There are some historians who opine that the Japanese did not even surrender due to the bombs but, rather, surrendered because the Russians were coming and the Russians had an old score to settle with them - namely the embarrassing loss in the Russo-Japanese war earlier in the century. That is my understanding of their claim - I am not sure that any one single reason could be called correct though.
After the Rape of Nanking (spelling?), and many other such atrocities, maybe targeting civilians was the correct thing to do. It was not like the Japanese citizens were decrying there own government's treatment of enemy civilians, they were highly indoctrinated and willing to die for said government. There were no mass surrenders like you had in Europe. They were very willing to die an live in horrific conditions and work very hard and to be very smart and creative.
Today, when we bomb little brown people, the general consensus is to bitch about the increased fuel prices.
You forgot the most imperative of questions my good sir or madam... "Y'ear me?" It seems silly to ask it so frequently. It is usually at loud volumes so, really, unless the indications are that one can not, in fact, hear them then they should, by all means, not need to inquire about it as loudly and frequently.
I say this, as a mixed race and being a partially black person, "Cut that shit out." You're not a Verizon commercial. We have many, many dialects of English in this country - including Ebonics. None of them require such an inquiry and it really is a silly question. Body language, alone, should be the indicator that your audience can not hear you. At best the question is pertinent just once or twice.
I am fluent in a number of regional Ebonics dialects (my inflection is off as I am not a native) and, really, I can generally tell if the person I am speaking to has a hearing disability. They will usually make it a point to let you know, actually. They will even let you know if they do not speak the language. Note: If they do not speak the language then, honestly, speaking it louder is unlikely to help.
You really can not prove anything, at all, exists with mathematics. You can only infer that your measuring is accurate. In other words, you can not prove that you are real - all you can prove is that you can measure it and observe it. You can not even be certain that you're measuring it in any valuable method. Math does not really prove anything other than the chance of something being true within an applied framework. It is really a matter of probabilities and certainly not proof - only that it can be shown to be consistent. At best you can only prove that our current understanding is correct. Applied Mathematics is a thing, for a reason.
What was obviously humor was taken serious and they thought you were trolling? Hmm... Maybe they have not seen your other comments? I thought it funny. I might have smoked a wee bit of weed but, still, I thought it was funny. Then again, the comments that are joking about the moon-landing being faked (obviously jokes) are modded down as well. Maybe it is a ritual that I do not understand.
I have seen this sort of things in other, past articles, where obvious humor was assumed to be a troll or flamebait or whatnot. No, I do not know why. Maybe it is some sort of Poe's law variation or something? I have noticed that the "/s" (sarcastic indicator) seems to help with the confusion when I have seen it used. *shrugs* I do not moderate, as a general rule, so it is not something I really understand.
My school, a private boarding school named Kent's Hill, was given a moon rock and it was in a special cabinet but we handled it in Geology. They came, later, and stole the rock back - said it was not allowed or something. I have no idea why. My understanding is that they then gave the school a tree. I am not sure how the tree was to replace the rock that they stole but, well, something about treaties and bad form? I really do not understand it, at all. They brought bag bags full of rocks and the school already had the rock - it was given. It was seemingly not lawfully given, again some treaty or something, and they took it back and gave them a tree. I do not know of any trees on the moon. I think there was a plaque with the tree but I think the plaque is no more. The plaque is on the quad near the student center and chow hall.
As an aside and some pretty obvious shilling...
For any parents who would like to send their children, and this is blatantly shilling but bear with me, then there are a number of scholarships available at Kent's Hill. It is a nice school with its own observatory, ice arena, alpine ski slope, and a very modern computer science laboratory. One of the scholarships is specifically for technical merit and is trivial to apply for. Said scholarship covers all tuition, room and board, and a stipend. Tuition includes all class and lab material. There is a certain amount of glee that would be had if a Slashdotter had a child take advantage of said scholarship - it is in a handy trust and will, ideally, survive forever and only increase over time. So, if someone applies for a scholarship at KH and is approved they should let me know.
