Funny, your sig said something about Photoshop having 20 layers, yet everything is black and white for you - no gray scale - so why do you use photoshop?
Theist: The invisible green dragon in my basement is the only true green dragon and believing in any other invisible dragons is blasphemy. I have made up my mind, so don't confuse me with facts. I'll wage a jihad against all non-believers.
Atheist: There are no dragons. I have made up my mind, so don't confuse me with facts. Bring on the jihad, I will defend myself against opression.
Agnostic: I don't care about your invisible green dragon, since its existence cannot be proven. There are no facts. Therefore the whole argument is moot. Now go and play jihad over there and keep it down would you?
Agnostics say that the existance or non-existence of super beings cannot be proven. Intervention of super beings in our life cannot be proven either. There is no factual evidence of any super being activity on earth.
Therefore, praying about a problem is exactly the same as ignoring the problem and talking about Gods (Theism) is just learned idling, as Nietche put it.
You are saying that a 3rd position is impossible.
You therefore deny the existence of both Gnosticism and Agnosticism and thereby run the risk of drawing the wrath of some tens of millions of Gnostics - fortunately the Agnostics don't care, so they won't bother you:-)
Agnostics merely hold that the existence of a Super Being cannot be proven or disproven, therefore the whole argument is moot. This is a 3rd position, which I tend to summarize as HFC (Hoo F*ing Cares).;-)
"Those who attacked Huxley and agnosticism tended to ignore the careful distinctions which he made, lumping agnostics in with atheists, materialists, and other "infidels." Taken in addition to the very traditional and conservative morals of the first Agnostics, who were careful to comport themselves like model middle-class Victorians, the distinctions are important to an explanation of the movement's influence. Where the atheist says that God does not exist, the agnostic says that reason can never be used to prove the existence of a being who transcends reason, and whether or not He exists, He does not intervene in human affairs, making speculation about His existence moot. We are on our own."
"Yep, but I also know that the last time it needed an upgrade (for Y2K, something Windows already handled gracefully), we had to ship the entire box cross-country to get the upgrade installed."
Good grief - and how many years ago was that? Must have been very traumatic if you are still upset about it.
Linux is maintenance free - much like your WinNT - just much better...
American public school English is to be helping and not to be laughful at...
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What you are saying is that fixing broken Windows takes up so much of your time, that you can't afford to look at an alternative. Stand still and think about it for a moment.
The fact is that you can install almost any shrink wrapped Linux distribution, do a default installation and have almost zero support issues for the next year. Honestly, I almost never patch my Linux servers and only upgrade them every 3 years.
In a small business situation, any Linux box is as reliable as a refrigerator. Just leave it alone and it will keep working for a long, long time.
Think of that ancient UNIX machine you talked about - how much effort do you invest in maintaining it? Pretty much zero huh? After all, you don't even know how it works. Now imagine if all your computers were that reliable...
An ACL to block all WMF files? That is a start, but a WMF file need not use a.wmf extension. It is identified the UNIX way, with a magic number, so it could just as well be called.jpg or.wtf...
I unregistered and renamed the shimgvw DLL and turned Windoze Restore off, so it can't be re-registered. However, the real culprit gdi32 DLL is too important to be deregistered and some applications call that one directly.
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Since Pluto is the God of the Nether World, this is clear proof that hell is frozen quite solid.
Mick Jagger? Is that you? ("I'm so hot and she's so cold" - for those who can't get the joke.)
Funny, your sig said something about Photoshop having 20 layers, yet everything is black and white for you - no gray scale - so why do you use photoshop?
Theist:
The invisible green dragon in my basement is the only true green dragon and believing in any other invisible dragons is blasphemy. I have made up my mind, so don't confuse me with facts. I'll wage a jihad against all non-believers.
Atheist:
There are no dragons. I have made up my mind, so don't confuse me with facts. Bring on the jihad, I will defend myself against opression.
