Once we (as in society as a whole) decide what the modern purpose of marriage really is, the solution will quickly follow. It's the transition that's noisy
With an issue that is so argued over, the problem is everyone has a say in how a marriage should be defined. I think it should be defined in terms of the children because they are the ones who dont get any of the decisions, and always get the brunt of the problems.
The idea of discrimination is based on what is constant in your life. What were you born with, who are your parents, what color is your skin, yada yada yada (yeah, yada isn't a noun either).
We dont say someone was discriminated against because he got a DUI, we say he messed up his career. Try getting a serious job without experience or a college degree, you wont get it, and you wont get any sympathy from people... because people dont see age discrimination as valid only because everyone is born at the same age, and age is variable.
You wont get a job at the EPA if you go around driving a 4x4 with "Charlton Heston is my president." If you drive a bike to work, and yell "save the pather" at random you'll probably end up with employee of the month.
We know that if sexual orientation hiding was possible it would be trivial to dismiss discrimination based on orientation. The problem here is proving that hiding is reasonably easy.
Now lets look at the difference of religion and sexual orientation. In our current society (virtually) nobody is raised with a homosexual orientation. That's right, the vast majority of people with "alternative" orientations have that orientation because they chose it for themselves. This is a good thing, but it doesn't make any sense.
Why would you choose a lifestyle incompatible with so many "intolerant" people? No really, there should be a reason. Maybe you could get a job at a gay bar, maybe you could get a job as a stripper... neither sounds too appealing to me, and I'm sure hardly anyone switches their oreintation for such a lame reason.
The only reason I see for people declaring a homosexual orientation is to bother people, or generally just cause trouble. Unless there really is another reason (please, do tell), people who switch to incompatible orientations should be dealt with in the same way as people with other social problems are dealt with. No, I dont think they should be jailed, but I dont think jailing drug dealers or substance abusers is very productive either.
Ok, you got modded up for your opinion... congrats.
I'm one of the christians you might like to call gay hating, or stupid depending on the mood btw. The problem is, Descrimination based on sexual orientation does not exist. That's right, nobody is getting fired, nobody strikes out at an interview because he/she is GLBT.
Why you ask? Sexual orientation is not an unvariable of yourself. Further, sexual orientation is simple to hide. You shouldn't be having sex at work anyway! Just like you shouldn't be skateboarding, playing loud music in your cubicle, cursing at customers etc.
To sum things up, there's no reason to have a gay antidescrimination law for two reasons. 1. Sex isn't a non-variable 2. Sex isn't appropriate in the workplace
If you cant understand these two principles, you're either a tolerance bandwagonner, or you are gay and trying to push your sexual orientation on others.
My next door neighbor who worked on the apollo 13 mission died over a year ago. A nice old guy who wasn't too ashamed to admit that the problem was with the rutine checks before launch. I suspected foul play when I saw this honor being made now, and it's really unfortunate/offensive that half the engineers are probably dead now.
The problem here, is that in all likelyhood a galaxy shouldn't be shaped like a pancake, that is unless someone put it together specifically to look that way.
Argueing there's a logical complex reason why the milky way is a pancake is like arguing there's a complex reason that only 6 cookies remain in the jar, when your mother placed 20 there.
Try as you might, you're not going to convice your mother that you didn't eat 14 (choak) cookies. The explanation is simple enough, and without solid evidence that someone else ate them, or they came into contact with antimatter cookies, your left withthe simple explanation.
False assumptions (ie, all matter "spawned" from one central location) have no more credibilty if you come up with an unbelievable story of how this might have happend. Simplicity rules here, and if we're really going to use the scientific method, we should be looking back at what most likely did happen, not looking for cop-outs to explain poor assumptions and bias.
The problem isn't securing the information better, the problem is the information is your enemy. Security is an oxymoron in this case, no matter how well you lock down the systems there's nothing keeping someone inside from stealing information.
It's like everyone has their own poison being stored by someone else. The problem isn't who's storing your identity, the problem is your identity is a vulnerability!
