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A family is a right, not a privilege, according to Article 16(1) of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Men and women are also granted equal rights to marriage, and control over the marriage. As it is specified that there should be no discrimination (everyone has equal rights) then there is no reason for preventing homosexual couples from adopting.

I apologise. I thought I had put the name of the dictionary in the Quote part. I can't be bothered to walk back to the University library at the moment and find it however That link includes the word "God" in an example of usage of a synonym of the word "marriage" not in the definition. The actual definitions provided by your source are: No mention of God. Or that the partners have to be male and female. I wouldn't argue it on those grounds. I am following the argument of "Why discriminate against a particular section of society?".

If these privileges and benefits come with a heterosexual marriage, why not a homosexual one? I don't see a reason why these privileges and benefits should not apply to all marriages. The reason minors can't get married is a lack of maturity. Very few minors meet their life partners at their age, and allowing marriage as a minor would simply encourage marriages that wouldn't last.

In the short term we are moving towards more 'applications' on the Internet, and I can only see the frameworks on which they are currently built getting stronger and stronger. Perhaps eventually we will have fully working applications available online, with the same features as their desktop equivalents. I can also see the current services offering an online virtual PC expanding and becoming much more popular.

This definition, and most others I have found, say "two people" not "specifically a man and a woman". So, following logic and the actual definition, a "gay marriage" is a marriage between two homosexual men, two homosexual women or one homosexual man and one homosexual woman. This is true, but there are laws that apply to everyone and are there for the good of society. Then there are things like the prejudice against gay marriage - it is discriminatory against a certain group of people. A free society, or the closest we can get, is surely one which does not discriminate?

Your rights depend very much on where you are, and in fact on personal opinion. The UN constitution, however, sets out basic rights for everyone. Anything on top of that is a right specific to one country. For example, taking your example of owning firearms (below) - I don't consider this a right, as I don't live in a country where it is legal. I believe in a right to defend yourself using reasonable force (which at the moment the law doesn't) but I don't believe in the right to a gun unless the government has lost control of its population and cannot stem the tide of illegal guns. Only four of those are rights. Owning firearms is not a universal right. It is legal to own firearms, but it shouldn't be called a right in the same way as the others. Article 16(3) of the UDHR states that the family is a fundamental part of society and something everyone has a right to. You can extend this to saying that the right to adoption is included, especially if it is the only way to form a family. Article 7 states that all are equal before the law. If a law applies to couples then it applies regardless of the people in that couple. That covers tax benefits, social security and workers' compensation. Think of the principles of these forms of social security - the same hardships and needs are faced by all couples, not just those of a man and woman, so why shouldn't same-sex couples be entitled to the same benefits? And why not to a ceremonial marriage, if marriage is a right?

A warning stops your myCENTs being added to your billing account, so a warning will only affect you if your hosting/domain is up for renewal and you don't already have enough in your billing account to cover the invoice. The domain can be used anywhere. You can set the nameservers to anything you like, although they are defaultly configured to point to Xisto's nameservers. You can purchase Linux hosting a domain separately. Or you can order the Ideal plan, which includes a free domain if paid yearly (or every two years). Shared hosting gives you a set of limited shared resources on a server, shared among many other people. Limits are usually set for things like space, MySQL databases, bandwidth per month, etc. A dedicated server is a whole computer to yourself. You are only limited by the physical hardware in the machine. A VPS (virtual private server) is usually a partition or virtual machine on a physical server, which appears to you like a separate machine. You are still limited in resources, although the limits are high, but you can usually install modules and software that you require. This is email hosting, hosted on a dedicated cluster of email servers. This is a method of load balancing and fault tolerance. With every request to your website, rather than a singe IP address being returned, a list of IP addresses are returned where the website/FTP/email/whatever can be accessed, with the list being rotated by one IP address each time it is used. This balances load across many servers and is more fault-tolerant than a single IP address. You can access *.yoursite.tld and usually serve specific pages depending on the subdomain used. This is easier than individually configuring the subdomains, and allows them to change automatically (as they don't actually exist, they're just parsed by a script). Shell access is access to the console/command line for your hosting account. It is sometimes needed for certain installations, although most people can do without it. I believe it is made available on request to the support department if you have a valid reason for it. In your cPanel you have access to a backup system, which you can use to make a backup of your site whenever you want, and have the backup saved on the server, or transferred by FTP to another server. The server admins take a weekly backup of the databases, so that if any problems occur they can restore the backup. These are all provided for free. I'm not sure. Send a support ticket to the Sales department and they will get back to you on exactly what is included. I would imagine it is, but just check to be on the safe side.

