Because it will mean that del Toro's attention will once again be distracted from what he was born to do. Namely bringing At the Mountains of Madness to the big screen.
Well, there are a few things to take into consideration here. One is that procreation won't stop just because dying stops. Which will mean that there are still opportunities for the population to evolve.
The other on is that longer lifespans and regenerative abilities would definitely help us in the conquering of space, which is an evolutionary advantage compared to staying around here waiting for the next ELE to come around.
And since we as a species have the life expectancy of about (pulling random but plausible number out of hat) another 500 years or so (at best) unless we shape up signifcantly, we're not doing any natural evolution. Let's just kickstart all the genes we have and hope one of them does something usefull.
3 is "close enough" if you are working with primitive hand tools and haven't the need or resources for monumental architecture and engineering. Now, normally I'd be the first to say that this makes sense but really... when did the bible stop creating the need for monumental architecture?
It's interesting to me that over the millions of years of evolution life has gone through, we're still using the same basic outlines for anatomy. Which basically tells us how great those outlines are. Why would evolution mess with something that's so beautifully adaptive to the environment?
But if he's saying that A is sufficient for B but not necessary he's effectively counterarguing his own point. Wouldn't that be unproductive?
Let's remove the ambiguous use of sufficient and examine the statements avaiable:
Large bodies of water is necessary for life
Large bodies of water is not necessary for life
Now if we return the word sufficient to the statements:
Large bodies of water is sufficient and necessary for life (this is a redundant statement, if it's necessary no other caracteristic is intresting)
Large bodies of water is sufficient but not necessary for life (this means life could come into existance in large bodies of water of any other of a plethora of possible points of origin since the large bodies of water in themselves isn't necessary)
I'm not sure we are quite to that point yet. What we currently call "machine intelligence" is not quite up to the intelligence level of a cockroach. There's no harm in being prepared.
When our 22 feet cybernetic robot masters come I have my "Welcome" banner allready painted and prepared.
...iTunes are ridiculously overpriced.
But hey... Who am I to stand in the way of the record company exec's wet dream of selling stuff that costs virtually nothing to store, reproduce and distirbute (once the neccesary infrastructure is paid for that is) at prices equaling the ones where record store owners and their employees had to get a piece of the action.
Early reports from beta testing of Humans Longhorn indicate that the increased security features mainly consist of nagpop's and blocking of almost every function. Before a patch was released to allow it to be shut down several beta testers suffocated due to a function that prompted "It seem's like lungs.exe is trying to access oxygen, if this is correct press 'Yes'"
I think the "problem" with the radiohead site is you have to go through a specific place for that one album and navigate an unfamiliar site. People want one place to get whatever they want. That's a common factor between iTunes, Napster, allofmp3.com, and whatever filesharing network is in vogue currently. yeah, because the radiohead download site with just one clickable piece of text that takes you to the download is so horribly hard to navigate.
On a more general note I can agree with you, of course. But that's mainly a matter of infrastructure. Enough artists banding together using this method of payment and distribution and it's no longer an issue.
The Phrase "where the sun don't shine" applies to Goatse as well. Even more so, since the sun will be to affraid to shine and hide itself behind a cloud should it ever be brought face to orifice with Goatse.
Technically speaking if everyone made pages for their users instead of for Googlebot they would all rank similar as they are doing now but without the clutter.
The problem obviously being that you cannot get everyone in the whole world behaving for the common good, so instead everyone behaves like an asshatt.
Quite clearly, you've never tried using gadgets. Gadgets are the paradigm-shift (I hope I can still use that word) we've all been waiting for.
Why I myself am about to ditch OS X in favor of gadget... err Vista.
If you can't see the insurmountable value of gadgets, and that their existence warrants a 7 year development cycle, multiple delays and feature reduction not to mention complete industry IT overhaul and user re-training, then, you sir are not a visionary, and should promptly log out of this site, and clear your history.
Good riddance I say! But, but...?
Wouldn't the natural order of things then be to strap the damn gadgets into an OS that works?
The funniest Vista-story that I have experienced personally is trying to install Outlook on one of the office's new Vista laptops. When trying to reach the outsourced Exchange server to verify the user name and to join him to the exchange domain (don't ask about our domain setup, it's a nightmare) Outlook promptly refused to connect. No error messages, no explanation. It just acted as if the server wasn't to be found. Until I shut down Vista's Firewall.
In XP you get notified when a program tries to access the internet and asked if you want to block it or not.
In Vista it's just blocked without any notice. Even microsoft software (which of course shouldn't be trusted by anyone, but you'd think Microsoft themselves could do an exception).
It's not the worst part. Remember that you now have to account for the direction of every break. Is it fifteen centimeters up or fifteen centimeters right? And how does that affect the language when you're told that you've got seven centimeters left of your break?
