The fundies can't even agree on what they believe about dinosaurs. This "museum" has them alongside humans. Some religious nuts insist there were never any such things as dinosaurs, and those bones are just there to test man's faith. Nonsense is so widely believed today that a new dark age can't be far off.
I wonder which version of the Noah's Ark story they teach? Two of every kind of animal as in Genesis chapter 6, or 7 pairs of clean animals and one of unclean animals from Genesis chapter 7. How can both be literally true? The stupidity of this "museum" is off the charts.
Any yahoo can make a claim about the JFK assassination being a conspiracy and get their 15 minutes. The fact of the matter is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. He fired three times hitting Governor Connelly once and President Kennedy twice. There is not one shred of evidence of so much as a second shooter, just wishful thinking and tinfoil hat nonsense. Read "A Simple Act Of Murder" by Mark Fuhrman. It lays a lot of the conspiracy nonsense to rest.
I am not calling for an official state church. I like separation of church and state. I am calling for a way to prosecute con men for fraud and cults for the criminal acts they commit without them being able to call it religion and get off scot free. I don't pretend that this would be easy, but it is high time something was done.
Under this bill if it became law, someone would get out of prison sooner committing armed robbery of a liquor store and shooting the clerk than they would for making illicit copies of something copyrighted. That is straight out of bizaro world!
Freedom of religion has gone too far when it protects scams and cults. It is time for religious freedom laws to be reformed. If that requires a constitutional amendment, then let's do it.
Subscribers are the hand that feeds magazines. That is why advertisers must pay for the privilege of reaching them. Who wants to read a rag that just cheerleads for Microsoft, Apple, Intel and the like instead of providing useful information. Not many I will wager.
It was never about sugar vs. corn sweetener. The real story is an obscure "natural flavor" called Saskra Root became unavailable. That is why they changed Coke.
The deal with Vista is that they blew billions developing it, and are going to try to cram it down our throats like IBM did with micro channel architecture and OS/2. They don't care that the PC that can run Vista well remains science fiction, as no motherboard can hold all the ram it needs.
DRM, from having to type in an easily lost key number to re-install software, to highly complicated technological schemes has always been a pain for legitimate users of media, but not even a bump in the road for pirates who produce the counterfeit products that you find at flea markets and on street corners. Of course, Macrovision will never admit that this is the case. Making copy protection schemes is all they do. If the entertainment industry abandoned DRM, they would be out of business. They profit from the entertainment industry's assumption that their paying customers are thieves.
There are bigger threats than germs in kitchen sponges. Once you are done nuking sponges, you better mod your TV to stop the government from spying on you, too.
I won't buy either, nor will you or anyone in the know, but the uneducated might. If they pay enough attention to notice that their new HD player looks no better than the old DVD player and return it, that will be the beginning of the end. When a class action lawsuit comes because the discs they bought with the player are now opened, and can't be returned as such, that will nail the coffin. Any industry or company that presumes its customers are thieves and doesn't respect their personal property rights doesn't deserve to have any customers.
A DRM scheme that stops real piracy, but allows everything consumers want is not feasible, and never will be. Would I support giving frogs wings so they won't bust their asses hopping? Now let's stay in the realm of the possible. No DRM will ever be unhackable. Counterfeit movies and music will always be on street corners.
All DRM assumes the legitimate customer a thief, and disrespects his or her personal property right, so yes. DRM is intrinsically distasteful.
I tried the RC1 version. It had some pretty eye candy, but nothing I needed. I think it will confuse people trying to shut down when they go to the start button, and find there way to a picture that looks like a power button. When they click it, the computer only goes to sleep. Shut down in in a deeper menu still. That was only one of many things I didn't like. If I had the choice, I would have stayed with Windows 2000 forever.
Windows 2000 is the best version they ever made. It is clean and stable with no resource wasting eye candy. Office 2000 was also very good. I never upgraded to newer versions beyond it. Why? They have nothing I need. They can keep Vista and Office 2007. I don't want them and won't pay for them.
The military has tried for decades to make soldiers who don't have to sleep through use of drugs. This has led to bad results many times. After enough time without sleep, there will be a chemical imbalance in the brain causing a psychotic break from reality. A state between REM and wakefulness can occur when reality and dream imagery become indistinguishable. Test subjects have gone on killing sprees against people they believed were some kind of nightmare monsters. This is not something we should be messing around with. We need sleep. Period!
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I wonder which version of the Noah's Ark story they teach? Two of every kind of animal as in Genesis chapter 6, or 7 pairs of clean animals and one of unclean animals from Genesis chapter 7. How can both be literally true? The stupidity of this "museum" is off the charts.
The help desk can refer them to this article if they need help finding the "any" key.
