She also said that homosexuality is "immoral" and "disgusting",
You see, that's what's wrong with pinheads like you. Just because somebody is wrong about one thing you think they must be wrong about everything else. It has probably never occurred to you that many geniuses become so because they are deficient in other areas, and Rand was certainly in that category. But her illustration in the spirituality of the material and mundane was of value.
But two hairy guys playing with each others asses IS disgusting. So there.
OK, I'm going to help you all out here. You need the truth, and I am going to so humbly lay it out for you.
Today's Darwinists are wrong. Life did not just evolve from natural prey/preditor selection. There is something deeper going on than just prey/preditor. There is something going on beyond mere mechanics.
Also, you shit for brains xians, there is no bearded chap in a chair who we can pray to and who will judge us based on whether we choose the right religion.
Life is an ever increasing growth. It happens, and it is motivated by something greater than our ability to describe it. We cannot describe it because our abilitiy to describe is OF the whole, and therefore cannot describe the whole. But it exists. The motive force in the world exists. It is a natural urge to grow. To become better. To increase, and yes, evolve, but not in the Darwinian sense.
The closest concept I can point to is the Tao. An ever present and ubiquitous power. One can feel it if one is sensitive enough. And one can discuss it if one is not either on the radical Darwinian side or the radical Fundy side.
This power breeds feelings of holiness. Spirituality. Unfortunatly, religions have prostituted these very legitimate experiences so much that people tend to mock these feeling. But they exist.
To more modern minds, the ever pervasive force comes about through satisfaction in doing. Satisfaction in doing the right thing. In creating fine art, or music, or saving a damsel in distress. In quality. In creation. It is the force which drives everything, literally everything, onward and growing and becoming better and better.
That is what is the real motive force in so-called evolution. Not preditor/prey, but a growth in quality and greatness and magnificence and that which is good and spiritual and best.
We've all felt that. Rand wrote about it. So did many truly spiritual people. But sadly, the fundies don't truly understand their mythology and its purpose, take it literally, and screwed it all up. Screwed it up so badly and prostituted all that is truly holy and great so much that it has turned people away from the best.
It's a long way from saying, "Oh look. The color of the moth changes in lab tests depending on it's predator and environment" to "Oh, look. Our lab tests just that life came about because of natural selection."
... on both sides of the issue. All this is not going to make a bit of difference in anyones mind, least of all the little knucklheads who have to read those textbooks. It's all posturing and symbolism and a big waste of time.
I am reminded of that witty quote, "The goal of computer science is to build something that will last at least until we're finished building it." I am also reminded of the time one of my homies referred to the FBI as "the Feebs". It all makes sense now.
Last time I checked gmail invites were going for less than a dollar per on ebay. On linuxquestions.org there is a whole thread of messages offering invites for free. There are more offers than people who want them. Gmail used to be cool and exclusive, and some of the coolness was the exclusivity, but today, anyone who wants an invite can get one in about five minutes. Personally, I have my own email server with 40+ gigs free in my own domain, which is better than any web based email. And I can grep my own email myself, without the ads, thanks anyway.
hydraulic jack which will win the weighlifting competition. And my Honda will win the marathon.
Apples and oranges, peeps. Sure, it's interesting, having robots and stuff. But this fetish about machine/human competition misses a big point, and is just plain dumb.
Hmm.. maybe this isn't such a bad thing. I wonder if they can arrest the guy who weaves down the freeway lane-hopping and tail gaiting under the patriot act too, he treathens my life every
No, it won't happen. They only trot out the Patriot Act when someone does something which threatens the powers-that-be.
The powers-that-be either fly in personal 747's, Lears, and very rarely by highway. If by highway, it's in an armored limo. The dangerous motorists only threatens the safety of other proles and wage slaves like yourself and do not affect the overlords which is why they slip under the 'terrorist' radar.
Yeah, there are certainly lots of killer apps for Windows. What really had me envious was that killer dialer app a friend's daughter downloaded. When she got that phone bill of $400.00 for calls to Guyana, I was lamenting my decision to run a platform without such apps.
