How can the filesystem of a hard drive be corrupted if it is just a physical process of a magnetic platter?
If I view religion as a memetic infection and hive mind pattern that replaces certain aspects of your personality with an external imprint, yes I can say it corrupts just as much as I can say a computer virus can corrupt your OS or a biological virus can corrupts your cellular machinery.
Your 3rd sentence makes no sense. Why do you assume that my world view has no rational basis for moral absolutism? My world view almost entirely revolves around examining what I believe on a rational basis, that includes moral absolutism. I also fail utterly to see how the counter to my world view, a faith based theistic one, has a rational basis for anything, especially moral absolutism.
We had this. It was called the web. Anyone could put up a website. Even host it right out of their own home. But it was a pain even for many advanced users, and impossible for many normal users to figure it out.
Unlike most atheists I believe in true evil. I have experienced it first hand. I grew up in a fundamentalist cult and have an inside perspective that most people lack. Faith through religion is the closest thing to a pure elemental force for evil that exists. Faith IS corruption of the single most defining aspect that makes us human, our mind. It destroys your rationality. It subverts your will. And because of that, you can justify to yourself even the most despicable and horrific acts as righteous and good. The only other thing that even comes close is greed, and even then there is at least some reason behind the horrors that those corrupted by it inflict upon others.
The vast vast majority of things I do not like do not qualify as evil. But Faith? Yes. Evil is the only word strong enough for it.
If sexuality and its various differentiations were not biological, it would not exist outside of humanity. It is a demonstrable fact that non-heterosexual behavior manifests naturally to some degree in many species and is not a learned behavior.
As for my views on religion, they are my own, based on my own experiences and research. When you manage to get out of a fundamentalist cult like I have, you spend a lot of time thinking about the nature of religion and faith.
pet peeve: You attributed a quote to me that you had modified. That modification was an error in grammar.
Sexuality, gay strait or bi, is biological and natural.
No, the religious martyrs die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as faith. Once their minds are corrupted by that memetic vector, they no longer have true free will and are subject to the will of the memes that pass through the hive mind. Consumption of a single host is insignificant to the hive, and may even provide vectors for infection of new hosts.
I know for a fact that Japan, Korea, Central and South America have their own superhero comics, plus there is at least one being put out in Arabic countries.
The thing about prions is that they are not just a transmissible disease. They can spontaneously be generated by environmental factors deforming an existing protein.
They also do not say that this malformed tau protein is capable of corrupting normal protein, which would be required before it could be a transmissible prion.
That isn't how mutation works. There does not need to be a goal for something to happen. This could be the result of a single gene affecting the expression of many proteins, or it could be a mutation that activated some of the dormant genetic material.
That only works if you have a propulsion system capable of accelerating you to near c in a matter of weeks/months/years and enough reaction mass to do so.
But I would support your right to responsible ownership and use of fully automatic weapons, artillery, surface to air rockets and explosive charges.
I would submit that a nuclear weapons effects can not be limited to your own property, regardless of the size of that property, and would therefore not be permitted.
They are wanna-be fascist authoritarian school administrator retards. In my experience all of them are republican, but I am sure there a few of them claim to be liberal in states other than Mississippi.
Though I would point out that being Authoritarian is anti-liberal and often (but not always) conservative.
I was bullied in elementary school because I was a bookish nerd, but I mostly ignored it. Then I found them trying to stomping my little sister to death. I chased them off, caught two of them and beat them with a padlocked chain until I got tired of the screaming. The other 3 ran faster than I did. Neither of us ever had to deal with bullies again. Like it or not, fear and pain are the only things those animals understand.
The reason violence didn't stop your bully is that you didn't use enough of it.
As I said above, even with an 80% co-pay by the insurance company, this will consume more than 100% of the income of the average American. The only people this won't bankrupt are either fantastically wealthy or who have insurance that covers 100% of the cost for the rest of their life. Merely being upper middle class with standard insurance won't be enough to keep you from being ruined.
No, but the deductible is payed before the 80% co pay kicks in. Mine also has a 100% insurance paid level that kicks in after a while, but that isn't available in all insurance plans.
Even with an insurance 80% co-pay, 1 year of treatment will cost the person nearly $59k, that is more than the average persons gross income for a year, every year.
This won't save lives. at $294k per year for treatment it will bankrupt people, leading to an increased stress in their entire family and the suicide and other health risks associated with that. It could actually cost more lives through these effects than it could ever save.
You don't even need a second stage with instant runoff voting. The thing is, neither of the parties in power WANT to allow third parties to gain any power at all, they might have to consider their views instead of the money they get from the wealthy.
It would be possible to have state level proportional representation in the larger house of representatives without changing power of states in the congress.
And while states states rights advocates and the smaller states would hate it, the senate with its 100 seats could be converted to percentile accurate proportionate representation.
Of course, both of these would require constitutional amendments that the 2 main parties would fight against tooth and nail.
And while Obama is not campaigning for the role of anti-Christ nearly as hard as any of the republican contenders, he isn't exactly a friend of liberty and sane copyright law either.
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How can the filesystem of a hard drive be corrupted if it is just a physical process of a magnetic platter?
If I view religion as a memetic infection and hive mind pattern that replaces certain aspects of your personality with an external imprint, yes I can say it corrupts just as much as I can say a computer virus can corrupt your OS or a biological virus can corrupts your cellular machinery.
Your 3rd sentence makes no sense. Why do you assume that my world view has no rational basis for moral absolutism? My world view almost entirely revolves around examining what I believe on a rational basis, that includes moral absolutism. I also fail utterly to see how the counter to my world view, a faith based theistic one, has a rational basis for anything, especially moral absolutism.