Doesn't the general concept of Radio as a mass media and Radio Stations paying to the royalty collecting organizations kind of cover the idea that more than one person might listen to a radio broadcast?
At least that's what I gathered from my venture into the radio and television buisnesses.
So, evidently what the Performing Rights Society are wanting to have set into brittish legal praxis is the following:
"We are irredeemable idiots, please someone kill us now and spare us the embarrasment of realization."
Prostitution only comes first because being a priest just doesn't qualify as a job.
"The god of thunder thinks you should give me the best meat on the mammoth for sitting on my fat ass and telling him not to strike you dead." is about as much a job as being the head of the RIAA.
Mohammad fucking Christ on a pogo stick.... Where the fuck did you get the idea that the GP poster gives a crap one way or the other about how Christianity compares to Islam? "Yeah, well Christianity was doing it too!" Fucking apologist bullshit is what that is. If your best defense is an indictment of others, your position is pretty fucking bad. I do thing the basic fucking principle is explained in the previous posters closing statement:
If you are going to single out Islam, make sure its what makes it especially more repulsive than other religions, not pointing out the same flaws the others have. Wouldn't you say?
Apart from being pretty biased and full of bile you do manage to insert a lot of stupidity into a post that if written correctly and based more on fact than on bias could have been pretty relevant to the discussion.
A big problem with the concept of islam is that it does not allow for change (much like the christian fundamentalists treat the bible) and exegetic interpretation of the scripture would indeed be a good thing.
However, since you're obviously so full of misinformation and you completely fail to provide any sources to your pretty massive accusations, it all ends up as a quite trite hate rant. Which might have been your intention all along, I won't judge you for that, but it's depressing to see that people mod you as "insightfull". That'd be like someone posting that old numerological trick where "William Gates Jr" is turned into "666" and be modded "insigthfull" (wait, this is slashdot... it probably allready happend, bad analogy... sorry).
To answer what you seem to think is your most significant and poignant argument: Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for?
As any student of arabic, non-christian religion or just the world outside your cubicle in general might tell you. "Allah" is the general arabic word for god. The muslim declaration of faith, the Shahaada, states "Laa ilaaha illa Allah" a popular translation among those of lesser education is "there is no god but Allah" but it does in fact litteraly mean "There is no god but God". You don't go confuse Yahweh/God with Odin, Zeus or Ganesha... so why would you choose to do it in the case of Allah/God?
"Abd", by the way, does not cleanly translate into "Slave" although this is a very popular translation among those wishing to spread disinformation about the religion in question. It can just as well mean "Servant". Abd'allah is "the servant of god" not necessarily meaning the one god of islam (even though the worship of Yahweh/God predates Mohammed even in the arabic part of the world, though he did not have a monopoly on being allah right then).
And do please enlighten me, what is "the nature of the Ka'aba"? Please do not include fuzzy blanket statements but give a brief description of both the Muslim "falsification" (as you'd put it) and the "true undiluted nature". Otherwise I'll just assume that you just copy+paste irrelevant crap you found on some hatepage on the net. (links to sources would be appreciated)
Regarding Aisha, if Mohammeed indeed violated her sexually at the age of five that is serious (even though standards and practices were diffrent in those days) and definitely morally wrong (even by that day and age's lax standards). But as far as I know she was just married to him, there are no accounts of exactly when they had sex. So it's pretty much just a anti-islamic strawman. We can't for sure say it happened so using it as a argument is strained at best.
Regarding Safiyya bint Huyayy I'd say that while a vile praxis it was nevertheless praxis among quite a lot of historacal figures ranging from the crusaders to Genghis Khan. So, even tough it would seem morally reproachible to us (rape of female captives or civilian bystanders in war is still practiced in this day and age though - even, if the reports are correct, by american soldiers) it is nothing to be particularly suprised at. If Jesus had mounted a military campaign against the romans he would have done the same.
So, while I (as an agnostic and anecclesiast), welcome debate about the exegetic origins of the Qur'an and do definitely agree that a lot of muslims (both fundamentalist and otherwise) do use their scripture in a reproachible way. I think the way you present you criticism is both unenlightened and counterproductive to an actual debate.
They're definitely the band with the largest media exposure and the highest recognition factor though. Swedens Royal Downfall gave away their second album on Mp3 but I bet you an entire download of Radioheads latest that you never heard about them.
Nerdy cthulhupunkers Darkest of the Hillside Thickets used to promote people to download their songs through Napster since it would be hard to get them overseas, but still nobody knows much about them or their lovely lovecraftian music.
Radiohead on the other hand... you can pick almost anyone from my generation and they'll know who Radiohead are. And to be honest, that's what's needed and why this is newsworthy material.
