The Bible has been translated (from various ancient texts) and interpreted and rewritten in ways that explain things as how they were interpreted. This is why you have so many different factions in modern theology. Everyone puts their own personal spin on the translations. Personally I love hearing about what certain passage *might* mean based on etymology. Certain passages make much MUCH more sense to me after hearing various interpretations. So to say no true Christian would "willfully disobey parts of the Bible" I take with a rather large block of salt, because the people who translated and interpreted those scripts were men themselves and subject to as much error and ideology as any other man, which in my opinion, makes the modern Bible a work of man, who's message may be divine, but needs to be searched for, not blindly followed.
Now I'm not a muslim but, it seems to me the whole basis for not depicting Mohammed is probably in the same vein as christian tenet of not worshipping "carved" images (likely of Christ), which serve as nothing more than a focus to keep people on the message rather than the man that gave it. Granted this is my own interpretation, but it seems people just can't help but use one sin to fight another sin, which in itself is an oxymoron. Sometimes I think it would haven been easier to just say "hey guys!! Be good to each other and make each other happy" instead of a bunch of "laws" for religious lawyers to pour over so that they can show their entrance exam was passed to get into heaven.
If this country were run by women, NASA would be well funded through this discovery... or... it's the lair of a James Bond villain.. I don't care which you choose.
The reason we can't get computer security right is that you're fighting against crowd sourcing working against computer security with people finding creative ways to access systems and cause harm. As opposed to say, stock trading algorithms which focus more on macro movements in the market. It's a lot easier to predict what groups of people will do in a situation based on human nature then predicting what a single person will do to try and gain access to a computer system. Other algorithms such as finding the most efficient route on a road for example are probably the easiest as they basically deal with straight mathematics and statistics and feedback. I guess the long and short of it is, the closer you are to "dry" data, the easier it will be to have an algorithm to make a given action more efficient.
Just because it's 'normal practice' and 'nothing new' doesn't mean there shouldn't be some red flags, or at least some general outrage. Competition is necessary for a well functioning market place. When a deal is done for the sole purpose stifling competition at the expense of the consumers, then that is exactly the reason and place for regulation.
I guess it's too bad that corporations don't have brief constitutions limiting their power. After all aren't they all just bodies of men vying for power. Sure you have a "choice" when it comes to companies, but even then it's been proven time and time again that if there's a dollar to be made companies can and will act in their own self interests to hold the public's feet to the flame and suck every $ they can out of them. This whole conservative privatize everything under the sun mantra is nothing more than dreams of power and being the one who sucks every $ they can out of a powerless public. The government while not perfect, at least at it's basic concept is supposed to be accountable to the people it's representing. If you privatize everything, you're basically back to feudalism, and every conservative likes to view himself as king.
If they are going to track people who have not committed any crime, then there should definitely be a way to opt out of the system, and if there is not way to opt out then it should be fully legal for the public to track and post the locations and habits of law enforcement officials in a public space. After all, we as the public have just as much right to protect ourselves from potential corrupt officers as the police would have to track potential criminals, anything less makes us less then citizens and the police go from public servants to public masters, which is likely how they view themselves anyway.
You are completly getting me wrong. I call out anyone who tries to justify their agression with morality. US, China, anyone, and believe me I have been called "anti-american" many times. It just irritates me to see countries try to use the US as justification for their own asshatness... I see the countries blindly following the same path to irresponsible use of power the west used. Im seeing it increasingly with China, theyre feeling strong and a sense of nationalism is growing. Its inevitable for any country when they come into power.. Maybe it just irritates me to see people the world over all doing the same shit while pointing fingers. We're all people and no one is above corruption.
Trust me, any.. and I mean ANY country with enough power is going to be an asshole.. China just hasn't been strong enough yet, but you'll see... China can and will be just as much if not more of an asshat than the US ever was. As would ANY country. So spare me your America/Western hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
I'm so glad that the US isn't pushing the rest of the world around on this issue. It's about time those hot-headed, arrogant, right wing crazy puritan grandkids stopped behaving like they still own the world.
Hey americans. It's 2011, not 1945. You no longer own the world.
Yeah, now you can deal with China pushing the world around, which I'm sure will be equally, if not much more pleasant.
I'm going to take a stab at this.. People who use Google first and foremost like the bulk of their products for how well they work and their simplicity. Google aims to make things generally as lightweight, streamlined and efficient as possible and I think that strikes a chord with a lot of people. As for the tracking, well I think a lot of people honestly just don't care that much, and if the other primary search engine being Bing then I'm guessing people are choosing the lesser of two.. "evils" for lack of a better word.
By and large Googles "do no evil" policy whether it still holds true or not is a great marketing strategy because by and large people generally accept it. Now I'm not saying how wise that is because everyone knows companies can change very easily when money and power grow, but I think MS took a big hit in the image department in the 90's and 00's and that is still being felt.
