Wikipedia: "Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values."
Atheism: no. There is no spiritual or moral component of atheism.
Funny, most atheists I've talked to would object most strongly to the idea that they lack the ability to have any moral beliefs or behavior. They would simply qualify it that they dont believe it to be informed by an absolute standard, but rather by society, or the good of the human race, or some other "horizontal" human construct.
Wikipedia: "Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe."
Atheism: no. There are no symbols, no narratives, no creation myths, no attempt to explain the universe.
First off, when a sentence begins with "many" it isnt setting up the necessary requirements for something, but simply something that happens to be common to a large number of them. And second, I had rather thought that a large part of atheistic thought was nevertheless concerned with who we are and why we are even here; at least, it is a common concern for most humans, regardless of their other beliefs.
All that aside, you can twist the word religion into something good or something bad with different definitions depending on whether you are speaking to John MacArthur or Billy Graham or Barack Obama or Richard Dawkins. Arguments on whether atheism properly qualifies as a religion dont seem to be very meaningful or useful. Noone is really wrong here, they just have different perspectives on what is meant by "spiritual", "atheism", "belief", and "religion", and sometimes even "thought".
Im not convinced that its even possible to "lack a belief system", as that would imply an absence of any beliefs, assumptions, and even thought.
Atheism is the belief that there is no "theos", or else a belief system that does not have a stance on God (but again, Im not sure how sustainable that is).
Ive read a book that made a good case that both "sides" have it wrong and are exaggerating: the atheists see more and more fundamentalists (or evangelicals, or religious conservatives, or whatever else you want to call it), while the religious conservatives see more and more godlessness and liberalism and all the rest.
Perhaps (as the book suggested) the real issue is that the middle ground is disappearing and the battle lines are being drawn. One only has to do a brief search to see that atheism isnt some fringe thing; and only to look to the political arena of the last few years to see that fundamentalism isnt dying either.
What would be helpful in all this is if someone's claim that all the atheists out there were being so terribly persecuted in what might be the most liberal and most forgiving time for atheists this country has seen.
And it is certainly not enough. Waiting to apologize until everyone that remembers the great great great grandchildren of those that were alive during this time, so long that the "too soon" statute of limitations has expired and jokes are socially acceptable (you can choose between "Lets face it, you can't Torquemada anything!", or "Nobody expects!") and then brushing it off with an "our bad" is certainly not enough.
Should we ask for an apology for waiting too long to apologize, as well?
Perhaps protestants should complain that we havent gotten an apology for the Catholic Church's treatment of Luther, Wycliffe, etc. Or we could, you know, not act like an apology from someone who didnt commit the wrong to people who arent the wronged, has any meaning at all...
Blame is irrelevant, parent has a point: that LibreOffice's inability to open MS formats with high fidelity is an actual real world issue that factors into decisions about what software to use.
In theory, the process of getting it will teach you exactly how a basic ethernet network works, and will enable you to troubleshoot a large number of networking issues rapidly.
In practice of course there are many who pass the exam without understanding MAC addressing, the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 problems, the difference between a switch and a hub, etc; but that doesnt make the training useless.
Samuel Balaban, the manager of Oklahoma City's Little Shoppe of Games, says kids can also be influenced by violent movies, TV shows and music that aren't taxed.
Mr Balaban went on, "In fact, scientists have recently discovered that TV and music that isnt taxed actually causes cancer."
Not sure what school you go to but every class Ive taken we have been free to rent or buy the older editions for much cheaper. Obviously, its "at your own risk", but when youre renting for $20 for a semester its hardly a big risk.
Life is unfortunately complex enough, and people sufficiently devious, that simple laws like "dont be a dick" dont really cut it. Laws are complex because people look for loopholes, and exploit them, and then everyone clamors for a fix.
But $1000 is 250% of $400. 200% is about the best case ive seen, it gets worse from there.
Are you seriously quibbling that the markup is ONLY 200% in some cases, or that the metal case somehow justifies the cost of upgrading 20 macbooks at a cost of $20,000 just to get consistent IPsec support?
This, here, is my gigantic issue with OSX. It has great things about it; I love the way it stores applications, and the built in Unix-y bits; but that someone would try to argue that it really is worth paying an extra $1000 for a metal case and some shiney seriously boggles my mind when the discussion is centered around the appaling lack of security options pre-Lion. Who the hell cares if it has a metal case if its going to compromise security when the thing is seized?
And by the way, yes, i dont blame the PPC machines for not running Lion. I do blame OSX for being a PITA to work with across the platforms, when XPSP2 (2003) had no such issues.
That 250% markup is based on doing a once-every-6-months comparison between the costs of low, mid, and high-end Mac laptops to equivalently specced Windows laptops. 6 months ago, for example, I specced a HP laptop with a top end sandy bridge i7 for about $1000, while the equivalent (actually lower-specced) mac was $2000.
