Before I start, I know I'm feeding the trolls. Sometimes, I just can't help myself.....
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"And I'm sick of people who claim that a new development in fuel-efficiency means that the commies are coming to force you out of your Hummer"
Funny, don't have a Hummer. Never really wanted one.
"and into a golf cart."
I'd rather have a golf cart than a city car, more room, more flexability. Problem is Golf carts are not usually legal on city streets. Probably are less expensive to own and operate too. In fact, the City Car is a waste of resources, if you ask me.
"Who the fuck said that it was "one size fits all car for most anyone?" Nobody. It's all in your head."
Uh huh. Actually it is typical of people suggesting a mandated solution to whatever problem of the day is. One size, the size they dictate. One thing governments aren't, is flexible. Governments are used to enforce the mandates of short sighted and limited view people.
"There are plenty of people out there who don't need to haul computers around a small town near LA."
I don't live near LA, I said I live in a small town, and grew up in LA.
"because it's clear that you're a simpleton."
Uh huh. I know your type. You think your so superior, meanwhile you flaunt your limited vocabulary, and name calling skills. Awesome show of intellect you've shown so far. (That was sarcasm, in case you missed it)
"There's a market out there for small cars. There are people out there who want small cars. These are the people who will buy the small cars. You will not be forced to buy a small car by machine gun-wielding hippes. You can go on driving your soccer-mom-mobile to your heart's content."
Ahhh, the rub. Practicality and frugality is shunned for elitism of dinky cars only useful for young single people and divorcees. Anyone married, with more than two kids is "over crowding the planet" and deserves to be killed for being "breeders". Got it.
"Capiche?"
Whatever. I understand who you are, and now, so does slashdot. You are an elitist snob who thinks they know best for everyone.
"And please stop projecting your own specific needs onto the rest of the human race."
But you just betrayed the whole anti hummer, pro fry oil diesel, electric hybrid, green, renewable energy crowd with that comment. You probably don't know why either. It is because they have decided that the whole human race has no right to decide what is right for themselves. Which is why people like you make snide comments acting all superior while exposing their own limited intellect in the process.
Because Somebody loves to live in suburb, while working in a big city and has to commute 20-60 miles each way.
Because Someone thinks everyone should drive the same damn thing.
Because Someone hates SUVs because they can't afford one.
Because Someone Can't parallel park.
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Seriously. I'm sick of people who suggest "the City Car" (or other super small, single or dual seater) as a perfect car for most everyone.
I drive a van (Aerostar) seats seven. I live in a small town having grown up in Los Angeles. I use maybe 25 gallons of gas a month, most months. I haul computers around in it. I can parallel park. And I don't fit in most subcompacts at all (6'5" or 1.95m and 270lbs or 122.5kg).
So please stop projecting your tiny little self in your tiny little world onto the rest of us who live outside the city and actually practice conservation. Thank you
I don't think this is limited to GOP, as the DEMs also have their issues. Just take a look at the members of congress (both parties), and see who's children are registered lobbyists on issues before congress. If you think that GWB has a low approval rating, and that is in and of itself grounds for impeachment, I would suggest that we impeach the entirety of congress, because the approval rating of congress is even lower than that of GWB.
The problem is, that everyone loves (or likes enough) their congressman, who brings home the bacon from DC, but hates everyone else's for doing exactly the same thing.
I do have a suggestion for the future. Vote third party. I'm Libertarian (big and little "L"), but quite honestly, i'd vote Green (YUCK), Peace n Freedom (Yuck), American Independent (Yuck), Natural Law Party (Yuck) rather than D or R, just to shake DC up. As long as you keep voting for D or R, you're gonna get the same thing as you have now. If you vote for change, and don't get it, you deserve what you get if you don't vote third party.
In fact, I dare say, that if you vote D or R expecting change, you are insane (literally). Only way to change things is to vote third party. Three or four third party congress critters might be enough to shake things up enough to cause a greater revolt.
Sadly, too many people have been brainwashed into thinking that there is only two choices.
"SUV owners would revolt and vote. Most rich white voters who are male and own such vehicles vote more than any other group which is why the republicans have been winning so many elections. You do not want to piss them off."
Wow, both class and ethnic bias. I wonder if you make the same case about poor black people voting democratic, with the poverty pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
This is not Terminal based. It is client/server setup. Same as Windows PCs with Windows Servers, only with Linux. Sorry, but that isn't what I was talking about.
