If not, you're putting your faith in some research paper published in a sientific journal that eventually made it's way into your high school Physics text book.
And if I so chose, I could partake in the necessary education, then review the experiment results, themselves, and make a decision regarding their validity. Further, I could posit my own predictions, based on those theories and test them. Or I could propose my own theories, which generate their own predictions, and test those. This is precisely the *opposite* of faith, which, by definition, is unfalsifiable belief without evidence, and is exactly why science and religion are not equivalent.
But why is everyone here seemingly ready to believe that the religious leaders are doing the same?
Who said I was? Personally, I think religious leaders, for the most part, honestly believe their own bullshit. But that doesn't make those beliefs any more true, or testable, or falsifiable.
Believing that matter is composed of tiny particles called quarks, with odd names, and we can't see them, but they're there (and we can't know exactly where at any moment due to the uncertainty principle) sounds just as irrational.
Umm... we can see them, in that their presence is indicated through the results of experiments. What do you think all those scientists around the world are doing? Smashing particles together at extremely high velocities, then going to a kegger and amusing themselves with how they're pulling the wool over everyone's eyes?
But, good to see you have "faith" in sub-atomic particles. Though, somehow, I'm unsurprised that you've never endeavoured to understand the science behind their discovery.
moreover GBA was virtually completely replaced by DS in 2004, just 3.5 years after it was released in North America.
Buh? The DS isn't a replacement for the GBA. Nintendo has continually stated it's a "third pillar", and as such, should continue to exist and be supported. After all, last I checked, the GBA wasn't being discontinued any time soon, and games continue to be published for the platform.
Further, the release of revised handheld models has nothing at all to do with generational churn, so I don't even know why you brought that up.
If a particular piece of speech is shown scientifically to harm others
How does the existence of pornographic pictures harm anyone? Yes, the *production* of said photographs harms children, and that should be punished severely and without mercy, but the photos themselves are merely bits. To rail against them, instead of those who create the content in the first place, is simply treating the symptom rather than the problem itself, which, yes, makes people feel all warm and fuzzy, but does nothing to solve the problem.
By contrast, shouting fire in a theatre causes mass panic as a direct result. There is real harm there. Claiming this is at all the same as pornographic images of children is an entirely flawed argument, unless your claim is that the images incite molestation, and I've seen no studies supporting this position.
And before you make any claims about demand encouraging production, I would point out that, even with all the laws we currently have in place, demand has not waned. So, perhaps it's better to go after the suppliers in the first place.
Translation: if the price of protecting the right to free speech is to allow others to say things you dislike, then you'd rather do away with free speech.
Ah, I see. You support someone's right to freedom of speech, as long as they say what you want, at which point you'd like the opportunity to muzzle them. Gotcha.
Your English teach was an idiot. "An" is used before words with a vowal sound, to aid in pronounciation. "Eff" starts with a vowel sound, therefore F-A-Q (when pronounced) should be preceeded with "An".
Ahh, good point about subfolders, I forgot about that. I've never stored email in more than a one-level hierarchy, so I tend to forget that usage pattern.
UI's, however, can be fixed... then again, it's open source we're talking about.;)
I didn't say tags where useless but I like folders and I guess others feel the same.
I don't understand. Tags offer a proper superset of the functionality of folders. How can you like folders more than tags when tags enable you to do the exact same things, plus more?
The quoted text isn't there for *you*. Otherwise, you might as well just delete the quoted text and move on. After all, as you say, you don't need it. That text is for others if they should need to read the conversation later, in which case top posting is *really* frickin' annoying.
Buy a GBA and a flashcart. About $150 worth of gear, and you have a nice little embedded system with a really nice hardware layout (the ARM has a *wonderful* ISA), plenty of hardware emulators for debugging and so forth (including VBA, which allows you to connect gdb to it and debug an ELF ARM executable directly), and free devkits available.
Heck, you could just use the emulators, if you're cheap. But it is so much cooler to see "Hello World" pop up on your GBA.:)
You know all those club cards people sign up for? Not to mention the records of your credit card purchases and god knows what else? All that data is munged together by companies like Axiom and Experian, who use that data to create extremely details profiles about individuals, and then sell that data to marketing firms. And this has been going on for decades.
Seriously, anyone afraid of Google, today, simply hasn't been paying attention.
So you can't provide evidence. Fine, if you'd just admit that, we could all move on.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of evidence to show exit polls *do* work. Just look at past elections, and compare with the exit poll results. With very few exceptions (the Bush-Gore election being one of them), the match very nicely.
So, feel free to make all the arbitrary claims you want, but unfortunately, the facts simply don't support your position.
Actually, it's precisely an end-run. They're using one set of powers (to control certain purse strings) in order to manipulate powers granted to the states. Put another way, they're exercising what I see as a loop-hole in the constitution in order to perform actions that would otherwise be considered unconstitutional.
Oh, and BTW, civil rights issues would have eventually made it to the Supreme Court, and at that point, segregation and similar laws would have been struck down as unconstitutional. Yes, the feds accelerated the process, but it's still an example of the federal government sticking their nose in issues that are firmly in the jurisdiction of the states.
but I couldn't imagine how I could hold any sort of professional job and rely on public transportation
I think you mean "shitty public transportation". In cities where they actually take PT seriously, the buses run on time and they ensure the busy routes have enough buses to handle the load (and will adjust the schedules yearly to ensure optimum performance).
Unfortunately, it seems that the majority of PT systems in the US are exceedingly shitty.
Oh, and BTW, I don't live in a major city (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... maybe 900,000 residents), but I'm fortunate in that they do take PT seriously (the buses are on time to the minute, barring accidents, very bad weather, etc).
Simple. Because a couple of kids who were bullied and ostracized in school eventually snapped and, with the help of firearms, killed a good many people before taking their own lives.
See, before that happened, bullying was a largely ignored problem that everyone knew existed, but no one wanted to deal with, since it's a) and hard problem, and b) there didn't seem to be any consequences for *not* dealing with it.
But those two boys demonstrated, in dramatic, extremely misguided fashion, that there *are* consequences. It's just a shame that it took the death of so many innocent students for people to admit that, yes, bullying is a real problem that needs to be addressed.
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If not, you're putting your faith in some research paper published in a sientific journal that eventually made it's way into your high school Physics text book.
And if I so chose, I could partake in the necessary education, then review the experiment results, themselves, and make a decision regarding their validity. Further, I could posit my own predictions, based on those theories and test them. Or I could propose my own theories, which generate their own predictions, and test those. This is precisely the *opposite* of faith, which, by definition, is unfalsifiable belief without evidence, and is exactly why science and religion are not equivalent.
But why is everyone here seemingly ready to believe that the religious leaders are doing the same?
Who said I was? Personally, I think religious leaders, for the most part, honestly believe their own bullshit. But that doesn't make those beliefs any more true, or testable, or falsifiable.
Die, you socialist pinko commie! The free market solves ALL!
Believing that matter is composed of tiny particles called quarks, with odd names, and we can't see them, but they're there (and we can't know exactly where at any moment due to the uncertainty principle) sounds just as irrational.
Umm... we can see them, in that their presence is indicated through the results of experiments. What do you think all those scientists around the world are doing? Smashing particles together at extremely high velocities, then going to a kegger and amusing themselves with how they're pulling the wool over everyone's eyes?
But, good to see you have "faith" in sub-atomic particles. Though, somehow, I'm unsurprised that you've never endeavoured to understand the science behind their discovery.
Nah, that's just people hiding behind a veil of digital anonymity.
Or, to put it another way, this is just another example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
moreover GBA was virtually completely replaced by DS in 2004, just 3.5 years after it was released in North America.
Buh? The DS isn't a replacement for the GBA. Nintendo has continually stated it's a "third pillar", and as such, should continue to exist and be supported. After all, last I checked, the GBA wasn't being discontinued any time soon, and games continue to be published for the platform.
Further, the release of revised handheld models has nothing at all to do with generational churn, so I don't even know why you brought that up.
Sorry, my second last sentence should read "production has not waned".
If a particular piece of speech is shown scientifically to harm others
How does the existence of pornographic pictures harm anyone? Yes, the *production* of said photographs harms children, and that should be punished severely and without mercy, but the photos themselves are merely bits. To rail against them, instead of those who create the content in the first place, is simply treating the symptom rather than the problem itself, which, yes, makes people feel all warm and fuzzy, but does nothing to solve the problem.
By contrast, shouting fire in a theatre causes mass panic as a direct result. There is real harm there. Claiming this is at all the same as pornographic images of children is an entirely flawed argument, unless your claim is that the images incite molestation, and I've seen no studies supporting this position.
And before you make any claims about demand encouraging production, I would point out that, even with all the laws we currently have in place, demand has not waned. So, perhaps it's better to go after the suppliers in the first place.
It was clear to me which 80% of the time spent in a classroom was pure garbage and I decided to make better use of the time.
And that's why you didn't do your homework?