I could create all the avant garde black metal I wanted and give it away for free on the Internet, but I wouldn't create a buzz. We need the huge stars to get this bandwagon really rolling.
I think it was the great and always dead on Terry Pratchett who said that highway robbers is what people who want to live of others become in worlds that have yet to invent the recording industry.
They've also decided to ban fat chicks since the added polygon of the mandatory fat avatars count slows down the servers.
A ban on fat guys was discussed but deemed economically unfeasible.
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Because it will mean that del Toro's attention will once again be distracted from what he was born to do. Namely bringing At the Mountains of Madness to the big screen.
Well, there are a few things to take into consideration here. One is that procreation won't stop just because dying stops. Which will mean that there are still opportunities for the population to evolve.
The other on is that longer lifespans and regenerative abilities would definitely help us in the conquering of space, which is an evolutionary advantage compared to staying around here waiting for the next ELE to come around.
And since we as a species have the life expectancy of about (pulling random but plausible number out of hat) another 500 years or so (at best) unless we shape up signifcantly, we're not doing any natural evolution. Let's just kickstart all the genes we have and hope one of them does something usefull.
No no no... you don't understand. The bay of pigs made the US look bad, and thus it was wrong of Cuba to be involved. ;)
Dammit, don't go smear my wonderous conviction with your filthy science. Astronomy is just Astrology in fancy dress anyways... ;P
But if he's saying that A is sufficient for B but not necessary he's effectively counterarguing his own point. Wouldn't that be unproductive? Let's remove the ambiguous use of sufficient and examine the statements avaiable:
Large bodies of water is necessary for life
Large bodies of water is not necessary for life
Now if we return the word sufficient to the statements:
Large bodies of water is sufficient and necessary for life (this is a redundant statement, if it's necessary no other caracteristic is intresting)
Large bodies of water is sufficient but not necessary for life (this means life could come into existance in large bodies of water of any other of a plethora of possible points of origin since the large bodies of water in themselves isn't necessary)
When our 22 feet cybernetic robot masters come I have my "Welcome" banner allready painted and prepared.
...iTunes are ridiculously overpriced. But hey... Who am I to stand in the way of the record company exec's wet dream of selling stuff that costs virtually nothing to store, reproduce and distirbute (once the neccesary infrastructure is paid for that is) at prices equaling the ones where record store owners and their employees had to get a piece of the action.
Early reports from beta testing of Humans Longhorn indicate that the increased security features mainly consist of nagpop's and blocking of almost every function. Before a patch was released to allow it to be shut down several beta testers suffocated due to a function that prompted "It seem's like lungs.exe is trying to access oxygen, if this is correct press 'Yes'"
On a more general note I can agree with you, of course. But that's mainly a matter of infrastructure. Enough artists banding together using this method of payment and distribution and it's no longer an issue.
The Phrase "where the sun don't shine" applies to Goatse as well. Even more so, since the sun will be to affraid to shine and hide itself behind a cloud should it ever be brought face to orifice with Goatse.
Wouldn't a lot of the Lipo-patients be the same people who think Stem Cell research is part of the Devils great plan to anihillate all life?
Technically speaking if everyone made pages for their users instead of for Googlebot they would all rank similar as they are doing now but without the clutter.
The problem obviously being that you cannot get everyone in the whole world behaving for the common good, so instead everyone behaves like an asshatt.
Wouldn't the natural order of things then be to strap the damn gadgets into an OS that works?
The funniest Vista-story that I have experienced personally is trying to install Outlook on one of the office's new Vista laptops. When trying to reach the outsourced Exchange server to verify the user name and to join him to the exchange domain (don't ask about our domain setup, it's a nightmare) Outlook promptly refused to connect. No error messages, no explanation. It just acted as if the server wasn't to be found. Until I shut down Vista's Firewall.
In XP you get notified when a program tries to access the internet and asked if you want to block it or not. In Vista it's just blocked without any notice. Even microsoft software (which of course shouldn't be trusted by anyone, but you'd think Microsoft themselves could do an exception).
You'd weigh about a sixth of what you weigh on earth. As I see it it's good reason for a lot of us slashdotters to move to the moon.
It's not the worst part. Remember that you now have to account for the direction of every break. Is it fifteen centimeters up or fifteen centimeters right? And how does that affect the language when you're told that you've got seven centimeters left of your break?
Doesn't the general concept of Radio as a mass media and Radio Stations paying to the royalty collecting organizations kind of cover the idea that more than one person might listen to a radio broadcast?
At least that's what I gathered from my venture into the radio and television buisnesses.
