Straight Dope was not the source of my information. I used the Straight Dope link becaue it ranked high on Google and had a nice little short exposition of the point I wanted to make. (I thought my orginal source was either Reason or Liberty magazines, both very reputable libertarian publications, but I can't trace it on the web.)
In any case, most claims of Hitler's anti-christian attitude draw from the same primary sources...mostly the memoirs of his close aides. The idea that Hitler held christian attitudes comes from taking his public statements at face value. I would consider the former sources more creidble than the latter.
I agree that Nazism was not anti-religion (but it may have become so if it endured & Hitler stayed in charge), but the OP referred to Hitler himself, who was probably anti-christian but too sly to sound off on it publicly. Now, to make his point, the OP'er should have referred to Nazism & not Hitler himself, but that argument is weak (both for or against) for the reasons I mentioned earlier.
Hitler's hatred for jews is often attributed to his bitter experience attempting to enter an Austrian art school. At least, he said so himself in Mein Kampf. Of course there is no way to know for sure, especially for someone who died 60 years ago. .....Also of note is that Nazi anti-semitism was, at its core, racist and based on eugenic pseudoscience, not religious zeal. "Racial" jews from families that converted to christianity
a century previously were still stripped of civil rights.
The object is to keep people watching or listening. One way to do that is be entertaining, but there may be easier or more effective ways. For example, seeing your neighbor's house burn down is not most people's definition of entertainment, but you do watch....
I'm too lazy to look it up, but I think the factoid is that 80% of the Canadian poopulation is south of the 48th parallel. As if they were amassing for an invasion. (Sarcasm alert: Sarcastic website linked...Well I think it's sarcastic.)
Any conceivable recording device will pass the test (for the sake of time & space shifting), but some devices have been ruled as failing. The only example I can think of is those doo-bobs that "back-up" your Nintendo cartridges to floppy. (Play Nintendo in your car? Play Nintendo later? Convert the durable ROM cartidge to fragile floppies? Write your own code without a dev kit?)
Of course, I can think of a substantial non-infringing use: Patching the code so you can cheat! But will that win the sympathy of a judge?
As far as Hiter goes, he hated christians, Catholics in particular, and Polish Catholics the worst. Nazism, though, tended to co-opt christianity, even going so far as to ally with Catholic Italy; no one can accuse the Nazis as being principled, eh? The fact that Nazi crimes targeted Jews so much reflects popular attitudes in Germany more than Hitler's own preferences.
I'm with you on the (lack of) effect religion has. Tsarism, overtly christian, was despotic & cruel. But the secular communisim that followed was inifinitely worse. Today we have a despotic secular regime in China, and despotic religious regimes in the middle east. We see peaceful religious communites in the US and peaceful secular civilization in Japan. We don't see masses fleeing oppression in more-christian southern Europe to more-secular northern Europe, nor the reverse.
I see no pattern; the religious or secular nature of a society seems to have no effect on its respect for freedom & human dignity. (Take that, Ayn Rand!)
See if they're ever willing to concede a point or discredit a fact that hurts their arguments. People I have not seen do this: Rush Limbaugh...
It's been a while since I've listened to Limbaugh, but I wouldn't have characterized his show as containing much argument. It is more news-entertainment on topics he considers important...specifcally, conservative topics. Bias in media is more in selection of what they report (or not) than it is of how the topic is treated. Of course the ol' Rushmeister is perfectly open about his conservative bias (as is Franken, from the looks of it).
I think the thing with buttons is that, in the 15th century, they were associated with military uniforms, and the sect is anti-militaristic. (The same goes for moustaches.) Velcro is ok though. Imagine what they would think of wearing camo: it's plain so that's good, but it's military, so that's bad....*head explodes*.
The Amish solution to this is (surprise!) decidedly low-tech. Various communities have arranged bride-exchange programs to promote intermarriage among a wider group. More commonly, young men will seek brides in neighboring colonies. With almost no proselytizing they are still delaying the inevitable.
There are other things of value besides technological innovation.
Beauty has value, and Amish folk art and furniture, for example, help make gentile houses more beautiful. Freedom has value, and they advanced larger society socially when they fought compulsory education in Wisconsin vs. Yoder. Granted, a population that is nearly all Amish would not be sustainable--the common defense would be hard to implement in a nation of pacifists--but I would say the Amish are pulling their weight in other ways.
