Nixon was a Quaker, on the other hand, he got out of Vietnam (in his 4th year of office) and established the EPA and NOAA. He also opened diplomatic relations with China.
Traditionally, the phrase is "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." That is what I was driving at. Essentially, I was a being a pedantic bastard. And shaving your head bald is a hairstyle, but that's semantics.
I never meant to imply that atheism was a religion. In fact, I explicitly stated otherwise in some other post in this thread. I think in general we pretty much agree, and that there was just a small misunderstanding between us.
Personally, I define atheism as the lack of a belief in a god or gods, which makes agnosticism a subset of atheism, equivalent to "weak" atheism, differeing only in whether they emphasize belief or knowledge when describing themselves.
(full disclosure, I am an weak atheistic secular humanist who likes Epicurus and John Stuart Mill)
We may not have the right to demand that others change their point of view, but we certainly do have the right to attempt to persuade them, otherwise we might as well just shut up and go to the beach. Which sounds like a very good idea except for the May grey.
A viewpoint about religion does not a religion make.
Atheism is no more a religion than asantaclausism. The only defining characteristic of atheism is the lack of a belief in some sort of god. That's it, nothing else. And yes, agnostics are a subset of atheists.
Religions, on the other hand, are a collection of beliefs regarding supernatural entities, (or what are percieved as supernatural entities) and worship of those entities, with a collection of rituals attached to it. All this is done in the hopes of acquiring some sort of favor from the entity, eg. forgiveness, salvation, success, etc.
See, atheism, while it has one belief concerning supernatural entities, lacks the worship, magic rituals, and prayer that religions have. There is no moral code attached to atheism, whis is not to say that atheists have no morals.
I've seen a lot of people (maybe just a few, but they were highly rated) complaining about how the booth babes shouldn't be at a video game conference. Let me tell you something. My last company, which manufactures controls and calibrators for automated diagnostic machines (Biotech) had booth babes at the American Association of Clinical Chemists. They sold stuff to hospitals and research labs. There are plenty of women in biotech. Biotech is not a male dominated field. My first company out of college had more female chemists than male. The manager of my department told me that he interviews every male that applied for a position, just so he can try and keep a better balance. I would expect that booth babes will always be at E3.
My last company, which manufactures controls and calibrators for automated diagnostic machines (Biotech) had booth babes at the American Association of Clinical Chemists. They sold stuff to hospitals and research labs. There are plenty of women in biotech. Biotech is not a male dominated field. My first company out of college had more female chemists than male. The manager of my department told me that he interviews every male that applies for a position, just so he can try and keep a better balance. I would expect that booth babes will always be at E3.
...is not so bad. I have the Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard, and spilled a beer all over it once, a nice dark German beer. I figured it was shot, so I took it apart and washed everything with water in the kitchen sink and set it to dry on the rack. It works fine. There was a thin rubber or silicone sheet covering most of the electric bits, so I would have no qualms washing the keyboard at some future point.
She has a constitutional right to publish anything she wants irregardless of what her employer wants, excepting libel and slander. What she does not have a right to do is use her employer's equipment to do so.
If all parties enter into the arragnement willingly, what is wrong with it? I could understand having a problem if someone was coerced or otherwise forced into the arrangement, but as long as all parties are of an age where they can give consent and do so of their own free will, I see no logical reason to object.
There was an article in this in the most recent issue of the Sierra Club's magazine. It went on to state that a lot of the biodiversity around streams and such was disappearing because the elks were eating all the young trees. Reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone has caused a complete stop to the eating of these trees. The article points out that human hunters can have similar effects.
If you want a nice simple word processor, with a clean simple interface, try notepad.exe. Or, if you're looking for a few more features, try write.exe. Both of these programs come free with windows and have simple, clean interfaces.
I've been using Open Office since I got my last computer. My biggest complaint is that graphics are not embedded into documents by default. I only encountered this problem the other day so I haven't yet figured out how to change it. I was writing a bioinformatics paper and included some graphics. Since my printer is a piece of shit Lexmark (Never buy a Lexmark) and recently developed the inability to feed paper properly, I emailed the document to myself and went to print at the library. When I got to the library the images were not there, only place holders. I've never encountered this using word. This is my biggest complaint about open office. Maybe it's hidden somewhere in the options, but I never saw an option to embed images in the document.
My second biggest complaint is that it keeps pestering me when I try and save in MSOffice format.
One of the reasons frequently cited in this thread is that merchants have poor shopping cart systems. That is, you can't know the total including shipping untill you're 90% of the way through checkout. One example of a really nice shopping cart is at MoreBeer.com. Yah, they're not a computer site, but they do deal in Homebrew systems. They have a frame on the side which shows what's in your cart at all times and an estimate on the shipping weight. If you are a registerd user, your shopping cart will persist between sessions. Also, if you click on an item that is backordered, a javascript popup will appear informing you that the item is backordered and your order will be delayed until it comes into stock. Try that with the Amarillo hops. I just thought I would point this out as an example of a good shopping cart system.
