In defense of the alcoholics of the world who are operating on low budgets, I submit to you, sir, that it is quite possible to live on Olives and Wine.
The problem is not so simple as science vs. religion. The problem is science vs. certain religions.
The modern world is based on several thousand years of patriarchal society. Particularly with Christianity, where in the bible it specifically says that the Christian god, Yahweh (Iehovah) created man in his image, and then made man from woman, and then made woman subservient to man.
In religions where the chief diety is Male, the Male God is seen as the source of all life, and since God is a male, man must naturally be closer to perfection than woman. Man was believed to be the source of all life -- look at what the ancient greeks and romans and other societies thought about the roles of men and women in procreation -- consider how deeply ingrained into our society the metaphor of 'sowing wild oats' and similiar other seed metaphors are. In the Biblical Christian view of the world, man was solely responsible for the act of procreation: His 'seeds' were put in to the woman, who served as the 'soil' in which they grew. Woman was seen as providing nothing more than a good enviroment for the 'seed' to develop. Remember that the many of the first people to exampine male spermatozoa under microscope reported seeing homonculi -- minature, fully formed men. This view of the world, where men were sole creators of life, is what our modern world view is based in. The reason abortion is so abominable to so many Christians is not the fact that 'God' says it is wrong -- God says it is wrong because in a world view where man has sole creative power, something like abortion takes power away from the man, devaluing his role in the process of the creation of new life. Hell hath no fury like a man devalued.
Take as an example of this fact the 'Angry White Male,' who is Angry that men said to women, 'Sure, you can compete with us, but on our terms,' and lo and behold suddenly a good deal of those men are finding themselves displaced socially and economically by women. For the past several thousand years the male's role was as sole provider for the family. Our culture (atleast America -- the only culture I am able to give an opinion on, as it is the only one I know well enough to do so) is based upon several thousand years of the male role being defined as provider and protector, and now that role is being displaced because, when men forced women to compete on "men's" terms, it was suddenly foudn that women were not so helpless, stupid, or defenseless as had long been held.
These 'angry white males' are angry because their traditional societial safe-houses, first politics, then the 'masculine' job-force, and now the right to control reproduction, are slowly being chipped away at.
As society becomes closer to equality between the sexes, the men who are most insecure about their place in life will fight harder and harder. Many men find themselves asking, "What exactly is it that I do?" Men have no definate answer for this sort of question. Male identity is a precarious thing. It is almost impossible to shake the Female identity so throughly, because there is always a response to the question. "I can have children." Men have no definate roll, and they make up for their inability to do something by saying that women may not do something else.
Such as dress in a certain way. Or own things. Or have a job. Or have control over their own bodies.
Virus is a latin noun. Now, normally, Latin nouns that end in -us, like virus, decline into the plural by removing the -us and tacking on -i. This would render the word as Viri, not Virii. However, in Latin, virus does not decline -- whether singular, plural, direct object, ablative, accusative, it's always virus. Much like the latin word 'nihil,' which translates as 'nothing.'
In the Anime Series Robotech the pilots of the Veritechs and Destroids (Veritechs were the planes that transformed, Destroids were the non-transformable weaponry) used an oversized helmet called a 'Thinking Cap' to partially control their vehicle. For example, a pilot in a Veritech could manually issue commands to the plane, such as 'fire,' by pulling the trigger. And when they sudden saw an enemy 'pod pop up right infront of them they could issue a similar command, namely 'fire the goddamn gun before I get shot to hell,' via the thinking cap. The cap was also used to control various flight aspects, and the pilot also had to 'think' the plane through the complex transformation processes.
So, am I the only one who awaits are newer, better, thought controlled generation of killing machines? Those Giant Frickin' Robots (GFRs) I am seemingly the world's only Living Expert on seem a step closer. (Living as most of the others died in the line of experimentation.)
Living with former military persons as my major caregivers, one of which still worked at Fort Jackson teaching map-reading, I got the chance to eat C-Rations, and I loved them.
Loved them more than anything.
This just brings to mind an idea I've had for a long time now. And it's in no way an unique idea, I know that for a fact.
So here's the idea: Write a variant of one of these viruses. And he's what it does. When it infects a machine, it sends out copies of itself to every person in the address book. After that, it forces the machine to download some sort of Anti-Virus software. PC-Cillin or NOD32 are favorites of mine. It installs them, then forces a Windows Update.
Sounds good, right? But read on. My second idea is better.
Here it is: Viral Anti-Virus Software. Most virus recognition is based on Pattern Recognition, from what I have garnered from my research. Create a virus that spreads like wildfire -- kind of like Melissa and Code Red spread all crazy-fast -- except this little bit of code contains Virus Recognition software in it. It invades unprotected boxen and then starts a continuous scan for Viruses.
