SHUT UP TROLL. I can only assume that the door not only got you on the ass on the way out but also wrapped up your undies in some kind of freakish Gordian knot that you are unable to extricate yourself from. Nice troll. Go away. You're obviously part of the problem.
I agree with the other poster, what the heck is this kind of Trolling? it is because of you (MikeURL) that the comments on Slashdot have a very low SNR.
The supermarket chain. Ubiquitous, cheap, and very, very, very rich.
I find ASDA (now owned by WalMart) cheaper than Tesco... in fact I find Netto, Iceland and Little cheaper than Tesco.
Just as an example I just bought a bag (800 gr) of prawns at £4 at iceland. That is the same price as in Mexico where I bought 1K for MX$100 which is roughly equal to £5.34995 acording to Xe.com , So I can say that they where cheaper in UK than in Mexico (of course the iceland ones where frozen and the Mexico ones where fresh just out of the water).
Anyway... I am way off topic but yes, I also find interesting why would they add region code to a encrypted DVD that can only be played by a small number of special DVD players...
And yes I am glad it happened, again the only thing that will happen is that the reviewers will be bothered and the people who really wants to pirate the movies will find the way to do it.
After reading your post I remembered the Constantine Emperor, unfortunately my only "historic" references are from Anne Rice science fiction books that in some way or another position the characters at certain historic eras.
It was quite interesting to read what I think it is an informed (more than mine) post about it. To try to come a bit on topic I would ask what would be the differences in science development had the Catholic religion been replaced by another religion. I mean, Catholisism brought the Inquisition and the so called Dark Ages (again I am just stating this from my very limited history knowledge) and in one way or another opaqued science development trough the ages. While to the best of my knowledge, religions as the Egypcian or Aztec promoted science (even before it was called science) on their own.
Now that the moderation sheepherd has gone to another story I can reply to you.
If I stated that I did not care to be moded down was because I *knew* I was going to be moded down. I have just replied to another story about Google being evil (one of the taboos in slashdot) and I also moded up a comment defending (in some way) Intelligent Design (something I am against) as interesting.
I mentioned the karma thing because I am tired to see comments that are indeed insighful or interesting being moded at -1 troll just because they do not follow the typical trends (Linux/Apple/Google/OpenSource is good Microsoft/SCO/**AA/Copyrights is bad).
The fact that you do not agree with what other poster is saying does not means that her comment is a troll. In a perfect world moderators wont be biased against an ideal. And that is why moderation does not works, and it does not matter the level of meta-meta-meta moderation slashdot use it will never be allright because the same people that moderates comments is the one that is meta**n-moderating.
If you read my comment again you will see that I was just expressing my opinion (as valid or invalid as anyone elses opinion), and you will find that I stated a fact about the iPod "you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) " but it is because I bashed Apple that I got moded as a troll.
Just take a look at this thread you can see all the "anti-religion" comments moded at +4 at least, and all the "pro-religion" moded +2 at most (which was the initial karma points of the poster).
The history of reborn sun gods is ancient. Far older than Christianity *or* the Christian god.
That reminds me something I was discussing with a friend after seeing the "last temptation of Christ" movie and reading Anne Rice book "Blood and Gold" (about Vampire Marius life).
We where wondering why did a religion from a poor, non important country/place like Israel (please correct me if I am wrong in the facts) or the Jews (in some way a minority) came to conquer the world?, If you see all the religions "available" at that moment in the history, you have the Greek gods, the Roman Gods, the Nordic Gods, Egyptian gods and the pre-American gods (Mayan, Aztecs, etc) or one of the oriental religions.
Being (on that time) the Romans the most powerful civilization, its religion is the one that *should* have dominated humankind (at least, being spread). In contrast with the Catholic religion (I am not sure if Catholic is the generic term of that religion) other religions where in better arming with nature, some of them did not claimed that God(s) put us in the world to use all the other organisms to our will until we spend all the natural resources. Some of them even taught that the human is a part of the whole nature system.
Also, unlike Catholicism, other religions were not as "machista" (don't know the exact word in English) as it is. If you read the bible or study (as I did) 9 years in a catholic school you will realize that this religion is focused on men (masculine) and Women tends to be just something men owns in order to continue his legacy.
