Except... they lay out in their ToS that they give you a minimum amount of notice so you can move off if they discontinue a service. For AppEngine, thats 2 years I believe, and Google App Engine is not the only way to run apps for Google App Engine, you can also use the alternative OSS stack that will serve app engine apps: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/
So... if two years and a free alternative (free as in beer and speech) is 'leave me hanging' then you don't really belong in the tech industry, you won't make it.
Yea, its really screwing people over when you start charging them for shit that you told them we're going to give away free for a while, then when we think its production ready we're going to charge for it...
This is standard business practice for pretty much ANY business, if you didn't see this coming, you aren't qualified to make a statement about it because you simple don't know anything about running a business.
Also in the agreement that stated the price changes in the future was the part that said you'd have notice and given X amount of time when a service was going to be discontinued. If I recall correctly, the amount of time was 2 years, its not like they're just going to drop you into nothingness.
Yea, except breathing isn't the only attribute it looks at, and it wouldn't take too many people going through before it became useless if all it took was asthma to set it off as thats a rather common aliment.
Why exactly does it have to have anything to do with dark skin and beards? It doesn't. You're trying to make it about race and creed when that has nothing to do with it.
The guy screams at the top of his lungs to as many people as can listen to kill innocent people as possible, he's not joking, he's not just rallying, he really means for people to go out and kill other innocent people. Thats all that is needed. This isn't a peaceful protest by some guy trying to get his voice heard, this is a guy who wants to kill others without any concern over what the outcome will be or why its being done.
If he wanted a trial, he might have considered turning himself in. He could have claimed asylum elsewhere, plenty of countries would have taken him and not have turned him over to the US. He didn't want that, he wanted to keep gaining new killers for his cause.
What he did instead was to continue doing EXACTLY what got him put on the shit list in the first place.
Cause, reaction. Race and creed need not be brought into this discussion, there is plenty of reason to go after him without being a racist fuck.
Now, STOP BEING A RACIST FUCK. Bringing race up as if its the cause of everything just shows your own racism and ignorance, not anyone elses.
The fact that you want to defend him like he was innocent just makes you look fucking stupid.
Someone with an anxiety disorder, or otherwise has a (non-criminal) reason to be nervous?
What happens when you've been standing in the stupid security line for an hour... and you've got diarrhea... and you're clinching your ass cheeks together hoping that you can get through the damn line and too a restroom before the day gets very embarrassing.
Wow, do you realize that you've just confirmed the stereo type that women have absolutely no sense of logic? And whats better, you'd done it while trying to pretend to be logical using pseudo code for your snarky, yet utterly ignorant response.
The other problem is that people who should know technology think that $0.14 is actually the 'cost'. You as an older slashdotter, I would have expected to realize that its probably more like a cost of $0.00014 per transaction, or a few orders of magnitude less than that.
Its far more likely Redhat bought Gluster to eventually pull it away from OpenStack, since you know... Redhat has directly competing products with OpenStack, its not likely they'll be putting a lot of money into developing for OpenStack... it would in fact, be rather stupid for them from a business perspective.
The link in it shows that while they aren't the Hell's Angels, it looks like the bikers and truckers in Joplin, MO did exactly that when these douche bags tried this shit in Joplin.
As someone raised Catholic myself, I can attest that not all Catholic parents act like that, nor does the church promote it and hasn't at any point in my lifetime.
The religion wasn't the problem in your life, your parents and family were.
Didn't suck at all, in fact until this article I had no idea they were having problems. Several first of the month billpay transactions worked just fine.
He's referring to the default dock which has an Application Folder stack on it, that when you hover over it, pops up a list of all the Applications in your Applications folder, effectively emulating a start menu pretty much exactly.
Thats the point. A secret key (this is the obscurity part) that you'd never guess or be able to figure out. Of course, practically, this is never going to be true, you'll figure it out eventually, unless the key happens to be the universe itself, in which case the rules of our universe probably aren't applicable to you. The point is that you can't do anything other than use the key though.
All the security depends on the obscurity of the key. The algorithm just makes it so the key is required, or thats the hope. Its the part that makes the obscurity work.
