Ah, the 300A... The only time I ever wished I'd bought into the "slot 1" platform instead of sticking with Socket 7 was when I saw what people were doing with that CPU. Those slots still sucked, though.
Sadly, your comment should replace the word "country" with "corporations." Your second sentence sounds just about right. Both parties are big, powerful, and corrupt. It's going to be very difficult to remove them. Surprisingly enough, my sig is actually relevant!
Oh, hell, that'd be perfect! Have a brief cameo of an Aibo-like creature, being played with by some kid, and have the Aibo thingy die a horrible death by climbing into the engine of a Viper (or whatever they use in this movie). Show the glory that is a plastic robot getting incinerated by jet exhaust in FANTASTIC SLOW MOTION! Just be sure to write the name "Muffit" in big bold letters on the side of the dog. Awww, yeah!:)
It's both. If the daughter in question dresses like a whore, some people won't even consider who she is, how she behaves, or what she has to say. If she dresses formally, but is a bitch, certain circles will accept her simply for her image.
I was looking at drives this weekend and saw a 60GB Maxtor. It was perhaps the last 3-year warranty drive I'll ever see, and the only one of its kind on the shelf, so naturally I snatched it up. All of the drives with newer packaging, including the 8MB cache drives, were labeled as having 1-year warranties. Truly sad.
Your post really makes me wonder where the hell these Islamic "fundies" came from. Just a few centuries ago, the Islamic nations were paragons of culture, art, commerce, and science. Now it seems all they want to do is rip civilization apart and oppress anyone who opposes their views. How did this happen? Or is my view just distorted by my exposure to the media and a history faculty that buttered up Islamic history for me?
We can do good without a concept of Good, and we can commit wrongdoing without a concept of Evil? Isn't that contradictory?
I don't see how such a thing is possible. I cannot knowingly commit a good act without having a concept of Good. Likewise, I cannot have a concept for redness without knowing what Red is.
...that moderated this up. I may be in the extreme minority, here, but I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time and have not finished yet. Now I know what's going to happen at Mount Doom; the single most anticipated moment of the entire story. Thanks for nothing. Jerks.
I've had the same problem with IE6. Damn straight it's annoying. I had a gif-less page working just fine in Mozilla and was content that my work was done. Then I looked at it in IE. Eww.
I can't imagine how Sun will handle losing Oracle. The server market seems to be moving to an open-source, "free" platform that more or less removes the OS from the cost equation. Perhaps Sun could do well as a hardware + OS support company and release Solaris "freely"? Sun Linux?
Not just transparency, in my experience; PNG in general. I was testing a site in Mozilla and IE6. Everything was fine in Mozilla, but IE6 was color-shifting my PNGs a little, in effect darkening them. They didn't match my HTML-specified backgrounds anymore. It looked horrible. I switched to GIFs and it looked fine in both. I really wanted to use PNG because they were significantly smaller files in my case, but I also don't want to have IE6 users bugging me about supposedly bad pages.
Or a big bonus. Geez. I don't give a rip about the credit, but I would like somebody to remember those times I've turned a manager's "no, we can't do that" into a 5-minute solution that makes everybody happy when it's evaluation time. I want some of that bonus pay, too.
The fact that the human mind (mostly Americans) DOES invest some meaning and value in the United States' Flag gives it value and meaning to those people. I just happen to be one of them. You can no more devalue the flag, which represents my country, than you can devalue a cross or crescent moon or Star of David, which represents much more to many more people. You can think whatever you want of either, but to claim that it is invalid as anything more than a piece of fabric or wood is at least disrespectful. You might as well say that Michelangelo's David is just a chunk of stone. I don't know what you hold dear, or what you consider of value to you (possibly nothing), but at the very least you *should* derive some value from your family. I may as well say your family is just a bunch of biological material that you happen to share some traits with and there's nothing special about it whatsoever. You family has no value that your mind does not create. Does that mean you family really has no value?
I never said the USA has one set of values, but there is a limited set of values which the country and its flag represent. Read the Declaration of Independence if you need a reference. Values beyond that are not what the flag and this country are specifically about. I value those things stated in the Declaration, and I value the flag that represents it.
