In fact, if you are given an unlawful order, you are, by military law, required to refuse to follow it and report it to the appropriate military authority.
What do you think actually happens when one does that?
if the bill allows teachers to point out the arguments against evolution
There are none. Everything we know about biology only makes sense in light of evolution. What there are are misconceptions about evolution. They should be addressed in class, and the students should be educated as to why they are incorrect. Allowing teachers to teach misconceptions, and expect kids to be able to refute them, is never going to work.
Chances are the biology teacher didn't have a degree in anything resembling biology. Schools figure that they can take anyone with an education degree and make them teach anything.
Do you think the world would be a better place without the US, the West, and the ability to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy, even if imperfectly?
I think the world would be a better place if the US actually tried to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy. Hell, I think it would be great if we adopted them at home!
Are you sharing a computer? That sounds awful. I spend most of my computing time on Linux, just feet away from my girlfriend who runs Windows. This solves lots of problems.
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade used to terrify me, had a few incidents where it ate its own package database or simply uninstalled necessary packages (like my X server) for no particular reason
This is nothing to be afraid of. If you corrupt your dpkg database, there's a backup kept in '/var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz'. If something uninstalls a package you want, just apt-get the package again.
Dealing with these extremely rare and easy to fix occurances is no big deal. Dealing with a Mac GUI day in and day out, that's unusable.
Windows and OSX both at least treat logical drives in a sane manner and clearly delineate what is housed where;/dev/sda1/sdb2/ and so on and so forth are a fucking travesty and confuse the ever-loving fuck out of new Linux users.
Really? In windows, how do I tell which disk my E: drive is on? Does it tell you anywhere?
In Linux it's trivial to find out what physical device a path is on. Just type 'mount' to find out what partition is mounted where, and then the device name tells you where that partition is./dev/sdb2 is the second partition on the device plugged into SATA port 2.
The rest of your post is sensible. Switching to Linux is a lot of work. It's work that pays off immensely, but it's still a lot of work. I don't recommend Linux to anyone who isn't willing to invest themselves in the switch.
'growisofs -Z/dev/dvd -R -J/path' would have done the trick for you. The trick to using Linux effectively is to ignore all the GUI crap and focus on its strengths. Once you learn to use the command line, Linux is a better desktop than anything else around.
These two sentences come from the first paragraph of the court ruling:
Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives. As model codes, however, the organization's works retain their protected status.
That obviously contradicts itself. The same text cannot be both public domain and protected at the same time. Why do we have judges who think it is acceptable to issue blatantly contradictory rulings?
In life, you will witness violence. Whether it's direct or indirect, we are all involved in violence in one way or the other. You can't properly socialize someone without addressing this fact.
Should we put in jail the average Banker (middle class/lower middle class) who just follows company policy, and greets you with a smile?
No, we should put the highest level CEOs in jail. The ones who are responsible for the pattern of racketeering activity. Just like the Mafia, you don't get to run a criminal organization and claim you have clean hands.
For the most part this is what happened.
You left a lot out of the summary. Like the part where most loans they were rebundling were known to the banks to be 90% fraudulent. How did they know? Congress and the FBI warned them about it. What did they do in response? They increased the number and percentage of so called "liars loans" they issued. They doubled down on practices they knew were fraudulent.
Tell me, what innocent explanation is there for that behavior?
The problem is Outrage. Outrage is getting mad at things that have already happened, it isn't productive method of try to make sure it doesn't happen.
If you're not mad enough to punish people who have done wrong in the past, there will be no deterrent to stop people from doing it again. If bankers know they can crash the economy and get bonuses for it, why wouldn't they do it again?
For most events if you are Outraged it means you don't know enough about what happened or you just more interested in revenge then actually solving the problem.
In your case, you're not outraged because you don't know enough about what happened. Either that, or you're deliberately shilling for the banks.
Go read William Black's book and/or columns. He's the guy who put nearly a thousand bankers in jail in the much smaller S&L crisis under Reagan. He argues forcefully, with plenty of evidence, that outright fraud was the reason for the crisis, and the only reason we can't prosecute this fraud is political corruption. Is his outrage due to being underinformed?
