'What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.'
'I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.'
Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. 'Let's have a little more religious freedom between us,' he proposed obligingly. 'You don't believe in the God you want to, and I won't believe in the God I want to. Is that a deal?'
the fight for state rights is a red herring, a shell game. its a front for social conservatives to, ironically, push agendas which damage personal liberties more than anything that could go down in washington dc
Now explain this blanket statement of a thesis in the context of, say, medical marijuana.
Many states have tried to bow out of this front in the War on Some Drugs, but the Federal Government keeps on shoving it down our throats - in the process, making the United States the country with the highest percentage of its populace in prison in the world.
I would have thought that, after all these years, Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors.
Hardly. After all these years, Slashdot "editors" have clearly learned well that they face no consquences for not learning to be editors.
And anyway, Isn't that supposed to be the glory of the "new" Web? If you assume that privileged editors have no valuable input to the process, well, they stop trying to make any valuable input into the process. Not that Slashdot "editors" have ever tried very hard...
I always love it when guys who work at magazines get all huffy explaining how guys who built multibillion dollar companies, and have multiplied those companies' values many times in recent years, are complete idiots.
Elgan's article, translated: "I don't understand corporate strategy very well and haven't even caught up on all of the publicly available details, but I have a deadline to make."
Its distinctive feature is the presumption that a collection of goofy, half-baked features that use irony to show the importance of privileged editors, is the manifest destiny of the R0x0r Intraweb.
It is alarming how many people object to diversity in thought. I do not understand where they think they have derived the right to force everyone to think the same way they do.
Diversity of thought is nice and all that, but I certainly don't want someone who hasn't discarded the flat earth theory, for example, to be predicting the weather for me and would want the American Meteoroligcal Society to pull their seal of approval. I live in Florida, and hurricane prediction is serious business.
No, really. There exists a point where questioning accepted models goes beyond normal scientific inquiry into the realm of the wing-nuts - I think (and hope) that most people today would agree, for example, that questioning that the Earth orbits the Sun would be on the wrong side of that point. Given that it exists, where that point lies is certainly a reasonable subject of debate - and the original scientist is staking an opinion on where that point lies.
I seem to remember hearing the same thing about ATM from FORE Systems engineers, about 10 years ago.
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The best argument I've heard against projectors of any kind is: If you have a white wall, go look at it. Look at that white wall and think to yourself "Is that white wall an acceptable black level for watching TV? Because that's as dark as the image is going to get."
That's a good argument, except.
I intend to be watching movies on my (not yet bought, so I'm open to counter arguments) projector. Just what exactly are the viewing conditions that movies are created for, and intended to be seen in?
It's also worth treating people as individuals, understanding their individual personalities, and working with them as practicable.
When I ran a small software company and we were still in the inital product development phase, we didn't have much money. Everybody knew it, and I was spending most of my time finding the money to meet the next payroll. We were located near a small sandwich shop and bakery. What seemed to motive our lead developer most was this: whenever he hit critical development milestones, I'd go out and buy hot, fresh cookies for him (everybody else too, but it was definitely his celebration).
Silly, perhaps (unless you want to speculate about exploiting basic food-seeking survival and status-seeking neural circuits). But it's good to understand and work with one's best employees' foibles - token acknowledgment can be valuable, if that acknowledgment is sincere. Working with those foibles sometimes had me wanting to put my head through a wall, but we did get the job done.
Later when we could afford it, that acknowledgment was much more concrete - especially after Red Hat acquired us. We never would have gotten that far, I think, if it hadn't been for stuff like the cookies.
When advice on to how to deal with the current state of the employment market is summed up as, "Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed", perhaps it is time for workers to get pissed off, and start doing something about it.
Like, perhaps getting up off their asses and creating some jobs.
Their *windows* are bajor-symbol shaped, for God's sake. Where do you see anything like this on Earth? Where do you see this level of ultra-nationalism in our society?
Texas.
Seriously. They integrate that damned star into everything you can think of, from the concrete supports on their highways to the exterior and interior walls of private homes. It's damned creepy, you expect to start hearing strains of "Texas Uber Alles."
I won't address the question of whether Texans constitute a different species.
That's like buying a little Ford Focus and being mad that you can't tow 3000lbs. You knew that going in.
False.
TiVo has told Mac users that this functionality has been "coming soon" for years now - or at least, they were years ago when I bought my Series 2 and check with them first. TiVo seemed like a trustworthy company, but it's now pretty clear that they aren't actually interested in keeping their word on this.
It's a shame - I like the usability of their technology and the ease of maintenance, but it just doesn't integrate well with the rest of my A/V network. I'll probably have to break down and use Myth, and sell the TiVos on eBay or something as I bring everything up to HD.
Even ignoring the TiVoToGo issue, the fact that the Series3 can't even accept HMO shows from Series 2 is the last straw - I understand the delay with respect to CableCARD content, but that doesn't mean that they can't support content from non-CableCARD TiVos. They're making it so that I can't take a single step into HD without giving up the power of my network which the Series 2 units used so well. And worse, if I want to keep my lifetime subscriptions I have to make the jump now, before HMO is available.
