Comment Re:The modern world sucks. (Score 1) 85
Don't you know, stuff I want wants to be free!!
Don't you know, stuff I want wants to be free!!
Or maybe he has, and thought that was the world he wants to live in?
It's certainly sad to see that Asians dominate the good universities in the US, while so many US born talent cannot afford a good education.
How you know the Asians aren't US born? The Chinese started arriving in 1800s. The Vietnamese in the 1980s. Not sure when the Japanese arrived, but considered the Americans interned quite a few during WW2, they had to arrive prior to that.
And iPads will be cheaper than a bushel of wheat, even if they are a bit crunchy
Why would it? They're barely able to meet demand for iPads at the current price point, why would they make it cheaper?
If you ask some people if something is right or wrong they will reply that it depends on the situation and other factors. The idea that things can be just plain wrong in all cases is seen by some in society as outmoded and not keeping up with the times.
So, do you know what's wrong and right? What does your Bible say about slavery? Letting women talk in a gathering? How about wearing clothes that are mixed with wool and linen? How about sending your wife and daughter out to get raped and killed?
And before you say the NT invalidates OT, remember Jesus said: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew 5:17.)
"morally reprehensible (like socialism)."
What's morally reprehensible about socialism?
Well, you know, kids sharing toys instead of charging for their use. Next thing you know, they'll smoke dope and listen to rap. All because their teachers want them to behave and share their toys...
Of course you are correct, and the Bible itself mentions wisdom as a thing to be desired in a number of passages. People who believe in God and that God created the world could only please God by trying to learn more about the world.
The bible also teach that God kicked Adam and Eve out of Paradise for eating from the tree of knowledge. Apparently, He doesn't like us to get too knowledgeable. Seems like the Christian Fundamentalists got it right...
My statement was more about the fact that a political party has youth camps on an isolated island. Seems shady.
Why? All the political parties in Norway have a youth branch that do summer camps. Norway is filled with islands. This particular island has been the summer camp place for the Labour party at least since the 80s (current Prime Minister went to summer camp there in his youth).
I visited the US last year for two weeks (and going back this summer for three weeks), and I say, don't bother. You won't be using the phone as much as you think. If you are disciplined.
I try not to use my phone browsing unless I was on a wireless, which meant at the hotel or other hotspots. Fine, so sms cost $0.75, but I didn't send that many messages anyway (send email while at the hotel where you are going to meet your friends, then one sms if they were late). Probably didn't send more than 10 during my stay last year. Only thing was the map, maybe. But I got a Nokia, which meant I just pre-downloaded the map when I was on the wireless, and then tried to only use gps (no gsm). Not sure if iPhone has something similar.
'may have been' another piece of MS-sponsored FUD?
Of course, since everybody here knows Linux systems do not get attacked
don't all those companies that Amazon competes against elso provides jobs to workers who "in turn pay income taxes and sales taxes (when they purchase goods and services) which pay for the roads and infrastructure"?
It's the new math, previously put forth by Sun when they started calling Java 1.2 "Java 2".
They got the idea from GNU and Emacs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
Electricity wants to be free!
iPhones contain the long/lat of the place where the picture was taken. That's a little bit more than "letters have post marks and tell what town the sender lives in!".
Letters usually have the sender's address.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.