Yeah, my phone has replaced my camera and tape recorder, but right now in my living room are two computers, a laptop (sometimes all three being used at once), VCR, DVD player, cassette player, turntable (I have lots of analog media I have yet to digitize), receiver, TV tuner (my TV is ten years old), LED flashlight, four remotes... in 2005 there was one TV, one computer, a VCR, and DVD player.
But it would. The North pole is ocean, the south pole is on a continent, and there's more land mass in the northern hemisphere than the southern. See Milankovitch cycles.
You really should start your medication, boy. Then read the fucking article, which says this is common and expected behavior. Of course, if it had been anything but the Register it wouldn't be blowing it so much out of proportion. Here are a few better links to the same story, by less disreputable sources:
Google News is full of them. There was one story by a business blog that questioned its authenticity on Google's list of stories from the search term "Ukraine dolphins"
No, it's a good comparison, except it's grapefruit to grapes rather than apples to oranges. Schwartz had credentials (permission) to access MIT's servers, IOW he's a grape. What Google did was much bigger, and I don't believe them when they say it was a coding error. Yeah, it was code, and it was an error to put that code in, but it wasn't a bug, it was deliberate. How can password cracking be an accident?
A better counterexample of how corporations and the rich are effectively above the law while it comes down hard on real people would be Sony's XCP, which my then-teenaged daughter innocently installed on my PC. Its entire purpose was vandalism. It disabled all file sharing programs and all CD burning programs, never mind that the files I shared and the CDs I burned were perfectly legal.
I'd still like to know why nobody went to prison for XCP, if I vandalized Sony's computers the same way they vandalized mine, I'd be in prison.
The only answer I can come up with is that a rich man only goes to prison when a richer man wants him to. We no longer have the rule of law in the US, and possibly nowhere on Earth, which is what this is really about.
I have to agree with the GP. Internet content has always been free. When I first got cable TV in 1980 there were the local stations static-free, and about a dozen cable stations like Discovery, History, CNN, etc. The cable channels were not censored and had no commercials, for ten bucks a month (including HBO).
Flash forward 30 years and there are hundreds of redundant and irrelevant channels, all with more ads than over the air, sometimes ads laid over the content, and they're charging $100 a month.
I can see this happening to the internet.When I first got on, most content was user-generated and there was little advertising. What advertising there was was unobtrusive, usually a single banner if anything. Of course, most content was crap. But advertisers have gone hog-wild since the greedheads entered the picture. Now, most of it is still crap but there are ads out the wazoo.
They'll soon be charging you AND showing obtrusive ads. No thanks. I ditched cable and get my TV content for free; local stations are now static-free since they've gone digital. Paying for crap is bad enough, ad-laden crap is too much.
You don't have to monetize everything. There are still a lot of us who produce content for free that many folks enjoy. I'll stick to the antenna internet, thank you. If you're going to show ads or charge, you'd better have killer content, head and shoulders above the free content.
I need proof text for your assertion that Jesus was "against money"
Not against money itself, money is simply a tool. He was against greed and selfishness. Luke 16:9 (Lazarus and the rich man), Matthew 19:16-24 (the eye of a needle).
Also, if Jesus was against power, then it follows that he would be against universal health care as a consolidation of government power
Mark 12:13-17 "Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's, and to God that which is God's." The bible is often incorrectly as saying "money is the root of all evil" when it's the LOVE OF money.
Caiaphas was a conservative. Jesus was not only a liberal, but such a radical liberal and a threat to power that he was executed.
Often I'm not clear, especially in a hastily-written, long piece that I write on my lunch hour. By "preface" I mean the foundation. Much of what the old testament said was superseded. They wanted to stone an adulterer to death, but Jesus interceded. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." and there was only one person there (or ever) who was without sin. Those who lean on the old testament while ignoring the new are doing Jesus a disservice.
"Religious right" is an oxymoron. Everything the conservatives are for, such as money and power, Jesus was against. Everything they oppose, such as taxes and universal health care, Jesus was for or ambivalent about.