Any yahoo can make a claim about the JFK assassination being a conspiracy and get their 15 minutes. The fact of the matter is that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. He fired three times hitting Governor Connelly once and President Kennedy twice. There is not one shred of evidence of so much as a second shooter, just wishful thinking and tinfoil hat nonsense. Read "A Simple Act Of Murder" by Mark Fuhrman. It lays a lot of the conspiracy nonsense to rest.
I am not calling for an official state church. I like separation of church and state. I am calling for a way to prosecute con men for fraud and cults for the criminal acts they commit without them being able to call it religion and get off scot free. I don't pretend that this would be easy, but it is high time something was done.
Under this bill if it became law, someone would get out of prison sooner committing armed robbery of a liquor store and shooting the clerk than they would for making illicit copies of something copyrighted. That is straight out of bizaro world!
Freedom of religion has gone too far when it protects scams and cults. It is time for religious freedom laws to be reformed. If that requires a constitutional amendment, then let's do it.
There are several court cases that hinged on the concept of "corporate personhood". It can be a challenge for a non-lawyer to understand them, but below are a few links. http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juristic_person http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030919.html
All computers have a potential security flaw that Microsoft, Intel and the like can do nothing about: the user. The id-10-t error will never go away.
Subscribers are the hand that feeds magazines. That is why advertisers must pay for the privilege of reaching them. Who wants to read a rag that just cheerleads for Microsoft, Apple, Intel and the like instead of providing useful information. Not many I will wager.
It was never about sugar vs. corn sweetener. The real story is an obscure "natural flavor" called Saskra Root became unavailable. That is why they changed Coke.
The deal with Vista is that they blew billions developing it, and are going to try to cram it down our throats like IBM did with micro channel architecture and OS/2. They don't care that the PC that can run Vista well remains science fiction, as no motherboard can hold all the ram it needs.
The only "Mars probes" that haven't crashed are in Arizona.
DRM, from having to type in an easily lost key number to re-install software, to highly complicated technological schemes has always been a pain for legitimate users of media, but not even a bump in the road for pirates who produce the counterfeit products that you find at flea markets and on street corners. Of course, Macrovision will never admit that this is the case. Making copy protection schemes is all they do. If the entertainment industry abandoned DRM, they would be out of business. They profit from the entertainment industry's assumption that their paying customers are thieves.
There are bigger threats than germs in kitchen sponges. Once you are done nuking sponges, you better mod your TV to stop the government from spying on you, too.
I won't buy either, nor will you or anyone in the know, but the uneducated might. If they pay enough attention to notice that their new HD player looks no better than the old DVD player and return it, that will be the beginning of the end. When a class action lawsuit comes because the discs they bought with the player are now opened, and can't be returned as such, that will nail the coffin. Any industry or company that presumes its customers are thieves and doesn't respect their personal property rights doesn't deserve to have any customers.
A DRM scheme that stops real piracy, but allows everything consumers want is not feasible, and never will be. Would I support giving frogs wings so they won't bust their asses hopping? Now let's stay in the realm of the possible. No DRM will ever be unhackable. Counterfeit movies and music will always be on street corners. All DRM assumes the legitimate customer a thief, and disrespects his or her personal property right, so yes. DRM is intrinsically distasteful.
The Uncoveror covered the civil rights for robots movement a long time ago. What took Slashdot so long?
I tried the RC1 version. It had some pretty eye candy, but nothing I needed. I think it will confuse people trying to shut down when they go to the start button, and find there way to a picture that looks like a power button. When they click it, the computer only goes to sleep. Shut down in in a deeper menu still. That was only one of many things I didn't like. If I had the choice, I would have stayed with Windows 2000 forever.
Ideal Linux system for newbies? I recognize the words, but together they make no sense.
Windows 2000 is the best version they ever made. It is clean and stable with no resource wasting eye candy. Office 2000 was also very good. I never upgraded to newer versions beyond it. Why? They have nothing I need. They can keep Vista and Office 2007. I don't want them and won't pay for them.
With no more Morse Code in the future, how will Scotty tap out "get back" to Captain Kirk and bust him out of his cell like in Star Trek V?
We need to ditch the high-tech whizbangs entirely. Pencil on a paper ballot works. Not every new technology is good, or old one bad.
Instead of those damned expensive Atlas V rockets, they should use the X-4000 Launch Apparatus to hurl it skyward.
The military has tried for decades to make soldiers who don't have to sleep through use of drugs. This has led to bad results many times. After enough time without sleep, there will be a chemical imbalance in the brain causing a psychotic break from reality. A state between REM and wakefulness can occur when reality and dream imagery become indistinguishable. Test subjects have gone on killing sprees against people they believed were some kind of nightmare monsters. This is not something we should be messing around with. We need sleep. Period!
On Mars, the Zhti Ti Kofft are the natives. We would be the aliens if we went there. This probe was taken out by them much like the others.
Don't be too hard on yourself. George Bush can't tell them apart either. Read more