Right. I cannot possibly be the only one without all this next generation hi-def crap. I mean, it's all you hear about, it's all you see advertised, but 90% of america CANNOT all be spending $2300 on a TV. It's just not happening.
I'm still rockin' my 20" TV I've had since I went to college (it's dorm sized) even though I now have my own townhouse, etc. My TV at best has a composite input (like, standard RCA), and my stereo is Dolby Digital 5.1, minus the.1 (no subwoofers in townhouses - the 2 year old makes enough noise to annoy the neighbors). My equipment is all old, with the exception of the Tivo, which is new but doesn't have any functionality over an old device - it outputs standard L/R RCA for sound and composite RCA for video. Plus, my cable signal is far from Digital - my cable company doesn't even offer digital cable. At best, it's slightly grainy regular cable, and the closer you get to channel 1, the worse it gets (no PBS for me, no antiques roadshow, and CBS is pretty fuzzy, so no Criminal Minds or new CSI).
And you know what? My next upgrade is going to be a TV in the 32-36" range. Yep, appearantly, they still exist, but Circuit City, Best Buy, and all the retailers don't advertise them and refuse to help you with one - they want to push you into the $2000 Hi-Def flat screen yada yada widescreen next-gen high-profit-margin. No Thank You, I'm on a budget of probably $600, which believe it or not will buy a decent 36" or a pretty good 32", something with at least componant and s-video inputs.
But, it's probably going to be 5-10 years before I switch to something that can do 1080i or 720p. I mean, I'm sure it looks great, but I'm a fan of "looks good enough". Besides, I just got glasses, so to me, even regular 360 lines of resolution over an RCA cable looks fantastic, whereas 2 months ago, even it looked blurry. See? I just got Hi-Def with a trip to the optomitrist!
Someone has told these people that everyone on earth has or is getting a High-Def TV, and multiple devices that can display to it, along with multiple things encoded in hi-def. The problem with this is that it's just not true. It's too expensive; no one can decide on a standard (720p, 720i, 1080i, 1080p, 480p, HDMI, component, DVI, VGA, etc etc); and no one wants to repurchase their collection of DVDs.
Thanks, but no thanks. Get your ducks in a row, get the prices down for those of us who aren't living on credit cards and conspicuous consumption, find a standard, and make it backwards compatable. Then we'll talk.
GM, at least in the tabletop paper and pens and dice roleplaying world, means Game Master.
He's the person who makes up the quest, who sets up enemy encounters, who is the final authority on what happens. The better the GM, the more enjoyable the game. Creativity is a blessing in a GM.
I was pretty sure that there were more than 65,000 BGP AS numbers in use. I mean, when I was running a router with an AS number running BGP, our routing table had 115,000 routes; I always assumed there was one route for every AS number, and one of those 115,000 routes would get you to every place on the internet.
Maybe it was because we were multi-homed? I dunno.
All I was suggesting was that appearantly, the stuff that the GP poster downloaded from Kazaa required that he provide speakers for full enjoyment. Therefore; if Data could hold the entire Kazaa catalogue, plus had speakers, good times could be had.
The same could be said about the things I downloaded from Kazaa and my wang.
Right, and what you don't understand is that given 3 files which are changed in a minor way so as to differentiate between them, you can create a perfect origional.
It isn't hard to play "which one of these things is not like the other" to find out that the origional piece is:
ABABABABABABABABABA
Either that, or run it back through an MP3 compression program at like 320kbps. The re-encoding will probably compress away the changed part in the file.
<Donut[AFK]> HEY EURAKARTE <Donut[AFK]> INSULT <Eurakarte> RETORT <Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-RETORT <Eurakarte> QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE <Donut[AFK]> SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP <Eurakarte> NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM <Donut[AFK]> RIPOSTE <Donut[AFK]> ADDON RIPOSTE <Eurakarte> COUNTER-RIPOSTE <Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE <Eurakarte> NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON <Miles_Prower> RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES <Eurakarte> WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD <Miles_Prower> ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS
We just bought a backup system from them. 2x 2U servers with 12x500GB drives each, plus an autoloader tape system with 75 LTO 800GB tapes. We got the extra warranty et. al. because we're expecting to put the hard drives through their paces... I hope we still get warranty service in 3 years...
