Hermiticism does not involve family. Preservation of life is not an absolute moral imperitive, either, as it is often morally acceptable to kill when defending your country or loved ones. Your arguments are flawed. There are no moral absolutes. Except perhaps that self gratification is the goal behind every human action. Then again, that's just an absolute...:)
I did find it particularly amusing that he mentioned the gun issue after explicitly stating at the beginning of the article that there is nothing wrong with the Autobahn just because it was partially a product of Hitler (as was Volkswagan...). Criticism of his usage of one movement to further another unrelated one does have a leg to stand on, however the mentioning of the particular second issue in a negative and sensationalistic light to the detriment of the character of a proponent of the first issue is nothing more than an UNETHICAL means by which to slander the first issue. I do agree with some of his early statements in the article, but it seems that after a few initial steps he then falls into the pattern of sensationalism and unfair comparisons between extreme cases... rather than taking general cases of both free software and commercial software and then maybe also consideration to the extreme cases. Some of his issues are valid, but much of his article seems to fall apart once he strays from fact.
It seems like a dangerous idea to have people using these things without a license requirement. How much of a negative effect to the helicopter's operation would be produced by putting a metal cage around the blade part (like some fans have)?
Well, I have been using linux intensively on my system for the past several weeks now, and there have been several things that bug me. Number one is the plethora of different appearances of programs, I suppose dependent on what toolkit was used for widgets. Secondly is the not-necessarily logical setup of directories (like the several different etc directories). None of these things are easily explainable, and it took me forever to even find out what to call the filesystem structure just in order to find the FHS documents to explain it to myself (and I'm still not totally in the clear:) ). I think that these standards should be explained in every distribution, and that there should be a generalized toolkit used for compiling X apps that will then draw on the widgets and functions of a particular UI. Dan
Speaking of things only working through IE, have you ever noticed problems reaching certain parts of the www.microsoft.com site? Especially the download area? I've noticed that their server reads the User-Agent field and if it doesn't match IE's then it give you errors. I've tested this by modifying that field to match IE's through a program called Proxomitron and all the downloads then work fine... I'd be interested to hear someone else's comments on this...
Yes, but this is bad because X-Files didn't used to, and shouldn't just cater to the lowest common denominator. I understand the extra explanations they have to work into dialog for non-scientifically inclined viewers to understand the plot, but when the plot itself has no validity whatsoever then it's really not living up to the spirit of the show.
I find it amusing that much of the audience that I watched the movie with did not really understand ut, and left saying, "I don't get it." The background comments of people, which normally would offend me, along with their utter confusion, gave me a sense of what it must have been like to have been at one of Andy's shows. Funny how the movie vexed the audience much how Andy used to.
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Hermiticism does not involve family. Preservation of life is not an absolute moral imperitive, either, as it is often morally acceptable to kill when defending your country or loved ones. Your arguments are flawed. There are no moral absolutes. Except perhaps that self gratification is the goal behind every human action. Then again, that's just an absolute... :)
I did find it particularly amusing that he mentioned the gun issue after explicitly stating at the beginning of the article that there is nothing wrong with the Autobahn just because it was partially a product of Hitler (as was Volkswagan...). Criticism of his usage of one movement to further another unrelated one does have a leg to stand on, however the mentioning of the particular second issue in a negative and sensationalistic light to the detriment of the character of a proponent of the first issue is nothing more than an UNETHICAL means by which to slander the first issue. I do agree with some of his early statements in the article, but it seems that after a few initial steps he then falls into the pattern of sensationalism and unfair comparisons between extreme cases... rather than taking general cases of both free software and commercial software and then maybe also consideration to the extreme cases. Some of his issues are valid, but much of his article seems to fall apart once he strays from fact.
It seems like a dangerous idea to have people using these things without a license requirement. How much of a negative effect to the helicopter's operation would be produced by putting a metal cage around the blade part (like some fans have)?
Well, I have been using linux intensively on my system for the past several weeks now, and there have been several things that bug me. Number one is the plethora of different appearances of programs, I suppose dependent on what toolkit was used for widgets. Secondly is the not-necessarily logical setup of directories (like the several different etc directories). None of these things are easily explainable, and it took me forever to even find out what to call the filesystem structure just in order to find the FHS documents to explain it to myself (and I'm still not totally in the clear :) ). I think that these standards should be explained in every distribution, and that there should be a generalized toolkit used for compiling X apps that will then draw on the widgets and functions of a particular UI. Dan
Speaking of things only working through IE, have you ever noticed problems reaching certain parts of the www.microsoft.com site? Especially the download area? I've noticed that their server reads the User-Agent field and if it doesn't match IE's then it give you errors. I've tested this by modifying that field to match IE's through a program called Proxomitron and all the downloads then work fine... I'd be interested to hear someone else's comments on this...
Yes, but this is bad because X-Files didn't used to, and shouldn't just cater to the lowest common denominator. I understand the extra explanations they have to work into dialog for non-scientifically inclined viewers to understand the plot, but when the plot itself has no validity whatsoever then it's really not living up to the spirit of the show.
I expected an apology in the credits.
I find it amusing that much of the audience that I watched the movie with did not really understand ut, and left saying, "I don't get it." The background comments of people, which normally would offend me, along with their utter confusion, gave me a sense of what it must have been like to have been at one of Andy's shows. Funny how the movie vexed the audience much how Andy used to.