Now, Catholic religion principles are staying behind our society's principles. It is interesting to see how (like with a constitution written 100 years ago for our today society) Catholics are patching the basic ideas (like the amendments or appendixes, btw I am talking about Mexican constitution, not American, that is a flame war for another thread) in their basic rules book (the bible).
My opinion is that it would have been better if other religion (like Greek or Roman) was the one spread around the world.
P.s. I am really sorry for my great engrish, I hope I don't make anyone blind with it:)
A user with negative reputatio is the one with bad karma or one of those troll IDs around here (adolf hitroll or CmdrTactoTroll or whatever).
I find nothing wrong on the current way of publishing the stories, If the story is nice (and I find B.B. sotires interesting) then it does not matter who posted it.
And as you said, Slashdot gives the person who took the time to submit the story a small acknowledgement by publishing a link.
If a user submit lots of good stories, then he should have more homepage links!
I don't understand people that say that some user is missusing slashdot because they are submiting good stories. A missuse would be to submit lots of crap (imagine hundreds of fake stories in an hour or so).
Are some forms of discrimination unacceptable to you, or are you cool with all of them?
Do not waste your time on this. On this story comments you can see the lack of maturity in a majority of slashdoters. They do not want to see the real state of Google or any other companies. I am amazed at the level of stupidity people show just because someone told them that X company is "good" or "cool" then they should follow like sheeps.
Take for example, this comment: So, it's not the companies that are doing anything wrong so much as the laws need to be changed. But those are very, very different things. Getting mad at Google for doing this would be akin to setting up a boardgame and getting mad if people follow the letter (if not spirit) of the rules.
So, this means, if it is Microsoft, SCO, SONY or any other "not good" company doing something to increase their profit then it is terrible! they are doing illegal things and they should be sued into oblivion.
But if it is Google or Apple or whatever other "good" company, then it is ok to do it, they are doing what they need to do as a public traded company.
It is stupid, the google "do no evil" moto is plain PR crap. Google do not care to be "evil" with their USERS because that would not help them on anything (until now). But if you see it from the side of its CUSTOMERS (the ones that buy the ad space) google is as bad ass as any other company.
And now, that they are selling some service to the end USERS, they will start to screw them out until they get all their money.
Anyway, it is nice to see someone not idiotized with the Google halo, at the end, google is a company.
The problem is in the current capitalism model, as someone else said before, Google, Microsoft, Apple and all of them are companies, publicly shared, and they exist to make money. I remember a story called Nemesis from Isaac Asimov, in which he portraits an intelligent planet system that is composed of all the small microorganisms of the planet, each one of them acts autonomously but they all form a big mind.
This same phenomena happens with economic entities, you, me and everyone that works on them do our work, and we may even be good on our acts but the bigger entity, the "company" is what is evil by its own definition. So, when you join the acts of all the persons, the company gets its own "mind" and acts in an evil way.
Nice that you say that, I remember reading sometime ago (before the internet bubble crash and all that) that some computer programming offices had billiard (pool) tables because it was good for the eye.
Now, I am a 8-ball player, and also a computer geek (I am doing my C.S. PhD now, so usually I am 12 hours in front of a computer), after reading the article I mentioned previously I put attention in the movements of my eyes when playing pool and I found very interesting the way you exercise the eyes muscles when you play, as you keep focusing on different balls your eyes focus at different distances.
Besides of that, I remember a course my father bought which provided some exersises for the eyes. The excersise "tool" was a cord with several marbles attached at some distance and the exersises consisted in focusing those marbles at different phases. This, I saw is what you do when you play pool.
Unfortunately now that I am doing my PhD I do not have time to play pool (and, now that I live in UK I hate the kid sized billiard tables that britons use... and the fact that you must pay £1 for just 1 game, when I payed like $3 for an hour of play back in Mexico), but I will recommend everyone who uses a computer for long periods of time to spend at least 30 minutes playing it. It is a fun game and you can even play it alone.
And like he foresaw, OSX is now at the nexus of modern computing. I mean, everyone here has an OSX machine, and when was the last time you saw a non-osx computer in an office?
Apple products are like Puma products, overpriced. There are a lot of better products which cost less on the market. I have used OSX and I do not see the benefits, for me it is a resource munching OS.
the iPod is again an overprized gizmo, you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) and which are not as overpriced as iPod.
Of course I will be moded down but unlike all the slashdot sheep-teenager with mod points I do enjoy expressing my opinion.
