Not necessarily, you are looking at the extremes of both.
I am pro-life, but I think that the right to life comes with self-awareness. It is pretty clear that unborn children have developed fairly complex mental activity well within the range within which abortion is allowed in most countries.
On the other had I know pro-abortion people who are definitely not in favour of abortion up to birth.
Incidentally abortion is many countries is allowed for babys who would be viable outside the womb - the limit in the UK is 28 weeks, viability with modern medicine is several weeks before that. So viability in itself is probably not a criterion for anyone any more.
So certainly evidence of brain activity would make a huge difference form my point of view and many others.
OpenOffice is resource hog - that is why I rarely use it (on my Sempron 2400 desktop). If you use a system that old there are other apps that are much better suite to it.
Even on a newer system, and though I rarely use OOfice it I turned off Java and changed some other settings to speed it up a bit - I really do think that the default settings are silly.
That said my not particularly powerful desktop runs multiple simultaneous KDE and Gnome sessions (using older PCs as terminals) with fairly heavy apps running (OOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird) without any noticeable degradation in performance. Obviously it is hardly being stretched by running them.
Wouldn't most people with the technical ability to use/maintain a linux laptop just save a bit of money and get a laptop
It does not take a lot of technical ability to use or maintain Linux (assuming you are using a distro like Ubuntu rather than one like LFS)- in fact I would say it takes takes less ability than Windows once installed.
It takes some ability to install any OS, Linux attracts a more technical crowd because it does not come pre-installed. Selling PCs with Linux pre-installed will (hopefully) make it an option for less technical users.
The biggest problem with Linux is uncertainty about hardware support. Normally everything works out of the box, but tracking what is wrong when it does not is a pain - pre-installation solves this problem as well.
Personally I would prefer to install Linux myself, but I would still pay a slight premium to know that all the hardware was compatible - another problem this solves.
I would also recommend this to family and friends as an alternative to me installing Linux for them - because it means the vendor rather than me can handle any problems that crop up.
I checked your profile/blog and gathered you were joking (I have said similar things said in all seriousness on internet forums)
Given how extreme my comment was, it is rather worrying that you need to check that I was joking.
Any way, a slashdotter who understands irony - hallelujah! I was rather worried I would get modded -1 flamebait (although +5 insightful would be worse in this case).
they can charge by amount of data transferred
Economically the best solution. It also leads to price structures that are very clear to customers - the telcos have that.
How is it going to run given I have no binary executables in user space?
I suppose it could change my Bash or KDE start-up scripts/settings or mess with the start menu, but those would not be difficult to clean up.
What are the other possibilities? Is it worth running some sort of file monitoring on a desktop? Anything else one can do apart from the obvious firewalls and not doing anything silly?
I have the material for a POD book, I think I have the marketing, I even have a proofreader who knows the subject.
However, most of the comments I have found on publishers are very much from a US viewpoint. My target market is mostly UK. How good are the publisher's UK distribution. lulu.com looks good and they distribute globally - does anyone have experience of them?
Pick one or the other, and if you pick the "objective moral authority" side, then do try and strain your brain to think of what Jesus would've thought of torturing people to save your own skin.
Alternatively be a hypocrite and talk about what Christian morality one the few occasions it happens to suit you!
Let me look at a few key Christian teachings:
Lets start with "give all you have to the poor" (Mark 10: 21, Matthew 19:21), "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25), "blessed are the poor" (Matthew 5 and Luke 6:20).and "woe to you who are rich" (Luke 6:24). Would you say the Bush administration is composed of people who act like they believe those?
Next what about: "blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9) and "don't resist him who is evil, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other one also" (Matthew 5:38 and Luke 6:29).
Is that enough for starters? I could find more but I do not want excessively long quotes and explanations.
Because Jesus's teaching were about how to live your own life, rather than on how to run a country it is hard to find a Christian stance on public policy purely from the bible. However there is a Christian consensus on many issues and the right wings opinions are not usually in line with the consensus - on the death penalty for example.
A final thought. The behaviour of the early church was often quite socialist: "All who believed were together, and had all things in common. They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need." Acts 2:44-45. Monasteries, convents and rligous orders still function this way.
