the Marriages described in The Bible allow men to have as many wives as they can afford, concubines, especially if they can't get an acceptable heir out of one of the wives, and the women are treated as property with no rights of their own.
So I guess if I wanted to have a "Biblical" marriage, I'd have to be a particularly unpleasant polygamist Mormon.
Oh, and kick each wife out of the house while she's having her period, because she's unclean.
And kill any of them who cheat on me.
Man, this "Biblical Marriage" thing sounds like far too much work, expense and surveillance. I'll stick with my current marriage. This whole "Equal Partner" thing works much better in my opinion.
And as a side note, in my experience, Lesbian couples have FUN weddings. Far less stuffy and more fun than the normal "Church, white wedding, reception at a bad event center".
Of course, the anti-spyware laws will now die before coming to a vote, as spyware is the new way to protect our safety.
Now I understand what the government meant by increasing the data they gather.
Linux probably WILL become illegal soon, as it's very nature means you could remove the government back doors if you wanted to.
I'm not sure The Shrub could have come up with a more effective way of announcing what he thinks of privacy concerns without installing two way TV sets in every home and declaring himself the be our big brother.
Screw Doom. I'm stuck with a *&%# Palm device, and have wanted to run Nethack on a portable for ages.
Sadly, Nethack for Palm has been dead for a few years, and iRouge and the other "Rouge Like" programs for Palm just don't have the features or depth of game play that Nethack does.
I recently visited your web site at falkag.com looking for information on the British edition of the new Harry Potter novel, and found the site was obscured by an ugly pop up window advertising a "Free* Laptop Computer"
I was disturbed to see that you had either stopped to the use of pop-up windows to finance the site, or had been hacked by some unscrupulous individual.
I'm writing to let you know that I will not be returning to your site until such time as the annoying, and invasive pop-up windows have been removed.
I have nothing against advertisements on web sites, as I am well aware that the content needs to be financed somehow, but I've always found text ads to be far less invasive. I've never bought NAYTHING from a pop-up ad, but I've made a number of purchases through text ads that I found on sites.
The bottom line is, I actively avoid companies that advertise through pop-up ads. For example, pop-up ads are the reason I will never buy use the travel services of Orbitz.com
Now we can see a system configured for enterprise use with enterprise grade software is completely vulnerable! Linux is a sieve! It can't protect you data, why there are millions of machines infected with Linux that can now be remotely accessed by ANOYNE for any purpose? How many of those machines are being used for kiddie porn, illegal phishing sites and other similar and equally illegal activities?
The message is clear, install Linux and your data is open to the world.
Why, I'll bet it's even accessible to file sharing networks!
That's right, if you install Linux, all the world will be able to find your Star Trek / Star Wars ? Hobbit slash fiction!
(I'd say "The nude photos you took of your wife" but we all know that Linux users are a bunch of lonely, computer obsessed geeks with no social life outside of Dungeons and Dragons.)
The above message was brought to you by the Microsoft department of Information Distribution, and will be included, with an independently verified industry research paper, in the Q2 "The real facts about Linux" web site.
This page on the ChoicePoint web site points to Choicetrust. (Insert joke about the mane choice here)
From the Choicepoint web site:
FACT Act Compliance
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) was enacted in 2003 and amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a federal law that regulates, in part, who is permitted to access your consumer report information and how it can be used. The FACT Act entitles consumers to obtain one free copy of his/her consumer file from certain consumer reporting agencies during each 12-month period.
ChoicePoint has three separate companies that maintain consumer files that are subject to the free disclosure requirement: C.L.U.E. Inc. maintains information on insurance claims histories, ChoicePoint WorkPlace Solutions Inc. maintains employment history information, and Resident Data Inc. maintains tenant history information. Each of these companies designed an easy process for consumers to request their free file disclosure.
