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I generally think this post is spot on. Humanity has been religious since prehistory, and that suggests there is some kind of evolutionary benefit to it. Presumably it offers some practical advice on living one's life.
But I disagree here:
> there is just as much need for the scientific community to acknowledge that
> there are things that science cannot answer as there is for the religious community
> to stop interpreting things in such a literal and close-minded fashion.
Religion and Science clash when they try to do each others' jobs. If there's a question to which current science doesn't have an answer, and we let religion answer it for us, then once science does figure out the answer, the religious will of course reject it.
Science should be wide open to all curiosity, humble enough to know its limitations, and bold enough to say what it knows. Religion should provide pathways for philosophy, service, and self-improvement. Using religion to fill in science's blanks just sets us up for these social disasters we've seen time after time.
If anybody thinks this issue is about EULAs, they need to pull their head out of the sand.
This is about the future of democracy. These voting machine vendors are stripping transparency, security, and auditability out of our elections. None of us should give a damn what licensing agreement Sequoia wrote.
> That someone with a D after their name... stands up for something
The problem the Dems have is they rarely act as a team. I am pleased as punch that they chose to come together, on the side of the people, for this issue. The bill of rights has been beaten down time and time again, so this rare display of coherence and competence was very well-placed. Good job, o thee who've adopted the jackass as your symbol. May those who've adopted the jackass as their character be soundly defeated and roundly slapped down.
Q: How do we prevent "mission creep" A: bottom line is that we won't need new laws T: In fact, we don't even need the laws we already have
Q: What, if anything, is being done against [Attacks on the US and its Allies by China] A: other branches of the U.S. government... must answer your foreign policy questions T: But when they give me the green light, I'll give them holy Armageddon. Count on it.
Q: Accept, Retain, Solicit good people? A: You can bet that we leverage all the expertise out there to help us do our job. T: We find someone with the requisite skills, guys with names like "Snake Pliskin" or "Kevin Mitnick", and implant time bombs in their necks, which we'll deactivate upon successful mission completion.
Q: Older recruits? A: Certain skill sets can also be brought on board as civilians or contractors T: Try WalMart.
Q: Which acts of war should be illegal in cyberspace? A: The U.S. military complies with all applicable domestic and international laws T: I misinterpreted your question because I have a really guilty conscience.
Q: Physical Fitness A: This is something we need to look at and evaluate T: Put down your Doritos and Mountain Dew and go for a walk, you lazy butt.
Q: It is good war is so terrible... A: The person who hates war the most is the warrior who has to go to it T: But of course, it's love and hate. I was born to be a warrior. And I love my job. Damn I love my job.
Q: is your group intended to defend against warlike attacks only? A: if something is a coordinated attack... that would cause us to take a closer look T: Can you say "Predator"?
Q: Post a list of the stuff you want hacked and the more patriotic hackers will enjoy doing it for free. A: the Air Force neither encourages nor condones criminal activity T: Please talk to the CIA.
Q: decide when a cyber attack is an act of war. A: Our nation's elected officials are the ones who will decide T: It's an act of war when Bush hears it from Cheney who hears it from Satan who is a puppet of Cowboy Neal.
Q: Why was the Air Force tasked with this? A: We are just one part of a combined effort T: Can you say "Predator"?
Q: constant struggle... educating ['warfighter' higher ups] on why they can't have full access from their home A: not everyone agrees on just how much to restrict or how much to allow. T: Let me work from home or I'll terminate your damn contract
Q: such a large wired infrastructure in the Omaha, Nebraska area may be easier to accomplish than in and around Shreveport, LA. A: The government actually has a regulation that covers the whole process T: Not my call. The choice largely depends on which commercial interests have bought the most powerful congressmen.
Doesn't stop legislators? The current Executive branch uses the Bill of Rights to wipe its collective arse. And if the legislature passes something it doesn't like, bothersome parts are flagrantly disregarded by "signing statements."
Laws only work if there's someone to enforce them. The inherent checks and balances of the three governmental branches are supposed to do that. But we've replaced the framers' three branches with just two: republicans and democrats. And they both blow smoke up our butts while doing whatever the hell they want.
music publisher catalogs have increased in value due to steadily rising mechanical royalty rates and alternative revenue streams made possible, but not enjoyed, by record companies. Those dastardly songwriters have too long been taking unfair advantage of the RIAA's clients. They take a whopping 8% of royalties just for creating the product!
