I doubt it. But that is mostly because I seriously doubt there is any other life out there. Having read my Bible several times through I would agree that other life is plausible and not anti-Biblical, but I still doubt that we will ever find any. If there is any other life in the Universe it probably exists on a scale so small or so large that we just don't recognize it as such.
In fact, it has been His deafening silence after the tsunami that drowned thousands of innocent children (and now the earthquake in China), that finalized both my disbelief in a supreme being and my hatred for the Catholic church.
So you hate the Catholic Church because their God (who happens to also be the Jew's God, Christian's God, and, come right down to it, the Muslim's God), drowned thousands of innocent children in a tsunami. Nevermind that He did NOT drown several billion other children that day.
How confidential is a Bible, Torah, Qu'ran, etc, when it can be purchased at any bookstore and is even available online? I personally would not be involved in an organization which had documented practices which only certain members of the organization were allowed to read. Well, other than every single job I have ever had, anyway.
As a saltwater reef tank enthusiast, I know that UV generators are available to kill off tiny organisms that pass through the filter. I personally never used one, because I had clams, mussels and other filter feeders that enjoyed eating the tiny organisms present in my tank. Is UV more expensive than microwaving? Or perhaps less lethal to larger organisms?
I, on the other hand, find the spoken word to be much more adaptable in getting the point across. I could end up writing paragraphs trying to anticipate every possible misunderstanding, or I could just call someone and see how they are responding to my point and adjust accordingly. I just don't understand how people can spend an hour texting back and forth a couple of paragraphs worth of information when they could have picked up the phone and had the conversation finished in 3 minutes.
Maybe it is because I am getting older or busier, but I just don't have time for text messaging.
Two jobs ago I worked at a company which had inadequate employee parking. It didn't start out that bad because people parked in the neighboring lot which was never particularly full. One day we got a notice that we were not to park there as it was not out parking lot. Still it wasn't awful because there were still enough spots, but then we got a notice that we weren't supposed to be parking in a certain section of spaces, as those were reserved for visitors. They were not marked as such, so the visitors were just as likely to park in "employee" spots, which were also not marked. Once this declaration was made, then all hell broke loose because there simply weren't enough spots to accommodate all of the employees in the "valid" spots. On several days I had to decide whether to go back home or park in the unmarked visitors spots. I elected to park in the visitors spots. Made me fell special, too. Not like a visitor, because we didn't have any of them, but like a big shot because the visitors lot is where all of the senior management parked, as well as all the female employees whose attractiveness granted them immunity from the rules. Even with all of these people in the spots, 90% of the visitors spots were open while employees circled the lot waiting for someone to pull out.
Well, actually it does cost the company hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to develop the software, which they plan to share out of a certain number of users. If the users decide to download it because they believe it costs the company nothing when they do that, then the company's business model fails. Instead of spending all that money on development, they should just be spending maybe 1/10 of the amount on development and sell it to a few thousand people who will then distribute it for free to everyone else. The fact of the matter is that people who choose to download software illegally cause prices to go up and/or quality to go down for those of us who purchase it legitimately. Or even worse, companies have an excellent software idea, but look at the amount of illegal filesharing and decide not to develop the software. How much innovation is stifled by illegal filesharing? I'm sure it is quite a lot.
If you buy a game from ebay or a garage sale then the company has already made their money on it. There is the matter that they would rather sell you a brand new one, which I am sure they would fight to outlaw secondary sales if they could, but I'm sure Ford Motor Company would like to make it impossible for you to buy a secondhand car as well, and that ain't happening.
Now if you are buying a game off of ebay that someone still owns the original for and has just made a copy of, well that is illegal and whoever is selling it needs to be punished.
Sounds reasonable to me. With the possibility of extenuating circumstance, such as hunger or some sort of emergency, I don't see any legitimate reason for people to steal anything.
surely the most he should be liable for is the ã40 the game could cost?
Well, 40 may be the advertised price, but if you choose to obtain it outside of their normal commercial terms, I would expect that they should be able to set their own price for this other transaction. I am selling one of my cars for $23k, but if someone came and stole it, I think I should be able to recover whatever I wanted it for it, up to and including $1 Trillion, because they didn't obtain it on terms that I agree to.
Or perhaps I would be limited to the asking price, but I get to negotiate the payments, say $22,999.99 a month for 84 months, but the price still is only $23k.
If you can't afford or don't wish to pay the the brand new price and you can't find a place to obtain it secondhand, then you don't get the game. You aren't entitled to what you want at the price you are willing to pay. When buyers and sellers can't agree on a price, a transaction doesn't take place.
