It's best to read right through to get the full effect;-) Had to post it as ecode due to the lame lameness filter.
Re:Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? (Score:5, Insightful) by Coryoth 12:10 AM -- Saturday October 29 2005
Why does no one ever attempt to explain that God created man using evolution as a tool? Whatever happened to the divine clockwinder theory?
People do, but that doesn't mean it gets any acceptance from certain groups. One of the fundamental issues is that a lot of christians believe humans have a soul and that animals do not. For that to be true you need some divine intervention in the evolutionary process to grant humans a soul once they become human. My understanding is that even the Catholic church, which accepts evolution, holds that such an intervention occurred. Once you have to believe that God has some active hand in the evolutionary process it's not much of a stretch to accept a few more fiddles along the way and thus you get Intelligent Design: the belief that evolution occurs, but with ongoing active tweaking by some external entity.
Basically it comes down to egocentrism - the desire to believe that humans are somehow special and separate from other living entities. To believe that you really need to believe that there was some active intervention to set humans apart. This really has little to do with religion necessarily (though most religions tend to grant humans such special status and hence have some explaining to do), but rather a general unwillingness to accept ourselves as simply a part of nature.
In practice humans are really only very subtley different from other animals. Every time someone claims to have some defining property that sets humans apart from animals (self awareness, tool use, awareness of mortality, language, social learning, etc.) we find new examples of animals that do the same. Tool use is now widely noted across the animal kingdom, and self awareness, and awareness of mortality are reported for a variety of animals. At least some level of language has been noted amongst various animals, and efforts to teach great apes more advanced languages have been remarkably successful. We really don't give animals anywhere near enough credit.
Jedidiah.
Re:Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? (Score:4, Interesting) by RWerp 12:53 AM -- Saturday October 29 2005 "One of the fundamental issues is that a lot of christians believe humans have a soul and that animals do not."
I'm a Christian and I believe animals have a soul, too. Only theirs is pure.
Re:Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? (Score:5, Funny) by rubycodez 02:21 AM -- Saturday October 29 2005 and more importantly, it's surrounded by tasty meat.
ROFLMAO
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As I got to work today on the subway, I saw city workers scraping blue Defective stickers off city street poles near the Apple store. What an effective message. Thanks for coming to our city to vandalize. Next time, stay home in your basement and listen to your Ogg. Nobody cares about your anti-DRM bullshit.
Ah, America, Land of the Free and the Brave.
In another existence, you would have been the one whining about being late for work because a civil rights march was blocking the street.
Hope you enjoy all those freedoms other people fought for.
It's because of people like Tesco, Sainsburys, Walmart that everybody needs a car. Before the supermarket, there were thing called grocers, butchers, fishmongers etc etc. In other words, people making a living from selling a product locally. They are money grabbing bastards, and they even buy land, and then put a covenant on it that means no-one else can build a supermarket on it. And everybody complains about microsoft....
Nothing in this warranty shall cause us to be liable in any way shape or form.
We reserve the right to change the wording the moment you make a claim.
We are an insurance company now, and boy are we gonna act like one !
Let's say you're a frequent flyer, for reasons of business. If your local TSA supervisor gropes you or someone you know at a bar or on the street, what are you going to do? What if they get in a property dispute with you? What if their child is tormenting your child at school? What if they don't like the clubs or places you want to frequent? What if you want to campaign for a political party they don't really like?
What will you do? Exercise your rights? Do something that might displease the officials? Perturb or them in some small way? You will on your fuck! You will drop everything and anything the moment you smell that this petty prick might make flying more difficult for you. Only fools and people with the right kind of friends will do otherwise.
As the TSA officials and persons like them grow in number and influence, expect such situations to arise. You think it won't happen? The people who set up the TSA, the people in the TSA, they all believe that such a state of affairs would be right and proper. They have a world view, and it does not involve tolerance for yours. If they can find a way to make life miserable for people who don't follow them, they will.
Mod parent up !
This is exactly the way that Mao started the "Cultural Revolution". Neighbours were encouraged to denounce each other for being against the revolution, and if there was any ill feeling between them, then you were denounced for petty things, but that was very often the end of your life in society (if not the end of your life, period). For instance, you may have a bunch of nice chickens that your neighbour wants for themselves. Easy for them to denounce you to the local party and you get banished from society, leaving your chickens for the neighbour. Sounds stupid, but it went on all the time. If you haven't read Wild Swans (ISBN: 0-00-717615-5), you should - it's excellent and quite revealing of the cultural revolution.
