Whoa, hold on there puppy. LEt's not pee all over the carpet by getting over excited to use the stereotypical verbal bashing with the word "moron". I know it's culturally and popularly accepted around here but really it's unnecessary.
Activist, no? Testing on animals, fine by me. Just as long as it's not me/your/anyone else -or- my/your/anyone's kids.
The image I had on here was one of our beloved A-Listers with their own designer pets and their genetic defects^H^H customizations for what I called an "oh so cute" factor just to make them look good.
Must have forgot to put that in there, verbal cue's and sarcasm don't come across well without the oblig./sarcasm
I actually collect watches and this one is going on my list right next to the Fossil Frank Gehry Watch, Vestal Microdat Watch and the Monaco Sixtey Nine (best one there). Women go for the shoes. I go for the watch - because a man in a suit is standard and limiting in a professional atmosphere. The timepieces are truly unique.
Why the hell would you want to do that to the little creatures? Permanently disabling them for your "oh so cute" factor? I'm not one of those tree hugging animal rights people but this just screams animal abuse in a way. And no, I didn't RTFA very much.
actually yes. it worked with any plain text IM or IRC communication. This is several weeks old and I'm not sure why it just barely made the news. Hope onto efnet in any reasonably sized channel over 50-100 users and type out the keywords (there are others if you know where this list of keywords is) and presto.. about 20-30 people will ping out.
I've used it over msn and icq and it seems to work just as well. they're all plain text communications anyhow.
I must have missed this back in high school..... wonder how it slipped under the radar considering everything I'd ever read since middle school is currently on various book shelves throughout the home. Interesting no doubt.
I'm LDS as well (funny how we show up all at once it seems:P) and I can't stand the idea of state sponsored religion. The founding fathers had an incredible insight into what the people needed. It's too bad it seems people are going downhill "for the children".
Things like that ("for the children" type legislation) need to be reinforced in the home and not by the government. If people want to be irresponsible with their children and not give them the discipline they need and deserve that's their choice. Not one I support, but there's nothing beyond suggestion or trying to be an example of what I believe that I can do. I'm certainly not going to force someone to do something. That goes against the very moral fiber (one of the many) I try to live by.
A quote from I, ROBOT went like this.. "And I suppose you would have shut down the internet to keep public libraries open" and to me it means nothing is absolute, but replaced by better things as time goes on.
The internet is a great big public library to a point. Maybe there should be some online libraries like nyc.publiclibrary.com where you can browse through what they have in their digital library. Each having different sets of books but ultimately being searchable through publiclibrary.com/.org so you can order a copy (digital or print via publisher (small cost there)).
I'm a big fan of traditional libraries and hope they never go away, but as long as information is out there and freely available WITHOUT digital RESTRICTION management keys and software, things should be just fine.
I wonder when people will get a clue and realize that making a buck isn't ALL of what life's about, but helping make the world more educated - smarter, etc.
I use pith helmet with safari (there are other ways to do this in ff/ie etc) There is an option to disable all plugins. pdf (should ALWAYS be off anyways), audio, video, java scripting (not even my bank uses that!) and flash (disabled ONLY when I go to HSR)
Yes I was just going to suggest RIT for just such a project. My brother goes/went/will be going again and talked about one of their clean rooms. Not the kind where you wear all the gears, but a room that replaces all the air in it (a big room from what I hear) in just about 5 seconds.
You could literally fart in there and no one would be the wiser. Then again, this is most engineers good friend:P (bah, grammar!)
Understand that I believe I'm doing a decent job of keeping civil in this conversation. Just to let you know, there is no undertone of animosity or disrespect with regards to you or your position as I'm only trying to explain my own understandings / beliefs through observations etc.
I simply can't subscribe to a statement where an individual simply "discovers" their sexuality without making decisions about it. It is in my understanding a monumental decision regardless of how a person arrives at it or how they take notice. I can't buy the part about being genetically pre-programmed towards homosexuality.
Effects of culture and environment I can agree with very much. But I also sit in the camp that believes in a soul or spirit, something that many call a conscience of right or wrong. Call it your "survival instinct" if you will for preservation of the species. At any rate the cultural aspect has quite the impact.
You also mentioned... The human mind is nothing more than an electrochemical computer, [...], and there is no god. I can't argue with you about the human mind being the epicenter of our consciousness, but calling it a mere computer really doesn't do it justice.
And the part about there being no God. I'm not going to touch that one. I can no more prove to someone else there is a God any more than I can disprove such existence and I'll leave it at that.
