However, it can be shown that there are no reasons for a god to exist, that the universe can come to it's current state without one. And that life can be created on it's own given the enormity of this galaxy and the universe. And that evolution can be used to not only explain life, but also our behaviors. Including why some people delude themselves into believing in a god, soul, and an afterlife.
It's really very simple. If someone wants to prove creationism or intelligent design is a valid point, they have to prove god or whatever designer they are talking about exists as the first step. Evolution can explain it's first step.
It is not up to science to prove something doesn't exist, that is a bullshit argument. On the other hand, if the creationists wish to prove evolution is wrong, then there is also nothing wrong with public arguments proving religion is wrong. I'd love to see that show up in a high school debate. Heaven forbid the children of the narrow minded religious elements allow their children to be exposed to such things. Give me 30 minutes with a classroom, and half of them will decide to become atheists.
Either prove your god or supreme being or force or FSM exists, or STFU. Provide some physical proof that is independently verifiable, or get out of the discussion.
Of course not. But then, embryos certainly don't opt into the euphemistic "medical procedure" being performed upon them.
Fine... I'll remove it, ask it if wants to live, and if it answers yes, I'll put it back.
Or, if it manages to live more than, oh, one hour, I'll accept it is alive and not just a clump of cells. That's about as arbitrary as any other limit.
Otherwise, it's a parasite living off the host, and the host should be able to decide to remove it or not.
(Insert jokes about kids being parasites after this post)
I have almost all of his albums up through the 80s. Then I stopped. He became just another angry white man that had access to the media and stopped being funny. He just stood up on stage and ranted. It got to the point where I would change XM radio when his newer bits came on.
I spend 8 hours at work (eat at my desk) on a regular basis. My commute is 30-45 mins. I spend 15-30 mins. getting ready. (Any guy that spends an hour getting ready for work needs to spend less time on his hair and private parts.)
That is 10 hours/day, 5 days a week. So, 50 hours/week is about 30% of my 'life' before any after hours support. Which I haven't done much of in about 4 years. As I get more experience, I have to provide less support to the point where now I'm only called in dire, no-one-can-figure-it-out emergencies.
Commute time is a personal choice, I know guys that work less than 10 mins. from home, others that work from home a couple days a week. And others that do work an hour or more away because they choose to (i.e. they like where they work and where they live.)
Learn to let it go when you leave work. My commute home is more than enough to let me unwind. I get home to a beautiful wife, eat, and relax every evening. It is possible to do that *and* be well paid. You just have to be good at what you do and leave the shit jobs to those that aren't.
I agree. I recently went from $110K/year with 15% bonus to $95K/year without a bonus for better job security and satisfaction. Company I left has since removed bonus, frozen pay increases, decreased 401K matching, and now fires people w/o severance instead of layoffs. I have a great job with a small company, a great boss that I respect, and work fewer hours.
A couple of adjustments, like paying off a car and riding my motorcycle to work everyday instead of 3 or 4 times a week and I hardly notice. The bills are paid, I still have a growing 401k, and the credit card debt is going down instead of up. Maybe not as fast as it did a year ago, but in the right direction.
I can't speak to the Apple engineers, but I will argue that taking another job purely on salary isn't always the best thing to do. And ratings in magazines rarely add in other perks.
Who gives a rats ass... double click and it installs either way.
I don't know who did your survey, but I have yet to work for a company that would only install software if it was in a certain format. Only install certain software... yes. Make msi v/s exe a requirement?? Nope... not yet.
I'm not saying that some near-sighted self-important dweeb in some company hasn't done it though, only that it's a stupid standard to have.
It's worse than that. All of those deluded people who believe in a fairy-tale supreme being and want to either spread their delusion like a mental disease, or call attention to the delusion like it's some type of badge of honor.
What a sad bunch of people, suffer your delusions in private like the rest of us.
I will no longer give any respect to religion, nor worry about offending it's ilk. I no longer sit quietly by anymore as it tries to spread it's lies.
What I find foolish and irrational is trying to justify something that causes far too much harm than the little good it does in order to try and justify itself.
What I find foolish and irrational are atheists that get upset over some words on money or documents on a wall, but stand by and let religion spread like the plague on mankind it is. I am no longer fine with keeping religion out of my life, I want it out of my world. Then, we will truly live in a better place.
One could easily volunteer at a food bank, a senior citizen center, or thousands of other charities that don't align themselves with a god that doesn't exist and works so hard to find new ways to exploit the delusions of small children and gullible adults.