They are an excellent educational facility with lots of contacts across the globe. You would do well to send your children there and they have a very open policy about allowing alma mater to return to speak and allowing parents to visit and observe. Parents who are unable to afford such are often invited to stay in the Dean's House while they are there to observe their children or if there is some crisis that brings them there to their children. They have an adequate sports complex, more than adequate, but the emphasis is still on prep for further education as well as communication with others in that same environment. In other words, "They will teach your children how to talk like a fag and interact with educated people - not just to be educated." The food has electrolytes.
They can get the source for Windows. You can get *some* of the source for Windows just for the low price of spending a minute to search the internet and then asking them politely. I have used any one of a number of silly reasons to get Window's source code. It is called the Shared Source Initiative. It is free, free as in beer. You need to sign an onerous NDA and give them a plausible excuse for needing the code. I have used, "I want to break stuff." I have also used, "I am curious."
Anyhow, use your favorite search engine and enter "Microsoft Shared Source Initiative." It should show you the way. The process is reasonably quick. I think you get more access as you build trust - I am guessing that there is a small team of humans behind the curtain. I have contacted and been contacted by the same internal person a number of times. Alternatively, there are a few people using the same @microsoft.com email address and all of them call themselves John.
----- I could skip two of the lines and be okay. With a few minutes at Google I could even let you input your name and show it back to you in colors, 'cause Vic 20, bitches! I could not do that with the Trash 80s... Green or amber screens. They were easy to look at for hours and hours, so there is that.
No, I could not make anything truly secure that had any complexity and that security has dependence on the OS and hardware but it, itself, could be secure. It would not be of any value but it would be secure.
My brother worked in a factory that wove and created items made with Kevlar (and other things - like the material on the seats of the Space Shuttle is one item). They did not actually make Kevlar, they wove it and created interesting stuff for the military with it such as designing the Kevlar mask used over the lower face by special forces. That sort of stuff. I visited his shop a couple of times, it was interesting.
Anyhow, he brought home a piece of Kevlar that was maybe 18^2" and 1" deep. We shot it a number of times. Eventually I volunteered to hold it over my chest and allow him to shoot it with a.22lr round (from my Mark II, if you must know). It did not go through, it did not hurt even, and I did not die. This was the stupidest thing I recall doing - ever. It was dumb enough that my girlfriend broke up with me, "I am not dating an idiot." (Something close to that and the word suicidal and some expletives were also used.)
In my defense, it was absurdly thick - enough to stop a moderately high powered round. It was a.22 round - I would have likely been fine even if the Kevlar had just slowed it down. Even if the Kevlar had not slowed it down, at all, I probably still would have survived - albeit painfully. We decided that he should not stand back and shoot me, that he should stand close... We were adults. We were both well educated. I had graduated, he had a four year degree and trade school, both of us had been in the Marines, and both of us were very very drunk. Like blindingly drunk.
I have nothing important to add. Your comment made me recall the heady days of... Umm... Mid-life and alcohol. Yes, the heady days of mid-life alcoholism. Finally, I am an idiot. So is my brother, it would seem.
They might have the resources to create such a thing. Then, what about their compiler? I hate thinking about these things. For every gain there is a potential hack. Of course, at some point, you just have to say it is good enough. I do not think any realistic computer is unhackable.
They should have a competition to let us hack at it. I am just going to walk over and turn it off. Then, as the kids say, I am going to drop the mike and walk away. (I am not sure what that does to help but it is the in thing to do, I guess.)
Also, I should clarify something from above - a couple of posts up. I would fire someone who was reasonably accused, as in probably committed the offense. I would not blindly fire someone. If there were reasonable doubts then I would suggest a legal course of action and consult my legal team. It is a place of employment, not a court room.
If the accuser made multiple complaints and there were reasons to suspect that the accusation was not true then, again, I would consult legal and fire them if appropriate. I do not like false accusations - I consider those worse than offenses to be honest.
The offender is morally bankrupt and a false accuser is morally bankrupt and actively trying to harm other people by being dishonest. Honesty is something I am pretty big on. Again, some of these concepts are not easy for me to verbalize. I am not an author and I tend to write novellas already. I would tolerate no abuse - ever. I would tolerate no false accusations - ever, and I would be disgusted on top of it.
