No, but I hate it. If I'm going to let someone peep over my fucking shoulder, I know it is someone I can trust. Most generally, there IS no one. I have to retype my dictionary attack safe passwords dozens of times because of these fucking stars.
What's so wrong about light bulbs or processors producing heat besides their natural purpose ?
It seems to me the more heat I produce from my bulb/processor, the less my temperature regulator will pull energy from my heating system (based on gas, which is becoming more expensive). What's wrong with this way of thinking ?
The question is certainly valid. Just because we lack an answer doesn't mean that we automatically assume OMFG it was GOD and JESUS!
400 years ago we couldn't explain lightening either. That doesn't make lightening mystical either. Hell, we couldn't explain germ theory or even a basic rough approximation of gravity. The lack of an explanation RIGHT NOW isn't proof of anything other than that we don't know the answer yet.
That said, if you are dying for a scientific answer, string theory has thrown out some tantalizing theories involving other exotic realities crashing together. I can't do much justice explaining them. The Elegant Universe offers up some musings from theoretical physics much better than I can.
In my opinion, building up a "God of Holes" is a rather sad and pathetic way to conduct religion. Religion should be something that you take on faith that describes how you should live in this world and prepare for the next. Religion shouldn't be something that you use to plug every and any gap in your preexisting knowledge. As history has shown very succinctly, a "God of Holes" tends to find itself quickly getting amputated by science on a regular basis.
If nothing else, your "God of Holes" is likely insulting to God himself. You have a brain, use it. Maybe God did create the universe, or maybe a god created something more ancient and fundamental that goes back farther than even the big bang. If God set in forth a motion of events to lead to this precise outcome, instead of trying to crudely plug the gaps in YOUR understanding of His universe by simply declaring it mysticism, try and understand how he built the universe.
More than one theoretical physicist has taken a look at how our universe has been put together and found it so elegant and beautiful that it has left them with a belief that at the very end there exists a higher power. That sure as shit doesn't mean that every time they run into a question they can't instantly answer they throw their hands up and declare that God did it. Instead, they press forward and trying and truly understand God's universe and its deepest inner working.
Ironically enough, if God did create the universe, a theoretical physicist is probably much closer to understanding the mind of God than your average bible thumping nut job whose eyes bleed every time evolution is mentioned. While the bible thumping nut job runs around like an idiot declaring the world a couple thousand years old and turning their mind off completely to understanding the universe, a physicist is carefully studying the most basic rules and laws of the universe. In a sense, the physicist is studying God's work and perhaps gaining some insight into the mind of God.
Repeat after me :
Then: causation or event chronology
Than: comparison
Flawed for two reasons : 1) most address validators don't recognize this as a valid address 2) spammers can extract your real address after you've blocked the catchall alias you provided them.
The following words were posted to various groups on Usenet by Ray Gordon (aka Gordon Roy Parker) in the hours following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon:
"There was no significant loss of life in those towers. Not a one." - Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"This attack happened in my HOMETOWN, a hometown I do not live in or work in because of illegal behavior. I hope those who swiped my ability to live there enjoy the message they got from GOD today.........."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Now you know what it's like to see your horrors mocked the way mine have been. That's not mental illness, that's a political message, apparently delivered quite brilliantly."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"I am expressing my lack of sympathy for the loss of a bunch of self-centered, asshole New Yorkers"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"I'm not the one who blew them up, am I? I just laugh at the poetic justice of it all."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Pretty damn good day at the office if you ask me, especially since I'm not the one who hijacked the planes."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"May those who died today rot in the hell they deserve."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"A bunch of asshole New Yorkers died...don't grieve. No significant loss of life in those Towers...not a one!"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"It is so PATHETIC how we are making angels out of some of the worst corporate criminals in America just because they suffered a little bombing."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Do not mourn the trader trash."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"All I have said is that most of the victims who worked in that building were not moral creatures. In fact, many of the very powerful types who died in that blast used to say 'let God deal with them.' I did. God has."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"It's not my fault that Bin Laden unwittingly took out a large segment of American TRASH, and while I'd never do something like that, I have to say those victims were anything but angels. They were greedy, capitalistic employment discriminators with no regard for the civil rights of anyone but themselves. Looks like GOD wanted me around and not them. Who am I to question the lord?"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Once again: no significant loss of life in those Towers."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
I'll pay for my software the day the guy who wrote it will get extra money for each extra sold copy.
A software editor sells a million copies of a program for millions of bucks, the engineer get no extra cent. This is legally "Fair Game" because of the few $10k he got.
Millions of people each share a few copies for free on the internet, it's a Crime. Probably because the editor did not make his dollars.
(This is coming from a programmer)
Come on ! The flawed principle of so called solar sails is that photons have a (very tiny) momentum. That momentum is supposed to be transmitted to the sail that will therefore accelerate.
