And yet muslims revere her more than christians do - she has an entire chapter in the quran and it is the only chapter in the book with a woman's name.
Catholics revere her more than Muslims could ever aspire to. She's almost deified in the Catholic church.
I think the general idea is that morality without a higher power is a moving target. It's not about a higher power enforcing it, it's more about believing that it's an absolute code. Otherwise morality is simply an agreed upon set of social conventions that is equally valid no matter how radically they differ from one society to another.
It leads to potentially absurd results. In the absence of an absolute morality, how do we condemn atrocities like genocides? The slaughter in Rwanda made perfect moral sense for the Tutsis and the Hutus, but generally the rest of the world found it abhorrent. How do you reconcile that without getting into a massively arrogant "we decide what's best" attitude? On what grounds? Yet we can't let that kind of massacre go on. Or Darfur. Or the Holocaust. Or the Mongolian invasion of China. History is replete with examples.
So who decides what morality is in the absence of a higher power? We do. And the results are pretty terrifying.
Sure it's okay. Kind of stupid given the evidence, but it's ok to *say* that. I wouldn't say it should be encouraged, but I absolutely would not want it outlawed just because I don't like it. That's the beauty of freedom of speech.
In America it is legal to deny the Holocaust. It is frowned upon, but you will not be legally punished for it. The exceptions to freedom of speech are tightly limited, and never has it been done (nor should it be done) just to spare someone from offense.
I mean, saying that 1.6 billion people are offended by it doesn't mean we should necessarily stop doing it. I'm sure many Muslims are offended by American women wearing bikinis, or by Israel existing. That doesn't mean that either of those should be prohibited by force of law.
We'll respect your culture (i.e. do our best to co-exist in peace with), but we ask the same of you. Insisting that we conform to your beliefs and desires is *not* respecting us.
Have Al Gore hop in the water at Coney Island and the global sea level will rise 26.58mm.
Except that Al Gore is the only living large politician who floats on water, so depending on his exact density, sea level wouldn't rise that entire amount.
Which is funny because going 20,000 leagues straight down lands you about a third of the way to the L1 Lagrangian point between the earth and the moon. It's a little hard to breathe there.
So they don't like caricatures of Mohammed, is it *REALLY* that important you somehow earn the right to be able to do it?
Yes. It absolutely is that important that we have the right to do this. Because if some group of fundamentalist douchebags is allowed to tell us what we can and cannot draw then it's only a matter of time before the avalanche starts. No, you can't have my first amendment rights, not yours to take.
That's the thing, we're so adaptable with our ability to build that there's very little that could happen fast enough to make the world completely uninhabitable for all of humanity. Even if a meteor strike blocked all sunlight for 100 years, we'd be able to eek out an existence. Sure, billions would die, but humanity as a species would live on. It would take something utterly world altering, like the sun expanding to a red giant and swallowing the Earth, to truly wipe us out. Climate change can be devastating and I surely don't want to see 75% of the population die off, but as a species we're in no danger.
Except with anything you just mentioned there's some marginal cost for each copy. There's a physical thing that being removed from the possession of the rightful owner. With digital information there is nothing physical being removed from the owner. There's no direct real loss to the copyright owner. There is an intangible loss that's amazingly hard to quantify, but it is far from the traditional definition of theft and I don't think it should ever be called such. Our laws have a long way to go to catch up with the easy practically free perfect copying of information that is available today.
Don't worry. Long before it ground to a halt little Jimmy next door will have replicated a thermo-nuclear bomb off of the internet and destroyed your entire metropolitan area.
well.. at least FF7 wouldn't so hard to get anymore.
Dude...E-Bay I got replacement copies of FF7 and FF8 maybe 2 years ago for $15 each after my PS2 scratched the original discs all to hell.
Incidentally, I've always been curious about where Star Trek style replicators get their matter from. I mean, sure, E=mc^2 and all that, but the energy and/or matter has to be stored somewhere. I keep thinking that maybe they recycle everything and there's more or less perfect conservation of mass-energy in a starship. Like the cup is disposed of and converted back into energy along with any waste products...but still it seems like a heck of a lot of effort to produce so many cups and crap.
If replicators did work like that in the real world, economies would collapse overnight. The second some jackass published the replication patterns for nuclear weapons we'd all go up in an inferno. That of course is after everyone replicated ten tons of gold for themselves and discovered it's now plentiful and worthless. No, no replicators please. I'm not ready for the end of the world.
