All three abrahamic religions are fucked up. Mo just took the most perverted aspects of judaism and christianity, added his own psychopathy, and voila! - islam was born.
In islam, 100% of everything is about the religion. This leads to some very weird, distorted, and downright pathological thinking and actions. Although Iran is heavily muslim, most of those "muslims" are muslim in name only, very much the way a lot of christians in the USA are christians in name only.
The country seethes with hatred and discontent, mainly directed at the ruling clergy and not necessarily towards the USA and Isreal. Most Iranians couldn't give two shits about Isreal or the USA, they have too many problems of their own, like massive (>30%) unemployment, drug abuse, the mullahs pimping out Iranian women to the rest of the middle east, and so on and so on.
Muslims game everything for their benefit. It is written down in their scriptures. It is also written in their scriptures "not to take christians and jews as friends", "to fight them until they submit" ("islam" means "submission" BTW), "to terrorise them wherever they are", and so forth and so on. All of islam is an endless litany of hate incomprehensible to someone who is not muslim or who has not had extensive dealings with muslims. If you go here, http://www.faithfreedom.org/ you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about islam.
The next time a jesus chrispie gets in your face about this, ask him this: "OK, so the bible says god this, that, and the next thing. Does it say anywhere HOW he did it? And if it doesn't, did you ever wonder why? Did it ever occur to you that if god is POWERFUL enough to make a universe and populate it with life, then he might also be SMART enough to make it run AUTOMATICALLY according to certain laws, such as gravitation and evolution, that don't require constant meddling and micromanagement? And that these laws are simple enough that us mere humans can actually learn and understand them?"
I.e. "In the beginning, god created heaven and earth. For further details, consult a science book".
If you are talking about the standard long-tube fluorescent bulbs with the conventional magnetic ballast, then I understand your problem. They tend to flicker at 120 hz (100 hz in Europe) and yes, that bothers a lot of people. The compact lights, however, flicker about 20 KHz. If they/do/ flicker at 100/120 Hz, then it is because of an inadequate filter capacitor in the base.
FWIW, these things actually will run on 120 volts DC. Now, I'm not suggesting you change your light wiring to DC, but you might find after evaluating several brands of CFLs a brand that is not so hard on your eyes.
"Well it seems the logical way of implementing such a scheme is direct implants in to everyone's ear drums. If the implant detects any illegal music or noise, your ears turn off."
Don't teenagers already do this naturally, just with, ahem, different restrictions on blocked content?
And when this service makes a dent in RIAA-controlled sales, how long will it be before the RIAA runs whining and crying to CONgress "They're taking away our PROFITS!!!" -- with the express idea of course of getting Congress to legitimise them as the only legal purveyor of music?
Personally, I think these "animal rights" fucktards should all be rounded up and used as research subjects instead. Think of all the animals whose lives will be saved.:D
Have interchangeable "guilty" and "innocent" disk drives, each of which is bootable. You use your "guilty" drive to download songs and stuff, and your "innocent" drive for everything else. Convert your songs to playable CDs for convenience, and keep the "guilty" drive stowed away out of sight. Keep several other drives (which may or may not be loaded with an OS) laying around as both spares and decoys. When the RIAA comes knocking, go ahead and hand over your "innocent" drive and a couple of the spares and decoys. Problem mitigated.
OK, so some guy gets sued for writing FOSS by some big corp and loses. How are they going to prevent him from writing even more "patent-infringing" FOSS? Jail him? Kill him? Lobotomise him? Seems to me that things have taken a left turn into the Twilight Zone.
Moraelin (679338) sez: "And in some cases it irks me that they even ask for it. E.g., ok, I can see how a bank would want my home address, birth date, etc, but FFS, nowadays you can't even register a forum account in some places without giving that info."
Do what I do: Lie like a rug.
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DVD encryption does not stop major league pirates. They just make a bit-for-bit exact copy of whatever it is they are pirating and ignore the encryption altogether. It only stops little guys like us who want to back up our DVDs. (Hasn't this topic been done to death already?)
At any rate, if the content producers were all that determined to prevent piracy, they would work to outlaw private use of the internet.
"what ever happened to paying your debt to society once you got out of jail?"
