Sorry, what's that? Can you speak a little louder? I can't hear you over the sound of all the wasted cycles my Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is generating. It's a lot.
We have, as a nation, in the name of Corporate Greed and the Maximization of Profit, destroyed our manufacturing sector, which was the world's greatest after WW2. We have ceased to create real Wealth, and now we produce only imaginary Wealth. Not everyone can be a Doctor or a Lawyer or an Engineer. We need actual jobs that actually produce things.
Our entire system is based on a redistribution of wealth; we take it from the many and concentrate it into the hands of the few.
As a member of an obscure sect of the Rinzai School of Zen, I would smack you upside the head if I were in your presence.
The Buddha was a man. You must judge his ideas and opinions yourself to determine their validity to your particular situation, experience, and temperament.
If we're going with things that Siddhartha Gautama is said to have said, look at the last three things he said before he died:
That was the most delicious meal I have ever eaten.
Do not pray to me when I am gone, for when I am gone, I truly shall be gone.
Be lamps unto yourselves; work out your own salvation with diligence.
The Buddha was right about everything, and he was right about absolutely nothing. His words are perfect, and they are absolute shit. They cannot exist in a vacuum, and must be realised for what lies beyond their meaning in a human mind to have any value.
Maybe we could spend another 23 million on the third film, like they did on the original, and instead of all those flashy bullshit effects ADD SOME FUCKING INTERESTING, COMPELLING, WELL WRITTEN PLOT?!
But I was expecting something along the lines of "Researchers manage to make water freeze at greater than 0C," instead of "Researchers manage to make water freeze below normal freezing temperature."
I'm sorry, but/. hasn't been a 'technical' crowd for some time now. It's currently a small population of 'technical' people of various fields and a great deal of September That Never Ended wanna-be haxx0rs.
What? That's like saying if I truly didn't believe in Zeus, I wouldn't deny his existence and object to you demolishing my house to build him a temple.
If the people who believed in foolish things would keep their mouths shut and their hands out of public coffers, there'd be no reason for us to deny their silly fairy tales. They could ramble on in solitude like the people who are properly sent to a shrink when they claim to speak to invisible, imaginary beings.
Firstly, I do not see how not objecting to me demolishing your house to build a temple to Zeus follows from your lack of belief in him.
Not every form of religion is like fundamentalist Christianity or Islam. I honestly don't believe the Gods listen to anything I say, mainly because I never talk to them. I try to avoid one-sided conversations. The closest I come to prayer is seeing an Ambulance racing down the side of the road and thinking, "Mercury give you speed," or something else of the sort.
I do not believe that my religion is the only true religion -- such a statement in and of itself, to me, is nonsense. The Western World seems to love the dichotomy -- yes or no, right or wrong, black or white. There are is no black or white, merely some greys that are dingier than others.
I believe in a certain set of morals (which, coincidentally, have nothing to do with my religion, but merely how I would like to be treated by others), and I do not need to force others to act in that fashion. The only time I would ever and do restrain another human being from any chosen course of action is when their actions will form the cause-in-fact of harm to an unwilling third party.
I personally do not care if one wants to drink, smoke, bump-and-grind in a club, or anything else, as long as it does not violate the free will of another person. If your best friend enjoys being beaten bloody in the middle of the street, I shan't stop you from doing so -- unless I think you're about to kill him. I would most likely intervene in that instance.
For this reason, I hold such crimes as murder, rape, and to a lesser degree, certain kinds of theft, to be abhorrent. Not because physical and psychological harm are being done to another, but because they are committed against that person's will. The right to do as you please ends where other people's bodies begin. And the right to dictate other people's behaviors may only be invoked to stop them from violating another's security of their person and possessions.
I have only once in my life had an experience that I would honestly call a theophany, but as I was somewhat in the process of nearly dying from alcohol poisoning at the time, I fully accept that a much more likely explanation is that it was simply a hallucination. Even if it was a hallucination, which it very likely was, that does not lessen, to me, its impact, nor the import and significance of the event.
