quantum fluctuations exist in the physical universe. If God is real, he exists outside of the physical universe.
If a "god" exists outside the physical universe, then he can have no influence upon the physical universe, and is therefore irrelevant to us stuck here IN the physical universe.
It's absurd that you would attribute such sheer power to a being that can only exist outside the laws of space and time, and then spend half your life praying to him for good things to happen to you. Like he *cares* what one being on one planet wants, in a universe of billions or galaxies each with billions of suns and planets, and presumably billions of "intelligent" lifeforms.
If "a god" does not or cannot exist within our physical universe, then really, what if he good for anyway ?
And you know this how ? Because a handful of alarmists on Slashdot and Reddit told you so ? That's called confirmation bias, and bears no resemblance to reality.
Amazing to see a Bill that does an end run around the Constitution by allowing a contract (a software ToS Agreement") have the full force of law with FEDERAL CRIMINAL PENALTY.
Then don't fucking click "I Agree" if you don't agree ! How simple is that ? No one is forcing you to accept the ToS.
The sooner people start voting with their wallets rather than using their asses from brains, the sooner you'll get what you want.
How on earth can Google be expected to place their OWN ads in your apps, if it's too cluttered with YOUR ads ?
How naive are tech journalists these days ? Hardware-only revenue ? Yeah right, this is Google we are talking about.
Who exactly is "blocking" them ? If you can't get patches from your carrier OTA, use the damn WiFi and download them from Android direct ? Who doesn't have WiFi these days ?
This is like arguing Microsoft is "blocking" Windows patches because you didn't pay your electricity bill.
That's why everyone has dumped the US Dollar and moved over the the Zimbabwe dollar - because it's SOOOOOO stable.
Currency is all about confidence. And after last weeks debacle with exchange rates, the seemingly constant hacks, forks and other threats that could make your "money" worthless overnight, who in their right mind would invest in an uninsured, volatile nerd-gasm like Bitcoin ?
The only thing anyone is scared about is possibly cracking a rib while laughing at your pitiful attempt to make a "magic-money tree".
So what's the alternative ?
They're already advertised by weight, but obviously your tiny brain can't handle the concept, and confuses it with volume.
Should they crush all the chips into a fine powder, so they can fit them in a smaller bag with an optimum packing density that resists settling, and you feel like you're getting your "money's worth" of chips ?
Seriously dude, just live with it. A bag of chips is still a bag of chips, even if the bag is half air.
Yes, it's a reasonable analogy. And now in 2012, people have e-readers and tablets. That's the point, technology moves on. Idiots who decry javascript for no other reason than "the web used to work without it". I bet the same idiots would complain about the invention of the printing press.
Yeah, and I suppose you start your car every morning by asking the neighbours to help you bump start it ? Oh, no, wait, you use the starter motor !
Can we get past this "javascript is teh viruz" mentality from 1995 and just accept browsers need a functional scripting component to do *anything* useful.
You're having trouble believing my story because two distinct individuals in different parts of the world got served different ads ?
And I suppose the poster under you was lying too ? Obviously it's just some massive global conspiracy to attack some shitty blog write and deprive him of his 0.076 cents of ad revenue this month ?
Or perhaps if he wants to treat his users with some respect, and install a decent ad network (hint: Google doesn't make it decent), maybe they won't block his ads anymore.
I loaded your blog to take a look, and it took less than a second. Then I disabled AdBlock and reloaded it, which took over 5 seconds.
The ad displayed is for a site called "www.Donwload.pconverter.com" (note the spelling mistake)... which passed through Google's ad network where it drops multiple cookies onto my PC, before going to a site URL http://pconverter.com/d/
So, despite the ad lying to me about where it was going to send me, I end up on a site trying to get me to install yet another toolbar spyware application into my browser.
You tell me ? Would YOU click on that link ? Are you happy that whatever paltry income you make from your advertising is made at the cost of other innocent people getting tricked into installing deceptive spyware ?
Basically, fuck you for making your "income" using such a shitty advertising network. If you don't care about your users, why the fuck should they care about your advertising revenue ?
> If there's an ad on the page that advertises that the local nursery is having a Mother's day sale on petunias or the bar on Main St. is having a St. Patrick's day event. I don't think that bothers anyone.
Except all the privacy nutters who've blocked all possible methods of understanding WHO you are and what you like, so that an ad can be served that might be relevant to you.
It's the equivalent of going down to your local bar, and kicking the crap out of the barman for daring to know "your usual" aka "invading your privacy".
You know this is Slashdot, home of news for nerds and stuff that matters.
It is neither Digg nor Fox News, so how about you do us ALL a favour and stop talking sensationalist bullshit.
