"Mormons" (more correctly Latter-day Saints, at times abbreviated "LDS") practiced polygamy in the 1800's. The practice was outlawed by the LDS church in order for Utah to achieve statehood, which it did some years later in 1896. There are no Mormon polygamists anymore because any practicing polygamists are excommunicated. 1- Freedom of religion, but only as long as your religion is adequately similar to the approved religion of the state. 2- Gods' eternal truth, only as long as it is politically correct, otherwise it is abandoned and the people who do not conform to societal norms over godly commandments are excommunicated.
Don't you love a situation where everyone involved proves that they do not actually believe the principles to which they claim to ascribe?
Being a Christian (and pretty well educated about the origin of the LDS) I very much commend them for the work they do, but pity them for the screwed up nature of their beliefs. Make no mistake, LDS/Mormans are not Christians. I pity you for your screwed up belief that people who worship Jesus as a god are not Christians.
They were asked if they approved of government control. The summary says they were asked if they liked control, and if they did, if they preferred it were done by the government.
That is kinda like asking Americans if they think terrorism should be fought, and if so should it be done by the US DoD. It's a loaded question designed to get a specific answer from a select group.
I started using Linux in '95, before most of today's Internet-using general public knew there existed an OS outside of Windows. It took a week to configure X to work with my graphics card Yeah, he's bringing up the state of Linux in 1995... when the discussion is about Linux in 2008. My friend got a news windows machine in 95, we spent an entire weekend trying to get his "plug and play" modem to work. Since he's bringing up unease of use in 95, I felt like sharing.
selfish rich people are wasteful enough to make you wealthy providing them with useless toys is nothing to be proud of.
But a never-was making fun of someone who built a fraking transformer car-plane (for crying out loud!), he's got something to be proud of. He used someone elses' site to put down someone elses' work! What a champion! Let's build him a statue.
Some environmentalist has to tell me why we don't just import its natural predator. And don't give me crap about 'well it could be an invasive species too.' If it's high up the food chain, it will be forced to live in equilibrium with its prey. Has it ever even been tried?
Not really. Do some research on the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Your speech is free only so far as it doesn't offend anyone. Not really. Do some research on the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Your speech is free only so far as it doesn't target people for discrimination based on their gender, ethnicity, religion, etc. and doesn't incite others to discriminate against them.
You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, and you can't publish a movie comparing jews to sewer rats and explaining that as with any vermin, they should be eradicated.
It's Canada. You're free to anything you want, as long as you do it safely and politely.
As an American who has liked to think of Canada as a somewhat enlightened cousin to the North, the news that their government can be every bit as clueless and corrupt as our own is a little bit disconcerting. Fortunately, Canadians aren't as bad as their cousins to the south. Harper has a minority government, not the 3-house majority that the US far-right had for years, so he can only do limited damage.
My plan to escape American ISP's and DMCA madness by going to Canada has been foiled! What the USA has, the right wingers of Canada desire. And since the Conservative party is in power in Canada, what the USA does, Canada does a year later.
I'm just about as offended as humanly possible at your comment above. Are you now?
On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement I'm just about as offended as humanly possible at your comment above. Not everyone that logs into slashdot is a pencil-necked dork, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of looks and charm.
So why don't you just learn to take a fucking joke, mr smart navy man, and refrain from committing the very same offense which you decry? Because if there's one kind of people I wish would be skinned alive and dropped in the middle of the ocean, it's hypocrites like you.
You know, what gets me about this is that some groups deserve to be hated. What about Robert Mugabe or Kim Jong-Il? I have no problem whatsoever with exposing them to ridicule or hatred because, well, they've brought it on themselves. Even the "protected classes" from the story have members that have it coming to them You, oddly enough, clearly don't know the difference between a group and an individual.
Kim is a dictator, hating him is not the same as hating Koreans. Do you see the difference?
Why is that if Adobe has a monopoly on a web item that in the end will be monstrously profitable that it's perfectly ok? If Microsoft wants to move in and give them competition it's a mortal sin. First. There was Quicktime. And we had motion.
Then there was Real, and we were an[BUFFERING]noyed.
Then there was Flash... At first it was wasted on useless intro animations, and was despised. But then it found its niche, and made one good thing easy: Embedding video in a web page, and giving that an interface. And we were pleased.
And since it was good, it became very profitable. And Microsoft saw that profit, and said "I want it for me!", and they made silverlight, and tried to force us to use it by signing deals with media conglomerates so that they would remake websites that were perfectly functional (in flash) so that the users couldn't see the content with flash anymore, they would have to download this new thing called dsilverlight, which did not say what it was, to use the site that USED to work.
