Posts by No, I will not fix your computer 708 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2009
It does cut out (some of) the middlemen, but it still presents as a SATA interface with a hard drive attached and all of the associated overheads, have a look at your control panel (or whatever), you'll see a SATA interface (Sandforce?). Seeking is blisteringly fast, but transfer rate isn't much better than my 15k SAS array (and of course mine is much cheaper per Gb).
>>So, with only a single fossil of the beast to work from, how can they be sure it isn't the dinosaur equivalent of a 6-toed cat?
If you found two the same you could still level the same argument, you could either assume that they are a new species or that you recognise that it's "likely", having only one fossil is "less likely" but still likely - or put another way, fossils are spectacularly rare, to have a genetic mutant as well (one with significant differenceS, rather than a minor one such as polydactyly) is a factor again rarer, but not impossible, given the total number of fossils found worldwide, to date there's a good chance that we have a mutant or two in our museums, the rarity of which is unknown, but the logical course of action (to be right, probably all of the time) is to assume that all fossils are not mutants.
It's irrelevant if humans can affect the climate.
We need to be careful with our (finite) resources;
Fossil fuels are being consumed - therefore they will run out in 10,100 or 1000 years... whenever, again the time is irrelevant.
Nitrogen (for fertiliser) is not going back to the cycle, it also is being consumed, countries like the USA imports huge quantities, this is being mined, again it will run out if not recycled.
Lithium (for batteries) is being used faster than can be supplied.
So this is what we need to focus on, production of CO2 and possible adverse impact is a potential problem that we could solve without trying to, just by being more rational.
But on a second, and more important poit, when you said "Seriously, if you genuinely believe that human action is damaging the planet" have you forgotten about CFC's?
We found a serious issue with ozone depletion back in the 70's, the "hole" that was recognised back in the mid 80's, I won't bore you with the history, but after much back and forth, evidence and rebuttal, we now produce and release far less CFC, but the damage has been done and it probably won't be for another 60 years until things are back to "normal", human action damaged the planet (absolute fact) and (some of us) learned a lesson.
Renewable energy such as wind and solar barely break even and cause other problems (such as toxic production waste in the case of solar), we'll end up with shortages of other elements such as helium (cold storage) and lithium (batteries) ......
But some energy harvests (such as water heating in countries with good full sun), work (and have worked well for decades).
Hydro generators on islands with a reservoir (where desalinated water is used as an energy store for wind turbines) can be the difference between a society surviving or not, for them fuel costs are elevated because of their location.
As fossil fuel runs out, and it doesn't matter if that's 10, 100 or even 1000 years from now we must have an alternative, and an efficient one, easy to build, maintain and cost effective, the way that we get there is by trying to get there, this means that our "infancy of knowledge" has to be got through, yes renewables isn't delivering (at the moment), but it will, and it HAS to, we're standing in the street and a steamroller is driving at us, we probably have plenty of time to get out of the way, perhaps we have better things to do at the moment, but at some point we're going to have to address this issue, but perhaps we should at least plan how to get off the street.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this would be trivial;
1. Format it
2. Copy junk files to it until it's full
3. Format it
Unlike a spinning disk where old data can be read from lower layers of the disk using special equipment, a flash drive has bits than can only be on or off, formatting the drive then setting the bits (to junk) means junk will be the only thing that could be retrieved.
If you actually read the extradition treaties, TIAS 10812 only resists extradition for Sweden citizens in Sweden (whereas the UK/US treaties offers protection for UK and commonwealth citizens, as Assange is Australian the extradition is problematic for the US, Australia is, despite some resistance, a commonwealth country).
My guess is that they'll use an earlier agreement, TIAS 1546 (14 UST 1845) article II.7 as burglary with intent to commit a felony is mentioned as an extraditable offence, possibly II.11 blackmail/extortion, II.14 receiving money, valuable securities or other property knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen or fraudulently obtained. - it's a mine of possible extradition excuses.
So, yes, if Assange goes back to Sweden he's at risk of being extradited to the US, which at the moment because he's in the UK, he isn't.
He can't be tried anywhere but Sweden, because what he is accused of (not using a condom when he said he would) is not a crime anywhere else in the world, this "crime" is rape in Sweden, note that even the prosecution admit the sex itself was consensual and none of the text conversations between the accusers after the event say or imply rape (not even under Swedens defintion), under the broadest defintion, if you lay one single finger on a woman when she is asleep it could be defined as rape (regardless of what she agreed to before she fell asleep, if you are in a long-term relationship, or in fact where you touch her).
