Stop contradicting yourself. First you say "The rest of you was determined... between birth and about age five." and "[After age 5] It's so far beyond your control that it's almost impossible to enact any significant change. You is what you is."
Ok, fine, I'll accept that as a reasonable hypothesis.
But then you change your tune "And just as you, as an adult, can learn to love habenaro peppers, you can become desensitized to violence." This implies just the opposite of your earlier statements.
So which is it? Are you formed in the first five years or can I change as an adult?
If the former, parents should just prevent children from seeing violent behaviour until the child is six. Then the rest of their life will be fine.(P.S. I think this is garbage)
You need to make up your mind, find a theory that fits reality and stick to it.
I won't comment on Gnome vs. KDE, but on the matter of Debian, there are some things that hurt debian.
Debian cycles times are long - I believe there was a/. post about this
Debian doesn't advertise or make deals with book sellers
Some people may have a problem with Debian's attititude towards non-free software
This is my personal pet peeve - If you want to download ISO images and you're behind a firewall that blocks their ISO pacthing protocol, you can't do it!!!
I believe you're mistaken 'bout that limit. Our enterprise address book has just about every person in our North American, European, and Asian offices (probably some in the other populated continents, too). I work for Motorola. I'm sure we have more than that number of people. They are, however, divided into domains. That might help in increasing the number you can use. (I dunno exactly how it works; I'm no exchange expert.)
I fail to see the huge diff between a page and a file. In every webserver I've ever used, a page was a file. The only difference was that it was expected to produce visible results in an application called a web browser. MP3s are also files (like web pages) that produce an audible result.
Also, your analogy doesn't work because you really can't compare "give him the watch" to "link to MP3 file".
Yes, I would be concerned with NASA becoming overly commercialized.
However, this seems more as an attempt to become partially commercialized. According to the article, they can only carry commercial loads as secondary, and even if they do so, they don't make money from it; it goes to the government. My first desire would be for NASA to keep any money it earns from commercial ventures. I think anything else would be just silly (but this is government). After thinking about it, I also think NASA should be allowed to carry commerical only loads. My hypothesis is that the combination of these two changes would help to subsidize real scientific payloads and increase the frequency of shuttle flights (a good thing in my mind).
My concern for overcommercialism is more for the future. I will not dismiss most non-government attempts at space travel, but I don't think they're ready for prime time yet. When they do get to that point, though, one would hope that NASA has the sense to try to direct businesses to the new commercial ventures (maybe "pray for a miracle" is the correct phrase).
First, let me state that I understand this is a movie and is not (and should not be) on the top of everyone's priority list. What raises my hackles is not the current problem (who gets into what movies). In my notsohumble opinion, another freedom has been taken away. If it is "just a movie", as some people have pointed out, why do the movie theaters insist on making trouble for their paying customers?
I don't want to sound like a left-wing nut (I'm probably failing), but I want to know: Where do you draw the line? Dumping tea in a harbor was illegal two hundred years ago, but most US citizens feel they were right in doing so. I'm not saying that you can equate movie theaters with the British Empire in colonial times. I am saying that freedom was part of this country's formation and we should always keep that in mind when considering any loss of that freedom. We should not say "it's only a movie", instead we should say "How will this affect us and our freedom (as a country)? Can we live with this?"
Is it to the point that we should protest with illegal acts? Maybe not, but how much is enough?
Finally, I do agree with the continual running line in this discussion: hit them in the pocketbook. It's your money. If you disagree with rules of a particular theater, Don't go there! The theaters probably created these rules thinking it would help their margin in the long run (which, in my mind, is a twisted philosophy). If they find out they were wrong, they will change their rules.
Don't blithely assume this isn't an issue worthy of you time. Many people have died for freedom. I think you can afford to protest some stupid rules.
My mother works for the State, licensing day care centers. This kind of thing, where children wander away happens on an occasional basis. And, it seems, rarely does the center know the child is gone until the police call them or bring the child back.
The stories I've heard have convinced me to stay away from day care for my kids. For those who care, one good way to find a decent day care center is to:
Make sure the center is licensed by the state.
Call the person who licensed the center and ask them about it, especially to see if there have been any complaints.
Look for a center with experienced staff.
The (typical) reason for this crap to happen is that the center has young, inexperienced, and underpaid workers on the staff, who either may not care or may not know how to take care of 20 kids.
This subject has been bashed to death on the AS Win32 Perl Users mailing list. My final feeling from it is to wait and see what happens. An announcement means nothing.
