I notice a number of folks here are convinced that these attacks are Co$ trying to discredit Anon. I wonder how many have wondered if it's Anon trying to discredit Co$ because they know that in circles where common sense, logic, and reason are used that the Co$ is automatically blamed for anything like this that they're anywhere near.
There, fixed that for you.
The Church of Scientology has a long history of shady, underhanded, illegal and murderous activity, including infiltration of the United States Government.
Obviously 'Anonymous' did this, because the Church of Scientology is so moral as to never stoop to breaking the law and framing others to remove a detractor.
Just how they would never try to drive a critic to suicide or cause the death of one of their own due to denial of basic medical treatment.
The reason Robert Jordan is a hack is because he ran out of things to say and kept on writing because he could make money doing it because his fans kept up hope that maybe the next book would be good.
I never said it made it alright. Please learn some logic. The Church was being bashed for the wrong reasons. If you're going to bash someone, do it for the actual reason.
The Church did not have a problem with Galileo's Heliocentric beliefs. They had a problem with him telling people how to interperet the bible, which was their monopoly.
Please, don't just regurgitate what you've been force-fed.
"The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease." (Which, I believe, is what you are referencing.) It goes on to say "However, they neglect the fact that life is not a closed system. The sun provides more than enough energy to drive things."
Actually, one of my old lecturers once asked us to name one "completely closed system" other than the universe (which encompasses everything) and I do not believe that we ever managed to give one that he was unable to refute.
So I put it to Slashdot - Can anyone name a closed system? Something that has no outside inputs or outputs.
"heh.. just for the heck of it: mass of twinkie: ~35 grams, mass of sun =2*10^30 kg, mass of blackhole: 18*10^9 sol therefore, 18*10^9*2*10^30/35g*1000g/kg~= 10^42 twinkies."
But the real question is, how does that compare to the number of twinkies consumed in the US each year?
Well, This says that 500 million Twinkies are produced each year.
So it would take around 2.0 × 10^39 years to make enough twinkies to make that Black Hole.
Everyone eats spaghetti. For some it's long pasta stuff, but for others it's in the form of just rice and bread. Without eating spaghetti, would all starve.
Redefining words is just stupid.
Besides, you forgot the idea that the universe was always here, and thus was never created.
And you forgot the idea that the universe did not always exist, and was created in the Big Bang.
Dear sir,
Your libelous statements about ourselves have come to our attention. Expect letters from our Lawyers shortly. Sincerely, The Ringworld Engineers
No. You seem to think that I should call an orange 'pume orenge,' when I'm a native english speaker, speaking english, to another native english speaker, in a conversation conducted in english.
Now please stop inventing new words just to be different, when there is a perfectly good word, spelled nearly the same way, that means exactly the same thing, and has since before you were born.
Yes and it was stupid back then too. It's even worse now. Tell me, without consulting a calculator, how many TiB are in 8.7*10^13 bytes? I can tell you that it's 87TB without consulting anything.
I understand that RAM is typically manufactured in sizes that are a multiple of 1024. I also understand that 1024 bytes has historically been a common base unit for operating systems to use when allocating memory. However, file sizes and storage capacities have no affinity for multiples of 1024 so why should computers use a units of measurement that only cause confusion to display file sizes and storage capacities?
There is no compelling reason other than tradition to use the 1024 based system for displaying file sizes to users. I thought computer programmers were supposed to be the sort of people who scoff at tradition, and yet they get a stick up their ass over maintaining this ridiculous tradition.
The compelling reason is because digital logic is based on base-2, not base-10.
I'm sorry. You must be either new here, or a hardware engineer. In the software world, KB == 1024 B, and MB == 1024 KB.
It's these powers of two, you see...
Now please stop inventing new words just to be different, when there is a perfectly good word, spelled nearly the same way, that means exactly the same thing, and has since before you were born.
Correct. It would have most likely declined as Second Declension Neuter (Bacterium, Bacteria) or, less likely, Fourth Declension Masculine/Feminine (A 4th Declension Neuter doesn't work quite the same way, tho.)