You still have to have decent client computers to do anything useful. We were DUMB terminals hooked to a Server Farm. All processing done on server. Bring it to its knees.
Yearbook SW Typing Program (TuxTyping is good, but doesn't have classroom features) Newspaper Editing Presentation Specialize curriculum (Windows or Mac, no Linux) Photo Editing (Gimp actually works!) Video Editing (Video Yearbook)
Oh, one other point. I had ZERO downtime in two years (except for extensive power outages). Please note, I didn't mention downtime at all as a reason to give it up.
Typical classroom launching 30-35 versions of the same application four to six times a day. If it takes 5 minutes to get everyone upto speed, is that acceptable?
Never mind that actually running 30-35 presentations at once WILL bring any server to its knees. Perhaps our kids are more advanced than what you are experiencing, though I rather doubt it.
Two years and countless heartaches later, we're abandoning it, so don't tell me about effort.
Try telling Teachers that their favorite software doesn't run on Linux. They don't care, and they don't want cheesy alternatives that barely work. Just one example: Tux Typing is cute and all, but lacks features needed in a classroom.
I'm a Network Analyst for a school district in Nor Cal, and having just DUMPED a terminal server type installation, I'll give you my perspective of terminals in a school environment.
1) Terminal Servers suck using presentation software. Two or three people on one machine is enough to bring it to its knees. Adding Servers to the farm is not really a viable option for every three people doing "Powerpoints".
2) Using Web based applications can bring the server to its knees with about 10-15 users. Combine with #1 and you are toast.
3) Teachers want to use whatever software they want to use. Telling them that they can't run X because it is 1) Windows and we're Linux, 2) wasn't designed for Term Servers, 3) will bring the Term Servers to their knees with minimal users, IS NOT AN OPTION to them. They don't care, and will run whining to the site admin, or to the District Office about how unsupportive IT is to teaching etc.
4) Flash/Shockwave Nuff said.
So, we've pulled out the client server environment and replace it with stand alone computers. With modern imaging software and RIS/Windows Deployment Services I don't care if Little Johnny Rotten has just installed malware, I just re-image the machine and it is only down for less than 1/2 hour, and comes back fully patched and ready do go.
No longer am I required to spend countless hours trying to defend why some piece of software doesn't run right, and won't be supported. Nor am I spending weeks trying to figure out a work around for application X that doesn't work right on Term Servers. Now I tell them to install whatever they want, they are responsible, and if it fubars the computer it will be reset. I can reset 40 / 50 computers a day if necissary, and it is mostly brain dead work.
Which frees me to be more productive with my time. It is much better for IT when a Network Analyst can help teachers with technology rather than being a stumbling block of "not possible", "no", "we can't". It is all fine and good to try Term Services with the latest Linux distro, but in the long run, it wasn't feasible considering the requirements/desires of the Teaching staff.
I wish them well, and hope they have better luck than I did. I just know that Terminal Servers didn't work for us.
"If you ever wonder why so many companies screw their customers, I think this illustrates one of the reasons. There's no upside in *not* screwing your customers;"
Indeed this is true. I worked for a couple of years as a car salesman. I tried for the longest time to be a courteous and helpful salespserson and didn't get anywhere. One day, I was in a fairly pissed off mood, completely not related to selling cars, but just generally pissed off at the world. I was out to screw the world that day.
I had my best day, selling four cars with the greatest margins of my sales career. Additionally, those customers were the most satisfied, when the process was over.
Suffice it to say, I think most people WANT to be screwed! They want it, and will thank you afterwards for screwing them over.
I quit shortly after that, not able to live life screwing people. I probably could have made a great living had I been able to continue being "pissed at the world".
Which is why as a software company (if I were one), I'd never write a damn peice of software for Microsoft... EVER. If whatever innovative software I created was targeted by MS, I'd have no chance to compete.
Dance with the devil, then you can expect to rot in hell, when you no longer serve his purposes.
Sucks doesn't it? Why any company would write software for MS who can and often does poach designs and ideas from other companies, is beyond me. Seriously.
"no false positives" Okay, do you mean 100% accuracy, 100% of the time? Or do you mean something less than that?
"prevents the flow of copyrighted digital files from legal Internet services", wouldn't that be a "false positive" if it is "legal" and yet is still prevented from flowing?
"millions of users to pirate." Arrgggh, shiver me timbers if ye can stop us, matey. That be our loot ye be talkin' about.
