I tend to agree, I never liked the way it rendered pages. Many pages that even Konqueror get's right look horrible in Opera. Their javascript compatibilty needs work too. I used to test pages using several browsers available to me on Mac, Linux and Windows. I stopped testing against opera because it always seemed to be the odd one. So I decided if the page renders correctly in FireFox,Safari, Konqueror,Camino and IE it gets published.
It's not really about a fundamentalist base. Many people especially the 1/2 of the population that are women are disgusted with all the crap clogging their inbox. Until recently my company was getting very graphical images. The women in our employ made it clear they wanted it stopped. The answer was a combination of blacklists, spamassassin, blocking entire countries (Thailand, china etc.) ip blocks. We do local and national business. Anything from asia went to the postmaster account for review. After about 3-4 months the emails changed from porn to drugs from Canada and b.s. mortgage offers. The spam filters in thunderbird handles them fairly well.
They don't need to, the U.K. government will do it for them. No country with any sense wants to risk trade with the US for the sake of an internet porn spammer.
It's the same old issue of a spammer in Antartica 1000 miles away across the world, pressing "send, send, send".
Block naval or air shipments of fuel "shiver,shiver,shiver can't seem to make hand work!".
The article says that the folks at AMD linked the word with 'tour', to me it's just as easy to associate it with 'turd'! So I would stick with dictionary meanings, because phonetic sounds can differ widely in meaning.
If someone threatens to break your legs and then offers a pay scheme for protection that's illegal. If Microsoft produces a buggy browser and then offers protection, well that's just business.
Sco threatens to sue linux users a product they sold, but offers protection in the form of a license, is that's just business too?
Ask anyone convicted of extortion and racketeering "why me?". Your answer will likely be "It's just Business"
And who is getting expelled from what? In a secular system, a public official who demands that the rejection of God be taught to students is as equally off-base as a public official who demands that students be forced to state that God exists.
It's not direct, it's the fact that teachers do openly state that god does not exist and never are they called upon for offending anyone. Portland Ore. schools have banned religously offensive items or clothing. This brings out the athiests who are immediately offended by someone wearing a crucifix. Students have been expelled for wearing head scarves, Pentagrams, Crucifixes and the Star of David. Lincoln Park High
First of all, atheism isn't even really a belief system, unless you also think that football or sandcastle competitions are belief systems.
That was idiotic, so you think atheism is a sport or competition? Aethism is a believe in the supremacy of man and that there is no divine spark, creator or all powerful intelligence. That is a belief system, it takes a faith because how do you prove there is no god, a negative. It takes the the same kind of blind faith to believe in anything you can't measure or prove. And my comments aren't in any way to be interpreted as chrisitianity is right and everyone else is wrong. It's that we should be tolerant of others views aethists don't don't get expelled for expressing their views but others do. It a now become common to sue anyone who 'offends' you. The complete lack of tolerance displayed by those who like to think of themselves as enlightened and intelligent is amazing.
I guess you had to be there, I was seventeen and yes he taught atheism as a fact, using evolution as his only proof. He ridiculed anyone who believed otherwise. It was a long time ago but it remained in my memory, I didn't argue with him, but I came to admire those who did. I am not a believer in any established religion, I do not attend church. I'm more of a person who hopes for Intelligent Design. I'm an optimist, I want to believe there is something beyond our existance. For if not, and darwinism is the only univeral truth driving life. The it seems to me the only thing that would matter is propogating my genes. Killing rivals, rape are perfectly alright if it propogates my genes and I don't get caught. Not contributing to tsunami victims might lessen the population whereby increasing my dominance. Is morality a myth or do we all eventually have to answer for our deeds?
My only gripe is for those who are intolerant of anyone who believes in any religion. I'm just as upset with those who enforce their religion on others. More so with those who kill in the name of their god. We have become very intolerant of others views.
I don't want them teaching any religion. Only recognition that other beliefs exist. Teaching religion is the job of churches. What I want to have stopped is the public persecution by teachers of those who do have those beliefs. A teacher can expound on and on about their belief in atheism without predjudice. But let a child wear a cross and watch the shit fly. If the teacher says today is a holiday for pagan's that's cool to me! But in this day and age a teacher can no longer say Merry Christmas! We have become very intolerant as a society all the while claiming we are tolerant. Allowing someone to profess a believe in a religion without being intimidated, beat up or being sued is tolerance.
You limit the meaning of "establishing" a religion to mean sanctioning a named church, and then assert that atheism is established as the official religion...?
By not allowing open public statement of believe in a god, all the while allowing athiest to profess that there is no god, in effect establishes atheism as the "approved believe system".
