But then maybe I'm a shill. Or maybe I'm a victim of shills. Or maybe I'm just biased and easily led because I think that GG is thoroughly intellectually dishonest in at least some of the statements that he does put his own name on.
BTW: If you care to read that one through, it culminates with the best smackdown I remember seeing.
To be fair, it was "normal" back then for them to have sex that young. I'm sure 1300 years from now, certain "normal" things that we do today will be looked at as barbaric.
Yeah, it's not like anyone's saying that Mohammad had morality all figured out and we should take him seriously today. Oh, wait...
I think it's reasonable to look at more than the first page of a site before categorically denouncing it.
This is from the "hate site" on the page entitled How We Feel About Muslims.
Islam is an ideology. It is not defined by what any Muslim wants it to be, but rather by what it is. No ideology is above critique, particularly one that explicitly seeks political and social dominance over every person on the planet.
Muslims are individuals. We passionately believe that no Muslim should be harmed, harassed, stereotyped or treated any differently anywhere in the world solely on account of their status as a Muslim.
You said:
Fortunately, most Jews and Christians have learned to disregard a very large part of their own scripture. Stoning a woman to death for adultery is not a Muslim innovation.
The point isn't who invented it, the point is who's still doing it. Jews and Christians don't stone women to death for adultery now.
The fact that this still goes on in non-secular Islamic countries in full compliance with Islamic scripture does make Islam "one really messed up religion".
I've just had a read through http://thereligionofpeace.com/ and I see no justification for calling it "an anti-Muslim hate site". It doesn't advocate hatred of anyone and explicitly makes a distinction between Muslims and Islamic ideology.
Pointing out that the Koran is largely a hateful diatribe targeted at non-believers and women and is the probable source of much suffering is not an act of hatred. It seems more like an act of social responsibility.
Microsoft licensed Java from Sun but then violated the terms of the licence agreement by not implementing Sun's Java Native Interface (JNI) and instead providing a bridge to COM. For that and (I think) the right to borrow lots of ideas from Java for.NET they paid Sun about one billion dollars.
This is different because Google didn't licence Java. They just built something very similar to it.
did you know that murder is actually illegal in many states (particularly in the Bible Belt).
Really, murder is less illegal in states outside the bible belt?
I realise that Christians like to claim that a lot of worthwhile laws are based on their religion but I'm
fairly sure you'll find that theft and murder are (at least ostensibly) illegal everywhere whether Christians had any say in it or not.
It may have something to do that people are universally opposed to being murdered and having their stuff nicked.
I'm also fairly sure that God ordered up a fair bit of genocide, rape and pillage in the old testament so I really doubt the religious basis for those particular laws.
How exactly do you know that the majority of Chinese would like to continue to have their free speech repressed when they don't have the free speech to express the opposing view?
I've used this and it's a doddle to create a standalone webkit browser running your app. You can also embed Ruby or Python or (I think) PHP in your app if you want and there's an online packaging service that packages up your app to install as an.msi for Windows or other formats for Mac and Linux. Also, this is a fully featured Webkit browser with full CSS3 and HTML5. It's not the crippled version supplied with Adobe AIR.
It may also be helpful to know that if you drag a Google Chrome App (which is basically a web page zipped up with some metadata) from the browser to the desktop and then launch it from the desktop, it comes up without any chrome. Well, yes it's still Chrome but there's no... oh stop it, you know what I mean.
You can do something similar with Amazon Web Services and/or Eucalyptus [eucalyptus.com].
No you can't. This is a layer of the stack above AWS or Eucalyptus. In fact those are two of the target platforms for this.
Those two give you an API for creating and destroying Virtual Machine instances. This leverages that ability to provide a scalable deployment stack for your applications. If you want to understand what it's about watch the videos on the site. Alternatively, have a look at http://heroku.com./ It's the same as that but it supports more languages/frameworks and it's open-source.
Don't you think it's strange that he didn't sue the employer that fired him for the established fact rather than the person that brought the fact to light?
I don't understand how, if once the facts were known the employer had no option but to fire him, that it was unfair to publicise the fact.
I read it and got prematurely excited because I thought someone finally had the balls to ignore the anti-nuclear-as-a-religion crowd, and started building a Molten Salt Reactor.
Then I read the article and found out it's just a new take on boring old solar. Oh well.... one day...
I realise that their are people who would reject nuclear even if it were proven safer than the alternatives but you hardly sound any more rational. Are you only interested in sources of energy if they are nuclear?
The real question is how do we use this green renewable source of energy to create petrochemicals so that we don't have to change our current habits in any way.
Do you want petrochemicals or do you want something to power your car? For the latter, hydrogen seems to be a popular choice.
27 billion divided by the population of 22.45 million is $1200 per PERSON not per household. So in our home - 2 adults and 2 kids that's $4800. I will be paying $480 a year for 10 years in addition tax as will all Australians.
