The ACLU is devoted to preserving Constitutional rights which the libertarians want to abolish.
You're just lying here. What you are saying happens to be the opposite of what actually is. The word Libertarian contains the root Liberty. This alludes to the fact that Libertarians supremely support the basic liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and think the current government infringes upon those liberties.
I'd like to see you please provide some evidence to back up your lies.
Imagine if Spyglass had patented the "Back" button? Mosaic would be the de-facto web browser company today. By patenting "1-click browser history" technology, Spyglass would have been able to license out its "Back" button and "Forward" buttons to Netscape and Microsoft and made a fortune.
Hindsight is 20/20 eh? hehehehe...
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No. Obfuscated code can be Open Source, and Open source code can be obfuscated. They are not two mutually exclusive conditions. In fact, my code is fairly obfuscated, and its not even intentional.
Dolphins will put half of their brain to sleep at a time. This allows them to maintain a state of semi-awareness, while resting. I wish we were built that way.
2. To Andover and Slashdot, as an African-American it is troubling to read threats of lynching on this board, but if that's how VA Linux Systems and Slashdot choose to handle its business competitors, so be it.
Please don't introduce a racism non-sequitor/red-herring into the mix here. The flak that your company is receiving is because of the various false claims that it has made. It has nothing to do with you being african-american.
I would have at least said that perhaps they were slightly misinformed. Letting someone carry one like that (at least from where I come from) is bad manners.
Oh, and its good manners to lie to potential customers feed them a bunch of made-up, *pretend* information?
I am sorry as I cannot view your page now but I got the impression that you were toying with the person and allowing them to continue to think that what they said was correct when it wasn't. It would be like talking to a small child and snickering behind their back.
Do you work for LinuxOne? The salesman is pretending to know about Linux, and replying with false information, and it is Accipiter who is in the wrong for exposing the exact extent of the salesman's ignorance? By the way, your analogy sucks. If LinuxOne is hiring salesman with "child-like" intelligence to represent their company, then they deserve to be ridiculed as such.
This person could loose their job because you as the shittless little punk that you are had the gaul to actually deliberately lead the person on with false data of your own. Perhaps a little hint? You know not everyone knows everything all at once we all learn.
Are you retarded?
What if Accipiter had actually been a clueless newbie? He would have been horribly mislead by an unskilled salesman who actively pretended to know what he was talking about. Would you rather Accipiter ask his grandmother to call up and ask the questions?
See a problem here. You make people look like fools you are basically saying that the above is proper behavior. Accipiter made the salesman look like a fool because he *WAS* a fool. If the salesman was smart, he would have admitted that he didn't know much about the product and would connect Accipiter to a technical representative. But he didn't. I can't believe you don't see a problem with how LinuxOne deceives its potential customers.
Why don't you read the Motley Fool article. They went and investigated the actual Power Source store, and it was a dump. They basically run flea market tables and sell bargain bin software.
Which is more reasonable? Taking stuff written in a prospectus as truth automatically, or being skeptical and investigating the details. Apparently, you would prefer the former.
Neither are a lot of movies. Doesn't mean they are stupid.
2. There are 2 options when depicting war. One is to show the horror of war ( like lucas' budy speilberg did with private ryan ) or show it from a lighter side. which do you think fit the bill here.
Aaah.. so I guess the Star Wars series is supposed to be more like "F-Troop", and "Beetle Bailey". Well, how the hell am I supposed to argue that?
...And please don't say Samuel L. Jackson did a bad job, the man only had 2 lines.
Are you crazy? Why do you need to insult the intelligence of sub-18 year olds?
First of all: Do you think that just because a movie is geared towards adolescents and teens it is OK for it to be resoundingly stupid?
Here are just *some* movies and TV shows made for teens and kids that *aren't* stupid:
1.) Iron Giant 2.) Toy Story, Toy Story 2 3.) Tarzan 4.) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 5.) Batman TV Series 6.) Superman TV Series 7.) Beast Wars/Beast Machines 8.) DragonBall Z 9.) X-Men 10.) Gargoyles (great, now defunct, series)
etc..etc.. I am sure there are a ton of them out there.
Second of all:
Would you like to explain the entire plot of TPM for me, huh? Why don't you try, and then tell me that its a movie made for kids. Also, don't tell me that slicing someone in half with a light sabre is also kids-oriented material.
