Bravo sir, Bravo...What you've written is brilliant. I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately for you and I religion will NEVER go away. Here's the catch. Religion is based on faith. The opposite of faith is doubt. To a religious person, anyone who doubts religion is clearly wrong and that just means you must try harder to convince them of your religion. Not too many people say, "Damn your right. My religion doesn't make sense at all." Instead they say, "You poor misguided person. I will pray for you.", and become even more steadfast in their religion.
I used to play a game called Choplifter on my Mac Classic. You were a helicopter and your goal was to drop a man into a moving hay wagon, if you missed he died. You only had three tries and the wagon keeps speeding up.
Does anyone remember this game? Because it's quite different from the Choplifter referenced in wiki
I want to know if the game I played had an ending.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this. This is the oath officers take upon commissioning into the military.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
You're obliged to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. The problem is, who determines domestic enemies. Some would argue the president is a domestic enemy.
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Sadly it will never pass because the aristocracy in Congress would have to pay assloads in taxes on all the bullshit they buy.
The jury's job is to determine if she broke the law, not determine if the law makes sense. You are not alone in that thinking, unfortunately it is wrong. Jury nullification basically allows the jury so say "yea the accused is guilty but your law is bullshit so we're not gonna enforce it"
I don't believe oil companies have any incentive to kill things that reduce the quantity of oil we need
Don't be so naive. Both American Car companies AND oil companies have a vested interest in keeping things status quo. They are greedy bastards and want to wrench every penny from you. Don't believe me? Go watch this movie
I live in Florida and this infuriates me! I DO NOT want MS bossing around my legislators. So a call to action for those who care about this. Write a letter to the Representative Ed Homan. Feel free to copy my template.
Capitol Office:
317 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-3087
District Office:
Suite 311
9385 N. 56th Street
Temple Terrace, FL 33617-5505
Phone: (813) 983-3330
Legislative Assistant:
Janet Roder
District Secretary:
Paula Tonelli
Representative Ed Homan,
I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with the recent successful lobbying efforts by Microsoft regarding Senate Bill 1974. As a tax payer of this state I am disgusted that the Congress of this state would cave to the wants and desires of a monopolistic company who have no intentions of serving the people or the state but only seek to increase their already enormous financial wealth. I am huge proponent of open standards and open software. The prospect of having open source software running on government computers is highly desirable. Millions of tax payer dollars could be saved by switching to free operating systems such as Ubuntu Linux (www.ubuntu.com) and switching to free office solutions like OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). If Microsoft wants to have the governments use Microsoft products, they should donate them to the government and get a tax write off for it. I should not have to pay taxes so government employees can use substandard expensive software. When large monopolistic corporations send lobbyists to ensure the will of the Microsoft is fulfilled I should be able to have faith that my Congress will represent me accurately and realize the lies and untruths these lobbyists are spreading about open source software. Please consider ratifying the bill and rewriting it to embrace open standards and open source software. Thank you.
The web started as a pet project by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and yes it started out free as a way of exchanging information and data. The internet was a DARPA initiative to maintain command and control over nuclear missiles in the event of soviet attacks which destroyed large networked nodes.
Either it is wrong to kill, or it is not. If it is not wrong, then I should be able to kill indiscriminately. It is wrong, so we should not be killing people. And of course, the ultimate hypocrisy is to kill someone as a punishment for killing.
Hey, I was thinking about what you said. I don't think capital punishment is hypocracy. I don't look at Capital punishment as a way of saying. "Hey you killed someone and it's not right so we're gonna kill you". I think it's more like "We all have the right to live in a safe nation free of murders. Everyone has the right to live safely here. You gave up that right by breaking that trust (murdering someone) and rather than keep you alive (and endangering the lives of citizens and other inmates) we're going to end your life b/c you're more dangerous alive than you are dead.
Replace "most people" with "most people on Slashdot"... Most people have no idea what MS has done in the past 5 years, nor do they care. The NASCAR scandal is all they can handle right now.
Actually...you're dead wrong. You are correct most people don't pay attention to MS, but people aren't gonna go out and pay $250 (or however much it costs) for something they don't know about.
I know for a FACT that people who are clueless about computers already have the idea Vista sucks and do not want to buy it.
You know why? They ask US for advice and we tell them it sucks. I can personally think of 5+ accounts of average users asking about upgrading to Vista and a horde of geeks respond with a resounding NO! These are some of the things I've heard average users say about Vista...
1. "It's riddled with anti-piracy locks, why get Vista when my pirated copy of XP works fine"
2. "XP works great, why should I get Vista?"
3. "I heard it won't run on my computer"
4. "Unless your computer is brand new it will run like crap"
5. "It sucks for games. If you want to game man, stick with XP"
So don't say people have no idea about Vista, that is simply untrue.
