Yes, Jesus too, he tells women not to touch him in John 20:17 presumably because they are unclean,
NIcely taken out out of context and distorted. A lot of translations say "do not hold on to me" or "do not cling" to me rather than touch.
It is also clear that he has a specific reason to send her away (to tell other people) and to let Thomas touch him (because Thomas does not believe he is real).
Of course you do not need a religion to be moral. That is even a part of traditional Christian beliefs (sheep and goats etc.)
On the other hand, the "evil in the name of religion" stuff is exaggerated. Look at the 20th century, once there were enough atheists they started doing a lot worse: Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.
Hitler appears to have been non-religious without being a convinced atheist either (his religious views would fit right into modern Britain!). He was baptised an attended church when he was young, but married in a civil ceremony, did not attend religious services, and did not make any affirmations of any faith in later life.
Even the investors, and major users, or the modern suicide bomb were a secular bunch of nutters.
What are you talking about? He was talking about the extra overhead involved in looking up the internal IPs to route stuff going in or out. No one (other than you) said that you have to change your internal IPs.
Now, I do not know how significant this extra overhead is, but it is obvious that the configuration issues caused by NAT impose a cost (because of time) and the shortage of IPs (so not everyone gets a static IP, as we used to once upon a time) means a lot of missed opportunities.
Google Chrome Frame is not widely used, so no one bothers opting in, so you will end up with almost all sites still rendering using IE6.
IE6 has some weird bugs, beyond its age. I discovered yesterday that it sometimes (and I am not sure what circumstances trigger it) changes the size of a linked element depending on whether or not it has a background colour set (so text moves if you change background colour on hover). When did that every look like correct behaviour? Its not just not standards compliant, there was never any reason to see it as desirable behaviour.
May be you should do it as civil disobedience, but you should not be forced to.
It is not always possible to change society, and every society has some political view, or religion, or sexual behaviour that attracts severe discrimination. This is true in established democracies, even for views/practices that are not intrinsically nasty (by intrinsically nasty I mean fascism etc.): would you care to be known to be a socialist in the US, for example?
The Soviet Union also developed a dog bomb during WWII, training the dogs to run under tanks. However it turned out they preferred the familiar Soviet tanks to the German ones.
Concerns about terrorism are never secondary.. The 3,000+ people killed by terrorists the the US in the last decade are a far greater concern than the best part of 200,000 other murders over the same period. fewer than 40 people killed by terrorists in the UK in the last decade are a greater concern than than close to 3,000 killed by other murderers over the same period, or something on the order of 30,000 from each of road accidents and suicide.
It follows that a risk of a terrorist attack is of greater concern then the risk of accidents, even if the latter is a greater threat in terms of the number of people killed.
These are not "popular" names. The only reason anyone uses the term "theft" for copyright infringement is because they are spinning to try and manipulate people into associating something that most people think deeply wrong(theft) with something most people think is fine (copying stuff).
[quote]because Microsoft turns a blind eye to piracy here they have encroached Windows to a large degree - giving other software like Linux little chance to spread[/quote]
The same here in Sri Lanka - except that they largely turn a blind eye to piracy by corporations as well.
The crackdown is no doubt planned for the future, but Linux has managed to become enough of a threat to keep it at bay. The " if Windows is too expensive, we will switch to Linux" tactic, expect it works well enough to get Windows for free.
The software companies that have started turning the screws here are IBM (for Lotus Notes) and Adobe (professional users of Photoshop etc.).
They can also get fired for upsetting people who can orchestrate a campaign against them: in this case, if someone chooses Linux, there is going to be a lot of publicity guaranteed if anything goes wrong.
Why on earth is that a problem. I cannot think of any aspect of the differences between GPL2 and GPL three that will have much effect on the adoption of a compiler.
I believe Ubuntu actually runs its shell scripts on Dash, although it does use Bash as the default login shell (but that is easy enough to change). The boot loader is not part of the OS, neither is the partition editor.
the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil
If the population you are looking at consists entirely of completely monolingual illiterates, that may be true. It is a word that is used in English, and derives from the same Latin root as English words such as liberty.