I had a teacher lecture a class for an hour that religion was the cause of all man's sorrows, made statements such as "more people have died because of christianity than any other cause combined" a statement easily repudiated and was not chastised at all. While a child in that same school was warned against having a bible time during lunch hour. In fact the principle believed the statement was true until it was pointed out that property,jealousy,rage, disease, old age, wars in the name of Karl Marx (communism), Facism and Islam and automobile accidents easily outclassed the crusades.
Teachign a religious belief, even a cleverly hidden one like ID, in a public school is state-sponsored religion
By your definition teaching the Roman & Greek gods is then a state sponsored religion.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is said here is Congress shall make no laws "establishing a state religion", meaning that unlike the "Church of England", we would recognize all religous beliefs and allow their worship anywhere, anytime! What this amendment was morphed into is atheism established as the official religion of the US Educational System.
The definition I use for religion is: "An outward expression of a belief system in regards to man's role in the universe and or a divine god or gods."
Your 100% correct, the biggest problem facing mankind today is overpopulation. There are not enough resources on the planet to sustain the population. With the advances we've made in medicine, the fact that war despite what the media reports, is steadily declining worldwide. And the fact that all of the modern wars kill less people than previous wars. There were more people killed in WWII and it's immediate aftermath (Stalin) then all the wars fought since combined. There is nothing except mother nature, or a really big war to bring things back into balance. Since countries that are democracies as a rule do not make war with each other and tend to use economic pressures to maintain the status quo, an agressive China is almost inevitable.
From reading the posts here it seems George Bush must be King George. How does someone who has been in office for 4 years become responsible for actions caused by all of mankind since the dawn of the industrial age? If the US stopped all burning of fossil fuels tomorrow, would it change anything?
Does the president make all the laws? If 2/3 of congress had some balls, you even pass an amendment. But would it stop the rest of the world from continuing to burn fossil fuels? How do you reverse what is already done? Seems to me the real solution is to reduce the world human population to about 65 million and develop alternative energy. How do you do this without killing alot of innocent people. It's easy to post blame, it's quite another to accept it. How many of you folks own electric vehicles? How many who complain about fossil fuels would choose tomorrow to live without them? I live in Virginia, in Newport News, 10 years ago you could drive all along the interstate and trees were everywhere. Now you have to get almost to Williamsburg to see anything remotely like a woods. In town trees are cut down everywhere, nothing but asphalt replaces them. This is but one town in one state, in the US. Now multiply that by the entire world. When I was in the service while we were converting to CO2 for HVAC units, the countries were were operating in were using freon. So really who is to blame? I too am to blame, but I don't see a real solution here. Do I deny my kids civilization and move in to a grass hut, hunting small game not endangered? Would that prevent a glacier from melting?
Exactly!! I don't care if the H1B visas do 2 things.
1) Apply for legal (citizenship) immigration.
2) Expect to make a living wage and don't except less
The reason they are bringing is all the H1B visas is not to fill a shortage. It's to screw the over by paying them $24k - $35k and the minimum health coverage required by law for 16 years of education. They then can fire (layoff) there current workers.
How many windows users are aware of this? On a mac when you execute it makes you use a password. With runas you have to know what to do and want to do it that way. If I give a user the administrative password to allow him to do simple tasks with runas, he will invariably use it to become an administrator and it's spyware city. On a Mac it's not that simple you cannot login normally as root, this can be changed but not easily.
Danny Glover had a central part not just a supporting role. I don't think it was at all "racist". I think it had more to do with popular actors and "looks". Race was obviously important to the author. But I don't think the suits even read her novels, they just went with what they thought they could package and sell to a predominately white audience (US & Canadian SciFi channel viewers). People use the racist label too easily.
No I use sudo or su. Mac asks for a password (sudo) graphically, so does linux (kdesu). Windows makes you log in as administrator or have those priviledges all the time.
With Windows XP having only MS word open minimized, my desktop accesses the disk and the network. So does my Linux Box. Konqueror is integrated into the KDE desktop. It's not a clean running, non-infected system I worry about. It's having to clean all the virus and spy-ware crap off of users windows machines. The users bitch to management when they don't have the rights to install software, and then are not in anyway held responsible for the ton's of crap that mysteriously appears on their hard drive. The mail server scans for viruses, each machine has up to date Norton Anti-Virus, Spy-bot and is patched immediately as patches become available. I'm tired of machines that are plenty powerfull slowing to a crawl, causing managers to whine they need a new computer. I don't have these problems with linux users, Mac users or any of the 20+ linux servers, or the 125 nodes on our cluster. I administer 4 Macs, 14 linux users, the network servers and cluster and only 6 windows machines (4 Win2K, 2 WinXP SP2). I spend approximately 60% of my time on those windows machines.
The default format can be changed. I saw it used in a real estate office. I asked them how they liked it, my realtor said once you got used to using something different it wasn't bad. All of their setups had MS file format as the default.
When a group of pissed off people storm their offices with baseball bats. Seriously, I think if about a thousand people peacefully showed up with signs attached to baseball bats they would get the hint.
