Actually, my point is that I can't imagine it being great to spend time with someone who is that incurious. You can't fill all the time with sex, so intellectual compatibility is a valid concern. And don't women want to be respected for their minds?
If you read the OP, "... she told me a story about how her grandfather, fifty years ago, dated footprints of a dinosaurs and a man that were right next to each other to be within the same epoch of history...The odd thing is that she's not religious, it's just what her archaeologist grandfather taught her."
If that's all it is, then simply pointing her to talk origins should be all that's necessary to correct her. This should have happened the first time she repeated this belief to an educated audience, and should only have to happen once.
You've never made a claim which turned out to be wrong?
I didn't say that. I was wrong recently when I said here that the PSP had hardware PSX emulation. But that's hardly a consequential fact, unlike basic facts of paleontology. It's possible to have a coherent model of the world where PSX emulation is implemented in hardware. But finding man tracks next to dinosaur tracks would upend entire disciplines of earth science.
Also, all it took was a PSP coder mentioning that I was wrong, with a sentence explaining how he knew. I'm pretty sure I thanked him for correcting me too.
In this context, when he was repairing one of the compartments in question he saw that it was full of bundles of cash. The prosecutors argued (and the jury agreed) that this was clear evidence that something illegal was going on
How should a law-abiding citizen transport large bundles of cache? In an acrylic box on their dash?
We are all misinformed about basic and easily verifiable facts.
I would bet that you're wrong about that. I take efforts to know what I'm talking about, and when I don't, I shut the hell up.
I mean, what exactly is she (hypothetically) claiming when she says "humans rode dinosaurs". Is she claiming that human fossils and dinosaur fossils have been found in the same burial site? Is she claiming that historical records of humans riding dinosaurs have been found? Does she even know?
Yes, we're all misinformed about many facts, there are infinitely many of them after all. But we don't all go making claims about easily verifiable facts, without exerting a minimum amount of effort to easily verify those facts. If you don't know, say you don't know.
So I say, "get off your high horse."
A second grade knowledge of paleontology is not a "high horse". To you I say, "get some standards". Ignorance is not attrctive, and weapons grade ignorance like this can only be deliberate.
If you think you're above all that, then that's just another example of you being stupid.
I'm sad I have to respond as if this thread were serious. But believing people rode dinosaurs is hardly an inconsequential thing. It belies a deep, deep disfunction in a persons cognitive processes. If you're that incredibly misinformed about such a basic and easily verifiable fact of the world we live in, there is something wrong with your brain. The incuriousness it takes to allow such a belief to persist to adulthood boggles the mind.
Something like this is absolutely a deal breaker for me. Life is too short to spend it with someone you don't respect intellectually.
Yeah $25 for a C64 is about right. I generally say $20 for the C64, and $10 per 1541. So two drives and a computer for $40. Then go and spend $60 on a uIEC (flash drive) and you're all set up for $100.
Apple II computers can bring a high price, or they can sit with that high price for a long time. Pricing them is kind of tricky, as the most capable platform is the most common which makes demand hard to figure. An Apple II Plus can't do much, but it's a better collectors item than a IIe. $100 is about fair for a IIe with disk drives, but I'd offer $60 and see if you can meet in the middle.
The TRS-80 wasn't even really a competitor for the C64. It was competing more with the Commodore PET and Apple II. By the time the C64 came around, the CoCo was the relevant home computer from Radioshack. And in the later parts of the C64's lifetime the Tandy 1000.
If you're really interested in Atari history, there's a new book on the subject. It's written by the guys who made the flashback 2, the good one that actually reimplements an atari, instead of emulating. They came into possession of a large number of Atari business documents and put their research into a book. It's the most comprehensive and accurate history of Atari that is likely to exist.
The experiments have been done. Spontaneous remission of disease occurs at exactly the same rate in believers and non-believers, and in those who pray or do not pray. That you know three such people who happen to be religious is coincidence, and probably a bit of selection bias.
The placebo effect has been repeatedly scientifically proven to be pretty amazingly effective at making people better, by objective measures of health/recovery.
Mind over matter only works when there is a mental component to the disease. Placebos work great at alleviating pain, which is well known to be modulated by descending afferant neurons in the spinal cord. Placebos work great when stress is part of the pathology. Stress releases cortisol that aggravates gastric ulcers, so placebos help with ulcers.
However when the pathology is purely mechanical, say a broken bone, or a tumore, placebos do nothing at all.
I've met plenty of aggressive-atheists who are hellbent on selling you their lack of religion, or "there is no god" or whatever.
The "whatever" there is important. I've never seen an atheist argue that there is factually no god. Not even Dawkins goes that far. The only thing I've seen is atheists arguing that there is no evidence for god. There's a big difference.
