What you don't seem to get here is that, offensive as it might be to some, it's none of their (or your) buisness what other couples do. If a couple wants to engage in polygamy, then they should have the right as long as it does not interfere with other people.
Otherwise, you get to the point where everything people find offensive becomes illegal. Then we'll be truly fucked.
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
You cite one of many stupidities of the OT. There are 613 more. That's why someone who quotes OT script to prove $abomination is wrong just looks like an idiot. You can't try and hold someone to one standard while you, yourself barely follow your own teachings.
Want an example?
Ever look at a girl in lust? You think you ever might do that agian? Then follow your own God's advice and burn your eyes from your head.
After you do that, people might actually give a shit what you think about buttfucking.
It isn't. In fact, most of our cousins (apes) live happily this way. Sort of. They have an "alpha male" society. My understanding of the Mormon system was that as husbands were killed, the wives were forced to remarry.
In fact, Joseph Smith's wife remarried Brigham Young. She was forced to do it so that he could have a legal claim to the head of the church.
Yes, your mom couldn't have two husbands. That much is true. Polygamy is where a husband has multiple wives. That's what Mormons do. A wife can only have one husband.
I fact, I've known people who have gotten divorced because the man left the church. The man refused to do any of the temple unmarrage thingies. The wife was not allowed to have another temple marrage because she's still sealed to her divorced, inactive husband.
Can't remember who said it, but polygamy is defines as having too many wives. The same definition also applies to monogamy.
Oh, and from what I hear, polygamy is still practiced by Mormons. Most get an "eternal temple marrage" as well as a legal marrage. Then they can get a legal divorce while still be religously married. At that point, they can get another legal and "eternal temple marrage". In the eyes of the church, they'll have two wives.
While most mainstream Mormons don't do that, they can still have multiple marrages. How? Well, then legal marrage ends at death; the religous marrage doesn't. It isn't uncommon to see older members outlive their wives and re-marry.
I find it funny that no one else finds that offensive.
The problem with Christians is that they don't really adhere to anything in the Old Testamant unless it suits them. When Jesus died, he completed the "old law" and began the time of the "new law". The old law was indexed by the 10 commandments and the rest of the 600+ Jewish laws expanded on the index.
The index (10 commandments) was arranged in order of severity. Worshiping other gods was more severe than murder. Coveting your neghbors ass is less severe than murder. There were probably 50 sub-laws that dealt with what is or is not coveting and what is and is not murder. Punishments were also laid down by the old law.
The new law had two commandments. The first was to love God. The second was to love your neghbor. There were no sub-commandments. And that's the problem.
Without any clear definition, early Christians had to "wing it" when it came to what they could and could not do. Is sticking it in the butt loving your neghbor? I dunno. And Jesus didn't really say.
So, now the old law is used as a reference. Christians can pick and choose what they want to apply. Is murder OK? Probably not. Is it OK to send your wife to sleep in the barn because she's having her period? Probably not. Should you covet? Probably not. Can you stone your son at the city gate because he didn't finish dinner? Probably not.
So, here's the deal. Christians can pick and choose which portions of the old law they want to apply.
Or your code is declared Public Domain and everyone gets to use it with no license. Really, it could go either way. Since the intent of the GPL is to allow people to freely use your code, then a judge might see it as identical to PD.
I'd go the other way. Tickets should be cranked up till only people who really want to see a flick could go.
If everyone was paying $30/seat, maybe they'd remember to turn off their cell phones.
Oh, and do a DVD release at the same time as the theatre release. That'd do a lot to stop piracy. Most people would rather spend $15~20 on a DVD vice spending two days downloading a flcik of unknown quality.
What irks me about the upgrade cycles is the Enterprise license thingy. Let's say I have a workgroup with 20 workstations and 4 servers. I call Dell and order all new hardware for our 2005 upgrade cycle. I spend about $800 per workstation and $2000 per server. All the workstations come pre-installed with WinXP. The servers come with 2003 Server.