Currently, you can get a sandy bridge i3 laptop for $370, while Im not aware of a mac laptop under $1000.
The users all HAD to have admin, because these were their laptops.
2) since you seem to not be getting it, the goal is to lock it down so that if a third party snatches their laptop or is on the same network as them, there will be no data leak. The goal is NOT to have the users have to think about these things, but to configure them such that a laptop will not go to sleep with the encryption key in memory, for example.
Minecraft is a java game written to be cross platform. You might as well laud WoW for being a Linux game because it works well under OpenGL and Wine, even though the vast majority of its userbase is Windows.
Hint, the majority of the humble bundle games were released years ago, and are being re-released to get additional profit. The sunk costs were already paid and recouped, this is just icing and a way of getting money to charities.
I like how noone seems to have read what the situation and requirements are, and have offered solutions that are only tangentially related.
The users all HAD to have admin, because these were their laptops. We were locking them down and training them on secure access to a system. We could have gone in through the GUI and made the changes, sure, but we were looking for a way to automate it to lessen the tedium of the whole process.
And for the record, we're well aware of what admin credentials are needed for. I used sudo to launch the scripts, entered the password, etc, but defaults was not able to properly change the setting until we manually opened the GUI and saved changes.
The chances of disk corruption on a 20 meg segment of a 500GB journaling filesystem partition likewise seems small. This whole discussion is retarded, a few bytes corruption at the start of the drive or in the partition table or in the kernel (which is NOT a few bytes) or in any number of other places could likewise hose the whole system or cause a worse situation (malfunctioning libraries, etc-- how would you like to deal with a corrupted 'bash' that crashes whenever you try to do command completion?).
And, not sure if youre aware of this, but theres this nifty path on windows, C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack.... Does fstab make automated backups? No? Pity. (and I know you can cron a job to do it, but you can likewise schedule ERUNT to take registry backups)
Yea, not an option when these are unmanaged macs and we are discussing scripting the fix. Im also not convinced that OSX server can change those particular options, as even defaults did not seem capable of that.
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Pretty sure a large portion of the NES stuff is available on Wii.
Wikipedia: "Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values."
Atheism: no. There is no spiritual or moral component of atheism.
Funny, most atheists I've talked to would object most strongly to the idea that they lack the ability to have any moral beliefs or behavior. They would simply qualify it that they dont believe it to be informed by an absolute standard, but rather by society, or the good of the human race, or some other "horizontal" human construct.
Wikipedia: "Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe."
Atheism: no. There are no symbols, no narratives, no creation myths, no attempt to explain the universe.
First off, when a sentence begins with "many" it isnt setting up the necessary requirements for something, but simply something that happens to be common to a large number of them. And second, I had rather thought that a large part of atheistic thought was nevertheless concerned with who we are and why we are even here; at least, it is a common concern for most humans, regardless of their other beliefs.
All that aside, you can twist the word religion into something good or something bad with different definitions depending on whether you are speaking to John MacArthur or Billy Graham or Barack Obama or Richard Dawkins. Arguments on whether atheism properly qualifies as a religion dont seem to be very meaningful or useful. Noone is really wrong here, they just have different perspectives on what is meant by "spiritual", "atheism", "belief", and "religion", and sometimes even "thought".
No, its not.
Im not convinced that its even possible to "lack a belief system", as that would imply an absence of any beliefs, assumptions, and even thought.
Atheism is the belief that there is no "theos", or else a belief system that does not have a stance on God (but again, Im not sure how sustainable that is).
Ive read a book that made a good case that both "sides" have it wrong and are exaggerating: the atheists see more and more fundamentalists (or evangelicals, or religious conservatives, or whatever else you want to call it), while the religious conservatives see more and more godlessness and liberalism and all the rest.
Perhaps (as the book suggested) the real issue is that the middle ground is disappearing and the battle lines are being drawn. One only has to do a brief search to see that atheism isnt some fringe thing; and only to look to the political arena of the last few years to see that fundamentalism isnt dying either.
What would be helpful in all this is if someone's claim that all the atheists out there were being so terribly persecuted in what might be the most liberal and most forgiving time for atheists this country has seen.
And it is certainly not enough. Waiting to apologize until everyone that remembers the great great great grandchildren of those that were alive during this time, so long that the "too soon" statute of limitations has expired and jokes are socially acceptable (you can choose between "Lets face it, you can't Torquemada anything!", or "Nobody expects!") and then brushing it off with an "our bad" is certainly not enough.
Should we ask for an apology for waiting too long to apologize, as well?
Perhaps protestants should complain that we havent gotten an apology for the Catholic Church's treatment of Luther, Wycliffe, etc. Or we could, you know, not act like an apology from someone who didnt commit the wrong to people who arent the wronged, has any meaning at all...
