Restricted or limited liability/accountability was the very point of introducing those forms of organisation. It's even in the very names of those forms of organisation. So if you don't like when they do what they are supposed to do, then it's of no use to cry over a double standards.
Those forms are introduced for a reason: because they are wanted. If you don't like the idea of having certains forms of organisation that gives some people carte blanche to do whatever they want to do, well, then work towards abolishing this.
You seem to forget one basic thing. Arguments in Stored procedures are typed. And types can have a hell lot of restrictions, which being one of the major points of a database.
And you seem to forget another basic thing. Even if you too the unrestricted type string as the parameter type, simply using stored procedures pretects you from all SQL injection. Stored procedures are compiled. All the statements in the procedures need no parsing anympore, they are already executable binary. No matter what you write in those arguments, at runtime there is no parsing anymore and no ambiguities by cleverly chosen strings matter to the parse anymore...since it is simply not used.
While I'm no SQL expert by far (and I get shudders on the syntax explosion they call SQL and is insanely the industry standard for accessing relational databases, and I avoid having to work with SQL at any costs) I understand the basic underlying technologies and principles of databases and database implementation. And SQL injection isn't a problem unique to SQL interpreted at runtime. command injection is a weakness every interpreted language has. There was a reason text and data was split in computing and self modifying code is frowned upon. Every language that is parsed and interpreted at runtime (well, strictly speaking right before runtime) introduces all those cans of worms of self modyfying code again.
Script languages: great for prototyping, great for presentation, great for personal tools. But never ever use a language interpreted at runtime fore any project where more than 10 people can input data and the code as even the sligtest chance to modify data.
Oh...I don't think likeable characters have anything to do with the quality of a movie. The most likeable character in any Stanley Kubrick film he did since the Spartacus was Alex from the Clockwork. A self-involved murderer and raper after all.
Likeable characters can be a great asset for a movie. And actually chreating interesting and likable characters is one of the majos strengths of Mr. Whedon.
So I liked Buffy, despite the stupid theme of the show, since the stupid theme of the show is actually used to bring up most interesting and unusual situations and conflicts for the characters. And those situations and characters are used to deliver priceless lines. Same with Firefly and Serenity.
I have no problems with my bank balance. Just spend less than you earn and all is ok. And since my spending has stayed pretty constant in the last 10 years and my earning has risen signifcantly I will soon never have to work for money again.
I don't believe in any future utopian state. And I really think there is something that can solve our problems. it is the abolishment of mankind. But for that I don't have to do anything. Just lean back and watch.
Oh..and about the complaining being more useless than doing something. Did you see the whiner and coward part in my summary?
In my experience, the main reasons geeks don't generally do much in real life is, becasue they are smart enough to realize that it's useless.
All your problems in theis world stem from the mere fact that we are all human, e.g. greedy, horny, stupid, selfish, cowardish, envious, violent whiners. And no matter who sits in any gouverment of any kind, and no matter what he can do, or any grassroots organization can do, it will change nothing about the fact that we are human. Our problems have been the same as long as we have been around, and they will stay the same as long as we stay around. And the only way to get rid of them is to get rid of humanity. But that's not entirely desirably for most people. So instead of trying to solve sociological problems, which can't be solved on the very basic level, we concentrate on some technical, physical, mathematical problems. There you can actually achieve and learn something. Whenever you try to do solve some political or social problems, you always come back to the realization that we are human, and that you cannot do anything about it.
1st: Firefox + Thundebird is about 2 times as ressource hungry as the mozilla suite alone, where you have all that functionality and much more 2nd: I'm running a Mozilla suite 1.8 alpha for about a year already at work. It's so much more stable than the Firefox I had at home for a while, where I had more hangups in the two weeks I was using it than I had with the Mozilla (Alpha!) in the whole year. Granted, Firefox is more stable than IE, but that isn't that much of an achievement. I don't see any bloat in the suite. I'm using it on my development machine at work, which isn't exactly packed, and have no problem with speed. The only time I have problems with speed is when I start the Visual Studio. That's the reason I almost never do that. I develop with emacs...considering that this was once the standard example for bloat it's sort of funny. 3rd: The suite has so many more features important to web developers, such as the integrated DOM Inspector etc... 4th: Much better intgration (naturally) of all basic internet usage tools 5th: It may be ugly in the standard themes, but there are countless themes available. And yes, even themes that make it look like Firefox. 6th: Speed? How often do you start up your browser a day? If the load time of your browser starts to eat significant time of your day, because you start it up so often, then you should maybe take a closer look on your work habits, since those seem to have more impact on your little time.
