The "French Paradox" has been long been debunked. The French are almsot as likely to get heart disease as us Americans because they almost eat as much fat. I don't have an online reference but I recall reading it in a chapter on alcoholism in psychology.
And then the liberals who will give us all these freedoms will have those of us who abhor these activities pay for treatement for the millions addicted to them. That is, those who think gambling, alcohol, prostitution, etc. are despicable will be having to pay for treatment of addicts of these activities. If you want to make these activities freely avaible, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing treatements or clinics for these idiots.
Yes the reason 6 billion people are alive today is through a selfish agreement at some very basic standards. However these standards are enforced with PUNISHMENT. If there were just laws and no course of punishment for breaking them, do you think anyone would follow the laws, of course not! This is exactly what is happening with music and mp3s. There are laws that protect the 'theft' of music but they are being circumvented because their is no risk of punishment. This seems like a clear cut case of operant conditioning with positive punishment.
I sincerely believe the problem is that humans simply are not ethical beings. Unless there is a direct and severe punishment with an act, 90% of people will commit the act. They KNOW its wrong to do X, but they don't care and they'll do it anyway because they will not get punished. I don't want to rant for too long, but I think a case could be easily made about how humans will steal, murder, and lie if they can do so without repercussions. If you believe in darwinism, then this all does make sense because 'ethics' doesn't really seem to have an survival benifits attached to it, more likely it carries some detriments.
This is overstepping the bounds and is more religious persecution than religious protection. I agree that church and state should be sepearted but the state should not ban non-invasive traditions of these religions that are older than the state itself. In America, we actually show religous understanding by allowing others to signify their religion if they wish and even attempt to provide facilities for their practices. For example, muslims have to pray 5 times a day, and one of those prayers occur during school time. So the muslims in my school were given permission to use a room for prayer during lunch.
uh cellphone screens are TINY. What we really need is compact, portable web pads. If I could actually access the web while on the bus from my web pad, I would have no need for a newspaper. But until then, a newspaper provides the most convient source of news when im on the go.
Uh perspective here. The literacy rate in America is 95-98%. The percent of the population on the internet probably is around 50% if that high at all. The percent owning tv's is probably as high as the literacy rate. Therfore, the best way to have a national address _today_ is to broadcast on tv or radio. You can broadcast on the web also, as long as you also do it one of the other mediums as well.
Actually QT does qualify for the exception when you consider other distros that include QT as a standard part fo the OS. Linux is just a kernel, the exemption clause refers to the whole operating system or in thise case, distribution. The problem here is that debian doesn't include QT in by default so it can't use the same exemption other distributors can. I agree this was an oversight by the KDE developers but it would be near impossible to get the approval of the countless number (some forgotten) of people who contributed to alter the license now. Debian's dogma finally caught up with them.
I don't know how long it was since you were in highschool, but I graduated a year ago, and I vivedly remeber hearing quite a bit about our propoganda and our exploits in Latin America a few decades ago. To compare the situation in America (or the West) for that matter to China is ridiculous. I visited there last year, and rest assured, the people there are not that pleased with their government. They might not admit it openly, but they you can quickly tell by their expressions that they are amazed with what openess we can talk about things such as our governemnt or theres. Anyway, Gore might only be denouncing China for political gains, but the reason people respond to his demagougery is because it resonates. There are people who do care about human rights. When PNTR was being voted on, the majority of the argument that I heard about was labor and human rights. The military aspect ran a distant third to those two issues.
You are living in lala land. First of all reguarding the library thing, I agree not many public libraries will have books reguarding quantum mechanics. However you can easily go to any university library and find such a book (most are open to the public) and there are so many universities, there has to be one with in 15 miles of you. Reguarding the internet thing, its not just the price of setting up a site, but also the price of maintenance. Slashdot has a staff it has to pay to maintain the site and update it. Larger sites like cnn, espn, nytimes, etc. have many people they have to pay to keep the content updated and the site running smoothly.
Um maybe in ohio, but in my highschool at least 75 out of 350 kids who graduated took calculus if not more. That is a lower bound. That is in highschool also. In college, I would say at least 50% of the people need it as a prereq. Calculus is almost becomming common knowledge.