Until a non-vulnerable identity is made, organizations should respect people's privacy even if it comes at the cost of anonymity.
A quick search of Job sites shows that there is a considerable amount of new Java development on Windows,
You'll find a lot quicker that the Human Resources bot who posted the job has no idea of what is actually required for filling the position. Most of the time I think they just throw in random keywords hoping to get someone who will lie to their face.
I'm one of the normal people who runs Afterstep. I've been disappointed that Pat doesn't include afterstep in his install cd (or anywhere in fact), and I've been told by Vaevictus that the Slackware devel team wont work with Afterstep at all, even for bug fixes.
There's plenty more UI's that slackware doesn't have trouble with, but I'm wondering, is Pat is trying to get rid of users?
does this mean that our quest for speed-of-light travel should focus on waiting for C to approach 70 MPH?
I hope not. Perhaps the most exciting idea that could come out of this discovery is that the speed of light is not an upper bound on possible travel speed.
With little formal physics understanding we know that everything is less complex to calculate when an object is moving less than 1/10 C. Otherwise the rules are more complex. I'd guess things just get insane when studying speeds above 1C.
I was going to moderate your comment "interesting", but then I realized all of this is just hypothesis so it doesn't really belong outside the original study group.
two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old.
In 1998, astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding at ever faster speeds. It's an effect still searching for a cause - until then, everyone thought the universe's expansion was slowing down after the big bang.
A true scientific perspective would be to look at the evidence of the universe and theorize about the origins from there. Many studies(like this one find that light slows down over time. The idea that the universe must be 14-28 billion years old just to cover for the huge size is unnecessary and sloppy when the speed of light is not considered as a constant.
I beileve in explaining things in the most simple possible way. If a theory is challenged by plain old evidence the theory probably has an error and should be fixed. Making up new theories to explain a dead one is very sloppy and it takes away from the ethical reputation of science.
Realistically, "reciprocal" isn't exactly correct either, but IMO it seems closer.
Of course a mathematical principle cannot apply directly to security. These definitions are up for discussion but in my teaching inverse means a functional opposite. I can see your argument that this relationship is closer to multiplicative than additive... I wasn't thinking about additive when I said inverse though.
Reciprical rolls of the tounge well, but inverse is the word that properly describes this relationship.
Fortunately following good design at the develpment end gives users more flexability without quite so much vulnerability. Think of the option of running telnet compared to giving someone root access to your machine just by being redirected to a rogue site in internet explorer. Both have the same end, the user doesn't know whats happening in the second case though.
What I think doesn't matter at all. Its the simple definition of the word. You might want to change your identification from "Conservative Right" to something else. Most of the wrong stuff the Republican party does has nothing to do with being conservative.
On your political position... I think you can see mine as well.
To say that the conservative view is 'gloriously wrong' could be taken the wrong way. The definition of "conservative" is simply unchanged, how things used to be, etc. Now if everything in the past is always wrong, how can we look forward to the future. Looking at this in a pure sense says that in 20 years, the conservatives will be doing what liberals are doing right now.
I'm always skeptical of someone who views the past as completely and utterly inferior. The viewpoint that change is good usually doesn't bother me, but radical changes which lead to scoffing at the past seems both arrogant and wrong from my viewpoint.
This whole line of thought is so flawed. "Protect the children" seems to take priority over everything including common sense.
Creating rules for criminals, cons, scammers, spammers, and porn distributers is not effective. These people either do not care about laws at all, or they care but still wont stop.
The state of utah can effectively ban the bad sites from being in their state, but this will just lead to Utah residents hosting, or more likely routing to Asia (add obligatory korean joke).
The seen effect is that Utah is clean of all porn sites, but the residents of Utah (and their precious children) are still exposed to all kinds of filth from other areas.
These examples just show why blacklisting doesn't work. If anyone should blacklist it's the citizen, and this should be done by not viewing any site which is in a whitelist.
In this case, I think Utah should strongly encourage sites to identify their strong points, and identify as clean child friendly sites.
