Rational has nothing to do with it, as matter of fact the reason that it takes them so long after birth to use LOGIC when making decisions is largely based on the interference of parents and society (read: over protective).
Secondly a mother has the right to maintain her body has she sees fit its called personal freedom. Once the child is born it is no longer Dependant on the mother, it can (has been proven that infants can make decisions) not however live on its own. That is mostly based on physical limitations.
Let me ask you a question. If I need you to live and don't have the ability to live on my own and you are responsible for my actions, what does that make me ? Sounds like a pet. Not a human.
There is nothing in any law (fuck the moral/religion crap) that states something without the ability to make sentient decisions has any right to live. Take a look at some of the more sticky situations regarding people in a vegetative state without hope and life support. If there is an undo burden placed on the family (or whomever is deemed the responsible party) termination is allowed.
Quit trying to separate my statement into multiple parts and poking at each individual part. The statement was made as a whole. Something that cannot live without another organism and cannot make decisions is not human and as such doesnt have human rights. If a person shoots a woman and she dies before giving birth we don't charge him with double homicide because the child is not yet born and henceforth is not a human being.
Without the care of their parent(s), the child will die.
You would be surprised. Take away the bullshit bravado (legal restrictions regarding working age and educational requirements for basic jobs) and most children could live just fine without there parents, especially if given no choice. The will to live is much much more powerful than anything else.
Sentient decisions are based on being AWARE of the decision. Not on the "I know what this is." level. On the "oww that hurts level". Give a newborn something scalding hot they would drop it. Give them something room temp and they would hold/eat it. Offer them both afterwords and they would go for the room temp item. Making a choice based on being aware of the options, not knowing that one is hot and one isn't. Visual and physical association is something that is developed fairly early on. However as I stated before being sentient/aware alone does not give something the right to life.
There is nothing that can detirmine when a child could first be born, or when it first becomes capable of making sentient decisions. Laying blanket statements either way is a BAD way to go. As it stands with regards to the law is fine by me. I however will not stand around and let religion dictate law. If your looking for apathy and indecision your looking in the wrong place.
it is not a single organism until it is no longer dependant on the host and can make a sentiant decision. Which is how the abortion laws are setup now. If you want everything to have the gift of life, then you can raise the children. All of them. Wait... thats not logicical. Kind of like forcing someone who was raped or had a condom break to keep and raise a child in a shitty enviroment.
Not everyone live's in suburbia in a two story home that is kid-friendly. Some people KNOW that they are not ready for a child, and some people know that they dont WANT the child.
And save your bullshit rhetoric about adoption, its a broken system that doesnt work and can leave children as ward's of the state.
God didnt give you the right to tell people how to live their live's, he/she/it alone can judge people. You fucktards keep thinking that you have the right to control other people and their choices in life newsflash asshole: Your god supposedly gave us FREE will, according to your religion we are supposed to be able to make our own choices good or bad.
What you religious nutbags are doing is no different than what the nazi's were doing. Your just not doing it to the extreme they were. yet.
or as opposed to the very large and very wind-stopping buildings we live in and build ?
Sorry I dont buy this whole arguement. 3% of US farmland is nothing, whatever minor changes we would cause would be nothing compared to the very very different and possibly dangerous future climate we are currently working on creating.
Sorry. Bullshit. Especially if your dealing with a Bachelor of Science degree.
This is why people from other countries are steadily surpassing our comp sci grads, because there schools teach them the technical foundation that allows them to understand WHY to do something. Not just how to do it.
Our problem is our people dont understand the why well enough, they do it for no reason. Security ? what security ? Why would I do that ? Memory management ? But it looks pretty.
Their problem is that they dont understand the why, there is less innovation. That is changing mighty quickly though.
-- Just of note. Certifications also suffer from this problem. They teach you how to do things but not why to do them, or what methods to use to determine which method to use etc etc
Having knowledge and knowing how to use it are two very different things.
