So we can't make a pre-emptive strike against another person? Just because he has only killed his own people and invaded one other contry obviously makes him a non threat to the US.
Don't try to confuse the issue with facts. Leftest raving about how we shouldn't be in Iraq is probably about equal to what it would be if we went to kill Osama Bin Laden on Sept 10th.
"He's not a threat!!!" "He is just sitting in his cave playing cards with his friends and family." "There is no evidence he was orcistrating an attack on the US."
That's what always pissed me off about Spock from Star Trek. If he was logical he would have studied the human psycie and he wouldn't be as supprised by human emotion. Hell, he was suppose to be half human, yet he was continously caught off guard by human emotion and desire.
Not right, this could almost be said about hyper threading but even then it isn't really close. Dual core is two complete cpus put on the same chip. This should also alow them to share cache.
There has recently been a patch the the Linux Kernel about zoning cpus. This helps process migration across cpus. basicly if a cpu is overloaded you have to move some process off of it to another cpu. using cpu zones the migration code can try to pick hyperthreaded or multi core cpus to migrate to first because of shared cache. moving to a diffrent smp cpu has a lot of overhead.
Luckly Big Bang and Evolution don't require your beleif. They, or something very similar to them have already produced your ability to belive one way or the other.
Except that an Atheist does regect the notion that there is no god. I no longer refer to myself as atheist because of this. Agnostic, leaning tords atheist is what I tell most people if they ask.
exactly I dont belive anything, I take a few things as being consistant because of experience, up to and includeing things read or learned from other places that seem to fit with what I have experienced. But I do not use any type of learned dogma to say something can't happen or that it can't be a certain way. Things only seem to be what they are. Nothing is abslute except vodka:)
But doesn't that fit the deist idea that god created the universe but then doesn't interfere? Sure he might have set it in motion to end up a certain way, but that still says that the universe has to be consistent and he started everything to work out through it's consistent manor to end at a specific point.
Wouldn't that also mean that god pre-planned exactly who and what everyone was going to be and that there can be no evil. Your life was pre programmed when god made the universe so you have no choices in life.
I don't think I stated anywhere that I, science, or anyone has all the answers. I just don't think it is healthy to use a religious dogma to push against the pursuit of finding those answers.
Also, just because something looks random doesn't mean it is. Laws of physics may break down but that doesn't mean that new laws will be found that are consistent and don't break down. Science is a collection of information that hasn't been proven wrong. Thereby, Laws, Proofs are never proven right. They only gather evidence of their correctness through experimentation and similar observation.
In my agnostic ways this would be the only acceptable deffinition of God I would serously consider. I have always put the label of Mother Nature to it though.
You can in a deist type of way only. The idea that god created the universe and only observes from there and never intervenes. otherwise you break the biggest assumption of science, that the universe is consistent. Unfortunately for the faithful this means no miracles. Just because science can't explain something doesn't mean it was 'God.'
If I can't prove it I don't believe it. Kind of limits me on the belief level because I don't really believe in anything. Pyrrho taught me to be skeptical of everything. Scientific Theory tells me that nothing is ever proven right, only proven wrong. Religion has taught me that belief can be powerful, but power corrupts.
I have had complaints that no one can get a definite answer from me. Computers have really been the thing that has put me to that the most. I almost never say it 'Will happen', it is always it 'Should happen'. Based of my past experiences when I do 'x', 'y' has always happened. This doesn't mean that it will, just that it should do it again.
I guess if it comes down to a belief I would have to say that I believe the universe is consistent, but even that is only that it seems to have been consistent so far, but if something comes up that isn't consistent I will not discount it solely on the belief that the universe is consistent.
That's probably because your 1991 Civic was a two door light weight car with almost no options and wouldn't survive even the laziest of crash test standards today. Sure you can make a car 50% the weight be stripping out all the frame except what is needed to drive the car. Strip out all the options, electric windows, door locks, ABS, etc...
Ok, sense you are pulling numbers out of thin air let me give it a try.
