I think you're completely right...except that you assume that an Evil GPL license will be less free. But what if RMS writes, "GPL v4. Anything under this licence may be freely used and copied by anyone for anything without attribution, as if it were public domain."?
Yes, the US has a minimum wage of $5.15/hr, but that's a wage. These guys are salaried -- they're paid for their total work throughout the year, nor for their work per hour. So minimum wage doesn't apply.
"fool me once shame on me , Fool me twice shame on you
Uh...the phrase is "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." You're not supposed to get fooled twice, but how can you be blamed for being fooled the first time?
Nevertheless, "fool me 7 or more times, drive away your readership" seems pretty accurate.
Just to explain for those of you who haven't looked hard enough...
(spoiler alert)
The program slowly dims your monitor for 10 minutes, then brightens it back to how it was. Yes, it's an April Fool's joke. Probably the only one today that actually fooled people....
Geez...just what we need. Email should be plain text...you are just wasting bandwith with all the rich text crap.
Hahaha. That complaint made sense about 5 years ago. Today the "bandwidth" being "wasted" in the e-mail is miniscule compared to the JavaScript required to run your webmail...not to mention the stupid flash ads in Yahoo! Mail and others...
and we haven't even considered how much bandwith is wasted by spam. All considered, HTML mail is not that much of a waste.
And if it's done right, there's no problem. We use HTML on Slashdot for comments when we need emphasis of some sort, but those italics only added 7 bytes to my message. I hope Google's smart enough to keep the HTML short and clean. (Hint: leave off the font tags when the default will suffice. Hint 2: nest them if you need to specify multiple changes.)
Google Sets provides some interesting suggestions. Caracal? Serval? Just plain Wildcat (for their last release before XI)?
Wikipedia says that Apple has trademarked Cougar and Leopard in addition to Lynx. (For reference, they've used Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now Tiger.) Interestingly, they've mentioned all the members of Panthera except for the lion, so I'd bet that's next.
And there's always Liger if they're desperate. "It's pretty much my favorite OS...bred for its skills in Unix."
It doesn't even endore it, in fact, it is advertised as a work of fiction, entertainment, not the divine word by which to live your life, as the Bible is.
The average GTA player spends more time playing GTA than the average Bible reader reads the Bible. It's hard not to be influenced by what you do regularly.
Look at all those that cite it as reason why gay couples shouldn't be allowed to marry.
Never judge an ideology by its extremists. I'm not gay, I'm not qualified to make a judgment, and the One who is qualified is quite capable of acting on His own.
You may be right that those who are so easily influenced by the parts of the Bible that they like are no better than those who are easily influenced by GTA. But the solution is not to ban the Bible, just as you wouldn't want GTA banned. People who read the Bible ought to read all of it and understand it. Especially the parts about Jesus and forgiveness and redemption and that sort of stuff. And the parts about Pharisees and hypocrites and overfollowing the law.
Or how about the jurors receantly that cited the eye for an eye part
A) Have you ever heard of Hammurabi? B) Have you or the jurors ever heard of "love your enemy, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you," along with an explicit refutation of "eye for an eye" (Matthew 5:38-48)? Finding "eye for an eye" is a sign, in my opinion, that the jury had decided already and then was looking to the Bible for "support". Thank goodness they declared that a mistrial...but the Bible wasn't the root problem, the crazy jurors were.
when deciding to sentence a rapist to death
Rapists (especially premeditators, serial rapists, etc.) are evil, evil, people who have no value for human dignity. I'm not sure if the death penalty is quite warranted (here or anywhere), but the crime is certainly deserving of harsh punishment...and he needs to be out of contact with potential victims.
Why then, isn't there the same objection to the bible?
Because characters in GTA use the women. Characters in the Bible either punish her with appropriate judicial authority* or, better, forgive her if she repents (John 8:1-11). (Forgiving is what we ought to do, btw. And it's the answer to your question as to why we oughtn't explicitly follow the OT.)
*The OT's orders to kill and stone and so forth are equivalent to our modern legal system's death penalty, life in prison, etc. If at all the system was implemented vigilante instead of through the proper authorities, it worked because everyone followed the same written moral code -- so it's the same effect as having laws. Vigilante justice stops working when people follow their own personal moral codes.
GTA and games like it are also intended for adults, but there are a lot of people out there who don't understand that.
Then keep the stupid thing out of the hands of us kids (at least, not without parental guidance).
Oh, and good luck doing that. I believe that the version running around on our middle school computer lab (these are 12- and 13-year-old kids...) was a pirated copy.
I wonder if there's a better way of convincing kids that murdering prostitutes or whatnot (I've never played it) is morally objectionable.
(These theories have been around *long* before 9/11, BTW - I saw claims about SPARC that said the same thing in the early 90s).
And I saw claims about Roswell in the early who-knows-when. You can think that the government is truly evil, or you can just hope (sensibly) that it isn't.
By the way, I give up on the "proving" argument, because there's no way to prove it either way.
Nice try. Making a statement that there are several viruses for OS X (when "common knowledge" says there are none) is not the place to make jokes. I don't know if you were so shortsighted as to actually include a joke, or you're just covering up and claiming so becase you didn't bother to check your sources.
