Islam isn't that different from Judaism or Christianity. Plenty of things in those religions are punishable by death, but not many people are getting stoned for sodomy in America.
The main point behind Christianity is that all sins are punishable with death, but that God acted as the scapegoat thus sins are forgiven. So you shouldn't expect many people to be stoned for sodomy in America.
2 Timothy 3:16 states that the Scripture is "inspired by God", thus refuting the GGP's claim that "the Bible never actually claims to be the word of God"
Bzzzt! Wrong! The Letter to Timothy, when it was written, was not Scripture, nor was it probably ever thought it would be Scripture. Paul was referring to Jewish Scriptures and likely one or more of the Gospels. The only book in the Bible where something like what you're saying takes place is Revelation, that that's a direct admonition not to change the words of the book of Revelation, and says nothing about the other collected works within the Bible. You're reading without thinking about the context, like the guy above who thinks that Jesus and the disciples must have been homosexual because they kissed each others' cheeks as a greeting (I know he was talking about the Grand Inquisitor, but they are described doing that in the Gospels too).
Thank you. When Facebook got rid of groups/interests and converted all of them to likes, I opted to remove all of that information from my profile because I couldn't find that privacy option. Nice to know it exists now.
They removed it to make an end run around the legal system. They could legally sell "public" stuff, so they made any new interests public, and forced everyone to reenter or remove them, thus converting everything to public, and they were able to sell them all.
You didn't mention the best USB connection failure: USB connectors are the same width as RJ45's, so if you have an extra NIC close to the USB slots and are just poking blindly at the back of your computer, you can feel a nice snug insertion of the USB cable, only to find no response from the OS.
Windows, in the effort to appeal to a population which didn't know the difference, progressively buried the concepts of autodetect and autorun into deeper and deeper layers of OS and driver configuration.
To such an extent that when MS tried to give people an option to disable autorun, it didn't work because a deeper layer was really handling things.
Wait... someone paid you to do something you are good at that they are not good at.... and you're pissed off about this?
I'm pissed that my job, which used to be less user-based, is slowly migrating into butt-wiping; something degrading and unnecessary. Would you be happy exploiting illiterate folk if you're the only one who knows how to read? Doesn't it make it worse when they refuse to try to read?
How about copying a directory? cp is for one file, I guess I need a flag for more, which was it again?
I don't trust recursive cp since it tends to work differently on different unices, usually screwing up permissions or ownership (despite flags to retain such)
tar cf - . | (cd/newdir/ ; tar xvf - )
I am using Windows where I don't need to open a terminal for mundane tasks.
Check your IP address. Pretty mundane. I'll wait. Still waiting. You totally want to open up cmd and type ipconfig, but you're googling the name of the GUI version (if there is one). The first thing I open on the Windows machines I run is cmd (only because powershell isn't ubiquitous yet).
I'm sorry, but even with eyes closed, you'll tend to throw the same way every time (unless you purposefully throw differently with each toss, then it's still non-random, but psychology has to be taken into account).
Learning to use your computer should *NOT* require knowledge of shell command flags.
Yes it should. Whenever someone wants to do something ridiculously repetitive with say, OpenOffice - converting thousands of documents into pdfs, I show up with my "magical powers" and open a terminal window, and convert them all into pdfs. Because they don't bother to learn something simple (command line basics, or just %*&^ing Google), they would have either wasted hours of their time manually converting the docs, or wasted money hiring a person to manually convert the docs. As it is, I suppose they wasted a little money, because they had me do something they should have been able to do for themselves.
A problem with scientists embracing science fiction is that so much science fiction warns against scientific progress. Terminator, for example, Short-Circuit, War Games, The Matrix.
Nitpick: Short Circuit was a positive movie about what could be achieved if we were to build treaded killbots then make them fly kites in a thunderstorm.
Tomorrow, it rains. At dawn, the blood of orc and elf spills. Both German and English can do that type of phrase. Germans tend to like it more because it's faster to say than "It will ran tomorrow" or "The blood of orc and elf will be spilled at dawn".
Oh yeah, and bribery. The RIAA and MPAA bribe our legislators. They give money directly to politicians, and threaten to cut the off if they don't get their way. In public. They call that "free speech" because a corporation handing a politician money is legally indistinguishable from a person speaking.
