"... where religion is persecuted with religious fervour."
Nice:-)
Of course, it doesn't stand up, but its still nice..
Religion: The earth is the center of the universe. Gays should be stoned to death. And so should anyone working on Sunday. Because WE say that God told us this.
Atheistic heathen scum slashdot poster: Prove it or gofuckyourself.com.
If the people who make the extraordinary claims in the name of religion were to offer proof, they'd have something.
They could start with the obviously bogus, easily disproved, claim of the infallibility of the pope. Of course, since the pope is supposed to be infallible because he's guided by the holy spirit... either:
the holy spirit exists, but its not guiding him;
the holy spirit exists, is guiding him, but is itself fallible;
the holy spirit doesn't exist;
Just something to think about when the pope gets up and lambastes corporations in the name of improving Italy's tax base (read TFA to see the connection).
The problem is that the church promotes and panders to intolerance. For example, they claim that people "choose" their sexuality, and then condemn those "choices". We know that people don't choose to be straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transexual, but their continued, and very vocal, public condemnation of people panders to the basest elements of human nature; they have to take their blame as an enabler of ignorance and hatred.
Its the same with a LOT of other issues, not just today, but over the centuries. And its not just relegated to the Pope or one church... as its written in Ecclesiastes, there's nothing new under the sun.
The "good works as a reason to avoid taxes" argument doesn't wash, because then everyone else is paying to subsidize one group's use of "good works" to prosyletize for their particular breed of superstition. This sort of behaviour is actually condemned in the Bible - "let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth" and the whole if you do something expecting something in return, you've already gotten all the reward you deserve thing.
It doesn't really matter in the long run, because as education and income levels rise, society in general drops religion. Most catholics use birth control. Most fundies have sex before marriage.
The problem arises when they then go around and hypocritically try to tell others what to do, while pretending their sh*t doesn't stink. If you read the article, you'd have seen that its speculated that the real reason the pope is saying this is to help shore up Italy's tax base, not from any "christian" motive. Politics and business as usual...
The pope will earn my respect when he stands up to the stupidity of the past and says:
The pope is not perfect, never has been, and never can be;
What consenting adults do is their own business;
"Sin" is solely in the eye of the beholder.
By the way, even Jesus supported #s 1 and 3. Why doesn't the pope?
Thanks for bringing up the poster girl of the Catholic Church - Mother Theresa. Did you know she never got around to actually reading the whole bible? Not even the whole new testament...
How can you say you believe something you never even read.
Its not like a whole lifetime wasn't enough. She died at 87. If she had started reading the Bible at 18, she would have only had to read 30 words a DAY. If its such a central document, why the fuck don't people read it? 3 chapters a day, and you're through the whole thing in a year. Or is it because a lot of the stuff in it is clearly contrary to the church's teachings, or just brain-dead.
BTW - the Crusades is NOT a selling point...
And yes, I am under no illusion of having a "soul". Or any other superstitious beliefs. As far as I'm concerned, the church should be taxed same as any other business, and meet the same standards. This includes local truth in advertising laws and bans on promoting intolerance towards minority groups. Or has the Pope finally declared that gays, lesbians, etc., are now free to be themselves without having the church pin the label of "sinner" on them?
At least it would help revent the spread of ignorance and superstition...
While it is true that some viruses can pass through latex condoms (and a LOT can pass through "natural skin" condoms), a condom does help prevent the spread of AIDS, etc.
Condoms are not 100% safe, but if used properly, will reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Protecting yourself against the AIDS virus is of special concern becuase this disease is fatal and has no cure.
About two-thirds of the people with AIDS in the United States got the disease during sexual intercourse with an infected partner. Experts believe that many of these people could have avoided the disease by using condoms.
Condoms are used for both birth control and reducing the risk of disease. That's why some people think that other forms of birth control -- such as the IUD, diaphragm, cervical cap or pill -- will protect them against diseases, too. But that's not true. So if you use any other form of birth control, you still need a condom in addition to reduce the risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases.
