I think that inciting christians to hypocrisy (Iraq war for Jesus, for example) is oppression of christians. Bush's regime oppresses lots of people, in America and around the world.
I don't know that this would really qualify as persecution of Christians though. Misleading people is not the same as oppression/persecution. I don't like Bush either, but that does seem a bit of a stretch. Persecution would require a physical element also, eg what we are seeing in Sudan. That is a pretty clear case of persecution of Christians (although there are also tribal differences there).
I have no reason to believe in a supernatural "Antichrist", so I don't. But I do think that biblical prophets talking about an antichrist were insightful into exactly the kinds of inherent weaknesses that could bring Christianity into conflict with itself. Bush's fig leaf of "faith" over his killing, looting, and destruction of lives, seems like the work of an antichrist to me, even if he's as human as am I.
I'd agree that bringing Christianity into conflict with itself would qualify, but we don't seem to have hit this stage yet.
As far as calling arriving angelic aliens "the Beast", you've got the critics all wrong. Millions of Americans treat Bush like a messiah, prophet or pope, when he's really the most antichrist character I've ever heard of.
In a biblical sense he isn't.
I had an interesting discussion with family and friends a while ago, people who are all Christians and all of whom think Bush is one of the worst things to happen to the world and your country. The question was whether Bush was in fact the anti-christ.
The reason for the discussion was that throughout history there have been a number of people who have been thought to be the anti-christ. In the early church the Roman Emperor was consider the anti-christ. After the reformation, protestants considered the pope to be the anti-christ. Anyway, we speculated that maybe there might have been people who fitted the profile of the anti-christ who were like prototypes.
The conclusion was that while he one of the characteristics (trying to achieve total domination), he didn't have the other (oppression of Christians).
Mind you, around here (Australia), we have don't have quite the same views of the end of the world as American Christians seem to have.
Just thought you might have be interested to hear a Christian perspective on this.
It could be said that it still exists today, in distributed form -- the Catholic church being essentially its modern inheritor.
It could, but only by someone taking a rather skewed view of history.
There are too many shifts to go through. Shall we have a look at it. 1. Roman empire 2. Byzantine empire (greek) 3. Split in the empire, west becomes separate contries, formalised by the split between the partriachs of Byzantium and Rome.
Once you hit 3 there is no continuous empire. Certainly some appeared in the intervening time (eg Holy Roman Empire), but there was nothing that lasted for very long. The Catholic church is hardly an empire either. While there were some periods where it held some serious military and political control, but not all that many.
You might have an argument if you say that Byzantine empire was a continuation of the Roman emptire (which you need if you are going to get to 1200 years), but anything else is just crazy talk.
I'd agree with you in general. The point is that there is little penalty for dying.
In some games there is. Take counterstrike for example. If you die, you lose any weapons you might have bought, which means you may be short of money. You don't want to go from being kitted out with armour, deagle, full kit of grenades and para to just deagle and grenades. Also you have to wait for the round to finish before you respawn.
CSS is the only game I play regularly online.
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This a question for map designers.
I was playing CSS the other night and the admin turned the gravity to something like 1/10 of what it is normally. Did you know that Dust 1 has a glass ceiling? You do now.
Furthermore, we live in a society that would rather not have elderly people dying on the street.
That's your preference, sure. Don't go projecting it onto everyone else. The parent disagrees. I disagree. Such American luminaries as Robert Heinlein disagree. Eventually, that disagreement might be enough to cause change.
Just to clarify your position, you don't have a problem with elderly people dying on the street? That that government should not attempt to prevent elderly people from dying in the street?
America is clearly a stranger place than I believed possible.
My problem was always the insert key. Very easy to hit if you use home/end/del a lot, which I do. I used to rip it out on every keyboard I owned. Someone else has mentioned keytweak, so I might use that in future.
People are bad at remembering good, strong passwords. So as he suggests, you end up with a small number of passwords (which may or may not be strong), that are used everywhere. The problem with this is that a password gets used in more than one location with varying degrees of security and information. For example, I could use by password for online banking also when I register for a mailing list.
