I thought the whole point of the corporate system was to protect us from the lawyers? For a product like this, you create a new corp, pay the profits out as dividends as soon as they come in, and if the lawyers ever get to you, they can only kill your corporate charter--they can't take the money you paid yourself while the lawsuits made their way through the courts.
The first corporations allowed investors to finance ships to sail to America in search of gold, but stopped the lawyers from bankrupting the investors if the ship sunk and killed the crew. This is where the expression "when my ship comes in" originates.
You have random, unnatural linebreaks. Such a writing style only makes sense for poetry or when trying to fit your text on a 1980's green-screen terminal.
If you ever worked for an organization like the CDC, you would go insane. When comparing disasters, it really is useful to point out the fact that some are relatively better than others. Our interpersonal emotional reactions to suffering have no place in a study of population-level problems.
If I do decide that I absolutely have to play Bioshock, a 360 is a hell of a lot cheaper than building the gaming box o' doom.
If you had a decent PC to begin with, upgrading it to a high-end gaming PC would cost a lot less than a console, and you would have far superior graphics, too.
People who act upon false beliefs tend to make bad decisions. People who want rational government want rational voters.
Also, teaching children that it is OK to believe in something despite a complete lack of evidence is terrible parenting. It's like raising your kids to be gullible suckers. I speak out because I care about the children and the society I live in.
Also, unlike churches, I peddle nothing. No tithing here! No false promises in exchange for obedience!
Is it just me or does it seem like 60MB or even 34MB is a LOT of memory for something that browses Web pages?
There are very few static "web pages" in use today. Web browsers are more often used to access web applications. The web browser is an application platform. It has its own scripting language (javascript), GUI API, and with the awesomeness that is xmlhttprequests, they are now highly-interactive applications.
Well I hate medication so I did some research and found the link to MSG and how it causes irregular heartbeats by inducing a Taurine deficiency. I changed my diet to avoid MSG as much as possible and also started a Taurine supplement. Now my heart beat is regular and my blood pressure is way down.
Your anecdote is not compelling evidence that your heart problems were causes by MSG-induced taurine deficiency by any scientific standards.
But I'll take any excuse to drink more redbull. Yum. Do you take vodka or jeager with your "supplement?"
Life has evolved more than once on Earth! Mitochondrian and cells were separate creatures until they formed this symbiotic relationship and out-competed both of their non-hybrid ancestors.
I'm getting a little sick of hearing about 'potential' breakthroughs. I want something we can start using right now.
And I want a pony.
Seriously. most of this research is trying to find a chemical which kills cancer cells but not "normal" cells. That sounds great until you realize that cancer cells are almost exactly the same as normal cells, except for very slight small mutations.
Personally, I am totally psyched that we now have Guardasil -- the first vaccine that stops a virus which kicks of some cancer mutations. That's the coolest medical news in a long time. Be happy.
To add to my other point, I have no doubt that rape is motivated by a primal urge. By your line of reasoning, we should respect rapists instead of dissuading them from acting on those urges.
I doubt religious belief is a primal urge. More likely (it seems to me) is that religion is merely a collection of ideas that collectively appeal to many distinct primal urges. Anthropomorphism, the ability to recognize patterns, and the tendency as a child to believe what older humans tell you, all seem to be evolutionarily advantageous traits.
Certainly, more study should be done to determine just what our primal urges are. Western ethical standards prohibit full examination of this topic experimentally, so we may not know the answer until we fully model the cell/genome system with computers--and that will likely take centuries.
Even the smartest people believe stupid things for stupid reasons. It may be normal, but it shouldn't be respected. Why embrace stupidity? That's counter-productive. When your peers vote, you have a vested interest motivating them to accurately perceive reality. Respecting them for doing otherwise is contrary to that goal.
Those experiences, which could be described either as "hallucinatory" (a well defined word) or as "spiritual" (a word that is not well defined), do not in any way support the idea that human consciousness exists after death. And to keep it directly on topic, they do not support the idea that tithing (or whatever) to any sort of church alters one's chances of perpetual consciousness in any way.
To speak to the phenomena you mentioned: Carl Sagan (for one) would say that the human brain evolved to recognize patterns, especially patterns of other people; and that explains why people "see" pictures of humans in everything from tortillas to hallucinations to clouds. In other words, evolutionary psychology explains this phenomena without the need to invent supernatural explanations. Either way, it says nothing about immortality.
