What is it with GOPbots these days. Always the same line: the democrats did it, therefore it makes our crimes OK. Whatever happened to moral values? Repeat after me: two wrongs do not make a right. In other words, GTFO.
none of the disciple's accounts are written around the time of his life, or even just after. The accounts are full of borrowings from each other. They're all a bit suspicously fluent for fishermen.
Similar problems with Josephus, writing years after the event; and the texts are disputed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Tes timonium_Flavianum And if you take out the amount of christian spin, plus the fact J borrowed a lot from Luke, you'd probably say that J wrote something about somebody who might have been JC but no one's sure.
Interesting, from the Wiki article, Muslims dispute the fact that JC was crucified. Christians usually cite the fact that crucifixion-derived religions are rare.
The whole new testament is spin and jive; a hotch-potch of mis-translations, propelled by the most successful organisation in human history. The NT is as about a reliable a document as a drunk faced with a bottle of whisky.
-Ed Your last piece of logic is undeniably true. However, it works both ways. You cannot go around saying that it's a FACT that christ existed. If A says it's a FACT something happened, then B is quite correct in asking where is the basis for these "facts". So I can't understand why this is insightful. Also sarcasm is beyond you as well.
Even more unfortunately, Americans seem to have a hard time distinguishing between what to ignore (Swift boat veterans paid to speak against John Kerry,) and what may be a real reflection of character (George Bush skipping out on his Air Force duty.)
Exactly! No matter how many times Democrats tell Americans what to think, an appalling number of them still form their own opinions. And, every time, these opinions seem to coincide with what the Republicans want. Strange that.
Mapkinase's argument uses the god of gaps template. For years, scientists have been reducing the foot-print of humankind's "uniqueness", mostly by finding parallels to human activity in the animal world. The ability for abstract thought is probably the last redoubt of those who believe that man is unique, shaped in the form of their god etc etc. Nobody has yet proven that other species are capable of abstract thought; OTOH, the converse hasn't been proven either. It would be an interesting experiment. My own personal belief is that man isn't unique, that mankind is just another monkey-species whose language and tool-making abilities allowed it to dominate and destroy by sheer force and enterprise the other inhabitants of this small blue-green orb on the outer rim of the Western arm of a minor spiral galaxy.
I agree, those are decent sources. We'd have an epic win on our hands *IF* Lucas was kept away from the writing, directing, cinematography, lighting, camera-work, special effects, catering, cleaning. In fact, keep him off the set(s) and shoots entirely; maybe invite him to the odd conference call for old times sake then I'd be a happy bunny.
A tad incompetent. They wait until virtually just before the certificate award to deliver the bad news. You'd'a thought they would would have spotted "bad apples" *way* before this point.
Nike claimed that they were legally a person, so they could lie in advertising. A corporation as a person is a legal fiction, a construct. So those posters claiming that corporations do not general rights are correct; corporations only have the rights that the courts define.
Paging Dr House: Yeah, those sneaky fuckers sneaking a little change in the formula, re-patenting it, charging even more for it? I'd go for a patent on a major first use, but just changing the molecular structure a little? GTFO. In fact, that might be an extra step in the patent process: how novel is this new drug?
I think you should also read-up on TRIPs and TRIPS plus. This introduced IPR to international trade law for the first time. Now, there are exceptions when countries can forcefully licence drugs - time of war etc - however, Big Pharma didn't even want that and pushed for an implicit policy called TRIPS plus which would never allow for forced-licence drug. I think I'm correct in saying that the Clinton Administration almost threatened war over South African threat to force-licence AIDs drug production.
Now that the TRIPS convention is part of the WTO, America is forcing it's arcane view on IPR on the ROTW. Thanks a bunch.
FYI, some non-synthetic drugs do grow on trees. There's a lot of drugs stemming from natural plants which have made the grade.
The Bean Shell. That's it. That's what Gonad is trying to copy. Though I forget - who's trying to copy who this week?
Same problems too as well - memory consumption up the wazoo and slow as hell. Every time you've got to do a "pipe" you need to look at miles and miles of API.
You got Gulf I nailed... but Gulf 2? don't think do. But I see what you did there... remember all that crap about Weapons of Mass Destruction? The Uranium that wasn't there? Jumped-up pretext. The UN never passed a resolution allowing invasion. The current invasion is as illegal as they get.
