Except it is not inconsistent with Jesus's teachings. It is only inconsistent with the view that the modern church wishes to convey. See: Luke 16:17 Where Jesus specifically mentions the old testament, (At the time of Jesus, the new testament did not exist!)
See Genesis 19:24-26, which is explictly mentioned by Jesus in Luke 17:32.
Jesus also approves of the beatings of slaves as found in Deut and Lev as shown in Luke: 12:47-48
The letters also agree with this view as seen in Timothy 3:16 and Peter 1:20-21.
Furthermore, Jesus is to return and kill everyone on earth with the exception of 144,000 virgin male jews. (See all of Revelations, and Rev 7:4)
I highly recommend you pursue a sort of "self seminary" sort of study on the bible, because you need to understand more of it and how it was written. You must understand that Jesus was an apocalyptic Jew. Much of what is taught in church is inconsistent with the bible itself. However, most people don't acually take the time to do either seminary or "self seminary".
A) God is amused by our suffering (or at least by our bewilderment.)
Actually, if you sit down and read the Old Testament you will find that this actually is the case as God slaughters tribe after tribe of non-Israelites, and the Israelites themselves.
I have no desire to crack open my copy of the KJV and prove this with quotes, but a simple google search will suffice to prove this matter. Look for each of God's explicit killings in the bible, there are times that he is indeed amused by suffering.
The US Mint needs to do what the Canadian Mint did. Back when the Loonie came out, they stopped making $1 bills. I admit I hated it at the time, but it saved taxpayers loads of money as there was no alternative to the loonie as the dollar bills began to degrade. The same thing happened when the Toonie came out and replaced the $2 bill as well.
Just making coins but continuing to make paper bills of the same value is dumb.
Volvo has just been bought by Geely, a chinese firm.
Sure the chinese have promised to keep volvo volvo, not to mess with the whole swedish safety stuff, but what car brand has ever been taken over and NOT changed significantly towards the new parent company? Hell, all current volvos sit on Ford chassis.
Good luck making a zero fatality car with the chinese at the helm...
Your post reminds me of the joke in Back to the Future where Doc comments that the DeLorean from the future has failed due to "Cheap Japanese Junk". To which McFly responds: "Doc, all the best stuff is made in Japan in the future!"
Japan used to be associated with cheap plastic junk (sound familiar?) but look at what started to happen in the 70's and finally the 80's. China will go the same route. In about 10-20 years considerably higher quality products will be available from China. It is already starting to happen.
What about the server and tools business, yea all you fucken noobs don't know shit. Yea MS has 75% of the server space and their net profits exceed both Google's and Apple's combined.
Yes, clearly I am a noob. I apologize for my high slashdot UID.
What about Street Slide? Microsoft has purchased a good deal of interesting and innovative companies with great ideas and products and driven them into the ground internally in their company.
Microsoft has been asleep at the switch for a long long time.
They chase every new product Apple comes out with, instead of actually innovating and putting a product out there that customers want. Sure, they do quite well in the operating system and Microsoft Office world, but outside that they do very little of any worth. The Xbox is only now profitable, and will probably never recoup the original costs.
Ballmer wants to chase the sexy gadgets that Apple is putting out, but Microsoft's operating system is not sexy.
Granted, there is a serious threat here, Microsoft has almost completely missed he mobile market both with phones and tablets. The irony being that Microsoft has already come out with a tablet operating system that has barely seen adoption, and the mobile OS market will only continue to grow.
So, will Microsoft come out with a tablet that "people will really want to go and buy"? Maybe - if they licence the iPad 2.0
Microsoft has become too bulky for meaningful development. Infighting between departments is crippling the ability for Microsoft to actually innovate. They will be relevant in the OS and Office Space for some time to come, but so far, Ballmer has not carved out that "third" tier of highly profitable business that he promised he would when he took the position.
