The action you propose would unleash hell on earth, and would result in many billions of people who have no great love for Islamicism, including myself, becoming the most staunch and fierce allies they could possibly every hope for.
It actually makes sound biological sense. You are more likely to successfully pass on your genes in the context of a loving, committed relationship. The kids that result from "mindless sex," while perhaps more numerous, do not receive the same kind of upbringing, and start life at a considerable disadvantage.
Life and liberty are seldom if ever competing goals; they are almost always one and the same. The freedom of over a billion law-abiding Indian citizens, and the many lives that would be saved if murderous terrorist organizations called "governments" did not have the ability to spy on them, or to inspire the creation of competing terrorist organizations, go hand in hand.
A SINGLE technology that already exists - nuclear power - would be sufficient to prevent any future human contribution to any of the above, and even to reduce a few of them to some extent.
There is no scientific evidence as far as I'm aware, for reasons pointed out by others. Elevated CO2 levels follow historical temperature readings. They do not trail them. Hence, said levels are more likely to be a result, not a cause, of climate change.
There are good reasons to support development of non-fossil-based energy sources. AGW, which has not been proven to exist and is extremely unlikely to, is not one of them, but there are others: increased local independence; cheaper food and clean water and industrial production; less corruption, terrorism, and war; more evenly distributed prosperity, as opposed to the evenly distributed poverty that would result from many of the measures that AGW religionists have proposed.
I want people to stop blathering about shit they know nothing about, and start collaborating on PEACEFUL and VOLUNTARY solutions that do not require coercion, violence, and death on a global scale in order to implement.
This often works, but not always. NT was not a better UNIX than UNIX, nor IIS a better Apache than Apache, nor is any forum software even remotely comparable to NNTP, yet in each case the former gained significant inroads against the latter. In my view, each of these abominations arose due to government interference in markets - in the former two cases by protecting Microsoft from prosecution for fraud, and in the latter case, a genuine and well-deserved fear of truly open and anonymous communication, for which NNTP was and is a nearly ideal vehicle.
Honestly, if you think that the institution of total, coercive government can ever be "taken back" or used in any sustainable way that benefits anyone other than that government itself, then you have not yet grasped the full nature or extent of the problem.
It isn't that the wrong people are in charge. They do suck, but even if you can get different people elected, in time they will get corrupted too.
It isn't just the Constitution is inadequate, or that it isn't being followed. Both of those things are true, but we would still have a problem even if they weren't. You can change the rules (in our case the Constitution) but again, in time, those will be either corrupted or, as in our case, simply ignored.
The real problem is that our whole concept of government is based on the fiction that some people are entitled to rule others without their consent, while the rest of us lack the right to even rule ourselves. In other words, there should be slavemasters on one hand, and slaves - that's us - on the other.
And that is not just a problem with government: it is a problem with us. We deem ourselves incapable of ruling ourselves, yet somehow entitled to rule over others. That is a logical impossibility. But it's one that most of us believe without question, because we have been indoctrinated to do so our entire lives.
BUT . . if you can persuade people to grow up, take responsibility for their own actions, and learn how to live in peace with each other at least most of the time, then the lies that underlie coercive government, and all other forms of slavery, will finally be proven unnecessary, and hopefully along with them, the institution itself.
Until then, we may have to live with tactical victories here and there when we can get them, but the ultimate goal should be bigger: not to merely make slavery more tolerable, but to end it, and, insofar as possible, prevent it from ever happening again.
As someone with moderate experience with both, for any of the data sets I've worked with thus far (admittedly most in the 1 to 50 gigabyte range, not terabytes), both are acceptable but I would choose PostgreSQL over either. And I'd choose a good DBA over any of the three. Really large data sets require more than just a good RDBMS; they require a good DBA, good architecture, and good design.
I acknowledge exactly One (exactly One and only One) Authority higher than myself. I am born free, as are all people, because of having been created in His image. Like many people, though by no means all, I choose to use that freedom to try my best to serve Him. I don't do a particularly great job, perhaps because He also has the freedom to choose me as His servant or not to, and I strongly suspect the latter.
I agree that authoritarianism is a root cause of many of society's ills. I'm an anarchist, and thus opposed to many of the forms of "authority" that are most widely and unquestioningly accepted by people worldwide, both religious and otherwise. But I base this and all of my other beliefs on the explicit teachings of Jesus Christ, who taught that our relationships with others (and Himself) ought to be based not on authority or coercion or violence, but love. "Religion" certainly can be abused by authoritarians, but it is not inherently authoritarian, and in my view at least (which I believe and hope to be Jesus' view as well), it is actually as profoundly contrary to the whole notion of authoritarianism as anything can be. Yes, God is the ultimate Authority, but He chooses to rule the world through love and persuasion, not violence. And asks us to do likewise. In my view, faith in God is not the cause of the world's ills; it would be the antidote, if people would just listen enough to understand.
