase "when the fat lady sings"
Think Owl City attempting Rolling In The Deep. It ain't gonna work.
I don't know what this means
You know the band that did 'Fireflies'? Imagine that band trying to perform Rolling In The Deep. They wouldn't be able to project half the power the song needs to work.
no
I do not know either of these things
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
Adele?
the eponymous fat lady of the phrase "when the fat lady sings"
there's a ton of interesting stuff in the subject of divine names in general and that of the god of moses in particular. One thing that sticks out for me is that it is definetly a gendered name and definetly male.
It is very clear in hebrew that the Lord God has a gender and that gender is male. Dude is packin'.
(IIRC it's 3rd person causative masculine for the verb "to be". EG: "he that causes to be". Possibly a shortened form of "he who causes to be the heavenly armies").
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"God" ≠ the tetragrammaton
don't even try and pretend it does
this song is fucking killer
no
I do not know either of these things
in the new patch they have added more kill-animations for the various kinds of attacks and sort of camera-cuts to make you look awesome when you drop someone with a ranged or magic attack.
The deficiency that I had to overcome in order to learn properly was a lack of observational skills. They aren't seeing and analyzing the information at a deep level, is my thinking.
Yeah you anti-semetic son of a bitch I was just asking but you good ---.
But okay yeah I mean I guess it's just an idiosyncratic aspect of the practice. Though knowing Judaism, there are dozens of pages of discussion about it if I feel like looking it up.
hmm, if there was it was over by the time I was in school.
They added kill-cams to God damn everything.
New killing animations too, including fucking suplexes.
I forgot that I was posting here when that happened! Greatest comp-sci rage quit ever.
I blame the Senate for perpetuating this nonsense.
...dude, you don't know the song Rolling In The Deep? Really? The ubiquitous song that thrust Adele into the global consciousness? You honestly don't know that song?
it was taken from them
by pig farmers!
and tailors!
oh good
I only killed people with arrows or magic or magic arrows so hopefully it's a welcome change
Adele?
That being said, why, exactly, "God" qualifies as a Name of God and "G-d" doesn't, I don't know. Like most religious tenets, it makes no sense to me.
Caring and actually doing it aren't the same thing. I cared a shitload about being a physicist, it took a year in college for me to realize that I didn't want to be one.
And they only got the proper instruction that you saw.
It's the fundamental attribution error. Other people can/can't do things due to inherent traits because that's an easy way to think about it.
You see a tiny portion of a larger picture, and extrapolate.
All right, elldren. Here's Owl City doing Fireflies...
and here's Rolling In The Deep.
Yeah, you got it right. They also included non-base-10 arithmetic and basic symbolic logic.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
We could've had it all, Elldren.
I picked up the electronic copy of The Lord of the Rings to read on my phone (from the android market).
It has a pretty interesting forward from the publisher about all the different printings there have been over the years and the various corrections / errors introduced with each one.
Neither do
hence: idiots
the eponymous fat lady of the phrase "when the fat lady sings"
I don't really know why but the way the Owl City guy looks and sounds combined just screams autism to me.
bleh
to be fair you say this about anything from the last 20 years that isn't german
to be fair owl city is pretty bleh
When I was in high school (early 90s) I'd heard of it, but only in passing, and derisively, like that Tom Lehrer song above.
I really encountered it when I was working as a math tutor in college, because my boss was into it. He'd quietly incorporated some of the ideas into his remedial math classes (we're talking college-age students who were unable to do introductory algebra) because, well, they worked.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The belief that eventually came about (after the exilic period and just after when most of the old testament was written) that the proper name for the god of Moses (Yahweh, or when written in a script that doesn't use vowels YHWH) was not supposed to be spoken aloud except in inner sanctum of the temple in Jerusalem. Eventually of course the temple was destroyed and out of that destruction (and the times and world events that led to it) both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism were created (and at about the same time). The old restriction kind of stuck but of course now there was no temple in which one could speak the name.
It's not really supported well in the bible itself. But it was a pretty common idea among religions of that age and region.
So it's an oddity but not a unique or unusual oddity.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
After watching the video I think the way I was taught subtraction was what that guy was calling "new math". Only I don't know what he is rambling about it being difficult or not working / not giving the right answer.
Whoever made that video just seems like an old wanker who can't comprehend that there might be multiple logicially valid ways to work through a problem.
Adele is fat.
She is also Dovahkiin.
Stay classy, chat.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It is very clear in hebrew that the Lord God has a gender and that gender is male. Dude is packin'.
(IIRC it's 3rd person causative masculine for the verb "to be". EG: "he that causes to be". Possibly a shortened form of "he who causes to be the heavenly armies").