The more internet content that can be classified unconditionally as clean, the better for protection. It's possible that Utah will actually help this problem, as only the child friendly minds will be obeying the laws.
I can see that having a censorship vibe with unconditional rules here would discourage legit content providers from participating. A blogger, or community site builder would be infinitly more pleased with conforming to these rules if "friendly" sites were praised, linked highly, or even supported with something simple like a lottery or free hosting.
Openbsd "ate" my partition table a while back. Every one of the openbsd supporters said I did something wrong, but I've never had problems like that with anything but windows.
The installation isn't friendly, and it doesn't have any advantages over freebsd or linux for desktop use.
People running servers that must be secure and reliable find openbsd worth the extra effort, and I certainly respect that.
well you can guess that this particular controller will be avoided by anyone with connections. Openbsd doesn't enjoy much use from desktop or developer users because it's too hard, and has few advantages.
The one advantage it does have is security, which is vital for running large scale servers. These servers have reliabilty as a high priority, so RAID is the norm.
Absolutely. Open source drivers would be a beautiful gift, in this case it's actually more than what is being asked for. Adaptec is asked to release specs on their raid controllers, they chose not to.
They are under an obligation to provide usefulness on legit architectures, but they aren't doing that. Adaptec should get over their shame of bugs, and allow the driver people at OpenBSD a chance at making things work.
There is no general fix for this problem, often specs are released way too late. On the other hand, releasing open source drivers will open specs for the same device. These specs aren't just trade secrets, they're actually necessary for building drivers.
I think java gets in the way of OO development. There's no legitamite reason I know of to use more than one high level language in a single project. Java is a cross platform language, but it's really too slow to use for a production application like openoffice.
It bothers me personally for the following reasons: 1) installing java is a pain Sun can't make a installer, and there always seems to be a problem with linking. 2) Openoffice is significantly hard to compile without using more than one language. 3) Nobody makes statically linked binaries for OO.
It's really about focus. Creativity in a project should be within a bound. Unless your creativity is limited somewhere, all you get is chaos, which isn't usable.
A language like C/C++ has enough foundation for plenty of creativity, this project would just make so much more sense written in one language.
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With an issue that is so argued over, the problem is everyone has a say in how a marriage should be defined. I think it should be defined in terms of the children because they are the ones who dont get any of the decisions, and always get the brunt of the problems.
Talk to their children, I'll assure you they aren't having fun yet.
If they were married! Find me 10 homosexuals who are in a lifetime commitment to a member of the opposite sex and you can post that trash.
Marriage is a relationship to jointly support children. Not a toy.
The idea of discrimination is based on what is constant in your life. What were you born with, who are your parents, what color is your skin, yada yada yada (yeah, yada isn't a noun either).
We dont say someone was discriminated against because he got a DUI, we say he messed up his career. Try getting a serious job without experience or a college degree, you wont get it, and you wont get any sympathy from people... because people dont see age discrimination as valid only because everyone is born at the same age, and age is variable.
You wont get a job at the EPA if you go around driving a 4x4 with "Charlton Heston is my president." If you drive a bike to work, and yell "save the pather" at random you'll probably end up with employee of the month.
We know that if sexual orientation hiding was possible it would be trivial to dismiss discrimination based on orientation. The problem here is proving that hiding is reasonably easy.
Now lets look at the difference of religion and sexual orientation. In our current society (virtually) nobody is raised with a homosexual orientation. That's right, the vast majority of people with "alternative" orientations have that orientation because they chose it for themselves. This is a good thing, but it doesn't make any sense.
Why would you choose a lifestyle incompatible with so many "intolerant" people? No really, there should be a reason. Maybe you could get a job at a gay bar, maybe you could get a job as a stripper... neither sounds too appealing to me, and I'm sure hardly anyone switches their oreintation for such a lame reason.
The only reason I see for people declaring a homosexual orientation is to bother people, or generally just cause trouble. Unless there really is another reason (please, do tell), people who switch to incompatible orientations should be dealt with in the same way as people with other social problems are dealt with. No, I dont think they should be jailed, but I dont think jailing drug dealers or substance abusers is very productive either.