It used to be said that the sun never sets on the British Empire, as in they had territory all over the world, and therefore it was always daytime somewhere in the British empire. The US has bases all over the world, in Japan, Germany, Cuba, the Middle East, and many other countries as the DoD PDF indicates, therefore, it is always daytime in some US base, and thus the sun never sets in the American Empire.
As an American, I can say that many of us do, and we don't like it. Chalmers Johnson recently wrote a book called the Sorrows of Empire making the case that we are indeed an empire in all but name. This realization has been slowly growing. People who make the claim that we are an empire are less often dismissed as cynics. Even the Economist is claiming that we are an empire.
We have military personell in over 135 nations. Most have less than 20 and are probably guarding embassies, but more than you would think have over 1000, including Belgium. The UK has over 13,000. It can be said that the sun never sets on the American Empire.
Many Americans are horified by this. Some are proud of it. Some are both horrified and proud.
Try reading the article. It's from a German news site and frames the whole article in a nationalistic stance. Here are some choice quotes for you.
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense. It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
Google's plans have rattled the cultural establishment in Paris, raising fears that French language and ideas could be just sidelined on the worldwide web, already dominated by English.
In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature.
European Libraries Fight Google-ization
That last one was the title. So before you dis the submitter, read the fucking article.
It's a French idea to counter American Cultural Imperialism(TM)
I'm have to say that the origins of this are in a nationalistic ferver. Europe is afraid of being overshadowed by America. This project was organized by the French to fend off American Cultural Imperialism(TM). This is also healthy competition. It doesn't have to be either/or.
"The leaders of the undersigned national libraries wish to support the initiative of Europe's leaders aimed at a large and organized digitization of the works belonging to our continent's heritage," a statement said. "Such a move needs a tight coordination of national ambitions at EU level to decide on the selection of works," it added.
later
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense. It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
This is good even if it did arise from nationalistic pride. (Yah I know, Europe's a continent, not a country.)
It is better to not have one exclusive source of important information like this. This way we (humanity) are not storing all of our eggs in one basket. Plus Europe gets to put in more books without worrying about copyright. (Damn you Bono.) What would be best is if Google just gave the Europeans a copy of its library archives and the Europeans did likewise.
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Nixon was a Quaker, on the other hand, he got out of Vietnam (in his 4th year of office) and established the EPA and NOAA. He also opened diplomatic relations with China.
I don't think I'd call a game that gets boring real quick great.
Arguing on Slashdot is such a waste of time. :-)
Isn't that why we come here?
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Don Hirschberg:
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_agnosticismatheis
Traditionally, the phrase is "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." That is what I was driving at. Essentially, I was a being a pedantic bastard. And shaving your head bald is a hairstyle, but that's semantics.
I never meant to imply that atheism was a religion. In fact, I explicitly stated otherwise in some other post in this thread. I think in general we pretty much agree, and that there was just a small misunderstanding between us.
Personally, I define atheism as the lack of a belief in a god or gods, which makes agnosticism a subset of atheism, equivalent to "weak" atheism, differeing only in whether they emphasize belief or knowledge when describing themselves.
(full disclosure, I am an weak atheistic secular humanist who likes Epicurus and John Stuart Mill)
We may not have the right to demand that others change their point of view, but we certainly do have the right to attempt to persuade them, otherwise we might as well just shut up and go to the beach. Which sounds like a very good idea except for the May grey.
A viewpoint about religion does not a religion make.
Atheism is no more a religion than asantaclausism. The only defining characteristic of atheism is the lack of a belief in some sort of god. That's it, nothing else. And yes, agnostics are a subset of atheists.
Religions, on the other hand, are a collection of beliefs regarding supernatural entities, (or what are percieved as supernatural entities) and worship of those entities, with a collection of rituals attached to it. All this is done in the hopes of acquiring some sort of favor from the entity, eg. forgiveness, salvation, success, etc.
See, atheism, while it has one belief concerning supernatural entities, lacks the worship, magic rituals, and prayer that religions have. There is no moral code attached to atheism, whis is not to say that atheists have no morals.
Bald can be a hairstyle. I believe the word you're looking for is "color."
I've seen a lot of people (maybe just a few, but they were highly rated) complaining about how the booth babes shouldn't be at a video game conference. Let me tell you something. My last company, which manufactures controls and calibrators for automated diagnostic machines (Biotech) had booth babes at the American Association of Clinical Chemists. They sold stuff to hospitals and research labs. There are plenty of women in biotech. Biotech is not a male dominated field. My first company out of college had more female chemists than male. The manager of my department told me that he interviews every male that applied for a position, just so he can try and keep a better balance. I would expect that booth babes will always be at E3.
My last company, which manufactures controls and calibrators for automated diagnostic machines (Biotech) had booth babes at the American Association of Clinical Chemists. They sold stuff to hospitals and research labs. There are plenty of women in biotech. Biotech is not a male dominated field. My first company out of college had more female chemists than male. The manager of my department told me that he interviews every male that applies for a position, just so he can try and keep a better balance. I would expect that booth babes will always be at E3.
