If you really believed in the Christian God, you would be doing all manner of totally insane things that would quickly get you removed from society, probably not long after you had stoned someone to death for eating meat on a Friday.
It's apparent that you know nothing of Christ's teachings. Stoning someone is NOT a Christian thing. Christ taught forgiveness, meekness, love of God, peace, love of one's fellow man, tolerance/nonjudgementalism.
An adultress was about to be stoned, Jesus said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Everyone left. "Go, and sin no more" he told the woman. "Judge not, lest you be judged yourself."
"Love your enemies."
"He who lives by the weapon, dies by the weapon."
"Blessed are the meek."
Nothing in the bible says you can't eat meat on Friday. If everyone lived as Christ taught (a virtual impossibility; we are all flawed) Earth would be a paradise.
Right, we should fund cloning people and raising the clones to provide organ transplants
You're not very imaginitive, are you? Why would you need to clone the whole body when you could simply clone a new heart, maybe in your own bidy next to the old, failing one.
Girlfriend, possessive. I was typing on my phone so I shortened it for laziness reasons
If you had written it as a possessive the AC wouldn't have been able to joke about it. The posessive would have been girl's, not girls.
I took it to mean you're a pimp and were referring to your hookers. See, kids, what happens when you ignore punctuation? You get made fun of!
As to why you're responding to an AC, that's a good question, he'll never see your response. I wouldn't have seen his comment if someone else hadn't quoted it.
Very few will talk about Jesus healing the deaf or scriptures that mention the deaf being able to hear in the future.
I'm pretty familiar with the bible, esp. the new testament, where does he heal the deaf? I remember passages about healing the blind, the dumb, and the insane, where's tha part about healing the deaf? And where's the part about being able to hear in the future?
I'm an old timer, and yes, there were pocket doors, but they weren't self opening and closing. Others have pointed out the difference between an elevator and a turbolift. It was 1970 before I ever saw a self-opening door; Star Trek seems to have been the catylist for them, as it came out 4 years earlier. I read a biography of Disney, who was in the process of designing Disney World and Epcot in 1966. They saw Star Trek and their "imagineers" went to Paramount to see how they worked. They were disappointed when told it was stage hands that opened and closed them.
I don't hate Unity. Maybe I would if I ever actually tried it, but I'm happy with kde. Windows, now, I hate Windows, especially since they upgraded Office to that god damned ribbon, I can't figure out SHIT in that interface.
I'll be glad when I retire, because I just hate MS products. I keep wondering where the myth of Windows useability comes from? KDE is far more useable than any flavor of Windows I've tried. When kde gets upgraded, you get more functionality but only have to learn to use new features, not the whole damned program. MS upgrades seem to offer little added functionality, they just change the interface.
This year's Ford -- now with less horsepower and the brake and throttle are reversed from last year's model! That's Microsoft.
So you're saying people should expect less from Linux because it's free?
It would be logical to expect less from a free program than an expensive one, but in fact you get far more with a good Linux distro than any version of Windows. I'm running both kubuntu and Win7 at home, and Win7 lacks features and us far less useable. OTOH I haven't found any features in Windows that kde lacks, other than Windows being prettier.
Ah, the inexperience of youth. I haven't seen a program or OS in twenty years that wasn't bloated. There was bloat even back in the DOS days -- I had a program I wrote and ran on a 16k computer. I rewrote it in Clipper, and the 16k program, after it compiled, was over 400k. That is bloat!
I wrote a battle tanks game on a 4k Sinclair computer (in hand-assembled machine code since there was no assembler) that took maybe 500 bytes. There is a Windows version that is nearly identical in gameplay and features to the one I wrote, except it's in color (the Sinclair had no color) and it's 4 megs -- a thousand times as big as the one I wrote. If that's not bloat, I don't know what is.
However, ALL of today's OSes and apps are bloated. Even damned web pages are bloated! It isn't just MS, it's the times themselves.
Something that you deal with all your life becomes normal for you. Changing that norm, even for the better, can be frightening and jarring
I was badly nearsighted all my life. When I was a kid I thought I had a superpower that let me see air (yes, I loved comic books). Then I got glasses, and I remember that evening half a century ago vividly; how sharp and clear everything looked, as well as how bent and distorted everything was. It was indeed jarring, but not the least bit frightening.