I really honestly thought that Russian was derived from Greek, what with the cyrillic characters and the what-not.
I obviously need to learn more. My one semester of NT greek is clearly not doing me well. I swear, though, there were so many vocab words in my greek class that I thought were roots of modern english words.
I do know somewhat of what I'm talking about. Saying English is German, and German is Greek, was a way to dumb it down so slashdotters could get the gist of it. I have studied this.
For starters, I think the Russians would have something to disagree with you on as far as being a language that's directly descended from Greek. Not only that, the Romanovs had a semi-legitimate claim to the ruling line of Caesar. Ask Constantine 14 Paleologos next time you see him.
My goof comes in how much greek and german interaction there was (Oh, excuse me, I mean "NT Greek" and "Old/High proto-Germanic"). I still maintain that a lot of German didn't come straight out of proto-european; but I don't have the resources to check it. Anyway, there was a lot of intermingling of territories governed by the Byzantines (who spoke greek; incidentally, they called themselves "Romaioi", which is greek for roman, if that blows your pickle). The greeks (byzantines) repeatedly hired the germans to harras people for them; or, alternatively, paid them off.
But, there's less latin than people think in English. A lot of our latin root words are latin-through-greek.
Yep. Most of our modern English comes from German through Greek. As such, we tend to follow a lot of german rules for language. The fact that the quickest way to create new words in English is to "noun-i-fy" verbs is an example of this. It happens all the time.
Well, exactly. That's the reason. When windows decides to move to a tree-driven databased file system or whatever the modern buzz words are, then yeah.
Keep in mind, they haven't released an OS product in almost 5 years. They haven't come up with a new filesystem in, what, 8? That's the root of the problem. Supposedly WinFS will fix this. Who knows.
Have you tried the windows search? OMG its so slow. You are talking 10+ mins to search all my hard drives/folders.
You know why?
It's actually "searching". It's not a background process or daemon or whatever sitting in your memory, taking note of everything you're editing, changing, adding to or deleting from your file system. It doesn't take 6 hours to find the time to create its searchable database like Google desktop does. It just searches. It's find / -name 'filename'. That's all it does.
When I heard how fast google search was, I thought "how perfect". At the time, I worked at a local computer shop who did lots of backups. We'd pull a hard drive out of a client's computer and search for the requested data (i.e. jpegs, doc files, address book, etc). Google Desktop search was going to revolutionize our task. Damn kludgey MS Search.
When you install GDS, it informs you that it may take a few hours to fully index the HDD. That's *slower* than MS search. Not to mention, utterly useless when you're attaching 50GB of data to the host computer 3 times a day, digging through it, and removing it.
Know why MS's search is slow? Because that's actually how long it takes.
Because the order to "do your duty", plus the prevelance of the doctrine of blood atonement for the death of the prophets, came STRAIGHT from Brigham Young.
It's the only explanation that fits the crime. Evidence and eyewitness accounts aside, Mormons murdered Men, Women, and young Children from Arkansas, because people from Arkansas murdered some dumb church "prophet". It's the only possible motive.
And TO THIS DAY (see quote from Hinkley) the church refuses to accept any responsibility or even acknowledge (on mormon.org) that such an event happened. They've been covering it up for 140 years. And even now, they won't come clean, after the scientific evidence proves that there were no Indians involved, and everything - all the eyewitness accounts, all the forensics, all the circumstances - all point to mormons killing people because the church said to.
By the way, that one person that was excommunicated and executed?
He wrote in his statement that he felt he was being made a scapegoat. Oh, and he was re-instated into the church (un-ex-communicated?) in the 20th century, post-humously.
Most of the injustices done in the name of religion had nothing to do with religious belief or conviction.
Hi.
I'd like you to meet my friends. Their names are "Inquisition" and "Palestine/Israel". They want to invite you over to "Kosovo"'s house. I hear "Tibet" and "Belfast" might be there... And "Pakistan/India" may make an appearance, too. If we're lucky, we may even be visited by "Mountain Meadows Massacre"*!!
