Again, this is a statistic, but what else do we have? I heard that if you have a gun in your house, it is 54% more likely that a family member will get shot than an intruder. Thinking back on my own experiences, this seems about right. My best friend growing up (6yo)picked up a gun at his dad's work and shot and killed his 5yo sister. Just the other day, a friend of mine had some people over to his house and they picked up a loaded gun in his brothers room. It discharged and hit another guy in the leg. Both guns were hunting rifles.
The only case I've ever personally known of a gun being used in self defense was my grandfather shooting at some guy who was stealing his lawn mower. Now, people can say all they want about how the gun owners were neglagent ect ect, but it happens all the time. Maybe we need more training or something, but gun violence is a HUGE problem in this country. More people were shot and killed at home during the vietnam war than in actual battle. Every time I turn on a show like cops it seems there is some drunk person wielding a gun. I don't what the solution is for this country, maybe every citizen should get a standard issue M-16. We would either have complete peace or a war zone.
I thought I would include a review I read a few months back on freestyle. Minus the DRM stuff, I was pretty impressed with it. I just think it would be really nice to have all of my videos and music in the living room. I'm sure it still plays mp3's; it seems the only DRM issues are with the recorded video. If I remember correctly, there was a big to do about replaytv allowing unrestricted access to the video on the network. If the DRM is not livable, then it won't sell. I would buy one just for the radio remote control and access to my music from the stereo in the living room, not to mention pictures. Computers are great, but they are not very good in social situations. No one wants to cram around the computer in the back room for too long. Anyways, I think it has a lot of potential as long as the user interface is good.
You mention that the govt. should not be involved with moral issues. I argue that most laws are drawn up over moral issues. Murder is an easy one, but everything from tax evasion to speeding is made morally wrongin the eyes the law (where it really counts). They are the great source of morals in this country, instilled by the education system and society in general. Whatever is legal goes, right??? We can have personal moral convictions about certain practices, but the secular law has essentially become the moral force in this country, replacing the antiquated scare tactics of the church.
You mention that you don't even know any other athiests. It happens that everyone in my house is one, 7 in all including me (2 apts). It's a very nice position to be in since we get to discuss the subject quite often.
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished." [Muslim religious edict, 1993 Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia]
Maybe someone can calculate this. How long until I can fit every major movie (or album) in one year on a disk at the current growth rate? How long until I can fit every movie (or song) ever made on a disc? It can't be long at this rate it seems. How much would the discs be worth?
Recorded discs will include 30-second teases to older recordings by the same artist. If the buyer wants to own that too, he or she merely goes to the Internet, pays for it, and then the company can unlock the music. It's faster than downloading, DataPlay says, so it's more convenient for customers.
Imagine unlocking all of the albums for the price of one.
I saw quake running on a pocket pc phone. It sucks on my iPaq with the interface issues, but MP on a cell phone I might go for. They just need pressure sensitive buttons and I think it might work. I just found the link... Quake on a mobile phone. The entire phone looks good in my opinion; I'd like to have it over my iPaq considering I only really use my iPaq to sync to outlook.
I'm not sure about sherlock, but it probably works like the indexing service in windows from what you've described. I can't remember if the indexing service catalogs your entire disk by default, but you can set it up to catalog everything on disk resulting in quicker queries. IS also contains filters for things like word documents to search by authorname ect, and searching by keyword is also supported. It's fast and integrated with the search utility, but I think they should expand its capabilities further for searching media by meta tags ect. It would also be nice to do a little manipulation if they can manage to implement that. My guess is they are giving up on IS and moving towards an OFS described in the article.
I'm sure it can be as secure as it needs to be with another layer of security like a VPN, but as it stands today how secure is bluetooth. Could my laptop start using any printer in range, or sniff anything in the air ect? Could I listen in on the conversation of someone using a bluetooth headset on their mobile phone? If the devices work out of the box, it seems logical...
We happen to use ICS on a *gasp* Windows 2000 Box. I'm currently thinking of an option and would appreciate some advice (other than linux, the dsl card is incompatible). Will zonealarm tackle it or are the packets themselves tainted? Perhaps the bandwidth of four college students is enough evidence alone.
Danny and I just had a kid, and of course we needed a bigger SUV. It's so big, last week we lost little Joey in the back and couldn't find him for an hour. Now on those trips to soccer practice, or during my trecks across the mall parking lot, I know my family is safe. Who cares if it only gets 3 miles to the gallon, I'm a mom, not a conservationist.
