Comment Re:why is this on slashdot (Score 1) 613
This is *the* stupidest thing I've ever read on Slashdot.
You must be new here. What sites were you reading yesterday before you stumbled into slashdot for the first time?
This is *the* stupidest thing I've ever read on Slashdot.
You must be new here. What sites were you reading yesterday before you stumbled into slashdot for the first time?
When proper faith in the Almighty is replaced by a belief in the state, e.g. Al Gore:
That is a bit of an oversimplification, there.
For one, Al Gore is still a Baptist.
More to the point, however, his quote that you love to bring up
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.
Is referring not to individuals but to the shared human condition. He is saying that laws can be made that improve upon humanity. We have seen in times past what happens when laws are discarded in the interest of profit acceleration, he is saying we can do better by instead implementing laws that are interested in improving the situation for all people. He isn't saying that we can take a wicked person and make them righteous or anything to that extreme but rather that we can make a better world for all people through conscientious governance.
But this is only a distilled expression of the lousy theology exhibited in the Second Bill of Rights
You like to talk about that as if it matters. The Second Bill of Rights is not even marginally close to being as important in relation to current government as the "Axis of Evil" speech, yet you talk about the former all the time and the latter pretty well never.
Managed liberty is not liberty
So then why do you insist on trying to manage it? Just because you want to sell it doesn't mean you aren't managing it.
Progressivism/Statism/Socialism
Well, the last of the list you have repeatedly demonstrated no functioning understanding of. The first of the list you throw around as a universal label for things you don't like. How is the second related to the first and last? I doubt you will respond to that question.
"extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs
It's not Firefox and that's not extreme. I was just doing some Javascript profiling this weekend on slow performance with 1630 tabs (Tree Style Tabs, of course), with the winners for CPU eaters being HTTPS Everywhere 4.0's SSLObservatory and SessionRestore.
As much as I appreciate the EFF's efforts, I wound up disabling 4.0. Maybe 4.0.1 will be back with a vengeance.
Anyway, Firefox wasn't crashing, it was slow. Probably one of your in-profile databases got corrupted at some point ('restore from backup' is the most likely "fix"). I'm on Fedora 20, running stock Firefox.
It's a decline in general well being. A "malaise" that is on the increase, if you will.
Thebes is in decline because OediPOTUS is a M'F'er.
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.
But this is only a distilled expression of the lousy theology exhibited in the Second Bill of Rights. Managed liberty is not liberty; Progressivism/Statism/Socialism (you have to understand that these greased pigs resist all labels) is but an ersatz substitute for the real thing, and must be rejected.
Corrected. Thanks for noticing.
I think you meant "rich people." Every Democrat I know works for a living or is retired after a lifetime of work.
I appreciate the atheist rant, and I think you'd be surprised to find most Catholics share in it. Including the Pope. oh, not the God doesn't exist bullshit, but especially the Jesus showing up in Church (which he does every day for Catholics) stuff, which most Protestants would be incredibly shocked by if they understood it.
There are plenty of records that he existed, perhaps you haven't looked hard enough?
It's free and pretty powerful.
It's only free if you're OK with 720p output, limited input, and not being able to move your source material to a different editor. The latter is actually the bigger risk because if Lightworks goes away (let's hope not) there'd be no way to buy the 'pro' version and get your data exported.
Otherwise it's $279 or you're on a subscription plan. It's probably still the best choice available, but be aware you don't just go buy a GoPro or a Nikon and plan on dazzling folks with the HD output with free Lightworks. From what I've seen, even iMovie parity on Linux costs $79/yr.
Even if you're very frugal and can use Free, it's probably smart to buy a month once in a while and export your projects.
Umm driverless cars are definetly something that we should do. Humans frankly suck at driving and countless lives could be saved if human drivers were replaced with more reliable machines.
Actually, the number of fatalities isn't countless.
Just gonna leave this here.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?