There is no free will, its all just physics. 'Free Will' is just the manifestation of the chemical reactions in our bodies being modified by the rest of the interactions in the universe.
There is no free will, history and the future are already defined and set in stone.
I understand the whole narrative. I even agree with some of it. But make no doubt about it, there is no post hoc explanation that makes Abraham a good person for almost killing his son by the demand of his powerful benefactor. None. Nada. No excuses for killing your kid, period.
No, you don't understand it, its clear that you don't. If you understood it, you would know that Abraham knew when he was asked to take his son to the alter that his son would live on. He had been told that his son would lead to a large family of descendants to bare Abrahams bloodline for example, can't do that dead.
There is also no excuse for something that didn't happen. No one was killed at the alter. You word it like thats what happened, but it isn't. You don't even seem to fully understand the story we're talking about.
what kind of sick sociopath does Abraham need to be to overcome our inherent aversion to this kind of action?
The same kind as most sociopaths from that time period. Sacrificing your own child was no exactly uncommon for people in that area in that period. It was perfectly acceptable to do so. The point of the story is that he learned that it wasn't right, hence why Abrahams descendants do not practice human sacrifice.
I know I'm just repeating what was said in the parent you're replying too, but you seemed to have missed it. At some point, we had to be told not to do it in some way, the story relates that way to us after the fact. The story could be entirely fictional just used to illustrate something that was put into us at a fundamental level. We're not talking about things that were EVER meant to be taken literally here.
If you believe in an afterlife, and that the afterlife is ultimate bliss, then sacrificing your child isn't sociopathic.
Its like sending your child away for school. It sucks as a parent because you 'lose' your child, but the child is better off for it.
So... if Abraham believed his child was about to be taken to external bliss in heaven, its REALLY fucking hard to call Abraham a sociopath.
Likewise, assuming its true, God isn't doing anything wrong morally by demanding the sacrifice. Hell, if all I had to do to go to eternal bliss was to get killed, I'd be the first mutha fucka in line to find minefields in warzones... with bare feet and a large amount of TNT strapped to me (don't want the landmine to just wound/mame me).
Without the faith to believe in all those things, then the story sounds fucked up. That however is true of pretty much ALL modern technology however. If you take away the last 2000 years of accumulated knowledge, you'd be a raving nut to talk about walking on the moon, wouldn't you?
Not higher thoughts. A life of experiencing miracles. Fire coming from the sky upon a city is not just a "higher thought".
I've never seen any such thing happening, nor had a reliable account of it, so I entirely discount it.
You've never seen a meteor impact visualization or a volcano erupting, nor heard/seen a reliable account of it? I can't fathom how you could get on the Internet (so obviously have access to modern technology) and still manage to not see a TV show, documentary or news alert about one of these sort of events happening. Hell, there have been 3 major volcanic eruptions in my lifetime that qualify as 'fire coming from the sky upon a city'
So I'm guessing you're what, 16.. 17 years old and too stupid to realize your elders are far more experienced in the world than you are, and that there ARE people more intelligent and more enlightened than you. This is a fact, without taking any sort of metaphysical into it. Yet... you seem to not be able to grasp such a simple concept.
Its pointless trying to have a discussion with someone like you, you're so ignorant you can't even have a rational conversation, I'm guessing because you can't do much more than regurgitate what someone else's opinion is without actually forming one of your own.
It is a fact that occasionally human sacrifice is a very moral action under the right circumstances. It ALWAYS SUCKS FOR THE PERSON BEING SACRIFICED, but if it saves 10, 50, 100, thousands of lives? It was the right thing to do. Sorry that you can't understand that the value of one life is less than that of other lives in some cases, but that is reality.
And if said alien was doing so because your kid was carrying a virus that was pretty much set to destroy all human life on the planet... but you're too ignorant to know that... would you still not listen? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. Sometimes you kill one to save a thousand. How much of the story has been lost over the years?
The problem you have with understanding 'the voice in your head' is a lack of faith. Its not that you can't understand it, its that you refuse to understand it because you can't experience it.
