The pope is not *ubiquitously* Christian. All Catholics are Christian, by their very belief in christ. A nitpick I know - but so was yours, to be fair.
I can't really tell the difference between Scientology and Christianity
One obvious difference : 500 years. You'd be hard-pressed to find a "mainstream" Christian nowadays that things the Inquisition was a good idea. You won't see many of them killing the pets of judges of cases against the church (yes, CoS did this). While I agree that I've seldom heard religious ideas that seem to make a remote amount of sense, the CoS is particularly bad for other reasons. I could list them, but I suggest you head over to xenu.net instead. You'd be hard-pressed to find another church immersed in the same evils as the CoS (well - in developed countries anyway, but that's a whole other argument)
There was a ToH written for the C preprocessor a few years ago for the obfuscated C competition. It recursively #included itself printing out warnings, if I recall correctly.
I'm a musician. *Lyrics* require creativity and spontanaety only possibly with humans (for now). Most chord progressions, melodies, harmonies, beats, and even ornamentation follow rules. "New" sounds that break old rules - that probably takes the human touch - but well-defined genres such as jazz, rock, and the various world traditionals aren't as complicated as you think.
If someone gives you a free hot-dog that happens to contain poison, can you take them to court?
Sorry for the stupidity - but it's the first analogy I could think of. The program/component was misrepresented (as something that wouldn't fuck with the IP stack), and that misrepresentation caused damage to his computer and a certain amount of time getting it to work again. I don't agree with punishing free software developers for bugs, and there's little precedent, but just because it's free doesn't mean that the creators can't be held liable.
I agree completely. It's far easier to set up a server on your computer than do something as difficult as download a key generator from here, here, or here.</sarc>
CD keys keep honest people honest. They do nothing to prevent people who don't want to buy the game from playing the game.
Yeah. I'm sure that the only two choices are communism and corporate-communism. You can't just take a trend and carry it to its logical extreme, because people realize they've gone "far enough" at some point. Your argument is like taking the abortion issue and saying both pro-choice and pro-life are wrong because
Pro-choice --> You can kill fetuses --> You can kill babies --> You can kill anyone. While Pro-life --> fetuses should be protected --> eggs should be protected --> women should be pregnant from their first period.
Saying that you don't believe in either of two extremes doesn't mean much - there are far more choices in the middle than at the edges.
Get *your* facts straight, buddy. It was a joke. Referring to the fact that "Windows" sounds suspiciously like "Windoze", hence the trademark scandal - about 1 year after Windows hit the market. Purposely mis-spelling words just sounds stupid.
Now is Linux going to compete? By first squirming its way into businesses and governments, as it has already done in some areas. It's an uphill battle getting through the propaganda, but enough managers have heard about it that they might be willing to give it a try - and when the test case works out, try it on a larger scale. If everyone uses Linux at work, they're aware of the alternatives to Windows, and probably aware of the cost too. Of course, by that time Linux will have to have advanced to the point where it can live up to the easy point-and-click legacy of Windows - specifically for installs. KDE/Gnome are already at the usability level of Windows, but AOL-using-email-attachment-opening-where's-the-any -key users will probably never understand broken rpm dependencies, let alone configure/make/make install.
With IPv6, they shouldn't have to. The reason they lease now is that they have more customers than addresses. IPv6 should fix that.
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Maybe google should institute some penalties. If a site is found abusing the system - ban it for all time - or at least send it far down the list.
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This is the first I've heard of this use - obviously illegal. But think of the possibilities for data transmission for these things. They're 5G floppies that play music. If all computer usage was as easy as the article makes it out to be, the world would be a better place.
Have you considered looking at certain cases of abortion as justifiable homicide?
Hmm...no, I hadn't. I think the self-defense idea has some merit, but pregnancy as a result of rape wouldn't matter if you consider the fetus to be seperate from the mother. I can't think of an analogy, but "involuntary burden" seems like a bit of a stretch for justifiable homicide. You could try to claim the same for a mother whose husband has left her - he's in the wrong, but she's got the "burden" of the kids.
I'd say there are a few cases where it's almost perfectly black and white - most people agree that if there's 100% chance the mother will die, abortion should be an option.
As for pushing to the state level, then you'd get a system where people are crossing the state line just for abortions. And especially if you want to consider it a case of homicide, it should be a federal solution. Mind you, I don't think that there *is* a good legal solution - there are just too many conflicting ideas. I'm just trying to get out the word about how useless heated discussions on the issue are.
On abortion - I'm not going to give my opinion - I've never been fully happy with either side of the issue, and here's why. I've never seen a pro-choice argument that makes me fully happy with abortion. Piece by piece, here it is:
**Women have rights over their own bodies** --Is the fetus part of their bodies, or are they separate entities?-- **A fetus is part of a woman's body**
So - at what point does it stop being part of a woman's body? When it's brain starts functioning? It's heart starts beating? It "looks like" a baby? Or when it's fully out of the woman? Can you "abort" a child while it's still attached by the imbilicle (sp?) cord?
