No, I haven't. All I use are computers built sufficiently for the game I'm playing. If I have to run a more intense game that's dropping to lower framerates, I get a better graphics card. If a game starts dropping frames on a console I...wait, what do I do? Oh yeah, nothing.
Anyone who thinks partnering with Dell is a good idea is clueless and stuck in the 90's. These days if your product is sold by Dell, it's automatically labeled overpriced and under performing junk that will break very quickly. You know, like all Dell printers, monitors, PCs, and laptops, and basically everything else they sell. Even the Dell brand laptop bags fall apart.
So Christians say evolution shouldn't be taught as fact because it has holes in it large enough to drive a school bus through while the Christian story is airtight from a logical perspective, though unprovable. Evolutionists want to teach evolution because they don't like religion. People who think the universe is a giant simulation or doesn't actually exist and we're just energy get shut down because people think it's weird and unpopular despite science strongly supporting their idea as well.
Which of the 3 has more basis in logic and science? Evolution clearly takes third place, that much is certain. That's why multiple theories need to be taught.
Damn right. People use "I don't like religion" as solid evidence for evolution when making up their mind. Instead, they should look at how a male of an animal creates one sexual trait and magically finds in the same generation a female with a matching but opposite sexual mutation. Because without that, it falls apart. An unbelievably over-simplified example is a peacock suddenly has colored tail feathers. The female suddenly is attracted to that. One's a physical trait involving features, the other is a mental trait involving a gene that handles brain development. If only one happened in a generation, the mutant would die out because predators would eat the brightly colored one who moves slower due to gigantic tail feathers.
That's a terrible and inaccurate example but it was supposed to illustrate the idea. Fish suddenly lay eggs an the male mutates at the same time to know to fertilize them remotely? Yeah right. Codependent gender sexual traits are unexplainable by science and we're teaching it as fact. There's actually more logical evidence and less holes in the theory at the universe is a giant simulation.
It's almost like you have no idea what the Bible really says or where those lines are from. It's almost like you're just spewing out someone else's incorrect bullshit without knowing anything Christianity. It's almost as if you're mixing the old testament and new testament and I'm pretty sure Christianity had something important that changed things in between the two...hmmm...
Oh that's interesting. When did scientists prove without a doubt that the universe isn't a simulation and examined all matter and energy in existence and all dimensions, simultaneously disproving higher intelligence and God as existing? You'd think slashdot would have have covered that story.
Until those are true, evolution is simply a short-sighted theory that explains one possibility of our existence and creation and it doesn't even reach past 3 dimensional physical physics. You'd thin by 2014 we'd be past that. We've created antimatter, time dilation effects, anticipated multiple alternate dimensions, etc and people still pick up a fossil and say "nope, this must be the sole explanation."
At least someone other than me noticed and pointed that out. But you know everyone on any side of this argument is extremely prejudiced and short-sighted due to pre-existing beliefs. See the very next root topic down for why people really ought to expand their thinking to consider all possible theories.
85-92% of people think evolutionists are wrong depending on how you measure it since every religion in the world disagrees with it. So to teach one theory beside another theory is just fine with me. There's no solid, indisputable proof that evolution occurred. There is only apparent evidence that the universe is a simulation or hologram. There is perfectly logical evidence that a superior intelligence created everything as well so like I said, all theories are theories and are backed by real evidence.
In case that last one confuses you, let's say Jesus makes water into wine. Scientists study the wine and determine the only way it could have been brought into being is growing grapes and fermenting them. Carbon dating and 100% of all other blatant evidence proves it yet in reality it was created instantly out of nowhere to have the appearance of being older than it was. The same applies to the Earth. So if any religion says a deity created Earth, then fossils and stuff were created on the fly as well.
Why? Well, in Christianity, the main religion in the US, the explanation is that God isn't allowed to show up in the sky and scream that he's real. It has to be taken on faith or it'd be unfair as an "open competition" according to the original terms and conditions with Satan after the Adam and Eve apple incident. So if we had indisputable evidence that the Earth was only 7000 years old because life came out of nowhere, that would break the rules. So he created fake fossils. It's a lot simpler with Buddhists. Everything doesn't actually exist in the first place, lol. It's hard to prove or disprove that but some science supports it.
So like I said, all 3 of those theories (evolution, Christian, computer simulation) are all equally unproven but with actual evidence behind them. So why teach just one? If you're truly open minded and examine all the actual evidence, a true scientist would suggest teaching every valid theory. Anyone who picks up a fossil and calls it the end-all evidence just because they're touching it clearly hasn't expanding their thinking enough to examine the true nature of physics and matter and space and reality. Similarly, "I don't religion" isn't a valid reason for teaching evolution.
