I think you need to look at it from a different perspective. Even the events which seem inhuman and horrible at the time of occurrence do change the world. Consider an extreme example like wars. They push technological advancement harder than any any peaceful research project can ever could. As regrettable as the senseless deaths of people in a war is, it does pushes thing forward in a way. I will probably lose some karma for the next example but do you know that the data collected from the inhuman experiments conducted by Nazis on Jews help the scientific world to this day? That is not saying they were not horrible or that we should do more things like that, but judging advancement from the 'horrifying factor' or 'humane factor' of an event/action will only get you so far.
Are you nuts? Its a win-win situation! If people don't follow that stupid advice then its a win for the free speech people. On the other hand, if Chinese Government really has its way and people start screwing everyone over for legit/non-legit reasons then soon the Chinese Myspace will be as popular as an underground pet cemetery. Then ofcourse the US Government do a Keanu Reeves and go "Woah! I bet we can do it better". Then the big brother minions will start going through the MySpace pages one after another and after a couple of days either go blind or crazy, or both.
Thanks for the link. I will give it a shot once I get some free time.
About the problems you mentioned, I can't comment on them as anything I say about them right now will be mere conjectures and speculations.
If you are worried about the IP logging, try riding your griffon over the the mist shrouded lands of Silmarion. On the crystal mountains there is a glass cave hidden behind a huge waterfall. When you go inside and say "Chire, Senbonzakura kageyoshi" you will get an old parchment containing a list of proxies, with a link to Tor in bold. FUCKING USE IT.
Well if someone was being prosecuted for searching for goatse then we have a much serious problem on our hands than the privacy concerns about google data centres.
I don't know about Camfrog(and you did not provide a link + I am feeling lazy) but if its really as good as you say it is then I am glad they did not buy it. The more the number of competent players in a field, the greater the chances that everyone tries to improve their application as much and as quickly as possible.
I agree with you about this being just a sentence but I was merely contesting parent's argument that this sentence is the same as saying "Cheetahs were born to run". I never said that the religions have actually used that sentence in the context of one interpretation or the other. I just gave the reasons why I think that, if used, that particular sentence can not be used for the other interpretation (as argued by parent). Unless you found my reasons faulty, we don't have a disagreement there.
There is a difference between the two examples. "Cheetahs are born to run" is a compliment. It doesn't mean that running was the some purpose they were born for. Saying something like "Cheetahs have evolved really well to run at great speeds" will be more accurate as its unambiguous about what it means, but some people may have a fit over the word 'evolved'.
Now, saying "Humans were born to worship God" has no other meaning except that they were born for the purpose of worshiping God. Is it the most natural thing for the humans to do? No, that would be a combination of breathing, eating, drinking, shitting, sleeping and having sex. Is it that they are really great at this "worship" skill? Hardly. They are much better at killing each other. If humans were to try to live not worshiping some entity, would it be a shame for the humans? Not at all. It would only be a shame for most of the religious heads because they will actually have to work for a living then.
Trying to understand and sometimes defending the 'other' point of view is nice and laudable, but when you try to make sense out of something inherently misleading then you are doing no better than those people who try to justify the argument that a boat contained a pair each from all the species of animals in the world, or that the world is resting on top of a giant turtle.
Yeah I totally agree. I too have a couple of old 200 gig HDDs which I have converted into USB drives using a couple of dirt cheap USB containers. I can't tell you how much it helps when you have that much mobile storage, be it for your music, critical softwares or movies, or the work related stuff you may want to spend some time on at home, or something you may want to show at an interview.
I was agreeing with you before your post went crazy like Tarantino midway through 'From Dusk till Dawn'.
Human's in their everlasting quest for knowledge and other 'enrichment' seems to be consistent in messing things up that work perfectly and make it a dangerous object. It happens at home when the man of the house thinks he can fix his own brakes and then seems to be messing around with it for several hours to the collection of us sentient beings messing up all types of natural systems including our own food and other supply chains (water, air,...)
Do you mean to say everything was perfect before humans started tinkering with things trying to understand how they work? As much as I am a pro-nature guy, I hate when people try to paint humans as the root of each and every problem and something which was thrown right in the center of this nature circus from some Alien world. We are a product and one of many parts of this very natural system, and through us its the system which is trying to understand itself.
Its ironic how you gave that example of a man trying to fix the brakes on his own, if it was not for people like him we would still be swinging from tree to tree. Not a bad life except that you wouldn't have the option of complaining about it on some internet forum.
The Indian police asked for information about some account holders which it suspected of doing something illegal and Google co-operated. I think I have read about similar stuff before. What was it? Right, MPAA and RIAA asking ISPs to turn over account info and traffic logs for IPs it suspected of "distributing" copyrighted content. Personally I would have preferred that the facade of anonymity was maintained in both the cases but when most of the people have started treating ISPs fully cooperating with RIAA and MPAA as totally normal and justified then why all the excitement over information being provided to Police?
Use NOD32. Its as good as(if not better than) Kaspersky. I have been using Kaspersky for more than two years now and it is great but it does have the problem of slowing things down a bit (definitely not even close to what norton does to your system though) because it starts scanning each and everything which is being installed/downloaded/changed/deleted/renamed etc. I have tried NOD32 on the system at work and it works great. Planning to switch the one at home to NOD32 too.
I agree. Its kinda cool and all but doesn't have the charm of real easter eggs. Now the great easter eggs would have been soemthing like:
1. Type 'nerds' and it opens slashdot, digg, and theregister in tabs.
2. Type 'mafia' and it opens RIAA and MPAA sites in tabs.
3. Type 'sux' and it opens microsoft website.
4. Type 'spam' and it opens hotmail.
5. Type 'pr0n' and it turns off the pop-up bocker, opens 20 pr0n sites and an online catalog of kleenex in tabs.
6. Type 'loser' and it opens ascii porn sites.
7. Type 'kawaii' and it opens aninewnewsnetwork and anime sections of isohunt,piratebay and torrentleech in tabs.
7. Type 'needalife' and it opens startrek and trekkipr0n sites.
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I think you need to look at it from a different perspective. Even the events which seem inhuman and horrible at the time of occurrence do change the world. Consider an extreme example like wars. They push technological advancement harder than any any peaceful research project can ever could. As regrettable as the senseless deaths of people in a war is, it does pushes thing forward in a way. I will probably lose some karma for the next example but do you know that the data collected from the inhuman experiments conducted by Nazis on Jews help the scientific world to this day? That is not saying they were not horrible or that we should do more things like that, but judging advancement from the 'horrifying factor' or 'humane factor' of an event/action will only get you so far.
Are you nuts? Its a win-win situation! If people don't follow that stupid advice then its a win for the free speech people. On the other hand, if Chinese Government really has its way and people start screwing everyone over for legit/non-legit reasons then soon the Chinese Myspace will be as popular as an underground pet cemetery. Then ofcourse the US Government do a Keanu Reeves and go "Woah! I bet we can do it better". Then the big brother minions will start going through the MySpace pages one after another and after a couple of days either go blind or crazy, or both.
MySpace ftw!
Two Somalian kids died after reading that poetry.
Thanks for the link. I will give it a shot once I get some free time.
About the problems you mentioned, I can't comment on them as anything I say about them right now will be mere conjectures and speculations.
If you are worried about the IP logging, try riding your griffon over the the mist shrouded lands of Silmarion. On the crystal mountains there is a glass cave hidden behind a huge waterfall. When you go inside and say "Chire, Senbonzakura kageyoshi" you will get an old parchment containing a list of proxies, with a link to Tor in bold. FUCKING USE IT.
Well if someone was being prosecuted for searching for goatse then we have a much serious problem on our hands than the privacy concerns about google data centres.
I don't know about Camfrog(and you did not provide a link + I am feeling lazy) but if its really as good as you say it is then I am glad they did not buy it. The more the number of competent players in a field, the greater the chances that everyone tries to improve their application as much and as quickly as possible.