Unfortunate name, though... what *were* they thinking
Eh. It keeps the corporate drones from stinking up the distro's vibe, and that, I like.
I can hear the Pointy Haired one now: "You want to install WHAT? OH no, we're going with company whose name reminds me of a flaccid, miniature phallus."
Define real money. Do you mean bits in a computer, like at your bank?
Yes, as a matter of fact, the bits at my bank ARE real money, unlike the bits that define a virtual island.
I, or my agents, can manipulate those patterns of bits a the bank and affect an easy and rapid conversion to pretty much any good or service I desire. For ALL intents and purposes, that sounds like real money to me.
What about the suckers who bought business.com for what, $7mil?
Have you seen business.com lately? Oh yeah, it's a consumer business directory, with a handful of paid placement. I would seriously doubt they are getting anything NEAR a good return on investment, which would be, as a general rule of thumb, 15%/year or $1,050,000. There is no way they are getting CLOSE to that. There is no way they can sell the domain these days for 7 million, so, yeah, they were suckers.
But for the love of god, stop trying to tell other people how to spend THEIR money.
I sure don't. I just think it says alot about a man in particular and a culture in general when he wastes that kind of money on something so stupid. He really could have done so much more with it, and yes, I am judging him and casting aspersions on how he finds fulfilment in this world. Not telling anyone what to do; merely pointing out a jackass as a jackass.
It really is instructive, watching how cluelessly other people behave. I used to have to read Roman history and the like to read tales debauchery, obscene extravagance, and abuse of power; now all I have to do is pick up the newspaper.
Sony used to have a good reputation in the electronics business. They built their business on quality.
Now, like many businesses, they are in it for the short term profits. They build for the latest fads, with the latest dumbass useless 'features' the 'bling bling' crowd is looking for. They now build hardware aiming for people who are attracted to flashy shiny things rather than people who want qualty.
Mod me down, but for their consumer grade stuff, it's true.
And I need the government to judge the "contexts" for my media consumption because...?
The legal system considers context all the time. Consider, if you touch a stranger's ass in the subway, if you did it for sexual gratification, it's a sex crime. If you did it accidentally, well, it's an accident. If you did it to remove a scorpion, you're a hero. Same act, different context.
Stern, et al have valid complaints (namely, being fined by the FCC) but his then demanding Oprah be finded is childish and his reasoning is, as usual sophomoric.
Ahem. Now entering my "Preaching to the Choir" mode. It makes me feel better.
Yeah, "they" hate our freedom!
That was, of course, the reason Dumbya gave for the 9/l1 attacks. That in and of itself is enough to make me want to see him impeached. That statement is enough to disqualify him from the position of Commander in Chief. Either he is a bigger fool than I had expected, or he is a liar of the highest order.
9/11 was not about 'hatred of the American way of life.' It was about them being pissed off about the US being in the Middle East.
Bush basically out-and-out and blatantly lied about the reasons for 9/11. Say what you want about whether we should be in the middle east, but the Commander in Chief should NOT be lying about why we are at war.
TiVo should be able to automatically record a show that is one minute already in progress.
The logic will need to be fuzzed a bit and adjusted to account for this. As it stands, the TiVo software will not consider recording a show already in progress unless the user forces it. The software will need to be made more intelligent so as to consider a show only one minute into it, for all intents and purposes, as being right at the start.
The biggest threat right now is from foreign terrorists
Yeah, now that everyone name "McVeigh" and "Nichols" has been dealt with, all we have to worry about is towelheads. That's the ticket. Only the towelheads.
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She also said that homosexuality is "immoral" and "disgusting",
You see, that's what's wrong with pinheads like you. Just because somebody is wrong about one thing you think they must be wrong about everything else. It has probably never occurred to you that many geniuses become so because they are deficient in other areas, and Rand was certainly in that category. But her illustration in the spirituality of the material and mundane was of value.
But two hairy guys playing with each others asses IS disgusting. So there.
OK, I'm going to help you all out here. You need the truth, and I am going to so humbly lay it out for you.
Today's Darwinists are wrong. Life did not just evolve from natural prey/preditor selection. There is something deeper going on than just prey/preditor. There is something going on beyond mere mechanics.
