I wonder what it would be like if we worked on stories instead of flashy graphics in games. Would it be better to have a text based game where all the characters had personalities and could hold a conversation? Or is it better having lots of dumb things that don't talk to shoot at?
I have. I want a new administration so that I can sue people for breaking it. (wouldn't fly under bush) partly to justify the hours I spent reading the damn thing.
..because trying to take over other's cultures has worked _so_ well in the past. We already have way too much hypocrasy to do this anyways. We demonize Iran, with universal suffrage, while kuwait and saudi arabia are 'alright' and we install a 'democracy' in iraq.
and no, if we westernized them, they would not care about human rights. I would wager that right now you are wearing clothing made in sweatshops and probably today you drank a soda whose sugar was cut by a preteen. Westerners cause more horror than any terrorist from the middle east and I think that both are wrong. Western culture also treats its elders horribly. Late life care in the US way too often consists of warehousing the elderly and keeping them so drugged up that they don't care. We demonize youth, shoot each other, are too scared to walk the streets, flee to the suburbs and terrorize the environment. We have little sense of community and are horribly depressed. These are GREAT values to thrust on other cultures. And we couldn't westernize everyone, Implicit in the western system is that we get easy lives on the sweat and graves of lesser peoples in crappy places who we an systemically abuse. Need cheaper Bananas? lets flood a small country with surplus grain so that the farmers can't make it except by selling the cash crops that we tell them too. Some celeberty chokes on a banana crashing the market? oops, I guess they are fucked.
And the nutcases already have the nukes. The US used them TWICE. on CIVILIAN targets. There is no fucking way that anyone who really considers it would think that dropping them was justified. Before the release of the cracked transmissions, sure, "save US lives by not having an invasion" maybe could get some people, but we knew that they were ready to surrender, and even if not, we dropping fucking nuclear weapons in the middle of a city! 1/4 women in the US has been sexually assaulted (1/6 men too..). We definitely have some strong points, but to claim that we are perfect and should thrust our beleifs on people who don't want them is fucking stupid and xenophobic. Iran is probably less crazy than the US 100 years ago. 150 years ago we had slavery!!!!!!! Maybe we should stop overthrowing democratically elected governments with dictators (*cough* pakistan *cough*) and let the people in the region decide what they actually want. If we have values that are so great, stop bombing them and maybe they will beleive us and vote* them in!
I think that this is more of a problem with security and rights management, but I'm a pretty big BSD fan... I feel that the kernel should ship stable and able to run on your toaster and that one should be able to get almost all productive things done without hacking away at things that could trash the system. With a slow generic FBSD kernel, one can do almost everything they'd need to do to be productive on the computer. There are a lot of well supported ports and packages that root can install on the system and then one can hack the kernel to improve performance and add more bleeding edge features.
So, I'd put the analogy more like, the kernel is the engine, the kernel and the userspace is the car. The ports/packages are endorsed mods (new hubcaps, etc) and software are the air fresheners. The problem with windows is that a new air freshener sometimes causes the car to crash.
by the logic on the first, the US is responsible for the deaths in it's wars. We usually don't do that. The US caused deaths in afganistan and iraq over the last 30 years probably exceed this (especially if we include famine and restrictions to medical care)
Beyond the style of agriculture, they are way over militarized, but not nearly as bad as say Israel. The reasons for the famines in NK, USSR and China are quite different, but that is a bit off topic. More to the point is that it is US/UN policy that prohibits NK from buying food on the open market or receiving food aid. If they were allowed to do so, fewer people would starve.
"es, but again, this is all retail-level evil."
okay, lets make up a philisophical world. In the US we press a button and a cookie pops out, while at the same time, crushing the skull of a baby in china that we never see. It's just an unfortionate side effect that makes the price of the cookies lower. In another country, they hack open the heads of babies to get the cookie inside (why there are cooking inside the babies' heads, I do not know). What you are contending is that there is a moral different between these two. I contend that they are morally equivelant.
