You are, of course, right tht I was oversimplifying my case. I was referring to the section of the religious right that insists that sexuality is a choice.
That said, I would welcome an intelligent discussion on the relevant topics. I invite you to email me as this thread isn't on topic here. My email is edwardra3 Gmail.
So, in context with other things I pay for, I'd happily pay $20/yr for something like the right to do this on slashdot. Not saying it should happen, but sometimes things just gotta be paid for!
Then go ahead. Slashdot subscription is $5 for $1000 ad-free pages. If I understand the proccess correctly, if you visit 10/. pages per day, the subscription would work out to ~$17/yr
Are you honestly trying to cast CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS in the same light as innocent victims of the holocaust and slavery?
I was simply rephrasing the common "They came for the..." proverb.
homosexuality (which I have absolutely nothing against). That is your personal choice.
Everytime some otherwise well-intentioned person calls homosexuality a choice, it gives ammo to the religous right wing who says it is a wrong and dangerous choice. IT IS NOT A FREAKING CHOICE!! Outside of comedians, have you ever heard someone say they wished they were gay? I was born gay, I'm going to die gay. I was born white and I'm going to die white. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt to work is a choice. Listening to classic rock is a choice.
As someone who is NOT a felon, I see no problem in this tracking...
As someone who is not a jew, I see no problem with the Holocaust...
As someone who is not black, I see no problem with slavery...
As someone who is not Native American, I see no problem with breaking land treaties...
As someone who is not a cop, I see no problem with cops getting shot
As someone who doesn't smoke pot, I see no problem with stiffer drug penalties...
As someone who doesn't have AIDS, I see no problem with a national database of people with AIDS.... hey, maybe we can use GPS tracking on them too!
See where this is going?
As a gay American, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM with the rights of groups of people being stripped away because they are "undesirable" and "unsafe to the communnity" By statute, a large portion of the US considers me a threat to marriages everywhere.
I hate it when companies pretend their driveway is a road so they can stick their name in their address. And then stick a rediculously large number on it. Is AOL really at the 220th block of AOL Way?
I bet CmdrTaco doesn't live at 64000000000000 Slashdot Avenue. I don't get snail mail if the sender drops the second E on my street's name, I wonder how much mail I'd get if I told everyone to send it Antro Technologies Drive
Anyone else notice that the OS that Toshiba wrote is playing Windows Media Player 9 Series, unless there is a WMP9 skin for mplayer or similar and Toshiba's OS is a *nix derivative.
Two, regarding the wider scope of Intellegent Design, why does that necessarily have to conflict with the established theory of evolution? This is like saying that a particular statue could not have possibly been carved by ancient man, because it is clear that it was in fact carved with a stone tool. Can't the ID folks consider the possibility that evolution is the tool God used to create us? Evolution does not disprove the existence of God.
The theory of Intelligent Design is that life went through a "guided" evolution based on a grand design by a deity (known in Judeo-Christian circles as God, but Intelligent Design isn't limited to Judeo-Christian philosophy)
What ID'ers disagree with in the theory of "evolution" (at least the ones with intelligent thought and research and aren't just spouting off what someone else told them) is the tenents of natural selection. According to natural selection, evolution is a proccess of random mutations, some harmful, some helpful, some having no effect (such as eye color). Due to the randomness of natural selection, it is a continuing proccess with no "goal." As such, natural selection requires that either 1) there is no God, or 2) God has a laizze-faire additude about life.
And relating point 1: When I was in college(!!! and this was only 5 years ago, too), I knew a person who had a poster of common "scientific fallacies." On the issue that dinosaurs died out 60+ million years before the "dawn of man" it said this: history (sic) is full of stories of man fighting dragons. Tales of dragons predate the discovery of dinosaurs, but they are in fact, the same.