~W
* "That which we have done here must never be construed as an acknowledgment of the part of the church of any complicity in the occurrences of that fateful day" - President Gordon B. Hinckley, dedicating the monument at the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Sept. 11, 1999
quote: Before the bones were placed back into the earth in the wake of the abrupt change in a state antiquities permit, they had started to reveal their secrets. In a 30-hour, round-the-clock forensic marathon, Novak and her students at the U. managed to reassemble several of the skulls before BYU officials arrived early on the morning of Sept. 10 to take the bones away. Her results, which are still being compiled for future publication in a scientific journal, confirm much of the documentary record. But they also provide chilling new evidence that contradicts some conventional beliefs about what happened during the massacre. For instance, written accounts generally claim the women and older children were beaten or bludgeoned to death by Indians using crude weapons, while Mormon militiamen killed adult males by shooting them in the back of the head. However, Novak's partial reconstruction of approximately 20 different skulls of Mountain Meadows victims show: -- At least five adults had gunshot exit wounds in the posterior area of the cranium -- a clear indication some were shot while facing their killers.. One victim's skull displays a close-range bullet entrance wound to the forehead; -- Women also were shot in the head at close range. A palate of a female victim exhibits possible evidence of gunshot trauma to the face, based on a preliminary examination of broken teeth; -- At least one youngster, believed to be about 10 to 12 years old, was killed by a gunshot to the top of the head. Other findings by Novak from the commingled partial remains of at least 29 individuals -- a count based on the number of right femurs in the hundreds of pieces of bone recovered from the gravesite -- back up the historical record; -- Five skulls with gunshot entrance wounds in the back of the cranium have no "beveling," or flaking of bone, on the exterior of the skull. This indicates the victims were executed with the gun barrel pointing directly into the head, not at an angle, and at very close range; -- Two young adults and three children -- one believed to be about 3 years old judging by tooth development -- were killed by blunt-force trauma to the head. Although written records recount that children under the age of 8 were spared, historians believe some babes-in-arms were murdered along with their mothers; -- Virtually all of the "post-cranial" (from the head down) bones displayed extensive carnivore damage, confirming written accounts that bodies were left on the killing field to be gnawed by wolves and coyotes." endquote. (http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm)
How's that blood atonement oath working out for you?? Are you going to slit my throat or spill my bowels?
The fact is, yes, I don't care what you have to say. You lost your chance when you refuse to contribute positively to the human condition, with your sexist attitude and religion-laced government.
Had you been any normal person, with the same opinions, there might have been a point to trying to persuade you to see that what you're advocating, what you think will save society, is actually what's destroying it. One oppressed woman, one oppressed family at a time.
But since you've drunk the Mormon kool-aid, I'm almost sure there's no sense in reasoning with you. All I can reasonably do is use you to make an example to everyone else to show them how NOT to treat their family. To show people that family units based on subjugation are harmful to everyone involved and to society as a whole.
Your concept of family is the flawed one, sir. Not the homosexuals. You. You are the problem.
If you look at his personal list of accomplishments to software, they are pretty scarce. He didn't write a lot of the stuff that GNU et. al. has put out. In fact, one of the only things I know he wrote was a program which basically did:
for (i=1, i<255, i++) print asciicode[i]; end;
He hasn't contributed much. Thanks for the GPL V2, but please go away.
That's complete bullshit, but about what I'd expect from someone who's username is Stormin'Mormon.
A marriage license is NOT a business license. It comes with no expectations from the government. There is nothing at all in it for the government. Period. The government grants marriage licenses because the public traditionally has sought marriage licenses from the government. It's tradition, and THAT'S IT.
Like a business license. That's fucking retarded.
Gub'ment: "Hi. I'd like to grant you a license to wear Jeans." Citizen: "Do I need a license to wear jeans?" G: "No." C: "Oh. So why are you granting me one?" G: "Granting Jeans-wearing licenses is a way to foster wearing jeans without any of those privacy and human rights issues." C: "...WTF"
Here's a shocker. You don't need to be married to have babies. Here's another shocker: Unlike your wife, most women aren't baby factories. In fact, a few have hopes and dreams that can only be achieved by NOT having the distraction of a baby, by choice!
See, it turns out, Radar, that women are people, too, and just because they have a pussy doesn't mean that somehow we get to assume that their function is to make babies.
The advantages of getting married: Family benifits packages. Lower mortgage rates. Joint taxes.
Conspiciously absent: Permission to pump out kids. Happier citizens.
The reasoning behind the gov't granting marriage licenses is to provide for families which will raise children.
FOAD. And while you're at it, try not to polute the gene pool anymore.
