The dose that you use is so dillute (more than a part in a trillon)
If homeopathic "medicine" (ha!) contained that many active molecules, I'd at least be willing to concede that they may be a possible (if unlikely) pathway to health. However, look at a bottle sometime, and look for the "strength" indicator which will be one of "10x", "30x", and "100x". Those numbers indicate how many times the original substance has been diluted by a factor a 1:10 (source: the pro-homeopathy site at http://www.faerymagick.com/homeapat.htm).
Now, the "10x" doses will still have a full one ten-billionth of the original substance left. Now, assume that the "medicine" has an exquisitely low atomic mass - for convenience, let's say that you want to take pure Carbon-12. Further imagine that you'll be taking a 12-gram dose of it. At "10x", you'll still be getting about 6*10^13 of the molecules you started with.
However, remember that quacks^Whomeopathists believe that the weaker the dilution, the stronger the "medicine". At "30x", there's a 1:6*10^7 chance of getting even a single molecule of "medicine". At "100x", that drops to 1:6*10^77. Frankly, "cure by being simultaneously struck by lightning, a meteorite, and the blast from our Sun spontaneously going supernova" has much more likelihood of pharmacological benefit.
Don't ever refer to homeopathy as "medicine". It's not. Call it "psychologically active", or "psychosomatic breakthrough", or just plain "placebo", but don't ever give it the credibility of equating it with a real cure for illness.
Besides, you just got married, and your interested in the network ?????
Hell yeah! When I first married, I didn't think about anything other than sockets for months. Now I mostly yearn for the days with a fat pipe in promiscuous mode. At least I'm hooked up with thin-net, unlike some of my old peers.
If you're using multiple computers, it can be easier to do it this way because there's no *simple* method.
I'll grant you that. Two solutions that would be handy:
A standard schema for storing bookmarks in LDAP, and popular browser support for it.
A config option to store bookmarks on a remote filesystem (maybe with local caching). If Konqueror could be made to use sftp://myhomeserver/home/me/kbookmarks.xml then I'd never use another browser.
Bush's supporters have been shown to vote for him soely on moral ground.
No I don't. I share some moral beliefs with him (would anyone vote for anybody with completely different morals than their own?), but that's not the main reason I think he's the best candidate in this election.
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change...
If people will wake up and realize that [hating] Bush without understanding the issues is [hopelessly dividing] our country, then perhapse they will change...
I understand the Democratic position on many of the differences I have with them, but I disagree with them for various reasons. You clearly have no understanding of the Republican position on those issues and have resorted to attacking with "Bush is teh suck and his followers too".
petabytes of space at research institutions are not unheard of
You're right, but a petabyte is still 2^-14 of the addressable size of a 64-bit filesystem. Will we eventually need this? Sure! In the meantime, we're all shuffling around an extra word (on 64-bit systems) or three (for us 32-bit slackers) for every file operation. This just seems like a performance-draining waste of resources for the foreseeable future.
I'm pretty film-ignorant, but let's say that you're talking about the equivalent of a 10000x10000 image with 64 bits of color (because you clearly want to maintain all of the information possible). That's 800,000,000 bytes (10000*10000*8) per image. Impressive, but at 24 frames per second a 64-bit filesystem will still yield 960,767,920 seconds (30.4 years) of uncompressed footage.
The pharoah's dreams that Joseph relayed him interpretation for were clearly not literal. Jesus' parable about Lazarus and the rich man is not literal. The Psalms can not be entirely literal.
Clearly. I think the truth isn't that the pharoah's dreams were real, but that he really had them and someone wrote down a reasonable accurate transcription of them.
See, that right there is not literal. You're saying that "a thousand thousand" is not literally "a thousand thousand."
You might be right, and I don't have a great counter-argument. See, even some of us Southern Baptists aren't really as bullheaded as we're made out to be.:)
The time from Adam to the flood can be summed from much shorter time spans given in Genesis. How long do you think man has been on this planet?
