Um, how about as renderfarms, just like Titanic used? I guess being used for Titanic, the most expensive movie made (as far as I know) is a small thing we should overlook.. This was on Alpha, BTW, there is no reason to limit Linux to x86 floating point (lack of?) performance... AS for same architecture as xt's, you have no clue of what you speak. The internals are COMPLEATLY overhalled, and Linux isn't limited to x86 anyway.. X86 just happens to give most of us the most bang for the buck right now.. If Alpha's were cheaper, I would buy one yesterday, and Linux would run fine on it..
Note: Each processor will have it's own dedicated 64 megs or RAM in this system. If there are textures that are in more then one processors section of the screen, (basically guarenteed) then the texture must be in each one of the processors memory. I would assume because of this, max textures would actually be in the 128-256megs range. If you have a lot of large textures, could be as little as 64..
I agree. Soundcards can be compared much better to 2d cards, which have basically leveled off... All most sound cards do is d/a conversion and *very* minimal processing.. Sound cards are mostly analog devices with a d/a converter. 2D cards are also the same sort of basic a very small amount of window processing, a d/a conversion, and analog components. 3D cards, on the other hand, are very complex processors, in recent generations as complex as the recent geleral CPU's in our computers. Just as CPU's are getting pretty fast, but are not yet (nor ever will be, i suspect;-) fast enough, current 3D cards arent, and are still evolving at least as fast, if not more, then CPU's are. However, you can also get less then cutting edge graphics cards (as well as CPU's) and still have a decent system. I for one am still using a Voodoo 2, and am only now, 2 years after the purchase, looking to upgrade. I also have my k6-2 300 from the same era running my gateway/server, though my main workstation has a celeron 400 on it (comody tech, bought darn cheap).
This is because each chip has it's own dedicated memory, in order to give decent overall memory rates.. 2GB/32 chips per high end card = 64 megs a chip, the max that the chips can address... The reason that they have the consumer market top out at 4 chips is there are diminishing returns with each chip.. 2 should be nearly twice as fast, 4 less then four times as fast, 8 perhaps 6 times as fast, etc.. I don't believe with this architecture they can pull of very linear scaling.
Ok, on page 54 of their quantum PDf presentation, it mentions the quantum 3D Alchemy (the high end cards with 8-32 processors) and it's memory bandwidth of "over 100GB/sec" I assume this is extrapolated from the 32 processor version, each with it's own mem interface.. that means memory bandwidth per processor is about 3 GB second. Me thinks this will be a bit memory limited in games that don't use it's texture compression... However, if games start supporting 3dfx's texture compression, they should fly...
More T&L... Right now is just a little triangle setup and lighting, there is much more that can be done in hardware.. And we need faster T&l, faster memory interfaces, more fillrate, etc...
I've been waiting to my old 90 Mpixel voodoo 2(which still is pretty decent on most games really)... If Linux drivers come out, I'll probably go for the Voodoo 5 6000 quad beasty.. That should hold out for a while..
Anyone find anything on the memory technology yet? This card would have to have some massive memory bandwidth to keep up with those fillrates.. I know even the sdram GeForce is memory bandwidth limited at much lower fillrate. It appeares that each graphics chip has its own dedicated 32 megs from the specs(with up to 64 being addressable by each chip), so that is one memory trick I'm sure they are using.. Any other details?
(anyone notice that 3Dfx, long saying "32 bits doesn't make much difference" cuz they didn't have the technology, is now pushing it;-)
Actually, if I buy a computer from most any computer vendor, I am forced to pay for Windows *even if I never ever use it*. Here is a quote from the finding of facts doc, section 58:
One of the ways Microsoft combats piracy is by advising OEMs that they will be charged a higher price for Windows unless they drastically limit the number of PCs that they sell without an operating system pre-installed. In 1998, all major OEMs agreed to this restriction.
What the hell is that? MS is saying in effect, "Either you buy our licenses for all the PC's you sell, or we charge you the same amount for fewer licenses." That alone should be grounds for Monopolistic practices.
I believe in the US, at least till next year, they have every right to publish it... AS far as we know, this protection mechanism is neither patented, nor legaly protected in any other way. Reverse engineering for interoperability is quite legal, as the SAMBA team has shown us.