Farmville by Zynga requests the most basic default level of permission i.e.
Access my basic information Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.
You see that last phrase ??? INFORMATION I'VE SHARED WITH EVERYONE. So you put stuff online, set the privacy level to the lowest (can be seen by everyone), then complain about privacy because everyone can see it ?
Are you illiterate or just plain dumb ?
Disclaimer : I have no affiliation with either Zynga or Facebook. I'm just tired of all this bullshit masquerading as truth. Either check your facts or shut the fuck up.
WHAT, JUST THAT ONE SITE, OF PERHAPS THE WHOLE FUCKING INTERNET ?
Seriously though, the whole "this should be in caps because it's a warning" ? I'll decide if something is a warning or not, sounds like a lot of alarmist bullshit to me. If something is NSFW, then don't fucking browse it at work... how simple is that ? In fact, why exactly would ANYONE be browsing that site AT work ? It's not like it's a valuable source of research material for 99.999% of the working population is it ? Perhaps if more people actually WORKED at work, the country wouldn't be in such a goddamn mess ?
George W. Bush seemed to think they were connected.
Bush Defends Assertions of Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship
By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 18, 2004; Page A09
President Bush yesterday defended his assertions that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week's finding of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting.
So it's really irrelevant what YOU think, the idiot with the launch codes seemed to believe it.
No, the only thing that matters is that you make a difference.
The only difference the US made in Iraq was between the "official" death toll, and the real one.
Nothing else has changed, there will be a civil war pretty soon with the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds all vying for the biggest slice of the pie, some new tinpot dictator will crawl his way to the top, and 20 or 30 years down the line, we'll be having this same discussion again.
If you are going to make a difference, then do it. If you are going to sit there for 10 years and leave with the country in a worse condition than when you started, then stay the fuck home.
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Especially someone who couldn't even spell his damn name correctly.
quantum fluctuations exist in the physical universe. If God is real, he exists outside of the physical universe.
If a "god" exists outside the physical universe, then he can have no influence upon the physical universe, and is therefore irrelevant to us stuck here IN the physical universe.
It's absurd that you would attribute such sheer power to a being that can only exist outside the laws of space and time, and then spend half your life praying to him for good things to happen to you. Like he *cares* what one being on one planet wants, in a universe of billions or galaxies each with billions of suns and planets, and presumably billions of "intelligent" lifeforms.
If "a god" does not or cannot exist within our physical universe, then really, what if he good for anyway ?
something that a majority would not want
And you know this how ? Because a handful of alarmists on Slashdot and Reddit told you so ? That's called confirmation bias, and bears no resemblance to reality.
Amazing to see a Bill that does an end run around the Constitution by allowing a contract (a software ToS Agreement") have the full force of law with FEDERAL CRIMINAL PENALTY.
Then don't fucking click "I Agree" if you don't agree ! How simple is that ? No one is forcing you to accept the ToS.
The sooner people start voting with their wallets rather than using their asses from brains, the sooner you'll get what you want.
Companies wanting to buy laws suddenly have to pay a whole lot o more money. And the amount can actually be raised by individuals in the community.
So that's your grand solution to corporate bribery of politicians ? Make them cheaper to bribe, so everyone can do it ?
How on earth can Google be expected to place their OWN ads in your apps, if it's too cluttered with YOUR ads ? How naive are tech journalists these days ? Hardware-only revenue ? Yeah right, this is Google we are talking about.
Who exactly is "blocking" them ? If you can't get patches from your carrier OTA, use the damn WiFi and download them from Android direct ? Who doesn't have WiFi these days ? This is like arguing Microsoft is "blocking" Windows patches because you didn't pay your electricity bill.
That's why everyone has dumped the US Dollar and moved over the the Zimbabwe dollar - because it's SOOOOOO stable. Currency is all about confidence. And after last weeks debacle with exchange rates, the seemingly constant hacks, forks and other threats that could make your "money" worthless overnight, who in their right mind would invest in an uninsured, volatile nerd-gasm like Bitcoin ? The only thing anyone is scared about is possibly cracking a rib while laughing at your pitiful attempt to make a "magic-money tree".
So what's the alternative ? They're already advertised by weight, but obviously your tiny brain can't handle the concept, and confuses it with volume. Should they crush all the chips into a fine powder, so they can fit them in a smaller bag with an optimum packing density that resists settling, and you feel like you're getting your "money's worth" of chips ? Seriously dude, just live with it. A bag of chips is still a bag of chips, even if the bag is half air.
Millions of users still run unpatched Windows XP systems. Is the ACLU on a freebie from Apple ?