An algorithm turns a general purpose machine into one for a particular purpose. This is no different from patenting the Spinning Jenny. So, in principle, I agree with software patents. However, I think the *implementation* of patents should be tightened, particularly wrt full-disclosure. If you patent an algorithm or a method, then you must fully disclose the code, or at least a reference implementation. Something which is patented cannot be a trade secret. And I agree with the other strictures. I think these conditions - if strictly followed - would rid the world of most software patents. Although of course, people like Bush can put foxes in charge of the hen-house and fuck-up everything.
along with women's scarves and men's hair. Your foreign policy is shit, the economy is sliding into the gutter, your best brains are going abroad, your government has worse cronyism than Bush's, what do you do? Have a crack-down on those stylish scarves and some incorrectly trimmed hair. Yeah. That'll get the country right back on track to armageddon the Middle East.
MonkeySoft Office 2007 is business software. Change == cost. Don't change unless the change demonstrates *significant* cost-reduction, and really, none of the participants so far have come up with a single reason why Ribbons will induce these cost-reductions. Double-entry book-keeping has remained roughly the same since the 15th century. That's right, 500 years. So an interface that's remained stable for 10 years? Pah, nothing.
The latest Monkeysoft "innovation" is really just a money-spinner for MS, no more no less. It's eye-candy to say, oh, look, *something* has changed. Amongst the reasons I suspect they get away with this almost blatant thievery is that very few corporate leaders know that much about engineering and there are very few CIOs on boards.
Office 2007 is business software. Change == COST. Double-entry book-keeping remained the same for what seemed like millenia.
Of course, the real reason for change is so that we all have to buy new machines, and Microsoft can CHARGE more. The COST to the business customer goes up.
Stick to OSS. Once the training hump is over, that'll drive the COSTs down.
I want to pay for music. I want guaranteed quality. I want complete meta-data, linked to relevant meta-data. I'm pissed off continually updating meta-data. Use the fucking tags, people!!!
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What is it with GOPbots these days. Always the same line: the democrats did it, therefore it makes our crimes OK. Whatever happened to moral values? Repeat after me: two wrongs do not make a right. In other words, GTFO.
none of the disciple's accounts are written around the time of his life, or even just after. The accounts are full of borrowings from each other. They're all a bit suspicously fluent for fishermen.
s timonium_Flavianum And if you take out the amount of christian spin, plus the fact J borrowed a lot from Luke, you'd probably say that J wrote something about somebody who might have been JC but no one's sure.
Similar problems with Josephus, writing years after the event; and the texts are disputed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Te
Interesting, from the Wiki article, Muslims dispute the fact that JC was crucified. Christians usually cite the fact that crucifixion-derived religions are rare.
The whole new testament is spin and jive; a hotch-potch of mis-translations, propelled by the most successful organisation in human history. The NT is as about a reliable a document as a drunk faced with a bottle of whisky.
This thread is full of assertion and fail.
-Ed Your last piece of logic is undeniably true. However, it works both ways. You cannot go around saying that it's a FACT that christ existed. If A says it's a FACT something happened, then B is quite correct in asking where is the basis for these "facts". So I can't understand why this is insightful. Also sarcasm is beyond you as well.
Exactly! No matter how many times Democrats tell Americans what to think, an appalling number of them still form their own opinions. And, every time, these opinions seem to coincide with what the Republicans want. Strange that.
Mapkinase's argument uses the god of gaps template. For years, scientists have been reducing the foot-print of humankind's "uniqueness", mostly by finding parallels to human activity in the animal world. The ability for abstract thought is probably the last redoubt of those who believe that man is unique, shaped in the form of their god etc etc. Nobody has yet proven that other species are capable of abstract thought; OTOH, the converse hasn't been proven either. It would be an interesting experiment. My own personal belief is that man isn't unique, that mankind is just another monkey-species whose language and tool-making abilities allowed it to dominate and destroy by sheer force and enterprise the other inhabitants of this small blue-green orb on the outer rim of the Western arm of a minor spiral galaxy.
I agree, those are decent sources. We'd have an epic win on our hands *IF* Lucas was kept away from the writing, directing, cinematography, lighting, camera-work, special effects, catering, cleaning. In fact, keep him off the set(s) and shoots entirely; maybe invite him to the odd conference call for old times sake then I'd be a happy bunny.
Something to do with pump-and-dump, right?
"Is there a god?" "woof" "good boy, you're human alright."
I gave up broadcast and cable TV only to get hooked up to 4chan. Not sure that's a good swap. OTOH, this thread is EPIC.