Then in 2006 I came down with a steroid-induced cataract. By then I was wearing contacts for my nearsightedness and reading glasses because I'm a geezer. The surgery was frightening, but only because it was surgery; anything could have gone wrong and I could have been blinded. When the surgery was over, I was in amazement that I could actually read the clock on the wall, but it was neither jarring nor frightning. My vision was better than it was even with glasses, which I no longer need.
If you have a disability that can be fixed, you're a fool not to have it fixed.
I know ford around the same era required other valid keys to be present when the new key was programmed.
I lost the key to my 2002 Concorde a few years ago, had to have it towed to the dealership, and they wouldn't make a new key without my showing them the title, even though it was the same dealer that sold me the car!
Not even Ubuntu, but its desktops. TFS says KDE is faster than Windows, which seems right to me -- I'm running W7 on a year old notebook and kubuntu on an ancient tower, and the tower (with a much slower processor and less memory) is faster than the notebook. The tower is running kubuntu.
If you don't want the vehicle to move then you need to remove something from it that makes it move, preferably something that a thief wouldn't normally bring with them, like a coil wire on a vehicle with a distributor, or a fuel pump relay or ASD relay, or something like that.
But the laws WERE circumvented in many of the stories. The one set on Mercury had the three laws almost kill the engineers; the one on the orbiting power station broke the second law because it thought it was following the first law, and many others.
Only if you buy into the generally unsupported assertion by Roger Penrose that quantum state and uncertainty is a fundamental component of consciousness.
We have no idea what consciensness actually IS, let alone what causes it. All you know is that YOU posess it; there's no way for me to prove my own sentience, or for you to prove yours, except that we're both human and likely to be alike in posessing it.
We know it's caused by complex chemistry; we don't know that the complexity is what causes it, and I doubt that complexity is the reason. How many beads do I have to put on my abacus before iit becomes self-aware? The Earth itself is more complex than any of its life forms, is it sentient? How much more sentient would Jupiter be?
Penrose is talking out his ass, just as you and I are. We not only don't know, we don't even know how to start to learn.
Hell's bells, a Godwin and an illiterate idiocy in the same sentence; hell, in the same WORD! You should get some sort of prize. Uneducated aliterate of the day, perhaps?
To quote WC Fields, "Go away, boy, you bother me." Get your GED and come back then.
That's why I no longer use a debit card, or indeed, any kind of card. Someone watched me enter my PIN, stole the card and some checks, cashed forged checks and withdrew money with the card. I was reimbursed by the bank for the fraudulent checks, but the card cost me hundreds of dollars -- if you have the card and PIN, then you have the right to use it, even if you've stolen both. Worse, it made a check for a downpayment on a car bounce and I almost was liable for a felony. REAL pain in the ass, that cost hundreds more to get out of.
So, no more plastic for me; paper only. Cash or check or I don't do business with you.
WTF, moderators? I don't care that drinkypoo is on my freaks list, that was in no way flamebait. He should be modded insightful, not flamebait.
Please, slashdot, bring back the old style metamoderation! He's right, the CC companies need better regulatulation (in this case, more regulation) and more competetion.
If only back in 1998 when Microsoft knew that Windows 95 was open to all malware, if they'd modified their thinking.
Instead of "let's make it so Win3.1 software can run on all our machines" and "Let's make it so Win95 can run on all our machines" and ropagating that so EVEN THE Win2K (NT) kernel was vulnerable......they could have used a real security model, locked down the system, and there would be no malware, no virus, no antivirus, no UEFI, no nothing today.
Locking down the system means no new software. The problem wasn't backwards compatibility, it was lack of anyone there knowing anything about security. In 1995 nobody envisioned computers being in everyone's home and connected to the internet. Back then, a PC was a single-user device on its own or a local network.
The problem was their laziness and short-sighted stinginess; the OSes were so bug-ridden you could get infected simply by visiting the wrong web page. Any computer can be trojaned, but only MS has made an OS that can get infected by visiting a web site or opening an email. It was simply sloppy programming. Happily, W7 seems stable and reasonably secure; of course you can get a trojan; any OS can, and there's no way of eliminating trojans short of making a computer completely locked down so the user can't install or upgrade anything, or educating users. MS' biggest mistakes were releasing buggy code and not educating users.
We've had automatic doors dating back to at least WWII
A citation is needed, because I was 14 when Star Trek came out, and I'd never seen or heard of one. It was as much a fantasy as the communicator or flat screen computer. The doors started appearing in grocery stores four of five years later.
