Yes, but there have to be long legged people to start with, which is my argument, not that bacteria transfer genes, resitance isn't so much developed as passed on.
Ditch you portable collection and get connected. Soon you'll be able to say, store all you music at home (or on someone elses server if Microsoft, Aol or whoever get there way), and pick it up in you car, on your 'walkman alike', at work, or just in the living room.
Say a reasonably compressed song ways in at 3MB and lasts 6mins you should be able to get that down in real time with a 100bps pipe, WIFI can easly cope with that, and 3G should be able to provide.
Now all we have to do is outlaw DRM becuse it effectivly extends copyright indefinatly(or until the DRM is cracked) breaking one of the building blocks of society, public domain works.
Se, your talking relativity, which is good on a macro scale, but falls appart on a micro scale.
Try this....
Take a lazer.
pass it through something that stops so much light that you know only 1 or 2 photons a second are comming out of the other end.
take some card with two slits in it.
point the lazer in the direction of the two slits.
put some photographic paper on the other side.
Wait for a long time.
Develope the photographic paper, you'll see a defraction pattern.
Now ask you self, how did I manage to get an interferace pattern unless the light somehow split up, went through both slits, interfeared with itself and then condensed at a single point on the paper?
Maybe God's just fucking with our heads!
Anyhow, after a long descussion last night "we've" come to the conclusion that people are allowed to believe in Gods but not a single God, because when you beleive in Gods you can ballence things out and learn to live in a mixed socioety, when you have a single God you get the concept of good and evil, right and wrong, us and them.
So from now on my argument is, God does not exist, by the proof that nothing requires the existance of God to explain.
If you still think that there's a God then there are lots of other things that require 'God' to explain them and there all different, in which case there are many Gods.
That was not my argument, I know that bacteria swap dna. my argument was this. If you are walking along and come accross a brick wall you don't suddernly develop the genes for extra long legs, but if you already had those genes you could cross the wall.
If the wall caused 90% of all short legged people to die then there would be more long legged people.
If long-legged people whet on to mix there genetics with other people then next time the wall came there a far larger percentage of the population would survive.
Many references for evolution would appear to suffect that short legged people, when confronted with a wall would, by the power of pixi dust, sudernly develope the genes for long legs.
Last count Microsoft have. WinCE.net windows 2003, windows XP, Windows Tablet PC edition, whatever there making for the military and whatever the XBox runs.
So saying 'Microsoft's Operating System' is like saying 'The OSS communities OS' and including Herd in there.
Typically M$ will try to pull off some Windows 2003 servers, windows XP desktops and Tablet PC's instead of laptops, maybe throwing in a few phones running WinCE.net.
Hmm.. I seem to remember watching documentries and the like that treated evolution as a process that could be 'changed by will', e.g. they would say things like bacteria evolved into a super bug and has become resistant to....
When what they really meant was.
The bacteria was already resistant to xyz, we just happened to kill of all the ones that weren't so were left with superbugs.
I know bacteria share generic information, but to say that they 'develope' resistance is like saying your child will no the names of all your friends when it is born.
Here you are again, stating that in real life everything is finite.
Lets try another experiment for you, you can manage a bit of calculus, where infinite no more an abstraction than mu is, mu being the most finite thing you can have (or possibly smaller that finite).
Imagine a circle, got that. Now imagine travailing along that circle, you could walk for an infinite amount of time but never reach the end, but at the same time the circle is finite.
This is an infinite chain of events in a finite system.
Here's another go. Take a laser, point it up into the sky, when does the light stop? Does God eat it all? or does it keep going forever?
To assume the existence of God is to assume that if you keep walking around in circles you will eventually find the end, or if you keep walking in a straight line you will reach the edge of the universe and have to stop.
This makes about as much sense as the people who thought the stars moved in relation to the earth and that the earth was flat.
Next time you start thinking that God is in there somewhere and that things aren't infinite, just try to imagine (as historically people who believe in God have) that if you kept walking around the earth eventually you will fall off of the edge.