I bet the odds of hitting the small black hole originated in one of the LHC sucessors will be far lower than 1 in 500. And if we avoid that disaster, a far worse one awaits us the 50 years previous of that event: remakes, sequels, prequels, reboots and so on of the Armaggeddon movie. Probably won't be any (sane) human alive after that.
If a small black hole forms in the LHC, then it will evaporate nearly instantaneously. It will not convert the earth into a black hole itself. It will also be insanely hot, that is, emit extremely high frequencies of Gamma radiation while evaporating. So, it will be gone in a blinding flash of high energy radiation.
Agreed, all we need to find is a medium that can be used in the same manner as those 3D printers. Print out the medium in an organ shape, and populate it with the donor cells - grow new organ.
The difference is that if you selectively pollinate one strain of plant with another strain of the same plant, you end up with a combination that could have occurred in nature. With genetic engineering, you can modify organisms in ways that no amount of selective breeding of existing plants could have produced.
Not so. Selective breeding is what got us to *ALL* the current species we have now. It is called evolution by natural selection. People are afraid of GMO for some legitimate reasons, such as the legal BS that Monsanto pulls. However, the process itself is exactly the same as that of natural selection, but speed-ed up greatly. There is absolutely nothing in that specifies that a specific gene transplanted from say, salmon to wheat could not be obtained by selective breeding and random mutation. The only difference is that selective breeding and random mutation would take a much much much longer time to achieve the same result.
Some GMO fear is warranted, particularly around patents (sound familiar to the slashdot crowd?) But general fear of GMO is, in my opinion just FUD in the biology sphere instead of the software sphere.
While I have not looked in San Francisco, I frequently find black duck eggs in packs of six in "Superstore" in Canada. I have been buying them for years to put in my rice porrige (Jook) that I like to make.
I fail to see how a product available at every Superstore I have been to is hard to find in San Francisco, I mean, SF has the largest Chinatown in North America does it not?
Not the Anarchist's Cookbook. Rife with inaccuracies and dangerous, or so my chemist friends tell me.
It has been years since I read it, I downloaded it with a 14.4 Modem the last time I saw it. At the same time I was taking Chemistry in College. We had one whole class devoted to Nitroglycerin, and the 3 of 4 unstable variants. I knew from class exactly how to synthesize nitroglycerin. And, after that class was over, I realized I have absolutely no desire to *EVER* try to make it. I remember my chem prof saying (as someone who was against hyperbole) "this stuff will blow up if you look at it funny", and "what are you going to do with it if you make some? Pour it down the sink?"
I then read the Anarchist's cookbook, and I remember the instructions of keeping the chemicals in an ice bath, and constantly stirring them... by hand...
As I said, it was a long time ago, but reading the directions for hand-stirring nitroglycerin, and trying to keep the temperature low with a thermometer i remember thinking that the book was designed to blow someone up who tried to follow the directions.
When was the last time anyone heard of a TV Network going dark for an hour? A Hospital Emergency Room? IT guys always run around like self-important Star Trek Blue Shirts, but they never seem to take the proper steps to ensure -- really ensure -- their uptime.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but it just seems that they have a ways to go, compared to the real "critical systems" industries to which they are so fond of comparing themselves. Is it money, arrogance, or ignorance?
Us IT guys? We run around like we are wearing self-important Star Trek Blue Shirts alright. We just don't realize that our shirts are actually Red.
The first circuit breaker gets tripped at -10%. Today's fall wasn't quite -10%
What is most interesting about this, is that if you read Seth A. Klarman's book Margin of Safety, he mentions how the stock market is irrational. And even more irrational in that there are systems to prevent great loss - but strangely no systems to prevent obscene gains...
The latest Ubuntu 10.X is so good it is scary. Why anyone wants to run a Windows machine is really beyond my understanding. Do yourself a huge favor and climb off the Microsoft teat.
Maybe because some people have work to do? Maybe because they get paid to use windows applications? Or maybe because they want to run some specific applications such as games that won't run well on the latest Ubuntu?
