I'm not intellectually lazy. "Lazy" is to attack the messenger rather than the message.
I personally have as many problems with the Times as I do with Fox. They're both biased - intentionally or not - and it's the responsibility of the reader to judge the source and its references.
Evolution is neither random nor does it "add new material". Evolution is the process by which the genetic makeup of a population changes. Pressure to change can come from selective breeding (with humans guiding which genes are passed along to successive generations) or natural selection (with genes for a preferable trait are passed along more than others).
You seem to be mixing up "evolution" with some of those things, as well as mutation.
I used DirecTV for about five years without issue - their TiVo DVR was great. A couple of years ago I moved to a home with significantly more tree cover and, remembering having to find a good location for the dish, asked if they'd check to see if it would work before I had them move everything. They said 'no', so I didn't. I got FiOS and am very happy with it - but DirecTV calls and writes me like a stalker, trying to get me back when I was theirs to lose in the first place.
Re:Only copyleft is "commie", BSD isn't.
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"Restrictive (copyleft) licensed software like the Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain indeed follows a communist philosophy that fails to see the value of free market competition, and instead relies on government force (see gpl-violations.org)."
Idiot. Relying on "government force" to enforce contracts isn't "communist". In fact, even among most libertarians, enforcement of contract is considered one of the basic and vary legitimate functions of government.
There's nothing "anti-free-market" about a collaborative effort; every pursuit that's not for-profit isn't "anti-capitalist".
Communism is *compulsory* sharing of work and work product you own. Taking someone else's and using it on the terms they've placed on it isn't compulsory - you don't have to use it.
"Vinyl is the only format of the three that contains very high and very low frequency data that you cannot hear. You can't hear this data, but you can feel it, physically with your body."
No, it doesn't. No, you can't.
It was called "liberalism" long before it was called "libertarianism". Now that 'liberal' means something different, libertarians needed a new word. I don't hate to break it to you, because the only time it's fun to correct someone else is when they smarmily did the same thing first.
This has become a large pile of tangential discussions. The question isn't whether prison is a punishment or a deterrent or for rehabilitation, and the question isn't whether it's reasonable for the German government to keep private judicial documents which contain the names of convicted criminals. While I personally would oppose such a rule here, I understand its intent.
But: this law in Germany isn't about government respecting privacy of convicted criminals - it's about government forcing media to rewrite history.
A murder and its subsequent criminal investigation and trial of the killers is certainly newsworthy. What justification is there to mandate removal of information from documents? How will this affect research? How can information be legal today, but not tomorrow?
That's ignorant. Corporate taxes double-tax earnings. And they don't all get passed to consumers - they also take form as reduced hiring and reduced salary, reduced capital for business expansion, and even as tolls you'll probably like: lower share prices and dividends, and yes, lower executive pay.
The whole thing *is* the fault of interference with the free market. Large corporations benefit from economies of scale, but that doesn't offset their inertia and small business can respond much more quickly.
But government is for sale to big corporations (who donate to both sides in campaigns so someone owes them no matter what). The problem is that politicians are whores, and they're perpetually campaigning.
Simplify the tax code to take away all these unfair legislated advantages (as well as your whine that the US "effective" tax rate is higher that other countries') and implement term limits.
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Jesus. *None* are perfect, *none* are 100% unbiased. I'm no Republican.
I'm not intellectually lazy. "Lazy" is to attack the messenger rather than the message. I personally have as many problems with the Times as I do with Fox. They're both biased - intentionally or not - and it's the responsibility of the reader to judge the source and its references.
Evolution is neither random nor does it "add new material". Evolution is the process by which the genetic makeup of a population changes. Pressure to change can come from selective breeding (with humans guiding which genes are passed along to successive generations) or natural selection (with genes for a preferable trait are passed along more than others). You seem to be mixing up "evolution" with some of those things, as well as mutation.
Why? Should anything the New York Times reports on a Republican also be assumed to be false? Don't be so intellectually lazy.
I used DirecTV for about five years without issue - their TiVo DVR was great. A couple of years ago I moved to a home with significantly more tree cover and, remembering having to find a good location for the dish, asked if they'd check to see if it would work before I had them move everything. They said 'no', so I didn't. I got FiOS and am very happy with it - but DirecTV calls and writes me like a stalker, trying to get me back when I was theirs to lose in the first place.
"Restrictive (copyleft) licensed software like the Linux kernel and the GNU toolchain indeed follows a communist philosophy that fails to see the value of free market competition, and instead relies on government force (see gpl-violations.org)." Idiot. Relying on "government force" to enforce contracts isn't "communist". In fact, even among most libertarians, enforcement of contract is considered one of the basic and vary legitimate functions of government. There's nothing "anti-free-market" about a collaborative effort; every pursuit that's not for-profit isn't "anti-capitalist". Communism is *compulsory* sharing of work and work product you own. Taking someone else's and using it on the terms they've placed on it isn't compulsory - you don't have to use it.
"Vinyl is the only format of the three that contains very high and very low frequency data that you cannot hear. You can't hear this data, but you can feel it, physically with your body." No, it doesn't. No, you can't.
It was called "liberalism" long before it was called "libertarianism". Now that 'liberal' means something different, libertarians needed a new word. I don't hate to break it to you, because the only time it's fun to correct someone else is when they smarmily did the same thing first.
This has become a large pile of tangential discussions. The question isn't whether prison is a punishment or a deterrent or for rehabilitation, and the question isn't whether it's reasonable for the German government to keep private judicial documents which contain the names of convicted criminals. While I personally would oppose such a rule here, I understand its intent. But: this law in Germany isn't about government respecting privacy of convicted criminals - it's about government forcing media to rewrite history. A murder and its subsequent criminal investigation and trial of the killers is certainly newsworthy. What justification is there to mandate removal of information from documents? How will this affect research? How can information be legal today, but not tomorrow?
That's ignorant. Corporate taxes double-tax earnings. And they don't all get passed to consumers - they also take form as reduced hiring and reduced salary, reduced capital for business expansion, and even as tolls you'll probably like: lower share prices and dividends, and yes, lower executive pay.
The whole thing *is* the fault of interference with the free market. Large corporations benefit from economies of scale, but that doesn't offset their inertia and small business can respond much more quickly. But government is for sale to big corporations (who donate to both sides in campaigns so someone owes them no matter what). The problem is that politicians are whores, and they're perpetually campaigning. Simplify the tax code to take away all these unfair legislated advantages (as well as your whine that the US "effective" tax rate is higher that other countries') and implement term limits.
Not lowest. Second highest. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/08/us-corporate-tax-rate.html
First, you *choose* OpenDNS. Second, you can configure OpenDNS to behave the way DNS is supposed to behave.