See for me, I would say you are wrong when you force other sane adults to do or not do things without their informed consent. That allows you a lot of freedom- and allows consenting adults a lot of freedom. Once you cross the line to coercing others or doing things to them without their adult informed consent(including killing them) then society can step in and do what it wants to you to protect society as a whole.
If you want to live in a society without sex or smoking or booze then go for it. As children in that society come of age, they should be given a realistic choice to stay because they want to or to leave. I think the Amish do something along these lines and it works well for them. Their lifestyle is fairly limited and strict but the participants are there voluntarily.
And I agree with you strongly on the civilian aspect. I would feel obligate to kill him if he was attacking united states officials or military but I would feel he had some moral standing (even if he didn't wear a uniform). Killing civilians can not be justified (unless you can directly trace their active support to people attacking you).
theological: of or relating to or concerning theology; Theology
1. The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions.
2. A system or school of opinions concerning God and religious questions: Protestant theology; Jewish theology.
3. A course of specialized religious study usually at a college or seminary.
No. Simple belief in something rational or irrational is not theology.
For christ's sake, THEO is the root for "GOD".
And I have to believe you knew that before you said what you did.
If you don't pay the certain voluntary costs, then some part of society is going to take it involuntarily.
1) When you are retired... those kids will have jobs and be paying the taxes for roads, hospitals, etc. that you will be using. 2) Alternatively, those kids will not beat the hell out of you and rob you (maybe even kill you) because they got an education and bought in to the system themselves. Denied an education, they become thugs and either a) You pay higher taxes to incarcerate them or b) they take your stuff and/or kill you.
It is in our own interest for the next generation to be well behaved socialized tax paying members of society.
If the fetus is a human being with all rights from conception and women should have all babies which are voluntarily conceived then why is it okay to kill an innocent human being simply because the father was a rapist?
You are saying that the child is responsible for the crimes of the father- which we do not hold true other situations.
Personally-- I do not think human life is anything special. I think millions of born, walking, breathing children are allowed to die or rot in foster care every month who could have been saved by some of the money spent to save a mass of cells that lacks conciousness. I think of the millions of people killed by religious people for religious reasons (most of whom would be against abortion-- on both sides of the killing line).
But if I agree with your general argument that a 21 cell mass should not be killed in general, then why is it okay to kill the innocent offspring of a rapist? What if the mother says it is rape but it isn't? (something like 50% of cases of rape accusation were found to not be rape in a recent study of college age women).
Likewise, if the only way to get an abortion was because of rape- you would see rape accusations go way up. So we are killing innocents there so the only way to close that door is to not allow a rape exception.
Maybe... just maybe... we should stay the hell out of it until the fetus is viable outside the mother. And maybe we should force people against abortion to pay for the upbringing of such forced births. You know "Are you against abortion? If so check "YES" to authorize $50 extra taxes to help cover the costs of raising the children".
Increasingly, we are at the same time telling other people how to live, and making them pay for the costs of having to live that way.
I agree that microsoft would be losing more people that don't pay them.
I agree with the others that there will be cases where a person who paid for a computer with windows is going to be shafted.
However, my point is this: Microsoft NEEDS the infringers as well. If linux reaches a certain critical mass along with open document standards, then they will lose the network effect. As linux gets big enough, game companies will start producing games for it. As office's excessive profits are slashed, it becomes harder for microsoft to use their office monopoly to kill other markets.
I think all it would take is 10% of consumer desktops to be linux boxes and you could see a catastrophic drop in microsoft windows usage. This is because when someone saw you were using windows, they would be astonished that you were paying so much for something they were getting for free or nearly free.
Hell, at this point, it is beginning to amaze me that people would every pay $200+ for office when they could get openoffice for free.
I think you are mistaken. Bin Laden does not consider him a freedom fighter.
Bin Laden considers himself to be the next caliph of a new massive islamic state. He wants a strictly run theocracy free from immorality. He does not even want freedom for himself. I mean, you have a very wealthy but religious guy who could do anything he wants. He chooses to push islam, try to prevent corruption of a certain population by non-islamic values, and lead his own private little army.
