Actually it's just a story, so it doesn't matter. The Bible is meant to be illustrative, not literal. For example, the sun didn't really stop moving in the sky for one whole day. That's impossible.
Some Christians insist that the bible is literal and would call you a heretic for that comment.
3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
3:10. And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid,because I was naked, and I hid myself.
They knew they were naked and they feared "god" once they had eaten of the tree of knowledge.
If this "god" were just and merciful he would not have punished them for eating of the tree of knowledge as they did not have understanding of right and wrong and therefore could not know that disobeying was wrong.
Also of course it conflicts with the "all knowing" and "all seeing" claims for god, he should have been aware of the temptation of Eve and taken steps to protect them. Not to mention his all knowing abilities should have made him aware of what would happen before he even created the garden, the trees and Adam and Eve. His omniscience seems to have failed him.
The argument I most often hear coming from Christians is: "The Bible says nudity is wrong, and we MUST make everybody else conform to our beliefs, even if they are not Christian."
That story always bugged me. Here we have Adam and Eve tramping around the garden naked and thereby sinning every day while God does nothing. Then along comes the serpent who by getting Eve to eat the apple allows them to understand that they are sinning and stop doing so.
So who is the good one? God for keeping them sinning on a daily basis and therefore dooming them to Hell?
Or is it the serpent who allowed them to understand the error of their ways, to mend those ways and repent and thereby earn the chance at heaven?
Just who is really the good one? To me it seems to be the serpent.
Furthermore, you can't reasonably expect millions of people with Yahoo mail addresses to suddenly switch to gmail simply because it's incrementally better in certain ways. Yes, back when Yahoo had a 10 megabyte limit and made you pay for more space, it made sense to switch. It makes a lot less sense to switch today because Yahoo has caught up.
Yahoo search has been marginalized by Google. But its mapping, news, financial, sports, games, and shopping sites are still used by hundreds millions of people. Yahoo is still a huge franchise and would be a rich prize for whoever acquires it.
Perhaps you can't expect people to just switch to GMail for incremental improvements but Yahoo gave me another reason. I used Yahoos financial discussion forums and found that not only was the forum in question being gamed to delete relevant discussion but those doing the gaming by false and unquestioned reports were able to get my E-Mail account connected with the discussions removed without warning or chance to defend myself. I did contact Yahoo and explain the situation and how it made their site useless to me and never recieved a response and the gaming of that discussion forum still goes on, without my taking part in the discussion and without any actual facts being allowed to be presented.
By allowing such abuse of their automated report system Yahoo drove me to GMail.
IE is no more 'integrated' than, say, khtml+Konquerer, or WebKit+Safari are.
Konquerer is integrated into KDE which is a desktop environment. KDE is not integrated into the Linux kernal. Under the License for KDE/Konquerer the source is available and anyone with the appropriate skills and resources can create their own version of KDE with their own browser, even Microsoft. Also you can use Linux with other desktop envrionments, Gnome for example.
IE (according to Microsoft) is integrated into the core OS and is inseparable. No one other than Microsoft can produce a version of Windows with another browser substituted for IE. Microsoft even has a history of forbidding OEMs from installing another browser. Can you use the Windows OS with a different Desktop Environment?
Now why did Microsoft integrate IE into Windows? To block competition while avoiding true compliance with the order not to bundle IE with Windows. By integrating they made it impossible to unbundle it and substitute your own free choice.
Bad as that may be it is still better than the DMCA. I can play those DVDs under my Linux system without violating the law. I can copy them to my hard drive without the tools or the action being illegal. Also my country is not trying to force others to create harsher copyright laws. The U.S. put Canada on a list of "copyright violators" (USTR Priority Watch List) for having our own laws rather than complying with those of the U.S.. Those on the list are to be "pressured" by the U.S. into recasting our laws in your image.
Use google to find the writings of Michael Geist on this subject. He presents the various conflicting stories put out by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA on who are the "worst" copyright offenders.
How is it that the other Anglo-Saxon countries are all WORSE than the US when it comes to digital rights and freedoms?
Canada isn't worse than the U.S. on this matter. Not even as bad yet as we have so far managed to fight off attempts by the U.S. to pressure our government into making a Canadian form of the DMCA
From January 1, the iconic sailor falls into the public domain in Britain under an EU law that restricts the rights of authors to 70 years after their death.
While the copyright is about to expire inside the EU, the character is protected in the US until 2024. US law protects a work for 95 years after its initial copyright.
The 70 years began with the death of the author. The American 95 years began with the initial copyright. Two different dates to initiate things. So the gap between them ending need not equal the difference between 95 and 70. So it was not a math error but a reading comprehension error on your part.