Moreover, just suggesting that they would re-write an existing portal (that may not even really need SL technology) simply because a new technology came out makes no sense. Programmer time is expensive, so what business justification do you have spending money to rebuild a portal that is functioning just fine in the first place? That's irony, right there.
To silence others who say things that may make you uncomfortable is not a human right.
To be able to say things that may make people uncomfortable is. And to say things targeted to make a specific kind of people uncomfortable? I don't see how your distinction is useful. Ignoring the problem that actually proving intent is all but impossible, targeting people with your words is widely considered acceptable and desirable in certain contexts. People commonly (and often deservedly) express scorn targeted specifically at oil companies, politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, religious extremists, the KKK, the black panthers, etc. Only when doing so is politically incorrect is it "hate speech." Which is, of course, bullshit.Prohibited grounds of discrimination 3. (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for which a pardon has been granted.
The KKK and the Black Panthers would both be treated as hate mongers. Jobs are not grounds for discrimination, and companies are not people.
Slashdot Mirror
2- Gods' eternal truth, only as long as it is politically correct, otherwise it is abandoned and the people who do not conform to societal norms over godly commandments are excommunicated.
Don't you love a situation where everyone involved proves that they do not actually believe the principles to which they claim to ascribe?
That is kinda like asking Americans if they think terrorism should be fought, and if so should it be done by the US DoD.
It's a loaded question designed to get a specific answer from a select group.
Since he's bringing up unease of use in 95, I felt like sharing.
selfish rich people are wasteful enough to make you wealthy providing them with useless toys is nothing to be proud of.
But a never-was making fun of someone who built a fraking transformer car-plane (for crying out loud!), he's got something to be proud of. He used someone elses' site to put down someone elses' work! What a champion! Let's build him a statue.
Some environmentalist has to tell me why we don't just import its natural predator. And don't give me crap about 'well it could be an invasive species too.' If it's high up the food chain, it will be forced to live in equilibrium with its prey. Has it ever even been tried?
Why don't you ask australia?
Maybe if you read facts instead of parroting the more inflammatory rhetoric you skimmed off the latest thread about canada...
You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, and you can't publish a movie comparing jews to sewer rats and explaining that as with any vermin, they should be eradicated.
It's Canada. You're free to anything you want, as long as you do it safely and politely.
That's why I have people waving their hands right at the edge of my FOV at all times.
And since the Conservative party is in power in Canada, what the USA does, Canada does a year later.
Not everyone that logs into slashdot is a pencil-necked dork, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of looks and charm.
So why don't you just learn to take a fucking joke, mr smart navy man, and refrain from committing the very same offense which you decry? Because if there's one kind of people I wish would be skinned alive and dropped in the middle of the ocean, it's hypocrites like you.
So would a history book be in trouble for casting Nazis in a bad light?
Nazis, no. Germans, yes.
Why would you use Real?
;-)
I wouldn't
"I think that's the biggest name site that uses it right now"
And I think that if the best you can do is argue based on your ignorance, you just STFU.
to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.
That says it all: To give police more powers.
Kim is a dictator, hating him is not the same as hating Koreans. Do you see the difference?
Then there was Real,
and we were an[BUFFERING]noyed.
Then there was Flash... At first it was wasted on useless intro animations, and was despised. But then it found its niche, and made one good thing easy: Embedding video in a web page, and giving that an interface.
And we were pleased.
And since it was good, it became very profitable. And Microsoft saw that profit, and said "I want it for me!", and they made silverlight, and tried to force us to use it by signing deals with media conglomerates so that they would remake websites that were perfectly functional (in flash) so that the users couldn't see the content with flash anymore, they would have to download this new thing called dsilverlight, which did not say what it was, to use the site that USED to work.
And we were annoyed.
To be able to say things that may make people uncomfortable is. And to say things targeted to make a specific kind of people uncomfortable? I don't see how your distinction is useful. Ignoring the problem that actually proving intent is all but impossible, targeting people with your words is widely considered acceptable and desirable in certain contexts. People commonly (and often deservedly) express scorn targeted specifically at oil companies, politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, religious extremists, the KKK, the black panthers, etc. Only when doing so is politically incorrect is it "hate speech." Which is, of course, bullshit. Prohibited grounds of discrimination
3. (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for which a pardon has been granted.
The KKK and the Black Panthers would both be treated as hate mongers. Jobs are not grounds for discrimination, and companies are not people.