Why do you believe life begins at conception? The only Biblical support that comes to mind for that belief comes through taking a couple of passages involving God "knowing" humans in the womb.
It's a good thing that I believe that conception should denote the beginning of legal personhood based on philosophy and science rather than my religious beliefs, which I don't think should influence the law at all.
If you have to use a name, then RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) is far more suitable and doesn't restrict the developer to asynchronous work only for it to be included in that.
Thank you for the explanation. I've been wondering what in the world AJAX is, and why I should care. I don't know what AJAX is. But I can tell what a Rich Interactive Application is. Isn't it nice how language can be used as a communication tool rather than a way to hide your meaning so you can feel elitist compared to those who do not know the new terms? To date I don't think there's been a single slashdot submission that explained in the summary what AJAX was, even though this submitter clearly agrees that it's something new. You'd think if it were new and something they want to promote they would be explaining it at every opportunity -- unless of course they want to hide the fact that it's not that big of an advancement.
Let's say you write a book, and tomorrow you find that someone is printing and selling it in Venezuela without your permission. Would that be okay with you, just because there's no Venezuelan law against it?
I like my compromise. Make all the profit you want. But I'd like to ask these two things:
Don't try to enforce American intellectual property laws in other countries. Just because you have it patented in America doesn't mean Africa and South America have to die to honor your patent. Those countries are sovereign, too.
Actually, I think we ought to scrap the whole patent system, or at least severely curtail it. Yes, that would probably mean less profits. But it sure would increase competition. This second one's an optional bonus; I care about the first point more.
But I only browse that low when I'm moderating. Whenever I get mod points, I grab a recent thread (or two), change my settings to -1, flat, newest (ignore threads), and go down the line looking for five comments that I think are good, to moderate up. Most of the rest of the time, I only read comments that are 4 and above. (Except when I'm really interested in a topic and it's new, like on this thread, where there's not enough reading material yet so I'm dipping down into the other comments.)
For the same reason Perl programmers all write their own templating systems: because I can. Really, I just did it because it was a fun math problem. Also, the Hebrew calendar works, but not exactly the way I wanted it to. The calendar I worked out happens to be a month off from the Hebrew calendar this year. (Although it happened to match the Karaite calendar, I believe.)
There are not 13 lunar cycles per year. There are 12 and a fraction lunar cycles per year. There is a huge difference.
If you made 13 months a year our calendar would go horribly out of sync. If you wanted to do that, you would need to make 12 months a year with an occasional leap month (about every third year), like the Jewish calendar. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar and http://www.karaite-korner.org/abib.shtml; I can cite Wikipedia, too.;) )
The fact that there may be 13 new moons in a year does not at all mean there are 13 lunar cycles in a year.
It just so happens I've recently put some work into creating a lunisolar calendar like the Hebrew calendar. But after looking at it, I think I can promise that you don't want to use it.
For the record, I am a member of the church of Christ. Practically everyone on this site would probably identify both of us as spewing religious garbage, and we would probably identify each other as such.
Nevertheless, if you knocked on my door, the most likely reactions would be either, "Sorry, I don't have time right now," or "Come on in and let's discuss each other's viewpoints." I've done door-knocking myself, actually.
Odds are I would never personally think of forcibly removing anyone for religious speech on my property. Depending on what's being said I might remove my children from the room, however.
But I thought it made a great illustration for free speech rights and property rights, one that most people here would get. Probably all of us would look into forcible removal if someone came into our home and refused to leave, regardless of their message.
yes, but what he is talking about isnt exactly his opinions on politics or what have you
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the pressabout politics.
No, I don't see those words in my Constitution.
if I worked at a company, and decided to 'practice free speech' by harping all of my employers trade secrets, i would no doubt be fired for screwing over the company
Exactly. You would be punished by the company, not by the government, because what you had done would not be illegal but a violation of employment terms and/or contract. The FBI would have zero jurisdiction.
In the same way if you come to my house and start spewing religious garbage I don't want to hear I can refuse to listen and remove you from my property, but I still can't restrict your right to say what you believe. You can't be thrown in jail for saying it, but you can be forcibly removed from my property and made to say it elsewhere.
A company firing someone for 'practicing free speech' is simply exercising the right all of us have in a free speech society: you can say what you like, but I don't have to like it.
but hey, they have been investigating more people for alot less recently.
"The FBI is investigating computer security researcher Michael Lynn for criminal conduct after he revealed that critical routers supporting the internet and many networks have a serious software flaw that could allow someone to crash or take control of them."
The FBI is investigating Michael Lynn... after he revealed...
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
Please tell me buddy lists aren't public data. That's not something I was aware of at all. It seems like that would lend itself to certain spam abuses.
Actually, it seems like the fact that that does not occur is evidence that buddy lists aren't public. So how does this work?
Good. This way a few years from now, SCO, or whoever else has bought the rights to the decrepit old proprietary UNIX I mean Java codebase can sue IBM for allegedly contributing code they didn't have the rights to to Harmony.
