Read: People in charge of something _can_ decide to do it a certain way. On the other hand they have enough integrity to remove themselves from the job if they see someone better. (Note this implies that the person in charge can effectively decide about his/her successor, but it would also imply that the successor would immediately remove him/herself if he thinks he's not the right person for the job)
Yeah I know dreaming away....that would actually require people (including me) to be honest with themselves...
So you order a hot drink and the company should be responsible for switching your brain on to simply feel how hot it is by softly touching the cup or bringing your nose and lips close to it so that you will feel it's to hot for immediate consumption?
Oh right you order about 0.3l of hot coffee and immediately pour it down your throat in about 0.2secs, just like you do it with the coffee in the morning...yeah right...
How is driving drunk and running over some other person not murder?
Personally I see 2 things:
a) One is not allowed to drive under the influence of any drugs (drugs == simple list) b) A drunk person has murdered another person
The question alone of "Is 'manslaughter' by drunk driving murder?" implies that you deal with the existing cornercases of the law. Drop that and you will see that after all it's simply murder.
Killing in self-defense is also murder, people with integrity should be able to decide wether one can get away with that (Very roughly speaking: "Either die yourself or kill the other person" Is something you get away with if you didn't start the physical attack in the first place.)
OK, i read most of the stuff here but still don't get the point (I'm trying to have this as simple as possible),
(Assumption) 1. Fresh install the only user that has been created is now logged in
Case 1: I log in and downlaod $software that isn't a.pkg but rather a.app which I just drag'n drop to my applications folder. Now this installer goes wacko and installs some kernel module without asking
Case 2: I log in and download $software which is a.pkg, I double click it and the installer starts (without asking for my password, which I have never seen happening by now) Now this installer goes wacko and installs some kernel module without asking
Case 3 (and that's what I just tried and why I'm confused): I have a fresh install here and open up System Preferences (by what was said before I am an admin but not root) I go to the user Option and want to add a user Now unless I unlock the settings (where I have to enter MY PASSWORD which authenticates me as being allowed to run something as root) it wont't let me add users even thou I'm an Admin (ok this is apple software this is a potential candidate for not doing something nasty)
Now either the lock is just graphical gadgets that disabled the widgets and I could still do it without authenticating thru the API (which would then be a bug) or I simply can't do it without authenticating (which means to me that it isn't a bug in the API but rather in the usage)
How about a simple tic tac toe game*? (or similiar) I think nearly everyone on the planet knows that game and it is "challenging" enough to get rid of these people. I saw that once on a public accessible mac where you had to win the game (besides username and password) to log in, still not sure how that improved security in that case...
On the other hand that would clearly be against physically handicapped users.
* or whatever game is easy enough so that you can win
PS: and NO! Sudokus, Chess or other similiar games won't do it.
2. i think Hubbard genuinely believed in Xenu and all that crap.
Not sure about that but wasn't Hubbard in a managing position (before he started scientology), and said at some keynote "If you want to make real money you have to found a sect"?
(given I have no idea who what xenu is...going to wikipedia now)
> A hundred years ago you could have been excused for speaking something so > horrific on the grounds that the jury was still out. History has now rendered its > verdict. All of the fad philosophies of the late 19th and early 20th century were > fatally flawed.
So when was democracy invented again? Every idea has it's flaws but still I do have respect for these ideas (do not mix that up with admiring them) I'm just so full of it that everything that is not a democracy is bad.
And your* so much loved democracy put how many people to guantamo without even being charged for something just because there is a possibility?
*Note: "your democracy" I'm not saying you're from the US
It is just another idea that tries to create a perfect world.
Aside from that it is not a good idea to ban any product. This will just lead faster to more idiots.
About being anti-western, in my point of view being anti-western is actually a good thing although I do live in a western country, but when I look at what the western world does to the non-western countries it seems to me we are way off track by trying to
a) tell other people what's good and what's not good (tell as in force them to...) b) not trying to understand that there are other cultures that simply don't work in the same way
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There are FOUR lights.
but: There is no spoon!
idealistic totalitary.
