Its not true. I wish the "silly talking shrub" would stop talking and start listening to some real scientists. This just moves when people use their lights. Instead of using them in the evening now people will turn them on when they get up because in most of the country it will still be dark outside! Heck it doesn't even take a scientist to figure that out.
On top of that its a moot point anyway. By far the most energy I use comes from air-conditioning and heating, messing with the clock doesn't change the temperature outside.
And finally all the energy lost by this effort far outweighs any of the tiny gains. Think about all the effort to fix computers, how many programmers had to come in early or stay late to fix this problem, and there by needing to run heating or A/C and lights in their office buildings? And then there's the studies that show the increase in car accidents due to people being tired, which will be worse this year because in Canada and the northern US the sun won't be out to melt ice on roads when people are commuting. All of these add up to far more wasted time and energy than we'll ever save.
Be sure to thank your congressperson for such a cunning plan.
I'll have to check out Scalix. I've not used either one but I have been looking into Exchange alternatives for a client of mine. Fortunately the client has nothing at the moment (small business) so the good news is that I don't have to worry about it being compatible as long as it meets their needs.
After you create a password, you can log-in as root. If you're on Ubuntu its a good idea because for some reason sudo needs to be able to see localhost. If you accidentally corrupt your/etc/hosts file (like I did with an errant keystroke in vim), sudo will no longer work and you'll have a sad day because you can't log in as root.
Fortunately recovery mode logs in as root as well.
I have FTTH from Verizon. I live in a suburb of Dallas. 15mB down 2mB up, 300+ TV channels (all digital) and phone service. Its all about $120. I'm very happy with the service.
and even injection attacks if the code isn't using correct pear DB
PEAR DB is almost as bad. Statements aren't prepared at the database level (I guess they'd need a real C extension to do that?), its just a regex that replaces the placeholders as it finds them in a foreach() loop. (There are numerous problems with foreach() in PHP 4 as well)
The placeholder syntax is wrong, they not only use ? as a placeholder but ! and something else as well (I can't remember what character). That breaks negation queries, instead of "SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz != 1" you have to do "SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz 1"
When I wrote them about this issue, they said it was something to with what type of variable you sent (? for strings and ! for numbers)... that makes little since because they don't enforce the strings vs. numbers in the codes, you can pass either one using either of the placeholder characters.
There's also a bug when you send 0 as a placeholder. If a value is false it won't replace it, then you end up with a query error.
All of this was enough for me to give up on PEAR DB about a year ago and I wrote my own db wrapper.
Yes, input validation is a difficult task, but I think it's just as difficult in other languages as well.
In every other language I've ever programmed in, it was relatively easy to figure out where the variables came from. In PHP there's a chance that a configuration setting is going to have the ability to change that. I'm sorry but that's bad design.
Who on earth thought that register_globals was a good idea? And why on earth do most of the popular third party apps still insist on using them???
I've been using PHP for years, and I read all the stuff, yet I'm finding new problems with my own code just from reading some of the stuff in this thread. I think a switch to something better is long over due.
Hahaha! Awesome! I'd suggest a few more functions in the global namespace as well. Maybe stop_hacking_attempts() and stop_hacking_attempts_l33t()... with its parameters reversed of course!
BS. Nowhere in the article does it say anything about the IRS actually trying to do this. No its this Miller guy (who we've heard from before) who insists that its going to happen "real soon now" (tm). Um no. If such a thing really did come to pass it would be held up in the courts for years because the game companies would fight it. Why? Because taxes already cost a lot of time and money. For something that is so overtly illegal for the government to do, they'd be stupid not to fight it.
This Miller guy is nothing but a troll... and CNET fed him.
Really? In the 10 minutes it takes for your "real" IDE to start up on a normal computer *cough*Eclipse*cough*, I've already finished half the code in vim.
Also Vim can use ctags to know about the classes and methods in multiple files as well as the new auto-completion in vim 7. (actually you could use plugins to autocomplete before). It can do folding. It can do mulitple screens.
One tool. One job. Web development = 2 firefox tabs, a console window with the mysql shell up and two consoles with vim, and sometimes GiMP on another desktop to edit a graphic or two. Everything completely accessable from shortcut keys and it all runs faster than a single file loaded in Eclipse.