I mean, nobody could build a Java virtual machine without copying code, right? That would be an impossible superhuman feat!
I thought that GM was a way for me, the web user, to impose some scripted changes onto pages. I didn't realize it was used by site-designers to do anything HTML (+JavaScript, etc.) didn't allow.
I don't want to give site-designers any more power, so if that's prevented by neutering GM, I'm fine with that.
Most economic models aren't very good at prediction. Some are a bit better, and those are the ones that include things like fame and power as motivating forces. These don't translate easily to/from money, but they can be independently measured, so they can be used in models. Such theories aren't politically acceptable, however, because they're considered "Marxist".
Huh? What? I'm pretty sure all you've described here is utility theory, the general theory that actors in the economy work to maximize their "utility" which may include money or other factors as you've described. I don't see what's so controversial about that. I definitely accept that theory, and as an anarcho-capitalist, I'm about as anti-Marxist as you can get.
Do you actually have evidence that people believe economic models that account for the fact that some or all people do not believe money is everything are "Marxist"??
I'd say that an attempt to forbid others from choosing how to school their children is far less civilized than the gp poster's language. On slashdot, most people aren't bothered by such language.
If you mean forbid the practice, that's not your call to make in a free society.
If you mean you advise against it, feel free to say so.
My 100% homeschooled wife was a little distressed when she entered college and discovered she was the only one in her classes who knew how to learn by reading a textbook...
It would be nice if these "successful" operations reflected the reality that the copyright cartels want to make us believe. Allegedly, having these things available for free keeps the profit incentive down so nobody will sell them. So now that all the warez servers are being busted, all of the old products they provide that you can't get anywhere else should become financially attractive to market, right? So can I start actually buying some of these old things from some kind of nostalgia retailer?
Because personally, while I'm an extremist who would like all copyright law repealed, I'm also principled enough that the only reason I break copyright is to get old items that are no longer available on the market. There are pieces of personal history I want to get ahold of, like games I used to play growing up and music I used to hear. I can't get these things at all without breaking copyright. It would be nice to know that using our government in this heavy-handed manner to shut down the copyright violators would actually result in these products coming back to market rather than being thrown in a closet somewhere and locked away from all of us, to be lost in the interim while we wait for the copyright to expire, if it ever does.
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Why do you believe life begins at conception? The only Biblical support that comes to mind for that belief comes through taking a couple of passages involving God "knowing" humans in the womb.
It's a good thing that I believe that conception should denote the beginning of legal personhood based on philosophy and science rather than my religious beliefs, which I don't think should influence the law at all.
If you have to use a name, then RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) is far more suitable and doesn't restrict the developer to asynchronous work only for it to be included in that.
Thank you for the explanation. I've been wondering what in the world AJAX is, and why I should care. I don't know what AJAX is. But I can tell what a Rich Interactive Application is. Isn't it nice how language can be used as a communication tool rather than a way to hide your meaning so you can feel elitist compared to those who do not know the new terms? To date I don't think there's been a single slashdot submission that explained in the summary what AJAX was, even though this submitter clearly agrees that it's something new. You'd think if it were new and something they want to promote they would be explaining it at every opportunity -- unless of course they want to hide the fact that it's not that big of an advancement.
Let's say you write a book, and tomorrow you find that someone is printing and selling it in Venezuela without your permission. Would that be okay with you, just because there's no Venezuelan law against it?
Yep.
I like my compromise. Make all the profit you want. But I'd like to ask these two things:
Remember, Soylent Green is people!
Augh! Now you've ruined the ending for me!
Microsoft has a patent pending for displaying in a box to make them stand out
To make who stand out? Microsoft?
Freedom of Speech means anyone can say what they want (minus the exceptions I listed).
Man, I wish those were the only two exceptions! If only we really did have that much freedom!
But I only browse that low when I'm moderating. Whenever I get mod points, I grab a recent thread (or two), change my settings to -1, flat, newest (ignore threads), and go down the line looking for five comments that I think are good, to moderate up. Most of the rest of the time, I only read comments that are 4 and above. (Except when I'm really interested in a topic and it's new, like on this thread, where there's not enough reading material yet so I'm dipping down into the other comments.)
Let me get this straight: Bush, a Methodist, is unwilling to accept the ruling of the late leader of the Catholic Church?
I was wondering why I had developed a brain tumor over the weekend...
For the same reason Perl programmers all write their own templating systems: because I can. Really, I just did it because it was a fun math problem. Also, the Hebrew calendar works, but not exactly the way I wanted it to. The calendar I worked out happens to be a month off from the Hebrew calendar this year. (Although it happened to match the Karaite calendar, I believe.)
There are not 13 lunar cycles per year. There are 12 and a fraction lunar cycles per year. There is a huge difference.
If you made 13 months a year our calendar would go horribly out of sync. If you wanted to do that, you would need to make 12 months a year with an occasional leap month (about every third year), like the Jewish calendar. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar and http://www.karaite-korner.org/abib.shtml; I can cite Wikipedia, too. ;) )
The fact that there may be 13 new moons in a year does not at all mean there are 13 lunar cycles in a year.
