I'm not religious, but identifying people as enemies just because of their belief systems is silly.
Real, quality enmity comes from deeply opposed interests. I get the feeling that you don't have enough life-experience yet to develop any truly interesting enemies.
There is a difference between evangelical Protestantism, which has its roots in 17th century Europe, and the fundamentalist revival now associated with conservative politics, resistance to science (early, esp. Scottish, evangelism was fairly friendly to science), nationalism, etc. 19th century, pre-fundie evangelicals were a strong part of the abolitionist movement, and also the strongest advocates of the separation of church and state. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the theological and cultural roots of the current fundie revival are American-born.
Yes, but that kind of nativism - and the sentiments that inform it - are part of that American fundamentalist revival (although I know there are evangelicals who don't share those sentiments - but they are often the non-fundie evangelicals.)
While there's a kernel of fundamentalism in the UK, I'm afraid this particularly virulent, anti-science, Know-Nothingist, inerrantist version of Christianity is an American invention.
Email was understood as evidential and historical since the 1990s, and Sarbanes-Oxley (which doesn't apply to gov't, but does give a sense of the public perception of the nature of email) dates back to 2002. They were archiving email during the Clinton administration - this pattern of mysteriously losing email is one unique to this administration.
Because there is no competition anywhere that is either entirely between complete and utter equals, nor one that allows the deployment of any advantage (such as access to weaponry, monetary resources to bribe officials, physical strength in chess, etc.) Name a game - any game - and I will give you a list of allowed and disallowed inequalities.
The very principle of competition in a game is about distinguishing between fair and unfair advantages. Differences in body build are permitted in some sports and not others (which is why boxing has weight classes, for example.) The fact that some differences are considered a legitimate part of competition and others are not is not a defect or hypocrisy - it is the nature of competition itself.
People in positions of authority, or with public profiles of some sort, learn early on (especially if they've been raised to expect it) that they need to lead two lives: that things they write, say, and record are part of a public persona, and that they have to consider the impact of them at all times.
Most of the population didn't have this concern, and this was, in fact, one of the consolations of a life of obscurity that most of us lead: that we had a certain freedom to do and say what we think without real consequences.
Google changes that, as one can now fairly easily find the online traces of just about anyone who has an internet presence at all. Sites like Facebook, LJ, and MySpace give one the ability to express themselves to the world: realizing that this is a double-edged sword is a painful apprenticeship to segments of society that never realized it.
Well, none of those guys are IT guys, properly speaking. And all of them achieved their real success before the age 30. If the moral of your post is "you gotta pay your dues," those 3 aren't good examples of that principle.
Yes, I agree. My point wasn't to excuse the behavior; it was to develop the point that this action may be much less innocent than simple hackerly curiosity - and that even simple hackerly curiosity isn't always that simple.
Many 14 year olds are angry, isolated, and misanthropic, in the throes of adolescent angst and frustration. He may have been indifferent at best to the harm he could have caused. There were times in my own adolescence I was angry and self-pitying to the point of sociopathy.
Sony is, at the end of the day, a Japanese company, and Japanese companies seem notably inflexible when it comes to opening things up. It is entirely consistent with behavior I've seen from other Japanese vendors: they've never met a closed system they didn't like.
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Endnote (or comparable) integration is where I always run aground when looking for alternatives to Word. The closest escape route I've found is Mellel + Bookends on the Mac, but I don't really want to keep my dissertation bibliography in a relatively obscure format, and the integration with online bibliographic databases that Endnote has is unmatched by other products. I do like Pages a great deal, and do most of my "small" writing in it. I've begun using Scrivener for dissertation organization, but it isn't a word processing program as such: by design, one writes within it, then exports completed projects to a word processor for final layout.
This entire thread is based on conceptions of sexual and representational politics that was stale by the end of the 1980's.
It lead to the production of well-intentioned media products that depicted "strong women" in a way that was completely divorced from people's day-to-day experiences of actual gender relations. In practice, both men and women collaboratively - and often enthusiastically - produce a world in which men both threaten and protect women, in which women are identified with roles as either nurturers or social aggregators. Attempts to engineer away the complex practice which produces gender roles fail just like government campaigns which try to produce fears about drugs fail: when a public service announcement depicts marijuana as dangerous, the source of that announcement loses all credibility even when talking about crack.
