No we can't. We must fight this TOOTH AND NAIL. We can't change our (americans) lives because of the terrorist attack. If we lose even the slightest amount of freedom the terrorists have WON.
We must fight the good fight and not let people in congress pass new laws. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.".
It is a tragic and sad thing that has happened. This is an attack on humanity and civilization and the world as a whole, especially americans tne symbol of freedom and capitalism CANNOT bend, we cannot break, we cannot even flex.
Will I still fly American Airlines? Yep. I always have and always will.
I am not going to change my ways of exercising my freedoms for terroists, not now, not ever.
I think something like this should give everyone new perspective, but I don't think new laws will protect us at all. Just take away our freedoms and let the terrorists win.
Not to mention these hijackers could FLY the planes themselves. Its an entirely different situation. Still I know many many delta pilots. Most of them responded they are trained to minimize life loss and would NOT have flown it into a building. They are only trained for ransom situations and told lose the least amount of life you can. But the kamikaze pilots (terrorists DID) fly the planes
Look if you know your going to forced to fly into a building would you rather kill ~50,000 people or your passengers and yourself. You know your dead anyways?
"You don't mess with the tires on a texas boys truck, or the cities of his country in the case of GWB" - Me
It is situations like this I am glad to have a president like GWB. He may be more forward than most people like but hes shown he wont be toyed with already.
You know.. our country is in a sad state of affairs when x10 is doing something helpful with their advertisement:(
Usually when something bad happens or something tragic occurs I can make people smile and make them laugh and find the brighter side of everything. Today not even I can really cheer myself up let alone others. How truly stunning and sad. I feel crushed not only from the loss of life but the symbolic gesture and the hard fight ahead of us as american people now.
We MUST NOT EVER let the terrorists take away our freedoms. There will be people in the government trying to pass very tough laws, for example a law banning encryption or something, and we must fight and fight hard. We cannot let this change our way of life AT ALL. We cannot let laws that take away our freedoms come to pass. Please people stay ever vigilant now more than ever. We cannot sacrifice our freedoms and let laws protect us, when in reality they take away our freedoms. To quote a famous quote, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. " We cannot bend, we cannot break. None of the world can.
The prime minister of israel had some good perspective on this. This is an attack against civilization, not just us americans.
Intelligence communities funding/erosian of civil rights do not coincide. Our rights have eroded very easily for a long time. Yet, Jimmy Carter is the one who removed the funding and gutted our intelligence agencies. We need coldwar level international intelligence again and NOW. We lost some of our most powerful and deeply rooted moles due to that man:(
This is very very bad. Terrorists warnings were issued last week th the state department. This is tragic and very sad.
The country is executing a full scale evacuation NATIONAL emergency plan. This is without a doubt the worst terrorist incident ever.
I don't care what anyone says to me. There is no understanding or sympathizing with any group for this. There is no need for terrorism like this to get a point across. I don't give a fuck how much your people have suffered, even americans dont deserve this for a moment. (This is just a general rant BTW).
Anyways.. if I see anothe rperson saying we had this coming I will be very sad.
This would take me a week to implement in JavaScript. Set up listeners for nearly and and all mouse events. Log them using a Javascript Object. Serialize it to XML or some tighter data format. Analyze later. The tricky part is the analysis and figuring out exactly what you want to have listeners for. Still.. not that difficult at all.
You want the song "Chuck E Cheese Hell" by Tim Wilson.
Its pretty much country but its funny enough that it should keep you entertained if you have ever been to Chuck E Cheese. It has some really great lines.
Hah, I am still working right on through the tech boom.
I love my job and got offered plenty of those, "80 dollars a hour" jobs. Lets see, offering 80 bucks an hour to someone who is 19 with a year of college and two years of full time work experience as a software developer, Hmmmmmn....
It was just too good. So, I took the lesser paying job because I knew the company I am working for would be around. Yeah I worked those crazy.com hours. The trick is I still have a job;)
Ok.. I suppose that is shaky at first thought. I think that he could speak directly to humans and instruct them. That is a given since it is written he does so in the bible. From there depending on how you believe it his son also was on earth to help us out.
I have nothing against christianity I just believe that if his plan were so well understood there would be a more universal agreement on the plan at hand. But there is not, there is a wide and disparate range of beliefs based on the bible. One group says they have it right, another says they have it right. All of these groups have some incredibly intelligent people. It all becomes matters of faith what to believe and what not to believe, for this no amount of intelligence really matters.
I can't say what you or anyone else can believe or what you can understand. I CAN say that I think given the fact that there are so many different religious factions and denominations of christianity that it is sufficiently safe to say that people interpret and believe they understand the master plan differently than other people do. And this means too me no matter my belief or non-belief in God that if all of these people are basing their beliefs more on tradition and the bible that there is some serious misinformation going on. I know you will say it is also a matter of spiritual faith and a number of other factors, not just the bible.
