Is it somehow bad or "creepy" if someone wants to play a Nazi camp guard in a WWII-theme game but it is okay if he wants to play Darth Vader in a Star Wars-theme game?
That is a deep question, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "yes". The primary distinction is that millions of people didn't ACTUALLY die in the ruthless destruction of Alderon. In fact, I have it on good authority (I saw a documentary once, I'm sorry I don't have a link) that implies that the entire Star Wars story was actually fictional.
I'm curious, other than a few Cleopatra movies, I'm not that knowledgable on the role of women in ancient Egyptian society. Do you have any good references that describe the relative status of women in that society?.
P.S. I like your sig. I've aways wanted to piss off my religious coworkers by claiming that Thursday is my sabbath.
I woudn't consider the historical revisionists who claim that Nazi death camps didn't exist to be from the "left". And, it seems like the major proponent of the "pirates don't rape and pillage" crowd are the writers of poorly researched historical romance novels and bad Hollywood movies. In other words, generally stupid but hardly pursuing a devious political agenda. Finally, I've never heard any one ever claim that slavery never happened, but I don know a few people who claim that the slaves were actually better off before the "war of northern aggression".
In other words, please don't lump all hyper-sensitive morons with those of us on the "left" that actually believe in the first amendment and I'll try to remember that not all of you on the "right" are racist, ignorant, religious fanatics. Deal?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The biggest problem I done been seeing is that ain't like no sentence I done ever said. What's with, like, all the extra prepositional phrases and what not? It done seems like, the, commas are in improper places, to make a decent sentence, my third-grade teacher would have had a fit with her fancy sentence diagramming on them words.
Okay, I've been looking, but I've been stimied at the question of which video card to buy. I've been thinking of the Parahelia (sp?) but the process of getting the driver working troubles me. I lost a recent weekend just trying to get Linux to recognize my ATI 9700 as a 3D card using those new ATI drivers and I never did get it working...
I want something that runs dual LCD under linux and can be set up by a "user" (i.e. me). Please no responses that begin: "just recompile the world and adjust the X11 conf to the secondary values in the usual way..."
Those that do end up doing documentation well actually end up with a product that may be worth a few bucks. Coder's code for free but the documenters get a publishing contract with O'Reilly.
I use DOM within XML as well as the MessageDigest using the MD5 algorithm every day. So I'm letting you know...
Or, is your complaint based on the fact that the libraries that underlie the XML and Security algorithm API's can be swapped out? To me, that's a feature not a bug but YMMV.
Gmail has been marketed as a large repository (1 GB:-) ) of space. People are already emailing huge amounts of photos back and forth. I get a vacation picture from my Mom, I don't even bother downloading it locally. If I want to look at it I just search for the email and press view photo.
Gmail offers a finite amount of space (only 1 GB:-( ). If you start uploading Linux ISO images you are going to fill up your account pretty quickly (whether or not you do it as an email attachment explicitly or through a little shell wrapper).
The agreeement between the user and Gmail is this: you get 1 GB of space and a really nice search capability. Google gets to display targeted advertisements based on the content of your account. If you start uploading Word Docs or other files, I think Google is within their rights to "mine" those attachments to send you targeted advertisements based on those attachments. Fair deal. If your account consists of 1000 files with names like big_titties1.jpg expect to get some interesting targeted ads...
Unlike the satire of the previous post (re: Slashdot mail), filling up your account does not negatively impact other users of Gmail. Nevertheless, the previous post was funny and insightful, I just think your interpretation of this project is a little more negative than it needs to be.
I don't know about being a cop out. If you truely don't support a war, then for you to be a concientous objector in a non-combat role just frees up a slot for someone else to pick up that rifle. Different wars may call for different judgments. My grandfather was a contientious objector (as a Quaker) in WWII and spent the war as a smoke jumper in the Rockies which was pretty dangerous duty considering the technology of the time. Many Quakers my father's age who could have been concientous objectors during Vietnam, however, thought that war was as a scam and refused to take the "easy out" and burnt their draft cards rather than registering for alternate service.
