Yes, and that's what disturbing. Just like television advertisements that target children, only these are, astoundingly enough, worse, as they try to trick kids into thinking they're engaging in a conversation.
And what excuse is given in response to the moral questions? We have to make a profit. Disgusting.
The Bible demands logic and does not demand blind faith.
Well, most of the followers certainly demand blind faith.
Best quote on the subject:
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. ~Thomas Paine
I wonder if they're doing the things the X10 ads imply they might be doing.
You've got it all wrong; X10 is meant to protect and safeguard your family. All those half-dressed women in the ads are simply burglars, removing their bulky clothing so they can slither in through your window and steal your stuff.
Oddworld is an established series? I have nothing against it, but I thought it was too quirky to have the same mainstream success as say the FF franchise or the more popular FPS or fighting games.
It's the equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet deciding to charge for each entree.
Capitalism at work means they're changing the TOS (a right which they explicitly reserved in the original agreement), and giving you a choice. Accept it or don't, but contracts aren't meant to be binding in perpetuity (otherwise it would be justified for your grandparents to complain that the phone company isn't charging that dollar a month it cost when they first got the service).
It'll probably end up like that Simpsons episode where Germans buy the Springfield nuclear plant from Mr. Burns, then when they realize it's completely broken down and profitless, they're forced to sell it back for a fraction of what they got it for...
Yep, as much as we all crow about building our own computer systems, at the present moment it's about the same price, or much lower if you include software bundles.
Well, eventually all those mergers will result in one global company. You'd work for them, because they're the only employer around, and charges for the shows you watch, the books you read, the air you breathe, etc., will simply be deducted from your paycheck.
Tesla was a brilliant inventor, who did come up with several interesting innovations, and didn't really get the recognition he deserved.
He was also, however, quite mad, and near the end of his life started working on some really far-out death-ray kinds of things. Unfortunately, too many people online have latched onto his latter "inventions" as being something other than dementia.
A good source about the life of Tesla is Clifford Pickover's book, Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen.
What I'm really curious about is why this fringe cult has grown up around Tesla. I mean, there have been plenty of unappreciated inventors before (look at Philo Farnsworth), and crackpot scientists, but for some reason the fringe people have a thing about Tesla in particular.
Alright, I know tech workers tend to have absurdly high opinions of themselves, especially on slashdot, but EINSTEINS? That's going a bit far, don't you think?
He din't come out with details about his past drug use, but he also didn't try to deny it.
The problem is when his lack of accountability affects what he does while in power.
He signed extremely harsh anti-drug possession laws while governor of Texas; apparently, while he's allowed to learn from his mistakes, everyone else should be thrown in jail for a few years.
Clinton did a lot of things which were neither moral nor presidential, but the vast majority of the allegations were untrue.
How George Bush's presidency will be looked upon will be based on his successes and failures.
Something which Clinton hasn't had the luxury of. We talk about scandals as if they just arose spontaneously, or they were all driven by him. A worse scandal is the way that the right-wingers in Congress and out did everything in their power to bring down a man they couldn't beat democratically. In the end all Clinton did was try to hide some embarassing facts about his past, something which most people would probably do in his situation.
When you get to the bottom of it, all he did was lie about having sex with an intern. The Whitewater nonsense, the fundraising accusations, and all the rest were just Republican delusions.
The biggest problem with RMS is that he has said several times that not only does he think all software should be free, but you should be required by law to make your software free. There is no room in his philosophy for people to choose what type of software they want to use.
It's an internally consistent philosophical view. Proprietary software doesn't just involve a person or corporation "choosing" to make their software non-free; it also involves a government apparatus that helps them out.
If I want to use closed source, proprietary software, then dammit RMS stay the hell out of my machine.
But what gives you the right to create proprietary software in the first place? If I get a hold of your software, why shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever I want with it? It's like if I bought a candy bar, and was told that I was not allowed to share it, or use it in a recipe of my own, but had to open it carefully then eat it in a certain way.
I think what RMS is saying is that the kind of contracts which limit the free use of software you obtain are inherently immoral.
Note that I'm not saying I agree with it, but I do understand the position.
Really? He's been held accountable for everything he's done, and a lot of stuff they just made up.
Did you miss the impeachment hearings or something?
Now George W. Bush is a GREAT example of this. Didn't study in school, but his family name got him into Yale. Didn't study at Yale, but his family connections got him into an MBA program at Harvard. Failed at business several times, but was bailed out by his father's friends and business partners. Didn't get drafted, because his father's connections got him into the National Guard (where he didn't even show up for duty much of the time). His drug history was whitewashed by his father's political connections.
He's gone through life shielded from responsibility, and even achieved the highest office in the land purely through family connections.
Depression is always caused by a chemical change. Now what CAUSES that chemical change can either be inherently biochemical, or a result of social or psychological changes.
How was your wife diagnosed, anyway? As far as I know "chemical imbalances" aren't diagnosed through actually testing brain chemistry, but simply by checking symptoms. A misdiagnosis doesn't mean it doesn't exist in other people.
Thats bullshit, My parents may have taught me right from wrong, but when i got a certain age (around 15) I began to think for myself, I figured out what REALLY was right and wrong.
If you made those decisions at 15, they were probably wrong. Nobody's qualified to construct a moral framework at that age.
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Never saw it before, but just added it to my list. Actually has a decent calculator:
3 453453453456 6,982,397,841,832,369,192,960
Me: what's 34534534534632423543453452345345634634634534*5345
SmarterChild: 184,599,013,428,365,488,390,907,204,635,195,277,2
The problem isn't the fact that it's available, it's that it's targetting children.
Yes, and that's what disturbing. Just like television advertisements that target children, only these are, astoundingly enough, worse, as they try to trick kids into thinking they're engaging in a conversation.
