What the GPL/LGPL needs is a "shitlist". Companies on the list would be excluded from the license. The list would be maintained by the FSF and would currently include: SCO, Microsoft, and Novell. Companies dependent on open-source software would think twice about screwing with the FSF.
It never fails that those who criticize "Capitalism" are always actually criticizing the lack of Capitalism. Monopolization is the opposite of Capitalism.
It is this very dehumanization that causes violence among humans in the first place.
Statistics is such a dehumanizing field of study that it should be banned and forgotten. I mean, how can we assign numbers to human beings!? We are all special! Every one of us!!
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Q: How many of your previous romantic relationships were failures?
A: All of them.
Q: So, what are the chances for your present relationship?
A: Well, let's check the statistics...
They would spend their days either sitting on a couch or a bar stool. They would slouch backward on a couch, which is good, or slouch forward on a bar stool, which is bad.
I don't have specifics but I'd bet there are 10x as many jobs not sitting at a desk as there are that this study effects.
75% of the first-world economy is in the service sector. This tends to mean desk jobs. Farmers would probably spend a good deal of time sitting while driving equipment or filing for government hand-outs. Many factory workers would be seated, too, on stools to assemble small items. I would guess that less than 10% of jobs require a significant amount of standing/moving.
Which part is incorrect? (1) a zygote doesn't have higher reasoning skills; (2) an 11-month-old infant, like an animal, doesn't have higher reasoning skills and self-awareness; (3) a zygote will normally develop into a person with higher reasoning skills; (4) an 11-month-old infant will normally develop into a person with higher reasoning skills. The logic is inassailable; you'd best stick with sophistry.
For the sperm angle, they generally number in the millions per...encounter.
The average is 250-million sperm, assuming that an...encounter is a...singular event.
After fertilization, you're going from a one-in-a-million chance to more like one-in-two. That's a pretty big normal, natural distinction. Thus, it seems a good place to draw the line.
I think you can look at the components individually. In isolation, a sperm has an absolutely zero chance of becoming a person. An egg would have a slightly higher chance of spontaneously developing, but I'm not aware of any instances of this happening in reliably recorded history. However, upon fertilization, the normal trajectory for the egg will be to slowly develop into a sentient person, becoming one after about two years.
Can't I be both? A fertilized egg and an 11-month-old baby have two things in common: neither of them is a sentient being but both have the potential to become one. I don't see how a rational person can defend the killing of a fertilized egg and the euthanization of an animal but not of a pre-sentient baby.
Where does an atheist draw the mythical line in the sand, and can they give a "logical" reason that is any better than any other mythical line in the sand.
I draw the line at one year after birth because up to this point, there is very little distinction between a baby and an animal and it's legal to kill animals so long as it is done humanely.
All truly religious people, being Absolutist Authoritarians, have no capacity for morality by definition. They simply believe and do what they are told by the church authorities without question or conscience.
Keeping the peace is really being caught between two 13th Century religous fanatic groups equipped with 21st century weapons.
They're equiped with 20th-century weapons.
Funny thing is the Koran says to "kill the unbelivers" and as far as I can tell both of these groups ARE beleivers!
I think you are confusing Radical Islamists for Muslims. Radical Islamists are a suicide cult dedicated to Nihilism and chaos. They regard anyone other than themselves, including Muslims, as wicked unbelievers who must be killed.
Rumsfeld is bad at war and bad at peace. Rumsfeld cannot tell the difference between war and peace.
It seems that you have trouble distinguishing things also. The 'War' succeeded quite well, despite critics arguing that there weren't enough troops involved. The war only lasted about a month. Americans are very good at fighting wars.
However, the Americans didn't handle the Occupation that well, mainly because there weren't enough boots on the ground. They needed either more Americans troops or overwhelming numbers of Iraqi security forces, but neither materialized and the Americans failed to occupy and hold large swaths of the country. Insurgents and Jihadists moved into the unoccupied zones and festered. After things got bad enough in one area, the Americans would conquer the area again and then leave it.
We are now in the post-Occupation phase. Iraq had an indigenous, democratically-elected government. It's odd how many people argue that a democratically elected terrorist organization (Hamas) is a legitimate government, but Iraq isn't. The Americans and British are there as security forces, not as occupying forces. But, they're still doing a poor job because they continue to leave lots of land in the control of the insurgents, and the indigenous security forces are still too weak, small, and underpaid.
My guess is that now the Democrats, who have no feasible plans of their own, will want to cut and run from Iraq. Either the indigenous security forces will step up to the plate or the country will be taken over by the insurgents. I suspect the latter.
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It's also why Bush started making noises at Syria recently before things really started to fall apart in Iraq, because they're next on AIPAC's list. Iran comes after that.
The fools! The order should have been: Iran, Syria, Iraq.
Either flood the country with U.S. troops, be prepared to occupy it for several years until things calm down, or start to withdraw the troops.
A cheap alternative that they should have pursued from the start would be to flood the country with Iraqi troops & cops. Being a cop or soldier should be the best-paying job that an unskilled young man should be able to get; instead, the pay sucks and the Jihadists even pay more. Spending these millions would save billions. Iraqi security forces should physically occupy every square inch of the country. Even if 20% of them turn out to be infiltrating Jihadists, there's still 80% to gun them down. Penny pinching on security-forces pay is just bonkers.
