Their problem They don't want to change. They don't want to give in to this non-physical technology. They don't understand it, so they condemn it. It's human nature. They aren't simply hard-headed.
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Our problem They will sell it to us for $5 per 64-bit mp3 to make up for the "lost sales" on the "pirated" copies. 128-bit will cost you $10. They won't offer any higher quality because it would "take away from CD sales."
We all know that AIDS is actually the disease that Revelations (in the Bible) claims will wipe out 1/4 of the population for Doomsday, by the command of God. Who do you think you're messing with? </sarcasm>
If you don't want freedom, get out of the country. Don't ruin it for the rest of us.
This country was built on one funadamental philosophy: a weak central government. As the tenth amendment says, the federal government has only the powers that are granted to it by the constitution.
The constitution freed us from tyrranny. If we let 9-11 scare us into destroying what this country was based on, then the terrorists won. They are not free. We are free, and that is essentially why the hate us.
If someone can formally present some kind of doctrine of faith that all Jedi would follow, thereby defining the religion, then I say let them have it. If 70k people want to follow the basic principles of the Jedi faith, I see no reason to forbid it.
Wicca is a recognized religion in the US, but the government doesn't require the witches to prove that they can perform magic. Likewise, the ability to use the Force should have no bearing on the establishment of the religion. All that should be required is faith in the Jedi religion, regardless if they are just a bunch of nerds.
Seriously, you don't see Catholics proving that the wine actually transforms into blood and back to wine again. Likewise, you don't have the government outlawing Catholisism on the grounds that followers of the faith are trying to be cannibalistic vampires.
FYI: I am not a Star Wars fan, so this viewpoint is less biased than you may have origionally thought.
Do you think Doom3 will be designed for a 2ghz Pentium 4? When designing a game, you want to direct it to the largest audience possible, while not sacrificing quality. The computers are far faster than the mainstream programs require.
Whatever you do, don't put that nasty M$ line that goes something like "You may not distribute any files created with this program." Whatever the wording was, it sounded like they were claiming the rights to MY creations.
Or you can sit in a raft out off the shore of the US just oustide the border. The FCC can't touch you there either. Even if they did, don't worry, they're not sharp enough to bust your raft.
Thank you for being so politely informative to something I put little to no thought in presenting. To redeem myself, I chose to take a look at Prima Pars, and went straight to Does God Exist? to see if I could understand what I would read.
Apparently, there are five ways to prove the existence of God, so I present to you my reactions to each as follows:
To my understanding, he says that for something to be in motion it must be put into motion by another, which was put in motion by another, et cetera. He states that it must have started somewhere, so he concluded that it started with God. IMO this seems to be a chicken-and-egg question where we can't explain something so we say it is God. I think it is equally possible that things have always been in motion, and that there was no begining and likewise no end.
My understanding brings me to believe that this proof assumes that there is an ultimate efficient cause, one that none is superior to. Be it so, I do not see how this is a conclusion of the existence God. IMO, it is more accurately simplified to the fact that if there is a God, s/he/it would be the unltimate of all things. To assume perfection exists is debatable, but to claim perfection is a diety skips too many steps in the proof.
If I understand this correctly, he assumes that all in existence was not in existence at some point, other than one that is necisary to start it all, which he calls God. This is the chicken-and-egg again, just as existence rather than motion. Consequently I propose the possibilty that all in existence has always existed and will always exist. He discounts infinity as though it is obviously impossible, but I am not convinced.
This is just like #2, except replacing efficincy with perfection more specifically. I don't see the difference, but I may very well be misinterpreting. To assume the existence of an ideal roots back to (if memory serves me correctly) the philospher Palto. I don't see how we can so easily assume the existence of an ideal, or perfect anything. There is no ideal chair because a chair is many things. Likewise there is no perfect triangle, because a triangle describes a whole range of shapes. Something may be perfect or efficient for some cause, but not necisarily all causes. Computer programmers no this all too well.
As far as I can interpret this, he seeks to explain why living things act as they do, posting the blame on God rather than actually explaining it. An animal eats because it is hungry, just as a plant rises toward the sun. Their hunger drives them to obtain, no diety intervening.
I find Theology and Philosophy both quite interesting, but these "proofs" don't conform to logical patterns. There are too many assumptions made, many which are the precise concept we seek to prove. It is absurd to base a proof on an assumption, so each assumption must therefore have a proof, the ultimate assumption being what all men know of as God.
...by throwing chunks of them into a giant blender to grind them up. Then the resulting chips of plastic are sorted using electrostatic fields. Simple Why didn't I think of that?
efficient Not when labor costs less than machine purchase/maintenance.
it's all (the United States of) America's fault Of course. And I know why too. They are jealous. They wouldn't be putting computers together if they hated our culture.
This is just what I need. I figure it would go like this...
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I thought I was created by a Dog...
"Dog is an animal is a man is a child. Dog is breathing." -Godsdog by Skrew
Or maybe it was the Sleeper...
