When talking about income taxes, yes, you are member of the society, you benefit from such things, you should pay taxes. Companies, however, don't benefit from army, from healthcare and from any other things that society provides. In fact, when nobody uses the company, the company ceases to exist. Taxing the companies only forces the companies to spend every year the most so they don't have to pay such high taxes. For me, it is not bad if for example Microsoft holds great untaxed amount of cash this year and invests it the next year or the year after. The company is already punished for not spending their money by inflation, the income tax is just bad tool and shouldn't be used.
I actually don't want to discuss religion under this article, but I have to react.
The statement might be insulting, but I'm quite sure it is true - I'm not trying to be politically correct on Slashdot.
(a) Vast majority of muslims are religious idiots. From pools conducted in muslim countries, non trivial portion of people support terrorism, al-Qaeda, or bin Laden ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_towards_terrorism#Recent_polls ). That are normal people, not a few fundamentalist idiots that would be an exception in muslim society. This actually is just about terrorism and killing people - to call somebody religious idiot, I don't need him to support terrorism, just support for stoning people for adultery ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning#Support_for_stoning), insulting Quran, apostasy is enough. Even forcing women to wear burqas, forbidding women to drive cars, to divorce husband, are grounds to call them religious idiots (Don't have statistic for that but I suspect it will be much higher percentage than the percentage of people supporting stoning). Even so called secularized muslims seem to be secularized as long as they don't have the majority in society (just an example from a debate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r018ohLUuL4&feature=player_detailpage#t=411s). I, based on such data, conclude that vast majority of muslims can be safely called religious idiots. I BY NO MEANS CLAIM, THAT ALL OF THEM ARE, but the portion is great enough.
And as for the contributions from muslims to sicence and culture... yes they did, what does it have to do with religion and religious idiocy ?
(b) In social studies there can't be any conclusive proof but we have clues. For example statistic about people in prison, atheists are there far less often than religious people: http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Percentage_of_atheists . And atheists don't have an imposed twisted sense of morality provided by any abrahamic religion.
I'm trying to be as objective as possible and not stereotypical. If I got the facts wrong please correct me, but I think, that the facts I provided point towards my opinions.
Actually no. I'm quite sure, that in such case Muslims and many other religion guided idiots would claim that the asteroid is God intended punishment and would suicidebomb any attempts to deflect it in order to preserve God's will.
If the hardware would be good enough, mainly the screen with good resolution (FullHD and more) it could be interesting for me. There simply are almost no options for people who want good notebook with high resolution without Windows preinstalled.
I have done a little research and posted information about the policy and the vote on my wall. As far as I know, almost nobody gave a f*ck about it. People just don't care about the policy of facebook as long as they can upload photos and post statuses.
Doubling of processor cores doesn't imply that things can be twice as fast. There is actually pretty hard science going on researching what can be done with N processors to speed up problem solving. It turns out, that even with large numbers of processors we are not able to speed up majority of algorithms in any significant way. Maybe in real world, few additional processors could compute some basic stuff in the meantime to speed things up, but I doubt that doubling the number of processors will add significant speed to computers when the number of them is large enough.
I have to disagree. If you have more than two parties, your government is terribly weakened and cannot make any significant changes. I'm from Czech Republic and our governments haven't been able to make crucial economic changes in 20 years. And even though in 2009 we have elected parties, that had very strong mandate to do something and there was strong will to make such changes, it now seems that they won't be able to make them anyway, because there showed up a bunch of idiots in one party. The result is, that we won't have this important legislature passed for at least 4 years and communist party will be part of the next government.
It may seem, that you are fucked once from democrats and once from republicans, but the alternative is, your government will be incompetent and you'll be fucked anyways. There is simply no other way in democratic system.
I'm from Europe and I'm worried about the pro-religion laws, that are passed all around world. This laws effectively prohibit criticising religion, because such critique could be considered blasphemy. I'm against any organized philosophy, because I think it can be used as a tool to manipulate people, but seeing such laws, I would be happy if there was a scientific religion. Such religion could worship scientific truths (without any ceremonies of course) and it would be blasphemous deny them. Then it would be at least fair that not only bullshit like religion could take advantage of such laws.
What do you think about it? Would you propose an alternative to this approach?
2. Praying 5 times a day. Totally harmless for anyone who's not doing this.
What ? This brainwashing is totally harmless for anyone else ? Are you serious ? These people are because of this middle-age policy almost always fanatic. In Christianity, there are many people who say they are christian, but because they don't attend church too often they can think of themselves without any fanaticism. On the other hand, majority of people, who attend church regularly they are morons, who demonize homosexuals, preach against abortions and other retarded stuff.
Brainwashing is simply NOT harmless for everybody else... at least not in democracy.
