"as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again." It may be extremely unlikely, but as any problem gambler will tell you it can happen and if there is a chance it only needs to happen once otherwise we would not be having this conversation. Tell me exactly what is the odds of a god forming spontaneously, are they better than life? Oh and by the way I'm not comfortable with any theory on how the universe or life formed, but I at least stopped pretending that the universe cares weather or not I approve of it, you are no longer watching American Idol popularity doesn't determine truth. If you pretend otherwise you are living in a fantasy world meant to protect yourself from often uncomfortable reality.
"Is it part of the NSA, or is it a separate organization? Can the NSA reclassify things in its archives?" slashdot now brings you fox news. It is a very interesting place, I have been several times. There is no cost to go and it has many items about the history of cryptology. Such as the mentioned enigma as well as a Japanese world war two encryption machine. Mostly however it is just posters explaining various things, it is worth a visit if you are in the area but I would not expect more than an hour out of the visit. They do have a gift shop, who doesn't these days, with NSA branded items such as shot glasses, shirts and my personal favorite a magic eight ball. And please if you are going to put something on slashdot editors please have useful information, I'm sure you could have googled a quick description of the place.
"know how, when, and where the next attack will occur. In the Northwestern study, when researchers knew in advance specifics of the planned attacks... 100% accuracy." Hindsight is always 20/20. Bring me something that PREDICTS then I will pay attention.
I'm tired of hearing it too. There are only two kinds of people left, those who understand and accept global warming and those that can't be swayed by logic or fact. Al Gore and those types who keep reminding us global warming is real and coming were beating a dead horse long ago and now it is just dust.
"The U.S. policy is due to a fear of plutonium being stolen from reprocessing facilities for use by terrorists or rogue states, combined with a need to "set an example" to other countries; " that is a joke right? When has the U.S. example been anything but do as I say not as I do?
Once you add in the 50% default rate, which seems like it is a problem France wouldn't have to deal with due to higher acceptance so fewer regulatory hurdles like seen here stateside, it is easy to find where the problem is. Regulation to the point that it is impossible to create a new nuclear power station so those with the money to finance it wont finance a project that is expensive and unlikely to succeed.
Because in part it is true. We are free to run rampant over any country we wish, make foolish investments that topple economies around the world, humiliate their people and religion, and the list goes on. I recently read the book "The Al Qaeda reader" by Raymond Ibrahim who had translated and collected many writings by Bin Laden and Zwahiri while he was working at the library of congress. The writings are somewhat long and drawn out but they are philosophical musings but this one here is the most relevant of them all http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver But the other part is that "because they hate our freedom" sounds good and since it is partly true it works to sell the war and distract attention away from why the war is really being waged which is because it works up voters who support politicians who are strong against our enamies and gets cash flowing to arms manufacturers as well as cripple Israel's enemies. As for oil? Well Afghanistan has none worth mentioning and Iraq produces less than two million barrels per day, also hardly worth mentioning especially for what we are paying for combined with Iraq is below pre-war production still to this day. America's leaders needed a war somewhere and small factors drew us to Iraq and Afghanistan. Why are we not hunting down Omar al Bashir the only sitting head of state to ever be charged with genocide yet is waltzing free and clear wherever he pleases.
"The US lives in a dream" exactly, in reality perfection is impossible so it either becomes a process or you go straight to the bottom of the pile. Currently the U.S. is not the best country but it is still up there and what it stands for is superior to the vast majority of nations throughout time. However the people of this country are failing it and the ideas we supposedly stand for. When no effort is exerted by the citizens of this country to make this the best country it can be politicians follow suit and provide for whatever silly whim the voters come up this week. Hopefully this country will turn around but I fear it will have to hit rock bottom first.
If perfection can never be attained perfection is a process not an end. Just because they fix one huge bug doesn't mean they get a pass on all other bugs.
Information should never be illegal. Also remember that the government should not be able to out gun its own population. Also there are plenty of other reason besides righteous rebellion against a corrupt government that you might want to know about explosives. Maybe against another government that the U.S. does not support. Like the group Jundallah. Terrorist in every sense of the word but against the Islamic republic of Iran so they are alright by us.
It may not be news in itself that they innovate but where exactly they are moving to now is news. You could just as easily say all of those words have been written before, in the dictionary. It wouldn't mean that it is not newsworthy.
I'm guessing they cross reference the video of your genitals to the picture of your genitals on adultfriendfinder.com for a start on identifying person.
Or the RIAA. They only need to stop a little over a million cds from being downloaded to recoup their lost. The point is to make an example. That could easily be anywhere from 1000 to 1 million downloaders. It is hardly a loss simply because they didn't directly recoup their loss from lawsuits. Yes it does happen. I know several people who are afraid of lawsuits so don't download. Does it mean that they buy the cds they would have downloaded? No because the cds are not that valuable to them but they still buy cds in most cases. Get over it, just because the marginal cost to produce another cd is low doesn't mean you should get it for free no matter where the money goes or how you feel about business practices. If those are your problems find other places to get your music, there are plenty, so that there will be a movement in the industry towards that business model.
