Maybe you have signatures hidden or something, but his is:
http://www.fairtax.org/
Read that and come back when you have something to say relevant to that.
I'm not comparing the two events in terms of magnitude, just that the core philosopy of "We're always right and reject anyone who says otherwise", is the same. That being said, for me personally, being killed wouldn't be as bad as they make it out to be. I believe that I'll still be alive somewhere, so what's the big deal? Note that this is consistent with what the christian thugs believe, and with other faiths as well.
Not very violent, but just try explaining to them during any of their propaganda sessions (any time they have one speaker, not just the full church service) that they have a seriously warped interpretation of the Bible, and just watch the crew rush up and demand that you leave.
Marriage licenses are harmful. The blood tests to get one are a throwback from eugenics. Then there's the whole stupidity of the government conferring privileges to married couples.
You're looking at it from a top-down perspective. Sometimes a bootom up approach is effective or coming at the problem from both sides.
There's a reason for the straight and narrow way.
If the supports for the core get too ornerous, then people might decide to scrap the whole thing, too ineffective and people think why bother. Sure, remove the core and the rationale for the supports collapse, but without sufficient support the core fails.
I was watching a History Channel piece on a campaign by Caesar, and he slaughter a lot of people thinking he could intimidate the city into not fighting, which is a possibility, but had the opposite effect of outraging them.
1. Windows XP is incredibly buggy (as in bugs that won't crash the system, but are usability nuisances)
Turn on focus follows mouse, and clicking on a window in a grouped taskbar is pot luck.
Speaking of the grouped taskbar, if you close a window, and then click on the taskbar group right quick again, the list is almost always corrupted.
The network stack that they are holding off until Vista is needed "yesterday" in Windows.
Indexing service is worse than useless, and if you don't have it installed, you still see cruft from it.
Ditto for disk search. If it wasn't for Agent Ransack, I'd be looking long and hard at switching to Linux. For me, Agent Ransack is the epitome of the search experience (even counting Gogle Web Search). Their pro version may even be a step down in some areas.
2. I don't like the paradigm of the "Desktop search". What? You mean if I like some plugins for Google and some plugins for Microsoft, I'm going to have to use two separate databases? Also, what happens when I move a file from one drive to another?
3. They yanked the feature of truly customized folders in 98 from Windows XP. What? You mean I get to pay for less features? How about removing ones I don't want, like the broken search and indexing...Even the 98 search was more functional!
That being said, why do I stay on Windows?
I understand environment variables, have DOS apps I still use, get along nice with CMD.EXE, NTFS compression, which I still don't understand why it isn't on by default. I don't really use the home directory feature (Documents and Settings), and I understand it's even worse on Linux. I have a better understanding of Windows programming than Linux programming, and I'm looking towards swapping pieces out with Wine and ReactOS based components.
My use for IM
1. I can take time to think before typing, and the other person won't wonder why I'm not talking to them.
2. If I want to recall exactly what was said (and not what I thought was said, BOOM, it's right there.
I don't use RSS directly, but I use http://www.dailyrotation.com/ which uses RSS on the back end. (the www is significant though as its use of cookies has proven a little buggy without it).
Unfortunately in my case, the build up in my system was so slow that it wasn't immediately obvious that the medications were the problem, and I had to deal with the effects for quite some time until switching meds cleared things up.
Ive got a Wingman Rumblepad that I haven't figured out how to use in the place. Controls in general feel clunky. Spyro or Mario in Mario 64 are both infinitely easier to control. Konoko in Oni is worse than the previous two, but still better than in Second Life. I'm new and haven't ventured off the practice island yet. I'm Roba Kawabata there.
Being sentient and somewhat conscious of our surroundings, how would we never perceive the other observer(s)
We do perceive them. except we don't consider them observers. Consider for example the chain from your brain to your eyes to the computer screen to the video card to bits in the computer's memory to bits though the wire, to bits on slashdot's server to bits on the wire, to bits on the writers computer.
A lot of time people see things that are real but they convince themselves into believing they aren't, because they believe that seeing such things are a sign of a lack of sanity and they don't want to be insane.
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy also is useful for illustration. 42 could be interpreted to the mice people totally different from what we think of it as a number.
Consider this "for tea too!"
Also, Serial Experiments: Lain covers a lot of relevant info.
For the dead cat, the quntum state appears one way.
