I'm a Linux user since 1993, when (as a Computer Science and Engineering Student at a University of Texas school) I realized that Linux supported gcc making my projects easier to port to a DEC Alpha running Unix.
Since then, I've graduated, and still run Linux as my primary OS at home. I write Windows apps at work for pay, but even there I'm trying to get the company I work for to start using Linux.
Get on Distrowatch and look at SimplyMEPIS, a debian based live CD that will let you double-click your way to an HD install. Then, updates are an apt-get away. Or, if you prefer GNOME instead of KDE, there's Ubuntu Linux, though it's installer is still text based (at least last time I looked at it. It may have been upgraded since then.)
Alternatively, look at Mandrake - easy to use graphical installer, and urpmi package management makes it easy. If you want even more control, there's Gentoo and emerge. Fedora Core gets released often too, and I'm sure Fedora has a method for patching.
Even Slackware has slapt for package managment. The tools are out there. (Cue music)
Whether or not I or anyone else have personally adopted a child is completely out of scope as to the question of whether or not abortion or stem cell research is wrong. It's a diversionary tactic, and I think you're smart enough to know that.
And who are you to decide whether someone should live or die based on what you perceive their living conditions to be? Is being miserable a case for getting killed?
"Oh well, this kids was going to have a rough life, better to die." - as if your life has been completely perfect?
But the problem with your logic is when you deny that the fetus is a person, and by person I mean a human life.
And clearly, at the time of conception, a life form with a complete HUMAN DNA sequence, different from either parent, is formed. It is a human life, this is a fact, not a false predicate, regardless of what your opinion on the matter is.
Again - for a miscarriage to be manslaughter there would have to be proof of negligence. With abortion, there is a clear intent to kill.
Also, Tumors, while alive, are not people - just an "organ". You can't equate a tumor to a child.
So does every sperm and every egg. Really we should outlaw premature ejaculation, masterbation, and menstration. Technically eggs and sperm are living human organisms you know.
Bzzzzzzt. Sperm and Eggs cells have only 1/2 of a human DNA sequence.
Also, Sperm and Egg cells do not divide - a fertilized egg, on the other hand, does.
Miscarriages clearly are not murder since there is no intent to kill. Abortions are intending to terminate a pregnancy, therefore it's murder.
And this is about human life - trying to equate human life with any plant or animal life is utterly ridiculous.
And last time I mowed, the grass stayed alive and grew back...
It's about when it becomes human, specifically when it becomes an individual human.
At conception, a new living organism is created that has a DNA sequence different from either parent - that DNA sequence is human - therefore, it's a human life. And that's what this is all about, isn't it.
Sorry - all of your points are invalid (like the rest of liberalism and secular humanism is...).
Miscarriages are clearly not murder, as there was no intent to kill. With an abortion, there is a clear intent to terminate the pregnancy, therefore it is murder.
That's the point, they shouldn't be destroyed at all to begin with.
And for the record, yes, I am against IVF for this very reason. Until the process is perfected and not this "hit or miss" stuff that goes on now, it's not ready for primetime.
So, considering how much you claim to value life, then surely you can agree that it is better to use such "medical waste" to better people's lives, instead of simply throwing it in the trash.
Right, I want umbilical cord stem cells to be used. Just not dead kids.
Because if you believe that life begins at conception, then the fertilized eggs are in fact children, and precious lifeforms.
Plus, embryonic stem cells don't work. Stem cells from umbilical cords, however, do. We should be pursuing umbilical cord stem cells, not killing our children.
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It doesn't matter - Embryonic Stem Cells don't work. Stem Cells harvested from Umbilical Cords, on the other hand, *do* work, and there's no restriction of Federal Money to harvest stem cells from what would otherwise just be medical waste.
Also - your sig is wrong. He doesn't say "I Am the New #2" - just "The New Number 2"
The point I was trying to make (and want to clarify) is that no matter what happens, ultimately, God is running the show.
As far as the Left Behind books - I've never read them, and never will. I'm Catholic, and I do not believe in the Rapture or the Millenium or anything else that's popular among some (but not all) Protestant denominations.
Otherwise, you're right - only the Father knows the hour. We are to just stay alert, as it could happen any time.
This whole article has got me thinking: What if the Chicken Littles are right? What am I going to do if there is a global catastrophe, say one that kills 1/3 of all the creatures of the sea, 1/3 of all the creatures of the air, and 1/3 of all the creatures on the land?
Easy - I'll know that the biggest return in history is coming *soon*, and chances are I'll still be on the planet when that last trumpet sounds.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I guarantee you'll wish you did when it happens (and boy are you going to be surprised!).
Right - tax cuts for everyone paying taxes to shorten a recession is "insane". Gime a break - the only thing insane is the amount of government spending, and unfortunately neither party has the balls to actually CUT spending - especially a real cut (and not just a reduction in the rate of increase).