Yep, decision has been made. And I made my decision too. This year I bought all the latest models of Apple computers (desktop, server, laptop) that are still to be had with IBM chips. And seeing how long the old models give you still sufficient performance after several years, and the demand of OS X seems dropping with each release (in contrast to Windows), I don't think I will need a new computer in the next 3 to 5, maybe even 7 years. Since I definitely won't buy anything anymore that is still using the x46 instruction set. That would be like still running trains with steam.
Huh? Companies being run on the base of actually understanding what they do? That would make economy degrees useless (and everyone knows that people with economy degrees are useless in the first place), and noone could actually want that.
No, it was Fidel Castro. Didn't Katrina come from Cuba? He sure has some WDMs much more destructive than anything the US has. Maybe he just told all Cubans to blow out thier cigar smoke at once.
Oh...i don't think they come to us becasue we have no certificates, they come to us, because we actually know what we're doing. IMHO certificates are just a substitute for skill. Like Porsches for the ones wth smal dicks...
And if I really need to change the company or g to another department...I have an abundance of former and current project managers that would write raving evaluations of my work, and have done so already.
In our company there are loads of people with certificates, and managers really like them. It's actually company policy to get a certain amount of certificates. The walls are plastered withg them.
But whenever something real needs to be done or evaluation, all people always go to the 3 guys that have no single certificate and never actually bothered to get one(one of them being me). Whenever a new project starts, and they need a team, they first always look for one or more of us...
A) For any distro that considers itself a desktop distro you don't have to compile a kernel. Hell, evem when you use debian you don't have to compile a kernel. Needing to complile is only for those who want to do something very specific or for those who want to have "full control", which are very wide spread in the Linux community for some weird reason. And it is like this for at least 5 years already.
B)Anytime there is something I can't do automated, because there is no proper comand line or scripting tool, then the developer has failed. Right, computers are becoming used by virtually everyone. So the things everyone has to do with them (like opening doors in a car, and sitting into it) need to be simple. But if you want do real work (like actually driving a car), you need lots of training and learning, and preferably a test and a licence (this was kidding now) anyway. With computers it is far too often that people who only were passengers so far want to do a car mechanics job, and complain that it's hard, and that they fucked up their computer. But is sealing the whole chassis the solution? Access to the engine must be there...and not everything can be done from the backseat.
C) A little comparison. Whole company staffs, schools, public offices etc. get company sponsored, and even Microsoft sponsored training programs for Microsoft products several times every year. Yet most of them still are inept with computers and fail to grasp such simple concepts as file versioning. For Linux such things are just developing at the moment. Yet, there are millions of very able linux users out there who learned all they learned by only this very documentation and mailing lists you just trashed so passionately. Something's odd.
I have loads of female friends. And three really really close ones.
Never had a girlfriend though. The hassle is just not worth it, just for some sex. My female friends I can just tell when they are talking bullshit or get on my nerves. And they can tell me. That's actually one of the reasons they are my friends. And it's not this "just friends" friendship. There is actually lots of sexual tension to the point that their boyfriends (who happen to be my friends too) become really jealous at times.
I have to say, I enjoyed Doom 3 more than Halflife 2. Both good games. Halflife with so much more features and bells and wistles. But in the end Doom3 was just more fun. And a less pain in the ass to get going;)
Even the term speicies is fuzzy. It is defined as "Interbreeding produces fertile offspring". But this is true for quite a few animals that are considered different species by humans. Tigers and Lions for example (as mentioned before). Or scientists were thrilled to find that two different "species" of dolphins interbred in some sea world. and produced fertile offspring. Point is, they only do it when they are captive, e.g. not free, and have no other choices. As I said, even the term species is fuzzy, and it is interesting to think about, considering this background, how Asians, Europeans and Africans etc. are different species too. Interbreeding isn't too favorable from a biological point of view. It doesn't kill instantly, but makes less "fit" over time (just as inbreeding, not that extreme though). Trying to avoid interbreeding isn't racist. Trying to justify and initiate subordinate/exploit other "races" on the basis of such differences is racism.
