Examples of the compositions infringed include "Beautiful Day" written by Clayton/Evans/Mullen/Hewson and administered by Universal Music Publishing, and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" written by Lennon/McCarthy and administered by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC.
What a beautiful one! That's how you know witch hunt is not over yet...
"Well, moral issues such as killing human embryos are different. The question that many people get stuck on is: At what point does the human embryo get a soul?"
Could you please indicate what a "soul" is ? What does it look like ?
I would not be surprised at this stage to see Angelina Jolie half-naked kicking the bones of those bloody dead people getting out of their graves to remove the adverts.
You may be right but I remember that the journalist in Kabul after 11/9 on CNN had such a video phone and that was broadcasted live. I don't know a thing about what they used so it may be Japanese...
A language is just a way to manipulate abstract concepts... The more concepts you have, the harder it is to make a language lightweight. It makes me think of those synthesisors with 3 buttons that had all functionalities through combinations of those 3 buttons. To me, it is just as hard as having more buttons. The essential thing is to understand the concepts you're trying to manipulate. Then anybody can learn any language...
But what combination of factors causes a child in one strict, oppressive household to become a high-school dropout, while a child in another becomes a focused overachieving genius? If you want to raise the latter, what help does science offer? There may be no way to even measure the subtleties that nudge a child one way or the other, let alone use those measurements to provide any meaningful guidance to prospective parents.
In short, nowadays most scientists agree on the fact that the world is not deterministic but chaotic, which means that even with the smallest error delta in two measurements at instant t, at instant t + x, you may end up with two completely different measurements, and that applies fully to genes and their expression. Chaos is a very comfortable place for God to hide if you measure God by the difference between universal knowledge and scientific knowledge.
I have exactly the same feeling. The article was captivating until it talks about God. I'm not saying that this is uninteresting though, I'm just surprised that someone who seems to be quite clever opposes science to God in such a radical way, like there can only be those 2 possibilities. Unless he thinks as God as a concept which has nothing to do with that one mankind created (too human a god to be true sorry), I'm not with him. But hey, someone said last year that the need for God was in our genes and my gut feeling is that, if it is the case, it is not a recessive gene! Maybe it is useful after all. Maybe if people did not believe in God, they would find no meaning in life and commit suicide.
And someone else has written a very nice article about how science cannot reject the fact that if God exists, he can interfere with all experiments and make them look like natural. It's actually a serious article.
I think the same thing happened 20 years ago with an obscure band called Guns n' Roses. When Axel Rose and Slash (without the dot) made their own Guns n' Roses band, the band holding the original name negociated a deal which is actually a percentage of each record sold. Not too bad a deal...!
For some people like you and me, a book is not only about the contents, but it's also the physical object, with its historic and artistic cover value. However, times are changing and people care more and more about the contents. In which case, any format will do: paper or digital. I don't see anything wrong with that. There will always be disposable contents and master-pieces. In my opinion, masterpieces deserve a decent concrete paper support whereas any device will do for disposable contents.
However, you seem to compare e-books with books but I believe it's wrong. An e-book is clearly a device. At the era of XML, dynamic contents and model-view-controller models, conventional books really seem like a very badly engineered solution from a technical point of view.
But maybe it is one of the last concrete representation of knowledge. I already miss it...
I was just trying to make fun of the fact that a stealth plane was shot down, even if it was a very lucky shot. I had absolutely no idea how many NATO planes have been hit and I would be a real self-satisfied capitalist loser if I was to really think that eastern countries are far behind in terms of technology and communication. So sorry if I got you confused. But hey, it led to an interesting thread and I learnt a lot of things!
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This would be a very interesting community approach for other matters that are less subject to caution such as rain forest destruction rate...
Examples of the compositions infringed include "Beautiful Day" written by Clayton/Evans/Mullen/Hewson and administered by Universal Music Publishing, and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" written by Lennon/McCarthy and administered by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC.
What a beautiful one! That's how you know witch hunt is not over yet...
What an insightfull comment!
Some already have a human president with a 1% mouse brain... :)
No don't insist, I will not disclose any name.
"Well, moral issues such as killing human embryos are different. The question that many people get stuck on is: At what point does the human embryo get a soul?"
Could you please indicate what a "soul" is ? What does it look like ?
