3-year-old Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot, or post-brutal dictator?
If God told you to kill the 3 year old because God knew that the child would grow up to become Hitalin Pot, then that means there's no free will for the child to grow up and choose to commit their atrocities. Or is there some atrocity I'm unaware of that a child can commit that's worthy of a punishment by death?
If it's post-brutal dictator phase, then I'd say that God has a pretty justifiable reason for putting them to death. *Personally,* I'd just throw them in jail and let them rot for the res of their lives, but I wouldn't begrudge someone for supporting the execution of a tyrant.
We also have a modern myth that anyone who wants to, through hard work and perseverance alone, can become a millionaire in the United States, and that a person's only limitations are their (lack of) drive to succeed.
So recognizing someone's work and accomplishments is the same thing as worshiping them as a religious symbol? And the fact that some panel (the Nobel Committee) awards someone an international prize means that everyone else who respects him idolizes him?
By the way, I like that you're quoting my previous slashdot sig here. You probably aren't aware that Exxon setup a carbon trading desk with Goldman, are you? They are really into it, because they stand to make billions of dollars from any such scheme.
Maybe because it's irrelevant? There's something on the horizon that *could* be a crisis, and we have a couple of large entities setting themselves up to profit from it? I take it you haven't heard the expression, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
The fact that someone is looking ahead to try to profit from it should not surprise anybody, and on top of that, says nothing about the validity of AGW theory. Or are you a paranoid lunatic who is claiming that nearly all of the scientists in the world studying climate change are in bed with both Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil? Because unless I'm just setting you up for some sort of false dichotomy, I can't see how your statements can be interpreted in any other way.
Those are GREEN house gases, Guess what water vapor does in sufficient quantity? Reflect radiation (not absorb it), called Anisotropic solar reflectance. But that is hardly ever mentioned, because it doesn't happen in smaller scale greenhouse tests.
The problem for Global Warming Alarmists is that there is no way to test for such a thing.
Yeah, I'll bet the scientists who study and build computer models to simulate this *never* thought of water vapor. Maybe you should write a paper and build your own simulation that takes this previously completely unknown effect into account. You'd probably win a Nobel prize.
</sarcasm>
The sad thing is that you probably buy your own bullshit and think you're really just *that* insightful.
You keep trying to paint the group as this or that when the reason people from all political walks are attracted to the group is simplicity of purpose.
And you paint everyone who thinks global warming is an issue we should be concerned about as a WarmMonger. Guess that makes you about even.
Stopped reading here. You ask people to quit calling names like "truther" and "denier," then go on and do the same fucking thing. You're part of the problem you're complaining about.
FF7 had far less gear customization than 6; every character had their weapon type, and nobody else could use it. Every new weapon was strictly an upgrade over the old one. Materia let you do some interesting things, but nothing matched what you could do in 6, where any character who could wield swords could wield any sword. In 6, any character could learn any esper's spells.
Not to mention that in 7, you only had 3 character parties, while 6 had 4.
I liked 7, and consider it to be a landmark for console games, but 6 was more interesting and fun to play. You were just given far more options. And, IMO, had a better story, too.
I don't pay $60 to be told a story. A story is not a game. A game that can be completed with a piece of tape and auto-fire is not challenging or interesting enough to play through.
When tea party activists are out protesting bank bail-outs, it's True Americans doing their civic duty. When it's a bunch of students and random non-affiliated people, it's just Leftwing Psuedo Anarchists.
Maybe you called out the tea party protests as being a bunch of malcontents too; in that case, my apologies. Otherwise, fuck you and your hypocrisy.
You miss the point. While the rest of the world got good coverage, the citizens of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria were ill-informed of the goings-on in their own respective countries.
I don't think this is really what's going on here so much though, because it doesn't seem like *anyone* is hearing much about this protest.
Explain exactly how Samsung using its patent portfolio as defense against Apple's frivolous "rounded rectangle" patents is strongarming more money out of Apple. Apple is the one using the courts to block sales of its competitors products. They had the option of competing with a better product (like everyone else does), instead they are choosing to compete in the courts.
