The point is there is no reason to switch from 1156 to 1155 pins. And even if there were a reason, there's no reason not to be compatible (beyond the few extra cents it would cost per part).
AMD sockets have lasted a long time and have great compatibility. You can generally use their use sockets with different generations of CPUs and vice versa. AMD's doin' it very right in this regard.
And now you can't make any opensource implementation of it. That's why Theora and the like are useful; everyone is free to implement it.
Here's the thing about that - No one gives a shit. Inferior shit is free and open. Superior shit is essentially free to consumers. All hardware sold supports the closed formats, and any hardware project supporting only the open formats would never be able to compete on price to the extent where the user saw a difference because of the lack of licensing costs. All software to encode is either not needed by users (because they aren't creating their own content), or comes bundled with something they have anyway (iTunes, WMP, Nero), or is pirated (Nero AAC encoder that everyone uses despite only 8 people on the planet actually paying for Nero and its add-on plugins), or is a free, but hacked and illegal implementation based off of a closed source implementation. Superior shit is better than free for producers - it makes money. People selling content have to foot the bandwidth bill, they have to make their shit look and sound good, etc. Paying for the proper licensing to do this is a drop in the bucket compared to what you get out of it. And all the big boys get free licenses forever anyway because they're part of the patent pool.
Bottom line is that the open source shit in this case is simply inferior. Blindly supporting only the open source codecs is detrimental to whatever you're doing, and exhibits toddler levels of stubbornness and whining.
The correct term is "NOISE". I'd be fine with hipsters and audiophiles if they just admitted "I like hearing noise. I prefer what is, in every mathematical, scientific, or other objective measure, inferior.". But they never say that. They claim what they like is better, and offer up countless meaningless terms to describe audio and how it pleases them. We have this thing called an oscilloscope. It has proven every single audiophile claim with regards to hardware false. Yes, cheap digital amps produce trash. Good digital amps don't. The only way an audiophile can show a tube to be better than digital is to cherry pick both ends and ignore the 1000% price difference.
Yep, I was going to say you must not be a musician or know many if you think vacuum tubes are not still around. Amps with tubes sound superior to amps without them.
It's been ages since I've heard audiophile talk. Yup. It's still bullshit. Audiophiles are worse than the "The moon landing was a hoax!!" nutjobs.
When people with machine guns come and tell you "turn off your internet or we will kill you, your family, and just bulldoze the building" - I'd say about 99.999999% of people would comply without blinking. Your "protest" of the engineers would be nothing more than a philosophical circle jerk.
The tricky thing is you're 100.0000000% wrong. Nothing causes people to rally to a cause, violently, like a martyr.
Risk of death? Sure. "nothing more than a philosophical circle jerk"? Hardly.
I can see you're between the ages of 13 and 30, and are a typical internet cynic. May I suggest reading a history book? Or perhaps, turning on the news and watching what is happening, right now, in Egypt? Do you really think Americans, a well-armed populace to put it lightly, could not do the same if so moved to action?
But as oppressive as things have been, he could have ordered a brutal crack down on the protesters.
He did. The commanders of his military all said "fuck that", and his order went ignored. All he has left at his command is the regular police force, and he likely won't have that for long.
Things aren't as bad as they could have been not because he showed any degree of restraint or sanity, but because his generals didn't join him on the oblivious power trip.
What I love in stories like this is the implication that Apple actually gets to CHOOSE when the warranty applies. This is wrong for at least two reasons:
1. You have private rights against Apple which you are entitled to enforce.
2. You have statutory rights which Apple cannot simply declare to be null and void.
Because Steve Jobs and his lackeys at the genius bar give a shit about your rights. Oh, wait.
It costs more in time and effort to sue them than is worthwhile for 99.9999% of people.
a JIT that can optimize to any specific architecture at runtime will probably outperform the native code objects, since no developer has thousands of dollars and enough time to optimize, test and debug for each CPU model.
What the FUCK is this shit?
Code compiled to actual machine code will always be faster than something that has to be compiled on the fly.