...is not so bad. I have the Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard, and spilled a beer all over it once, a nice dark German beer. I figured it was shot, so I took it apart and washed everything with water in the kitchen sink and set it to dry on the rack. It works fine. There was a thin rubber or silicone sheet covering most of the electric bits, so I would have no qualms washing the keyboard at some future point.
I don't want any taste or smell organs on my hands thank you very much. I still have to wipe my ass when I take a shit.
She has a constitutional right to publish anything she wants irregardless of what her employer wants, excepting libel and slander. What she does not have a right to do is use her employer's equipment to do so.
Seriously,
If all parties enter into the arragnement willingly, what is wrong with it? I could understand having a problem if someone was coerced or otherwise forced into the arrangement, but as long as all parties are of an age where they can give consent and do so of their own free will, I see no logical reason to object.
There're assholes on every side. Get used to it.
And what, exactly, is unnatural about roaming packs of humans killing deer?
There was an article in this in the most recent issue of the Sierra Club's magazine. It went on to state that a lot of the biodiversity around streams and such was disappearing because the elks were eating all the young trees. Reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone has caused a complete stop to the eating of these trees. The article points out that human hunters can have similar effects.
If you want a nice simple word processor, with a clean simple interface, try notepad.exe. Or, if you're looking for a few more features, try write.exe. Both of these programs come free with windows and have simple, clean interfaces.
I've been using Open Office since I got my last computer. My biggest complaint is that graphics are not embedded into documents by default. I only encountered this problem the other day so I haven't yet figured out how to change it. I was writing a bioinformatics paper and included some graphics. Since my printer is a piece of shit Lexmark (Never buy a Lexmark) and recently developed the inability to feed paper properly, I emailed the document to myself and went to print at the library. When I got to the library the images were not there, only place holders. I've never encountered this using word. This is my biggest complaint about open office. Maybe it's hidden somewhere in the options, but I never saw an option to embed images in the document.
My second biggest complaint is that it keeps pestering me when I try and save in MSOffice format.
One of the reasons frequently cited in this thread is that merchants have poor shopping cart systems. That is, you can't know the total including shipping untill you're 90% of the way through checkout. One example of a really nice shopping cart is at MoreBeer.com. Yah, they're not a computer site, but they do deal in Homebrew systems. They have a frame on the side which shows what's in your cart at all times and an estimate on the shipping weight. If you are a registerd user, your shopping cart will persist between sessions. Also, if you click on an item that is backordered, a javascript popup will appear informing you that the item is backordered and your order will be delayed until it comes into stock. Try that with the Amarillo hops. I just thought I would point this out as an example of a good shopping cart system.
It's a joke.
It used to be said that the sun never sets on the British Empire, as in they had territory all over the world, and therefore it was always daytime somewhere in the British empire. The US has bases all over the world, in Japan, Germany, Cuba, the Middle East, and many other countries as the DoD PDF indicates, therefore, it is always daytime in some US base, and thus the sun never sets in the American Empire.
As an American, I can say that many of us do, and we don't like it. Chalmers Johnson recently wrote a book called the Sorrows of Empire making the case that we are indeed an empire in all but name. This realization has been slowly growing. People who make the claim that we are an empire are less often dismissed as cynics. Even the Economist is claiming that we are an empire.
We have military personell in over 135 nations. Most have less than 20 and are probably guarding embassies, but more than you would think have over 1000, including Belgium. The UK has over 13,000. It can be said that the sun never sets on the American Empire.
Many Americans are horified by this. Some are proud of it. Some are both horrified and proud.
Another interesting site
Try reading the article. It's from a German news site and frames the whole article in a nationalistic stance. Here are some choice quotes for you.
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense. It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
Google's plans have rattled the cultural establishment in Paris, raising fears that French language and ideas could be just sidelined on the worldwide web, already dominated by English.
In a stand against a deal struck by five of the world's top libraries and Google to digitize millions of books, 19 European libraries have agreed to back a similar European project to safeguard literature.
European Libraries Fight Google-ization
That last one was the title. So before you dis the submitter, read the fucking article.
It's a French idea to counter American Cultural Imperialism(TM)
I'm have to say that the origins of this are in a nationalistic ferver. Europe is afraid of being overshadowed by America. This project was organized by the French to fend off American Cultural Imperialism(TM). This is also healthy competition. It doesn't have to be either/or.
"The leaders of the undersigned national libraries wish to support the initiative of Europe's leaders aimed at a large and organized digitization of the works belonging to our continent's heritage," a statement said. "Such a move needs a tight coordination of national ambitions at EU level to decide on the selection of works," it added.
later
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense. It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
This is good even if it did arise from nationalistic pride. (Yah I know, Europe's a continent, not a country.)
It is better to not have one exclusive source of important information like this. This way we (humanity) are not storing all of our eggs in one basket. Plus Europe gets to put in more books without worrying about copyright. (Damn you Bono.) What would be best is if Google just gave the Europeans a copy of its library archives and the Europeans did likewise.
Ever since I killed mt cable connection, my time spent reading slashdot has greatly increased. Now instead of spending hours each day veging out to mindless brain rot, I spend hours each day participating in insightfull, interesting, and funny conversation.