You're not really letting me.

Yes I do. Because "things like that" are also a lot of garbage concerning a ficticious entity. If the sentence had been purely "love thy neighbor - next chapter", I would be fine with it. All the dogma surrounding it is what is causing us problems in the first place.

That is what you said (after having invoked both Hitler and Mohammed in the same post). My fundamental problem with this is wanting to be guided by a static text rather than interaction with your fellow humans. Problems arise when you choose to do that, people start believing that "the next life" is better, and waste the one they have here. What the sentence is actually saying is "As long as your ruling priesthood does not want you to do anything else, you can be good to your neighbor", and that is a major gaping loophole - before you know it you have a crusade on your hands. Fresh examples abound in current news.

That it spends more space dealing with a ficticious entity than with the actual true value of the sentence - to love your neighbor. Basically what I have been saying, just without this major concern for pleasing something a bunch of tribesmen invented thousands of years ago. Religion is like civilization's first stage booster rocket, it's spent and it's time to jettison the dead weight.

To be fair you need lead in order to start making gold from it. Baby steps!

Hands carry weapons, hands are weapons --- we should outlaw the use of hands. There is a line, and I think they chose a pretty good starting point for their line with this.

Oh that is just not right. And here I thought my boss was a moron for suggesting that adding an if-then-else was too complex a solution, he would like 2 separate methods instead. I bow my head in sympathy, having been trumped - you played the ace of idiots.

Well that is what happens when you put religious nut-jobs into power, history teaches us this. What we really don't know anything about yet is wether an educated population would elect to do things differently, my bet is that it would. It is for certain though, that religion and capitalism is not the answer - both dogmas have tried and failed, we now have more devastating wars than ever, for the exact same stupid reasons as always.

Congratulations on invoking Hitler in a thread, how massively inappropriate. Hitler never was elected with a majority, in fact his government was never a majority in parlaiment at all. I'll let you Google it out what happened - you'd be surprised when you learn the answer (spoiler: it involves thugs and vicious beatings).

Bear in mind i said educated population. Support for a regime built on any religious text does not qualify as educated.

Quoting someone, anyone, does not lend their words nor yours any more credibility. If you cannot argue an idea on it's merit alone, shut up. If you cannot apply the scientific method to a statement of fact, it is worthless. End.

And a really low barrier of entry into the market. All it takes is a carefully worded email and a public search on people to send it to, and you're good. You don't need to worry about court fees or anything, since you plan on dropping the case before any papers are filed.

Technically the target audience would be the people sending the pictures, the ones receiving would be a secondary audience - and only use the program because the primary audience is sending naked tits to them via it. Akin to why many people around here, allegedly, use Facebook, because other people use it and they wish to participate. /nitpick_off

But this is by far not the first time I've heard of it, although I wouldn't have been able to name it by name, I knew of chat apps for phones that tried to implement a kind of DRM scheme for sexting. A dead end, but people seemed to have bought it nonetheless.

Dark energy - a term coined to hide the fact that "we don't know". Dark energy seems to be accelerating the expansion after a period of deceleration, this is baffling but fits observational results. The theory is that gravity used to slow the expansion down, but apparently we passed a cut-off point where space has become stretched enough so that gravity is too weak - another force is taking over and stretching space again. A force with no obvious cause, not to us at least.

Certainly not a 2000 thousand year old book, written by a bunch of dubious people as a tool for governing a population that was uneducated. Since we do live in a democracy (most of us that participate here), the answer is blindingly obvious - the people. Not your God, not a politician, judge or other subset of people, but the people.

That we have these laws and loopholes in them to begin with should be your first clue that democracy has been raped brutally by capitalism and greed. Steering the choice of how and why back to the people, an educated population, will fix many, if not all, of these issues. And formally killing the notion of "the American dream" might help a lot too. This is a dream created and maintained by the wealthy few, to make it seem like anybody has a chance of also becoming like them - to give the "masses" a goal to strive for. In reality society has no need to strive for individual wealth, as shown by revisions to Adam Smith's theories, we get much better results when we think of the group before ourselves.

Lorentz transformation and Einstein's theories govern motion in space. Space itself can expand at much greater velocities than c. The Observable Universe is something like ~80 billion LY across (today), but the objects furthest from us are ~14 billion LY away (when they emitted the light). If space could not expand faster than c, it would only be ~14 billion LY across today. Look up inflation if you're genuinely interested.

There are no jobs created doing this, except for a few clerks maybe, that is the whole fucking point. The only reason they have an office in Ireland is because of the tax cut it yields. Where the people are ACTUALLY employed, the tax is not being paid - this means that the society who lends Apple (or whatever-corp.) their infrastructure foots the bill alone.

In the low tax country, the government is the recipient of all the money. The problem for Ireland is that this is not sustainable, there is nothing keeping the money coming in, other than the tax cut. For no investment, another country might undercut them and the money stream is gone. Going the "lower tax than our neighbors" route represents the easy way out - they do this instead of trying to be competitive with something of real value.

That might be the case where you live, not so much where I live, and that I am grateful for. Over here (Europe) we do have sane judges that cannot immediately be replaced by a 3 line program with an if-then-else statement - they do actually care about what the spirit of the law is.

The topic of my reply was the ethics of it though. There might be a loophole in the law that lets you do certain things, but you are not required to utilize it. There are corporation management models that include stuff like ethics and social responsibility, and saying "I have a duty to my shareholders to fuck everyone over for profit" is not always true. Profit can be measured in other numbers than money, like positive community branding and social conscience. If you create a reputation for being a complete asshole, you might find that none of the really skilled people you need will want to work for you - especially around here.

Of course, you fit the problem to the deadline. The point was also more like --- if they always show up prepared, give them something they can't prepare for. And I threw in an example. I believe Google does this kind of thing actually: Random hacks of kindness, although I'm not sure how much time each team prepares for it.

More generic, you could spend a bit of time and ask small business owners or non profit groups in the local community if they have any special/quirky needs that normal software won't satisfy, and make that the mission for the hackathon. The point being that you don't announce the challenge ahead of time and you don't present a challenge that some or most will have met before.

Then they will all come unprepared and you can have fun and help someone who might not be able to afford it at the same time.