Hitchens dies and goes to heaven. He feels something is wrong, comes to a heavenly pond and looks down at his reflection in the water. To his horror he finds his body in fur, fingers instead of his toes, a tail and a monkey face!!!! So he looks up and sees Christ walking through heaven. Hitchens runs up to him and screams, "How is that? Does it not say in the bible: "God created man in his own image""? And Christ answers: "I warned you: [Matthew 9:29] "Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.":-)
Ok just a small correction: the SAT scores have been "re-centered", and 1206 is actually a bit higher then 1300 right now. "we have no evidence of how much work he really did while there." -- troll aloud. That's a very faulty argument, specifically designed to discredit the facts when they in fact exists, and targeted at the "dumb" public. I can say that there is absolutely no evidence your mom did not spend a night with me a few years ago.... If you want an elitist snob as your leader then go ahead. You have to know though, that the reason average American people prefer a guy whom they can relate to is because he will understand they wants, struggles and problems. I bet you that a person like Obama before he became a senator and a president would not even let you within 100 feet of him. He can not relate to ordinary people, he only pretends to care about the poor. He once said: "it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Current National Debt =~ 14.7 Trillion Dollars Debt per Citizen =~ 47,000 Dollars Debt per TaxPayer =~ 131,000 Dollars US National Spending: 3.6 Trillion Dollars US Federal Budget Deficit: 1.3 Trillion Dollars
As an immigrant I would like to point out that the theory that you have alluded to or people out right evoke (class struggle, racial prejudice keep people from getting to their true potential) is faulty at best, but definitely beat your theory that only "magical alignment of stars" will bring a good fortune for an individual to do well (as in winning a lottery or being born rich). The rate at which immigrants become middle to upper middle class in the American society far outweigh the rate of average Americans. And I know that majority of them came with literally two dollars in their pockets and started their life way in the middle ages. The fact is that anyone can make it, and American Dream lives on. It is just a very few rich elite in this society are making money on you believing in this class / racial prejudice bull****, and after saying it enough times in the last decade many Americans are actually believing it.
I honestly believe that if Google is smart, they will allow Motorola to have a general autonomy over their business, but keep the ownership. Use the hardware facilities to manufacture new Android chip that would work great specifically for Android, or the most awesome tablet that would have built-in 3 / 4G and wireless adapters and much bigger battery life then anything out there on the market... Anyways the possibilities for what Google could ask Motorola to do are endless.
Don't know... been surfing since 9 am (it is 12:15 now) and being Monday don't feel like doing Jack... A coworker just came by and he started off with famous cliche, "So, are you working hard or hardly working?" I chuckle. We stood for the next 30 minutes discussed everything from current political realities in Middle East to the greatest newest phone gadget on a market. Yup that's how my day goes. Someone once told me that out of 8 hours we only in reality work like 1. The rest we pretend. I tend to believe that.
Here is my prediction: Instead of password the common place would be a biometrics sensor where people would put their fingers and get "scanned". And an average IT guy would be responsible for sitting in a help desk and answering phone calls: "Hello thank you for calling Acme Help Desk... Yes so you can't get in? Can you go wash your hands? I know you say that your hands are clean but try it... No do not use your moisturizing cream after washing... "
I am guessing you never read Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged has characters who inherited their wealth and who are leeches, and the characters who started poor and created their wealth all by themselves. It is a book about the possibilities of achievement and those who want to hang on for a ride. I suggest you take a copy and read it all yourself, and not just a summary or a recent movie.
The life we experience is a consequence of OUR choices:
If you chose to party all night while I studied all night for a final
If you chose to spend your money on McDonalds while I cooked my own food at home
If you chose to spend your time taking extra vocation while I was studying to get an extra certification
If you chose to buy yourself a new X-Box to play games while I bought a brand new computer to learn to code
If you chose to waste your money by renting and buying an expensive car while I bought cheap and used car
If you chose to play it safe by being an employee while I started my own business....
You have noone to blame for you living poorer then me but yourself. So stop with the class struggle and being a leech off the backs of the achievers like a true politician and start making money on your own.