Not everyone WANTS to fiddle with their computer, some just want to do stuff with it then go away and do something else. This is why the Mac is popular too. Narrowing yourself down to a single choice of OS and outright saying "Ubuntu is better!" is just foolish. It is like saying that Perl is better than C - but you don't even know what the problem is that is trying to be solved yet! It might be that a totally different language is better than perl or C, but without knowing what the goal is, you can't pick the best solution.
For the record, I am typing this on an iMac, with a XP Pro system next to me, and a Mythbuntu system off to the side as well as 2 other machines that I often change out OS'es on for different purposes. (Currently Redhat is on them at the moment).
Outright saying "Why anyone Wants to run Windows" ignores that different people want different things from their computers. Your solution is not theirs.
Nice troll, very well done. Old style! You even got modded up because of your "I will probably get hate for saying this".
If I remember correctly, the US was founded on an open border system, and an open freedom style system. Some sort of "constitution" sort of idea... I believe most of the illegals are coming over for a better life - this is due to economics. Thus they are coming over and doing the work that the locals won't for a lower price, making the total cost of goods lower for all Americans. (It is because they are willing to work for peanuts, and you are not. This used to be called "The American Way" not long ago. Funny that...)
But how is it bad? I have a TN Visa, and I am a tech worker, and I was just working in AZ. I did not carry my passport and TN papers with me at all times because it is a pain in the ass. I like to believe that the US is, whenever I visit it a FREE country just like my home country of Canada. If I got pulled over in AZ and I did not have my passport I would end up in jail, which, is a constitutional violation I believe.
So, as a Canadian who often does tech work in the US, my perspective is: This law is totally screwed up and seriously goes against the supposed freedoms the US has. Each time I visit I worry more and more because in the last 10 years the US has begun to feel less and less "free" to me.
I used to feel always welcome and at home in the US when I visited years ago, about the only thing I found curious was the over-dependence on displaying the flag. Other than that and the different road signs, I could often swear I was in Canada. The people are still wonderfully nice, of which I am glad. But the FEELING I am getting from everyone, and the comments I get in passing worry me. It is as if the Americans I speak to either know their freedoms are going away, or they are of the group that supports them going away.
So, in conclusion, how is a law that could get me imprisoned because I went swimming (I don't take my passport or TN visa swimming) a good thing when I am a LEGAL visitor to the US? Heck, my job involves CREATING jobs in the US, and in fact, the work I do is for a US company for US software!
Just because you hate Latinos does not mean all foreigners are Latinos, or that all Latinos are illegal. (There is no question that this law is really intended to be towards Latinos). Hell, have you heard? Some of them were BORN in the US.
A computer is still just a tool. You can do stuff with it, or not. You can use a hammer to smash things, or build a beautiful house. The same can be said of any tool.
If you start worshiping a hammer when you really need a screwdriver, you are going to have a problem. This extends to programming languages as well. Different problems require different solutions.
You believe a 100 year old woman should learn programming? Hey, here is an idea, she should learn to fix a car if she drives, and she should learn how to fly a jet if she travels anywhere. She should use engineering if she wants to cross a bridge...
I hope you get the point, there is no need nor reason for her to learn to program if she does not want to. Don't force your solutions on people who don't want them.
You can use a computer to solve problems, to play games, to create art, to assist with communication, and many other things. This still makes it just a tool.
Please take your tablet computer and go spam another topic about it, preferably one about your precious consumer product. Really, can't you just go away?
Fanboi?
Well, yes, I am typing this on an iMac. I have a custom-built windows XP gaming machine to my right. I have a Mythbuntu Linux box in the corner, and 2 other Linux machines in my shelving.
Fanboi? No. Realist? Yes.
I am not a mac fan, I ended up with my current one that I am typing this on, a 17" intel iMac because I bought it for my Mom who was having too many troubles with her PC. My tech support calls just went away after I got her this - apart from 2 calls that I would have had to make myself to get appropriate passwords to make things work.