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I tend to agree, I never liked the way it rendered pages. Many pages that even Konqueror get's right look horrible in Opera. Their javascript compatibilty needs work too. I used to test pages using several browsers available to me on Mac, Linux and Windows. I stopped testing against opera because it always seemed to be the odd one. So I decided if the page renders correctly in FireFox,Safari, Konqueror,Camino and IE it gets published.
It's not really about a fundamentalist base. Many people especially the 1/2 of the population that are women are disgusted with all the crap clogging their inbox. Until recently my company was getting very graphical images. The women in our employ made it clear they wanted it stopped. The answer was a combination of blacklists, spamassassin, blocking entire countries (Thailand, china etc.) ip blocks. We do local and national business. Anything from asia went to the postmaster account for review. After about 3-4 months the emails changed from porn to drugs from Canada and b.s. mortgage offers. The spam filters in thunderbird handles them fairly well.
They don't need to, the U.K. government will do it for them. No country with any sense wants to risk trade with the US for the sake of an internet porn spammer.
It's the same old issue of a spammer in Antartica 1000 miles away across the world, pressing "send, send, send".
Block naval or air shipments of fuel "shiver,shiver,shiver can't seem to make hand work!".
The article says that the folks at AMD linked the word with 'tour', to me it's just as easy to associate it with 'turd'! So I would stick with dictionary meanings, because phonetic sounds can differ widely in meaning.
If someone threatens to break your legs and then offers a pay scheme for protection that's illegal. If Microsoft produces a buggy browser and then offers protection, well that's just business. Sco threatens to sue linux users a product they sold, but offers protection in the form of a license, is that's just business too? Ask anyone convicted of extortion and racketeering "why me?". Your answer will likely be "It's just Business"
It's not direct, it's the fact that teachers do openly state that god does not exist and never are they called upon for offending anyone. Portland Ore. schools have banned religously offensive items or clothing. This brings out the athiests who are immediately offended by someone wearing a crucifix. Students have been expelled for wearing head scarves, Pentagrams, Crucifixes and the Star of David. Lincoln Park High
Canada
Banning Christmas Colors
That was idiotic, so you think atheism is a sport or competition? Aethism is a believe in the supremacy of man and that there is no divine spark, creator or all powerful intelligence. That is a belief system, it takes a faith because how do you prove there is no god, a negative. It takes the the same kind of blind faith to believe in anything you can't measure or prove. And my comments aren't in any way to be interpreted as chrisitianity is right and everyone else is wrong. It's that we should be tolerant of others views aethists don't don't get expelled for expressing their views but others do. It a now become common to sue anyone who 'offends' you. The complete lack of tolerance displayed by those who like to think of themselves as enlightened and intelligent is amazing.
I guess you had to be there, I was seventeen and yes he taught atheism as a fact, using evolution as his only proof. He ridiculed anyone who believed otherwise. It was a long time ago but it remained in my memory, I didn't argue with him, but I came to admire those who did. I am not a believer in any established religion, I do not attend church. I'm more of a person who hopes for Intelligent Design. I'm an optimist, I want to believe there is something beyond our existance. For if not, and darwinism is the only univeral truth driving life. The it seems to me the only thing that would matter is propogating my genes. Killing rivals, rape are perfectly alright if it propogates my genes and I don't get caught. Not contributing to tsunami victims might lessen the population whereby increasing my dominance. Is morality a myth or do we all eventually have to answer for our deeds? My only gripe is for those who are intolerant of anyone who believes in any religion. I'm just as upset with those who enforce their religion on others. More so with those who kill in the name of their god. We have become very intolerant of others views.
I don't want them teaching any religion. Only recognition that other beliefs exist. Teaching religion is the job of churches. What I want to have stopped is the public persecution by teachers of those who do have those beliefs. A teacher can expound on and on about their belief in atheism without predjudice. But let a child wear a cross and watch the shit fly. If the teacher says today is a holiday for pagan's that's cool to me! But in this day and age a teacher can no longer say Merry Christmas! We have become very intolerant as a society all the while claiming we are tolerant. Allowing someone to profess a believe in a religion without being intimidated, beat up or being sued is tolerance.
How about Scientology?
Or Wicca?
There is also Buddhism and Unitarianism
You limit the meaning of "establishing" a religion to mean sanctioning a named church, and then assert that atheism is established as the official religion...?
By not allowing open public statement of believe in a god, all the while allowing athiest to profess that there is no god, in effect establishes atheism as the "approved believe system".
I had a teacher lecture a class for an hour that religion was the cause of all man's sorrows, made statements such as "more people have died because of christianity than any other cause combined" a statement easily repudiated and was not chastised at all. While a child in that same school was warned against having a bible time during lunch hour. In fact the principle believed the statement was true until it was pointed out that property,jealousy,rage, disease, old age, wars in the name of Karl Marx (communism), Facism and Islam and automobile accidents easily outclassed the crusades.
