The dividends of our current technology are built up on the research of the past. Which was often knowledge seeking for it knowledge's sake.
Everything we know and use in our daily lives have more to do with Newton, DeCartes, Bernouli, Franklin, Maxwell, Einstein etc. than Ford, Gates, Jobs, etc.
Just because research doesn't appear to have practical applications today, doesn't mean that future technology won't hinge on it.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but these definitions mean nothing because they only mean something in the context of the speaker.
Conservative means that the belief holder is against change and wants things to stay roughly status quo. They feel that things are good they way they are in a if it ain't broke; don't fix it. kind of way.
Classical conservatism (original Republicans) had nothing to do with liberty, it had to do with protecting the rich Northern industry and winning the Civil War for the US at any costs. Hence protecting the status quo for the North.
Neo-con is similar in that it is pro-big business and war-hawkish which is actually just an excuse for no-bid contracts; hence more pro-big business. Unfortunately their fiscal policy tends to align with the compromises of those goals which lends itself to fiscal irresponsibility. They tend to mouth their support of social restrictives like the religious right and some times even throw them a bone, but it is mostly a ploy to get their votes.
A neo-libertarian (what is now called libertarianism) is anti-tax and small government but mostly ends up removing long-standing laws written to protect the public from the conflicting interests of big-money, and hence ends up actually removing freedoms from the populace. This is because they tend to ignore that the lack of a legal framework leaves the weak prey to the strong, like all anarchism does (why should fiscal anarchy be any different?)
A liberal is someone who is for a change, be it women's sufferage, equal rights, decriminalizing drugs, etc. Pure and simple.
right and left wings refer to fascism and communism respectively.
The Democrats and Republicans of today would not recognizable to voters around the civil war times although I think the terms actually meant something then and not shifting meanings based only on the speaker's starting political leanings.
This is all like having some idiot try to explain away the differences between nerd, dweeb, dork and geek. (Hint: they are all synonyms, but if you ask 10 people you'll get ten equally idiotic answers depending on what social group they belonged to in high school!)
Hmmm, interesting.
I actually worked IT in a school and both Google and GeoCities were blocked for those exact reasons. Did that stop the kids that REALLY, REALLY wanted to get to it? Not at all, and it didn't stop the school from punishing the kids when they got caught, and believe me, they got caught. And it wasn't hard to prove anything, I just had to go into the browser history.
But I digress, the real reason I'm commenting is the fallacy that since it's possible to break the rules/software that there shouldn't be any filtering software at all. What filtering software does, for the most part, is ensure that casual web browsing and clumsy attempts by students doesn't bring up school-inappropriate content. As such it does a wonderful job and makes sure that there is more time by the teachers and helpers to deal with the true trouble-makers.
It's a lot like a security problem. There is no such thing as perfect security and there exists an entire continuum of security counter-measures all the way from laughable windows security through rock-hard defenses. Just because a site may only be able to implement something nearer the middle does not make the act of securing systems useless.
Like nobody would be able to figure out who the parent AC is. Holy-moley, can you leave any more clues?
But I can imagine it would be difficult to keep more than one relationship going at once. Which is why I'm monogamous. Why people want to have more than one and spend the extra effort to keep them separate and secret borders on masochistic.
As to open multi-homed relationships, you are correct sir. Not everyone is up for the challenge.
Idealists can be good or dangerous. Our forefathers were idealists.
Of course they started a war.
I don't think people have that kind of intestinal fortitude anymore.
I blame television.
In the end I think John Lennon understood that the odds against his utopia were stacked against him, I think that's exactly why he was so vocal. Besides who else was better schooled in the power of music to bring about change.
To be completely honest I feel that if John were alive today he'd be a conservative. Don't ever underestimate how much the Beatles hated taxes.
You know what, give the lousy ba$tards what they want! They more than anyone else deserve it, and once they start disabling computers willy-nilly it will only beat a path to the OSS door. Why would any company in their right mind turn their entire company over to the trust of a greedy software vendor? They might as well hand over their bank-account numbers and power-of-attorney to BSA while their at it.
