Unfortunately even with your handle I have to assume you are serious and not just trolling.
Shoulda gone with your gut:-)
Aw man, now I feel bad. Of course, I agree with you 100% in my complete hatred of the religious right. You know, today the state senate here in Colorado was debating a bill where they wanted to 'insert into the bill a praise to the Boy Scouts for standing up to the pressure' regarding exclusion of gays.
I mean, really now - even if their case had merit, is it really necessary to insert gratuitous praise of their exclusion into a bill? And the kicker is, it is MY REPRESENTATIVE SENATOR from Centennial, CO (previously Littleton, CO) who is pushing this crap. I'm gonna send him some dead trees.
-- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
This amounts to social engineering and forced propaganda, a recurring theme for liberals. Since you don't seem to understand the purpose of this bill, perhaps I can enlighten you:
o It will protect children from predators and perverts.
o Yes, this is the job of parents, but the software is intended as a suppliment to help parents. The reality is that children are often left home alone. Also, parents are not with their children when the kids are at school and in the library.
o Pornography degrades the quality of life. It is a dangerously addictive habit (yes, it actually produces chemicals which cause addiction). People get unfairly trapped by it. This bill adds a layer of protection.
o Bush won the election. The supreme court ruled on it. Gore himself said he accepted the finality of it.
o The truth of the matter is, Christian values are sorely lacking in society and need to be reintroduced. This bill serves as a good beginning, and really I would have been dissappointed with any less from the good people of Texas. There is, of course, lots of work to be done in the area of public education (specifically biology) but we have to start somewhere.
On a closing note, I am offended by the idea of casting Larry Flint or a Penthouse concubine as role models. Please think before you post.
-- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
The real irony here is that "these will be the typical slashdot replies" posts is now one of the major categories in same. It was fun the first three times somebody wrote such a post.
No, it does not make sense.
Red Hat has provided the community with nothing. Did they write the kernel? no. Did they write the GNU tools? No. Did they write Gnome, KDE, Nautilus, Renderman, or any of the other tools we use everyday?
I'll tell you what they did. They adopted Microsoft's "embrace and extend" and took it to another level. They created a proprietary RPM package format and almost succeeded in getting it adopted into the official Linux operating system. Now, they are charging for it. At least when Microsoft adopts these kinds of tactics, they are not so underhanded and dishonest about it.
And even "the letter" is looking dubious now. Gee thanks guys, now my Red Hat stock is worthless. We owe Red Hat nothing. Red Hat owes the open source community a formal apology and free use of their update service. I personally do not want to see Linux continually bastardized in this way.
On a related note, I really like Linux, but it just isn't innovated fast enough in my experience.
Not that speed of innovation is the only (or even the most important) metric when evaluating a platform for deployment in the enterprise - sometimes it isn't. However, to ignore this matter is lazy and even dishonest.
Consider: 2.4 just came out, and 2.2 was a whole year before that. And between 2.0 and 2.2 we had over two and a half years. That's a long-ass time to wait.
In fact, simple subtraction in the last release cycle yields a rate of just 0.2/*year*. Not exactly blazing speed, all things considered. I'm sure I don't even have to mention products which far surpass this rate of innovation.
You make good points about technology, but I'd like to carry it a few steps further.
You may recall Bill Joy's essay in Wired that was published April of last year? In it, Joy outlined the very real dangers of GNR technologies (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) which face the human race in the near future.
The fact is, people pushing overzealously to further these technologies are ignoring the very real danger that they could spin well beyond our control. Make something that reproduces, and you have a potential worldwide Jurassic Park on your hands. Also, such technology wielded for malicious intent is potentially devastating to the human race.
The utopian vision of robots serving humans you set forth is very seuductive, but it needs to be reevaluated. There are situations in which we must ask ourselves if we really want to allow any research at all in GNRs.
A good place to start would be a comprehensive program in values education in schools, starting at an early age - and something even more rigorous for scientists and engineers.
Hmm, this is a stirring and provocative call for reevaluating the whole issue of respecting others' property. I found myself shaken from the solid ground of certainty I had been standing on, and while it would be comfortable to find a place to land, it is intellectually lazy to make wild, panicked grabs for one.
Clearly, the law is the law. You break the law and you pay society's price. This is how our great republic operates. But clearly, a certain human element is missing from this equation. A certain human perspective was noticeably missing from your post.
I am talking, of course, about the perspective of the Church of Scientology. These are people too - people with feelings. To them, certain materials are sacred and it is slander of the highest degree to go slapping it all over slashdot as an object of ridicule. There exists in this country something called freedom of religion.
You may not agree with some people's beliefs but you still need to respect their rights to hold those beliefs - "hold" includes any associated IP rights, naturally. This is not about "freedom of speech" or some other vague concept like that - this is about the Scientologists' religious rights, and protection of their culture from almost certain wanton distruction from the cancer of cynical forces in today's society.
With all due respect, you have shown yourself to be a very dense, ignorant, and - the word is not too strong - treacherous individual.
Looking for new planets is a singularly boring endeavour. Who wants to put on headphones and listen for voices in the static coming in?
If there were aliens, we would have been visited already. After all, if time travel were possible, why has nobody ever visited us from the infinite future? Even if nobody in the next thousand years visits us, somebody in the next million years ought to, and any sane person would surely agree.
