Eventually, doing those sorts of mental gymnastics ("this part is literal, this part is a metaphor, with this part a day is really one millennium") will become so tiring that you just give up and recognize that the writings are simply absurd.
You aren't a "christian" if you ignore or "interpret away" much of the bible. Do you obey god's commandments in leviticus 19:19? Look at the tag on your shirt. The answer is "no."
We have a hat that records video all day long. What could they possibly do?
If there is a sudden 12 minute block of static after they pull someone over, and accusations of abuse, you can bet the COURT SYSTEM (not the "authorities") will find that fact terribly interesting.
If you use ANY non-trivial piece of software, you are likely violating someone's patent in the USA. With open source software, if a patent violation is discovered (and it is not fundamental to computing), the code can quickly be rewritten to work differently. With non-open software, I doubt the re-writing could be done as quickly, and you would remain in violation longer.
Anything that brings about more police accountability is a good thing, in my mind. I just hope the UK legal system is less likely to dismiss cases due to technicalities than the US system. I can see the results now:
"It is clear from this video that the police officer said 'You're under arrest,' instead of 'You are under arrest' as required by law. Because of this violation of procedure, none of the evidence collected is admissible and the state has no choice but to acquit."
Yes, for too long the abortion debate has been presented, at least in the popular press, as a false dichotomy.
They seem to think there are only two groups on this issue: those who are "pro choice" and those who are "pro life." But this ignores a huge number of Americans in the other group: pro abortion. Where are the media pundits who advocate encouraging the abortion process? We can't just leave them out of the abortion debate.
If it doesn't strike you as absurd that at one point God demands stoning for common sins, but a few years later changes his entire philosophy and permits those same sins as long as one is loving, then you are delusional.
The constitution calls for secular government in spirit. It explicitly prohibits congress from establishing a state religion. The supreme court tends to uphold both the spirit and explicit requirements of the constitution, but they have overlooked deistic lapses by congress in terms of things like currency slogans. To many educated people, it seems inevitable that even these lapses will eventually change, much like that tacit approval of slavery in our early federal legal system.
"Scientists, however, are a far less religious lot than the American population, and, the higher you go on the cerebro-magisterium, the greater the proportion of atheists, agnostics, and assorted other paganites. According to a 1998 survey published in Nature, only 7 percent of members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences professed a belief in a "personal God." (Interestingly, a slightly higher number, 7.9 percent, claimed to believe in "personal immortality," which may say as much about the robustness of the scientific ego as about anything else.)"
You are an ignorant bigot with a juvenile vocabulary and the philosophical sophistication of cabbage. Your sophomoric rambling is not even worthy of being read in its entirety. We'll just kill it with a simple counterexample. Altruism (what you call "morality") can be found not only in people of polytheistic and animistic religions, but also in people with no religion. It can even be found in non-human animals, which OBVIOUSLY are not religions.
Your easily disproven supposition that monotheism implies altruism demonstrates how little knowledge you have of the universe you inhabit.
Germany also has roughly half the number of traffic fatalities per capita as the US, take that for what it is worth.
It is not worth anything until you at least present statistics about the number of cars per capita in Germany and the US. And even then, it would be important to know how long the average commute is in both countries.
Interstate commerce may give them the right by some interpretation. But by doing so, they deny me of my rights to do as I please with my money. That is certainly against the spirit of the constitution. It seem quit pink to tell me what I can do with my money. It's almost... communist?
Does our government have any constitutional right to outlaw gambling? And even if they do, doesn't the lottery exhibit gross hypocrisy?
The same can be said of prostitution and many other illegal things.
Really, our government should be protecting our rights, however trivial, unless there is an obvious, and scientifically-supported public health/safety reason to do otherwise.
as a 25-and-under, what i really want is the ability to find my friends inside a club or bar. it is impossible to yell 'the upstairs dance floor!' loud enough to be heard over music. what they need is an ad-hoc triangulation system since GPS doesn't work indoors.
Obviously you have NO idea what you are talking about.
