"The German Federal Government maintains that Scientology is an organization which has primarily economical interests. This idea has been reinforced by a ruling of the Federal Labour court (which is not connected to the government in any way). After having reviewed several Scientology books, the judges concluded that Scientology is not a religion, but a commercial enterprise.
Furthermore, the German government maintains that Scientology tries to distribute its ideas as widely as possible, ideally leading to a society where humans life together according to Scientology rules. A closer look at Hubbard's writings shows that this is not desirable since Scientology is structured in a totalitarian, anti-democratic fashion."
The marketing people are complicit with corporate directors in creating the exaggerated, misleading or outright false messages to begin with. The messengers would be the tv stations, magazines and newspapers that publish them.
"One word, "population." How about you translate those figures into engineers graduated per capita? China = 500,000:1,306,313,812. India = 200,000:1,080,264,388. United States = 70,000:295,734,134. That's roughly 1:2612 for China, 1:5401 for India and 1:4224 for the United States. Those numbers aren't bad at all..."
Ahh, but how many of those graduating in the US are Chinese and Indian nationals who will ultimately return to their own countries? Also, considering the "many eyes" concept, how much more advancement could 500000 engineers make in a given time period than 70000? They could put almost 50 people on each problem our 7 work on. Not that all problems scale in such a way, but that just means that they might have 42 working on OTHER stuff after matching us.
I'd be pretty amazed if it was anywhere near 4000 again. And even if it was then that is the PRICE OF FREEDOM goddamnit. And yes I would feel exactly the same way if my entire family was in that 4000.
"Co-producer Michael Wilson of EON Productions said the invisible car in "Die Another Day" had begun to dip the hugely successful movie series into the realm of the unbelievable."
Going with the general spirit of dorkiness in the rest of this discussion, I'll point out that Bond had no invisible car and that you're most likely thinking of Wonder Woman's plane.
The what is that the government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. If I don't want the services that would be made easier to provide by having a state approved ID then I should not be required to have one. The government is not supposed to be some kind of parent people cave to at it's every whim of convenience. People have forgotten, largley due to fear it seems, exactly what freedom is. I say 'so what' if the service people can't super-easily identify a forgery? There's no guarantee they'll be able to spot a forged national ID either. The 9/11 hijackers presented valid ID at the airport, you'll still be arrested by police or treated by EMT regardless of your ID, the liquor store guy can be trained and it's none of the hotel person's damned business who I am as long as I pay them.
"I've carried a state ID for over 20 years, and I've never had anyone ask to see my papers."
Which doesn't mean it's a good idea to make it easier for such a thing to happen in the future.
What I'm trying to point out is not that Linux is immune, but that under an OSS system, where you would be much more likely to be running a video driver not written by the manufacturer than under Windows, a video driver based rootkit has still not materialized. At least none that I've ever heard of or can find a reference to on Google.
Being able to laugh at your own misfortune, even along with others, is quite different from laughing at the pain of others when they themselves quite likely don't think it funny. Specifically, different in a sociopathic kind of way. It is sad that this has to be explained.
Thanks for the sweeping generalization. I'm a Mac owner who also has a Linux box that dual-boots Win2000 for the sole purpose of playing games due to the inferiority of consoles. Blah.
I'm amazed that there was no smell problem even with turkeys. There is a Tyson facility south of the city I live in and for miles around it the smell is simply indescribable.
The experiment in unbacked currency has only been going on for about thirty years. There is no historical example of it working over a long time frame for any government, ever. It's simply human nature to screw it up eventually. And see my sig.
"All Clinton wanted to do was crush the life out of the hugely growing, vital thing that is the web"
If this were Fark, an orly owl would be here.
"You're really going to let Clinton of the hook on this?"
Certainly he's culpable for many stupid things I'm sure. COPA among them. Fine. I have no love for the man. The fact that _others_ are trying to do further questionable things on the basis of one of those stupidities is what I thought you were trying to whitewash. Presidential stupidity on top of stupidity as it were. Bush and Clinton are BOTH to blame for the situation in that regard. If that's what you meant, rather than a transferral of blame in toto to Clinton, we have no disagreement I think. Though maybe you are saying that Clinton IS solely to blame for setting the scene to begin with, so to speak. I can see that too, but still dislike what Bush is doing with it.
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The only trouble with your analysis is that it leaves no room for one to feel superior if one does not consider oneself a part of the 'group'.
"I personally hate Scientology but they are a religion and must be respected as one."
Not necessarily. From http://home.snafu.de/tilman/krasel/germany/:
"The German Federal Government maintains that Scientology is an organization which has primarily economical interests. This idea has been reinforced by a ruling of the Federal Labour court (which is not connected to the government in any way). After having reviewed several Scientology books, the judges concluded that Scientology is not a religion, but a commercial enterprise.
