In any tragedy, people close ranks and help each other when they all perceive the same danger. As soon as the danger is gone, then is back to each one for his own, as the reports of looters and kidnappers sadly prove.
The only difference this time is that the mass media has made of all people around the world us.
For other tragedies of even bigger human magnitude (typhoons in Bangladesh, earthquakes in China, genocide in Ruanda and Burundi) the wolrd barely blinked an eye. No miracles, just the mas media was not watching, unfortunately.
A god that to get the best out of us (why would an all powerful god need that? Ego trip?) needs to kill 150000 people (one third of them children) can go and fuck itself.
I am fed up with you religious idiots. Sorry, venting here, normally I suffer you more politely.
At the moment the only thing I know is that all the praying of the world would have not saved 150000 people in South Asia. A few million dollars and human ingenuity may had.
The platitudes, ringmaroles and evasives of thereligious lot to explain their blodthirsty god just make me puke in disgust and shame for the human race.
We prayed and feared different gods for many millenia just to be striken by disease and live in ignorance. We used our ingenuity for a few hundred years and we became masters of this tiny plot of dust in the universe, understood how to fight disease and death and in a virtuous cycle this helped us to become wiser. We came to understand that in this Universe we are nothing, in a way no amount of religious indoctrination can convey.
In the short span of 600 years we went from believing that the Earth was the center of the Universe and flat, to knowing that the Universe can be measured in unimaginable (but accountable) distances only graspable when invoking the speed of light (the fucking speed of light for bunny's sakes!).
We went from condemning Galileo adn Darwin to hearing mutted apologies and terse "Evolution is more than a theory" by an ailing, fundamentalistic, do-no-use-condoms Pope.
Stephen Hawking has even hinted at the mathematic proof that no god needs to exist, and the Pope ran all scared to admonish him for his travails.
Salman Rushdie wrote. The mullahs wanted to kill.
If I have to choose between praying to a god (any god) that after millenia has probed itself pretty useless (look at last week, a mess worthy only of the worst terrorist) or our accumulated and growing body of knowledge, as sure as there is no hell I know what will serve us better.
And yes, knowledge may have got to our heads, but to be perfectly honest, I hear more humbleness from scientists nowadays because few of them would assert such nonsense as that we will know it all (Hawking reasons that this does not really matter once you are in the space-time singularity) than from the prophets of the clay gods that pretend they have the answer to our conundrums with their wasted religions, given to us by nomad sheperds, while their priests rape boys, discriminate against women or gays (when they are not hating them) or decree the latest holly war and gather their blessed bethren to go and kill and maim the unbeliever.
I got my first monthly frequent flyer statment of 2002 with all my kilometers expired (kilometers earned were kept only for 5 years on thie program).
The problem? The machine reverted to the year 1900, thus making all my kilometers more than 90 years old:-)
As an aside, I saw problems at the OS level in several UNIX OSes that would have caused havoc to things like backup software. Now just imagine, 1st of January 2000 and all of the sudden you are in 1900 (or is that 0? you see). What mess would the backup sofware could have done is an exercise for the/.er
The darling of the US right, Tony Blair, shamlessly takes his clues from Murdoch, who gloats publicly about the power and influence his tabloid has (i.e. herding the sheep).
That you decide to defend this individual and his discredited "news" empire (look, there is right wing media that is respectable, Fox is not) says a bit about the sorry wasteland that is US politics.
Although this does not solve your conundrum I would feel inclined to believe a PMP device from iRiver should support Ogg as well.
I am surpirsed their websie don;t specify this, the documentation they provide is second to none, I would have a second look at manuals and available information.
If you want to hack something it is much easier to do so if you know the item to be hacked is using something you are already familiar with.
ANd alos there are many of us who care who different companies are paying to when implementing embedded solutions.
I will rather support companies using OSS software since they will al least be aware of how it works, closed source company should be punished when one can do so since their business model is stalling progress in the IT industry.
And funily enough your argument is so persuasive superficially that you would be a shining example probing it. But you are not, because your argument is plainly speaking crap.
Human knowledge changes all the time, an expert is a person that after devoting more time and energy than most to a given topic can provide more relevant information than lets say, er, you, or in general most other people.
The two examples you cite, specially regarding homosexuality, reflected the knowledge of the time (and sometimes that knowledge is framed by politics or bigotry, like your example about black people).
