I've often said it's unfortunate that you met human beings who evidentally you don't like and were basically jerks to you. But you shouldn't extrapolate that out to other people's experiences.
I grew up in a Methodist church and NEVER felt anything I read was "out of bounds" or was something someone didn't want to hear about. That's basically what makes people uncomfortable - when they are excluded or told certain thoughts must not be thought.
On the other hand, I get that "certain thoughts must not be thought" vibe from a lot of people here on Slashdot or lots of places, which ramps up the creepiness factor.
I just count myself lucky that I apparently didn't grow up with such assholes as you did. Kind of feel sorry for ya.:) My people were cool.
Actually the idea of Jesus as the ultimate hippie is a very american idea. Read a book called oddly enough American Jesus. There is feminine Jesus (temperance movement), Mormon Jesus, black Jesus, Jesus Christ superstar, etc. All American creations.
That'll tend to happen when the other side a) like to kill you and b) don't wear uniforms. Have to hassle everybody. Duh, that's why the rules about unlawful enemy combatants got started.
There are two concepts in Christianity that address these issues - Faith and Grace.
Some critics have defined faith as "believing in what you know isn't true." But the essence of faith (in general) is that you'r supposed to subjegate your own ego/reason and trust another. Some people will call this Doublethink, but Faith means not rushing to a judgement based on a usenet posting constructed by a simple Human - God has a bigger plan.
Grace is another concept by which you get to an enlightened state even though you're incapable of it - you get it via God's grace.
All one needs to do is look at the millions and millions of people killed by hard-core Atheists (Soviet Union, Khemer Rouge, French Revolution) to know that Christians don't have a monopoly on whatever the bad thing is that people have. The philosophy behind the God-concept is much richer and more subtle.
In FF, I have NYTimes cookies blocked, so 99% of the time I get the "you have to register - it's free" ! Thing
Lots of other sites are similar, (SJ Mercury News is bad).
If I really *have* to read that story, I just use IE and then purge my cookies.
But most of the times I no longer read the NY Times website directly. It doesn't really matter, because almost every single story on the TV news or ANYWHERE originates at the NY Times.
You're thinking of Judd Hirsch from Taxi, i.e., the guy under the bowling lane (in Family Guy) who was working on the nuclear missile that killed Crackle (of Snap and Pop), NOT Seinfed's Dad (aka Lisa Minelli's dad from Arthur).
He was self-contradictory there. He says it's more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. And then he says the universe is "mysterious" (consistent with his earlier statement) and "without any purpose" (contradiction).
He's taking a definite stance on a belief the structure of the universe - that it doesn't have any purpose. A more consistent answer would have to be that it's unknown whether it has any purpose or not.
Yeah, a whopping 10 of them, all expensive. Now see count how many 16x9 there are!
They are out there but "hard to find" relative to 16x9. I can't recall the three letter acroynoym right now, but there are two kinds of technologies used in making flat panel screens. The cheaper ones use A and the better ones use B. Whomever answered my question on the forums said "only get B" and there's a good reason to (I'll have to go look up the acroynym when I get home.)
That feature isn't even listed on any of the listings, but it makes find one of those 10 that doesn't cost a bazillon impossible.
I'm just sticking with the 20" 1600x1200 for now:-)
All the monitors are 16x9 now (1920x1080). I have the same problem - I don't want to go "up" to 1920 from 1600x1200 (20" 4:3 flat panel I have from 2002 - cost 1000$) and lose 180 vertical pixels!
I tried to find a 16x10 but there are none in the stores and hard to find even on newegg etc. I asked on some forums and it's just because they aren't making them anymore.
I have a couple of GUIDs I use as passwords that I honestly cannot remember - I only remember how to move my fingers that way on the keyboard. Seriously. If I try to write them with a pen and paper - I cannot. I have to hover my hands over a QWERTY keyboard and bing bidda boop my hands know how to move in that pattern. Only if I type it in Notepad can I reconstruct the letters.
The other day I installed Debian (Lenny -> Sid) in a VirtualBox and though I no longer use those passwords reguarly, my hands still sometimes reflexibly type it after "su":-)
Yeah! The reason our party didn't do better is there are too many other parties! They oughta outlaw the other parties! There should just be one party, our party ! Maybe we could have some kind of way of forcing peole to join our party, I don't know, some little groups called soviets!
Ok, he didn't actually sell any nuclear secrets to Venezuela. He only TRIED to sell nuclear secrets to Venezuela, to who he thought was Venezuela, but it wasn't actually Venezuela. This being slashdot groupthink, I fully expect this post to be buried immediately.
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I've often said it's unfortunate that you met human beings who evidentally you don't like and were basically jerks to you. But you shouldn't extrapolate that out to other people's experiences.
I grew up in a Methodist church and NEVER felt anything I read was "out of bounds" or was something someone didn't want to hear about. That's basically what makes people uncomfortable - when they are excluded or told certain thoughts must not be thought.
On the other hand, I get that "certain thoughts must not be thought" vibe from a lot of people here on Slashdot or lots of places, which ramps up the creepiness factor.
I just count myself lucky that I apparently didn't grow up with such assholes as you did. Kind of feel sorry for ya. :) My people were cool.