One of the easiest ways is to set things up so the candidates must spend large amounts of money on advertising to win an election. The second that happens, only corporate stooges will be among your choices.
As a programmer, I like RUP. As a project lead, I like RUP.
It has aspects of Agile to it.
The important parts are:
Get the risky stuff addressed early. If DX9 doesn't support bi-pixar multi-shading like it says it does, then it is best to find out early rather than at the end.
Do the work in measurable chunks. That way you know in as little as a month if you are falling behind schedule.
Frequently interact with the users to make sure you are on course. This is the biggest problem with waterfall projects- working 6 months on something and it turns out you made a wrong turn on week 2. And I've seen other programmers do this again and again even with user interaction- they get an idea of what the program should be like in their head and turn off input from reality.
All the documents and crap bother me to and feel like useless makework. At least video game programmers do not have to deal with SOX compliance issues.
It should be first few fines $25, then add $100 per incident during the next 12 months.
And yes allowing people to pay without physically going to the meter basically turns convenient metered parking into a parking spot for the rich. Which really makes you want to walk by an area like that with your keys out.
I'm probably going to check out Digg after a single "troll" rating on my post seems to have knocked down my "excellent" karma based on many well rated posts. I know it is pretty meaningless but the modding system here can be very irritating at times.
I wasn't aware that -1 = 5+3+4+5+3+2+2+.... Apparently it is the new slashdot math.
Bob Edwards: This a hangover from the scandals that occurred in several high-profile charities?
Paul Light: Absolutely. It's a consequence of scandals across the board, controversy surrounding the Red Cross disbursement of the September 11th relief funds, the Catholic priesthood scandal. I mean, practically every scandal out there stuck to the charitable sector, and Americans have become more dubious about making investments, if you will, in charitable organizations, investments in either time or income.
Charities work well on SMALL scale locally. On a large scale, they become corrupt organizations that throw elite parties, spend lots of money on salaries, and provide entre' into the upper social circles for the people who run them.
Just this weekend, they had a special involving actual survivors of the holacaust. One of them was a lady who has seen a grand total of $3600 while growing increasingly angry watching *billions* be collected, spent on nice museums, fancy parties, travel, etc. by lots of people who never spent a day in a concentration camp.
Your statement didn't really make sense in the past--- but with increasing robotics and exploitation of 3rd world labor (14+ hour days for 13 year olds)--- I think it does make sense today.
And if you want to give the shareholder value- CUT the damn executive pay to a maximum of ten times the average salary.
The current salaries are completely unjustified. The executives are basically just looting the companies.
Actually both Microsoft and IBM have a long history of "eating their own dogfood" by policy.
It is really hard to sell your microsoft proxy servers when the customer asks, "Why don't you use them?"
I just spent the last 6 weeks helping a company fix a problem (we told them at the start it was their microsoft proxy servers or their configuration but they wanted to eliminate every other possibility first). In the end, they swapped in a linux server and the problems they were having stopped right away.
What was the problem? It looks like the microsoft servers were changing the TCP headers in some way at fairly short intervals. As a result, they looked like a new user to the remote web site and were offered a login page. This is basic "intro to TCP/IP" stuff. But apparently the microsoft servers just don't scale well above a hundred users.
This is an ongoing theme of microsoft products by the way. They are *really* easy to set up and work really well until you hit the enterprise level. Then suddenly it gets really hard and you need to think about linux, oracle, and ibm products instead.
That's not necessarily a bad thing- the expense or difficulty configuring those other solutions might stop you from getting your fledgling company off the ground. But folks get stuck on microsoft (because that's the skills they have) and continue to use them when they are no longer appropriate.
An 18" lawnmower is great for doing your lawn-- it's not so good for doing soccer fields and highway medians.
As much as I support their position- I agree with your point that "pirate party" sounds like either a joke or something bad so the name will hold them back.
I hate it when I lpooose p's like that but there is no suppressing the occasional accidental misspelling or typo. However I had nothing to loooopse since it was a joke post. ---
There are too many gasoline engine makers... in the world... for your story to be credible.
In addition, I offer other anti-super fuel efficiency arguments:
Is it plausable that this technology was supressed during World War II, when the outcome of major battles depended on gasoline more than once and there was massive rationing in the states (ration coupons for gasoline, etc.)