We have "plain text"(the decrypted data) now, so changing the keys does nothing, changing the encryptation algorithm will do little.. Anything they do that still allows the old media to be played (the media we now have decrypted) will be insecure. They can either shaft all people who have already bought DVD players, or just suck it up.. There really isn't any other option at this point... Future media can be produced using all new keys, and DVD players firmware updated, but the DVD's we have already cracked are cracked for good. Even if they change ALL the keys, the same thing will happen again eventually. If they don't want something easily copied in digital form, the only way to do that is to change the media to a propriatery standard that can't be used in computers, ala Playstation 2. Still, pro priates will figure some way around it, and the 3l337 haX0rs will just get a sub-optimal movie to trade, ala the curent "screener" scene. There is no way to secure this against everyone.
Hopefully the studios will realize that and not do something boneheaded that causes a public uproar...
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This is mostly amusing, but there is a little truth to it... Sun CD-ROM drives suck. Only very recently have they gone from their aprox. 4x cdroms to 24x, which is decent. For the longest time, you would buy expensive sun hardware w/ great floating point performance, then take 18 years to install the OS..
To bastardize Tigger's quote: The most wonderful thing about mod_perl, is that mod_perl is a wonderful thing! Mod_perl (I believe this is how it works) associates an instance of the perl interpreter with each httpd child precess, meaning no forking, and fast excution. Because of this, for small programs, mod_perl is actually quite a bit less resource intensive then C or other compiled languages.
Slightly off-topic, but partitons are not limited to 2GB in modern linux at least(on both the 2.0.37 and 2.2.13 kernels I run, I have larger partitions). I am not as sure about the 2GB file limit, although I know in 64bit ports it has been removed, I think it is still a limitation in 32bit Linux, though I remember hearing something about a database company contributing a patch for this and think it is in the 2.3.x series... Not quite sure though...
Well, I can put 10 or so albums on a single CD that costs me less then a buck, and then have portable music I can take to work, school, home, etc.. Quite a bargin I believe... Now I can just hope for a small CD based mp3 player to debut commercially..
Yes, VHS is more expensive to produce AFTER mastering, but the whole process of DVD mastering is more expensive. IN going to digital in movie theaters and in home DVD players, the movie industry has to spend much more on the whole filmmaking process to make the clearer, cleaner digital movies worth it. However, DVD's better get cheaper, and not go the route of music CD's, which have kept getting more expensive as the technology matured, even though the price of producing a CD is virtually nill now...
Why is it that when Christians say they know the truth, the are "closed minded", but when athiests say the same thing, they are "open minded"? Saying "there is no higher power then me" is a religious statement made by athiests all the time. Even worse is the old "believe whatever you want, it doesn't matter", as this is making the unprovable (and highly suspect IMHO) statement that there is no truth in the universe.
Ok, the world is put togeather in one of two ways: 1) There is absolute truth. 2) There is no absolute truth. Taking the first position makes you a freak in this day and age, and taking the second makes you a worthy "free thinker". This is not free thought. If you seek out all the evidence (not just the evidence that supports your idea, as is commen in both athiest and religious circles) and conclude that absolute truth is the "best fit" to the evidence you have collected, you have done well. If you dot he same and come up with the "no absolute truth" answer, you have done well also. I for one see more truely "open minded" christians then athiests. People who give both Nietzsche and Schaeffer(a Christian thinker) a fair read. I doubt many people who think of them selves as "open minded" really do these things also. Am I open minded? Yes, I think I am. Am I a Christian? Yes, I think I am. Do I have doubts? Yes I do. Anyone who does not sometimes doubt, doesn't yet understand how small our brains are, and how vast the evidence we have to sort through is. I realize most of the above is not stated in the article this is in reply to, but it is assumed.
