You are watching the inexorable march of fascism--it won't stop as long as people breathe. Get used to it. And no, boycotting American beer won't help.
Do UPS drivers need to think about anything when they do their jobs besides matching the address on the box to the one on the building?
Do corporate attorneys and accountants take out their own trash? Do they sweep the cafeteria after lunch?
Do programmers ride little bicycles to power their computers? Do they mop the halls?
Should police officers tune up their own cruisers?
Should programmers have octacore xeons with blinking lights on top and every little bell and whistle imaginable, like police cars do? Do programmers get a taser? Are they going to have to clean the taser?
Should surgeons and doctors clean the bathrooms in a hospital or fix the air conditioning when it breaks?
Should programmers remove dirt from the heating vents and scrub the windows? Should they clean the dustbunnies behind their desks?
Your questions are as relevant as a shoe in a box of chocolates, or whatever two things don't make any sense together.
This is the paper. There were several faces more attractive than the average. So, a conclusion from that paper was that you can't do wrong with average, but you can do better on occasion.
once there is a system set up that lets users filter content that is as effective as the lables, then they will be really screwed.
One already exists in the format of a moderation system. Take a look at slashdot for a reasonable approximation of how such a system might work. Applying it to music should be no big leap.
And whoever indulges in any one of them (except the ascription of partners to Allah) and gets the punishment in this world, that punishment will be an expiation for that sin.
This is interesting, but I don't see how it gives license to any one but Allah to administer the punishment.
Granted, the.com version of my name was already in use (by a graphics design company, I think) but even if it weren't, I'd not have taken it because it's not appropriate.
What in the hell could you possibly mean by "inappropriate"? Immoral? Deceitful? I absolutely can not understand what the objection is. Is this religious? Does some commandment exist somewhere? #11 maybe?
Thou shalt not register a dot com if thou hath not a product that thou can sell in retail and on thy web.
Is that the commandment? I didn't see it. Am I going to hell?
Maybe it wasn't a commandment. Maybe it was merely a passage in the bible I missed?
And whence Judith did register his dot com name, he felt the wrath of God and knew he hath done wrong.
Is that the passage I missed? Is this when Judith betrayed Jesus?
Maybe registering a dot com name is the original sin? Is this why it hurts to have a baby? Why did Adam do it? That fucker! I could be living in the garden of fucking eden right now if it hadn't been for that dot com registering blasphemous fuck Adam. I bet Eve put him up to it.
Seriously, what is the big objection? Perhaps appeal to reason if you can, otherwise it reeks of zealotry. If you claim to be a hard-core capitalist and companies should get the names, then you can not deny that a dot com domain name is a commodity that should itself be subject to the principles of the open market. If I want to corner the potato market, then people can start eating rice or pony up for the potatoes. Same with dot com names. If I register, for instance "gozybab.com" because that is my band name and then some one realizes that its a cool sounding name and wants it for some online business, then they can pay me for the name or suffer. That is called capitalism. Do you see how it works?
It ticks me off to no end when websites name themseves.com when they have no off-internet existence whatsoever.
I can't understand how this could be. This is like saying "it ticks me off to no end when someone owns land in Oklahoma when they don't even visit once in a while. Oklahoma was put there for people to farm the land." Why would you care at all? Personally, I care about a lot of stuff, but I can't possibly fathom your concern. It would help immensely if you would elaborate how it affects you personally. Otherwise you look like a nut case.
Thanks for confirming this belief you have. I made no guess nor mention of which particular beliefs you have, but it seems you are protective of this belief nonetheless. Why do you feel the need to protect your belief? Is it threatened in some way? Interesting.
Trying to call Islam a "cult" is about as idiotic as I can imagine.
Show, don't tell, as I've heard said by writing teachers.
The definition is a good one to me and is thus not private. However, calling Islam a cult *is* irresponsible, if not idiotic. Islam has no official policy about one's being fair game for converting from Islam. If the Koran states such a policy, please cite it. If any person targets others for converting from Islam, my feeling is that said person would not be acting in the true spirit of Islam. I'm not Muslim or religious in any way, so I can't say these things with certainty, but from what I understand Islam, I think I am being accurate.
ROFL... science confirms your views because you say so? That's rich.
You are an idiot. Science doesn't confirm his beliefs, as is your interpretation because you are a believer by nature and have a tiny closed little mind like believers do. Believers believe things like angles, fairies, spooky ghosts, and that everything is here by design.
When the GP said "science confirms", he meant that it is the function of science to confirm things. Or, in other words, we use science to confirm things. Science also disproves things. So he might have said "science confirms and disproves" which would be more correct, but slightly redundant.
Idiots like yourself, on the other hand, just believe regardless of confirmation or disproof, so you are an idiot. Now please stop being idiotic.
At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends
Funny that I recall as a child, the most dangerous thing about the swimming pool is the shallow part. When I was six, the first thing I did was jump in head first. I'm lucky I didn't break my neck in the 3 foot water. I also saw somebody loose a couple of front teeth in an accident with the shallow part of a pool. Perhaps the most important thing to understand about safety features is how dangerous they are.
