So they are after their own Mir station, so what? USSR has done that on multiple occasions (put together space capsules into some sort of a space station configuration.) It's just good engineering, but in this case it is not surprising at all, considering that Chinese space industry is sort of regurgitation Russian space industry.
Can someone explain the logic in taking a fast speed, slowing it down to just a slightly slower but still fast speed, and making people slow down when the construction itself is over a 100 feet from the interstate, with concrete barriers blocking the interstate from the construction?
- the fines are what, doubled? That's the reason: slow people down for now apparent reason and double the fines. Instant cash generator.
However I do have an astronomy minor as one of degrees, I am familiar with the reasoning for the Big Bang well enough to state them without looking them up in the wikipedia but I don't require a believe system to consider them proper scientific theories.
I am considering the Big Bang to be the beginning of this instance of this Universe and I do not require a fairy tale to explain it. Even if there was no Big Bang theory I wouldn't say 'god did it'.
Purely mathematically speaking there was supposed to be a sequence of events that lead to this instance of this Universe appearing the way we see it today. That could be the beginning before the beginning. Subtract another 1 from that, you have your recursive proof. However I do not have a physical definition of what a beginning before a beginning was, but again, none of that needs me to say 'god did it'.
Whoever wants to say 'god did it' has to prove it, I don't need to prove that there is no god anymore than I need to prove that there is no magical unicorn of the FSM.
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Yes, it is September 10th again. You are caught in a time loop. The last time through, the world was destroyed by a black hole. This time, you have again failed to stop the activation, so the same thing will happen. At this point you will wake up 24 hours before the LHC is activated, and realize that you alone can save humanity. To do so you must get to the Swiss/French border and blow the thing to smithereens before it can be turned on.
The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
I was always hoping to hear about this once, that life was fully created in a laboratory repeating natural processes that started it in the first place. This is closest yet to my hopes coming true.
My other hope is that people stop electing politicians into the office who deny such natural occurrences and base their policies on their religions and other superstitions.
Ok, I'll try to be more coherent. Whatever we call existence does not require any god, anyone who believes that it does and wants to force those believes upon others will have to do better than appealing to the unknown, to their faith and to their fears.
I am not saying anything about the universe being cyclical, that is irrelevant, what I am saying is that I am amazed at one of your sentences, this one:
Until you can answer that, you can't really posit a universe without God (or without some other external force that made reality happen).
You see, the burden of proof is on those, who state that there must be a god for this universe to appear/exist/become what it is today. I guess I am just flabbergasted at your statement. It is those who believe that god is needed to create the universe who must prove this. Of-course it is absolutely not up to the rest of the world to disprove it.
Wow, you get Insightful for this? Beginning of the beginning of the beginning etc. There was never a beginning of a beginning, the question doesn't make sense. Before your definition of a 'beginning' there was another beginning (if it makes sense to talk about 'before' in this context.) I don't see any need to ever posit a universe with any god at all, because the idea of god is so much more complex than the simple stuff that we call 'the beginning'. God is completely unnecessary for anything at all.
The site referenced by the parent redirects Canadians to thecomedynetwork.ca, which allows to search shows by seasons and episode titles, but then requires Silverlight to be installed to play the episodes. Well, isn't that just too bad, cause I am not installing it.
Your cellphone is useless if the network doesn't know what cell you are in, who you are calling, and what cell they are in. Nor does it work if the network doesn't know which handset and SIM are yours. Credit and debit cards only work because the system knows who to transfer money from and who to transfer it to. Hell, the internet isn't going to work all that well if systems between you and your destination don't have the information they need to deliver packets.
- it's called polling. Sure it's not as fast, but if the data is queued up somewhere that can be reached with a request and an identifier, then it should be possible to anonymize the original location (proxies and such.) It is possible to do but noone does it this way because it is not a primary concern (usually.)
Gddmmnt, I have vivid imagination, you just gave me a terrible nightmarish sort of a vision of the Borg bending over and waggling his naked VAGINA! How do I poke out my mental eye?
Even if Yandex wishes to believe this, it's no competitor even to Yahoo or MSN etc, because it is first a directory with results being ranked based on who paid more. Simply search for 'russkey' in yandex vs any other search engine. First few dozens of pages from yandex will be results of a Russian firm while results from other search engines will be ranked based on the popularity of FF add on.
