Doctor Dawkins, In your book, The God Delusion, you consider religion as a memetic trait passed from generation to generation. Although many have pondered as you have a world without religion, given the aforementioned context do you consider an end to religion possible in much the same way we may treat a genetic flaw with genetic therapy in the near future?
are used in their parents badges when they go to work. Its how they open doors and clock in. Recalling from my youth, kids have had ID badges since about 1996, theyve had to be visually verified in most cases before you can leave the lobby and enter your class at the start of the day. somehow the texan that wrote this article thinks by saying "electronic chips" and "children" in the same sentence, im supposed to get outraged.
of an acclaimed FS is on the horizon and we laugh at its creator who murdered his wife. Im not sure how it works in other countries, but in America the prison system is just another device for enacting biblical retribution. Hans isnt seeing any treatment for his actions, rather hes spending 15 years to life in prison.
Depending on your personal conviction to things like the death penalty and crime in general, you could consider the man who brought you a glorious experiment, ReiserFS, is a sick man. He's been taken to the cleaners for 60 million in a wrongful death suit, which is said to go to "the kids" but seriously sounds like it was orchestrated by their grandmother. After the trial he insisted the attorney forced him to take the stand, and afterwards served as his own attorney. Hes repeating the same delusional actions of self representation he did during the original trial, and no one considers this a manifestation of an illness.
if none of this makes any sense and you're still subscribed to the idea that prison was the best solution for this man, then you can revel in the computer chair justice of knowing he was brutally assaulted by several prisoners in 2009. The DOJ's solution, not to rehabilitate or anything, was simply to shuffle what amounts to another cash cow to another farm. he is currently in Pleasant Valley state prison.
the right to "free speech" as it applies to the United States is not the right to get away with saying anything you want. its not the "right to offend people."
it means you have the right to say anything you want against the government without fear of it kicking in the door at 2 am and silencing you. And honestly since mcarthyism we've pretty much ignored it.
Walk up to the secret service and call the president an asshole, and you can expect to be monitored or detained as punishment. Read the quran aloud in a public square and you might find a tracking device under your car the next day. Bitch about US foreign policy at the pulpit, and as Anwar Al Awlaki found out, you'll be killed.
are fundamental lack of training. we all get a license to drive, but any moron can hop on a schwinn and decide he wants to ride to work. West Hollywood and santa monica in particular are littered with assholes who weave unsafely back and forth across their lane, never check over their shoulder for traffic, stare down at the road instead of up, and frequently blow through stop signs, red lights and no turn lanes. They unpredictably merge from the road to the sidewalk in order to evade traffic control devices they might find tedious as well. My problem is that there are no repercussions for this stupidity other than the death of a cyclist because police often just dont care.
us declaring some kind of cyber oil and cyber food embargo against a country, and them retaliating somehow for our absurd decision to stick our cyber dicks into someone elses cyber...shesh. cant we just paraphrase the good secretary and say, "I think we need to spend more time bashing china and drumming up war with iran, while at the same time blowing through the rest of this years defence budget through government contracts to multi billion dollar corporations"
ICANN serves no point but to make a few old white guys filthy rich these days. call me an old fart but i think.info proved good and goddamned well we dont need anymore TLD's..org is already abused enough as it is, and unless ICANN wants to chew through those shit sandwiches first i dont think they should be allowed to do any archery, or raffles, or whatever charades they feel are appropriate in the means of keeping up appearances while they whore out the internet.
you arent being kicked out for refusing corporate donations. you are being refused because you havent even raised 50K and are polling at less than 15%.
hate to say it but if I were an ABC affiliate trying to configure the program schedule around the advertising revenue im supposed to be selling, id probably try to keep the forums brief and ensure key folks who pay me for ads get a seat. republicans and democrats will pay me for ad space, but they might not pay me much if i include 40 other no-name candidates willing to bother their candidates with actual debate.
if you're a libertarian bitching about capitalism, you might not be running under the correct ticket.
attempting to step into the Kronenborg castle, you'll find it is conspicuously missing in Strasburg, Saskatchewan. but hey Grandma Lees 22nd Street bakery and "eating place" is pretty darn good too ya know.
