Oxdung. Those people gave at the urging of their bigoted, stupid, retarded church. Therefore the church is responsible.
Not under the law it isn't. And that's all that matters when we are dealing with legal issues.
It cannot be religious bigotry because I am an atheist.
It is impossible for an atheist to be bigoted, since bigotry emanates from religion.
Seriously? You ACTUALLY believe this? Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Wow! I had no idea I was dealing with someone so remarkably IGNORANT.
BIGOTRY You will notice that it has NOTHING to do with religion.
Someone who HATES people of faith for no other reason than they are people of faith is a religious bigot. Sound familiar? That's you. YOU ARE A BIGOT.
Many people of conscience and faith around the state of California voted for Proposition 8 because they disagreed with the idea of changing the definition of a traditional cultural institution to include homosexual unions.
FAR from religious people trying to force their views on Gays, it was the EXACT OPPOSITE: The Gays have been FOR YEARS trying to force THEIR worldview down the throats of people of faith and conscience. To FORCE people of faith to accept a lifestyle choice they find abhorrent. To FORCE them to teach their children that it is OK to live a life of (what people of faith think is,) perversion. That, and many MANY people voted for Prop 8 to send a message to the CA activist judiciary to back off and let DEMOCRACY take care of it, rather than trying to legislate from the bench. This was simply the people of California PROTECTING THEMSELVES and protecting democracy.
It's too bad you are too bigoted and prejudiced against people of faith to understand.
I'll leave you to your little hate fest now, you disgusting bigot.
The Morons are fair-game. Their intolerant, bigoted, retrograde church donated a disproportionate amount of money to promote the intolerant, bigoted retrograde proposition 8.
Incorrect.
The LDS church donated precisely 0$ to the Prop 8 campaign.
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of the LDS church donated rather large amounts. But NONE of that was from the LDS church organization proper.
Incidentally, it is already settled law that Religious people can donate to any campaign they like, and CHURCHES can legally donate to ideological campaigns, just not individual political campaigns. (IE: The Catholic Church donated to the Prop 8 campaign, and it was perfectly legal. However, the Catholic church could NOT donate to any individual politician's campaign.)
Your other comments about the LDS church are just religious bigotry.
All of that aside, LDS church members made up a VANISHINGLY SMALL MINORITY of the money and votes that made up the prop 8 passing majority.
Prop 8 is the will of the people, picking on the Mormons won't make you right, it just makes you a bigoted jerk.
I love how calling Bush a monkey because of his physical appearance is okay. But if you do it to Obama because of his physical appearance you get called a racist.
Welcome to the cognitively dissonant world of Leftism my friend.
You see, the rules of political correctness only apply to the enemies of lefties, not to lefties themselves. As an example, behold the behavior of leftist and activist Gays in California over the Prop 8 dispute. Despite the fact that Mormons make up less than 3% of the CA voting bloc that voted Prop 8 in, and Blacks and Latinos voted FOR Prop 8 in overwhelming numbers, the gays are ONLY targeting the Mormons. They are threatening to burn down churches, have sent white powder-filled envelopes to LDS headquarters, and have already attacked and beaten both Mormons, and elderly people.
Note to all lefties: The rules apply to everybody, you don't get an exception.
Obama's got big-ol' ears. Makes him look JUST as "chimpy" as Bush.
It's not that anyone expects natural disasters to warn the media, (duh) it's that SpaceX SHOULD HAVE warned the media, AND the local police department, AND the local fire departments. A rocket engine test is not something that the average person has much experience with. Not knowing what it was, can you blame them for suspecting that there MIGHT be a natural disaster in progress?
Oh, and the "round them up" thing? Uh.. how do you go about getting your family members all together? To "round up" is to collect in a single spot, or to gather together. It's a colloquial expression that, for some reason, I don't find out of place when coming from someone living in TEXAS, a state with a long tradition of cattle and sheep ranching. It doesn't make them all "nutters".
But thinking they are crazy for having perfectly natural reactions to an event such as this does make YOU a bigoted ass.
