mmmkay. So you don't think that large corporations cherry-pick when and whether they follow free trade laws? Come on now. If you're really a libertarian, you're going to have to be more consistent, which means that the corporations can't use the Federal Government as their bag-men.
Either we're going to have regulations in the market, or we're not. Right now, we've got the worst possible scenario: We have all the regulations the corporations can afford to write.
"But he wants the govt telling me, as an evil businessman, what I can and cannot do with my business."
What!? You can do anything you want with your business. But, if you wish to use software written by other people, you must agree to their terms. If you don't, that's great! Do whatever you like.
Are you seriously arguing that any contract is void because it prevents you from doing stuff with your business? I think your suppliers would like to have a word with you on that.
It might be the default, but it sure doesn't work very well. Dell, HP, Compaq, whoever...it's always a guessing game to find which button makes the computer re-activate itself. As often as not, I hard-reboot the thing.
You've been somewhere, and jumped to a bunch of unsubstantiated conclusions, and decided to be an atheist because you thought that's the cool thing to do. And now, as an Evangelical Atheist, you feel the need to denigrate people who disagree with you.
That's what you call intellectual honesty? Sounds to me like you're looking for other people to validate your choices, and rag on them when they don't.
Let me see if I can explain this in very small words.
I (this carbon unit, right here sitting on my sofa) Am not (statement of negation) Responsible (culpable, the cause of, had anything whatsoever to do with) For the actions (the bad stuff you're talking about) of ANYBODY ELSE (any person, place, thing, or idea that is NOT this carbon unit sitting right here on my sofa).
My faith, my PERSONAL relationship with God, is not responsible for ANY thing that you've ever heard of. I have nothing to do with the alleged Christians that touched you in your bathing suit place.
You don't have a beef with Christianity. You have a beef with certain humans with whom you have crossed paths. I (along with 99.999% of the Christians on Earth) had nothing to do with it.
So take it up with them.
For the record, I am a staunch believer in a secular society, the separation of Church and State, the availability of secular education, and the teaching of evolution as an important study of the fundamental mechanisms of life. I am NOT a Creationist. I think that Creationists lack intellectual integrity, and that stories of how God was involved in the creation of the Earth are not scientifically based (although they are sociologically interesting, and valuable to adherents of some religions). I support gay marriage, gay divorce, gay child support, and/or any other legal relationships that two consenting adults might wish to undertake with one another. I think the State should have nothing whatsoever to say about marriage, apart from the normal enforcement of contract law.
Equal rights? Come on now. You don't seriously think I'm arguing that, do you?
"being somehow accidentally introduced into their system"
Yeah, the traditional pathologist's post-autopsy Shot O' Bile would probably be a bad idea. Seriously...how would you accidentally ingest somebody's body fluids? Wear a face mask. You're all set.
You're seriously using Chuck E. Cheese as a benchmark of American cuisine? Come on, now. I know it's fashionable to make like Americans are all ignorant louts, but you're really reaching here.
I would be glad to pay for two (or three!) rugged laptops and keep one of them for my own use, and donate the others. I believe that's the plan when these things hit production.
"How am I supposed to tell _anything_ about you from your self-identification as a "christian"? "
You can't, which is my point. Prejudices are bad, mmmkay?
I don't know if Jesus was the son of God. I don't know what a prophet sounds like. I don't think that a book written 1300 years ago by a committee is the Unvarnished Word of God. I do know wisdom when I read it. I am very comfortable with the idea of not knowing stuff...certainty is not a requirement for my mental health. I think that's where a lot of people have problems...they get all antsy if they don't KNOW stuff, so they make up stuff for themselves to KNOW.
Does that make me a "cafeteria Christian" like some other poster labeled me? Don't much care. I am responsible for my own belief structure. I think it's cowardly and shortsighted to outsource that to somebody who Knows The Truth.
But that's Dreamworks Animation's whole business model: Figure out what Pixar is going to do next, and rush out something that uses the same buzzwords (but is of drastically inferior quality). Oh yeah, and cast Eddie Murphy and/or Woody Allen.
There are exceptions, of course, but the parallels are, um, obvious.
"Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle"
That was talking about rich people, and Paul wrote those words you referenced about fornication. Jesus!=Paul.
Again, I have no use for your disparaging labels. My faith is my own, and nobody else gets a say. I don't disparage your choice not to believe. Why is it so important to you that I believe as you do? Don't you have the courage of your own convictions?
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Aww, is the little bigot all patronizing?
You're entitled to your opinion, Sparky. What a novel concept, huh?
mmmkay. So you don't think that large corporations cherry-pick when and whether they follow free trade laws? Come on now. If you're really a libertarian, you're going to have to be more consistent, which means that the corporations can't use the Federal Government as their bag-men.
Either we're going to have regulations in the market, or we're not. Right now, we've got the worst possible scenario: We have all the regulations the corporations can afford to write.
That's not free enterprise. That's fascism.
Yeah, but why would you want to? Eww! /joke
Because the best way to answer rudeness is with MORE rudeness! GENIUS!
"But he wants the govt telling me, as an evil businessman, what I can and cannot do with my business."
What!? You can do anything you want with your business. But, if you wish to use software written by other people, you must agree to their terms. If you don't, that's great! Do whatever you like.