Perhaps I could have phrased myself better. The original word, which was translated into 'circle', meant specifically a flat 2D circle, and never meant 'sphere'. This was translated, correctly, into the word 'circle'. The incorrect meaning of the word 'circle' used by many people, to mean a sphere, was used as evidence to say the Bible sees the world as a sphere. It actually shows the exact opposite - the Bible states the world is a flat circle. Yes. The measurement used is irrelevant - it is the ratio used that is in question. He could have measured the diameter in bananas for all I care - but you would still need 3.14159... times that number to go all the way around, not just 3 times, and the value of pi was known much more accurately than that. OK, then you just doubled the problem: Neariah and Elioenai are not included in their totals, so why include Shemaiah in the first? The New International Version is no more accurate. The fact that there are these different conflicting versions just shows the Bible is not the inerrant word of God. The jury is still out

In the Bible, and in the language of the time, the word 'circle' meant literally that - a flat, 2D, circular shape. It never meant a sphere. All references in the Bible point to the 'circle of the earth', implying it was actually believed that the earth was a flat circular shape rather than the spherical shape the Greeks knew was correct. The idea of a canopy over the earth wouldn't make sense if the passage referred to a spherical earth - how could you stretch a canopy over a sphere? The imagery of this tent-like canopy suggests a flat circular earth with the sky (heavens) placed above it like a big dome. The Bible also manages to get a cornerstone of mathematics and geometry gravely wrong. The value of pi, according to the Bible is exactly 3: At the time, far more accurate representations for pi were known. In 1650 BCE the Egyptians estimated it at 3.16049. By 250 BCE, Archimedes had got it down to 3.14163 - within 0.001% of the value used today. Bringing the maths down a level, the writers of the Bible managed to fail at basic counting too! Erm... I make it 5. Nope. 15 methinks. I find it hard to believe that the Bible can predict major scientific discoveries, yet fail at the basic mathematics and assumptions. And this only leads me to doubt its accuracy further.

I can access the pages just fine, so the problem is specific to a few computers. Do you have the IP addresses of those computers that can't access the sites, and have you forwarded those IP addresses to support? They should then be able to see if they are IP banned. If it is happening on a lot of different PCs, do they have anything in common? Are they all with the same ISP, or behind certain firewall settings?

You just need a monitor you are happy with. The maximum resolution for the 9800GT is 2560x1600. To use that to its full, you're looking at getting a 30" display, like the Apple Cinema HD 30" for £1104 or this Dell 3008WFP 30" for the slightly cheaper £1000. Of course, it is unlikely you actually need something like that, but they will use your card to its full. I would actually recommend getting a 19" or 21" screen of the highest quality you can afford. You won't be using the maximum resolution of your graphics card, but it's a much more sensible option

I'm getting that error appearing occasionally too. I guess it's down to some modifications or adjustments to the forum by OpaQue.

There are a couple of links from a quick Google search: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://www.phpclasses.org/package/593-PHP-Class-for-imaginary-number-calculations.html Depending on what you need to do with them, however, it might just be easier to split the number into two variables - one representing the real part, and the other representing the imaginary part, then just bring them together for the output.

Take a look at this Launchpad bug report and its many duplicates. There are a few difference suggestions for solutions offered there.