How about that two-headed pod-race commentator? Wow, I guess Nascar has a much larger fan base than I thought! Galaxy far far away my ass. Maturity level of this film is on par with a Barney film.
Plus the fact that the actors are never quite looking directly at the CGI characters when they speak to them. Liam Neeson always looks like he's looking somewhere next to or above Jar Jar's head.
It looks big. It tastes really candy sweet. But when eating it, you realize it is just a lot of fluff and air, and you are left still feeling hungry afterwards.
Throw in an annoying horse-tooth jackass CGI character and you've got yourself TPM!
I tend to think that the direct comparison of science and religion is fundamentally flawed. Science is a method of extracting information about the world around us, discovering how things operate and function. It has no basis in morality and ethics. Science just is. Religion is a system of ethics and beliefs that tries to explain how things operate and function along why they function and operate.
Of course, since science has no real moral basis, but rather a basis on logic, it is not only ok to question and disprove scientific theories, but it is heartily encouraged! The problem with religion is that its attempts to explain the world are so closely tied with the accompanying moral and ethical scriptures that to question these explanations becomes akin to questioning one's moral and ethical beliefs. Thus these out-dated, obsolete explanations of nature stay around, despite being overshadowed by more modern, logical explanation.
Presumably you wouldn't be familiar with the 10 commandments, the sermon on the Mount, the idea of personal morality, the idea of universal humanity, charity, the sanctity of life and much much more, would you?
I don't see how religion created the ideas of personal morality, humanism, and sanctity of life. Religion is retro-fitted to our moralities. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is not a religious tenet, it is basic human sense. Laws are created to ensure societal stability, so therefore I don't need to fear the fiery depths of hell to know not to kill people, just the sentence leveled at me by the judicator of the laws. Concern for fellow members of a society can be seen in many other species of animals such as meercats, chimps and elephants, to name a few. I don't see them going to church every Sunday.
And you wouldn't be aware of the role that science played in eugenics, the death camps, the construction of the atomic bomb, mechanised warfare etc etc, either?
Oops, I think you forgot to mention fire! That discovery has caused a good amount of evil in human history. Also the wheel has been a particularly evil invention since people use the wheel to cart around those machines of warfare and atomic missile launchers.
if the world's religious authorities had been involved in the decision to build nuclear weapons, would Mutually Assured Destruction have ever become our primary foreign policy?
Probably. Eventually someone would have discovered the power of nuclear fission (probably the Nazi Germans!) and would have created a bomb out of it. IMHO, better to have the U.S. build it first rather than the Soviets or the Germans.
OTOH, I don't think we should have dropped the bomb on innocent civilians (twice) and I wonder what the religious leaders at the time thought about that. Did Christian leaders vehemently oppose Harry Truman? Does anybody know?
feh. We are already creating "super-bacteria" simply through the increased usage of antibiotics and the latest craze of "Antibacterial-everything"... Through the wonders of evolution (gotta love that Darwin), we are weeding out the weak germs, and making room for the bad-ass ones that eat penicillin for breakfast. No human created life form will be able to compete with our other creation.
Your analogy to a teenage mother was very accurate. As a race, we are barely adolescents. Yes, our technology is racing ahead faster and faster, but like the teenager, looking back we may see that it would have been better to have waited.
Pure speculative rhetoric. How do you know that the human race is an "adolescent" but not a fully self-sufficient "adult". I mean, is there another sentient race that you are comparing us to that would constitute an "adult" race? Hell, I think we are rapidly moving away from the adolescent mindset as we start to discard arcane, irrational ideas such as god and religion. Stuff like trial by fire, witch burning, divine right etc...
...but like the teenager, looking back we may see that it would have been better to have waited.
Okay, would you like to explain to me how long we are supposed to wait? Perhaps when the Pope feels good and ready to let us do something? Maybe when the clouds part and a giant hand comes down and gives us a thumbs up? Perhaps we should wait a year before doing it? But what difference will that one year make? Why not 2 years? Why not 50 years?!
We will never know the implications of our technology until we actually implement it. Everything else is pure speculation.
Hah! What makes you think this is an "Eastern" thing? Do you think the Taiwanese government would commit such an act? How about Japan?
Nationalism is commendable, but the total disregard to individual human life, nevermind human rights, that the Chinese government has is utterly reproachable.
