That is a good argument. Although it doesn't cover the fact that a priest is pretty much going to be called on to perform tasks that involve knowledge of god, whereas 99.99% of all medical doctors will never be called on to perform tasks that require knowledge of evolution.
Well if a doctor doesn't administer or recommend a vaccine because that vaccine was designed on the basis that evolution is true, that doctor is not doing their job. Evolution and medicine are not as unrelated as you seem to believe. Understanding why the body works the way it works, and understanding how diseases work the way they do, often requires knowledge of evolution. If the doctor does not base their treatment on the best available facts, they are acting as a witch doctor.
You are reading the argument backwords. The argument puts forth that Newtonian Physics is the day to day physics you use, even though we know it isn't the whole story. So, it would be more akin to a building engineer that refused to take classes on particle physics. Would you trust a building designed by an engineer that did not believe in neutrinos?
I think you mean backwards...
I'm not reading the argument backwards at all. The med student does not believe in evolution, and refuses to study it. The physics student knows early on that Newtonian physics is incorrect. He will still study it, or he will fail the course. You don't need to believe in the tool to use it, but you do need to study it.
I agree with you, but I could see others saying it was more like Newtonian Physics. It works for most cases, but isn't the whole story. *I* am not saying that, but I could definitely see that argument raised.
...and yet if a physics student refused to study Newtonian Physics on whatever grounds, would they pass? Would they refuse to study Calculus too because it is tied to Newton?
Evolution is not a fact just like Gravity is not a fact. But if you refuse to take time to understand the best theories we have, you should not expect to become qualified in physics. Likewise in medicine. You can believe whatever you like but refusing to learn a theory you haven't taken the time to understand is ridiculous. It may have "no practical impact on (your) interpretation of the world" but that just means you've refused to become an expert in the field.
-- Albert Einstein (aka Anti-science Jewish fundamentalist)
It is worth noting that the great man produced little of scientific note later in life, mostly because he could not accept the evidence produced by the quantum scientists. If you allow your beliefs to interfeer with reality, you can no longer do science.
One bad automated update can lead to your system hosed or obscure reliability problems, perhaps not showing up for a while and the worst ones again leaving you with little option but to rebuild a system.
So I turn off auto update on everything I can, and manually update periodically. I consider the security risk smaller this way. I get it stable, and let it run that way for a few months at least. Then update security fixes etc.
So, unless you're willing either to pay me or put out, kindly stop trying to tell me what to do.
Just fork your own version of GNOME then. Given the number of complainers about the direction GNOME is going, I'm surprised no slashdot stories covering GNOME forks have surfaced.
Why in the FUCK would I do that? Such a fucking waste of effort when there are other alternatives. Metaphorically speaking, Gnome and Firefox are in my recycle bin. Nice knowing you, but now you're being a dick, get the fuck out of my house or I'm calling the cops you piece of shit!
I'm curious about how they won the contract. Surely a vendor bidding to use open source software would have made a lower bid.
Did the request for bids even allow for open source?
I could explain it to you buy I suggest you watch "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" instead. It would be quicker and more entertaining. Only downside is it's slightly out of date. Politicians and bureaucrats have had 30 years to improve on their incompetence, and use technology to aid it.
"It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same."
It's nice to see that you know so much about the system that hasn't even put into law.
I don't know the details so have no idea if this guy is being paranoid or his issues are justified, but regardless I propose that we do NOT wait until it's law to object if there's an injustice.
Why do people continue to go to countries that suck?
That's exactly why I haven't been to the US during the past 20 years, but I have been to Thailand twice in that same time.
So my choices are: 1. Holiday somewhere that treats me like a criminal on entry and catalogs me like cattle. 2. Holiday somewhere where any form of criticism of a particular person will land me in jail.
Me and mine will stay home thanks. Plenty to see in my own country and it's significantly more effort to avoid any unfairness at home. Dollars stay here and help the economy here. Plenty to see in Australia. I wonder why tourism has been in the crapper since 9/11. Hint: It ain't the threat of terrorism.
