Thinking about Rails? Think Again

wolfeon writes "In 2005, Derek Sivers of CD Baby wanted to scrap his site and perform a rewrite in Rails. He hired Jeremy Kemper, also known as bitsweat on Freenode, to help on the project. Two years later, through blood and sweat, the project was then canceled because of limitations of Rails. Rails just wasn't meant to do everything since it is very much "canned" project. Mr. Sivers has written an entry in the O'Reilly blog: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP."

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Thinking about abortion? think again

[Anonymous Coward]

Day 1

Mommy, I am only 8 inches long, but I have all my organs. I love the sound of your voice. Every time I hear it, I wave my arms and legs. The sound of your heart beat is my favorite lullaby.

Day 2

Mommy, today I learned how to suck my thumb. If you could see me, you could definitely tell that I am a baby. I'm not big enough to survive outside my home though. It is so nice and warm in here.

Day 3

You know what Mommy, I'm a girl!! I hope that makes you happy. I always want you to be happy. I don't like it when you cry. You sound so sad. It makes me sad too, and I cry with you even though you can't hear me.

Day 4

Mommy, my hair is starting to grow. It is very short and fine, but I will have a lot of it. I spend a lot of my time exercising. I can turn my head and curl my fingers and toes, and stretch my arms and legs. I am becoming quite good at it too.

Day 5

You went to the doctor today. Mommy, he lied to you. He said that I'm not a baby. I am a baby Mommy, your baby. I think and feel. Mommy, what's abortion?

Day 6

I can hear that doctor again. I don't like him. He seems cold and heartless. Something is intruding my home. The doctor called it a needle. Mommy what is it? It burns! Please make him stop! I can't get away from it! Mommy!! HELP me!! No . . .

Day 7

Mommy, I am okay. I am in Jesus's arms. he is holding me. He told me about abortion. Why didn't you want me Mommy?

One more heart that was stopped. Two more eyes that will never see. Two more hands that will never touch. Two more legs that will never run. One more mouth that will never speak.

REPOST THIS IF U HATE ABORTION

Re:Thinking about abortion? think again

[Anonymous Coward]

if only this were true. sadly, we dont attain sentience until age 4-5 or so. so killing foetuses, babies and kids is no morally different than killing cows until they attain sentience.
mommy! mommy! that big bad man ate me today! jesus, tell me what being eaten is ?

Re:Thinking about abortion? think again

[logicnazi]

This is just patently false. Sentience merely refers to the fact that you have experiences, i.e., that it feels like something to be you. Almost certainly it feels like something to be a dog or a cow just as much as it does a human (they feel pain etc..) and surely children at the age of 4 have experiences. Some people even remember shit from back then (though not clinching proof). Don't make up facts to support the conclusions you like.

Ultimately the problem with the above argument is that it's not an argument at all. It's a way to manipulate your emotions and make you feel sad about something. It doesn't tell you anything about the relative merits of getting an not getting an abortion. I mean fuck with the right sort of sad story you can make people feel sorry for a fucking roomba (robot vaccuum) but that hardly shows that we shouldn't just throw the roomba out in the trash.

In my opinion the only philosophically consistant answer to the abortion question is to admit that there is nothing *fundamentally* different between killing a living fetus and choosing not to create one. Indeed there is nothing *fundamentally* wrong about even murder. What makes murder wrong is the fact that murders cause lots of other people suffering (friends, family of the victim) and create fear (I might be murdered too) and generally disrupt the social order. So long as society draw some bright line distinction about where it believes life begins and refuses to kill things on the wrong side of that distinction that's fine. The question is just where to draw the line. Since in general the psychological benefits to women of allowing them to have abortions as well as the benefits to society from not having unwanted children outweigh the suffering of people who feel sorry for fetuses birth is probably the best place to draw the line.

I know this is way offtopic but it just annoys me when people advance arguments they couldn't possibly really believe just to defend the result they want. Especially when I agree with the result.

Re:Thinking about abortion? think again

[heinousjay]

I was with you up until the "advancing arguments they couldn't possibly believe" bit. That is ridiculously arrogant of you to say. People do have different beliefs than you do, you know. Just because something doesn't fit through your filter, that doesn't mean it isn't perfectly logical to somebody else.

Re:Thinking about abortion? think again

[hairyfeet]

If we are going to swing offtopic (and that stupid troll just ticks me off anyway) We might as well hear from the great one,Mr. Bill Hicks on the subject. I always thought the man could make a better point with humor than all the debates rolled into one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcebIEOkhY

Linus is right

[Anonymous Coward]

I am with Linus on this one. For the life of me I can't understand what this sucking up to RMS is about. Linus himself does not think GPLv3 is a good thing. So why do people keep adopting it.
Without Linus FOSS is tossed. Not following Linus is dangerous for the survival of FOSS.

Re:OMG Thinking Fundamentalism? think again

[fractoid]

Every sperm is sacred!