I narrowly limit who I give money and goods to those groups that do no espouse lies and falsehoods. I don't know why you assumed I didn't. I help those around me that I know that also suffer. That's good enough for me. I don't give a crap what others think is right.
That's what started this whole mess... letting priests tell other people what was right so they could control their behavior.
First, I am under no obligation to 'prove' there is not a god or not a soul in order to not believe in them. Christians have to prove there is one. Why is it that all of the deluded religious persons think it is up to everyone else 'to just believe'. Science does not work to prove things don't exist, it works to proves things do exist or how something works. The argument that I can't prove it is a cowardly distraction hiding the fact there is no evidence a god does exist. They might as well ask me to prove there is no tooth fairy, Santa Claus, or little fairies making things grow in my garden. If they can't prove their god exists, it doesn't. They can't offer one iota of proof. None. Zero. Just a lot of doublespeak about 'well.. how else would things be.' Reminds me of people who believe in flying saucers. 'No one can explain what the lights over Phoenix are, so they must be flying saucers filled with little green men'. Just as reasonable an argument as the Christians use to prove god exists. Maybe it's those same little green men that made the universe, it's just as plausible.
People who remain Christians just can't accept their whole live has been spent living a lie the church and their parents played on them. And that they brainwashed their children in. So they can find all kinds of reasons to remain living in their delusion. Mentally ill people do the same thing all the time, maybe Christians should get that looked at. Either that or they are just too frightened to live without some mythical being telling them their life has some special purpose and what the rules are.
It's very refreshing to cast off the yoke the church puts on one and realize that you don't have to understand how the universe got here or some magical rule book telling you how to live to have a full, rewarding life that works towards making the next generation a little bit better. Or just sit on your ass all day and watch TV, either way is fine by me. Do whatever you want and feel good about. Just don't use god to justify it, OK. You are smart enough to not need the church to decide for you that stealing, murder, and picking your nose just aren't good things to do.
Secondly, while I cannot prove there is not one, I have seen plenty of facts and evidence to support that there is no reason for one. There is nothing in this universe that needs a god to explain it, and definitely not one that is as hateful, judgmental, egotistical, and barbaric as the Christian, Jewish, or Islamic one. And don't act so offended, the Christian god wants to force the entire population of Earth to only worship him (although which him seems to be under dispute), decides who can or cannot get into heaven (or suffer eternal damnation in hellfire), and killed many just because it suited him. At least the Jewish faith allows everyone into heaven (someday though, not when you die), so I'll grant them slightly more respect than the egotistical Islamic or Christian ones. Many of the Jewish teachings have sound, scientific fact behind them that I'll grant at least made it a better story to tell ignorant people not to eat pork or shellfish because it could be diseased. I know of several people who follow Jewish tenants not because they believe in a god, but because they are tradition and make sense. At least they are being honest with themselves.
The only reason I have seen for a god is because humans are gullible, and need someone to tell them what to do. The Catholic church is the master of this, they not only want to tell their deluded followers what to do, but the rest of the world too. Because the Catholic god told them to. But their god seems to have communication problems, because the Catholic church seems to change it's mind about what is and isn't allowed or required based on whether or not their sheep counts are going up or down. So much for being perfect. And if it was omniscient, you would think it would have seen this coming and done something about it.
Let me put this into perspective. Many people can't accep
Or take a real look at your faith and realize that the natural world around doesn't need a god to exist if one simply agrees that there are somethings that just can't be explained yet, there is no soul, your life has no purpose except to breed (and what you want to make of it), and everything dies.
Then you have nothing to reconcile, and life becomes a lot simplier. If that scares you, work on reconciling that.
Plus, you'll be able to sleep in on Sundays for a change and not have to give part of your income to something that sucks the life out of society and produces nations of sheep.
Christians sure do work hard to believe in something that doesn't exist, when it's a lot less work to just live your life like you are doing now without all that crap.
I am an atheist that has no issue with 'In God We Trust' or 'do my duty to God' or 'one nation, under god'. Just my opinion, but since there is no such thing as a god, there is no trust to be given, or duty to do, so it's no worse than knocking on wood or crossing my fingers.
With somewhere around 1,900 different Christian sects, I have no idea which god they are pushing anyway. And neither do they. History has shown us that the balance will one day swing back the otherway, a process which I feel is already starting as the number of people that do not follow any organized religion, and specifically Christian ones, continue to increase. And the push to remove false idols, such as Jesus and Mary, continues to mount. (Jesus and Mary, if they existed, were middle eastern... at least get your status and velvet paintings right for christ's sake.)
