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Comment Difference in insults (Score 2) 894

by GnomeCarousel on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:59AM (#48820151) Attached to: Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression

Does the pope not get that there is a difference between criticizing/insulting a system versus criticizing/insulting a person?

When someone criticizing/insults the prophet of Islam, he/she is doing so to the creator of a system/idea that claims they have ALL the answers for ALL of life's problems including how to govern a society. (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and, IMO, Islam have provided none.). A critique/insult of the prophet is a critique/insult of the system/idea, as the guy is long dead.

When someone is criticizing/insulting someones mother they are doing so on an individual level where the mother in question usually have no such pompous claims. The 2 things are NOT the same and should not be treated the same.

However you should NEVER meet words with violence (Excluding constructed situations like someone is pointing a gun at you and says 'I'm going to kill you in 5 seconds').

If you feel insulted/offended by someones words/drawings/whatever, then you are always free to choose to ignore them OR reply to them using a non-violent medium.

Being offended/insulted gives you NO free pass to use violence as a response!

Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction? 411

Posted by timothy on Monday March 22, 2010 @07:59PM from the erasing-the-analog-hole dept.

SlashD0tter writes "Many older sound cards were shipped with line-out, microphone-in, and a line-in jacks. For years I've used such a line-in jack on an old Windows 2000 dinosaur desktop that I bought in 2000 (600 Mhz PIII) to capture the stereo audio signal from an old Technics receiver. I've used this arrangement to recover the audio from a slew of old vinyl LPs and even a few cassettes using some simple audio manipulating software from a small shop in Australia. I've noticed only recently, unfortunately, that all of the four laptops I've bought since then have omitted a line-in jack, forcing me to continue keeping this old desktop on life support. I've looked around for USB sound cards that include a line-in jack, but I haven't been too impressed by the selection. Is the line-in jack doomed to extinction, possibly due to lobbying from vested interests, or are there better thinking-outside-the-box alternatives available?"

Submission + - Ballmer Says Google Is "Insane"

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday March 16, 2007 @08:09AM

eldavojohn writes: "Steve Ballmer spoke a little bit about Google, commenting that it's pace of employee growth is "insane," and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year."

Comment Interview with the District Attorney in the case (Score 5, Interesting) 815

by GnomeCarousel on Monday January 15, 2007 @09:30PM (#17622520) Attached to: Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives

Here http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2791529&page=1 is an interview with the DA of this case.
Very interesting read.

Quote:

"JIM AVILA: So there was a huge amount of evidence that in fact, this kid was not involved in a sex crime. And yet, your office and
you yourself continue to believe and put him through two years of hell, because you continue to believe despite lie detector
tests, court psychiatrist reports, a report from the computer expert who said it could have come from anywhere...you
continue to say..."

NDREW THOMAS: (Overlap) Well...

JIM AVILA: ...that he did it.

ANDREW THOMAS: Well, I...again, I...I'm not sure that that's totally right. But you gotta...

JIM AVILA: (Overlap) Halfway right?
"

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