Yes, but who is to decide what is neccessary and what not? After all it is always a very personal and subjective decision.
Anything that lives kills. Wether you want it or not. I would even go so far and question wether anything that doesn't kill is alive. My (everypones) mere existance and act of living, with the resources I consume, prevents other beings form living and kills them. And there is nothing anyone can do about it. To paraphrase you: The whole world doen't think like I do. Actually most peopel think pretty different on that issue than I do. It didn't help with solving those problems though. They were around as long as there have been hunmans, and will be around as long as there are humans. We will exploit, murder, rape, lie, betray. And we always will love and laugh and help too. That's the essence of being human, and nothing will change about it, as long as we are human (as I said before).
And if you really think Life 8 had any noticable impact in Africa, I pity you. The rebel troops in Congo will still raid village, rape all the women there, burn it down, kill all, roast them on it and eat the same women they just have raped.
So don't eat your animal. Someone else will do then. Peopel who don't eat meat out of conviction are as old as mankind itself. Didn't change much about the general meat consumption though.
Hey...I'm a slashdot geek. Being a sociopath is required there. There is no denying that animals are creatures like us and can suffer (well, where exactyl to draw that line in evolution is debatable, but for mammals and birds this is definitely true). But there is also no denying, that I can eat them anyway.
That nobody wants to suffer is a little far fetched, since there are doubtless occasions and people who actually seek suffering. But that's another topic. While I don't actively seek pain or suffering I don't hesitate to hurt myself or other s if I deem it neccessary (for medical raesons or whatever). I also never took any painkillers. I hate to change my mind and perception to somethng I'm not. And if I'm in pain at the moment, so be it. That's doen't mean a gauged out eye wouldn't bug me. No 3D vision is a handicap not to be understimated.
Yes, I see people starving to eath in Africa, and I don't especially like it, but that's life after all. Or to be more precise, that's our human life. And as long as there are humans nothing will change about it. If you really want to make a change in the world, then the only possibility you have is to abolish mankind. And well, the only thing you have to do for that is to lean back and watch.
You don't eat meat because you think it will change something for yourself (that might be, at least physically) or for the world. I continue eating meat cos I don't see a pint in not doing so. Animals are like us. That also means we are like animals. And I'm an animal adapted to eating meat. And it wold be strange if man was the only animal not eating what it is adapted to. Or do you have some notions that humans are in any way in a whole different category?
If you think they are, well, then your arguement is moot, and actually I will stop talking to you at that very instance, since further discussion is useless. If you don't think so, then why should we beheave any different from animals? Behave unnaturally?
Well, I have no grave problem with pain and suffering. Not my own, not that of anyone else or that of any animal. I think that the "Abolish all suffering" kind of morale is a most anti-life moral. Life is suffering. I haven't killed any humans yet (other than by my western lifestyle in that I help produce markets who kill countless people I will never now), and my stealing is restricted to the occasional piece of chocolate when I was a little boy (and my usual indirect stealing and exploiting due to being integrated in a capitalistic system).
And well, I don't use this ruleset to justify my eating meat. I have eaten meat before I came up with that. I'm completely ok with raising and killing animals, as long as it's done in a proper way. What I have a problem with is the industrial production of meat. That is what causes the atrocities (and meat of happy animals tastes so much better btw). And by simply applying the rule that everyone should be able to raise and kill and prepare what he eats, meat consumption would drop significantly and industrial meat production won't be feasible anymore.
