I do not think Buddhism is a religion so much as a philosiphy on the path to enlightenment or nirvana.
Hinduism does contain creationism. I know of no gods in buddhism (the buddha was a man, not a god).
About 1000 different ones according to this http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_05/uk/doss24.ht m Oh, and please note that there is a huge difference between the two and that they should not be linked together.
Can't say much on the protestants.
Let me post this and see what people say. Lets say Creationism is the idea that a supreme being created the universe, the earth and everything here. Now lets assume that it either has a plan and starting things a long and just keeps adjusting minor things as we go (inteligent design). Or just watches us as a "lab experiment" to see what happens. Does any of this mean that creationism is incompatible with either of the other two? After all, Live, the Universe and Everything had to have come from somewhere.
People were using them to go 90 and 100 mph or faster and only slowing down when they got a reading off the detector. I have been in a car once that was going 100 mph when the idiot that was driving decided to see how fast he could go.
As for not having to constantly check speed? I can get a feel for how fast I am going by just comparing my speed to the cars around me and the "Feel" of the car. I can tell how much I am going over. I'm never going anywhere near 90 or 100 when I think I am going 60. And going that much faster than everyone else on the road is a hazard cause you have to keep changing lanes to avoid cars. I'm sorry but it's used way too much for that. The others I you listed have legitimate uses.
As for having the marked cars patrolling? They do. They just can't have them everywhere evertime. And the idiots were using the guns to figure out where the cops were and speed in between them.
Just because something can be used for an illegal function does not mean you should outlaw it.
I know this. And I can't think of any object, device or program that can't be used illegaly in some way. But I have yet to come across anyone in person that has used these things for other than speeding between the cops.
Seriously? Which religion? I do not know of any religion other than the religion of aethism that does not have some sort of creationist begining. This includes all native american beliefs that I have heard of. So, which religion?
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My favorite for this is when they talk about jobs, job losses and the national debt (Especially this since europe looks at it as a % of GDP and not the total amount).
Sure the number is large, but lets look at it as a Percentage.
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I remember reading a book about statistics. The author talks about how he had a student come in and give a paper and one of the statistics mentioned was (something along this meaning ) "The number of children that die from guns has doubled every year since 1970". This was given in the late 90's or around 2000. Now, assuming that ONE (1) Child had died in 1970 due to a gun, that would mean that 1,000,000 would have died in 1990. And that by the time this book was published, over 1,000,000,000 each year.
The Original Original Original source of this was misquoted at some point on this and the misquote had been repeated while the correct version had not. I forget what the original quote was.
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Look at the pie charts on the cover of USA today. They routinely do the same thing. They also do not always have a total close to 100% (one time it was 48%).
There is technically no buffer between bands. What there is is a requirement for how many DB your band must be below by the time it reaches the edge of your band. This has mainly to do with RF filter evolution than anything else. For DTV, the FCC made it possible to have adjacent channels. This wasn't possible with analogue and the old transmitters. With the new tech, they are putting adjacent channels in cities, but they still need spacing since you can't have the same channels used in two adjacent cities. They have also had other problems occur, such as chronicalled here: http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/On-RF/Low_Ban dVHF.shtml
And the problems that occur because the FCC has allowed low power transmission in areas with out keeping a list of what they are used for as shown here:
http://www.fedele.com/website/tvt/tv040698.txt
For instance radar detectors should be legal everywhere.
Umm... People were using them to pureposely speed way above the limit and only slow down when they detected a cop. That is why states outlawed their usage in a car. You can own one, you just can't use one in a car.
Like I give a fuck about the broadcasters. The FCC pushed HD on to the people. The same people that own that fucking spectrum and should be the ones choosing what happens with it. Sadly the FCC has taken on more and more power to do what IT thinks best not what IS best.
The FCC was essentially asked at the behest of the broadcasters to do this through several politcings that caused the broadcasters to shoot themselves in the foot. In the 1980's land mobile (cellphones, pocket radios) wanted more spectrum and the TVs had some prime spectrum. The Broadcasters didn't want to give this up due to the interference issues they would have. So they clambored aboard a HDTV/DTV bandwagon so they could keep the spectrum (so that the consumers could have a better picture was the claim). They thought that any DTV was decades away at the time but this one guy working at DigiCypher came up with a compression algorithm that would work.
