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Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by fartcannon »

leros wrote: post #11
pmcollins wrote: post #5

I always found it interesting that sqlite was released into the public domain only a few days after 9/11. Surely, this was not a coincidence.

SQLite feels older to me than that. Weird

Kids born after 9/11 can drink in most countries at this point. Some will have graduated university and are working among us.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by loeg »

fartcannon wrote: post #21
leros wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SQLite feels older to me than that. Weird

Kids born after 9/11 can drink in most countries at this point. Some will have graduated university and are working among us.

And a lot of kids born before 9/11 don't remember it, and they're in the workforce now.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by fartcannon »

throwaway984393 wrote: post #6
Georgelemental wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The author's obvious preference for subjective ethics" I doubt this interpretation, given SQLite's Code of Ethics ( https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html ). Abrahamic faiths and subjective ethics don't go well together; "I am the way, the truth, and the life" doesn't leave much room for alternatives.

What's funny is the principals of what modern progresive intellectuals find right or wrong were introduced by Abrahamic (specifically Christian) teachings. Before that, the whole framework of the poor or meek being something everyone should protect wasn't a common idea. Even devout Atheists are basically Christian philosophers with scientific faith replacing theistic faith.

Is it necessary for all Atheists to have faith in science? Science is a process to figure out the universe, not a thing/person/god. It's not the only way to know stuff, its just a good way. If the argument is that some people say Science as if it was some god, well, not much I can argue against there. Certainly not all atheists though. Otherwise, I agree that modern people took some of the good stuff old religions. It's so hard to know the truth, even about ourselves.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by sb057 »

DylanSp wrote: post #9

Has anyone heard of any issues using SQLite in jurisdictions without a concept of the public domain? The copyright page [1] seems to imply that you'd need to buy a license from Hwaci. [1] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

It remains an open legal question (at least in the United States) whether or not an author even can voluntarily release something into the public domain. Hwaci could theoretically decide that, actually, that they never really put SQLite in the public domain and in fact possess full copyright over it and would like not only current and future licensing fees, but also retroactive fees from everyone who's used it over the past 20 years without legal permission. Lawsuits ensue, pandemonium happens, etc.

However, if you actually did acquire a license from them beforehand (when it was still theoretically free), they'd have no ground to sue and such a case brought against you would be thrown out of court immediately.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by yongjik »

loeg wrote: post #22
fartcannon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids born after 9/11 can drink in most countries at this point. Some will have graduated university and are working among us.

And a lot of kids born before 9/11 don't remember it, and they're in the workforce now.

Recently saw a Reddit thread with "Were the twin towers famous before they fell?" Felt old.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Georgelemental wrote: post #14
themodelplumber wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no reference to any Code of Ethics in the linked space above, though. Contextually the blessing text is completely subjective. (PS Are you also saying they have objectively measured the existence of God, or the divinity of Christ...?)

I'm saying that Abrahamic faiths generally don't leave any room for "my truth" being different from "your truth." There is only one Truth with a capital T, because there is only one God with a capital G. So if two people differ on some point of doctrine or ethics, one of them must be Right and the other must be Wrong. Mere mortals might not be able to determine which is which with perfect accuracy, but the One True G…

That still leaves the human realm mired in subjectivity. I think "there is no true ethics system" and "there is a true ethics system but we can only access hints toward it" go together quite well.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by wolverine876 »

Georgelemental wrote: post #14
themodelplumber wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no reference to any Code of Ethics in the linked space above, though. Contextually the blessing text is completely subjective. (PS Are you also saying they have objectively measured the existence of God, or the divinity of Christ...?)

I'm saying that Abrahamic faiths generally don't leave any room for "my truth" being different from "your truth." There is only one Truth with a capital T, because there is only one God with a capital G. So if two people differ on some point of doctrine or ethics, one of them must be Right and the other must be Wrong. Mere mortals might not be able to determine which is which with perfect accuracy, but the One True G…

That's not how almost everyone I know interprets and practices them, and the scriptures themselves are frequently vague and inconsistent.

Re: In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing

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Post by collegeburner »

Georgelemental wrote: post #4

See also the Code of Ethics: https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

I can't respons to randerson's comment directly because it's dead, I'd recommend he look at Aquinas' just war theory and other Christian ideas on when war is ok. There are many problems with the military industrial complex we have but that does not mean we should have no defense. Guided missile destroyers fulfill a legitimate defense role and would be needed even if we were much less interventionist.
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