Agnostic:
I don't care about your invisible green dragon, since its existence cannot be proven. There are no facts. Therefore the whole argument is moot. Now go and play jihad over there and keep it down would you?
Agnostics say that the existance or non-existence of super beings cannot be proven. Intervention of super beings in our life cannot be proven either. There is no factual evidence of any super being activity on earth.
Therefore, praying about a problem is exactly the same as ignoring the problem and talking about Gods (Theism) is just learned idling, as Nietche put it.
See this: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide13.html
Sounds like the secret to perpetual motion. Use this material to speed up something without expending any energy...
You are saying that a 3rd position is impossible. You therefore deny the existence of both Gnosticism and Agnosticism and thereby run the risk of drawing the wrath of some tens of millions of Gnostics - fortunately the Agnostics don't care, so they won't bother you :-)
Agnostics merely hold that the existence of a Super Being cannot be proven or disproven, therefore the whole argument is moot. This is a 3rd position, which I tend to summarize as HFC (Hoo F*ing Cares). ;-)
BTW, it is no use arguing with me. Rather read what Prof. Huxley said about the matter - he invented the term: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide13.html
Unfortunately, he is long gone...
Theism and Gnosticism are not the same thing.
Atheism and Agnosticism therefore cannot be the same thing either.
Abbyword, Kword?
"Those who attacked Huxley and agnosticism tended to ignore the careful distinctions which he made, lumping agnostics in with atheists, materialists, and other "infidels." Taken in addition to the very traditional and conservative morals of the first Agnostics, who were careful to comport themselves like model middle-class Victorians, the distinctions are important to an explanation of the movement's influence. Where the atheist says that God does not exist, the agnostic says that reason can never be used to prove the existence of a being who transcends reason, and whether or not He exists, He does not intervene in human affairs, making speculation about His existence moot. We are on our own."
No, agnostics simply don't give a damn: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/
The UK and USA are two countries divided by a common language...
The poor will always be with us and only the rich can save them...
Fortunately, the USA is severely hobbled by its patent system and divided by its religious zealots...
So go take a welding course before you try again...
Zealots hate agnosticism even more. They can't stand being ignored, or kindly smiled upon...
Bah Humbug! Totem won't play the WMF movie. Obviously Linux is not ready for the desktop yet.
Nowadays, fame and intelligence are mutually exclusive.
"Yep, but I also know that the last time it needed an upgrade (for Y2K, something Windows already handled gracefully), we had to ship the entire box cross-country to get the upgrade installed." Good grief - and how many years ago was that? Must have been very traumatic if you are still upset about it. Linux is maintenance free - much like your WinNT - just much better...
all of 90MHz. I'm about as impressed as a sloth who just found another shady tree branch to hang from - yawn...
American public school English is to be helping and not to be laughful at...
What you are saying is that fixing broken Windows takes up so much of your time, that you can't afford to look at an alternative. Stand still and think about it for a moment.
The fact is that you can install almost any shrink wrapped Linux distribution, do a default installation and have almost zero support issues for the next year. Honestly, I almost never patch my Linux servers and only upgrade them every 3 years.
In a small business situation, any Linux box is as reliable as a refrigerator. Just leave it alone and it will keep working for a long, long time.
Think of that ancient UNIX machine you talked about - how much effort do you invest in maintaining it? Pretty much zero huh? After all, you don't even know how it works. Now imagine if all your computers were that reliable...
An ACL to block all WMF files? That is a start, but a WMF file need not use a .wmf extension. It is identified the UNIX way, with a magic number, so it could just as well be called .jpg or .wtf...
I unregistered and renamed the shimgvw DLL and turned Windoze Restore off, so it can't be re-registered. However, the real culprit gdi32 DLL is too important to be deregistered and some applications call that one directly.
"If you were running a DRM'd PC, this DLL would allow you to retake your own computer."
Oh no! Call the RIAA Goon Squad! Got to go and beat the snot out of Paul Allen to get this fixed ASAP!