A condom is especially important when an uninfected pregnant woman has sex, because it can also help protect her and her unborn child from a sexually transmitted disease.
Note well: Condoms are not 100% safe, but if used properly, will reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.
> > Says the Pope who signed up with the nazis because "he could get in trouble otherwise, and it didn't mean anything." Sig heil my arse!
> Popes aren't immortal, sir.
No, just immoral. They make their living the same way as other hucksters - preying on people's weaknesses. They promise immortality ("life everlasting") if you believe what they say, and do what they say, but they themselves show by their actions that they neither do nor believe.
Otherwise, the first thing they would do is admit that the imposition of celibacy was a terrible mistake, and has caused a lot of suffering... but of course, the pope is never wrong. And if you believe that, you'll believe anything under the right circumstances - the right circumstances being "The pope says it."
If the pope declared that it was god's will that you kill your firstborn child, same as Abraham, as a test of your faith, would you do it? Its in the Bible... and the Pope is telling you to do it...
Or would you admit that the Pope is wrong, same as popes have been wrong on all sorts of other things, including the pill, same-sex relationships, divorce and remarriage, the Earth being the center of the universe, the stars being fixed in heaven, torture to promote confessions to save people's souls, etc.
Its a cult, same as any other cult, just more followers.
"Moreover, it's basically the biggest fallacy ever that maintaining the celibacy of the priesthood perpetuates child sexual abuse. The decisions that those priests make are THEIRS, and theirs alone... not the Vatican's. Hell, I guess since I'm not getting laid, I should be going and molesting little boys, by your logic. Well, except for the fact that no one's forcing it on me, I guess, so I have no one to blame the molestation on.
"
The catholic church's own internal studies show that a celibate priesthood attracts the wrong kind of person. 20% struggle with desires to have sex with children, and half with desires to have same-sex partners; these numbers are WAY over the average for the ppulation at large.
The same-sex bit isn't a problem for most people, except that in this case, again, its the whole "sex outside of marriage is wrong" crap.
"
> > Hey, how about that "no birth control" policy? Nice way to doom another generation to overpopulation and starvation. And the "no condoms" bit. The Pope is promoting AIDS, herpes, clamydia, etc.
>
As someone else so succinctly points out in a thread further down the page, that isn't true at all. If you can't use birth control for religious reasons, don't have sex. It's not hard.
... riiiiiight... dream on. The urge to have sex is part of human wiring. Why do you think there are so many ugly people? Do you really believe that their ugly parents found it easy to "choose not to have sex"? No - they wanted to get laid, same as everyone else, just their options were limited to other ugly people, or the local sheep.
"
> > How about the whole "virgins are better, they're pure" so its not so bad to rape a woman who's had sex, because she's a slut anyway, since she's not a virgin.
>...wow. Please, find me actual proof that this is the position of the church. That's not in the Bible, nor is it the church's position in the least, as far as I'm aware. Until you present some evidence or proof, this is an absolutely ludicrous assertion.
"
While we're at it, where in the bible does it say that priests must be celibate? Oh, it doesn't - it says priests must be MARRIED! Fucktard pope in the middle ages got his underwear in a twist because a priest and a bishop were having a "good time enjoying each other's company", and while the bishop was keeping it all quiet, his lover went on and on to anyone who would listen about how great it was. So the pope declared that, from that point on, priests be celibate.
Your papal "bull" is exactly that - bull. Its contrary to the bible, but that's not a surprise. There's not a single religion that adheres 100% to their own teachings.
"
> >>
Or the "divorce is wrong" so stay with hubby as he beats the shit out of you and the kids.
>
My understanding of the position on divorce (which may well vary by denomination, too) isn't that you can't divorce, it's that you shouldn't remarry if you get a divorce, unless it's to your original spouse, who you've somehow magically worked things out with.