Now I have to go to MS and buy 20 copies of WinXP to work on the workstations because the license that they sold to Dell does not cover anything other than home use.
So, in effect, I'm purchacing WinXP twice. Also, the buisness license basicly requires you to re-purchace the same software every year or so.
Let's say you drive me to the bank. I go in and decide to rob the place. You have no knowledge of the robbery. But, because you drove me there, you become an accomplice. We both go to jail for bank robbery.
What we need to do is start filing lawsuits agianst every owner of every computer that is involved in botnet attacks.
So, a demo leads me to belive that the expect people to pay for a finished version. I can't really see myself paying for a mod for a game I already paid $60 for.
First off, you want to get Alcohol 120% and learn to use it. If he plays games and such, you don't want him swapping discs unless he absolutely needs to. Every time you open the drive, you let in sand.
Next, look for all the openings. The RAM cover, HD cover, battery cover; anywhere sand might creep in. Tape all thoes closed with duct tape or strapping tape. That will keep sand from creeping in.
Get more tape and some cheesecloth/filter paper. Find the vents for the heatsink and the modem/LAN jacks. Cover and tape filters over all thoes.
One thing you can't do anything about will be the keyboard. Bring lots of canned air and use it liberally.
He's not talking about food. Or maybe he is. In any event, here is an example:
A hurricane comes through. Houses are destroyed. People come in to rebuild knowing that they will get rich. Governor sets a price cap. Builders know that they can go elsewhere and get better profits with less hastle, so they leave.
The people who come into an area to rebuild need an economic incentive. If you want to remove that incentive, fine. But then you have to mandate that people rebuild regardless of their wishes.
Unless you are going to have government contracts to rebuild things, you can't remove free market incentives.
Now, things like food, clothing, tents should be provided, free of charge, by the government. No if's ands or buts. We spend millions to provide MREs to Africa/Asia; spending billions on our own people shouldn't be a problem.
What's to stop the defendant from claiming that they didn't download the files? If you run a WAP, there is virtually no way (short of them seizing your PC) for them to prove that you actually downloaded the files.
With most techno-idiot judges, just claim the "hackers" used your wireless access point to download the files.
Italy took part in the raping of the "New World". They are also boosted by the Catholic Church; known as one of the most evil orginizations to ever be allowed to propigate. Even today, the their stance on African AIDS is helping the disease to spread and potentially kill millions.
Would that be the same Switzerland that took Nazi gold? No human rights violations there...
As for the "coolies", they weren't technically slave labor. They were, however, subjected to the most difficult jobs and as soon as their job was done, the US tried like hell to make them leave.
The US did not fight a war for civil rights. If you are thinking of the Civil War, you are so off base. Many of the heroes of the Civil War went out West to exterminate Indians once the Civil War ended. It was less about rights and more about economics.
I don't disagree that China is a threat. I only stated that they are doing much of what the US did. We gave nukes to Isreal, chemical weapons to Iraq, we trained the Taliban and Osama to fight the Russians.
Human rights and environmental concerns slow the economic growth of any country.
It is extremely hypocritical of Europeans and Americans to point a finger at China. Much of the European growth came from the fact that they raped Central America of gold. The US railway system was built on Chinese slave labor.
If you are living in the US or EU, you are reaping the benifits of hundreds of years of human and environmental plunder.
I'm not saying it isn't wrong. I just think that China will see it for what it is and tell us to get stuffed.
If you kept the jobs in the US, then no one would be able to afford them. Right now, a shirt made by slave labor costs about $15. How much would it cost if it were made by USians getting paid $8 an hour?
On top of that, no one really *wants* to make shirts in the US. People want jobs, but not thoes kinds of jobs.
Offshoring is a way to make sure that the US will continue to get better. We look at the shittiest jobs out there and find a way to send them overseas. Then our workforce trains for better jobs.
