You've told me nothing I do not know; God is the result of instinctive thought morphing into conscious thought, the explanation of the unexplainable; the scientific process at work in a mind without the ability to draw full conclusions; before that mind had the prior knowledge to asses the full scope of what those conclusions could even have been.
Basically what I am saying is that "The Story of Creation" and the entirety of scientific explanation of the existence of everything to this point in time tell the same story; one just tells it prior to the 190,000 years of knowledge we have gained since man acquired conscious thought.
Almost like in the Matrix (and I'm sure the movie is referencing this concept); "Most minds are not ready to be woken up." The transition will not happen overnight; people have to evolve, just like how it has happened up to this point. Screaming "Attention religious people! Mankind made up God to scare ourselves into survival!" will not solve anything, but pointing out to people that science is not some new evil but merely the "how" to the "what" they've had all along will surely ease that process along.
The bottom line: Science didn't kill God, it just figured out what God really is, and that's OK.
Oh, and just to clarify on that Noah's Ark thing: No, it's a total fairy tale, but the point is not the event but the moral of the story: Don't sit around and forget about the world around you like everything that was washed away by the flood did. Be aware of what could happen (God told Noah), help others achieve this awareness (Noah told his family), and think not only of yourself but of whatever other pieces of nature possible (Noah brought animals to repopulate). Shortened: Be Aware, alert the herd, preserve the enviroment you exist in. Shorter: Ensure survival.
Google has an agreement with 3rd parties to use their information a certain way.
Google's own API complies with the terms of the agreement and can change in the future should there ever be a need. it is a liability , but a controlled one.
Gaia's API isn't controlled by Google. Should Google decide to change the limit or scope of the data which can be accessed from their 3rd party API, Gaia might decide they don't want to comply with Google's new standard and continue the old ways.
Google could be considered under breach of contract with whomever owns the data.
Just like how I can't rent out cars I'm currently renting from other rental agencies.
I know a person who used to work in a ComCast call center, and Verizon used to routinely cause outages while installing their new fiber-to-the-home systems.
If it was on purpose or not, the world may never know, but they're certainly butting heads.
I just can't wait for 50Mb/sec downstream for $40 a month. Goodbye cable!
...And evolution is the means by which it happens; by which it is still happening.
Seven days? How can there be a "day" before light and dark existed? I would trust the work of modern scientists over the literal wording of religious prophets from 2000 years ago.
Evolution is creation at work and continuing to work, over all those millions of years and over millions more to come. That's simply how it is.
"Creationism" is simply a lie created by the same bigoted type of attitude on which, for an extreme example, the KKK employs against minorities; Christian fundamentalists believe they are special creations and could not possibly be the modified offspring of a primate. It disgusts them; like as if to tell them "Your mother was an animal." Try telling them that we evolved slowly from apes, and watch how offended they get that you are "insinuating they are mere beasts."
These unfortunate souls have not grown up.
I believe strongly in the message the Bible tries to put across. I also agree with the general teachings (well, those of which I am vaguely familiar with) from other religions; they all seem to be saying, in a nutshell, "No fighting, try to understand and respect each other and the world around you. Don't be greedy, help everyone else and their doing the same will in turn support you back." Many other aspects of religion where created to assure survival of our species in previous times, a good example being the Hebrew practice of keeping Kosher; Do not eat foods or combinations of foods which are likely to make you sick. Two thousand years ago, it was much more difficult to ensure sanitation and proper preservation. Not that I wish to slander the Jewish faith as unreasonable (far from it), but this is a good example of how necessity became tradition; in the modern day we can worry less about the problems of such a dietary style.
In this same light of "keeping tradition", extremists such as the Christian Fundamentalists have twisted the writings of the Bible, such as homosexuality as a crime against God (homosexuals will not reproduce, which was nessesary 2000 years ago to ensure the maximum chance of species survival).
It seems now that people are using their faith as less of a "respect the world" philosophy, and more of an explicit list of "dos and do nots".
Unfortunately, we're lost until these folks realize that the exact opposite is the way it was meant, and that their faith can easily integrate into the scientific facts. Faith is the why, not the how.
Someday I'd like to pour all this out as an essay, but I hope my words can enlighten someone as to why we're all correct in our faith and our science and the point being argued is moot. Let's focus our energies elsewhere, they are badly needed.
The problem with the argument you make is that there aren't hundreds of thousands of NBA players.
