The problem is that the consequences will never "work out" - change is happening fast and will not slow down, so there will always be new data and new issues to worry about.
Religious ideas respecting the dignity of human life, rejecting oppression, and supporting freedom and free will were in conflict with those states. Religion was a threat to the state because it told people they deserved better than what they were getting from their government.
No, religion was a threat because the state needed a monopoly on worship. If people worship the god of an organized church, they'll do what that god tells them to do. If people worship Stalin/Hitler/Mao/whatever, they'll do what the state tells them to do. It's nothing about dignity, it's about having 100% control.
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The problem with these arguments is that 1930s Germany and Russia were just as religious as a devoutly Catholic state. Hitler took Christian Christmas carols and substituted God's name and Jesus's name with his own, in an attempt to make people worship him. Stalin did something very similar. The common pattern is that blind devotion to another being is dangerous. If you blindly worship your political leader, you're willing to slaughter people for him. If you blindly worship a deity (emphasis on the blindness here - Martin Luther was religious, but he saw the Church as a bunch of frauds), you're willing to slaughter people because his church tells you to.
Something like OLPC is, despite the massive shortcomings of this particular implementation, still in my opinion a better idea than most other plans for dealing with poverty. Airdrop food and water? They eat it, are happy for a few weeks, then go back to normal. Give medical supplies? Tin pot dictators and strong arm thugs will grab it and become another 1% richer while the people keep dying. Education, which is what OLPC is trying to do, is a more practical solution and has some measurable real world results, including creating skilled labor and reducing overpopulation.
Making a potentially offensive joke and then complaining about the moderators not getting the humor in it is also being an ass. So is continuing to post when the mass of "offtopic" moderators would prefer you to leave quietly.
BTW, I quite honestly had no idea that your "probably Native American" post was supposed to be funny.
So IQ is measured by the number of obscure insults you know? Why don't you explain your ideas to the psychologists, I'm sure they'll be glad to finally have a precise definition for intelligence.
Jokes based on racial stereotypes can be funny, but the GGP's comment wasn't a joke at all, it was just a nonsensical statement with something about Native Americans.
What's with all this hatred of the command line? The command line is an interface, just like the graphical one, and it is a very powerful interface that can do things GUIs will never do (how do you even try to make a full (not just if x in the line sub y with z) GUI for sed without making it a textbox?)
Aah, Canadian Rogers user. Back when I was still with Rogers, we had an "unlimited" (*within reasonable limits) plan. Our internet got cut off one day, we called Rogers and they told us that we "downloaded too much". We asked how much should we download and what the cap is, but we just got "not that much". We're with Bell now (which also has pretty bad customer support but at least we don't get arbitrarily disconnected).
You have to be more clever than that. Mine was a double entendre: did I mean that women are good at cooking or that they are sneaky backstabbing bastards.
Saying it's weak is like saying a truck is weak because you can't use it for the majority of real life applications. It's a specific tool with a specific purpose.
XOR encryption isn't weak. It's just extremely vulnerable to a plaintext attack. Where that isn't an issue (eg. one time pads), it's the best algorithm out there.
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The problem is that the consequences will never "work out" - change is happening fast and will not slow down, so there will always be new data and new issues to worry about.
Use a real calculator, you 17008.
Religious ideas respecting the dignity of human life, rejecting oppression, and supporting freedom and free will were in conflict with those states. Religion was a threat to the state because it told people they deserved better than what they were getting from their government.
No, religion was a threat because the state needed a monopoly on worship. If people worship the god of an organized church, they'll do what that god tells them to do. If people worship Stalin/Hitler/Mao/whatever, they'll do what the state tells them to do. It's nothing about dignity, it's about having 100% control.
The problem with these arguments is that 1930s Germany and Russia were just as religious as a devoutly Catholic state. Hitler took Christian Christmas carols and substituted God's name and Jesus's name with his own, in an attempt to make people worship him. Stalin did something very similar. The common pattern is that blind devotion to another being is dangerous. If you blindly worship your political leader, you're willing to slaughter people for him. If you blindly worship a deity (emphasis on the blindness here - Martin Luther was religious, but he saw the Church as a bunch of frauds), you're willing to slaughter people because his church tells you to.
Unfortunately, charities need marketing and PR just like everyone else.
Something like OLPC is, despite the massive shortcomings of this particular implementation, still in my opinion a better idea than most other plans for dealing with poverty. Airdrop food and water? They eat it, are happy for a few weeks, then go back to normal. Give medical supplies? Tin pot dictators and strong arm thugs will grab it and become another 1% richer while the people keep dying. Education, which is what OLPC is trying to do, is a more practical solution and has some measurable real world results, including creating skilled labor and reducing overpopulation.
Making a potentially offensive joke and then complaining about the moderators not getting the humor in it is also being an ass. So is continuing to post when the mass of "offtopic" moderators would prefer you to leave quietly.
BTW, I quite honestly had no idea that your "probably Native American" post was supposed to be funny.
So IQ is measured by the number of obscure insults you know? Why don't you explain your ideas to the psychologists, I'm sure they'll be glad to finally have a precise definition for intelligence.
There are lots of places that are broken down that the US hasn't even touched.
Jokes based on racial stereotypes can be funny, but the GGP's comment wasn't a joke at all, it was just a nonsensical statement with something about Native Americans.
What's with all this hatred of the command line? The command line is an interface, just like the graphical one, and it is a very powerful interface that can do things GUIs will never do (how do you even try to make a full (not just if x in the line sub y with z) GUI for sed without making it a textbox?)
Aah, Canadian Rogers user. Back when I was still with Rogers, we had an "unlimited" (*within reasonable limits) plan. Our internet got cut off one day, we called Rogers and they told us that we "downloaded too much". We asked how much should we download and what the cap is, but we just got "not that much". We're with Bell now (which also has pretty bad customer support but at least we don't get arbitrarily disconnected).
Wait, so you're saying the parent post is masculine?
My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook.
Some people might see that, think their connection is too slow and not use Facebook. That's some pretty clear defamation right there.
"Max"
"Max Plus"
"Max Turbo"
Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?
You have to be more clever than that. Mine was a double entendre: did I mean that women are good at cooking or that they are sneaky backstabbing bastards.
Yeah, that's a pretty decent text editor. I prefer MS Paint.
Don't go into a deep hibernation just yet
Saying it's weak is like saying a truck is weak because you can't use it for the majority of real life applications. It's a specific tool with a specific purpose.
DRM means that you give the ciphertext and the key to the customer but prevent him from getting the key. Obscurity is the only security you have.
All non-software DRM is vulnerable to the "redirect the screen and speaker output to the hard drive" exploit.
XOR encryption isn't weak. It's just extremely vulnerable to a plaintext attack. Where that isn't an issue (eg. one time pads), it's the best algorithm out there.
Women have it easier. Their knife skill starts out at 450.
Playing WoW all day and having a job aren't mutually exclusive
Ok, no more chemistry jokes. Period.