I use this as an example of when people aren't fully up on all of the details can cause people to skew their mindset one way or another. We all know that all the claims on the famous www.dhmo.org website are 100% accurate, but also that that 100% accuracy doesn't mean that it is the bugaboo that it is made out to be.
The problem is, you can frame just about anything in such a way as to extol the virtues or vices of just about anything, and get people to buy into their wholesomeness or unwholesomeness as needed.
All one needs to do is compare the rhetoric against GWB and in support of Al Gore, and compare each followers response to the Tale of Two Houses http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
So, where I am going with this? Easy. It is easy to frame something that makes one thing look worse than it really is, or better than it really is. It happens all the time. Can we do better? Probably. Are we doing all we can? Probably not.
But there is a reason for it. Not everyone can afford a top of the line Architect to design an highly efficient home, nor the "carbon offsets" and energy from renewable sources. One day it will be feasible and necessary, even for people like China and India.
"You seem like a fairly intelligent and reasoning person so I don't understand why you have to resort to such an obvious and flimsy false dichotomy. Are you really saying that without a "fundamental" belief system (which you appear to equate with Christianity) there is no possibility of moral behaviour? This would come as a surprise to the ancient Greek philosophers."
There is no false dichotomy. Read my statement carefully. I said if one doesn't have any (zero) core beliefs, they necessarily have to belong to the "anything goes" group. If you have any core, you have fundamentals to which you hold, and are willing to impose on others. My slavery example is a extreme example of a fundamental belief (either right or wrong). I'm making no value judgments on anyones core beliefs, just pointing out that most people have a "core" set of beliefs they are willing to impose on others.
A good example is the whole gay marriage thing. Most people argue that if two people are committed to a loving relationship that they should be allowed to marry. How about brother to brother (siblings), Brother to sister? Mother to son? If you are willing to draw a line between any of those, then why can't I draw a line between a man and woman and all the those others?
But as a Libertarian, I don't care what two people do, whomever they are. If Bob and Steve want to be "married", and there are people out there that wish to honor that, fine. But I don't have to, and the moment you try and make me, you have violated my first ammendment rights. Everyone is free to do what they want, as long as it doesn't impose upon others.
There is a Hotel in Australia that has been petitioned and granted the right to exclude females and straight people (only gay men allowed), because to allow those others makes them feel "uncomfortable". Fine, I don't care about that, just don't have a cow when I demand the same "rights" for my place of business. The problem is, that I can't exclude them, but they can me. That is not equal.
"Britney Spears, the self-proclaimed virgin Christian,"
Yeah well. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Just because someone says it, doesn't make it so. Just because Al Gore claims to be "carbon neutral" with his big huge house that uses more natural gas in a month than the average house uses in a year, doesn't mean he is. Lots of hypocrites out there, everywhere on the social/political spectrum. I'm just saying, her actions defy her protestations to the contrary.
"Again you seem to be make some pretty broad and stereotypical assumptions about my standards."
Actually, it wasn't a broad or stereotypical assumption of anything of yours. Trust me, I am crazy by most people's standards, even some of those "crazy" christians that I readily admit are out there. Trust me on this, I'm not normal by anyone's standards.
"Otherwise go back and read my words and confine yourself to addressing my actual statements. By the way, I wish you luck in defending your libertarianism from the Dominion Theology folk."
Oh, I can hold my own against them. They usually run away after denying the one they claim to believe.
"Then you should try harder not to behave like them."
I'm not behaving like them, because I don't want to ban certain types of views, burn people at the stake, hang the infadels or kill people who disagree with me. On the other hand, I expect people to respect me the way they want to be respected. If gay people want to be left alone, great fine, dandy. How about the same for me? Will they leave me and mine alone? I doubt it, instead they'll label me a "homophobe" and a hater. I don't tell them they don't have a clue what they are saying, knowing that my own brother was gay.
"I am concerned that I have now well and truely highjacked this thread and am now just perpetuating noise on Slashdot. You are welcome to the right of reply to my post but I do not think I will clutter up the thread any further. Thank you for your time."
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You aren't married, are you?
If you are, no, I don't know any divorce attorneys.
Before I start, I know I'm feeding the trolls. Sometimes, I just can't help myself.....
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"And I'm sick of people who claim that a new development in fuel-efficiency means that the commies are coming to force you out of your Hummer"
Funny, don't have a Hummer. Never really wanted one.
"and into a golf cart."