400lbs engine + 200lbs transmission = 600
Now lets take that 600 lbs and add in + 50lbs battery + 100lbs electric motor/generator
we are up to 750lbs well, we don't need a 400lbs engine anymore -100lbs we don't need the standard battery (technically there is but it is similar to a motorcycle battery and much much smaller and lighter) -25lbs we don't need a regular alternator (taken care of by the motor/generator) -15lbs we don't need a regular starter (taken care of by the motor/generator) -15lbs We can use a CV transmission that is much simpler and lighter than a manual or automatic -50lbs
realistically everything averages out to a hybrid weighing about 50-75lbs more than an equivalent straight petrol car.
Plus you get the bonus of a brushless computer controlled electric motor that can run far longer than your starter and alternator in a standard car. Due to only one moving part and no dry rubbing brushes. My batteries have a 10 year warranty. I get an average of 42mpg when not trying by driving slower and accelerating slower. The worst I have ever got loaded with 5 people and luggage driving to Las Vegas (kinda kills your not enough interior room complaint) I still got 36mpg which is the best that a regular Civic will get.
I got a hybrid because I think the technology is useful now and that will increase in usefulness. I will most likely be trading in my civic for an accord hybrid next year so I can have a fast sports car hybrid.
Twice the weight? unless you have a 50lbs car then it is far less than twice the weight. Half the interior room? Unless you have 1.2 cubic foot of space in your car then it takes up far less than half the space.
Why do hybrids get such criticism? The technology is sound, it is not married to petrol engines and could easily be used on Diesel. In fact it would be ideal for diesel engines to be hybrids. It does help improve mileage. What has a hybrid car done to you, and others who criticize this way?
Slashdot Mirror
42billion / 300million = $140 a year each
diet books/ aprox US pop.
Ohh yea, I forgot. Let's feed them to the gas chamber then.
Hussein was in Iraq and was considered as much if not more of a threat than Osama before 9/11.
So we can't make a pre-emptive strike against another person? Just because he has only killed his own people and invaded one other contry obviously makes him a non threat to the US.
Not only chearleaders man, they made them eat PORK!!!! let me say again PORK!!!!! I mean my god the humanity.
Some even claim to have been forced to drink alcohol!!! Ohh how my heart bleeds for these poor represed people.
What's a little gas chamber when compared to a few stips of bacon and a beer.
Don't try to confuse the issue with facts. Leftest raving about how we shouldn't be in Iraq is probably about equal to what it would be if we went to kill Osama Bin Laden on Sept 10th.
"He's not a threat!!!"
"He is just sitting in his cave playing cards with his friends and family."
"There is no evidence he was orcistrating an attack on the US."
That's what always pissed me off about Spock from Star Trek. If he was logical he would have studied the human psycie and he wouldn't be as supprised by human emotion. Hell, he was suppose to be half human, yet he was continously caught off guard by human emotion and desire.
Not right, this could almost be said about hyper threading but even then it isn't really close. Dual core is two complete cpus put on the same chip. This should also alow them to share cache.
There has recently been a patch the the Linux Kernel about zoning cpus. This helps process migration across cpus. basicly if a cpu is overloaded you have to move some process off of it to another cpu. using cpu zones the migration code can try to pick hyperthreaded or multi core cpus to migrate to first because of shared cache. moving to a diffrent smp cpu has a lot of overhead.
Luckly Big Bang and Evolution don't require your beleif. They, or something very similar to them have already produced your ability to belive one way or the other.
Except that an Atheist does regect the notion that there is no god. I no longer refer to myself as atheist because of this. Agnostic, leaning tords atheist is what I tell most people if they ask.
except hasn't god been described as the most complicated being ever to exist?
exactly I dont belive anything, I take a few things as being consistant because of experience, up to and includeing things read or learned from other places that seem to fit with what I have experienced. But I do not use any type of learned dogma to say something can't happen or that it can't be a certain way. Things only seem to be what they are. Nothing is abslute except vodka :)
If god put it there where did god come from?
Oh yea he's eternal.
guess a grain of dust cant be eternal but a supernatural being with magical powers can be.
But doesn't that fit the deist idea that god created the universe but then doesn't interfere? Sure he might have set it in motion to end up a certain way, but that still says that the universe has to be consistent and he started everything to work out through it's consistent manor to end at a specific point.