The "list" price doctors give as their fees are often 100% MORE than the rate insurance companies negotiate with the doctors. And the doctors aren't going to sit there by the hospital bed and negotiate with YOU when you are sick. So if you have no insurance, you are getting raped in medical expenses, even assuming a high overhead cost for going through the insurance company.
A physician friend of mine once told me a particular procedure is listed as being $5000 by his practice, but nobody has ever even paid half that, because they either go through insurance (which pays $2300) or they stiff him entirely. The exception was one old, eccentric guy who looked homeless, but came back to the office months after an operation with a bag of $5000 in cash. True story.
Either you are not a "nerdy, curious start trek fan" or you are completely delusional. There aren't enough eccentric billionaires in the world to build a base on the moon. That leaves us with rational investors and governments as the only people who could fund such a project.
Rational investors, being rational, would not expect any return from building a moon base.
So we are left with governments. It's that or nothing, bub.
And until we have a permanent human settlement off-world, our entire species could be destroyed at any minute. There is nothing more vital to the survival of humanity (intelligence as we know it!) than getting off this sphere. What could be a better justification for using public dollars?
Unfortunately, your Congress has been writing the checks (well, debts). Don't put all the blame on Bush, but feel free to blame his party.
And because I haven't heard anyone running on the campaign of increasing space research spending, I don't know who you should vote for. At least the Dems say they want to fund biological research. But I don't know if that translates in to general pro-science sentiment.
It doesn't matter what you prefer. It will WoT will NEVER catch on. S/MIME will catch on as more organizations adopt it internally. Soon people will want to do at home what they do at work, and companies like Thawte will let them do so. Once gmail or hotmail start allowing "verified" (signed) mail to premium users, the rest will be history.
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Actually, only about 7% of eminent scientists are religious. See this week's edge.com publication if you want the details.
Eventually, doing those sorts of mental gymnastics ("this part is literal, this part is a metaphor, with this part a day is really one millennium") will become so tiring that you just give up and recognize that the writings are simply absurd.
You aren't a "christian" if you ignore or "interpret away" much of the bible. Do you obey god's commandments in leviticus 19:19? Look at the tag on your shirt. The answer is "no."
We have a hat that records video all day long. What could they possibly do?
If there is a sudden 12 minute block of static after they pull someone over, and accusations of abuse, you can bet the COURT SYSTEM (not the "authorities") will find that fact terribly interesting.
If you use ANY non-trivial piece of software, you are likely violating someone's patent in the USA. With open source software, if a patent violation is discovered (and it is not fundamental to computing), the code can quickly be rewritten to work differently. With non-open software, I doubt the re-writing could be done as quickly, and you would remain in violation longer.
the subpoena process and laws about tampering with evidence.
next question?
Anything that brings about more police accountability is a good thing, in my mind. I just hope the UK legal system is less likely to dismiss cases due to technicalities than the US system. I can see the results now:
"It is clear from this video that the police officer said 'You're under arrest,' instead of 'You are under arrest' as required by law. Because of this violation of procedure, none of the evidence collected is admissible and the state has no choice but to acquit."
Yes, for too long the abortion debate has been presented, at least in the popular press, as a false dichotomy.
They seem to think there are only two groups on this issue: those who are "pro choice" and those who are "pro life." But this ignores a huge number of Americans in the other group: pro abortion. Where are the media pundits who advocate encouraging the abortion process? We can't just leave them out of the abortion debate.
If it doesn't strike you as absurd that at one point God demands stoning for common sins, but a few years later changes his entire philosophy and permits those same sins as long as one is loving, then you are delusional.
The constitution calls for secular government in spirit. It explicitly prohibits congress from establishing a state religion. The supreme court tends to uphold both the spirit and explicit requirements of the constitution, but they have overlooked deistic lapses by congress in terms of things like currency slogans. To many educated people, it seems inevitable that even these lapses will eventually change, much like that tacit approval of slavery in our early federal legal system.
