You haven't been modded down, but you are free to fork the Slash code and set up an alternate site where you are automatically modded down, thereby proving your own point.
Man, I still recall when I was a kid and Jupiter and Saturn only had about 10 moons each. Also, Pluto was a planet. And the only pictures of Uranus and Neptune were blurry blobs with more lens flare than detail and Pluto was just a little dot.
And despite all that I was _still_ obsessed with astronomy!:-)
Fortunately PALNTSC conversion is a standard feature in modern DVD players. In fact, about the only way that modern DVD players could be improved is to remove the stupid region locks... and a lot of them let you do that too if you know the codes.
Perhaps so, but that doesn't explain the Congo or "Oil for Food" scandals.
Or the utter impotence when dealing with Iraq. But for a Republican President, Iraq would still be flouting U.N. resolutions and doing whatever it wanted with no weapons inspectors or any other check on their designs to acquire weapons.
Regardless of what you think of the war, it wasn't until President Bush 43 kicked some serious butt that the inspectors even got to go back in after 5 years.
You're right. There are some good things it has accomplished, but at least in the last 10-20 years they have been few and far between, while its corruption is enormous. As long as the majority of U.N. members are non-democratic dictatorships, there is no way it can be a force for good in the balance.
OK, I'll admit that there are some good things to come out of the U.N., and the ones you cite are good examples, but they are outweighed by its corruption, pandering to tyrants and just general incompetence.
A million people?! The best estimates aren't even a tenth of that, and that's all civilian deaths, not just the ones caused by the U.S.. I'm glad you're not breeding, my kids will grow up in a world with that many fewer brainwashed, America-hating people.
I connected to work via the VPN and used KRDC to connect to my desktop XP machine running the Remote Desktop dealie for about a year. Finally I traded my desktop at work for a laptop so now I just use the laptop to VPN to work directly. It always worked fine for me, although I could never get the PTPP VPN to work with Linux. However, I was able to use the Java-based Juniper VPN with Linux... sometimes. Getting Java stuff to work on Kubuntu has always been hit or miss for me, but I blame Java and its "write-once-struggle-futilely-everywhere" philosophy.
I always thought the old Windows Update that used IE was a reasonable way to do things, with one exception: Be very careful when you all hardware driver updates... the wouldn't show up often but there were a few times, at least a few years ago, where allowing the driver updates disabled the device in question.
I don't know if that's happened to me in the past few years, but I only use XP at work... I could switch to Linux if I wanted according to the IT guy, but XP does what I want. Mostly I just use it to Putty to the servers I use anyway.
Other than downloading Firefox, it's the only reason I ever use IE. The last time I used IE for something else, I got hijacked and for a moment was worried my machine was compromised. I blogged about it and won't repeat myself here suffice to say I would have _never_ guessed IE7 was still as vulnerable to this kind of thing as it actually is. Oh, and MSN isn't worth the time it takes to type its URL.
Sorry for the delay, I was fighting the flu all week.
What's going on here is that I'm making fun of you
Yes, and I'm getting really tired of it. It's really kind of sad that you feel you have to do this. It seems you think it's your strongest suit since it's always what you play first. Really, for someone claiming to be so rational, you can do better.
The basic problem here is that you're trying to equate belief without evidence with a lack of belief based on a lack of evidence.
Not quite. The pursuit of humans to apprehend God comes from our desire to understand how and why things are. The idea of God explains existence. The existence of God is not merely some random, improbable hypothesis that springs forth ex nihilo as some kind of exercise in making up the most undefinable, unprovable concept possible, as you seem to want to make it out to be, but rather as an explanation for the existence of everything.
Just as Santa Claus is a possible, if unlikely explanation for something (i.e., presents under the tree on Christmas morning), God is also a possible explanation for existence, perhaps the only possible explanation.
You seem to be invoking Occam's Razor, and then go to show how ridiculous it is to explain Christmas presents using Santa Claus as an example. But by your very logic, isn't it much more likely that the simpler explanation for Santa Claus is the correct one? That the presents come from parents putting them under the tree after the kids go to bed, etc?