They are far more important than senors, and hence why even back in the days of SDTV professional companies used big cameras.
That is like saying air is more important than water for a trip to Mars.
Both the sensor and the lens need to be good amongst a lot of other things. The quality of still or video is limited by the weakest link - the least suited aspect of the equipment taking the photograph and the circumstances it is taken under. That includes the ability of the photographer.
For smaller businesses (even up to a few hundred employees), I imagine the answer is "yes"-- migrating your files takes an afternoon and some DNS hijacking as an emergency hack to get things to continue to "just work", and email would maybe take 1-2 weeks to have all mail pulled from google and served up from a local exchange (or your groupware suite of choice) server(s), and maybe another 10 minutes after that to finalize the DNS changes.
That is laughable. You've clearly never done a PROPER migration of anything in your life. Consider the data. Do you really think anyone in their right mind is going to trust your "she'll be right" attitude if large dollar contracts are amongst the documents being migrated? Have you considered security AT ALL? Your cowboy approach is part of the problem, not the solution!
I've got maybe 200 Facebook "friends", but many I haven't said a word to in years other than to friend them. There are probably 5-10 people on my friend list I'd speak to more than once a year. Have fun with my nice personal revealing data won't you, Zuckerberg and co. Quality data you have there.
If that's how stupidly you react over someone mentioning a fact, without even expressing an opinion, then I've got chills about the fact you've got children.
You know nothing about me. To say such a thing makes you little more than a nasty piece of work and a troll. Everyone who can read has misread something once in a while. That does not mean you should question or disparage their parenting. Have some manners.
Put away the pitchfork, he was talking about the mandatory military service in South Korea, he was not expressing the opinion that military service should be mandatory.
My cousin was crippled by mandatory military service in Egypt. He is now a permanent paraplegic and almost died. I'm not close - I haven't seen him in almost 3 decades but every time I think of mandatory military service and my children I get a chill.
There's a huge difference in using something and becoming reliant on something. Early adopters of Gmail (like me) didn't suddenly move all operations to Gmail -- we used it on the side, for occasional personal correspondence, and we maintained our well-known aliases until Gmail quickly became the dominating provider. Its permanent status became apparent when the IT community universally sided with Gmail rather than Hotmail (by 2005-2006).
Hotmail's still around in a big way in my circle of non-techy friends. In fact my wife's primary email is still Hotmail.
In any case you have eventually moved all your correspondence onto GMail. If they started charging for it or shut it down today, or in 5 years time, there would be pain. And that is with a realtively easy to replace service. (Let's face it the biggest pain is distributing your email address without leaving someone out - email is a commodity).
Finally who's to say what a basic service is?
A core product. One the average person can name. Search. Mail. Maps. Documents. YouTube. Google+. That's it. Sadly.
Then your argument must be that apart from those core products, you shouldn't move your stuff to the cloud. Personally I don't think you shouldrely on it the cloud even for that (especially docs!!!). In any case that list would change quite often. 5 years ago Google+ wouldn't be on it. Popular services change quite rapidly in the IT world. What people can and can't name changes quite rapidly. So your strategy smacks of immaturity.
Honestly, this will have an even greater effect than people are imagining at the moment. All males must service mandatory military service after high school, so they will probably have to wait a while longer to play games after midnight than people are thinking. This is all just a conspiracy by older people to make younger people not have any fun.
You first. People like yourself should be given a gun and put on the front line of the nearest shit-hole battle zone the moment they open their mouth.
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That is a good argument. Although it doesn't cover the fact that a priest is pretty much going to be called on to perform tasks that involve knowledge of god, whereas 99.99% of all medical doctors will never be called on to perform tasks that require knowledge of evolution.
Well if a doctor doesn't administer or recommend a vaccine because that vaccine was designed on the basis that evolution is true, that doctor is not doing their job. Evolution and medicine are not as unrelated as you seem to believe. Understanding why the body works the way it works, and understanding how diseases work the way they do, often requires knowledge of evolution. If the doctor does not base their treatment on the best available facts, they are acting as a witch doctor.