Yes. Thinking. I'm always amazed how much work and efford most people put on themselves and others just to no have to think. It is as if thinking is a plague and to be avoided at all cost. Or who else has the impression that most people are more scared of leaning back for 5-10 minutes and think of the problem than to put a few ours of blind grinding efford into it? Of course several hours of grinding efford are neccessary sometimes, but before I do that I think hard for quite a while if it is really neccessary. And at the same time people seem to be amazed how I get my work done, since most of the time they just see me sitting there "idly". Yes...that are the wonders of thinking! It normally leadf to actually knowing what you are doing. Nothing is worse than industrious people with no idea of what they are doing.
Well, he might have exaggerated, but he has the only point that matters. He came up with the question "When is it ok to eat meat?". And this is a question that can be answered in all possible ways for any individual and in any circumstance. Saying "Eating meat is wrong." is just as stupid/narrow-minded/dogmatic as saying "Lying is wrong." or "Not believing in God is wrong." and meaning it as an absolute statement, as a generally applicable moral axiom.
For me, I eat lots of meat. But I have also for myself established a ruleset of when it is ok to eat meat (and I think it would solve a lot of the problems arising from eating so much meat in an indutrialized society, when applied broadly).
The rule is simple. Don't eat anything that you weren't be able to raise and butcher (ot hunt) and prepare yourself. Now I certainly haven't raised and butchered or hunted every species I happened to eat meat from (haven't got my hands on a living crocodile yet). But certainly of the most common lifestock animals I have. It helps though growing up on a farm;)
Well, my DSL-Router/Firewall/Printerserver/Fileserver is running Debian. And doing so for 2 years without much trouble/attention and barely a reboot. I don't even have a keyboard or monitor attached to it. And it's running the "unstable" branch.
Granted, Debian is not really for the Desktop weenies. But my desktop is OS X. So no problem with that.
"People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. "In some ways, this papers over the mess that is JavaScript development. It's easy-to-build 'spaghetti' code."
Well, while JavaScript surely needs some further development, it's actually not that hard. That what made my JavaScripts usually hard to maintain and in the end a pretty ugly piece of code is working around deficiencies of the IE...
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Restricted or limited liability/accountability was the very point of introducing those forms of organisation. It's even in the very names of those forms of organisation. So if you don't like when they do what they are supposed to do, then it's of no use to cry over a double standards.
Those forms are introduced for a reason: because they are wanted. If you don't like the idea of having certains forms of organisation that gives some people carte blanche to do whatever they want to do, well, then work towards abolishing this.
Good luck.
You seem to forget one basic thing. Arguments in Stored procedures are typed. And types can have a hell lot of restrictions, which being one of the major points of a database.
And you seem to forget another basic thing. Even if you too the unrestricted type string as the parameter type, simply using stored procedures pretects you from all SQL injection. Stored procedures are compiled. All the statements in the procedures need no parsing anympore, they are already executable binary. No matter what you write in those arguments, at runtime there is no parsing anymore and no ambiguities by cleverly chosen strings matter to the parse anymore...since it is simply not used.
While I'm no SQL expert by far (and I get shudders on the syntax explosion they call SQL and is insanely the industry standard for accessing relational databases, and I avoid having to work with SQL at any costs) I understand the basic underlying technologies and principles of databases and database implementation. And SQL injection isn't a problem unique to SQL interpreted at runtime. command injection is a weakness every interpreted language has. There was a reason text and data was split in computing and self modifying code is frowned upon. Every language that is parsed and interpreted at runtime (well, strictly speaking right before runtime) introduces all those cans of worms of self modyfying code again.
Script languages: great for prototyping, great for presentation, great for personal tools. But never ever use a language interpreted at runtime fore any project where more than 10 people can input data and the code as even the sligtest chance to modify data.
Oh...I don't think likeable characters have anything to do with the quality of a movie. The most likeable character in any Stanley Kubrick film he did since the Spartacus was Alex from the Clockwork. A self-involved murderer and raper after all.
Likeable characters can be a great asset for a movie. And actually chreating interesting and likable characters is one of the majos strengths of Mr. Whedon.
So I liked Buffy, despite the stupid theme of the show, since the stupid theme of the show is actually used to bring up most interesting and unusual situations and conflicts for the characters. And those situations and characters are used to deliver priceless lines.