The problem with this is that the mailing list info is of low value and my login details are going to be less well protected than my bank login details.
So concievably, someone could hack the mailing list server, get my login details and use them to access my bank account. Now if you consider that a single password may be in a large number situations, this becomes a serious problem.
I found an article a while ago that pointed out just this flaw with the MS Passport scheme, unfortunately I can't find it right now.
So our approach should be to write down passwords and protect our password "safe".
My approach has been: 1. Use Keyring for Palm. Passwords are encrypted with 128 3DES. 2. Never use the same password is more than one place.
Keyring backs up to my desktop whenever I do a sync. I can also read passwords on my desktop using KeyRingWin.
My dekstop is backed up to my file server, which is then backed up to a USB drive.
I consider this to be a relatively secure approach that also provides me with backups of my passwords.
This does leave one issue. I have created a single point of failure. Get the password for the encrypted password store, and you have all of them. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that the password store is only stored on my local network and palm. You also need to get to the password store itself. You also could brute force it, but again you would need to get to the password store itself.
Don't get the idea that I don't read much and was just picked up this book. I read omnivorously and an awful lot. I read and enjoy novels (and histories) from pretty much any genre (except romance). I don't expect hand holding.
Pynchion was just rubbish. Just another boring attempt to screw with your mind. Something for faux intellectuals to read and pretend they are so 1337. Which is basically the point of the grandparent post.
My view of novels is that the author is in a position of power and should not abuse that position. This is a contract between the author and the reader.
An example of how an author might abuse that position is in a mystery, where the author puts up stacks of evidence that X committed the murder and none that Y committed the murder. In the final sequence the murder is revealed to be Y. That is an abuse of the position of author.
Or to take a real book: "The French Lieutenant's woman". The author continuously jumps asks the question (directly), as the author I can do this now, or I can do something else. Equally at the end he has two endings. Hi John Fowles, we realise that you are the author. We also realise that we are just along for the ride. There is no need to rub it in.
If you want to read a good WWII novel, I suggest you pick up Catch 22 (Heller), The Thin Red Line (Jones), From Here to Eternity (Jones), The Last Enemey (Hillary) Evenlyn Waugh's war series (name has escaped for the moment), or Adrian Powell's series "A Dance to the music of Time". Powell's series covers WWII only in passing, but is an excellent read.
Or for something slighlty different, "Legion of the Damned" - Sven Hassel. Less weel written, but an interesting (if depressing) read. You might need to get that one second hand.
This assumes that you are bargaining from a position of equal strength. While this might certainly be the case, I think that more often than not the employee is at a disadvantage.
On no circumstances actually open the Pynchon novel. You will be scarred for life.
I made the mistake of reading Gravity's rainbow on the recommendation of an (at the time) girlfriend. In my entire life I do not believe I have come across a more useless and unpleasant way to spend my time.
You can argue till you are blue in the face about how much of it is legal vs illegal, point is it wasn't created for the intent of breaking the law and there is a substanital amount of non-infringing use. That's why it's legit.
The reason for its creation is beside the point. What is more to the point is what is it used for now?
There are two major competing client side scripting languages for HTML: VBScript and Javascript. Actually to be totally accurate there are 3, microsoft uses JScript not Javascript, but the languages are very similar.
VBScript is only supported by IE as a client side scripting language. Due to the early dominance of Netscape, Javascript is the default language of client side scripting.
Anyway that said, VBScript != VB. Same as Javascript != Java. Just to pick two differences: 1. VBScript & Javascript/JScript are not compiled, Java and VB are. 2. VBScript & Javascript/JScript are weakly typed, Java and VB are strongly typed.
I'm confused. When you say VB, do you mean VBScript? I don't understand how Visual Basic could have anything to do with the client side code for a web application (unless there was some sort of ActiveX control written in VB).