I certainly hope that specialized software doesn't cost just $100 because then there would be no reason for people like me to develop it (since that's what my company does). I love FOSS but face it, there simply isn't a FOSS solution for everything. FOSS is great for commodity software like operating systems and office suites but not so great for specialized things. FOSS is about scratching an itch or becoming popular. Developing specialized software HAS to be about listening to the (few) "customers". As a business owner, I'm certainly not going to waste time with a half solution for anything because in the long run it costs me more money than if I had just developed (or paid to have developed) the real solution I need. That's almost always going to cost me more than $100. I think most businesses are going to be pretty similar in that regard.
Fortunately I don't think any huge influx of money is going to cause masses of people to switch. There is likely more than $1bn collectively in FOSS already and it hasn't really made much difference.
But how many newbies know about E_ALL. For that matter, how many of them can actually see the output? On the default CentOS install (so probably RedHat as well) it only outputs to the logs and not the screen. Some person new to PHP, has just an FTP hosting account would never see the errors, or at the very least not know where to look for them.
Yes I know there are ways around that but there tend to be lots of people new to programming who start with PHP and they might not. In general I wish PHP did a better job of teaching good programming practices.
But that's the point of my code. $login should never be passed in from the outside... it should check a user/pass but register_globals allows you to overwrite from outside the program.
Ooops! With register_globals on, if I do ?login=true in the URL, suddenly I have access!
Granted, the function should return the variable and it wouldn't be a problem. But with register_globals off, while the code would still be bad, it would be harmless, and there are more complex examples as well.
I don't get register_globals anyway, unless you're doing something really short (and even then questionable). With a large application one needs to be able to determine where variables are coming from. register_globals hides this, and makes it easier for the newbs to blow their whole leg off instead of just shooting themselves in the foot.
PHP really needs something equivalent to Perl's taint mode (-T switch). The program dies unless you check the variable against something. You can still get around it but at least it makes you think twice before pulling the trigger.
The difference with the early Christians was that their leader was gone and they still said that he died, rose again and then asended into heaven... claiming him to be alive. I'm not saying that everyone who dies for a belief has a true belief. I'm saying that the first followers of Jesus, the ones that knew him personally would have known beyond a shadow of a doubt if he were lying. They also knew there was absolutely nothing they could gain on Earth for continuing to follow it. Eventually they gave up their lives rather than renounce Christ.
Which leaves us with two choices: 1. Either what they experienced in regards to Jesus was real 2. or they were all absolutely insane
With Jim Jones or David Koresh the people gave up their lives because they believed it, but there was no defenitive proof until after they were dead that they were frauds. David Koresh never rose from the dead.
You also seem to think that because people died for their beliefs it must be true. I guess that implies that all those Islamic suicide bombers are going to get their 72 virgins after all.
I don't think that's flawed at all. Suicide bombers today have no proof is what they believe is true. They believe it is true and that the reward is real and thus carry out bombings. The Apostles who died in the first century had first hand knowledge of the events. If it was a lie, they knew it. What possible motive would they have to continually share and live a lie that got them persecuted and eventually killed? They didn't gain wealth or power or really anything... other than death.
In all seriousness using Pico (within Pine) for writing email is fine, but Pico has very limited search capabilities, can't do multiple windows, has no syntax highlighting, can't do macros, can't make use of tags to jump from function calls to their declrations when writing code, can't format my code in HTML for publishing to the web, can't connect over FTP,SSH,HTTP, etc. for editing files,.... I could go on and on!
And yes I'm sure Emacs can do all those things I mentioned above but it can't do it as fast.
As for the key bindings... I wish other apps used vim's
Those are where YOU believe the absolutes are. I'm just saying that the entire bible is subject to interpretation, so it is impossible for anyone to claim that the bible is 100% anything.
I can agree with that, but that doesn't mean I can't say that some parts the Bible are absolute, I understood your original post to say its either/or. I apologize if that was incorrect.
People who claim to be Christian like to pretend that they have "the truth" and everyone else has nothing, but it's easy for anyone outside of their psychosis to see that Christianity is just a guess, just as all other cults and religions are.
While I don't claim to know all the details I certainly do claim to know the truth. As someone "on the outside of my psychosis" you probably don't see some of the small things that make it different (A lot of so called "Christians" don't either). The biggest difference is that Jesus explained that it is impossible to work one's way into heaven, rather people are to believe in Jesus to forgive them of their imperfection and good deeds come as a product of being forgiven/loving God. This is the central idea of Christianity and it comes straight from Jesus. Basically the only argument against that idea would be if Jesus wasn't raised from the dead, because if he wasn't then he didn't have the power to forgive anyone.
