That made me laugh. I did the Order of the Arrow "Ordeal" when I was in Boy Scouts, and the "rituals" involved are, IMO, pretty much cooked up just so twelve to fourteen year old boys will think they're part of some secret Indian club. As far as I know (and a quick Wikipedia check confirms), the BSA and the Order of the Arrow "make clear that any concerned parent, guardian, or religious leader may view the ceremonies, attend meetings, or read scripts upon request to a council, district, lodge, or chapter official to assure themselves that there is nothing objectionable."
Anyway, I just had to chuckle. The OA ordeal was pretty much just, "Hey, Scouts, come provide free manual labor at the scout camp. Somebody's got to haul away these dead trees..." I never even thought about it as being some big secret.
Exactly... I don't see what the big deal is about the LDS church wanting to protect its copyright. This isn't really about the church trying to pull some massive coverup because there's anything confidential in the manual. It's just copyrighted material, and, according to copyright law, they have the right to try to protect it.
Please. Rowlings had one original-ish thought, then rehashed it over and over and over again for six more books. Card's books (with some exceptions) are ten times more entertaining than Harry Plopper.
Not exactly... the tithing slips are used to indicate the amount of your tithing donation, which is used by the Church for the building and maintenance of meetinghouses and temples, as well as the ability to give other donations and indicate their purpose (humanitarian relief, the missionary fund, a college fund for less-fortunate young adults who can't afford id). Nowhere on the form do you "report your earnings."
Also, tithing is a very personal thing between the member and the bishop of the ward. Those who choose not to pay tithing are in no way ostracized by "other church members." Other church members don't have access to that information.
I've gladly donated 10% of my earnings my whole life, and I try to give an additional monthly donation which goes to humanitarian relief locally and abroad. Just my way of giving back to something that's enriched my life, not to mention those who aren't as fortunate as I am.
My wife runs her own little photography business in her spare time. Nothing big: weddings, receptions, high school senior portraits, engagement photos, family group shots, that sort of thing. Maybe a couple of engagements enough, just enough to allow her to upgrade and buy new equipment when she wants.
When we're done with a shoot, we burn the images onto a lightscribe disc with "A. Grover hereby authorizes the owner of this disc to make reproductions of the images contained thereon" in small print around the edge of the disc. Then they're free to take it wherever they want to get prints made up. The text on the disc so far has prevented print shops from hassling them about whether or not they own the copyright.
Since we stopped shooting film a few years ago and now do everything digitally, there's virtually no overhead involved in a shoot. Just the time to do the shoot and do level adjustments (an occasionally some touch-up in the Gimp or Photoshop). Our prices are lower than most professional photographers in the area who force you to keep coming back to them and paying for reproductions whenever you want them. Would we be making more money if we did it that way? Maybe. I don't know. But I do know that people are so pleased with the quality of the photos they receive from us and the agreement that they can do whatever they want with the photos that they tell their friends, who tell their friends, and we get a lot of business through word of mouth. We don't continue to profit from the photos taken forever, but really, why should we? Plus we don't have to deal with the hassle of folks coming again and again to get reprints made.
It works for us. Just my $0.02.
I'll second (or third or whatever) that. I just got this for Christmas, and this thing is awesome. I've got all my network utils (OpenSSH, vnc viewer, rdesktop, nmap, tcpdump, dsniff, ping, traceroute, wget, etc.), an ebook reader (FBReader, excellent), multimedia capabilities (800x480 resolution). I'm transcoding some movies to copy to my SDHC card as we speak and just found some scripts to transcode video on-the-fly and stream it from my desktop PC. Abso-friggin-lutely the coolest thing I've ever had.
If they had been really smart, they wouldn't have had the need to change grades... I remember my sophomore year of high school a friend and I wrote a little visual basic dialog that looked exactly like the windows logon screen, then copied it to a few of our teachers' "startup" folder when they weren't looking. Every one of them saw the dialog pop up (even though they'd already entered their password and were already logged in) and didn't even think twice about it, they just entered their password again (which caused their password to be written to an encrypted file in a public location on the servers). Pretty soon we had a treasure trove of teachers' passwords.
However, we realized we both had 4.0 grade point averages and there wasn't really a lot for us to do with it... but we sure felt powerful.
All that is missing now is a really awesome developer environment. Check out Lazarus, a RAD suite based on Free Pascal. It's getting awesomer by the day...
Oh, good crap, you just gave me a horrific flashback. My brother and I sitting on the floor in our bedroom in front of the TV with our little Atari 2600 controllers in our hands trying to figure out how to do... anything.
