I am of the opinion, cold-hearted as this may sound, that until a fetus is capable of surviving without the 'life support' provided by the womb of the mother, it is not a human being, and is in the same category as a cancerous growth or tumor.
Let's face a fact, one that most men probably don't know, and probably alot of women, too: Having a baby is bad for your body.
It causes a depletion of calcium from the bones. Every child a woman has increases he risk of osteoporosis. A fetus sucks up other nutrients like crazy, too, which means that the 'host,' or 'mother,' if you prefer, has to eat a great deal more. Children are often compared to parasites, but that is exactly what a fetus is, in a most literal sense. It does nothing beneficial for its host (from a sexual selection standpoint -- children only count when they are able to reproduce), and causes a great deal of damage and stress to the host.
Also, looking at it from another way, in why I feel that there is nothing 'wrong' with destroying an embryo or fetus, I submit that killing something that is alive is 'wrong,' but that killing something that 'may become alive at some point' is not. It is only recently, in the past hundred years or so (in the 'developed' world) that infant mortality rates have become so low. Children often did, and in many places around the world, still do, die before they are born, via miscarriage and complications in birthing, among other things more exotic.
So, no, I really don't see anything 'wrong' with abortion or with destroying little buds of cells that haven't even had a good go at division. I don't feel a twinge of regret when I use listerine every morning, and I kill many orders of magnitude more living things when I do that than when an embryo is destroyed.
And no, I do not view this as being cold-hearted. I think other people view it as such, because the vast majority of people (like the 'Majority' of people who voted for King Bush II) are incapable of reason.
Beyond just "because that's what I choose", what objections would someone have to having "an unknown number of (biological) sons and daughters running around out there" if they 1. were unaware of them and 2. were absolved of any and all legal responsibilites of these people?
I can think of one very good reason. If I my wife and I had a bunch of frozen embryos that we weren't going to use after we had gotten one to turn into our ugly^H^H^H^Hprecious little larva^H^H^H^H^Hbaby, we would want those extra embryos destroyed, not raised by some strangers, because we don't want our son/daughter possibly relating to a brother/sister that they would have no way of knowing about.
Having offspring with first-degree relatives is bad (from a genetic standpoint. I tell no one else what they may and may not do morally.) And that's a good enough reason.
They don't have to. I recognise that style of paranoia. He's in the cell next to me. Oh, crap, Ministry of Vaterland Security Guard ComQ@$#g245H2t42ETRH#%yj#$%nsgfHw45fNO CARRIER
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The reason they are not opening up Windows 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95/98/ME, is because they probably contain some proprietary code that is still used even today in the current versions of the operating system.
Electrons, however, can only exist in specific orbits around an atom, and cannot stray out of those orbits, which is why they don't crash into the nucleus. They figured this thing out about one hundred years ago.
No, they're not. The Technician is merely saying, to the best of his knowledge, it is a true archive.
In court, a witness can not tell the truth and still not be commiting perjury. Haven't you ever seen or heard or read a transcript of a trial where one attorney will ask a witness, "And to the best of your knowledge?"
I never claimed that Microsoft was fast in fixing bugs and exploits. I only said that now that this is so out in the open, they'll fix it faster. Whether that means in six months instead of a year or six days instead of six weeks doesn't matter. The point stands that problems that are made known get fixed faster than problems that you don't know about, for the simple fact that you can't fix what you don't know is broken.
Yes, you can, but you're missing the point. It's not hipocrisy, though only small, petty minds are troubled by such a thing as that.
The point is, this is a 'main-stream' news site, and gets a lot of traffic. The best way for a company to find out about an exploit they need to fix is for it to get lots of 'high-level' coverage.
That's why when you find an exploit you can use for something, you generally try to 'keep it on the low.'
Got it? Most of us could probably have found this just as easily if it had not been posted on/., but now it is, so it's that much easier to find, which means it will be brought to MS's attention that much more quickly, which means they will have a fix for this work around that much sooner.
Tell me about it. I wasn't too sure about Cthulhu's platform at first. I mean, I wasn't too big on the 'Eating all that Live' when it came to me, but I was really for the 'Eating all that Live' thing when I realised he really did mean 'all that Live,' unlike those other Horrors from Out of Space who just want to eat their enemies.
IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN!
(And remember Carl Eric von Kleist's Law: Any sufficiently tentacled spheroid is indistinguishable from the Great Cthulhu -- a great way to turn people into jibbering wrecks at parties!)
I believe you. I grew up near an Army base, and spent alot of time with my Grandpa, who was an E-9 (retired), and hung out with him and alot of his ex-army friends.
This is a really interesting map. It's also missing the houses of everyone who was mean to Bill Gates in high school. The FSF headquarters have been replaced with a pirate ship, OSDL is replaced with an image of a black hole,
and there's real time tracking of Linus Torvalds' location with a bullseye symbol.
