Of course I was harmed by this: Emotional distress. Paranoia. I don't feel safe to talk on the phone. I'm afraid to buy any scientific or pyrotechnics books because I'll be sent to Gitmo without any trial... I can think of a number of things that can bring this situation to the point where it is clearly a serious detriment to my health and well being to have the government spying on all of my communications. (Not that I actually currently feel that way, but they are all legitimate reasons to sue.)
My alternate answer was "Blue" but then I wasn't sure if it was "Red", so to save my life, I answered C, though 42 would definitely have been a good second choice.
"breathing room" for future fighters against some hypothetical tyranny.
Clearly you don't understand what our nation was built on. Clearly you don't believe that we should be ready to refresh our nation with the blood of tyrants^H^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians.
If I find that I have lost my freedom to the point where I cannot enjoy the freedoms laid out by the Constitution (we are coming very close to this point), I want the freedom to disappear, to organize, and to fight back. This "tool" of "efficiency" removes that right. Hmmm... where else in history have I heard the term "efficiency" bandied about in relation to removal of freedoms?
Why not take it a step further? Create an E-Ink license plate and have it randomize your plate every morning and also every 5 miles. That'll make you hard to track.
I'd switch ISPs if I had much of a choice... it's Comcast or crappy 768k DSL with a really crappy up speed. Comcast has nothing in their policy that disallows me accessing my network remotely, nor could I find anything that would stop me from then transferring files over their network. Perhaps a media server would not be allowed, and certainly they experessly forbid a Web Server running on a standard home IP address, but I still stand by what I said. I want a static IP for my home network - so my wife and I can upload photos to our network storage device at home while we are on vacation... 6 GB of photos in a week gets annoying to carry around in CDs or DVDs, and I don't want to carry an external device with us... we just connect to whatever friend's/hotel's computer is nearby (our camera acts as a USB HD) VPN into our home network, and upload the photos.
We also like to watch our videos off our network drive, sometimes to show videos from other trips to our friends. Occasionally, I want to print something to the printer at my house so that my wife can just grab it off the printer and go (without all the time spent getting her to go to the same website and then print out the coupon I am looking at right now on my computer.
Tell me how I can do all of that without using a 3rd party service like dynDNS.org and without having a Static IP address.
I agree wholeheartedly. I want a static IP.... My cable company says "there are only so many available, so we have to charge you $50 per month for that feature."
Thank goodness for dyndns.org, but still... I want my static IPs so I can run my own server and access my network without having to use a 3rd party service to synch up the IP and the domain.
And what is stopping someone from building a company that has an army of experts who can flood this system, and then sell that service to the companies with the most money?
if the candidate himself could pass a grade school science exam before he gets to make calls on science policy
No need to be an expert... just needs to be able to tell if someone is selling him crap and calling it gold, or if they really are an expert. To do that, the candidate needs to know at least the basics.
Except Person Y is simply providing a service. No copies are distributed. Person X just had Person Y push the button that made the copy. In fact, Person X gave their copy to Person Y (fair use), Person Y made a backup (fair use), and Person Y then gave back both copies (fair use). That Person X paid Person Y to do this is irrelevant, as no copies were distributed and Company D had no rights saying that they could be involved in theses various fair use actions. If anything, you could say that Person X sold the original to person Y for oh, say, $0. Person Y sold the original and the copy (fair use to make the copy, and when using first sale, all copies must be destroyed or must be sent with the original) for $1.50... fair market transaction, and all legit and legal. I don't see the issue here.
Um... hardware copiers anyone? I've got one, as does my church... for legitimate use. The devices are not illegal, the backup copies should not be illegal... playing the discs should not be illegal. Breaking the copy protection? Ok... maybe (though if the DMCA is legal in and of itself is still up for debate).
Simple. Many computer geeks are concerned that Linux is simply getting lip service, a "trial run" and then being tossed quickly so a company can say "See? We tried... no one wanted them."
Similar to the electric car.
Anyways, this is news that matters to many "geeks", so it appears here.
Thank you for the informed and polite response. It is a rare rose among thorns these days. Do you have any good links for the various dating techniques and how they are used? I'd like to research these more closely to gain a better understanding of the science behind them.
