Well what about all the ones who DO believe god is omnipotent. Logic dictates they are wrong. Anyways, I've never heard anyone claim that god is quasi-omnipotent. Lets not change the subject to what one could possibly believe, and lets focus on what people DO believe. Which is god is omnipotent.
Why not? Because you are not allowed to redefine terms just because the definition doesn't suit your needs.
Definitions of omnipotence on the Web:
* the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Unlimited power. That means anything, there is no limit due to logic. This is fitting because you have to suspend logic to believe a lot of the bible. (Or most if not all religions.)
Good thing our country doesn't plan on going to space anymore, I mean wed have to put in back scatter x rays and start checking astronauts to see if they are on the no fly list.
GPUs are too fast now a days. Back in my day we used a via uphills both ways, and we appreciated the chance to do so. Grr, Hurmph get off my lawn you whipper snappers.
Ahh yes, the up and coming favorite retort, "I know you are but what am I"
Someone asked for god to be disproven, I say that there are some valid arguments against the existence of god but that I don't believe anyone will listen to them, and I'm the one engaged in a holy war?
Note I'm not claiming he was or wasn't born in Hawaii/overseas, but I can understand the desire to take a good look at it and check.
Which should have ended when he released his perfectly legal short form birth certificate back when he was still candidate Obama. The fact is that they drug it out over two years, and are leaving the impression that they will continue to drag it out is the issue. Which means that AFTER receiving evidence of his citizenship they stuck their fingers in their ears and went "nuh huh", and now that they got the long form they are just gonna scream "nuh huh" even louder.
Face it, Obama could take all of the birthers back to his birth in a frigging time machine and they would still not accept it. That is what makes them fucking crackpot loonies. They are willfully ignorant and vehemently so. Why, what gives the birthers so much more hate against this democrat over any other democrats? When you look at it that way it really, really starts to look like they hate him only because of the color of his skin. That is the only difference between him and a lot of other democrat politicians. That is the difference between him and earlier presidents.
Do you have an alternative theory to the rage alot of those on the right feel towards the president?
Except when you try to point out logical inconsistencies in religion you either get called a name, or your told that "god works in mysterious ways". Both of which are cop outs. When the bible thumpers promise to listen to logic, then I promise to make persuasive arguments against the existence of god. Until they agree to at least think through my arguments (I have thought theirs through many times and have even tried numerous different churches) then anything I say is pissing into the wind with them.
I know that some towns in the US really rely on income generated from tickets and fines. In which case they would want to place traps in places more likely to catch offenders
That is a large part of the problem right there. A lot of these towns love to use speed limits that jump up and down. There is a stretch of highway not far from me that goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 25 to 35 to 45 all within about a mile stretch. Its blatant that its purpose is solely to catch drivers unfamiliar to the area. (Speeds in MPH)
I can plug in just about any printer and get it working in 5 min in Linux. Any printer that does not come with vista/7 drivers.. DOES NOT WORK in vista or 7.
If there cant be a happy medium where I get to keep my privacy, and the developers get fair compensation, then I'm not interested. I'm not the only one either, more and more people are not interested.
I have a hard time imagining alot of these places actually make 50 dollars per person. Some maybe, most.. I'd hazard a guess of no. So because I'm going to guess that ad based revenue might only be 5 or 10 dollars a person per program, I'd be glad to purchase most of the software I needed for 15. Developers get a little bit extra, and I don't have my private data scraped and sold off to the highest bidder. Win-win in my book.
This is a news aggregator, no one here (as a general rule of thumb) actually writes the news. The purpose of this site is so we can gather and have a place to discuss the news. Which frankly as far as I'm concerned has one of the best commenting systems Ive ever seen.
If Slashdot had writers in their employ you would have a point. You rail against the editors here, but from what Ive seen the editors job is more of a super mod or something. They have never actually edited submissions unless it was an extremely glaring error.
You and everyone else that comes here and bitches about the editors whenever you can find the slightest problem don't seem to realize that the editors don't care about your whining. Do you and everyone else actually expect the editors to comb through each and every submission making sure that every word used is the 100% correct word, so that 100% of the users will be happy? Because that apparently is what you want. (Yes, I started a sentence with "because", you'll live.) You're a pedant with words so everyone else has to be? Sounds like know it all 12 year old mode again.
If Slashdot went through that much effort, then front page news would slow to a crawl, and people like you would STILL find something to bitch about in the summary. You can't make everyone happy all the time.
Ahh ok, I was about to completely discount your post due to that.
The only point I'm trying to make is that we are not 100% certain thats the lowest point. It is recognized as the lowest point but there are other points that are awfully close, and vast swaths of ocean not fully mapped.