Why do I have this iMac now? because she liked it so much she upgraded to a newer 22" iMac, that is why.
Apple Fanboi I am not.
I use Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac, *ANYTHING* that gets the job done.
My computers are tools. I use them like tools to do a job. Fanboi status is for idiots. That old lady in the video? She is not a faboi, she is a woman that wants to communicate with friends and relatives. The ipad is a great tool for her for that purpose.
As soon as you lose sight of the fact that a computer is just a tool, they begin to suck even more than they do already.
Computers are fragile, unintuitive things...a hodge-podge of brittle hardware Sounds like Steve Jobs can claim another victim.
Sounds more to me like he's about to get another customer.
And that (the video you linked to) is why the iPad is doing better than us Techno-geeks expected. Indeed, it is why the iPhone and the iMac are doing well.
Computers are mostly brittle - I had my main PC crash last night because of something to do with the graphics card - I still don't know what.
But this little old lady in that video with the iPad? Brilliant. She can get to use it right away - she does not need to understand drivers, or compatibility or any of the other crap that we deal with on a regular basis. As long as it does email, web, IM and facebook, that is all most people would ever want.
It is when we go beyond those basics that computers start to suck. Like my dealing with a pissy PBX, or a switch that I can't log into from some subnets...
The ipad gets rid of most of those problems (to a very large degree). I remember an old man coming up to me years ago when I worked at Staples selling computers (that was an awful job, but it was a start). He grabbed the mouse, and immediately picked it up in the air, and began waving it about to try to get the cursor to move on the screen. We don't think of it like this, but just using the mouse is a different skill. Using the ipad generally involves using skills that we already have gained outside computing - as can be demonstrated by this lady's use of the ipad.
Hopefully, computers begin to suck less - like the ipad. (Just without the DRM BS behind the scenes).
I'm sorry, I've yet to find the part in the Old Testament that says if I blow myself up on a train, I'll get 40 virgins to myself in heaven.
In the Bible, except for a few very specific instructions (generally involving attacking another nation), stoning occurs because of someone breaking the law. Period. You might not like the laws, but that's what it is: punishments internal to the Israelite nation. In the Koran, there are very specific instructions too, they just run along the lines of "kill all infidels".
I am sorry, I don't see the part where *I* mentioned the blowing up of oneself on a train or the 40 virgins at all...
The old testament does say that you should kill witches, kill fortune tellers, kill homosexuals, kill non-belivers, kill an entire town if one of their flock worships another god, kill women who are not virgins on their wedding night, kill members of any other religion...
I could provide links to you for all those examples, but I won't. I leave it as an exercise for you to study on your own.
Well thats the old part. I am hardly a theology scholar, but I think (could be wrong) a lot of the stuff in the new testament was ment to invalidate the old stuff, like stoning. So if someone is doing it for Jebus then they should be likewise against that stuff. If they just follow the old testament then they aren't really Christains, but that would be some valid form of religion I guess.
Maybe you should read that "new" part a little more closely:
Matthew:
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Here, Jesus is saying that he approves of the old laws (old testament), and that those laws are in place "Till heaven and earth pass". Or, as one might say "forever".
Jobs didn't say "Apple won't sell porn" he said "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone". He's mad.
He is not mad. He is quite smart.He knows that you can get porn on the iphone. He knows that lots of people are doing it now.
So you claim he's not mad, just a liar. You claim he doesn't believe he has a "moral responsibility" to keep porn off the iPhone.
And if you think there's no porn in Ferraris...
He can keep porn off the iphone about as well as I can keep spam out of email. So, if you wish to call him a liar or a hopeful idealist, take your pick.
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Except it is not inconsistent with Jesus's teachings. It is only inconsistent with the view that the modern church wishes to convey. See: Luke 16:17 Where Jesus specifically mentions the old testament, (At the time of Jesus, the new testament did not exist!)