I think what you posted is going off the deep end a bit. There are usually a lot of hurricane's, they usually however do NOT make landfall so often, this can be traced to the lack of a jetstream coming across the south east, this should be changing (right on with the normal pattern) soon. Most of the rain in the eastern part of the country has come from the hurricanes that have shot straight up the coast at slow speeds. Also do to no substantial jetstream coming from the west to offset the hurricanes.
IIRC this all has something to do with el nino. Not sure what.
However florida (And the southeast in general) has suffered from worse hurricane seasons in the past, just not recently.
Some global warming models predict that 1/3 of the lower 48 will be flooded due to ice cap melting. I highly doubt it will occur in our lifetime.
Also of note: if any of this comes to pass I dont think anyone would use a nuke to solve a population problem. That would probably worsen the situation.
The world changes on its own. Humans force it to change faster, its impossible for nature to adapt so quickly.
I personally am not worried about it because nothing will come of it in our generation. Anybody who has kids who might someday have kids might be concerned.
It is Computer Science. Therefor it should encompass all of computers. As I pointed out above they do cover generic begginer level things, they do not however cover enough of it. Which is a large part (though not the only part) of why most CS grads are bloody incompotent.
This is one of my major peeves with CS degree programs. They focus to much on "paper skills" and useless crap (math, english etc). If they would first build the core competency of the individual and then worry about the peripheral stuff then CS grads would be more compotent. For god's sake's they have YEARS to teach this stuff, why is it that it often goes in one ear and out the other ?
Just for the record I think it should be just as difficult to get a degree in CS as it is to get a degree in law or medicine. The degree's should also be just as granular.
yes, actually they do. More often than not they don't have ENOUGH to do with systems administration. People who design the curriculum tend to be to worried about weather everyone can make a fucking webpage look purrty enough with java.
Most schools that offer a CS degree program have at least 1 or 2 required courses on operating systems, which typically delve into how the OS works. Sounds like systems administration for beginners if you ask me.
League of extraordinary gentleman (its just an example from the last time I remember renting videos.). However it has been my experience that going to blockbuster is a waste of time, they almost never have anything good in unless it was just released and very popular or old and unknown.
I cannot speak to their online selection, however I doubt they have the selection that netflix does this early in the game.
I was talking about their by mail/online plan. I couldnt (still can't) find anything on there site about anything but the normal 3/out plan.
I will however admit that it does get expensive using netflix, but not has expensive as "walk in renting" for those of us who watch a lot of movies.
Tivo rocks. Netflix rocks. They rock because they provided a much needed service that allows people to manage their life without worrying about entertainment. Kudos to them.
NOTE: I have no problem paying for stuff, its when I get gouged and/or told how to manage/use my product that I get annoyed.
Firstly, its not 5/mo its 5 at the same time. I have that plan, and usually run about 23-28 movies per month, that would be impossible with blockbuster since they dont offer anything above a 3/time plan.
Its also worth noting to those of us who havent been into a blockbuster recently that there instore selection sucks. bad. Plus they are still prone to the "all out" problem because there stock levels are screwed (500 copies of pirates of the carribean and only 4 of LOEG !!) and so on and so forth. I have been with netflix for years and have only once had a delay getting a movie (BubbaHoTep.). Two day turn around time is also pretty sweet.
Not an epplet fan myself and I have been using E for about four years.
I personally think E has addictivity built in, I have tried everything else and each project has SOME of the things I like about E, but only E has them all.
The only bug I have found in E that consistantly irks me is the focus issue with gaim & galeon. But thats minor since a simple "click on item" fixes it.
Check your make.conf file and check your keywords variable, should be set to x86. If the ethemes ebuild is set to something else (ie ~x86) then it wont build, beyond that....
Depends on why its being masked, could be blocked by a broken (or unresolvable) dependancy conflict or it might be blocked in the/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file.
I have run enlightenment on gentoo since gentoo was pre 1.0, never had any problems. Matter of fact I just had to re-install over the weekend do to hardware failure (drive) and had no issue's getting it to install. Though I havent updated to the latest/greatest version of enlightenment yet.