My point simply reamins that it is obvious fallacy to say any one person can comrehend Gods plan without him telling you directly. The bible is intentionally ambigious in my opinon and does not meet the qualifications of telling someone directly how to best worship god and live a good life in his image. I will just leave it at I think any one denomination or any one person if they think they understand everything intended for us (by God) is wrong.
If the bible can be intentionally ambigious then why can't the arguments against it? Anyhow
No kidding. Coping is not hard. I don't depend on email. It stays closed when I am working out a tough problem. Email with me is not instantaneous. It is reliable and effecient, but I dont just plan my work day around email.
If you have trouble with email close the program, tell co-workers to give you a ring or back off a little.:)
Yes air in your blood stream can and will kill you. It actually would take some real effort however. First it needs to make it into a main vein. Then it needs too be enough air, not just a small bubble but probably an entire needle full. Its impossible too remove all of the air with shots etc. Most of it yes, all of it no. I don't know the exact amount of air but I do know that it is almost an urban legend since it takes some real sheer stupidity to kill someone like that. The hazard honestly is minimal. While no one has sat down and actually tried it it would most likely take effort to kill someone with air in a syringe.
Yes the bible means different things too different christians. The christians who truly believe and do not just use the bible/religion as a crutch to support their world view I will listen too before people who do change their precepts every few weeks, after a sermon or a particular idea crosses their mind. This particular passage has questionable origin. And I think in the case the point is valid.
You will find a lot of christians using religion as a crutch to support their world view. I do agree with that statement, which is by and large why I don't attend church. But out of all the baptists I know, which is a lot living in Georgia, a few of them have never forced their beliefs on me. Those are the people I go to for advice.
I have never put any stock in the bible. I think its asanine in its own way to believe that anyone could comprehend a entity that is powerful enough to creative the universe. People need an explanation for things science has yet too explain. People need something unchanging and stable. That is religion. When you think about it our lives are full of pain and suffering by and large, and mind passification for the masses, religion if you will, really does ease things along.
My grandfather, a baptist for over 50 years has put it better than any theologist or well any preacher could ever put it.
Before I go here, lets have a discussion on the precepts of the bible and religion.. im not saying I do or dont believe this, lets just make this a clean discussion about the passage and bible.
My grandfather said the number 666 means nothing to him. He said that if you focus on the number you lose sight of the bigger picture, the fact that the work of the devil is all about. Now to look back on the bible... this makes more sense than an obscure number. While the significance of the number can never be overlooked.. reading too much into anything can cause one to lose sight of the real message. The basic idea is you can't focus on one small piece, you must look at all pieces as a whole and what they mean together, not apart. The whole idea of unity and wholeness is a certainly fond idea throughout church and the bible.
By the same token it may be an expression used in modern day to express a certain vagrance towards modern christianity, but that is all it means, its no worse than a bad word. The meaning is gathered. Anyway. Think of how many people have tatoos with 666.. is the world ending soon when some biker with a 666 tattoo comes riding through your town?:-P
Certainly using hexadecimal as the base and having 32-64 digits could help thwart this plan.
While it is still difficult to be "random" and assign a "random" and unique number for each person in the country it would not be that hard. Using hexadecimal (or an even larger base...) gives more numbers in less space for purposes of printing as well. Purely technical at least.
I am opposed to this numbering scheme in the first place.
To take a fantasy world such as Forgotten Realms as an example.
While magic users are schooled you don't really see magical artifacts, even mundane ones, mass produced. Their way to limit the mass spread of magic is to make it difficult and tedious too learn.
There is less of a "standard" cirriculum and any mage can devise their own magics easily bending reality too their will.
The interesting parallel here is in the "ancient" times of Forgotten realms, the "Netherese" become so good at magic that even the lowliest apprentice could use magic and it truly became a technology by the definition provided in your post. The technology greatly resembles our science today. Everyone could perform mundane magics nearly at will making it very shared common knowledge.
But to a barbarian magic is sorcery, so does what is magic and what is not magic merely depend on ones perception of reality, since culture greatly influence everything. Interesting thoughts anyway.
I have done some minor QT programming in windows. What a joy to program in! Writing programs in QT was like a breath of fresh air. I dont dislike C, I just found QT too be exceptional. I have seriously considered porting the KHTML component. I wonder how hard it truly would be.
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No we can't. We must fight this TOOTH AND NAIL. We can't change our (americans) lives because of the terrorist attack. If we lose even the slightest amount of freedom the terrorists have WON.
We must fight the good fight and not let people in congress pass new laws. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.".
It is a tragic and sad thing that has happened. This is an attack on humanity and civilization and the world as a whole, especially americans tne symbol of freedom and capitalism CANNOT bend, we cannot break, we cannot even flex.
Will I still fly American Airlines? Yep. I always have and always will.