You know how most people click 'Yes!' to anything that pops up, a la Gator?
Have this little golden nugget of Illegal Do-Gooding pop up a small dialog saying, "File.Extention is infected with a virus (XX% Probability). Do you wish to delete? Y/N?"
And just to hold with custom: Step One: Create Virus. Step Two: JAIL! Step Three: PROFIT!
I get spam all the time, though not in great quantity. Maybe 5 a day, tops. But here's the kicker: They're all Chinese and Japanese.[/p][p]I have no clue what the chinese ones say, but they're encoded in the chinese character set. From what I can make out of the ones in Japanese, along with having a friend who can bumble her way through the language, I've gotten about 40 Emails over the past year from a Japanese Home Loan Company.[/p][p]I don't own a home.[/p]
From what my grandfather, a retired US Army E-9 told me, the major benefits of the Neutron bomb were that the radioactive materials created from the detonation of a Neutron Bomb had extremely short (In Terms of Radioactives) half-lives. So you can drop one on a country, then move in when it cools down. Also, the Neutron Radiation caused water to boil, which will destroy wood, concrete, paper, et cetera, et cetera. I'm guessing, though I'm no Physics Major, that it would also probably destroy the oil.
How about outside of the Earth's Biosphere? Be Background count out there is, if I recall, a -12 to a Magic score. That would pretty much stop anything from hitting you, Supernatural Beasty Or Supernatural Phenomenon. Magic don't work in space.
I've been playing P&P RPGs for a long time. I started in 1992, with my dad, when I was 7, playing AD&D Second Edition. Played that till Third Edition came out. I've been playing Shadowrun on and off for about 4 years. I've also played lots of CRPGs that used D&D Rules. NWN (The Version that used to be on AOL), NWN (by Bioware), Unlimited Adventures, All the Eyes of the Beholders and their many Kin (27 Beholder-Kin, if I remember) and what not. I've not played Temple of Elemental Evil, though I did see the Beta at GenCon. It seemed buggy then, too. But NWN has hit it dead on. It's an excellent game based off the rules (Based. Not entirely kosher. Think about some of the feats) and I like it alot. It's better than Unlimited Adventures. We've never had it so good.
Services like AOL? I don't know how MSN or anouther online service works, but AOL stores your 'Buddy List' on their servers.
They can also keep track of what sites you're visiting when you browse the WWW. How long do you think it'll be till spam is custom fitted to groups?
Spammer A: This kid here goes to these freaky anime sites, and so do half of the people on his Buddy List. Let's send them all SPAM on learning Japanese and Freaky Bukake Sites!
Actually, I'm pretty sure this doesn't qualify as Irony. Irony is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp, and often when people call something Ironic it is merely tragic, idiotic, or something else.
People seem to think by calling it Ironic, it makes it special.
Quite the alarmist, aren't we? I seem to recall learning about something called 'Hawking Radiation.'
The black holes that would be formed by these experiments, if it is indeed possible to do such a thing, would be so incredibly tiny that they would not exist for any humanly appreciable period of time before they would be destroyed from their own high rate of evaporation.
Please research more throughly next time before you spout off some hyper paranoid regurgitated theory.
Thank you.
Note: I am not a Physicist, but I have many friends who are who have deflated my ego enough of Physics subjects for me to remember every little thing that's wrong that I've ever said, and to recognize the stupid things that others spout.
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PS: Please aim at the section of space that in the 23rd century will be off limits to all spacefarers, in which resides the Genesis planet. Please make sure to also provide good embalming and a capsule capable of shielding body from cosmic rays.
I concede your point. I wasn't thinking about that. And thanks for not calling me dirty names. I just got finished celebrating, "Support the National Suicide Hotline Industry Day."
[p]I would like to ask, as a completely serious question, aside from the matter of personal preference, the whole, "Linux is better than anything else in the world," thing, why in the hell would anyone feel a need to install Linux on a Mac?[/p][p]OS X runs on most modern Macs, and is based on a *BSD. It's stable as hell, more secure than any distro of Linux I know of, and it has a very functional GUI (if you like such things).[/p][p]I mean, I run two Linux boxen, one as a server, the other as a generic code monkey-ing machine, and if I had a Mac I would in no way see or feel a need to put Linux on it.[/p]
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In defense of the alcoholics of the world who are operating on low budgets, I submit to you, sir, that it is quite possible to live on Olives and Wine.
Read a book called "Eve's Seed."
The problem is not so simple as science vs. religion. The problem is science vs. certain religions.
The modern world is based on several thousand years of patriarchal society. Particularly with Christianity, where in the bible it specifically says that the Christian god, Yahweh (Iehovah) created man in his image, and then made man from woman, and then made woman subservient to man.