Tricky moral situations are essential for children's reading. Feeding children sanitized narratives only primes them to accept the sanitizied narratives that are fed to us by government and media. Expose children to grey moral areas early, and they will be better equipped to handle grey moral areas in life.
The problem isn't the outrage, it's that it's aimed at useless targets. By and large, the bigger problem with our society is complacency. When we really need outrage, e.g., to put bankers in jail for their crimes, the same busibodies are nowhere to be found.
Also just yesterday I met a kid selling candy bars for his school fundraiser and wasn't able to help out there. It's almost like you have to give them card readers these days.
This is intentional. Non-cash payments are a greater burden for small business and individuals than for mega corporations. Giving a bum a fiver doesn't add to the GDP, so they really don't give a shit if you can't do it anymore.
Most of the design decisions have to do with the fact that the consumer is only willing to pay $50 for that DVD burner, and OEMs are only willing to pay $15 (or less). That isn't "greed", that's "market pressure".
That's the lack of awareness part I mentioned. Paying $50 for a DVD player isn't a good deal if it lasts less than half as long as a $100 DVD player. When the market decides on an inefficient solution, that's not the market working, that's the market failing.
It's only a fucking mess if it's designed to be a fucking mess. A little design work up front to make components easily replaceable would go a long way towards causing less waste, which is good for everyone. There's absolutely no reason the laser on your DVD player can't be a user replacable part, as easy as changing the batteries on your remote control. The only reason situations like this exist is because of self serving decisions by greedy people and a lack of awareness by the rest of us.
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Especially for someone who is supposed to live forever.
then why not be so scared about cell phones
Don't own one.
game consoles
Mine are modded and firewalled.
iPods
Rockbox on a Sansa.
In fact, if you are given an unlawful order, you are, by military law, required to refuse to follow it and report it to the appropriate military authority.
What do you think actually happens when one does that?
You cannot substitute your fantasy world for reality and continue to be a "good person".
if the bill allows teachers to point out the arguments against evolution
There are none. Everything we know about biology only makes sense in light of evolution. What there are are misconceptions about evolution. They should be addressed in class, and the students should be educated as to why they are incorrect. Allowing teachers to teach misconceptions, and expect kids to be able to refute them, is never going to work.
Chances are the biology teacher didn't have a degree in anything resembling biology. Schools figure that they can take anyone with an education degree and make them teach anything.
Why didn't your friend sue?
Do you think the world would be a better place without the US, the West, and the ability to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy, even if imperfectly?
I think the world would be a better place if the US actually tried to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy. Hell, I think it would be great if we adopted them at home!
Are you sharing a computer? That sounds awful. I spend most of my computing time on Linux, just feet away from my girlfriend who runs Windows. This solves lots of problems.
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade used to terrify me, had a few incidents where it ate its own package database or simply uninstalled necessary packages (like my X server) for no particular reason
This is nothing to be afraid of. If you corrupt your dpkg database, there's a backup kept in '/var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz'. If something uninstalls a package you want, just apt-get the package again.
Dealing with these extremely rare and easy to fix occurances is no big deal. Dealing with a Mac GUI day in and day out, that's unusable.
Windows and OSX both at least treat logical drives in a sane manner and clearly delineate what is housed where; /dev/sda1/sdb2/ and so on and so forth are a fucking travesty and confuse the ever-loving fuck out of new Linux users.
Really? In windows, how do I tell which disk my E: drive is on? Does it tell you anywhere?
In Linux it's trivial to find out what physical device a path is on. Just type 'mount' to find out what partition is mounted where, and then the device name tells you where that partition is. /dev/sdb2 is the second partition on the device plugged into SATA port 2.
The rest of your post is sensible. Switching to Linux is a lot of work. It's work that pays off immensely, but it's still a lot of work. I don't recommend Linux to anyone who isn't willing to invest themselves in the switch.
I just use the GNAA login: nigger/nigger. Still works.