You know you are in Amish country when you drive down some way-back country road and see a pay phone. That's if the buggies don't tip you off first.
Somebody who knows more might be able to comment...Do they believe in banks? They always seem to be carrying fat wads of cash around. Maybe they don't believe in wallets (at least not any with buckles on them).
Spinning the DVD is likely to be the costliest in terms of power, so let's copy the movie to the hard disk.
A couple of posts have made this statement, but such is not the case. For example, this DVD drive draws less than 5 watts under continuous read. Early optical drives drew lots of power (early CD boom boxes ate batteries for breakfast for example) due to low quantum efficiency of their lasers, but this apparently has improved. I suspect that deeper RAM buffers permit looser speed control so the spindle motors now run with almost no torque load, saving power there. If you budget 5W for the DVD, 5W for decode, and 5W to the display, a 60 watt-hour laptop battery will last over 3 hours, so you could play The Right Stuff on a single charge.
Whether you can stay interested that long is another matter.
I believe the reason films are released later abroad is so they can re-use the prints. So everyone in Europe get screwed twice: Region 1 DVD's won't play, and the theatre projectors use hand-me-down prints.
If playing DVD's is the main use for your portable, then adding a chip or two for hardware MPEG decoding will make your machine smaller. The power savings will permit a smaller battery. Of course battery life in regular-computer mode will suffer.
Oh, but the alternate envronment can do more to save battery energy. Like run a non-x86 processor (all of which deliver more MIPS/watt). A simple $5 ARM is sufficient if MPEG decoding is done in hardware. Other things include shutting off USB, wireless networking, & sections of RAM. Configuring an OS to shut off that stuff is clumsy because it doesn't "know" that you don't want them (unless you go into configuration & tell it).
"Hardware-banging DOS all over again" was my first reaction, too, but the presence of a large library of free/open software changes things a bit this time around. Also, hardware is more standardized and auto-detection is more more advanced than it was 15 years ago.
This means that the alternate boot environment can grow commonly-used multitasking features: webbrowser, IM, email (every program grows until it can read email), etc. In the DOS days you couldn't expect Ventura Publisher to add a spreadsheet feature. Software development costs and hardware limitations made that impossible. The integrated suite software of the period (Remember Magic Desk?) was never popular for lack of features compared to full-blown DOS apps.
In essence, this is a way to slip dual-boot systems in the back door. Can MS stop it with OEM pricing contracts?
No visa from Bejing is required for me to travel from the US to Taiwan, but I do need one to travel to, for example, Shanghai. (Conversely, I don't need a visa from Taiwan to visit Shanghai). That is the reality of two separate chinas.
The answer is defense in depth. Screen for passengers for weapons, but realize that some will get through any realistic screening, so add layers that lengthen the odds. Investigate suspicious groups before they get to the airport. Put pressure on (or invade if you must) states that support these groups. Put on a bulletproof cockpit door to stop them if they do get on the plane; I would go further and give the cockpit an outside door, so it is inaccessible from the passenger cabin. Give the pilots (or, for that matter, properly qualified passengers) guns so they can fight back. Put remote control lockouts on the aircraft. Fit supertall buildings with anti-aircraft weapons (specially designed for short range so they don't get hijacked).
Granted, some of these things are being done, but the mindset is still one of looking for the perfect threat detection system, rather than one of minimizing risk for some given cost. We must accept that, whatever we do short of abandoning civilian aviation entirely, there will be a finite risk of hijackings. Any security measure must be judged by risk reduction vs cost, and compared to other, possibly less costly, measures to reduce risk.
The "strong" form of Sapir-Whorf, that the form of language directly impacts what kinds of thought are possible, is not taken too seriously anymore. But there are weaker forms of the hypothesis, that there is an infulence, that still seem reasonable given the evidence so far. Much like how a different programming language lends itself to different sorts of programming constructs.
A similar situation occurred in Toledo, which, due to inconsistent boundary descriptions, could have been in Ohio or Michigan. A bit of trivia...when states sue each other (boudary disputes are the most common cause) the case goes straight to the Supreme Court, who hears the trial (not an appeal, like most of their cases).
The same applies to any city in the USA. One vote with the appropriate majority in the various state houses of NY is all it takes for New York City and its mayor and local offices to cease to exist.