Not that I disagree or want to argue with you, but perhaps a better thing to say would be:
"Why is it that you don't hear about Bill O'Reilly disconnected from reality? All he does is live his celebrity. The lives, breathes, and eats The O'Reilly Factor. When the day is done, he goes out to expensive country clubs in expensive cars and lives the life of a celebrity. Is he just as disconnected from reality? Absolutely. Are all media personalities like this? Nope, because it is a generalization."
Just thought I'd spin it in the right direction;-)
I did the same thing on Google before I posted, because the fact that Google might already do it intrigued me. I found straight HREF anchor tags, no re-direct from Google.
Most clicks can't be tracked by Google, unless it is to a page with Google ads on it.
Even then, Google would have to have access to the server the page is hosted on itself and forward the HTTP_REFERRER environment variable, which 99.9999% of the time won't happen.
Oh, and hey, if you're not willing to let Google know what you're searching for, why are you typing what you're searching for in their search box? At least troll with a good argument.
Yes but do they do it using "sessions" -i.e. cookies- to see if the user returns to select a different link? This isn't "record what teh users are typing into the search box" this is "track what they click based on what they searched for and factor it into the rankings"
This patent sounds like they've patented the idea of recording which search links are clicked on most often for a given query, thus providing feedback given a random session number of which links you clicked on, and if you came back and tried something else.
it would improve search results for future searchers, but I dunno if I like the idea of my search being tracked.
Not only do my searched probably already get tracked without my knowledge but I might be completely wrong about this patent as I only perused it.
Actually I just read TFA and this doesn't prevent anyone from making it LOOK as though all these votes are being tallied correctly and still have inaccurate information come out the other end.
Sure you've cast your ballot, you've verified it online. What's to say it's been TALLIED that way?
Independent tallies, you say? What's to say they're not getting the tampered tally, so that their results match up to the official (corrupted) version? This might make it more compli^H^H^H^H^H^Hof a pain in the ass to steal and election, but in the end it's still all smoke and mirrors, folks.
That's right. Even if each ballot if printed differently and even if when the ballot is separated from the receipt half it is punched in a unique random pattern which can be matched up to your ballot, you can still just switch the results in a machine.
You know, even a purely-paper hand-counted election can be forged.
There honestly is no way to prevent someone from buying an election, unless you can guarentee a system of election workers who can't be bought out and will investigate and audit thoroughly.
Well,when you're right you're right...
I was more referring to the whole "I work in computers" kind of career, rather than the "I've been with IBM designing cooling systems for mainframes since 1974!" kind of career.
No one stays with the same company forever anymore.
When it becomes a pain to accomplish even simple tasks at work; when the direction of a companies' product offering vastly differs from the demand of the market, when quality lacks because of disorganization, and when innovation is replaced by gimmicks; pretty soon this job will no longer be a means to get money. Pretty soon, this job probbly won't be there anymore.
If you can't stand behind the company you chose to start a career, then why bother to stay there? Wal-mart is a job which is "just a means to get money". Thinking of a job like that won't get your company very far, and it'll come back to you.
...Not only that, but the components which are encrypted are technically not part of the OS itself, but are "enhancement applications" so to speak, bundled with the OS in order to provide enhanced functionality. You can boot OS X without all the encrypted Apple proprietary stuff, it's called Darwin.
Is it against the GPL for me to distribute a proprietary, closed-source binary for Linux? Absolutely not, as long as said binary does not contain GPL'd code. That's pretty much what Apple has done here.
And you think that because we're Mac users we'll accept the slowness of virtual memory everytime we run more than 2 apps at once? It's no longer the 1990s, either, you know...
Mac OS 9 and below ("Classic" versions) did not use file extensions, they used metadata in the filesystem. On OS X, files DO show the extensions, except for OS X executables which are actually folders with special bits set (called "packages") and are not required to have them. OS X is also more careful about autorun preferences.
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You've told me nothing I do not know; God is the result of instinctive thought morphing into conscious thought, the explanation of the unexplainable; the scientific process at work in a mind without the ability to draw full conclusions; before that mind had the prior knowledge to asses the full scope of what those conclusions could even have been.
Basically what I am saying is that "The Story of Creation" and the entirety of scientific explanation of the existence of everything to this point in time tell the same story; one just tells it prior to the 190,000 years of knowledge we have gained since man acquired conscious thought.