I have to agree with Freeberg. Short of changing their corporate direction like NetZero (not that it hasn't worked for NetZero, emphasising the low-cost pay service over the ad-based free service), NetFlix is always going to have high popular opinion. NetFlix customers are very similar to Apple customers in that regard. They see themselves in a good vs evil fight with a giant corporation (Blockbuster for NetFlix, Microsoft for Apple). Netflix customers are fighting the good fight. Despite this, everyone thinks in the Microsoft business model of "there can only be one company in a given market" Two (or more, and more is better) companies can peacefully co-exist in teh same market. I use Netflix. My sister uses Walmart's service. My neighbor stopes at Blockbuster on the way home from work to rent DVD's because their an impulse item for him. To each their own. I don't see any of the services as inherently better or worse than the other.
When a murder gets 12 months, its because the charge was pled down to something like voluntary manslaughter with the minimum sentence (18 months IIRC), and get time off for good behavior.
shall be imprisoned not more than 3 years, fined under this title, or both;
Even assuming someone was sentenced to the full 3 years (at which case the murder-filesharer analogy breakes down) unless they tried to escape or do something else monumentally stupid, they'd get out early, also. On top of that, I'd bet 90%+ of the cases are referred to the federal pre-trial intervention program where they get 18 months of probation and walk away with a clean criminal record.
I say, Google, go for it. use graphical ads. Use intelitxt ads on other people's websites. It will be easier (especially on my conscience) to Adblock google ads. Tom's Hardware Guide loads about 10% faster and scrolls much more smoothly after blocking the intelitxt ads and the floating navigation bar.
But back to Google. AdSense is has some major problems associated with it. I'm not even talking about the click fraud that's been getting discussion lately. I'm talking about keyword fraud (buying AdSense advertising for keywords not related to your product) and outright fraud. A search for the TV show JAG gives sponsored links for ebay and three seperate websites for a fraudulent company (selling a rebranded version of LimeWire and a notice not to download copyrighted material "Watch & Download JAG Unlimited Downloads. 100% Legal")
While we all have problems with thier monopoly and how they interact with everyone who doesn't work for them, they trat their employees very well.
Microsoft is generally considered the most gay-friendly corporation in the world. The Gay Union at my college has received grant money from Microsoft twice in the last 10 years. And this is just a 30 person group at a D3 school in NJ
Solution: Set comment threshhold at 4. Set comment modifier for informative at +2 Interesting & Insightful at +1. Funny, Freaks, & Foes at -2. Karma Bonus at 0.
Now if the RSS feed grabbed the links in the stories, I could possibly skip visiting slashdot altogether
It's a 3 mile limit from switch to jack generally, and the further you are from the switch, the slower the performance. At least in central NJ, DSL service is still very hit or miss. The area around Six Flags has DSL, but the greater Princeton area doesn't.
dammit, now I have to go home and reread my nuclear physics textbook. But your right, the reaction appears that it should be D+He3=He4+H but I know I read an entire paper on generating electricity from free electrons generated by D-He3 fusion. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the paper was just a computer-generated conference submission?
As an aside, I don't look even remotely under 21, but I consider that nearly irrelevant to the bigger issue - The law doesn't say a store needs to ID me, just that I can't buy before turning 21.
In NJ, retailers are required by law to card (link is to pdf couldn't find html with information). However, retailers only need to card individuals appearing under the age of 35.
Now the part I've never completely understood is that a 16 year old can sell cigarettes, and an 18 year old can transport alcohol, but neither can purchase said the respective products.
One time when I was travelling, I happened to be in the very first location of a local convience store chain. They even had a plaque about it. When I went to take a picture of the plaque, I was told I wan't allowed to for privacy reasons.
You're just a fucking karma whore anyway, earlier you bitched about being modded "funny" instead of informative or interesting. Then, a couple minutes later you post the text of the article
Actually, you got that backwards. This is the second post I made for this article, the first being the one where I made a comment that was modded down. Several minutes after posting the article (and other posts) I complained about being modded down. I was quickly modded funny after that point, and then I made the point that funny wasn't what I meant.
BTW, my Karma is already excellent, why would I need to Karma whore?
Oh, yeah: if you feel the need to "enlighten" the slashdot masses with the popup free verson of the article, post it anonamously like everyone else does.
