Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty.
That's an interesting perspective. I've always thought that the opposite was true: that the priesthood attracted homosexual pedophiles because of the lifestyle and ready access to children under the guise of a trusted authority. I wonder if this is something that can be reliably studied?
And maybe it's a case of selective reporting / memory ?
The actions of a pedophile mailman or a whoring baptist don't reflect on all mailmen or all baptists because, you know, there are so many mailmen and baptists we all consider them normal.
There is that 'otherness', that slight 'creepy-foreign-cult' prejudice about the catholic church that sits deep in the back of many people's minds. Anything a catholic priest says or does reflects on the entire catholic church, exactly the way everything one immigrant or minority says or does reflects on his entire people.
We could use the good old proven technique of evolution (Just helping natural selection along a bit)
Keep men constantly supplied with fertile women throughout their lifetime.
Geezers who stay fit and healthy longer will then have more children than those who age less well. Over the course of ten thousand years, a lifetime fertility difference of a few percent really adds up, slowly but surely selecting for a longer lifespan.
Note that in Western Europe and the United States... and Canada,... population growth rate is already negative.
The vast majority of people don't live in western europe, the US or Canada. The world population will grow another couple of billion in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Management invariably tries to standardize the wrong tools because they have no idea how software development works.
Hmmm, in my experience at several small and large companies, management tends to leave Tech management to Tech managers, who tend to know very well how software development works. Their reasons for making choices you don't agree with may well be sound and rational, or forced by circumstances. They usually don't just have your to consider, but all the other projects, as well as future projects and still supported projects from the past. Hiring and training is very expensive.
You may save development time for individual projects by using the best tool for each job, but waste a lot of time and expertise constantly having to train project members. A set of standards may not be ideal for any individual project, but the best choice for the organization as a whole.
Firing the entire COBOL team, scrapping the mainframes, and hiring a few dozen Linux gurus for a complete re-write from scratch in ruby-on-rails is probably not the sound and rational choice either.
...I think while MS has done some awful things, the industry has still moved forward as a whole. Bill saw a business model and moved to make it successful. Stallman's idea has caught on too, just not as well YET as the Microsoft one.
Gates and Allen were pioneers in the field of software for 'microcomputers', the things that eventually evolved into the PCs and Macs we use today.
Stallman is from the same generation, and could have come up with a free software for microcomputers movement at the time, but he snubbed the whole field, and felt at the time, as I'm sure he still does privately, that microcomputers were pointless and only scientists should be using computers in the first place.
There's no reason to continue his crusade any way. Noone is forced to use proprietary software for anything any more. You can build you own PC, install your own Linux and GNU on it, or even buy a machine with linux pre installed. The only thing one really needs Windows or OSX is for running other proprietary software they like.
If people still choose to pay money to a company like Apple or Microsoft or IBM for software and services, and really have no interest in access to the sources and the right to redistribute the software, please let them. They don't need pity or condescending preaching.
There is a choice now, between Free and Proprietary software, and things in between. Surely that is good. Continuing the struggle until proprietary software is destroyed is futile, and even if it wasn't, it would actually decrease choice and therefor freedom, wouldn't it?
as african varieties are also genetically different enough to resist the new cavendish-hungry fungus. Afraid not. In Africa too, the banana is a crop, grown in monocultures. They're different varieties, selected for qualities other than 'being able to survive oceanic transport', but bananas do not occur in the wild in Africa.
Napster wasn't some open source community thingy. It was a commercial company, they made loads of money from advertisements. Essentially they were selling music online, without asking the artists in question for permission.
Iirc, Metallica were pissed off after they heard some unfinished and unreleased studio demos of themselves on the radio, and after inquiring what was up with that, found out the radio station get the demos off Napster.
I never found their reaction to napster very unreasonable. Sharing music with your friends is one thing, but making a profit selling it without permission is just bootlegging.