You forgot: "single-click in space" "FAT in space" "hyperlinks in space" "software 'asking for help' in space" "software licensing in space" "collar computer in space"
Another precedent was set years ago when Yahoo bowed to the wishes of the French and German governments to hide links to Nazi sites.
Yes, we all agree that there is no redeeming value to anything to do with Nazism, but now when the Chinese govenement wants to impose the same form of censorship there is no moral high ground.
In the U.S., there is a reason that the ACLU defends Nazis and KKK and other reprehensible, inbred, lowlifes. Defending their rights eventually amounts to defending our rights...
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
In fact, it might be better if China did split up into four or five separate political entities. I'm sure the Tibetans would appreciate the end of fifty years of oppression and genocide.
If nothing else, it would make it harder for corporations to justify ignorning the Chinese "reeducation" camps in pursuit of the 1+ billion person market.
Since I'm in the market for a large LCD, I'm actually glad this got sumbmitted. Less because I wanted to know more about this specific model, but because the conversation is has generated has taught me a little about what to look for when I gather the money together to make that leap (I'm leaning towards an Apple 23" but I'm willing to be dissuaded...)
Are you arguing for not taxing any food, clothing, or medicine at all for anyone? I wonder how much the sales tax on the remaining items would have to be adjusted to keep it revenue-neutral. Probably not much. Sounds interesting, and it would do away with the residual bureaucracy in the prebate system.
About 37 minutes after implementing this "necessity exemption"...
"Senator Bob? Hi, this is Joe. Yeah, that's right, did you enjoy your 'working vacation' to Bermuda paid for by friends over at Lexus? Good, glad to hear it, how's little Suzy?"
"Hey, I hate to jump straight to business but I was wondering if you would be willing to add a little line to the 'Apple Pie, Freedom, and Patriot Act of 2005' that defines Lexus automobiles as a 'necessity'. Thanks Bob, I'll fax over the text soon as I hang up!
Good luck on the reelection! Give me a call when your campaign starts rolling again. I'm sure my friends would love to support a mutual friend."
It seems like every time someone brings up a union, someone else simply says, "if your job sucks get a new one." I guess it's my turn. If your wife's job sucks then she should get another one and stop bitching. There are probably lots of private schools that would hire her. They probably don't pay as well but she wouldn't have to join a union. If she looks hard enough, she can probably get a job teaching at some sort of wierd religious academy and know that everyone in the building supports her political views.
I can "imply" a lot of things. I can imply that aixou is a paid operative of the Republican party and a cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore. I have no proof that aixou is not a paid operative of the Republican party and a cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore. But, since I am a good person of the highest moral standing, I am willing to listen to the obvious lies of the Republican defenders who may put forward evidence on whether or not aixou is a paid operate of the the Republican party and cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore and I am willing to fairly judge those lies on their merits.
That's how Karl Rove has been playing politics by implication and third-party character asassination since Bush ran for Governor of Texas. Don't spend too much time bitching because the other side has adopted a winning tactic. Sure, I'd like to get back to talking about the issues but after eight years of non-stop attacks on Clinton, the character assasination of McCain, Cleland, and Kerry, and media assualt by Rush and his ilk, I honestly like seeing the good side fight back.
Absolutely true... but I doubt that the marketing material is going to have catchy marketing phrases like, "If you can aggregate data from a zillion tables into views, and know what an OLAP cube is, you to can create great, meaningful visualizations."
You know, I was going to use the same acronym. I realize it's a bit difficult to get a better understanding of what problem they are trying to solve (that hasn't been tackled a thousand times before on an ad hoc basis by every programmer doing enterprise software) from a non-technical newspaper article and a marketing web-page. However, the biggest problem I have with the web page is not that they are trying to solve doesn't need solving, but that the example screen shots are so contrived with nice normalized tables and columns like "Market Size" and "Ship Method".
In my limited experience, databases in the real world come in two basic flavours:
amatures trying to solve a problem in which case the tables are going to be filled with things like:
create table "My Customer" { name varchar2 not null, address varchar2, what_did_they_buy varchar2, my_boss_asked_me_to_add_this_column varchar2, pets_name varchar2, favorite_color varchar2, }
professionals (who have long since left the company and really didn't like you fucking with their database in the first place) on large enterprise teams tring to save space and typing with large tables consisting of columns with names like "cst_dst_pr". Just because there's a long red bar next to the column named "cst_dst_pr" and a short purple bar next to the column named "est_cst_dr" doesn't mean the PHB is going to know what it means.
