However, I will tell you that the Mormon contributions to genetics through their recognition of genealogy and genetics has made many advancements in medicine and biology possible.
It's great that religious precepts can lead to an increased interest in a scientific topic. Additionally, the LDS interest in geneology has had great effects for history and archivism in general.
But let's be honest, they do it so they can find and baptize ancestors who weren't privileged enough to have heard 'the word'. It's a casual coincidence that allows the LDS to support science in this way. You can be damn sure that if some other field of study threatened either the faith or the church organization, they would come down as hard against it as any flat-young-earther in Kansas.
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The problems arise from people's weakness of will and inability to control themselves and their addictions.
That's why they're called addictions! Step down from your moral argument: the pope is just as likely to get addicted to heroin as Joe sixpack. That's why it's dangerous.
Software is not subject to some of the known laws of physics. Unlike physical things, it has no mass and can travel at the speed of light.
Nonsense. You're just abstracting something that at a lower level is entirely physically deterministic. If software is really apart from physics, then you won't mind a strong magnetic field run over your hardrive?
Minutely examining the hardware can tell you everything about the software given that you have the tools and the time to figure it out.
I agree. I'm willing to give CivIV a chance since some of the things that made SMAC for me seem to have been integrated like Social Engineering --> Civics.
Who am I kidding I'm a glutton for punishment. I bought Civ3, Call to Power, Call to Power 2....ONE MORE TURN!
The funny thing about Atlas Shrugged to me was that it showed how real a force labor had become in the half century up til the time when she wrote the book. Before that time, her protegonists would simply have been able to exert their will upon whomever via hiring / firing or by unabashed graft and corruption.
Once labor organized and provided and provided a counterweight, the industrialists were all of a sudden Rand's heroic victims. Phooey i say. When the unions hire Pinkertons to murder executives, then we can talk victimization.
But then again, with the death of American manufacturing, the rise of the service industry and union murdering tactics like California's Prop 75, I guess it's really a moot point now anyway.
As Mr Lebowski said, "Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost."
What a dodge on the CD issue. There are very real issues with a copy protection scheme that depends on a fragile and unique (Insert Disk 1 of 6) artifact. Thank your for not answering the question. Bastard.
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It's not just Ma Bell. Consider the mergers in the oil industry and the shared refining / distribution systems, and you could make a good argument that Standard Oil is back too.
When my tinfoil hat lets me have these sort of thoughts, I had surmised that after Bush v Gore, the sitting justices had agreed not to retire during Bush's tenure because of their deciding role in it. Only after Bush was more legitimately re-elected would they consider it, but maybe not even then. Rehnquist died in office, and O'Connor had to choose between the SC and her husband with a deteriorating case of alzheimers.
Come to the bay area and you'll see the exact opposite thing. It remarkable actually. The various ranges of hills provide various geographic boundaries and the sprawl and grown up to them and splashed right over those hills like a wave crashing down. Drive 580 east from Oakland sometime and see what I mean.
My Hard drives are smaller than tapes would be. They let me get at all my video instantly. They let me manipulate all of it without having to copy back to a HD to bring it online. When I get another big hard drive, I can back it all up easily.
I get around this by having my video on the hard drive and my software on tape.
In some other discussion of.com failures, someone remarked in comments about how the marketing blitz of the.com world failed miserably because it didn't take into consideration who really makes decisions and influences people about computer related decisions. Instead of speding X millions of dollars buying a superbowl ad, the successful companies tried and succeeded into getting their products into the hands and minds of the alpha geeks and was then disseminated to the unwashed (maybe the washed in this case) masses. Google didnt become the monolith it is because it ran stupid superbowl ads. It had a superior product, and geeks told geeks who told normal people.
Maybe this is apple's way of doing the same thing. If installing OS X on your Fry's especiale pizza box system is easy, but not trivial, the alpha geeks are given a challenge to sort out the messes that x86 OS X represents. Hell maybe the open source mentality will lead to bugfixes headed back to Cupertino.
Once this core geek-ocracy is on board with x86, applications are ready, the x86 Macs appear, THEN will the influence have spread to those with purchase authority, both in the home and in the office....so maybe my tinfoil hat is on inside-out, but I think, 'leaking' x86 OS X was both intentional, and brilliant!
You might have a better argument if you invoked the number of American military excursions as opposed to casualties inflicted. We were all over the place in 'our' hemisphere in the first half of this century, but in terms of carnage, the eastern front between Germany and Russia in both world wars is easily an order of magnitude greater than the number of casualties inflicted by American forces, even after considering the Pacific War.
Ah but then the Captain is mysteriously murdered, the crew splits into ideologically distinct factions, each starting their own competing colonies!...but what will the planet think of all this?
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Paint Texas white?
Pat Buchanan? Is that you?
Pornzilla.
Really. I'd probably be using opera if it weren't for the pornzilla suite.
However, I will tell you that the Mormon contributions to genetics through their recognition of genealogy and genetics has made many advancements in medicine and biology possible.