Science says roughly several tens of thousands of years (I'm not current on anthropology, so I'd have to hedge and say "whatever the experts are saying these days"). The God I learned about in church was too busy inventing things to really screw with our heads, like general relativity and quantum mechanics, to run around sticking fake animal bones in the ground, so I'd have to say that the evolutionary tree of homo sapiens goes back a while. I don't know, to be honest; maybe Adam was the first of a long line of proto-hominids to have the special something we call "humanity"? I'm not a Biblical scholar, so I can't give a solid answer.
What's it matter? The move from a 32-bit to a 64-bit integer is mind-boggingly enormous; it increases the address space by a factor of four billion. In comparison, my first Commodore 64 had 170KB of online storage and a today's average consumer can pick up a 160GB drive at Wal-Mart. That's an increase of almost one million times. A 64-bit filesystem can accomodate a filesystem that would fill more than 100 million of those 160GB drives without using any extra levels of indirection. That's over 2^26 times today's average capacities, or 26 "Moore generations".
What kind of video editing are you doing that can put a dent in a filesystem that can address 2^26 times the space of a standard drive today? Do you work for the NSA or something?
So you simply believe that the Bible is fundamentally correct.
You might be right. On the other hand, most other people I know who profess a belief in the literal truth of the Bible think the same way if you ask them about the details. I guess it's a matter of whether you define "literal" in this context to mean "exactly, precisely true" or "as accurate as the author was able to convey".
Of course, then you can decide whether my non-literal interpretation of "literal" is paradoxical and probably make a strong case that I'm in over my head, theologically speaking.:)
The only other specific example off the top of my head is in I Kings 7:23-26, where the author mentions a bathtub that's 10 cubits across and 30 cubits around. One group of people will use this as "proof" that pi = 30/10 = 3. Another group of people will use this as "proof" that the Bible is inaccurate. Both sets ignore the simplest explanation: someone looked at the tub and said "that there tub looks to be about 10 cubits across, don'tcha reckon, Jocephus?"
If the measurements were listed as multiples of a wavelength of a particular shade of red light, then there would be ample room for argument; either the ratio really would work out to a good approximation of pi, or the naysayers would have a legitimate point to harp on. However, the numbers weren't particularly precise and now there's plenty of wiggle room on both sides.
I think the account was true, in that the tub was roughly 10 cubits across and 30 around. I'm not sure why people feel the need to get hung up on the details and overlook the fact that Solomon built a temple with a pretty big hot tub in the middle of it. That's more interesting to me than whether a historical record gave a good approximation of an irrational number.
And not even then. I am a Southern Baptist who believes in the literal truth of the Bible. I also believe that phrases like "a thousand thousand angels" means "more people than I've seen in one place during my life in a sparsely-populated desert region", and "a thousand years" means "a period of time longer than my cultural upbringing has prepared me to comprehend".
Put another way: suppose God spoke to me and said "here is the timeline of Creation. See that dot? That's you. See that dot? That's the end of the Universe as you understand it. Go tell people.". Say I was a shepherd that had never heard of a number larger than "one thousand", and that was referring to a flock of sheep large enough to really impress me that "thousand" means "a whole lot". I'd probably come back with something like "the Universe will end after thousands of thousands of years". I would be speaking the literal truth within my ability to express the concepts that I had never encountered before.
When someone tells me that it's 10:45 AM, I don't think that it's really 104500.000000UTC. Why people assign arbitrarily precise values to bits of information that are inherently imprecise, either to prove that their interpretation of the Bible is The One True Way or that the Bible is a self-contradictory load of BS, is completely beyond me.
Also, please describe for me how an 'apolitical' person behaves.
Why, people just like me, of course! I and those like me think only of the general welfare of the world, while those who disagree are obviously close-minded bigots bent on creating a fascist state.
You've nailed the problem exactly. Everyone believe that they're acting on pure rationality while their opponents are idiots - if they weren't, after all, they'd see the world in the exact same way.
Apolitical indeed. If such a personal actually exists, then they're too sheltered to do the job. Just because Douglas Adams wrote a funny story about such a person doesn't make it a good idea.