FORCING people to believe in your ideas or give away things for free is facisim (or comunism in practice). People should not be forced to do anything. If they want to sell their music for $100 a cd that is fine. Let THEM! You have no inherrent right to their music! IF people WANT to give their music away, more power to them. The whole point is, people should be FREE to decide how THEY WANT TO DISTRUBUTE THEIR MUSIC. Don't make the decision for them!
Most slashdotters from my experience seem to lean towards an extreme libetarin philosophy. There are two arguments put forward by anti-gun-control groups. The first involves the fact that bill of rights explicitly lists it as an unalienable right. However if we examine the context of the particular ammendemant, its quite obvious to realize the context does not apply. A bunch of idiots with guns are not going to be able to overthrow the army of the greatest super power in the world. Even if there are a million idiots. The idiots dont stand a chance against tanks, machine guns, planes, and other high-tech high-damage weapons of the military. So this reason seems absurd. The second reason brought forward by these people is that the government should have limmited control over our lives (e.g. we shoudl be as free as possible). Well, the role of laws are to balance the need of the individual vs. the need of society. If gun-control really does lower crime then it should be more stringently enacted. Suggestting that we should not protect society when it is clear we shoudl, is ridiculous and definitely does not agree with the majority of people. We already have many laws that suttely violate the principle of absolute liberty (e.g. enforced eqaulity laws, deceny laws, numerous ordinaces, just to name a few). So this would not be the first time we put the need of society over the need of the individual as some would suggest. Thus, my opinion is if gun-control really does significantly lower crime than it should be encated more rigorously. If it doesn't, then it is pointless. But it is my opinion that this is the point that should be argued, not the points of discussions mentioned above (which seem to be the ones most focus on).
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People don't have memory but can still interpret their visual stimiluses. If they put two articles reguarding the same issue right next to each other, that would be too absurd. If they put articles reguarding the issue a few days apart, its all good.
A few million people against an army of a few million which would be equiped with machine guns, tanks, air planes, and bombs. Yes you really stand a chance of overthrowing them. Civil war by gun owners is a ridiculous and outdated notion. In 1765 it was a good idea, now its just useless.
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UGH, For the sake of the benjaminz (e.g. the fact that napster articles always get 300+ comments which means numerous banner views) slashdot is selling out the open source community. If the idea of open source wants to remain viable I would recommend those in the community to severe relations with this site ASAP. Napster is forcing other people to give away their work. Is this the type of behavior that the O.S. movement want to be associated with? FORCED ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS IDEALS! That is essentially what they are doing. They are saying we don't like the way you deal with yoru ideas, so we are going to change it for you. Forget giving people a choice or convincing others on the strength of one's position, just force them! Give me a damn break! "Libertarian" -- yea right! I'm not going to rant on why napster is unethical because others have done it a billiont imes before, but I haven't seen the issue of association brought up before. I hope the editors will consider this before they make their next napster post.
It can cuase your dendrites to shrink although I don't think there is an adverse known effect related to that. Besides that, its about as harmless(ful) as nicotone.
I guess my definition of work is slightly different. I'm talkinga bout when my brain is in 'high power' mode. Recreational activities and idling require next to no power. E.g., internet use, t.v., movies, sports (at least if you are only playing for fun), and other such activities don't require high amounts of concentration over extended periods of time. On the other hand studying electircity, magnetism, vectors, etc. requies high amounts of concentration throughout the period of the activity. Thats work in my book.
Heh, I hvae 19 credits, and I work at least 40 if not 50 hrs/week. The explicit class time is only 19 hours. From there I get 20-30 hrs of work from the classes I have. So that equals between 39-49 hrs/week.
glad you equate freedom with words that can be said in an open medium during a certain time slot. It really shows you have a true understanding of the word 'freedom'. Us dumb Americans are really ignorant of that concept. Please save us from our oh so tyranical government!
American Beauty got 8 nominations, cost 15 million, and probably barely broke even... I saw it when it first came out, it is a really good movie. Its as funny as American Pie and actually has a story in it.
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Instead of squinting, use a large font, e.g. xterm -fn r24 Also, don't use stupid file names. No, you really don't need too.