we'll be forced to stop calling them PC vendors? its a touch offtopic but worth mentioning. A sound argument can be made that these arent personal computers at all. Each one is mandated to include windows 8, which is basically just an app store. its designed to become obsolete in 2-4 years, and several systems like UEFI and trusted computing prevent the user from ever considering their computer "personal." The "locked down" OS model is already being baked into consumers at the mobile device level and having seen sales in such devices supplant them,PC vendors are likely to file in lock-step to try and match this advantage. Of course you'll get workarounds for businesses much the same as we get them for redhat/centos/ubuntu when we order servers, but the average person to which "personal" applies in PC is probably going to get shafted.
you could also argue the numbers for sales are entirely irrelevant as anyone interested in a real "personal computer" is buying the parts and building it themselves.
redmond to sue Apple in germany failed when upon arriving to court, a panick stricken international phonecall from an attorney in Hamburg Pennsylvania demanded the case be held in France instead as it was easier to dispatch international attorneys.
two weeks later, Apples French legal team stormed into a child support hearing in Paris Arkansas looking for answers...
the end of an era. As the **aa continue to hack and slash at the hydra of new media, to chase the proverbial 'ali' around the ring in rope-a-dope fashion, artists will embrace it as a closer connection to their fans and a more reasonable approach to selling their art.
The legacy of an era of rented music and anti piracy legislation, DRM and house-raids will end with the sound of a single coin rattling in a tin cup as so many artists shun the industry that has ruled over them like cattle.
And heres a fancy dream: An open source appliance that can replace a jukebox in my favourite pub, that willingly connects to a DotCom enterprise and allows me to reward artists in realtime using bitcoin or cash for their efforts. But alas, its fun to dream.
a pursuit that rested solely at the hands of the government, space exploration that is, and privatized it. Excuse me for sounding a touch cynical and angry but spacex has but one client, the US government. we have intentionally interjected a middle man into the US space program for no apparent reason. SpaceX does not launch commercial satellites, or mine ore on martian moons, or harvest the gasses of venus. Ironically, an ex soviet project in baikonur handles most commercial clients.
the sad truth is spacex exists to privately reap the profits of a publically subsidized endeavor to explore the universe.
in novell netware at age 15 that allowed privilage escalation I was taught I could be suspended for a week from school. I learned how to copy the encyclopedia in a cramped and stinking trailer, onto lined parchment until my arm ached in defiance of the biblical retribution which had been prescribed..
I learned to stop exploring most things that had to do with computers after that. Unlearning this has proven quite challenging.
i quit considering this newsworthy. Automated systems from three mile island to the traffic control devices at the end of the freeway routinely fail as well. Often times these have far more cataclysmic repercussions. Im no evangelical for Microsoft, but this seems like pinata bashing. we've all written at least one script thats failed pretty spectacularly in our careers.
I measure "the rest of my life" in special "vacation time" hours tracked in a database to which i havent any access. I withdraw "vacation hours" to enjoy my life, and in turn the company I work for doesnt fire me for "the rest of my life" on their time.
these hours, due to the nature of my salaried employment, are however competely subjectively interpreted and at any time i can be called to work during them. The hours outside of $start_time and $end_time for my job are also rather nonexistent. In the literal words of my boss, "we can call you anytime we want." So the problem with "work smarter not longer" is the fact that it is entirely antithetical to the structural composition of "salaried employment."
1. A successful jump is completed by felix and he enjoys the limited fame that accompanies such a stunt in the form of advertisement and promotion from his sponsor, Red Bull, who in turn reap most of the reward for the act in the form of increased sales and merchandizing rights.
2. Felix, moments after crossing the sound barrier, is torn to shreds in what to bystanders appears as a giant explosion of blood and plastic a few thousand feet in the air. The act is recorded but never released, and Red Bull takes neither responsibility nor interest in the outcome as while it may have advanced science, it did not advance revenue for the quarter.
the cast of the television series "Jersy Shore" continue to procreate, I for one as a scientist cannot in good conscience rule definitively on the end of human-neanderthal intercourse.
unfortunately i have not found a web page to explain how this mouth-breathing brain-dead no-talent ass-clown continues to cash a government paycheck. I've been to Atlanta, and its people are quite intelligent, unfortunately theyre outnumbered by the hicks in the sticks straddling mobility scooters and sucking down big macs as usual.
1. its still an invasion of privacy as the outline concept or any other concept related to the technology cannot be verified
2. its still a health risk
tin foil bonus round: it would also be much easier considering the entirety of the TSA revolves around security theater to simply remove the existing units, replace the chassis, and reinstall them with livery to suggest millimeter wave scanning is in progress.
embrace, extend, extinguish
the comments about bing are correct in that microsoft expects people to pay for advertisements through its acquired Yahoo search product. do not track is in direct opposition to this and if codified as a real standard would pose a real threat. so what do we do? we embrace it as a good idea for customers and extend it such that its on all the time, by default, thus rendering the original consumer "choice" in the matter a moot point. The state of tracking your browser habits is now rendered entirely irrelevant, advertisers have even more incentive to ignore the option, and the idea of tracking dies a silent death through manufactured, intentional backlash.
Apache ignoring the DnT flag, or any other project for that matter, was a possibility microsoft probably foresaw. it still works out in their favour by fracturing the standard. Apache is fighting for a standard that died the minute microsoft decided they wanted to be part of it, but thats okay.
the only fix is to accept cookies from sites you trust, and reject all others. youll find there are really only a handful of sites (in my case 7) that need to generate and store a cookie. make it auto-expire at the end of the session. Install Noscript and forget the do not track mess entirely, because you enforce the content on your own terms.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said, "The department has no tolerance for security breaches at any of our sites, and I am committed to ensure that those responsible will be held accountable."
you're a nun, you say? Well thanks for the free security assessment. In return, heres some biblical retribution.
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Doctor Dawkins,
In your book, The God Delusion, you consider religion as a memetic trait passed from generation to generation. Although many have pondered as you have a world without religion, given the aforementioned context do you consider an end to religion possible in much the same way we may treat a genetic flaw with genetic therapy in the near future?
are used in their parents badges when they go to work. Its how they open doors and clock in. Recalling from my youth, kids have had ID badges since about 1996, theyve had to be visually verified in most cases before you can leave the lobby and enter your class at the start of the day. somehow the texan that wrote this article thinks by saying "electronic chips" and "children" in the same sentence, im supposed to get outraged.
of an acclaimed FS is on the horizon and we laugh at its creator who murdered his wife. Im not sure how it works in other countries, but in America the prison system is just another device for enacting biblical retribution. Hans isnt seeing any treatment for his actions, rather hes spending 15 years to life in prison.
Depending on your personal conviction to things like the death penalty and crime in general, you could consider the man who brought you a glorious experiment, ReiserFS, is a sick man. He's been taken to the cleaners for 60 million in a wrongful death suit, which is said to go to "the kids" but seriously sounds like it was orchestrated by their grandmother. After the trial he insisted the attorney forced him to take the stand, and afterwards served as his own attorney. Hes repeating the same delusional actions of self representation he did during the original trial, and no one considers this a manifestation of an illness.
if none of this makes any sense and you're still subscribed to the idea that prison was the best solution for this man, then you can revel in the computer chair justice of knowing he was brutally assaulted by several prisoners in 2009. The DOJ's solution, not to rehabilitate or anything, was simply to shuffle what amounts to another cash cow to another farm. he is currently in Pleasant Valley state prison.
the right to "free speech" as it applies to the United States is not the right to get away with saying anything you want. its not the "right to offend people."
it means you have the right to say anything you want against the government without fear of it kicking in the door at 2 am and silencing you. And honestly since mcarthyism we've pretty much ignored it.
