The government is contributing to the problem themselves. Two points follow, the second is more important.
1.) Government agencies requiring the usage of the most common commercial software (or even hardware). It's hard to compete when your competiotion has 80% market share *and* an ensured government market.
2.) Usage in public schools. A lot of public schools wont consider anything but Microsoft/Intel solutions, and actually teach classes on the usage of Microsoft Office/Visual C++/Etc. It should be illegal for public schools to teach the useage of commercial software (Including the Windows O/S) when there are good, free alternitives avalible.
If Microsoft (or whatever other commercial software) is being taught as the only choice to a captive audience, is this a good thing? ...sorry if this is a duplicate...
You are making the assumption that the dragons would just square off and attack eachother. If you ever see that happen, you can be pretty sure that they aren't really dragons.
Dragons are *extremely* smart, and that tends to mean that they pre-plan things. This would even things out a *lot* in a fight between red and gold dragons, although I would still expect the gold dragons to win. (Red Dragons have a tendancy to be stupid-evil, a condition in which the evilness of an intelegent being counteracts that being's intellegence)
As long as we're still debating using public funding to support pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung, I'm not especially concerned about our freedoms being limited.
That's one of the things that concerns me the most. If there's even the slightest question in the mind of anyone as to the appropriateness censoring art... then our freedom is clearly and presently endangered!
"He should keep his personal opinions out of his advocacy" is a ludicrous statement. It's not like he's the PR director for a corporation. He's not being paid for what he does. He does it because he wants to spread his personal beliefs. If you don't agree with all of his beliefs, then go out and express your beliefs better than he's expressing his.
It gets to be a big deal when it's required by law on all web sites. I have enough trouble getting my site to be technically functional, I refuse to try to make it buerocratically compliant as well.
That's nothing compared to my father's old WWII six foot diameter parabolic searchlight mirror. Get it angled right at the sun and it'll ignite the end of a 2x4 instantly, or melt a solid chunk of iron.
Too bad he lost it when he sold his old house... I'll have to buy another when I get an extra 2 - 15 thousand bucks.
Huh? What does the bible have to do with anything?
Money spent on National Defense does, in fact, help everyone. Think of all the things we have now that we wouldn't have if it weren't for the USA spending money on National Defense -- the computer on the desk in front of you would be a good example.
What do you want the government to do, spend all the taxpayers' money on handouts to homeless people? That would be a Waste (note the capitol 'W'). Spending money on "poor homeless starving people" is almost always a bad investment. Poor people who get fedral funding reproduce producing more starving poor people who need federal funding. If we just let them starve, the problem would go away. Fedral healthcare has a similar effect.
National Defense is one of the acual reasons we have a government in the USA. The government has certain specific duties, and paying homeless peoples grocery bills isn't one of them.
Proventing weapons of mass destruction from being smuggled into a major city is straight out impossible. There is no way to implement a defense against it, at least no way that would be constitutional.
If money were to be spent on "education" how exactly would it be spent? Give it to public schools? They buy a better soccer field. Give it to public schools earmarked "academic use only", they'll buy another iMac for each classroom, which is a waste cause they don't use the one they have already.
If money is to be spent on education it would be best spent researching different methods of teaching/learning and then as bribes to get schools to implement the most efficent method(s).
That kind of thing would never actually happen because it'd "change the natural order of schooling" or some crap. The next best thing would be to just leave school budgets as they are and reduce taxes so at least people don't have to pay as much for the bloated money-wasting emotionally-damaging government funded entities we call public schools.
And you think those things are what the govt. would spend their money on if they didn't spend it on "national defense". That's quite humorous, as there's no chance of it.
If it isn't spent on missle defense or NASA (The only two govt programs I believe are worth keeping), it'll be spent on subsidizing the "Gay Rights Activists Federation of Lower South North Park" or something.
Spending money on developing weapons helps everyone. The tech that they develop to boost these anti-missle thingies into space could be used for any number of other purpoises, many of them non-military.
It'd be better if the govt just didn't spend any money at all, but if they've got to spend money National Defense is a good one to spend it on. Do you want *your* city to be hit with an Anthrax bomb?
I'm 15. I've hardly ever had any "limits" (successfully) imposed on me by my parents.
Since I was about 8, I've been aranging a moral/ethical system for myself, mostly from the wrightings of Issac Asimov, Harry Harrison and Robert Heinlien.
I can't say I've been harmed by this. I can't really even see how someone _could_ be harmed by it.
Any arbitrary wright/wrong line is just that, arbitrary. There are times when it just wouldn't work.
Most of your post just seems to be somewhat confused. (Playground, fence, uhh no.)
Athiesm isn't a religion. It is the *lack* of a religion.
I was using that argument in response to the comment:
However, when there is no right and wrong, then people start to become very open-minded to walking into a school and knocking off half their schoolmates.
I still believe that religion causes significantly more harm than it gives benifiets.
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The government is contributing to the problem themselves. Two points follow, the second is more important.
1.) Government agencies requiring the usage of the most common commercial software (or even hardware). It's hard to compete when your competiotion has 80% market share *and* an ensured government market.
2.) Usage in public schools. A lot of public schools wont consider anything but Microsoft/Intel solutions, and actually teach classes on the usage of Microsoft Office/Visual C++/Etc. It should be illegal for public schools to teach the useage of commercial software (Including the Windows O/S) when there are good, free alternitives avalible.
If Microsoft (or whatever other commercial software) is being taught as the only choice to a captive audience, is this a good thing?
...sorry if this is a duplicate...
