There are ID scientists who are not Christians, so, yes, the Designer in ID can, in theory, be $DIETY. However, *Christian* ID supporters, by nature of our Christian faith (note: I'm not a scientist) believe this Designer is the God of the Bible and no other. You can't reasonably claim to be a Christian and believe otherwise.
However, this whole line of question dodges and clouds the issues. The vast majority of/.ers, it seems, are not people of faith. So, rather than having an intelligent design about the merits of the *idea* ID (whether you believe it or not), the discussion turns into an attack on the *people* who believe it. "Those darn fundies!" "When are those crazy Christians going to give up?" *Rarely* is the *scientific* idea of some sort of designer (note the case) ever discussed rationally. And I think ID is a rational idea (faith aside). Our own scientific laws shows that everything comes from something. Where did this point of singularity come from? What created all that mass? Has it always existed? That would would violate one scientific "law" after another. But, if something, *has* always existed, is it matter, or an eternal god. *Either* choice requires a good deal of faith, and, I think, the idea of an eternally existent deity to make much more sense.
Oh and if red states have a problem with the us working with [results obtained from genocide], then they can choose NOT use the cures and solutions that will come out of this...
Hrm...nope...still sounds like murder to me. I'm not against SCR. Adult stem cells *do* work, while embryonic stem cells have yet to show a single success (and have shown several grossly negative results), and adult stem cells don't kill the donor.
Not necessarily trying to split hairs, but Reagan *cut* taxes, which boosted productivity. He also boosted military spending to fight the Cold War. The increased, unfunded spending led to the increased national debt we see now, not the tax cuts.
There is every bit of evidence to suggest that the power a government obtains is never relenquished, just as taxation is never reduced - only staid or raised.
Reagan and Bush (and I'm sure others) have both cut taxes, though no one has done it as drastically as Reagan did, IIRC...
All laws are based on morality. A pretty universal moral is that it's wrong to kill someone, so we have a law against it. You'd think that wouldn't require legislation, but apparently it does.
* Invading the privacy of individuals
How's he done this? The PATRIOT act? No one's shown me conclusive proof this is all that bad.
* Cutting funding for basic social services
I wish he'd cut more. That kind of business the government has no business in. One of the basic ideas of the Democrats' platform is that we are unable to take care of ourselves and that Uncle Sam should do it. I disagree with that wholeheartedly. Cut that spending at the federal level, cut the taxes that paid for that pork, and send the money back to the states where the state governments, or better yet, local charities, churchs, etc. can handle that.
* Loosening restrictions on air and water pollution
I'm of the opinion that most of our enviromental laws were pushed for and/or written by people who care more about an obscure insect than people.
* Putting the interests of corporations before the interests of citizens
I'll grant you that one. I'm certainly not a water carrier for the GOP, and this is one area (immigration is another) I wish they were stricter on, but the Dems aren't any better, and it's not like John Kerry won't put *his* interests ahead of mine. According to people that know him, his whole life has been about climbing the ladder to more and more power, so I have no trust for him at all.
* Acting in opposition to the scientific community with *no* counter argument
Stem cell research is the only thing I can think of you might be referring to here. Bush is not against SCR; he's opposed to *government-funded* SCR. If SCR were such a good idea, why aren't drug companies footing the bill on this one? It's because it's junk science.
And quit shrugging.
That was mainly done to prevent the appearance of antagonism or hot-headedness. I certainly care about what happens in November, and am still firmly convinced the Dubya's the right man for the job (given our options).
If you've got an argument, then share it. If someone has a better argument, don't blow it off - dispute it or accept it.
I do. I just haven't heard one yet.
We have systemic problems with our electoral system, corruption, corporate power, etc. that will not be fixed as long as we remain a nation of complacent and uneducated non-thinkers.
On that point, we both agree, though I would add voter apathy to that list.
I'm proudly voting for Bush again. You can try to pin the blame for the current state of affairs dubya if you want, but it was 8 years of appeasement in the Clinton years despite several attacks on American interests, including the WTC, that culminated in 9/11. Add that to 12 years of hand wringing and empty threats from the UN and I think you get a better picture of who terrorists want in the White House. With Kerry, the terrorists get concessions, hesitation and navel gazing. With Bush, they get a president who *will* kill them.
That kinda makes sense, since 2000 is newer than 97, and Microsoft is notorious for changing file formats just enough to make life difficuly for other WP programs. That's also part of the reason you see people calling for *at least* open standards WRT office documents (lower case indicating a general term). Now, I'm willing to bet if you redo your scenario in OOo 1.1 and the pending 2.0, the story will be different. That's one of the beauties of open source. There's no financial incentives to change things and force your customers to upgrade.
The problem as I see it is that if the system lets you set that variable via the query string, who says you can't elevate your permissions the same way...
Assuming you have added apt to a RedHat system, what does Debian offer that I don't get off a RH system (other than the alleged higher quality packages). I've yet to see an acceptable answer to that question. My "apt-enabled" RH boxes (from 7.2 through FC1) are trouble free and easy to maintain.