You lack the faith to understand how anyone could believe that some mystical figure telling them to kill their own son would be acceptable, but I can think of at least 10 different reasons right this instant why it might be best to kill your own child, and most of them revolve around practical matters.
You can't understand how anyone would listen to 'a voice' telling them to do something which they have no understanding of what so ever.
Assuming you aren't a doctor (if you are, you should REALLY be able to understand this), and you had an infection in your leg, the doctor says 'we have to cut it off if you want to live'. What do you do? Well, most people (after getting a second opinion) will listen to the doctor because they have faith in his/her abilities. Even though they don't understand specifically WHY the leg has to come off, they do understand that 'the voice' talking to them knows more about the grand scheme of things then they do themselves, so they listen to the voice.
Again, your problem is that you have no faith, and as such you can't accept that a higher power may actually understand things that you do not.
If the voice in my head told me to kill my own child... and it turned out that by not listening to the voice that my child went on to kill everyone in a psychotic rage or because he was a carrier of some virus... then it would seem pretty fucking stupid to not have not be loyal eh? Of course, it was never about loyalty, its about faith and trust.
Your picking out one event, out of context, and ignoring the context leading up to it. You're basically trying to say 'its stupid to think you can split an atom... because I'm ignoring the last 100 years of research'... which without that context and knowledge, splitting an atom probably sounds really stupid.
Of course, you're also using a reference that has been modified over and over again for thousands of years as each new guy that writes it down puts his own spin on it... so we've went from what was probably something like 'burn the bodies of your dead to prevent spread of desease' into 'kill your first born son to prove your loyalty' which is really useful if your the head of a religious organization trying to control people using religion to do so (governments do the same thing, but use money/greed instead of religion).
Warping of stories to fit the agenda of the person at hand has been rather consistent over the period of human existence...
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Well, considering App Engine was available to the public about 3 months before the App Store, I'd say Google would win that one.
Except ... they lay out in their ToS that they give you a minimum amount of notice so you can move off if they discontinue a service. For AppEngine, thats 2 years I believe, and Google App Engine is not the only way to run apps for Google App Engine, you can also use the alternative OSS stack that will serve app engine apps: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/
So ... if two years and a free alternative (free as in beer and speech) is 'leave me hanging' then you don't really belong in the tech industry, you won't make it.
Yea, its really screwing people over when you start charging them for shit that you told them we're going to give away free for a while, then when we think its production ready we're going to charge for it ...
This is standard business practice for pretty much ANY business, if you didn't see this coming, you aren't qualified to make a statement about it because you simple don't know anything about running a business.
Also in the agreement that stated the price changes in the future was the part that said you'd have notice and given X amount of time when a service was going to be discontinued. If I recall correctly, the amount of time was 2 years, its not like they're just going to drop you into nothingness.
Yea, except breathing isn't the only attribute it looks at, and it wouldn't take too many people going through before it became useless if all it took was asthma to set it off as thats a rather common aliment.
Why exactly does it have to have anything to do with dark skin and beards? It doesn't. You're trying to make it about race and creed when that has nothing to do with it.
The guy screams at the top of his lungs to as many people as can listen to kill innocent people as possible, he's not joking, he's not just rallying, he really means for people to go out and kill other innocent people. Thats all that is needed. This isn't a peaceful protest by some guy trying to get his voice heard, this is a guy who wants to kill others without any concern over what the outcome will be or why its being done.
If he wanted a trial, he might have considered turning himself in. He could have claimed asylum elsewhere, plenty of countries would have taken him and not have turned him over to the US. He didn't want that, he wanted to keep gaining new killers for his cause.
What he did instead was to continue doing EXACTLY what got him put on the shit list in the first place.
Cause, reaction. Race and creed need not be brought into this discussion, there is plenty of reason to go after him without being a racist fuck.
Now, STOP BEING A RACIST FUCK. Bringing race up as if its the cause of everything just shows your own racism and ignorance, not anyone elses.
The fact that you want to defend him like he was innocent just makes you look fucking stupid.
Someone with an anxiety disorder, or otherwise has a (non-criminal) reason to be nervous?