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The "French Paradox" has been long been debunked. The French are almsot as likely to get heart disease as us Americans because they almost eat as much fat. I don't have an online reference but I recall reading it in a chapter on alcoholism in psychology.
And then the liberals who will give us all these freedoms will have those of us who abhor these activities pay for treatement for the millions addicted to them. That is, those who think gambling, alcohol, prostitution, etc. are despicable will be having to pay for treatment of addicts of these activities. If you want to make these activities freely avaible, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing treatements or clinics for these idiots.
Yes the reason 6 billion people are alive today is through a selfish agreement at some very basic standards. However these standards are enforced with PUNISHMENT. If there were just laws and no course of punishment for breaking them, do you think anyone would follow the laws, of course not! This is exactly what is happening with music and mp3s. There are laws that protect the 'theft' of music but they are being circumvented because their is no risk of punishment. This seems like a clear cut case of operant conditioning with positive punishment.
I sincerely believe the problem is that humans simply are not ethical beings. Unless there is a direct and severe punishment with an act, 90% of people will commit the act. They KNOW its wrong to do X, but they don't care and they'll do it anyway because they will not get punished. I don't want to rant for too long, but I think a case could be easily made about how humans will steal, murder, and lie if they can do so without repercussions. If you believe in darwinism, then this all does make sense because 'ethics' doesn't really seem to have an survival benifits attached to it, more likely it carries some detriments.
This is overstepping the bounds and is more religious persecution than religious protection. I agree that church and state should be sepearted but the state should not ban non-invasive traditions of these religions that are older than the state itself. In America, we actually show religous understanding by allowing others to signify their religion if they wish and even attempt to provide facilities for their practices. For example, muslims have to pray 5 times a day, and one of those prayers occur during school time. So the muslims in my school were given permission to use a room for prayer during lunch.
4 was good, 5 was the evil one.
uh cellphone screens are TINY. What we really need is compact, portable web pads. If I could actually access the web while on the bus from my web pad, I would have no need for a newspaper. But until then, a newspaper provides the most convient source of news when im on the go.
Uh perspective here. The literacy rate in America is 95-98%. The percent of the population on the internet probably is around 50% if that high at all. The percent owning tv's is probably as high as the literacy rate. Therfore, the best way to have a national address _today_ is to broadcast on tv or radio. You can broadcast on the web also, as long as you also do it one of the other mediums as well.
Actually QT does qualify for the exception when you consider other distros that include QT as a standard part fo the OS. Linux is just a kernel, the exemption clause refers to the whole operating system or in thise case, distribution. The problem here is that debian doesn't include QT in by default so it can't use the same exemption other distributors can. I agree this was an oversight by the KDE developers but it would be near impossible to get the approval of the countless number (some forgotten) of people who contributed to alter the license now. Debian's dogma finally caught up with them.
I don't know how long it was since you were in highschool, but I graduated a year ago, and I vivedly remeber hearing quite a bit about our propoganda and our exploits in Latin America a few decades ago. To compare the situation in America (or the West) for that matter to China is ridiculous. I visited there last year, and rest assured, the people there are not that pleased with their government. They might not admit it openly, but they you can quickly tell by their expressions that they are amazed with what openess we can talk about things such as our governemnt or theres. Anyway, Gore might only be denouncing China for political gains, but the reason people respond to his demagougery is because it resonates. There are people who do care about human rights. When PNTR was being voted on, the majority of the argument that I heard about was labor and human rights. The military aspect ran a distant third to those two issues.
You are living in lala land. First of all reguarding the library thing, I agree not many public libraries will have books reguarding quantum mechanics. However you can easily go to any university library and find such a book (most are open to the public) and there are so many universities, there has to be one with in 15 miles of you. Reguarding the internet thing, its not just the price of setting up a site, but also the price of maintenance. Slashdot has a staff it has to pay to maintain the site and update it. Larger sites like cnn, espn, nytimes, etc. have many people they have to pay to keep the content updated and the site running smoothly.
Um maybe in ohio, but in my highschool at least 75 out of 350 kids who graduated took calculus if not more. That is a lower bound. That is in highschool also. In college, I would say at least 50% of the people need it as a prereq. Calculus is almost becomming common knowledge.