Sorry to reply to my post, but I got distracted and was a bit off topic. I am interested in seeing how old they determine the earth to be now. I have no problem believing in 6000-10000 years since mankind was created. I also have no problem with the earth existing for 150-250 million years or whatever the measurement seems to be at this time. I believe in something that was a commonly held belief until around 200 years ago in the Christian community. It's called the pre-adamite era belief, and it fits very nicely with the existing facts of science and the existing information in the bible. I am really excited to see the dating method become more accurate, as it seems to be lining up with my personal opinions, but if science finds that something doesn't match my faith, I will reexamine my faith and see if perhaps I misinterpreted the allegories, the factual stories, and the prophetic. This is the only way to do it because one of the words for spiritual used in the greek has a dual meaning: Spiritual/Reasonable
and that definition demands that I be reasonable in my faith.
I wonder what this does to some of the evolutionary theories and their timelines?
See, there is a problem here... if you are going to use parts of the bible, you must use the whole of the bible. The old testament laws were to clearly lay out that we cannot fulfill the requirement "Be perfect as I [God] am perfect." Since we cannot fulfill this requirement (and are guaranteed to break at least one of the laws as written), we look for the exceptions clause in the contract. God clearly put an addendum on the contract when he sent his son to pay for all of the crimes of everyone, and then said simply "accept this gift, accept that by paying for the crime, Jesus owns your soul, so you will be in heaven, but you must obey your master in order to receive the gift, or you will be required to accept your original just punishment."
So, you see, stoning your son to death is only right should you be perfect in every way, if you've never sinned, if you've never broken a single law in the scriptures or any laws of the land. Since you are not, and can never be, then that action is wrong (I will point out that I am also not perfect, and can never be).
Accepting the offer of indentured servitude with the best most benevolent of masters in order that you can be freed from the massive debt you've accrued from the moment of birth seems like a pretty nice deal to me. We deserve foreclosure on the 'house'(life) God gave us, but he opts to buy the life and then let us live it 'rent' free... if only we would work for him and keep the 'house' in order. It's really a sweet deal when you truly understand and read what the whole picture speaks of in the bible.
I would say since the facts cannot be copyrighted but the layout and graphics can be, this would then be an attempt to make the graphics and layout be open source, allowing anyone to print it (or provide it free), getting rid of the commercial constraints on textbooks, and lowering the cost for books. Win-win if they can keep it actually factual.
Of course. IANAL, so I leave it up to them rather than post something that I know is completely full of holes... that's why Lawyers get paid so much... they remove loopholes better than the average joe (usually).
Irrevocable should read "irrevocable excepting in cases where content has been removed by end user" or however the legalese would need to be to indicate that they can do whatever they want with it until the moment I remove it from their site. Once removed, they have to cease all actions on this material, as I have revoked their right to the material.
Haven't heard of that one... can you send me a PDF copy? Seriously. I'm curious what crap/quality stuff is out there, as I don't do "tracts" (they're a waste of time. Someone does not change their wordview because of 8 pages in a booklet!).
American atheists/agnostics take a very simplistic approach to their non-religion, which makes it very easy to fake being agnostic/atheist if one is willing to make the effort. You don't have to be Carl Sagan to convince the average American agnostic/atheist that you're not a believer. In fact, most agnostics would probably find Carl Sagan's brand of agnosticism/atheism beyond their intellectual grasp.
FTFY
It's easy to spout out tripe comments bashing others, but I try to refrain from doing so. I am a likely a "die hard fundie" Christian in your worldview, but I have very close atheist, agnostic, muslim, and jewish friends with whom I hold very intellectual discourse, and enjoy long hours of conversation about the meaning of life. Just because your world view says that Christians are not intelligent doesn't mean that this is the truth. I thought atheists were atheists because they sought to only believe factual truth? I'm a Christian because I sought out the truth, and found that with all of the facts available to me, and with all of the life experiences I've had, I could not help but come to the same conclusions of C.S. Lewis, even when these conclusions are in direct conflict with my pastors' and leaders' perspective on our faith.
I am not fooled by any candidate's claim to faith, nor do I claim they do not have faith. I just rely on the facts at hand and vote for the individual that best meets my expectations for a well run government. If that happens to mean that the individual and I disagree on some points, so be it. If it means that I have to agree to disagree on areas of faith, so be it. I must be rational, reasonable, and honest in my attempt to do the right thing in this election, and no amount of emotional sensationalism should be allowed to persuade me (and I sincerely hope that I am not being persuaded by such things).
Please consider your words carefully the next time you decide that 10% of the nation (a rough estimate based on various polls of how many are "die hard" Christians based on their level of attendance... not the best metric, but a good enough rough estimate) are complete idiots, and do not comprehend the core foundation of their faith.
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Actually, the youngest ever college student (studying Astrophysics) is 10 years old and just started going to college recently.
Waterless urinals.