I know I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but it needs to be said:
The only thing "questionable" about Wonkette saying what she said, is the question of how hard Wonkette should be Donkey Punched for saying something like that about somebody else's baby.
I don't care what your political affiliations are, that is just VILE to say that someone's baby wishes they were aborted. I would expect that on/b/. Not from Wonkette.
(Or maybe I SHOULD expect it. Is her site that bad on a regular basis?)
Ok, off-topic rant over.
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Hey, I didn't write the movie script.
But I personally prefer the movie definition. While I would never qualify as a programmer and "Hacker" is something I would never have the temerity to refer to myself as, I've been working in the networking/IT field for over 10 years now and I would refer to myself as a Geek. Also, my work shirt with the "geek" label on it from thinkgeek would disagree with you too.
Besides, the movie definition is much funnier than yours.
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Had probably the best definition of both a nerd and a geek.
"A Nerd is someone who is obsessed with computers and technology. A Geek is someone who is obsessed with computers and technology... and LIKES IT THAT WAY."
BUT, both the model AND the computer graphics were built on Earth, on the ground (or a table). So technically, he/she isn't wrong.
However, I've often thought that once mankind DOES begin building interplanetary space vehicles, we should probably do it on the ground, in specially designed hangars. At least for ships up to a certain size. Obviously, once you reach a certain size level, the ship just becomes too massive to support it's own weight while sitting on the ground. Alternately, due to design restrictions it could be the wrong SHAPE to properly sit on the ground, or is just too damn big to escape Earth's gravity well if launched from the ground. Then having space stations with large construction bays will probably be wise.
But somehow I think that's not something we will have to worry about in our lifetimes. More's the pity.
I've found the hardest group to turn around to Linux is fellow SysAdmins who know Windows intimately, and aren't contend to barely use an OS. If you convince them to play with Linux, they won't just accept distro defaults. They're going to really get in there and break their box a few times.
Best thing to do with these guys? Toss them a Linux Distro in a V-Machine. Most of them will probably already have VMWare Workstation installed. Then they can play with the distro as much as they want and not worry about deep-sixing a production machine by fiddling with it too much.
Well, at least it's not as bad as the "Zat" guns from Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.
The writers got themselves stuck into a corner really early on when they introduced the "One shot stuns, two shots kills, three shots VAPORIZES" mechanic on that weapon. The first two make sense for a weapon that shoots something akin to lightning bolts, but the third mechanic is just DUMB.
I remember watching the 10 year anniversary show and the producers and actors talking about how much they hated putting that into the show, and how the writers realized it was a dumb mistake almost immediately. (But not fast enough to prevent it becoming canon. DOH!)
Oh well, I guess if we all had to wait until every single sci-fi weapon was completely vetted for scientific accuracy before it could be used in a show we would NEVER get any shows!
The High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) is the replacement vehicle for the M151 series jeeps. The HMMWV's mission is to provide a light tactical vehicle for command and control, special purpose shelter carriers, and special purpose weapons platforms throughout all areas of the modern battlefield. It is supported using the current logistics and maintenance structure established for Army wheeled vehicles. The HMMWV is equipped with a high performance diesel engine, automatic transmission and four wheel drive that is air transportable and droppable from a variety of aircraft. The HMMWV can be equipped with a self-recovery winch capable of up to 6000 pound 1:1 ratio line pull capacity and can support payloads from 2,500 - 4,400 pounds depending on the model. The HMMWV is produced in several configurations to support weapons systems; command and control systems; field ambulances; and ammunition, troop and general cargo transport.
Sounds like the Hummer can carry quite a FEW 400 pound laser packs. In fact, a light and fast platform like the HMMWV is IDEAL for a weapons system like this. I expect we'll see this deployed within 10 years.
Is apparently coded for IE only. I haven't seen a website that screwed up in a LONG, LONG time. Anyone got the text of the Gamespot article? It's unreadable in FF.
