Wow. While I definitely agree that child molesters are most certainly not following the teachings of Christ, I highly doubt that those who do feel that it's Gods will that they molest children. You're referring to priests, which (as far as I know- I'm not Catholic) are required to possess detailed knowledge of Scripture, which in no way ever encourages anyone to molest children. Scripture clearly dictates that sexuality is God's gift to married men and women and refers to any sexuality outside marriage as adultery (noting that Jesus explicitly equated lust with adultery as well).
What's sad is many priests from my understanding molest children because they feel they are sharing God's love. The Catholic church IMHO hasn't taken a strong enough stand against such atrocities. It seems to be too common to ignore.
The problem with Catholics is IMHO a very unhealthy attitude tward sexuality. I believe part of this started with Saint Francsis of Assisi who while a great humanitarian, was none too kind to his own body. From this, I believe, started a trend in the catholic church that all things that feel good are sinful. As for sex... many catholics believe sex it self is a sin (I was born of original sin), and baptism washes away this sinful act.
Quakers (Friends of man) seem to have a much healther attitude tward sex.
(noting that Jesus explicitly equated lust with adultery as well)
I forget the details on this subject, but this is a common issue with translation between the latin and the english... not to speak of aramaic to greek, greek to latin, latin to english. Horny can be adultry-lust or just strong sexual desire depending on which language you are talking about. On this issue, I believe man is flawed, translations are flawed.
If I were to claim to be Christian I would have to accept that those who follow Islam are also brothers.
You have to define your use of the term "brothers." If you mean "fellow mankind", then I'll agree with you. If you mean brothers in faith or salvation, then you are incorrect. Jesus plainly stated "No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6b) If one denies Jesus as the son of God and the only source of salvation, he will be doomed to hell.
As for heaven, I have no idea how to get there. But "all men are brothers", which seems to be the popular enlgish translation of that passage. As for getting to heaven, I have no idea... but "all men are brothers, love thy neighbor" is pretty clear. Brothers of Islam should be treated with the same respect as brothers of Christ IMHO.
Oddly enough, Brothers of Islam, Brothers of Judasim, and Brothers of Christ all share one thing in common... Aberham. Actually they share much more in common.
I simply don't possess a knowledge of Islam to know what its teachings are. I've actually suggested that our Sunday school class study other religions so that we can avoid the stereotypes perpetuated by the media and actually understand the basis for these religions. From what I do understand, Islam is a works-based religion where God requires service for salvation, which is a concept entirely contradictory to Christianity.
Not entirely, the Cathlic church has seven sacraments.
Baptism - Gotta wash away that sin your parents commited Eucharist - Jesus wafers(TM) Reconciliation - Forgive me father for I have sinned. Confirmation - I think the age on this has changed, but it's when you say you will be a catholic for life. Marriage - obvious Holy Orders - It's somewhat expected that if your partner dies before you do, you undertake holy orders. Some just help out their local church. Anointing of the Sick - last rights.
(I was going to say birth is a sacrament, but I would be mistaken).
Unless Cathlolics are less Christian than other Christians.
And just as your statement shows- just because someone labels himself "Christian" doesn't mean he is Christian.
And just because someone is Islamic doesn't mean they are, or act like Islamics.
Being a Christian means believing that Jesus Christ, the sole son of God, died on the cross to forgive the sins of mankind.
Being Islamic means you follow the teachings of the Qur'an, accept Muhammad as God's/Allah's last prophet who helped to restore the message of other great prophets which had become corrupt over time.
Becoming born again is not an inward achievement- it is an act of God. God changes your heart and sets your mind on His ways rather than the ways of the world. I cannot simply claim myself to be a Christian and make it so- God performs the conversion.
Alas, I don't have a hotline to God, so I can't verify you partook in God's heart and mind recall, nor can I verify anyone else's participation in this program. I can not verify someone "subbmited" to Allah's A.U.P. I have to go by their word that God directly interviened in their lives. The Holy Father has not seen fit to inact a realID program.
Islam also has it's own protocal to establish what God's will is.
Actions that endanger others' lives are not in line with Christ's teachings. Someone who blows up buildings in the name of God seems suspect to me because his actions don't reflect what Scripture teaches (and what God sets our hearts on). Read the book of Romans- it clearly spells out what being a Christian truly means.
I would also say that those who Molest children in the name of God are not acting in accordance with the Christian Bible. I would also say they are sick bastards, not just because they feel the need to have sex with those who haven't developed any seconadary sexual attributes, but those who commit such acts seem to think God wants them to.
But I will also say that your argument is purely semantic.
The majority of those who call them selves Christian don't blow up buildings nor molest children. The majority of Islamic followers don't either. But if you are going to say Islamics blow up buildings, Christians do as well. To think otherwise is bigotry. Any fundamental, extremist religious group or person who believes their actions are in accordance with God's will which contradict their own sacrid texts or the laws of man scare me.
Read the book of Romans- it clearly spells out what being a Christian truly means.
Which version of the Book of Romans? There are more translations than you can shake a stick at. But no version of the bible is trully clear. But all men are brothers. One should love thy neighbor as one self. If I were to claim to be Christian I would have to accept that those who follow Islam are also brothers. But as a man, I have no idea what God is, nor its will, so I can not accept that one path is any better as another. The best I can do is respect the fact that for many, these beliefs give them comfort and help them to be better people.
