Your last two sentences make very little sense to me, but perhaps I'm reading them wrong. Could you please expalin what you mean there a little better (the part about Job)?
I wasn't referring to the scientific process in my post. Obviously a lot of har-har's can be had by all who share the viewpoint of the original poster, as well as some round-robin back-patting. But would such a zinger in there encourage those with an opposing viewpoint to weigh in with their own thoughts? This is what I referred to when I said, "nothing good" would come of it. You're not encouraging the reaching of any sort of consensus there, you're weighting the topic in favor of one position from the get-go.
But then, if I was looking for fair and unbiased discussion of news stories, I wouldn't be here on Slashdot, now would I? --
Kinda hard to consider that anything productive would come from a thread where the original post itself is rife with skepticism.
I hold the Bible in higher regard than Microsoft. Neither of which are very popular here on Slashdot. I must, however, grin when noticing my own double standard... I never get offended when an article post gives MS the cold shoulder. --
What I don't understand is, why didn't the guy stop using Linux in protest when the Chinese Government, with its Draconian civil rights policies, adopted Linux?
Well, considering that soldiers fought in the past to obtain the freedom to express stupidity that we so enjoy today, if you're just opposed to war in general, that action is a tad hypocritical.
I wonder if any Loyalists refused to ride horses because they saw that rabble-rouser Washington riding one?
Coding a 401k tracking and transfer system in UNIBASIC. Hands down. An incredibly aged and horribly designed system (honestly, are any legacy systems WELL designed?) that definitely was NOT defined with extensibility in mind
Doesn't sound TOO horrible, I know. And it wouldn't have been, if this weren't my first professional consulting coding job. At a hostile client site (The boss could be heard almost daily shouting, "When's that [CENSORED] from [CENSORED]'ing [CONSULTING FIRM] gonna be done with that [CENSORED]??!!?"). In a factory in the middle of nowhere. In a language that makes COBOL look like Epcot center.
Thank you for the history lesson. I seriously enjoyed that. I notice nobody is rebutting you. Pretty solid.
The bit about the tomb was good, too. Look at Mohammed. His tomb is a shrine. I don't know about Buddhism or Confucianism, though. Are their tombs enshrined? Just curious.
Burden of proof, indeed. *claps*
As an aside, the idea that this film is being re-released as "an alternative to the hype" of the Passion of Christ smacks of immaturity.
Your blanket statement is only true if it actually does apply to all those you throw it over.
I'm an American and I can sing the freaking Canadian national anthem. From memory. Eh? Your beer has a higher alcohol content. But I don't drink so I won't comment. Some of my Vancouverite friends do indeed ponounce it, "aboot." Your weather, except in the northern extremities, is remarkably similar to that in the northern United States. I didn't learn this in school, but I have acquired the knowlege somehow.
Stereotypes are funny because they apply in a great number of situations. But to delare $stereotype == true is an infinitive and will likely never be corerct.
Kinda like saying all Canadians bash their neighbors to the south because they have the short man syndrome. See, it's just not always going to be true.
Venkman: This industrty is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions. Linus: What do you mean, "biblical?" Ray: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness-- Winston: Lotus rising from the grave! Egon: Forty years of uptime! Competition, open source-- Venkman: Riots in Redmond, Ballmer and Ellison living together, mass hysteria!
--
The "goodness of God" that most believers refer to is the salvation of one's soul. Although true believers in Christ don't get a magical rabbit's foot so they can get 100k/yr and immunization from all diseases, they do get a really good after-life insurance plan.
Anyone who tries to convince you that God puts a bubble around you to keep all the troubles and cares from you that other humans go through is lying or ignorant. Likely lying.
print RELIGIONDISCLAIMER; Mr. (perhaps Brother) Wall, I have for a very long time admired you. First and foremost I admired your language and your writing style as exemplified in the Camel books and different quotes from you.
