The reason we believe that animals aren't conscious, and are like little automaton, is because it allows us to treat them with callous disregard. Humans who are ideologically unbound from natural sympathy and empathy and treat other animals with callous disregard achieve dominance over their environment.
We do the same thing to the world itself. We are not OF this place, we are simply IN this place, temporarily, after which our soul will leave. So, we can treat the world itself with callous disregard, without consequence.
We also do this to other humans. They don't have a soul, only we have a soul. Therefore, we do not belittle ourselves when we belittle them, because we are so much more than they are, while they are simply creatures of the muck, like animals.
This ruthless perspective is an overwhelmingly effective tool. Therefore, it is the truth. The rest is just supporting mythology.
There were some really good ones I've read, but they were on government run sites and have been taken down. Here are some articles that indirectly support what I'm saying.
They're not trying to gain mindshare from Linux and the BSDs. They're trying to gain mindshare from Linux. When it was just BSD, they would have just poached the code and given nothing away, like they spent so many years doing.
If it wasn't for the GPL, OpenSolaris would not exist.
I don't tailgate. Tailgaters are idiots who let their impatience sabotage their capacity to speed. Good speeders never tailgate, because they know it reduces their reaction time and maneuverability, increasing the likelihood that they will be forced to come to a stop.
Aside from which, studies have shown that cultures without traffic laws have more efficient mobility and reduced accidents, dipshit. One of the things that gets created when you have a glut of rules is this sense of entitlement that you have, which eradicates courtesy and leads to impulsive acts of stupidity. Like what you've demonstrated in your anonymous post.
Two people arrive at a 4-way stop at right angles to each other. Who has the right of way? Regulation: The person to your right.
Solution: Use a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop.
When a light is flashing yellow for one direction and red for another direction, who must stop? Regulation: Vehicle approaching flashing red must stop and wait until traffic on flashing yellow passes.
Solution: Use a roundabout on slow roads, and a merge lane on fast roads.
A vehicle (for example: cyclist) is travelling at 25 km/h. There are several cars stuck behind him. Should the cyclist pull over, or continue to impede traffic? Regulation: Slow vehicles must pull over to let faster vehicles pass. He must pull over.
Solution: Build periodic passing lanes on all major roads, allowing people to drive around slow moving vehicles without requiring them to get off the road.
These rules you describe, they all revolve around you assuming that I'm going to behave in a particular fashion, and you being encouraged to believe that you have the right to expect and demand that I do. Which means you're inevitably going to get into an accident when your preconceived notions fail to mesh with reality, which you've stopped paying attention to.
Good engineering accommodates the errors and omissions of users. Bad engineering relies on laws and conventions to overcome inherent systemic flaws. Laws and conventions are, therefore, indicative of bad engineering.
Except that road regulations are not about safety, but control. Regulations give a false sense of predictability, leading to inattentiveness, and a false sense of entitlement, leading to road rage. Road regulations make the road less safe for everyone.
That's why it's being pushed so hard. Tyranny and conspiracy fall before the truth. The central control of information is failing, therefore, disinformation is critical. The integrity of testament must be destroyed.
Keep funding this work with your video game and movie purchases, or the terrorists win.
That's a tough argument... the GPL is very widely used but is hardly the only license. It's entirely possible that OpenSolaris would still exist if the GPL had never been used and something like BSD was used instead.
No, it isn't. Before the GPL existed, Sun used BSD code in their closed source offering without releasing control in the slightest. They are control freaks struggling to remain relevant in a world that has no tolerance for such.
Saying the CDDL is incompatible with the GPL is misleading - the CDDL doesn't say anything about code not explicitly released under it. It is the GPL which imposes constraints on third-party code. If Linux used a more permissive license then it would be able to use OpenSolaris code, and OpenSolaris would be able to use Linux code just as it used to use a lot of BSD code back in the SunOS days.
Except, of course, that if it wasn't for the GPL, there would be no OpenSolaris. There would only be Solaris.
Drugs don't make you perfect all at one, there's still hard work to be done and if used liberally or even a little improperly, many of these 'sport enhancing' drugs can destroy a person's fitness.
