It was just as ugly as ever, unfortunately. It looks almost EXACTLY like the program that came with my SB16 in the Windows 3.1 days.
I'm sorry to be trollish, but were you trying to edit a sound file or masturbate? I've got a skill saw. Butt ugly, it is, but it cuts plywood just fine. I've seen some pretty saws with multicolor plastic at the BigBox hardware store, but I wouldn't trust them to cut cardboard reliably. Why would I care what it looks like if it gets the job done with the least amount of effort from me?
If the waste was still usable wouldn't you think they'd have reused it "in a different reactor" instead of literally throwing millions of Euros into a hole?
Would a government choose to do what is logical and reasonable instead of what will placate the masses? Hmmm...?
Wrestled in high-school in a very contentious, competitive conference. Northern High School was the ENEMY, plain and simple. I lost the conference tournament to one of 'em on a clerical error. Post-conference rolls around, and they are some of my biggest supporters at the Regional and State tournaments.
Just proof that I may be in a fist fight with my brother, but you'll have us both to contend with if you try to harm him.
I agree with your post, but I think one distinction needs to be added.
Evolution is as proven as gravity. It's there, it works, and we can demonstrate how it works. The leap of faith away from science is the statement "and that was the way life originated." There is a process for moving people from home to work. It is easily demonstrable. But that doesn't mean you can know how I got to work today. The best ANYONE can say about the origins of life on earth is "I believe..."
My point here is that the existence or non-existence of creation is not a matter that can be settled scientifically, as much as we would all like
I think you are missing the point. Few people are arguing that creationism is not true (whatever that means), they're arguing that:
It isn't science.
It provides no useful predictions and so is no more useful as a belief than the invisible pink unicorn.
Evolution, as an explanation for the origins of mankind, is no different. You can make guess, and demonstrate processes, but genesis requires that you determine what actually happened...not what could have happened. It drops down to a matter of faith in both instances.
So there are several possibilities: a. Autogenesis b. Exo-genesis (life came from another planet) c. Intelligent Design (genesis) d. Exo-genesis by another life form. (Quite a few nutters fall into this category, but it is also possible)
Occums Razor cuts out c, marginalizes d, and splits a/b in half with a being the most simple explanation. If we find identical lifeforms on Mars or in comet/astroid that matched Earth DNA exactly AND it predated any lifeform possibility on earth then b gets a boost as to how life formed on Earth.
That is only if you have Occums Razor consider the question of "the origin of life on Earth", vs. the question of "the origin of life". In the latter case, all that is left is a and c.
In any case, evolution only talks to a process of change. Taxes make people poorer, but a person isn't necessarily poor because of taxes. After the millions of years we keep talking about, Occam's Razor is to rusty to split this one.
People who don't know things like that are going to have some time trying to put together their own car.
People who can't read the instructions or watch the video won't invest in the raw materials (let alone a kit) to build it themselves. If you can't be bothered to learn to use a torque wrench, you won't even consider this. Pick up any Hane's Manual for any make of car you care to look at. It has the torque specs for all the important fasteners. There's your data. The skill necessary to use the torque wrench are trivial.
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If the guy who built the LHC knew what they were doing, why did they need to build the LHC?
I'm not a doomsdayer. I think that there will be an occasional sacrifice of human life in order to make reasonable scientific advances (ie, Marie Curie, several astronauts, that Army dude joy riding with Orville Wright, etc). However, to claim that the LHC builders have all the bases covered presumes a little much.
Dude, don't waste your time posting facts and using logic. Sheesh!
The troll claimed that the Feds are doing a good job with their so-called "War on Drugs". Claimed he was doing well running a family friendly store selling Christian rock, then he cursed a couple customers and his poor children had to wear ragged clothing and cheap haircuts. There are way more than enough bullshit alarms and contradictions within the post itself to save you from having to do the work of digging up real data.
This is the kind of silly, self-contradictory trash that you'd expect of Bill O'Reilly or Keith Oberman.
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Having nearly completed building a one-off airplane, I can attest to the fact that a one-off greatly increases the amount of 'stuff' going into the waste stream. It seems that each part made for the airplane requires a mold, jig or custom clamp to hold it in place. Buy the time I finish, I will have built the equivalent of 2.5 airplanes, and none of those molds, jigs or clamps will be useful to anyone else.