By your definition teaching the Roman & Greek gods is then a state sponsored religion.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is said here is Congress shall make no laws "establishing a state religion", meaning that unlike the "Church of England", we would recognize all religous beliefs and allow their worship anywhere, anytime! What this amendment was morphed into is atheism established as the official religion of the US Educational System.
The definition I use for religion is: "An outward expression of a belief system in regards to man's role in the universe and or a divine god or gods."
Your 100% correct, the biggest problem facing mankind today is overpopulation. There are not enough resources on the planet to sustain the population. With the advances we've made in medicine, the fact that war despite what the media reports, is steadily declining worldwide. And the fact that all of the modern wars kill less people than previous wars. There were more people killed in WWII and it's immediate aftermath (Stalin) then all the wars fought since combined. There is nothing except mother nature, or a really big war to bring things back into balance. Since countries that are democracies as a rule do not make war with each other and tend to use economic pressures to maintain the status quo, an agressive China is almost inevitable.
First to get sued "The Commodores" Lionel Ritchie.
If it's C# & .Net, will port to mono?
WTF? Did you read anything here?
From reading the posts here it seems George Bush must be King George. How does someone who has been in office for 4 years become responsible for actions caused by all of mankind since the dawn of the industrial age? If the US stopped all burning of fossil fuels tomorrow, would it change anything? Does the president make all the laws? If 2/3 of congress had some balls, you even pass an amendment. But would it stop the rest of the world from continuing to burn fossil fuels? How do you reverse what is already done? Seems to me the real solution is to reduce the world human population to about 65 million and develop alternative energy. How do you do this without killing alot of innocent people. It's easy to post blame, it's quite another to accept it. How many of you folks own electric vehicles? How many who complain about fossil fuels would choose tomorrow to live without them? I live in Virginia, in Newport News, 10 years ago you could drive all along the interstate and trees were everywhere. Now you have to get almost to Williamsburg to see anything remotely like a woods. In town trees are cut down everywhere, nothing but asphalt replaces them. This is but one town in one state, in the US. Now multiply that by the entire world. When I was in the service while we were converting to CO2 for HVAC units, the countries were were operating in were using freon. So really who is to blame? I too am to blame, but I don't see a real solution here. Do I deny my kids civilization and move in to a grass hut, hunting small game not endangered? Would that prevent a glacier from melting?
1) Apply for legal (citizenship) immigration.
2) Expect to make a living wage and don't except less
The reason they are bringing is all the H1B visas is not to fill a shortage. It's to screw the over by paying them $24k - $35k and the minimum health coverage required by law for 16 years of education. They then can fire (layoff) there current workers.
How many windows users are aware of this? On a mac when you execute it makes you use a password. With runas you have to know what to do and want to do it that way. If I give a user the administrative password to allow him to do simple tasks with runas, he will invariably use it to become an administrator and it's spyware city. On a Mac it's not that simple you cannot login normally as root, this can be changed but not easily.
Danny Glover had a central part not just a supporting role. I don't think it was at all "racist". I think it had more to do with popular actors and "looks". Race was obviously important to the author. But I don't think the suits even read her novels, they just went with what they thought they could package and sell to a predominately white audience (US & Canadian SciFi channel viewers). People use the racist label too easily.
No I use sudo or su. Mac asks for a password (sudo) graphically, so does linux (kdesu). Windows makes you log in as administrator or have those priviledges all the time.
S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G
With Windows XP having only MS word open minimized, my desktop accesses the disk and the network. So does my Linux Box. Konqueror is integrated into the KDE desktop. It's not a clean running, non-infected system I worry about. It's having to clean all the virus and spy-ware crap off of users windows machines. The users bitch to management when they don't have the rights to install software, and then are not in anyway held responsible for the ton's of crap that mysteriously appears on their hard drive. The mail server scans for viruses, each machine has up to date Norton Anti-Virus, Spy-bot and is patched immediately as patches become available. I'm tired of machines that are plenty powerfull slowing to a crawl, causing managers to whine they need a new computer. I don't have these problems with linux users, Mac users or any of the 20+ linux servers, or the 125 nodes on our cluster. I administer 4 Macs, 14 linux users, the network servers and cluster and only 6 windows machines (4 Win2K, 2 WinXP SP2). I spend approximately 60% of my time on those windows machines.
The default format can be changed. I saw it used in a real estate office. I asked them how they liked it, my realtor said once you got used to using something different it wasn't bad. All of their setups had MS file format as the default.
When a group of pissed off people storm their offices with baseball bats. Seriously, I think if about a thousand people peacefully showed up with signs attached to baseball bats they would get the hint.
My choice would be iBM. It would stop the lawsuits from Apple records.