You would have to rotate me slowly over a bone fire, while waterboarding, pouring boiling tar into my eyes, thumbscrewing, booting and lashing and stoning and torturing in 20 more different ways for me to vote NDP.
I always vote with libertarian principals in mind, at times this means conservative if there is no good libertarian to vote for, but NDP? Fry me in boiling oil and quarter me first.
I welcome you, my new unionized underlords. Personally you won't see me in any union of any sort at least not while I am in IT (and it's my calling, not just a job). But once you are unionized it will make it that much easier for me to get those contracts that are supposed to be your projects that normally permanents staff would do. I'll have my own shop operating from where ever in the world there are no IT unions and I will undercut your prices, be sure of that.
- except for the obvious Netscape like hubris (the kind that was plaguing that company just before IE 3 and then 4 came out) I would say that the browser or your choice is eating some of your vowels and even an occasional consonant;)
you use 'attack' and 'defensive' as if they are interchangeable, that's one of your problems, not being able to understand the finer intricacies of the language of which you are supposedly a native speaker. Also I hope you get something useful out of this conversation, because I sure don't. Cheers.
HTTP? It's for pussies. Real men use TCP, oh, and they don't have these new fancy 'heads' you are talking about. It's all done through the spinal cord.
You are really a strange beast, also very defensive, which is a sign of weakness. I didn't have mod points and even if I had I wouldn't be moderating something as silly as this.
I don't have a duty to recycle and I don't want to have that duty. I don't recycle. You want my garbage to be recycled? Do it at the collection place. Don't care, will never care.
whatever you say, chief, but it's SirLurksAlot who has 5 Informative, so you must have said something and whether it is your improper use of the language or an attempt to hide your incompetence in the subject matter, the crowd believes whatever it wants to believe. Cheers.
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But it's all in public space, so there must be no expectations of privacy, right? RIGHT?
So they are after their own Mir station, so what? USSR has done that on multiple occasions (put together space capsules into some sort of a space station configuration.) It's just good engineering, but in this case it is not surprising at all, considering that Chinese space industry is sort of regurgitation Russian space industry.
Can someone explain the logic in taking a fast speed, slowing it down to just a slightly slower but still fast speed, and making people slow down when the construction itself is over a 100 feet from the interstate, with concrete barriers blocking the interstate from the construction?
- the fines are what, doubled? That's the reason: slow people down for now apparent reason and double the fines. Instant cash generator.
I don't believe in god, you are correct.
However I do have an astronomy minor as one of degrees, I am familiar with the reasoning for the Big Bang well enough to state them without looking them up in the wikipedia but I don't require a believe system to consider them proper scientific theories.
I am considering the Big Bang to be the beginning of this instance of this Universe and I do not require a fairy tale to explain it. Even if there was no Big Bang theory I wouldn't say 'god did it'.
Purely mathematically speaking there was supposed to be a sequence of events that lead to this instance of this Universe appearing the way we see it today. That could be the beginning before the beginning. Subtract another 1 from that, you have your recursive proof. However I do not have a physical definition of what a beginning before a beginning was, but again, none of that needs me to say 'god did it'.
Whoever wants to say 'god did it' has to prove it, I don't need to prove that there is no god anymore than I need to prove that there is no magical unicorn of the FSM.
Yes, it is September 10th again. You are caught in a time loop. The last time through, the world was destroyed by a black hole. This time, you have again failed to stop the activation, so the same thing will happen. At this point you will wake up 24 hours before the LHC is activated, and realize that you alone can save humanity. To do so you must get to the Swiss/French border and blow the thing to smithereens before it can be turned on.
The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
I was always hoping to hear about this once, that life was fully created in a laboratory repeating natural processes that started it in the first place. This is closest yet to my hopes coming true.
My other hope is that people stop electing politicians into the office who deny such natural occurrences and base their policies on their religions and other superstitions.
Well one can hope.
Ok, I'll try to be more coherent. Whatever we call existence does not require any god, anyone who believes that it does and wants to force those believes upon others will have to do better than appealing to the unknown, to their faith and to their fears.
I am not saying anything about the universe being cyclical, that is irrelevant, what I am saying is that I am amazed at one of your sentences, this one:
Until you can answer that, you can't really posit a universe without God (or without some other external force that made reality happen).
