This puts the Atheist in the same boat as the theist: with a belief that lacks any evidence.
I've heard that reasoning quite a lot. But I can't figure out why in the world this very case should be excempt from the scientific rule: If you claim there is something, you provide verifiable proof for it. In that sense, atheism is the "natural state of mind" (=don't believe in something there's not the slightest evidence for).
You "believe" I owe you money? I'm "atheistic" to your belief until you have proof for that. Or should I be the one who needs to disprove your claim (=prove my "atheism")?
I do not belief in the superiority of the white race. Do I need to prove that?
I as an atheist have nothing to prove. Those who claim there's some kind of higher being have the burden of proof.
Even though I'm completely upset by current discussions of German ministers to ban "killer games" (as they call CS for example) this point seems very valid to me.
Sitting in front of a monitor is quite different from walking around, but once mankind develops some kind of neural interface (which will definitely happen in the next 100 years) the barrier between virtual and real will be much blurrier. [...]
What's the difference between that neural interface and game of Paintball nowadays? As already pointed out: if any violent s(t)imulation (games, movies, TV etc.) makes a person go amok, that person had a serious problem before playing the game/watching the movie. That neural interface will not make a difference compared to today's "output devices".
I guess, I don't need to comment about our German ministers...
Have they then removed the ISK component of prices in the LP stores?
No, it's till there.
Not that I disagree with the basic premise that no isk is directly destroyed when a ship goes boom - but a ship going boom does enable a certain amount of ISK sink, if faction loot is involved.
Insurance is only a sink, if you don't collect the payout. Faction loot is irrelevant for ISK sink. One player looted it from NPCs, another one bought it from him. So the ISKs have just changed hands.
As someone above pointed out, there are a couple more items with "real use" sold by NPCs than I originally mentioned. But compared to the amount of ISK involved in player to player trading, that is relative small. That's why you could play EVE either as "Internet Spaceships" or equally well as economy simulation.
Only that in EVE no gear is sold by NPC. (Letting trade goods aside, which are just that: trade goods = can't be used for anything else). Oh, and skill books are sold by NPCs.
In EVE the whole economy is player driven. All items available on the market (with the above exceptions) are either produced by players or looted by players from missions (="quests" for you WoW guys). So, each ISK (="gold" for you WoW guys) spent on the market for items flow to another player.
Erm, yes, actually. I'm 40 (I don't think these 2 years make a difference, given my musical record) and started listening to Metal with 12 and still enjoy it as much as when I discovered it back in the days. Granted, I listen to different (read: more) bands now. But I never felt that Metal is no longer for me. The opposite is true: while as a kid I could only afford to buy a LP here and there, I'm now able to buy (Yes, BUY. Not download.) everything record I like. And not to mention that visiting concerts is now much easier than with 12. My parents had the typical prejudices against those "long haired do-not-goods" and rarely let me go somewhere.
In fact, in Eve online, new players today enter a world where big player alliances already have the mega-uber ships and the players getting to fly those super-ships have years of experience playing the game. In Eve, you can't even grind to "catch up"
Of course, you can. Not in each field and they will always be ahead of you, for sure. But each single skill can only be trained to a maximum level of 5. Once you reach level 5 for a skill, that's it.
So, while you might not be able to "catch up" to that been-there-since-alpha-player with his Titan skills, it just needs a couple of weeks to have your skills for flying a Frigate class vessel to the exact same level as those "über players".
Europe got rid of postal monopolies, and the vast majority if not all are either privatised or soon to be. Mail here is cheap and reliable
Cheap? Maybe. Reliable? Nope! (Germany here) That one guy from the Deutsche Post does/did know where my post box is located. And he took the time to open the door to the yard, walk that 10 meters from the street to my font door and drop the mail into my box.
Since all those private services stepped in, letters are returned to the sender, because "recipient has moved to unknown location" (read: "I'm to fucking lazy to walk down to that door.") and things like that. I don't mind the snail mail spam that never reaches me that way. But invoices disappearing, even voter's notifications is a different matter.
Just yesterday we had an article on here from a guy involved with SETI that people were taking seriously. ID is based on the same logic as all current SETI. If ID is non-scientific, so is SETI.