Obviously, we are alone in the universe.
But try and tell that to the liberals. Your biblical truths are right on the money. God wasn't just stroking himself when He created this planet, and we should recognize this when we spend those billions of dollars on telescopes. Perhaps then we might find some wisdom and put the money into Christian Bible academies.
holy shit, this is one great thread! One of the better (and funnier) trolls I've seen, followed by a funny (because it's long) feeder, followed by the best "you've been trolled" bitchslap I'm every likely to have the privilege to read.
'cause ciphers is just so cpu but have to be cryptic just because is crypto. Plus, cryptologers do crypto and ciphers most of the time. Not want bad crypto in system (secure is not!) even if cpu cipher is.
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Shoulda gone with your gut
Aw man, now I feel bad. Of course, I agree with you 100% in my complete hatred of the religious right. You know, today the state senate here in Colorado was debating a bill where they wanted to 'insert into the bill a praise to the Boy Scouts for standing up to the pressure' regarding exclusion of gays.
I mean, really now - even if their case had merit, is it really necessary to insert gratuitous praise of their exclusion into a bill? And the kicker is, it is MY REPRESENTATIVE SENATOR from Centennial, CO (previously Littleton, CO) who is pushing this crap. I'm gonna send him some dead trees.
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
o It will protect children from predators and perverts.
o Yes, this is the job of parents, but the software is intended as a suppliment to help parents. The reality is that children are often left home alone. Also, parents are not with their children when the kids are at school and in the library.
o Pornography degrades the quality of life. It is a dangerously addictive habit (yes, it actually produces chemicals which cause addiction). People get unfairly trapped by it. This bill adds a layer of protection.
o Bush won the election. The supreme court ruled on it. Gore himself said he accepted the finality of it.
o The truth of the matter is, Christian values are sorely lacking in society and need to be reintroduced. This bill serves as a good beginning, and really I would have been dissappointed with any less from the good people of Texas. There is, of course, lots of work to be done in the area of public education (specifically biology) but we have to start somewhere.
On a closing note, I am offended by the idea of casting Larry Flint or a Penthouse concubine as role models. Please think before you post.
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However, as mathematics advances, do we know if there are theorems which can never be proven?
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Not that speed of innovation is the only (or even the most important) metric when evaluating a platform for deployment in the enterprise - sometimes it isn't. However, to ignore this matter is lazy and even dishonest.
Consider: 2.4 just came out, and 2.2 was a whole year before that. And between 2.0 and 2.2 we had over two and a half years. That's a long-ass time to wait.
In fact, simple subtraction in the last release cycle yields a rate of just 0.2/*year*. Not exactly blazing speed, all things considered. I'm sure I don't even have to mention products which far surpass this rate of innovation.
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You may recall Bill Joy's essay in Wired that was published April of last year? In it, Joy outlined the very real dangers of GNR technologies (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) which face the human race in the near future.
The fact is, people pushing overzealously to further these technologies are ignoring the very real danger that they could spin well beyond our control. Make something that reproduces, and you have a potential worldwide Jurassic Park on your hands. Also, such technology wielded for malicious intent is potentially devastating to the human race.
The utopian vision of robots serving humans you set forth is very seuductive, but it needs to be reevaluated. There are situations in which we must ask ourselves if we really want to allow any research at all in GNRs.
A good place to start would be a comprehensive program in values education in schools, starting at an early age - and something even more rigorous for scientists and engineers.
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Clearly, the law is the law. You break the law and you pay society's price. This is how our great republic operates. But clearly, a certain human element is missing from this equation. A certain human perspective was noticeably missing from your post.
I am talking, of course, about the perspective of the Church of Scientology. These are people too - people with feelings. To them, certain materials are sacred and it is slander of the highest degree to go slapping it all over slashdot as an object of ridicule. There exists in this country something called freedom of religion.
You may not agree with some people's beliefs but you still need to respect their rights to hold those beliefs - "hold" includes any associated IP rights, naturally. This is not about "freedom of speech" or some other vague concept like that - this is about the Scientologists' religious rights, and protection of their culture from almost certain wanton distruction from the cancer of cynical forces in today's society.
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Looking for new planets is a singularly boring endeavour. Who wants to put on headphones and listen for voices in the static coming in?
If there were aliens, we would have been visited already. After all, if time travel were possible, why has nobody ever visited us from the infinite future? Even if nobody in the next thousand years visits us, somebody in the next million years ought to, and any sane person would surely agree.
Obviously, we are alone in the universe.
But try and tell that to the liberals. Your biblical truths are right on the money. God wasn't just stroking himself when He created this planet, and we should recognize this when we spend those billions of dollars on telescopes. Perhaps then we might find some wisdom and put the money into Christian Bible academies.
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au contraire, it IS a troll and should be moderated way, way up.
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Pinball, you're super!
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'cause ciphers is just so cpu but have to be cryptic just because is crypto. Plus, cryptologers do crypto and ciphers most of the time. Not want bad crypto in system (secure is not!) even if cpu cipher is.
Good points.
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The whole point of a TLD is to provide a central authority to keep track of a set of names.
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