A disease? Patriotism? Even asprin, which can be a cure in small amounts, is a poison in large quantities. You have a point, there, but to refer to asprin as a poison of a different degree is rather inappropriate, don't you think?
I am proud of this country because I believe in what it's supposed to be about (again, the Declaration of Independence comes to mind). I'm grateful to have been born here, and I'm grateful just to have been born at all. Should I not be happy to be alive because it's just some random event in the eternity of the universe? Should I be indifferent to those things about my life that I enjoy which just happen to be the results of somebody else's decisions? Should I devalue my family because I had no say in who they are? Every one of us has countless things in our lives, even knowledge and skills, which we really had no control over. The fact that I'm good with music has nothing to do with any of my choices, it just comes naturally. Should I not be proud of this?
I get all the enjoyment out of life I can. It's all too short. I'm not going to be indifferent to the good things I don't choose, and I'm not going to devalue the people in my life because I didn't make the choice to have them here. I'm going to be proud of them, and enjoy them. They'll be gone before I know it.
It has everything to do with this tragedy. This was an attack on our country and its ideals, which the flag represents. It being there is a powerful statement.
Nationalism and patriotism are NOT naturally associated with xenophobia, and they are NOT the sole property of "Christian Identity groups and militias."
I am an American. I'm grateful to have been born here and to live here. That makes me patriotic. Does that mean I'm a xenophobe, part of a Christian Identity group or militia? Nope.
I am a Christian. Does this mean I go around bombing abortion clinics? Does this mean I have a compound in Wyoming with all my little Christian friends? Does this mean I'm an evil S.O.B. who wants to kill everybody who doesn't agree with me? Nope.
My ancestry is German. I have a lot of history and culture associated with my bloodline. I'm proud of my family and my heritage. Does that make me racist? Does that make me a Nazi? Nope.
You live in a scary place. There are scary people where you live. You're making the mistake of associating one of their characteristics with others. Don't do that. That's like me looking at past terrorism acts by a few evil Muslims and automatically assuming that Muslims are scary, evil people who probably did this, too. You're just as bad as the people you're accusing, you're just of the opposing opinion.
I looked at that posted page and almost cried. So many people have died for the cause of freedom, for which this country and its flag stands. I am grateful for their sacrifice. Yes, I'm patriotic. If I wasn't, I'd be a real asshole for snubbing my nose at the gifts I've been given. That's why this picture is important. That's why it's powerful. Try to appreciate the fact that you are free to disagree with me and I'm not going to beat your ass in for it, regardless of how much I may want to, because I believe in what this country and its flag represent.
The Power Glove was nothing like this. All it did was contain little switches inside that activated depending on what joints you had bent in your hand. Yes, it did suck, but this is completely different.:)
Last I checked, we had an estimate of the Universe's age at something between 11 and 17 billion years. That being the case, we have two possibilities.
1 - This known to be finite Universe simply... started.
2 - This known to be finite Universe was created. By whom or what, there is no proof. A finite thing being created is more plausible than a finite thing simply appearing from nothing.
As for spontaneous particles in quantum mechanics, they could just be echoes of other particles at the other side of the universe, or perhaps all atoms in the universe pop from one location to another constantly. Nobody knows what they are or what they mean. The phenomenon has only been observed, not deciphered. It has been shown that the semblance of an atom can be projected into a space without there actually being an atom there. If I could remember the article where I found that, I'd post it. It had something to do with IBM toying with atom-sized circuits. They arranged atoms in an elipse, and placed another atom at one of the foci. What seemed to be an atom appeared at the other focus.
Oh, stop trolling. Created? By who? Who created that entity? Nobody? That entity must be pretty damn complex, then. Or I could just postulate that a simple universe came into being (or has always existed). Occam's Razor, you lose, I win.
A Universe simply came into being? That's pretty far fetched. You can't get something from nothing.
A Universe that has always existed? You're still talking about something that has always been and always will be. How is that different than believing that there is an entity that has always been and always will be and created the Universe? The only difference is that you're more comfortable thinking about an eternal "thing" than an eternal "being."
Just because of the Roman Empire we have had to put up with 2000 years of paranoid psychotic fundyism
Actually, it's more like 1500 years, but who's counting.