It will frankly create a situation ripe for software-license blackmail and extortion.
If they're so intent on shooting themselves in the foot, all the better for the rest of the world. Enough is enough.
It's older than that. I read about it in a magazine years ago. The smallish bananas that you see in the supermarket are part of an aggressive breeding program to get ahead of the disease.
The truth is banana plants haven't been propagated by seed, and only recently (past five years) have there been attempts to find new cultivars, before the bottom falls out of the banana industry.
Nothing is stopping companies from paying the developers. What is this guy's point exactly. And it's not like a company can't add a developer to their payroll to pick up dead OSS projects.
Oh wait he's a M$ troll. It's FUD.
It says "Please Mr. Company, don't use the OSS product, because it might get dropped, and then where will you be?" And "Please Mr. Developer, don't work on OSS projects, because people are just taking advantage of you."
Gagh!
what about the hypothetical of a child molester using GIMP to edit pictures of a real six-year-old performing sex acts on him and he then publishes it. It'll never happen. It's common knowledge that child molesters prefer PhotoShop.
Of course there is just as much evidence that God exist as doesn't exist.
Just because you've written off all human spiritual experience as useless doesn't mean that there's not a rationality to believing in a higher non-human power. Because essentially what you're saying is "I'm right and you're wrong and you can't say anything that will change my mind." which sounds suspiciously like faith.
A lot of people will probably think I'm a bigot.
Yup, and it's your extreme lack of tolerance and your ability to lump all religious into the same category that causes it.
I can also mention that most of my domains are currently hosted with GoDaddy -- who I'm not particularly fond of, but they're cheap and haven't screwed me over personally. Suggestions for alternatives are welcome... it's something I haven't researched in a while.
For what it's worth, I switched to StarGate from GoDaddy. They aren't too much more expensive and I like that I'm not pandering to the company that has those awfully stupid commercials that have nothing to do with domain registration, and also I don't like that they're lapdogs to Microsoft. Plus the company's been around for a while (just not registering domains the whole time) stargate.com is like the 20th domain to have been registered.
You hit the nail squarely on the head. As an employee that works at a business that has had a tendency to liberally allow work from home for all it's employees when necessary.
I prefer going in to work mostly because access to network resources are closer and faster (I do a lot of remote desktops across the Internet to random places in the US) and partly because I live so close that it's only about a 5 minute walk down the street and I can't generally justify working from home. Unfortunately, the people left behind are the scheming, whispering kind of people that like to complain about anything and everything amongst themselves about how everyone else in the company is lazy but them and how they carry the company upon their poor broken backs (man, that kind of banter gets tiring.) The truth is that when they aren't visiting each other and carrying on they are visiting each other and shooting the breeze. I can't imagine them getting stuff done.
Very accurate stuff indeed! Thank you sir Spaz you have made my evening.
That's ok, the second picture in is highly phallic and suggest the penetration/piercing of a vagina shaped nebula.
I probably wouldn't have noticed but it didn't take much imagination at all.
Right, because the ability to right-click on red squiggly words is highly indicative of a person's intelligence.
Those who spend their time correcting other people's minor typos on Internet forums may very well pass as more intelligent. "Pass as" being the key phrase there. But, like so much else in life, I suppose appearances count more than substance.
Without getting into a debate on semantics, appearances are all we have. A thing is what it appears to be. It is the very nature of perception. An intelligent looking post is for all intents also an intelligent post until proven otherwise.
On that note, the logical fallacy in your statement is that a spell-checker, should you rely on one as a crutch, will not pick out the subtle difference between the correct usage of loose and lose. (Hint: they are both spelled correctly.)
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Aww hell, I wish I had mod points.
The dividends of our current technology are built up on the research of the past. Which was often knowledge seeking for it knowledge's sake.
