Well, I did follow the links. And, I must be missing the point.
I really just wanted to point out those issues, because this is probably an issue far too complex to discuss every aspect to its final conclusion (especially on Slashdot), and as you mention,
It appears we are going to disagree on this forever.
That is probably true, but I hope neither of us cease examining the issue.:)
Maybe you should tell that to my wife. I could use some 'time off'.
Heh. I guess what I was trying to say is that marriage doesn't seem to mean anything at all to a lot of people anymore, that it has no value or reason for being.
Side note: I've noticed that most proponents of gay "marriage" say the government shouldn't be able to dictate who can get married and who can't...then turn around and say polygamy, incest, bestiality-based marriages should not be allowed. If people would argue that the government should not have its nose in marriage AT ALL (i.e., strike every law concerning marriage from the books, refuse to hear ANY divorce settlement case, etc.), I would find such an argument much more persuasive, perhaps even acceptable for public policy. But no, gay "marriage" proponents don't want that, they want to force me (under the law... or courts, as happened in Massachusetts) to recognize these "marriages."
And, those benefits and penalties do not impact you in any way.
Yes they do. Rather than repost or be redundant, here are somelinks. Follow the threads to get some ideas of how other peoples' marriages affect everyone else.
Though I don't think your parent post really identifies the "dominos" correctly, such a theory with respect to marriage is quite valid. In fact, I would argue the last "domino" or two is already about to topple.
The domino theory of the 1950's relied on circumstantial geo-political/strategic/military conditions. You are mistaken to apply this analogy in an attempt to discredit an argument in defense of marriage.
The "dominos" of marriage are not subjective political concerns but concrete realities: love and procreation, and the logical necessities that each of these aspects entail.
The most obvious concern with gay "marriage" is that same sex couple don't have the biological ability to reproduce.
"But," you say, "you're wrong. 'Marriage' is about two adults that love each other, procreation doesn't have to have anything to do with it."
Which is my point exactly. Marriage is dead and you have killed it.
You bring some excellent insight to this discussion.
However, I would like to point out that many people don't consider "the family" to be anything particularly important or worth protecting, or even use the breakdown of the family as an excuse to increase government intervention/programs. You'll find that family deconstruction to government dependence is the perfect tool for anyone that wants to solidly indoctrinate the masses in a particular ideology.
The other way to look at it is that it's a statist powerplay: family deconstruction by design. You point out that "[s]tronger families mean that there is less need of government." The reverse is also true; weaker families mean that there is more need for government, i.e., those in power get more power because those in their control become increasingly dependent and increasingly unable to resist the shrill call for more government control.
Should I, with the government that is supposed to represent me acting as proxy, be forced to recognize the so-called marriage of same sex couples?
Yours isn't the only POV.
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in 2-3 years there will be a new standard for CD-ROM
I don't think so. The new dvd standard will be commonplace by then, maybe, but the CD-ROM standard is almost as stable (standards-wise) as the 1.44 floppy. We're not going to see a change in CD-ROM standards. We might see CD-ROMS disappear in favor of memory cards or something, but the standard won't change noticeably, IMO.
The "assault" weapon ban expires tonight. Get her an AR-15 and have her post paper targets up on her door (make sure they're targets that show excellent marksmanship;).
he started asking n00b questions about removing all files from the/tmp directory...rm -rf/...we silently watched the moron send his entire system (and his mounted windows partition) straight to hell
Aside from the fact that, as others have noted before me, this story is probably just a puerile plea for attention, are you and the people you chat with really so lame that they couldn't just tell him sudo rm -rf/tmp/* ?
Or are you just too "1337" to be bothered with patiently giving a "n00b" a little help?
Not much innovation recently.
I agree, not in the search engine sector, at least not too much. Maybe we should count the email/file searching development that's going on as significant innovation, but Google is innovating as an online service. It's because they're expanding beyond just a search engine that makes them "innovative." IMHO, anyhow.
This medium relies on readers existing - if all companies making microfiche readers went out of business (which probably won't be too many years ahead) then the microfiches will be unreadable.
No, microfiche is not dependent upon a "company" because, essentially, all it takes to read a microfiche is a lens and a light source. It's really not too complicated. However, as you mention, storage is another issue, but even microfiche is easier to maintain for longer periods than anything digital (aside from the gold punch cards, magnetic and optical media seem to degrade FAR more quickly than ink and paper or microfilm).
I know so many diehard fans going the way of debian and suse.
Though I never was a diehard fan of RedHat, I always gave them a try. Every release they had since 7.1 I've downloaded, installed and run (briefly...I've never had much luck with RedHat), including Fedora Core 1. But that was it. Fedora Core 1 killed RedHat forever in my eyes. Since then it's been Slackware (on my old hardware) and, as you mention, SuSE as my desktop install.