"
... and this is reasonable how? Its fucked up, same as everything else the church pushes. It results in thinking like this: "You can't get remarried - but if you kill her, you can get remarried." Say hello to Hans Resier next visitors' day.
People get the governments they deserve, because they allow and enable those governments. Explains both Bush and the Nazi Pope. Forgive his past? No - he's still a fascist bastard using the same tactics to regiment people's lives that any other cult uses.
Actually, its mild compared to what a lot of us feel.
"denounce the use of tax havens as socially unjust and immoral"
Says the Pope sitting in his tax haven called Vatican City. "Fucking hypocrite" is mild...
Says the Pope who signed up with the nazis because "he could get in trouble otherwise, and it didn't mean anything." Sig heil my arse! The only reason we can't call him a dirty nazi is because he (probably) takes a bath once in a while, when not figuring out ways to try to maintain respectability while continuing to demand that his priests remain celibate, thus perpetuating holy buggery and child sexual abuse.
We tolerate religion - that doesn't mean we have to accept pronouncements from somebody who's so busy pointing fingers at everyone else in an effort to keep them from looking at the huge pile of wrongs he continues to promote. Hey, how about that "no birth control" policy? Nice way to doom another generation to overpopulation and starvation. And the "no condoms" bit. The Pope is promoting AIDS, herpes, clamydia, etc. How about the whole "virgins are better, they're pure" so its not so bad to rape a woman who's had sex, because she's a slut anyway, since she's not a virgin. Or the "divorce is wrong" so stay with hubby as he beats the shit out of you and the kids.
The pope is a fucktard.
Its all about money and power, same as always. Look up Banco Ambrosio Pope Murder
He should be showing a picture of the list. He is in no shape or matter selling the item that is pictured. This is misleading.
Like I said - look at his name - "bagaladouche" - douche bag. He's thumbing his nose at everyone, making it clear that he's out to scam people, and hoping they will be too embarrassed to complain.
He's like the guy who sold "breast developers" and would mail people a picture of a hand groping a breast, or cockroack killers - and send them 2 bricks, along with instructions:
eBay confirmed the payment, and deposited the funds in his bank account.
He shipped the painting
Guy claimed he never got it, despite proof it was delivered
eBay docked the guy's bank account the funds
A lot of people don't bother reading their agreement, and, depending on the account they have with eBay, they may have given them the right to do this (esp. for non-domestic accounts).
Well, you DID accuse the linux crowd of being hypocrites by speaking the truth:
"LOL. For years we've heard the Linux fanbois argue the exact opposite: That everyone was forced to use Windows. Now they're arguing the no one is being forced because it suits their argument. Nice to see hypocrisy isn't dead with ABMers."
Remember, at one time Microsoft was FUDding people with the line that it was supposedly illegal to remove Windows from the machine it was installed on, even if they wanted to give the box to a non-profit that was going to install linux. This was so bogus - along the lines of their "you must install this sticker on the computer you install your copy of windows on" (because they know the sticker will get worn off, or unreadable, etc). Nobody has to comply with that. Just file the sticker with the cd.
Most people are stupid. Just think about those "Do not remove this label" labels on furniture - most people believe they have to leave it on or *something bad will happen*.
"This is a scam i dont need to buy a list of where i can buy a tv
pierre_tousignant ( 1 )
28-Aug-07 09:48
BRAND NEW 50' PLASMA TELEVISION *WHOLESALE LIST* (#230164258373)
"
"Okay then, you go tell some grandma in Sweden to use Linux, much less install it, and see how well that goes over."
Top 10 sick reasons why that won't happen:
[X] I haven't told my grandma anything in decades. She's really REALLY REALLY hard of hearing (see #3).
[X] I'd need an ouija board for that. Or a seriously LONG LONG LONG long-distance call.