I am not aware of any federal laws that define sexual orientation as something that can be discriminated against. If there were, all the atheist activists would already have used them to sue and deny the scouts the funding.
The liberal United Way already took away their fundin, at which point I stopped donating to the United Way. If the federal government stopped giving funds to the Boy Scouts, I'm sure they would just keep on keeping on like they have for decades.
I also support the right of ANYONE ANYWHERE at ANYTIME to stand up and say 'HOMOSEXUALITY IS MORALLY WRONG' as loudly as they want, and to not have to associate with them if they choose not to. Just as I support the right for people to claim stealing, lying, cheating, murder, nose picking, and talking too loud on cell phones are morally wrong. Of course, I also support people standing up and shouting just the opposite as loudly as they want. There is little basis for any of our moral values, other than common good. If somone finds that homosexual sex is disgusting and morally wrong, I have no issue with them teaching their children that. Just as my ex-wife tried to teach my daughter that all me are evil. My daughter rejected it with her own opinions and discovered for herself that dad was a pretty good guy (she lives with me and my current wife now.) Kids aren't as easily brainwashed as some would believe. At least not the smart ones.
I was in the Boy Scouts for many years, and it helped me to overcome many social fears (I was a shy kid), learn how to be a leader, and learn how to mentor kids younger than me. I still donate to the Boy Scouts and will continue to until as long as I am able.
I don't buy bullshit 'learn in 14 days', I buy reference manuals. Who gives a crap about some jack shit theory book. How do I know it worked?? It ran daily for a couple of years without any changes in production in the timeframe and resources alloted, that's all that matters. Maybe some haven't heard of concepts called 'thinking' and 'testing' to determine if an algorightm works and what resources a program uses. They seem to work for all languages and systems, as far as I can tell. And I didn't need several books to learn that either.
Smart people don't need those bull shit books, 90% of what they teach is common sense that should be obvious in 10 pages instead of 200. I remembered when structured programming became 'the big thing' in the 80s. So I bought a book, only to discover I had already been doing it, and had added nuances to it the author hadn't even considered. I used to buy and read these crap books before I realized what a waste of money they were. Mediocre people need them to try and catch up to the smart people though. It works for awhile, but the smart people keep improving as they learn-by-doing and use creative thinking, the mediocre people have to go out and buy the 'next big thing' book.
I've been doing this for 30 years and change languages at the drop of a hat. I'm always the 'go-to' guy where I work when no one else can figure it out, so I must be doing something right.
Bullshit. I went from COBOL to C++ without any problems after reading one book. The only real stumbling block was keeping the stupid nomenclature for pointers straight.
Learning to using pointers and objects wasn't that difficult, it's all syntax. And I hate it when people confuse templates and libraries with the C++ language. Besides, it's only necessary to learn the components that are needed for the job at hand. That's what Google and manuals are for. Nead to read a file and output data?? Look it up. Iterators and collections may make a job easier, but people coded for years without them.
Will it be pretty code?? Efficient code?? Probably not. Will it get my job done?? Yes. In the end, that's all that matters unless you are a production developer.
And from what I've worked on, many of them don't produce pretty or efficient code anyway.
The article as written makes the author look like a cry baby. Whether that is an accurate representation or not I can't tell until someone with better communication skills can provide something of substance.
You sign up for something someone else is running, you better make sure you understand everything ahead of time. If the rules are vague, get someone to clarify them first before dragging mock ups across country.
Or accept the fact they are vague and someone may make decisions you don't like but will have to live with.
Or... take your toys and go home. Nothing prevents anyone from continuing the task on their own. I'd say if someone was really interested in doing this, they would continue. Imagine taking the wind of of the XPF sails by being able to say "That's nice. Did you see the pictures from our landing 6 months ago???"
I have worked for two different companies that sent ACH (EFT) type transactions worth tens of millions of dollars over the internet. We used an SSL HTTP web site for the transfers, and encrypted AND signed the packets with PGP keys. That way, when we got the packet, we could decrypt it AND verify the originator.
I'm sure if someone worked hard enough they could have broken it, but since the firewall would only allow connections from specific IPs, it would have been tough to inject data into the system.
This meant that the biggest threat wasn't someone stealing the raw data, but someone on the inside gaining access to the data after it was processed or was being processed and possibly in an unencrypted state. The DBA used some type of Oracle encryption to prevent someone gaining access to the database and being able to run SQL queries and return unencrypted data without some type of key (I don't know how it worked... sorry.) And unencrypted data was never allowed in the DMZ. I'm not sure how long unencrypted data may have been on app servers or in memory, but I remember security and the developers having a lot of conversations about it.