If you don't think it is worth the money, you just don't buy it. You don't obtain it illegally. I don't think Ferraris are worth the money either, but I can't just go take one from the dealership or someone else that has one. I know we're not supposed to compare physical objects when discussing music, but this is software and comes in a box when purchased legitimately.
Bullshit. IMO, Jack Thompson is just like those anti-abortionist zealots who harass and threaten health-care workers and innocent women seeking to have a legal medical procedure performed all because the assholes are "trying to save lives". And he's just one step away from the worst of that bunch who blow up the clinics and murder doctors; all for the purpose of "trying to save lives" and the glory of god.
Your attempted argument against the GP instead argues in favor of it. I assure you that people who come down on the other side of the abortion debate do indeed see the things that these "zealots" do as saving lives. If you really believe that life begins at conception, then it is not hard to rationalize killing one person in order to save literally hundreds that that person may kill over the course of his lifetime. Of course, most people who would have gone to that doctor will now go to another doctor, so lives may not actually be saved, at least not for long.
I pay about $2500 a year on gas. Yet if I had an electric car, I don't think it would really save me all that much because my local Electric company has the nerve to charge me for the electricity I use. Currently I pay about $2000 a year, but I imagine that would probably go up substantially if I had an electric car that needed charging up every day.
Perhaps the government will start taxing your local coal or natural gas powered Electric concern to pay for the roads. One wonders how much interest there would be in electric vehicles when the taxes are figured in and it ends up being about the same operating cost as a conventional car.
Unless God-days are different from our days.
I would argue that it can't be a literal day, because the literal day was shorter 6,000 years ago than it is today, if only by 80 milliseconds. The Earth's rotation slows down very slightly every year due to tidal friction.
Furthermore, the 24 hour period is not exactly 24 hours. Depending on where you measure it, and depending on whether you are measuring high noon, or whatever, the actual amount of time only averages to approximately 24 hours, it is not the same exact figure every day.
...and it is a 'story'... then would you agree to call 'The Bible' a work of fiction?
You see then, this is why people have to argue so strongly that every word in the Bible is literal. Because as soon as we say that one story or another is an allegory, then the rest of the world immediately claims that the entire work must therefore be fiction. Apparently, it is not possible for a book to contain allegories and illustrations without becoming a complete work of fiction.
I guess all my science books are fiction as well, since they all contain similes, allegories and the like in the aid of explaining scientific principles.
Mailservers which send backscatter are NOT legitimate, EOL.
Why blame the mailservers? The real culprit is the spammers. If they didn't illegally fake their return address then there would be no need to configure the mail server to recognize fakes and reject them.
I figure that what the spammers doing amounts to identity theft, and they should be forced to pay $1 million restitution per occurrence to the account owner and if there is no such account, then the domain owner.
I've had days where I've gotten over 1,000 backspatters, and sometimes angry threatening personal e-mails directed at me regarding the "spam you sent me".
Spammers can advertise all they want, I have no problem with that. Nowhere in the first amendment does it say that the citizens of this country have to pay for a megaphone for every crackpot that has something to say.
Even aside from the monetary argument, someone else's right to free speech does not mean that I am required to listen, only that I don't have the right to gag him. No one has the right to come to my home , stand on my doorstep and shout out their opinions. Instead, they can feel free to shout their opinions in a public forum and I will come listen if I feel like it. The electronic equivalent to this is that the spammer has a website which I can visit if I choose. He can even pay to advertise it on other websites I might visit. If he wants to advertise it in my e-mail, that is fine as well, but he needs to pay me for that privilege.
Its ok to spend millions saving stupid people because thats somehow better than other stupid people spending billions on crazy war/pyramid schemes?
You mean like spending billions rebuilding recently flooded areas that are known to be flood prone in a time of our planetary cycle where the ocean is rising?
I can't for the life of me understand why people like us who work crazy amounts of overtime can't write off this time. I mean, we are called "exempt workers", but we don't meet the legal definition of exempt. If they are not going to pay us for this time, we ought to at least be able to write it off against our actual income at 1.5 times our effective hourly wage (standard U.S. gov't overtime rate).
My theory is that evolution itself leads to destruction. Species become more and more specialized until they become so dependent upon their traits that they are not able to quickly enough adapt to changes in environment. One theory is that a comet killed the dinosaurs, but clearly it didn't kill ALL of the dinosaurs, but it killed enough and the others were too specialized to adapt. The smaller, less advanced species continued to survive. We've had bacteria for hundreds of millions of years, and we will have them for hundreds of millions of years more, but we won't have animals descended from humans or any other large animal.
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Not just the white man. All men are immigrants to the U.S.