Finding out you were a Christian also increased my admiration. I too, am a Christian. I am a geek, and I love perl. Lots in common;)
I'm more interested though, in the real Larry Wall. Not the guy in the Camel Book, the guy behind the geek code block. Could you tell us a little about your family? Where you live? What (if any) denomonationl church do you attend? Also I would like to hear you expound some of your beliefs and such on religion and God. RELIGIONDISCLAIMER
The United States of America hasn't been "Under God" (Judeo Christian or whatever) for a very, very long time.
To claim anything else is hypocritical in the first place. "Under God" was removed long ago in spirit. It's actually probably good to see it finally manifest in the natural.
Yeah, you're trolling. Yeah, you should be modded down. Way to go off topic and try to derail discussion due to your personal vendetta against America *rolls eyes*
Funny... I picked up Java pretty quickly after first learning perl. Lest I be thought to be a "dirty script0r", I must alert you that I used the OOP (sorry, I mean pseudo-OOP) features of perl/php quite extensively before I ended up having to use Java for a project.
But... I guess since package::main isn't an object then I could never understand OOP.
And I quote: Personally I think that the whole notion of the American Dream is one that needs to be abandoned. It has resulted in a society driven by violence towards acquisition and greed, in which the violence of its spirit is mirrored in its gun-obsessed, violent culture and media, and in its interventionalist foreign policy.
Becasue of the American Dream, we are all gun toting violent maniacs? You need to get your head checked. Guns in the USA aren't that bad, not nearly as bad as the media hypes it up. How about Africa? And what makes you think that all Americans want interventionalism? Jeez, it's uneducated comments like this that degrade any worthwhile discussion to grunting and finger-pointing.
Moderate it up though, USA-bashing is popular here on/. Don't blame the individual companies, Blame Canada (err, the US gov)... ----- if ($anyone_cares) {print "Just Another Perl Newbie"}
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Your last two sentences make very little sense to me, but perhaps I'm reading them wrong. Could you please expalin what you mean there a little better (the part about Job)?
I wasn't referring to the scientific process in my post. Obviously a lot of har-har's can be had by all who share the viewpoint of the original poster, as well as some round-robin back-patting. But would such a zinger in there encourage those with an opposing viewpoint to weigh in with their own thoughts? This is what I referred to when I said, "nothing good" would come of it. You're not encouraging the reaching of any sort of consensus there, you're weighting the topic in favor of one position from the get-go.
But then, if I was looking for fair and unbiased discussion of news stories, I wouldn't be here on Slashdot, now would I?
--
Hear, hear!
Kinda hard to consider that anything productive would come from a thread where the original post itself is rife with skepticism.
I hold the Bible in higher regard than Microsoft. Neither of which are very popular here on Slashdot. I must, however, grin when noticing my own double standard... I never get offended when an article post gives MS the cold shoulder.
--
What I don't understand is, why didn't the guy stop using Linux in protest when the Chinese Government, with its Draconian civil rights policies, adopted Linux?
Well, considering that soldiers fought in the past to obtain the freedom to express stupidity that we so enjoy today, if you're just opposed to war in general, that action is a tad hypocritical.
I wonder if any Loyalists refused to ride horses because they saw that rabble-rouser Washington riding one?
Coding a 401k tracking and transfer system in UNIBASIC. Hands down. An incredibly aged and horribly designed system (honestly, are any legacy systems WELL designed?) that definitely was NOT defined with extensibility in mind
Doesn't sound TOO horrible, I know. And it wouldn't have been, if this weren't my first professional consulting coding job. At a hostile client site (The boss could be heard almost daily shouting, "When's that [CENSORED] from [CENSORED]'ing [CONSULTING FIRM] gonna be done with that [CENSORED]??!!?"). In a factory in the middle of nowhere. In a language that makes COBOL look like Epcot center.
Thank you for the history lesson. I seriously enjoyed that. I notice nobody is rebutting you. Pretty solid.
The bit about the tomb was good, too. Look at Mohammed. His tomb is a shrine. I don't know about Buddhism or Confucianism, though. Are their tombs enshrined? Just curious.
Burden of proof, indeed. *claps*
As an aside, the idea that this film is being re-released as "an alternative to the hype" of the Passion of Christ smacks of immaturity.
