The phrase "beg the questioN" comes from the world of logic and debate - specifically, the public debates in Athens. In said debates, one could ask one's opponent to agree on certain starting principles, then one was supposed to argue from those agreed principles to one's position.
To "beg the question" was to ask your opponent to concede the principle under debate in disguise. So, as a gross example, if the topic of the debate was the existence of God, and I asked you to acknowledge that there is, of necessity, an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent personal being, I would be asking you to concede the debate at the outset. It's bad form.
I think this access one of the primary -- and un-declared -- reasons PayPal is so aggressive in asking/coercing members to become 'verified'. All it takes is that little 10 cent deposit and your acknowledgment of same to set it up.
Not at all. Paypal wants you to become verified so they can make your checking account the default payment method. They want checking to be your default payment method because credit card transactions cost a lot more than ach transfers - something like 2-3% of the total more.
If you had clue enough to deserve access to a BGP-equipped router (I doubt that you do) you would know that MCI is the world's largest provider of internet services, and that to take them out of your BGP would only hurt you as half the internet (it might be less now, but it used to be half) couldn't reach you.
The real problem with the 1988 dating (which placed it at ~1300) is that we have mentions of the shroud and paintings that include it dating 200 years earlier.
Personally, as a student of New Testament, I doubt its authentic: Jews of that period didn't wrap corpses in single pieces of cloth, but strips. (Like Mummies.) But I do wish the Catholics would go ahead and let scientists have another go at it to settle the debate regarding the 1988 dating.
By the time Leviticus was written (general scholarly acceptance is that it was set to something like its current form sometime around 550, but based on older material) the major threat to Israelite identity was intermarriage and mingling of customs with gentiles. Many of the really wacky regulations in leviticus (like not mixing flax and cotton) were ways for the Israelites to remind themselves of their call to be a people set apart to Yahweh.
To modern ears, this whole notion of purity seems offensive, but in the case of the Hebrews it was really a matter of cultural survival as a subjugated race. If they were to continue as a viable nation-in-captivity and/or religion, they had to find ways to be distinctively different and cut down on intermarriage and mingling with the gentiles. It is more like the sort of cultural distinctiveness taken on by all sorts of oppressed groups (think Africa Americans or contemporary homosexuals) than racism or classism.
The real problem here is that Intuit's (and Microsoft's, for that matter) business model doesn't reflect reality, and hasn't for years. It used to be that, when you bought Quicken, you were buying a program to manage your finances - and that was it. While there were a few add-on services (like they would sell you computer checks) you were really paying for the software.
Since the nineties, however, they've started bundling more and more web-based services into their products, ostensibly for "free." In reality, of course, you're paying for these by purchasing the software, but they are nonetheless services, not software. In this case, Quicken has decided to stop providing a service for software that's over 3 years old, presumably because they need another cash infusion to support the service.
This could all be fixed pretty easily if they were charging for what they're really doing, instead of giving you something 'free' that's really bundled into the software price. Instead of selling the software and giving away the services, Intuit should sell the services and give away the software. This would mean that poster had no basis for complaint, since he could upgrade his software for free and continue paying for the service as he always had.
This gidget, like every other promising editor, lacks one feature of emacs that I am positively addicted to: namely, it doesn't have "true" auto-indentation. Yes, it will put me back at the indent level I was at when I hit "enter", but if I press tab... it tabs. It doesn't automatically place the line at the right indent level.
When it does that, I'll probably use it. But not until.
Generally, the straw is already being taken of the land and being used for various agricultural/household purposes. E.g. it's commonly used to mulch gardens.
What is unethical about it? Seriously, two people consent, so what is the unethical thing about it?
Is everything that two people consent to necessarily ethical? If I consent to you killing me, does that automatically make your killing of me ethical? If someone likes being beaten choked to the virge of death during sex (and there are some who do, and a few die of it) does that mean that choking oneself during sex is not aberrant behavior? You are viewing morality through an individualistic lens - you are assuming that, for something to be immoral, it must necessarily hurt some individual.
This is not (necessarily) an incorrect position, but it is important that you understand that it is strictly a modern position. Prior to recent times, moral standards were regarded througha communitarian lens. Something could be regarded as harmful to the community even if those participating had no problem with it and there was no direct, discernible effect on anyone else.
