By definition, conservatives are in favor of maintaining the status quo, and if that requires violence, then so be it! On the other hand, liberals are in favor of changing the status quo, and if that requires violence, then so be it! Now do you understand?
he was a social activist that refused to resort to violence. Right. So overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the temple wasn't an act of violence? Can I come over to your house and toss around some furniture, and see how you feel about it then? And by the way, Mary Magdelen was NOT a prostitute. Jesus was a progressive and a populist (as opposed to the elitist church leadership of the time). The terms "liberal" and "conservatives" change enough over time as to be considered meaningless. Also, Jesus rarely if ever professed to be God... unless you beleive that when he said "Father, why hast thou deserted me?" he was talking to himself! I beleive it was the early church that decided "Jesus was God", not Jesus himself. RTFB!
Since nobody has enough computing power to simulate the real world, developers always make choices as to what parts to simulate and which to leave out. These are driven by the developer's bias. Can I go around raping and/or killing other players or burning their houses down in Second Life? Why not? Do the the developers of Second Life have some sort of bias against rape, murder, and arson? (Yes I realize their choices are driven more by desire to make the game enjoyable to all players then by personal moral convictions. But that is still a form of bias.)
Point well taken, my "the only thing" comment was an exageration. IBM also charged $2000 per copy for the OS/2 Software Development Kit, which limited the number of people willing to develop software for it. (Note to Apple: you need to make it as easy as possible for anyone to develop applications for OSX -- just like Linux distros makes it easy to develop software for Linux by including GNU tools.)
Right, size of the contact patch has nothing to do with traction... so all those drag racers running those superwide tires must be complete morons, eh?
Umm... it be a little difficult to play Tron with these, since there is only one of them... and by the way, anything over about 750cc is overpowered, since you are limited by the traction of a very narrow strip of your rear tire, not by power/weight ratio. The Tomohawk would need about a 3 foot wide rear tire to deliver that torque to the road, not the 2 skinny motorcycle tires it has. Also, can a vehicle using 4 motorcycle tires really be considered a motorcyle? They claim an "estimated top speed of 300+ mph" because they haven't yet found anybody stupid enough to open it up all the way...
The only thing holding Apple back from making serious inroads into Microsoft's market share is the perceived lack of applications for the Mac! Now imagine a world in which any Windows applications runs just as well or better on a Mac. This holy grail of computing is the only rational reason I can imagine for Apple to switch to Intel processors... IF they can pull off the Windows compatibility.
There is one compelling reason to upgrade: some weasel with a new computer is sure to send you a document created with Office 2003 that simply won't display properly with Office97. Yes, if you could get everybody in the world you communicate with to freeze on a specific revision of Office, life would be much easier... but that ain't gonna happen!
For better or worse, Office is the de facto standard for interchange of documents amongst the great unwashed masses. Like or not, you have to learn to interoperate with whatever the Evil Empire puts out. Deal with it!
Excuse me while I go out and by a few reams of paper and some ink cartridges before trying to print this 1616 page document out on my printer! Anybody having any luck so far fitting this into a single binder? I understand now why the publisher balked at this -- the environmentalists would have stormed the office in protest for all the trees killed to print each copy! No problem, I'll just read the whole thing sitting here at my printer...
If my initials were FCK, I'd either change my name, or avoid naming anything with my initials! In fact, didn't they used to make a t-shirt with this guy's initials on it? It read "FCK... the only thing missing is U!"
And the casualty count from airliner crashes is an order of magnitude higher than the civialian bodycount in Afghanistan and Iraq. Does that make the airline pilots union members terrorists? If you can't distinguish between intentional and accidental deaths, you shouldn't be posting.
All sarcasm aside, I find the converse suprising: why is it that a company that has historically attracted some of the best talent in the industry can't manage to come up with innovative ideas, fair competitive practices, or well written software?
Set heavy object down on space bar and go to lunch; let auto-repeat do the rest! Seriously, anybody that is counting key-clicks to measure productivity is just asking employees to spend 8 hours hitting random keys, and not encouraging them to do useful work. They are rewarding the typists that make lots of mistakes, then need to go back and correct them, rather than the typists that enter everything correctly the first time!
Nelson Mandela never advocated the use of bombs against innocent civilians. 30 years ago a group of Iranian students thought it would be a neat idea to storm the American embassy and kidnap some Americans. Today, that act is almost universally held by Iranians to have been a mistake which harmed the Iranian people by making them enemies of the civilized world. Being associate with the kidnappers is now political suicide in Iran. Remember, these were people taking relatively humane actions against direct representatives of the government they had a beef with for supporting the Shah's regime. No, I don't think history will EVER regard the bombers as anything but misguided terrorists, and certainly not freedom fighters! Freedom fighters would have at least announced their objectives -- isn't that what Mandela was jailed for? Freedom fighters would attack directly the oppressors or occupying forces. What these cowards did could in no way be constued by any rational person as the acts of freedom fighters.