Almost like in the Matrix (and I'm sure the movie is referencing this concept); "Most minds are not ready to be woken up." The transition will not happen overnight; people have to evolve, just like how it has happened up to this point. Screaming "Attention religious people! Mankind made up God to scare ourselves into survival!" will not solve anything, but pointing out to people that science is not some new evil but merely the "how" to the "what" they've had all along will surely ease that process along.
The bottom line: Science didn't kill God, it just figured out what God really is, and that's OK.
Oh, and just to clarify on that Noah's Ark thing:
No, it's a total fairy tale, but the point is not the event but the moral of the story: Don't sit around and forget about the world around you like everything that was washed away by the flood did. Be aware of what could happen (God told Noah), help others achieve this awareness (Noah told his family), and think not only of yourself but of whatever other pieces of nature possible (Noah brought animals to repopulate).
Shortened: Be Aware, alert the herd, preserve the enviroment you exist in.
Shorter: Ensure survival.
That's all it ever was.
Google has an agreement with 3rd parties to use their information a certain way.
Google's own API complies with the terms of the agreement and can change in the future should there ever be a need. it is a liability , but a controlled one.
Gaia's API isn't controlled by Google. Should Google decide to change the limit or scope of the data which can be accessed from their 3rd party API, Gaia might decide they don't want to comply with Google's new standard and continue the old ways.
Google could be considered under breach of contract with whomever owns the data.
Just like how I can't rent out cars I'm currently renting from other rental agencies.
I know a person who used to work in a ComCast call center, and Verizon used to routinely cause outages while installing their new fiber-to-the-home systems. If it was on purpose or not, the world may never know, but they're certainly butting heads. I just can't wait for 50Mb/sec downstream for $40 a month. Goodbye cable!
...And evolution is the means by which it happens; by which it is still happening.
Seven days? How can there be a "day" before light and dark existed? I would trust the work of modern scientists over the literal wording of religious prophets from 2000 years ago.
Evolution is creation at work and continuing to work, over all those millions of years and over millions more to come. That's simply how it is.
"Creationism" is simply a lie created by the same bigoted type of attitude on which, for an extreme example, the KKK employs against minorities; Christian fundamentalists believe they are special creations and could not possibly be the modified offspring of a primate. It disgusts them; like as if to tell them "Your mother was an animal." Try telling them that we evolved slowly from apes, and watch how offended they get that you are "insinuating they are mere beasts."
These unfortunate souls have not grown up.
I believe strongly in the message the Bible tries to put across. I also agree with the general teachings (well, those of which I am vaguely familiar with) from other religions; they all seem to be saying, in a nutshell, "No fighting, try to understand and respect each other and the world around you. Don't be greedy, help everyone else and their doing the same will in turn support you back." Many other aspects of religion where created to assure survival of our species in previous times, a good example being the Hebrew practice of keeping Kosher; Do not eat foods or combinations of foods which are likely to make you sick. Two thousand years ago, it was much more difficult to ensure sanitation and proper preservation. Not that I wish to slander the Jewish faith as unreasonable (far from it), but this is a good example of how necessity became tradition; in the modern day we can worry less about the problems of such a dietary style.
In this same light of "keeping tradition", extremists such as the Christian Fundamentalists have twisted the writings of the Bible, such as homosexuality as a crime against God (homosexuals will not reproduce, which was nessesary 2000 years ago to ensure the maximum chance of species survival).
It seems now that people are using their faith as less of a "respect the world" philosophy, and more of an explicit list of "dos and do nots".
Unfortunately, we're lost until these folks realize that the exact opposite is the way it was meant, and that their faith can easily integrate into the scientific facts. Faith is the why, not the how.
Someday I'd like to pour all this out as an essay, but I hope my words can enlighten someone as to why we're all correct in our faith and our science and the point being argued is moot. Let's focus our energies elsewhere, they are badly needed.
Cool cel phones, better trains... Share some train love with America, I'd really like to get to work on time :-\
You'd wonder why, then, if the wording "solicitation" is all that is needed, why the means being electronic has any significance at all?
"It is unlawful [blah blah] to solicit sex from a minor by any method for any reason"
Seems like perhaps in some cases child molestation is perhaps being used as an excuse to make electronic surveillance easier/more convinient?
The problem with the argument you make is that there aren't hundreds of thousands of NBA players.
