I don't scream bloody anything at people who deny evolution. They aren't worth my time. It's like bothering with the flat earth people or the people who think we faked the moon landing. "Never argue with a pig, it just frustrates you and annoys the pig."
But most people who know me don't think I'm an idiot, so I must just be ignorant of 'why religious exist'. I'm not talking about things like "don't eat pork". Those obviously arose because of health issues in a culture that didn't know about microbes. I'm talking about laws against contraception or homosexuality.
I guess I misworded that. I understand _why_ religions are setup that way (along with the fact that the 'new' religions took over for the 'old' ones because they switched to professing beliefs about unfalsifiable things, rather than the weather or other verifyable facts), I just don't understand why people don't see that religions are so obviously 'gaming the system' (the people themselves).
NeXT had the Control key where the PC has Caps-Lock, but you could activate the caps-lock _function_ by 'Cmd-Shift (release)'. It worked well, was easily accessible and didn't waste a key right on the home row. My Powerbook I'm typing this on doesn't have a caps-lock key. Well, the key is still labeled that, but I pulled the keyboard apart cut the traces going to the caps-lock key and re-routed them with liquid solder to the control traces. That was a pain, but it was long before they had caps-lock mapping software that would work with this ADB keyboard Powerbook.
See, we don't really have evidence that humans evolved from apes.
You need to read more. We've got plenty of evidence that Humans evolved from 'Apes' (not the ones that are currently around, but proto-ape ancestors of the great apes and ourselves. The evidence is in the molecular genetics and in the fosil record. Certainly the fosil record is incomplete (think about that stuff we 'build to last' and ask yourself if it'll be around in a million years or so), but it's still very compelling, especially when combined with the DNA evidence.
I'm pro abortion (limited), but I certainly believe that a fetus is alive. Just like a tapeworm. Or maybe not _just_ like a tapeworm, since the tapeworm is more independent, at least for the first months of the fetus's life. The question for me isn't whether the fetus is alive, it's whether it's viable. I believe a woman should be allowed to have the fetus removed from her body. If the fetus is viable, it should be taken out alive and given to someone who wants it, with the mother's rights terminated. Of course, the costs to save a pre-term baby can be huge, so finding someone with the desire and the money to 'take over care' of the fetus would be problematic for certain terms. In general, I feel that contraception is a much better solution than abortion, but I find it very odd that the 'religious right' are against contraception, abortion, or spending money to help the unfortunates who end up having their unwanted children raise them. To me that's immoral, creating suffering, crime and and enless cycle of unwanted.
P.S. Ask me about the girl my wife and I are foster parents to. She the 5th child of some crack-head parents who had _all_ their kids taken away...:-(
Well, I agree with you, but I could see how it was moderated flamebait as you blamed the 6mil change in funds on Bush directly, rather than his incompetent administration (for which he should be held responsible).
LOL. Actually, getting a hold of is difficult, but the mood-detector works at a distance. The funny thing, as a geek if I get too close it throws off the randomness and the result of the mood detector is always 'piss off you geek!':-)
What the hell is wrong with Tony Blair. The midterms aren't for _MONTHS_. Don't they realize that the terrorists could have been delayed for awhile and then arrested, helping immesurably more with the 'War on Freedom^UTerror'?
If I force fed you in a particularly humilitating and degrading way a virus or bacterium which would incubate in you for 40 weeks, causing you health issues, loss of work, even death and a hospital refused to give you a known 'cure', you'd call it a 'treatment' too, rather than just a contraceptive.
'take' a better word? Besides, I'd bet titanium would be lighter than most of the components of the iPod.
The key is I need to move the iPod to and from my computer often to get the latests podcasts (primarily what I listen to in the car), so it's not just remembering to move it when I rip new CDs.
But the drive in the car could be a 3.5" 300GB drive for pretty cheap, so there'd be no reason not to keep your entire library in the car (unless you're like my coworker who collects bootlegs and such and has ~1TB of MP3s). For our cars, one has the tape player, and my wife's has an Mini-Disk deck, so she has a radio transmitter on her mini. The Prius we're on the waiting list for has the 1/8" mini jack, but doesn't do any iPod control. I've got a new head unit sitting in my office that has CD control, and I've been thinking of building up a little ARM based computer to act as the CD changer with my playlists being the CDs. Haven't got enough time...
I don't want to have to remember to lug my ipod out to the car, I want my car to be an iTunes client. It should have wifi and 100GB, and should sync whenever I pull into the garage (or within range of my home wifi network).
I'll leave the interface on the radio as an excercise for product developers, but neither the iPod interface nor the 'pretend it's a big CD changer' is the right approach.
If not opening the submissions queue is what kept Slashdot from becoming digg, thank god for that. I look at the RSS feed for digg for the story headlines, but there's no content there. I read slashdot for the comments and rarely bother to read the articles, because the intelligence behind the highly rated slashdot comments generally yield better analysis than the story itself!
Unfortunately, my senator is Feinstein, and she's been bought by hollywood, so I doubt we'd agree on this. I _know_ we disagree on the flag-burning amendment, which she champions. It's almost enough to make me vote republican. Ok, kidding.
Apple gave you a new intel iMac as a warranty replacement? That seems really unlikely. Apple would certainly have some G5 iMacs sitting around as warranty parts. I think it's required by law for like 5 years. I know they had the Rev. A circuit board for my desktop G3 when it failed in warranty, even though Rev C was out by then.
Though, I suppose if you had some extended warranty plan from CompUSA or something... Wouldn't work for me though, I still _need_ to be able to run classic:-(
Well, I did say 'legally', not 'actually' Hey, that's the great thing about laws, we can pass enough of them so that everything is illegal, and then we only charge the people we don't like with violating them.:-(
Most likely nothing. And that's as it should be. Why? Because he most likely thought that he was in the right.
That's the most insane justification I've ever heard. If I thought I was right to exterminate a 'race' of humans, would it be ok for me to do so? I _thought_ I was doing the right thing. I was trying to make the world a better place!
How the hell can you think that the cop genuinely thought that someone taking his photo was breaking a law? At the very least he should lose his job for ignorance of citizen's rights and the law! At worst he knew he was just intimidating someone who would never speak up and figured that would be the end of it. If so, he should be open to criminal charges and civil damages (along with the department which allowed a climate where officers thought they could get away with that).
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Why do these activist judges hate America?
I don't scream bloody anything at people who deny evolution. They aren't worth my time. It's like bothering with the flat earth people or the people who think we faked the moon landing. "Never argue with a pig, it just frustrates you and annoys the pig."
But most people who know me don't think I'm an idiot, so I must just be ignorant of 'why religious exist'. I'm not talking about things like "don't eat pork". Those obviously arose because of health issues in a culture that didn't know about microbes. I'm talking about laws against contraception or homosexuality.
Please, dispel my ignorance and enlighten me.
Yeah, I realized just after I clicked submit that I should have added the smiley...
I guess I misworded that. I understand _why_ religions are setup that way (along with the fact that the 'new' religions took over for the 'old' ones because they switched to professing beliefs about unfalsifiable things, rather than the weather or other verifyable facts), I just don't understand why people don't see that religions are so obviously 'gaming the system' (the people themselves).
NeXT had the Control key where the PC has Caps-Lock, but you could activate the caps-lock _function_ by 'Cmd-Shift (release)'. It worked well, was easily accessible and didn't waste a key right on the home row.
My Powerbook I'm typing this on doesn't have a caps-lock key. Well, the key is still labeled that, but I pulled the keyboard apart cut the traces going to the caps-lock key and re-routed them with liquid solder to the control traces. That was a pain, but it was long before they had caps-lock mapping software that would work with this ADB keyboard Powerbook.
You're supporting his point about education being bad. There's a whole lot of the west coast of North America that isn't California...
See, we don't really have evidence that humans evolved from apes.
You need to read more. We've got plenty of evidence that Humans evolved from 'Apes' (not the ones that are currently around, but proto-ape ancestors of the great apes and ourselves. The evidence is in the molecular genetics and in the fosil record. Certainly the fosil record is incomplete (think about that stuff we 'build to last' and ask yourself if it'll be around in a million years or so), but it's still very compelling, especially when combined with the DNA evidence.
I forget what the name of the weekly free EE Design type trade rag I get, but they are pretty consistent about using 'dice', not 'dies'.
Annoys the shit out of me, as it brings up my D&D history rather than chips in my mind...
I'm pro abortion (limited), but I certainly believe that a fetus is alive. Just like a tapeworm. Or maybe not _just_ like a tapeworm, since the tapeworm is more independent, at least for the first months of the fetus's life. The question for me isn't whether the fetus is alive, it's whether it's viable. I believe a woman should be allowed to have the fetus removed from her body. If the fetus is viable, it should be taken out alive and given to someone who wants it, with the mother's rights terminated. Of course, the costs to save a pre-term baby can be huge, so finding someone with the desire and the money to 'take over care' of the fetus would be problematic for certain terms.