I don't see how this is "guesswork" rather its faith.
This is perfectly illustrated by the wholesale plagiarism of pagan religions by Roman Christians to keep things a little more orderly.
Plagiarism? I don't think that means what you think it means. Plagiarism has to do with the copying of works (usually printed works) and seeing as the printing press hadn't been invented yet I'm not sure such an idea even existed at the time. The Christians of the time made a brilliant PR move, honestly I don't see any problem with it. Even today other religions/groups are using December 25 for their own holidays and while yes there are some vocal people that have a problem with it I think the vast majority realize that no one can really claim ownership over a particular day. I believe the same was true back then. Really it happened 1500 years ago, it simply doesn't matter now, unless you're just looking for reasons to attack Christians.
You sound reasonable. Some of the others who "follow Christ" are far far worse than any terrorist, because they act like animals despite their good education and luxurious living conditions.
I'm glad you think I'm reasonable, I hope you understand why I think your comments are much less so. "Worse than terrorists"?... I would lay money on the fact that a fundamentalist Christian isn't going to blow something up today. I despise fake Christians as much as you do but insulting them as people gets either of us no where.
The kill'em all, let God sort'em out mentality is the most ridiculous and horrifying thought since fascism.
I live in Buckle of the Bible Belt, Texas and I've never met anyone that believes that we should kill large groups of people without just cause. Now there are lots of people here who have been dupped by the Bush admin into supporting the war but lets be honest: that's a problem caused by ignorance, not by religion.
However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin?
I don't think there is a defenitive point. Just looking at the Torah, I think more and more of it is literal as the time periods talked about get closer to the time period it was written.
Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?.
I think the creation story answers the questions of "Who?" and "Why?" rather than "How?".. in other words the important truth of the story is firstly that God did it and secondly that he did it to have companions. It also discusses man's imperfection (the fall) as why we don't have direct communion with God now.
If you say something to yourself similar to, "Obviously that part was allegory," then you have no leg to stand on. Either every single thing in it is literal (and the earth has four corners) or everything must be interpreted. Once everything must be interpreted, you cannot claim any sort of non-relativism.
That's ridiculous! The Bible comes from a large number authors all who were in different time periods and different cultural contexts. And often we don't have the full context available to us.
For instance the story of Jonah is believed by biblical scholors to be a story that was told as an allegory. One of the reasons is because there's no other evidence that such a man even existed. The creation story is similar, there were no witnesses to the event, a primative culture with no modern scientific background drew upon existing stories to create their own. Notice that the creation stories of several civilizations at the time are very similar.
The Bible is first and foremost a guide on how to have a relationship with God and those parts are pretty clear IMHO. That's where the absolutes lie.
Which bible do you read, and why?
Any Bible that was translated from the original Greek and Hebrew which, believe it or not (for the "the Bible's been redone dozens of times!" camp) is most translations.
Do you think the Romans (who cannonized the Bible with their selected bishops in 313) were answering the call of God or politics?
I'm sure it was probably both.
Why do you go to church on Sunday instead of the Sabbath, or Saturday? Why do most of the Christian holidays coincide exactly with pagan holidays that are centuries older?
Same answer for both, they were Pagan traditions originally and used by the Catholic church. I've never really understood why in this day and time it even matters.
If you're a Trinitarian, are non-trinitarians going to hell? What if you aren't baptised?
Well I've read the Bible several times and I've never seen where it says non-trinitarians or people who aren't baptised are going to hell.
Why do you think there are so many sects of Christianity if the bible is so crystal clear?
I think there are lots of reasons, the rebellion against corruption, the twisting of scripture to gain power, just the ability to nit-pick. Ultimately religions are made up of people and people are far from perfect.
*sigh* I've seen this idea go around on slashdot and other places several times. I feel like pointing and laughing but I'll be nice because, yes it would be extremely effective. The problem is while it sounds so simple, it would be impossible to implement.
