"I can send packages by truck that would kill a bike rider"
That is intriguing, at some point in time we would have both a reliable delivery system AND a biker-free traffic.. I, for one, welcome our biker-maiming overlords!
Add to that the War on Evil that the US has been fighting against its citizens.
The Church killed many, yet politicians (in and outside the Church) killed many more.
If you recognize the Church AS a political institution, the numbers are high. If you recognize the Church as a spiritual or propaganda apparatus, the Church itself did not kill as many, but made it all darn easier for others to do so.
You seem to believe the lies. There ARE other ways of funding sites. Kickstarter, donations, selling actual services etc.
Ads are not valuable to anyone else than the ad industry. I pay for services that I want. People would probably pay for a Facebook without ads. Maybe not everyone would, and so what?
Good for you Wwgeek. Forgetting things means that you're using the creative parts of your brain; a constructive programmer!
Now, imagine that the code you are working on is NOT constructive, just plain statements in the wild. You need good practices unless you want the code to die with you.
Open-world survival game. The guys behind GTA has taken on the zombie apocalypse and given us a third person shooter, with AI survivors joining your self-built stronghold.
Also, the world continues to move when you're not playing.
Unfortunately, so far it's Xbox only. I won't buy another console.
You are correct! I was a bit unfair. By "true" Buddhism, I mean Zen Buddhism, which is akin to Nietzsche's existential nihilism. The traditional forms of Buddhism in East Asian countries are re-interpreted paternalism, like the family gods of the Roman citizens, very widespread across the world, however not actually a part of (zen) Buddhist philosophy.
This is an oversimplification, but there are no deities in Buddhism. This is contrary to the thinking where "Buddhist" states and wars exist, because they have a paternal deity figure.
The Christian Church BEGAN as a dictatorship, but was dissolved as such by the democratization of its own humane message. The last of the three dictators, the pope, was humiliated by the reduction of his realm.
The Middle Eastern trio are global, Hinduism is local (though universal) and the true Buddhist is laughing his a** off.
The Human Rights charter of the UN is characteristically secular Christian, I think. The values put forth are pretty consistent with a majority of secular Christians in the Western world.
The Christian Church is responsible for handing a lot of Ancient Greek philosophy over to us.
The dogmas of Thomas Aquinas are reinterpreted Aristotelian physics, making the thinking man adhere to scientific principles.
The contents of these principles are superseded by Copernicus, Newton aso; BUTT! the tradition of inter subjectivity in science is philosophical (Asia Minor through Athens) and we still abide by these principles.
I suspect Aquinas replaced a proto-empiricism in Aristotle with the Bible, but that may have been done later.
We're counting some 2500 years of human thought.
This cannot be identified with the shallow and reversed self-help techniques of Scientology.
We need better and official information that is balanced.
E.g. many who are opposed to Facebook's data gathering are also not users of such tools (like myself). I understand the opportunities such a tool can have e.g. for old people keeping track of the family tree.
However, the services should be decentralized and not mine the data for nefarious purposes. The main problem with Facebook then, is its recognition and marketing.
I don't see how you get around this beast without democratic regulations.
True dat. However, the offending video was not informative nor a valuable contribution to human understanding, just ignorant hate speech. I am an atheist and was offended, because the video quite clearly just aims to wreak havoc.
The point is not who was the target but that it was made to target. And right wing politicians are using it for what it's worth, much like Child porn is used to justify all sorts of regulations.
This entirely depends on which country he's living in. Here in Norway, ja, the economy favours home owners, and buying in a growing city will make you money, save you taxes and provide "panic insurance" (if or when you can't afford the mortgage you sell at a profit).
Yes, it's a bubble, but the economic model of Norway assumes that you own a house and a mortgage.
Did you also notice how I delimited "Linux gaming" from "running windows games on Linux"? My intent really. However, it _is_ easier and not harder to install Linux games on Linux. Yes, it is done in CLI, but that is faster than clicking Next on your screen.
I was born mid-80's so I'm probably younger than you, but I remember being politely asked to perform my dark magic on my neighbors' computers (actually opening the chassis) to enable audio from their cd-rom drives.
I also remember how Winamp was the lama's a$$, and the first time I introduced my friends to MP3s.
I ran a website tracking 0-day FtPz at the time. Most of them were MP3 only (except of course from the public/upload folder containing all kinds of interesting stuff).
Any GNU/Linux compatible game to date is available without even opening a browser, it's just an apt-get install or netpkg away. If not wget the bin file, chmod +x and run it.
What you are wrongly referring to as "gaming on GNU/Linux" is running applications for another operating system on a compatibility layer.
The equivalent would be to fetch some GNU/Linux native though closed source binary to run in Windows or OSX.
Now, I practice the arcane magic of getting Windows games to run on Wine, which is painful. But that's because the games are not Free/open source or even written for the operating system. It's pretty incredible that it works at all!
(I just played L4D2 on my 64-bit Fedora box in full graphics (no gore) on Steam, made for Windows and made possible by the great guys at Wine HQ.)
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The real question is how this is an improvement over avian carriers, once a cornerstone of long distance communication.
"I can send packages by truck that would kill a bike rider"
That is intriguing, at some point in time we would have both a reliable delivery system AND a biker-free traffic.. I, for one, welcome our biker-maiming overlords!
Just virtualize the supercomputer in the clouds and put the virtual machine on the mountain!
See?
Add to that the War on Evil that the US has been fighting against its citizens.