So... You can make a really dilute solution of Hydrochloric acid and WATER? How is THAT dangerous?
(HINT: Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide neutralize each other and the resultant material is plain old H2O. Throw in some Hydrochloric acid and you have acidic water.)
Well technically, I think we've all been IN one at least once in our lives, females included. However I suspect that's not the point you were going for.
If you REALLY dislike both of the major party candidates, then pick a MINOR party candidate to vote for. In other words, as others have said; Vote third party.
Because you can have God's own UI design that even the most moronic person in the universe could figure out, slap it onto a POS machine without enough power to run it quickly and you WILL have a response time/feedback time problem. UI design, while it CAN and SHOULD take into account the amount of system resources it is using, cannot accurately predict the power of the machines that will be running it.
I don't think spam should be any more illegal than billboards, flyers, or direct mailings.
The flaw in this argument is that your three counter-examples (Billboards, Flyers and Direct mailings) are paid for entirely by the SENDER. IE: Billboards are paid for up-front before they are mounted, Flyers and direct mailings have printing costs paid up-front and delivery costs (either the local govt. mail service or paid people to manually give it to you) paid up-front as well.
Spam, on the other hand, is largely delivered on the backs of OTHER payers. Both through the incredibly high bandwidth costs (HOW much of the total Internet traffic is Spam now?) and through ancillary costs such as costs for software and hardware to filter Spam out, and human costs in terms of work-hours wasted manually going through spam. Not to mention the costs to people and networks infected with Spam botnets.
This is what makes Spamming SO profitable, and why it won't go away. Because the costs for Spam are decentralized to millions of people otherwise not directly involved, even a return as little as.01% will turn a HUGE profit. This just doesn't work in the regular advertising world. It's also why it's Illegal is several countries now. It is essentially stealing service from millions of other people and generating millions of dollars of expense for hundreds of companies around the globe, for what are largely scamming and phishing operations.
Not to try and troll or anything, but while Ubuntu Studio is cool and all, particularly if you are doing sound mixing, wouldn't it be easier to just install Compiz Fusion and then pick from DOZENS of cool skins?
I guess it's just a matter of what you want/need your machine for.
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Not under the law it isn't. And that's all that matters when we are dealing with legal issues.
Seriously? You ACTUALLY believe this? Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Wow! I had no idea I was dealing with someone so remarkably IGNORANT.
BIGOTRY You will notice that it has NOTHING to do with religion.
Someone who HATES people of faith for no other reason than they are people of faith is a religious bigot. Sound familiar? That's you. YOU ARE A BIGOT.
Many people of conscience and faith around the state of California voted for Proposition 8 because they disagreed with the idea of changing the definition of a traditional cultural institution to include homosexual unions.
FAR from religious people trying to force their views on Gays, it was the EXACT OPPOSITE: The Gays have been FOR YEARS trying to force THEIR worldview down the throats of people of faith and conscience. To FORCE people of faith to accept a lifestyle choice they find abhorrent. To FORCE them to teach their children that it is OK to live a life of (what people of faith think is,) perversion. That, and many MANY people voted for Prop 8 to send a message to the CA activist judiciary to back off and let DEMOCRACY take care of it, rather than trying to legislate from the bench. This was simply the people of California PROTECTING THEMSELVES and protecting democracy.
It's too bad you are too bigoted and prejudiced against people of faith to understand.
I'll leave you to your little hate fest now, you disgusting bigot.
Incorrect.
The LDS church donated precisely 0$ to the Prop 8 campaign.
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of the LDS church donated rather large amounts. But NONE of that was from the LDS church organization proper.
Incidentally, it is already settled law that Religious people can donate to any campaign they like, and CHURCHES can legally donate to ideological campaigns, just not individual political campaigns. (IE: The Catholic Church donated to the Prop 8 campaign, and it was perfectly legal. However, the Catholic church could NOT donate to any individual politician's campaign.)
Your other comments about the LDS church are just religious bigotry.
All of that aside, LDS church members made up a VANISHINGLY SMALL MINORITY of the money and votes that made up the prop 8 passing majority.