There would be plenty of evidence if you were right. Catholic parts of Africa would have higher AIDS rates, Catholic individuals should be more likely to have AIDS, Catholic countries in Europe should have higher AIDS rates than others etc.
You also assume that people have heard of the teaching (I doubt they have outside the west where it receives media attention - I have never heard it mentioned here in many years of living in Asia) and
You also assume that people will simultaneously ignore the church's main teaching on sex and follow a minor, controversial one.
It is such a pity the facts do not fit your western atheist prejudices.
There is a probably more money in doing this than in what you suggest.
The game already exists and its sales will be boosted. There may also be more value in boosting sales of the comparatively little read Dragonlance novels that the more successful books you mention.
As I've said before, this would be a huge boon to IT departments all over the place. I'd love to be able to lock users to running a signed OS only the pps we specifically approve and sign.
Why can you simply not give users admin? Am I missing something?
Its been a while since I used Windows but I can remember working at places where we had to phone IT to get stuff installed because we did not have admin. Is my memory at fault?
Hummingbirds use a huge amount of energy for their size.
I see sunbirds (old world equivalent of hummingbirds) in my garden and they are constantly drinking nectar. Relative to their size they must be consuming a lot more than robins or eagles.
Bill Gates and his company, Microsoft, who invented the market for computer operating systems for people too stupid to run and administer a computer
They were only copying what Xerox, Apple and others had already done.
If computers could only be used by people who knew how to administer the, then there would be far fewer computers in use. Most people do not want to learn about computers, they are not interested. Ease of use is necessary.
It is also perfectly possible to have an OS that is easy to administer and reasonably secure. I have friends who no absolutely nothing about computers who have no problems with Macs. My father finds Ubuntu easier than Windows (although I initially installed it for him and occasionally give him some help).
It is not ease of use that is the problem. It is bad design, poor implementation and simply not caring about security.
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Whether Wicca has genuine connections with ancient paganism or not (I do not think it has), its followers believe it has. They can not claim the connection and at the same time disclaim the bad bits of the connection.
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Is it really too much for people like you to read posts in full before replying? Or to read the parent post and get an idea of the context? No, its write first and think afterwards.
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How is that different than many organized religions?
I never said it was, I was replying to the GP which claimed that Wicca was different and more peaceful.
I made this very clear in my post. You clearly neither read my post of the parent post before replying.
Amazing how people can reply to a post without reading the context.
I was refuting a post that said that Wicca was peaceful and did not do such things unlike other religions.
You clearly did not read my post properly, or its parent at all, before replying
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and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
I never said it was.
The GP essentially says other religions do all the bad stuff, Wicca does not. My point is that the ancient religions on which Wicca claims to be based did do the bad stuff.
Incidentally atheists do the bad stuff as well (Pol Pot for example). Just about any group of people of sufficient size will produce mass murderers, war-mongers etc.
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Witches !- Wicca.
Traditionally in Europe it meant devil worshippers and possible followers of some fairly nasty practices. It also covers African witchcraft which frequently involves murder.
You may wish to dissociate Wicca from that. Fair enough. However it is not reasonable for you to expect to redefine the meanings of the words involved in line with your beliefs.
Wicca is essentially a modern invention (not one I have much sympathy with but that should not matter to you) and I would need a lot of convincing that it has any meaningful links to either ancient paganism or most old traditions of witchcraft so I do not see any reason to re-define the word witchcraft in line with Wicca.
Ancient pagans fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them. If you claim any link with them you can not then disclaim their bad side.
The problem is that marriage intrinsically gives approval to certain family arrangements and not others.
You are presumably in favour of allowing homosexual marriage. Are you also in favour of allowing polygamous and polyandrous marriages? What about group marriages.
If not are you not imposing your own views of what a family unit should be, just as much as those who oppose homosexual marriage? Is that not equally bigotry?
Of course you might say that you know that homosexual marriages are a good thing are a good thing, and that polygamous marriages are a bad thing, but there are plenty of people who disagree - many even on both counts.
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Not necessarily, you are looking at the extremes of both.