Picking fruit, makinf shoes, and writing code are all in the same bucket; no one wants to do it at the price customers are willing to pay. So we offshore it.
Retrain for something better and stop bitching already.
That's bullshit. You can buy it now for $400 or in 6 months for $200. In a year it'll be about $150. Maybe in two years you can find it for $50 in a bargin bin.
These cards have a lifecycle of about 10 months, maybe a year. 18 months if you aren't a gamer, but, if that were the case, you'd have never bought one anyway.
So, look at it this way:
But the card now for $400. Use it for 6 months. Sell it on e-bay for about $200 after that and then spend $400 on another card.
You've basicly paid $200 for 6 months of having the latest and greatest. That's about $30/month. Hell, most USians spend more that $30 on McDonalds in a given month.
Really, $30 a month for top of the line gaming isn't too much. In fact, it's pretty cheap if you break it down like that.
Meanwhile, the rest of you non-gaming fuckers just bitch and moan about paying $400~$500 on a card. It's a good thing you live in your mom's basement; I'd hate to see how you react to buying a $30,000 car or a $1,000,000 house.
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What you don't seem to get here is that, offensive as it might be to some, it's none of their (or your) buisness what other couples do. If a couple wants to engage in polygamy, then they should have the right as long as it does not interfere with other people.
Otherwise, you get to the point where everything people find offensive becomes illegal. Then we'll be truly fucked.
Two commandments:
Matt 22:37-40
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
You cite one of many stupidities of the OT. There are 613 more. That's why someone who quotes OT script to prove $abomination is wrong just looks like an idiot. You can't try and hold someone to one standard while you, yourself barely follow your own teachings.
Want an example?
Ever look at a girl in lust? You think you ever might do that agian? Then follow your own God's advice and burn your eyes from your head.
After you do that, people might actually give a shit what you think about buttfucking.
It isn't. In fact, most of our cousins (apes) live happily this way. Sort of. They have an "alpha male" society. My understanding of the Mormon system was that as husbands were killed, the wives were forced to remarry.
In fact, Joseph Smith's wife remarried Brigham Young. She was forced to do it so that he could have a legal claim to the head of the church.
Yes, your mom couldn't have two husbands. That much is true. Polygamy is where a husband has multiple wives. That's what Mormons do. A wife can only have one husband.
I fact, I've known people who have gotten divorced because the man left the church. The man refused to do any of the temple unmarrage thingies. The wife was not allowed to have another temple marrage because she's still sealed to her divorced, inactive husband.
Can't remember who said it, but polygamy is defines as having too many wives. The same definition also applies to monogamy.
Oh, and from what I hear, polygamy is still practiced by Mormons. Most get an "eternal temple marrage" as well as a legal marrage. Then they can get a legal divorce while still be religously married. At that point, they can get another legal and "eternal temple marrage". In the eyes of the church, they'll have two wives.
While most mainstream Mormons don't do that, they can still have multiple marrages. How? Well, then legal marrage ends at death; the religous marrage doesn't. It isn't uncommon to see older members outlive their wives and re-marry.
I find it funny that no one else finds that offensive.
The problem with Christians is that they don't really adhere to anything in the Old Testamant unless it suits them. When Jesus died, he completed the "old law" and began the time of the "new law". The old law was indexed by the 10 commandments and the rest of the 600+ Jewish laws expanded on the index.
The index (10 commandments) was arranged in order of severity. Worshiping other gods was more severe than murder. Coveting your neghbors ass is less severe than murder. There were probably 50 sub-laws that dealt with what is or is not coveting and what is and is not murder. Punishments were also laid down by the old law.
The new law had two commandments. The first was to love God. The second was to love your neghbor. There were no sub-commandments. And that's the problem.
Without any clear definition, early Christians had to "wing it" when it came to what they could and could not do. Is sticking it in the butt loving your neghbor? I dunno. And Jesus didn't really say.
