Macro-evolution doesn't have so much to do with "primordial soup-type theories" as speciation. That is, to go from some common primate ancestor to chimps and humans; to go from some common ancestors of conifers to modern coniferous tree species.
Dolphins and seals were land animals before they evolved into sea mammals.
Umm... Not quite. There were ancestors of dolphins, seals and other water mammals which were land mammals before going back to the sea- but dolphins and seals themselves weren't land mammals that just changed their minds and went off into the ocean. It may seem like a small point, but it is a very common misunderstanding, especially by creationists and general layfolks. Just like chimpanzees or gorillas didn't "evolve into humans," rather, some common ancestor evolved into both chimps and humans. Likewise, dolphins never just hopped back into the ocean- dolphins were always ocean animals. But some prior species, some ancestor, lived on land... Then in mud puddles, then in the shallows and then full ocean dwellers. Many different species in that line.
Indeed- easier to port, but not easy. Easier to port from Xbox2/PPC to PowerMac/PPC than Xbox1/x86 and PowerMac/PPC, yes, but still not easy. It's easier to port from Linux/x86 to Mac OS X/PPC oftentimes than from Linux/x86 to Windows/x86; why? Because API, not CPU instruction set, it usually the big issue. And unless we start running embedded NT on PPC on top or instead of OS X...
Was there anything like that in the 2000 Redskins game? I mentioned this little statistical quirk to a friend today, a Packers fan, and she asked what last year's game predicted. That is, depending on how you look at it, both Gore and Bush won...
Yeah, the guys typing sucks, but your rules are out of date. You're supposed to only put only one space after a period now. I was taught two spaces as a youngster, but the rule was changed a while back.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, but why would anybody take you seriously as a grammar/spelling/typing troll if you were too lazy to keep up to date with the rules you're preaching?
Wow, no need to be such a dick about it. Not sure if you actually read the article, but it was pretty funny- and at least a few of us were able to figure out that not all Gentoo users are like that. And not all car owners/car modders are silly "ricers."
Slashdot has never been uphill in the first place. Get over it.
But is "download the source, tar -xvzf,./configure, make, make install" as convenient as "emerge mplayer"?
It would be, if that's all you had to do. On Gentoo, you just do that emerge command; on Debian, I just apt-get. But when a package isn't in the apt db, I am not just doing a./configure; make; make install on one package- there's a good chance I'll have to go download a bunch of others, going down the dependents tree myself manually doing that to a bunch of other packages. Which is a royal pain in the ass... Why do the work when the computer could do it for me?
The "raised Catholic" was not any claim of credibility, rather an attempt to illustrate that I'm not some anti-Catholic hate monger, though that seems to be what you think anyway. A lot of people are out to get the Church, and I'm happy not to be one of them. Though I'm not out to get anyone, which is a bummer perhaps.
I'll quote myself:
Indeed- the *Doctorine* of papal infallibility is about spiritual matters. But a lot of people- catholics and otherwise- seem to think that the pope does no wrong. Well, plenty of catholics believe that, whilst the "otherwise" believes that all catholics have to believe that.
There have been books written that dispute the Holocaust even happened. Do you believe them too?
Yay, slippery slope! I suppose we shouldn't believe anything we read, least of all online. Can't trust the Scriptures since a man wrote them down, certainly can't trust a Catholic website about how Holy a pope was- no more than you can trust an anti-Semite who claims there was no Holocaust, eh?
Papal infallibility doesn't apply to non-spirtual matters. It only applies to very specific issues of faith. If the Pope says "dogs are better than cats" it doesn't mean he's correct (although they are.)
Indeed- the *Doctorine* of papal infallibility is about spiritual matters. But a lot of people- catholics and otherwise- seem to think that the pope does no wrong. Well, plenty of catholics believe that, whilst the "otherwise" believes that all catholics have to believe that.
Yeah, totally. I work at a library, and while we have every copy of Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse and many others since 1979 in our periodicals section, we certainly have no copies of the bible. Or any religious books. At the last library conference I was at I found out the same thing at most other libraries- no bibles, lotsa porn. No wonder so many people love our library!
Moron. Mention of religion isn't "somehow illegal," but is in fact protected by the constitution. Though people do not like it when they are forced into agreeing with someone else's religious creed by the state... Though, if you were a Christian in a Muslim country, you wouldn't mind being forced to state your muslim beliefs, right?
