On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence?
The scientific method is a belief system. It is the belief that I can presume a falsifiable theory to be true until it is proven false. The problem the scientific method has with religion is that you are taking a theory that is in no way falsifiable and believing it is true. So you are not being consistent with your beliefs, sorry.
The answer is too often that, although they'd like to think otherwise, those who attack people simply for having (or not having) faith in God fear what they don't understand and thus feel the need to tear down it. It's our nasty primal instinct kicking in. Take away the fear and replace it empathy and understanding of why people choose (or don't choose) to have faith in God, and the desire to attack, belittle, or demean will go away on both sides.
Wrong. I feel the need to tear it down because a whole bunch of you religious folks decide the policies that affect my life, and sometimes these policies are based on policy from the Bible which was magically inspired by God (the unfalsifiable entity).
Praise jebus and mod parent up! I pretty much facepalmed when I read the suggestion upthread about storing session info through GET and POST. Not only would that be hell to implement, but it's trivially easy for the user to fudge their session info to mimic someone else's session info (especially with firebug, POST fudging has never been easier). If you like any site at all out there where you can login as a user (ooo slashdot maybe?) and not get imitated by some script kiddie who has full reign of your account, be thankful for cookies. Do not be fooled by the last line in the summary talking about data mining for better user experience, that is not why cookies are cool and I knew the posters would eat up that line for anti-cookie rhetoric. Cookies are by far the most efficient way to save your session's state. The sites that use cookies right don't even put anything incriminating in the cookie, they just set some kind of MD5 of the user name and some random garbage so that there aren't any duplicate cookie strings in the server database. The only real information in that cookie is a flag that indicates whether the user is logged in or out, and without knowing the garbage that was MD5ed with the user name it is highly unlikely that the cookie can be forged. I agree that a lot of the internet is out to get you with cookies, you must be careful about the info provide to such entities. However, there is a lot of good that cookies do, and you would be remiss not to acknowledge that.
While I agree that production never goes to 0, wouldn't the drilling rate go to 0 once it becomes cheaper to create polymethylenes out of Carbon and Hydrogen than to drill for oil?
No, it didn't withstand the several detonations that were seen many stories below the impact site. Each building took 15 seconds to fall; ignoring air resistance it takes an object 9 seconds to free fall 1306 feet, which means the buildings fell at near free fall speeds. The collapse had all of the same characteristics of a controlled demolition, and WTC 7 collapsed in the same fashion even though nothing was wrong with it. When the Bush administration was asked about WTC 7 they ignored the question. The owner of the buildings scored $4.6 billion off of insurance policies that were bought less than a year prior to collapse. I'm sure no one here believes any of this, but there is plenty of evidence out there to be obtained. Lots of eye witnesses, even air traffic controllers have talked about the bullshit that was going down during the crashes.
Less useful? I would not say it is very useful to have L4D, TF2, or any other game minimize when I'm trying to hit control to crouch but accidentally hit the windows key. Yes I know I could take less drastic measures, but I have yet to WANT to press the windows key, so fuck it.
-35c? Yea, that sounds like somewhere they would build these in a heartbeat, what with the high latitude and all that sunshine... At any rate, wouldn't the road be connected to the power grid and draw when it needs it? Do you honestly believe they forgot that the sun doesn't shine during the night when they developed this idea?
I was just wondering if you forged your From: to someone who uses this would they be charged for it, or is that technically not a problem? Other than that, I agree with previous posters' worries about pwned accounts getting griefed and racking up a substantial bill.
Although the USPTO is projected to earn $1.346 billion in revenue, President Bush's budget mandates a spending cap of only $1.139 billion for 2002. The remaining $207 million dollars in revenue will once again, as in previous years, be stripped from the USPTO and the Intellectual Property community.
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The USPTO is 100% fee-funded, meaning that all operating funds are the direct result of application and maintenance fees paid by patent and trademark owners and applicants. Unlike the vast majority of other government agencies, the USPTO's operating expenses pose no tax burden to the general citizenry.
I guess all I get to be pissed about are "all the fucking terrible trials that inevitably pop up from their failings."
Not only do the tax payers have to fund the USPTO and all of its horrible miserableness, but we also have to fund all the fucking terrible trials that inevitably pop up from their failings.
Didn't RTFA, but podcasting became popular as two things emerged in a large population:
greater bandwiïdth
cheap digital storage
When you don't have the means to distribute "large" media, nor the means to easily consume that media, then there is no place for podcasting. Once you have those means, however, "providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device" are all just obvious extensions to how people will obtain their media.
Well, isn't there a difference between a lie (i.e. a factually false statement) and what someone thinks is a lie? Wouldn't this device only reveal the latter case? How much more valuable is this than what we already have?
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On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence?