As a Sun admin I have found that ever since Oracle bought Sun, they have dropped support and development for number of products, and asserted their "big brother" control over others. Oracle has since bullied many (including Google) for the patent code. I keep wondering... Is Oracle becoming a patent-trolling company? It is obvious that only Google at this time can go head-to-head with Microsoft in every area of the Market... why can't Oracle do what it did best... continue working on the databases? Otherwise, I do not think the computer industry can afford another SCO to hinder innovation and development being threatened by the patent-holders.
This goes to show you that people with a limited understanding of computer network technology should not make, set or comment on the computer security public policy. That's how we wind up with guys being dragged away by Secret Service and after being five years in jail and finally released are not even allowed to use a phone, because a bunch of idiots on the hill who think that Internet is a collection of "tubes" and network security amounts to the video-game 3d-flight from the popular hacker movies.. these guys are writing the laws that hinder the true grows and potential of the computer innovation and IT industry in general.
The problem is that there are no partners for peace at the moment. If you were to actually ask a real Gazan or Palestinian it is possible to make peace with Israel -- they will tell you that the best Qu'ran will allow them to do is "hudna" -- i.e. long term cease-fire.
As for the nuclear technology becoming a common occurrence in the Middle East -- trust me Israel is keeping tabs on them.
If you were to look at the history, in 1948 and 1967, the US did not always have Israel's back. Even in 1973 US has stopped Israel from marching onto Damascus and Cairo, just because Brezhnev threatened to send the Red Army into Sinai.
And finally -- we just do not want a madman with the Supreme Council of Madmen who is openly hosting the Holocaust denial conferences while promising Jews another one by wiping Israel off the map to have a nuclear weapon.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Israel is indeed in a tough neighborhood where every single day, hour, second... Every single moment is a desperate time. Ever since her inception the neighbors tried to annihilate her.
That is why there is a policy of ambiguity when it comes to the nuclear weapons. And assassinations of the nuclear scientists working for Israelis enemies. And bombings of the Iraqi and Syrian reactors and finally yes -- the virus.
And for any of you who would point a finger at the "neighborhood bully" -- remember, that you do not live in that neighborhood.
what about those of us who use Linux / Unix / other alternative OSs varieties? Does he really proposing to monopilize the market by performing a community-like legislation on who can and can not be on the net?
Love you Israel! Keeping Middle-East nuclear free! From the time we bombed Saddam's reactor in 1981, then Syrian in 2007 and now we tackling Iran! The effort was very sofisticated and once again we have proven -- we -- the Jews -- have the best minds in the world.
! ,
A few weeks ago, after finding out that some big economic and political heavyweights invested in Facebook, I decided to cancel my account. Two weeks after I filed the request, I finally no longer have it.
It seems to me that Facebook itself rose to prominence after MySpace became overpopulated and polluted with spam. It was a good social network for educational sources, but now -- it has become conglomerate of something that it does not even deserve to be.
Facebook has become too mainstream, its login service is used by many websites and the private lives and information of people is willingly compromised.
So, would anyone recommend a small but dedicated social network alternative that I could try and recommend to my friends. It must have a strong privacy emphasis, anti-spam features and simplicity.
From the summary CCTV cameras help Brits solve crimes... Good, right?
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."
- George Orwell, 1984
"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
-George Orwell 1984
Since when did the Slashdot became Digg where insightful comments that majority of the public disagrees with are marked as "Troll" and the namecalling with trash-talk is marked as "Insightful"?
Ah, CmdrTaco, what have you done?
Frankly when it comes to the Internet, EFF is the most unbiasted organization that I trust.
http://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutralityhttp://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-perils-and-promise
Basically it shows that Net Neutrality can be used as a trojan horse to control the content and the flow of the information on the Internet.
Whenever a good idea comes up and one side of the political isle strongly supports it while other is stronly opposes it, you should never look at it as only "black-and-white" issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone recommend any Youtube alternatives that are just as fast and free storage and at the same time will not be bullied by UMG / MPAA / etc.?
Hitchens dies and goes to heaven. He feels something is wrong, comes to a heavenly pond and looks down at his reflection in the water. To his horror he finds his body in fur, fingers instead of his toes, a tail and a monkey face!!!! :-)
So he looks up and sees Christ walking through heaven. Hitchens runs up to him and screams, "How is that? Does it not say in the bible: "God created man in his own image""?
