well, ignoring the fact those are not sexual orientations, if someone is attracted to children but doesn't act on it, then why should they be discriminated against or punished? likewise with someone who has incestuous feelings. heck, if two consensual adults engage in incestuous acts, that's their own business. as long as they aren't hurting anyone, why should they be persecuted for the way they are mentally wired?
Paraphrase: "Hold people responsible for actions that harm others, and allow everything else." Fine, that is a great, but what "harms others" is a huge grey area, and some argue that incestuous acts do harm others (I don't want to get into arguments why). Seat belt laws are another example.
and just because it's wrong to discriminate against people based on their innate or inborn disposition doesn't mean people can't be held responsible for their actions which are conscious decisions. you can't choose who/what you're attracted to. but you can choose what beliefs you espouse and personally believe in.
He, he. Choosing "what beliefs you espouse" and choosing what you "personally believe in" are massively different. I would like to see you choose to believe the world was flat, that there is/isn't a god, or to perform any form of doublethink. Changing one's own beliefs is not as easy as you might think.
making fun of a stupid idea isn't bigotry. you can choose not to believe in irrational backward beliefs/myths. if they sound stupid and don't make a whole lot of sense, then how do you expect people to react to them? bigotry is discriminating against people for things they cannot change. for instance, persecuting someone because of their sexual orientation--that is bigotry.
You assume that sexual orientation is something "they cannot change"? That is not proven. What if it is simply a strong preference, like the preference for eating the food that one grew up with (imagine someone coming from a society where cannibalism was acceptable)? Further, when you say "making fun of a stupid idea", "stupid" is in the eye of the beholder. And making fun of someone can easily be a form of discrimination or bullying. I would say that bigotry is irrational/unfair/unreasoned discrimination (persecution is something else). Some discrimination is reasonable -- I do not speak to my one-year-old son the way I speak on slashdot. And some bigotry is discrimination on things that can be changed -- like being Muslim.
being intolerant of ignorance, or criticizing/refuting specious beliefs, isn't cruel or unethical. in fact, it's societally beneficial. it's because our society is too tolerant of ignorance and blatant stupidity that the religious right has gained so much power in the U.S., which has allowed the ID movement to gain so much traction, and to cause religion to impede scientific research. it's also the reason why the U.S. is still "debating" on whether global warming is happening while the governments of other countries are already working hard to attenuate climate change.
Ignorance is being uninformed. Stupidity is a lack of brain power. Don't lump them together. And the reason what you mention occurs is because of selfishness and deliberate misinformation, causing ignorance. Religious people don't want to "lose" to science, or corporations do not want to be forced to curtail bad practices.
Voicemail is just a gimmick to get you to use more minutes than you really should, at no expense to the carrier since they don't actually have to connect the call to anyone. It's 100% profit.
Um, what? Every plan I know of has free minutes within the plan/network or specially excepts voicemail/system calls, so calling yourself is free, even from the phone. Otherwise (maybe you have an ancient plan), use something other than your cell phone to check voicemail.
What? Did I hear you whining about the EU? We've been putting up with that sort of crap since at least 1850. It started a war in 1861. The US Federal Government really took advantage of having fewer states to ratify constitutional amendments (well, they had claimed they had suceeded, and the Federal Gov't claimed they hadn't, but didn't include them in the ratification process anyway) and pass all sorts of terrible laws. Have you ever wondered why there's a negative stereotype of the US South?
And BTW, just where in the United States is it illegal not to have ID on you?
Everywhere, if you are not a citizen. Non-residents are required to carry a passport with proof of legal presence at all times which must be revealed upon request by certain officials (at one point there was exceptions for some Canadians, but I don't know after 9/11). Greencard holders must have their green cards with them at all times and reveal them upon request to any officer of USCIS (this was basically unenforced for decades before 9/11, and now is occasionally enforced).
Nowhere, if you are a citizen. However, there is a requirement to identify yourself fully and truthfully to certain officials under certain circumstances (say, being detained by a cop).
Hilfinger's version is more enjoyable. He talks about the "blue-haired ladies" in power believed that "fingering someone" sounded obscene. They forced the computer admins to change the name of "finger", and they did it to Hilfinger's name as well to make a point. Hilfinger agreed with the point and went along with it.
The way I handle this is I simply drive in the right hand empty lane, at the same speed as the left lane. Then the people that are trying to cheat can't get past me, and yet I am not cheating either when being in the right lane. And I am treated nicely once I finally merge (at the last possible moment).