Pop (at least here) is most expensive in schools and on college campuses. A 12oz. can goes for between $.60 and $.80. The same [brand name] can costs $.20 in a 12-pack at the grocery on sale, which they are on every other week.
Actually, his price scale was accurate if talking about a mini-mart, chilled. The mini-mart price of soda tends to be about the same as supermarket 2 liter unchilled.
Grocery stores tend to have the big names on sale. Any non-big brand tends to go for full price, which can float at above and beyond 60c/can. I do remember that as a kid I would buy many sodas in a vending machine as the grocery store price per 6 pack was actually more than the school price. These days, $1.00 to $1.25 is typical of a vending machine.
I think $5.00/12 pack is typical... or about 4.5c/ounce. I typicaly see 2l bottles for about 1.5c/ounce, with smaller bottles costing more than larger onces, though refrigerated. The real bad deal typicaly are those 1l bottles.
Like many others, I have swore off buying sugar water. At first bottled water cost more than bottled soda, and it make "sense" to buy something with flavor esp since I started to see 25c soda machines. But if I absolutly need a drink these days, there are house brands of water in bottles for a decent price.
If they started based on economic value I'm assuming the first seeds included were Hemp. It's the biggest cash crop in the US.
I'm not sure this should be moded funny. Hemp historicly speaking may be described as a cash crop, but rather and something which goverments throughout history mandated farmers grow. Presently, thanks in part to prohibition of it, it can be described as a cash crop.
Navies enjoyed it because it is more rot resistent than cotton or flax. It's stronger than wood pulp paper. As a food it's got protein, carbs, and fat. Medicinal value is uncanny. And, as a bonus, it grows like a weed. There is no doubt in my mind that it should be banked, not only in the unlikely event of a disaster, but the simple fact that it's current value as a recreational drug has encouraged growers to breed based on bank for the puff rather than more practical applications.
Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
They were up for how many days? 10 days to two weeks?
These things were basicly circuit boards with a load of D-cells, apparently with a photocell to help save battery life. We can safely assume that the power was comming from, at least in part, from the what looked like a set of d-cells. Others have pointed out that this "could have been a pipe bomb" (the ones I saw they were clearly d cells, not wraped in tape)... but given the volume required for battery power for the lights for 10 days to two weeks, plus power required to trigger a primmer, we can safely assume if there were any any incendiaries what so ever, that the volume would be pretty dang small.
So we can assume two things
a) This was just reader board b) This was an evil terrorist plot
Now if you WANT to believe every hello kitty is packed full of high explosive and nails... you can feel free to do so. Or you can employ some reasoning skills.
Boston was the only city it seems who decided to over react dispite being told this was a stunt brought to you by the cartoon network, a perfectly normal with the exception they used LEDs rather than plain paper. They continued to get media attention even after they disposed of a few so called bombs. They over-reacted... because it justified an extreme responce.
Apple has always been super proprietary in everything they do. These guys are the ultimate control freaks and always have been.
Isn't this the truth. For example... Back in the pre system 8 days it was common for apple to refuse to format a drive which didn't have the handy dandy "apple" branded logo. You "could" format and install a drive using third party software, but imagine trying to "find" this software. I remember I had a powerbook 1400c without a CD-rom, and booting with an external one was... IIRC... impossible without it being branded apple... though technicaly the same one as they used. Crash recovery of an apple seemed to require access to an apple geek that had the approperate hardware/software to jumpstart a dead mac.
From my understanding systems which shipped with OS9 and above seemed to be more tollerant to 3rd party hardware.
no way do I want to see any of these "actors" in HD, either format.
I take it you've never had sex with a real woman with the lights on... Or maybe a woman at all.
If you think a real woman is one with a 1080P 60 inch HDTV vagina.... I guess I have never had sex with a real woman.
Seriously if imperfections gross out most of the fellows on Slashdot, I don't think any of you people really go on dates that much or maybe that most of you only have sex when completely drunk.
Is it even worth pointing out that some people are born with hearing impairment? Having the use of your ears does not make or break your ability to safely navigate through city streets. Having a fully operational brain is what accomplishes that.
Actually where I live there are communities where there are yellow warning signs that indicate deaf people present. This just so happens to be near an airport.
More complex then that. What's the physical cost of a CD? Blank media from staples works out to a few cents. Before staples, it's even cheaper. Now burning data on a CD does cost money. A red laser in 1983 that can burn media would cost in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now it costs less than 100 USD, again retail.
Commercial CDs are typicaly not burnt, they are pressed. In some ways they are like vinyl in the way they are mass produced, from a master, stamp stamp. The process i'm familar with uses a glass master which then a laser is used to etch the photo sensative layer, then several metal molds are made. Then the metal molds stamp the plastic layer, and reflective layer is added.
This is not like your home brew system.
Tape was always more tedius, you rather needed a loop master which would play and replay as banks of decks recorded them. The process could be automated to a large degree, but still the speed at which you copy was limited, vs pressing while requiring more prep time produced copies faster per unit.
The RIAA 'Key Facts' page claims that based on the 1983 price of CDs, the 1996 price should have been $33.86.
No, because CDs are by far cheaper to mass produce than cassettes or, in all fairness, vinyl. For a small production run of vinyl, i'd expect to spend $1.00 per disc including a paper dust cover. CDs I would expect to spend 1/2 that with a basic sleve for a small production run. Cassette I would expect to spend double that of CD.