Only is some areas. In others it just doesn't support some of the javascript or CSS that is supported by IE5.5 and later. One example
Also I have a page that includes some relatively complex javascript. This runs on IE 5, 5.5, 6, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Opera 7+, Safari 1.2+ but not on IE for Mac. Exactly the same code runs for all browsers (no if ()...).
I love titanic! It was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen.
Remember the hand against the glass while they were in the car? What a clever reference to a horror movies! You know, someone being munched by alien/evil guy/whatever, and you just see their hand against the glass.
And the dialog? I laughed so hard.
Leo Died! That was so funny!
I just felt sorry for all the people who didn't like it because they didn't realise it was a comedy.
There was a dilbert cartoon a little while ago where the Pointy Haird Boss asked Dilbert to research broadband over sewage, basically on the same principle.
I always thought there was room for prequels after the first Matrix, but there was no room for sequels. Think about it, you have the story of the first person to leave the Matrix, and the building of Zion. Failing that you have the stories of the stories of morpheus and trinity. You would however not be able to use Keanu (which is no bad thing IMO).
I have emailed a number of the advertisers about this. I got back a response from Devon IT:
David, thank you for your email.
Devon IT has received many emails regarding the articles written by Maureen O'Gara, editor-in-chief of Maureen O'Gara's LinuxGram. We have reviewed and voiced our concerns regarding the editorial content of her recent article, "Who Is 'PJ' Pamela Jones of Groklaw.Net?" directly to SYS-CON. We have encouraged them to stop distributing articles which contain personal attacks and private information.
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I think that inciting christians to hypocrisy (Iraq war for Jesus, for example) is oppression of christians. Bush's regime oppresses lots of people, in America and around the world.
I don't know that this would really qualify as persecution of Christians though. Misleading people is not the same as oppression/persecution. I don't like Bush either, but that does seem a bit of a stretch. Persecution would require a physical element also, eg what we are seeing in Sudan. That is a pretty clear case of persecution of Christians (although there are also tribal differences there).
I have no reason to believe in a supernatural "Antichrist", so I don't. But I do think that biblical prophets talking about an antichrist were insightful into exactly the kinds of inherent weaknesses that could bring Christianity into conflict with itself. Bush's fig leaf of "faith" over his killing, looting, and destruction of lives, seems like the work of an antichrist to me, even if he's as human as am I.
I'd agree that bringing Christianity into conflict with itself would qualify, but we don't seem to have hit this stage yet.
As far as calling arriving angelic aliens "the Beast", you've got the critics all wrong. Millions of Americans treat Bush like a messiah, prophet or pope, when he's really the most antichrist character I've ever heard of.
In a biblical sense he isn't.
I had an interesting discussion with family and friends a while ago, people who are all Christians and all of whom think Bush is one of the worst things to happen to the world and your country. The question was whether Bush was in fact the anti-christ.
The reason for the discussion was that throughout history there have been a number of people who have been thought to be the anti-christ. In the early church the Roman Emperor was consider the anti-christ. After the reformation, protestants considered the pope to be the anti-christ. Anyway, we speculated that maybe there might have been people who fitted the profile of the anti-christ who were like prototypes.
The conclusion was that while he one of the characteristics (trying to achieve total domination), he didn't have the other (oppression of Christians).
Mind you, around here (Australia), we have don't have quite the same views of the end of the world as American Christians seem to have.
Just thought you might have be interested to hear a Christian perspective on this.
It could be said that it still exists today, in distributed form -- the Catholic church being essentially its modern inheritor.
It could, but only by someone taking a rather skewed view of history.
There are too many shifts to go through. Shall we have a look at it.
1. Roman empire
2. Byzantine empire (greek)
3. Split in the empire, west becomes separate contries, formalised by the split between the partriachs of Byzantium and Rome.
Once you hit 3 there is no continuous empire. Certainly some appeared in the intervening time (eg Holy Roman Empire), but there was nothing that lasted for very long. The Catholic church is hardly an empire either. While there were some periods where it held some serious military and political control, but not all that many.