The scientific method is a belief system. It is the belief that I can presume a falsifiable theory to be true until it is proven false. The problem the scientific method has with religion is that you are taking a theory that is in no way falsifiable and believing it is true. So you are not being consistent with your beliefs, sorry.
The answer is too often that, although they'd like to think otherwise, those who attack people simply for having (or not having) faith in God fear what they don't understand and thus feel the need to tear down it. It's our nasty primal instinct kicking in. Take away the fear and replace it empathy and understanding of why people choose (or don't choose) to have faith in God, and the desire to attack, belittle, or demean will go away on both sides.
Wrong. I feel the need to tear it down because a whole bunch of you religious folks decide the policies that affect my life, and sometimes these policies are based on policy from the Bible which was magically inspired by God (the unfalsifiable entity).
Praise jebus and mod parent up! I pretty much facepalmed when I read the suggestion upthread about storing session info through GET and POST. Not only would that be hell to implement, but it's trivially easy for the user to fudge their session info to mimic someone else's session info (especially with firebug, POST fudging has never been easier). If you like any site at all out there where you can login as a user (ooo slashdot maybe?) and not get imitated by some script kiddie who has full reign of your account, be thankful for cookies. Do not be fooled by the last line in the summary talking about data mining for better user experience, that is not why cookies are cool and I knew the posters would eat up that line for anti-cookie rhetoric. Cookies are by far the most efficient way to save your session's state. The sites that use cookies right don't even put anything incriminating in the cookie, they just set some kind of MD5 of the user name and some random garbage so that there aren't any duplicate cookie strings in the server database. The only real information in that cookie is a flag that indicates whether the user is logged in or out, and without knowing the garbage that was MD5ed with the user name it is highly unlikely that the cookie can be forged. I agree that a lot of the internet is out to get you with cookies, you must be careful about the info provide to such entities. However, there is a lot of good that cookies do, and you would be remiss not to acknowledge that.
While I agree that production never goes to 0, wouldn't the drilling rate go to 0 once it becomes cheaper to create polymethylenes out of Carbon and Hydrogen than to drill for oil?
No, it didn't withstand the several detonations that were seen many stories below the impact site. Each building took 15 seconds to fall; ignoring air resistance it takes an object 9 seconds to free fall 1306 feet, which means the buildings fell at near free fall speeds. The collapse had all of the same characteristics of a controlled demolition, and WTC 7 collapsed in the same fashion even though nothing was wrong with it. When the Bush administration was asked about WTC 7 they ignored the question. The owner of the buildings scored $4.6 billion off of insurance policies that were bought less than a year prior to collapse. I'm sure no one here believes any of this, but there is plenty of evidence out there to be obtained. Lots of eye witnesses, even air traffic controllers have talked about the bullshit that was going down during the crashes.
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Less useful? I would not say it is very useful to have L4D, TF2, or any other game minimize when I'm trying to hit control to crouch but accidentally hit the windows key. Yes I know I could take less drastic measures, but I have yet to WANT to press the windows key, so fuck it.
You still have your windows keys? I took those off the day I got my keyboard...
-35c? Yea, that sounds like somewhere they would build these in a heartbeat, what with the high latitude and all that sunshine... At any rate, wouldn't the road be connected to the power grid and draw when it needs it? Do you honestly believe they forgot that the sun doesn't shine during the night when they developed this idea?
Tell me good sir, how fast does snow accumulate on a surface well above 0 degrees Celsius that has a source to keep it heated?
I was just wondering if you forged your From: to someone who uses this would they be charged for it, or is that technically not a problem? Other than that, I agree with previous posters' worries about pwned accounts getting griefed and racking up a substantial bill.
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Although the USPTO is projected to earn $1.346 billion in revenue, President Bush's budget mandates a spending cap of only $1.139 billion for 2002. The remaining $207 million dollars in revenue will once again, as in previous years, be stripped from the USPTO and the Intellectual Property community.
[...]
The USPTO is 100% fee-funded, meaning that all operating funds are the direct result of application and maintenance fees paid by patent and trademark owners and applicants. Unlike the vast majority of other government agencies, the USPTO's operating expenses pose no tax burden to the general citizenry.
I guess all I get to be pissed about are "all the fucking terrible trials that inevitably pop up from their failings."
Not only do the tax payers have to fund the USPTO and all of its horrible miserableness, but we also have to fund all the fucking terrible trials that inevitably pop up from their failings.
Adobe sends waves of shock over the world when they flash their IT prowess by delivering much awaited security updates!
When you don't have the means to distribute "large" media, nor the means to easily consume that media, then there is no place for podcasting. Once you have those means, however, "providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device" are all just obvious extensions to how people will obtain their media.
Well, isn't there a difference between a lie (i.e. a factually false statement) and what someone thinks is a lie? Wouldn't this device only reveal the latter case? How much more valuable is this than what we already have?
(can I haz +5 insightful mod, or is this nest too big?)