One point of view put forward by Professor Dan Bernstein (the guy who took the US govt. to court about a decade ago) was that a GET request is just that - a request. The server then either satisfies that request, or denies it. If it satisfies it, then it has approved your request for the content.
Since he put that POV forward, there have been several stoopid cases where this simple fact has been overlooked, and the wrong outcome has been arrived at.
Crossing my fingers for the sanity of the US justice system, lest any supidity rub off on the rest of the world...
Ditto. Except I gave up at the 'compiling gcc' stage, after about 3 days (P3/750). It hadn't even started to install the applications I wanted, and after 3 whole days I still didn't have a usable system. However, after 3.1 days I did - yup, good old debian took only an hour or so to banish gentoo. And I had 800MB more hard disk space too, due to not having to cache the entire library of congress in/useless/pottage .
The "Gentoo users get to learn how linux works" falacy was blown out of the water after I investigated the choices behind which if the three crons I should install. The Gentoo forums were laughably devoid of information, and even more laughably full of unambiguous proof that no-one actually knew anything about the differences.
One could argue that way, yes. And you're right, the/original/ definition of agnosticism, Huxley's in coining the term, is as you say it is. However, I suggest that the definition has morphed over time, and usage is alas more important than history when it comes to words' meanings. "Schizophrenia" went the same way.
I like to think of what consequences there are from the statement I emphasised, and when I do, I end up with conclusions that are basically modern-day-atheist rather than modern-day-agnostic. Of course, I do need to add a few of my own postulates to the mix in order to permit my deductions, but I believe that they are postulates that a lot of modern-day-agnostics espousing the emphasised view would happily accept.
In particular (in the UK at least) it's lowest (barely >10%, IIRC) for those who work with human bodies - the doctors, surgeons, and physiologists. I was not surprised when I saw this statistic, as they probably understand better than anyone that we humans ain't anything special, we're just meat. Physicists were in close 2nd place, at easily <15%, IIRC. Figures will vary depending on how agnostics are classified. Personally I view "I do not know if there is a god, and believe *there is no way to find out*" (emphasis mine) is an atheistic belief. If the questions/options are worded the 'right' way, and all atheists and agnostics are bundled together, then you can get figures as low as 5% being believers, even in the US, which would typically turn up higher proportions of religious belief that most western European countries.
I know a research scientist (astrophysicist) at NASA Ames who can prove that the world is only 6000 years old.
You talk about BSD as if there's only one BSD. And there are other Unixes apart from linux and BSD, such as the proprietory from big-name vendors such as Sun, IBM, and HP.
Acting is not about actual reality, it's about making something that isn't real look real. It's an imitaion, a fraud. Yes, I also shuddered when I read "Acting is all about honesty" in TFA too.
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One point of view put forward by Professor Dan Bernstein (the guy who took the US govt. to court about a decade ago) was that a GET request is just that - a request. The server then either satisfies that request, or denies it. If it satisfies it, then it has approved your request for the content.
Since he put that POV forward, there have been several stoopid cases where this simple fact has been overlooked, and the wrong outcome has been arrived at.
Crossing my fingers for the sanity of the US justice system, lest any supidity rub off on the rest of the world...
Ditto. Except I gave up at the 'compiling gcc' stage, after about 3 days (P3/750). It hadn't even started to install the applications I wanted, and after 3 whole days I still didn't have a usable system. However, after 3.1 days I did - yup, good old debian took only an hour or so to banish gentoo. And I had 800MB more hard disk space too, due to not having to cache the entire library of congress in /useless/pottage .
The "Gentoo users get to learn how linux works" falacy was blown out of the water after I investigated the choices behind which if the three crons I should install. The Gentoo forums were laughably devoid of information, and even more laughably full of unambiguous proof that no-one actually knew anything about the differences.
Phil
4. Test, test and test again. In particular where you try and break your own modules.
I agree - this wasn't a 'C' problem, this was a design problem.
Kennedy starting the Vietnam military action would be a bit bizarre, given that as Eisenhower was president at the time.
One could argue that way, yes. And you're right, the /original/ definition of agnosticism, Huxley's in coining the term, is as you say it is. However, I suggest that the definition has morphed over time, and usage is alas more important than history when it comes to words' meanings. "Schizophrenia" went the same way.
I like to think of what consequences there are from the statement I emphasised, and when I do, I end up with conclusions that are basically modern-day-atheist rather than modern-day-agnostic. Of course, I do need to add a few of my own postulates to the mix in order to permit my deductions, but I believe that they are postulates that a lot of modern-day-agnostics espousing the emphasised view would happily accept.
No. _This_ is total nonsense. http://www.timecube.com/
It's a bleedin' analogy, it's not a law of physics. Sheesh.
In particular (in the UK at least) it's lowest (barely >10%, IIRC) for those who work with human bodies - the doctors, surgeons, and physiologists. I was not surprised when I saw this statistic, as they probably understand better than anyone that we humans ain't anything special, we're just meat. Physicists were in close 2nd place, at easily <15%, IIRC. Figures will vary depending on how agnostics are classified. Personally I view "I do not know if there is a god, and believe *there is no way to find out*" (emphasis mine) is an atheistic belief. If the questions/options are worded the 'right' way, and all atheists and agnostics are bundled together, then you can get figures as low as 5% being believers, even in the US, which would typically turn up higher proportions of religious belief that most western European countries.
I know a research scientist (astrophysicist) at NASA Ames who can prove that the world is only 6000 years old.
It's just typical slashdot nonsense - what did you expect?
Now reread his post.
But let's see where they were:
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You talk about BSD as if there's only one BSD. And there are other Unixes apart from linux and BSD, such as the proprietory from big-name vendors such as Sun, IBM, and HP.
"write once, run anywhere"
LISP, you mean?
Works for emacs.
I'm a linux advocate and I happily discuss all of those.
Particularly number 3, which is interesting as one statement is very true, the other is very false.
Let the "discussion" begin...
You can't read the blog. Let me be the first linux zealot to explain why!
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So that's a "Server" OS, is it? Yeah right.
Too late? Then bear rather than bull.
It may be politically correct to say that these horrible nasty illegal spams cannot be exploited, but that doesn't make it true.
"You're the kind of idiot that loses money chasing these penny stocks [...]"
Do you have any evidence for that, or are you just frothing at the mouth and throwing accusations around wildly?
From here, it looks like the latter.
ITYM 'Merkins'.
HTH,
FatPhil
To the stationary observer, the train isn't 100m long.
It's not just time that's relative, it's space too.
Nah, 68k's motorola. He got $8086 instead.
OT: QD - do you post to ascf?
"air-brushed girl to advertise Avon skin care products"
You don't need to airbrush them if your model for the anti-aging cream is 18 years old.
And you don't need 'borderline' in the above. None of the claims made stand up to a harsh scientific scrutiny.
Acting is not about actual reality, it's about making something that isn't real look real. It's an imitaion, a fraud. Yes, I also shuddered when I read "Acting is all about honesty" in TFA too.
You don't measure energy in volts. Are you sure you understand what you're parrotting?
humilty - hence his now-famous quote:
I find the idea of god playing dice to be beyond my limited comprehension
NOT!