In a biography of Walt Disney I read, it was mentioned that Disney's "imagineers" went to Paramont to find out how to construct such doors (they were building Disney World at the time), only to be told how the tech worked: stage hands.
There were motorized doors from before I was born, but you had to push a button.
Communicators the size of a lapel pin were wild conjecture at the time of the original series.
No they weren't, cell phones weren't even envisioned in 1966. The "communicators" Kirk and Spock had were like flip phones and were wild fiction, as were self-opening doors, flat screens, talking computers, speech recognition, space shuttles, and McCoy's medical readouts. Things were REALLY primitive in 1966.
And we've surpassed Star Trek in some ways, especially medicine. In The Wrath of Khan, McCoy gives Kirk reading glasses, in 2003 the FDA approved the CrystaLens implant that cures nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts; I have one implanted in my left eye. At age 60 I need no corrective lenses at all, and I was severely nearsighted all my life, and wore both contacts and reading glasses before the surgery.
I mentioned in a journal entry a few years ago how McCoy would be jealous of a modern hospital's readouts. I was amused when that journal showed a bit of prescience, I had McCoy saying "damn it, I'm a doctor, not an engineer" and when the latest movie came out two months later, that line was in the movie! Weird.
Color mixing is different with pigments than with light. In pigments, the primaries are red, yellow, and blue. In light it's cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Some of us have experienced God; not a fairy tale. There actually was a Saint Nicholas in the middle ages, but the modern money-worship Santa (and the Easter bunny and tooth fairy) has convinced many children that everything their parents told them were lies. Santa is responsible for far more athiests than Richard Dawkins is; I doubt he's made an athiest out of a single Christian.
I have an IRL friend who recently found God after being raised as an athiest. The fellow got heavily into drugs and became homeless, got into a Salvation Army shelter where church was a requirement. He's now in recovery and looking to be baptised.
You can't convince me that elephants, giraffes, or God are fairy tales, although if I'd never seen an elephant I could be convinced that they were impossible.
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I didn't know that, thank you for the education!
If you really believed in the Christian God, you would be doing all manner of totally insane things that would quickly get you removed from society, probably not long after you had stoned someone to death for eating meat on a Friday.
It's apparent that you know nothing of Christ's teachings. Stoning someone is NOT a Christian thing. Christ taught forgiveness, meekness, love of God, peace, love of one's fellow man, tolerance/nonjudgementalism.
An adultress was about to be stoned, Jesus said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Everyone left. "Go, and sin no more" he told the woman. "Judge not, lest you be judged yourself."
"Love your enemies."
"He who lives by the weapon, dies by the weapon."
"Blessed are the meek."
Nothing in the bible says you can't eat meat on Friday. If everyone lived as Christ taught (a virtual impossibility; we are all flawed) Earth would be a paradise.
Right, we should fund cloning people and raising the clones to provide organ transplants
You're not very imaginitive, are you? Why would you need to clone the whole body when you could simply clone a new heart, maybe in your own bidy next to the old, failing one.
Girlfriend, possessive. I was typing on my phone so I shortened it for laziness reasons
If you had written it as a possessive the AC wouldn't have been able to joke about it. The posessive would have been girl's, not girls.
I took it to mean you're a pimp and were referring to your hookers. See, kids, what happens when you ignore punctuation? You get made fun of!
As to why you're responding to an AC, that's a good question, he'll never see your response. I wouldn't have seen his comment if someone else hadn't quoted it.
Very few will talk about Jesus healing the deaf or scriptures that mention the deaf being able to hear in the future.
I'm pretty familiar with the bible, esp. the new testament, where does he heal the deaf? I remember passages about healing the blind, the dumb, and the insane, where's tha part about healing the deaf? And where's the part about being able to hear in the future?
No, I'm not deaf, nor is anyone close to me.
I'm not an old timer, but you had sliding doors
I'm an old timer, and yes, there were pocket doors, but they weren't self opening and closing. Others have pointed out the difference between an elevator and a turbolift. It was 1970 before I ever saw a self-opening door; Star Trek seems to have been the catylist for them, as it came out 4 years earlier. I read a biography of Disney, who was in the process of designing Disney World and Epcot in 1966. They saw Star Trek and their "imagineers" went to Paramount to see how they worked. They were disappointed when told it was stage hands that opened and closed them.
I don't hate Unity. Maybe I would if I ever actually tried it, but I'm happy with kde. Windows, now, I hate Windows, especially since they upgraded Office to that god damned ribbon, I can't figure out SHIT in that interface.
