what about a virus for W32 systems which wipes the OS, saves the user files and proceeds to install ubuntu?
I'd let it infect me over and over again... Isn't a virus (or we could call it a bacterial infection for fun), by definition, malicious? So then this wouldn't be a bacterial infection jumping around, it would be a self-replicating godsend antibiotic that cures all illness.
What the hell is going on with this nonsense? Don't we have better things to do with our tax dollars, like umm protecting our borders or preventing another local attack?
This comment is as non-insightful as when someone says "What are you assholes doing working on firefox when linux iptables still has a hole" or whatever.
Are you proposing that all law enforcement personnel nationwide drop everything they are doing and focus on preventing terrorism?
Keep the false dichotomies out of this. Of course he didn't say that. He's just asking why they're bothering with this when there are far greater problems.
Limiting the chars per line in your post to 80 is 1337 and deserves instant +modding. We are but scum to you links2 users using nothing but keyboards. [tab tab tab tab tab Enter]
So my friend owns and operates his own lighting and audio equipment online retailer. I remember a discussion we had where he was telling me about the minimum price he's allowed to sell his products for, or the manufacturer and others in league with that manufacturer won't sell him anything more. Something like he buys a given product from them for ~$40 but he's not allowed to sell it for less than $80. The manufacturers require all businesses looking at selling their audio and lighting equipment to agree to do the same. This is why you can't find anything cheaper than $80 for a given product, even though the seller could go much lower.
I don't know if this is illegal or not, but is this not what the article is discussing?
Unlike taking away the country's right to freedom from unwarranted search and seizure, keeping North Korea and Iran and Iraq from learning how to build a missile is simply a no brainer: they don't know how to build missiles capable of hauling a nuke halfway across the world, but they sure might if they got a hold of these rocket parts.
Even normal jet engines and gas turbines at GE can't be exported (source: friend who works at GE that I just asked online) for national security reasons: both the direct "don't let them learn how to make one" because they could blow us up, but also in the economical sense-- if we let other nations get the tech, they could find a way to undercut us.
I don't know one "'Christian' Right" as you put it that wasn't opposed to pulling Terry Schiavo feeding tube. Your reference to them as executing mentally retarted people is a pathetically shameful troll attempt. The only people I know and have read about who were for pulling the feeding tube were the "'Immoral demonic' Left" (see, I can troll, too) who didn't have a problem with starving the lady but didn't have the guts to say what they were doing with any more than a whisper: just be done with it and put her down. Something is terribly wrong when people will starve someone to death but won't save them the pain and put them down fast. But no, that would have been too too quick, too much like...execution...as you so fondly put it. Further disgusting is that you were modded insightful for all this.
As for your plug about the 10 Commandments, they're a useful moral code for running a country. Why people would have problems with something that says murdering other people is bad, or that you should love your neighbor as yourself, is beyond me. If our country followed even half of them we'd be far better off. Divorce? You just made your child's future a very, very painful one. Covetting someone else's newest and greatest toy? Since when did this make you happier? But I guess it would be understandable that people who lie to promote an agenda (see first paragraph about you) might not think murder is bad, and might not be interested in being nice to their neighbor-- they might be looking to stir up anger and disent for some odd reason. Keyboard courage for the win yes? Anyhow, likely your problem with the 10 Commandments being in the courtroom lies with the "Love the Lord your God" clause and the "Have no other Gods before me"? You know I've always wondered how many people would object to displaying something from the Koran in a courtroom. Would they post trolls about how the Muslims execute mentally retarted people (we could mention that they execute perfectly normal people and are willing to blow themselves up to do it; yes the Koran condones this; go read it yourself if you think otherwise)? Or how they're all in a giant conspiracy (your wording references these events as such) to kill the retards and post Korans in the US courtroom? Probably not, which is why I have a problem with you doing so over only the 10 Commandments and the "'Christian' Right".
Parent should have been modded troll or flamebait faster than you can say "biased". Why does Slashdot put up with this kind of garbage? Not to mention mod it insightful.
There was once a time when you could have a rational, straight discussion on Slashdot.
