Wow! Isn't that a bit like asking "Why is it that every time some crazy fucker shoots up a school full of kids he turns out to be an American"? Or how about "Every time some crazy fucker makes someone else blow up himself and a whole bunch of innocent people he turns out to be Irish. Or Colombian. You know... Flamebaiting and stuff?
But I guess that for someone who goes trolling on topics about innocent people being shot by crazies being "asking for it" just cause they don't agree with his political stance - tossing racist remarks that equalize about 1/6th of the planet with mentally deranged mass murderers would be "just Tuesday".
Falsely accusing one side of violence, as the above mentioned did throughout 2010 election campaign, despite most of the actual incidents of violence coming from the left, is a 'veiled' invitation to respond in kind. How do you expect more extreme elements on the left to respond when they are constantly being told that about violent fascist and racist right-wingers are taking over in the form of Tea Party (which in reality is a peaceful and law-abiding movement if there ever was one). That is the impression one gets when listening to them and it is a form of incitement to violence.
Also, not really paying attention to that movie? Cause... Batman kinda has this rule about NOT killing people.
What you are looking for is someone like Ironman. Keep in mind though that he is a (recovering) alcoholic. Also, on a guilt-trip cause his weapons killed all those "innocent people" so he is working through that by killing more people face to face. But these are all bad.
Yeah, so? Story allowed it, movie(s) was filmed all at once and shown to the public one part of the story at a time. Three parts - not three sequels. Just like the book.
HP stories were written one at a time, filmed one at a time and shown one at a time over a decade. Further more, most of the later stories didn't yet exist at the time of the first movie. Sequels. In form, word and in every other way there is.
Free energy, if it existed, would be the biggest economic miracle in all the history of mankind, make no mistake about that.
Miracle as in "OMG! We can make money out of this! Economic boom FTW!" or as in "OMFG! We are so fucked, everything will now be free! RIP economics, we don't need most of you now."?
It is a single story. With a single beginning and a single conclusion. Like the book it was made from.
Harry Potter movies are all (except the last two) "one story per film" deal. You know... more like Indiana Jones and less like Star Wars. The difference being that the Empire Strikes Back leaves the story hanging unresolved.
Each Harry Potter and each Indiana Jones in contrast could be the ending of the series. Oh sure. If you are a fan you are emotionally invested into further stories but as a casual observer you can be satisfied with just one. ANY one.
Partician-plebiean vs patrician-plebeian is a bit of a too subtle a joke for Slashdot. Now, had you said something like "In Soviet Russia all particians are communist particians" or "I for one welcome our new partician overlords..."
Now you just need to make another leap of logic involving the conclusion you just made AND the above mentioned television programmes and you'll get what I was aiming at.
...unless they use a softer alloy for the screws and then tighten them up with electric screwdrivers or maybe even a drop of glue/epoxy/silicone at the bottom.
You end up stripping the groves on the screw and still not unscrewing it. Bonus points for screw sizes below 5.
FYI I did both what you suggest and what I describe, at times. Some you unscrew, some you screw up. Depending on the above mentioned conditions.
...science fiction alternative to Big Brother and Friends? And vice versa.
Those are like... two, maybe three different demographics to start with. Without even getting to plot and structure - which one of those you mentioned has what I believe to be a negative amount of.
...he meant to say that medicine is a science too.
As for House... well... you forgot the main ingredient. Hugh Laurie. That show could probably run purely on his charisma. At times... it did.
Also... That show cheats. Pretending to be a medical drama when in fact it is a mystery show masquerading as a medical drama. They could just as well all be detectives solving "unsolvable cases", it would be exact same show.
...raw corn makes for a thousands of magnitudes better food source than shit - yet you never hear someone calling their friends to: "Come over for dinner. We're having raw corn on a stick.".
From that same link (just pointing out, not making a counter-argument):
Linux is as vulnerable to malware that tricks the user into installing it through social engineering as other operating systems. In December 2009 a malicious waterfall screensaver was discovered that contained a script that used the infected Linux PC in denial-of-service attacks.
No OS is immune to PEBCAK attacks.
And again... Parent claims no malware exists for OS X and Linux "in the real world" - kinda underlining the PEBCAK issue.
I'm not saying that there is a same or even comparable number of malware and (currently known) exploitable vulnerabilities on OS X, Linux and Windowses. I'm just saying that the parent is an example of a ID-10T error due to his silly non-argumented claims.
This isn't the first time Apple has used screws to gain an advantage. Apple had been using 5-point Torx screws for its MacBook Pros, not standard 6-point Torx screws."We did a little bit of research and found out that this particular screw has been patented," Wiens says. "It is illegal to import screwdrivers that can open this screw into the U.S. unless you buy it through Apple's sales channels. Apple sells the screwdriver for $40." (Wiens doesn't know if the Pentalobular screws have been patented.)