The bottom line is that the prohibition against exclusive homosexuality is not a recent, Christian phenomenon. It has been present in virtually all cultures, at all times, in all places. Even the Greeks, whom gay advocates like to cite as proof that rejection of homosexuality is not universal, did not practice anything like what todays gay movement advocates. "Gay marriage" was simply never an issue. One married for progeny (consider, for example, Alexander, who was "queer" as the proverbial three dollar bill, but who nevertheless married, had a mistress, and had children) - one engaged in gay sex as a fling. Moreover, in both Greek and Roman culture, it was regarded as very shameful to play the "female" part in gay sex. There was no sense in which homosexuality was regarded as an alternative to heterosexuality - instead, it was regarded as a fling, something that one did when young and with the young. (And, frankly, if you look up any authoritative source on this you will find this out. I'm not makign this up.)
The point is that you can't find any culture, anywhere, that practiced the kind of homosexuality that gay rights folks advocate today. There never has been gay marriage, because gay marriage made no sense when gay sex was just a fling and the absurd notion of "orientation" had not yet been invented. And I challenge you to cite a *single* counter-example.
Furthermore, it is evident that "gay marriage" - at least among male homosexuals - is not equivalent to heterosexual marraige in an important respect. Namely, it is rarely, if ever, monogamous. This has been borne out by so many studies that it is proven, and it has even been admitted by gay advocates in some forums. Gay marriages tend to define monogamy in emotional terms rather than physical terms.
Finally, there is overwhelming eviedence, which the gay press willfully ignores, that homosexual orientation can be changed. Here are a few representative, published, peer-reviewed articles to prove the point.
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* Arch Sex Behav. 2003 Oct;32(5):399-402.
* Arch Sex Behav. 2004 Apr;33(2):83-4; author reply 84-5.
* Arch Sex Behav. 2004 Aug;33(4):325.
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Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation? 200 participants reporting a change from homosexual to heterosexual orientation.
Spitzer RL.
Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA. rls8@columbia.edu
Position statements of the major mental health organizations in the United States state that there is no scientific evidence that a homosexual sexual orientation can be changed by psychotherapy, often referred to as "reparative therapy." This study tested the hypothesis that some individuals whose sexual orientation is predominantly homosexu
And we all know the course this thing will follow. Anyone who opposes this edict will be branded a bigot; any schoolchild who questions the legitimacy of homosexual marriage will be expelled for "hate speech." The fanatical Left will insist that anyone who upholds the fundamental meaning that marriage has always had, everywhere, until this generation, is a "homophobe" and therefore mentally ill. (from http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html)
One need not be a "homophobe" to have serious reservations about the ethics of homosexual practice. One need not be a "homophobe" to feel that marriage is an institution designed to provide for the having and rearing of children. One need not be a "homophobe" in order to feel that a two-parent, heterosexaul household provides children with the best opportunity of developing positive relationships with men AND women.
"Homophobe" and "homophobic" are nothing but name-calling - terms used to avoid engaging serious discussion on a topic that the new liberal orthodoxy has declared decided, even as the vast bulk of Americans simply disagree.
As far as your comparison of Homosexuals and Mormons - are you seriously suggesting that there is no difference between religious faith and sexual practice? Are you seriously suggesting that we have a freedom of sexual practice comparable to our freedom of religious conviction? Are you seriously under the delusion that the status of homosexuality as a civil rights issue rather than a moral issue is settled?
The bottom line is that YOU are the innovator here, not Card. To act as though he must, necessarily, agree with your orthodoxy when your orthodoxy has thrown the orthodoxy of 30 years ago out the window, and that any failure to do so must only be because he is "homophobic", is downright insulting.
The word is "samba." Samba will more or less allow a Linux server to fully integrate intoa Windows network. I would suggest that, if you are a Linux novice, you leave domain control on Windows and just use Linux as a workhorse. Time enough to move everything to Linux when you're more comfortable with Linux.
The point was that you were comparing apples and oranges. You made no attempt whatsoever to determine whether the problem lay with Linux or with the hardware, and you didn't even address the (very real) possibility that you were using something ridiculous (like, say, Ygddrasil linux) or very old (like, say, Ygddrasil linux). So, please don't be surprised when no one takes you very seriously.
Yeah, both Sun and Microsoft hold patents. However, the crucial difference is that Microsoft is a monopoly that has a demonstrated willingness to use their monopoly power to kill competitors. Sun, on the other hand, could never force everyone to run Java on Solaris, because to do so would simply kill the language. Solaris simply doesn't have enough market share to support it.
Furthermore, Java has signifficant support from other industry leaders (like IBM) with significant patent portfolios. This means that, if Sun ever did try to play nasty, the other companies who are in the Java market would probably get just as nasty in return.