Walk up to the secret service and call the president an asshole, and you can expect to be monitored or detained as punishment. Read the quran aloud in a public square and you might find a tracking device under your car the next day. Bitch about US foreign policy at the pulpit, and as Anwar Al Awlaki found out, you'll be killed.
are fundamental lack of training. we all get a license to drive, but any moron can hop on a schwinn and decide he wants to ride to work. West Hollywood and santa monica in particular are littered with assholes who weave unsafely back and forth across their lane, never check over their shoulder for traffic, stare down at the road instead of up, and frequently blow through stop signs, red lights and no turn lanes. They unpredictably merge from the road to the sidewalk in order to evade traffic control devices they might find tedious as well. My problem is that there are no repercussions for this stupidity other than the death of a cyclist because police often just dont care.
us declaring some kind of cyber oil and cyber food embargo against a country, and them retaliating somehow for our absurd decision to stick our cyber dicks into someone elses cyber...shesh. cant we just paraphrase the good secretary and say, "I think we need to spend more time bashing china and drumming up war with iran, while at the same time blowing through the rest of this years defence budget through government contracts to multi billion dollar corporations"
ICANN serves no point but to make a few old white guys filthy rich these days. call me an old fart but i think .info proved good and goddamned well we dont need anymore TLD's. .org is already abused enough as it is, and unless ICANN wants to chew through those shit sandwiches first i dont think they should be allowed to do any archery, or raffles, or whatever charades they feel are appropriate in the means of keeping up appearances while they whore out the internet.
you arent being kicked out for refusing corporate donations. you are being refused because you havent even raised 50K and are polling at less than 15%.
hate to say it but if I were an ABC affiliate trying to configure the program schedule around the advertising revenue im supposed to be selling, id probably try to keep the forums brief and ensure key folks who pay me for ads get a seat. republicans and democrats will pay me for ad space, but they might not pay me much if i include 40 other no-name candidates willing to bother their candidates with actual debate.
if you're a libertarian bitching about capitalism, you might not be running under the correct ticket.
attempting to step into the Kronenborg castle, you'll find it is conspicuously missing in Strasburg, Saskatchewan. but hey Grandma Lees 22nd Street bakery and "eating place" is pretty darn good too ya know.
we'll be forced to stop calling them PC vendors? its a touch offtopic but worth mentioning. A sound argument can be made that these arent personal computers at all. Each one is mandated to include windows 8, which is basically just an app store. its designed to become obsolete in 2-4 years, and several systems like UEFI and trusted computing prevent the user from ever considering their computer "personal." The "locked down" OS model is already being baked into consumers at the mobile device level and having seen sales in such devices supplant them,PC vendors are likely to file in lock-step to try and match this advantage. Of course you'll get workarounds for businesses much the same as we get them for redhat/centos/ubuntu when we order servers, but the average person to which "personal" applies in PC is probably going to get shafted.
you could also argue the numbers for sales are entirely irrelevant as anyone interested in a real "personal computer" is buying the parts and building it themselves.
redmond to sue Apple in germany failed when upon arriving to court, a panick stricken international phonecall from an attorney in Hamburg Pennsylvania demanded the case be held in France instead as it was easier to dispatch international attorneys.
two weeks later, Apples French legal team stormed into a child support hearing in Paris Arkansas looking for answers...
the end of an era. As the **aa continue to hack and slash at the hydra of new media, to chase the proverbial 'ali' around the ring in rope-a-dope fashion, artists will embrace it as a closer connection to their fans and a more reasonable approach to selling their art.
The legacy of an era of rented music and anti piracy legislation, DRM and house-raids will end with the sound of a single coin rattling in a tin cup as so many artists shun the industry that has ruled over them like cattle.
And heres a fancy dream: An open source appliance that can replace a jukebox in my favourite pub, that willingly connects to a DotCom enterprise and allows me to reward artists in realtime using bitcoin or cash for their efforts. But alas, its fun to dream.
a pursuit that rested solely at the hands of the government, space exploration that is, and privatized it. Excuse me for sounding a touch cynical and angry but spacex has but one client, the US government. we have intentionally interjected a middle man into the US space program for no apparent reason. SpaceX does not launch commercial satellites, or mine ore on martian moons, or harvest the gasses of venus. Ironically, an ex soviet project in baikonur handles most commercial clients.
the sad truth is spacex exists to privately reap the profits of a publically subsidized endeavor to explore the universe.
in novell netware at age 15 that allowed privilage escalation I was taught I could be suspended for a week from school. I learned how to copy the encyclopedia in a cramped and stinking trailer, onto lined parchment until my arm ached in defiance of the biblical retribution which had been prescribed..