False accusations happen. They happen way too often to believe that justice is always served. There are many people who are being freed due to the appeals courts finally working. DNA evidence is also setting people free. Those people should never have been in prison in the first place. The same is true for things that do not see a courtroom.
Hmm... It really is difficult to verbalize. I think that, perhaps, I need to sit down and write myself an essay or two. That will help me get the words down in print and will help me verbalize the in the future. My apologies for the clunky ideas. They are more refined but my own failings mean that I am having difficulty verbalizing them.
So then, for clarity, what are you advocating as a solution? My advocacy would be simply education via public awareness that it may be a problem - done. I would advocate that folks be vigilant which is also done. So, what more is there to accomplish?
I do not advocate knee jerks responses and hysteria (no sexism intended but it is the best word for the job). Their job is done. They can be quiet now and see what the effect is.
See the GitHub response for something that I consider to be of no benefit but I do respect their right to do as they see fit with their property. I just see it as silly, pandering, and being done for the wrong reasons - publicity. It is certainly not about harm.
This is difficult to put into words but...
Work should be a safe place for everyone. The internet should not be a safe place, for anyone. The internet is where we have freedoms and while I do not abuse those freedoms I respect the rights of others to be abusive. If I want to be a sexist prick then the internet is the right place to do it. Where internet is not equal to work, so to speak. This is an outlet for speech. Censorship, legal and perhaps acceptable, should be left to places where it is applicable. I do not expect to be allowed free speech at a place of employment, for example. I do expect to be able to have a modicum of free speech online and, frankly, have the right to create a space online where such is allowed. It may be a fallacy but it may not be to assume that this trend is going to reduce those free speech outlets in the name of safety. I do not want the internet going that direction no matter how deplorable I may think people are.
I am not sure that makes much sense. Sure, they can censor and do what they want on their own property like Reddit has done. I do not have to like it. I also see it as a trend and I do not like where it is headed. I have no desire to be sexist or racist. I do respect other people's rights to be asshats.
Wow... There is much more to it but, I had not really thought about this - it is insaney difficult to verbalize clearly. That too is likely a problem. Communication is important.
That doesn't mean they won't put you on a watch list. You think you get to decide that or argue your case? Well, assuming that they actually put people on watch lists for fairly generic comments on slashdot, that is... I some how doubt that they do but I am sure that there are some here who think they do and are absolutely positive of this. There is a watch list but we have no idea, really, of what criteria are used to create and add to such a list. I'd not be surprised if the meta information (which is lawful to collect it seems) from the NSA scooping is used to decide who ends up on what list. It is probably automated. If certain criteria is met then the name is added to the list...
I think that, if we are going to have such lists, we should probably know what will result in being put on said lists. Of course they are not going to tell us because REASONS... Some of those reasons may be legitimate but without knowing the real methods used we can not really determine if those reasons are valid.
My understanding is that, for some, it is a hugely changing event. Much of that is, again according to the paper's abstract that I read, was due to feelings of guilt and confusion. Depression often follows abortion. The ladies are not cheering and jumping for joy after an invasive procedure such as that.
Personally, I am against abortion - very much so. I feel it is too close to life to be removed without ethical consequences, so to speak. I also see its value. More importantly, I feel, I also think I have absolutely no right to insist that someone take a child to term. It is not my body, it is not my choice. I am pro-life/anti-abortion but, at the same time, I am pro-choice.
I do not want you to decide that I can not do what I want with my body (even though such is already decided) and that means that I do not get to decide what you do with your body.
Thank you both - I have been to Iceland and Hawaii but only as a pretty basic tourist in both instances. I live in Maine so we have crappy weather too but I still would want a guide. I watched a very boring (to most) documentary about some lady who hiked all over the place and one of the places she hiked was in Iceland. I sort of want to go back and do that but I am awfully lazy at times. I also want to go check out some of the gyms. There are some giant people there and I want to see how they work out. For such a small country there is an inordinate number of giant folks who win that tough man competition thing frequently.
