Look like what? Unity is Gnome 3, Cinnamon is Gnome 3. Gnome-shell is Gnome 3. Gnome 3 is very customizable. Even using Gnome-shell, the plethora of extensions available show exactly how easy it is to customize.
Not too long ago, there was talk about providing high speed internet to every household through the power grid. Even several test cities tried it with very good results. However, the major telecommunication companies lobbied to kill it. Go figure.
Twice as many people live below the poverty line, and even more don't have access to affordable health care, and we're pitching a fit about having fast access to a global computer network.
In the last 3 years, the number of people on food stamps has more than doubled, and the number of people with health insurance has declined in spite of the new health care law.
Our education system is also falling apart at the seams as our young people become less and less competitive, and less and less able to earn a living as a result, due to that failure.
If we're going to treat the speed of our internet connections as a national crisis, in spite of all these other substantial problems, I would propose we stop right now and re-examine our priorities.
You don't think that maybe the worst recession in history outside the Great Depression has something to do with those numbers?
I grew up in northwest Arkansas, around mostly conservative religious anti-government hard working self-sufficient type (moved to the East Coast for Univ). Maybe the USA needs to just stop subsidizing post offices and forcing airlines to fly to small cities, and stop letting septic tanks make suburban homes cheaper than people paying for city sewer because water treatment is too expensive, etc.. There should be advantages to the people who live in / near cities (just as there are advantages to rural living we cannot guarantee city folk). Trying to bring every city advantage to every corner of the country isn't wanted by the original inhabitants, at least not at the cost demanded (or the free market would have done it). Maybe they will discover that broadband doesn't belong in every single niche. Or maybe someone will figure out a cheaper way to bring broadband to the country.
I agree 100%! Since most power plants are built out in the country instead of the city, the city folk shouldn't get the benefit of that electricity. Same with natural gas. Last time I was in a major city, I didn't see one natural gas well or nuclear plant. Then, too, let the city folk grow their own food. So yes, let the country folk quit subsidizing the city folk.
I think the government's responsibility is to enforce laws.
- right, I said that government shouldn't be involved in this, what I mean obviously is that there shouldn't be government laws on things like copyright or actually theft if it doesn't concern the government itself.
So, if you pitch a screen play, I as the producer should be able to say no, and then take your idea and do my own screen play based on your work without you being compensated?
Or if you come up with a new device and show it to me, I should be able to take your device make a million of them and sell them to everyone and you get no benefit from it?
Isn't that how it was prior to the creation of patent and copyright laws?
Just because the patent system is broken does not mean the concept of patents is wrong. Same with copyrights. One could easily argue that without some sort of IP protection, consumers wouldn't have more choice, but less. Theoretically, patents and copyrights protect the small guy from having their IP being stolen by the big corporations you list. Without patents and copyrights, I could create something and somebody else, with more money come along and just undersell me until I couldn't afford it any more. Again, the concept is valid, it's just that the current system is flawed.
The real solution, is to fix the system, not get rid of IP protection.
Of course they don't mention what apps were being illegally copied. In addition, they don't mention who requested the take down. Is this a case of true piracy, where people were circumventing paying for software? Or, is this a case where people were downloading free apps, but not through the google app store? If the latter, exactly what copyright was being infringed?
Send a probe to another star by the end of the century, really! I'd like what they are smoking. At current technology, that would take about 8,000 years to get there. Using space sales, that might be reduced to 3,000 years. Using a nuclear pulse engine, that could be reduced to 300 years. Of course, they better develop deflector shields, too, because at the velocity of a nuclear pulse engine, a small particle has the potential to destroy the probe given the kinetic energy involved and as we all know, space is not empty.
We would have to also develop some sort of AI to control everything, because at those distances, it isn't practical to send instructions via radio wave. The time to transmit and receive is much too long (it takes light 6 years to get here). Then again, such a system will need additional power, which increases the size of the on board reactor (solar panels just don't work well that far from a light source). Of course a bigger reactor requires a bigger pulse engine which means a bigger reactor. Or, it could go slower, but then that defeats the purpose.
And of course, any computer system would need to be able to run continuously for centuries (if they go the solar sail route, they better plan for the Y3K bug).
Theoretically this can all be done, but is it practical. What is the likely hood that a probe launched today, assuming all of the technological inventions that would have to occur, have occurred, would still be functioning in 3 centuries when it first arrives, if it even arrives?
I'm all for funding of scientific research, but surely there must be something that provides just as much bang for the buck and is more practical and likely to succeed.
" Our planet will be long dead by the time the sun actually touch's earth." Based on... what? I don t think our planet will be lifeless until the suns expansion. Might not be human life.
