they = the council of Nicae. Creating a text about something that happened hundreds of years earlier so that it fits an even older prophesy isn't exactly a difficult thing to do. Nothing marvelous about it.
It was a way to eliminate hereditary title surely. After all, the christians were a cult following somebody they claimed that existed and who was the king of the jews. The king of the jews meant he was next in line to the thrown of David. They were trying to sell this to the romans remember. How far do you think they would have got if they said it was a bout the rightful king via succession to a thrown that had been usurped by the Roman Empire? Far better to say that his father was not Joseph who was from the line of David but rather the creator of the universe instead. Imagine if they'd said instead "Come follow the rightful king that wanted to kick the Romans out of Palestine". Wouldn't it have been easier to just jump into the ring with the lions voluntarily and cut out the middle man?
The sun rises in a different place on the horizon every day due to the tilt of the earth. The date of Xmas is when that location makes it's first percievable change back in the other direction from the extremity of the winter. It was when Sol Invictus (the state religion of Rome at the time when the council of Nicae first drafted the bible) celebrated the rebirth of the sun and the beginning of the end of winter. It has nothing to do with christianity except for the politics of keeping the festival days intact so the transition to christianity could be accomplished with more ease.
Christians? Why specifically christians? Just because you rename a festival and claim it's about your particular superstition doesn't make it yours. This is an ancient festival tied to the harvest; that's why the moon is important. Xmas is the same, it's about when the sun is reborn. The 25th of Dec is when the sun makes it's first move back in the other direction across the sky. I wish people would stop insisting that all these festivals are about magic and fairies.
He's talking about more than documents. Don't you use linux at all? Sounds like you don't to me. He's talking about all the user configs for programs and all sorts of things. He's right, windows does scatter that stuff all over the place. There's more to what's in the home folder than the sort of things you save in My Documents, a lot more.
Scientology is a cult unlike christianity because it's based around a person that claimed special knowledge and was capable of unbelievable super human abilities...... oh wait, so does christianity
It's a cult because it is harmful and uses threats to intimidate people.... oh wait, christianity threatens people with eternal damnation and has killed millions
It's a cult because it scams people out of millions of dollars and flaunt it with..... oh wait, christians have enormous cathedrals and huge bank accounts
Sorry I can't find any substantial difference except the scale of it all.....basically you're both nuts!!!
What a great idea, they could include WGA in it too (just to assist everybody of course). M$'s attempts to help their customers are so reliable and have such great intentions in mind. You are so right a whitehat virus from M$ would be different.
While they are at it their whitehat virux could scan my pc and make sure I don't have any non-drm'd home videos too and assist me by removing those as well. That way I can be sure that everything on my machine is something that has paid it's toll to bigcorp. Oh what a joy!
Oh hang on..... I use linux. Damn, I'm going to miss out on all these helpful intrusions into my privacy. What a shame
The buggy whip analogy is a good one in this instance. Stores are closing because we longer need these overpriced pieces of plastic to get our music. It's time the record industry died and the music industry was born. Lets start giving our money to the musicians instead of these unethical record companies, they are the true pirates.
Radiohead have shown everybody the way with In Rainbows.
Die, Die, Die My Darling....... Death to the record industry, Long live the music industry.
And that is why you should always use GPL. It stops parasitic corporations from exploiting a community by taking their ideas and then closing the source and charging the contributors to use their own work.
But that is simply the nature of corporatism. Everything is about money; ethics is something you comply with when the media is watching. It's simply the new feudalism. Instead of owning the people they own the output of the people. Same outcome but the bosses have no responsibility to look after those that keep them in the luxury they have come to expect.
And if an employee invents something does he get any benefit from it? Of course not, the corporation owns it. Oh all hail "work for hire"!! The new method that the rich enslave the poor. Now THAT'S progress!!!
Give it time. It's amazing how many pieces of hardware work today that didn't work last month. Thats the nature of open source as many of the old stalwart hardware manufacturers are starting to realise (IBM, HP and so on).
Personally, I don't understand why anybody would actually buy vista. You'd have to have had your head in the sand not see this coming. The user isn't as important to M$ as the RIAA and the MPAA. How could that work out well for anybody?
1. Is the US actually part of the free world? (Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, "Ist amendment areas", unauthorised surveliance, etc). The US isn't even really a democracy because their poor are forced into crime (due to the effective absence of a welfare system or a public health system) and are then made ineligible to vote. It's government by the rich of the rich for the rich. That's not democracy.
2. If a sovereign nation wants to adopt ANY law, what business is it of the US? What gives the US the right to force their twisted ideology upon others. Did it ever occur to you that the rest of the world isn't jealous of the US at all and actually don't want to go down the US path?
The rest of your post I agree with but you have revealed a philosophy that detracts from it.
I suspect that Papadopolous is a CMO and not a CTO at all. If so, Mr Papadopolous - kill yourself now. Seriously, kill yourself. No I'm not joking, kill yourself. Do everybody a favour and just die!!!!!
If you are indeed a CTO I take it all back, but please go back to managing techs and leave fantasy to the marketing division where it belongs.
