You may post TEXT about the joys of sex with 4 year olds all you want.
Actually, if you are in the US (or many other European nations), you can't even do that. It is illegal to even create simulations of child pornography (this even includes fiction). Freedom of speech indeed!
Interesting note: while googling for the law so I could link you to it, a link came up as The Link Between Trekkies and Pedophilia. Just thought/. might like to know about that one! (Note: I didn't even go read it, so I don't know what it's about)
No, you are mistaken. The Bible is not the literal word of God. Some Christians believe this, and these are the fundamentalists we all love to hate. The vast majority of Christians do not treat the Bible as literal, but rather all but the Gospels as figurative. Jesus taught in parables. Why is it such a stretch to think the rest of the Bible is not just parables?
You are making this logical jump: There exist awards for coding desired things. People receive these awards for coding desired things. Therefore people only code desired things because they have the opportunity to receive awards.
Substitute "excellence in teaching" with "code for desired things" and you get:
There exist awards for excellence in teaching. People receive these awards for excellence in teaching. Therefore people only teach excellently because they have the opportunity to receive awards.
Do you see the problem with your statement now?
You complete ignore the fact that people want to code these things, and other people wish to reward these coders. There is not necessarily a connection between these two groups of people.
That is awesome. It leaves only one feature I need from Opera that Firefox I doubt will ever offer to get me to switch -- a decent mail client built-in. In my opinion, having mail client separate is inane, because you most likely need an HTML renderer in a mail client, which means you will have two HTML renderers on your computer -- mail and browser.
Furthermore, I check mail incessantly, and I don't need two HTML renderers open at once.
The final killer feature about M2 (Opera's built-in mail client) is the way it handles emails. It has one container for mails, and all other folders are "views" which only link to the message. This is excellent for me. Furthermore, instantaneous full-text searching of emails is excellent.
If Firefox implements these and not Thunderbird, I will switch. Until then, open source will lose to convenience when freedom is still available.
Yeah, and who is "not allowing" the manufacture of those DVD players?
Actually, the DVD consortium can prevent manufacture of DVD players, because the DVD is a trademark. You could make a "BVD player" perhaps, but I'm not too sure about that.
Actually it's not a DMCA violation, it's a contractual violation. The DVD manufacturers are not allowed to make "DVD player"s unless they agree to enforce CSS. It's not a DMCA violation.
As a practitioner myself, I feel somewhat inclined to refer to your post -- not a refutation, but as an additional source of information.
The Chinese broadsword was designed for the uneducated grunt to use in combat -- he didn't know where the arteries and other vital areas were, so the broadsword was used as a create-once-hit-anywhere weapon. On the other hand, the straight sword (see Taijiquan for insightful examples of this weapon's use) was more for educated people (read: teachers, doctors, scholars) and thus has three areas of the blade -- the upper 1/3 which was made for slicing (this includes the tip, which was useful for stabbing those arteries the educated person knew the locations of), the mid 1/3 which was less sharp and intended for more blunt strikes, and the base 1/3 which was used for blocking attacks.
There are quite a few reasons why the defense maneuvers in Taijiquan's straight sword forms with the straight sword all revolve around the 1/3 of the blade nearest the practitioner. The aforementioned usage is one of the reasons.
If I were to fight someone to the death tomorrow with a choice of broadsword or straight sword, I would personally take the straight sword, but that is just a Taijiquan player talking;)
I wonder how many martial artists there are on/.
I went back and read the Green Party's platform where you mention it. I think I may have read the platform of some other party calling itself the Green Party (as suggested by another respondent to my original post).
Not that I feel my voting record to be under attack, but I am definitely a capital-L Libertarian. I think the government (most definitely at the national level) should stay the hell out of the marriage institution, period. Etc etc etc. I have done my research. Apparently I made a mistake on the Green Party research, but I've held Libertarian beliefs since high school when I first began splitting from my parents views and saw a third-party candidate debate on at around 2 am on some TV station;)
OK. This was a majorly off-topic thread, and I digress now. Apologies to all who were involved;)
This is a very off-topic post, but as I am in Japan right now, I haven't had a chance to talk to a real, live Green Party voter since I read the party's platform in 2004 (I had thought about voting Green until I read it). Do people who vote Green realize that the Green Party is for caps on how much a person can make in one year? The platform states that there should be a limit, and that is why I voted Libertarian instead.
This is an honest question, not bashing, so mods, please just leave my post alone completely.