I like the very DIY flavor of this particular installation. But old organs are commonly stripped and MIDI-fied through a similar process, frequently enough that there are forums and even commercial products to assist. Two of my favorite are Midibox (midibox.org), and Hauptwerk (www.hauptwerk.com). The former is a DIY MIDI hardware site, with a forum for people trying to add MIDI capability to old organs and similar instruments; the latter is essentially a MIDI sampler designed specifically for playback of organ music. I am in the early stages of a similar project to add MIDI capability to an old Allen organ, which I am attempting to do without disrupting any of the existing electronics, which makes it quite a bit more challenging at least for me.
After reading a lot of good points on both sides I tend to agree with you. Thesis is a derivative work, by any reasonable definition, due to the copying and pasting. It does not appear to have a legal leg to stand on. However, that does not settle the question of whether a wholly original WP theme would violate the GPL. It seems to me that this would hinge on the legal definition of a derivative work, which as some have pointed out does vary somewhat from one jurisdiction to another, and, as others have pointed out, could not be definitively settled in either direction without causing chaos, which, as still others have pointed out, seems to call into question many fundamental aspects of copyright "law" itself (which I wholeheartedly do NOT support, but nevertheless try to follow). My advice to authors of WP themes would be to honor the wishes of the WP creators, release the code as GPL, and, if they absolutely insist on trying to keep something proprietary, then license the graphics or something differently.
Some of us would rather speak out now, and maybe face persecution ourselves, rather than to do nothing and thereby force our children to have to speak out and face something just as bad, or maybe worse, later on.
Install Ubuntu *and* Windows. Dual boot or use virtualization software. If you value freedom above most other things, as I do, then use Linux whenever possible, and 'Doze whenever you have to. Otherwise, use either, or both, whichever one best meets your needs at the time.
People are forgetting that given sufficiently cheap energy inputs you can create petroleum substitutes from other fossil fuels (e.g., coal or methane), or even from water through hydrolysis (various processes can take the O2 and H2 produced, mix with various organic inputs, and output alcohol or other liquid fuels). Cheap nuclear power, which we should have had for at least 40 years now, would have prevented most if not all need for imports of oil or other fuels.
I would be fine with having a nuclear plant in my backyard as long as it was a modern design. I also would be fine with having the spent waste in my backyard as long as it posed no threat of exposing me, my family, or anyone else to significantly higher than background levels of radiation, which would be the case if it were (a) small amounts of very radioactive waste, which could be encased in lead plus glass and buried securely, or (b) larger amounts of only slightly radioactive waste, which it'd likely suffice to simply bury deeply.
If the goal is to produce trained, obedient monkeys to serve their corporate and governmental "betters," then yes, it's an invaluable lesson. (And trust me, that IS the goal.) If the goal were to truly educate, though, according to the classical or any other legitimate meaning of term, we would not tolerate bad teachers, any more than we'd tolerate a surgeon that killed most of his patients or an engineer who built bridges that constantly fall down.
In a dog *or* human, the pancreas, liver and gallbladder all must work right to allow proper digestion of fats, and problems there plus lactose intolerance could explain a lot of the issues I have.
If it's genetic, my kids could have similar issues, although they aren't nearly as bad as I was at their age. But my wife's situation is puzzling. She has no problem eating anything in her home country (Republic of Macedonia), just here in the U.S., where a lot of our soy is GM as well (and soy is VERY big in a typical vegan diet), and our "meat" is full of hormones and antibiotics. Hers might just be a very normal reaction against the consumption of things that have never been part of human diets in the past and that we know next to nothing about.
I cannot think of a single respect in which the U.S. is the most advanced country in the world. (It is *among* the more advanced in many respects, especially those that correlate well to GDP as measured in dollars, but in many other important respects it is not.)
I rarely see a benefit to normalizing less or more than 3NF. I very often do see benefits to creating views that look like denormalized data, and, on RDBMSs that support it, indexes on those views so as to minimize any performance issues caused by normalization. But in database design, as most other engineering disciplines, there is no Pareto-optimal, "one size fits all" approach. Every application and every situation differs.
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The one that followed the U.S. Constitution, which forbade standing armies, at least for a time?
And THAT, my friend, is why most Muslims and Arabs (and no, I'm not either) will NEVER give in to the U.S. government.