Experts were more knowledgable about the topic,, but the understanding of the topic was so bad that their opinions, with 20/20 hindsight, were as you have rightly put it, compltely wrong.
To judge present days experts, dealing with todays constraints about current knowledge, based on how we perceive today experts of the past is most intellectually dishonest and frankly disingineous.
Amongst contributors to a given article, there could be requests for experts that would help settle and lock articles.
The experts would be voted amongst contributors, and finally, if ther would not be agreement even about this, a set of editorialists could have the last word regarding a given expert selection.
At the end, for Wikipedia to be useful, somebody will need t be granted authority one way or another, otherwise the reference value bacomes questionable.
Don't be ridiculous.
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One does not write to the same standards for such dissimilar pices of prose as an essay and an/. posting.
How long do you need for that?
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30 minutes (tops) to asses technical skill. A dozen of questions should suffice to know if the guy in front of you know what he is doing or not.
Interpersonal ekills: 30 minutes more, tops. In any case you will never fully know this, no matter how many interviews you make. In 30 minutes of drilling you'll get a fair idea of the kind of person you have in front of you.
Call once a week until you get a definitive answer, in the meantime you are looking for other options. Eventually you'll get a job, just avoid annoying people.
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That is just self preservation.
In any tragedy, people close ranks and help each other when they all perceive the same danger. As soon as the danger is gone, then is back to each one for his own, as the reports of looters and kidnappers sadly prove.
The only difference this time is that the mass media has made of all people around the world us.
For other tragedies of even bigger human magnitude (typhoons in Bangladesh, earthquakes in China, genocide in Ruanda and Burundi) the wolrd barely blinked an eye. No miracles, just the mas media was not watching, unfortunately.
A god that to get the best out of us (why would an all powerful god need that? Ego trip?) needs to kill 150000 people (one third of them children) can go and fuck itself.
I am fed up with you religious idiots. Sorry, venting here, normally I suffer you more politely.
At the moment the only thing I know is that all the praying of the world would have not saved 150000 people in South Asia. A few million dollars and human ingenuity may had.
The platitudes, ringmaroles and evasives of thereligious lot to explain their blodthirsty god just make me puke in disgust and shame for the human race.
We prayed and feared different gods for many millenia just to be striken by disease and live in ignorance. We used our ingenuity for a few hundred years and we became masters of this tiny plot of dust in the universe, understood how to fight disease and death and in a virtuous cycle this helped us to become wiser. We came to understand that in this Universe we are nothing, in a way no amount of religious indoctrination can convey.
In the short span of 600 years we went from believing that the Earth was the center of the Universe and flat, to knowing that the Universe can be measured in unimaginable (but accountable) distances only graspable when invoking the speed of light (the fucking speed of light for bunny's sakes!).
We went from condemning Galileo adn Darwin to hearing mutted apologies and terse "Evolution is more than a theory" by an ailing, fundamentalistic, do-no-use-condoms Pope.
Stephen Hawking has even hinted at the mathematic proof that no god needs to exist, and the Pope ran all scared to admonish him for his travails.
Salman Rushdie wrote. The mullahs wanted to kill.
If I have to choose between praying to a god (any god) that after millenia has probed itself pretty useless (look at last week, a mess worthy only of the worst terrorist) or our accumulated and growing body of knowledge, as sure as there is no hell I know what will serve us better.
And yes, knowledge may have got to our heads, but to be perfectly honest, I hear more humbleness from scientists nowadays because few of them would assert such nonsense as that we will know it all (Hawking reasons that this does not really matter once you are in the space-time singularity) than from the prophets of the clay gods that pretend they have the answer to our conundrums with their wasted religions, given to us by nomad sheperds, while their priests rape boys, discriminate against women or gays (when they are not hating them) or decree the latest holly war and gather their blessed bethren to go and kill and maim the unbeliever.
-Mozilla: pop-up blockers, tabed browsing, bayesian spam filtering.
-Imagemagick: scripted batch processing of images.
-OpenSSH: secure communication through ssh tunnels (ok, not origianl, but by no measen copied from Redmond or Appleland).
-gcc, same as above.
-Xfree, X11: multiheaded workstations.
and lets not forget than neither Apple or MS had TCP/IP until very late in the 90s...
and so on and so forth.
