You realize, that the congress could revoke the charter that they voted for, that enables us to be in Iraq any time they want, and the President would have to bring the troops home.
It just too convenient and war profiteering is on both sides of the isles, so they don't. Besides, it is much easier to whine and bitch than it is to organize a vote, AND it is more politically expedient to do so as well.
Personally, I don't care what the world thinks of the US. The world can go to hell. The US has saved the world so many times over that it isn't funny. The US is the most generous nation on the planet, even to this day, so the world can go Screw itself for all I care.
The economy sucks because the US won't revoke corporate charters when corporations act illegally. Boards of corporations aren't charged criminally for the crimes of the corporations. If the US revoked corporate charters and started to lock boards up in pound me in the ass prisons, I guarantee you that corporate malfeasance would diminish greatly.
That, and the whole "global economy" thing is catching up. There is no way that the US can compete with China and India. They don't have the regulations that US corporations do.
If you wonder why US Corporations are off shoring all the manufacturing jobs, it is because they don't have to worry about the regulations imposed by the government.
Which is why lead based toys are allowed to come into the US from China. Why haven't the US penalized China with trade sanctions for this I'll never know. (actually I do know, follow the $)
Its faster for me, in my work. While the total time for the machine to be out of commission, it might not be "faster", but in terms of my time, a reload is infinitely faster.
I use Windows Deployment Services (formerly RIS) to re-image a machine. It takes less than two minutes of my time to re-image a machine and get to a usable desktop. Total time for re-image is about two hours for all the software to reload (all automatic), and get the user back to work.
I don't worry about drivers (thanks Driver Packs!), loading Office (MS or Open!), Acrobat Reader....(Thanks MS and AD!) because it is all automatic now.
Computer slow? A couple of F12 and username / password and I walk away, knowing that in two hours, my systems are back exactly where they should be.
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book."
The problem is, the book of Leviticus doesn't make that statement, so based on that falseness alone, the rest of your point is moot. You can't invalidate anything based upon verifiable false information.
You do claim the statement by your statement that you believe the lie that the book says abomination (it doesn't), and use that to make a point. If you don't believe it, then why use that as an example?
Or does wrong examples not matter, as long as your point is taken? Sounds like propaganda to me, and the rest of my point remains, regardless of how it "sounds" to you.
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book. (Just because some of the preloaded software on a computer may suck doesn't mean *all* the preloaded software sucks, right?)""
The passage you quoted from Leviticus doesn't mention "abomination", even once.
"Leviticus 21:17-23... No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God. For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long, a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch. No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy; only he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them. (Leviticus 21:17-23)"
Of course it is interesting that you should view these people as "Abomination" when the scripture doesn't.
Fact is, people who don't know the text, or the context of the passage shouldn't be spewing their biases.
This passage is about the PRIESTLY duties of Aaron's descendants. If you're going to misquote a passage and show your ignorance, and twist it to your viewpoint, you might want to make sure the person you are trying to convert knows less than you do.
Thanks though, for trying, you just proved my point.
"You're comparing me to a Nazi. Congratulations on raising the level of this discourse to a higher & more mature level. Rather than call me a Nazi, you could have tried using counter-research to try to prove me wrong. But no, your name-calling accomplishes more than any counter-research ever could. Bravo, sir, bravo on a well researched and respectful discourse."
I Didn't call you a nazi, I compared you to a propagandist, who happens to be a Nazi. I was specific to make note that it was endlessly repeating a lie, hoping it becomes a truth. Here's the actual quote
âoeIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.â Joseph Goebbels.
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book. (Just because some of the preloaded software on a computer may suck doesn't mean *all* the preloaded software sucks, right?)"
I'd love to see where Leviticus states this. If this counts for what people call "science" these days, spewing shit that they heard from a person who heard it from thier cousin... then no wonder so many people believe Darwin is "survival of the fittest" (a phrase which Darwin never said).
Endlessly repeating something until it is accepted as truth is worthy of Joseph Goebbels! Too bad it happens in Science too!
The only reason to have these things is to try to limit spambots. Imagine if instead of spending Millions of dollars developing and maintaining anti spam technology, we used the money to assassinate Spammers, and the producers of the crap they sell, the problem would immediately disappear.
You know, I'm almost serious. Why is it that we tolerate Asshats in this world. This is the result of the namby pamby wimpy peaceniks that think when an asshat gets his lights punched out, that the person doing the punching is evil. No, they are not evil, they are providing a valuable service called "increasing cost" of the asshattery.
You see, being an asshat is an artform, delecately balancing upon the fringes of what is legal, but beyond what is ethical. The only way to combat asshattery is to become one temporarily, if only to deal with the asshats.
"Hey, the same guys are controlling both puppets! We're fucked!"
Sorry, but presenting a false dichotomy is also why we're "fucked"!