The net effect of all this is that, while both Java and.NET are patented in their various parts, the probability of getting hurt on Java patents is much less. Or, put it another way, Microsoft is evil, and you shouldn't sell your soul to evil. It's bad form.
Anonymous Coward,
Your check is in the mail - thank you for supporting the Evil Empire (tm).
Incidentally, in the future you should make up some more supporting details. For example, you should talk about how you've gone through 3 high-quality hard-drives to find the source of the lag, and have positively determined the problem to be in the Linux kernel. Also, you should up the specs a bit. No one is surprised any more when an 800 mhz machine is slow. However, make sure that you don't do so much specifying that someone could actually reproduce your claim.
With warm regards,
Santa
(p.s. Nice touch in the question-begging department. Why any would chose to use linux over other "faster, cheaper, more stable systems"! We laughed out loud at that one!)
I had a cox cable connection that was strung too low over an alley, and periodically some sort of truck would pull the cable down. I would call the cable company, and go through the whole rigamarole you describe, before, finally, getting someone who could understand that the physical cable was lying in my back yard and no amount of fiddling would make it work. To get those dingbats to understand that the cable was PHYSICALLY DOWN and nothing they could do would fix it took hours.
For what it's worth, my lexar fob appears as "sda" and I had no trouble partitioning it exactly as if it were a "regular" floppy.
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We had a couple of SGI's with the cute little cameras on top back in the mid-90's. Everyone thought that video-conferencing was going to be this huge new thing. Well, come to find out that video conferencing was just not something most people wanted. Who wants your grandmother to be able to see you pick your nose?
According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted the prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows and the end-product designed to be portable across different Unix-based vote tabulation systems and to be "undetectable" to voters and election supervisors.
Last time I looked, weren't the much maligned Diebold machines running Windows, as well as all their competititon? And how could such a program be "portable across different Unix-based vote tabulation systems"? You wouldn't need a single program to do this, but many different programs for all the different environments. There's really nothing complicated about figuring out which votes to flip, nor would it be complicated to hide it from non-technical election supervisors. All that would be complicated about such a program would be figuring out how to access the database. The (minimal) technical details described here just don't mirror what would actually be an issue if this were real.
First of all, can you provide some memory and/or processor utilizations stats? With an ISAM style database (these things are old as the hills) it is *unlikely* - but not impossible - that processor utilization is hurting you. ISAM style databases tend to be very simplistic and very lightweight compared to an SQL db. I would load up on memory and not worry as much about processor (unless processor stats suggest otherwise.) More memory will mean better buffering of disk i/o and more efficiency.
Second, what OS is this running? Unfortunately, I doubt you can defeat the 2GB limitation without access to the source.
With what you're describing as the read/write pattern, I would suggest you look at a RAID1 configuration, perhaps even "multiplexing" - that is, have three or more disks mirroing the same information, in toto. I would also strongly suggest that you load up on cache memory on the RAID controller - 1gb would not be unreasonable - which will give you a very high cache hit rate, reducing disk I/O.
In this application, I doubt fibre channel would buy you much - it's limited to 150MB/s (although many don't know this), and is in theory no faster than SCSI3 drive for drive. Its real advantage over SCSI-3 lies in its ability to be networked for SAN applications.
Not enough information - is this data warehousing? Transaction processing? Mostly reads, or a lot of writes as well?
But generally, I don't recommend RAID 5 for performance critical situations. It's great for data warehouse, but if you lose one drive their goes your performance. Also, realize that, often, the place where you can really boost performance is in the database, not the hardware. How's your query optimization? Do you have appropriate indexes? Is the code accessing the database efficient?
In other news, Disney is suing crayola because, again and again, children have chosen to draw pictures of Mickey Mouse! Crayola's intransigent and prominent inclusion of the colors Black, White, and Red in its "super mega pack" make it far too easy for children, well-known to "love mickey", to duplicate him and infringe on Disney's copyrighted work.
hm.. Actually, remarriage is explicitly allowable in the cases of marital unfaithfulness or the death of one partner (although that's not really divorce..)
Actually, this is quite debatable. This intepretation takes something that Jesus said descriptively and makes prescriptive.
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To "beg the question" was to ask your opponent to concede the principle under debate in disguise. So, as a gross example, if the topic of the debate was the existence of God, and I asked you to acknowledge that there is, of necessity, an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent personal being, I would be asking you to concede the debate at the outset. It's bad form.
If you had clue enough to deserve access to a BGP-equipped router (I doubt that you do) you would know that MCI is the world's largest provider of internet services, and that to take them out of your BGP would only hurt you as half the internet (it might be less now, but it used to be half) couldn't reach you.
