Ahh, and we return to the "they've got you!" argument. Why does it always have to come down to that?
Furthermore, unless you have some other concrete example to exemplify the "real issue" at hand, you're just really talking in theory. Minor is completely relative, and since I picked two random issues that don't seem to affect you, it makes sense that neither of us is likely to agree on anything.
Until you define post-conventional, I have no clue what you're talking about.
I'd like to see specific, distinct examples of your "inerrant literal interpretations".
Motivations = worldview. I'm not sure I should argue it further as our worldviews are clearly completely different.
I'll presume you're talking about abortion and gay marriage, since that's something most conservatives (neo or not) agree on, and you didn't say anything in your post regarding specific stances of neoconservatives.
Abortion: It's been debated for 30+ years as to whether or not it's a "baby" or a "fetus". Really, that's all it comes down to, right? It's either "killing babies" (right) or "a woman's choice" (left). You can't possibly expect anyone that believes in a soul (and, implicitly, anyone that believes unborn babies have souls)... whether they be Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. to condone what they believe constitutes murder, can you? I suppose if unborn babies could talk, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But since it has been asserted that they can feel pain and have a heartbeat in the first trimester, perhaps it's too late.
In any event, quit knocking Dubya and the Christian Right (regardless of how I feel about the institution) for just that.
Gay marriage: Much more hazy. Interesting that we're having such a big uproar over 5% of the population. If you strip away the religious element, this comes down to, "Is it illegal to have traditions?" Can a country as a whole say whether or not they want marriage defined to be the union between a man and a woman? This isn't exclusion. It's obvious (to me) that with the recognition of gay and lesbian partners, civil unions will have as many legal rights as married couples. If that is so, all we're arguing about is a name. It just so happens to mean more to a large part of the population.
If that rant didn't make sense, consider; Am I infringing on your freedom if I show you "In God We Trust" on a coin? It's tradition; it's been there since 1864. But there seems to be this thing about erasing every sentiment of religion from public view as possible that's spreading that sometimes, it seems justified that people are getting concerned.
From my point of view, the only thing I remember about school (though not in the 6th - 8th grades) was the absurd amount of homework assigned, and the fact I had to take every single book home in order to do it. I broke many a backpack back in the day when I still cared about doing well in school.
I would've much rather taken home a 9 lb. laptop than 50 lbs. worth of books. Maybe I would've gotten beat up less too.:-)
Actually, I'm an on-again, off-again PHP website developer that came from a community of programmers who happened to fall into web design. And happened not to like Perl enough to want to learn it.
PHP sometimes seems more than hackish at times, and I won't start the whole separation of presentation and data thing started. (i.e., if you care, use JSPs). But it's done well for me in small, interactive websites that require a convenient interface to a database of some type.
Call me ignorant of Perl... but I would also like to see some more complex programming in websites. Next time I'm at Barnes and Noble, I'll give this book a look.
You know what, you're right. Therefore, I think we should officially advocate uses of the phrases "erected", "up-jacked", or "humped up" in order to more accurately convey a speed boost.
That's impossible. There are far too many songs per hour on that page to have come from an actual radio station. Where's the endless list of commercials I keep hearing?
As enough people have already stated, Real hasn't really done anything for me in terms of codecs and technology in about, say, five years. Since people can't seem to get off the subject, though, they should probably know that Real has become a content company, which, since I'm rarely utilizing the full bandwidth of my broadband at home, is Not That Bad an Idea. Really. Yes, content providing costs money, deal with it.
So they want Fairplay? Apple should ask Real to provide that broadband content. No specifics, but I'll bet that people that own Apples tend to have broadband easily accessible. Apple can choose to pass on the content in their Quicktime channels for free, or bundle some with their.Mac service (hey, maybe I'd even consider getting it if I did that.)
It would definitely make for an interesting combination.
I am looking for a decent digital speedometer for my bicycle, nothing more.
That said, I have also heard it said that there are none. That probably isn't 100% true, as I heard this a good 5-10 years , from an uncle no less, but as I am at work and like hearing other people talk about products (and not manufacturers themselves), anyone out here have experience with various digital bicycle speedometers?
Some time ago, I would estimate 6 or 7 years (I don't have a link) WLS (a Chicago news station) ran a really short piece on something like this. It was essentially a system that doubled available parking space in a garage by allowing a hydraulic lift to lift a single car above another car. This was installed and in use in an apartment at the time.
This shows it's feasable, and necessary in dense neighborhoods such as the North Side where parking really is at a premium (think $200+ a month). This is just the old idea scaled up a bit.:-) When you're charging kinds of rates, and there is that kind of need, it makes sense that someone would want to invest in an automated, vertical parking system.
I'm in the fortunate category of having a boss that has a positive opinion of Linux/UNIX. We develop on Windows boxes (basically so we can use Outlook with the wider corporation's network), but Cygwin is basically standard in my old development team, because the standard is Java, Solaris / other UNIX boxes in production, and Eclipse as the IDE.
He encourages use of open source software as much as possible, and doesn't let us take training classes in.NET. Not to mention he's a pretty funny guy for being Romanian (apologies to any Romanians reading on the net.:-)
-Hey honey, why don't I scan some of your disks?
-I don't have any time to fool around, so why don't we just skip to the fscking?
