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  1. Re:Riddle me this on Hot Coffee In The Retail Space · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a story about how leftovers from a printing of an oriental erotic book got used in a children's book. I can't find reference to it on Google though.

  2. My take on confession... on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: 1

    I figure that God already knows my sins, it's his bailiwick, so I leave it to him and go on about my business.

    I'm guessing there's some Zen in the above statement for what it's worth...

  3. Warren...Warren... Now where have I heard that... on Spector Working On Steam Title · · Score: 1

    ...name?

    When I hear Warren, I think Warren Harding and Warren Beatty before I think Warren Spector and Deus Ex

    By the way, his entry on Wikipedia is still marked as a stub. Someone care to flesh it out? That might help matters.

  4. Bible Misread Error. on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The tree is "The tree of the knowlege of Good and Evil", not just the tree of knowlege. Eating from that tree gave a "knowing" that certain things were good and bad. Suicide is not necessarily bad, but we got that knowledge from eating from that tree. Same with nudity, sex outside of marriage, and homosexuality. Fundamentalists keep eating from that tree.

  5. Personally I hate the ineffectual. on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 1

    The Bible says:
    Revelation 3:15-16
    15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot.

    16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.

    Which, of course, is misinterpreted like the rest of the Bible by most Christians.

  6. Enlightenment: I do not think it means what you... on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 1

    I know of restraint and I know of sacrifice, and find I want nothing to do with either of them.

    The thing about enlightenment is that things that are valuable at certain levels of enlightenment, become worthless at others and vice-versa. Hence, I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds.

    I do not "become" angry, anger is always a part of who I am. I do not "become" millitaristic, I am always millitaristic, I do not "become" involved because I am always involved.

    The http://www.falundafa.org/ website, (and the first book) explains a lot of the things you don't seem to understand.

  7. Fact on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 1

    Some people prefer the definition of fact that goes as follows:
    A concept whose truth can be proved

  8. You're joking right? on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    I know just about everybody else who posted in response took it seriously, but I took it as merely stating the fundamentalist viewpoint towards Darwin and not the actual truth of Darwin's situation.

  9. Different definition of private. on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 1

    There are at least two definitions of private in play here:
    1. Everything not the government.
    This lumps businesses and human beings together.

    2. Human beings.
    This excludes corporations.

    Sometimes there is a third definition in which human beings and non-profit corporations get lumped together.

  10. How Inconsiderate on Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please don't blame/insult the rednecks. Generally the religious extremists think they are above the rednecks. On top of that, my cousin who has talked about himself being a redneck is the least religious extremist on my mom's side of the family besides me. My father's side of the family is mostly Catholics, so they've got the religious side down, but apparently the pope has come down on the side of evolution. My mom's side was Catholic, but have mostly scattered to various apparently unaffiliated churches.

    As an aside, intelligent design has many interesting philosophical points, and that's where it belongs, philosopy, not biology. Unfortunately Philosopy education in the United States is poor as well, which contributes to the problem.

  11. You probably won't hear this elsewhere... on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I run with system restore turned off. Also clearing out your logs Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Event Viewer may or may not make a difference. You may actually try reading some of them first, but good luck making sense of them.

    Example Log Entry:
    The description for Event ID ( 20158 ) in Source ( RemoteAccess ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details

  12. Missing the point Re:Wikipedia:What I do on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 1

    The point is to avoid search and go straight to the desired page.

  13. Wikipedia:What I do on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 1

    first I type e and maybe n into the address bar to get the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and then hit the down key and erase everything past that, then type my entry remembering to capitalize the first word and use underscores for spaces. I use my best judgement on whether or not to capitalize any or all of the rest of the words.

  14. To make matters worse on Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Web Sites for Fraud · · Score: 1

    Pssychiactric firms, who have about the greatest ability to do harm, are darn near unsueable.

