I can't believe you're linking beating children to warfare.
Your logic seems to be - if you beat children, they will go to war in the future and only the teaching of violence leads to war.
There are a couple of fallacies with that. The basic one is that wars haven't stopped. The US, the UK and other developed countries where parents are discouraged from smacking their children around are still willing to use violence to protect their interests. Vietnam. The Falklands. Grenada. Panama. The Gulf I and II. Etc. etc. They just haven't met an opponent strong enough and that they were willing to take on, to cause a world war. The Soviet Union was too powerful too fight in a warm war but there was still a cold war with plenty of of proxy violence.
The other fallacies include the facts that kids are violent little sods even without any adult schooling in the ways of violence and that violence seems to be an inherent characteristic of mankind that cannot be educated away.
If your grandchildren can't understand why you sniped Germans (to stop Hitler turning the world into a nightmare, to save people from the gas chambers, etc. etc.), then you might want to have a little talk with them about ethics and self-defence.
Also - take a look around you. Most people believe in the US believe violence is justified by national needs.
The 535 members of Congress have no power compared to Wal-Mart's global reach: Wal-Mart does not have to answer to American voters, just it's stockholders who are seeking unethical profit.
There I was thinking that the 535 members of Congress could pass laws banning Wal-mart's business, raising taxes on it, closing foreign markets to it, etc. I thought they had the ultimate potential legislative power.
Your arguments may be valid but your poor (atrocious/diabolically atrocious?) grammar makes you sound "intellectually challenged." This in turn prejudices your readers against anything you have to say. Communication is not only about what you have to say but how you say it. A jumbled message carries jumbled content.
Just as the Holocaust was prefigured by colonial genocide, so the bombing raids which reduced Guernica, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo and parts of London to ash had been rehearsed in north Africa and the Middle East.
No, the colonizers didn't decide that the problem with the world was the existence of native people (the Nazi creed was basically "The Jews are to blame for everything") and then systematically eradicate them in deathcamps. Furthermore, massive bombing was invented by the Germans (London and Zeppelins in 1917, Spain in 1936), not Italians.
Japan sought to negotiate peace, but the Allies refused to talk until they had taken their firebombing to its logical conclusion, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bullshit. Japan did not seek peace with the Allies, on any kind of reasonable terms. The peace imposed on it was extremely reasonable considering how many of its neighbours the feudal, militaristic, racist, imperialistic and fatally suicidal (messing with the US was as good an idea then as it is now) country had killed. The Allies used an atomic bomb to demonstrate to the Japanese that they could stomp the country out AND kill the generals and Emperor. The bastards in the Japanese military finally realized that they had messed up (there were no shelters to hide in that could withstand an A-bomb as compared to a B-29) after starving their country to a standstill in pursuit of a futile war. They had previously been prepared to sacrifice tens of millions of Japanese lives in a suicidal defence of their homeland.
The airplane., more precisely than any other technology, represents the global ruling class. In the past we raised our eyes to the men on horseback. Today we raise our eyes to the heavens. Air travel is cheap and available to anybody. Ever heard of people taking their goats onto planes in Africa? Well they do. And they aren't a global ruling class. Airplanes are definitely not a symbol of domination.
Last week the World Health Organization calculated that climate change is causing 150,000 deaths a year. Bullshit, SHOW ME THE LINK.
By then the 400,000 won't be the only ones wishing that Wilbur and Orville (if indeed they were responsible) had stuck to mending bicycles. You mean those carrying their goats onto planes, or those who got airmail, or those whose medicine and food is delivered by cargo plane, or those who visit their families around the world in a trip lasting a day not a month, or just about anybody who doesn't live near an airport.
Despite almost 400,000 objections to the expansion of airports in Britain, the transport secretary will announce new runways at Stansted and Birmingham, and more flights to Heathrow.
Are you one of the 400,000? Let me guess, you're just pissed off that your little bit of England is near an airport. I think the entirety of your rant is motivated by your falling house price. Nobody wants a shit recycling plant near the house but hell, somebody, has to have it. A lack of new airports would stifle the UK economy, but I guess you're alright, jack, you've got a job. For now...