To be entirely honest, I've kinda written off RedHat. I just don't care much what happens to them, one way or the other.
Why not just say, "I use P2P to download Linux distros?" I mean, isn't bittorrent a P2P app? Before I broke my Windows installation, I used to always do bittorrent downloads with Shareaza. Heck, you don't even have to go through the trouble of making a recording, just write a short essay or put your/. posts in your share folder. I used to put political cartoons I made in there...though I don't think anybody downloaded them.
I have a winmodem. SuSE 9.1 detected mine and was able to get a dial tone...but couldn't actually dial or hang up the modem. I might have configured something incorrectly and I haven't messed with it a lot, so it still might work. I don't know. Has anyone had any luck getting winmodems to work with SuSE 9.1?
One thing they could do with it is expand dictionary lists. What better way to make a password dictionary than to get a pool of passwords that people actually use?
No mention of what kind of security they're using for this. Wouldn't it just suck if any random hacker could crack into this wireless network and...use your imagination, mine's burned out.
What kind of security are Blackberries capable of? I hope it's not a telnet affair...
I don't know about everyone else here, but I'd be willing to shell out $38 for a bare bones XP and Office combo for those highly annoying occasions when I have to use Windows or Office for some task or another.
Of course, $38 is about as much as I would be willing to pay for the full-"featured" editions, anyhow. Does this cut rate version have some serious compatibility issues, or what? I imagine they wouldn't disable too much functionality, otherwise this little scheme could backfire on them quite badly.
The group also pointed out that the malicious program uploaded to a victim's computer is not currently detected as a virus by most antivirus software. With no patch from Microsoft, that leaves Internet Explorer users vulnerable...Researchers believe that attackers seed the Web sites with malicious code by breaking into unsecured servers or by using a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft's Web software, Internet Information Server (IIS).
Besides, if the page does in fact look best in IE, I can't imagine they could be held liable. "Best loaded with IE," on the other hand...;o)
But can Emacs do footnotes? I've been trying to find a very light-weight word processor, and so far Ted and Siag haven't worked well for me. Is there a console word processor that can do footnotes and change text formatting easily?
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Well, I did follow the links. And, I must be missing the point.
:)
I really just wanted to point out those issues, because this is probably an issue far too complex to discuss every aspect to its final conclusion (especially on Slashdot), and as you mention,
It appears we are going to disagree on this forever.
That is probably true, but I hope neither of us cease examining the issue.
Maybe you should tell that to my wife. I could use some 'time off'.
Heh. I guess what I was trying to say is that marriage doesn't seem to mean anything at all to a lot of people anymore, that it has no value or reason for being.
Side note: I've noticed that most proponents of gay "marriage" say the government shouldn't be able to dictate who can get married and who can't...then turn around and say polygamy, incest, bestiality-based marriages should not be allowed. If people would argue that the government should not have its nose in marriage AT ALL (i.e., strike every law concerning marriage from the books, refuse to hear ANY divorce settlement case, etc.), I would find such an argument much more persuasive, perhaps even acceptable for public policy. But no, gay "marriage" proponents don't want that, they want to force me (under the law... or courts, as happened in Massachusetts) to recognize these "marriages."
And, those benefits and penalties do not impact you in any way.
Yes they do. Rather than repost or be redundant, here are some links. Follow the threads to get some ideas of how other peoples' marriages affect everyone else.
Though I don't think your parent post really identifies the "dominos" correctly, such a theory with respect to marriage is quite valid. In fact, I would argue the last "domino" or two is already about to topple.
The domino theory of the 1950's relied on circumstantial geo-political/strategic/military conditions. You are mistaken to apply this analogy in an attempt to discredit an argument in defense of marriage.
The "dominos" of marriage are not subjective political concerns but concrete realities: love and procreation, and the logical necessities that each of these aspects entail.
The most obvious concern with gay "marriage" is that same sex couple don't have the biological ability to reproduce.
"But," you say, "you're wrong. 'Marriage' is about two adults that love each other, procreation doesn't have to have anything to do with it."
Which is my point exactly. Marriage is dead and you have killed it.
You bring some excellent insight to this discussion.
However, I would like to point out that many people don't consider "the family" to be anything particularly important or worth protecting, or even use the breakdown of the family as an excuse to increase government intervention/programs. You'll find that family deconstruction to government dependence is the perfect tool for anyone that wants to solidly indoctrinate the masses in a particular ideology.
The other way to look at it is that it's a statist powerplay: family deconstruction by design. You point out that "[s]tronger families mean that there is less need of government." The reverse is also true; weaker families mean that there is more need for government, i.e., those in power get more power because those in their control become increasingly dependent and increasingly unable to resist the shrill call for more government control.
