Can you tell me what sites you're talking about? Granted I haven't seriously looked in quite a while (been too busy with a new baby) but I've yet to see anything quite like oink.
And I for one think he deserved it. I was one of those 200,000 users and Oink was by far the best site at the time for discovering new bands and acquiring their music. Their categorization and recommendation system, strict quality standards and ratio requirements ensured that you could quickly and easily find anything specific you were looking for and then see a bunch of similar artists. The community despite its large size felt very tightly knit.
As an Oink user my sphere of musical influence greatly expanded as it made a wide variety of genres easily accessible. I feel that it greatly helped me to become a more well rounded musician with a much greater diversity of influences. I can wholly attribute my love of classical music to my days as an Oink user, as well as my current appreciation of country, psychobilly, bluegrass, ska, romanian dance, folk, and a greatly expanded view of the hip-hop world.
Of course I'm going to be labeled as a dirty pirate who's whining about losing his free ride, but without Oink I would probably still be listening to nothing but rock, techno and metal, and my band wouldn't be experimenting with traditionally orchestral and bluegrass instruments, alternative time signatures, and exotic scales.
Well, that depends on how strictly you're defining 'tea'. Other beverages made by steeping plant matter are called 'teas' even though they are not made using leaves from the tea plant. Chamomile is a good example.
It's akin to a despicable newspaper we have here in NC called the Slammer. They publish the mug shot and charges of practically everyone who's been arrested in the area, often with accompanying text that often makes it seem as if there is no doubt about their guilt.
Their site is a bit sparse so here are some news articles about the paper on WRAL and privateofficernews.
This is pretty much what I was going to say. I would love it if I could close a workspace and save all its state (to DISK, not all of us are made of RAM -grumble-) and then open it later. Sort of like saving the state on a VM, except I don't need a whole damned OS for each project I'm working on.
New reality shows, everybody going up gets filmed for a while before they fly. Most crews get an hour show, if your vehicle goes belly up, you get a two hour special. Maybe even a whole spin-off series if something really dramatic happens like only some of your crew dying before the rest heroically overcome the odds and return home.
Maybe we should make it optional, at the inmates discretion. That way if you know you're guilty you can volunteer and be euthanized peacefully. This would save some poor sap the trouble of cleaning up the mess, and your fellow inmates the psychological trauma of you rigging up some way to off yourself in your cell or common area.
I poorly chose my words. I didn't mean 'believe' in the sense of having complete faith that its true, more along the lines of 'I will accept that it is within the realm of possibility, and grant the assumption of truth for the purpose of amicable conversation with others (especially true believers) when discussing the ideas attributed to him.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility of him never existing as a real corporeal person, however I felt explaining such would of dragged out an already wordy post and detracted from my main point, which was: Most of the rules for living in the bible were good at the time, and many continue to be good today. If we could just trim out all the unnecessary nonsensical magic (and maybe replace it with science) it makes a great guide for living to better your community.
In their defense I mostly ignore the headers of a post including who is posting unless the comment is so outrageously amazing/stupid that I feel the need to friend/foe them.
To further the GP's example, no one is going to press charges on you because you have a phone book which happens to include a few drug dealers in it (it's a statistical inevitability). Any jury would laugh that out of court. On the other hand, if you've got a little black book which is largely filled with drug dealers, even if you also have some of your friends' numbers in there, if half the people in your black book get arrested, you're going to have a pretty lousy day in court if your only defense is "it's just a list of phone numbers, who doesn't have one of those?" - the DA's response will be "yes, I do. To get into MY phone book, you have to be a family member, close friend, or business contact. 96% of the people in your Rolodex are known drug dealers, Mister Anderson, and I've got a dozen witnesses saying that they got the numbers of everyone else we've arrested from you. How do you explain that?"
What exactly would they be charging you with? The only thing I can think of is that if the drug dealers were paying you for every referral you could be charged with 'conspiracy to traffic narcotics' or something like that. Otherwise I don't believe this is illegal...
Personally I would be more worried about pissed off drug dealers who are now on the cops radar because you published their phone number than being charged with anything. I think the cops might even thank you for making their job easier...
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Except you don't have millions of hardware platforms, Right now there are 20 with 14 more in the pipeline. Granted that's not as simple as just one platform, and many 3rd party apps may end up broken on some of those, but I think a company of Google's size can manage to stay on top of maintaining ports for it's core apps.
