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Last I checked, cucumbers were the precursor to pickles, unless there are some weird zuccini pickles there in Finland. And if so, could they be described as zuccickles?
Joined: 12/26/2006
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Dear Bisqwit:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers is what Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...
How did the peppers get pickled before Peter Piper picked them?
Joined: 2/13/2007
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Location: Calgary, Alberta
Maybe he quit and rejoined under the same name and the server did something odd and credited the posts of his previous account to his new account?
We could also ask KaitouKid himself.
Renting this space for rent.
Trying to fix image on this site. Please cut slack.
As of April 6th, 2012:
After a long absence, here we go again?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? a pen? a pan? a pun?
I never understood the point of that question...
The theological question is whether angels, being at times immaterial, could nevertheless occupy the same space as other angels, and comes from Aquinas. The answer he gave is "no", they cannot occupy the same space. The exact question comes from Isaac D'Israeli, who thought Aquinas's theological inquiries were frivolous and parodied them, saying "The reader desirous of being merry with Aquinas's angels may find them in Martinus Scriblerus, in Ch. VII who inquires if angels pass from one extreme to another without going through the middle? And if angels know things more clearly in a morning? How many angels can dance on the point of a very fine needle, without jostling one another?"
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster.
I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
Is the "joined" date the date he joined or the date his account name was changed? He used to be called "BombAHead" IIRC.
Perhaps it is the latter.
In that case, he must have gone ahead and created a new account without asking, which I then merged into his old account to prevent orphaning the old posts.
Usually, I just rename the account when asked; it is much less hassle.
1) If you were forced to use some other OS than linux to do everything, which OS would you choose?
1: Windows XP, running Cygwin.
I find that surprising. You would prefer WinXP over, for example, Solaris or NetBSD, even though the latters can be made to work almost identically to Linux? If you couldn't use linux you would change the OS type so radically? I'm a bit puzzled.
(I suppose that the basic meaning of my original question was "which other unix-like OS would you like to use if Linux was removed as an option?")
I find that surprising. You would prefer WinXP over, for example, Solaris or NetBSD, even though the latters can be made to work almost identically to Linux? If you couldn't use linux you would change the OS type so radically? I'm a bit puzzled.
(I suppose that the basic meaning of my original question was "which other unix-like OS would you like to use if Linux was removed as an option?")
Because of familiarity, I suppose. I'm rather unfamiliar with NetBSD and Solaris as desktop environments. Though I suppose I could learn rather quickly if needed.
However, I would not purchase a copy of Windows XP just to install Cygwin on it. I would rather use some of the other choices you presented.
Do you think that life is pointless? If not, then why is that? To me there seems to be no point in living, unless you can do so forever. I suddenly realized that I can do anything in my life, yet it will never really matter, nor will anything, done by anybody, matter to anyone in the long run, since everybody will still be gone forever at some point. It feels pretty bad when you think about it that way...
Basically, you're asking about the meaning of life. :)
There are countless different views on that question, but I suppose you're asking about mine.
I can present you two views.
One is materialistic. As biological beings, we all contain certain "hardwired" rules in the brain and the rest of the body, that are tuned with the continuous reproduction of the human culture and species as the aim.
There are a few points in the human's life, that form a set of items that once completed, the human feels like they have accomplished their life and fulfilled it. Those are, namely: generation of offspring (i.e. making of children), and passing one's knowledge and ideals of the way of living to the said offspring (i.e. education and disciplining).
Individuals of a biological species have a finite lifetime, but as a species, each species aims to live forever. These rewarding items I listed are the means by which the species ensures (or tries to ensure) that they will, live forever.
In me, the desire to pass forth a copy of my entire knowledge and ideals of the way of living, is very strong. Biologically speaking, I see it as my purpose of life. A subsidiary goal is to improve the knowledge (to make the species better in general), which ironically pushes that major goal further and farther. Still, every time someone learns something useful due to my actions, I feel great satisfaction.
And the other is spiritual. As God would have it, each human being is meant to live together with God, enjoying a happy life that is mutually pleasant: God supplies the humans with everything they can possibly need, and the humans supply God with gratitude and awe of his perfect awesomeness. However, such a relationship does not work if the human is selfish, or works against God's wish. Therefore a sort of preliminary exam was created, to sieve out those who refuse that kind of relationship.
This mortal life is that sieve; in this life God calls us, several times in our life, and whether we accept his call or not, decides whether we get to enjoy the life we were meant to live. If we do, he will join our life with us, here, on Earth, and it will continue forever. If we don't, well, then we have no business in front of his might.
Wow, that was pretty well written, I can see your points. Thanks a lot. :)
Next weird question (hopefully you wont mind):
Do you think that the universe (by universe, I mean, everything that exists, anywhere) has an end? I often find myself thinking about it but can never really work out a satisfying answer.
Let others do the dirty jobs while we sit here doing nothing? If that was everybody's mentality, then nobody would eg. join the police or firemen forces either.
(No, I'm not saying we should join the NATO. I'm just wondering if you are seeing *both* sides of the coin. I have always hated it when people seem to see things too unilaterally.)
Let others do the dirty jobs while we sit here doing nothing? If that was everybody's mentality, then nobody would eg. join the police or firemen forces either.
Joining the police or firemen forces gives tangible gains as it gives a chance to improve the society in which we live in.
Perhaps rejecting NATO is an example of separationism; Finland is just Finland and not involved with other European countries. If one of them is attacked by some other country, that's their problem, not Finland's. We do not wish to make enemies of either party.
Also, considering that we're neighboring a large country that has been hostile towards Finland in the past but now is not, it is not a good idea to raise the temperature by joining a military alliance that is potentially on an opposing side to that superpower.
More discussion about Finland's position towards NATO can be read at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO#Finland
