This is what I am waiting for. I have not bought anything for a few years, old hardware works fine but iTV I will buy almost as soon as it hits the street. Too nice of an idea,
Hold on there, as I understand it the scouts require belief in God and have a strong pro-nationalistic bent to them.
Belief in god - yes - but not in a particular religion. In fact there are religous MBs so that an individual scout can learn more about his religion. To me this is a case of looking at your beliefs in a reasonably well thought out manner. Also Buddhist are in Scouts.... look at the BSA website. An example:
Overview
Scouting serves an important role in youth development in the Buddhist community. Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Varsity Scout teams, and Venturing crews chartered to Buddhist organizations can be found throughout the United States. Scouts can participate within units chartered to Buddhist organizations or as members of units chartered to other organizations.
Buddhist youth have participated in Scouting for more than 80 years. Since 1920, with the formation of Troop 4 by the Fresno Buddhist Church, young Buddhists in America have enjoyed the benefits of Scouting.
In reality this part - belief in god - is only questioned when a scout becomes an Eagle.... although I not sure how this is handled in the buddhist 'churchs'. (As I understand, Buddhist don't believe in god.)
Pro-nationalistic? I don't think that this really fits. (Pride in your country - yes.) There are Scout orginizations in many countries (including place like Iraq). The places that scouting does not exist are typically totalitarian regimes - the places where you really have to follow what you are told to do. For example Iraq under Saddam H. In BSA you have to go to city council meetings (or similar) so that you know how the government works. Also to get the Rank '1st Class you need to talk to someone about your 'rights and responsiblities ' under the US Constitution. To me this is not really pro-nationalistic, it is more learning how to be an active citizen - and maybe taking part in what goes on. There is a reason that there are a lot of Eagle Scouts in places of leadership.
This is not standard BSA. FYI: BSA webpage is http://www.scouting.org./ You will not find this 'merit badge' there. In fact, it does not seem to fit into what BSA is trying to do.
Also for the comment about a merit badge for 'learning how to think'. That is really the whole point of scouting - to give young men the skills they need for adulthood, including thinking.
I don't play the game - never have and never will - but the idea of companies setting up locations inside a game intrigued me. While I was RTFA - which was shortly after reading about N. Korea, all I could imagine was having someone 'building a bomb' and removing the stores. How do the 'stores' recover? Is it terrorism? Is there a 'state' that can sponsor terrorism? Do they have 'gangs' running the streets in the game? How about robbing banks? Are there pickpockets? I can imagine a bored 12 year old wiping out large swaths of land. (Don't look at me to do any of it. I am way too old!)
This is nonsense - we have decreased our purchasing because we are older (the boomers are all over 40!) and the stuff coming our now is mostly junk. The bottom line is that I don't down load AND I don't buy music very often any more.
1) Shows that safari is increasing (up ~1% in a year)
2) The difference is 0.02%! - What is the saying - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics? (Mark Twain) That is clearly smaller then the error bars but they do not report that. Now back to your regular ranting.
I would agree. I see 'lots' (a few percent) of people in jobs for which they are not competent. Typically those people lie and cheat (and (\@#$ the boss) to stay there. This particular example however is very extreme = and reminds me of what Sony did with the root kits. I still don't trust Sony - If HP thinks that this sort of action is OK, I will now worry about what HP will do to its end products. What sort of spyware are they going to put in their printer drivers....
I am like the Grandparent post - fill the site with junk (Even wrote a java script to do it for me once!) At any rate most of the sites are on hacked servers. Thus the first thing that I do is to go to Deadbeef and look up the owners of the main site. Then I send the email with full headers to the owners of the hacked server. I also CC it to the bank/CU/ebay/paypal that is being phished. I have gotten replies from Credit Unions and banks thanking me! I have even heard back from Poland and the Philippines. China on the other hand tends to have the most hacked servers and is the slowest fixing the problems. One other main place to send it is Amazon but it is hard to find the address. For the record, it is stop-spoofing@amazon.com , Good luck and happy phisher hunting.
First that has to do with secrecy in foreign relations, not domestic spying... So it is not the same thing. Are you really willing to give up your basic human rights for some "safety"?
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Look this still happens today from Iraq..... More specifically from GIs in Iraq to anywhere.... In fact, you can put in whatever war zone your want in the above comment and it is true. NOTE This is a military issue. As a member of the Military, you are missing some rights that you would have as a Civilian. (Nature of the military.)
You have voiced my basic concern but I proabaly would not have said it so stridently. A real problem that we have is that the House is a rubber stamp of the outer fringe of both parties and is not a true reflection of the people. (IT IS the House of Representitives, not the House of those who cling to power.) As it is, they bend over backward to keep power to themselves, meaning that they lay down for the President (again either party.) We need to solve this problem and some of the other issues - like this - will go away.