I just finished watching "I, Robot" moments ago so take this with a grain of salt if it seems I'm a little wary (wait... that's normal - nevermind)
I believe there very well will be a means of having a "central system" to hold some of our types of data we really need access to. School reports, dissertations, files for work or more where we simply can't keep them on one computer. Your/home or/Users or 'Documents and Settings\user' may be on remote systems when you "sync" your directories designated to be on a central (at least for your own access) system. Something tells me that data encryption isn't going to be a part of the equation. The google's of the world would LOVE to read your data to profile you. (re: also governments)
I would never really allow my files, even encrypted, to be stored remotely. My own computer practices of this are evident as I have a particular laptop that is never hooked up to the internet. This iBook has no wireless and I've put in "blanks" into the dialup, ethernet, usb & firewire plugs to prevent "mistakes". All updates are downloaded individually as they appear to me on another iBook when I see that "Software Updates" has an update waiting and transferred using CD-R's. All data to and from this system are handled by the same method. It's for things that I both want and need to keep private out of neccecity and choice. Things of financial, housing, family information, contracts, journal and some phd work as well. Normal things you really want to keep private from others.
All in all, I recommend people doing something similar. The dual iBook thing on my part was only due to extreme luck on ebay where I picked up two for the price of one, so find something for your financial ability to use.
Well, when your two chosen majors are a masters in computer science *and* psychology (some emphasis in developmental research and study) I guess it's a qualification. You responded as if I were persecuting you with the comment, "don't even being to accuse me of not remembering". Sorry you feel that I was.
At any rate, my point was the decision was there and everyone has their chances to decide. At a developmental stage of life a person does what they want based on a) "what they want" b) what others would think c) what their parents would think and a whole array of others as well. People can choose - even this day years after they've entrenched themselves in it. I could choose to be homosexual if I wanted to, or vice versa for that matter. It's simply what you *think* brings you happiness and the only way to do that sometimes if you don't feel bad right away is to "try it out".
Some "rights" are more self evident than "wrongs" - but what they are I don't suggest to others.
Actually, I'm offended either way. I don't want to her about how one guy made it with his boyfriend anymore than I want to hear about some girl getting it on with her girlfriend. Or for that matter how some guy made it with his wife/girlfriend/one-night-stand.
It's a game. Play it. Don't bring out of game elements into it that are so far out as to actually detract from actual game play. Most people don't want to hear it. Just collect your gold, play the missions and be someone's friend or enemy.
In fact, one of my old gaming buddies in StarCraft for several years was in fact homosexual. Did I care? No! We kept most of our personal lives to ourselves about 25% of the time and we played as a damn fine team on StarCraft. The rest was probably just strategy talk and other stuff we enjoyed doing. The unavoidable (but enjoyable) chatter like how you were doing, what's going on this weekend, and what's new in your life or what did you do for the weekend will bring out the "my girl and I are getting more serious etc" or (in his case) he found a new boyfriend and things are going well. In fact we have several things we STILL have in common and communicate weekly with like coding, gaming some more for old times sake and trying out new games together.
Nothing beats a good friend in the gaming hobby. Why care about their sexuality and be offended by it if someone's not trying to give you graphic (or near graphic) detail about giving head to another guy or heaven forbid they mention they found a new boyfriend OH NOEZ!!! Shit, keeping things simple and knowing where and how to manage yourself with what you do and what you say with certain friends is more than enough. I have a number of friends who disagree on my choice of religion or lifestyle (or sexuality if you want to include that as well) but they don't make me change my views on them. In fact we have lively debates without regressing into childish name-fights or violence and my friends have been some of the longest running friends I've ever had. Sometimes RESPECTFUL differences can be a strengthening bit to a relationship..
Well most people don't. I certainly remember my decisions along that road. Sure the stronger pull was toward being heterosexual, but there were some thoughts of what the other direction would be like or how it would feel. But i've been cursed with what most could call a photographic memory. Down to the punctuation sometimes.
You don't remember it, but the thoughts came and may have been passed off as insignificant into one direction or the other. For some people their decisions lie in what people would call "the good moral choice" and others go the direction that others would call "a new alternative lifestyle".
Then again, my own personal view of what an alternative lifestyle holds is different from the "norm" in any given region of the USA where I happen to reside; and that doesn't include sexuality.
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Whoa, hold on there puppy. LEt's not pee all over the carpet by getting over excited to use the stereotypical verbal bashing with the word "moron". I know it's culturally and popularly accepted around here but really it's unnecessary.
/sarcasm
Activist, no? Testing on animals, fine by me. Just as long as it's not me/your/anyone else -or- my/your/anyone's kids.
The image I had on here was one of our beloved A-Listers with their own designer pets and their genetic defects^H^H customizations for what I called an "oh so cute" factor just to make them look good.