Marriage is about commitment between two people, and that's all it's about.
I'll even go you one further, and say Marriage is only the social sign which represents commitment between two people.
My wife and I went through this. Getting married was rather blah and boring and, relatively speaking, easy. Deciding to get married, that's when the commitment happened. Or, probably before. We wouldn't have broken up anyway... we just decided to get married. Mostly because she was pregnant, and we didn't want any confusion over the kid's last name.
I don't see why we can't universally agree on "Civil Union". Marriage can be what the religious right wants it to be - an institution, a joining of a man and a woman, a public good, etc. The government has no right to get involved in religion, or what part of "The government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" isn't clear?
So: You want to get married. There's 2 parts. There's the marriage certificate, executed by a party licensed to execute the legal document in the state of choice. THEN, there's the religious commitment, the vows before god, the candles, the joining, the passages from Ruth, etc. I mean, that's already how it is. Technically, now, marriage is already 1/2 religious and 1/2 legal. Why can we not split them?
If gay people want to get "legally married" (call it civil union), then no church will recognize their "marriage". Whatever, who-gives-a-fuck. As a civil union, they will have access to "family" health insurance (instead of getting 2 separate policies, they can be on one partner's insurance). They can file for taxes jointly. They can get a better loan on a home mortgage. These are all areas which the Church should not be able to restrict people's access.
The church's influence should, and does, extend to "Because you're Gay, you're going to hell, and you can't be a member of this church, or get Married". It should NOT extend to "Because you're gay, you have to pay more for a home loan, and have worse health insurance".
I seem to remember from High School doing a mock law trial... there was a lawsuit whereby the supreme court upheld that a private place that functions as a public forum cannot be restricted at the whim of the owner; the example in question was a mall. Yes, technically a mall is a private place. However, the mall also functions as a public meeting place for consumers. Or something.
I think it's time we just start ignoring RMS. Once the national media noticed him about 5-6 years ago, his ego has tipped the scales. He's so far off the deep end that I for one don't want to be associated with his ideas.
It's like we're all saying "Open source is a good thing", and he's now picking up that banner, saying "Unless it's completely open and completely free in every possible sense of the word, it's wrong". That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying "Open source is a good thing".
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Right. I cannot possibly be the only one without all this next generation hi-def crap. I mean, it's all you hear about, it's all you see advertised, but 90% of america CANNOT all be spending $2300 on a TV. It's just not happening.
I'm still rockin' my 20" TV I've had since I went to college (it's dorm sized) even though I now have my own townhouse, etc. My TV at best has a composite input (like, standard RCA), and my stereo is Dolby Digital 5.1, minus the
And you know what? My next upgrade is going to be a TV in the 32-36" range. Yep, appearantly, they still exist, but Circuit City, Best Buy, and all the retailers don't advertise them and refuse to help you with one - they want to push you into the $2000 Hi-Def flat screen yada yada widescreen next-gen high-profit-margin. No Thank You, I'm on a budget of probably $600, which believe it or not will buy a decent 36" or a pretty good 32", something with at least componant and s-video inputs.
But, it's probably going to be 5-10 years before I switch to something that can do 1080i or 720p. I mean, I'm sure it looks great, but I'm a fan of "looks good enough". Besides, I just got glasses, so to me, even regular 360 lines of resolution over an RCA cable looks fantastic, whereas 2 months ago, even it looked blurry. See? I just got Hi-Def with a trip to the optomitrist!
Someone has told these people that everyone on earth has or is getting a High-Def TV, and multiple devices that can display to it, along with multiple things encoded in hi-def. The problem with this is that it's just not true. It's too expensive; no one can decide on a standard (720p, 720i, 1080i, 1080p, 480p, HDMI, component, DVI, VGA, etc etc); and no one wants to repurchase their collection of DVDs.
Thanks, but no thanks. Get your ducks in a row, get the prices down for those of us who aren't living on credit cards and conspicuous consumption, find a standard, and make it backwards compatable. Then we'll talk.
~Will
GM, at least in the tabletop paper and pens and dice roleplaying world, means Game Master.
He's the person who makes up the quest, who sets up enemy encounters, who is the final authority on what happens. The better the GM, the more enjoyable the game. Creativity is a blessing in a GM.