[X] She's dead, you ignorant clod! (At least I hope she is - otherwise she's something pissed at us by now, since we buried her)
[X] The worms she's worried about aren't from the 'net.
[X] She runs BSD; like her, its been dead for years.
[X] Windows? She'd be more a DOS person. After all, both her and DOS are pushing up daisies!
[X] She's probably already got too many mice.
[X] Sorry, I don't work the graveyard shift.
[X] Not a ghost of a chance of her running Windows on her current hardware
[X] We stopped paying the exorcist, and she was reposessed.
And the bonus answer:
[X] The only program she knows how to run is GHOST.EXE
"LOL. For years we've heard the Linux fanbois argue the exact opposite: That everyone was forced to use Windows. Now they're arguing the no one is being forced because it suits their argument. Nice to see hypocrisy isn't dead with ABMers."
Its only in the last few years that Microsoft has started refunding people, and only after a LOT of pushback from the linux community.
I don't have to RTFA - we had a case that made the local papers where a guy was bilked out of a $40,000 painting through eBay. They got the painting, never sent the money, so he's out both. feeBay did squat. The FBI did nothing, either. Why the f*ck do they have to have people "surfing the net looking for crime" when they've got people saying "hey, why the fuck don't you DO something about this - here's the proof, here's the people involved..." and their response is "Its a civil, not criminal, matter. Take them to civil court." Fuck that.
"The difference is that people use Linux by choice, and the people making that choice know that they're sacrificing compatibility.
People using Vista are very likely to just have bought a new computer since the beginning of the year, and have no idea why things don't work with it."
People use Vista by choice. Nobody is forced to keep the OS that comes by default with their computer. They have the option to downgrade to XP, or upgrade to bsd or linux. If they go the upgrade route, they can end up with extra $$$ in their pockets, by getting a refund on Vista.
Or if they insist on using a retard OS, they can use a linux boot disk to get on the net, and keep Vista for offline use, which is what all Windows users should be doing, anyway.
"Thieves should know that law enforcement can surf sites too in investigating crime," the FBI said.""
... like thieves live in a time warp and never heard the saying "On the internet, men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents"?
Remember, this is YOUR tax dollars at work.
The FBI doesn't need to "surf eBay" to find crime - just investigate eBay, and all the complaints users have about auctions where they're out both the merchandise and the money, and feeBay doesn sh*t about it...
Do like many more civilized countries do, and go to "no fault" divorce. The only ground for divorce is the desire of one of the parties to end the marriage. No more spying on each other, gathering proof, etc. A lot cheaper (which is why lawyers don't like it) and a lot more civilized (again why lawyers don't like it).
Most spouses, when confronted with a cheating spouse, deal with it. Ultimatums get issued. Deals get made. Or the marriage is over - but if you're cheating, you don't deserve any better anyway, so where's the injustice?
"or you say screw off, and potentially have your marriage wrecked."
If you've been cheating, then being exposed is actually doing you a favour. You have to deal with it, rather than continue worrying aboug OMG what will happen if someone finds out".
Ditto with drugs, gambling, etc.
Instead of searching peoples' backgrounds to find out if they have something that they could be blackmailed over, why not do it to help them instead? You discover a gambling problem? Deal with it. You get a better employee, and you've cleaned up a potential security risk.
"we just burned a CD of our album, mailed it to ourselves and now we have the sealed copy with the mail timestamp should we ever need it. "
Good luck finding an old CD reader that will read those old burned CDs. Did you also remember to make multiple copies, for when bit-rot sets in? Store it in an nice cool dark place?
Reminds me of the guy who had his backup floppies with the source and 5 years of financial data (several million dollars) in an envelope beside a 20hp electric motor "because nobody would go there". Totally unreadable.
Seriously, you can't "secure" IP and still make it known to the general public. Ask Coca-cola. They protected their recipe by simply not releasing it. If they had, any protection would have expired long ago.
