>The only things those kinds of people believe in is their own greed.
See, that's what's so great about Dominionism. It justifies their greed. Really, it does. Suddenly the whole worship of Mammon is A-Okay and righteous. This peculiar bit of philosophy is exhibited in the Merchant Church or otherwise known as the "Prosperity Gospel." It's all Dominionsm and Reconstructionism. It is the seeking of power and money on Earth to advance a particular brand of "christianity" (I don't dare give it a capital C) that is diametrically opposed to anything you or I have read in the Bible. And they mean to force all of us to toe the line, by the sword if necessary.
I am an agnostic/soft atheist, but I particularly like the book of John, and I can't see where they come up with the justification for any of their bullshit. They are the American Taliban.
Because it's the Republicans that are invariably the Dominionists/Reconstructionists and that if you read this paper: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm , you find that the Dominionist/Reconstructionist beliefs are the exact ones you hear coming out in their speeches/daily/.
It's not my fault that the Republican Party has been on mission in the last 20 years to purge rational people from its ranks. Look at Huntsman. He's the only one running for President that takes science seriously. Because of this, he is a "RINO" and his candidacy is dead in the water as a result.
Sorry if the truth fuckin' hurts, but there it is.
Actually, that's not far from the truth when it comes to the likes of the Know-Nothing "Hyperchristian" Republicans. You know the ones, the Palins, the Perrys, the Bachmanns, all the ones that sign up for the Dominionist/Reconstructionist "christian warrior" woo-woo Rushdoony claptrap.
Because they honestly, truly, believe that the end of the world is nigh and you may as well loot the planet before you're yanked bodily from Earth. The future of Earth is going to be full of raining blood and plagues anyway. Worrying about the future of the Earth in 100 years is a load of horse-shit to them because they'll be sitting at the right hand of Jesus while the Tribulation is happening.
Again, it doesn't bloody matter because that doesn't fucking happen in reality.
Windows has the same old bad habits it always had. Just because someone threw some code in there so an administrator can change the default behavior through policies doesn't mean the default behavior has changed.
Doesn't fucking matter, because theory is not practice.
Windows assigns execute permission based on the last 3 letters by default. It's up to the administrator to change this behavior, which hardly ever happens.
In the world of real computers, execute bits are *completely independent* of the name.
Seriously. I've heard all of this stuff that never ever sees the light of day. Stretchable OLEDs? What ever happened to the regular ones that never appeared on the market? What about SEDs?
Fuck it.
Yes, I'm jaded. Call me when you have a product on the market. It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish, but fail in the real world for the last 40 years.
All this is, is a funding lure. That's all. Trick someone with deep pockets into funding it with semi-plausible results until you run out of money and then start the next "big thing in a lab only" project.
If you refuse to vaccinate your kids because of some imagined fear (not because of egg allergy or something rational), you are guilty of child abuse and at the very least, you should be fined heavily.
And you should be investigated for other signs of abuse.
There was an old woman who swallowed a cow, I don't know how she swallowed a cow! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly, Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a horse, She's deadâ"of course!
>Finally, we have the lifespan issue. If GNU had chosen Tcl because it was popular, we would have a mass of dead code'
Absolute complete utter bullshit. If GNU picked TCL as a scripting language years ago, it would have gathered more momentum and wouldn't be a dead language today.
I'd like to see Rexx as an official scripting language, or if you want to go to the other end of the spectrum, Lua.
Ubuntu is one of the biggest popularizers of Linux, if not the largest. Getting Linux in the hands of newbies means that later on, a certain percentage of those newbies become contributors.
Linux needs fresh meat. Without fresh meat, Linux will turn into the equivalent of some weird BSD variant with a total of 10 users. Ubuntu brings in fresh meat.
I also have problems with "contributing" being only counted as the number of lines of code in the kernel, as if userspace does not count. I'm sorry, but I can't do anything with a bare kernel. I'm bloody tired of douchebags from Redhat and elsewhere using kernel contributions as the sole metric of "contributing."
No, they don't They sell products first. The brand, the reputation/follows/.
It's how they were brought back from the dead, because Apple had a shitty reputation back in the 90s because they did stupid shit like sell an '030 machine for $10,000 with a straight face (the 20'th anniversary edition Macintosh).
Scully was "brand first, product last" and it showed through the entire 90s until Jobs came back after learning hard lessons at NeXT.
"Brand first product last" kills companies. It was introduced at HP with Carly, and the effects of the Carly era are still being felt, because HP just decided they can't compete in the hardware arena anymore.