It is possible for a man to be religious and at the same time believe in minding his own damn business. I will work out my own salvation (or lack thereof, as one's religious leanings may lean) with diligence, and you can do the same. As long as you do not interfere with my freedom to do as I wish as long as I harm no one else, I shall extend to you the same respect and courtesy.
This, of course, extends to the freedom to believe as one wishes. There is only one thing in this world, other than harming one against their will, that I am violently opposed to: Intolerance. I will not tolerate any form of intolerance (and this is the paradox that makes all thing possible.) You are free to believe as you choose. But if your belief demands that I may not believe as I choose, be that based on a religious or areligious belief, then you and I have a problem.
The same freedom that allows you to not believe in any deity is the same freedom that allows anyone else to believe in one, should they so choose. Religion is a tool, and properly wielded, it can do great good. But lik
I am not a Lawyer, but wouldn't this make those agencies contracted to do this by the Government de facto Agents of the Government, and therefore any materials obtained by them in violation of the 4th Amendment poisoned?
Also, wouldn't a judge have to throw out such evidence as its method of gathering is a clear end-run around the Constitution?
'No it's not! said Constable Visit. 'Atheism is a denial of a god.'
'Therefore It Is A Religious Position,' said Dorfl. 'Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.'
God forbid we stop prescribing medicines all willy-nilly when they're not necessary just to quite down parents and belly-achers.
I go to the Doctor when it's serious: i.e., it's not getting better, it's getting worse, it's life-threatening or infected. I do not go to the doctor every time my throat hurts. That's just silly.
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Dude, he's Lord British.
Lord British.
I think he can do whatever he wants.
OOP makes people lazy and gives them less of an understanding of what's actually going on.
All that OOP code you write gets translated back into something procedural, you know.
Sorry, what's that? Can you speak a little louder? I can't hear you over the sound of all the wasted cycles my Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is generating. It's a lot.
A much better solution is to get rid of the lazy people and their automatic transmissions and go back to manual transmissions.
I drive a car with a manual transmission, and I don't have to worry about my car accelerating without my approval -- I can put it in neutral.
Also, if anyone complains that manual is too hard to use/learn, FUCK THEM. THROW THEM ON THE FIRE. MORE MEAT FOR THE OTHER MEAT EATERS.
Ahem. Sorry.
Parent is insightful, +5.
We have, as a nation, in the name of Corporate Greed and the Maximization of Profit, destroyed our manufacturing sector, which was the world's greatest after WW2. We have ceased to create real Wealth, and now we produce only imaginary Wealth. Not everyone can be a Doctor or a Lawyer or an Engineer. We need actual jobs that actually produce things.
Our entire system is based on a redistribution of wealth; we take it from the many and concentrate it into the hands of the few.
Says the guy with the high UID.
As a member of an obscure sect of the Rinzai School of Zen, I would smack you upside the head if I were in your presence.
The Buddha was a man. You must judge his ideas and opinions yourself to determine their validity to your particular situation, experience, and temperament.
If we're going with things that Siddhartha Gautama is said to have said, look at the last three things he said before he died:
The Buddha was right about everything, and he was right about absolutely nothing. His words are perfect, and they are absolute shit. They cannot exist in a vacuum, and must be realised for what lies beyond their meaning in a human mind to have any value.
You always ask for a piece of the gross. The net... THE NET IS FANTASY.
Seriously. Pitch Black was one of the best movies I'd seen in years.
Maybe we could spend another 23 million on the third film, like they did on the original, and instead of all those flashy bullshit effects ADD SOME FUCKING INTERESTING, COMPELLING, WELL WRITTEN PLOT?!
It's ZEUS, you FUCKING HEATHEN. ZEUS. MAY YOU YET FEEL HIS THUNDERBOLTS. SHEESH.
I would think the only interesting thing would be that this is (presumably) at standard pressure.
But I was expecting something along the lines of "Researchers manage to make water freeze at greater than 0C," instead of "Researchers manage to make water freeze below normal freezing temperature."