Translation: if the price of protecting the right to free speech is to allow others to say things you dislike, then you'd rather do away with free speech.
How very enlightened of you.
Ah, I see. You support someone's right to freedom of speech, as long as they say what you want, at which point you'd like the opportunity to muzzle them. Gotcha.
Your English teach was an idiot. "An" is used before words with a vowal sound, to aid in pronounciation. "Eff" starts with a vowel sound, therefore F-A-Q (when pronounced) should be preceeded with "An".
And what if it is? The Pine Beetle is destroying arboreal forests specifically because warmer winters allow them to thrive.
While blaming everything on global warming is stupid, taking the opposite position that global warming is harmless is equally, if not more stupid.
Because the VP is a republican. Therefore, any criticism or suggestion of wrongdoing by Cheney is partisan. See? It's so simple!
Ahh, good point about subfolders, I forgot about that. I've never stored email in more than a one-level hierarchy, so I tend to forget that usage pattern.
;)
UI's, however, can be fixed... then again, it's open source we're talking about.
And if you can afford to own a car, you can afford to own a PS3.
Ummm... you *are* joking, right? You can't possibly believe that. No one could believe something that inane. Or, so I would hope...
Err.. probably. I haven't actually read anything that says they'll share runtimes, but I think they do.
:)
Why would they bother, otherwise? Isn't this precisely the point of XULRunner?
I didn't say tags where useless but I like folders and I guess others feel the same.
I don't understand. Tags offer a proper superset of the functionality of folders. How can you like folders more than tags when tags enable you to do the exact same things, plus more?
The quoted text isn't there for *you*. Otherwise, you might as well just delete the quoted text and move on. After all, as you say, you don't need it. That text is for others if they should need to read the conversation later, in which case top posting is *really* frickin' annoying.
Buy a GBA and a flashcart. About $150 worth of gear, and you have a nice little embedded system with a really nice hardware layout (the ARM has a *wonderful* ISA), plenty of hardware emulators for debugging and so forth (including VBA, which allows you to connect gdb to it and debug an ELF ARM executable directly), and free devkits available.
:)
Heck, you could just use the emulators, if you're cheap. But it is so much cooler to see "Hello World" pop up on your GBA.
You know all those club cards people sign up for? Not to mention the records of your credit card purchases and god knows what else? All that data is munged together by companies like Axiom and Experian, who use that data to create extremely details profiles about individuals, and then sell that data to marketing firms. And this has been going on for decades.
Seriously, anyone afraid of Google, today, simply hasn't been paying attention.
So you can't provide evidence. Fine, if you'd just admit that, we could all move on.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of evidence to show exit polls *do* work. Just look at past elections, and compare with the exit poll results. With very few exceptions (the Bush-Gore election being one of them), the match very nicely.
So, feel free to make all the arbitrary claims you want, but unfortunately, the facts simply don't support your position.
as a man who's been divorced
Uhuh. And we're supposed to take your views on marriage seriously?
Actually, it's precisely an end-run. They're using one set of powers (to control certain purse strings) in order to manipulate powers granted to the states. Put another way, they're exercising what I see as a loop-hole in the constitution in order to perform actions that would otherwise be considered unconstitutional.
Oh, and BTW, civil rights issues would have eventually made it to the Supreme Court, and at that point, segregation and similar laws would have been struck down as unconstitutional. Yes, the feds accelerated the process, but it's still an example of the federal government sticking their nose in issues that are firmly in the jurisdiction of the states.
but I couldn't imagine how I could hold any sort of professional job and rely on public transportation
I think you mean "shitty public transportation". In cities where they actually take PT seriously, the buses run on time and they ensure the busy routes have enough buses to handle the load (and will adjust the schedules yearly to ensure optimum performance).
Unfortunately, it seems that the majority of PT systems in the US are exceedingly shitty.
Oh, and BTW, I don't live in a major city (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... maybe 900,000 residents), but I'm fortunate in that they do take PT seriously (the buses are on time to the minute, barring accidents, very bad weather, etc).
Why all of a sudden a reaction?
Simple. Because a couple of kids who were bullied and ostracized in school eventually snapped and, with the help of firearms, killed a good many people before taking their own lives.
See, before that happened, bullying was a largely ignored problem that everyone knew existed, but no one wanted to deal with, since it's a) and hard problem, and b) there didn't seem to be any consequences for *not* dealing with it.
But those two boys demonstrated, in dramatic, extremely misguided fashion, that there *are* consequences. It's just a shame that it took the death of so many innocent students for people to admit that, yes, bullying is a real problem that needs to be addressed.