Wikipedia isn't a blog even though it doesn't stay static. Yes, one could write a scraper feed for its front page. Yes, there's an RSS feed with diffs for recent edits.
However, unlike Slashdot, Wikipedia does not timestamp it's articles and send them out into the world. Therefore, Wikipedia is not a blog. Answers.com is not a blog. Slashdot does.
Did you read their definition of interest? Vix Pervenit is relatively recent in the history of the Catholic Church and conscious of the greater financial activity of its day, and even it bans interest exacted for the sake of profit. Interest is only okay as a negation of loss. It mentions that there are people within the church who oppose even such interest.
1. It's not a consensus, even though some loudmouths try to portray themselves as speaking for everyone with the same affiliations. I am a socialist and a feminist and I am pro-pr0n. I know many people in the same boat as me.
2. The anti-pr0n US feminists allied themselves with the anti-pr0n Christian Fundamentalists in their bid to ban what they perceive as an obscenity. The were openly denounced by other US feminists at the time.
Generally, trailers stay in rural areas and jobs stay in urban areas. By consigning poor people to trailers, you are preventing them from getting a job. This relates to welfare policies, which tend to be the same state-wide despite huge differences in the cost of living between the areas with jobs and the areas without.
I keep forgetting that those islands are considered part of "Southeast Asia." The first time I noticed this was on the National Geography Bee. I never could wrap my brain around the concept that islands could be part of continents.
Whereas I cannot wrap my head around the idea that Cuba and Haiti aren't considered parts of North America. Heck, half the time Mexico is apparently not part of it, which is absolutely bizarre as far as I am concerned.
The whole reason we created economies is so that they would benefit individual humans, not that they would approximate some arbitrary principle derived from observing the damn things. Is this phenomenon of net benefit to humanity? How so?
So, between CS and MIS, there is no path to adequately prepare IT workers for the real world in current University curriculum.
Uh, in your opinion, which University discipline prepares people for the Real World^TM? Physics? English? Anthropology? Linguistics? Mathematics? Philosophy? Sociology?
This is a historical debate, not a theological one. Loaning at interest -- usury -- is a sin in Christianity:
The most recent Catholic teaching on usury is by Pope Benedict XIV in his Vix Pervenit from 1745 which strictly forbids the practice, though given the modern day Catholic Church's investments in the banking industry, the prohibition has to be regarded as a dead letter.
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St. Thomas Aquinas, the leading theologian of the Catholic Church, argued charging of interest is wrong because it applies to "double charging", charging for both the thing and the use of the thing; the "Just price" theory said that a lender charges for the loan by requiring the loan to be paid back; in other words, paying back the loan is the charge for the loan. Any further charge is a charge for using the loan. Aquinas said this would be morally wrong in the same way as if one sold a bottle of wine, charged for the bottle of wine, and then charged for the person using the wine to actually drink it. ...
In The Divine Comedy Dante places the usurers in the inner ring of the seventh circle of hell, below even suicides. (Showing how cultural attitudes have changed since the 14th century, the usurers' ring was shared only by the blasphemers and sodomites.)
The real intended role of monasteries was to keep anyone remotely intelligent away from the general public where he might go starting trouble by speaking out against the Church
That may have been the effect, but I doubt that was the intent. That's a very grand scale, and making policy decisions on such a grand scale is generally very shaky -- things are only obvious in hindsight.
It's hard NOT to blame the Christian for the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings: they perpetuated that statement for thousands of years.
Perpetuation, yes, but the Divine Right of Kings predates Christianity. Egyptian Pharaohs were lesser gods; so were pre-Christian Roman Emperors. Sargon the Great, first Emperor of Akkad, claimed that a blessing of the Goddess Ishtar gave him the right to rule. The honourary title of the Chinese Emperors was "Son of Heaven". Etc.
That's an observation, not a principle and certainly not a commandment. A government can have "morals", or rather ethics. It does in a working, corruption-free democracy. The US just isn't one of those.
That's like saying convenience stores are the worst offenders in armed robbery. Surely the offender is the perpetrator, not the victim.
Yes, but Google isn't the victim. Google is just a mechanism. The people who are immediately hurt by this are normal internet users -- people who read blogs for content and who depend on pagerank to sift through the crud.
Hmm. All right, fine. It's public. As for free -- well, if you only have money for food and shelter this year, you still get wireless internet without paying a cent. "Free" is allowed to have many meanings.
I gave my neice a swingset for free last Christmas.
