When I was in school, a Jesuit-run catholic school, one father (priest) explained a group of science/religion-confused girls that the origin of man, and all species, was explained by Evolution, so they should pay attention to the biology prof. (which had a PhD in biology, by the way). He also explained to the girls that Genesis was only a metaphor, with deep theological implications for cristians, but it had nothing to do with the origin of man.
Of course, for most protestant cristians (as in Kansas), catholics are devil-worshipers, and the pope is Satan himself. So telling this story was just waste of time.
By the way, I'm atheist, and hold in high regard jesuit priests, for giving me an excellent scientific education, devoid of any supernatural ideas.
...but they don't know. And even if they knew, they wouldn't care. That is the problem with faith, being laughed at will reinforce their beliefs.
I can't beleive that they accepted a new definition for science. The definition is so open that explaining something with supernatural ideas is now valid. I guess that in Kansas dowsers, mediums and astrologists now have the same place as a PhD in physics or biology.
What is worst, is that people believe that science is a democracy, so this vote will reinforce creationism, giving it more strength among those that were not sure if they should follow creationism.
This shows once again that what "you know who" once said is true: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
...government? Hopefully this will serve as a warning to countries that are forgetting about what separation of church and state means. Although it is more likely that it will serve as motivation to eliminate separation of church and state:-(
Are you insane, can't you read? I quoted Einstein saying that he does not believes in god. Or are you trying to tell me that you knew Einstein better than he knew himself?
That's the problem with creationist, they won't listen to reason, even if facts bite them in the nose.
Einstein was atheist, sometimes scientist say god, speaking metaphorically. Einstein said:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
And by the way, what purpose will it serve to teach people lies? Even if they are not going to study science, they have to be tought facts, not lies. If you keep a population ignorant, they'll be easilly manipulated. As an example, I'm not a biochemist, I'm a Computer Scientist, but all the Organic Chemsitry I learned in high school has been very helpful in my life, to improve my nutrition, and hormonal profile, as part of my goal to be faster and stronger. It has also been helpful to identify all the crap about nutrition and health popular media barfs.
Why was she replaced with that Karl Urban guy? She is the only reason I rented the first movie, and the only reason I'll rent the second one... but without her you bet I won't rent the third movie.
Then, they ban skeptics/atheist/agnostic speech, because "everyone" knows that god is real. Speech that says that there are no gods is bad, so it must be banned.
Then, they finally achieve banning everything related to evolution, because it goes against all religious scriptures, specially the bible. If something goes against your religion, it is bad, and speech related to bad things must be banned.
I'll be using Gmail as soon as it launches, and my privacy will be Ok. How? Because whenever I have an important e-mail communication, it is encrypted.
So what is the problem? Do you think Google will try to break the encryption of random Gmail users?
Ah. Now I remember. People are lazy and fear technology, so they won't use encryption with Gmail. Then don't use email at all! Even if your email is handled by yor ISP, instead of a webmail service, any network admin at your ISP can read it.
What surprises me is that no-one on./ has stated the obvious. We are technical people. We don't fear encryption. So why are we worrying? What am I missing?
There is not much difference between English and Spanish, but between Japanese and Spanish/English, there is, you have to think in a different way to speak Japanse.
There is a language in South America, I forget the name, that uses ternary logic. Traditional mathematics teaching isn't effective with the kids that speak that language.
As I see it, losing human languages will be bad for computer languages innovation. We'll be almost stuck with what we have now.
I don't doubt their claims, they are clearly lying. Instead of discussing the obvious, that they are not under a DDoS attack, we should be asking ourselves why they are faking an attack.
Some people have pointed out that they are doing it to remove self incriminating evidence from their website. Very likely.
Another plausible speculation is that they are going to use this fake attack as an excuse to delay showing the evidence the judge demanded. I wouldn't be surprised if they go as far as saying that some "evil free software hugger" performed the attack to erase the evidence from all their computers, and use that as an excuse to insist that IBM should show their code first.
And no, these are not conspiracy theories, because the evidence is enough to prove they are faking the attack. They are doing it for a very good reason.
No one can fall victim of a SYN flood attack these days. You don't need a DDOS with "thousands of servers" to do a SYN flood attack. SCO's ISP isn't suffering anything related to a DDOS attack. The shutdown pattern of the SCO's servers shows that they were unpluged. Groklaw has a good disection of the hoax.
Therefore, I would like to know what are the/. editors waiting for, in order to update the story stating it as a fraud from SCO.
I wouldn't be surprised if SCO issues a press release tomorrow saying that the evidence they were going to show in January 5 was destroyed.
This is just too much. I thought "evil corporations" existed only on comic books, and hollywood movies.
Vegetarians are creatine deficient and always get better results than non-vegetarians when taking creatine suplements.
There are creatine studies that shows that.
And in fact, some people get so much creatine in their diets, that suplementing with more creatine, adds nothing (there's no anaerobic performance increase, no strength increase, and I'm sure that no "brain power boost").
I have seen studies linking creatine to DECREASED risk of diabetes, because it helps to regulate blood sugar.