Most developers worth a damn DO have "thousands of dollars" and plenty of time to test, debug, and optimize for many platforms - they choose not to test in general because no one hold developers responsible for their fuck ups anymore.
And they'd get no additional benefit to testing the same code across multiple platforms. Either it works or it's the platform's, or rarely, the compiler's, fault. This is why you design for the lowest common denominator of the hardware you plan to support.
Developers don't have to spend vast amounts of extra money or time to compile or test for different platforms. You just set a fucking flag for your target architecture when you call your compiler. If it builds runs, and in general doesn't explode, it's as good to go as it was on the other platforms. Any cross-platform fuckups at this point would occur with a VM setup as well.
You have to get some antibiotics from the pharmacy in the lobby of Mt. Doom.
One does not simply WALK up to the counter. One must form a line 5 feet from the counter for the other customers's privacy, and then wait for the "pharmacy tech" to move 30 pills from the bottle of 300 pills to a smaller, empty bottle.
This bacteria can cause genetic changes in the stomach lining which lead to stomach cancer. I had the bacteria about 10 years ago, and the cocktail of antibiotics they give you for treatment is a nauseous nightmare.
I'd like to know what sort of bacteria alter my DNA.
Then I'd like to patent, copyright, trademark, etc. it. That way Stan Lee can't use it for the basis of another shitty universe where the GENETIC MUTATION cop out is the back story for every DC ripoff character he dreams up.
Just remember, people, that "unlimited" data plans in the US actually cap out at 5GB/month for almost everyone in almost every situation. The only truly un-metered data services I'm aware of are Sprint's plans for phones that offer 4G service or for circumstances where a user was grandfathered in on a contract that offered truly unlimited data service (e.g. Sprint SERO).
Just remember, person, that unlimited data plans in the US actually are unlimited for a sizable portion of subscribers in many situations. Anyone who thought internet on a phone was worthwhile before the iPhone came out had, or had the option for, such a plan. MANY people are grandfathered in, and AT&T will NOT be kicking them off their contracts because they'll just leave.
I have an unlimited data plan. As many kaybees and geebees as I want. In an fashion. Via any cellular transceiver that uses the IDs my SIM card provides. $10 / month.
I got my data plan BEFORE the original iPhone launched. My data plan is ACTUALLY unlimited - no fine print hidden cap. My data plan INCLUDES tethering (because it makes zero mention of it - it's a DATA PLAN and I get DATA to do with as I please). My data plan costs $10 / month.
Researchers say that about 100 people (called pirates in the article) are responsible for 75 percent of all downloading on BitTorrent (and the same group does 66 percent of all uploading),
So if they upload about 66% of the content then why does the headline say that they upload 75%?
I think at this point we should feel lucky that slashdot didn't take the "66%" and "75%" and resize our browser window.
And I was sure they'd fix some major bugs that have persisted for years. Nope.
You still cannot disable slashboxes. If you disable them, then save, they just get reenabled and you get a default/random set. To solve this, I have disabled every box except the "User Space" box, and in the user space textbox I put "fuck this box".
Many of the new options don't work either. I can't disable the categories on the left side. Telling the damned thing to not use tags removes the tags, but it leaves the tag section header (GIANT TEXT THAT SAYS LOOK AT THESE TAGS!), and the miles of associated whitespace. I can't disable both stories and other content from the recent and popular sections. It just reverts to the defaults when I uncheck both boxes. There are no less than 3 options referring to the size of the page, layout or browser. None of them are actually explained. The options for disabling the fancy graphics don't seem to do shit. Everything still looks web shit.0 to me. The options for headlines / other content appear in different places in both of the option dialogs. Same goes for the enable/disable slashboxes shit. I can no longer exclude the Idle section. Sure, I can exclude the term idle, but I have no idea what that applies to - tags? headlines? TFS? Idle is a valid word and I'm not going to blindly filter out anything containing it.
And some other shit.