I get really pissed off about every person from the USA that comes to Cancun, Los Cabos or any other place in Mexico believeing they can speak in English. I mean, they go to a restaurant or any other place and they do not TRY to speak in Spanish, god damm it, you are in Mexico, you choosed to spend your vacactions here, learn the fucking language... but noooooo, they get offended and angry if people do not answer in English.
The same happened at a McDonalds in France, I was there for christmas, and although I don't speak French, I learned some basic phrases like "Je Voudré un", after I tried to ask for my food on french, the till lady answered in english "Excuse me?" and then I ended ordering in english. Almost at the same time, a USA woman went to the till at the side and asked in english for something, of course the French lady just answered something in French, and the USA women got angry. WTF, if you do not want to learn from another culture (or at least try to learn), stay on your god damn country.
I live in the US, I can not see anything the government is doing to indicate it is using religeon to control people.
Then you should stop sticking your head inside your ass:
"I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
We are no longer fighting a great enemy, we are asserting a great principle: that the talents and dreams of average people - their warm human hopes and loves - should be rewarded by freedom and protected by peace. We are defending the nobility of normal lives, lived in obedience to God and conscience, not to government.
Religion had its time before science started to explain the natural world phenomena. In the beggining humans attributed the power of thunder, earth and fire to mighty gods, it is on our nature to attribute to an allmigthy deitity the things that we can not (yet) understand.
Science has progressed a lot since those times. Since the inquisition or the Roman or Greek (or Mayan, or any other kind of ) gods. There was a small development from politheist to monotheist religions. And the worshiped books are nothing more than laws used to rule over the people that did not believed (or did not have) an established society
It is because of this that Religion has had its time. Of course, our current society structure is not optimal, it is not the best but it is better. Science might also not explain all things we see in the universe but instead of going backwards and begin to attribute them again the this "deitity" humans should continue to develop knowledge.
I do not have a position as neutral as yours about Religion. For me, religion sucks, all kind of religion is stupid and do not have any fundaments or basis. Religion has been used only as means of control, this can be seen now on your current government (if you are from USA). Your president is seeding terror on you by means of religion. And this is because your politics and your society is deeply rooted on religious grounds.
Take a look at your dollar bills "In god we thrust", how can a country be cosmopolite if there is a predominant religion which I bet your constitution embraces.
I repeat, religion sucks, someone will surely tell me that religion does not sucks by itself but it is men that use it for their own convenience. But, the way I see it, that has been the role of religion since human created it. It is a tool (and very powerful) to control masses of people.
Religion should not be in churches or any other place, it should be erradicated, it should be labeled as a thing for non intelligent minds.
I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France
Just to add a bit of perspective over here. I am from Mexico, I am living on UK nowadays. I went to France last christmas and, although I loved the place (the buildings, Eifel tower and all that) let me tell you that, french people always tend to "look down" on non french. It does not matter their nationality.
I had some french friend living in the UK, although she was "nice", she and other (men/women) french friends always had a "dignity" air on them like if they where perfect.
I had a U.S. friend also, she was kind of dumb (more of the illiterate kind, as the average U.S. American didnt knew anything but what CNN/Fox told her), but when she went out with some friends, she was nice and overall in a better mood than the french.
I am not trying to bash you or anything. It is just that ( and I am not sure if you are french), french people do not make themselves nice to others, they do not try, at the personal level, if someone makes something in a way they are not used, it means the others are wrong or kind of dumb. They are elitists. Man, how I hate that.
People from USA on the other side is stupid. I am sorry to say this, but I think it is the true, but (some of them) after going out of their country, they realize that USA is not the world.
On the "How Do You Take Your Star Wars?" section, they just compare DVD vs film and video game. It would be interesting how are the results of "star wars torrent" hehe, I guess those hits where quite higher
I agree, I think what he saw was just the result of the typical supply/demand theory. The demand/supply combination of that specific word stated an average value for it. He payed $0.10 for a steak of 15,000 hits per day.
When he increased the price to $1.00 he also changed the demand, so of course all the "market" (for that specific word) was modified, until his demand changes where assimilated by the market. When he lowered again the price, the supply/demand was not the initial one, and that was the reason of the changes in the number of clicks. With the new combination, $0.40 per click was "worth" 1200 clicks.