I'd rather have a golf cart than a city car, more room, more flexability. Problem is Golf carts are not usually legal on city streets. Probably are less expensive to own and operate too. In fact, the City Car is a waste of resources, if you ask me.
"Who the fuck said that it was "one size fits all car for most anyone?" Nobody. It's all in your head."
Uh huh. Actually it is typical of people suggesting a mandated solution to whatever problem of the day is. One size, the size they dictate. One thing governments aren't, is flexible. Governments are used to enforce the mandates of short sighted and limited view people.
"There are plenty of people out there who don't need to haul computers around a small town near LA."
I don't live near LA, I said I live in a small town, and grew up in LA.
"because it's clear that you're a simpleton."
Uh huh. I know your type. You think your so superior, meanwhile you flaunt your limited vocabulary, and name calling skills. Awesome show of intellect you've shown so far. (That was sarcasm, in case you missed it)
"There's a market out there for small cars. There are people out there who want small cars. These are the people who will buy the small cars. You will not be forced to buy a small car by machine gun-wielding hippes. You can go on driving your soccer-mom-mobile to your heart's content."
Ahhh, the rub. Practicality and frugality is shunned for elitism of dinky cars only useful for young single people and divorcees. Anyone married, with more than two kids is "over crowding the planet" and deserves to be killed for being "breeders". Got it.
"Capiche?"
Whatever. I understand who you are, and now, so does slashdot. You are an elitist snob who thinks they know best for everyone.
"And please stop projecting your own specific needs onto the rest of the human race."
But you just betrayed the whole anti hummer, pro fry oil diesel, electric hybrid, green, renewable energy crowd with that comment. You probably don't know why either. It is because they have decided that the whole human race has no right to decide what is right for themselves. Which is why people like you make snide comments acting all superior while exposing their own limited intellect in the process.
Thanks for trying.
Because One-Size-Fits-All everytime.
Because Somebody loves to live in suburb, while working in a big city and has to commute 20-60 miles each way.
Because Someone thinks everyone should drive the same damn thing.
Because Someone hates SUVs because they can't afford one.
Because Someone Can't parallel park.
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Seriously. I'm sick of people who suggest "the City Car" (or other super small, single or dual seater) as a perfect car for most everyone.
I drive a van (Aerostar) seats seven. I live in a small town having grown up in Los Angeles. I use maybe 25 gallons of gas a month, most months. I haul computers around in it. I can parallel park. And I don't fit in most subcompacts at all (6'5" or 1.95m and 270lbs or 122.5kg).
So please stop projecting your tiny little self in your tiny little world onto the rest of us who live outside the city and actually practice conservation. Thank you
"Not a core GOP value."
I don't think this is limited to GOP, as the DEMs also have their issues. Just take a look at the members of congress (both parties), and see who's children are registered lobbyists on issues before congress. If you think that GWB has a low approval rating, and that is in and of itself grounds for impeachment, I would suggest that we impeach the entirety of congress, because the approval rating of congress is even lower than that of GWB.
The problem is, that everyone loves (or likes enough) their congressman, who brings home the bacon from DC, but hates everyone else's for doing exactly the same thing.
I do have a suggestion for the future. Vote third party. I'm Libertarian (big and little "L"), but quite honestly, i'd vote Green (YUCK), Peace n Freedom (Yuck), American Independent (Yuck), Natural Law Party (Yuck) rather than D or R, just to shake DC up. As long as you keep voting for D or R, you're gonna get the same thing as you have now. If you vote for change, and don't get it, you deserve what you get if you don't vote third party.
In fact, I dare say, that if you vote D or R expecting change, you are insane (literally). Only way to change things is to vote third party. Three or four third party congress critters might be enough to shake things up enough to cause a greater revolt.
Sadly, too many people have been brainwashed into thinking that there is only two choices.
"SUV owners would revolt and vote. Most rich white voters who are male and own such vehicles vote more than any other group which is why the republicans have been winning so many elections. You do not want to piss them off."
Wow, both class and ethnic bias. I wonder if you make the same case about poor black people voting democratic, with the poverty pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Better yet .... "Screw the Patents" button.
"But the clients still do all the processing."
This is not Terminal based. It is client/server setup. Same as Windows PCs with Windows Servers, only with Linux. Sorry, but that isn't what I was talking about.
You still have to have decent client computers to do anything useful. We were DUMB terminals hooked to a Server Farm. All processing done on server. Bring it to its knees.