I'll be glad when I retire, because I just hate MS products. I keep wondering where the myth of Windows useability comes from? KDE is far more useable than any flavor of Windows I've tried. When kde gets upgraded, you get more functionality but only have to learn to use new features, not the whole damned program. MS upgrades seem to offer little added functionality, they just change the interface.
This year's Ford -- now with less horsepower and the brake and throttle are reversed from last year's model! That's Microsoft.
If an MS employee wrote Unity, I hate it.
So you're saying people should expect less from Linux because it's free?
It would be logical to expect less from a free program than an expensive one, but in fact you get far more with a good Linux distro than any version of Windows. I'm running both kubuntu and Win7 at home, and Win7 lacks features and us far less useable. OTOH I haven't found any features in Windows that kde lacks, other than Windows being prettier.
Also what bloat?
Ah, the inexperience of youth. I haven't seen a program or OS in twenty years that wasn't bloated. There was bloat even back in the DOS days -- I had a program I wrote and ran on a 16k computer. I rewrote it in Clipper, and the 16k program, after it compiled, was over 400k. That is bloat!
I wrote a battle tanks game on a 4k Sinclair computer (in hand-assembled machine code since there was no assembler) that took maybe 500 bytes. There is a Windows version that is nearly identical in gameplay and features to the one I wrote, except it's in color (the Sinclair had no color) and it's 4 megs -- a thousand times as big as the one I wrote. If that's not bloat, I don't know what is.
However, ALL of today's OSes and apps are bloated. Even damned web pages are bloated! It isn't just MS, it's the times themselves.
Something that you deal with all your life becomes normal for you. Changing that norm, even for the better, can be frightening and jarring
I was badly nearsighted all my life. When I was a kid I thought I had a superpower that let me see air (yes, I loved comic books). Then I got glasses, and I remember that evening half a century ago vividly; how sharp and clear everything looked, as well as how bent and distorted everything was. It was indeed jarring, but not the least bit frightening.
Then in 2006 I came down with a steroid-induced cataract. By then I was wearing contacts for my nearsightedness and reading glasses because I'm a geezer. The surgery was frightening, but only because it was surgery; anything could have gone wrong and I could have been blinded. When the surgery was over, I was in amazement that I could actually read the clock on the wall, but it was neither jarring nor frightning. My vision was better than it was even with glasses, which I no longer need.
If you have a disability that can be fixed, you're a fool not to have it fixed.
I know ford around the same era required other valid keys to be present when the new key was programmed.
I lost the key to my 2002 Concorde a few years ago, had to have it towed to the dealership, and they wouldn't make a new key without my showing them the title, even though it was the same dealer that sold me the car!
Not even Ubuntu, but its desktops. TFS says KDE is faster than Windows, which seems right to me -- I'm running W7 on a year old notebook and kubuntu on an ancient tower, and the tower (with a much slower processor and less memory) is faster than the notebook. The tower is running kubuntu.
If you don't want the vehicle to move then you need to remove something from it that makes it move, preferably something that a thief wouldn't normally bring with them, like a coil wire on a vehicle with a distributor, or a fuel pump relay or ASD relay, or something like that.
Easily circumvented with a tow truck.
But the laws WERE circumvented in many of the stories. The one set on Mercury had the three laws almost kill the engineers; the one on the orbiting power station broke the second law because it thought it was following the first law, and many others.
Anyway, it is a simple question: why do you write with this style?
I don't know, but can only hypothesize that he's a teenager trying to look "kewl". He doesn't realise how ignorant and foolish it makes him look.
Only if you buy into the generally unsupported assertion by Roger Penrose that quantum state and uncertainty is a fundamental component of consciousness.
We have no idea what consciensness actually IS, let alone what causes it. All you know is that YOU posess it; there's no way for me to prove my own sentience, or for you to prove yours, except that we're both human and likely to be alike in posessing it.
We know it's caused by complex chemistry; we don't know that the complexity is what causes it, and I doubt that complexity is the reason. How many beads do I have to put on my abacus before iit becomes self-aware? The Earth itself is more complex than any of its life forms, is it sentient? How much more sentient would Jupiter be?
Penrose is talking out his ass, just as you and I are. We not only don't know, we don't even know how to start to learn.
Could you count want the Nazi's did
Hell's bells, a Godwin and an illiterate idiocy in the same sentence; hell, in the same WORD! You should get some sort of prize. Uneducated aliterate of the day, perhaps?