What Feztaa said. The biggest draw is the integration between components. For example, KDE supplies "IO-Slaves" to client programs that they can use to load and save data instead of using the open() syscall. This means that any KDE program that takes advantages of this functionality (which is the wide majority of them) can access remote data as easily as information on a local filesystem.
I've started using KMyMoney (personal accounting program) at home recently. When I was at work yesterday, I wanted to check my bank balance. I ran the app here at the office and opened a file requester to load a data file. In the "location" area, I entered "sftp://homeserver/" and then browsed my filesystem at home to locate the appropriate file. KMyMoney then used SFTP to load the data. When I added a new entry and clicked the "Save" icon, it used SFTP to save the data back to the file at home.
I do web development on a Zope server for a living. I use Kate (the KDE programmer's editor) to read and write files to the server via WebDav. Kate has its own set of bookmarks in the file requester, so I maintain a list of webdav://, sftp:// and fish:// pointers to various locations where I need to edit files.
Kopete (multi-protocol instant messenger) can link entries in its "buddy lists" to KAddressBook. When I'm in KAddressBook, those people have a little icon next to their name showing their current messaging status.
Konqueror uses IO-Slaves extensively. Want to view your POP3 account as a file folder? Browse to "pop3://myusername@mailserver/".
There's a standard encrypted information store called "KWallet". Most KDE apps have migrated to using that to store passwords, form data from websites, or other personal information. I type one password at login to unlock my "wallet", and every app I use has access to its working information. If I lock my wallet, then my information is off-limits.
Want to burn the contents of a directory to a CD? Right-click that directory in Konqueror, select Actions -> Create Data CD With K3b.
It's the million-and-one details like these that define a "desktop environment". In a nutshell, no program stands alone - they all work together to make life more convenient. Mac OS X is the only other OS I've used with this level of integration.
A lot of people dismiss this all as "bloat", and I just don't understand that line of thinking. To me, it seems incredibly efficient to make all of these services available to every application that wants to use them. It would be bloat to add an HTML viewer to every application. It is not bloat to provide an HTML viewing object that any application can use. If KMyMoney natively supported network-transparent IO, then I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. But since the environment provides it, I get a lot of extra functionality "for free" without any extra work by the KMyMoney programmers. Isn't this what Unix is supposed to be about?
VP of Sales, to CEO: "It took 1000 hours to develop this site at a cost of $35 per hour. It would take another 250 hours to make it fully compliant, at an additional cost of $8750. Lazy developer mistakes are costing us 10% of our potential revenue. If we plan to sell more than $87,000 worth of product, then we'd be complete idiots not to pay the extra money to get the additional revenue. Here's a list of web developers from Monster.com that can replace our in-house monkey - when should we start the hiring process?"
A good friend of mine is a web designer at a major online travel service. When they're making $25,000,000 a month, do you really think they'd be willing to lose $2,500,000 to save maybe $5,000 in development budget?
I'm not sure about that. How many bookmarks do you have? I have hundreds, all filed away appropriately. Firefox (and Konqueror) complete URLs in the address bar based on browsing history and your bookmarks, so I can type "snopes<enter>" to get to http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp .
Contrast this with some people I know who don't realize that they can bookmark things; they use Google to find everything. Want to go to www.espn.com? Go to Google and type "ESPN"! Want to read The Onion? Go to Google and type "The Onion"!
It seems to me that the people who use non-MSIE browsers are also the ones least likely to hit Google 200 times per day, and therefore likely to be underrepresented in the totals.
We need Gnome/KDE for new adopters, truthfully perhaps very few of them will ever want to move to something simplier (or more complicated in their eyes).
I've been using Unix pretty much exclusively since 1997, and I love KDE because of its configurability. I'm glad that you like Openbox and XFCE4, but don't assume that only newbies are using Gnome and KDE.
I liked WindowMaker 0.5 and Enlightenment 14 even back when you had to edit their config files for pretty much anything complicated, but now I dislike the relative lack of functionality in non-KDE/Gnome systems today. Some of us honestly happen to like full-blown desktop environments; it has nothing to do with our lack of ability to use the other available options.