Another "brand first, product last" company is Nokia. Nokia built a reputation on innovative phones that worked. Now look at them. Instead of innovating in the smartphone space, they sat on their hands and phoned it in (hah) on their name, only to become a Microsoft puppet in the Trojan Horse CEO deal of the century.
I give HP 5 years, and then their stock is going to be pennies.
I give Nokia 2 years and they will cease to exist.
She was of the same school as Scully. "We sell a brand, not products." We need to find the business schools where they learn this shit and burn them to the ground.
That... uh... sort of the point of these vested stock options.
Companies do not just randomly tank on their own. They need to be driven there by incompetent leadership.
If he drives the company into the ground in 10 years, he doesn't deserve a dime, actually, but if he triples the value of the company, he gets more than a billion dollars for his troubles.
It hasn't ever recovered. When Gates left, it didn't even leave a bump in the graph.
To contrast with a different situation...
When Carly Fiorina got kicked out of HP, the market cap of HP bounced 3 billion dollars. In other words, the market thought Carly was a drag on HP by 3 billion.
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>The only things those kinds of people believe in is their own greed.
See, that's what's so great about Dominionism. It justifies their greed. Really, it does. Suddenly the whole worship of Mammon is A-Okay and righteous. This peculiar bit of philosophy is exhibited in the Merchant Church or otherwise known as the "Prosperity Gospel." It's all Dominionsm and Reconstructionism. It is the seeking of power and money on Earth to advance a particular brand of "christianity" (I don't dare give it a capital C) that is diametrically opposed to anything you or I have read in the Bible. And they mean to force all of us to toe the line, by the sword if necessary.
I am an agnostic/soft atheist, but I particularly like the book of John, and I can't see where they come up with the justification for any of their bullshit. They are the American Taliban.
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Because it's the Republicans that are invariably the Dominionists/Reconstructionists and that if you read this paper: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm , you find that the Dominionist/Reconstructionist beliefs are the exact ones you hear coming out in their speeches /daily/.
It's not my fault that the Republican Party has been on mission in the last 20 years to purge rational people from its ranks. Look at Huntsman. He's the only one running for President that takes science seriously. Because of this, he is a "RINO" and his candidacy is dead in the water as a result.
Sorry if the truth fuckin' hurts, but there it is.
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BMO
Actually, that's not far from the truth when it comes to the likes of the Know-Nothing "Hyperchristian" Republicans. You know the ones, the Palins, the Perrys, the Bachmanns, all the ones that sign up for the Dominionist/Reconstructionist "christian warrior" woo-woo Rushdoony claptrap.
Because they honestly, truly, believe that the end of the world is nigh and you may as well loot the planet before you're yanked bodily from Earth. The future of Earth is going to be full of raining blood and plagues anyway. Worrying about the future of the Earth in 100 years is a load of horse-shit to them because they'll be sitting at the right hand of Jesus while the Tribulation is happening.
Or so they hope.
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Real murderers stand in front of Teleprompters in suits, and kill thousands and millions.
And get re-elected.
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>quoting wikipedia
Don't do that.
Also, when Denmark got rid of Thimerosol, the rate of autism *did not change*
Again, your friends are idiots. And if you continue to defend your point, you are also an idiot.
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Again, it doesn't bloody matter because that doesn't fucking happen in reality.
Windows has the same old bad habits it always had. Just because someone threw some code in there so an administrator can change the default behavior through policies doesn't mean the default behavior has changed.
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BMO
Doesn't fucking matter, because theory is not practice.
Windows assigns execute permission based on the last 3 letters by default. It's up to the administrator to change this behavior, which hardly ever happens.
In the world of real computers, execute bits are *completely independent* of the name.
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BMO
>Execute permission only exists so people don't accidentally crash their shell by running non-programs; it has nothing to do with security.
Bullshit.
Stripping execute permission when I fling a program across the network is important in stopping the automatic propagation of evil.
Windows just sees the .exe and says "whoopee, we can execute it!"
Inserting a simple chmod or even a right-click set-permissions by involving a human in the process puts an end to a lot of bullshit.
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BMO
>but this is no different than Windows, despite the FUD.
>no different than windows.
THIS IS WHAT WINDOWS FANBOIS REALLY BELIEVE.
Get back to me when Windows separates execute permission from the filename extension.
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BMO
Mercury hasn't been used in vaccines in years.
And your friends are idiots.
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BMO
Seriously. I've heard all of this stuff that never ever sees the light of day. Stretchable OLEDs? What ever happened to the regular ones that never appeared on the market? What about SEDs?
Fuck it.
Yes, I'm jaded. Call me when you have a product on the market. It's like all these cures for cancer that work in a petri dish, but fail in the real world for the last 40 years.