I know there's no answers - any answers I've received are people's own personal thoughts, not backed up by much reasoning. It's really a religious question at that point. My own personal thoughts are that a fetus become's human sometime in the second trimester. Babies have been born and lived at 5 months. If I had the law in my hands, I'd err on the side of caution and allow only first trimester abortions for this point.
**They'd suffer their entire lives** This is a superfluous point after considering the first. If they're human, you have no right to dictate whether they have to live that life or not. Could a mother legally kill her 3-year-old child if she was sure he/she would suffer most of their life?
I'm not saying anti-abortionists have better arguments. As I said, it all comes down to "Is this murder?", and the answer is a religious one that I've yet to see a logical solution to.
Sorry for the tangent thread, but it's been bugging me for a while.
Nothing's wrong with weeding out undesirable genes. The problems in your example were a) The "desirable" qualities were skewed. This may be true today - whose to say that the Alzheimer (sp?) gene doesn't switch on other, "desirable" genes? b) Of course - the method. Killing grown humans is a far cry from discarding eggs that were never going to be fertilized anyway.
Your argument is little more than saying "Hitler said improving the road system was a good thing - and look at where it got him". Just because it was a thought of an evil man doesn't make it an evil thought.
But if you're not taken off the list afterwards, then there's no reason not to run an open relay - you're already screwed - and so is everyone else who may be saddled with your IP address at a later date. Part one is fixing the problem - part two is revoking the punishment.
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It's not "stealing" though - it's counterfeiting. No one has denied that copying can have negative effects. The occasional copied software *does* result in a lost purchase. Copied money devalues the currency. And while current studies show that Napster-alikes improve music sales, I fully expect that trend to end when the common "your grandmother" is more comfortable burning her own CDs.
But to call it "stealing" is mislabelling it. To call it "piracy" is to claim that people are storming other people's ships - pistols and cutlasses drawn. Call it "copyright infringement". That's what it is.
Honestly - sounds as if you *are* a little bit ahead of your time. With the type of power/storage you're looking for, I don't think that you'll be able to do much better than a $1500 laptop - which is incredibly cheap when you consider what a lot of professional sound equipment costs. It can be insured, and your music can be backed up - I wouldn't worry too much about theft if you're careful with it.
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The pope is not *ubiquitously* Christian. All Catholics are Christian, by their very belief in christ. A nitpick I know - but so was yours, to be fair.
I can't really tell the difference between Scientology and Christianity
One obvious difference : 500 years. You'd be hard-pressed to find a "mainstream" Christian nowadays that things the Inquisition was a good idea. You won't see many of them killing the pets of judges of cases against the church (yes, CoS did this). While I agree that I've seldom heard religious ideas that seem to make a remote amount of sense, the CoS is particularly bad for other reasons. I could list them, but I suggest you head over to xenu.net instead. You'd be hard-pressed to find another church immersed in the same evils as the CoS (well - in developed countries anyway, but that's a whole other argument)
There was a ToH written for the C preprocessor a few years ago for the obfuscated C competition. It recursively #included itself printing out warnings, if I recall correctly.
wouldnt there be a creater?
It's a theory in some cultures, but most academics now believe that asteroids are formed by natural processes, and not some mystical "creator".
I'm a musician. *Lyrics* require creativity and spontanaety only possibly with humans (for now). Most chord progressions, melodies, harmonies, beats, and even ornamentation follow rules. "New" sounds that break old rules - that probably takes the human touch - but well-defined genres such as jazz, rock, and the various world traditionals aren't as complicated as you think.
If someone gives you a free hot-dog that happens to contain poison, can you take them to court?
Sorry for the stupidity - but it's the first analogy I could think of. The program/component was misrepresented (as something that wouldn't fuck with the IP stack), and that misrepresentation caused damage to his computer and a certain amount of time getting it to work again. I don't agree with punishing free software developers for bugs, and there's little precedent, but just because it's free doesn't mean that the creators can't be held liable.
I agree completely. It's far easier to set up a server on your computer than do something as difficult as download a key generator from here, here, or here.</sarc>
CD keys keep honest people honest. They do nothing to prevent people who don't want to buy the game from playing the game.
Yeah. I'm sure that the only two choices are communism and corporate-communism. You can't just take a trend and carry it to its logical extreme, because people realize they've gone "far enough" at some point. Your argument is like taking the abortion issue and saying both pro-choice and pro-life are wrong because
Pro-choice --> You can kill fetuses --> You can kill babies --> You can kill anyone. While Pro-life --> fetuses should be protected --> eggs should be protected --> women should be pregnant from their first period.
Saying that you don't believe in either of two extremes doesn't mean much - there are far more choices in the middle than at the edges.
Get *your* facts straight, buddy. It was a joke. Referring to the fact that "Windows" sounds suspiciously like "Windoze", hence the trademark scandal - about 1 year after Windows hit the market. Purposely mis-spelling words just sounds stupid.
Nope - it's Windoze - they tried to sue Microsoft for trademark infringement back in 1987, remember?