And what excuse is given in response to the moral questions? We have to make a profit. Disgusting.
Well, most of the followers certainly demand blind faith.
Best quote on the subject:
I wonder if they're doing the things the X10 ads imply they might be doing.
You've got it all wrong; X10 is meant to protect and safeguard your family. All those half-dressed women in the ads are simply burglars, removing their bulky clothing so they can slither in through your window and steal your stuff.
Oddworld is an established series? I have nothing against it, but I thought it was too quirky to have the same mainstream success as say the FF franchise or the more popular FPS or fighting games.
Oh, sorry. Only saw yours, and thought it was in reply to the story itself.
It's the equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet deciding to charge for each entree.
Capitalism at work means they're changing the TOS (a right which they explicitly reserved in the original agreement), and giving you a choice. Accept it or don't, but contracts aren't meant to be binding in perpetuity (otherwise it would be justified for your grandparents to complain that the phone company isn't charging that dollar a month it cost when they first got the service).
This is slashdot, so a fair amount of stories tend to disprove things that nobody claimed were true in the first place.
Yep, but we usually win in the end.
It'll probably end up like that Simpsons episode where Germans buy the Springfield nuclear plant from Mr. Burns, then when they realize it's completely broken down and profitless, they're forced to sell it back for a fraction of what they got it for...
Well, those are the two packages I was talking about. Office especially is much cheaper if you get it bundled.
Yep, as much as we all crow about building our own computer systems, at the present moment it's about the same price, or much lower if you include software bundles.
Oh man I am just having waves of covetousness washing over me. How can anyone have the money yet NOT buy this thing?
Well, eventually all those mergers will result in one global company. You'd work for them, because they're the only employer around, and charges for the shows you watch, the books you read, the air you breathe, etc., will simply be deducted from your paycheck.
Tesla was a brilliant inventor, who did come up with several interesting innovations, and didn't really get the recognition he deserved.
He was also, however, quite mad, and near the end of his life started working on some really far-out death-ray kinds of things. Unfortunately, too many people online have latched onto his latter "inventions" as being something other than dementia.
A good source about the life of Tesla is Clifford Pickover's book, Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen.
What I'm really curious about is why this fringe cult has grown up around Tesla. I mean, there have been plenty of unappreciated inventors before (look at Philo Farnsworth), and crackpot scientists, but for some reason the fringe people have a thing about Tesla in particular.
It's called the Rambus Maneuver.
tribal and independent.
But that..err..
Wouldn't--?
Nevermind.
Alright, I know tech workers tend to have absurdly high opinions of themselves, especially on slashdot, but EINSTEINS? That's going a bit far, don't you think?
He din't come out with details about his past drug use, but he also didn't try to deny it.
The problem is when his lack of accountability affects what he does while in power.
He signed extremely harsh anti-drug possession laws while governor of Texas; apparently, while he's allowed to learn from his mistakes, everyone else should be thrown in jail for a few years.
Clinton did a lot of things which were neither moral nor presidential, but the vast majority of the allegations were untrue.
How George Bush's presidency will be looked upon will be based on his successes and failures.
Something which Clinton hasn't had the luxury of. We talk about scandals as if they just arose spontaneously, or they were all driven by him. A worse scandal is the way that the right-wingers in Congress and out did everything in their power to bring down a man they couldn't beat democratically. In the end all Clinton did was try to hide some embarassing facts about his past, something which most people would probably do in his situation.
When you get to the bottom of it, all he did was lie about having sex with an intern. The Whitewater nonsense, the fundraising accusations, and all the rest were just Republican delusions.
The biggest problem with RMS is that he has said several times that not only does he think all software should be free, but you should be required by law to make your software free. There is no room in his philosophy for people to choose what type of software they want to use.
It's an internally consistent philosophical view. Proprietary software doesn't just involve a person or corporation "choosing" to make their software non-free; it also involves a government apparatus that helps them out.
If I want to use closed source, proprietary software, then dammit RMS stay the hell out of my machine.
But what gives you the right to create proprietary software in the first place? If I get a hold of your software, why shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever I want with it? It's like if I bought a candy bar, and was told that I was not allowed to share it, or use it in a recipe of my own, but had to open it carefully then eat it in a certain way.
I think what RMS is saying is that the kind of contracts which limit the free use of software you obtain are inherently immoral.
Note that I'm not saying I agree with it, but I do understand the position.
Really? He's been held accountable for everything he's done, and a lot of stuff they just made up.
Did you miss the impeachment hearings or something?
Now George W. Bush is a GREAT example of this. Didn't study in school, but his family name got him into Yale. Didn't study at Yale, but his family connections got him into an MBA program at Harvard. Failed at business several times, but was bailed out by his father's friends and business partners. Didn't get drafted, because his father's connections got him into the National Guard (where he didn't even show up for duty much of the time). His drug history was whitewashed by his father's political connections.
He's gone through life shielded from responsibility, and even achieved the highest office in the land purely through family connections.
One case study proves nothing.
Depression is always caused by a chemical change. Now what CAUSES that chemical change can either be inherently biochemical, or a result of social or psychological changes.
How was your wife diagnosed, anyway? As far as I know "chemical imbalances" aren't diagnosed through actually testing brain chemistry, but simply by checking symptoms. A misdiagnosis doesn't mean it doesn't exist in other people.
Thats bullshit, My parents may have taught me right from wrong, but when i got a certain age (around 15) I began to think for myself, I figured out what REALLY was right and wrong.
If you made those decisions at 15, they were probably wrong. Nobody's qualified to construct a moral framework at that age.
Who inherits the guy's estate? Even if it's a few bucks and an Everquest account, whoever does should be able to access the information.
In cases of severe neurochemical imbalances, pills are pretty much the only thing that can help.