A campaign donation is "I support what you want to do"
Bribery is "I want you to support what I want to do"
There is an important difference.
Putting an ultimatum on the table changes a donation into a bribe. Even if the RIAA never bribed before, they started the instant Dodd opened his fool mouth.
Chrome: "We're not wearing eye-gear on the paintball field because we all shoot at torsos"
Banks: "That's nice. You're not playing on the paintball field without eye-gear."
With all these smart, knowledgable geeks here trying to educate you on what you're missing in it, you're still going to go there? Because everyone else is, if for nothing else. Holy stupid, Batman.
I'm astonished people *want* to give their personal lives over to an apparent/effective monopoly so it can sell them to advertisers, and all you get in return is,... what?
I got back in touch with people I hadn't been able to contact for decades (or for shorter periods of time). As you said yourself: everyone is using it. Also, I think you're not properly informed about how much info you *have* to give FB to have an account. I'm fairly stingy with the data I upload, and I know people who are stingier than I am (no pics, no info beyond name, don't allow anyone to post to their wall, etc. The only useful thing FB has on them is their list of FB friends, which is usually very low in number).
FB is an improvement over other forms of digital communication, how exactly?
To simulate FB with email, you'd have to bcc 100+ people your status everyday, and they'd have to set up filters for who they wanted to actually see the filters of. But that's too active, almost like posting on people's walls. FB walls and statuses are much more passive. To simulate FB with personal static webpages, each person would have to maintain.htpasswd files (or mod_auth_kerb, or perl/php auth scripts, whatever) for 100+ users. FB's not really an improvement over message boards or forums; it just happens to be the most popular and highly polished one.
Go ahead and characterize me as Luddite. Beats being a simpleton tool of Zuck's corporate vision. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What an imBECile. What an ultra-maroon."
I'm guessing now that you're a troll, and I will not post any more in this thread, but I'd like to point out that to the younger set, the kids just entering into college, Facebook is viewed as the communication medium, because it's easy to use. We in IT didn't do a good enough job making email easier to use (I still can't convince other IT folk to use PGP/GPG). You're offended because you know the smoke and mirrors that makes up FB, but people don't care about that. They're busy communicating with each other via something that works, even if they're being laser-targeted for advertising in the process.
I've been "online" since '93, and have hosted my own sites and DNS, etc; Whats funny is when people who didn't even use email until the early 2000's found out I'm not on FB they act like I'm some kind of luddite. Thats how many people view the whole web 2.0 experience. They can't be bothered with email and websites when the warm and cozy FB gives them everything they want. It's the Walmart of the net. Zuckerberg's fantasy of an "all seeing eye" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron is coming to fruition.
"I've been "weaving" since 1793, and have designed my own patterns and tailor-store advertisements, etc; What's funny is when people who didn't even use a needle until the early 1800's found out I'm not using a loom, they act like I'm some kind of Luddite." That's how many people view your post.
Now, me, I totally get where you're coming from, but it *is* a Luddite-ish stance. Kids these days lump email in with non-anon ftp, telnet, and gopher. You'd be better off telling people to use social media responsibly than to tell them to eschew it.
Fiber is made from glass.. Glass comes from sand, that is millions of year old crushed rock and shells, being heated at high temps. Since Topeka refuses to acknowledge that the earth is any more than 6000 years old, obviously, the people there don't believe glass can exist. You can't install something that can't exist, and google was chased out as a blasphemer..
You missed a serious step in your logic. if all Topekans really believe the Earth to be 6000 years old, then they believe the sand was created 6000 years ago in its current form, and its resemblance to millions of years old crushed rock to be a coincidence (or design). Your belief that sand is millions of years old has no bearing in their beliefs.
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Islam isn't that different from Judaism or Christianity. Plenty of things in those religions are punishable by death, but not many people are getting stoned for sodomy in America.
The main point behind Christianity is that all sins are punishable with death, but that God acted as the scapegoat thus sins are forgiven. So you shouldn't expect many people to be stoned for sodomy in America.
