Before the mass printing of the Bible, Christians pretty much got their teaching from priests alone who could get their hands on giant hand copied bibles.
This allowed selective teachings of the Bible to suit the priests view, and also allows rather inconsistant or weird passages to be ommited from public teaching.
If you are a Christian and you haven't done so, read the bible cover to cover and see if that's what you've been taught. God kills a lot more people in the Bible than he does in the Veggie tales.
I would guess that censorware would actually block it's own homepage.
Ie the homepage claims the product blocks pages about sex, gambling, violence etc
The censorware sees all the bad keywords in a row and blocks out the page.
The alternative? Write a search engine that doesn't return any XXX results, use that on school computer homepage. If you're paranoid check the log files. Yet we all know this anyway so I'll stop writing now.
Granted rights in China are very poor, but the American attitude that everybody should have guns incase you need to start blowing up the government doesn't have much fact behind it.
Was the people's recent uprising against Sloberdan M. done with guns? Or just with the support of all the people?
On the other hand, there was an uprising against the government with guns, in Fiji. Where a dicriminated ethenicity was able to be taken out of government by a gun weilding mob.
Other than the American revolution (which was about taxes not rights) little good politics have been done with guns.
Well if we want to base our Callandear on the supposed birth date of Jesus Christ, the end of the Cent happened in 1996. Because the Callandear we currently are using was declared around 300AD by a ruler who guessed the birth of Jesus 4 years off from where historical evidence points it to be.
And even if 1AD was Jesus's birth, we should be good C programmers and count from 0 anyway.
And should time really be based on one religion's views? (suppose it's too late to change it now)
I know this is barely relevant, but I get so annoyed when people who claim the new Cent starts on 2001 think they're so smart.
Spam free speech?
Does
Cut your phone bills in half,
Cum see me and my girlfriends new website xxx,
Send $100 to quasi-illegal quasi-pyramid scheme,
etc
express any real views? Any political, religious, social opinion? Spam is as much a form of speech as tele-marketing. Intrusive and unwanted.
This is a weak form of genetic engineering if even that, it is scientific genetic selection yet that's probably how removal of diseases from gene pool would work.
In scenerio where child would have 1/2 chance of being carrier, 1/4 chance of being infected, could hunt around for that last healthy 1/4.
Even if the article is more based on the medical procedure of healing the girl after the birth, there still will be 100 posts on this article of anti-folling around with genetics in any way.
There are two things people seem to be hysterically against, nuclear power and genetic engineering.
In South Australia giant protests have delayed any nuclear waste dumb being built in wasteland hundreds of km's from anywhere. Meanwhile my university's science department and the local hospital actually has to keep nuclear waste on site because there's no where else to put it.
Now as for genetic engineering, I have a bad sinus problem, it is genetic, and I would rather not have it. There are thousands of genetically spread diseases that cause misery to many people, but all we have is really medicine.
This is where it gets ugly.
Now in the past before medicine, people with genetically passed disorders would die more often (than healthy people) and mate less, yet now the human gene pool is being more and more poluted with disease as medicine lets people live reasonably healthy lives. Possible solutions.
1) Sterlise genetically inferior
2) Give no medicine to genetically inferior and let them die
3) Genetically alter embroes not to pass on diseases
4) Let things go on as they are and have future generations suffer more disease
No 3 seems like too much of an obvious choice to me. Then the argument that always seems to come up is, "Where does it stop, what if parents want to choose gender or eye colour of their children" etc.
Where my simple answer is "so?". So what if parents can custom make their children? Will this cause any suffering in the world?
Anyway, this message is getting to the length where nobody can be bothered reading it so I'll stop.
Why can I say with such assuredness that debian kicks ass even tho I haven't used it?
It comes with a game that I helped made, xtux arena.
Please go to the webpage and but the author to keep doing more code (I'm a mere graphic monkey for the game). He's gotten lazy recently.
benifits of keeping webpages under simple standards (and using cgi instead of frames etc)
1) Small time to download for poor bastards still wtihout cable modems
2) Accessable to those with disabilities (handicap programs have better ideas what to speak out or what to enlarge etc)
3) People on public terminals can view it (no plug ins)
4) People on very simple devices can view it (ie linx, mobile phone internet)
5) Easy to print
6) Easy to bookmark exact state
But no, pointy hair boss wants spinning logo and welcome midi music with flash intro that gives it that sorta look but adds nothing useful)
(in the case of Burgandy Rum their flash menu made it impossible to tell what the heck was going on, hopefully fixed it now)
Simple test, give people this option on splash page
1) High bandwidth, flash frames version
2) Simple html
I remember hearing that the UN was building some universal language (lets call it X). Where everybody would have to write a translator to and from X, so we have a linear problem instead of a factorial problem of translating every language to and from every other language.