What do you do if you suck at persuasion face to face? Or simply talking, for that matter? When I write an email I'm able to think about what I say before I say it and rearrange things after the fact if it comes out wrong. Can't do that in conversation, you have to get it right the first time, and know exactly where you're going and how you're going to get there before you start. Been trying for years, but simply can't. What then? In my opinion a good email would be better than a bad face to face impression.
Off topic, but how can they guarantee it's 90 seconds? In real life most people would be freaking out falling over eachother to get to the exit. Few would have the smarts to stay calm and work their way out effectively. Most would be trying to carry their bag out with them. Some would be fat people trying to grab their bag, and nobody would be able to get past them. When they finally did start moving, they'd be waddling slowly, etc. I just can't see an airplane being evacuated in 90 seconds.
You might want to check out Sabayon. My friend at work showed me today; it comes with the Nvidia and ATI drivers and six or so different sessions available. Three customized KDE sessions, Gnome, Fluxbox, and something else. Comes with Beryl installed and configured too. I've fallen out of the Linux world recently but overall his first boot was looking much nicer than my fifth in Ubuntu trying to get everything up and working.
So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I hope Sony wins this generation, or at least beats Microsoft. Don't care about position relative to the Wii. Why? I want BluRay. Lets just hurry up and get this format battle over with so we can get on with hacking it and be able to back up our harddrives on less than a brand new full stack of DVDs we just bought at Costco or CompUSA or wherever you get your $1x.xx after rebate pack of 100 dvds. Holding all my data on 10 discs as opposed to 100 sounds like heaven.
They are the same basic CPU, but customized in different ways. The biggest difference is the design of the VMX units. The Xenon has twice as much L2 cache available. There are also many more minor differences (such as instructions that allow greater control over the use of L2 cache) that would appear to make it possible for developers to "coerce" the processor closer to peak utilization. Further, there are three times as many of these processors. So for the 360, if you have lots of work to do, you can split it into 6 threads (or 3 if you want to be safe) and put one on each core. Lacking out of order execution is a much bigger deal when you only have one processor to work with. When you have 3? Who cares if you have to code in a straight line, you can cover three of those lines at once.
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AMEN! I just want to affirm what the parent is saying, I've heard people say "I've never noticed that" or "works fine for me" etc...it definitely feels slow.
I've found KDE to feel simply -less- slow. Could some of this "slowness" be due to a lack of threading? I don't understand how it all works but my intuition was: if lots of services are working in serial and each has to send up a flag for the next to do something, and then nothing happens until the next service refreshes and checks up on the previous service to see if it's raised a flag (for instance say the mouse hovering over a menu item yet the item not lighting up; I notice lag in Gnome in this area _all_ the time), then what you could have is a collection of services that, while very efficient and fast in and of themselves, are slow when added together. Best example I can think of is an assembly line with 15 mutant workers-- each worker can transfer his load from one hand to his other hand instantly, but the next worker has to realize it's his turn to pick up the load and pass it on. 15 guys and this time adds up and you notice GUI lag. Whereas in Windows XP with threading (I never notice this sort of lag in XP that I notice in Gnome), it's like the first worker shouts "alright get ready" and then the time spent handing off and receiving the load between workers is greatly reduced. With lots of services shouting "get ready" this may slow things down, but not where it's important-- if it feels fast, then it is fast.
Please explain to me how you manage to deal with the omnipotent-benevolent problem or the can-see-the-future and we have free will problem in 10 seconds..
Well good, you've come up with an objection that a complete answer would take more than 10 seconds to produce. But the short of the long is that our definition of "good" and "bad" is different from God's definition. Our view and understanding is finite, his is infinite. So when all we can see is the evil in something, God very well may have it happening for a reason you or I cannot see. A simple example would be God giving your grandfather a heart attack. This leads to you calling your wife, who, instead of going to the grocery store after picking up the kids from school, rushes straight home, and in doing so avoids a collision with an 18-wheeler.
