I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that instead of making a sweeping law that states that all Christian churches pay tax, instead it would be better to treat these things on a case by case basis.
For example, hillsong and COS should be taxed into the dirt and then some - they're just commercial entities. But, the church down the road from me is completely different, they make no money to speak of (enough to give to charities and cover liability costs on public worship - and perhaps support a minister).
Too often society swings from one extreme to the other.
Not really. 9.10 was the beginning of change in the way that KDE4 is done. Project Timelord has been initiated with the purpose to radically change and improve the way that Kubuntu handles releases and quality assurance. I don't think we'll really be reaping the benefits of this project until 11.04.
People ought to stop blaming "The Web" as being inherently insecure. As much as you drill down into it, when party1 communicates with party2 and party1 isn't intimately familiar with party2's identity then transactions of information will always be prone to being exploited. This goes for human interaction (face to face) as well as human-to-computer interaction.
Frankly, I'd rather have an insecure internet than have an internet where everyone's identity was fully exposed and documented.
So pointing out that the real world isn't actually a Dilbert comic strip makes one an "apologist". Right...
No, it doesn't. But it does make things less amusing. My comment was only meant to be light-hearted banter - apologies if it was ambiguous in that sense.
Granted, if we joke too much about such things then it almost takes on a 'truth' complex of its own.
Having said all that, seeing people defend managers from/.'s deprecating attitude is new to me.
Put it more like this and you'd be closer to the mark:
We're created creatures with the sole purpose of honouring the person who created us. It doesn't matter what situation God has put you in, that's his right. This is his game after all. Here's a classic example from the bible its self; what right does the clay pot made by the potter have to say, "why did you make me like I am? I want to be blabla". The answer given? No right whatsoever. Sounds harsh, I know - but that's not where the story ends.
It would seem you don't understand the perspective that the average ID/creationist comes from. As convenient as it sounds, the average ID/creationist believes that the world is in a fallen state. A state of disrepair and disarray. If you've read the bible then the passage that speaks of the world 'waxing old like a garment' springs to mind.
Unfortunately, the bible doesn't document in detail (to a scientists satisfaction) the changes that the known universe went through when humanity 'fell'. Suffice to say, it moots many of the points you try to make - if that's what they believe.
Have you ever considered yourself as a 'believer' taking 'leaps of faith'? It seems you look at the partial work of other people, that while awesome, doesn't explain the purpose (or full purpose) of a given function or material and can only speculate and postulate on its true purpose and its full functional qualities - and then take what they're saying as the undeniable, complete truth. The amount of times we as humans get things wrong, or miss something that helps explain something else is innumerable. This will continue into the near infinity.
Agh, let me give some examples of what I'm talking about:
But that for what it does seem to do, it seems pretty badly designed for it....There are a number of major hypotheses at this point...However, not a single use for the appendix would make the appendix at all optimal for what it is doing.
Logic jump. You've gone from explaining that we don't know exactly what it does to saying that its terribly designed for its purpose.
The presence of goosebumps on humans as a legacy of when we actually had a useful amount of hair has been known for some time.
You've got to be kidding. Have you ever been so scared of a critter (spider, bee, wasp, etc) that your hair has stood on end and you've gotten huge 'goosebumps'? I have, and when that happens, every outside forces interaction with my body is intensely magnified. Its a useful mechanism that works extremely well. Oh, and I'm not a monkey, I'm not covered in large hairs and it still works extremely well.
The rest of your arguments that I haven't quoted? I'm at work, I picked the low hanging fruit to illustrate my point. Come at it from the perspective that the universe we're in was designed, is 'fallen' because of man's sin and that as a consequence things aren't nearly as good as they used to be and you'll see it all a bit differently.
That was the killer for me. My brother and I would start a 5mb download of some game and leave it running over night - but the connection was so unstable that it was hit-or-miss as to whether or not it had finished downloading before the connection died.
....but, I was only making a parody to the current statistics for market share with Linux v Windows on desktop and server. Oh well, I'd say whoosh....but I'm going to give you this one since I didn't include my closing tag () - I could have been a legitimate troll.