Exactly. If you feel you are being oppressed by somebody, then attack the oppressors directly. Do not attack at random innocent people who may or may not sympathize with your cause. That is the reaction of a madman!
The history of western intervention in other countries is full of examples of the principle of unintended consequences, but none of it justifies the random killing of innocent people. And these terrorists are not "Muslim" extremists; anybody who had earnestly studied their Koran would know better than to support the killing of innocent women and children.
The US forces in Iraq at least make a pretense of not punishing innocent civilians for the acts of others. Half of Americans didn't vote for Bush and half of the English didn't vote for Blair... why should they be punished for the actions of Bush and Blair, even though they might oppose them? Killing people at random is the worse possible way I can think of to win support for your political objectives. Furthermore, most of the insurgents in Iraq aren't even Iraqis!
In my opinion, the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't done everything they could to help the native people and to avoid innocent civilian causualties, so they owe those people at least a sincere appology. But to imply that the occupying forces in Iraq are the moral equivalent of the terrorists is illogical and misguided.
Anybody that thinks a few bombs in London will make the British people back down from anything is obviously completely ignorant of history. You know there are people in London who survived the blitz in the '40's saying "What, this? This is nothing! I've seen much, much worse... and it didn't scare me then either!"
Only a meglomaniac with delusions of granduer that thinks he can become the new king of Saudi Arabia would kill random people... in other words, there are people whose world view is so twisted that they might have committed 9/11 attack no matter what the US did. Personally, I think that if they have a problem with the policies of Bush or Blair, then they should be attacking Bush or Blair, not killing random people who may or may not have sympathized with them before the terrorist act. Killing random people and making 99.99% of the people in the world your sworn enemy does not sound like a rational way to advance a cause to me. Only a madman could possibly beleive that random violence would accomplish anything.
Most classical music? "Remixed" from folk tunes. Johnny Horton's The Battle of New Orleans? Remixed from a fiddle tune called 1814 with same subject. Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender? Remixed from a folk classic called Aura Lee. This list goes on and on. Basically, musicians, storytellers, and other artists have been ripping off other musicians, storytellers, and other artists for as long as there have been musicians, storytellers, and artists. What IS new is the concept of copyright; that has only been around for a few hundred years!
And yes, somebody will eventually rip off themes from William Gibson's books to create new works of fiction. Ain't nothin' new.
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By definition, conservatives are in favor of maintaining the status quo, and if that requires violence, then so be it! On the other hand, liberals are in favor of changing the status quo, and if that requires violence, then so be it! Now do you understand?
he was a social activist that refused to resort to violence. Right. So overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the temple wasn't an act of violence? Can I come over to your house and toss around some furniture, and see how you feel about it then? And by the way, Mary Magdelen was NOT a prostitute. Jesus was a progressive and a populist (as opposed to the elitist church leadership of the time). The terms "liberal" and "conservatives" change enough over time as to be considered meaningless. Also, Jesus rarely if ever professed to be God... unless you beleive that when he said "Father, why hast thou deserted me?" he was talking to himself! I beleive it was the early church that decided "Jesus was God", not Jesus himself. RTFB!
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Since nobody has enough computing power to simulate the real world, developers always make choices as to what parts to simulate and which to leave out. These are driven by the developer's bias. Can I go around raping and/or killing other players or burning their houses down in Second Life? Why not? Do the the developers of Second Life have some sort of bias against rape, murder, and arson? (Yes I realize their choices are driven more by desire to make the game enjoyable to all players then by personal moral convictions. But that is still a form of bias.)
Point well taken, my "the only thing" comment was an exageration. IBM also charged $2000 per copy for the OS/2 Software Development Kit, which limited the number of people willing to develop software for it. (Note to Apple: you need to make it as easy as possible for anyone to develop applications for OSX -- just like Linux distros makes it easy to develop software for Linux by including GNU tools.)
Right, size of the contact patch has nothing to do with traction... so all those drag racers running those superwide tires must be complete morons, eh?
Umm... it be a little difficult to play Tron with these, since there is only one of them... and by the way, anything over about 750cc is overpowered, since you are limited by the traction of a very narrow strip of your rear tire, not by power/weight ratio. The Tomohawk would need about a 3 foot wide rear tire to deliver that torque to the road, not the 2 skinny motorcycle tires it has. Also, can a vehicle using 4 motorcycle tires really be considered a motorcyle? They claim an "estimated top speed of 300+ mph" because they haven't yet found anybody stupid enough to open it up all the way...
