I wouldn't bother trying to change his mind. Some people see cartoony graphics and situations and instantly their heads say "It's a kiddie game. I'll go back to bashing prostitutes". It happened with Wind Waker and it'll certainly happen to Psychonauts now it's gone high profile. Some people are just built that way. You'd be better off finding someone who hasn't caged his inner child;)
If MS have decided to finish what SCO haven't been able to I'm guessing they'll be smart enough not to take on the company with the biggest lawyers. MS will start shutting down the smaller players with threats. Most probably the individual developers.
Why should science classes have to sit down and show that fairy stories aren't science? Haven't they got enough to do?
You're still missing the point that once they sneak this in via the back door they'll stop the teachers from dismissing it as not science. Wedge strategy remember
The last line of my post (The one you didn't comment on) went like this
"Repeat after me Kansas. Science in the science classes. Religion in the RE classes."
Unless you can show me that Intelligent Design is an actual real science then yes you need to protect the kids in Kansas from being told that this is a real science.
Teach it in the religious education classes along with all the other creation myths (There's a really cool one about Vishnu's navel) and suddenly we no longer have a problem. ID is not a science. It was created as a method of getting creationism taught in schools.
If ID is taught in science classes (Remember that the religious people see this as the "wedge" strategy. Ever wondered why?) how long do you think it'll be before teachers are told they have to treat ID as a real science. Which it isn't by the way.
If you want your kids to grow up pumped full of religious dogma than fine, go right ahead and let schools teach that a big guy with a white beard created the universe in 6 days because if you let them in. Even by the smallest amount then that's what you're going to end up with.
Of course with Bush in charge you're halfway there already but that's another Slashdot article:)
I don't buy that. The existence of evolution does not preclude an "Intelligent designer". You can actually explain anything by act of god. The fundies might actually be correct in everything they say.
But it's not science. It's the modern equivalent of a caveman thinking a forest fire is the "Great hot god".
Certain segments of the population are trying to use religion dressed up (badly) as science in an attempt to keep people ignorant and promote their own religious views. In most cases I'd have to say the bottom line is money. It normally is.
It's a foot in the door scenario. Once they start teaching "Intelligent Fairy Stories Designed as a Method of Control" what do you think the fundies will try next?
You have to look at it from the other angle. What do the creationists get out of apparently tightening up the definition of science?
Answer: They're trying to use the strength of science against it. Basically science comes up with a hypothesis. Then scientists try to break it. If it breaks they try again in different ways. That's how we learn.
Obviously the creationists want to use that by saying to the schools. "Since science is constantly evolving and testing itself why not teach "Intelligent Bollocks" in the classes and let the students compare the two. Obviously if evolution is as strong as the scientists say it is you've got nothing to worry about".
Which of course is total nonsense. "Intelligent Bollocks" has no real basis in science and just like pure creationism is totaly unprovable and unobservable. Not science in the slightest.
Repeat after me Kansas. Science in the science classes. Religion in the RE classes. Unless of course the plan is to compare *all* creation myths but I doubt that's what the book burners have planned at all.
The point they're trying to make with Rose isn't that she's a baby dropping, welfare scrounger it's the fact that she's a nice intelligent girl who made some bad choices early in life and is regretting them. She's stuck in a dead end job with no prospects and a wet drip of a boyfriend. Then she meets a man who shows her that there's a universe out there. Full of wonder and sights to behold.
This series is as much Rose's journey as it is the Doctor's.
SG1 starts after the US start date on Sky1 but we don't take breaks (Except for a couple of weeks over christmas) so we manage to get ahead of them towards the end of the season.
SG1/Atlantis are the exceptions though and BSG was a special case.
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HDDVD is region free. That's a big incentive for the sorts of people who hang around tech sites to support it.
I wouldn't bother trying to change his mind. Some people see cartoony graphics and situations and instantly their heads say "It's a kiddie game. I'll go back to bashing prostitutes". It happened with Wind Waker and it'll certainly happen to Psychonauts now it's gone high profile. Some people are just built that way. You'd be better off finding someone who hasn't caged his inner child ;)
If MS have decided to finish what SCO haven't been able to I'm guessing they'll be smart enough not to take on the company with the biggest lawyers. MS will start shutting down the smaller players with threats. Most probably the individual developers.
Except not carry your ID.
I always liked Daggerfall better than Morrowind.
It *comes* with a 64meg card. It can take much bigger ones.
WoW still uses BT. It just uses a custom client that's very, very shit.
http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/neon-screenshots.php
:)
Jeff Minter code in millions of households soon
Why should science classes have to sit down and show that fairy stories aren't science? Haven't they got enough to do?
You're still missing the point that once they sneak this in via the back door they'll stop the teachers from dismissing it as not science. Wedge strategy remember
The last line of my post (The one you didn't comment on) went like this
:)
"Repeat after me Kansas. Science in the science classes. Religion in the RE classes."
Unless you can show me that Intelligent Design is an actual real science then yes you need to protect the kids in Kansas from being told that this is a real science.
Teach it in the religious education classes along with all the other creation myths (There's a really cool one about Vishnu's navel) and suddenly we no longer have a problem. ID is not a science. It was created as a method of getting creationism taught in schools.
If ID is taught in science classes (Remember that the religious people see this as the "wedge" strategy. Ever wondered why?) how long do you think it'll be before teachers are told they have to treat ID as a real science. Which it isn't by the way.
If you want your kids to grow up pumped full of religious dogma than fine, go right ahead and let schools teach that a big guy with a white beard created the universe in 6 days because if you let them in. Even by the smallest amount then that's what you're going to end up with.
Of course with Bush in charge you're halfway there already but that's another Slashdot article
I don't buy that. The existence of evolution does not preclude an "Intelligent designer". You can actually explain anything by act of god. The fundies might actually be correct in everything they say.
But it's not science. It's the modern equivalent of a caveman thinking a forest fire is the "Great hot god".
Certain segments of the population are trying to use religion dressed up (badly) as science in an attempt to keep people ignorant and promote their own religious views. In most cases I'd have to say the bottom line is money. It normally is.
Nothing wrong unless one side isn't science...
It's a foot in the door scenario. Once they start teaching "Intelligent Fairy Stories Designed as a Method of Control" what do you think the fundies will try next?
You have to look at it from the other angle. What do the creationists get out of apparently tightening up the definition of science?
Answer: They're trying to use the strength of science against it. Basically science comes up with a hypothesis. Then scientists try to break it. If it breaks they try again in different ways. That's how we learn.
Obviously the creationists want to use that by saying to the schools. "Since science is constantly evolving and testing itself why not teach "Intelligent Bollocks" in the classes and let the students compare the two. Obviously if evolution is as strong as the scientists say it is you've got nothing to worry about".
Which of course is total nonsense. "Intelligent Bollocks" has no real basis in science and just like pure creationism is totaly unprovable and unobservable. Not science in the slightest.
Repeat after me Kansas. Science in the science classes. Religion in the RE classes. Unless of course the plan is to compare *all* creation myths but I doubt that's what the book burners have planned at all.
New Land of the Lost? Excellent. Got a url?
Thanks for the article. That cookie extension makes my life much easier.
The point they're trying to make with Rose isn't that she's a baby dropping, welfare scrounger it's the fact that she's a nice intelligent girl who made some bad choices early in life and is regretting them. She's stuck in a dead end job with no prospects and a wet drip of a boyfriend. Then she meets a man who shows her that there's a universe out there. Full of wonder and sights to behold.
This series is as much Rose's journey as it is the Doctor's.
It's sci-fi. All it takes is one good writer and he can have as many regenerations as he likes.
The leak has the wrong theme. They played sections of the new mix this morning on UK radio.
SG1 starts after the US start date on Sky1 but we don't take breaks (Except for a couple of weeks over christmas) so we manage to get ahead of them towards the end of the season.
SG1/Atlantis are the exceptions though and BSG was a special case.
That's good. The worst thing about MMORPGs is other players :)
I put my real address in. Told them I was from the UK and everything. They obviously aren't checking.
Then they get another 4 years of God in charge at the Whitehouse.
:) but its you American folk who are going to have to bend over and take it hardest.
As a Brit I'm sure I'll manage to get through it
Darl says the check is in the post :)
I'm not American so I might just be missing something but when did Liberal become a dirty word?
Whoosh.
Straight overhead with the birdies.