I mostly don't want a bunch of nutcases making that decision for me. Even mega-conservative christian nutcases don't want someone they disagree with to make their decision for them- that's easy to understand is it not?
Not quite. You could ask for an abortion. And pre Roe-v-Wade you may have recieved the abortion in some states... But in a lot of states- especially southern, conservative- they would reject that request before considering it. In plenty of those states, in those times, and in more than a few places in the US still in these times, it would be considered a woman's fault for "getting herself" raped, rather than the criminal responsible. Though in those cases it would certainly not be called rape- it would be since a woman wore a skirt that showed her ankles to the world she was asking for sex, being a whore, a blight to the community. The so-called "rape" was just coming to her. Sick, yes, but not unheard of.
Sentience has nothing to do with it! Haven't you seen the posters? "Unborn babies [they never can call them fetuses] have cute little fingernails at 3 months!" So they must be living, breathing, sentience humans!
The only way to stop the war on drugs is to get the parents to take responsibility for their kids, and to stop blaming the substance for the sins of the abuser. Neither things are likely.
Even with a world of completely happy human beings, with no emotional or socioeconomic problems some people would still want to use drugs. Drug abuse is something that really needs to be addressed- but not all drug use is abuse. Though to many conservative christians it may be- but so is masturbation, right?
The Pope didn't just save jews. He also collaborated with Hitler, signing a concordat, effectively stating that he'd turn a blind eye to the Final Solution in exchange for favors to catholics living in Germany... I just started reading the book "Hitler's Pope," and it's been interesting so far. And this is coming from someone raised Catholic, though not the kind of Catholic who really believes in papal infallibility, most especially in non-spiritual matters... The Church doesn't like to talk about it's failures, but the rest of the world doesn't need to ignore them. After all, the Church is a church of humans.
That was sarcasm, not flamebaiting what I think is the truth. If you listen to folks, you'll often here that the media has a very liberal bias- which is an interesting claim considering what they report on...
Except, most kids know not to post shit on the internet about killing the president. Every few years, you'll year about some kid emailing the president or posting on some forum about how he is going to do that act- and then you heaer about the SS showing up very quickly to question him. Most people have the sense to not have "kill" and "president" in the same sentence- I am a bit scared that I'm doing it myself right now...
Perhaps in fairness you should mention the RNC funded organizations in four of the swing states who are under FBI investigation pretending to be DNC funded organizations to obtain and shred Democratic voter registrations. Don't hear much about that in the news.
That's because the media (aka "the news") is a Jewish-owned liberal conspiracy to take away the rights of fine, christian republicans! They're so liberal, we never hear about all the nasty stuff the conservatives do!
Pffft, Britian cannot claim to be the 51st state. Nor can they rag on the US for imperialistic tendencies. I mean, you can't say you forgot that little "period" of British history... After all, we learned it by watching you. A lot of the world idolizes the UK and America, it's not like they leave you out. (not that i agree, but make a trip to europe and you notice it)
How is this off topic? Someone said "4 CDs isn't small," but I provided some food for thought- when 14 CDs is an average or large distro, 4 CDs isn't so big.
Exactly the point... your GF doesnt know there is a contextual menu... is she happy with her mac? does it do exactly what she wants it to? does she have to learn to do things in a way that is not immediately apparent?
The one button interface is a blessing for a lot of people who just want to write email and browse the 'net without bothering to understand the complexities of the OS.
Indeed, the difference is that on a Mac you can get by in the OS and the apps without *needing* a right mouse button. On a PC, you often can't get by without having a second mouse button. If for some reason you don't have two mouse buttons, on a PC they give you the little context key on the keyboard- the button with what looks to be a menu stuck between the right Windows and the right Control keys. It works in a pinch, but it is a pain, far less convenient than an actual mouse button- or as Mac OS 9/X allow you to do, control-click when you are button-2 less. Without either of these options, I can't imagine how much of a pain it is to use Linux with only one mouse button.
Er, I have done that- I think I had to use F11 and F12 on my ibook as middle and right mouse buttons. It sucks balls.
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Macro-evolution doesn't have so much to do with "primordial soup-type theories" as speciation. That is, to go from some common primate ancestor to chimps and humans; to go from some common ancestors of conifers to modern coniferous tree species.
