I'm guessing that you aren't an atheist (a quick look at your comment history verifies that), which is why you feel that you are qualified to declare what a 'true atheist' would believe.
Have you ever spoken with an atheist? Tried to get to know one? Or did you just decide that you can know what atheists are like without actually having to learn about us?
A certain famous one claims to have produced fish out of thin air, and also cured paralysis and blindness amongst other unprovable, highly dubious things.
He never claimed to have done that. Other people (decades later) claimed that he did that.
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That's why intelligent shows don't get produced often. It's because intelligent people aren't influenced as easily by advertising.
Oh.
My.
God.
It all makes sense now. I thought intelligent shows were passed on because they were so hard to make and keep intelligent. But you just put it all into perspective. I thought it was mere lazyness and incompetence, but THIS, this is far more insidious.
Well yeah. Of course it would. What makes you think that MS is going to do that, though? You may not have seen the point of the post, that Microsoft WANTS to make it incompatible with other readers.
If you really want to change your reputation, here is something you might want to try. It will be difficult for you, but it is well worth it.
STOP SUCKING!
Really. Adding new features that suck and letting everyone use your old sucky features that were previously only available to members does NOT qualify as not sucking any more.
Couldn't someone write a program that you could feed the text of a bill into and it would simplify the language, making it easier to find stuff like this so it could be removed?
Well of course. I thought that everyone knew that the government doesn't really give a damn about the people. It just needs to put on a good show so that the unintelligent majority can sit back and watch thier sitcoms and never actually think about anything.
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I would never say that I am immune to the various cultural and historical themes that are used by religion, I am simply saying that I don't automatically connect them with religion.
The train scene was just about my favorite scene from the entire movie. I thought it was simply beautiful. I completly missed the religious symbolism, however. It might have something to do with the fact that I am an atheist and was raised in a non-religious household, so religious ideas and symbols were never hammered into my brain while I was growing up. In retrospect, I can naturally see the parallels between the train scene and certain Christian concepts, but when I watch things like that there is nothing for my mind to connect it to and I can watch it without religious symbolism smacking me in the face (which I am sure I would find extremely irritating).
It seems that the processor manufacturers have been slowing down in the race to get more and more Ghz out of thier chips. I think AMD will respond with a triple-core processor, and we will see a new race to put more and more cores into the chips.
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I'm guessing that you aren't an atheist (a quick look at your comment history verifies that), which is why you feel that you are qualified to declare what a 'true atheist' would believe.
Have you ever spoken with an atheist? Tried to get to know one? Or did you just decide that you can know what atheists are like without actually having to learn about us?
You think that just because the 'gospel record' says something, that it must automatically be true?
A certain famous one claims to have produced fish out of thin air, and also cured paralysis and blindness amongst other unprovable, highly dubious things.
He never claimed to have done that. Other people (decades later) claimed that he did that.
What Jedi ever built their own light sabre?
All of them. It's part of their training.
That's why intelligent shows don't get produced often. It's because intelligent people aren't influenced as easily by advertising.
Oh.
My.
God.
It all makes sense now. I thought intelligent shows were passed on because they were so hard to make and keep intelligent. But you just put it all into perspective. I thought it was mere lazyness and incompetence, but THIS, this is far more insidious.
Well yeah. Of course it would. What makes you think that MS is going to do that, though? You may not have seen the point of the post, that Microsoft WANTS to make it incompatible with other readers.
So how exactly will they be changing the standard to make it incompatable with non-Microsoft readers?
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, bose-einstein condensate... I think there was one more in the hot range.
You know what? I'm not really sure if you are including future X-Files games in that or not.
A modernized version of the Jefferson Airplane song "Go Ask Alice" needs to be on the soundtrack.
If you really want to change your reputation, here is something you might want to try. It will be difficult for you, but it is well worth it.
STOP SUCKING!
Really. Adding new features that suck and letting everyone use your old sucky features that were previously only available to members does NOT qualify as not sucking any more.
Couldn't someone write a program that you could feed the text of a bill into and it would simplify the language, making it easier to find stuff like this so it could be removed?
Read the first chapter of 'Distress' by Greg Egan
It didn't by any chance get struck by lightning, did it?
A journalist, yes. A novelist needs to be able to write as if they are deeply knowledgable of the subject matter.
Once the first couple of people get the "crack", it will be posted all over the internet for everyone to read without contacting Sony.
How much you want to bet that those first few people will be using temporary email accounts?
I think the grandparent meant destroying BitTorrent, not P2P.
"Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex."
-Lewis 'Revenge of the Nerds'
You've read 'Distress' by Greg Egan, haven't you?
Don't forget to have the sexual identity portions of your brain surgically removed.
You think that's bad? I'm not even sure.
Well of course. I thought that everyone knew that the government doesn't really give a damn about the people. It just needs to put on a good show so that the unintelligent majority can sit back and watch thier sitcoms and never actually think about anything.
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I would never say that I am immune to the various cultural and historical themes that are used by religion, I am simply saying that I don't automatically connect them with religion.
The train scene was just about my favorite scene from the entire movie. I thought it was simply beautiful. I completly missed the religious symbolism, however. It might have something to do with the fact that I am an atheist and was raised in a non-religious household, so religious ideas and symbols were never hammered into my brain while I was growing up. In retrospect, I can naturally see the parallels between the train scene and certain Christian concepts, but when I watch things like that there is nothing for my mind to connect it to and I can watch it without religious symbolism smacking me in the face (which I am sure I would find extremely irritating).
It seems that the processor manufacturers have been slowing down in the race to get more and more Ghz out of thier chips. I think AMD will respond with a triple-core processor, and we will see a new race to put more and more cores into the chips.