Of course I was harmed by this: Emotional distress. Paranoia. I don't feel safe to talk on the phone. I'm afraid to buy any scientific or pyrotechnics books because I'll be sent to Gitmo without any trial... I can think of a number of things that can bring this situation to the point where it is clearly a serious detriment to my health and well being to have the government spying on all of my communications. (Not that I actually currently feel that way, but they are all legitimate reasons to sue.)
They just want you to think that he no longer works for them... how do you think he got his judge position in the first place, hmmm?
My alternate answer was "Blue" but then I wasn't sure if it was "Red", so to save my life, I answered C, though 42 would definitely have been a good second choice.
"breathing room" for future fighters against some hypothetical tyranny.
Clearly you don't understand what our nation was built on. Clearly you don't believe that we should be ready to refresh our nation with the blood of tyrants^H^H^H^H^H^H^H politicians.
If I find that I have lost my freedom to the point where I cannot enjoy the freedoms laid out by the Constitution (we are coming very close to this point), I want the freedom to disappear, to organize, and to fight back. This "tool" of "efficiency" removes that right. Hmmm... where else in history have I heard the term "efficiency" bandied about in relation to removal of freedoms?
Why not take it a step further? Create an E-Ink license plate and have it randomize your plate every morning and also every 5 miles. That'll make you hard to track.
Quiz: True or False -- On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your middle name?
The answer is C.
I'd switch ISPs if I had much of a choice... it's Comcast or crappy 768k DSL with a really crappy up speed. Comcast has nothing in their policy that disallows me accessing my network remotely, nor could I find anything that would stop me from then transferring files over their network. Perhaps a media server would not be allowed, and certainly they experessly forbid a Web Server running on a standard home IP address, but I still stand by what I said. I want a static IP for my home network - so my wife and I can upload photos to our network storage device at home while we are on vacation... 6 GB of photos in a week gets annoying to carry around in CDs or DVDs, and I don't want to carry an external device with us... we just connect to whatever friend's/hotel's computer is nearby (our camera acts as a USB HD) VPN into our home network, and upload the photos.
We also like to watch our videos off our network drive, sometimes to show videos from other trips to our friends. Occasionally, I want to print something to the printer at my house so that my wife can just grab it off the printer and go (without all the time spent getting her to go to the same website and then print out the coupon I am looking at right now on my computer.
Tell me how I can do all of that without using a 3rd party service like dynDNS.org and without having a Static IP address.
I agree wholeheartedly. I want a static IP.... My cable company says "there are only so many available, so we have to charge you $50 per month for that feature."
Thank goodness for dyndns.org, but still... I want my static IPs so I can run my own server and access my network without having to use a 3rd party service to synch up the IP and the domain.
And what is stopping someone from building a company that has an army of experts who can flood this system, and then sell that service to the companies with the most money?
Wait... What am I waiting for??? I'll be rich!
*ducks*
if the candidate himself could pass a grade school science exam before he gets to make calls on science policy
No need to be an expert... just needs to be able to tell if someone is selling him crap and calling it gold, or if they really are an expert. To do that, the candidate needs to know at least the basics.
Cheers! Now where's all that free beer I've been hearing about?
Except Person Y is simply providing a service. No copies are distributed. Person X just had Person Y push the button that made the copy. In fact, Person X gave their copy to Person Y (fair use), Person Y made a backup (fair use), and Person Y then gave back both copies (fair use). That Person X paid Person Y to do this is irrelevant, as no copies were distributed and Company D had no rights saying that they could be involved in theses various fair use actions. If anything, you could say that Person X sold the original to person Y for oh, say, $0. Person Y sold the original and the copy (fair use to make the copy, and when using first sale, all copies must be destroyed or must be sent with the original) for $1.50... fair market transaction, and all legit and legal. I don't see the issue here.
Um... hardware copiers anyone? I've got one, as does my church... for legitimate use. The devices are not illegal, the backup copies should not be illegal... playing the discs should not be illegal. Breaking the copy protection? Ok... maybe (though if the DMCA is legal in and of itself is still up for debate).
Simple. Many computer geeks are concerned that Linux is simply getting lip service, a "trial run" and then being tossed quickly so a company can say "See? We tried... no one wanted them."
Similar to the electric car.
Anyways, this is news that matters to many "geeks", so it appears here.
Thank you for the informed and polite response. It is a rare rose among thorns these days. Do you have any good links for the various dating techniques and how they are used? I'd like to research these more closely to gain a better understanding of the science behind them.
What does any of this have to do with an online music service?
