I got death threats from Christians for being an atheist.
Name names or be known as a liar. Christians don't hate athiests, we pity them.
Where are those "peaceful Christians" that you're talking about
Ever see those red kettles outside stores at Christmas time? The Salvation Army is a Christian organization that feeds and houses the poor. Ever wonder where all that money Christians put in the collection baskets goes? To the poor. Know of any athiest 12 step programs for alcoholics? I guess the athiests would only have 11 steps.
Can you name one single athiest charitable organization? I certainly can't think of one. The food pantries and homeless shelters here in Springfield are, every single one of them, run by Christian organizations.
You'd have to do some pretty liberal stretching of Genesis to make it fit what we know about evolution.
No, you don't. Genesis says nothing about HOW the animals and people were created, except that they were made of dirt and water (clay) -- which is pretty much what must have happened when life arose. It says nothing about the steps taken.
As to Adam's rib, the original Hebrew doesn't say "rib". IIRC it says "curve" which some say is in reference to deoxyribonucleic acid, the "twisted helix"..
He should stick to something he KNOWS about - like biology.
Mods, just because you disagree with a comment doesn't make it flamebait. I'm sure that whoever modded that was sure that Cornelius is a card-carrying anti-abortion creationist fundamentalist, but the fact is (from other of his comments I've seen) he's an agnostic. But he's right about Dawkins, especially when he says "Dawkins is a bigot." Why is it bigotry to say that homosexuality should be stamped out, yet not bigotry to say religion should be stamped out?
He is a bigot, and so is the antitheist who modded Cornelius down. Shame on you intolerant censorious fools.
But it isn't private property. If I write a book, it's not like striking oil on my own property, it's like leasing Federal property to drill for oil. Like the leased oil, I can sell my copyright, but the work itself isn't what's being sold, it's the LIMITED TIME monopoly that's being sold.
Like the oil field on federal land, all I own is a lease. I no more own the book I wrote than I do the house I rent. In both cases, I have a monopoly on the property, but I do not own the property.
Patents are even more so, since they only last 20 years before entering the public domain.
The musicians don't want to be in control of getting their songs sold or booking performances. They want the "industry".
Where do you get these "data"? How many musicians do you know personally? I know quite a few, and none of them would touch an RIAA contract with a ten foot pole, despite labels courting them.
Face it, music is full of people who would be homeless and broke despite their talent
It's also full of people who are multimillionaires despite their lack of talent. If you're good, you'll get gigs.
The only one's that don't
You should have paid more attention in class, son.
I have Audacity on the Linux box, but EAC has some features that Audacity lacks. I still have a whole lot of analog media I've been digitizing for years -- cassettes and LPs. With EAC I can simply record the entire album, mark where tracks start and end, and burn it to CD. After recording the album it's about a five minute or less operation. If Audacity had this I'd just use audacity.
Thanks for the tip on UbuntuStudio, I'll have to give it a try.
All these comments along he lines of "Not my kids... when I have any."
You who do not have children have no fucking clue what parenthood is like. None whatever. If you have no children, you have no reason to even be on this thread, except to ask questions. An opinion based on total ignorance (like, say, a biologist giving an opinion on string theory) is never going to be a good one, and it's just going to make you look stupid.
Parenting is both the most rewarding and demanding job there is. Again, unless you have kids you know as much about parenting as someone who has never taken LSD knows about what LSD is like.
You kids may come back in five years when you actually have a three year old. If you do and see your own responses, you'll be saying "boy, was I ever ignorant!!!"
*sigh*... you guys keep reminding me of old jokes.
A lawyer, a rabbi, and a priest are on the Titanic when it hits the iceburg. The rabbi yells "Save the children!" The lawyer snarls "Fuck the children!" The preist exclaims "No time for that!!!"
A priest and a rabbi are walking down the street in a cold rain, and they see a young child dressed in rags huddling in a doorway. The rabbi says, "look at that poor little fellow. What should we do about him?" The priest says "Fuck him!" The rabbi replies "out of what?"
Because then they would be responsible for support of those browsers. Since they would ship with the product that you purchase from Microsoft, you can hold Microsoft accountable for that support.
But you don't buy the OS from Microsoft unless it's an upgrade or you're building your own computer. You're not MS's customer, you're Dell's or HP's customer.
It's also obsolete and has been for a long, long time. I'm 60 and American and have never heard of the drink it was named after. Someone has been watching too many WWII movies.
Your points are all missing the point: you can't copyright an idea, only its presentation. If I say the same thing you said in exactly the same words, I violate copyright. If I reword it, I'm not in violation.
You hold copyright to the comment you just wrote, unless you cut and pasted it from someone else's comment. Likewise, this comment is automatically granted copyright to me.