"May the Sleeper awaken." -a member of the Brotherhood in the video game "Gothic"
"They realized that their great Sleeper is an evil arch-demon" -main character
Every religion is a cult. At least science can be supported or disproven by use of logic.
How do you know your God exists? The Bible says so. How do you know the Bible is accurate? Because it was inspired by God.
I must admit, Mr. Gates is one incredible business man.
Don't announce security holes unless you are ready to release a patch, then you look like you're acting fast with no delay to solve the problem. Customers like that. Customers don't like to be warned that there is a hole with no patch, even if it will help them avoid potential problems, because it makes your company look irresponsible or slow or lazy or whatever.
When I say customer, I mean the portion of the population that doesn't even know what an EULA is. I mean the portion who, if told they need to pay a monthly license fee, would shovel out the money as a necisary expense. I mean those who think a web browser or it's home page determine the ISP that you use.
There are many toys a kid will play with for five minutes and never pick it up again. A DVD may cost as little as $9.44 at Wal-Mart and they will want to watch it every day.
Of course, you don't put your kids in front of the TV and leave them there. In that case, you would be correct to say that it is the media companies raising the kid rather than the parent.
Now say you want to prepare dinner, and therefore keep the children out of the kitchen for an hour so that they don't get hurt (knives, stoves, ovens, hot water, etc.). Give them toys and they may go anywhere in the house. Put in a movie and they will sit there and watch it (as long as you threaten to turn it off if you catch them elsewhere).
Buying movies such as "Toy Story 17" is essential. They tend to cost less than the original, they are filled with familiar characters, and you know what to expect. My kids got a kick out of the Planet of the Apes movies. It doesn't have to be Disney to be appropriate for your kids, you just need to know your kids and know the movies.
And if you ever had kids, you will know how much of a blessing a DVD actually is. You can get a movie to last five minutes with the chapter advance button, and young children often won't know the difference (probably has to do with their lack of a developed concpet of time).
My 4-year-old can operate a DVD player from turning it on to starting a movie. My mom can't even do that.
If she scratches the DVD in the process, I wouldn't think of even scolding her for it. If a child that young can learn to operate a home theatre component system, or even a computer, I would encourage it.
I would demonstrate the proper way to handle the discs and only hope she catches on, but I wouldn't expect an immediate result with such a thing that my co-workers can't even grasp. Maybe I should be giving my co-workers copies of discs, too.
What's a historical place need a network for? It hasn't had it yet. Therefore, there is nothing there that needs to be networked unless you add something new. Something new would make it less historical.
Or maybe I'm on crack and the ghosts just want to play a huge Quake tournament together.
Our entire digestive system appears to be designed (or evolved, depending on your position) around processing fruits, grains, nuts, etc. It is not very efficient at digesting soil, meats, etc.
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. Do you think that cats and dogs and wolves and lions and rabbits and bears oh my are conscerned with efficiency? Nope. Morality? Nope. They eat what they like.
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I see two problems with this idea.
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We all know that AIDS is actually the disease that Revelations (in the Bible) claims will wipe out 1/4 of the population for Doomsday, by the command of God. Who do you think you're messing with?
</sarcasm>
If you don't want freedom, get out of the country. Don't ruin it for the rest of us.
This country was built on one funadamental philosophy: a weak central government. As the tenth amendment says, the federal government has only the powers that are granted to it by the constitution.
The constitution freed us from tyrranny. If we let 9-11 scare us into destroying what this country was based on, then the terrorists won. They are not free. We are free, and that is essentially why the hate us.
Often times they might use the account name as the password. That wouldn't be hard to remember.
Because they literally own the company.
Besides, do you see any prospering companies where the employees make the decisions? Can we say overpayed and underworked?
It's just business. It's nothing personal.
I'm curious about what people are using these super-fast processors for.
You need it to run the next version of Windows.
If someone can formally present some kind of doctrine of faith that all Jedi would follow, thereby defining the religion, then I say let them have it. If 70k people want to follow the basic principles of the Jedi faith, I see no reason to forbid it.
Wicca is a recognized religion in the US, but the government doesn't require the witches to prove that they can perform magic. Likewise, the ability to use the Force should have no bearing on the establishment of the religion. All that should be required is faith in the Jedi religion, regardless if they are just a bunch of nerds.
Seriously, you don't see Catholics proving that the wine actually transforms into blood and back to wine again. Likewise, you don't have the government outlawing Catholisism on the grounds that followers of the faith are trying to be cannibalistic vampires.
FYI: I am not a Star Wars fan, so this viewpoint is less biased than you may have origionally thought.
Do you think Doom3 will be designed for a 2ghz Pentium 4? When designing a game, you want to direct it to the largest audience possible, while not sacrificing quality. The computers are far faster than the mainstream programs require.
Whatever you do, don't put that nasty M$ line that goes something like "You may not distribute any files created with this program." Whatever the wording was, it sounded like they were claiming the rights to MY creations.