Wow! Thank Goodness that Mycroft isn't a friend of Bill's. Although, if it shows Mr. Gate's home, I'm sure I could talk Mike into letting me use Little David's Sling for a few minutes.
Legal? No. I would hazard to guess it isn't. Moral? That's an entirely different question.
I live next to a 'party house' in a college town. Two to three times a week the people who live next to me get very drunk and scream and shout and break things in the street till about 5 AM.
Now, once or twice a week, one of the guys who lives there will begin to verbally abuse his girlfriend (I assume it's his girlfriend) in a way I wouldn't talk to my worst enemies.
While it is not legal, I would consider it entirely moral if I (or someone else) went downstairs with a baseball bat (or sword, which I have several of) and proceeded to give him a lesson in what is and is not acceptable in a polite society.
Now, it certainly isn't legal for me to go beat the crap out of him for calling his girlfriend whore and slut and all other sorts of names at 3AM in the middle of a street until she's crying. However, apparently he never learned simple rules during his childhood that the rest of us (most of us) did, and some people only seem to learn when they have their minds opened (with a baseball bat.)
However, since it isn't legal (though it should be legal to beat the crap out of someone who acts like that), I'm simply waiting till I hear the sound of a smack, and then I'll be downstairs with the longsword and a dagger, both of which are very, very sharp, both of which I have alot of practice with.
All they need is $1,000,000... I mean... $250,000! (Do I get bonus points for geeky references?;-))
You almost got the bonus points but unfortunately the answer we were looking for was $6,000,000 not $1,000,000. Sorry. Thanks for playing and we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
Since when are the two guys out back waiting to kneecap the contestants considered 'lovely?'
I don't think that it's neccessarily much different at other places, and even if EA's behaviour is the "Industry Norm," it's still wrong to judge all Industry Behaviour from One Statistic. That would be like saying, "Well, we shot this guy with this.357, and he didn't die. Gunshot wounds are, therefore, not fatal."
However, I much appreciate your input into this. I always enjoy being lectured by someone who knows what they're talking about.
You know the Trolling community has really gone downhill when they copy and paste the trolls and don't even put in the effort to remove the extra [somesite.com] information blocks that show up after links...
Are we witnessing the end, or the beginning, of an Era of Trolldom?
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I am of the opinion, cold-hearted as this may sound, that until a fetus is capable of surviving without the 'life support' provided by the womb of the mother, it is not a human being, and is in the same category as a cancerous growth or tumor.
Let's face a fact, one that most men probably don't know, and probably alot of women, too: Having a baby is bad for your body.
It causes a depletion of calcium from the bones. Every child a woman has increases he risk of osteoporosis. A fetus sucks up other nutrients like crazy, too, which means that the 'host,' or 'mother,' if you prefer, has to eat a great deal more. Children are often compared to parasites, but that is exactly what a fetus is, in a most literal sense. It does nothing beneficial for its host (from a sexual selection standpoint -- children only count when they are able to reproduce), and causes a great deal of damage and stress to the host.
Also, looking at it from another way, in why I feel that there is nothing 'wrong' with destroying an embryo or fetus, I submit that killing something that is alive is 'wrong,' but that killing something that 'may become alive at some point' is not. It is only recently, in the past hundred years or so (in the 'developed' world) that infant mortality rates have become so low. Children often did, and in many places around the world, still do, die before they are born, via miscarriage and complications in birthing, among other things more exotic.
So, no, I really don't see anything 'wrong' with abortion or with destroying little buds of cells that haven't even had a good go at division. I don't feel a twinge of regret when I use listerine every morning, and I kill many orders of magnitude more living things when I do that than when an embryo is destroyed.
And no, I do not view this as being cold-hearted. I think other people view it as such, because the vast majority of people (like the 'Majority' of people who voted for King Bush II) are incapable of reason.
I can think of one very good reason. If I my wife and I had a bunch of frozen embryos that we weren't going to use after we had gotten one to turn into our ugly^H^H^H^Hprecious little larva^H^H^H^H^Hbaby, we would want those extra embryos destroyed, not raised by some strangers, because we don't want our son/daughter possibly relating to a brother/sister that they would have no way of knowing about.
Having offspring with first-degree relatives is bad (from a genetic standpoint. I tell no one else what they may and may not do morally.) And that's a good enough reason.
They don't have to. I recognise that style of paranoia. He's in the cell next to me. Oh, crap, Ministry of Vaterland Security Guard ComQ@$#g245H2t42ETRH#%yj#$%nsgfHw45fNO CARRIER
I'm sorry, didn't you get the memo? Bob abandoned the Subgenii, probably laughing all the way, say, to Mexico, or the Moon, as he counted the money. The Day came and went, and you weren't all saved.
This message brought to you by the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria Subcommittee for SubGenii Re-Education.
The reason they are not opening up Windows 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95/98/ME, is because they probably contain some proprietary code that is still used even today in the current versions of the operating system.
Please, think before you post.