Yet for some reason, they sell commercial cassettes for less than a CD.
Not to speak of mastering seems to be done by some yahoo with protools.
Maybe you'd care to clue us in to which bomb-squad you work in that will qualify a device as non-explosive based entirely on a visual inspection?
Well... it's simple logic really. A PC board attached to something flat with double stick tape sugests that there is no real payload under. The only bulk of the device would seem to be 4 D cells.
But usually one is in doubt, one would ask the dog.
Every example you have here is shaped like a tube. Luckily, four D-Cells covered in electrical tape looks nothing like a tube. What says a bomb has to be a good bomb?
Tube shaped exposives are very common. But what says a bomb has to be a good bomb? For it to actually DO damage, for it to actually present a clear danager. We could assume the 4 d-cells are a pipebomb, or we could take our handy dandy VM and see if it at least adds up.
Oh cool, those suckers did have photo electric cells on them, great. I clearly didn't flip through those images enough (there were 300+)
But if you'll notice the ground strap where does it go?
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb.
Techincaly it was only Boston AFAIK who thought *BOMB*. Others employed common sense. The city of Boston over reacted.
Lazy or ignorant? My ass! You have to be freaking diligent to verify every single license key you have is legit, a task only microsoft can do, and even then you run the risk of their database being wrong.
...which is a very good reason to avoid Microsoft software completely.
I use word, excel, and photoshop on a regular basis. I like linux, I do run linux, as well as other FOSS applications.
But... clearly microsoft isn't going to back down from this teacher... so perhaps the OSS community can write a nice letter to Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev and see about getting Russia in on OSS in schools as an alternative to the gulag.
Well duh. Only proper official bombs look like bombs. Well even that isn't true because that would suggest every explosive device has the same form/look. They don't. Bombs that are just designed to go boom just look like whatever shape suits their purpose best.
A bomb would contain some form of explosive. These make shift readerboard signs didn't have anything on them that looked like they had anything to do with bombs as they had NO INCENDIARIES.
Bombs are designed to go boom, but their shape affects how they go boom. For example, a firecracker is chaped in such a way that it makes a loud noise. A bottle rocket is shaped so that it gets propelled. Other rockets contain a payload of balls of power. If you take the contents of a firecracker and ignite it, you get a flash not a boom sound.
These things looked like reader boards. Near as I can see, they had no timmer circuits on them, no connection to a primer or payload. I couldn't even spy a photoelectric cell, would would have been handy to keep them lit at night only. I.E. not bomb like in the slightest.
Plus the fact that explosives tend to have weight beyond plastic, a few batteries, and a slew of LEDs.
I can sort of see how nailing a "garage sale" or "lost puppy" sign to a telephone pole would be considered vandalism. Technicaly speaking... you do cause damage to a pole which is rather why it's reccomended you buy your own sticks, attach to the sign, and stick them in the ground. Some cities are more tolerant, others require a permit to glue or affix paper on walls or telephone poles. Others require permits to even have a sign on your own property. I would normally consider graffiti to be a form of vandalism... as in spray painting someone else's building, using a bocket knife to write something in a bench or a table.
From what I read these were hacker made readerboard signs... so while graphics it isn't graffiti as it can be removed ease. Tresspass? Perhaps depending on where they went, but a bridge was one example which you can't really call a bridge private property. I think vandalism (deliberate destruction of property)is over reacting.... probally the most likely crime commited is posting signs without a permit.
I don't think using a GPS to track someone is a privacy invasion, as long as it's done in public places. Try this as a mental exercise: substitute GPS with human witness. Is it OK for the police to ask people on the street if they saw which way a suspect went? When you are in a public place, you must accept the fact that your privacy is not guaranteed. You may be watched, be it by someone who just happened to be there or by any sort of mechanical device.
How do you tell a GPS unit to only track in public places?
Here's the thing... if you commit a crime in a place where you have no expectation of privacy, and someone witnesses you... that can be used as evidence. That's life. But you can not for example pick someone and follow them around, this is a form of harassment.
But GPS tracking is a sure fire system of making sure the police or other law enforcement KNOW exactly where your car is at any given time, and log this information for an indefinate period of time, well until the batteries run dry. This power can easily be abused, someone who's incorrectly suspected of a crime could easily be stalked until such time as they commit a crime or minor infraction. Or worse yet, that data can be used as a form of blackmail.
It's rather why people like my self feel warrents should be issued for GPS tracking. There needs to be checks and balances to make sure power is not abused.
There is no excuse for helping yourself to Microsoft's software, other than ignorance and laziness, especially in education, where being a virus vector and consumer of Project documents are not primary concerns.
From TFA, the guy bought machines with windows on them. That's a pretty good excuse. If you've seen the russian bootleg edition of windows you'd notice they look professional. I would say they look more professional than many PCs sold here... esp ones that don't include anything to sugest they came with windows except a little sticker.
In fact, at least in America, Microsoft offered free licenses for software if one got their product through a vendor and thought they were legit so long as they provided infomation as to where they got their software from. I.e. if "Joe's computer" sold you a machine with windows, and it wasn't legit, you got free windows for being a MS-Rat.
The problem with this program... no bugger can tell by looking at a PC whether or not it's legit or not. The only way an end user might have a clue is the WGA warning, which just so happens to not apear on specialy produced pirated editions of microsoft windows corp pro.