So, in your world, the US government should be providing free WiFi to the citizens of Brazil and the Brazilian government should be providing free WiFi to the citizens of US? And anything else is unethical?
However, if you take some of my money and then use it to offer me something "for free", that is not the same thing.
It's free in the sense that you'll be paying less than you would be for a private service because of economies of scale. It's also free in the sense that it will be encouraging economic development and thus reducing the tax load on you in the long term.
Explaining why reactionary fundamentalist terrorists and today's "progressives" both find themselves opposing the same things is left as an exercise to the reader.;)
Well, if we assume that sort of linear scale, then it's because the things are regressions, but not fast enough regressions to satisfy the ultra-reactionaries.;)
I think they called them "Perfectly Normal Beasts".:)
The Food
"And so the Sandwich Maker sang as he worked.
He was using the last of the year's salted meat. It was a little past its best now, but still the rich savour of Perfectly Normal Beast meat was something unsurpassed in any of the Sandwich Maker's previous experience. Next week it was anticipated that the Perfectly Normal Beasts would appear again for their regular migration, whereupon the whole village would once again be plunged into frenetic action: hunting the Beasts, killing perhaps six, maybe even seven dozen of the thousands that thundered past. Then the Beasts must be rapidly butchered and cleaned, with most of the meat salted to keep it through the winter months until the return migration in the spring, which would replenish their supplies.
The very best of the meat would be roasted straight away for the feast that marked the Autumn Passage. The celebrations would last for three days of sheer exuberance, dancing and stories that Old Thrashbarg would tell of how the hunt had gone, stories that he would have been busy sitting making up in his hut while the rest of the village was out doing the actual hunting.
And then the very, very best of the meat would be saved from the feast and delivered cold to the Sandwich Maker. And the Sandwich Maker would exercise on it the skills that he had brought to them from the gods, and make the exquisite Sandwiches of the Third Season, of which the whole village would partake before beginning, the next day, to prepare themselves for the rigours of the coming winter.
Today he was just making ordinary sandwiches, if such delicacies, so lovingly crafted, could ever be called ordinary. Today his assistant was away so the Sandwich Maker was applying his own garnish, which he was happy to do. He was happy with just about everything in fact.
He sliced, he sang. He flipped each slice of meat neatly on to a slice of bread, trimmed it and assembled all the trimmings into their jigsaw. A little salad, a little sauce, another slice of bread, another sandwich, another verse of Yellow Submarine."
The Habits
"It was a sight that Arthur never quite got used to, or tired of. He and Ford had tracked their way swiftly along the side of the small river that flowed down along the bed of the valley, and when at last they reached the margin of the plains they pulled themselves up into the branches of a large tree to get a better view of one of the stranger and more wonderful visions that the Galaxy has to offer.
The great thunderous herd of thousand upon thousand of Perfectly Normal Beasts was sweeping in magnificent array across the Anhondo Plain. In the early pale light of the morning, as the great animals charged through the fine steam of the sweat of their bodies mingled with the muddy mist churned up by their pounding hooves, their appearance seemed a little unreal and ghostly anyway, but what was heart-stopping about them was where they came from and where they went to, which appeared to be, simply, nowhere.
They formed a solid, charging phalanx roughly a hundred yards wide and half a mile long. The phalanx never moved, except that it exhibited a slight gradual drift sideways and backwards for the eight or nine days that it regularly appeared for. But though the phalanx stayed more or less constant, the great beasts of which it was composed charged steadily at upwards of twenty miles an hour, appearing suddenly from thin air at one end of the plain, and disappearing equally abruptly at the other end.
No one knew where they came from, no one knew where they went. They were so important to the lives of the Lamuellans, it was almost as if nobody liked to ask. Old Thrashbarg had said on one occasion that some times if you received an answer, the question might be taken away. Some of the villagers had privately said that this was the only properly wise thing they'd ever heard Thrashbarg say, and after a short debate on the matter, had put it down to chance."
As long as you ignore the awful bits, Mostly Harmless is a very fine book.:)
And I don't believe the United States ever had wild horses: I think they were all brought here.
Belief is nice, but often facts smack it upside the ass. North America had mammoths, mastodons, sabre-toothed tigers, camels, and -- yes -- horses. In fact, horses evolved in North America and only later spread to Eurasia. The locals went extict 11,000 years ago.
As far as we know, native North American horses were never domesticated. The domesticable wild mustangs were just feral horses brought over by the conquistadors.
This is Google we're talking about. There isn't any seat and there isn't any butt, and there isn't any peon to be paid.