So.. don't stop at just the transmission. Security has to be looked at from source to destination and archival.
That is the problem. Everybody has there idea of what a free and open society would be. The problem is they all tend to biased one what we think is right or wrong. Some would like to ban any oppression by religious groups. But they feel that the mention of religion or the statement that my religion is better than yours or your lack of religion is oppressive. Of course they themselves have no problem with people saying that a total lack of religion is better than having one. Just about every-one's vision of Utopia is a place where everybody thinks like they do.
I think this is close, except for the right/wrong. Just like good/evil, right/wrong don't really exist except in one's head, and it is pretty easy to use reasoning (notice I didn't say good reasoning) to arrive at whatever version of right/wrong/good/evil one wants to use to justify what they personally want to do. Or, more accurately, what gives one pleasure. Charity is a good example, people give to charities and it makes them feel 'good'. Therefore, it must be a good thing to do. People who don't give to charities don't get the 'good' feeling after they do it. Whether that is a product of nature or nurture, I don't know.
I on the other hand will be happy with non utopia where everybody just tries to be a little polite to each other.
Thanks for the extremely enlightened post. Isn't that what most laws are about?? If the defendant had been more polite or considerate, the plaintiff wouldn't have needed the law to begin with.
Things like abortion, the environment, and other personal beliefs would also be resolved. Today, those with strong beliefs often feel they have an obligation to force their beliefs onto others. It's not enough to exchange ideas, the 'non-believers' have to be made to see the light and change their ways. A truly polite society would encourage the sharing of beliefs, and also the tolerance of others. The tree-huggers would still exist, but maybe I'd be more tolerant of their viewpoint because they weren't so fanatical about it, I might event try harder to cut back.
I'm afraid there will always be the 5% of society that would screw it up and become greedy or selfish and just do whatever suited them regardless of everyone else. Not everyone wants to drive down the highway at 100mph, but because a few ass-hats do and kill people, we have to have speed limits.
Who gives a flying fuck whether or not Vista comes close. I use XP and it does everything I need it to do. I can create and edit movies just fine (and from what I can tell from a friend that has a Mac, just as well and render just as fast), post-process photos, email, use the web, play PC games, and code all I want.
His biggest argument was 'you can run both Mac and Windows at the same time, and Windows runs better'. Really. I don't need Mac software and my Windows runs fast enough for me now. Why would I spend more money for something I don't need??
I don't need to pay a premium for something just because it's pretty and proprietary and limits my choice of hardware to those the OS maker also makes money off of. Maybe someday if Apple opened up it's hardware choices to third parties I'd reconsider.
But of course, if they did that, the price would drop.
I did not encourage either of my kids to enter IT for one simple reason, neither had the skills. I introduced them both to programming, and neither one was really interested in it.
My son became a anti-establishment hippie (for lack of a better word) and is very happy living a minimum-impact lifestyle outside of 'the system'. My daughter makes an obscene salary for someone her age as a pet groomer, she is extremely good at it and has many repeat customers with large pocketbooks for tips. She should be able to start her own business by the time she turns 25 and I've been encouraging her to get a business degree.
A responsible parent will encourage their child to do whatever they are good at and enjoy, since job satisfaction is far more rewarding than a large paycheck. I took a 10% cut in pay to get my existing job, and never regretted it. Miss the larger paycheck, but don't regret it. Simply adjusted my lifestyle accordingly.
Fertilization is the only logical point to draw a line ans say HERE is where a seperate entity begins. Sperm is just a part of you, the egg is just a part of her. When they meet something is created that isn't either of you. Consult a basic biology text is this isn't clear; The parts about immune system issues between the fetus and mother should be especially instructive.
It's more of a parasitic group of cells than an entity. An entity would be capable of living outside the host or reproducing inside the host and creating some sort of spore or egg that could then transfer to another living organism. It's more a parasite since it takes food and energy from the host but doesn't return anything.
Since you brought it up, until Row v. Wade gets overturned, then I guess we can follow the law. Which means if these cells are less than 90 days developed, into the incinerator they can go. Problem solved, can we move on now???
I have no problems with a mother terminating a child anytime prior to it being able to survive on it's own without medical assistance, only assistance from mom's breasts and warm body. It's her choice, she has to live with that decision. People forcing those mothers to carry children to term don't have to live with their choice and should just shut up. Protest all you want, educate all you want, don't remove the option. Adoption, birth, and abortion all have serious issues and financial and personal repercussions, you have no right to deny a mother the right to choose which burden she wishes to carry with her the rest of her life.
