Actually, in BE, if you know anything about Scientology, Pyschos, or however you spell it, are psychologists.
And ME had some admittiedly hilarious lampooning of that profession, too. (Along with Bugs Bunny.:).
Scientology teachs all psychologists are evil people using mind control (and drugs) to control people. Coincidance? Hrm. BTW, to refute that takes three words.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
-David T. C.
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Yes, cause we all know the David Koresh has destroyed people's lifes, and used probably illegal and certainly unethical methods of stopping any and all critisism...oh, wait, no he didn't. Even if you believe 100% the government's story, he only ended up with his followers harmed, whereas Scientology has destroyed other people's lifes. And fought very hard to stifle ex-members, even making it against the 'rules' to talk to them.
Not to mention there are reasons to call something a cult, not a religion.
Some of them: Seperation from family, a proscribed diet (Yes, Judism is iffy there, but it only says what you can't eat, not that you can only eat X.), making up words for things (All religions do this a little, but Scientology refines existing words, aka 1984), and various other things. This is a cult...
It really amazes me how people call cults religions, or religons cults...we have criteria for this labels, you know.
CoS really does have a history of harrassing people. They got really, really mad at alt.relgion.scientology a while back, managed to get people arrested for give out 'trade secrets' (yes, religious texts), have spread rumors about critics....really nasty rumors...think child molestion here, for a start.
They supposiedly shut down that branch of CoS a while back...believe what you want about that.
Ph, and that wacky stuff out there is 100% real...there are people with ruined lifes because they spread it. If it was lies, the Church couldn't have sued.
Also, they engage in various cult like behaviors...I forget the code word, but they can simply declare someone 'doesn't exist', and church members are not supported to associate with them. And, of course, they don't tell you the whole religion at once, but start out one way, and get wackier and wackier...frankly, I don't trust any religion that doesn't tell you the full story up front.
They are most definately not friends of the free speech in general, and the internet in paticular. And, yes, they spend an insanely large amount of the money they make on lawsuits.
I just feel that any religion that claim 'religious truths' are trade secrets just admitted they aren't a religion at all. And, in reply to what I know is coming...yes, the Catholic Church acted much the same way...but, duh, it wasn't acting like a religion at that point either.
Of course, I have no URLs, but just search on the word.
Why the heck are people calling this the definative sci-fi novel? WTF is wrong with them?
There are about 200 books that should be on the list before this insanely long piece of dopey brain modifing plot, that really could have been done in 250 pages.
I can list a huge list of books better them this....here goes...
Stanger in a Strange Land Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Ringworld The Forever War The Illuminatus Trilogy Dune Neuromancer and I'm sure I forgot a few. But every sci-fi reader will place at leact one of those books above Elron's silly and really long winded book. Personally, I'll rate them all better.
Hey, duh, if you can write your own library, why don't you? Why do you have to use someone else's, someone who specifically set it up so you couldn't use theirs?
I get annoyed at people who keep trying to make the GPL into the LGPL. If the author had wanted proprietary programs to link into his library, he would have made it LGPL.
Does no one have respect for the coders wishes anymore? He wrote the friggin thing!
Ah, but even if the other compiler had back doors, it wouldn't matter, unless it had the same code code where it inserted the bug...otherwise, it wouldn't trigger on compiling the compiler, and you'd end up with a clean one.
That's nothing, I've seen a NetBSD box cracked in two seconds. I can make up numbers too, you know.
Oh, and 99.9999% of the ways to crack a Unix box are the software, quite a bit of which is shared between NetBSD and Linux. That's why you don't get 'security hole in Linux 2.2.5', you get 'security hole in Sendmail 8.8.2'.
Sadly, you could drop down from a rope though the air vent in the ceiling. Or was that a movie?
Did anyone find that most stupidly impausible part of that movie? They should have had 1 inch wide slits, and it should have vented into the antechamber, not an insecure air duct. And, duh security cameras. It would be easy to position them where they couldn't see the screen, but could see anyone using the computer.
As a matter of fact, they should have just turned the screen away from the door, and had a bulletproof window the woman outside could see though.
It really pisses me off when people call lotteries taxes on the poor. Well, I'm poor, and I don't pay any 'lottery tax'. I don't recall seeing it on my income tax form, or having to buy a lottery ticket when I fill up my car.
If you want to call lotteries taxes, fine, call them taxes on the stupid. Oh, wait...it's not PC to call someone stupid? Then how about you assume they can make decisions for themself!
You can't have this bull about calling it 'taxes on the poor'. If you're PC, and can't call people stupid, it's just a choice some people are making, and, if you're like me, it's taxes on stupid people.
So...they are bundling a version of Windows to run under Windows? I somehow don't see the logic there.
Okay, at least try paying a
little attention. This is to run Windows under other operating system. Now, yes, the other operating systems might Windows NT, but they're more likely to be Linux or FreeBSD or whatever else can be used as a VMWare host OS.
-David T. C.