FORCING people to believe in your ideas or give away things for free is facisim (or comunism in practice). People should not be forced to do anything. If they want to sell their music for $100 a cd that is fine. Let THEM! You have no inherrent right to their music! IF people WANT to give their music away, more power to them. The whole point is, people should be FREE to decide how THEY WANT TO DISTRUBUTE THEIR MUSIC. Don't make the decision for them!
Most slashdotters from my experience seem to lean towards an extreme libetarin philosophy. There are two arguments put forward by anti-gun-control groups. The first involves the fact that bill of rights explicitly lists it as an unalienable right. However if we examine the context of the particular ammendemant, its quite obvious to realize the context does not apply. A bunch of idiots with guns are not going to be able to overthrow the army of the greatest super power in the world. Even if there are a million idiots. The idiots dont stand a chance against tanks, machine guns, planes, and other high-tech high-damage weapons of the military. So this reason seems absurd. The second reason brought forward by these people is that the government should have limmited control over our lives (e.g. we shoudl be as free as possible). Well, the role of laws are to balance the need of the individual vs. the need of society. If gun-control really does lower crime then it should be more stringently enacted. Suggestting that we should not protect society when it is clear we shoudl, is ridiculous and definitely does not agree with the majority of people. We already have many laws that suttely violate the principle of absolute liberty (e.g. enforced eqaulity laws, deceny laws, numerous ordinaces, just to name a few). So this would not be the first time we put the need of society over the need of the individual as some would suggest. Thus, my opinion is if gun-control really does significantly lower crime than it should be encated more rigorously. If it doesn't, then it is pointless. But it is my opinion that this is the point that should be argued, not the points of discussions mentioned above (which seem to be the ones most focus on).
People don't have memory but can still interpret their visual stimiluses. If they put two articles reguarding the same issue right next to each other, that would be too absurd. If they put articles reguarding the issue a few days apart, its all good.
A few million people against an army of a few million which would be equiped with machine guns, tanks, air planes, and bombs. Yes you really stand a chance of overthrowing them. Civil war by gun owners is a ridiculous and outdated notion. In 1765 it was a good idea, now its just useless.
UGH, For the sake of the benjaminz (e.g. the fact that napster articles always get 300+ comments which means numerous banner views) slashdot is selling out the open source community. If the idea of open source wants to remain viable I would recommend those in the community to severe relations with this site ASAP. Napster is forcing other people to give away their work. Is this the type of behavior that the O.S. movement want to be associated with? FORCED ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS IDEALS! That is essentially what they are doing. They are saying we don't like the way you deal with yoru ideas, so we are going to change it for you. Forget giving people a choice or convincing others on the strength of one's position, just force them! Give me a damn break! "Libertarian" -- yea right! I'm not going to rant on why napster is unethical because others have done it a billiont imes before, but I haven't seen the issue of association brought up before. I hope the editors will consider this before they make their next napster post.
It can cuase your dendrites to shrink although I don't think there is an adverse known effect related to that. Besides that, its about as harmless(ful) as nicotone.
I guess my definition of work is slightly different. I'm talkinga bout when my brain is in 'high power' mode. Recreational activities and idling require next to no power. E.g., internet use, t.v., movies, sports (at least if you are only playing for fun), and other such activities don't require high amounts of concentration over extended periods of time. On the other hand studying electircity, magnetism, vectors, etc. requies high amounts of concentration throughout the period of the activity. Thats work in my book.
Heh, I hvae 19 credits, and I work at least 40 if not 50 hrs/week. The explicit class time is only 19 hours. From there I get 20-30 hrs of work from the classes I have. So that equals between 39-49 hrs/week.
glad you equate freedom with words that can be said in an open medium during a certain time slot. It really shows you have a true understanding of the word 'freedom'. Us dumb Americans are really ignorant of that concept. Please save us from our oh so tyranical government!
The chick from Boys Don't Cry got nominated for Best actress, so that movie wasn't ignored..
American Beauty got 8 nominations, cost 15 million, and probably barely broke even... I saw it when it first came out, it is a really good movie. Its as funny as American Pie and actually has a story in it.