So? When I want or need to slow down and don't have a dead tree book handy I whip out my 'PalmOS device' (a Handspring Visor) and read softcopy I have queued up for reading. A chair and a good book make a nice romantic image like a nice bubblebath. But a rock to sit on and a teeny LCD can be better than a book. Especially looking at the current NYT best seller list.:P It all depends on what you're reading.
We're getting two different things mixed up here, and Dr. P is encouraging it. Dianetic theory may be 99% bull, but it could help people through placebo affect like TIR (tir.org) seems to. As Doctor Pepper says, judge for yourself if you want to believe in engrams and space cooties.
That isn't what this thread is about. It's about the 'Church' of Scientology's actions as an organization. They sue, harass and censor as an organization. No one will, in any country with any sort of freedom, deny anyone else the right to use principles such as these. The issue here is that the organization that promotes this material and offers the overpriced courses is evil.
Damn right. I was only mildly suprised, when news of this came out that some people I know personally, even the 'god of plush animals', were blocked by the 'entheta' filtering software.
*laugh* This is the same organization that claims to promote freedom?
--quotie On December 5, 1995, long time Scientologist Lisa McPherson, 36, was pronounced dead at New Port Richey Hospital, near Clearwater, Florida. McPherson's death followed two and a half weeks of forcible confinement in a room at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. --/quotie
This would be interesting if Scientology were a religion. Even Lafayette Ronald Hubbard himself said it wasn't several times and consistently referred to it as 'the religion angle'.
This is what the dispute with supposed intolerance in Germany is about. The German government ruled that they are not a religion and may be a dangerous sect. It became a 'religion' to avoid tax laws and charges that Dianeticists were practicing medicine without a licence.
Referring to auditing as a 'religious' practice, instead of machine assisted hypnosis, took it out of the purview of the medical boards, and in 1991 the Cof$ finally got their much-cherished tax exempt status from the IRS.
So Travolta testified before a one-man (Al D'amato, my district's former senator) committee about the terrible intolerance of the German government. It's so rude for them to not consider a money making scheme a 'religion'.:P
Please get a clue, people. The sites are giving you hosting space at no up front cost, for the sake of attracting surfers to their advertising. They also don't want trouble with people violating commercial copyrights so they draft these agreements. Of course the sidelight to this is that Yahoo and Tripod could, if they wanted to, take your material and use it any way they wish to. This goes for Yahoo/Geocities, Tripod and probably more than a few other 'free' hosting services. They aren't free in any real sense. They allow your material on their hosts to attract surfers to see their customer's advertising. And they ask you to agree to their terms, which will always leave them blameless for your actions. That's the way it is and the way it has to be for them to make money off your IP.
Lesson one: Read the fine print
Never sign anything until you've read all of it. I suprised everyone in the waiting room at a doctor's office a few months ago by refusing to sign a release that would have made my medical records open to anyone who wanted to see them and absolved the doctor from any responsibility for the security of the info. It was, of course, just a release to cover his personal ass in case something leaked and I threatened to sue. Of course, I didn't sign this release and wasn't compelled to.
The receptionist said that she had never seen anyone refuse to sign it or even ask what it was about. The other people there were just as suprised that anyone would refuse to sign a release. I did sign other releases relating to procedures themselves but not this one relating to the security of my medical records.
Lesson two: As Heinlein said, there's no such thing as a free lunch
Does anything more need to be said about this one?
I'm sure they will revise this agreement somewhat to quell the outraged users. To do otherwise would be bad for business. And, just as certainly, this will happen all over again with some other service. Free hosting is worth as much as you pay for it.
I get the feeling the author of the article has read 'XML and the Second-Generation Web' in the May issue of Scientific American that mainly focuses on XML as a universal medium of digital exchange. That's the same as the focus of this article itself.
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.ht ml
And of course XML and style sheets keep the information itself and the presentation style seperate and, more importantly, there can be more than one style sheet for different types of presentation. One for standard desktops and laptops, one for PDAs and another for voice systems. Extending that idea could lead to information that could be formatted in literally any form, the copy for a paperback could have another stylesheet applied to it for ebooks (assuming these do become popular).
XML also defines meaningful categories of information. Excel documents don't 'know' what kind of information they contain. Using a well designed DTD that people in some industry or the users of some format agree on could eliminate at least most of this problem. And if M$ doesn't release their DTDs, as suggested in an earlier comment, what is to stop people from using open DTDs that fit their needs rather than the cookie cutter formats M$ puts out?
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So? When I want or need to slow down and don't have a dead tree book handy I whip out my 'PalmOS device' (a Handspring Visor) and read softcopy I have queued up for reading. A chair and a good book make a nice romantic image like a nice bubblebath. But a rock to sit on and a teeny LCD can be better than a book. Especially looking at the current NYT best seller list. :P It all depends on what you're reading.
