-You're a chick (open minded lesbians -a plus) -You're a little cute -With big boobs -You can ignore those three requirements IF you are rich and only want a platonic marriage (but still want to lavish me with gifts)
I'll also have to ask my wife, but if you fit the above requirements, I'm sure she'll be cool with it.
"in France, authorities have shut down a blog called Hardcore, whose participants have allegedly violating a French law concerning violent speech. Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way."
First off, if your subject line is meant to call me a liar, you can suck my b@llz. If not, please disregard the previous sentence.
Second, consumer's buying habits do play into the equation but not to the degree that you imply. Granted, given the choice, most people (including non-americans) will opt for the less expensive product without regard to the social/economic consequences.
However, my argument was that the government is unfairly tilting the playing feild from American Companies (or companies that would spend the extra money to be green) towards cheap, foreign companies, who usually don't give a damn about doing socially-correct things. They are making the market un-fair because they punish American businesses by forcing them to adhere to rules and laws that the foreign compainies don't and then NOT penalizing the foreign companies.
The consumers wouldn't buy as much cheap crap made by socially-incorrect companies/countries if government DIDN'T ALLOW cheap foreign crap to be dumped here. The dumping is what kills off American and more socially-conscience companies.
They SHOULD enact more import tarriffs not to protect American companies but to level the playing field.
If they could cross that with Dark Age of Camelot, I might be interested... That would be GREAT! When the boss comes in, I COULD be slaying goblins AND Failure Reports!!;)
HA HA!!! The US has done it's best to kill it's industry! Between all the EPA, OSHA, and other agencies, American manufacturing is pretty much dead. I don't mind the regulations to make this a safer/cleaner place but, I do mind that they give a Hell-Hole like China MOST FAVORED TRADING status after killing American industry.
They enacted all sorts of anti-manufacturing laws/rules and open the doors wide open for other polluting countries to dump goods! They should level the playing field a little WITH pollution tarriffs.
It's not fair to American companies that they can't afford to manufacture in the US due to rules and then allow (basically) un-regulated countries to dump goods.
Really? You mean there isn't an adult on that end of the keyboard? Pity.
Judging by your posts, apparently not.
Now you have taken the route of mischaraterizing my statements to support your own weak argument? I never said religion itself was the reason for the decline of America's technical ability. I said the religious right was responsible for the decline.
You're correct, you said "religious right" whereas I used "religion/religious people" as a general reference to the same.
Are you claiming the religious right represents all religious people in America?
No, I assume they represent about the same percentage as the "religious-right-conspiracist" wackos.
No you can't otherwise you would have started your initial post with a debatable point. Instead you immediately launched into a personal attack.
Whereas you are superior to me because unlike my "personal attack" at you, your first statement was an attack against a whole GROUP of people.
...you obviously have a political adgenda Yeah, I don't like religion taught as science.
I can see your point, I mean, we understand EVERYTHING there is to know about science and take NOTHING on faith (like gravity on the otherside of the universe).
(and not much substance backing up your claim) Coming from someone who has provided NO substance, that isn't much of an insult.
I thought my explanation of how the various means of killing scientific/technical jobs and the resulting drop in scientific/technical students due to it was proof enough. You, on the otherhand, proved your point with this statement: When every scientific discovery is met by screeches and howls by the religious right, the general public is left with the impression that scientists are just another protected minority who are forcing their views on the rest of society. which is utter rubbish.
Please explain how potential Comp Sci, Physics, Math, Electrical Engineering and etcetera are being scared away due to the 'screeches and howls' of the religious right. I'll even give you an easy one- just how are potential biologists being reduced by the religious right?
You really believe Bush created global warming?
Um, re-read my statement and try not to ask stupid questions.
Perhaps you could try an argument doesn't start out with a personal attack. Then I might consider debating you like an adult.
An adult debate would be a waste of time. You're belief that religion is what is bringing down America's technical ability is just plain wrong. I could debate you but, you obviously have a political adgenda (and not much substance backing up your claim) so, it would be like me debating someone who's belief is that "Bush caused global warming which caused Katrina".
