To be totally fair, it would have been necessary in an ancient civilization where birth control is nonexistant and a significant portion of the population is too stupid to know that sex makes babies. Otherwise, Israel would have had an epidemic of single mothers.
Alot of religious laws may seem like some sort of megalomaniac ruler's attempt at looking important by controlling people when you look at them today, but when you put them in a historical context, you realize that there was a time when they were absolutely necessary to hold a society together.
Are you kidding? Jesus said that that merely wanting to have sex with a woman counts as adultery (see Matthew 5:27). Like usury, divorce and the difficulties of getting rich men into heaven, fornication seems to be one of those things that Americans condone even though a lot of them like to insist this is a Christian nation.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
1 Corinthians 5:7
But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
There's other ones too, but I'm too lazy to find them.
As for the hypothetical desert island, I would think that you could call your relationship a marriage. I'm pretty sure the Bible never says anything about needing a priest, or any of the other religious amenities that modern Christians associate with marriage.
Not necessarily. You can license your program's source code under the GPL while still licensing any art assets it requires under a non-free license. Granted, it may be easy to replace the art assets for something like a web browser or a word processor, but for something like a game (which seems to be alot of the more popular apps), replacing all the art would be difficult.
Ask your boss if you can work later hours. If that doesn't work, you can either give up or find a new job, but please don't shove this on the rest of us.
Even giving more business to private companies in an effort to improve our collective quality of life while doing no harm, financial or otherwise, to the corporations that currently run the show is somehow "too far to the left"?
Except there's one problem: this doesn't improve our collective quality of life. Not everybody wants a 4G smartphone, so not everybody should have to pay for it. I can respect the logic behind things like universal healthcare and food stamps because those are things that can save lives, but I sure as hell cannot understand why its fair that I should have to pay so that somebody else can watch the Dramatic Chipmunk on his phone.
If I run into something where I have a question, I can quickly find an answer. Or, if I'm out and I have an idea that could be really useful, I can very quickly do a bit of basic research into it, make a note, send an email to ask someone else about it, etc.
God forbid you have to wait an extra couple of seconds for 3G when you're away from home
Sorry if that comes off as rude, but I find it very frustrating that those of us who don't have the latest 4G smartphones should have to pay for the installation of a 4G network, especially since people who subscribe to 4G will still have to pay a monthly fee to the cell phone company.
Well, the president already has control over 5,000 Nuclear Warheads with which he could start a war unlike any other and effectively destroy the human race.
Compared to that, the power to prevent me from watching Doctor Who a month before it airs in North America seems pretty minor.
"but he said that the theft could still affect the developer by indirectly causing legitimate online gamers to stop playing Zynga Poker or its other games."
WWII was 70 years ago. People in the US today are a lot different than back then. I'm not so sure they would make the sacrifices needed to go kick Hitler's ass, unless it was somehow threatening their consumeristic lifestyle.
Are you kidding? We invaded Iraq because we thought it might be a threat even though the president produced no real evidence. Zombie Hitler doesn't stand a chance.
They're just a bunch of stupid teenage script kiddies who think they're being "1337 haxxors" by running scripts other people made. They don't care if they're actually doing more to silence free speech than the US government is, as far as they're concerned, they're "sticking it to the man".
I'd wager that most of them have never even read the comic book that V for Vendetta (the movie) was based on.
I don't really understand how legal jurisdiction works on the internet, but what would keep Google from redirecting google.ca to google.com (like the way they redirected traffic from China to Hong Kong last year)?
When I was obese, it was that kind of "blame the victim" attitude that drove me to stop eating hamburgers and start running on the treadmill every day,
... where you can say what you like, if you get permission first.
Seriously, guys, look at how we do it in the rest of the world. Learn from the experience of others. When Britain let America run its own affairs, it was a bit like leaving a house full of teenagers alone for a weekend with the keys to the gun cabinet and wine cellar.
...because they had the right to freedom of speech under King George III?
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To be totally fair, it would have been necessary in an ancient civilization where birth control is nonexistant and a significant portion of the population is too stupid to know that sex makes babies. Otherwise, Israel would have had an epidemic of single mothers.
Alot of religious laws may seem like some sort of megalomaniac ruler's attempt at looking important by controlling people when you look at them today, but when you put them in a historical context, you realize that there was a time when they were absolutely necessary to hold a society together.
Are you kidding? Jesus said that that merely wanting to have sex with a woman counts as adultery (see Matthew 5:27). Like usury, divorce and the difficulties of getting rich men into heaven, fornication seems to be one of those things that Americans condone even though a lot of them like to insist this is a Christian nation.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
1 Corinthians 5:7
But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
There's other ones too, but I'm too lazy to find them.
