Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...."
I tend to side with the quite-serious argument that if people could not have abortions, they may abstain from sex more often or pursue another form of birth control. You feel that way because you are too young to remember a time before Roe v. Wade. Abortion and infanticide have been around since the dawn of time and, in fact, are the natural actions of a hunter-gatherer society.
The sole benefit derived from legal abortions today is that the woman stands a much better chance of surviving the procedure. To assume that people, denied that benefit, would simply stop having sex is entirely ignorant of human nature, past history, and your own throbbing biological urges.
I'm pretty sure that if an embryo were left to its own devices it would decay rapidly.
So... if you have an embryo in a lab, are you morally bound to implant it into a host? If there are no volunteers are you morally bound to impregnate someone against their will?
It would be an interesting question if there were not people starving to death on our planet.
The payroll company I worked at a while ago still ran both hardware and software from the early 70's. Think disk packs like the IBM 33xx. I worked on upgrading the front end to be a bit more user friendly, but the back end was code that the boss wrote almost 40 years ago, and the hardware (aside from the axehead-handle question) was all original.
I think he was planning on replacing it all when parts no longer became available, but that seemed to be decades away. If it ain't broke...
Many of your points here either point to concepts that are too generic to be copyrighted (a house?) or were from an era when the world was a different place. Everything changed after 19/11.
You lost me right at "Ethics is unconcerned with the actions of others." Ethics isn't a real-world application of the Prisoner's Dilemma. It's basically the opposite.
I thought the whole point of setting up Israel after WWII was to bring about the rapture.
- displace an entire people
- foment decades of unrest, misery, and death
- attempt to force the hand of god
sounds like something we'd do on a weekend, really.
((btw, I think you meant 'wahrgeld', weregild sounds like something that becomes gold-plated during the full moon which, admittedly, is a cool concept))
What is with idiots moderating up factually incorrect nonsense about gibi being "invented" by salesmen or wikipedia? It's an International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee proposal. At best these posts are funny, trolls at worst. Did you even read the page you linked? Here's an interesting bit (aha ha):
Historical context*
Once upon a time, computer professionals noticed that 2^10 was very nearly equal to 1000 and started using the SI prefix "kilo" to mean 1024. That worked well enough for a decade or two because everybody who talked kilobytes knew that the term implied 1024 bytes. But, almost overnight a much more numerous "everybody" bought computers, and the trade computer professionals needed to talk to physicists and engineers and even to ordinary people, most of whom know that a kilometer is 1000 meters and a kilogram is 1000 grams. So, basically you're wrong.
Pray tell, did you at no point in your fired rage stop to think that some people may actually be angry (or merely annoyed) at the fact that units like kB, MB and GB mean completely different things depending on who says them? It's because the conceit was dreamed up by the marketing drone, the programmer's natural enemy.
Considering our country's long history of enabling corporate espionage, you might want to think hard about doing business in the States period. Is there a more likely reason they need to copy your data?
If you have a large group to support that demands stability there's no way you're going to let MS decide when to update your machines. This plan is a bad fit for just about everyone. Perhaps home users might like it if this dropped the price of a PC to $200 or so?
If you want to get technical, you're depriving the ISP of a potential sale.
This is exactly the kind of bullshit we've heard again and again from the IP companies. When we are at the point that you can sue for loss of potential revenue we will have FAILED.
((no, shareholder suits will not count until it's possible to sue a company for not immediately liquidating all assets))
He was referring to the words that appear on the title screen. There will be the name of the episode, the episode number, and then either 'Complex' or (I think) 'Stand Alone'. If it's a 'Complex' episode it is directly related to the overarching story, otherwise it's only tangential.
Same here... I still remember the episode that largely took place in a chat room as one of my favorites. GitS is good action, but the plot is why I watch.
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I don't know, I have the feeling that
scientific experiment > mommy was drunk
for a lot of people. YMMV.
Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...."
The sole benefit derived from legal abortions today is that the woman stands a much better chance of surviving the procedure. To assume that people, denied that benefit, would simply stop having sex is entirely ignorant of human nature, past history, and your own throbbing biological urges.
The dishonesty lies in claiming that we care about human life, when it's entirely apparent that we do not.
I'm pretty sure that if an embryo were left to its own devices it would decay rapidly.
So... if you have an embryo in a lab, are you morally bound to implant it into a host? If there are no volunteers are you morally bound to impregnate someone against their will?
It would be an interesting question if there were not people starving to death on our planet.
Only due to circumstance. We're screwed if those two groups ever realize they have more in common with each other than they do with the rest of us.
There are two kinds of fool.
One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
And one says "This is new, and therefore better."
John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider
and we've all read that book at least once, right? RIGHT?
The payroll company I worked at a while ago still ran both hardware and software from the early 70's. Think disk packs like the IBM 33xx. I worked on upgrading the front end to be a bit more user friendly, but the back end was code that the boss wrote almost 40 years ago, and the hardware (aside from the axehead-handle question) was all original.
I think he was planning on replacing it all when parts no longer became available, but that seemed to be decades away. If it ain't broke...
He didn't do that either. He only improved on already existing improved ideas.
I thought the whole point of setting up Israel after WWII was to bring about the rapture.
- displace an entire people
- foment decades of unrest, misery, and death
- attempt to force the hand of god
sounds like something we'd do on a weekend, really.
((btw, I think you meant 'wahrgeld', weregild sounds like something that becomes gold-plated during the full moon which, admittedly, is a cool concept))
The exact same thing, just to their own people.
and satyrical should be satirical, unless I totally missed something in the OP.
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Yeah, STFU and code you stupid kids!
For a given definition of 'food'.
Considering our country's long history of enabling corporate espionage, you might want to think hard about doing business in the States period. Is there a more likely reason they need to copy your data?
How do we stay in business? Volume!
If you have a large group to support that demands stability there's no way you're going to let MS decide when to update your machines. This plan is a bad fit for just about everyone. Perhaps home users might like it if this dropped the price of a PC to $200 or so?
If you want to get technical, you're depriving the ISP of a potential sale.
This is exactly the kind of bullshit we've heard again and again from the IP companies. When we are at the point that you can sue for loss of potential revenue we will have FAILED.
((no, shareholder suits will not count until it's possible to sue a company for not immediately liquidating all assets))
He was referring to the words that appear on the title screen. There will be the name of the episode, the episode number, and then either 'Complex' or (I think) 'Stand Alone'. If it's a 'Complex' episode it is directly related to the overarching story, otherwise it's only tangential.
Same here... I still remember the episode that largely took place in a chat room as one of my favorites. GitS is good action, but the plot is why I watch.