Which is really irrelevant if the device doesn't plug in to any network. If embedded devices really want to use DOS 4.0 as their OS of choice, then I don't really care because there's no vector in to exploit vulnerabilities.
XP64 SP2 is the same as Windows Server 2003 SP2. When there's an SP3 for Server 2003 there'll be an SP3 for XP-64. Further, any updates for Server 2003 SP2 x64 edition will patch directly into XP-64, so in actuality you'll probably have support for that long after XP-32 is dead and buried. Microsoft's support for Server OS's far outlasts their support for consumer OS's (generally).
1 - There is no software so important that you can't live without it
Not even the embedded software in your life support device? And not everyone wants to join the Amish just to get away from proprietary software and proprietary music.
He's referring to the software under discussion here. If it's in an embedded system then it's implicitly tied to hardware, it's not going to be pirated because it's pretty useless apart from the hardware it's driving.
I wound up with a lot of keys for various things and I found the best system for me was multiple key rings. One big ring (master, no actual keys on it), truck key & keyless entry fob on one ring, work keys on another, home/mailbox/bike/mystuff keys on another and extended family (parents/grandma/etc.) on yet another. It took a little time but I finally came to an arrangement that chained together nicely, folded flat, and neither bulged nor poked me in the leg as I walked. Plus it just looks and feels cool to whip out 15+ keys all chained together and know by feel where they each are, then equally quickly snap your wrist and fold them into a flat, easily-slides-into-your-pocket organized batch.
Actually they are. The company may put technical measures in place to prevent games being shared, but console games at least don't generally fall victim to this technical chicanery. And no matter how they word it, you absolutely have the right to do whatever you want to hardware that you have purchased. You're not entitled to make copies, but you can certainly sell/give/pass on the cartridge/disc/whatever to anyone you so please.
Thanks for the Good Old Games link, I've been hoping for something like that for a while. It'll be fun to re-discover Master of Magic over again =) That game ate up a lot of hours back in college!
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And yet muslims revere her more than christians do - she has an entire chapter in the quran and it is the only chapter in the book with a woman's name.
Catholics revere her more than Muslims could ever aspire to. She's almost deified in the Catholic church.
since murder - an act certainly worse than molestation
Debatable. For some victims the rest of their lives feel like constant torture.
I think the general idea is that morality without a higher power is a moving target. It's not about a higher power enforcing it, it's more about believing that it's an absolute code. Otherwise morality is simply an agreed upon set of social conventions that is equally valid no matter how radically they differ from one society to another.
It leads to potentially absurd results. In the absence of an absolute morality, how do we condemn atrocities like genocides? The slaughter in Rwanda made perfect moral sense for the Tutsis and the Hutus, but generally the rest of the world found it abhorrent. How do you reconcile that without getting into a massively arrogant "we decide what's best" attitude? On what grounds? Yet we can't let that kind of massacre go on. Or Darfur. Or the Holocaust. Or the Mongolian invasion of China. History is replete with examples.
So who decides what morality is in the absence of a higher power? We do. And the results are pretty terrifying.
Sure it's okay. Kind of stupid given the evidence, but it's ok to *say* that. I wouldn't say it should be encouraged, but I absolutely would not want it outlawed just because I don't like it. That's the beauty of freedom of speech.
In America it is legal to deny the Holocaust. It is frowned upon, but you will not be legally punished for it. The exceptions to freedom of speech are tightly limited, and never has it been done (nor should it be done) just to spare someone from offense.
I mean, saying that 1.6 billion people are offended by it doesn't mean we should necessarily stop doing it. I'm sure many Muslims are offended by American women wearing bikinis, or by Israel existing. That doesn't mean that either of those should be prohibited by force of law.
We'll respect your culture (i.e. do our best to co-exist in peace with), but we ask the same of you. Insisting that we conform to your beliefs and desires is *not* respecting us.
Have Al Gore hop in the water at Coney Island and the global sea level will rise 26.58mm.
Except that Al Gore is the only living large politician who floats on water, so depending on his exact density, sea level wouldn't rise that entire amount.
I feel so torn...
Obviously he's a witch! Burn him!
or...
Don't worry, his ego will make up the difference.
Which is funny because going 20,000 leagues straight down lands you about a third of the way to the L1 Lagrangian point between the earth and the moon. It's a little hard to breathe there.
So they don't like caricatures of Mohammed, is it *REALLY* that important you somehow earn the right to be able to do it?
Yes. It absolutely is that important that we have the right to do this. Because if some group of fundamentalist douchebags is allowed to tell us what we can and cannot draw then it's only a matter of time before the avalanche starts. No, you can't have my first amendment rights, not yours to take.
