"So when is he going to get "sent up" and start putting his fat ass where his mouth is?"
Or better yet a public apology for his hypocrisy, expressing a new understanding of the pains of addiction and subsequent reversal of his stance against those who use drugs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH, OMFG, HAHAHAHAAH sorry i tried to say that with a straight face but we all know that aint gonna happen.
"Sounds simple. Why do you fight this so hard? Any relation to BB?"
if you look at his user account every reply is to this thread.. looks like damage control to me. (granted i don't subscribe so i can't see past his last 25 posts or so.. but still).
"What in this scenerio leads you to believe people won't use the rest of that seven hours and forty minutes to download other things?"
you ask like there is a never ending list of stuff people want to download and all that is limiting them is their bandwidth (and now the ISPs), i am a heavy user, i know heavy users but we are heavy users because it takes 8 hours at 1mb/sec to download a 5GB game file, if i got that in 20 min i would be done downloading.
Honestly, how many of us are downloading 20TB+ of data per month? the amount of stuff to download might be infinite but HD space isn't (as someone else said).
Because that is what would be needed to keep the bandwidth saturated if we all had 100MB pipes.
I think the complaint now i that 5% of users are downloading 50GB (give or take 10GB) a month, this would be done in 4 hours.
if you are downloading at 3-6 Mb/s and they upgrade everyone to 100Mb/s that's a 15-30x increase, so instead of something taking 8 hours to seed it takes less than 20 min.
That would relieve congestion, unless you are hosting the library of congress.
"I fully agree, ads work best on those with poor impulse control. Poor impulse control tends to correlate with lower incomes."
No they don you fucvk!! *hits submit button*
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"Because otherwise virtually no one would invest in any business at all, for fear of lawsuits."
and businesses would have to generate their own profits, eventually leading to people in vesting in companies who could show they do not cause grevious harm to communities and persons.
So of course the market will self correct.. free market free market!! (this is the part where you join in)
"see how Microsoft is spying in through the windowS."
There fixed it for you.
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"Business incorporation introduces the croporate(sp) veil which effectively shields the shareholders from liability for whatever the business does"
why is this a good thing?
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"The purpose of a company isn't to provide a steady living for people, but to maximize profits."
maybe the best way to maximize profits is to provide a steady living for people.
a company whose workforce loves and does what's best for the company will strive to make that company profitable, this has a MUCH better chance at sustainability and profits over the long term.
A company that makes a ton of money for a few quarters but ultimately put it's workers in the poor house is just bad for overall business.
"They have a reason to be angry, fine. But that does not justify murder. Period."
yah! everyone knows War is what justifies murder.
Also, just because your opponent is superior militarily and financially, doesn't give you the right to fight back in any successful manner available to you...
"So, basically, you're telling us that when you're religious, you do the right thing not because you're a moral person, but because you're afraid of punishment."
Actually i made reference to 2 reasons, reverence and punishment. you can have many reasons for "doing the right thing", but if you have no concept of what the right thing is then how will you do it?
"You're so steeped in your own lack of morality that you can't even conceive that other human beings do the right thing," man's moral compass is easily skewed, look throughout history and you will see numerous atrocities committed because man thought (at the time) he was doing the right thing.
At least i now have an understanding of morality and something to guide me when i might go astray, i'd rather follow God than man when trying to find a moral high ground.
"not because they fear punishment, but because they are actually intrinsically moral. "
punishing their own people for sin, and rampaging across the land killing all unbelievers is quite more than "splitting hairs".
"The Israelites of the OT were rampaging, mudering, pillaging savages." not true but if it helps push an agenda right?
"It was until the enlightenment and secular society that these forces were brought under control. " HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHA ok yah, whew that's awesome.
People have been slaughtering each other for centuries, millenia in fact, if anything has brought kindness and understanding it has been through a reverence for God.
Only in secular societies do you see the worst violations of human interaction, when there is no punishment, when life is all you have, who gives a shit if I shoot your head off? you probably deserved it.
really? Because it seemed quite straight forward to me and i'm no biblical scholar. I just picked up the bible one day searching for knowledge about "God".
"but by how it might be interpreted in a poor, backwards one."