I lost friends in high school to "hill topping". In a controlled environment it could be pretty fun, but there are far too many ways to Darwin yourself:
Be a few degrees from parallel to the direction of the road when you get air. By the time you land, you're displaced laterally from your driving lane by several feet in either direction. Oncoming cars or fixed barriers suck when you're airborne at ballistic speeds.
Discover a loose farm animal standing in the middle of the road. Brakes work poorly when you're not in contact with the driving surface.
Any other permutation of "inadvertent change in velocity vector", "large object", and "non-acceleration due to lack of friction"
I dare say that the "vomit comet" is far safer than jumping your car on some hill out on the middle of nowhere.
I want a distro where by default packages install under $HOME so that someone can install their favorite browser without root access.
Absolutely, positively not!
If you're on a single-user workstation, then either you have root privileges or your IT department doesn't want you to have them. Either way, this is a non-issue for you.
If you're referring to a multi-user server, then the idea of each user having their own KDE and Gnome install, complete with libraries, art, etc. is unmanageably insane. Furthermore, since each user's foo.so would be a distinct file, they'd each have to have their own copy loaded in memory instead of sharing one.
No thanks. This seems to be a problem in search of a solution (yes, I meant it that way).
So either you read my original post and understand it, and are determined to dig in your heals while refusing to admit an alternate possibility, or you didn't understand it and you still have no idea how macroeconomics work.
You completely and utterly missed the part where I explicitly said that I did, in fact, own a license to the software in question but did not have it in my physical possession at the instant I needed it. Thanks for chiming in anyway.
Justify it all you want, it is still illegal. You have a serial number, misplacing it does not give you the right to use someone else's.
No, it's not. It may be against your particular Terms Of Service, but it's not illegal. First off, I can't imagine any software company in the world that would object to this as long as you stick to the correct number of seats / connections / whatever. Second, try explaining that to the judge:
Them: "Your Honor, the defendant paid $39.95 to buy this sequence of digits that would allow him to use our software, but he really used that sequence."
Judge: "And he using features that he wasn't entitled to, under the terms of the correct sequence?"
Them: "No."
Judge: "Oh. So, then he sold the 'legitimate' sequence while still using the one he downloaded from Google?"
Them: "No, Your Honor. The thieving pirate went home, printed out the legitimate sequence, mailed it to the customer whose machine he illegally installed our software on, then deleted it."
Judge: "Are you on crack, or does this really make sense to you?"
I'm sure Echelon had legitimate uses (yeah, right) but how many of us can say that we use programs like this in order to convert our holiday movies from mpg to avi, and *never* rip a DVD?
I use programs like that to rip DVDs all the time. I only want to buy "Milo and Otis" once, but my preschool-age children want to watch it constantly and can trash a DVD in no time flat. You are correct that many of us use DVD ripping programs to exercise our legal and moral right to make working backup copies of our movie libraries.
Is your priority to balance the budget first and then cut taxes, or is to cut taxes followed by balancing the budget, the same way that Reagan and GWB has done?
And then:
In no way, did I mention supply side econ and/or Econ theorys and/or Taxation Rate. I was referring to the lack of planning and responsibility by many politicians.
So, you're strongly asserting that cutting taxes is irresponsible, regardless of the fact that economic theory indicates that it's perfectly possible to lower them and still increase revenue.
Since you claim to know this, then we can safely assume that your original position is strictly inflammatory and served only to advertise your idea that "Republicans are fiscally irresponsible".
You could have asked whether he planned to raise taxes, then attempt to balance the budget after thereby lowering the revenue. That would've shown a conservative bias, though, and you went with the popular choice.
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If homeopathic "medicine" (ha!) contained that many active molecules, I'd at least be willing to concede that they may be a possible (if unlikely) pathway to health. However, look at a bottle sometime, and look for the "strength" indicator which will be one of "10x", "30x", and "100x". Those numbers indicate how many times the original substance has been diluted by a factor a 1:10 (source: the pro-homeopathy site at http://www.faerymagick.com/homeapat.htm).