All this is, is a funding lure. That's all. Trick someone with deep pockets into funding it with semi-plausible results until you run out of money and then start the next "big thing in a lab only" project.
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BMO
If you refuse to vaccinate your kids because of some imagined fear (not because of egg allergy or something rational), you are guilty of child abuse and at the very least, you should be fined heavily.
And you should be investigated for other signs of abuse.
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BMO
There was a time when we did this, too.
It took a few events to get the EPA enacted, one of them was a river that caught fire.
When the Chinese set fire to a river, they'll be close to being motivated to set up their own EPA.
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BMO
*snip the rest of the song*
There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's deadâ"of course!
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BMO
>Finally, we have the lifespan issue. If GNU had chosen Tcl because it was popular, we would have a mass of dead code'
Absolute complete utter bullshit. If GNU picked TCL as a scripting language years ago, it would have gathered more momentum and wouldn't be a dead language today.
I'd like to see Rexx as an official scripting language, or if you want to go to the other end of the spectrum, Lua.
And it's still not too late to resurrect TCL.
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BMO
In spite of everything, being stupid is not a crime no matter how much one wishes it was so.
For a crime to have been committed, there has to be mens rea, a guilty mind. That's up to the state to prove. Whatever the cop thought didn't matter.
If being stupid was a crime, everyone would be in jail.
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BMO
BS&F signed a contract saying they'd help pursue the case until the heat death of the universe.
Because Ralphie had them bamboozled at the beginning citing "Sagans" of dollars if they win.
No scam without a greedy mark.
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BMO
... than lines of code in the kernel.
Ubuntu is one of the biggest popularizers of Linux, if not the largest. Getting Linux in the hands of newbies means that later on, a certain percentage of those newbies become contributors.
Linux needs fresh meat. Without fresh meat, Linux will turn into the equivalent of some weird BSD variant with a total of 10 users. Ubuntu brings in fresh meat.
I also have problems with "contributing" being only counted as the number of lines of code in the kernel, as if userspace does not count. I'm sorry, but I can't do anything with a bare kernel. I'm bloody tired of douchebags from Redhat and elsewhere using kernel contributions as the sole metric of "contributing."
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BMO
>In Spring 2010, we hit roughly 13,000 UNCO bugs in the Firefox product on BMO.
Don't blame this shit on me.
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BMO
I read your message and it's like I'm really on /g/ with the number of /g/ memes you're spouting.
You're an idiot. Certified.
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BMO
>Because Apple isn't selling a brand? An image?
No, they don't They sell products first. The brand, the reputation /follows/.
It's how they were brought back from the dead, because Apple had a shitty reputation back in the 90s because they did stupid shit like sell an '030 machine for $10,000 with a straight face (the 20'th anniversary edition Macintosh).
Scully was "brand first, product last" and it showed through the entire 90s until Jobs came back after learning hard lessons at NeXT.
"Brand first product last" kills companies. It was introduced at HP with Carly, and the effects of the Carly era are still being felt, because HP just decided they can't compete in the hardware arena anymore.
Another "brand first, product last" company is Nokia. Nokia built a reputation on innovative phones that worked. Now look at them. Instead of innovating in the smartphone space, they sat on their hands and phoned it in (hah) on their name, only to become a Microsoft puppet in the Trojan Horse CEO deal of the century.
I give HP 5 years, and then their stock is going to be pennies.
I give Nokia 2 years and they will cease to exist.
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BMO
I feel ya, bro, I feel ya.
She was of the same school as Scully. "We sell a brand, not products." We need to find the business schools where they learn this shit and burn them to the ground.
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BMO
That... uh... sort of the point of these vested stock options.
Companies do not just randomly tank on their own. They need to be driven there by incompetent leadership.
If he drives the company into the ground in 10 years, he doesn't deserve a dime, actually, but if he triples the value of the company, he gets more than a billion dollars for his troubles.
It's the right way to do things.
Microsoft's stock tanked at the Dot Bust, over 10 years ago.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT+Basic+Chart&t=my
It hasn't ever recovered. When Gates left, it didn't even leave a bump in the graph.
To contrast with a different situation...
When Carly Fiorina got kicked out of HP, the market cap of HP bounced 3 billion dollars. In other words, the market thought Carly was a drag on HP by 3 billion.
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BMO
Motivation to look out for the long-term interest of the company instead of the next quarter.
Whoda thunk it?
Sadly, such motivation is missing from the portfolios of many CEOs.
These are not handcuffs. The only people who think these are handcuffs are day traders and speculators. Fuck them.
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BMO