Then you just don't know many atheists. You may have a high intelligence or capability for logic, I don't know. However, your faith in the existence of something that has no proof, by definition cannot be proven, and goes against all observed evidence of the nature of the universe casts great doubts on your scientific integrity. The fact that you let something you were taught as fact and prohibited from questioning get in the way of logical thought and scientific process leads me to accuse you of being an intellectual lightweight.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, so I'll be gentle. Not everything that matters in human existence can be quantified, made into an equation, or stuffed into a test-tube. And please, don't get mad at me for questioning your faith.
On the other hand, "rented" music allows you to sample a much wider variety of music than if you had to pay for it all. $15 will buy you 15 songs on iTunes forever, or it will buy you an "infinite" (limited by what's available on the Zune Marketplace) amount of music for one month. If you like the music, you can always buy it.
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Haiku from BeOS
Multitasking all programs without delay
Open source victory
Don't worry about those meanies demanding 5-7-5. Just make a few quick edits and every thing will be fine. Here's how youdo it: pretend you are an ESL student:
Haiku: BeOS
Multitask without delays!
Big Open Source win!
Thats true as well, but what does Microsoft have to do with any of this other than having a stake in HD-DVDs acceptance. Well that's certainly not much to worry about! </irony>
Sadly for OS X, it requires new hardware for most people (and from a single vendor, another bad thing), so that's right out, no matter how good it is.
Everone who doesn't roll their own buys their computer from "a single vendor." This is only a valid point if you can show how Apple's x86 kit is noticeably worse or more expensive than similarly configured kit from Dell or HP or whomever. If you can't, you need a new excuse.
I've spent enough time watching stuff on youtube to realize that you can't believe everything you see. The fact is, there is almost no dispute that the climate is warming. The only real controversy is the issue of what's causing it.
It's too bad you didn't spend 20 seconds watching this one, because the very first words uttered in the film are: "When people say we don't believe in Global Warming, I say, no I believe in global warming, I don't believe [that] CO2 is causing that warming."
I've spent enough time watching stuff on youtube to realize that you can't believe everything you see. The fact is, there is almost no dispute that the climate is warming. The only real controversy is the issue of what's causing it.
It's too bad you didn't spend 20 seconds watching this one, because the very first words uttered in the film are: "When people say we don't believe in Global Warming,
It seems that any particular "science" does not exist for the politically-driven masses until someone makes a movie about it a la Al Gore. So with no further ado, I present the really inconvenient, inconvenient truth:
The movie was produced by the BBC4 and is titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It shows an honest, reasoned response to the Global Warming Scare on a point-by-point basis from scientists and at least one journalist. The scientists all have credentials out the whazoo and are recognized leaders and contributors in their respective fields. A few of them have their names on the IPCC report (the report the Warmingistas always cite) and one has even sued to have his name taken off the document.
Particularly chilling (no pun intended) is the part that shows how the IPCC policy-wonks have redacted the IPCC report to remove comments from the scientists that explicitly state there is no proveable link between man-made CO2 and global warming.
As a technical person, I have always suspected the "consensus" results "proving" man-made Global Warming have been primarily a political scam. For one thing, science rarely (if ever) deals in absolutes, and complex models always deal in probabilities rather than yes/no answers. Further, as an undergraduate engineer, I spent plenty of time in college science labs doing experiments to acquaint myself with the scientific method. Working in simple straight-forward conditions:
Indoor lab,
Properly calibrated equipment,
One simple, universally-accepted equation,
One single variable,
we (me and all the other undergraduates) never got an exact match between the equations and the real world. There was always a fudge-factor. This experience has taught me that anyone who thinks scientists can model the entire world and get every equation and every theoretical assumption correct (down to a degree Celcius with no fudge-factor) is either ignorant or just a shill. They have the kind of faith that would put any religious bigot to shame.
...but watching the way they spin stories, it's pretty hard to deny that they're fans of the Republicans. Nothing wrong with that, newscasters are allowed opinions too, but when they repeat over and over again that they're "fair and balanced," and O'Reilly touts his "no-spin zone"...
Welcome to the world of the conservative. Before Fox news, virtually every broadcast network were fans of the Democrats, and most of them still are. They always presented "hard-hitting," "no-nonsense," questions and demanded "accountability" when a Republican wandered into their crosshairs. Meanwhile a Democrat with as bad or worse a record would skate on every issue during an on-air-love-in disguised as an interview. Any time an interviewer would get close to a tough question for a Democrat, he/she would always preface it with some grovelling along the lines of "sorry that I have to ask this, but your detractors say... how do you respond to that?"