;;; name-last-kbd-macro takes the last keyboard macro and names it. ;;; This binds it to a key sequence (and names it as a side effect). ;;; Now I can create more than one macro without losing any.
(defun bind-last-kbd-macro ()
"Assigns a global key binding to the last keyboard macro defined.
Prompts for a key sequence that the macro should be bound to.
As a side effect, the macro is named \"my-temporary-macro\"
concatenated with the key sequence, using `name-last-kbd-macro'."
(interactive)
(let* ((key-sequence (events-to-keys
(read-key-sequence "Key sequence to bind: ")))
(last-kbd-macro-name (concat "my-temporary-macro"
(prin1-to-string key-sequence)))
(last-kbd-macro-symbol (intern last-kbd-macro-name)))
(name-last-kbd-macro last-kbd-macro-symbol)
(global-set-key key-sequence last-kbd-macro-symbol)
(message (concat "Macro " last-kbd-macro-name " defined and bound."))))
If you talk to the people in 395 Cory, you can often get anything done: root == god. Oh, and if you are inclined, ask Hilfinger about "Hilwhere". It's a fun story.
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well, ignoring the fact those are not sexual orientations , if someone is attracted to children but doesn't act on it, then why should they be discriminated against or punished? likewise with someone who has incestuous feelings. heck, if two consensual adults engage in incestuous acts, that's their own business. as long as they aren't hurting anyone, why should they be persecuted for the way they are mentally wired?
Paraphrase: "Hold people responsible for actions that harm others, and allow everything else." Fine, that is a great, but what "harms others" is a huge grey area, and some argue that incestuous acts do harm others (I don't want to get into arguments why). Seat belt laws are another example.
and just because it's wrong to discriminate against people based on their innate or inborn disposition doesn't mean people can't be held responsible for their actions which are conscious decisions. you can't choose who/what you're attracted to. but you can choose what beliefs you espouse and personally believe in.
He, he. Choosing "what beliefs you espouse" and choosing what you "personally believe in" are massively different. I would like to see you choose to believe the world was flat, that there is/isn't a god, or to perform any form of doublethink. Changing one's own beliefs is not as easy as you might think.
making fun of a stupid idea isn't bigotry. you can choose not to believe in irrational backward beliefs/myths. if they sound stupid and don't make a whole lot of sense, then how do you expect people to react to them? bigotry is discriminating against people for things they cannot change. for instance, persecuting someone because of their sexual orientation--that is bigotry.
You assume that sexual orientation is something "they cannot change"? That is not proven. What if it is simply a strong preference, like the preference for eating the food that one grew up with (imagine someone coming from a society where cannibalism was acceptable)? Further, when you say "making fun of a stupid idea", "stupid" is in the eye of the beholder. And making fun of someone can easily be a form of discrimination or bullying. I would say that bigotry is irrational/unfair/unreasoned discrimination (persecution is something else). Some discrimination is reasonable -- I do not speak to my one-year-old son the way I speak on slashdot. And some bigotry is discrimination on things that can be changed -- like being Muslim.
being intolerant of ignorance, or criticizing/refuting specious beliefs, isn't cruel or unethical. in fact, it's societally beneficial. it's because our society is too tolerant of ignorance and blatant stupidity that the religious right has gained so much power in the U.S., which has allowed the ID movement to gain so much traction, and to cause religion to impede scientific research. it's also the reason why the U.S. is still "debating" on whether global warming is happening while the governments of other countries are already working hard to attenuate climate change.
Ignorance is being uninformed. Stupidity is a lack of brain power. Don't lump them together. And the reason what you mention occurs is because of selfishness and deliberate misinformation, causing ignorance. Religious people don't want to "lose" to science, or corporations do not want to be forced to curtail bad practices.
So, the designer is really just a pile of proteins?
Seems complicated. Why not just use 'name-last-kbd-macro'?
E.g. C-x( ...macro... C-x)
Then: M-x name-last-kbd-macro foo
Invoke via: "M-x foo"
Bind to keystroke via "M-x global-set-key [keystroke] foo" (Where [keystroke] is something like control-1. Press the keystroke.)
That is basically what my function does, but with a nice interface. I go:
M-x bind-last-keyboard-macro [keystroke]
Much nicer than:
M-x name-last-kbd-macro foo M-x global-set-key [keystroke] foo
This is especially true since I never see a point in naming a macro that I don't save, though my function gives a names should you want it.