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
This is simply untrue. Go to any campus and you'll see the adoption rate of Apple laptops vs PC is making a dominating comeback. Take for exampe my univ, University of Central, 6th largest univ in the nation (47,000 students). I'd say about 3 out of 5 laptops are Macs. A student going to college probably has the financial backing of their parents and they want the best for their child. Most parents ARE willing to pay $600 for a better laptop, which is why they're EVERYWHERE on campus.
Apples decision to limit their OS to their hardware is what is killing their adoption rate. If I could buy OSX for my PC...i probably would, just so I could have both. But I don't want to have to spend twice as much on my computer just to run an OS that TECHNICALLY doesn't do as much as Windows does...
This is true, but it's a double edged sword. Apple's ability to control the hardware and the software make the whole computing experience more enjoyable. While making their OS open to other hardware would increase adoption it would ruin the computer experience that Mac OS X and Apple hardware currently do so well.
Seriously, is anyone surprised? It's not like they claimed to have a scientific approach to lawsuits and letters to ISPs. I don't know what's worse, that I'm not surprised or that they continue to get away with it?:(
-JT
p.s. first post?
With the size of my mailbox, POP downloading is becoming impossible
Why? You only have to download all your messages once, then from there on you only download new ones as they come in. Thousands of people, including me, using a POP3 client for their gmail and have local copies of all their emails.
Until that company gets nailed for a willful neglect..
then they will get hit hard...."oh, so you ignored the unnecessary danger..."
Which they won't. You need to read Fast Food Nation. You'll learn all about companies such as this, that don't give a flying fuck about their employees and the employees are too poor to do anything about it. Also in most cases that DO get exposed, the government looks the other way. It's a sad world.:(
OP makes a joke but it's not funny. You'd be hard pressed to find a teacher in the engineering dept at UCF who speaks clear english. Even harder than that is finding a teacher who can teach. Most of them dribble off powerpoints provided by the publisher of the textbook. My college has been largely worthless in providing me an education in the field of IT. I picked up most of my skills from books and interns.
Right, because the fan on my GPU inside my computer under my desk is as loud as a JATO and prevents me from hearing the 55 watt satelite speakers on either side of my monitor. I thinks it's safe to assume that anyone who puts forth the money for a top of the line GPU probably already has a decent sound system.
I've never used Apeture, but wasn't it supposed to compete directly with Adobe Photoshop? Correct me if I'm wrong. I doubt a small app like Aperture can make a dent when Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard for photographers. So yea I guess Apple saw it as a lost cause and scrapped it. Except to see the Aperture features trickle into iPhoto over the next few releases.
I hear ya...it should be YOUR choice if you want to wear either one of them. I personally always wear a seatbelt, but, on occasion I like to ride my bike w/out a helmet.
Not really. I mean it shouldn't have to be a law but people who decide (like you) not to wear their seatbelts aren't making a healthy decision. Why WOULDN'T you wear your seatbelt? I just don't get it. But people who don't wear seatbelts cost tax payers extra money when they are involved in accidents (i.e. because they get hurt more severly etc etc, need a medi-vac). I think helmet laws should be mandatory too. You realize everytime you ride without a helmet it's like playing russain roulette with your life? Dunno why people do it. Maybe you can help me understand. Just my.02 though. I'm sure many people will disagree with me.
What this statistic lacks though, is who is wearing a helment and proper gear. I live in Orlando, FL and on nice sunny days I see tons of motorcyclists (I myself am one). I ride with guanlet style double reinforced leather gloves, a tight body fitting armored textile jacket and a full face helmet. Pics here
You won't believe how many harley riders wear no gear. They think there bike is like a lazy boy on wheels. It's supposed to be as comfortable as possible. So I'm not surprised they die. As for the unsafe sport bike riders (we call em squids). They are pretty retarded. Granted most of them wear helmets, but that the only gear they wear. The rest of their outfit consists of a wife beater, shorts, and sneakers. It's also not uncommon to see people ride motorcycles with flip-flops on. One accident and you won't be walking properly.
Also, one more thing, most people who die here in the States don't take the MSF
Litte fact, In the state of Florida, no rider has died, who has taken the MSF I think in like 2 or 3 years. That's pretty stunning. I would dig up some links but I'm sorry I have a final in an hour.:(
Hmm that's very interesting. I'm not sure how accurate it is. I mean if I designed a weapon I would make claims like that too. Although I won't dispute his claims of reliability. I do know people hated the M-16 during Vietnam. But things are different now. Soldiers carry M-4s with rail mods and extra goodies like night vision and scopes etc etc. From soldiers I've talked to they love their weapons. He said, "Some U.S. troops in Iraq have reportedly taken to using AK-47s in preference to the standard-issue M-16." Maybe it happened a few times but I'm sure it was corrected ASAP. I'll ask some of my infantry buddies what they know about it.