There is no innate "right" to IP - you only have what the local laws + your enforcement of same can provide. Even then, you can't stop all uses. Fair use comes into play on copyrights; obviousness, prior art, lack of true invention come into play on patents. On top of that, patents are granted by country or by block of countries (if you go through WIPO), so its going to cost some serious loot to get that all-encompassing patent protection.
Think about it. Banting and Best refused to patent insulin. As a result, a lot more people got access to it a lot quicker.
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"... where religion is persecuted with religious fervour."
Nice :-)
Of course, it doesn't stand up, but its still nice ..
Religion: The earth is the center of the universe. Gays should be stoned to death. And so should anyone working on Sunday. Because WE say that God told us this.
Atheistic heathen scum slashdot poster: Prove it or gofuckyourself.com.
If the people who make the extraordinary claims in the name of religion were to offer proof, they'd have something.
They could start with the obviously bogus, easily disproved, claim of the infallibility of the pope. Of course, since the pope is supposed to be infallible because he's guided by the holy spirit ... either:
- the holy spirit exists, but its not guiding him;
- the holy spirit exists, is guiding him, but is itself fallible;
- the holy spirit doesn't exist;
Just something to think about when the pope gets up and lambastes corporations in the name of improving Italy's tax base (read TFA to see the connection).The problem is that the church promotes and panders to intolerance. For example, they claim that people "choose" their sexuality, and then condemn those "choices". We know that people don't choose to be straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transexual, but their continued, and very vocal, public condemnation of people panders to the basest elements of human nature; they have to take their blame as an enabler of ignorance and hatred.
Its the same with a LOT of other issues, not just today, but over the centuries. And its not just relegated to the Pope or one church ... as its written in Ecclesiastes, there's nothing new under the sun.
The "good works as a reason to avoid taxes" argument doesn't wash, because then everyone else is paying to subsidize one group's use of "good works" to prosyletize for their particular breed of superstition. This sort of behaviour is actually condemned in the Bible - "let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth" and the whole if you do something expecting something in return, you've already gotten all the reward you deserve thing.
It doesn't really matter in the long run, because as education and income levels rise, society in general drops religion. Most catholics use birth control. Most fundies have sex before marriage.
The problem arises when they then go around and hypocritically try to tell others what to do, while pretending their sh*t doesn't stink. If you read the article, you'd have seen that its speculated that the real reason the pope is saying this is to help shore up Italy's tax base, not from any "christian" motive. Politics and business as usual ...
The pope will earn my respect when he stands up to the stupidity of the past and says:
- The pope is not perfect, never has been, and never can be;
- What consenting adults do is their own business;
- "Sin" is solely in the eye of the beholder.
By the way, even Jesus supported #s 1 and 3. Why doesn't the pope?Thanks for bringing up the poster girl of the Catholic Church - Mother Theresa. Did you know she never got around to actually reading the whole bible? Not even the whole new testament ...
How can you say you believe something you never even read.
Its not like a whole lifetime wasn't enough. She died at 87. If she had started reading the Bible at 18, she would have only had to read 30 words a DAY. If its such a central document, why the fuck don't people read it? 3 chapters a day, and you're through the whole thing in a year. Or is it because a lot of the stuff in it is clearly contrary to the church's teachings, or just brain-dead.
BTW - the Crusades is NOT a selling point ...
And yes, I am under no illusion of having a "soul". Or any other superstitious beliefs. As far as I'm concerned, the church should be taxed same as any other business, and meet the same standards. This includes local truth in advertising laws and bans on promoting intolerance towards minority groups. Or has the Pope finally declared that gays, lesbians, etc., are now free to be themselves without having the church pin the label of "sinner" on them?
At least it would help revent the spread of ignorance and superstition ...
While it is true that some viruses can pass through latex condoms (and a LOT can pass through "natural skin" condoms), a condom does help prevent the spread of AIDS, etc.
http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/condom.html
> Popes aren't immortal, sir.