You can get the microwave (or a tape recorder, or a VCR) fixed by a third party (or do it yourself) depending on what part has broken.
Only Microsoft can fix these firmware issues. If the source code for the firmware was publicly available, someone could fix the problem and distribute the fixed firmware for free or for money, but since it isn't, only MS can patch it.
Which they will. So I don't see how this is a big issue.
Has Microsoft stated they will do the fix or are you just assuming that Microsoft will do the right thing?
Personally I don't trust the Hitslink site. For some reason Firefox on Windows displays it but the Firefox on Linux (or the Windows version on Wine) and Konquerer won't. Its almost like Hitslink is blocking Linux.
The Dion and his "Green Shift tax" lost the election. Dion is gone and hopefully the Liberals will drop the "Green Shift tax" from the platform. With Bob Rae no longer contending for leadership and a better platform in the next election the Liberals should make acome back.
Why? Is it the duty of defendants now to provide evidence that might be used against them when the prosecuting party is unable to find any itself?
Because sometimes (especially in corporate cases like this) only they have the evidence. In criminal cases the police may sieze your home and vehicle for example and do a detailed search. In a civil suit like this they don't normally do that but ask you to turn over specific things. In this case the records of how many such incidents occurred. How could anyone else have those records?
Imagine if you had a book published and you believed the publisher had not paid you royalties on all books sold, who has the records on the number of books sold? Only the publisher. So how could you get the evidence against them in a civil case if they can keep those records from you?
Yeah. If there is one thing businesses hate, it is CUSTOMERS.
Company to Customer: You can have any colour you want, so long as its black.
Company I used to work for (Head office not my branch): Thats the way we make/package it take it or leave it. No matter how important the customer or how much they were willing to pay for customized service.
Personally I think that being a corrupt government official should be called treason. Corrupting a government official should also be considered treason.
However, clearing customs you are not in your apartment, and, indeed, not even in the country
Actually customs IS inside the country. When a Canadian found he would be fingerprinted by the U.S. and objected they wouldn't let him go back to Canada because he was already IN the U.S. and had to abide by the U.S. law that required the fingerprinting. I found it to be rather classic, "You are not in the U.S. so we can violate the constitution" UNLESS we want to enforce U.S. law then you ARE in the country. Classic and B.S.. The Supreme Court should have struck this down ages ago.
Does the constitutional amendment giving protection against unreasonable search and seizure limit it to your home? I don't recall that.
Your using all this kneejerk idiocy, makes me wonder if it is on purpose. I suspect that it is.
1. If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear. What have you got to hide? Terrorism maybe?
B.S.. I may not have anything I need to hide but I may just prefer that my private things be private and not have some uniformed person able to arbitrarily search them. Others may be traveling with things to hide, legitimate things such as industrial secrets.
2. Terrorists are trying to destroy our freedom. We have to fight the terrorists no matter what cost!! If even one life is saved, it'll all be worth it! Can you deny it?
So in the name of saving your freedom you want to give it up? It sounds like you are surrendering to the terrorists.
3. George Bush said that if you're not with us you're against us. Obviously you've chosen to be against us! What's it like being on the same side as Obama sin Laden and all those other terrorists?
One might approve of your goals and still find your methods unacceptable and reprehensible.
4. Why do you hate America?
One may oppose what the government does in a given instance while not being against the country and the ideals it was founded upon.
5. So America did some things wrong a couple of times. America is still the best country in the world! USA! USA! USA! Why don't you go back to Terrorististan if you hate America so much?
"I vas yust following orders" was not acceptable at Nuremberg why should it be acceptable now? Those who violated the principles and laws of the country should be tried and punished under those laws no matter how well meaning they might have been.
6. Terrorist attacks have already killed thousands of people in the last few years in USA! Everybody knows that it's worth it to spend any amount to stop it happening again! If even one life is saved, it will be worth it. But you don't agree?
A quote from a novel by James P.Hogan "I believe truth and principle do matter. If you have to sacrifice them to get the results you want, then the results aren't worth it." If you have to sacrifice that which you are trying to save haven't you been defeated already?
7. Nothing is as anywhere near as dangerous as terrorist attacks. The government has to "take away your rights" to stop "terrorists blowing you up". Would you prefer to get blown up?
An example of why I think you are probably just B.S.ing. What famous American is reputed to have said "Give me Liberty or give me Death"? Do Americans really choose to give up their freedoms now out of fear of death? What would the founders think of you?
8. The Founding Fathers didn't intend that the Constitution would never get changed. They proved this by changing the Constitution when the ink was hardly even dry. (Ever heard of the Bill or Rights? Why are they called "Amendments"?) If the Constitution was perfect, it wouldn't straightaway need amending, would it?