Let there be no doubt. Massive manufacturing operations really do decrease the waste-stream volume on a per unit basis.
You built it yourself. Why would you be taking it to a repair shop?
And what is with the can't do attitude? A constant theme on/. is the "anti-science" or "anti-intelligence" attitude in the US. Why is an "anti-ability to bolt a few parts together" attitude any better?
Laws that make sense. Limiting criminal charges to only people who have actually commited a crime. Limiting convictions to only those crimes that have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. These are some fairly radical ideas, but I think they just might work.
When you crawl out of your basement and see the real world for the first time since they stopped making you go to grade school, you will realize just how many people are out there, how many watch TV, and how many watch the same channel at the same time. At some point, you will come to realize how small the footprint of 500 broadcast channels is compared to what would be required for the millions of unicast channels.
Broadcast isn't just alive and well with a bright future, it is the only viable way to offer people the circus with their bread.
But if we get more efficient at that (e.g. by building machines that then do the work with fewer human hours involved), we _should_, on average, have more free time for a given level of prosperity, right?
And you most certainly could RIGHT NOW. You would just have to scale back your standard of living to the time when humans were doing all the work. Back to a family of 4 in a 1000sq.ft. home, with no AC and a max of one car per family. Going to see a movie would be an event. Most people prefer their McMansion with constant entertainment. "Stuff" cost money, and the level of spending generally outpaces the increases in pay scales.
You're on the right track, but I wouldn't use MSFS in the comparison. It is still mostly a game.
I draw this distinction, because MSFS uses static profiles to draw the physical reactions of their models. This has the drawback of limiting the model to known configurations and conditions. They have a Cessna 182 modeled very closely, but the realism goes out the window if you try to alter the model to add a spoiler or clip a bay off the wings.
I would have used XPlane against Crimson Skies. XPlane builds a dynamic model based on pre-generated airfoil data. Extend or move the wings around and the plane's behavior changes accordingly. XPlane began life as on guys attempt to create a simulator to save him money in pursuing an IFR certificate.
However, in either case, your are correct. The realism based programs don't include such things as guns or targets. It's not a game, as much as a simulator. Go to an XPlane fly-in and continously fly around where you're not supposed to and they will eventually kick you off the server. Things are tied closely to the real world. I expect that this racing simulator is similar.
As for your condemnation of the 'promote the general welfare' clause, I ask, why not have these programs? Part of the government's job is to provide a safety net, because, believe it or not, sometimes shit happens. Part of living in a society means helping out others in that society. If someone in your community is needing help, you help them out. Having programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and other programs is so that, when the times get rough, there is something there to help you get back on your feet. This is called COMPASSION for those in need.
Government enforced compassion? The problem with government enforced compassion is that it isn't compassionate. Compassion involves empathy. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc, involves following a byzantine bureaucracy to arrive at a government mandated payday. It involves politician using the redistribution of wealth as a carrot to attract votes. It involves some people promising other people that a third group is too successful and possibly have "excess profits".
Compassion goes from one human to another. The Federal government is never involved.
My brother in law was stopped by the police as he was rushing his wife to the hospital, because she was in labor. The policeman took note of the situation, allowed him to proceed, but followed him and wrote him a ticket at the hospital.
So, we make enough laws so that the police can harass whomsoever they damn well please. There's nothing you can reasonably do about the situation, and it is totally harmless, but you have to hope the policeman is nice and has some "common sense". You get to be all smiles, and maybe get your girlfriend to flash him a little.
The roads are "state-provided" with money they took from me, and then they completely surrounded me with them, so that I have no way to travel except over them.
What about that inalienable right to be secure in our posessions?
Here in North Carolina, they hide behind "a misdemeanor does not have to rise to 'beyond a reasonable doubt' status". Translation: I'm the judge and I can do anything I damn well please.
Oh you can appeal...if you've got money, time and patience. I was flat out told by the lawyer that all they had was some hear-say, but that's all the judge needs. My son was convicted of carrying a Swiss Army knife to school. No official even saw the knife.
In some states, the prosecutor doesn't have to 'prove' anything. Someone just has to tell the judge what he wants to hear.