The general attitude in society is "once a thief, always a thief. Seriously, a few of the people I know would just like to put convicted felons away for life or just execute them and have done with it. I disagree with this, of course, but then, that's just me.
Cyclops (1852) wrote: "Maybe if you're talking about software for such a critical thing as keeping an airplane safe, or controlling nuclear reactors and such. But what he says is lunacy for software in general."
Not really. If we are talking about nuclear reactors, aircraft, and other situations where people's asses hang on the reliability of software, here is a simple solution: Let the coders fly (in) the airplane they are writing software for as part of the test. Or let them work in the nuclear plant that thier software will be controlling. It would certainly weed out the bad programmers.
Why don't we just raise all children in special isolated compounds, staffed with professional caretakers, away from the disruptive influences of parents, media, the internet, and anything else that the powers that be might consider harmful. (i.e. just about everything in the outside world). Kind of like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". -- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Bruce Perens: "The PLL component this is supposed to replace is a small-signal component. It is not a major user of the power budget of a cell phone. The big power users are the transmitter and the microprocessor. The PLL is not heat-sinked and does not run warm. If it's not hot, it's not a power hog."
But it runs continuously. Why else would the battery run down when the phone is not in use? Anything which minimises the standby drain on the battery is a Good Thing (tm).
Puritans are people whose view of the world is so narrow and constricted (like tunnel-vision) that the mere idea of people living in ways they do not approve of is appalling to them. We call them "puritans" here in the states, elsewhere they are called mullahs and talibans.
Historically, each and every one of these so-called obscenity laws (or propositions for same) has been put forth or sponsored by religious jackasses that think sex is (literally) the work of the devil. The kind of religious jackasses I'm talking about are the same mother-fuckers that helped land BushCo in office and they're demanding thier payback.
I'm starting to wonder if excessively pious people should even be allowed to vote, considering that the dimunition of mental faculties seems to be directly related to a person's religiousity.
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All three abrahamic religions are fucked up. Mo just took the most perverted aspects of judaism and christianity, added his own psychopathy, and voila! - islam was born.
Religion must die and WE have to kill it.
In islam, 100% of everything is about the religion. This leads to some very weird, distorted, and downright pathological thinking and actions. Although Iran is heavily muslim, most of those "muslims" are muslim in name only, very much the way a lot of christians in the USA are christians in name only.
The country seethes with hatred and discontent, mainly directed at the ruling clergy and not necessarily towards the USA and Isreal. Most Iranians couldn't give two shits about Isreal or the USA, they have too many problems of their own, like massive (>30%) unemployment, drug abuse, the mullahs pimping out Iranian women to the rest of the middle east, and so on and so on.
Muslims game everything for their benefit. It is written down in their scriptures. It is also written in their scriptures "not to take christians and jews as friends", "to fight them until they submit" ("islam" means "submission" BTW), "to terrorise them wherever they are", and so forth and so on. All of islam is an endless litany of hate incomprehensible to someone who is not muslim or who has not had extensive dealings with muslims. If you go here, http://www.faithfreedom.org/ you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about islam.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2549 4_Muslims_%20%20Secretly_Organizing_to_Dominate_Yo uTube&only
Why not have graffiti artists write it on every surface they can?
The next time a jesus chrispie gets in your face about this, ask him this: "OK, so the bible says god this, that, and the next thing. Does it say anywhere HOW he did it? And if it doesn't, did you ever wonder why? Did it ever occur to you that if god is POWERFUL enough to make a universe and populate it with life, then he might also be SMART enough to make it run AUTOMATICALLY according to certain laws, such as gravitation and evolution, that don't require constant meddling and micromanagement? And that these laws are simple enough that us mere humans can actually learn and understand them?"
I.e. "In the beginning, god created heaven and earth. For further details, consult a science book".
If you are talking about the standard long-tube fluorescent bulbs with the conventional magnetic ballast, then I understand your problem. They tend to flicker at 120 hz (100 hz in Europe) and yes, that bothers a lot of people. The compact lights, however, flicker about 20 KHz. If they /do/ flicker at 100/120 Hz, then it is because of an inadequate filter capacitor in the base.
FWIW, these things actually will run on 120 volts DC. Now, I'm not suggesting you change your light wiring to DC, but you might find after evaluating several brands of CFLs a brand that is not so hard on your eyes.