Must have forgot to put that in there, verbal cue's and sarcasm don't come across well without the oblig.
that was the best comment of the program. - so nice
I actually collect watches and this one is going on my list right next to the Fossil Frank Gehry Watch, Vestal Microdat Watch and the Monaco Sixtey Nine (best one there). Women go for the shoes. I go for the watch - because a man in a suit is standard and limiting in a professional atmosphere. The timepieces are truly unique.
I don't recall that. Do you have a website / video for reference (today's not my day for google, search results don't turn up much)
wait... here it is.
click for links to movies/transcripts
this is great!
Why the hell would you want to do that to the little creatures? Permanently disabling them for your "oh so cute" factor? I'm not one of those tree hugging animal rights people but this just screams animal abuse in a way. And no, I didn't RTFA very much.
actually yes. it worked with any plain text IM or IRC communication. This is several weeks old and I'm not sure why it just barely made the news. Hope onto efnet in any reasonably sized channel over 50-100 users and type out the keywords (there are others if you know where this list of keywords is) and presto.. about 20-30 people will ping out.
I've used it over msn and icq and it seems to work just as well. they're all plain text communications anyhow.
I must have missed this back in high school. .... wonder how it slipped under the radar considering everything I'd ever read since middle school is currently on various book shelves throughout the home. Interesting no doubt.
Now THAT would really kick some ass. :P I love books! I think if they were all weighed it would come up close to 1000 pounds worth of books. Geez!
I'm LDS as well (funny how we show up all at once it seems :P) and I can't stand the idea of state sponsored religion. The founding fathers had an incredible insight into what the people needed. It's too bad it seems people are going downhill "for the children".
Things like that ("for the children" type legislation) need to be reinforced in the home and not by the government. If people want to be irresponsible with their children and not give them the discipline they need and deserve that's their choice. Not one I support, but there's nothing beyond suggestion or trying to be an example of what I believe that I can do. I'm certainly not going to force someone to do something. That goes against the very moral fiber (one of the many) I try to live by.
A quote from I, ROBOT went like this.. "And I suppose you would have shut down the internet to keep public libraries open" and to me it means nothing is absolute, but replaced by better things as time goes on.
The internet is a great big public library to a point. Maybe there should be some online libraries like nyc.publiclibrary.com where you can browse through what they have in their digital library. Each having different sets of books but ultimately being searchable through publiclibrary.com/.org so you can order a copy (digital or print via publisher (small cost there)).
I'm a big fan of traditional libraries and hope they never go away, but as long as information is out there and freely available WITHOUT digital RESTRICTION management keys and software, things should be just fine.
I wonder when people will get a clue and realize that making a buck isn't ALL of what life's about, but helping make the world more educated - smarter, etc.
Just tried it in VMWare in Safari 2.0 ? Can you explain this?
You have VMWare working on OS X?
How did you get Safari IN VMware?
What the hell is with the comments about Alpha's BEta's and gammas all of the sudden. I've seen a ton of them as of late. What gives?
Thats' Rosetta to you mr fancy-pants.
I use pith helmet with safari (there are other ways to do this in ff/ie etc)
There is an option to disable all plugins. pdf (should ALWAYS be off anyways), audio, video, java scripting (not even my bank uses that!) and flash (disabled ONLY when I go to HSR)
YMMV
Yes I was just going to suggest RIT for just such a project. My brother goes/went/will be going again and talked about one of their clean rooms. Not the kind where you wear all the gears, but a room that replaces all the air in it (a big room from what I hear) in just about 5 seconds.
:P (bah, grammar!)
You could literally fart in there and no one would be the wiser. Then again, this is most engineers good friend
I thought it said Men's Wang Perspectives... zoloto jr. might have a perspective, but it's limited to what the Mrs. has to offer and a good shower.
I'm all for this type of action. Who's in for an all out war? INFORMATION WAR! W0000!
By grapthar's hammer, you shall be avenged!
Understand that I believe I'm doing a decent job of keeping civil in this conversation. Just to let you know, there is no undertone of animosity or disrespect with regards to you or your position as I'm only trying to explain my own understandings / beliefs through observations etc.
... The human mind is nothing more than an electrochemical computer, [...], and there is no god. I can't argue with you about the human mind being the epicenter of our consciousness, but calling it a mere computer really doesn't do it justice.
I simply can't subscribe to a statement where an individual simply "discovers" their sexuality without making decisions about it. It is in my understanding a monumental decision regardless of how a person arrives at it or how they take notice. I can't buy the part about being genetically pre-programmed towards homosexuality.
Effects of culture and environment I can agree with very much. But I also sit in the camp that believes in a soul or spirit, something that many call a conscience of right or wrong. Call it your "survival instinct" if you will for preservation of the species. At any rate the cultural aspect has quite the impact.