The most important thing we can't forget is that God's chief goal is the glorification of himself, not our comfort. How he chooses to accomplish this is up to him. Sounds conceited and cruel a lot of the time. We're welcome to think it is, but as Paul said in Romans 9,
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" [NKJV translation, ESV is more easily readable but GNPBC.org seems to be down]
Point is, God created us to further his glory, and he will use us to do it: we can either gratefully be a part of his work, or be a part of his wrath. Either way brings him glory, but why he only has chosen some of us to be saved ("be a part of his work") and not all is beyond me and any other human to understand. Many times the pain he puts in our lives is for a very good reason, often times to bring us to him in a way that would never have been possible without the pain. This can lead to many a deep theological discussion, but the core of the matter is this: He created us to be satisfied. As John Piper says at the end of many of his sermons, "Because God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him."
As for the free will/all-knowing-God issue, I haven't figured that one out myself and I don't think anyone has. This would be an example of where human logic falls short-- can we honestly expect it to be universally applicable, to a God beyond space, time, and far beyond what we can imagine? You don't have to forsake logic to be ok with the idea of God, you just have to understand that, while logic flows out of his character, there may be some things that we do not and may not ever understand. What matters is if the rest of what we believe about him comports with itself and him.
We all have assumptions; they're necessary if we want to do anything or get anywhere. But as we just said, what's important is that the things we believe or assume comport with the other things we believe and assume. We assume the existence and infallibilty of logic so that we can make conclusions. But doesn't logic forbid us from assuming things? Here is a believe which does not comport with itself. In a point, it's utter foolishness when you break it down. Now say we introduce God into the equation: We assume the existence of an all powerful and all knowing God. He becomes our basis for our logical reasoning, and then gives us a book which explains why people do evil things, why we are never completely satisfied with the newest and greatest, _and_ goes on to show us the way out of our predicament that we can't seem to fix ourselves. Now which is more silly? Assuming something that forbids you from assuming, or assuming something that g
The Bible contains all sorts of statements that we now know to be false, in the sense that they contradict all available evidence. The religious respond by going into elaborate contortions to maintain their beliefs (see, for example, "God put the dinosaur fossils there to test us").
No, the religious nut-cases do that. They are the ones you always hear about in the media. You don't hear about the millions of reasonable, open-minded religious people who are capable of realizing that the Bible doesn't actually say how old the earth is and Genesis 1 was meant to be poetic rather than a scientific account of how God created the universe.
On top of that, and I should mention I am not a...biblical/religious/whatever Christian expert, all of the "statments known to be false" that I've heard referenced here on Slashdot and in other discussions about similar topics, have all been verses taken anywhere from slightly to grossly out of context from what any unbiased reader simply reading along would come to understand as the meaning. In all the cases, though, however small the contextual misunderstanding, it's been one large enough that anyone who knew much about the bible would be able to point out the misunderstanding and debunk the argument.
From what I've seen so far, there are dangerously few people who actually bring a solid argument to the table that takes more than 10 seconds to deal with. Most of them are just something they heard their friend say, who got it from some webpage that was so grossly biased it was laughable to say the least. There's one I can think of right now that is something like "1000 & 1 fallacies in the bible" that I saw someone on/. link. I took a few minutes or so to glance through a random assortment of 20-ish of these so called fallacious statements in the bible and none of them were anywhere close in interpretation. I'm not saying any sort of divine knowledge is required to understand the verses' meanings, but if you're not going to even quote the surrounding sentences, let alone more than a half sentence, you can't expect to come away with more than a half truth.
This reminds me of a joke I heard about a man who didn't care about context. He prayed to the Lord, "Father, please give me a message", dropped his bible on the floor, and placed his finger on a random verse on the page. It read "Judas went and hanged himself". He dropped his bible again, placing his finger on some point in the page. This verse said "Go and do the same." He was sweating by now, afraid of what was next. So one last time he read a random verse from a random page and it said "What you do, do quickly." Point is, you can come away with some pretty crazy ideas about the bible if you don't take more than five seconds to figure out the context.