You might have an argument if you say that Byzantine empire was a continuation of the Roman emptire (which you need if you are going to get to 1200 years), but anything else is just crazy talk.
I'd agree with you in general. The point is that there is little penalty for dying.
In some games there is. Take counterstrike for example. If you die, you lose any weapons you might have bought, which means you may be short of money. You don't want to go from being kitted out with armour, deagle, full kit of grenades and para to just deagle and grenades. Also you have to wait for the round to finish before you respawn.
CSS is the only game I play regularly online.
This a question for map designers.
I was playing CSS the other night and the admin turned the gravity to something like 1/10 of what it is normally. Did you know that Dust 1 has a glass ceiling? You do now.
Fair enough.
I originally though thatyour statement referred to everyone, not just those who had opted out of those programs.
I don't agree, but at least I understand your position better.
That's your preference, sure. Don't go projecting it onto everyone else. The parent disagrees. I disagree. Such American luminaries as Robert Heinlein disagree. Eventually, that disagreement might be enough to cause change.
Just to clarify your position, you don't have a problem with elderly people dying on the street? That that government should not attempt to prevent elderly people from dying in the street?
America is clearly a stranger place than I believed possible.
My problem was always the insert key. Very easy to hit if you use home/end/del a lot, which I do. I used to rip it out on every keyboard I owned. Someone else has mentioned keytweak, so I might use that in future.
Use Keyring.
He is right, people should write down passwords.
People are bad at remembering good, strong passwords. So as he suggests, you end up with a small number of passwords (which may or may not be strong), that are used everywhere. The problem with this is that a password gets used in more than one location with varying degrees of security and information. For example, I could use by password for online banking also when I register for a mailing list.
The problem with this is that the mailing list info is of low value and my login details are going to be less well protected than my bank login details.
So concievably, someone could hack the mailing list server, get my login details and use them to access my bank account. Now if you consider that a single password may be in a large number situations, this becomes a serious problem.
I found an article a while ago that pointed out just this flaw with the MS Passport scheme, unfortunately I can't find it right now.
So our approach should be to write down passwords and protect our password "safe".
My approach has been:
1. Use Keyring for Palm. Passwords are encrypted with 128 3DES.
2. Never use the same password is more than one place.
Keyring backs up to my desktop whenever I do a sync. I can also read passwords on my desktop using KeyRingWin.
My dekstop is backed up to my file server, which is then backed up to a USB drive.
I consider this to be a relatively secure approach that also provides me with backups of my passwords.
This does leave one issue. I have created a single point of failure. Get the password for the encrypted password store, and you have all of them. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that the password store is only stored on my local network and palm. You also need to get to the password store itself. You also could brute force it, but again you would need to get to the password store itself.
Hardly.
Don't get the idea that I don't read much and was just picked up this book. I read omnivorously and an awful lot. I read and enjoy novels (and histories) from pretty much any genre (except romance). I don't expect hand holding.
Pynchion was just rubbish. Just another boring attempt to screw with your mind. Something for faux intellectuals to read and pretend they are so 1337. Which is basically the point of the grandparent post.
My view of novels is that the author is in a position of power and should not abuse that position. This is a contract between the author and the reader.
An example of how an author might abuse that position is in a mystery, where the author puts up stacks of evidence that X committed the murder and none that Y committed the murder. In the final sequence the murder is revealed to be Y. That is an abuse of the position of author.
Or to take a real book: "The French Lieutenant's woman". The author continuously jumps asks the question (directly), as the author I can do this now, or I can do something else. Equally at the end he has two endings. Hi John Fowles, we realise that you are the author. We also realise that we are just along for the ride. There is no need to rub it in.
If you want to read a good WWII novel, I suggest you pick up Catch 22 (Heller), The Thin Red Line (Jones), From Here to Eternity (Jones), The Last Enemey (Hillary) Evenlyn Waugh's war series (name has escaped for the moment), or Adrian Powell's series "A Dance to the music of Time". Powell's series covers WWII only in passing, but is an excellent read.