Not really. C# is the cleanest language I've ever coded in. It's the libraries that are fucked up: the.NET base libraries are basically the managed versions of the Win32 platform.
You assume the GP has it. He doesn't, for instance, if the person he loves is a minor, an octopi or his own sister.
And before you reply "but that'd be disgusting!" be aware that the same can be (and has been) said of homosexuality as well.
The problem with having sex with a child is that it damages that person. It's disturbing that your morality is so removed from the concept of people's well-being that you thought that pedophilia was merely distasteful.
What's stopping Adobe from porting Flash to iPhone, iPad, iPod?
My understanding is that what's stopping Adobe from porting Flash to the iphone is that Apple don't approve apps for the App Store that implement an interpreter. Flash would not be approved and therefore couldn't be distributed.
I thought the same from the summary. What is morally wrong that doesn't cause harm? But having read the article, I think that the distinction was between actions that caused harm and actions intended to cause harm:
"The confusion in the brain made it harder for subjects to interpret the boyfriend's intent, said Young, and instead made the subjects focus solely on the situation's outcome."
Wow, that's balanced. FP gets 5 interesting for remarking that they don't use PayPal without bothering to specify why.
GP says he supports PayPal's decision because they're a private entity and his comment gets modded as a troll and further down the thread insulted (which is modded 2:insightful).
No, I'm not new here but this kind of blatant bias really does nobody any favours and can hardly be called moderation.
So I'm wondering, Mr Moderator, will you mod me up if I say FUCK YOU too.
That's brilliant!! It placates those few that are worried about getting their personal data out of Google whilst the majority leave theirs in there.
Correct me if I'm wrong (you will won't you?) but that is the only Google product/help page that doesn't look like a page from Google. Everything about it spells hippy, commie, open-source weirdo. Not the kind of site that a respectable cubicle dweller should be on.
It's genius. Provide a help page that mainstream users will be scared of. Hats off.
From Google's point of view, it doesn't matter if individual users have access to their own data. As long as they're the only ones with access to everyone's data.
Not just Japanese. I meet a reasonable number of people from Hong Kong, China & Taiwan. Yahoo! is clearly preferred in these countries too.
I think that it's to do with instant messaging. Once your friends have one thing, you tend to go with that as well. Yahoo must have focused on that part of the world first.
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But then maybe I'm a shill. Or maybe I'm a victim of shills. Or maybe I'm just biased and easily led because I think that GG is thoroughly intellectually dishonest in at least some of the statements that he does put his own name on.
BTW: If you care to read that one through, it culminates with the best smackdown I remember seeing.
To be fair, it was "normal" back then for them to have sex that young. I'm sure 1300 years from now, certain "normal" things that we do today will be looked at as barbaric.
Yeah, it's not like anyone's saying that Mohammad had morality all figured out and we should take him seriously today. Oh, wait...
Islam is an ideology. It is not defined by what any Muslim wants it to be, but rather by what it is. No ideology is above critique, particularly one that explicitly seeks political and social dominance over every person on the planet.
Muslims are individuals. We passionately believe that no Muslim should be harmed, harassed, stereotyped or treated any differently anywhere in the world solely on account of their status as a Muslim.
You said:
Fortunately, most Jews and Christians have learned to disregard a very large part of their own scripture. Stoning a woman to death for adultery is not a Muslim innovation.
The point isn't who invented it, the point is who's still doing it. Jews and Christians don't stone women to death for adultery now.
The fact that this still goes on in non-secular Islamic countries in full compliance with Islamic scripture does make Islam "one really messed up religion".
I've just had a read through http://thereligionofpeace.com/ and I see no justification for calling it "an anti-Muslim hate site". It doesn't advocate hatred of anyone and explicitly makes a distinction between Muslims and Islamic ideology.
Pointing out that the Koran is largely a hateful diatribe targeted at non-believers and women and is the probable source of much suffering is not an act of hatred. It seems more like an act of social responsibility.
Microsoft licensed Java from Sun but then violated the terms of the licence agreement by not implementing Sun's Java Native Interface (JNI) and instead providing a bridge to COM. For that and (I think) the right to borrow lots of ideas from Java for .NET they paid Sun about one billion dollars.
This is different because Google didn't licence Java. They just built something very similar to it.
did you know that murder is actually illegal in many states (particularly in the Bible Belt).
Really, murder is less illegal in states outside the bible belt?
I realise that Christians like to claim that a lot of worthwhile laws are based on their religion but I'm fairly sure you'll find that theft and murder are (at least ostensibly) illegal everywhere whether Christians had any say in it or not.
It may have something to do that people are universally opposed to being murdered and having their stuff nicked.
I'm also fairly sure that God ordered up a fair bit of genocide, rape and pillage in the old testament so I really doubt the religious basis for those particular laws.
How exactly do you know that the majority of Chinese would like to continue to have their free speech repressed when they don't have the free speech to express the opposing view?
I think you just invented a word! "Monority" n: A minority of one.
