That doesn't sound like crack, that sounds like PCP coupled with immortality. If you shoot a guy 5 times in the face and he still throws your car across the street, you've got a supervillain problem rather than a drug problem.
Insisting that one form of transportation must necessarily do all things that you can presently do with a car is poor reasoning.
It isn't reasoning. Reasoning means arriving at conclusions by premises.
This is demanding. I actually use a bicycle as my main form of transportation, and the simple fact is that they don't work in real, hard winters and it's just not worth wearing a whole extra outfit of clothing to make them work in rain. If you want a large population of people to stop driving cars (I don't have a car, but only because I'm in college), you have to offer an alternative that does the things a car does, because people need those things done.
People need a way to transport sizable amounts of cargo (even just >3 bags of groceries) or possibly passengers in an enclosed vehicle under mechanical power and under the personal direction of the user. Cars do that. Bicycles fail at both covering and cargo capacity, even if you attach a motor.
Well that's because it's a cat (they think they're the lords of the universe), the damned politically correct governments have outlawed corporal punishment, and it's actually much more effective to teach a child what to do and what not to do using methods other than violence.
And if you believe that everyone not waving a flag, wearing a uniform, and singing their national anthem is a civilian, you're leaving terrorists a wide avenue of options in which to operate and blaming the victims of terrorism for the terrorists' actions.
Can't we be against imperialism and terrorism at the same time?
Yeah, taking kids who have authority problems and giving them even less power over their own lives, that'll work. That'll definitely put them in their place as the servants of the kids who obeyed the teacher!
Your show me why I gave up debating religious people, because it is is pointless, they purposely short circuit their thinking and live in denial of what their own teachings say.
Or perhaps (GASP!) I belong to a religion other than Christianity. I'm Jewish; I don't know what the hell Romans 5:12 says or much of anything about the concept of original sin. In my religion a sin is just doing something contrary to what God told you is the right thing to do. We don't need Adam and Eve or some stupid Roman guy telling us that if you transgress a commandment, you've committed an sin.
Way to short-circuit your own thinking by caricaturing all religious people as fundamentalist Christians.
LOL, nice one. Actually I run a triple-booted Mac, but the Windoze partition is just for games. I do all my multimedia and personal stuff on OSX and work under Linux.
It's a trend on Slashdot to call someone a Microsoft shill if they say Linux doesn't roxxors. You know it is, you've seen it. I've been called a shill on other topics across the internet all the damn time because my honest opinion goes against the site groupthink.
Astroturfing is a problem. So is people justifying their own opinions by calling everyone with a contrary opponent an astroturfer.
I don't expect you to coddle me, Anonymous Coward. I expect you to give me more respect if you want me on your side. If you want me on the other side, against you and alongside my batshit insane coreligionists, just keep behaving as you are.
Lemme guess, There Is No Alternative to right-wing objectivism? Because everyone should be Rugged Individualists Working for Science for Profit so that the Free Market might Solve All Problems. Actually attempting to care about others makes us Dirty Pinko Commies.
We'd have an easier time "separating ourselves" if it didn't appear a choice between dickish fundamentalists who call all science retarded lies and dickish atheists who call all religions retarded lies.
The whole christian faith for instance is predicated on sin entering the world through one man, the whole purpose of christ's death was necessary to absolve man of sin. Under evolution man did not commit sin and death was always there since the start. Sin cannot exist and the purpose of the christian message becomes completely meaningless.
Wait a minute, how does evolution mean sin cannot exist? That doesn't sound like science, that sounds like some religious-right strawman caricature of "evolutionists". It's complete bullshit.
Actually, science doesn't involve demonstrating the truth of any universally-quantified proposition. It involves trying as hard as you bloody well can to falsify each and every such statement in the hope that some experiment will crack it and through that crack in your preconceptions, you can learn more about the truth. Science requires a belief that the universe will behave the same way if you repeat the same experiment to within a margin of error, time and time again.
Everything in life requires baseless assumptions, from believing the evidence of our senses right up to the existence of God. Some of us have the good sense to make those our working assumptions while acknowledging that we could be wrong. That's called faith or belief.
And some people are too egotistical to acknowledge their mortal fallibility, and they go 'round thinking they can demonstrate universally quantified propositions about the real world without any assumptions whatsoever.