Is it plausible that perhaps companies composing a fraction of 1% of the economy could suppress this information from the rest of the economy which would make so much money off it (every major trucking company, every taxi company, every delivery company, etc.).
I think the other companies have too much to looossee* for them to let such an invention be supressed.
--- * I have given up trying to oppose the increasingly popular misuse of "loose" as "lose" so now I will join with them.. but of course I am way behind on having the proper number of extra letters by the new contemporary spelling of loooose so I'll be putting in even more extra o's to catch up.
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See for me, I would say you are wrong when you force other sane adults to do or not do things without their informed consent. That allows you a lot of freedom- and allows consenting adults a lot of freedom. Once you cross the line to coercing others or doing things to them without their adult informed consent(including killing them) then society can step in and do what it wants to you to protect society as a whole.
If you want to live in a society without sex or smoking or booze then go for it. As children in that society come of age, they should be given a realistic choice to stay because they want to or to leave. I think the Amish do something along these lines and it works well for them. Their lifestyle is fairly limited and strict but the participants are there voluntarily.
And I agree with you strongly on the civilian aspect. I would feel obligate to kill him if he was attacking united states officials or military but I would feel he had some moral standing (even if he didn't wear a uniform). Killing civilians can not be justified (unless you can directly trace their active support to people attacking you).
Wtf?
theological: of or relating to or concerning theology;
Theology
1. The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions.
2. A system or school of opinions concerning God and religious questions: Protestant theology; Jewish theology.
3. A course of specialized religious study usually at a college or seminary.
No. Simple belief in something rational or irrational is not theology.
For christ's sake, THEO is the root for "GOD".
And I have to believe you knew that before you said what you did.
Really, it is more an issue of hobbes leviathan.
If you don't pay the certain voluntary costs, then some part of society is going to take it involuntarily.
1) When you are retired... those kids will have jobs and be paying the taxes for roads, hospitals, etc. that you will be using.
2) Alternatively, those kids will not beat the hell out of you and rob you (maybe even kill you) because they got an education and bought in to the system themselves. Denied an education, they become thugs and either a) You pay higher taxes to incarcerate them or b) they take your stuff and/or kill you.
It is in our own interest for the next generation to be well behaved socialized tax paying members of society.
If the fetus is a human being with all rights from conception and women should have all babies which are voluntarily conceived then why is it okay to kill an innocent human being simply because the father was a rapist?
You are saying that the child is responsible for the crimes of the father- which we do not hold true other situations.
Personally-- I do not think human life is anything special. I think millions of born, walking, breathing children are allowed to die or rot in foster care every month who could have been saved by some of the money spent to save a mass of cells that lacks conciousness. I think of the millions of people killed by religious people for religious reasons (most of whom would be against abortion-- on both sides of the killing line).
But if I agree with your general argument that a 21 cell mass should not be killed in general, then why is it okay to kill the innocent offspring of a rapist? What if the mother says it is rape but it isn't? (something like 50% of cases of rape accusation were found to not be rape in a recent study of college age women).
Likewise, if the only way to get an abortion was because of rape- you would see rape accusations go way up. So we are killing innocents there so the only way to close that door is to not allow a rape exception.
Maybe... just maybe... we should stay the hell out of it until the fetus is viable outside the mother. And maybe we should force people against abortion to pay for the upbringing of such forced births. You know "Are you against abortion? If so check "YES" to authorize $50 extra taxes to help cover the costs of raising the children".
Increasingly, we are at the same time telling other people how to live, and making them pay for the costs of having to live that way.
I agree that microsoft would be losing more people that don't pay them.
I agree with the others that there will be cases where a person who paid for a computer with windows is going to be shafted.
However, my point is this: Microsoft NEEDS the infringers as well. If linux reaches a certain critical mass along with open document standards, then they will lose the network effect. As linux gets big enough, game companies will start producing games for it. As office's excessive profits are slashed, it becomes harder for microsoft to use their office monopoly to kill other markets.