The only missing piece is (and was not clear for me from the article) if the original site clicks decreased after doing the price change.
that ScuttleMonkey has posted most of the Beatles-Beatles stories. Do y'all realize that this works against your theory? If we were getting paid wouldn't every editor be doing it? Just asking:)
I have to agree with other post, it may be possible that this editor is making some profit outside slashdot via a nice arrangement with the story poster. You'd better watch out seriously.
Maybe you should limit the number of stories per person accepted monthly. Just a thought...
i think most of the world now uses the definition of 1 billion = 1000 million
You must be from the USA uh?
Just a hint, in the country at the south of yours we use 1 billion = 1 million of millions. And I am sure in almost all the counties at the south of mine.
It is always pretty funny to see a case of classical northamerican ignorance:-)
You know mate, governments on some EU countries have to find ways to spend their high taxes (I am looking at you Britain).
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From a practical standpoint, a language is exactly as fast as its fastest implementation on a platform available to you.
I agree with you on that, but I was only pointing that the closed nature of the Java VM implementation is what is impeding its development.
Take for example C/C++ (I love both of them, I'm currently programming wxWidgets/SDL/OpenGL as hobby =o), how many compilers (commercial or free) exist? Borland C++, Microsoft VisualC, MetroWorkers CodeWarrior, Gnu C , Watcom, Symantec Digital Mars, etc.
They all depart from a standard language specification and implement compilers which are better/worse.
If we could have the same thing for Java (or any other language) I am sure we could have 2 or 3 virtual machines competing against each other.
I am currently using Java Mustang beta build and I find it really faster than the 5 version. I loved the introduction of generic types in 1.5.
Personally I hope the the GCJ compiler gets better, and although I have never used it I would like to know how is it nowadays. But if it needs the JVM to run the programs then we are chained to Sun's implementation.
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SHUT UP TROLL.
I can only assume that the door not only got you on the ass on the way out but also wrapped up your undies in some kind of freakish Gordian knot that you are unable to extricate yourself from.
Nice troll. Go away. You're obviously part of the problem.
I agree with the other poster, what the heck is this kind of Trolling? it is because of you (MikeURL) that the comments on Slashdot have a very low SNR.
The supermarket chain. Ubiquitous, cheap, and very, very, very rich.
I find ASDA (now owned by WalMart) cheaper than Tesco... in fact I find Netto, Iceland and Little cheaper than Tesco.
Just as an example I just bought a bag (800 gr) of prawns at £4 at iceland. That is the same price as in Mexico where I bought 1K for MX$100 which is roughly equal to £5.34995 acording to Xe.com , So I can say that they where cheaper in UK than in Mexico (of course the iceland ones where frozen and the Mexico ones where fresh just out of the water).
Anyway... I am way off topic but yes, I also find interesting why would they add region code to a encrypted DVD that can only be played by a small number of special DVD players...
And yes I am glad it happened, again the only thing that will happen is that the reviewers will be bothered and the people who really wants to pirate the movies will find the way to do it.
Thank you for your reply.
After reading your post I remembered the Constantine Emperor, unfortunately my only "historic" references are from Anne Rice science fiction books that in some way or another position the characters at certain historic eras.
It was quite interesting to read what I think it is an informed (more than mine) post about it. To try to come a bit on topic I would ask what would be the differences in science development had the Catholic religion been replaced by another religion. I mean, Catholisism brought the Inquisition and the so called Dark Ages (again I am just stating this from my very limited history knowledge) and in one way or another opaqued science development trough the ages. While to the best of my knowledge, religions as the Egypcian or Aztec promoted science (even before it was called science) on their own.
Now that the moderation sheepherd has gone to another story I can reply to you.
If I stated that I did not care to be moded down was because I *knew* I was going to be moded down. I have just replied to another story about Google being evil (one of the taboos in slashdot) and I also moded up a comment defending (in some way) Intelligent Design (something I am against) as interesting.
I mentioned the karma thing because I am tired to see comments that are indeed insighful or interesting being moded at -1 troll just because they do not follow the typical trends (Linux/Apple/Google/OpenSource is good Microsoft/SCO/**AA/Copyrights is bad).
The fact that you do not agree with what other poster is saying does not means that her comment is a troll. In a perfect world moderators wont be biased against an ideal. And that is why moderation does not works, and it does not matter the level of meta-meta-meta moderation slashdot use it will never be allright because the same people that moderates comments is the one that is meta**n-moderating.