Oh by the way Mr Ihateairplanesbecausetheykillpeopleandhaveaffected myhouseprice, the modern computer was invented to kill people by reading their codes and the internet to allow military communications. Go and smash your computer and modem.
Yeah this is flaming but I have a flaming reaction to lies and egoism dressed up as morality.
In many jurisdictions you can get a temporary/preliminary injunction immediately after filing a suit and an injunction motion. The judge reviews the motions and if he finds it acceptable, rules. The defendant then gets sent the injunction and suit. The injunction can usually be appealed. The grounds for the granting of an injunction are usually more stringent than those for obtaining a favourable end result (probability of success has to be shown as well as a pressing and immediate need to stop the activity to be banned).
It may not sound fair to have an injunction granted without being able to defend but:
a) immediate injunctions are meant to apply to emergency cases where the delay caused by a reply and a hearing would be inappropriate;
b) the burden of evidence to get an injunction is usually more than that needed to win an end case.
I have the feeling that Linux has become generic i.e. you can use it in any way you want.
Furthermore, Linus registered Linux in Nice category 9, i.e. computer and scientific equipment, not publications.
Linux Week is a registered trademark for a publication and they didn't have to license anything from Linus (you cannot register a trademark that contains another trademarked element on the basis of a license. Either your mark is distinctive or it is not. A license allows you to use a mark but not to create another registerable one)
SSC filed for a trademark on 28 October 2003. WHICH IS A BIT LATE to start suing Linux Gazette.
I'm not sure of the Linux Gazette entity status and whether it exists as the body of defectors or as something owned by SSC but if its the second, then prior usage will grant the Linux Gazette trademark to them and as a result - only they can use it.
Sorry to lower the tone but the combination ofsword, manhood, delivery and control evoke some Freudian comparisons.
Are you reading too much into this? Jackson allowed Aragorn's sweetheart to give him his sword. Very nice of her but Aragorn was no less of a man without the sword. By taking the sword from Arwen he's still a man grasping his destiny (or rather Arwen grasping his for him... COUGH, sorry, had to add that)
I agree with the Faramir comment though. My take on Faramir was that he was an Aragorn twin but born to the man holding Aragorn's birthright and brother to a man flawed like Isildur.
"There is no intrinsic meaning to any word, only the extrinsic ones we apply ourselves."
No intrinsic meaning to any word? None? Ah. So language is the act of one person thinking up content to the words uttered or written by another person. So communication is one act of randomness interacting loosely with another act of randomness.
So perhaps I'm calling you an idiot instead of attacking your grasp of communications, logic and linguistics. BTW its your fault if calling you an idiot offends you.
Actually though, YOU may be offended if a call you an idiot BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE AN IDIOT AND YOU KNOW I THINK YOU"RE AN IDIOT. Not just because you find yourself being called idiot offensive to your self esteem.
If every move is perfect, white wins as white has the opening move advantage. If the number of games is even - end result is a draw. Doesn't mean every game is a draw.
It takes a superpower to carry out a burglary? Of a small movable object?
That explains who carries out all the robberies in my area.
THE CHINESE
And the superpower that carried out this awe-inspiring Mission Impossible feat of stealing a small movable object, is going to: a) Ransom the heli - because superpowers need every million they can get; b) Cause Isreal to lose face - because China, Russia and the US know that the theft of a small heli from a private company is a major loss of face; c) Carry out a suicide mission - where's the suicide if this automated? And can't you already buy drone aircraft...so why bother with a heli?; d) Sale - see pt. a)
Getting something of the Isreal is not going to be a serious problem, they can't keep guns, explosives and terrorits out of the country.
Tolkien created a world with such stunning depth that it would take a lifetime to get to know intimately.
It has languages, thousands of years of detailed histories, many epic tales as well as intense and interesting characters. Stories end and then stories begin.
The Wachowki's created a world in which people with cables in their brains become supermen and kick the crap out of computer programs. There is one interesting concept, how do we know that the world we experience with our senses exists away from our senses?
The rest of the Matrix "philosophy" is a mishmash of words or plays on words that imitate depth through ambiguity. Playing on words and their meanings is sophistry, not philosophy.
All in all the Matrix backstory is just to give geeks an excuse to proclaim the Matrix as cool not just because its about a hacker with a girlfriend that dresses in leather who learns kung-fu through a ROM chip and gets to shoot a lot of guns. Sex AND violence packaged with a nice 'deep' wrapper. Wow.