Lazy or ignorant? My ass! You have to be freaking diligent to verify every single license key you have is legit, a task only microsoft can do, and even then you run the risk of their database being wrong.
To me it seems Netscape has lost his reputation as best browser. Mozilla Firefox is the more used browser these days. For Netscape it is very hard to gain market share with a suit. Still brave of Netscape though.
Is it taken seriously?
V8.12 comes with "WeatherBug" among other things. I don't know if it's a full version of Weatherbug or the spyware infected version, but i'm willing to guess it's the spyware infected version.
How seriously would you take software bundled with "WeatherBug".
The last version I ran was probally V6.xx, which was AIM infected.
Richard Silver is lucky that noone's managed to copyright crap web pages. His page (with animated email gif & quicktime plugin required) does not leave a font, colour, alignment, highlighting, style or indentation untouched.
Don't be so critical... it clearly had to do the hustle to get the page up.
How can they make it better? Tivo can supply information to providers of content, and advertisers more valuable than any surveys or polls. Tivo can give real time info (rolled up) of what and how viewers watch their show (and ads). An end result would (potentially) be eventual extinction of really annoying and bad ads... by dint of the fact noone watches them when given an opportunity to skip.
Or...
They make a connection between what shows people skip ads for, and stop buying ad time on them. The shows you Tivo might be a death sentance.
While on the one hand, I appricate the fact that ratings are important, but on the other I don't want to release a high level of detail about my viewing habbits.
Please note, that the supermarkets do exactly the same thing. Why do you think loyalty cards exist?
So you can use your grandmother's phone number and make someone crunching the data wonder how an 83 year old woman bought apple juice in Walla Walla Washington and a bag of potato chips in Rauly North Carolina within 5min of eachother.
I'm sure there's a lot of good 5 min videos out there, but I don't think there's any danger that these short videos are going to take the place of longer professional efforts
Reality TV has taken top spots in nielsen ratings. Youtube's business model was based on amature videos, i.e. reality streaming. For entertainment it has, for the time being, taken the place of professional efforts.
That wouldn't necessarily have helped. My hotmail account got marked inactive, and all the email in it wiped, despite my checking it at least once every couple of weeks.
I hardly ever check mine, once every few months at best. No e-mail deleted except for the spam folder.
I wish they would delete my pre-msn hotmail account so I can re-open it as I forgot the password.
In all fairness, my lycos and excite accounts do get deleted, which were handy as they offered free SMS to Europe, but a pain as I have to find someone in the UK willing to accept an SMS to active the service.
I'm talking about their content; entire shows, movies, etc. being out there for free. No advertising revenue! "Hey, we were number one on YouTube! Yeah, well your commercials were cut out of the show/movie...but, we were number one!"
And i'm talking about blip-verts, short 3min segments, like the "Colbert Report" from the daily show. I'm sure there are whole shows available on youtube, not that i've seen any. I have seen short segments which from time to time resulted me taking the time to watch a show, rent/buy a vid.
There might be a slight market because of product placement in the content but that won't cut it with the companies they rely on for advertising revenue. Where is the revenue for Viacom and their sponsors? Free publicity does not cut it for a company that has already made their place in the world.
If your logic was true, then Coca-Cola and Pepsi wouldn't need to advertise. Oscar Meyer wouldn't need the weiner-mobile, and Hormel Foods wouldn't need a spam-mobile. But they still do. Why? Keeps demand up... otherwise a competitor's advertising might might make something think "perhaps i'll give this drink a shot" or "this tastes good, I think I might buy some"
If your logic was also true, then Viacom already has achieved the maximium market share, meaning no room for growth, and only a fool would invest in them. But in terms of cable stations, I believe the "USA network" (NBC/universal) is #1 in terms of viewers. And it just so happens I got into Monk by watching short clips on Youtube.
Viacom has their place in the world, but they are no Time/Warner, closer to NBC-Universal which just so happens to have a deal with Youtube If they hope to reach the level of NBC-universal, it might be wise to consider youtube as a vehicel for promoting their media.
We are not talking about Viacom it self, but rather the content they provide. Everyone for example knows "Kraft" or "safeway", but you do not know every product they sell. Your average American, for example, doesn't know what Vegemite(tm) is though it is a Kraft product. Viacom does spend much airtime and advertising dollars to promote programing. Something like the Dailyshow isn't watched by everyone, pretty popular for a cable show, about 1.5 million viewers nightly. How many more people do you think would watch it if they caught brief blip-verts sent to them in their inbox by friends. How much more likely would it be for something to enter into foreign markets based on this free advertising. Your clearly a hard sell on this idea, I can only speak from experence.
If I was a shareholder of any media company, I would be concerned if Viacom didn't offer blip-verts like NBC does, and hell i'd drop them like a rock if they didn't adapt. Just like the VCR served to increase popularity of cable by providing a signal good enough to tape.
1) Person with VCR tapes HBO 2) Person shares tape 3) Person gets HBO, watches and tapes. The effect is virual and was vital to the groth of the cable industry.
Viacom needs to be reminded that their present growth was due in part to viral pirate marketing.
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What's sad is many priests from my understanding molest children because they feel they are sharing God's love. The Catholic church IMHO hasn't taken a strong enough stand against such atrocities. It seems to be too common to ignore.