I don't think this is intrinsically better than the aggressive-religioso who is hellbent on selling you his god.
This is intrinsically better. The religious person wants you to reject the null hypothesis with no evidence. The atheist wants you to refrain from rejecting the null hypothesis when there is no evidence. There's a big difference.
No hardware compatibility, no emulation == no buy.
Why not? Don't you already have a PS3 you can play your PS3 games on? It's a brand new console. Backwards compatibility didn't help the Atari 7800, and it didn't help the Sega Genesis much either. Why spend so much effort engineering in backwards compatibility when you can just play your old console?
When DVDs came out, I didn't bitch that they weren't backwards compatible with what I already had. I kept my VCR and watched my tapes on that when I wanted to, and watched DVDs when I wanted to do that. What's so hard about that?
Promising backwards compatibility and then removing it is a shitty thing to do to your customers. Being up front about the lack of a feature that's barely useful is doing things right for a change.
Why are stupid people valuable? I think over the course of history a lot more evil has been done by stupid people in the name of stupid ideas than by smart people in the name of reason. If you believe ridiculous things, you deserve to be ridiculed. Feigning respect only leads to these people getting elected to congress where they could do more damage.
I still think their beliefs are stupid though - but I don't think THEY are stupid, I just think nobody is smart enough not to be wrong some of the time.
It's OK to be wrong some of the time. What makes you stupid is not correcting yourself when you discover that you are wrong. If all you've ever been exposed to is religion, then you can be smart and be religious. But if you've had a chance to examine your religion critically, and you still believe in it, then you're not smart at all.
Wait. Why would you not think less of a person who holds stupid beliefs? If you hold stupid beliefs you are stupid. That's not bigotry, that's reality.
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Actually, my point is that I can't imagine it being great to spend time with someone who is that incurious. You can't fill all the time with sex, so intellectual compatibility is a valid concern. And don't women want to be respected for their minds?
Well, first of all, they're going to derive their distro from Ubuntu
Which means it's going to be even further from base Debian. Which emphasizes OP's point, wtf is wrong with Debian?
If you read the OP, "... she told me a story about how her grandfather, fifty years ago, dated footprints of a dinosaurs and a man that were right next to each other to be within the same epoch of history...The odd thing is that she's not religious, it's just what her archaeologist grandfather taught her."
If that's all it is, then simply pointing her to talk origins should be all that's necessary to correct her. This should have happened the first time she repeated this belief to an educated audience, and should only have to happen once.
You've never made a claim which turned out to be wrong?
I didn't say that. I was wrong recently when I said here that the PSP had hardware PSX emulation. But that's hardly a consequential fact, unlike basic facts of paleontology. It's possible to have a coherent model of the world where PSX emulation is implemented in hardware. But finding man tracks next to dinosaur tracks would upend entire disciplines of earth science.
Also, all it took was a PSP coder mentioning that I was wrong, with a sentence explaining how he knew. I'm pretty sure I thanked him for correcting me too.
In this context, when he was repairing one of the compartments in question he saw that it was full of bundles of cash. The prosecutors argued (and the jury agreed) that this was clear evidence that something illegal was going on
How should a law-abiding citizen transport large bundles of cache? In an acrylic box on their dash?
We are all misinformed about basic and easily verifiable facts.
I would bet that you're wrong about that. I take efforts to know what I'm talking about, and when I don't, I shut the hell up.
I mean, what exactly is she (hypothetically) claiming when she says "humans rode dinosaurs". Is she claiming that human fossils and dinosaur fossils have been found in the same burial site? Is she claiming that historical records of humans riding dinosaurs have been found? Does she even know?
Yes, we're all misinformed about many facts, there are infinitely many of them after all. But we don't all go making claims about easily verifiable facts, without exerting a minimum amount of effort to easily verify those facts. If you don't know, say you don't know.
So I say, "get off your high horse."
A second grade knowledge of paleontology is not a "high horse". To you I say, "get some standards". Ignorance is not attrctive, and weapons grade ignorance like this can only be deliberate.
If you think you're above all that, then that's just another example of you being stupid.
Come on now, that's just begging the question.
I simply disagree. Being incredibly misinformed is a sign of some kind of mental derangement. Specifically, that mental derangement is incuriousness.
I'm sad I have to respond as if this thread were serious. But believing people rode dinosaurs is hardly an inconsequential thing. It belies a deep, deep disfunction in a persons cognitive processes. If you're that incredibly misinformed about such a basic and easily verifiable fact of the world we live in, there is something wrong with your brain. The incuriousness it takes to allow such a belief to persist to adulthood boggles the mind.
