It has a lot to do with it, just because you say so doesn't make it true.
"You are currently exporting extreme religions"
Really? Hmm, actually you are confusing efforts made by religious groups acting on their own with a concerted effort by the USA. Can you point to the government funded program to institute religion in other countries?
"Also there's the funding going to the search for the Ark, and the money being sent to Israel to fund the end time preparation..."
This is not "exporting religion", this is funding historical research and supporting allies, if we are even funding a search for the Ark, i don't believe we are...
"Also lots of colleges and universities in the US are having to spend time just convincing religious students to learn scientific subjects"
Really? are you serious? there is a flood of students paying to go to school but not take any classes? What exactly are they providing (as in curriculum) that would draw so many "religious students" that they would have to "convince" them to switch to Science... sounds like more made up BS...
"The very fact that the US is having to deal with holding back the upswelling of anti science philosophy in the classroom is evidence."
"Upswelling" meaning a couple of states that have a couple of towns that want religion AND science to be taught, ohh noes!!!
"And I actually admire the US, if only you could get over this period."
Doesn't sound like it, doesn't even seem like you know much about us...
"Unfortunately it's not like that. In the case of letterhead, the offender has the opportunity to not distribute whatever it is would require the letterhead; in the "instantly live" world of the Internet such a change immediately reaches the public with no requirement for intervention."
The speed of interaction has no bearing on the point of the analogy.
"Your analogy is flawed. Homosexual love is harmless and consensual, unlike the beastialy or pedophilia. "
I'm confused, your saying that animals cannot consent to sex? I think this person would disagree: http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html/
Also he said Brothers and sisters, and children, he didn't say anything about Pedophilia...
Are you saying that homosexual sex is OK but not sex between brother and sister, man and dolphin? What makes this distinction? Just the fact of it being consensual? What decides what is "harmful" in this context?
If you are talking about what Jesus did and using that as a basis for arguing drinking is somehow moral I think it needs some clarification, the bible says everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial, and specifically drinking is not immoral unless taken to excess.
So (for example) having a glass of wine is moral in God's view, but getting plastered is not.
This is an awesome bug, shows a major flaw in the OS, anti MS people will be overjoyed.. but for now it is JUST A BUG.. there is even a "hotfix" (and yes I know hotfixes suck).
Some people seem to get way to much enjoyment over every microsoft failing, At least the word is getting out and microsoft will address the problem, for me I won't be switching to Vista anytime soon but still it seems to be selling well enough and there are bound to be problems whenever an app is this widely distributed (20mil copies out in the wild now?).
Do we really need 200 posts about how much MS sucks or can we just have a technical discussion that might prove some insight into why this is happening...
Say I default, can they garnish my wages? Set a debt collector after me? I know first hand how hard it is to collect from small claims court, is it the same for big civil cases?
"but copyright law specifically allows for a lot of derivative works to be created"
Really? Hmm, so I can make a cartoon about Mickey mouse fucking an antelope? Not if I don't want to be sued for copyright infringement.
"Explain to me how a work with a copyright notice that is available to the public is theft."
It ISN'T available to the public, it is sold to the public, you can rent it, but it no longer belongs to the public like it used to after copyright expires. and if you try to make a creative work out of it you get sued, look at the people who try to make new works by sampling other's music, currently copyright allows them to be sued into oblivion.
"I am an author, I will keep my copyrights until the day I day[sic]"
I assume you meant die, and that's exactly the problem here.. what exactly are you creating works for? Money? Fame? or for the benefit of all?
No one is going to begrudge you 29.95 for your Diablo guide when it first came out or even 7 years afterwards (like the original way copyright worked) but do you seriously feel entitled to this (in part or entirely) UNTIL YOUR DEATH?!?!
This is what is wrong with current copyright, and what the parent is mad about.. sorry if you can't understand that.
Let's officially change Lose to Loose, it can be one of those words that has two meanings, might be easier than getting everyone to use lose/loose correctly?
Phonetically it "just works", yay hooked on drug.. I mean phonics!
"Right. Dirty politics and unproductive partisan bickering aren't exclusive to the Democratic Party, and didn't start when George W. Bush took office. Unfortunately, that has been the tone in Washington for years."
So to make it sound paritsan (only Democrats doing it) is perverse and thus the reason for my comments, excuse me if I misunderstood your comment for politic spin.
