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Ok cheers people. These are personal laptops used to do work, so it's kinda a grey area whether I should help out. I'll be buggered if I'm paying for a disk though, so I'll have to resort to more nefarious means.
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A couple of staff laptops have XP Home OEM on them, but for various reasons need to be formatted. There's a license sticker on the machines, so they're already licensed. I just need the install media. Any ideas for the easiest way to go about finding it? A bit daft that Microsoft don't allow a direct download from their website.
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Personally I'd have gone down the whole satan worship route.
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Hang on a second, you said earlier that as a christian you're meant to question your beliefs. By that same measure, you're now saying that those very same beliefs shouldn't be used as a moral compass. So if you don't have firm belief in the bible, and refuse to endorse its moralities, just what kind of christian are you?
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What would you do in this situation? This post contains nanas
fafster replied to reggiep's topic in General Chat
Glad to hear she was ok. My opinion is that your dad's a good man for not wanting to get the nurse in trouble, but then it's still a mistake, and something needs to be done accordingly. Even if it's a review of procedures as has been mentioned. -
I'm not sure that I understand. Do you mean you'd prefer to remain ignorant of a subject, or enjoy the discovery attained through knowledge?
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I'm of the opinion that everyone has an internal compass, which is basically the "Would I be happy if what I'm doing was done to me?" argument. The Christian commandments basically package it up into nice little segments. Let's be fair, if we didn't have the natural capacity for empathy, then we wouldn't be able to form the society that you see today. IMO of course.
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Not an ipaq, but we're considering the T-Mobile G1 for a similar purpose.
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Not really, it's a bit of an oxymoron. I do agree however that a child who knows and accepts their boundaries are going to be better suited to and will be a benefit for society as a whole.
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You mean the ones stating that homosexuality, eating shellfish and putting up christmas trees are sins, but slavery's ok? Very avant-garde Although it seems that Hindus worship multiple gods (shiva, brahma, ganesha etc.), they're actually the many faces of the same god, or divine energy if you will.
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Damnit, pressed the Thanks button instead of quote! I'm not saying adults teach children irresponsibly, you introduced that yourself. I'm saying that children will listen to an adult, and take everything they say as gospel (pardon the pun) when they're especially young. When an adult pays lip service to a particular subject, in this instance religious topics, they will absorb it as an undisputed fact. My argument is that I believe it to be wrong to introduce concepts such as gods and religion to children before they are old enough to be able to make an informed decision. I take no issue with someone's beliefs, so long as they stay theirs.
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But that's simply not true, as countless studies have shown. For a start, humans are programmed by default to respond to authority figures. Children also have a natural compulsion to believe what they are told by adults. When you combine the two, and begin to pass off theological arguments as undisputed facts in schools, I think that is unethical.
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Technically speaking, it's not illegal to download the content, only to upload (share) it. The law only says that it's illegal to distribute copyrighted material for any gain (financial or otherwise).
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@Mark: Do you agree that religious faith is a decision that an individual has to make for themselves? If so, do you see anything wrong in making schools agnostic toward religion in general, so that the pupils can make up their own mind as to their leanings?
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Ok, catalogue time: Various pliers pens paper coffee mug USB pens drives paper glue telephone paper wallet phone (T-Mobile G1 - OOOOOHHHHHH-YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHH!) paper
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Too bloody much.
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Is now the time to mention that I live ten minutes away by car?
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Ok, you explain to me what you define as god, and I'll tell you why it's nonsense
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But that's entirely my point. Any natural phenomenon that couldn't be explained would be described as an act of god. As our understanding of our universe grows, via various methodologies, we attribute less of it to some heavenly creator. Have a quick search for 'God of the gap' to see what I mean.
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No, I mean any kind of god, be it a personal one or general notions of godlikednessability (I'd kick your arse at scrabble, that's for sure) that people subscribe to. I'm paraphrasing a quote here, but the universe is beautiful enough as it is without having to create fantastical solutions to arguments from ignorance. Let's face it, the more advanced we progress as a society, the less is attributed to deities.
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I don't believe the idea of a god is a viable concept. Therefore to me, the teapot analogy isn't all that preposterous.
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It's not arrogance, it's being realistic. In any other discourse, wanting proof of something would be seen as wholly acceptable. It's like when Jack swaps his cow for the magic beans. Granted, in the fable it pays off, but in reality nobody gets golden eggs.
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It could well be. The trouble is I have no way of checking as the LEA control our servers. Cheers dude, I'm going to ask them.
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I'm picking up multiple aliases for the same machines. I'm trying to work out where this issue lies, as there's no reason that a machine's name should change (it's the same as the asset tag). Any ideas? Basically, pinging two different machine names give me the same IP address, and ABControl shows me the same user's working on two machines simultaneously. Is this DNS playing up?