.... clicking ahead of myself....
I got my first monthly frequent flyer statment of 2002 with all my kilometers expired (kilometers earned were kept only for 5 years on thie program).
:-)
/.er
The problem? The machine reverted to the year 1900, thus making all my kilometers more than 90 years old
As an aside, I saw problems at the OS level in several UNIX OSes that would have caused havoc to things like backup software. Now just imagine, 1st of January 2000 and all of the sudden you are in 1900 (or is that 0? you see). What mess would the backup sofware could have done is an exercise for the
Can we all please stop mentioning gratuitously the tsunami? (and if possible stop making comparisions betwen the tsunami and 9/11).
... about how dangerous this individual is.
The darling of the US right, Tony Blair, shamlessly takes his clues from Murdoch, who gloats publicly about the power and influence his tabloid has (i.e. herding the sheep).
That you decide to defend this individual and his discredited "news" empire (look, there is right wing media that is respectable, Fox is not) says a bit about the sorry wasteland that is US politics.
... is akin to the uneducated misinformation you are spreading, then it is not silverbullet at all.
It is only uninformed, lazy people that continue to use the MS given mantra of "viral" when refering to GPL licensing.
In the other hand others .. o sorry, AC, yeah, typical, a sheep hirding on the herd.
Although this does not solve your conundrum I would feel inclined to believe a PMP device from iRiver should support Ogg as well.
I am surpirsed their websie don;t specify this, the documentation they provide is second to none, I would have a second look at manuals and available information.
If you want to hack something it is much easier to do so if you know the item to be hacked is using something you are already familiar with.
ANd alos there are many of us who care who different companies are paying to when implementing embedded solutions.
I will rather support companies using OSS software since they will al least be aware of how it works, closed source company should be punished when one can do so since their business model is stalling progress in the IT industry.
You can patent some code (at least in the US) and the GPL it.
No contradictions I believe, but I am willing to be educated.
I commute half hour each day, each way to my office. I would love to watch movies during my daily commute.
.... that negates the tenents of democracy itself?
It was traditional to execute people in public places, bear beating, and children cleaning chimneys.
We don't have to honour or follow traditions that have outlived their own historical context.
OK, what does OBE stand for?
Now, tell us again it is not a joke, and one of bad taste at that.
And funily enough your argument is so persuasive superficially that you would be a shining example probing it. But you are not, because your argument is plainly speaking crap.
Human knowledge changes all the time, an expert is a person that after devoting more time and energy than most to a given topic can provide more relevant information than lets say, er, you, or in general most other people.
The two examples you cite, specially regarding homosexuality, reflected the knowledge of the time (and sometimes that knowledge is framed by politics or bigotry, like your example about black people).
Experts were more knowledgable about the topic,, but the understanding of the topic was so bad that their opinions, with 20/20 hindsight, were as you have rightly put it, compltely wrong.
To judge present days experts, dealing with todays constraints about current knowledge, based on how we perceive today experts of the past is most intellectually dishonest and frankly disingineous.
Unlink it then ....
Amongst contributors to a given article, there could be requests for experts that would help settle and lock articles.
The experts would be voted amongst contributors, and finally, if ther would not be agreement even about this, a set of editorialists could have the last word regarding a given expert selection.
At the end, for Wikipedia to be useful, somebody will need t be granted authority one way or another, otherwise the reference value bacomes questionable.
... ignoring 10% of their potential customers, do so at great peril....
You name OSX and Apple all around your page.
....
Quelle surprise that OSX browsers are attracted to your little space on the web
If you knew which companies are evaluating Linux on the desktop, you would not be so smug about it.
Once that is in, the floodgates will be fully open.
Sombedoy not clouded by the fanboy haze...
One does not write to the same standards for such dissimilar pices of prose as an essay and an /. posting.
30 minutes (tops) to asses technical skill. A dozen of questions should suffice to know if the guy in front of you know what he is doing or not.
Interpersonal ekills: 30 minutes more, tops. In any case you will never fully know this, no matter how many interviews you make. In 30 minutes of drilling you'll get a fair idea of the kind of person you have in front of you.
You would become a nuisance.
Call once a week until you get a definitive answer, in the meantime you are looking for other options. Eventually you'll get a job, just avoid annoying people.