I still encounter Christians today who are certain that dinosaur bones were put in place by lawyers and the devil or that the world is only thousands of years old.
Yes, and he mentioned it in the article. "Augustine was no Jerry Falwell. He admitted that many of his flock were not well read in science and he urged them not to indulge in what I call 'pulpit-pounding nincompoopery'. In other words, when non-believers have more science knowledge than you, donâ(TM)t embarrass yourself."
If you think science and religion conflict, you either misunderstand one or the other.
it was the refusal of allowing religious texts to explain the unknown that allowed people to move forward in discovering and stealing that "forbidden knowledge of good and evil" from religious texts and doctrines.
And there's a good example right there. It wasn't "the tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -- in short, the knowledge of pain and grief. It was a poisonous plant!
OTOH, read Solomon or Psalms, both are very critical of ignorance and supportive of learning.
I can say for certain they were two men who dared to question as much as they possibly could -- something that is often frowned upon and punished internally when you question religions.
Again you show your ignorance of religion. Questioning is not frowned on in Christianity, although perhaps it is in Islam, that I don't know.
Would we have physics today if Isaac Newton had been Cotton Mather?
No, and we wouldn't have physics if he were Redd Foxx, either.
Yeah, that's really depressing to know that someone can have a doctorate from Yale and Harvard and cling to this idea that science owes its existence to religion.
Historical fact is historical fact, no matter how you may wish it wasn't so.
It's even more disgusting that you restrict your examples specifically to Christianity and not Hindi or Muslim contributions.
He's smart enough to not make grand pronouncements about things he is ignorant of. He's talking about HIS religion.
You save yourself a lot of time and it allows you cast off the burdensome chore of having to parse The Bible and reason out why one part is metaphorical while another part needs to be literally followed.
Well, you could save a lot of time and trouble by not reading anything at all. Most people, unfortunately, do just that.
And then at the end of the day someone else is still calling you a sinner
But you are a sinner. So am I. So is the Pope. That is at the heart of Christianity, that we are all sinners and that our sins were paid for in blood; we get off scott-free.
If you want to learn about Christianity, read the first four books of the New Testament; that is the core of our religion. The old testament is merely a preface; it is Judah and Islam.
If you don't understand that science and religion ask and answer different questions, you misunderstand one or both.
No, they were wrong to not have budgeted forward from the beginning. Had they done that the USPS would show a profit. What's killing them is coming up with 75 years worth of pensions all at once.
No, it's an 11,000 year cycle that follows Earth's perigee and apogee. We're already at the warm spot, which makes AGW worse. We're not due for another ice age for another 9,000 years or so.
The USPS isn't losing money, their budgetary problems stem from Congress, who mandated that they fund their entire pension system 75 years into the future. Nobody else is under those constraints. Without that artificial baggage, they make a profit every year.
We're at perihelion now, already where Earth is at its hottest. In a few hundred or thousand years they'll welcome global warming... if global warming hasn't killed everyone by then.
We're at the worst possible place to add to the warming.
As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever.
Well, the trouble isn't that she doesn't look 23, the trouble is she looks fifteen years older than I do, and I'm 4 years older than her. Coke and booze will do that to a person.
The McCarthy style witch hunt has been an ongoing thing against gay/lesbian/transgendered individuals for a very long time and all in the name of christianity.
Yes, and they'll have to answer for that when they meet their maker. God loves everyone, and gays' sins are no worse than heteros' sins.
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Yeah, my phone has replaced my camera and tape recorder, but right now in my living room are two computers, a laptop (sometimes all three being used at once), VCR, DVD player, cassette player, turntable (I have lots of analog media I have yet to digitize), receiver, TV tuner (my TV is ten years old), LED flashlight, four remotes... in 2005 there was one TV, one computer, a VCR, and DVD player.
I'm not normal. But then, what nerd is?
With a five inch screen it's a small tablet! I wouldn't mind having one, but I'd still need a phone, my pocket isn't that big.
I wish I had mod points, that was funny!
But it would. The North pole is ocean, the south pole is on a continent, and there's more land mass in the northern hemisphere than the southern. See Milankovitch cycles.