I have a problem occasionally with the frontend crashing, and, more rarely, the backend crashing. In my.xinitrc, I have an infinite loop in which all the body of loop does is start the frontend. If the frontend dies, it goes to the top of the loop and restarts it. Pretty simple. I also wrote a shell script that checks every second (which might be overkill. Who knows?) to see if the backend has gone away. If it has, it restarts it. That has solved some but not all of the problems I see WRT stability. As you pointed out, if the program hangs but is still in memory, I'm still kidna stuck, so my scripts get me part of the way there, but there is still some work to do.
not supporting the UN (not even paying their share of the UN fees even!)
Personally, I hate the United Nations. I see the UN as a driect threat to the sovereignty of the US, and there are even US politicians who would like to cede more authority to the UN. ick. If it were up to me, we'd kick that spineless organization out into the Atlantic. As far as paying dues go, it seems to me that we put more of our soldiers' lives on the line in the name of the UN than any other nation, so I think we can call that even.
Isn't SWT portability-challenged? IIRC, SWT depends heavily on JINI, which makes it a bear to port the library (not the client code) to new platforms. Swing, on the other, is pure Java and has become MUCH faster with recent JVMs. I have used several Java apps on 1.4.x+ JVM and haven't seen any noticeable speed problems. I think any lingering speed issues WRT Java are due (mostly) to poor programming, not the language/JVM. YMMV.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a statement like this (advocating the death of a sitting president) bordering on illegal? AC posted it, but I'm sure there are access logs somewhere...
I think these physicists think that they're so much smarter than the rest of us that they can string a bunch of big words together in a sentence that really makes no sense at all and pass it off on us as the greatest discovery ever, assuming that we're ignorant enough to take their word for it. After reading that article intro, I think they're making a safe bet...:)
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There are ID scientists who are not Christians, so, yes, the Designer in ID can, in theory, be $DIETY. However, *Christian* ID supporters, by nature of our Christian faith (note: I'm not a scientist) believe this Designer is the God of the Bible and no other. You can't reasonably claim to be a Christian and believe otherwise.
/.ers, it seems, are not people of faith. So, rather than having an intelligent design about the merits of the *idea* ID (whether you believe it or not), the discussion turns into an attack on the *people* who believe it. "Those darn fundies!" "When are those crazy Christians going to give up?" *Rarely* is the *scientific* idea of some sort of designer (note the case) ever discussed rationally. And I think ID is a rational idea (faith aside). Our own scientific laws shows that everything comes from something. Where did this point of singularity come from? What created all that mass? Has it always existed? That would would violate one scientific "law" after another. But, if something, *has* always existed, is it matter, or an eternal god. *Either* choice requires a good deal of faith, and, I think, the idea of an eternally existent deity to make much more sense.
However, this whole line of question dodges and clouds the issues. The vast majority of
I'm sure you have other reasons, but KDE runs just fine on fedora. I've run it since FC1. Just add the repos to /etc/apt/source.list and voila!
Haha. Now that's an (April) Fool's joke! While mIcroevolution is demonstrably true, mAcroevolution's conclusive proof continues to elude scientists...
Well said. Saved me some time... :)
...and see if the logic still holds:
Oh and if red states have a problem with the us working with [results obtained from genocide], then they can choose NOT use the cures and solutions that will come out of this...
Hrm...nope...still sounds like murder to me. I'm not against SCR. Adult stem cells *do* work, while embryonic stem cells have yet to show a single success (and have shown several grossly negative results), and adult stem cells don't kill the donor.
Security updates, performance enhancements, and on and on...
Not necessarily trying to split hairs, but Reagan *cut* taxes, which boosted productivity. He also boosted military spending to fight the Cold War. The increased, unfunded spending led to the increased national debt we see now, not the tax cuts.
There is every bit of evidence to suggest that the power a government obtains is never relenquished, just as taxation is never reduced - only staid or raised.
Reagan and Bush (and I'm sure others) have both cut taxes, though no one has done it as drastically as Reagan did, IIRC...
jason
* Legislating morality
All laws are based on morality. A pretty universal moral is that it's wrong to kill someone, so we have a law against it. You'd think that wouldn't require legislation, but apparently it does.
* Invading the privacy of individuals
How's he done this? The PATRIOT act? No one's shown me conclusive proof this is all that bad.
* Cutting funding for basic social services
I wish he'd cut more. That kind of business the government has no business in. One of the basic ideas of the Democrats' platform is that we are unable to take care of ourselves and that Uncle Sam should do it. I disagree with that wholeheartedly. Cut that spending at the federal level, cut the taxes that paid for that pork, and send the money back to the states where the state governments, or better yet, local charities, churchs, etc. can handle that.
* Loosening restrictions on air and water pollution
I'm of the opinion that most of our enviromental laws were pushed for and/or written by people who care more about an obscure insect than people.
* Putting the interests of corporations before the interests of citizens
I'll grant you that one. I'm certainly not a water carrier for the GOP, and this is one area (immigration is another) I wish they were stricter on, but the Dems aren't any better, and it's not like John Kerry won't put *his* interests ahead of mine. According to people that know him, his whole life has been about climbing the ladder to more and more power, so I have no trust for him at all.