Nice fud there, buddy. You must be thinking we're still fighting World War II. Artillery isn't used much in urban warfare. Calling down arty on a house in Iraq would kill dozens of civilians. That doesn't look so hot on CNN and FOX. I have friends in Field Artillery units and you know what the first thing they do when they arrive in Iraq? They retrain them for CQB and MOUT warfare. They won't be doing much artillery ops there. The battle for Iraq is fought on foot in small teams storming houses and squads patrolling streets in Hum-vees. Your whole idea of shoot first ask questions later is a bit silly.
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Bravo sir, Bravo...What you've written is brilliant. I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately for you and I religion will NEVER go away. Here's the catch. Religion is based on faith. The opposite of faith is doubt. To a religious person, anyone who doubts religion is clearly wrong and that just means you must try harder to convince them of your religion. Not too many people say, "Damn your right. My religion doesn't make sense at all." Instead they say, "You poor misguided person. I will pray for you.", and become even more steadfast in their religion.
That's why I'm moving to mars.
I used to play a game called Choplifter on my Mac Classic. You were a helicopter and your goal was to drop a man into a moving hay wagon, if you missed he died. You only had three tries and the wagon keeps speeding up.
Does anyone remember this game? Because it's quite different from the Choplifter referenced in wiki I want to know if the game I played had an ending.
If you support a national sales tax check out this site.
FairTax
Sadly it will never pass because the aristocracy in Congress would have to pay assloads in taxes on all the bullshit they buy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Don't be so naive. Both American Car companies AND oil companies have a vested interest in keeping things status quo. They are greedy bastards and want to wrench every penny from you. Don't believe me? Go watch this movie
I live in Florida and this infuriates me! I DO NOT want MS bossing around my legislators. So a call to action for those who care about this. Write a letter to the Representative Ed Homan. Feel free to copy my template.
Capitol Office:
317 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-3087
District Office:
Suite 311
9385 N. 56th Street
Temple Terrace, FL 33617-5505
Phone: (813) 983-3330
Legislative Assistant:
Janet Roder
District Secretary:
Paula Tonelli
Representative Ed Homan,
I am writing to express my extreme displeasure with the recent successful lobbying efforts by Microsoft regarding Senate Bill 1974. As a tax payer of this state I am disgusted that the Congress of this state would cave to the wants and desires of a monopolistic company who have no intentions of serving the people or the state but only seek to increase their already enormous financial wealth. I am huge proponent of open standards and open software. The prospect of having open source software running on government computers is highly desirable. Millions of tax payer dollars could be saved by switching to free operating systems such as Ubuntu Linux (www.ubuntu.com) and switching to free office solutions like OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org). If Microsoft wants to have the governments use Microsoft products, they should donate them to the government and get a tax write off for it. I should not have to pay taxes so government employees can use substandard expensive software. When large monopolistic corporations send lobbyists to ensure the will of the Microsoft is fulfilled I should be able to have faith that my Congress will represent me accurately and realize the lies and untruths these lobbyists are spreading about open source software. Please consider ratifying the bill and rewriting it to embrace open standards and open source software. Thank you.
The web started as a pet project by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and yes it started out free as a way of exchanging information and data. The internet was a DARPA initiative to maintain command and control over nuclear missiles in the event of soviet attacks which destroyed large networked nodes.
Maybe Iran testing nuclear weapons? Just a thought, who knows...
Hey, I was thinking about what you said. I don't think capital punishment is hypocracy. I don't look at Capital punishment as a way of saying. "Hey you killed someone and it's not right so we're gonna kill you". I think it's more like "We all have the right to live in a safe nation free of murders. Everyone has the right to live safely here. You gave up that right by breaking that trust (murdering someone) and rather than keep you alive (and endangering the lives of citizens and other inmates) we're going to end your life b/c you're more dangerous alive than you are dead.
Tell me your thoughts on this.
I know for a FACT that people who are clueless about computers already have the idea Vista sucks and do not want to buy it.
You know why? They ask US for advice and we tell them it sucks. I can personally think of 5+ accounts of average users asking about upgrading to Vista and a horde of geeks respond with a resounding NO! These are some of the things I've heard average users say about Vista...
1. "It's riddled with anti-piracy locks, why get Vista when my pirated copy of XP works fine"
2. "XP works great, why should I get Vista?"