If you read my comment again you will see that I was just expressing my opinion (as valid or invalid as anyone elses opinion), and you will find that I stated a fact about the iPod "you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) " but it is because I bashed Apple that I got moded as a troll.
Just take a look at this thread you can see all the "anti-religion" comments moded at +4 at least, and all the "pro-religion" moded +2 at most (which was the initial karma points of the poster).
The history of reborn sun gods is ancient.
:)
Far older than Christianity *or* the Christian god.
That reminds me something I was discussing with a friend after seeing the "last temptation of Christ" movie and reading Anne Rice book "Blood and Gold" (about Vampire Marius life).
We where wondering why did a religion from a poor, non important country/place like Israel (please correct me if I am wrong in the facts) or the Jews (in some way a minority) came to conquer the world?, If you see all the religions "available" at that moment in the history, you have the Greek gods, the Roman Gods, the Nordic Gods, Egyptian gods and the pre-American gods (Mayan, Aztecs, etc) or one of the oriental religions.
Being (on that time) the Romans the most powerful civilization, its religion is the one that *should* have dominated humankind (at least, being spread). In contrast with the Catholic religion (I am not sure if Catholic is the generic term of that religion) other religions where in better arming with nature, some of them did not claimed that God(s) put us in the world to use all the other organisms to our will until we spend all the natural resources. Some of them even taught that the human is a part of the whole nature system.
Also, unlike Catholicism, other religions were not as "machista" (don't know the exact word in English) as it is. If you read the bible or study (as I did) 9 years in a catholic school you will realize that this religion is focused on men (masculine) and Women tends to be just something men owns in order to continue his legacy.
Now, Catholic religion principles are staying behind our society's principles. It is interesting to see how (like with a constitution written 100 years ago for our today society) Catholics are patching the basic ideas (like the amendments or appendixes, btw I am talking about Mexican constitution, not American, that is a flame war for another thread) in their basic rules book (the bible).
My opinion is that it would have been better if other religion (like Greek or Roman) was the one spread around the world.
P.s. I am really sorry for my great engrish, I hope I don't make anyone blind with it
user with a negative repution (reputation?)
A user with negative reputatio is the one with bad karma or one of those troll IDs around here (adolf hitroll or CmdrTactoTroll or whatever).
I find nothing wrong on the current way of publishing the stories, If the story is nice (and I find B.B. sotires interesting) then it does not matter who posted it.
And as you said, Slashdot gives the person who took the time to submit the story a small acknowledgement by publishing a link.
If a user submit lots of good stories, then he should have more homepage links!
I don't understand people that say that some user is missusing slashdot because they are submiting good stories. A missuse would be to submit lots of crap (imagine hundreds of fake stories in an hour or so).
Are some forms of discrimination unacceptable to you, or are you cool with all of them?
Do not waste your time on this. On this story comments you can see the lack of maturity in a majority of slashdoters. They do not want to see the real state of Google or any other companies. I am amazed at the level of stupidity people show just because someone told them that X company is "good" or "cool" then they should follow like sheeps.
Take for example, this comment:
So, it's not the companies that are doing anything wrong so much as the laws need to be changed. But those are very, very different things. Getting mad at Google for doing this would be akin to setting up a boardgame and getting mad if people follow the letter (if not spirit) of the rules.
So, this means, if it is Microsoft, SCO, SONY or any other "not good" company doing something to increase their profit then it is terrible! they are doing illegal things and they should be sued into oblivion.
But if it is Google or Apple or whatever other "good" company, then it is ok to do it, they are doing what they need to do as a public traded company.
It is stupid, the google "do no evil" moto is plain PR crap. Google do not care to be "evil" with their USERS because that would not help them on anything (until now). But if you see it from the side of its CUSTOMERS (the ones that buy the ad space) google is as bad ass
as any other company.
And now, that they are selling some service to the end USERS, they will start to screw them out until they get all their money.
Anyway, it is nice to see someone not idiotized with the Google halo, at the end, google is a company.
The problem is in the current capitalism model, as someone else said before, Google, Microsoft, Apple and all of them are companies, publicly shared, and they exist to make money. I remember a story called Nemesis from Isaac Asimov, in which he portraits an intelligent planet system that is composed of all the small microorganisms of the planet, each one of them acts autonomously but they all form a big mind.
