They have the right to because "the 7-11" is neither a bus stop or public property.
So as long as this device passes a health safety muster it is OK to use it to broadcast that annoying sound 24 hours a day 365 days a year. In addition property owners or agents acting on behalf of the property owner are free to turn it up (with in the limits of health safety) and direct it at whom ever they want.
If you don't want to be treated like a hooligan don't appear as one and don't treat private property as either yours or as public property. You have no real need or right to treat a business's private property as a bus stop. It's really that simple...
I've got an old G4 Cube & a Dual 2.5 G5 PowerMac. Moving the applications that I run more or less constantly to the Cube has pretty much removed the word "wait" from my computing experience. The only thing I find myself waiting on is when I am assemble extremely large panoramic photos and this is never more than many seconds and certainly not more than a couple of minutes. GCC, for the small applications I write, is so fast it's vitually instantaneous. Also interesting is several of the things you'll miss fall in my "refuse to be parted from" category, most notably application integration, and a few apps Photoshop CS2 and soon Aperture (judging from the workshop I just attended). I do have one you didn't mention my Wacom Tablet which apparently doesn't have good drivers for Linux. So long as Microsoft continues to have the issues with privacy, stability, & security and Linux continues to require advanced manual configuration I will never go back to them.
Since switching I have found that I upgrade my computers about 1/3 as frequently... which leads to an interesting thought... it's one thing to exchange a CPU module like I did in the G4 Cube, it is quite another to do so on a computer with a liquid cooling circuit and a radiator. Also now that Apple has switched to Intel I'm tempted to build one of those X86 for OS X white boxes I've read about and pirate the OS just to spite them but we'll see towards the end of 2007 when I'm due for an update...
Whatever happened to the Hubble Origins Probe? That sounded like a great idea... Use the basic Hubble design, don't make the same mistake with the optics, use the spares that were supposed to go up on the canceled shuttle mission, use updated electronic science packages... The only thing that left is to do some about the gyroscopic stabilizer system.
What's not to like about that?
Re:Where the hell were the anti-malware vendors?
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I hear you and I'm glad my Mum & my sisters don't know their admin passwords... still it's important that rootkit detectors and such things be developed for the mac.
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You should care, this affects us too! The Sony CDs have Mac Malware as well!
Perhaps it's time to install Clam (which I just did) and then call Jay Beale and ask him him how Bastille for OS X is coming along.
I have no idea, is there a malware app like addaware for OS X?
Buddhism has an extremely large mythos! As with most religions they are adaptations of the existing local myths with a Buddhist twist. I find that ones from the Himalaya resonate with me while my girlfriend identifies with the ones from her home in Cambodia. I also love the Hindu (hence my user name) and Sufi Mythos. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) is perhaps the ultimate iconoclast, and he is credited with phrase that my older brother uses with all of his new students... "You should not believe anything I say, unless you have experienced it for yourself and know it to be true" or I as tell our kids "question authority, go ahead ask me anything!"
The mythology I teach my daughter (and nieces and nephews) is not the western set but rather the eastern set. I am reminded of a story, that many children enjoy in which a monk in saved by four turtles. This story is a parable which teaches some of the core precepts of the eightfold noble path. On a trip to Cambodia & Thailand a monk took my daughter and showed her that very story carved in the stone temple wall thousands of years ago. The look on her face, as she realized that this wasn't wasn't a construct of her crazy father, was wonderful and this turned out to be an event that she still talks about today. This is exactly what I mean... My family tells our children stories, they see how, in everyday life, they have a voice, are applicable, and are meaningful and most importantly are not in conflict with modern society. Sure I could tell true stories, but reality gets in the way of the message! I don't sit the kids down at temple and lecture them on the finer details of this or that. I don't say "hey look, that "thing" they teach in school that goes around is all wrong" and I certainly don't say this is how you must behave, this is the path you must follow. My 2 1/2 year old niece can finish some of my pronouncements "If you do go things, good things happen... but if you do bad things..."
Here is an interesting exercise: google my user name, or better yet look it up on Wikipedia. Behold I am Bhimasena, the second son of the Pandava clan! I am the strongest among gods, demons, and men!