Give me five examples of depth in the Matrix?
Five from the Lord of Rings: a) Boromir wants to use the ring to defeat Sauron. But the ring will warp its wielder to its masters will. The tool becomes the end.
b) The rebels of Rohan leave their king out of their love for their king.
c) The elves of Middle Earth help the men of Middle Earth even though they are leaving that land. Elves are immortal in normal circumstances but they do not flinch from death in combat.
d) Gondor is a shadow of itself at its height and in turn is a shadow of Numenor (the kingdom left by Gondor exiles when Sauron corrupted it). There is a rich and vibrant history behind everything. The films do not convey all of this but there is a complete absence of history behind the Matrix (apart from 30 mins of Animatrix).
e) Sauron is not defeated by force of arms but by a combination of luck (Gollum falls into Mount Doom) and heroism (Frodo and Sam). The interesting thing is that Frodo is not a messianic pure strong hero, at the end he betrays the trust in him by wielding the ring. Gollum seals Sauron's doom.
Of course, given that Mr Fawkes represented the oppressed (at the time) Roman Catholic community, was he a terrorist, or a freedom fighter?
You can get in trouble for thinking unpatriotic thoughts like that.
So I'll get into even greater trouble. The phrases freedom fighter/terrorist describe the same people from different viewpoints. The person getting freedom fighted calls them terrorist. Those who use terror call themselves freedom fighters.
Of course the real qualifier is what means they use and what ends they want to achieve (the means being more important than the ends in judging whether they are acting for good or evil IMHO).
The Resistance movement in Europe was called terrorist by the Gestapo. Old resistance fighter readily admit using terror tactics against the Nazis. They are proud of the fear they raised amongst the murdering invaders.
The Polish underground even used anthrax to discourage the Gestapo from reading anonymuous tipoff letters!
You know why the multiple cd players never caught on: a) they were more expensive to build than several single CD units; b) they were a bother to install (what drive letter...?) c) they kept on getting stuck and were slower at exchanging discs than doing it by hand with a single unit.
And why are you shuffling discs? I haven't done a disc shuffle with a game or program after installation for years (I always use the full install option).
as soon as it errupted (so to speak). No, we see the flare a few minutes after it occurs thanks to the limit on the speed of light. And I think a flare is detectable and visible without a satellite. A big one is detectable by the sudden improvement or detoriation in radio quality.
Customers suck but so does tech support in Poland.
I cringe when I hear "tech support" or "computer repair center".
The places my friends go are full of idiots who are "studying IT". Seems that "studying IT" means playing Counterstrike and pirating CDs.
A friend of mine had a 'problem' with his computer. He described it to me (first the computer would hang on startup and then would stop starting at all) and I told him to bring it round and I'd take a look at it.
He said no, he'd have a professional look at it. Well, the first things the 'pros' did was to format his disk. Wiping everything including important documents. Then they reinstalled Windows. Didn't work. Then they told him to replace the power supply. Didn't work. Then they told him to replace the mainboard. Didn't work. Lazy bastiches didn't even tell him what to do quickly, they took months to do it.
So after 9 months he brings the comp round to me (formatted disk, original mainboard and power supply). I switch it on, hear 'beep beep, open the case, gently push the graphics card back firmly into its slot. Hey presto, problem solved.
IDIOTS.
So, what would you call tech support like that if you call customers cuntstomers ? Tittech support?
This got marked as a troll? Perhaps the moderator did not read the article where NS states he does not have experience with the academic world. Or perhaps he did not read the Big U by NS about the academic world? Or perhaps he does not know what Finux is? (hint: like Linux but fictional).
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Why are people suing the coders, and not the parents of those who actually went out and killed people?
Parents poor, Rockstar rich.
A gun nut who raises $200K for a hospital is still a gun nut. He may be a charitable gun nut but still he's a gun nut.
I'm not saying that the NRA are gun nuts.
Just making a point that you can combine attributes and one attribute does not necessarily negate another.
Oh yes... let me shake your hand for what you did in the war.
The Germans you killed may have been good people but they were defending an incredibly evil system.
Sometimes the good die for a bad cause.