Please note that a consumer file does not necessarily exist for you with any one of the three companies. For example, if you have not filed a claim with your auto or home insurance company during the last five years, we will not have a report on you. If you have not applied for employment with a customer that we serve, we likely will not have an employment history report on you. If you have not submitted a residential lease application with a customer that we serve, we will likely not have a tenant history report on you. To request copies of your claims history report, visit www.ChoiceTrust.com or call 1-866-312-8076.
To request a copy of your employment history report, call 1-866-312-8075.
To request a copy of your tenant history report, call 1-877-448-5732.
If you would prefer to send your request by mail, please send your name and address to the appropriate address below. A report request form will be sent to you to complete and return.
For claims history reports:
ChoicePoint Consumer Disclosure Center P.O. Box 105295 Atlanta, GA 30348
For employment history reports:
ChoicePoint WorkPlace Solutions Consumer Disclosure Center P.O. Box 105292 Atlanta, GA 30348
For tenant history reports:
Resident Data Consumer Disclosure Center P.O. Box 850126 Richardson, TX 75085-0126
The point is not the difficulty of making copies, but the difficulty involved with maintaining quality.
You admit that quality degredation is an issue when copying a DVD to VHS. Before the dawn of cheap burners and media, you still couldn't copy a DVD or CD to the same media type without quality loss. It's that difficulty in making a lossless copy combined with the less expensive manufacturing processes that made them appealing.
Of COURSE you could still copy the mew media to old tech, which is one of the big reasons for Macrovision style technology. If you try to copy a Macrovision protected DVD tor VHS you get all sorts of video issues, mostly involving rapidly fluctuating brightness and contrast.
What the media companies have been trying to do through legislation is make it illegal to rip a cd, and they've done a great job of shutting down the people who found ways to copy DVDs.
Saying "Well you can copy it to tape / VHS so your argument is silly" is a bit of a misnomer. The quality issues and the technological hoops you have to go through are not to be underestimated.
It bolsters the business models the wealthy are already using.
If real innovation were permitted, media companies would have to spend money on R&D to keep up, and even roll out new product lines instead of milking the old ones.
Do you think we'd have DVDs if people hadn't found many easy ways to copy VHS tapes? Nope. Same with CDs. They exist because they're cheaper to produce than tapes, yet can be sold for more because of the "higher quality" and because they were, at the time of their release, damn difficult to copy.
Dang, I wouldn't pay *ANY* taxes, what with me being the most evolved being on the Earth!:D
Your statement, and the fact that you're on/. are incompatible.
You're either not posting on/., or you're not the most evolved being on the Earth.
Besides, everyone knows that the peak of evolution is ensuring one's own survival and the survival of one's offspring. By that measure, the fungus spreading over most of Michigan is the most evolved organism on Earth, being almost impossible to kill, (by virtue of it's size) and untold eons in age.
As for offspring, it reproduces by budding anyway, merging with it's "young" when they encounter each other again, thus ensuring that even if it's separated from an area for a while, it can reconnect to all those resources.
Their ticker symbol is SCOX, not SCO. Don't worry, it's a mistake people have been making for as long as this story has been around.
Aside from that, you honestly think the government is going to go after a bunch of white collar criminals without a public outcry?
Oh, that's so cute. I'll bet you believe your vote is actually counted too. Your faith in the system and the government is touching. If only it were justified.
Hell, Enron resulted in a few slaps on the wrist for some people, and the retirements of most the non executive employees were tossed in a blender. And the public was up in arms over that one!
You may have found it annoying, but religion is a major motivation for a lot of people. It's not for you or me, but in society at large, a lot of people make their decisions based on their beliefs regarding a God.
Take the current Terrorism problems the US is focused on. For most of those terrorists, the core motivation is religious. While there are economic components to their actions, and the economic issues may have been The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back, Religion is the major motivating factor.
Religion is the reason Stem Cell research is so truncated and restricted in the USA, and why doctors who perform Abortions have been murdered in the streets.
It's at the center of the Euthanasia debate.
Religion, and the moral values people take from or support with it, are the driving force behind most of the banned books in the USA.