With the Gospel of Thomas you have hit upon my worst weakness: to own books. I have tens of thousands, they are in every room of the house, sit in safes, lurk under the bed, and languish in glass cases in the living room. I covet, I collect, and I hoard books. And the one thing I really spend money on is the transformation of the theist mythos through time. I have dozens of holy texts which predate the currently accepted illuminated works, I have the ancient apocrypha, I have Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, German, English, French, Sanskrit, Tibetan-Sanskrit, and Arabic books. I find that it really adds to the "Mad Professor" persona, fascinates my colleagues, and baffles the kid's friends (your Dad/Uncle has books he can't really read!?!).
Anyway have fun with philosophy and with the teacher gig, my brother teaches physics and thinks I'm crazy for doing chemistry "For the Man".
Very strange... I replied to you at work, came home to check for a reply and couldn't find my post. So forgive me if this is somewhat a duplicate post...
I am Buddhist.
I teach my daughter Buddhist mythology because I feel that mythology is an extremely important, but neglected part of society. In fact I think it's fair to say that the lack of a meaningful mythos is a large part of what's wrong with many societies today. However this is something that I teach at home, or occasionally at temple. I don't expect the local middle school to teach mythology, of any sort, along side of science coursework. What I do expect is that her school teach her something about other cultures & beliefs and that while some beliefs may seem silly, and potentially deluded, they are NOT a reason to persecute another human being.
It's very, very easy to get caught up in a strongly anti-theist thinking because, particularly in US, those mythos has little or no resonance with most people and the behavior of many of the Abrahamic Fundamentalists can be profoundly negative. I, Myself am fortunate to have stumbled upon the wittings of Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi as a youth and the struggle to come to terms with and understand the powerful and beautiful writings of a devout Muslim did much neutralized my "All Abrahamics Must DIE" sentiment.
It is a pity that Abrahamic fundamentalists seem unable, or unwilling, to experience their mythos in a meaningful way in the context of modern society. While religion can be a intellectually strenuous exercise, it need not be. Mythology is that which imparts ethics and behavior patterns on the participants in which it has resonance with, without the need for a Ph.D. in logic or ethics. If you think about it though, those particular myths that come into conflict with modern society are those which make claims to the mechanisms of existence... How old is the earth, How long did it take to form, how did the various life forms wind up on earth, how did mankind come into existence? I liken this to having myth about the mechanism of reincarnation, which to my knowledge their are none. It doesn't matter & I don't claim to know the "mind of the gods". When my daughter asks why does reincarnation work the way it does I say "I have no idea, you'd have to ask a Bodhisattva and I doubt you'd understand what he told you, I wouldn't... It's like when you go watch your cousin's football (soccer) game, you have no idea of the true rule set but after a while you can derive a basic understanding of action and consequence".
I can also understand the frustration fundamentalists much have when there children are being taught concepts contrary to their own beliefs. I am not saying that their beliefs are valid, rational, or true because they aren't. What I am saying is that parenting can become an uniquely and esquisitely satisfying experience... For example, recently my brother & I had the kids out looking through his telescope and we were explaining of the formation of stars and atoms heavier than hydrogen, when my daughter says "Wow! it's like they all get reincarnated, over and over and over!" to which I reply "No one can stop us now, 'cause we are made of stars" and suddenly the circle of my daughter's life became vividly obvious. Her school work isn't just some drudgery that only takes place in a class room, Religion isn't just some abstract thing with old guys with shaved heads, and Dad becomes cool for a fraction of a moment because he can hum a tune she's heard on the radio (From an artist that's NOT dead, no less!).
And to think... all of this came about from the telling of tales and bedtime stories.
Well, I have a dual 2.5 G5 and as easy as it is to dual boot with OS X I'd devote a firewire disk to it for a while.
I keep having this fantasy that a PCI-E development board will come out and I'll be able to do something interesting with it (what I have no idea but I'm open to suggestions). I'd really like OS X development environment for it to tinker with.
Don't look for the US in the top ten or even the top 25, it's 44th (within the US) and 139th (within Iraq). If you have look at the rankings for the last 10 years you'll see that the US has been abandoning freedom of speech for a while now.
The "conflict" is with the religious zealots who push their creation myth on the rest of us:
-The proponents of ID resort to unethical means to further their agenda, if the theory could stand on its own they would not be required to do so. However being that the theory was constructed specifically to combat the teaching of evolution it is having trouble doing so.
-None of the Abrahamic religions have ever come up with anything that is verifiably true, where as science routinely does and even after idea is verifiable it tends to be in such regular use it's hard to deny. i.e without a firm understanding of Newtonian physics it's hard to launch a rocket from Earth and actually hit a comet (and these days there are not a lot of sane people refuting Newtonian physics). This is a fundamental difference between Science & Religion. Until one of the Abrahamic religions not only comes up with something that is verifiably true but also owns up to the previous mistakes of their teachings I will continue not believe a word any of them say.