Screw that. I'm willing to live with reasonable DRM, but TiVo's taken a step away from network usability with Series 3, no matter how pretty it is. The Series3 I bought will probably go to my mother's house - with only one TV, she won't be all that inconvenienced by this nonsense.
Well, yes. Which is why all the responsible organizations don't announce results until after the poll for a state have closed. It wouldn't be any different for official results.
Speed. There are all sorts of reasons that speed is valuable, from the voters' desire for instant gratification, to extending the amount of time that a newly elected candidate will have to prepare for his or her new office, to the financial markets handicapping industrial issues based upon the mix of newly elected officials.
It makes sense to have the electronic results available immediately, and then the paper count can be available days or weeks later. In a close election, it'll matter, and it's just generally good to have a verification step afterwards.
I keep hearing PvPers say, "just never flag." I can't tell whether they're being deliberately disingenuous, or simply lack the experience (or imagination) to understand that not flagging doesn't cut it.
"Never flagging" would be great if there weren't PvPers who like to wait until PvEers are in combat, then flag and jump into the combat area, hoping to get hit by an AoE. Either the PvEer has to avoid AoEs (which really sucks for some classes), or he gets ganked by the griefer.
It's particularly thrilling when said bully sits on top of a quest objective, or repeatedly kills the escort missions of PCs that are half their level. Oh, wait, I guess they're just looking for a challenge.
I'd pay extra to play on a real "carebear" server, where these emotional cripples had no way to ruin my day.
Somehow the "real man" above still manages to come across as being about 13 years old ("No, I'm not!" I can see him responding, "I'm 15!").
Real men and other mature adults don't speak to each other that way, child. Even if they are losing their bladder contorl internally over how terrified they are of homosexuality, as you seem to be.
A raving lunatic doesn't need to have every utterance individually refuted in order for someone to know that such ravings aren't likely to be of much value.
Taking every possible point of view solely on its own merits is fine if you have nothing but time, and don't value it. For everyone else, it's reasonable to require some level of positive reputation behind a point before investing any time into considering it.
Also, Tivo makes it FAR to difficult to record say, Smallville or Desperate Housewives or whatever it is you and your friends all want to watch, then take that recording over to a friend's house or simply lend it out.
Horseshit. TiVo makes it easier than a VCR, on units with the integrated DVD-R drive.
I go to the transfer to DVD-R menu, select the show(s) I want, and dump it to the DVD-R - which then acts very much like the TiVo menus on a normal DVD player.
The problem isn't the technology, it's the price of the existing product that does a great job.
I suggest that you play through Uldaman, at least.
SPOILERS follow
We get the beginning of the story of the creation of the world, and the origins of the Dwarven and Trog races. We are told how to get to the next piece of the story (and when we do, we see that the following parts are not implemented yet), and are told that VERY big events are in progress - the return of the world's creators.
The game's still young. There's a lot there that looks like the beginning of some fairly interesting, long range stories - but we haven't even had the first expansion yet, to see the next chapter of those stories.
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Parent needs to be heavily modded as "Troll."
No.
The great strength of Apple is that when things doesn't "just work," it's considered a bug instead of an industry standard.
'What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.'
'I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.'
Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. 'Let's have a little more religious freedom between us,' he proposed obligingly. 'You don't believe in the God you want to, and I won't believe in the God I want to. Is that a deal?'
(Joseph Heller, Catch-22)
Many states have tried to bow out of this front in the War on Some Drugs, but the Federal Government keeps on shoving it down our throats - in the process, making the United States the country with the highest percentage of its populace in prison in the world.
And anyway, Isn't that supposed to be the glory of the "new" Web? If you assume that privileged editors have no valuable input to the process, well, they stop trying to make any valuable input into the process. Not that Slashdot "editors" have ever tried very hard...
I always love it when guys who work at magazines get all huffy explaining how guys who built multibillion dollar companies, and have multiplied those companies' values many times in recent years, are complete idiots.
Elgan's article, translated: "I don't understand corporate strategy very well and haven't even caught up on all of the publicly available details, but I have a deadline to make."
Sure it does.
Its distinctive feature is the presumption that a collection of goofy, half-baked features that use irony to show the importance of privileged editors, is the manifest destiny of the R0x0r Intraweb.
No, really. There exists a point where questioning accepted models goes beyond normal scientific inquiry into the realm of the wing-nuts - I think (and hope) that most people today would agree, for example, that questioning that the Earth orbits the Sun would be on the wrong side of that point. Given that it exists, where that point lies is certainly a reasonable subject of debate - and the original scientist is staking an opinion on where that point lies.
Bah.
In my day, Pluto was a full planet.
I seem to remember hearing the same thing about ATM from FORE Systems engineers, about 10 years ago.
