On the other hand you quoted that nice poetic section of Ecclesiastes immediately after referencing us to a section in which YHWH commits one of his minor genocides and punishes a woman for the grave sin of checking over her shoulder.
Look at the context. You are to God what a program you wrote is to you. The "genocide" is akin to your looking at some code you wrote, saying "man, I really fucked that up" and deleting it. Lot only escaped because he did what his programmer told him to do, when Lot's wife looked back, that particular program didn't do what the programmer wanted it to -- she was buggy code. As to the incest, that was the fault of the daughters, but perhaps those buggy programs were spared because the programmer wanted to reuse some of the non-buggy code.
Of course, if you're a painter rather than programmer, substitute "painting" for "programmer." If you're a writer, substitute "chapter".
It's hard to avoid mention of it, but note the buzz about which bible Obama used was history, not religion.
Not that most self-described Christians actually read it, or behave like they've read it.
Indeed. Look at Newt Gingrich as a perfect example. I believe Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to atheism than Richard Dawkins could ever dream of.
A virus scanner will only detect known viruses. The hack you mentioned could do anything it wants and no scanner will detect it, because it isn't a virus, it's built in. The only way I could trust it is with a third party checksum like Linux distros use, and the hack came as source code you compiled yourself.
I agree with you about pricing and piracy, I felt really ripped off paying $125 for XP that was a must-install because I lost my driver disks and no W98 drivers were available after my daughter installed XCP from a Sony-BMG music CD she'd bought from the record store she worked at (she's at gamestop now and looking for a different occupation, she thinks gamestop is dying and she's probably right). That much cash for an OS that lacks features other OSes have, even previous versions of Windows, is a double ripoff.
After paying that much for XP and the first upgrade download replaced a perfectly functional LAN driver with one that was completely nonfunctional was the straw that broke the camel's back and drove me to Linux. Of course, if my occupation was fixing customers' Windows PCs like yours is it would be quite different.
I actually plan to do just that. I backgraded to kubuntu 10 because I had an install CD handy, but have been planning to migrate to Mint for a while. Everyone seems to love it and I haven't heard anything bad at all about it.
No, own your own WEBSITE. That's the only way to be sure. The downside isn't cost, you can get hosting for $15 per year. The downside is nobody will read it -- but they don't anyway.
Me, I just use slashdot. It's good enough for my purposes.
They have a doomsday religion and believe in it fervently.
Only if you consider history, geology, paleontology, and math to be religion. Face it, those who are born always die. We will become extinct some day, probably either by our own hand or by our lack of action.
You, on the other hand, worship at the altar of ignorance. Or maybe under its bridge.
This one comes to mind. The difference is, Lot saw that one coming, this time we were completely off guard.
And, you know, you only have to "endure" the bible if you actually read it. There's a lot of wisdom in that book.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to reap, and a time to sow;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
If that sounds familiar to folk music fans, Pete Seeger Plagairized almost all of it in 1959; The Byrds popularized it in 1965. There are reams of similar wit and wisdom in that book.
It would be most dangerous to a recovering alcoholic. A hangover is actually physical withdrawal, and addicts often relapse. When they do, they usually relapse hard. Now, if their liver is almost gone this could save their life.
I recently installed Windows 7 on two machines. It took 5 hours on both machines to download, setup all patches. It restarted itself about 15 times.
I recently reinstalled kubuntu 10.04 because 12 sucked. It took half an hour, only one reboot. Strange that a free OS is so superior to an expensive one.
Because the amount of cash that one would be willing to pay to rent a server wouldn't be as big as the amount of cash if every player would buy the game's sequel.
Wow... why would one need to rent a server? Doesn't anyone remember the golden age of gaming when online games came with server software pre-installed? For instance, most of the Quake servers were on gamers' machines. Pay for running a server? Maybe I'm just old but that sounds insane to me.
I guess in this age of corporate hypergreed we're not likely to see gamers running their own servers again. They're going to extract every pound of flesh from customers as they can. People just bend over and take it these days. Personally, I miss computer gaming but I just can't stomach today's corporate greed.
Considering Sony's past history of screwing over paying customers with the XCP trojan, the OtherOs removal, and other evils, my guess is the extra horsepower is for DRM, spying, or other consumer-hostile purpose.
With their history, I don't understand why anybody would buy anything from Sony.
Thanks for the link, apparently my info was 25 years out of date. It was the eighties when I saw the one in three, and the link says there was a salmonella outbreak at that time.
A vaccine by definition is something that prevents developing a disease.
True, but in this case I think they're twisting the definition somewhat. It's been shown that drinking in moderation has benefits to one's health, especially wine, but the key is moderation. It's also a social lubricant. I don't think I'd want a flu shot if it took away my sense of taste.
You're confusing mean and median. Look at it compared to GDP. Yeah, we're still broke, but 5% of the population could pay it off easily and leave the rest of us alone. They get most benefit from government anyway.