Good.. then don't have an abortion or terminate any of those embryos in your fridge. Leave the rest of us who have the responsibility for our own bodies or refrigerators alone.
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It's really very simple. If someone wants to prove creationism or intelligent design is a valid point, they have to prove god or whatever designer they are talking about exists as the first step. Evolution can explain it's first step.
It is not up to science to prove something doesn't exist, that is a bullshit argument. On the other hand, if the creationists wish to prove evolution is wrong, then there is also nothing wrong with public arguments proving religion is wrong. I'd love to see that show up in a high school debate. Heaven forbid the children of the narrow minded religious elements allow their children to be exposed to such things. Give me 30 minutes with a classroom, and half of them will decide to become atheists.
Either prove your god or supreme being or force or FSM exists, or STFU. Provide some physical proof that is independently verifiable, or get out of the discussion.
Fine ... I'll remove it, ask it if wants to live, and if it answers yes, I'll put it back.
Or, if it manages to live more than, oh, one hour, I'll accept it is alive and not just a clump of cells. That's about as arbitrary as any other limit.
Otherwise, it's a parasite living off the host, and the host should be able to decide to remove it or not.
(Insert jokes about kids being parasites after this post)
I have almost all of his albums up through the 80s. Then I stopped. He became just another angry white man that had access to the media and stopped being funny. He just stood up on stage and ranted. It got to the point where I would change XM radio when his newer bits came on.
I spend 8 hours at work (eat at my desk) on a regular basis. My commute is 30-45 mins. I spend 15-30 mins. getting ready. (Any guy that spends an hour getting ready for work needs to spend less time on his hair and private parts.)
That is 10 hours/day, 5 days a week. So, 50 hours/week is about 30% of my 'life' before any after hours support. Which I haven't done much of in about 4 years. As I get more experience, I have to provide less support to the point where now I'm only called in dire, no-one-can-figure-it-out emergencies.
Commute time is a personal choice, I know guys that work less than 10 mins. from home, others that work from home a couple days a week. And others that do work an hour or more away because they choose to (i.e. they like where they work and where they live.)
Learn to let it go when you leave work. My commute home is more than enough to let me unwind. I get home to a beautiful wife, eat, and relax every evening. It is possible to do that *and* be well paid. You just have to be good at what you do and leave the shit jobs to those that aren't.
I agree. I recently went from $110K/year with 15% bonus to $95K/year without a bonus for better job security and satisfaction. Company I left has since removed bonus, frozen pay increases, decreased 401K matching, and now fires people w/o severance instead of layoffs. I have a great job with a small company, a great boss that I respect, and work fewer hours.
A couple of adjustments, like paying off a car and riding my motorcycle to work everyday instead of 3 or 4 times a week and I hardly notice. The bills are paid, I still have a growing 401k, and the credit card debt is going down instead of up. Maybe not as fast as it did a year ago, but in the right direction.
I can't speak to the Apple engineers, but I will argue that taking another job purely on salary isn't always the best thing to do. And ratings in magazines rarely add in other perks.
It's a terrible job ... if you do it right every day, no one notices and everyone thinks your lazy.
If you screw up once, everyone notices and thinks your incompetent.
Ahh... in other words, your the one who screws up my workstation in the middle of the night.
Thanks for the explaination. A script could still automate it so MSI = easier automated deployment while EXE = a little work to automate deployment.
Who gives a rats ass ... double click and it installs either way.
... yes. Make msi v/s exe a requirement?? Nope ... not yet.
I don't know who did your survey, but I have yet to work for a company that would only install software if it was in a certain format. Only install certain software
I'm not saying that some near-sighted self-important dweeb in some company hasn't done it though, only that it's a stupid standard to have.
It's worse than that. All of those deluded people who believe in a fairy-tale supreme being and want to either spread their delusion like a mental disease, or call attention to the delusion like it's some type of badge of honor.
What a sad bunch of people, suffer your delusions in private like the rest of us.
I will no longer give any respect to religion, nor worry about offending it's ilk. I no longer sit quietly by anymore as it tries to spread it's lies.
... letting priests tell other people what was right so they could control their behavior.
What I find foolish and irrational is trying to justify something that causes far too much harm than the little good it does in order to try and justify itself.
What I find foolish and irrational are atheists that get upset over some words on money or documents on a wall, but stand by and let religion spread like the plague on mankind it is. I am no longer fine with keeping religion out of my life, I want it out of my world. Then, we will truly live in a better place.
One could easily volunteer at a food bank, a senior citizen center, or thousands of other charities that don't align themselves with a god that doesn't exist and works so hard to find new ways to exploit the delusions of small children and gullible adults.