In religions where the chief diety is Male, the Male God is seen as the source of all life, and since God is a male, man must naturally be closer to perfection than woman. Man was believed to be the source of all life -- look at what the ancient greeks and romans and other societies thought about the roles of men and women in procreation -- consider how deeply ingrained into our society the metaphor of 'sowing wild oats' and similiar other seed metaphors are. In the Biblical Christian view of the world, man was solely responsible for the act of procreation: His 'seeds' were put in to the woman, who served as the 'soil' in which they grew. Woman was seen as providing nothing more than a good enviroment for the 'seed' to develop. Remember that the many of the first people to exampine male spermatozoa under microscope reported seeing homonculi -- minature, fully formed men. This view of the world, where men were sole creators of life, is what our modern world view is based in. The reason abortion is so abominable to so many Christians is not the fact that 'God' says it is wrong -- God says it is wrong because in a world view where man has sole creative power, something like abortion takes power away from the man, devaluing his role in the process of the creation of new life. Hell hath no fury like a man devalued.
Take as an example of this fact the 'Angry White Male,' who is Angry that men said to women, 'Sure, you can compete with us, but on our terms,' and lo and behold suddenly a good deal of those men are finding themselves displaced socially and economically by women. For the past several thousand years the male's role was as sole provider for the family. Our culture (atleast America -- the only culture I am able to give an opinion on, as it is the only one I know well enough to do so) is based upon several thousand years of the male role being defined as provider and protector, and now that role is being displaced because, when men forced women to compete on "men's" terms, it was suddenly foudn that women were not so helpless, stupid, or defenseless as had long been held.
These 'angry white males' are angry because their traditional societial safe-houses, first politics, then the 'masculine' job-force, and now the right to control reproduction, are slowly being chipped away at.
As society becomes closer to equality between the sexes, the men who are most insecure about their place in life will fight harder and harder. Many men find themselves asking, "What exactly is it that I do?" Men have no definate answer for this sort of question. Male identity is a precarious thing. It is almost impossible to shake the Female identity so throughly, because there is always a response to the question. "I can have children." Men have no definate roll, and they make up for their inability to do something by saying that women may not do something else.
Such as dress in a certain way. Or own things. Or have a job. Or have control over their own bodies.
And I forgot where I was going with this.
But mod me up, please?
Virus is a latin noun. Now, normally, Latin nouns that end in -us, like virus, decline into the plural by removing the -us and tacking on -i. This would render the word as Viri, not Virii. However, in Latin, virus does not decline -- whether singular, plural, direct object, ablative, accusative, it's always virus. Much like the latin word 'nihil,' which translates as 'nothing.'
In the Anime Series Robotech the pilots of the Veritechs and Destroids (Veritechs were the planes that transformed, Destroids were the non-transformable weaponry) used an oversized helmet called a 'Thinking Cap' to partially control their vehicle. For example, a pilot in a Veritech could manually issue commands to the plane, such as 'fire,' by pulling the trigger. And when they sudden saw an enemy 'pod pop up right infront of them they could issue a similar command, namely 'fire the goddamn gun before I get shot to hell,' via the thinking cap. The cap was also used to control various flight aspects, and the pilot also had to 'think' the plane through the complex transformation processes. So, am I the only one who awaits are newer, better, thought controlled generation of killing machines? Those Giant Frickin' Robots (GFRs) I am seemingly the world's only Living Expert on seem a step closer. (Living as most of the others died in the line of experimentation.)
Dear Mal-2: Omar says come home. Everything's forgiven.
Take some brewed coffee. Pour it back into the machine. Put in some fresh grindings. Rebrew.
Put this liquid into a pot and heat it to boiling. In a Mug (Large), place several shots of your favorite hard liquour, then fill with some ice.
Pour boiling coffee into mug over ice.
Be Drunkenly Alert for hours.
Living with former military persons as my major caregivers, one of which still worked at Fort Jackson teaching map-reading, I got the chance to eat C-Rations, and I loved them. Loved them more than anything.
This just brings to mind an idea I've had for a long time now. And it's in no way an unique idea, I know that for a fact.
So here's the idea: Write a variant of one of these viruses. And he's what it does. When it infects a machine, it sends out copies of itself to every person in the address book. After that, it forces the machine to download some sort of Anti-Virus software. PC-Cillin or NOD32 are favorites of mine. It installs them, then forces a Windows Update.
Sounds good, right? But read on. My second idea is better.
Here it is:
Viral Anti-Virus Software.
Most virus recognition is based on Pattern Recognition, from what I have garnered from my research. Create a virus that spreads like wildfire -- kind of like Melissa and Code Red spread all crazy-fast -- except this little bit of code contains Virus Recognition software in it. It invades unprotected boxen and then starts a continuous scan for Viruses.