The problem with Catholics is IMHO a very unhealthy attitude tward sexuality. I believe part of this started with Saint Francsis of Assisi who while a great humanitarian, was none too kind to his own body. From this, I believe, started a trend in the catholic church that all things that feel good are sinful. As for sex... many catholics believe sex it self is a sin (I was born of original sin), and baptism washes away this sinful act.
Quakers (Friends of man) seem to have a much healther attitude tward sex.
(noting that Jesus explicitly equated lust with adultery as well)
I forget the details on this subject, but this is a common issue with translation between the latin and the english... not to speak of aramaic to greek, greek to latin, latin to english. Horny can be adultry-lust or just strong sexual desire depending on which language you are talking about. On this issue, I believe man is flawed, translations are flawed.
You have to define your use of the term "brothers." If you mean "fellow mankind", then I'll agree with you. If you mean brothers in faith or salvation, then you are incorrect. Jesus plainly stated "No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6b) If one denies Jesus as the son of God and the only source of salvation, he will be doomed to hell.
As for heaven, I have no idea how to get there. But "all men are brothers", which seems to be the popular enlgish translation of that passage. As for getting to heaven, I have no idea... but "all men are brothers, love thy neighbor" is pretty clear. Brothers of Islam should be treated with the same respect as brothers of Christ IMHO.
Oddly enough, Brothers of Islam, Brothers of Judasim, and Brothers of Christ all share one thing in common... Aberham. Actually they share much more in common.
I simply don't possess a knowledge of Islam to know what its teachings are. I've actually suggested that our Sunday school class study other religions so that we can avoid the stereotypes perpetuated by the media and actually understand the basis for these religions. From what I do understand, Islam is a works-based religion where God requires service for salvation, which is a concept entirely contradictory to Christianity.
Not entirely, the Cathlic church has seven sacraments.
Baptism - Gotta wash away that sin your parents commited
Eucharist - Jesus wafers(TM)
Reconciliation - Forgive me father for I have sinned.
Confirmation - I think the age on this has changed, but it's when you say you will be a catholic for life.
Marriage - obvious
Holy Orders - It's somewhat expected that if your partner dies before you do, you undertake holy orders. Some just help out their local church.
Anointing of the Sick - last rights.
(I was going to say birth is a sacrament, but I would be mistaken).
Unless Cathlolics are less Christian than other Christians.
And just as your statement shows- just because someone labels himself "Christian" doesn't mean he is Christian.
And just because someone is Islamic doesn't mean they are, or act like Islamics.
Being a Christian means believing that Jesus Christ, the sole son of God, died on the cross to forgive the sins of mankind.
Being Islamic means you follow the teachings of the Qur'an, accept Muhammad as God's/Allah's last prophet who helped to restore the message of other great prophets which had become corrupt over time.
Becoming born again is not an inward achievement- it is an act of God. God changes your heart and sets your mind on His ways rather than the ways of the world. I cannot simply claim myself to be a Christian and make it so- God performs the conversion.
Alas, I don't have a hotline to God, so I can't verify you partook in God's heart and mind recall, nor can I verify anyone else's participation in this program. I can not verify someone "subbmited" to Allah's A.U.P. I have to go by their word that God directly interviened in their lives. The Holy Father has not seen fit to inact a realID program.
Islam also has it's own protocal to establish what God's will is.
Actions that endanger others' lives are not in line with Christ's teachings. Someone who blows up buildings in the name of God seems suspect to me because his actions don't reflect what Scripture teaches (and what God sets our hearts on). Read the book of Romans- it clearly spells out what being a Christian truly means.
I would also say that those who Molest children in the name of God are not acting in accordance with the Christian Bible. I would also say they are sick bastards, not just because they feel the need to have sex with those who haven't developed any seconadary sexual attributes, but those who commit such acts seem to think God wants them to.
But I will also say that your argument is purely semantic.
The majority of those who call them selves Christian don't blow up buildings nor molest children. The majority of Islamic followers don't either. But if you are going to say Islamics blow up buildings, Christians do as well. To think otherwise is bigotry. Any fundamental, extremist religious group or person who believes their actions are in accordance with God's will which contradict their own sacrid texts or the laws of man scare me.
Read the book of Romans- it clearly spells out what being a Christian truly means.
Which version of the Book of Romans? There are more translations than you can shake a stick at. But no version of the bible is trully clear. But all men are brothers. One should love thy neighbor as one self. If I were to claim to be Christian I would have to accept that those who follow Islam are also brothers. But as a man, I have no idea what God is, nor its will, so I can not accept that one path is any better as another. The best I can do is respect the fact that for many, these beliefs give them comfort and help them to be better people.
That's because Christians don't blow things up when you disagree with them.
Ummm... yes they do. Someone else pointed out some fine examples... but aborition clincs are a big issue among many "Christian" groups.
Any fundamental religious group scares me.
Pop (at least here) is most expensive in schools and on college campuses. A 12oz. can goes for between $.60 and $.80. The same [brand name] can costs $.20 in a 12-pack at the grocery on sale, which they are on every other week.
Actually, his price scale was accurate if talking about a mini-mart, chilled. The mini-mart price of soda tends to be about the same as supermarket 2 liter unchilled.
Grocery stores tend to have the big names on sale. Any non-big brand tends to go for full price, which can float at above and beyond 60c/can. I do remember that as a kid I would buy many sodas in a vending machine as the grocery store price per 6 pack was actually more than the school price. These days, $1.00 to $1.25 is typical of a vending machine.