2 Timothy 3:16 states that the Scripture is "inspired by God", thus refuting the GGP's claim that "the Bible never actually claims to be the word of God"
Bzzzt! Wrong! The Letter to Timothy, when it was written, was not Scripture, nor was it probably ever thought it would be Scripture. Paul was referring to Jewish Scriptures and likely one or more of the Gospels. The only book in the Bible where something like what you're saying takes place is Revelation, that that's a direct admonition not to change the words of the book of Revelation, and says nothing about the other collected works within the Bible. You're reading without thinking about the context, like the guy above who thinks that Jesus and the disciples must have been homosexual because they kissed each others' cheeks as a greeting (I know he was talking about the Grand Inquisitor, but they are described doing that in the Gospels too).
Thank you. When Facebook got rid of groups/interests and converted all of them to likes, I opted to remove all of that information from my profile because I couldn't find that privacy option. Nice to know it exists now.
They removed it to make an end run around the legal system. They could legally sell "public" stuff, so they made any new interests public, and forced everyone to reenter or remove them, thus converting everything to public, and they were able to sell them all.
You didn't mention the best USB connection failure: USB connectors are the same width as RJ45's, so if you have an extra NIC close to the USB slots and are just poking blindly at the back of your computer, you can feel a nice snug insertion of the USB cable, only to find no response from the OS.
Wine. Plenty of windows games freak out unless they're properly mounted.
Windows, in the effort to appeal to a population which didn't know the difference, progressively buried the concepts of autodetect and autorun into deeper and deeper layers of OS and driver configuration.
To such an extent that when MS tried to give people an option to disable autorun, it didn't work because a deeper layer was really handling things.
Wait... someone paid you to do something you are good at that they are not good at.... and you're pissed off about this?
I'm pissed that my job, which used to be less user-based, is slowly migrating into butt-wiping; something degrading and unnecessary. Would you be happy exploiting illiterate folk if you're the only one who knows how to read? Doesn't it make it worse when they refuse to try to read?
2) ssh into the remote host, type su, type "cd /path/to/file/dir; mkdir -p /mnt/iso; mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/iso" ?
"cd /path/to/file/dir; mkdir -p /mnt/iso; mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/iso" is your root password?
How about copying a directory? cp is for one file, I guess I need a flag for more, which was it again?
I don't trust recursive cp since it tends to work differently on different unices, usually screwing up permissions or ownership (despite flags to retain such) /newdir/ ; tar xvf - )
tar cf - . | (cd
I am using Windows where I don't need to open a terminal for mundane tasks.
Check your IP address. Pretty mundane. I'll wait. Still waiting. You totally want to open up cmd and type ipconfig, but you're googling the name of the GUI version (if there is one). The first thing I open on the Windows machines I run is cmd (only because powershell isn't ubiquitous yet).
I'm sorry, but even with eyes closed, you'll tend to throw the same way every time (unless you purposefully throw differently with each toss, then it's still non-random, but psychology has to be taken into account).
Learning to use your computer should *NOT* require knowledge of shell command flags.
Yes it should. Whenever someone wants to do something ridiculously repetitive with say, OpenOffice - converting thousands of documents into pdfs, I show up with my "magical powers" and open a terminal window, and convert them all into pdfs. Because they don't bother to learn something simple (command line basics, or just %*&^ing Google), they would have either wasted hours of their time manually converting the docs, or wasted money hiring a person to manually convert the docs. As it is, I suppose they wasted a little money, because they had me do something they should have been able to do for themselves.
Chucking darts at a wall is incredibly non-random. It's good for a one-time toss, but repeated uses will cluster badly.
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That sounds like commie talk, comrade.
Just project the movie onto the roof of the opera house.
any relation to Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 911) or Gordon Moore (Moore's Law)
You think there are a lot less Moores than any other last name, more or less?
Or a couple of NSA agents looking at each other and saying "shit, now we can't read their email"
A problem with scientists embracing science fiction is that so much science fiction warns against scientific progress. Terminator, for example, Short-Circuit, War Games, The Matrix.
Nitpick: Short Circuit was a positive movie about what could be achieved if we were to build treaded killbots then make them fly kites in a thunderstorm.
i can't even think of a "heroic space opera" anyone got an example?
The Hyperion series? It starts out a little sci-fi-ish, then drops straight into destined heroic crap.