And although there was never a tag-line for this sorry mess along the lines of "Fair & Balanced," the old dinosaur broadcast media still put on quite a show about being "objective," "fair," and "respected journalists." They billed themselves as tireless newshounds continually digging for "the facts," but oddly none of the facts that would put a conservative in a positive light or a Democrat in a negative light ever seemed to turn up.
This is exactly the template Dan Rather was following when he failed to vet his Bush-national-guard-documents for his segment on 60-minutes. Viewers were supposed to see the SeeBS 60-minutes graphics of damning document after damning document and just assume they were all on the up and up. If Rather had pulled this same stunt 30 years ago, with no blogosphere, no Fox, no Rush Limbaugh, he would have gotten away with it. And the truth, if it ever got printed, would have been buried in a two-inch column on page A24 of the New York Times six months after the election.
You'd think with their constant complaints about the liberal media, Republicans would be all in favor of a law requiring CNN et all to present their side fairly.
"Fairness"(tm) isn't about tilting CNN slightly to the right and tilting Fox slightly to the left. It's a patented and trade-marked Democrat Trojan Horse that is designed to let CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN remain essentially the same while giving the FCC the power to badger and fine Fox and talk-radio until they allow left-wing advocacy groups to dictate their standard talking points and style-guides, as they do for most every other MSM outlet.
I never claimed that the media actually has a liberal bias, just that the Republicans claim it does. My personal opinion is that most news outlets do have a left-wing bias, but that Fox's claim to be "fair and balanced" is a running gag that American has fallen for. The only interesting question is whether CNN is as left as Fox is right.
Fox has a market, but it did not create that market. Their market are the people who feel they are not being served well by CNN. It's that simple. As far as "fair and balanced" being a "running gag," I would have to agree with you if Fox had ever been guilty of anything like the trumped up Bush national guard records(CBS), or the trumped up "Downing Street Memo," or anything written by Jason Blair(NYT). But since their record is relatively clean, I can't.
All it takes is some imagingation. Apple has that. Microsoft used to.
Oh don't worry, M$ will have "imagination" again when they come out with their me-too version of OSX. Just like they had "imagination" when they came out with Word for Windows (MacWrite knock-off), Clear Type (True Type knock-off) and Windows itself (Mac OS knock-off). Unfortunately, the Zune didn't even make it to knock-off status as it looks positively prehistoric next to Apple's iPhone (real imagination).
You really should read your own link. Inadmissable in a court of law? Only "verified" by unnamed sources? Source document unavailable for formal verification? People who haven't seen "the original" unwilling to confirm or deny authenticity? By any journalistic standard, the memo is about as true as anything a "journalist" can type on imagination alone. Thanks for making my point for me.
Why must I be for CBS/ABC/etc. if I'm against Fox News? Every news channel is my "opponent" in this regard.
When most of the major malfeasance in journalism can be found outside of Fox News, it just seems kind of strange that someone would focus on Fox News. It makes one wonder what kind of formula you use to prioritize your "opponents."
Well, let's see how well CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN et al are doing: 1) Bush National Guard documents -- fake, 2) Downing Street Memos -- fake, 3) Jason Blair (NYT) articles -- fake. If Fox had been responsibile for any of these great examples of "journalism," they would have already been howled out of business. But of course, that's the beauty of a double-standard. Crucify your opponents over minutia while you skate on the real whoppers.
Who's going to buy a brand new Macintosh when we are just about to go to Rev. B. chips/platforms? Maybe everyone who is not 1-point-oh-averse has already bought a Mac. And everyone else wants x86 2.0.
The iTunes Music Store is going to be selling Stargate SG1/Atlantis episodes soon. If you don't care for their DRM, I think there are programs out there that allow you to strip it away once you've downloaded the video files.
The filesize and quality of the episode should be fine due to Apple's advanced H264 codec, but the resolution will be a little low: 320x200. These episodes are meant to be compatible with the display of a video iPod.
I mean come on, you have an entire continent of evangelical religious kooks just sitting there, ripe for the plucking. Start your own religious splinter group! You too can have up to thirty wives, or more! And they can be any age you like! God told you it was a good idea, and who are we to argue with the main man? And don't forget people, put your hands in your pockets because Gawwwwd needs his word spread to the heathens, unbelievers, scientists, and ALL WHO OPPOSE YOUR HOLY COMMANDS!