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If tom-tom (or whoever) wants to provide a free app for navigation that's ad supported they're not being stopped from doing so. In fact I'm pretty sure they could get it included in the android app market.
I do believe that a guy named Jesus Christ (or whatever it was in the native tongue of the time) existed. I even have great respect for many of his teachings (opposition to tyrannical government, not killing, sharing, compassion, charity, drinking wine;). However I stop short of believing his mom was a virgin magically knocked up by his omnipotent, omniscient father for the purpose of spreading these teachings and then get crucified so he can take responsibility for all the times we don't play by the rules, and then came back for a few days before vaporizing/flying back to heaven/spreading himself everywhere (because he is everywhere and inside of us).
I can understand the utility for religion in a developing civilization simply because they lacked the knowledge to understand why certain actions were bad for the population. It's a lot easier to tell people not to do things because they'll burn in hell for eternity than saying "don't do this, bad stuff happens, well, no I don't know why..." Most of the religious laws had practical reasoning behind them that the people who wrote them didn't understand. Non-monogamy (without protection) spreads disease and results in children without 2 parents to care for them. Theft deprives people of their property. Jealousy promotes unstable social situation. Listening to your parents makes you more likely to survive. etc. etc.
I've thought about starting an "Atheists for Jesus" group or some such, but I think people would assume we were converts instead of just some people who thought he had some good ideas.
The 6 "days" of the creation are actually representative of 6 "creative periods" the duration of which has not been revealed, but is suspected to be between 1-2 billion earth years each.
That still doesn't make any sense, the bible has earth, daylight and plants made before the sun and stars.
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Yeah, maybe the only control these things should have is a big red "OHSHIT" handle that deploys a big parachute and airbags.
Can you tell me what sites you're talking about? Granted I haven't seriously looked in quite a while (been too busy with a new baby) but I've yet to see anything quite like oink.
And I for one think he deserved it. I was one of those 200,000 users and Oink was by far the best site at the time for discovering new bands and acquiring their music. Their categorization and recommendation system, strict quality standards and ratio requirements ensured that you could quickly and easily find anything specific you were looking for and then see a bunch of similar artists. The community despite its large size felt very tightly knit.
As an Oink user my sphere of musical influence greatly expanded as it made a wide variety of genres easily accessible. I feel that it greatly helped me to become a more well rounded musician with a much greater diversity of influences. I can wholly attribute my love of classical music to my days as an Oink user, as well as my current appreciation of country, psychobilly, bluegrass, ska, romanian dance, folk, and a greatly expanded view of the hip-hop world.
Of course I'm going to be labeled as a dirty pirate who's whining about losing his free ride, but without Oink I would probably still be listening to nothing but rock, techno and metal, and my band wouldn't be experimenting with traditionally orchestral and bluegrass instruments, alternative time signatures, and exotic scales.
Same here, I'm holding out for mind uploading. Meet me in the kuiper belt in a few billion and we can watch sol die together.
Well, that depends on how strictly you're defining 'tea'. Other beverages made by steeping plant matter are called 'teas' even though they are not made using leaves from the tea plant. Chamomile is a good example.
It's akin to a despicable newspaper we have here in NC called the Slammer. They publish the mug shot and charges of practically everyone who's been arrested in the area, often with accompanying text that often makes it seem as if there is no doubt about their guilt.
Their site is a bit sparse so here are some news articles about the paper on WRAL and privateofficernews.
Slashdot: Product Reviews For Nerds, Stuff That You Can Buy?
Something tells me we wouldn't spend nearly as much time here if thats all Slashdot posted.
I'll drink to that!
Yeah I seem to have missed the lesbian sex scene in that one...
I suspect this API's TOS requires a "Powered by PayPal" logo or similar on your site, so I doubt it'll help much.
This is pretty much what I was going to say. I would love it if I could close a workspace and save all its state (to DISK, not all of us are made of RAM -grumble-) and then open it later. Sort of like saving the state on a VM, except I don't need a whole damned OS for each project I'm working on.
New reality shows, everybody going up gets filmed for a while before they fly. Most crews get an hour show, if your vehicle goes belly up, you get a two hour special. Maybe even a whole spin-off series if something really dramatic happens like only some of your crew dying before the rest heroically overcome the odds and return home.