I'm not from US, but after watching the presidential debate, I'm convinced that Romney is really bad candidate. In the debate, he keep repeating, that he will support teachers, he will cancel Obama care and replace it with something, that will essentially do the same, he will lower tax rates with closing loopholes to have the revenue the same and so on WITHOUT actually saying anything specific. He basically said, that he is able to do everything well again without saying how would he achieve it. Such magic presented in the campaign is only populism and he will not be able to hold his promises. And even if I didn't see this as a problem, I still would see the fact, that he is inconsistent with himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgfzknYd20
Obama on the other hand was quite specific about his plans and his plans seem to be realistic
I don't agree. Microsoft changes the way the UI appears too often even if there is no reason to change it. Another example of this would be MS office. The UI changes with every version even though the old style UI, that is used in LibreOffice is good. If users were happy with the old interface, I don't think there is need to force the users to stop using it.
I think that scientist ignore politics and such ludicrous claims too often. There should be strong visible position of the scientific community against these claims so that any sane even uninformed person could see, that such opinions are insane and unacceptable in modern society.
I agree with the 6x8 and 8x12 sweet spot. It is true, that vector fonts can have more information per pixel than bitmap fonts, however, I didn't find any font smaller than 6x8 that is still readable. The 6x8 font seems to me that it is the smallest readable font possible. Correct me if I missed something.
I've never found a better font than the windows raster fonts, that are used in cmd.exe by default. They are very well readable even in 6x8 size. I'm not aware about any font that could compete with that.
In Christianity, there are usually the devils viewed as the bad guys and Christians are often speaking against them.which could be considered blasphemy against god/gods in satanism. How about arresting all Christians in Greece?
Well, I wouldn't agree that this material could be used in so many places to retrieve the used energy back. For example you might need to wrap it around the light bulb to get the energy back, but the material might not be transparent.
Well, I'd love to be false prophet, but with interstellar travel I don't see the future very bright. There are physical boundaries that almost disallow such things. If we even forget about theory of relativity, we know that e = mv^2/2 and e=mc^2. So we know that to be able to make something move fast enough to reach any star in our neighbourhood and return, we need to provide it with energy, which is roughly to energy stored in matter and antimatter of the same mass (or one order down) as the vehicle. Production of such fuel doesn't seem to be conceivable with the resources we have even in the foreseeable future.
If you want to show that the bible is made up, or its text is corrupt, I'm going to put you through scientific method process and axiomatic logic reasoning to establish your case.
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When talking about income taxes, yes, you are member of the society, you benefit from such things, you should pay taxes. Companies, however, don't benefit from army, from healthcare and from any other things that society provides. In fact, when nobody uses the company, the company ceases to exist. Taxing the companies only forces the companies to spend every year the most so they don't have to pay such high taxes. For me, it is not bad if for example Microsoft holds great untaxed amount of cash this year and invests it the next year or the year after. The company is already punished for not spending their money by inflation, the income tax is just bad tool and shouldn't be used.
I actually don't want to discuss religion under this article, but I have to react.
... yes they did, what does it have to do with religion and religious idiocy ?
The statement might be insulting, but I'm quite sure it is true - I'm not trying to be politically correct on Slashdot.
(a) Vast majority of muslims are religious idiots. From pools conducted in muslim countries, non trivial portion of people support terrorism, al-Qaeda, or bin Laden ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_towards_terrorism#Recent_polls ). That are normal people, not a few fundamentalist idiots that would be an exception in muslim society. This actually is just about terrorism and killing people - to call somebody religious idiot, I don't need him to support terrorism, just support for stoning people for adultery ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning#Support_for_stoning), insulting Quran, apostasy is enough. Even forcing women to wear burqas, forbidding women to drive cars, to divorce husband, are grounds to call them religious idiots (Don't have statistic for that but I suspect it will be much higher percentage than the percentage of people supporting stoning). Even so called secularized muslims seem to be secularized as long as they don't have the majority in society (just an example from a debate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r018ohLUuL4&feature=player_detailpage#t=411s). I, based on such data, conclude that vast majority of muslims can be safely called religious idiots. I BY NO MEANS CLAIM, THAT ALL OF THEM ARE, but the portion is great enough.
And as for the contributions from muslims to sicence and culture
(b) In social studies there can't be any conclusive proof but we have clues. For example statistic about people in prison, atheists are there far less often than religious people: http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Percentage_of_atheists . And atheists don't have an imposed twisted sense of morality provided by any abrahamic religion.
I'm trying to be as objective as possible and not stereotypical. If I got the facts wrong please correct me, but I think, that the facts I provided point towards my opinions.
Actually no. I'm quite sure, that in such case Muslims and many other religion guided idiots would claim that the asteroid is God intended punishment and would suicidebomb any attempts to deflect it in order to preserve God's will.
If the hardware would be good enough, mainly the screen with good resolution (FullHD and more) it could be interesting for me. There simply are almost no options for people who want good notebook with high resolution without Windows preinstalled.