Thunderbird has actually become good. I am reminded of the Outlook Express 6.0 which, honestly, was fantastic. Thunderbird is very near that pinnacle. Well, it slows down and dies after a while so you need to close it once a day or so - or at least I do across multiple operating systems and the most recent version of Thunderbird. I just remember to close it once a day if that computer is staying on all the time. Usually that is not the case so it does not affect me much. So, yeah, really - it is pretty damned good from my observations. I accept that it is not perfect but it seems silly to let perfect get in the way of good.
I don't think you managed to get one damned thing right in your speech. You're not helping... You seem to be young and new to the computer world. Sometimes it is better to read a while before chiming in. Outlook is not a server. Linux is not an office suite. Here is the real kicker... For some folks, Microsoft Office is the correct tool for the job - there are places, see Excel, where you can not use OO.org or LO and accomplish the same things. That is but one instance. For others OO.org or LO is just fine. When you grasp these basic concepts then you might have something to contribute if, and only if, you are experienced with all of them to be able to make a valuable contribution.
Don't worry, however. We were all new to computers and to open source software at one point. We all have to learn and we all had to take time to understand. If you stick with it then, perhaps, you will find you have an aptitude for computer science. I highly encourage you to talk about the things you do understand and to read the things that you do not understand. This site is a great resource, follow the many links people post and try new things. It would likely serve you better in, what I am assuming is your youth, to listen more than typing at this point. We appreciate your enthusiasm and we do not want to discourage you from participating but, really, it is best to stick with what you know. Even if that is just a little - you can share that. For the rest? Read and be aware of your limitations.
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I guess we could say that it fiss'led out.
I do apologize.
There are some historians who opine that the Japanese did not even surrender due to the bombs but, rather, surrendered because the Russians were coming and the Russians had an old score to settle with them - namely the embarrassing loss in the Russo-Japanese war earlier in the century. That is my understanding of their claim - I am not sure that any one single reason could be called correct though.
After the Rape of Nanking (spelling?), and many other such atrocities, maybe targeting civilians was the correct thing to do. It was not like the Japanese citizens were decrying there own government's treatment of enemy civilians, they were highly indoctrinated and willing to die for said government. There were no mass surrenders like you had in Europe. They were very willing to die an live in horrific conditions and work very hard and to be very smart and creative.
Today, when we bomb little brown people, the general consensus is to bitch about the increased fuel prices.
You forgot the most imperative of questions my good sir or madam... "Y'ear me?" It seems silly to ask it so frequently. It is usually at loud volumes so, really, unless the indications are that one can not, in fact, hear them then they should, by all means, not need to inquire about it as loudly and frequently.
I say this, as a mixed race and being a partially black person, "Cut that shit out." You're not a Verizon commercial. We have many, many dialects of English in this country - including Ebonics. None of them require such an inquiry and it really is a silly question. Body language, alone, should be the indicator that your audience can not hear you. At best the question is pertinent just once or twice.
I am fluent in a number of regional Ebonics dialects (my inflection is off as I am not a native) and, really, I can generally tell if the person I am speaking to has a hearing disability. They will usually make it a point to let you know, actually. They will even let you know if they do not speak the language. Note: If they do not speak the language then, honestly, speaking it louder is unlikely to help.
But, enough about me...
You really can not prove anything, at all, exists with mathematics. You can only infer that your measuring is accurate. In other words, you can not prove that you are real - all you can prove is that you can measure it and observe it. You can not even be certain that you're measuring it in any valuable method. Math does not really prove anything other than the chance of something being true within an applied framework. It is really a matter of probabilities and certainly not proof - only that it can be shown to be consistent. At best you can only prove that our current understanding is correct. Applied Mathematics is a thing, for a reason.
What was obviously humor was taken serious and they thought you were trolling? Hmm... Maybe they have not seen your other comments? I thought it funny. I might have smoked a wee bit of weed but, still, I thought it was funny. Then again, the comments that are joking about the moon-landing being faked (obviously jokes) are modded down as well. Maybe it is a ritual that I do not understand.
