But really I don't see the difference between diluted Christians/Jews/Muslims/Buddhists/Hinduists and Scientologists.
Well, the "diluted" ones would probably be the ones that read scripture as a combination of historical, if somewhat fanciful or exaggerated, record keeping (it's not like slave rebellions and conquering cities are impossible events, never mind the parts that are just genealogies or long, boring lists of civil laws) and metaphorical stories used to teach moral and ethical lessons. I'd say they're the exact opposite of most Scientologists.
I think the word you may have been looking for is "deluded".
Except anything not in the repository (and there is a shitload) is a serious pain in the ass to install.
Just like Windows, it depends on the provider of the software. I've used a few programs not in the repositories, and all I had to do was download the.deb file and install it.
I use Kubuntu, and I wouldn't call it terrible, but it does suffer from being a second-class citizen to Ubuntu. A lot of the KDE-specific work gets passed over in favor of Gnome-specific work.
The only reason for not customizing or locking down the N900 must be that they don't want to.
When they say "cannot be customised" they may mean that it isn't feasible, not that it isn't possible. Every carrier would probably want something different, which Nokia wouldn't do without charging them a lot of money, and they know (even if the carriers won't acknowledge) that the restrictions would be easily bypassed. Instead of "we can't customize it", it may really be "we can't customize it unless you pay us a lot of money, and you'd be wasting that money because the users will get around it within a week anyway."
That said, I wonder if he'd be any better at designing traffic systems than the idiotic "traffic engineers" we have here in the USA, who insist on setting traffic lights so there's no way to catch all green lights on a main boulevard, and intentionally time them so you have to get caught at every red light.
Go ahead and time all the lights so that you get all greens. Now drive down the road in the opposite direction.
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I come from a physics background and most physicists used to, and may still, program in FORTRAN, yet FORTRAN is a terrible programming language.
They use Fortran because the language is designed and optimized to be the best language at what physicists and other physical scientists most often need it do: crunch a whole lot of numbers. I wouldn't use Fortran to make a word processor or web browser, but if you need a program to spend two weeks doing a lot of math, you just can't beat it.
They further said that Chen and his companies had been informed of the activity by Louis Vuitton but still refused to implement a policy for removing the offending sites, which was their responsibility.
So, I'm an ISP, and I host someone who runs a second-hand store. They sell legitimate "Louis Vuitton" crap, but at prices well below retail.
Louis Vuitton "informs" me that the material is counterfeit. I'm supposed to verify this how?
Since when did ISPs become the gatekeeper of what is and isn't legal?
Maybe it depends on exactly how they refused to act. If they simply ignored the notices, then I'd say it's their own fault for getting in trouble. The obviously smart thing to do would be to ask their lawyer about the notices and either agree to remove the illegal sites or respond with an explanation of why they won't remove the sites, plus an addendum with their lawyer's contact information.
To be fair, though, that's only a setting that's part of the browser you're installing, where you have to pick an option, and you can change it later. I don't see that as nearly as bad as installing extra useless software, especially shareware that will bug you about purchasing it after 30 days.
Completely Prevent? Your brain is either damaged or it isn't. There really isn't an inbetween there.
I would submit that there's a slight difference between 1) trouble moving your left hand and slurred speech, 2) unable to speak or move anything on the left side of your body, and 3) dead.
The helmet could well be preventing acute injury resulting in death (shrapnel through the skull), but increasing the diffuse brain damage to other parts of the brain. However, the death due to acute injury would make the diffuse injury rate difficult to determine. Preventing death but causing brain damage is clearly an improvement, but it doesn't mean the helmet merely "failed to completely prevent" the brain damage, if the brain damage wouldn't have occurred without it.
Maybe it's just my layman's naivety, but I would think that a sharp piece of metal piercing your skull would qualify as "brain damage".
Does this imply that bullying someone (especially underage or pre-teen childeren), by including but not limited to, claiming that 'The world would be a better place without you', up till the point that they feel so miserable that they commit suicide, is somehow not illegal and cannot be punished by law ?
No, it means that the prosecution was completely incompetent. Drew was charged with unauthorized access to a computer system because she violated the Terms of Service of the web site, which nearly everyone would agree should not be illegal. The case actually had nothing to do with harassment, abuse, or manslaughter.
