aren't they violating the be fruitful and multiply clause?
But what about all the millions of babies who are in need of adoption? Besides, if you want a child with your genes, and your genes make you infertile, aren't you rather perpetuating infertility by forcing a conception which cannot occur naturally?
Also, some thought. Remember all the brawl about the tag "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" regarding genetic research? Well, if a slashdotter says it, it's fine. But if it's the pope, oh no, the horrors! He's imposing his views on us!:-/
I'm not too sure how an organization that spent decades hiding pedophiles has any business lecturing anyone on human dignity. The only thing, apparently, more infinite than God is the human capacity for intense hypocrisy.
Your statement sounds nice and everything, but it's awfully flawed.
a) The Catholic Church has not hidden pedophiles. SOME PRIESTS AND BISHOPS have. By your standards, the United States should disappear from the face of the earth since they has decades abusing human rights. Right? RIGHT?
b) Usually the priests who lecture people on human dignity are NOT the ones hiding pedophiles. If you disagree, I challenge you to mention anything evil John Paul II has done, because he lectured A LOT about human dignity.
c) All catholics *ARE* the Catholic Church. If you want to say something bad about priests and bishops, don't say "Catholic Church". Say "the Clergy".
d) By generalizing, you make all the good priests look worse than the bad ones. Because it's the bad ones who are pedophiles, and the good priests are the ones fighting for human rights. Oh but since they're all catholic anyway, they're all part of the same corrupt organization and all should be labelled as hypocrites. Perhaps we should label Martin Luther King Jr. as a hypocrite too, since he endorsed christianity (he was a Lutheran pastor, after all) and Christianity is full of hypocrites?
I'm amazed how bashing and name calling granted you insightful. You'd be a wonderful Fox News reporter.
I don't recall any other popes calling it an affront to human dignity.
Perhaps not a pope, but the Congregation of the Doctrine of the faith did. Donum Vitae, Feb 22, 1987.
Are test tube babies not allowed to be baptized because fertilization occurred outside the body? It's not the babies that are wrong, it's how they were conceived.
.. but seriously? Bittorrent is a horrendous resource hog. I'm/glad/ comcast is throttling it, because a significant number of paying customers don't want to watch their connectivity slow to a crawl
So, you prefer them watching their connectivity slow to a crawl because of the hundreds of thousands of YOUTUBE users. Oh guess what. If you have a favorite youtube video, there's no easy way to download it. You need to re-download it again and again and again.
Want to download your favorite videos? Download them via bittorrent ONCE (and in high quality for that matter).
I'm sorry, but your resource hog argument is simply a lot of bullshit. You give no statistics, no studies, no data. It's just your opinion.
As a developer, I only care if I want to release a closed-source application.
You've hit the nail on the head.
In case of libraries, LGPL >> GPL. Why? Because commercial applications won't use GPL libraries. Period. Just imagine if gaming libraries were GPL. Nobody would use them. Oh, look, almost nobody uses them anyway! Most PC games require DirectX.
It's basic economics. If software makers have to choose between a magnificent GPL'ed library and a crappy library that they can use without being forced to release their code, guess which one they'll choose? The losers are going to be the end users. So much for freedom.
Anime Music Videos are perfect examples of fair use. You can take a speech from a comedy show, mix it with some scenes, and have a hilarious mix entitled "the flying car". A much more artistic example is "I must be dreaming", which not only adds clips, but some special effects as well. Or if you like violence, how about a little Mortal Kombat ?
mysql license is real mess, it can be interpreted in so many ways.
Mod parent insightful, please!
I recall reading that MySQL AB really didn't stand a chance to force the GPL (and therefore, move to their proprietary license) on programs that connected to the database because that was "dynamically linking". Dude, WTF? Using protocols to communicate to a program or service is NOT linking! I got so angry when I read the news on the License change, that I wanted to tag the story "greedybastards". But if MySQL AB told the truth, then nobody would buy their ultra-expensive license.