It's great that religious precepts can lead to an increased interest in a scientific topic. Additionally, the LDS interest in geneology has had great effects for history and archivism in general.
But let's be honest, they do it so they can find and baptize ancestors who weren't privileged enough to have heard 'the word'. It's a casual coincidence that allows the LDS to support science in this way. You can be damn sure that if some other field of study threatened either the faith or the church organization, they would come down as hard against it as any flat-young-earther in Kansas.
The problems arise from people's weakness of will and inability to control themselves and their addictions.
That's why they're called addictions! Step down from your moral argument: the pope is just as likely to get addicted to heroin as Joe sixpack. That's why it's dangerous.
Software is not subject to some of the known laws of physics. Unlike physical things, it has no mass and can travel at the speed of light.
Nonsense. You're just abstracting something that at a lower level is entirely physically deterministic. If software is really apart from physics, then you won't mind a strong magnetic field run over your hardrive?
Minutely examining the hardware can tell you everything about the software given that you have the tools and the time to figure it out.
I agree. I'm willing to give CivIV a chance since some of the things that made SMAC for me seem to have been integrated like Social Engineering --> Civics.
...ONE MORE TURN!
Who am I kidding I'm a glutton for punishment. I bought Civ3, Call to Power, Call to Power 2.
The funny thing about Atlas Shrugged to me was that it showed how real a force labor had become in the half century up til the time when she wrote the book. Before that time, her protegonists would simply have been able to exert their will upon whomever via hiring / firing or by unabashed graft and corruption.
Once labor organized and provided and provided a counterweight, the industrialists were all of a sudden Rand's heroic victims. Phooey i say. When the unions hire Pinkertons to murder executives, then we can talk victimization.
But then again, with the death of American manufacturing, the rise of the service industry and union murdering tactics like California's Prop 75, I guess it's really a moot point now anyway.
As Mr Lebowski said, "Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost."
What a dodge on the CD issue. There are very real issues with a copy protection scheme that depends on a fragile and unique (Insert Disk 1 of 6) artifact. Thank your for not answering the question. Bastard.
It's not just Ma Bell. Consider the mergers in the oil industry and the shared refining / distribution systems, and you could make a good argument that Standard Oil is back too.
I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.
Hell no, I still had the newspaper headline tacked up on my wall saying "Andrew wreaks havoc"
Hey congratulations man
Meanwhile, in my home cities I have riots because I have too many troops too far away from my cities.
I was just thinking, "Everything I know about religion I learned from Sid Meier."
I used to play DAoC until some bastard stole my cloudsong.
My current password is "ilovepigs" and all i have to do to find it is look through my slashdot post history on another PC.
Better not do that on your girlfriend's PC.
Make that your ex-girlfriend's PC.
When my tinfoil hat lets me have these sort of thoughts, I had surmised that after Bush v Gore, the sitting justices had agreed not to retire during Bush's tenure because of their deciding role in it. Only after Bush was more legitimately re-elected would they consider it, but maybe not even then. Rehnquist died in office, and O'Connor had to choose between the SC and her husband with a deteriorating case of alzheimers.
What do think Dianetics is?
That sounds more like a problem of delegation, not of technology
Come to the bay area and you'll see the exact opposite thing. It remarkable actually. The various ranges of hills provide various geographic boundaries and the sprawl and grown up to them and splashed right over those hills like a wave crashing down. Drive 580 east from Oakland sometime and see what I mean.
I get around this by having my video on the hard drive and my software on tape.
In some other discussion of .com failures, someone remarked in comments about how the marketing blitz of the .com world failed miserably because it didn't take into consideration who really makes decisions and influences people about computer related decisions. Instead of speding X millions of dollars buying a superbowl ad, the successful companies tried and succeeded into getting their products into the hands and minds of the alpha geeks and was then disseminated to the unwashed (maybe the washed in this case) masses. Google didnt become the monolith it is because it ran stupid superbowl ads. It had a superior product, and geeks told geeks who told normal people.
...so maybe my tinfoil hat is on inside-out, but I think, 'leaking' x86 OS X was both intentional, and brilliant!
Maybe this is apple's way of doing the same thing. If installing OS X on your Fry's especiale pizza box system is easy, but not trivial, the alpha geeks are given a challenge to sort out the messes that x86 OS X represents. Hell maybe the open source mentality will lead to bugfixes headed back to Cupertino.
Once this core geek-ocracy is on board with x86, applications are ready, the x86 Macs appear, THEN will the influence have spread to those with purchase authority, both in the home and in the office.
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You might have a better argument if you invoked the number of American military excursions as opposed to casualties inflicted. We were all over the place in 'our' hemisphere in the first half of this century, but in terms of carnage, the eastern front between Germany and Russia in both world wars is easily an order of magnitude greater than the number of casualties inflicted by American forces, even after considering the Pacific War.
Ah but then the Captain is mysteriously murdered, the crew splits into ideologically distinct factions, each starting their own competing colonies! ...but what will the planet think of all this?