Ok, you got modded up for your opinion... congrats.
I'm one of the christians you might like to call gay hating, or stupid depending on the mood btw. The problem is, Descrimination based on sexual orientation does not exist. That's right, nobody is getting fired, nobody strikes out at an interview because he/she is GLBT.
Why you ask? Sexual orientation is not an unvariable of yourself. Further, sexual orientation is simple to hide. You shouldn't be having sex at work anyway! Just like you shouldn't be skateboarding, playing loud music in your cubicle, cursing at customers etc.
To sum things up, there's no reason to have a gay antidescrimination law for two reasons.
1. Sex isn't a non-variable
2. Sex isn't appropriate in the workplace
If you cant understand these two principles, you're either a tolerance bandwagonner, or you are gay and trying to push your sexual orientation on others.
My next door neighbor who worked on the apollo 13 mission died over a year ago. A nice old guy who wasn't too ashamed to admit that the problem was with the rutine checks before launch. I suspected foul play when I saw this honor being made now, and it's really unfortunate/offensive that half the engineers are probably dead now.
Well, i've asked the same question. The simple answer is that bar doesn't make any sense alone. foo.bar is the only way to complete a thought.
.pro domain anyway?
Why does this stuff get posted? There is no opinion on this, nobody mentioned that ICANN generally sucks, and who wants a
You dont care about silly nuron games, If I could just keep misquitos off, I'd call the insect brain research complete.
The problem here, is that in all likelyhood a galaxy shouldn't be shaped like a pancake, that is unless someone put it together specifically to look that way.
Argueing there's a logical complex reason why the milky way is a pancake is like arguing there's a complex reason that only 6 cookies remain in the jar, when your mother placed 20 there.
Try as you might, you're not going to convice your mother that you didn't eat 14 (choak) cookies. The explanation is simple enough, and without solid evidence that someone else ate them, or they came into contact with antimatter cookies, your left withthe simple explanation.
False assumptions (ie, all matter "spawned" from one central location) have no more credibilty if you come up with an unbelievable story of how this might have happend. Simplicity rules here, and if we're really going to use the scientific method, we should be looking back at what most likely did happen, not looking for cop-outs to explain poor assumptions and bias.
The problem isn't securing the information better, the problem is the information is your enemy. Security is an oxymoron in this case, no matter how well you lock down the systems there's nothing keeping someone inside from stealing information.
It's like everyone has their own poison being stored by someone else. The problem isn't who's storing your identity, the problem is your identity is a vulnerability!
Until a non-vulnerable identity is made, organizations should respect people's privacy even if it comes at the cost of anonymity.
You'll find a lot quicker that the Human Resources bot who posted the job has no idea of what is actually required for filling the position. Most of the time I think they just throw in random keywords hoping to get someone who will lie to their face.
When someone can bring up a full rap song of lyrics with only one green underline, you know there's something wrong with the grammar checker!
I dont know anyone who relys on it, but it should be fixed for the occasional n00b.
I'm one of the normal people who runs Afterstep. I've been disappointed that Pat doesn't include afterstep in his install cd (or anywhere in fact), and I've been told by Vaevictus that the Slackware devel team wont work with Afterstep at all, even for bug fixes.
There's plenty more UI's that slackware doesn't have trouble with, but I'm wondering, is Pat is trying to get rid of users?
With little formal physics understanding we know that everything is less complex to calculate when an object is moving less than 1/10 C. Otherwise the rules are more complex. I'd guess things just get insane when studying speeds above 1C.
A true scientific perspective would be to look at the evidence of the universe and theorize about the origins from there. Many studies(like this one find that light slows down over time. The idea that the universe must be 14-28 billion years old just to cover for the huge size is unnecessary and sloppy when the speed of light is not considered as a constant.
I beileve in explaining things in the most simple possible way. If a theory is challenged by plain old evidence the theory probably has an error and should be fixed. Making up new theories to explain a dead one is very sloppy and it takes away from the ethical reputation of science.