I can't believe you're linking beating children to warfare.
Your logic seems to be - if you beat children, they will go to war in the future and only the teaching of violence leads to war.
There are a couple of fallacies with that. The basic one is that wars haven't stopped. The US, the UK and other developed countries where parents are discouraged from smacking their children around are still willing to use violence to protect their interests. Vietnam. The Falklands. Grenada. Panama. The Gulf I and II. Etc. etc. They just haven't met an opponent strong enough and that they were willing to take on, to cause a world war. The Soviet Union was too powerful too fight in a warm war but there was still a cold war with plenty of of proxy violence.
The other fallacies include the facts that kids are violent little sods even without any adult schooling in the ways of violence and that violence seems to be an inherent characteristic of mankind that cannot be educated away.
If your grandchildren can't understand why you sniped Germans (to stop Hitler turning the world into a nightmare, to save people from the gas chambers, etc. etc.), then you might want to have a little talk with them about ethics and self-defence.
Also - take a look around you. Most people believe in the US believe violence is justified by national needs.
That's what I heard.
Also, 90% of the content is kept on Chinese servers.
The 535 members of Congress have no power compared to Wal-Mart's global reach: Wal-Mart does not have to answer to American voters, just it's stockholders who are seeking unethical profit.
There I was thinking that the 535 members of Congress could pass laws banning Wal-mart's business, raising taxes on it, closing foreign markets to it, etc. I thought they had the ultimate potential legislative power.
Your arguments may be valid but your poor (atrocious/diabolically atrocious?) grammar makes you sound "intellectually challenged." This in turn prejudices your readers against anything you have to say. Communication is not only about what you have to say but how you say it. A jumbled message carries jumbled content.
What a load of lies tosh.
d myhouseprice, the modern computer was invented to kill people by reading their codes and the internet to allow military communications. Go and smash your computer and modem.
Just as the Holocaust was prefigured by colonial genocide, so the bombing raids which reduced Guernica, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo and parts of London to ash had been rehearsed in north Africa and the Middle East.
No, the colonizers didn't decide that the problem with the world was the existence of native people (the Nazi creed was basically "The Jews are to blame for everything") and then systematically eradicate them in deathcamps. Furthermore, massive bombing was invented by the Germans (London and Zeppelins in 1917, Spain in 1936), not Italians.
Japan sought to negotiate peace, but the Allies refused to talk until they had taken their firebombing to its logical conclusion, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bullshit. Japan did not seek peace with the Allies, on any kind of reasonable terms. The peace imposed on it was extremely reasonable considering how many of its neighbours the feudal, militaristic, racist, imperialistic and fatally suicidal (messing with the US was as good an idea then as it is now) country had killed. The Allies used an atomic bomb to demonstrate to the Japanese that they could stomp the country out AND kill the generals and Emperor. The bastards in the Japanese military finally realized that they had messed up (there were no shelters to hide in that could withstand an A-bomb as compared to a B-29) after starving their country to a standstill in pursuit of a futile war. They had previously been prepared to sacrifice tens of millions of Japanese lives in a suicidal defence of their homeland.
The airplane., more precisely than any other technology, represents the global ruling class. In the past we raised our eyes to the men on horseback. Today we raise our eyes to the heavens. Air travel is cheap and available to anybody. Ever heard of people taking their goats onto planes in Africa? Well they do. And they aren't a global ruling class. Airplanes are definitely not a symbol of domination.
Last week the World Health Organization calculated that climate change is causing 150,000 deaths a year. Bullshit, SHOW ME THE LINK.
By then the 400,000 won't be the only ones wishing that Wilbur and Orville (if indeed they were responsible) had stuck to mending bicycles. You mean those carrying their goats onto planes, or those who got airmail, or those whose medicine and food is delivered by cargo plane, or those who visit their families around the world in a trip lasting a day not a month, or just about anybody who doesn't live near an airport.
Despite almost 400,000 objections to the expansion of airports in Britain, the transport secretary will announce new runways at Stansted and Birmingham, and more flights to Heathrow.
Are you one of the 400,000? Let me guess, you're just pissed off that your little bit of England is near an airport. I think the entirety of your rant is motivated by your falling house price. Nobody wants a shit recycling plant near the house but hell, somebody, has to have it. A lack of new airports would stifle the UK economy, but I guess you're alright, jack, you've got a job. For now...