They might not be optimal, but they sure are what we've optimized our agriculture for. Deviations from expected values will cost money. There is agriculture in climates ranging from the sub arctic to the equator. 'We' haven't optimized our agriculture for one specific temperature.
Generally, warmer climates are more productive. Just look at the difference in agricultural productivity between Britain and Germany (mild) and Canada (cold) at the same latitude.
Most of the USA has warmer summers and a longer growing season than most of Europe. Does this mean agriculture in the USA is comparatively sub-optimal?
The tropics also see more rainfall in warmer periods. The monsoon is usually in summer for example, and northern Africa often sees severe droughts in relatively cooler years.
Just in the past week: - Replacing the entire page with "carrots cause wicked diarrhea" - Replacing paragraph headers with "==Uses== (I LOVE NICK JONAS) 3" and "==History== (I LOVE THE JONAS BROTHERS)" - Inserting "CARROTS A.K.A Juno's mum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Adding nonsense like "the carrot was invented by the fairy princess Isis in 5009" and "The Glazed Carrot was Alexander Graham Bell's Favorite Food." - "The carrot/ Reece(who likes the carrot) Hannam" - Adding nationalistic bullshit - "They look like penises." - replaced page with "Everyone Go To www.some url.com! everything free!"
Just in the past week: - Replacing the entire page with "carrots cause wicked diarrhea" - Replacing paragraph headers with "==Uses== (I LOVE NICK JONAS).com! everything free!"
I know you're just joking, but switzerland is actually armed to the teeth. Everyone there is armed, most men train or have trained for the militia. They're obviously too small to fend off a super power, but definitely tough enough to make an invasion not worth it.
Not very long ago, it was common practice to reboot IBM office minis (such as AS/400's) at regular scheduled intervals. Every night, or once a week. The reason for this being that they preferred to lock all objects in the system at the same time for the nightly backup, so that a consistent state was saved. Also, upon starting up, database tables were rearranged and indexes rebuilt, for a slightly better performance during the day, when the machine would actually be used.
IBM also offered another solution, the mainframe, which could guarantee service even while a CPU is being replaced. This kind of machine is a solution to a very different kind of problem, and comes with a very different kind of price tag.
Whether rebooting is an acceptable maintenance tool completely depends on what the machine is used for. For a desktop windows user having to reboot after an update is simply better than having to stop a service, install patch, start service again, stop another service, install another patch, start the service etc.
You are making the very mistake that you are accusing the uninformed general public of.
There is actually good and strong science behind such inferences.
Imagine felines are a completely unknown family
Say you have only a tooth fragment of a bobcat. That piece of information alone isn't much to go on, but if you also have a more or less complete skeleton of a house cat, and a skull and left hind foot of a lion skeleton, these three pieces of information together now tell you a lot about the likely size and general shape of the bobcat, and from the size relative to the lion and the house cat, you can probably draw general conclusions about the kind of prey the bobcat could hunt.
It is obvious that the OP isn't trying to protect his 7 year old 'sister' (such an age difference is not credible anyway), but trying to keep the girl's parents from finding out what the girl is doing online. There is no doubt in my mind that he is a pedophile, and in his warped mind he is having a romance with this child, and he quite rightly suspects the parents wouldn't be terribly understanding if they found out.
You're absolutely right. If I were a MS shareholder, I'd demand that they focus on making money selling the software people use to get to their Google services, not spending 40 billion trying to turn a very successful software company into a probably doomed internet content / advertisement company, directly competing with Google.
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I want a pill that gives me lots of luck in gambling
If this drug works as advertised & has no dangerous side effects, why wouldn't *everyone* including athletes take it?
And I'm sure they will, providing this drug is untraceable or somehow maskable in doping tests.
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!
Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty.
That's an interesting perspective. I've always thought that the opposite was true: that the priesthood attracted homosexual pedophiles because of the lifestyle and ready access to children under the guise of a trusted authority. I wonder if this is something that can be reliably studied?