You'd have to invent a new protocol that supported adding the tax. Then you'd have to get absolutely everyone to use it. You can't get rid of the old way of doing it because people like free stuff and there's nothing stopping people or companies from simply using existing mail technology. I doubt ISPs are going to exactly be falling over themselves to pay for a new protocol that people in general aren't going to want to switch to. Think about the masses that use the Internet: "You mean I'm going to use a new program and I'm going to have to pay when I send my pictures of my grandkids!?" Not going to happen unless you basically reinvent TCP/IP and all the protocols that run on top of it. Good luck with that:)
Realistically, and I say this as a desktop Linux developer myself, Linux is missing a metric fuckton of things that I'd class as absolutely central to being a workable desktop
And since your answers are so full of crap you either don't bother to use the system you develop for or you're just a troll... but whatever I'll "inform" you anyway.
# Driver API.
NViDEA provides binary drivers and has an installer to do the compiling if it can't find a compatable kernel. Their installer is GPL. Slap a graphical front end on it and then you no longer have a problem. Your second point is the same as the first and has the same answer. If you want binary drivers compile them as modules. Look someone has already given you a free installer to do it.
C++ support Then get apps from the vendor or compile them on the system with glibc... or fix glibc yourself if you don't like it.
No easy install/uninstall
As opposed to what? Windows XP? Ubuntu doesn't need a graphical install. I think it asks you like 3 questions then copies files and reboots on it its own. If you are so caught up in eye-candy for installers the use say: RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, or Lindows... they have graphical installers. And since when does an OS need an uninstaller. Several distros (including Ubuntu!) have a live CD if you want to give it a test run. Last I checked Windows doesn't come with an uninstaller if I don't like it either!
The install thing is mute anyway. People don't install the OS the barrier to Linux is getting OEMs to install it and support it and for all the old windows apps to run on it.
No credible DRM support
Linus says he doesn't mind having it. So develop it. Some people don't care because we don't all want it.
Imagine if every web site said, "to continue, click 'Install' when the installation box appears" and a wave of XPI spyware swept over the earth.
Except for a long while now you have to manually add a site to the list of allowed sites that can install XPI software. If Firefox were the only browser do you think people who would actually not know better about clicking "Install" would be smart enough to figure that out?
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Its not true. I wish the "silly talking shrub" would stop talking and start listening to some real scientists. This just moves when people use their lights. Instead of using them in the evening now people will turn them on when they get up because in most of the country it will still be dark outside! Heck it doesn't even take a scientist to figure that out.
On top of that its a moot point anyway. By far the most energy I use comes from air-conditioning and heating, messing with the clock doesn't change the temperature outside.
And finally all the energy lost by this effort far outweighs any of the tiny gains. Think about all the effort to fix computers, how many programmers had to come in early or stay late to fix this problem, and there by needing to run heating or A/C and lights in their office buildings? And then there's the studies that show the increase in car accidents due to people being tired, which will be worse this year because in Canada and the northern US the sun won't be out to melt ice on roads when people are commuting. All of these add up to far more wasted time and energy than we'll ever save.
Be sure to thank your congressperson for such a cunning plan.
I'll have to check out Scalix. I've not used either one but I have been looking into Exchange alternatives for a client of mine. Fortunately the client has nothing at the moment (small business) so the good news is that I don't have to worry about it being compatible as long as it meets their needs.
Give me a story where grandma bought a computer and installed linux and has it running for a few years without any problems, then we'll talk.
If you can find one that was able to do this with Windows then we'll talk about it being better.
http://zimbra.com/
This looks promising
sudo bash
/etc/hosts file (like I did with an errant keystroke in vim), sudo will no longer work and you'll have a sad day because you can't log in as root.
passwd
After you create a password, you can log-in as root. If you're on Ubuntu its a good idea because for some reason sudo needs to be able to see localhost. If you accidentally corrupt your
Fortunately recovery mode logs in as root as well.
I have FTTH from Verizon. I live in a suburb of Dallas. 15mB down 2mB up, 300+ TV channels (all digital) and phone service. Its all about $120. I'm very happy with the service.
and even injection attacks if the code isn't using correct pear DB
... that makes little since because they don't enforce the strings vs. numbers in the codes, you can pass either one using either of the placeholder characters.
PEAR DB is almost as bad. Statements aren't prepared at the database level (I guess they'd need a real C extension to do that?), its just a regex that replaces the placeholders as it finds them in a foreach() loop. (There are numerous problems with foreach() in PHP 4 as well)
The placeholder syntax is wrong, they not only use ? as a placeholder but ! and something else as well (I can't remember what character). That breaks negation queries, instead of "SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz != 1" you have to do "SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz 1"
When I wrote them about this issue, they said it was something to with what type of variable you sent (? for strings and ! for numbers)
There's also a bug when you send 0 as a placeholder. If a value is false it won't replace it, then you end up with a query error.