We have other choices. I suggest you start exercising those options before its too late. Well, okay, it might be too late, but maybe the echos of our screams might be heard in the future.
Your error is that I'm not suggesting the "end" of a graphics chip (or better, graphics core). Bringing the GPU to the CPU Core will INCREASE bandwidth, not decrease it, because it will not be limited by whatever bus you're running.
The bus between the CPU cores, Memory, GPU and whatnot could be ultimately tuned in ways you might not be able to do with a standardized bus (PCIe, AGP etc).
And in fact, the old CPU/Math CoProcessor was limited bus speed/bandwidth, which ONE of the reasons they brought it to the CPU chip itself.
There were other reasons as well, so don't get me wrong, but bus limitations was one of them. Additionally many of the other reasons for putting the Math Co-Processor on the same die as the rest of the CPU also applies here as well.
I've actually been suggesting to my friends for a while, that you'll end up with about four or five different major vendors of computers, each similar to what Apple is today, selling whole systems.
Imagine Microsoft buying Intel, AMD buying RedHat, NVidia using Ubuntu(or whatever) and IBM launching OS/3 on Powerchips, and Apple.
If the Document formats are set (ISO) then why not?
There will be those few that continue to mod their cars, but for the most part, things will be mostly sealed and only a qualified mechanic er technician would ever need to crack the case.
I suspect that in the next 15 years or so, this is what you're gonna end up seeing.
The pattern set by the whole CPU / Math Co-Processor integration showed the way. For those old enough to remember, once upon a time the CPU and Math Co-Processor were separate socketed chips. Specifically you had to add the chip to the MOBO to get math functions integrated.
The argument back then is eerily similar to the same as proposed by NV chief, namely the average user wouldn't "need" a Math Co-Processor. Then came along the Spreadsheet, and suddenly that point was moot.
Fast forward today, if we had a dedicated GPU integrated with the CPU, it would eventually simplify things so that the next "killer app" could make use of commonly available GPU.
Sorry, NV, but AMD and INTEL will be integrating GPU into the chip, bypassing bus issues and streamlining the timing. I suspect that VIDEO processing will be the next "Killer App". YouTube is just a precursor to what will become shortly.
"They would probably post questions to "Ask Slashdot"."
I can see it now.
GoodCopBadCop writes: I'm in law enforcement and need to do some forensic investigation of a computer system called "Ubuntu", does anyone on SlashDot know what this is and how to crack the system?....
"You ever wonder why the same vaccines and antibacterial medicines and such don't work forever?"
No. I know why. Bacteria adapt. They don't become mice (or virii, or amoebas or....) in that adaptation, they stay Bacteria.
Besides, you just made the classic blunder of mixing microevolution up with MacroEvolution. Now, If I made that mistake, all the Evolutionists would be screaming that I didn't understand Evolution.
Evolution should be able to predict a new SPECIES, not just variation within a species.
They did test the theory. They made a prediction, and the prediction was proven to be accurate. So far, I've never seen anyone predict a new species before it occurred.
I'm not opposed to science. I'm Opposed to an unproven theory (or collection of theories) being called "fact" and "proven".
I'd even accept as proof the prediction of an animal species in the fossil record before one is dug up.:-D
I know, I need to come up with a form similar to the email SPAM form that has a list of all the proposed solutions to form spam, and have you fill out which check boxes you think whatever solution to the problem is, and why it fails.
[x] Takes too much time out of my day (anthing more than 30 seconds is a waste of time)
I may be ingorant, but if you're standing on US territories you have those rights. Now if they are saying that before you're through customs, you're not on US territories, but "international" or whatever, I suggest that you could light up a joint and smoke to your hearts content, because you're outside US jurisdiction, and laws.
They can't have it both ways. You're either on US soil, or you're not, and either all the laws of the US apply or they don't.
At least it would be interesting court case, especially if it went to US court.:-D
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You realize, that the congress could revoke the charter that they voted for, that enables us to be in Iraq any time they want, and the President would have to bring the troops home.
It just too convenient and war profiteering is on both sides of the isles, so they don't. Besides, it is much easier to whine and bitch than it is to organize a vote, AND it is more politically expedient to do so as well.
Personally, I don't care what the world thinks of the US. The world can go to hell. The US has saved the world so many times over that it isn't funny. The US is the most generous nation on the planet, even to this day, so the world can go Screw itself for all I care.
The economy sucks because the US won't revoke corporate charters when corporations act illegally. Boards of corporations aren't charged criminally for the crimes of the corporations. If the US revoked corporate charters and started to lock boards up in pound me in the ass prisons, I guarantee you that corporate malfeasance would diminish greatly.
That, and the whole "global economy" thing is catching up. There is no way that the US can compete with China and India. They don't have the regulations that US corporations do.