Yann
You mean like Repubblica ? http://www.repubblica.it/2004/f/sezioni/scienza_e_ tecnologia/attacco/attacco/attacco.html
When its existence is confirmed as a dependence of Cyprus, will it be part of Europe as of tomorrow ?
Or perhaps, they should ask the Atlants through a referendum first.
Nah, I guess they will want to turn into one of those tax heavens...
Like spin and hype are a vendor monopol... Is OS spin really better ?
Spin is everywhere where there is subjectivity.
At last, we have found a way to make Billy largemouth bass fish shut up for good...
I would not be surprised at this stage to see Angelina Jolie half-naked kicking the bones of those bloody dead people getting out of their graves to remove the adverts.
Rest in peace ? No way!
Guitar music for guitarists. This is an outstanding album by Shawn Lane, technically speaking.
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Yann
Worked on NT4 SP6 IE5.5.
Scary...
Be careful, instant karma might be gonna get you!
Pathetic!
It seems that the idea is not new: IFS :)
. But Larry is only second to Bill when it comes to ruling the world
You may be right but I remember that the journalist in Kabul after 11/9 on CNN had such a video phone and that was broadcasted live. I don't know a thing about what they used so it may be Japanese...
A language is just a way to manipulate abstract concepts... The more concepts you have, the harder it is to make a language lightweight. It makes me think of those synthesisors with 3 buttons that had all functionalities through combinations of those 3 buttons. To me, it is just as hard as having more buttons. The essential thing is to understand the concepts you're trying to manipulate. Then anybody can learn any language...
And what about this ? At least to represent the commercial side of language design...
But what combination of factors causes a child in one strict, oppressive household to become a high-school dropout, while a child in another becomes a focused overachieving genius? If you want to raise the latter, what help does science offer? There may be no way to even measure the subtleties that nudge a child one way or the other, let alone use those measurements to provide any meaningful guidance to prospective parents.
In short, nowadays most scientists agree on the fact that the world is not deterministic but chaotic, which means that even with the smallest error delta in two measurements at instant t, at instant t + x, you may end up with two completely different measurements, and that applies fully to genes and their expression. Chaos is a very comfortable place for God to hide if you measure God by the difference between universal knowledge and scientific knowledge.
I have exactly the same feeling. The article was captivating until it talks about God. I'm not saying that this is uninteresting though, I'm just surprised that someone who seems to be quite clever opposes science to God in such a radical way, like there can only be those 2 possibilities. Unless he thinks as God as a concept which has nothing to do with that one mankind created (too human a god to be true sorry), I'm not with him. But hey, someone said last year that the need for God was in our genes and my gut feeling is that, if it is the case, it is not a recessive gene! Maybe it is useful after all. Maybe if people did not believe in God, they would find no meaning in life and commit suicide.
And someone else has written a very nice article about how science cannot reject the fact that if God exists, he can interfere with all experiments and make them look like natural. It's actually a serious article.
Surprisingly, the monicalewinskysucks.com domain is not registered yet...
I think the same thing happened 20 years ago with an obscure band called Guns n' Roses. When Axel Rose and Slash (without the dot) made their own Guns n' Roses band, the band holding the original name negociated a deal which is actually a percentage of each record sold. Not too bad a deal...!
For some people like you and me, a book is not only about the contents, but it's also the physical object, with its historic and artistic cover value. However, times are changing and people care more and more about the contents. In which case, any format will do: paper or digital. I don't see anything wrong with that. There will always be disposable contents and master-pieces. In my opinion, masterpieces deserve a decent concrete paper support whereas any device will do for disposable contents.
However, you seem to compare e-books with books but I believe it's wrong. An e-book is clearly a device. At the era of XML, dynamic contents and model-view-controller models, conventional books really seem like a very badly engineered solution from a technical point of view.
But maybe it is one of the last concrete representation of knowledge. I already miss it...
And what about the laser-driven e-Poop ? Books are not the only thing undergoing drastic changes. You just need to get used to that new life-style.
I was just trying to make fun of the fact that a stealth plane was shot down, even if it was a very lucky shot. I had absolutely no idea how many NATO planes have been hit and I would be a real self-satisfied capitalist loser if I was to really think that eastern countries are far behind in terms of technology and communication. So sorry if I got you confused. But hey, it led to an interesting thread and I learnt a lot of things!