All of this was enough for me to give up on PEAR DB about a year ago and I wrote my own db wrapper.
Yes, input validation is a difficult task, but I think it's just as difficult in other languages as well.
In every other language I've ever programmed in, it was relatively easy to figure out where the variables came from. In PHP there's a chance that a configuration setting is going to have the ability to change that. I'm sorry but that's bad design.
Who on earth thought that register_globals was a good idea? And why on earth do most of the popular third party apps still insist on using them???
I've been using PHP for years, and I read all the stuff, yet I'm finding new problems with my own code just from reading some of the stuff in this thread. I think a switch to something better is long over due.
Second, it's PHP. Add another API or something.
... with its parameters reversed of course!
Hahaha! Awesome! I'd suggest a few more functions in the global namespace as well. Maybe stop_hacking_attempts() and stop_hacking_attempts_l33t()
BS. Nowhere in the article does it say anything about the IRS actually trying to do this. No its this Miller guy (who we've heard from before) who insists that its going to happen "real soon now" (tm). Um no. If such a thing really did come to pass it would be held up in the courts for years because the game companies would fight it. Why? Because taxes already cost a lot of time and money. For something that is so overtly illegal for the government to do, they'd be stupid not to fight it.
... and CNET fed him.
This Miller guy is nothing but a troll
Really? In the 10 minutes it takes for your "real" IDE to start up on a normal computer *cough*Eclipse*cough*, I've already finished half the code in vim.
Also Vim can use ctags to know about the classes and methods in multiple files as well as the new auto-completion in vim 7. (actually you could use plugins to autocomplete before). It can do folding. It can do mulitple screens.
One tool. One job. Web development = 2 firefox tabs, a console window with the mysql shell up and two consoles with vim, and sometimes GiMP on another desktop to edit a graphic or two. Everything completely accessable from shortcut keys and it all runs faster than a single file loaded in Eclipse.
I certainly hope that specialized software doesn't cost just $100 because then there would be no reason for people like me to develop it (since that's what my company does). I love FOSS but face it, there simply isn't a FOSS solution for everything. FOSS is great for commodity software like operating systems and office suites but not so great for specialized things. FOSS is about scratching an itch or becoming popular. Developing specialized software HAS to be about listening to the (few) "customers". As a business owner, I'm certainly not going to waste time with a half solution for anything because in the long run it costs me more money than if I had just developed (or paid to have developed) the real solution I need. That's almost always going to cost me more than $100. I think most businesses are going to be pretty similar in that regard.
Fortunately I don't think any huge influx of money is going to cause masses of people to switch. There is likely more than $1bn collectively in FOSS already and it hasn't really made much difference.
But how many newbies know about E_ALL. For that matter, how many of them can actually see the output? On the default CentOS install (so probably RedHat as well) it only outputs to the logs and not the screen. Some person new to PHP, has just an FTP hosting account would never see the errors, or at the very least not know where to look for them.
Yes I know there are ways around that but there tend to be lots of people new to programming who start with PHP and they might not. In general I wish PHP did a better job of teaching good programming practices.
But that's the point of my code. $login should never be passed in from the outside ... it should check a user/pass but register_globals allows you to overwrite from outside the program.
global $login;
// do something // fail
check_login( $user, $pass );
if( $login == true )
{
}
else
{
}
Ooops! With register_globals on, if I do ?login=true in the URL, suddenly I have access!
Granted, the function should return the variable and it wouldn't be a problem. But with register_globals off, while the code would still be bad, it would be harmless, and there are more complex examples as well.
I don't get register_globals anyway, unless you're doing something really short (and even then questionable). With a large application one needs to be able to determine where variables are coming from. register_globals hides this, and makes it easier for the newbs to blow their whole leg off instead of just shooting themselves in the foot.
PHP really needs something equivalent to Perl's taint mode (-T switch). The program dies unless you check the variable against something. You can still get around it but at least it makes you think twice before pulling the trigger.
The difference with the early Christians was that their leader was gone and they still said that he died, rose again and then asended into heaven ... claiming him to be alive. I'm not saying that everyone who dies for a belief has a true belief. I'm saying that the first followers of Jesus, the ones that knew him personally would have known beyond a shadow of a doubt if he were lying. They also knew there was absolutely nothing they could gain on Earth for continuing to follow it. Eventually they gave up their lives rather than renounce Christ.