:-(
In general, I feel that contraception is a much better solution than abortion, but I find it very odd that the 'religious right' are against contraception, abortion, or spending money to help the unfortunates who end up having their unwanted children raise them. To me that's immoral, creating suffering, crime and and enless cycle of unwanted.
P.S. Ask me about the girl my wife and I are foster parents to. She the 5th child of some crack-head parents who had _all_ their kids taken away...
Well, I agree with you, but I could see how it was moderated flamebait as you blamed the 6mil change in funds on Bush directly, rather than his incompetent administration (for which he should be held responsible).
I keep trying to figure out a funny comment with Jesus worked into it, but I've got to get to work, so I'll have to go with this one...
LOL. :-)
Actually, getting a hold of is difficult, but the mood-detector works at a distance. The funny thing, as a geek if I get too close it throws off the randomness and the result of the mood detector is always 'piss off you geek!'
I just use a female-mood-detector. That's _my_ source of high-grade randomness.
What the hell is wrong with Tony Blair. The midterms aren't for _MONTHS_. Don't they realize that the terrorists could have been delayed for awhile and then arrested, helping immesurably more with the 'War on Freedom^UTerror'?
If I force fed you in a particularly humilitating and degrading way a virus or bacterium which would incubate in you for 40 weeks, causing you health issues, loss of work, even death and a hospital refused to give you a known 'cure', you'd call it a 'treatment' too, rather than just a contraceptive.
'take' a better word? Besides, I'd bet titanium would be lighter than most of the components of the iPod.
The key is I need to move the iPod to and from my computer often to get the latests podcasts (primarily what I listen to in the car), so it's not just remembering to move it when I rip new CDs.
But the drive in the car could be a 3.5" 300GB drive for pretty cheap, so there'd be no reason not to keep your entire library in the car (unless you're like my coworker who collects bootlegs and such and has ~1TB of MP3s).
For our cars, one has the tape player, and my wife's has an Mini-Disk deck, so she has a radio transmitter on her mini. The Prius we're on the waiting list for has the 1/8" mini jack, but doesn't do any iPod control.
I've got a new head unit sitting in my office that has CD control, and I've been thinking of building up a little ARM based computer to act as the CD changer with my playlists being the CDs. Haven't got enough time...
I don't want to have to remember to lug my ipod out to the car, I want my car to be an iTunes client. It should have wifi and 100GB, and should sync whenever I pull into the garage (or within range of my home wifi network).
I'll leave the interface on the radio as an excercise for product developers, but neither the iPod interface nor the 'pretend it's a big CD changer' is the right approach.
If not opening the submissions queue is what kept Slashdot from becoming digg, thank god for that. I look at the RSS feed for digg for the story headlines, but there's no content there. I read slashdot for the comments and rarely bother to read the articles, because the intelligence behind the highly rated slashdot comments generally yield better analysis than the story itself!
plenty of profit
<RIAA>Plenty...you keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means...</RIAA>
practially every joe sixpack and their senator
Unfortunately, my senator is Feinstein, and she's been bought by hollywood, so I doubt we'd agree on this. I _know_ we disagree on the flag-burning amendment, which she champions. It's almost enough to make me vote republican. Ok, kidding.
Apple gave you a new intel iMac as a warranty replacement? That seems really unlikely. Apple would certainly have some G5 iMacs sitting around as warranty parts. I think it's required by law for like 5 years. I know they had the Rev. A circuit board for my desktop G3 when it failed in warranty, even though Rev C was out by then.
:-(
Though, I suppose if you had some extended warranty plan from CompUSA or something...
Wouldn't work for me though, I still _need_ to be able to run classic
Well, I did say 'legally', not 'actually' Hey, that's the great thing about laws, we can pass enough of them so that everything is illegal, and then we only charge the people we don't like with violating them. :-(
Most likely nothing. And that's as it should be. Why? Because he most likely thought that he was in the right.
That's the most insane justification I've ever heard. If I thought I was right to exterminate a 'race' of humans, would it be ok for me to do so? I _thought_ I was doing the right thing. I was trying to make the world a better place!
How the hell can you think that the cop genuinely thought that someone taking his photo was breaking a law? At the very least he should lose his job for ignorance of citizen's rights and the law! At worst he knew he was just intimidating someone who would never speak up and figured that would be the end of it. If so, he should be open to criminal charges and civil damages (along with the department which allowed a climate where officers thought they could get away with that).