As for "the rise of democracy and the individual", these things were brought about by Christian ideals. Read most all of the literature that gave rise to out freedom (both in america and other countries, though I am most knowledgeable about america) is written and influenced by Christians. The Declaration of independance, first paragraph: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Yes, the Church has done some horrible things. That these things are used to make statements about all of Christianity is not fair though. I think if you took the time to learn about Christianity, you would find that all the things about Christianity's past you find horrific, so do real Christians. As they would have had they lived at the time. Christians have free will, and quite often we screw up. I would however, be suprised if most of the people who did the things you quote were really followers of Christ, "christians" versus followers of the church "Churchians". There are many more Churchians then Christians even today. If you don't know, at the time of these happenings, the Bible was still used either in Latin or in Greek and hebrew, so that only the clergy could interpret it. Thus, all the clergy had the power, and the power corrupted them. King James decided to commission scholors to translate the Bible into the language of the common man at the time, to "Open source" the bible(to put it in./ terms;-). As for our delusions, evidence for God abounds. It is in Nature(its beauty, and its perfect fit for us), Ourselves(our need of love, our reason, and all the things that make us human), and in History. This is the one you are probably looking for. First, the Bible. Yes, it is an old book, but has been proved reliable in every way we can test it. In archeology, in the way it was coppied, in the amount of copies remaining, in every way, it is the most reliable book we have. If you are interested in learning more, contact me, or read "Evidence that demands a Verdict", by Josh McDowell (a athiest till he visited Jerusalem and saw the archeological evidence.) Finally, the evidence that is most interestin to me are the prophecies relating to Jesus. There were 61 major prophecies, telling every detail from his family line to his birthplace to this betrail to the amount of money this betrayer was paid and what he did with it, to where Jesus was buried. And yes, we have manuscripts of the old testament dating to before Christs time. I could go into much more detail about this, but I've already writen a book;-) And Josh McDowel has done much better then me already. So, if you want to discuss this further, reply here, or email me at sepinkham@home.com.
"Those who will not work, will not eat." That doesn't say those who cannot work (we should take care of those people), but if you can work and will not, you don't deserve to reap the rewards of work (ala money, food). That is basically the captialist system, and seems to fit the biblical model pretty well. Personal property is the basis of the capitalist system, and no moral properties about what you feel about that personal property is included in that definition. Capitalists can be very giving people, as still be capitalist. The moral properties you are trying to interject into the capitalist system aren't in the system, just in how a person aproaches the system.
It always amuses me that people will lump all people who call themselves Christians into one catagory, and expect them all to be the same, but do not do the same for all people who call themselves Athiests. There were/are many horrible things going on in the world being done by athiests, that does not mean I think you are the same as those people doing it. Not all people who call themselves Christians are.
Possibly, but more likely the reasoning goed like this:
We want to make a Christian game people will like. We know you like this kind of game. Therefore, we will make this type of Christian game..
I think that is probably what went through their minds, and as a Chirstian, I think they are quite a bit nieve.;-) Even if I am wrong in clasifying their motive, I still think that this game will do nothing to draw people to any sort of religion, but probably just give the media something else to laugh at religion for..
A often misquoted Bible verse probably gave you this idea. People say the Bible says, "Money is the root of all evil.", when in fact, it really says, "The LOVE of money is the root of all KINDS of evil." A large difference. Having money is good, as long as your money doesn't have you... How much of our crime stems from the fact that people want money? A lot... If not money directly, then things they can buy with money. I would say that covers at least 80% of crimes commited. However, it is not so much the case that people who have money commit crimes, except if they are lusting after yet still more. It is that lust for money, not the money itself that is wrong. True Chirstians know that Christ came to throw down the laws of the Old Testament, and instead, call out a people who would live with changed hearts. Christ's teachings are all about changing your heart, and then the actions will follow.
As for the people Christ asked to sell all they own and follow him, this was not to keep them poor, but to expose their heart.. If they loved money more then Christ's work, they would not be very effective Christians.
Those who staged the revolution were very vocal about who they were. Buy signing the Declaration of independance, they knew that it would probably come down to war, and if they lost, they would probably be killed by the English. They were not anonymous and hiding, as you seem to suggest... WE have freedom of speech, so why are you afraid of being harmed by using that right? Oh yeah, the Political Correctness movement, where you can be sued for saying anything offensive.. What a bunch of crap. (And yes, I usually try to be accomadating and sensitive, but if I choose not to be I have that right.)
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Um, how about as renderfarms, just like Titanic used?
I guess being used for Titanic, the most expensive movie made (as far as I know) is a small thing we should overlook..