So, now the old law is used as a reference. Christians can pick and choose what they want to apply. Is murder OK? Probably not. Is it OK to send your wife to sleep in the barn because she's having her period? Probably not. Should you covet? Probably not. Can you stone your son at the city gate because he didn't finish dinner? Probably not.
So, here's the deal. Christians can pick and choose which portions of the old law they want to apply.
Or your code is declared Public Domain and everyone gets to use it with no license. Really, it could go either way. Since the intent of the GPL is to allow people to freely use your code, then a judge might see it as identical to PD.
I'd go the other way. Tickets should be cranked up till only people who really want to see a flick could go.
If everyone was paying $30/seat, maybe they'd remember to turn off their cell phones.
Oh, and do a DVD release at the same time as the theatre release. That'd do a lot to stop piracy. Most people would rather spend $15~20 on a DVD vice spending two days downloading a flcik of unknown quality.
What irks me about the upgrade cycles is the Enterprise license thingy. Let's say I have a workgroup with 20 workstations and 4 servers. I call Dell and order all new hardware for our 2005 upgrade cycle. I spend about $800 per workstation and $2000 per server. All the workstations come pre-installed with WinXP. The servers come with 2003 Server.
Now I have to go to MS and buy 20 copies of WinXP to work on the workstations because the license that they sold to Dell does not cover anything other than home use.
So, in effect, I'm purchacing WinXP twice. Also, the buisness license basicly requires you to re-purchace the same software every year or so.
How the fuck is The Scene a tech show? Other than the fact that they chat on IRC and occaionally use iTunes, it's a low-tech drama.
Just because tech is IN a show does not make it ABOUT tech. RvB is just as high-tech as The Scene. And don't even fucking mention Pure Pwnage..
Let's say you drive me to the bank. I go in and decide to rob the place. You have no knowledge of the robbery. But, because you drove me there, you become an accomplice. We both go to jail for bank robbery.
What we need to do is start filing lawsuits agianst every owner of every computer that is involved in botnet attacks.
So, a demo leads me to belive that the expect people to pay for a finished version. I can't really see myself paying for a mod for a game I already paid $60 for.
First off, you want to get Alcohol 120% and learn to use it. If he plays games and such, you don't want him swapping discs unless he absolutely needs to. Every time you open the drive, you let in sand.
Next, look for all the openings. The RAM cover, HD cover, battery cover; anywhere sand might creep in. Tape all thoes closed with duct tape or strapping tape. That will keep sand from creeping in.
Get more tape and some cheesecloth/filter paper. Find the vents for the heatsink and the modem/LAN jacks. Cover and tape filters over all thoes.
One thing you can't do anything about will be the keyboard. Bring lots of canned air and use it liberally.
And WTF is an "OC-4"? I know it's possible to buy these things in STS-1 increments, but they usually come in multiples of 3.
OC-3, OC-9, OC-12, OC-48...
He's not talking about food. Or maybe he is. In any event, here is an example:
A hurricane comes through. Houses are destroyed. People come in to rebuild knowing that they will get rich. Governor sets a price cap. Builders know that they can go elsewhere and get better profits with less hastle, so they leave.
The people who come into an area to rebuild need an economic incentive. If you want to remove that incentive, fine. But then you have to mandate that people rebuild regardless of their wishes.
Unless you are going to have government contracts to rebuild things, you can't remove free market incentives.
Now, things like food, clothing, tents should be provided, free of charge, by the government. No if's ands or buts. We spend millions to provide MREs to Africa/Asia; spending billions on our own people shouldn't be a problem.
It could be almost impossible for them to gather evidince. Even if they raided my home and found gigs of MP3s, they don't have evidince I uploaded.
Even if they find eMule or BitTorrent installed, they can't prove I was running it on the day/time in question.
And finally, if I continued to run an open WAP, any future sharing would also be virtually impossible to prove.
Not to mention it'd be really expensive for them to do this vice just filing court paperwork and collecting checks.
*sigh* Once more... An IP address is not an identy.