George W. Bush won the 2004 election due in a large part to the almost unified support of Conservative Christians. I personally know people who voted for Bush because Kerry was "The pro abortion candidate, and you can't have the blood of all those babies on your soul."
Religion is also the original driving force behind a lot of charity, such as the actions of the Salvation Army. It's not all bad.
While the religious motivations don't reflect why you do the things you do, it is an accurate reflection of a large percentage, perhaps even the majority, of humans on the planet.
Depending on the surveys you pay attention to, about 10% of the population is already speaking this "Alternate" language. That means the number of people speaking this alternate language number in the millions, if the masses are already in the billions.
What's more, others are starting to learn it because they're finding it better facilitates commerce and communication.
The "Standard" of which you speak is, of course, grunts and scratching, while about 10% of the populace is starting to speak Mandarin instead.
Mandarin is catching on, and the people who rely on the ambiguity of the grunts and scratches are getting nervous as it spreads. Fortunately for the masses, Mandarin is proving far easier to learn than the "Grunts and Scratches" crowd would have people believe.
Slashdot Mirror
And here I am without mod points.
Wait a second...
the Marriages described in The Bible allow men to have as many wives as they can afford, concubines, especially if they can't get an acceptable heir out of one of the wives, and the women are treated as property with no rights of their own.
So I guess if I wanted to have a "Biblical" marriage, I'd have to be a particularly unpleasant polygamist Mormon.
Oh, and kick each wife out of the house while she's having her period, because she's unclean.
And kill any of them who cheat on me.
Man, this "Biblical Marriage" thing sounds like far too much work, expense and surveillance. I'll stick with my current marriage. This whole "Equal Partner" thing works much better in my opinion.
And as a side note, in my experience, Lesbian couples have FUN weddings. Far less stuffy and more fun than the normal "Church, white wedding, reception at a bad event center".
Sorta like hiring a hacker to build your security policy?
Ever read "The Art of the Steal" or "Catch me if you Can"? Great books, even if the movie made on the latter was kinda blah.
Of course, the anti-spyware laws will now die before coming to a vote, as spyware is the new way to protect our safety.
Now I understand what the government meant by increasing the data they gather.
Linux probably WILL become illegal soon, as it's very nature means you could remove the government back doors if you wanted to.
I'm not sure The Shrub could have come up with a more effective way of announcing what he thinks of privacy concerns without installing two way TV sets in every home and declaring himself the be our big brother.
Crap.
Time to move to Canada.
Screw Doom. I'm stuck with a *&%# Palm device, and have wanted to run Nethack on a portable for ages.
Sadly, Nethack for Palm has been dead for a few years, and iRouge and the other "Rouge Like" programs for Palm just don't have the features or depth of game play that Nethack does.
No you weren't. :)
Mono just crossed over to computers. Open Source was making out with Bill Gates, and caught Mono.
Damn annoying too.
Crap.
Didn't know that.
Wait, I HAVEN'T flown in that time!
HA!
Up your Orbitz!
I recently visited your web site at falkag.com looking for information on the British edition of the new Harry Potter novel, and found the site was obscured by an ugly pop up window advertising a "Free* Laptop Computer"
I was disturbed to see that you had either stopped to the use of pop-up windows to finance the site, or had been hacked by some unscrupulous individual.
I'm writing to let you know that I will not be returning to your site until such time as the annoying, and invasive pop-up windows have been removed.
I have nothing against advertisements on web sites, as I am well aware that the content needs to be financed somehow, but I've always found text ads to be far less invasive. I've never bought NAYTHING from a pop-up ad, but I've made a number of purchases through text ads that I found on sites.
The bottom line is, I actively avoid companies that advertise through pop-up ads. For example, pop-up ads are the reason I will never buy use the travel services of Orbitz.com
Entering Balmer Mode
Yes!