Also, you shit for brains xians, there is no bearded chap in a chair who we can pray to and who will judge us based on whether we choose the right religion.
Life is an ever increasing growth. It happens, and it is motivated by something greater than our ability to describe it. We cannot describe it because our abilitiy to describe is OF the whole, and therefore cannot describe the whole. But it exists. The motive force in the world exists. It is a natural urge to grow. To become better. To increase, and yes, evolve, but not in the Darwinian sense.
The closest concept I can point to is the Tao. An ever present and ubiquitous power. One can feel it if one is sensitive enough. And one can discuss it if one is not either on the radical Darwinian side or the radical Fundy side.
This power breeds feelings of holiness. Spirituality. Unfortunatly, religions have prostituted these very legitimate experiences so much that people tend to mock these feeling. But they exist.
To more modern minds, the ever pervasive force comes about through satisfaction in doing. Satisfaction in doing the right thing. In creating fine art, or music, or saving a damsel in distress. In quality. In creation. It is the force which drives everything, literally everything, onward and growing and becoming better and better.
That is what is the real motive force in so-called evolution. Not preditor/prey, but a growth in quality and greatness and magnificence and that which is good and spiritual and best.
We've all felt that. Rand wrote about it. So did many truly spiritual people. But sadly, the fundies don't truly understand their mythology and its purpose, take it literally, and screwed it all up. Screwed it up so badly and prostituted all that is truly holy and great so much that it has turned people away from the best.
It's a long way from saying, "Oh look. The color of the moth changes in lab tests depending on it's predator and environment" to "Oh, look. Our lab tests just that life came about because of natural selection."
... on both sides of the issue. All this is not going to make a bit of difference in anyones mind, least of all the little knucklheads who have to read those textbooks. It's all posturing and symbolism and a big waste of time.
I am reminded of that witty quote, "The goal of computer science is to build something that will last at least until we're finished building it."
I am also reminded of the time one of my homies referred to the FBI as "the Feebs". It all makes sense now.
Last time I checked gmail invites were going for less than a dollar per on ebay. On linuxquestions.org there is a whole thread of messages offering invites for free. There are more offers than people who want them. Gmail used to be cool and exclusive, and some of the coolness was the exclusivity, but today, anyone who wants an invite can get one in about five minutes.
Personally, I have my own email server with 40+ gigs free in my own domain, which is better than any web based email. And I can grep my own email myself, without the ads, thanks anyway.
hydraulic jack which will win the weighlifting competition. And my Honda will win the marathon.
Apples and oranges, peeps. Sure, it's interesting, having robots and stuff. But this fetish about machine/human competition misses a big point, and is just plain dumb.
enta.net
Yeah, baby! That's my kind of ISP. Looks like some real 'leet dudez run that shop. Only thing missing is pizza boxes.
Hmm.. maybe this isn't such a bad thing. I wonder if they can arrest the guy who weaves down the freeway lane-hopping and tail gaiting under the patriot act too, he treathens my life every
No, it won't happen. They only trot out the Patriot Act when someone does something which threatens the powers-that-be.
The powers-that-be either fly in personal 747's, Lears, and very rarely by highway. If by highway, it's in an armored limo. The dangerous motorists only threatens the safety of other proles and wage slaves like yourself and do not affect the overlords which is why they slip under the 'terrorist' radar.
Yeah, there are certainly lots of killer apps for Windows. What really had me envious was that killer dialer app a friend's daughter downloaded. When she got that phone bill of $400.00 for calls to Guyana, I was lamenting my decision to run a platform without such apps.
Unfortunate name, though... what *were* they thinking
Eh. It keeps the corporate drones from stinking up the distro's vibe, and that, I like.
I can hear the Pointy Haired one now: "You want to install WHAT? OH no, we're going with company whose name reminds me of a flaccid, miniature phallus."
Define real money. Do you mean bits in a computer, like at your bank?
Yes, as a matter of fact, the bits at my bank ARE real money, unlike the bits that define a virtual island.