Now the record companies, who created the internet and invented downloading music and streaming audio, have seen their take of the pie stay the same, whilst freeloading music creators are actually making more.
No reason to force your kindergartner to play Grand Theft Auto, but if they want to play Mario or Pong or Tetris, it'll probably do more for their brain and development than passively watching VeggieTales.
What possible anti-terrorist use is there for a sensor that can smell fear? Presumably this would detect people who are frightened, or those using DARPA's new perfume, "Terror #5."
> Why the hell should any science department give a rat's ass You're right, of course. Mostly.
The history here was that this Ratzinger fellow seems to support how his Church treated Galileo Galilei. So Galileo fans, and inhabitants of the 21st century, are understandably perturbed.
Also, some religious leaders have great influence over their followers. If a leader drops the right hint, some followers would happily expedite the death of, say, Danish cartoonists, or maybe a certain Indian author.
But, however despicable a character, I don't understand their not letting him come. One lesson they might have learned from Galileo is that science and censorship don't mix.
Too virulent is bad for the host and parasite, so that is an argument against the parasites flourishing in that setting.
What nixes this idea for me is that the microbes didn't grow on Mars and suddenly rain on the dinosaurs out of the blue. Microbes and reptiles all had to grow up together.
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I just modded up a whole bunch of comments and now I'm going to lose them all. Sorry folks.
I generally think this post is spot on. Humanity has been religious since prehistory, and that suggests there is some kind of evolutionary benefit to it. Presumably it offers some practical advice on living one's life.
But I disagree here:
> there is just as much need for the scientific community to acknowledge that
> there are things that science cannot answer as there is for the religious community
> to stop interpreting things in such a literal and close-minded fashion.
Religion and Science clash when they try to do each others' jobs. If there's a question to which current science doesn't have an answer, and we let religion answer it for us, then once science does figure out the answer, the religious will of course reject it.
Science should be wide open to all curiosity, humble enough to know its limitations, and bold enough to say what it knows. Religion should provide pathways for philosophy, service, and self-improvement. Using religion to fill in science's blanks just sets us up for these social disasters we've seen time after time.
So it was just a matter of time before this particular scientist published something groundbreaking like this. I mean, the guy is named "Dr. Grim"
If anybody thinks this issue is about EULAs, they need to pull their head out of the sand.
This is about the future of democracy. These voting machine vendors are stripping transparency, security, and auditability out of our elections. None of us should give a damn what licensing agreement Sequoia wrote.
Actually, I'm thinking of voting for Skype in March.
"The President's job is not to wield power but to distract attention away from it."
- Douglas Adams
> That someone with a D after their name ... stands up for something
The problem the Dems have is they rarely act as a team. I am pleased as punch that they chose to come together, on the side of the people, for this issue. The bill of rights has been beaten down time and time again, so this rare display of coherence and competence was very well-placed. Good job, o thee who've adopted the jackass as your symbol. May those who've adopted the jackass as their character be soundly defeated and roundly slapped down.
ps - Anybody interested in some VZ.MU stocks?
Why not? The first humans were.
Q: How do we prevent "mission creep"
... must answer your foreign policy questions
... that would cause us to take a closer look
... educating ['warfighter' higher ups] on why they can't have full access from their home
A: bottom line is that we won't need new laws
T: In fact, we don't even need the laws we already have
Q: What, if anything, is being done against [Attacks on the US and its Allies by China]
A: other branches of the U.S. government
T: But when they give me the green light, I'll give them holy Armageddon. Count on it.
Q: Accept, Retain, Solicit good people?
A: You can bet that we leverage all the expertise out there to help us do our job.
T: We find someone with the requisite skills, guys with names like "Snake Pliskin" or "Kevin Mitnick", and implant time bombs in their necks, which we'll deactivate upon successful mission completion.
Q: Older recruits?
A: Certain skill sets can also be brought on board as civilians or contractors
T: Try WalMart.
Q: Which acts of war should be illegal in cyberspace?
A: The U.S. military complies with all applicable domestic and international laws
T: I misinterpreted your question because I have a really guilty conscience.