F/RAND stands for Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory. In this case, it seems pretty fair and reasonable to use an essential technology that Samsung owns to defend against Apple's bullshit.
Of course, that makes me an Apple hater and a Samsung cheerleader, so you can disregard my opinion entirely while you go circle jerk with the "fair" group of people that thinks that look-and-feel patents aren't ridiculous.
In this argument, the digital electric toothbrush can be patented; its digital controller can even be patented, if it's novel enough. (Perhaps the manufacturer finds a way to make the circuit waterproof that isn't just smearing the whole thing with epoxy) The software/firmware that drives the controller can be copyrighted.
What can't be patented is the bit of code that says "if (time > 120 seconds) motor.stop();" It's not novel, it's not advancing the state of the art in any way -- it's an extremely obvious way to implement a desired function. Perhaps you've forgotten Amazon's 1-click patent?
Please mod the 2nd post up. I have a junior and a freshman in the state universities. It's sickening how money grubbing the universities have become.
Ok, MOST of these are things that came about because universities are underfunded. Look at what has been happening to university budgets over the past 20 years -- cut after cut after cut. They have to make that up somehow, and raising fees and cutting services are about their only options.
Now, I'm not going to say that universities don't waste money; I worked at and attended one for a decade. There are *tons* of creative ways that universities use up those budgets. (Students vote, repeatedly, to not build a multi million dollar recreation center; administration comes in and takes a vote over Christmas break and wow, it passes! Students vote, repeatedly, to not install artificial turf for the football team's *practice* field; take a vote over Christmas break and hey, it passes too! Repeat ad nauseam.) But the thing is, states aren't funding even the basics of higher education any more, and *someone* has to pay for it. We've decided in our infinite wisdom that it should be the students themselves that fund it, through large amounts of debt accrued early on in their lives.
Quit watching MTV. Those 'musicians' are a tiny minority, played up by the labels to show a grandiose lifestyle, and hardly reflect the wants of 'many' musicians.
Mac has been outgoing the PC market in general by a huge percentage
That's a nice weasel statistic.
Of course going from 7% market share to 7.1% market share is a pretty huge growth; that's a 1.4% increase (depending on how you calculate the numbers) compared to the PC market share going from 91% to 90.9%.
More people are jumping switch from android phones to iPhone
I'm not going to call BS on your statistic, because a) I don't know for sure and b) it really doesn't matter because Android phones are vastly outselling iPhones, have been for some time, and show no signs of slowing down.
The problem is that a lot of companies based in Asia are attempting to copy Apple in terms of look and UI, but the underlying technology doesn't stack up.
Yeah, this is just crap. My Evo looks great, runs great, and had better hardware than its iPhone competitor at the time of launch. It has a few issues here and there, but no more than any of my friends' iPhones. No phone is perfect, and anyone who believes otherwise is delusional.
I suspect that if apple gets too many problems with either VIA or Samsung, they'll just buy them out. They've got plenty of cash.
Now you're just exposing your ignorance. VIA? Maybe. Samsung? Do you have *any* clue how fucking big Samsung is?
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3-year-old Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot, or post-brutal dictator?
If God told you to kill the 3 year old because God knew that the child would grow up to become Hitalin Pot, then that means there's no free will for the child to grow up and choose to commit their atrocities. Or is there some atrocity I'm unaware of that a child can commit that's worthy of a punishment by death?
If it's post-brutal dictator phase, then I'd say that God has a pretty justifiable reason for putting them to death. *Personally,* I'd just throw them in jail and let them rot for the res of their lives, but I wouldn't begrudge someone for supporting the execution of a tyrant.
--Jeremy
We also have a modern myth that anyone who wants to, through hard work and perseverance alone, can become a millionaire in the United States, and that a person's only limitations are their (lack of) drive to succeed.
--Jeremy
So recognizing someone's work and accomplishments is the same thing as worshiping them as a religious symbol? And the fact that some panel (the Nobel Committee) awards someone an international prize means that everyone else who respects him idolizes him?
--Jeremy
Your emails are likely unremarkable enough that there wouldn't be anything worth going through. Just like 99% of the rest of us.
