The likelyhood of Unicorns existing (or having existed) is not affected by lack of evidence. They either exist(ed) or don't(didn't) exist. It's all or nothing.
, it can only be strengthened by failing to falsify it.
Failing to falsify does not strengthen an argument. For example, prove that Unicorns don't exist. Nothing you can present will prove that they don't exist, therefor they must exist!
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Considering how much evil has been done in the name of 'God' because of the bible, how do you know that 'The Devil' didn't write it, but claimed that 'God' did?
So while everyone rah-rahs about freedom and intellectual property and all that, money goes into Napster's pockets.
Exactly where is Napster getting it's money? Napster is free to download, there is no advertising (that I've noticed), you don't neet to visit their web pages to use Napster, and their is no cost to sign up and use the service.
I used to do support for Delta Airlines and we billed them hourly. You started the clock when the pager went off. If it required an on site visit, the clock didn't stop till you arrived home. All calls were billed at a minimum of 1 hour.
And your processor would be the equivalent of a 1.1 Ghz machine overclocked to 5.19 Nhz (1 Nhz = 1 nonillion hz [american] (1 quintillion hz british)(For those that don't know the number system that high, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hz) (See here if you want to know more about the names of numbers).
Outside the dorm in school, their were trees with some kind of berries on them. After they would fall and start to rot, the birds would eat them, then not be able to fly, being so drunk.
I also heard that cocaine was discovered by watching animals eating the plant, and noticing that they seemed more active afterwards.
Reference: DeJong, W. A Short Term Evaluation of Project DARE (Drug
Abuse Resistance Education): Preliminary Indications of
Effectiveness. J. Drug Education, 17, 279-294 (1987).
Found no significant differences in knowledge and attitudes
about ATOD use between DARE and non-DARE students.
---------------------------
Long Beach California DARE evaluation 1989
Reference: Becker H. and Agopian M. J. Drug Education, 22, 283-291
(1992).
Found no difference among DARE and non-DARE students on ATOD
use. ---------------------------
Reference: Harmon M. Results from a DARE Study Conducted in
Charleston, South Carolina. Institute of Criminal Justice and
Criminology, University of Maryland, 1991.
DARE students were equally likely to use tobacco and other drugs
as compared to non-DARE students.
---------------------------
Reference: DARE in Kentucky Schools 1988-1989. An Evaluation of the
Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program. Faine, J. and Bohlander E.
(1989).
DARE students were actually had lower resistance to peer
pressure to alcohol/drug use than non-DARE students (the opposite
of expected direction).
---------------------------
Second Year Evaluation of DARE in Illinois. Rosenbaum,
D. et al. University of Illinois, 1991.
DARE did not reduce adolescents' alcohol use.
---------------------------
Past and Future Directions of the D.A.R.E. Program (Study done by RTP, see here for the full report)
limited to esentially nonexistent effect on drug use.
---------------------------
The U.S. General Accounting Office reported, "There is little evidence so far that [D.A.R.E. and other "resistance training" programs] have reduced the use of drugs by adolescents" (U.S. GAO/GGD-93-82, "Confronting the Drug Problem," page 25).
---------------------------
For full information about DARE, see A Different Look At DARE
Enough citations for you? Let's see some studies that show DARE is working. Ones not funded by DARE, of course.
As for the "Pro-Drug culture", we are not pro-drugs, we are pro-freedom. You remind me of the anti-abortion people saying that the pro-choice side is pro-abortion.
I've had BellSouth DLS for about a year, and the only problems I've had is temporary outages (1-2 hours) about every 2 months. Bandwidth is good (1.5Mbps down, 256Kbps up).
Installation took a while because they had to rewire the whole house (I knew there was a reason I paid for the inside wiring insurance).
I think harsh penalties -- perhaps harsher than any individual crime may call for -- are sometimes necessary to bring under control a problem that's really widespread.
Do some research before you fix your mind in this state. Murder carries the harshest of penalties, and numerous studies have shown that the death penalty is not a deterent.