I have seen this sort of things in other, past articles, where obvious humor was assumed to be a troll or flamebait or whatnot. No, I do not know why. Maybe it is some sort of Poe's law variation or something? I have noticed that the "/s" (sarcastic indicator) seems to help with the confusion when I have seen it used. *shrugs* I do not moderate, as a general rule, so it is not something I really understand.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
My school, a private boarding school named Kent's Hill, was given a moon rock and it was in a special cabinet but we handled it in Geology. They came, later, and stole the rock back - said it was not allowed or something. I have no idea why. My understanding is that they then gave the school a tree. I am not sure how the tree was to replace the rock that they stole but, well, something about treaties and bad form? I really do not understand it, at all. They brought bag bags full of rocks and the school already had the rock - it was given. It was seemingly not lawfully given, again some treaty or something, and they took it back and gave them a tree. I do not know of any trees on the moon. I think there was a plaque with the tree but I think the plaque is no more. The plaque is on the quad near the student center and chow hall.
As an aside and some pretty obvious shilling...
For any parents who would like to send their children, and this is blatantly shilling but bear with me, then there are a number of scholarships available at Kent's Hill. It is a nice school with its own observatory, ice arena, alpine ski slope, and a very modern computer science laboratory. One of the scholarships is specifically for technical merit and is trivial to apply for. Said scholarship covers all tuition, room and board, and a stipend. Tuition includes all class and lab material. There is a certain amount of glee that would be had if a Slashdotter had a child take advantage of said scholarship - it is in a handy trust and will, ideally, survive forever and only increase over time. So, if someone applies for a scholarship at KH and is approved they should let me know.
They are an excellent educational facility with lots of contacts across the globe. You would do well to send your children there and they have a very open policy about allowing alma mater to return to speak and allowing parents to visit and observe. Parents who are unable to afford such are often invited to stay in the Dean's House while they are there to observe their children or if there is some crisis that brings them there to their children. They have an adequate sports complex, more than adequate, but the emphasis is still on prep for further education as well as communication with others in that same environment. In other words, "They will teach your children how to talk like a fag and interact with educated people - not just to be educated." The food has electrolytes.
Hey now... What's love got to do with it?
I know, right! It doesn't look a day over 4000 if you ask me...
*sighs* I never *really* know what to expect. Poe? I think not. Maybe...
They can get the source for Windows. You can get *some* of the source for Windows just for the low price of spending a minute to search the internet and then asking them politely. I have used any one of a number of silly reasons to get Window's source code. It is called the Shared Source Initiative. It is free, free as in beer. You need to sign an onerous NDA and give them a plausible excuse for needing the code. I have used, "I want to break stuff." I have also used, "I am curious."
Anyhow, use your favorite search engine and enter "Microsoft Shared Source Initiative." It should show you the way. The process is reasonably quick. I think you get more access as you build trust - I am guessing that there is a small team of humans behind the curtain. I have contacted and been contacted by the same internal person a number of times. Alternatively, there are a few people using the same @microsoft.com email address and all of them call themselves John.
Outside the saloon in the middle of town, Butter-Finger Irving gunned himself down. Irving, Irving... The 142nd fastest gun, in the West.
I miss Dr. Demento. I can get his stuff online but it really is not the same. Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Hmm... I will write this just for you...
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I could skip two of the lines and be okay. With a few minutes at Google I could even let you input your name and show it back to you in colors, 'cause Vic 20, bitches! I could not do that with the Trash 80s... Green or amber screens. They were easy to look at for hours and hours, so there is that.
No, I could not make anything truly secure that had any complexity and that security has dependence on the OS and hardware but it, itself, could be secure. It would not be of any value but it would be secure.
My brother worked in a factory that wove and created items made with Kevlar (and other things - like the material on the seats of the Space Shuttle is one item). They did not actually make Kevlar, they wove it and created interesting stuff for the military with it such as designing the Kevlar mask used over the lower face by special forces. That sort of stuff. I visited his shop a couple of times, it was interesting.