Yes. They already know where I live and public phones don't know who I am. I think you are missing the point. A cell phone with a GPS chip is a tracking device that pinpoints exactly where you are at any time, not just when you make a call.
But is GPS in a phone an improved service? I won't buy a phone with any GPS chips. When they have to use triangulation from towers to locate you it requires a converted effort and is only done when they are trying to find a crim or lost hiker etc., With GPS in everybody's phone they could compile a database of everybody's movements. With the increases in data storage capabilities this could get way out of hand. Add that to this new technology that uses your phone as a proxy server to extend coverage so it never actually gets turned off and we are painting a very orwellean scenario indeed. When all cell phones have gps, I'll simply go without.
Agreed. I use debian/sid so I am regularly tweaking and upgrading but that is all part of using the unstable branch and I have a lot of fun doing it. Now that might make me eccentric in some people's eyes but I simply consider myself to be a computer enthusiast rather than just a user (I'm an old timer that remembers dos2 being released). My mother on the other hand is in her late 60's and started out quite computer illiterate so I have set her up on debian/etch. She installs the occasional application using apt-get but generally just uses the machine as I set it up. She has absolutely no problems with her setup and loves it. When she hears people say that using linux is hard she laughs at them and says "If I can use it anybody can". In fact, when she has to use winblows on other people's machines she hates it and says it doesn't make sense.
Blocking ads can speed up the load time of a page considerably. Very often the ads (esp if they are flash ads) are bigger than the actual content on the page. Not everybody has a fast connection and many people pay per byte. Adblocking does more than spare your eyes from advertising crap.
I mute ads on tv too. Following your logic the mute button should be banned. It's MY tv, if I want to mute the ads I will. It's MY pc, if I want to block ads, I'll block ads. Theft is permanently depriving somebody of the rightful use of their property. Choosing not to listen to ads or display them on my computer is NOT theft, it is my perogative. I also use privoxy to block ads on Opera and I have installed it on people's winblows boxes as well. Not everybody buys into your twisted concept of theft and are sick of having ads rammed down our throats every minute of the day. When not looking at ads becomes a crime it is time to take up arms and revolt and first against the wall will be marketing execs. "Everybody line up in an orderly fashion behind the machine gun. No pushing there's plenty of marketing men to go around. You'll all get a turn."
Marketing men have a twisted way of looking at things don't they? Blocking ads is theft??? I have to agree with Bill Hicks: "If you are in marketing - kill yourself. I'm not joking - kill yourself now!!"
I'm not sure how to take that comment. It's a joke yes? I suppose he did stop OPEC switching to trading in Euro by crushing the first opec nation to do it - erm sorry - bringing peace to a rogue state. I suppose Rest In Peace is close enough hey?
Why do so many people think that business (read corporate) is an irresistible force that has to win out in the end? As I see it, the harder the corporate world pushes the stronger the FOSS movement gets. The corporate world doesn't understand what the are dealing with so they attack it with the tools they use in business and it fails. It would be easier to explain colour to a blind man than reciprocal altruism to a corporate CEO.
We are the immovable object more than they are an irresistible force. Steady as she goes tux, we're on course. Just steer around the fud and we'll be ok. Viva le GPL!!
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they = the council of Nicae. Creating a text about something that happened hundreds of years earlier so that it fits an even older prophesy isn't exactly a difficult thing to do. Nothing marvelous about it.
It was a way to eliminate hereditary title surely. After all, the christians were a cult following somebody they claimed that existed and who was the king of the jews. The king of the jews meant he was next in line to the thrown of David. They were trying to sell this to the romans remember. How far do you think they would have got if they said it was a bout the rightful king via succession to a thrown that had been usurped by the Roman Empire? Far better to say that his father was not Joseph who was from the line of David but rather the creator of the universe instead. Imagine if they'd said instead "Come follow the rightful king that wanted to kick the Romans out of Palestine". Wouldn't it have been easier to just jump into the ring with the lions voluntarily and cut out the middle man?
The sun rises in a different place on the horizon every day due to the tilt of the earth. The date of Xmas is when that location makes it's first percievable change back in the other direction from the extremity of the winter. It was when Sol Invictus (the state religion of Rome at the time when the council of Nicae first drafted the bible) celebrated the rebirth of the sun and the beginning of the end of winter. It has nothing to do with christianity except for the politics of keeping the festival days intact so the transition to christianity could be accomplished with more ease.
Christians? Why specifically christians? Just because you rename a festival and claim it's about your particular superstition doesn't make it yours. This is an ancient festival tied to the harvest; that's why the moon is important. Xmas is the same, it's about when the sun is reborn. The 25th of Dec is when the sun makes it's first move back in the other direction across the sky. I wish people would stop insisting that all these festivals are about magic and fairies.
He's talking about more than documents. Don't you use linux at all? Sounds like you don't to me. He's talking about all the user configs for programs and all sorts of things. He's right, windows does scatter that stuff all over the place. There's more to what's in the home folder than the sort of things you save in My Documents, a lot more.
