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Comment Re:The new Hitlers (Score 2) 564

by wrudyn on Saturday April 05, 2014 @12:46PM (#46670385) Attached to: Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"?

Apart from it being a Religious term (in the Bible, it mentions that marriage is between a husband and wife, being man and woman). That's part of the base scripture.

The bible uses a lot of words. That doesn't make them all religious terms. You can have non-religous marriage.

A possibly less confrontational way round this is to just start a religion that does't have the figures that have said things in conflict with what you want to happen, and go with that, and its marriage systems and so on.

Do you realize that many gay people are religous, go to gay-friendly churches, and have commitment ceremonies in those churches?

Comment Re:Abolish marriage solves the problem. (Score 1) 564

by wrudyn on Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:52AM (#46669925) Attached to: Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"?

A rose by a different name... is it really so important how you call something? A name should reflect its content, it's not content by itself.

Names matter. It's the reason the Patagonian toothfish was renamed to the Chilean Seabass, because no one wanted to eat a toothfish. Names affect people psychologically. Having different names for marriage and civil unions will automatically make them different.

Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From? 729

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @03:05PM from the you-say-anthropic-i-say-platonic dept.

mlimber writes "The NYTimes science section has up an interesting article discussing the nature of scientific laws. It comes partly in reply to physicist Paul Davies, whose recent op-ed in same paper lit up the blogosphere and solicited flurry of reader responses to the editorial page. It asks, 'Are [laws of nature] merely fancy bookkeeping, a way of organizing facts about the world? Do they govern nature or just describe it? And does it matter that we don't know and that most scientists don't seem to know or care where they come from?' The current article proceeds to survey different views on the matter. The author seems to be poking fun at himself by quoting Richard Feynman's epigram, 'Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.'"

Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found 80

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 05, 2007 @02:02PM from the that's-a-froo dept.

Billosaur writes "A potentially disastrous 40-year-old mystery has been solved: Where is asteroid 6344 P-L? Back in 1960, asteroid 6344 P-L was identified and classified as a 'Potentially Hazardous Asteroid,' meaning that its orbit brings it perilously close to Earth's orbit (on the cosmic scale). Unfortunately, it then disappeared, or more precisely, was lost from view. Flash forward to 2007 and scientists believe that 6344 P-L has been rediscovered as 2007 RR9. Further, they are not sure it is an actual asteroid, but actually a comet fragment, which won't hit the Earth anytime soon but bears watching."

AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver 262

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @10:07AM from the soon-it-will-all-be-faster dept.

Michael Larabel writes "AMD has issued a press release announcing 'significant graphics performance and compatibility enhancements' on Linux. AMD will be delivering new ATI Linux drivers this year that offer ATI Radeon HD 2000 series support, AIGLX support (Beryl and Compiz), and major performance improvements. At Phoronix we have been testing these new drivers internally for the past few weeks and have a number of articles looking at this new driver. The ATI 8.41 Linux driver delivers Linux gaming improvements from the R300/400 series and the R500 series. The inaugural Radeon HD 2900XT series support also can be found in the new ATI Linux driver with 'the best price/performance ratio of any high-end graphics card under Linux.' While this new driver cannot be downloaded yet, in their press release AMD also alludes to accelerating efforts with the open-source community."

Comment Re:"it would agree to this" (Score 1) 108

by wrudyn on Monday July 02, 2007 @11:02AM (#19717545) Attached to: A Reprieve for Internet Radio

Same for me. After clicking "it would agree to this" and the "Press Releases" link the internet filter at work says it blocked the URL goatse.ch

Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit 241

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @08:19PM from the stop-using-your-legs-like-a-sucker dept.

Gary writes "What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80's sci-fi movie or something, but it's very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters in height, and weighs 150 kg. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick. Each ankle has a 3-axis force/torque sensor which measures the normal force and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor which measures the angle of the slope. Also, the rate gyro and the inclination sensor of the body allow the device to stabilize itself."

Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano 244

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @09:58PM from the you-can-plug-anything dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Since May 2006, a mud volcano in Indonesia has spewed out up to 126,000 cubic metres of mud a day, flooding an area of more than 4 square kilometres. This unprecedented natural disaster has become so bad that geophysicists now plan to enact an untested scheme to try and slow the flow: dropping concrete balls into the volcano."

'Super Telco', Net Neutrality Debated in Europe 49

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 20, 2006 @05:10PM from the crappy-comic-book dept.

My Nipples Explode With Delight writes to mention a ZDNet article looking at a proposal for a 'super-telco' regulation board for the EU. The idea was ripped apart, at an event where Net Neutrality in Europe and roaming charges were also discussed. From the article: "'The Commissioner thinks Net neutrality needs to be addressed,' said Blowers, who claimed a lack of relevant regulation in America had led to the issue being so explosive there. 'It is probably not sufficient to just talk about competition powers to deal with Net neutrality,' he continued, before suggesting that, if tiered services were introduced in the UK and Europe, 'there should be sufficient transparency in the market that consumers can make informed choices'."

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