Re:article illustrated something about family...
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Just because there are exceptions to a rule doesn't mean that the rule still isn't applicable. You label it as nonsense because it makes you feel better, not because it is truly nonsense.
No matter how you shake it, bad parents usually have bad kids.
You might also be interested to know that He-man is returning with a spectacular looking new toy line as well as a new cartoon. Information and pictures can be found here.
That was Transformers: Beast Wars. It was too much of a departure from the original Transformers to capture a nostalgia audience but it was actually fairly well done.
I just love how every time a story like this comes up, every Slashdotter awake becomes paranoid.
Note to the masses: if the government or an evil corporation really and truly wants to track you they won't have to come up with some lame grocery store checkout scheme. You aren't as anonymous as you think and you never were. It's time to embrace a convenience for a change without worrying that you are compromising your pretend anonimity.
I'm just glad we invented the nuclear weapon first. It isn't an issue of global dominance or anything like that. Nuclear weapons haven't enabled us to be on top, they have prevented our demise.
It's kind of like the issue of gun control. If you know that somewhere, someone in society is going to own a gun and they cannot be trusted with it, you better damn sure have one yourself.
Second, how can we be proud of creating a weapon that caused such destruction and left our country (and the world) on the edge of destruction for nearly 50 fucking years (and currently, moving closer to the edge than ever before).
You know, the same weapon you claim has left our country on the edge of destruction is also responsible for keeping our country from destruction in those same 50 years. I very much like my life here in the US and whether you like it or not, nuclear weapons have played a big role in making sure I have that life to enjoy.
Re:Yet another massive failure of central planning
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Somebody watched television this weekend didn't they? The dam problem in China was the #1 technological mishap of all time on one of those TLC top 10 shows.
Hmmm...thanks for the geography lesson because it is obvious I needed it. I have a nagging feeling that the only reason the USSR was considered a European nation as opposed to an Asian nation (where most of its land mass resided) was because it was full of white people.
"Galileo suffered not because his opinions went against the teachings of the church, but because he challanged the authority of the church by claiming that his discoveries disproved a few items in the bible and therefore the bible as a whole must be considered suspect. It was a power struggle, not a religious one."
You are very much correct here, with one minor difference in my mind. It had much more to do with his findings challenging the authority of those in power than in challenging the authority of the Bible. It was a political power struggle.
Separating communism and socialism is simply splitting hairs. But you were probably too busy smoking weed with the other poli sci grad students to learn a little about reality, no?
"Our science fiction always assumes that space colonization and the "future" will be dominated by western ideals, but as things are trending now, the future looks brighter for asia."
Funny, I've read a similar statement in regards to a certain Asian country in the early 60s.
"It looks like science suffers at the hands of the Morality police."
Or maybe science suffers due to a lack of morality.
"Hasn't this happened before?... (Galileo, Darwin,...)"
So I guess we should be thanking open-minded, understanding Chinese government for their enlightened views on humanity and science. If you want to argue what is best for society via science, that's one thing. If you simply want to look for any reason to demean religion (let's cut to the chase...Christanity) don't expect people to give you much credence.
South Africa is experiencing astronomical crime rates (and it is still growing) and corruption at all levels of government. I'd wager that it could go the way of Zimbabwe within the next 20 years (and I hope not...it is a truly beautiful country).
I don't exactly know what you mean "potential for advancement under suppression". I also have absolutely no idea what "emergence of a superpower from a(n) ethnically diverse and incompatible populace, absent significant suppression by the elite minority of the other groups" means either.
The reasons India won't become the next superpower have much less to do with the fact that they are religious than the fact that there are a billion people living in too small of an area lacking abundant natural resources.
The only reason you have this idiotic idea that Indians are more intelligent on the average is because those are the only ones the rest of the world is exposed to. It takes the cream of the crop to go to Universities throughout the world and to go run businesses.
An Indian friend of mine at Texas A&M University was once asked why all of the Indians he met were so smart. She replied something along the lines of "because we left all of the less intelligent Indians in India".
Please, don't be offended by this statement, because I truly mean no ill will. I am just relaying what my experience has been.
Mod this puppy up because it hit the nail squarely on the head. Most CS departments (decent ones at least) ignore Microsoft completely, except when issuing disparaging remarks. The only time MS was ever mentioned in my coursework was in Operating Systems in regards to NTFS.
It won't really matter how turned off CS grads are, because we aren't the ones paying developers to do their jobs. I enjoy UNIX development and I also truly enjoy MS developement, it really makes no difference to me. As long as my customers continue to want products that run on Win32, I'll be developing with MS tools.
If the Linux advocates would tone down the propaganda machine once in a while and start improving usability, we'd already be reading funeral rites for the boys up in Redmond.
When it is all said and done, he will go down as one of the top entertainers of the 20th century. There will never be another cartoon like Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons.