I think $5.00/12 pack is typical... or about 4.5c/ounce. I typicaly see 2l bottles for about 1.5c/ounce, with smaller bottles costing more than larger onces, though refrigerated. The real bad deal typicaly are those 1l bottles.
Like many others, I have swore off buying sugar water. At first bottled water cost more than bottled soda, and it make "sense" to buy something with flavor esp since I started to see 25c soda machines. But if I absolutly need a drink these days, there are house brands of water in bottles for a decent price.
If they started based on economic value I'm assuming the first seeds included were Hemp. It's the biggest cash crop in the US.
I'm not sure this should be moded funny. Hemp historicly speaking may be described as a cash crop, but rather and something which goverments throughout history mandated farmers grow. Presently, thanks in part to prohibition of it, it can be described as a cash crop.
Navies enjoyed it because it is more rot resistent than cotton or flax. It's stronger than wood pulp paper. As a food it's got protein, carbs, and fat. Medicinal value is uncanny. And, as a bonus, it grows like a weed. There is no doubt in my mind that it should be banked, not only in the unlikely event of a disaster, but the simple fact that it's current value as a recreational drug has encouraged growers to breed based on bank for the puff rather than more practical applications.
Just because it's cartoony doesn't mean it should be taken less seriously. If we took that attitude, next thing you know, you'd be getting shredded by a Hello Kitty full of C4 and nails.
They were up for how many days? 10 days to two weeks?
These things were basicly circuit boards with a load of D-cells, apparently with a photocell to help save battery life. We can safely assume that the power was comming from, at least in part, from the what looked like a set of d-cells. Others have pointed out that this "could have been a pipe bomb" (the ones I saw they were clearly d cells, not wraped in tape)... but given the volume required for battery power for the lights for 10 days to two weeks, plus power required to trigger a primmer, we can safely assume if there were any any incendiaries what so ever, that the volume would be pretty dang small.
So we can assume two things
a) This was just reader board
b) This was an evil terrorist plot
Now if you WANT to believe every hello kitty is packed full of high explosive and nails... you can feel free to do so. Or you can employ some reasoning skills.
Boston was the only city it seems who decided to over react dispite being told this was a stunt brought to you by the cartoon network, a perfectly normal with the exception they used LEDs rather than plain paper. They continued to get media attention even after they disposed of a few so called bombs. They over-reacted... because it justified an extreme responce.
Apple has always been super proprietary in everything they do. These guys are the ultimate control freaks and always have been.
Isn't this the truth. For example... Back in the pre system 8 days it was common for apple to refuse to format a drive which didn't have the handy dandy "apple" branded logo. You "could" format and install a drive using third party software, but imagine trying to "find" this software. I remember I had a powerbook 1400c without a CD-rom, and booting with an external one was... IIRC... impossible without it being branded apple... though technicaly the same one as they used. Crash recovery of an apple seemed to require access to an apple geek that had the approperate hardware/software to jumpstart a dead mac.
From my understanding systems which shipped with OS9 and above seemed to be more tollerant to 3rd party hardware.
I take it you've never had sex with a real woman with the lights on... Or maybe a woman at all.
If you think a real woman is one with a 1080P 60 inch HDTV vagina.... I guess I have never had sex with a real woman.
Seriously if imperfections gross out most of the fellows on Slashdot, I don't think any of you people really go on dates that much or maybe that most of you only have sex when completely drunk.
Or are very very near sighted.
Is it even worth pointing out that some people are born with hearing impairment? Having the use of your ears does not make or break your ability to safely navigate through city streets. Having a fully operational brain is what accomplishes that.
Actually where I live there are communities where there are yellow warning signs that indicate deaf people present. This just so happens to be near an airport.
More complex then that. What's the physical cost of a CD? Blank media from staples works out to a few cents. Before staples, it's even cheaper. Now burning data on a CD does cost money. A red laser in 1983 that can burn media would cost in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now it costs less than 100 USD, again retail.
Commercial CDs are typicaly not burnt, they are pressed. In some ways they are like vinyl in the way they are mass produced, from a master, stamp stamp. The process i'm familar with uses a glass master which then a laser is used to etch the photo sensative layer, then several metal molds are made. Then the metal molds stamp the plastic layer, and reflective layer is added.
This is not like your home brew system.
Tape was always more tedius, you rather needed a loop master which would play and replay as banks of decks recorded them. The process could be automated to a large degree, but still the speed at which you copy was limited, vs pressing while requiring more prep time produced copies faster per unit.
The RIAA 'Key Facts' page claims that based on the 1983 price of CDs, the 1996 price should have been $33.86.
No, because CDs are by far cheaper to mass produce than cassettes or, in all fairness, vinyl. For a small production run of vinyl, i'd expect to spend $1.00 per disc including a paper dust cover. CDs I would expect to spend 1/2 that with a basic sleve for a small production run. Cassette I would expect to spend double that of CD.
Yet for some reason, they sell commercial cassettes for less than a CD.
Not to speak of mastering seems to be done by some yahoo with protools.
I wonder if by firing off a C&D letter you're committing perjury if you're found to be wrong?
I think the rule of thumb is.... it's not perjury if you are wrong, only if you lie. Generally, the best defence is being an idiot.
Now automated harassment on the other hand... that would IMHO be a reasonable claim.