I'd rather write in binary.
Or you can sit in a raft out off the shore of the US just oustide the border. The FCC can't touch you there either. Even if they did, don't worry, they're not sharp enough to bust your raft.
Thank you for being so politely informative to something I put little to no thought in presenting. To redeem myself, I chose to take a look at Prima Pars, and went straight to Does God Exist? to see if I could understand what I would read.
Apparently, there are five ways to prove the existence of God, so I present to you my reactions to each as follows:
I find Theology and Philosophy both quite interesting, but these "proofs" don't conform to logical patterns. There are too many assumptions made, many which are the precise concept we seek to prove. It is absurd to base a proof on an assumption, so each assumption must therefore have a proof, the ultimate assumption being what all men know of as God.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Why didn't I think of that?
efficient
Not when labor costs less than machine purchase/maintenance.
it's all (the United States of) America's fault
Of course. And I know why too. They are jealous. They wouldn't be putting computers together if they hated our culture.
This really bothers me. All those computers tossed aside. Sick.
As for the sweatshops, don't blame the computers. Blame their government.
This is just what I need. I figure it would go like this...
Greetings Mr. Smith. I am writing to inform you that pr0n we are still awaiting boobies your pizza response bare behind and I would appreciate your caffinated immediate naked chicks click here to enter attention to this hot lesbian action matter in theatres now only $999. Thank you.
Now, if only we can get the DMCA overturned
We just need to keep challenging it in court.
Question Authority
Why should I?
I thought I was created by a Dog...
"Dog is an animal is a man is a child. Dog is breathing." -Godsdog by Skrew
Or maybe it was the Sleeper...
"May the Sleeper awaken." -a member of the Brotherhood in the video game "Gothic"
"They realized that their great Sleeper is an evil arch-demon" -main character
Every religion is a cult. At least science can be supported or disproven by use of logic.
How do you know your God exists? The Bible says so.
How do you know the Bible is accurate? Because it was inspired by God.
How can you not argue with that logic?
I must admit, Mr. Gates is one incredible business man.
Don't announce security holes unless you are ready to release a patch, then you look like you're acting fast with no delay to solve the problem. Customers like that. Customers don't like to be warned that there is a hole with no patch, even if it will help them avoid potential problems, because it makes your company look irresponsible or slow or lazy or whatever.
When I say customer, I mean the portion of the population that doesn't even know what an EULA is. I mean the portion who, if told they need to pay a monthly license fee, would shovel out the money as a necisary expense. I mean those who think a web browser or it's home page determine the ISP that you use.
There are many toys a kid will play with for five minutes and never pick it up again. A DVD may cost as little as $9.44 at Wal-Mart and they will want to watch it every day.
Of course, you don't put your kids in front of the TV and leave them there. In that case, you would be correct to say that it is the media companies raising the kid rather than the parent.
Now say you want to prepare dinner, and therefore keep the children out of the kitchen for an hour so that they don't get hurt (knives, stoves, ovens, hot water, etc.). Give them toys and they may go anywhere in the house. Put in a movie and they will sit there and watch it (as long as you threaten to turn it off if you catch them elsewhere).
Buying movies such as "Toy Story 17" is essential. They tend to cost less than the original, they are filled with familiar characters, and you know what to expect. My kids got a kick out of the Planet of the Apes movies. It doesn't have to be Disney to be appropriate for your kids, you just need to know your kids and know the movies.
And if you ever had kids, you will know how much of a blessing a DVD actually is. You can get a movie to last five minutes with the chapter advance button, and young children often won't know the difference (probably has to do with their lack of a developed concpet of time).
My 4-year-old can operate a DVD player from turning it on to starting a movie. My mom can't even do that.
If she scratches the DVD in the process, I wouldn't think of even scolding her for it. If a child that young can learn to operate a home theatre component system, or even a computer, I would encourage it.
I would demonstrate the proper way to handle the discs and only hope she catches on, but I wouldn't expect an immediate result with such a thing that my co-workers can't even grasp. Maybe I should be giving my co-workers copies of discs, too.
the final mammoth specimen will only be 88% pure mammoth
This will be interesting. Last I heard, humans were 98% chimpanzee.
they need to be networked together, somehow
What's a historical place need a network for? It hasn't had it yet. Therefore, there is nothing there that needs to be networked unless you add something new. Something new would make it less historical.
Or maybe I'm on crack and the ghosts just want to play a huge Quake tournament together.
Put a lid on it and you could bury them in it too!
Then how will I get my pizza?
That's awesome! I'll have to remember that trick.
It's a chair. Okay, fine. Next time I want to see a toilet. Now that would be useful.
Our entire digestive system appears to be designed (or evolved, depending on your position) around processing fruits, grains, nuts, etc. It is not very efficient at digesting soil, meats, etc.
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. Do you think that cats and dogs and wolves and lions and rabbits and bears oh my are conscerned with efficiency? Nope. Morality? Nope. They eat what they like.