"No. Unfortunately, the way the our system works today is this: Identify your most potent political enemies. Start lobbing unfounded accusations at them until you can say "See, look. These crooks are accused of so many things that they have to be dirty". Demand high profile investigations so you can keep the issue on the front page even longer. All it then takes is to cycle through a Grand Jury or two (or 3, or 4, or 5...) until you get one that agrees with you so you can indict on a crime they didn't commit, or even better, a completely different "crime" than the one you are "investigating"."
Like they did with Clinton.
"Gee, it's only taken the Republicans over 6 years to figure out that these are rules of the game they are playing in. It shouldn't be a shock that they are finally deciding to take their ball and play somewhere else."
"its not usually the number of channels, which is always way more than the number of speakers I have. "
This (channels) usually refers to how many simultaneous sounds you can hear at one time, not how many speakers can be hooked up, minor clarification.
My on-board sound craps out at about 10 or so, the Xfi does like 84 or something like that, which helps a lot if you want to hear footsteps coming up behind you amongst the 5 people shooting guns (each shot is a seperate "sound"), grenades going off, and 3 different radio messages playing in CS for example...
"Similar to paintball tanks - about 4000 PSI. They rate it in 'bar' and IIRC it was 300 or something like that."
Hmm, yes i think it is actually 3000-5000PSI not 300-500 like i initially stated, i'll check my tank when i get home tonight (it has a gauge on the side).
"Now, air for your car - hell, it can be any ole dirty air you want it to be."
Because pumping dirty air through your engine wouldn't cause any problems of corrosion, buildup, or abrasive side effects. Especially with precision machinery.
"Actually, just having a hefty air compressor at home would take care of the commuting scenario. "
I don't think you realize the cost of what you are suggesting.. I like to play paintball and my tank uses compressed air, to buy a compressor just to fill my little tank requires one capable of 300PSI minimum, these cost $5000+ and I only get about 200 shots of air out of that.. to power a car would require a much higher PSI (I would think) so right there you are looking at an investment of $10,000 or more...
I believe the air pumps at the gas station top out at 60PSI or so.. the cheapest one I could find (for about 2 grand) topped out at 125PSI.
the article was slashdotted for me, does anyone know what PSI these cars are rated to store O2?
"It may be, but "It seemed like a good idea at the time" whilst more accurate, is scarcely any better."
There is always a true motivation behind any action, we are just not willing to admit what it was, the truth is probably more akin to "I knew it would help my faction, help me gain favor, and I would never get caught." But that sound so truly horrible when said aloud most people will just say (untruthfully) "I don't know".
Same with the kid who sets the couch on fire, saying "I wanted to watch it burn" would most likely bring the wrath down on the child so they just say ambiguously "I don't know".
We often judge someone not solely on their actions but their intent, so to diffuse or lessen punishment, "I don't know" often works well to hide intent.
"I won't go on again about how i can't get cs:s to work on my Athlon 64x2 setup"
I play CS:S every day with my Opteron x2 (939 pin), what exactly doesn't work? This should be the same processor type as the athlon64x2. I use a nforce 4 939 pin chipset..
For me it worked out of the box...meaning... I built the system, installed XP 32 bit, all of the latest drivers (as of Nov 2006) then installed steam (the downloadable client), logged in with my user account to generate the profile, then copied over all of my old files and restarted and it updated it to the latest settings. Voila works..
Same with any other game i played on my old athlon 468 box (although some games get freaky if you don't set affintity).
I can even run it without specifying affinity, although i like to just so I can multitask and avoid any glitchiness which seems to happen every so often.
"no modern medicine, advanced science, or advanced learning. they're too busy keeping the farm going, or maintaining their self-sufficiency. its a good life, but doesn't do much to advance human civilisation. "
But the parent wasn't talking about advancing the human civilization, he was talking about unemployment, and they are doing quite well with that despite all of the modern trappings of our capitalistic society.
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"That has nothing to do with it, nothing at all."
It has a lot to do with it, just because you say so doesn't make it true.
"You are currently exporting extreme religions"
Really? Hmm, actually you are confusing efforts made by religious groups acting on their own with a concerted effort by the USA. Can you point to the government funded program to institute religion in other countries?
"Also there's the funding going to the search for the Ark, and the money being sent to Israel to fund the end time preparation..."
This is not "exporting religion", this is funding historical research and supporting allies, if we are even funding a search for the Ark, i don't believe we are...