See Genesis 19:24-26, which is explictly mentioned by Jesus in Luke 17:32.
Jesus also approves of the beatings of slaves as found in Deut and Lev as shown in Luke: 12:47-48
The letters also agree with this view as seen in Timothy 3:16 and Peter 1:20-21.
Furthermore, Jesus is to return and kill everyone on earth with the exception of 144,000 virgin male jews. (See all of Revelations, and Rev 7:4)
I highly recommend you pursue a sort of "self seminary" sort of study on the bible, because you need to understand more of it and how it was written. You must understand that Jesus was an apocalyptic Jew. Much of what is taught in church is inconsistent with the bible itself. However, most people don't acually take the time to do either seminary or "self seminary".
A) God is amused by our suffering (or at least by our bewilderment.)
Actually, if you sit down and read the Old Testament you will find that this actually is the case as God slaughters tribe after tribe of non-Israelites, and the Israelites themselves.
I have no desire to crack open my copy of the KJV and prove this with quotes, but a simple google search will suffice to prove this matter. Look for each of God's explicit killings in the bible, there are times that he is indeed amused by suffering.
But that would put Wal-Mart out of business!
Jokes aside, trade wars lead to shooting wars. This isn't welcome news.
Where would the U.S. get the money for a shooting war? From China? I think the economics here just went recursive....
The US Mint needs to do what the Canadian Mint did. Back when the Loonie came out, they stopped making $1 bills. I admit I hated it at the time, but it saved taxpayers loads of money as there was no alternative to the loonie as the dollar bills began to degrade. The same thing happened when the Toonie came out and replaced the $2 bill as well.
Just making coins but continuing to make paper bills of the same value is dumb.
Volvo has just been bought by Geely, a chinese firm.
Sure the chinese have promised to keep volvo volvo, not to mess with the whole swedish safety stuff, but what car brand has ever been taken over and NOT changed significantly towards the new parent company? Hell, all current volvos sit on Ford chassis.
Good luck making a zero fatality car with the chinese at the helm...
Your post reminds me of the joke in Back to the Future where Doc comments that the DeLorean from the future has failed due to "Cheap Japanese Junk". To which McFly responds: "Doc, all the best stuff is made in Japan in the future!"
Japan used to be associated with cheap plastic junk (sound familiar?) but look at what started to happen in the 70's and finally the 80's. China will go the same route. In about 10-20 years considerably higher quality products will be available from China. It is already starting to happen.
What about the server and tools business, yea all you fucken noobs don't know shit. Yea MS has 75% of the server space and their net profits exceed both Google's and Apple's combined.
Yes, clearly I am a noob. I apologize for my high slashdot UID.
Infighting between departments is crippling the ability for Microsoft to actually innovate.
That's not quite fair, What about Street Slide?
What about Street Slide? Microsoft has purchased a good deal of interesting and innovative companies with great ideas and products and driven them into the ground internally in their company.
Microsoft has been asleep at the switch for a long long time.
They chase every new product Apple comes out with, instead of actually innovating and putting a product out there that customers want. Sure, they do quite well in the operating system and Microsoft Office world, but outside that they do very little of any worth. The Xbox is only now profitable, and will probably never recoup the original costs.
Ballmer wants to chase the sexy gadgets that Apple is putting out, but Microsoft's operating system is not sexy.
Granted, there is a serious threat here, Microsoft has almost completely missed he mobile market both with phones and tablets. The irony being that Microsoft has already come out with a tablet operating system that has barely seen adoption, and the mobile OS market will only continue to grow.
So, will Microsoft come out with a tablet that "people will really want to go and buy"? Maybe - if they licence the iPad 2.0
Microsoft has become too bulky for meaningful development. Infighting between departments is crippling the ability for Microsoft to actually innovate. They will be relevant in the OS and Office Space for some time to come, but so far, Ballmer has not carved out that "third" tier of highly profitable business that he promised he would when he took the position.
