Their comments are made even more worthless by the fact that they have other sites advertising on theirs. On that page they have IGE, mmorpg-shop, and others. Gamer to gamer my ass, they're just a clearing house for everyone, and gamers can also participate if they'd like.
That's not dumb at all. If someone wants to win a monopoly game bad enough, paying real money for another player to give them an advantage is the first thing that comes to mind. What they should really do is disallow any trading at all.
Just seems like more people and more people want to make a buck no matter who they trample over. They're trampling over people with this service? What you have is a person with excess gold meeting a person with excess money and the two agreeing to fix the other's problem. It seems to me that Blizzard should not be regulating behavior outside the game.
The DRIVER for the hardware was the problem, not the hardware itself. As long as Tivo releases the modifications to the system, then the community could release its own hardware to run the Tivo software.
Umm, I don't know who modded the parent troll, but let's be honest, when the story's went for nearly five minutes with nothing but this post, he might actually be right. Just sayin'.
Belief without evidence seems to be to be belief without truth. The word "seems" kills any actual attempts at, you know, reason. A lot of things "seem" to be true without being true.
Religious faith typically means belief without empirical evidence. I believe that my girlfriend loves me, but I have no empirical evidence for it. Any evidence I have that my girlfriend loves me would be just as strong as the evidence I have that God exists. A lot of personal beliefs won't stand up to scientific rigor because scientific rigor is, well, rigorous.
faith in god is equivalent to faith in invisible unicorns or any other fanciful thing It's actually not; beliefs that can't be proven are only mocked and considered fanciful if very few people believe them. The majority of people in the US and around the world have some faith in a religion, whereas very few people around the world believe in invisible unicorns.
Yeah, the GPL shouldn't stick its nose into hardware at all. I understand why "Tivoisation" bothers them, but honestly, it's hardware guys, a fairly expensive piece too. The GPL isn't meant to deal with hardware and shouldn't.
Faith doesn't necessarily mean ignorance. I've studied evolution more than the average person and I feel I understand it fairly well. People who love knowledge will love that knowledge whether they believe in God or not. Yes, God is always a convenient answer, but people who would accept "God did it" as the final answer are the same people who, without believing in God, would just shrug it off anyway. I sincerely believe in a God who cares about me personally and actively participated in the creation of the earth, but I don't know how He actively participated and He didn't put a fossil record there to just fool people. So yes, it's very convenient to say God did something and accept that as the answer, but it's also just as easy to paint people as a certain stereotype and not look any deeper. Both are equally ignorant and equally dangerous.
Not only that, but with the small sample size, it's actually relatively likely that you'd end with a distribution that skewed, even under completely random conditions.
Yes, either that or it's a simple matter of which hosting solution they chose and the fact that the sample size is too small to tell if there's a significant difference between the choices of the two parties. But don't let Occam's Razor stop you from believing in the conspiracy.
Not to say that I believe in ID theory, but your reasoning faces the flaw that what you consider simple and elegant is vastly different than what an omniscient being with infinite mental capacity believes is simple. Also, nature selects for the simple and elegant anyway, therefore the general human form/mechanics would be indistinguishable from an intelligently designed human, especially after 5,000 years of mistakes with two genetic bottlenecks. The genetics might be different, but the general form wouldn't be.
But Dude, like, don't you totally realize that, like, intelligent design can also, you know, mean, like, that an intelligent and benevolent being directed the course of evolution? Using that model, you could totally say that Linus is like that benevolent dude who guides the evolution...intelligently.
but [kittens] don't have opposable thumbs! How will they hit the space bar? They don't have to hit the spacebar since it's html; the browser will strip out all the whitespace anyway.
Agreed. This tells us absolutely nothing about the candidates themselves. However, what it can tell us is what their supporters believe. And the prediction that linus will win is easy, linux is used by the most candidates. One study I'd like to see is if political affiliation correlates to a particular OS for average users.
Does anyone actually believe the candidates care about what they're running? If you look, almost all of them are using a hosting company which, to me, indicates that they just don't care what OS they're running. Like every other client in the world, they're just worried about having a web page up and running and they don't care if it's a kitten in a box typing out the html every time a request comes in. They just care if it works. While interesting, I can't for the life of me understand why people would think it's a political issue what OS their sites are running on.
I agree. It's unfamiliar and, to be blunt, not done well enough or polished enough or even good looking enough for me to use it. I'm still on the old discussion system and I love it. The new one just doesn't cut it for me.
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You can thank Rick Moranis for that one. Any movie based on acquiring beer is sure to win the worlds love and respect.