It's a cult because it is harmful and uses threats to intimidate people .... oh wait, christianity threatens people with eternal damnation and has killed millions
It's a cult because it scams people out of millions of dollars and flaunt it with ..... oh wait, christians have enormous cathedrals and huge bank accounts
Sorry I can't find any substantial difference except the scale of it all.....basically you're both nuts!!!
While they are at it their whitehat virux could scan my pc and make sure I don't have any non-drm'd home videos too and assist me by removing those as well. That way I can be sure that everything on my machine is something that has paid it's toll to bigcorp. Oh what a joy!
Oh hang on ..... I use linux. Damn, I'm going to miss out on all these helpful intrusions into my privacy. What a shame
oops, the above reply is mine and not peter318200's. I didn't notice that my machine was logged in as him when I posted. Sorry about that.
Radiohead have shown everybody the way with In Rainbows.
Die, Die, Die My Darling ....... Death to the record industry, Long live the music industry.
Now if they could just get at McBrides personal possessions as well I think I'd have an orgasm on the spot!
And that is why you should always use GPL. It stops parasitic corporations from exploiting a community by taking their ideas and then closing the source and charging the contributors to use their own work.
And if an employee invents something does he get any benefit from it? Of course not, the corporation owns it. Oh all hail "work for hire"!! The new method that the rich enslave the poor. Now THAT'S progress!!!
So what you're saying is that anecdotally, vista works on 50% of machines out there? How wonderful!! Where's my wallet? 'sif
Personally, I don't understand why anybody would actually buy vista. You'd have to have had your head in the sand not see this coming. The user isn't as important to M$ as the RIAA and the MPAA. How could that work out well for anybody?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Install a grub and when it loads select anything but the vista option. You'll be fine ;)
1. Is the US actually part of the free world? (Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, "Ist amendment areas", unauthorised surveliance, etc). The US isn't even really a democracy because their poor are forced into crime (due to the effective absence of a welfare system or a public health system) and are then made ineligible to vote. It's government by the rich of the rich for the rich. That's not democracy.
2. If a sovereign nation wants to adopt ANY law, what business is it of the US? What gives the US the right to force their twisted ideology upon others. Did it ever occur to you that the rest of the world isn't jealous of the US at all and actually don't want to go down the US path?
The rest of your post I agree with but you have revealed a philosophy that detracts from it.
If you are indeed a CTO I take it all back, but please go back to managing techs and leave fantasy to the marketing division where it belongs.
Yes. They already know where I live and public phones don't know who I am. I think you are missing the point. A cell phone with a GPS chip is a tracking device that pinpoints exactly where you are at any time, not just when you make a call.
But is GPS in a phone an improved service? I won't buy a phone with any GPS chips. When they have to use triangulation from towers to locate you it requires a converted effort and is only done when they are trying to find a crim or lost hiker etc., With GPS in everybody's phone they could compile a database of everybody's movements. With the increases in data storage capabilities this could get way out of hand. Add that to this new technology that uses your phone as a proxy server to extend coverage so it never actually gets turned off and we are painting a very orwellean scenario indeed. When all cell phones have gps, I'll simply go without.
Agreed. I use debian/sid so I am regularly tweaking and upgrading but that is all part of using the unstable branch and I have a lot of fun doing it. Now that might make me eccentric in some people's eyes but I simply consider myself to be a computer enthusiast rather than just a user (I'm an old timer that remembers dos2 being released). My mother on the other hand is in her late 60's and started out quite computer illiterate so I have set her up on debian/etch. She installs the occasional application using apt-get but generally just uses the machine as I set it up. She has absolutely no problems with her setup and loves it. When she hears people say that using linux is hard she laughs at them and says "If I can use it anybody can". In fact, when she has to use winblows on other people's machines she hates it and says it doesn't make sense.
Blocking ads can speed up the load time of a page considerably. Very often the ads (esp if they are flash ads) are bigger than the actual content on the page. Not everybody has a fast connection and many people pay per byte. Adblocking does more than spare your eyes from advertising crap.
I mute ads on tv too. Following your logic the mute button should be banned. It's MY tv, if I want to mute the ads I will. It's MY pc, if I want to block ads, I'll block ads. Theft is permanently depriving somebody of the rightful use of their property. Choosing not to listen to ads or display them on my computer is NOT theft, it is my perogative. I also use privoxy to block ads on Opera and I have installed it on people's winblows boxes as well. Not everybody buys into your twisted concept of theft and are sick of having ads rammed down our throats every minute of the day. When not looking at ads becomes a crime it is time to take up arms and revolt and first against the wall will be marketing execs. "Everybody line up in an orderly fashion behind the machine gun. No pushing there's plenty of marketing men to go around. You'll all get a turn."
Marketing men have a twisted way of looking at things don't they? Blocking ads is theft??? I have to agree with Bill Hicks: "If you are in marketing - kill yourself. I'm not joking - kill yourself now!!"
I'm not sure how to take that comment. It's a joke yes? I suppose he did stop OPEC switching to trading in Euro by crushing the first opec nation to do it - erm sorry - bringing peace to a rogue state. I suppose Rest In Peace is close enough hey?
We are the immovable object more than they are an irresistible force. Steady as she goes tux, we're on course. Just steer around the fud and we'll be ok. Viva le GPL!!