Wouldn't that also mean that god pre-planned exactly who and what everyone was going to be and that there can be no evil. Your life was pre programmed when god made the universe so you have no choices in life.
coincidence does not a miracle make.
I don't think I stated anywhere that I, science, or anyone has all the answers. I just don't think it is healthy to use a religious dogma to push against the pursuit of finding those answers.
Also, just because something looks random doesn't mean it is. Laws of physics may break down but that doesn't mean that new laws will be found that are consistent and don't break down. Science is a collection of information that hasn't been proven wrong. Thereby, Laws, Proofs are never proven right. They only gather evidence of their correctness through experimentation and similar observation.
In my agnostic ways this would be the only acceptable deffinition of God I would serously consider. I have always put the label of Mother Nature to it though.
Don't anthropomorphise computers and cars, They hate that.
You can in a deist type of way only. The idea that god created the universe and only observes from there and never intervenes. otherwise you break the biggest assumption of science, that the universe is consistent. Unfortunately for the faithful this means no miracles. Just because science can't explain something doesn't mean it was 'God.'
If I can't prove it I don't believe it. Kind of limits me on the belief level because I don't really believe in anything. Pyrrho taught me to be skeptical of everything. Scientific Theory tells me that nothing is ever proven right, only proven wrong. Religion has taught me that belief can be powerful, but power corrupts.
I have had complaints that no one can get a definite answer from me. Computers have really been the thing that has put me to that the most. I almost never say it 'Will happen', it is always it 'Should happen'. Based of my past experiences when I do 'x', 'y' has always happened. This doesn't mean that it will, just that it should do it again.
I guess if it comes down to a belief I would have to say that I believe the universe is consistent, but even that is only that it seems to have been consistent so far, but if something comes up that isn't consistent I will not discount it solely on the belief that the universe is consistent.
And you get the socially advancing nick name of "French fry Boy" or would that be "Freedom fry Boy?"
That's probably because your 1991 Civic was a two door light weight car with almost no options and wouldn't survive even the laziest of crash test standards today. Sure you can make a car 50% the weight be stripping out all the frame except what is needed to drive the car. Strip out all the options, electric windows, door locks, ABS, etc...
Ok, sense you are pulling numbers out of thin air let me give it a try.
400lbs engine + 200lbs transmission = 600
Now lets take that 600 lbs and add in
+ 50lbs battery
+ 100lbs electric motor/generator
we are up to 750lbs
well, we don't need a 400lbs engine anymore
-100lbs
we don't need the standard battery (technically there is but it is similar to a motorcycle battery and much much smaller and lighter)
-25lbs
we don't need a regular alternator (taken care of by the motor/generator)
-15lbs
we don't need a regular starter (taken care of by the motor/generator)
-15lbs
We can use a CV transmission that is much simpler and lighter than a manual or automatic
-50lbs
realistically everything averages out to a hybrid weighing about 50-75lbs more than an equivalent straight petrol car.
Plus you get the bonus of a brushless computer controlled electric motor that can run far longer than your starter and alternator in a standard car. Due to only one moving part and no dry rubbing brushes. My batteries have a 10 year warranty. I get an average of 42mpg when not trying by driving slower and accelerating slower. The worst I have ever got loaded with 5 people and luggage driving to Las Vegas (kinda kills your not enough interior room complaint) I still got 36mpg which is the best that a regular Civic will get.
I got a hybrid because I think the technology is useful now and that will increase in usefulness. I will most likely be trading in my civic for an accord hybrid next year so I can have a fast sports car hybrid.
Hybrid technology is not a flawed idea.
Twice the weight? unless you have a 50lbs car then it is far less than twice the weight.
Half the interior room? Unless you have 1.2 cubic foot of space in your car then it takes up far less than half the space.
Why do hybrids get such criticism? The technology is sound, it is not married to petrol engines and could easily be used on Diesel. In fact it would be ideal for diesel engines to be hybrids. It does help improve mileage. What has a hybrid car done to you, and others who criticize this way?
That was a spell checker error. sorry.