I would like to add on a more 'tin foil hat' note that it seems that Google has been under a LOT of fire lately and I would not be surprised at all if MS didn't have a hand in it, especially with it's good government connections. Either way.. seems Google is getting big and powerful and that has a lot of people scared for some reason.. because it seems to me (and again this seems to be my own observation) that people who didn't mind MS being a juggernaut seem to be terrified of Google in that position.
"Kids have no thought of posting themselves being "stupid" on you tube"
Used to be you were able to say.. 'people don't act that way' and get away with it.. now kids have a million and one examples of other kids all over the world being just as stupid. I guess in the midst of all the 'white noise' one persons embarrassing actions become not so embarrassing through the simple fact that it's fairly commonplace behavior
It's your choice - feed people who won't get off their ass to work or have nice toys like this telescope.
I love how being f@#$ed over by bankers, corps and lobbiests == being lazy.
Who's against banking reform.. because we can't have the poor defaulting, while the banks are bailed out...
You can get a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre in a respectable neighborhood for $130,000 (that's £90,000 in metric dollars for you british types). Sure, we won't have enough water for our population when the apocalypse comes, but in the mean time 3 bedrooms here is considered on the small side.
...but in Texas 3 bedrooms will get you a master bedroom, a children's bedroom and a bedroom for the mother's big ass bleach blonde hairdo.
I knew this was going to happen. Hackers do more harm than good for the rest of us just because they want to stroke their egos.... of course the egos of executives at Hollywood need to be stroked to at our own expense.
I am just sick of it and people who do not think about the repurcusions of their sensless actions. I am not worried about the RIAA more than I am about the federal government getting involved with more acts to limit liberty and monitor all our data and put caps on our bandwidth so the NSA can monitor everything.
You have more control over the governments actions that you do over hackers' actions.... So apply pressure where it's most effective.
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I'll bet his last words were.. "...and one more thing."
The Bible has been translated (from various ancient texts) and interpreted and rewritten in ways that explain things as how they were interpreted. This is why you have so many different factions in modern theology. Everyone puts their own personal spin on the translations. Personally I love hearing about what certain passage *might* mean based on etymology. Certain passages make much MUCH more sense to me after hearing various interpretations. So to say no true Christian would "willfully disobey parts of the Bible" I take with a rather large block of salt, because the people who translated and interpreted those scripts were men themselves and subject to as much error and ideology as any other man, which in my opinion, makes the modern Bible a work of man, who's message may be divine, but needs to be searched for, not blindly followed.
Now I'm not a muslim but, it seems to me the whole basis for not depicting Mohammed is probably in the same vein as christian tenet of not worshipping "carved" images (likely of Christ), which serve as nothing more than a focus to keep people on the message rather than the man that gave it. Granted this is my own interpretation, but it seems people just can't help but use one sin to fight another sin, which in itself is an oxymoron. Sometimes I think it would haven been easier to just say "hey guys!! Be good to each other and make each other happy" instead of a bunch of "laws" for religious lawyers to pour over so that they can show their entrance exam was passed to get into heaven.
This is actually quite surreal for me as an adult. This is the equivalent of WW2 technology that I saw as a teenager in the 80's.
So it's glorify the gains and criminalize the losses!!! Where have I heard something like that before.. hmm...
Best quote for art I've heard goes something like this: "If you want to make art, don't try to be an artist."
All the articles I've read have an *obituary* feel to them. It's like he's already dead except his body hasn't read the news yet.
If this country were run by women, NASA would be well funded through this discovery... or... it's the lair of a James Bond villain.. I don't care which you choose.
The reason we can't get computer security right is that you're fighting against crowd sourcing working against computer security with people finding creative ways to access systems and cause harm. As opposed to say, stock trading algorithms which focus more on macro movements in the market. It's a lot easier to predict what groups of people will do in a situation based on human nature then predicting what a single person will do to try and gain access to a computer system. Other algorithms such as finding the most efficient route on a road for example are probably the easiest as they basically deal with straight mathematics and statistics and feedback. I guess the long and short of it is, the closer you are to "dry" data, the easier it will be to have an algorithm to make a given action more efficient.
Just because it's 'normal practice' and 'nothing new' doesn't mean there shouldn't be some red flags, or at least some general outrage. Competition is necessary for a well functioning market place. When a deal is done for the sole purpose stifling competition at the expense of the consumers, then that is exactly the reason and place for regulation.