Space travel to another planet (or moon) within our solar system is absolutely possible, and if we can find a way to live sustainably for a billion years, I'm sure we can save enough energy to send a breeding population to Titan or so.
And even if we did this, what will life on Titan be when the sun is a red giant and Jupiter has become the first planet instead of the 5th?
I was just commenting on Deuteronomy and nothing else.
As for Akin, he's crazy and probably the best thing that could happen for his democratic opponent.
As for creating laws, almost always there are obvious examples that the law would hurt as collatoral damage -- that has to be weighed against the common good.
As for making headway towards their anti-abortion agenda, I doubt it. The courts legalized abortion over a privacy right between a woman and her doctor. The rebuplican attempts to ban it don't address this very basic reason and until they do, they will continue to fail.
However, none of the above excuses the comment made by Akin and even if there were science to support his statement, it still would have been insensitive beyond belief. The legitimate science shows the pregnancy rate among rape victimes is 5% -- the same as for woman engaging in consensual sex without protection.
Which goes to show exactly how much the people that wrote those books cared about women.
As for Deuteronomy 22:24 (your point 2), the stoning of the woman is because it was consensual. If she had screamed out or fought off her attacker, then she would not be stoned. It has nothing to do with how loudly she screamed out, just with whether it was consensual or not.
Deuteronomy 22 is not about rape, but consensual relations outside of marriage. But then I bet you really already knew that.
One of many reasons why I am a devout evangelical atheist is because of all the Ten Commandments int he Bible, God chose not to outlaw rape. The Christian God apparently chose " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." as a more important rule to lay down than "Thou shalt not rape." Rape has been used as a form of violence and control since the beginning of recorded human history, and in fact it has only been within the past hundred years that it has been seen as the true horror that it is in modern society, and this is IN SPITE OF religious dogma, not because of it.
God could have chosen to make it perfectly clear that this was one of the most evil sins that could be committed and should be outlawed under all circumstances. But the God presented in the Bible, and in the Koran, chose not to.
This is one of the reasons why I'm an atheist.
Maybe God figured that by outlawing fornication and adultery, the basis were already covered. Then again, if one would ignore God's commands regarding fornication and adultery, they probably would ignore any of them about rape, too.
But then, I'm not sure why a devout evangelical atheist would really care what God did or didn't do.
Nothing sneaky here with Amazon being the only e-reader selected. From the actual article, the iPad was/is not classified as an e-reader, but is a tablet/computer and the bid was for e-readers. The nook is not mentioned, but the requirement for text to speech would have eliminated it at the time the specs were created. Most other ereaders at the time didn't support that, either.
Now some may want to arugue that it was intentional to only allow the kindle, but a much more likely scenario is that the device selected needs to accomodate people with visual impairment.
Nothing sneaky here with Amazon being the sole provider. On the otherhand, it if they end up buy 2,500 Windows Surface RT at twice the price, then, that should really be looked into. Because, like the iPad, it's not an ereader, either.
Here's a thought. Since you are wanting to get back into reading, instead of already being in a position where you read a lot. Just read an actual book. It's a lot cheaper to buy a book or two every month until you find out you are goingwhere to stick with it instead of shellingout $ for an electronic device. If you use the library, the books won't even cost you.
Once you become an avid reader, then buy the device that will best fit your style.
The difference between license plate scanning and the TSA is that for license plates, your car is on a public road and your plate is publicly visible. For the TSA, they are scanning for what is not publicly visible. Things visible to the public do not invade privacy. Things that are normally not visible and to which people expect some sort of privacy, do invade privacy when scanned without cause.
BTW, that is why when a hotel clerk or law enforcement ask to see your drivers license, you have to remove it from your wallet and hand it to them. Your drivers license is considered private. Your removing it from your wallet and handing it to them means that you voluntarily gave it to them. Now, you don't have to do that. That is your right. But then you may have consequences -- not getting a hotel room in the first case and going to jail in the second.
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Look like what? Unity is Gnome 3, Cinnamon is Gnome 3. Gnome-shell is Gnome 3. Gnome 3 is very customizable. Even using Gnome-shell, the plethora of extensions available show exactly how easy it is to customize.
Although Cinammon is an example of exactly how configurable Gnome 3 actually is. As for Linus, he's back to using Gnome 3.
Not too long ago, there was talk about providing high speed internet to every household through the power grid. Even several test cities tried it with very good results. However, the major telecommunication companies lobbied to kill it. Go figure.
Twice as many people live below the poverty line, and even more don't have access to affordable health care, and we're pitching a fit about having fast access to a global computer network.