Okay, now it is +5 again. Trouble is, that doesn't change my argument one iota.
Well, obviously, there's enough morons out there (with mod points ATM) to get you back up to +5. It's ashame I used the last of my points yesterday to mod up more deserving comments.
It still doesn't change the fact that your argument is as dumb as the dumbest religious belief of the people whom you condem.
You guys are nuts! First post is some crackpot claiming that religion is what is killing off America's Technical fields. That is the most assinine thing I have heard! The only REAL science/religion debate I have heard is Evolution vs. Creation vs. Intelligent Design and the flap over FETAL stem-cells! How is that depressing the Comp Sci's or any other technical/scientific feild!?!? Moron!
WHAT'S KILLING OFF or technical/science feilds is several factors:
1) Outsourcing! - Who wants to learn programming/chip design when the jobs are all going overseas to cheaper labor??? Spend MANY thousand dollars on a degree that will be worthless because Chinese engineers get the jobs..
2) Patents/lawsuits - With the increased threats of legal actions due to the aforementioned AND THE DMCA, who wants to reverse engineer anything and develop a taste to the technical? Hack a chip into your X-Box, go to jail, do not pass go. Patents, Copyrights, & the DMCA is the most stifling thing to progress. With a strangle hold on progress, a handful of companies is preventing more companies from starting up... Less technology/scientific companies = less jobs... Less jobs = less people going into those feilds! These are creating more Lawyers than Engineers/Scientists
3) More student spots/aid are going to foreign students so (granted, lesser qualified) American students don't get a chance.
4) Laws, Regulation and Treaties has virtually killed off American Manufacturing so, with no real demand for technical/scientific people.
The problem with your argument is that even when we SHOW the decision-makers a better product and advise them against bad ones, they STILL tend to follow the FUD/glitz. Nothing in our operation REQUIRES us to use Windoz or Office, yet, the people ABOVE my level still insist on using Outlook and IE. (They are of course the ones who ALWAYS call me with problems). For the most part, the people at my level and below trust my knowledge and run Eudora and Firefox and I virtually NEVER have to fix their computers.
Usually, the only way to get anywhere is to let the businessman spend the $5M and get burned. THEN they are more willing to listen to you.
SAP is a Big-Azz database/inventory_control/accounts_payable/accoun ts_receivable/purchaseing/accounting/blah_blah_bla h monstrosity that makes my life HELL!!!! I hate it I hate it I hate it!
It is akin to Powerpoint, makes more work but looks glitzy! (at least our implementation is)
1) M$ usually does not tell anyone of flaws (until they are found and M$ ends up with egg on thier face) whereas Mozilla does. 2) Mozilla has a much shorter "fix time". 3) Symantic is a "windows company" who bread an butter is virus infections.
You can call it an 'opinion' but, common sense would call it:
1) FUD
-or-
2) Symantic is full of morons.
It's funny, in my offices, who calls me with virus/computer problems? - The IE & Outlook users!...and who never calls me with problems?- The Firefox & Eudora users!
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-You're a little cute
-With big boobs
-You can ignore those three requirements IF you are rich and only want a platonic marriage (but still want to lavish me with gifts)
I'll also have to ask my wife, but if you fit the above requirements, I'm sure she'll be cool with it.
HEE HEE! U r dum :)
...that you are retarded.
"in France, authorities have shut down a blog called Hardcore, whose participants have allegedly violating a French law concerning violent speech. Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way."
http://www.orwelltoday.com/police.shtml
...that was stifiling science in the US.
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Here's the reference: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16518
Mod me a troll/flamebait, I don't care. My point is STILL dead on.
I believe that TRSDOS (or at least it's predecessor) was written by BillyG and crew from scratch.
Nah, you're just paranoid.
:)
Now, I'm back to my daily powertrip- meta moderating
1) Burn it to a CD.
After that you can-
2) Copyright it so no one else can enjoy it and get the *AA to do the dirty work for you.
...for the SI meter standard.
