There was a time no company would disrespect the office of the president like that
Probably in that same era, no individual would publicly disrespect the office of the president with a pseudonym like 'HangingChad.' But now I'm encouraging topic drift...
Well, yes. You're right. And the goal in taking the course is just to consume everything in all those books. There's no need to organize and prioritize the 'information.' Just toss it all in and stir.
That would be surprising. But we're pretty cynical. The stuff is already way over-analyzed. Too many nine dollar words have already been spent on the subject.
whether the philosophy is intellectually coherent or morally defensibl
Quicktime uses the API's exposed by the core-graphics system.
Doesn't Microsoft make claims like that too? That they have placed a 'firewall' between the Apps and the OS developers?? That Office is all coded very honestly by a crack team of former Eagle Scouts to ONLY use published API calls?
We'd need to see the source code to be sure, now, wouldn't we?
Think of all the politicians who have rode into office using "think of the children" to convince voters of their uprightness!
I'm trying to. Maybe 'the children' are a bullet point in some politicians' campaign literature, but I never hear it being used as a really important issue. You only hear it being depicted as an issue that way in parody of politicians. Maybe you're confusing the parody world presented on some shows like The Simpsons for the real world.
Sure, there are small hysterical anti-child-porn organizations involved in the issue, but they're no more mainstream than the pedophile community themselves.
Most people don't approve of child porn, and it's just a bad thing. We move on with life.
if I want child porn to be made, should I download the pirated version or not?
I'm not an expert on this, but I suspect you don't find copyright notices, or contact information about the producers, on most child porn. The producers also generally aren't members of the MPAA.
I think you'd find that the pedophilia community is pretty self-contained, and a lot of their 'creative output' is self-produced and shared around in a communal fashion. So it's produced, and passed around, by people not doing it for commercial benefit. You're not going to find 'kiddie' porn sites that require your credit card to access. So it isn't commercial incentives that drive pedophiles to produce it.
--- What we are having though is a political debate disguised as a scientific one.
By definition, every scientific debate is a political one as well. The scientific process is political. Every hypothesis gets promoted by some, attacked by some, then replicated or torn down. Deal with it.
The correct spelling, at least in the US, is 'huge new energy tax that can be used by politicians for other spending programs.' As such, science be damned! Let's just do it! (as overheard in the Congressional cloakroom)
but it's time we stopped supporting their (highly flawed) low end specs.
Who is this 'we' you speak of?
Do you want the whole tech community to abandon support for hardware older than two years, or just the Open Source community, or is it just that you have a hamster in your pocket?
OSes like Linux have the virtue that you don't need to run them on the latest hardware. Or they used to.
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In fishing nomenclature, a hammerhandle is a smallish fish. I.e. a "hammerhandle northern" is a northern pike hardly worth keeping.
I think you're confusing the Presidential Seal with the Tupperware Seal.
There was a time no company would disrespect the office of the president like that
Probably in that same era, no individual would publicly disrespect the office of the president with a pseudonym like 'HangingChad.' But now I'm encouraging topic drift...
Well, yes. You're right. And the goal in taking the course is just to consume everything in all those books. There's no need to organize and prioritize the 'information.' Just toss it all in and stir.
surprisingly stimulating.
That would be surprising. But we're pretty cynical. The stuff is already way over-analyzed. Too many nine dollar words have already been spent on the subject.
whether the philosophy is intellectually coherent or morally defensibl
No. It isn't.
how grateful they are that such a man ever lived.
Not really.
I liked science fiction long before 1977, and I think Lucas' influence ruined the genre for several decades.
He could FOAD, but I know he won't.
A lot of us who were SF fans before Lucas came in and crowded the good stuff out with his space western feel that way.
Yes, there was terrible Science Fiction before and after Lucas. That doesn't excuse the damage he has done.
So, George, take your burger wrappers and crummy plastic toys and bitmaps on McDonald's soda cups and shove them. Thanx.
Quicktime uses the API's exposed by the core-graphics system.
Doesn't Microsoft make claims like that too? That they have placed a 'firewall' between the Apps and the OS developers?? That Office is all coded very honestly by a crack team of former Eagle Scouts to ONLY use published API calls?
We'd need to see the source code to be sure, now, wouldn't we?
Though given how awful iTunes and Quicktime run on Windows, I don't know whether Steve Jobs has any right to call others lazy.
Just take the second paragraph of your comment, and swap in Apple where you typed Adobe.
Install XP on that box, and see if Flash runs fine. Then you've got all the evidence you need as to where the problem is.
Adobe IS LAZY
squaw! squaw! Does Polly want a cracker?
(his cage has been sitting too close to Steven Jobs again....)
Reading the GP, it sounds like Apple doesn't need to help. They simply need to stop actively obstructing.
It's like the fricking one button mouse all over again.
You should seek help for your anger management problems.
Well, maybe it's not important. Net rage usually only results in keyboard abuse....
The examples you chose: drivers, hunting, fishing licenses are all for a fixed term and involve ongoing payments to renew.
Nope. You can't.
That you think this is possible just disqualifies you for the discussion.
You're ignorant. Anything more you say will just be more drivel. Done.
Think of all the politicians who have rode into office using "think of the children" to convince voters of their uprightness!
I'm trying to. Maybe 'the children' are a bullet point in some politicians' campaign literature, but I never hear it being used as a really important issue. You only hear it being depicted as an issue that way in parody of politicians. Maybe you're confusing the parody world presented on some shows like The Simpsons for the real world.
Sure, there are small hysterical anti-child-porn organizations involved in the issue, but they're no more mainstream than the pedophile community themselves.
Most people don't approve of child porn, and it's just a bad thing. We move on with life.
if I want child porn to be made, should I download the pirated version or not?
I'm not an expert on this, but I suspect you don't find copyright notices, or contact information about the producers, on most child porn. The producers also generally aren't members of the MPAA.
I think you'd find that the pedophilia community is pretty self-contained, and a lot of their 'creative output' is self-produced and shared around in a communal fashion. So it's produced, and passed around, by people not doing it for commercial benefit. You're not going to find 'kiddie' porn sites that require your credit card to access. So it isn't commercial incentives that drive pedophiles to produce it.
Please provide some figures, in percentage, showing what each country contributes to support for the UN.
Then, if you would be so kind, scale it by the population of each country.
Who cares? You and someone else have now reiterated the usually side-topic issue about moderation.
Couldn't you add to the discussion instead?
Now I've chimed in, too, of course. With fewer words, however.
The UN does a fine job of providing certain custodial services. As such, it should be continued. In those roles.
Where policy is concerned, however, it is up to the native population of each country to exercise their sovereign rights.
Actually, you and gp are just a couple of individuals sputtering this way and that on an online forum.
Society isn't in any real trouble.
Same as it ever was.
The scientific consensus amounts to this:
You mis-spelled hypothesis up there.
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What we are having though is a political debate disguised as a scientific one.
By definition, every scientific debate is a political one as well. The scientific process is political. Every hypothesis gets promoted by some, attacked by some, then replicated or torn down. Deal with it.
The entire process is very political.
Deal with it.
The correct spelling, at least in the US, is 'huge new energy tax that can be used by politicians for other spending programs.' As such, science be damned! Let's just do it! (as overheard in the Congressional cloakroom)
but it's time we stopped supporting their (highly flawed) low end specs.
Who is this 'we' you speak of?
Do you want the whole tech community to abandon support for hardware older than two years, or just the Open Source community, or is it just that you have a hamster in your pocket?
OSes like Linux have the virtue that you don't need to run them on the latest hardware. Or they used to.
My wife doesn't either. The only thing she uses on her computer is her web browser.