A recent poll in the US showed that 17% of people thought that the issue of whether a candidate wore a flag pin on his/her lapel was important. The fix for that is a bullet.
I'm not the least bit surprised. I work with some NGOs that provide skill training to those in poverty, and nearly none of the people I know outside of those organizations realize that within 6 miles of their homes, there are thousands upon thousands of people living in poverty and rampant crime (aside from making jokes like "don't go in there - you'll get shot"). These people often can't read, have no education past middle school, and have no skills to use for employment. Most people just drive around these areas, having never really even thought about what's down the streets they never turn onto.
People like to cling to the attitude that people in poverty are just milking the system and don't want out, but I guarantee you that within a short drive of where you live there are people in poverty that not only want out, but are working hard at it. You show up there offering to teach them to read or teach them basic interviewing skills or help them pass the GED and you will be inspired by how hard they work. And, you will gain some perspective on how fortunate you are to have been born into the situation you were with the skills and talents you have.
See, but Dawkins gets very dogmatic, and then everyone that reads his books follows suit. It may as well be its own religion. It has a leader, a set of beliefs and a bunch of followers that try to spread it, all the while pointing to the enlightened writings of the leader. I'm not trying to be offensive, but honestly, the group looks largely similar to the Christians they're so fond of bashing.
tell your child the truth from the beginningYou mean that we're only barely beginning to understand any of it and that by the time she dies, the stuff you told her will be wrong anyway?
Dawkins is not discourse - he's the same thing as religion, just with the opposing viewpoint. It's a pissing match, and very few are actually engaging in discourse, everyone seems to prefer being ridiculous.
You seem to have associated Christianity itself with a vocal group of small minded people who are prone to pop off in the press saying things that have little to do with Christianity. I assume that most people that post to Slashdot are reasonably intelligent in spite of the tendency here to be argumentative and often extreme in viewpoint. If so many here are intelligent as the nature of the content would imply, I would expect more of the community to do a modicum of research before stating facts on behalf of something they know so little about. I'm not suggesting that if you do a little research about Christianity you'll suddenly start believing it, but you're doing yourself a disservice to continue to attack something that's not Christianity while calling it Christianity.
WikiLeaks is awesome as it is - a place where anyone can put up any document, free of any fear that they might be tracked down. Why you think that that makes anything true on there, I have no idea. Seriously. Were you born just yesterday?
Explain to me how something that is so unreliable that you ridicule someone for believing anything on it also "awesome" for the fact that people can anonymously release information on it? If it's completely unreliable, then it's completely useless.
If you don't like it, you're free to leave the room or change the channel. If I don't like censorship, what options do I have?
If he doesn't like it, he doesn't watch TV. If you don't like it, then watch cable*. The reality is that one of you is not going to like what you see/hear on television. You can't both be satisfied simultaneously. Satisfying him annoys fewer people than satisfying you.
* Yeah, I know you have to pay for cable. Most people seem to do this. I'm the only person I know that uses an antenna.
Hell, I am a clean looking law biding white male, and I have been arrested and lied to by police. Just last week I had three rifles pointed at me by overzealous police.
Yeah, you were just minding your own business and the cops felt compelled to point rifles at you. That's the whole story, I'm sure.
Java Apps mostly suck at UI. I don't think Apple wants to be associate with lousy UI. (Yes, it's a generalization, and I'm sure you can find some example of a mostly decent Java UI somewhere).
No, it's not too much to ask, but if that's what you want to do, then you're shopping at the wrong store. Don't blame the store - blame yourself for buying the wrong product.
Don't be so foolish as to think the only way to stop Hitler was to kill him. What's the deal with needing to kill people? Let's figure out why Hitler became Hitler and fix that problem rather than pouring more money into guns or the military. I think it's pathetic that we think guns are a solution to a problem.
You're not getting the difference between data loss (hard drive wiped) and data stolen or missing. Best Buy doesn't know who has her laptop. She is now at a risk for identity fraud. Instead of informing her immediately (there are laws requiring them to do this), they lied to her and jerked her around, putting her at further risk. Rather than offer her less than the laptop was worth, they should have offered her a new laptop and offered to pay for three years of a credit protection service.
No reason to defend Best Buy - talk to anyone that's tried to use them. They make a habit out of abusing customers, and it's high time they get some punishment for it.
I could play Ms PacMan for 10 minutes on a quarter. I get to play Cruisin for about 45 seconds on $1.00. Calculation the "inflation" on that. It's more than your car example. Also, most games were still a quarter in the 90's.