You appear to be misinformed. Everyone one of their computers has a specially designed seat for the pigeon using it. Google is built on pigeons, and they treat their pigeons well. That's how PageRank works.
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A butter knife made entirely out of THAT!
You TERRORIST! Won't anyone please think of the children?
I think you mean "yadernyje korabli".;)
Point: Google's client doesn't have emoticons.
Wikipedia isn't a blog even though it doesn't stay static. Yes, one could write a scraper feed for its front page. Yes, there's an RSS feed with diffs for recent edits.
However, unlike Slashdot, Wikipedia does not timestamp it's articles and send them out into the world. Therefore, Wikipedia is not a blog. Answers.com is not a blog. Slashdot does.
Did you read their definition of interest? Vix Pervenit is relatively recent in the history of the Catholic Church and conscious of the greater financial activity of its day, and even it bans interest exacted for the sake of profit. Interest is only okay as a negation of loss. It mentions that there are people within the church who oppose even such interest.
1. It's not a consensus, even though some loudmouths try to portray themselves as speaking for everyone with the same affiliations. I am a socialist and a feminist and I am pro-pr0n. I know many people in the same boat as me.
2. The anti-pr0n US feminists allied themselves with the anti-pr0n Christian Fundamentalists in their bid to ban what they perceive as an obscenity. The were openly denounced by other US feminists at the time.
Generally, trailers stay in rural areas and jobs stay in urban areas. By consigning poor people to trailers, you are preventing them from getting a job. This relates to welfare policies, which tend to be the same state-wide despite huge differences in the cost of living between the areas with jobs and the areas without.
Elijah Wood also played a "bad guy" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Quite passable, really.
I keep forgetting that those islands are considered part of "Southeast Asia." The first time I noticed this was on the National Geography Bee. I never could wrap my brain around the concept that islands could be part of continents.
Whereas I cannot wrap my head around the idea that Cuba and Haiti aren't considered parts of North America. Heck, half the time Mexico is apparently not part of it, which is absolutely bizarre as far as I am concerned.
The whole reason we created economies is so that they would benefit individual humans, not that they would approximate some arbitrary principle derived from observing the damn things. Is this phenomenon of net benefit to humanity? How so?
So, between CS and MIS, there is no path to adequately prepare IT workers for the real world in current University curriculum.
Uh, in your opinion, which University discipline prepares people for the Real World^TM? Physics? English? Anthropology? Linguistics? Mathematics? Philosophy? Sociology?
1) Common Sense, actually. History is logically-consistent but not common-sense-consistent.
The real intended role of monasteries was to keep anyone remotely intelligent away from the general public where he might go starting trouble by speaking out against the Church
That may have been the effect, but I doubt that was the intent. That's a very grand scale, and making policy decisions on such a grand scale is generally very shaky -- things are only obvious in hindsight.
It's hard NOT to blame the Christian for the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings: they perpetuated that statement for thousands of years.
Perpetuation, yes, but the Divine Right of Kings predates Christianity. Egyptian Pharaohs were lesser gods; so were pre-Christian Roman Emperors. Sargon the Great, first Emperor of Akkad, claimed that a blessing of the Goddess Ishtar gave him the right to rule. The honourary title of the Chinese Emperors was "Son of Heaven". Etc.
That's an observation, not a principle and certainly not a commandment. A government can have "morals", or rather ethics. It does in a working, corruption-free democracy. The US just isn't one of those.
That's like saying convenience stores are the worst offenders in armed robbery. Surely the offender is the perpetrator, not the victim.
Yes, but Google isn't the victim. Google is just a mechanism. The people who are immediately hurt by this are normal internet users -- people who read blogs for content and who depend on pagerank to sift through the crud.
Oh, pish-posh. There's showers and there's growers. Showers pull aside crotch, growers pull down waistband. Blah blah blah.
Hmm. All right, fine. It's public. As for free -- well, if you only have money for food and shelter this year, you still get wireless internet without paying a cent. "Free" is allowed to have many meanings.
I gave my neice a swingset for free last Christmas.
So, in your world, the US government should be providing free WiFi to the citizens of Brazil and the Brazilian government should be providing free WiFi to the citizens of US? And anything else is unethical?
However, if you take some of my money and then use it to offer me something "for free", that is not the same thing.
It's free in the sense that you'll be paying less than you would be for a private service because of economies of scale. It's also free in the sense that it will be encouraging economic development and thus reducing the tax load on you in the long term.
