Have you ever had to come to terms with true equality which comes about due to the nihilistic implications of atheism? Without an ultimate arbiter of values in the form of God, all value systems have to be re-worked from the ground up to be intellectually honest.
For example, you might help little old ladies cross the street, give money to charity, and fight for a future in which it is possible to live. If there's a God, then all these things are automatically good, because the ultimate arbiter of value declared them to be good. However, without one, you have to define "good", find a reason why these things are "good", and dictate a reason why one ought to do "good" things. In the end, you might find that you're actually an egocentric immoralist who commits to moral actions as a means of self-gratification, because doing good things makes you feel good.
Then you have to deal with the fact that even if you find a "good" value and manage to justify doing "good" things, you're no different from the murderers, thieves and drug dealers at the bottom of the morality food chain. Your ethics don't set you apart in any way, especially since any rational definition of "good" places you in a position where you are less moral than you could be, and likely are a party to unspeakable acts of "bad" simply by living in a modern society.
This is probably why the religious meme is so strong: Not everyone can do the ethical calculus neccessary to live an honest life without God. In a very real sense, by giving people concrete, dogmatic answers, even misguided ones, you give people hope and even a sense of meaning.
Other than showing that you're a very smug person, how does saying this advance any of your objectives? By seeking a battle before seeking victory, you're always going to lose, and you're always going to look like an intollerant dick.
I imagine he'd say something along the lines of "STOP!!! By creating your own content on the internet, you're undercutting us! Since you're a captive audience and we are under no legal obligation to tell the truth, undercutting us is illegal and immoral! You're STEALING eyetime! And if you steal eyetime, THE TERRORISTS WIN."
Indoctrination is the BEST! Especially since it almost universally backfires, leading to an entire generation of useless pothead misanthropes who are proud to be able to hold minimum wage jobs, and spend their days downloading terrabytes of music, movies and games for free!
You know, I think someone should remind these useless pieces of trash exactly what their role is, because they seem to think they've got far more intrinsic worth and power than they really do.
It's unfortunate. This is just the sort of bullshit that got the Liberals kicked out of office. A lot of pragmatic people admire the consecutive budget surpluses (It's our debt, after all, we're the ones who spent it), but the whole corruption thing is got a bit too grating.
If it's turning into a major scandal, could this mean that people in Sweden generally don't think gestapo-like tactics are justified to take down a few people downloading video games and TV shows?
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that talking about war isn't actually talking about peace, and that freedom isn't actually slavery.
If I recall, Pope Benedict endorsed evolution. This makes sense, since the creation accounts in the bible are accepted to be allegorical in nature, and thus it can't be said that we know exactly HOW he did it, only that he did.
Dell hating has got to be an elistism thing. I've seen their hardware back to the early PII era, I've seen their server line and worked on their Optiplex line, and I've used a cheapie Dell Dimension at home for over a year. Rock solid machines. It's unfortunate that they didn't include an AGP slot, but after you wipe the hard drive and get rid of the shitty preinstall, Dells are definitely some of my favourite machines to work on in terms of hardware, Linux seems to love the hardware in them, and they don't seem to break.
The days between EGA and Enhanced EGA severely limited the utility of an EGA card for me. My carc could handle the higher video modes, but my monitor would cry like a little girl.
I *LIKE* my rotary phone. It looks really cool and sounds as good as any phone I've ever owned. I also get the warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that I'm sticking it to telecom by requiring them to keep legacy equipment around.:P
Oh noes! That document took 5.3 seconds to load and 10.2 seconds to save! Sure, I've been working on this document for 20 hours straight, but that's a LONG time to wait!!!
Older teenagers are more immature today than I think they ever have: at the very least, they're less emotionally mature if they're middle-class or upper-class, seeing as most of them haven't had to work for money, etc. We've extended childhood up to 18 or so (really around 22, 'cause of college).
Could it be because we're treating them like 9 year olds with stuff like this?
Great! We'll just pop you into our "Child pornography for justice against terrorist scum" division. WE've had an opening there for weeks, and it's been a real pain in someone's ass to fill!
Have any of you doorknobs ever actually USED a Dell with the default install? OF COURSE it's installed! So is every other piece of useless junk you'd never want. AOL? Sure! 30 day trials of software? Why not! Demos of otherwise productive software? ***SIGN ME UP***
The default configuration also happens to use up more than 512MB of memory AT STARTUP. No programs open, just the tray icons for software that won't work for much longer, and AOL sitting there like the sword of damocles.
the first thing I always recommend someone do after buying a Dell is getting rid of any trace of that install, because it's worse than useless. A bare install with the utilities you actually want and basic drivers will run so much faster than the standard install, work so much better, and try to sell you so much less in the process, that I'd go so far as to say that google adding their 2 cents to this software cacophany is just a nice addition to the tragedy.