Well, good thing they don't need any for what we're marketing to them then.
I was thinking more along the lines of Ornery Octopus or Slippery Squid.
Maybe we should make it optional, at the inmates discretion. That way if you know you're guilty you can volunteer and be euthanized peacefully. This would save some poor sap the trouble of cleaning up the mess, and your fellow inmates the psychological trauma of you rigging up some way to off yourself in your cell or common area.
I poorly chose my words. I didn't mean 'believe' in the sense of having complete faith that its true, more along the lines of 'I will accept that it is within the realm of possibility, and grant the assumption of truth for the purpose of amicable conversation with others (especially true believers) when discussing the ideas attributed to him.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility of him never existing as a real corporeal person, however I felt explaining such would of dragged out an already wordy post and detracted from my main point, which was: Most of the rules for living in the bible were good at the time, and many continue to be good today. If we could just trim out all the unnecessary nonsensical magic (and maybe replace it with science) it makes a great guide for living to better your community.
In their defense I mostly ignore the headers of a post including who is posting unless the comment is so outrageously amazing/stupid that I feel the need to friend/foe them.
To further the GP's example, no one is going to press charges on you because you have a phone book which happens to include a few drug dealers in it (it's a statistical inevitability). Any jury would laugh that out of court. On the other hand, if you've got a little black book which is largely filled with drug dealers, even if you also have some of your friends' numbers in there, if half the people in your black book get arrested, you're going to have a pretty lousy day in court if your only defense is "it's just a list of phone numbers, who doesn't have one of those?" - the DA's response will be "yes, I do. To get into MY phone book, you have to be a family member, close friend, or business contact. 96% of the people in your Rolodex are known drug dealers, Mister Anderson, and I've got a dozen witnesses saying that they got the numbers of everyone else we've arrested from you. How do you explain that?"
What exactly would they be charging you with? The only thing I can think of is that if the drug dealers were paying you for every referral you could be charged with 'conspiracy to traffic narcotics' or something like that. Otherwise I don't believe this is illegal...
Personally I would be more worried about pissed off drug dealers who are now on the cops radar because you published their phone number than being charged with anything. I think the cops might even thank you for making their job easier...
Except you don't have millions of hardware platforms, Right now there are 20 with 14 more in the pipeline. Granted that's not as simple as just one platform, and many 3rd party apps may end up broken on some of those, but I think a company of Google's size can manage to stay on top of maintaining ports for it's core apps.
If tom-tom (or whoever) wants to provide a free app for navigation that's ad supported they're not being stopped from doing so. In fact I'm pretty sure they could get it included in the android app market.
The difference is between "I'll pay you to sell my product" and "I'll pay you to sell my product and stop if you sell anything else."
Until then its economically unwise to buy.
SHHHHHHH! I work in real estate (on commission no less) you insensitive clod!
And Islam is taken from your husband. My half sister has a Christian dad, a Jewish mom, and a Muslim husband, so she's all three!
I do believe that a guy named Jesus Christ (or whatever it was in the native tongue of the time) existed. I even have great respect for many of his teachings (opposition to tyrannical government, not killing, sharing, compassion, charity, drinking wine ;). However I stop short of believing his mom was a virgin magically knocked up by his omnipotent, omniscient father for the purpose of spreading these teachings and then get crucified so he can take responsibility for all the times we don't play by the rules, and then came back for a few days before vaporizing/flying back to heaven/spreading himself everywhere (because he is everywhere and inside of us).
I can understand the utility for religion in a developing civilization simply because they lacked the knowledge to understand why certain actions were bad for the population. It's a lot easier to tell people not to do things because they'll burn in hell for eternity than saying "don't do this, bad stuff happens, well, no I don't know why..." Most of the religious laws had practical reasoning behind them that the people who wrote them didn't understand. Non-monogamy (without protection) spreads disease and results in children without 2 parents to care for them. Theft deprives people of their property. Jealousy promotes unstable social situation. Listening to your parents makes you more likely to survive. etc. etc.
I've thought about starting an "Atheists for Jesus" group or some such, but I think people would assume we were converts instead of just some people who thought he had some good ideas.
The 6 "days" of the creation are actually representative of 6 "creative periods" the duration of which has not been revealed, but is suspected to be between 1-2 billion earth years each.
That still doesn't make any sense, the bible has earth, daylight and plants made before the sun and stars.