And maybe it's a case of selective reporting / memory ?
The actions of a pedophile mailman or a whoring baptist don't reflect on all mailmen or all baptists because, you know, there are so many mailmen and baptists we all consider them normal.
There is that 'otherness', that slight 'creepy-foreign-cult' prejudice about the catholic church that sits deep in the back of many people's minds. Anything a catholic priest says or does reflects on the entire catholic church, exactly the way everything one immigrant or minority says or does reflects on his entire people.
We could use the good old proven technique of evolution (Just helping natural selection along a bit)
Keep men constantly supplied with fertile women throughout their lifetime.
Geezers who stay fit and healthy longer will then have more children than those who age less well. Over the course of ten thousand years, a lifetime fertility difference of a few percent really adds up, slowly but surely selecting for a longer lifespan.
Note that in Western Europe and the United States ... and Canada,... population growth rate is already negative.
The vast majority of people don't live in western europe, the US or Canada. The world population will grow another couple of billion in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Management invariably tries to standardize the wrong tools because they have no idea how software development works.
Hmmm, in my experience at several small and large companies, management tends to leave Tech management to Tech managers, who tend to know very well how software development works. Their reasons for making choices you don't agree with may well be sound and rational, or forced by circumstances. They usually don't just have your to consider, but all the other projects, as well as future projects and still supported projects from the past. Hiring and training is very expensive.
You may save development time for individual projects by using the best tool for each job, but waste a lot of time and expertise constantly having to train project members. A set of standards may not be ideal for any individual project, but the best choice for the organization as a whole.
Firing the entire COBOL team, scrapping the mainframes, and hiring a few dozen Linux gurus for a complete re-write from scratch in ruby-on-rails is probably not the sound and rational choice either.
...I think while MS has done some awful things, the industry has still moved forward as a whole. Bill saw a business model and moved to make it successful. Stallman's idea has caught on too, just not as well YET as the Microsoft one.
Gates and Allen were pioneers in the field of software for 'microcomputers', the things that eventually evolved into the PCs and Macs we use today.
Stallman is from the same generation, and could have come up with a free software for microcomputers movement at the time, but he snubbed the whole field, and felt at the time, as I'm sure he still does privately, that microcomputers were pointless and only scientists should be using computers in the first place.
There's no reason to continue his crusade any way. Noone is forced to use proprietary software for anything any more. You can build you own PC, install your own Linux and GNU on it, or even buy a machine with linux pre installed. The only thing one really needs Windows or OSX is for running other proprietary software they like.
If people still choose to pay money to a company like Apple or Microsoft or IBM for software and services, and really have no interest in access to the sources and the right to redistribute the software, please let them. They don't need pity or condescending preaching.
There is a choice now, between Free and Proprietary software, and things in between. Surely that is good. Continuing the struggle until proprietary software is destroyed is futile, and even if it wasn't, it would actually decrease choice and therefor freedom, wouldn't it?
Even BASIC is better than Excel.....
And even a Prius is better than a Toyota?The language embedded in Excel is VBA: Visual Basic for Applications
The advertisement section on this slashdot page says more about the average /. user than an online test:
- Ads by google
- Linux gurus wanted
- Beautiful Russian girls for marriage
- Looking for a junior IT job?
Napster wasn't some open source community thingy. It was a commercial company, they made loads of money from advertisements. Essentially they were selling music online, without asking the artists in question for permission.
Iirc, Metallica were pissed off after they heard some unfinished and unreleased studio demos of themselves on the radio, and after inquiring what was up with that, found out the radio station get the demos off Napster.
I never found their reaction to napster very unreasonable. Sharing music with your friends is one thing, but making a profit selling it without permission is just bootlegging.
Generally, warmer climates are more productive. Just look at the difference in agricultural productivity between Britain and Germany (mild) and Canada (cold) at the same latitude.