Normally, with this complete lack of evidence the case would be dropped, more so as the accusations came much later, the two accusers were also in discussions before reporting to the police, it is exceptional for Sweden to request extradition for this crime, more so given the circumstances, and unheard of for it to be applied to an Australian.
Whether or not you agree if it's a "huge, humiliating, multi-government stitch-up job" or not is irrelevant, the circumstances of this case are exceptional, somebody is working very hard to get Assange back to Sweden more than any similar case ever before, so why? do you think that the (unrelated) Wikileaks activity might have something to do with it?
Don't get we wrong, I'm a big fan of conspiracy theories (usually as they are humourous), but this makes no sense at all unless you consider there's an ulterior motive.
>>What the fuck do I do now?
Being in a similar boat (0.75% pay rise in the last 6 years, so slightly better than you I guess), I'd have to make two observations;
1. Why did you have another kid when you have had financial issues for so long?
2. If a house doesn't sell, you're asking too much.
These are two major issues, it looks like you've done lots of little good things for saving money, but if you still can't keep your head above water, perhaps the major ones are the issue? don't upsize your family! houses are the same, if you genuinely needed to move you'll need to be realistic about what your house is worth and what you need to move to.
For me, I'm skint so my thirsty sports bike is off the road and the thrifty car is on, my four bed detached house in a village cul-de-sac with nice gardens and detached garage is gone and the city 3 bed in a less than salubrious area is here, holidays cancelled, ISAs cashed in, eBay is my friend, but only when I've sold enough to buy something, I'm not complaining, it's all just stuff and there's people worse off than me, I'm working, eating, breathing.
A moped would cost <£300 insurance and tax is tiny, so either you're driving out of the range of a bicycle and you would recoup this very quickly (more so if you can avoid parking costs) or perhaps a bicycle/car share/public transport is a better option?
I also assume that you're too far from school to walk? Have you considered home shopping delivery? it saves me fuel and time (which both add up to more than delivery costs).
Assuming you need a 7 seater I'm guessing you have 5 kids? over double the average and so you can't get away with a C1/107/Aygo, well that is fundamentally your choice, and your right to have as many kids as you like, but if you want things cheaper because you have more kids you're just asking those who don't need a big car to subsidise you?
>>I cant live without a car.
Sad....
The whole point of the board is to get the price down, even saving 25p is worth it - read the article! adding another USB or Ethernet is the *wrong* idea, after all, what would be next on the list USB3? surround sound? PIO disk interface? firewire? thunderbolt? nope, I'm sure that even one Ethernet was carefully considered,
Personally I like living in a country that allows me to text my best mate with "Morning you rancid cum bucket, I hope you didn't take that rancid munter to tuna town on your spam bus last night" but I like in a culture where we take a personal responsibility for our actions.
That said, if I'd been brought up ina different culture or am texting someone else who was brought up in a different culture you have to consider that you may not be operating in full awareness, for example, I don't believe that anywhere considers "Brit" to be a derogatory term, whereas "Paki" is often, and so using it might cause offense, for the same reason, just because "Nigger" is derived from the latin word for black (or wrongly often thought to be from Nigerian), it doesn't mean that it's OK to use, just because you know where the word came from. For the same reason, the word "Boss" is not used in some parts of the world as it had been used for a white man owning slaves, so the word is avoided.
This is not a double (or even doble, which I believe was someone from a district of Vienna) standard, it's called cultural awareness.
>>1) Why are they spending money on projects such as this in a time of huge economic crisis?
On the face of it it's a good question, but if you have a mortgage you still have luxuries, this also one the face of it seems insane, huge debt over here, yet you still buy that pot of hagen daas icecream, it's called balance, people still need jobs, budgets have been cut (nay slashed) but life goes on, by your logic nobody should do anything in this world until every single person has access to clean water, sufficient food, health and education, and if you're not spending ALL your time, money and resources trying to fix this then you're not in a place to argue.
>>2) What happens if a nuclear powered spacecraft breaks up on launch/re-entry. Where does the fallout go?
Many spacecraft can and do blow up during launch, I'm assuming this will be taken into account, you would think that people capable of hitting a target several million milles away would think of these things (I believe such people are called rocket scientists).