The action you propose would unleash hell on earth, and would result in many billions of people who have no great love for Islamicism, including myself, becoming the most staunch and fierce allies they could possibly every hope for.
It actually makes sound biological sense. You are more likely to successfully pass on your genes in the context of a loving, committed relationship. The kids that result from "mindless sex," while perhaps more numerous, do not receive the same kind of upbringing, and start life at a considerable disadvantage.
Life and liberty are seldom if ever competing goals; they are almost always one and the same. The freedom of over a billion law-abiding Indian citizens, and the many lives that would be saved if murderous terrorist organizations called "governments" did not have the ability to spy on them, or to inspire the creation of competing terrorist organizations, go hand in hand.
Is there truly any "independent science"? Anyone without an agenda to prove, one way or the other?
A SINGLE technology that already exists - nuclear power - would be sufficient to prevent any future human contribution to any of the above, and even to reduce a few of them to some extent.
There is no scientific evidence as far as I'm aware, for reasons pointed out by others. Elevated CO2 levels follow historical temperature readings. They do not trail them. Hence, said levels are more likely to be a result, not a cause, of climate change.
There are good reasons to support development of non-fossil-based energy sources. AGW, which has not been proven to exist and is extremely unlikely to, is not one of them, but there are others: increased local independence; cheaper food and clean water and industrial production; less corruption, terrorism, and war; more evenly distributed prosperity, as opposed to the evenly distributed poverty that would result from many of the measures that AGW religionists have proposed.
I want people to stop blathering about shit they know nothing about, and start collaborating on PEACEFUL and VOLUNTARY solutions that do not require coercion, violence, and death on a global scale in order to implement.
This often works, but not always. NT was not a better UNIX than UNIX, nor IIS a better Apache than Apache, nor is any forum software even remotely comparable to NNTP, yet in each case the former gained significant inroads against the latter. In my view, each of these abominations arose due to government interference in markets - in the former two cases by protecting Microsoft from prosecution for fraud, and in the latter case, a genuine and well-deserved fear of truly open and anonymous communication, for which NNTP was and is a nearly ideal vehicle.
Honestly, if you think that the institution of total, coercive government can ever be "taken back" or used in any sustainable way that benefits anyone other than that government itself, then you have not yet grasped the full nature or extent of the problem.
It isn't that the wrong people are in charge. They do suck, but even if you can get different people elected, in time they will get corrupted too.
It isn't just the Constitution is inadequate, or that it isn't being followed. Both of those things are true, but we would still have a problem even if they weren't. You can change the rules (in our case the Constitution) but again, in time, those will be either corrupted or, as in our case, simply ignored.
The real problem is that our whole concept of government is based on the fiction that some people are entitled to rule others without their consent, while the rest of us lack the right to even rule ourselves. In other words, there should be slavemasters on one hand, and slaves - that's us - on the other.
And that is not just a problem with government: it is a problem with us. We deem ourselves incapable of ruling ourselves, yet somehow entitled to rule over others. That is a logical impossibility. But it's one that most of us believe without question, because we have been indoctrinated to do so our entire lives.
BUT . . if you can persuade people to grow up, take responsibility for their own actions, and learn how to live in peace with each other at least most of the time, then the lies that underlie coercive government, and all other forms of slavery, will finally be proven unnecessary, and hopefully along with them, the institution itself.
Until then, we may have to live with tactical victories here and there when we can get them, but the ultimate goal should be bigger: not to merely make slavery more tolerable, but to end it, and, insofar as possible, prevent it from ever happening again.
As someone with moderate experience with both, for any of the data sets I've worked with thus far (admittedly most in the 1 to 50 gigabyte range, not terabytes), both are acceptable but I would choose PostgreSQL over either. And I'd choose a good DBA over any of the three. Really large data sets require more than just a good RDBMS; they require a good DBA, good architecture, and good design.
I love this site which claims among other things that most of its translators are native Klingon speakers.
I acknowledge exactly One (exactly One and only One) Authority higher than myself. I am born free, as are all people, because of having been created in His image. Like many people, though by no means all, I choose to use that freedom to try my best to serve Him. I don't do a particularly great job, perhaps because He also has the freedom to choose me as His servant or not to, and I strongly suspect the latter.