I don't think the soundcard itself would matter as much as the speakers themselves. If they somehow come up with a new USB based digital rights speakers, but I don't think this would ever fly. There will always be analog out on whatever device you use, there is just no way around it. Besides, there are high quality mics that will suffice. This is a legal issue, and I'm not sure it will ever be solved.
Friends of mine have, and they say not only software, but EVERYTHING is fake in china. Windows XP was selling for $1. $2's for nike shirts and the like. Imitation everything they said. He came back with an imitation $450 north face jacket that got us started on the whole conversation, I wanted to visit just for the deals. The problem is VERY VERY large. Cheap labor plus demand, go figure, it runs rampant.
Microsoft has a history of doing what it thinks will make more money in the short term, even if what the company does is strongly against the interests of its customers.
I disagree, just look at the history of DOS, it sold because it was cheap, and thus became a standard. I believe Microsoft wants to first capture the chinese market. Besides, the move is obviously political, they see microsoft as part of the united states controlling their computers. Remeber the NSA_Key, I believe it is along those lines. You must not forget, the chinese government is paranoid and immature. In the end, I predict windows will win out besides this decision and Red Flag ect.
The guy who started eEye was originally busted for breaking in to the computers that controlled the GPS sats. I saw it on the MTV hacker special, and besides, I used to know the guy.
From the Redhat speech: "The growth and adoption of the Linux operating system now holds a 28% marketshare of the server operating system according to IDC. The Apache web server now holds 60% of the web server marketplace. Both are technologies developed by the open source community and available alternatives to Microsoft products."
Linux is the best competitor microsoft has ever had. If anything, this proves the opposite of the anti-microsoft crowd. And as for the statement that MSFT will try to exploit the settlement to their full advantage, I would expect no less from a solid company. Capitalism at its best(worst) if you ask me.
I always have an intense addiction to a game until I come close to mastering it and I'm done. I just tend to burn through things like games, but the games seem to be getting better.
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Does anyone else agree that people like John Hagee and Benny Henn make christianity look absurd? They are killing religion more than any other group I know of. On a side note, I find the Bible Errancy page a real joy to read. No one can accept christianity literally after examining that site.
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Every citizen should get a standard issue M-16. Then we could put an end to gun violence once and for all.
Again, this is a statistic, but what else do we have? I heard that if you have a gun in your house, it is 54% more likely that a family member will get shot than an intruder. Thinking back on my own experiences, this seems about right. My best friend growing up (6yo)picked up a gun at his dad's work and shot and killed his 5yo sister. Just the other day, a friend of mine had some people over to his house and they picked up a loaded gun in his brothers room. It discharged and hit another guy in the leg. Both guns were hunting rifles.
The only case I've ever personally known of a gun being used in self defense was my grandfather shooting at some guy who was stealing his lawn mower. Now, people can say all they want about how the gun owners were neglagent ect ect, but it happens all the time. Maybe we need more training or something, but gun violence is a HUGE problem in this country. More people were shot and killed at home during the vietnam war than in actual battle. Every time I turn on a show like cops it seems there is some drunk person wielding a gun. I don't what the solution is for this country, maybe every citizen should get a standard issue M-16. We would either have complete peace or a war zone.
I thought I would include a review I read a few months back on freestyle. Minus the DRM stuff, I was pretty impressed with it. I just think it would be really nice to have all of my videos and music in the living room. I'm sure it still plays mp3's; it seems the only DRM issues are with the recorded video. If I remember correctly, there was a big to do about replaytv allowing unrestricted access to the video on the network. If the DRM is not livable, then it won't sell. I would buy one just for the radio remote control and access to my music from the stereo in the living room, not to mention pictures. Computers are great, but they are not very good in social situations. No one wants to cram around the computer in the back room for too long. Anyways, I think it has a lot of potential as long as the user interface is good.
Anyone with a scanner can tune to the neighbors cordless phone...
~# apt-get install xf86setup
~# XF86Setup
You mention that the govt. should not be involved with moral issues. I argue that most laws are drawn up over moral issues. Murder is an easy one, but everything from tax evasion to speeding is made morally wrongin the eyes the law (where it really counts). They are the great source of morals in this country, instilled by the education system and society in general. Whatever is legal goes, right??? We can have personal moral convictions about certain practices, but the secular law has essentially become the moral force in this country, replacing the antiquated scare tactics of the church.
You mention that you don't even know any other athiests. It happens that everyone in my house is one, 7 in all including me (2 apts). It's a very nice position to be in since we get to discuss the subject quite often.
Just something funny I saved:
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished." [Muslim religious edict, 1993 Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia]
Maybe someone can calculate this. How long until I can fit every major movie (or album) in one year on a disk at the current growth rate? How long until I can fit every movie (or song) ever made on a disc? It can't be long at this rate it seems. How much would the discs be worth?