You are reading the argument backwords. The argument puts forth that Newtonian Physics is the day to day physics you use, even though we know it isn't the whole story. So, it would be more akin to a building engineer that refused to take classes on particle physics. Would you trust a building designed by an engineer that did not believe in neutrinos?
I think you mean backwards...
I'm not reading the argument backwards at all. The med student does not believe in evolution, and refuses to study it. The physics student knows early on that Newtonian physics is incorrect. He will still study it, or he will fail the course. You don't need to believe in the tool to use it, but you do need to study it.
I agree with you, but I could see others saying it was more like Newtonian Physics. It works for most cases, but isn't the whole story. *I* am not saying that, but I could definitely see that argument raised.
...and yet if a physics student refused to study Newtonian Physics on whatever grounds, would they pass? Would they refuse to study Calculus too because it is tied to Newton?
Evolution is not a fact just like Gravity is not a fact. But if you refuse to take time to understand the best theories we have, you should not expect to become qualified in physics. Likewise in medicine. You can believe whatever you like but refusing to learn a theory you haven't taken the time to understand is ridiculous. It may have "no practical impact on (your) interpretation of the world" but that just means you've refused to become an expert in the field.
God does not play dice.
-- Albert Einstein (aka Anti-science Jewish fundamentalist)
It is worth noting that the great man produced little of scientific note later in life, mostly because he could not accept the evidence produced by the quantum scientists. If you allow your beliefs to interfeer with reality, you can no longer do science.
I can't wait for the SyFy movie based on the 'true story' :)
Here you go:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-lightning-strikes-twice.html
How do you make a duck soulful?
Put it in the microwave till it's Bill Withers.
Stuff it with a shoe?
There were zwei peanuts, walking down the strasse, und one was 'assaulted'... peanut.
Nut one: Ca-ca-ca-caaashew
Nut two: Bless You!
One bad automated update can lead to your system hosed or obscure reliability problems, perhaps not showing up for a while and the worst ones again leaving you with little option but to rebuild a system.
So I turn off auto update on everything I can, and manually update periodically. I consider the security risk smaller this way. I get it stable, and let it run that way for a few months at least. Then update security fixes etc.
So, unless you're willing either to pay me or put out, kindly stop trying to tell me what to do.
Just fork your own version of GNOME then. Given the number of complainers about the direction GNOME is going, I'm surprised no slashdot stories covering GNOME forks have surfaced.
Why in the FUCK would I do that? Such a fucking waste of effort when there are other alternatives. Metaphorically speaking, Gnome and Firefox are in my recycle bin. Nice knowing you, but now you're being a dick, get the fuck out of my house or I'm calling the cops you piece of shit!
I'm curious about how they won the contract. Surely a vendor bidding to use open source software would have made a lower bid.
Did the request for bids even allow for open source?
I could explain it to you buy I suggest you watch "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" instead. It would be quicker and more entertaining. Only downside is it's slightly out of date. Politicians and bureaucrats have had 30 years to improve on their incompetence, and use technology to aid it.
"It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same."
It's nice to see that you know so much about the system that hasn't even put into law.
I don't know the details so have no idea if this guy is being paranoid or his issues are justified, but regardless I propose that we do NOT wait until it's law to object if there's an injustice.
Why do people continue to go to countries that suck?
That's exactly why I haven't been to the US during the past 20 years, but I have been to Thailand twice in that same time.
So my choices are:
1. Holiday somewhere that treats me like a criminal on entry and catalogs me like cattle.
2. Holiday somewhere where any form of criticism of a particular person will land me in jail.
Me and mine will stay home thanks. Plenty to see in my own country and it's significantly more effort to avoid any unfairness at home. Dollars stay here and help the economy here. Plenty to see in Australia. I wonder why tourism has been in the crapper since 9/11. Hint: It ain't the threat of terrorism.
Indeed, I think this is the root cause of all the buzzwords.
We need a new term for that. I think we should call it "buzzwordification". It sounds much cooler than "buzzwordiation".