Now we can see a system configured for enterprise use with enterprise grade software is completely vulnerable! Linux is a sieve! It can't protect you data, why there are millions of machines infected with Linux that can now be remotely accessed by ANOYNE for any purpose? How many of those machines are being used for kiddie porn, illegal phishing sites and other similar and equally illegal activities?
The message is clear, install Linux and your data is open to the world.
Why, I'll bet it's even accessible to file sharing networks!
That's right, if you install Linux, all the world will be able to find your Star Trek / Star Wars ? Hobbit slash fiction!
(I'd say "The nude photos you took of your wife" but we all know that Linux users are a bunch of lonely, computer obsessed geeks with no social life outside of Dungeons and Dragons.)
The above message was brought to you by the Microsoft department of Information Distribution, and will be included, with an independently verified industry research paper, in the Q2 "The real facts about Linux" web site.
Please note:
1. Posting relevant information is NOT Karma Whoring
2. Karma whoring would require me to give a damn about slashdot Karma.
Actually, you can receive a copy of your profile.
This page on the ChoicePoint web site points to Choicetrust. (Insert joke about the mane choice here)
From the Choicepoint web site:
FACT Act Compliance
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) was enacted in 2003 and amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a federal law that regulates, in part, who is permitted to access your consumer report information and how it can be used. The FACT Act entitles consumers to obtain one free copy of his/her consumer file from certain consumer reporting agencies during each 12-month period.
ChoicePoint has three separate companies that maintain consumer files that are subject to the free disclosure requirement: C.L.U.E. Inc. maintains information on insurance claims histories, ChoicePoint WorkPlace Solutions Inc. maintains employment history information, and Resident Data Inc. maintains tenant history information. Each of these companies designed an easy process for consumers to request their free file disclosure.
Please note that a consumer file does not necessarily exist for you with any one of the three companies. For example, if you have not filed a claim with your auto or home insurance company during the last five years, we will not have a report on you. If you have not applied for employment with a customer that we serve, we likely will not have an employment history report on you. If you have not submitted a residential lease application with a customer that we serve, we will likely not have a tenant history report on you.
To request copies of your claims history report, visit www.ChoiceTrust.com or call 1-866-312-8076.
To request a copy of your employment history report, call 1-866-312-8075.
To request a copy of your tenant history report, call 1-877-448-5732.
If you would prefer to send your request by mail, please send your name and address to the appropriate address below. A report request form will be sent to you to complete and return.
For claims history reports:
ChoicePoint Consumer Disclosure Center
P.O. Box 105295
Atlanta, GA 30348
For employment history reports:
ChoicePoint WorkPlace Solutions Consumer Disclosure Center
P.O. Box 105292
Atlanta, GA 30348
For tenant history reports:
Resident Data Consumer Disclosure Center
P.O. Box 850126
Richardson, TX 75085-0126
The point is not the difficulty of making copies, but the difficulty involved with maintaining quality.
You admit that quality degredation is an issue when copying a DVD to VHS. Before the dawn of cheap burners and media, you still couldn't copy a DVD or CD to the same media type without quality loss. It's that difficulty in making a lossless copy combined with the less expensive manufacturing processes that made them appealing.
Of COURSE you could still copy the mew media to old tech, which is one of the big reasons for Macrovision style technology. If you try to copy a Macrovision protected DVD tor VHS you get all sorts of video issues, mostly involving rapidly fluctuating brightness and contrast.
What the media companies have been trying to do through legislation is make it illegal to rip a cd, and they've done a great job of shutting down the people who found ways to copy DVDs.
Saying "Well you can copy it to tape / VHS so your argument is silly" is a bit of a misnomer. The quality issues and the technological hoops you have to go through are not to be underestimated.
It bolsters the business models the wealthy are already using.
If real innovation were permitted, media companies would have to spend money on R&D to keep up, and even roll out new product lines instead of milking the old ones.
Do you think we'd have DVDs if people hadn't found many easy ways to copy VHS tapes? Nope. Same with CDs. They exist because they're cheaper to produce than tapes, yet can be sold for more because of the "higher quality" and because they were, at the time of their release, damn difficult to copy.