Q: Physical Fitness
A: This is something we need to look at and evaluate
T: Put down your Doritos and Mountain Dew and go for a walk, you lazy butt.
Q: It is good war is so terrible...
A: The person who hates war the most is the warrior who has to go to it
T: But of course, it's love and hate. I was born to be a warrior. And I love my job. Damn I love my job.
Q: is your group intended to defend against warlike attacks only?
A: if something is a coordinated attack
T: Can you say "Predator"?
Q: Post a list of the stuff you want hacked and the more patriotic hackers will enjoy doing it for free.
A: the Air Force neither encourages nor condones criminal activity
T: Please talk to the CIA.
Q: decide when a cyber attack is an act of war.
A: Our nation's elected officials are the ones who will decide
T: It's an act of war when Bush hears it from Cheney who hears it from Satan who is a puppet of Cowboy Neal.
Q: Why was the Air Force tasked with this?
A: We are just one part of a combined effort
T: Can you say "Predator"?
Q: constant struggle
A: not everyone agrees on just how much to restrict or how much to allow.
T: Let me work from home or I'll terminate your damn contract
Q: such a large wired infrastructure in the Omaha, Nebraska area may be easier to accomplish than in and around Shreveport, LA.
A: The government actually has a regulation that covers the whole process
T: Not my call. The choice largely depends on which commercial interests have bought the most powerful congressmen.
But the real problem isn't that they can *show* who you are, it's that they *know* who you are.
Showing it would just be disclosing our already existing vulnerability.
Doesn't stop legislators? The current Executive branch uses the Bill of Rights to wipe its collective arse. And if the legislature passes something it doesn't like, bothersome parts are flagrantly disregarded by "signing statements."
Laws only work if there's someone to enforce them. The inherent checks and balances of the three governmental branches are supposed to do that. But we've replaced the framers' three branches with just two: republicans and democrats. And they both blow smoke up our butts while doing whatever the hell they want.
I believe the plan is to combine the CO2 with the Hydrogen's steam emissions and a box of concentrated syrup of Mountain Dew.
> the successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize I'm betting somebody's taking home a Windows machine.
Wouldn't the irony of ironies be ...
if this study was conducted by Cisco Brazil?
Now the record companies, who created the internet and invented downloading music and streaming audio, have seen their take of the pie stay the same, whilst freeloading music creators are actually making more.
I shall write to Orrin Hatch about this...
The day my "representatives" listen to me is the day they learn I donated more than the telco industry.
'nuff said.
No reason to force your kindergartner to play Grand Theft Auto, but if they want to play Mario or Pong or Tetris, it'll probably do more for their brain and development than passively watching VeggieTales.
> I doubt Acid2, nor Acid3 will have Microsoft extensions in them.
But lots of web pages will.
It's usually not like me to help with the punchline, but read this and you'll understand.
What possible anti-terrorist use is there for a sensor that can smell fear? Presumably this would detect people who are frightened, or those using DARPA's new perfume, "Terror #5."
> I had a 20-something in my town use a calculator at a checkout
> line 2 weeks ago when I gave her $21.01 for a $6.06 charge.
> Unbelievable
Perhaps she was calculating the odds that a seemingly educated customer would make a big deal about getting 95 cents instead of 94.
I agree. Any strain, and they come right out. So I bend the cable over the external drive, and duct tape it to the unit so it doesn't slip.
> Why the hell should any science department give a rat's ass
You're right, of course. Mostly.
The history here was that this Ratzinger fellow seems to support how his Church treated Galileo Galilei. So Galileo fans, and inhabitants of the 21st century, are understandably perturbed.
Also, some religious leaders have great influence over their followers. If a leader drops the right hint, some followers would happily expedite the death of, say, Danish cartoonists, or maybe a certain Indian author.
But, however despicable a character, I don't understand their not letting him come. One lesson they might have learned from Galileo is that science and censorship don't mix.
I'm working on a program to perform millions of random whois searches via NSI.
McAfee.
Too virulent is bad for the host and parasite, so that is an argument against the parasites flourishing in that setting.
What nixes this idea for me is that the microbes didn't grow on Mars and suddenly rain on the dinosaurs out of the blue. Microbes and reptiles all had to grow up together.