I narrowly limit who I give money and goods to those groups that do no espouse lies and falsehoods. I don't know why you assumed I didn't. I help those around me that I know that also suffer. That's good enough for me. I don't give a crap what others think is right.
That's what started this whole mess
First, I am under no obligation to 'prove' there is not a god or not a soul in order to not believe in them. Christians have to prove there is one. Why is it that all of the deluded religious persons think it is up to everyone else 'to just believe'. Science does not work to prove things don't exist, it works to proves things do exist or how something works. The argument that I can't prove it is a cowardly distraction hiding the fact there is no evidence a god does exist. They might as well ask me to prove there is no tooth fairy, Santa Claus, or little fairies making things grow in my garden. If they can't prove their god exists, it doesn't. They can't offer one iota of proof. None. Zero. Just a lot of doublespeak about 'well .. how else would things be.' Reminds me of people who believe in flying saucers. 'No one can explain what the lights over Phoenix are, so they must be flying saucers filled with little green men'. Just as reasonable an argument as the Christians use to prove god exists. Maybe it's those same little green men that made the universe, it's just as plausible.
People who remain Christians just can't accept their whole live has been spent living a lie the church and their parents played on them. And that they brainwashed their children in. So they can find all kinds of reasons to remain living in their delusion. Mentally ill people do the same thing all the time, maybe Christians should get that looked at. Either that or they are just too frightened to live without some mythical being telling them their life has some special purpose and what the rules are.
It's very refreshing to cast off the yoke the church puts on one and realize that you don't have to understand how the universe got here or some magical rule book telling you how to live to have a full, rewarding life that works towards making the next generation a little bit better. Or just sit on your ass all day and watch TV, either way is fine by me. Do whatever you want and feel good about. Just don't use god to justify it, OK. You are smart enough to not need the church to decide for you that stealing, murder, and picking your nose just aren't good things to do.
Secondly, while I cannot prove there is not one, I have seen plenty of facts and evidence to support that there is no reason for one. There is nothing in this universe that needs a god to explain it, and definitely not one that is as hateful, judgmental, egotistical, and barbaric as the Christian, Jewish, or Islamic one. And don't act so offended, the Christian god wants to force the entire population of Earth to only worship him (although which him seems to be under dispute), decides who can or cannot get into heaven (or suffer eternal damnation in hellfire), and killed many just because it suited him. At least the Jewish faith allows everyone into heaven (someday though, not when you die), so I'll grant them slightly more respect than the egotistical Islamic or Christian ones. Many of the Jewish teachings have sound, scientific fact behind them that I'll grant at least made it a better story to tell ignorant people not to eat pork or shellfish because it could be diseased. I know of several people who follow Jewish tenants not because they believe in a god, but because they are tradition and make sense. At least they are being honest with themselves.
The only reason I have seen for a god is because humans are gullible, and need someone to tell them what to do. The Catholic church is the master of this, they not only want to tell their deluded followers what to do, but the rest of the world too. Because the Catholic god told them to. But their god seems to have communication problems, because the Catholic church seems to change it's mind about what is and isn't allowed or required based on whether or not their sheep counts are going up or down. So much for being perfect. And if it was omniscient, you would think it would have seen this coming and done something about it.
Let me put this into perspective. Many people can't accep
Or take a real look at your faith and realize that the natural world around doesn't need a god to exist if one simply agrees that there are somethings that just can't be explained yet, there is no soul, your life has no purpose except to breed (and what you want to make of it), and everything dies.
Then you have nothing to reconcile, and life becomes a lot simplier. If that scares you, work on reconciling that.
Plus, you'll be able to sleep in on Sundays for a change and not have to give part of your income to something that sucks the life out of society and produces nations of sheep.
Christians sure do work hard to believe in something that doesn't exist, when it's a lot less work to just live your life like you are doing now without all that crap.
I am an atheist that has no issue with 'In God We Trust' or 'do my duty to God' or 'one nation, under god'. Just my opinion, but since there is no such thing as a god, there is no trust to be given, or duty to do, so it's no worse than knocking on wood or crossing my fingers.
... at least get your status and velvet paintings right for christ's sake.)
With somewhere around 1,900 different Christian sects, I have no idea which god they are pushing anyway. And neither do they. History has shown us that the balance will one day swing back the otherway, a process which I feel is already starting as the number of people that do not follow any organized religion, and specifically Christian ones, continue to increase. And the push to remove false idols, such as Jesus and Mary, continues to mount. (Jesus and Mary, if they existed, were middle eastern
I am not aware of any federal laws that define sexual orientation as something that can be discriminated against. If there were, all the atheist activists would already have used them to sue and deny the scouts the funding.