I intend to be watching movies on my (not yet bought, so I'm open to counter arguments) projector. Just what exactly are the viewing conditions that movies are created for, and intended to be seen in?
It's also worth treating people as individuals, understanding their individual personalities, and working with them as practicable.
When I ran a small software company and we were still in the inital product development phase, we didn't have much money. Everybody knew it, and I was spending most of my time finding the money to meet the next payroll. We were located near a small sandwich shop and bakery. What seemed to motive our lead developer most was this: whenever he hit critical development milestones, I'd go out and buy hot, fresh cookies for him (everybody else too, but it was definitely his celebration).
Silly, perhaps (unless you want to speculate about exploiting basic food-seeking survival and status-seeking neural circuits). But it's good to understand and work with one's best employees' foibles - token acknowledgment can be valuable, if that acknowledgment is sincere. Working with those foibles sometimes had me wanting to put my head through a wall, but we did get the job done.
Later when we could afford it, that acknowledgment was much more concrete - especially after Red Hat acquired us. We never would have gotten that far, I think, if it hadn't been for stuff like the cookies.
Seriously. They integrate that damned star into everything you can think of, from the concrete supports on their highways to the exterior and interior walls of private homes. It's damned creepy, you expect to start hearing strains of "Texas Uber Alles."
I won't address the question of whether Texans constitute a different species.
TiVo has told Mac users that this functionality has been "coming soon" for years now - or at least, they were years ago when I bought my Series 2 and check with them first. TiVo seemed like a trustworthy company, but it's now pretty clear that they aren't actually interested in keeping their word on this.
It's a shame - I like the usability of their technology and the ease of maintenance, but it just doesn't integrate well with the rest of my A/V network. I'll probably have to break down and use Myth, and sell the TiVos on eBay or something as I bring everything up to HD.
Even ignoring the TiVoToGo issue, the fact that the Series3 can't even accept HMO shows from Series 2 is the last straw - I understand the delay with respect to CableCARD content, but that doesn't mean that they can't support content from non-CableCARD TiVos. They're making it so that I can't take a single step into HD without giving up the power of my network which the Series 2 units used so well. And worse, if I want to keep my lifetime subscriptions I have to make the jump now, before HMO is available.
Screw that. I'm willing to live with reasonable DRM, but TiVo's taken a step away from network usability with Series 3, no matter how pretty it is. The Series3 I bought will probably go to my mother's house - with only one TV, she won't be all that inconvenienced by this nonsense.
Well, yes. Which is why all the responsible organizations don't announce results until after the poll for a state have closed. It wouldn't be any different for official results.
Speed. There are all sorts of reasons that speed is valuable, from the voters' desire for instant gratification, to extending the amount of time that a newly elected candidate will have to prepare for his or her new office, to the financial markets handicapping industrial issues based upon the mix of newly elected officials.
It makes sense to have the electronic results available immediately, and then the paper count can be available days or weeks later. In a close election, it'll matter, and it's just generally good to have a verification step afterwards.
I keep hearing PvPers say, "just never flag." I can't tell whether they're being deliberately disingenuous, or simply lack the experience (or imagination) to understand that not flagging doesn't cut it.
"Never flagging" would be great if there weren't PvPers who like to wait until PvEers are in combat, then flag and jump into the combat area, hoping to get hit by an AoE. Either the PvEer has to avoid AoEs (which really sucks for some classes), or he gets ganked by the griefer.
It's particularly thrilling when said bully sits on top of a quest objective, or repeatedly kills the escort missions of PCs that are half their level. Oh, wait, I guess they're just looking for a challenge.
I'd pay extra to play on a real "carebear" server, where these emotional cripples had no way to ruin my day.
Somehow the "real man" above still manages to come across as being about 13 years old ("No, I'm not!" I can see him responding, "I'm 15!").
Real men and other mature adults don't speak to each other that way, child. Even if they are losing their bladder contorl internally over how terrified they are of homosexuality, as you seem to be.
They'll probably just replace it with a reality show of the same name.
Horseshit.
A raving lunatic doesn't need to have every utterance individually refuted in order for someone to know that such ravings aren't likely to be of much value.
Taking every possible point of view solely on its own merits is fine if you have nothing but time, and don't value it. For everyone else, it's reasonable to require some level of positive reputation behind a point before investing any time into considering it.
I go to the transfer to DVD-R menu, select the show(s) I want, and dump it to the DVD-R - which then acts very much like the TiVo menus on a normal DVD player.
The problem isn't the technology, it's the price of the existing product that does a great job.
I suggest that you play through Uldaman, at least.
SPOILERS follow
We get the beginning of the story of the creation of the world, and the origins of the Dwarven and Trog races. We are told how to get to the next piece of the story (and when we do, we see that the following parts are not implemented yet), and are told that VERY big events are in progress - the return of the world's creators.
The game's still young. There's a lot there that looks like the beginning of some fairly interesting, long range stories - but we haven't even had the first expansion yet, to see the next chapter of those stories.