So now DTV exists, and they can find out they can put 4 SD DTV (Noter: 6 is wrong for decent quality, it should be 4) channels in the place of 1 SD Analogue channel. Now, they weren't too hot on HDTV at the time so they were keeping mum about it. The senators get wind of this and start to say then that why should they have all 6mhz of bandwidth and not a quarter that if that is what it takes to broadcast a DTV station? And the broadcasters come back and start talking about HDTV, since that would require the entire 6mhz channel. So they shot them selves in the foot with all this.
Long story short, they originally didn't want to go to DTV much less HDTV but are doing so in order to keep spectrum and interference from occuring. So they did decide to go to DTV to keep their spectrum.
As for pushing Digital TV on everyone? They did that in the 40s/50s whenever it was to standardize on the original B&W TV standard. Then later on the RCA Collor TV Standard as well so that their wouldn't be a format war. The FCC has always decided on how the TV and Radio is broadcast. This is nothing new.
As for that 20% that recieve over the air? Is that people that still recieve it over the air or that don't have cable/satelite? That is still a lot of people no matter how you look at it. And almost all of them I bet can not get cable/satelite due to location or expense.
Personally, I think they should have spent the time and money protecting us from consolidation in the media markets but that's me. I didn't have a say in it and neither did any of the rest of us.
I agree against the consolidation too, but it has nothing to do with HDTV. Of course, in a true free market that you talk about there would be no rules about station ownership.
I don't know why you think a factory would have to re-open. Any factories used are already producing the standard stuff used in training. When ramping up for a "war" as calm as this one they would just need to speed up production a bit. There has been a rampup in porduction. But we are not expending ammo any where near the amount required to demand an increase in the number of factories needed. Besides, the military keeps lots of ammo on hand so that they don't need to ramp up production at the begining.
That's probably what they are trying to do. Only they basically need this guy to tell them who is supplying him with information and/or his server logs. Seeing as how he says he will offer complete anonymity, i don't think he will tell apple willingly. Thus, their only real chance is to sue him to get a court order ordering him to turn over the names of the people violating the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)
Uh... No. The military has fairly strict requirements about what percentage of a product MUST be made in the USA. (I think it is %80 if it isnt %100) There was an issue a few years ago where a company that made the stocking caps for the navy had a label in it that said made in china. In the contract (this is in all of the contracts) it clearly stated that the caps must be made in the usa or a certain amount of it. The company had to recall all the caps and remake them as per the conditions of the contract. Anything the military buys largely, if not completely, comes from the USA. This is for two reasons. One, is so that the military is actually supporting US companies. The other, primary reason, is so that in times of war they do not have to worry about supply issues because we went to war with the country that supplies Equipment X. The military does not want to have to worry about getting anything and as such basically has it all manufactured locally. No one "buys american" like the DoD.
most of the people in the U.S. armed forces are basically ethical (encouraging);
Most of the people in the military are more ethical than 99% of the civilian populas. Read up on the military code of conduct. Among other things that are illegal and unethical in the military are officers fraternizing with enlisted personel (this means outside of work)(reasons are to keep officers from making bad decisions in life and death situations) and infidelity to a spouse or with someone who is married.
There are about 1.3 million active duty millitary personnel. I am willing to be that in any comparably sized group from this country you will people who are a lot less ethical. That is not to say there aren't the occasional bad eggs, as there are. But the military tries to identify and kick them out asap.
* there are too many checks and balances within the agency structures to allow a fake to succeed (highly likely).
Also too many people who would have to keep their mouth shut in order to pull it off.
Disclaimer: Both parents were career military, as are many of the people I know.
Electronic communications leave a trail, unlike letters and phone calls, which can be truly anonymous, Levy said. If powerful entities can sue simply to identify their critics, free speech will be chilled, he said. "That's what makes these Internet cases so scary."
Letters can be traced by the postal mark, but can still be pretty anonymous at that. Phone Calls are not anonymous at all. The phone company keeps a record of what phone calls what number, and then of course there is caller ID. I don't know where this guy got thinking that phone calls were "truly anonymous". Even phone calls from pay phones can be traced back to the origin. Even if the user on the other end cant be.
He is currently residing in the USA in California at University of California, Santa Barbara. I don't know if he is a US citizen or not, but since he is living in the US it might be taxable. (And people living in the US and working under Green Cards still pay taxes btw)
please. giving credit for a training video on how to use a mouse is a bit off the mark. learning to use a mouse is beyond using windows or linux. it's basic computing.
You just reminded me of the star trek movie where they go back in time to get the whales, and scotty starts talking to the comptuer. Then thinks that the mouse is a microphone. Then actually understands what it is when it is demonstrated to him. For some, its not basic computing if you have never used a computer before.