'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /path' would have done the trick for you. The trick to using Linux effectively is to ignore all the GUI crap and focus on its strengths. Once you learn to use the command line, Linux is a better desktop than anything else around.
These two sentences come from the first paragraph of the court ruling:
Our short answer is that as law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives. As model codes, however, the organization's works retain their protected status.
That obviously contradicts itself. The same text cannot be both public domain and protected at the same time. Why do we have judges who think it is acceptable to issue blatantly contradictory rulings?
In life, you will witness violence. Whether it's direct or indirect, we are all involved in violence in one way or the other. You can't properly socialize someone without addressing this fact.
Firing the Principal for threatening to fire the teacher is the only reasonable measure here.
What crimes?
Mortgage fraud, perjury, racketeering.
Should we put in jail the average Banker (middle class/lower middle class) who just follows company policy, and greets you with a smile?
No, we should put the highest level CEOs in jail. The ones who are responsible for the pattern of racketeering activity. Just like the Mafia, you don't get to run a criminal organization and claim you have clean hands.
For the most part this is what happened.
You left a lot out of the summary. Like the part where most loans they were rebundling were known to the banks to be 90% fraudulent. How did they know? Congress and the FBI warned them about it. What did they do in response? They increased the number and percentage of so called "liars loans" they issued. They doubled down on practices they knew were fraudulent.
Tell me, what innocent explanation is there for that behavior?
The problem is Outrage. Outrage is getting mad at things that have already happened, it isn't productive method of try to make sure it doesn't happen.
If you're not mad enough to punish people who have done wrong in the past, there will be no deterrent to stop people from doing it again. If bankers know they can crash the economy and get bonuses for it, why wouldn't they do it again?
For most events if you are Outraged it means you don't know enough about what happened or you just more interested in revenge then actually solving the problem.
In your case, you're not outraged because you don't know enough about what happened. Either that, or you're deliberately shilling for the banks.
Go read William Black's book and/or columns. He's the guy who put nearly a thousand bankers in jail in the much smaller S&L crisis under Reagan. He argues forcefully, with plenty of evidence, that outright fraud was the reason for the crisis, and the only reason we can't prosecute this fraud is political corruption. Is his outrage due to being underinformed?
Tricky moral situations are essential for children's reading. Feeding children sanitized narratives only primes them to accept the sanitizied narratives that are fed to us by government and media. Expose children to grey moral areas early, and they will be better equipped to handle grey moral areas in life.
The problem isn't the outrage, it's that it's aimed at useless targets. By and large, the bigger problem with our society is complacency. When we really need outrage, e.g., to put bankers in jail for their crimes, the same busibodies are nowhere to be found.
Also just yesterday I met a kid selling candy bars for his school fundraiser and wasn't able to help out there. It's almost like you have to give them card readers these days.
This is intentional. Non-cash payments are a greater burden for small business and individuals than for mega corporations. Giving a bum a fiver doesn't add to the GDP, so they really don't give a shit if you can't do it anymore.
Chess is obsolete then. Better to pick a game where people can still beat computers.
I was under the impression that Stephen Harper had either changed, or was well on the way to changing all that.
Most of the design decisions have to do with the fact that the consumer is only willing to pay $50 for that DVD burner, and OEMs are only willing to pay $15 (or less). That isn't "greed", that's "market pressure".
That's the lack of awareness part I mentioned. Paying $50 for a DVD player isn't a good deal if it lasts less than half as long as a $100 DVD player. When the market decides on an inefficient solution, that's not the market working, that's the market failing.
It's only a fucking mess if it's designed to be a fucking mess. A little design work up front to make components easily replaceable would go a long way towards causing less waste, which is good for everyone. There's absolutely no reason the laser on your DVD player can't be a user replacable part, as easy as changing the batteries on your remote control. The only reason situations like this exist is because of self serving decisions by greedy people and a lack of awareness by the rest of us.
I don't care what sort of up sides it has. The government being able to track every last penny spent is far too frightening to even consider.