Which leaves us with two choices:
1. Either what they experienced in regards to Jesus was real
2. or they were all absolutely insane
With Jim Jones or David Koresh the people gave up their lives because they believed it, but there was no defenitive proof until after they were dead that they were frauds. David Koresh never rose from the dead.
You also seem to think that because people died for their beliefs it must be true. I guess that implies that all those Islamic suicide bombers are going to get their 72 virgins after all.
... other than death.
I don't think that's flawed at all. Suicide bombers today have no proof is what they believe is true. They believe it is true and that the reward is real and thus carry out bombings. The Apostles who died in the first century had first hand knowledge of the events. If it was a lie, they knew it. What possible motive would they have to continually share and live a lie that got them persecuted and eventually killed? They didn't gain wealth or power or really anything
Because it doesn't suck
</Troll>
In all seriousness using Pico (within Pine) for writing email is fine, but Pico has very limited search capabilities, can't do multiple windows, has no syntax highlighting, can't do macros, can't make use of tags to jump from function calls to their declrations when writing code, can't format my code in HTML for publishing to the web, can't connect over FTP,SSH,HTTP, etc. for editing files,
And yes I'm sure Emacs can do all those things I mentioned above but it can't do it as fast.
As for the key bindings
Sweet! It makes a great desktop wallpaper too :)
Those are where YOU believe the absolutes are. I'm just saying that the entire bible is subject to interpretation, so it is impossible for anyone to claim that the bible is 100% anything.
... I would lay money on the fact that a fundamentalist Christian isn't going to blow something up today. I despise fake Christians as much as you do but insulting them as people gets either of us no where.
I can agree with that, but that doesn't mean I can't say that some parts the Bible are absolute, I understood your original post to say its either/or. I apologize if that was incorrect.
People who claim to be Christian like to pretend that they have "the truth" and everyone else has nothing, but it's easy for anyone outside of their psychosis to see that Christianity is just a guess, just as all other cults and religions are.
While I don't claim to know all the details I certainly do claim to know the truth. As someone "on the outside of my psychosis" you probably don't see some of the small things that make it different (A lot of so called "Christians" don't either). The biggest difference is that Jesus explained that it is impossible to work one's way into heaven, rather people are to believe in Jesus to forgive them of their imperfection and good deeds come as a product of being forgiven/loving God. This is the central idea of Christianity and it comes straight from Jesus. Basically the only argument against that idea would be if Jesus wasn't raised from the dead, because if he wasn't then he didn't have the power to forgive anyone.
I don't see how this is "guesswork" rather its faith.
This is perfectly illustrated by the wholesale plagiarism of pagan religions by Roman Christians to keep things a little more orderly.
Plagiarism? I don't think that means what you think it means. Plagiarism has to do with the copying of works (usually printed works) and seeing as the printing press hadn't been invented yet I'm not sure such an idea even existed at the time. The Christians of the time made a brilliant PR move, honestly I don't see any problem with it. Even today other religions/groups are using December 25 for their own holidays and while yes there are some vocal people that have a problem with it I think the vast majority realize that no one can really claim ownership over a particular day. I believe the same was true back then. Really it happened 1500 years ago, it simply doesn't matter now, unless you're just looking for reasons to attack Christians.
You sound reasonable. Some of the others who "follow Christ" are far far worse than any terrorist, because they act like animals despite their good education and luxurious living conditions.
I'm glad you think I'm reasonable, I hope you understand why I think your comments are much less so. "Worse than terrorists"?
The kill'em all, let God sort'em out mentality is the most ridiculous and horrifying thought since fascism.
I live in Buckle of the Bible Belt, Texas and I've never met anyone that believes that we should kill large groups of people without just cause. Now there are lots of people here who have been dupped by the Bush admin into supporting the war but lets be honest: that's a problem caused by ignorance, not by religion.
However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin?
.. in other words the important truth of the story is firstly that God did it and secondly that he did it to have companions. It also discusses man's imperfection (the fall) as why we don't have direct communion with God now.
I don't think there is a defenitive point. Just looking at the Torah, I think more and more of it is literal as the time periods talked about get closer to the time period it was written.
Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?.