Same with Firefly and Serenity.
I have no problems with my bank balance. Just spend less than you earn and all is ok. And since my spending has stayed pretty constant in the last 10 years and my earning has risen signifcantly I will soon never have to work for money again.
I don't believe in any future utopian state. And I really think there is something that can solve our problems. it is the abolishment of mankind. But for that I don't have to do anything. Just lean back and watch.
Oh..and about the complaining being more useless than doing something. Did you see the whiner and coward part in my summary?
Hehehe
In my experience, the main reasons geeks don't generally do much in real life is, becasue they are smart enough to realize that it's useless.
All your problems in theis world stem from the mere fact that we are all human, e.g. greedy, horny, stupid, selfish, cowardish, envious, violent whiners. And no matter who sits in any gouverment of any kind, and no matter what he can do, or any grassroots organization can do, it will change nothing about the fact that we are human. Our problems have been the same as long as we have been around, and they will stay the same as long as we stay around. And the only way to get rid of them is to get rid of humanity. But that's not entirely desirably for most people. So instead of trying to solve sociological problems, which can't be solved on the very basic level, we concentrate on some technical, physical, mathematical problems. There you can actually achieve and learn something.
Whenever you try to do solve some political or social problems, you always come back to the realization that we are human, and that you cannot do anything about it.
1st: Firefox + Thundebird is about 2 times as ressource hungry as the mozilla suite alone, where you have all that functionality and much more
2nd: I'm running a Mozilla suite 1.8 alpha for about a year already at work. It's so much more stable than the Firefox I had at home for a while, where I had more hangups in the two weeks I was using it than I had with the Mozilla (Alpha!) in the whole year. Granted, Firefox is more stable than IE, but that isn't that much of an achievement. I don't see any bloat in the suite. I'm using it on my development machine at work, which isn't exactly packed, and have no problem with speed. The only time I have problems with speed is when I start the Visual Studio. That's the reason I almost never do that. I develop with emacs...considering that this was once the standard example for bloat it's sort of funny.
3rd: The suite has so many more features important to web developers, such as the integrated DOM Inspector etc...
4th: Much better intgration (naturally) of all basic internet usage tools
5th: It may be ugly in the standard themes, but there are countless themes available. And yes, even themes that make it look like Firefox.
6th: Speed? How often do you start up your browser a day? If the load time of your browser starts to eat significant time of your day, because you start it up so often, then you should maybe take a closer look on your work habits, since those seem to have more impact on your little time.
Yep, decision has been made. And I made my decision too. This year I bought all the latest models of Apple computers (desktop, server, laptop) that are still to be had with IBM chips. And seeing how long the old models give you still sufficient performance after several years, and the demand of OS X seems dropping with each release (in contrast to Windows), I don't think I will need a new computer in the next 3 to 5, maybe even 7 years. Since I definitely won't buy anything anymore that is still using the x46 instruction set. That would be like still running trains with steam.
Huh? Companies being run on the base of actually understanding what they do? That would make economy degrees useless (and everyone knows that people with economy degrees are useless in the first place), and noone could actually want that.
No, it was Fidel Castro. Didn't Katrina come from Cuba? He sure has some WDMs much more destructive than anything the US has. Maybe he just told all Cubans to blow out thier cigar smoke at once.
Oh...i don't think they come to us becasue we have no certificates, they come to us, because we actually know what we're doing. IMHO certificates are just a substitute for skill. Like Porsches for the ones wth smal dicks...
And if I really need to change the company or g to another department...I have an abundance of former and current project managers that would write raving evaluations of my work, and have done so already.
In our company there are loads of people with certificates, and managers really like them. It's actually company policy to get a certain amount of certificates. The walls are plastered withg them.
But whenever something real needs to be done or evaluation, all people always go to the 3 guys that have no single certificate and never actually bothered to get one(one of them being me). Whenever a new project starts, and they need a team, they first always look for one or more of us...
A) For any distro that considers itself a desktop distro you don't have to compile a kernel. Hell, evem when you use debian you don't have to compile a kernel. Needing to complile is only for those who want to do something very specific or for those who want to have "full control", which are very wide spread in the Linux community for some weird reason. And it is like this for at least 5 years already.