Should I, with the government that is supposed to represent me acting as proxy, be forced to recognize the so-called marriage of same sex couples?
Yours isn't the only POV.
in 2-3 years there will be a new standard for CD-ROM
I don't think so. The new dvd standard will be commonplace by then, maybe, but the CD-ROM standard is almost as stable (standards-wise) as the 1.44 floppy. We're not going to see a change in CD-ROM standards. We might see CD-ROMS disappear in favor of memory cards or something, but the standard won't change noticeably, IMO.
The "assault" weapon ban expires tonight. Get her an AR-15 and have her post paper targets up on her door (make sure they're targets that show excellent marksmanship ;).
he started asking n00b questions about removing all files from the /tmp directory...rm -rf /...we silently watched the moron send his entire system (and his mounted windows partition) straight to hell
Aside from the fact that, as others have noted before me, this story is probably just a puerile plea for attention, are you and the people you chat with really so lame that they couldn't just tell him sudo rm -rf /tmp/* ?
Or are you just too "1337" to be bothered with patiently giving a "n00b" a little help?We've at least well surpassed what my hard drive can keep up with.
DRM? Are they mixing that Longhorn "feature" into XP?
Not much innovation recently. I agree, not in the search engine sector, at least not too much. Maybe we should count the email/file searching development that's going on as significant innovation, but Google is innovating as an online service. It's because they're expanding beyond just a search engine that makes them "innovative." IMHO, anyhow.
This medium relies on readers existing - if all companies making microfiche readers went out of business (which probably won't be too many years ahead) then the microfiches will be unreadable.
No, microfiche is not dependent upon a "company" because, essentially, all it takes to read a microfiche is a lens and a light source. It's really not too complicated. However, as you mention, storage is another issue, but even microfiche is easier to maintain for longer periods than anything digital (aside from the gold punch cards, magnetic and optical media seem to degrade FAR more quickly than ink and paper or microfilm).I know so many diehard fans going the way of debian and suse.
Though I never was a diehard fan of RedHat, I always gave them a try. Every release they had since 7.1 I've downloaded, installed and run (briefly...I've never had much luck with RedHat), including Fedora Core 1. But that was it. Fedora Core 1 killed RedHat forever in my eyes. Since then it's been Slackware (on my old hardware) and, as you mention, SuSE as my desktop install.
To be entirely honest, I've kinda written off RedHat. I just don't care much what happens to them, one way or the other.I agree. However, I think machine learning would be a good thing to do with a friendly branch. That's my suggestion, anyhow.
I want to get tritium sights for my Glock.
Why not just say, "I use P2P to download Linux distros?" I mean, isn't bittorrent a P2P app? Before I broke my Windows installation, I used to always do bittorrent downloads with Shareaza. Heck, you don't even have to go through the trouble of making a recording, just write a short essay or put your /. posts in your share folder. I used to put political cartoons I made in there...though I don't think anybody downloaded them.
I have a winmodem. SuSE 9.1 detected mine and was able to get a dial tone...but couldn't actually dial or hang up the modem. I might have configured something incorrectly and I haven't messed with it a lot, so it still might work. I don't know. Has anyone had any luck getting winmodems to work with SuSE 9.1?
That sucked.
It must've been karma.One thing they could do with it is expand dictionary lists. What better way to make a password dictionary than to get a pool of passwords that people actually use?
No mention of what kind of security they're using for this. Wouldn't it just suck if any random hacker could crack into this wireless network and...use your imagination, mine's burned out.
What kind of security are Blackberries capable of? I hope it's not a telnet affair...I don't know about everyone else here, but I'd be willing to shell out $38 for a bare bones XP and Office combo for those highly annoying occasions when I have to use Windows or Office for some task or another.
Of course, $38 is about as much as I would be willing to pay for the full-"featured" editions, anyhow. Does this cut rate version have some serious compatibility issues, or what? I imagine they wouldn't disable too much functionality, otherwise this little scheme could backfire on them quite badly.Personally, I'd much rather just get cut off and be notified why. I don't like the idea of giving over control of my computer like that.
Interesting question, but rtfa tells us that:
The group also pointed out that the malicious program uploaded to a victim's computer is not currently detected as a virus by most antivirus software. With no patch from Microsoft, that leaves Internet Explorer users vulnerable...Researchers believe that attackers seed the Web sites with malicious code by breaking into unsecured servers or by using a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft's Web software, Internet Information Server (IIS).
Besides, if the page does in fact look best in IE, I can't imagine they could be held liable. "Best loaded with IE," on the other hand...But can Emacs do footnotes? I've been trying to find a very light-weight word processor, and so far Ted and Siag haven't worked well for me. Is there a console word processor that can do footnotes and change text formatting easily?
Between steps 3 and 4:
Make sure the firewall is active before you plug in the network cable.