This same phenomena happens with economic entities, you, me and everyone that works on them do our work, and we may even be good on our acts but the bigger entity, the "company" is what is evil by its own definition. So, when you join the acts of all the persons, the company gets its own "mind" and acts in an evil way.
Nice that you say that, I remember reading sometime ago (before the internet bubble crash and all that) that some computer programming offices had billiard (pool) tables because it was good for the eye.
Now, I am a 8-ball player, and also a computer geek (I am doing my C.S. PhD now, so usually I am 12 hours in front of a computer), after reading the article I mentioned previously I put attention in the movements of my eyes when playing pool and I found very interesting the way you exercise the eyes muscles when you play, as you keep focusing on different balls your eyes focus at different distances.
Besides of that, I remember a course my father bought which provided some exersises for the eyes. The excersise "tool" was a cord with several marbles attached at some distance and the exersises consisted in focusing those marbles at different phases. This, I saw is what you do when you play pool.
Unfortunately now that I am doing my PhD I do not have time to play pool (and, now that I live in UK I hate the kid sized billiard tables that britons use... and the fact that you must pay £1 for just 1 game, when I payed like $3 for an hour of play back in Mexico), but I will recommend everyone who uses a computer for long periods of time to spend at least 30 minutes playing it. It is a fun game and you can even play it alone.
WINE is to Windows API what MesaGL is to OpenGL.
Ok ok... lets rephrase parent:
And like he foresaw, OSX is now at the nexus of modern computing. I mean, everyone here has an OSX machine, and when was the last time you saw a non-osx computer in an office?
Apple products are like Puma products, overpriced. There are a lot of better products which cost less on the market. I have used OSX and I do not see the benefits, for me it is a resource munching OS.
the iPod is again an overprized gizmo, you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) and which are not as overpriced as iPod.
Of course I will be moded down but unlike all the slashdot sheep-teenager with mod points I do enjoy expressing my opinion.
It is also a m0r3 1337 way to look at pr0n :)
Well, you should see the other side of the coin.
I get really pissed off about every person from the USA that comes to Cancun, Los Cabos or any other place in Mexico believeing they can speak in English. I mean, they go to a restaurant or any other place and they do not TRY to speak in Spanish, god damm it, you are in Mexico, you choosed to spend your vacactions here, learn the fucking language... but noooooo, they get offended and angry if people do not answer in English.
The same happened at a McDonalds in France, I was there for christmas, and although I don't speak French, I learned some basic phrases like "Je Voudré un", after I tried to ask for my food on french, the till lady answered in english "Excuse me?" and then I ended ordering in english. Almost at the same time, a USA woman went to the till at the side and asked in english for something, of course the French lady just answered something in French, and the USA women got angry. WTF, if you do not want to learn from another culture (or at least try to learn), stay on your god damn country.
Man, do you work at Praxis or something?
At least stop sucking that big pallus before you talk, so you can be understood.
Or better yet, Any swedish girl wants to marry me? =-)
I live in the US, I can not see anything the government is doing to indicate it is using religeon to control people.
Then you should stop sticking your head inside your ass:
"I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
We are no longer fighting a great enemy, we are asserting a great principle: that the talents and dreams of average people - their warm human hopes and loves - should be rewarded by freedom and protected by peace. We are defending the nobility of normal lives, lived in obedience to God and conscience, not to government.
Everything has its time and place.
Religion had its time before science started to explain the natural world phenomena. In the beggining humans attributed the power of thunder, earth and fire to mighty gods, it is on our nature to attribute to an allmigthy deitity the things that we can not (yet) understand.
Science has progressed a lot since those times. Since the inquisition or the Roman or Greek (or Mayan, or any other kind of ) gods. There was a small development from politheist to monotheist religions. And the worshiped books are nothing more than laws used to rule over the people that did not believed (or did not have) an established society
It is because of this that Religion has had its time. Of course, our current society structure is not optimal, it is not the best but it is better. Science might also not explain all things we see in the universe but instead of going backwards and begin to attribute them again the this "deitity" humans should continue to develop knowledge.
I do not have a position as neutral as yours about Religion. For me, religion sucks, all kind of religion is stupid and do not have any fundaments or basis. Religion has been used only as means of control, this can be seen now on your current government (if you are from USA). Your president is seeding terror on you by means of religion. And this is because your politics and your society is deeply rooted on religious grounds.