And why is everything after the story arranged vertically? I have to scroll a full page on 1280x1024 to get to the comments now. Giant twitter and email icons, a giant comment count, a "post a comment" link, a giant tag section, a giant "you may also like..." section, another header and count for the comments (and this count only shows the comments displayed, which is STILL capped at 250, fuckyouverymuch), a giant "Poct a Comment" button, then the fine print, THEN THE COMMENTS. Holy fuck this is retarded.
And of course we have 2 separate options sections. Each with multiple pages. Both are modal dialogs. And if you make a change on one page of one comment section, then click to another page, your change is lost. You have to make a change, Save, reopen the modal dialog because the save action closed it, navigate to the next page of options, make changes, save, repeat.
I'm all for shitting on new designs because it's fun, but I'm also all for shitting on designs when they just plain suck and don't fucking work. Today, I get to have my cake and eat it too.
But Terms of Service aren't magical spells. They still have to hold up to legal scrutiny. This one fails in a dozen different ways, but the key point is that the person who uploads the "IP" does not necessarily have the RIGHT to sublicense it to Facebook, even if they were aware of the terms and agreed to them.
If you upload photos of the family BBQ, any photo you did not personally take or get an express and full license to, is legally off-limits as far as facebook's new ploy is concerned.
And for photos you took yourself, you could always claim that you, the photographer, granted explicit, non-transferrable, non-sublicenseable rights for you, the facebook user, to use the image on facebook.
Beyond that, of course, is the whole quagmire of the rights of the people in the photos.
Fine... The let's talk about "God told me to invade Iraq" George W. Bush, who made-up reasons to invade a country and kill 100,000 civilians. And he did it in the name of America, God, and Haliburton. He's the biggest mass-murderer in recent history and he claims that God himself told him to invade -- making it an invasion in the name Christianity.
God told me to write this post. However, that doesn't make this a Christian post, nor does it make the content of this post the responsibility/fault of Christianity.
"They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Where's the part where Jesus gives this plan the thumbs up? (It's not there because Jesus don't roll like that.)
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)"
Again, who's saying this? Is it God/Jesus?(protip: no.)
"If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him." (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
It doesn't? Hum. I must have dreamed that Exodus 2, Chapter 21-23 was in that book. And Jeremy 14 probably wasn't there either. Judges 19? Never seen that one. 1. Timothy? Of course not!
And which of those quotes say it is good or right for people to kill each other, treat others as property, etc.? Hint: None of them.
Exodus 2:21-23 is Moses saving 2 girls from slavery, their father inviting him to stay with them, him and one of the girls gettin it on, the father giving them his blessing, and her having a kid.
Jeremiah 14 is God punishing the wicked. He tends to do that. He's the one that gets to judge and punish, though, not people.
Judges 19 is about a traveler. On his way back home from trying to get his wife (who's pissed at him) to come back home with him (she's been staying with her father), they need a palce to stay. Dude's servant's all like "let's stop here", but the dude's all like "no way, they're not God's people! We'll go 10 more miles to Gibeah, that's a good God-fearing town.". They get to Gibeah and have to sleep in the street because no one will take them in, but after a while they are taken in by an old man returning from working in the field. Turns out the dude is the nicest one in the town, and he's just a sojourner - he doesn't even live there! And even though it's a city full of "God's people", a gang of thugs beats the door down, wanting to rob and generally fuck up the stranger in town. The old dude tells them to gtfo, but they won't. Then he offers up the sexual services of his daughter and the dude's concubine (yeah, he had a concubine with him when he went to try to apologize to his wife) to appease them. They don't give a shit. So the guy finally comes to the door and says "Take my whore, please don't hurt me! You can't abuse her all you want!". So they do. She crawls back to the old dude's house at like 5 AM, but dies. The man carries her body back home, carves her up into 12 pieces and distributes them across the land.
