Too bad that so many Christians don't figure this out. To most it seems like they think that once science can explain it, it means their god didn't do it and therefore science inherently attacks faith. If they have your view instead then scientists don't have to put up with their anti-science agenda and their god won't get smaller over time, win/win.
What's with the appendix? Why is the appendix there at all?
It's a useful breeding ground/reservoir for beneficial intestinal bacteria.
Why do hips - which bear the weight of the whole body - have a 90 degree bend in them?
It gives them more range of motion than would otherwise be possible, a reasonable feature compromise if you ask me.
Why is the shin - the area of the body the most likely to get bashed into things - not protected by a fat pad? And why does it have such a poor blood supply?
It's likely to be bashed, do you want *more* blood in it? Why not a fat pad...that's a better question. Maybe the weight savings is more beneficial.
I'm not arguing for intelligent design but these aren't outright design flaws.
Actually the way the anus and prostate are arranged is very convenient for male-on-male buttsex...what's up with that, God? Huh?
"Oh you better not stick your weener in another guy's pooper, but I'll put some fun bits in there and make some of you guys sexually attracted to men. Trololololol!"
Only if the government puts more horrible hackish fixes on the health care system to maintain the same level of disgusting hyper-profitability for the health care industry while just spreading around the costs so it doesn't hit any one person way too hard.
Just your overall usage level sure could (like what times you're at home, when you charge your EV and how much you put in it, for example) but with modern Smart Grid technology, individual devices are accessible to the power company, opening up limitless possibilities for loss of privacy and greater corporate power.
The best you could do, while staying on the (smart) grid, would be to use a huge battery as a buffer and "firewall" for the whole house, effectively airgapping your home devices from the Smart Grid. Only the overall electricity usage of the battery would be visible, and that may not match your actual usage too closely at all times. It's as close as you could get to returning to the old system of a monthly usage reading.
For Linux, Ubuntu pushes an awful lot of updates to supposedly "stable" versions. Is there a back door in there? Is anybody looking?
You're asking the question for the wrong reasons. In the Linux world things are intentionally broken up into small pieces (according to the "an app should do one thing and do it well" philosophy) so the number of packages requiring an update is basically meaningless. Firefox is 2 or 3 packages while the QT framework is about 30. VLC with all its codec libraries is probably even more than that. Updating just one application can mean a whole slew of updated packages...or just one, depending on what it is.
Not at all. There are many other ways to sequester carbon so this particular method isn't very valuable. Next, what's the value of a place to store carbon if nobody's capturing it? Nobody's actually doing carbon sequestration anywhere in the world yet, as far as I'm aware.
Robot designers? Robot systems integrators? Robot process engineers? Robot maintenance and field service engineers?
A cottage industry compared to the Robot Slaves. One new job in robotics would replace at least thousands in manual labor. Maybe hundreds of thousands or even millions. Technology is the only limit.
Either there needs to be a new economy of unimaginably trivial jobs (virtual pet caretaker, personal shopper, replacement of MMO NPCs with employees, etc) that pay a living wage (good luck) or it will turn out that the luddites were just early and a lot of people will be out of work.
Interesting story, recently I aggressively overheard a conversation between some Albertan oil zillionaires and one of the interesting things I heard was praise for the UAE's oil profit sharing system as a means to prevent revolt.
They use little boys as sex slaves over there, and they're no stranger to gory deaths. You can find videos of what the Taliban does with their goats on LiveLeak. They'll probably think the web is mild and prudish.
"What's this, tentacle rape? Ah so this Internet thing has some balls after all."
So you're saying that it can't be any worse than the current state of DRM ubiquity on TVs and gaming consoles? Well that's true but I don't think it's good...
Worse yet, it's a completely invalid comparison since flu sufferers don't turn into mindless cannibals spreading the disease through bites. Apples and oranges.
I'd be fine if he was just 3D printing handguns. I might even want to help him out as a fun experiment. But that's not what he's doing, he's loudly provoking governments into taking action (which he might VERY mistakenly think would be deregulating firearms), stirring up a fight that doesn't need to be fought right now. Do I need to settle on either condoning this provocation or siding with authoritarians? And are you sure he's not working on the side of authoritarianism? He's not fighting for any rights we don't have, what he's doing would work perfectly as a protest for regulation of 3D printers, the only thing missing is a statement of such intent from him.
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Yeah Ubuntu's jumped the shark, I recommend Mint now (usually with MATE).
I don't recommend AdBlock, I recommend NoScript and FlashBlock. You can have a good browser setup that doesn't discriminate against all ads.
Too bad that so many Christians don't figure this out. To most it seems like they think that once science can explain it, it means their god didn't do it and therefore science inherently attacks faith. If they have your view instead then scientists don't have to put up with their anti-science agenda and their god won't get smaller over time, win/win.
What's with the appendix?