Selling false hope is among the most profitable and longest operating businesses in human history.
Face it, religious people: You won't be reincarnated. You won't go to heaven. When you die--when the electrical activity in your brain ceases--that's it. No more you. Quit burning money at the alter of false hope.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that any sort of consciousness exists in any form after neural death. The only reason people believe it is because they want to believe.
The compelling reason is: Senior management demands it because they read it was better in CIO Magazine and they don't trust IT's cost/benefit analysis judgment.
Well... if you can point me to simple documentation on how to boot PXE/AOE in a usefull way, I will consider it... but I've never done it before because knowledge of how to do so seems extremely rare--if not impossible--for most hardware.
All of the "founding fathers" proclaimed Deism. I don't disagree. Not all of them claimed to be devout followers of any Abrahamic/Christian church. Again, I agree.
The fact that simple physical rules can result in complex results (aka Evolution or The Game of Life) had not been demonstrated in the sixteenth century, so it is totally understandable that religious world-views were common in those days. In light of current evidence, I can not believe people like Thomas Jefferson could possibly defend any posture other than agnosticism.
Wow. You're saying Calvinist philosophers borrowed ideas from Greek philosophers, therefore the roots of their philosophy were not Greek? You must have a serious amount of cognitive dissonance to believe that kind of spin. Apply for a job at News Corp.
The GGP himself stated that his wife was physically and mentally damaged by the accident. I never stated anything that he himself did not declare just minutes earlier. Nothing I said would be surprising or exceptionally insulting to him. Chill TF out.
I don't know what I would do if my SO had a car accident, but I hope I would have a much better sense of humor than you have, you hypersensitive freak.
If, by "Judeo-Christian," you mean "Western," then you are right.
The majority of Western values do not trace their roots to any of the Middle Eastern religions. They come from other places, such as Greek philosophers.
In fact, the philosophical foundations of the US are in many ways opposite to the so-called Christian values. Cruel and unusual punishment, for example, is condoned--actually commanded--by the Christian god. Slavery, and the belief that all men are NOT created equal, is a common theme in the Bible.
The statesmen/philosophers who founded this country may have been Christian, but the documents they wrote to found this country were quite the opposite.
Clearly, you have never watched Star Trek. They put him in a little electric wheel chair with a big red light on it. He can make it beep once for "yes," twice for "no."
And, amazingly enough, he can somehow still get his mojo on if you beam him down to the right planet.
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I thought the whole point of the corporate system was to protect us from the lawyers? For a product like this, you create a new corp, pay the profits out as dividends as soon as they come in, and if the lawyers ever get to you, they can only kill your corporate charter--they can't take the money you paid yourself while the lawsuits made their way through the courts.
The first corporations allowed investors to finance ships to sail to America in search of gold, but stopped the lawyers from bankrupting the investors if the ship sunk and killed the crew. This is where the expression "when my ship comes in" originates.
They also start popping up messages telling you that you are low on your medication cartridge levels six months before you actually run out.
You have random, unnatural linebreaks. Such a writing style only makes sense for poetry or when trying to fit your text on a 1980's green-screen terminal.
That's like saying you won't drive a car because you like the smell of a horse's ass.
15000 REMS? Don't worry. Everybody hurts, sometime...
If you ever worked for an organization like the CDC, you would go insane. When comparing disasters, it really is useful to point out the fact that some are relatively better than others. Our interpersonal emotional reactions to suffering have no place in a study of population-level problems.
People who act upon false beliefs tend to make bad decisions. People who want rational government want rational voters.
Also, teaching children that it is OK to believe in something despite a complete lack of evidence is terrible parenting. It's like raising your kids to be gullible suckers. I speak out because I care about the children and the society I live in.
Also, unlike churches, I peddle nothing. No tithing here! No false promises in exchange for obedience!
But I'll take any excuse to drink more redbull. Yum. Do you take vodka or jeager with your "supplement?"
Life has evolved more than once on Earth! Mitochondrian and cells were separate creatures until they formed this symbiotic relationship and out-competed both of their non-hybrid ancestors.
