There's no need to disprove "spirituality" because the very definition disproves it. It's a ridiculous, childish concept that has never been proved true. Burden of proof, etc,etc.
The best man that have ever lived, George Carlin, used to say "I was born in a christian family, and I was a christian... well until I reached the age of reason. So I was a christian for about 2 and a half years"
I agree 99% with you. The difference comes form the fact that when I used to be on cocaine 6 days a week I was highly productive... and I have actually coded some brilliant pieces while high.
The only drug that is really bad for the human race is religion. All the others can be bad, or can be really good.
And then just don't sleep for as many days as necessary to deliver, work on weekends, and deliver ontime, without testing, knowing that the binaries you are delivering where compiled the night before the delivery date at 5 A.M.
And off course a few special cases that are atypical for it's genre and can be counted with your fingers are representative of the thousands of westerns out there.
Hollywood wants perfect heroes. Where there's action (which is where Hollywood wants to be), you'll only find horrible murderers. But Hollywood wants to show you something else: A Hero, an Honest, ethical man.
All soldiers are murderers, no matter what country are they from. Same thing for bad boys in the wild west. And for cops, bank robbers, CIA agents, etc, etc.
So, they justify their actions. The hero only shoots because the other guy was trying to kill him, and it was just self defense. Also, he's "doing it for the greater good". Take a movie like Spygames. Robert Redford and Brad Pitt are CIA Agents that have killed several hundred people. And still, they are shown as the good guys. On the other hand, they let us know that the bad guys are the Chinese, because they talk fast and different, and their voices are not dubbed in studio to stand out over the background noise. Not even once they give us the chance to see them as humans. They are imprisoning a woman that killed over 200 people in a bombing, yet she's a Hero and they are scumbag.
Same thing happens in the prototype of all this action films: Cowboy movies. They need to tell the audience who the guy bad is: The first drawer, and how the other guy is a Hero because he was just defending himself.
That's all there's to it. And even if it happens to be true that first drawers get shot, any similarity with real life is a pure coincidence.
I am against any form of population control. From personal IDs, credit cards and mandatory registration of phone/cellphone lines, to internet control.
It was just a (lame) attempt at being funny.
I always say that certain words are absolute, and so putting modifiers before them is inherently wrong. Example: The very definition of love means caring for someone before anything else. So "unconditional love" is redundant.
In a similar manner, certain things like freedom of speech are absolute. You can't have only some censorship. There's either freedom of speech, or there's censorship. Either you are free, or you are not. Any kind of control over what you can say, when, how, or what happens afterwards, is nothing but censorship. That is precisely because someone has the power to tell what is right and what is wrong, and since there are no 'correct' definitions of right and wrong, nobody should have that power.
We implement licenses NOT for users, but for programs. You need a license to connect your application to the internet. We implement certain levels that your app must achieve in order to reach the intertubes. If your application is TOO stupid or TOO buggy, you won't get a license.
No m$ program will get online for the next 5 decades, AND we would also get rid of people using facebook!. It's a win-win situation! (actually, nowin-nowin, since windows won't be allowed anymore:D )
There is really no such thing as a metric mile. What was once the "one mile" race (~1.6km) was turned into a 1500m race for the Olympics. And some stupid bitches that can't speak properly call it the "metric mile". There is no suck thing as a metric mile. There's a proper name for that: 1.5km.
Well, considered the UK colonized most of this countries, took their man and sold them as slaves, and mostly just stole everything they had for centuries, and we are not talking long long ago, you released some countries (Like Nigeria) as late as the 1960's, it sounds at least fair that you somehow repaired all that damage. I'm not saying you have to write checks, but letting them enjoy the country you built using THEIR MONEY, WORK AND RESOURCES sounds like the least you could do.
Most uneducated bastards with an IQ lower than room temperature that come from a bad neighborhood have to choose at 17: Policeman, Marine, or Criminal.
Regardless of what they choose, they are there to have fun, get money and free stuff, and act like total dicks. They have no ethics, so they'll still, kill, rape and lie without limitations.
There's actually a very interesting answer to that question. If you send me a small shipping and handling fee (cash only please), I'll mail you the answer.
-- I'm occasionally informative and rarely funny but so much for my wife's opinion, what do Slashdot mods think?
FTFA: "They said textbooks presented ideas and language that conflicted with their Christian beliefs, including slang terms for sex acts and images of vampires and witches, while the school offered what they described as ethics lessons from Islam, Buddhism and other religions. The eldest son got into fights in school and the eldest daughter had trouble studying."
They obviously belong on the USA. What better place for outraged religious fanatics trying to screw up the life of their kids?
I just posted the following comment on this asshole's website:
Your article is totally misleading.
You say that you managed to prove those products insecure.
Well, YOU DIDN'T. The intention of all the products you mentioned is to provide encryption to protect you from someone intercepting your phone call. You didn't test any of this. You just directly accessed the mic on the cellphone. Well, off course you'll get the audio!!