B)Anytime there is something I can't do automated, because there is no proper comand line or scripting tool, then the developer has failed. Right, computers are becoming used by virtually everyone. So the things everyone has to do with them (like opening doors in a car, and sitting into it) need to be simple. But if you want do real work (like actually driving a car), you need lots of training and learning, and preferably a test and a licence (this was kidding now) anyway. With computers it is far too often that people who only were passengers so far want to do a car mechanics job, and complain that it's hard, and that they fucked up their computer. But is sealing the whole chassis the solution? Access to the engine must be there...and not everything can be done from the backseat.
C) A little comparison. Whole company staffs, schools, public offices etc. get company sponsored, and even Microsoft sponsored training programs for Microsoft products several times every year. Yet most of them still are inept with computers and fail to grasp such simple concepts as file versioning. For Linux such things are just developing at the moment. Yet, there are millions of very able linux users out there who learned all they learned by only this very documentation and mailing lists you just trashed so passionately. Something's odd.
Well, not sex good enough to make it worthwhile for me to deal with a female 24/7.
Nope. I don't hit on my friends girlfriends.
I have loads of female friends. And three really really close ones.
Never had a girlfriend though. The hassle is just not worth it, just for some sex. My female friends I can just tell when they are talking bullshit or get on my nerves. And they can tell me. That's actually one of the reasons they are my friends. And it's not this "just friends" friendship. There is actually lots of sexual tension to the point that their boyfriends (who happen to be my friends too) become really jealous at times.
I have to say, I enjoyed Doom 3 more than Halflife 2. Both good games. Halflife with so much more features and bells and wistles. But in the end Doom3 was just more fun. And a less pain in the ass to get going ;)
You know...freeing slaves was illegal once too.
Even the term speicies is fuzzy. It is defined as "Interbreeding produces fertile offspring". But this is true for quite a few animals that are considered different species by humans. Tigers and Lions for example (as mentioned before). Or scientists were thrilled to find that two different "species" of dolphins interbred in some sea world. and produced fertile offspring. Point is, they only do it when they are captive, e.g. not free, and have no other choices.
As I said, even the term species is fuzzy, and it is interesting to think about, considering this background, how Asians, Europeans and Africans etc. are different species too.
Interbreeding isn't too favorable from a biological point of view. It doesn't kill instantly, but makes less "fit" over time (just as inbreeding, not that extreme though).
Trying to avoid interbreeding isn't racist.
Trying to justify and initiate subordinate/exploit other "races" on the basis of such differences is racism.
Yes, but who is to decide what is neccessary and what not? After all it is always a very personal and subjective decision.
Anything that lives kills. Wether you want it or not. I would even go so far and question wether anything that doesn't kill is alive. My (everypones) mere existance and act of living, with the resources I consume, prevents other beings form living and kills them. And there is nothing anyone can do about it. To paraphrase you: The whole world doen't think like I do. Actually most peopel think pretty different on that issue than I do. It didn't help with solving those problems though. They were around as long as there have been hunmans, and will be around as long as there are humans. We will exploit, murder, rape, lie, betray. And we always will love and laugh and help too. That's the essence of being human, and nothing will change about it, as long as we are human (as I said before).
And if you really think Life 8 had any noticable impact in Africa, I pity you. The rebel troops in Congo will still raid village, rape all the women there, burn it down, kill all, roast them on it and eat the same women they just have raped.
So don't eat your animal. Someone else will do then. Peopel who don't eat meat out of conviction are as old as mankind itself. Didn't change much about the general meat consumption though.
Hey...I'm a slashdot geek. Being a sociopath is required there. There is no denying that animals are creatures like us and can suffer (well, where exactyl to draw that line in evolution is debatable, but for mammals and birds this is definitely true). But there is also no denying, that I can eat them anyway.