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And, yes, sometimes they release untested stuff with Mandrake and Red Hat. Which is why if you want security, you go with Debian or even Slackware.
-David T. C.
LOL. Amen brother. :)
-David T. C.
They thought that people could change the first P to an F. :)
-David T. C.
Considering the fricking TCP/IP headers are bigger then 132 bytes, I really don't think the size of a single pixel image matters that much.
-David T. C.
And ME had some admittiedly hilarious lampooning of that profession, too. (Along with Bugs Bunny. :).
Scientology teachs all psychologists are evil people using mind control (and drugs) to control people. Coincidance? Hrm. BTW, to refute that takes three words.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
-David T. C.
Not to mention there are reasons to call something a cult, not a religion.
Some of them: Seperation from family, a proscribed diet (Yes, Judism is iffy there, but it only says what you can't eat, not that you can only eat X.), making up words for things (All religions do this a little, but Scientology refines existing words, aka 1984), and various other things. This is a cult...
It really amazes me how people call cults religions, or religons cults...we have criteria for this labels, you know.
-David T. C.
Hey, if you read the book in fourth grade, hope on down to the library and re-read it...you'll be surprised.
-David T. C.
They supposiedly shut down that branch of CoS a while back...believe what you want about that.
Ph, and that wacky stuff out there is 100% real...there are people with ruined lifes because they spread it. If it was lies, the Church couldn't have sued.
Also, they engage in various cult like behaviors...I forget the code word, but they can simply declare someone 'doesn't exist', and church members are not supported to associate with them. And, of course, they don't tell you the whole religion at once, but start out one way, and get wackier and wackier...frankly, I don't trust any religion that doesn't tell you the full story up front.
They are most definately not friends of the free speech in general, and the internet in paticular. And, yes, they spend an insanely large amount of the money they make on lawsuits.
I just feel that any religion that claim 'religious truths' are trade secrets just admitted they aren't a religion at all. And, in reply to what I know is coming...yes, the Catholic Church acted much the same way...but, duh, it wasn't acting like a religion at that point either.
Of course, I have no URLs, but just search on the word.
-David T. C.
There are about 200 books that should be on the list before this insanely long piece of dopey brain modifing plot, that really could have been done in 250 pages.
I can list a huge list of books better them this....here goes...
Stanger in a Strange Land
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Ringworld
The Forever War
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Dune
Neuromancer
and I'm sure I forgot a few. But every sci-fi reader will place at leact one of those books above Elron's silly and really long winded book. Personally, I'll rate them all better.
-David T. C.
I get annoyed at people who keep trying to make the GPL into the LGPL. If the author had wanted proprietary programs to link into his library, he would have made it LGPL.
Does no one have respect for the coders wishes anymore? He wrote the friggin thing!
-David T. C.
Ah, but even if the other compiler had back doors, it wouldn't matter, unless it had the same code code where it inserted the bug...otherwise, it wouldn't trigger on compiling the compiler, and you'd end up with a clean one.
-David T. C.
What, the problem that the original authors may not want the code used this way?
-David T. C.
I'm getting sick of all these idiots. Everyone knows all tech stocks dropped this past week.
-David T. C.
Oh, and 99.9999% of the ways to crack a Unix box are the software, quite a bit of which is shared between NetBSD and Linux. That's why you don't get 'security hole in Linux 2.2.5', you get 'security hole in Sendmail 8.8.2'.
-David T. C.
Did anyone find that most stupidly impausible part of that movie? They should have had 1 inch wide slits, and it should have vented into the antechamber, not an insecure air duct. And, duh security cameras. It would be easy to position them where they couldn't see the screen, but could see anyone using the computer.
As a matter of fact, they should have just turned the screen away from the door, and had a bulletproof window the woman outside could see though.
-David T. C.
I think there is a slight difference between them deciding what my life is worth and me deciding.
-David T. C.
It's smarter just to not get in the car, though. :)
-David T. C.
I'm not either!
-David T. C.
If you want to call lotteries taxes, fine, call them taxes on the stupid. Oh, wait...it's not PC to call someone stupid? Then how about you assume they can make decisions for themself!
You can't have this bull about calling it 'taxes on the poor'. If you're PC, and can't call people stupid, it's just a choice some people are making, and, if you're like me, it's taxes on stupid people.
-David T. C.
Hey! I don't approve of people reading my comments, then going back in time and psting followups to the same posting that say the same thing!
-David T. C.
Haven't you everheard of a time machine?
-David T. C.
Don't be silly. He was talking about having six fingers on three nipples.
-David T. C.
Yeah! And then we need to make it legal to not break the law!
Sorry, obviously that was some sort of typo or something, but it struck me as a really funny line.
-David T. C.
Okay, at least try paying a
little attention. This is to run Windows under other operating system. Now, yes, the other operating systems might Windows NT, but they're more likely to be Linux or FreeBSD or whatever else can be used as a VMWare host OS.
-David T. C.
Okay, it was funny, but, geez.
-David T. C.