This way when they consult their market analysts, they can increase whatever price the analysts tell them the average consumer will be willing to pay by $40. So they essentially bill us twice-- one for whatever we're willing to pay for the receiver, and then again through the government via taxes.
Some politicians are probably just looking to secure campaign finances for next run.
He's right. You have to connect to the internet if you want to play your game. If they released patches that you have to download, and you're on dialup, and I can certainly understand why he would be frustrated. I don't see much that was troll about his comment.
Presumably the most stealthy plane form is a saucer. The idea of many is that these flying saucer sightings are nothing but X-projects. I don't see why this isn't likely to be the case.
Which do we really need here in the US? Do we really want highly skilled immigrants to fill highly skilled jobs, or do we want cheap labor that will do the jobs no one else wants to do? Are kids who grew up here complaining about losing construction/landscaping and migrant farm jobs to immigration? Neither of course. Plenty of kids would be willing to work at McD for a reasonable price. But thanks to illegal immigration, I couldn't get higher than $5.50/hour a few years ago. How am I supposed to save for college on a salary like that, while in highschool? The only people the cheap labor is helping are the store managers and the McCorporation. They've got plenty of money to pay their workers more-- hell, the BigMac has a 450% profit margin; french fries are at least three times that.
As usual, the market sets the prices we're willing to pay for a cheeseburger, but the price of labor sets the profit McCorp takes home. We fine companies for employing illegal immigrants so that there's incentive to hire legitimate workers. The wage goes up, our highschool students (me a few years ago) can make better wages to pay for college (I'm less than two years in and already $20k in debt), and the only people making less money are the ones already making millions. If there were ever a time for the "please think of the children" argument, this is it.
Oh, and to deal with the "they need to earn their money; the stupid highschoolers think it should be given to them, lazy bitches" crowd, I'm currently making over 3 times what I made at McDonalds at my second term in my co-op to sit at a desk solution design for projects our company is commissioned for. You know how much harder I'm working now than when I worked at McDonalds? I'm not. Actually it's the other way around; this job is at least 20 times easier (I've lost count) than taking your order all day for 8 hours ever was. I've worked both sides so don't tell me that you're somehow better than me because you sit behind a nice quiet desk drafting and discussing the latest plan. The McWorkers need their pay too, especially if they ever want to get out of that shithole; and you (well not specifically you, this whole post is directed to the "teenagers are lazy and won't work for money" crowd) know it, but you don't want them to get out because then a). labor costs more -> b). what you want to buy costs more which means c). you have less money for yourself. It never was about getting them to work harder, it was about your life being easier.
Also, I've done the construction/landscaping jobs, too. You should see how hard some of the caucasion guys work who enjoy doing construction so that either a). they don't lose their job to a Mexican, or b). they get to move out of their van and into an apartment one day (true story, guy I worked with over the summer; hardest and smartest worker I've ever seen; not paid what he's worth because of illegal competition).
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I'd let it infect me over and over again... Isn't a virus (or we could call it a bacterial infection for fun), by definition, malicious? So then this wouldn't be a bacterial infection jumping around, it would be a self-replicating godsend antibiotic that cures all illness.
This comment is as non-insightful as when someone says "What are you assholes doing working on firefox when linux iptables still has a hole" or whatever.
Are you proposing that all law enforcement personnel nationwide drop everything they are doing and focus on preventing terrorism?
Keep the false dichotomies out of this. Of course he didn't say that. He's just asking why they're bothering with this when there are far greater problems.Why can't they just open source it so that the arena sponsors could tweak the game as they see fit?
The game is anything but balanced and needs some serious class and faction re-working to be fair.
Limiting the chars per line in your post to 80
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but scum to you links2 users using nothing but
keyboards. [tab tab tab tab tab Enter]
So my friend owns and operates his own lighting and audio equipment online retailer. I remember a discussion we had where he was telling me about the minimum price he's allowed to sell his products for, or the manufacturer and others in league with that manufacturer won't sell him anything more. Something like he buys a given product from them for ~$40 but he's not allowed to sell it for less than $80. The manufacturers require all businesses looking at selling their audio and lighting equipment to agree to do the same. This is why you can't find anything cheaper than $80 for a given product, even though the seller could go much lower.