That's bullshit. I took LSD, and I became God. If that's not unfair advantage, I don't know what is...
The United States is going through a transition period. They used to be the center of an empire, with all the wealth in the world flowing to their shores. Soon, they will be just another nation. The inward flow of wealth will stop, and a portion of their domestic wealth will be flowing out to the next empire. Being that they're a grey haired nation already due to a baby boom followed by multiple baby busts, they'll be significantly depopulated in relatively short order, further reducing their productivity.
The United States is not going to be doing shit in this area, any more than the British, the French, the Spanish or the Romans are. The United States is history. I would be very surprised if they even manage to hold themselves together as a nation at all once everything pans out.
Holy complete failure to grasp the point of the scientific method, Batman!
Proper use of the scientific method requires that you have the capacity to conduct experiments that are falsifiable. This isn't such a problem. If you think this is scientific, you're the one who doesn't grasp the scientific method. Or critical thinking.
Whatever... this is naval gazing and conjecture, no more credible than Intelligent Design. These guys have a few data points, they create a highly convoluted system that seems to account for their data points, then the moment they get more data, they start over. Again and again.
A good critical thinker should know when to say "We don't have a fucking clue" if they want to be taken seriously. But then, it's all about money, isn't it?
Now, how is a fascist state supposed to function if people like this guy come along and teach people how to do for themselves? Fascist states need strong corporations, and strong corporations need helpless consumers. This guy is anti-American, and the cops knew it.
Who gives a shit? The Chinese government would do better by its citizens by massacring these bastards. They're not the good guys, not by a long shot. When did trying to spread a primitive religious social structure that has a rigid caste system, brutal laws involving maiming and torture and a hierarchical power structure with zero vertical mobility make you one of the good guys?
Having tolerance for ancient primitive religious orders is a flawed ideal that ought to go by the wayside. I wish our society was as evolved.
The apache process user should only have permissions on your various stored procedures, like the example getallmessagesforperson proc. It shouldn't have permission to access anything else in your database, not tables, not views, not selects, not inserts. Nothing.
Gives you better code reuse, keeps the DBA and the coders from stepping on each others toes, and good luck doing SQL attacks on that.
There are a million other wrong ways, but there is no other right way to do it.
Anyone who passes SQL strings to their database at all needs to have their head examined. Stored procedures and granular database permissions are there for a reason. If you don't use them, you may as well hang a sign on your site that says "Hack Me".
The problem is, most people are average or below, yet they are all told they should look out for number one and compete, and all of life will be grand.
Western culture is like one of those dysfunctional families where the kids need to hide food in the closet because they can't trust their parents.
I personally think the whole thing is caused by the second world war, when entire continents of men abandoned their women and left for a decade. It caused the breakdown of trust in the family unit, and that destroyed everything.
All these "Human Rights" we think are so grand a conception, they're more like people bargaining with death. I don't want to have trust and warmth in my community, I don't trust my fellow man, I want rules and rights.
The sooner they're wiped from human consciousness, along with the maladapted cultures that cling to them, the better off humanity will be.
People call us uncultured, but those people have the same issues in their country, just with different names and backgrounds to the same stories. The difference is, in our country, the individual can still do something about most issues.
No, the difference is, you're in the middle of an empire, and that empire is crumbling. You're no different from the British, the French, the Romans, or any other empire. You don't do anything to look after yourselves, you've created a system where fighting over the spoils of war with each other is how you achieve.
That time is coming to an end, just like it does with all empires. And those of you who can't adjust to the absence of such decadence will die, en mass. And I will laugh my ass off, because you deserve it.
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The reason we believe that animals aren't conscious, and are like little automaton, is because it allows us to treat them with callous disregard. Humans who are ideologically unbound from natural sympathy and empathy and treat other animals with callous disregard achieve dominance over their environment.
We do the same thing to the world itself. We are not OF this place, we are simply IN this place, temporarily, after which our soul will leave. So, we can treat the world itself with callous disregard, without consequence.
We also do this to other humans. They don't have a soul, only we have a soul. Therefore, we do not belittle ourselves when we belittle them, because we are so much more than they are, while they are simply creatures of the muck, like animals.
This ruthless perspective is an overwhelmingly effective tool. Therefore, it is the truth. The rest is just supporting mythology.
There were some really good ones I've read, but they were on government run sites and have been taken down. Here are some articles that indirectly support what I'm saying.
http://www.motorists.org/speedlimits/
http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras/red-light-cameras-increase-accidents-5-studies-that-prove-it/
http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html
Enjoy.
Spoken like a person who never got t-boned by an idiot who didn't pay attention to the stop sign.
They're not trying to gain mindshare from Linux and the BSDs. They're trying to gain mindshare from Linux. When it was just BSD, they would have just poached the code and given nothing away, like they spent so many years doing.
If it wasn't for the GPL, OpenSolaris would not exist.
I don't tailgate. Tailgaters are idiots who let their impatience sabotage their capacity to speed. Good speeders never tailgate, because they know it reduces their reaction time and maneuverability, increasing the likelihood that they will be forced to come to a stop.
Aside from which, studies have shown that cultures without traffic laws have more efficient mobility and reduced accidents, dipshit. One of the things that gets created when you have a glut of rules is this sense of entitlement that you have, which eradicates courtesy and leads to impulsive acts of stupidity. Like what you've demonstrated in your anonymous post.
Two people arrive at a 4-way stop at right angles to each other. Who has the right of way? Regulation: The person to your right.
Solution: Use a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop.
When a light is flashing yellow for one direction and red for another direction, who must stop? Regulation: Vehicle approaching flashing red must stop and wait until traffic on flashing yellow passes.
Solution: Use a roundabout on slow roads, and a merge lane on fast roads.
A vehicle (for example: cyclist) is travelling at 25 km/h. There are several cars stuck behind him. Should the cyclist pull over, or continue to impede traffic? Regulation: Slow vehicles must pull over to let faster vehicles pass. He must pull over.
Solution: Build periodic passing lanes on all major roads, allowing people to drive around slow moving vehicles without requiring them to get off the road.
These rules you describe, they all revolve around you assuming that I'm going to behave in a particular fashion, and you being encouraged to believe that you have the right to expect and demand that I do. Which means you're inevitably going to get into an accident when your preconceived notions fail to mesh with reality, which you've stopped paying attention to.
Good engineering accommodates the errors and omissions of users. Bad engineering relies on laws and conventions to overcome inherent systemic flaws. Laws and conventions are, therefore, indicative of bad engineering.
Except that road regulations are not about safety, but control. Regulations give a false sense of predictability, leading to inattentiveness, and a false sense of entitlement, leading to road rage. Road regulations make the road less safe for everyone.
That's why it's being pushed so hard. Tyranny and conspiracy fall before the truth. The central control of information is failing, therefore, disinformation is critical. The integrity of testament must be destroyed.
Keep funding this work with your video game and movie purchases, or the terrorists win.
That's a tough argument... the GPL is very widely used but is hardly the only license. It's entirely possible that OpenSolaris would still exist if the GPL had never been used and something like BSD was used instead.
No, it isn't. Before the GPL existed, Sun used BSD code in their closed source offering without releasing control in the slightest. They are control freaks struggling to remain relevant in a world that has no tolerance for such.
Saying the CDDL is incompatible with the GPL is misleading - the CDDL doesn't say anything about code not explicitly released under it. It is the GPL which imposes constraints on third-party code. If Linux used a more permissive license then it would be able to use OpenSolaris code, and OpenSolaris would be able to use Linux code just as it used to use a lot of BSD code back in the SunOS days.
Except, of course, that if it wasn't for the GPL, there would be no OpenSolaris. There would only be Solaris.
They led you where you are now. If you can't say they were all bad, you're fucking blind.
Drugs don't make you perfect all at one, there's still hard work to be done and if used liberally or even a little improperly, many of these 'sport enhancing' drugs can destroy a person's fitness.
That's bullshit. I took LSD, and I became God. If that's not unfair advantage, I don't know what is...