It just so happens I've recently put some work into creating a lunisolar calendar like the Hebrew calendar. But after looking at it, I think I can promise that you don't want to use it.
For the record, I am a member of the church of Christ. Practically everyone on this site would probably identify both of us as spewing religious garbage, and we would probably identify each other as such.
Nevertheless, if you knocked on my door, the most likely reactions would be either, "Sorry, I don't have time right now," or "Come on in and let's discuss each other's viewpoints." I've done door-knocking myself, actually.
Odds are I would never personally think of forcibly removing anyone for religious speech on my property. Depending on what's being said I might remove my children from the room, however.
But I thought it made a great illustration for free speech rights and property rights, one that most people here would get. Probably all of us would look into forcible removal if someone came into our home and refused to leave, regardless of their message.
yes, but what he is talking about isnt exactly his opinions on politics or what have you
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press about politics.
No, I don't see those words in my Constitution.
if I worked at a company, and decided to 'practice free speech' by harping all of my employers trade secrets, i would no doubt be fired for screwing over the company
Exactly. You would be punished by the company, not by the government, because what you had done would not be illegal but a violation of employment terms and/or contract. The FBI would have zero jurisdiction.
In the same way if you come to my house and start spewing religious garbage I don't want to hear I can refuse to listen and remove you from my property, but I still can't restrict your right to say what you believe. You can't be thrown in jail for saying it, but you can be forcibly removed from my property and made to say it elsewhere.
A company firing someone for 'practicing free speech' is simply exercising the right all of us have in a free speech society: you can say what you like, but I don't have to like it.
but hey, they have been investigating more people for alot less recently.
No doubt that makes it right.
"The FBI is investigating computer security researcher Michael Lynn for criminal conduct after he revealed that critical routers supporting the internet and many networks have a serious software flaw that could allow someone to crash or take control of them."
The FBI is investigating Michael Lynn... after he revealed ...
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
He's being investigated for what, now? Talking?
And we've been wasting all our money on sending a probe to Pluto, when it's really just a piddling chunk of rock compared to this thing. :)
Please tell me buddy lists aren't public data. That's not something I was aware of at all. It seems like that would lend itself to certain spam abuses.
Actually, it seems like the fact that that does not occur is evidence that buddy lists aren't public. So how does this work?
Good. This way a few years from now, SCO, or whoever else has bought the rights to the decrepit old proprietary UNIX I mean Java codebase can sue IBM for allegedly contributing code they didn't have the rights to to Harmony.
I mean, nobody could build a Java virtual machine without copying code, right? That would be an impossible superhuman feat!
I thought that GM was a way for me, the web user, to impose some scripted changes onto pages. I didn't realize it was used by site-designers to do anything HTML (+JavaScript, etc.) didn't allow.
I don't want to give site-designers any more power, so if that's prevented by neutering GM, I'm fine with that.
Most economic models aren't very good at prediction. Some are a bit better, and those are the ones that include things like fame and power as motivating forces. These don't translate easily to/from money, but they can be independently measured, so they can be used in models. Such theories aren't politically acceptable, however, because they're considered "Marxist".
Huh? What? I'm pretty sure all you've described here is utility theory, the general theory that actors in the economy work to maximize their "utility" which may include money or other factors as you've described. I don't see what's so controversial about that. I definitely accept that theory, and as an anarcho-capitalist, I'm about as anti-Marxist as you can get.
Do you actually have evidence that people believe economic models that account for the fact that some or all people do not believe money is everything are "Marxist"??
Don't tell anybody! I'm counting on this new idea to cause a glut in the market of used PC's. I can pick them up real cheap for extra Linux boxen.
I'd say that an attempt to forbid others from choosing how to school their children is far less civilized than the gp poster's language. On slashdot, most people aren't bothered by such language.
don't homeschool
If you mean forbid the practice, that's not your call to make in a free society.
If you mean you advise against it, feel free to say so.
My 100% homeschooled wife was a little distressed when she entered college and discovered she was the only one in her classes who knew how to learn by reading a textbook...
It would be nice if these "successful" operations reflected the reality that the copyright cartels want to make us believe. Allegedly, having these things available for free keeps the profit incentive down so nobody will sell them. So now that all the warez servers are being busted, all of the old products they provide that you can't get anywhere else should become financially attractive to market, right? So can I start actually buying some of these old things from some kind of nostalgia retailer?
Because personally, while I'm an extremist who would like all copyright law repealed, I'm also principled enough that the only reason I break copyright is to get old items that are no longer available on the market. There are pieces of personal history I want to get ahold of, like games I used to play growing up and music I used to hear. I can't get these things at all without breaking copyright. It would be nice to know that using our government in this heavy-handed manner to shut down the copyright violators would actually result in these products coming back to market rather than being thrown in a closet somewhere and locked away from all of us, to be lost in the interim while we wait for the copyright to expire, if it ever does.
Thank you; thank you! As a result of reading a previous post, I desperately needed that second command! :)