> Less guns = less gun violence. Pretty straightforward. I guess you're being ironic, have you thought that through? Removing something from most people makes it valuable for those who still have it. "In the land of blind men the one eyed man is king".
Also missing is a series of other correlations to factors like: psychotropic drugs, violence on tv and videogames, social dynamics in the family... Some of these topics are taboo, the NRA has a lot to learn from other organisations, apparently.
Also, given that people can kill in a variety of ways, the only way to stop this kind of murders is to live like prisoners, with curfews, checkpoints, total surveillance, precrime and so on.
Of course i realize that not all factors have the same weight. My position: taking arms away from lunatics sure helps. This phrase is like "putting criminals in jail is beneficial". The problem is in the execution. Also, the governments who label you a terrorist for expressing distress at an airport or the police forces that tase "to be on the safe side" are lunatics.
First of all people should learn to use the term agnosticism. It's 2012, you can look up a peculiar term with a click in a contextual menu.
Then atheism IS a religion, because it discusses things outside reality (denying a creator means denying transcendent stuff).
All the wonderful and convolute proofs for and against god are based on coarse assumptions that you can apply logic outside reality. Which is a problem if you claim atheism has something to do with science and logic.
If you can imagine a world where the principle of no contradiction doesn't hold (I leave that as an exercise), then you prove our logic is not "meta enough" to be used on a god.
And btw the hypothesis that some logic system can bind some gods is just picking a different concept and declaring it god. You call that... religion.
Take one atheist argument and throw a "property undefined in this context" whenever human logic and properties are applied to hypothetical god's domain. See how many survive.
> "The movie is accusing us of following a religion of violence. Such accusations are intolerable - start murdering unrelated people until the insults stop!"
it's standard terrorism doublethink, like: the government is evil! let's kill the common people!
If i were to define terrorism i'd say it's 1% violent reaction as a last resort and 99% trolling at geopolitical level.
Nope, you are not pleased by a scale but by a melody and harmony which have some challenge in it. Ditto for jokes. Ditto for valve sound which is technically more distorted but yet pleasant.
You just need to find the amount of challenge to feed to your brain.
The interference in decoding sound is specific to the kind of input, which is quite different than sight.
There are surely different properties which make the golden ration common in nature, but parent had asked why we like it.
the intrinsic property is its definition a+b:a = a:b
that is harmonic for the same reason a sound is harmonic as opposed to white noise: the brain recognizes a pattern and gives itself a pat on the shoulder.
> Why would a program even have access to mouse activity that isn't occurring within its window?
To properly implement xeyes, obviously.
PS: n00b!:->
PS2: I found this js version of xeyes, you IE users should have eyes following you outside the browser windows, right? With my ff on linux they stop following outside the window.
It's easy to say if fracking pollutes water. Make the author of the study, the bosses of the drilling companies, the main owners of the banks who finance them and their families drink the water they guarantee as safe. House the japanese government in the Fukushima district.
I think the most important piece of the summary is not that the googly cloudy system failed (clouds fail, reality different than spin, is it still news?).
It is that it may be possible to crash chrome from remote, proof of concept exploits may follow soon.
I see a dissolving circuit very problematic, you have to shut it down in a way that no interference with the heart is performed during dissolution. Stem cell therapy seems easier:)
It is not a big issue itself, it's a big signal though: those who sell user data without a fricking "I agree" dialog are not very trustworthy. I had already lost Canonical when they decided a 50 meg tomboy app was to stay in an installation cd and gimp had to go.
This is not spreading FUD, this is being in FUD and telling others.
The ease of solving the problem posed by Canonical choices is a BIG advertisement to FOSS philosophy. Ultimately the user is free. Free to hop to another distro without losing documents, or even configuration files. To remove the unwanted feature.
The other implication is: every link you post is potentially landing you in jail if for whatever reason it is altered to point to illegal content.
You link a lolcat pic, the lolcat site goes belly up, the domain gets sold and the page becomes mere ad space, one of the ad gets hacked or the ads display adult content. YOU are now linking to illegal stuff or inappropriate stuff (the lolcat pic was in a site for students or teens and now it displays boobs).
Improbable you say? SURE. But how many links you will post in your life?
The long term implications is no linking for fear of problems. The www becomes the oligopoly of big sites, high barrier to entry, just like tv network.
But it was probably meant to be this way since the potential of the internet for oppressing or liberating people became known to the status-quo powerful people.
Except that at least for the religion I am familiar with, a fundamentalist cannot force anybody or hurt him in any way without going against the most important commandment and the set example. So a fanatic, as described by you, has a dose of grey in his white.
Also, if a weird guy says `it is going to end up like this`, and that happens for real, it is indeed the other guys and their rambling marketspeak who suffer from disconnection from reality. So I refuse an appeal to majority. The majority deals with problems the would not have with FOSS every day, pay when more powerful free alternatives exist, and so on.
Seeing everything in black or white is being fanatic, but calling black black and white white is being right. Truth has always been hated, by imposing lies or by adopting relativism. Those two strategies are not opposed, they are cooperating. Don`t fall for it.
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> Less guns = less gun violence. Pretty straightforward.
I guess you're being ironic, have you thought that through? Removing something from most people makes it valuable for those who still have it.
"In the land of blind men the one eyed man is king".
All in two words: black market.
Also missing is a series of other correlations to factors like: psychotropic drugs, violence on tv and videogames, social dynamics in the family... Some of these topics are taboo, the NRA has a lot to learn from other organisations, apparently.
Also, given that people can kill in a variety of ways, the only way to stop this kind of murders is to live like prisoners, with curfews, checkpoints, total surveillance, precrime and so on.