Sorry to reply to my post, but I got distracted and was a bit off topic. I am interested in seeing how old they determine the earth to be now. I have no problem believing in 6000-10000 years since mankind was created. I also have no problem with the earth existing for 150-250 million years or whatever the measurement seems to be at this time. I believe in something that was a commonly held belief until around 200 years ago in the Christian community. It's called the pre-adamite era belief, and it fits very nicely with the existing facts of science and the existing information in the bible. I am really excited to see the dating method become more accurate, as it seems to be lining up with my personal opinions, but if science finds that something doesn't match my faith, I will reexamine my faith and see if perhaps I misinterpreted the allegories, the factual stories, and the prophetic. This is the only way to do it because one of the words for spiritual used in the greek has a dual meaning:
Spiritual/Reasonable
and that definition demands that I be reasonable in my faith.
I wonder what this does to some of the evolutionary theories and their timelines?
See, there is a problem here... if you are going to use parts of the bible, you must use the whole of the bible. The old testament laws were to clearly lay out that we cannot fulfill the requirement "Be perfect as I [God] am perfect." Since we cannot fulfill this requirement (and are guaranteed to break at least one of the laws as written), we look for the exceptions clause in the contract. God clearly put an addendum on the contract when he sent his son to pay for all of the crimes of everyone, and then said simply "accept this gift, accept that by paying for the crime, Jesus owns your soul, so you will be in heaven, but you must obey your master in order to receive the gift, or you will be required to accept your original just punishment."
So, you see, stoning your son to death is only right should you be perfect in every way, if you've never sinned, if you've never broken a single law in the scriptures or any laws of the land. Since you are not, and can never be, then that action is wrong (I will point out that I am also not perfect, and can never be).
Accepting the offer of indentured servitude with the best most benevolent of masters in order that you can be freed from the massive debt you've accrued from the moment of birth seems like a pretty nice deal to me. We deserve foreclosure on the 'house'(life) God gave us, but he opts to buy the life and then let us live it 'rent' free... if only we would work for him and keep the 'house' in order. It's really a sweet deal when you truly understand and read what the whole picture speaks of in the bible.
I would say since the facts cannot be copyrighted but the layout and graphics can be, this would then be an attempt to make the graphics and layout be open source, allowing anyone to print it (or provide it free), getting rid of the commercial constraints on textbooks, and lowering the cost for books. Win-win if they can keep it actually factual.
Of course. IANAL, so I leave it up to them rather than post something that I know is completely full of holes... that's why Lawyers get paid so much... they remove loopholes better than the average joe (usually).
Irrevocable should read "irrevocable excepting in cases where content has been removed by end user" or however the legalese would need to be to indicate that they can do whatever they want with it until the moment I remove it from their site. Once removed, they have to cease all actions on this material, as I have revoked their right to the material.
Haven't heard of that one... can you send me a PDF copy? Seriously. I'm curious what crap/quality stuff is out there, as I don't do "tracts" (they're a waste of time. Someone does not change their wordview because of 8 pages in a booklet!).
American atheists/agnostics take a very simplistic approach to their non-religion, which makes it very easy to fake being agnostic/atheist if one is willing to make the effort. You don't have to be Carl Sagan to convince the average American agnostic/atheist that you're not a believer. In fact, most agnostics would probably find Carl Sagan's brand of agnosticism/atheism beyond their intellectual grasp.
FTFY
It's easy to spout out tripe comments bashing others, but I try to refrain from doing so. I am a likely a "die hard fundie" Christian in your worldview, but I have very close atheist, agnostic, muslim, and jewish friends with whom I hold very intellectual discourse, and enjoy long hours of conversation about the meaning of life. Just because your world view says that Christians are not intelligent doesn't mean that this is the truth. I thought atheists were atheists because they sought to only believe factual truth? I'm a Christian because I sought out the truth, and found that with all of the facts available to me, and with all of the life experiences I've had, I could not help but come to the same conclusions of C.S. Lewis, even when these conclusions are in direct conflict with my pastors' and leaders' perspective on our faith.
I am not fooled by any candidate's claim to faith, nor do I claim they do not have faith. I just rely on the facts at hand and vote for the individual that best meets my expectations for a well run government. If that happens to mean that the individual and I disagree on some points, so be it. If it means that I have to agree to disagree on areas of faith, so be it. I must be rational, reasonable, and honest in my attempt to do the right thing in this election, and no amount of emotional sensationalism should be allowed to persuade me (and I sincerely hope that I am not being persuaded by such things).
Please consider your words carefully the next time you decide that 10% of the nation (a rough estimate based on various polls of how many are "die hard" Christians based on their level of attendance... not the best metric, but a good enough rough estimate) are complete idiots, and do not comprehend the core foundation of their faith.