Re:.NET should be .KILLED
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If you were a professional programmer you would try to avoid sounding so stupid when espousing your anti-MS rhetoric. I am a programmer and I don't tell my clients what platform they want their application to run on, they tell me. Sometimes that's Linux and sometimes that's Microsoft.
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Just because there are exceptions to a rule doesn't mean that the rule still isn't applicable. You label it as nonsense because it makes you feel better, not because it is truly nonsense.
No matter how you shake it, bad parents usually have bad kids.
You seem to make a link between bravery and stupidity. You can be 'brave' by bringing a knife to a gunfight but most would say you are being stupid.
I've come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a Slashdot reader...there are only Slashdot posters.
You might also be interested to know that He-man is returning with a spectacular looking new toy line as well as a new cartoon. Information and pictures can be found here.
There is also always a lot of Transformers stuff for sale at Ebay pretty much at all times.
That was Transformers: Beast Wars. It was too much of a departure from the original Transformers to capture a nostalgia audience but it was actually fairly well done.
Note to the masses: if the government or an evil corporation really and truly wants to track you they won't have to come up with some lame grocery store checkout scheme. You aren't as anonymous as you think and you never were. It's time to embrace a convenience for a change without worrying that you are compromising your pretend anonimity.
You socialists are all the same.
I'm just glad we invented the nuclear weapon first. It isn't an issue of global dominance or anything like that. Nuclear weapons haven't enabled us to be on top, they have prevented our demise.
It's kind of like the issue of gun control. If you know that somewhere, someone in society is going to own a gun and they cannot be trusted with it, you better damn sure have one yourself.
You know, the same weapon you claim has left our country on the edge of destruction is also responsible for keeping our country from destruction in those same 50 years. I very much like my life here in the US and whether you like it or not, nuclear weapons have played a big role in making sure I have that life to enjoy.
Somebody watched television this weekend didn't they? The dam problem in China was the #1 technological mishap of all time on one of those TLC top 10 shows.
Evil Genius Gates at Work
I do know that it doesn't exist anymore.
Isn't the Soviet Union in Asia?
"Galileo suffered not because his opinions went against the teachings of the church, but because he challanged the authority of the church by claiming that his discoveries disproved a few items in the bible and therefore the bible as a whole must be considered suspect. It was a power struggle, not a religious one."
You are very much correct here, with one minor difference in my mind. It had much more to do with his findings challenging the authority of those in power than in challenging the authority of the Bible. It was a political power struggle.
Separating communism and socialism is simply splitting hairs. But you were probably too busy smoking weed with the other poli sci grad students to learn a little about reality, no?
Funny, I've read a similar statement in regards to a certain Asian country in the early 60s.
Please, laude all of the wonderful benefits of socialism for us. The people of the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and North Korea are listening.
The Nazis tried to correct something they felt was a "problem".
"they are doing it in a manner which is unacceptable to many religions/people"
"should we criticize them?"
The ends do not justify the means.
Or maybe science suffers due to a lack of morality.
"Hasn't this happened before?... (Galileo, Darwin,
So I guess we should be thanking open-minded, understanding Chinese government for their enlightened views on humanity and science. If you want to argue what is best for society via science, that's one thing. If you simply want to look for any reason to demean religion (let's cut to the chase...Christanity) don't expect people to give you much credence.
I don't exactly know what you mean "potential for advancement under suppression". I also have absolutely no idea what "emergence of a superpower from a(n) ethnically diverse and incompatible populace, absent significant suppression by the elite minority of the other groups" means either.
The reasons India won't become the next superpower have much less to do with the fact that they are religious than the fact that there are a billion people living in too small of an area lacking abundant natural resources.
The only reason you have this idiotic idea that Indians are more intelligent on the average is because those are the only ones the rest of the world is exposed to. It takes the cream of the crop to go to Universities throughout the world and to go run businesses.
An Indian friend of mine at Texas A&M University was once asked why all of the Indians he met were so smart. She replied something along the lines of "because we left all of the less intelligent Indians in India".
Please, don't be offended by this statement, because I truly mean no ill will. I am just relaying what my experience has been.
It won't really matter how turned off CS grads are, because we aren't the ones paying developers to do their jobs. I enjoy UNIX development and I also truly enjoy MS developement, it really makes no difference to me. As long as my customers continue to want products that run on Win32, I'll be developing with MS tools.
If the Linux advocates would tone down the propaganda machine once in a while and start improving usability, we'd already be reading funeral rites for the boys up in Redmond.
When it is all said and done, he will go down as one of the top entertainers of the 20th century. There will never be another cartoon like Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons.
If you were a professional programmer you would try to avoid sounding so stupid when espousing your anti-MS rhetoric. I am a programmer and I don't tell my clients what platform they want their application to run on, they tell me. Sometimes that's Linux and sometimes that's Microsoft.