  15. Elements of a public venue. on Jack Thompson vs Amazon? · · Score: 1

    You're confusing my position with the position of the prior poster. I have made no statement on actionability or liability. I was merely attempting to illustrate some of the unique aspects of this situation that would make the previous poster's viewpoint not as contradictary as it might

    My position is that the venue is not public in the largest sense of the word, because Amazon has the right to decide what gets said where, and furthermore, Amazon's intent for having people state their opinions about a book on the Amazon site is to help others make a purchasing determination. The speech in question goes beyond stating an opinion of the book and into acting out a reaction to it.

    Slashdot is a venue in which a greater range of behavior is acceptable than at Amazon. Slashdot also offers journals, where the journalist's statements are never off-topic. However, there are impingements upon a person's freedom even here.

    A person's own web page is generally more free from imposition of the rights of others than either Slashdot or Amazon, and is just as public in the "eye of the public" sense.

  16. The Alternative Re:Google is Skynet? on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The alternative is everybody running their own stations in a massive wireless mesh network.

  17. Re:Google is Skynet? So is Wikipedia now Google? on Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Many of the things I used to go to Google for, I go to Wikipedia instead. Now there is a category for which I go to Wikipedia for and a category I go to Google for. Actually they were distinct before, but the category of things I go to Wikipedia for, I fancied Web Directories might be useful for except that they weren't very robust and got out of date.

  18. Venue on Jack Thompson vs Amazon? · · Score: 1

    Amazon is not a public venue. It is a place to sell stuff. There is a place for the sort of comments that found their way there, but Amazon doesn't do very well at fitting the bill. Slashdot is better, but one's own web page is even better.

    Context:


    The United States has done it's darnedest to make unavailable common areas with which to express views. (permits and what-not... when's the last time you've seen someone on the modern equivalent of a soap box who wasn't already in the public eye.

  19. Your Sig... on Jack Thompson vs Amazon? · · Score: 1

    The way "Holiness" gets used, (the pope, for example) I don't want anything to do with it...The "Holy Spirit" on the other hand, is a much more complex issue. It could be that people could each be experiencing a higher entity devoted to them, and they all get lumped together into one concept, the "Holy Spirit", along with other spiritual phenomena. There are Biblical references to there no longer being a distinction between holy and common, Zechariah 14:21 is one, but those who try to lay claim to holiness don't understand it. They are those (2 Tim 3:5) "having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof" and Jack Thompson is one of their number.

  20. Crack theories of the Earth on Is the Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, it's turtles all the way down.

  21. Yeah, I know a lot of stuff is done wrong... on Game Dialogue - How They Do It · · Score: 1

    but it wasn't realistic even taking that into account. As outlined, the lack of controls in place are so bad that the project couldn't even progress to the point that the article is talking about (beta-testing) The quality control issues are so bad that if the project is leaking in that area, it would have to be leaking everywhere too.

    It further serves as a bad story in that it doesn't exactly leave you wanting to read the rest of the article.

  22. Maybe in la-la land that's what happens... on Game Dialogue - How They Do It · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The opening scenario should never happen. It doesn't just mean that control of game production has been lost, it means that it never was there to begin with. What's up with blindly assigning filenames, and voice actors that are trying to read lines with a hoarse voice. A "master spreadsheet"? This should be a database of some sort, not to mention a version control system. "Lead designers" don't just add features, they have to be written by programmers. At the time of proposal, everyone involved should have a heads up. "Beta" is a wierd milestone to be adding new features at. Kind of turns you off the article before it gets to the potentially useful part.

  23. Now for something completely different... on Molecular Motors on the Run · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want you all to give a wonderful round of applause for the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Next, lets hear from the Society of Silly People who Walk Funny!

  24. Moral Code... on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    My moral code is iterative, but the moral code of most of the people I encounter is not.

  25. Re:Joel on Software on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what he meant by grease being "everywhere". Grease should just be on the parts that need to be greased, and nowhere else. I don't know what he means by "yellowing", but rust? Seems to me that if something's rusty, something's wrong. Reading his clarification on the paint, if the heat is causing the paint to turn yellow, the oven should never have been painted with that paint to begin with.