They don't scan incoming mail, only outgoing mail from any client connected to their network.
This is a key point.
They don't actually filter all your incoming mail for you for spam content, they only check all the mail you send from your mail server or any of your mail clients.
I do actually maintain an email server for the company I work for. The ammount of spam that is blocked daily from getting into our network (blocked at the perimeter by IPCop) is truly amazing. And that's only for an average SMB.
I tend to agree. But, this still excludes many institutions and agencies from actually being able to devote resources to such things without being fearful of the law.
It has caused email systems to be slower, yes. Emails that would otherwise arrive instantly are actually taking minutes, and on some rare occasions, hours to traverse the tubes to their intended destination. Plus, personally I don't like ISP's grabbing control of my email and 'scanning for spam'. Paranoia? Maybe, but I'd rather be on the safe side.
Seriously. Can someone please give me a reasonable explanation that rogue CnC servers and registrars are allowed to continue operations?
Because its actually the government who creates and controls these 'botnets'. They're used to spy on us since they have a computer on each end of each router meaning they can reliably trace data streams in foreign countries to their true original source.
Ok, so that wasn't necessarily accurate. But, I've heard on the low-down that the fellows who were working on Titan Rain are currently trying to map the Chinese governments botnet across the world. Its funny that a growing proportion of our electronics are being sorced from China.
Nothing against the Chinese - great guys and I love mandarin. Just some actions of their leaders seem a bit 'off base' - outside my comfort zone.
Yeah, the Australian ISP that we go through (Telstra) actually forces everyone to use their SMTP servers to send email. According to a friend that works there, they do scan all these emails for spam content (can't confirm). I absolutely loath it. Although that doesn't stop anyone outside the country sending spam in.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that instead of making a sweeping law that states that all Christian churches pay tax, instead it would be better to treat these things on a case by case basis.
For example, hillsong and COS should be taxed into the dirt and then some - they're just commercial entities. But, the church down the road from me is completely different, they make no money to speak of (enough to give to charities and cover liability costs on public worship - and perhaps support a minister).
Too often society swings from one extreme to the other.
Not really. 9.10 was the beginning of change in the way that KDE4 is done. Project Timelord has been initiated with the purpose to radically change and improve the way that Kubuntu handles releases and quality assurance. I don't think we'll really be reaping the benefits of this project until 11.04.
I thought that the star wars system failed because of this very fact?
People ought to stop blaming "The Web" as being inherently insecure. As much as you drill down into it, when party1 communicates with party2 and party1 isn't intimately familiar with party2's identity then transactions of information will always be prone to being exploited. This goes for human interaction (face to face) as well as human-to-computer interaction.
Frankly, I'd rather have an insecure internet than have an internet where everyone's identity was fully exposed and documented.
No, it doesn't. But it does make things less amusing. My comment was only meant to be light-hearted banter - apologies if it was ambiguous in that sense.
/.'s deprecating attitude is new to me.
Granted, if we joke too much about such things then it almost takes on a 'truth' complex of its own.
Having said all that, seeing people defend managers from
Funny, but not quite right. =)
Put it more like this and you'd be closer to the mark:
We're created creatures with the sole purpose of honouring the person who created us. It doesn't matter what situation God has put you in, that's his right. This is his game after all. Here's a classic example from the bible its self; what right does the clay pot made by the potter have to say, "why did you make me like I am? I want to be blabla". The answer given? No right whatsoever. Sounds harsh, I know - but that's not where the story ends.
Unfortunately, the bible doesn't document in detail (to a scientists satisfaction) the changes that the known universe went through when humanity 'fell'. Suffice to say, it moots many of the points you try to make - if that's what they believe.
Have you ever considered yourself as a 'believer' taking 'leaps of faith'? It seems you look at the partial work of other people, that while awesome, doesn't explain the purpose (or full purpose) of a given function or material and can only speculate and postulate on its true purpose and its full functional qualities - and then take what they're saying as the undeniable, complete truth. The amount of times we as humans get things wrong, or miss something that helps explain something else is innumerable. This will continue into the near infinity.