Blame is irrelevant, parent has a point: that LibreOffice's inability to open MS formats with high fidelity is an actual real world issue that factors into decisions about what software to use.
Just realized this should probably be modded down, gp probably meant the protocol suite which would include all they layers (except maybe physical).
Unless Im mistaken, TCP/IP are layers 3 and 4, not layer 2 (data-link / mac addresses, switches, hubs).
In theory, the process of getting it will teach you exactly how a basic ethernet network works, and will enable you to troubleshoot a large number of networking issues rapidly.
In practice of course there are many who pass the exam without understanding MAC addressing, the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 problems, the difference between a switch and a hub, etc; but that doesnt make the training useless.
Still worth having some of those if you study; if you get the CCNA the proper way youll interview a heck of a lot better than the guy who did a dump.
I also missed a comma in the first section of my first sentence, and this post is missing a period at the end
From the article:
Samuel Balaban, the manager of Oklahoma City's Little Shoppe of Games, says kids can also be influenced by violent movies, TV shows and music that aren't taxed.
Mr Balaban went on, "In fact, scientists have recently discovered that TV and music that isnt taxed actually causes cancer."
Taking notes will do wonders for an attention problem. Problem remains with the student.
Not sure what school you go to but every class Ive taken we have been free to rent or buy the older editions for much cheaper. Obviously, its "at your own risk", but when youre renting for $20 for a semester its hardly a big risk.
Life is unfortunately complex enough, and people sufficiently devious, that simple laws like "dont be a dick" dont really cut it. Laws are complex because people look for loopholes, and exploit them, and then everyone clamors for a fix.
And here I thought slashdot was anti DRM.
But $1000 is 250% of $400. 200% is about the best case ive seen, it gets worse from there.
Are you seriously quibbling that the markup is ONLY 200% in some cases, or that the metal case somehow justifies the cost of upgrading 20 macbooks at a cost of $20,000 just to get consistent IPsec support?
This, here, is my gigantic issue with OSX. It has great things about it; I love the way it stores applications, and the built in Unix-y bits; but that someone would try to argue that it really is worth paying an extra $1000 for a metal case and some shiney seriously boggles my mind when the discussion is centered around the appaling lack of security options pre-Lion. Who the hell cares if it has a metal case if its going to compromise security when the thing is seized?
And by the way, yes, i dont blame the PPC machines for not running Lion. I do blame OSX for being a PITA to work with across the platforms, when XPSP2 (2003) had no such issues.
That 250% markup is based on doing a once-every-6-months comparison between the costs of low, mid, and high-end Mac laptops to equivalently specced Windows laptops. 6 months ago, for example, I specced a HP laptop with a top end sandy bridge i7 for about $1000, while the equivalent (actually lower-specced) mac was $2000.
Currently, you can get a sandy bridge i3 laptop for $370, while Im not aware of a mac laptop under $1000.
1) please reread, paying attention to posessives:
The users all HAD to have admin, because these were their laptops.
2) since you seem to not be getting it, the goal is to lock it down so that if a third party snatches their laptop or is on the same network as them, there will be no data leak. The goal is NOT to have the users have to think about these things, but to configure them such that a laptop will not go to sleep with the encryption key in memory, for example.
3) defaults is the way Apple recommends you CHANGE those plist files:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/defaults.1.html
Minecraft is a java game written to be cross platform. You might as well laud WoW for being a Linux game because it works well under OpenGL and Wine, even though the vast majority of its userbase is Windows.
Hint, the majority of the humble bundle games were released years ago, and are being re-released to get additional profit. The sunk costs were already paid and recouped, this is just icing and a way of getting money to charities.
I like how noone seems to have read what the situation and requirements are, and have offered solutions that are only tangentially related.
The users all HAD to have admin, because these were their laptops. We were locking them down and training them on secure access to a system. We could have gone in through the GUI and made the changes, sure, but we were looking for a way to automate it to lessen the tedium of the whole process.
And for the record, we're well aware of what admin credentials are needed for. I used sudo to launch the scripts, entered the password, etc, but defaults was not able to properly change the setting until we manually opened the GUI and saved changes.
The chances of disk corruption on a 20 meg segment of a 500GB journaling filesystem partition likewise seems small. This whole discussion is retarded, a few bytes corruption at the start of the drive or in the partition table or in the kernel (which is NOT a few bytes) or in any number of other places could likewise hose the whole system or cause a worse situation (malfunctioning libraries, etc-- how would you like to deal with a corrupted 'bash' that crashes whenever you try to do command completion?).
And, not sure if youre aware of this, but theres this nifty path on windows, C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack....
Does fstab make automated backups? No? Pity. (and I know you can cron a job to do it, but you can likewise schedule ERUNT to take registry backups)
Yea, not an option when these are unmanaged macs and we are discussing scripting the fix. Im also not convinced that OSX server can change those particular options, as even defaults did not seem capable of that.