They are far more important than senors, and hence why even back in the days of SDTV professional companies used big cameras.
That is like saying air is more important than water for a trip to Mars.
Both the sensor and the lens need to be good amongst a lot of other things. The quality of still or video is limited by the weakest link - the least suited aspect of the equipment taking the photograph and the circumstances it is taken under. That includes the ability of the photographer.
No, but statistically within 4.75 hops, someone you're linked to does.
The same can be said about you. So what's your point?
Is one of them your Imam?
Love the Xenophobia dude. My background is Christian and I'm an atheist who hates religion. So do YOU think I even know an Imam?
Yes it is more work and more money.
For smaller businesses (even up to a few hundred employees), I imagine the answer is "yes"-- migrating your files takes an afternoon and some DNS hijacking as an emergency hack to get things to continue to "just work", and email would maybe take 1-2 weeks to have all mail pulled from google and served up from a local exchange (or your groupware suite of choice) server(s), and maybe another 10 minutes after that to finalize the DNS changes.
That is laughable. You've clearly never done a PROPER migration of anything in your life. Consider the data. Do you really think anyone in their right mind is going to trust your "she'll be right" attitude if large dollar contracts are amongst the documents being migrated? Have you considered security AT ALL? Your cowboy approach is part of the problem, not the solution!
Sorry, this is slashdot. Only car analogies work here. :P Anyone have the car analogy?
Hm... okay. Imagine you've taken a shit in your car....
Taking a shit in a piece of shit is a little redundant isn't it!?
I've got maybe 200 Facebook "friends", but many I haven't said a word to in years other than to friend them. There are probably 5-10 people on my friend list I'd speak to more than once a year. Have fun with my nice personal revealing data won't you, Zuckerberg and co. Quality data you have there.
If that's how stupidly you react over someone mentioning a fact, without even expressing an opinion, then I've got chills about the fact you've got children.
You know nothing about me. To say such a thing makes you little more than a nasty piece of work and a troll. Everyone who can read has misread something once in a while. That does not mean you should question or disparage their parenting. Have some manners.
Put away the pitchfork, he was talking about the mandatory military service in South Korea, he was not expressing the opinion that military service should be mandatory.
My cousin was crippled by mandatory military service in Egypt. He is now a permanent paraplegic and almost died. I'm not close - I haven't seen him in almost 3 decades but every time I think of mandatory military service and my children I get a chill.
There's a huge difference in using something and becoming reliant on something. Early adopters of Gmail (like me) didn't suddenly move all operations to Gmail -- we used it on the side, for occasional personal correspondence, and we maintained our well-known aliases until Gmail quickly became the dominating provider. Its permanent status became apparent when the IT community universally sided with Gmail rather than Hotmail (by 2005-2006).
Hotmail's still around in a big way in my circle of non-techy friends. In fact my wife's primary email is still Hotmail.
In any case you have eventually moved all your correspondence onto GMail. If they started charging for it or shut it down today, or in 5 years time, there would be pain. And that is with a realtively easy to replace service. (Let's face it the biggest pain is distributing your email address without leaving someone out - email is a commodity).
Finally who's to say what a basic service is?
A core product. One the average person can name. Search. Mail. Maps. Documents. YouTube. Google+. That's it. Sadly.
Then your argument must be that apart from those core products, you shouldn't move your stuff to the cloud. Personally I don't think you shouldrely on it the cloud even for that (especially docs!!!). In any case that list would change quite often. 5 years ago Google+ wouldn't be on it. Popular services change quite rapidly in the IT world. What people can and can't name changes quite rapidly. So your strategy smacks of immaturity.
Honestly, this will have an even greater effect than people are imagining at the moment. All males must service mandatory military service after high school, so they will probably have to wait a while longer to play games after midnight than people are thinking. This is all just a conspiracy by older people to make younger people not have any fun.
You first. People like yourself should be given a gun and put on the front line of the nearest shit-hole battle zone the moment they open their mouth.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a web developer!
It's the same thing - you know how to deal with a disorganized mess of badly designed loosely connected parts!