Actually it is more a short cut. Evolutionarily does it matter if you make a quick decision on incomplete facts by considering everything you have ever learned and reevaluating it or if you just toss it on top of the pile. In a potentially lethal situation reevaluating everything takes time and you still don't have all the facts so you are still likely to wind up dead if you take too much time but there is a chance that a quick decision can save you. Just imagine how long it would take to reevaluate everything you have ever learned with each new fact, by believing in somethings you can also spend your time learning new things that no one else knows instead of reinventing the wheel.
Well technically a billion is a thousand million. So you would still have millions of liters even if you had billions of gallons. A great way to fudge stats, well there were only tens of safety violations. Well actually it was 300 but that is 30 ten incidents. If you really want to nitpick.
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Yeah, once someone claims they got a paper that was failed due to plagiarism he fires the guy that wrote it. And don't be so stuck up about it either. I happen to know every word you have written has been published before. Ever hear of the dictionary?
It works both ways. If you want credit for being a good person in the past there has to be some way to id you at least once you expand past a few hundred people. There are benefits to identified, also detractions and you just need to make sure that the benefits outweigh the costs. If they don't well there is no more buying items online, going into stores and only needing a little plastic card to pay and many other benefits.
So the argument was pretty bad, he should have argued "ethics are poorly defined and in most cases are defined in a reactionary manner to absolve yourself of guilt by redefining ethics to fit what you are doing as ethical and what you hate as unethical. How is writing a paper a crime? So the crime is in how the paper is intended to be used, I can't ethically be accused of claiming work that is provided is claimed to mine but not because the student is committing that crime. So for a homework assignment I ask you to turn in a 5 page report detailing how what I am doing is unethical." Although I wouldn't trust him to write that paper because he clearly is not good at philosophical topics.
Because empty threats do much more good for the work done. Starting a revolution takes time, money, people. They don't start overnight. Threats however convey that it is a possible option and more threats demonstrate that people are unhappy, not as much as an actual attempted revolution but like I said for the amount of work a lot better option for the short term at least.
shh we don't want more attention on our porn sites. Although when will people learn to stop going to shady sites that require executables on their web page. I mean pictures are just that, pictures and so are videos. Stick to simple video and picture content that does not allow for executable content and you should encounter very few problems.
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"as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again." It may be extremely unlikely, but as any problem gambler will tell you it can happen and if there is a chance it only needs to happen once otherwise we would not be having this conversation. Tell me exactly what is the odds of a god forming spontaneously, are they better than life? Oh and by the way I'm not comfortable with any theory on how the universe or life formed, but I at least stopped pretending that the universe cares weather or not I approve of it, you are no longer watching American Idol popularity doesn't determine truth. If you pretend otherwise you are living in a fantasy world meant to protect yourself from often uncomfortable reality.
"Is it part of the NSA, or is it a separate organization? Can the NSA reclassify things in its archives?" slashdot now brings you fox news. It is a very interesting place, I have been several times. There is no cost to go and it has many items about the history of cryptology. Such as the mentioned enigma as well as a Japanese world war two encryption machine. Mostly however it is just posters explaining various things, it is worth a visit if you are in the area but I would not expect more than an hour out of the visit. They do have a gift shop, who doesn't these days, with NSA branded items such as shot glasses, shirts and my personal favorite a magic eight ball. And please if you are going to put something on slashdot editors please have useful information, I'm sure you could have googled a quick description of the place.
"know how, when, and where the next attack will occur. In the Northwestern study, when researchers knew in advance specifics of the planned attacks ... 100% accuracy." Hindsight is always 20/20. Bring me something that PREDICTS then I will pay attention.
I have further proof, They say the world is warming so why does it still get cold in winter. Gulible sheeple so stupid.
I'm tired of hearing it too. There are only two kinds of people left, those who understand and accept global warming and those that can't be swayed by logic or fact. Al Gore and those types who keep reminding us global warming is real and coming were beating a dead horse long ago and now it is just dust.
"The U.S. policy is due to a fear of plutonium being stolen from reprocessing facilities for use by terrorists or rogue states, combined with a need to "set an example" to other countries; " that is a joke right? When has the U.S. example been anything but do as I say not as I do?
Once you add in the 50% default rate, which seems like it is a problem France wouldn't have to deal with due to higher acceptance so fewer regulatory hurdles like seen here stateside, it is easy to find where the problem is. Regulation to the point that it is impossible to create a new nuclear power station so those with the money to finance it wont finance a project that is expensive and unlikely to succeed.