Now I view your opinions on God just as most people view people who thought that the earth was flats ideas about God.
In my opinion the system is a harmonious feedback system, so it doesn't have an 'end' so to speak of. It's bit like seeing a poll balanced on one end and asking, what's keeping that poll balanced like that. God isn't holding it up there!
Now I can clearly see (seeing as you cannot grasp the possibilities of infinite) that you will probably have problems coming to terms with reaction forces, where there is no cause and effect so to speak it's just a case of balance, Einstein had problems with it too.
Now just because a unified theory doesn't exist it doesn't prove that God exists, and when one does there will still be constants, and you will probably be arguing that they are God.
The thing is that we've measured those constants, so in effect they are a product of man, this again is the reaction force in action, those constants are no more God than you are.
I hope this helps to clarify why I believe that everyone who believes in God is naive and misguided and should be helped out. It's also strange to note that most communist countries are hard line atheists, purely because stupid ideas like God spread to the gullible, and it's the easily lead people in society that cause most of the problems.
This is not to say that I don't believe that we shouldn't repsect and selflessness to other people and things, but sadly this is the one good thing in the Christian religion that is often passed of as being a load of crap in favoiur of personal rights and selfisness. Christianty would be good, if only they dropped that God shit.
Firstly you are assuming, and yes that definatly is the correct word, that if you don't know how something works then it must be God. This is the most George bush approach to the world I've ever come accross, if somethings hurts you but you can't expalin it is it Evil, or do you pop down the doctors?
Anyhow I'm going to prove that you are talking shit.
Now think of something that people didn't know about, say bacteria.
Because those people didn't know about bacteria and we do, does that mean that God used to exist in the form of Bacteria but now doesn't?
This has been the case for everything in the past that we canot prove, i.e. when it ws proven it definatly wasn't God. So based on all past experiances, and given that if you parents didn't tell you about God you probably wouldn't have thoght about it, everything that I cannot prove is proveable and is not God.
So again I say Mu, Cowboy Neil, you question is incorrect.
Well, having to think in a slightly different way can be good, but it can also cause problems when the world around you is made easier for people who think in a certain way.
e.g. I'm dyslexic amounghst other things and this means that I don't see or process words in the same way that a non-dyslexic does, esencially I'm more visuial so words become patterns which arn't necessasarly in the same order as written.
This is really handy for reading between the lines, coding, finding bugs, general research work, but it's a pain when I have to write things down or read things, and since most documentation is in the form of books designed by non-visual people it can be a dissadvantage.
It's 3am. Shit, the server's doing some weird shit. Where that support contract? What you just downloaded it and instelled it well I'm going to pay you the standard support call cost and you'd better come round and sort the fucking thing out then.
TCO Just went through the roof.
True most small companies don't want to fork out for support, the medium ones can't afford full time support staff but the bigger ones always seem to outsource (supporting PC's ain't our business!).
Not to flame but, like, that's possibly the weirdest interpretation of God that I've even come accross. God=the Creator, fair enough. God=Quantum uncertanty, plausable. God=The big bang and that's it God=Everything. God=Picks and chooses what happens to us in our everyday life, compleatly against everything that I know! (well maybe I just don't know God), I know in the bible that Satan sat on one side and The Angel gabrail on the other, and the whole if you left eye causes you to sin then pluck it out stuff, but I'm sorry to break it to you, that holds about as much water as santa's non existant flying raindear, or the tooth fairys pixie dust.
Back on topic.
a 'leftie' may have s slight dissadvantage since it's that part of the brain that controls motor skills that also controls left handedness, it could be that they have to think in a slightly different way inorder to do things (especailly when trying to un-cork a bottle or use scissors!)
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Nice one, you spotted that I used the word American and Indian in the same post without mentioning genocide or the 'Apachie' hellicopter, as used in Iraq and Afganastan for 'crowed controle'
Does this little AC work for Nike, the NRA the Black Panthers or something?