Your using patent to explain your incorrect view of copyright is likewise 100% ignorant. It doesn't matter how obvious my nobot stories are, they're still under copyright.
Because that would be intentional destruction of property and the lawsuit would destroy Sony in every country.
Ten or so years ago my then-underaged daughter, who was working at a record store, brought home a Sony-BMG CD and played it in the CD player, which at the time the only one was in the computer. Not realizing that Sony was Satan Himself and never dreaming that a big respected company like Sony would deliberately vandalize her dad's computer, she installed XCP.
XCP disabled all my file sharing software and all my CD burning software; no more Linux distros or indie music, no sampling my analog media or recording my guitar. Sony deliberately vandalized my computer. So if you're correct, why was no one sent to prison for vandalizing thousands of innocent people's computers?
Note to Sony: your vandalism made me start pirating. Fuck you, Sony, may you and all your employees rot in hell since nobody rotted in jail.
For that matter, never use a debit card linked to your bank account
No, never use a debit card, period. I haven't had one for years, ever since I was bitten.
A woman I knew watched me take money out of an ATM, and saw the PIN, and stole the card... along with a box of checks, which were promptky cashed. The bank made good on the forged checks, but the card? If you have the PIN you're automatically authorized to use the card. It cost me a couple thousand bucks. The School of Hard Knox has the highest tuition of anybody.
The only plastic I have now is a single credit card. No PIN, and If it gets stolen my liability is limited to $50. Fuck debit, never again!
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I got death threats from Christians for being an atheist.
Name names or be known as a liar. Christians don't hate athiests, we pity them.
Where are those "peaceful Christians" that you're talking about
Ever see those red kettles outside stores at Christmas time? The Salvation Army is a Christian organization that feeds and houses the poor. Ever wonder where all that money Christians put in the collection baskets goes? To the poor. Know of any athiest 12 step programs for alcoholics? I guess the athiests would only have 11 steps.
Can you name one single athiest charitable organization? I certainly can't think of one. The food pantries and homeless shelters here in Springfield are, every single one of them, run by Christian organizations.
You'd have to do some pretty liberal stretching of Genesis to make it fit what we know about evolution.
No, you don't. Genesis says nothing about HOW the animals and people were created, except that they were made of dirt and water (clay) -- which is pretty much what must have happened when life arose. It says nothing about the steps taken.
As to Adam's rib, the original Hebrew doesn't say "rib". IIRC it says "curve" which some say is in reference to deoxyribonucleic acid, the "twisted helix"..
Drunks, beware of the food crysis.
I don't think I've ever been drunk enough to eat a game!
The problem with your thesis is that those powers were delegated to the US by the Constitution, as a poster above noted.
Is a man who wants to stamp out homosexuality a bigot? I would say he is. How is that any different than wanting to stamp out religion?
Just because many religious folks are bigots doesn't excuse Dawkins' bigotry.
Mr. Dawkins doesn't go around beheading people for having different beliefs.
You don't have to go around beheading gays to be a bigot, either.
He should stick to something he KNOWS about - like biology.
Mods, just because you disagree with a comment doesn't make it flamebait. I'm sure that whoever modded that was sure that Cornelius is a card-carrying anti-abortion creationist fundamentalist, but the fact is (from other of his comments I've seen) he's an agnostic. But he's right about Dawkins, especially when he says "Dawkins is a bigot." Why is it bigotry to say that homosexuality should be stamped out, yet not bigotry to say religion should be stamped out?
He is a bigot, and so is the antitheist who modded Cornelius down. Shame on you intolerant censorious fools.
Intellectual property is like real property.
But it isn't private property. If I write a book, it's not like striking oil on my own property, it's like leasing Federal property to drill for oil. Like the leased oil, I can sell my copyright, but the work itself isn't what's being sold, it's the LIMITED TIME monopoly that's being sold.
Like the oil field on federal land, all I own is a lease. I no more own the book I wrote than I do the house I rent. In both cases, I have a monopoly on the property, but I do not own the property.
Patents are even more so, since they only last 20 years before entering the public domain.
Microsoft has a good understanding of both those - on a positive, from a design perspective, and .. well, you've heard about xbox power supplies.
Note to Sheldon: that was sarcasm.
The musicians don't want to be in control of getting their songs sold or booking performances. They want the "industry".
Where do you get these "data"? How many musicians do you know personally? I know quite a few, and none of them would touch an RIAA contract with a ten foot pole, despite labels courting them.
Face it, music is full of people who would be homeless and broke despite their talent
It's also full of people who are multimillionaires despite their lack of talent. If you're good, you'll get gigs.
The only one's that don't
You should have paid more attention in class, son.