Tomorrow, it rains. At dawn, the blood of orc and elf spills. Both German and English can do that type of phrase. Germans tend to like it more because it's faster to say than "It will ran tomorrow" or "The blood of orc and elf will be spilled at dawn".
Oh yeah, and bribery. The RIAA and MPAA bribe our legislators. They give money directly to politicians, and threaten to cut the off if they don't get their way. In public. They call that "free speech" because a corporation handing a politician money is legally indistinguishable from a person speaking.
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2633179&cid=38785649
A campaign donation is "I support what you want to do"
Bribery is "I want you to support what I want to do"
There is an important difference.
Putting an ultimatum on the table changes a donation into a bribe. Even if the RIAA never bribed before, they started the instant Dodd opened his fool mouth.
Chrome: "We're not wearing eye-gear on the paintball field because we all shoot at torsos"
Banks: "That's nice. You're not playing on the paintball field without eye-gear."
With all these smart, knowledgable geeks here trying to educate you on what you're missing in it, you're still going to go there? Because everyone else is, if for nothing else. Holy stupid, Batman.
... what?
I'm astonished people *want* to give their personal lives over to an apparent/effective monopoly so it can sell them to advertisers, and all you get in return is,
I got back in touch with people I hadn't been able to contact for decades (or for shorter periods of time). As you said yourself: everyone is using it. Also, I think you're not properly informed about how much info you *have* to give FB to have an account. I'm fairly stingy with the data I upload, and I know people who are stingier than I am (no pics, no info beyond name, don't allow anyone to post to their wall, etc. The only useful thing FB has on them is their list of FB friends, which is usually very low in number).
FB is an improvement over other forms of digital communication, how exactly?
To simulate FB with email, you'd have to bcc 100+ people your status everyday, and they'd have to set up filters for who they wanted to actually see the filters of. But that's too active, almost like posting on people's walls. FB walls and statuses are much more passive. To simulate FB with personal static webpages, each person would have to maintain .htpasswd files (or mod_auth_kerb, or perl/php auth scripts, whatever) for 100+ users. FB's not really an improvement over message boards or forums; it just happens to be the most popular and highly polished one.
Go ahead and characterize me as Luddite. Beats being a simpleton tool of Zuck's corporate vision. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What an imBECile. What an ultra-maroon."
I'm guessing now that you're a troll, and I will not post any more in this thread, but I'd like to point out that to the younger set, the kids just entering into college, Facebook is viewed as the communication medium, because it's easy to use. We in IT didn't do a good enough job making email easier to use (I still can't convince other IT folk to use PGP/GPG). You're offended because you know the smoke and mirrors that makes up FB, but people don't care about that. They're busy communicating with each other via something that works, even if they're being laser-targeted for advertising in the process.
I've been "online" since '93, and have hosted my own sites and DNS, etc; Whats funny is when people who didn't even use email until the early 2000's found out I'm not on FB they act like I'm some kind of luddite. Thats how many people view the whole web 2.0 experience. They can't be bothered with email and websites when the warm and cozy FB gives them everything they want. It's the Walmart of the net. Zuckerberg's fantasy of an "all seeing eye" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron is coming to fruition.
"I've been "weaving" since 1793, and have designed my own patterns and tailor-store advertisements, etc; What's funny is when people who didn't even use a needle until the early 1800's found out I'm not using a loom, they act like I'm some kind of Luddite." That's how many people view your post.
Now, me, I totally get where you're coming from, but it *is* a Luddite-ish stance. Kids these days lump email in with non-anon ftp, telnet, and gopher. You'd be better off telling people to use social media responsibly than to tell them to eschew it.
Fiber is made from glass.. Glass comes from sand, that is millions of year old crushed rock and shells, being heated at high temps. Since Topeka refuses to acknowledge that the earth is any more than 6000 years old, obviously, the people there don't believe glass can exist. You can't install something that can't exist, and google was chased out as a blasphemer..
You missed a serious step in your logic. if all Topekans really believe the Earth to be 6000 years old, then they believe the sand was created 6000 years ago in its current form, and its resemblance to millions of years old crushed rock to be a coincidence (or design). Your belief that sand is millions of years old has no bearing in their beliefs.