Seriously. most of this research is trying to find a chemical which kills cancer cells but not "normal" cells. That sounds great until you realize that cancer cells are almost exactly the same as normal cells, except for very slight small mutations.
Personally, I am totally psyched that we now have Guardasil -- the first vaccine that stops a virus which kicks of some cancer mutations. That's the coolest medical news in a long time. Be happy.
To add to my other point, I have no doubt that rape is motivated by a primal urge. By your line of reasoning, we should respect rapists instead of dissuading them from acting on those urges.
I doubt religious belief is a primal urge. More likely (it seems to me) is that religion is merely a collection of ideas that collectively appeal to many distinct primal urges. Anthropomorphism, the ability to recognize patterns, and the tendency as a child to believe what older humans tell you, all seem to be evolutionarily advantageous traits.
Certainly, more study should be done to determine just what our primal urges are. Western ethical standards prohibit full examination of this topic experimentally, so we may not know the answer until we fully model the cell/genome system with computers--and that will likely take centuries.
Even the smartest people believe stupid things for stupid reasons. It may be normal, but it shouldn't be respected. Why embrace stupidity? That's counter-productive. When your peers vote, you have a vested interest motivating them to accurately perceive reality. Respecting them for doing otherwise is contrary to that goal.
Those experiences, which could be described either as "hallucinatory" (a well defined word) or as "spiritual" (a word that is not well defined), do not in any way support the idea that human consciousness exists after death. And to keep it directly on topic, they do not support the idea that tithing (or whatever) to any sort of church alters one's chances of perpetual consciousness in any way.
To speak to the phenomena you mentioned: Carl Sagan (for one) would say that the human brain evolved to recognize patterns, especially patterns of other people; and that explains why people "see" pictures of humans in everything from tortillas to hallucinations to clouds. In other words, evolutionary psychology explains this phenomena without the need to invent supernatural explanations. Either way, it says nothing about immortality.
Selling false hope is among the most profitable and longest operating businesses in human history.
Face it, religious people: You won't be reincarnated. You won't go to heaven. When you die--when the electrical activity in your brain ceases--that's it. No more you. Quit burning money at the alter of false hope.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that any sort of consciousness exists in any form after neural death. The only reason people believe it is because they want to believe.
The compelling reason is: Senior management demands it because they read it was better in CIO Magazine and they don't trust IT's cost/benefit analysis judgment.
Well... if you can point me to simple documentation on how to boot PXE/AOE in a usefull way, I will consider it... but I've never done it before because knowledge of how to do so seems extremely rare--if not impossible--for most hardware.
All of the "founding fathers" proclaimed Deism. I don't disagree. Not all of them claimed to be devout followers of any Abrahamic/Christian church. Again, I agree.
The fact that simple physical rules can result in complex results (aka Evolution or The Game of Life) had not been demonstrated in the sixteenth century, so it is totally understandable that religious world-views were common in those days. In light of current evidence, I can not believe people like Thomas Jefferson could possibly defend any posture other than agnosticism.
Wow. You're saying Calvinist philosophers borrowed ideas from Greek philosophers, therefore the roots of their philosophy were not Greek? You must have a serious amount of cognitive dissonance to believe that kind of spin. Apply for a job at News Corp.
The GGP himself stated that his wife was physically and mentally damaged by the accident. I never stated anything that he himself did not declare just minutes earlier. Nothing I said would be surprising or exceptionally insulting to him. Chill TF out.
I don't know what I would do if my SO had a car accident, but I hope I would have a much better sense of humor than you have, you hypersensitive freak.
The majority of Western values do not trace their roots to any of the Middle Eastern religions. They come from other places, such as Greek philosophers.
In fact, the philosophical foundations of the US are in many ways opposite to the so-called Christian values. Cruel and unusual punishment, for example, is condoned--actually commanded--by the Christian god. Slavery, and the belief that all men are NOT created equal, is a common theme in the Bible.
The statesmen/philosophers who founded this country may have been Christian, but the documents they wrote to found this country were quite the opposite.
He did blink out 8-bit ASCII, but he had a hard time calculating that parity bit.
Clearly, you have never watched Star Trek. They put him in a little electric wheel chair with a big red light on it. He can make it beep once for "yes," twice for "no."
And, amazingly enough, he can somehow still get his mojo on if you beam him down to the right planet.
Wait a second... that's still more than I have