The idea that a game would drop below 60 FPS on hardware that developers know about ahead of time makes my head want to explode. Yet, I saw a game stutter to about 10 FPS on the new Xbox One at my friend's house. Like I need one more reason to reinforce the fact that PC gaming is the superior type of gaming.
Really? Because I've seen a hostorical pattern of anything made in China being low quality crap that breaks instantly because all their engineering and technology is stolen, second-rate crap. I would put money on poor engineering or stolen technology not working properly being behind this one.
You forget that our current technology is woefully inadequate at totaling up all visible (and mostly invisible) matter in our galaxy. The ratio of dark matter isn't alleged to be like 10000000000:1, it's only like 9:1 or something like that. That's within the margin of simply counting visible mass incorrectly.
I think you're on the right track there. What's more likely? Magical undetectable matter to explain a math flaw OR that we're wrong about how gravity really affects space and/or counted the amount of matter in the entire universe wrong and keep in mind, they just found out they were wrong for decades about one of our own solar system's planets' atmosphere contents. If they can't properly detect molecules that close, good luck estimating total mass from visible light at variable time delays, some 10 billion years out of date.
This is why the theory is ridiculous. Matter isn't sitting outside the singularity yet just inside the event horizon. So if the boundary moves, none of the mass falls out unless it just then at that moment was getting sucked in and hadn't reached the singularity yet. If the boundary of the event horizon somehow magically shifted to include the singularity itself (or exclude, depending on how you think of it), KABOOOOOOM! Matter everywhere! And that hasn't been known to to happen. If anything other than that happens, information about matter inside the singularity is still gone.
There was already a decade-old or more theory that a particle entering the black hole will enter at even the slightest angle. That causes the hole to change spin just slightly in one direction due to the energy and mass of the incoming particle. The spin of the black hole can theoretically be reverse engineered with math to determine what particle mass and velocity fell into the black hole. The only problem is opposing particles creating a net spin change in one direction or the other. Technically for any given spin level, there is a 1 dimensional parabolic line of potential "answers" which may be allowable for preservation of information.
Saying the event horizon isn't a static and symmetrical line doesn't help the fact that if you go a short distance deeper past the potential area where the event horizon could occur, light still can't escape.
There is a third theory that if a singularity gets enough energy in one direction from a jet of particles, it can spin faster than the speed of light due to having a radius that's large enough to exist yet infinitely small (I know, headache-inducing) and at that point it would stop emitting gravity then transport itself to another location or turn into dark matter or break apart or inflate to a neutron star or turn into pure energy or shift into another dimension. Any of those solutions simply delay preservation of information instead of destroying it.
Unfortunately, the make and model of the generator itself had little to do with why it melted down. Their maintenance was crap. Their backup systems didn't work. They were too cheap to bury a landfill-style containment unit under the ground. Cheap and poorly run with lies about maintenance and safety = every asian company ever.
Well I work in IT and when I'm working on a website or software design, I do work faster when people shut up and leave me alone. Hurray, I have my own office.
I get it for patent trolls but if it's a legit ripoff of a patent of mine now I have to play P.I. and break into their office and interview people and steal papers and hide recording devices? Because otherwise good luck finding proof from a tightly locked down company giving you the runaround. They won't hand over so much as a blueprint without a court order.
If you're waiting for congress or the president to act, don't hold your breath...unless you can hold it for a few years because anyone who wants to run for congress or the president has 2 options. They can be against surveillance and obamacare or they can lose. The public will not vote for someone who has a differing opinion. They're both surprisingly not party line issues anymore.
Who lumped nuclear in there? As long as a nuclear plant has US standards for quality and testing instead of Japanese standards, we're all set. I do still prefer solar and wind but I wouldn't lump nuclear in with oil and gas since it doesn't produce CO2.
You're all missing the real solution. Live in a place with only 80,000 people. We have 3 of the same hardware store within 5 miles but basically no crime, no subways, no bus problems, no super corporations causing issues, no stuck up psychotic rich "activists," no smog, and almost no racism and racial separation by geography.
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No, I haven't. All I use are computers built sufficiently for the game I'm playing. If I have to run a more intense game that's dropping to lower framerates, I get a better graphics card. If a game starts dropping frames on a console I...wait, what do I do? Oh yeah, nothing.