I, or my agents, can manipulate those patterns of bits a the bank and affect an easy and rapid conversion to pretty much any good or service I desire. For ALL intents and purposes, that sounds like real money to me.
What about the suckers who bought business.com for what, $7mil?
Have you seen business.com lately? Oh yeah, it's a consumer business directory, with a handful of paid placement. I would seriously doubt they are getting anything NEAR a good return on investment, which would be, as a general rule of thumb, 15%/year or $1,050,000. There is no way they are getting CLOSE to that. There is no way they can sell the domain these days for 7 million, so, yeah, they were suckers.
But for the love of god, stop trying to tell other people how to spend THEIR money.
I sure don't. I just think it says alot about a man in particular and a culture in general when he wastes that kind of money on something so stupid. He really could have done so much more with it, and yes, I am judging him and casting aspersions on how he finds fulfilment in this world. Not telling anyone what to do; merely pointing out a jackass as a jackass.
It really is instructive, watching how cluelessly other people behave. I used to have to read Roman history and the like to read tales debauchery, obscene extravagance, and abuse of power; now all I have to do is pick up the newspaper.
Having never posted anything of substance here would explain why you don't know what you're talking about.
Sony used to have a good reputation in the electronics business. They built their business on quality.
Now, like many businesses, they are in it for the short term profits. They build for the latest fads, with the latest dumbass useless 'features' the 'bling bling' crowd is looking for. They now build hardware aiming for people who are attracted to flashy shiny things rather than people who want qualty.
Mod me down, but for their consumer grade stuff, it's true.
If I forget my passphrase, no matter how pissed the cops ge, it doesn't really make a difference.
I hope you can still say that when your cellmate starts referring to you as 'Shirley'.
For the ad copy,
s/Maybe the only time 'FedEx'was the right answer/Maybe the only time 'FedEx' was not the right answer/
Yeah, and didja see the full-page FedEx ad in USA Today the next day?
Had a pic of Jennings looking confused with 'FedEx' on his monitor.
Ad said something like, "Maybe the only time 'FedEx' was the right answer".
A coincidence? Probably. But if news came out that Jeopardy!/FedEx/Jennings had something going on the side, I, for one, would not be shocked.
And I need the government to judge the "contexts" for my media consumption because...?
The legal system considers context all the time. Consider, if you touch a stranger's ass in the subway, if you did it for sexual gratification, it's a sex crime. If you did it accidentally, well, it's an accident. If you did it to remove a scorpion, you're a hero. Same act, different context.
Stern, et al have valid complaints (namely, being fined by the FCC) but his then demanding Oprah be finded is childish and his reasoning is, as usual sophomoric.
Ahem. Now entering my "Preaching to the Choir" mode. It makes me feel better.
Yeah, "they" hate our freedom!
That was, of course, the reason Dumbya gave for the 9/l1 attacks. That in and of itself is enough to make me want to see him impeached. That statement is enough to disqualify him from the position of Commander in Chief. Either he is a bigger fool than I had expected, or he is a liar of the highest order.
9/11 was not about 'hatred of the American way of life.' It was about them being pissed off about the US being in the Middle East.
Bush basically out-and-out and blatantly lied about the reasons for 9/11. Say what you want about whether we should be in the middle east, but the Commander in Chief should NOT be lying about why we are at war.
I thought that US is a free nation, where all sorts of freedeoms flourish.
Adorable. Absoultely adorable. That is just about the sweetest thing I've heard since my daughter read me her christmas wish list to Santa.
TiVo should be able to automatically record a show that is one minute already in progress.
The logic will need to be fuzzed a bit and adjusted to account for this. As it stands, the TiVo software will not consider recording a show already in progress unless the user forces it. The software will need to be made more intelligent so as to consider a show only one minute into it, for all intents and purposes, as being right at the start.
In today's MTV gangsta rap Britney Spears SpongeBob cell phone whats-a-book? oriented society it has become pedantic to use the word pedantic.
The biggest threat right now is from foreign terrorists
Yeah, now that everyone name "McVeigh" and "Nichols" has been dealt with, all we have to worry about is towelheads. That's the ticket. Only the towelheads.
My how quickly we forget.