Yearbook SW
Typing Program (TuxTyping is good, but doesn't have classroom features)
Newspaper Editing
Presentation
Specialize curriculum (Windows or Mac, no Linux)
Photo Editing (Gimp actually works!)
Video Editing (Video Yearbook)
I could go on.
Oh, one other point. I had ZERO downtime in two years (except for extensive power outages). Please note, I didn't mention downtime at all as a reason to give it up.
Typical classroom launching 30-35 versions of the same application four to six times a day. If it takes 5 minutes to get everyone upto speed, is that acceptable?
Never mind that actually running 30-35 presentations at once WILL bring any server to its knees. Perhaps our kids are more advanced than what you are experiencing, though I rather doubt it.
Two years and countless heartaches later, we're abandoning it, so don't tell me about effort.
Nope.
Try telling Teachers that their favorite software doesn't run on Linux. They don't care, and they don't want cheesy alternatives that barely work. Just one example: Tux Typing is cute and all, but lacks features needed in a classroom.
I'm a Network Analyst for a school district in Nor Cal, and having just DUMPED a terminal server type installation, I'll give you my perspective of terminals in a school environment.
1) Terminal Servers suck using presentation software. Two or three people on one machine is enough to bring it to its knees. Adding Servers to the farm is not really a viable option for every three people doing "Powerpoints".
2) Using Web based applications can bring the server to its knees with about 10-15 users. Combine with #1 and you are toast.
3) Teachers want to use whatever software they want to use. Telling them that they can't run X because it is 1) Windows and we're Linux, 2) wasn't designed for Term Servers, 3) will bring the Term Servers to their knees with minimal users, IS NOT AN OPTION to them. They don't care, and will run whining to the site admin, or to the District Office about how unsupportive IT is to teaching etc.
4) Flash/Shockwave Nuff said.
So, we've pulled out the client server environment and replace it with stand alone computers. With modern imaging software and RIS/Windows Deployment Services I don't care if Little Johnny Rotten has just installed malware, I just re-image the machine and it is only down for less than 1/2 hour, and comes back fully patched and ready do go.
No longer am I required to spend countless hours trying to defend why some piece of software doesn't run right, and won't be supported. Nor am I spending weeks trying to figure out a work around for application X that doesn't work right on Term Servers. Now I tell them to install whatever they want, they are responsible, and if it fubars the computer it will be reset. I can reset 40 / 50 computers a day if necissary, and it is mostly brain dead work.
Which frees me to be more productive with my time. It is much better for IT when a Network Analyst can help teachers with technology rather than being a stumbling block of "not possible", "no", "we can't". It is all fine and good to try Term Services with the latest Linux distro, but in the long run, it wasn't feasible considering the requirements/desires of the Teaching staff.
I wish them well, and hope they have better luck than I did. I just know that Terminal Servers didn't work for us.
Off Topic a bit, but I can't resist.
"If you ever wonder why so many companies screw their customers, I think this illustrates one of the reasons. There's no upside in *not* screwing your customers;"
Indeed this is true. I worked for a couple of years as a car salesman. I tried for the longest time to be a courteous and helpful salespserson and didn't get anywhere. One day, I was in a fairly pissed off mood, completely not related to selling cars, but just generally pissed off at the world. I was out to screw the world that day.
I had my best day, selling four cars with the greatest margins of my sales career. Additionally, those customers were the most satisfied, when the process was over.
Suffice it to say, I think most people WANT to be screwed! They want it, and will thank you afterwards for screwing them over.
I quit shortly after that, not able to live life screwing people. I probably could have made a great living had I been able to continue being "pissed at the world".
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... EVER. If whatever innovative software I created was targeted by MS, I'd have no chance to compete.
Which is why as a software company (if I were one), I'd never write a damn peice of software for Microsoft
Dance with the devil, then you can expect to rot in hell, when you no longer serve his purposes.
Sucks doesn't it? Why any company would write software for MS who can and often does poach designs and ideas from other companies, is beyond me. Seriously.
Yeah, if Sony is dying, then Apple must be dying faster
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=6m
Thank you for proving you yourself are much more dangerous kind of person than any right wing religious nut job.
"fully effective" Okay, please define
"no false positives" Okay, do you mean 100% accuracy, 100% of the time? Or do you mean something less than that?
"prevents the flow of copyrighted digital files from legal Internet services", wouldn't that be a "false positive" if it is "legal" and yet is still prevented from flowing?
"millions of users to pirate." Arrgggh, shiver me timbers if ye can stop us, matey. That be our loot ye be talkin' about.