Take a look at your dollar bills "In god we thrust", how can a country be cosmopolite if there is a predominant religion which I bet your constitution embraces.
I repeat, religion sucks, someone will surely tell me that religion does not sucks by itself but it is men that use it for their own convenience. But, the way I see it, that has been the role of religion since human created it. It is a tool (and very powerful) to control masses of people.
Religion should not be in churches or any other place, it should be erradicated, it should be labeled as a thing for non intelligent minds.
I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France
Just to add a bit of perspective over here. I am from Mexico, I am living on UK nowadays. I went to France last christmas and, although I loved the place (the buildings, Eifel tower and all that) let me tell you that, french people always tend to "look down" on non french. It does not matter their nationality.
I had some french friend living in the UK, although she was "nice", she and other (men/women) french friends always had a "dignity" air on them like if they where perfect.
I had a U.S. friend also, she was kind of dumb (more of the illiterate kind, as the average U.S. American didnt knew anything but what CNN/Fox told her), but when she went out with some friends, she was nice and overall in a better mood than the french.
I am not trying to bash you or anything. It is just that ( and I am not sure if you are french), french people do not make themselves nice to others, they do not try, at the personal level, if someone makes something in a way they are not used, it means the others are wrong or kind of dumb. They are elitists. Man, how I hate that.
People from USA on the other side is stupid. I am sorry to say this, but I think it is the true, but (some of them) after going out of their country, they realize that USA is not the world.
On the "How Do You Take Your Star Wars?" section, they just compare DVD vs film and video game. It would be interesting how are the results of "star wars torrent" hehe, I guess those hits where quite higher
I agree, I think what he saw was just the result of the typical supply/demand theory. The demand/supply combination of that specific word stated an average value for it. He payed $0.10 for a steak of 15,000 hits per day.
When he increased the price to $1.00 he also changed the demand, so of course all the "market" (for that specific word) was modified, until his demand changes where assimilated by the market. When he lowered again the price, the supply/demand was not the initial one, and that was the reason of the changes in the number of clicks. With the new combination, $0.40 per click was "worth" 1200 clicks.
The only missing piece is (and was not clear for me from the article) if the original site clicks decreased after doing the price change.
that ScuttleMonkey has posted most of the Beatles-Beatles stories. Do y'all realize that this works against your theory? If we were getting paid wouldn't every editor be doing it? Just asking :)
I have to agree with other post, it may be possible that this editor is making some profit outside slashdot via a nice arrangement with the story poster. You'd better watch out seriously.
Maybe you should limit the number of stories per person accepted monthly. Just a thought...
i think most of the world now uses the definition of 1 billion = 1000 million
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You must be from the USA uh?
Just a hint, in the country at the south of yours we use 1 billion = 1 million of millions. And I am sure in almost all the counties at the south of mine.
It is always pretty funny to see a case of classical northamerican ignorance
Keep it up pal!
Just for the sake of correctness, I know Britain is *not* a country but an Island with 3 countries :)
And for the one mod that moded me down... u must be british uh?
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Yep, the tax payer!
You know mate, governments on some EU countries have to find ways to spend their high taxes (I am looking at you Britain).
From a practical standpoint, a language is exactly as fast as its fastest implementation on a platform available to you.
I agree with you on that, but I was only pointing that the closed nature of the Java VM implementation is what is impeding its development.
Take for example C/C++ (I love both of them, I'm currently programming wxWidgets/SDL/OpenGL as hobby =o), how many compilers (commercial or free) exist? Borland C++, Microsoft VisualC, MetroWorkers CodeWarrior, Gnu C , Watcom, Symantec Digital Mars, etc.
They all depart from a standard language specification and implement compilers which are better/worse.
If we could have the same thing for Java (or any other language) I am sure we could have 2 or 3 virtual machines competing against each other.
I am currently using Java Mustang beta build and I find it really faster than the 5 version. I loved the introduction of generic types in 1.5.
Personally I hope the the GCJ compiler gets better, and although I have never used it I would like to know how is it nowadays. But if it needs the JVM to run the programs then we are chained to Sun's implementation.
Wouldn't that be:
10 for i = 1 to 100
20 print "I will not talk in class.", CHR$(13)
30 next