The trolley problem talks about this, an intro of sorts is http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000414.html
Some people blame a number of the current famines on corporations. (The Road to Hell is more about politics, but touches on it). But even without that, makeing a huge area a toxic waste dump hurts tons of people (E St Louis?), dumping toxins into wastewater, sending old computers to thialand, leaking out some toxic gas.... doing all those is pretty evil and even tho the last is usually an accident, swarming one's way out of paying is evil. How walmart and coke treats their workers is evil, how the garmet companies treat their workers is evil.
well.. not really. Corperations are often larger than N Korea. (from the CIA World Factbook) GDP: purchasing power parity - $29.58 billion (2003 est.) That's pretty tiny
The point isn't that they do the same things, they don't. They do different things, also evil.
Most of the little streams around Kalamazoo have nothing living in them. (sometimes some crawdads can make it) and one needs to make sure that their pets don't get close because one doesn't have to drink much of it to die.
It's kinda evil to do that to the stream running through someones yard.
Never (hopefully). Photoshop has a wonderful interface based on L hand on the keyboard and R hand on the mouse. I like it, artists like it, and it works a hell of a lot better than any other complex raster graphics program that I know of.
I've heard that guys logic before.... back n the 80s when we supported saddam when the rest of the world wanted to cut him off. We gave him bunches of chemical weapons because we needed him as an alley in such a hostile region. Reading history is rather depressing. It doesn't give one the chance to change the future, just to predict it. (oh, election turn out was 60% as reported. And the kurds were militarily commanded to vote while the shi'ites did it out of the mosques as a power grab.
it's a little wacko left, but you might want to look up the radio show counterspin
most of the time that one drives drunk, they get home okay. Just because it usually works out doesn't mean that it is an acceptable risk to place on other drivers.
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as much as I hate proprietary cables, there isn't enough space for standard cables (and then you'd need two ports, blah blah blah)
I wonder what it would be like if we worked on stories instead of flashy graphics in games. Would it be better to have a text based game where all the characters had personalities and could hold a conversation? Or is it better having lots of dumb things that don't talk to shoot at?
is that the one for the ATM machine?
or maybe = is equal and := is assign. But then != doesn't make sense
*sigh*
I have. I want a new administration so that I can sue people for breaking it. (wouldn't fly under bush) partly to justify the hours I spent reading the damn thing.
..because trying to take over other's cultures has worked _so_ well in the past. We already have way too much hypocrasy to do this anyways. We demonize Iran, with universal suffrage, while kuwait and saudi arabia are 'alright' and we install a 'democracy' in iraq.
and no, if we westernized them, they would not care about human rights. I would wager that right now you are wearing clothing made in sweatshops and probably today you drank a soda whose sugar was cut by a preteen. Westerners cause more horror than any terrorist from the middle east and I think that both are wrong. Western culture also treats its elders horribly. Late life care in the US way too often consists of warehousing the elderly and keeping them so drugged up that they don't care. We demonize youth, shoot each other, are too scared to walk the streets, flee to the suburbs and terrorize the environment. We have little sense of community and are horribly depressed. These are GREAT values to thrust on other cultures. And we couldn't westernize everyone, Implicit in the western system is that we get easy lives on the sweat and graves of lesser peoples in crappy places who we an systemically abuse. Need cheaper Bananas? lets flood a small country with surplus grain so that the farmers can't make it except by selling the cash crops that we tell them too. Some celeberty chokes on a banana crashing the market? oops, I guess they are fucked.
And the nutcases already have the nukes. The US used them TWICE. on CIVILIAN targets. There is no fucking way that anyone who really considers it would think that dropping them was justified. Before the release of the cracked transmissions, sure, "save US lives by not having an invasion" maybe could get some people, but we knew that they were ready to surrender, and even if not, we dropping fucking nuclear weapons in the middle of a city! 1/4 women in the US has been sexually assaulted (1/6 men too..). We definitely have some strong points, but to claim that we are perfect and should thrust our beleifs on people who don't want them is fucking stupid and xenophobic. Iran is probably less crazy than the US 100 years ago. 150 years ago we had slavery!!!!!!! Maybe we should stop overthrowing democratically elected governments with dictators (*cough* pakistan *cough*) and let the people in the region decide what they actually want. If we have values that are so great, stop bombing them and maybe they will beleive us and vote* them in!
(*universal voting not available in saudi arabia)
planets just seem a bit extreme. Can't we just strip mine the asteroid belt?
.00001$/lb
I might want to retire to mars, I don't think I'll miss a few megatonne asteroids... especially if they make iron cost
well, they aren't with us, so the only other choice that georgy gave them is to kill us.