Anyone who thinks partnering with Dell is a good idea is clueless and stuck in the 90's. These days if your product is sold by Dell, it's automatically labeled overpriced and under performing junk that will break very quickly. You know, like all Dell printers, monitors, PCs, and laptops, and basically everything else they sell. Even the Dell brand laptop bags fall apart.
So Christians say evolution shouldn't be taught as fact because it has holes in it large enough to drive a school bus through while the Christian story is airtight from a logical perspective, though unprovable. Evolutionists want to teach evolution because they don't like religion. People who think the universe is a giant simulation or doesn't actually exist and we're just energy get shut down because people think it's weird and unpopular despite science strongly supporting their idea as well. Which of the 3 has more basis in logic and science? Evolution clearly takes third place, that much is certain. That's why multiple theories need to be taught.
Damn right. People use "I don't like religion" as solid evidence for evolution when making up their mind. Instead, they should look at how a male of an animal creates one sexual trait and magically finds in the same generation a female with a matching but opposite sexual mutation. Because without that, it falls apart. An unbelievably over-simplified example is a peacock suddenly has colored tail feathers. The female suddenly is attracted to that. One's a physical trait involving features, the other is a mental trait involving a gene that handles brain development. If only one happened in a generation, the mutant would die out because predators would eat the brightly colored one who moves slower due to gigantic tail feathers.
That's a terrible and inaccurate example but it was supposed to illustrate the idea. Fish suddenly lay eggs an the male mutates at the same time to know to fertilize them remotely? Yeah right. Codependent gender sexual traits are unexplainable by science and we're teaching it as fact. There's actually more logical evidence and less holes in the theory at the universe is a giant simulation.
It's almost like you have no idea what the Bible really says or where those lines are from. It's almost like you're just spewing out someone else's incorrect bullshit without knowing anything Christianity. It's almost as if you're mixing the old testament and new testament and I'm pretty sure Christianity had something important that changed things in between the two...hmmm...
Oh that's interesting. When did scientists prove without a doubt that the universe isn't a simulation and examined all matter and energy in existence and all dimensions, simultaneously disproving higher intelligence and God as existing? You'd think slashdot would have have covered that story.
Until those are true, evolution is simply a short-sighted theory that explains one possibility of our existence and creation and it doesn't even reach past 3 dimensional physical physics. You'd thin by 2014 we'd be past that. We've created antimatter, time dilation effects, anticipated multiple alternate dimensions, etc and people still pick up a fossil and say "nope, this must be the sole explanation."
At least someone other than me noticed and pointed that out. But you know everyone on any side of this argument is extremely prejudiced and short-sighted due to pre-existing beliefs. See the very next root topic down for why people really ought to expand their thinking to consider all possible theories.
85-92% of people think evolutionists are wrong depending on how you measure it since every religion in the world disagrees with it. So to teach one theory beside another theory is just fine with me. There's no solid, indisputable proof that evolution occurred. There is only apparent evidence that the universe is a simulation or hologram. There is perfectly logical evidence that a superior intelligence created everything as well so like I said, all theories are theories and are backed by real evidence.
In case that last one confuses you, let's say Jesus makes water into wine. Scientists study the wine and determine the only way it could have been brought into being is growing grapes and fermenting them. Carbon dating and 100% of all other blatant evidence proves it yet in reality it was created instantly out of nowhere to have the appearance of being older than it was. The same applies to the Earth. So if any religion says a deity created Earth, then fossils and stuff were created on the fly as well.
Why? Well, in Christianity, the main religion in the US, the explanation is that God isn't allowed to show up in the sky and scream that he's real. It has to be taken on faith or it'd be unfair as an "open competition" according to the original terms and conditions with Satan after the Adam and Eve apple incident. So if we had indisputable evidence that the Earth was only 7000 years old because life came out of nowhere, that would break the rules. So he created fake fossils. It's a lot simpler with Buddhists. Everything doesn't actually exist in the first place, lol. It's hard to prove or disprove that but some science supports it.
So like I said, all 3 of those theories (evolution, Christian, computer simulation) are all equally unproven but with actual evidence behind them. So why teach just one? If you're truly open minded and examine all the actual evidence, a true scientist would suggest teaching every valid theory. Anyone who picks up a fossil and calls it the end-all evidence just because they're touching it clearly hasn't expanding their thinking enough to examine the true nature of physics and matter and space and reality. Similarly, "I don't religion" isn't a valid reason for teaching evolution.