Ok, sorry to break it too you like this but. a water-cooled computer works by physicly forcing the heat away from the processor and only works because water is a pisspoor conductor of heat.
If water was a good conductor of heat... 1: a wet suit wouldn't work. 2: your hands would drop off in the winter (your water!) 3:It wouldn't taks such a long time to make ice cubes. 4:Currents in the sea wouldn't happen. 5:There would be so many clouds or rain.
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no, a true socialists would bemoaning the high wages cost of living in western countries.
Look what capatilism's done, it's made everything stupidly fucking expensive!!!
Everyones opinion's coloured, that's why it's an opinion. At least he has referenced 'out society's class structure' instead of pretending it doesn't exist, or anyone who cares is so lowly as to not matter.
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Then blacks get equal rights, What next, outsourcing work instead of starting up sweat shops. Soon they'll even be regsersting patents and stopping Americans from inventing things.
You've got to be joking, what's happening is the rest of the world that's been used as a sweat shop for the past 40years is just starting to catch up and probably helped keep the markets high over the last 10ish years.
Expect things to start costing a lot more in the future.
The UK's done really well on this one, we don't product any food, most of our manufacturings offsured etc.. This has helped keep inflation down (cheap imports) with the added benifit of reducing local CO2 and CH4 emmissions.
Other great plans included the steady reduction of taxes over the past 20years, resulting in no-one having a pension, poor dental care and housing being almost unaffordable (that's where the pension money went then!).
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It could be twice the price, say maybe 10cents per unit, retail $20.
hell they only loose a coupld of cents.
So how do i do backups again?
Yes, but there have to be long legged people to start with, which is my argument, not that bacteria transfer genes, resitance isn't so much developed as passed on.
Ditch you portable collection and get connected.
Soon you'll be able to say, store all you music at home (or on someone elses server if Microsoft, Aol or whoever get there way), and pick it up in you car, on your 'walkman alike', at work, or just in the living room.
Say a reasonably compressed song ways in at 3MB and lasts 6mins you should be able to get that down in real time with a 100bps pipe, WIFI can easly cope with that, and 3G should be able to provide.
Now all we have to do is outlaw DRM becuse it effectivly extends copyright indefinatly(or until the DRM is cracked) breaking one of the building blocks of society, public domain works.
Se, your talking relativity, which is good on a macro scale, but falls appart on a micro scale.
Try this....
Take a lazer.
pass it through something that stops so much light that you know only 1 or 2 photons a second are comming out of the other end.
take some card with two slits in it.
point the lazer in the direction of the two slits.
put some photographic paper on the other side.
Wait for a long time.
Develope the photographic paper, you'll see a defraction pattern.
Now ask you self, how did I manage to get an interferace pattern unless the light somehow split up, went through both slits, interfeared with itself and then condensed at a single point on the paper?
Maybe God's just fucking with our heads!
Anyhow, after a long descussion last night "we've" come to the conclusion that people are allowed to believe in Gods but not a single God, because when you beleive in Gods you can ballence things out and learn to live in a mixed socioety, when you have a single God you get the concept of good and evil, right and wrong, us and them.
So from now on my argument is,
God does not exist, by the proof that nothing requires the existance of God to explain.
If you still think that there's a God then there are lots of other things that require 'God' to explain them and there all different, in which case there are many Gods.
That was not my argument, I know that bacteria swap dna. my argument was this.
If you are walking along and come accross a brick wall you don't suddernly develop the genes for extra long legs, but if you already had those genes you could cross the wall.
If the wall caused 90% of all short legged people to die then there would be more long legged people.
If long-legged people whet on to mix there genetics with other people then next time the wall came there a far larger percentage of the population would survive.
Many references for evolution would appear to suffect that short legged people, when confronted with a wall would, by the power of pixi dust, sudernly develope the genes for long legs.
They invented the secutary.