This was on Alpha, BTW, there is no reason to limit Linux to x86 floating point (lack of?) performance...
AS for same architecture as xt's, you have no clue of what you speak. The internals are COMPLEATLY overhalled, and Linux isn't limited to x86 anyway..
X86 just happens to give most of us the most bang for the buck right now.. If Alpha's were cheaper, I would buy one yesterday, and Linux would run fine on it..
Note:
Each processor will have it's own dedicated 64 megs or RAM in this system. If there are textures that are in more then one processors section of the screen, (basically guarenteed) then the texture must be in each one of the processors memory. I would assume because of this, max textures would actually be in the 128-256megs range. If you have a lot of large textures, could be as little as 64..
I agree. Soundcards can be compared much better to 2d cards, which have basically leveled off... ;-) fast enough, current 3D cards arent, and are still evolving at least as fast, if not more, then CPU's are.
All most sound cards do is d/a conversion and *very* minimal processing.. Sound cards are mostly analog devices with a d/a converter.
2D cards are also the same sort of basic a very small amount of window processing, a d/a conversion, and analog components.
3D cards, on the other hand, are very complex processors, in recent generations as complex as the recent geleral CPU's in our computers. Just as CPU's are getting pretty fast, but are not yet (nor ever will be, i suspect
However, you can also get less then cutting edge graphics cards (as well as CPU's) and still have a decent system.
I for one am still using a Voodoo 2, and am only now, 2 years after the purchase, looking to upgrade. I also have my k6-2 300 from the same era running my gateway/server, though my main workstation has a celeron 400 on it (comody tech, bought darn cheap).
This is because each chip has it's own dedicated memory, in order to give decent overall memory rates..
2GB/32 chips per high end card = 64 megs a chip, the max that the chips can address...
The reason that they have the consumer market top out at 4 chips is there are diminishing returns with each chip..
2 should be nearly twice as fast, 4 less then four times as fast, 8 perhaps 6 times as fast, etc..
I don't believe with this architecture they can pull of very linear scaling.
Ok, on page 54 of their quantum PDf presentation, it mentions the quantum 3D Alchemy (the high end cards with 8-32 processors) and it's memory bandwidth of "over 100GB/sec"
I assume this is extrapolated from the 32 processor version, each with it's own mem interface..
that means memory bandwidth per processor is about 3 GB second.
Me thinks this will be a bit memory limited in games that don't use it's texture compression...
However, if games start supporting 3dfx's texture compression, they should fly...
More T&L...
Right now is just a little triangle setup and lighting, there is much more that can be done in hardware..
And we need faster T&l, faster memory interfaces, more fillrate, etc...
I've been waiting to my old 90 Mpixel voodoo 2(which still is pretty decent on most games really)...
;-)
If Linux drivers come out, I'll probably go for the Voodoo 5 6000 quad beasty.. That should hold out for a while..
Anyone find anything on the memory technology yet?
This card would have to have some massive memory bandwidth to keep up with those fillrates..
I know even the sdram GeForce is memory bandwidth limited at much lower fillrate.
It appeares that each graphics chip has its own dedicated 32 megs from the specs(with up to 64 being addressable by each chip), so that is one memory trick I'm sure they are using.. Any other details?
(anyone notice that 3Dfx, long saying "32 bits doesn't make much difference" cuz they didn't have the technology, is now pushing it
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There it is..
Um, no, actually the law he was claimed to be violating is a UK law..
Is fine in the US so far..
Actually, if I buy a computer from most any computer vendor, I am forced to pay for Windows *even if I never ever use it*.
Here is a quote from the finding of facts doc, section 58:
One of the ways Microsoft combats piracy is by advising OEMs that they will be charged a higher price for Windows unless they drastically limit the number of PCs that they sell without an operating system pre-installed.
In 1998, all major OEMs agreed to this restriction.
What the hell is that? MS is saying in effect, "Either you buy our licenses for all the PC's you sell, or we charge you the same amount for fewer licenses."
That alone should be grounds for Monopolistic practices.
I believe in the US, at least till next year, they have every right to publish it...
AS far as we know, this protection mechanism is neither patented, nor legaly protected in any other way. Reverse engineering for interoperability is quite legal, as the SAMBA team has shown us.