Maybe you'd care to clue us in to which bomb-squad you work in that will qualify a device as non-explosive based entirely on a visual inspection?
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Well... it's simple logic really. A PC board attached to something flat with double stick tape sugests that there is no real payload under. The only bulk of the device would seem to be 4 D cells.
But usually one is in doubt, one would ask the dog.
Every example you have here is shaped like a tube. Luckily, four D-Cells covered in electrical tape looks nothing like a tube. What says a bomb has to be a good bomb?
Tube shaped exposives are very common. But what says a bomb has to be a good bomb? For it to actually DO damage, for it to actually present a clear danager. We could assume the 4 d-cells are a pipebomb, or we could take our handy dandy VM and see if it at least adds up.
Yes, because all bombs have externally visible electronics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjohnpaulx/366631017
Oh cool, those suckers did have photo electric cells on them, great. I clearly didn't flip through those images enough (there were 300+)
But if you'll notice the ground strap where does it go?
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb.
Techincaly it was only Boston AFAIK who thought *BOMB*. Others employed common sense. The city of Boston over reacted.
I use word, excel, and photoshop on a regular basis. I like linux, I do run linux, as well as other FOSS applications.
But... clearly microsoft isn't going to back down from this teacher... so perhaps the OSS community can write a nice letter to Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev and see about getting Russia in on OSS in schools as an alternative to the gulag.
Opinion A: These things don't look like bombs.
Well duh. Only proper official bombs look like bombs. Well even that isn't true because that would suggest every explosive device has the same form/look. They don't. Bombs that are just designed to go boom just look like whatever shape suits their purpose best.
A bomb would contain some form of explosive. These make shift readerboard signs didn't have anything on them that looked like they had anything to do with bombs as they had NO INCENDIARIES.
Bombs are designed to go boom, but their shape affects how they go boom. For example, a firecracker is chaped in such a way that it makes a loud noise. A bottle rocket is shaped so that it gets propelled. Other rockets contain a payload of balls of power. If you take the contents of a firecracker and ignite it, you get a flash not a boom sound.
These things looked like reader boards. Near as I can see, they had no timmer circuits on them, no connection to a primer or payload. I couldn't even spy a photoelectric cell, would would have been handy to keep them lit at night only. I.E. not bomb like in the slightest.
Plus the fact that explosives tend to have weight beyond plastic, a few batteries, and a slew of LEDs.
Only a moron would think that this was a bomb.
The only fine that is justified here is for the trespassing and vandalism.
.... probally the most likely crime commited is posting signs without a permit.
Ummmm.
vandalism - " deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property: vandalism of public buildings." Entry #1 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vandalism
I can sort of see how nailing a "garage sale" or "lost puppy" sign to a telephone pole would be considered vandalism. Technicaly speaking... you do cause damage to a pole which is rather why it's reccomended you buy your own sticks, attach to the sign, and stick them in the ground. Some cities are more tolerant, others require a permit to glue or affix paper on walls or telephone poles. Others require permits to even have a sign on your own property. I would normally consider graffiti to be a form of vandalism... as in spray painting someone else's building, using a bocket knife to write something in a bench or a table.
From what I read these were hacker made readerboard signs... so while graphics it isn't graffiti as it can be removed ease. Tresspass? Perhaps depending on where they went, but a bridge was one example which you can't really call a bridge private property. I think vandalism (deliberate destruction of property)is over reacting
Too bad being stupid is not a crime.
I don't think using a GPS to track someone is a privacy invasion, as long as it's done in public places. Try this as a mental exercise: substitute GPS with human witness. Is it OK for the police to ask people on the street if they saw which way a suspect went? When you are in a public place, you must accept the fact that your privacy is not guaranteed. You may be watched, be it by someone who just happened to be there or by any sort of mechanical device.
How do you tell a GPS unit to only track in public places?
Here's the thing... if you commit a crime in a place where you have no expectation of privacy, and someone witnesses you... that can be used as evidence. That's life. But you can not for example pick someone and follow them around, this is a form of harassment.
But GPS tracking is a sure fire system of making sure the police or other law enforcement KNOW exactly where your car is at any given time, and log this information for an indefinate period of time, well until the batteries run dry. This power can easily be abused, someone who's incorrectly suspected of a crime could easily be stalked until such time as they commit a crime or minor infraction. Or worse yet, that data can be used as a form of blackmail.
It's rather why people like my self feel warrents should be issued for GPS tracking. There needs to be checks and balances to make sure power is not abused.
There is no excuse for helping yourself to Microsoft's software, other than ignorance and laziness, especially in education, where being a virus vector and consumer of Project documents are not primary concerns.
From TFA, the guy bought machines with windows on them. That's a pretty good excuse. If you've seen the russian bootleg edition of windows you'd notice they look professional. I would say they look more professional than many PCs sold here... esp ones that don't include anything to sugest they came with windows except a little sticker.
In fact, at least in America, Microsoft offered free licenses for software if one got their product through a vendor and thought they were legit so long as they provided infomation as to where they got their software from. I.e. if "Joe's computer" sold you a machine with windows, and it wasn't legit, you got free windows for being a MS-Rat.
The problem with this program... no bugger can tell by looking at a PC whether or not it's legit or not. The only way an end user might have a clue is the WGA warning, which just so happens to not apear on specialy produced pirated editions of microsoft windows corp pro.