You also mentioned
And the part about there being no God. I'm not going to touch that one. I can no more prove to someone else there is a God any more than I can disprove such existence and I'll leave it at that.
I just finished watching "I, Robot" moments ago so take this with a grain of salt if it seems I'm a little wary (wait... that's normal - nevermind)
/home or /Users or 'Documents and Settings\user' may be on remote systems when you "sync" your directories designated to be on a central (at least for your own access) system. Something tells me that data encryption isn't going to be a part of the equation. The google's of the world would LOVE to read your data to profile you. (re: also governments)
I believe there very well will be a means of having a "central system" to hold some of our types of data we really need access to. School reports, dissertations, files for work or more where we simply can't keep them on one computer. Your
I would never really allow my files, even encrypted, to be stored remotely. My own computer practices of this are evident as I have a particular laptop that is never hooked up to the internet. This iBook has no wireless and I've put in "blanks" into the dialup, ethernet, usb & firewire plugs to prevent "mistakes". All updates are downloaded individually as they appear to me on another iBook when I see that "Software Updates" has an update waiting and transferred using CD-R's. All data to and from this system are handled by the same method. It's for things that I both want and need to keep private out of neccecity and choice. Things of financial, housing, family information, contracts, journal and some phd work as well. Normal things you really want to keep private from others.
All in all, I recommend people doing something similar. The dual iBook thing on my part was only due to extreme luck on ebay where I picked up two for the price of one, so find something for your financial ability to use.
you continue to believe that fallacy.
Well, when your two chosen majors are a masters in computer science *and* psychology (some emphasis in developmental research and study) I guess it's a qualification. You responded as if I were persecuting you with the comment, "don't even being to accuse me of not remembering". Sorry you feel that I was.
At any rate, my point was the decision was there and everyone has their chances to decide. At a developmental stage of life a person does what they want based on a) "what they want" b) what others would think c) what their parents would think and a whole array of others as well. People can choose - even this day years after they've entrenched themselves in it. I could choose to be homosexual if I wanted to, or vice versa for that matter. It's simply what you *think* brings you happiness and the only way to do that sometimes if you don't feel bad right away is to "try it out".
Some "rights" are more self evident than "wrongs" - but what they are I don't suggest to others.
yeah? well maybe I prefer it that way too. I wouldn't want to be in the same office with them either... :D
Actually, I'm offended either way. I don't want to her about how one guy made it with his boyfriend anymore than I want to hear about some girl getting it on with her girlfriend. Or for that matter how some guy made it with his wife/girlfriend/one-night-stand.
It's a game. Play it. Don't bring out of game elements into it that are so far out as to actually detract from actual game play. Most people don't want to hear it. Just collect your gold, play the missions and be someone's friend or enemy.
In fact, one of my old gaming buddies in StarCraft for several years was in fact homosexual. Did I care? No! We kept most of our personal lives to ourselves about 25% of the time and we played as a damn fine team on StarCraft. The rest was probably just strategy talk and other stuff we enjoyed doing. The unavoidable (but enjoyable) chatter like how you were doing, what's going on this weekend, and what's new in your life or what did you do for the weekend will bring out the "my girl and I are getting more serious etc" or (in his case) he found a new boyfriend and things are going well. In fact we have several things we STILL have in common and communicate weekly with like coding, gaming some more for old times sake and trying out new games together.
Nothing beats a good friend in the gaming hobby. Why care about their sexuality and be offended by it if someone's not trying to give you graphic (or near graphic) detail about giving head to another guy or heaven forbid they mention they found a new boyfriend OH NOEZ!!! Shit, keeping things simple and knowing where and how to manage yourself with what you do and what you say with certain friends is more than enough. I have a number of friends who disagree on my choice of religion or lifestyle (or sexuality if you want to include that as well) but they don't make me change my views on them. In fact we have lively debates without regressing into childish name-fights or violence and my friends have been some of the longest running friends I've ever had. Sometimes RESPECTFUL differences can be a strengthening bit to a relationship..
Wait... what was that work? RESPECT!
Well most people don't. I certainly remember my decisions along that road. Sure the stronger pull was toward being heterosexual, but there were some thoughts of what the other direction would be like or how it would feel. But i've been cursed with what most could call a photographic memory. Down to the punctuation sometimes.
You don't remember it, but the thoughts came and may have been passed off as insignificant into one direction or the other. For some people their decisions lie in what people would call "the good moral choice" and others go the direction that others would call "a new alternative lifestyle".
Then again, my own personal view of what an alternative lifestyle holds is different from the "norm" in any given region of the USA where I happen to reside; and that doesn't include sexuality.