What Constitutional amendments have been made in the last 20 years? I don't seem to recall any?
9. Were the Founding Fathers getting blowed up by suicide bombers when they were writing the Constitution? (Hint: NO they weren't! DUh! Muslims wasn't even invented back then! Osama wasn't even born!)
Another example of why I think you know this is B.S.. The U.S. goes back to the 18th century. Islam goes back to the 7th century, more than a millennium earlier.
10. If the Founding Fathers thought it was a good idea to change the Constitution, why are you pretending like it's a bad idea and they would want it unchanged?
Clustering 9 engines considering the shit they went through getting one to work. Its going to be some pretty fireworks.
So far there have been 4 Falcon 1 launches and NO engine failures. The first failure was due to corrosion on a fuel fitting. The 2nd a rotational issue due to "sloshing" in the fuel tank. The 3rd a delayed cut off in thrust due to the difference in air pressure at the testing altitude vs the operational altitude. Each time the Merlin engine worked correctly. Each mode of failure was corrected resulting in the successful launch on Sunday.
Why am I being so rough? Slashdotters seem more than willing to jump on Elon Musk's "entrepreneurial" cock but at the same time make racist statements when the Chinese government achieves a far more significant space milestone. Don't expect everyone to fall at the feet of this guy simply because he fits in with your ideological predispositions; he is quite far behind.
So because some people who post here refuse to consider that the Chinese might actually have accomplished what they say they did you are going to insult SpaceX and Musk? It's not the fault of SpaceX or Musk that some people refuse to give credit to the Chinese (presumably due to either political ideology or racism). So attacking the accomplishments of SpaceX and Musk only adds another injured party to the list.
Personally I think those who try to deny the accomplishments of the Chinese are being idiots. If they had not done what they claim by now the U.S. and Russia would be bringing forward evidence of it. The same as the U.S.S.R would have done if the U.S. had faked the Lunar landings as some claim. Of course your attacks on SpaceX and Musk are just as bad and you are no better than they are.
Number three wasn't stage seperation timing. It was how long the engine would continue to produce thrust. Even as a sceptic I stared slack jawed at the screen when I read this. How the fuck did they let that get through?
Actually it was separation timing. They had it timed to be after the predicted end of thrust but the prediction and therefore the timing was wrong.
How did it get through? The extended thrust period was caused due to the difference in air pressure at the altitude at the end of burn and the sealevel (or nearly) that they did the original test burns at. With the lower air pressure more reaction mass was able to bleed through the system, end result longer thrust than predicted.
To lose 3 consecutive craft before getting the bugs out is regrettable but understandable.
Actually I think that the author was NOT addressing the USE of Open Source but COMPETING with it as a producer of closed source software.
An article on USING closed vs Open Source would emphasize different things entirely.
One problem I see with the "lock em in" method of dominating with closed source is that sooner or later if you achieve market dominance you will rest on your laurels. At that point you will only be making changes to compel customers to upgrade not doing anything to make the customers DESIRE to upgrade. At that point some percentage of your customers are likely to seek to escape your control and take THEIR data with them. Then as your market erodes it may be too late to ever regain those customers and others will follow where the first defectors went.
I install LinuxMint as it has the DVD and MP3 and so forth codecs preinstalled. Perfectly legal here. That is at least until the U.S. buys enough politicians to get a U.S. mandated law passed here.
Ever read Machiavelli? According tho him the job of a President in a Republic is to divert attention away from the actual Wielding of Power. As such Clinton was one of the most successful Presidents ever. People were so tied up with the impeachment that they really don't know what the government was up to otherwise.
I first saw it in a bar, last night, during a football game. The entire bar went quiet to watch it, laughed at the right spots, everyone laughed out loud at the end, and some applauded.
Any ad that is best understood by drunken sports fans is likely to be very successful. I guess I'll never "get it".
Third, RACIST? What the hell? Can you PLEASE explain that, because I REALLY don't get that one. Honestly, I haven't a clue where you got that and really want to know.
One of the other guys on the show was later doing a stand up comedy act and responded to some heckling from the crowd with a racist "attack" on the heckler. He had been drinking and did apologize later.
I'm not a Seinfeld watcher and I'm not sure which of the guys did that.
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Some Christians insist that the bible is literal and would call you a heretic for that comment.
They knew they were naked and they feared "god" once they had eaten of the tree of knowledge.
If this "god" were just and merciful he would not have punished them for eating of the tree of knowledge as they did not have understanding of right and wrong and therefore could not know that disobeying was wrong.