Are you seriously arguing that any contract is void because it prevents you from doing stuff with your business? I think your suppliers would like to have a word with you on that.
It might be the default, but it sure doesn't work very well. Dell, HP, Compaq, whoever...it's always a guessing game to find which button makes the computer re-activate itself. As often as not, I hard-reboot the thing.
What? How dare you intimate such a thing! Bill Gates' book is called The Road Ahead! He's a visionary! REALLY!
No, for serious. Why is everybody looking at me like that?
"He wants freedom for software users to use software as they wish, but not for consumers or businessmen"
I don't understand this. He advocates the same rules for everybody. There is no distinction between "consumers" and "businessmen".
And I really don't understand the dichotomy you're trying to draw between "consumers" nad "software users".
Um, I'm pretty sure there are no stories at all that understand the difference between "lose" and "loose".
Oh, wait, you just wrote the most awkwardly worded sentence ever. Never mind.
You've been somewhere, and jumped to a bunch of unsubstantiated conclusions, and decided to be an atheist because you thought that's the cool thing to do. And now, as an Evangelical Atheist, you feel the need to denigrate people who disagree with you.
That's what you call intellectual honesty? Sounds to me like you're looking for other people to validate your choices, and rag on them when they don't.
You're cute when you're feeling all superior.
Let me see if I can explain this in very small words.
I (this carbon unit, right here sitting on my sofa)
Am not (statement of negation)
Responsible (culpable, the cause of, had anything whatsoever to do with)
For the actions (the bad stuff you're talking about)
of ANYBODY ELSE (any person, place, thing, or idea that is NOT this carbon unit sitting right here on my sofa).
My faith, my PERSONAL relationship with God, is not responsible for ANY thing that you've ever heard of. I have nothing to do with the alleged Christians that touched you in your bathing suit place.
You don't have a beef with Christianity. You have a beef with certain humans with whom you have crossed paths. I (along with 99.999% of the Christians on Earth) had nothing to do with it.
So take it up with them.
For the record, I am a staunch believer in a secular society, the separation of Church and State, the availability of secular education, and the teaching of evolution as an important study of the fundamental mechanisms of life. I am NOT a Creationist. I think that Creationists lack intellectual integrity, and that stories of how God was involved in the creation of the Earth are not scientifically based (although they are sociologically interesting, and valuable to adherents of some religions). I support gay marriage, gay divorce, gay child support, and/or any other legal relationships that two consenting adults might wish to undertake with one another. I think the State should have nothing whatsoever to say about marriage, apart from the normal enforcement of contract law.
Equal rights? Come on now. You don't seriously think I'm arguing that, do you?
You might have a beef, but it's not with me.
You are going to need to explain bangers to me, though. Why would you eat sausage that tastes like slightly salty sawdust?
The word you're hunting for is "kleptocracy".
"being somehow accidentally introduced into their system"
Yeah, the traditional pathologist's post-autopsy Shot O' Bile would probably be a bad idea. Seriously...how would you accidentally ingest somebody's body fluids? Wear a face mask. You're all set.
You're seriously using Chuck E. Cheese as a benchmark of American cuisine? Come on, now. I know it's fashionable to make like Americans are all ignorant louts, but you're really reaching here.
I would be glad to pay for two (or three!) rugged laptops and keep one of them for my own use, and donate the others. I believe that's the plan when these things hit production.
Well, there was probably only one page, so I guess it'd open that one.
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Why do you have a cork on your fork?
Because policing the demand side is a technique that's proven to be effective. See how well it's worked for alcohol and marijuana?
(By "effective", I mean "creates and maintains a substantial bureaucracy to attempt to curb the problem, lining said bureucrats' pockets forever")
If I had access to two fully mobile people, the three of us would probably be able to get the disabled person out.
But your point is well taken.
"Why is the GUI non-standard?"
Because there's no such thing as a standard GUI?
"How am I supposed to tell _anything_ about you from your self-identification as a "christian"? "
You can't, which is my point. Prejudices are bad, mmmkay?
I don't know if Jesus was the son of God. I don't know what a prophet sounds like. I don't think that a book written 1300 years ago by a committee is the Unvarnished Word of God. I do know wisdom when I read it. I am very comfortable with the idea of not knowing stuff...certainty is not a requirement for my mental health. I think that's where a lot of people have problems...they get all antsy if they don't KNOW stuff, so they make up stuff for themselves to KNOW.
Does that make me a "cafeteria Christian" like some other poster labeled me? Don't much care. I am responsible for my own belief structure. I think it's cowardly and shortsighted to outsource that to somebody who Knows The Truth.
But that's Dreamworks Animation's whole business model: Figure out what Pixar is going to do next, and rush out something that uses the same buzzwords (but is of drastically inferior quality). Oh yeah, and cast Eddie Murphy and/or Woody Allen.
There are exceptions, of course, but the parallels are, um, obvious.
"Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle"
That was talking about rich people, and Paul wrote those words you referenced about fornication. Jesus!=Paul.
Again, I have no use for your disparaging labels. My faith is my own, and nobody else gets a say. I don't disparage your choice not to believe. Why is it so important to you that I believe as you do? Don't you have the courage of your own convictions?