Dolphins and seals were land animals before they evolved into sea mammals.
Umm... Not quite. There were ancestors of dolphins, seals and other water mammals which were land mammals before going back to the sea- but dolphins and seals themselves weren't land mammals that just changed their minds and went off into the ocean. It may seem like a small point, but it is a very common misunderstanding, especially by creationists and general layfolks. Just like chimpanzees or gorillas didn't "evolve into humans," rather, some common ancestor evolved into both chimps and humans. Likewise, dolphins never just hopped back into the ocean- dolphins were always ocean animals. But some prior species, some ancestor, lived on land... Then in mud puddles, then in the shallows and then full ocean dwellers. Many different species in that line.
Indeed- easier to port, but not easy. Easier to port from Xbox2/PPC to PowerMac/PPC than Xbox1/x86 and PowerMac/PPC, yes, but still not easy. It's easier to port from Linux/x86 to Mac OS X/PPC oftentimes than from Linux/x86 to Windows/x86; why? Because API, not CPU instruction set, it usually the big issue. And unless we start running embedded NT on PPC on top or instead of OS X...
*sigh* Last election's.
Are you going to convince MS to release their Xbox SDK for free so that all Mac users can get their DirectX API?
MS is trying to sell Xboxes, games and related licenses- not Macs or Mac games.
Was there anything like that in the 2000 Redskins game? I mentioned this little statistical quirk to a friend today, a Packers fan, and she asked what last year's game predicted. That is, depending on how you look at it, both Gore and Bush won...
Yeah, the guys typing sucks, but your rules are out of date. You're supposed to only put only one space after a period now. I was taught two spaces as a youngster, but the rule was changed a while back.
I'm not trying to troll or anything, but why would anybody take you seriously as a grammar/spelling/typing troll if you were too lazy to keep up to date with the rules you're preaching?
Though mostly: who the fuck cares?
Wow, no need to be such a dick about it. Not sure if you actually read the article, but it was pretty funny- and at least a few of us were able to figure out that not all Gentoo users are like that. And not all car owners/car modders are silly "ricers."
Slashdot has never been uphill in the first place. Get over it.
But is "download the source, tar -xvzf, ./configure, make, make install" as convenient as "emerge mplayer"?
./configure; make; make install on one package- there's a good chance I'll have to go download a bunch of others, going down the dependents tree myself manually doing that to a bunch of other packages. Which is a royal pain in the ass... Why do the work when the computer could do it for me?
It would be, if that's all you had to do. On Gentoo, you just do that emerge command; on Debian, I just apt-get. But when a package isn't in the apt db, I am not just doing a
The "raised Catholic" was not any claim of credibility, rather an attempt to illustrate that I'm not some anti-Catholic hate monger, though that seems to be what you think anyway. A lot of people are out to get the Church, and I'm happy not to be one of them. Though I'm not out to get anyone, which is a bummer perhaps.
I'll quote myself:
Indeed- the *Doctorine* of papal infallibility is about spiritual matters. But a lot of people- catholics and otherwise- seem to think that the pope does no wrong. Well, plenty of catholics believe that, whilst the "otherwise" believes that all catholics have to believe that.
There have been books written that dispute the Holocaust even happened. Do you believe them too?
Yay, slippery slope! I suppose we shouldn't believe anything we read, least of all online. Can't trust the Scriptures since a man wrote them down, certainly can't trust a Catholic website about how Holy a pope was- no more than you can trust an anti-Semite who claims there was no Holocaust, eh?
Papal infallibility doesn't apply to non-spirtual matters. It only applies to very specific issues of faith. If the Pope says "dogs are better than cats" it doesn't mean he's correct (although they are.)
Indeed- the *Doctorine* of papal infallibility is about spiritual matters. But a lot of people- catholics and otherwise- seem to think that the pope does no wrong. Well, plenty of catholics believe that, whilst the "otherwise" believes that all catholics have to believe that.
Yeah, totally. I work at a library, and while we have every copy of Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse and many others since 1979 in our periodicals section, we certainly have no copies of the bible. Or any religious books. At the last library conference I was at I found out the same thing at most other libraries- no bibles, lotsa porn. No wonder so many people love our library!