The stuff redhat itself has contributed to GCC is minimal (overall), has a matter of fact a justified argument could be made that they have broken more stuff than they have fixed/added. Especially in the past few years
Define "getting serious". I remember it being talked about and a lot of people going "redhat who" "suse what" and saying they needed backing from name players, then IBM came along (with SGI, Sun etc) and it started getting used. Being talked about is nice, but it doesnt employ people or fund projects.
also has a point of reference redhat bought cygnus in 2000 and tieman (SP?) added C++ and many many chips) before that, matter of fact he was one of the major contributers to GCC long before redhat bought his company. How much redhat has contributed itself (not through partners or subsidaries it doesnt directly control) is a project I leave to you, for some reason digging through the changelog of a near 20 year old piece of software isnt my idea of a good time.
Prove it. They have many people working on RHEL, which costs more than many cars. hell something like 60% of the companies employees are marketing and management.
Redhat is very much is the enemy of people who have been involved in linux for a long time. (ie have a vested interest in seeing it succeed). Redhat gives the community and other linux company's a bad name with the money whoring BS they pull.
I might also point out that redhat has nearly no penetration on the corporate desktop, and THAT is MS's bread and butter, the server share that redhat has came directly from unix, not windows.
RedHat has done more for linux that any company out there
Examples ? Last time I checked without the backing of IBM and the like redhat (like all of linux) would be relegated to "hobby os" status and stuck in the closet instead of in the datacenter.
now I run Fedora, I still have all the functionality and features of any other distro.
When was the last time you used another distro ? Cause regarding the "features" you mentioned, no you dont.
Not enough bitching about Apple's elitism for damn sure...
What the fuck do you think redhat is exhibiting you damn fanboy ?
Still not paying for my OS.
Good to know your the reason redhat got rid of redhat and moved over to the completely over-priced insane corporate model and offered the community the table scraps known has fedora.
Also just for the record the reason that fedora was such a leap forward for redhat was because redhat essentially crippled all development on the "free" versions almost a year before they announced fedora. So there was little/no forward progress until the community was allowed to actively contribute.
if you really think fedora is under community control your fucking high. Fedora is a test bed for what will be integrated into the next versions of EL.
Fedora has jumped light years ahead of the previous redhat versions
Yep, the instability has it almost caught up to MS. Of course that is what happens when the entire OS is a testbed. This is exactly the problem, redhat wants the community to continue to support them but they are not interested in supporting the community.
The average person in this country works 47 hours per week. Assuming a 9am start time they would be leaving at 6:30pm.
For the vast majority of the year that leaves a full two hours or so before it gets dark. I would also point out that the majority of people in this country dont work that much, that number is vastly inflated by the people who work 60 hour weeks (thank god for the fact that not everyone is salaried). (IIRC the report doesnt include non-full time employees)
If your tired after a 9.5 hour day then I would recomend changing your diet, and exercising more often, a 15 minute brisk run in the morning would do wonders.
Even if said person works on the lawn for only half an hour every other day they would be able to maintain a lawn far far better than the average landscapping company could. The average company doesnt want to exert resources on something like this because it only shows a limited return (this is how all companies think) to the person who is passionate and enjoys his work the returns are only has limited as his mind.
Really ? Then why don't you explain that sorry ass excuse for security at the largest software company in the world ?
Just because you get paid to do something doesnt make you work harder at it then someone who WANTS to do it. There are plenty of people who have jobs doing various things that suck beyond belief at doing them.
Imagine this angle, a person owns a large yard, they work on this yard every day for several years because it is their year, its not a leased yard, he is not paid to work on it. Does that mean that if he hires one of the million or so landscaping companies out there that they will do just as good a job as he does ? Or that they will care about the work like he does ? Doubtful at best.
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Rational has nothing to do with it, as matter of fact the reason that it takes them so long after birth to use LOGIC when making decisions is largely based on the interference of parents and society (read: over protective).
Secondly a mother has the right to maintain her body has she sees fit its called personal freedom. Once the child is born it is no longer Dependant on the mother, it can (has been proven that infants can make decisions) not however live on its own. That is mostly based on physical limitations.