Don't get me wrong, I'm generally against a manned mission to Mars (currently), we can send many more robots, cheaper now, just keeping people alive on the ISS is a full time job with earth a stones throw away, we need to walk before we can run here and building a reliable nuclear rocket is practical, more so if we can use it to return sample from the Mars surface, because it has much stronger gravity than the Moon (twice that in fact) getting off the surface will be harder (and through an atmosphere too) - we will need to practice this, just like the Russians did (they got samples from the moon before the USA).
In isolation your analogy is valid, however, in this case the "tool" is just a "tool bag" and the contents of the bag were put there on company time and as a result of company resources, the fact that the bag had the company name on it probably has an upshot too, the followers were collected as part of the company operation.
If a programmer used his own pad to design a program or process (on company time) it would still be the "property" of the company, obviously the $2.50 is a made up number so that the company can get the account, but I guess the law just doesn't cover this set of circumstances.
>>Thank you. It's just a glitch in a dam iphone - not a presidency ender.
My girlfriend charges her iPhone 4 every night, despite the occasional long day and heavy use the battery was fine, but now, since iOS 5 a long day with heavy use means a dead phone at the end of the day, inability to respond to urgent call outs, phone for ambulance/taxi etc. this is totally unacceptable, if 5.01 fixes it, great, otherwise, it's a useless phone.
The iPhone is a great phone, but even Apple recoginsed that it's not a business/professional one (their terms of use even excluded business use - has this changed?)
Russia had the first woman in space (20 years before America?), the reason why the US have a (more) balanced gender set up is probably more due to the fact that governmental funding is only available when there is equal gender opportunities, a requirement that was put into the start of the space shuttle programe... which "coincidentally" is when women started to fly in the US space program (but not until STS-7), despite passing all the requirements, no women were selected for early (pre shuttle) missions.
The Russians probably had a more pragmatic (and politically incorrect) approach, when you are talking elite of the elite the likelihood is that men will have the edge, this may seem a rather sexist comment (and I suppose it is), but consider athletics, men can generally work harder, for longer (think marathons, the mens record is 15 mins faster than the womens), this is a simple biological fact due to maximal oxygen consumption (vo2max) which is higher in men (and higher in male elite athletes than women athletes), also the way that oestrogen affects metabolism means that when working longer, women will burn fat before carbs, again this gives an endurance advantage to men. There's a similar advantage in IQ, with men being (on average) 5 points higher, there's twice as many men at IQ 125 than women, and five times as many at genius level (155).
So, purely on the numbers, smart, elite athletes (pretty much a requirement for an astronaut) are more likely to be men, it would have to be a truly exceptional woman to get to the same level, the fact that NASA have no choice but to take women (or lose their funding) probably has more to do with their choice (when Russia had no such constraint).
I'm not sure if this counts as gender equality or not.
Your analogy is bad for two reasons, firstly a case could be made for the iPhone 4S being the best smartphone on the market as it ticks most of the boxes for most people (yes, it's not everybodys cup of tea, including me, I have a Galaxy, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed), pretty much the only argument against it is price, if it was "free on a £10 contract" I suspect that most people would have one, the 5D has awful focus and less than 4fps, great for studio work (full frame is the only thing going for it), useless for sports, I have a 7D and a 5D for this reason, probably both being replaced by a pair of Mk3 mid next year when neither is a compromise, the point is the iPhone 4S has hardware over and above what the software requires, it has features that many users will never usr or need, it is expensive luxury, but the 5D is still lacking.
The likihood is that the fixes were already in the pipeline (it's probably muli-team/multi-branch development), there's probably fixes for things they know are affecting people still unreleased, 4.0.2 almost certainly exists (and maybe 4.0.3/4.0.4 and possibly 4.1 being built with 4.0 retrofits), that said, they (given the importance of the Facebook app to Apple) would probably get priority.
And it is only a guess, is that the USB port is a standard USB port, but it's in host mode (i.e. you connect clients to it by default not the other way round), I wonder what would happen if you plugged a USB flash card into it? This would make total sense if it was for a docking station default (keyboard/mouse/printer/external storage etc.).
>>Can't we have time to boot an OS as a real-world benchmark number? (Obviously it has to be the exact same O/S image every time).
Even the same image each time may speed up with drives such as the Seagate Momentus Hybryid.
So far, the fastet drives I've found are the pcie based ones, no controller mismatch issues, obviously no good for 2.5" applications, but then not all 2.5" SSDs work in all situations like some disk bays (the SSD profile tends to be square but disks have a recess).
Depends if you joined with the thought of a wonderful share option scheme and creating something that changes the industry.