Everything we know and use in our daily lives have more to do with Newton, DeCartes, Bernouli, Franklin, Maxwell, Einstein etc. than Ford, Gates, Jobs, etc.
Just because research doesn't appear to have practical applications today, doesn't mean that future technology won't hinge on it.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but these definitions mean nothing because they only mean something in the context of the speaker.
Conservative means that the belief holder is against change and wants things to stay roughly status quo. They feel that things are good they way they are in a if it ain't broke; don't fix it. kind of way.
Classical conservatism (original Republicans) had nothing to do with liberty, it had to do with protecting the rich Northern industry and winning the Civil War for the US at any costs. Hence protecting the status quo for the North.
Neo-con is similar in that it is pro-big business and war-hawkish which is actually just an excuse for no-bid contracts; hence more pro-big business. Unfortunately their fiscal policy tends to align with the compromises of those goals which lends itself to fiscal irresponsibility. They tend to mouth their support of social restrictives like the religious right and some times even throw them a bone, but it is mostly a ploy to get their votes.
A neo-libertarian (what is now called libertarianism) is anti-tax and small government but mostly ends up removing long-standing laws written to protect the public from the conflicting interests of big-money, and hence ends up actually removing freedoms from the populace. This is because they tend to ignore that the lack of a legal framework leaves the weak prey to the strong, like all anarchism does (why should fiscal anarchy be any different?)
A liberal is someone who is for a change, be it women's sufferage, equal rights, decriminalizing drugs, etc. Pure and simple.
right and left wings refer to fascism and communism respectively.
The Democrats and Republicans of today would not recognizable to voters around the civil war times although I think the terms actually meant something then and not shifting meanings based only on the speaker's starting political leanings.
This is all like having some idiot try to explain away the differences between nerd, dweeb, dork and geek. (Hint: they are all synonyms, but if you ask 10 people you'll get ten equally idiotic answers depending on what social group they belonged to in high school!)
Hmmm, interesting.
I actually worked IT in a school and both Google and GeoCities were blocked for those exact reasons. Did that stop the kids that REALLY, REALLY wanted to get to it? Not at all, and it didn't stop the school from punishing the kids when they got caught, and believe me, they got caught. And it wasn't hard to prove anything, I just had to go into the browser history.
But I digress, the real reason I'm commenting is the fallacy that since it's possible to break the rules/software that there shouldn't be any filtering software at all.
What filtering software does, for the most part, is ensure that casual web browsing and clumsy attempts by students doesn't bring up school-inappropriate content. As such it does a wonderful job and makes sure that there is more time by the teachers and helpers to deal with the true trouble-makers.
It's a lot like a security problem. There is no such thing as perfect security and there exists an entire continuum of security counter-measures all the way from laughable windows security through rock-hard defenses. Just because a site may only be able to implement something nearer the middle does not make the act of securing systems useless.
Like nobody would be able to figure out who the parent AC is. Holy-moley, can you leave any more clues?
But I can imagine it would be difficult to keep more than one relationship going at once. Which is why I'm monogamous. Why people want to have more than one and spend the extra effort to keep them separate and secret borders on masochistic.
As to open multi-homed relationships, you are correct sir. Not everyone is up for the challenge.
Just think of the tax savings!
Good point!
Idealists can be good or dangerous. Our forefathers were idealists.
Of course they started a war.
I don't think people have that kind of intestinal fortitude anymore.
I blame television.
In the end I think John Lennon understood that the odds against his utopia were stacked against him, I think that's exactly why he was so vocal. Besides who else was better schooled in the power of music to bring about change.
To be completely honest I feel that if John were alive today he'd be a conservative. Don't ever underestimate how much the Beatles hated taxes.
Uhmm, I use a .NET
.COM it was already taken by a COMPANY. Go figure.
I use it to point to my home NETWORK. While I would like to have
Obviously. I can't believe that we're the only two people to see it. Mod parent up!