* Acting in opposition to the scientific community with *no* counter argument
Stem cell research is the only thing I can think of you might be referring to here. Bush is not against SCR; he's opposed to *government-funded* SCR. If SCR were such a good idea, why aren't drug companies footing the bill on this one? It's because it's junk science.
And quit shrugging.
That was mainly done to prevent the appearance of antagonism or hot-headedness. I certainly care about what happens in November, and am still firmly convinced the Dubya's the right man for the job (given our options).
If you've got an argument, then share it. If someone has a better argument, don't blow it off - dispute it or accept it.
I do. I just haven't heard one yet.
We have systemic problems with our electoral system, corruption, corporate power, etc. that will not be fixed as long as we remain a nation of complacent and uneducated non-thinkers.
On that point, we both agree, though I would add voter apathy to that list.
I'm proudly voting for Bush again. You can try to pin the blame for the current state of affairs dubya if you want, but it was 8 years of appeasement in the Clinton years despite several attacks on American interests, including the WTC, that culminated in 9/11. Add that to 12 years of hand wringing and empty threats from the UN and I think you get a better picture of who terrorists want in the White House. With Kerry, the terrorists get concessions, hesitation and navel gazing. With Bush, they get a president who *will* kill them.
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jason
That kinda makes sense, since 2000 is newer than 97, and Microsoft is notorious for changing file formats just enough to make life difficuly for other WP programs. That's also part of the reason you see people calling for *at least* open standards WRT office documents (lower case indicating a general term). Now, I'm willing to bet if you redo your scenario in OOo 1.1 and the pending 2.0, the story will be different. That's one of the beauties of open source. There's no financial incentives to change things and force your customers to upgrade.
jason
Buy several and cluster them. Can you imagine a Beowulf...um... never mind...
jason
That doesn't say it was paid in cash. I think the OP has a very good point...
jason
The problem as I see it is that if the system lets you set that variable via the query string, who says you can't elevate your permissions the same way...
Assuming you have added apt to a RedHat system, what does Debian offer that I don't get off a RH system (other than the alleged higher quality packages). I've yet to see an acceptable answer to that question. My "apt-enabled" RH boxes (from 7.2 through FC1) are trouble free and easy to maintain.
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Yeah, you're right. I missed this part:
:)
(I had a lot of networking and Unix experience, but no real DBA experience)
My bad. Ignore me.
PostgreSQL installed quickly, but it took a couple of weeks to learn how to tune it.
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It's tough to compare things accurately when you don't know how to use one at the start of the test. Sounds to me like your methodology was flawed.
<shrug
I have a problem occasionally with the frontend crashing, and, more rarely, the backend crashing. In my .xinitrc, I have an infinite loop in which all the body of loop does is start the frontend. If the frontend dies, it goes to the top of the loop and restarts it. Pretty simple. I also wrote a shell script that checks every second (which might be overkill. Who knows?) to see if the backend has gone away. If it has, it restarts it. That has solved some but not all of the problems I see WRT stability. As you pointed out, if the program hangs but is still in memory, I'm still kidna stuck, so my scripts get me part of the way there, but there is still some work to do.
Also amusing is this quote (emphasis added):
"OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or
support rteam."
That's from bullet 3 on page 1. Good stuff.
jason
not supporting the UN (not even paying their share of the UN fees even!)
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Personally, I hate the United Nations. I see the UN as a driect threat to the sovereignty of the US, and there are even US politicians who would like to cede more authority to the UN. ick. If it were up to me, we'd kick that spineless organization out into the Atlantic. As far as paying dues go, it seems to me that we put more of our soldiers' lives on the line in the name of the UN than any other nation, so I think we can call that even.
<shrug
Isn't SWT portability-challenged? IIRC, SWT depends heavily on JINI, which makes it a bear to port the library (not the client code) to new platforms. Swing, on the other, is pure Java and has become MUCH faster with recent JVMs. I have used several Java apps on 1.4.x+ JVM and haven't seen any noticeable speed problems. I think any lingering speed issues WRT Java are due (mostly) to poor programming, not the language/JVM. YMMV.
jason
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a statement like this (advocating the death of a sitting president) bordering on illegal? AC posted it, but I'm sure there are access logs somewhere...
jason
All most Americans know about Canada is Shania Twain and Celine Dion. And we have snow. And live in Igloos. :-)
:P
That's not true. Ren and Stimpy taught me that Canada reeks of trees and that their number one export is dirt, so there!
jason
I think these physicists think that they're so much smarter than the rest of us that they can string a bunch of big words together in a sentence that really makes no sense at all and pass it off on us as the greatest discovery ever, assuming that we're ignorant enough to take their word for it. After reading that article intro, I think they're making a safe bet... :)
miscellaneous plug: CmdrTaco will be speaking at Linuxworld later today
/. fashion, the same presentation will be made by Timothy some time tomorrow.
Don't worry if you miss CmrdTaco's presentation today. In typical
jason