I am not going to change my ways of exercising my freedoms for terroists, not now, not ever.
I think something like this should give everyone new perspective, but I don't think new laws will protect us at all. Just take away our freedoms and let the terrorists win.
Jeremy
The CNN news feed will be open again at 8AM ET. It just shut off a few minutes ago.
Jeremy
Not to mention these hijackers could FLY the planes themselves. Its an entirely different situation. Still I know many many delta pilots. Most of them responded they are trained to minimize life loss and would NOT have flown it into a building. They are only trained for ransom situations and told lose the least amount of life you can. But the kamikaze pilots (terrorists DID) fly the planes
Look if you know your going to forced to fly into a building would you rather kill ~50,000 people or your passengers and yourself. You know your dead anyways?
Jeremy
"You don't mess with the tires on a texas boys truck, or the cities of his country in the case of GWB" - Me
It is situations like this I am glad to have a president like GWB. He may be more forward than most people like but hes shown he wont be toyed with already.
News coverage is over until 8am Wednesday
You know.. our country is in a sad state of affairs when x10 is doing something helpful with their advertisement :(
Usually when something bad happens or something tragic occurs I can make people smile and make them laugh and find the brighter side of everything. Today not even I can really cheer myself up let alone others. How truly stunning and sad. I feel crushed not only from the loss of life but the symbolic gesture and the hard fight ahead of us as american people now.
We MUST NOT EVER let the terrorists take away our freedoms. There will be people in the government trying to pass very tough laws, for example a law banning encryption or something, and we must fight and fight hard. We cannot let this change our way of life AT ALL. We cannot let laws that take away our freedoms come to pass. Please people stay ever vigilant now more than ever. We cannot sacrifice our freedoms and let laws protect us, when in reality they take away our freedoms. To quote a famous quote, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. " We cannot bend, we cannot break. None of the world can.
The prime minister of israel had some good perspective on this. This is an attack against civilization, not just us americans.
Jeremy
Intelligence communities funding/erosian of civil rights do not coincide. Our rights have eroded very easily for a long time. Yet, Jimmy Carter is the one who removed the funding and gutted our intelligence agencies. We need coldwar level international intelligence again and NOW. We lost some of our most powerful and deeply rooted moles due to that man :(
Jimmy was our worst president.
Jeremy
This is the most active story on slashdot EVER And there are like four or FIVE stories on this and just one of them becomes the most active!
Jeremy
This is very very bad. Terrorists warnings were issued last week th the state department. This is tragic and very sad.
The country is executing a full scale evacuation NATIONAL emergency plan. This is without a doubt the worst terrorist incident ever.
I don't care what anyone says to me. There is no understanding or sympathizing with any group for this. There is no need for terrorism like this to get a point across. I don't give a fuck how much your people have suffered, even americans dont deserve this for a moment. (This is just a general rant BTW).
Anyways.. if I see anothe rperson saying we had this coming I will be very sad.
Jeremy
Every time it goes over a link it emits a nice electric shock so that you will notice the link. Tactile feedback.
Jeremy
This would take me a week to implement in JavaScript. Set up listeners for nearly and and all mouse events. Log them using a Javascript Object. Serialize it to XML or some tighter data format. Analyze later. The tricky part is the analysis and figuring out exactly what you want to have listeners for. Still.. not that difficult at all.
Jeremy
You want the song "Chuck E Cheese Hell" by Tim Wilson.
Its pretty much country but its funny enough that it should keep you entertained if you have ever been to Chuck E Cheese. It has some really great lines.
Jeremy
LEGO can always officially bless this OS and make it official :)
Jeremy
Hah, I am still working right on through the tech boom.
.com hours. The trick is I still have a job ;)
I love my job and got offered plenty of those, "80 dollars a hour" jobs. Lets see, offering 80 bucks an hour to someone who is 19 with a year of college and two years of full time work experience as a software developer, Hmmmmmn....
It was just too good. So, I took the lesser paying job because I knew the company I am working for would be around. Yeah I worked those crazy
Jeremy
There are ton of pet project operating systems like this. Some simple searching revelas a huge community of these DIY operating systems. :)
Jeremy
ACs at their best :)
I am not terribly familiar with dragonlance but I get the point :)
Ok.. I suppose that is shaky at first thought. I think that he could speak directly to humans and instruct them. That is a given since it is written he does so in the bible. From there depending on how you believe it his son also was on earth to help us out.
I have nothing against christianity I just believe that if his plan were so well understood there would be a more universal agreement on the plan at hand. But there is not, there is a wide and disparate range of beliefs based on the bible. One group says they have it right, another says they have it right. All of these groups have some incredibly intelligent people. It all becomes matters of faith what to believe and what not to believe, for this no amount of intelligence really matters.