If you wonder why US Corporations are off shoring all the manufacturing jobs, it is because they don't have to worry about the regulations imposed by the government.
Which is why lead based toys are allowed to come into the US from China. Why haven't the US penalized China with trade sanctions for this I'll never know. (actually I do know, follow the $)
Its faster for me, in my work. While the total time for the machine to be out of commission, it might not be "faster", but in terms of my time, a reload is infinitely faster.
....(Thanks MS and AD!) because it is all automatic now.
I use Windows Deployment Services (formerly RIS) to re-image a machine. It takes less than two minutes of my time to re-image a machine and get to a usable desktop. Total time for re-image is about two hours for all the software to reload (all automatic), and get the user back to work.
I don't worry about drivers (thanks Driver Packs!), loading Office (MS or Open!), Acrobat Reader
Computer slow? A couple of F12 and username / password and I walk away, knowing that in two hours, my systems are back exactly where they should be.
AND, it loads faster than CD. MUCH faster.
They are obviously ordering the laptops from the wrong vendor.
Touche ;)
why is this on Slashdot???
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book."
The problem is, the book of Leviticus doesn't make that statement, so based on that falseness alone, the rest of your point is moot. You can't invalidate anything based upon verifiable false information.
You do claim the statement by your statement that you believe the lie that the book says abomination (it doesn't), and use that to make a point. If you don't believe it, then why use that as an example?
Or does wrong examples not matter, as long as your point is taken? Sounds like propaganda to me, and the rest of my point remains, regardless of how it "sounds" to you.
Here's your original statement ....
...
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book. (Just because some of the preloaded software on a computer may suck doesn't mean *all* the preloaded software sucks, right?)""
The passage you quoted from Leviticus doesn't mention "abomination", even once.
"Leviticus 21:17-23
No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God. For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long, a man who has a broken foot or broken hand, or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch. No man of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, shall come near to offer the offerings made by fire to the Lord. He has a defect; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. He may eat the bread of his God, both the most holy and the holy; only he shall not go near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a defect, lest he profane My sanctuaries; for I the Lord sanctify them. (Leviticus 21:17-23)"
Of course it is interesting that you should view these people as "Abomination" when the scripture doesn't.
Fact is, people who don't know the text, or the context of the passage shouldn't be spewing their biases.
This passage is about the PRIESTLY duties of Aaron's descendants. If you're going to misquote a passage and show your ignorance, and twist it to your viewpoint, you might want to make sure the person you are trying to convert knows less than you do.
Thanks though, for trying, you just proved my point.
"You're comparing me to a Nazi. Congratulations on raising the level of this discourse to a higher & more mature level. Rather than call me a Nazi, you could have tried using counter-research to try to prove me wrong. But no, your name-calling accomplishes more than any counter-research ever could. Bravo, sir, bravo on a well researched and respectful discourse."
I Didn't call you a nazi, I compared you to a propagandist, who happens to be a Nazi. I was specific to make note that it was endlessly repeating a lie, hoping it becomes a truth. Here's the actual quote
âoeIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.â Joseph Goebbels.
Care to try again?
"So when the Book of Leviticus says that dwarfs, hunchbacks, people with defects of eye sight are all abominations (or whatever), I can easily toss it aside, invalidate the credibility of the Book of Leviticus, and it has absolutely no bearing on anything outside of the rest of the book. (Just because some of the preloaded software on a computer may suck doesn't mean *all* the preloaded software sucks, right?)"
... then no wonder so many people believe Darwin is "survival of the fittest" (a phrase which Darwin never said).
I'd love to see where Leviticus states this. If this counts for what people call "science" these days, spewing shit that they heard from a person who heard it from thier cousin
Endlessly repeating something until it is accepted as truth is worthy of Joseph Goebbels! Too bad it happens in Science too!
"Authenticated by street address, driver's license number, and a notary? Assume they are legit, you can always sue the notary if they aren't."
Just another database to be stolen and used to create credit hell for those people listed in the database.
No thank you.
The only solution asshattery is pain. No, not virtual pain, REAL Ass Kicking Pain.
Spammers need to be shot.
The only reason to have these things is to try to limit spambots. Imagine if instead of spending Millions of dollars developing and maintaining anti spam technology, we used the money to assassinate Spammers, and the producers of the crap they sell, the problem would immediately disappear.
You know, I'm almost serious. Why is it that we tolerate Asshats in this world. This is the result of the namby pamby wimpy peaceniks that think when an asshat gets his lights punched out, that the person doing the punching is evil. No, they are not evil, they are providing a valuable service called "increasing cost" of the asshattery.
You see, being an asshat is an artform, delecately balancing upon the fringes of what is legal, but beyond what is ethical. The only way to combat asshattery is to become one temporarily, if only to deal with the asshats.