I was pretty sure that there were more than 65,000 BGP AS numbers in use. I mean, when I was running a router with an AS number running BGP, our routing table had 115,000 routes; I always assumed there was one route for every AS number, and one of those 115,000 routes would get you to every place on the internet.
Maybe it was because we were multi-homed? I dunno.
~W
What, I get modded Troll?
All I was suggesting was that appearantly, the stuff that the GP poster downloaded from Kazaa required that he provide speakers for full enjoyment. Therefore; if Data could hold the entire Kazaa catalogue, plus had speakers, good times could be had.
The same could be said about the things I downloaded from Kazaa and my wang.
And if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
It's good to know that Data has enough space to store all of the files shared on Kazaa. Now, if only he had some speakers...
And a penis...
Right, and what you don't understand is that given 3 files which are changed in a minor way so as to differentiate between them, you can create a perfect origional.
Take data streams:
It isn't hard to play "which one of these things is not like the other" to find out that the origional piece is:
Either that, or run it back through an MP3 compression program at like 320kbps. The re-encoding will probably compress away the changed part in the file.
~Will
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSoun
found at:
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSoun
Man: "Yep! Drops down to minus 173."
Fry: "Fahrenheit or Celsius?"
Man: "First one, then t'other."
link: http://bash.org/?23396
We just bought a backup system from them. 2x 2U servers with 12x500GB drives each, plus an autoloader tape system with 75 LTO 800GB tapes. We got the extra warranty et. al. because we're expecting to put the hard drives through their paces... I hope we still get warranty service in 3 years...
Then, I bow to your zen language skills.
I really honestly thought that Russian was derived from Greek, what with the cyrillic characters and the what-not.
I obviously need to learn more. My one semester of NT greek is clearly not doing me well. I swear, though, there were so many vocab words in my greek class that I thought were roots of modern english words.
I do know somewhat of what I'm talking about. Saying English is German, and German is Greek, was a way to dumb it down so slashdotters could get the gist of it. I have studied this.
For starters, I think the Russians would have something to disagree with you on as far as being a language that's directly descended from Greek. Not only that, the Romanovs had a semi-legitimate claim to the ruling line of Caesar. Ask Constantine 14 Paleologos next time you see him.
My goof comes in how much greek and german interaction there was (Oh, excuse me, I mean "NT Greek" and "Old/High proto-Germanic"). I still maintain that a lot of German didn't come straight out of proto-european; but I don't have the resources to check it. Anyway, there was a lot of intermingling of territories governed by the Byzantines (who spoke greek; incidentally, they called themselves "Romaioi", which is greek for roman, if that blows your pickle). The greeks (byzantines) repeatedly hired the germans to harras people for them; or, alternatively, paid them off.
But, there's less latin than people think in English. A lot of our latin root words are latin-through-greek.
Plus, most medical words are greek, etc.
~W
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Most of English is German, and a lot of the German is from Greek.
Yep. Most of our modern English comes from German through Greek. As such, we tend to follow a lot of german rules for language. The fact that the quickest way to create new words in English is to "noun-i-fy" verbs is an example of this. It happens all the time.
~Will
Well, exactly. That's the reason. When windows decides to move to a tree-driven databased file system or whatever the modern buzz words are, then yeah.
Keep in mind, they haven't released an OS product in almost 5 years. They haven't come up with a new filesystem in, what, 8? That's the root of the problem. Supposedly WinFS will fix this. Who knows.
~W
Have you tried the windows search? OMG its so slow. You are talking 10+ mins to search all my hard drives/folders.
You know why?
It's actually "searching". It's not a background process or daemon or whatever sitting in your memory, taking note of everything you're editing, changing, adding to or deleting from your file system. It doesn't take 6 hours to find the time to create its searchable database like Google desktop does. It just searches. It's find / -name 'filename'. That's all it does.
When I heard how fast google search was, I thought "how perfect". At the time, I worked at a local computer shop who did lots of backups. We'd pull a hard drive out of a client's computer and search for the requested data (i.e. jpegs, doc files, address book, etc). Google Desktop search was going to revolutionize our task. Damn kludgey MS Search.
When you install GDS, it informs you that it may take a few hours to fully index the HDD. That's *slower* than MS search. Not to mention, utterly useless when you're attaching 50GB of data to the host computer 3 times a day, digging through it, and removing it.
