"Being a devoutly religious should automatically disqualify you for state office in such a country because if you're devout, you are morally incapable of performing state duties uninfluenced by your church."
Why is it a bad thing? If it's something that helps define a person's moral framework, you should in fact appreciate it. Think of it as a sort of built-in track record. Let's say you're deciding who you would like to be on the supreme court. You have Potential Justice A with no known opinion on many important matters; you also have Potential Justice B, who has no on-record decisions either. Now, let's say that PJA has professed adherence to a certain set of beliefs. PJB, on the other hand, just says "I'll do what I think is right."
Which one provides more insight into the actual way a justice will vote? I'd say that PJA gives a much clearer picture, simply by taking some sort of stand.
[Whether PJA actually sticks to those beliefs is another matter. This is an issue of true moral character, which is much more difficult to judge.]
I think the real issue here is that you find any adhrence to a predetermined moral code distasteful. According to your statements, a candidate saying "I am a Muslim" should be disqualified from running, but a candidate saying "My personal philosophy is strict humanism" would be okay. What about a person who said "I don't believe in the specific message of the Torah, but I shall make all decisions based on the moral code as written therein?" How is that different from any other philosophy? You're claiming that by being religious, a person gives up control of their decisions. That is patently false. If it were true, do you think we'd have all these variations on Christianity? People go right on thinking and making judgements.
As much as certain parties would like to say that the US should be a completely irreligious country, you're going to have a hard time backing that up constitutionally. The "separation" of Church and State provides for freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion. As much as you may not like the decisions made, at least you know what to expect when a religious person is in power.*
"It doesn't mean you're wrong, just disqualified."
So on what basis is a judge to make his/her decisions? What's "right?" What defines right? If a religious belief cannot be used to base decisions on, what can be an approriate moral base for those in power? If you disqualify religion, you disqualify personal philosophy of all sorts.
*As it stands now, many of our leaders are merely "religious" for votes. This I take issue with, but then again it's just another facet of the dishonesty throughout US politics.
It's just the next, more powerful revision in the series - just like some companies::ahem:: offer "Good, Better, Best" configurations of products.
The old stuff was Pixel Shader. The new stuff is Pixel Shadier. In the future, we'll have Pixel Shadiest, then we'll move on to some other measure of graphics-processing prowess.
Those sentences contradict each other...how? They're practically synonymous. The first one primes you, the second one fills in the details better. It's a common approach in writing.
I'd think that journalism is at least a LITTLE safe from outsourcing. The BBC may have better US national news than any US-based outlet, but the very nature of local and regional news rather precludes having anyone but locals do it.
That's what I'm suggesting. The parent to my post was going on about how wonderful it was to have PVR functionality built-in to the portable device itself.
Though I suspect the moderation applied ot your comment may be for good reason, do you care to enlighten me what your experience has been? Seriously, what good is a portable PVR? If I was at home to record the show, I could be watching it as it aired anyway.
Pardon me if I'm being daft, but how does in-built PVR functionality really benefit you with a portable device? I take my iPod with me everywhere, especially for work. Since I don't exactly take my home antenna (satellite, cable, whatever) with me wherever I go, the PVR wouldn't have a chance to do its job. I need my PVR to get shows I miss when I'm out, for chrissakes. Leave me with a dedicated PVR that can sit at home and worry about catching my shows when I can't do it myself, then let me sync the two devices.
Simply because the ext2 driver isn't going to know how to write the journal, so the journal would immediately become out-of-sync whenever ext2 data was written to it. Sure, you could repair the directory structure with no loss, but being able to easily fix the shit that happens isn't exactly "supporting" a filesystem.
No, you should not. YOu shoult TRY TO ANSWER THE F'N QUESTION.
Here's what your responses have looked like so far:
Q) Without a prior record, how do we know what to expect? A) There have been other justices with no prior record. Q) Okay, how were those prior justices vetted? A) Here's another justice that had no record.
You're answering a question that's not been asked, and entirely avoiding the questions that are asked.
Which has been a magnet for criticism for its own reasons. The manufacturer pushed really hard for legislation that generics must be identical in all manners - not just active ingredient, but inert ingredients as well.
As an aside, I know that most drugs come from stange places, but did you know from where the name "Premarin" came? PREgnant MARe's urINe. Yep. Horse piss. MMMMM-MMM GOOD!