What happens when you've been standing in the stupid security line for an hour ... and you've got diarrhea ... and you're clinching your ass cheeks together hoping that you can get through the damn line and too a restroom before the day gets very embarrassing.
Wow, do you realize that you've just confirmed the stereo type that women have absolutely no sense of logic? And whats better, you'd done it while trying to pretend to be logical using pseudo code for your snarky, yet utterly ignorant response.
The other problem is that people who should know technology think that $0.14 is actually the 'cost'. You as an older slashdotter, I would have expected to realize that its probably more like a cost of $0.00014 per transaction, or a few orders of magnitude less than that.
Its far more likely Redhat bought Gluster to eventually pull it away from OpenStack, since you know ... Redhat has directly competing products with OpenStack, its not likely they'll be putting a lot of money into developing for OpenStack ... it would in fact, be rather stupid for them from a business perspective.
See this comment above:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2463158&cid=37627222
The link in it shows that while they aren't the Hell's Angels, it looks like the bikers and truckers in Joplin, MO did exactly that when these douche bags tried this shit in Joplin.
As someone raised Catholic myself, I can attest that not all Catholic parents act like that, nor does the church promote it and hasn't at any point in my lifetime.
The religion wasn't the problem in your life, your parents and family were.
I was raised Catholic and got no such idiotic treatment.
Religion doesnt' make you stupid, but stupid people tend to latch on to religion and use it as an excuse to be nut jobs and lunatics.
Didn't suck at all, in fact until this article I had no idea they were having problems. Several first of the month billpay transactions worked just fine.
He's referring to the default dock which has an Application Folder stack on it, that when you hover over it, pops up a list of all the Applications in your Applications folder, effectively emulating a start menu pretty much exactly.
Thats the point. A secret key (this is the obscurity part) that you'd never guess or be able to figure out. Of course, practically, this is never going to be true, you'll figure it out eventually, unless the key happens to be the universe itself, in which case the rules of our universe probably aren't applicable to you. The point is that you can't do anything other than use the key though.
All the security depends on the obscurity of the key. The algorithm just makes it so the key is required, or thats the hope. Its the part that makes the obscurity work.
There weren't flawless, they were innocent. Big difference.
Eating the apple after being coerced by the serpent was the 'loss of their innocence'.
There is no free will, its all just physics. 'Free Will' is just the manifestation of the chemical reactions in our bodies being modified by the rest of the interactions in the universe.
There is no free will, history and the future are already defined and set in stone.
I understand the whole narrative. I even agree with some of it. But make no doubt about it, there is no post hoc explanation that makes Abraham a good person for almost killing his son by the demand of his powerful benefactor. None. Nada. No excuses for killing your kid, period.
No, you don't understand it, its clear that you don't. If you understood it, you would know that Abraham knew when he was asked to take his son to the alter that his son would live on. He had been told that his son would lead to a large family of descendants to bare Abrahams bloodline for example, can't do that dead.
There is also no excuse for something that didn't happen. No one was killed at the alter. You word it like thats what happened, but it isn't. You don't even seem to fully understand the story we're talking about.
what kind of sick sociopath does Abraham need to be to overcome our inherent aversion to this kind of action?
The same kind as most sociopaths from that time period. Sacrificing your own child was no exactly uncommon for people in that area in that period. It was perfectly acceptable to do so. The point of the story is that he learned that it wasn't right, hence why Abrahams descendants do not practice human sacrifice.
I know I'm just repeating what was said in the parent you're replying too, but you seemed to have missed it. At some point, we had to be told not to do it in some way, the story relates that way to us after the fact. The story could be entirely fictional just used to illustrate something that was put into us at a fundamental level. We're not talking about things that were EVER meant to be taken literally here.
If you believe in an afterlife, and that the afterlife is ultimate bliss, then sacrificing your child isn't sociopathic.
Its like sending your child away for school. It sucks as a parent because you 'lose' your child, but the child is better off for it.
So ... if Abraham believed his child was about to be taken to external bliss in heaven, its REALLY fucking hard to call Abraham a sociopath.