I agree that authoritarianism is a root cause of many of society's ills. I'm an anarchist, and thus opposed to many of the forms of "authority" that are most widely and unquestioningly accepted by people worldwide, both religious and otherwise. But I base this and all of my other beliefs on the explicit teachings of Jesus Christ, who taught that our relationships with others (and Himself) ought to be based not on authority or coercion or violence, but love. "Religion" certainly can be abused by authoritarians, but it is not inherently authoritarian, and in my view at least (which I believe and hope to be Jesus' view as well), it is actually as profoundly contrary to the whole notion of authoritarianism as anything can be. Yes, God is the ultimate Authority, but He chooses to rule the world through love and persuasion, not violence. And asks us to do likewise. In my view, faith in God is not the cause of the world's ills; it would be the antidote, if people would just listen enough to understand.
I like the very DIY flavor of this particular installation. But old organs are commonly stripped and MIDI-fied through a similar process, frequently enough that there are forums and even commercial products to assist. Two of my favorite are Midibox (midibox.org), and Hauptwerk (www.hauptwerk.com). The former is a DIY MIDI hardware site, with a forum for people trying to add MIDI capability to old organs and similar instruments; the latter is essentially a MIDI sampler designed specifically for playback of organ music. I am in the early stages of a similar project to add MIDI capability to an old Allen organ, which I am attempting to do without disrupting any of the existing electronics, which makes it quite a bit more challenging at least for me.
After reading a lot of good points on both sides I tend to agree with you. Thesis is a derivative work, by any reasonable definition, due to the copying and pasting. It does not appear to have a legal leg to stand on. However, that does not settle the question of whether a wholly original WP theme would violate the GPL. It seems to me that this would hinge on the legal definition of a derivative work, which as some have pointed out does vary somewhat from one jurisdiction to another, and, as others have pointed out, could not be definitively settled in either direction without causing chaos, which, as still others have pointed out, seems to call into question many fundamental aspects of copyright "law" itself (which I wholeheartedly do NOT support, but nevertheless try to follow). My advice to authors of WP themes would be to honor the wishes of the WP creators, release the code as GPL, and, if they absolutely insist on trying to keep something proprietary, then license the graphics or something differently.
Some of us would rather speak out now, and maybe face persecution ourselves, rather than to do nothing and thereby force our children to have to speak out and face something just as bad, or maybe worse, later on.
Install Ubuntu *and* Windows. Dual boot or use virtualization software. If you value freedom above most other things, as I do, then use Linux whenever possible, and 'Doze whenever you have to. Otherwise, use either, or both, whichever one best meets your needs at the time.
People are forgetting that given sufficiently cheap energy inputs you can create petroleum substitutes from other fossil fuels (e.g., coal or methane), or even from water through hydrolysis (various processes can take the O2 and H2 produced, mix with various organic inputs, and output alcohol or other liquid fuels). Cheap nuclear power, which we should have had for at least 40 years now, would have prevented most if not all need for imports of oil or other fuels.
I would be fine with having a nuclear plant in my backyard as long as it was a modern design. I also would be fine with having the spent waste in my backyard as long as it posed no threat of exposing me, my family, or anyone else to significantly higher than background levels of radiation, which would be the case if it were (a) small amounts of very radioactive waste, which could be encased in lead plus glass and buried securely, or (b) larger amounts of only slightly radioactive waste, which it'd likely suffice to simply bury deeply.
If the goal is to produce trained, obedient monkeys to serve their corporate and governmental "betters," then yes, it's an invaluable lesson. (And trust me, that IS the goal.) If the goal were to truly educate, though, according to the classical or any other legitimate meaning of term, we would not tolerate bad teachers, any more than we'd tolerate a surgeon that killed most of his patients or an engineer who built bridges that constantly fall down.
In a dog *or* human, the pancreas, liver and gallbladder all must work right to allow proper digestion of fats, and problems there plus lactose intolerance could explain a lot of the issues I have. If it's genetic, my kids could have similar issues, although they aren't nearly as bad as I was at their age. But my wife's situation is puzzling. She has no problem eating anything in her home country (Republic of Macedonia), just here in the U.S., where a lot of our soy is GM as well (and soy is VERY big in a typical vegan diet), and our "meat" is full of hormones and antibiotics. Hers might just be a very normal reaction against the consumption of things that have never been part of human diets in the past and that we know next to nothing about.
I cannot think of a single respect in which the U.S. is the most advanced country in the world. (It is *among* the more advanced in many respects, especially those that correlate well to GDP as measured in dollars, but in many other important respects it is not.)
I rarely see a benefit to normalizing less or more than 3NF. I very often do see benefits to creating views that look like denormalized data, and, on RDBMSs that support it, indexes on those views so as to minimize any performance issues caused by normalization. But in database design, as most other engineering disciplines, there is no Pareto-optimal, "one size fits all" approach. Every application and every situation differs.
What freedoms that matter to you exist in the U.S. or Great Britain, but not China?