Even people in the real world still have problems with these things. A scammer called up the mom of one of the other guys I work with and said that s/he was from her bank and wanted to verify her account information, which she then gave to him over the phone. When she found out what happened she talked to the bank (which didn't do anything) and changed her account information. Then, she gets a call a month later from someone claiming to be from the bank saying that "we understand that you have been a victim of a scammer(?)" we just need to verify some details. It was the scammer again and she gave them her financial info again.
It's not just computers that some people have problems with.
Yes. I have never seen or heard of a nerd on a sports team (football, baseball, etc) in highschool or college. I knew engineers on the soccer team in college, but they didn't know much about computers and how to fix them. That was where the three of us who were the nerds and computer geeks came in. Any time anyone had a problem they were refered to us to help fix it. We got a lot of respect for fixing peoples computers for free and making sure that they were able to keep all their data (unlike what the idiots at the helpdesk would do [reformat, reinstall]). But having ever seen or heard of a nerd-jock? Nope, not yet.
I seem to remember something about a registry hack a few years ago that would allow you to turn any windows XP installation (home, pro, server) into any other version by only tweaking the registry. If so, is it possible that microsoft got lazy (or is still so lazy) and the same trick can be used on this version to turn it into an XP pro machine without any of the limitations?
Using the IRS tax calculator the total income tax on 8 Million comes to: $2,778,720. Thats assuming it is recorded as earned income and/or dividends and that royalties are not recorded as something else. That puts him in the %34.7 tax bracket which is the highest one the USA currently has. It's also more than double what I am paying at %14.2.
It's nice to see "the little guy" get one over on the "anything you think, we own" mentality of the big corporations. Produce a product on company time, yeah that's work for hire, but this bullshit of "you made X 3 years after you left the company, but we still own it" has to stop.
He was working for the company, on company time, at the companys direction (after he asked the company president to be assigned to do work on blue lasers), using company equipment. The guy who invented the Flourescent lightbulb for GE didn't get as much as the company initially offered this guy.
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I do not think Buddhism is a religion so much as a philosiphy on the path to enlightenment or nirvana. Hinduism does contain creationism. I know of no gods in buddhism (the buddha was a man, not a god).
t m Oh, and please note that there is a huge difference between the two and that they should not be linked together.
About 1000 different ones according to this http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_05/uk/doss24.h
Can't say much on the protestants.
Let me post this and see what people say. Lets say Creationism is the idea that a supreme being created the universe, the earth and everything here. Now lets assume that it either has a plan and starting things a long and just keeps adjusting minor things as we go (inteligent design). Or just watches us as a "lab experiment" to see what happens. Does any of this mean that creationism is incompatible with either of the other two? After all, Live, the Universe and Everything had to have come from somewhere.
People were using them to go 90 and 100 mph or faster and only slowing down when they got a reading off the detector. I have been in a car once that was going 100 mph when the idiot that was driving decided to see how fast he could go.
As for not having to constantly check speed? I can get a feel for how fast I am going by just comparing my speed to the cars around me and the "Feel" of the car. I can tell how much I am going over. I'm never going anywhere near 90 or 100 when I think I am going 60. And going that much faster than everyone else on the road is a hazard cause you have to keep changing lanes to avoid cars. I'm sorry but it's used way too much for that. The others I you listed have legitimate uses.
As for having the marked cars patrolling? They do. They just can't have them everywhere evertime. And the idiots were using the guns to figure out where the cops were and speed in between them.
Just because something can be used for an illegal function does not mean you should outlaw it.
I know this. And I can't think of any object, device or program that can't be used illegaly in some way. But I have yet to come across anyone in person that has used these things for other than speeding between the cops.
Seriously? Which religion? I do not know of any religion other than the religion of aethism that does not have some sort of creationist begining. This includes all native american beliefs that I have heard of. So, which religion?
My favorite for this is when they talk about jobs, job losses and the national debt (Especially this since europe looks at it as a % of GDP and not the total amount).
Sure the number is large, but lets look at it as a Percentage.
I remember reading a book about statistics. The author talks about how he had a student come in and give a paper and one of the statistics mentioned was (something along this meaning ) "The number of children that die from guns has doubled every year since 1970". This was given in the late 90's or around 2000. Now, assuming that ONE (1) Child had died in 1970 due to a gun, that would mean that 1,000,000 would have died in 1990. And that by the time this book was published, over 1,000,000,000 each year.