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I was trying to reply to someone above about this but 'reply' seems to be broken
This is what I am waiting for. I have not bought anything for a few years, old hardware works fine but iTV I will buy almost as soon as it hits the street. Too nice of an idea,
Are you talking about Texas or West Virginia?
and I thought my boss was a pr#$k. This beats anything he has ever done.
like this ;-)
Belief in god - yes - but not in a particular religion. In fact there are religous MBs so that an individual scout can learn more about his religion. To me this is a case of looking at your beliefs in a reasonably well thought out manner. Also Buddhist are in Scouts.... look at the BSA website. An example:
In reality this part - belief in god - is only questioned when a scout becomes an Eagle.... although I not sure how this is handled in the buddhist 'churchs'. (As I understand, Buddhist don't believe in god.)Pro-nationalistic? I don't think that this really fits. (Pride in your country - yes.) There are Scout orginizations in many countries (including place like Iraq). The places that scouting does not exist are typically totalitarian regimes - the places where you really have to follow what you are told to do. For example Iraq under Saddam H. In BSA you have to go to city council meetings (or similar) so that you know how the government works. Also to get the Rank '1st Class you need to talk to someone about your 'rights and responsiblities ' under the US Constitution. To me this is not really pro-nationalistic, it is more learning how to be an active citizen - and maybe taking part in what goes on. There is a reason that there are a lot of Eagle Scouts in places of leadership.
(Consider yourself partly refuted.)
Also for the comment about a merit badge for 'learning how to think'. That is really the whole point of scouting - to give young men the skills they need for adulthood, including thinking.
Yes except you need to READ the readme files for them to be an issue.
I don't play the game - never have and never will - but the idea of companies setting up locations inside a game intrigued me. While I was RTFA - which was shortly after reading about N. Korea, all I could imagine was having someone 'building a bomb' and removing the stores. How do the 'stores' recover? Is it terrorism? Is there a 'state' that can sponsor terrorism? Do they have 'gangs' running the streets in the game? How about robbing banks? Are there pickpockets? I can imagine a bored 12 year old wiping out large swaths of land. (Don't look at me to do any of it. I am way too old!)
OK I am a little warped. ;-)
This is nonsense - we have decreased our purchasing because we are older (the boomers are all over 40!) and the stuff coming our now is mostly junk. The bottom line is that I don't down load AND I don't buy music very often any more.
No it is the picture of the sheep and .... well if they don't have a picture of you yet - watch out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_an d_statistics
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid= 3
1) Shows that safari is increasing (up ~1% in a year)
2) The difference is 0.02%! - What is the saying - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics? (Mark Twain) That is clearly smaller then the error bars but they do not report that. Now back to your regular ranting.
Tis a funny thought BUT if the original poster knew how to poke he would not be peeking.
I would agree. I see 'lots' (a few percent) of people in jobs for which they are not competent. Typically those people lie and cheat (and (\@#$ the boss) to stay there. This particular example however is very extreme = and reminds me of what Sony did with the root kits. I still don't trust Sony - If HP thinks that this sort of action is OK, I will now worry about what HP will do to its end products. What sort of spyware are they going to put in their printer drivers....
It is on page 342 of the manual
The FBI is coming
Names like are my favorites.
I am like the Grandparent post - fill the site with junk (Even wrote a java script to do it for me once!) At any rate most of the sites are on hacked servers. Thus the first thing that I do is to go to Deadbeef and look up the owners of the main site. Then I send the email with full headers to the owners of the hacked server. I also CC it to the bank/CU/ebay/paypal that is being phished. I have gotten replies from Credit Unions and banks thanking me! I have even heard back from Poland and the Philippines. China on the other hand tends to have the most hacked servers and is the slowest fixing the problems. One other main place to send it is Amazon but it is hard to find the address. For the record, it is stop-spoofing@amazon.com , Good luck and happy phisher hunting.
That is right now but I don't have any cold ones..... so I better slap myself
First that has to do with secrecy in foreign relations, not domestic spying... So it is not the same thing. Are you really willing to give up your basic human rights for some "safety"?
From http://www.quotationspage.com/
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Look this still happens today from Iraq..... More specifically from GIs in Iraq to anywhere.... In fact, you can put in whatever war zone your want in the above comment and it is true. NOTE This is a military issue. As a member of the Military, you are missing some rights that you would have as a Civilian. (Nature of the military.)
Yeah! - Oh wait I am part Irish.... Do I have/get to crack my own head?
You have voiced my basic concern but I proabaly would not have said it so stridently. A real problem that we have is that the House is a rubber stamp of the outer fringe of both parties and is not a true reflection of the people. (IT IS the House of Representitives, not the House of those who cling to power.) As it is, they bend over backward to keep power to themselves, meaning that they lay down for the President (again either party.) We need to solve this problem and some of the other issues - like this - will go away.