Actually, the people that voted for Bush for President.
In the words of John Stewart, that went something like: "Do you trust someone who drives your car into the ditch, and says 'ok let me drive it out of the ditch, I got it figured out now'"
It worked at Ferrari, whenever all the engineers left becuase they were sick and tired of Enzo's wife putting her nose where it didn't belong, and also the extremely long hours that are involved in racing development.
So they all got up and left. After that Ferrari learnt the error of there ways.
I remember that. If I recall correctly, he was razed because he said something to the extent of "I installed FireFox, and I had to update it to because it had a security bug". He was making the incorrect point that FireFox was as insecure as IE. The problem was that the bug was caused by Windows and not FireFox, and was also present in IE. Firefox got a request that it didn't understand, so it sent that information to the OS, and the OS was causing the error.
So I don't think it's a matter if they are "Damned if they do, damned if they don't". If they pull there head out of there ass, then maybe they will stop being damned.
Yes, it's so secure, IT WON'T LET ME VIEW IMAGES!!!
Because we all know that Firefox has such huge security problems with viewing images, that they have to disable them until you click on a button to allow them.... ERrr.. wait.. that was Internet Explorer.
If it has "stock car racing" in it, then it most surely has no real racing in it.
It just simply wouldn't work. Unless the story has something to do with a stock car having a self esteem problem, because it's not an f1 car. "Why does that car get to rev to 18k rpms?!?!"
Also I'll be depressed if the stock cars have different personalities, because they are all built to be the EXACT SAME.
Let's just thank God that F1 turned down Stallone when he wanted to make "driver" and f1 movie.
Sorry that I assumed that you were Christian. It must be that when most people talk about religion on slashdot they are usually christian. Kinda like how people make the assumtion that people are American on this site.
I think we are arguing the same points, and that we are just using differnt words. You made the point that everything comes down the Golden Rule. I totally agree with that. It's just that I don't associate it with God, although it's a rule that is used common in religion. I also think it's a rule that is most easily forgotten.
God does not control what we do nor does he work through us. Yet by invoking him as the source of our inalienable rights we can legitimize them in such a way that they can never be JUSTLY revoked.
I agree with what you are saying here, but this is also a problem. We totally agree on free will, yadda yadda yadda. I also agree with how you've explained that if we use God as a higher power sort of thing, then no one can take away our rights. I don't think the God part of it is nescessary. I think that we can just simply say that as humans we have free will, plain and simple. The constitution is just paper, and free will is free will.
The problem I have though is that when people start using God in policys and such, is that people will missuse God. It seems that people like to use God as a crutch or a stone to hide behind, and I think that should just be totally avoided, and especially in government.
But anyway, to sum it up, I think we are both agreeing with each other, but we are just tackling it from differnt view points.
So you MUST be smoking something that is really good. What is it? It can't be 100% Christ love, because I love Christ too, and he doesn't get me that high.
Here, I'll take a quick quote from your blog:
Another possible source of our Rights is society, but this reasoning is flawed for the same reasons government granting them is. If society grants our Rights then we must assume that they are only safe for as long as the majority wants them to be. We could actually have our very lives voted away from us.
It was here that you were making the point that God gives us our rights. You are making the point that God is currently in control of our rights. How can God be pulling the strings of the government, and the constitution and law, and still give EVERYONE free will. Not most of us, not some of us, but all of us. That is apparently God's greatest gift, so if he gives us that, how can he possibly control us. That would mean that he hasn't given us free will. It can't happen both ways.
I know how people answer this question, and it really is bullshit. People usually answer it with the statment that God doesn't control people, people just do the will of God. People do what they think God wants them to do, and thus totally negates what you said about God controlling rites, it's the people creating the rights, and people that are flawed. Secondly, if God is really working through people, and people are doing his will, how do you explain the patriot act? It is be definition giving up rights. Does God want the government to be able to throw you into a jail in Cuba, and never ever give you fair trial?