It gets a mention in the online version of the OED (admittedly as a part of a phrase and a name), rather than a word by itself.
1) The people with patents on the new technology, or who are planning to sell stuff for it. 2) The people who have been convinced by the marketing budgets made possible by 1)
Well actually Ptolemy's Almagest, written not long after the New Testemant, mentions that the distance to the fixed stars is so great that the earth can be regarded as a "geometrical point".
So presumably they must have deduced that they were pretty big (to be visible at very large distances), although they probably did not deduce that they were the same type of thing as the sun, as they did not have the observations to support it.
Depends. Companies have certainly released products without sufficient testing, or that have not been developed with security in mind.
Good companies test, so do good open source projects - even non-commercial ones.
What about the personal reputations of the Diaspora developers? They certainly have a profit motive to make it work - probably more so than someone working at a large company who does not have as much of a personal stake in the product.
1) Child porn laws now cover a much wider range of material than video or photos of child abuse. They cover porn voluntary made by an adult who looks like a child, pornographic drawings of a child etc. 2) Even when it is videoed or photographed abuse, possessing pictures and videos of child abuse is clearly nothing like as bad as actually committing it, and this is not reflected in the relative sentences.
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Given all this, and the rules of .ly registry, why would anyone set up this particularly site there? Surely anyone could see it coming?
I think it was deliberately engineered as a publicity stunt.
I am going to register a .sa domain and use for a Christian site.
Yes, Jesus too, he tells women not to touch him in John 20:17 presumably because they are unclean,
NIcely taken out out of context and distorted. A lot of translations say "do not hold on to me" or "do not cling" to me rather than touch.
It is also clear that he has a specific reason to send her away (to tell other people) and to let Thomas touch him (because Thomas does not believe he is real).
Of course you do not need a religion to be moral. That is even a part of traditional Christian beliefs (sheep and goats etc.)
On the other hand, the "evil in the name of religion" stuff is exaggerated. Look at the 20th century, once there were enough atheists they started doing a lot worse: Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.
Hitler appears to have been non-religious without being a convinced atheist either (his religious views would fit right into modern Britain!). He was baptised an attended church when he was young, but married in a civil ceremony, did not attend religious services, and did not make any affirmations of any faith in later life.
Even the investors, and major users, or the modern suicide bomb were a secular bunch of nutters.
If it gives you an excuse to stop supporting IE6 you might not end up with any more interoperability problems than you already had.
No, the worst case is that we go back to ActiveX.
What are you talking about? He was talking about the extra overhead involved in looking up the internal IPs to route stuff going in or out. No one (other than you) said that you have to change your internal IPs.
Now, I do not know how significant this extra overhead is, but it is obvious that the configuration issues caused by NAT impose a cost (because of time) and the shortage of IPs (so not everyone gets a static IP, as we used to once upon a time) means a lot of missed opportunities.
Google Chrome Frame is not widely used, so no one bothers opting in, so you will end up with almost all sites still rendering using IE6.
IE6 has some weird bugs, beyond its age. I discovered yesterday that it sometimes (and I am not sure what circumstances trigger it) changes the size of a linked element depending on whether or not it has a background colour set (so text moves if you change background colour on hover). When did that every look like correct behaviour? Its not just not standards compliant, there was never any reason to see it as desirable behaviour.
May be you should do it as civil disobedience, but you should not be forced to.
It is not always possible to change society, and every society has some political view, or religion, or sexual behaviour that attracts severe discrimination. This is true in established democracies, even for views/practices that are not intrinsically nasty (by intrinsically nasty I mean fascism etc.): would you care to be known to be a socialist in the US, for example?
The problem is that bit torrent only works well if lots of people are seeding, which generally means that lots of people have downloaded recently.