Oh by the way Mr Ihateairplanesbecausetheykillpeopleandhaveaffecte
Yeah this is flaming but I have a flaming reaction to lies and egoism dressed up as morality.
It may not sound fair to have an injunction granted without being able to defend but:
a) immediate injunctions are meant to apply to emergency cases where the delay caused by a reply and a hearing would be inappropriate;
b) the burden of evidence to get an injunction is usually more than that needed to win an end case.
I have the feeling that Linux has become generic i.e. you can use it in any way you want.
Furthermore, Linus registered Linux in Nice category 9, i.e. computer and scientific equipment, not publications.
Linux Week is a registered trademark for a publication and they didn't have to license anything from Linus (you cannot register a trademark that contains another trademarked element on the basis of a license. Either your mark is distinctive or it is not. A license allows you to use a mark but not to create another registerable one)
SSC filed for a trademark on 28 October 2003. WHICH IS A BIT LATE to start suing Linux Gazette.
I'm not sure of the Linux Gazette entity status and whether it exists as the body of defectors or as something owned by SSC but if its the second, then prior usage will grant the Linux Gazette trademark to them and as a result - only they can use it.
Sorry to lower the tone but the combination ofsword, manhood, delivery and control evoke some Freudian comparisons.
Are you reading too much into this? Jackson allowed Aragorn's sweetheart to give him his sword. Very nice of her but Aragorn was no less of a man without the sword. By taking the sword from Arwen he's still a man grasping his destiny (or rather Arwen grasping his for him... COUGH, sorry, had to add that)
I agree with the Faramir comment though. My take on Faramir was that he was an Aragorn twin but born to the man holding Aragorn's birthright and brother to a man flawed like Isildur.
I think J.K. Rowlings has the patent.
"There is no intrinsic meaning to any word, only the extrinsic ones we apply ourselves."
No intrinsic meaning to any word? None? Ah. So language is the act of one person thinking up content to the words uttered or written by another person. So communication is one act of randomness interacting loosely with another act of randomness.
So perhaps I'm calling you an idiot instead of attacking your grasp of communications, logic and linguistics. BTW its your fault if calling you an idiot offends you.
Actually though, YOU may be offended if a call you an idiot BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE AN IDIOT AND YOU KNOW I THINK YOU"RE AN IDIOT. Not just because you find yourself being called idiot offensive to your self esteem.
But I don't. Just an example.
If every move is perfect, white wins as white has the opening move advantage. If the number of games is even - end result is a draw. Doesn't mean every game is a draw.
The number 144000 has a great significance in many religions/beliefs.
Google on 144000
Personally I think that Judgement Day is nigh and that the AntiChrist will use an evoting machine to gain control of the world.
Or perhaps not.
Superpowers?
It takes a superpower to carry out a burglary? Of a small movable object?
That explains who carries out all the robberies in my area.
THE CHINESE
And the superpower that carried out this awe-inspiring Mission Impossible feat of stealing a small movable object, is going to:
a) Ransom the heli - because superpowers need every million they can get;
b) Cause Isreal to lose face - because China, Russia and the US know that the theft of a small heli from a private company is a major loss of face;
c) Carry out a suicide mission - where's the suicide if this automated? And can't you already buy drone aircraft...so why bother with a heli?;
d) Sale - see pt. a)
Getting something of the Isreal is not going to be a serious problem, they can't keep guns, explosives and terrorits out of the country.
Tolkien created a world with such stunning depth that it would take a lifetime to get to know intimately.
It has languages, thousands of years of detailed histories, many epic tales as well as intense and interesting characters. Stories end and then stories begin.
The Wachowki's created a world in which people with cables in their brains become supermen and kick the crap out of computer programs. There is one interesting concept, how do we know that the world we experience with our senses exists away from our senses?
The rest of the Matrix "philosophy" is a mishmash of words or plays on words that imitate depth through ambiguity. Playing on words and their meanings is sophistry, not philosophy.
All in all the Matrix backstory is just to give geeks an excuse to proclaim the Matrix as cool not just because its about a hacker with a girlfriend that dresses in leather who learns kung-fu through a ROM chip and gets to shoot a lot of guns. Sex AND violence packaged with a nice 'deep' wrapper. Wow.