Agh, let me give some examples of what I'm talking about:
Logic jump. You've gone from explaining that we don't know exactly what it does to saying that its terribly designed for its purpose.
You've got to be kidding. Have you ever been so scared of a critter (spider, bee, wasp, etc) that your hair has stood on end and you've gotten huge 'goosebumps'? I have, and when that happens, every outside forces interaction with my body is intensely magnified. Its a useful mechanism that works extremely well. Oh, and I'm not a monkey, I'm not covered in large hairs and it still works extremely well.
The rest of your arguments that I haven't quoted? I'm at work, I picked the low hanging fruit to illustrate my point. Come at it from the perspective that the universe we're in was designed, is 'fallen' because of man's sin and that as a consequence things aren't nearly as good as they used to be and you'll see it all a bit differently.
Ah, but I see a major problem with your logic, and a barrier to its adoption in society:
It makes sense.
Yeah, AMD made a shocking mistake buying ATI. We can all see that ATI is sinking because their graphics cards just aren't competitive.
Oh wait.....
That was the killer for me. My brother and I would start a 5mb download of some game and leave it running over night - but the connection was so unstable that it was hit-or-miss as to whether or not it had finished downloading before the connection died.
I've also heard that "sudo ???" makes you money as well.
Agh, dumb filter - the sarcasm tag.
Mhm, you make good points.
....but, I was only making a parody to the current statistics for market share with Linux v Windows on desktop and server. Oh well, I'd say whoosh....but I'm going to give you this one since I didn't include my closing tag () - I could have been a legitimate troll.
Thank you, sir, for clarifying my light hearted point.
They don't scan incoming mail, only outgoing mail from any client connected to their network.
This is a key point.
They don't actually filter all your incoming mail for you for spam content, they only check all the mail you send from your mail server or any of your mail clients.
I do actually maintain an email server for the company I work for. The ammount of spam that is blocked daily from getting into our network (blocked at the perimeter by IPCop) is truly amazing. And that's only for an average SMB.
Check.
I'm going to fall back to my backup argument: writing 1/3 is easier and quicker than writing 33.3%.
I tend to agree. But, this still excludes many institutions and agencies from actually being able to devote resources to such things without being fearful of the law.
It has caused email systems to be slower, yes. Emails that would otherwise arrive instantly are actually taking minutes, and on some rare occasions, hours to traverse the tubes to their intended destination. Plus, personally I don't like ISP's grabbing control of my email and 'scanning for spam'. Paranoia? Maybe, but I'd rather be on the safe side.
The motivation? I've heard it described by some friendly 'hackers' as, and I quote, "for the lols".
But that's only approximate! Expressed as 1/3 ensures there is no room for error when calculating.
Because its actually the government who creates and controls these 'botnets'. They're used to spy on us since they have a computer on each end of each router meaning they can reliably trace data streams in foreign countries to their true original source.
Ok, so that wasn't necessarily accurate. But, I've heard on the low-down that the fellows who were working on Titan Rain are currently trying to map the Chinese governments botnet across the world. Its funny that a growing proportion of our electronics are being sorced from China.
Nothing against the Chinese - great guys and I love mandarin. Just some actions of their leaders seem a bit 'off base' - outside my comfort zone.
As the clients they do. But as always, Linux servers hog the bot controller market share.
Yeah, the Australian ISP that we go through (Telstra) actually forces everyone to use their SMTP servers to send email. According to a friend that works there, they do scan all these emails for spam content (can't confirm). I absolutely loath it. Although that doesn't stop anyone outside the country sending spam in.
No way! All this time, the three question marks was referring to Rebuild and redeploy?
What would you do with your newly acquired SPAMbot network? Would the power go to your head?
Since the bots all deserve to be botted, I might set up a beowulf cluster with them and distributed render Big Buck Bunny for the fun of it. =)