Well if you're a whackjob that believes in 'a destiny of sorts' then my rationale will never make it through your selfish shield of emotional appeal will it?
Fact of the matter is we're all born to die due to a runaway genetic program that, due to the second law of thermodynamics, is clearly a dead end road. It doesn't care about you and uses you only for it's insanely dead-end process of creating more robot producing genetic robots to no real purpose. Through programmed death it discards us as only so much used-up tissue paper so why should we have any more respect or reverence for it than it has for us? We toil and labour under the guaranteed threat of our own demise and for what? This insane loop that seeks to preserve itself in a perpetual birth, life, and death process that will, ultimately, in the heat death of the universe, amount to nothing anyway except for maybe all of the suffering it laid waste to along the way?
You can unthinkingly promote the subjucation of those who never needed to be subject to it in the first place if you like. I personally think a short circuiting of the entire process is far more (and pre-emptively) compassionate. That is all.
The unborn are in a place of peace. Who are we to disturb that?
Every year 2,000,000 people on this planet commit suicide and untold others make the attempt.
Why bother taking the chance of subjecting some poor unfortunate soul to what amounts to misery and suffering? What gives you the right, especially in a day and age when effective and safe sterilization methods exist?
Because it was done to you, maybe? I would hope not.
Every day millions of unfertilized eggs get flushed down the toilets. There's nothing sad about that now is there?
All true. They're going down. When the Lisa was their flagship loser Jobs went psycho and made the macintosh a winner.
They kicked him out and started going downhill. He got what was eventually to become iOS developed at NeXt before bringing it back to an Apple that needed resuscitation once again and the iThingy revolution saved their asses.
Then he decides to get all hippy dippy refusing conventional medicine which most likely would have saved his life and as a result kicked the bucket earlier than was necessary.
And now Apple will fade into the obscurity it was always destined for without Steve Jobs there to implement his uncanny business savvy.
I too am not a fan of the man and probably wouldn't be able to stand his presence on a personal level. But he was the business success of Apple (with the Woz being mostly responsible for the technical success in early days) and this time, he aint' coming back.
You look at every single time Apple came back from the dead:
- Turning the business loser Lisa into the succesful Macintosh phenomenon - Coming back from Next and bringing what would eventually become iOS and the iThingy phenomenon
That was Steve Jobs.
There ain't no bringing him back this time and Apple's never been anything than a flash in the pan that was fueled by Steve Jobs business savvy.
Granted it will take some time but they will fade into the obscurity they were headed toward everytime Steve Jobs bailed that ship out.
It's a fanboy club. Nobody who does any serious office work has any of their servers running on their backbone. It's Windows, *NIX, or mainframes. Apple's a joke.
I wish I could mod that up +10. but who wants to hear the truth anyway, right? They'd rather live in their fantasy-land where we can all live exactly how we want and technology will always come along to clean up the mess.
Slashdot Mirror
"There's gonna be a meter
on your bed
that will disclose
what everybody knows"
- L. Cohen 1988
Yeah well that was written before the Queen was thrown out of the airlock, okay?
"There isn't any software! Only different internal states of hardware. It's all hardware! It's a shame programmers don't grok that better."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Why do you assume we ever did, you insensitive clod!?!
Well if you're a whackjob that believes in 'a destiny of sorts' then my rationale will never make it through your selfish shield of emotional appeal will it?
Fact of the matter is we're all born to die due to a runaway genetic program that, due to the second law of thermodynamics, is clearly a dead end road. It doesn't care about you and uses you only for it's insanely dead-end process of creating more robot producing genetic robots to no real purpose. Through programmed death it discards us as only so much used-up tissue paper so why should we have any more respect or reverence for it than it has for us? We toil and labour under the guaranteed threat of our own demise and for what? This insane loop that seeks to preserve itself in a perpetual birth, life, and death process that will, ultimately, in the heat death of the universe, amount to nothing anyway except for maybe all of the suffering it laid waste to along the way?
You can unthinkingly promote the subjucation of those who never needed to be subject to it in the first place if you like. I personally think a short circuiting of the entire process is far more (and pre-emptively) compassionate. That is all.
The unborn are in a place of peace. Who are we to disturb that?
Every year 2,000,000 people on this planet commit suicide and untold others make the attempt.
Why bother taking the chance of subjecting some poor unfortunate soul to what amounts to misery and suffering? What gives you the right, especially in a day and age when effective and safe sterilization methods exist?
Because it was done to you, maybe? I would hope not.
Every day millions of unfertilized eggs get flushed down the toilets. There's nothing sad about that now is there?
Ahhh.... so easy to take that gamble with *someone else's* life now isn't it?
Hell - they're still using the METRIC system FFS!!
All true. They're going down. When the Lisa was their flagship loser Jobs went psycho and made the macintosh a winner.
They kicked him out and started going downhill. He got what was eventually to become iOS developed at NeXt before bringing it back to an Apple that needed resuscitation once again and the iThingy revolution saved their asses.
Then he decides to get all hippy dippy refusing conventional medicine which most likely would have saved his life and as a result kicked the bucket earlier than was necessary.
And now Apple will fade into the obscurity it was always destined for without Steve Jobs there to implement his uncanny business savvy.
I too am not a fan of the man and probably wouldn't be able to stand his presence on a personal level. But he was the business success of Apple (with the Woz being mostly responsible for the technical success in early days) and this time, he aint' coming back.
The 'cash cow' was Steve Jobs.
You look at every single time Apple came back from the dead:
- Turning the business loser Lisa into the succesful Macintosh phenomenon
- Coming back from Next and bringing what would eventually become iOS and the iThingy phenomenon
That was Steve Jobs.
There ain't no bringing him back this time and Apple's never been anything than a flash in the pan that was fueled by Steve Jobs business savvy.
Granted it will take some time but they will fade into the obscurity they were headed toward everytime Steve Jobs bailed that ship out.
It's a fanboy club. Nobody who does any serious office work has any of their servers running on their backbone. It's Windows, *NIX, or mainframes. Apple's a joke.
Speaking of the UK and IP addresses do a web search on these terms:
department for work and pensions ipv4 addresses
That's right! I only need ONE IP Address to rule them ALL muahhahahahahahahaha!!!
Correct.
I wish I could mod that up +10. but who wants to hear the truth anyway, right? They'd rather live in their fantasy-land where we can all live exactly how we want and technology will always come along to clean up the mess.
happily ever after and ad nauseum.
You mean like those who would post that view as an anonymous coward?
Or when the easily accessible oil runs out and there aren't any magic vehicles used by anybody.
I think that it is the board members that ultimately have legal liability for incorporated entities is it not?
Thank you.
I read TFA and I still can' figure out... who's "Lou"?
The GCHQ are the GOOD guys, remember? As such why should they be hamstrung by the rules and laws that criminals follow?
Why wouldn't we want to give them those advantages do we want them to do their jobs or don't we?
"Market": I'm not so sure that word means what they think it means.
Oh man - I smell a Godwin coming on....
Target has outlets in Russia?
I had no idea... well you learn something new every day, I suppose.
Who do you think GAVE IntelCrawler their data?
That's right, there is No Such Agency!
How in the world does a 17 year old get intimate detailed knowledge of the internal workings of POS systems??
Was I the only child who grew up in a home devoid of POS terminals to tinker with or something?