Dude, I'm *sure* my harddrive (brand X IDE) is faster at data read/write than my NIC card (100mbps, or 12.5 Megabytes/sec)
You are making the assumption that the dragons would just square off and attack eachother. If you ever see that happen, you can be pretty sure that they aren't really dragons.
Dragons are *extremely* smart, and that tends to mean that they pre-plan things. This would even things out a *lot* in a fight between red and gold dragons, although I would still expect the gold dragons to win. (Red Dragons have a tendancy to be stupid-evil, a condition in which the evilness of an intelegent being counteracts that being's intellegence)
Yup,
"We've got a portable device that'll break 512 bit RSA in Microseconds"
Yup, just theory.
You mean I actually managed to post a reply within 3 posts of where it was supposed to be? I even got it on the right thread? Wow! Cool!
As long as we're still debating using public funding to support pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung, I'm not especially concerned about our freedoms being limited.
That's one of the things that concerns me the most. If there's even the slightest question in the mind of anyone as to the appropriateness censoring art... then our freedom is clearly and presently endangered!
"He should keep his personal opinions out of his advocacy" is a ludicrous statement. It's not like he's the PR director for a corporation. He's not being paid for what he does. He does it because he wants to spread his personal beliefs. If you don't agree with all of his beliefs, then go out and express your beliefs better than he's expressing his.
That's what life is all about...
I dont see anyone, even the biggest Linux-advocate, advocating running linux on the big iron (>4 processors, etc).
We're just waiting for 2.4 to come out... then we'll be advocating Linux for up to 16 processor boxen.
It gets to be a big deal when it's required by law on all web sites. I have enough trouble getting my site to be technically functional, I refuse to try to make it buerocratically compliant as well.
If it gets integrated into my VIM, or my Apache, or my Perl or my PHP3 --- It's getting taken out.
I think this deserves at least a 2, and a big bright "Insightful" tag...
That's nothing compared to my father's old WWII six foot diameter parabolic searchlight mirror. Get it angled right at the sun and it'll ignite the end of a 2x4 instantly, or melt a solid chunk of iron.
Too bad he lost it when he sold his old house... I'll have to buy another when I get an extra 2 - 15 thousand bucks.
COL 2.2 does, in fact, do video card autoprobing for any card supported by the VGA or SVGA servers.
How exactly do you intend to argue that Science is a religion?
Science is a process, and has few of the properties that religions tend to have.
I think we've basically put a stop to human evolution with all these new ways to "save human life".
Evolution is "survival of the fittest", and if no "unfit" people are allowed to die... humans won't evolve.
Hmm, if public school serves the single purpose of providing an enviornment to socialize in, a few changes need to be made
The problem is: If they went and "asked one of us", they'd get an answer that was correct ---> for that particular geek population of one.
It doesn't cost them anything to use standard PPP. It probably cost them extra to come up with their non-standard solution.
As a post earlier said, 10% is a lot.
Huh? What does the bible have to do with anything?
Money spent on National Defense does, in fact, help everyone. Think of all the things we have now that we wouldn't have if it weren't for the USA spending money on National Defense -- the computer on the desk in front of you would be a good example.
What do you want the government to do, spend all the taxpayers' money on handouts to homeless people? That would be a Waste (note the capitol 'W'). Spending money on "poor homeless starving people" is almost always a bad investment. Poor people who get fedral funding reproduce producing more starving poor people who need federal funding. If we just let them starve, the problem would go away. Fedral healthcare has a similar effect.
National Defense is one of the acual reasons we have a government in the USA. The government has certain specific duties, and paying homeless peoples grocery bills isn't one of them.
Proventing weapons of mass destruction from being smuggled into a major city is straight out impossible. There is no way to implement a defense against it, at least no way that would be constitutional.
Because they have karma over 20...
If money were to be spent on "education" how exactly would it be spent? Give it to public schools? They buy a better soccer field. Give it to public schools earmarked "academic use only", they'll buy another iMac for each classroom, which is a waste cause they don't use the one they have already.
If money is to be spent on education it would be best spent researching different methods of teaching/learning and then as bribes to get schools to implement the most efficent method(s).
That kind of thing would never actually happen because it'd "change the natural order of schooling" or some crap. The next best thing would be to just leave school budgets as they are and reduce taxes so at least people don't have to pay as much for the bloated money-wasting emotionally-damaging government funded entities we call public schools.
And you think those things are what the govt. would spend their money on if they didn't spend it on "national defense". That's quite humorous, as there's no chance of it.
If it isn't spent on missle defense or NASA (The only two govt programs I believe are worth keeping), it'll be spent on subsidizing the "Gay Rights Activists Federation of Lower South North Park" or something.
Spending money on developing weapons helps everyone. The tech that they develop to boost these anti-missle thingies into space could be used for any number of other purpoises, many of them non-military.
It'd be better if the govt just didn't spend any money at all, but if they've got to spend money National Defense is a good one to spend it on. Do you want *your* city to be hit with an Anthrax bomb?
It could just be that a *lot* of people are getting karmic bonuses.
I'm 15. I've hardly ever had any "limits" (successfully) imposed on me by my parents.
Since I was about 8, I've been aranging a moral/ethical system for myself, mostly from the wrightings of Issac Asimov, Harry Harrison and Robert Heinlien.
I can't say I've been harmed by this. I can't really even see how someone _could_ be harmed by it.
Any arbitrary wright/wrong line is just that, arbitrary. There are times when it just wouldn't work.
Most of your post just seems to be somewhat confused. (Playground, fence, uhh no.)
Athiesm isn't a religion. It is the *lack* of a religion.
I was using that argument in response to the comment:
I still believe that religion causes significantly more harm than it gives benifiets.