SETI is based on science: given the number of stars and planets in the universe, the probability of extraterrestrial life is such and such, intelligent extraterrestrial life such and such.
Whereas ID is based on speculation (to avoid the word 'belief'): although there's no evidence for it and plenty of evidence against it (evolution), there could be some kind of designer.
I hear you, brother. This is a real PITA. Been there, done that...
That said, this can be done also. We had to use some applications which didn't run under a non-administrative account. The solution: Have FileMon and RegMon running and hunt down the no go areas these apps are trying to access. Give user accounts permissions on these files and registry entries only.
In our case, besides giving rights to existing files and a HKLM\Software key, we had to create a couple of 0 byte dummy files in the Windows folder and give the user write access to these files, as the said application later used those files to store certain things in (some kind of macro commands).
Took as 2-3 days to figure everything out, but we deployed our machines with more confident to our shops.
There is no way for anyone starting EVE today to ever catch up to those who started a year ago, and those that started a year ago will never catch up to those who started two years ago,.. and so on.
Erhm... not true. Each skill in EVE can be trained to level 5. And not any further, regardless of a player's age. Granted, an older player has much more skills than a new one. But he can't train Frigate further than level 5. And you can start a fresh character with having this skill to level 5.
OK, there are a couple of supporting skills, which also affect that frigate. But again, level 5 is the cap for any skill. After roughly 2 month, there's not one single skill point difference between a new player and a five year old veteran in regards to skills needed to perfectly fit a frigate. Yes, that old grunt can also fit Destroyers, HAC, HICs, Ceptors, Battleships and whatnot perfectly. But when it comes down to comparing frigate sized vessels, those two players are on par.
Global warming brought to you by the same people who can't tell you what the temperature will be next week, yet they can tell you what it will be a thousand years from now.
That's perhaps because those people know the difference between weather and climate.
Whoever adapted this from Niemöller's original version: shame on him! Niemöller was a dedicated pacifist. He couldn't be happier than to have all guns banned.
As for the question at the end of the article, if I was Karen I'd rather spend ~2000 hours a year with a friendly person than an asshole, and I'm sure the engineers and techs would feel the same way. I'd have fired Doug and kept Stuart.
Not to mention the fact that Doug will pull the same stunt against Kelly at the next opportunity. A liar will always be a liar, no matter how many holy oaths he swears, that he'll never betray you.
For example, in Belgium (where love of red-tape is a universal fetish) it is required by law for everyone to carry their ID papers at all times. You can be stopped and asked for your papers by the police at any time, without cause. And this is considered perfectly normal. As if Germany had actually won the war. (Vos papieren! Schnell!)
The Germans will love something like this.
We already have this in Germany, for as long as I live (40 years now).I wrote the same in a similar thread here on/. a couple of weeks ago, but I'll repeat it here for your convenience: I was on vacation in the USA last October. The number of times I had to show my ID card to private people in those 10 days far exceeded the number of times I was asked to show my ID card to a German police officer ever.
Although any police officer may ask you for your ID card whenever he likes, without any reason whatsorever, in my whole life this has never happened. Whereas each time I was paying a silly $10 T-shirt with my credit card on the aforementioned trip to the USA, I was asked to show my ID card. And not by some authority, but by a little clerk!
Our Cheney is Schäuble, by the way. Mix Cheney's mind with that of some Gestapo-leader with an obsession for control, add a wheelchair, some hair and an evil look, remove some fat, and you got him. All he needs is a fluffy cat and an iron glove (or better a SS-Totenkopfstaffel glove).
Well, a least SSchäuble made his finger print available to the public, so you and I can use it in our biometric passport. Just follow these simple steps to personalize your biometric passport with the finger prints of your political hero.
You do suffer, if others are using this exploit. And you get frustrated, if your enemy alliance keeps (ab)using this exploit.
I'm not sure it was meant that way, but you could read it that way. Besides, the banned player hasn't tried to blame any competitors as in "they're using the exploit as well". All he said in his posting, when he revealed the bug (and already was banned), that it *did* exist and that for quite some time. Anything else he wrote, was proven to be true. Why should he lie on that part? (Which doesn't mean, that part could be untrue.