Likewise, assuming its true, God isn't doing anything wrong morally by demanding the sacrifice. Hell, if all I had to do to go to eternal bliss was to get killed, I'd be the first mutha fucka in line to find minefields in warzones ... with bare feet and a large amount of TNT strapped to me (don't want the landmine to just wound/mame me).
Without the faith to believe in all those things, then the story sounds fucked up. That however is true of pretty much ALL modern technology however. If you take away the last 2000 years of accumulated knowledge, you'd be a raving nut to talk about walking on the moon, wouldn't you?
I've never seen any such thing happening, nor had a reliable account of it, so I entirely discount it.
You've never seen a meteor impact visualization or a volcano erupting, nor heard/seen a reliable account of it? I can't fathom how you could get on the Internet (so obviously have access to modern technology) and still manage to not see a TV show, documentary or news alert about one of these sort of events happening. Hell, there have been 3 major volcanic eruptions in my lifetime that qualify as 'fire coming from the sky upon a city'
This isn't insightful, its just retarded.
I'd spit in her face
So I'm guessing you're what, 16 .. 17 years old and too stupid to realize your elders are far more experienced in the world than you are, and that there ARE people more intelligent and more enlightened than you. This is a fact, without taking any sort of metaphysical into it. Yet ... you seem to not be able to grasp such a simple concept.
Its pointless trying to have a discussion with someone like you, you're so ignorant you can't even have a rational conversation, I'm guessing because you can't do much more than regurgitate what someone else's opinion is without actually forming one of your own.
It is a fact that occasionally human sacrifice is a very moral action under the right circumstances. It ALWAYS SUCKS FOR THE PERSON BEING SACRIFICED, but if it saves 10, 50, 100, thousands of lives? It was the right thing to do. Sorry that you can't understand that the value of one life is less than that of other lives in some cases, but that is reality.
And if said alien was doing so because your kid was carrying a virus that was pretty much set to destroy all human life on the planet ... but you're too ignorant to know that ... would you still not listen? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. Sometimes you kill one to save a thousand. How much of the story has been lost over the years?
The problem you have with understanding 'the voice in your head' is a lack of faith. Its not that you can't understand it, its that you refuse to understand it because you can't experience it.
You lack the faith to understand how anyone could believe that some mystical figure telling them to kill their own son would be acceptable, but I can think of at least 10 different reasons right this instant why it might be best to kill your own child, and most of them revolve around practical matters.
You can't understand how anyone would listen to 'a voice' telling them to do something which they have no understanding of what so ever.
Assuming you aren't a doctor (if you are, you should REALLY be able to understand this), and you had an infection in your leg, the doctor says 'we have to cut it off if you want to live'. What do you do? Well, most people (after getting a second opinion) will listen to the doctor because they have faith in his/her abilities. Even though they don't understand specifically WHY the leg has to come off, they do understand that 'the voice' talking to them knows more about the grand scheme of things then they do themselves, so they listen to the voice.
Again, your problem is that you have no faith, and as such you can't accept that a higher power may actually understand things that you do not.
If the voice in my head told me to kill my own child ... and it turned out that by not listening to the voice that my child went on to kill everyone in a psychotic rage or because he was a carrier of some virus ... then it would seem pretty fucking stupid to not have not be loyal eh? Of course, it was never about loyalty, its about faith and trust.
Your picking out one event, out of context, and ignoring the context leading up to it. You're basically trying to say 'its stupid to think you can split an atom ... because I'm ignoring the last 100 years of research' ... which without that context and knowledge, splitting an atom probably sounds really stupid.
Of course, you're also using a reference that has been modified over and over again for thousands of years as each new guy that writes it down puts his own spin on it ... so we've went from what was probably something like 'burn the bodies of your dead to prevent spread of desease' into 'kill your first born son to prove your loyalty' which is really useful if your the head of a religious organization trying to control people using religion to do so (governments do the same thing, but use money/greed instead of religion).
Warping of stories to fit the agenda of the person at hand has been rather consistent over the period of human existence ...
Uhm, SPDY works over HTTP just fine.
It's a really retarded protocol to use, but that's another story.