Why is your wife so concerned about the bats? If they eat the bugs, you won't have so big of a bug problem. Although from what I understand, Denver doesn't have that many bugs.
Maybe the bats don't like the privacy invasion of the temp-gauges.:)
i for one don't think that just because something is a law means that it is the LAW. especially when _almost_ all laws were created with almost no input from the people they effect. oh sure, we elect the people who make the laws, but those people seem to prefer green over what the people who elected them want.
as for demonstrators, you don't think anyone should be allowed to demonstrate? hmm.
there is a difference to finding a hole in a server and breaking into a house by breaking a window. in the server no hardware is damaged, and assuming the person who found the hole is moral, they would not do any damage to files as such.
using a forceful means of entry in the physical world is completely different from the ether-world.
So you think that no-one should ever break a law, just because it's the law. What about all the non-violent protests of the civil rights era? They were breaking the law to show how the law was wrong and to make a political stance.
is this wrong? no. if the law is a bad law, it is up to the people to protest it so that i will be changed.
as for finding a hole, and then informing the sysadmin, what the hell is wrong with that? if the sysadmin isn't notified, then someone else could break in. if someone could break into my site, i would welcome them to inform me so that i could fix the problem.
"Childhoods End" by Authur C Clark (sp?) dealt with this issue. Pretty positive outlook anyway.
In the book, they automated everything, and because it was so much cheaper to do so, people could live without working. Their basic needs were provided for. If they wanted more, they had to pick up a job that used their brains. I don't think it's that bad of an idea.
I find that religious people can be nice or assholes, just like anyone else.
however, IMHO i think that religion with an afterlife was invented to give people some excuse that they could look forward to after death. people have a hard time with the idea that their lives might be pointless. however, it is most likely the truth.
I personally have no expectations of what will happen when i die. I assume, since it has not happened yet, that it will simply be the end. however i do not feel that my life is worth less just because i will not exist after i die. who knows, maybe all our sprits go join a collective being or something. i am fine with the thought that there is no grand purpose or plan though.
is it that hard to think that we might have no purpose in existance but as a result of a random chance? I for one need no religion to tell me my worth, or that there is some grand purpose for me. i'm happy as i am.
personally i think the main reason religion was invented was to calm people who realized "there is no point to life"
random chance is much believeable than some omnipotent being. if we lived in a universe truly created by an omnipotent being, do you *really* think it would be like this?
I think banning the bible would do the world some good. That and any other work of religious hokey that serves to keep people from using reason and logic. How I wish for a day when the world is free of religion, and people use common sense and rational thinking. oh well, wishful thinking.
As for filtering software, why? Are we that afraid of our children being exposed to sex? It's pretty much built into human nature.. why hide it?
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Why is your wife so concerned about the bats? If they eat the bugs, you won't have so big of a bug problem. Although from what I understand, Denver doesn't have that many bugs.
Maybe the bats don't like the privacy invasion of the temp-gauges.
they'll remake it, but as a "oh no, the EVIL science is at work again.. watch out. FEAR science, etc."
i for one don't think that just because something is a law means that it is the LAW. especially when _almost_ all laws were created with almost no input from the people they effect. oh sure, we elect the people who make the laws, but those people seem to prefer green over what the people who elected them want.
as for demonstrators, you don't think anyone should be allowed to demonstrate? hmm.
there is a difference to finding a hole in a server and breaking into a house by breaking a window. in the server no hardware is damaged, and assuming the person who found the hole is moral, they would not do any damage to files as such.
using a forceful means of entry in the physical world is completely different from the ether-world.
So you think that no-one should ever break a law, just because it's the law. What about all the non-violent protests of the civil rights era? They were breaking the law to show how the law was wrong and to make a political stance.
is this wrong? no. if the law is a bad law, it is up to the people to protest it so that i will be changed.
as for finding a hole, and then informing the sysadmin, what the hell is wrong with that? if the sysadmin isn't notified, then someone else could break in. if someone could break into my site, i would welcome them to inform me so that i could fix the problem.
"Childhoods End" by Authur C Clark (sp?) dealt with this issue. Pretty positive outlook anyway.
In the book, they automated everything, and because it was so much cheaper to do so, people could live without working. Their basic needs were provided for. If they wanted more, they had to pick up a job that used their brains. I don't think it's that bad of an idea.
I find that religious people can be nice or assholes, just like anyone else.
however, IMHO i think that religion with an afterlife was invented to give people some excuse that they could look forward to after death. people have a hard time with the idea that their lives might be pointless. however, it is most likely the truth.
I personally have no expectations of what will happen when i die. I assume, since it has not happened yet, that it will simply be the end. however i do not feel that my life is worth less just because i will not exist after i die. who knows, maybe all our sprits go join a collective being or something. i am fine with the thought that there is no grand purpose or plan though.
is it that hard to think that we might have no purpose in existance but as a result of a random chance? I for one need no religion to tell me my worth, or that there is some grand purpose for me. i'm happy as i am.
personally i think the main reason religion was invented was to calm people who realized "there is no point to life"
random chance is much believeable than some omnipotent being. if we lived in a universe truly created by an omnipotent being, do you *really* think it would be like this?
I think banning the bible would do the world some good. That and any other work of religious hokey that serves to keep people from using reason and logic. How I wish for a day when the world is free of religion, and people use common sense and rational thinking. oh well, wishful thinking.
As for filtering software, why? Are we that afraid of our children being exposed to sex? It's pretty much built into human nature.. why hide it?