It's interesting to see Italy continuing the patronage tradition on the government level. Who knows, it could work out again.
Because the $20 bill have value?
Awesome post sir. Is there any way that we can get your music and see how we like it?
Their comments are made even more worthless by the fact that they have other sites advertising on theirs. On that page they have IGE, mmorpg-shop, and others. Gamer to gamer my ass, they're just a clearing house for everyone, and gamers can also participate if they'd like.
So, it's this site's fault that people go into a potentially illegal money exchange and get scammed?
That's not dumb at all. If someone wants to win a monopoly game bad enough, paying real money for another player to give them an advantage is the first thing that comes to mind. What they should really do is disallow any trading at all.
The DRIVER for the hardware was the problem, not the hardware itself. As long as Tivo releases the modifications to the system, then the community could release its own hardware to run the Tivo software.
Umm, I don't know who modded the parent troll, but let's be honest, when the story's went for nearly five minutes with nothing but this post, he might actually be right. Just sayin'.
Religious faith typically means belief without empirical evidence. I believe that my girlfriend loves me, but I have no empirical evidence for it. Any evidence I have that my girlfriend loves me would be just as strong as the evidence I have that God exists. A lot of personal beliefs won't stand up to scientific rigor because scientific rigor is, well, rigorous. faith in god is equivalent to faith in invisible unicorns or any other fanciful thing It's actually not; beliefs that can't be proven are only mocked and considered fanciful if very few people believe them. The majority of people in the US and around the world have some faith in a religion, whereas very few people around the world believe in invisible unicorns.
Deathly Hallows, sir. It's Richard Stallman and the Deathly Hallows.
No offense, but with his hair and beard, I've always thought of him as more of a Hagrid.
Yeah, the GPL shouldn't stick its nose into hardware at all. I understand why "Tivoisation" bothers them, but honestly, it's hardware guys, a fairly expensive piece too. The GPL isn't meant to deal with hardware and shouldn't.
Faith doesn't necessarily mean ignorance. I've studied evolution more than the average person and I feel I understand it fairly well. People who love knowledge will love that knowledge whether they believe in God or not. Yes, God is always a convenient answer, but people who would accept "God did it" as the final answer are the same people who, without believing in God, would just shrug it off anyway. I sincerely believe in a God who cares about me personally and actively participated in the creation of the earth, but I don't know how He actively participated and He didn't put a fossil record there to just fool people. So yes, it's very convenient to say God did something and accept that as the answer, but it's also just as easy to paint people as a certain stereotype and not look any deeper. Both are equally ignorant and equally dangerous.
lol, not really, because all my favorite Republican candidates (and yes, I do lean Republican out of the two) run Linux :D
Wow, that's one of the best sigs I've seen in a while.
He would be running a pirated, unpatched copy of windows with Bittorrent and Limewire running in the system tray!
Not only that, but with the small sample size, it's actually relatively likely that you'd end with a distribution that skewed, even under completely random conditions.
Yes, either that or it's a simple matter of which hosting solution they chose and the fact that the sample size is too small to tell if there's a significant difference between the choices of the two parties. But don't let Occam's Razor stop you from believing in the conspiracy.
Not to say that I believe in ID theory, but your reasoning faces the flaw that what you consider simple and elegant is vastly different than what an omniscient being with infinite mental capacity believes is simple. Also, nature selects for the simple and elegant anyway, therefore the general human form/mechanics would be indistinguishable from an intelligently designed human, especially after 5,000 years of mistakes with two genetic bottlenecks. The genetics might be different, but the general form wouldn't be.
But Dude, like, don't you totally realize that, like, intelligent design can also, you know, mean, like, that an intelligent and benevolent being directed the course of evolution? Using that model, you could totally say that Linus is like that benevolent dude who guides the evolution...intelligently.
Agreed. This tells us absolutely nothing about the candidates themselves. However, what it can tell us is what their supporters believe. And the prediction that linus will win is easy, linux is used by the most candidates. One study I'd like to see is if political affiliation correlates to a particular OS for average users.
Does anyone actually believe the candidates care about what they're running? If you look, almost all of them are using a hosting company which, to me, indicates that they just don't care what OS they're running. Like every other client in the world, they're just worried about having a web page up and running and they don't care if it's a kitten in a box typing out the html every time a request comes in. They just care if it works. While interesting, I can't for the life of me understand why people would think it's a political issue what OS their sites are running on.
I agree. It's unfamiliar and, to be blunt, not done well enough or polished enough or even good looking enough for me to use it. I'm still on the old discussion system and I love it. The new one just doesn't cut it for me.