I've been using the First Need Deluxe water purifier for 10 years. It costs ~$100 for the whole thing, ~$40 for a replacement cartridge. It deals with virii and has been around forever. Sure, each cartridge is only good for about ~100 gallons, but I'm skeptical of the claims that this bottle can do 10 times that without changing the filter. In English, the plural of Virus is Viruses. In Latin, Virus was a mass noun, and was not used in the plural.
Slashdot Mirror
There, fixed that for you.
The Church of Scientology has a long history of shady, underhanded, illegal and murderous activity, including infiltration of the United States Government.
This is entirely their style.
Obviously 'Anonymous' did this, because the Church of Scientology is so moral as to never stoop to breaking the law and framing others to remove a detractor.
Just how they would never try to drive a critic to suicide or cause the death of one of their own due to denial of basic medical treatment.
The reason Robert Jordan is a hack is because he ran out of things to say and kept on writing because he could make money doing it because his fans kept up hope that maybe the next book would be good.
Frank Herbert was not a Hack. His Dune series is not interesting from the perspective of Science Fiction, but from that of Anthropology.
I was trying to draw out the Old Ones.
tradition, you high UID person.
I never said it made it alright. Please learn some logic. The Church was being bashed for the wrong reasons. If you're going to bash someone, do it for the actual reason.
You're missing the point. The problem was not that his results contradicted the bible. The problem was that he was TELLING PEOPLE HOW TO INTERPRET IT.
The Church did not have a problem with Galileo's Heliocentric beliefs. They had a problem with him telling people how to interperet the bible, which was their monopoly.
Please, don't just regurgitate what you've been force-fed.
So I put it to Slashdot - Can anyone name a closed system? Something that has no outside inputs or outputs.
A Fundamentalist's mind.
But the real question is, how does that compare to the number of twinkies consumed in the US each year?
Well, This says that 500 million Twinkies are produced each year.
So it would take around 2.0 × 10^39 years to make enough twinkies to make that Black Hole.
Alanis Morisette. That damn "Ironic" song isn't even ironic. It is the damn Murphys law!
That word. You keep using it. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Mod Parent +1, The Mote In God's Eye Reference.
Redefining words is just stupid.
Besides, you forgot the idea that the universe was always here, and thus was never created.
And you forgot the idea that the universe did not always exist, and was created in the Big Bang.
Dear sir,
Your libelous statements about ourselves have come to our attention. Expect letters from our Lawyers shortly.
Sincerely,
The Ringworld Engineers
No. You seem to think that I should call an orange 'pume orenge,' when I'm a native english speaker, speaking english, to another native english speaker, in a conversation conducted in english.
Yes and it was stupid back then too. It's even worse now. Tell me, without consulting a calculator, how many TiB are in 8.7*10^13 bytes? I can tell you that it's 87TB without consulting anything.
I understand that RAM is typically manufactured in sizes that are a multiple of 1024. I also understand that 1024 bytes has historically been a common base unit for operating systems to use when allocating memory. However, file sizes and storage capacities have no affinity for multiples of 1024 so why should computers use a units of measurement that only cause confusion to display file sizes and storage capacities?
There is no compelling reason other than tradition to use the 1024 based system for displaying file sizes to users. I thought computer programmers were supposed to be the sort of people who scoff at tradition, and yet they get a stick up their ass over maintaining this ridiculous tradition.
The compelling reason is because digital logic is based on base-2, not base-10.
Learn some Comp. Sci., then we can argue.
I'm sorry. You must be either new here, or a hardware engineer. In the software world, KB == 1024 B, and MB == 1024 KB.
It's these powers of two, you see...
Now please stop inventing new words just to be different, when there is a perfectly good word, spelled nearly the same way, that means exactly the same thing, and has since before you were born.
Correct. It would have most likely declined as Second Declension Neuter (Bacterium, Bacteria) or, less likely, Fourth Declension Masculine/Feminine (A 4th Declension Neuter doesn't work quite the same way, tho.)
Yes, they can. However, in Latin, Virus is not pluralised. Please go here.
Or learn the language.
I've got a theory we should work this fast. Because it clearly could get serious before it's passed.
Reference to Golems in general, from what I remember of my Medieval Sciences...
Is there any oil there? Not since WarCraft II's expansion.
Yes, but will it blend?