To quote WC Fields, "Go away, boy, you bother me." Get your GED and come back then.
That's why I no longer use a debit card, or indeed, any kind of card. Someone watched me enter my PIN, stole the card and some checks, cashed forged checks and withdrew money with the card. I was reimbursed by the bank for the fraudulent checks, but the card cost me hundreds of dollars -- if you have the card and PIN, then you have the right to use it, even if you've stolen both. Worse, it made a check for a downpayment on a car bounce and I almost was liable for a felony. REAL pain in the ass, that cost hundreds more to get out of.
So, no more plastic for me; paper only. Cash or check or I don't do business with you.
WTF, moderators? I don't care that drinkypoo is on my freaks list, that was in no way flamebait. He should be modded insightful, not flamebait.
Please, slashdot, bring back the old style metamoderation! He's right, the CC companies need better regulatulation (in this case, more regulation) and more competetion.
If only back in 1998 when Microsoft knew that Windows 95 was open to all malware, if they'd modified their thinking.
Instead of "let's make it so Win3.1 software can run on all our machines" and "Let's make it so Win95 can run on all our machines" and ropagating that so EVEN THE Win2K (NT) kernel was vulnerable... ...they could have used a real security model, locked down the system, and there
would be no malware, no virus, no antivirus, no UEFI, no nothing today.
Locking down the system means no new software. The problem wasn't backwards compatibility, it was lack of anyone there knowing anything about security. In 1995 nobody envisioned computers being in everyone's home and connected to the internet. Back then, a PC was a single-user device on its own or a local network.
The problem was their laziness and short-sighted stinginess; the OSes were so bug-ridden you could get infected simply by visiting the wrong web page. Any computer can be trojaned, but only MS has made an OS that can get infected by visiting a web site or opening an email. It was simply sloppy programming. Happily, W7 seems stable and reasonably secure; of course you can get a trojan; any OS can, and there's no way of eliminating trojans short of making a computer completely locked down so the user can't install or upgrade anything, or educating users. MS' biggest mistakes were releasing buggy code and not educating users.
We've had automatic doors dating back to at least WWII
A citation is needed, because I was 14 when Star Trek came out, and I'd never seen or heard of one. It was as much a fantasy as the communicator or flat screen computer. The doors started appearing in grocery stores four of five years later.
In a biography of Walt Disney I read, it was mentioned that Disney's "imagineers" went to Paramont to find out how to construct such doors (they were building Disney World at the time), only to be told how the tech worked: stage hands.
There were motorized doors from before I was born, but you had to push a button.
Communicators the size of a lapel pin were wild conjecture at the time of the original series.
No they weren't, cell phones weren't even envisioned in 1966. The "communicators" Kirk and Spock had were like flip phones and were wild fiction, as were self-opening doors, flat screens, talking computers, speech recognition, space shuttles, and McCoy's medical readouts. Things were REALLY primitive in 1966.
And we've surpassed Star Trek in some ways, especially medicine. In The Wrath of Khan, McCoy gives Kirk reading glasses, in 2003 the FDA approved the CrystaLens implant that cures nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts; I have one implanted in my left eye. At age 60 I need no corrective lenses at all, and I was severely nearsighted all my life, and wore both contacts and reading glasses before the surgery.
I mentioned in a journal entry a few years ago how McCoy would be jealous of a modern hospital's readouts. I was amused when that journal showed a bit of prescience, I had McCoy saying "damn it, I'm a doctor, not an engineer" and when the latest movie came out two months later, that line was in the movie! Weird.
Color mixing is different with pigments than with light. In pigments, the primaries are red, yellow, and blue. In light it's cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Scanning devices for bill's serial numbers are ubiquitous.
Who is Bill and why didn't you capitalize his name? Is his serial number tattooed on his forehead or something?
Some of us have experienced God; not a fairy tale. There actually was a Saint Nicholas in the middle ages, but the modern money-worship Santa (and the Easter bunny and tooth fairy) has convinced many children that everything their parents told them were lies. Santa is responsible for far more athiests than Richard Dawkins is; I doubt he's made an athiest out of a single Christian.
I have an IRL friend who recently found God after being raised as an athiest. The fellow got heavily into drugs and became homeless, got into a Salvation Army shelter where church was a requirement. He's now in recovery and looking to be baptised.
You can't convince me that elephants, giraffes, or God are fairy tales, although if I'd never seen an elephant I could be convinced that they were impossible.