"Well it seems the logical way of implementing such a scheme is direct implants in to everyone's ear drums. If the implant detects any illegal music or noise, your ears turn off."
Don't teenagers already do this naturally, just with, ahem, different restrictions on blocked content?
These molecules sound like they act like a PN diode at the centre of a dipole antenna.
And when this service makes a dent in RIAA-controlled sales, how long will it be before the RIAA runs whining and crying to CONgress "They're taking away our PROFITS!!!" -- with the express idea of course of getting Congress to legitimise them as the only legal purveyor of music?
Personally, I think these "animal rights" fucktards should all be rounded up and used as research subjects instead. Think of all the animals whose lives will be saved. :D
What if you are running an OS that has secure file deletion built in?
Have interchangeable "guilty" and "innocent" disk drives, each of which is bootable. You use your "guilty" drive to download songs and stuff, and your "innocent" drive for everything else. Convert your songs to playable CDs for convenience, and keep the "guilty" drive stowed away out of sight. Keep several other drives (which may or may not be loaded with an OS) laying around as both spares and decoys. When the RIAA comes knocking, go ahead and hand over your "innocent" drive and a couple of the spares and decoys. Problem mitigated.
So where's this guy's website?
That would take care of quite a few other problems as well.
OK, so some guy gets sued for writing FOSS by some big corp and loses. How are they going to prevent him from writing even more "patent-infringing" FOSS? Jail him? Kill him? Lobotomise him? Seems to me that things have taken a left turn into the Twilight Zone.
Moraelin (679338) sez: "And in some cases it irks me that they even ask for it. E.g., ok, I can see how a bank would want my home address, birth date, etc, but FFS, nowadays you can't even register a forum account in some places without giving that info."
Do what I do: Lie like a rug.
DVD encryption does not stop major league pirates. They just make a bit-for-bit exact copy of whatever it is they are pirating and ignore the encryption altogether. It only stops little guys like us who want to back up our DVDs. (Hasn't this topic been done to death already?)
At any rate, if the content producers were all that determined to prevent piracy, they would work to outlaw private use of the internet.
"what ever happened to paying your debt to society once you got out of jail?"
The general attitude in society is "once a thief, always a thief. Seriously, a few of the people I know would just like to put convicted felons away for life or just execute them and have done with it. I disagree with this, of course, but then, that's just me.
Cyclops (1852) wrote: "Maybe if you're talking about software for such a critical thing as keeping an airplane safe, or controlling nuclear reactors and such. But what he says is lunacy for software in general."
Not really. If we are talking about nuclear reactors, aircraft, and other situations where people's asses hang on the reliability of software, here is a simple solution: Let the coders fly (in) the airplane they are writing software for as part of the test. Or let them work in the nuclear plant that thier software will be controlling. It would certainly weed out the bad programmers.
Take this to the logical extreme.
Why don't we just raise all children in special isolated compounds, staffed with professional caretakers, away from the disruptive influences of parents, media, the internet, and anything else that the powers that be might consider harmful. (i.e. just about everything in the outside world).
Kind of like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Doesn't matter. Ever heard of "collateral damage"?
Bruce Perens: "The PLL component this is supposed to replace is a small-signal component. It is not a major user of the power budget of a cell phone. The big power users are the transmitter and the microprocessor. The PLL is not heat-sinked and does not run warm. If it's not hot, it's not a power hog."
But it runs continuously. Why else would the battery run down when the phone is not in use? Anything which minimises the standby drain on the battery is a Good Thing (tm).
Puritans are people whose view of the world is so narrow and constricted (like tunnel-vision) that the mere idea of people living in ways they do not approve of is appalling to them. We call them "puritans" here in the states, elsewhere they are called mullahs and talibans.
Historically, each and every one of these so-called obscenity laws (or propositions for same) has been put forth or sponsored by religious jackasses that think sex is (literally) the work of the devil. The kind of religious jackasses I'm talking about are the same mother-fuckers that helped land BushCo in office and they're demanding thier payback.
I'm starting to wonder if excessively pious people should even be allowed to vote, considering that the dimunition of mental faculties seems to be directly related to a person's religiousity.