Find something like spit, earwax, or the gunk between your toes, do shotgun DNA sequencing, and call it a something-ome. For bonus, you could supply the sequences as an attached PDF file (I'm not kidding, something like this has been done--800 pages of PDF "supplemental material"). I find these articles in major journals about once a week and they are as boring to read as the list of ingredients on a box of cereal.
US trade policy is self-serving, we all know that. But couldn't the author provide some good examples to really make the point? These are pretty weak:
The so-called "Irish Music" dispute concerns the portion of US copyright law that lets restaurants and shops play broadcast music without compensating the copyright holders.
=> I would be willing to wager that most everyone commenting on this thread would consider that fair use.
The Havana Club issues stems from the long-standing US effort to impose sanctions on Cuba.
=> Weren't the trade sanctions against Cuba put there and don't they remain there in part because of Cuban human rights abuses? The governments calling USA to task on this have companies which have "invested in Cuban business". The trademarks are not protected in the US to limit Cuban companies profiting from these trademarks in the US. If other countries want to sell their rum in the US under a protected trademark, they seem free to use a different trademark. Whether US trade sanctions against Cuba are moral or justified is a different issue from IP.
The second case concerns Antigua and Barbuda, a small Caribbean country home to all sorts of online vices, including gambling and DRM circumvention. Antigua took the US to the WTO years ago over charges that the US was unfairly criminalizing access to Antiguan gambling websites...
=> Legal gambling outfits in the US follow strict gambling laws that regulate, among other things, machine calibration, payout ratios, etc. Online gambling from other countries is outlawed in the USA because the mechanisms to ensure fairness can not be physically confirmed by government representatives.
pity mac's are incompatible with everything used in the business world
Pity you have no idea what you are talking about. Its also a pity everyone wastes mod points constantly when they could save them for obvious flamebait like yours. You should really provide an example or two--and do your research too before you carelessly throw out misinformation, so you don't continue to appear so ignorant. The same goes for similar digs on linux.
Too bad your republican buds don't agree with you. The least amount of total spending growth was Clinton in his first term, so a democrat wins! You should vote Hillary if you really think you believe what you just said. But my guess is that you are just completely full of shit and vote republican because of your staunch, murderous, religious convictions.
But always remember what God said before you vote for another murderous leader: "Thou shalt not kill." That's in the 10 commandments and its also in the bible. By God's own law, your murderous president is going to hell because he has ordered many people dead. Religious wacko conservatives like yourself should read the 10 commandments some time--they don't include "except" clauses as you will see if you read them carefully.
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You are watching the inexorable march of fascism--it won't stop as long as people breathe. Get used to it. And no, boycotting American beer won't help.
passitontotheconsumer
Do UPS drivers need to think about anything when they do their jobs besides matching the address on the box to the one on the building?
Do corporate attorneys and accountants take out their own trash? Do they sweep the cafeteria after lunch?Do programmers ride little bicycles to power their computers? Do they mop the halls?
Should police officers tune up their own cruisers?Should programmers have octacore xeons with blinking lights on top and every little bell and whistle imaginable, like police cars do? Do programmers get a taser? Are they going to have to clean the taser?
Should surgeons and doctors clean the bathrooms in a hospital or fix the air conditioning when it breaks?Should programmers remove dirt from the heating vents and scrub the windows? Should they clean the dustbunnies behind their desks?
Your questions are as relevant as a shoe in a box of chocolates, or whatever two things don't make any sense together.
This is the paper. There were several faces more attractive than the average. So, a conclusion from that paper was that you can't do wrong with average, but you can do better on occasion.
One already exists in the format of a moderation system. Take a look at slashdot for a reasonable approximation of how such a system might work. Applying it to music should be no big leap.
These things are the domain of religion. Praise the god of domain names!
Quit spreading FUD about the religion. Quote the source if you know it and engage in a reasonable discussion.
This is interesting, but I don't see how it gives license to any one but Allah to administer the punishment.
Let me be more direct with my question: WHY DO YOU CARE?
What in the hell could you possibly mean by "inappropriate"? Immoral? Deceitful? I absolutely can not understand what the objection is. Is this religious? Does some commandment exist somewhere? #11 maybe?
Thou shalt not register a dot com if thou hath not a product that thou can sell in retail and on thy web.
Is that the commandment? I didn't see it. Am I going to hell?
Maybe it wasn't a commandment. Maybe it was merely a passage in the bible I missed?
And whence Judith did register his dot com name, he felt the wrath of God and knew he hath done wrong.
Is that the passage I missed? Is this when Judith betrayed Jesus?
Maybe registering a dot com name is the original sin? Is this why it hurts to have a baby? Why did Adam do it? That fucker! I could be living in the garden of fucking eden right now if it hadn't been for that dot com registering blasphemous fuck Adam. I bet Eve put him up to it.