We have "plain text"(the decrypted data) now, so changing the keys does nothing, changing the encryptation algorithm will do little.. Anything they do that still allows the old media to be played (the media we now have decrypted) will be insecure. They can either shaft all people who have already bought DVD players, or just suck it up.. There really isn't any other option at this point...
Future media can be produced using all new keys, and DVD players firmware updated, but the DVD's we have already cracked are cracked for good. Even if they change ALL the keys, the same thing will happen again eventually. If they don't want something easily copied in digital form, the only way to do that is to change the media to a propriatery standard that can't be used in computers, ala Playstation 2. Still, pro priates will figure some way around it, and the 3l337 haX0rs will just get a sub-optimal movie to trade, ala the curent "screener" scene. There is no way to secure this against everyone.
Hopefully the studios will realize that and not do something boneheaded that causes a public uproar...
This is mostly amusing, but there is a little truth to it...
Sun CD-ROM drives suck. Only very recently have they gone from their aprox. 4x cdroms to 24x, which is decent. For the longest time, you would buy expensive sun hardware w/ great floating point performance, then take 18 years to install the OS..
To bastardize Tigger's quote:
The most wonderful thing about mod_perl, is that mod_perl is a wonderful thing!
Mod_perl (I believe this is how it works) associates an instance of the perl interpreter with each httpd child precess, meaning no forking, and fast excution. Because of this, for small programs, mod_perl is actually quite a bit less resource intensive then C or other compiled languages.
Slightly off-topic, but partitons are not limited to 2GB in modern linux at least(on both the 2.0.37 and 2.2.13 kernels I run, I have larger partitions).
I am not as sure about the 2GB file limit, although I know in 64bit ports it has been removed, I think it is still a limitation in 32bit Linux, though I remember hearing something about a database company contributing a patch for this and think it is in the 2.3.x series... Not quite sure though...
Well, I can put 10 or so albums on a single CD that costs me less then a buck, and then have portable music I can take to work, school, home, etc..
Quite a bargin I believe...
Now I can just hope for a small CD based mp3 player to debut commercially..
Yes, VHS is more expensive to produce AFTER mastering, but the whole process of DVD mastering is more expensive. IN going to digital in movie theaters and in home DVD players, the movie industry has to spend much more on the whole filmmaking process to make the clearer, cleaner digital movies worth it.
However, DVD's better get cheaper, and not go the route of music CD's, which have kept getting more expensive as the technology matured, even though the price of producing a CD is virtually nill now...
Why is it that when Christians say they know the truth, the are "closed minded", but when athiests say the same thing, they are "open minded"?
Saying "there is no higher power then me" is a religious statement made by athiests all the time. Even worse is the old "believe whatever you want, it doesn't matter", as this is making the unprovable (and highly suspect IMHO) statement that there is no truth in the universe.
Ok, the world is put togeather in one of two ways:
1) There is absolute truth.
2) There is no absolute truth.
Taking the first position makes you a freak in this day and age, and taking the second makes you a worthy "free thinker". This is not free thought. If you seek out all the evidence (not just the evidence that supports your idea, as is commen in both athiest and religious circles) and conclude that absolute truth is the "best fit" to the evidence you have collected, you have done well. If you dot he same and come up with the "no absolute truth" answer, you have done well also.
I for one see more truely "open minded" christians then athiests. People who give both Nietzsche and Schaeffer(a Christian thinker) a fair read. I doubt many people who think of them selves as "open minded" really do these things also.
Am I open minded? Yes, I think I am. Am I a Christian? Yes, I think I am. Do I have doubts? Yes I do. Anyone who does not sometimes doubt, doesn't yet understand how small our brains are, and how vast the evidence we have to sort through is.
I realize most of the above is not stated in the article this is in reply to, but it is assumed.
As for "the rise of democracy and the individual", these things were brought about by Christian ideals. Read most all of the literature that gave rise to out freedom (both in america and other countries, though I am most knowledgeable about america) is written and influenced by Christians. The Declaration of independance, first paragraph:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Yes, the Church has done some horrible things. That these things are used to make statements about all of Christianity is not fair though. I think if you took the time to learn about Christianity, you would find that all the things about Christianity's past you find horrific, so do real Christians. As they would have had they lived at the time. Christians have free will, and quite often we screw up. I would however, be suprised if most of the people who did the things you quote were really followers of Christ, "christians" versus followers of the church "Churchians". There are many more Churchians then Christians even today.