I agree with you about this being just a sentence but I was merely contesting parent's argument that this sentence is the same as saying "Cheetahs were born to run". I never said that the religions have actually used that sentence in the context of one interpretation or the other. I just gave the reasons why I think that, if used, that particular sentence can not be used for the other interpretation (as argued by parent). Unless you found my reasons faulty, we don't have a disagreement there.
There is a difference between the two examples. "Cheetahs are born to run" is a compliment. It doesn't mean that running was the some purpose they were born for. Saying something like "Cheetahs have evolved really well to run at great speeds" will be more accurate as its unambiguous about what it means, but some people may have a fit over the word 'evolved'.
Now, saying "Humans were born to worship God" has no other meaning except that they were born for the purpose of worshiping God. Is it the most natural thing for the humans to do? No, that would be a combination of breathing, eating, drinking, shitting, sleeping and having sex. Is it that they are really great at this "worship" skill? Hardly. They are much better at killing each other. If humans were to try to live not worshiping some entity, would it be a shame for the humans? Not at all. It would only be a shame for most of the religious heads because they will actually have to work for a living then.
Trying to understand and sometimes defending the 'other' point of view is nice and laudable, but when you try to make sense out of something inherently misleading then you are doing no better than those people who try to justify the argument that a boat contained a pair each from all the species of animals in the world, or that the world is resting on top of a giant turtle.
Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia seem to have exchanged front pages. Nice move.
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What would be funny if this story was correct for a change. Then we will win and you will lose, We will point and laugh and You will cry!
Yeah I need some coffee now.
+1 Informative.
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A post about getting high class escorts instead of cheap hookers because they have shaved pussy and do anal. Only on Slashdot.
Er..actually disregard all this, do you have any tips how to contact the good agencies. You got me all interested now.
Yeah I totally agree. I too have a couple of old 200 gig HDDs which I have converted into USB drives using a couple of dirt cheap USB containers. I can't tell you how much it helps when you have that much mobile storage, be it for your music, critical softwares or movies, or the work related stuff you may want to spend some time on at home, or something you may want to show at an interview.
This is a reply to your post.
Its ironic how you gave that example of a man trying to fix the brakes on his own, if it was not for people like him we would still be swinging from tree to tree. Not a bad life except that you wouldn't have the option of complaining about it on some internet forum.
Yeah but you two have to stand like next to each other and set the angles correctly before start peeing. Not that easy I tell ya.
What good will that do? Most of the slashdotters won't know a pussy if it came and bit them in the face. They read 'Great Cat' and yell "Battle Cat!".
The Indian police asked for information about some account holders which it suspected of doing something illegal and Google co-operated. I think I have read about similar stuff before. What was it? Right, MPAA and RIAA asking ISPs to turn over account info and traffic logs for IPs it suspected of "distributing" copyrighted content. Personally I would have preferred that the facade of anonymity was maintained in both the cases but when most of the people have started treating ISPs fully cooperating with RIAA and MPAA as totally normal and justified then why all the excitement over information being provided to Police?
Use NOD32. Its as good as(if not better than) Kaspersky. I have been using Kaspersky for more than two years now and it is great but it does have the problem of slowing things down a bit (definitely not even close to what norton does to your system though) because it starts scanning each and everything which is being installed/downloaded/changed/deleted/renamed etc. I have tried NOD32 on the system at work and it works great. Planning to switch the one at home to NOD32 too.
Yeah now they finally did it. They killed my fuckin' car.
I agree. Its kinda cool and all but doesn't have the charm of real easter eggs. Now the great easter eggs would have been soemthing like:
.
1. Type 'nerds' and it opens slashdot, digg, and theregister in tabs.
2. Type 'mafia' and it opens RIAA and MPAA sites in tabs.
3. Type 'sux' and it opens microsoft website.
4. Type 'spam' and it opens hotmail.
5. Type 'pr0n' and it turns off the pop-up bocker, opens 20 pr0n sites and an online catalog of kleenex in tabs
6. Type 'loser' and it opens ascii porn sites.
7. Type 'kawaii' and it opens aninewnewsnetwork and anime sections of isohunt,piratebay and torrentleech in tabs.
7. Type 'needalife' and it opens startrek and trekkipr0n sites.