Now, the "10x" doses will still have a full one ten-billionth of the original substance left. Now, assume that the "medicine" has an exquisitely low atomic mass - for convenience, let's say that you want to take pure Carbon-12. Further imagine that you'll be taking a 12-gram dose of it. At "10x", you'll still be getting about 6*10^13 of the molecules you started with.
However, remember that quacks^Whomeopathists believe that the weaker the dilution, the stronger the "medicine". At "30x", there's a 1:6*10^7 chance of getting even a single molecule of "medicine". At "100x", that drops to 1:6*10^77. Frankly, "cure by being simultaneously struck by lightning, a meteorite, and the blast from our Sun spontaneously going supernova" has much more likelihood of pharmacological benefit.
Don't ever refer to homeopathy as "medicine". It's not. Call it "psychologically active", or "psychosomatic breakthrough", or just plain "placebo", but don't ever give it the credibility of equating it with a real cure for illness.
Hell yeah! When I first married, I didn't think about anything other than sockets for months. Now I mostly yearn for the days with a fat pipe in promiscuous mode. At least I'm hooked up with thin-net, unlike some of my old peers.
I'll grant you that. Two solutions that would be handy:
No I don't. I share some moral beliefs with him (would anyone vote for anybody with completely different morals than their own?), but that's not the main reason I think he's the best candidate in this election.
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change...
If people will wake up and realize that [hating] Bush without understanding the issues is [hopelessly dividing] our country, then perhapse they will change...
I understand the Democratic position on many of the differences I have with them, but I disagree with them for various reasons. You clearly have no understanding of the Republican position on those issues and have resorted to attacking with "Bush is teh suck and his followers too".
You're right, but a petabyte is still 2^-14 of the addressable size of a 64-bit filesystem. Will we eventually need this? Sure! In the meantime, we're all shuffling around an extra word (on 64-bit systems) or three (for us 32-bit slackers) for every file operation. This just seems like a performance-draining waste of resources for the foreseeable future.
Again, what exactly are you planning to film? :)
Clearly. I think the truth isn't that the pharoah's dreams were real, but that he really had them and someone wrote down a reasonable accurate transcription of them.
See, that right there is not literal. You're saying that "a thousand thousand" is not literally "a thousand thousand."
You might be right, and I don't have a great counter-argument. See, even some of us Southern Baptists aren't really as bullheaded as we're made out to be. :)
The time from Adam to the flood can be summed from much shorter time spans given in Genesis. How long do you think man has been on this planet?
Science says roughly several tens of thousands of years (I'm not current on anthropology, so I'd have to hedge and say "whatever the experts are saying these days"). The God I learned about in church was too busy inventing things to really screw with our heads, like general relativity and quantum mechanics, to run around sticking fake animal bones in the ground, so I'd have to say that the evolutionary tree of homo sapiens goes back a while. I don't know, to be honest; maybe Adam was the first of a long line of proto-hominids to have the special something we call "humanity"? I'm not a Biblical scholar, so I can't give a solid answer.
What kind of video editing are you doing that can put a dent in a filesystem that can address 2^26 times the space of a standard drive today? Do you work for the NSA or something?
You might be right. On the other hand, most other people I know who profess a belief in the literal truth of the Bible think the same way if you ask them about the details. I guess it's a matter of whether you define "literal" in this context to mean "exactly, precisely true" or "as accurate as the author was able to convey".
Of course, then you can decide whether my non-literal interpretation of "literal" is paradoxical and probably make a strong case that I'm in over my head, theologically speaking. :)
Our filesystem goes to eleven.
If the measurements were listed as multiples of a wavelength of a particular shade of red light, then there would be ample room for argument; either the ratio really would work out to a good approximation of pi, or the naysayers would have a legitimate point to harp on. However, the numbers weren't particularly precise and now there's plenty of wiggle room on both sides.
I think the account was true, in that the tub was roughly 10 cubits across and 30 around. I'm not sure why people feel the need to get hung up on the details and overlook the fact that Solomon built a temple with a pretty big hot tub in the middle of it. That's more interesting to me than whether a historical record gave a good approximation of an irrational number.