-ID *DOES NOT* "allow" for the existence of a creator it *requires* a creator. Conversely evolution does not deny the existence of a creator it simply refutes the mythological mechanisms of various creation myths.
-Just because one man, or even a group of men, can not imagine the solution to scientific problems such as was there really a big bang, what was before the big bang, will there be a "big crunch" or will the universe just keep expanding, does not require or even suggest the existence of an omniscient architect.
Why should I believe the Abrahamic version of the creation over, say the ancient Greek or Egyptian version? Why should I pay to have schools teach this particular myth, when I need not pay to have the specially Judaic mythos taught, as those parents who find that important send their kids to a separate after hours classes. If parents feel that teaching their children the myths of their religion is important, *as I do*, they should either teach their children themselves *as I do*, take them to a local church or temple, or pay a specialist tutor for after hours study.
My child should not have the mythos of another religion taught to her at school as fact, it's really that simple.
The Story Line of the Future I'm looking for has the deluded masses coming to their senses and marshaling most of the elite members of the corporate, copyright, and patent status quo (and most of the legislative lobbyists) in line for the guillotine and the trip wire is in my hand.
I'm not sure how I feel about reading this sort of thing... On one hand it's truly scary to find people this deluded... On the other it's a handy opportunity to use the Slashdot relationship function to lessen the chance I'll be subjected to it in the future.
1- I am a naturalized US citizen and I no longer live in the US.
2- I am not a Christian (or any other Abrahamic), nor do I hold an Abrahamic world view.
Having said that, I think if you wish to understand why there is a predominately anti-christian sentiment with those who are interested in, or study, evolution you must understand a few things about American christians and the tactics the far religious right employ to further their own minority agenda. This whole ID thing is one more issue in a long, long list why it's rational to be anti-christian.
Oh and I think it would be fair to say that generally there is a decline in the interest of sciences in those not specifically employed in scientific endeavors... which is not to say there are significantly less American scientists. But maybe that's because I had to move out of the country to continue to work in my field.
I'm a second generation US immigrant and I'm a naturalized American Citizen. While you have many interesting and points, I suspect you are wasting your breath voicing them here. The Slashdot group think of imitation cynicism combined with the petty indignant patriots is an ugly thing. Save your money and move out, it doesn't really matter where, there are a LOT of places to live in the world that are free, beautiful, safe, etc... All the things the US used to be. I did and it's the best decision I've ever made.
The Americans have demonstrated how little separates them from barbarians with their initial reactions to Hurricane Rita. They have demonstrated how debased and morally degenerated they have become at Abu Ghurayb prison, or even more frighteningly with their treatment of the Iranian-American film maker Cyrus Kar. They have demonstrated just how disingenuous their moral superiority is at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. And now, more recently, they are demonstrating how much power their own religious fanatics actually have.
Recently I returned to the US for a business trip. I was stunned at the state of things there now and I was genuinely astounded at the prevalence of deluded and malignant thinking. Sure there are zealots in every country but in American the inmates are running the asylum!
Get out! Get out quick. Take your Mom. Take your Kids. Enjoy life somewhere else.
I use PWC and I have never seen a more needlessly complicated Excel sheet in my more than 14 years of using Excel the fact was the the information they wanted would barely fill a check from a cheap diner.
Whatever, I'll believe it when ask for something in OpenOffice format.
My point precisely! I would go a step further and say lacking a single body of thought that all members of a particular group of Abrahamics interpret the same way and agree to its contents this is the only fair or reasonable method to determine what is and what is not, part of that particular belief system.
He picked a poor time to have his petty rant with Aperture just now hitting the news sites. Worse still there are (and have been for a long while) dozens & dozens of people posting stunning pictures on Flickr using nothing but an 80 Euro camera and Picasa or this 5 Euro toy plastic "Medium Format Film Camera" made in China and the Gimp.
Man if you're gonna whine at least do a little research to make sure what you whining about is remotely valid.
An Aside question... How do you get the Euro symbol to appear?
Re:Source of creation, or evolution?
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What is a religion, if not the sum of the beliefs and practices of its adherents?
To be sure, some practitioners are more annoying than others. However that they are doesn't remove the inherit fallacies which exist in those religions.