If you want to keep them from commiting a crime, the chance that you are caught doing it has to be very great.
What other country has delivered the freedoms and benefits that America has?
Freedoms such as having 25% of the worlds prisoners, but only 5% of the world population. Putting people in prison for concentual crimes (sex, drugs) while letting murders, rapists, and other violent offenders out.
Benefits such as having one of the highest murder rates. A low literacy rate. Children without medical care. High teen pregnancy rate.
Ah yes, I can see why you would say we are the best of humanity.
The jury found that Microsoft violated the law. Then they determined the injury to Bristol based on Microsoft violating the law, and decided that the injury was non-existant, but they have to award at least $1, so they did. Very similar to what happened to the World Football League when they sued the NFL on three counts of anti-trust violations. The won all three, and were awarded $1 for each violation ($3 total for the math impaired). The WFL closed their doors right after this.
This puts McDonalds in the same category as the tobacco companies
I love it when people bring up brain dead analogies like this one. The tobacco companies knew that using their product *in the proper way*, i.e. smoking it, was hazardous to your health. McDonalds was sued for using their product *in the wrong way*, i.e. pouring it on your lap. There is a vast difference between the two cases.
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IE and Netscape have plenty of smarts, and are actual programs that are running on the client. Also, a dumb terminal program is different than a dumb terminal.
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The likelyhood of Unicorns existing (or having existed) is not affected by lack of evidence. They either exist(ed) or don't(didn't) exist. It's all or nothing.
, it can only be strengthened by failing to falsify it.
Failing to falsify does not strengthen an argument. For example, prove that Unicorns don't exist. Nothing you can present will prove that they don't exist, therefor they must exist!
I'm up here in Minot, ND
You just want an excuse to get out of Minot.
Considering how much evil has been done in the name of 'God' because of the bible, how do you know that 'The Devil' didn't write it, but claimed that 'God' did?
I view anything that can kill you the first time you try it as worthy of being banned
Such as driving, parachuting, bungie jumping, etc. We must stop people from doing things that could kill them.
and anything that can cause you to lose control (i.e. flashbacks) as requiring a tatoo on your forehead saying so
Like war, any traumatic experience, or emotions. People must be converted to bland morons with only one thought - CONSUME!
So while everyone rah-rahs about freedom and intellectual property and all that, money goes into Napster's pockets.
Exactly where is Napster getting it's money? Napster is free to download, there is no advertising (that I've noticed), you don't neet to visit their web pages to use Napster, and their is no cost to sign up and use the service.
I used to do support for Delta Airlines and we billed them hourly. You started the clock when the pager went off. If it required an on site visit, the clock didn't stop till you arrived home. All calls were billed at a minimum of 1 hour.
What is your stance on the War On Drugs, and how do you reconcile this with your own previous illegal drug experience?
Three things:
1. There are two choices for the Pro-Choice side: Abort or Not Abort. There is no choice for the Anti-Abortion side.
2. Homicide is the killing of a human being. A fetus is just a potential human being.
3. You totally ignored the references I gave you, which I will take as a victory for my side.
And your processor would be the equivalent of a 1.1 Ghz machine overclocked to 5.19 Nhz (1 Nhz = 1 nonillion hz [american] (1 quintillion hz british)(For those that don't know the number system that high, that is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 hz) (See here if you want to know more about the names of numbers).
The question to ask is: Will it run Quake?
True, but public keys for RSA tend to be in the 2048+ bit range, not the 256 bit the other poster was talking about.
Outside the dorm in school, their were trees with some kind of berries on them. After they would fall and start to rot, the birds would eat them, then not be able to fly, being so drunk.
I also heard that cocaine was discovered by watching animals eating the plant, and noticing that they seemed more active afterwards.
Reference: DeJong, W. A Short Term Evaluation of Project DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education): Preliminary Indications of Effectiveness. J. Drug Education, 17, 279-294 (1987).
Found no significant differences in knowledge and attitudes about ATOD use between DARE and non-DARE students.
