alan

I think to consider software an operating system, it should be required to prioritize the end user's instructions over the manufacturer's. Vista clearly does not do that... Did anyone realize that Media Center refuses to record NBC programs?

Plus, global DRM? WTF. A feature I don't want, can't turn off, and does nothing but slow the system down.

If you're wondering, I <3 my Ubuntu. New OSX is pretty slick too.

That said, what do we call Vista if it's not an OS? Applianceware? Hell if I know. Suggestions?

What's the funniest and/or most offensive joke you know? For or against religion, I don't care.

Then what on earth do you have against homosexuality? Beyond that, where did Jesus rescind the old testament?

Wouldn't he have explicitly mentioned that somewhere in the Bible?

17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matt 5:17-19

Would you immediately and publicly kill them?

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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy sin, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

So I'm working on building a drupal-based site at the moment. Last Friday, I took home the file structure and database so I could tinker with it.

Well, the database was like 18 megs, so I imported it to the server on my laptop using this--

source /etc/drive/foo/whatev.sql;

It imported with all sorts of garbage characters like ligatures and random accented vowels interspersed with the normal text.

However, when I opened up php.ini and changed the max_download variable so I could import it in phpmyadmin, it worked fine. So...

A: Can I replicate whatever phpmyadmin is doing at the command line without having an insanely huge file upload limit?

B: Why is this nonsense happening in the first place?

Why is it so abominable? Shouldn't it be the best book available on at least one subject? Clearly not science. Not math or geography (it claims that pi is an integer and that there are mountains from which you can see the entire Earth). Certainly not morality.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200806...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au1yO...

Why you choose to worship a god that commands the murder of infants?

No matter what Babylon did to the Israelites, why should the Jews have been "happy" to break the heads of children open on the banks of the Euphrates?

I'm quite sure I'm understanding this passage perfectly in context-- if not, please be specific in explaining why I'm not. What about this god is attractive to you?

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Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

(Ps. 137:9)

Why do you choose to worship a God who commands genocide?

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.

(1 Sam 15:2-3)

Why do you choose to worship a God who commands genocide?

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.

(1 Sam 15:2-3)

I understand that more or less from the King James bible onward, Lucifer is equated with Satan. This is odd for several reasons, but mostly because this interpretation doesn't make sense. In the book of Job, and particularly in the 40/days/40/nights fiasco, it's fairly clear that Satan is something like God's prosecutor (tempting his creations for the sake of determining how good they really are), and not an anti-god or demon-type-thing.

I'm wondering a few things:

A. What do christians have to say about their perception of Satan, relative to what scripture says about him and Lucifer? Do any still perceive him as a cynical ally of God?

B. How did this come to be? Who looked at the bible and decided that the talking snake, Lucifer, and Satan are one in the same, even though this is not even implied in the Bible?

C. What is all this "prince of lies" or whatever business? Isn't it a person's morality meaningless if ze never has to make hard decisions?

So I have a query pulling subcategories from a table of museum exhibits. It looks something like:

SELECT subcategory FROM exhibits;

and returns the subcategory for all 200+ entries. The problem is that I need to generate a list of the different subcategories, and I'd rather not have a separate table of subcategories. That is, I need something like this:

SELECT subcategory FROM exhibits {BUT ONLY SHOW EACH SUBCATEGORY ONCE};

PHP string functions are a totally valid option... My first thought was to use strcompare(), but I can't quite reason out how to do it.

Take a look at this URL:

http://msu.edu/~zoppacod/alpha/self.html

I'm trying to get the text of the menu items to center perfectly on background image. I tried vertical-align in the .pd a element, but that didn't seem to work. Here's the CSS.

.txt_description {

color:#FFFFFF;

}

.pd {

text-align:center;

}

.pd a {

color: #FFFFFF;

text-decoration:none;

}

.pd li {

margin-left: -40px;

}

.pd li:hover {

background-image:url(graphics/lidown.gif);

}

.pd li:hover > ul li {

visibility: visible

}

.pd ul {

list-style-type:none;

}

.pd li {

width: 100px;

height: 25px;

background-image:url(graphics/liup.gif);

}

.pd ul ul li {

width: 80px;

height: 20px;

font-size: x-small;

background-image:url(graphics/liulliup.gif);

}

.pd ul ul li:hover {

background-image:url(graphics/liullidown.gif);

}

.pd ul ul {

visibility: hidden;

margin-left: 90px;

margin-top: -20px;

position: absolute;

z-index: 1;

}

I'm working on an index of promotional sites for work, and I've run into a weird browser issue.

Essentially, I'm using XSLT with an external stylesheet. It looks great in Opera and Safari.

However, when I open it in Firefox or Camino, it ignores the background color as defined in the CSS.

I've tried everything. Moving the CSS inline doesn't help, neither does defining the color in the old school <body bgcolor=??????> way.

Has anyone encountered this before? I could really use a workaround.

Because everyone at work looks at me like I'm crazy.