"Also lots of colleges and universities in the US are having to spend time just convincing religious students to learn scientific subjects"
Really? are you serious? there is a flood of students paying to go to school but not take any classes? What exactly are they providing (as in curriculum) that would draw so many "religious students" that they would have to "convince" them to switch to Science... sounds like more made up BS...
"The very fact that the US is having to deal with holding back the upswelling of anti science philosophy in the classroom is evidence."
"Upswelling" meaning a couple of states that have a couple of towns that want religion AND science to be taught, ohh noes!!!
"And I actually admire the US, if only you could get over this period."
Doesn't sound like it, doesn't even seem like you know much about us...
Yes I know this is /. but change starts within...
"The youth are not old enough to vote."
And never will be by 2008, wait, what?
"Unfortunately it's not like that. In the case of letterhead, the offender has the opportunity to not distribute whatever it is would require the letterhead; in the "instantly live" world of the Internet such a change immediately reaches the public with no requirement for intervention."
The speed of interaction has no bearing on the point of the analogy.
"Your analogy is flawed. Homosexual love is harmless and consensual, unlike the beastialy or pedophilia. " I'm confused, your saying that animals cannot consent to sex? I think this person would disagree: http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html/
Also he said Brothers and sisters, and children, he didn't say anything about Pedophilia...
Are you saying that homosexual sex is OK but not sex between brother and sister, man and dolphin? What makes this distinction? Just the fact of it being consensual? What decides what is "harmful" in this context?
"Water to.. Wine?"
If you are talking about what Jesus did and using that as a basis for arguing drinking is somehow moral I think it needs some clarification, the bible says everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial, and specifically drinking is not immoral unless taken to excess.
So (for example) having a glass of wine is moral in God's view, but getting plastered is not.
Just wanted to clarify...
Blogging Critic Les Whyneing was heard to say "Those who criticize paid Blogs could be encouraged to do more thinking and Less Whining!"
The first Mimzy?
Heh, been seeing that trailer a lot lately and this picture reminded me of that.
This is an awesome bug, shows a major flaw in the OS, anti MS people will be overjoyed.. but for now it is JUST A BUG.. there is even a "hotfix" (and yes I know hotfixes suck).
Some people seem to get way to much enjoyment over every microsoft failing, At least the word is getting out and microsoft will address the problem, for me I won't be switching to Vista anytime soon but still it seems to be selling well enough and there are bound to be problems whenever an app is this widely distributed (20mil copies out in the wild now?).
Do we really need 200 posts about how much MS sucks or can we just have a technical discussion that might prove some insight into why this is happening...
Anyone use the hotfix yet?
Say I default, can they garnish my wages? Set a debt collector after me? I know first hand how hard it is to collect from small claims court, is it the same for big civil cases?
Anyone "know" (not think)?
you asked...
"but copyright law specifically allows for a lot of derivative works to be created"
Really? Hmm, so I can make a cartoon about Mickey mouse fucking an antelope? Not if I don't want to be sued for copyright infringement.
"Explain to me how a work with a copyright notice that is available to the public is theft."
It ISN'T available to the public, it is sold to the public, you can rent it, but it no longer belongs to the public like it used to after copyright expires. and if you try to make a creative work out of it you get sued, look at the people who try to make new works by sampling other's music, currently copyright allows them to be sued into oblivion.
"I am an author, I will keep my copyrights until the day I day[sic]"
I assume you meant die, and that's exactly the problem here.. what exactly are you creating works for? Money? Fame? or for the benefit of all?
No one is going to begrudge you 29.95 for your Diablo guide when it first came out or even 7 years afterwards (like the original way copyright worked) but do you seriously feel entitled to this (in part or entirely) UNTIL YOUR DEATH?!?!
This is what is wrong with current copyright, and what the parent is mad about.. sorry if you can't understand that.
Let's officially change Lose to Loose, it can be one of those words that has two meanings, might be easier than getting everyone to use lose/loose correctly?
Phonetically it "just works", yay hooked on drug.. I mean phonics!
"Right. Dirty politics and unproductive partisan bickering aren't exclusive to the Democratic Party, and didn't start when George W. Bush took office. Unfortunately, that has been the tone in Washington for years."
So to make it sound paritsan (only Democrats doing it) is perverse and thus the reason for my comments, excuse me if I misunderstood your comment for politic spin.