Hate to break it to you, but not every single line from the Bible (especially the Old Testament, which is more concerned with history than the new testament) was meant to be advice. The first verse you quoted was the Lord giving a metaphor to Ezekiel comparing the people of Israel's corruption to eating unclean food. In the second, Jesus isn't using the term "eunuch" literally, but in a figurative sense meaning one who is unburdened by the passions of the world.
You can make anything sound ridiculous if you take it out of context.
Amen to that. I don't really see the appeal. I live with my wife and 2 kids in Idaho in a 1500 square foot house on 2 acres of ground. I work as a software engineer and make around sixty grand. I've got access to outdoors activities (skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, golf), play guitar in a jazz combo, and commute about 7 minutes to work on non-crowded roads. My house payment is about a third of what a friend of mine living in California pays on his apartment lease. I work hard at a challenging and rewarding job where my skills and ideas are valued.
You can keep your millions and private jet. I'm living my American dream.
I tried rockbox for a while on my 2nd gen mini, and I like the idea, but I'll be sticking with the original interface until the battery life doesn't suck so much with rockbox.
Same here. I've been working on developing a new pluggable storage engine for 5.1 and picked one of the charts up at the user's conference. Now I can just glance up at the wall for about anything I need. Saves me the 20 seconds or so it'd take to google it.
My wife and I both use laptops which dual boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. She has to run a windows application for her work and it doesn't work under wine so I got the free vmware player but got stuck because you need the commercial version to create a virtual disk.
You could give VirtualBox a try. There are two releases available to you: a free-as-in-freedom GPL'ed version and a free-as-in-beer closed-source version that has a few extra bells and whistles. I installed it and had a Windows virtual machine running in no time.
Require credentials and end Wikipedia. I sincerely doubt that any of the editors or contributors have any credentials.
I don't think the proposal is to require credentials for all who post to wikipedia. It just says "contributors to the site who claim certain credentials" (emphasis added) will be required to prove them. In other words, if you have no credentials, you can post and edit to your little heart's content. You'd only have to prove yourself if you claim your have special credentials.
As much as I'm a proponent of free software and use it whenever possible, I think that it's this zealotry pushed down the throats of others which turns some off from the Linux movement. I'm reminded of this article a few months ago, and what Linus said.
ATI and nvidia and whatever other hardware companies, as companies, are also free to release their drivers however they choose to. They are under no obligation to make it easier for you. And you, as a consumer, are free to not buy their hardware.
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That made me laugh. I did the Order of the Arrow "Ordeal" when I was in Boy Scouts, and the "rituals" involved are, IMO, pretty much cooked up just so twelve to fourteen year old boys will think they're part of some secret Indian club. As far as I know (and a quick Wikipedia check confirms), the BSA and the Order of the Arrow "make clear that any concerned parent, guardian, or religious leader may view the ceremonies, attend meetings, or read scripts upon request to a council, district, lodge, or chapter official to assure themselves that there is nothing objectionable."
Anyway, I just had to chuckle. The OA ordeal was pretty much just, "Hey, Scouts, come provide free manual labor at the scout camp. Somebody's got to haul away these dead trees..." I never even thought about it as being some big secret.
Exactly... I don't see what the big deal is about the LDS church wanting to protect its copyright. This isn't really about the church trying to pull some massive coverup because there's anything confidential in the manual. It's just copyrighted material, and, according to copyright law, they have the right to try to protect it.
Please. Rowlings had one original-ish thought, then rehashed it over and over and over again for six more books. Card's books (with some exceptions) are ten times more entertaining than Harry Plopper.
Wrong.
Well, actually, I guess you're right. It's not exactly "cheap"... it's *free*. It doesn't cost ANY money.
But then again, what do I know, having actually done it?
Not exactly... the tithing slips are used to indicate the amount of your tithing donation, which is used by the Church for the building and maintenance of meetinghouses and temples, as well as the ability to give other donations and indicate their purpose (humanitarian relief, the missionary fund, a college fund for less-fortunate young adults who can't afford id). Nowhere on the form do you "report your earnings."
Also, tithing is a very personal thing between the member and the bishop of the ward. Those who choose not to pay tithing are in no way ostracized by "other church members." Other church members don't have access to that information.
I've gladly donated 10% of my earnings my whole life, and I try to give an additional monthly donation which goes to humanitarian relief locally and abroad. Just my way of giving back to something that's enriched my life, not to mention those who aren't as fortunate as I am.
