Until you realize everything you consider rational is itself a product of the universe. Why must anything have created it? The whole concept of causality may not apply.
And even if there was some meta-event that brought it into being, that still doesn't require a conscious being(s) to invoke it. And if was the result of some kind of awareness, that doesn't necessarily mean you can relate to it, or even recognize its existence as such. And if it does think in a manner compatible with this universe, it doesn't mean it gives the slightest concern to those things within the universe. And if it does, it may no more interested in life than as we are to dirt. If it does pay attention to life, then we may be nothing more to it than bacteria, still on evolution's path toward some kind of true awareness.
This whole existence implies causality, causality implies a god, and god implies MY god argument is complete bunk. And if the deist can say "nothing created God, he just is", then I can certainly say the same of the universe itself. An I have evidence, for we know the universe exists.
Why does this goofy Green mysticism get modded up as Interesting?
Human arrogance is the only thing that will free us from "Mother Earth's" slavery.
Remember, earth-boy, in little time - little compared to the age of humans, we've gone from animals that can talk to animals that can escape this ball of mud on towers of flame, to animals that can split atoms and peer at the very essence of the universe itself, to animals that can duplicate and direct the processes of life itself according to our own whims.
How's that for mysticism, hmm? We have learned the powers of the gods, and we will remake this universe for our amusement. --
Because the primary goal of government is to protect property rights. And who do you think owns most of the property? Social services may cost more, but when push comes to shove, it's a lot cheaper to keep the peasants fed than have them rioting all over the place.
And the average person hardly benefits from our greatest cost, the military. Sure, they keep us safe, but how much is spent protecting our borders versus how much is spent policing the world? You know, it's that whole "protecting American interests "thing, which really means keeping markets open and American-owned property in forgeign lands in the hands of Americans. --
But another witty saying can smack it down: Information wants you to give me a dollar. - Bruce Sterling
I think the point should be made that since intellectual property is a legal construct, and that it does not exist without the state making it so, that we citizens have a right to question it, or even reject it, if we so desire.
Additionally, the more wealth the 1% is left with, the easier it is for me to get funding to launch a cool idea -- or get a job with those who have the cool ideas.
Wow, that's quite a rationalization of voodoo economics. Wouldn't you think it'd be easier to launch your cool idea and reap the maximum reward of its success if 40% of the wealth weren't in the hands of 1% of the people? Do you like groveling to the rich for seed money, only to have them take most of the profit from your hard work?
And do you not think that having that 40% more evenly distributed would lessen the demand on government services?
The flaws in our economy will not be fixed by monkeying with the tax rates. Only when people recognize the coercion implicit in economic dependance, through either employment to a plutocrat or entitlement from the state, will they work to remove that dependance. --
Use Source Offsite. They have a linux client, which I haven't used, but their Windows client kicks ass. Even on a local network it is faster than VSS. They have command line clients too, which are great for scripting.
Still though, it ain't cheap, and is no substitute for CVS. --
Techniques for Enhancing Score under a Credibility Metric of Electronic Forums
Seven techniques are claimed for enhancing individual scores under any credibility metric of any electronic forum. Credibility metric is defined as any means of measuring and ranking the credibility of the participants of an electronic forum. Electronic forum is defined as any computer system that allows the posting, archival, and retrieval of messages of one or more users.
Reiterate the popular opinion at length, using an appropriate jargon to give the appearance of expertise.
Criticise the popular opinion at length, using an appropriate jargon to the give the appearance of expertise. This technique may be greatly enhanced by criticising the collective mentality of those holding the popular opinion.
Accuse some editors/moderators of bias or censorship, thereby encouraging the others to correct such a grievous abuse of power.
Include hyperlinks to relevant or irrelevant information. Nobody actually follows links.
Include references to ideologies which encourage zealotry, in both practice and criticism. The adherants and critics will moderate frequently but will tend to cancel each other out. However, those who adhere to the dogma of "free speech" will perceive censorship in negative moderation, and thus tip the balance toward positive.
Make jokes. Good or bad, it doesn't matter, someone will find it funny.
Criticize other licensees of this patent for practicing its methods.