No, just immoral. They make their living the same way as other hucksters - preying on people's weaknesses. They promise immortality ("life everlasting") if you believe what they say, and do what they say, but they themselves show by their actions that they neither do nor believe.
Otherwise, the first thing they would do is admit that the imposition of celibacy was a terrible mistake, and has caused a lot of suffering ... but of course, the pope is never wrong. And if you believe that, you'll believe anything under the right circumstances - the right circumstances being "The pope says it."
If the pope declared that it was god's will that you kill your firstborn child, same as Abraham, as a test of your faith, would you do it? Its in the Bible ... and the Pope is telling you to do it ...
Or would you admit that the Pope is wrong, same as popes have been wrong on all sorts of other things, including the pill, same-sex relationships, divorce and remarriage, the Earth being the center of the universe, the stars being fixed in heaven, torture to promote confessions to save people's souls, etc.
Its a cult, same as any other cult, just more followers.
"Moreover, it's basically the biggest fallacy ever that maintaining the celibacy of the priesthood perpetuates child sexual abuse. The decisions that those priests make are THEIRS, and theirs alone... not the Vatican's. Hell, I guess since I'm not getting laid, I should be going and molesting little boys, by your logic. Well, except for the fact that no one's forcing it on me, I guess, so I have no one to blame the molestation on. "
The catholic church's own internal studies show that a celibate priesthood attracts the wrong kind of person. 20% struggle with desires to have sex with children, and half with desires to have same-sex partners; these numbers are WAY over the average for the ppulation at large.
The same-sex bit isn't a problem for most people, except that in this case, again, its the whole "sex outside of marriage is wrong" crap.
" > > Hey, how about that "no birth control" policy? Nice way to doom another generation to overpopulation and starvation. And the "no condoms" bit. The Pope is promoting AIDS, herpes, clamydia, etc.
> As someone else so succinctly points out in a thread further down the page, that isn't true at all. If you can't use birth control for religious reasons, don't have sex. It's not hard.
" > > How about the whole "virgins are better, they're pure" so its not so bad to rape a woman who's had sex, because she's a slut anyway, since she's not a virgin.
> ...wow. Please, find me actual proof that this is the position of the church. That's not in the Bible, nor is it the church's position in the least, as far as I'm aware. Until you present some evidence or proof, this is an absolutely ludicrous assertion.
"
While we're at it, where in the bible does it say that priests must be celibate? Oh, it doesn't - it says priests must be MARRIED! Fucktard pope in the middle ages got his underwear in a twist because a priest and a bishop were having a "good time enjoying each other's company", and while the bishop was keeping it all quiet, his lover went on and on to anyone who would listen about how great it was. So the pope declared that, from that point on, priests be celibate.
Your papal "bull" is exactly that - bull. Its contrary to the bible, but that's not a surprise. There's not a single religion that adheres 100% to their own teachings.
" > >> Or the "divorce is wrong" so stay with hubby as he beats the shit out of you and the kids.
> My understanding of the position on divorce (which may well vary by denomination, too) isn't that you can't divorce, it's that you shouldn't remarry if you get a divorce, unless it's to your original spouse, who you've somehow magically worked things out with. "
People get the governments they deserve, because they allow and enable those governments. Explains both Bush and the Nazi Pope. Forgive his past? No - he's still a fascist bastard using the same tactics to regiment people's lives that any other cult uses.
What is it with religion and sex anyway?
Actually, its mild compared to what a lot of us feel.
"denounce the use of tax havens as socially unjust and immoral"
Says the Pope sitting in his tax haven called Vatican City. "Fucking hypocrite" is mild ...
Says the Pope who signed up with the nazis because "he could get in trouble otherwise, and it didn't mean anything." Sig heil my arse! The only reason we can't call him a dirty nazi is because he (probably) takes a bath once in a while, when not figuring out ways to try to maintain respectability while continuing to demand that his priests remain celibate, thus perpetuating holy buggery and child sexual abuse.