Give me five examples of depth in the Matrix?
Five from the Lord of Rings:
a) Boromir wants to use the ring to defeat Sauron. But the ring will warp its wielder to its masters will. The tool becomes the end.
b) The rebels of Rohan leave their king out of their love for their king.
c) The elves of Middle Earth help the men of Middle Earth even though they are leaving that land. Elves are immortal in normal circumstances but they do not flinch from death in combat.
d) Gondor is a shadow of itself at its height and in turn is a shadow of Numenor (the kingdom left by Gondor exiles when Sauron corrupted it). There is a rich and vibrant history behind everything. The films do not convey all of this but there is a complete absence of history behind the Matrix (apart from 30 mins of Animatrix).
e) Sauron is not defeated by force of arms but by a combination of luck (Gollum falls into Mount Doom) and heroism (Frodo and Sam). The interesting thing is that Frodo is not a messianic pure strong hero, at the end he betrays the trust in him by wielding the ring. Gollum seals Sauron's doom.
Lucasarts?
"I never had a girl before
With much of a figure
So excuse me if I start to play
With your digital display"
Lyrics for Digital Display (Extended Version) - Ready For The World
Personally I think that a Digital Miss World site is just going to be a 'one-handed computing' site.
Of course, given that Mr Fawkes represented the oppressed (at the time) Roman Catholic community, was he a terrorist, or a freedom fighter?
You can get in trouble for thinking unpatriotic thoughts like that.
So I'll get into even greater trouble. The phrases freedom fighter/terrorist describe the same people from different viewpoints. The person getting freedom fighted calls them terrorist. Those who use terror call themselves freedom fighters.
Of course the real qualifier is what means they use and what ends they want to achieve (the means being more important than the ends in judging whether they are acting for good or evil IMHO).
The Resistance movement in Europe was called terrorist by the Gestapo. Old resistance fighter readily admit using terror tactics against the Nazis. They are proud of the fear they raised amongst the murdering invaders.
The Polish underground even used anthrax to discourage the Gestapo from reading anonymuous tipoff letters!
You know why the multiple cd players never caught on:
a) they were more expensive to build than several single CD units;
b) they were a bother to install (what drive letter...?)
c) they kept on getting stuck and were slower at exchanging discs than doing it by hand with a single unit.
And why are you shuffling discs? I haven't done a disc shuffle with a game or program after installation for years (I always use the full install option).
as soon as it errupted (so to speak). No, we see the flare a few minutes after it occurs thanks to the limit on the speed of light. And I think a flare is detectable and visible without a satellite. A big one is detectable by the sudden improvement or detoriation in radio quality.
Customers suck but so does tech support in Poland.
I cringe when I hear "tech support" or "computer repair center".
The places my friends go are full of idiots who are "studying IT". Seems that "studying IT" means playing Counterstrike and pirating CDs.
A friend of mine had a 'problem' with his computer. He described it to me (first the computer would hang on startup and then would stop starting at all) and I told him to bring it round and I'd take a look at it.
He said no, he'd have a professional look at it. Well, the first things the 'pros' did was to format his disk. Wiping everything including important documents. Then they reinstalled Windows. Didn't work. Then they told him to replace the power supply. Didn't work. Then they told him to replace the mainboard. Didn't work. Lazy bastiches didn't even tell him what to do quickly, they took months to do it.
So after 9 months he brings the comp round to me (formatted disk, original mainboard and power supply). I switch it on, hear 'beep beep, open the case, gently push the graphics card back firmly into its slot. Hey presto, problem solved.
IDIOTS.
So, what would you call tech support like that if you call customers cuntstomers ? Tittech support?
This got marked as a troll? Perhaps the moderator did not read the article where NS states he does not have experience with the academic world. Or perhaps he did not read the Big U by NS about the academic world? Or perhaps he does not know what Finux is? (hint: like Linux but fictional).
Today, well, I don't have enough firsthand experience with the modern academic world to have a sound opinion.
And this is from the autor of the Big U. A book about the modern academic world... Hmm...
So perhaps he doesn't have enough experience with Finux to write about it.