Now this would give us the power to write all pages in whatever language we wished and get them translated easily but it still sounds rather babel fishy.
Most desirable (and as a result least possible) solution is to write every page in language X (or write it in English and have it translated to X but end result is that an html document would be in X) and then each person's browser would need only one translator.
Hopefully people would actually slowly learn X (for tweaking purposes when the translations to don't quite work) and then the whole world can speak it (impossible dream.)
Because while I can't speak any other languages after doing AI I know what a urked up language English is for AI and translators.
1984's new speak is much more pratical.
There were once very rare rumours of Microsoft was open sourcing part of itself. Nobody ever really believed them, the end result was Microsoft, after claiming they considered it, declined for reason x,y,z. i.e. they thought about it, but "found" too many problems in open source.
Now are we going to hear, Microsoft conisdered this, but due to the x,y,z short commings in developing programs for linux they're now not going to?
That being said Office for linux wouldn't be a bad thing aslong as Gnome's office was at a stage where it could compete first.
A better alternative being, people stop sending god damn.doc's in emails when the.doc's just contain just text anyway so people with emacs/notepad can read them?
I get too good at my games and deathmatch is unfair against less experienced players on my network so I always look out for a good co-operative game.
What co-op games really need is a don't look at me shrug (simular in theory to q2,q3 taunt animation), for after you shoot your teammate in the back with a double barrel.
Everytime there's a slight computer problem I have to spend a good 20 minutes explaining to my mother what to do, that isn't so bad considering I get a house and food. I just hate being pimped out to my mother's old friends to fix their computers.
What I truely dread is when I'm 35 and in a computer job what can I offer that the next generation can't? COBOL? (hopefully exinct by then), PAL? DLX? We'll probably be using whole new paradigms for programming by then.
So do me a favour and don't teach your kids computers.
now I just need that laser surgery that improves eyesight beyond 20/20, use that growth hormone that used on the mice, bionic arms, and bionic hearing and I can beat the crap out of the 6 million dollar man.
I've been converting everybody's favourite logos into characters for a scrolling shooter game (which steals the obvious name of Xtux) and so far I've had two people ripping off my graphics (with permission, tho they don't need it) one for a screen mate and other being clan bomber) [hopefully they've gotten some better graphics than the original ones they borrowed].
Personally I'm flattered, but that's probably because I'm a uni student living at home and don't need any money yet.
I find nothing more useful then when people leave they're textures or props avaliable for download. I see the best compromise as leaving components of art open source (such as textures or 3D prog macros) yet the final product (animated 3D models etc) as closed source. Leaving those components open make it easier for other people to make their own graphics, so they can be better suited to the task at hand.
Although I plan to still stay completely open source until I need the money.
Democracy is based on that 51%+ of the people are right atleast 51% of the time. Yet when any joe can make a law (with some support from 3l33t3 haxor dudez with lots of electronic signatures) how long to the following are written into the constitution We Hold these truths to be self evident 1) No Fat Chicks 2) See Above 3) Cable channel porn must be free 4) See Above plus some 5) More Beer
But seriously, could start some nasty anti-minority laws or a lot of laws that aren't practical if you knew the full story.
But it's by the people, for the people and some good might come out of it. Enjoy.
I assume Rambus is American, although I don't know that for a fact (if it isn't just replace Toshiba with Transmetta). So what if Toshiba refuses to pay patents? I mean they could truthfully claim they don't deal with terrorists. So does anybody know how patent laws carry? thanks.
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I'm not passing judgement, just saying the teaching of the Bible is usually a bit more sugar coated than the plain book.
Before the mass printing of the Bible, Christians pretty much got their teaching from priests alone who could get their hands on giant hand copied bibles.
This allowed selective teachings of the Bible to suit the priests view, and also allows rather inconsistant or weird passages to be ommited from public teaching.
If you are a Christian and you haven't done so, read the bible cover to cover and see if that's what you've been taught. God kills a lot more people in the Bible than he does in the Veggie tales.