And not even then. I am a Southern Baptist who believes in the literal truth of the Bible. I also believe that phrases like "a thousand thousand angels" means "more people than I've seen in one place during my life in a sparsely-populated desert region", and "a thousand years" means "a period of time longer than my cultural upbringing has prepared me to comprehend".
Put another way: suppose God spoke to me and said "here is the timeline of Creation. See that dot? That's you. See that dot? That's the end of the Universe as you understand it. Go tell people.". Say I was a shepherd that had never heard of a number larger than "one thousand", and that was referring to a flock of sheep large enough to really impress me that "thousand" means "a whole lot". I'd probably come back with something like "the Universe will end after thousands of thousands of years". I would be speaking the literal truth within my ability to express the concepts that I had never encountered before.
When someone tells me that it's 10:45 AM, I don't think that it's really 104500.000000UTC. Why people assign arbitrarily precise values to bits of information that are inherently imprecise, either to prove that their interpretation of the Bible is The One True Way or that the Bible is a self-contradictory load of BS, is completely beyond me.
Why, people just like me, of course! I and those like me think only of the general welfare of the world, while those who disagree are obviously close-minded bigots bent on creating a fascist state.
You've nailed the problem exactly. Everyone believe that they're acting on pure rationality while their opponents are idiots - if they weren't, after all, they'd see the world in the exact same way.
Apolitical indeed. If such a personal actually exists, then they're too sheltered to do the job. Just because Douglas Adams wrote a funny story about such a person doesn't make it a good idea.
I've started using KMyMoney (personal accounting program) at home recently. When I was at work yesterday, I wanted to check my bank balance. I ran the app here at the office and opened a file requester to load a data file. In the "location" area, I entered "sftp://homeserver/" and then browsed my filesystem at home to locate the appropriate file. KMyMoney then used SFTP to load the data. When I added a new entry and clicked the "Save" icon, it used SFTP to save the data back to the file at home.
I do web development on a Zope server for a living. I use Kate (the KDE programmer's editor) to read and write files to the server via WebDav. Kate has its own set of bookmarks in the file requester, so I maintain a list of webdav://, sftp:// and fish:// pointers to various locations where I need to edit files.
Kopete (multi-protocol instant messenger) can link entries in its "buddy lists" to KAddressBook. When I'm in KAddressBook, those people have a little icon next to their name showing their current messaging status.
Konqueror uses IO-Slaves extensively. Want to view your POP3 account as a file folder? Browse to "pop3://myusername@mailserver/".
There's a standard encrypted information store called "KWallet". Most KDE apps have migrated to using that to store passwords, form data from websites, or other personal information. I type one password at login to unlock my "wallet", and every app I use has access to its working information. If I lock my wallet, then my information is off-limits.
Want to burn the contents of a directory to a CD? Right-click that directory in Konqueror, select Actions -> Create Data CD With K3b.
It's the million-and-one details like these that define a "desktop environment". In a nutshell, no program stands alone - they all work together to make life more convenient. Mac OS X is the only other OS I've used with this level of integration.
A lot of people dismiss this all as "bloat", and I just don't understand that line of thinking. To me, it seems incredibly efficient to make all of these services available to every application that wants to use them. It would be bloat to add an HTML viewer to every application. It is not bloat to provide an HTML viewing object that any application can use. If KMyMoney natively supported network-transparent IO, then I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. But since the environment provides it, I get a lot of extra functionality "for free" without any extra work by the KMyMoney programmers. Isn't this what Unix is supposed to be about?
VP of Sales, to CEO: "It took 1000 hours to develop this site at a cost of $35 per hour. It would take another 250 hours to make it fully compliant, at an additional cost of $8750. Lazy developer mistakes are costing us 10% of our potential revenue. If we plan to sell more than $87,000 worth of product, then we'd be complete idiots not to pay the extra money to get the additional revenue. Here's a list of web developers from Monster.com that can replace our in-house monkey - when should we start the hiring process?"