That's always been something that has annoyed and baffled me about the Abrahamic religions. Rather than sticking to things like how people should behave they feel compelled to make these bizarre assertions on unrelated topics like how the Earth was formed, where the Earth is located or how we came to be. It's almost as if they wish to derive some sort of authority with them, when in fact they destroy what little credibility they had.
Honestly, who would believe someone on the Ten Commandments thing, knowing they had creation and heliocentric things all wrong?
You know, I can think of a lot of phrases that go with "
US power grid" and none of them sound like "well developed".
"Run on Win ME" springs to mind, or maybe "Expensive Claptrap" perhaps.
Oh.. and by the way moving energy around is the single most energy extensive thing done in the US, accounting for over 1/2 of the energy generated. You'd be better off finding a way to generate the energy where you use it.
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So as long as this device passes a health safety muster it is OK to use it to broadcast that annoying sound 24 hours a day 365 days a year. In addition property owners or agents acting on behalf of the property owner are free to turn it up (with in the limits of health safety) and direct it at whom ever they want.
If you don't want to be treated like a hooligan don't appear as one and don't treat private property as either yours or as public property. You have no real need or right to treat a business's private property as a bus stop. It's really that simple...
Yes I do, in fact I'm pretty sure if Morcheeba was interested he could do it himself.
I've got an old G4 Cube & a Dual 2.5 G5 PowerMac. Moving the applications that I run more or less constantly to the Cube has pretty much removed the word "wait" from my computing experience. The only thing I find myself waiting on is when I am assemble extremely large panoramic photos and this is never more than many seconds and certainly not more than a couple of minutes. GCC, for the small applications I write, is so fast it's vitually instantaneous. Also interesting is several of the things you'll miss fall in my "refuse to be parted from" category, most notably application integration, and a few apps Photoshop CS2 and soon Aperture (judging from the workshop I just attended). I do have one you didn't mention my Wacom Tablet which apparently doesn't have good drivers for Linux. So long as Microsoft continues to have the issues with privacy, stability, & security and Linux continues to require advanced manual configuration I will never go back to them.
Since switching I have found that I upgrade my computers about 1/3 as frequently... which leads to an interesting thought... it's one thing to exchange a CPU module like I did in the G4 Cube, it is quite another to do so on a computer with a liquid cooling circuit and a radiator. Also now that Apple has switched to Intel I'm tempted to build one of those X86 for OS X white boxes I've read about and pirate the OS just to spite them but we'll see towards the end of 2007 when I'm due for an update...
What's not to like about that?
I hear you and I'm glad my Mum & my sisters don't know their admin passwords... still it's important that rootkit detectors and such things be developed for the mac.
You should care, this affects us too! The Sony CDs have Mac Malware as well!
Perhaps it's time to install Clam (which I just did) and then call Jay Beale and ask him him how Bastille for OS X is coming along.
I have no idea, is there a malware app like addaware for OS X?
Buddhism has an extremely large mythos! As with most religions they are adaptations of the existing local myths with a Buddhist twist. I find that ones from the Himalaya resonate with me while my girlfriend identifies with the ones from her home in Cambodia. I also love the Hindu (hence my user name) and Sufi Mythos.
The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) is perhaps the ultimate iconoclast, and he is credited with phrase that my older brother uses with all of his new students... "You should not believe anything I say, unless you have experienced it for yourself and know it to be true" or I as tell our kids "question authority, go ahead ask me anything!"
The mythology I teach my daughter (and nieces and nephews) is not the western set but rather the eastern set. I am reminded of a story, that many children enjoy in which a monk in saved by four turtles. This story is a parable which teaches some of the core precepts of the eightfold noble path. On a trip to Cambodia & Thailand a monk took my daughter and showed her that very story carved in the stone temple wall thousands of years ago. The look on her face, as she realized that this wasn't wasn't a construct of her crazy father, was wonderful and this turned out to be an event that she still talks about today. This is exactly what I mean... My family tells our children stories, they see how, in everyday life, they have a voice, are applicable, and are meaningful and most importantly are not in conflict with modern society. Sure I could tell true stories, but reality gets in the way of the message! I don't sit the kids down at temple and lecture them on the finer details of this or that. I don't say "hey look, that "thing" they teach in school that goes around is all wrong" and I certainly don't say this is how you must behave, this is the path you must follow. My 2 1/2 year old niece can finish some of my pronouncements "If you do go things, good things happen... but if you do bad things..."
Here is an interesting exercise: google my user name, or better yet look it up on Wikipedia. Behold I am Bhimasena, the second son of the Pandava clan! I am the strongest among gods, demons, and men!