Looking at the historical record, Christians have done far more to persecute and kill others than they have ever suffered
Wrong. The atrocities commited in the name of Christ were commited by innocent people who were manipulated by the corrupt and anti-Christ church, a political entity. Thus, it was the politicians using and abusing the faith of the people who brought about such attrocities. Those they manipulated continued to suffer all through the time of the church's domination in Europe. Looking at it that way, Christians never stopped suffering.
To so many Christians simply not sharing their beliefs is tantamount to religious bigotry and persecution.
That makes no sense at all. Because I'm not out on the streets sharing my beliefs, I'm being persecuted and am a victim of bigotry? You're either used to dealing with some seriously messed up people who in no way represent what Christianity is all about, or are getting your signals crossed.
They demand prayer in school (which is always forced and lead by teachers. I grew up in Alabama, so I know the reality, when they say it is always student lead and not imposed, they either don't know what is going on, or are lying).
It may have been in your school, but in my school, it really was a bunch of students who instituted a before-school prayer session. It really was students who went to the principal to obtain permission to do it. I grew up in Hawaii, so I know the reality. Yes, I just made a fallacy, as you did. You assume that your experience in Alabama is reality, where it really demonstrates the reality at your school in your community. Things were much different in my school and my community. To assume it constitutes a relevant reality to everyone else is a mistake. Be careful that you avoid making the mistakes that lead to bigotry. You're very close to it.
Christians must believe that without coercion from the government their religion will die out.
Not true at all. The Christians I know don't feel that way, and I, as a Christian, believe that government support of my Faith will result in its downfall as a part of mainstream culture. It's a historical fact that government-sanctioned/supported religions eventually die (often along with the government that supported them), while those the government persecutes endure, and even can rise to take their place. In that way, a cycle is born.
There's a reason why the United States of America was created with separation of church and state in mind. When either has a hold on the other, they both go down hard.
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Ah, the 300A... The only time I ever wished I'd bought into the "slot 1" platform instead of sticking with Socket 7 was when I saw what people were doing with that CPU. Those slots still sucked, though.
Sadly, your comment should replace the word "country" with "corporations." Your second sentence sounds just about right. Both parties are big, powerful, and corrupt. It's going to be very difficult to remove them. Surprisingly enough, my sig is actually relevant!
Alrighty, Tiax, your padded room is ready. (obscure joke)
But the Harvey Birdman car is real. It's a prize in some contest, I think. I want that car. :)
Ah, but if you push off from one wall, and somebody throws the steak at you from the opposite direction, you could spear the steak! :9
Ah, f$#@ it, just grab the steak with your hands and chow down!
Better yet, do this in your Mustang GT Bullitt. "I'm just getting ready for the remake, officer."
Oh, hell, that'd be perfect! Have a brief cameo of an Aibo-like creature, being played with by some kid, and have the Aibo thingy die a horrible death by climbing into the engine of a Viper (or whatever they use in this movie). Show the glory that is a plastic robot getting incinerated by jet exhaust in FANTASTIC SLOW MOTION! Just be sure to write the name "Muffit" in big bold letters on the side of the dog. Awww, yeah! :)
It's both. If the daughter in question dresses like a whore, some people won't even consider who she is, how she behaves, or what she has to say. If she dresses formally, but is a bitch, certain circles will accept her simply for her image.
;)
Farking Narrow-Minded...uh...left-and-right-wingers
I was looking at drives this weekend and saw a 60GB Maxtor. It was perhaps the last 3-year warranty drive I'll ever see, and the only one of its kind on the shelf, so naturally I snatched it up. All of the drives with newer packaging, including the 8MB cache drives, were labeled as having 1-year warranties. Truly sad.
Your post really makes me wonder where the hell these Islamic "fundies" came from. Just a few centuries ago, the Islamic nations were paragons of culture, art, commerce, and science. Now it seems all they want to do is rip civilization apart and oppress anyone who opposes their views. How did this happen? Or is my view just distorted by my exposure to the media and a history faculty that buttered up Islamic history for me?
So let me get this straight:
We can do good without a concept of Good, and we can commit wrongdoing without a concept of Evil? Isn't that contradictory?
I don't see how such a thing is possible. I cannot knowingly commit a good act without having a concept of Good. Likewise, I cannot have a concept for redness without knowing what Red is.