No, an IP address is being sued for uploading. There is no proof that a specific person used an IP address to upload.
Just a silly question:
What's to stop the defendant from claiming that they didn't download the files? If you run a WAP, there is virtually no way (short of them seizing your PC) for them to prove that you actually downloaded the files.
With most techno-idiot judges, just claim the "hackers" used your wireless access point to download the files.
Italy took part in the raping of the "New World". They are also boosted by the Catholic Church; known as one of the most evil orginizations to ever be allowed to propigate. Even today, the their stance on African AIDS is helping the disease to spread and potentially kill millions.
Would that be the same Switzerland that took Nazi gold? No human rights violations there...
As for the "coolies", they weren't technically slave labor. They were, however, subjected to the most difficult jobs and as soon as their job was done, the US tried like hell to make them leave.
The US did not fight a war for civil rights. If you are thinking of the Civil War, you are so off base. Many of the heroes of the Civil War went out West to exterminate Indians once the Civil War ended. It was less about rights and more about economics.
I don't disagree that China is a threat. I only stated that they are doing much of what the US did. We gave nukes to Isreal, chemical weapons to Iraq, we trained the Taliban and Osama to fight the Russians.
Hipocracy...
Human rights and environmental concerns slow the economic growth of any country.
It is extremely hypocritical of Europeans and Americans to point a finger at China. Much of the European growth came from the fact that they raped Central America of gold. The US railway system was built on Chinese slave labor.
If you are living in the US or EU, you are reaping the benifits of hundreds of years of human and environmental plunder.
I'm not saying it isn't wrong. I just think that China will see it for what it is and tell us to get stuffed.
That study was flawed. The sample was taken from groups that were more likely to engage in "unusual" sexual practices.
Yes, I know he talked to many people from all walks of life.
However, the people who were more likely to speak of their sexual habits also tended to be more liberal in thoes habits.
BTW, this is considered very bad form in the MMO world.
I have a Nostromo Speedpad. I looked up the spell timings for my Mage. I programmed an "alpha-strike" key on my speedpad that:
Selects closest enemy.
Wait 5 seconds.
Press "1".
Wait 2.4 seconds.
Press "2".
Wait 1.8 seconds.
Press "3".
Wait 2 seconds.
Press "4".
Press and hold "S" for 8 seconds.
Press "5" three times.
I can run into an area and "alpha-strike" mobs all day with little effort.
If you kept the jobs in the US, then no one would be able to afford them. Right now, a shirt made by slave labor costs about $15. How much would it cost if it were made by USians getting paid $8 an hour?
On top of that, no one really *wants* to make shirts in the US. People want jobs, but not thoes kinds of jobs.
Offshoring is a way to make sure that the US will continue to get better. We look at the shittiest jobs out there and find a way to send them overseas. Then our workforce trains for better jobs.
Picking fruit, makinf shoes, and writing code are all in the same bucket; no one wants to do it at the price customers are willing to pay. So we offshore it.
Retrain for something better and stop bitching already.
That's bullshit. You can buy it now for $400 or in 6 months for $200. In a year it'll be about $150. Maybe in two years you can find it for $50 in a bargin bin.
These cards have a lifecycle of about 10 months, maybe a year. 18 months if you aren't a gamer, but, if that were the case, you'd have never bought one anyway.
So, look at it this way:
But the card now for $400. Use it for 6 months. Sell it on e-bay for about $200 after that and then spend $400 on another card.
You've basicly paid $200 for 6 months of having the latest and greatest. That's about $30/month. Hell, most USians spend more that $30 on McDonalds in a given month.
Really, $30 a month for top of the line gaming isn't too much. In fact, it's pretty cheap if you break it down like that.
Meanwhile, the rest of you non-gaming fuckers just bitch and moan about paying $400~$500 on a card. It's a good thing you live in your mom's basement; I'd hate to see how you react to buying a $30,000 car or a $1,000,000 house.