No, he's saying that it may be pointless to do research on things that are by definition unlikely to ever be possible to help us. You wouldn't build a hyperdrive to get around in a parallel universe (say if the constants in that universe were different than our own and we already had a working hyperdrive for use in our own universe) if you could never get to the parallel universe to use it, now, would you?
Is it still faith if you can't verify it with *current* technology? Is it faith until you can verify it and then it stops being faith, or was it never faith to begin with?
True, however if there is some way to observe it that we're just not aware of (yet?)...not sure what to call the superset of ((the things we can observe) and (the things we can't observe)) other than "all the things."
Plus maybe there are things that are observable but due to the way humans are put together we can't discover the means of observation?
After having used Yahoo for going on ten years, I finally gave up when they started silently dropping all my incoming mails for a couple days at a time. I tried to find some more reasonable explanation but couldn't. After about the fifth time this happened in a year, I sighed and headed over to Gmail.
I don't reckon punters really want all this. Have the boffins gone mad?
From urban dictionary...
punter - London slang for costumer, may also be used for "johns" (among prostitutes and police agents), people who watch porn movies or go to strip joints regularly.
boffin - Colloquial word used to refer to highly trained specialists in their respective fields; especially when the exact field of specialty is unknown. Usually used when an new and unknown piece of technology is being discussed, and having no idea what branch of speacialty is responsible.
Accurate? You Brits and your crazy slang (chav, wanker, snog, knackered, sodding...). I would have guessed that a boffin is a small widget like a flange or something.
Man in black: I'm from the government. We need to look at your GPS data. Ford representative: Okay. Anything else you need? Strippers? Coke? Maybe a blowjob? MIB: Sounds good.
I nominate "assange" as a new verb, "to be suddenly charged with other heinous crimes while wanted for impeding corporate profits, especially while outside legal jurisdiction."
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"Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"
No, he's saying that it may be pointless to do research on things that are by definition unlikely to ever be possible to help us. You wouldn't build a hyperdrive to get around in a parallel universe (say if the constants in that universe were different than our own and we already had a working hyperdrive for use in our own universe) if you could never get to the parallel universe to use it, now, would you?
Is it still faith if you can't verify it with *current* technology? Is it faith until you can verify it and then it stops being faith, or was it never faith to begin with?
True, however if there is some way to observe it that we're just not aware of (yet?)...not sure what to call the superset of ((the things we can observe) and (the things we can't observe)) other than "all the things."
Plus maybe there are things that are observable but due to the way humans are put together we can't discover the means of observation?
We need more ZPMs! I'm givin' her all she's got!
You can do a one-to-one map
* 2/2 - already assigned as 1/1
Wait...what?
Did we say that the only reason democrats were against it in 2003 was because they hate bush?
Bush, however, wasn't black.
How many people do you know of who actually have iPod Shuffles?
Google is suing itself? That seems...counterproductive...
Learn a lesson?!? Where do you think you are? This is America! We don't learn lessons, we sue their pants off for our own mistakes!!
Why should their gender be relevant?
After having used Yahoo for going on ten years, I finally gave up when they started silently dropping all my incoming mails for a couple days at a time. I tried to find some more reasonable explanation but couldn't. After about the fifth time this happened in a year, I sighed and headed over to Gmail.
I don't reckon punters really want all this. Have the boffins gone mad?
From urban dictionary...
punter - London slang for costumer, may also be used for "johns" (among prostitutes and police agents), people who watch porn movies or go to strip joints regularly.
boffin - Colloquial word used to refer to highly trained specialists in their respective fields; especially when the exact field of specialty is unknown.
Usually used when an new and unknown piece of technology is being discussed, and having no idea what branch of speacialty is responsible.
Accurate? You Brits and your crazy slang (chav, wanker, snog, knackered, sodding...). I would have guessed that a boffin is a small widget like a flange or something.
Yeah, I'm sure the university this guy is talking about is working to build its own nukes.
Running on Windows 95 does not make it a DOS program. And you evidently must have a 32-bit version of 8 as 64 won't run 16 anymore, I hear.
Bonus points if the jammer is powerful enough to drop neighboring drivers' cell phone calls!
They will get your piece of shit ride off the road one day buddy.
And that's assuming the government doesn't force them to start tracking the things anyway eventually...
Man in black: I'm from the government. We need to look at your GPS data.
Ford representative: Okay. Anything else you need? Strippers? Coke? Maybe a blowjob?
MIB: Sounds good.
Just get one of those plastic keyboard covers and remap the key layout!
If it's a properly network-isolated setup, who gives a fuck how old the security is?
win8 machine that can still run dos based progs
I am very skeptical of this.
Heh heh, that would be a good punishment. Unlimited access to movies etc. but no way to rip them.
And they say we can't be humane.
Gee, isn't that convenient.
I nominate "assange" as a new verb, "to be suddenly charged with other heinous crimes while wanted for impeding corporate profits, especially while outside legal jurisdiction."
You know what happened to all the americans that conquered the louisianna territory and walked to california to find gold?
They're all dead.
Um...as opposed to all the other 158-year-olds running around?