I learned to stop exploring most things that had to do with computers after that. Unlearning this has proven quite challenging.
microsoft sent automated DMCA notices
i quit considering this newsworthy. Automated systems from three mile island to the traffic control devices at the end of the freeway routinely fail as well. Often times these have far more cataclysmic repercussions. Im no evangelical for Microsoft, but this seems like pinata bashing. we've all written at least one script thats failed pretty spectacularly in our careers.
I measure "the rest of my life" in special "vacation time" hours tracked in a database to which i havent any access. I withdraw "vacation hours" to enjoy my life, and in turn the company I work for doesnt fire me for "the rest of my life" on their time.
these hours, due to the nature of my salaried employment, are however competely subjectively interpreted and at any time i can be called to work during them. The hours outside of $start_time and $end_time for my job are also rather nonexistent. In the literal words of my boss, "we can call you anytime we want." So the problem with "work smarter not longer" is the fact that it is entirely antithetical to the structural composition of "salaried employment."
two ways for the corporate sponsor Red Bull.
1. A successful jump is completed by felix and he enjoys the limited fame that accompanies such a stunt in the form of advertisement and promotion from his sponsor, Red Bull, who in turn reap most of the reward for the act in the form of increased sales and merchandizing rights.
2. Felix, moments after crossing the sound barrier, is torn to shreds in what to bystanders appears as a giant explosion of blood and plastic a few thousand feet in the air. The act is recorded but never released, and Red Bull takes neither responsibility nor interest in the outcome as while it may have advanced science, it did not advance revenue for the quarter.
the cast of the television series "Jersy Shore" continue to procreate, I for one as a scientist cannot in good conscience rule definitively on the end of human-neanderthal intercourse.
to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge64kMFoQEo
in case you're like me wondering what species of slime mold a "Paul Broun" is,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broun#Controversies
unfortunately i have not found a web page to explain how this mouth-breathing brain-dead no-talent ass-clown continues to cash a government paycheck. I've been to Atlanta, and its people are quite intelligent, unfortunately theyre outnumbered by the hicks in the sticks straddling mobility scooters and sucking down big macs as usual.
the ipod's promise to revolutionize the way we live, only applies to its consumers.
now the space shuttle. when will the evil stop?
1. its still an invasion of privacy as the outline concept or any other concept related to the technology cannot be verified
2. its still a health risk
tin foil bonus round: it would also be much easier considering the entirety of the TSA revolves around security theater to simply remove the existing units, replace the chassis, and reinstall them with livery to suggest millimeter wave scanning is in progress.
of how 600 barrels of Maple Syrup and some poor convoy with a brand new Garmin learned the difference between Ontario, Canada and Ontario, California.
embrace, extend, extinguish
the comments about bing are correct in that microsoft expects people to pay for advertisements through its acquired Yahoo search product. do not track is in direct opposition to this and if codified as a real standard would pose a real threat. so what do we do? we embrace it as a good idea for customers and extend it such that its on all the time, by default, thus rendering the original consumer "choice" in the matter a moot point. The state of tracking your browser habits is now rendered entirely irrelevant, advertisers have even more incentive to ignore the option, and the idea of tracking dies a silent death through manufactured, intentional backlash. Apache ignoring the DnT flag, or any other project for that matter, was a possibility microsoft probably foresaw. it still works out in their favour by fracturing the standard. Apache is fighting for a standard that died the minute microsoft decided they wanted to be part of it, but thats okay.
the only fix is to accept cookies from sites you trust, and reject all others. youll find there are really only a handful of sites (in my case 7) that need to generate and store a cookie. make it auto-expire at the end of the session. Install Noscript and forget the do not track mess entirely, because you enforce the content on your own terms.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said, "The department has no tolerance for security breaches at any of our sites, and I am committed to ensure that those responsible will be held accountable."
you're a nun, you say? Well thanks for the free security assessment. In return, heres some biblical retribution.