I don't know if this is illegal or not, but is this not what the article is discussing?
..and the big black dude with the scarey helmet is his father?%-) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Unlike taking away the country's right to freedom from unwarranted search and seizure, keeping North Korea and Iran and Iraq from learning how to build a missile is simply a no brainer: they don't know how to build missiles capable of hauling a nuke halfway across the world, but they sure might if they got a hold of these rocket parts.
Even normal jet engines and gas turbines at GE can't be exported (source: friend who works at GE that I just asked online) for national security reasons: both the direct "don't let them learn how to make one" because they could blow us up, but also in the economical sense-- if we let other nations get the tech, they could find a way to undercut us.
Wow great point, thanks for posting.
I don't know one "'Christian' Right" as you put it that wasn't opposed to pulling Terry Schiavo feeding tube. Your reference to them as executing mentally retarted people is a pathetically shameful troll attempt. The only people I know and have read about who were for pulling the feeding tube were the "'Immoral demonic' Left" (see, I can troll, too) who didn't have a problem with starving the lady but didn't have the guts to say what they were doing with any more than a whisper: just be done with it and put her down. Something is terribly wrong when people will starve someone to death but won't save them the pain and put them down fast. But no, that would have been too too quick, too much like...execution...as you so fondly put it. Further disgusting is that you were modded insightful for all this.
As for your plug about the 10 Commandments, they're a useful moral code for running a country. Why people would have problems with something that says murdering other people is bad, or that you should love your neighbor as yourself, is beyond me. If our country followed even half of them we'd be far better off. Divorce? You just made your child's future a very, very painful one. Covetting someone else's newest and greatest toy? Since when did this make you happier? But I guess it would be understandable that people who lie to promote an agenda (see first paragraph about you) might not think murder is bad, and might not be interested in being nice to their neighbor-- they might be looking to stir up anger and disent for some odd reason. Keyboard courage for the win yes? Anyhow, likely your problem with the 10 Commandments being in the courtroom lies with the "Love the Lord your God" clause and the "Have no other Gods before me"? You know I've always wondered how many people would object to displaying something from the Koran in a courtroom. Would they post trolls about how the Muslims execute mentally retarted people (we could mention that they execute perfectly normal people and are willing to blow themselves up to do it; yes the Koran condones this; go read it yourself if you think otherwise)? Or how they're all in a giant conspiracy (your wording references these events as such) to kill the retards and post Korans in the US courtroom? Probably not, which is why I have a problem with you doing so over only the 10 Commandments and the "'Christian' Right".
Parent should have been modded troll or flamebait faster than you can say "biased". Why does Slashdot put up with this kind of garbage? Not to mention mod it insightful.
There was once a time when you could have a rational, straight discussion on Slashdot.
What do you do if you suck at persuasion face to face? Or simply talking, for that matter? When I write an email I'm able to think about what I say before I say it and rearrange things after the fact if it comes out wrong. Can't do that in conversation, you have to get it right the first time, and know exactly where you're going and how you're going to get there before you start. Been trying for years, but simply can't. What then? In my opinion a good email would be better than a bad face to face impression.
I, for one, welcome our new full-spectrum-observing mice overlords...
Off topic, but how can they guarantee it's 90 seconds? In real life most people would be freaking out falling over eachother to get to the exit. Few would have the smarts to stay calm and work their way out effectively. Most would be trying to carry their bag out with them. Some would be fat people trying to grab their bag, and nobody would be able to get past them. When they finally did start moving, they'd be waddling slowly, etc. I just can't see an airplane being evacuated in 90 seconds.
You might want to check out Sabayon. My friend at work showed me today; it comes with the Nvidia and ATI drivers and six or so different sessions available. Three customized KDE sessions, Gnome, Fluxbox, and something else. Comes with Beryl installed and configured too. I've fallen out of the Linux world recently but overall his first boot was looking much nicer than my fifth in Ubuntu trying to get everything up and working.
