I pretty much enjoyed it up through civilization, each stage getting progressively worse, but the space stage is alternately horribly annoying and terribly boring.
> I'd like a game where the creatures were able to mutate and evolve through natural selection
Then it would be a movie... A very long, and very boring movie. Unless you played an alien that introduced new predators and problems for the animals to overcome; but of course, that wouldn't be natural selection.
> if you say you don't NEED a certain drug, and are right now formulating a rationalization against these words of mine, then congratulations: you are probably an addict.
False dichotomy much? If someone smokes pot once a month, then they are a dirty addict? Once a year? Once a week? Once a day, just because they enjoy it so much?
> It's not a black and white choice, but one of grays
That's right. Some people are trying to make this election revolve around racial issues, when in reality it should be about species. THEY'RE BOTH ALIENS! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!
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I guess that means that all the managers/supervisors should be outsourced as well. Your receptionists should be a call center in India. Oh and everyone involved in billing, assuming you aren't an accountancy firm.
This may seem like a nice idea, but it doesn't always work too well that way.
> You'll never hear anyone praising the janitorial staff at a company unless you work at Jani-King.
Actually, I work at a hospital and the "Environmental Services" staff gets regular praise for a fine job. Mostly because the patients comment so often on how clean the place is, compared to most hospitals they have been to (which is a scary thought).
> some things (like Science, like God) just can't be proved, no matter how convinced we are of them.
As JavaRob pointed out, you can question anything, thus there is not a thing in this world (or outside of it) that can be proven. Even René Descartes was making a logical leap in saying "I think, therefore I am." He was assuming that he thought, which can be doubted. Since anything can be brought into doubt, there is no such thing as a logical connection, causing the phrase to become utter nonsense.
I suppose what is at issue is that I don't fully understand your use of the word logical. When I use that word, I mean that using my own logical skills I can deduce something to be true or not. But if you see a crystal clear video of him doing it (assuming no evidence tampering is possible, somehow) and still think it is not a logical connection, then we have very different meanings
> There is no logical connection between evidence and truth.
At least one of us misunderstands at least one of the words in this sentence. The "logical connection" is that evidence points toward the truth. It may not point directly at it, but in the general direction.
> If they ever crash in another environment with tolerable conditions, they can go forth from there.
I don't believe their tolerance to atmospheric reentry has been tested... They might not survive the crash landing. Plus, throwing an unpowered ball of MUD -- even an extremely large one, by human standards, at any planet would take a heck of a lot of luck, even if that planet was in our own solar system. Throwing even thousands of them and having one reach another star system would be unbelievably unlikely.
He didn't say it wasn't stupid. I believe he was saying it didn't made it "MORE stupid," because it was already so incredibly ridiculous to begin with.
Of course that's just one chemist, and since Gallium is extracted from other materials, its rarity really depends on the rarity of the materials in which it is found.
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I pretty much enjoyed it up through civilization, each stage getting progressively worse, but the space stage is alternately horribly annoying and terribly boring.
> I'd like a game where the creatures were able to mutate and evolve through natural selection
Then it would be a movie... A very long, and very boring movie. Unless you played an alien that introduced new predators and problems for the animals to overcome; but of course, that wouldn't be natural selection.
> any judge with even an inkling of technical knowledge
Uh oh... they're screwed.
> so what is the base for this procedings?
I believe that would fall under "scare tactic", or "intimidation."
> if you say you don't NEED a certain drug, and are right now formulating a rationalization against these words of mine, then congratulations: you are probably an addict.
False dichotomy much? If someone smokes pot once a month, then they are a dirty addict? Once a year? Once a week? Once a day, just because they enjoy it so much?
> spell out exactly why you think there is no causative arrangement here
I bet you also hate "you can't prove a negative." I hate that one too.
"Not Conservative != "Liberal"
The entire world does not vote in U.S. Elections. We are talking about American supporters. Foreign "supporters" are irrelevant.
None. None whatsoever. It was a big waste of time, if the intent was political. However, I believe the purpose was "lulz", and therefore a success.
> Ebaums World don't have a /b/!
[insert facepalm.jpg]
> the security question, "what color is the sky?", I answer, "whoa, look at all the colors man."
Aha, that was the last piece of the puzzle: your inbox is mine! I'm such an uberhacker, just like the guy who hacked Palin's account.
> All lunatics seem to be on Obama's side, and every calm, controlled, you know, normal person seems to be on McCain's side
Yeah all the warmongers, religious fanatics, and shoot-everything rednecks all support Obama, the freaks.
> It's not a black and white choice, but one of grays
That's right. Some people are trying to make this election revolve around racial issues, when in reality it should be about species. THEY'RE BOTH ALIENS! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!
I guess that means that all the managers/supervisors should be outsourced as well. Your receptionists should be a call center in India. Oh and everyone involved in billing, assuming you aren't an accountancy firm.
This may seem like a nice idea, but it doesn't always work too well that way.
> You'll never hear anyone praising the janitorial staff at a company unless you work at Jani-King.
Actually, I work at a hospital and the "Environmental Services" staff gets regular praise for a fine job. Mostly because the patients comment so often on how clean the place is, compared to most hospitals they have been to (which is a scary thought).
My cat's name is Nostradamus, but he doesn't write shit, that lazy bastard.
> some things (like Science, like God) just can't be proved, no matter how convinced we are of them.
As JavaRob pointed out, you can question anything, thus there is not a thing in this world (or outside of it) that can be proven. Even René Descartes was making a logical leap in saying "I think, therefore I am." He was assuming that he thought, which can be doubted. Since anything can be brought into doubt, there is no such thing as a logical connection, causing the phrase to become utter nonsense.
I suppose what is at issue is that I don't fully understand your use of the word logical. When I use that word, I mean that using my own logical skills I can deduce something to be true or not. But if you see a crystal clear video of him doing it (assuming no evidence tampering is possible, somehow) and still think it is not a logical connection, then we have very different meanings
The last two have another downside, in the shitload of money of which you have been relieved.
> There is no logical connection between evidence and truth.
At least one of us misunderstands at least one of the words in this sentence. The "logical connection" is that evidence points toward the truth. It may not point directly at it, but in the general direction.
That must explain why I "touch wood" every night. I never realized it was superstition.
I have done that. It reaffirmed my existing belief that it is not.
> If they ever crash in another environment with tolerable conditions, they can go forth from there.
I don't believe their tolerance to atmospheric reentry has been tested... They might not survive the crash landing. Plus, throwing an unpowered ball of MUD -- even an extremely large one, by human standards, at any planet would take a heck of a lot of luck, even if that planet was in our own solar system. Throwing even thousands of them and having one reach another star system would be unbelievably unlikely.
He didn't say it wasn't stupid. I believe he was saying it didn't made it "MORE stupid," because it was already so incredibly ridiculous to begin with.
Nope. This is a pretty high quality summary, eh?
> You are mixing things up with Indium?
"One chemist estimated in 2007 that at the current rate of usage, the world's supply of gallium would be exhausted by about the year 2017" - Wikipedia
Of course that's just one chemist, and since Gallium is extracted from other materials, its rarity really depends on the rarity of the materials in which it is found.