Now is Linux going to compete? By first squirming its way into businesses and governments, as it has already done in some areas. It's an uphill battle getting through the propaganda, but enough managers have heard about it that they might be willing to give it a try - and when the test case works out, try it on a larger scale. If everyone uses Linux at work, they're aware of the alternatives to Windows, and probably aware of the cost too. Of course, by that time Linux will have to have advanced to the point where it can live up to the easy point-and-click legacy of Windows - specifically for installs. KDE/Gnome are already at the usability level of Windows, but AOL-using-email-attachment-opening-where's-the-any -key users will probably never understand broken rpm dependencies, let alone configure/make/make install.
If there were, I might consider it. As it is, I use more bandwidth surfing than my server does.
Or skunkopotamus?
That's something that'd *really* impress me.
With IPv6, they shouldn't have to. The reason they lease now is that they have more customers than addresses. IPv6 should fix that.
Maybe google should institute some penalties. If a site is found abusing the system - ban it for all time - or at least send it far down the list.
This is the first I've heard of this use - obviously illegal. But think of the possibilities for data transmission for these things. They're 5G floppies that play music. If all computer usage was as easy as the article makes it out to be, the world would be a better place.
Have you considered looking at certain cases of abortion as justifiable homicide?
Hmm...no, I hadn't. I think the self-defense idea has some merit, but pregnancy as a result of rape wouldn't matter if you consider the fetus to be seperate from the mother. I can't think of an analogy, but "involuntary burden" seems like a bit of a stretch for justifiable homicide. You could try to claim the same for a mother whose husband has left her - he's in the wrong, but she's got the "burden" of the kids.
I'd say there are a few cases where it's almost perfectly black and white - most people agree that if there's 100% chance the mother will die, abortion should be an option.
As for pushing to the state level, then you'd get a system where people are crossing the state line just for abortions. And especially if you want to consider it a case of homicide, it should be a federal solution. Mind you, I don't think that there *is* a good legal solution - there are just too many conflicting ideas. I'm just trying to get out the word about how useless heated discussions on the issue are.
Going off-topic here, but...
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On abortion - I'm not going to give my opinion - I've never been fully happy with either side of the issue, and here's why. I've never seen a pro-choice argument that makes me fully happy with abortion. Piece by piece, here it is
**Women have rights over their own bodies**
--Is the fetus part of their bodies, or are they separate entities?--
**A fetus is part of a woman's body**
So - at what point does it stop being part of a woman's body? When it's brain starts functioning? It's heart starts beating? It "looks like" a baby? Or when it's fully out of the woman? Can you "abort" a child while it's still attached by the imbilicle (sp?) cord?
I know there's no answers - any answers I've received are people's own personal thoughts, not backed up by much reasoning. It's really a religious question at that point. My own personal thoughts are that a fetus become's human sometime in the second trimester. Babies have been born and lived at 5 months. If I had the law in my hands, I'd err on the side of caution and allow only first trimester abortions for this point.
**They'd suffer their entire lives**
This is a superfluous point after considering the first. If they're human, you have no right to dictate whether they have to live that life or not. Could a mother legally kill her 3-year-old child if she was sure he/she would suffer most of their life?
I'm not saying anti-abortionists have better arguments. As I said, it all comes down to "Is this murder?", and the answer is a religious one that I've yet to see a logical solution to.
Sorry for the tangent thread, but it's been bugging me for a while.
Nothing's wrong with weeding out undesirable genes. The problems in your example were
a) The "desirable" qualities were skewed. This may be true today - whose to say that the Alzheimer (sp?) gene doesn't switch on other, "desirable" genes?
b) Of course - the method. Killing grown humans is a far cry from discarding eggs that were never going to be fertilized anyway.
Your argument is little more than saying "Hitler said improving the road system was a good thing - and look at where it got him". Just because it was a thought of an evil man doesn't make it an evil thought.
The copyright was sold though. It doesn't revert to its previous owner.
But if you're not taken off the list afterwards, then there's no reason not to run an open relay - you're already screwed - and so is everyone else who may be saddled with your IP address at a later date. Part one is fixing the problem - part two is revoking the punishment.
It's not "stealing" though - it's counterfeiting. No one has denied that copying can have negative effects. The occasional copied software *does* result in a lost purchase. Copied money devalues the currency. And while current studies show that Napster-alikes improve music sales, I fully expect that trend to end when the common "your grandmother" is more comfortable burning her own CDs.
But to call it "stealing" is mislabelling it. To call it "piracy" is to claim that people are storming other people's ships - pistols and cutlasses drawn. Call it "copyright infringement". That's what it is.
Honestly - sounds as if you *are* a little bit ahead of your time. With the type of power/storage you're looking for, I don't think that you'll be able to do much better than a $1500 laptop - which is incredibly cheap when you consider what a lot of professional sound equipment costs. It can be insured, and your music can be backed up - I wouldn't worry too much about theft if you're careful with it.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you?
This is the time you may want to rethink your ideas on this kind of thing. *Not* the right way to start a marriage.
Probably wouldn't work.