Cue a million posts by smarmy fuckers about how religion is the only thing harming society, and if we could just make one more smug internet post about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it would all go away!
You complain about people who do not share your myths as ''trolling religious people'' and then proceed to do the same.
What you are doing is to discourage discussion by getting those who might reply to think ''am I a troll and asshole?''.
People might not get so upsed about beliefs if everyone did indeed ''keep their faith to themselves'', but this generally does not happen with the result that you irritate non believers and induce those who adhere to different myths to shout back to show that their myths are the true ones...
No: I don't think that ''religion is the only thing harming society'', there are plenty of other things as well.
What Mr Niko Alm is doing is to raise the question as to why religious people can bend society to give them special privileges. Why should everyone not be allowed to wear what ever they want on their head in their driving license photograph? Why restrict this right just to those who believe some mythologies to be true ?
I don't know about cool but it is a very good and stable platform for a busines. It is also the only distro that really seems to have got on top of SELinux.
Why was he given a police caution ? He did nothing illegal, nothing that police had previously been asked to be told about, so why a caution ? Yes what he did accidentally caused some disruption; but this was not intended.
* I can play games with external domains giving different machines different views, eg: *.pool.ntp.org resolves to my main server for all machines other than that server for which it's view resolves to the real external addresses
* For external domains it is faster to query off an internal (caching) server rather have every request travel up the ADSL link to the ISP and back again
* I am a Linux consultant — running my own servers helps to give me the experience that I need to be able to service my customers
A company only gets things done because its employees do things on behalf of that company.
An employee should perform his duties to his employer as detailed in his contract of employment.
It would be really interesting to see such a contract for an EU based Microsoft employee (Wikileaks anyone ?) — if it says that he must
obey USA law then he has a personal problem if such USA law conflicts with laws in his EU country.
Just being employed by a USA based company does not give an EU based citizen immunity from EU laws.
If data is held in Europe on machines properly firewalled to only be accessed in Europe then some
person inside the EU has to break EU law by copying data to the USA.
If the person (in the EU) who configured access controls makes the data somehow reachable from the USA then he may be breaking EU data
protection law.
If the FBI had to pay out a few million dollar settlements every time they pulled a stunt like this, they'd think twice about acting like a bunch of thugs,
No, it would just come out of government budget, the individuals in the FBI suffer no penalty for causing avoidable mayhem. The change their behaviour you need to make the individuals pay -- by the time a few of them have lost their homes, they may start to act repsonsibly.
Well Bin laden is dead so we need the next witch hunt!
Mod parent up. There seems to be a need to have some bogey men to keep the population afraid and thus subservient.
Communism (well, the Soviet Union) died so paedophiles and Islamic terrorists were pronounced the enemy. Now there is a danger, with Osama murdered, that one of them might go -- so prepare a new enemy.
I asked the ICO (Information Commissioner Office) exactly that question about a month ago, they have not replied in spite of a reminder.
If they cannot answer a simple question like that then I have to assume that they don't know what they are talking about.
The Department of Justice has sent a letter to Texas legislative leaders warning that the rule would run counter to federal laws, and could cause the Transportation Security Administration to "cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew."
So can the DoJ demonstrate how the gropedown ensures the safety of passengers and crew ? Try starting with how many ''terrorists'' have been caught. If they cannot then what Texas is doing won't affect safety.
I can see that it will affect the job security of TSA employees, but that seems about it -- the money would be better spent elsewhere, eg: on healthcare which would have a better positive affect on passengers and crew.
Like what is so special in skype? Is it that hard to code another one?
Skype was the first to get good market adoption and thus sort of became the de-facto standard so there is a good chance that you can use it to speak to someone. It might not be the best, but it works well enough for most people to not feel the need to change (with all the effort that that entails). In some ways it is like MS Windows, the de-facto desktop standard, not the best but good enough for most people.
EU data protection: they are taking personal data, probably exporting to Japan. This is illegal
EU data protection: they are giving personal data personal data to 3rd parties. This may be illegal
Many of these things are given to kids who cannot legally agree to their rights being taken away nor their data being abused
What is a kid takes a nude pic of themselves or a friend and Nintendo grabs a copy ? Nintendo become traffickers in child porn.
I don't have one of these things (and have little interest in gaming), but I suspect that the Terms of Service are only readable after has bought the thing and taken it home. What needs to happen is many to buy one and to return it asking for a full refund because the ToS is not acceptable.
Because the US government has to resort to this sort of denigration after executing him. The odds are it's true,....
Not at all . The USA government knows that killing him just kills the man, not the organisation. They need to turn as many supporters of al Qaeda away from it as they can; causing disillusionment with the last leader is a good way of doing this. As regards the odds of this, I just don't know. If it were not true I would not be surprised if the USA were to ''find'' some.