We're getting two different things mixed up here, and Dr. P is encouraging it. Dianetic theory may be 99% bull, but it could help people through placebo affect like TIR (tir.org) seems to. As Doctor Pepper says, judge for yourself if you want to believe in engrams and space cooties.
That isn't what this thread is about. It's about the 'Church' of Scientology's actions as an organization. They sue, harass and censor as an organization. No one will, in any country with any sort of freedom, deny anyone else the right to use principles such as these. The issue here is that the organization that promotes this material and offers the overpriced courses is evil.
Damn right. I was only mildly suprised, when news of this came out that some people I know personally, even the 'god of plush animals', were blocked by the 'entheta' filtering software.
*laugh* This is the same organization that claims to promote freedom?
--quotie
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On December 5, 1995, long time Scientologist Lisa McPherson, 36, was pronounced dead at New Port Richey Hospital, near Clearwater, Florida. McPherson's death followed two and a half weeks of forcible confinement in a room at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida.
--/quotie
http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/lisa_mcphers
This would be interesting if Scientology were a religion. Even Lafayette Ronald Hubbard himself said it wasn't several times and consistently referred to it as 'the religion angle'.
:P
This is what the dispute with supposed intolerance in Germany is about. The German government ruled that they are not a religion and may be a dangerous sect. It became a 'religion' to avoid tax laws and charges that Dianeticists were practicing medicine without a licence.
Referring to auditing as a 'religious' practice, instead of machine assisted hypnosis, took it out of the purview of the medical boards, and in 1991 the Cof$ finally got their much-cherished tax exempt status from the IRS.
So Travolta testified before a one-man (Al D'amato, my district's former senator) committee about the terrible intolerance of the German government. It's so rude for them to not consider a money making scheme a 'religion'.
It's not an actual Z80 in the Gameboy and Gameboy Color. It's a
work-alike. I/O and some of the registers are missing in both.
Please get a clue, people. The sites are giving you hosting space at no up front cost, for the sake of attracting surfers to their advertising. They also don't want trouble with people violating commercial copyrights so they draft these agreements. Of course the sidelight to this is that Yahoo and Tripod could, if they wanted to, take your material and use it any way they wish to. This goes for Yahoo/Geocities, Tripod and probably more than a few other 'free' hosting services. They aren't free in any real sense. They allow your material on their hosts to attract surfers to see their customer's advertising. And they ask you to agree to their terms, which will always leave them blameless for your actions. That's the way it is and the way it has to be for them to make money off your IP.
Lesson one: Read the fine print
Never sign anything until you've read all of it. I suprised everyone in the waiting room at a doctor's office a few months ago by refusing to sign a release that would have made my medical records open to anyone who wanted to see them and absolved the doctor from any responsibility for the security of the info. It was, of course, just a release to cover his personal ass in case something leaked and I threatened to sue. Of course, I didn't sign this release and wasn't compelled to.
The receptionist said that she had never seen anyone refuse to sign it or even ask what it was about. The other people there were just as suprised that anyone would refuse to sign a release. I did sign other releases relating to procedures themselves but not this one relating to the security of my medical records.
Lesson two: As Heinlein said, there's no such thing as a free lunch
Does anything more need to be said about this one?
I'm sure they will revise this agreement somewhat to quell the outraged users. To do otherwise would be bad for business. And, just as certainly, this will happen all over again with some other service. Free hosting is worth as much as you pay for it.
Put it up on eBay and see how much it gets. Not even a mint condition Altair goes for that kind of price.
Now the Atari Portfolio, there's a real piece of retro-geekishness.
I get the feeling the author of the article has read 'XML and the Second-Generation Web' in the May issue of Scientific American that mainly focuses on XML as a universal medium of digital exchange. That's the same as the focus of this article itself.
t ml
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.h
And of course XML and style sheets keep the information itself and the presentation style seperate and, more importantly, there can be more than one style sheet for different types of presentation. One for standard desktops and laptops, one for PDAs and another for voice systems. Extending that idea could lead to information that could be formatted in literally any form, the copy for a paperback could have another stylesheet applied to it for ebooks (assuming these do become popular).
XML also defines meaningful categories of information. Excel documents don't 'know' what kind of information they contain. Using a well designed DTD that people in some industry or the users of some format agree on could eliminate at least most of this problem. And if M$ doesn't release their DTDs, as suggested in an earlier comment, what is to stop people from using open DTDs that fit their needs rather than the cookie cutter formats M$ puts out?
It has been illegal to sell or carry toy weapons in the New York City police state for some time now.
Of course disagreeing with the mayor will also get you arrested. Though they rarely find any crime to charge the miscreants with.