Divide and rule has always been the way of the world, but in the US at the moment, the govt. seems to be dividing society by giving more power over "normal" citizens to unelected officials, leaving no right of redress. FUD is used to confuse people so that they can't organise, and therefore can't displace the established regime.
The USA used to have an enemy in the USSR. That occupied the minds of the govt. and kept all their attention focused outwards. Now the USSR has gone, the focus has turned inwards, to controlling the people they claim to represent. The devil makes work for idle hands.
but much of the rest of the world regarded the United States as a democratic bastion protecting them from the Soviet empire.
Yeah, right. That's why songs like Two Tribes were written and became No.1
Western Europe, in particular, was totally reliant on the US for protection from the massive Russian ground army.
And the reason for the massive Russian ground army had nothing to do with all the US nukes, stationed in almost every European country, and pointed directly at the USSR ! </sarcasm>
Put it another way - 23 years ago citizens of Britan, Australia, and Western Europe would never have seriously felt that they might be 'disappeared' by US intelligence agencies from a third-party country, tortured, detained for years without any recourse to the law, and eventually tried in an extra-judicial process with the possibility of the death penalty.
No we just thought that the US and the USSR were both crazy and were holding the rest of the world by the balls. Nothing like the threat of nuclear annihilation to make you "love" a country. Perhaps you're too young to remember "Protect and Survive" and the 1983 nuclear crisis which was largely stirred up by the US playing war "games" ?
Maybe they don't know about Disallow:/ Seriously, bad way to organise things. They could put all that stuff inside a "restricted" directory and just disallow that. Mind you, it would be nice to have a look at some of that stuff, which might be possible given a bit of luck with filenames. Also, not _all_ robots obey robots.txt....
... but this dupe is showing in the RSS feed as well. The worst part is, that it can't be unintentional, because the headline is different ! Have a gander.
I seem to remember that in the development of the X-ray a lot of people were treated for depression of the organs, or some such illness, which later turned out to be something that was caused by the machines taking the photographs, and only caused when the photographs were being taken in the first place. Peoples' organs weren't actually in the wrong place, they were being displaced by the heavy equipment, until the equipment went away again...
Actually, it wasn't the machines causing it. It was because the patient was sitting or standing up while the picture was taken. Having never seen the inside of a person whilst vertical before, it was a new discovery. I can't find a source on the net, I'm afraid, but it was on a TV science program a while back.
The Luddites were a group of people who destroyed machines in factories. They did this because the machines had put them out of work. Most weaving was done as a cottage industry, each craftsman having his own loom in his own house. The invention of the powered looms and subsequent rise of factories to house those looms meant that the cottage industry could not compete in terms of price and efficiency. So unless you were prepared to work for low wages in a factory (the powered looms were operated by largely unskilled operators) you had to find another trade or starve to death ! Considering that there were thousands of home based looms but the factory machines didn't need as many operators, your choices were mostly restricted to the last two options - nice eh ?
That's why they destroyed the machines, not some idealogical fight against "da man", just positive action against the things that were replacing their means of making a living. This bears no resemblance to resisting DRM or Trusted computing. Unless you want to start breaking into houses and smashing pcs that is...
Ironically, if you work in IT, especially if you write code, you are exactly the opposite of a Luddite, seeing as the whole point of a computer is to automate repetitive tasks.
Since the point of most assignments is to demonstrate your understanding of a subject based on what you have been taught, how can your immature musings on any particular subject become _YOUR_ IP ?
You have spent your whole school career learning about other peoples work, and concepts they have described, but now you think you own the rights to your schoolwork.
This system is designed to catch people who just copy other students instead of thinking for themselves. There is no IP infringement because the work is all unoriginal anyway. Maybe we should reinvent the wheel everytime a new school year starts...
The only real exception I can see would be creative writing, but unless Turnitin are publishing students works as their own, then there is no problem. If the student tries to submit a piece of creative writing later in their school career and it seems they already submitted that previously, then obviously, they are not complying with the spirit of the assignment. Creative means just that, not regurgitated.
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Any server which has telnet running is in far more danger than just sql injection exploits.
It's best to read right through to get the full effect ;-)
ROFLMAOHad to post it as ecode due to the lame lameness filter.