Yes, MS probably wants to control Perl and make it proprietary, just being who they are. However, this is AS doing work. They are getting paid by MS, yes, but they are not MS.
If the hideous thing happens and it looks like AS's Perl is becoming proprietary, there have been several people who are willing to step up to the plate and keep creating a "plain" Win32 distribution. And anything that is proprietary will not make it into core Perl.
I severly doubt that RMS supports slave labour. But, more to the point, he probably doesn't think about it much. You can't even assume that he knows about it... and he might not care. He has one agenda: free software.
If you're going to pick on RMS's morality or lack of it, stick to what he talks about...
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Stop contradicting yourself. First you say "The rest of you was determined ... between birth and about age five." and "[After age 5] It's so far beyond your control that it's almost impossible to enact any significant change. You is what you is."
Ok, fine, I'll accept that as a reasonable hypothesis.
But then you change your tune "And just as you, as an adult, can learn to love habenaro peppers, you can become desensitized to violence." This implies just the opposite of your earlier statements.
So which is it? Are you formed in the first five years or can I change as an adult? If the former, parents should just prevent children from seeing violent behaviour until the child is six. Then the rest of their life will be fine.(P.S. I think this is garbage)
You need to make up your mind, find a theory that fits reality and stick to it.
I believe you're mistaken 'bout that limit. Our enterprise address book has just about every person in our North American, European, and Asian offices (probably some in the other populated continents, too). I work for Motorola. I'm sure we have more than that number of people. They are, however, divided into domains. That might help in increasing the number you can use. (I dunno exactly how it works; I'm no exchange expert.)
...is in the pudding. Show me one and I'll give my opinion. Without a demo model of any sort, my opinion is "Vapour Ware!"
I got the same results. Pity, the site could be quite a bit more.
Also, your analogy doesn't work because you really can't compare "give him the watch" to "link to MP3 file".
And even better, we can run the Win32 Java runtime!
However, this seems more as an attempt to become partially commercialized. According to the article, they can only carry commercial loads as secondary, and even if they do so, they don't make money from it; it goes to the government. My first desire would be for NASA to keep any money it earns from commercial ventures. I think anything else would be just silly (but this is government). After thinking about it, I also think NASA should be allowed to carry commerical only loads. My hypothesis is that the combination of these two changes would help to subsidize real scientific payloads and increase the frequency of shuttle flights (a good thing in my mind).
My concern for overcommercialism is more for the future. I will not dismiss most non-government attempts at space travel, but I don't think they're ready for prime time yet. When they do get to that point, though, one would hope that NASA has the sense to try to direct businesses to the new commercial ventures (maybe "pray for a miracle" is the correct phrase).
I don't want to sound like a left-wing nut (I'm probably failing), but I want to know: Where do you draw the line? Dumping tea in a harbor was illegal two hundred years ago, but most US citizens feel they were right in doing so. I'm not saying that you can equate movie theaters with the British Empire in colonial times. I am saying that freedom was part of this country's formation and we should always keep that in mind when considering any loss of that freedom. We should not say "it's only a movie", instead we should say "How will this affect us and our freedom (as a country)? Can we live with this?"
Is it to the point that we should protest with illegal acts? Maybe not, but how much is enough?
Finally, I do agree with the continual running line in this discussion: hit them in the pocketbook. It's your money. If you disagree with rules of a particular theater, Don't go there! The theaters probably created these rules thinking it would help their margin in the long run (which, in my mind, is a twisted philosophy). If they find out they were wrong, they will change their rules.
Don't blithely assume this isn't an issue worthy of you time. Many people have died for freedom. I think you can afford to protest some stupid rules.
The stories I've heard have convinced me to stay away from day care for my kids. For those who care, one good way to find a decent day care center is to:
- Make sure the center is licensed by the state.
- Call the person who licensed the center and ask them about it, especially to see if there have been any complaints.
- Look for a center with experienced staff.
The (typical) reason for this crap to happen is that the center has young, inexperienced, and underpaid workers on the staff, who either may not care or may not know how to take care of 20 kids.Yes, MS probably wants to control Perl and make it proprietary, just being who they are. However, this is AS doing work. They are getting paid by MS, yes, but they are not MS.
If the hideous thing happens and it looks like AS's Perl is becoming proprietary, there have been several people who are willing to step up to the plate and keep creating a "plain" Win32 distribution. And anything that is proprietary will not make it into core Perl.
Me, I'm not going to worry.
If you're going to pick on RMS's morality or lack of it, stick to what he talks about...