---------------------------
Long Beach California DARE evaluation 1989
Reference: Becker H. and Agopian M. J. Drug Education, 22, 283-291 (1992).
Found no difference among DARE and non-DARE students on ATOD use.
---------------------------
Reference: Harmon M. Results from a DARE Study Conducted in Charleston, South Carolina. Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Maryland, 1991.
DARE students were equally likely to use tobacco and other drugs as compared to non-DARE students.
---------------------------
Reference: DARE in Kentucky Schools 1988-1989. An Evaluation of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program. Faine, J. and Bohlander E. (1989).
DARE students were actually had lower resistance to peer pressure to alcohol/drug use than non-DARE students (the opposite of expected direction).
---------------------------
Second Year Evaluation of DARE in Illinois. Rosenbaum, D. et al. University of Illinois, 1991.
DARE did not reduce adolescents' alcohol use.
---------------------------
Past and Future Directions of the D.A.R.E. Program
(Study done by RTP, see here for the full report)
limited to esentially nonexistent effect on drug use.
---------------------------
The U.S. General Accounting Office reported, "There is little evidence so far that [D.A.R.E. and other "resistance training" programs] have reduced the use of drugs by adolescents" (U.S. GAO/GGD-93-82, "Confronting the Drug Problem," page 25).
---------------------------
For full information about DARE, see A Different Look At DARE
Enough citations for you? Let's see some studies that show DARE is working. Ones not funded by DARE, of course.
As for the "Pro-Drug culture", we are not pro-drugs, we are pro-freedom. You remind me of the anti-abortion people saying that the pro-choice side is pro-abortion.
I'll wait for the Audrey II, since it will be a mean green mother from outerspace!
I've had BellSouth DLS for about a year, and the only problems I've had is temporary outages (1-2 hours) about every 2 months. Bandwidth is good (1.5Mbps down, 256Kbps up).
Installation took a while because they had to rewire the whole house (I knew there was a reason I paid for the inside wiring insurance).
Looks like you have been trolled.
I think harsh penalties -- perhaps harsher than any individual crime may call for -- are sometimes necessary to bring under control a problem that's really widespread.
Do some research before you fix your mind in this state. Murder carries the harshest of penalties, and numerous studies have shown that the death penalty is not a deterent.
If you want to keep them from commiting a crime, the chance that you are caught doing it has to be very great.
But how many MP3s can you really hold? It says 10 hours, but at what quality?
According to their website:
Holds 64MB of state-of-the-art digital audio (That's a little over an hour*)
* Using standard 128 kbps
see here. The 10 hour thing is a misprint (or they think you want to listen to music recorded at 12.8 kbps).
What other country has delivered the freedoms and benefits that America has?
Freedoms such as having 25% of the worlds prisoners, but only 5% of the world population. Putting people in prison for concentual crimes (sex, drugs) while letting murders, rapists, and other violent offenders out.
Benefits such as having one of the highest murder rates. A low literacy rate. Children without medical care. High teen pregnancy rate.
Ah yes, I can see why you would say we are the best of humanity.
The jury found that Microsoft violated the law. Then they determined the injury to Bristol based on Microsoft violating the law, and decided that the injury was non-existant, but they have to award at least $1, so they did. Very similar to what happened to the World Football League when they sued the NFL on three counts of anti-trust violations. The won all three, and were awarded $1 for each violation ($3 total for the math impaired). The WFL closed their doors right after this.
This puts McDonalds in the same category as the tobacco companies
I love it when people bring up brain dead analogies like this one. The tobacco companies knew that using their product *in the proper way*, i.e. smoking it, was hazardous to your health. McDonalds was sued for using their product *in the wrong way*, i.e. pouring it on your lap. There is a vast difference between the two cases.
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IE and Netscape have plenty of smarts, and are actual programs that are running on the client. Also, a dumb terminal program is different than a dumb terminal.
Nope, PC based, Unisys 1100 for the COBOL part (and the database).
A dumb terminal front end does not a 3-tier application make. There must be some smarts to the client.