and yet all your response does is dismiss me out of hand and lay virtue squarely in your court.
Your moral relativism only serves an empty rhetorical device that does not dispute my allegation, that left unchecked appeasement of thuggish behavior results in fascism. It only serves to distract attention from the inadequacy of your position. I don't believe I am mistaken about this fact or as you put it so succinctly "wrong". Perhaps you can enlighten me as to when appeasing such behavior is good for one's moral fiber and continued good health.
You then proceed to give me advice about having an honest chat and breaking out of some unnamed metaphysical box, which is more useless rhetoric.
Maybe you can elaborate as to what you think is 'just wrong', and which 'box' I am inhabiting.
I hope you won't dismiss it with the ever popular, "oh you wouldn't understand" rhetorical device.
Yes let's wait until the new fascists have consolidated their power to point out that they're evil.
The problem with disingenuous republican/neo-conservative discourse, is that they/you , general_re believe that the people you wish to confuse with empty rhetoric, operate without a sense of history, without memory for the step by step erosion of decency. Once decency erodes away men of your caliber proceed to savage humanity until such time as the lot of you are murdered and throw out of power. The cost of removing the selfish, crude and savage power structure such a group gives rise to, are the thousands who are tortured, raped and killed, in any of the pogroms and wars such groups concoct to satisy their greed.
Groups of such individuals always seem to believe, that "Yes, this time persecution of group X, really is justified." It always starts out as a private enterprise which slowly grows until it co-opts branches of the government for their purpose and from there the future. The sole aim of such groups is character assasination if a fee is not paid ( the fee may be political influence, votes or hard currency) It is a strange analogue of the local mafia protection racket.
Reminding the community about the inevitable consequence of appeasing such groups is crucial to the preservation of freedom, decency and humanity.
Fair and balanced does not equal fairly retarded.
If you do not question the methods by which these statistics were arranged to favor an OS renowned for its flaws over a whole group that have a great reputation for security then you are fairly judged as being retarded.
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The only problem with web based email is its lack of integration with many of nifty desktop integration features that most desktop clients enjoy. like right-clicking on a file to be sent to quickly begin composing a new message to send that file. Integration between email contacts, instant messaging and addressbook and appointments are presently lacking and all seem to involve a lot more clicking around with a web based interface.
Desktop clients are here to stay a while yet, but the linux still needs something like outlook that is fully integrated with the target desktop which is unlike the current versions of evolution
Allied cryptanalysis techniques involved finding both the enigma machine and the code sheets from a submarine and collections from other human intelligence assets. This let them have full access to german military communications. humint and dumb luck are hardly astounding technological advances on demand.
The atom bomb's initial idea was circulated since about 1910 the problem was a lack of refined uranium and lack of political will to fund such a test before the war. The war added the missing ingredients but the refinements came too late to be used in the actual war in europe and was only used as a field test on a broken oriental enemy that had already been firebombed into oblivion.
The one thing i'd like to add from all clients is a userbase.;) The multi-im clients come close to this functionality and as far as I'm concerned it is the only important feature they need to share. Text messaging everyone I know without inconveniencing them by asking them to switch to a network of their choice is ultimately the point of im. Open interfaces for enhanced features like games, picture and file sharing would also be nice but there is little reward for each of the hosts of these services if they can't guarantee commercial advertising.
count the number of allies, the number of tons of resources they had access to, the number of people they had access to and the relative land areas they controlled and their distance from the axis powers. Now do the same for the axis powers. The axis powers had far fewer resources , people and were not even in striking distance of USA, Canada and South America while both sides were even in terms of technological advancement. Once the war started america entered unscathed by the devastation in much of europe and also possessed native reservoirs of oil in the midwest which germany did not have access to. No stellar advancements were made in this era. The technologies used in that war were refinements that had been in development ever since the end of world war I. Germany ultimately failed after they ran out of fuel oil for their blitzkriegs when then they were stone walled by the russians with a great loss of personnel on both sides.
It is quite obvious you are unfamiliar with the details of the war and of the major turning points that led to the defeat of the axis powers.
Technology did not win ww2 in europe and new technology was not produced on demand. A few nacent inventions were refined over the course of the war and put into use as time and resources permitted.
You are free to believe in the myth of heroic scientists who can save a nation with just in time inventions and discoveries, it has however, nothing to do with the facts.
That's a logical fallacy that imbues scientists with the power to make discoveries and advances on demand. Technological advances occur based on the availability of scientists, raw materials, pre-cursor technologies and excess wealth to piss down many avenues of fruitless research so that one day the right solution 'may' be found. Once these technologies are discovered it may take some time for them to find uses in various aspects of a society's life including war. For example flight wasn't initially invented in search of war and neither was the phonograph/grammaphone invented in order to distribute music records to the masses.
When wars occur over the usual squabbles over limited resources advanced civilizations usually overcome less advanced civilizations. That is, it's best to think of technology's use in war as one thinks of evolution: the zebra didn't will itself to grow a longer neck over many generations but just that the zebras with longer necks ended up eating more and producing more offspring.