If their software can make it possible for the outsourced VB programmer in Bangelore to make meaningful and colorful charts, that's quite a feat. I'm not holding my breath.
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The question on the table:
Is it somehow bad or "creepy" if someone wants to play a Nazi camp guard in a WWII-theme game but it is okay if he wants to play Darth Vader in a Star Wars-theme game?
That is a deep question, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "yes". The primary distinction is that millions of people didn't ACTUALLY die in the ruthless destruction of Alderon. In fact, I have it on good authority (I saw a documentary once, I'm sorry I don't have a link) that implies that the entire Star Wars story was actually fictional.
I'm curious, other than a few Cleopatra movies, I'm not that knowledgable on the role of women in ancient Egyptian society. Do you have any good references that describe the relative status of women in that society?.
P.S. I like your sig. I've aways wanted to piss off my religious coworkers by claiming that Thursday is my sabbath.
I woudn't consider the historical revisionists who claim that Nazi death camps didn't exist to be from the "left". And, it seems like the major proponent of the "pirates don't rape and pillage" crowd are the writers of poorly researched historical romance novels and bad Hollywood movies. In other words, generally stupid but hardly pursuing a devious political agenda. Finally, I've never heard any one ever claim that slavery never happened, but I don know a few people who claim that the slaves were actually better off before the "war of northern aggression".
In other words, please don't lump all hyper-sensitive morons with those of us on the "left" that actually believe in the first amendment and I'll try to remember that not all of you on the "right" are racist, ignorant, religious fanatics. Deal?
The biggest problem I done been seeing is that ain't like no sentence I done ever said. What's with, like, all the extra prepositional phrases and what not? It done seems like, the, commas are in improper places, to make a decent sentence, my third-grade teacher would have had a fit with her fancy sentence diagramming on them words.
Okay, I've been looking, but I've been stimied at the question of which video card to buy. I've been thinking of the Parahelia (sp?) but the process of getting the driver working troubles me. I lost a recent weekend just trying to get Linux to recognize my ATI 9700 as a 3D card using those new ATI drivers and I never did get it working...
I want something that runs dual LCD under linux and can be set up by a "user" (i.e. me). Please no responses that begin: "just recompile the world and adjust the X11 conf to the secondary values in the usual way..."
"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit, I always do that, I always mess up some mundane detail."
- Michael Bolton
Those that do end up doing documentation well actually end up with a product that may be worth a few bucks. Coder's code for free but the documenters get a publishing contract with O'Reilly.
dom4j vs. jdom, the vi vs. emacs of the Pepsi generation ;-)
I use DOM within XML as well as the MessageDigest using the MD5 algorithm every day. So I'm letting you know...
Or, is your complaint based on the fact that the libraries that underlie the XML and Security algorithm API's can be swapped out? To me, that's a feature not a bug but YMMV.
I realize you're a scientist, but here in the U.S.A. we believe in democracy so let's put this to a vote.
All you scientists that believe global warming is a problem raise your hands: okay 123,231 votes
All you slashdot posters and talk show listeners that believe global warming is not a problem raise your hands: looks like 4,423,321 votes.
The nays carry the day. Global warming is NOT a problem. Thank you. Next problem please...
Oh yeah... it's China's fault. Those bastards.
The other bonus...
To make sure that the carbon stays tied up, your duty to the environment is clear: you must live forever.
I don't know about being a cop out. If you truely don't support a war, then for you to be a concientous objector in a non-combat role just frees up a slot for someone else to pick up that rifle. Different wars may call for different judgments. My grandfather was a contientious objector (as a Quaker) in WWII and spent the war as a smoke jumper in the Rockies which was pretty dangerous duty considering the technology of the time. Many Quakers my father's age who could have been concientous objectors during Vietnam, however, thought that war was as a scam and refused to take the "easy out" and burnt their draft cards rather than registering for alternate service.