The man was a coward and had a weird way of coping with his guilt. The Bible clearly states that the marauding gang was evil, and it doesn't condone the men trying to buy them off by offering up women as property. Cutting the whore up and distributing her bits and pieces about is a metaphor. Doing this is supposed to be the man's way of reminding people that evil exists even within those cities where "God's people" reside. Remember - the people of the town refused to take him in, and the old man who wasn't even from there was the kindest person they met there. And the violent gang who fucked a girl to death? They were from that "good" town. Basically, it's a metaphor.
1st book of Timothy? God tells some dudes to go teach people about him, and to tell others to stop teaching about other gods which aren't real.
You can't just throw out random passages like that. There are people out there who've actually read the Bible and know that you're just making shit up.
Any faith which requires money be paid to anyone, bar none, is corrupt. Faith should never cost nor earn a paycheck for anyone.
Then, you'll be pleased to know of the following exploits by Jesus.
Matthew 21:12-13 (New American Standard Bible)
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
Mark 11:15-18
15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;
16 and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple.
17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘ MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS’? But you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
18 The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
Luke 19:45-47
45 Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,
46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,’ but you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
47 And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,
John 2:13-16
13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.
15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”
Likewise faith should never dictate anything regarding offspring.
And why not?
Now I'm not religious, but I'd sure as fuck rather be called a Christian than an atheist. Atheists are fucking assholes. Every single fucking one. And guess what - they have as much evidence for their beliefs as the Christians do!
Buddhism is not a religion, but thanks for playing all the same.
Said like a man of true ignorance.
Except that Buddhism is NOT a religion. It's a school of thought. It focuses on peace, harmony, etc. The fact the people practice it as if it were a religion, or tack on their own supernatural back story (which flies in the face of the actual teachings) is irrelevant.
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The point is there is no reason to switch from 1156 to 1155 pins.
And even if there were a reason, there's no reason not to be compatible (beyond the few extra cents it would cost per part).
AMD sockets have lasted a long time and have great compatibility. You can generally use their use sockets with different generations of CPUs and vice versa. AMD's doin' it very right in this regard.
And now you can't make any opensource implementation of it. That's why Theora and the like are useful; everyone is free to implement it.
Here's the thing about that - No one gives a shit.
Inferior shit is free and open.
Superior shit is essentially free to consumers. All hardware sold supports the closed formats, and any hardware project supporting only the open formats would never be able to compete on price to the extent where the user saw a difference because of the lack of licensing costs. All software to encode is either not needed by users (because they aren't creating their own content), or comes bundled with something they have anyway (iTunes, WMP, Nero), or is pirated (Nero AAC encoder that everyone uses despite only 8 people on the planet actually paying for Nero and its add-on plugins), or is a free, but hacked and illegal implementation based off of a closed source implementation.
Superior shit is better than free for producers - it makes money. People selling content have to foot the bandwidth bill, they have to make their shit look and sound good, etc. Paying for the proper licensing to do this is a drop in the bucket compared to what you get out of it. And all the big boys get free licenses forever anyway because they're part of the patent pool.
Bottom line is that the open source shit in this case is simply inferior. Blindly supporting only the open source codecs is detrimental to whatever you're doing, and exhibits toddler levels of stubbornness and whining.
These boards will be produced for long period of time
So the 5 seconds between Intel's current socket and Intel's new, 100% incompatible, exactly-the-same socket is a "long period of time" now?
or Mark... I just saw the Social Network :)
Oh please. Like Zuckerborg would filter away a single bit.
"natural harmonic distortion or volume dynamics"
The correct term is "NOISE".
I'd be fine with hipsters and audiophiles if they just admitted "I like hearing noise. I prefer what is, in every mathematical, scientific, or other objective measure, inferior.". But they never say that. They claim what they like is better, and offer up countless meaningless terms to describe audio and how it pleases them. We have this thing called an oscilloscope. It has proven every single audiophile claim with regards to hardware false. Yes, cheap digital amps produce trash. Good digital amps don't. The only way an audiophile can show a tube to be better than digital is to cherry pick both ends and ignore the 1000% price difference.
Yep, I was going to say you must not be a musician or know many if you think vacuum tubes are not still around. Amps with tubes sound superior to amps without them.
