I can believe that a rock is falling onto my head, but it doesn't keep me from avoiding it. The simple fact that evolution and natural selection are integral parts of life does not mean that a sentient being cannot defy the drive to survive or extinguish competing species. In fact, such sentient decisions are also part of natural selection.
The name itself, "natural selection", is somewhat misleading. Natural selection does not imply lack of human intervention. On the contrary, humans are part of, influence, are influenced by, and are subject to natural selection and evolution. Therefore, you are wrong to think that natural selection is only such if we stand aside and let nature do its will. That is the fallacy of the Social Darwinist as Divine Right Theorist: Success must take intervention and attempts of change into account in order for it to be truly objective.
Personally, I have nothing against blind people doing whatever they want to, as long as they aren't endangering other people's lives while doing so. I think that using/aiming a rifle falls under the second category.
uTorrent runs quite well under WINE. Granted, that's not the best solution out there, and I'd much prefer a native version, but in many ways it's better than Azureus.
The big problem is that there's no one to vote for. Short of a miracle, there's very little chance that an independent (a real one, not a pseudo-independent who simply lost his party's primaries) would get into congress. Thus, in order for our votes to count, we have to choose the lesser evil from the corrupticians of the two big parties. IMHO, the only real solution is instant runoff elections and a public that cares enough to form its own opinion.
Exactly. You can say that Microsoft wanted to introduce inner hostility in the OSS community, but don't pretend some of it wasn't there to start with. Does anyone remember XFree86? When Xorg forked from them, they didn't do it politely. In fact, there was literally no one left on the XF86 mailing lists only a bit after the fork. There are more examples, but I can't think of them right now.
I've just bought a Sandisk Sansa c240 1GB. It was very cheap (I got a $10 discount, but even without it the player would cost $80), it has an FM tuner, can record voice, is exactly the right size, and looks damn good. The only three downsides are that it uses MTP, has no ogg support, and doesn't show Hebrew charachters in id3 tags. Consumer Joe, of course, doesn't care about those flaws. I think the question here is why Sandisk isn't outselling the iPod.
(Not an astroturf, I just think iPods are overrated)
That's nothing. When I set an MSN account for my now deceased grandfather, he wasn't able to use his own Hotmail account for one reason or another (I didn't quite pick up on the reason, and couldn't go over and help him myself since the Atlantic separated us), but somehow managed to sign up when he mistyped his e-mail address as "somethingoranother@hotnail.com", and since then insisted that that's how things work. I never told him what hotnail.com probably was (he had little knowledge of English, so it is actually reasonable that he didn't know what "nail" could mean).
You'll notice that he gracefully evades the topic of a person copying their MP3's onto other self-owned media, even though it appears on Digital Freedom's front page. Personally, I am guessing that he's doing it because he doesn't believe that it's considered fair use to move songs from one media to another.
I was actually thinking along those lines. The Wii acts like the stereotype attention-seeking dumb blond. I get the general feeling that, if I were to meet her on the street or in a cafe (I'll assume she's reasonably clothed, since I would pretty much go "WTF" if she wasn't), I would get a negative opinion of her very quickly.
Except for when I'm developing something. A month or so ago I needed a small script to generate an RSS feed from a webpage. Now, I had two (OK, more, but stay with me) choices: I could write it in C, taking days and writing, oh, 200+ lines of code, worrying about pointers, declaration, and script typing, or I could develop it with less that 100 lines of python in about half an hour.
I'll let you guess what I chose.
Slashdot Mirror
If there's no stigma, it can't decrease. It can always increase.
What does Digg have to do with this?
No SQL Server. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
/me points to the door
OUT!
The name itself, "natural selection", is somewhat misleading. Natural selection does not imply lack of human intervention. On the contrary, humans are part of, influence, are influenced by, and are subject to natural selection and evolution. Therefore, you are wrong to think that natural selection is only such if we stand aside and let nature do its will. That is the fallacy of the Social Darwinist as Divine Right Theorist: Success must take intervention and attempts of change into account in order for it to be truly objective.
Sorry, I went on a limb there, didn't I?
Who modded the parent Insightful? Please respond here with your reasoning!
Personally, I have nothing against blind people doing whatever they want to, as long as they aren't endangering other people's lives while doing so. I think that using/aiming a rifle falls under the second category.
I've used EasyList for a long time, and it works great.
24.9.12? Why will you be using a development version?
...if the dead musicians also signed the petition to decrease their royalties?
uTorrent runs quite well under WINE. Granted, that's not the best solution out there, and I'd much prefer a native version, but in many ways it's better than Azureus.
The big problem is that there's no one to vote for. Short of a miracle, there's very little chance that an independent (a real one, not a pseudo-independent who simply lost his party's primaries) would get into congress. Thus, in order for our votes to count, we have to choose the lesser evil from the corrupticians of the two big parties. IMHO, the only real solution is instant runoff elections and a public that cares enough to form its own opinion.
I suggest you look at even older games. No graphics, no gameplay, but amazing plots.
Exactly. You can say that Microsoft wanted to introduce inner hostility in the OSS community, but don't pretend some of it wasn't there to start with. Does anyone remember XFree86? When Xorg forked from them, they didn't do it politely. In fact, there was literally no one left on the XF86 mailing lists only a bit after the fork. There are more examples, but I can't think of them right now.
In my defense, the original code was a fully compilable "Hello World" program, but slashdot ate my code for some reason.
#include int main() { std::cout
You're right, the web undergoes continuous evolution. That's why I think this is Web e0.693147181.
(Not an astroturf, I just think iPods are overrated)
Last I checked, Antigua has a full right to disrespect US Intellectual Property laws, being a sovereign nation and all.
That's nothing. When I set an MSN account for my now deceased grandfather, he wasn't able to use his own Hotmail account for one reason or another (I didn't quite pick up on the reason, and couldn't go over and help him myself since the Atlantic separated us), but somehow managed to sign up when he mistyped his e-mail address as "somethingoranother@hotnail.com", and since then insisted that that's how things work. I never told him what hotnail.com probably was (he had little knowledge of English, so it is actually reasonable that he didn't know what "nail" could mean).
You'll notice that he gracefully evades the topic of a person copying their MP3's onto other self-owned media, even though it appears on Digital Freedom's front page. Personally, I am guessing that he's doing it because he doesn't believe that it's considered fair use to move songs from one media to another.
That is, to say plainly, a streaming pile of BS.
I was actually thinking along those lines. The Wii acts like the stereotype attention-seeking dumb blond. I get the general feeling that, if I were to meet her on the street or in a cafe (I'll assume she's reasonably clothed, since I would pretty much go "WTF" if she wasn't), I would get a negative opinion of her very quickly.
Except for when I'm developing something. A month or so ago I needed a small script to generate an RSS feed from a webpage. Now, I had two (OK, more, but stay with me) choices: I could write it in C, taking days and writing, oh, 200+ lines of code, worrying about pointers, declaration, and script typing, or I could develop it with less that 100 lines of python in about half an hour. I'll let you guess what I chose.
Congratulations, you've missed the point entirely.