I think all it would take is 10% of consumer desktops to be linux boxes and you could see a catastrophic drop in microsoft windows usage. This is because when someone saw you were using windows, they would be astonished that you were paying so much for something they were getting for free or nearly free.
Hell, at this point, it is beginning to amaze me that people would every pay $200+ for office when they could get openoffice for free.
I think you are mistaken. Bin Laden does not consider him a freedom fighter.
Bin Laden considers himself to be the next caliph of a new massive islamic state. He wants a strictly run theocracy free from immorality. He does not even want freedom for himself. I mean, you have a very wealthy but religious guy who could do anything he wants. He chooses to push islam, try to prevent corruption of a certain population by non-islamic values, and lead his own private little army.
Exhibit B: The non-liberal candidates to choose from were selected by and, where it matters, will work for the elite.
"Conservative" Sock Puppet replaces "Liberal" Sock Puppet.
One of the easiest ways is to set things up so the candidates must spend large amounts of money on advertising to win an election. The second that happens, only corporate stooges will be among your choices.
As a programmer, I like RUP.
As a project lead, I like RUP.
It has aspects of Agile to it.
The important parts are:
Get the risky stuff addressed early. If DX9 doesn't support bi-pixar multi-shading like it says it does, then it is best to find out early rather than at the end.
Do the work in measurable chunks. That way you know in as little as a month if you are falling behind schedule.
Frequently interact with the users to make sure you are on course. This is the biggest problem with waterfall projects- working 6 months on something and it turns out you made a wrong turn on week 2. And I've seen other programmers do this again and again even with user interaction- they get an idea of what the program should be like in their head and turn off input from reality.
All the documents and crap bother me to and feel like useless makework. At least video game programmers do not have to deal with SOX compliance issues.
It should be first few fines $25, then add $100 per incident during the next 12 months.
And yes allowing people to pay without physically going to the meter basically turns convenient metered parking into a parking spot for the rich. Which really makes you want to walk by an area like that with your keys out.
But now with patent IP companies,
You have the case of a small group that has a few nukes (patents) but no country (company & product) to strike back at.
They don't play by the rules- they just want the money.
I'm probably going to check out Digg after a single "troll" rating on my post seems to have knocked down my "excellent" karma based on many well rated posts. I know it is pretty meaningless but the modding system here can be very irritating at times.
I wasn't aware that -1 = 5+3+4+5+3+2+2+.... Apparently it is the new slashdot math.
Back to relative anonymity I guess.
God yes we needed a road infra-structure.
Even the Romans had roads.
Without roads, you have a muddy impassable morass whenever it rains.
I think the government is currently broken and getting more broken, but an unbroken government serves many useful purposes.
Apparently some one can't handle the truth.
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0 031215.htm
A trivial search kicks up these...
The results show that most people remain confident in charitable organizations despite scandals or other investigative reporting done about the way...
http://www.brookings.edu/views/interviews/light/2
Much less impressive in scale than the United Way or American
Cancer Society scandals, but comparatively far more devastating is
the pending case of theft that occurred at the Illinois Federation of
Families.
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:bPwtzC5queIJ
Bob Edwards: This a hangover from the scandals that occurred in several high-profile charities?
Paul Light: Absolutely. It's a consequence of scandals across the board, controversy surrounding the Red Cross disbursement of the September 11th relief funds, the Catholic priesthood scandal. I mean, practically every scandal out there stuck to the charitable sector, and Americans have become more dubious about making investments, if you will, in charitable organizations, investments in either time or income.
http://www.brookings.edu/views/interviews/light/2
Charities work well on SMALL scale locally. On a large scale, they become corrupt organizations that throw elite parties, spend lots of money on salaries, and provide entre' into the upper social circles for the people who run them.
Just this weekend, they had a special involving actual survivors of the holacaust. One of them was a lady who has seen a grand total of $3600 while growing increasingly angry watching *billions* be collected, spent on nice museums, fancy parties, travel, etc. by lots of people who never spent a day in a concentration camp.
Your statement didn't really make sense in the past--- but with increasing robotics and exploitation of 3rd world labor (14+ hour days for 13 year olds)--- I think it does make sense today.
And if you want to give the shareholder value- CUT the damn executive pay to a maximum of ten times the average salary.