The Original Original Original source of this was misquoted at some point on this and the misquote had been repeated while the correct version had not. I forget what the original quote was.
Look at the pie charts on the cover of USA today. They routinely do the same thing. They also do not always have a total close to 100% (one time it was 48%).
according to: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf
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In the USA at least, those spectrums are already set asaide that they talk about.
It's called the internet. Or, at least the internet is getting there.
There is technically no buffer between bands. What there is is a requirement for how many DB your band must be below by the time it reaches the edge of your band. This has mainly to do with RF filter evolution than anything else. For DTV, the FCC made it possible to have adjacent channels. This wasn't possible with analogue and the old transmitters. With the new tech, they are putting adjacent channels in cities, but they still need spacing since you can't have the same channels used in two adjacent cities. They have also had other problems occur, such as chronicalled here:n dVHF.shtml
http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/On-RF/Low_Ba
And the problems that occur because the FCC has allowed low power transmission in areas with out keeping a list of what they are used for as shown here:
http://www.fedele.com/website/tvt/tv040698.txt
For instance radar detectors should be legal everywhere.
Umm... People were using them to pureposely speed way above the limit and only slow down when they detected a cop. That is why states outlawed their usage in a car. You can own one, you just can't use one in a car.
Like I give a fuck about the broadcasters. The FCC pushed HD on to the people. The same people that own that fucking spectrum and should be the ones choosing what happens with it. Sadly the FCC has taken on more and more power to do what IT thinks best not what IS best.
The FCC was essentially asked at the behest of the broadcasters to do this through several politcings that caused the broadcasters to shoot themselves in the foot. In the 1980's land mobile (cellphones, pocket radios) wanted more spectrum and the TVs had some prime spectrum. The Broadcasters didn't want to give this up due to the interference issues they would have. So they clambored aboard a HDTV/DTV bandwagon so they could keep the spectrum (so that the consumers could have a better picture was the claim). They thought that any DTV was decades away at the time but this one guy working at DigiCypher came up with a compression algorithm that would work.
So now DTV exists, and they can find out they can put 4 SD DTV (Noter: 6 is wrong for decent quality, it should be 4) channels in the place of 1 SD Analogue channel. Now, they weren't too hot on HDTV at the time so they were keeping mum about it. The senators get wind of this and start to say then that why should they have all 6mhz of bandwidth and not a quarter that if that is what it takes to broadcast a DTV station? And the broadcasters come back and start talking about HDTV, since that would require the entire 6mhz channel. So they shot them selves in the foot with all this.
Long story short, they originally didn't want to go to DTV much less HDTV but are doing so in order to keep spectrum and interference from occuring. So they did decide to go to DTV to keep their spectrum.
As for pushing Digital TV on everyone? They did that in the 40s/50s whenever it was to standardize on the original B&W TV standard. Then later on the RCA Collor TV Standard as well so that their wouldn't be a format war. The FCC has always decided on how the TV and Radio is broadcast. This is nothing new.
As for that 20% that recieve over the air? Is that people that still recieve it over the air or that don't have cable/satelite? That is still a lot of people no matter how you look at it. And almost all of them I bet can not get cable/satelite due to location or expense.
Personally, I think they should have spent the time and money protecting us from consolidation in the media markets but that's me. I didn't have a say in it and neither did any of the rest of us.
I agree against the consolidation too, but it has nothing to do with HDTV. Of course, in a true free market that you talk about there would be no rules about station ownership.
I don't know why you think a factory would have to re-open. Any factories used are already producing the standard stuff used in training. When ramping up for a "war" as calm as this one they would just need to speed up production a bit. There has been a rampup in porduction. But we are not expending ammo any where near the amount required to demand an increase in the number of factories needed. Besides, the military keeps lots of ammo on hand so that they don't need to ramp up production at the begining.
That's probably what they are trying to do. Only they basically need this guy to tell them who is supplying him with information and/or his server logs. Seeing as how he says he will offer complete anonymity, i don't think he will tell apple willingly. Thus, their only real chance is to sue him to get a court order ordering him to turn over the names of the people violating the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)
Uh... No. The military has fairly strict requirements about what percentage of a product MUST be made in the USA. (I think it is %80 if it isnt %100) There was an issue a few years ago where a company that made the stocking caps for the navy had a label in it that said made in china. In the contract (this is in all of the contracts) it clearly stated that the caps must be made in the usa or a certain amount of it. The company had to recall all the caps and remake them as per the conditions of the contract. Anything the military buys largely, if not completely, comes from the USA. This is for two reasons. One, is so that the military is actually supporting US companies. The other, primary reason, is so that in times of war they do not have to worry about supply issues because we went to war with the country that supplies Equipment X. The military does not want to have to worry about getting anything and as such basically has it all manufactured locally. No one "buys american" like the DoD.
most of the people in the U.S. armed forces are basically ethical (encouraging);
Most of the people in the military are more ethical than 99% of the civilian populas. Read up on the military code of conduct. Among other things that are illegal and unethical in the military are officers fraternizing with enlisted personel (this means outside of work)(reasons are to keep officers from making bad decisions in life and death situations) and infidelity to a spouse or with someone who is married.