;-)
Not that I disagree or want to argue with you, but perhaps a better thing to say would be:
"Why is it that you don't hear about Bill O'Reilly disconnected from reality? All he does is live his celebrity. The lives, breathes, and eats The O'Reilly Factor. When the day is done, he goes out to expensive country clubs in expensive cars and lives the life of a celebrity. Is he just as disconnected from reality? Absolutely. Are all media personalities like this? Nope, because it is a generalization."
Just thought I'd spin it in the right direction
I did the same thing on Google before I posted, because the fact that Google might already do it intrigued me. I found straight HREF anchor tags, no re-direct from Google.
Are you looking at the "Google Cache" links?
Most clicks can't be tracked by Google, unless it is to a page with Google ads on it.
Even then, Google would have to have access to the server the page is hosted on itself and forward the HTTP_REFERRER environment variable, which 99.9999% of the time won't happen.
Oh, and hey, if you're not willing to let Google know what you're searching for, why are you typing what you're searching for in their search box? At least troll with a good argument.
Yes but do they do it using "sessions" -i.e. cookies- to see if the user returns to select a different link? This isn't "record what teh users are typing into the search box" this is "track what they click based on what they searched for and factor it into the rankings"
This patent sounds like they've patented the idea of recording which search links are clicked on most often for a given query, thus providing feedback given a random session number of which links you clicked on, and if you came back and tried something else.
it would improve search results for future searchers, but I dunno if I like the idea of my search being tracked.
Not only do my searched probably already get tracked without my knowledge but I might be completely wrong about this patent as I only perused it.
Actually I just read TFA and this doesn't prevent anyone from making it LOOK as though all these votes are being tallied correctly and still have inaccurate information come out the other end.
Sure you've cast your ballot, you've verified it online. What's to say it's been TALLIED that way?
Independent tallies, you say? What's to say they're not getting the tampered tally, so that their results match up to the official (corrupted) version? This might make it more compli^H^H^H^H^H^Hof a pain in the ass to steal and election, but in the end it's still all smoke and mirrors, folks.
That's right. Even if each ballot if printed differently and even if when the ballot is separated from the receipt half it is punched in a unique random pattern which can be matched up to your ballot, you can still just switch the results in a machine.
You know, even a purely-paper hand-counted election can be forged.
There honestly is no way to prevent someone from buying an election, unless you can guarentee a system of election workers who can't be bought out and will investigate and audit thoroughly.
Well,when you're right you're right... I was more referring to the whole "I work in computers" kind of career, rather than the "I've been with IBM designing cooling systems for mainframes since 1974!" kind of career. No one stays with the same company forever anymore.
When it becomes a pain to accomplish even simple tasks at work; when the direction of a companies' product offering vastly differs from the demand of the market, when quality lacks because of disorganization, and when innovation is replaced by gimmicks; pretty soon this job will no longer be a means to get money. Pretty soon, this job probbly won't be there anymore.
If you can't stand behind the company you chose to start a career, then why bother to stay there? Wal-mart is a job which is "just a means to get money". Thinking of a job like that won't get your company very far, and it'll come back to you.
...Not only that, but the components which are encrypted are technically not part of the OS itself, but are "enhancement applications" so to speak, bundled with the OS in order to provide enhanced functionality. You can boot OS X without all the encrypted Apple proprietary stuff, it's called Darwin.
Is it against the GPL for me to distribute a proprietary, closed-source binary for Linux? Absolutely not, as long as said binary does not contain GPL'd code. That's pretty much what Apple has done here.
...proving once again that, no matter how you modify them, Microsoft products tend to clog even a well built network.
At the risk of being redundant, here is another link.
Sorry, I'm used to this being the Internet, where people really don't know things. Hadn't you noticed?
So, they're making 150 million to 200 million controllers for 800 thousand PS3's that may or may not be out on Nov 19? Lessee here.
...because, you know, after Nov. 19th, all units will have been sold, and they'll never need to make a PS3 ever again.
And you think that because we're Mac users we'll accept the slowness of virtual memory everytime we run more than 2 apps at once? It's no longer the 1990s, either, you know...
Thats' what Jesus loves.
*sigh*
Mac OS 9 and below ("Classic" versions) did not use file extensions, they used metadata in the filesystem. On OS X, files DO show the extensions, except for OS X executables which are actually folders with special bits set (called "packages") and are not required to have them. OS X is also more careful about autorun preferences.
LimeWire is a Gnutella client, right?...use another client!
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