"Never mind that every alternative to Office is currently buggy, slow, broken and lacking in modern features!" -I assume this was a typo.
Surely what you meant to type is: "Never mind that every version of Office is currently buggy, slow, broken and lacking in modern features!"
It seems that this has been forgotten in the recent years and almost ALL of the business-consumer contracts are all unfairly one-sided!
Typical contract-
The business's rights:
2) We do not garantee the service. We do not garantee the service against interruptions.
3) We can change the terms of the contract at any time to any condition as we want.
The Consumer's rights:
2) The consumer has no other rights
This isn't the way it's supposed to work. There is SUPPOSED to be compensation for term changes.
First off, if your subject line is meant to call me a liar, you can suck my b@llz. If not, please disregard the previous sentence.
Second, consumer's buying habits do play into the equation but not to the degree that you imply. Granted, given the choice, most people (including non-americans) will opt for the less expensive product without regard to the social/economic consequences.
However, my argument was that the government is unfairly tilting the playing feild from American Companies (or companies that would spend the extra money to be green) towards cheap, foreign companies, who usually don't give a damn about doing socially-correct things. They are making the market un-fair because they punish American businesses by forcing them to adhere to rules and laws that the foreign compainies don't and then NOT penalizing the foreign companies.
The consumers wouldn't buy as much cheap crap made by socially-incorrect companies/countries if government DIDN'T ALLOW cheap foreign crap to be dumped here. The dumping is what kills off American and more socially-conscience companies.
They SHOULD enact more import tarriffs not to protect American companies but to level the playing field.
If they could cross that with Dark Age of Camelot, I might be interested... That would be GREAT! When the boss comes in, I COULD be slaying goblins AND Failure Reports!! ;)
HA HA!!! The US has done it's best to kill it's industry! Between all the EPA, OSHA, and other agencies, American manufacturing is pretty much dead. I don't mind the regulations to make this a safer/cleaner place but, I do mind that they give a Hell-Hole like China MOST FAVORED TRADING status after killing American industry.
They enacted all sorts of anti-manufacturing laws/rules and open the doors wide open for other polluting countries to dump goods! They should level the playing field a little WITH pollution tarriffs.
It's not fair to American companies that they can't afford to manufacture in the US due to rules and then allow (basically) un-regulated countries to dump goods.
The parent is no longer modded as TROLL! I feel like less of a peon.
mwaggs, XFCE is my favorite manager. It's pretty dang'd good. (and small)
Enlightenment is pretty bloated but, like this 3d barf, some people don't care how slow their machine is as long as it 'looks cool'.
Funny, you make a negative (but true) comment and get modded as TROLL.
/. news on the latest XFCE or other minimal manager.
He's right, it does look silly! If I wanted eyecandy, I'd load windoz and turn on all the crap effects.
I haven't seen much
Really? You mean there isn't an adult on that end of the keyboard? Pity.
...you obviously have a political adgenda
Judging by your posts, apparently not.
Now you have taken the route of mischaraterizing my statements to support your own weak argument? I never said religion itself was the reason for the decline of America's technical ability. I said the religious right was responsible for the decline.
You're correct, you said "religious right" whereas I used "religion/religious people" as a general reference to the same.
Are you claiming the religious right represents all religious people in America?
No, I assume they represent about the same percentage as the "religious-right-conspiracist" wackos.
No you can't otherwise you would have started your initial post with a debatable point. Instead you immediately launched into a personal attack.
Whereas you are superior to me because unlike my "personal attack" at you, your first statement was an attack against a whole GROUP of people.
Yeah, I don't like religion taught as science.
I can see your point, I mean, we understand EVERYTHING there is to know about science and take NOTHING on faith (like gravity on the otherside of the universe).
(and not much substance backing up your claim)
Coming from someone who has provided NO substance, that isn't much of an insult.
I thought my explanation of how the various means of killing scientific/technical jobs and the resulting drop in scientific/technical students due to it was proof enough. You, on the otherhand, proved your point with this statement: When every scientific discovery is met by screeches and howls by the religious right, the general public is left with the impression that scientists are just another protected minority who are forcing their views on the rest of society. which is utter rubbish.