As for the hypothetical desert island, I would think that you could call your relationship a marriage. I'm pretty sure the Bible never says anything about needing a priest, or any of the other religious amenities that modern Christians associate with marriage.
Not necessarily. You can license your program's source code under the GPL while still licensing any art assets it requires under a non-free license. Granted, it may be easy to replace the art assets for something like a web browser or a word processor, but for something like a game (which seems to be alot of the more popular apps), replacing all the art would be difficult.
That's crazy talk, imagine what five extra hours of sunlight would do for the global warming crisis!
Ask your boss if you can work later hours. If that doesn't work, you can either give up or find a new job, but please don't shove this on the rest of us.
But why does your kid need to do her homework on a phone instead of a computer?
Even giving more business to private companies in an effort to improve our collective quality of life while doing no harm, financial or otherwise, to the corporations that currently run the show is somehow "too far to the left"?
Except there's one problem: this doesn't improve our collective quality of life. Not everybody wants a 4G smartphone, so not everybody should have to pay for it. I can respect the logic behind things like universal healthcare and food stamps because those are things that can save lives, but I sure as hell cannot understand why its fair that I should have to pay so that somebody else can watch the Dramatic Chipmunk on his phone.
The difference is that I don't have to pay money for other peoples' cars.
If I run into something where I have a question, I can quickly find an answer. Or, if I'm out and I have an idea that could be really useful, I can very quickly do a bit of basic research into it, make a note, send an email to ask someone else about it, etc.
God forbid you have to wait an extra couple of seconds for 3G when you're away from home
Sorry if that comes off as rude, but I find it very frustrating that those of us who don't have the latest 4G smartphones should have to pay for the installation of a 4G network, especially since people who subscribe to 4G will still have to pay a monthly fee to the cell phone company.
I hear that. I'm still waiting for cell phone coverage (of any variety) to come to my house so my cell phone can receive calls when I'm at home.
I only accept bars of Gold-Press Latinum.
Well, the president already has control over 5,000 Nuclear Warheads with which he could start a war unlike any other and effectively destroy the human race.
Compared to that, the power to prevent me from watching Doctor Who a month before it airs in North America seems pretty minor.
"but he said that the theft could still affect the developer by indirectly causing legitimate online gamers to stop playing Zynga Poker or its other games."
Zynga never had any legitimate online gamers.
Technically its mass would increase, not its weight.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but that is what this entire thread is about. =P
Really? Which basic human right is it that allows one to disrupt the commerce of innocent people?
This is slashdot, where censorship is only censorship if one of the following two conditions are satisfied:
a) You disagree with the party being censored
b) The US government is the one censoring people
WWII was 70 years ago. People in the US today are a lot different than back then. I'm not so sure they would make the sacrifices needed to go kick Hitler's ass, unless it was somehow threatening their consumeristic lifestyle.
Are you kidding? We invaded Iraq because we thought it might be a threat even though the president produced no real evidence. Zombie Hitler doesn't stand a chance.
No, because the crows (not blackbirds) are supposed to die during the flash forward, which never happened.
From TFA:
The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures.
God, you're right, we are getting SO SCREWED by the government. They're reading wikileaks and learning their own secrets.
HOW MUCH LONGER ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOING ALLOW THIS INJUSTICE!?
They're just a bunch of stupid teenage script kiddies who think they're being "1337 haxxors" by running scripts other people made. They don't care if they're actually doing more to silence free speech than the US government is, as far as they're concerned, they're "sticking it to the man".
I'd wager that most of them have never even read the comic book that V for Vendetta (the movie) was based on.
I don't really understand how legal jurisdiction works on the internet, but what would keep Google from redirecting google.ca to google.com (like the way they redirected traffic from China to Hong Kong last year)?
When I was obese, it was that kind of "blame the victim" attitude that drove me to stop eating hamburgers and start running on the treadmill every day,
I feel like if that was true, then Mexico and the Southwest United States would be red as well.
... where you can say what you like, if you get permission first.
Seriously, guys, look at how we do it in the rest of the world. Learn from the experience of others. When Britain let America run its own affairs, it was a bit like leaving a house full of teenagers alone for a weekend with the keys to the gun cabinet and wine cellar.
...because they had the right to freedom of speech under King George III?
Don't even get me started on Sprint's tech support. The manual for my Sprint phone actually has the number for Verizon Tech support in it.
By the Kelvin statement of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, we can expect that the feces will have a smaller mass than the fish.