You know how most people click 'Yes!' to anything that pops up, a la Gator?
Have this little golden nugget of Illegal Do-Gooding pop up a small dialog saying, "File.Extention is infected with a virus (XX% Probability). Do you wish to delete? Y/N?"
And just to hold with custom:
Step One: Create Virus.
Step Two: JAIL!
Step Three: PROFIT!
1993 Jeep Cherokee. 4 cylinder, 2.5l engine, 5speed manual. I average about 18mpg Highway, about 15 city. It's on its third engine.
Lucky You.
I get spam all the time, though not in great quantity. Maybe 5 a day, tops. But here's the kicker: They're all Chinese and Japanese.[/p][p]I have no clue what the chinese ones say, but they're encoded in the chinese character set. From what I can make out of the ones in Japanese, along with having a friend who can bumble her way through the language, I've gotten about 40 Emails over the past year from a Japanese Home Loan Company.[/p][p]I don't own a home.[/p]
You know what? There is no easter bunny! It's just a guy in a suit!
I, for one, welcome our new new 3D infrastructure display technology overlords.
From what my grandfather, a retired US Army E-9 told me, the major benefits of the Neutron bomb were that the radioactive materials created from the detonation of a Neutron Bomb had extremely short (In Terms of Radioactives) half-lives. So you can drop one on a country, then move in when it cools down. Also, the Neutron Radiation caused water to boil, which will destroy wood, concrete, paper, et cetera, et cetera. I'm guessing, though I'm no Physics Major, that it would also probably destroy the oil.
How about outside of the Earth's Biosphere? Be Background count out there is, if I recall, a -12 to a Magic score. That would pretty much stop anything from hitting you, Supernatural Beasty Or Supernatural Phenomenon. Magic don't work in space.
I've been playing P&P RPGs for a long time. I started in 1992, with my dad, when I was 7, playing AD&D Second Edition. Played that till Third Edition came out. I've been playing Shadowrun on and off for about 4 years. I've also played lots of CRPGs that used D&D Rules. NWN (The Version that used to be on AOL), NWN (by Bioware), Unlimited Adventures, All the Eyes of the Beholders and their many Kin (27 Beholder-Kin, if I remember) and what not. I've not played Temple of Elemental Evil, though I did see the Beta at GenCon. It seemed buggy then, too. But NWN has hit it dead on. It's an excellent game based off the rules (Based. Not entirely kosher. Think about some of the feats) and I like it alot. It's better than Unlimited Adventures. We've never had it so good.
Doing the Horizontal Tango!
How can anything like this get posted on /.?!
It hasn't been endorsed by three independant crackpots yet! What do they take me for, sane?!
Services like AOL? I don't know how MSN or anouther online service works, but AOL stores your 'Buddy List' on their servers.
They can also keep track of what sites you're visiting when you browse the WWW. How long do you think it'll be till spam is custom fitted to groups?
Spammer A: This kid here goes to these freaky anime sites, and so do half of the people on his Buddy List. Let's send them all SPAM on learning Japanese and Freaky Bukake Sites!
Think about it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure this doesn't qualify as Irony. Irony is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp, and often when people call something Ironic it is merely tragic, idiotic, or something else.
People seem to think by calling it Ironic, it makes it special.
Neither does any self respecting Nerd! Just give me my DSL and the Pringles!
Quite the alarmist, aren't we? I seem to recall learning about something called 'Hawking Radiation.'
The black holes that would be formed by these experiments, if it is indeed possible to do such a thing, would be so incredibly tiny that they would not exist for any humanly appreciable period of time before they would be destroyed from their own high rate of evaporation.
Please research more throughly next time before you spout off some hyper paranoid regurgitated theory.
Thank you.
Note: I am not a Physicist, but I have many friends who are who have deflated my ego enough of Physics subjects for me to remember every little thing that's wrong that I've ever said, and to recognize the stupid things that others spout.
PS: Please aim at the section of space that in the 23rd century will be off limits to all spacefarers, in which resides the Genesis planet. Please make sure to also provide good embalming and a capsule capable of shielding body from cosmic rays.
I concede your point. I wasn't thinking about that. And thanks for not calling me dirty names. I just got finished celebrating, "Support the National Suicide Hotline Industry Day."
[p]I would like to ask, as a completely serious question, aside from the matter of personal preference, the whole, "Linux is better than anything else in the world," thing, why in the hell would anyone feel a need to install Linux on a Mac?[/p][p]OS X runs on most modern Macs, and is based on a *BSD. It's stable as hell, more secure than any distro of Linux I know of, and it has a very functional GUI (if you like such things).[/p][p]I mean, I run two Linux boxen, one as a server, the other as a generic code monkey-ing machine, and if I had a Mac I would in no way see or feel a need to put Linux on it.[/p]