Sadly you're right.
So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I hope Sony wins this generation, or at least beats Microsoft. Don't care about position relative to the Wii. Why? I want BluRay. Lets just hurry up and get this format battle over with so we can get on with hacking it and be able to back up our harddrives on less than a brand new full stack of DVDs we just bought at Costco or CompUSA or wherever you get your $1x.xx after rebate pack of 100 dvds. Holding all my data on 10 discs as opposed to 100 sounds like heaven.
AMEN! I just want to affirm what the parent is saying, I've heard people say "I've never noticed that" or "works fine for me" etc...it definitely feels slow.
I've found KDE to feel simply -less- slow. Could some of this "slowness" be due to a lack of threading? I don't understand how it all works but my intuition was: if lots of services are working in serial and each has to send up a flag for the next to do something, and then nothing happens until the next service refreshes and checks up on the previous service to see if it's raised a flag (for instance say the mouse hovering over a menu item yet the item not lighting up; I notice lag in Gnome in this area _all_ the time), then what you could have is a collection of services that, while very efficient and fast in and of themselves, are slow when added together. Best example I can think of is an assembly line with 15 mutant workers-- each worker can transfer his load from one hand to his other hand instantly, but the next worker has to realize it's his turn to pick up the load and pass it on. 15 guys and this time adds up and you notice GUI lag. Whereas in Windows XP with threading (I never notice this sort of lag in XP that I notice in Gnome), it's like the first worker shouts "alright get ready" and then the time spent handing off and receiving the load between workers is greatly reduced. With lots of services shouting "get ready" this may slow things down, but not where it's important-- if it feels fast, then it is fast.
Am I completely off the mark?
Please explain to me how you manage to deal with the omnipotent-benevolent problem or the can-see-the-future and we have free will problem in 10 seconds..
Well good, you've come up with an objection that a complete answer would take more than 10 seconds to produce. But the short of the long is that our definition of "good" and "bad" is different from God's definition. Our view and understanding is finite, his is infinite. So when all we can see is the evil in something, God very well may have it happening for a reason you or I cannot see. A simple example would be God giving your grandfather a heart attack. This leads to you calling your wife, who, instead of going to the grocery store after picking up the kids from school, rushes straight home, and in doing so avoids a collision with an 18-wheeler.
The most important thing we can't forget is that God's chief goal is the glorification of himself, not our comfort. How he chooses to accomplish this is up to him. Sounds conceited and cruel a lot of the time. We're welcome to think it is, but as Paul said in Romans 9,
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" [NKJV translation, ESV is more easily readable but GNPBC.org seems to be down]
Point is, God created us to further his glory, and he will use us to do it: we can either gratefully be a part of his work, or be a part of his wrath. Either way brings him glory, but why he only has chosen some of us to be saved ("be a part of his work") and not all is beyond me and any other human to understand. Many times the pain he puts in our lives is for a very good reason, often times to bring us to him in a way that would never have been possible without the pain. This can lead to many a deep theological discussion, but the core of the matter is this: He created us to be satisfied. As John Piper says at the end of many of his sermons, "Because God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him."
As for the free will/all-knowing-God issue, I haven't figured that one out myself and I don't think anyone has. This would be an example of where human logic falls short-- can we honestly expect it to be universally applicable, to a God beyond space, time, and far beyond what we can imagine? You don't have to forsake logic to be ok with the idea of God, you just have to understand that, while logic flows out of his character, there may be some things that we do not and may not ever understand. What matters is if the rest of what we believe about him comports with itself and him.