Anyhow, he brought home a piece of Kevlar that was maybe 18^2" and 1" deep. We shot it a number of times. Eventually I volunteered to hold it over my chest and allow him to shoot it with a .22lr round (from my Mark II, if you must know). It did not go through, it did not hurt even, and I did not die. This was the stupidest thing I recall doing - ever. It was dumb enough that my girlfriend broke up with me, "I am not dating an idiot." (Something close to that and the word suicidal and some expletives were also used.)
In my defense, it was absurdly thick - enough to stop a moderately high powered round. It was a .22 round - I would have likely been fine even if the Kevlar had just slowed it down. Even if the Kevlar had not slowed it down, at all, I probably still would have survived - albeit painfully. We decided that he should not stand back and shoot me, that he should stand close... We were adults. We were both well educated. I had graduated, he had a four year degree and trade school, both of us had been in the Marines, and both of us were very very drunk. Like blindingly drunk.
I have nothing important to add. Your comment made me recall the heady days of... Umm... Mid-life and alcohol. Yes, the heady days of mid-life alcoholism. Finally, I am an idiot. So is my brother, it would seem.
They might have the resources to create such a thing. Then, what about their compiler? I hate thinking about these things. For every gain there is a potential hack. Of course, at some point, you just have to say it is good enough. I do not think any realistic computer is unhackable.
They should have a competition to let us hack at it. I am just going to walk over and turn it off. Then, as the kids say, I am going to drop the mike and walk away. (I am not sure what that does to help but it is the in thing to do, I guess.)
His race and gender matter? Well, okay - a lady chucking chairs is kind of cooler but, still...
It was awful. I loved it. Thanks! There are two more. I am going to watch those. No, no I have no taste. So far this is the best D&D movie - ever.
Also, I should clarify something from above - a couple of posts up. I would fire someone who was reasonably accused, as in probably committed the offense. I would not blindly fire someone. If there were reasonable doubts then I would suggest a legal course of action and consult my legal team. It is a place of employment, not a court room.
If the accuser made multiple complaints and there were reasons to suspect that the accusation was not true then, again, I would consult legal and fire them if appropriate. I do not like false accusations - I consider those worse than offenses to be honest.
The offender is morally bankrupt and a false accuser is morally bankrupt and actively trying to harm other people by being dishonest. Honesty is something I am pretty big on. Again, some of these concepts are not easy for me to verbalize. I am not an author and I tend to write novellas already. I would tolerate no abuse - ever. I would tolerate no false accusations - ever, and I would be disgusted on top of it.
False accusations happen. They happen way too often to believe that justice is always served. There are many people who are being freed due to the appeals courts finally working. DNA evidence is also setting people free. Those people should never have been in prison in the first place. The same is true for things that do not see a courtroom.
Hmm... It really is difficult to verbalize. I think that, perhaps, I need to sit down and write myself an essay or two. That will help me get the words down in print and will help me verbalize the in the future. My apologies for the clunky ideas. They are more refined but my own failings mean that I am having difficulty verbalizing them.
So then, for clarity, what are you advocating as a solution? My advocacy would be simply education via public awareness that it may be a problem - done. I would advocate that folks be vigilant which is also done. So, what more is there to accomplish?
I do not advocate knee jerks responses and hysteria (no sexism intended but it is the best word for the job). Their job is done. They can be quiet now and see what the effect is.
See the GitHub response for something that I consider to be of no benefit but I do respect their right to do as they see fit with their property. I just see it as silly, pandering, and being done for the wrong reasons - publicity. It is certainly not about harm.
This is difficult to put into words but...
Work should be a safe place for everyone. The internet should not be a safe place, for anyone. The internet is where we have freedoms and while I do not abuse those freedoms I respect the rights of others to be abusive. If I want to be a sexist prick then the internet is the right place to do it. Where internet is not equal to work, so to speak. This is an outlet for speech. Censorship, legal and perhaps acceptable, should be left to places where it is applicable. I do not expect to be allowed free speech at a place of employment, for example. I do expect to be able to have a modicum of free speech online and, frankly, have the right to create a space online where such is allowed. It may be a fallacy but it may not be to assume that this trend is going to reduce those free speech outlets in the name of safety. I do not want the internet going that direction no matter how deplorable I may think people are.