Prop 8 is the will of the people, picking on the Mormons won't make you right, it just makes you a bigoted jerk.
Welcome to the cognitively dissonant world of Leftism my friend.
You see, the rules of political correctness only apply to the enemies of lefties, not to lefties themselves. As an example, behold the behavior of leftist and activist Gays in California over the Prop 8 dispute. Despite the fact that Mormons make up less than 3% of the CA voting bloc that voted Prop 8 in, and Blacks and Latinos voted FOR Prop 8 in overwhelming numbers, the gays are ONLY targeting the Mormons. They are threatening to burn down churches, have sent white powder-filled envelopes to LDS headquarters, and have already attacked and beaten both Mormons, and elderly people.
Note to all lefties: The rules apply to everybody, you don't get an exception.
Obama's got big-ol' ears. Makes him look JUST as "chimpy" as Bush.
Umm.. No.
It's not that anyone expects natural disasters to warn the media, (duh) it's that SpaceX SHOULD HAVE warned the media, AND the local police department, AND the local fire departments. A rocket engine test is not something that the average person has much experience with. Not knowing what it was, can you blame them for suspecting that there MIGHT be a natural disaster in progress?
Oh, and the "round them up" thing? Uh.. how do you go about getting your family members all together? To "round up" is to collect in a single spot, or to gather together. It's a colloquial expression that, for some reason, I don't find out of place when coming from someone living in TEXAS, a state with a long tradition of cattle and sheep ranching. It doesn't make them all "nutters".
But thinking they are crazy for having perfectly natural reactions to an event such as this does make YOU a bigoted ass.
I know I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but it needs to be said:
The only thing "questionable" about Wonkette saying what she said, is the question of how hard Wonkette should be Donkey Punched for saying something like that about somebody else's baby.
I don't care what your political affiliations are, that is just VILE to say that someone's baby wishes they were aborted. I would expect that on /b/. Not from Wonkette.
(Or maybe I SHOULD expect it. Is her site that bad on a regular basis?)
Ok, off-topic rant over.
Hey, I didn't write the movie script.
But I personally prefer the movie definition. While I would never qualify as a programmer and "Hacker" is something I would never have the temerity to refer to myself as, I've been working in the networking/IT field for over 10 years now and I would refer to myself as a Geek. Also, my work shirt with the "geek" label on it from thinkgeek would disagree with you too.
Besides, the movie definition is much funnier than yours.
Had probably the best definition of both a nerd and a geek.
"A Nerd is someone who is obsessed with computers and technology. A Geek is someone who is obsessed with computers and technology... and LIKES IT THAT WAY."
I'm a geek. ;)
True.
BUT, both the model AND the computer graphics were built on Earth, on the ground (or a table). So technically, he/she isn't wrong.
However, I've often thought that once mankind DOES begin building interplanetary space vehicles, we should probably do it on the ground, in specially designed hangars. At least for ships up to a certain size. Obviously, once you reach a certain size level, the ship just becomes too massive to support it's own weight while sitting on the ground. Alternately, due to design restrictions it could be the wrong SHAPE to properly sit on the ground, or is just too damn big to escape Earth's gravity well if launched from the ground. Then having space stations with large construction bays will probably be wise.
But somehow I think that's not something we will have to worry about in our lifetimes. More's the pity.
You typed "Old Fashion" Instead of "Old Fashioned"
Old Fashioned: Meaning antique, passe, outdated, or traditional in personality or behavior (when referring to a person or one's self).
Old Fashion: Old styles of clothing.
What a difference two little letters can make.
Best thing to do with these guys? Toss them a Linux Distro in a V-Machine. Most of them will probably already have VMWare Workstation installed. Then they can play with the distro as much as they want and not worry about deep-sixing a production machine by fiddling with it too much.
Heh, that's what I was thinking.
"Forget all this crazy theoretical crap. When do I get my Warp Drive damn it?!"