Not as bad as if your username was "atomic_nuclear_toaster"
Dang, I wouldn't pay *ANY* taxes, what with me being the most evolved being on the Earth! :D
/. are incompatible.
/., or you're not the most evolved being on the Earth.
Your statement, and the fact that you're on
You're either not posting on
Besides, everyone knows that the peak of evolution is ensuring one's own survival and the survival of one's offspring. By that measure, the fungus spreading over most of Michigan is the most evolved organism on Earth, being almost impossible to kill, (by virtue of it's size) and untold eons in age.
As for offspring, it reproduces by budding anyway, merging with it's "young" when they encounter each other again, thus ensuring that even if it's separated from an area for a while, it can reconnect to all those resources.
And it's proving fairly resistant to pollution.
It will likely outlast our entire species.
How are humans more evolved again?
Well of COURSE your vote was counted. You're not from Ohio
Their ticker symbol is SCOX, not SCO. Don't worry, it's a mistake people have been making for as long as this story has been around.
Aside from that, you honestly think the government is going to go after a bunch of white collar criminals without a public outcry?
Oh, that's so cute. I'll bet you believe your vote is actually counted too. Your faith in the system and the government is touching. If only it were justified.
Hell, Enron resulted in a few slaps on the wrist for some people, and the retirements of most the non executive employees were tossed in a blender. And the public was up in arms over that one!
1500 m
Meters.
Not Miles.
You may have found it annoying, but religion is a major motivation for a lot of people. It's not for you or me, but in society at large, a lot of people make their decisions based on their beliefs regarding a God.
Take the current Terrorism problems the US is focused on. For most of those terrorists, the core motivation is religious. While there are economic components to their actions, and the economic issues may have been The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back, Religion is the major motivating factor.
Religion is the reason Stem Cell research is so truncated and restricted in the USA, and why doctors who perform Abortions have been murdered in the streets.
It's at the center of the Euthanasia debate.
Religion, and the moral values people take from or support with it, are the driving force behind most of the banned books in the USA.
George W. Bush won the 2004 election due in a large part to the almost unified support of Conservative Christians. I personally know people who voted for Bush because Kerry was "The pro abortion candidate, and you can't have the blood of all those babies on your soul."
Religion is also the original driving force behind a lot of charity, such as the actions of the Salvation Army. It's not all bad.
While the religious motivations don't reflect why you do the things you do, it is an accurate reflection of a large percentage, perhaps even the majority, of humans on the planet.
Although methinks that SFC is also smart enough to not even want to touch anything produced by Berman & Braga!
You DID see the "Earthsea" disaster they aired, didn't you?
While they're capable of quality programming, I don't think it's a consideration when they decide to air a show.
Lexx anyone?
And giving the rest of the world a taste of freedom.
Dude, aside from the first Gulf War, the US hasn't managed THAT hat trick since liberating South Korea.
And reaching back to WWII, a war none of the current leaders were involved in, is a REAL stretch.
Been Done
Of course, the movie is only intersting if you see the MST3K version.
We're better at starting wars we can't finish.
And condemning things to Hell.
Oh! And getting fat. We have more fat than the rest of the world combined.
You're ratios are a bit off.
Depending on the surveys you pay attention to, about 10% of the population is already speaking this "Alternate" language. That means the number of people speaking this alternate language number in the millions, if the masses are already in the billions.
What's more, others are starting to learn it because they're finding it better facilitates commerce and communication.
The "Standard" of which you speak is, of course, grunts and scratching, while about 10% of the populace is starting to speak Mandarin instead.
Mandarin is catching on, and the people who rely on the ambiguity of the grunts and scratches are getting nervous as it spreads. Fortunately for the masses, Mandarin is proving far easier to learn than the "Grunts and Scratches" crowd would have people believe.
OHHH! And an added bonus for making the code run FASTER!