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What the GPL/LGPL needs is a "shitlist". Companies on the list would be excluded from the license. The list would be maintained by the FSF and would currently include: SCO, Microsoft, and Novell. Companies dependent on open-source software would think twice about screwing with the FSF.
It never fails that those who criticize "Capitalism" are always actually criticizing the lack of Capitalism. Monopolization is the opposite of Capitalism.
Statistics is such a dehumanizing field of study that it should be banned and forgotten. I mean, how can we assign numbers to human beings!? We are all special! Every one of us!!
—
Q: How many of your previous romantic relationships were failures?
A: All of them.
Q: So, what are the chances for your present relationship?
A: Well, let's check the statistics...
93.15% of people don't like to hear that their behaviour is predictable.
I think the most appropriate technical commentary is “<Nelson>Ha-Ha!</Nelson>—Suck on that, Microsoft! Neener-neener, boo-boo!”
I can't understand why spammers aren't prosecuted as organized criminals. They hijack other people's computers as a business.
They would spend their days either sitting on a couch or a bar stool. They would slouch backward on a couch, which is good, or slouch forward on a bar stool, which is bad.
75% of the first-world economy is in the service sector. This tends to mean desk jobs. Farmers would probably spend a good deal of time sitting while driving equipment or filing for government hand-outs. Many factory workers would be seated, too, on stools to assemble small items. I would guess that less than 10% of jobs require a significant amount of standing/moving.
Or get yourself an Encyclopedia Britannica. Only $1,100.00 new from a reseller.
Indeed, circumspect assessments of such one-track religious issues to so many Slashdotters as Global Warming is baiting flamage.
I'm sorry to inform you that the totalitarian dictators who run China are not being jailed at all.
I can't understand why there aren't A/V cameras in every classroom.
Which part is incorrect? (1) a zygote doesn't have higher reasoning skills; (2) an 11-month-old infant, like an animal, doesn't have higher reasoning skills and self-awareness; (3) a zygote will normally develop into a person with higher reasoning skills; (4) an 11-month-old infant will normally develop into a person with higher reasoning skills. The logic is inassailable; you'd best stick with sophistry.
I use the Star Fleet Medical Dictionary, thank you very much!
The average is 250-million sperm, assuming that an ...encounter is a ...singular event.
I think you can look at the components individually. In isolation, a sperm has an absolutely zero chance of becoming a person. An egg would have a slightly higher chance of spontaneously developing, but I'm not aware of any instances of this happening in reliably recorded history. However, upon fertilization, the normal trajectory for the egg will be to slowly develop into a sentient person, becoming one after about two years.
Puppies are pretty cute, too.
I know I have trouble finding a PC for less than $5,000.
Can't I be both? A fertilized egg and an 11-month-old baby have two things in common: neither of them is a sentient being but both have the potential to become one. I don't see how a rational person can defend the killing of a fertilized egg and the euthanization of an animal but not of a pre-sentient baby.
I draw the line at one year after birth because up to this point, there is very little distinction between a baby and an animal and it's legal to kill animals so long as it is done humanely.
All truly religious people, being Absolutist Authoritarians, have no capacity for morality by definition. They simply believe and do what they are told by the church authorities without question or conscience.
I've seen adds for renting a room of an apartment only to females. Can I sue them?
They're equiped with 20th-century weapons.
I think you are confusing Radical Islamists for Muslims. Radical Islamists are a suicide cult dedicated to Nihilism and chaos. They regard anyone other than themselves, including Muslims, as wicked unbelievers who must be killed.
It seems that you have trouble distinguishing things also. The 'War' succeeded quite well, despite critics arguing that there weren't enough troops involved. The war only lasted about a month. Americans are very good at fighting wars.
However, the Americans didn't handle the Occupation that well, mainly because there weren't enough boots on the ground. They needed either more Americans troops or overwhelming numbers of Iraqi security forces, but neither materialized and the Americans failed to occupy and hold large swaths of the country. Insurgents and Jihadists moved into the unoccupied zones and festered. After things got bad enough in one area, the Americans would conquer the area again and then leave it.
We are now in the post-Occupation phase. Iraq had an indigenous, democratically-elected government. It's odd how many people argue that a democratically elected terrorist organization (Hamas) is a legitimate government, but Iraq isn't. The Americans and British are there as security forces, not as occupying forces. But, they're still doing a poor job because they continue to leave lots of land in the control of the insurgents, and the indigenous security forces are still too weak, small, and underpaid.
My guess is that now the Democrats, who have no feasible plans of their own, will want to cut and run from Iraq. Either the indigenous security forces will step up to the plate or the country will be taken over by the insurgents. I suspect the latter.
The fools! The order should have been: Iran, Syria, Iraq.
A cheap alternative that they should have pursued from the start would be to flood the country with Iraqi troops & cops. Being a cop or soldier should be the best-paying job that an unskilled young man should be able to get; instead, the pay sucks and the Jihadists even pay more. Spending these millions would save billions. Iraqi security forces should physically occupy every square inch of the country. Even if 20% of them turn out to be infiltrating Jihadists, there's still 80% to gun them down. Penny pinching on security-forces pay is just bonkers.