next thing you know they'll be Wiccan lesbian anarchists
I can see them shrinking. I can see them getting left-handed. I can feel them getting the urge to build an igloo. I can see their skin turning white and their eyes getting red. I sense they have the urge to buy a Suzanne Vega album!
That's the exact, pinpoint moment when they switch sides
Normally you are right, but not in this case. Gene Simmons was never in it for the music. Right from the start, it was a business venture to him (y'know, showBUSINESS) -- it was always about the money.
For 99% of registrations, there is NO need to use email addresses (unless they want to send you spam now or in the future)
BS. In the case of forums, those forums don't want to get spam any more than you do, and sending you an email with a user verification link cuts down on a TON of the accounts that are registered by spambots with fake addresses.
Oh, and another implementation of carrier pigeon data transfer, now in South Africa. Kinda blows that "there isn't a benchmark for pigeon data speeds" statement away...
With tapes-via-station wagon (as your idea was originally stated), though, you have to consider the load time of the data onto tape and tapes into the vehicle, and the time to get the data back off of the tapes.
And then later, when it is seen that a whole bunch of tickets were scanned days apart from each other (most people I've seen don't scratch off the tickets at the store), something looks fishy. If the same person was working the register all those times, the game is up, and lotto fraud is a big-time no-no.
You can do that if you want, and I've seen it. Maybe some people scratch them off for the slight bit of suspense (and of course the ensuing let down) or maybe they don't realize they can just scan them.
But really, I was only saying that I don't think the CA lotto has no way to check for potential fraud from the people selling tickets. I wasn't really addressing the futility in the revelation of the result via scratched-off latex gum. All in all, it might as well be a piece of paper with a bar code printed on it. Actually, not even that is necessary...
At this point you don't even need the printer and reader. Just a box with a screen and a slot to feed in the money, and it tells you you've lost without even printing anything. If it takes credit card, just stick the card in and keep pressing a button until you win. And networked with lottery HQ, it would be more secure. It would be even more horrific than casinos, rows upon rows of slack-jawed, pasty, old people jamming quarters into slot machines.
Hmm... I think I'd prefer it kept as-is, actually.
I would think that the device tracks what it scans and if it scans a hundred tickets in rapid succession, all of the same type, in sequential order, it will look quite suspicious.
Which media can't my HTPC linux system play again?
My Rick James LPs, and my music box drum collection. Until it can decode my player-piano rolls, it's still useless trash! Bah! Humbug!! Get off my lawn, damn kids!!!
If there was no religion the Library of Alexandria would still be standing.
That's first assuming the story of Julius Caesar accidentally burning it down is untrue. It is also an incredibly large assumption that it would continue to exist for 2000 years and that no one would attempt to conquer Alexandria.
But even more, it's quite possible that without religion, it would not have been built in the first place. That library was also a temple to an Egyptian god, though the contents of the library were not specifically religious texts. The Ptolomies (the library was built at the beginning of that dynasty) helped increase their power through the acceptance of the Egyptians' religion, and by at least appearing to respect and even observe it. Maybe if the Egyptians were not religious they would not have been conquered by Alexander. If religion did not exist, perhaps Alexander would not have created Alexandria. Heck, he might not have ever had any power to begin with. Maybe he would not even have been born.
For the record, I do agree with much of your post, but condemning someone for a poor understanding of history and then attempting to suggest that you can divine the consequences of removing an immense aspect of human history, especially one so influential as all religion, ever... Well, that is not insightful in the least (as a few moderators seem to think) but it is incredibly ignorant and unbelievably arrogant.
Your dishonesty continues by changing the focus of the discussion and claiming I made an argument I did not. I don't care what they are burning: they can go ahead and burn Korans, Bibles, HHGttGs, Welsh maps, whatever: it doesn't bother me. I never made any such argument, and you damn well know it.