...that moderated this up. I may be in the extreme minority, here, but I'm reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time and have not finished yet. Now I know what's going to happen at Mount Doom; the single most anticipated moment of the entire story. Thanks for nothing. Jerks.
So you're saying that this is all a lie?
I've had the same problem with IE6. Damn straight it's annoying. I had a gif-less page working just fine in Mozilla and was content that my work was done. Then I looked at it in IE. Eww.
I can't imagine how Sun will handle losing Oracle. The server market seems to be moving to an open-source, "free" platform that more or less removes the OS from the cost equation. Perhaps Sun could do well as a hardware + OS support company and release Solaris "freely"? Sun Linux?
Not just transparency, in my experience; PNG in general. I was testing a site in Mozilla and IE6. Everything was fine in Mozilla, but IE6 was color-shifting my PNGs a little, in effect darkening them. They didn't match my HTML-specified backgrounds anymore. It looked horrible. I switched to GIFs and it looked fine in both. I really wanted to use PNG because they were significantly smaller files in my case, but I also don't want to have IE6 users bugging me about supposedly bad pages.
Or a big bonus. Geez. I don't give a rip about the credit, but I would like somebody to remember those times I've turned a manager's "no, we can't do that" into a 5-minute solution that makes everybody happy when it's evaluation time. I want some of that bonus pay, too.
The fact that the human mind (mostly Americans) DOES invest some meaning and value in the United States' Flag gives it value and meaning to those people. I just happen to be one of them. You can no more devalue the flag, which represents my country, than you can devalue a cross or crescent moon or Star of David, which represents much more to many more people. You can think whatever you want of either, but to claim that it is invalid as anything more than a piece of fabric or wood is at least disrespectful. You might as well say that Michelangelo's David is just a chunk of stone. I don't know what you hold dear, or what you consider of value to you (possibly nothing), but at the very least you *should* derive some value from your family. I may as well say your family is just a bunch of biological material that you happen to share some traits with and there's nothing special about it whatsoever. You family has no value that your mind does not create. Does that mean you family really has no value?
I never said the USA has one set of values, but there is a limited set of values which the country and its flag represent. Read the Declaration of Independence if you need a reference. Values beyond that are not what the flag and this country are specifically about. I value those things stated in the Declaration, and I value the flag that represents it.
A disease? Patriotism? Even asprin, which can be a cure in small amounts, is a poison in large quantities. You have a point, there, but to refer to asprin as a poison of a different degree is rather inappropriate, don't you think?
I am proud of this country because I believe in what it's supposed to be about (again, the Declaration of Independence comes to mind). I'm grateful to have been born here, and I'm grateful just to have been born at all. Should I not be happy to be alive because it's just some random event in the eternity of the universe? Should I be indifferent to those things about my life that I enjoy which just happen to be the results of somebody else's decisions? Should I devalue my family because I had no say in who they are? Every one of us has countless things in our lives, even knowledge and skills, which we really had no control over. The fact that I'm good with music has nothing to do with any of my choices, it just comes naturally. Should I not be proud of this?
I get all the enjoyment out of life I can. It's all too short. I'm not going to be indifferent to the good things I don't choose, and I'm not going to devalue the people in my life because I didn't make the choice to have them here. I'm going to be proud of them, and enjoy them. They'll be gone before I know it.
It has everything to do with this tragedy. This was an attack on our country and its ideals, which the flag represents. It being there is a powerful statement.
Nationalism and patriotism are NOT naturally associated with xenophobia, and they are NOT the sole property of "Christian Identity groups and militias."
I am an American. I'm grateful to have been born here and to live here. That makes me patriotic. Does that mean I'm a xenophobe, part of a Christian Identity group or militia? Nope.
I am a Christian. Does this mean I go around bombing abortion clinics? Does this mean I have a compound in Wyoming with all my little Christian friends? Does this mean I'm an evil S.O.B. who wants to kill everybody who doesn't agree with me? Nope.
My ancestry is German. I have a lot of history and culture associated with my bloodline. I'm proud of my family and my heritage. Does that make me racist? Does that make me a Nazi? Nope.
You live in a scary place. There are scary people where you live. You're making the mistake of associating one of their characteristics with others. Don't do that. That's like me looking at past terrorism acts by a few evil Muslims and automatically assuming that Muslims are scary, evil people who probably did this, too. You're just as bad as the people you're accusing, you're just of the opposing opinion.