Moron. Mention of religion isn't "somehow illegal," but is in fact protected by the constitution. Though people do not like it when they are forced into agreeing with someone else's religious creed by the state... Though, if you were a Christian in a Muslim country, you wouldn't mind being forced to state your muslim beliefs, right?
I mostly don't want a bunch of nutcases making that decision for me. Even mega-conservative christian nutcases don't want someone they disagree with to make their decision for them- that's easy to understand is it not?
Not quite. You could ask for an abortion. And pre Roe-v-Wade you may have recieved the abortion in some states... But in a lot of states- especially southern, conservative- they would reject that request before considering it. In plenty of those states, in those times, and in more than a few places in the US still in these times, it would be considered a woman's fault for "getting herself" raped, rather than the criminal responsible. Though in those cases it would certainly not be called rape- it would be since a woman wore a skirt that showed her ankles to the world she was asking for sex, being a whore, a blight to the community. The so-called "rape" was just coming to her. Sick, yes, but not unheard of.
They aren't sentient. That's not opinion.
Sentience has nothing to do with it! Haven't you seen the posters? "Unborn babies [they never can call them fetuses] have cute little fingernails at 3 months!" So they must be living, breathing, sentience humans!
The only way to stop the war on drugs is to get the parents to take responsibility for their kids, and to stop blaming the substance for the sins of the abuser. Neither things are likely.
Even with a world of completely happy human beings, with no emotional or socioeconomic problems some people would still want to use drugs. Drug abuse is something that really needs to be addressed- but not all drug use is abuse. Though to many conservative christians it may be- but so is masturbation, right?
The Pope didn't just save jews. He also collaborated with Hitler, signing a concordat, effectively stating that he'd turn a blind eye to the Final Solution in exchange for favors to catholics living in Germany... I just started reading the book "Hitler's Pope," and it's been interesting so far. And this is coming from someone raised Catholic, though not the kind of Catholic who really believes in papal infallibility, most especially in non-spiritual matters... The Church doesn't like to talk about it's failures, but the rest of the world doesn't need to ignore them. After all, the Church is a church of humans.
Man, people just don't think.
That was sarcasm, not flamebaiting what I think is the truth. If you listen to folks, you'll often here that the media has a very liberal bias- which is an interesting claim considering what they report on...
Except, most kids know not to post shit on the internet about killing the president. Every few years, you'll year about some kid emailing the president or posting on some forum about how he is going to do that act- and then you heaer about the SS showing up very quickly to question him. Most people have the sense to not have "kill" and "president" in the same sentence- I am a bit scared that I'm doing it myself right now...
Perhaps in fairness you should mention the RNC funded organizations in four of the swing states who are under FBI investigation pretending to be DNC funded organizations to obtain and shred Democratic voter registrations. Don't hear much about that in the news.
That's because the media (aka "the news") is a Jewish-owned liberal conspiracy to take away the rights of fine, christian republicans! They're so liberal, we never hear about all the nasty stuff the conservatives do!
Pffft, Britian cannot claim to be the 51st state. Nor can they rag on the US for imperialistic tendencies. I mean, you can't say you forgot that little "period" of British history... After all, we learned it by watching you. A lot of the world idolizes the UK and America, it's not like they leave you out. (not that i agree, but make a trip to europe and you notice it)
pssst. he was kidding.
How is this off topic? Someone said "4 CDs isn't small," but I provided some food for thought- when 14 CDs is an average or large distro, 4 CDs isn't so big.
Exactly the point... your GF doesnt know there is a contextual menu... is she happy with her mac? does it do exactly what she wants it to? does she have to learn to do things in a way that is not immediately apparent?
The one button interface is a blessing for a lot of people who just want to write email and browse the 'net without bothering to understand the complexities of the OS.
Indeed, the difference is that on a Mac you can get by in the OS and the apps without *needing* a right mouse button. On a PC, you often can't get by without having a second mouse button. If for some reason you don't have two mouse buttons, on a PC they give you the little context key on the keyboard- the button with what looks to be a menu stuck between the right Windows and the right Control keys. It works in a pinch, but it is a pain, far less convenient than an actual mouse button- or as Mac OS 9/X allow you to do, control-click when you are button-2 less. Without either of these options, I can't imagine how much of a pain it is to use Linux with only one mouse button.
Er, I have done that- I think I had to use F11 and F12 on my ibook as middle and right mouse buttons. It sucks balls.