But, unlike The Old Religion, you can have yourself educated to understand it. Of course it would be hard, but possible if you want to. With the Old Religion, you just could believe...
And, if anything that someone does not understand is a Religion, there are a whole lot of Religions out there...
I'd love for somebody who has more technical knowledge than me to look at his points and see if what he says is true or not -- assuming anything coming out of Darl's mouth is true."
Translation: I do not have enough knowledge to see if what Darl McBride is true o not, but as I do not like its conclussions I know it is false...
1.- A honest person from the First World receives an email from the empoverished nation of Nigeria.
2.- The email states that if the honest person helps someone to deal an big amount of money from the poor country, he will get a share.
3.- The honest person agrees to help in the theft, and is scammed.
Morally, I could not care less for the scammed. He was scammed because he tried to steal from someone, not because he wanted to be involved in a legal bussiness.
From anoter point of view, this is Darwinism at work: people so stupid to get involved would probably have its money lost in other ways.
Add to that
7) Most of the Japanese army was in China and unable to return to its country.
8) Interest to let the world -even the US allies- know that the US had such powerful weapon.
7)Interest in knowing what would happen if the bomb was dropped on a city. A post earlier has the pilot telling that he flied back to Hiroshima a few weeks later with a groups of scientists. It also does count that there were two models of bombs (big boy and fat man?) used, so they could check which was the most powerful.
And of course, had Japan surrendered (the only trouble before was that the Japanese refused to surrender inconditionally) there would have been no excuses that would have allowed the "experiment"
>In starving 3rd world countries, Free is a lot more economical and cost effective than 90$. Your talking like a blind follower if you believe for an instant that Gates really does care about the humanitarian causes you think hes so supportive of.
Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod, but I think that starving people is just more interested in some other things (as, for example, eating) that in which OS put in its PC.
And about the donations, just three thoughts:
I don't really know if they are done as a PR stunt or for true philantopism. But I think (and maybe the people receiving them think the same way) that the important thing is that they have been done.
If I needed help from a charity, I would be more interested in food/medical help/formation/tools for working that in a free Windows (yes, I know a PC is a tool for some people, but in 3rd world countries those are a minority).
No amount of money spent by Bill Gates in donations will make Windows better (nor worse).
Get ready for a redefinition of "democratic countries" to fit the US needs, then... : "The US forces, along with their democratic Chinese allies have gained control of G1 over the tyrannical forces of the UK"...
Right now while on the car I often have "the pleasure" of being forced the music of that in-duh-vidual that is in the car next to me with the music at its maximum volume.... soon some script kiddie will get to hear its music through my own speakers, too...
E. The original writting was deteriored naturally and, when the monk found it, it just was unreadable (or uncomplete) for the techniques he had at hand.
F. The Church just thought Archimedes was not so important.
We are used to machines and we know we need it for our way of life, but that does not mind that it has always been that way. The ancient Greed did valuate more the teoretical work than the practical, and did not think much of the manual labour (after all, that was the work for the slaves and the poorest, less educated people in the polis), so designing practical solutions was not a way to be in the elite. If Archimedes got famous was both by the number of their invents and because many of them become used in the war against Rome.
As the Church did get most of its values from the Greeks and Roman cultures, the idea that practical science was inferior to teory was adopted. Maybe the one who erased the original writtings knew what it was and, without being against its contents, just thought that it was the less valuable text in the library.
In addition, I doubt that any of that was heretic... what the Christian did was to defend the scientific ideas that were commonly accepted at the beginning of the era and use them as a base of its theology. There is no part in the Bible against the theory of blood circulation, and, more arguably, against heliocentrism; it was just that pre-Christianims scientifics were mainly against it.
The church just borrowed those theories to create its own "christian science" only that, due to the rigid social structure of the Middle Age, it was based more in accepting what your "bosses" did that in experimentation. That's the true reason of the actitude of the church against new discoveries, the discoveries themselves were not the trouble except that they pointed out that the church was wrong in these cases, and maybe could be wrong in others (the discoveries that did not oppose the stablished ideas were welcomed).
That said, is difficult that the Church Archymedes heretical. His ideas were well known when the christians took power and, being practical ideas, they could be easily checked. Also, being practical meant both that they were considered less important than the theroetical ones (an idea that was popular since Platon thought that the idea of the things were independent and more important that the actual things).
While I agree with you, I find the law a bad analogy of this... many times a law sets just the basic ideas and rules and leaves the details (fines, administrative procedures, etc.) to other texts (and these can even be different for different situations).
For example, in Spain, the law allows openning the shops several sundays each year, but it is up to the local governments to set how many and which ones.