1. Not everyone wants to make money off their Open Source project. I've contributed fairly significant amounts of code(a port to an embedded platform) to FreeBASIC, my favourite compiler, but I've done it because it's a useful tool for what I use it for, not because I want to be rewarded with riches.
2. You can't just leave the statement "Open source OSes are a LOT better" hanging without quanitfying it somehow.
My experience has been that some of the most critical parts of an OS are easier to work with in commercial OSes, probably because companies actually have to sell them to someone.
Compare getting a wifi card to work in Windows and in Linux, and under one you'll find you insert the CD to install the drivers and interface then install the card, and on the other you'll have to install some wacky kernel patch, compile, then spend hours trying to figure out what files in/etc you have to edit to actually get the thing to run.
Since uptime for a Windows XP system that hasn't been compromised (not as improbable as it sounds if you use best practices) is comparable in terms of a workstation timeframe (My PC has been on non-stop for months, for example), and a system with proper drivers tends to run faster than one using non-specific generic drivers, my experience has been that open source kernels aren't better in any significant area when compared to using a commercial infastructure to run Open Source Software.
By the time something is tangible, it is too late. Something I don't think you understand is that "looks good" doesn't mean anything. your software might have a pretty interface, but what matters is that it actually does the job without falling apart. Similarly, you can take a look at a large piece of metal and decide it's quite pretty looking, but suprise suprise, the rod is meant to anchor the bridge to the ground, which contains sulphor or something, but the alloy its made of doesn't have any sacrificial zinc and the bridge is going to collapse within 5 years.
If anything, I'd argue that engineering in an imaginary digital world is far easier than engineering in the analog physical world. Problems you experience are digital in nature, and don't often take 5 years to show up.
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That's just LIKE those gay jew-blacks.
(I'm such a nice guy...)
Have you ever had to come to terms with true equality which comes about due to the nihilistic implications of atheism? Without an ultimate arbiter of values in the form of God, all value systems have to be re-worked from the ground up to be intellectually honest.
For example, you might help little old ladies cross the street, give money to charity, and fight for a future in which it is possible to live. If there's a God, then all these things are automatically good, because the ultimate arbiter of value declared them to be good. However, without one, you have to define "good", find a reason why these things are "good", and dictate a reason why one ought to do "good" things. In the end, you might find that you're actually an egocentric immoralist who commits to moral actions as a means of self-gratification, because doing good things makes you feel good.
Then you have to deal with the fact that even if you find a "good" value and manage to justify doing "good" things, you're no different from the murderers, thieves and drug dealers at the bottom of the morality food chain. Your ethics don't set you apart in any way, especially since any rational definition of "good" places you in a position where you are less moral than you could be, and likely are a party to unspeakable acts of "bad" simply by living in a modern society.
This is probably why the religious meme is so strong: Not everyone can do the ethical calculus neccessary to live an honest life without God. In a very real sense, by giving people concrete, dogmatic answers, even misguided ones, you give people hope and even a sense of meaning.
The Church of Scientology is definitely a religion. The evil Lord Xenu commands it!
Other than showing that you're a very smug person, how does saying this advance any of your objectives? By seeking a battle before seeking victory, you're always going to lose, and you're always going to look like an intollerant dick.
"What do you think Captain Copyright will say?"
I imagine he'd say something along the lines of "STOP!!! By creating your own content on the internet, you're undercutting us! Since you're a captive audience and we are under no legal obligation to tell the truth, undercutting us is illegal and immoral! You're STEALING eyetime! And if you steal eyetime, THE TERRORISTS WIN."
Indoctrination is the BEST! Especially since it almost universally backfires, leading to an entire generation of useless pothead misanthropes who are proud to be able to hold minimum wage jobs, and spend their days downloading terrabytes of music, movies and games for free!
You know, I think someone should remind these useless pieces of trash exactly what their role is, because they seem to think they've got far more intrinsic worth and power than they really do.
It's unfortunate. This is just the sort of bullshit that got the Liberals kicked out of office. A lot of pragmatic people admire the consecutive budget surpluses (It's our debt, after all, we're the ones who spent it), but the whole corruption thing is got a bit too grating.
If it's turning into a major scandal, could this mean that people in Sweden generally don't think gestapo-like tactics are justified to take down a few people downloading video games and TV shows?
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that talking about war isn't actually talking about peace, and that freedom isn't actually slavery.
I don't care who you are, the DC-10 obviously isn't flawed. If it's good enough for the evil lord Xenu, by golly, it's good enough for me.