I bet the odds of hitting the small black hole originated in one of the LHC sucessors will be far lower than 1 in 500. And if we avoid that disaster, a far worse one awaits us the 50 years previous of that event: remakes, sequels, prequels, reboots and so on of the Armaggeddon movie. Probably won't be any (sane) human alive after that.
If a small black hole forms in the LHC, then it will evaporate nearly instantaneously. It will not convert the earth into a black hole itself. It will also be insanely hot, that is, emit extremely high frequencies of Gamma radiation while evaporating. So, it will be gone in a blinding flash of high energy radiation.
Agreed, all we need to find is a medium that can be used in the same manner as those 3D printers. Print out the medium in an organ shape, and populate it with the donor cells - grow new organ.
The difference is that if you selectively pollinate one strain of plant with another strain of the same plant, you end up with a combination that could have occurred in nature. With genetic engineering, you can modify organisms in ways that no amount of selective breeding of existing plants could have produced.
Not so. Selective breeding is what got us to *ALL* the current species we have now. It is called evolution by natural selection. People are afraid of GMO for some legitimate reasons, such as the legal BS that Monsanto pulls. However, the process itself is exactly the same as that of natural selection, but speed-ed up greatly. There is absolutely nothing in that specifies that a specific gene transplanted from say, salmon to wheat could not be obtained by selective breeding and random mutation. The only difference is that selective breeding and random mutation would take a much much much longer time to achieve the same result.
Some GMO fear is warranted, particularly around patents (sound familiar to the slashdot crowd?) But general fear of GMO is, in my opinion just FUD in the biology sphere instead of the software sphere.
I agree, it is not as if Cisco had prior history with the iphone name either.
I hear that the president often operates outside of California:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Can't get black duck eggs?
While I have not looked in San Francisco, I frequently find black duck eggs in packs of six in "Superstore" in Canada. I have been buying them for years to put in my rice porrige (Jook) that I like to make.
I fail to see how a product available at every Superstore I have been to is hard to find in San Francisco, I mean, SF has the largest Chinatown in North America does it not?
Not the Anarchist's Cookbook. Rife with inaccuracies and dangerous, or so my chemist friends tell me.
It has been years since I read it, I downloaded it with a 14.4 Modem the last time I saw it. At the same time I was taking Chemistry in College. We had one whole class devoted to Nitroglycerin, and the 3 of 4 unstable variants. I knew from class exactly how to synthesize nitroglycerin. And, after that class was over, I realized I have absolutely no desire to *EVER* try to make it. I remember my chem prof saying (as someone who was against hyperbole) "this stuff will blow up if you look at it funny", and "what are you going to do with it if you make some? Pour it down the sink?"
I then read the Anarchist's cookbook, and I remember the instructions of keeping the chemicals in an ice bath, and constantly stirring them... by hand...
As I said, it was a long time ago, but reading the directions for hand-stirring nitroglycerin, and trying to keep the temperature low with a thermometer i remember thinking that the book was designed to blow someone up who tried to follow the directions.
When was the last time anyone heard of a TV Network going dark for an hour? A Hospital Emergency Room? IT guys always run around like self-important Star Trek Blue Shirts, but they never seem to take the proper steps to ensure -- really ensure -- their uptime.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but it just seems that they have a ways to go, compared to the real "critical systems" industries to which they are so fond of comparing themselves. Is it money, arrogance, or ignorance?
Us IT guys? We run around like we are wearing self-important Star Trek Blue Shirts alright. We just don't realize that our shirts are actually Red.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb
The first circuit breaker gets tripped at -10%. Today's fall wasn't quite -10%
What is most interesting about this, is that if you read Seth A. Klarman's book Margin of Safety, he mentions how the stock market is irrational. And even more irrational in that there are systems to prevent great loss - but strangely no systems to prevent obscene gains...