Because in part it is true. We are free to run rampant over any country we wish, make foolish investments that topple economies around the world, humiliate their people and religion, and the list goes on. I recently read the book "The Al Qaeda reader" by Raymond Ibrahim who had translated and collected many writings by Bin Laden and Zwahiri while he was working at the library of congress. The writings are somewhat long and drawn out but they are philosophical musings but this one here is the most relevant of them all http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver But the other part is that "because they hate our freedom" sounds good and since it is partly true it works to sell the war and distract attention away from why the war is really being waged which is because it works up voters who support politicians who are strong against our enamies and gets cash flowing to arms manufacturers as well as cripple Israel's enemies. As for oil? Well Afghanistan has none worth mentioning and Iraq produces less than two million barrels per day, also hardly worth mentioning especially for what we are paying for combined with Iraq is below pre-war production still to this day. America's leaders needed a war somewhere and small factors drew us to Iraq and Afghanistan. Why are we not hunting down Omar al Bashir the only sitting head of state to ever be charged with genocide yet is waltzing free and clear wherever he pleases.
"The US lives in a dream" exactly, in reality perfection is impossible so it either becomes a process or you go straight to the bottom of the pile. Currently the U.S. is not the best country but it is still up there and what it stands for is superior to the vast majority of nations throughout time. However the people of this country are failing it and the ideas we supposedly stand for. When no effort is exerted by the citizens of this country to make this the best country it can be politicians follow suit and provide for whatever silly whim the voters come up this week. Hopefully this country will turn around but I fear it will have to hit rock bottom first.
If perfection can never be attained perfection is a process not an end. Just because they fix one huge bug doesn't mean they get a pass on all other bugs.
Difference between should and does.
Actually the government is not allowed to maintain a standing army in the U.S. Although when you have a war against a verb the war is perpetual.
Information should never be illegal. Also remember that the government should not be able to out gun its own population. Also there are plenty of other reason besides righteous rebellion against a corrupt government that you might want to know about explosives. Maybe against another government that the U.S. does not support. Like the group Jundallah. Terrorist in every sense of the word but against the Islamic republic of Iran so they are alright by us.
It may not be news in itself that they innovate but where exactly they are moving to now is news. You could just as easily say all of those words have been written before, in the dictionary. It wouldn't mean that it is not newsworthy.
I'm guessing they cross reference the video of your genitals to the picture of your genitals on adultfriendfinder.com for a start on identifying person.
Or the RIAA. They only need to stop a little over a million cds from being downloaded to recoup their lost. The point is to make an example. That could easily be anywhere from 1000 to 1 million downloaders. It is hardly a loss simply because they didn't directly recoup their loss from lawsuits. Yes it does happen. I know several people who are afraid of lawsuits so don't download. Does it mean that they buy the cds they would have downloaded? No because the cds are not that valuable to them but they still buy cds in most cases. Get over it, just because the marginal cost to produce another cd is low doesn't mean you should get it for free no matter where the money goes or how you feel about business practices. If those are your problems find other places to get your music, there are plenty, so that there will be a movement in the industry towards that business model.
Actually it is more a short cut. Evolutionarily does it matter if you make a quick decision on incomplete facts by considering everything you have ever learned and reevaluating it or if you just toss it on top of the pile. In a potentially lethal situation reevaluating everything takes time and you still don't have all the facts so you are still likely to wind up dead if you take too much time but there is a chance that a quick decision can save you. Just imagine how long it would take to reevaluate everything you have ever learned with each new fact, by believing in somethings you can also spend your time learning new things that no one else knows instead of reinventing the wheel.
Well technically a billion is a thousand million. So you would still have millions of liters even if you had billions of gallons. A great way to fudge stats, well there were only tens of safety violations. Well actually it was 300 but that is 30 ten incidents. If you really want to nitpick.
Yeah, once someone claims they got a paper that was failed due to plagiarism he fires the guy that wrote it. And don't be so stuck up about it either. I happen to know every word you have written has been published before. Ever hear of the dictionary?
It works both ways. If you want credit for being a good person in the past there has to be some way to id you at least once you expand past a few hundred people. There are benefits to identified, also detractions and you just need to make sure that the benefits outweigh the costs. If they don't well there is no more buying items online, going into stores and only needing a little plastic card to pay and many other benefits.
So the argument was pretty bad, he should have argued "ethics are poorly defined and in most cases are defined in a reactionary manner to absolve yourself of guilt by redefining ethics to fit what you are doing as ethical and what you hate as unethical. How is writing a paper a crime? So the crime is in how the paper is intended to be used, I can't ethically be accused of claiming work that is provided is claimed to mine but not because the student is committing that crime. So for a homework assignment I ask you to turn in a 5 page report detailing how what I am doing is unethical." Although I wouldn't trust him to write that paper because he clearly is not good at philosophical topics.
maybe they were just curious what you were doing?
Don't worry I wasn't.
Because empty threats do much more good for the work done. Starting a revolution takes time, money, people. They don't start overnight. Threats however convey that it is a possible option and more threats demonstrate that people are unhappy, not as much as an actual attempted revolution but like I said for the amount of work a lot better option for the short term at least.
shh we don't want more attention on our porn sites. Although when will people learn to stop going to shady sites that require executables on their web page. I mean pictures are just that, pictures and so are videos. Stick to simple video and picture content that does not allow for executable content and you should encounter very few problems.