And Christ answers: "I warned you: [Matthew 9:29] "Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you."
Hitchens: God does not exist!
God: Hitchens does not exist!
/agree 100%. I'm suprised people do not see this.
Ok just a small correction: the SAT scores have been "re-centered", and 1206 is actually a bit higher then 1300 right now.
"we have no evidence of how much work he really did while there." -- troll aloud. That's a very faulty argument, specifically designed to discredit the facts when they in fact exists, and targeted at the "dumb" public. I can say that there is absolutely no evidence your mom did not spend a night with me a few years ago....
If you want an elitist snob as your leader then go ahead. You have to know though, that the reason average American people prefer a guy whom they can relate to is because he will understand they wants, struggles and problems. I bet you that a person like Obama before he became a senator and a president would not even let you within 100 feet of him. He can not relate to ordinary people, he only pretends to care about the poor. He once said: "it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Perhaps USPS should get into the official government email business...
That might work.
Sincerely,
My_Federal_SSN_ID@GENERALPUBLIC.USPS.GOV
Current National Debt =~ 14.7 Trillion Dollars
Debt per Citizen =~ 47,000 Dollars
Debt per TaxPayer =~ 131,000 Dollars
US National Spending: 3.6 Trillion Dollars
US Federal Budget Deficit: 1.3 Trillion Dollars
Source: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
As an immigrant I would like to point out that the theory that you have alluded to or people out right evoke (class struggle, racial prejudice keep people from getting to their true potential) is faulty at best, but definitely beat your theory that only "magical alignment of stars" will bring a good fortune for an individual to do well (as in winning a lottery or being born rich). The rate at which immigrants become middle to upper middle class in the American society far outweigh the rate of average Americans. And I know that majority of them came with literally two dollars in their pockets and started their life way in the middle ages.
The fact is that anyone can make it, and American Dream lives on. It is just a very few rich elite in this society are making money on you believing in this class / racial prejudice bull****, and after saying it enough times in the last decade many Americans are actually believing it.
I honestly believe that if Google is smart, they will allow Motorola to have a general autonomy over their business, but keep the ownership. Use the hardware facilities to manufacture new Android chip that would work great specifically for Android, or the most awesome tablet that would have built-in 3 / 4G and wireless adapters and much bigger battery life then anything out there on the market... Anyways the possibilities for what Google could ask Motorola to do are endless.
Don't know... been surfing since 9 am (it is 12:15 now) and being Monday don't feel like doing Jack...
A coworker just came by and he started off with famous cliche, "So, are you working hard or hardly working?"
I chuckle.
We stood for the next 30 minutes discussed everything from current political realities in Middle East to the greatest newest phone gadget on a market.
Yup that's how my day goes.
Someone once told me that out of 8 hours we only in reality work like 1. The rest we pretend. I tend to believe that.
Here is my prediction:
Instead of password the common place would be a biometrics sensor where people would put their fingers and get "scanned". And an average IT guy would be responsible for sitting in a help desk and answering phone calls:
"Hello thank you for calling Acme Help Desk... Yes so you can't get in? Can you go wash your hands? I know you say that your hands are clean but try it... No do not use your moisturizing cream after washing... "
I think you are missing the point.
True laborers have been fired and their jobs have been outsourced oversees. See http://hbr.org/hbr-main/resources/pdfs/comm/fmglobal/restoring-american-competitiveness.pdf
I am guessing you never read Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged has characters who inherited their wealth and who are leeches, and the characters who started poor and created their wealth all by themselves. It is a book about the possibilities of achievement and those who want to hang on for a ride. I suggest you take a copy and read it all yourself, and not just a summary or a recent movie.
The life we experience is a consequence of OUR choices: If you chose to party all night while I studied all night for a final If you chose to spend your money on McDonalds while I cooked my own food at home If you chose to spend your time taking extra vocation while I was studying to get an extra certification If you chose to buy yourself a new X-Box to play games while I bought a brand new computer to learn to code If you chose to waste your money by renting and buying an expensive car while I bought cheap and used car If you chose to play it safe by being an employee while I started my own business.... You have noone to blame for you living poorer then me but yourself. So stop with the class struggle and being a leech off the backs of the achievers like a true politician and start making money on your own.