I guess it's too bad that corporations don't have brief constitutions limiting their power. After all aren't they all just bodies of men vying for power. Sure you have a "choice" when it comes to companies, but even then it's been proven time and time again that if there's a dollar to be made companies can and will act in their own self interests to hold the public's feet to the flame and suck every $ they can out of them. This whole conservative privatize everything under the sun mantra is nothing more than dreams of power and being the one who sucks every $ they can out of a powerless public. The government while not perfect, at least at it's basic concept is supposed to be accountable to the people it's representing. If you privatize everything, you're basically back to feudalism, and every conservative likes to view himself as king.
If they are going to track people who have not committed any crime, then there should definitely be a way to opt out of the system, and if there is not way to opt out then it should be fully legal for the public to track and post the locations and habits of law enforcement officials in a public space. After all, we as the public have just as much right to protect ourselves from potential corrupt officers as the police would have to track potential criminals, anything less makes us less then citizens and the police go from public servants to public masters, which is likely how they view themselves anyway.
Pssst... HTC and Samsung are two different companies. Just a little heads up.
Ya.. I looked at your other posts, and you're pretty much a tiny little asshat in each and every one. Have a good life freakshow.
You are completly getting me wrong. I call out anyone who tries to justify their agression with morality. US, China, anyone, and believe me I have been called "anti-american" many times. It just irritates me to see countries try to use the US as justification for their own asshatness... I see the countries blindly following the same path to irresponsible use of power the west used. Im seeing it increasingly with China, theyre feeling strong and a sense of nationalism is growing. Its inevitable for any country when they come into power.. Maybe it just irritates me to see people the world over all doing the same shit while pointing fingers. We're all people and no one is above corruption.
LOL! anti-eastern? is that how you read it? I'm not anti-eastern.. I'm anti-hypocrite.
Trust me, any.. and I mean ANY country with enough power is going to be an asshole.. China just hasn't been strong enough yet, but you'll see... China can and will be just as much if not more of an asshat than the US ever was. As would ANY country. So spare me your America/Western hatred as if you have some culturally moral ground to stand on.
I'm so glad that the US isn't pushing the rest of the world around on this issue. It's about time those hot-headed, arrogant, right wing crazy puritan grandkids stopped behaving like they still own the world. Hey americans. It's 2011, not 1945. You no longer own the world.
Yeah, now you can deal with China pushing the world around, which I'm sure will be equally, if not much more pleasant.
I'm going to take a stab at this.. People who use Google first and foremost like the bulk of their products for how well they work and their simplicity. Google aims to make things generally as lightweight, streamlined and efficient as possible and I think that strikes a chord with a lot of people. As for the tracking, well I think a lot of people honestly just don't care that much, and if the other primary search engine being Bing then I'm guessing people are choosing the lesser of two.. "evils" for lack of a better word.
By and large Googles "do no evil" policy whether it still holds true or not is a great marketing strategy because by and large people generally accept it. Now I'm not saying how wise that is because everyone knows companies can change very easily when money and power grow, but I think MS took a big hit in the image department in the 90's and 00's and that is still being felt.
I would like to add on a more 'tin foil hat' note that it seems that Google has been under a LOT of fire lately and I would not be surprised at all if MS didn't have a hand in it, especially with it's good government connections. Either way.. seems Google is getting big and powerful and that has a lot of people scared for some reason.. because it seems to me (and again this seems to be my own observation) that people who didn't mind MS being a juggernaut seem to be terrified of Google in that position.
"Kids have no thought of posting themselves being "stupid" on you tube"
Used to be you were able to say.. 'people don't act that way' and get away with it.. now kids have a million and one examples of other kids all over the world being just as stupid. I guess in the midst of all the 'white noise' one persons embarrassing actions become not so embarrassing through the simple fact that it's fairly commonplace behavior
It's your choice - feed people who won't get off their ass to work or have nice toys like this telescope.
I love how being f@#$ed over by bankers, corps and lobbiests == being lazy. Who's against banking reform.. because we can't have the poor defaulting, while the banks are bailed out...
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You can get a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre in a respectable neighborhood for $130,000 (that's £90,000 in metric dollars for you british types). Sure, we won't have enough water for our population when the apocalypse comes, but in the mean time 3 bedrooms here is considered on the small side.
...but in Texas 3 bedrooms will get you a master bedroom, a children's bedroom and a bedroom for the mother's big ass bleach blonde hairdo.
I remember the days when a three bedroom house would only cost you 640kb... ahhh those were the days!
I knew this was going to happen. Hackers do more harm than good for the rest of us just because they want to stroke their egos. ... of course the egos of executives at Hollywood need to be stroked to at our own expense.
I am just sick of it and people who do not think about the repurcusions of their sensless actions. I am not worried about the RIAA more than I am about the federal government getting involved with more acts to limit liberty and monitor all our data and put caps on our bandwidth so the NSA can monitor everything.
You have more control over the governments actions that you do over hackers' actions.... So apply pressure where it's most effective.