A lot of studies show that creatine, in your post workout meal, increases the transport of glucose to your muscles, increasing glycogen retention in your muscles. Translation: good for you, stronger, faster recovery, decreased diabetes.
This study seems weak. And the body odor side effect raises a red flag.
Among the thousands of creatine monohydrate studies, this is the first time I hear something about body odor.
By the way, I have been using creatine monohydrate since 2000.
Some side effects of creatine, mentioned in other posts, like stomach cramps, and diarrea, are not really creatine monohydrate side effects. If you buy a good brand of creatine, like the German one CREAPURE, you won't have any problem. If you have stomach cramps, that means you are using a crap suplement. A lot of cheap "creatine" supplements in the market are full of impurities, like Na, creatinine, Dihydrotriazine, Dicyandiamide, and some companies add baking soda to rip you off (verified with a lab test) and only half real creatine.
In conclusion, most side effects attributed to creatine are not caused by the creatine, are caused by impurities in cheap products. Just don't buy cheap creatine.
Creatine has no DHT, nor it does transforms to DHT because it is not a steroid, so it won't affect your hair.
If you really know someone with enlarged forehead, he must be overdosing on Human Growth Hormone. But most likely, he always had a big forehead.
Impotence??? That means your friends are taking a steroid with low androgenic activity, like nandrolone. Ask your friends to add testosterone to their steroid stack, and the impotence will be gone.
By the way. This is the first time I hear about body odor as a side effect of creatine (among the thousands of creatine studies). I'm sorry, but that's another red flag for the study.
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Thanks.
This whole internet governance is just an excuse to provide a framework for censorship. Besides that it will also destroy innovation and research.
The current system is not perfect, but it sure is better than whatever they want to achieve.
Well, I guess I should have said "many", instead of "most", it doesn't matters anyway.
FYI, catholics in the U.S. are actually seen as too conservative (even puritan) by catholics in other countries.
When I was in school, a Jesuit-run catholic school, one father (priest) explained a group of science/religion-confused girls that the origin of man, and all species, was explained by Evolution, so they should pay attention to the biology prof. (which had a PhD in biology, by the way). He also explained to the girls that Genesis was only a metaphor, with deep theological implications for cristians, but it had nothing to do with the origin of man.
Of course, for most protestant cristians (as in Kansas), catholics are devil-worshipers, and the pope is Satan himself. So telling this story was just waste of time.
By the way, I'm atheist, and hold in high regard jesuit priests, for giving me an excellent scientific education, devoid of any supernatural ideas.
...but they don't know. And even if they knew, they wouldn't care. That is the problem with faith, being laughed at will reinforce their beliefs.
I can't beleive that they accepted a new definition for science. The definition is so open that explaining something with supernatural ideas is now valid. I guess that in Kansas dowsers, mediums and astrologists now have the same place as a PhD in physics or biology.
What is worst, is that people believe that science is a democracy, so this vote will reinforce creationism, giving it more strength among those that were not sure if they should follow creationism.
This shows once again that what "you know who" once said is true: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
...government? Hopefully this will serve as a warning to countries that are forgetting about what separation of church and state means. Although it is more likely that it will serve as motivation to eliminate separation of church and state :-(
I don't know if those are real Einstein quotes. As he himself said, many things that he didn't say about religion are attributed to him.
Anyway, those quotes sound like metaphoric speak, and the first one is not about god, it is about love.
But my quote, where he clearly states that he does not beleive in god, is taken from a letter he wrote, and can be verified:
Albert Einstein, The Human Side
by Albert Einstein, Banesh Hoffman (Editor), Helen Dukas (Editor)
Are you insane, can't you read? I quoted Einstein saying that he does not believes in god. Or are you trying to tell me that you knew Einstein better than he knew himself?
That's the problem with creationist, they won't listen to reason, even if facts bite them in the nose.
Einstein was atheist, sometimes scientist say god, speaking metaphorically. Einstein said:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
And by the way, what purpose will it serve to teach people lies? Even if they are not going to study science, they have to be tought facts, not lies. If you keep a population ignorant, they'll be easilly manipulated. As an example, I'm not a biochemist, I'm a Computer Scientist, but all the Organic Chemsitry I learned in high school has been very helpful in my life, to improve my nutrition, and hormonal profile, as part of my goal to be faster and stronger. It has also been helpful to identify all the crap about nutrition and health popular media barfs.
his phrenology results, and his tarot card readings?
/.'s front page.
Please, I don't like pseudoscience crap on
The game, with upside-down crosses and 666 symbols has been successful, three times. Why wouldn't the movie be?
Political correctness is making this world a disaster.
Why was she replaced with that Karl Urban guy? She is the only reason I rented the first movie, and the only reason I'll rent the second one... but without her you bet I won't rent the third movie.
Then, they ban skeptics/atheist/agnostic speech, because "everyone" knows that god is real. Speech that says that there are no gods is bad, so it must be banned.
Then, they finally achieve banning everything related to evolution, because it goes against all religious scriptures, specially the bible. If something goes against your religion, it is bad, and speech related to bad things must be banned.