A little analogous situation to better explain what you did:
I will prove that this high security reinforced door is totally insecure. I'll get in the house through the window. Oh No! It worked, I'm inside the house and I didn't even touch the door! Those doors are Insecure!
That's exactly what you did. Those systems encrypt your voice. Your call is secure from interception. If you knew anything about security, you would know this: Physical access is total access.
You had PHYSICAL access to the phone. Well, off course you where able to "crack" it. Guess what? You could have manually connected the mic cables to an mp3 recorder for all I cared.
It's like saying "I am going to prove that this OpenBSD-based firewall is insecure, but connecting to the machines behind the firewall with this directly with this ethernet crossover cable".
So, are you really that naive, or you have financial interests in some phone crypto technology?
The problem is with mobos that have intel video. Flash doesn't detect your hardware acceleration, and doesn't use it. Create that file with those values, and it'll work nicely.
I'm posting this from an Atom 330 with an Intel GMA on Ubuntu 9.10. Flash Video at full screen (1280x760) works perfectly.
Diamond has no value in itself. It has technical applications, but there are already good substitutes, and for those applications (given the small amount needed, and the low quality of the diamonds involved) it's relatively cheap. The value of Diamonds is artificially controlled: Scarcity, and symbolic value.
So, if normal Diamonds are expensive, Diamonds from space will be N times more expensive. They are actually MORE scarce, because They are fucking hard to bring back. Also, harvesting is more expensive (considering it were possible at all with current technology).
Also, there's is the "From space" thing. Currently, Synthetic diamonds are pretty cheap to produce, and they are legally diamonds. (I'm not talking about Zirconia, I'm talking about artificially produced diamonds). And still, people want real diamonds. Is there a difference between them? Nop, just the "This is scarce and comes from the core of the planet" thing.
So, Diamonds from outer space will be:
a) Fucking expensive b) A great name for a band or B horror movie.
Slashdot Mirror
You are right, it's not a feeling. It' a disease.
Nietzsche was right. You christians truly are the poisoners and murderers of everything that is pure and beautiful about the human character.
I'm posting your faith club on /b/ ( I mean, Ebaum's, Ebaum's! ), I'm sure they'll enjoy it, and you'll enjoy their company.
Enjoy the trolling.
There's no need to disprove "spirituality" because the very definition disproves it. It's a ridiculous, childish concept that has never been proved true. Burden of proof, etc,etc.
The best man that have ever lived, George Carlin, used to say "I was born in a christian family, and I was a christian ... well until I reached the age of reason. So I was a christian for about 2 and a half years"
I agree 99% with you. The difference comes form the fact that when I used to be on cocaine 6 days a week I was highly productive ... and I have actually coded some brilliant pieces while high.
The only drug that is really bad for the human race is religion. All the others can be bad, or can be really good.
Well, then I hope the world ends today.
You can't remove perl, because the Universe is written in Perl.
>>but then tea drinkers are wussies anyway.
Agreed. Never trust a programmer that doesn't drink coffee.
And then just don't sleep for as many days as necessary to deliver, work on weekends, and deliver ontime, without testing, knowing that the binaries you are delivering where compiled the night before the delivery date at 5 A.M.
Yes, it's my way ...
Actually, it's anything below 4815162342. I hear you can't divide by either 0 or 108
Dude, sorry! Replying here to undo moderation. I'm a fucking asshole. Meant to mod you insightful, clicked on troll.
BTW: I support your post 100%.
And off course a few special cases that are atypical for it's genre and can be counted with your fingers are representative of the thousands of westerns out there.
why the first to draw gets shot.
Hollywood wants perfect heroes. Where there's action (which is where Hollywood wants to be), you'll only find horrible murderers. But Hollywood wants to show you something else: A Hero, an Honest, ethical man.
All soldiers are murderers, no matter what country are they from. Same thing for bad boys in the wild west. And for cops, bank robbers, CIA agents, etc, etc.
So, they justify their actions. The hero only shoots because the other guy was trying to kill him, and it was just self defense. Also, he's "doing it for the greater good". Take a movie like Spygames. Robert Redford and Brad Pitt are CIA Agents that have killed several hundred people. And still, they are shown as the good guys. On the other hand, they let us know that the bad guys are the Chinese, because they talk fast and different, and their voices are not dubbed in studio to stand out over the background noise. Not even once they give us the chance to see them as humans. They are imprisoning a woman that killed over 200 people in a bombing, yet she's a Hero and they are scumbag.
Same thing happens in the prototype of all this action films: Cowboy movies. They need to tell the audience who the guy bad is: The first drawer, and how the other guy is a Hero because he was just defending himself.
That's all there's to it. And even if it happens to be true that first drawers get shot, any similarity with real life is a pure coincidence.
Dude, Wooooosh!
I am against any form of population control. From personal IDs, credit cards and mandatory registration of phone/cellphone lines, to internet control.
It was just a (lame) attempt at being funny.