And I like that you didn't address the point that multiple independent panels have cleared him of any wrongdoing. Gotta keep beatin' that drum, eh?
--Jeremy
By the way, I like that you're quoting my previous slashdot sig here. You probably aren't aware that Exxon setup a carbon trading desk with Goldman, are you? They are really into it, because they stand to make billions of dollars from any such scheme.
Maybe because it's irrelevant? There's something on the horizon that *could* be a crisis, and we have a couple of large entities setting themselves up to profit from it? I take it you haven't heard the expression, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
The fact that someone is looking ahead to try to profit from it should not surprise anybody, and on top of that, says nothing about the validity of AGW theory. Or are you a paranoid lunatic who is claiming that nearly all of the scientists in the world studying climate change are in bed with both Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil? Because unless I'm just setting you up for some sort of false dichotomy, I can't see how your statements can be interpreted in any other way.
--Jeremy
Those are GREEN house gases, Guess what water vapor does in sufficient quantity? Reflect radiation (not absorb it), called Anisotropic solar reflectance. But that is hardly ever mentioned, because it doesn't happen in smaller scale greenhouse tests.
The problem for Global Warming Alarmists is that there is no way to test for such a thing.
Yeah, I'll bet the scientists who study and build computer models to simulate this *never* thought of water vapor. Maybe you should write a paper and build your own simulation that takes this previously completely unknown effect into account. You'd probably win a Nobel prize.
</sarcasm>
The sad thing is that you probably buy your own bullshit and think you're really just *that* insightful.
--Jeremy
You keep trying to paint the group as this or that when the reason people from all political walks are attracted to the group is simplicity of purpose.
And you paint everyone who thinks global warming is an issue we should be concerned about as a WarmMonger. Guess that makes you about even.
--Jeremy
Rev Al Gore
Stopped reading here. You ask people to quit calling names like "truther" and "denier," then go on and do the same fucking thing. You're part of the problem you're complaining about.
--Jeremy
FF7 had far less gear customization than 6; every character had their weapon type, and nobody else could use it. Every new weapon was strictly an upgrade over the old one. Materia let you do some interesting things, but nothing matched what you could do in 6, where any character who could wield swords could wield any sword. In 6, any character could learn any esper's spells.
Not to mention that in 7, you only had 3 character parties, while 6 had 4.
I liked 7, and consider it to be a landmark for console games, but 6 was more interesting and fun to play. You were just given far more options. And, IMO, had a better story, too.
--Jeremy
I don't pay $60 to be told a story. A story is not a game. A game that can be completed with a piece of tape and auto-fire is not challenging or interesting enough to play through.
--Jeremy
When tea party activists are out protesting bank bail-outs, it's True Americans doing their civic duty. When it's a bunch of students and random non-affiliated people, it's just Leftwing Psuedo Anarchists.
Maybe you called out the tea party protests as being a bunch of malcontents too; in that case, my apologies. Otherwise, fuck you and your hypocrisy.
--Jeremy
You miss the point. While the rest of the world got good coverage, the citizens of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria were ill-informed of the goings-on in their own respective countries.
I don't think this is really what's going on here so much though, because it doesn't seem like *anyone* is hearing much about this protest.
--Jeremy
Why because her goal was to egg on the authorities until an "Accident" happened so she can show everyone that she had the higher moral ground.
If the authorities do something illegal, then it doesn't matter how much they were "egged on." They're supposed to be trained professionals.
I don't get it with people like you. You're generally anti-government but pro-authority. Don't you see the disconnect there?
--Jeremy
Wouldn't you drop $500 on the latest GPU if you were guaranteed $200 cash back ?
What is "no", Alex. It's still $300 and time spent getting it set up.
Also, if you're a game developer or someone doing 3d imaging, then you're (maybe) doing product research. Otherwise you're a tax cheat.
--Jeremy
Explain exactly how Samsung using its patent portfolio as defense against Apple's frivolous "rounded rectangle" patents is strongarming more money out of Apple. Apple is the one using the courts to block sales of its competitors products. They had the option of competing with a better product (like everyone else does), instead they are choosing to compete in the courts.