Personally, as a student of New Testament, I doubt its authentic: Jews of that period didn't wrap corpses in single pieces of cloth, but strips. (Like Mummies.) But I do wish the Catholics would go ahead and let scientists have another go at it to settle the debate regarding the 1988 dating.
To modern ears, this whole notion of purity seems offensive, but in the case of the Hebrews it was really a matter of cultural survival as a subjugated race. If they were to continue as a viable nation-in-captivity and/or religion, they had to find ways to be distinctively different and cut down on intermarriage and mingling with the gentiles. It is more like the sort of cultural distinctiveness taken on by all sorts of oppressed groups (think Africa Americans or contemporary homosexuals) than racism or classism.
Since the nineties, however, they've started bundling more and more web-based services into their products, ostensibly for "free." In reality, of course, you're paying for these by purchasing the software, but they are nonetheless services, not software. In this case, Quicken has decided to stop providing a service for software that's over 3 years old, presumably because they need another cash infusion to support the service.
This could all be fixed pretty easily if they were charging for what they're really doing, instead of giving you something 'free' that's really bundled into the software price. Instead of selling the software and giving away the services, Intuit should sell the services and give away the software. This would mean that poster had no basis for complaint, since he could upgrade his software for free and continue paying for the service as he always had.
Not sure where you're coming from, but around here if taxes are paying for your health care, they are almost certainly not your taxes.
When it does that, I'll probably use it. But not until.
Generally, the straw is already being taken of the land and being used for various agricultural/household purposes. E.g. it's commonly used to mulch gardens.
Is everything that two people consent to necessarily ethical? If I consent to you killing me, does that automatically make your killing of me ethical? If someone likes being beaten choked to the virge of death during sex (and there are some who do, and a few die of it) does that mean that choking oneself during sex is not aberrant behavior? You are viewing morality through an individualistic lens - you are assuming that, for something to be immoral, it must necessarily hurt some individual.
This is not (necessarily) an incorrect position, but it is important that you understand that it is strictly a modern position. Prior to recent times, moral standards were regarded througha communitarian lens. Something could be regarded as harmful to the community even if those participating had no problem with it and there was no direct, discernible effect on anyone else.
The bottom line is that the prohibition against exclusive homosexuality is not a recent, Christian phenomenon. It has been present in virtually all cultures, at all times, in all places. Even the Greeks, whom gay advocates like to cite as proof that rejection of homosexuality is not universal, did not practice anything like what todays gay movement advocates. "Gay marriage" was simply never an issue. One married for progeny (consider, for example, Alexander, who was "queer" as the proverbial three dollar bill, but who nevertheless married, had a mistress, and had children) - one engaged in gay sex as a fling. Moreover, in both Greek and Roman culture, it was regarded as very shameful to play the "female" part in gay sex. There was no sense in which homosexuality was regarded as an alternative to heterosexuality - instead, it was regarded as a fling, something that one did when young and with the young. (And, frankly, if you look up any authoritative source on this you will find this out. I'm not makign this up.)
The point is that you can't find any culture, anywhere, that practiced the kind of homosexuality that gay rights folks advocate today. There never has been gay marriage, because gay marriage made no sense when gay sex was just a fling and the absurd notion of "orientation" had not yet been invented. And I challenge you to cite a *single* counter-example.
Furthermore, it is evident that "gay marriage" - at least among male homosexuals - is not equivalent to heterosexual marraige in an important respect. Namely, it is rarely, if ever, monogamous. This has been borne out by so many studies that it is proven, and it has even been admitted by gay advocates in some forums. Gay marriages tend to define monogamy in emotional terms rather than physical terms.
Finally, there is overwhelming eviedence, which the gay press willfully ignores, that homosexual orientation can be changed. Here are a few representative, published, peer-reviewed articles to prove the point.
Arch Sex Behav. 2003 Oct;32(5):403-17; discussion 419-72. Related Articles, Links
Comment in:
* Arch Sex Behav. 2003 Oct;32(5):399-402.
* Arch Sex Behav. 2004 Apr;33(2):83-4; author reply 84-5.
* Arch Sex Behav. 2004 Aug;33(4):325.
Click here to read
Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation? 200 participants reporting a change from homosexual to heterosexual orientation.
Spitzer RL.
Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA. rls8@columbia.edu
Position statements of the major mental health organizations in the United States state that there is no scientific evidence that a homosexual sexual orientation can be changed by psychotherapy, often referred to as "reparative therapy." This study tested the hypothesis that some individuals whose sexual orientation is predominantly homosexu
"Homophobe" and "homophobic" are nothing but name-calling - terms used to avoid engaging serious discussion on a topic that the new liberal orthodoxy has declared decided, even as the vast bulk of Americans simply disagree.
As far as your comparison of Homosexuals and Mormons - are you seriously suggesting that there is no difference between religious faith and sexual practice? Are you seriously suggesting that we have a freedom of sexual practice comparable to our freedom of religious conviction? Are you seriously under the delusion that the status of homosexuality as a civil rights issue rather than a moral issue is settled?
The bottom line is that YOU are the innovator here, not Card. To act as though he must, necessarily, agree with your orthodoxy when your orthodoxy has thrown the orthodoxy of 30 years ago out the window, and that any failure to do so must only be because he is "homophobic", is downright insulting.
The word is "samba." Samba will more or less allow a Linux server to fully integrate intoa Windows network. I would suggest that, if you are a Linux novice, you leave domain control on Windows and just use Linux as a workhorse. Time enough to move everything to Linux when you're more comfortable with Linux.
The point was that you were comparing apples and oranges. You made no attempt whatsoever to determine whether the problem lay with Linux or with the hardware, and you didn't even address the (very real) possibility that you were using something ridiculous (like, say, Ygddrasil linux) or very old (like, say, Ygddrasil linux). So, please don't be surprised when no one takes you very seriously.
Love and kisses,
Santa
Furthermore, Java has signifficant support from other industry leaders (like IBM) with significant patent portfolios. This means that, if Sun ever did try to play nasty, the other companies who are in the Java market would probably get just as nasty in return.
The net effect of all this is that, while both Java and .NET are patented in their various parts, the probability of getting hurt on Java patents is much less. Or, put it another way, Microsoft is evil, and you shouldn't sell your soul to evil. It's bad form.
Anonymous Coward, Your check is in the mail - thank you for supporting the Evil Empire (tm). Incidentally, in the future you should make up some more supporting details. For example, you should talk about how you've gone through 3 high-quality hard-drives to find the source of the lag, and have positively determined the problem to be in the Linux kernel. Also, you should up the specs a bit. No one is surprised any more when an 800 mhz machine is slow. However, make sure that you don't do so much specifying that someone could actually reproduce your claim. With warm regards, Santa (p.s. Nice touch in the question-begging department. Why any would chose to use linux over other "faster, cheaper, more stable systems"! We laughed out loud at that one!)
I had a cox cable connection that was strung too low over an alley, and periodically some sort of truck would pull the cable down. I would call the cable company, and go through the whole rigamarole you describe, before, finally, getting someone who could understand that the physical cable was lying in my back yard and no amount of fiddling would make it work. To get those dingbats to understand that the cable was PHYSICALLY DOWN and nothing they could do would fix it took hours.
Not too try to steal Java's thunder, but I would be interested in anyone's answers to the same question for my preferred environment: python. Anybody?
For what it's worth, my lexar fob appears as "sda" and I had no trouble partitioning it exactly as if it were a "regular" floppy.
We had a couple of SGI's with the cute little cameras on top back in the mid-90's. Everyone thought that video-conferencing was going to be this huge new thing. Well, come to find out that video conferencing was just not something most people wanted. Who wants your grandmother to be able to see you pick your nose?
Sorry, folks, but this is a hoax.
And, when you have a space-shuttle style accident, you spread nuclear wastes over most of South Texas. Thanks, but I'll take Yucca Mountain.
Second, what OS is this running? Unfortunately, I doubt you can defeat the 2GB limitation without access to the source.
With what you're describing as the read/write pattern, I would suggest you look at a RAID1 configuration, perhaps even "multiplexing" - that is, have three or more disks mirroing the same information, in toto. I would also strongly suggest that you load up on cache memory on the RAID controller - 1gb would not be unreasonable - which will give you a very high cache hit rate, reducing disk I/O.
In this application, I doubt fibre channel would buy you much - it's limited to 150MB/s (although many don't know this), and is in theory no faster than SCSI3 drive for drive. Its real advantage over SCSI-3 lies in its ability to be networked for SAN applications.
But generally, I don't recommend RAID 5 for performance critical situations. It's great for data warehouse, but if you lose one drive their goes your performance. Also, realize that, often, the place where you can really boost performance is in the database, not the hardware. How's your query optimization? Do you have appropriate indexes? Is the code accessing the database efficient?
Expect a DMCA complaint momentarily.