I'm sorry that I wasn't clear. My home theater is in Victoria, Texas;)
I imagine they have some rule against bringing your own food into a theater in that town (Cinemark-owned theaters all around), but still...taking candy from a baby? That's just bad PR.
In my home theater, if you get caught with your own stuff, they will confiscate it and not give it back. I saw an usher take some licorice (which they don't sell at my theater) from a three-year old in some movie!
Of course, everyone sneaks it in. I just think it's stupid PR to do that sort of confiscation.
Being a punishment it definately is done with malice.
Are you seriously trying to say that punishment is imbued with malicious intent? Are all parents malicious then when they ground their children?
How would you define murder? My definition was created in such a way that people who kill in self -defense and by accident are not murderers.
Intentional is a given requirement for murder. Do you argue against that? Malice is required for it to be murder. Are you going to argue against that? Premeditation is an iffy requirement, I'll give you that.
What part of my definition do you disagree with? Even if I simplify the definition to "intentional killing with malicious intent", you still must make a case that punishment is imbued with malice in order to definitively claim that capital punishment is murder.
To be fair, that requires a concrete definition of murder (which is different from killing). Does it entail accidental killings? What about purposeful killings in self-defense?
I believe a strong definition of "murder" is an intentional, premeditated killing with malice. Thus, capital punishment is killing, not murder.
But that's just one opinion from a guy who is pissed that criminals receive better treatment in the US from the government than orphans do.
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You may post TEXT about the joys of sex with 4 year olds all you want.
/. might like to know about that one! (Note: I didn't even go read it, so I don't know what it's about)
Actually, if you are in the US (or many other European nations), you can't even do that. It is illegal to even create simulations of child pornography (this even includes fiction). Freedom of speech indeed!
Interesting note: while googling for the law so I could link you to it, a link came up as The Link Between Trekkies and Pedophilia. Just thought
Homo Sapiens Unionus
Homo Sapiens Grassrootus
????
Profit!!!
Because the Bible is the word of God
No, you are mistaken. The Bible is not the literal word of God. Some Christians believe this, and these are the fundamentalists we all love to hate. The vast majority of Christians do not treat the Bible as literal, but rather all but the Gospels as figurative. Jesus taught in parables. Why is it such a stretch to think the rest of the Bible is not just parables?
Book six (Half-Blood Prince) comes out July 16 of this year. Readers have been able to pre-order the book since around January, if I recall correctly.
Too late.
baby ducks where hatching a month ago and while they're grown up a bit they're still quite cute
:(
That's right. Your post just reminded me that all Hawai'ians are flaming homosexuals.
Just kidding. I like cute baby ducks too
You are making this logical jump:
There exist awards for coding desired things.
People receive these awards for coding desired things.
Therefore people only code desired things because they have the opportunity to receive awards.
Substitute "excellence in teaching" with "code for desired things" and you get:
There exist awards for excellence in teaching.
People receive these awards for excellence in teaching.
Therefore people only teach excellently because they have the opportunity to receive awards.
Do you see the problem with your statement now?
You complete ignore the fact that people want to code these things, and other people wish to reward these coders. There is not necessarily a connection between these two groups of people.
Never overestimate the power of alcohol, either.
Thank you for mentioning those books! I had nearly forgotten about them. MAN THAT SHIT WAS THE BOMB (that somebody set up us)!
I remember sitting in the library reading those. Mr Tickle was my favorite one (although I can't remember anything about them anymore).
But there wasn't a single death in The Incredibles. I'm sure that was the grandparent's point.
Every Christian talks to God -- it's called prayer. A fundamentalist talking to God does not make.
That is awesome. It leaves only one feature I need from Opera that Firefox I doubt will ever offer to get me to switch -- a decent mail client built-in. In my opinion, having mail client separate is inane, because you most likely need an HTML renderer in a mail client, which means you will have two HTML renderers on your computer -- mail and browser.
Furthermore, I check mail incessantly, and I don't need two HTML renderers open at once.
The final killer feature about M2 (Opera's built-in mail client) is the way it handles emails. It has one container for mails, and all other folders are "views" which only link to the message. This is excellent for me. Furthermore, instantaneous full-text searching of emails is excellent.
If Firefox implements these and not Thunderbird, I will switch. Until then, open source will lose to convenience when freedom is still available.
I read your sig, and wanted to tell you -- in my hometown, there literally is a Denny's and IHOP at one intersection ;)
Yeah, and who is "not allowing" the manufacture of those DVD players?
