Now that the Daleks are threatening to take over earth YET AGAIN It's an absolute cert Torchwood would have something sneaky up their sleeves and the dead giveaway is that Salford Uni quotes all its features in ancient Imperial units and not the modern Metric units they teach.
Consider:
"58ft Nova 2 rocket"
"They will travel at 3,500 miles per hour and receive intensive safety training* in advance of the flights."
I knew we'd beat those pesky pretentious trash-cans somehow - not even Daleks can trundle along that fast:-)
Requiring MS Formats in any governmental document is a basic violation of free speech, no better than the British paper/ink tax which helped motivate the American colonies to fight the War of Independence.
& I'm a Brit. Why should I have to pay an American company for the right to use anything on the UK government website (e.g. Tax returns, ironically enough)? Do I get to vote in US elections? Or help send MS into chapter 11 (as if)?
We should be thinking in terms of basic democratic rights, not market forces: Dococracy for the masses;-)
IP = Taxation Without Representation
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Speaking as a Brit: AFAIK the British tax on paper was a major instigator in the war of independence, because it represented a tax on free speech. IP protected file formats is the exact equivalent today.
IP protect file formats means MS is taxing us for the right to communicate. Every email containing a word document I receive is tantamount to saying I can't communicate unless I pay MS (and by that token, contribute to the US economy:-) ) for the privilage. Every JPG copied to a FAT formatted solid-state drive which is taxed by MS represents a limitation on Free speech etc.
That's why OpenStandards are the opposite of pre-Boston tea party, in fact they are the Boston tea party.
As you probably know, this argument is a variant of an old argument. The philosopher David Hulme employed it, but apparantly it may even be attributed to the ancient Greeks.
In my thinking, the major difficulty with the argument is that it assumes there is no relationship between God and us, nor between us and cruelty (or 'evil' as it is usually described).
Moreover it describes a version of God whose creation cannot affect him, nor be affected by him (since I guess this would impact upon his status as Omnipotent in your understanding). This kind of god certainly does not exist, nor is it the kind of god Christians believe in.
Christians believe in a God who is as passionate about you (and me) as he is about life itself; a God who grieves when we screw up (as I often do); a God who is committed to sorting it all out and has already taken the decisive step to make that possible.
The problem however, is with us not God. However 'omnipotent' actually applies to God, it is obvious the reason why most children starve is because of us - collectively. - whether it's because Aids or War has killed their parents or because the WTO has decided the parents aren't allowed to earn a living wage. Or because crops were wiped out because of global warming. etc.
Either way, we are the problem. But even if God obliterates us all (an ultimate way of preventing further evil), he won't win, because what he wants is to rebuild the broken relationship with us.
In the end, one proof of God's kindness is that he let you write your post in/. And that he let me write mine.
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Consider:
"58ft Nova 2 rocket"
"They will travel at 3,500 miles per hour and receive intensive safety training* in advance of the flights."
I knew we'd beat those pesky pretentious trash-cans somehow - not even Daleks can trundle along that fast :-)
-cheers!
[* 'cos Daleks are dangerous, obviously!]
Ultimately, the shareholders of Yahoo! are its users. If they lose their users, their business is worth nothing.
So the first question is:
How do I let Yahoo know I'm bailing out of their email services if they turn into MicroHoo! ?
Requiring MS Formats in any governmental document is a basic violation of free speech, no better than the British paper/ink tax which helped motivate the American colonies to fight the War of Independence.
;-)
& I'm a Brit. Why should I have to pay an American company for the right to use anything on the UK government website (e.g. Tax returns, ironically enough)? Do I get to vote in US elections? Or help send MS into chapter 11 (as if)?
We should be thinking in terms of basic democratic rights, not market forces: Dococracy for the masses
IP protect file formats means MS is taxing us for the right to communicate. Every email containing a word document I receive is tantamount to saying I can't communicate unless I pay MS (and by that token, contribute to the US economy :-) ) for the privilage. Every JPG copied to a FAT formatted solid-state drive which is taxed by MS represents a limitation on Free speech etc.
That's why OpenStandards are the opposite of pre-Boston tea party, in fact they are the Boston tea party.
Chuck the tea in the river, let's brew our own!
As you probably know, this argument is a variant of an old argument. The philosopher David Hulme employed it, but apparantly it may even be attributed to the ancient Greeks.
In my thinking, the major difficulty with the argument is that it assumes there is no relationship between God and us, nor between us and cruelty (or 'evil' as it is usually described).
Moreover it describes a version of God whose creation cannot affect him, nor be affected by him (since I guess this would impact upon his status as Omnipotent in your understanding). This kind of god certainly does not exist, nor is it the kind of god Christians believe in.
Christians believe in a God who is as passionate about you (and me) as he is about life itself; a God who grieves when we screw up (as I often do); a God who is committed to sorting it all out and has already taken the decisive step to make that possible.
The problem however, is with us not God. However 'omnipotent' actually applies to God, it is obvious the reason why most children starve is because of us - collectively. - whether it's because Aids or War has killed their parents or because the WTO has decided the parents aren't allowed to earn a living wage. Or because crops were wiped out because of global warming. etc.
Either way, we are the problem. But even if God obliterates us all (an ultimate way of preventing further evil), he won't win, because what he wants is to rebuild the broken relationship with us.
In the end, one proof of God's kindness is that he let you write your post in /. And that he let me write mine.
-cheers from jules @P.