The crusades were over 1000 years ago, and that is still the best example of Christian church-led violence you can come up with?, yet multiple fatalities of innocent people from islamic terrorist attacks are taking place every day.
Unlike islam, Christianity does not condone let alone instruct the killing of anyone, especially not just because they insulted the name of Jesus. In fact Christianity teaches us to forgive.
Unlike islam, Christianity does not teach denial of basic human rights and prevention of education of certain groups of people (because of their gender, race or beliefs).
Unlike islam, Christianity does not have radical priests that brainwash believers into becoming human bombs....Want me to go on?...and yes I on purpose spelt Christianity with a capital C but islam with a lower case i, as the even the name of such a scum-ridden religion doesn't deserve any respect.
I jsut don't get why all the people that will make streaming more popular than downloading are ignoring the obvious downsides of streaming vs. local storage: 1) You can't listen to your music when you dont have an active internet connection. 2) You're basically paying regularly/multiple times to hear the same music you could just pay for/download once.
>> I've had nothing but trouble connecting USB printers to any open-source OS
Pretty much all the printers I've owned (more by chance than direct choice) have been HP. My current printer, a 10 year old HP PSC-950 (printer/scanner/fax) works better under linux than it ever did under windows and was easier to set up under Linux than windows. I have no experience with other brands but it seems the HP linux drivers make HP printers simply plug and play.
So what you're saying is that with Linux I have to do something deliberately stupid ( install an UNTRUSTED Chromium extension that started when you log into your desktop).
Windows is FAR easier to hack than linux. I mean if nothing else just look at all the open ports on a windows box compared to a linux box.
No, the problem is that the Microsoft philosophy is still to keep layering tweaks on hacks on mods of a design that was originally intended to be an application running on a single-user PC not on a network.
Consequently installing or even just running apps can still extend/modify/override the operating system itself i.e. write files into c:/windows and/or modify the registry (even having a registry in the first place is a completely stupid idea for exactly this and many other reasons).
If Microsoft had ever decided to fully decouple/lock away the entire OS from apps, just like Unix/Linux and pretty much every other professional multiuser OS does, this problem wouldn't even be here today.
True but I'm not holding my breath. Microsoft have had multiple decades to secure Windows, and still haven't done anything credible. They just keep coming up with clueless crap like UAE.
It looks to me like this problem will only go away when people finally get a clue and stop buying/using Windows.
Anyone who tries to take a gun or chainsaw on a plane is a moron, but making people leave their nail clippers etc is bullshit. What about martial artists who's hands alone are far more lethal than some stupid pointy keyring? How come they dont stop them from flying? I'm surprised that the TSA hasn't already tried to make everyone fly in handcuffs.
This. It seems to me that developers have a much higher earning potential when they have not only a strong software skills, but also a solid background in another traditionally non-software field (.e.g medicine) so they can talk both languages.
If they got to temporarily experience being black, I suspect the thing most white men would most remember is how much blatant racism and sexism black people actually have and get away with.
Sorry but as a LEGAL immigrant myself, I think this guy gave up any rights when he illegally entered. I also think the cops/feds/whoever should have just locked him up or deported him as soon as they knew he was illegal.
>> They used the video surveillance to obtain a warrant to search his home, which uncovered drugs and guns,
So the cops suspicions were actually right all along then.
In this case and others like it, I think any ruling that supports illegal immigrants that are in posession of drugs and illegal guns is clearly a stupid one.
Moral judgment doesn't even come itnto it. It depends entirely on the wording in the release. If it placed no limits on the usage or intended purpose and she signed it anyway, then she doesn't have a leg to stand on. Simple.
>> his plan... for trips to the edge of space is in jeopardy after the craft crashed during a test flight, killing a pilot.
This is ridiculous. One death and a whole project is in jepaoardy? If previoyus generation had been so risk-averse, the whole of mankind would have never have gotten anywhere. No cars, planes, or even basic surgery. Suck it up, learn from it and and lets move on, people.