Why is the appendix there at all?
It's a useful breeding ground/reservoir for beneficial intestinal bacteria.
Why do hips - which bear the weight of the whole body - have a 90 degree bend in them?
It gives them more range of motion than would otherwise be possible, a reasonable feature compromise if you ask me.
Why is the shin - the area of the body the most likely to get bashed into things - not protected by a fat pad? And why does it have such a poor blood supply?
It's likely to be bashed, do you want *more* blood in it? Why not a fat pad...that's a better question. Maybe the weight savings is more beneficial.
I'm not arguing for intelligent design but these aren't outright design flaws.
Actually the way the anus and prostate are arranged is very convenient for male-on-male buttsex...what's up with that, God? Huh?
"Oh you better not stick your weener in another guy's pooper, but I'll put some fun bits in there and make some of you guys sexually attracted to men. Trololololol!"
Awesome post / username combo!!! XD
What does it say about a world that has about a half-jillion more Chinese guys than women?
Great foresight again, Bible |:-(
Only if the government puts more horrible hackish fixes on the health care system to maintain the same level of disgusting hyper-profitability for the health care industry while just spreading around the costs so it doesn't hit any one person way too hard.
Just your overall usage level sure could (like what times you're at home, when you charge your EV and how much you put in it, for example) but with modern Smart Grid technology, individual devices are accessible to the power company, opening up limitless possibilities for loss of privacy and greater corporate power.
The best you could do, while staying on the (smart) grid, would be to use a huge battery as a buffer and "firewall" for the whole house, effectively airgapping your home devices from the Smart Grid. Only the overall electricity usage of the battery would be visible, and that may not match your actual usage too closely at all times. It's as close as you could get to returning to the old system of a monthly usage reading.
For Linux, Ubuntu pushes an awful lot of updates to supposedly "stable" versions. Is there a back door in there? Is anybody looking?
You're asking the question for the wrong reasons. In the Linux world things are intentionally broken up into small pieces (according to the "an app should do one thing and do it well" philosophy) so the number of packages requiring an update is basically meaningless. Firefox is 2 or 3 packages while the QT framework is about 30. VLC with all its codec libraries is probably even more than that. Updating just one application can mean a whole slew of updated packages...or just one, depending on what it is.
And also a crap browser setup never to be used again.
Not at all. There are many other ways to sequester carbon so this particular method isn't very valuable. Next, what's the value of a place to store carbon if nobody's capturing it? Nobody's actually doing carbon sequestration anywhere in the world yet, as far as I'm aware.
I hope it turns out better than my experiment with btrfs in early 2012. I can't wait until it's stable and I can use it safely.
Oh so it just puts the global economic system on the ragged edge of violent implosion. No big deal.
Maybe some large outliers are skewing the average...
I find that somehow they don't look so ugly in real life. Not good, but...plain. Which is pretty good for a Leaf.
Robot designers? Robot systems integrators? Robot process engineers? Robot maintenance and field service engineers?
A cottage industry compared to the Robot Slaves. One new job in robotics would replace at least thousands in manual labor. Maybe hundreds of thousands or even millions. Technology is the only limit.
Either there needs to be a new economy of unimaginably trivial jobs (virtual pet caretaker, personal shopper, replacement of MMO NPCs with employees, etc) that pay a living wage (good luck) or it will turn out that the luddites were just early and a lot of people will be out of work.
Interesting story, recently I aggressively overheard a conversation between some Albertan oil zillionaires and one of the interesting things I heard was praise for the UAE's oil profit sharing system as a means to prevent revolt.
Fucking called it:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4216793&cid=44862089
Big complex theories don't turn on a dime.
He's posted a lot of Fox News links recently but they're a small percentage of his submissions overall.
Who said getting them online was to help them? Facebook demands more users! More cheap page hits for the empire!
They use little boys as sex slaves over there, and they're no stranger to gory deaths. You can find videos of what the Taliban does with their goats on LiveLeak. They'll probably think the web is mild and prudish.
"What's this, tentacle rape? Ah so this Internet thing has some balls after all."
So you're saying that it can't be any worse than the current state of DRM ubiquity on TVs and gaming consoles? Well that's true but I don't think it's good...
Worse yet, it's a completely invalid comparison since flu sufferers don't turn into mindless cannibals spreading the disease through bites. Apples and oranges.
I'd be fine if he was just 3D printing handguns. I might even want to help him out as a fun experiment. But that's not what he's doing, he's loudly provoking governments into taking action (which he might VERY mistakenly think would be deregulating firearms), stirring up a fight that doesn't need to be fought right now. Do I need to settle on either condoning this provocation or siding with authoritarians? And are you sure he's not working on the side of authoritarianism? He's not fighting for any rights we don't have, what he's doing would work perfectly as a protest for regulation of 3D printers, the only thing missing is a statement of such intent from him.