It's been ages since I've heard audiophile talk. Yup. It's still bullshit.
Audiophiles are worse than the "The moon landing was a hoax!!" nutjobs.
Nothing you can afford can handle a "Big DDOS attack".
No need to pick nits about how it is managed or configured.
Nothing anyone but Bill, Steve, or Oprah can afford can handle a "Big DDOS attack".
The very nature of the internet makes this so.
When people with machine guns come and tell you "turn off your internet or we will kill you, your family, and just bulldoze the building" - I'd say about 99.999999% of people would comply without blinking. Your "protest" of the engineers would be nothing more than a philosophical circle jerk.
The tricky thing is you're 100.0000000% wrong.
Nothing causes people to rally to a cause, violently, like a martyr.
Risk of death? Sure.
"nothing more than a philosophical circle jerk"? Hardly.
I can see you're between the ages of 13 and 30, and are a typical internet cynic. May I suggest reading a history book? Or perhaps, turning on the news and watching what is happening, right now, in Egypt? Do you really think Americans, a well-armed populace to put it lightly, could not do the same if so moved to action?
But as oppressive as things have been, he could have ordered a brutal crack down on the protesters.
He did.
The commanders of his military all said "fuck that", and his order went ignored.
All he has left at his command is the regular police force, and he likely won't have that for long.
Things aren't as bad as they could have been not because he showed any degree of restraint or sanity, but because his generals didn't join him on the oblivious power trip.
What I love in stories like this is the implication that Apple actually gets to CHOOSE when the warranty applies. This is wrong for at least two reasons:
1. You have private rights against Apple which you are entitled to enforce.
2. You have statutory rights which Apple cannot simply declare to be null and void.
Because Steve Jobs and his lackeys at the genius bar give a shit about your rights.
Oh, wait.
It costs more in time and effort to sue them than is worthwhile for 99.9999% of people.
a JIT that can optimize to any specific architecture at runtime will probably outperform the native code objects, since no developer has thousands of dollars and enough time to optimize, test and debug for each CPU model.
What the FUCK is this shit?
Code compiled to actual machine code will always be faster than something that has to be compiled on the fly.
Most developers worth a damn DO have "thousands of dollars" and plenty of time to test, debug, and optimize for many platforms - they choose not to test in general because no one hold developers responsible for their fuck ups anymore.
And they'd get no additional benefit to testing the same code across multiple platforms. Either it works or it's the platform's, or rarely, the compiler's, fault. This is why you design for the lowest common denominator of the hardware you plan to support.
Developers don't have to spend vast amounts of extra money or time to compile or test for different platforms. You just set a fucking flag for your target architecture when you call your compiler. If it builds runs, and in general doesn't explode, it's as good to go as it was on the other platforms. Any cross-platform fuckups at this point would occur with a VM setup as well.
You have to get some antibiotics from the pharmacy in the lobby of Mt. Doom.
One does not simply WALK up to the counter.
One must form a line 5 feet from the counter for the other customers's privacy, and then wait for the "pharmacy tech" to move 30 pills from the bottle of 300 pills to a smaller, empty bottle.
Ulcers are predominately caused hy the bacteria H. Pylori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori
This bacteria can cause genetic changes in the stomach lining which lead to stomach cancer. I had the bacteria about 10 years ago, and the cocktail of antibiotics they give you for treatment is a nauseous nightmare.
I'd like to know what sort of bacteria alter my DNA.
Then I'd like to patent, copyright, trademark, etc. it. That way Stan Lee can't use it for the basis of another shitty universe where the GENETIC MUTATION cop out is the back story for every DC ripoff character he dreams up.
<i>Oh hi there.</i>
<em>Oh hi there.</em>
Just remember, people, that "unlimited" data plans in the US actually cap out at 5GB/month for almost everyone in almost every situation. The only truly un-metered data services I'm aware of are Sprint's plans for phones that offer 4G service or for circumstances where a user was grandfathered in on a contract that offered truly unlimited data service (e.g. Sprint SERO).