You forgot:
"single-click in space"
"FAT in space"
"hyperlinks in space"
"software 'asking for help' in space"
"software licensing in space"
"collar computer in space"
No, of course it's not obvious...
Another precedent was set years ago when Yahoo bowed to the wishes of the French and German governments to hide links to Nazi sites.
Yes, we all agree that there is no redeeming value to anything to do with Nazism, but now when the Chinese govenement wants to impose the same form of censorship there is no moral high ground.
In the U.S., there is a reason that the ACLU defends Nazis and KKK and other reprehensible, inbred, lowlifes. Defending their rights eventually amounts to defending our rights...
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
- by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
In fact, it might be better if China did split up into four or five separate political entities. I'm sure the Tibetans would appreciate the end of fifty years of oppression and genocide.
If nothing else, it would make it harder for corporations to justify ignorning the Chinese "reeducation" camps in pursuit of the 1+ billion person market.
Since I'm in the market for a large LCD, I'm actually glad this got sumbmitted. Less because I wanted to know more about this specific model, but because the conversation is has generated has taught me a little about what to look for when I gather the money together to make that leap (I'm leaning towards an Apple 23" but I'm willing to be dissuaded...)
About 37 minutes after implementing this "necessity exemption"...
"Senator Bob? Hi, this is Joe. Yeah, that's right, did you enjoy your 'working vacation' to Bermuda paid for by friends over at Lexus? Good, glad to hear it, how's little Suzy?"
"Hey, I hate to jump straight to business but I was wondering if you would be willing to add a little line to the 'Apple Pie, Freedom, and Patriot Act of 2005' that defines Lexus automobiles as a 'necessity'. Thanks Bob, I'll fax over the text soon as I hang up!
Good luck on the reelection! Give me a call when your campaign starts rolling again. I'm sure my friends would love to support a mutual friend."
One of many social factors: The US war on drugs. Many homicides are DRUG-WAR related, directly or indirectly.
Stop it. You are injecting a note of reality into his John Wayne / Charles Bronson worldview. He is going to start crying because you're being mean.
It seems like every time someone brings up a union, someone else simply says, "if your job sucks get a new one." I guess it's my turn. If your wife's job sucks then she should get another one and stop bitching. There are probably lots of private schools that would hire her. They probably don't pay as well but she wouldn't have to join a union. If she looks hard enough, she can probably get a job teaching at some sort of wierd religious academy and know that everyone in the building supports her political views.
I can "imply" a lot of things. I can imply that aixou is a paid operative of the Republican party and a cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore. I have no proof that aixou is not a paid operative of the Republican party and a cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore. But, since I am a good person of the highest moral standing, I am willing to listen to the obvious lies of the Republican defenders who may put forward evidence on whether or not aixou is a paid operate of the the Republican party and cowardly possible fascist who is getting kick-backs from Haliburton to smear the good reputation of Michael Moore and I am willing to fairly judge those lies on their merits.
That's how Karl Rove has been playing politics by implication and third-party character asassination since Bush ran for Governor of Texas. Don't spend too much time bitching because the other side has adopted a winning tactic. Sure, I'd like to get back to talking about the issues but after eight years of non-stop attacks on Clinton, the character assasination of McCain, Cleland, and Kerry, and media assualt by Rush and his ilk, I honestly like seeing the good side fight back.
Absolutely true... but I doubt that the marketing material is going to have catchy marketing phrases like, "If you can aggregate data from a zillion tables into views, and know what an OLAP cube is, you to can create great, meaningful visualizations."
You know, I was going to use the same acronym. I realize it's a bit difficult to get a better understanding of what problem they are trying to solve (that hasn't been tackled a thousand times before on an ad hoc basis by every programmer doing enterprise software) from a non-technical newspaper article and a marketing web-page. However, the biggest problem I have with the web page is not that they are trying to solve doesn't need solving, but that the example screen shots are so contrived with nice normalized tables and columns like "Market Size" and "Ship Method".
In my limited experience, databases in the real world come in two basic flavours:
If their software can make it possible for the outsourced VB programmer in Bangelore to make meaningful and colorful charts, that's quite a feat. I'm not holding my breath.