5 years ago, when I was starting to work, some "big head" at my company read that the J2EE modularity meant that changes were easy to perform. Only that he did understood that that meant that no design was needed, because we just needed some quick code and if something did not work as expected, we could fix it later...
Right now I am the only one from the development team that has not left the company and the only one who dares to enter that damned project.....
Of course... stock options are made to be sold out. Anyway, think that these two men must have, by now, enough cash for the rest of their lives, so they can afford to wait. The usual worker won't accept that because he/she needs the cash in the nearly future. Also, if he/she does not pay to the social security, se/she is not covered by it. And the last issue is not all the bussiness have the same stock security (v.g., if the stock is not in the stock markets, its expected value offers no securities of its real, sell value).
Anyway, as I have said, I agree that the main issue is that it is the PR stunt (how did we get to know about this, if it isn't?) and not the tax question.
Ups... sorry, the "taxes on your salary" was really "Social Security" (Health system, Unemployment and Retirement funds). There is also a maximum for these payments in order to not fake the retirement income calculus (that is based in how much you you have paid)
It is an interesting question... in Spain there is a general minimum wage, some sector stablish additional (upper) minimum wages and also you have to count for a minimum wage for taxes related for your category (lets say, if you win $100 and it is legal, it can be that your work category forces you to pay taxes on your salary as if you win $200. For this there is also a maximum). Anyway, this is for workers and not for directives, whose laws are more loose.
They will get paid by stock options and alike, paying much less taxes for the same income... anyway, I think it is more a PR stunt ("we work because we are fierce of our product") than any other thing...
A relative of mine worked for a short time in the Tax Administration. One day, they received a man who had been imposed a fine come with several backpacks of euro cents, to pay the fine. AFAIK, the man did go away without waiting for the recount of the money (and now that I think about it, I wonder if he did get a receipt at all).
The funny thing is that his appeal against the fine had been won (but he did not know it yet) so they called him to take back their bagpacks (and he could count the money if he did not trust them!). Also, after being the main actor of that show in the maix Tax Office of the zone, (even the regional director came to the desk to know what was happening) I am pretty sure that all his fiscal life has been thoroughly scanned and, if he had something to hide, the Tax inspectors have found it.
If this code gives access to credit card data, I surely want it... only if the bank username and password to retrieve it is embedded. Think of it please. Retrieving this data is, at the end, just an SQL sentence. The gotcha is getting privileges enough to run the sentence, and I am sure the way to get them is not in the code... (and if it is, it only means that the bank software has critical holes).
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But, unlike The Old Religion, you can have yourself educated to understand it. Of course it would be hard, but possible if you want to. With the Old Religion, you just could believe...
And, if anything that someone does not understand is a Religion, there are a whole lot of Religions out there...
One of the possibilities would be to make a dialer, as for the modems. For example, making your phone call from 2am to 6am, while it is charging...
I'd love for somebody who has more technical knowledge than me to look at his points and see if what he says is true or not -- assuming anything coming out of Darl's mouth is true."
Translation: I do not have enough knowledge to see if what Darl McBride is true o not, but as I do not like its conclussions I know it is false...
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Let's see:
1.- A honest person from the First World receives an email from the empoverished nation of Nigeria. 2.- The email states that if the honest person helps someone to deal an big amount of money from the poor country, he will get a share. 3.- The honest person agrees to help in the theft, and is scammed.
Morally, I could not care less for the scammed. He was scammed because he tried to steal from someone, not because he wanted to be involved in a legal bussiness.
From anoter point of view, this is Darwinism at work: people so stupid to get involved would probably have its money lost in other ways.
If Japan had surrendered... how could the US have checked what would happen when an atomic device explodes in a city?
Add to that 7) Most of the Japanese army was in China and unable to return to its country. 8) Interest to let the world -even the US allies- know that the US had such powerful weapon. 7)Interest in knowing what would happen if the bomb was dropped on a city. A post earlier has the pilot telling that he flied back to Hiroshima a few weeks later with a groups of scientists. It also does count that there were two models of bombs (big boy and fat man?) used, so they could check which was the most powerful.
And of course, had Japan surrendered (the only trouble before was that the Japanese refused to surrender inconditionally) there would have been no excuses that would have allowed the "experiment"
Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod, but I think that starving people is just more interested in some other things (as, for example, eating) that in which OS put in its PC.
And about the donations, just three thoughts:
mmmmm.... thank you???
Get ready for a redefinition of "democratic countries" to fit the US needs, then... : "The US forces, along with their democratic Chinese allies have gained control of G1 over the tyrannical forces of the UK"...
Right now while on the car I often have "the pleasure" of being forced the music of that in-duh-vidual that is in the car next to me with the music at its maximum volume.... soon some script kiddie will get to hear its music through my own speakers, too...