"Hey, the same guys are controlling both puppets! We're fucked!"
Sorry, but presenting a false dichotomy is also why we're "fucked"!
We have other choices. I suggest you start exercising those options before its too late. Well, okay, it might be too late, but maybe the echos of our screams might be heard in the future.
Your error is that I'm not suggesting the "end" of a graphics chip (or better, graphics core). Bringing the GPU to the CPU Core will INCREASE bandwidth, not decrease it, because it will not be limited by whatever bus you're running.
/Math CoProcessor was limited bus speed/bandwidth, which ONE of the reasons they brought it to the CPU chip itself.
The bus between the CPU cores, Memory, GPU and whatnot could be ultimately tuned in ways you might not be able to do with a standardized bus (PCIe, AGP etc).
And in fact, the old CPU
There were other reasons as well, so don't get me wrong, but bus limitations was one of them. Additionally many of the other reasons for putting the Math Co-Processor on the same die as the rest of the CPU also applies here as well.
Nuff Said!
I've actually been suggesting to my friends for a while, that you'll end up with about four or five different major vendors of computers, each similar to what Apple is today, selling whole systems.
Imagine Microsoft buying Intel, AMD buying RedHat, NVidia using Ubuntu(or whatever) and IBM launching OS/3 on Powerchips, and Apple.
If the Document formats are set (ISO) then why not?
There will be those few that continue to mod their cars, but for the most part, things will be mostly sealed and only a qualified mechanic er technician would ever need to crack the case.
I suspect that in the next 15 years or so, this is what you're gonna end up seeing.
It sounds way too much like Ru Paul
The pattern set by the whole CPU / Math Co-Processor integration showed the way. For those old enough to remember, once upon a time the CPU and Math Co-Processor were separate socketed chips. Specifically you had to add the chip to the MOBO to get math functions integrated.
The argument back then is eerily similar to the same as proposed by NV chief, namely the average user wouldn't "need" a Math Co-Processor. Then came along the Spreadsheet, and suddenly that point was moot.
Fast forward today, if we had a dedicated GPU integrated with the CPU, it would eventually simplify things so that the next "killer app" could make use of commonly available GPU.
Sorry, NV, but AMD and INTEL will be integrating GPU into the chip, bypassing bus issues and streamlining the timing. I suspect that VIDEO processing will be the next "Killer App". YouTube is just a precursor to what will become shortly.
RIAA 1, Everyone else 35920?
They did win one, didn't they?
"They would probably post questions to "Ask Slashdot"."
....
I can see it now.
GoodCopBadCop writes: I'm in law enforcement and need to do some forensic investigation of a computer system called "Ubuntu", does anyone on SlashDot know what this is and how to crack the system?
Anonymous Coward replies -- First RTFM!!!! WoooT
"Somebody please call the department of redundancy department!"
.....
I've always wondered why no geek has made this into a recursive joke
Department of Redundancy Department's Redundancy Division, Department of Redundancy Department.
Okay, that might be stretching it too far. Never Mind
"You ever wonder why the same vaccines and antibacterial medicines and such don't work forever?"
....) in that adaptation, they stay Bacteria.
No. I know why. Bacteria adapt. They don't become mice (or virii, or amoebas or
Besides, you just made the classic blunder of mixing microevolution up with MacroEvolution. Now, If I made that mistake, all the Evolutionists would be screaming that I didn't understand Evolution.
Evolution should be able to predict a new SPECIES, not just variation within a species.
They did test the theory. They made a prediction, and the prediction was proven to be accurate. So far, I've never seen anyone predict a new species before it occurred.
:-D
I'm not opposed to science. I'm Opposed to an unproven theory (or collection of theories) being called "fact" and "proven".
I'd even accept as proof the prediction of an animal species in the fossil record before one is dug up.
Evolution is a good explanation of "accepted" evidence. One cannot test it, therefore it isn't science.
When you can take a bacteria, and make a mouse using only "natural selection", then I'll accept that you've "tested" evolution.
Now move along.
I suspect I'll be flamed for stating the obvious.
Too Little, Too Late.
There is no need for it now. Linux had already supplanted Solaris
I know, I need to come up with a form similar to the email SPAM form that has a list of all the proposed solutions to form spam, and have you fill out which check boxes you think whatever solution to the problem is, and why it fails.
[x] Takes too much time out of my day (anthing more than 30 seconds is a waste of time)
I may be ingorant, but if you're standing on US territories you have those rights. Now if they are saying that before you're through customs, you're not on US territories, but "international" or whatever, I suggest that you could light up a joint and smoke to your hearts content, because you're outside US jurisdiction, and laws.
:-D
They can't have it both ways. You're either on US soil, or you're not, and either all the laws of the US apply or they don't.
At least it would be interesting court case, especially if it went to US court.