If so, that's one wacky God. Now, I know I'm being an ass here. I'm coming off as rude bastard. I also kinda understand what you are saying. I am a Catholic myself, although I personally believe in Church and State being seperate. But, you really shouldn't shrug off this message, and you need to seriously sit down and rethink your whole entire view on this subject, and keep into mind that we all have free will, ALL OF US.
Apparently porsche claims that the design the cars to be air cooled still, and they just add the water cooling to over kill it, so that there should be no issues at all with cooling.
I've always wondered what history books would be like if you could pickup the US off the globe and pick up France off the globe and swap the two. Would the US have defended itself when it was attacked by the shock and awe... ugh I mean blitzkreig. (sorry those two are just so interchangeable) When the nazi regime was sweeping across Europe, and you see country after country fall, and you know if you defend your borders, you know you are just going to die. Would the US defend itself? Or do you let the nazis in and then fight a Guerilla war? Kinda like what is happening in Iraq? Or are the Iraq fighters cowards because they are not using there crappy guns against US laser guided cluster bombs? Or is standing up against horrible odds to die for no reason is the smart thing to do.
I love how the US picks on france's lack of courage, and this is from a country that put off entering the war until they were finally attacked on their own soil.
Apparently it will cost a lot of money to convert the highway system to support electric cars: Replacing gas pumps with electric pumps, re-training mechanics to work with electric motors instead of gas ones, the hole in the economy that will appear when all the oil companies go belly up, etc, etc....
So in that light we should keep our gas guzzling suvs, and screw the environment. It will just cost to much money to change.
They've lengthed the movie into a three movie trilogy. It will contain 99.9% footage of the rock creeping through rooms and brainless monsters will anxiously wait for him to pass an imaginary line so that a wall can move at exactly the moment he walks across that line. Then a deamon will spawn right behind him and start slashing into his back. Then they repeat that scene over and over again.
But hey you can't complain, because you will be getting THREE MOVIES WORTH! Not just one, but THREE!
It sounds possible considering that both formats are compatible with DVD.
So it might not be a stretch of the imagination that you could get these two to work together, but you would only want to if they actually had a full on format war, and in which case I would pick the one that has more storage.
I will admit it. I drive an integra, and I lowered it using a set of TEIN basic coil overs. TEIN is a japanese company that only makes suspension pieces, and when you buy there product you buy a product that you know has been extensively tested and engineered. So basically what I'm saying is that I spent a lot of money to lower my car and now it handles amaizingly well.
It makes the car a lot of fun, although you have to be carefull and choose where you want to have fun. Late at night, on non-busy roads. Or in areas where there will be a very little chance of a pedestrian walking on the street, and especially no blind corners.
Anyway, I went on a tangent there. Speed bumps are designed to slow you down. If I drive over them at any high speed there is a chance that I can bottom out my car, and scrape the under carrage. So if they are designed to slow you down , and I have to go slow over them, I could care less about the people waiting behind me. I have every right to lower my car, so if they want to complain, complain to the ass that put the speed bump there. I'll complain with them.
Personally I think all speed bumps should be removed. Anybody that drives around a school or shopping mall parking lot at a high speed is a moron, and should be heavily fined, along with the morons blasting the radio on rural streets at night. Also I think that dogs that are outside and bark all night should be simply killed, if they are repeat offenders.
Actually you can make it a little bit more evil and have the javascript pass the info to a 1 pixel x 1pixel flash app and that app can send that info to wherever it wants to. So there would be no need for a nasty page refresh when it could send the info very quietly without the user noticing.
Yeah, you are right that type of language is uncalled for, and rude. They should be smacked in the head.
I actually worked on the other end of the phone calls, where people write down the results. It was weird because I only had one person that had a problem getting through. I sat there for a couple of hours after the election was over twiddling my thumbs and doing nothing, and suddenly everyone calls at once to get their results in.
I found it odd that there was like 5 us just sitting on our hands for hours to do a very little amount of work.
Anyway, as for what I'm doing on Nov 2nd, I'm gonna be sitting a laughing and then crying as you guys south of the border re-elect bush.
