By "worldwide" I mean "extending or reaching throughout the world" and by "genocide" I mean "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation".
Does that clear things up for you?
When you asked "Why is this posted today?", were you referring to the article, or the comment to which you replied?
Because today is the day we are having this discussion?
I'm sorry if the WTC attack affected you personally, but today is also the anniversary of thousands of people worldwide dying as a result of genocide. Would you deny their remembrance?
Well let's see. Is is javascript or flash based? Does it come from a less than reputable site? [...] I developed that insight through simple application of common sense. 99% of reputable webpages will not crash your browser, period. If they do, then there's something wrong with your computer besides your browser. Ergo, if you don't want to crash, don't visit irreputable websites. And if you can't tell the good from the bad on the internet then you haven't spent enough time on it.
Wow, browsing the web must be really fun for you. "Hmm, that link looks interesting. Ah, but I've never visited that domain before. Ah well, back to Wikipedia."
Call it trolling if you like: as a Mac fanatic (I've got 4 Macs and an iPhone, my wife has 2 Macs and an iPod) I think of it more as what we call a "joke".
If you thought the LotR movie ended slowly...have you read the book?!
I've only seen the first season of Heroes... and then I thought, fool me once, shame on you, fool me... you can't get fooled again. I thought episode 20 of season 1 was quite promising, but the rest of it was pitiful. Give me Lost and The Office any day.
What you should be most worried about is your state bar association prosecuting you for giving legal advice without a license.
See, if it's illegal to offer legal advice without a license, then I'd have thought this implies that a legal opinion given without a license is just an opinion. I'd have thought this position would be pretty straightforward to defend in court even without the services of a lawyer.
Sorry, I should have been clear: I understood the joke, it's just that the IANAL thing is something I'd been thinking about just recently and it seemed like a good place in the thread to ask.
I can see how the advice of pastors might end up hurting a person financially -- "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to pass into the kingdom of heaven";)
That I would expect; but the implication of IANAL seems to be that you have to be a lawyer to give casual advice of a legal nature. Like for instance if you said "You forgot to start your post with IANAL" without an accompanying winking smiley, that could be construed as legal advice, so would you not be in trouble for not stating that you, yourself, are not a lawyer?
I just don't get this IANAL business. If you give someone a bread recipe, do you have to state that you are not a baker? If you give someone directions in the street, do you have to state that you are not a taxi driver?
In order to be a pyramid scheme, the cult members would need to be selling the courses themselves, as well as recruiting new members to sell courses; or they'd get paid according to how many new members they were able to bring into the cult.
In my local "Hubbard Academy for Personal Independence" (they're not allowed to call it a church here) the staff, who are low- to medium-level members, try to sell you courses, so at least the former applies...
Slashdot Mirror
Calling it the "god particle" makes a mockery of religion, and so is completely compatible with atheism.
a terrorist is someone who willfully kills civilians in order to further an ideological agenda
GW Bush, then?
By "worldwide" I mean "extending or reaching throughout the world" and by "genocide" I mean "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation".
Does that clear things up for you?
When you asked "Why is this posted today?", were you referring to the article, or the comment to which you replied?
Super Steel? They're barking up the wrong tree.
in reality their agenda is removing the rights of christians since they have no tolerance for that kind of action
What kind of action? Going to church? Or whipping up homophobic hysteria?
Because today is the day we are having this discussion?
I'm sorry if the WTC attack affected you personally, but today is also the anniversary of thousands of people worldwide dying as a result of genocide. Would you deny their remembrance?
Well let's see. Is is javascript or flash based? Does it come from a less than reputable site?
[...]
I developed that insight through simple application of common sense. 99% of reputable webpages will not crash your browser, period. If they do, then there's something wrong with your computer besides your browser. Ergo, if you don't want to crash, don't visit irreputable websites. And if you can't tell the good from the bad on the internet then you haven't spent enough time on it.
Wow, browsing the web must be really fun for you. "Hmm, that link looks interesting. Ah, but I've never visited that domain before. Ah well, back to Wikipedia."
If you're content for the future of elections to be like the past, I suggest you just cut to the chase and move to a dictatorship.
No, we still use pounds, though a pound doesn't buy you much these days (boom, boom!)
As for inches: they're only really used for measuring penises these days.
I presume you're a Brit; do you even understand your parliamentary system? The Lords can knock back ID cards three times only.
BBC iPlayer is PRIMARILY a peer to peer content delivery service
BZZZZT! You lose your geek card, Windows boy!
Video recorders are ten a penny on freecycle.
You could even use one to SCART-enable your Spectrum.
Call it trolling if you like: as a Mac fanatic (I've got 4 Macs and an iPhone, my wife has 2 Macs and an iPod) I think of it more as what we call a "joke".
If you thought the LotR movie ended slowly...have you read the book?!
I've only seen the first season of Heroes... and then I thought, fool me once, shame on you, fool me... you can't get fooled again. I thought episode 20 of season 1 was quite promising, but the rest of it was pitiful. Give me Lost and The Office any day.
What you should be most worried about is your state bar association prosecuting you for giving legal advice without a license.
See, if it's illegal to offer legal advice without a license, then I'd have thought this implies that a legal opinion given without a license is just an opinion. I'd have thought this position would be pretty straightforward to defend in court even without the services of a lawyer.
Could our support group also include people who thought that Heroes is a pile of shite? And that The Dark Knight was terribly-paced?
Allow them to brag about having built the damn cars themselves and we might be entering obscenely smug territory.
If so, please post the story under http://apple.slashdot.org/ ;)
Sorry, I should have been clear: I understood the joke, it's just that the IANAL thing is something I'd been thinking about just recently and it seemed like a good place in the thread to ask.
I can see how the advice of pastors might end up hurting a person financially -- "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to pass into the kingdom of heaven" ;)
You do have to be a lawyer to practice law.
That I would expect; but the implication of IANAL seems to be that you have to be a lawyer to give casual advice of a legal nature. Like for instance if you said "You forgot to start your post with IANAL" without an accompanying winking smiley, that could be construed as legal advice, so would you not be in trouble for not stating that you, yourself, are not a lawyer?
I just don't get this IANAL business. If you give someone a bread recipe, do you have to state that you are not a baker? If you give someone directions in the street, do you have to state that you are not a taxi driver?
In order to be a pyramid scheme, the cult members would need to be selling the courses themselves, as well as recruiting new members to sell courses; or they'd get paid according to how many new members they were able to bring into the cult.
In my local "Hubbard Academy for Personal Independence" (they're not allowed to call it a church here) the staff, who are low- to medium-level members, try to sell you courses, so at least the former applies...
There, unfixed that for you.
There, fixed that for you.
Makes sense in a kind of "can't do any harm" sort of way. But does it really do any good?
See also http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html
Read my comment again. I said "why multiple passes of garbage, rather than just one?", not "why one pass of garbage, rather than one pass of zeroes?"