Let me ask you a question. If I need you to live and don't have the ability to live on my own and you are responsible for my actions, what does that make me ? Sounds like a pet. Not a human.
There is nothing in any law (fuck the moral/religion crap) that states something without the ability to make sentient decisions has any right to live. Take a look at some of the more sticky situations regarding people in a vegetative state without hope and life support. If there is an undo burden placed on the family (or whomever is deemed the responsible party) termination is allowed.
Quit trying to separate my statement into multiple parts and poking at each individual part. The statement was made as a whole. Something that cannot live without another organism and cannot make decisions is not human and as such doesnt have human rights. If a person shoots a woman and she dies before giving birth we don't charge him with double homicide because the child is not yet born and henceforth is not a human being.
Without the care of their parent(s), the child will die.
You would be surprised. Take away the bullshit bravado (legal restrictions regarding working age and educational requirements for basic jobs) and most children could live just fine without there parents, especially if given no choice. The will to live is much much more powerful than anything else.
Sentient decisions are based on being AWARE of the decision. Not on the "I know what this is." level. On the "oww that hurts level". Give a newborn something scalding hot they would drop it. Give them something room temp and they would hold/eat it. Offer them both afterwords and they would go for the room temp item. Making a choice based on being aware of the options, not knowing that one is hot and one isn't. Visual and physical association is something that is developed fairly early on. However as I stated before being sentient/aware alone does not give something the right to life.
There is nothing that can detirmine when a child could first be born, or when it first becomes capable of making sentient decisions. Laying blanket statements either way is a BAD way to go. As it stands with regards to the law is fine by me. I however will not stand around and let religion dictate law. If your looking for apathy and indecision your looking in the wrong place.
how, is, this, for, disrespectufl: Fuck you. You uppity grammar nazi.
it is not a single organism until it is no longer dependant on the host and can make a sentiant decision. Which is how the abortion laws are setup now. If you want everything to have the gift of life, then you can raise the children. All of them. Wait ... thats not logicical. Kind of like forcing someone who was raped or had a condom break to keep and raise a child in a shitty enviroment.
Not everyone live's in suburbia in a two story home that is kid-friendly. Some people KNOW that they are not ready for a child, and some people know that they dont WANT the child.
And save your bullshit rhetoric about adoption, its a broken system that doesnt work and can leave children as ward's of the state.
God didnt give you the right to tell people how to live their live's, he/she/it alone can judge people. You fucktards keep thinking that you have the right to control other people and their choices in life newsflash asshole: Your god supposedly gave us FREE will, according to your religion we are supposed to be able to make our own choices good or bad.
What you religious nutbags are doing is no different than what the nazi's were doing. Your just not doing it to the extreme they were. yet.
or as opposed to the very large and very wind-stopping buildings we live in and build ?
Sorry I dont buy this whole arguement. 3% of US farmland is nothing, whatever minor changes we would cause would be nothing compared to the very very different and possibly dangerous future climate we are currently working on creating.
Sorry. Bullshit. Especially if your dealing with a Bachelor of Science degree.
This is why people from other countries are steadily surpassing our comp sci grads, because there schools teach them the technical foundation that allows them to understand WHY to do something. Not just how to do it.
Our problem is our people dont understand the why well enough, they do it for no reason. Security ? what security ? Why would I do that ? Memory management ? But it looks pretty.
Their problem is that they dont understand the why, there is less innovation. That is changing mighty quickly though.
-- Just of note. Certifications also suffer from this problem. They teach you how to do things but not why to do them, or what methods to use to determine which method to use etc etc
Having knowledge and knowing how to use it are two very different things.
I think what you posted is going off the deep end a bit. There are usually a lot of hurricane's, they usually however do NOT make landfall so often, this can be traced to the lack of a jetstream coming across the south east, this should be changing (right on with the normal pattern) soon. Most of the rain in the eastern part of the country has come from the hurricanes that have shot straight up the coast at slow speeds. Also do to no substantial jetstream coming from the west to offset the hurricanes.
IIRC this all has something to do with el nino. Not sure what.
However florida (And the southeast in general) has suffered from worse hurricane seasons in the past, just not recently.