That's not the issue at all, once the bible was printed for man it was a path for anyone to find god, there is a reason some people can't find him or understand the truths held within the bible, it is like hidden treasure or pearls.
Do you care enough about being righteous to find God's wisdom?
"You mean besides Mathew? Where he says that he is here to fulfill the old testament? The old testament that is full of reasons to kill people."
i seem to remember a commandment somewhere in the OT, hmmm something about not killing.. anywho.
fufill the old testament, yes, the ot was a contract to hold off the punishment of sin, the contract stipulated sins to avoid and a sacrifice once a year to stave off damnation (seperation from God), Jesus was the final sacrifice, fulfilling the OT and then creating the NT, which does not tell you to kill people. unless you can show me the NT commandments to kill people.
"Please read The Bible, front to back in context in order. Think of it as a good summer project."
irony at it's pinnacle. unless you do know what you are talking about and are purposely misleading others astray. if so that's some scary stuff you're messing with...
OT, sin was a capital crime punishable by death, i don't believe this quote is about people who don't believe in god but Israelites who had turned away from god (sin). if you had provided the book and passge it would have helped.
NT (what is currently to be followed) has no such requirement. You will still die (because of sin) but it is not a commandment.
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"So when is he going to get "sent up" and start putting his fat ass where his mouth is?"
Or better yet a public apology for his hypocrisy, expressing a new understanding of the pains of addiction and subsequent reversal of his stance against those who use drugs.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH, OMFG, HAHAHAHAAH sorry i tried to say that with a straight face but we all know that aint gonna happen.
"However, they do consume quite a bit of power and therefore contribute to global warming by taxing the power stations more. "
I replaced all of my house's lighting with CFLs so the impact will be negligible. in fact after the switch i am using less power overall.
(i'm pretty sure you were jesting but thought i'd throw that idea out there for any green conscientious gamers.)
Worst buy.
"Sounds simple. Why do you fight this so hard? Any relation to BB?"
if you look at his user account every reply is to this thread.. looks like damage control to me. (granted i don't subscribe so i can't see past his last 25 posts or so.. but still).
"upiter? Bah, a drop in the bucket compared to the sun. It is time we mined the sun."
better bring some asbestos underpants.. hmmm i think i just found #2 for the gnomes.
"Titians
They are called Titties."
Let me assure you I now hold them in high regard and will welcome them with open arms.
"What in this scenerio leads you to believe people won't use the rest of that seven hours and forty minutes to download other things?"
you ask like there is a never ending list of stuff people want to download and all that is limiting them is their bandwidth (and now the ISPs), i am a heavy user, i know heavy users but we are heavy users because it takes 8 hours at 1mb/sec to download a 5GB game file, if i got that in 20 min i would be done downloading.
Honestly, how many of us are downloading 20TB+ of data per month? the amount of stuff to download might be infinite but HD space isn't (as someone else said).
Because that is what would be needed to keep the bandwidth saturated if we all had 100MB pipes.
I think the complaint now i that 5% of users are downloading 50GB (give or take 10GB) a month, this would be done in 4 hours.
"Fine now all my torrents are twice as fast."
and take half as long.
if you are downloading at 3-6 Mb/s and they upgrade everyone to 100Mb/s that's a 15-30x increase, so instead of something taking 8 hours to seed it takes less than 20 min.
That would relieve congestion, unless you are hosting the library of congress.
"I fully agree, ads work best on those with poor impulse control. Poor impulse control tends to correlate with lower incomes."
No they don you fucvk!! *hits submit button*
"Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
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"Because otherwise virtually no one would invest in any business at all, for fear of lawsuits."
and businesses would have to generate their own profits, eventually leading to people in vesting in companies who could show they do not cause grevious harm to communities and persons.
So of course the market will self correct.. free market free market!! (this is the part where you join in)
"see how Microsoft is spying in through the windowS."
There fixed it for you.
"Business incorporation introduces the croporate(sp) veil which effectively shields the shareholders from liability for whatever the business does"
why is this a good thing?
"The purpose of a company isn't to provide a steady living for people, but to maximize profits."
maybe the best way to maximize profits is to provide a steady living for people.
a company whose workforce loves and does what's best for the company will strive to make that company profitable, this has a MUCH better chance at sustainability and profits over the long term.