Ill refer to your sites later (at work), thank you for the links.
So your telling me that all of the trenches have been mapped with the latest gear? The most accurate gear? If thats so, how come they are still finding ultra deep holes as recently as 2003.
I question the comparison of the numbers, multiple different types of equipment have been used to map underwater. Frankly I think it would be rather difficult to take the numbers found by one study, and compare them to another without adjustments for the accuracy of the different types of devices that have been used to gage depth.
Ohh and millions? WTF that makes no sense... everything Ive seen says thousands. in fact 34885171 = 6607.039 mi. Your telling me the trench is over 6000 MILES deep? Pass the blunt this way dog.
I can debate the fact that there may be deeper places in the ocean, in fact I think its likely.
Yes, but it was used in the article and in the title of the linked article. In fact the slashdot title, IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE TITLE IN THE LINKED ARTICLE.
You were being a pedant, and an asshole. I called you on it. I call you on it again. You do not have a leg to stand on for bitching at slashdot for the title. You are acting like a whiny known it all 12 year old. If you have an issue with the wording in the title then you should complain about the editors at the linked page, not slashdot.
That and you never countered my other two points, that perhaps its because no one has been there in 50 years, or the fact its a glass submarine.
There is another place called the Tonga Trench that has some pretty low spots also. There is a good chance the the challenger deep isnt the deepest place in the ocean, in fact its depth has had to be adjusted numerous times. It has been measured at 35,760 ft, 36,201 ft , 35,840 ft. Its hard to measure something that deep, in that kind of environment, and be 100% the numbers aren't off even as much as 0.25%. The Tonga Trench has been measured at 35,702. The HMRG Deep has been measured at 35,209. Either of those two spots can actually be lower then the Challenger Deep if there was the slightest error in the measurement.
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So my privacy is only important if I'm hiding something? False.
I feel my privacy is important. Full stop.
If there is no reason to track me, then why waste the money doing so?
I hate it when people imply that I must be a criminal if I value my privacy.
Fire marshal had a heart attack when he saw all the daisy chained power strips.
A theist might believe...
Well what about all the ones who DO believe god is omnipotent. Logic dictates they are wrong. Anyways, I've never heard anyone claim that god is quasi-omnipotent. Lets not change the subject to what one could possibly believe, and lets focus on what people DO believe. Which is god is omnipotent.
Why not? Because you are not allowed to redefine terms just because the definition doesn't suit your needs.
Definitions of omnipotence on the Web:
* the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Unlimited power. That means anything, there is no limit due to logic. This is fitting because you have to suspend logic to believe a lot of the bible. (Or most if not all religions.)
Yet.
Good thing our country doesn't plan on going to space anymore, I mean wed have to put in back scatter x rays and start checking astronauts to see if they are on the no fly list.
Translation:
GPUs are too fast now a days. Back in my day we used a via uphills both ways, and we appreciated the chance to do so.
Grr, Hurmph get off my lawn you whipper snappers.
You have a different definition?
Ahh yes, the up and coming favorite retort, "I know you are but what am I"
Someone asked for god to be disproven, I say that there are some valid arguments against the existence of god but that I don't believe anyone will listen to them, and I'm the one engaged in a holy war?
Note I'm not claiming he was or wasn't born in Hawaii/overseas, but I can understand the desire to take a good look at it and check.
Which should have ended when he released his perfectly legal short form birth certificate back when he was still candidate Obama. The fact is that they drug it out over two years, and are leaving the impression that they will continue to drag it out is the issue. Which means that AFTER receiving evidence of his citizenship they stuck their fingers in their ears and went "nuh huh", and now that they got the long form they are just gonna scream "nuh huh" even louder.
Face it, Obama could take all of the birthers back to his birth in a frigging time machine and they would still not accept it. That is what makes them fucking crackpot loonies. They are willfully ignorant and vehemently so. Why, what gives the birthers so much more hate against this democrat over any other democrats? When you look at it that way it really, really starts to look like they hate him only because of the color of his skin. That is the only difference between him and a lot of other democrat politicians. That is the difference between him and earlier presidents.
Do you have an alternative theory to the rage alot of those on the right feel towards the president?
Except when you try to point out logical inconsistencies in religion you either get called a name, or your told that "god works in mysterious ways". Both of which are cop outs. When the bible thumpers promise to listen to logic, then I promise to make persuasive arguments against the existence of god. Until they agree to at least think through my arguments (I have thought theirs through many times and have even tried numerous different churches) then anything I say is pissing into the wind with them.
Not a single school zone on that stretch of road.
My bad, just checked google maps, its about a 2 mile stretch. Still quite alot of speed changes.