So I guess if you smuggle one of those penta(hahaha)lobular screwdrivers into USA you'll be an OUTLAAAW!
Your argument that my argument is a straw man is a straw man.
You do realize that is the equivalent of saying "Well, your argument that I'm making a straw man argument sucks"?
Many Google results for something does not mean that thing is common, correct, or even exists at all.
And there you go again. Also, putting words in my mouth.
I was not citing Google results as correct, common or actual.
Nor was I making an illogical claim like "Sky is red" (which in on itself is true every day around sunset, it is just that most of the day Earth's sky has another color) and then using the shear number of results as a counter-argument. I.e... "Creating the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."
By using results that, might I add, mostly have no connection with the "Sky is red" claim.
Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red? Answers.com - Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red Meteorology and Weather question: Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red?
Is “Red sky at night, sailor's delight,Red sky in morning... Is the old adage “Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning” true, or is it just an old wives' tale?
Red sky at night Red sky at night - the meaning and origin of this saying.
The Sky Is Red (work by Berto) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia There were sad tales of lost war by Giuseppe Berto (Il cielo è rosso [1947; The Sky Is Red] and Guerra in camicia nera [1955; “A Blackshirt's War”])
Red Sky Restaurant & Lounge - Faneuil Hall Marketplace Restaurant... Serves eclectic cuisine downtown. Includes a menu and pictures.
Why is the sky Blue? When we look up at the sky, the red cones respond to the small amount of scattered red light, but also less strongly to orange and yellow wavelengths
I was simply pointing to results of a search containing two words. I can't really control what comes up on Google when you do that search, now can I? It could have just as well been a series of articles saying that there is NO malware for OS X or Linux. I did not ask for a specific result to my query, nor did I imply any kind of relation between the terms.
I simply asked Google "Hey Mr. Google, what do you have to say about these two topics?". Feel free to go and flame Google cause you find their results to be not objective enough.
By creating this recursive strawman loop you are sucked into the straw man universe, where you are a sex slave to splintery straw men for the rest of eternity.
Terribly sorry, but your original straw man WAS burned by Google. But if you feel the need to restate it again and support it with another one.. well... you just said what you believe happens in such cases.
Not that I'm saying that it is, but while I do know that your beliefs are actually silly superstition - it is not my place to forbid you from believing in them. But I do reserve the right to point out your fallacy.
And it has been fine-tuned towards the desired victim.
If the scam was targeting people running ultra custom mods derived from the Species 8472, they would simply make specific adjustments. And only in that last execution part of the scam. The entire play up to that point stays the same.
Here's the thinking. The cosmological constant is a number that determines the energy density of the vacuum. It acts like a kind of pressure that, depending on its value, acts against gravity to push the universe apart or acts with gravity to pull the universe together towards a final Big Crunch.
Until recently, cosmologists had assumed that the constant was zero, a neat solution. But the recent evidence that the universe is not just expanding but accelerating away from us, suggests that the constant is positive.
But although positive, the cosmological constant is tiny, some 122 orders of magnitude smaller than Planck's constant, which itself is a small number.
So Page and others have examined the effects of changing this constant. It's straightforward to show that if the the constant were any larger, matter would not form into galaxies and stars meaning that life could not form, at least not in the form we know it,.
So what value of the cosmological constant best encourages galaxy and star formation, and therefore the evolution of life? Page says that a slightly negative value of the constant would maximise this process. And since life is some small fraction of the amount of matter in galaxies, then this is the value that an omnipotent being would choose.
In fact, he says that any positive value of the constant would tend to decrease the fraction of matter that forms into galaxies, reducing the amount available for life.
Therefore the measured value of the cosmological constant, which is positive, is evidence against the idea that the constants have been fine-tuned for life.
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Wow! Isn't that a bit like asking "Why is it that every time some crazy fucker shoots up a school full of kids he turns out to be an American"?
Or how about "Every time some crazy fucker makes someone else blow up himself and a whole bunch of innocent people he turns out to be Irish. Or Colombian.
You know... Flamebaiting and stuff?
But I guess that for someone who goes trolling on topics about innocent people being shot by crazies being "asking for it" just cause they don't agree with his political stance - tossing racist remarks that equalize about 1/6th of the planet with mentally deranged mass murderers would be "just Tuesday".