Some global warming models predict that 1/3 of the lower 48 will be flooded due to ice cap melting. I highly doubt it will occur in our lifetime.
Also of note: if any of this comes to pass I dont think anyone would use a nuke to solve a population problem. That would probably worsen the situation.
The world changes on its own. Humans force it to change faster, its impossible for nature to adapt so quickly.
I personally am not worried about it because nothing will come of it in our generation. Anybody who has kids who might someday have kids might be concerned.
He was right. They didnt accomplish anything.
Doing something doesnt mean its being done the right way, or for the right purpose. (ie looking for guns on grandma.)
It is Computer Science. Therefor it should encompass all of computers. As I pointed out above they do cover generic begginer level things, they do not however cover enough of it. Which is a large part (though not the only part) of why most CS grads are bloody incompotent.
This is one of my major peeves with CS degree programs. They focus to much on "paper skills" and useless crap (math, english etc). If they would first build the core competency of the individual and then worry about the peripheral stuff then CS grads would be more compotent. For god's sake's they have YEARS to teach this stuff, why is it that it often goes in one ear and out the other ?
Just for the record I think it should be just as difficult to get a degree in CS as it is to get a degree in law or medicine. The degree's should also be just as granular.
yes, actually they do. More often than not they don't have ENOUGH to do with systems administration. People who design the curriculum tend to be to worried about weather everyone can make a fucking webpage look purrty enough with java.
Most schools that offer a CS degree program have at least 1 or 2 required courses on operating systems, which typically delve into how the OS works. Sounds like systems administration for beginners if you ask me.
League of extraordinary gentleman (its just an example from the last time I remember renting videos.). However it has been my experience that going to blockbuster is a waste of time, they almost never have anything good in unless it was just released and very popular or old and unknown.
I cannot speak to their online selection, however I doubt they have the selection that netflix does this early in the game.
I was talking about their by mail/online plan. I couldnt (still can't) find anything on there site about anything but the normal 3/out plan.
I will however admit that it does get expensive using netflix, but not has expensive as "walk in renting" for those of us who watch a lot of movies.
Better way: Go to the my account page and click "cancel membership".
.... but it can be done. Easily.
.... what with all the FUD.
Not that I would ever do such a thing
Makes me wonder if the article submiter owns blockbust or cable company stock
Exactly !!!
Tivo rocks. Netflix rocks. They rock because they provided a much needed service that allows people to manage their life without worrying about entertainment. Kudos to them.
NOTE: I have no problem paying for stuff, its when I get gouged and/or told how to manage/use my product that I get annoyed.
Better question, how is it different from pay-per-view or Video on Demand ?
A. The large cable companies have lobbying groups and are tightly tied into the content companies. In some cases they are even the same company.
Firstly, its not 5/mo its 5 at the same time. I have that plan, and usually run about 23-28 movies per month, that would be impossible with blockbuster since they dont offer anything above a 3/time plan.
Its also worth noting to those of us who havent been into a blockbuster recently that there instore selection sucks. bad. Plus they are still prone to the "all out" problem because there stock levels are screwed (500 copies of pirates of the carribean and only 4 of LOEG !!) and so on and so forth. I have been with netflix for years and have only once had a delay getting a movie (BubbaHoTep.). Two day turn around time is also pretty sweet.
I'm sure they could butitwouldntreallybeonelinenowwouldit ?
.... let me count the ways.
The reasons I hate "freeform" languages
Not an epplet fan myself and I have been using E for about four years.
I personally think E has addictivity built in, I have tried everything else and each project has SOME of the things I like about E, but only E has them all.
The only bug I have found in E that consistantly irks me is the focus issue with gaim & galeon. But thats minor since a simple "click on item" fixes it.
Check your make.conf file and check your keywords variable, should be set to x86. If the ethemes ebuild is set to something else (ie ~x86) then it wont build, beyond that ....
Depends on why its being masked, could be blocked by a broken (or unresolvable) dependancy conflict or it might be blocked in the /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file.