I looked at that posted page and almost cried. So many people have died for the cause of freedom, for which this country and its flag stands. I am grateful for their sacrifice. Yes, I'm patriotic. If I wasn't, I'd be a real asshole for snubbing my nose at the gifts I've been given. That's why this picture is important. That's why it's powerful. Try to appreciate the fact that you are free to disagree with me and I'm not going to beat your ass in for it, regardless of how much I may want to, because I believe in what this country and its flag represent.
...at least he mis-pronounced the punctuation.
The Power Glove was nothing like this. All it did was contain little switches inside that activated depending on what joints you had bent in your hand. Yes, it did suck, but this is completely different. :)
Last I checked, we had an estimate of the Universe's age at something between 11 and 17 billion years. That being the case, we have two possibilities.
1 - This known to be finite Universe simply... started.
2 - This known to be finite Universe was created. By whom or what, there is no proof. A finite thing being created is more plausible than a finite thing simply appearing from nothing.
As for spontaneous particles in quantum mechanics, they could just be echoes of other particles at the other side of the universe, or perhaps all atoms in the universe pop from one location to another constantly. Nobody knows what they are or what they mean. The phenomenon has only been observed, not deciphered. It has been shown that the semblance of an atom can be projected into a space without there actually being an atom there. If I could remember the article where I found that, I'd post it. It had something to do with IBM toying with atom-sized circuits. They arranged atoms in an elipse, and placed another atom at one of the foci. What seemed to be an atom appeared at the other focus.
Oh, stop trolling. Created? By who? Who created that entity? Nobody? That entity must be pretty damn complex, then. Or I could just postulate that a simple universe came into being (or has always existed). Occam's Razor, you lose, I win.
A Universe simply came into being? That's pretty far fetched. You can't get something from nothing.
A Universe that has always existed? You're still talking about something that has always been and always will be. How is that different than believing that there is an entity that has always been and always will be and created the Universe? The only difference is that you're more comfortable thinking about an eternal "thing" than an eternal "being."
Just because of the Roman Empire we have had to put up with 2000 years of paranoid psychotic fundyism
Actually, it's more like 1500 years, but who's counting.
Looking at the historical record, Christians have done far more to persecute and kill others than they have ever suffered
Wrong. The atrocities commited in the name of Christ were commited by innocent people who were manipulated by the corrupt and anti-Christ church, a political entity. Thus, it was the politicians using and abusing the faith of the people who brought about such attrocities. Those they manipulated continued to suffer all through the time of the church's domination in Europe. Looking at it that way, Christians never stopped suffering.
To so many Christians simply not sharing their beliefs is tantamount to religious bigotry and persecution.
That makes no sense at all. Because I'm not out on the streets sharing my beliefs, I'm being persecuted and am a victim of bigotry? You're either used to dealing with some seriously messed up people who in no way represent what Christianity is all about, or are getting your signals crossed.
They demand prayer in school (which is always forced and lead by teachers. I grew up in Alabama, so I know the reality, when they say it is always student lead and not imposed, they either don't know what is going on, or are lying).
It may have been in your school, but in my school, it really was a bunch of students who instituted a before-school prayer session. It really was students who went to the principal to obtain permission to do it. I grew up in Hawaii, so I know the reality. Yes, I just made a fallacy, as you did. You assume that your experience in Alabama is reality, where it really demonstrates the reality at your school in your community. Things were much different in my school and my community. To assume it constitutes a relevant reality to everyone else is a mistake. Be careful that you avoid making the mistakes that lead to bigotry. You're very close to it.
Christians must believe that without coercion from the government their religion will die out.
Not true at all. The Christians I know don't feel that way, and I, as a Christian, believe that government support of my Faith will result in its downfall as a part of mainstream culture. It's a historical fact that government-sanctioned/supported religions eventually die (often along with the government that supported them), while those the government persecutes endure, and even can rise to take their place. In that way, a cycle is born.
There's a reason why the United States of America was created with separation of church and state in mind. When either has a hold on the other, they both go down hard.
Good point. Being one who has never given much thought to the prefab OEM market, the reality of it never occured to me. I stand (sit?) corrected.