Though I realize I could do this:
(defun bind-last-kbd-macro2 (key-sequence)
(interactive "KKey sequence to bind: ")
(let* ((key-sequence (events-to-keys key-sequence))
No, the proof is in the pudding, at least, 150 proof in rum pudding.
Actually, it's "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
Six by nine. Forty two.
That's it. That's all there is.
I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Yes, AC, there is a Santa Claus.
And I'm sure the search party is are headquartered in Afganistan I mean Iraq I mean ... um, where do we want to go next?
Voicemail is just a gimmick to get you to use more minutes than you really should, at no expense to the carrier since they don't actually have to connect the call to anyone. It's 100% profit.
Um, what? Every plan I know of has free minutes within the plan/network or specially excepts voicemail/system calls, so calling yourself is free, even from the phone. Otherwise (maybe you have an ancient plan), use something other than your cell phone to check voicemail.
What? Did I hear you whining about the EU? We've been putting up with that sort of crap since at least 1850. It started a war in 1861. The US Federal Government really took advantage of having fewer states to ratify constitutional amendments (well, they had claimed they had suceeded, and the Federal Gov't claimed they hadn't, but didn't include them in the ratification process anyway) and pass all sorts of terrible laws. Have you ever wondered why there's a negative stereotype of the US South?
Actually, they did include the southern states. They just coerced the states to ratify the amendments. See wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
You killed the server. Bad slashdot.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:-HcmYpbrN1MJ:https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bbug/1
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
And BTW, just where in the United States is it illegal not to have ID on you?
Everywhere, if you are not a citizen. Non-residents are required to carry a passport with proof of legal presence at all times which must be revealed upon request by certain officials (at one point there was exceptions for some Canadians, but I don't know after 9/11). Greencard holders must have their green cards with them at all times and reveal them upon request to any officer of USCIS (this was basically unenforced for decades before 9/11, and now is occasionally enforced).
Nowhere, if you are a citizen. However, there is a requirement to identify yourself fully and truthfully to certain officials under certain circumstances (say, being detained by a cop).
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.08.html#subj7
Hilfinger's version is more enjoyable. He talks about the "blue-haired ladies" in power believed that "fingering someone" sounded obscene. They forced the computer admins to change the name of "finger", and they did it to Hilfinger's name as well to make a point. Hilfinger agreed with the point and went along with it.
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (the book, not the awful movie). Quite a good read, even if you disagree with it.
The way I handle this is I simply drive in the right hand empty lane, at the same speed as the left lane. Then the people that are trying to cheat can't get past me, and yet I am not cheating either when being in the right lane. And I am treated nicely once I finally merge (at the last possible moment).
http://svn.jamison.tk/repository/dotfiles/
Some highlights:
Also, try C-w when in the middle of an incremental search.
I often like to bind the macros for the session:
(defun bind-last-kbd-macro ()
"Assigns a global key binding to the last keyboard macro defined.
Prompts for a key sequence that the macro should be bound to.
As a side effect, the macro is named \"my-temporary-macro\"
concatenated with the key sequence, using `name-last-kbd-macro'."
(interactive)
(let* ((key-sequence (events-to-keys
(read-key-sequence "Key sequence to bind: ")))
(last-kbd-macro-name (concat "my-temporary-macro"
(prin1-to-string key-sequence)))
(last-kbd-macro-symbol (intern last-kbd-macro-name)))
(name-last-kbd-macro last-kbd-macro-symbol)
(global-set-key key-sequence last-kbd-macro-symbol)
(message (concat "Macro " last-kbd-macro-name " defined and bound."))))
Sorry, I can't figure out a good way to tab.
It's awesome.
If you talk to the people in 395 Cory, you can often get anything done: root == god. Oh, and if you are inclined, ask Hilfinger about "Hilwhere". It's a fun story.
Do note, this is the US market only, and only in July/August of this year. It was 17.6% in June. It worse world-wide, 4.6% in March. Of course, these are sales, not installed base, which make Apple look better (you can find installed base numbers, also called market share, out there; basically halve the numbers).
I read that Crichton died when he was eaten by a T-Rex.
A subject after my own heart. :) Here's some useful tcsh things I've learned over the years:
Run "myps | grep firefox | awkill -9" to kill all firefox sessions.
Um, killall firefox?
I am greatly surprised! I never knew that grep will highlight matches for me. That is awesome!
You forgot 'jobs', to get you the # for %#.