Actually, the DVD consortium can prevent manufacture of DVD players, because the DVD is a trademark. You could make a "BVD player" perhaps, but I'm not too sure about that.
Thanks for the information thought.
Actually it's not a DMCA violation, it's a contractual violation. The DVD manufacturers are not allowed to make "DVD player"s unless they agree to enforce CSS. It's not a DMCA violation.
As a practitioner myself, I feel somewhat inclined to refer to your post -- not a refutation, but as an additional source of information. ;) /.
The Chinese broadsword was designed for the uneducated grunt to use in combat -- he didn't know where the arteries and other vital areas were, so the broadsword was used as a create-once-hit-anywhere weapon. On the other hand, the straight sword (see Taijiquan for insightful examples of this weapon's use) was more for educated people (read: teachers, doctors, scholars) and thus has three areas of the blade -- the upper 1/3 which was made for slicing (this includes the tip, which was useful for stabbing those arteries the educated person knew the locations of), the mid 1/3 which was less sharp and intended for more blunt strikes, and the base 1/3 which was used for blocking attacks.
There are quite a few reasons why the defense maneuvers in Taijiquan's straight sword forms with the straight sword all revolve around the 1/3 of the blade nearest the practitioner. The aforementioned usage is one of the reasons.
If I were to fight someone to the death tomorrow with a choice of broadsword or straight sword, I would personally take the straight sword, but that is just a Taijiquan player talking
I wonder how many martial artists there are on
I went back and read the Green Party's platform where you mention it. I think I may have read the platform of some other party calling itself the Green Party (as suggested by another respondent to my original post).
;)
;)
Not that I feel my voting record to be under attack, but I am definitely a capital-L Libertarian. I think the government (most definitely at the national level) should stay the hell out of the marriage institution, period. Etc etc etc. I have done my research. Apparently I made a mistake on the Green Party research, but I've held Libertarian beliefs since high school when I first began splitting from my parents views and saw a third-party candidate debate on at around 2 am on some TV station
OK. This was a majorly off-topic thread, and I digress now. Apologies to all who were involved
This is a very off-topic post, but as I am in Japan right now, I haven't had a chance to talk to a real, live Green Party voter since I read the party's platform in 2004 (I had thought about voting Green until I read it). Do people who vote Green realize that the Green Party is for caps on how much a person can make in one year? The platform states that there should be a limit, and that is why I voted Libertarian instead.
This is an honest question, not bashing, so mods, please just leave my post alone completely.
I'm sorry that I wasn't clear. My home theater is in Victoria, Texas ;)
I imagine they have some rule against bringing your own food into a theater in that town (Cinemark-owned theaters all around), but still...taking candy from a baby? That's just bad PR.
In my home theater, if you get caught with your own stuff, they will confiscate it and not give it back. I saw an usher take some licorice (which they don't sell at my theater) from a three-year old in some movie!
Of course, everyone sneaks it in. I just think it's stupid PR to do that sort of confiscation.
I don't want to buy a Pepsi product. Can you just tell me so I don't have to leave the house?
It's OK - what they lose in each sale, they can make up for by volume.
;)
I think you misunderstand -- they are making a graphics card, not a sound card
Being a punishment it definately is done with malice.
Are you seriously trying to say that punishment is imbued with malicious intent? Are all parents malicious then when they ground their children?
How would you define murder? My definition was created in such a way that people who kill in self -defense and by accident are not murderers.
Intentional is a given requirement for murder. Do you argue against that? Malice is required for it to be murder. Are you going to argue against that? Premeditation is an iffy requirement, I'll give you that.
What part of my definition do you disagree with? Even if I simplify the definition to "intentional killing with malicious intent", you still must make a case that punishment is imbued with malice in order to definitively claim that capital punishment is murder.
To be fair, that requires a concrete definition of murder (which is different from killing). Does it entail accidental killings? What about purposeful killings in self-defense?
I believe a strong definition of "murder" is an intentional, premeditated killing with malice. Thus, capital punishment is killing, not murder.
But that's just one opinion from a guy who is pissed that criminals receive better treatment in the US from the government than orphans do.
I have to admit that I was not aware of that. I always thought that they were killed by a shot to the brain.
In any case, someone else in the thread gave a better argument for why the 99% figure was wrong (see the post about people going to a firing range).
However, kosher animals I believe are humanely shot, right?