If that one was a joke, why should I believe the rest?
Yes, because I can build a computer on my own, and that disproves the original poster's assertion that every computer is bugged.
Besides, why only after 2001? If the government were that evil, it would be evil regardless of which party were in power. Both parties would be a farce by the ruling cabal. Which is controlled by the Illuminati.
That's because Maple uses plenty of assertions. I don't suppose you have to deal with being passed a null pointer or not having enough memory, do you? The coders of Maple took care of these situations with plenty of error-handling code, so you're guaranteed that what you think is a number is indeed a number.
thanks to the patriot act, they do not need any decryption methods anymore. Because every system sold since 2001 is bugged when leaving the factory.
I wonder where you got that delusion?
Honestly, most of you PATRIOTACT ranters would be really happy living under Big Brother; that way you'd have enough real things to complain about. Now you're just making up stuff.
The best you can with the grammar checker is send it the way of Clippy, i.e. turn it the fuck off.
Not quite. The best you can do is to ignore it most of the time, but keep it for occasional things you wouldn't notice through your own proofreading (like an its/it's slipup, or passive voice sentences if your teacher is picky, or a misplaced quotation mark, etc.). You know what you meant to write, so your brain often "corrects" mistakes subconsciously.
I feel that a large reason why game companies can't use women (either in advertisements or in games) is that there'll be a strong unwanted reaction from the hordes of deprived male gamers. A lot of the female game character models are unfortunately intended to take advantage of that effect.
(Offtopic: this is kinda why (officially) Islam restricts women from leading worship: not because the women can't lead, but because the men will get distracted.)
As for your basketball example, I think a real reason is that these people know each other in real life. I've never seen the slightest problem with girl gamers in LAN parties...except for the very occasional non-serious comment, "I got killed by a girl?"
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I think you're completely right...except that you assume that an Evil GPL license will be less free. But what if RMS writes, "GPL v4. Anything under this licence may be freely used and copied by anyone for anything without attribution, as if it were public domain."?
Yes, the US has a minimum wage of $5.15/hr, but that's a wage. These guys are salaried -- they're paid for their total work throughout the year, nor for their work per hour. So minimum wage doesn't apply.
what S. Hawking has to say
"Shawking!"
Nevermind, problem solved. Go about your cries of doom and gloom, everyone.
You could just refuse to get an inspection....
"fool me once shame on me , Fool me twice shame on you
Uh...the phrase is "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." You're not supposed to get fooled twice, but how can you be blamed for being fooled the first time?
Nevertheless, "fool me 7 or more times, drive away your readership" seems pretty accurate.
Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.
"Fools shop at ThinkGeek."
What did you think you were ordering?
Just to explain for those of you who haven't looked hard enough...
(spoiler alert)
The program slowly dims your monitor for 10 minutes, then brightens it back to how it was. Yes, it's an April Fool's joke. Probably the only one today that actually fooled people....
Not for him. Let him have his fun.
;-)
It's his site (and ad revenue), after all.
"Fake ghostlike photons" includes the words "ThinkGeek" and "Fools". The remaining letters are "aphtos"
so..."ThinkGeek fools potash?" or "Hot Spa Fools ThinkGeek"? or "Fool Geeks Think ASP Hot"?
Someone else suggested "Fools Shop At ThinkGeek", which actually makes sense.
This reminds me of Ask Yagle. But Yagoohoo!gle searches both at the same time, whereas Ask Yagle makes you choose one.
Geez...just what we need. Email should be plain text...you are just wasting bandwith with all the rich text crap.
Hahaha. That complaint made sense about 5 years ago. Today the "bandwidth" being "wasted" in the e-mail is miniscule compared to the JavaScript required to run your webmail...not to mention the stupid flash ads in Yahoo! Mail and others...
and we haven't even considered how much bandwith is wasted by spam. All considered, HTML mail is not that much of a waste.
And if it's done right, there's no problem. We use HTML on Slashdot for comments when we need emphasis of some sort, but those italics only added 7 bytes to my message. I hope Google's smart enough to keep the HTML short and clean. (Hint: leave off the font tags when the default will suffice. Hint 2: nest them if you need to specify multiple changes.)
Google Sets provides some interesting suggestions. Caracal? Serval? Just plain Wildcat (for their last release before XI)?
Wikipedia says that Apple has trademarked Cougar and Leopard in addition to Lynx. (For reference, they've used Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now Tiger.) Interestingly, they've mentioned all the members of Panthera except for the lion, so I'd bet that's next.
And there's always Liger if they're desperate. "It's pretty much my favorite OS...bred for its skills in Unix."
Does Google now dictate the content of other people's webservers as a condition of their being indexed?
Indexed by Google, I might add. Yes, they dictate what they themselves do.
"Why should Rearden be the only one permitted to manufacture Rearden Metal?"
Remember the flipside of this...it's that much easier to track down the owners of a hypothetical goatse.us, etc.
1999 called. It wants its Y2K paranoia back.