Then...
This book is intentionally filled with lies. Knowledgeable people know that, but politicians are not knowledgeable, and they don't care.
If we are not carefull, Linux could be banned from the US, just like ephedra and pro-hormones were banned based on lies and pseudoscience.
I'll be using Gmail as soon as it launches, and my privacy will be Ok. How? Because whenever I have an important e-mail communication, it is encrypted.
./ has stated the obvious. We are technical people. We don't fear encryption. So why are we worrying? What am I missing?
So what is the problem? Do you think Google will try to break the encryption of random Gmail users?
Ah. Now I remember. People are lazy and fear technology, so they won't use encryption with Gmail. Then don't use email at all! Even if your email is handled by yor ISP, instead of a webmail service, any network admin at your ISP can read it.
What surprises me is that no-one on
Don't you have friends you want to meet with?
You should be lifting weights in a gym at least three times a week.
Poontang?
For some reason, that's one place I think I need to visit.
Can anyone explain how the trees got red because of the radiation? That IS scary.
I don't have windows to install the evaluation software, and couldn't find technical info on it.
The app reminds me of the tools I used 6 years ago on the Shrimp tools distribution for the MBone.
Does anyone knows if the p2p software is a Distributed Hash Table, like Pastry/Chord/Kellips, or if it is based on flooding like Gnutella/FastTrack?
different ways of thinking.
There is not much difference between English and Spanish, but between Japanese and Spanish/English, there is, you have to think in a different way to speak Japanse.
There is a language in South America, I forget the name, that uses ternary logic. Traditional mathematics teaching isn't effective with the kids that speak that language.
As I see it, losing human languages will be bad for computer languages innovation. We'll be almost stuck with what we have now.
I don't doubt their claims, they are clearly lying. Instead of discussing the obvious, that they are not under a DDoS attack, we should be asking ourselves why they are faking an attack.
Some people have pointed out that they are doing it to remove self incriminating evidence from their website. Very likely.
Another plausible speculation is that they are going to use this fake attack as an excuse to delay showing the evidence the judge demanded. I wouldn't be surprised if they go as far as saying that some "evil free software hugger" performed the attack to erase the evidence from all their computers, and use that as an excuse to insist that IBM should show their code first.
And no, these are not conspiracy theories, because the evidence is enough to prove they are faking the attack. They are doing it for a very good reason.
No one can fall victim of a SYN flood attack these days. You don't need a DDOS with "thousands of servers" to do a SYN flood attack. SCO's ISP isn't suffering anything related to a DDOS attack. The shutdown pattern of the SCO's servers shows that they were unpluged. Groklaw has a good disection of the hoax.
/. editors waiting for, in order to update the story stating it as a fraud from SCO.
Therefore, I would like to know what are the
I wouldn't be surprised if SCO issues a press release tomorrow saying that the evidence they were going to show in January 5 was destroyed.
This is just too much. I thought "evil corporations" existed only on comic books, and hollywood movies.
...too many tech. companies in Florida, so many that they want to prevent new companies to bring their business to the state.
Great idea.
Vegetarians are creatine deficient and always get better results than non-vegetarians when taking creatine suplements.
There are creatine studies that shows that.
And in fact, some people get so much creatine in their diets, that suplementing with more creatine, adds nothing (there's no anaerobic performance increase, no strength increase, and I'm sure that no "brain power boost").
I have seen studies linking creatine to DECREASED risk of diabetes, because it helps to regulate blood sugar.
A lot of studies show that creatine, in your post workout meal, increases the transport of glucose to your muscles, increasing glycogen retention in your muscles. Translation: good for you, stronger, faster recovery, decreased diabetes.
This study seems weak. And the body odor side effect raises a red flag.
Among the thousands of creatine monohydrate studies, this is the first time I hear something about body odor.
By the way, I have been using creatine monohydrate since 2000.
Some side effects of creatine, mentioned in other posts, like stomach cramps, and diarrea, are not really creatine monohydrate side effects. If you buy a good brand of creatine, like the German one CREAPURE, you won't have any problem. If you have stomach cramps, that means you are using a crap suplement. A lot of cheap "creatine" supplements in the market are full of impurities, like Na, creatinine, Dihydrotriazine, Dicyandiamide, and some companies add baking soda to rip you off (verified with a lab test) and only half real creatine.
In conclusion, most side effects attributed to creatine are not caused by the creatine, are caused by impurities in cheap products. Just don't buy cheap creatine.
I have been using creatine since 2000.
Creatine has no DHT, nor it does transforms to DHT because it is not a steroid, so it won't affect your hair.
If you really know someone with enlarged forehead, he must be overdosing on Human Growth Hormone. But most likely, he always had a big forehead.
Impotence??? That means your friends are taking a steroid with low androgenic activity, like nandrolone. Ask your friends to add testosterone to their steroid stack, and the impotence will be gone.
By the way. This is the first time I hear about body odor as a side effect of creatine (among the thousands of creatine studies). I'm sorry, but that's another red flag for the study.