I can't say what you or anyone else can believe or what you can understand. I CAN say that I think given the fact that there are so many different religious factions and denominations of christianity that it is sufficiently safe to say that people interpret and believe they understand the master plan differently than other people do. And this means too me no matter my belief or non-belief in God that if all of these people are basing their beliefs more on tradition and the bible that there is some serious misinformation going on. I know you will say it is also a matter of spiritual faith and a number of other factors, not just the bible.
My point simply reamins that it is obvious fallacy to say any one person can comrehend Gods plan without him telling you directly. The bible is intentionally ambigious in my opinon and does not meet the qualifications of telling someone directly how to best worship god and live a good life in his image. I will just leave it at I think any one denomination or any one person if they think they understand everything intended for us (by God) is wrong.
If the bible can be intentionally ambigious then why can't the arguments against it? Anyhow
No kidding. Coping is not hard. I don't depend on email. It stays closed when I am working out a tough problem. Email with me is not instantaneous. It is reliable and effecient, but I dont just plan my work day around email.
:)
If you have trouble with email close the program, tell co-workers to give you a ring or back off a little.
Coming from my gf, the med school student.
Yes air in your blood stream can and will kill you. It actually would take some real effort however. First it needs to make it into a main vein. Then it needs too be enough air, not just a small bubble but probably an entire needle full. Its impossible too remove all of the air with shots etc. Most of it yes, all of it no. I don't know the exact amount of air but I do know that it is almost an urban legend since it takes some real sheer stupidity to kill someone like that. The hazard honestly is minimal. While no one has sat down and actually tried it it would most likely take effort to kill someone with air in a syringe.
Jeremy
Yes the bible means different things too different christians. The christians who truly believe and do not just use the bible/religion as a crutch to support their world view I will listen too before people who do change their precepts every few weeks, after a sermon or a particular idea crosses their mind. This particular passage has questionable origin. And I think in the case the point is valid.
You will find a lot of christians using religion as a crutch to support their world view. I do agree with that statement, which is by and large why I don't attend church. But out of all the baptists I know, which is a lot living in Georgia, a few of them have never forced their beliefs on me. Those are the people I go to for advice.
I have never put any stock in the bible. I think its asanine in its own way to believe that anyone could comprehend a entity that is powerful enough to creative the universe. People need an explanation for things science has yet too explain. People need something unchanging and stable. That is religion. When you think about it our lives are full of pain and suffering by and large, and mind passification for the masses, religion if you will, really does ease things along.
Take that as my cynical view of it all.
Jeremy
My grandfather, a baptist for over 50 years has put it better than any theologist or well any preacher could ever put it.
:-P
Before I go here, lets have a discussion on the precepts of the bible and religion.. im not saying I do or dont believe this, lets just make this a clean discussion about the passage and bible.
My grandfather said the number 666 means nothing to him. He said that if you focus on the number you lose sight of the bigger picture, the fact that the work of the devil is all about. Now to look back on the bible... this makes more sense than an obscure number. While the significance of the number can never be overlooked.. reading too much into anything can cause one to lose sight of the real message. The basic idea is you can't focus on one small piece, you must look at all pieces as a whole and what they mean together, not apart. The whole idea of unity and wholeness is a certainly fond idea throughout church and the bible.
By the same token it may be an expression used in modern day to express a certain vagrance towards modern christianity, but that is all it means, its no worse than a bad word. The meaning is gathered. Anyway. Think of how many people have tatoos with 666.. is the world ending soon when some biker with a 666 tattoo comes riding through your town?
Jeremy
Certainly using hexadecimal as the base and having 32-64 digits could help thwart this plan.
While it is still difficult to be "random" and assign a "random" and unique number for each person in the country it would not be that hard. Using hexadecimal (or an even larger base...) gives more numbers in less space for purposes of printing as well. Purely technical at least.
I am opposed to this numbering scheme in the first place.
To take a fantasy world such as Forgotten Realms as an example.
While magic users are schooled you don't really see magical artifacts, even mundane ones, mass produced. Their way to limit the mass spread of magic is to make it difficult and tedious too learn.
There is less of a "standard" cirriculum and any mage can devise their own magics easily bending reality too their will.
The interesting parallel here is in the "ancient" times of Forgotten realms, the "Netherese" become so good at magic that even the lowliest apprentice could use magic and it truly became a technology by the definition provided in your post. The technology greatly resembles our science today. Everyone could perform mundane magics nearly at will making it very shared common knowledge.
But to a barbarian magic is sorcery, so does what is magic and what is not magic merely depend on ones perception of reality, since culture greatly influence everything. Interesting thoughts anyway.
Jeremy
I have done some minor QT programming in windows. What a joy to program in! Writing programs in QT was like a breath of fresh air. I dont dislike C, I just found QT too be exceptional. I have seriously considered porting the KHTML component. I wonder how hard it truly would be.
Jeremy