The trouble is that religion is a fine set of (usually) inspirational tales, but little in the way of objective evidence to back them up. Until there is evidence then we have to regard them as myths. We need a bit of evidence to decide which of the conflicting religious theories (tales) are the ones that we should regard as true -- they can't all be true.
Of course they were. Remember that judges are just grown up solicitors & barristers (UK terms for any 'mercans reading), so they all know each other, have worked for the same chambers, play golf together. So of course the judge will look after his buddies. It is not until you get involved with this bunch that you really realise on whose side they are. (HINT: it is not the plaintif or defendant)
If you are running MS Windows XP or Vista Then an upgrade to MS Windows 7 is quite reasonable. The reason that they did not mention Linux users is because for them MS Windows 7 would be a downgrade.
Am I alone in feeling disturbed at the trend to separate the combatants by ever increasing distances? It is separating the human cause and effect so that the soldiers are increasingly disconnected from their actions. What motivation is there to peacefully settle the argument when you can just continue to blast the opposition? We see the same thing happening with Predator Drones that are controlled by soldiers on the other side of the planet. This can only result more people being needlessly hurt. Everyone, sooner or later, acquires the technology and another round starts.
I suppose that the rot really started when kings stopped leading their troops into battle; they appointed generals to do it; the generals later sat a few miles behind the lines and sent the private soldiers to meet the enemy; now these privates are increasingly separated from their opponents.
How can we ensure that those who have the power to stop wars become motivated to negotiated by personally feeling the consequences of their own intransigence?
It would be bad enough if it was priced at a similar price as WP7 but double the price?
That is the whole point — try to make Android unattractive to consumers because it is too expensive.
I would really like to see Microsoft try to compete on the strength of its products rather than strength of its lawyers.
That they don't seems to me very telling: they can't and so use lawyers to distort the market to make their inferior products attractive.
If they win this round they will be back for more and more.
This may have been done with the best of intentions, but it is crassly stupid. People will now start to doubt official reports as to what is happening if they think that ''inconvenient truths'' might be erased.
Apple users in the UK can make a Subject Access Request. Apple must provide this within 40 days and may not charge more than £10 (about $16).
I suspect that it could cost them more than £10 to provide the information. It would piss Jobs off considerably - but it is UK law - it would be interesting to see what Apple would do, especially if enough people do this. I don't own an iPad/iPhone otherwise I would.
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Cue a million posts by smarmy fuckers about how religion is the only thing harming society, and if we could just make one more smug internet post about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it would all go away!
You complain about people who do not share your myths as ''trolling religious people'' and then proceed to do the same. What you are doing is to discourage discussion by getting those who might reply to think ''am I a troll and asshole?''.
People might not get so upsed about beliefs if everyone did indeed ''keep their faith to themselves'', but this generally does not happen with the result that you irritate non believers and induce those who adhere to different myths to shout back to show that their myths are the true ones ...
No: I don't think that ''religion is the only thing harming society'', there are plenty of other things as well.
What Mr Niko Alm is doing is to raise the question as to why religious people can bend society to give them special privileges. Why should everyone not be allowed to wear what ever they want on their head in their driving license photograph? Why restrict this right just to those who believe some mythologies to be true ?
I don't know about cool but it is a very good and stable platform for a busines. It is also the only distro that really seems to have got on top of SELinux.
Thank youCentOS team!
It will be interesting to see what, if anything, will spring up when the snow thaws ? -- given that it is considered sterile.
Those were the ones who were caught ... how many got clean away with it ?
Why was he given a police caution ? He did nothing illegal, nothing that police had previously been asked to be told about, so why a caution ? Yes what he did accidentally caused some disruption; but this was not intended.
I have been dong this for years:
A company only gets things done because its employees do things on behalf of that company. An employee should perform his duties to his employer as detailed in his contract of employment.
It would be really interesting to see such a contract for an EU based Microsoft employee (Wikileaks anyone ?) — if it says that he must obey USA law then he has a personal problem if such USA law conflicts with laws in his EU country.
Just being employed by a USA based company does not give an EU based citizen immunity from EU laws.
If data is held in Europe on machines properly firewalled to only be accessed in Europe then some person inside the EU has to break EU law by copying data to the USA. If the person (in the EU) who configured access controls makes the data somehow reachable from the USA then he may be breaking EU data protection law.
If the FBI had to pay out a few million dollar settlements every time they pulled a stunt like this, they'd think twice about acting like a bunch of thugs,
No, it would just come out of government budget, the individuals in the FBI suffer no penalty for causing avoidable mayhem. The change their behaviour you need to make the individuals pay -- by the time a few of them have lost their homes, they may start to act repsonsibly.