Except that computer in THX-1138. It had the cost of everything, even people, figured out, maximizing utility down to the second. I know it's supposed to be a dystopia, but man, that was so cool. If there really was such a thing as objective value, (a myth even some died-in-wool capitalists believe), it would be possible, but it ain't, which is why our hero hates his society while everyone else thinks it's just peachy-keen. --
FYI, there's a story at Salon about it here. I submitted it the slashdot bosses, but of course they rejected it, as it didn't have the word "Linux" in it. --
An intentional reference to the third-world baby formula scam, whereby babies get hooked on formula while they're malnurished mothers quit lactating?
Yes, why not do the half-step, when its to your advatange. Toss a bone to the desperate, because their dependance is far more profitable than ignoring them. --
If you really gave a damn for foreign workers, you'd be calling for more green cards, more citizenship, and open borders like the rest of us. Cut the bullshit you shill, no one's buying it. --
When people scream bloddy murder about poor security, it's usually because they've payed money for the product that failed, and the failure results in the loss of much more money. Open security is good security, and that benefits the companies producing the products and the people buying the them.
SDMI is nothing like this, because it benefits none of us, not even the artists, only the record execs. Helping SDMI is like buying into a ponzi scheme.
And besides, you do realize that this scheme is dependant upon closed, secret, and unhackable hardware? It's broken from the start, so why waste effort trying to make it work? --
Darn skippy! Where the hell is James Gosling? For a second I was impressed that they recognized James Clark (XML/SGML wizard), but it turns out they're referring to some suit at Netscape (you know, the one who also founded SGI). Marc Andreesson only gets a brief mention, though he co-founded Netscape, and actually wrote the damn web browser. --
That's sad. Of course, he was mobbed at E3 in Atlanta when word got out that he was signing the free Starship Titanic posters they were giving away.
I got my poster, but, I've never bought or even played the game. I guess it's a generational thing, as I tend to lump those style games as Myst clones. There are far easier was to look at ray-traced eye candy.
Of course, people do idolize Myst and 7th Guest, so maybe the genre just peaked a lot more quickly than text adventure.
But don't worry, being part of the Wolf/Doom/Quake generation, I'm now deathly bored of all the new titles of the 3d genre. All things must pass, I guess. --
I believe you're thinking of Gravis with the game pads. And dammit, my mouse is MouseSystems compatible. The only reason you don't see MouseSystems mice everywhere is M$ doesn't include drivers for them by default. MouseSystems practically invented the mouse as it exists now, and for a while every three button mouse sold that wasn't made by Logitech had a switch to convert between MS and 2-button. (Hint, the MS didn't stand for Microsoft). I don't know what they did to piss off Microsoft that Logitech didn't do, but it is a great shame that the simple lack of default drivers has killed their market share. I've had my MouseSystems mouse for well over four years now, with no problems, even playing Quake with it. I've never seen a Logitech or M$ mouse hold up like that. --
Um, no, the appropriate terms are "warez d00d" and "script kiddie". Anyone with demonstratable skill is already a hacker under the old definition. The rest are children trying to be cool.
Speaking of trying to be cool, I swear, I don't think Corely is too far removed from the mindset of that movie "Hackers". The dogma in his interview is so thick with fanboyish identity worship I kept expecting him to scream out "HACK THE PLANET!"
The IBM guy is a lot closer to the truth. But his interview is still corporate propoganda, trying to paint the picture that anyone interested in computer secruity is a social misfit who gets his jollies trashing other people's machines. He couldn't have been more clearer if he said "hire us to test your security, you can't trust it to those sociopathic kids!"
Why are all sides of this issue so full of crap? --
At my college, you couldn't even sell back books with opened CDs (probably because you can retain a copy of the contents of the CD). That's why the smart people left those CDs in the plastic. If your professor required you to do something with the contents, you simply copied it from a poor shmuck who opened it. (Which is perfectly ethical, though maybe not legal according to the shrinkwrap agreement, as you bought rights to it when you bought the book). Don't let them take away your first sale rights; its what textbook publishers have been trying to do for well over a century. --
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Until you realize everything you consider rational is itself a product of the universe. Why must anything have created it? The whole concept of causality may not apply.