The latest Ubuntu 10.X is so good it is scary. Why anyone wants to run a Windows machine is really beyond my understanding. Do yourself a huge favor and climb off the Microsoft teat.
Maybe because some people have work to do? Maybe because they get paid to use windows applications? Or maybe because they want to run some specific applications such as games that won't run well on the latest Ubuntu?
Not everyone WANTS to fiddle with their computer, some just want to do stuff with it then go away and do something else. This is why the Mac is popular too. Narrowing yourself down to a single choice of OS and outright saying "Ubuntu is better!" is just foolish. It is like saying that Perl is better than C - but you don't even know what the problem is that is trying to be solved yet! It might be that a totally different language is better than perl or C, but without knowing what the goal is, you can't pick the best solution.
For the record, I am typing this on an iMac, with a XP Pro system next to me, and a Mythbuntu system off to the side as well as 2 other machines that I often change out OS'es on for different purposes. (Currently Redhat is on them at the moment).
Outright saying "Why anyone Wants to run Windows" ignores that different people want different things from their computers. Your solution is not theirs.
Nice troll, very well done. Old style! You even got modded up because of your "I will probably get hate for saying this".
If I remember correctly, the US was founded on an open border system, and an open freedom style system. Some sort of "constitution" sort of idea... I believe most of the illegals are coming over for a better life - this is due to economics. Thus they are coming over and doing the work that the locals won't for a lower price, making the total cost of goods lower for all Americans. (It is because they are willing to work for peanuts, and you are not. This used to be called "The American Way" not long ago. Funny that...)
But how is it bad? I have a TN Visa, and I am a tech worker, and I was just working in AZ. I did not carry my passport and TN papers with me at all times because it is a pain in the ass. I like to believe that the US is, whenever I visit it a FREE country just like my home country of Canada. If I got pulled over in AZ and I did not have my passport I would end up in jail, which, is a constitutional violation I believe.
So, as a Canadian who often does tech work in the US, my perspective is: This law is totally screwed up and seriously goes against the supposed freedoms the US has. Each time I visit I worry more and more because in the last 10 years the US has begun to feel less and less "free" to me.
I used to feel always welcome and at home in the US when I visited years ago, about the only thing I found curious was the over-dependence on displaying the flag. Other than that and the different road signs, I could often swear I was in Canada. The people are still wonderfully nice, of which I am glad. But the FEELING I am getting from everyone, and the comments I get in passing worry me. It is as if the Americans I speak to either know their freedoms are going away, or they are of the group that supports them going away.
So, in conclusion, how is a law that could get me imprisoned because I went swimming (I don't take my passport or TN visa swimming) a good thing when I am a LEGAL visitor to the US? Heck, my job involves CREATING jobs in the US, and in fact, the work I do is for a US company for US software!
Just because you hate Latinos does not mean all foreigners are Latinos, or that all Latinos are illegal. (There is no question that this law is really intended to be towards Latinos). Hell, have you heard? Some of them were BORN in the US.
A computer is still just a tool. You can do stuff with it, or not. You can use a hammer to smash things, or build a beautiful house. The same can be said of any tool.
If you start worshiping a hammer when you really need a screwdriver, you are going to have a problem. This extends to programming languages as well. Different problems require different solutions.
You believe a 100 year old woman should learn programming? Hey, here is an idea, she should learn to fix a car if she drives, and she should learn how to fly a jet if she travels anywhere. She should use engineering if she wants to cross a bridge...
I hope you get the point, there is no need nor reason for her to learn to program if she does not want to. Don't force your solutions on people who don't want them.
You can use a computer to solve problems, to play games, to create art, to assist with communication, and many other things. This still makes it just a tool.
Dear Apple fanboy,
Please take your tablet computer and go spam another topic about it, preferably one about your precious consumer product. Really, can't you just go away?
Fanboi?