I am pro-life, but I think that the right to life comes with self-awareness. It is pretty clear that unborn children have developed fairly complex mental activity well within the range within which abortion is allowed in most countries.
On the other had I know pro-abortion people who are definitely not in favour of abortion up to birth.
Incidentally abortion is many countries is allowed for babys who would be viable outside the womb - the limit in the UK is 28 weeks, viability with modern medicine is several weeks before that. So viability in itself is probably not a criterion for anyone any more.
So certainly evidence of brain activity would make a huge difference form my point of view and many others.
Are you saying that it could happen or you know it does happen? It sounds like the latter.
OpenOffice is resource hog - that is why I rarely use it (on my Sempron 2400 desktop). If you use a system that old there are other apps that are much better suite to it.
Even on a newer system, and though I rarely use OOfice it I turned off Java and changed some other settings to speed it up a bit - I really do think that the default settings are silly.
That said my not particularly powerful desktop runs multiple simultaneous KDE and Gnome sessions (using older PCs as terminals) with fairly heavy apps running (OOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird) without any noticeable degradation in performance. Obviously it is hardly being stretched by running them.
It does not take a lot of technical ability to use or maintain Linux (assuming you are using a distro like Ubuntu rather than one like LFS)- in fact I would say it takes takes less ability than Windows once installed.
It takes some ability to install any OS, Linux attracts a more technical crowd because it does not come pre-installed. Selling PCs with Linux pre-installed will (hopefully) make it an option for less technical users.
The biggest problem with Linux is uncertainty about hardware support. Normally everything works out of the box, but tracking what is wrong when it does not is a pain - pre-installation solves this problem as well.
Personally I would prefer to install Linux myself, but I would still pay a slight premium to know that all the hardware was compatible - another problem this solves.
I would also recommend this to family and friends as an alternative to me installing Linux for them - because it means the vendor rather than me can handle any problems that crop up.
Given how extreme my comment was, it is rather worrying that you need to check that I was joking.
Any way, a slashdotter who understands irony - hallelujah! I was rather worried I would get modded -1 flamebait (although +5 insightful would be worse in this case).
they can charge by amount of data transferred
Economically the best solution. It also leads to price structures that are very clear to customers - the telcos have that.
A virus can still install itself in user space
How is it going to run given I have no binary executables in user space?
I suppose it could change my Bash or KDE start-up scripts/settings or mess with the start menu, but those would not be difficult to clean up.
What are the other possibilities? Is it worth running some sort of file monitoring on a desktop? Anything else one can do apart from the obvious firewalls and not doing anything silly?
I have the material for a POD book, I think I have the marketing, I even have a proofreader who knows the subject.
However, most of the comments I have found on publishers are very much from a US viewpoint. My target market is mostly UK. How good are the publisher's UK distribution. lulu.com looks good and they distribute globally - does anyone have experience of them?
Alternatively be a hypocrite and talk about what Christian morality one the few occasions it happens to suit you!
Let me look at a few key Christian teachings:
Lets start with "give all you have to the poor" (Mark 10: 21, Matthew 19:21), "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25), "blessed are the poor" (Matthew 5 and Luke 6:20) .and "woe to you who are rich" (Luke 6:24). Would you say the Bush administration is composed of people who act like they believe those?
Next what about: "blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9) and "don't resist him who is evil, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other one also" (Matthew 5:38 and Luke 6:29).
Is that enough for starters? I could find more but I do not want excessively long quotes and explanations.
Because Jesus's teaching were about how to live your own life, rather than on how to run a country it is hard to find a Christian stance on public policy purely from the bible. However there is a Christian consensus on many issues and the right wings opinions are not usually in line with the consensus - on the death penalty for example.
A final thought. The behaviour of the early church was often quite socialist: "All who believed were together, and had all things in common. They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need." Acts 2:44-45. Monasteries, convents and rligous orders still function this way.
Not just sacrilege, you pinko commie subversive terrorist.
You are giving stuff away free and destroying legitimate opportunities for businesses to profit.
Do you have any evidence to back-up that assertion? It should be easy to prove.
HIV is spreading like wildfire all over Africa and some parts of Asia
Despite the fact that only a small minority of Asians are Catholics. In fact the Philippines, the only majority Catholic country in Asia has a low prevalence of AIDS.