Or for something slighlty different, "Legion of the Damned" - Sven Hassel. Less weel written, but an interesting (if depressing) read. You might need to get that one second hand.
This assumes that you are bargaining from a position of equal strength. While this might certainly be the case, I think that more often than not the employee is at a disadvantage.
On no circumstances actually open the Pynchon novel. You will be scarred for life.
I made the mistake of reading Gravity's rainbow on the recommendation of an (at the time) girlfriend. In my entire life I do not believe I have come across a more useless and unpleasant way to spend my time.
Two words:
director
script
Possibly also acting in front of a blue screen might have an effect.
But in the end I'd lay the problem largely at the feet of the director.
Just to pick up one something:
You can argue till you are blue in the face about how much of it is legal vs illegal, point is it wasn't created for the intent of breaking the law and there is a substanital amount of non-infringing use. That's why it's legit.
The reason for its creation is beside the point. What is more to the point is what is it used for now?
The answer is right there in the code you posted:
<script language="VBScript">
VBScript.
There are two major competing client side scripting languages for HTML: VBScript and Javascript. Actually to be totally accurate there are 3, microsoft uses JScript not Javascript, but the languages are very similar.
VBScript is only supported by IE as a client side scripting language. Due to the early dominance of Netscape, Javascript is the default language of client side scripting.
Anyway that said, VBScript != VB. Same as Javascript != Java. Just to pick two differences:
1. VBScript & Javascript/JScript are not compiled, Java and VB are.
2. VBScript & Javascript/JScript are weakly typed, Java and VB are strongly typed.
But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version)
tabbed browsing extension.
The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would.
Prefbar extension.
I'm confused. When you say VB, do you mean VBScript? I don't understand how Visual Basic could have anything to do with the client side code for a web application (unless there was some sort of ActiveX control written in VB).
Only is some areas. In others it just doesn't support some of the javascript or CSS that is supported by IE5.5 and later.
...).
One example
Also I have a page that includes some relatively complex javascript. This runs on IE 5, 5.5, 6, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Opera 7+, Safari 1.2+ but not on IE for Mac. Exactly the same code runs for all browsers (no if ()
I love titanic! It was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen.
Remember the hand against the glass while they were in the car? What a clever reference to a horror movies! You know, someone being munched by alien/evil guy/whatever, and you just see their hand against the glass.
And the dialog? I laughed so hard.
Leo Died! That was so funny!
I just felt sorry for all the people who didn't like it because they didn't realise it was a comedy.
There was a dilbert cartoon a little while ago where the Pointy Haird Boss asked Dilbert to research broadband over sewage, basically on the same principle.
I always said that title was one word away from a B grade sci fi movie: "Attack of the killer clones".
I always thought there was room for prequels after the first Matrix, but there was no room for sequels. Think about it, you have the story of the first person to leave the Matrix, and the building of Zion. Failing that you have the stories of the stories of morpheus and trinity. You would however not be able to use Keanu (which is no bad thing IMO).
I personally wrote to 8 of them. I got responses back from two of them, both saying that I was not the only who contacted them over this issue.
I have emailed a number of the advertisers about this. I got back a response from Devon IT:
David, thank you for your email.
Devon IT has received many emails regarding the articles written by
Maureen O'Gara, editor-in-chief of Maureen O'Gara's LinuxGram. We have
reviewed and voiced our concerns regarding the editorial content of her
recent article, "Who Is 'PJ' Pamela Jones of Groklaw.Net?" directly to
SYS-CON. We have encouraged them to stop distributing articles which
contain personal attacks and private information.
If SYS-CON fails to act in an appropriate and forthright manner
regarding this matter, Devon IT will cease its support of SYS-CON and
halt all advertising with their media properties. We believe that Linux
World magazine and LinuxWorld.com are valuable sources of information
for Linux technology and hope that SYS-CON will act in good faith and
put an end to this reprehensible form of journalism.
Regards,
Paul Mancini
Devon IT