A company that makes a ton of money for a few quarters but ultimately put it's workers in the poor house is just bad for overall business.
"They have a reason to be angry, fine. But that does not justify murder. Period."
yah! everyone knows War is what justifies murder.
Also, just because your opponent is superior militarily and financially, doesn't give you the right to fight back in any successful manner available to you...
"all it takes is one sympathetic Swede, Canadian, American, or Finn, if everyone knows that those folks can dance right through the line."
"thanks to a tip from unidentified sources, airport screeners now on the lookout for Julie Andrews."
maybe you mean vasoconstrictor? My wife takes vasodilators for migraines and they help?
"So, basically, you're telling us that when you're religious, you do the right thing not because you're a moral person, but because you're afraid of punishment."
Actually i made reference to 2 reasons, reverence and punishment. you can have many reasons for "doing the right thing", but if you have no concept of what the right thing is then how will you do it?
"You're so steeped in your own lack of morality that you can't even conceive that other human beings do the right thing,"
man's moral compass is easily skewed, look throughout history and you will see numerous atrocities committed because man thought (at the time) he was doing the right thing.
At least i now have an understanding of morality and something to guide me when i might go astray, i'd rather follow God than man when trying to find a moral high ground.
"not because they fear punishment, but because they are actually intrinsically moral. "
That man does not exist.
"That's splitting hairs."
punishing their own people for sin, and rampaging across the land killing all unbelievers is quite more than "splitting hairs".
"The Israelites of the OT were rampaging, mudering, pillaging savages."
not true but if it helps push an agenda right?
"It was until the enlightenment and secular society that these forces were brought under control. "
HAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHA ok yah, whew that's awesome.
People have been slaughtering each other for centuries, millenia in fact, if anything has brought kindness and understanding it has been through a reverence for God.
Only in secular societies do you see the worst violations of human interaction, when there is no punishment, when life is all you have, who gives a shit if I shoot your head off? you probably deserved it.
"The point is that when a so called Christian murder, rape, put bombs, do terror, incest, child mishandling and so on, "
yes, this is the "fruit of the tree" that you spoke of.. a christ like tree (person) would not bear this fruit (actions). seems so simple?
"Odd, the jews don't seem to think so."
I know, it's sad. Their history is filled with a turning away from god so god let them. =/
"That's one possible way to interpret it. "
really? Because it seemed quite straight forward to me and i'm no biblical scholar. I just picked up the bible one day searching for knowledge about "God".
"but by how it might be interpreted in a poor, backwards one."
That's not the issue at all, once the bible was printed for man it was a path for anyone to find god, there is a reason some people can't find him or understand the truths held within the bible, it is like hidden treasure or pearls.
Do you care enough about being righteous to find God's wisdom?
"That game has no end."
Maybe not but the players will get tired and move on, in the process you teach others and maybe learn something yourself...
"You mean besides Mathew? Where he says that he is here to fulfill the old testament? The old testament that is full of reasons to kill people."
i seem to remember a commandment somewhere in the OT, hmmm something about not killing.. anywho.
fufill the old testament, yes, the ot was a contract to hold off the punishment of sin, the contract stipulated sins to avoid and a sacrifice once a year to stave off damnation (seperation from God), Jesus was the final sacrifice, fulfilling the OT and then creating the NT, which does not tell you to kill people. unless you can show me the NT commandments to kill people.
"Please read The Bible, front to back in context in order. Think of it as a good summer project."
irony at it's pinnacle. unless you do know what you are talking about and are purposely misleading others astray. if so that's some scary stuff you're messing with...
OT, sin was a capital crime punishable by death, i don't believe this quote is about people who don't believe in god but Israelites who had turned away from god (sin). if you had provided the book and passge it would have helped.
NT (what is currently to be followed) has no such requirement. You will still die (because of sin) but it is not a commandment.
"Tons of dhimmi-wannabes running around misquoting and taking quotes out of context. Those are really easy to find in google. Good for you."
wouldn't it be more productive to take the verse quoted and put it INTO context, to teach others and show that your original point remains true?
Name calling and sarcasm would seem opposed to this goal (esp since you should'nt be contentious)?