Not true in most midwestern states, who have home rule provisions in their state constitutions. Unless, of course, the vote is of sufficient majority to amend the state constitution (but that requires a popular referendum).
His opinion, in fact, has more merit than the poiltical posturing of the two governments in the dispute. I don't need a visa from Bejing to travel to Taiwan, and I want my software to reflect that reality.
cf. = "compare", q.v. = "which see" (i.e. the preceding word is the name of something you can look up). The abbreviation viz = "see", or "witness". The "z" is medevial equivalent to a period for abbreviation. ..."Nova" thing is just an urban legend according to snopes.com (q.v.)... ...(viz., Union Carbide)...
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In any case, most claims of Hitler's anti-christian attitude draw from the same primary sources...mostly the memoirs of his close aides. The idea that Hitler held christian attitudes comes from taking his public statements at face value. I would consider the former sources more creidble than the latter.
Hitler's hatred for jews is often attributed to his bitter experience attempting to enter an Austrian art school. At least, he said so himself in Mein Kampf. Of course there is no way to know for sure, especially for someone who died 60 years ago.
.....Also of note is that Nazi anti-semitism was, at its core, racist and based on eugenic pseudoscience, not religious zeal. "Racial" jews from families that converted to christianity
a century previously were still stripped of civil rights.
The object is to keep people watching or listening. One way to do that is be entertaining, but there may be easier or more effective ways. For example, seeing your neighbor's house burn down is not most people's definition of entertainment, but you do watch....
I'm too lazy to look it up, but I think the factoid is that 80% of the Canadian poopulation is south of the 48th parallel. As if they were amassing for an invasion. (Sarcasm alert: Sarcastic website linked...Well I think it's sarcastic.)
Of course, I can think of a substantial non-infringing use: Patching the code so you can cheat! But will that win the sympathy of a judge?
I'm with you on the (lack of) effect religion has. Tsarism, overtly christian, was despotic & cruel. But the secular communisim that followed was inifinitely worse. Today we have a despotic secular regime in China, and despotic religious regimes in the middle east. We see peaceful religious communites in the US and peaceful secular civilization in Japan. We don't see masses fleeing oppression in more-christian southern Europe to more-secular northern Europe, nor the reverse.
I see no pattern; the religious or secular nature of a society seems to have no effect on its respect for freedom & human dignity. (Take that, Ayn Rand!)
See if they're ever willing to concede a point or discredit a fact that hurts their arguments. People I have not seen do this: Rush Limbaugh...
It's been a while since I've listened to Limbaugh, but I wouldn't have characterized his show as containing much argument. It is more news-entertainment on topics he considers important...specifcally, conservative topics. Bias in media is more in selection of what they report (or not) than it is of how the topic is treated. Of course the ol' Rushmeister is perfectly open about his conservative bias (as is Franken, from the looks of it).
I think the thing with buttons is that, in the 15th century, they were associated with military uniforms, and the sect is anti-militaristic. (The same goes for moustaches.) Velcro is ok though. Imagine what they would think of wearing camo: it's plain so that's good, but it's military, so that's bad....*head explodes*.
The Amish solution to this is (surprise!) decidedly low-tech. Various communities have arranged bride-exchange programs to promote intermarriage among a wider group. More commonly, young men will seek brides in neighboring colonies. With almost no proselytizing they are still delaying the inevitable.
Beauty has value, and Amish folk art and furniture, for example, help make gentile houses more beautiful. Freedom has value, and they advanced larger society socially when they fought compulsory education in Wisconsin vs. Yoder. Granted, a population that is nearly all Amish would not be sustainable--the common defense would be hard to implement in a nation of pacifists--but I would say the Amish are pulling their weight in other ways.
Somebody who knows more might be able to comment...Do they believe in banks? They always seem to be carrying fat wads of cash around. Maybe they don't believe in wallets (at least not any with buckles on them).
Spinning the DVD is likely to be the costliest in terms of power, so let's copy the movie to the hard disk.
A couple of posts have made this statement, but such is not the case. For example, this DVD drive draws less than 5 watts under continuous read. Early optical drives drew lots of power (early CD boom boxes ate batteries for breakfast for example) due to low quantum efficiency of their lasers, but this apparently has improved. I suspect that deeper RAM buffers permit looser speed control so the spindle motors now run with almost no torque load, saving power there. If you budget 5W for the DVD, 5W for decode, and 5W to the display, a 60 watt-hour laptop battery will last over 3 hours, so you could play The Right Stuff on a single charge.