Of course i realize that not all factors have the same weight. My position: taking arms away from lunatics sure helps. This phrase is like "putting criminals in jail is beneficial". The problem is in the execution.
Also, the governments who label you a terrorist for expressing distress at an airport or the police forces that tase "to be on the safe side" are lunatics.
Mod parent up.
It concisely explains all the apparent inconsistencies about patents.
The patent system is damn perfect as it is now, but for a different purpose than the one advertised.
> I gave up using my own server to send email a couple of years ago for precisely these reasons
In fact, that's probably what the cartel wants, ultimately.
And, the sudden illumination came.
Cobol, ALWAYS SHOUTING, overly verbose, precise to the point of inflexibility, oriented towards commercial and financial application.
COBOL COULD ONLY HAVE ORIGINATED FROM THE MIND OF A WOMAN.
First of all people should learn to use the term agnosticism. It's 2012, you can look up a peculiar term with a click in a contextual menu.
Then atheism IS a religion, because it discusses things outside reality (denying a creator means denying transcendent stuff).
All the wonderful and convolute proofs for and against god are based on coarse assumptions that you can apply logic outside reality. Which is a problem if you claim atheism has something to do with science and logic.
If you can imagine a world where the principle of no contradiction doesn't hold (I leave that as an exercise), then you prove our logic is not "meta enough" to be used on a god.
And btw the hypothesis that some logic system can bind some gods is just picking a different concept and declaring it god. You call that... religion.
Take one atheist argument and throw a "property undefined in this context" whenever human logic and properties are applied to hypothetical god's domain. See how many survive.
>We do not live in a police state.
Let me guess...
We live in a police planet?
> "The movie is accusing us of following a religion of violence. Such accusations are intolerable - start murdering unrelated people until the insults stop!"
it's standard terrorism doublethink, like: the government is evil! let's kill the common people!
If i were to define terrorism i'd say it's 1% violent reaction as a last resort and 99% trolling at geopolitical level.
Interesting, so the reported leak is towards the server not the other pages.
Nope, you are not pleased by a scale but by a melody and harmony which have some challenge in it. Ditto for jokes. Ditto for valve sound which is technically more distorted but yet pleasant.
You just need to find the amount of challenge to feed to your brain.
The interference in decoding sound is specific to the kind of input, which is quite different than sight.
There are surely different properties which make the golden ration common in nature, but parent had asked why we like it.
Will it be patent-walled?
the intrinsic property is its definition a+b:a = a:b
that is harmonic for the same reason a sound is harmonic as opposed to white noise: the brain recognizes a pattern and gives itself a pat on the shoulder.
> Why would a program even have access to mouse activity that isn't occurring within its window?
To properly implement xeyes, obviously.
PS: n00b! :->
PS2: I found this js version of xeyes, you IE users should have eyes following you outside the browser windows, right? With my ff on linux they stop following outside the window.
i write:
^ this is so true.
It's easy to say if fracking pollutes water. Make the author of the study, the bosses of the drilling companies, the main owners of the banks who finance them and their families drink the water they guarantee as safe.
House the japanese government in the Fukushima district.
Then I'll trust them :)
Cool but that landed you offtopic.
Try with: whatever + windows = linux or OSX
ironically enough the problematic area was games and the linux detractors never brought it up. Let us see what Valve comes up with.
I think the most important piece of the summary is not that the googly cloudy system failed (clouds fail, reality different than spin, is it still news?).
It is that it may be possible to crash chrome from remote, proof of concept exploits may follow soon.
I see a dissolving circuit very problematic, you have to shut it down in a way that no interference with the heart is performed during dissolution. Stem cell therapy seems easier :)
It is not a big issue itself, it's a big signal though: those who sell user data without a fricking "I agree" dialog are not very trustworthy. I had already lost Canonical when they decided a 50 meg tomboy app was to stay in an installation cd and gimp had to go.
This is not spreading FUD, this is being in FUD and telling others.
The ease of solving the problem posed by Canonical choices is a BIG advertisement to FOSS philosophy. Ultimately the user is free. Free to hop to another distro without losing documents, or even configuration files. To remove the unwanted feature.
> Microsoft were not as flagrantly greedy and evil then as Apple are now.
Two words rebuttal: dr dos
The other implication is: every link you post is potentially landing you in jail if for whatever reason it is altered to point to illegal content.
You link a lolcat pic, the lolcat site goes belly up, the domain gets sold and the page becomes mere ad space, one of the ad gets hacked or the ads display adult content. YOU are now linking to illegal stuff or inappropriate stuff (the lolcat pic was in a site for students or teens and now it displays boobs).
Improbable you say? SURE. But how many links you will post in your life?
The long term implications is no linking for fear of problems. The www becomes the oligopoly of big sites, high barrier to entry, just like tv network.
But it was probably meant to be this way since the potential of the internet for oppressing or liberating people became known to the status-quo powerful people.
rms cleans himself like my cat does*, so what`s the fuss?
(*) Hopefully rms` tongue can`t reach where my cat`s does, or next conferences videos will not be uploadable...
Except that at least for the religion I am familiar with, a fundamentalist cannot force anybody or hurt him in any way without going against the most important commandment and the set example. So a fanatic, as described by you, has a dose of grey in his white.
Also, if a weird guy says `it is going to end up like this`, and that happens for real, it is indeed the other guys and their rambling marketspeak who suffer from disconnection from reality. So I refuse an appeal to majority. The majority deals with problems the would not have with FOSS every day, pay when more powerful free alternatives exist, and so on.
Seeing everything in black or white is being fanatic, but calling black black and white white is being right. Truth has always been hated, by imposing lies or by adopting relativism. Those two strategies are not opposed, they are cooperating. Don`t fall for it.
yes, we must be wary of this one currency, TOO.