Railways are already availible, yet most people choose to travel in their automobiles. Why? Because they value their autonomy.
Once you strap your vehicle to a rail, you lose control. If you feel like stopping, too bad, you're stuck until you get to the destination. People like having the freedom to choose their own adventure, though, and this is why the book series was so popular. The traditional novel doesn't give enough control to the reader. I predict that choose your own adventure type fiction will shortly displace the traditional novel.
This trend is not an evil to be struggled against. Rather, it is a natural evolution of literature.
Come on, folks. If you can be bothered to submit a story, you can at least write it up!
As for you, Taco, you should demand better. Do you have so few submissions that you have to post every submission you get? I find that hard to believe. I don't mean to sound too condemning, but I really believe Slashdot can do better.
..we steal our games. Why bother buying them when you can steal the ROMs online? After all, copyright law is evil when it gets in the way of us getting free stuff.
I'm afraid your business model doesn't take into account the fact that people who are interested in your product are terrible thieves.
I'm not kidding. Sealand has lasted thus far because there's been no good reason to take it over. The RIAA is not going to let Napster get away, though, and they'll hire government agents to destroy any Sealand operation that Napster might try to start.
It's about time Napster rolled over and admitted that they can't fight money.
...but it's understandable. It's a common fallacy to equate historical compilation with stagnation, and progress with dynamic propositionalism However, one is forced to ask where this ever-shifting platform of thought leads.
Certainly, staticism alone is not a valid mode of epistemological advancement, but can any method which wholly abandons static principles and knowledge lead beyond self-referential factualism? Although this has been heavily debated, general consensus holds that it is in fact not possible. While the implications of this will be fleshed out and argued over for decades, the immediate applications are both obvious and non-trivial.
Commonly held traditions in literature are critical for progression of social normalizing factors. Although it could certainly be argued that an individual's canon must necessarily supersede one founded on principles of democratic advancement, it is worth noting that not a solitary instance of corresponding phenomena has been observed. Admittedly, non-observation does not entail non-existence, but broader sociological and literary analysis continues this account accross multiple social strata.
In conclusion, while I believe your model is fundamentally flawed, you are correct in your assessment of the shortcomings of common-archetypal aesthetic representationalism.
I kid you not, the trolls actually sit around for hours fabrication "evidence" to support their position. I would know...as fascdot I was inside the troll cabal. It disgusted me, though, so I left...and now they hound me.
They can't handle the fact that anyone would not want to be a part of their little circle jerk.
It is absurd to expect to find the origins of life in a frozen lake in Antarctica. While science is a useful tool, there are questions that are outside of its bounds, and this is one of them.
Fundamentally, science is carefully considered observations. Thus, anything that cannot be observed cannot be addressed by science. This is why attempting to prove or disprove the existence of God through science is an absurdity. Finding the origins of life is a similarly un-addressable question.
Any truly enlightened person will realize that life could only have occurred because of a Divine Touch, but I won't expect scientists to realize this. However, they should realize that there is insufficient evidence to theorize regarding an event that remote. There simply isn't enough empirical evidence to scientifically theorize about the question -- not in that lake, and not anywhere.
Much of the sciences have come to a stand still because scientists refuse to realize that their tool is not the appropriate one for all problems. Perhaps it is an education problem, or maybe it's just one of ego. Regardless, science needs to focus on what it applies to, and leave the mysteries of the origin of life to those who can best understand them.
You can argue and quibble about functionality and neither installer will win decisively. However, RPM doesn't ruin your system. Ever. I don't understand why so many users tolerate an installer that's the equivelant of playing Russian Roulette.
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Railways are already availible, yet most people choose to travel in their automobiles. Why? Because they value their autonomy.
Once you strap your vehicle to a rail, you lose control. If you feel like stopping, too bad, you're stuck until you get to the destination. People like having the freedom to choose their own adventure, though, and this is why the book series was so popular. The traditional novel doesn't give enough control to the reader. I predict that choose your own adventure type fiction will shortly displace the traditional novel.
This trend is not an evil to be struggled against. Rather, it is a natural evolution of literature.
Tobias Boon was one of the creators of Mortal Kombat.
Come on, folks. If you can be bothered to submit a story, you can at least write it up!
As for you, Taco, you should demand better. Do you have so few submissions that you have to post every submission you get? I find that hard to believe. I don't mean to sound too condemning, but I really believe Slashdot can do better.
The script circumvents access controls, doesn't it? Isn't that what the DMCA makes illegal? This isn't rocket science, folks.
Next question.
..we steal our games. Why bother buying them when you can steal the ROMs online? After all, copyright law is evil when it gets in the way of us getting free stuff.
I'm afraid your business model doesn't take into account the fact that people who are interested in your product are terrible thieves.
I'm not kidding. Sealand has lasted thus far because there's been no good reason to take it over. The RIAA is not going to let Napster get away, though, and they'll hire government agents to destroy any Sealand operation that Napster might try to start.
It's about time Napster rolled over and admitted that they can't fight money.
...but it's understandable. It's a common fallacy to equate historical compilation with stagnation, and progress with dynamic propositionalism However, one is forced to ask where this ever-shifting platform of thought leads.
Certainly, staticism alone is not a valid mode of epistemological advancement, but can any method which wholly abandons static principles and knowledge lead beyond self-referential factualism? Although this has been heavily debated, general consensus holds that it is in fact not possible. While the implications of this will be fleshed out and argued over for decades, the immediate applications are both obvious and non-trivial.
Commonly held traditions in literature are critical for progression of social normalizing factors. Although it could certainly be argued that an individual's canon must necessarily supersede one founded on principles of democratic advancement, it is worth noting that not a solitary instance of corresponding phenomena has been observed. Admittedly, non-observation does not entail non-existence, but broader sociological and literary analysis continues this account accross multiple social strata.
In conclusion, while I believe your model is fundamentally flawed, you are correct in your assessment of the shortcomings of common-archetypal aesthetic representationalism.
You can have this one for $3.50
If you believe the parent, you're an idiot.
I kid you not, the trolls actually sit around for hours fabrication "evidence" to support their position. I would know...as fascdot I was inside the troll cabal. It disgusted me, though, so I left...and now they hound me.
They can't handle the fact that anyone would not want to be a part of their little circle jerk.
It is absurd to expect to find the origins of life in a frozen lake in Antarctica. While science is a useful tool, there are questions that are outside of its bounds, and this is one of them.
Fundamentally, science is carefully considered observations. Thus, anything that cannot be observed cannot be addressed by science. This is why attempting to prove or disprove the existence of God through science is an absurdity. Finding the origins of life is a similarly un-addressable question.
Any truly enlightened person will realize that life could only have occurred because of a Divine Touch, but I won't expect scientists to realize this. However, they should realize that there is insufficient evidence to theorize regarding an event that remote. There simply isn't enough empirical evidence to scientifically theorize about the question -- not in that lake, and not anywhere.
Much of the sciences have come to a stand still because scientists refuse to realize that their tool is not the appropriate one for all problems. Perhaps it is an education problem, or maybe it's just one of ego. Regardless, science needs to focus on what it applies to, and leave the mysteries of the origin of life to those who can best understand them.
Thus, I use RPM exclusively.
You can argue and quibble about functionality and neither installer will win decisively. However, RPM doesn't ruin your system. Ever. I don't understand why so many users tolerate an installer that's the equivelant of playing Russian Roulette.
It's insane, if you ask me.
You're forgiven. BTW, just testing my new sig' n stuff