What he probably meant is that the only difference between a cult and religion is size. If you have only a few followers, you have a cult. If you have a million or more followers, you have a religion.
I want "bacon and a kiss airlines", where you eat a strip of bacon and give someone of the same sex as you a kiss. This proves you're not a muslim, and you can get on the airplane without any additional security theatrics.
"There may be uses justifying continuing to reduce computer size but already they are about as fast as people need for most apps so the biggest benefits would be power useage and cramming more computers into places they don't belong."
There's so much wrong with that sentence, I don't even know where to begin.
Where I live at least, nothing prevents me from doing just that. It's perfectly legal to make any kind of "copy" of money as much as you want. If you try to use it, of course, then you are committing fraud. And that's not okay.
That wasn't his point. His point was that there's absolutely no reason why HTTP or BitTorrent or any protocol should have antipiracy measures built in. It's naive and absurd to even think of something so stupid.
A good start would be for them to publicly condemn acts of terrorism by muslims. Have you noticed that whenever a christian commits an atrocious act in the name of their religion, the pope or someone immediately condemn the act? As far as I know, nothing like that has ever happened with muslims. This makes it look a hell of a lot like the muslim world as a whole is in favor of terrorism.
Actually, that is a misunderstanding. We're still "evolving" and it's still because of "natural selection". Just because we invented birth control and medicine doesn't change that, it only changes who reproduces.
Synaptic Package Manager is a GUI thing that comes with Ubuntu and has a search function. You just put a checkbox next to the packages you would like to install and press "apply".
It appears that openness is one of the Pandora's features. It's a valuable and useful feature and I'm sure if the Wii was equally open, people would actually buy it just for the homebrew stuff. And of course PC has much more and much more useful "homebrew" than Wii could ever have in a thousand years.
That's not a valid example, because the reason they don't allow any crazy modded car on public roads is because it could be unsafe for other cars. You could still mod your car any way you wanted and drive it on your own private road on your private land.
I expect the answer is that yes, he/she/it would have a soul, because when God created humans, he also gave them the ability to create life (once they figure out how). Either that, or ZOMG KILL THE INFIDELS. Of course the question is meaningless because there is no reason to believe there is a god in the first place and anyway, do humans have a soul? How do you know that?
I personally have certain doubts that there is a soul even in humans, but if we can make something with a brain with enough density, it'd be self-aware, and conscious, or soul if you want to call it that.
So the answer is yes, unless the new being was brain-damaged, it would have a "soul".
There's nothing wrong with circumcision when it is actually necessary. There is something seriously wrong, however, with doing it for no medical reason at all. Nails grow back and don't have any nerves in them, just like hair. You wouldn't rip off the nails of your newborn baby or tear off their hair by the root, would you? It's a fucking retarded comparison and just shows how much you really know.
"Taking your car to a 'well equipped' garage can only happen when the guts are easily accessible. Otherwise you could only take the car to a manufacturer-licensed garage."
The point is you shouldn't need a well equipped garage to replace one bulb. It's one and a half step away from completely welding the thing shut. Yes, there really is a car like that, and I wish I had noted which one, so I could tell you.
In fact, they're already experimenting with this now. Some newer cars have most of the stuff under the bonnet covered by plastic/metal plates, so about the only think you can do yourself easily is add washer fluid and maybe check the oil. You can't even replace a headlight bulb without a well-equipped garage. However, I don't think that all or even most cars will be like this at any point, since it makes their owner(s) super pissed.
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They do that already with cars, graphics cards, and all kinds of products. It's called "marketing".
What he probably meant is that the only difference between a cult and religion is size. If you have only a few followers, you have a cult. If you have a million or more followers, you have a religion.
What I mean is, it's strange to me how you imply that it's somehow more "wrong" to kill a medic than anyone else. I never understood this phenomenon.
I like how you use the words "play fair" about a real-life fight to the death.