I would guess that censorware would actually block it's own homepage.
Ie the homepage claims the product blocks pages about sex, gambling, violence etc
The censorware sees all the bad keywords in a row and blocks out the page.
The alternative? Write a search engine that doesn't return any XXX results, use that on school computer homepage. If you're paranoid check the log files. Yet we all know this anyway so I'll stop writing now.
Granted rights in China are very poor, but the American attitude that everybody should have guns incase you need to start blowing up the government doesn't have much fact behind it.
Was the people's recent uprising against Sloberdan M. done with guns? Or just with the support of all the people?
On the other hand, there was an uprising against the government with guns, in Fiji. Where a dicriminated ethenicity was able to be taken out of government by a gun weilding mob.
Other than the American revolution (which was about taxes not rights) little good politics have been done with guns.
Well if we want to base our Callandear on the supposed birth date of Jesus Christ, the end of the Cent happened in 1996. Because the Callandear we currently are using was declared around 300AD by a ruler who guessed the birth of Jesus 4 years off from where historical evidence points it to be.
And even if 1AD was Jesus's birth, we should be good C programmers and count from 0 anyway.
And should time really be based on one religion's views? (suppose it's too late to change it now)
I know this is barely relevant, but I get so annoyed when people who claim the new Cent starts on 2001 think they're so smart.
I feel better now.
Spam free speech?
Does
Cut your phone bills in half,
Cum see me and my girlfriends new website xxx,
Send $100 to quasi-illegal quasi-pyramid scheme,
etc
express any real views? Any political, religious, social opinion? Spam is as much a form of speech as tele-marketing. Intrusive and unwanted.
This is a weak form of genetic engineering if even that, it is scientific genetic selection yet that's probably how removal of diseases from gene pool would work.
In scenerio where child would have 1/2 chance of being carrier, 1/4 chance of being infected, could hunt around for that last healthy 1/4.
Even if the article is more based on the medical procedure of healing the girl after the birth, there still will be 100 posts on this article of anti-folling around with genetics in any way.
There are two things people seem to be hysterically against, nuclear power and genetic engineering.
In South Australia giant protests have delayed any nuclear waste dumb being built in wasteland hundreds of km's from anywhere. Meanwhile my university's science department and the local hospital actually has to keep nuclear waste on site because there's no where else to put it.
Now as for genetic engineering, I have a bad sinus problem, it is genetic, and I would rather not have it. There are thousands of genetically spread diseases that cause misery to many people, but all we have is really medicine.
This is where it gets ugly.
Now in the past before medicine, people with genetically passed disorders would die more often (than healthy people) and mate less, yet now the human gene pool is being more and more poluted with disease as medicine lets people live reasonably healthy lives. Possible solutions.
1) Sterlise genetically inferior
2) Give no medicine to genetically inferior and let them die
3) Genetically alter embroes not to pass on diseases
4) Let things go on as they are and have future generations suffer more disease
No 3 seems like too much of an obvious choice to me. Then the argument that always seems to come up is, "Where does it stop, what if parents want to choose gender or eye colour of their children" etc.
Where my simple answer is "so?". So what if parents can custom make their children? Will this cause any suffering in the world?
Anyway, this message is getting to the length where nobody can be bothered reading it so I'll stop.
Why can I say with such assuredness that debian kicks ass even tho I haven't used it?
It comes with a game that I helped made, xtux arena.
Please go to the webpage and but the author to keep doing more code (I'm a mere graphic monkey for the game). He's gotten lazy recently.
http://xtux.sourceforge.net/
enjoy
If the first guys to make free software patented the process they'd be rolling in cash by now. :)
Why is it when I submurge my head in 3 degree water tempratures I don't think any faster?
benifits of keeping webpages under simple standards (and using cgi instead of frames etc)
1) Small time to download for poor bastards still wtihout cable modems
2) Accessable to those with disabilities (handicap programs have better ideas what to speak out or what to enlarge etc)
3) People on public terminals can view it (no plug ins)
4) People on very simple devices can view it (ie linx, mobile phone internet)
5) Easy to print
6) Easy to bookmark exact state
But no, pointy hair boss wants spinning logo and welcome midi music with flash intro that gives it that sorta look but adds nothing useful)
(in the case of Burgandy Rum their flash menu made it impossible to tell what the heck was going on, hopefully fixed it now)
Simple test, give people this option on splash page
1) High bandwidth, flash frames version
2) Simple html
and see which one gets chosen more.