In the last 3 years, the number of people on food stamps has more than doubled, and the number of people with health insurance has declined in spite of the new health care law.
Our education system is also falling apart at the seams as our young people become less and less competitive, and less and less able to earn a living as a result, due to that failure.
If we're going to treat the speed of our internet connections as a national crisis, in spite of all these other substantial problems, I would propose we stop right now and re-examine our priorities.
You don't think that maybe the worst recession in history outside the Great Depression has something to do with those numbers?
I grew up in northwest Arkansas, around mostly conservative religious anti-government hard working self-sufficient type (moved to the East Coast for Univ). Maybe the USA needs to just stop subsidizing post offices and forcing airlines to fly to small cities, and stop letting septic tanks make suburban homes cheaper than people paying for city sewer because water treatment is too expensive, etc.. There should be advantages to the people who live in / near cities (just as there are advantages to rural living we cannot guarantee city folk). Trying to bring every city advantage to every corner of the country isn't wanted by the original inhabitants, at least not at the cost demanded (or the free market would have done it). Maybe they will discover that broadband doesn't belong in every single niche. Or maybe someone will figure out a cheaper way to bring broadband to the country.
I agree 100%! Since most power plants are built out in the country instead of the city, the city folk shouldn't get the benefit of that electricity. Same with natural gas. Last time I was in a major city, I didn't see one natural gas well or nuclear plant. Then, too, let the city folk grow their own food. So yes, let the country folk quit subsidizing the city folk.
19 million don't have access to broadband and another 26 million can't afford it.
My guess would be that your guess is correct.
Title says it all.
I think the government's responsibility is to enforce laws.
- right, I said that government shouldn't be involved in this, what I mean obviously is that there shouldn't be government laws on things like copyright or actually theft if it doesn't concern the government itself.
So, if you pitch a screen play, I as the producer should be able to say no, and then take your idea and do my own screen play based on your work without you being compensated?
Or if you come up with a new device and show it to me, I should be able to take your device make a million of them and sell them to everyone and you get no benefit from it?
Isn't that how it was prior to the creation of patent and copyright laws?
Just because the patent system is broken does not mean the concept of patents is wrong. Same with copyrights. One could easily argue that without some sort of IP protection, consumers wouldn't have more choice, but less. Theoretically, patents and copyrights protect the small guy from having their IP being stolen by the big corporations you list. Without patents and copyrights, I could create something and somebody else, with more money come along and just undersell me until I couldn't afford it any more. Again, the concept is valid, it's just that the current system is flawed.
The real solution, is to fix the system, not get rid of IP protection.
Of course they don't mention what apps were being illegally copied. In addition, they don't mention who requested the take down. Is this a case of true piracy, where people were circumventing paying for software? Or, is this a case where people were downloading free apps, but not through the google app store? If the latter, exactly what copyright was being infringed?
Why not ask more basic questions dealing with things like evolution or even how conception works whether you are "legitimately" raped or not.
Send a probe to another star by the end of the century, really! I'd like what they are smoking. At current technology, that would take about 8,000 years to get there. Using space sales, that might be reduced to 3,000 years. Using a nuclear pulse engine, that could be reduced to 300 years. Of course, they better develop deflector shields, too, because at the velocity of a nuclear pulse engine, a small particle has the potential to destroy the probe given the kinetic energy involved and as we all know, space is not empty.
We would have to also develop some sort of AI to control everything, because at those distances, it isn't practical to send instructions via radio wave. The time to transmit and receive is much too long (it takes light 6 years to get here). Then again, such a system will need additional power, which increases the size of the on board reactor (solar panels just don't work well that far from a light source). Of course a bigger reactor requires a bigger pulse engine which means a bigger reactor. Or, it could go slower, but then that defeats the purpose.
And of course, any computer system would need to be able to run continuously for centuries (if they go the solar sail route, they better plan for the Y3K bug).
Theoretically this can all be done, but is it practical. What is the likely hood that a probe launched today, assuming all of the technological inventions that would have to occur, have occurred, would still be functioning in 3 centuries when it first arrives, if it even arrives?
I'm all for funding of scientific research, but surely there must be something that provides just as much bang for the buck and is more practical and likely to succeed.
" Our planet will be long dead by the time the sun actually touch's earth."
Based on... what? I don
t think our planet will be lifeless until the suns expansion.
Might not be human life.
That's what the martians thought, too.
OTOH, in a billion years we may have the technology to prolong the life of a star.
Someone might even find a way to reverse entropy.
Or even invent a machine where we can go back to a point in time of our choosing to escape the destruction of the planet.