I have done a little research and posted information about the policy and the vote on my wall. As far as I know, almost nobody gave a f*ck about it. People just don't care about the policy of facebook as long as they can upload photos and post statuses.
Doubling of processor cores doesn't imply that things can be twice as fast. There is actually pretty hard science going on researching what can be done with N processors to speed up problem solving. It turns out, that even with large numbers of processors we are not able to speed up majority of algorithms in any significant way. Maybe in real world, few additional processors could compute some basic stuff in the meantime to speed things up, but I doubt that doubling the number of processors will add significant speed to computers when the number of them is large enough.
I have to disagree. If you have more than two parties, your government is terribly weakened and cannot make any significant changes. I'm from Czech Republic and our governments haven't been able to make crucial economic changes in 20 years. And even though in 2009 we have elected parties, that had very strong mandate to do something and there was strong will to make such changes, it now seems that they won't be able to make them anyway, because there showed up a bunch of idiots in one party. The result is, that we won't have this important legislature passed for at least 4 years and communist party will be part of the next government.
It may seem, that you are fucked once from democrats and once from republicans, but the alternative is, your government will be incompetent and you'll be fucked anyways. There is simply no other way in democratic system.
I'm from Europe and I'm worried about the pro-religion laws, that are passed all around world. This laws effectively prohibit criticising religion, because such critique could be considered blasphemy. I'm against any organized philosophy, because I think it can be used as a tool to manipulate people, but seeing such laws, I would be happy if there was a scientific religion. Such religion could worship scientific truths (without any ceremonies of course) and it would be blasphemous deny them. Then it would be at least fair that not only bullshit like religion could take advantage of such laws. What do you think about it? Would you propose an alternative to this approach?
2. Praying 5 times a day. Totally harmless for anyone who's not doing this. What ? This brainwashing is totally harmless for anyone else ? Are you serious ? These people are because of this middle-age policy almost always fanatic. In Christianity, there are many people who say they are christian, but because they don't attend church too often they can think of themselves without any fanaticism. On the other hand, majority of people, who attend church regularly they are morons, who demonize homosexuals, preach against abortions and other retarded stuff. Brainwashing is simply NOT harmless for everybody else... at least not in democracy.
I'm not from US, but after watching the presidential debate, I'm convinced that Romney is really bad candidate. In the debate, he keep repeating, that he will support teachers, he will cancel Obama care and replace it with something, that will essentially do the same, he will lower tax rates with closing loopholes to have the revenue the same and so on WITHOUT actually saying anything specific. He basically said, that he is able to do everything well again without saying how would he achieve it. Such magic presented in the campaign is only populism and he will not be able to hold his promises. And even if I didn't see this as a problem, I still would see the fact, that he is inconsistent with himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgfzknYd20 Obama on the other hand was quite specific about his plans and his plans seem to be realistic
I don't agree. Microsoft changes the way the UI appears too often even if there is no reason to change it. Another example of this would be MS office. The UI changes with every version even though the old style UI, that is used in LibreOffice is good. If users were happy with the old interface, I don't think there is need to force the users to stop using it.
I think that scientist ignore politics and such ludicrous claims too often. There should be strong visible position of the scientific community against these claims so that any sane even uninformed person could see, that such opinions are insane and unacceptable in modern society.
Wow. This is very tiny, that I almost need magnifier to read that, however, it is pretty readable. Thank you!
I agree with the 6x8 and 8x12 sweet spot. It is true, that vector fonts can have more information per pixel than bitmap fonts, however, I didn't find any font smaller than 6x8 that is still readable. The 6x8 font seems to me that it is the smallest readable font possible. Correct me if I missed something.
I've never found a better font than the windows raster fonts, that are used in cmd.exe by default. They are very well readable even in 6x8 size. I'm not aware about any font that could compete with that.
In Christianity, there are usually the devils viewed as the bad guys and Christians are often speaking against them.which could be considered blasphemy against god/gods in satanism. How about arresting all Christians in Greece?
Well, I wouldn't agree that this material could be used in so many places to retrieve the used energy back. For example you might need to wrap it around the light bulb to get the energy back, but the material might not be transparent.
1300 feet that is 396.24 m. (Score:5, Informative)
Well, I'd love to be false prophet, but with interstellar travel I don't see the future very bright. There are physical boundaries that almost disallow such things. If we even forget about theory of relativity, we know that e = mv^2/2 and e=mc^2. So we know that to be able to make something move fast enough to reach any star in our neighbourhood and return, we need to provide it with energy, which is roughly to energy stored in matter and antimatter of the same mass (or one order down) as the vehicle. Production of such fuel doesn't seem to be conceivable with the resources we have even in the foreseeable future.
The smaller competition the better for the remaining developers (and I'm sure, that the Windows 8 will gain some market share).
If you want to show that the bible is made up, or its text is corrupt, I'm going to put you through scientific method process and axiomatic logic reasoning to establish your case.
This should do the trick: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ .