utility

John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, Paragraph 27 This was a blog post that I thought was very interesting and I hope that Keith Brugess-Jackson, who wrote the post, doesn't mind my copypasta. Unless you have express permission from the author, you may not reproduce in full his work.

This is a series of threads about whether religions are *useful*. Is fundamentalist christianty: * good for its believers? * good for their families? * good for the world? Take a utilitarian view please.

This is a series of threads about whether religions are *useful*. Is liberal christianty: * good for its believers? * good for their families? * good for the world? Take a utilitarian view please.

I know this exists somewhere, but I can't seem to find the right search terms. I'm looking for a low-cost program (or plug in) that will take an Excel or SPSS file of frequencies by state, and turn it into a map of the US with the values, or a color to indicate scale. Anyone have suggestions...

Is there a utility that can read a text file with delimited filenames and then auto-select these filenames if they exist in the same directory ? Then one could drag and drop the files to another dir, a burner app, etc. I'm about to write such a util myself but I thought that someone might...

Folks, I've got a customer that the crackers got a hold of, and placed one of those annoying all-space folders on his server so they could share warez. Anyone know of a good utility/method for deleting a folder with invalid characters? I've tried all the usual stuff, ownership, command...

I note that certain posters invoke philosophical arguments to advance positions on various paranormal issues. The question that I have is is there any particular value to philosophy in the understanding of the paranormal or for anything else for that matter. Personally, I find such arguments...