If you don't know, at the time of these happenings, the Bible was still used either in Latin or in Greek and hebrew, so that only the clergy could interpret it. Thus, all the clergy had the power, and the power corrupted them.
King James decided to commission scholors to translate the Bible into the language of the common man at the time, to "Open source" the bible(to put it in
As for our delusions, evidence for God abounds. It is in Nature(its beauty, and its perfect fit for us), Ourselves(our need of love, our reason, and all the things that make us human), and in History. This is the one you are probably looking for. First, the Bible. Yes, it is an old book, but has been proved reliable in every way we can test it. In archeology, in the way it was coppied, in the amount of copies remaining, in every way, it is the most reliable book we have.
If you are interested in learning more, contact me, or read "Evidence that demands a Verdict", by Josh McDowell (a athiest till he visited Jerusalem and saw the archeological evidence.)
Finally, the evidence that is most interestin to me are the prophecies relating to Jesus. There were 61 major prophecies, telling every detail from his family line to his birthplace to this betrail to the amount of money this betrayer was paid and what he did with it, to where Jesus was buried.
And yes, we have manuscripts of the old testament dating to before Christs time.
I could go into much more detail about this, but I've already writen a book
So, if you want to discuss this further, reply here, or email me at sepinkham@home.com.
"Those who will not work, will not eat."
That doesn't say those who cannot work (we should take care of those people), but if you can work and will not, you don't deserve to reap the rewards of work (ala money, food).
That is basically the captialist system, and seems to fit the biblical model pretty well. Personal property is the basis of the capitalist system, and no moral properties about what you feel about that personal property is included in that definition.
Capitalists can be very giving people, as still be capitalist. The moral properties you are trying to interject into the capitalist system aren't in the system, just in how a person aproaches the system.
It always amuses me that people will lump all people who call themselves Christians into one catagory, and expect them all to be the same, but do not do the same for all people who call themselves Athiests. There were/are many horrible things going on in the world being done by athiests, that does not mean I think you are the same as those people doing it.
Not all people who call themselves Christians are.
FYI, Ubermensch means "Overman". The concept is mostly like Superman, but slightly different.
Possibly, but more likely the reasoning goed like this:
;-)
We want to make a Christian game people will like.
We know you like this kind of game.
Therefore, we will make this type of Christian game..
I think that is probably what went through their minds, and as a Chirstian, I think they are quite a bit nieve.
Even if I am wrong in clasifying their motive, I still think that this game will do nothing to draw people to any sort of religion, but probably just give the media something else to laugh at religion for..
A often misquoted Bible verse probably gave you this idea. People say the Bible says, "Money is the root of all evil.", when in fact, it really says, "The LOVE of money is the root of all KINDS of evil."
A large difference. Having money is good, as long as your money doesn't have you...
How much of our crime stems from the fact that people want money? A lot... If not money directly, then things they can buy with money. I would say that covers at least 80% of crimes commited.
However, it is not so much the case that people who have money commit crimes, except if they are lusting after yet still more. It is that lust for money, not the money itself that is wrong.
True Chirstians know that Christ came to throw down the laws of the Old Testament, and instead, call out a people who would live with changed hearts. Christ's teachings are all about changing your heart, and then the actions will follow.
As for the people Christ asked to sell all they own and follow him, this was not to keep them poor, but to expose their heart.. If they loved money more then Christ's work, they would not be very effective Christians.
That "fuck you, fuck-me" device has an eject button? Don't even wanna know ;-)
Those who staged the revolution were very vocal about who they were.
Buy signing the Declaration of independance, they knew that it would probably come down to war, and if they lost, they would probably be killed by the English.
They were not anonymous and hiding, as you seem to suggest...
WE have freedom of speech, so why are you afraid of being harmed by using that right?
Oh yeah, the Political Correctness movement, where you can be sued for saying anything offensive.. What a bunch of crap. (And yes, I usually try to be accomadating and sensitive, but if I choose not to be I have that right.)