There would be plenty of evidence if you were right. Catholic parts of Africa would have higher AIDS rates, Catholic individuals should be more likely to have AIDS, Catholic countries in Europe should have higher AIDS rates than others etc.
You also assume that people have heard of the teaching (I doubt they have outside the west where it receives media attention - I have never heard it mentioned here in many years of living in Asia) and
You also assume that people will simultaneously ignore the church's main teaching on sex and follow a minor, controversial one.
It is such a pity the facts do not fit your western atheist prejudices.
What is to stop us doing both?
There is a probably more money in doing this than in what you suggest.
The game already exists and its sales will be boosted. There may also be more value in boosting sales of the comparatively little read Dragonlance novels that the more successful books you mention.
What do you mean out of context?
It is a feature that solves the problem you are discussing. It sounds relevant to me.
What do you mean love the subject?
The only point of education is to do a job and make money.
You will be talking subversive commie nonsense about personal fulfilment, development and enjoyment next!
(PS not to the less bright moderators, I am being sarcastic)
Why can you simply not give users admin? Am I missing something?
Its been a while since I used Windows but I can remember working at places where we had to phone IT to get stuff installed because we did not have admin. Is my memory at fault?
Hummingbirds use a huge amount of energy for their size.
I see sunbirds (old world equivalent of hummingbirds) in my garden and they are constantly drinking nectar. Relative to their size they must be consuming a lot more than robins or eagles.
They were only copying what Xerox, Apple and others had already done.
If computers could only be used by people who knew how to administer the, then there would be far fewer computers in use. Most people do not want to learn about computers, they are not interested. Ease of use is necessary.
It is also perfectly possible to have an OS that is easy to administer and reasonably secure. I have friends who no absolutely nothing about computers who have no problems with Macs. My father finds Ubuntu easier than Windows (although I initially installed it for him and occasionally give him some help).
It is not ease of use that is the problem. It is bad design, poor implementation and simply not caring about security.
Whether Wicca has genuine connections with ancient paganism or not (I do not think it has), its followers believe it has. They can not claim the connection and at the same time disclaim the bad bits of the connection.
Is it really too much for people like you to read posts in full before replying? Or to read the parent post and get an idea of the context? No, its write first and think afterwards.
I never said it was, I was replying to the GP which claimed that Wicca was different and more peaceful.
I made this very clear in my post. You clearly neither read my post of the parent post before replying.
Amazing how people can reply to a post without reading the context.
I was refuting a post that said that Wicca was peaceful and did not do such things unlike other religions.
You clearly did not read my post properly, or its parent at all, before replying
I never said it was.
The GP essentially says other religions do all the bad stuff, Wicca does not. My point is that the ancient religions on which Wicca claims to be based did do the bad stuff.
Incidentally atheists do the bad stuff as well (Pol Pot for example). Just about any group of people of sufficient size will produce mass murderers, war-mongers etc.
Witches !- Wicca. Traditionally in Europe it meant devil worshippers and possible followers of some fairly nasty practices. It also covers African witchcraft which frequently involves murder. You may wish to dissociate Wicca from that. Fair enough. However it is not reasonable for you to expect to redefine the meanings of the words involved in line with your beliefs. Wicca is essentially a modern invention (not one I have much sympathy with but that should not matter to you) and I would need a lot of convincing that it has any meaningful links to either ancient paganism or most old traditions of witchcraft so I do not see any reason to re-define the word witchcraft in line with Wicca. Ancient pagans fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them. If you claim any link with them you can not then disclaim their bad side.
Why do you think UML is better? Does it make much of the difference to a VPS for hosting a website?
The problem is that marriage intrinsically gives approval to certain family arrangements and not others.
You are presumably in favour of allowing homosexual marriage. Are you also in favour of allowing polygamous and polyandrous marriages? What about group marriages.
If not are you not imposing your own views of what a family unit should be, just as much as those who oppose homosexual marriage? Is that not equally bigotry?
Of course you might say that you know that homosexual marriages are a good thing are a good thing, and that polygamous marriages are a bad thing, but there are plenty of people who disagree - many even on both counts.