Just remember, person, that unlimited data plans in the US actually are unlimited for a sizable portion of subscribers in many situations.
Anyone who thought internet on a phone was worthwhile before the iPhone came out had, or had the option for, such a plan.
MANY people are grandfathered in, and AT&T will NOT be kicking them off their contracts because they'll just leave.
I have an unlimited data plan. As many kaybees and geebees as I want. In an fashion. Via any cellular transceiver that uses the IDs my SIM card provides.
$10 / month.
I got my data plan BEFORE the original iPhone launched.
My data plan is ACTUALLY unlimited - no fine print hidden cap.
My data plan INCLUDES tethering (because it makes zero mention of it - it's a DATA PLAN and I get DATA to do with as I please).
My data plan costs $10 / month.
No way in hell I'm giving that contract up.
Researchers say that about 100 people (called pirates in the article) are responsible for 75 percent of all downloading on BitTorrent (and the same group does 66 percent of all uploading),
So if they upload about 66% of the content then why does the headline say that they upload 75%?
I think at this point we should feel lucky that slashdot didn't take the "66%" and "75%" and resize our browser window.
And I was sure they'd fix some major bugs that have persisted for years.
Nope.
You still cannot disable slashboxes. If you disable them, then save, they just get reenabled and you get a default/random set.
To solve this, I have disabled every box except the "User Space" box, and in the user space textbox I put "fuck this box".
Many of the new options don't work either.
I can't disable the categories on the left side.
Telling the damned thing to not use tags removes the tags, but it leaves the tag section header (GIANT TEXT THAT SAYS LOOK AT THESE TAGS!), and the miles of associated whitespace.
I can't disable both stories and other content from the recent and popular sections. It just reverts to the defaults when I uncheck both boxes.
There are no less than 3 options referring to the size of the page, layout or browser. None of them are actually explained.
The options for disabling the fancy graphics don't seem to do shit. Everything still looks web shit.0 to me.
The options for headlines / other content appear in different places in both of the option dialogs.
Same goes for the enable/disable slashboxes shit.
I can no longer exclude the Idle section. Sure, I can exclude the term idle, but I have no idea what that applies to - tags? headlines? TFS? Idle is a valid word and I'm not going to blindly filter out anything containing it.
And some other shit.
And why is everything after the story arranged vertically? I have to scroll a full page on 1280x1024 to get to the comments now.
Giant twitter and email icons, a giant comment count, a "post a comment" link, a giant tag section, a giant "you may also like..." section, another header and count for the comments (and this count only shows the comments displayed, which is STILL capped at 250, fuckyouverymuch), a giant "Poct a Comment" button, then the fine print, THEN THE COMMENTS. Holy fuck this is retarded.
And of course we have 2 separate options sections. Each with multiple pages. Both are modal dialogs. And if you make a change on one page of one comment section, then click to another page, your change is lost. You have to make a change, Save, reopen the modal dialog because the save action closed it, navigate to the next page of options, make changes, save, repeat.
I'm all for shitting on new designs because it's fun, but I'm also all for shitting on designs when they just plain suck and don't fucking work.
Today, I get to have my cake and eat it too.
But Terms of Service aren't magical spells. They still have to hold up to legal scrutiny. This one fails in a dozen different ways, but the key point is that the person who uploads the "IP" does not necessarily have the RIGHT to sublicense it to Facebook, even if they were aware of the terms and agreed to them.
If you upload photos of the family BBQ, any photo you did not personally take or get an express and full license to, is legally off-limits as far as facebook's new ploy is concerned.
And for photos you took yourself, you could always claim that you, the photographer, granted explicit, non-transferrable, non-sublicenseable rights for you, the facebook user, to use the image on facebook.
Beyond that, of course, is the whole quagmire of the rights of the people in the photos.
The early copy of the speech is included below.
I think it needs a bit more tweaking.
"My fellow Americans. I dun goofed!"