Know why MS's search is slow? Because that's actually how long it takes.
~W
Yeah, I can kill HIV in a test tube with some damn Simple Green, or Lysol.
It's just that I can't pump someone's arm full of Bleach.
~W
Because the order to "do your duty", plus the prevelance of the doctrine of blood atonement for the death of the prophets, came STRAIGHT from Brigham Young.
It's the only explanation that fits the crime. Evidence and eyewitness accounts aside, Mormons murdered Men, Women, and young Children from Arkansas, because people from Arkansas murdered some dumb church "prophet". It's the only possible motive.
And TO THIS DAY (see quote from Hinkley) the church refuses to accept any responsibility or even acknowledge (on mormon.org) that such an event happened. They've been covering it up for 140 years. And even now, they won't come clean, after the scientific evidence proves that there were no Indians involved, and everything - all the eyewitness accounts, all the forensics, all the circumstances - all point to mormons killing people because the church said to.
By the way, that one person that was excommunicated and executed?
He wrote in his statement that he felt he was being made a scapegoat. Oh, and he was re-instated into the church (un-ex-communicated?) in the 20th century, post-humously.
~W
That's what I'm saying. He didn't write any of those. With the possible exception of portions of the earliest versions of emacs.
Most of the injustices done in the name of religion had nothing to do with religious belief or conviction.
Hi.
I'd like you to meet my friends. Their names are "Inquisition" and "Palestine/Israel". They want to invite you over to "Kosovo"'s house. I hear "Tibet" and "Belfast" might be there... And "Pakistan/India" may make an appearance, too. If we're lucky, we may even be visited by "Mountain Meadows Massacre"*!!
~W
* "That which we have done here must never be construed as an acknowledgment of the part of the church of any complicity in the occurrences of that fateful day"
- President Gordon B. Hinckley, dedicating the monument at the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Sept. 11, 1999
quote: Before the bones were placed back into the earth in the wake of the abrupt change in a state antiquities permit, they had started to reveal their secrets. In a 30-hour, round-the-clock forensic marathon, Novak and her students at the U. managed to reassemble several of the skulls before BYU officials arrived early on the morning of Sept. 10 to take the bones away.
Her results, which are still being compiled for future publication in a scientific journal, confirm much of the documentary record. But they also provide chilling new evidence that contradicts some conventional beliefs about what happened during the massacre.
For instance, written accounts generally claim the women and older children were beaten or bludgeoned to death by Indians using crude weapons, while Mormon militiamen killed adult males by shooting them in the back of the head. However, Novak's partial reconstruction of approximately 20 different skulls of Mountain Meadows victims show:
-- At least five adults had gunshot exit wounds in the posterior area of the cranium -- a clear indication some were shot while facing their killers.. One victim's skull displays a close-range bullet entrance wound to the forehead;
-- Women also were shot in the head at close range. A palate of a female victim exhibits possible evidence of gunshot trauma to the face, based on a preliminary examination of broken teeth;
-- At least one youngster, believed to be about 10 to 12 years old, was killed by a gunshot to the top of the head.
Other findings by Novak from the commingled partial remains of at least 29 individuals -- a count based on the number of right femurs in the hundreds of pieces of bone recovered from the gravesite -- back up the historical record;
-- Five skulls with gunshot entrance wounds in the back of the cranium have no "beveling," or flaking of bone, on the exterior of the skull. This indicates the victims were executed with the gun barrel pointing directly into the head, not at an angle, and at very close range;
-- Two young adults and three children -- one believed to be about 3 years old judging by tooth development -- were killed by blunt-force trauma to the head. Although written records recount that children under the age of 8 were spared, historians believe some babes-in-arms were murdered along with their mothers;
-- Virtually all of the "post-cranial" (from the head down) bones displayed extensive carnivore damage, confirming written accounts that bodies were left on the killing field to be gnawed by wolves and coyotes."
endquote.
(http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm)
How's that blood atonement oath working out for you?? Are you going to slit my throat or spill my bowels?
The fact is, yes, I don't care what you have to say. You lost your chance when you refuse to contribute positively to the human condition, with your sexist attitude and religion-laced government.
Had you been any normal person, with the same opinions, there might have been a point to trying to persuade you to see that what you're advocating, what you think will save society, is actually what's destroying it. One oppressed woman, one oppressed family at a time.