Of course it is. c6gunner: 3, straw men: 0
Occam's Razor can also be used to justify the likelihood of existence of God, as this is the simplest explanation for the existence of ANYTHING.
At some point you must accede Aquinas' "Uncaused First Cause" or you concede causation ad infinitum, which is the agnostic's answer. Either something which itself was uncaused caused everything else, or it goes on forever, turtles all the way down to some undefined infinity. Only God, by definition, is uncaused. Your only choices are God or "You don't know."
It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author is Someone who cares about His creation. It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author wishes to interact with His creation. It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author has been the inspiration for the most enduring and transformative set of moral and philosophical beliefs in history.
Something caused everything. "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice, if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." as the song goes. What you cannot do is decide nothing caused everything and somehow claim you can prove it.
Hey, you're the one who's beating me to death over a joke. If anyone is a troll...
But, hey, feel free to insult me if it makes you feel good. Just don't expect everyone else to see it your way.
Or are you sore because you are one of those benighted souls wrapped up in the cult of personality of our President. Maybe that's it. I've insulted your messiah and you're declaring fatwa. Whatever.
It runs from the premise that all the politicians in a particular state are corrupt, and that the citizens of that state are too clueless to do anything about it
I'll let history speak for itself on that matter. The whole country is obviously too clueless to do anything about our horrendous leadership. Why should Illinois be any better?
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You haven't been modded down, but you are free to fork the Slash code and set up an alternate site where you are automatically modded down, thereby proving your own point.
Man, I still recall when I was a kid and Jupiter and Saturn only had about 10 moons each. Also, Pluto was a planet. And the only pictures of Uranus and Neptune were blurry blobs with more lens flare than detail and Pluto was just a little dot.
And despite all that I was _still_ obsessed with astronomy! :-)
Fortunately PALNTSC conversion is a standard feature in modern DVD players. In fact, about the only way that modern DVD players could be improved is to remove the stupid region locks... and a lot of them let you do that too if you know the codes.
Yeah, kdawson's standards are as low as CBS News'.
Perhaps so, but that doesn't explain the Congo or "Oil for Food" scandals.
Or the utter impotence when dealing with Iraq. But for a Republican President, Iraq would still be flouting U.N. resolutions and doing whatever it wanted with no weapons inspectors or any other check on their designs to acquire weapons.
Regardless of what you think of the war, it wasn't until President Bush 43 kicked some serious butt that the inspectors even got to go back in after 5 years.
You're right. There are some good things it has accomplished, but at least in the last 10-20 years they have been few and far between, while its corruption is enormous. As long as the majority of U.N. members are non-democratic dictatorships, there is no way it can be a force for good in the balance.
Destruction of property is not helpful for the economy.
How that be? I've been watching Congress and the President and clearly they think destruction of economy is helpful for the economy...
OK, I'll admit that there are some good things to come out of the U.N., and the ones you cite are good examples, but they are outweighed by its corruption, pandering to tyrants and just general incompetence.
You didn't hear it from me. As far as I'm concerned, the IPCC, just like most climate change enthusiasts, are extremely politically-driven.
Everything that the U.N. does makes me feel that way. That organization is a waste of oxygen... and prime New York real estate.
A million people?! The best estimates aren't even a tenth of that, and that's all civilian deaths, not just the ones caused by the U.S.. I'm glad you're not breeding, my kids will grow up in a world with that many fewer brainwashed, America-hating people.
With the U.N., every day seems like April Fool's Day, because the U.N. is nothing but a group of fools.
Meh. I was doing that almost 30 years ago. To bad I didn't have a web comic at the time. :-/
Like, "How do you feel?"
Even Mr. Spock couldn't answer that one, and he's _really_ smart.
I connected to work via the VPN and used KRDC to connect to my desktop XP machine running the Remote Desktop dealie for about a year. Finally I traded my desktop at work for a laptop so now I just use the laptop to VPN to work directly. It always worked fine for me, although I could never get the PTPP VPN to work with Linux. However, I was able to use the Java-based Juniper VPN with Linux... sometimes. Getting Java stuff to work on Kubuntu has always been hit or miss for me, but I blame Java and its "write-once-struggle-futilely-everywhere" philosophy.