A tad incompetent. They wait until virtually just before the certificate award to deliver the bad news. You'd'a thought they would would have spotted "bad apples" *way* before this point.
Nike claimed that they were legally a person, so they could lie in advertising. A corporation as a person is a legal fiction, a construct. So those posters claiming that corporations do not general rights are correct; corporations only have the rights that the courts define.
So it's not cool to have no choice? I thought we were against choice? Doesn't everyone want either KDE or Gnome to die?
At least
1. He makes decisions
2. He lets you know what he thinks
Must fucking managers never do either then back-stab you into oblivion. No, not bitter. Not bitter at all
Paging Dr House: Yeah, those sneaky fuckers sneaking a little change in the formula, re-patenting it, charging even more for it? I'd go for a patent on a major first use, but just changing the molecular structure a little? GTFO. In fact, that might be an extra step in the patent process: how novel is this new drug?
I think you should also read-up on TRIPs and TRIPS plus. This introduced IPR to international trade law for the first time. Now, there are exceptions when countries can forcefully licence drugs - time of war etc - however, Big Pharma didn't even want that and pushed for an implicit policy called TRIPS plus which would never allow for forced-licence drug. I think I'm correct in saying that the Clinton Administration almost threatened war over South African threat to force-licence AIDs drug production.
Now that the TRIPS convention is part of the WTO, America is forcing it's arcane view on IPR on the ROTW. Thanks a bunch.
FYI, some non-synthetic drugs do grow on trees. There's a lot of drugs stemming from natural plants which have made the grade.
"There are three things you can do:
1. Kill yourself.
2. Kill your manservant.
3. Kill everybody in the whole world."
Now 2 is fine, 1 is reccomended, but 3?
The only strategy the powers-that-be have left is ... kill everybody!!!!
thankyou, thankyou. I'll be all week. Try the veal.
there you go, fixed for yah
The Bean Shell. That's it. That's what Gonad is trying to copy. Though I forget - who's trying to copy who this week?
Same problems too as well - memory consumption up the wazoo and slow as hell. Every time you've got to do a "pipe" you need to look at miles and miles of API.
You got Gulf I nailed ... but Gulf 2? don't think do. But I see what you did there ... remember all that crap about Weapons of Mass Destruction? The Uranium that wasn't there? Jumped-up pretext. The UN never passed a resolution allowing invasion. The current invasion is as illegal as they get.
I think software patents work like this.
An algorithm turns a general purpose machine into one for a particular purpose. This is no different from patenting the Spinning Jenny. So, in principle, I agree with software patents. However, I think the *implementation* of patents should be tightened, particularly wrt full-disclosure. If you patent an algorithm or a method, then you must fully disclose the code, or at least a reference implementation. Something which is patented cannot be a trade secret. And I agree with the other strictures. I think these conditions - if strictly followed - would rid the world of most software patents. Although of course, people like Bush can put foxes in charge of the hen-house and fuck-up everything.
along with women's scarves and men's hair. Your foreign policy is shit, the economy is sliding into the gutter, your best brains are going abroad, your government has worse cronyism than Bush's, what do you do? Have a crack-down on those stylish scarves and some incorrectly trimmed hair. Yeah. That'll get the country right back on track to armageddon the Middle East.
MonkeySoft Office 2007 is business software. Change == cost. Don't change unless the change demonstrates *significant* cost-reduction, and really, none of the participants so far have come up with a single reason why Ribbons will induce these cost-reductions. Double-entry book-keeping has remained roughly the same since the 15th century. That's right, 500 years. So an interface that's remained stable for 10 years? Pah, nothing.
The latest Monkeysoft "innovation" is really just a money-spinner for MS, no more no less. It's eye-candy to say, oh, look, *something* has changed. Amongst the reasons I suspect they get away with this almost blatant thievery is that very few corporate leaders know that much about engineering and there are very few CIOs on boards.
COST.
Office 2007 is business software. Change == COST. Double-entry book-keeping remained the same for what seemed like millenia.
Of course, the real reason for change is so that we all have to buy new machines, and Microsoft can CHARGE more. The COST to the business customer goes up.
Stick to OSS. Once the training hump is over, that'll drive the COSTs down.
I want to pay for music. I want guaranteed quality. I want complete meta-data, linked to relevant meta-data. I'm pissed off continually updating meta-data. Use the fucking tags, people!!!