But since you've drunk the Mormon kool-aid, I'm almost sure there's no sense in reasoning with you. All I can reasonably do is use you to make an example to everyone else to show them how NOT to treat their family. To show people that family units based on subjugation are harmful to everyone involved and to society as a whole.
Your concept of family is the flawed one, sir. Not the homosexuals. You. You are the problem.
~W
What software?
If you look at his personal list of accomplishments to software, they are pretty scarce. He didn't write a lot of the stuff that GNU et. al. has put out. In fact, one of the only things I know he wrote was a program which basically did:He hasn't contributed much. Thanks for the GPL V2, but please go away.
~W
That's complete bullshit, but about what I'd expect from someone who's username is Stormin'Mormon.
A marriage license is NOT a business license. It comes with no expectations from the government. There is nothing at all in it for the government. Period. The government grants marriage licenses because the public traditionally has sought marriage licenses from the government. It's tradition, and THAT'S IT.
Like a business license. That's fucking retarded.
Gub'ment: "Hi. I'd like to grant you a license to wear Jeans."
Citizen: "Do I need a license to wear jeans?"
G: "No."
C: "Oh. So why are you granting me one?"
G: "Granting Jeans-wearing licenses is a way to foster wearing jeans without any of those privacy and human rights issues."
C: "...WTF"
Here's a shocker. You don't need to be married to have babies. Here's another shocker: Unlike your wife, most women aren't baby factories. In fact, a few have hopes and dreams that can only be achieved by NOT having the distraction of a baby, by choice!
See, it turns out, Radar, that women are people, too, and just because they have a pussy doesn't mean that somehow we get to assume that their function is to make babies.
The advantages of getting married: Family benifits packages. Lower mortgage rates. Joint taxes.
Conspiciously absent: Permission to pump out kids. Happier citizens.
The reasoning behind the gov't granting marriage licenses is to provide for families which will raise children.
FOAD. And while you're at it, try not to polute the gene pool anymore.
~Will
Marriage is about commitment between two people, and that's all it's about.
I'll even go you one further, and say Marriage is only the social sign which represents commitment between two people.
My wife and I went through this. Getting married was rather blah and boring and, relatively speaking, easy. Deciding to get married, that's when the commitment happened. Or, probably before. We wouldn't have broken up anyway... we just decided to get married. Mostly because she was pregnant, and we didn't want any confusion over the kid's last name.
I don't see why we can't universally agree on "Civil Union". Marriage can be what the religious right wants it to be - an institution, a joining of a man and a woman, a public good, etc. The government has no right to get involved in religion, or what part of "The government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" isn't clear?
So: You want to get married. There's 2 parts. There's the marriage certificate, executed by a party licensed to execute the legal document in the state of choice. THEN, there's the religious commitment, the vows before god, the candles, the joining, the passages from Ruth, etc. I mean, that's already how it is. Technically, now, marriage is already 1/2 religious and 1/2 legal. Why can we not split them?
If gay people want to get "legally married" (call it civil union), then no church will recognize their "marriage". Whatever, who-gives-a-fuck. As a civil union, they will have access to "family" health insurance (instead of getting 2 separate policies, they can be on one partner's insurance). They can file for taxes jointly. They can get a better loan on a home mortgage. These are all areas which the Church should not be able to restrict people's access.
The church's influence should, and does, extend to "Because you're Gay, you're going to hell, and you can't be a member of this church, or get Married". It should NOT extend to "Because you're gay, you have to pay more for a home loan, and have worse health insurance".
Ugh. Religion and Politics. Stay separate.
~Will
I seem to remember from High School doing a mock law trial... there was a lawsuit whereby the supreme court upheld that a private place that functions as a public forum cannot be restricted at the whim of the owner; the example in question was a mall. Yes, technically a mall is a private place. However, the mall also functions as a public meeting place for consumers. Or something.
I think it's time we just start ignoring RMS. Once the national media noticed him about 5-6 years ago, his ego has tipped the scales. He's so far off the deep end that I for one don't want to be associated with his ideas.
It's like we're all saying "Open source is a good thing", and he's now picking up that banner, saying "Unless it's completely open and completely free in every possible sense of the word, it's wrong". That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying "Open source is a good thing".