F/RAND stands for Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory. In this case, it seems pretty fair and reasonable to use an essential technology that Samsung owns to defend against Apple's bullshit.
Of course, that makes me an Apple hater and a Samsung cheerleader, so you can disregard my opinion entirely while you go circle jerk with the "fair" group of people that thinks that look-and-feel patents aren't ridiculous.
--Jeremy
In this argument, the digital electric toothbrush can be patented; its digital controller can even be patented, if it's novel enough. (Perhaps the manufacturer finds a way to make the circuit waterproof that isn't just smearing the whole thing with epoxy) The software/firmware that drives the controller can be copyrighted.
What can't be patented is the bit of code that says "if (time > 120 seconds) motor.stop();" It's not novel, it's not advancing the state of the art in any way -- it's an extremely obvious way to implement a desired function. Perhaps you've forgotten Amazon's 1-click patent?
--Jeremy
The device can. The firmware can't.
The firmware can, however, be copyrighted. Not too difficult, is it?
-Jeremy
Please mod the 2nd post up. I have a junior and a freshman in the state universities. It's sickening how money grubbing the universities have become.
Ok, MOST of these are things that came about because universities are underfunded. Look at what has been happening to university budgets over the past 20 years -- cut after cut after cut. They have to make that up somehow, and raising fees and cutting services are about their only options.
Now, I'm not going to say that universities don't waste money; I worked at and attended one for a decade. There are *tons* of creative ways that universities use up those budgets. (Students vote, repeatedly, to not build a multi million dollar recreation center; administration comes in and takes a vote over Christmas break and wow, it passes! Students vote, repeatedly, to not install artificial turf for the football team's *practice* field; take a vote over Christmas break and hey, it passes too! Repeat ad nauseam.) But the thing is, states aren't funding even the basics of higher education any more, and *someone* has to pay for it. We've decided in our infinite wisdom that it should be the students themselves that fund it, through large amounts of debt accrued early on in their lives.
--Jeremy
Simple solution to unemployment: just euthanize Marge and Jim, because they're clearly far less important, er, worthwhile than Culture20 is.
--Jeremy
That's a nice little anecdotal rant. Thanks.
--Jeremy
The link you posted was from an AGW site that was last updated in 1998. Here Nineteen-fucking-ninety-eight.
I'm not even going to respond to the rest of your armchair scientist drivel. It's all been responded to and debunked if you'd take the time to read.
--Jeremy
Quit watching MTV. Those 'musicians' are a tiny minority, played up by the labels to show a grandiose lifestyle, and hardly reflect the wants of 'many' musicians.
--Jeremy
Mac has been outgoing the PC market in general by a huge percentage
That's a nice weasel statistic.
Of course going from 7% market share to 7.1% market share is a pretty huge growth; that's a 1.4% increase (depending on how you calculate the numbers) compared to the PC market share going from 91% to 90.9%.
More people are jumping switch from android phones to iPhone
I'm not going to call BS on your statistic, because a) I don't know for sure and b) it really doesn't matter because Android phones are vastly outselling iPhones, have been for some time, and show no signs of slowing down.
The problem is that a lot of companies based in Asia are attempting to copy Apple in terms of look and UI, but the underlying technology doesn't stack up.
Yeah, this is just crap. My Evo looks great, runs great, and had better hardware than its iPhone competitor at the time of launch. It has a few issues here and there, but no more than any of my friends' iPhones. No phone is perfect, and anyone who believes otherwise is delusional.
I suspect that if apple gets too many problems with either VIA or Samsung, they'll just buy them out. They've got plenty of cash.
Now you're just exposing your ignorance. VIA? Maybe. Samsung? Do you have *any* clue how fucking big Samsung is?
--Jeremy
We get it. You own an iPhone and don't care if Apple owns the entire smartphone market -- in fact, you'd prefer for there to be no competition.
Some of us do care. Apple's "inventions" aren't. We'd like alternatives.
--Jeremy
Technically legal does not mean the same thing as "not wrong."
--Jeremy