I doubt it. But that is mostly because I seriously doubt there is any other life out there. Having read my Bible several times through I would agree that other life is plausible and not anti-Biblical, but I still doubt that we will ever find any. If there is any other life in the Universe it probably exists on a scale so small or so large that we just don't recognize it as such.
In fact, it has been His deafening silence after the tsunami that drowned thousands of innocent children (and now the earthquake in China), that finalized both my disbelief in a supreme being and my hatred for the Catholic church.
So you hate the Catholic Church because their God (who happens to also be the Jew's God, Christian's God, and, come right down to it, the Muslim's God), drowned thousands of innocent children in a tsunami. Nevermind that He did NOT drown several billion other children that day.
How confidential is a Bible, Torah, Qu'ran, etc, when it can be purchased at any bookstore and is even available online? I personally would not be involved in an organization which had documented practices which only certain members of the organization were allowed to read. Well, other than every single job I have ever had, anyway.
As a saltwater reef tank enthusiast, I know that UV generators are available to kill off tiny organisms that pass through the filter. I personally never used one, because I had clams, mussels and other filter feeders that enjoyed eating the tiny organisms present in my tank. Is UV more expensive than microwaving? Or perhaps less lethal to larger organisms?
I, on the other hand, find the spoken word to be much more adaptable in getting the point across. I could end up writing paragraphs trying to anticipate every possible misunderstanding, or I could just call someone and see how they are responding to my point and adjust accordingly. I just don't understand how people can spend an hour texting back and forth a couple of paragraphs worth of information when they could have picked up the phone and had the conversation finished in 3 minutes.
Maybe it is because I am getting older or busier, but I just don't have time for text messaging.
Two jobs ago I worked at a company which had inadequate employee parking. It didn't start out that bad because people parked in the neighboring lot which was never particularly full. One day we got a notice that we were not to park there as it was not out parking lot. Still it wasn't awful because there were still enough spots, but then we got a notice that we weren't supposed to be parking in a certain section of spaces, as those were reserved for visitors. They were not marked as such, so the visitors were just as likely to park in "employee" spots, which were also not marked. Once this declaration was made, then all hell broke loose because there simply weren't enough spots to accommodate all of the employees in the "valid" spots. On several days I had to decide whether to go back home or park in the unmarked visitors spots. I elected to park in the visitors spots. Made me fell special, too. Not like a visitor, because we didn't have any of them, but like a big shot because the visitors lot is where all of the senior management parked, as well as all the female employees whose attractiveness granted them immunity from the rules. Even with all of these people in the spots, 90% of the visitors spots were open while employees circled the lot waiting for someone to pull out.
Well, actually it does cost the company hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to develop the software, which they plan to share out of a certain number of users. If the users decide to download it because they believe it costs the company nothing when they do that, then the company's business model fails. Instead of spending all that money on development, they should just be spending maybe 1/10 of the amount on development and sell it to a few thousand people who will then distribute it for free to everyone else. The fact of the matter is that people who choose to download software illegally cause prices to go up and/or quality to go down for those of us who purchase it legitimately. Or even worse, companies have an excellent software idea, but look at the amount of illegal filesharing and decide not to develop the software. How much innovation is stifled by illegal filesharing? I'm sure it is quite a lot.
If you buy a game from ebay or a garage sale then the company has already made their money on it. There is the matter that they would rather sell you a brand new one, which I am sure they would fight to outlaw secondary sales if they could, but I'm sure Ford Motor Company would like to make it impossible for you to buy a secondhand car as well, and that ain't happening.
Now if you are buying a game off of ebay that someone still owns the original for and has just made a copy of, well that is illegal and whoever is selling it needs to be punished.
Sounds reasonable to me. With the possibility of extenuating circumstance, such as hunger or some sort of emergency, I don't see any legitimate reason for people to steal anything.
surely the most he should be liable for is the ã40 the game could cost?
Well, 40 may be the advertised price, but if you choose to obtain it outside of their normal commercial terms, I would expect that they should be able to set their own price for this other transaction. I am selling one of my cars for $23k, but if someone came and stole it, I think I should be able to recover whatever I wanted it for it, up to and including $1 Trillion, because they didn't obtain it on terms that I agree to.
Or perhaps I would be limited to the asking price, but I get to negotiate the payments, say $22,999.99 a month for 84 months, but the price still is only $23k.
If you can't afford or don't wish to pay the the brand new price and you can't find a place to obtain it secondhand, then you don't get the game. You aren't entitled to what you want at the price you are willing to pay. When buyers and sellers can't agree on a price, a transaction doesn't take place.