Hell, I bet there are some top executives out there who haven't written a single word for ages.
You soo wrong, it's amost like your trolling.
Of X ' it is THE way to interface programs to your video card'
This is a bag-o-shite.
1: DRI, compleatly by-passes X and a lot of apps run that way.
2: FrameBuffer, no need for X.
3: What's all that text that come up during boot process if it's not provided by the kernel.
X is not how you 'interface to the video card' no more than VNC is.
Last count Microsoft have.
WinCE.net windows 2003, windows XP, Windows Tablet PC edition, whatever there making for the military and whatever the XBox runs.
So saying 'Microsoft's Operating System' is like saying 'The OSS communities OS' and including Herd in there.
Typically M$ will try to pull off some Windows 2003 servers, windows XP desktops and Tablet PC's instead of laptops, maybe throwing in a few phones running WinCE.net.
Hmm..
I seem to remember watching documentries and the like that treated evolution as a process that could be 'changed by will',
e.g. they would say things like bacteria evolved into a super bug and has become resistant to....
When what they really meant was.
The bacteria was already resistant to xyz, we just happened to kill of all the ones that weren't so were left with superbugs.
I know bacteria share generic information, but to say that they 'develope' resistance is like saying your child will no the names of all your friends when it is born.
Here you are again, stating that in real life everything is finite.
Lets try another experiment for you, you can manage a bit of calculus, where infinite no more an abstraction than mu is, mu being the most finite thing you can have (or possibly smaller that finite).
Imagine a circle, got that. Now imagine travailing along that circle, you could walk for an infinite amount of time but never reach the end, but at the same time the circle is finite.
This is an infinite chain of events in a finite system.
Here's another go.
Take a laser, point it up into the sky, when does the light stop?
Does God eat it all? or does it keep going forever?
To assume the existence of God is to assume that if you keep walking around in circles you will eventually find the end, or if you keep walking in a straight line you will reach the edge of the universe and have to stop.
This makes about as much sense as the people who thought the stars moved in relation to the earth and that the earth was flat.
Next time you start thinking that God is in there somewhere and that things aren't infinite, just try to imagine (as historically people who believe in God have) that if you kept walking around the earth eventually you will fall off of the edge.
Now I view your opinions on God just as most people view people who thought that the earth was flats ideas about God.
Where did YOU think "death from old age" came from?
People not smoking enough crack, try it and then try telling me who's God.
In my opinion the system is a harmonious feedback system, so it doesn't have an 'end' so to speak of.
It's bit like seeing a poll balanced on one end and asking, what's keeping that poll balanced like that.
God isn't holding it up there!
Now I can clearly see (seeing as you cannot grasp the possibilities of infinite) that you will probably have problems coming to terms with reaction forces, where there is no cause and effect so to speak it's just a case of balance, Einstein had problems with it too.
Now just because a unified theory doesn't exist it doesn't prove that God exists, and when one does there will still be constants, and you will probably be arguing that they are God.
The thing is that we've measured those constants, so in effect they are a product of man, this again is the reaction force in action, those constants are no more God than you are.
I hope this helps to clarify why I believe that everyone who believes in God is naive and misguided and should be helped out.
It's also strange to note that most communist countries are hard line atheists, purely because stupid ideas like God spread to the gullible, and it's the easily lead people in society that cause most of the problems.
This is not to say that I don't believe that we shouldn't repsect and selflessness to other people and things, but sadly this is the one good thing in the Christian religion that is often passed of as being a load of crap in favoiur of personal rights and selfisness. Christianty would be good, if only they dropped that God shit.
Mu, I say mu and cowboy neil to you.
Firstly you are assuming, and yes that definatly is the correct word, that if you don't know how something works then it must be God. This is the most George bush approach to the world I've ever come accross, if somethings hurts you but you can't expalin it is it Evil, or do you pop down the doctors?
Anyhow I'm going to prove that you are talking shit.
Now think of something that people didn't know about, say bacteria.