So, evidently what the Performing Rights Society are wanting to have set into brittish legal praxis is the following:
"We are irredeemable idiots, please someone kill us now and spare us the embarrasment of realization."
I'm kind of fine with that message.
Prostitution only comes first because being a priest just doesn't qualify as a job.
"The god of thunder thinks you should give me the best meat on the mammoth for sitting on my fat ass and telling him not to strike you dead." is about as much a job as being the head of the RIAA.
If you are going to single out Islam, make sure its what makes it especially more repulsive than other religions, not pointing out the same flaws the others have. Wouldn't you say?
OXYGEN? Lucky. Back in MY day there was simply nothing, and after a while it blew up.
Yeah, it blew up. Because you damned kids just wouldn't stop fiddling with it. Back in my day we respected nothing.
Apart from being pretty biased and full of bile you do manage to insert a lot of stupidity into a post that if written correctly and based more on fact than on bias could have been pretty relevant to the discussion.
A big problem with the concept of islam is that it does not allow for change (much like the christian fundamentalists treat the bible) and exegetic interpretation of the scripture would indeed be a good thing.
However, since you're obviously so full of misinformation and you completely fail to provide any sources to your pretty massive accusations, it all ends up as a quite trite hate rant. Which might have been your intention all along, I won't judge you for that, but it's depressing to see that people mod you as "insightfull". That'd be like someone posting that old numerological trick where "William Gates Jr" is turned into "666" and be modded "insigthfull" (wait, this is slashdot... it probably allready happend, bad analogy... sorry).
To answer what you seem to think is your most significant and poignant argument:
Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for?
As any student of arabic, non-christian religion or just the world outside your cubicle in general might tell you. "Allah" is the general arabic word for god. The muslim declaration of faith, the Shahaada, states "Laa ilaaha illa Allah" a popular translation among those of lesser education is "there is no god but Allah" but it does in fact litteraly mean "There is no god but God". You don't go confuse Yahweh/God with Odin, Zeus or Ganesha... so why would you choose to do it in the case of Allah/God?
"Abd", by the way, does not cleanly translate into "Slave" although this is a very popular translation among those wishing to spread disinformation about the religion in question. It can just as well mean "Servant". Abd'allah is "the servant of god" not necessarily meaning the one god of islam (even though the worship of Yahweh/God predates Mohammed even in the arabic part of the world, though he did not have a monopoly on being allah right then).
And do please enlighten me, what is "the nature of the Ka'aba"? Please do not include fuzzy blanket statements but give a brief description of both the Muslim "falsification" (as you'd put it) and the "true undiluted nature". Otherwise I'll just assume that you just copy+paste irrelevant crap you found on some hatepage on the net. (links to sources would be appreciated)
Regarding Aisha, if Mohammeed indeed violated her sexually at the age of five that is serious (even though standards and practices were diffrent in those days) and definitely morally wrong (even by that day and age's lax standards). But as far as I know she was just married to him, there are no accounts of exactly when they had sex. So it's pretty much just a anti-islamic strawman. We can't for sure say it happened so using it as a argument is strained at best.
Regarding Safiyya bint Huyayy I'd say that while a vile praxis it was nevertheless praxis among quite a lot of historacal figures ranging from the crusaders to Genghis Khan. So, even tough it would seem morally reproachible to us (rape of female captives or civilian bystanders in war is still practiced in this day and age though - even, if the reports are correct, by american soldiers) it is nothing to be particularly suprised at. If Jesus had mounted a military campaign against the romans he would have done the same.
So, while I (as an agnostic and anecclesiast), welcome debate about the exegetic origins of the Qur'an and do definitely agree that a lot of muslims (both fundamentalist and otherwise) do use their scripture in a reproachible way. I think the way you present you criticism is both unenlightened and counterproductive to an actual debate.
They're definitely the band with the largest media exposure and the highest recognition factor though.
Swedens Royal Downfall gave away their second album on Mp3 but I bet you an entire download of Radioheads latest that you never heard about them.
Nerdy cthulhupunkers Darkest of the Hillside Thickets used to promote people to download their songs through Napster since it would be hard to get them overseas, but still nobody knows much about them or their lovely lovecraftian music.
Radiohead on the other hand... you can pick almost anyone from my generation and they'll know who Radiohead are. And to be honest, that's what's needed and why this is newsworthy material.
I could create all the avant garde black metal I wanted and give it away for free on the Internet, but I wouldn't create a buzz. We need the huge stars to get this bandwagon really rolling.
I think it was the great and always dead on Terry Pratchett who said that highway robbers is what people who want to live of others become in worlds that have yet to invent the recording industry.
They've also decided to ban fat chicks since the added polygon of the mandatory fat avatars count slows down the servers. A ban on fat guys was discussed but deemed economically unfeasible.