"we do not condone witchcraft, and will not develop photos of witches"
You might want to go with a car analogy this time... "We won't develop pictures of cars." Wiccans are sometimes called "witches", and it is gaining in status as a protected religion in The United States.
I am quite comfortable with it, and would not expect a web host run by conservative Christians to be forced to host my (theoretical) porn site for the sake of some imagined right to freely express myself via other peoples' property.
Techie is obviously not yours. ISP has a specific meaning in the world of the Internet, and it means a business that provides "Internet service", which means "access to the Internet". You are confusing the terms, perhaps deliberately, to change the meaning of an established phrase.
When someone says "There ought to be a law", there probably ought not. I'm not going to get into how it applies in this case, but I feel it's appropriate here.
That's very different to businesses refusing to serve part of the market based solely on the segment's religious beliefs.
Your dishonesty for the sake of argument is getting very tiresome. Rackspace did not end the business relationship because of any religious views or bigotry. If that was the case, they never would have allowed the hosting to begin with! They took down the site because it was offensive and inflammatory.
protest and call for boycotts of any webhost that takes him.. then it's just a little more of a step to say "screw it that's too much work, let the police do it.
That's a lot more than a "little step": it's a huge freaking leap! Someone would have to be quite deluded indeed to believe that there's little difference between condemnation by private individuals who have the right to choose who to associate with and where to take their business, versus having the police to throw them in jail.
" The First Amendment is the codified protection against government intrusion on that particular freedom. It doesn't apply to private actions." This piece of misinformation on/. is getting old.
Please enlighten me as to what in this quote restricts non-governmental individuals from suppressing speech:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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next thing you know they'll be Wiccan lesbian anarchists
I can see them shrinking.
I can see them getting left-handed.
I can feel them getting the urge to build an igloo.
I can see their skin turning white and their eyes getting red.
I sense they have the urge to buy a Suzanne Vega album!
I've never seen a CD with a serial number, nor an electronic device (of reasonable size/value) without one.
That's the exact, pinpoint moment when they switch sides
Normally you are right, but not in this case. Gene Simmons was never in it for the music. Right from the start, it was a business venture to him (y'know, showBUSINESS) -- it was always about the money.
No, because that's how natural, unrestrained economics works.
helps rubbish like Creationism, anti-Vaxxers and Homeopathy gain some popularity.
Hey, don't put anti-Vaxxers in with those nutjobs... its terrible usability and the lack of software portability very good reasons to dislike VAX!
(FD: I really don't know if that's true, I was just going for a joke based on my few-hours experience with it)
For 99% of registrations, there is NO need to use email addresses (unless they want to send you spam now or in the future)
BS. In the case of forums, those forums don't want to get spam any more than you do, and sending you an email with a user verification link cuts down on a TON of the accounts that are registered by spambots with fake addresses.
Oh, and another implementation of carrier pigeon data transfer, now in South Africa. Kinda blows that "there isn't a benchmark for pigeon data speeds" statement away...
With tapes-via-station wagon (as your idea was originally stated), though, you have to consider the load time of the data onto tape and tapes into the vehicle, and the time to get the data back off of the tapes.
I Went looking for that, and found this instead.
"Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27 Mbps."
Lets go burn a Koran Today...
I'll bring the blank CDs!
And then later, when it is seen that a whole bunch of tickets were scanned days apart from each other
To fix/clarify, I meant a whole bunch of tickets all scanned twice, but days apart.
And then later, when it is seen that a whole bunch of tickets were scanned days apart from each other (most people I've seen don't scratch off the tickets at the store), something looks fishy. If the same person was working the register all those times, the game is up, and lotto fraud is a big-time no-no.
You can do that if you want, and I've seen it. Maybe some people scratch them off for the slight bit of suspense (and of course the ensuing let down) or maybe they don't realize they can just scan them.
But really, I was only saying that I don't think the CA lotto has no way to check for potential fraud from the people selling tickets. I wasn't really addressing the futility in the revelation of the result via scratched-off latex gum. All in all, it might as well be a piece of paper with a bar code printed on it. Actually, not even that is necessary...