"No. Unfortunately, the way the our system works today is this: Identify your most potent political enemies. Start lobbing unfounded accusations at them until you can say "See, look. These crooks are accused of so many things that they have to be dirty". Demand high profile investigations so you can keep the issue on the front page even longer. All it then takes is to cycle through a Grand Jury or two (or 3, or 4, or 5...) until you get one that agrees with you so you can indict on a crime they didn't commit, or even better, a completely different "crime" than the one you are "investigating"."
Like they did with Clinton.
"Gee, it's only taken the Republicans over 6 years to figure out that these are rules of the game they are playing in. It shouldn't be a shock that they are finally deciding to take their ball and play somewhere else."
See above.
"5 breaks * 5 minutes"
So you're saying the person who takes 5*5 minute breaks during their work day is less productive than the person who takes 2*15 min breaks?
Somewhere a Vulcan just exploded.
"its not usually the number of channels, which is always way more than the number of speakers I have. "
This (channels) usually refers to how many simultaneous sounds you can hear at one time, not how many speakers can be hooked up, minor clarification.
My on-board sound craps out at about 10 or so, the Xfi does like 84 or something like that, which helps a lot if you want to hear footsteps coming up behind you amongst the 5 people shooting guns (each shot is a seperate "sound"), grenades going off, and 3 different radio messages playing in CS for example...
"Similar to paintball tanks - about 4000 PSI. They rate it in 'bar' and IIRC it was 300 or something like that."
Hmm, yes i think it is actually 3000-5000PSI not 300-500 like i initially stated, i'll check my tank when i get home tonight (it has a gauge on the side).
"Now, air for your car - hell, it can be any ole dirty air you want it to be."
Because pumping dirty air through your engine wouldn't cause any problems of corrosion, buildup, or abrasive side effects. Especially with precision machinery.
"Actually, just having a hefty air compressor at home would take care of the commuting scenario. "
I don't think you realize the cost of what you are suggesting.. I like to play paintball and my tank uses compressed air, to buy a compressor just to fill my little tank requires one capable of 300PSI minimum, these cost $5000+ and I only get about 200 shots of air out of that.. to power a car would require a much higher PSI (I would think) so right there you are looking at an investment of $10,000 or more...
I believe the air pumps at the gas station top out at 60PSI or so.. the cheapest one I could find (for about 2 grand) topped out at 125PSI.
the article was slashdotted for me, does anyone know what PSI these cars are rated to store O2?
"What about the far greater number of brillant inventions that vanish before we ever hear about them in the first place?!?!"
What about the greater still number of Slashdot posts about brilliant inventors that never get greenlit?!
"It may be, but "It seemed like a good idea at the time" whilst more accurate, is scarcely any better."
There is always a true motivation behind any action, we are just not willing to admit what it was, the truth is probably more akin to "I knew it would help my faction, help me gain favor, and I would never get caught." But that sound so truly horrible when said aloud most people will just say (untruthfully) "I don't know".
Same with the kid who sets the couch on fire, saying "I wanted to watch it burn" would most likely bring the wrath down on the child so they just say ambiguously "I don't know".
We often judge someone not solely on their actions but their intent, so to diffuse or lessen punishment, "I don't know" often works well to hide intent.
"I won't go on again about how i can't get cs:s to work on my Athlon 64x2 setup"
I play CS:S every day with my Opteron x2 (939 pin), what exactly doesn't work? This should be the same processor type as the athlon64x2. I use a nforce 4 939 pin chipset..
For me it worked out of the box...meaning... I built the system, installed XP 32 bit, all of the latest drivers (as of Nov 2006) then installed steam (the downloadable client), logged in with my user account to generate the profile, then copied over all of my old files and restarted and it updated it to the latest settings. Voila works..
Same with any other game i played on my old athlon 468 box (although some games get freaky if you don't set affintity).
I can even run it without specifying affinity, although i like to just so I can multitask and avoid any glitchiness which seems to happen every so often.
"$1B on a $1T scale is chump change. Simple."
No it's not.. that's only 1/1000, not a very high fraction when talking about the number of projects the government funds...
"no modern medicine, advanced science, or advanced learning. they're too busy keeping the farm going, or maintaining their self-sufficiency. its a good life, but doesn't do much to advance human civilisation. "
But the parent wasn't talking about advancing the human civilization, he was talking about unemployment, and they are doing quite well with that despite all of the modern trappings of our capitalistic society.
at about 26.20 if you wanna get to the meat of the article.