You know for certain that Rob Malda is rock stable, that he has never once considered suicide, right? That one more fucking douchebag won't push him over the edge with one more idiot insult? And, because you are a professional psychologist, your insult doesn't imply the same responsibility as some redneck bitch in Missouri improperly getting involved in her daughter's love life - or the life of her daughter's peers.
If you can't tell the difference between a one-sentence insult about a person that you don't personally know and a prolonged, methodical plan to inflict mental damage on a 12-year-old girl that you know well enough to be aware of her existing psychological problems, then you have no credibility in this discussion.
The world population is approximately 6.71 billion. A third of a percentage point of that is 25.68 million. The population of Texas is only 24.33 million. Ergo by your reasoning, if everyone in Texas dies, there's no need to worry.
Protip: by most standards, an event of that magnitude would be considered cataclysmic.
25 million people dying would definitely be a Bad Thing (TM), and as funny as the jokes could be, I'm not going to recommend or even hope that everyone in Texas dies, but if you look at it dispassionately, the human species would survive 25 million deaths without much trouble. Over 10 million people died as a result of the events of World War 2, which was about the same percentage of the world population, and we're still here. Using terms like "cataclysmic" when they aren't appropriate results in the term being taken less seriously when it would be appropriate.
As I recall, there were plenty of harmless domains in the.us TLD that got banned because they contained bad words, but only if you read them across words.
It wasn't banned, but probably one of the best examples of unfortunate lack of spaces was expertsexchange.com
Any sufficiently authoritarian government acting in the name of socialism is indistinguishable from an equally authoritarian government acting in the name of capitalism. Trying to eliminate individualism and personal liberty is the mark of authoritarianism, not socialism.
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But really I don't see the difference between diluted Christians/Jews/Muslims/Buddhists/Hinduists and Scientologists.
Well, the "diluted" ones would probably be the ones that read scripture as a combination of historical, if somewhat fanciful or exaggerated, record keeping (it's not like slave rebellions and conquering cities are impossible events, never mind the parts that are just genealogies or long, boring lists of civil laws) and metaphorical stories used to teach moral and ethical lessons. I'd say they're the exact opposite of most Scientologists.
I think the word you may have been looking for is "deluded".
Well, that definitely confirms two things I had always thought. One, these people really are crazy. Two, Hubbard really was a crappy writer.
the artist doesn't make any money directly off a CD... He writes the song
Are you sure we're talking about the same recording industry?
Except anything not in the repository (and there is a shitload) is a serious pain in the ass to install.
Just like Windows, it depends on the provider of the software. I've used a few programs not in the repositories, and all I had to do was download the .deb file and install it.
I use Kubuntu, and I wouldn't call it terrible, but it does suffer from being a second-class citizen to Ubuntu. A lot of the KDE-specific work gets passed over in favor of Gnome-specific work.
The only reason for not customizing or locking down the N900 must be that they don't want to.
When they say "cannot be customised" they may mean that it isn't feasible, not that it isn't possible. Every carrier would probably want something different, which Nokia wouldn't do without charging them a lot of money, and they know (even if the carriers won't acknowledge) that the restrictions would be easily bypassed. Instead of "we can't customize it", it may really be "we can't customize it unless you pay us a lot of money, and you'd be wasting that money because the users will get around it within a week anyway."
How the fuck does a post that consists of incoherent rambling get modded up?
Um, this is Slashdot. You have been here before, right?
1) "Here's a chord. Here are two more. Now form a band."
2) ???
3) Hookers and blow!
That said, I wonder if he'd be any better at designing traffic systems than the idiotic "traffic engineers" we have here in the USA, who insist on setting traffic lights so there's no way to catch all green lights on a main boulevard, and intentionally time them so you have to get caught at every red light.
Go ahead and time all the lights so that you get all greens. Now drive down the road in the opposite direction.
I come from a physics background and most physicists used to, and may still, program in FORTRAN, yet FORTRAN is a terrible programming language.
They use Fortran because the language is designed and optimized to be the best language at what physicists and other physical scientists most often need it do: crunch a whole lot of numbers. I wouldn't use Fortran to make a word processor or web browser, but if you need a program to spend two weeks doing a lot of math, you just can't beat it.
Judging from the construction of his statement*, not Steven Colbert.
The fact that he spelled "Stephen" incorrectly might be a hint, too.