I have run enlightenment on gentoo since gentoo was pre 1.0, never had any problems. Matter of fact I just had to re-install over the weekend do to hardware failure (drive) and had no issue's getting it to install. Though I havent updated to the latest/greatest version of enlightenment yet.
The stuff redhat itself has contributed to GCC is minimal (overall), has a matter of fact a justified argument could be made that they have broken more stuff than they have fixed/added. Especially in the past few years
Define "getting serious". I remember it being talked about and a lot of people going "redhat who" "suse what" and saying they needed backing from name players, then IBM came along (with SGI, Sun etc) and it started getting used. Being talked about is nice, but it doesnt employ people or fund projects.
also has a point of reference redhat bought cygnus in 2000 and tieman (SP?) added C++ and many many chips) before that, matter of fact he was one of the major contributers to GCC long before redhat bought his company. How much redhat has contributed itself (not through partners or subsidaries it doesnt directly control) is a project I leave to you, for some reason digging through the changelog of a near 20 year old piece of software isnt my idea of a good time.
Prove it. They have many people working on RHEL, which costs more than many cars. hell something like 60% of the companies employees are marketing and management.
Many = dozens.
Many != 2
Redhat is very much is the enemy of people who have been involved in linux for a long time. (ie have a vested interest in seeing it succeed). Redhat gives the community and other linux company's a bad name with the money whoring BS they pull.
I might also point out that redhat has nearly no penetration on the corporate desktop, and THAT is MS's bread and butter, the server share that redhat has came directly from unix, not windows.
RedHat has done more for linux that any company out there
Examples ? Last time I checked without the backing of IBM and the like redhat (like all of linux) would be relegated to "hobby os" status and stuck in the closet instead of in the datacenter.
now I run Fedora, I still have all the functionality and features of any other distro.
When was the last time you used another distro ? Cause regarding the "features" you mentioned, no you dont.
Not enough bitching about Apple's elitism for damn sure...
What the fuck do you think redhat is exhibiting you damn fanboy ?
Still not paying for my OS.
Good to know your the reason redhat got rid of redhat and moved over to the completely over-priced insane corporate model and offered the community the table scraps known has fedora.
Also just for the record the reason that fedora was such a leap forward for redhat was because redhat essentially crippled all development on the "free" versions almost a year before they announced fedora. So there was little/no forward progress until the community was allowed to actively contribute.
if you really think fedora is under community control your fucking high. Fedora is a test bed for what will be integrated into the next versions of EL.
Fedora has jumped light years ahead of the previous redhat versions
Yep, the instability has it almost caught up to MS. Of course that is what happens when the entire OS is a testbed. This is exactly the problem, redhat wants the community to continue to support them but they are not interested in supporting the community.
The average person in this country works 47 hours per week. Assuming a 9am start time they would be leaving at 6:30pm.
For the vast majority of the year that leaves a full two hours or so before it gets dark. I would also point out that the majority of people in this country dont work that much, that number is vastly inflated by the people who work 60 hour weeks (thank god for the fact that not everyone is salaried). (IIRC the report doesnt include non-full time employees)
If your tired after a 9.5 hour day then I would recomend changing your diet, and exercising more often, a 15 minute brisk run in the morning would do wonders.
Even if said person works on the lawn for only half an hour every other day they would be able to maintain a lawn far far better than the average landscapping company could. The average company doesnt want to exert resources on something like this because it only shows a limited return (this is how all companies think) to the person who is passionate and enjoys his work the returns are only has limited as his mind.
Really ? Then why don't you explain that sorry ass excuse for security at the largest software company in the world ?
Just because you get paid to do something doesnt make you work harder at it then someone who WANTS to do it. There are plenty of people who have jobs doing various things that suck beyond belief at doing them.
Imagine this angle, a person owns a large yard, they work on this yard every day for several years because it is their year, its not a leased yard, he is not paid to work on it. Does that mean that if he hires one of the million or so landscaping companies out there that they will do just as good a job as he does ? Or that they will care about the work like he does ? Doubtful at best.
Yeah and the commercial world is full of things that have been stolen from OSS projects.
Welcome to the computer industry.