1,000,000 rounds a minute is cool, but reload is laborious and in most engagements wounding is far more effective than killing as it disables and puts a draw on the enemy, it probably has it's very niche market but most of the time it would be like bringing a hand grende to a knife fight.
This weapon however seems more practical, a multi shot taser (for multiple targets rather than one!), as long as it's used as a step down from a "more lethal" weapon and not a step up from a batton.
>>Any comparable PC laptop would be worth very little in a year or so compared to this.
What do you mean by comparable? do you mean similar spec?
Let's assume (the current) entry-level MacBook Air (£900);
11" screen, 1.4Ghz CoreDuo, 2Gb RAM, GeForce 320, 64Gb SSD
- Faster proc, less RAM, slower GFX, very fast small capacity SSD
Compare it with a (say) Dell/Alienware entry level machine (£500);
11" screen, 1.3Ghz CoreDuo, 4Gb RAM, GeForce GT335, 500Gb HD
- Slower proc, more RAM, Faster GFX, slower large capacity HD
So, after a year the MBA will be worth about £650 and the Dell will be worth £300, or put it another way, you've lost £250 on the MBA and £200 on the Dell (although you saved £400 on the Dell, so still £350 up).
Yes, buying something which is more expensive (and maybe better quality) will depreciate slower (a porchse 997 compared to a peugeot 307), depends if it does the job then unless you have money to burn, why not have something that just does the job?
Actually, if you feel threatened it's "assault" (no contact required, can still be assault), if you are struck (including fluids) it's "battery", if you are left with a wound it's GBH.
Actually, it's not that simple, but as far as "offences against the person" goes it's close enough.
....is that Hackintosh is now starting to gather steam, it's always been in a grey area for legality as far as licencing the OS is concerned.
Apple only does things that benefit apple (they're not a charity or public service!), by not having disks you can't just put it on that old bit of kit you have lying around, or that rather nice Dell Mini 10 (Snow Leopard runs beautifully on it), we're starting to see PCs appear on eBay pre-installed with OSX, I have a Dell 490 with 2x 3.33Ghz Xeon Quads, it cost me less than £300 and out performs Macs that cost five times as much.
Apple will make this move, then they will code the installs to prevent installing on non Apple kit, then they will make some statement about it being illegal to steal OSX licences, the BSD/Mach derived core is potentially less of a headache for them than a Linux kernel.
Ask yourself this question; why would Apple disregard a sales channel?
Given wireless sync isn't exactly new (my Sony Palm TH55 was happily doing this sort of thing both directly to my PC (adhoc) or via a wireless router years ago), I'm genuinely surprised that this feature was missing for so long, also the icon is rather obvious (it's a wee bit predictable).
Does it look like Apple have screwed him over? yes, but I don't think he could sue Apple any more than he could sue everybody else that had similar apps.
>>The destructive properties of the atmosphere rely very much on its density AND speed. A 400MPH gust in an atmosphere much less dense than earths will do very little damage, for instance the mars rovers didn't, strangely enough, look like earthside storm chaser vehicles;
And that's exactly the kind of thinking we need to avoid, yes 400mph gusts of thin atmoshpere won't do as much as a thick atmosphere (although, a large tent will suffer more than a small tent, and they are proposing a large tent), but once you start getting dust in that it changes the situation completely, it takes far less energy to pick up dust in a thin atmosphere and dust storms will require the same maths as standard fluid dynamics, the rover being a small chunk of metal will act more like a rock than a tent; the atmosphere can easily go round a rover.
Put a small pebble into a river and once it hits the bottom it's unlikely to move, put a larger, lighter, less dense object in and it's more likely to move, remember that the force applied will be directly proportional to the area exposed.
>>The habitat has to be light enough to be transported and strong enough to protect against minor dangers
You're not getting the point, if people were in a tent on Mars, there are no MINOR dangers, it's not like a camping tent, oooh... slight rip, might get a bit damp, it's oooh.... slight rip, might get dead.
Look, it's simple, the real problems of getting to Mars involve getting to Mars, a biosphere able to support people for the journey of months with little or no maintenance requirement, we really are not anywhere near there yet, but what we can do is design and build sturdy habitats well in advance, we could design and build heavy lift craft, send unmanned lifeboats, automated assembly, self sustaining recycling units, maybe even grow plants or fungi based food, get it all ready, maybe, just maybe a light habitat as an emergency shelter if the final manned landing is too far from the industrial units.