For the alive cat, the quantum state appears the other way. (even though the cat is dead, it is still observing it). For you the observer one further out, there's one of you that has observed the cat alive and one the cat dead. Now until the decision to observe collapses a chain of obveservers forcing them into one state in one universe, the whole system is in a quantum state. However, it is possible that the system never actually leaves that quantum state, but that the universe congeals around one observer chain. The theory is that the longer you build the observer chain, like a longer lever, the easier it is for your will to effect which result at the other end of the chain enters the same collapsed state with you. This seems to me to be a reasonable explanation for "miracles" and for a number of other things attributed to some sort of "God", and for the ideas of appeasing such things. The "God" is one link in the quantum chain.
In fact that's exactly what my sig of the moment says, and I made it before I observed this article.
The sig:
You don't understand! We are all Schrodinger's Cat. The observer is both alive and dead!
I am beginning to come to the conclusion that everything is in both states simultaneously, but that whether or not both states are observed depends on a chain of states between the observed object and the observer. The less the observer "knows", the more the observed is affected by the will of the observer as opposed to the other way around.
type the beginning of a file name, hit tab to complete, hit enter and it is immediately invoked with the default program. Type CD (space) and it will autocomplete any path one directory name at a time. I haven't seen any program that won't run from the command line. Care to list them?
When I have a faster connection, I download more torrents, (archive.org, for example). I also invest more in hard drives. I was robbed and had health issues. So my current situation is less so.
Substitute in for good:
Bad govt + Money = govt - Money
illustrating a truth that bad governments are soon without money and wind up raising taxes to get more.
Second Corollary:
The best way to keep a government good is to deprive it of money.
Sometimes I type my response above what went on before, but then I usually only include the previous email in the chain. Sometimes I don't even do that. Sometimes I intersperse my response with the original to indicate what part of the previous email I'm referring to.
Back in the days of Doublespace, I used to not compress because bad sectors were common and it was easier to recover parts of a file when you are dealing with an uncompressed file and the compression mechanism wasn't good at dealing with keeping the rest of the compressed disk image valid when parts of it got corrupted. Now I always compress NTFS volumes.
That's why you start with smaller companies. Companies that have less to lose and more to gain by having their code open sourced. Done the right way, stock in such companies can even go up. That's when the holding companies divest of their shares. See Corporate raid for more information.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you have signatures hidden or something, but his is: http://www.fairtax.org/ Read that and come back when you have something to say relevant to that.
I'm not comparing the two events in terms of magnitude, just that the core philosopy of "We're always right and reject anyone who says otherwise", is the same. That being said, for me personally, being killed wouldn't be as bad as they make it out to be. I believe that I'll still be alive somewhere, so what's the big deal? Note that this is consistent with what the christian thugs believe, and with other faiths as well.
(pretend I've just done the hat trick where it comes off my head, rolls down my arm, etc. here)
Not very violent, but just try explaining to them during any of their propaganda sessions (any time they have one speaker, not just the full church service) that they have a seriously warped interpretation of the Bible, and just watch the crew rush up and demand that you leave.
Marriage licenses are harmful. The blood tests to get one are a throwback from eugenics. Then there's the whole stupidity of the government conferring privileges to married couples.
You're looking at it from a top-down perspective. Sometimes a bootom up approach is effective or coming at the problem from both sides.
There's a reason for the straight and narrow way.
If the supports for the core get too ornerous, then people might decide to scrap the whole thing, too ineffective and people think why bother. Sure, remove the core and the rationale for the supports collapse, but without sufficient support the core fails.
I was watching a History Channel piece on a campaign by Caesar, and he slaughter a lot of people thinking he could intimidate the city into not fighting, which is a possibility, but had the opposite effect of outraging them.
1. Windows XP is incredibly buggy (as in bugs that won't crash the system, but are usability nuisances)
Turn on focus follows mouse, and clicking on a window in a grouped taskbar is pot luck.
Speaking of the grouped taskbar, if you close a window, and then click on the taskbar group right quick again, the list is almost always corrupted.
The network stack that they are holding off until Vista is needed "yesterday" in Windows.
Indexing service is worse than useless, and if you don't have it installed, you still see cruft from it.
Ditto for disk search. If it wasn't for Agent Ransack, I'd be looking long and hard at switching to Linux. For me, Agent Ransack is the epitome of the search experience (even counting Gogle Web Search). Their pro version may even be a step down in some areas.
2. I don't like the paradigm of the "Desktop search". What? You mean if I like some plugins for Google and some plugins for Microsoft, I'm going to have to use two separate databases? Also, what happens when I move a file from one drive to another?
3. They yanked the feature of truly customized folders in 98 from Windows XP. What? You mean I get to pay for less features? How about removing ones I don't want, like the broken search and indexing...Even the 98 search was more functional!
That being said, why do I stay on Windows?
