For people who can't handle God.

There are no virgins in Paradise. There is no literal "Treasure stored up in Heaven". There is no literal "Heaven".
Who cares about any of these things? They indicate a preoccupation with self-interest.

The manifestation of divine presence is something to overwhelm and drown every other thought, wish, perception and awareness.

Our very sense of ridiculous fables like "Islam" or "Christianity" will be less than meaningless. Their only use on this earth is to prevent totally corrupting the ability to respond to grace. They do not themselves confer grace, nor can grace be attracted through merit. Through those theological distortions God is a merchant, or a whore. But Love comes to us from God because it is mercy, not recompense.

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Every time a patent gets invalidated ... a developer gets their wings. :-P

There may be some things which truly are inventions, but so many software patents come down to "a system and methodology for doing something which has been done in the real world for decades, but on a computer". And then someone comes along and patents the exact same thing on a tablet. And on a cell phone. And soon, on an iWatch.

There's no net-new invention, just an implementation of something which has been seen before.

Fixed. :-)

Forgot how /. tag for URL differs from A HREF

Since HP is apparently paying every tech news site include Slashdot not to mention their recent court ruling, I'll just leave this here:

Dude, what are you talking about?

It was on the frigging front page this morning, ZDNet, and a bunch of other places have covered it.

If you're gonna claim some kind of conspiracy theory, at least go with one that's plausible.

Maybe he can show HP how to do URLs instead of the gibberish ones they've been using for years.

Because I get the distinct impression that the URLs like "http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdHome?sp4ts.oid=3988164&ac.admitted=1410546638124.876444892.492883150" are caused by HP not really knowing how to do it.

Seriously, what the heck is h20565.www2????

Either this is a technology failure, or HP has been trying very hard to ensure that nobody could possibly find their documentation.

There's a strong chance these people are staffing a call centre that is hired by the true scammers and are following a script

Have you heard these calls before? Have you seen transcripts?

There is no conceivable way you could be doing that scam without knowing you're lying. They're asking for access to your computer, and showing you stuff they'd be able to see on their own computer. If any of these people believe they're doing magical cold-call tech support, they're so incredibly stupid as to deserve contempt.

There are some things, like the idiots I get calling to clean my ducts, who could possibly not know it's purely a scam ... but I still have no sympathy for them. I don't have sympathy for so called "legitimate" cold callers either -- because I've had several charities who despite being told to stop calling simply call back the next day.

For the people doing this specific computer tech support scam, by the time someone has taught you how to do it, you can't not know it's a scam.

Call me a cynic, but wouldn't nature of done

Call me a cynic, but shouldn't you have learned the difference between "of" and "have" by now?

The contraction " 've" (should've) is not the same as "of", and never has been.

*sigh* My grade school English teacher would be laughing at me right now. Now get off my damned lawn!!

OK, fair enough ... it's not charity though, and it's not an investment.

It's, what ... a no-strings attached one time gift with no expectation of return other than you'd like to see the idea come to fruition?

It has to be something more than "give me some free money". Yes, you may not make an ROI on it. But there has to be some controls on it.

Because other wise it would become a cesspool of people with stupid ideas they'll never implement to see if some idiot will throw money their way.

Because if you didn't have to show you'd done anything, people would just say "give me a zillion dollars to make something awesome", and then simply not make anything.

It's not charity, it's an investment. And if you have nothing to invest in, you get no money.

Is the expectation people should just get free money from Kick Starter because they can craft a couple of good paragraphs? Because, if so, I know where I'd be heading.

Having a prototype at least (in theory) demonstrates you've actually got something real and the ability to deliver on it.

So, yeah, no prototype == no money sounds reasonable, unless you want to have a separate section for things which are entirely vaporware but otherwise sound cool.

But who the hell is going to hand over huge sums of money to someone who hasn't yet done anything?

You're using a western mindset.

He's some impoverished guy in India desperate to make a few rupees from someone who, in his eyes, is very wealthy.

Well, that's NMFP ... he knows damned well that what he's doing is illegal, and would have no sympathy for me if I fell victim. He is certainly aware of the fact that he's not offering me a useful service. You couldn't possibly train someone to do that scam without explaining it to them.

So, he may well have convinced himself that there's no harm if he scams us a little.

But, I don't actually give a crap about his feelings.

If what he's doing is so noble and justified, call someone in India, see if they are interested.

From me, he gets a big "fuck off".

If he's expecting me to say "oh, gee, the poor cute little Indian is just trying to make a buck", he's sadly mistaken, and should expect the kind of animosity he gets.

I'm not sure. https://www.donotcall.gov/ [donotcall.gov] (620)867-5309

Well played.

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