Recorded discs will include 30-second teases to older recordings by the same artist. If the buyer wants to own that too, he or she merely goes to the Internet, pays for it, and then the company can unlock the music. It's faster than downloading, DataPlay says, so it's more convenient for customers.
Imagine unlocking all of the albums for the price of one.
I saw quake running on a pocket pc phone. It sucks on my iPaq with the interface issues, but MP on a cell phone I might go for. They just need pressure sensitive buttons and I think it might work. I just found the link... Quake on a mobile phone. The entire phone looks good in my opinion; I'd like to have it over my iPaq considering I only really use my iPaq to sync to outlook.
I'm not sure about sherlock, but it probably works like the indexing service in windows from what you've described. I can't remember if the indexing service catalogs your entire disk by default, but you can set it up to catalog everything on disk resulting in quicker queries. IS also contains filters for things like word documents to search by authorname ect, and searching by keyword is also supported. It's fast and integrated with the search utility, but I think they should expand its capabilities further for searching media by meta tags ect. It would also be nice to do a little manipulation if they can manage to implement that. My guess is they are giving up on IS and moving towards an OFS described in the article.
I'm sure it can be as secure as it needs to be with another layer of security like a VPN, but as it stands today how secure is bluetooth. Could my laptop start using any printer in range, or sniff anything in the air ect? Could I listen in on the conversation of someone using a bluetooth headset on their mobile phone? If the devices work out of the box, it seems logical...
We happen to use ICS on a *gasp* Windows 2000 Box. I'm currently thinking of an option and would appreciate some advice (other than linux, the dsl card is incompatible). Will zonealarm tackle it or are the packets themselves tainted? Perhaps the bandwidth of four college students is enough evidence alone.
Danny and I just had a kid, and of course we needed a bigger SUV. It's so big, last week we lost little Joey in the back and couldn't find him for an hour. Now on those trips to soccer practice, or during my trecks across the mall parking lot, I know my family is safe. Who cares if it only gets 3 miles to the gallon, I'm a mom, not a conservationist.
I don't think the soundcard itself would matter as much as the speakers themselves. If they somehow come up with a new USB based digital rights speakers, but I don't think this would ever fly. There will always be analog out on whatever device you use, there is just no way around it. Besides, there are high quality mics that will suffice. This is a legal issue, and I'm not sure it will ever be solved.
Friends of mine have, and they say not only software, but EVERYTHING is fake in china. Windows XP was selling for $1. $2's for nike shirts and the like. Imitation everything they said. He came back with an imitation $450 north face jacket that got us started on the whole conversation, I wanted to visit just for the deals. The problem is VERY VERY large. Cheap labor plus demand, go figure, it runs rampant.
Microsoft has a history of doing what it thinks will make more money in the short term, even if what the company does is strongly against the interests of its customers.
I disagree, just look at the history of DOS, it sold because it was cheap, and thus became a standard. I believe Microsoft wants to first capture the chinese market. Besides, the move is obviously political, they see microsoft as part of the united states controlling their computers. Remeber the NSA_Key, I believe it is along those lines. You must not forget, the chinese government is paranoid and immature. In the end, I predict windows will win out besides this decision and Red Flag ect.
I'd like to see a bar code scanner on my frig and perhaps some weights to tell me when my food is 'kaput.'
The guy who started eEye was originally busted for breaking in to the computers that controlled the GPS sats. I saw it on the MTV hacker special, and besides, I used to know the guy.
From the Redhat speech: "The growth and adoption of the Linux operating system now holds a 28% marketshare of the server operating system according to IDC. The Apache web server now holds 60% of the web server marketplace. Both are technologies developed by the open source community and available alternatives to Microsoft products."
Linux is the best competitor microsoft has ever had. If anything, this proves the opposite of the anti-microsoft crowd. And as for the statement that MSFT will try to exploit the settlement to their full advantage, I would expect no less from a solid company. Capitalism at its best(worst) if you ask me.
Well, if the earth was full and our growth rate was still like 3-4%, we would fill up mars in about 20 years. Go bacteria!
It happens, I happen to know two people like this. He says its the only thing he enjoys and just let him be. I just think his life is ruined.
I always have an intense addiction to a game until I come close to mastering it and I'm done. I just tend to burn through things like games, but the games seem to be getting better.
Does anyone else agree that people like John Hagee and Benny Henn make christianity look absurd? They are killing religion more than any other group I know of. On a side note, I find the Bible Errancy page a real joy to read. No one can accept christianity literally after examining that site.