From today's Edge.org:
"Scientists, however, are a far less religious lot than the American population, and, the higher you go on the cerebro-magisterium, the greater the proportion of atheists, agnostics, and assorted other paganites. According to a 1998 survey published in Nature, only 7 percent of members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences professed a belief in a "personal God." (Interestingly, a slightly higher number, 7.9 percent, claimed to believe in "personal immortality," which may say as much about the robustness of the scientific ego as about anything else.)"
You are an ignorant bigot with a juvenile vocabulary and the philosophical sophistication of cabbage. Your sophomoric rambling is not even worthy of being read in its entirety. We'll just kill it with a simple counterexample. Altruism (what you call "morality") can be found not only in people of polytheistic and animistic religions, but also in people with no religion. It can even be found in non-human animals, which OBVIOUSLY are not religions.
Your easily disproven supposition that monotheism implies altruism demonstrates how little knowledge you have of the universe you inhabit.
It is not worth anything until you at least present statistics about the number of cars per capita in Germany and the US. And even then, it would be important to know how long the average commute is in both countries.
It seems to me that Germany values freedom of speech less than any other modern country. But it does seem to be a polite oppression.
I don't think it is the intelligence of John C. Dvorak you are appreciating. It's the sophistry.
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Patent one? The patent for making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process? Yeah, you're right, I don't think that's the method Linux uses to generate its pot ash.
Interstate commerce may give them the right by some interpretation. But by doing so, they deny me of my rights to do as I please with my money. That is certainly against the spirit of the constitution. It seem quit pink to tell me what I can do with my money. It's almost... communist?
Does our government have any constitutional right to outlaw gambling? And even if they do, doesn't the lottery exhibit gross hypocrisy?
The same can be said of prostitution and many other illegal things.
Really, our government should be protecting our rights, however trivial, unless there is an obvious, and scientifically-supported public health/safety reason to do otherwise.
as a 25-and-under, what i really want is the ability to find my friends inside a club or bar. it is impossible to yell 'the upstairs dance floor!' loud enough to be heard over music. what they need is an ad-hoc triangulation system since GPS doesn't work indoors.
Obviously you have NO idea what you are talking about.
The "list" price doctors give as their fees are often 100% MORE than the rate insurance companies negotiate with the doctors. And the doctors aren't going to sit there by the hospital bed and negotiate with YOU when you are sick. So if you have no insurance, you are getting raped in medical expenses, even assuming a high overhead cost for going through the insurance company.
A physician friend of mine once told me a particular procedure is listed as being $5000 by his practice, but nobody has ever even paid half that, because they either go through insurance (which pays $2300) or they stiff him entirely. The exception was one old, eccentric guy who looked homeless, but came back to the office months after an operation with a bag of $5000 in cash. True story.
Either you are not a "nerdy, curious start trek fan" or you are completely delusional. There aren't enough eccentric billionaires in the world to build a base on the moon. That leaves us with rational investors and governments as the only people who could fund such a project.
Rational investors, being rational, would not expect any return from building a moon base.
So we are left with governments. It's that or nothing, bub.
And until we have a permanent human settlement off-world, our entire species could be destroyed at any minute. There is nothing more vital to the survival of humanity (intelligence as we know it!) than getting off this sphere. What could be a better justification for using public dollars?
Unfortunately, your Congress has been writing the checks (well, debts). Don't put all the blame on Bush, but feel free to blame his party.
And because I haven't heard anyone running on the campaign of increasing space research spending, I don't know who you should vote for. At least the Dems say they want to fund biological research. But I don't know if that translates in to general pro-science sentiment.
We put a man on the moon... but we still can't build killer robot police?
No longer true. See the Korean robot from a few days ago
Nope, I'm not confused. You're pedantic.
It doesn't matter what you prefer. It will WoT will NEVER catch on. S/MIME will catch on as more organizations adopt it internally. Soon people will want to do at home what they do at work, and companies like Thawte will let them do so. Once gmail or hotmail start allowing "verified" (signed) mail to premium users, the rest will be history.
Every time you use SSL/TLS you are using the "CA-based" PKI.