Seriously, what is the big objection? Perhaps appeal to reason if you can, otherwise it reeks of zealotry. If you claim to be a hard-core capitalist and companies should get the names, then you can not deny that a dot com domain name is a commodity that should itself be subject to the principles of the open market. If I want to corner the potato market, then people can start eating rice or pony up for the potatoes. Same with dot com names. If I register, for instance "gozybab.com" because that is my band name and then some one realizes that its a cool sounding name and wants it for some online business, then they can pay me for the name or suffer. That is called capitalism. Do you see how it works?
I can't understand how this could be. This is like saying "it ticks me off to no end when someone owns land in Oklahoma when they don't even visit once in a while. Oklahoma was put there for people to farm the land." Why would you care at all? Personally, I care about a lot of stuff, but I can't possibly fathom your concern. It would help immensely if you would elaborate how it affects you personally. Otherwise you look like a nut case.
Please provide the relevant quote from the Qu'ran, I'm skeptical that this could be a valid interpretation.
Thanks for confirming this belief you have. I made no guess nor mention of which particular beliefs you have, but it seems you are protective of this belief nonetheless. Why do you feel the need to protect your belief? Is it threatened in some way? Interesting.
Quit making fun of my bad spelling or I'm going to get my compass and get Euclidian on your ass!
Show, don't tell, as I've heard said by writing teachers.
The definition is a good one to me and is thus not private. However, calling Islam a cult *is* irresponsible, if not idiotic. Islam has no official policy about one's being fair game for converting from Islam. If the Koran states such a policy, please cite it. If any person targets others for converting from Islam, my feeling is that said person would not be acting in the true spirit of Islam. I'm not Muslim or religious in any way, so I can't say these things with certainty, but from what I understand Islam, I think I am being accurate.
You are an idiot. Science doesn't confirm his beliefs, as is your interpretation because you are a believer by nature and have a tiny closed little mind like believers do. Believers believe things like angles, fairies, spooky ghosts, and that everything is here by design.
When the GP said "science confirms", he meant that it is the function of science to confirm things. Or, in other words, we use science to confirm things. Science also disproves things. So he might have said "science confirms and disproves" which would be more correct, but slightly redundant.
Idiots like yourself, on the other hand, just believe regardless of confirmation or disproof, so you are an idiot. Now please stop being idiotic.
Funny that I recall as a child, the most dangerous thing about the swimming pool is the shallow part. When I was six, the first thing I did was jump in head first. I'm lucky I didn't break my neck in the 3 foot water. I also saw somebody loose a couple of front teeth in an accident with the shallow part of a pool. Perhaps the most important thing to understand about safety features is how dangerous they are.
Find something like spit, earwax, or the gunk between your toes, do shotgun DNA sequencing, and call it a something-ome. For bonus, you could supply the sequences as an attached PDF file (I'm not kidding, something like this has been done--800 pages of PDF "supplemental material"). I find these articles in major journals about once a week and they are as boring to read as the list of ingredients on a box of cereal.
Apparently, this video explains how to do it in 5 steps, much simpler even than solving the Rubik's cube.
US trade policy is self-serving, we all know that. But couldn't the author provide some good examples to really make the point? These are pretty weak:
=> I would be willing to wager that most everyone commenting on this thread would consider that fair use.
=> Weren't the trade sanctions against Cuba put there and don't they remain there in part because of Cuban human rights abuses? The governments calling USA to task on this have companies which have "invested in Cuban business". The trademarks are not protected in the US to limit Cuban companies profiting from these trademarks in the US. If other countries want to sell their rum in the US under a protected trademark, they seem free to use a different trademark. Whether US trade sanctions against Cuba are moral or justified is a different issue from IP.
=> Legal gambling outfits in the US follow strict gambling laws that regulate, among other things, machine calibration, payout ratios, etc. Online gambling from other countries is outlawed in the USA because the mechanisms to ensure fairness can not be physically confirmed by government representatives.
Pity you have no idea what you are talking about. Its also a pity everyone wastes mod points constantly when they could save them for obvious flamebait like yours. You should really provide an example or two--and do your research too before you carelessly throw out misinformation, so you don't continue to appear so ignorant. The same goes for similar digs on linux.
Obviously a slashdotting geek to the very core. I'll take a hot pussy on my lap any day of the week.
Washington--which is a quantum superposition between Oregon and Canada.
Holy smokes! Isotopes everywhere!
I'm surprised they needed a detector to find something that, by definition, comprises all of matter.
Too bad your republican buds don't agree with you. The least amount of total spending growth was Clinton in his first term, so a democrat wins! You should vote Hillary if you really think you believe what you just said. But my guess is that you are just completely full of shit and vote republican because of your staunch, murderous, religious convictions.
But always remember what God said before you vote for another murderous leader: "Thou shalt not kill." That's in the 10 commandments and its also in the bible. By God's own law, your murderous president is going to hell because he has ordered many people dead. Religious wacko conservatives like yourself should read the 10 commandments some time--they don't include "except" clauses as you will see if you read them carefully.