And as far as the class warfare "tax cuts for the rich" - please. That argument is bogus - the tax cuts were across the board. If you didn't get a tax cut, it was because you didn't pay any taxes. And as far as the "rich" go - the top 10% of wage earners pay over 75% of the tax burden - what more do you want from them?
That's wage earners intentionally - compare their tax burden to John Kerry or Ted Kennedy - who pay a lot less in taxes than a small business owner pulling in 300K a year. Is *that* fair, Mr. Liberal, that a guy who's only source of money is marrying rich widows worth 600 millionpays less taxes then a guy who owns a small business and provides jobs for 10 people? Which person helps the economy more?
Dan Rather hasn't been modded down for using forged memos in an attempt to smear a sitting President just weeks before the election - nope - Mary Mapes took that bullet for ol' Dan.
Maybe "journalism" is just collapsing under it's own self-importance. Who knew all that yellow paint weighed so much?
MS Access, in a word, sucks.
Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any other free DB system. Plus, unlike Access, you'll get referential integrity. If you don't know why that matters... well you probably deserve what you'll get from using Access.
Another point - how bad would Honda start to suck if it didn't have competition from Toyota? I'll tell you - as bad as GM cars were in the early 80's.
Competition produces innovation, lack of competition only produces stagnation. Certainly there is room for IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, Edgar-ware Surfer (coded in Mom's basement! for Lappy 486's), etc.
Personally, I *love* Opera. I got hooked on it when I got sick of IE vulnerabilities, and when I switched Firefox was still a gleam in a developer's eye named "Firebird", and Mozilla was so new and buggy it was unusable. I carried Opera with me when I dumped Windows altogether - even though I have Firefox, I still prefer Opera. I like the mouse gestures, I like the zoom feature, I like the configuration options. Yes I know Firefox can do it too with extensions, but for me, Opera is familiar, I've got it set up just how I want it, it works, it renders pages fast, so I don't want to mess with it.
Not always - level playing fields make it fair fo everyone involved. Since no one can exploit the OS, the platform becomes a level playing field, and applications are left to compete for whatever - marketshare, profit, recognition - it doesn't matter, but what does matter is that the competition is what creates better products. Would a Gilette razor be as good or as cheap without Schick, Bic, and the others? Would KDE be as good as it is without competition from GNOME, FluxBox, IceWM, etc? Competition always creates better products. Linux fosters that competition by makeing it fair for all involved.
HTML is a bad example because there's no competitor. Lack of competition is what causes a product to stagnate, look at Windows. Windows started getting "serious" about security when Linux started kicking it's ass in the server market. American automakers got serious when Japanese imports were kicking their asses in.
School systems are also a horrible example, becasue they aren't capitalistic at all - there's no choice, and there won't be until vouchers are implemented.
A better analogy would be a knife. A knife can be used to trim fat from a chicken breast before I grill it, to dice tomatoes, to trim excess plastic off a cast mold, to open boxes, to perform surgery, etc.
A knife can also be used to rob, kill, maim, and hurt other people.
The reason I think the gun analogy is not as effective is because there are too many people with the shortsighted mentality that guns are "bad" and that the world would somehow be safer if all the guns were destroyed... like you couldn't get shot with a crossbow.
Knives are a better analogy, because people are more familiar with them. Not everyone hunts, so many people are unfamiliar with a deer hunting rifle. The only gun they've seen is the Sat. Night Special...
And this is where the RIAA / MPAA has been quite effective - by equating p2p apps with piracy, they've poisoned the minds of a lot of people who are completely unfamiliar with what can be an extremely useful tool, and this is the mindset we have to combat, not the abuses of the RIAA / MPAA.
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I'm a Linux user since 1993, when (as a Computer Science and Engineering Student at a University of Texas school) I realized that Linux supported gcc making my projects easier to port to a DEC Alpha running Unix.
Since then, I've graduated, and still run Linux as my primary OS at home. I write Windows apps at work for pay, but even there I'm trying to get the company I work for to start using Linux.
Alternatively, look at Mandrake - easy to use graphical installer, and urpmi package management makes it easy. If you want even more control, there's Gentoo and emerge. Fedora Core gets released often too, and I'm sure Fedora has a method for patching.
Even Slackware has slapt for package managment. The tools are out there. (Cue music)
vi won that war the day emacs included a vi mode. :)
There's a big difference between a miscarriage, even given a history of miscarriages, and deciding to kill your child because it's inconvenient.
Go back under the bridge, troll.
And who are you to decide whether someone should live or die based on what you perceive their living conditions to be? Is being miserable a case for getting killed?
"Oh well, this kids was going to have a rough life, better to die." - as if your life has been completely perfect?
How callous.
And clearly, at the time of conception, a life form with a complete HUMAN DNA sequence, different from either parent, is formed. It is a human life, this is a fact, not a false predicate, regardless of what your opinion on the matter is.
Again - for a miscarriage to be manslaughter there would have to be proof of negligence. With abortion, there is a clear intent to kill.