The liberal United Way already took away their fundin, at which point I stopped donating to the United Way. If the federal government stopped giving funds to the Boy Scouts, I'm sure they would just keep on keeping on like they have for decades.
I also support the right of ANYONE ANYWHERE at ANYTIME to stand up and say 'HOMOSEXUALITY IS MORALLY WRONG' as loudly as they want, and to not have to associate with them if they choose not to. Just as I support the right for people to claim stealing, lying, cheating, murder, nose picking, and talking too loud on cell phones are morally wrong. Of course, I also support people standing up and shouting just the opposite as loudly as they want. There is little basis for any of our moral values, other than common good. If somone finds that homosexual sex is disgusting and morally wrong, I have no issue with them teaching their children that. Just as my ex-wife tried to teach my daughter that all me are evil. My daughter rejected it with her own opinions and discovered for herself that dad was a pretty good guy (she lives with me and my current wife now.) Kids aren't as easily brainwashed as some would believe. At least not the smart ones.
I was in the Boy Scouts for many years, and it helped me to overcome many social fears (I was a shy kid), learn how to be a leader, and learn how to mentor kids younger than me. I still donate to the Boy Scouts and will continue to until as long as I am able.
By pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere I'll bet!!!
Google provides the same 'zoom down to the highest res image they have and then back out again' technique. Seams, tile loading, and all.
.... nothing new to see here. Just a lame excuse to get me to install Silverlight.
Just like this over-hyped software does.
The only 'newness' is not using a fixed high-level map. That probably took a few lines of SQL (or Transact-SQL depending on the source database.)
Yawn
I don't buy bullshit 'learn in 14 days', I buy reference manuals. Who gives a crap about some jack shit theory book. How do I know it worked?? It ran daily for a couple of years without any changes in production in the timeframe and resources alloted, that's all that matters. Maybe some haven't heard of concepts called 'thinking' and 'testing' to determine if an algorightm works and what resources a program uses. They seem to work for all languages and systems, as far as I can tell. And I didn't need several books to learn that either.
Smart people don't need those bull shit books, 90% of what they teach is common sense that should be obvious in 10 pages instead of 200. I remembered when structured programming became 'the big thing' in the 80s. So I bought a book, only to discover I had already been doing it, and had added nuances to it the author hadn't even considered. I used to buy and read these crap books before I realized what a waste of money they were. Mediocre people need them to try and catch up to the smart people though. It works for awhile, but the smart people keep improving as they learn-by-doing and use creative thinking, the mediocre people have to go out and buy the 'next big thing' book.
I've been doing this for 30 years and change languages at the drop of a hat. I'm always the 'go-to' guy where I work when no one else can figure it out, so I must be doing something right.
Bullshit. I went from COBOL to C++ without any problems after reading one book. The only real stumbling block was keeping the stupid nomenclature for pointers straight.
Learning to using pointers and objects wasn't that difficult, it's all syntax. And I hate it when people confuse templates and libraries with the C++ language. Besides, it's only necessary to learn the components that are needed for the job at hand. That's what Google and manuals are for. Nead to read a file and output data?? Look it up. Iterators and collections may make a job easier, but people coded for years without them.
Will it be pretty code?? Efficient code?? Probably not. Will it get my job done?? Yes. In the end, that's all that matters unless you are a production developer.
And from what I've worked on, many of them don't produce pretty or efficient code anyway.
Waaaahhhh!!!!
... take your toys and go home. Nothing prevents anyone from continuing the task on their own. I'd say if someone was really interested in doing this, they would continue. Imagine taking the wind of of the XPF sails by being able to say "That's nice. Did you see the pictures from our landing 6 months ago???"
The article as written makes the author look like a cry baby. Whether that is an accurate representation or not I can't tell until someone with better communication skills can provide something of substance.
You sign up for something someone else is running, you better make sure you understand everything ahead of time. If the rules are vague, get someone to clarify them first before dragging mock ups across country.
Or accept the fact they are vague and someone may make decisions you don't like but will have to live with.
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I have worked for two different companies that sent ACH (EFT) type transactions worth tens of millions of dollars over the internet. We used an SSL HTTP web site for the transfers, and encrypted AND signed the packets with PGP keys. That way, when we got the packet, we could decrypt it AND verify the originator.
... sorry.) And unencrypted data was never allowed in the DMZ. I'm not sure how long unencrypted data may have been on app servers or in memory, but I remember security and the developers having a lot of conversations about it.