I think the creation story answers the questions of "Who?" and "Why?" rather than "How?"
If you say something to yourself similar to, "Obviously that part was allegory," then you have no leg to stand on. Either every single thing in it is literal (and the earth has four corners) or everything must be interpreted. Once everything must be interpreted, you cannot claim any sort of non-relativism.
That's ridiculous! The Bible comes from a large number authors all who were in different time periods and different cultural contexts. And often we don't have the full context available to us.
For instance the story of Jonah is believed by biblical scholors to be a story that was told as an allegory. One of the reasons is because there's no other evidence that such a man even existed. The creation story is similar, there were no witnesses to the event, a primative culture with no modern scientific background drew upon existing stories to create their own. Notice that the creation stories of several civilizations at the time are very similar.
The Bible is first and foremost a guide on how to have a relationship with God and those parts are pretty clear IMHO. That's where the absolutes lie.
Which bible do you read, and why?
Any Bible that was translated from the original Greek and Hebrew which, believe it or not (for the "the Bible's been redone dozens of times!" camp) is most translations.
Do you think the Romans (who cannonized the Bible with their selected bishops in 313) were answering the call of God or politics?
I'm sure it was probably both.
Why do you go to church on Sunday instead of the Sabbath, or Saturday? Why do most of the Christian holidays coincide exactly with pagan holidays that are centuries older?
Same answer for both, they were Pagan traditions originally and used by the Catholic church. I've never really understood why in this day and time it even matters.
If you're a Trinitarian, are non-trinitarians going to hell? What if you aren't baptised?
Well I've read the Bible several times and I've never seen where it says non-trinitarians or people who aren't baptised are going to hell.
Why do you think there are so many sects of Christianity if the bible is so crystal clear?
I think there are lots of reasons, the rebellion against corruption, the twisting of scripture to gain power, just the ability to nit-pick. Ultimately religions are made up of people and people are far from perfect.
Charge a $.01 tax on every email sent.
:)
*sigh* I've seen this idea go around on slashdot and other places several times. I feel like pointing and laughing but I'll be nice because, yes it would be extremely effective. The problem is while it sounds so simple, it would be impossible to implement.
You'd have to invent a new protocol that supported adding the tax. Then you'd have to get absolutely everyone to use it. You can't get rid of the old way of doing it because people like free stuff and there's nothing stopping people or companies from simply using existing mail technology. I doubt ISPs are going to exactly be falling over themselves to pay for a new protocol that people in general aren't going to want to switch to. Think about the masses that use the Internet: "You mean I'm going to use a new program and I'm going to have to pay when I send my pictures of my grandkids!?" Not going to happen unless you basically reinvent TCP/IP and all the protocols that run on top of it. Good luck with that
Realistically, and I say this as a desktop Linux developer myself, Linux is missing a metric fuckton of things that I'd class as absolutely central to being a workable desktop
... but whatever I'll "inform" you anyway.
... or fix glibc yourself if you don't like it.
... they have graphical installers. And since when does an OS need an uninstaller. Several distros (including Ubuntu!) have a live CD if you want to give it a test run. Last I checked Windows doesn't come with an uninstaller if I don't like it either!
And since your answers are so full of crap you either don't bother to use the system you develop for or you're just a troll
# Driver API.
NViDEA provides binary drivers and has an installer to do the compiling if it can't find a compatable kernel. Their installer is GPL. Slap a graphical front end on it and then you no longer have a problem. Your second point is the same as the first and has the same answer. If you want binary drivers compile them as modules. Look someone has already given you a free installer to do it.
C++ support Then get apps from the vendor or compile them on the system with glibc
No easy install/uninstall
As opposed to what? Windows XP? Ubuntu doesn't need a graphical install. I think it asks you like 3 questions then copies files and reboots on it its own. If you are so caught up in eye-candy for installers the use say: RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, or Lindows
The install thing is mute anyway. People don't install the OS the barrier to Linux is getting OEMs to install it and support it and for all the old windows apps to run on it.
No credible DRM support
Linus says he doesn't mind having it. So develop it. Some people don't care because we don't all want it.
Imagine if every web site said, "to continue, click 'Install' when the installation box appears" and a wave of XPI spyware swept over the earth.
Except for a long while now you have to manually add a site to the list of allowed sites that can install XPI software. If Firefox were the only browser do you think people who would actually not know better about clicking "Install" would be smart enough to figure that out?