Also of course it conflicts with the "all knowing" and "all seeing" claims for god, he should have been aware of the temptation of Eve and taken steps to protect them. Not to mention his all knowing abilities should have made him aware of what would happen before he even created the garden, the trees and Adam and Eve. His omniscience seems to have failed him.
That story always bugged me. Here we have Adam and Eve tramping around the garden naked and thereby sinning every day while God does nothing. Then along comes the serpent who by getting Eve to eat the apple allows them to understand that they are sinning and stop doing so.
So who is the good one? God for keeping them sinning on a daily basis and therefore dooming them to Hell?
Or is it the serpent who allowed them to understand the error of their ways, to mend those ways and repent and thereby earn the chance at heaven?
Just who is really the good one? To me it seems to be the serpent.
Perhaps you can't expect people to just switch to GMail for incremental improvements but Yahoo gave me another reason. I used Yahoos financial discussion forums and found that not only was the forum in question being gamed to delete relevant discussion but those doing the gaming by false and unquestioned reports were able to get my E-Mail account connected with the discussions removed without warning or chance to defend myself. I did contact Yahoo and explain the situation and how it made their site useless to me and never recieved a response and the gaming of that discussion forum still goes on, without my taking part in the discussion and without any actual facts being allowed to be presented.
By allowing such abuse of their automated report system Yahoo drove me to GMail.
Konquerer is integrated into KDE which is a desktop environment. KDE is not integrated into the Linux kernal. Under the License for KDE/Konquerer the source is available and anyone with the appropriate skills and resources can create their own version of KDE with their own browser, even Microsoft. Also you can use Linux with other desktop envrionments, Gnome for example.
IE (according to Microsoft) is integrated into the core OS and is inseparable. No one other than Microsoft can produce a version of Windows with another browser substituted for IE. Microsoft even has a history of forbidding OEMs from installing another browser. Can you use the Windows OS with a different Desktop Environment?
Now why did Microsoft integrate IE into Windows? To block competition while avoiding true compliance with the order not to bundle IE with Windows. By integrating they made it impossible to unbundle it and substitute your own free choice.
So the circumstances are different.
Bad as that may be it is still better than the DMCA. I can play those DVDs under my Linux system without violating the law. I can copy them to my hard drive without the tools or the action being illegal. Also my country is not trying to force others to create harsher copyright laws. The U.S. put Canada on a list of "copyright violators" (USTR Priority Watch List) for having our own laws rather than complying with those of the U.S.. Those on the list are to be "pressured" by the U.S. into recasting our laws in your image.
Use google to find the writings of Michael Geist on this subject. He presents the various conflicting stories put out by organizations like the RIAA and MPAA on who are the "worst" copyright offenders.
Canada isn't worse than the U.S. on this matter. Not even as bad yet as we have so far managed to fight off attempts by the U.S. to pressure our government into making a Canadian form of the DMCA
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The 70 years began with the death of the author. The American 95 years began with the initial copyright. Two different dates to initiate things. So the gap between them ending need not equal the difference between 95 and 70. So it was not a math error but a reading comprehension error on your part.
Has Microsoft stated they will do the fix or are you just assuming that Microsoft will do the right thing?
Personally I don't trust the Hitslink site. For some reason Firefox on Windows displays it but the Firefox on Linux (or the Windows version on Wine) and Konquerer won't. Its almost like Hitslink is blocking Linux.
The Dion and his "Green Shift tax" lost the election. Dion is gone and hopefully the Liberals will drop the "Green Shift tax" from the platform. With Bob Rae no longer contending for leadership and a better platform in the next election the Liberals should make acome back.
Because sometimes (especially in corporate cases like this) only they have the evidence. In criminal cases the police may sieze your home and vehicle for example and do a detailed search. In a civil suit like this they don't normally do that but ask you to turn over specific things. In this case the records of how many such incidents occurred. How could anyone else have those records?
Imagine if you had a book published and you believed the publisher had not paid you royalties on all books sold, who has the records on the number of books sold? Only the publisher. So how could you get the evidence against them in a civil case if they can keep those records from you?
Company to Customer: You can have any colour you want, so long as its black.
Company I used to work for (Head office not my branch): Thats the way we make/package it take it or leave it. No matter how important the customer or how much they were willing to pay for customized service.
DRM.
Sometimes it seems that way.
Personally I think that being a corrupt government official should be called treason. Corrupting a government official should also be considered treason.
Actually customs IS inside the country. When a Canadian found he would be fingerprinted by the U.S. and objected they wouldn't let him go back to Canada because he was already IN the U.S. and had to abide by the U.S. law that required the fingerprinting. I found it to be rather classic, "You are not in the U.S. so we can violate the constitution" UNLESS we want to enforce U.S. law then you ARE in the country. Classic and B.S.. The Supreme Court should have struck this down ages ago.
