if people ask me for passwords/credit cards numbers/bank details via email, the first thing i do is find their phone number via external means, then phone them to verify their identity, then give them the information over the phone. How fucking hard is that to do, even if it is your boss asking for root access?
A huge deficit coming up? Jesus, hasn't the US gvt started doing anything about this yet?!? In Britain we've been slashing the guts out of public services and raising sales tax for a year or two now, at the moment they're talking about scrapping the national postal service and the majority of public libraries. For the next five years this country is going into a mini dark ages in an attempt to save its economy. Europe has been a maelstrom of imploding economies. The longer it takes for the shit to hit fan, the harder it's going to hit, by the sounds of it, the US will be like Mad Max by the time your politicans get round to admitting everything is seriously fucked.
blank really *isn't* always all it's cracked up to be-
a claim so vague and qualified as to be applicable to anything and therefore utterly meaningless. Well done for inserting linux into the blank as troll though. nice touch.
The tu quoque logical fallacy. Which is pretty much what the "which is most ethical, religion or atheism" debate usually degenerates into. You can't generalise.
(Since atheism as a label can have many different connotations, for the duration of this post "Atheism" = a disbelief in all religions)
Religions mandate a variety of things, some of them murderous, repressive or genocidal. Some religions have no agressive mandates. Some variants of some religions have moved away from the murderous parts of their holy books, and re-interpreted them to mean something else, or just turn a blind eye to them.
Atheism as a concept mandates nothing, and has no authoritarian organisation in and of itself. This however did not stop some totalitarians using it as a supplemental excuse, on top of their political ideology, to commit genocide.
If people want an excuse to murder their opponents, religion provides a potent excuse to get everyone else on board. Another potent excuse is political ideology. If you want to fight religion with politics, you can invoke atheism as part of your propaganda - overall though as a concept, atheism is ethically neutral. Some religious beliefs are benign, with positive sentiments behind them. Some are ethically dubious and some outright sociopathic and dangerous to society in general.
A lot of religious people just aren't aware of the dubious parts of their religion's dogma, knowing only the positive feelings they get from the social cohesion from celebrating something they share with like-minded people on a regular basis.
There is no consistant, objective, scalable way to measure something as nebulous as naivete. The way to protect people from stupidity and ignorance is to educate them so that they are no longer ignorant or stupid. Legislating against exploiting stupidity is as intractible as the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror", and a "war on exploitation" would be just as wasteful and detrimental to society as all the other bullshit "wars". The billions wasted on such a war would be better spent on an improved education system.
Speaking on the behalf of everyone in the world who isn't an utter cunt, using the phrase "epic fail" makes you an utter cunt; and if you use all-caps to say it, then it becomes the responsibility of anyone who isn't an utter cunt to immediately explain to you in no uncertain terms what an utter cunt you are.
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Nets Hawk Katz looked to me like an anagram. But the only anagram I could find of this was Hawk Tank Zest.
brings a different context to the the phrase "blow jobs"
no, merely speculation and inneundo.
if people ask me for passwords/credit cards numbers/bank details via email, the first thing i do is find their phone number via external means, then phone them to verify their identity, then give them the information over the phone. How fucking hard is that to do, even if it is your boss asking for root access?
The very first Need for Speed game on the 3D0 was absolutely awesome. I haven't played many of the sequels as the few I tried seemed shit.
A huge deficit coming up? Jesus, hasn't the US gvt started doing anything about this yet?!? In Britain we've been slashing the guts out of public services and raising sales tax for a year or two now, at the moment they're talking about scrapping the national postal service and the majority of public libraries. For the next five years this country is going into a mini dark ages in an attempt to save its economy. Europe has been a maelstrom of imploding economies. The longer it takes for the shit to hit fan, the harder it's going to hit, by the sounds of it, the US will be like Mad Max by the time your politicans get round to admitting everything is seriously fucked.
If he mentions the pig again, use two hammers!
Having grown up with Acorn RISC machines, I call programs Apps. Oh wait...
you should probably put some antibiotics on that
Newspeak gets plusgood, Winston. Bellyfeel it.
I agree - why would the REPDEM corruption machine want to give away any part of it's strangehold like this? There must be an angle.
driving drunk on your own land is a right.
someone should patent it
Fark me, if you want to say FUCK just say FUCK. Smurfing hell....
do you have URLS or names?
It sounds like you're talking from bitter experience
Or perhaps give you the choice to opt between using a secure app store or installing what you like, thus solving your false dichotomy.
blank really *isn't* always all it's cracked up to be-
a claim so vague and qualified as to be applicable to anything and therefore utterly meaningless. Well done for inserting linux into the blank as troll though. nice touch.
The tu quoque logical fallacy. Which is pretty much what the "which is most ethical, religion or atheism" debate usually degenerates into. You can't generalise.
(Since atheism as a label can have many different connotations, for the duration of this post "Atheism" = a disbelief in all religions)
Religions mandate a variety of things, some of them murderous, repressive or genocidal. Some religions have no agressive mandates. Some variants of some religions have moved away from the murderous parts of their holy books, and re-interpreted them to mean something else, or just turn a blind eye to them.
Atheism as a concept mandates nothing, and has no authoritarian organisation in and of itself. This however did not stop some totalitarians using it as a supplemental excuse, on top of their political ideology, to commit genocide.
If people want an excuse to murder their opponents, religion provides a potent excuse to get everyone else on board. Another potent excuse is political ideology. If you want to fight religion with politics, you can invoke atheism as part of your propaganda - overall though as a concept, atheism is ethically neutral. Some religious beliefs are benign, with positive sentiments behind them. Some are ethically dubious and some outright sociopathic and dangerous to society in general.
A lot of religious people just aren't aware of the dubious parts of their religion's dogma, knowing only the positive feelings they get from the social cohesion from celebrating something they share with like-minded people on a regular basis.
Slashdot's preview is NOT the same as what it posts
You know that preview button? Yeah, use it.
You know the words he wrote? Yeah, read them.
There is no consistant, objective, scalable way to measure something as nebulous as naivete. The way to protect people from stupidity and ignorance is to educate them so that they are no longer ignorant or stupid. Legislating against exploiting stupidity is as intractible as the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror", and a "war on exploitation" would be just as wasteful and detrimental to society as all the other bullshit "wars". The billions wasted on such a war would be better spent on an improved education system.
you utter cunt
Speaking on the behalf of everyone in the world who isn't an utter cunt, using the phrase "epic fail" makes you an utter cunt; and if you use all-caps to say it, then it becomes the responsibility of anyone who isn't an utter cunt to immediately explain to you in no uncertain terms what an utter cunt you are.
+1 million funny
You're conjuring up images of the boss guy in Office Space shagging the protagonist's girlfriend whilst sipping his coffee.