We all have assumptions; they're necessary if we want to do anything or get anywhere. But as we just said, what's important is that the things we believe or assume comport with the other things we believe and assume. We assume the existence and infallibilty of logic so that we can make conclusions. But doesn't logic forbid us from assuming things? Here is a believe which does not comport with itself. In a point, it's utter foolishness when you break it down. Now say we introduce God into the equation: We assume the existence of an all powerful and all knowing God. He becomes our basis for our logical reasoning, and then gives us a book which explains why people do evil things, why we are never completely satisfied with the newest and greatest, _and_ goes on to show us the way out of our predicament that we can't seem to fix ourselves. Now which is more silly? Assuming something that forbids you from assuming, or assuming something that g
On top of that, and I should mention I am not a...biblical/religious/whatever Christian expert, all of the "statments known to be false" that I've heard referenced here on Slashdot and in other discussions about similar topics, have all been verses taken anywhere from slightly to grossly out of context from what any unbiased reader simply reading along would come to understand as the meaning. In all the cases, though, however small the contextual misunderstanding, it's been one large enough that anyone who knew much about the bible would be able to point out the misunderstanding and debunk the argument.No, the religious nut-cases do that. They are the ones you always hear about in the media. You don't hear about the millions of reasonable, open-minded religious people who are capable of realizing that the Bible doesn't actually say how old the earth is and Genesis 1 was meant to be poetic rather than a scientific account of how God created the universe.
From what I've seen so far, there are dangerously few people who actually bring a solid argument to the table that takes more than 10 seconds to deal with. Most of them are just something they heard their friend say, who got it from some webpage that was so grossly biased it was laughable to say the least. There's one I can think of right now that is something like "1000 & 1 fallacies in the bible" that I saw someone on
This reminds me of a joke I heard about a man who didn't care about context. He prayed to the Lord, "Father, please give me a message", dropped his bible on the floor, and placed his finger on a random verse on the page. It read "Judas went and hanged himself". He dropped his bible again, placing his finger on some point in the page. This verse said "Go and do the same." He was sweating by now, afraid of what was next. So one last time he read a random verse from a random page and it said "What you do, do quickly." Point is, you can come away with some pretty crazy ideas about the bible if you don't take more than five seconds to figure out the context.
This way when they consult their market analysts, they can increase whatever price the analysts tell them the average consumer will be willing to pay by $40. So they essentially bill us twice-- one for whatever we're willing to pay for the receiver, and then again through the government via taxes.
Some politicians are probably just looking to secure campaign finances for next run.
Just got off the phone with Digg and they want your middle-school ass back.
He's right. You have to connect to the internet if you want to play your game. If they released patches that you have to download, and you're on dialup, and I can certainly understand why he would be frustrated. I don't see much that was troll about his comment.
lol.
Presumably the most stealthy plane form is a saucer. The idea of many is that these flying saucer sightings are nothing but X-projects. I don't see why this isn't likely to be the case.
As usual, the market sets the prices we're willing to pay for a cheeseburger, but the price of labor sets the profit McCorp takes home. We fine companies for employing illegal immigrants so that there's incentive to hire legitimate workers. The wage goes up, our highschool students (me a few years ago) can make better wages to pay for college (I'm less than two years in and already $20k in debt), and the only people making less money are the ones already making millions. If there were ever a time for the "please think of the children" argument, this is it.
Oh, and to deal with the "they need to earn their money; the stupid highschoolers think it should be given to them, lazy bitches" crowd, I'm currently making over 3 times what I made at McDonalds at my second term in my co-op to sit at a desk solution design for projects our company is commissioned for. You know how much harder I'm working now than when I worked at McDonalds? I'm not. Actually it's the other way around; this job is at least 20 times easier (I've lost count) than taking your order all day for 8 hours ever was. I've worked both sides so don't tell me that you're somehow better than me because you sit behind a nice quiet desk drafting and discussing the latest plan. The McWorkers need their pay too, especially if they ever want to get out of that shithole; and you (well not specifically you, this whole post is directed to the "teenagers are lazy and won't work for money" crowd) know it, but you don't want them to get out because then a). labor costs more -> b). what you want to buy costs more which means c). you have less money for yourself. It never was about getting them to work harder, it was about your life being easier.
Also, I've done the construction/landscaping jobs, too. You should see how hard some of the caucasion guys work who enjoy doing construction so that either a). they don't lose their job to a Mexican, or b). they get to move out of their van and into an apartment one day (true story, guy I worked with over the summer; hardest and smartest worker I've ever seen; not paid what he's worth because of illegal competition).