And even if there was some meta-event that brought it into being, that still doesn't require a conscious being(s) to invoke it. And if was the result of some kind of awareness, that doesn't necessarily mean you can relate to it, or even recognize its existence as such. And if it does think in a manner compatible with this universe, it doesn't mean it gives the slightest concern to those things within the universe. And if it does, it may no more interested in life than as we are to dirt. If it does pay attention to life, then we may be nothing more to it than bacteria, still on evolution's path toward some kind of true awareness.
This whole existence implies causality, causality implies a god, and god implies MY god argument is complete bunk. And if the deist can say "nothing created God, he just is", then I can certainly say the same of the universe itself. An I have evidence, for we know the universe exists.
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Why does this goofy Green mysticism get modded up as Interesting?
Human arrogance is the only thing that will free us from "Mother Earth's" slavery.
Remember, earth-boy, in little time - little compared to the age of humans, we've gone from animals that can talk to animals that can escape this ball of mud on towers of flame, to animals that can split atoms and peer at the very essence of the universe itself, to animals that can duplicate and direct the processes of life itself according to our own whims.
How's that for mysticism, hmm? We have learned the powers of the gods, and we will remake this universe for our amusement.
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The moderators can bite my shiny metal ass. You still haven't answered my questions.
Know whatta mean?
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You think Slashdot is an example of good design!?
You think hetergenous networks are a bad thing!?
And you don't seem to understand the difference between bandwidth and latency.
I suppose you write your web apps using ISAPI/NSAPI, or god forbid, ASP?
And what's wrong with being a mongrel? Better then being some slobbering inbred lap-dog owned by effete social parasites.
And what's this have to do with politics, anyway?
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Because the primary goal of government is to protect property rights. And who do you think owns most of the property? Social services may cost more, but when push comes to shove, it's a lot cheaper to keep the peasants fed than have them rioting all over the place.
And the average person hardly benefits from our greatest cost, the military. Sure, they keep us safe, but how much is spent protecting our borders versus how much is spent policing the world? You know, it's that whole "protecting American interests "thing, which really means keeping markets open and American-owned property in forgeign lands in the hands of Americans.
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...even though I'll probably wind up voting for him.
You're throwing your vote away?
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But another witty saying can smack it down: Information wants you to give me a dollar. - Bruce Sterling
I think the point should be made that since intellectual property is a legal construct, and that it does not exist without the state making it so, that we citizens have a right to question it, or even reject it, if we so desire.
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He's saving it for the Quake level.
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Additionally, the more wealth the 1% is left with, the easier it is for me to get funding to launch a cool idea -- or get a job with those who have the cool ideas.
Wow, that's quite a rationalization of voodoo economics. Wouldn't you think it'd be easier to launch your cool idea and reap the maximum reward of its success if 40% of the wealth weren't in the hands of 1% of the people? Do you like groveling to the rich for seed money, only to have them take most of the profit from your hard work?
And do you not think that having that 40% more evenly distributed would lessen the demand on government services?
The flaws in our economy will not be fixed by monkeying with the tax rates. Only when people recognize the coercion implicit in economic dependance, through either employment to a plutocrat or entitlement from the state, will they work to remove that dependance.
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Are you this guy?
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Use Source Offsite. They have a linux client, which I haven't used, but their Windows client kicks ass. Even on a local network it is faster than VSS. They have command line clients too, which are great for scripting.
Still though, it ain't cheap, and is no substitute for CVS.
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Seven techniques are claimed for enhancing individual scores under any credibility metric of any electronic forum. Credibility metric is defined as any means of measuring and ranking the credibility of the participants of an electronic forum. Electronic forum is defined as any computer system that allows the posting, archival, and retrieval of messages of one or more users.
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That's exactly the kind of thing Englishman would say! You burn down a church full of children and expect us to believe your lies!
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Since you're so cavalier about free speech, I think you should pay my ISP bill so that I might engage in free speech too.