E. The original writting was deteriored naturally and, when the monk found it, it just was unreadable (or uncomplete) for the techniques he had at hand.
F. The Church just thought Archimedes was not so important.
We are used to machines and we know we need it for our way of life, but that does not mind that it has always been that way. The ancient Greed did valuate more the teoretical work than the practical, and did not think much of the manual labour (after all, that was the work for the slaves and the poorest, less educated people in the polis), so designing practical solutions was not a way to be in the elite. If Archimedes got famous was both by the number of their invents and because many of them become used in the war against Rome.
As the Church did get most of its values from the Greeks and Roman cultures, the idea that practical science was inferior to teory was adopted. Maybe the one who erased the original writtings knew what it was and, without being against its contents, just thought that it was the less valuable text in the library.
In addition, I doubt that any of that was heretic... what the Christian did was to defend the scientific ideas that were commonly accepted at the beginning of the era and use them as a base of its theology. There is no part in the Bible against the theory of blood circulation, and, more arguably, against heliocentrism; it was just that pre-Christianims scientifics were mainly against it.
The church just borrowed those theories to create its own "christian science" only that, due to the rigid social structure of the Middle Age, it was based more in accepting what your "bosses" did that in experimentation. That's the true reason of the actitude of the church against new discoveries, the discoveries themselves were not the trouble except that they pointed out that the church was wrong in these cases, and maybe could be wrong in others (the discoveries that did not oppose the stablished ideas were welcomed).
That said, is difficult that the Church Archymedes heretical. His ideas were well known when the christians took power and, being practical ideas, they could be easily checked. Also, being practical meant both that they were considered less important than the theroetical ones (an idea that was popular since Platon thought that the idea of the things were independent and more important that the actual things).
As I geek, I will oppose totally... I can't stand needless!
... if it also distillated them :-)
.... with a spreadsheet???
While I agree with you, I find the law a bad analogy of this... many times a law sets just the basic ideas and rules and leaves the details (fines, administrative procedures, etc.) to other texts (and these can even be different for different situations).
For example, in Spain, the law allows openning the shops several sundays each year, but it is up to the local governments to set how many and which ones.
Didn't you just mispell "outsourced"?
5 years ago, when I was starting to work, some "big head" at my company read that the J2EE modularity meant that changes were easy to perform. Only that he did understood that that meant that no design was needed, because we just needed some quick code and if something did not work as expected, we could fix it later...
Right now I am the only one from the development team that has not left the company and the only one who dares to enter that damned project.....
Of course... stock options are made to be sold out. Anyway, think that these two men must have, by now, enough cash for the rest of their lives, so they can afford to wait. The usual worker won't accept that because he/she needs the cash in the nearly future. Also, if he/she does not pay to the social security, se/she is not covered by it. And the last issue is not all the bussiness have the same stock security (v.g., if the stock is not in the stock markets, its expected value offers no securities of its real, sell value).
Anyway, as I have said, I agree that the main issue is that it is the PR stunt (how did we get to know about this, if it isn't?) and not the tax question.
Ups... sorry, the "taxes on your salary" was really "Social Security" (Health system, Unemployment and Retirement funds). There is also a maximum for these payments in order to not fake the retirement income calculus (that is based in how much you you have paid)
It is an interesting question... in Spain there is a general minimum wage, some sector stablish additional (upper) minimum wages and also you have to count for a minimum wage for taxes related for your category (lets say, if you win $100 and it is legal, it can be that your work category forces you to pay taxes on your salary as if you win $200. For this there is also a maximum). Anyway, this is for workers and not for directives, whose laws are more loose.
They will get paid by stock options and alike, paying much less taxes for the same income... anyway, I think it is more a PR stunt ("we work because we are fierce of our product") than any other thing...
A relative of mine worked for a short time in the Tax Administration. One day, they received a man who had been imposed a fine come with several backpacks of euro cents, to pay the fine. AFAIK, the man did go away without waiting for the recount of the money (and now that I think about it, I wonder if he did get a receipt at all).
The funny thing is that his appeal against the fine had been won (but he did not know it yet) so they called him to take back their bagpacks (and he could count the money if he did not trust them!). Also, after being the main actor of that show in the maix Tax Office of the zone, (even the regional director came to the desk to know what was happening) I am pretty sure that all his fiscal life has been thoroughly scanned and, if he had something to hide, the Tax inspectors have found it.
If this code gives access to credit card data, I surely want it... only if the bank username and password to retrieve it is embedded. Think of it please. Retrieving this data is, at the end, just an SQL sentence. The gotcha is getting privileges enough to run the sentence, and I am sure the way to get them is not in the code... (and if it is, it only means that the bank software has critical holes).