It doesn't take a filesystem expert or kernel hacker to realize that will never work without the crucial "???" step leading to "Profit!".
I always thought the old Windows Update that used IE was a reasonable way to do things, with one exception: Be very careful when you all hardware driver updates... the wouldn't show up often but there were a few times, at least a few years ago, where allowing the driver updates disabled the device in question.
I don't know if that's happened to me in the past few years, but I only use XP at work... I could switch to Linux if I wanted according to the IT guy, but XP does what I want. Mostly I just use it to Putty to the servers I use anyway.
Other than downloading Firefox, it's the only reason I ever use IE. The last time I used IE for something else, I got hijacked and for a moment was worried my machine was compromised. I blogged about it and won't repeat myself here suffice to say I would have _never_ guessed IE7 was still as vulnerable to this kind of thing as it actually is. Oh, and MSN isn't worth the time it takes to type its URL.
Sorry for the delay, I was fighting the flu all week.
What's going on here is that I'm making fun of you
Yes, and I'm getting really tired of it. It's really kind of sad that you feel you have to do this. It seems you think it's your strongest suit since it's always what you play first. Really, for someone claiming to be so rational, you can do better.
The basic problem here is that you're trying to equate belief without evidence with a lack of belief based on a lack of evidence.
Not quite. The pursuit of humans to apprehend God comes from our desire to understand how and why things are. The idea of God explains existence. The existence of God is not merely some random, improbable hypothesis that springs forth ex nihilo as some kind of exercise in making up the most undefinable, unprovable concept possible, as you seem to want to make it out to be, but rather as an explanation for the existence of everything.
Just as Santa Claus is a possible, if unlikely explanation for something (i.e., presents under the tree on Christmas morning), God is also a possible explanation for existence, perhaps the only possible explanation.
You seem to be invoking Occam's Razor, and then go to show how ridiculous it is to explain Christmas presents using Santa Claus as an example. But by your very logic, isn't it much more likely that the simpler explanation for Santa Claus is the correct one? That the presents come from parents putting them under the tree after the kids go to bed, etc?
Of course it is. c6gunner: 3, straw men: 0
Occam's Razor can also be used to justify the likelihood of existence of God, as this is the simplest explanation for the existence of ANYTHING.
At some point you must accede Aquinas' "Uncaused First Cause" or you concede causation ad infinitum, which is the agnostic's answer. Either something which itself was uncaused caused everything else, or it goes on forever, turtles all the way down to some undefined infinity. Only God, by definition, is uncaused. Your only choices are God or "You don't know."
It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author is Someone who cares about His creation. It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author wishes to interact with His creation. It is a matter of faith that this Uncaused Supreme Author has been the inspiration for the most enduring and transformative set of moral and philosophical beliefs in history.
Something caused everything. "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice, if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." as the song goes. What you cannot do is decide nothing caused everything and somehow claim you can prove it.
Hey, you're the one who's beating me to death over a joke. If anyone is a troll...
But, hey, feel free to insult me if it makes you feel good. Just don't expect everyone else to see it your way.
Or are you sore because you are one of those benighted souls wrapped up in the cult of personality of our President. Maybe that's it. I've insulted your messiah and you're declaring fatwa. Whatever.
So is Obama corrupt because he's from Illinois or because he's American? Make up your mind!
It depends, which one will bait you more? (Not that it's hard either way)
Microsoft beat god to it in 2007..
More like 1981. Ever use edlin?
It runs from the premise that all the politicians in a particular state are corrupt, and that the citizens of that state are too clueless to do anything about it
I'll let history speak for itself on that matter. The whole country is obviously too clueless to do anything about our horrendous leadership. Why should Illinois be any better?
Oh, great. owlstead just discovered the Big Blue Room. Anyone want his UID?
The problem with thinking in stereotypes is that it makes you stupid.
Any more stupid than someone who misses the joke?
Completely aside from your point, with which I agree, I'd like to mod you up just for spelling "lose" correctly.