Lazy or ignorant? My ass! You have to be freaking diligent to verify every single license key you have is legit, a task only microsoft can do, and even then you run the risk of their database being wrong.
To me it seems Netscape has lost his reputation as best browser. Mozilla Firefox is the more used browser these days. For Netscape it is very hard to gain market share with a suit. Still brave of Netscape though.
Is it taken seriously?
V8.12 comes with "WeatherBug" among other things. I don't know if it's a full version of Weatherbug or the spyware infected version, but i'm willing to guess it's the spyware infected version.
How seriously would you take software bundled with "WeatherBug".
The last version I ran was probally V6.xx, which was AIM infected.
Richard Silver is lucky that noone's managed to copyright crap web pages. His page (with animated email gif & quicktime plugin required) does not leave a font, colour, alignment, highlighting, style or indentation untouched.
Don't be so critical... it clearly had to do the hustle to get the page up.
DMCA take down notice in 3, 2...
How can they make it better? Tivo can supply information to providers of content, and advertisers more valuable than any surveys or polls. Tivo can give real time info (rolled up) of what and how viewers watch their show (and ads). An end result would (potentially) be eventual extinction of really annoying and bad ads... by dint of the fact noone watches them when given an opportunity to skip.
Or...
They make a connection between what shows people skip ads for, and stop buying ad time on them. The shows you Tivo might be a death sentance.
While on the one hand, I appricate the fact that ratings are important, but on the other I don't want to release a high level of detail about my viewing habbits.
Please note, that the supermarkets do exactly the same thing. Why do you think loyalty cards exist?
So you can use your grandmother's phone number and make someone crunching the data wonder how an 83 year old woman bought apple juice in Walla Walla Washington and a bag of potato chips in Rauly North Carolina within 5min of eachother.
I'm sure there's a lot of good 5 min videos out there, but I don't think there's any danger that these short videos are going to take the place of longer professional efforts
Reality TV has taken top spots in nielsen ratings. Youtube's business model was based on amature videos, i.e. reality streaming. For entertainment it has, for the time being, taken the place of professional efforts.
That wouldn't necessarily have helped. My hotmail account got marked inactive, and all the email in it wiped, despite my checking it at least once every couple of weeks.
I hardly ever check mine, once every few months at best. No e-mail deleted except for the spam folder.
I wish they would delete my pre-msn hotmail account so I can re-open it as I forgot the password.
In all fairness, my lycos and excite accounts do get deleted, which were handy as they offered free SMS to Europe, but a pain as I have to find someone in the UK willing to accept an SMS to active the service.
I'm talking about their content; entire shows, movies, etc. being out there for free. No advertising revenue! "Hey, we were number one on YouTube! Yeah, well your commercials were cut out of the show/movie...but, we were number one!"
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And i'm talking about blip-verts, short 3min segments, like the "Colbert Report" from the daily show. I'm sure there are whole shows available on youtube, not that i've seen any. I have seen short segments which from time to time resulted me taking the time to watch a show, rent/buy a vid.
There might be a slight market because of product placement in the content but that won't cut it with the companies they rely on for advertising revenue. Where is the revenue for Viacom and their sponsors? Free publicity does not cut it for a company that has already made their place in the world.
If your logic was true, then Coca-Cola and Pepsi wouldn't need to advertise. Oscar Meyer wouldn't need the weiner-mobile, and Hormel Foods wouldn't need a spam-mobile. But they still do. Why? Keeps demand up... otherwise a competitor's advertising might might make something think "perhaps i'll give this drink a shot" or "this tastes good, I think I might buy some"
If your logic was also true, then Viacom already has achieved the maximium market share, meaning no room for growth, and only a fool would invest in them. But in terms of cable stations, I believe the "USA network" (NBC/universal) is #1 in terms of viewers. And it just so happens I got into Monk by watching short clips on Youtube.
http://www.answers.com/topic/viacom
http://www.answers.com/topic/nbc-universal-inc
http://www.answers.com/topic/fox-entertainment-gro up-inc
http://www.answers.com/topic/time-warner-inc
Viacom has their place in the world, but they are no Time/Warner, closer to NBC-Universal which just so happens to have a deal with Youtube If they hope to reach the level of NBC-universal, it might be wise to consider youtube as a vehicel for promoting their media.
To put into perspective, google's net income is about 1/10th that of viacom.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google1feb01
We are not talking about Viacom it self, but rather the content they provide. Everyone for example knows "Kraft" or "safeway", but you do not know every product they sell. Your average American, for example, doesn't know what Vegemite(tm) is though it is a Kraft product. Viacom does spend much airtime and advertising dollars to promote programing. Something like the Dailyshow isn't watched by everyone, pretty popular for a cable show, about 1.5 million viewers nightly. How many more people do you think would watch it if they caught brief blip-verts sent to them in their inbox by friends. How much more likely would it be for something to enter into foreign markets based on this free advertising. Your clearly a hard sell on this idea, I can only speak from experence.
If I was a shareholder of any media company, I would be concerned if Viacom didn't offer blip-verts like NBC does, and hell i'd drop them like a rock if they didn't adapt. Just like the VCR served to increase popularity of cable by providing a signal good enough to tape.
1) Person with VCR tapes HBO
2) Person shares tape
3) Person gets HBO, watches and tapes.
The effect is virual and was vital to the groth of the cable industry.
Viacom needs to be reminded that their present growth was due in part to viral pirate marketing.
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