Interestingly enough, you seem to be right. What shocks me is that I was taught that in school. I guess it may have been a temporary ban in France during the religion wars. I couldn't find any references about it though.
I am not sure what a Southern Baptist is, I live in France where most people (including half of my family) is catholic. I am an atheist. I understand why one would call it "protestant propaganda" however. I do acknowledge that most catholics are more moderate than hardcore protestants that think their King James version was written by God itself. They will accept many of the Old Testament as legends and fairy tales but they will get damn serious once you talk about the New Testament.
They don't care about Noah, Adam or Moses but Jesus is the core of their belief. They believe it existed, performed miracles, told everything that he is written in the New Testament, died for humanity sins and resurrected. That there were witnesses of this, that the New Testament is a trustworthy retelling if what happened then. Because he did all of this, his commands are important and obeyed by catholics. It is hard to find catholics who don't think the Flood is an allegory or that the Earth was really created in 6 days. I have yet to meet a catholic who believe that Jesus didn't exist and was not resurrected.
You would believe, in these conditions, that the Church would try to find as much information on JC than possible but no, it is now an organism of its own, autonomous about its doctrine. They did not update their beliefs when it became apparent that 3 gospels come from a single source or when Thomas gospel was found.
I am not sure what kind of source you want me to cite ? What claims do you dispute ? On most of these subjects, I found wikipedia citation sources (they are very complete on theological subjects) to be quite well-founded.
It is a single company that doesn't manage to make money in this market because it does it wrong. What Google has proved in the online-ads world is that what pays is to deliver the correct ad to the correct people. The first article clearly states that Lookery is not very picky about who to deliver their ads to and proceed to explain that its competitors manage to sell ads for 5 time Lookery's price because they craft their inventory more carefully.
That's not a new bubble, that is a vestige of the first one : failing to understand that one online ad on a webpage do not have a fixed value but that many parameters are to be taken into account.
It also puts a value on the fact that Google is going to slightly piss its users by putting ads on their screens. It is worth taking into account as well.
I think the grandfather comment was a reminder of how the Catholic Church has been known to react toward "open sourcing" their knowledges. One of the big differences between Catholics and Protestants was that Catholics were not allowed to read the bible. In fact it was illegal to own a Bible at home (in XVIIth century France at least)
The Index (of forbidden books) was updated until the Vatican II council (1966) and is still considered by the Holy See to have a moral value as a list of the books one should prevent oneself from reading.
The general feeling is that the Roman Catholic Church's main dogma is the "the doctrine is the truth" so if something seems to be the truth outside of the doctrine, it is dangerous and should be fought. The Church is not known for its research centers trying to find archaeological proofs of the Bible or to correct its versions with the many manuscript fragments that are found regularly.
I know that this is in form of a joke but by requiring unnecessary updates, by wasting many cycles and a huge percentage of the CPU power, Vista does in fact have a huge environmental footprint.
Because it doesn't run out of magic doesn't mean it isn't one of the algorithms that has been perfected by AI research. There is learning and problem solving, IMHO, it passes...
What is supposed to be alive then if you don't use either MSN or ICQ ?
My non-geek friends use MSN, others use ICQ or jabber (mostly because of gtalk)
I still use IRC too.
My work made me use Skype as well.
You have the license, it is called GPL. Its role is to give rights to the user, not to guarantee some properties of the program. For this, you have certifications and stamps.
The result of that kind of argument will likely be that they ignore the part that's confusing to them, and focus on the part that's simple to understand: you have the Indiana Jones movie on your hard drive, and that's a copyright violation. Simple.
"The big guy nobody likes (RIAA/MPAA) don't like this technology because they can't control it. They framed me while I was downloading Knoppix linux because they don't like this software." Big guy vs small guy. Easy to understand as well. Really, I think that could work.
I think that a new license is a really bad idea. Fragmentation is not what you want in the OSS world. There are already enough problems between Sun's licence, GPLv2, GPLv3, Mozilla's, etc... to add a new license with new restrictions.
You don't need a license. You need a "EFF approved" stamp.
Well, what about that : I have this set of three files of the same size that are respectively, a screener of Indiana Jones IV (illegal), a 700 MB chunk of random data (legal) and a third file obtained by combining these two files through the XOR operator. Now, a court would most probably rule the third file as illegal, as it contains the data to obtain a screener of a copyrighted movie. But watch their confusion as, while XORed with another seemingly random file, it forms a set of litterature from the XVIIth century, and XORed with another one, a documentary on Inuits. "See, your honor ? This is framing, you could get any copyrighted work by carefully crafting a chunk of data to feed into this XOR operator."
Granted, you won't fool a (competent) computer scientist with that, but a jury could be confused, to say the least. Someone sharing only the third file would, IMHO, have a better chance in trial that someone sharing the first one.
Now, trials take intentions as well as technical details into account. "Why were you sharing this chunk of data, as it is random garbage ?". But there is a retort to that : combined with this (4th file), commonly shared by many of my fellow OFFers, it reads as a knoppix live CD, a tool very much appreciated by IT professionals, which happens to be my profession"
It is worse than that : if you make children and then get immortality, the population still grows quickly. I think the solution would be to opt for fertility and immortality by default, and accept mortality if you want to have kids.
Now think about it : if it comes during our lifespan, we will be among the oldest humans alive. No one more than 100 years older than us will be alive. So we better begin to adapt NOW !
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Interestingly enough, you seem to be right. What shocks me is that I was taught that in school. I guess it may have been a temporary ban in France during the religion wars. I couldn't find any references about it though.
I am not sure what a Southern Baptist is, I live in France where most people (including half of my family) is catholic. I am an atheist. I understand why one would call it "protestant propaganda" however. I do acknowledge that most catholics are more moderate than hardcore protestants that think their King James version was written by God itself. They will accept many of the Old Testament as legends and fairy tales but they will get damn serious once you talk about the New Testament.