Please explain how potential Comp Sci, Physics, Math, Electrical Engineering and etcetera are being scared away due to the 'screeches and howls' of the religious right. I'll even give you an easy one- just how are potential biologists being reduced by the religious right?
You really believe Bush created global warming?
Um, re-read my statement and try not to ask stupid questions.
Perhaps you could try an argument doesn't start out with a personal attack. Then I might consider debating you like an adult.
An adult debate would be a waste of time. You're belief that religion is what is bringing down America's technical ability is just plain wrong. I could debate you but, you obviously have a political adgenda (and not much substance backing up your claim) so, it would be like me debating someone who's belief is that "Bush caused global warming which caused Katrina".
Okay, now it is +5 again. Trouble is, that doesn't change my argument one iota.
Well, obviously, there's enough morons out there (with mod points ATM) to get you back up to +5. It's ashame I used the last of my points yesterday to mod up more deserving comments.
It still doesn't change the fact that your argument is as dumb as the dumbest religious belief of the people whom you condem.
You guys are nuts! First post is some crackpot claiming that religion is what is killing off America's Technical fields. That is the most assinine thing I have heard! The only REAL science/religion debate I have heard is Evolution vs. Creation vs. Intelligent Design and the flap over FETAL stem-cells! How is that depressing the Comp Sci's or any other technical/scientific feild!?!? Moron!
WHAT'S KILLING OFF or technical/science feilds is several factors:
1) Outsourcing! - Who wants to learn programming/chip design when the jobs are all going overseas to cheaper labor??? Spend MANY thousand dollars on a degree that will be worthless because Chinese engineers get the jobs..
2) Patents/lawsuits - With the increased threats of legal actions due to the aforementioned AND THE DMCA, who wants to reverse engineer anything and develop a taste to the technical? Hack a chip into your X-Box, go to jail, do not pass go. Patents, Copyrights, & the DMCA is the most stifling thing to progress. With a strangle hold on progress, a handful of companies is preventing more companies from starting up... Less technology/scientific companies = less jobs... Less jobs = less people going into those feilds! These are creating more Lawyers than Engineers/Scientists
3) More student spots/aid are going to foreign students so (granted, lesser qualified) American students don't get a chance.
4) Laws, Regulation and Treaties has virtually killed off American Manufacturing so, with no real demand for technical/scientific people.
The religion argument is a crock.
The problem with your argument is that even when we SHOW the decision-makers a better product and advise them against bad ones, they STILL tend to follow the FUD/glitz. Nothing in our operation REQUIRES us to use Windoz or Office, yet, the people ABOVE my level still insist on using Outlook and IE. (They are of course the ones who ALWAYS call me with problems). For the most part, the people at my level and below trust my knowledge and run Eudora and Firefox and I virtually NEVER have to fix their computers.
Usually, the only way to get anywhere is to let the businessman spend the $5M and get burned. THEN they are more willing to listen to you.
GOOD! If they are dumb enough to run SAP, they are the perfect candidates for Windoz.
SAP is a Big-Azz database/inventory_control/accounts_payable/accoun ts_receivable/purchaseing/accounting/blah_blah_bla h monstrosity that makes my life HELL!!!! I hate it I hate it I hate it!
It is akin to Powerpoint, makes more work but looks glitzy! (at least our implementation is)
we all know that:
...and who never calls me with problems?- The Firefox & Eudora users!
1) M$ usually does not tell anyone of flaws (until they are found and M$ ends up with egg on thier face) whereas Mozilla does.
2) Mozilla has a much shorter "fix time".
3) Symantic is a "windows company" who bread an butter is virus infections.
You can call it an 'opinion' but, common sense would call it:
1) FUD
-or-
2) Symantic is full of morons.
It's funny, in my offices, who calls me with virus/computer problems? - The IE & Outlook users!
Here in Austin and someone had rented a plane and was flying over the Dell RR5 building with a banner that said:
"Watch out Dell, Sun X64 server is coming!"
Weird!