My wife runs her own little photography business in her spare time. Nothing big: weddings, receptions, high school senior portraits, engagement photos, family group shots, that sort of thing. Maybe a couple of engagements enough, just enough to allow her to upgrade and buy new equipment when she wants. When we're done with a shoot, we burn the images onto a lightscribe disc with "A. Grover hereby authorizes the owner of this disc to make reproductions of the images contained thereon" in small print around the edge of the disc. Then they're free to take it wherever they want to get prints made up. The text on the disc so far has prevented print shops from hassling them about whether or not they own the copyright. Since we stopped shooting film a few years ago and now do everything digitally, there's virtually no overhead involved in a shoot. Just the time to do the shoot and do level adjustments (an occasionally some touch-up in the Gimp or Photoshop). Our prices are lower than most professional photographers in the area who force you to keep coming back to them and paying for reproductions whenever you want them. Would we be making more money if we did it that way? Maybe. I don't know. But I do know that people are so pleased with the quality of the photos they receive from us and the agreement that they can do whatever they want with the photos that they tell their friends, who tell their friends, and we get a lot of business through word of mouth. We don't continue to profit from the photos taken forever, but really, why should we? Plus we don't have to deal with the hassle of folks coming again and again to get reprints made. It works for us. Just my $0.02.
I agree with you. I really do.
Now if only I didn't live in rural Idaho...
I'll second (or third or whatever) that. I just got this for Christmas, and this thing is awesome. I've got all my network utils (OpenSSH, vnc viewer, rdesktop, nmap, tcpdump, dsniff, ping, traceroute, wget, etc.), an ebook reader (FBReader, excellent), multimedia capabilities (800x480 resolution). I'm transcoding some movies to copy to my SDHC card as we speak and just found some scripts to transcode video on-the-fly and stream it from my desktop PC. Abso-friggin-lutely the coolest thing I've ever had.
Agreed. My intention was to mock most of the "google is now evil" posts. (I'm actually not that retarded.)
OMG! Go0gle is teh ev1L!!!11!
Oh, good crap, you just gave me a horrific flashback. My brother and I sitting on the floor in our bedroom in front of the TV with our little Atari 2600 controllers in our hands trying to figure out how to do... anything.
Ha ha!
Hate to break it to you, but not every single line from the Bible (especially the Old Testament, which is more concerned with history than the new testament) was meant to be advice. The first verse you quoted was the Lord giving a metaphor to Ezekiel comparing the people of Israel's corruption to eating unclean food. In the second, Jesus isn't using the term "eunuch" literally, but in a figurative sense meaning one who is unburdened by the passions of the world.
You can make anything sound ridiculous if you take it out of context.
Amen to that. I don't really see the appeal. I live with my wife and 2 kids in Idaho in a 1500 square foot house on 2 acres of ground. I work as a software engineer and make around sixty grand. I've got access to outdoors activities (skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing, golf), play guitar in a jazz combo, and commute about 7 minutes to work on non-crowded roads. My house payment is about a third of what a friend of mine living in California pays on his apartment lease. I work hard at a challenging and rewarding job where my skills and ideas are valued. You can keep your millions and private jet. I'm living my American dream.
It's already begun!
I tried rockbox for a while on my 2nd gen mini, and I like the idea, but I'll be sticking with the original interface until the battery life doesn't suck so much with rockbox.
I've got the VisiBone MySQL chart, and its items are either blue or white. White is standard SQL, and blue is stuff MySQL has added.
:) Not that I'm throwing stones, but I definitely agree with where you're coming from.
Most of the chart is blue.
Same here. I've been working on developing a new pluggable storage engine for 5.1 and picked one of the charts up at the user's conference. Now I can just glance up at the wall for about anything I need. Saves me the 20 seconds or so it'd take to google it.
You could give VirtualBox a try. There are two releases available to you: a free-as-in-freedom GPL'ed version and a free-as-in-beer closed-source version that has a few extra bells and whistles. I installed it and had a Windows virtual machine running in no time.
Or, you could use this firefox extension and get rid of them for free.
That's my e-mail address, you insensitive clod!
As much as I'm a proponent of free software and use it whenever possible, I think that it's this zealotry pushed down the throats of others which turns some off from the Linux movement. I'm reminded of this article a few months ago, and what Linus said.
ATI and nvidia and whatever other hardware companies, as companies, are also free to release their drivers however they choose to. They are under no obligation to make it easier for you. And you, as a consumer, are free to not buy their hardware.