There is one big detail these amateur scientists have not accounted for : space is full of stars. For any photon coming from the sun, there are millions that come from the exact opposite direction. Why do you think it's dark outside ? because those photons anihilate electromagnetically against each other.
This is also the reason a solar sail cannot work: the photons also anihilate mechanically. A solar sail would as much be pushed by the sun as it would be repelled by the stars.
Jeesus, good luck finding financement for such a stupid idea...
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So she can't draw. Can she give good blow jobs at least ?
No, but I hate it. If I'm going to let someone peep over my fucking shoulder, I know it is someone I can trust. Most generally, there IS no one. I have to retype my dictionary attack safe passwords dozens of times because of these fucking stars.
and let's not forget
Karma Whore
Than analogy makes sense: soon gas will be at 40$ per 10 ml too.
What's so wrong about light bulbs or processors producing heat besides their natural purpose ?
It seems to me the more heat I produce from my bulb/processor, the less my temperature regulator will pull energy from my heating system (based on gas, which is becoming more expensive). What's wrong with this way of thinking ?
Fight big business's abuse with big business's abuse : encapsulate all you communication within the latest unpublished msword's format documents.
Then: causation or event chronology
Than: comparison
What if my mom HAS a PhD in CS an maths ?
Flawed for two reasons :
1) most address validators don't recognize this as a valid address
2) spammers can extract your real address after you've blocked the catchall alias you provided them.
Just in case anyone here doesn't know what that means.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Whore
you know it's not limited to 3 chars, do you ?
The following words were posted to various groups on Usenet by Ray
Gordon (aka Gordon Roy Parker) in the hours following the terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon:
"There was no significant loss of life in those towers. Not
a one."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"This attack happened in my HOMETOWN, a hometown I do not
live in or work in because of illegal behavior. I hope those
who swiped my ability to live there enjoy the message they got
from GOD today.........."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Now you know what it's like to see your horrors mocked the
way mine have been. That's not mental illness, that's a political
message, apparently delivered quite brilliantly."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"I am expressing my lack of sympathy for the loss
of a bunch of self-centered, asshole New Yorkers"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"I'm not the one who blew them up, am I?
I just laugh at the poetic justice of it all."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Pretty damn good day at the office if you ask me,
especially since I'm not the one who hijacked the planes."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"May those who died today rot in the hell they deserve."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"A bunch of asshole New Yorkers died...don't grieve.
No significant loss of life in those Towers...not a one!"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"It is so PATHETIC how we are making angels out of some of the
worst corporate criminals in America just because they suffered
a little bombing."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Do not mourn the trader trash."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"All I have said is that most of the victims who worked in that building
were not moral creatures. In fact, many of the very powerful types who
died in that blast used to say 'let God deal with them.' I did. God
has."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"It's not my fault that Bin Laden unwittingly took out a large segment
of American TRASH, and while I'd never do something like that, I have
to say those victims were anything but angels. They were greedy,
capitalistic employment discriminators with no regard for the
civil rights of anyone but themselves. Looks like GOD wanted me around
and not them. Who am I to question the lord?"
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
"Once again: no significant loss of life in those Towers."
- Gordon Roy Parker (aka Ray Gordon)
I'll pay for my software the day the guy who wrote it will get extra money for each extra sold copy. A software editor sells a million copies of a program for millions of bucks, the engineer get no extra cent. This is legally "Fair Game" because of the few $10k he got. Millions of people each share a few copies for free on the internet, it's a Crime. Probably because the editor did not make his dollars. (This is coming from a programmer)
1001 inventions that "modern" Islam mindset would make impossible.
IAAMTE (I am a mobile telecom engineer)
We can still track them at IMEI (phone serial number) level.
n/t
What, there are actually people on dialup ? Paying for it ???? 26$ ????? Any of the three would get you in a museum in Western Europe
KDE was pas version 3.0 how long, five years ago ?
Come on ! The flawed principle of so called solar sails is that photons have a (very tiny) momentum. That momentum is supposed to be transmitted to the sail that will therefore accelerate.
There is one big detail these amateur scientists have not accounted for : space is full of stars. For any photon coming from the sun, there are millions that come from the exact opposite direction. Why do you think it's dark outside ? because those photons anihilate electromagnetically against each other.
This is also the reason a solar sail cannot work: the photons also anihilate mechanically. A solar sail would as much be pushed by the sun as it would be repelled by the stars.
Jeesus, good luck finding financement for such a stupid idea...
how many smartphones (smart enough to have something that qualifies as a GUI) don't have bluetooth ?
I find it hard to believe GPS Navigation software is nowhere in the top 30 list of Symbian of Windows Mobile.
It's only illegal if the culprits have a dominant market posting (true in 1992 ?)
I blame it to bad parenting.
I hope for them they don't host the page on a difference engine
And the decline of an economical/cultural power is beneficial to other powers how ?