I hope it doens't happen that way, but living as I live in Canada, I'm bracing for the worst.
Have you ever worked with poll workers? The press kit is kinda justified.
My mother worked in the last Canadian election as Returning officer. She basically ran a district in an election. She was in charge of making sure everyone was trained, renting the offices, highering the accountant, getting signs printed, etc etc etc.
I was in her office a couple of times and you would be suprised on the signs they have posted everywhere. It's like "Elections for dummies" in there. Everywhere you see a sign that tells you how to do your job. "If this happens, do a b and c. If this happens do x y and z".
I will not be suprised if these electronic voting systems come with big ass signs that say. "If machine is not on, make sure it is plugged in the wall. If machine is not on, and it's plugged in the wall. Please check that the socket has power."
The main thing that I noticed is that most people's job at an election office has been so simplified and so documented as to what to do that almost any person can do that job, regardless of personal intellect. If you can read and write, then you're qualified.
While I do admit that this doesn't help the geeks reputation of trying to be all high and mighty. They won't be the first people to assume that the people running an election are morons.
I think someone should create a spider to watch that site for any change. Then we can make a/. story for said change. We could have such jounalistic dynamite as:
The only saving grace is all of the horrible faults in IE.
Using your example:
Person A buys a new computer, and uses the IE browser because they could care less what they use.
Person A then gets a crap load of spyware on there computer, and then bugs that one geek that they know to fix there computer. Then the geek says.... I don't need to fix your computer, just download and install Firefox. Don't use that IE piece of crap.
Boom, there we go, problem fixed. This is exactly how I've gotten firefox on people's computers. I haven't heard of one story of a lamen user who has been tired of IE, so they searched out a better brower, and picked up firefox or opera.
It's always been because there geek friend telling them to use it. Geeks are what are powering this new browser war. If Microsoft fixes there brower, we are in trouble.
Complaining about a dictator is easy. Removing him when you KNOW its going to cost lives requires a tad more moral character, will, and resolve, especially when you know its going to piss some people off who are making money off that dictatorship.
You know what sir... I don't agree with your tone of voice. Shit.. I just bitched about you.
Please reply with your address and phone number so I can come and blow up your house.
Just because you complain about someone doesn't mean you have to attack them. Before the war, the UN found missles in Iraq which had a range of something like 200 miles. Iraq was only allowed to have missles that had a range of 160 miles (or something to that affect). The UN forced iraq to dismantle those missles, proving that UN sactions were working.
You're partially right about the culture. We like to pick and choose the good stuff. The good music, the good movies, etc... Which is also coming in less frequently by the way! You guys need to fix that up, chop chop! The rest we can do without, we just happen to get flooded with the other crap as well.
I don't know about the education part at all. I've had a friend who moved to the states and is studying law, he has a few math courses, which he claims to be the equivalant of our highschool grade 10 math. Maybe it's just the University that he's at.
But with the money issue. Before Bush was president $30K US would have been $45K CAN. Now after Bush has come into power, it's more like $40K CAN. It sucks though, the Canadian government won't allow the Canadian dollar to get higher then the american value. If it did, we would suddenly loose a lot of business. So that aspect really sucks. That and a lot of Canadian companies that become big at all will move down to the states for more profit. It's issues like that, that keeps Canada at bay.
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RTFA! He clearly states... just kidding.
I sincerely hope you get better, and I wish you have a speedy recovery.
All the best.
-Derek
In the words of John Stewart, that went something like: "Do you trust someone who drives your car into the ditch, and says 'ok let me drive it out of the ditch, I got it figured out now'"
-Derek
So they all got up and left. After that Ferrari learnt the error of there ways.
-Derek
So I don't think it's a matter if they are "Damned if they do, damned if they don't". If they pull there head out of there ass, then maybe they will stop being damned.
-Derek
This thing is basically a clock. You can also program a clock to give different time by replacing the springs, or changing the gears, etc...