I've probably saved a man-year of time by taking a task involving a billion little tasks and asking myself "How can I automate this? What decisions do I personally need to make?"
This is what I call 'Positive Laziness'. Intelligent lazy people think first if there's a way to shorten/ease an otherwise work-intensive (and often monotonous) task and come up with a nice, (semi-)automated solution.
Whereas real lazy people think of how they can avoid the work at all.
I wouldn't really attribute it to regions, and instead to groups.
Left-Wing prefers to undermine peoples freedoms for "the good cause", like in this case, morality. Without considering the impect.
Right-Wing prefers individual freedoms over the hissy-fits of a a few minorities. Like drawings of certain prophets, or jokes about our strongly pigmented fellow men.
So, it's definitely a regional thing, because over here (Germany), the right wings are the ones who like to regulate everything, especially personal freedoms, because they think restricting personal freedoms is the way to go to either prevent crimes from happening or allow "quick 'n' easy" solving a case.
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The disturbing and sad part is ... you might be on to something there. This time not with tanks, but with "good intented" laws.
(German citizen here)
I've heard that reasoning quite a lot. But I can't figure out why in the world this very case should be excempt from the scientific rule: If you claim there is something, you provide verifiable proof for it. In that sense, atheism is the "natural state of mind" (=don't believe in something there's not the slightest evidence for).
You "believe" I owe you money? I'm "atheistic" to your belief until you have proof for that. Or should I be the one who needs to disprove your claim (=prove my "atheism")?
I do not belief in the superiority of the white race. Do I need to prove that?
I as an atheist have nothing to prove. Those who claim there's some kind of higher being have the burden of proof.
Try a old-fashioned CTRL+F4.
What's the difference between that neural interface and game of Paintball nowadays? As already pointed out: if any violent s(t)imulation (games, movies, TV etc.) makes a person go amok, that person had a serious problem before playing the game/watching the movie. That neural interface will not make a difference compared to today's "output devices".
I guess, I don't need to comment about our German ministers ...
What about Project Gutenberg?
See the Scorpions (original) LP cover for Virgin Killer, for example.
Another vote for Kaspersky here from a satisfied customer. KAV Business Space Security looks like a good choice for your environment.
No, it's till there.
Insurance is only a sink, if you don't collect the payout. Faction loot is irrelevant for ISK sink. One player looted it from NPCs, another one bought it from him. So the ISKs have just changed hands.
As someone above pointed out, there are a couple more items with "real use" sold by NPCs than I originally mentioned. But compared to the amount of ISK involved in player to player trading, that is relative small. That's why you could play EVE either as "Internet Spaceships" or equally well as economy simulation.
Only that in EVE no gear is sold by NPC. (Letting trade goods aside, which are just that: trade goods = can't be used for anything else). Oh, and skill books are sold by NPCs.
In EVE the whole economy is player driven. All items available on the market (with the above exceptions) are either produced by players or looted by players from missions (="quests" for you WoW guys). So, each ISK (="gold" for you WoW guys) spent on the market for items flow to another player.
Erm, yes, actually. I'm 40 (I don't think these 2 years make a difference, given my musical record) and started listening to Metal with 12 and still enjoy it as much as when I discovered it back in the days. Granted, I listen to different (read: more) bands now. But I never felt that Metal is no longer for me. The opposite is true: while as a kid I could only afford to buy a LP here and there, I'm now able to buy (Yes, BUY. Not download.) everything record I like. And not to mention that visiting concerts is now much easier than with 12. My parents had the typical prejudices against those "long haired do-not-goods" and rarely let me go somewhere.
Of course, you can. Not in each field and they will always be ahead of you, for sure. But each single skill can only be trained to a maximum level of 5. Once you reach level 5 for a skill, that's it.
So, while you might not be able to "catch up" to that been-there-since-alpha-player with his Titan skills, it just needs a couple of weeks to have your skills for flying a Frigate class vessel to the exact same level as those "über players".
And it's still alive and kickin'. Hop over to PowerBASIC and read up on the history of Turbo Basic/PowerBASIC.