On the other hand, Sun and their promotion of Open Office (and open formats) is a proper example of Free software.
Let's hope things change for the good (for example, re-releasing the MySQL client software to LGPL or GPL+linking exception).
Agreed, users SHOULD update their software regularly. However, one thing is having the will to update software, and a very different thing is having software with the need to update every 4 weeks!
Some versions of PHP, OpenSSL and Apache are buggy. Granted. However, not all users have a webserver on their machines. The problem is when the software they're running (i.e. Windows) is so crappy and awfully designed that its security has more holes than swiss cheese.
Um, have you forgot about Hammer Granny? How about the Sleepy Tech guy, who ended up falling asleep because they put him on hold for over 2 hours? (And of course, he was the one fired, while the problem remains).
No matter how fast they claim to be now, if their customer service remains a bureaucratic hell, no way.
It's called having an IQ over 100 and enough will power to ignore pressure from your retarded peers.
Yes, but does it work for the majority of the population with an IQ 100 and not enough will power to even accept the fact that your parents don't have the right to physically/emotionally abuse you?
For people in those cases, drug addiction is the least of their problems.
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aren't they violating the be fruitful and multiply clause?
:-/
But what about all the millions of babies who are in need of adoption? Besides, if you want a child with your genes, and your genes make you infertile, aren't you rather perpetuating infertility by forcing a conception which cannot occur naturally?
Also, some thought. Remember all the brawl about the tag "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" regarding genetic research? Well, if a slashdotter says it, it's fine. But if it's the pope, oh no, the horrors! He's imposing his views on us!
I'm not too sure how an organization that spent decades hiding pedophiles has any business lecturing anyone on human dignity. The only thing, apparently, more infinite than God is the human capacity for intense hypocrisy.
Your statement sounds nice and everything, but it's awfully flawed.
a) The Catholic Church has not hidden pedophiles. SOME PRIESTS AND BISHOPS have. By your standards, the United States should disappear from the face of the earth since they has decades abusing human rights. Right? RIGHT?
b) Usually the priests who lecture people on human dignity are NOT the ones hiding pedophiles. If you disagree, I challenge you to mention anything evil John Paul II has done, because he lectured A LOT about human dignity.
c) All catholics *ARE* the Catholic Church. If you want to say something bad about priests and bishops, don't say "Catholic Church". Say "the Clergy".
d) By generalizing, you make all the good priests look worse than the bad ones. Because it's the bad ones who are pedophiles, and the good priests are the ones fighting for human rights. Oh but since they're all catholic anyway, they're all part of the same corrupt organization and all should be labelled as hypocrites. Perhaps we should label Martin Luther King Jr. as a hypocrite too, since he endorsed christianity (he was a Lutheran pastor, after all) and Christianity is full of hypocrites?
I'm amazed how bashing and name calling granted you insightful. You'd be a wonderful Fox News reporter.
I don't recall any other popes calling it an affront to human dignity.
Perhaps not a pope, but the Congregation of the Doctrine of the faith did. Donum Vitae, Feb 22, 1987.
Are test tube babies not allowed to be baptized because fertilization occurred outside the body?
It's not the babies that are wrong, it's how they were conceived.
Purple Ninja will have a better defense now!
Your reference to 'the moderators' as if they are some secret organisation with a nefarious agenda is clueless.
Well done, boy. Our secret is safe again. You will be rewarded by our leadership. B-)
.. but seriously? Bittorrent is a horrendous resource hog. I'm /glad/ comcast is throttling it, because a significant number of paying customers don't want to watch their connectivity slow to a crawl
So, you prefer them watching their connectivity slow to a crawl because of the hundreds of thousands of YOUTUBE users. Oh guess what. If you have a favorite youtube video, there's no easy way to download it. You need to re-download it again and again and again.
Want to download your favorite videos? Download them via bittorrent ONCE (and in high quality for that matter).
I'm sorry, but your resource hog argument is simply a lot of bullshit. You give no statistics, no studies, no data. It's just your opinion.