We had this. It was called the web. Anyone could put up a website. Even host it right out of their own home. But it was a pain even for many advanced users, and impossible for many normal users to figure it out.
I can not speak for denzacar, but no.
Unlike most atheists I believe in true evil. I have experienced it first hand. I grew up in a fundamentalist cult and have an inside perspective that most people lack. Faith through religion is the closest thing to a pure elemental force for evil that exists. Faith IS corruption of the single most defining aspect that makes us human, our mind. It destroys your rationality. It subverts your will. And because of that, you can justify to yourself even the most despicable and horrific acts as righteous and good. The only other thing that even comes close is greed, and even then there is at least some reason behind the horrors that those corrupted by it inflict upon others.
The vast vast majority of things I do not like do not qualify as evil. But Faith? Yes. Evil is the only word strong enough for it.
If sexuality and its various differentiations were not biological, it would not exist outside of humanity. It is a demonstrable fact that non-heterosexual behavior manifests naturally to some degree in many species and is not a learned behavior.
As for my views on religion, they are my own, based on my own experiences and research. When you manage to get out of a fundamentalist cult like I have, you spend a lot of time thinking about the nature of religion and faith.
pet peeve:
You attributed a quote to me that you had modified.
That modification was an error in grammar.
Being host to a different competing hive pattern does not make you independent.
Nor does being host to a subset of a hive pattern that manifests in different behaviors that spread the larger memetic construct to new hosts.
Sexuality, gay strait or bi, is biological and natural.
No, the religious martyrs die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as faith. Once their minds are corrupted by that memetic vector, they no longer have true free will and are subject to the will of the memes that pass through the hive mind. Consumption of a single host is insignificant to the hive, and may even provide vectors for infection of new hosts.
Or you could boycott Australia and actually make them suffer for this terrible decision.
If I could boycott America I would, but I live here and am not rich enough to move to New Zealand.
I know for a fact that Japan, Korea, Central and South America have their own superhero comics, plus there is at least one being put out in Arabic countries.
You have a lot of unsubstantiated suspicions.
The thing about prions is that they are not just a transmissible disease. They can spontaneously be generated by environmental factors deforming an existing protein.
They also do not say that this malformed tau protein is capable of corrupting normal protein, which would be required before it could be a transmissible prion.
That isn't how mutation works. There does not need to be a goal for something to happen. This could be the result of a single gene affecting the expression of many proteins, or it could be a mutation that activated some of the dormant genetic material.
That only works if you have a propulsion system capable of accelerating you to near c in a matter of weeks/months/years and enough reaction mass to do so.
Yes, America has a messed up tax system, no pizza being categorized as a vegetable has nothing to do with the tax system. That is just... the fuck?
'no tolerance' is not at all a progressive policy. It is highly regressive.
Progressive means to advance society towards more liberty and equity.
The corruption of the word to be an insult is wrong.
Liberal still means 'for liberty', though in a not entirely overlapping way as the term libertarian implies.
Liberal is only an insult that means 'for the nanny state' for a particularly ignorant subset of people.
I am as liberal as they come.
But I would support your right to responsible ownership and use of fully automatic weapons, artillery, surface to air rockets and explosive charges.
I would submit that a nuclear weapons effects can not be limited to your own property, regardless of the size of that property, and would therefore not be permitted.
They are wanna-be fascist authoritarian school administrator retards. In my experience all of them are republican, but I am sure there a few of them claim to be liberal in states other than Mississippi.
Though I would point out that being Authoritarian is anti-liberal and often (but not always) conservative.
I was bullied in elementary school because I was a bookish nerd, but I mostly ignored it. Then I found them trying to stomping my little sister to death. I chased them off, caught two of them and beat them with a padlocked chain until I got tired of the screaming. The other 3 ran faster than I did. Neither of us ever had to deal with bullies again. Like it or not, fear and pain are the only things those animals understand.
The reason violence didn't stop your bully is that you didn't use enough of it.
As I said above, even with an 80% co-pay by the insurance company, this will consume more than 100% of the income of the average American. The only people this won't bankrupt are either fantastically wealthy or who have insurance that covers 100% of the cost for the rest of their life. Merely being upper middle class with standard insurance won't be enough to keep you from being ruined.
No, but the deductible is payed before the 80% co pay kicks in. Mine also has a 100% insurance paid level that kicks in after a while, but that isn't available in all insurance plans.
Even with an insurance 80% co-pay, 1 year of treatment will cost the person nearly $59k, that is more than the average persons gross income for a year, every year.
This won't save lives. at $294k per year for treatment it will bankrupt people, leading to an increased stress in their entire family and the suicide and other health risks associated with that. It could actually cost more lives through these effects than it could ever save.
You don't even need a second stage with instant runoff voting. The thing is, neither of the parties in power WANT to allow third parties to gain any power at all, they might have to consider their views instead of the money they get from the wealthy.
It would be possible to have state level proportional representation in the larger house of representatives without changing power of states in the congress.
And while states states rights advocates and the smaller states would hate it, the senate with its 100 seats could be converted to percentile accurate proportionate representation.
Of course, both of these would require constitutional amendments that the 2 main parties would fight against tooth and nail.
Please turn in your geek card.
You are running linux, and don't know what a hosts file is?
What is this is?
And while Obama is not campaigning for the role of anti-Christ nearly as hard as any of the republican contenders, he isn't exactly a friend of liberty and sane copyright law either.