Furthermore, the German government maintains that Scientology tries to distribute its ideas as widely as possible, ideally leading to a society where humans life together according to Scientology rules. A closer look at Hubbard's writings shows that this is not desirable since Scientology is structured in a totalitarian, anti-democratic fashion."
There is an entire faq on the Germany v Scientology thing: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/germany.txt
Troll? Humour before swine...
It's a British thing I believe. Not supposed to make sense. Now where are my pens?
You'd have to eat nearly a pound of milk chocolate to get the amount of caffeine in one cup of coffee.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Couldn't even be bothered to read the summary could you?
"The problem isn't limited to the PS3 -- many HDTV cable boxes and have the same problem."
> The gaming world has spoken
Sounds more like one AC pissing in the wind to me.
"Sex isn't as demonized as it is is in the United States"
"blowjobs, actual penetration, nothing *really* nasty because I don't have that"
Interesting choice of words in light of the first statement.
What exactly would Bush have to do to lose your support?
The marketing people are complicit with corporate directors in creating the exaggerated, misleading or outright false messages to begin with. The messengers would be the tv stations, magazines and newspapers that publish them.
Right. Far better to roll over and play dead. Pussy.
"One word, "population." How about you translate those figures into engineers graduated per capita? China = 500,000:1,306,313,812. India = 200,000:1,080,264,388. United States = 70,000:295,734,134. That's roughly 1:2612 for China, 1:5401 for India and 1:4224 for the United States. Those numbers aren't bad at all..."
Ahh, but how many of those graduating in the US are Chinese and Indian nationals who will ultimately return to their own countries? Also, considering the "many eyes" concept, how much more advancement could 500000 engineers make in a given time period than 70000? They could put almost 50 people on each problem our 7 work on. Not that all problems scale in such a way, but that just means that they might have 42 working on OTHER stuff after matching us.
I'd be pretty amazed if it was anywhere near 4000 again. And even if it was then that is the PRICE OF FREEDOM goddamnit. And yes I would feel exactly the same way if my entire family was in that 4000.
Holy shit, there was an invisible car!
"Co-producer Michael Wilson of EON Productions said the invisible car in "Die Another Day" had begun to dip the hugely successful movie series into the realm of the unbelievable."
Never saw that one. Now I'm REAL glad.
Going with the general spirit of dorkiness in the rest of this discussion, I'll point out that Bond had no invisible car and that you're most likely thinking of Wonder Woman's plane.
The what is that the government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. If I don't want the services that would be made easier to provide by having a state approved ID then I should not be required to have one. The government is not supposed to be some kind of parent people cave to at it's every whim of convenience. People have forgotten, largley due to fear it seems, exactly what freedom is. I say 'so what' if the service people can't super-easily identify a forgery? There's no guarantee they'll be able to spot a forged national ID either. The 9/11 hijackers presented valid ID at the airport, you'll still be arrested by police or treated by EMT regardless of your ID, the liquor store guy can be trained and it's none of the hotel person's damned business who I am as long as I pay them.
"I've carried a state ID for over 20 years, and I've never had anyone ask to see my papers."
Which doesn't mean it's a good idea to make it easier for such a thing to happen in the future.
What I'm trying to point out is not that Linux is immune, but that under an OSS system, where you would be much more likely to be running a video driver not written by the manufacturer than under Windows, a video driver based rootkit has still not materialized. At least none that I've ever heard of or can find a reference to on Google.
Yeah, after all, just look how critical signed drivers have been in preventing rootkits on Linux boxes...
"Those who do not understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer
Being able to laugh at your own misfortune, even along with others, is quite different from laughing at the pain of others when they themselves quite likely don't think it funny. Specifically, different in a sociopathic kind of way. It is sad that this has to be explained.
Thanks for the sweeping generalization. I'm a Mac owner who also has a Linux box that dual-boots Win2000 for the sole purpose of playing games due to the inferiority of consoles. Blah.
I'm amazed that there was no smell problem even with turkeys. There is a Tyson facility south of the city I live in and for miles around it the smell is simply indescribable.
The experiment in unbacked currency has only been going on for about thirty years. There is no historical example of it working over a long time frame for any government, ever. It's simply human nature to screw it up eventually. And see my sig.
Should have read:
In Capitalist America, the economy destroys you!
"All Clinton wanted to do was crush the life out of the hugely growing, vital thing that is the web"
If this were Fark, an orly owl would be here.
"You're really going to let Clinton of the hook on this?"
Certainly he's culpable for many stupid things I'm sure. COPA among them. Fine. I have no love for the man. The fact that _others_ are trying to do further questionable things on the basis of one of those stupidities is what I thought you were trying to whitewash. Presidential stupidity on top of stupidity as it were. Bush and Clinton are BOTH to blame for the situation in that regard. If that's what you meant, rather than a transferral of blame in toto to Clinton, we have no disagreement I think. Though maybe you are saying that Clinton IS solely to blame for setting the scene to begin with, so to speak. I can see that too, but still dislike what Bush is doing with it.