At this point you don't even need the printer and reader. Just a box with a screen and a slot to feed in the money, and it tells you you've lost without even printing anything. If it takes credit card, just stick the card in and keep pressing a button until you win. And networked with lottery HQ, it would be more secure. It would be even more horrific than casinos, rows upon rows of slack-jawed, pasty, old people jamming quarters into slot machines.
Hmm... I think I'd prefer it kept as-is, actually.
I would think that the device tracks what it scans and if it scans a hundred tickets in rapid succession, all of the same type, in sequential order, it will look quite suspicious.
I live in a beach hut, you insensitive clod!
Which media can't my HTPC linux system play again?
My Rick James LPs, and my music box drum collection. Until it can decode my player-piano rolls, it's still useless trash! Bah! Humbug!! Get off my lawn, damn kids!!!
If there was no religion the Library of Alexandria would still be standing.
That's first assuming the story of Julius Caesar accidentally burning it down is untrue. It is also an incredibly large assumption that it would continue to exist for 2000 years and that no one would attempt to conquer Alexandria.
But even more, it's quite possible that without religion, it would not have been built in the first place. That library was also a temple to an Egyptian god, though the contents of the library were not specifically religious texts. The Ptolomies (the library was built at the beginning of that dynasty) helped increase their power through the acceptance of the Egyptians' religion, and by at least appearing to respect and even observe it. Maybe if the Egyptians were not religious they would not have been conquered by Alexander. If religion did not exist, perhaps Alexander would not have created Alexandria. Heck, he might not have ever had any power to begin with. Maybe he would not even have been born.
For the record, I do agree with much of your post, but condemning someone for a poor understanding of history and then attempting to suggest that you can divine the consequences of removing an immense aspect of human history, especially one so influential as all religion, ever ... Well, that is not insightful in the least (as a few moderators seem to think) but it is incredibly ignorant and unbelievably arrogant.
Your dishonesty continues by changing the focus of the discussion and claiming I made an argument I did not. I don't care what they are burning: they can go ahead and burn Korans, Bibles, HHGttGs, Welsh maps, whatever: it doesn't bother me. I never made any such argument, and you damn well know it.
"we do not condone witchcraft, and will not develop photos of witches"
You might want to go with a car analogy this time... "We won't develop pictures of cars." Wiccans are sometimes called "witches", and it is gaining in status as a protected religion in The United States.
I am quite comfortable with it, and would not expect a web host run by conservative Christians to be forced to host my (theoretical) porn site for the sake of some imagined right to freely express myself via other peoples' property.
Techie is obviously not yours. ISP has a specific meaning in the world of the Internet, and it means a business that provides "Internet service", which means "access to the Internet". You are confusing the terms, perhaps deliberately, to change the meaning of an established phrase.
I propose a new, graduated Constitution
When someone says "There ought to be a law", there probably ought not. I'm not going to get into how it applies in this case, but I feel it's appropriate here.
That's very different to businesses refusing to serve part of the market based solely on the segment's religious beliefs.
Your dishonesty for the sake of argument is getting very tiresome. Rackspace did not end the business relationship because of any religious views or bigotry. If that was the case, they never would have allowed the hosting to begin with! They took down the site because it was offensive and inflammatory.
protest and call for boycotts of any webhost that takes him.. then it's just a little more of a step to say "screw it that's too much work, let the police do it.
That's a lot more than a "little step": it's a huge freaking leap! Someone would have to be quite deluded indeed to believe that there's little difference between condemnation by private individuals who have the right to choose who to associate with and where to take their business, versus having the police to throw them in jail.
" The First Amendment is the codified protection against government intrusion on that particular freedom. It doesn't apply to private actions." /. is getting old.
This piece of misinformation on
Please enlighten me as to what in this quote restricts non-governmental individuals from suppressing speech:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.