Space travel to another planet (or moon) within our solar system is absolutely possible, and if we can find a way to live sustainably for a billion years, I'm sure we can save enough energy to send a breeding population to Titan or so.
And even if we did this, what will life on Titan be when the sun is a red giant and Jupiter has become the first planet instead of the 5th?
technically, one can fornicate or commit adultery without committing the act of rape, so no, I don't think it's covered.
That may be true, but one cannot rape without fornicating or committing adultry (as marital rape is not an option in biblical times).
Just remember that if a then b is not the same as b therefore a.
I was just commenting on Deuteronomy and nothing else.
As for Akin, he's crazy and probably the best thing that could happen for his democratic opponent.
As for creating laws, almost always there are obvious examples that the law would hurt as collatoral damage -- that has to be weighed against the common good.
As for making headway towards their anti-abortion agenda, I doubt it. The courts legalized abortion over a privacy right between a woman and her doctor. The rebuplican attempts to ban it don't address this very basic reason and until they do, they will continue to fail.
However, none of the above excuses the comment made by Akin and even if there were science to support his statement, it still would have been insensitive beyond belief. The legitimate science shows the pregnancy rate among rape victimes is 5% -- the same as for woman engaging in consensual sex without protection.
So are you implying that rape cannot occur inside of marriage?
The bible does not consider rape inside of marriage. Then again, until July 5, 1993, neither did the United States.
Which goes to show exactly how much the people that wrote those books cared about women.
As for Deuteronomy 22:24 (your point 2), the stoning of the woman is because it was consensual. If she had screamed out or fought off her attacker, then she would not be stoned. It has nothing to do with how loudly she screamed out, just with whether it was consensual or not.
Deuteronomy 22 is not about rape, but consensual relations outside of marriage. But then I bet you really already knew that.
One of many reasons why I am a devout evangelical atheist is because of all the Ten Commandments int he Bible, God chose not to outlaw rape. The Christian God apparently chose " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." as a more important rule to lay down than "Thou shalt not rape." Rape has been used as a form of violence and control since the beginning of recorded human history, and in fact it has only been within the past hundred years that it has been seen as the true horror that it is in modern society, and this is IN SPITE OF religious dogma, not because of it.
God could have chosen to make it perfectly clear that this was one of the most evil sins that could be committed and should be outlawed under all circumstances. But the God presented in the Bible, and in the Koran, chose not to.
This is one of the reasons why I'm an atheist.
Maybe God figured that by outlawing fornication and adultery, the basis were already covered. Then again, if one would ignore God's commands regarding fornication and adultery, they probably would ignore any of them about rape, too.
But then, I'm not sure why a devout evangelical atheist would really care what God did or didn't do.
Nothing sneaky here with Amazon being the only e-reader selected. From the actual article, the iPad was/is not classified as an e-reader, but is a tablet/computer and the bid was for e-readers. The nook is not mentioned, but the requirement for text to speech would have eliminated it at the time the specs were created. Most other ereaders at the time didn't support that, either.
Now some may want to arugue that it was intentional to only allow the kindle, but a much more likely scenario is that the device selected needs to accomodate people with visual impairment.
Nothing sneaky here with Amazon being the sole provider. On the otherhand, it if they end up buy 2,500 Windows Surface RT at twice the price, then, that should really be looked into. Because, like the iPad, it's not an ereader, either.
Here's a thought. Since you are wanting to get back into reading, instead of already being in a position where you read a lot. Just read an actual book. It's a lot cheaper to buy a book or two every month until you find out you are goingwhere to stick with it instead of shellingout $ for an electronic device. If you use the library, the books won't even cost you.
Once you become an avid reader, then buy the device that will best fit your style.
The difference between license plate scanning and the TSA is that for license plates, your car is on a public road and your plate is publicly visible. For the TSA, they are scanning for what is not publicly visible. Things visible to the public do not invade privacy. Things that are normally not visible and to which people expect some sort of privacy, do invade privacy when scanned without cause.
BTW, that is why when a hotel clerk or law enforcement ask to see your drivers license, you have to remove it from your wallet and hand it to them. Your drivers license is considered private. Your removing it from your wallet and handing it to them means that you voluntarily gave it to them. Now, you don't have to do that. That is your right. But then you may have consequences -- not getting a hotel room in the first case and going to jail in the second.
i was just thinking, would privacy screens (meant for laptops) work on your license plate?
directly behind (police for example) you can see it fine, but directly overhead or from a side angle (cameras) are obscured.
thoughts?
Probably not and if it did, it is against the law in most places to obscure your license plate.