Which, for most user applications, is rather fine these days. The only things that use anywhere near the full capability of my machine - which is now almost three years old - are games. I can launch FireFox and have it re-load all thirty of my last tabs in under ten seconds. Azureus can saturate my broadband connection quite well, Java and all. Modern machines are built to take it, so I figure why not?
Hardware like that is fairly uncommon, and professional recording guys are not going to use a third-party driver -- they want something with support from the manufacturer of the hardware, because if the system dies in the middle of a session, they may have lost the chance to capture a performance that can never be reproduced.
Have you noticed how little companies like DigiDesign actually support? It's pathetic. Basically, forget using any of the high-end features you might be getting a new computer for.
# Pentium 4 or Xeon systems with HyperThreading technology must have "Intel HyperThreading" in the system BIOS disabled. # Dual processor machines may need to have network cards disabled for best performance
In fact, with any modern (lithium-based) battery you're significantly better off if you avoid completely draining the battery. You can maximize the life of lithium cells if you keep them fully-charged when not in use.
Some lithium-ion batteries feature an ultra-low voltage cut-off that permanently disconnects the pack if a cell dips below 1.5V. A very deep discharge may cause the formation of copper shunt, which can lead to a partial or total electrical short. The same occurs if the cell is driven into negative polarity and is kept in that state for a while.
Manufacturers rate the lithium-ion battery at an 80% depth of discharge. Repeated full (100%) discharges would lower the specified cycle count. It is therefore recommended to charge lithium-ion more often rather than letting it down too low. Periodic full discharges are not needed because lithium-ion is not affected by memory.
The data rate required to stream compressed music is miniscule compared to current drive technology's capabilities. Think of it this way: most current optical drives can read a CD at 32X or greater "standard" speed, and a 128 kbps music file uses approximately 1/10th the data rate that a standard audio CD would. Thus, you could theoretically stream 300 MP3s from a CD at the same time. Still, CD-ROM drives are slower than pretty much any other modern drive technology.
As such, you're have to have a pretty damn slow drive for data access issues to cause skipping, especially when buffers are added to the mix.
DHCP doesn't come even close to protecting you from worms and other things that propogate by initializing their own outgoing network connections. Usually they spam random IPs and their local subnet in an attempt to infect all available machines - and a DHCP address is just as valid as a static one.
Many such public connections are behind a NAT/router, but that doesn't protect you from other machines that are on the same network.
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"Being a devoutly religious should automatically disqualify you for state office in such a country because if you're devout, you are morally incapable of performing state duties uninfluenced by your church."
Why is it a bad thing? If it's something that helps define a person's moral framework, you should in fact appreciate it. Think of it as a sort of built-in track record. Let's say you're deciding who you would like to be on the supreme court. You have Potential Justice A with no known opinion on many important matters; you also have Potential Justice B, who has no on-record decisions either. Now, let's say that PJA has professed adherence to a certain set of beliefs. PJB, on the other hand, just says "I'll do what I think is right."
Which one provides more insight into the actual way a justice will vote? I'd say that PJA gives a much clearer picture, simply by taking some sort of stand.
[Whether PJA actually sticks to those beliefs is another matter. This is an issue of true moral character, which is much more difficult to judge.]
I think the real issue here is that you find any adhrence to a predetermined moral code distasteful. According to your statements, a candidate saying "I am a Muslim" should be disqualified from running, but a candidate saying "My personal philosophy is strict humanism" would be okay. What about a person who said "I don't believe in the specific message of the Torah, but I shall make all decisions based on the moral code as written therein?" How is that different from any other philosophy? You're claiming that by being religious, a person gives up control of their decisions. That is patently false. If it were true, do you think we'd have all these variations on Christianity? People go right on thinking and making judgements.
As much as certain parties would like to say that the US should be a completely irreligious country, you're going to have a hard time backing that up constitutionally. The "separation" of Church and State provides for freedom of religion, but not freedom from religion. As much as you may not like the decisions made, at least you know what to expect when a religious person is in power.*
"It doesn't mean you're wrong, just disqualified."
So on what basis is a judge to make his/her decisions? What's "right?" What defines right? If a religious belief cannot be used to base decisions on, what can be an approriate moral base for those in power? If you disqualify religion, you disqualify personal philosophy of all sorts.
*As it stands now, many of our leaders are merely "religious" for votes. This I take issue with, but then again it's just another facet of the dishonesty throughout US politics.
I refuse to purchase any machine with the display married to the computer...I love their PowerBooks
I know it's not really what you meant, but technically...
Oh come on. Everybody knows the Mac is a superior gaming platform, what with Photoshop and all.