(I downloaded Sita Sings the Blues yesterday, a while after it was released, and FTP from archive.org turned out to be much faster then a torrent.)
So torrent works well for CD images, and would probably work well for security updates, it would not work well for random apps from the repos.
The Soviet Union also developed a dog bomb during WWII, training the dogs to run under tanks. However it turned out they preferred the familiar Soviet tanks to the German ones.
Concerns about terrorism are never secondary.. The 3,000+ people killed by terrorists the the US in the last decade are a far greater concern than the best part of 200,000 other murders over the same period. fewer than 40 people killed by terrorists in the UK in the last decade are a greater concern than than close to 3,000 killed by other murderers over the same period, or something on the order of 30,000 from each of road accidents and suicide.
It follows that a risk of a terrorist attack is of greater concern then the risk of accidents, even if the latter is a greater threat in terms of the number of people killed.
Do you expect a rational policy?
These are not "popular" names. The only reason anyone uses the term "theft" for copyright infringement is because they are spinning to try and manipulate people into associating something that most people think deeply wrong(theft) with something most people think is fine (copying stuff).
[quote]because Microsoft turns a blind eye to piracy here they have encroached Windows to a large degree - giving other software like Linux little chance to spread[/quote]
The same here in Sri Lanka - except that they largely turn a blind eye to piracy by corporations as well.
The crackdown is no doubt planned for the future, but Linux has managed to become enough of a threat to keep it at bay. The " if Windows is too expensive, we will switch to Linux" tactic, expect it works well enough to get Windows for free.
The software companies that have started turning the screws here are IBM (for Lotus Notes) and Adobe (professional users of Photoshop etc.).
They can also get fired for upsetting people who can orchestrate a campaign against them: in this case, if someone chooses Linux, there is going to be a lot of publicity guaranteed if anything goes wrong.
There are (fiction) films and books about Aushwitz. If those forms of entertainment are acceptable, why not a game?
in large part due to GCC going GPLv3.
Why on earth is that a problem. I cannot think of any aspect of the differences between GPL2 and GPL three that will have much effect on the adoption of a compiler.
I believe Ubuntu actually runs its shell scripts on Dash, although it does use Bash as the default login shell (but that is easy enough to change). The boot loader is not part of the OS, neither is the partition editor.
1) I have a seven year old
2) He does understand how stupid some kids can be - he did mention metal handicap.
3) Think of it as evolution in action.
the percentage of the population that understands what Libre means is nil
If the population you are looking at consists entirely of completely monolingual illiterates, that may be true. It is a word that is used in English, and derives from the same Latin root as English words such as liberty.
It gets a mention in the online version of the OED (admittedly as a part of a phrase and a name), rather than a word by itself.
The people who think that are
1) The people with patents on the new technology, or who are planning to sell stuff for it.
2) The people who have been convinced by the marketing budgets made possible by 1)
Well actually Ptolemy's Almagest, written not long after the New Testemant, mentions that the distance to the fixed stars is so great that the earth can be regarded as a "geometrical point".
So presumably they must have deduced that they were pretty big (to be visible at very large distances), although they probably did not deduce that they were the same type of thing as the sun, as they did not have the observations to support it.
Depends. Companies have certainly released products without sufficient testing, or that have not been developed with security in mind.
Good companies test, so do good open source projects - even non-commercial ones.
What about the personal reputations of the Diaspora developers? They certainly have a profit motive to make it work - probably more so than someone working at a large company who does not have as much of a personal stake in the product.
Except:
1) Child porn laws now cover a much wider range of material than video or photos of child abuse. They cover porn voluntary made by an adult who looks like a child, pornographic drawings of a child etc.
2) Even when it is videoed or photographed abuse, possessing pictures and videos of child abuse is clearly nothing like as bad as actually committing it, and this is not reflected in the relative sentences.
Not that many people use Ruby? Does Ruby on Rails ring no bells? Can I have some of what you are smoking?
That should read Linus, not Linux - but Linux is pretty good too.