That nobody wants to suffer is a little far fetched, since there are doubtless occasions and people who actually seek suffering. But that's another topic. While I don't actively seek pain or suffering I don't hesitate to hurt myself or other s if I deem it neccessary (for medical raesons or whatever). I also never took any painkillers. I hate to change my mind and perception to somethng I'm not. And if I'm in pain at the moment, so be it. That's doen't mean a gauged out eye wouldn't bug me. No 3D vision is a handicap not to be understimated.
Yes, I see people starving to eath in Africa, and I don't especially like it, but that's life after all. Or to be more precise, that's our human life. And as long as there are humans nothing will change about it. If you really want to make a change in the world, then the only possibility you have is to abolish mankind. And well, the only thing you have to do for that is to lean back and watch.
You don't eat meat because you think it will change something for yourself (that might be, at least physically) or for the world. I continue eating meat cos I don't see a pint in not doing so. Animals are like us. That also means we are like animals. And I'm an animal adapted to eating meat. And it wold be strange if man was the only animal not eating what it is adapted to. Or do you have some notions that humans are in any way in a whole different category?
If you think they are, well, then your arguement is moot, and actually I will stop talking to you at that very instance, since further discussion is useless.
If you don't think so, then why should we beheave any different from animals? Behave unnaturally?
Well, I have no grave problem with pain and suffering. Not my own, not that of anyone else or that of any animal. I think that the "Abolish all suffering" kind of morale is a most anti-life moral. Life is suffering. I haven't killed any humans yet (other than by my western lifestyle in that I help produce markets who kill countless people I will never now), and my stealing is restricted to the occasional piece of chocolate when I was a little boy (and my usual indirect stealing and exploiting due to being integrated in a capitalistic system).
And well, I don't use this ruleset to justify my eating meat. I have eaten meat before I came up with that. I'm completely ok with raising and killing animals, as long as it's done in a proper way. What I have a problem with is the industrial production of meat. That is what causes the atrocities (and meat of happy animals tastes so much better btw). And by simply applying the rule that everyone should be able to raise and kill and prepare what he eats, meat consumption would drop significantly and industrial meat production won't be feasible anymore.
Yes. Thinking. I'm always amazed how much work and efford most people put on themselves and others just to no have to think. It is as if thinking is a plague and to be avoided at all cost. Or who else has the impression that most people are more scared of leaning back for 5-10 minutes and think of the problem than to put a few ours of blind grinding efford into it? Of course several hours of grinding efford are neccessary sometimes, but before I do that I think hard for quite a while if it is really neccessary. And at the same time people seem to be amazed how I get my work done, since most of the time they just see me sitting there "idly". Yes...that are the wonders of thinking! It normally leadf to actually knowing what you are doing. Nothing is worse than industrious people with no idea of what they are doing.
Well, he might have exaggerated, but he has the only point that matters. He came up with the question "When is it ok to eat meat?". And this is a question that can be answered in all possible ways for any individual and in any circumstance. Saying "Eating meat is wrong." is just as stupid/narrow-minded/dogmatic as saying "Lying is wrong." or "Not believing in God is wrong." and meaning it as an absolute statement, as a generally applicable moral axiom.
;)
For me, I eat lots of meat. But I have also for myself established a ruleset of when it is ok to eat meat (and I think it would solve a lot of the problems arising from eating so much meat in an indutrialized society, when applied broadly).
The rule is simple. Don't eat anything that you weren't be able to raise and butcher (ot hunt) and prepare yourself. Now I certainly haven't raised and butchered or hunted every species I happened to eat meat from (haven't got my hands on a living crocodile yet). But certainly of the most common lifestock animals I have. It helps though growing up on a farm
Well, my DSL-Router/Firewall/Printerserver/Fileserver is running Debian. And doing so for 2 years without much trouble/attention and barely a reboot. I don't even have a keyboard or monitor attached to it. And it's running the "unstable" branch.
Granted, Debian is not really for the Desktop weenies. But my desktop is OS X. So no problem with that.
"People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. "In some ways, this papers over the mess that is JavaScript development. It's easy-to-build 'spaghetti' code."
Well, while JavaScript surely needs some further development, it's actually not that hard. That what made my JavaScripts usually hard to maintain and in the end a pretty ugly piece of code is working around deficiencies of the IE...