Not so fast, Pancho. If the right "compassionate" administration is in power, you and your entire flock will be massacred after a failed home-invasion. The media will be kept a couple of miles away while this happens and they will all uniformly fail to ask any serious questions afterwards. Then your "crime site" will be razed and cleaned up a couple of days later just in case anyone wants to come around to investigate. Again the media will be totally incurious about the whole event until a homegrown terrorist shows up later to bomb a government building. The Party that claims all harsh armed conflict produces terrorists will act surprised that their own actions could possible produce such a result.
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Actually, "the math" says 1/200 hp/person * 1000 people = 5hp. But we get your drift.
Don't worry about those meanies demanding 5-7-5. Just make a few quick edits and every thing will be fine. Here's how youdo it: pretend you are an ESL student:
Haiku: BeOS
Multitask without delays!
Big Open Source win!
There. Apologies to the original artist.
Well that's certainly not much to worry about! </irony>
It means pain!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=900556679
The movie was produced by the BBC4 and is titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It shows an honest, reasoned response to the Global Warming Scare on a point-by-point basis from scientists and at least one journalist. The scientists all have credentials out the whazoo and are recognized leaders and contributors in their respective fields. A few of them have their names on the IPCC report (the report the Warmingistas always cite) and one has even sued to have his name taken off the document.
Particularly chilling (no pun intended) is the part that shows how the IPCC policy-wonks have redacted the IPCC report to remove comments from the scientists that explicitly state there is no proveable link between man-made CO2 and global warming.
As a technical person, I have always suspected the "consensus" results "proving" man-made Global Warming have been primarily a political scam. For one thing, science rarely (if ever) deals in absolutes, and complex models always deal in probabilities rather than yes/no answers. Further, as an undergraduate engineer, I spent plenty of time in college science labs doing experiments to acquaint myself with the scientific method. Working in simple straight-forward conditions:
- Indoor lab,
- Properly calibrated equipment,
- One simple, universally-accepted equation,
- One single variable,
we (me and all the other undergraduates) never got an exact match between the equations and the real world. There was always a fudge-factor. This experience has taught me that anyone who thinks scientists can model the entire world and get every equation and every theoretical assumption correct (down to a degree Celcius with no fudge-factor) is either ignorant or just a shill. They have the kind of faith that would put any religious bigot to shame."This would have given the flying reptiles lift."
And although there was never a tag-line for this sorry mess along the lines of "Fair & Balanced," the old dinosaur broadcast media still put on quite a show about being "objective," "fair," and "respected journalists." They billed themselves as tireless newshounds continually digging for "the facts," but oddly none of the facts that would put a conservative in a positive light or a Democrat in a negative light ever seemed to turn up.
This is exactly the template Dan Rather was following when he failed to vet his Bush-national-guard-documents for his segment on 60-minutes. Viewers were supposed to see the SeeBS 60-minutes graphics of damning document after damning document and just assume they were all on the up and up. If Rather had pulled this same stunt 30 years ago, with no blogosphere, no Fox, no Rush Limbaugh, he would have gotten away with it. And the truth, if it ever got printed, would have been buried in a two-inch column on page A24 of the New York Times six months after the election.
Well, let's see how well CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN et al are doing: 1) Bush National Guard documents -- fake, 2) Downing Street Memos -- fake, 3) Jason Blair (NYT) articles -- fake. If Fox had been responsibile for any of these great examples of "journalism," they would have already been howled out of business. But of course, that's the beauty of a double-standard. Crucify your opponents over minutia while you skate on the real whoppers.
Then I'm in luck! 99% of the computer buying population is not going to read my post.
Who's going to buy a brand new Macintosh when we are just about to go to Rev. B. chips/platforms? Maybe everyone who is not 1-point-oh-averse has already bought a Mac. And everyone else wants x86 2.0.
Use the scroll-wheel on your mouse to browse those albums. MMMmmmm, tasty!
Hiya Swede --
The iTunes Music Store is going to be selling Stargate SG1/Atlantis episodes soon. If you don't care for their DRM, I think there are programs out there that allow you to strip it away once you've downloaded the video files.
The filesize and quality of the episode should be fine due to Apple's advanced H264 codec, but the resolution will be a little low: 320x200. These episodes are meant to be compatible with the display of a video iPod.
Not so fast, Pancho. If the right "compassionate" administration is in power, you and your entire flock will be massacred after a failed home-invasion. The media will be kept a couple of miles away while this happens and they will all uniformly fail to ask any serious questions afterwards. Then your "crime site" will be razed and cleaned up a couple of days later just in case anyone wants to come around to investigate. Again the media will be totally incurious about the whole event until a homegrown terrorist shows up later to bomb a government building. The Party that claims all harsh armed conflict produces terrorists will act surprised that their own actions could possible produce such a result.