Most of the USA has warmer summers and a longer growing season than most of Europe. Does this mean agriculture in the USA is comparatively sub-optimal?
The tropics also see more rainfall in warmer periods. The monsoon is usually in summer for example, and northern Africa often sees severe droughts in relatively cooler years.
Should have used the preview button...
Just in the past week:
- Replacing the entire page with "carrots cause wicked diarrhea"
- Replacing paragraph headers with "==Uses== (I LOVE NICK JONAS) 3" and "==History== (I LOVE THE JONAS BROTHERS)"
- Inserting "CARROTS A.K.A Juno's mum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Adding nonsense like "the carrot was invented by the fairy princess Isis in 5009" and "The Glazed Carrot was Alexander Graham Bell's Favorite Food."
- "The carrot/ Reece(who likes the carrot) Hannam"
- Adding nationalistic bullshit
- "They look like penises."
- replaced page with "Everyone Go To www.some url.com! everything free!"
It's not just Hillary Clinton's page.
.com! everything free!"
Just for a laugh, check how often pages on completely neutral and uncontroversial subjects are vandalized.
The Carrot (vegetable)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrot&action=history
Just in the past week:
- Replacing the entire page with "carrots cause wicked diarrhea"
- Replacing paragraph headers with "==Uses== (I LOVE NICK JONAS)
... whereas women can overlook ugly and stupid, as long as he's rich?
Ug!
I know you're just joking, but switzerland is actually armed to the teeth. Everyone there is armed, most men train or have trained for the militia. They're obviously too small to fend off a super power, but definitely tough enough to make an invasion not worth it.
Not very long ago, it was common practice to reboot IBM office minis (such as AS/400's) at regular scheduled intervals. Every night, or once a week. The reason for this being that they preferred to lock all objects in the system at the same time for the nightly backup, so that a consistent state was saved. Also, upon starting up, database tables were rearranged and indexes rebuilt, for a slightly better performance during the day, when the machine would actually be used.
IBM also offered another solution, the mainframe, which could guarantee service even while a CPU is being replaced. This kind of machine is a solution to a very different kind of problem, and comes with a very different kind of price tag.
Whether rebooting is an acceptable maintenance tool completely depends on what the machine is used for. For a desktop windows user having to reboot after an update is simply better than having to stop a service, install patch, start service again, stop another service, install another patch, start the service etc.
You are making the very mistake that you are accusing the uninformed general public of.
There is actually good and strong science behind such inferences.
Imagine felines are a completely unknown family
Say you have only a tooth fragment of a bobcat. That piece of information alone isn't much to go on, but if you also have a more or less complete skeleton of a house cat, and a skull and left hind foot of a lion skeleton, these three pieces of information together now tell you a lot about the likely size and general shape of the bobcat, and from the size relative to the lion and the house cat, you can probably draw general conclusions about the kind of prey the bobcat could hunt.
It is obvious that the OP isn't trying to protect his 7 year old 'sister' (such an age difference is not credible anyway), but trying to keep the girl's parents from finding out what the girl is doing online. There is no doubt in my mind that he is a pedophile, and in his warped mind he is having a romance with this child, and he quite rightly suspects the parents wouldn't be terribly understanding if they found out.
You're absolutely right. If I were a MS shareholder, I'd demand that they focus on making money selling the software people use to get to their Google services, not spending 40 billion trying to turn a very successful software company into a probably doomed internet content / advertisement company, directly competing with Google.
What has france done to the US, exactly?
Even if you read Mein Kampf AND agree with the content, that does not make you guilty of participating in the Holocaust.
If just reading jihadist writings could make you guilty of terrorism, then democracy and freedom of speech have effectively come to an end.
Luckily that isn't the case, and everything is ok!
The cables were cut in three different seas, hundreds, even thousands of miles apart.
"We don't even fully understand the genome, and we're going to complicate it further."
We should ban all DNA research until we know enough about it to know what is safe or not