The Church killed many, yet politicians (in and outside the Church) killed many more.
If you recognize the Church AS a political institution, the numbers are high. If you recognize the Church as a spiritual or propaganda apparatus, the Church itself did not kill as many, but made it all darn easier for others to do so.
You seem to believe the lies. There ARE other ways of funding sites. Kickstarter, donations, selling actual services etc.
Ads are not valuable to anyone else than the ad industry. I pay for services that I want. People would probably pay for a Facebook without ads. Maybe not everyone would, and so what?
Good for you Wwgeek. Forgetting things means that you're using the creative parts of your brain; a constructive programmer!
Now, imagine that the code you are working on is NOT constructive, just plain statements in the wild. You need good practices unless you want the code to die with you.
My GF got up at night to watch the original Star Wars movies when she was a kid.
Not sure if I should applaud or grieve.
Girlfriends too.. what was that again? Ketamine?
Wohoo! Guess who'll be watching One Direction to six in the morning tonight!?
Anyone else read that as "Caaame aaan!" ?
But fast horse rides are extremely scary! Not to mention the horses.
Don't trust them.
Unfortunately, this results in some weird menus. KDE should strip K out of their menus.. stop messing with the alphabet.
Open-world survival game. The guys behind GTA has taken on the zombie apocalypse and given us a third person shooter, with AI survivors joining your self-built stronghold.
Also, the world continues to move when you're not playing.
Unfortunately, so far it's Xbox only. I won't buy another console.
You are correct!
I was a bit unfair. By "true" Buddhism, I mean Zen Buddhism, which is akin to Nietzsche's existential nihilism. The traditional forms of Buddhism in East Asian countries are re-interpreted paternalism, like the family gods of the Roman citizens, very widespread across the world, however not actually a part of (zen) Buddhist philosophy.
This is an oversimplification, but there are no deities in Buddhism. This is contrary to the thinking where "Buddhist" states and wars exist, because they have a paternal deity figure.
This is not true.
The Christian Church BEGAN as a dictatorship, but was dissolved as such by the democratization of its own humane message. The last of the three dictators, the pope, was humiliated by the reduction of his realm.
The Middle Eastern trio are global, Hinduism is local (though universal) and the true Buddhist is laughing his a** off.
The Human Rights charter of the UN is characteristically secular Christian, I think. The values put forth are pretty consistent with a majority of secular Christians in the Western world.
However, you can move from the US and take your family with you.
The Christian Church is responsible for handing a lot of Ancient Greek philosophy over to us.
The dogmas of Thomas Aquinas are reinterpreted Aristotelian physics, making the thinking man adhere to scientific principles.
The contents of these principles are superseded by Copernicus, Newton aso; BUTT! the tradition of inter subjectivity in science is philosophical (Asia Minor through Athens) and we still abide by these principles.
I suspect Aquinas replaced a proto-empiricism in Aristotle with the Bible, but that may have been done later.
We're counting some 2500 years of human thought.
This cannot be identified with the shallow and reversed self-help techniques of Scientology.
We need better and official information that is balanced.
E.g. many who are opposed to Facebook's data gathering are also not users of such tools (like myself).
I understand the opportunities such a tool can have e.g. for old people keeping track of the family tree.
However, the services should be decentralized and not mine the data for nefarious purposes. The main problem with Facebook then, is its recognition and marketing.
I don't see how you get around this beast without democratic regulations.
True dat. However, the offending video was not informative nor a valuable contribution to human understanding, just ignorant hate speech. I am an atheist and was offended, because the video quite clearly just aims to wreak havoc.
The point is not who was the target but that it was made to target.
And right wing politicians are using it for what it's worth, much like Child porn is used to justify all sorts of regulations.
This entirely depends on which country he's living in. Here in Norway, ja, the economy favours home owners, and buying in a growing city will make you money, save you taxes and provide "panic insurance" (if or when you can't afford the mortgage you sell at a profit).
Yes, it's a bubble, but the economic model of Norway assumes that you own a house and a mortgage.
I don't want to go first!
Thanks!
Did you also notice how I delimited "Linux gaming" from "running windows games on Linux"? My intent really.
However, it _is_ easier and not harder to install Linux games on Linux. Yes, it is done in CLI, but that is faster than clicking Next on your screen.
I was born mid-80's so I'm probably younger than you, but I remember being politely asked to perform my dark magic on my neighbors' computers (actually opening the chassis) to enable audio from their cd-rom drives.
I also remember how Winamp was the lama's a$$, and the first time I introduced my friends to MP3s.
I ran a website tracking 0-day FtPz at the time. Most of them were MP3 only (except of course from the public /upload folder containing all kinds of interesting stuff).
You are full of it, sir.
Any GNU/Linux compatible game to date is available without even opening a browser, it's just an apt-get install or netpkg away. If not wget the bin file, chmod +x and run it.
What you are wrongly referring to as "gaming on GNU/Linux" is running applications for another operating system on a compatibility layer.
The equivalent would be to fetch some GNU/Linux native though closed source binary to run in Windows or OSX.
Now, I practice the arcane magic of getting Windows games to run on Wine, which is painful. But that's because the games are not Free/open source or even written for the operating system. It's pretty incredible that it works at all!
(I just played L4D2 on my 64-bit Fedora box in full graphics (no gore) on Steam, made for Windows and made possible by the great guys at Wine HQ.)
This is GNU/Linux we're talking about here. Notice the GNU part?
Linus got a Free -- as in Freedom -- ticket to be rude!