Does the constitutional amendment giving protection against unreasonable search and seizure limit it to your home? I don't recall that.
Your using all this kneejerk idiocy, makes me wonder if it is on purpose. I suspect that it is.
B.S.. I may not have anything I need to hide but I may just prefer that my private things be private and not have some uniformed person able to arbitrarily search them. Others may be traveling with things to hide, legitimate things such as industrial secrets.
So in the name of saving your freedom you want to give it up? It sounds like you are surrendering to the terrorists.
One might approve of your goals and still find your methods unacceptable and reprehensible.
One may oppose what the government does in a given instance while not being against the country and the ideals it was founded upon.
"I vas yust following orders" was not acceptable at Nuremberg why should it be acceptable now? Those who violated the principles and laws of the country should be tried and punished under those laws no matter how well meaning they might have been.
A quote from a novel by James P.Hogan "I believe truth and principle do matter. If you have to sacrifice them to get the results you want, then the results aren't worth it." If you have to sacrifice that which you are trying to save haven't you been defeated already?
An example of why I think you are probably just B.S.ing. What famous American is reputed to have said "Give me Liberty or give me Death"? Do Americans really choose to give up their freedoms now out of fear of death? What would the founders think of you?
What Constitutional amendments have been made in the last 20 years? I don't seem to recall any?
Another example of why I think you know this is B.S.. The U.S. goes back to the 18th century. Islam goes back to the 7th century, more than a millennium earlier.
Repeat of answer to #8 What Co
So far there have been 4 Falcon 1 launches and NO engine failures. The first failure was due to corrosion on a fuel fitting. The 2nd a rotational issue due to "sloshing" in the fuel tank. The 3rd a delayed cut off in thrust due to the difference in air pressure at the testing altitude vs the operational altitude. Each time the Merlin engine worked correctly. Each mode of failure was corrected resulting in the successful launch on Sunday.
So because some people who post here refuse to consider that the Chinese might actually have accomplished what they say they did you are going to insult SpaceX and Musk? It's not the fault of SpaceX or Musk that some people refuse to give credit to the Chinese (presumably due to either political ideology or racism). So attacking the accomplishments of SpaceX and Musk only adds another injured party to the list.
Personally I think those who try to deny the accomplishments of the Chinese are being idiots. If they had not done what they claim by now the U.S. and Russia would be bringing forward evidence of it. The same as the U.S.S.R would have done if the U.S. had faked the Lunar landings as some claim. Of course your attacks on SpaceX and Musk are just as bad and you are no better than they are.
Actually it was separation timing. They had it timed to be after the predicted end of thrust but the prediction and therefore the timing was wrong.
How did it get through? The extended thrust period was caused due to the difference in air pressure at the altitude at the end of burn and the sealevel (or nearly) that they did the original test burns at. With the lower air pressure more reaction mass was able to bleed through the system, end result longer thrust than predicted.
To lose 3 consecutive craft before getting the bugs out is regrettable but understandable.
Failures during development are expected.
Actually I think that the author was NOT addressing the USE of Open Source but COMPETING with it as a producer of closed source software.
An article on USING closed vs Open Source would emphasize different things entirely.
One problem I see with the "lock em in" method of dominating with closed source is that sooner or later if you achieve market dominance you will rest on your laurels. At that point you will only be making changes to compel customers to upgrade not doing anything to make the customers DESIRE to upgrade. At that point some percentage of your customers are likely to seek to escape your control and take THEIR data with them. Then as your market erodes it may be too late to ever regain those customers and others will follow where the first defectors went.
I install LinuxMint as it has the DVD and MP3 and so forth codecs preinstalled. Perfectly legal here. That is at least until the U.S. buys enough politicians to get a U.S. mandated law passed here.
I breathe under water just fine. Breathing in water is the killer.
Ever read Machiavelli? According tho him the job of a President in a Republic is to divert attention away from the actual Wielding of Power. As such Clinton was one of the most successful Presidents ever. People were so tied up with the impeachment that they really don't know what the government was up to otherwise.
Any ad that is best understood by drunken sports fans is likely to be very successful. I guess I'll never "get it".
One of the other guys on the show was later doing a stand up comedy act and responded to some heckling from the crowd with a racist "attack" on the heckler. He had been drinking and did apologize later.
I'm not a Seinfeld watcher and I'm not sure which of the guys did that.
They used to provide a Unix version and a Mac version of IE. Why did they stop? If they did it once before why can't they do it again?