I am not sure that makes much sense. Sure, they can censor and do what they want on their own property like Reddit has done. I do not have to like it. I also see it as a trend and I do not like where it is headed. I have no desire to be sexist or racist. I do respect other people's rights to be asshats.
Wow... There is much more to it but, I had not really thought about this - it is insaney difficult to verbalize clearly. That too is likely a problem. Communication is important.
That doesn't mean they won't put you on a watch list. You think you get to decide that or argue your case? Well, assuming that they actually put people on watch lists for fairly generic comments on slashdot, that is... I some how doubt that they do but I am sure that there are some here who think they do and are absolutely positive of this. There is a watch list but we have no idea, really, of what criteria are used to create and add to such a list. I'd not be surprised if the meta information (which is lawful to collect it seems) from the NSA scooping is used to decide who ends up on what list. It is probably automated. If certain criteria is met then the name is added to the list...
I think that, if we are going to have such lists, we should probably know what will result in being put on said lists. Of course they are not going to tell us because REASONS... Some of those reasons may be legitimate but without knowing the real methods used we can not really determine if those reasons are valid.
My understanding is that, for some, it is a hugely changing event. Much of that is, again according to the paper's abstract that I read, was due to feelings of guilt and confusion. Depression often follows abortion. The ladies are not cheering and jumping for joy after an invasive procedure such as that.
Personally, I am against abortion - very much so. I feel it is too close to life to be removed without ethical consequences, so to speak. I also see its value. More importantly, I feel, I also think I have absolutely no right to insist that someone take a child to term. It is not my body, it is not my choice. I am pro-life/anti-abortion but, at the same time, I am pro-choice.
I do not want you to decide that I can not do what I want with my body (even though such is already decided) and that means that I do not get to decide what you do with your body.
Thank you both - I have been to Iceland and Hawaii but only as a pretty basic tourist in both instances. I live in Maine so we have crappy weather too but I still would want a guide. I watched a very boring (to most) documentary about some lady who hiked all over the place and one of the places she hiked was in Iceland. I sort of want to go back and do that but I am awfully lazy at times. I also want to go check out some of the gyms. There are some giant people there and I want to see how they work out. For such a small country there is an inordinate number of giant folks who win that tough man competition thing frequently.
Thunderbird has actually become good. I am reminded of the Outlook Express 6.0 which, honestly, was fantastic. Thunderbird is very near that pinnacle. Well, it slows down and dies after a while so you need to close it once a day or so - or at least I do across multiple operating systems and the most recent version of Thunderbird. I just remember to close it once a day if that computer is staying on all the time. Usually that is not the case so it does not affect me much. So, yeah, really - it is pretty damned good from my observations. I accept that it is not perfect but it seems silly to let perfect get in the way of good.
I don't think you managed to get one damned thing right in your speech. You're not helping... You seem to be young and new to the computer world. Sometimes it is better to read a while before chiming in. Outlook is not a server. Linux is not an office suite. Here is the real kicker... For some folks, Microsoft Office is the correct tool for the job - there are places, see Excel, where you can not use OO.org or LO and accomplish the same things. That is but one instance. For others OO.org or LO is just fine. When you grasp these basic concepts then you might have something to contribute if, and only if, you are experienced with all of them to be able to make a valuable contribution.
Don't worry, however. We were all new to computers and to open source software at one point. We all have to learn and we all had to take time to understand. If you stick with it then, perhaps, you will find you have an aptitude for computer science. I highly encourage you to talk about the things you do understand and to read the things that you do not understand. This site is a great resource, follow the many links people post and try new things. It would likely serve you better in, what I am assuming is your youth, to listen more than typing at this point. We appreciate your enthusiasm and we do not want to discourage you from participating but, really, it is best to stick with what you know. Even if that is just a little - you can share that. For the rest? Read and be aware of your limitations.