If you don't think it is worth the money, you just don't buy it. You don't obtain it illegally. I don't think Ferraris are worth the money either, but I can't just go take one from the dealership or someone else that has one. I know we're not supposed to compare physical objects when discussing music, but this is software and comes in a box when purchased legitimately.
Bullshit. IMO, Jack Thompson is just like those anti-abortionist zealots who harass and threaten health-care workers and innocent women seeking to have a legal medical procedure performed all because the assholes are "trying to save lives". And he's just one step away from the worst of that bunch who blow up the clinics and murder doctors; all for the purpose of "trying to save lives" and the glory of god.
Your attempted argument against the GP instead argues in favor of it. I assure you that people who come down on the other side of the abortion debate do indeed see the things that these "zealots" do as saving lives. If you really believe that life begins at conception, then it is not hard to rationalize killing one person in order to save literally hundreds that that person may kill over the course of his lifetime. Of course, most people who would have gone to that doctor will now go to another doctor, so lives may not actually be saved, at least not for long.
I pay about $2500 a year on gas. Yet if I had an electric car, I don't think it would really save me all that much because my local Electric company has the nerve to charge me for the electricity I use. Currently I pay about $2000 a year, but I imagine that would probably go up substantially if I had an electric car that needed charging up every day.
Perhaps the government will start taxing your local coal or natural gas powered Electric concern to pay for the roads. One wonders how much interest there would be in electric vehicles when the taxes are figured in and it ends up being about the same operating cost as a conventional car.
Unless God-days are different from our days.
I would argue that it can't be a literal day, because the literal day was shorter 6,000 years ago than it is today, if only by 80 milliseconds. The Earth's rotation slows down very slightly every year due to tidal friction.
Furthermore, the 24 hour period is not exactly 24 hours. Depending on where you measure it, and depending on whether you are measuring high noon, or whatever, the actual amount of time only averages to approximately 24 hours, it is not the same exact figure every day.
...and it is a 'story'... then would you agree to call 'The Bible' a work of fiction?
You see then, this is why people have to argue so strongly that every word in the Bible is literal. Because as soon as we say that one story or another is an allegory, then the rest of the world immediately claims that the entire work must therefore be fiction. Apparently, it is not possible for a book to contain allegories and illustrations without becoming a complete work of fiction.
I guess all my science books are fiction as well, since they all contain similes, allegories and the like in the aid of explaining scientific principles.
Mailservers which send backscatter are NOT legitimate, EOL.
Why blame the mailservers? The real culprit is the spammers. If they didn't illegally fake their return address then there would be no need to configure the mail server to recognize fakes and reject them.
I figure that what the spammers doing amounts to identity theft, and they should be forced to pay $1 million restitution per occurrence to the account owner and if there is no such account, then the domain owner.
I've had days where I've gotten over 1,000 backspatters, and sometimes angry threatening personal e-mails directed at me regarding the "spam you sent me".
So religion is to be feared and mocked, but it's still okay to teach kids that school buses can magically fly around the universe. Check.
Spammers can advertise all they want, I have no problem with that. Nowhere in the first amendment does it say that the citizens of this country have to pay for a megaphone for every crackpot that has something to say.
Even aside from the monetary argument, someone else's right to free speech does not mean that I am required to listen, only that I don't have the right to gag him. No one has the right to come to my home , stand on my doorstep and shout out their opinions. Instead, they can feel free to shout their opinions in a public forum and I will come listen if I feel like it. The electronic equivalent to this is that the spammer has a website which I can visit if I choose. He can even pay to advertise it on other websites I might visit. If he wants to advertise it in my e-mail, that is fine as well, but he needs to pay me for that privilege.
Its ok to spend millions saving stupid people because thats somehow better than other stupid people spending billions on crazy war/pyramid schemes?
You mean like spending billions rebuilding recently flooded areas that are known to be flood prone in a time of our planetary cycle where the ocean is rising?
I can't for the life of me understand why people like us who work crazy amounts of overtime can't write off this time. I mean, we are called "exempt workers", but we don't meet the legal definition of exempt. If they are not going to pay us for this time, we ought to at least be able to write it off against our actual income at 1.5 times our effective hourly wage (standard U.S. gov't overtime rate).
You don't want an emergency service to run as a business. If business gets slow, they may decide to create emergencies.
My theory is that evolution itself leads to destruction. Species become more and more specialized until they become so dependent upon their traits that they are not able to quickly enough adapt to changes in environment. One theory is that a comet killed the dinosaurs, but clearly it didn't kill ALL of the dinosaurs, but it killed enough and the others were too specialized to adapt. The smaller, less advanced species continued to survive. We've had bacteria for hundreds of millions of years, and we will have them for hundreds of millions of years more, but we won't have animals descended from humans or any other large animal.