3. "I heard it won't run on my computer"
4. "Unless your computer is brand new it will run like crap"
5. "It sucks for games. If you want to game man, stick with XP"
So don't say people have no idea about Vista, that is simply untrue.
This is simply untrue. Go to any campus and you'll see the adoption rate of Apple laptops vs PC is making a dominating comeback. Take for exampe my univ, University of Central, 6th largest univ in the nation (47,000 students). I'd say about 3 out of 5 laptops are Macs. A student going to college probably has the financial backing of their parents and they want the best for their child. Most parents ARE willing to pay $600 for a better laptop, which is why they're EVERYWHERE on campus.
This is true, but it's a double edged sword. Apple's ability to control the hardware and the software make the whole computing experience more enjoyable. While making their OS open to other hardware would increase adoption it would ruin the computer experience that Mac OS X and Apple hardware currently do so well.
Seriously, is anyone surprised? It's not like they claimed to have a scientific approach to lawsuits and letters to ISPs. I don't know what's worse, that I'm not surprised or that they continue to get away with it? :(
-JT
p.s. first post?
Why? You only have to download all your messages once, then from there on you only download new ones as they come in. Thousands of people, including me, using a POP3 client for their gmail and have local copies of all their emails.
-JT
Until that company gets nailed for a willful neglect.. then they will get hit hard...."oh, so you ignored the unnecessary danger..."
:(
Which they won't. You need to read Fast Food Nation . You'll learn all about companies such as this, that don't give a flying fuck about their employees and the employees are too poor to do anything about it. Also in most cases that DO get exposed, the government looks the other way. It's a sad world.
OP makes a joke but it's not funny. You'd be hard pressed to find a teacher in the engineering dept at UCF who speaks clear english. Even harder than that is finding a teacher who can teach. Most of them dribble off powerpoints provided by the publisher of the textbook. My college has been largely worthless in providing me an education in the field of IT. I picked up most of my skills from books and interns.
I'll make it one step easier for you. Here's the link for the trailer.
Seeing how not breathing doesn't kill you, you just pass out then your brain takes over and you start breathing again. I'd say no. ;)
Right, because the fan on my GPU inside my computer under my desk is as loud as a JATO and prevents me from hearing the 55 watt satelite speakers on either side of my monitor. I thinks it's safe to assume that anyone who puts forth the money for a top of the line GPU probably already has a decent sound system.
I've never used Apeture, but wasn't it supposed to compete directly with Adobe Photoshop? Correct me if I'm wrong. I doubt a small app like Aperture can make a dent when Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard for photographers. So yea I guess Apple saw it as a lost cause and scrapped it. Except to see the Aperture features trickle into iPhoto over the next few releases.
What this statistic lacks though, is who is wearing a helment and proper gear. I live in Orlando, FL and on nice sunny days I see tons of motorcyclists (I myself am one). I ride with guanlet style double reinforced leather gloves, a tight body fitting armored textile jacket and a full face helmet. Pics here
:(
You won't believe how many harley riders wear no gear. They think there bike is like a lazy boy on wheels. It's supposed to be as comfortable as possible. So I'm not surprised they die. As for the unsafe sport bike riders (we call em squids). They are pretty retarded. Granted most of them wear helmets, but that the only gear they wear. The rest of their outfit consists of a wife beater, shorts, and sneakers. It's also not uncommon to see people ride motorcycles with flip-flops on. One accident and you won't be walking properly.
Also, one more thing, most people who die here in the States don't take the MSF Litte fact, In the state of Florida, no rider has died, who has taken the MSF I think in like 2 or 3 years. That's pretty stunning. I would dig up some links but I'm sorry I have a final in an hour.
Hmm that's very interesting. I'm not sure how accurate it is. I mean if I designed a weapon I would make claims like that too. Although I won't dispute his claims of reliability. I do know people hated the M-16 during Vietnam. But things are different now. Soldiers carry M-4s with rail mods and extra goodies like night vision and scopes etc etc. From soldiers I've talked to they love their weapons. He said, "Some U.S. troops in Iraq have reportedly taken to using AK-47s in preference to the standard-issue M-16." Maybe it happened a few times but I'm sure it was corrected ASAP. I'll ask some of my infantry buddies what they know about it.
Nice fud there, buddy. You must be thinking we're still fighting World War II. Artillery isn't used much in urban warfare. Calling down arty on a house in Iraq would kill dozens of civilians. That doesn't look so hot on CNN and FOX. I have friends in Field Artillery units and you know what the first thing they do when they arrive in Iraq? They retrain them for CQB and MOUT warfare. They won't be doing much artillery ops there. The battle for Iraq is fought on foot in small teams storming houses and squads patrolling streets in Hum-vees. Your whole idea of shoot first ask questions later is a bit silly.