They don't care about Noah, Adam or Moses but Jesus is the core of their belief. They believe it existed, performed miracles, told everything that he is written in the New Testament, died for humanity sins and resurrected. That there were witnesses of this, that the New Testament is a trustworthy retelling if what happened then. Because he did all of this, his commands are important and obeyed by catholics. It is hard to find catholics who don't think the Flood is an allegory or that the Earth was really created in 6 days. I have yet to meet a catholic who believe that Jesus didn't exist and was not resurrected.
You would believe, in these conditions, that the Church would try to find as much information on JC than possible but no, it is now an organism of its own, autonomous about its doctrine. They did not update their beliefs when it became apparent that 3 gospels come from a single source or when Thomas gospel was found.
I am not sure what kind of source you want me to cite ? What claims do you dispute ? On most of these subjects, I found wikipedia citation sources (they are very complete on theological subjects) to be quite well-founded.
It is a single company that doesn't manage to make money in this market because it does it wrong. What Google has proved in the online-ads world is that what pays is to deliver the correct ad to the correct people. The first article clearly states that Lookery is not very picky about who to deliver their ads to and proceed to explain that its competitors manage to sell ads for 5 time Lookery's price because they craft their inventory more carefully.
That's not a new bubble, that is a vestige of the first one : failing to understand that one online ad on a webpage do not have a fixed value but that many parameters are to be taken into account.
It also puts a value on the fact that Google is going to slightly piss its users by putting ads on their screens. It is worth taking into account as well.
Surely the best place to witness it would be on Google Video
I think the grandfather comment was a reminder of how the Catholic Church has been known to react toward "open sourcing" their knowledges. One of the big differences between Catholics and Protestants was that Catholics were not allowed to read the bible. In fact it was illegal to own a Bible at home (in XVIIth century France at least)
The Index (of forbidden books) was updated until the Vatican II council (1966) and is still considered by the Holy See to have a moral value as a list of the books one should prevent oneself from reading.
The general feeling is that the Roman Catholic Church's main dogma is the "the doctrine is the truth" so if something seems to be the truth outside of the doctrine, it is dangerous and should be fought. The Church is not known for its research centers trying to find archaeological proofs of the Bible or to correct its versions with the many manuscript fragments that are found regularly.
First comment on the oldest bible. Now that's something !
I know that this is in form of a joke but by requiring unnecessary updates, by wasting many cycles and a huge percentage of the CPU power, Vista does in fact have a huge environmental footprint.
More than that, we should celebrate the "Year of the end of the Year of linux on the desktop joke"
I concur : http://xckd.com/350/
...until I got to a room and got the "download windows client" link.
I like seeing the tags suddenoutbreakofcommonsense and goodluckwiththat used in the same story
Just provide it as is the custom in trial : on paper
Then blame Viacom on the sudden disappearance of the Amazonian forest.
Because it doesn't run out of magic doesn't mean it isn't one of the algorithms that has been perfected by AI research. There is learning and problem solving, IMHO, it passes...
A learning feedback loop of course can't be categorized as an AI ! Everybody knows that AI can only work out of fairy dust...
What is supposed to be alive then if you don't use either MSN or ICQ ?
My non-geek friends use MSN, others use ICQ or jabber (mostly because of gtalk)
I still use IRC too.
My work made me use Skype as well.
You have the license, it is called GPL. Its role is to give rights to the user, not to guarantee some properties of the program. For this, you have certifications and stamps.
The result of that kind of argument will likely be that they ignore the part that's confusing to them, and focus on the part that's simple to understand: you have the Indiana Jones movie on your hard drive, and that's a copyright violation. Simple.
"The big guy nobody likes (RIAA/MPAA) don't like this technology because they can't control it. They framed me while I was downloading Knoppix linux because they don't like this software." Big guy vs small guy. Easy to understand as well. Really, I think that could work.
I think that a new license is a really bad idea. Fragmentation is not what you want in the OSS world. There are already enough problems between Sun's licence, GPLv2, GPLv3, Mozilla's, etc... to add a new license with new restrictions.
You don't need a license. You need a "EFF approved" stamp.
Well, what about that : I have this set of three files of the same size that are respectively, a screener of Indiana Jones IV (illegal), a 700 MB chunk of random data (legal) and a third file obtained by combining these two files through the XOR operator. Now, a court would most probably rule the third file as illegal, as it contains the data to obtain a screener of a copyrighted movie. But watch their confusion as, while XORed with another seemingly random file, it forms a set of litterature from the XVIIth century, and XORed with another one, a documentary on Inuits. "See, your honor ? This is framing, you could get any copyrighted work by carefully crafting a chunk of data to feed into this XOR operator."
Granted, you won't fool a (competent) computer scientist with that, but a jury could be confused, to say the least. Someone sharing only the third file would, IMHO, have a better chance in trial that someone sharing the first one.
Now, trials take intentions as well as technical details into account. "Why were you sharing this chunk of data, as it is random garbage ?". But there is a retort to that : combined with this (4th file), commonly shared by many of my fellow OFFers, it reads as a knoppix live CD, a tool very much appreciated by IT professionals, which happens to be my profession"
You still do business in US ? I thought there were only law and military firms there anymore ? And HQ of companies who make their business abroad.
Or stick to XP ?
And it took a study to prove that. Now let's have a control group that will be base on faith...
It is worse than that : if you make children and then get immortality, the population still grows quickly. I think the solution would be to opt for fertility and immortality by default, and accept mortality if you want to have kids.
Now think about it : if it comes during our lifespan, we will be among the oldest humans alive. No one more than 100 years older than us will be alive. So we better begin to adapt NOW !