Cheap? Maybe. Reliable? Nope! (Germany here) That one guy from the Deutsche Post does/did know where my post box is located. And he took the time to open the door to the yard, walk that 10 meters from the street to my font door and drop the mail into my box.
Since all those private services stepped in, letters are returned to the sender, because "recipient has moved to unknown location" (read: "I'm to fucking lazy to walk down to that door.") and things like that. I don't mind the snail mail spam that never reaches me that way. But invoices disappearing, even voter's notifications is a different matter.
SETI is based on science: given the number of stars and planets in the universe, the probability of extraterrestrial life is such and such, intelligent extraterrestrial life such and such.
Whereas ID is based on speculation (to avoid the word 'belief'): although there's no evidence for it and plenty of evidence against it (evolution), there could be some kind of designer.
I hear you, brother. This is a real PITA. Been there, done that...
That said, this can be done also. We had to use some applications which didn't run under a non-administrative account. The solution: Have FileMon and RegMon running and hunt down the no go areas these apps are trying to access. Give user accounts permissions on these files and registry entries only.
In our case, besides giving rights to existing files and a HKLM\Software key, we had to create a couple of 0 byte dummy files in the Windows folder and give the user write access to these files, as the said application later used those files to store certain things in (some kind of macro commands).
Took as 2-3 days to figure everything out, but we deployed our machines with more confident to our shops.
Erhm ... not true. Each skill in EVE can be trained to level 5. And not any further, regardless of a player's age. Granted, an older player has much more skills than a new one. But he can't train Frigate further than level 5. And you can start a fresh character with having this skill to level 5.
OK, there are a couple of supporting skills, which also affect that frigate. But again, level 5 is the cap for any skill. After roughly 2 month, there's not one single skill point difference between a new player and a five year old veteran in regards to skills needed to perfectly fit a frigate. Yes, that old grunt can also fit Destroyers, HAC, HICs, Ceptors, Battleships and whatnot perfectly. But when it comes down to comparing frigate sized vessels, those two players are on par.
That's perhaps because those people know the difference between weather and climate.
Whoever adapted this from Niemöller's original version: shame on him! Niemöller was a dedicated pacifist. He couldn't be happier than to have all guns banned.
Not to mention the fact that Doug will pull the same stunt against Kelly at the next opportunity. A liar will always be a liar, no matter how many holy oaths he swears, that he'll never betray you.
We already have this in Germany, for as long as I live (40 years now).I wrote the same in a similar thread here on /. a couple of weeks ago, but I'll repeat it here for your convenience: I was on vacation in the USA last October. The number of times I had to show my ID card to private people in those 10 days far exceeded the number of times I was asked to show my ID card to a German police officer ever.
Although any police officer may ask you for your ID card whenever he likes, without any reason whatsorever, in my whole life this has never happened. Whereas each time I was paying a silly $10 T-shirt with my credit card on the aforementioned trip to the USA, I was asked to show my ID card. And not by some authority, but by a little clerk!
Well, a least SSchäuble made his finger print available to the public, so you and I can use it in our biometric passport. Just follow these simple steps to personalize your biometric passport with the finger prints of your political hero.
You do suffer, if others are using this exploit. And you get frustrated, if your enemy alliance keeps (ab)using this exploit.
I'm not sure it was meant that way, but you could read it that way. Besides, the banned player hasn't tried to blame any competitors as in "they're using the exploit as well". All he said in his posting, when he revealed the bug (and already was banned), that it *did* exist and that for quite some time. Anything else he wrote, was proven to be true. Why should he lie on that part? (Which doesn't mean, that part could be untrue.
This is what I call 'Positive Laziness'. Intelligent lazy people think first if there's a way to shorten/ease an otherwise work-intensive (and often monotonous) task and come up with a nice, (semi-)automated solution.
Whereas real lazy people think of how they can avoid the work at all.
So, it's definitely a regional thing, because over here (Germany), the right wings are the ones who like to regulate everything, especially personal freedoms, because they think restricting personal freedoms is the way to go to either prevent crimes from happening or allow "quick 'n' easy" solving a case.
Here's your solution to that:
(Courtesy of a yesterday's ./ comment)