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YoDave writes "Have a slick new iMac and a boring old desk? This BBC report may be music to your eyes. John Treby from the University of Hertfordshire has designed the iDesk. It has space age styling with space for all your Apple goodies and not much else. Rain Design of San Francisco is shipping a similar stand called the iGo. PC users can prepare to drool with envy, again."
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Yet, the entire Slashdot community was shocked yesterday by the viscious outburst from one of the editors. For no good reason, user's anonymity was threatened by the Slashdot resident editor, Pudge, who elsewhere in the same threat used abusive language when replying to users who questioned his comments about CNN. The bitter exchange ended in an ominous: "Don't make me question your anonymity!". The threat is even more serious given Slashdot's pride in a being freedom loving site and anti-censorship.
Please read the thread and mail OSDN about the on-going abuse over here. Also please post this all over Slashdot.
Thank you for making my point. Everything you said also applies to this story about an equaly stupid iMac desk.
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our best advise at this time: wireless, portable, & lookout bullow.
the lights are coming up now (no pun intended).
you can pretend all you want. our further advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.
cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.
Believe It, or Not
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
Friday, August 15, 2003 Posted: 9:49 AM EDT (1349 GMT)
Today marks the Roman Catholics' Feast of the Assumption, honoring the moment that they believe God brought the Virgin Mary into Heaven. So here's a fact appropriate for the day: Americans are three times as likely to believe in the Virgin Birth of Jesus (83 percent) as in evolution (28 percent).
So this day is an opportunity to look at perhaps the most fundamental divide between America and the rest of the industrialized world: faith. Religion remains central to American life, and is getting more so, in a way that is true of no other industrialized country, with the possible exception of South Korea.
Americans believe, 58 percent to 40 percent, that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral. In contrast, other developed countries overwhelmingly believe that it is not necessary. In France, only 13 percent agree with the U.S. view. (For details on the polls cited in this column, go to www.nytimes.com/kristofresponds.)
The faith in the Virgin Birth reflects the way American Christianity is becoming less intellectual and more mystical over time. The percentage of Americans who believe in the Virgin Birth actually rose five points in the latest poll.
My grandfather was fairly typical of his generation: A devout and active Presbyterian elder, he nonetheless believed firmly in evolution and regarded the Virgin Birth as a pious legend. Those kinds of mainline Christians are vanishing, replaced by evangelicals. Since 1960, the number of Pentecostalists has increased fourfold, while the number of Episcopalians has dropped almost in half.
The result is a gulf not only between America and the rest of the industrialized world, but a growing split at home as well. One of the most poisonous divides is the one between intellectual and religious America.
Some liberals wear T-shirts declaring, "So Many Right-Wing Christians . . . So Few Lions." On the other side, there are attitudes like those on a Web site, dutyisours.com/gwbush.htm, explaining the 2000 election this way:
"God defeated armies of Philistines and others with confusion. Dimpled and hanging chads may also be because of God's intervention on those who were voting incorrectly. Why is GW Bush our president? It was God's choice."
The Virgin Mary is an interesting prism through which to examine America's emphasis on faith because most Biblical scholars regard the evidence for the Virgin Birth, and for Mary's assumption into Heaven (which was proclaimed as Catholic dogma only in 1950), as so shaky that it pretty much has to be a leap of faith. As the Catholic theologian Hans Kung puts it in "On Being a Christian," the Virgin Birth is a "collection of largely uncertain, mutually contradictory, strongly legendary" narratives, an echo of virgin birth myths that were widespread in many parts of the ancient world.
Jaroslav Pelikan, the great Yale historian and theologian, says in his book "Mary Through the Centuries" that the earliest references to Mary (like Mark's gospel, the first to be written, or Paul's letter to the Galatians) don't mention anything unusual about the conception of Jesus. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke do say Mary was a virgin, but internal evidence suggests that that part of Luke, in particular, may have been added later by someone else (it is written, for example, in a different kind of Greek than the rest of that gospel).
Yet despite the lack of scientific or historical evidence, and despite the doubts of Biblical scholars, America is so pious that not only do 91 percent of Christians say they believe in the Virgin Birth, but so do an astonishing 47 percent of U.S. non-Christians.
I'm not denigrating anyone's beliefs. And I don't pretend to know why America is so much more infused with religious faith than the rest of the world. But I do think that we're in the middle of another religious Great Awakening, and that while
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.02 in, I don't feel entitled to respond to this comment. I was just hoping to get a chance to say something derogatory about Apple but you never brought it up. Damn.
>Trend whore? Let me guess, you where a lot of
>khaki pants and polo shirts with computer logos
>on them, right?
No.
>You drive/have driven an Accord, Maxima, or
>Camry.
Yes, but with a 760 watt amp and two 12" subs. All your bass are belong to my econobox.
>You go to Starbucks with your
>friends and rent movies from Blockbuster.
No. Panera Bread and Hollywood video.
>You listen to what you consider "non-mainstream"
>music.
No, I listen to what I consider to be mainstream music. How many people would really give a shit about P2P or the RIAA if it wasn't all about mainstream music?
>You consider yourself more computer literate
>than most people you work with and you actually
>think that that means you are intelligent.
There isn't anything wrong with this if it can be backed up with proof. Of course, if you work in the IT field (I got out of it and got my HVAC certification), techs with computer knowledge are a dime a dozen.
>Office Space is one of your favorite movies.
True that. It's a poignant reminder of why working in IT sucks.
>You get pissed when screens in the movies show
>fake flashy graphics when the supposed computer
>genius decides to hack into a system.
I don't really mind that. Now when they misuse technical jargon just to try and sound smart, it's lame. Like that line "Plug the hard drives into the main AC power" or something to that effect in the Matrix II. Make up your own techno-sounding terms "Plug the futzwitzer into the main AC power!" or use the real ones properly.
>You think you're smarter than the average bear.
The average bear shits in the woods. I use a toilet.
>You've smoked weed in your lifetime.
Never have, never will.
>You daredevil you.
Since this post wasn't directed to me and I just wanted to get my
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.