I meant to say that the incidents occurred in Sweden!! Hehe, sorry guys, us ignorant Americans sometimes get the Northern European nations mixed up... poor educational system and such. Sorry.
There was a huge hubbub in Norway about this young hacker-guy named Zenon Panoussis, who managed to get his hand on some of the Church of $cientology's top-secret high-level "Holy Scriptures". He ended up publishing the contents on the Internet, and the Co$, not suprisingly, became really pissed off.
They tried to get the documents back through the Norwegian courts, but Zenon, who was actually well-versed in the Norwegian laws, submitted the documents to the Norway government library, which under Norwegian law automatically made it public domain! The Co$ resorted to having a couple of $cientologist thugs guarding the file cabinet that held the documents and picking up, pretending to read them whenever someone came over to try and take the documents out. *LOL*:D
Anyway, the $cientologists now were really pissed off and resorted to taking Zenon to court to try and bankrupt and discredit him into oblivion. Unfortunately, Zenon turned out to be much craftier than they anticipated and managed to wriggle his way out of trouble several times. They got the local authorities to raid his apartment twice, and he filmed and documented both incidents. Really funny stuff, its too bad I can't find the website anymore
In any event, check out this site, it has pictures and some notes of a $cientologist raid of Arnie Lerma's house.
Some good places would be Battery Park City, and the Great Lawn in Central Park, if you're not afraid of getting mugged or raped (ever see the Fisher King?).
I personally, will probably head down to Battery Park City and camp out on one of the multiple lawns nearby Stuyvesant High School.
Well, we use the oxidation of dead botanical material as fuel, or else how would we toast our marshmellows? Is it not plausible that we couldn't supplement solar power with slug power as well?
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You're just lying here. What you are saying happens to be the opposite of what actually is. The word Libertarian contains the root Liberty. This alludes to the fact that Libertarians supremely support the basic liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and think the current government infringes upon those liberties.
I'd like to see you please provide some evidence to back up your lies.
Hindsight is 20/20 eh? hehehehe...
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Dolphins will put half of their brain to sleep at a time. This allows them to maintain a state of semi-awareness, while resting. I wish we were built that way.
Please don't introduce a racism non-sequitor/red-herring into the mix here. The flak that your company is receiving is because of the various false claims that it has made. It has nothing to do with you being african-american.
Oh, and its good manners to lie to potential customers feed them a bunch of made-up, *pretend* information?
I am sorry as I cannot view your page now but I got the impression that you were toying with the person and allowing them to continue to think that what they said was correct when it wasn't. It would be like talking to a small child and snickering behind their back.
Do you work for LinuxOne? The salesman is pretending to know about Linux, and replying with false information, and it is Accipiter who is in the wrong for exposing the exact extent of the salesman's ignorance? By the way, your analogy sucks. If LinuxOne is hiring salesman with "child-like" intelligence to represent their company, then they deserve to be ridiculed as such.
Are you retarded?
What if Accipiter had actually been a clueless newbie? He would have been horribly mislead by an unskilled salesman who actively pretended to know what he was talking about. Would you rather Accipiter ask his grandmother to call up and ask the questions?
See a problem here. You make people look like fools you are basically saying that the above is proper behavior. Accipiter made the salesman look like a fool because he *WAS* a fool. If the salesman was smart, he would have admitted that he didn't know much about the product and would connect Accipiter to a technical representative. But he didn't. I can't believe you don't see a problem with how LinuxOne deceives its potential customers.
Which is more reasonable? Taking stuff written in a prospectus as truth automatically, or being skeptical and investigating the details. Apparently, you would prefer the former.
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Neither are a lot of movies. Doesn't mean they are stupid.
2. There are 2 options when depicting war. One is to show the horror of war ( like lucas' budy speilberg did with private ryan ) or show it from a lighter side. which do you think fit the bill here.
Aaah.. so I guess the Star Wars series is supposed to be more like "F-Troop", and "Beetle Bailey". Well, how the hell am I supposed to argue that?
Precisely.
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First of all: Do you think that just because a movie is geared towards adolescents and teens it is OK for it to be resoundingly stupid?
Here are just *some* movies and TV shows made for teens and kids that *aren't* stupid:
1.) Iron Giant
2.) Toy Story, Toy Story 2
3.) Tarzan
4.) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
5.) Batman TV Series
6.) Superman TV Series
7.) Beast Wars/Beast Machines
8.) DragonBall Z
9.) X-Men
10.) Gargoyles (great, now defunct, series)
etc..etc.. I am sure there are a ton of them out there.