It doesn't even endore it, in fact, it is advertised as a work of fiction, entertainment, not the divine word by which to live your life, as the Bible is.
The average GTA player spends more time playing GTA than the average Bible reader reads the Bible. It's hard not to be influenced by what you do regularly.
Look at all those that cite it as reason why gay couples shouldn't be allowed to marry.
Never judge an ideology by its extremists. I'm not gay, I'm not qualified to make a judgment, and the One who is qualified is quite capable of acting on His own.
You may be right that those who are so easily influenced by the parts of the Bible that they like are no better than those who are easily influenced by GTA. But the solution is not to ban the Bible, just as you wouldn't want GTA banned. People who read the Bible ought to read all of it and understand it. Especially the parts about Jesus and forgiveness and redemption and that sort of stuff. And the parts about Pharisees and hypocrites and overfollowing the law.
Or how about the jurors receantly that cited the eye for an eye part
A) Have you ever heard of Hammurabi? B) Have you or the jurors ever heard of "love your enemy, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you," along with an explicit refutation of "eye for an eye" (Matthew 5:38-48)? Finding "eye for an eye" is a sign, in my opinion, that the jury had decided already and then was looking to the Bible for "support". Thank goodness they declared that a mistrial...but the Bible wasn't the root problem, the crazy jurors were.
when deciding to sentence a rapist to death
Rapists (especially premeditators, serial rapists, etc.) are evil, evil, people who have no value for human dignity. I'm not sure if the death penalty is quite warranted (here or anywhere), but the crime is certainly deserving of harsh punishment...and he needs to be out of contact with potential victims.
Why then, isn't there the same objection to the bible?
Because characters in GTA use the women. Characters in the Bible either punish her with appropriate judicial authority* or, better, forgive her if she repents (John 8:1-11). (Forgiving is what we ought to do, btw. And it's the answer to your question as to why we oughtn't explicitly follow the OT.)
*The OT's orders to kill and stone and so forth are equivalent to our modern legal system's death penalty, life in prison, etc. If at all the system was implemented vigilante instead of through the proper authorities, it worked because everyone followed the same written moral code -- so it's the same effect as having laws. Vigilante justice stops working when people follow their own personal moral codes.
GTA and games like it are also intended for adults, but there are a lot of people out there who don't understand that.
Then keep the stupid thing out of the hands of us kids (at least, not without parental guidance).
Oh, and good luck doing that. I believe that the version running around on our middle school computer lab (these are 12- and 13-year-old kids...) was a pirated copy.
I wonder if there's a better way of convincing kids that murdering prostitutes or whatnot (I've never played it) is morally objectionable.
(These theories have been around *long* before 9/11, BTW - I saw claims about SPARC that said the same thing in the early 90s).
And I saw claims about Roswell in the early who-knows-when. You can think that the government is truly evil, or you can just hope (sensibly) that it isn't.
By the way, I give up on the "proving" argument, because there's no way to prove it either way.
Nice try. Making a statement that there are several viruses for OS X (when "common knowledge" says there are none) is not the place to make jokes. I don't know if you were so shortsighted as to actually include a joke, or you're just covering up and claiming so becase you didn't bother to check your sources.
If that one was a joke, why should I believe the rest?
the funky font
You couldn't import Times New Roman and whatever else into TeX? A quick Google Search shows a method for MikTeX at least.
Yes, because I can build a computer on my own, and that disproves the original poster's assertion that every computer is bugged.
Besides, why only after 2001? If the government were that evil, it would be evil regardless of which party were in power. Both parties would be a farce by the ruling cabal. Which is controlled by the Illuminati.
None of which, of course, is true.
(in Maple). I never use assertions.
That's because Maple uses plenty of assertions. I don't suppose you have to deal with being passed a null pointer or not having enough memory, do you? The coders of Maple took care of these situations with plenty of error-handling code, so you're guaranteed that what you think is a number is indeed a number.
no, no...
thanks to the patriot act, they do not need any decryption methods anymore. Because every system sold since 2001 is bugged when leaving the factory.
I wonder where you got that delusion?
Honestly, most of you PATRIOTACT ranters would be really happy living under Big Brother; that way you'd have enough real things to complain about. Now you're just making up stuff.
The best you can with the grammar checker is send it the way of Clippy, i.e. turn it the fuck off.
Not quite. The best you can do is to ignore it most of the time, but keep it for occasional things you wouldn't notice through your own proofreading (like an its/it's slipup, or passive voice sentences if your teacher is picky, or a misplaced quotation mark, etc.). You know what you meant to write, so your brain often "corrects" mistakes subconsciously.
I feel that a large reason why game companies can't use women (either in advertisements or in games) is that there'll be a strong unwanted reaction from the hordes of deprived male gamers. A lot of the female game character models are unfortunately intended to take advantage of that effect.
(Offtopic: this is kinda why (officially) Islam restricts women from leading worship: not because the women can't lead, but because the men will get distracted.)
As for your basketball example, I think a real reason is that these people know each other in real life. I've never seen the slightest problem with girl gamers in LAN parties...except for the very occasional non-serious comment, "I got killed by a girl?"