I'll KICK your BUTT -- At Nintendo!
Guild Wars does this. That's not too suprising to me, since they don't have any incentive to addict people, unlike the pay-per-month games.
If I recall, Pope Benedict endorsed evolution. This makes sense, since the creation accounts in the bible are accepted to be allegorical in nature, and thus it can't be said that we know exactly HOW he did it, only that he did.
Dell hating has got to be an elistism thing. I've seen their hardware back to the early PII era, I've seen their server line and worked on their Optiplex line, and I've used a cheapie Dell Dimension at home for over a year. Rock solid machines. It's unfortunate that they didn't include an AGP slot, but after you wipe the hard drive and get rid of the shitty preinstall, Dells are definitely some of my favourite machines to work on in terms of hardware, Linux seems to love the hardware in them, and they don't seem to break.
The sony playstation memory card has been a hugely successful add-on. :)
:)
I'd call the expansion packs for the n64 relatively successful, but the n64 was sort of a loser in that era, so I can't.
The days between EGA and Enhanced EGA severely limited the utility of an EGA card for me. My carc could handle the higher video modes, but my monitor would cry like a little girl.
I *LIKE* my rotary phone. It looks really cool and sounds as good as any phone I've ever owned. I also get the warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that I'm sticking it to telecom by requiring them to keep legacy equipment around. :P
If you're actually paying attention to what you're writing, I don't see an issue, even spending 1/90th of your time saving.
You laugh, but the liberal media killed my mother, and raped my father!
THEN it asked me to put out my cigarette because this is a public building!
Oh noes! That document took 5.3 seconds to load and 10.2 seconds to save! Sure, I've been working on this document for 20 hours straight, but that's a LONG time to wait!!!
Older teenagers are more immature today than I think they ever have: at the very least, they're less emotionally mature if they're middle-class or upper-class, seeing as most of them haven't had to work for money, etc. We've extended childhood up to 18 or so (really around 22, 'cause of college).
Could it be because we're treating them like 9 year olds with stuff like this?
Great! We'll just pop you into our "Child pornography for justice against terrorist scum" division. WE've had an opening there for weeks, and it's been a real pain in someone's ass to fill!
Have any of you doorknobs ever actually USED a Dell with the default install? OF COURSE it's installed! So is every other piece of useless junk you'd never want. AOL? Sure! 30 day trials of software? Why not! Demos of otherwise productive software? ***SIGN ME UP***
The default configuration also happens to use up more than 512MB of memory AT STARTUP. No programs open, just the tray icons for software that won't work for much longer, and AOL sitting there like the sword of damocles.
the first thing I always recommend someone do after buying a Dell is getting rid of any trace of that install, because it's worse than useless. A bare install with the utilities you actually want and basic drivers will run so much faster than the standard install, work so much better, and try to sell you so much less in the process, that I'd go so far as to say that google adding their 2 cents to this software cacophany is just a nice addition to the tragedy.
3. There is no point 3.
Three points.
/etc you have to edit to actually get the thing to run.
1. Not everyone wants to make money off their Open Source project. I've contributed fairly significant amounts of code(a port to an embedded platform) to FreeBASIC, my favourite compiler, but I've done it because it's a useful tool for what I use it for, not because I want to be rewarded with riches.
2. You can't just leave the statement "Open source OSes are a LOT better" hanging without quanitfying it somehow.
My experience has been that some of the most critical parts of an OS are easier to work with in commercial OSes, probably because companies actually have to sell them to someone.
Compare getting a wifi card to work in Windows and in Linux, and under one you'll find you insert the CD to install the drivers and interface then install the card, and on the other you'll have to install some wacky kernel patch, compile, then spend hours trying to figure out what files in
Since uptime for a Windows XP system that hasn't been compromised (not as improbable as it sounds if you use best practices) is comparable in terms of a workstation timeframe (My PC has been on non-stop for months, for example), and a system with proper drivers tends to run faster than one using non-specific generic drivers, my experience has been that open source kernels aren't better in any significant area when compared to using a commercial infastructure to run Open Source Software.
By the time something is tangible, it is too late. Something I don't think you understand is that "looks good" doesn't mean anything. your software might have a pretty interface, but what matters is that it actually does the job without falling apart. Similarly, you can take a look at a large piece of metal and decide it's quite pretty looking, but suprise suprise, the rod is meant to anchor the bridge to the ground, which contains sulphor or something, but the alloy its made of doesn't have any sacrificial zinc and the bridge is going to collapse within 5 years.
If anything, I'd argue that engineering in an imaginary digital world is far easier than engineering in the analog physical world. Problems you experience are digital in nature, and don't often take 5 years to show up.