Oddly enough, academic feminism in this stripe is nearly dead (and usually exiled either to mediocre institutions or to a couple tenured hangers-on) - instead, a much more nuanced view has emerged.
The lack of supervision in parenting has a lot to do with the inability to maintain a household on an average single-income. There's a chicken and egg question: did more women enter the workplace because cost of living is escalating, or is the cost of living escalating because more women are entering the workplace?
I think it is interesting that there are fewer behavioral problems in countries that offer more generous maternity leave and support policies, or (as in Japan) simply do not have a lot of dual-income families.
Believe it or not, I just bought a MacBook and one of my considerations was price. Comparably equipped PC notebooks were more expensive. I don't think that price is really a consideration anymore.
You look like a dumbass fanboi when you can't actually substantiate what the DRM in Vista is and what it is preventing you from doing - it makes you look like you're just running with a sound-bite without understanding anything.
I have no interest in Vista myself, because I have better things to do with my clock cycles (both real and computational.)
And you are correct. It is hard to explain aesthetic insights like this to people who don't have a background in it, but it's true: adding the faux gearwork moves the work from the evocative to the connotative - from evoking the aesthetics of the Victorian era to simply referring to it, and that acts to diminish the effect of the piece (just like dressing as Batman for Halloween is less effective when you are wearing a shirt that says "Batman!" on it, instead of being the shirt that Batman wore, to use an example as far removed from the language of normal aesthetic judgment as I can think of.)
Art really does create a system of knowledge. I know, from the outside, that's hard to tell, and that expertise in aesthetics seems to contradict the claim that it's all a matter of taste. But just like you aren't really going to be able to explain the origins and nature of your expertise in computers to your Aunt Tillie, it is difficult to explain the origins and nature of expertise in art, as well.
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I'm not religious, but identifying people as enemies just because of their belief systems is silly.
Real, quality enmity comes from deeply opposed interests. I get the feeling that you don't have enough life-experience yet to develop any truly interesting enemies.
A notable exception to the "k sounds are funny" law of humor.
It's not about being superior. It's just historical fact: this strain of religious fervor is an American invention.
When you're reaching back and comparing yourself to the Spanish Inquisition to feel better about yourself, though, that suggests you have a problem.
There is a difference between evangelical Protestantism, which has its roots in 17th century Europe, and the fundamentalist revival now associated with conservative politics, resistance to science (early, esp. Scottish, evangelism was fairly friendly to science), nationalism, etc. 19th century, pre-fundie evangelicals were a strong part of the abolitionist movement, and also the strongest advocates of the separation of church and state. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the theological and cultural roots of the current fundie revival are American-born.
Yes, but that kind of nativism - and the sentiments that inform it - are part of that American fundamentalist revival (although I know there are evangelicals who don't share those sentiments - but they are often the non-fundie evangelicals.)
While there's a kernel of fundamentalism in the UK, I'm afraid this particularly virulent, anti-science, Know-Nothingist, inerrantist version of Christianity is an American invention.
Email was understood as evidential and historical since the 1990s, and Sarbanes-Oxley (which doesn't apply to gov't, but does give a sense of the public perception of the nature of email) dates back to 2002. They were archiving email during the Clinton administration - this pattern of mysteriously losing email is one unique to this administration.
Because there is no competition anywhere that is either entirely between complete and utter equals, nor one that allows the deployment of any advantage (such as access to weaponry, monetary resources to bribe officials, physical strength in chess, etc.) Name a game - any game - and I will give you a list of allowed and disallowed inequalities.
The very principle of competition in a game is about distinguishing between fair and unfair advantages. Differences in body build are permitted in some sports and not others (which is why boxing has weight classes, for example.) The fact that some differences are considered a legitimate part of competition and others are not is not a defect or hypocrisy - it is the nature of competition itself.
Right, my comment was a development of the comment to which it responded, not a remark about the incident itself.
People in positions of authority, or with public profiles of some sort, learn early on (especially if they've been raised to expect it) that they need to lead two lives: that things they write, say, and record are part of a public persona, and that they have to consider the impact of them at all times.
Most of the population didn't have this concern, and this was, in fact, one of the consolations of a life of obscurity that most of us lead: that we had a certain freedom to do and say what we think without real consequences.