I didn't say they were reputable, just less disreputable. The Register is only slightly less of a joke than The Onion.
You really should start your medication, boy. Then read the fucking article, which says this is common and expected behavior. Of course, if it had been anything but the Register it wouldn't be blowing it so much out of proportion. Here are a few better links to the same story, by less disreputable sources:
New York Daily News
Atlantic Wire
Herald Sun (Australia)
Huffington Post
Slate (Slate credits BoingBoing)
Google News is full of them. There was one story by a business blog that questioned its authenticity on Google's list of stories from the search term "Ukraine dolphins"
No, it's a good comparison, except it's grapefruit to grapes rather than apples to oranges. Schwartz had credentials (permission) to access MIT's servers, IOW he's a grape. What Google did was much bigger, and I don't believe them when they say it was a coding error. Yeah, it was code, and it was an error to put that code in, but it wasn't a bug, it was deliberate. How can password cracking be an accident?
A better counterexample of how corporations and the rich are effectively above the law while it comes down hard on real people would be Sony's XCP, which my then-teenaged daughter innocently installed on my PC. Its entire purpose was vandalism. It disabled all file sharing programs and all CD burning programs, never mind that the files I shared and the CDs I burned were perfectly legal.
I'd still like to know why nobody went to prison for XCP, if I vandalized Sony's computers the same way they vandalized mine, I'd be in prison.
The only answer I can come up with is that a rich man only goes to prison when a richer man wants him to. We no longer have the rule of law in the US, and possibly nowhere on Earth, which is what this is really about.
I have to agree with the GP. Internet content has always been free. When I first got cable TV in 1980 there were the local stations static-free, and about a dozen cable stations like Discovery, History, CNN, etc. The cable channels were not censored and had no commercials, for ten bucks a month (including HBO).
Flash forward 30 years and there are hundreds of redundant and irrelevant channels, all with more ads than over the air, sometimes ads laid over the content, and they're charging $100 a month.
I can see this happening to the internet.When I first got on, most content was user-generated and there was little advertising. What advertising there was was unobtrusive, usually a single banner if anything. Of course, most content was crap. But advertisers have gone hog-wild since the greedheads entered the picture. Now, most of it is still crap but there are ads out the wazoo.
They'll soon be charging you AND showing obtrusive ads. No thanks. I ditched cable and get my TV content for free; local stations are now static-free since they've gone digital. Paying for crap is bad enough, ad-laden crap is too much.
You don't have to monetize everything. There are still a lot of us who produce content for free that many folks enjoy. I'll stick to the antenna internet, thank you. If you're going to show ads or charge, you'd better have killer content, head and shoulders above the free content.
I need proof text for your assertion that Jesus was "against money"
Not against money itself, money is simply a tool. He was against greed and selfishness. Luke 16:9 (Lazarus and the rich man), Matthew 19:16-24 (the eye of a needle).
Also, if Jesus was against power, then it follows that he would be against universal health care as a consolidation of government power
Mark 12:13-17 "Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's, and to God that which is God's." The bible is often incorrectly as saying "money is the root of all evil" when it's the LOVE OF money.
Caiaphas was a conservative. Jesus was not only a liberal, but such a radical liberal and a threat to power that he was executed.
Often I'm not clear, especially in a hastily-written, long piece that I write on my lunch hour. By "preface" I mean the foundation. Much of what the old testament said was superseded. They wanted to stone an adulterer to death, but Jesus interceded. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." and there was only one person there (or ever) who was without sin. Those who lean on the old testament while ignoring the new are doing Jesus a disservice.
I know I'll be modded down by the religious right
"Religious right" is an oxymoron. Everything the conservatives are for, such as money and power, Jesus was against. Everything they oppose, such as taxes and universal health care, Jesus was for or ambivalent about.
I still encounter Christians today who are certain that dinosaur bones were put in place by lawyers and the devil or that the world is only thousands of years old.
Yes, and he mentioned it in the article. "Augustine was no Jerry Falwell. He admitted that many of his flock were not well read in science and he urged them not to indulge in what I call 'pulpit-pounding nincompoopery'. In other words, when non-believers have more science knowledge than you, donâ(TM)t embarrass yourself."