The current salaries are completely unjustified. The executives are basically just looting the companies.
The US did pretty well historically with high tax rates.
The problem isn't high tax rates- the problem is the government taking over a fourth of gdp.
We would have a fabulous economy if we taxed a few rich people heavily and didn't tax most people making very little money.
But you don't hear that since the rich own the media all you get is "help the rich" propaganda.
Any single charitable organization with lots of money is going to put the kids to shame when it comes to corruption, hookers, drugs, and graft.
The republicans will continue to get away with anything they want for the rich and business as long as the abortion issue isn't won.
Once legal abortion is overturned by a solid supreme court majority, the republican party is going to lose power astonishingly quickly.
They are doing all kinds of things their religious base is ignoring until the abortion issue is resolved.
And the democrats are going to continue to lose until then as well.
After it is overturned, I see the reverse being true for at least 20 years.
I bought Everquest in may of 1999.
I have not bought another game since.
Prior to that I bought a game every two months going back about three years.
Lan parties stopped almost overnight. We used to play a lot of Quake (Quakepong mod in particular), and some game with transforming japanese robots.
The only game I still play from that time is Total Annihilation (with the Absolute Annihilation mod which is worked on to this day by the community).
The only game that has interested me since was the dance revolution games- never quite got around to buying them tho.
Actually both Microsoft and IBM have a long history of "eating their own dogfood" by policy.
It is really hard to sell your microsoft proxy servers when the customer asks, "Why don't you use them?"
I just spent the last 6 weeks helping a company fix a problem (we told them at the start it was their microsoft proxy servers or their configuration but they wanted to eliminate every other possibility first). In the end, they swapped in a linux server and the problems they were having stopped right away.
What was the problem? It looks like the microsoft servers were changing the TCP headers in some way at fairly short intervals. As a result, they looked like a new user to the remote web site and were offered a login page. This is basic "intro to TCP/IP" stuff. But apparently the microsoft servers just don't scale well above a hundred users.
This is an ongoing theme of microsoft products by the way. They are *really* easy to set up and work really well until you hit the enterprise level. Then suddenly it gets really hard and you need to think about linux, oracle, and ibm products instead.
That's not necessarily a bad thing- the expense or difficulty configuring those other solutions might stop you from getting your fledgling company off the ground. But folks get stuck on microsoft (because that's the skills they have) and continue to use them when they are no longer appropriate.
An 18" lawnmower is great for doing your lawn-- it's not so good for doing soccer fields and highway medians.
Check out
. htm
http://aa.planetannihilation.gamespy.com/download
Absolute Annihilation 6.0 is the original TA with lost of improvements but nothing I would call a "nerf".
They also have a 3d rendered version there that I don't personally like as much but lots of folks go wild over.
Why do you hate me?
No more like.. you POST the newspaper on the inside walls of your cafe.
He's outside reading it through your CLEAR uncovered windows with binoculars-- from the parking lot.
Oh.. and he's a sex offender.
As much as I support their position- I agree with your point that "pirate party" sounds like either a joke or something bad so the name will hold them back.
I hate it when I lpooose p's like that but there is no suppressing the occasional accidental misspelling or typo.
However I had nothing to loooopse since it was a joke post.
---
Not a direct hit but close enough.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.a
There are too many automobile companies.
There are too many motorcycle companies.
There are too many lawnmower companies.
There are too many gasoline engine makers... in the world... for your story to be credible.
In addition, I offer other anti-super fuel efficiency arguments:
Is it plausable that this technology was supressed during World War II, when the outcome of major battles depended on gasoline more than once and there was massive rationing in the states (ration coupons for gasoline, etc.)
Is it plausible that perhaps companies composing a fraction of 1% of the economy could suppress this information from the rest of the economy which would make so much money off it (every major trucking company, every taxi company, every delivery company, etc.).
I think the other companies have too much to looossee* for them to let such an invention be supressed.
---
* I have given up trying to oppose the increasingly popular misuse of "loose" as "lose" so now I will join with them.. but of course I am way behind on having the proper number of extra letters by the new contemporary spelling of loooose so I'll be putting in even more extra o's to catch up.