I know, she's only ten years old but she stole it.
I use this as an example of when people aren't fully up on all of the details can cause people to skew their mindset one way or another. We all know that all the claims on the famous www.dhmo.org website are 100% accurate, but also that that 100% accuracy doesn't mean that it is the bugaboo that it is made out to be.
The problem is, you can frame just about anything in such a way as to extol the virtues or vices of just about anything, and get people to buy into their wholesomeness or unwholesomeness as needed.
All one needs to do is compare the rhetoric against GWB and in support of Al Gore, and compare each followers response to the Tale of Two Houses http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
So, where I am going with this? Easy. It is easy to frame something that makes one thing look worse than it really is, or better than it really is. It happens all the time. Can we do better? Probably. Are we doing all we can? Probably not.
But there is a reason for it. Not everyone can afford a top of the line Architect to design an highly efficient home, nor the "carbon offsets" and energy from renewable sources. One day it will be feasible and necessary, even for people like China and India.
"So farm it out,"
Slip of the pun there?
"You seem like a fairly intelligent and reasoning person so I don't understand why you have to resort to such an obvious and flimsy false dichotomy. Are you really saying that without a "fundamental" belief system (which you appear to equate with Christianity) there is no possibility of moral behaviour? This would come as a surprise to the ancient Greek philosophers."
There is no false dichotomy. Read my statement carefully. I said if one doesn't have any (zero) core beliefs, they necessarily have to belong to the "anything goes" group. If you have any core, you have fundamentals to which you hold, and are willing to impose on others. My slavery example is a extreme example of a fundamental belief (either right or wrong). I'm making no value judgments on anyones core beliefs, just pointing out that most people have a "core" set of beliefs they are willing to impose on others.
A good example is the whole gay marriage thing. Most people argue that if two people are committed to a loving relationship that they should be allowed to marry. How about brother to brother (siblings), Brother to sister? Mother to son? If you are willing to draw a line between any of those, then why can't I draw a line between a man and woman and all the those others?
But as a Libertarian, I don't care what two people do, whomever they are. If Bob and Steve want to be "married", and there are people out there that wish to honor that, fine. But I don't have to, and the moment you try and make me, you have violated my first ammendment rights. Everyone is free to do what they want, as long as it doesn't impose upon others.
There is a Hotel in Australia that has been petitioned and granted the right to exclude females and straight people (only gay men allowed), because to allow those others makes them feel "uncomfortable". Fine, I don't care about that, just don't have a cow when I demand the same "rights" for my place of business. The problem is, that I can't exclude them, but they can me. That is not equal.
"Britney Spears, the self-proclaimed virgin Christian,"
Yeah well. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Just because someone says it, doesn't make it so. Just because Al Gore claims to be "carbon neutral" with his big huge house that uses more natural gas in a month than the average house uses in a year, doesn't mean he is. Lots of hypocrites out there, everywhere on the social/political spectrum. I'm just saying, her actions defy her protestations to the contrary.
"Again you seem to be make some pretty broad and stereotypical assumptions about my standards."
Actually, it wasn't a broad or stereotypical assumption of anything of yours. Trust me, I am crazy by most people's standards, even some of those "crazy" christians that I readily admit are out there. Trust me on this, I'm not normal by anyone's standards.
"Otherwise go back and read my words and confine yourself to addressing my actual statements. By the way, I wish you luck in defending your libertarianism from the Dominion Theology folk."
Oh, I can hold my own against them. They usually run away after denying the one they claim to believe.
"Then you should try harder not to behave like them."
I'm not behaving like them, because I don't want to ban certain types of views, burn people at the stake, hang the infadels or kill people who disagree with me. On the other hand, I expect people to respect me the way they want to be respected. If gay people want to be left alone, great fine, dandy. How about the same for me? Will they leave me and mine alone? I doubt it, instead they'll label me a "homophobe" and a hater. I don't tell them they don't have a clue what they are saying, knowing that my own brother was gay.
"I am concerned that I have now well and truely highjacked this thread and am now just perpetuating noise on Slashdot. You are welcome to the right of reply to my post but I do not think I will clutter up the thread any further. Thank you for your time."
Thank you. At least you were polite.
Your mac was a Performa 6112CD. The name never contained PowerPC. The PowerPC was like "Intel Inside" logo on all those Dells.
We don't call beige boxes "Intels" do we? The closest we get is WinTel.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
A chip.
Macs using that chip were called PowerMac.