-Derek
It's kinda like how "Kill the infedels" is not "Kill the Americans", it's just traslated that way.
-Derek
Because we all know that Firefox has such huge security problems with viewing images, that they have to disable them until you click on a button to allow them.... ERrr.. wait.. that was Internet Explorer.
My bad.
-Derek
If it has "stock car racing" in it, then it most surely has no real racing in it.
It just simply wouldn't work. Unless the story has something to do with a stock car having a self esteem problem, because it's not an f1 car. "Why does that car get to rev to 18k rpms?!?!"
Also I'll be depressed if the stock cars have different personalities, because they are all built to be the EXACT SAME.
Let's just thank God that F1 turned down Stallone when he wanted to make "driver" and f1 movie.
-Derek
Sorry that I assumed that you were Christian. It must be that when most people talk about religion on slashdot they are usually christian. Kinda like how people make the assumtion that people are American on this site.
I think we are arguing the same points, and that we are just using differnt words. You made the point that everything comes down the Golden Rule. I totally agree with that. It's just that I don't associate it with God, although it's a rule that is used common in religion. I also think it's a rule that is most easily forgotten.
I agree with what you are saying here, but this is also a problem. We totally agree on free will, yadda yadda yadda. I also agree with how you've explained that if we use God as a higher power sort of thing, then no one can take away our rights. I don't think the God part of it is nescessary. I think that we can just simply say that as humans we have free will, plain and simple. The constitution is just paper, and free will is free will.The problem I have though is that when people start using God in policys and such, is that people will missuse God. It seems that people like to use God as a crutch or a stone to hide behind, and I think that should just be totally avoided, and especially in government.
But anyway, to sum it up, I think we are both agreeing with each other, but we are just tackling it from differnt view points.
-Derek
I just read your blog, and I didn't read one legitimate point in the whole thing. It sounded nice, but it sounded a lot like Bush explaining what Tribal Sovereignty means in the 21st century. You didn't seem to make a point, you just kinda rambled on.
So you MUST be smoking something that is really good. What is it? It can't be 100% Christ love, because I love Christ too, and he doesn't get me that high.
Here, I'll take a quick quote from your blog:
It was here that you were making the point that God gives us our rights. You are making the point that God is currently in control of our rights. How can God be pulling the strings of the government, and the constitution and law, and still give EVERYONE free will. Not most of us, not some of us, but all of us. That is apparently God's greatest gift, so if he gives us that, how can he possibly control us. That would mean that he hasn't given us free will. It can't happen both ways.
I know how people answer this question, and it really is bullshit. People usually answer it with the statment that God doesn't control people, people just do the will of God. People do what they think God wants them to do, and thus totally negates what you said about God controlling rites, it's the people creating the rights, and people that are flawed. Secondly, if God is really working through people, and people are doing his will, how do you explain the patriot act? It is be definition giving up rights. Does God want the government to be able to throw you into a jail in Cuba, and never ever give you fair trial?
If so, that's one wacky God. Now, I know I'm being an ass here. I'm coming off as rude bastard. I also kinda understand what you are saying. I am a Catholic myself, although I personally believe in Church and State being seperate. But, you really shouldn't shrug off this message, and you need to seriously sit down and rethink your whole entire view on this subject, and keep into mind that we all have free will, ALL OF US.
-Derek
But then again, that's coming from Porsche PR.
-Derek
Yeah, you are.
Yes, I am.
-Derek
I love how the US picks on france's lack of courage, and this is from a country that put off entering the war until they were finally attacked on their own soil.
Then again, I'm just a troll.
-Derek
So in that light we should keep our gas guzzling suvs, and screw the environment. It will just cost to much money to change.
-Derek
But hey you can't complain, because you will be getting THREE MOVIES WORTH! Not just one, but THREE!
THREE I SAY! Quantity over quality!
-Derek
So it might not be a stretch of the imagination that you could get these two to work together, but you would only want to if they actually had a full on format war, and in which case I would pick the one that has more storage.