We tolerate religion - that doesn't mean we have to accept pronouncements from somebody who's so busy pointing fingers at everyone else in an effort to keep them from looking at the huge pile of wrongs he continues to promote. Hey, how about that "no birth control" policy? Nice way to doom another generation to overpopulation and starvation. And the "no condoms" bit. The Pope is promoting AIDS, herpes, clamydia, etc. How about the whole "virgins are better, they're pure" so its not so bad to rape a woman who's had sex, because she's a slut anyway, since she's not a virgin. Or the "divorce is wrong" so stay with hubby as he beats the shit out of you and the kids.
The pope is a fucktard.
Its all about money and power, same as always. Look up Banco Ambrosio Pope Murder
He should be showing a picture of the list. He is in no shape or matter selling the item that is pictured. This is misleading.
Like I said - look at his name - "bagaladouche" - douche bag. He's thumbing his nose at everyone, making it clear that he's out to scam people, and hoping they will be too embarrassed to complain.
He's like the guy who sold "breast developers" and would mail people a picture of a hand groping a breast, or cockroack killers - and send them 2 bricks, along with instructions:
- place brick on table
- place cockroach on brick
- smach second brick onto first brick
Its fraud.A lot of people don't bother reading their agreement, and, depending on the account they have with eBay, they may have given them the right to do this (esp. for non-domestic accounts).
Remember, at one time Microsoft was FUDding people with the line that it was supposedly illegal to remove Windows from the machine it was installed on, even if they wanted to give the box to a non-profit that was going to install linux. This was so bogus - along the lines of their "you must install this sticker on the computer you install your copy of windows on" (because they know the sticker will get worn off, or unreadable, etc). Nobody has to comply with that. Just file the sticker with the cd.
Most people are stupid. Just think about those "Do not remove this label" labels on furniture - most people believe they have to leave it on or *something bad will happen*.
Like this one http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= 230166616238&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BI X_Stores&refitem=230166612814&itemcount=4&refwidge tloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget:
What appears to be 9 50-inch plasma TVs, with starting bids of under $20.00
The seller's name : bagaldouche ... bag - a - la - douche .... douchebag How much more obvious does it have to be?
As one angry purchaser put it:
"This is a scam i dont need to buy a list of where i can buy a tv
pierre_tousignant ( 1 )
28-Aug-07 09:48
BRAND NEW 50' PLASMA TELEVISION *WHOLESALE LIST* (#230164258373) "
"Okay then, you go tell some grandma in Sweden to use Linux, much less install it, and see how well that goes over."
Top 10 sick reasons why that won't happen:
[X] I haven't told my grandma anything in decades. She's really REALLY REALLY hard of hearing (see #3).
[X] I'd need an ouija board for that. Or a seriously LONG LONG LONG long-distance call.
[X] She's dead, you ignorant clod! (At least I hope she is - otherwise she's something pissed at us by now, since we buried her)
[X] The worms she's worried about aren't from the 'net.
[X] She runs BSD; like her, its been dead for years.
[X] Windows? She'd be more a DOS person. After all, both her and DOS are pushing up daisies!
[X] She's probably already got too many mice.
[X] Sorry, I don't work the graveyard shift.
[X] Not a ghost of a chance of her running Windows on her current hardware
[X] We stopped paying the exorcist, and she was reposessed.
And the bonus answer:
[X] The only program she knows how to run is GHOST.EXE
Its only in the last few years that Microsoft has started refunding people, and only after a LOT of pushback from the linux community.
Or are you that new here?
The person who bought the painting then resold it. 1 guess how they resold it.