Explaining why reactionary fundamentalist terrorists and today's "progressives" both find themselves opposing the same things is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)
Well, if we assume that sort of linear scale, then it's because the things are regressions, but not fast enough regressions to satisfy the ultra-reactionaries.;)
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
I think they called them "Perfectly Normal Beasts".:)
The Food
"And so the Sandwich Maker sang as he worked.
He was using the last of the year's salted meat. It was a little past its best now, but still the rich savour of Perfectly Normal Beast meat was something unsurpassed in any of the Sandwich Maker's previous experience. Next week it was anticipated that the Perfectly Normal Beasts would appear again for their regular migration, whereupon the whole village would once again be plunged into frenetic action: hunting the Beasts, killing perhaps six, maybe even seven dozen of the thousands that thundered past. Then the Beasts must be rapidly butchered and cleaned, with most of the meat salted to keep it through the winter months until the return migration in the spring, which would replenish their supplies.
The very best of the meat would be roasted straight away for the feast that marked the Autumn Passage. The celebrations would last for three days of sheer exuberance, dancing and stories that Old Thrashbarg would tell of how the hunt had gone, stories that he would have been busy sitting making up in his hut while the rest of the village was out doing the actual hunting.
And then the very, very best of the meat would be saved from the feast and delivered cold to the Sandwich Maker. And the Sandwich Maker would exercise on it the skills that he had brought to them from the gods, and make the exquisite Sandwiches of the Third Season, of which the whole village would partake before beginning, the next day, to prepare themselves for the rigours of the coming winter.
Today he was just making ordinary sandwiches, if such delicacies, so lovingly crafted, could ever be called ordinary. Today his assistant was away so the Sandwich Maker was applying his own garnish, which he was happy to do. He was happy with just about everything in fact.
He sliced, he sang. He flipped each slice of meat neatly on to a slice of bread, trimmed it and assembled all the trimmings into their jigsaw. A little salad, a little sauce, another slice of bread, another sandwich, another verse of Yellow Submarine."
The Habits
"It was a sight that Arthur never quite got used to, or tired of. He and Ford had tracked their way swiftly along the side of the small river that flowed down along the bed of the valley, and when at last they reached the margin of the plains they pulled themselves up into the branches of a large tree to get a better view of one of the stranger and more wonderful visions that the Galaxy has to offer.
The great thunderous herd of thousand upon thousand of Perfectly Normal Beasts was sweeping in magnificent array across the Anhondo Plain. In the early pale light of the morning, as the great animals charged through the fine steam of the sweat of their bodies mingled with the muddy mist churned up by their pounding hooves, their appearance seemed a little unreal and ghostly anyway, but what was heart-stopping about them was where they came from and where they went to, which appeared to be, simply, nowhere.
They formed a solid, charging phalanx roughly a hundred yards wide and half a mile long. The phalanx never moved, except that it exhibited a slight gradual drift sideways and backwards for the eight or nine days that it regularly appeared for. But though the phalanx stayed more or less constant, the great beasts of which it was composed charged steadily at upwards of twenty miles an hour, appearing suddenly from thin air at one end of the plain, and disappearing equally abruptly at the other end.
No one knew where they came from, no one knew where they went. They were so important to the lives of the Lamuellans, it was almost as if nobody liked to ask. Old Thrashbarg had said on one occasion that some times if you received an answer, the question might be taken away. Some of the villagers had privately said that this was the only properly wise thing they'd ever heard Thrashbarg say, and after a short debate on the matter, had put it down to chance."
As long as you ignore the awful bits, Mostly Harmless is a very fine book.:)
Lions were common in Greece, Persia, and India until the time of the Roman Empire. North African lions just recently went extinct in the wild.
And I don't believe the United States ever had wild horses: I think they were all brought here.
Belief is nice, but often facts smack it upside the ass. North America had mammoths, mastodons, sabre-toothed tigers, camels, and -- yes -- horses. In fact, horses evolved in North America and only later spread to Eurasia. The locals went extict 11,000 years ago.
As far as we know, native North American horses were never domesticated. The domesticable wild mustangs were just feral horses brought over by the conquistadors.
Do not forget HJKL -- nobody, and I mean NOBODY wants to learn HJKL. As a unix freak, it really keeps me up at night.
Oh, yeah? Well, my girlfriend uses HJKL! On both QWERTY and Dvorak! Because her laptop has busted keys! It scares me.:P
This is Google we're talking about. There isn't any seat and there isn't any butt, and there isn't any peon to be paid.
You appear to be misinformed. Everyone one of their computers has a specially designed seat for the pigeon using it. Google is built on pigeons, and they treat their pigeons well. That's how PageRank works.