Its very telling that the police force themselves aren't taking any disciplinary or other corrective action on the officers that keep doing this even though they have been told not to.
Conseuqently as the local police chief apparently can't/won't control their own officers to follow the law, the only practical option is to keep legally filming them and then suieing them for everything you can throw at them if they stop you and especially if they illegally mess with and damage your property (i.e. delete files from your phone). That way the economic impact alone will eventually force them to have to change.
I believe but am not 100% sure that you also have every legal right to demand to see a search warrant before you hand your phone over, but of course if you go against a cop in the street, they will probably make your day at least very inconvenient, even if you are actually right.
>> Of course, anyone but the absolute most stalwart AMD fan already knew their drivers were rubbish,
I completely agree, however it seems that AMD's customer base is mostly just a cult of drooling fanbois that won't ever agree with anything that is less than stellar praise of AMD and their products, or ever believe that any other manufacturer could ever make anything better.
Its probably a self-fulfilling prohecy that most current AMD customers are like that, because anyone with some actual knowledge of differnet GPUs built up from first-hand experience will have already decided to never buy another AMD product, especially if they are a Linux user.
I have literally NO sympathy for complainers that purchase products even knowing ahead of time that they lock you into monoculture that is arbitrarily and completely controlled by a company with a long history of abusing their own customers (e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Sony).
Are they simply meeting the definition of insanity (same action different result) or do they just have such a ridiculously overinflated ego that they seriously expect to be treated better than all the other previously abused customers?
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I am not a Christian but your argument sucks.
The crusades were over 1000 years ago, and that is still the best example of Christian church-led violence you can come up with?, yet multiple fatalities of innocent people from islamic terrorist attacks are taking place every day.
Unlike islam, Christianity does not condone let alone instruct the killing of anyone, especially not just because they insulted the name of Jesus. In fact Christianity teaches us to forgive.
Unlike islam, Christianity does not teach denial of basic human rights and prevention of education of certain groups of people (because of their gender, race or beliefs).
Unlike islam, Christianity does not have radical priests that brainwash believers into becoming human bombs. ...Want me to go on? ...and yes I on purpose spelt Christianity with a capital C but islam with a lower case i, as the even the name of such a scum-ridden religion doesn't deserve any respect.
maybe it will finally come together better.
>> learn a new, little-used language for ... the thrills?
Thirills? wow. You kids of today... ...but It does make me all teary-eyed to remember when I was actually that enthusiastic about such stuff too.
>> Is there a better way of dealing with the need for leap seconds?
We just need to make each second last a very little bit longer.
I jsut don't get why all the people that will make streaming more popular than downloading are ignoring the obvious downsides of streaming vs. local storage:
1) You can't listen to your music when you dont have an active internet connection.
2) You're basically paying regularly/multiple times to hear the same music you could just pay for/download once.
>> I've had nothing but trouble connecting USB printers to any open-source OS
Pretty much all the printers I've owned (more by chance than direct choice) have been HP.
My current printer, a 10 year old HP PSC-950 (printer/scanner/fax) works better under linux than it ever did under windows and was easier to set up under Linux than windows. I have no experience with other brands but it seems the HP linux drivers make HP printers simply plug and play.
So what you're saying is that with Linux I have to do something deliberately stupid ( install an UNTRUSTED Chromium extension that started when you log into your desktop).
Windows is FAR easier to hack than linux. I mean if nothing else just look at all the open ports on a windows box compared to a linux box.
I can appreciate the skill behind a clever, intelligent hack, but DDOS is just lame squared.
For ruining Christmas for so many kids, I hope those skript kiddie fuckers get caught and have their whole lives ruined.
No, the problem is that the Microsoft philosophy is still to keep layering tweaks on hacks on mods of a design that was originally intended to be an application running on a single-user PC not on a network.
Consequently installing or even just running apps can still extend/modify/override the operating system itself i.e. write files into c:/windows and/or modify the registry (even having a registry in the first place is a completely stupid idea for exactly this and many other reasons).