Second of all:
Would you like to explain the entire plot of TPM for me, huh? Why don't you try, and then tell me that its a movie made for kids. Also, don't tell me that slicing someone in half with a light sabre is also kids-oriented material.
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It looks big. It tastes really candy sweet. But when eating it, you realize it is just a lot of fluff and air, and you are left still feeling hungry afterwards.
Throw in an annoying horse-tooth jackass CGI character and you've got yourself TPM!
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To further our understanding of nature. Simple as that.
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Of course, since science has no real moral basis, but rather a basis on logic, it is not only ok to question and disprove scientific theories, but it is heartily encouraged! The problem with religion is that its attempts to explain the world are so closely tied with the accompanying moral and ethical scriptures that to question these explanations becomes akin to questioning one's moral and ethical beliefs. Thus these out-dated, obsolete explanations of nature stay around, despite being overshadowed by more modern, logical explanation.
Presumably you wouldn't be familiar with the 10 commandments, the sermon on the Mount, the idea of personal morality, the idea of universal humanity, charity, the sanctity of life and much much more, would you?
I don't see how religion created the ideas of personal morality, humanism, and sanctity of life. Religion is retro-fitted to our moralities. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is not a religious tenet, it is basic human sense. Laws are created to ensure societal stability, so therefore I don't need to fear the fiery depths of hell to know not to kill people, just the sentence leveled at me by the judicator of the laws. Concern for fellow members of a society can be seen in many other species of animals such as meercats, chimps and elephants, to name a few. I don't see them going to church every Sunday.
And you wouldn't be aware of the role that science played in eugenics, the death camps, the construction of the atomic bomb, mechanised warfare etc etc, either?
Oops, I think you forgot to mention fire! That discovery has caused a good amount of evil in human history. Also the wheel has been a particularly evil invention since people use the wheel to cart around those machines of warfare and atomic missile launchers.
Probably. Eventually someone would have discovered the power of nuclear fission (probably the Nazi Germans!) and would have created a bomb out of it. IMHO, better to have the U.S. build it first rather than the Soviets or the Germans.
OTOH, I don't think we should have dropped the bomb on innocent civilians (twice) and I wonder what the religious leaders at the time thought about that. Did Christian leaders vehemently oppose Harry Truman? Does anybody know?
1.) Destroying them
2.) Changing their genetic composition
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If man didn't create man, I wouldn't be here right now.
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Pure speculative rhetoric. How do you know that the human race is an "adolescent" but not a fully self-sufficient "adult". I mean, is there another sentient race that you are comparing us to that would constitute an "adult" race? Hell, I think we are rapidly moving away from the adolescent mindset as we start to discard arcane, irrational ideas such as god and religion. Stuff like trial by fire, witch burning, divine right etc...
Okay, would you like to explain to me how long we are supposed to wait? Perhaps when the Pope feels good and ready to let us do something? Maybe when the clouds part and a giant hand comes down and gives us a thumbs up? Perhaps we should wait a year before doing it? But what difference will that one year make? Why not 2 years? Why not 50 years?!
We will never know the implications of our technology until we actually implement it. Everything else is pure speculation.
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Nationalism is commendable, but the total disregard to individual human life, nevermind human rights, that the Chinese government has is utterly reproachable.
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They tried to get the documents back through the Norwegian courts, but Zenon, who was actually well-versed in the Norwegian laws, submitted the documents to the Norway government library, which under Norwegian law automatically made it public domain! The Co$ resorted to having a couple of $cientologist thugs guarding the file cabinet that held the documents and picking up, pretending to read them whenever someone came over to try and take the documents out. *LOL* :D
Anyway, the $cientologists now were really pissed off and resorted to taking Zenon to court to try and bankrupt and discredit him into oblivion. Unfortunately, Zenon turned out to be much craftier than they anticipated and managed to wriggle his way out of trouble several times. They got the local authorities to raid his apartment twice, and he filmed and documented both incidents. Really funny stuff, its too bad I can't find the website anymore
In any event, check out this site, it has pictures and some notes of a $cientologist raid of Arnie Lerma's house.
Enjoy!
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I personally, will probably head down to Battery Park City and camp out on one of the multiple lawns nearby Stuyvesant High School.
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