Because those people didn't know about bacteria and we do, does that mean that God used to exist in the form of Bacteria but now doesn't?
This has been the case for everything in the past that we canot prove, i.e. when it ws proven it definatly wasn't God.
So based on all past experiances, and given that if you parents didn't tell you about God you probably wouldn't have thoght about it, everything that I cannot prove is proveable and is not God.
So again I say Mu, Cowboy Neil, you question is incorrect.
Well, having to think in a slightly different way can be good, but it can also cause problems when the world around you is made easier for people who think in a certain way.
e.g. I'm dyslexic amounghst other things and this means that I don't see or process words in the same way that a non-dyslexic does, esencially I'm more visuial so words become patterns which arn't necessasarly in the same order as written.
This is really handy for reading between the lines, coding, finding bugs, general research work, but it's a pain when I have to write things down or read things, and since most documentation is in the form of books designed by non-visual people it can be a dissadvantage.
It's 3am.
Shit, the server's doing some weird shit. Where that support contract? What you just downloaded it and instelled it well I'm going to pay you the standard support call cost and you'd better come round and sort the fucking thing out then.
TCO Just went through the roof.
True most small companies don't want to fork out for support, the medium ones can't afford full time support staff but the bigger ones always seem to outsource (supporting PC's ain't our business!).
Not to flame but, like, that's possibly the weirdest interpretation of God that I've even come accross.
God=the Creator, fair enough.
God=Quantum uncertanty, plausable.
God=The big bang and that's it
God=Everything.
God=Picks and chooses what happens to us in our everyday life, compleatly against everything that I know! (well maybe I just don't know God), I know in the bible that Satan sat on one side and The Angel gabrail on the other, and the whole if you left eye causes you to sin then pluck it out stuff, but I'm sorry to break it to you, that holds about as much water as santa's non existant flying raindear, or the tooth fairys pixie dust.
Back on topic.
a 'leftie' may have s slight dissadvantage since it's that part of the brain that controls motor skills that also controls left handedness, it could be that they have to think in a slightly different way inorder to do things (especailly when trying to un-cork a bottle or use scissors!)
Nice one, you spotted that I used the word American and Indian in the same post without mentioning genocide or the 'Apachie' hellicopter, as used in Iraq and Afganastan for 'crowed controle'
Does this little AC work for Nike, the NRA the Black Panthers or something?
Ok, sorry to break it too you like this but.
a water-cooled computer works by physicly forcing the heat away from the processor and only works because water is a pisspoor conductor of heat.
If water was a good conductor of heat...
1: a wet suit wouldn't work.
2: your hands would drop off in the winter (your water!)
3:It wouldn't taks such a long time to make ice cubes.
4:Currents in the sea wouldn't happen.
5:There would be so many clouds or rain.
no, a true socialists would bemoaning the high wages cost of living in western countries.
Look what capatilism's done, it's made everything stupidly fucking expensive!!!
Being an out-and-out fascist?
Everyones opinion's coloured, that's why it's an opinion.
At least he has referenced 'out society's class structure' instead of pretending it doesn't exist, or anyone who cares is so lowly as to not matter.
Then blacks get equal rights,
What next, outsourcing work instead of starting up sweat shops. Soon they'll even be regsersting patents and stopping Americans from inventing things.
You've got to be joking, what's happening is the rest of the world that's been used as a sweat shop for the past 40years is just starting to catch up and probably helped keep the markets high over the last 10ish years.
Expect things to start costing a lot more in the future.
The UK's done really well on this one, we don't product any food, most of our manufacturings offsured etc.. This has helped keep inflation down (cheap imports) with the added benifit of reducing local CO2 and CH4 emmissions.
Other great plans included the steady reduction of taxes over the past 20years, resulting in no-one having a pension, poor dental care and housing being almost unaffordable (that's where the pension money went then!).
With the current cost of copper is costs more to make euro coins that there worth, unless you sell them on as copper.