Read: People in charge of something _can_ decide to do it a certain way. On the other hand they have enough integrity to remove themselves from the job if they see someone better. (Note this implies that the person in charge can effectively decide about his/her successor, but it would also imply that the successor would immediately remove him/herself if he thinks he's not the right person for the job)
Yeah I know dreaming away....that would actually require people (including me) to be honest with themselves...
So you order a hot drink and the company should be responsible for switching your brain on to simply feel how hot it is by softly touching the cup or bringing your nose and lips close to it so that you will feel it's to hot for immediate consumption?
Oh right you order about 0.3l of hot coffee and immediately pour it down your throat in about 0.2secs, just like you do it with the coffee in the morning...yeah right...
How is driving drunk and running over some other person not murder?
Personally I see 2 things:
a) One is not allowed to drive under the influence of any drugs (drugs == simple list)
b) A drunk person has murdered another person
The question alone of "Is 'manslaughter' by drunk driving murder?" implies that you deal with the existing cornercases of the law. Drop that and you will see that after all it's simply murder.
Killing in self-defense is also murder, people with integrity should be able to decide wether one can get away with that (Very roughly speaking: "Either die yourself or kill the other person" Is something you get away with if you didn't start the physical attack in the first place.)
I wonder - maybe Google should STOP INDEXING news,, period. Just stop, cold turkey. No more news feeds from ANY of the major papers.
How long would it take before the newspapers approached Google, with an offer to PAY GOOGLE to restart the news indexing?
hmmmm how long would it take before I switch the search engine?
OK, i read most of the stuff here but still don't get the point (I'm trying to have this as simple as possible),
.pkg but rather a .app which I just drag'n drop to my applications folder.
.pkg, I double click it and the installer starts (without asking for my password, which I have never seen happening by now)
(Assumption)
1. Fresh install the only user that has been created is now logged in
Case 1:
I log in and downlaod $software that isn't a
Now this installer goes wacko and installs some kernel module without asking
Case 2:
I log in and download $software which is a
Now this installer goes wacko and installs some kernel module without asking
Case 3 (and that's what I just tried and why I'm confused):
I have a fresh install here and open up System Preferences (by what was said before I am an admin but not root)
I go to the user Option and want to add a user
Now unless I unlock the settings (where I have to enter MY PASSWORD which authenticates me as being allowed to run something as root) it wont't let me add users even thou I'm an Admin
(ok this is apple software this is a potential candidate for not doing something nasty)
Now either the lock is just graphical gadgets that disabled the widgets and I could still do it without authenticating thru the API (which would then be a bug)
or I simply can't do it without authenticating (which means to me that it isn't a bug in the API but rather in the usage)
How about a simple tic tac toe game*? (or similiar) I think nearly everyone on the planet knows that game and it is "challenging" enough to get rid of these people. I saw that once on a public accessible mac where you had to win the game (besides username and password) to log in, still not sure how that improved security in that case...
On the other hand that would clearly be against physically handicapped users.
* or whatever game is easy enough so that you can win
PS: and NO! Sudokus, Chess or other similiar games won't do it.
Please enlighten me who is usefull when one is brought to a problem one can't fix?
Not sure about that but wasn't Hubbard in a managing position (before he started scientology), and said at some keynote "If you want to make real money you have to found a sect"?
(given I have no idea who what xenu is...going to wikipedia now)
> A hundred years ago you could have been excused for speaking something so
> horrific on the grounds that the jury was still out. History has now rendered its
> verdict. All of the fad philosophies of the late 19th and early 20th century were
> fatally flawed.
So when was democracy invented again? Every idea has it's flaws but still I do have respect for these ideas (do not mix that up with admiring them) I'm just so full of it that everything that is not a democracy is bad.
And your* so much loved democracy put how many people to guantamo without even being charged for something just because there is a possibility?
*Note: "your democracy" I'm not saying you're from the US
And exactly why is being a communist bad?
It is just another idea that tries to create a perfect world.
Aside from that it is not a good idea to ban any product. This will just lead faster to more idiots.
About being anti-western, in my point of view being anti-western is actually a good thing although I do live in a western country, but when I look at what the western world does to the non-western countries it seems to me we are way off track by trying to
a) tell other people what's good and what's not good (tell as in force them to...)
b) not trying to understand that there are other cultures that simply don't work in the same way
and you know that because...