They further said that Chen and his companies had been informed of the activity by Louis Vuitton but still refused to implement a policy for removing the offending sites, which was their responsibility.
So, I'm an ISP, and I host someone who runs a second-hand store. They sell legitimate "Louis Vuitton" crap, but at prices well below retail.
Louis Vuitton "informs" me that the material is counterfeit. I'm supposed to verify this how?
Since when did ISPs become the gatekeeper of what is and isn't legal?
Maybe it depends on exactly how they refused to act. If they simply ignored the notices, then I'd say it's their own fault for getting in trouble. The obviously smart thing to do would be to ask their lawyer about the notices and either agree to remove the illegal sites or respond with an explanation of why they won't remove the sites, plus an addendum with their lawyer's contact information.
Well played, sir.
To be fair, though, that's only a setting that's part of the browser you're installing, where you have to pick an option, and you can change it later. I don't see that as nearly as bad as installing extra useless software, especially shareware that will bug you about purchasing it after 30 days.
Completely Prevent? Your brain is either damaged or it isn't. There really isn't an inbetween there.
I would submit that there's a slight difference between 1) trouble moving your left hand and slurred speech, 2) unable to speak or move anything on the left side of your body, and 3) dead.
The helmet could well be preventing acute injury resulting in death (shrapnel through the skull), but increasing the diffuse brain damage to other parts of the brain. However, the death due to acute injury would make the diffuse injury rate difficult to determine. Preventing death but causing brain damage is clearly an improvement, but it doesn't mean the helmet merely "failed to completely prevent" the brain damage, if the brain damage wouldn't have occurred without it.
Maybe it's just my layman's naivety, but I would think that a sharp piece of metal piercing your skull would qualify as "brain damage".
Zero years? What on earth would someone who doesn't know how to talk, let alone read or write, need a cell phone for?
To help that person learn to read, write and talk.
If a kid is learning to read and write with text messages, you might as well just start them right off with "would you like fries with that?"
I'm with you. My computer science classes only talked about his computer science work, not anything that would be more appropriate in a history class.
The artists, the songwriters... are, after all, the people who create the music.
You haven't listened to much pop music lately, huh?
Does this imply that bullying someone (especially underage or pre-teen childeren), by including but not limited to, claiming that 'The world would be a better place without you', up till the point that they feel so miserable that they commit suicide, is somehow not illegal and cannot be punished by law ?
No, it means that the prosecution was completely incompetent. Drew was charged with unauthorized access to a computer system because she violated the Terms of Service of the web site, which nearly everyone would agree should not be illegal. The case actually had nothing to do with harassment, abuse, or manslaughter.
You know for certain that Rob Malda is rock stable, that he has never once considered suicide, right? That one more fucking douchebag won't push him over the edge with one more idiot insult? And, because you are a professional psychologist, your insult doesn't imply the same responsibility as some redneck bitch in Missouri improperly getting involved in her daughter's love life - or the life of her daughter's peers.
If you can't tell the difference between a one-sentence insult about a person that you don't personally know and a prolonged, methodical plan to inflict mental damage on a 12-year-old girl that you know well enough to be aware of her existing psychological problems, then you have no credibility in this discussion.
The world population is approximately 6.71 billion. A third of a percentage point of that is 25.68 million. The population of Texas is only 24.33 million. Ergo by your reasoning, if everyone in Texas dies, there's no need to worry.
Protip: by most standards, an event of that magnitude would be considered cataclysmic.
25 million people dying would definitely be a Bad Thing (TM), and as funny as the jokes could be, I'm not going to recommend or even hope that everyone in Texas dies, but if you look at it dispassionately, the human species would survive 25 million deaths without much trouble. Over 10 million people died as a result of the events of World War 2, which was about the same percentage of the world population, and we're still here. Using terms like "cataclysmic" when they aren't appropriate results in the term being taken less seriously when it would be appropriate.
As I recall, there were plenty of harmless domains in the .us TLD that got banned because they contained bad words, but only if you read them across words.
It wasn't banned, but probably one of the best examples of unfortunate lack of spaces was expertsexchange.com
Any sufficiently authoritarian government acting in the name of socialism is indistinguishable from an equally authoritarian government acting in the name of capitalism. Trying to eliminate individualism and personal liberty is the mark of authoritarianism, not socialism.
But when these little independent things are bought by big corporations
Fixed that for you.