Your "window-group" idea sounds familiar *blinks at the fluxbox desktop on his other machine. Switches over to desktop 1.* Ahh, that's where I've seen it before. Now, if only it would let me group differently sized windows together.
DVORAK layout isn't alphabetical order.
According to this article at wikipedia, the DVORAK keyboard was "designed by Drs. August Dvorak and William Dealey in the 1920s and 1930s". The layout is designed for maximum speed and efficiency, and... well just read the article.
and you're fairly unlikely to come to harm because some "wacko" (to use your terminology) has knocked up a Tesla coil in his garage.
I'd feel bad about the poor Tesla coil though, I mean, what's she going to tell her father? "Some geek I didn't know all that well took his leads to my prmary and bam, I got pregnant."?
Hey, that's great. I'd like to get in on this deal as well. My current address is:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500:]
In all seriousness though, I would agree to allow my yard be used for nuclear waste storage in the manner specified. Compensation would definitely be required though.
Don't piss them off, keep them fed and enterained..., don't let religion challenge goverment... and you'll stay in power. It's all in the HOW-TO;)
I know you meant that last bit to be somewhat facetious, but that sounds quite a bit like what is laid out in Machiavelli' "The Prince," Which is basically a HOW-TO for running your country in such a way that you stay in power.
It seems a lot of replies are targetting your statement about playing God. I think a more interesting statement is: Is it moral to enslave those creatures even if they don't have a soul or consciousness as we know it?
First, to answer this question, I need to get somebody to explain a soul in terms that we can agree on. Once we have a good, useful definition of soul, and another of consciousness we'll be able to test the new creatures for soul and consciousness "as we know it". Until that point, however, there's no reasonable method to test for the presence of absence of either attribute. Without a valid method for testing for that attribute, we can just as easily assume all creatures (including humans) have them or don't have them. This, of course, turns the moral and ethical dilemma back on to all existing domesticated species. If it's alright to have cats as pets, why not humans? why not half-human hybrids? what's the difference? if we assume the difference to be the ability to communicate in a reliable manner the belief in one's own self-awareness (not to prove the existance, just to indicate the beliefe that it is there) then the solution is easy: if they can't communicate that in any manner at all, then there's no dilemma.
Do you ever get the feeling that there's an evil shadow government that controls everything...
I think that an evil shadow government bent on grinding the world's population beneath its heels and turning us all into mindless-zombie slave-workers would be more efficient and probably less distasteful than what we currently have. At least then we could have someone to blame, if ony in our heads during those precious five seconds when we're allowed to think anything we want.
On the other hand we have a country with an extremely strong cult of personality around its leader. We have a populace that is brainwashed constantly about it being under threat and the evil of the USA.
When I first skimmed that, I thought you were talking about the US, and I actually read it as: "On the other hand we have a country with an extremely strong cult of personality around its leader. We have a populace that is brainwashed constantly about it being under threat of evil and attacks against the USA."
creepy isn't it?
However, I do agree with you that North Korea is potentially a much greater threat than any other we have right now.
According to that page, the -only- error is a single value which looks like a MS specific element. In other words, it's perfectly valid except for one element of one tag that's in there so IE doesn't panic.
[*As a geek, not a flack, so don't get any silly ideas that IBM agrees with anything I say.]
Good to know that IBM didn't hire you to be a free lossless audio codec know-it-all, but what does that have with them agreeing or disagreeing with you?
But how will they afford anything if you don't help them move their monies out of the frozen accounts? All those poor multimillionaires will starve to death because of your selfishness! Think of the Rich People!!
please define the term "conscious energy". Also, Dualism doesn't asnwer any of the questions that Monism can' answer, all it does is say "these two are seperate, so that's how it works".
As a broke college student myself, a simple solution to this quandary is this: Get to know the employees and manager of a local, small, bookstore. Ask about magazines and how they get rid of the extra stock when the new stuff comes in. Most bookstores "strip" the covers off and toss the magazines, and many will look the other way if employees want to take a few of the magazines home for themselves or friends. This method won't get you endless supplies of everything on the rack, but you could probably get a copy of the economist and one or two others each month rather easily (sure you'll be a month behind, but that's not so bad really).
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Your "window-group" idea sounds familiar *blinks at the fluxbox desktop on his other machine. Switches over to desktop 1.* Ahh, that's where I've seen it before. Now, if only it would let me group differently sized windows together.
DVORAK layout isn't alphabetical order.
According to this article at wikipedia, the DVORAK keyboard was "designed by Drs. August Dvorak and William Dealey in the 1920s and 1930s". The layout is designed for maximum speed and efficiency, and... well just read the article.
and you're fairly unlikely to come to harm because some "wacko" (to use your terminology) has knocked up a Tesla coil in his garage.
I'd feel bad about the poor Tesla coil though, I mean, what's she going to tell her father? "Some geek I didn't know all that well took his leads to my prmary and bam, I got pregnant."?