You know what, give the lousy ba$tards what they want! They more than anyone else deserve it, and once they start disabling computers willy-nilly it will only beat a path to the OSS door. Why would any company in their right mind turn their entire company over to the trust of a greedy software vendor? They might as well hand over their bank-account numbers and power-of-attorney to BSA while their at it.
It will frankly create a situation ripe for software-license blackmail and extortion.
If they're so intent on shooting themselves in the foot, all the better for the rest of the world. Enough is enough.
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap! Bravo.
It's older than that. I read about it in a magazine years ago. The smallish bananas that you see in the supermarket are part of an aggressive breeding program to get ahead of the disease.
The truth is banana plants haven't been propagated by seed, and only recently (past five years) have there been attempts to find new cultivars, before the bottom falls out of the banana industry.
Nothing is stopping companies from paying the developers. What is this guy's point exactly. And it's not like a company can't add a developer to their payroll to pick up dead OSS projects. Oh wait he's a M$ troll. It's FUD. It says "Please Mr. Company, don't use the OSS product, because it might get dropped, and then where will you be?" And "Please Mr. Developer, don't work on OSS projects, because people are just taking advantage of you." Gagh!
Just speechless.
Of course there is just as much evidence that God exist as doesn't exist.
Just because you've written off all human spiritual experience as useless doesn't mean that there's not a rationality to believing in a higher non-human power. Because essentially what you're saying is "I'm right and you're wrong and you can't say anything that will change my mind." which sounds suspiciously like faith.
A lot of people will probably think I'm a bigot.
Yup, and it's your extreme lack of tolerance and your ability to lump all religious into the same category that causes it.
For what it's worth, I switched to StarGate from GoDaddy. They aren't too much more expensive and I like that I'm not pandering to the company that has those awfully stupid commercials that have nothing to do with domain registration, and also I don't like that they're lapdogs to Microsoft. Plus the company's been around for a while (just not registering domains the whole time) stargate.com is like the 20th domain to have been registered.
You hit the nail squarely on the head. As an employee that works at a business that has had a tendency to liberally allow work from home for all it's employees when necessary. I prefer going in to work mostly because access to network resources are closer and faster (I do a lot of remote desktops across the Internet to random places in the US) and partly because I live so close that it's only about a 5 minute walk down the street and I can't generally justify working from home. Unfortunately, the people left behind are the scheming, whispering kind of people that like to complain about anything and everything amongst themselves about how everyone else in the company is lazy but them and how they carry the company upon their poor broken backs (man, that kind of banter gets tiring.) The truth is that when they aren't visiting each other and carrying on they are visiting each other and shooting the breeze. I can't imagine them getting stuff done. Very accurate stuff indeed! Thank you sir Spaz you have made my evening.
Gruel. Hemp seed has almost no appreciable THC content and is more nutrient dense than soybeans. A porridge made from which has been called gruel.
Because I have only received about 10 spam mails in 24 hours, when my usual flow is between 200 and 500 spams a day (filtered, thank ghod)
/. and sure enough. Asshole #1 was caught.
I decided that some SPAM king must have been busted. So I checked
Does that mean that most of my SPAM came from just that one guy?
If it were up to all of you Luddites, we would still be using gas lights in our home. Move into the 21st century!
Are you kidding me? That's the worst bit of blogging/commenting I've seen since the youtube commenting.
That's ok, the second picture in is highly phallic and suggest the penetration/piercing of a vagina shaped nebula.
I probably wouldn't have noticed but it didn't take much imagination at all.
Those who spend their time correcting other people's minor typos on Internet forums may very well pass as more intelligent. "Pass as" being the key phrase there. But, like so much else in life, I suppose appearances count more than substance.
Without getting into a debate on semantics, appearances are all we have. A thing is what it appears to be. It is the very nature of perception. An intelligent looking post is for all intents also an intelligent post until proven otherwise.
On that note, the logical fallacy in your statement is that a spell-checker, should you rely on one as a crutch, will not pick out the subtle difference between the correct usage of loose and lose. (Hint: they are both spelled correctly.)