I know that some towns in the US really rely on income generated from tickets and fines. In which case they would want to place traps in places more likely to catch offenders
That is a large part of the problem right there. A lot of these towns love to use speed limits that jump up and down. There is a stretch of highway not far from me that goes from 55 to 25 to 35 to 25 to 35 to 45 all within about a mile stretch. Its blatant that its purpose is solely to catch drivers unfamiliar to the area. (Speeds in MPH)
Actually I set up a Linux VM as a print server, its not too bad except having to make sure the vm is running if I want to print.
In printers and scanners, yes yes it is.
I can plug in just about any printer and get it working in 5 min in Linux. Any printer that does not come with vista/7 drivers.. DOES NOT WORK in vista or 7.
If there cant be a happy medium where I get to keep my privacy, and the developers get fair compensation, then I'm not interested. I'm not the only one either, more and more people are not interested.
I have a hard time imagining alot of these places actually make 50 dollars per person. Some maybe, most.. I'd hazard a guess of no. So because I'm going to guess that ad based revenue might only be 5 or 10 dollars a person per program, I'd be glad to purchase most of the software I needed for 15. Developers get a little bit extra, and I don't have my private data scraped and sold off to the highest bidder. Win-win in my book.
Frankly your stretching.
This is a news aggregator, no one here (as a general rule of thumb) actually writes the news. The purpose of this site is so we can gather and have a place to discuss the news. Which frankly as far as I'm concerned has one of the best commenting systems Ive ever seen.
If Slashdot had writers in their employ you would have a point. You rail against the editors here, but from what Ive seen the editors job is more of a super mod or something. They have never actually edited submissions unless it was an extremely glaring error.
You and everyone else that comes here and bitches about the editors whenever you can find the slightest problem don't seem to realize that the editors don't care about your whining. Do you and everyone else actually expect the editors to comb through each and every submission making sure that every word used is the 100% correct word, so that 100% of the users will be happy? Because that apparently is what you want. (Yes, I started a sentence with "because", you'll live.) You're a pedant with words so everyone else has to be? Sounds like know it all 12 year old mode again.
If Slashdot went through that much effort, then front page news would slow to a crawl, and people like you would STILL find something to bitch about in the summary. You can't make everyone happy all the time.
Anonymous coward with a "fact" and no source.
Quick someone needs to mod this guy informative.
I hope you dont mind if I steal that. :-)
Ahh ok, I was about to completely discount your post due to that.
The only point I'm trying to make is that we are not 100% certain thats the lowest point. It is recognized as the lowest point but there are other points that are awfully close, and vast swaths of ocean not fully mapped.
Ill refer to your sites later (at work), thank you for the links.
"According to the measurments"
So your telling me that all of the trenches have been mapped with the latest gear? The most accurate gear? If thats so, how come they are still finding ultra deep holes as recently as 2003.
I question the comparison of the numbers, multiple different types of equipment have been used to map underwater. Frankly I think it would be rather difficult to take the numbers found by one study, and compare them to another without adjustments for the accuracy of the different types of devices that have been used to gage depth.
Ohh and millions? WTF that makes no sense... everything Ive seen says thousands. in fact 34885171 = 6607.039 mi. Your telling me the trench is over 6000 MILES deep? Pass the blunt this way dog.
I can debate the fact that there may be deeper places in the ocean, in fact I think its likely.
Yes, but it was used in the article and in the title of the linked article. In fact the slashdot title, IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE TITLE IN THE LINKED ARTICLE.
You were being a pedant, and an asshole. I called you on it. I call you on it again. You do not have a leg to stand on for bitching at slashdot for the title. You are acting like a whiny known it all 12 year old. If you have an issue with the wording in the title then you should complain about the editors at the linked page, not slashdot.
That and you never countered my other two points, that perhaps its because no one has been there in 50 years, or the fact its a glass submarine.
I eagerly await your reply.
In 2003 scientists in Hawaii found other places in the Mariana Trench that are as deep as the Challenger Deep. Perhaps they could go there?
Its called the HMRG Deep
Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3071749.stm
There is another place called the Tonga Trench that has some pretty low spots also. There is a good chance the the challenger deep isnt the deepest place in the ocean, in fact its depth has had to be adjusted numerous times. It has been measured at 35,760 ft, 36,201 ft , 35,840 ft. Its hard to measure something that deep, in that kind of environment, and be 100% the numbers aren't off even as much as 0.25%.
The Tonga Trench has been measured at 35,702.
The HMRG Deep has been measured at 35,209.
Either of those two spots can actually be lower then the Challenger Deep if there was the slightest error in the measurement.