Electrons, however, can only exist in specific orbits around an atom, and cannot stray out of those orbits, which is why they don't crash into the nucleus. They figured this thing out about one hundred years ago.
No, they're not. The Technician is merely saying, to the best of his knowledge, it is a true archive.
In court, a witness can not tell the truth and still not be commiting perjury. Haven't you ever seen or heard or read a transcript of a trial where one attorney will ask a witness, "And to the best of your knowledge?"
What are you talking about? I'm an okay programmer while sober, but I'm a master programmer while tanked!
I write code so good, I don't even understand it, and it's so ahead of its time, it doesn't even compile!
Mom: Children, your old mother won't be around forever.
Betamax: Oh, shush!
I never claimed that Microsoft was fast in fixing bugs and exploits. I only said that now that this is so out in the open, they'll fix it faster. Whether that means in six months instead of a year or six days instead of six weeks doesn't matter. The point stands that problems that are made known get fixed faster than problems that you don't know about, for the simple fact that you can't fix what you don't know is broken.
Yes, you can, but you're missing the point. It's not hipocrisy, though only small, petty minds are troubled by such a thing as that.
The point is, this is a 'main-stream' news site, and gets a lot of traffic. The best way for a company to find out about an exploit they need to fix is for it to get lots of 'high-level' coverage.
That's why when you find an exploit you can use for something, you generally try to 'keep it on the low.'
Got it? Most of us could probably have found this just as easily if it had not been posted on /., but now it is, so it's that much easier to find, which means it will be brought to MS's attention that much more quickly, which means they will have a fix for this work around that much sooner.
Hey! As a member of the 'Goatee and Bad Attitude' sub-culture in America, who is not at all evil, I take offense at that!
I mean, just look: Here's a Picture of Me. (Sorry about the Goatee being covered up in that picture.)
Now I ask you: Is that the kind of person who would stab you in the back?
Please Mod that Up '+1, Funny.'
It's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
Tell me about it. I wasn't too sure about Cthulhu's platform at first. I mean, I wasn't too big on the 'Eating all that Live' when it came to me, but I was really for the 'Eating all that Live' thing when I realised he really did mean 'all that Live,' unlike those other Horrors from Out of Space who just want to eat their enemies.
IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN!
(And remember Carl Eric von Kleist's Law: Any sufficiently tentacled spheroid is indistinguishable from the Great Cthulhu -- a great way to turn people into jibbering wrecks at parties!)
That's first class. For 50 Million Dollars, you can travel Economy, strapped to the outside of the craft as a 'pretend fuel pod.'
I believe you. I grew up near an Army base, and spent alot of time with my Grandpa, who was an E-9 (retired), and hung out with him and alot of his ex-army friends.
Just remember this little thing I was once told while talking to a former Sniper who had served during Vietnam:
We aim to make headshots.
Alright. Had all can take.
Throw rocks at 'em, Mike! Big Rocks!
Legal? No. I would hazard to guess it isn't. Moral? That's an entirely different question.
I live next to a 'party house' in a college town. Two to three times a week the people who live next to me get very drunk and scream and shout and break things in the street till about 5 AM.
Now, once or twice a week, one of the guys who lives there will begin to verbally abuse his girlfriend (I assume it's his girlfriend) in a way I wouldn't talk to my worst enemies.
While it is not legal, I would consider it entirely moral if I (or someone else) went downstairs with a baseball bat (or sword, which I have several of) and proceeded to give him a lesson in what is and is not acceptable in a polite society.
Now, it certainly isn't legal for me to go beat the crap out of him for calling his girlfriend whore and slut and all other sorts of names at 3AM in the middle of a street until she's crying. However, apparently he never learned simple rules during his childhood that the rest of us (most of us) did, and some people only seem to learn when they have their minds opened (with a baseball bat.)
However, since it isn't legal (though it should be legal to beat the crap out of someone who acts like that), I'm simply waiting till I hear the sound of a smack, and then I'll be downstairs with the longsword and a dagger, both of which are very, very sharp, both of which I have alot of practice with.
Since when are the two guys out back waiting to kneecap the contestants considered 'lovely?'
An 8-track? With genuine mono sound!?
Does your Charger also have a device for slowing and speeding up the passage of time?
I don't think that it's neccessarily much different at other places, and even if EA's behaviour is the "Industry Norm," it's still wrong to judge all Industry Behaviour from One Statistic. That would be like saying, "Well, we shot this guy with this .357, and he didn't die. Gunshot wounds are, therefore, not fatal."
However, I much appreciate your input into this. I always enjoy being lectured by someone who knows what they're talking about.
You know the Trolling community has really gone downhill when they copy and paste the trolls and don't even put in the effort to remove the extra [somesite.com] information blocks that show up after links...
Are we witnessing the end, or the beginning, of an Era of Trolldom?
Yes, but you'd want constant resistance, not a full blown rebellion. You think they could have made it just a bit more subtle.