You see, the burden of proof is on those, who state that there must be a god for this universe to appear/exist/become what it is today. I guess I am just flabbergasted at your statement. It is those who believe that god is needed to create the universe who must prove this. Of-course it is absolutely not up to the rest of the world to disprove it.
Wow, you get Insightful for this? Beginning of the beginning of the beginning etc. There was never a beginning of a beginning, the question doesn't make sense. Before your definition of a 'beginning' there was another beginning (if it makes sense to talk about 'before' in this context.) I don't see any need to ever posit a universe with any god at all, because the idea of god is so much more complex than the simple stuff that we call 'the beginning'. God is completely unnecessary for anything at all.
The site referenced by the parent redirects Canadians to thecomedynetwork.ca, which allows to search shows by seasons and episode titles, but then requires Silverlight to be installed to play the episodes. Well, isn't that just too bad, cause I am not installing it.
Your cellphone is useless if the network doesn't know what cell you are in, who you are calling, and what cell they are in. Nor does it work if the network doesn't know which handset and SIM are yours. Credit and debit cards only work because the system knows who to transfer money from and who to transfer it to. Hell, the internet isn't going to work all that well if systems between you and your destination don't have the information they need to deliver packets.
- it's called polling. Sure it's not as fast, but if the data is queued up somewhere that can be reached with a request and an identifier, then it should be possible to anonymize the original location (proxies and such.) It is possible to do but noone does it this way because it is not a primary concern (usually.)
Gddmmnt, I have vivid imagination, you just gave me a terrible nightmarish sort of a vision of the Borg bending over and waggling his naked VAGINA! How do I poke out my mental eye?
Even if Yandex wishes to believe this, it's no competitor even to Yahoo or MSN etc, because it is first a directory with results being ranked based on who paid more. Simply search for 'russkey' in yandex vs any other search engine. First few dozens of pages from yandex will be results of a Russian firm while results from other search engines will be ranked based on the popularity of FF add on.
You would have to rotate me slowly over a bone fire, while waterboarding, pouring boiling tar into my eyes, thumbscrewing, booting and lashing and stoning and torturing in 20 more different ways for me to vote NDP.
I always vote with libertarian principals in mind, at times this means conservative if there is no good libertarian to vote for, but NDP? Fry me in boiling oil and quarter me first.
Wow, truth is moderated as a Flamebait? Let me restate the parent:
Fucking Liberals allowed Arar to be tortured in Syria.
Giving more funding to NDP? That's just criminal.
I agree with you on one thing though, always vote for the party that you really support. Libertarian.
Wouldn't be able to simply port any extensions though.
I would imprint me a memory of being a construction worker who is married to Sharon Stone and hates Mars.
I welcome you, my new unionized underlords. Personally you won't see me in any union of any sort at least not while I am in IT (and it's my calling, not just a job). But once you are unionized it will make it that much easier for me to get those contracts that are supposed to be your projects that normally permanents staff would do. I'll have my own shop operating from where ever in the world there are no IT unions and I will undercut your prices, be sure of that.
Still want to unionize?
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- except for the obvious Netscape like hubris (the kind that was plaguing that company just before IE 3 and then 4 came out) I would say that the browser or your choice is eating some of your vowels and even an occasional consonant ;)
not to handle the supposed HTTP traffic you won't, especially if multipart is involved ;]
you use 'attack' and 'defensive' as if they are interchangeable, that's one of your problems, not being able to understand the finer intricacies of the language of which you are supposedly a native speaker. Also I hope you get something useful out of this conversation, because I sure don't. Cheers.
HTTP? It's for pussies. Real men use TCP, oh, and they don't have these new fancy 'heads' you are talking about. It's all done through the spinal cord.
You are really a strange beast, also very defensive, which is a sign of weakness. I didn't have mod points and even if I had I wouldn't be moderating something as silly as this.
I don't have a duty to recycle and I don't want to have that duty. I don't recycle. You want my garbage to be recycled? Do it at the collection place. Don't care, will never care.
whatever you say, chief, but it's SirLurksAlot who has 5 Informative, so you must have said something and whether it is your improper use of the language or an attempt to hide your incompetence in the subject matter, the crowd believes whatever it wants to believe. Cheers.