Well Bin laden is dead so we need the next witch hunt!
Mod parent up. There seems to be a need to have some bogey men to keep the population afraid and thus subservient. Communism (well, the Soviet Union) died so paedophiles and Islamic terrorists were pronounced the enemy. Now there is a danger, with Osama murdered, that one of them might go -- so prepare a new enemy.
Are session cookies OK?
I asked the ICO (Information Commissioner Office) exactly that question about a month ago, they have not replied in spite of a reminder. If they cannot answer a simple question like that then I have to assume that they don't know what they are talking about.
So can the DoJ demonstrate how the gropedown ensures the safety of passengers and crew ? Try starting with how many ''terrorists'' have been caught. If they cannot then what Texas is doing won't affect safety. I can see that it will affect the job security of TSA employees, but that seems about it -- the money would be better spent elsewhere, eg: on healthcare which would have a better positive affect on passengers and crew.
but it made my head spin. I know that I: am getting old; am red in the face; and am my father's son. Is this what they were talking about ?
Like what is so special in skype? Is it that hard to code another one?
Skype was the first to get good market adoption and thus sort of became the de-facto standard so there is a good chance that you can use it to speak to someone. It might not be the best, but it works well enough for most people to not feel the need to change (with all the effort that that entails). In some ways it is like MS Windows, the de-facto desktop standard, not the best but good enough for most people.
Just a few for starters:
I don't have one of these things (and have little interest in gaming), but I suspect that the Terms of Service are only readable after has bought the thing and taken it home. What needs to happen is many to buy one and to return it asking for a full refund because the ToS is not acceptable.
Because the US government has to resort to this sort of denigration after executing him. The odds are it's true, ....
Not at all . The USA government knows that killing him just kills the man, not the organisation. They need to turn as many supporters of al Qaeda away from it as they can; causing disillusionment with the last leader is a good way of doing this. As regards the odds of this, I just don't know. If it were not true I would not be surprised if the USA were to ''find'' some.
No, it is still a theory but one for which there is a huge amount of supporting evidence.
The trouble is that religion is a fine set of (usually) inspirational tales, but little in the way of objective evidence to back them up. Until there is evidence then we have to regard them as myths. We need a bit of evidence to decide which of the conflicting religious theories (tales) are the ones that we should regard as true -- they can't all be true.
Of course they were. Remember that judges are just grown up solicitors & barristers (UK terms for any 'mercans reading), so they all know each other, have worked for the same chambers, play golf together. So of course the judge will look after his buddies. It is not until you get involved with this bunch that you really realise on whose side they are. (HINT: it is not the plaintif or defendant)
If you are running MS Windows XP or Vista Then an upgrade to MS Windows 7 is quite reasonable. The reason that they did not mention Linux users is because for them MS Windows 7 would be a downgrade.
Using Googlemaps To Stimulate Tsunamis
Phew! ...
Next comes the meme:
Hmmmm ....
Am I alone in feeling disturbed at the trend to separate the combatants by ever increasing distances? It is separating the human cause and effect so that the soldiers are increasingly disconnected from their actions. What motivation is there to peacefully settle the argument when you can just continue to blast the opposition? We see the same thing happening with Predator Drones that are controlled by soldiers on the other side of the planet. This can only result more people being needlessly hurt. Everyone, sooner or later, acquires the technology and another round starts.
I suppose that the rot really started when kings stopped leading their troops into battle; they appointed generals to do it; the generals later sat a few miles behind the lines and sent the private soldiers to meet the enemy; now these privates are increasingly separated from their opponents.
How can we ensure that those who have the power to stop wars become motivated to negotiated by personally feeling the consequences of their own intransigence?
It would be bad enough if it was priced at a similar price as WP7 but double the price?
That is the whole point — try to make Android unattractive to consumers because it is too expensive.
I would really like to see Microsoft try to compete on the strength of its products rather than strength of its lawyers. That they don't seems to me very telling: they can't and so use lawyers to distort the market to make their inferior products attractive.
If they win this round they will be back for more and more.
This may have been done with the best of intentions, but it is crassly stupid. People will now start to doubt official reports as to what is happening if they think that ''inconvenient truths'' might be erased.
Apple users in the UK can make a Subject Access Request. Apple must provide this within 40 days and may not charge more than £10 (about $16).
I suspect that it could cost them more than £10 to provide the information. It would piss Jobs off considerably - but it is UK law - it would be interesting to see what Apple would do, especially if enough people do this. I don't own an iPad/iPhone otherwise I would.