I remember hearing that the UN was building some universal language (lets call it X). Where everybody would have to write a translator to and from X, so we have a linear problem instead of a factorial problem of translating every language to and from every other language.
Now this would give us the power to write all pages in whatever language we wished and get them translated easily but it still sounds rather babel fishy.
Most desirable (and as a result least possible) solution is to write every page in language X (or write it in English and have it translated to X but end result is that an html document would be in X) and then each person's browser would need only one translator.
Hopefully people would actually slowly learn X (for tweaking purposes when the translations to don't quite work) and then the whole world can speak it (impossible dream.)
Because while I can't speak any other languages after doing AI I know what a urked up language English is for AI and translators.
1984's new speak is much more pratical.
There were once very rare rumours of Microsoft was open sourcing part of itself. Nobody ever really believed them, the end result was Microsoft, after claiming they considered it, declined for reason x,y,z. i.e. they thought about it, but "found" too many problems in open source.
.doc's in emails when the .doc's just contain just text anyway so people with emacs/notepad can read them?
Now are we going to hear, Microsoft conisdered this, but due to the x,y,z short commings in developing programs for linux they're now not going to?
That being said Office for linux wouldn't be a bad thing aslong as Gnome's office was at a stage where it could compete first.
A better alternative being, people stop sending god damn
When we finally buy the chip will it have
"This bios message is not here yet" for a bios startup?
Every yr 12 physics momentum problem started off as...
2 cars crash on an icey road...
because friction was too advanced to take into the equation.
Now finally my equations will be able to get something in the real world right.
I get too good at my games and deathmatch is unfair against less experienced players on my network so I always look out for a good co-operative game.
What co-op games really need is a don't look at me shrug (simular in theory to q2,q3 taunt animation), for after you shoot your teammate in the back with a double barrel.
Everytime there's a slight computer problem I have to spend a good 20 minutes explaining to my mother what to do, that isn't so bad considering I get a house and food.
I just hate being pimped out to my mother's old friends to fix their computers.
What I truely dread is when I'm 35 and in a computer job what can I offer that the next generation can't? COBOL? (hopefully exinct by then), PAL? DLX? We'll probably be using whole new paradigms for programming by then.
So do me a favour and don't teach your kids computers.
now I just need that laser surgery that improves eyesight beyond 20/20, use that growth hormone that used on the mice, bionic arms, and bionic hearing and I can beat the crap out of the 6 million dollar man.
There feature is open to you, and it's a hell of a lot easier to moderate most of the good ones up than most of the bad ones down.
With only view 2+ you don't see any crap, and if you're really interested in the article just set tolerance back to 1 so you get the good stuff.
A crashed satalite in Disney would give them a free adventure ride with the usual level of saftey Disney are renowned for.
Look at the shuttle after Goofy couldn't convert to metric system and Donald was the voice over at launch control.
Just need to find a way to put 2 giant circular ears on the wreckage.
Personally I'm flattered, but that's probably because I'm a uni student living at home and don't need any money yet.
I find nothing more useful then when people leave they're textures or props avaliable for download. I see the best compromise as leaving components of art open source (such as textures or 3D prog macros) yet the final product (animated 3D models etc) as closed source. Leaving those components open make it easier for other people to make their own graphics, so they can be better suited to the task at hand.
Although I plan to still stay completely open source until I need the money.
If you want to see Xtux's current state of development http://sourceforge.net/project/?grou p_id=206
enjoy
Name me one court that would possibly find "more beer" unconstitutional.
But in all fairness, point taken. Still, I can dream can't I?
Democracy is based on that 51%+ of the people are right atleast 51% of the time.
Yet when any joe can make a law (with some support from 3l33t3 haxor dudez with lots of electronic signatures) how long to the following are written into the constitution
We Hold these truths to be self evident
1) No Fat Chicks
2) See Above
3) Cable channel porn must be free
4) See Above plus some
5) More Beer
But seriously, could start some nasty anti-minority laws or a lot of laws that aren't practical if you knew the full story.
But it's by the people, for the people and some good might come out of it. Enjoy.
I assume Rambus is American, although I don't know that for a fact (if it isn't just replace Toshiba with Transmetta). So what if Toshiba refuses to pay patents? I mean they could truthfully claim they don't deal with terrorists.
So does anybody know how patent laws carry? thanks.