In another existence, you would have been the one whining about being late for work because a civil rights march was blocking the street.
Hope you enjoy all those freedoms other people fought for.It's because of people like Tesco, Sainsburys, Walmart that everybody needs a car. ....
Before the supermarket, there were thing called grocers, butchers, fishmongers etc etc. In other words, people making a living from selling a product locally.
They are money grabbing bastards, and they even buy land, and then put a covenant on it that means no-one else can build a supermarket on it.
And everybody complains about microsoft
see title
Troll me if you want, but you people need to get some perspective.
Neil Armstrong ?
And what, exactly, have you just contributed ?
Pity I can't trump it ...
Anyway, there are always strings attached, and then they make off with your loot.
Nothing in this warranty shall cause us to be liable in any way shape or form.
We reserve the right to change the wording the moment you make a claim.
We are an insurance company now, and boy are we gonna act like one !
This is exactly the way that Mao started the "Cultural Revolution". Neighbours were encouraged to denounce each other for being against the revolution, and if there was any ill feeling between them, then you were denounced for petty things, but that was very often the end of your life in society (if not the end of your life, period). For instance, you may have a bunch of nice chickens that your neighbour wants for themselves. Easy for them to denounce you to the local party and you get banished from society, leaving your chickens for the neighbour. Sounds stupid, but it went on all the time. If you haven't read Wild Swans (ISBN: 0-00-717615-5), you should - it's excellent and quite revealing of the cultural revolution.
Divide and rule has always been the way of the world, but in the US at the moment, the govt. seems to be dividing society by giving more power over "normal" citizens to unelected officials, leaving no right of redress. FUD is used to confuse people so that they can't organise, and therefore can't displace the established regime.
The USA used to have an enemy in the USSR. That occupied the minds of the govt. and kept all their attention focused outwards. Now the USSR has gone, the focus has turned inwards, to controlling the people they claim to represent. The devil makes work for idle hands.It's not a mouse, it's a rabbit !
Maybe they don't know about Disallow: / ....
Seriously, bad way to organise things. They could put all that stuff inside a "restricted" directory and just disallow that. Mind you, it would be nice to have a look at some of that stuff, which might be possible given a bit of luck with filenames.
Also, not _all_ robots obey robots.txt
... but this dupe is showing in the RSS feed as well. The worst part is, that it can't be unintentional, because the headline is different !
Have a gander.
I can't find a source on the net, I'm afraid, but it was on a TV science program a while back.
The Luddites were a group of people who destroyed machines in factories. They did this because the machines had put them out of work. Most weaving was done as a cottage industry, each craftsman having his own loom in his own house. The invention of the powered looms and subsequent rise of factories to house those looms meant that the cottage industry could not compete in terms of price and efficiency. So unless you were prepared to work for low wages in a factory (the powered looms were operated by largely unskilled operators) you had to find another trade or starve to death !
Considering that there were thousands of home based looms but the factory machines didn't need as many operators, your choices were mostly restricted to the last two options - nice eh ?
That's why they destroyed the machines, not some idealogical fight against "da man", just positive action against the things that were replacing their means of making a living. This bears no resemblance to resisting DRM or Trusted computing. Unless you want to start breaking into houses and smashing pcs that is...
Ironically, if you work in IT, especially if you write code, you are exactly the opposite of a Luddite, seeing as the whole point of a computer is to automate repetitive tasks.You have spent your whole school career learning about other peoples work, and concepts they have described, but now you think you own the rights to your schoolwork.
This system is designed to catch people who just copy other students instead of thinking for themselves. There is no IP infringement because the work is all unoriginal anyway. Maybe we should reinvent the wheel everytime a new school year starts ...
The only real exception I can see would be creative writing, but unless Turnitin are publishing students works as their own, then there is no problem. If the student tries to submit a piece of creative writing later in their school career and it seems they already submitted that previously, then obviously, they are not complying with the spirit of the assignment. Creative means just that, not regurgitated.
'Nuff said.
Oh, sp_a_m !
I know the internet is a series of tubes but that would be the end for me I'm afraid.
Shame if anything were to happen to it !
I don't think people would be too keen to participate if they thought nonces were involved.
Starting at Dark Side of the Moon through Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall and finishing up at the Final Cut.
No breaks in the music for a change of track.(Except to turn over of course)
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Get with the times.Setting a font colour from OOo Writer
Setting a style colour (F11, right click a style, click modify)