I always say that certain words are absolute, and so putting modifiers before them is inherently wrong. Example: The very definition of love means caring for someone before anything else. So "unconditional love" is redundant.
In a similar manner, certain things like freedom of speech are absolute. You can't have only some censorship. There's either freedom of speech, or there's censorship. Either you are free, or you are not. Any kind of control over what you can say, when, how, or what happens afterwards, is nothing but censorship. That is precisely because someone has the power to tell what is right and what is wrong, and since there are no 'correct' definitions of right and wrong, nobody should have that power.
How about this:
We implement licenses NOT for users, but for programs. You need a license to connect your application to the internet. We implement certain levels that your app must achieve in order to reach the intertubes.
If your application is TOO stupid or TOO buggy, you won't get a license.
No m$ program will get online for the next 5 decades, AND we would also get rid of people using facebook!. :D )
It's a win-win situation! (actually, nowin-nowin, since windows won't be allowed anymore
On BitTorrent. So, who cares about Amazon?
This is not regular language. It's a scientific term.
There is really no such thing as a metric mile. What was once the "one mile" race (~1.6km) was turned into a 1500m race for the Olympics. And some stupid bitches that can't speak properly call it the "metric mile". There is no suck thing as a metric mile. There's a proper name for that: 1.5km.
Almafuerte says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
January 28, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Well, considered the UK colonized most of this countries, took their man and sold them as slaves, and mostly just stole everything they had for centuries, and we are not talking long long ago, you released some countries (Like Nigeria) as late as the 1960's, it sounds at least fair that you somehow repaired all that damage. I'm not saying you have to write checks, but letting them enjoy the country you built using THEIR MONEY, WORK AND RESOURCES sounds like the least you could do.
Most uneducated bastards with an IQ lower than room temperature that come from a bad neighborhood have to choose at 17: Policeman, Marine, or Criminal.
Regardless of what they choose, they are there to have fun, get money and free stuff, and act like total dicks. They have no ethics, so they'll still, kill, rape and lie without limitations.
There's actually a very interesting answer to that question. If you send me a small shipping and handling fee (cash only please), I'll mail you the answer.
--
I'm occasionally informative and rarely funny
but so much for my wife's opinion, what do Slashdot mods think?
We agree with your wife.
FTFA: "They said textbooks presented ideas and language that conflicted with their Christian beliefs, including slang terms for sex acts and images of vampires and witches, while the school offered what they described as ethics lessons from Islam, Buddhism and other religions. The eldest son got into fights in school and the eldest daughter had trouble studying."
They obviously belong on the USA. What better place for outraged religious fanatics trying to screw up the life of their kids?
I just posted the following comment on this asshole's website:
Your article is totally misleading.
You say that you managed to prove those products insecure.
Well, YOU DIDN'T. The intention of all the products you mentioned is to provide encryption
to protect you from someone intercepting your phone call. You didn't test any of this.
You just directly accessed the mic on the cellphone. Well, off course you'll get the audio!!
A little analogous situation to better explain what you did:
I will prove that this high security reinforced door is totally insecure. I'll get in the house through
the window. Oh No! It worked, I'm inside the house and I didn't even touch the door! Those doors
are Insecure!
That's exactly what you did. Those systems encrypt your voice. Your call is secure from interception.
If you knew anything about security, you would know this: Physical access is total access.
You had PHYSICAL access to the phone. Well, off course you where able to "crack" it. Guess what?
You could have manually connected the mic cables to an mp3 recorder for all I cared.
It's like saying "I am going to prove that this OpenBSD-based firewall is insecure, but connecting
to the machines behind the firewall with this directly with this ethernet crossover cable".
So, are you really that naive, or you have financial interests in some phone crypto technology?
That's easily fixable: /etc/adobe/mms.cfg:
OverrideGPUValidation=true
The problem is with mobos that have intel video. Flash doesn't detect your hardware acceleration, and doesn't use it. Create that file with those values, and it'll work nicely.
I'm posting this from an Atom 330 with an Intel GMA on Ubuntu 9.10. Flash Video at full screen (1280x760) works perfectly.
You are trolling, right?
Think about this:
Diamond has no value in itself. It has technical applications, but there are already good substitutes, and for those applications (given the small amount needed, and the low quality of the diamonds involved) it's relatively cheap.
The value of Diamonds is artificially controlled: Scarcity, and symbolic value.
So, if normal Diamonds are expensive, Diamonds from space will be N times more expensive. They are actually MORE scarce, because They are fucking hard to bring back. Also, harvesting is more expensive (considering it were possible at all with current technology).
Also, there's is the "From space" thing. Currently, Synthetic diamonds are pretty cheap to produce, and they are legally diamonds. (I'm not talking about Zirconia, I'm talking about artificially produced diamonds). And still, people want real diamonds. Is there a difference between them? Nop, just the "This is scarce and comes from the core of the planet" thing.
So, Diamonds from outer space will be:
a) Fucking expensive
b) A great name for a band or B horror movie.