The rise and fall of human societies are governed by the same evolutionary processes as those that govern microbial societies.
So do we go kill some negroes because 50 cent, ice cube and crew occassionally recommend killing some racist cops? Don't you think they're getting access to similar media over there?
The true colors of self proclaimed color blind white people are revealed during a crisis. I guess we know who the bigots on slashdot are now.
You act like you're suprised that astronauts would act like this. the majority of them are hotshot fighter pilots with giant egos and sex drives to match. These are ppl with a proven physical resilience to high G travel and capable of staying alert with the disorientation that comes with extended zero-g missions. Astronauts are always in contact with their mission planners on earth who guide them through each and every step.
People overestimate the intelligence of the astronaut. Their most important asset is their physical conditioning and preparation and not the grey stuff in their heads.
I'm happy nasa is thinking in advance about social dynamics in such long haul missions.
Music is a luxury item and not something that will immediately cause the collapse of society like food, shelter and clothing. If the pricing is wrong wait them out.
Remember, impulsive cool people, waiting them out is the part of free markets you seem to have forgotten.
Maybe we're all having problems defining life because it is a subjective definition like good and evil. So maybe it is better to think as ancient people did and define everything as being alive or go with my topic and define everything as being dead. Or just use a neutral words to describe recognizable structures like cell and dna and human without attaching subjective connotations like life and death.
If you really think about it replication in the context of life does not mean what we usually take it to mean i.e. an identical copy. Most things we take as alive produce something similar to the parent and often requires more than one individual to do it, while individual prions considered by most to be dead actually do themselves carry out the task of forming identical replicas from their surroundings.
If magic pixie dust were invented it would be such a waste to spend all this money on conventional boosters. Come on NASA! Drop what's known to work and concentrate on the pixie dust formula.
Slashdot Mirror
and yet all your response does is dismiss me out of hand and lay virtue squarely in your court.
Your moral relativism only serves an empty rhetorical device that does not dispute my allegation, that left unchecked appeasement of thuggish behavior results in fascism. It only serves to distract attention from the inadequacy of your position. I don't believe I am mistaken about this fact or as you put it so succinctly "wrong". Perhaps you can enlighten me as to when appeasing such behavior is good for one's moral fiber and continued good health.
You then proceed to give me advice about having an honest chat and breaking out of some unnamed metaphysical box, which is more useless rhetoric.
Maybe you can elaborate as to what you think is 'just wrong', and which 'box' I am inhabiting.
I hope you won't dismiss it with the ever popular, "oh you wouldn't understand" rhetorical device.
Yes let's wait until the new fascists have consolidated their power to point out that they're evil.
The problem with disingenuous republican/neo-conservative discourse, is that they/you , general_re believe that the people you wish to confuse with empty rhetoric, operate without a sense of history, without memory for the step by step erosion of decency. Once decency erodes away men of your caliber proceed to savage humanity until such time as the lot of you are murdered and throw out of power. The cost of removing the selfish, crude and savage power structure such a group gives rise to, are the thousands who are tortured, raped and killed, in any of the pogroms and wars such groups concoct to satisy their greed.
Groups of such individuals always seem to believe, that "Yes, this time persecution of group X, really is justified." It always starts out as a private enterprise which slowly grows until it co-opts branches of the government for their purpose and from there the future. The sole aim of such groups is character assasination if a fee is not paid ( the fee may be political influence, votes or hard currency) It is a strange analogue of the local mafia protection racket.
Reminding the community about the inevitable consequence of appeasing such groups is crucial to the preservation of freedom, decency and humanity.
So.. this would be how you get a beowulf cluster of slashdotters to do your job.
Impressive.
Who is the douchebag doing the announcement?
Fair and balanced does not equal fairly retarded. If you do not question the methods by which these statistics were arranged to favor an OS renowned for its flaws over a whole group that have a great reputation for security then you are fairly judged as being retarded.
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obviously i can't tilt slashes any more =) so this is an example of a refractive index of 1
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This is weird so the hullabaloo
fascinating.. so what the NRA says is true apparently guns don't kill people =) shrapnel does
jmorris decides what is and isn't insane because he has guns.
I think thulycides(?sp) said it best
"The strong do what they will,
The weak suffer what they must"
So if you want to think freely you are abandoning the strength of the horde and will inevitably be crushed.
Ignorance is Strength friends!
Cheers
The only problem with web based email is its lack of integration with many of nifty desktop integration features that most desktop clients enjoy. like right-clicking on a file to be sent to quickly begin composing a new message to send that file. Integration between email contacts, instant messaging and addressbook and appointments are presently lacking and all seem to involve a lot more clicking around with a web based interface. Desktop clients are here to stay a while yet, but the linux still needs something like outlook that is fully integrated with the target desktop which is unlike the current versions of evolution
Allied cryptanalysis techniques involved finding both the enigma machine and the code sheets from a submarine and collections from other human intelligence assets. This let them have full access to german military communications. humint and dumb luck are hardly astounding technological advances on demand. The atom bomb's initial idea was circulated since about 1910 the problem was a lack of refined uranium and lack of political will to fund such a test before the war. The war added the missing ingredients but the refinements came too late to be used in the actual war in europe and was only used as a field test on a broken oriental enemy that had already been firebombed into oblivion.
