GalCiv, while a great 4X, is not exactly the type of game that would drive millions of sales. I know not the question that was asked, but relevant to the overall post.
That has nothing to do with the grandparent's post. The absence of Linux as a choice, and the lack of alternatives to pre-installed Windows are two different issues.
That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, some people prefer to have both a male and a female in the family unit, regardless of whether their role is to stay home, what their job might be, etc. Furthermore, I was stating that this is something that some people believe, I haven't injected my own opinions into all of this (re-read my original post). If you must know, I am for gay-rights and open to any family arrangement that you may choose. I think it is a personal matter not to be decided by society.
The point of my post was, people who believe in the conservative family unit are not the monsters some people make them out to be. The real monsters are those who come out and try to tell you how to live your life, raise your children, without concern or sensitivity for differing opinions.
So, thanks for the advice but I didn't need it. Here is some food for thought in return: if I _was_ a die-hard conservative, who believed whole-heartedly that the society was better off with a man and a woman in the household, that even God himself mandated this, how persuasive do you think your post would have been?
Only if you subscribe to the notion that a parent of one gender or the other is not particularily important.
This requires that you believe that abstract properties like the sexuality of the partners are more important than the concrete properties of the individuals involved.
I will attempt to clarify the grand parent's point (although I'm not a mind reader, I think I know what he was getting at). You are confusing gender and sexuality here, which are different things.
No matter your sexual orientation or gender, you are capable of being a kind and caring parent, no doubt.
But your sexual orientation does matter in terms of being able to play the traditional roles in the conservatively defined, family unit. Some people believe (whether it be for religious reasons or whatever) this conservative definition of the family unit has value and should be preserved.
You describe sexuality as an abstract property and the personal qualities of an individual to be concrete. In fact, there are some people for whom, sexuality is just as concrete as any other measure.
I do not agree with that view point but I do understand it. I hope you as well...
When people advertise that their application has had so many downloads, many people assume that that number equals the number of users. Never have I ever heard of that number being directly correlated to "user confidence" (if at all, only indirectly but the number of users). In the case of Firefox, the number has the potential of being a multiple of the actual number of users. Not only do people download it multiple times for different computers, each computer downloads it multiple times for every patch. It is easy to see how people could misinterpret these numbers to mean something that they don't.
Anyway, not calling anyone a liar or a bad person, so don't get your panties in a bunch.:)
What the hell is wrong with you moderators? If a post expresses an opinion that you disagree with, just leave it alone. No need to moderate it down. God damn...
Slashdot Mirror
S/N on Slashdot is getting pretty low now...
Is this how websites die?
"Though I actually haven't found a virus that wasn't caught by the active scans." Let us ponder this statement. :)
How is this insightful? I hate the RIAA as much as anyone, but the parent post doesn't contribute anything.
this clearly identifies a weakness in the tagging system
Meant units, but your point is taken.
GalCiv, while a great 4X, is not exactly the type of game that would drive millions of sales. I know not the question that was asked, but relevant to the overall post.
Evolution doesn't address the origin of life, only the way it changes and takes new forms.
That has nothing to do with the grandparent's post. The absence of Linux as a choice, and the lack of alternatives to pre-installed Windows are two different issues.
This reminds me alot of the movie, eXistenZ.
That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, some people prefer to have both a male and a female in the family unit, regardless of whether their role is to stay home, what their job might be, etc. Furthermore, I was stating that this is something that some people believe, I haven't injected my own opinions into all of this (re-read my original post). If you must know, I am for gay-rights and open to any family arrangement that you may choose. I think it is a personal matter not to be decided by society. The point of my post was, people who believe in the conservative family unit are not the monsters some people make them out to be. The real monsters are those who come out and try to tell you how to live your life, raise your children, without concern or sensitivity for differing opinions. So, thanks for the advice but I didn't need it. Here is some food for thought in return: if I _was_ a die-hard conservative, who believed whole-heartedly that the society was better off with a man and a woman in the household, that even God himself mandated this, how persuasive do you think your post would have been?
Only if you subscribe to the notion that a parent of one gender or the other is not particularily important.
This requires that you believe that abstract properties like the sexuality of the partners are more important than the concrete properties of the individuals involved.
I will attempt to clarify the grand parent's point (although I'm not a mind reader, I think I know what he was getting at). You are confusing gender and sexuality here, which are different things.
No matter your sexual orientation or gender, you are capable of being a kind and caring parent, no doubt.
But your sexual orientation does matter in terms of being able to play the traditional roles in the conservatively defined, family unit. Some people believe (whether it be for religious reasons or whatever) this conservative definition of the family unit has value and should be preserved.
You describe sexuality as an abstract property and the personal qualities of an individual to be concrete. In fact, there are some people for whom, sexuality is just as concrete as any other measure.
I do not agree with that view point but I do understand it. I hope you as well...
Many embryos are destroyed naturally through miscarriages. Are you against this as well?
Damn, should have proofread. That sounds like crap. Hope y'all can make sense of it.
When people advertise that their application has had so many downloads, many people assume that that number equals the number of users. Never have I ever heard of that number being directly correlated to "user confidence" (if at all, only indirectly but the number of users). In the case of Firefox, the number has the potential of being a multiple of the actual number of users. Not only do people download it multiple times for different computers, each computer downloads it multiple times for every patch. It is easy to see how people could misinterpret these numbers to mean something that they don't. Anyway, not calling anyone a liar or a bad person, so don't get your panties in a bunch. :)
You forgot one. Hammertime.
Enjoy uncertainty.
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GAIM, because it uses GTK, has some funky windows behavior that I don't like.
What the hell is wrong with you moderators? If a post expresses an opinion that you disagree with, just leave it alone. No need to moderate it down. God damn...
What makes the clients in your list, "inspired"?
OOOH-AHHH
We already know.
I propose that Slashdot Scale = 1 / (time it takes after post for server to explode)
Soylent Green will truly be made out of people.
I can confirm this. In a conversation with my spammer friend, he mentioned that AOL e-mail addresses are by far the most profitable.