With the Gospel of Thomas you have hit upon my worst weakness: to own books. I have tens of thousands, they are in every room of the house, sit in safes, lurk under the bed, and languish in glass cases in the living room. I covet, I collect, and I hoard books. And the one thing I really spend money on is the transformation of the theist mythos through time. I have dozens of holy texts which predate the currently accepted illuminated works, I have the ancient apocrypha, I have Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, German, English, French, Sanskrit, Tibetan-Sanskrit, and Arabic books. I find that it really adds to the "Mad Professor" persona, fascinates my colleagues, and baffles the kid's friends (your Dad/Uncle has books he can't really read!?!).
Anyway have fun with philosophy and with the teacher gig, my brother teaches physics and thinks I'm crazy for doing chemistry "For the Man".
Very strange... I replied to you at work, came home to check for a reply and couldn't find my post. So forgive me if this is somewhat a duplicate post...
I am Buddhist.
I teach my daughter Buddhist mythology because I feel that mythology is an extremely important, but neglected part of society. In fact I think it's fair to say that the lack of a meaningful mythos is a large part of what's wrong with many societies today. However this is something that I teach at home, or occasionally at temple. I don't expect the local middle school to teach mythology, of any sort, along side of science coursework. What I do expect is that her school teach her something about other cultures & beliefs and that while some beliefs may seem silly, and potentially deluded, they are NOT a reason to persecute another human being.
It's very, very easy to get caught up in a strongly anti-theist thinking because, particularly in US, those mythos has little or no resonance with most people and the behavior of many of the Abrahamic Fundamentalists can be profoundly negative. I, Myself am fortunate to have stumbled upon the wittings of Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi as a youth and the struggle to come to terms with and understand the powerful and beautiful writings of a devout Muslim did much neutralized my "All Abrahamics Must DIE" sentiment.
It is a pity that Abrahamic fundamentalists seem unable, or unwilling, to experience their mythos in a meaningful way in the context of modern society. While religion can be a intellectually strenuous exercise, it need not be. Mythology is that which imparts ethics and behavior patterns on the participants in which it has resonance with, without the need for a Ph.D. in logic or ethics. If you think about it though, those particular myths that come into conflict with modern society are those which make claims to the mechanisms of existence... How old is the earth, How long did it take to form, how did the various life forms wind up on earth, how did mankind come into existence? I liken this to having myth about the mechanism of reincarnation, which to my knowledge their are none. It doesn't matter & I don't claim to know the "mind of the gods". When my daughter asks why does reincarnation work the way it does I say "I have no idea, you'd have to ask a Bodhisattva and I doubt you'd understand what he told you, I wouldn't... It's like when you go watch your cousin's football (soccer) game, you have no idea of the true rule set but after a while you can derive a basic understanding of action and consequence".
I can also understand the frustration fundamentalists much have when there children are being taught concepts contrary to their own beliefs. I am not saying that their beliefs are valid, rational, or true because they aren't. What I am saying is that parenting can become an uniquely and esquisitely satisfying experience... For example, recently my brother & I had the kids out looking through his telescope and we were explaining of the formation of stars and atoms heavier than hydrogen, when my daughter says "Wow! it's like they all get reincarnated, over and over and over!" to which I reply "No one can stop us now, 'cause we are made of stars" and suddenly the circle of my daughter's life became vividly obvious. Her school work isn't just some drudgery that only takes place in a class room, Religion isn't just some abstract thing with old guys with shaved heads, and Dad becomes cool for a fraction of a moment because he can hum a tune she's heard on the radio (From an artist that's NOT dead, no less!).
And to think... all of this came about from the telling of tales and bedtime stories.
Sure, but we still have the torches!!
Worthy in fact of becoming one of the few theists I have made "Friend"!
I really look forward to future discussions!
Well... that's his name.
I keep having this fantasy that a PCI-E development board will come out and I'll be able to do something interesting with it (what I have no idea but I'm open to suggestions). I'd really like OS X development environment for it to tinker with.
Don't look for the US in the top ten or even the top 25, it's 44th (within the US) and 139th (within Iraq). If you have look at the rankings for the last 10 years you'll see that the US has been abandoning freedom of speech for a while now.
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The "conflict" is with the religious zealots who push their creation myth on the rest of us:
-The proponents of ID resort to unethical means to further their agenda, if the theory could stand on its own they would not be required to do so. However being that the theory was constructed specifically to combat the teaching of evolution it is having trouble doing so.