Downloading is a perfectly valid word in this case.
I want "bacon and a kiss airlines", where you eat a strip of bacon and give someone of the same sex as you a kiss. This proves you're not a muslim, and you can get on the airplane without any additional security theatrics.
"There may be uses justifying continuing to reduce computer size but already they are about as fast as people need for most apps so the biggest benefits would be power useage and cramming more computers into places they don't belong." There's so much wrong with that sentence, I don't even know where to begin.
Where I live at least, nothing prevents me from doing just that. It's perfectly legal to make any kind of "copy" of money as much as you want. If you try to use it, of course, then you are committing fraud. And that's not okay.
That wasn't his point. His point was that there's absolutely no reason why HTTP or BitTorrent or any protocol should have antipiracy measures built in. It's naive and absurd to even think of something so stupid.
A good start would be for them to publicly condemn acts of terrorism by muslims. Have you noticed that whenever a christian commits an atrocious act in the name of their religion, the pope or someone immediately condemn the act? As far as I know, nothing like that has ever happened with muslims. This makes it look a hell of a lot like the muslim world as a whole is in favor of terrorism.
Actually, that is a misunderstanding. We're still "evolving" and it's still because of "natural selection". Just because we invented birth control and medicine doesn't change that, it only changes who reproduces.
Synaptic Package Manager is a GUI thing that comes with Ubuntu and has a search function. You just put a checkbox next to the packages you would like to install and press "apply".
It appears that openness is one of the Pandora's features. It's a valuable and useful feature and I'm sure if the Wii was equally open, people would actually buy it just for the homebrew stuff. And of course PC has much more and much more useful "homebrew" than Wii could ever have in a thousand years.
Exactly. The point of homebrew is that you should be able to run what you want to run on your Wii.
You know, this joke is getting a little
Same video, but viewable..
What were you doing with a tub full of vaseline? Actually, nevermind. I don't want to know.
That's not a valid example, because the reason they don't allow any crazy modded car on public roads is because it could be unsafe for other cars. You could still mod your car any way you wanted and drive it on your own private road on your private land.
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Pssst! It's penises! It's also octopuses and viruses! The word penis doesn't even end in "-us" for fuck's sake!
Pirate Bay to the rescue! (yet again!) (Although it's in a very inconvenient .flv format, but I'm sure there will be a better torrent later.)
I expect the answer is that yes, he/she/it would have a soul, because when God created humans, he also gave them the ability to create life (once they figure out how). Either that, or ZOMG KILL THE INFIDELS. Of course the question is meaningless because there is no reason to believe there is a god in the first place and anyway, do humans have a soul? How do you know that? I personally have certain doubts that there is a soul even in humans, but if we can make something with a brain with enough density, it'd be self-aware, and conscious, or soul if you want to call it that. So the answer is yes, unless the new being was brain-damaged, it would have a "soul".
Because then the painting isn't "original" anymore. It will still looks just as good, though.
There's nothing wrong with circumcision when it is actually necessary. There is something seriously wrong, however, with doing it for no medical reason at all. Nails grow back and don't have any nerves in them, just like hair. You wouldn't rip off the nails of your newborn baby or tear off their hair by the root, would you? It's a fucking retarded comparison and just shows how much you really know.
"Taking your car to a 'well equipped' garage can only happen when the guts are easily accessible. Otherwise you could only take the car to a manufacturer-licensed garage." The point is you shouldn't need a well equipped garage to replace one bulb. It's one and a half step away from completely welding the thing shut. Yes, there really is a car like that, and I wish I had noted which one, so I could tell you.
In fact, they're already experimenting with this now. Some newer cars have most of the stuff under the bonnet covered by plastic/metal plates, so about the only think you can do yourself easily is add washer fluid and maybe check the oil. You can't even replace a headlight bulb without a well-equipped garage. However, I don't think that all or even most cars will be like this at any point, since it makes their owner(s) super pissed.