As a Sun admin I have found that ever since Oracle bought Sun, they have dropped support and development for number of products, and asserted their "big brother" control over others. Oracle has since bullied many (including Google) for the patent code. I keep wondering... Is Oracle becoming a patent-trolling company? It is obvious that only Google at this time can go head-to-head with Microsoft in every area of the Market... why can't Oracle do what it did best... continue working on the databases? Otherwise, I do not think the computer industry can afford another SCO to hinder innovation and development being threatened by the patent-holders.
This goes to show you that people with a limited understanding of computer network technology should not make, set or comment on the computer security public policy. That's how we wind up with guys being dragged away by Secret Service and after being five years in jail and finally released are not even allowed to use a phone, because a bunch of idiots on the hill who think that Internet is a collection of "tubes" and network security amounts to the video-game 3d-flight from the popular hacker movies.. these guys are writing the laws that hinder the true grows and potential of the computer innovation and IT industry in general.
The problem is that there are no partners for peace at the moment. If you were to actually ask a real Gazan or Palestinian it is possible to make peace with Israel -- they will tell you that the best Qu'ran will allow them to do is "hudna" -- i.e. long term cease-fire. As for the nuclear technology becoming a common occurrence in the Middle East -- trust me Israel is keeping tabs on them. If you were to look at the history, in 1948 and 1967, the US did not always have Israel's back. Even in 1973 US has stopped Israel from marching onto Damascus and Cairo, just because Brezhnev threatened to send the Red Army into Sinai. And finally -- we just do not want a madman with the Supreme Council of Madmen who is openly hosting the Holocaust denial conferences while promising Jews another one by wiping Israel off the map to have a nuclear weapon.
err... learn Hebrew please. Haaretz means "Land".
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Israel is indeed in a tough neighborhood where every single day, hour, second... Every single moment is a desperate time. Ever since her inception the neighbors tried to annihilate her. That is why there is a policy of ambiguity when it comes to the nuclear weapons. And assassinations of the nuclear scientists working for Israelis enemies. And bombings of the Iraqi and Syrian reactors and finally yes -- the virus. And for any of you who would point a finger at the "neighborhood bully" -- remember, that you do not live in that neighborhood.
what about those of us who use Linux / Unix / other alternative OSs varieties? Does he really proposing to monopilize the market by performing a community-like legislation on who can and can not be on the net?
Love you Israel! Keeping Middle-East nuclear free! From the time we bombed Saddam's reactor in 1981, then Syrian in 2007 and now we tackling Iran! The effort was very sofisticated and once again we have proven -- we -- the Jews -- have the best minds in the world. ! ,
A few weeks ago, after finding out that some big economic and political heavyweights invested in Facebook, I decided to cancel my account. Two weeks after I filed the request, I finally no longer have it. It seems to me that Facebook itself rose to prominence after MySpace became overpopulated and polluted with spam. It was a good social network for educational sources, but now -- it has become conglomerate of something that it does not even deserve to be. Facebook has become too mainstream, its login service is used by many websites and the private lives and information of people is willingly compromised. So, would anyone recommend a small but dedicated social network alternative that I could try and recommend to my friends. It must have a strong privacy emphasis, anti-spam features and simplicity.
From the summary CCTV cameras help Brits solve crimes... Good, right?
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..." - George Orwell, 1984 "From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." -George Orwell 1984
Since when did the Slashdot became Digg where insightful comments that majority of the public disagrees with are marked as "Troll" and the namecalling with trash-talk is marked as "Insightful"?
Ah, CmdrTaco, what have you done?
Frankly when it comes to the Internet, EFF is the most unbiasted organization that I trust. http://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-perils-and-promise Basically it shows that Net Neutrality can be used as a trojan horse to control the content and the flow of the information on the Internet. Whenever a good idea comes up and one side of the political isle strongly supports it while other is stronly opposes it, you should never look at it as only "black-and-white" issue.