Falsely accusing one side of violence, as the above mentioned did throughout 2010 election campaign, despite most of the actual incidents of violence coming from the left, is a 'veiled' invitation to respond in kind. How do you expect more extreme elements on the left to respond when they are constantly being told that about violent fascist and racist right-wingers are taking over in the form of Tea Party (which in reality is a peaceful and law-abiding movement if there ever was one). That is the impression one gets when listening to them and it is a form of incitement to violence.
Also, not really paying attention to that movie? Cause... Batman kinda has this rule about NOT killing people.
What you are looking for is someone like Ironman.
Keep in mind though that he is a (recovering) alcoholic.
Also, on a guilt-trip cause his weapons killed all those "innocent people" so he is working through that by killing more people face to face. But these are all bad.
Exactly which part of "making the bank" was based on creating free electricity out of thin air?
Yeah, so?
Story allowed it, movie(s) was filmed all at once and shown to the public one part of the story at a time.
Three parts - not three sequels. Just like the book.
HP stories were written one at a time, filmed one at a time and shown one at a time over a decade.
Further more, most of the later stories didn't yet exist at the time of the first movie.
Sequels. In form, word and in every other way there is.
Free energy, if it existed, would be the biggest economic miracle in all the history of mankind, make no mistake about that.
Miracle as in "OMG! We can make money out of this! Economic boom FTW!" or as in "OMFG! We are so fucked, everything will now be free! RIP economics, we don't need most of you now."?
It is a single story. With a single beginning and a single conclusion.
Like the book it was made from.
Harry Potter movies are all (except the last two) "one story per film" deal.
You know... more like Indiana Jones and less like Star Wars. The difference being that the Empire Strikes Back leaves the story hanging unresolved.
Each Harry Potter and each Indiana Jones in contrast could be the ending of the series.
Oh sure. If you are a fan you are emotionally invested into further stories but as a casual observer you can be satisfied with just one.
ANY one.
It is kinda famous for that.
Never ascribe to malice... and all that.
Partician-plebiean vs patrician-plebeian is a bit of a too subtle a joke for Slashdot.
Now, had you said something like "In Soviet Russia all particians are communist particians" or "I for one welcome our new partician overlords..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician
Now you just need to make another leap of logic involving the conclusion you just made AND the above mentioned television programmes and you'll get what I was aiming at.
Also, this might prove of use in the future.
If you find both "shit" and "corn" to be in the category of "barely consumable food"...
Just don't ever call me to dinner.
...unless they use a softer alloy for the screws and then tighten them up with electric screwdrivers or maybe even a drop of glue/epoxy/silicone at the bottom.
You end up stripping the groves on the screw and still not unscrewing it.
Bonus points for screw sizes below 5.
FYI I did both what you suggest and what I describe, at times. Some you unscrew, some you screw up.
Depending on the above mentioned conditions.
Not the way Jar-Jar Abrams does it.
...science fiction alternative to Big Brother and Friends? And vice versa.
Those are like... two, maybe three different demographics to start with.
Without even getting to plot and structure - which one of those you mentioned has what I believe to be a negative amount of.
...he meant to say that medicine is a science too.
As for House... well... you forgot the main ingredient. Hugh Laurie.
That show could probably run purely on his charisma. At times... it did.
Also... That show cheats.
Pretending to be a medical drama when in fact it is a mystery show masquerading as a medical drama.
They could just as well all be detectives solving "unsolvable cases", it would be exact same show.
...raw corn makes for a thousands of magnitudes better food source than shit - yet you never hear someone calling their friends to: "Come over for dinner. We're having raw corn on a stick.".
For a moment there I thought "Why, that is very nice of Jar-Jar...".
Then the text post-processing kicked in.
Ah well... at least it WILL die.
From that same link (just pointing out, not making a counter-argument):
Linux is as vulnerable to malware that tricks the user into installing it through social engineering as other operating systems. In December 2009 a malicious waterfall screensaver was discovered that contained a script that used the infected Linux PC in denial-of-service attacks.
No OS is immune to PEBCAK attacks.
And again...
Parent claims no malware exists for OS X and Linux "in the real world" - kinda underlining the PEBCAK issue.
I'm not saying that there is a same or even comparable number of malware and (currently known) exploitable vulnerabilities on OS X, Linux and Windowses.
I'm just saying that the parent is an example of a ID-10T error due to his silly non-argumented claims.
From TFA:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012011-the-case-of-apples-mystery.html
This isn't the first time Apple has used screws to gain an advantage. Apple had been using 5-point Torx screws for its MacBook Pros, not standard 6-point Torx screws."We did a little bit of research and found out that this particular screw has been patented," Wiens says. "It is illegal to import screwdrivers that can open this screw into the U.S. unless you buy it through Apple's sales channels. Apple sells the screwdriver for $40." (Wiens doesn't know if the Pentalobular screws have been patented.)