Also, Tumors, while alive, are not people - just an "organ". You can't equate a tumor to a child.
Bzzzzzzt. Sperm and Eggs cells have only 1/2 of a human DNA sequence.
Also, Sperm and Egg cells do not divide - a fertilized egg, on the other hand, does.
Except that for manslaughter you have to prove neglect.
Miscarriages clearly are not murder since there is no intent to kill. Abortions are intending to terminate a pregnancy, therefore it's murder.
And this is about human life - trying to equate human life with any plant or animal life is utterly ridiculous.
And last time I mowed, the grass stayed alive and grew back...
It's about when it becomes human, specifically when it becomes an individual human.
At conception, a new living organism is created that has a DNA sequence different from either parent - that DNA sequence is human - therefore, it's a human life. And that's what this is all about, isn't it.
Sorry - all of your points are invalid (like the rest of liberalism and secular humanism is...).
Isn't logic fun?
And for the record, yes, I am against IVF for this very reason. Until the process is perfected and not this "hit or miss" stuff that goes on now, it's not ready for primetime.
So, considering how much you claim to value life, then surely you can agree that it is better to use such "medical waste" to better people's lives, instead of simply throwing it in the trash.
Right, I want umbilical cord stem cells to be used. Just not dead kids.
Plus, embryonic stem cells don't work. Stem cells from umbilical cords, however, do. We should be pursuing umbilical cord stem cells, not killing our children.
Also - your sig is wrong. He doesn't say "I Am the New #2" - just "The New Number 2"
And now I want to go listen to that song.
As far as the Left Behind books - I've never read them, and never will. I'm Catholic, and I do not believe in the Rapture or the Millenium or anything else that's popular among some (but not all) Protestant denominations.
Otherwise, you're right - only the Father knows the hour. We are to just stay alert, as it could happen any time.
Easy - I'll know that the biggest return in history is coming *soon*, and chances are I'll still be on the planet when that last trumpet sounds.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I guarantee you'll wish you did when it happens (and boy are you going to be surprised!).
And as far as the class warfare "tax cuts for the rich" - please. That argument is bogus - the tax cuts were across the board. If you didn't get a tax cut, it was because you didn't pay any taxes. And as far as the "rich" go - the top 10% of wage earners pay over 75% of the tax burden - what more do you want from them?
That's wage earners intentionally - compare their tax burden to John Kerry or Ted Kennedy - who pay a lot less in taxes than a small business owner pulling in 300K a year. Is *that* fair, Mr. Liberal, that a guy who's only source of money is marrying rich widows worth 600 millionpays less taxes then a guy who owns a small business and provides jobs for 10 people? Which person helps the economy more?
Maybe "journalism" is just collapsing under it's own self-importance. Who knew all that yellow paint weighed so much?
MS Access, in a word, sucks. Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or any other free DB system. Plus, unlike Access, you'll get referential integrity. If you don't know why that matters... well you probably deserve what you'll get from using Access.
IPv6 is much, much better.
better to use partimage then dd... especially if you dual-boot.
Competition produces innovation, lack of competition only produces stagnation. Certainly there is room for IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, Edgar-ware Surfer (coded in Mom's basement! for Lappy 486's), etc.
Personally, I *love* Opera. I got hooked on it when I got sick of IE vulnerabilities, and when I switched Firefox was still a gleam in a developer's eye named "Firebird", and Mozilla was so new and buggy it was unusable. I carried Opera with me when I dumped Windows altogether - even though I have Firefox, I still prefer Opera. I like the mouse gestures, I like the zoom feature, I like the configuration options. Yes I know Firefox can do it too with extensions, but for me, Opera is familiar, I've got it set up just how I want it, it works, it renders pages fast, so I don't want to mess with it.
So *THAT'S* how Tupac Shakur is able to keep releasing CD's from beyond the grave.
HTML is a bad example because there's no competitor. Lack of competition is what causes a product to stagnate, look at Windows. Windows started getting "serious" about security when Linux started kicking it's ass in the server market. American automakers got serious when Japanese imports were kicking their asses in.
School systems are also a horrible example, becasue they aren't capitalistic at all - there's no choice, and there won't be until vouchers are implemented.
A knife can also be used to rob, kill, maim, and hurt other people.
The reason I think the gun analogy is not as effective is because there are too many people with the shortsighted mentality that guns are "bad" and that the world would somehow be safer if all the guns were destroyed... like you couldn't get shot with a crossbow.
Knives are a better analogy, because people are more familiar with them. Not everyone hunts, so many people are unfamiliar with a deer hunting rifle. The only gun they've seen is the Sat. Night Special...
And this is where the RIAA / MPAA has been quite effective - by equating p2p apps with piracy, they've poisoned the minds of a lot of people who are completely unfamiliar with what can be an extremely useful tool, and this is the mindset we have to combat, not the abuses of the RIAA / MPAA.