-Derek
It makes the car a lot of fun, although you have to be carefull and choose where you want to have fun. Late at night, on non-busy roads. Or in areas where there will be a very little chance of a pedestrian walking on the street, and especially no blind corners.
Anyway, I went on a tangent there. Speed bumps are designed to slow you down. If I drive over them at any high speed there is a chance that I can bottom out my car, and scrape the under carrage. So if they are designed to slow you down , and I have to go slow over them, I could care less about the people waiting behind me. I have every right to lower my car, so if they want to complain, complain to the ass that put the speed bump there. I'll complain with them.
Personally I think all speed bumps should be removed. Anybody that drives around a school or shopping mall parking lot at a high speed is a moron, and should be heavily fined, along with the morons blasting the radio on rural streets at night. Also I think that dogs that are outside and bark all night should be simply killed, if they are repeat offenders.
-Derek
-Derek
I actually worked on the other end of the phone calls, where people write down the results. It was weird because I only had one person that had a problem getting through. I sat there for a couple of hours after the election was over twiddling my thumbs and doing nothing, and suddenly everyone calls at once to get their results in.
I found it odd that there was like 5 us just sitting on our hands for hours to do a very little amount of work.
Anyway, as for what I'm doing on Nov 2nd, I'm gonna be sitting a laughing and then crying as you guys south of the border re-elect bush.
I hope it doens't happen that way, but living as I live in Canada, I'm bracing for the worst.
-Derek
My mother worked in the last Canadian election as Returning officer. She basically ran a district in an election. She was in charge of making sure everyone was trained, renting the offices, highering the accountant, getting signs printed, etc etc etc.
I was in her office a couple of times and you would be suprised on the signs they have posted everywhere. It's like "Elections for dummies" in there. Everywhere you see a sign that tells you how to do your job. "If this happens, do a b and c. If this happens do x y and z".
I will not be suprised if these electronic voting systems come with big ass signs that say. "If machine is not on, make sure it is plugged in the wall. If machine is not on, and it's plugged in the wall. Please check that the socket has power."
The main thing that I noticed is that most people's job at an election office has been so simplified and so documented as to what to do that almost any person can do that job, regardless of personal intellect. If you can read and write, then you're qualified.
While I do admit that this doesn't help the geeks reputation of trying to be all high and mighty. They won't be the first people to assume that the people running an election are morons.
-Derek
-Derek
Using your example:
Person A buys a new computer, and uses the IE browser because they could care less what they use.
Person A then gets a crap load of spyware on there computer, and then bugs that one geek that they know to fix there computer. Then the geek says.... I don't need to fix your computer, just download and install Firefox. Don't use that IE piece of crap.
Boom, there we go, problem fixed. This is exactly how I've gotten firefox on people's computers. I haven't heard of one story of a lamen user who has been tired of IE, so they searched out a better brower, and picked up firefox or opera.
It's always been because there geek friend telling them to use it. Geeks are what are powering this new browser war. If Microsoft fixes there brower, we are in trouble.
-Derek
Please reply with your address and phone number so I can come and blow up your house.
Just because you complain about someone doesn't mean you have to attack them. Before the war, the UN found missles in Iraq which had a range of something like 200 miles. Iraq was only allowed to have missles that had a range of 160 miles (or something to that affect). The UN forced iraq to dismantle those missles, proving that UN sactions were working.
-Derek
I don't know about the education part at all. I've had a friend who moved to the states and is studying law, he has a few math courses, which he claims to be the equivalant of our highschool grade 10 math. Maybe it's just the University that he's at.
But with the money issue. Before Bush was president $30K US would have been $45K CAN. Now after Bush has come into power, it's more like $40K CAN. It sucks though, the Canadian government won't allow the Canadian dollar to get higher then the american value. If it did, we would suddenly loose a lot of business. So that aspect really sucks. That and a lot of Canadian companies that become big at all will move down to the states for more profit. It's issues like that, that keeps Canada at bay.
-Derek
It's kinda like American culture, politics, and education.
-Derek