One solution would be to use Appcelerator Titanium: http://appcelerator.com./
I've used this and it's a doddle to create a standalone webkit browser running your app. You can also embed Ruby or Python or (I think) PHP in your app if you want and there's an online packaging service that packages up your app to install as an .msi for Windows or other formats for Mac and Linux. Also, this is a fully featured Webkit browser with full CSS3 and HTML5. It's not the crippled version supplied with Adobe AIR.
It may also be helpful to know that if you drag a Google Chrome App (which is basically a web page zipped up with some metadata) from the browser to the desktop and then launch it from the desktop, it comes up without any chrome. Well, yes it's still Chrome but there's no... oh stop it, you know what I mean.
Oh, so you have the Imperial system in case aliens land. It's so obvious now that you say it.
You can do something similar with Amazon Web Services and/or Eucalyptus [eucalyptus.com].
No you can't. This is a layer of the stack above AWS or Eucalyptus. In fact those are two of the target platforms for this.
Those two give you an API for creating and destroying Virtual Machine instances. This leverages that ability to provide a scalable deployment stack for your applications. If you want to understand what it's about watch the videos on the site. Alternatively, have a look at http://heroku.com./ It's the same as that but it supports more languages/frameworks and it's open-source.
Don't you think it's strange that he didn't sue the employer that fired him for the established fact rather than the person that brought the fact to light? I don't understand how, if once the facts were known the employer had no option but to fire him, that it was unfair to publicise the fact.
How did you measure those numbers? It would be tremendously useful to me to be able do the same.
On my Android phone it's Settings | About Phone | Battery Use
I read it and got prematurely excited because I thought someone finally had the balls to ignore the anti-nuclear-as-a-religion crowd, and started building a Molten Salt Reactor. Then I read the article and found out it's just a new take on boring old solar. Oh well.... one day...
I realise that their are people who would reject nuclear even if it were proven safer than the alternatives but you hardly sound any more rational. Are you only interested in sources of energy if they are nuclear?
The real question is how do we use this green renewable source of energy to create petrochemicals so that we don't have to change our current habits in any way.
Do you want petrochemicals or do you want something to power your car? For the latter, hydrogen seems to be a popular choice.
27 billion divided by the population of 22.45 million is $1200 per PERSON not per household. So in our home - 2 adults and 2 kids that's $4800. I will be paying $480 a year for 10 years in addition tax as will all Australians.
And you'll be paying $24.7 billion / 22.45 million * 4 = $4400 every year in tangible costs associated with alcohol abuse.
I know which I'd prefer to see cut.
...and adopt the metric system.
Not really. C# is the cleanest language I've ever coded in. It's the libraries that are fucked up: the .NET base libraries are basically the managed versions of the Win32 platform.
Do we assume that you are hip? You didn't say.
You assume the GP has it. He doesn't, for instance, if the person he loves is a minor, an octopi or his own sister.
And before you reply "but that'd be disgusting!" be aware that the same can be (and has been) said of homosexuality as well.
The problem with having sex with a child is that it damages that person. It's disturbing that your morality is so removed from the concept of people's well-being that you thought that pedophilia was merely distasteful.
Then just pay $20 and only download 25% of each game.
What's stopping Adobe from porting Flash to iPhone, iPad, iPod?
My understanding is that what's stopping Adobe from porting Flash to the iphone is that Apple don't approve apps for the App Store that implement an interpreter. Flash would not be approved and therefore couldn't be distributed.
I thought the same from the summary. What is morally wrong that doesn't cause harm? But having read the article, I think that the distinction was between actions that caused harm and actions intended to cause harm:
"The confusion in the brain made it harder for subjects to interpret the boyfriend's intent, said Young, and instead made the subjects focus solely on the situation's outcome."
Wow, that's balanced. FP gets 5 interesting for remarking that they don't use PayPal without bothering to specify why.
GP says he supports PayPal's decision because they're a private entity and his comment gets modded as a troll and further down the thread insulted (which is modded 2:insightful).
No, I'm not new here but this kind of blatant bias really does nobody any favours and can hardly be called moderation.
So I'm wondering, Mr Moderator, will you mod me up if I say FUCK YOU too.
That's brilliant!! It placates those few that are worried about getting their personal data out of Google whilst the majority leave theirs in there.
Correct me if I'm wrong (you will won't you?) but that is the only Google product/help page that doesn't look like a page from Google. Everything about it spells hippy, commie, open-source weirdo. Not the kind of site that a respectable cubicle dweller should be on.
It's genius. Provide a help page that mainstream users will be scared of. Hats off.
From Google's point of view, it doesn't matter if individual users have access to their own data. As long as they're the only ones with access to everyone's data.
Not just Japanese. I meet a reasonable number of people from Hong Kong, China & Taiwan. Yahoo! is clearly preferred in these countries too.
I think that it's to do with instant messaging. Once your friends have one thing, you tend to go with that as well. Yahoo must have focused on that part of the world first.