Reciprical rolls of the tounge well, but inverse is the word that properly describes this relationship.
Fortunately following good design at the develpment end gives users more flexability without quite so much vulnerability. Think of the option of running telnet compared to giving someone root access to your machine just by being redirected to a rogue site in internet explorer. Both have the same end, the user doesn't know whats happening in the second case though.
use blackbox. Its more minimalistic in size, and probably in in memory footprint too.
What I think doesn't matter at all. Its the simple definition of the word. You might want to change your identification from "Conservative Right" to something else. Most of the wrong stuff the Republican party does has nothing to do with being conservative.
On your political position... I think you can see mine as well.
To say that the conservative view is 'gloriously wrong' could be taken the wrong way. The definition of "conservative" is simply unchanged, how things used to be, etc. Now if everything in the past is always wrong, how can we look forward to the future. Looking at this in a pure sense says that in 20 years, the conservatives will be doing what liberals are doing right now.
I'm always skeptical of someone who views the past as completely and utterly inferior. The viewpoint that change is good usually doesn't bother me, but radical changes which lead to scoffing at the past seems both arrogant and wrong from my viewpoint.
This whole line of thought is so flawed. "Protect the children" seems to take priority over everything including common sense.
Creating rules for criminals, cons, scammers, spammers, and porn distributers is not effective. These people either do not care about laws at all, or they care but still wont stop.
The state of utah can effectively ban the bad sites from being in their state, but this will just lead to Utah residents hosting, or more likely routing to Asia (add obligatory korean joke).
The seen effect is that Utah is clean of all porn sites, but the residents of Utah (and their precious children) are still exposed to all kinds of filth from other areas.
These examples just show why blacklisting doesn't work. If anyone should blacklist it's the citizen, and this should be done by not viewing any site which is in a whitelist.
In this case, I think Utah should strongly encourage sites to identify their strong points, and identify as clean child friendly sites.
The more internet content that can be classified unconditionally as clean, the better for protection. It's possible that Utah will actually help this problem, as only the child friendly minds will be obeying the laws.
I can see that having a censorship vibe with unconditional rules here would discourage legit content providers from participating. A blogger, or community site builder would be infinitly more pleased with conforming to these rules if "friendly" sites were praised, linked highly, or even supported with something simple like a lottery or free hosting.
Openbsd "ate" my partition table a while back. Every one of the openbsd supporters said I did something wrong, but I've never had problems like that with anything but windows.
The installation isn't friendly, and it doesn't have any advantages over freebsd or linux for desktop use.
People running servers that must be secure and reliable find openbsd worth the extra effort, and I certainly respect that.
well you can guess that this particular controller will be avoided by anyone with connections. Openbsd doesn't enjoy much use from desktop or developer users because it's too hard, and has few advantages.
The one advantage it does have is security, which is vital for running large scale servers. These servers have reliabilty as a high priority, so RAID is the norm.
Absolutely. Open source drivers would be a beautiful gift, in this case it's actually more than what is being asked for. Adaptec is asked to release specs on their raid controllers, they chose not to.
They are under an obligation to provide usefulness on legit architectures, but they aren't doing that. Adaptec should get over their shame of bugs, and allow the driver people at OpenBSD a chance at making things work.
There is no general fix for this problem, often specs are released way too late. On the other hand, releasing open source drivers will open specs for the same device. These specs aren't just trade secrets, they're actually necessary for building drivers.
I think java gets in the way of OO development. There's no legitamite reason I know of to use more than one high level language in a single project. Java is a cross platform language, but it's really too slow to use for a production application like openoffice.
It bothers me personally for the following reasons: 1) installing java is a pain Sun can't make a installer, and there always seems to be a problem with linking.
2) Openoffice is significantly hard to compile without using more than one language.
3) Nobody makes statically linked binaries for OO.
It's really about focus. Creativity in a project should be within a bound. Unless your creativity is limited somewhere, all you get is chaos, which isn't usable.
A language like C/C++ has enough foundation for plenty of creativity, this project would just make so much more sense written in one language.