And, of course...
-Come on over to my place; you can bootstrap my system.
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Fortunately, the water speed record is still well out of reach with current technologies...
Wait, does anyone have Heaven's IP?
On another note, I found it ironic that the rotating quote at the bottom was "Sh*t happens".
cue jokes about people being buried with their computers
Furthermore, unless you have some other concrete example to exemplify the "real issue" at hand, you're just really talking in theory. Minor is completely relative, and since I picked two random issues that don't seem to affect you, it makes sense that neither of us is likely to agree on anything.
Until you define post-conventional, I have no clue what you're talking about.
I'd like to see specific, distinct examples of your "inerrant literal interpretations".
Motivations = worldview. I'm not sure I should argue it further as our worldviews are clearly completely different.
Contrary to what you're thinking, though, it is possible for slavemasters to have respect for their servants.
Abortion: It's been debated for 30+ years as to whether or not it's a "baby" or a "fetus". Really, that's all it comes down to, right? It's either "killing babies" (right) or "a woman's choice" (left). You can't possibly expect anyone that believes in a soul (and, implicitly, anyone that believes unborn babies have souls)... whether they be Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. to condone what they believe constitutes murder, can you? I suppose if unborn babies could talk, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But since it has been asserted that they can feel pain and have a heartbeat in the first trimester, perhaps it's too late.
In any event, quit knocking Dubya and the Christian Right (regardless of how I feel about the institution) for just that.
Gay marriage: Much more hazy. Interesting that we're having such a big uproar over 5% of the population. If you strip away the religious element, this comes down to, "Is it illegal to have traditions?" Can a country as a whole say whether or not they want marriage defined to be the union between a man and a woman? This isn't exclusion. It's obvious (to me) that with the recognition of gay and lesbian partners, civil unions will have as many legal rights as married couples. If that is so, all we're arguing about is a name. It just so happens to mean more to a large part of the population.
If that rant didn't make sense, consider; Am I infringing on your freedom if I show you "In God We Trust" on a coin? It's tradition; it's been there since 1864. But there seems to be this thing about erasing every sentiment of religion from public view as possible that's spreading that sometimes, it seems justified that people are getting concerned.
ducks
I would've much rather taken home a 9 lb. laptop than 50 lbs. worth of books. Maybe I would've gotten beat up less too. :-)
PHP sometimes seems more than hackish at times, and I won't start the whole separation of presentation and data thing started. (i.e., if you care, use JSPs). But it's done well for me in small, interactive websites that require a convenient interface to a database of some type.
Call me ignorant of Perl... but I would also like to see some more complex programming in websites. Next time I'm at Barnes and Noble, I'll give this book a look.
Now that I've seen this modded up informative, I'm really starting to wonder just what kind of a community this is...
The last time I tried to use imaginary money, the government had me arrested for fraud. Well, Uncle Sam, look at me now!
Actually, if a parking meter can someday tell me wirelessly that it's unoccupied, that's not that bad an idea. :-)
Unfortunately, I now have unrealistically high expectations for the iPigeon.
You know what, you're right. Therefore, I think we should officially advocate uses of the phrases "erected", "up-jacked", or "humped up" in order to more accurately convey a speed boost.
That's impossible. There are far too many songs per hour on that page to have come from an actual radio station. Where's the endless list of commercials I keep hearing?
So they want Fairplay? Apple should ask Real to provide that broadband content. No specifics, but I'll bet that people that own Apples tend to have broadband easily accessible. Apple can choose to pass on the content in their Quicktime channels for free, or bundle some with their .Mac service (hey, maybe I'd even consider getting it if I did that.)
It would definitely make for an interesting combination.
It sounds like you just used your own methodology to completely invalidate your opinion because you didn't read the whole article.
Can someone make one of these so that I can stop checking Slashdot every 5 minutes all day long? Thanks.
That said, I have also heard it said that there are none. That probably isn't 100% true, as I heard this a good 5-10 years , from an uncle no less, but as I am at work and like hearing other people talk about products (and not manufacturers themselves), anyone out here have experience with various digital bicycle speedometers?
Some time ago, I would estimate 6 or 7 years (I don't have a link) WLS (a Chicago news station) ran a really short piece on something like this. It was essentially a system that doubled available parking space in a garage by allowing a hydraulic lift to lift a single car above another car. This was installed and in use in an apartment at the time.
This shows it's feasable, and necessary in dense neighborhoods such as the North Side where parking really is at a premium (think $200+ a month). This is just the old idea scaled up a bit. :-) When you're charging kinds of rates, and there is that kind of need, it makes sense that someone would want to invest in an automated, vertical parking system.
Pfft. For the colored and transparent terminal windows, of course!
Yes, I own one. :-)
He encourages use of open source software as much as possible, and doesn't let us take training classes in .NET. Not to mention he's a pretty funny guy for being Romanian (apologies to any Romanians reading on the net. :-)
Wait a second... maybe it's not...
Speaking of modding, this one's -1: Offtopic. :-)
Maybe then speed of change should be called noitarelecca.
Sheesh. I should just stop posting... :)
-Hey honey, why don't I scan some of your disks?
-I don't have any time to fool around, so why don't we just skip to the fscking?
And, of course...
-Come on over to my place; you can bootstrap my system.