I know a solution that will bring back some of our manufacturing base and leave us money to spare.
wait for it......
UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
cheaper, better, companies like it, non extremely wealthy people like it, smart weathly people should like it because it would help the economy.
"concocted by all the major intelligence agencies in the world"
all from the same sources. sheesh, look at who fed them all the info, it was self affirmation, not consensus.
I think that this is more of a problem with security and rights management, but I'm a pretty big BSD fan... I feel that the kernel should ship stable and able to run on your toaster and that one should be able to get almost all productive things done without hacking away at things that could trash the system. With a slow generic FBSD kernel, one can do almost everything they'd need to do to be productive on the computer. There are a lot of well supported ports and packages that root can install on the system and then one can hack the kernel to improve performance and add more bleeding edge features.
So, I'd put the analogy more like, the kernel is the engine, the kernel and the userspace is the car. The ports/packages are endorsed mods (new hubcaps, etc) and software are the air fresheners. The problem with windows is that a new air freshener sometimes causes the car to crash.
by the logic on the first, the US is responsible for the deaths in it's wars. We usually don't do that. The US caused deaths in afganistan and iraq over the last 30 years probably exceed this (especially if we include famine and restrictions to medical care)
Beyond the style of agriculture, they are way over militarized, but not nearly as bad as say Israel. The reasons for the famines in NK, USSR and China are quite different, but that is a bit off topic. More to the point is that it is US/UN policy that prohibits NK from buying food on the open market or receiving food aid. If they were allowed to do so, fewer people would starve.
"es, but again, this is all retail-level evil."
okay, lets make up a philisophical world. In the US we press a button and a cookie pops out, while at the same time, crushing the skull of a baby in china that we never see. It's just an unfortionate side effect that makes the price of the cookies lower. In another country, they hack open the heads of babies to get the cookie inside (why there are cooking inside the babies' heads, I do not know). What you are contending is that there is a moral different between these two. I contend that they are morally equivelant.
The trolley problem talks about this, an intro of sorts is http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000414.html
Can you provide a cite? What have they done?
Some people blame a number of the current famines on corporations. (The Road to Hell is more about politics, but touches on it). But even without that, makeing a huge area a toxic waste dump hurts tons of people (E St Louis?), dumping toxins into wastewater, sending old computers to thialand, leaking out some toxic gas.... doing all those is pretty evil and even tho the last is usually an accident, swarming one's way out of paying is evil. How walmart and coke treats their workers is evil, how the garmet companies treat their workers is evil.
well.. not really. Corperations are often larger than N Korea.
(from the CIA World Factbook)
GDP: purchasing power parity - $29.58 billion (2003 est.)
That's pretty tiny
that isn't a legal justification for war.
some people would argue on the first point.
The point isn't that they do the same things, they don't. They do different things, also evil.
Most of the little streams around Kalamazoo have nothing living in them. (sometimes some crawdads can make it) and one needs to make sure that their pets don't get close because one doesn't have to drink much of it to die.
It's kinda evil to do that to the stream running through someones yard.
"Iraq's failure to do so was the legal justification for the US invasion. "
um, what??
Iraq didn't have a weapons program and there wasn't a legal justification........
It confuses it mentally. Anything too confusing to use drunk will not fly with the art crowd. And in general, artists do not think like geeks do.
Never (hopefully). Photoshop has a wonderful interface based on L hand on the keyboard and R hand on the mouse. I like it, artists like it, and it works a hell of a lot better than any other complex raster graphics program that I know of.
I've heard that guys logic before.... back n the 80s when we supported saddam when the rest of the world wanted to cut him off. We gave him bunches of chemical weapons because we needed him as an alley in such a hostile region. Reading history is rather depressing. It doesn't give one the chance to change the future, just to predict it. (oh, election turn out was 60% as reported. And the kurds were militarily commanded to vote while the shi'ites did it out of the mosques as a power grab.
it's a little wacko left, but you might want to look up the radio show counterspin
nope
Side of PCBs with your sandwich? It's not the type of energy, it's the people running it. Can't say I trust them.
Good physics can always fail from bad engineering. (Stuck pellet?)
i feel pretty safe with ipfw
most of the time that one drives drunk, they get home okay. Just because it usually works out doesn't mean that it is an acceptable risk to place on other drivers.