I don't have to RTFA - we had a case that made the local papers where a guy was bilked out of a $40,000 painting through eBay. They got the painting, never sent the money, so he's out both. feeBay did squat. The FBI did nothing, either. Why the f*ck do they have to have people "surfing the net looking for crime" when they've got people saying "hey, why the fuck don't you DO something about this - here's the proof, here's the people involved ..." and their response is "Its a civil, not criminal, matter. Take them to civil court." Fuck that.
"The difference is that people use Linux by choice, and the people making that choice know that they're sacrificing compatibility.
People using Vista are very likely to just have bought a new computer since the beginning of the year, and have no idea why things don't work with it."
People use Vista by choice. Nobody is forced to keep the OS that comes by default with their computer. They have the option to downgrade to XP, or upgrade to bsd or linux. If they go the upgrade route, they can end up with extra $$$ in their pockets, by getting a refund on Vista.
Or if they insist on using a retard OS, they can use a linux boot disk to get on the net, and keep Vista for offline use, which is what all Windows users should be doing, anyway.
"Thieves should know that law enforcement can surf sites too in investigating crime," the FBI said.""
Remember, this is YOUR tax dollars at work.
The FBI doesn't need to "surf eBay" to find crime - just investigate eBay, and all the complaints users have about auctions where they're out both the merchandise and the money, and feeBay doesn sh*t about it ...
My point is that there is NO perfect solution, and that the question is in such a general format that its useless :-)
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If its copyrightable, stop yapping and copyright it already.
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If its patentable, pay the $100 and get a provisional patent.
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If its neither, then troll slashdot with it.
At least, thats what seems to be the case with this article.Do like many more civilized countries do, and go to "no fault" divorce. The only ground for divorce is the desire of one of the parties to end the marriage. No more spying on each other, gathering proof, etc. A lot cheaper (which is why lawyers don't like it) and a lot more civilized (again why lawyers don't like it).
Most spouses, when confronted with a cheating spouse, deal with it. Ultimatums get issued. Deals get made. Or the marriage is over - but if you're cheating, you don't deserve any better anyway, so where's the injustice?
"or you say screw off, and potentially have your marriage wrecked."
If you've been cheating, then being exposed is actually doing you a favour. You have to deal with it, rather than continue worrying aboug OMG what will happen if someone finds out".
Ditto with drugs, gambling, etc.
Instead of searching peoples' backgrounds to find out if they have something that they could be blackmailed over, why not do it to help them instead? You discover a gambling problem? Deal with it. You get a better employee, and you've cleaned up a potential security risk.
Same with any other problem.
"we just burned a CD of our album, mailed it to ourselves and now we have the sealed copy with the mail timestamp should we ever need it. "
Good luck finding an old CD reader that will read those old burned CDs. Did you also remember to make multiple copies, for when bit-rot sets in? Store it in an nice cool dark place?
Reminds me of the guy who had his backup floppies with the source and 5 years of financial data (several million dollars) in an envelope beside a 20hp electric motor "because nobody would go there". Totally unreadable.
Cheaper to go to bankrupcy sales of old businesses. You'll find paper and pens, and even typewriters, to fake up anything you need from 20 years ago.
No, its because many countries DO have a copyright office and have signed the Bern Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works dated 1886, revised 1908, 1914, 1928, 1948, 1967, 1971, 1979,
Submit it to usenet.
Seriously, you can't "secure" IP and still make it known to the general public. Ask Coca-cola. They protected their recipe by simply not releasing it. If they had, any protection would have expired long ago.
There is no innate "right" to IP - you only have what the local laws + your enforcement of same can provide. Even then, you can't stop all uses. Fair use comes into play on copyrights; obviousness, prior art, lack of true invention come into play on patents. On top of that, patents are granted by country or by block of countries (if you go through WIPO), so its going to cost some serious loot to get that all-encompassing patent protection.
Think about it. Banting and Best refused to patent insulin. As a result, a lot more people got access to it a lot quicker.
Actually, the relevant question is "does NASA have the legal right to order these background checks?"
If not, then they'll have to learn to live with certain risks, same as the rest of us.