Arcades were better when the games were all a quarter. Slowly, they started making games that took two quarters, and now we're at a point where some games can cost $2, and there's a damned timer in it. Perhaps the arcades and the game makers have simply become too greedy and want too much profit. Maybe they should bring the cost per minute of game play down some.
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If I install the RC, will it update itself to the released version, or will that be an uninstall/new install?
Seems like the quality of linked sites on Slashdot has gone down over the years. These two links are from the Register and some guy's blog.
Open Apple Software Update. Go to Edit > Preferences. Change the radio button to Never. Click OK. Click Quit.
I'm not the least bit surprised. I work with some NGOs that provide skill training to those in poverty, and nearly none of the people I know outside of those organizations realize that within 6 miles of their homes, there are thousands upon thousands of people living in poverty and rampant crime (aside from making jokes like "don't go in there - you'll get shot"). These people often can't read, have no education past middle school, and have no skills to use for employment. Most people just drive around these areas, having never really even thought about what's down the streets they never turn onto. People like to cling to the attitude that people in poverty are just milking the system and don't want out, but I guarantee you that within a short drive of where you live there are people in poverty that not only want out, but are working hard at it. You show up there offering to teach them to read or teach them basic interviewing skills or help them pass the GED and you will be inspired by how hard they work. And, you will gain some perspective on how fortunate you are to have been born into the situation you were with the skills and talents you have.
See, but Dawkins gets very dogmatic, and then everyone that reads his books follows suit. It may as well be its own religion. It has a leader, a set of beliefs and a bunch of followers that try to spread it, all the while pointing to the enlightened writings of the leader. I'm not trying to be offensive, but honestly, the group looks largely similar to the Christians they're so fond of bashing.
Dawkins is not discourse - he's the same thing as religion, just with the opposing viewpoint. It's a pissing match, and very few are actually engaging in discourse, everyone seems to prefer being ridiculous.
Nah. It would be better that she learn to be civil.
You seem to have associated Christianity itself with a vocal group of small minded people who are prone to pop off in the press saying things that have little to do with Christianity. I assume that most people that post to Slashdot are reasonably intelligent in spite of the tendency here to be argumentative and often extreme in viewpoint. If so many here are intelligent as the nature of the content would imply, I would expect more of the community to do a modicum of research before stating facts on behalf of something they know so little about. I'm not suggesting that if you do a little research about Christianity you'll suddenly start believing it, but you're doing yourself a disservice to continue to attack something that's not Christianity while calling it Christianity.
If he doesn't like it, he doesn't watch TV. If you don't like it, then watch cable*. The reality is that one of you is not going to like what you see/hear on television. You can't both be satisfied simultaneously. Satisfying him annoys fewer people than satisfying you.
* Yeah, I know you have to pay for cable. Most people seem to do this. I'm the only person I know that uses an antenna.
Java Apps mostly suck at UI. I don't think Apple wants to be associate with lousy UI. (Yes, it's a generalization, and I'm sure you can find some example of a mostly decent Java UI somewhere).
Well, since it's hard and all, I guess it's okay to just go on killing people.
No, it's not too much to ask, but if that's what you want to do, then you're shopping at the wrong store. Don't blame the store - blame yourself for buying the wrong product.
Don't be so foolish as to think the only way to stop Hitler was to kill him. What's the deal with needing to kill people? Let's figure out why Hitler became Hitler and fix that problem rather than pouring more money into guns or the military. I think it's pathetic that we think guns are a solution to a problem.
You're not getting the difference between data loss (hard drive wiped) and data stolen or missing. Best Buy doesn't know who has her laptop. She is now at a risk for identity fraud. Instead of informing her immediately (there are laws requiring them to do this), they lied to her and jerked her around, putting her at further risk. Rather than offer her less than the laptop was worth, they should have offered her a new laptop and offered to pay for three years of a credit protection service. No reason to defend Best Buy - talk to anyone that's tried to use them. They make a habit out of abusing customers, and it's high time they get some punishment for it.
I could play Ms PacMan for 10 minutes on a quarter. I get to play Cruisin for about 45 seconds on $1.00. Calculation the "inflation" on that. It's more than your car example. Also, most games were still a quarter in the 90's.
Arcades were better when the games were all a quarter. Slowly, they started making games that took two quarters, and now we're at a point where some games can cost $2, and there's a damned timer in it. Perhaps the arcades and the game makers have simply become too greedy and want too much profit. Maybe they should bring the cost per minute of game play down some.