They're not robots. They're exercising free will to make a choice you disagree with. They see it as an element of manners to show that they're not stealing, and for some reason they care about how they look to that greeter despite knowing they're not thieves. Let them get on with it without the name-calling.
Us young folks ain't censoring your generation. This isn't a generation thing. This is a regional thing. The United States is split into two (really three, but we're simplifying) cultures heavily based on region: the really-laid-back West Coast urban culture, the businesslike but still liberal East Coast urban culture, and the rural, moralistic culture of the Midwest and South. Unfortunately, somehow people from that last group seem to come to disproportionate prominence in the entertainment industry's morality self-police and in the governmental lobbies that police said self-police, ensuring that the rural Southern Christian (it always masquerades as Christian) culture gets to hold the entertainment of the other two hostage.
XP already had a harder time getting a "must have" badge. What does XP have that 2k doesn't? Out of the box WiFi support. Ok. You could install a driver for that. It's not really much more stable than 2k. It's also not really any more user friendly than 2k. There isn't really anything that I could put my finger on that the average user would want out of XP compared to 2k. But at least it was a bit more pleasing to the eye than the rather sterile 2k (a look that I loved, but I'm weird).
The main benefit was that the 9x APIs got merged into the NT codebase in XP, so that you could run games and such on a system that had the NT kernel under the covers. Windows 2000 had been an "enterprise" OS that didn't run all that multimedia and gaming stuff for the plebes.
Absolutely not. I learned to program in Delphi on Windows 98 and ME, and by God it taught me how to program properly because if I had one little motherfucking pointer/reference error it would blue-screen the computer!
To this day I remain firmly convinced that the constant crashing of Windoze 9x can and should serve as an education aid for young programmers.
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That doesn't sound like crack, that sounds like PCP coupled with immortality. If you shoot a guy 5 times in the face and he still throws your car across the street, you've got a supervillain problem rather than a drug problem.
Insisting that one form of transportation must necessarily do all things that you can presently do with a car is poor reasoning.
It isn't reasoning. Reasoning means arriving at conclusions by premises.
This is demanding. I actually use a bicycle as my main form of transportation, and the simple fact is that they don't work in real, hard winters and it's just not worth wearing a whole extra outfit of clothing to make them work in rain. If you want a large population of people to stop driving cars (I don't have a car, but only because I'm in college), you have to offer an alternative that does the things a car does, because people need those things done.
People need a way to transport sizable amounts of cargo (even just >3 bags of groceries) or possibly passengers in an enclosed vehicle under mechanical power and under the personal direction of the user. Cars do that. Bicycles fail at both covering and cargo capacity, even if you attach a motor.
But then we lose the advantage of going long distances quickly and functioning as shelter from bad weather.
I wish I had mod points for you.
Well that's because it's a cat (they think they're the lords of the universe), the damned politically correct governments have outlawed corporal punishment, and it's actually much more effective to teach a child what to do and what not to do using methods other than violence.
Actually, Montazeri issued a fatwa supporting overthrow of the regime and the implementation of democracy.
But yeah, I wish I had mod points.
Now could you just capitalize properly so people might take you for something other than a Republican astroturfer?
And if you believe that everyone not waving a flag, wearing a uniform, and singing their national anthem is a civilian, you're leaving terrorists a wide avenue of options in which to operate and blaming the victims of terrorism for the terrorists' actions.
Can't we be against imperialism and terrorism at the same time?
It was also Gandhi who told the victims of the Holocaust and of World War II to kill themselves in protest rather than fight back against the Nazis.
And here's today's fortune-cookie quote:
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. -- Confucius
Yeah, taking kids who have authority problems and giving them even less power over their own lives, that'll work. That'll definitely put them in their place as the servants of the kids who obeyed the teacher!
Your show me why I gave up debating religious people, because it is is pointless, they purposely short circuit their thinking and live in denial of what their own teachings say.
Or perhaps (GASP!) I belong to a religion other than Christianity. I'm Jewish; I don't know what the hell Romans 5:12 says or much of anything about the concept of original sin. In my religion a sin is just doing something contrary to what God told you is the right thing to do. We don't need Adam and Eve or some stupid Roman guy telling us that if you transgress a commandment, you've committed an sin.