The only thing holding Apple back from making serious inroads into Microsoft's market share is the perceived lack of applications for the Mac! Now imagine a world in which any Windows applications runs just as well or better on a Mac. This holy grail of computing is the only rational reason I can imagine for Apple to switch to Intel processors... IF they can pull off the Windows compatibility.
There is one compelling reason to upgrade: some weasel with a new computer is sure to send you a document created with Office 2003 that simply won't display properly with Office97. Yes, if you could get everybody in the world you communicate with to freeze on a specific revision of Office, life would be much easier... but that ain't gonna happen!
For better or worse, Office is the de facto standard for interchange of documents amongst the great unwashed masses. Like or not, you have to learn to interoperate with whatever the Evil Empire puts out. Deal with it!
Excuse me while I go out and by a few reams of paper and some ink cartridges before trying to print this 1616 page document out on my printer! Anybody having any luck so far fitting this into a single binder? I understand now why the publisher balked at this -- the environmentalists would have stormed the office in protest for all the trees killed to print each copy! No problem, I'll just read the whole thing sitting here at my printer...
If my initials were FCK, I'd either change my name, or avoid naming anything with my initials! In fact, didn't they used to make a t-shirt with this guy's initials on it? It read "FCK... the only thing missing is U!"
And the casualty count from airliner crashes is an order of magnitude higher than the civialian bodycount in Afghanistan and Iraq. Does that make the airline pilots union members terrorists? If you can't distinguish between intentional and accidental deaths, you shouldn't be posting.
Looks to me like this announcement is IBM's subtle way of giving Steve Jobs the finger...
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return (A & B) | (A & C) | (B & C);
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Pretty much the definition of "best 2 out of three", isn't it?
All sarcasm aside, I find the converse suprising: why is it that a company that has historically attracted some of the best talent in the industry can't manage to come up with innovative ideas, fair competitive practices, or well written software?
"Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has only been one answer to that question!"
Set heavy object down on space bar and go to lunch; let auto-repeat do the rest! Seriously, anybody that is counting key-clicks to measure productivity is just asking employees to spend 8 hours hitting random keys, and not encouraging them to do useful work. They are rewarding the typists that make lots of mistakes, then need to go back and correct them, rather than the typists that enter everything correctly the first time!
Nelson Mandela never advocated the use of bombs against innocent civilians. 30 years ago a group of Iranian students thought it would be a neat idea to storm the American embassy and kidnap some Americans. Today, that act is almost universally held by Iranians to have been a mistake which harmed the Iranian people by making them enemies of the civilized world. Being associate with the kidnappers is now political suicide in Iran. Remember, these were people taking relatively humane actions against direct representatives of the government they had a beef with for supporting the Shah's regime. No, I don't think history will EVER regard the bombers as anything but misguided terrorists, and certainly not freedom fighters! Freedom fighters would have at least announced their objectives -- isn't that what Mandela was jailed for? Freedom fighters would attack directly the oppressors or occupying forces. What these cowards did could in no way be constued by any rational person as the acts of freedom fighters.
The history of western intervention in other countries is full of examples of the principle of unintended consequences, but none of it justifies the random killing of innocent people. And these terrorists are not "Muslim" extremists; anybody who had earnestly studied their Koran would know better than to support the killing of innocent women and children.
In my opinion, the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't done everything they could to help the native people and to avoid innocent civilian causualties, so they owe those people at least a sincere appology. But to imply that the occupying forces in Iraq are the moral equivalent of the terrorists is illogical and misguided.
Anybody that thinks a few bombs in London will make the British people back down from anything is obviously completely ignorant of history. You know there are people in London who survived the blitz in the '40's saying "What, this? This is nothing! I've seen much, much worse... and it didn't scare me then either!"
Only a meglomaniac with delusions of granduer that thinks he can become the new king of Saudi Arabia would kill random people... in other words, there are people whose world view is so twisted that they might have committed 9/11 attack no matter what the US did. Personally, I think that if they have a problem with the policies of Bush or Blair, then they should be attacking Bush or Blair, not killing random people who may or may not have sympathized with them before the terrorist act. Killing random people and making 99.99% of the people in the world your sworn enemy does not sound like a rational way to advance a cause to me. Only a madman could possibly beleive that random violence would accomplish anything.
Most classical music? "Remixed" from folk tunes. Johnny Horton's The Battle of New Orleans? Remixed from a fiddle tune called 1814 with same subject. Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender? Remixed from a folk classic called Aura Lee. This list goes on and on. Basically, musicians, storytellers, and other artists have been ripping off other musicians, storytellers, and other artists for as long as there have been musicians, storytellers, and artists. What IS new is the concept of copyright; that has only been around for a few hundred years! And yes, somebody will eventually rip off themes from William Gibson's books to create new works of fiction. Ain't nothin' new.
Simply put a small charge of explosives in the case... then try carrying it on an airplane!