-None of the Abrahamic religions have ever come up with anything that is verifiably true, where as science routinely does and even after idea is verifiable it tends to be in such regular use it's hard to deny. i.e without a firm understanding of Newtonian physics it's hard to launch a rocket from Earth and actually hit a comet (and these days there are not a lot of sane people refuting Newtonian physics). This is a fundamental difference between Science & Religion. Until one of the Abrahamic religions not only comes up with something that is verifiably true but also owns up to the previous mistakes of their teachings I will continue not believe a word any of them say.
-ID *DOES NOT* "allow" for the existence of a creator it *requires* a creator. Conversely evolution does not deny the existence of a creator it simply refutes the mythological mechanisms of various creation myths.
-Just because one man, or even a group of men, can not imagine the solution to scientific problems such as was there really a big bang, what was before the big bang, will there be a "big crunch" or will the universe just keep expanding, does not require or even suggest the existence of an omniscient architect.
Why should I believe the Abrahamic version of the creation over, say the ancient Greek or Egyptian version? Why should I pay to have schools teach this particular myth, when I need not pay to have the specially Judaic mythos taught, as those parents who find that important send their kids to a separate after hours classes. If parents feel that teaching their children the myths of their religion is important, *as I do*, they should either teach their children themselves *as I do*, take them to a local church or temple, or pay a specialist tutor for after hours study.
My child should not have the mythos of another religion taught to her at school as fact, it's really that simple.
The Story Line of the Future I'm looking for has the deluded masses coming to their senses and marshaling most of the elite members of the corporate, copyright, and patent status quo (and most of the legislative lobbyists) in line for the guillotine and the trip wire is in my hand.
I'm not sure how I feel about reading this sort of thing... On one hand it's truly scary to find people this deluded... On the other it's a handy opportunity to use the Slashdot relationship function to lessen the chance I'll be subjected to it in the future.
1- I am a naturalized US citizen and I no longer live in the US.
2- I am not a Christian (or any other Abrahamic), nor do I hold an Abrahamic world view.
Having said that, I think if you wish to understand why there is a predominately anti-christian sentiment with those who are interested in, or study, evolution you must understand a few things about American christians and the tactics the far religious right employ to further their own minority agenda. This whole ID thing is one more issue in a long, long list why it's rational to be anti-christian.
Oh and I think it would be fair to say that generally there is a decline in the interest of sciences in those not specifically employed in scientific endeavors... which is not to say there are significantly less American scientists. But maybe that's because I had to move out of the country to continue to work in my field.
The Americans have demonstrated how little separates them from barbarians with their initial reactions to Hurricane Rita. They have demonstrated how debased and morally degenerated they have become at Abu Ghurayb prison, or even more frighteningly with their treatment of the Iranian-American film maker Cyrus Kar. They have demonstrated just how disingenuous their moral superiority is at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. And now, more recently, they are demonstrating how much power their own religious fanatics actually have.
Recently I returned to the US for a business trip. I was stunned at the state of things there now and I was genuinely astounded at the prevalence of deluded and malignant thinking. Sure there are zealots in every country but in American the inmates are running the asylum!
Get out! Get out quick. Take your Mom. Take your Kids. Enjoy life somewhere else.
Whatever, I'll believe it when ask for something in OpenOffice format.
My point precisely! I would go a step further and say lacking a single body of thought that all members of a particular group of Abrahamics interpret the same way and agree to its contents this is the only fair or reasonable method to determine what is and what is not, part of that particular belief system.
He picked a poor time to have his petty rant with Aperture just now hitting the news sites. Worse still there are (and have been for a long while) dozens & dozens of people posting stunning pictures on Flickr using nothing but an 80 Euro camera and Picasa or this 5 Euro toy plastic "Medium Format Film Camera" made in China and the Gimp.
Man if you're gonna whine at least do a little research to make sure what you whining about is remotely valid.
An Aside question... How do you get the Euro symbol to appear?
To be sure, some practitioners are more annoying than others. However that they are doesn't remove the inherit fallacies which exist in those religions.
Honestly, who would believe someone on the Ten Commandments thing, knowing they had creation and heliocentric things all wrong?
"Run on Win ME" springs to mind, or maybe "Expensive Claptrap" perhaps.
Oh.. and by the way moving energy around is the single most energy extensive thing done in the US, accounting for over 1/2 of the energy generated. You'd be better off finding a way to generate the energy where you use it.