Actually the idea of Jesus as the ultimate hippie is a very american idea. Read a book called oddly enough American Jesus. There is feminine Jesus (temperance movement), Mormon Jesus, black Jesus, Jesus Christ superstar, etc. All American creations.
Time Warner Cable, Road Runner, payed for the Turbo Package.
30 MB down / 0.5 MB up. I wish I had faster up, can't complain about the down :)
That'll tend to happen when the other side a) like to kill you and b) don't wear uniforms. Have to hassle everybody. Duh, that's why the rules about unlawful enemy combatants got started.
Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Let me guess, that doesn't bother you.
Only if you're pulling for our side to lose. Which by definition makes you "the enemy."
It seems like the stated goals of Net Neutrality are to impose lots and lots of regulations about what you can and can't do :-)
There are two concepts in Christianity that address these issues - Faith and Grace.
Some critics have defined faith as "believing in what you know isn't true." But the essence of faith (in general) is that you'r supposed to subjegate your own ego/reason and trust another. Some people will call this Doublethink, but Faith means not rushing to a judgement based on a usenet posting constructed by a simple Human - God has a bigger plan.
Grace is another concept by which you get to an enlightened state even though you're incapable of it - you get it via God's grace.
All one needs to do is look at the millions and millions of people killed by hard-core Atheists (Soviet Union, Khemer Rouge, French Revolution) to know that Christians don't have a monopoly on whatever the bad thing is that people have. The philosophy behind the God-concept is much richer and more subtle.
In FF, I have NYTimes cookies blocked, so 99% of the time I get the "you have to register - it's free" ! Thing
Lots of other sites are similar, (SJ Mercury News is bad).
If I really *have* to read that story, I just use IE and then purge my cookies.
But most of the times I no longer read the NY Times website directly. It doesn't really matter, because almost every single story on the TV news or ANYWHERE originates at the NY Times.
You're thinking of Judd Hirsch from Taxi, i.e., the guy under the bowling lane (in Family Guy) who was working on the nuclear missile that killed Crackle (of Snap and Pop), NOT Seinfed's Dad (aka Lisa Minelli's dad from Arthur).
Geesh!
He was self-contradictory there. He says it's more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. And then he says the universe is "mysterious" (consistent with his earlier statement) and "without any purpose" (contradiction).
He's taking a definite stance on a belief the structure of the universe - that it doesn't have any purpose. A more consistent answer would have to be that it's unknown whether it has any purpose or not.
I'm pretty sure I heard people say from time to time that global warming wa killing the bees
I paid $1000 eight years ago.
I think that's the point of this discussion, getting 1200 vpixels didn't used to be "specialty".
And we all have big fat ribbon interface and nice colorful toolbars, so we need 'em back.
Yeah, a whopping 10 of them, all expensive. Now see count how many 16x9 there are!
They are out there but "hard to find" relative to 16x9. I can't recall the three letter acroynoym right now, but there are two kinds of technologies used in making flat panel screens. The cheaper ones use A and the better ones use B. Whomever answered my question on the forums said "only get B" and there's a good reason to (I'll have to go look up the acroynym when I get home.)
That feature isn't even listed on any of the listings, but it makes find one of those 10 that doesn't cost a bazillon impossible.
I'm just sticking with the 20" 1600x1200 for now :-)
All the monitors are 16x9 now (1920x1080). I have the same problem - I don't want to go "up" to 1920 from 1600x1200 (20" 4:3 flat panel I have from 2002 - cost 1000$) and lose 180 vertical pixels!
I tried to find a 16x10 but there are none in the stores and hard to find even on newegg etc. I asked on some forums and it's just because they aren't making them anymore.
Bummer.
I have a couple of GUIDs I use as passwords that I honestly cannot remember - I only remember how to move my fingers that way on the keyboard. Seriously. If I try to write them with a pen and paper - I cannot. I have to hover my hands over a QWERTY keyboard and bing bidda boop my hands know how to move in that pattern. Only if I type it in Notepad can I reconstruct the letters.
The other day I installed Debian (Lenny -> Sid) in a VirtualBox and though I no longer use those passwords reguarly, my hands still sometimes reflexibly type it after "su" :-)
Truthiness is truthy. The cake is a lie :). This site and Colbert guess what - have an agenda, and Colbert is super liberal
Truthiness is truthy. The cake is a lie :)
I don't know why someone would mark this as flamebait. I'm just offering my opinion about what I see.
I can visibly see a difference in ALL the pictures. The WebP version is slightly murkier and less shows less detail than the JPEG version.
It's like people say you can't hear the difference in suitably high-bit rate MP3, but I can - in the cymbals - they're not as bright as CD or FLAC.
This is kind of like that. It's ALMOST pretty great, but it's not as great. I guess if we all lower our expectations, we can get used to it.
Is it the theory that there is no theory of everything, a theory of everything?
So a million is more like 10 then two million is. It's less different!
Yeah! The reason our party didn't do better is there are too many other parties! They oughta outlaw the other parties! There should just be one party, our party ! Maybe we could have some kind of way of forcing peole to join our party, I don't know, some little groups called soviets!
Ok, he didn't actually sell any nuclear secrets to Venezuela. He only TRIED to sell nuclear secrets to Venezuela, to who he thought was Venezuela, but it wasn't actually Venezuela. This being slashdot groupthink, I fully expect this post to be buried immediately.