In addition, there's a lot of fuel and spacecraft needed to leave Mars (I assume it's not going to be one-way), logically you should prep this in advance too, unlike the moon lift off the gravity will be much harder to escape from (and landings are much harder), again this needs to focus on getting large amounts of "stuff" to Mars.
Sorry, I know you want this to be a good idea, but it really is insignificant and your enthusiasm for it won't make it any better. Is this research pointless? well, it solves no issues and creates new ones, i.e. there is no reason to cut down on weight (as there's plenty of time to get it ready, decades in fact).
>>Admittedly the Shuttles were no NCC-1701, but at least they had the makings of a proper spacecraft.
Because they could be attached to a huge rocket? let's face it they were merely a large reusable LEO cargo bay, they wouldn't have been so big without the (false) requirement to launch spy satellites, they looked nice, but dollar for ruble a huge white elephant, very expensive, the USSR/Russia did far more launches and spent far longer in space all for less money.
What is a "proper spacecraft"? I'd say one that doesn't ever need to land on or take off from a planet makes a better start, heavy lift, build in space (less like the space shuttle, more like NCC-1701), space station technology is more important here, ion engines rather than hydrogen/fuel engines.
Personally, as cool as they were, the very concept of them killed all possible moon missions and stunted space development, they were cool but, it will be good to see the back of them, wave a fond farewell and let's do some real space stuff.
Although it's a bit funny, at the end of the day, everything he has done has made millions (sometimes hundreds of millions), not everybody can be Kubrick (which might be for the best, if you've ever seen Eyes Wide Shut), we need people like Shyamalan to do things differently (even badly) otherwise all films will end up the same.
Personally, I think people criticize successful people because they think it elevates them, by all means say you don't like their work, but it's just an opinion, I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but his success is undeniable (see the segway from Eyes Wide Shut there) just google "Rich Hall Tom Cruise" and you'll see how successful doing the same thing over and over again can be.
It has some obvious advantages;
1. It's almost always available
2. It can do dos/unix/ebcdic translation
3. It's very efficient/lightweight
4. Ability to re-start a transfer without losing the data already xferred
5. Anonymous FTP sites are easy to configure and maintain, ideal fro "drop" sites
Some non obvious ones;
1. You can use it for cross-machine directory structure transfers under UNX (like a port forward)
2. You can use SSH to just encrypt the control connection (useful for low-power boxes without the overhead of encrypting the data, if you don't want)
3. You can use it to remotely view or create files dynamically (you don't have to transfer/save/view or edit/transfer)
4. Scripting is possible, either with clunky shellscripts or programming languages that have APIs such as AutoIT/Visual Studio/Perl etc.
Some obvious disadvantages;
1. No standard encryption (use sftp/scp instead)
2. Issues with firewalls and data connection (use passive transfers instead)
3. Some reconnection security issues (disable them)
4. Hetrogenous systems may have issues such as bin/ascii default, odd dir listing formats (true, but these shouldn't be a surprise, but a quirky transfer method is better than none)
Is lack of security an issue? to snoop you'll need elevated rights on one of the machines or physical access to the network, this is harder on switched networks, not impossible of course, but there are easier ways of getting passwords such as keyloggers, so if you're transferring files around in a secure datacentre or home network, perhaps there's no issue. simple configurations like using chroot ftp and accounts that have no ssh style logins dedicate it's use, and of course linked into a token based authentication system means one-time passwords (or, at worst vulnerability windows of a few seconds).
All that said, it's horses for courses, I use https, ftp, scp, rdist and smb at home for all my file transfer needs, balancing performance with security with ease of access, I wouldn't want to only have ftp available, but I wouldn't want it to not be available either.
>>don't get the same tax breaks that UK ones do. But don't let that stand in the way of a good rant.
Different countries, different tax laws, but they certainly get as good tax breaks as most other countries;
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/churches-reap-the-benefits-of-belief-500-million-in-taxexemptions/2006/04/28/1146198351877.html
Are you divding £1.2Bn by 300?
The £1.2Bn figure is for 10 years 2007-2017 so assuming that it's 300 "serious crimes" so far and the capture rate will double as the coverage doubles it's probably going to be more like 1500 in total, so £800k per "serious" criminal, i.e. murderers, rapists, sex offenders and violent criminals, given the cost of a murder case usually goes over £1m (and often tens of millions) it's not a disproportionate amount.