The idea that a game would drop below 60 FPS on hardware that developers know about ahead of time makes my head want to explode. Yet, I saw a game stutter to about 10 FPS on the new Xbox One at my friend's house. Like I need one more reason to reinforce the fact that PC gaming is the superior type of gaming.
Really? Because I've seen a hostorical pattern of anything made in China being low quality crap that breaks instantly because all their engineering and technology is stolen, second-rate crap. I would put money on poor engineering or stolen technology not working properly being behind this one.
You forget that our current technology is woefully inadequate at totaling up all visible (and mostly invisible) matter in our galaxy. The ratio of dark matter isn't alleged to be like 10000000000:1, it's only like 9:1 or something like that. That's within the margin of simply counting visible mass incorrectly.
I think you're on the right track there. What's more likely? Magical undetectable matter to explain a math flaw OR that we're wrong about how gravity really affects space and/or counted the amount of matter in the entire universe wrong and keep in mind, they just found out they were wrong for decades about one of our own solar system's planets' atmosphere contents. If they can't properly detect molecules that close, good luck estimating total mass from visible light at variable time delays, some 10 billion years out of date.
This is why the theory is ridiculous. Matter isn't sitting outside the singularity yet just inside the event horizon. So if the boundary moves, none of the mass falls out unless it just then at that moment was getting sucked in and hadn't reached the singularity yet. If the boundary of the event horizon somehow magically shifted to include the singularity itself (or exclude, depending on how you think of it), KABOOOOOOM! Matter everywhere! And that hasn't been known to to happen. If anything other than that happens, information about matter inside the singularity is still gone.
Plus, the Genai (sp?) cruisers are known for their ability to safely escape black holes in that one anime series, lol.
There was already a decade-old or more theory that a particle entering the black hole will enter at even the slightest angle. That causes the hole to change spin just slightly in one direction due to the energy and mass of the incoming particle. The spin of the black hole can theoretically be reverse engineered with math to determine what particle mass and velocity fell into the black hole. The only problem is opposing particles creating a net spin change in one direction or the other. Technically for any given spin level, there is a 1 dimensional parabolic line of potential "answers" which may be allowable for preservation of information.
Saying the event horizon isn't a static and symmetrical line doesn't help the fact that if you go a short distance deeper past the potential area where the event horizon could occur, light still can't escape.
There is a third theory that if a singularity gets enough energy in one direction from a jet of particles, it can spin faster than the speed of light due to having a radius that's large enough to exist yet infinitely small (I know, headache-inducing) and at that point it would stop emitting gravity then transport itself to another location or turn into dark matter or break apart or inflate to a neutron star or turn into pure energy or shift into another dimension. Any of those solutions simply delay preservation of information instead of destroying it.
It was only 900 million. Don't be so dramatic, lol.
They would have been able to buy their own country if Windows 8 wasn't such a disaster.
Unfortunately, the make and model of the generator itself had little to do with why it melted down. Their maintenance was crap. Their backup systems didn't work. They were too cheap to bury a landfill-style containment unit under the ground. Cheap and poorly run with lies about maintenance and safety = every asian company ever.
Well I work in IT and when I'm working on a website or software design, I do work faster when people shut up and leave me alone. Hurray, I have my own office.
I get it for patent trolls but if it's a legit ripoff of a patent of mine now I have to play P.I. and break into their office and interview people and steal papers and hide recording devices? Because otherwise good luck finding proof from a tightly locked down company giving you the runaround. They won't hand over so much as a blueprint without a court order.
If you're waiting for congress or the president to act, don't hold your breath...unless you can hold it for a few years because anyone who wants to run for congress or the president has 2 options. They can be against surveillance and obamacare or they can lose. The public will not vote for someone who has a differing opinion. They're both surprisingly not party line issues anymore.
Who lumped nuclear in there? As long as a nuclear plant has US standards for quality and testing instead of Japanese standards, we're all set. I do still prefer solar and wind but I wouldn't lump nuclear in with oil and gas since it doesn't produce CO2.
You're all missing the real solution. Live in a place with only 80,000 people. We have 3 of the same hardware store within 5 miles but basically no crime, no subways, no bus problems, no super corporations causing issues, no stuck up psychotic rich "activists," no smog, and almost no racism and racial separation by geography.
Not with spaces it won't. Sextants don't get censored for example.
Ohhhhh, I consider gender identity crisis a mental disorder, aka the correct answer, so I didn't get that right away.