Well, at least it's not as bad as the "Zat" guns from Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis.
The writers got themselves stuck into a corner really early on when they introduced the "One shot stuns, two shots kills, three shots VAPORIZES" mechanic on that weapon. The first two make sense for a weapon that shoots something akin to lightning bolts, but the third mechanic is just DUMB.
I remember watching the 10 year anniversary show and the producers and actors talking about how much they hated putting that into the show, and how the writers realized it was a dumb mistake almost immediately. (But not fast enough to prevent it becoming canon. DOH!)
Oh well, I guess if we all had to wait until every single sci-fi weapon was completely vetted for scientific accuracy before it could be used in a show we would NEVER get any shows!
from here: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m998.htm
Sounds like the Hummer can carry quite a FEW 400 pound laser packs. In fact, a light and fast platform like the HMMWV is IDEAL for a weapons system like this. I expect we'll see this deployed within 10 years.
I turned off the page style and read it in plaintext. Very informative. Thanks!
Is apparently coded for IE only. I haven't seen a website that screwed up in a LONG, LONG time. Anyone got the text of the Gamespot article? It's unreadable in FF.
DAMN YOU!
Now I want some fruitcake. I was hoping I could hold out until at least a week from Christmas, but now I MUST HAVE ONE!! GAAAHH!
(Yes, I love quality fruitcake too.)
So... You can make a really dilute solution of Hydrochloric acid and WATER? How is THAT dangerous?
(HINT: Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide neutralize each other and the resultant material is plain old H2O. Throw in some Hydrochloric acid and you have acidic water.)
Well technically, I think we've all been IN one at least once in our lives, females included. However I suspect that's not the point you were going for.
Agreed. Not voting is the ABSENCE of a statement.
If you REALLY dislike both of the major party candidates, then pick a MINOR party candidate to vote for. In other words, as others have said; Vote third party.
Except in my case, I AM an American. (Although I did live in Canada for about 4 years growing up, but I don't think that counts.)
And I don't see how Obama bashing is "Anti-American". Hell, most euroweenies that I know LOVE Obama. I guess because he is a socialist like them.
The Chinese have a bunch of those here in America. We know them as Obama supporters.
I'm not sure why candy bars stored at a temperature where their oils begin to leak out is particularly Mmmm inducing...
Because you can have God's own UI design that even the most moronic person in the universe could figure out, slap it onto a POS machine without enough power to run it quickly and you WILL have a response time/feedback time problem. UI design, while it CAN and SHOULD take into account the amount of system resources it is using, cannot accurately predict the power of the machines that will be running it.
That is why it's not a UI design issue.
The flaw in this argument is that your three counter-examples (Billboards, Flyers and Direct mailings) are paid for entirely by the SENDER. IE: Billboards are paid for up-front before they are mounted, Flyers and direct mailings have printing costs paid up-front and delivery costs (either the local govt. mail service or paid people to manually give it to you) paid up-front as well.
Spam, on the other hand, is largely delivered on the backs of OTHER payers. Both through the incredibly high bandwidth costs (HOW much of the total Internet traffic is Spam now?) and through ancillary costs such as costs for software and hardware to filter Spam out, and human costs in terms of work-hours wasted manually going through spam. Not to mention the costs to people and networks infected with Spam botnets.
This is what makes Spamming SO profitable, and why it won't go away. Because the costs for Spam are decentralized to millions of people otherwise not directly involved, even a return as little as .01% will turn a HUGE profit. This just doesn't work in the regular advertising world. It's also why it's Illegal is several countries now. It is essentially stealing service from millions of other people and generating millions of dollars of expense for hundreds of companies around the globe, for what are largely scamming and phishing operations.
Get it?
Good.
Um...
Not to try and troll or anything, but while Ubuntu Studio is cool and all, particularly if you are doing sound mixing, wouldn't it be easier to just install Compiz Fusion and then pick from DOZENS of cool skins?
I guess it's just a matter of what you want/need your machine for.
(Although Ubuntu Studio DOES look pretty)