Yes, it's a reasonable analogy. And now in 2012, people have e-readers and tablets. That's the point, technology moves on. Idiots who decry javascript for no other reason than "the web used to work without it". I bet the same idiots would complain about the invention of the printing press.
Lasers ... cutting edge ... I see what you did there.
Yeah, and I suppose you start your car every morning by asking the neighbours to help you bump start it ? Oh, no, wait, you use the starter motor ! Can we get past this "javascript is teh viruz" mentality from 1995 and just accept browsers need a functional scripting component to do *anything* useful.
Google IS AdSense !!!
You're having trouble believing my story because two distinct individuals in different parts of the world got served different ads ?
And I suppose the poster under you was lying too ? Obviously it's just some massive global conspiracy to attack some shitty blog write and deprive him of his 0.076 cents of ad revenue this month ?
Or perhaps if he wants to treat his users with some respect, and install a decent ad network (hint: Google doesn't make it decent), maybe they won't block his ads anymore.
John,
... which passed through Google's ad network where it drops multiple cookies onto my PC, before going to a site URL http://pconverter.com/d/
I loaded your blog to take a look, and it took less than a second. Then I disabled AdBlock and reloaded it, which took over 5 seconds.
The ad displayed is for a site called "www.Donwload.pconverter.com" (note the spelling mistake)
So, despite the ad lying to me about where it was going to send me, I end up on a site trying to get me to install yet another toolbar spyware application into my browser.
You tell me ? Would YOU click on that link ? Are you happy that whatever paltry income you make from your advertising is made at the cost of other innocent people getting tricked into installing deceptive spyware ?
Basically, fuck you for making your "income" using such a shitty advertising network. If you don't care about your users, why the fuck should they care about your advertising revenue ?
> If there's an ad on the page that advertises that the local nursery is having a Mother's day sale on petunias or the bar on Main St. is having a St. Patrick's day event. I don't think that bothers anyone. Except all the privacy nutters who've blocked all possible methods of understanding WHO you are and what you like, so that an ad can be served that might be relevant to you. It's the equivalent of going down to your local bar, and kicking the crap out of the barman for daring to know "your usual" aka "invading your privacy".
And of those dozen, have you actually found one that works ?
You know this is Slashdot, home of news for nerds and stuff that matters.
It is neither Digg nor Fox News, so how about you do us ALL a favour and stop talking sensationalist bullshit.
Farmville by Zynga requests the most basic default level of permission i.e.
Access my basic information
Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.
You see that last phrase ??? INFORMATION I'VE SHARED WITH EVERYONE. So you put stuff online, set the privacy level to the lowest (can be seen by everyone), then complain about privacy because everyone can see it ?
Are you illiterate or just plain dumb ?
Disclaimer : I have no affiliation with either Zynga or Facebook. I'm just tired of all this bullshit masquerading as truth. Either check your facts or shut the fuck up.
Okay, so I'll repeat my question ... why are you browsing Slashdot at work, instead of WORKING ?
WHAT, JUST THAT ONE SITE, OF PERHAPS THE WHOLE FUCKING INTERNET ?
Seriously though, the whole "this should be in caps because it's a warning" ? I'll decide if something is a warning or not, sounds like a lot of alarmist bullshit to me. If something is NSFW, then don't fucking browse it at work ... how simple is that ? In fact, why exactly would ANYONE be browsing that site AT work ? It's not like it's a valuable source of research material for 99.999% of the working population is it ? Perhaps if more people actually WORKED at work, the country wouldn't be in such a goddamn mess ?
George W. Bush seemed to think they were connected.
Bush Defends Assertions of Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 18, 2004; Page A09
President Bush yesterday defended his assertions that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, putting him at odds with this week's finding of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.
"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting.
So it's really irrelevant what YOU think, the idiot with the launch codes seemed to believe it.
Carpet bombing managed to find Hitler's bunker.
Laser guided smart bombs have yet to find Osama Bin Laden.
You tell me, have we improved since WWII ?
No, the only thing that matters is that you make a difference.
The only difference the US made in Iraq was between the "official" death toll, and the real one.
Nothing else has changed, there will be a civil war pretty soon with the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds all vying for the biggest slice of the pie, some new tinpot dictator will crawl his way to the top, and 20 or 30 years down the line, we'll be having this same discussion again.
If you are going to make a difference, then do it. If you are going to sit there for 10 years and leave with the country in a worse condition than when you started, then stay the fuck home.
Fine, I want a patent granted to me immediately on the Space Shuttle, but with the USA flag removed.
That's the ridiculousness of the "innovation" that Zynga are claiming here.
A 1:1 conversion ratio ? Your bank will let you do international bank-to-bank transfers with NO charges for you or the receiving party ?
Please, tell me the name of your bank, I'll open an account tomorrow.