.. don't stop at just the transmission. Security has to be looked at from source to destination and archival.
I'm sure if someone worked hard enough they could have broken it, but since the firewall would only allow connections from specific IPs, it would have been tough to inject data into the system.
This meant that the biggest threat wasn't someone stealing the raw data, but someone on the inside gaining access to the data after it was processed or was being processed and possibly in an unencrypted state. The DBA used some type of Oracle encryption to prevent someone gaining access to the database and being able to run SQL queries and return unencrypted data without some type of key (I don't know how it worked
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I think this is close, except for the right/wrong. Just like good/evil, right/wrong don't really exist except in one's head, and it is pretty easy to use reasoning (notice I didn't say good reasoning) to arrive at whatever version of right/wrong/good/evil one wants to use to justify what they personally want to do. Or, more accurately, what gives one pleasure. Charity is a good example, people give to charities and it makes them feel 'good'. Therefore, it must be a good thing to do. People who don't give to charities don't get the 'good' feeling after they do it. Whether that is a product of nature or nurture, I don't know.
Thanks for the extremely enlightened post. Isn't that what most laws are about?? If the defendant had been more polite or considerate, the plaintiff wouldn't have needed the law to begin with.
Things like abortion, the environment, and other personal beliefs would also be resolved. Today, those with strong beliefs often feel they have an obligation to force their beliefs onto others. It's not enough to exchange ideas, the 'non-believers' have to be made to see the light and change their ways. A truly polite society would encourage the sharing of beliefs, and also the tolerance of others. The tree-huggers would still exist, but maybe I'd be more tolerant of their viewpoint because they weren't so fanatical about it, I might event try harder to cut back.
I'm afraid there will always be the 5% of society that would screw it up and become greedy or selfish and just do whatever suited them regardless of everyone else. Not everyone wants to drive down the highway at 100mph, but because a few ass-hats do and kill people, we have to have speed limits.
Who gives a flying fuck whether or not Vista comes close. I use XP and it does everything I need it to do. I can create and edit movies just fine (and from what I can tell from a friend that has a Mac, just as well and render just as fast), post-process photos, email, use the web, play PC games, and code all I want.
His biggest argument was 'you can run both Mac and Windows at the same time, and Windows runs better'. Really. I don't need Mac software and my Windows runs fast enough for me now. Why would I spend more money for something I don't need??
I don't need to pay a premium for something just because it's pretty and proprietary and limits my choice of hardware to those the OS maker also makes money off of. Maybe someday if Apple opened up it's hardware choices to third parties I'd reconsider.
But of course, if they did that, the price would drop.
I did not encourage either of my kids to enter IT for one simple reason, neither had the skills. I introduced them both to programming, and neither one was really interested in it.
My son became a anti-establishment hippie (for lack of a better word) and is very happy living a minimum-impact lifestyle outside of 'the system'. My daughter makes an obscene salary for someone her age as a pet groomer, she is extremely good at it and has many repeat customers with large pocketbooks for tips. She should be able to start her own business by the time she turns 25 and I've been encouraging her to get a business degree.
A responsible parent will encourage their child to do whatever they are good at and enjoy, since job satisfaction is far more rewarding than a large paycheck. I took a 10% cut in pay to get my existing job, and never regretted it. Miss the larger paycheck, but don't regret it. Simply adjusted my lifestyle accordingly.
Raman noodles rule!!!!
Provided the starving artists don't starve to death (or run out of grant money for the overpriced crap that passes as art) before then.
It's more of a parasitic group of cells than an entity. An entity would be capable of living outside the host or reproducing inside the host and creating some sort of spore or egg that could then transfer to another living organism. It's more a parasite since it takes food and energy from the host but doesn't return anything.
Since you brought it up, until Row v. Wade gets overturned, then I guess we can follow the law. Which means if these cells are less than 90 days developed, into the incinerator they can go. Problem solved, can we move on now???
I have no problems with a mother terminating a child anytime prior to it being able to survive on it's own without medical assistance, only assistance from mom's breasts and warm body. It's her choice, she has to live with that decision. People forcing those mothers to carry children to term don't have to live with their choice and should just shut up. Protest all you want, educate all you want, don't remove the option. Adoption, birth, and abortion all have serious issues and financial and personal repercussions, you have no right to deny a mother the right to choose which burden she wishes to carry with her the rest of her life.
Good .. then don't have an abortion or terminate any of those embryos in your fridge. Leave the rest of us who have the responsibility for our own bodies or refrigerators alone.