I have Audacity on the Linux box, but EAC has some features that Audacity lacks. I still have a whole lot of analog media I've been digitizing for years -- cassettes and LPs. With EAC I can simply record the entire album, mark where tracks start and end, and burn it to CD. After recording the album it's about a five minute or less operation. If Audacity had this I'd just use audacity.
Thanks for the tip on UbuntuStudio, I'll have to give it a try.
No, he's right. He's referring to the Sisco in the alternate universe.
grammar nazi's?
*facepalm* I hope that was deliberate.
All these comments along he lines of "Not my kids... when I have any."
You who do not have children have no fucking clue what parenthood is like. None whatever. If you have no children, you have no reason to even be on this thread, except to ask questions. An opinion based on total ignorance (like, say, a biologist giving an opinion on string theory) is never going to be a good one, and it's just going to make you look stupid.
Parenting is both the most rewarding and demanding job there is. Again, unless you have kids you know as much about parenting as someone who has never taken LSD knows about what LSD is like.
You kids may come back in five years when you actually have a three year old. If you do and see your own responses, you'll be saying "boy, was I ever ignorant!!!"
BTW, both of my kids are grown.
I'm not yet a father
That's painfully obvious.
*sigh*... you guys keep reminding me of old jokes.
A lawyer, a rabbi, and a priest are on the Titanic when it hits the iceburg. The rabbi yells "Save the children!" The lawyer snarls "Fuck the children!" The preist exclaims "No time for that!!!"
A priest and a rabbi are walking down the street in a cold rain, and they see a young child dressed in rags huddling in a doorway. The rabbi says, "look at that poor little fellow. What should we do about him?" The priest says "Fuck him!" The rabbi replies "out of what?"
Well, cheer up, the guy who coined "blog" wound up being homeless. Maybe whatever nitwit came up with "phablet" will suffer an even worse fate.
No, it's scary because you can be fucking KILLED in a head-on crash. I've never heard of a computer killing anyone.
Because then they would be responsible for support of those browsers. Since they would ship with the product that you purchase from Microsoft, you can hold Microsoft accountable for that support.
But you don't buy the OS from Microsoft unless it's an upgrade or you're building your own computer. You're not MS's customer, you're Dell's or HP's customer.
Seconded.
BTW, where is that Asimov quote from? I'm a big Asimov fan but have never seen that one (of course, I haven't read all 500+ of his books)
Moxie is purely an American word.
It's also obsolete and has been for a long, long time. I'm 60 and American and have never heard of the drink it was named after. Someone has been watching too many WWII movies.
I just feel like the legal standards being applied to the two companies don't match up too well.
Of course they don't, since MS was punished for monopoly abuse. You can't abuse a monopoly you don't have.
Your points are all missing the point: you can't copyright an idea, only its presentation. If I say the same thing you said in exactly the same words, I violate copyright. If I reword it, I'm not in violation.
You hold copyright to the comment you just wrote, unless you cut and pasted it from someone else's comment. Likewise, this comment is automatically granted copyright to me.
Your using patent to explain your incorrect view of copyright is likewise 100% ignorant. It doesn't matter how obvious my nobot stories are, they're still under copyright.
Because that would be intentional destruction of property and the lawsuit would destroy Sony in every country.
Ten or so years ago my then-underaged daughter, who was working at a record store, brought home a Sony-BMG CD and played it in the CD player, which at the time the only one was in the computer. Not realizing that Sony was Satan Himself and never dreaming that a big respected company like Sony would deliberately vandalize her dad's computer, she installed XCP.
XCP disabled all my file sharing software and all my CD burning software; no more Linux distros or indie music, no sampling my analog media or recording my guitar. Sony deliberately vandalized my computer. So if you're correct, why was no one sent to prison for vandalizing thousands of innocent people's computers?
Note to Sony: your vandalism made me start pirating. Fuck you, Sony, may you and all your employees rot in hell since nobody rotted in jail.
For that matter, never use a debit card linked to your bank account
No, never use a debit card, period. I haven't had one for years, ever since I was bitten.
A woman I knew watched me take money out of an ATM, and saw the PIN, and stole the card... along with a box of checks, which were promptky cashed. The bank made good on the forged checks, but the card? If you have the PIN you're automatically authorized to use the card. It cost me a couple thousand bucks. The School of Hard Knox has the highest tuition of anybody.
The only plastic I have now is a single credit card. No PIN, and If it gets stolen my liability is limited to $50. Fuck debit, never again!
All they did was include only IE preinstalled on their OS. Somehow that is lawsuit-worthy?
Yes. They had a virtual monopoly on the PC desktop and were using that monopoly to attempt to monopolize another market: browsers.
Do I see Apple shipping computers with Firefox or IE on them?
Apple has no monopoly on anything.
I think the EU regulators are the ones who need to lay off the crack pipe
I think it's you who's sucking glass, son.