Well damn. I suck. I really should read the FIRST part of lists and such...
1) You'd hope the music itself was punisment enough.
2) It's Dion, not Celine Dion. TOTALLY different.
It's just the next, more powerful revision in the series - just like some companies ::ahem:: offer "Good, Better, Best" configurations of products.
The old stuff was Pixel Shader. The new stuff is Pixel Shadier. In the future, we'll have Pixel Shadiest, then we'll move on to some other measure of graphics-processing prowess.
Come on, this is all basic marketing.
Those sentences contradict each other...how? They're practically synonymous. The first one primes you, the second one fills in the details better. It's a common approach in writing.
Get over it.
I'd think that journalism is at least a LITTLE safe from outsourcing. The BBC may have better US national news than any US-based outlet, but the very nature of local and regional news rather precludes having anyone but locals do it.
That's what I'm suggesting. The parent to my post was going on about how wonderful it was to have PVR functionality built-in to the portable device itself.
Though I suspect the moderation applied ot your comment may be for good reason, do you care to enlighten me what your experience has been? Seriously, what good is a portable PVR? If I was at home to record the show, I could be watching it as it aired anyway.
Pardon me if I'm being daft, but how does in-built PVR functionality really benefit you with a portable device? I take my iPod with me everywhere, especially for work. Since I don't exactly take my home antenna (satellite, cable, whatever) with me wherever I go, the PVR wouldn't have a chance to do its job. I need my PVR to get shows I miss when I'm out, for chrissakes. Leave me with a dedicated PVR that can sit at home and worry about catching my shows when I can't do it myself, then let me sync the two devices.
Simply because the ext2 driver isn't going to know how to write the journal, so the journal would immediately become out-of-sync whenever ext2 data was written to it. Sure, you could repair the directory structure with no loss, but being able to easily fix the shit that happens isn't exactly "supporting" a filesystem.
No, you should not. YOu shoult TRY TO ANSWER THE F'N QUESTION.
Here's what your responses have looked like so far:
Q) Without a prior record, how do we know what to expect?
A) There have been other justices with no prior record.
Q) Okay, how were those prior justices vetted?
A) Here's another justice that had no record.
You're answering a question that's not been asked, and entirely avoiding the questions that are asked.
Which has been a magnet for criticism for its own reasons. The manufacturer pushed really hard for legislation that generics must be identical in all manners - not just active ingredient, but inert ingredients as well.
As an aside, I know that most drugs come from stange places, but did you know from where the name "Premarin" came? PREgnant MARe's urINe. Yep. Horse piss. MMMMM-MMM GOOD!
NOT Macromedia. Macrovision.
Good thing these guys were around before DRM.
Apple computer is on extremely shaky ground as it is. When sued by Apple music they promised to stay out of the music biz,
The first thing your parent comment suggested was BUYING Apple Records. That would pretty well eliminate any conflict.
Which, for most user applications, is rather fine these days. The only things that use anywhere near the full capability of my machine - which is now almost three years old - are games. I can launch FireFox and have it re-load all thirty of my last tabs in under ten seconds. Azureus can saturate my broadband connection quite well, Java and all. Modern machines are built to take it, so I figure why not?
It's not "funny," it's true.
Have you noticed how little companies like DigiDesign actually support? It's pathetic. Basically, forget using any of the high-end features you might be getting a new computer for.
Reference?
I'm surprised those blimps are fired upon...but then again, we Americans are a little stupid.
In fact, with any modern (lithium-based) battery you're significantly better off if you avoid completely draining the battery. You can maximize the life of lithium cells if you keep them fully-charged when not in use.
From Battery University:
The data rate required to stream compressed music is miniscule compared to current drive technology's capabilities. Think of it this way: most current optical drives can read a CD at 32X or greater "standard" speed, and a 128 kbps music file uses approximately 1/10th the data rate that a standard audio CD would. Thus, you could theoretically stream 300 MP3s from a CD at the same time. Still, CD-ROM drives are slower than pretty much any other modern drive technology.
As such, you're have to have a pretty damn slow drive for data access issues to cause skipping, especially when buffers are added to the mix.
DHCP doesn't come even close to protecting you from worms and other things that propogate by initializing their own outgoing network connections. Usually they spam random IPs and their local subnet in an attempt to infect all available machines - and a DHCP address is just as valid as a static one.
Many such public connections are behind a NAT/router, but that doesn't protect you from other machines that are on the same network.
I can eat danish; does that count?