Thomas Edison was a hack. He achieved nothing that wasn't superseded by Tesla within his own lifetime, except perhaps exploit people.
The United States is going through a transition period. They used to be the center of an empire, with all the wealth in the world flowing to their shores. Soon, they will be just another nation. The inward flow of wealth will stop, and a portion of their domestic wealth will be flowing out to the next empire. Being that they're a grey haired nation already due to a baby boom followed by multiple baby busts, they'll be significantly depopulated in relatively short order, further reducing their productivity.
The United States is not going to be doing shit in this area, any more than the British, the French, the Spanish or the Romans are. The United States is history. I would be very surprised if they even manage to hold themselves together as a nation at all once everything pans out.
Holy complete failure to grasp the point of the scientific method, Batman!
Proper use of the scientific method requires that you have the capacity to conduct experiments that are falsifiable. This isn't such a problem. If you think this is scientific, you're the one who doesn't grasp the scientific method. Or critical thinking.
Whatever... this is naval gazing and conjecture, no more credible than Intelligent Design. These guys have a few data points, they create a highly convoluted system that seems to account for their data points, then the moment they get more data, they start over. Again and again.
A good critical thinker should know when to say "We don't have a fucking clue" if they want to be taken seriously. But then, it's all about money, isn't it?
You make it sound pretty good, actually...
No, a Syndicate is an enterprise democratically managed by its workers. You have it completely ass backwards.
Now, how is a fascist state supposed to function if people like this guy come along and teach people how to do for themselves? Fascist states need strong corporations, and strong corporations need helpless consumers. This guy is anti-American, and the cops knew it.
How did they know? They felt it in their gut.
Who gives a shit? The Chinese government would do better by its citizens by massacring these bastards. They're not the good guys, not by a long shot. When did trying to spread a primitive religious social structure that has a rigid caste system, brutal laws involving maiming and torture and a hierarchical power structure with zero vertical mobility make you one of the good guys?
Having tolerance for ancient primitive religious orders is a flawed ideal that ought to go by the wayside. I wish our society was as evolved.
Ok, that's a point.
Your queries that fetch multiple rows should look like this:
$q = 'SELECT * FROM getallmessagesforperson($1);';
$args = array($personid);
$db = pg_connect($connstr);
$r = pg_query_params($db, $q, $args);
$a = pg_fetch_all($r);
The apache process user should only have permissions on your various stored procedures, like the example getallmessagesforperson proc. It shouldn't have permission to access anything else in your database, not tables, not views, not selects, not inserts. Nothing.
Gives you better code reuse, keeps the DBA and the coders from stepping on each others toes, and good luck doing SQL attacks on that.
There are a million other wrong ways, but there is no other right way to do it.
Isn't Capitalism Grand!
Anyone who passes SQL strings to their database at all needs to have their head examined. Stored procedures and granular database permissions are there for a reason. If you don't use them, you may as well hang a sign on your site that says "Hack Me".
The problem is, most people are average or below, yet they are all told they should look out for number one and compete, and all of life will be grand.
Western culture is like one of those dysfunctional families where the kids need to hide food in the closet because they can't trust their parents.
I personally think the whole thing is caused by the second world war, when entire continents of men abandoned their women and left for a decade. It caused the breakdown of trust in the family unit, and that destroyed everything.
All these "Human Rights" we think are so grand a conception, they're more like people bargaining with death. I don't want to have trust and warmth in my community, I don't trust my fellow man, I want rules and rights.
The sooner they're wiped from human consciousness, along with the maladapted cultures that cling to them, the better off humanity will be.
People call us uncultured, but those people have the same issues in their country, just with different names and backgrounds to the same stories. The difference is, in our country, the individual can still do something about most issues.
No, the difference is, you're in the middle of an empire, and that empire is crumbling. You're no different from the British, the French, the Romans, or any other empire. You don't do anything to look after yourselves, you've created a system where fighting over the spoils of war with each other is how you achieve.
That time is coming to an end, just like it does with all empires. And those of you who can't adjust to the absence of such decadence will die, en mass. And I will laugh my ass off, because you deserve it.