Something like this is absolutely a deal breaker for me. Life is too short to spend it with someone you don't respect intellectually.
Yeah $25 for a C64 is about right. I generally say $20 for the C64, and $10 per 1541. So two drives and a computer for $40. Then go and spend $60 on a uIEC (flash drive) and you're all set up for $100.
Apple II computers can bring a high price, or they can sit with that high price for a long time. Pricing them is kind of tricky, as the most capable platform is the most common which makes demand hard to figure. An Apple II Plus can't do much, but it's a better collectors item than a IIe. $100 is about fair for a IIe with disk drives, but I'd offer $60 and see if you can meet in the middle.
I heard they discovered a lesbian dinosaur. They named it Lickalotopus.
The best was the one year when the joke was that there was no joke.
Slashdot is completely useless the rest of the year too.
Oh, I didn't RTFA. The TRS-80 referred to in the summary is the TRS-80 CoCo.
The TRS-80 wasn't even really a competitor for the C64. It was competing more with the Commodore PET and Apple II. By the time the C64 came around, the CoCo was the relevant home computer from Radioshack. And in the later parts of the C64's lifetime the Tandy 1000.
If you're really interested in Atari history, there's a new book on the subject. It's written by the guys who made the flashback 2, the good one that actually reimplements an atari, instead of emulating. They came into possession of a large number of Atari business documents and put their research into a book. It's the most comprehensive and accurate history of Atari that is likely to exist.
Sometimes it feels like I've been hearing 'in this economy' for my whole life.
Are you in your thirties then? What you are seeing are the results of Reaganomics. That's when inequality really started getting worse more quickly.
Unless the judges are prepared to punish the attorneys in question with actual jail time, their pleasure is irrelevant.
The experiments have been done. Spontaneous remission of disease occurs at exactly the same rate in believers and non-believers, and in those who pray or do not pray. That you know three such people who happen to be religious is coincidence, and probably a bit of selection bias.
The placebo effect has been repeatedly scientifically proven to be pretty amazingly effective at making people better, by objective measures of health/recovery.
Mind over matter only works when there is a mental component to the disease. Placebos work great at alleviating pain, which is well known to be modulated by descending afferant neurons in the spinal cord. Placebos work great when stress is part of the pathology. Stress releases cortisol that aggravates gastric ulcers, so placebos help with ulcers.
However when the pathology is purely mechanical, say a broken bone, or a tumore, placebos do nothing at all.
Does the DoD have evidence that data can be recovered from a zeroed drive? Or do the recommend overkill just because they can?
That must have been a particularly stupid atheist. Every atheist I've met understands that you can't prove a negative, and will therefore never try.
I've met plenty of aggressive-atheists who are hellbent on selling you their lack of religion, or "there is no god" or whatever.
The "whatever" there is important. I've never seen an atheist argue that there is factually no god. Not even Dawkins goes that far. The only thing I've seen is atheists arguing that there is no evidence for god. There's a big difference.
I don't think this is intrinsically better than the aggressive-religioso who is hellbent on selling you his god.
This is intrinsically better. The religious person wants you to reject the null hypothesis with no evidence. The atheist wants you to refrain from rejecting the null hypothesis when there is no evidence. There's a big difference.
No hardware compatibility, no emulation == no buy.
Why not? Don't you already have a PS3 you can play your PS3 games on? It's a brand new console. Backwards compatibility didn't help the Atari 7800, and it didn't help the Sega Genesis much either. Why spend so much effort engineering in backwards compatibility when you can just play your old console?
When DVDs came out, I didn't bitch that they weren't backwards compatible with what I already had. I kept my VCR and watched my tapes on that when I wanted to, and watched DVDs when I wanted to do that. What's so hard about that?
Promising backwards compatibility and then removing it is a shitty thing to do to your customers. Being up front about the lack of a feature that's barely useful is doing things right for a change.
Why are stupid people valuable? I think over the course of history a lot more evil has been done by stupid people in the name of stupid ideas than by smart people in the name of reason. If you believe ridiculous things, you deserve to be ridiculed. Feigning respect only leads to these people getting elected to congress where they could do more damage.
I still think their beliefs are stupid though - but I don't think THEY are stupid, I just think nobody is smart enough not to be wrong some of the time.
It's OK to be wrong some of the time. What makes you stupid is not correcting yourself when you discover that you are wrong. If all you've ever been exposed to is religion, then you can be smart and be religious. But if you've had a chance to examine your religion critically, and you still believe in it, then you're not smart at all.
Wait. Why would you not think less of a person who holds stupid beliefs? If you hold stupid beliefs you are stupid. That's not bigotry, that's reality.