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Except that computer in THX-1138. It had the cost of everything, even people, figured out, maximizing utility down to the second. I know it's supposed to be a dystopia, but man, that was so cool. If there really was such a thing as objective value, (a myth even some died-in-wool capitalists believe), it would be possible, but it ain't, which is why our hero hates his society while everyone else thinks it's just peachy-keen.
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FYI, there's a story at Salon about it here. I submitted it the slashdot bosses, but of course they rejected it, as it didn't have the word "Linux" in it.
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An intentional reference to the third-world baby formula scam, whereby babies get hooked on formula while they're malnurished mothers quit lactating?
Yes, why not do the half-step, when its to your advatange. Toss a bone to the desperate, because their dependance is far more profitable than ignoring them.
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If you really gave a damn for foreign workers, you'd be calling for more green cards, more citizenship, and open borders like the rest of us. Cut the bullshit you shill, no one's buying it.
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Wow, what a great straw man you've constructed.
When people scream bloddy murder about poor security, it's usually because they've payed money for the product that failed, and the failure results in the loss of much more money. Open security is good security, and that benefits the companies producing the products and the people buying the them.
SDMI is nothing like this, because it benefits none of us, not even the artists, only the record execs. Helping SDMI is like buying into a ponzi scheme.
And besides, you do realize that this scheme is dependant upon closed, secret, and unhackable hardware? It's broken from the start, so why waste effort trying to make it work?
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Won't you join in?
and drink the Kool-aid?
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Darn skippy! Where the hell is James Gosling? For a second I was impressed that they recognized James Clark (XML/SGML wizard), but it turns out they're referring to some suit at Netscape (you know, the one who also founded SGI). Marc Andreesson only gets a brief mention, though he co-founded Netscape, and actually wrote the damn web browser.
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That's sad. Of course, he was mobbed at E3 in Atlanta when word got out that he was signing the free Starship Titanic posters they were giving away.
I got my poster, but, I've never bought or even played the game. I guess it's a generational thing, as I tend to lump those style games as Myst clones. There are far easier was to look at ray-traced eye candy.
Of course, people do idolize Myst and 7th Guest, so maybe the genre just peaked a lot more quickly than text adventure.
But don't worry, being part of the Wolf/Doom/Quake generation, I'm now deathly bored of all the new titles of the 3d genre. All things must pass, I guess.
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I believe you're thinking of Gravis with the game pads. And dammit, my mouse is MouseSystems compatible. The only reason you don't see MouseSystems mice everywhere is M$ doesn't include drivers for them by default. MouseSystems practically invented the mouse as it exists now, and for a while every three button mouse sold that wasn't made by Logitech had a switch to convert between MS and 2-button. (Hint, the MS didn't stand for Microsoft). I don't know what they did to piss off Microsoft that Logitech didn't do, but it is a great shame that the simple lack of default drivers has killed their market share. I've had my MouseSystems mouse for well over four years now, with no problems, even playing Quake with it. I've never seen a Logitech or M$ mouse hold up like that.
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Um, no, the appropriate terms are "warez d00d" and "script kiddie". Anyone with demonstratable skill is already a hacker under the old definition. The rest are children trying to be cool.
Speaking of trying to be cool, I swear, I don't think Corely is too far removed from the mindset of that movie "Hackers". The dogma in his interview is so thick with fanboyish identity worship I kept expecting him to scream out "HACK THE PLANET!"
The IBM guy is a lot closer to the truth. But his interview is still corporate propoganda, trying to paint the picture that anyone interested in computer secruity is a social misfit who gets his jollies trashing other people's machines. He couldn't have been more clearer if he said "hire us to test your security, you can't trust it to those sociopathic kids!"
Why are all sides of this issue so full of crap?
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At my college, you couldn't even sell back books with opened CDs (probably because you can retain a copy of the contents of the CD). That's why the smart people left those CDs in the plastic. If your professor required you to do something with the contents, you simply copied it from a poor shmuck who opened it. (Which is perfectly ethical, though maybe not legal according to the shrinkwrap agreement, as you bought rights to it when you bought the book). Don't let them take away your first sale rights; its what textbook publishers have been trying to do for well over a century.
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