I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed that that's the way its normally done. From now on I shall, because, despite what you think, credit isn't my point, sharing information is
what I meant is that 2 is all that will likely be useful in a benefit/cost situation. Look at it this way, how many partical accelerators are there in the world?
I listed them in order of percentage of composition. I have talked at length about Helium 3 in other posts. At the risk of being redundant. Not only does a D-He3 reaction have a greater kW/kg output than a D-T, or D-D reaction, but it is the cleanest fusion possible Under ideal cirumstances there are no resultant free neutrons whereas other forms are inherently "dirty" with radioactive neutrons
D + He3 = He4 + e + 18.3MeV D + D = He3 + n + 3.27MeV D + T = He4 + n + 17.59MeV
Above and beyond this free electrons can be used to directly generate electricity
(D = Deuterium (Hydrogen with 1 neutron)
T= Tritium (Hydrogrn with 2 neutrons) - very radioactive, short lifespan not "naturally occuring, but created by "breeding" Deuterium with Lithium
He3 = Helium with only 1 neutron
He4 = normal Helium with 2 neutrons)
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That said, I would welcome an intelligent discussion on the relevant topics. I invite you to email me as this thread isn't on topic here. My email is edwardra3 Gmail.
Then go ahead. Slashdot subscription is $5 for $1000 ad-free pages. If I understand the proccess correctly, if you visit 10 /. pages per day, the subscription would work out to ~$17/yr
I was simply rephrasing the common "They came for the..." proverb.
homosexuality (which I have absolutely nothing against). That is your personal choice.
Everytime some otherwise well-intentioned person calls homosexuality a choice, it gives ammo to the religous right wing who says it is a wrong and dangerous choice. IT IS NOT A FREAKING CHOICE!! Outside of comedians, have you ever heard someone say they wished they were gay? I was born gay, I'm going to die gay. I was born white and I'm going to die white. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt to work is a choice. Listening to classic rock is a choice.
As far as Martha Stewart, if she moves to one of the 43 states (or DC) that restore voting rights, she can vote for president again.
As someone who is not a jew, I see no problem with the Holocaust...
As someone who is not black, I see no problem with slavery...
As someone who is not Native American, I see no problem with breaking land treaties...
As someone who is not a cop, I see no problem with cops getting shot
As someone who doesn't smoke pot, I see no problem with stiffer drug penalties... As someone who doesn't have AIDS, I see no problem with a national database of people with AIDS.... hey, maybe we can use GPS tracking on them too!
See where this is going?
As a gay American, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM with the rights of groups of people being stripped away because they are "undesirable" and "unsafe to the communnity" By statute, a large portion of the US considers me a threat to marriages everywhere.
I hate it when companies pretend their driveway is a road so they can stick their name in their address. And then stick a rediculously large number on it. Is AOL really at the 220th block of AOL Way?
I bet CmdrTaco doesn't live at 64000000000000 Slashdot Avenue. I don't get snail mail if the sender drops the second E on my street's name, I wonder how much mail I'd get if I told everyone to send it Antro Technologies Drive
Hell, if Microsoft is going to pay me to say nice things about Longhorn in a blog, I'll start a blog up today and rant about how great it is.
Anyone else notice that the OS that Toshiba wrote is playing Windows Media Player 9 Series, unless there is a WMP9 skin for mplayer or similar and Toshiba's OS is a *nix derivative.
The theory of Intelligent Design is that life went through a "guided" evolution based on a grand design by a deity (known in Judeo-Christian circles as God, but Intelligent Design isn't limited to Judeo-Christian philosophy)
What ID'ers disagree with in the theory of "evolution" (at least the ones with intelligent thought and research and aren't just spouting off what someone else told them) is the tenents of natural selection. According to natural selection, evolution is a proccess of random mutations, some harmful, some helpful, some having no effect (such as eye color). Due to the randomness of natural selection, it is a continuing proccess with no "goal." As such, natural selection requires that either 1) there is no God, or 2) God has a laizze-faire additude about life.
And relating point 1: When I was in college(!!! and this was only 5 years ago, too), I knew a person who had a poster of common "scientific fallacies." On the issue that dinosaurs died out 60+ million years before the "dawn of man" it said this: history (sic) is full of stories of man fighting dragons. Tales of dragons predate the discovery of dinosaurs, but they are in fact, the same.