Personally, I'd rather be lied to about the nuclear if those are my only options.
Hey, that's great. I'd like to get in on this deal as well. My current address is:
:]
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
In all seriousness though, I would agree to allow my yard be used for nuclear waste storage in the manner specified. Compensation would definitely be required though.
Hey! Look here mister. I can code in perl, and.. oh, I see what you mean. Sorry about that.
Quicktime isn't that bad as long as you don't just use the default options when installing it...
Then again, I'm advocating a course of action which requires -not- simply clicking next and letting the default options do as they wish.
Yes, I can see why this wouldn't work.
Strangely, that same phrase seems like it would fit well with Cancer and HIV working together against us.
Don't piss them off, keep them fed and enterained ..., don't let religion challenge goverment ... and you'll stay in power. It's all in the HOW-TO ;)
I know you meant that last bit to be somewhat facetious, but that sounds quite a bit like what is laid out in Machiavelli' "The Prince," Which is basically a HOW-TO for running your country in such a way that you stay in power.
Point being: It actually -is- in the How-To.
It seems a lot of replies are targetting your statement about playing God. I think a more interesting statement is:
Is it moral to enslave those creatures even if they don't have a soul or consciousness as we know it?
First, to answer this question, I need to get somebody to explain a soul in terms that we can agree on. Once we have a good, useful definition of soul, and another of consciousness we'll be able to test the new creatures for soul and consciousness "as we know it". Until that point, however, there's no reasonable method to test for the presence of absence of either attribute. Without a valid method for testing for that attribute, we can just as easily assume all creatures (including humans) have them or don't have them. This, of course, turns the moral and ethical dilemma back on to all existing domesticated species. If it's alright to have cats as pets, why not humans? why not half-human hybrids? what's the difference? if we assume the difference to be the ability to communicate in a reliable manner the belief in one's own self-awareness (not to prove the existance, just to indicate the beliefe that it is there) then the solution is easy: if they can't communicate that in any manner at all, then there's no dilemma.
... 6 months after the libPNG library that MS uses had this exploit patched.
yeah yeah, redundant reduntant...
does it run NetBSD?
It will once they build a toaster around it.
Do you ever get the feeling that there's an evil shadow government that controls everything...
I think that an evil shadow government bent on grinding the world's population beneath its heels and turning us all into mindless-zombie slave-workers would be more efficient and probably less distasteful than what we currently have. At least then we could have someone to blame, if ony in our heads during those precious five seconds when we're allowed to think anything we want.
In unrelated news, Alanis Morissette is now my bitch.
If I were you, I'd see a specialist about that, it might be infectious or malignant.
On the other hand we have a country with an extremely strong cult of personality around its leader. We have a populace that is brainwashed constantly about it being under threat and the evil of the USA.
:
When I first skimmed that, I thought you were talking about the US, and I actually read it as
"On the other hand we have a country with an extremely strong cult of personality around its leader. We have a populace that is brainwashed constantly about it being under threat of evil and attacks against the USA."
creepy isn't it?
However, I do agree with you that North Korea is potentially a much greater threat than any other we have right now.
Must have been a b*tch to invoke from the command line, with an asterisk in the name and all.
wh\*t d\* you me*n by th\*t?
According to that page, the -only- error is a single value which looks like a MS specific element. In other words, it's perfectly valid except for one element of one tag that's in there so IE doesn't panic.
other than that it is valid.
[*As a geek, not a flack, so don't get any silly ideas that IBM agrees with anything I say.]
Good to know that IBM didn't hire you to be a free lossless audio codec know-it-all, but what does that have with them agreeing or disagreeing with you?
...But I am wondering, what was behind your intention to dualistically separate my thoughts between dualism and monism?
Why, everything at all. Isn't that the point of philosophical comments?
[I get away with this 'cause she doesn't read /. :)]
As far as you know.
But how will they afford anything if you don't help them move their monies out of the frozen accounts? All those poor multimillionaires will starve to death because of your selfishness! Think of the Rich People!!
please define the term "conscious energy". Also, Dualism doesn't asnwer any of the questions that Monism can' answer, all it does is say "these two are seperate, so that's how it works".
So, you're saying there's a difference?
As a broke college student myself, a simple solution to this quandary is this: Get to know the employees and manager of a local, small, bookstore. Ask about magazines and how they get rid of the extra stock when the new stuff comes in. Most bookstores "strip" the covers off and toss the magazines, and many will look the other way if employees want to take a few of the magazines home for themselves or friends. This method won't get you endless supplies of everything on the rack, but you could probably get a copy of the economist and one or two others each month rather easily (sure you'll be a month behind, but that's not so bad really).
Godzilla's mother is a woman??? Uhm, it's not Ripley by any chance, right?
Actually, it is. Believe it or not.