Way to short-circuit your own thinking by caricaturing all religious people as fundamentalist Christians.
LOL, nice one. Actually I run a triple-booted Mac, but the Windoze partition is just for games. I do all my multimedia and personal stuff on OSX and work under Linux.
It's a trend on Slashdot to call someone a Microsoft shill if they say Linux doesn't roxxors. You know it is, you've seen it. I've been called a shill on other topics across the internet all the damn time because my honest opinion goes against the site groupthink.
Astroturfing is a problem. So is people justifying their own opinions by calling everyone with a contrary opponent an astroturfer.
Being ancient is a good thing now?
I don't expect you to coddle me, Anonymous Coward. I expect you to give me more respect if you want me on your side. If you want me on the other side, against you and alongside my batshit insane coreligionists, just keep behaving as you are.
Lemme guess, There Is No Alternative to right-wing objectivism? Because everyone should be Rugged Individualists Working for Science for Profit so that the Free Market might Solve All Problems. Actually attempting to care about others makes us Dirty Pinko Commies.
We'd have an easier time "separating ourselves" if it didn't appear a choice between dickish fundamentalists who call all science retarded lies and dickish atheists who call all religions retarded lies.
The whole christian faith for instance is predicated on sin entering the world through one man, the whole purpose of christ's death was necessary to absolve man of sin. Under evolution man did not commit sin and death was always there since the start. Sin cannot exist and the purpose of the christian message becomes completely meaningless.
Wait a minute, how does evolution mean sin cannot exist? That doesn't sound like science, that sounds like some religious-right strawman caricature of "evolutionists". It's complete bullshit.
Actually, science doesn't involve demonstrating the truth of any universally-quantified proposition. It involves trying as hard as you bloody well can to falsify each and every such statement in the hope that some experiment will crack it and through that crack in your preconceptions, you can learn more about the truth. Science requires a belief that the universe will behave the same way if you repeat the same experiment to within a margin of error, time and time again.
Everything in life requires baseless assumptions, from believing the evidence of our senses right up to the existence of God. Some of us have the good sense to make those our working assumptions while acknowledging that we could be wrong. That's called faith or belief.
And some people are too egotistical to acknowledge their mortal fallibility, and they go 'round thinking they can demonstrate universally quantified propositions about the real world without any assumptions whatsoever.
They're not robots. They're exercising free will to make a choice you disagree with. They see it as an element of manners to show that they're not stealing, and for some reason they care about how they look to that greeter despite knowing they're not thieves. Let them get on with it without the name-calling.
Crawl back to Reddit, ya Zeitgeist-nik.
Us young folks ain't censoring your generation. This isn't a generation thing. This is a regional thing. The United States is split into two (really three, but we're simplifying) cultures heavily based on region: the really-laid-back West Coast urban culture, the businesslike but still liberal East Coast urban culture, and the rural, moralistic culture of the Midwest and South. Unfortunately, somehow people from that last group seem to come to disproportionate prominence in the entertainment industry's morality self-police and in the governmental lobbies that police said self-police, ensuring that the rural Southern Christian (it always masquerades as Christian) culture gets to hold the entertainment of the other two hostage.
XP already had a harder time getting a "must have" badge. What does XP have that 2k doesn't? Out of the box WiFi support. Ok. You could install a driver for that. It's not really much more stable than 2k. It's also not really any more user friendly than 2k. There isn't really anything that I could put my finger on that the average user would want out of XP compared to 2k. But at least it was a bit more pleasing to the eye than the rather sterile 2k (a look that I loved, but I'm weird).
The main benefit was that the 9x APIs got merged into the NT codebase in XP, so that you could run games and such on a system that had the NT kernel under the covers. Windows 2000 had been an "enterprise" OS that didn't run all that multimedia and gaming stuff for the plebes.
Windows crashing constantly is yet another myth.
Absolutely not. I learned to program in Delphi on Windows 98 and ME, and by God it taught me how to program properly because if I had one little motherfucking pointer/reference error it would blue-screen the computer!
To this day I remain firmly convinced that the constant crashing of Windoze 9x can and should serve as an education aid for young programmers.