Qupis works fine for me just typing the address in - no need to use the IP address first. If you want a direct link to the relevant pages: Sign Up: http://forums.xisto.com/qupis/free-web-hosting-sign-up.htm then http://forums.xisto.com/qupis/order/ Login: http://forums.xisto.com/qupis/free-web-space-login.html

I'm not sure what lstmerge.cgi is, but it appears to be banned due to using large amounts of server resources and the possibility of causing harm to other accounts (according to other web hosts). Being old, outdated and unmaintained, any security holes that are found will never get fixed, making the script incredibly vulnerable. Not only this, but it used a flat-file system to run itself. With a popular forum, that causes incredible server load, and therefore a detrimental effect on all other accounts hosted on the same server. Now, database-driven forums are much better and less damaging to the server resources. phpBB, vBulletin, etc. are all currently maintained. Therefore any security holes are found quickly and patches released. This drastically reduces the risk in running one of those forums, as long as you keep it up to date. Not sure actually. If you are interested then feel free to check with support and I'm sure they can help you out.

There is also a phone number provided for that domain, and both of you are located in the US, so you could always phone the owner and get an instant response out of them.

The scripts are now approaching seven years without an update, and as such are very buggy and outdated compared to newer coding standards, and the latest version of Perl. There are replacements from The nms Project available here which claim to be less buggy and better written. Other than that I'm not sure why they would have been banned, but there are plenty of ways of achieving what those scripts achieved that are allowed at Xisto. Update After more reading around, it seems that the scripts from Matt's Script Archive have been banned by a large number of hosts for two main reasons. Firstly they use a large amount of server resources compared to other methods, and that can have an adverse effect on other users if you send a lot of emails. Secondly, being outdated and buggy, spammers can easily use the scripts to send their own spam emails without you knowing, again leading to increased server load and security problems.

Glad you've got it working :PAs a matter of interest, the plugin problems appear to stem from the gstreamer0.10-plugins-base package. Make sure it is actually installed, then check the paths given by the apt-file command and make sure the files are actually there.

It would be possible with Linux and backup2l. Have a cron job run backup2l every 10 minutes, and configure backup2l to keep however many backups you wanted. Just beware that a full hard disk backup will take longer than 10 minutes, so you would want to use it incrementally, so that only changed files are stored in the majority of backups (full backups are made much less often).

Your questions have already been answered well by other members, but I feel I can add the following. As far as I know you should not have your myCENTs taken away like that, but I'm not sure if they have written a way to refund them yet Definitely submit a ticket to request for the myCENTs to be returned, or for you to receive your hosting. Provide a link to this topic and explain (like you have above) what has happened. It is unusual for the warning to get lifted after only 2 or 3 days. However, you can always send a PM to the moderator who issued it to see if they are willing to remove it. If not, just continue making good quality posts and following the rules and it will be removed soon. Also, as I understand it, you still earn myCENTs for your posts when you have a warning, they just don't get added to your billing account until the warning is removed.

Try installing the following packages if they are not yet installed: Failing that, run Totem from the command line and see if you get a more useful error from the console when you try to play a video. You can also try the following. Navigate to $HOME/.gstreamer-0.X/ and delete all the registry.*.xml files. Then open the console and run sudo gst-inspect.

The best way to match settings is to compare the outputs of the phpinfo function for the Xisto - Web Hosting server and for your local server. Create a PHP file that contains the following: <?phpphpinfo();?> Upload one copy to your Xisto - Web Hosting account, and the other to your local server. Open them both in a web browser and compare the differences. Most can be changed using the configuration file php.ini, which is fairly self explanatory. However, if you spot a difference you don't know how to correct then let us know and we will do our best to get a solution.

I've never used LiveCopy, but it appears to be more of a synchronising software, something similar to Microsoft's Briefcases. Basically, it would keep two folders synchronised to make sure they both always have the latest versions of the files inside them, no matter which copy was edited. So no, unfortunately that's not really a suitable piece of software for doing incremental backups. Take a look at the link I provided in my original post for Windows software, or search for some: search:incremental backup windows

KDE4 allows you to make windows partially transparent by scrolling the scroll wheel over the title bar of the window. So, you can use any video player you like (my personal choice is MPlayer), and make it partially transparent. That should work OK for what you want to do.