That's the thing, we're so adaptable with our ability to build that there's very little that could happen fast enough to make the world completely uninhabitable for all of humanity. Even if a meteor strike blocked all sunlight for 100 years, we'd be able to eek out an existence. Sure, billions would die, but humanity as a species would live on. It would take something utterly world altering, like the sun expanding to a red giant and swallowing the Earth, to truly wipe us out. Climate change can be devastating and I surely don't want to see 75% of the population die off, but as a species we're in no danger.
Grand Theft Auto V?
Except with anything you just mentioned there's some marginal cost for each copy. There's a physical thing that being removed from the possession of the rightful owner. With digital information there is nothing physical being removed from the owner. There's no direct real loss to the copyright owner. There is an intangible loss that's amazingly hard to quantify, but it is far from the traditional definition of theft and I don't think it should ever be called such. Our laws have a long way to go to catch up with the easy practically free perfect copying of information that is available today.
Don't worry. Long before it ground to a halt little Jimmy next door will have replicated a thermo-nuclear bomb off of the internet and destroyed your entire metropolitan area.
well.. at least FF7 wouldn't so hard to get anymore.
Dude...E-Bay I got replacement copies of FF7 and FF8 maybe 2 years ago for $15 each after my PS2 scratched the original discs all to hell.
Incidentally, I've always been curious about where Star Trek style replicators get their matter from. I mean, sure, E=mc^2 and all that, but the energy and/or matter has to be stored somewhere. I keep thinking that maybe they recycle everything and there's more or less perfect conservation of mass-energy in a starship. Like the cup is disposed of and converted back into energy along with any waste products...but still it seems like a heck of a lot of effort to produce so many cups and crap.
If replicators did work like that in the real world, economies would collapse overnight. The second some jackass published the replication patterns for nuclear weapons we'd all go up in an inferno. That of course is after everyone replicated ten tons of gold for themselves and discovered it's now plentiful and worthless. No, no replicators please. I'm not ready for the end of the world.
The interesting question is if a pickpocket stole your wallet, put some extra cash in it, and then you stole it back...would you go to jail?
Which is really irrelevant if the device doesn't plug in to any network. If embedded devices really want to use DOS 4.0 as their OS of choice, then I don't really care because there's no vector in to exploit vulnerabilities.
XP64 SP2 is the same as Windows Server 2003 SP2. When there's an SP3 for Server 2003 there'll be an SP3 for XP-64. Further, any updates for Server 2003 SP2 x64 edition will patch directly into XP-64, so in actuality you'll probably have support for that long after XP-32 is dead and buried. Microsoft's support for Server OS's far outlasts their support for consumer OS's (generally).
Umm...85million * 365 = ~31billion/year. I think you missed a few zeroes here or there. One trillion barrels should last for about 32 years.
1 - There is no software so important that you can't live without it
Not even the embedded software in your life support device? And not everyone wants to join the Amish just to get away from proprietary software and proprietary music.
He's referring to the software under discussion here. If it's in an embedded system then it's implicitly tied to hardware, it's not going to be pirated because it's pretty useless apart from the hardware it's driving.
Or more to the point, hovering their finger over the trigger button for a thermonuclear bomb.
The key to that lock is metaphysical. Or a plasma cutter.
Also known as a universal key.
News for OCD patients, stuff that matters.
Well, if you ever did you wouldn't have to worry about her three keys anymore at least.
I wound up with a lot of keys for various things and I found the best system for me was multiple key rings. One big ring (master, no actual keys on it), truck key & keyless entry fob on one ring, work keys on another, home/mailbox/bike/mystuff keys on another and extended family (parents/grandma/etc.) on yet another. It took a little time but I finally came to an arrangement that chained together nicely, folded flat, and neither bulged nor poked me in the leg as I walked. Plus it just looks and feels cool to whip out 15+ keys all chained together and know by feel where they each are, then equally quickly snap your wrist and fold them into a flat, easily-slides-into-your-pocket organized batch.
Actually they are. The company may put technical measures in place to prevent games being shared, but console games at least don't generally fall victim to this technical chicanery. And no matter how they word it, you absolutely have the right to do whatever you want to hardware that you have purchased. You're not entitled to make copies, but you can certainly sell/give/pass on the cartridge/disc/whatever to anyone you so please.
Thanks for the Good Old Games link, I've been hoping for something like that for a while. It'll be fun to re-discover Master of Magic over again =) That game ate up a lot of hours back in college!