Google changes that, as one can now fairly easily find the online traces of just about anyone who has an internet presence at all. Sites like Facebook, LJ, and MySpace give one the ability to express themselves to the world: realizing that this is a double-edged sword is a painful apprenticeship to segments of society that never realized it.
Well, none of those guys are IT guys, properly speaking. And all of them achieved their real success before the age 30. If the moral of your post is "you gotta pay your dues," those 3 aren't good examples of that principle.
Yes, I agree. My point wasn't to excuse the behavior; it was to develop the point that this action may be much less innocent than simple hackerly curiosity - and that even simple hackerly curiosity isn't always that simple.
Many 14 year olds are angry, isolated, and misanthropic, in the throes of adolescent angst and frustration. He may have been indifferent at best to the harm he could have caused. There were times in my own adolescence I was angry and self-pitying to the point of sociopathy.
Sony is, at the end of the day, a Japanese company, and Japanese companies seem notably inflexible when it comes to opening things up. It is entirely consistent with behavior I've seen from other Japanese vendors: they've never met a closed system they didn't like.
Endnote (or comparable) integration is where I always run aground when looking for alternatives to Word. The closest escape route I've found is Mellel + Bookends on the Mac, but I don't really want to keep my dissertation bibliography in a relatively obscure format, and the integration with online bibliographic databases that Endnote has is unmatched by other products. I do like Pages a great deal, and do most of my "small" writing in it. I've begun using Scrivener for dissertation organization, but it isn't a word processing program as such: by design, one writes within it, then exports completed projects to a word processor for final layout.
This entire thread is based on conceptions of sexual and representational politics that was stale by the end of the 1980's.
It lead to the production of well-intentioned media products that depicted "strong women" in a way that was completely divorced from people's day-to-day experiences of actual gender relations. In practice, both men and women collaboratively - and often enthusiastically - produce a world in which men both threaten and protect women, in which women are identified with roles as either nurturers or social aggregators. Attempts to engineer away the complex practice which produces gender roles fail just like government campaigns which try to produce fears about drugs fail: when a public service announcement depicts marijuana as dangerous, the source of that announcement loses all credibility even when talking about crack.
Oddly enough, academic feminism in this stripe is nearly dead (and usually exiled either to mediocre institutions or to a couple tenured hangers-on) - instead, a much more nuanced view has emerged.
The lack of supervision in parenting has a lot to do with the inability to maintain a household on an average single-income. There's a chicken and egg question: did more women enter the workplace because cost of living is escalating, or is the cost of living escalating because more women are entering the workplace?
I think it is interesting that there are fewer behavioral problems in countries that offer more generous maternity leave and support policies, or (as in Japan) simply do not have a lot of dual-income families.
Yes, for games, a hand-rolled system of choice, quality components, running Windows, is still the way to go, and that's what I play my games on.
So, which is more like your ass, OS X or Linux?
Believe it or not, I just bought a MacBook and one of my considerations was price. Comparably equipped PC notebooks were more expensive. I don't think that price is really a consideration anymore.
And if I get that hideous garden gnome out of your garden, I've done you a favor, too.
Really, it's hideous.
You look like a dumbass fanboi when you can't actually substantiate what the DRM in Vista is and what it is preventing you from doing - it makes you look like you're just running with a sound-bite without understanding anything.
I have no interest in Vista myself, because I have better things to do with my clock cycles (both real and computational.)
And you are correct. It is hard to explain aesthetic insights like this to people who don't have a background in it, but it's true: adding the faux gearwork moves the work from the evocative to the connotative - from evoking the aesthetics of the Victorian era to simply referring to it, and that acts to diminish the effect of the piece (just like dressing as Batman for Halloween is less effective when you are wearing a shirt that says "Batman!" on it, instead of being the shirt that Batman wore, to use an example as far removed from the language of normal aesthetic judgment as I can think of.)
Art really does create a system of knowledge. I know, from the outside, that's hard to tell, and that expertise in aesthetics seems to contradict the claim that it's all a matter of taste. But just like you aren't really going to be able to explain the origins and nature of your expertise in computers to your Aunt Tillie, it is difficult to explain the origins and nature of expertise in art, as well.