If Microsoft had ever decided to fully decouple/lock away the entire OS from apps, just like Unix/Linux and pretty much every other professional multiuser OS does, this problem wouldn't even be here today.
True but I'm not holding my breath. Microsoft have had multiple decades to secure Windows, and still haven't done anything credible. They just keep coming up with clueless crap like UAE.
It looks to me like this problem will only go away when people finally get a clue and stop buying/using Windows.
Anyone who tries to take a gun or chainsaw on a plane is a moron, but making people leave their nail clippers etc is bullshit.
What about martial artists who's hands alone are far more lethal than some stupid pointy keyring? How come they dont stop them from flying? I'm surprised that the TSA hasn't already tried to make everyone fly in handcuffs.
It would be trivial to just use the IP address instead.
I bet these guys couldn't beleive their luck when Putin anounced he was cancelling the European gas pipleline a few weeks ago.
...so black people are just projecting that most white people are racists too then?
This.
It seems to me that developers have a much higher earning potential when they have not only a strong software skills, but also a solid background in another traditionally non-software field (.e.g medicine) so they can talk both languages.
If they got to temporarily experience being black, I suspect the thing most white men would most remember is how much blatant racism and sexism black people actually have and get away with.
>> because Vargas was an undocumented immigrant
Sorry but as a LEGAL immigrant myself, I think this guy gave up any rights when he illegally entered. I also think the cops/feds/whoever should have just locked him up or deported him as soon as they knew he was illegal.
>> They used the video surveillance to obtain a warrant to search his home, which uncovered drugs and guns,
So the cops suspicions were actually right all along then.
In this case and others like it, I think any ruling that supports illegal immigrants that are in posession of drugs and illegal guns is clearly a stupid one.
Moral judgment doesn't even come itnto it. It depends entirely on the wording in the release. If it placed no limits on the usage or intended purpose and she signed it anyway, then she doesn't have a leg to stand on. Simple.
>> his plan ... for trips to the edge of space is in jeopardy after the craft crashed during a test flight, killing a pilot.
This is ridiculous. One death and a whole project is in jepaoardy? If previoyus generation had been so risk-averse, the whole of mankind would have never have gotten anywhere. No cars, planes, or even basic surgery.
Suck it up, learn from it and and lets move on, people.
When most women look at a car all they see is a box. Just buy any car you want and some Ford badges.
You don't *have* to only buy Ford you know.
>>> What can people do to curb this problem?
Its very telling that the police force themselves aren't taking any disciplinary or other corrective action on the officers that keep doing this even though they have been told not to.
Conseuqently as the local police chief apparently can't/won't control their own officers to follow the law, the only practical option is to keep legally filming them and then suieing them for everything you can throw at them if they stop you and especially if they illegally mess with and damage your property (i.e. delete files from your phone). That way the economic impact alone will eventually force them to have to change.
I believe but am not 100% sure that you also have every legal right to demand to see a search warrant before you hand your phone over, but of course if you go against a cop in the street, they will probably make your day at least very inconvenient, even if you are actually right.
>> Of course, anyone but the absolute most stalwart AMD fan already knew their drivers were rubbish,
I completely agree, however it seems that AMD's customer base is mostly just a cult of drooling fanbois that won't ever agree with anything that is less than stellar praise of AMD and their products, or ever believe that any other manufacturer could ever make anything better.
Its probably a self-fulfilling prohecy that most current AMD customers are like that, because anyone with some actual knowledge of differnet GPUs built up from first-hand experience will have already decided to never buy another AMD product, especially if they are a Linux user.
so violence against men is socially acceptable?
I have literally NO sympathy for complainers that purchase products even knowing ahead of time that they lock you into monoculture that is arbitrarily and completely controlled by a company with a long history of abusing their own customers (e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Sony).
Are they simply meeting the definition of insanity (same action different result) or do they just have such a ridiculously overinflated ego that they seriously expect to be treated better than all the other previously abused customers?