You also have to take into account that the murderer, rapist, sex offender and other violent criminals should in theory be less likely to offend again (or at least have less opportunity).
OK, £800k to possibly catch a murderer? still too expensive? that's not considering the other 2700 arrests for less significant crimes (which will probably ramp up to 5000+), although £1.2Bn sounds like a hideous amount of money, the numbers do stack up.
So, if financially, it is reasonable (or at least the case can be argued), what about the "intrusive" loss of privacy? well, if you look at the details collected, it's stuff off the passport (name, nationality, gender, date of birth, passport number and expiry date etc) and where and when (carrier’s name, number and departure and arrival points), so far this data doesn't look very private, but also other details are captured; (reservation information, such as date and place of reservation, passenger contact and payment details, baggage details) - that's to my mind the only privacy issue, although carriers are not obliged to collect this information, they are only obliged to pass it on.
http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpapers/commons/lib/research/briefings/snha-05771.pdf
I totally agree with you, I was just giving the reasons for the case, in my opinion (IANAL) some of the visual methods look similar to concepts discussed, so the case wasn't completely frivolous (under US laws), I suspect that if the award was lower than $600m it wouldn't have been thrown out so easily, it actually doesn't matter that I think the patent laws are silly and that it's become a self perpertuating industry in it's own right rather than being protection for inventors, I was just ponting out it wasn't as simple as hexx implied.
I think you're missing the point, although they bought coverflow from Jonathan del Strother (2006 I thought, not 2005), the prior art was from concepts in an 1992 book by David Gelernter, some ideas which he patented in 1999 onwards as part of his Mirror Works company and were used in 2001 as part of the Scopeware product.
Of course, the questions of was the prior art known etc. is all irrelevant to the silly patent laws, I think I'll patent the process of drawing air into a pair of organic sacks in order to enfuse blood with oxygen.
You're not wrong, after all Russia was the first to impact the moon, first to land on the moon, first to retrieve moon rock, imagine what they could have done with American budgets! It's a shame really that we had a space "race" at all, a joint or global agency would be seriously looking at Mars rather than this pipe dream that won't see Mars this side of 2040.
>>Yes, you would expect as many above as below, but my inferred point to the original poster was that 50% of the population would not be below 100, but fewer than that as they had not taken the proportion of the population that had a score of exactly 100 into account.
The word is EXPECT as many above as below, however there is no reason to believe that a small number of exceptionally high OR exceptionally low scores will skew the numbers, it all depends if you have an even bell curve or an offset bell, imagine five people four score 300, one scores 305, the average score is 301, normalisation would mean that nobody is "average", four are below average and one above average, they would all have an IQ "around" 100 (99.67 or 101.32 rounding down, no-one would score 100)
>>I have seen a few purported IQ tests and the amount of locale specific questions is astonishing
Hmmm.... probably not a good test, however, general knowledge (retention of facts) is a factor in IQ tests rather than just problem solving or pattern recognition, Mensa tests are very good on consistency, that said it is possible to score more on subsequent tests because of being used to the test conditions and learning how to solve problems in the same manner, so IQ tests are generally flawed as you can get "better" at them (which defeats the point of them, as an adult, you can become more learned, but not more inteligent - in theory)
The IQ test is a normalised to 100 test, therefore, you'd expect as many above average as below average (100), in "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" the normalisation was done across countries which is why the average American came out at 98 and the Hong Kong average came out at 107 (UK @100 interestingly enough).
It's odd how a handful of lines in a book (and in the case of lesbians, one line) can create so much hate, more so when the book has more instructions about dietry considerations which seem to be ignored by the people doing the hating.
#1 You can't get away with saying there's something wrong with someone based on their sex, age, colour - i.e. it's not appropriate to criticise something that we don't have a choice over - seems reasonable.
#2 You can criticise someone for a choice they have made (e.g. buying a french car) - seems reasonable
How is criticising someones sexual orientation ever OK? oh wait, get out the magic "religious viewpoint" card and it's a sin which means you can get away with being a bigot.
Why can't we criticise religious people for being religious? surely that's a choice they have complete control over? ahhh... the magic "religious viewpoint" card again.
Given we have a damn sight more control over the religions we believe than the sex we find attractive why do we have this oxymoronic tolerance of religously fueld bigotry?
>>4. Any trace of religion need to be removed from the planet.
>>this will PERMANANTLY Solve the problems.
Actually, as much as I agree with the removal of religion, bigots will still be bigots, they just won't have the protection of relgion to hide behind.
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