Fine... The let's talk about "God told me to invade Iraq" George W. Bush, who made-up reasons to invade a country and kill 100,000 civilians. And he did it in the name of America, God, and Haliburton. He's the biggest mass-murderer in recent history and he claims that God himself told him to invade -- making it an invasion in the name Christianity.
God told me to write this post.
However, that doesn't make this a Christian post, nor does it make the content of this post the responsibility/fault of Christianity.
See how that works?
"They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Where's the part where Jesus gives this plan the thumbs up? (It's not there because Jesus don't roll like that.)
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)"
Again, who's saying this? Is it God/Jesus?(protip: no.)
"If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him." (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Etc.
It doesn't? Hum. I must have dreamed that Exodus 2, Chapter 21-23 was in that book. And Jeremy 14 probably wasn't there either. Judges 19? Never seen that one. 1. Timothy? Of course not!
And which of those quotes say it is good or right for people to kill each other, treat others as property, etc.? Hint: None of them.
Exodus 2:21-23 is Moses saving 2 girls from slavery, their father inviting him to stay with them, him and one of the girls gettin it on, the father giving them his blessing, and her having a kid.
Jeremiah 14 is God punishing the wicked. He tends to do that. He's the one that gets to judge and punish, though, not people.
Judges 19 is about a traveler. On his way back home from trying to get his wife (who's pissed at him) to come back home with him (she's been staying with her father), they need a palce to stay. Dude's servant's all like "let's stop here", but the dude's all like "no way, they're not God's people! We'll go 10 more miles to Gibeah, that's a good God-fearing town.". They get to Gibeah and have to sleep in the street because no one will take them in, but after a while they are taken in by an old man returning from working in the field. Turns out the dude is the nicest one in the town, and he's just a sojourner - he doesn't even live there! And even though it's a city full of "God's people", a gang of thugs beats the door down, wanting to rob and generally fuck up the stranger in town. The old dude tells them to gtfo, but they won't. Then he offers up the sexual services of his daughter and the dude's concubine (yeah, he had a concubine with him when he went to try to apologize to his wife) to appease them. They don't give a shit. So the guy finally comes to the door and says "Take my whore, please don't hurt me! You can't abuse her all you want!". So they do. She crawls back to the old dude's house at like 5 AM, but dies. The man carries her body back home, carves her up into 12 pieces and distributes them across the land.
The man was a coward and had a weird way of coping with his guilt. The Bible clearly states that the marauding gang was evil, and it doesn't condone the men trying to buy them off by offering up women as property. Cutting the whore up and distributing her bits and pieces about is a metaphor. Doing this is supposed to be the man's way of reminding people that evil exists even within those cities where "God's people" reside. Remember - the people of the town refused to take him in, and the old man who wasn't even from there was the kindest person they met there. And the violent gang who fucked a girl to death? They were from that "good" town. Basically, it's a metaphor.
1st book of Timothy? God tells some dudes to go teach people about him, and to tell others to stop teaching about other gods which aren't real.
You can't just throw out random passages like that. There are people out there who've actually read the Bible and know that you're just making shit up.
Any faith which requires money be paid to anyone, bar none, is corrupt. Faith should never cost nor earn a paycheck for anyone.
Then, you'll be pleased to know of the following exploits by Jesus.
Matthew 21:12-13 (New American Standard Bible)
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
Mark 11:15-18
15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;
16 and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple.
17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘ MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS’? But you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
18 The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
Luke 19:45-47
45 Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,
46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,’ but you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
47 And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,
John 2:13-16
13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.
15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”
Likewise faith should never dictate anything regarding offspring.
And why not?
Now I'm not religious, but I'd sure as fuck rather be called a Christian than an atheist. Atheists are fucking assholes. Every single fucking one. And guess what - they have as much evidence for their beliefs as the Christians do!
Buddhism is not a religion, but thanks for playing all the same.
Said like a man of true ignorance.
Except that Buddhism is NOT a religion.
It's a school of thought. It focuses on peace, harmony, etc. The fact the people practice it as if it were a religion, or tack on their own supernatural back story (which flies in the face of the actual teachings) is irrelevant.