If you think science and religion conflict, you either misunderstand one or the other.
it was the refusal of allowing religious texts to explain the unknown that allowed people to move forward in discovering and stealing that "forbidden knowledge of good and evil" from religious texts and doctrines.
And there's a good example right there. It wasn't "the tree of knowledge," it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -- in short, the knowledge of pain and grief. It was a poisonous plant!
OTOH, read Solomon or Psalms, both are very critical of ignorance and supportive of learning.
I can say for certain they were two men who dared to question as much as they possibly could -- something that is often frowned upon and punished internally when you question religions.
Again you show your ignorance of religion. Questioning is not frowned on in Christianity, although perhaps it is in Islam, that I don't know.
Would we have physics today if Isaac Newton had been Cotton Mather?
No, and we wouldn't have physics if he were Redd Foxx, either.
Yeah, that's really depressing to know that someone can have a doctorate from Yale and Harvard and cling to this idea that science owes its existence to religion.
Historical fact is historical fact, no matter how you may wish it wasn't so.
It's even more disgusting that you restrict your examples specifically to Christianity and not Hindi or Muslim contributions.
He's smart enough to not make grand pronouncements about things he is ignorant of. He's talking about HIS religion.
You save yourself a lot of time and it allows you cast off the burdensome chore of having to parse The Bible and reason out why one part is metaphorical while another part needs to be literally followed.
Well, you could save a lot of time and trouble by not reading anything at all. Most people, unfortunately, do just that.
And then at the end of the day someone else is still calling you a sinner
But you are a sinner. So am I. So is the Pope. That is at the heart of Christianity, that we are all sinners and that our sins were paid for in blood; we get off scott-free.
If you want to learn about Christianity, read the first four books of the New Testament; that is the core of our religion. The old testament is merely a preface; it is Judah and Islam.
If you don't understand that science and religion ask and answer different questions, you misunderstand one or both.
Nope. What's the matter, is he stepping on your preconceived notions, or is he just using big words?
Right now on the northern hemissphere is winter when we are at the apohelion
Exactly. In 11000 years it will be reversed.
The cycle is which hemisphere is summer at perihelion. Now perihelion is in January, in 11000 years it will be (and was 11k ago) in July.
No, they were wrong to not have budgeted forward from the beginning. Had they done that the USPS would show a profit. What's killing them is coming up with 75 years worth of pensions all at once.
Perihelion happens in January, in 11,111 years it happens in July.
I wasn't clear... worse than not clear. Perihelion happens in January, in 11000 years it will happen in July.
Ah, so you are one of those self-serving christians who thinks that lawyering around the rules to suit your purposes is perfectly fine
Wrong again, son.
No, it's an 11,000 year cycle that follows Earth's perigee and apogee. We're already at the warm spot, which makes AGW worse. We're not due for another ice age for another 9,000 years or so.
The USPS isn't losing money, their budgetary problems stem from Congress, who mandated that they fund their entire pension system 75 years into the future. Nobody else is under those constraints. Without that artificial baggage, they make a profit every year.
We're at perihelion now, already where Earth is at its hottest. In a few hundred or thousand years they'll welcome global warming... if global warming hasn't killed everyone by then.
We're at the worst possible place to add to the warming.
Do you really believe that "judging words" is not the same as judging the person for speaking those words?
Yes.
And neither you or the once above mentioned that Carry is manic depressive.
That term is outdated, it's now called "bipolar disorder" and does lead to substance abuse, as many mental illnesses do.
As an actress, people expected her to be 23 forever.
Well, the trouble isn't that she doesn't look 23, the trouble is she looks fifteen years older than I do, and I'm 4 years older than her. Coke and booze will do that to a person.
The McCarthy style witch hunt has been an ongoing thing against gay/lesbian/transgendered individuals for a very long time and all in the name of christianity.
Yes, and they'll have to answer for that when they meet their maker. God loves everyone, and gays' sins are no worse than heteros' sins.