So I guess if you smuggle one of those penta(hahaha)lobular screwdrivers into USA you'll be an OUTLAAAW!
Your argument that my argument is a straw man is a straw man.
You do realize that is the equivalent of saying "Well, your argument that I'm making a straw man argument sucks"?
Many Google results for something does not mean that thing is common, correct, or even exists at all.
And there you go again. Also, putting words in my mouth.
I was not citing Google results as correct, common or actual.
Nor was I making an illogical claim like "Sky is red" (which in on itself is true every day around sunset, it is just that most of the day Earth's sky has another color) and then using the shear number of results as a counter-argument.
I.e... "Creating the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."
By using results that, might I add, mostly have no connection with the "Sky is red" claim.
Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red?
Answers.com - Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red
Meteorology and Weather question: Why does the sky sometimes seem to be pink and red?
Is “Red sky at night, sailor's delight,Red sky in morning ...
Is the old adage “Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning” true, or is it just an old wives' tale?
Red sky at night
Red sky at night - the meaning and origin of this saying.
The Sky Is Red (work by Berto) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
There were sad tales of lost war by Giuseppe Berto (Il cielo è rosso [1947; The Sky Is Red] and Guerra in camicia nera [1955; “A Blackshirt's War”])
Red Sky Restaurant & Lounge - Faneuil Hall Marketplace Restaurant ...
Serves eclectic cuisine downtown. Includes a menu and pictures.
Why is the sky Blue?
When we look up at the sky, the red cones respond to the small amount of scattered red light, but also less strongly to orange and yellow wavelengths
I was simply pointing to results of a search containing two words.
I can't really control what comes up on Google when you do that search, now can I?
It could have just as well been a series of articles saying that there is NO malware for OS X or Linux.
I did not ask for a specific result to my query, nor did I imply any kind of relation between the terms.
I simply asked Google "Hey Mr. Google, what do you have to say about these two topics?".
Feel free to go and flame Google cause you find their results to be not objective enough.
Also, before you go all "No you didn't", this short course might help you with making the distinction between an argument and a contradiction.
By creating this recursive strawman loop you are sucked into the straw man universe, where you are a sex slave to splintery straw men for the rest of eternity.
Terribly sorry, but your original straw man WAS burned by Google.
But if you feel the need to restate it again and support it with another one.. well... you just said what you believe happens in such cases.
Not that I'm saying that it is, but while I do know that your beliefs are actually silly superstition - it is not my place to forbid you from believing in them.
But I do reserve the right to point out your fallacy.
*points at monitor*
/Nelson
Nelson
Haw-Haw!
Google servers heat up the straw in the straw man, until it catches fire and BURNS.
Also, you lose 10.000 internets.
Forever.
For a virus to be acceptable for use on an Apple computer it must be current? Talk about elitist.
Also, doesn't your computer have internet on it?
And it has been fine-tuned towards the desired victim.
If the scam was targeting people running ultra custom mods derived from the Species 8472, they would simply make specific adjustments.
And only in that last execution part of the scam. The entire play up to that point stays the same.
And besides the fact that "running ultra custom mods derived from the Species 8472" relies on security through obscurity, let us not forget that Species 8472 were defeated through use of malware.
I.e. Borg nanoprobes specifically programmed to mimic their "electrochemical signatures, so that they could evade detection by Species 8472's immune system".
About 643,000 results (0.18 seconds)
About 7,850,000 results (0.09 seconds)
Also...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
From TFA:
Here's the thinking. The cosmological constant is a number that determines the energy density of the vacuum. It acts like a kind of pressure that, depending on its value, acts against gravity to push the universe apart or acts with gravity to pull the universe together towards a final Big Crunch.
Until recently, cosmologists had assumed that the constant was zero, a neat solution. But the recent evidence that the universe is not just expanding but accelerating away from us, suggests that the constant is positive.
But although positive, the cosmological constant is tiny, some 122 orders of magnitude smaller than Planck's constant, which itself is a small number.
So Page and others have examined the effects of changing this constant. It's straightforward to show that if the the constant were any larger, matter would not form into galaxies and stars meaning that life could not form, at least not in the form we know it,.
So what value of the cosmological constant best encourages galaxy and star formation, and therefore the evolution of life? Page says that a slightly negative value of the constant would maximise this process. And since life is some small fraction of the amount of matter in galaxies, then this is the value that an omnipotent being would choose.
In fact, he says that any positive value of the constant would tend to decrease the fraction of matter that forms into galaxies, reducing the amount available for life.
Therefore the measured value of the cosmological constant, which is positive, is evidence against the idea that the constants have been fine-tuned for life.