I understand environment variables, have DOS apps I still use, get along nice with CMD.EXE, NTFS compression, which I still don't understand why it isn't on by default. I don't really use the home directory feature (Documents and Settings), and I understand it's even worse on Linux. I have a better understanding of Windows programming than Linux programming, and I'm looking towards swapping pieces out with Wine and ReactOS based components.
My use for IM
1. I can take time to think before typing, and the other person won't wonder why I'm not talking to them.
2. If I want to recall exactly what was said (and not what I thought was said, BOOM, it's right there.
I don't use RSS directly, but I use http://www.dailyrotation.com/ which uses RSS on the back end. (the www is significant though as its use of cookies has proven a little buggy without it).
once he was playing the game, the crisis had long passed, so I don't see what GameSetWatch was so enthralled about.
Unfortunately in my case, the build up in my system was so slow that it wasn't immediately obvious that the medications were the problem, and I had to deal with the effects for quite some time until switching meds cleared things up.
Ive got a Wingman Rumblepad that I haven't figured out how to use in the place. Controls in general feel clunky. Spyro or Mario in Mario 64 are both infinitely easier to control. Konoko in Oni is worse than the previous two, but still better than in Second Life. I'm new and haven't ventured off the practice island yet. I'm Roba Kawabata there.
Being sentient and somewhat conscious of our surroundings, how would we never perceive the other observer(s)
We do perceive them. except we don't consider them observers. Consider for example the chain from your brain to your eyes to the computer screen to the video card to bits in the computer's memory to bits though the wire, to bits on slashdot's server to bits on the wire, to bits on the writers computer.
A lot of time people see things that are real but they convince themselves into believing they aren't, because they believe that seeing such things are a sign of a lack of sanity and they don't want to be insane.
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy also is useful for illustration. 42 could be interpreted to the mice people totally different from what we think of it as a number.
Consider this "for tea too!"
Also, Serial Experiments: Lain covers a lot of relevant info.
God exists, just not in any of the quantum states that collapsed when you made your observations.
For the dead cat, the quntum state appears one way. For the alive cat, the quantum state appears the other way. (even though the cat is dead, it is still observing it). For you the observer one further out, there's one of you that has observed the cat alive and one the cat dead. Now until the decision to observe collapses a chain of obveservers forcing them into one state in one universe, the whole system is in a quantum state. However, it is possible that the system never actually leaves that quantum state, but that the universe congeals around one observer chain. The theory is that the longer you build the observer chain, like a longer lever, the easier it is for your will to effect which result at the other end of the chain enters the same collapsed state with you. This seems to me to be a reasonable explanation for "miracles" and for a number of other things attributed to some sort of "God", and for the ideas of appeasing such things. The "God" is one link in the quantum chain.
I had some for breakfast...
But the thing is that there was something that prompted the label Yahweh, and then other attributes got attached to that label.
I usually use anime to denote certain qualities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
covers the topic nicely
In fact that's exactly what my sig of the moment says, and I made it before I observed this article.
The sig:
You don't understand! We are all Schrodinger's Cat. The observer is both alive and dead!
I am beginning to come to the conclusion that everything is in both states simultaneously, but that whether or not both states are observed depends on a chain of states between the observed object and the observer. The less the observer "knows", the more the observed is affected by the will of the observer as opposed to the other way around.
type the beginning of a file name, hit tab to complete, hit enter and it is immediately invoked with the default program. Type CD (space) and it will autocomplete any path one directory name at a time. I haven't seen any program that won't run from the command line. Care to list them?
When I have a faster connection, I download more torrents, (archive.org, for example). I also invest more in hard drives. I was robbed and had health issues. So my current situation is less so.
Substitute in for good:
Bad govt + Money = govt - Money
illustrating a truth that bad governments are soon without money and wind up raising taxes to get more.
Second Corollary:
The best way to keep a government good is to deprive it of money.
In Soviet Russia, Russia sets their sights on the RIAA!
Sometimes I type my response above what went on before, but then I usually only include the previous email in the chain. Sometimes I don't even do that. Sometimes I intersperse my response with the original to indicate what part of the previous email I'm referring to.
Back in the days of Doublespace, I used to not compress because bad sectors were common and it was easier to recover parts of a file when you are dealing with an uncompressed file and the compression mechanism wasn't good at dealing with keeping the rest of the compressed disk image valid when parts of it got corrupted. Now I always compress NTFS volumes.
Before you hit that preview button, you may want to license Patent 6,708,221. It's already too late for me.
That's why you start with smaller companies. Companies that have less to lose and more to gain by having their code open sourced. Done the right way, stock in such companies can even go up. That's when the holding companies divest of their shares. See Corporate raid for more information.