The one thing i'd like to add from all clients is a userbase. ;) The multi-im clients come close to this functionality and as far as I'm concerned it is the only important feature they need to share. Text messaging everyone I know without inconveniencing them by asking them to switch to a network of their choice is ultimately the point of im. Open interfaces for enhanced features like games, picture and file sharing would also be nice but there is little reward for each of the hosts of these services if they can't guarantee commercial advertising.
count the number of allies, the number of tons of resources they had access to, the number of people they had access to and the relative land areas they controlled and their distance from the axis powers. Now do the same for the axis powers. The axis powers had far fewer resources , people and were not even in striking distance of USA, Canada and South America while both sides were even in terms of technological advancement. Once the war started america entered unscathed by the devastation in much of europe and also possessed native reservoirs of oil in the midwest which germany did not have access to. No stellar advancements were made in this era. The technologies used in that war were refinements that had been in development ever since the end of world war I. Germany ultimately failed after they ran out of fuel oil for their blitzkriegs when then they were stone walled by the russians with a great loss of personnel on both sides.
It is quite obvious you are unfamiliar with the details of the war and of the major turning points that led to the defeat of the axis powers.
Technology did not win ww2 in europe and new technology was not produced on demand. A few nacent inventions were refined over the course of the war and put into use as time and resources permitted.
You are free to believe in the myth of heroic scientists who can save a nation with just in time inventions and discoveries, it has however, nothing to do with the facts.
That's a logical fallacy that imbues scientists with the power to make discoveries and advances on demand. Technological advances occur based on the availability of scientists, raw materials, pre-cursor technologies and excess wealth to piss down many avenues of fruitless research so that one day the right solution 'may' be found. Once these technologies are discovered it may take some time for them to find uses in various aspects of a society's life including war. For example flight wasn't initially invented in search of war and neither was the phonograph/grammaphone invented in order to distribute music records to the masses.
When wars occur over the usual squabbles over limited resources advanced civilizations usually overcome less advanced civilizations. That is, it's best to think of technology's use in war as one thinks of evolution: the zebra didn't will itself to grow a longer neck over many generations but just that the zebras with longer necks ended up eating more and producing more offspring.
The rise and fall of human societies are governed by the same evolutionary processes as those that govern microbial societies.
Soooo would you say the patent threat level is orange? or yellow?
And so the battle for the control of the lagrange points begin!
I see no other reason for this sudden interest in a stereoscopic view of a big bright ball of plasma
So do we go kill some negroes because 50 cent, ice cube and crew occassionally recommend killing some racist cops? Don't you think they're getting access to similar media over there?
The true colors of self proclaimed color blind white people are revealed during a crisis. I guess we know who the bigots on slashdot are now.
My god this article summary should be held up as the shining example of summaries.
Now let's hope it doesn't get duped in the next few hours.
You act like you're suprised that astronauts would act like this. the majority of them are hotshot fighter pilots with giant egos and sex drives to match. These are ppl with a proven physical resilience to high G travel and capable of staying alert with the disorientation that comes with extended zero-g missions. Astronauts are always in contact with their mission planners on earth who guide them through each and every step.
People overestimate the intelligence of the astronaut. Their most important asset is their physical conditioning and preparation and not the grey stuff in their heads.
I'm happy nasa is thinking in advance about social dynamics in such long haul missions.
In other words:
Slow newsday
Music is a luxury item and not something that will immediately cause the collapse of society like food, shelter and clothing. If the pricing is wrong wait them out.
Remember, impulsive cool people, waiting them out is the part of free markets you seem to have forgotten.
Maybe we're all having problems defining life because it is a subjective definition like good and evil. So maybe it is better to think as ancient people did and define everything as being alive or go with my topic and define everything as being dead. Or just use a neutral words to describe recognizable structures like cell and dna and human without attaching subjective connotations like life and death.
If you really think about it replication in the context of life does not mean what we usually take it to mean i.e. an identical copy. Most things we take as alive produce something similar to the parent and often requires more than one individual to do it, while individual prions considered by most to be dead actually do themselves carry out the task of forming identical replicas from their surroundings.
If magic pixie dust were invented it would be such a waste to spend all this money on conventional boosters. Come on NASA! Drop what's known to work and concentrate on the pixie dust formula.
The end of the evil empire!
The test ended rather abruptly when it was found the motherboards were not equipped with guns as ordered.
Move along. Nothing to see here folks.
if you think they're going to fight for their right to party you're quite mistaken MTV man