Cue Manga artists invasion in 3... 2... banzai!
From the screenshots:
If you want my opinion, it was an inside job. The RIAA got so jealous over they content that they decided to delete it than share it
You will find that the vast majority of libraries in Linux that you may wish to link to are LGPL.
Not Qt, unfortunately.
As a developer, I only care if I want to release a closed-source application.
You've hit the nail on the head.
In case of libraries, LGPL >> GPL. Why? Because commercial applications won't use GPL libraries. Period. Just imagine if gaming libraries were GPL. Nobody would use them. Oh, look, almost nobody uses them anyway! Most PC games require DirectX.
It's basic economics. If software makers have to choose between a magnificent GPL'ed library and a crappy library that they can use without being forced to release their code, guess which one they'll choose? The losers are going to be the end users. So much for freedom.
And don't get me started with MySQL...
We have the technology... will be better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster, and illegal.
Anime Music Videos are perfect examples of fair use. You can take a speech from a comedy show, mix it with some scenes, and have a hilarious mix entitled "the flying car". A much more artistic example is "I must be dreaming", which not only adds clips, but some special effects as well. Or if you like violence, how about a little Mortal Kombat ?
:(
And last, but not least, AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture and AMV Hell 4: The last one. Some of the clips there got me laughing for hours.
What would be of Entertainment and creativity online if all the music and anime producers sued the AMV makers for copyright infringement?
mysql license is real mess, it can be interpreted in so many ways.
Mod parent insightful, please!
I recall reading that MySQL AB really didn't stand a chance to force the GPL (and therefore, move to their proprietary license) on programs that connected to the database because that was "dynamically linking". Dude, WTF? Using protocols to communicate to a program or service is NOT linking! I got so angry when I read the news on the License change, that I wanted to tag the story "greedybastards".
But if MySQL AB told the truth, then nobody would buy their ultra-expensive license.
On the other hand, Sun and their promotion of Open Office (and open formats) is a proper example of Free software.
Let's hope things change for the good (for example, re-releasing the MySQL client software to LGPL or GPL+linking exception).
WTF? Every topic on the main page has "25 comments"
Ahh... the cloning technology has arrived to Slashdot!
It's rigged. No one actually *chooses* the CowboyNeal option.
My fellow diggers disagree! CowboyNeal revolution! Oh, wait...
call up Ron Paul and ask him what he'd do
:(
- Now that's leadership.
And unfortunately, that's still much better than the current administration
why am I suddenly reminded of a certain german kid caught on youtube recently?
Agreed, users SHOULD update their software regularly. However, one thing is having the will to update software, and a very different thing is having software with the need to update every 4 weeks!
Some versions of PHP, OpenSSL and Apache are buggy. Granted. However, not all users have a webserver on their machines. The problem is when the software they're running (i.e. Windows) is so crappy and awfully designed that its security has more holes than swiss cheese.
Um, have you forgot about Hammer Granny? How about the Sleepy Tech guy, who ended up falling asleep because they put him on hold for over 2 hours? (And of course, he was the one fired, while the problem remains).
No matter how fast they claim to be now, if their customer service remains a bureaucratic hell, no way.
The point is having fun, right? Who cares if you break rule #435B to make your gaming experience more enjoyable?
It's called having an IQ over 100 and enough will power to ignore pressure from your retarded peers.
Yes, but does it work for the majority of the population with an IQ 100 and not enough will power to even accept the fact that your parents don't have the right to physically/emotionally abuse you?
For people in those cases, drug addiction is the least of their problems.
It assumes that the Virtual Reality simulation is buggy.
And yet another reason to switch to a Free (as in Freedom) operating system.
At least we're not Fark, right?
Not news: New nanotech fuel discovered...
Still not news: with a misleading headline...
News: It's sperm.
Fark: As read in Slashdot.
Hey, what did you expect? We need those kind of headlines here in digg. Oh, wait...