Your blanket statement is only true if it actually does apply to all those you throw it over.
I'm an American and I can sing the freaking Canadian national anthem. From memory. Eh? Your beer has a higher alcohol content. But I don't drink so I won't comment. Some of my Vancouverite friends do indeed ponounce it, "aboot." Your weather, except in the northern extremities, is remarkably similar to that in the northern United States. I didn't learn this in school, but I have acquired the knowlege somehow.
Stereotypes are funny because they apply in a great number of situations. But to delare $stereotype == true is an infinitive and will likely never be corerct.
Kinda like saying all Canadians bash their neighbors to the south because they have the short man syndrome. See, it's just not always going to be true.
So who's going to abolish religion worldwide? Scary. Who's going to enforce it? Scarier yet, how are you going to enforce it?
Thinking before posting is good. You sound like a nazi.
That wasn't french.
Venkman: This industrty is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Linus: What do you mean, "biblical?"
Ray: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness--
Winston: Lotus rising from the grave!
Egon: Forty years of uptime! Competition, open source--
Venkman: Riots in Redmond, Ballmer and Ellison living together, mass hysteria!
--
As if calling it Lindows isn't misleading enough already.
*rolls eyes*
I'm seriously quaking behind my keyboard.
... he's more than welcome to _TRY_...
The "goodness of God" that most believers refer to is the salvation of one's soul. Although true believers in Christ don't get a magical rabbit's foot so they can get 100k/yr and immunization from all diseases, they do get a really good after-life insurance plan.
Anyone who tries to convince you that God puts a bubble around you to keep all the troubles and cares from you that other humans go through is lying or ignorant. Likely lying.
print RELIGIONDISCLAIMER;
;)
Mr. (perhaps Brother) Wall, I have for a very long time admired you. First and foremost I admired your language and your writing style as exemplified in the Camel books and different quotes from you.
Finding out you were a Christian also increased my admiration. I too, am a Christian. I am a geek, and I love perl. Lots in common
I'm more interested though, in the real Larry Wall. Not the guy in the Camel Book, the guy behind the geek code block. Could you tell us a little about your family? Where you live? What (if any) denomonationl church do you attend? Also I would like to hear you expound some of your beliefs and such on religion and God.
RELIGIONDISCLAIMER
"Bring out yer dead... *dong* bring out yer dead..." ... sorry, couldn't resist :E
Being an agnostic isn't special. Criticizing and hating those who believe the Bible in its entirety isn't special either.
Again, more karma points tho.
Might get you a few more karma on slashdot though.
To claim anything else is hypocritical in the first place. "Under God" was removed long ago in spirit. It's actually probably good to see it finally manifest in the natural.
I had no idea low UID's could fetch a great price ;)
Yeah, you're trolling. Yeah, you should be modded down. Way to go off topic and try to derail discussion due to your personal vendetta against America *rolls eyes*
But... I guess since package::main isn't an object then I could never understand OOP.
... what the HECK are you talking about? He was mentioning what a change in history we'd have had not things like the Boston Tea Party taken place.
Here's a good argument for using MP3's (for Americans, anyway), and you turn it into some kind of Canada/Queen/British/COLOUR thing?
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Train of thought! Keep it on the tracks! Don't let that Anti-American sentiment get in the way!
BTW, your sig makes no sense. And we're Americans, not Yanks. Tankuveddymuch.
----- if ($anyone_cares) {print "Just Another Perl Newbie"}
... to write perl programs people can read! :)
----- if ($anyone_cares) {print "Just Another Perl Newbie"}
Becasue of the American Dream, we are all gun toting violent maniacs? You need to get your head checked. Guns in the USA aren't that bad, not nearly as bad as the media hypes it up. How about Africa? And what makes you think that all Americans want interventionalism? Jeez, it's uneducated comments like this that degrade any worthwhile discussion to grunting and finger-pointing.
Moderate it up though, USA-bashing is popular here on /. Don't blame the individual companies, Blame Canada (err, the US gov)...
----- if ($anyone_cares) {print "Just Another Perl Newbie"}