No, the AC has a point. You're not going to cure an alcoholic with this and you might even kill hi with it. I know quite a few alkies, both practicing and reformed, and few with a bad addiction ever stop until they hit rock bottom. Even after an alcoholic reforms, relapse isn't only possible but usually likely. And an alcoholic will literally drink himself to death, either from overdose or cirrhosis. This vaccine would be extremely dangerous, although if someone's liver is about to explode* this vaccine may well save their life.
* Not literally, of course, but when they get bad their belly does look like it will explode, and they are in misery.
Also, fusel oils (very common in brown spirits like whiskey and far more rare in clear spirits like vodka) can make hangovers worse.
The very worse hangover I ever had was when I decided to take a sculpture class in college. One of the advantages was learning to weld, and I discovered that if you had a bad hangover and took a cutting torch, turned on the oxygen and breathed deeply the hangover was gone in less than five minutes.
Well, one morning I was so hung over I was still staggering. I went to do my hangover remedy... and you guessed it, I turned the wrong knob. That gave me the mother of all hangovers! The oxygen helped a little after I stopped puking. I felt better after the instructor smoked a joint with me (this was back in the 70s, also known as the "stone" age).
The best hangover remedy won't work any more unless you raise your own chickens, and that's eggnog. Three raw egg yolks in a glass, mixed with milk and a generous amount of sugar and perhaps nutmeg. The yolk of a raw egg contains an enzyme that speeds the breakdown (and come to think of it, might just be an antidote to the vaccine as well). The trouble is that heat, including pasteurization, kills the enzyme. So grocery store eggnog won't work, you need raw yolks, and one of three raw commercial eggs has salmonella. Yeah, no hangover this morning but tomorrow you'll feel worse from the cramps and runs and maybe even be in the hospital.
Do you have a citation? Because the only instance I could find was a US farmer who planted non-GM corn next to his roundup-ready corn, harvested it, planted the resulting seed corn the next year, and dosed it liberally with roundup to have a free roundup-ready crop the next year. IIRC Monsanto successfully sued.
GM has IP (I hate the term "IP" as it isn't really property). IMO genetics should not be patentable, roundup-ready is a reason. By the time the patent runs out the non=corn grasses will have evolved roundup resistance, so by the time it's public domain, it's worthless.
I wonder if anyone has tried to "engineer" herbicide-resistant crops naturally?
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On the other hand you quoted that nice poetic section of Ecclesiastes immediately after referencing us to a section in which YHWH commits one of his minor genocides and punishes a woman for the grave sin of checking over her shoulder.
Look at the context. You are to God what a program you wrote is to you. The "genocide" is akin to your looking at some code you wrote, saying "man, I really fucked that up" and deleting it. Lot only escaped because he did what his programmer told him to do, when Lot's wife looked back, that particular program didn't do what the programmer wanted it to -- she was buggy code. As to the incest, that was the fault of the daughters, but perhaps those buggy programs were spared because the programmer wanted to reuse some of the non-buggy code.
Of course, if you're a painter rather than programmer, substitute "painting" for "programmer." If you're a writer, substitute "chapter".
It's hard to avoid mention of it, but note the buzz about which bible Obama used was history, not religion.
Not that most self-described Christians actually read it, or behave like they've read it.
Indeed. Look at Newt Gingrich as a perfect example. I believe Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to atheism than Richard Dawkins could ever dream of.
A virus scanner will only detect known viruses. The hack you mentioned could do anything it wants and no scanner will detect it, because it isn't a virus, it's built in. The only way I could trust it is with a third party checksum like Linux distros use, and the hack came as source code you compiled yourself.
I agree with you about pricing and piracy, I felt really ripped off paying $125 for XP that was a must-install because I lost my driver disks and no W98 drivers were available after my daughter installed XCP from a Sony-BMG music CD she'd bought from the record store she worked at (she's at gamestop now and looking for a different occupation, she thinks gamestop is dying and she's probably right). That much cash for an OS that lacks features other OSes have, even previous versions of Windows, is a double ripoff.
After paying that much for XP and the first upgrade download replaced a perfectly functional LAN driver with one that was completely nonfunctional was the straw that broke the camel's back and drove me to Linux. Of course, if my occupation was fixing customers' Windows PCs like yours is it would be quite different.
I actually plan to do just that. I backgraded to kubuntu 10 because I had an install CD handy, but have been planning to migrate to Mint for a while. Everyone seems to love it and I haven't heard anything bad at all about it.
No, own your own WEBSITE. That's the only way to be sure. The downside isn't cost, you can get hosting for $15 per year. The downside is nobody will read it -- but they don't anyway.
Me, I just use slashdot. It's good enough for my purposes.
Wow, such willful ignorance. That's equivalent to reinforcing your roof to withstand a nuclear bomb, moron.
They have a doomsday religion and believe in it fervently.
Only if you consider history, geology, paleontology, and math to be religion. Face it, those who are born always die. We will become extinct some day, probably either by our own hand or by our lack of action.
You, on the other hand, worship at the altar of ignorance. Or maybe under its bridge.
This one comes to mind. The difference is, Lot saw that one coming, this time we were completely off guard.
And, you know, you only have to "endure" the bible if you actually read it. There's a lot of wisdom in that book.