A good friend of mine is a web designer at a major online travel service. When they're making $25,000,000 a month, do you really think they'd be willing to lose $2,500,000 to save maybe $5,000 in development budget?
Contrast this with some people I know who don't realize that they can bookmark things; they use Google to find everything. Want to go to www.espn.com? Go to Google and type "ESPN"! Want to read The Onion? Go to Google and type "The Onion"!
It seems to me that the people who use non-MSIE browsers are also the ones least likely to hit Google 200 times per day, and therefore likely to be underrepresented in the totals.
I first read that as "Neverland", and was going to point out that the musician wasn't really Stevie Wonder. Oh, and that wasn't really a flute.
I've been using Unix pretty much exclusively since 1997, and I love KDE because of its configurability. I'm glad that you like Openbox and XFCE4, but don't assume that only newbies are using Gnome and KDE.
I liked WindowMaker 0.5 and Enlightenment 14 even back when you had to edit their config files for pretty much anything complicated, but now I dislike the relative lack of functionality in non-KDE/Gnome systems today. Some of us honestly happen to like full-blown desktop environments; it has nothing to do with our lack of ability to use the other available options.
I lost friends in high school to "hill topping". In a controlled environment it could be pretty fun, but there are far too many ways to Darwin yourself:
I dare say that the "vomit comet" is far safer than jumping your car on some hill out on the middle of nowhere.
Absolutely, positively not!
If you're on a single-user workstation, then either you have root privileges or your IT department doesn't want you to have them. Either way, this is a non-issue for you.
If you're referring to a multi-user server, then the idea of each user having their own KDE and Gnome install, complete with libraries, art, etc. is unmanageably insane. Furthermore, since each user's foo.so would be a distinct file, they'd each have to have their own copy loaded in memory instead of sharing one.
No thanks. This seems to be a problem in search of a solution (yes, I meant it that way).
So either you read my original post and understand it, and are determined to dig in your heals while refusing to admit an alternate possibility, or you didn't understand it and you still have no idea how macroeconomics work.
Either way, I'm outta here.
You completely and utterly missed the part where I explicitly said that I did, in fact, own a license to the software in question but did not have it in my physical possession at the instant I needed it. Thanks for chiming in anyway.
No, it's not. It may be against your particular Terms Of Service, but it's not illegal. First off, I can't imagine any software company in the world that would object to this as long as you stick to the correct number of seats / connections / whatever. Second, try explaining that to the judge:
Them: "Your Honor, the defendant paid $39.95 to buy this sequence of digits that would allow him to use our software, but he really used that sequence."
Judge: "And he using features that he wasn't entitled to, under the terms of the correct sequence?"
Them: "No."
Judge: "Oh. So, then he sold the 'legitimate' sequence while still using the one he downloaded from Google?"
Them: "No, Your Honor. The thieving pirate went home, printed out the legitimate sequence, mailed it to the customer whose machine he illegally installed our software on, then deleted it."
Judge: "Are you on crack, or does this really make sense to you?"
I use programs like that to rip DVDs all the time. I only want to buy "Milo and Otis" once, but my preschool-age children want to watch it constantly and can trash a DVD in no time flat. You are correct that many of us use DVD ripping programs to exercise our legal and moral right to make working backup copies of our movie libraries.
What was your point again?
Is your priority to balance the budget first and then cut taxes, or is to cut taxes followed by balancing the budget, the same way that Reagan and GWB has done?
And then:
In no way, did I mention supply side econ and/or Econ theorys and/or Taxation Rate. I was referring to the lack of planning and responsibility by many politicians.
So, you're strongly asserting that cutting taxes is irresponsible, regardless of the fact that economic theory indicates that it's perfectly possible to lower them and still increase revenue.
Since you claim to know this, then we can safely assume that your original position is strictly inflammatory and served only to advertise your idea that "Republicans are fiscally irresponsible".
You could have asked whether he planned to raise taxes, then attempt to balance the budget after thereby lowering the revenue. That would've shown a conservative bias, though, and you went with the popular choice.