Whether you can stay interested that long is another matter.
I believe the reason films are released later abroad is so they can re-use the prints. So everyone in Europe get screwed twice: Region 1 DVD's won't play, and the theatre projectors use hand-me-down prints.
If playing DVD's is the main use for your portable, then adding a chip or two for hardware MPEG decoding will make your machine smaller. The power savings will permit a smaller battery. Of course battery life in regular-computer mode will suffer.
Oh, but the alternate envronment can do more to save battery energy. Like run a non-x86 processor (all of which deliver more MIPS/watt). A simple $5 ARM is sufficient if MPEG decoding is done in hardware. Other things include shutting off USB, wireless networking, & sections of RAM. Configuring an OS to shut off that stuff is clumsy because it doesn't "know" that you don't want them (unless you go into configuration & tell it).
"Hardware-banging DOS all over again" was my first reaction, too, but the presence of a large library of free/open software changes things a bit this time around. Also, hardware is more standardized and auto-detection is more more advanced than it was 15 years ago.
This means that the alternate boot environment can grow commonly-used multitasking features: webbrowser, IM, email (every program grows until it can read email), etc. In the DOS days you couldn't expect Ventura Publisher to add a spreadsheet feature. Software development costs and hardware limitations made that impossible. The integrated suite software of the period (Remember Magic Desk?) was never popular for lack of features compared to full-blown DOS apps.
In essence, this is a way to slip dual-boot systems in the back door. Can MS stop it with OEM pricing contracts?
No visa from Bejing is required for me to travel from the US to Taiwan, but I do need one to travel to, for example, Shanghai. (Conversely, I don't need a visa from Taiwan to visit Shanghai). That is the reality of two separate chinas.
He did run for prez in 1980, but lost party nomination fight to Carter.
The answer is defense in depth. Screen for passengers for weapons, but realize that some will get through any realistic screening, so add layers that lengthen the odds. Investigate suspicious groups before they get to the airport. Put pressure on (or invade if you must) states that support these groups. Put on a bulletproof cockpit door to stop them if they do get on the plane; I would go further and give the cockpit an outside door, so it is inaccessible from the passenger cabin. Give the pilots (or, for that matter, properly qualified passengers) guns so they can fight back. Put remote control lockouts on the aircraft. Fit supertall buildings with anti-aircraft weapons (specially designed for short range so they don't get hijacked).
Granted, some of these things are being done, but the mindset is still one of looking for the perfect threat detection system, rather than one of minimizing risk for some given cost. We must accept that, whatever we do short of abandoning civilian aviation entirely, there will be a finite risk of hijackings. Any security measure must be judged by risk reduction vs cost, and compared to other, possibly less costly, measures to reduce risk.
The "strong" form of Sapir-Whorf, that the form of language directly impacts what kinds of thought are possible, is not taken too seriously anymore. But there are weaker forms of the hypothesis, that there is an infulence, that still seem reasonable given the evidence so far. Much like how a different programming language lends itself to different sorts of programming constructs.
I could recognize myself as king of San Francisco, would that make it so?
Depends if your name is Joshua Norton.A similar situation occurred in Toledo, which, due to inconsistent boundary descriptions, could have been in Ohio or Michigan. A bit of trivia...when states sue each other (boudary disputes are the most common cause) the case goes straight to the Supreme Court, who hears the trial (not an appeal, like most of their cases).
The same applies to any city in the USA. One vote with the appropriate majority in the various state houses of NY is all it takes for New York City and its mayor and local offices to cease to exist.
Not true in most midwestern states, who have home rule provisions in their state constitutions. Unless, of course, the vote is of sufficient majority to amend the state constitution (but that requires a popular referendum).
His opinion, in fact, has more merit than the poiltical posturing of the two governments in the dispute. I don't need a visa from Bejing to travel to Taiwan, and I want my software to reflect that reality.
cf. = "compare", q.v. = "which see" (i.e. the preceding word is the name of something you can look up). The abbreviation viz = "see", or "witness". The "z" is medevial equivalent to a period for abbreviation.
..."Nova" thing is just an urban legend according to snopes.com (q.v.)...
...(viz., Union Carbide)...