If that sounds familiar to folk music fans, Pete Seeger Plagairized almost all of it in 1959; The Byrds popularized it in 1965. There are reams of similar wit and wisdom in that book.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It just isn't beneath them -- nothing is.
It would be most dangerous to a recovering alcoholic. A hangover is actually physical withdrawal, and addicts often relapse. When they do, they usually relapse hard. Now, if their liver is almost gone this could save their life.
I recently installed Windows 7 on two machines. It took 5 hours on both machines to download, setup all patches. It restarted itself about 15 times.
I recently reinstalled kubuntu 10.04 because 12 sucked. It took half an hour, only one reboot. Strange that a free OS is so superior to an expensive one.
I'm one of those "sympathisers" here who doesn't loathe Microsoft... For goodness sakes, just release SP2 already you bastards.
My head just asploded.
If you're running pirated software you're probably pre-rooted anyway.
Woosh to you -- he was making fun of your homophone error. Brake != break.
A service pack can introduce braking changes.
Well, this notebook seems slower after every patch tuesday. They all brake. Sometimes it even breaks stuff, once an XP update broke my LAN driver.
Because the amount of cash that one would be willing to pay to rent a server wouldn't be as big as the amount of cash if every player would buy the game's sequel.
Wow... why would one need to rent a server? Doesn't anyone remember the golden age of gaming when online games came with server software pre-installed? For instance, most of the Quake servers were on gamers' machines. Pay for running a server? Maybe I'm just old but that sounds insane to me.
I guess in this age of corporate hypergreed we're not likely to see gamers running their own servers again. They're going to extract every pound of flesh from customers as they can. People just bend over and take it these days. Personally, I miss computer gaming but I just can't stomach today's corporate greed.
Considering Sony's past history of screwing over paying customers with the XCP trojan, the OtherOs removal, and other evils, my guess is the extra horsepower is for DRM, spying, or other consumer-hostile purpose.
With their history, I don't understand why anybody would buy anything from Sony.
Thanks for the link, apparently my info was 25 years out of date. It was the eighties when I saw the one in three, and the link says there was a salmonella outbreak at that time.
A vaccine by definition is something that prevents developing a disease.
True, but in this case I think they're twisting the definition somewhat. It's been shown that drinking in moderation has benefits to one's health, especially wine, but the key is moderation. It's also a social lubricant. I don't think I'd want a flu shot if it took away my sense of taste.
You're confusing mean and median. Look at it compared to GDP. Yeah, we're still broke, but 5% of the population could pay it off easily and leave the rest of us alone. They get most benefit from government anyway.
Where's my old freak Drinkypoo?
That was hilarious! Where are the moderators?
No, the AC has a point. You're not going to cure an alcoholic with this and you might even kill hi with it. I know quite a few alkies, both practicing and reformed, and few with a bad addiction ever stop until they hit rock bottom. Even after an alcoholic reforms, relapse isn't only possible but usually likely. And an alcoholic will literally drink himself to death, either from overdose or cirrhosis. This vaccine would be extremely dangerous, although if someone's liver is about to explode* this vaccine may well save their life.
* Not literally, of course, but when they get bad their belly does look like it will explode, and they are in misery.
Also, fusel oils (very common in brown spirits like whiskey and far more rare in clear spirits like vodka) can make hangovers worse.
The very worse hangover I ever had was when I decided to take a sculpture class in college. One of the advantages was learning to weld, and I discovered that if you had a bad hangover and took a cutting torch, turned on the oxygen and breathed deeply the hangover was gone in less than five minutes.
Well, one morning I was so hung over I was still staggering. I went to do my hangover remedy... and you guessed it, I turned the wrong knob. That gave me the mother of all hangovers! The oxygen helped a little after I stopped puking. I felt better after the instructor smoked a joint with me (this was back in the 70s, also known as the "stone" age).
The best hangover remedy won't work any more unless you raise your own chickens, and that's eggnog. Three raw egg yolks in a glass, mixed with milk and a generous amount of sugar and perhaps nutmeg. The yolk of a raw egg contains an enzyme that speeds the breakdown (and come to think of it, might just be an antidote to the vaccine as well). The trouble is that heat, including pasteurization, kills the enzyme. So grocery store eggnog won't work, you need raw yolks, and one of three raw commercial eggs has salmonella. Yeah, no hangover this morning but tomorrow you'll feel worse from the cramps and runs and maybe even be in the hospital.
If you're raising chickens it works well.
Do you have a citation? Because the only instance I could find was a US farmer who planted non-GM corn next to his roundup-ready corn, harvested it, planted the resulting seed corn the next year, and dosed it liberally with roundup to have a free roundup-ready crop the next year. IIRC Monsanto successfully sued.
GM has IP (I hate the term "IP" as it isn't really property). IMO genetics should not be patentable, roundup-ready is a reason. By the time the patent runs out the non=corn grasses will have evolved roundup resistance, so by the time it's public domain, it's worthless.
I wonder if anyone has tried to "engineer" herbicide-resistant crops naturally?