I have to agree with Freeberg. Short of changing their corporate direction like NetZero (not that it hasn't worked for NetZero, emphasising the low-cost pay service over the ad-based free service), NetFlix is always going to have high popular opinion. NetFlix customers are very similar to Apple customers in that regard. They see themselves in a good vs evil fight with a giant corporation (Blockbuster for NetFlix, Microsoft for Apple). Netflix customers are fighting the good fight. Despite this, everyone thinks in the Microsoft business model of "there can only be one company in a given market" Two (or more, and more is better) companies can peacefully co-exist in teh same market. I use Netflix. My sister uses Walmart's service. My neighbor stopes at Blockbuster on the way home from work to rent DVD's because their an impulse item for him. To each their own. I don't see any of the services as inherently better or worse than the other.
shall be imprisoned not more than 3 years, fined under this title, or both;
Even assuming someone was sentenced to the full 3 years (at which case the murder-filesharer analogy breakes down) unless they tried to escape or do something else monumentally stupid, they'd get out early, also. On top of that, I'd bet 90%+ of the cases are referred to the federal pre-trial intervention program where they get 18 months of probation and walk away with a clean criminal record.
But back to Google. AdSense is has some major problems associated with it. I'm not even talking about the click fraud that's been getting discussion lately. I'm talking about keyword fraud (buying AdSense advertising for keywords not related to your product) and outright fraud. A search for the TV show JAG gives sponsored links for ebay and three seperate websites for a fraudulent company (selling a rebranded version of LimeWire and a notice not to download copyrighted material "Watch & Download JAG Unlimited Downloads. 100% Legal")
Microsoft is generally considered the most gay-friendly corporation in the world. The Gay Union at my college has received grant money from Microsoft twice in the last 10 years. And this is just a 30 person group at a D3 school in NJ
The only company on the Fortune 500 that still discrimonates against GLBTQ's is Exxon
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. -- Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Slashdot comments= YMMV
Solution: Set comment threshhold at 4. Set comment modifier for informative at +2 Interesting & Insightful at +1. Funny, Freaks, & Foes at -2. Karma Bonus at 0.
Now if the RSS feed grabbed the links in the stories, I could possibly skip visiting slashdot altogether
It's a 3 mile limit from switch to jack generally, and the further you are from the switch, the slower the performance. At least in central NJ, DSL service is still very hit or miss. The area around Six Flags has DSL, but the greater Princeton area doesn't.
dammit, now I have to go home and reread my nuclear physics textbook. But your right, the reaction appears that it should be D+He3=He4+H but I know I read an entire paper on generating electricity from free electrons generated by D-He3 fusion. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the paper was just a computer-generated conference submission?
Now the part I've never completely understood is that a 16 year old can sell cigarettes, and an 18 year old can transport alcohol, but neither can purchase said the respective products.
One time when I was travelling, I happened to be in the very first location of a local convience store chain. They even had a plaque about it. When I went to take a picture of the plaque, I was told I wan't allowed to for privacy reasons.
BTW, my Karma is already excellent, why would I need to Karma whore?
I'm sorry, I hadn't noticed that that's the way its normally done. From now on I shall, because, despite what you think, credit isn't my point, sharing information iswhat I meant is that 2 is all that will likely be useful in a benefit/cost situation. Look at it this way, how many partical accelerators are there in the world?
(D = Deuterium (Hydrogen with 1 neutron)
T= Tritium (Hydrogrn with 2 neutrons) - very radioactive, short lifespan not "naturally occuring, but created by "breeding" Deuterium with Lithium
He3 = Helium with only 1 neutron
He4 = normal Helium with 2 neutrons)
- Oxygen: 42%
- Silicon: 24%
- Iron: 13%
- Calcium: 8%
- Aluminum: 8%
- Magnesium: 6%
- Other (including lots of Helium-3 & Titanium): 3%
Incidently, the largest concentration of Iron looks to be in the general area of where the article recommends putting a base