Haven't they ever heard of salt? Or Anti-freeze?
Fuck Integral Trees! If you want to make a Niven novel into a movie, do Protector in the style of Kubrick's 2001.
Also, it's Ringworld, not Ring World.
Sincerely,
The Brennan-monster.
Sounds like someone doesn't understand Statistics.
We need a +5, Thing of Beauty moderation.
Find this maddening.
I'm sorry, but /. hasn't been a 'technical' crowd for some time now. It's currently a small population of 'technical' people of various fields and a great deal of September That Never Ended wanna-be haxx0rs.
Firstly, I do not see how not objecting to me demolishing your house to build a temple to Zeus follows from your lack of belief in him.
Not every form of religion is like fundamentalist Christianity or Islam. I honestly don't believe the Gods listen to anything I say, mainly because I never talk to them. I try to avoid one-sided conversations. The closest I come to prayer is seeing an Ambulance racing down the side of the road and thinking, "Mercury give you speed," or something else of the sort.
I do not believe that my religion is the only true religion -- such a statement in and of itself, to me, is nonsense. The Western World seems to love the dichotomy -- yes or no, right or wrong, black or white. There are is no black or white, merely some greys that are dingier than others.
I believe in a certain set of morals (which, coincidentally, have nothing to do with my religion, but merely how I would like to be treated by others), and I do not need to force others to act in that fashion. The only time I would ever and do restrain another human being from any chosen course of action is when their actions will form the cause-in-fact of harm to an unwilling third party.
I personally do not care if one wants to drink, smoke, bump-and-grind in a club, or anything else, as long as it does not violate the free will of another person. If your best friend enjoys being beaten bloody in the middle of the street, I shan't stop you from doing so -- unless I think you're about to kill him. I would most likely intervene in that instance.
For this reason, I hold such crimes as murder, rape, and to a lesser degree, certain kinds of theft, to be abhorrent. Not because physical and psychological harm are being done to another, but because they are committed against that person's will. The right to do as you please ends where other people's bodies begin. And the right to dictate other people's behaviors may only be invoked to stop them from violating another's security of their person and possessions.
I have only once in my life had an experience that I would honestly call a theophany, but as I was somewhat in the process of nearly dying from alcohol poisoning at the time, I fully accept that a much more likely explanation is that it was simply a hallucination. Even if it was a hallucination, which it very likely was, that does not lessen, to me, its impact, nor the import and significance of the event.
It is possible for a man to be religious and at the same time believe in minding his own damn business. I will work out my own salvation (or lack thereof, as one's religious leanings may lean) with diligence, and you can do the same. As long as you do not interfere with my freedom to do as I wish as long as I harm no one else, I shall extend to you the same respect and courtesy.
This, of course, extends to the freedom to believe as one wishes. There is only one thing in this world, other than harming one against their will, that I am violently opposed to: Intolerance. I will not tolerate any form of intolerance (and this is the paradox that makes all thing possible.) You are free to believe as you choose. But if your belief demands that I may not believe as I choose, be that based on a religious or areligious belief, then you and I have a problem.
The same freedom that allows you to not believe in any deity is the same freedom that allows anyone else to believe in one, should they so choose. Religion is a tool, and properly wielded, it can do great good. But lik
I am not a Lawyer, but wouldn't this make those agencies contracted to do this by the Government de facto Agents of the Government, and therefore any materials obtained by them in violation of the 4th Amendment poisoned?
Also, wouldn't a judge have to throw out such evidence as its method of gathering is a clear end-run around the Constitution?
Terry Pratchett. It's from the novel "Feet of Clay."
C is a high level language. Anything more complex is balderdash and chicanery.
At this point, I am beginning to lean towards one of two things
God forbid we stop prescribing medicines all willy-nilly when they're not necessary just to quite down parents and belly-achers.
I go to the Doctor when it's serious: i.e., it's not getting better, it's getting worse, it's life-threatening or infected. I do not go to the doctor every time my throat hurts. That's just silly.