Well, yes, I am typing this on an iMac. I have a custom-built windows XP gaming machine to my right. I have a Mythbuntu Linux box in the corner, and 2 other Linux machines in my shelving.
Fanboi? No. Realist? Yes.
I am not a mac fan, I ended up with my current one that I am typing this on, a 17" intel iMac because I bought it for my Mom who was having too many troubles with her PC. My tech support calls just went away after I got her this - apart from 2 calls that I would have had to make myself to get appropriate passwords to make things work.
Why do I have this iMac now? because she liked it so much she upgraded to a newer 22" iMac, that is why.
Apple Fanboi I am not.
I use Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac, *ANYTHING* that gets the job done.
My computers are tools. I use them like tools to do a job. Fanboi status is for idiots. That old lady in the video? She is not a faboi, she is a woman that wants to communicate with friends and relatives. The ipad is a great tool for her for that purpose.
As soon as you lose sight of the fact that a computer is just a tool, they begin to suck even more than they do already.
Computers are fragile, unintuitive things...a hodge-podge of brittle hardware
Sounds like Steve Jobs can claim another victim.
Sounds more to me like he's about to get another customer.
And that (the video you linked to) is why the iPad is doing better than us Techno-geeks expected. Indeed, it is why the iPhone and the iMac are doing well.
Computers are mostly brittle - I had my main PC crash last night because of something to do with the graphics card - I still don't know what.
But this little old lady in that video with the iPad? Brilliant. She can get to use it right away - she does not need to understand drivers, or compatibility or any of the other crap that we deal with on a regular basis. As long as it does email, web, IM and facebook, that is all most people would ever want.
It is when we go beyond those basics that computers start to suck. Like my dealing with a pissy PBX, or a switch that I can't log into from some subnets...
The ipad gets rid of most of those problems (to a very large degree). I remember an old man coming up to me years ago when I worked at Staples selling computers (that was an awful job, but it was a start). He grabbed the mouse, and immediately picked it up in the air, and began waving it about to try to get the cursor to move on the screen. We don't think of it like this, but just using the mouse is a different skill. Using the ipad generally involves using skills that we already have gained outside computing - as can be demonstrated by this lady's use of the ipad.
Hopefully, computers begin to suck less - like the ipad. (Just without the DRM BS behind the scenes).
I'm sorry, I've yet to find the part in the Old Testament that says if I blow myself up on a train, I'll get 40 virgins to myself in heaven.
In the Bible, except for a few very specific instructions (generally involving attacking another nation), stoning occurs because of someone breaking the law. Period. You might not like the laws, but that's what it is: punishments internal to the Israelite nation. In the Koran, there are very specific instructions too, they just run along the lines of "kill all infidels".
I am sorry, I don't see the part where *I* mentioned the blowing up of oneself on a train or the 40 virgins at all...
The old testament does say that you should kill witches, kill fortune tellers, kill homosexuals, kill non-belivers, kill an entire town if one of their flock worships another god, kill women who are not virgins on their wedding night, kill members of any other religion...
I could provide links to you for all those examples, but I won't. I leave it as an exercise for you to study on your own.
Well thats the old part. I am hardly a theology scholar, but I think (could be wrong) a lot of the stuff in the new testament was ment to invalidate the old stuff, like stoning. So if someone is doing it for Jebus then they should be likewise against that stuff. If they just follow the old testament then they aren't really Christains, but that would be some valid form of religion I guess.
Maybe you should read that "new" part a little more closely:
Matthew:
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Here, Jesus is saying that he approves of the old laws (old testament), and that those laws are in place "Till heaven and earth pass". Or, as one might say "forever".
So you claim he's not mad, just a liar. You claim he doesn't believe he has a "moral responsibility" to keep porn off the iPhone.
And if you think there's no porn in Ferraris...
He can keep porn off the iphone about as well as I can keep spam out of email. So, if you wish to call him a liar or a hopeful idealist, take your pick.