There are about 1.3 million active duty millitary personnel. I am willing to be that in any comparably sized group from this country you will people who are a lot less ethical. That is not to say there aren't the occasional bad eggs, as there are. But the military tries to identify and kick them out asap.
* there are too many checks and balances within the agency structures to allow a fake to succeed (highly likely).
Also too many people who would have to keep their mouth shut in order to pull it off.
Disclaimer: Both parents were career military, as are many of the people I know.
Electronic communications leave a trail, unlike letters and phone calls, which can be truly anonymous, Levy said. If powerful entities can sue simply to identify their critics, free speech will be chilled, he said. "That's what makes these Internet cases so scary."
Letters can be traced by the postal mark, but can still be pretty anonymous at that. Phone Calls are not anonymous at all. The phone company keeps a record of what phone calls what number, and then of course there is caller ID. I don't know where this guy got thinking that phone calls were "truly anonymous". Even phone calls from pay phones can be traced back to the origin. Even if the user on the other end cant be.
see other post on this on why he would be taxes in USAo ld=1&commentsort=0&tid=123&mode=thread&pid=1133784 3#11337996
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=135801&thresh
Info on the 50% tax rate is apreciated
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/25/registry_h ack_turns_xp_pro/
He is currently residing in the USA in California at University of California, Santa Barbara. I don't know if he is a US citizen or not, but since he is living in the US it might be taxable. (And people living in the US and working under Green Cards still pay taxes btw)
please. giving credit for a training video on how to use a mouse is a bit off the mark. learning to use a mouse is beyond using windows or linux. it's basic computing.
You just reminded me of the star trek movie where they go back in time to get the whales, and scotty starts talking to the comptuer. Then thinks that the mouse is a microphone. Then actually understands what it is when it is demonstrated to him. For some, its not basic computing if you have never used a computer before.
Even people in the real world still have problems with these things. A scammer called up the mom of one of the other guys I work with and said that s/he was from her bank and wanted to verify her account information, which she then gave to him over the phone. When she found out what happened she talked to the bank (which didn't do anything) and changed her account information. Then, she gets a call a month later from someone claiming to be from the bank saying that "we understand that you have been a victim of a scammer(?)" we just need to verify some details. It was the scammer again and she gave them her financial info again.
It's not just computers that some people have problems with.
(is it so uncommon to find nerd-jock combo?)
Yes. I have never seen or heard of a nerd on a sports team (football, baseball, etc) in highschool or college. I knew engineers on the soccer team in college, but they didn't know much about computers and how to fix them. That was where the three of us who were the nerds and computer geeks came in. Any time anyone had a problem they were refered to us to help fix it. We got a lot of respect for fixing peoples computers for free and making sure that they were able to keep all their data (unlike what the idiots at the helpdesk would do [reformat, reinstall]). But having ever seen or heard of a nerd-jock? Nope, not yet.
I seem to remember something about a registry hack a few years ago that would allow you to turn any windows XP installation (home, pro, server) into any other version by only tweaking the registry. If so, is it possible that microsoft got lazy (or is still so lazy) and the same trick can be used on this version to turn it into an XP pro machine without any of the limitations?
Using the IRS tax calculator the total income tax on 8 Million comes to: $2,778,720. Thats assuming it is recorded as earned income and/or dividends and that royalties are not recorded as something else. That puts him in the %34.7 tax bracket which is the highest one the USA currently has. It's also more than double what I am paying at %14.2.
It's nice to see "the little guy" get one over on the "anything you think, we own" mentality of the big corporations. Produce a product on company time, yeah that's work for hire, but this bullshit of "you made X 3 years after you left the company, but we still own it" has to stop.
He was working for the company, on company time, at the companys direction (after he asked the company president to be assigned to do work on blue lasers), using company equipment. The guy who invented the Flourescent lightbulb for GE didn't get as much as the company initially offered this guy.