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It was just as ugly as ever, unfortunately. It looks almost EXACTLY like the program that came with my SB16 in the Windows 3.1 days.
I'm sorry to be trollish, but were you trying to edit a sound file or masturbate? I've got a skill saw. Butt ugly, it is, but it cuts plywood just fine. I've seen some pretty saws with multicolor plastic at the BigBox hardware store, but I wouldn't trust them to cut cardboard reliably. Why would I care what it looks like if it gets the job done with the least amount of effort from me?
If the waste was still usable wouldn't you think they'd have reused it "in a different reactor" instead of literally throwing millions of Euros into a hole?
Would a government choose to do what is logical and reasonable instead of what will placate the masses? Hmmm...?
Wrestled in high-school in a very contentious, competitive conference. Northern High School was the ENEMY, plain and simple. I lost the conference tournament to one of 'em on a clerical error. Post-conference rolls around, and they are some of my biggest supporters at the Regional and State tournaments.
Just proof that I may be in a fist fight with my brother, but you'll have us both to contend with if you try to harm him.
I agree with your post, but I think one distinction needs to be added.
Evolution is as proven as gravity. It's there, it works, and we can demonstrate how it works. The leap of faith away from science is the statement "and that was the way life originated." There is a process for moving people from home to work. It is easily demonstrable. But that doesn't mean you can know how I got to work today. The best ANYONE can say about the origins of life on earth is "I believe..."
My point here is that the existence or non-existence of creation is not a matter that can be settled scientifically, as much as we would all like
I think you are missing the point. Few people are arguing that creationism is not true (whatever that means), they're arguing that:
Evolution, as an explanation for the origins of mankind, is no different. You can make guess, and demonstrate processes, but genesis requires that you determine what actually happened...not what could have happened. It drops down to a matter of faith in both instances.
So there are several possibilities:
a. Autogenesis
b. Exo-genesis (life came from another planet)
c. Intelligent Design (genesis)
d. Exo-genesis by another life form. (Quite a few nutters fall into this category, but it is also possible)
Occums Razor cuts out c, marginalizes d, and splits a/b in half with a being the most simple explanation.
If we find identical lifeforms on Mars or in comet/astroid that matched Earth DNA exactly AND it predated any lifeform possibility on earth then b gets a boost as to how life formed on Earth.
That is only if you have Occums Razor consider the question of "the origin of life on Earth", vs. the question of "the origin of life". In the latter case, all that is left is a and c.
In any case, evolution only talks to a process of change. Taxes make people poorer, but a person isn't necessarily poor because of taxes. After the millions of years we keep talking about, Occam's Razor is to rusty to split this one.
People who don't know things like that are going to have some time trying to put together their own car.
People who can't read the instructions or watch the video won't invest in the raw materials (let alone a kit) to build it themselves. If you can't be bothered to learn to use a torque wrench, you won't even consider this. Pick up any Hane's Manual for any make of car you care to look at. It has the torque specs for all the important fasteners. There's your data. The skill necessary to use the torque wrench are trivial.
If the guy who built the LHC knew what they were doing, why did they need to build the LHC?
I'm not a doomsdayer. I think that there will be an occasional sacrifice of human life in order to make reasonable scientific advances (ie, Marie Curie, several astronauts, that Army dude joy riding with Orville Wright, etc). However, to claim that the LHC builders have all the bases covered presumes a little much.
I'm looking around for a BFG myself.
NO!! Mod parent insightful, because I save 15% on my car insurance...and I'm a caveman.
Dude, don't waste your time posting facts and using logic. Sheesh!
The troll claimed that the Feds are doing a good job with their so-called "War on Drugs". Claimed he was doing well running a family friendly store selling Christian rock, then he cursed a couple customers and his poor children had to wear ragged clothing and cheap haircuts. There are way more than enough bullshit alarms and contradictions within the post itself to save you from having to do the work of digging up real data.
This is the kind of silly, self-contradictory trash that you'd expect of Bill O'Reilly or Keith Oberman.
Having nearly completed building a one-off airplane, I can attest to the fact that a one-off greatly increases the amount of 'stuff' going into the waste stream. It seems that each part made for the airplane requires a mold, jig or custom clamp to hold it in place. Buy the time I finish, I will have built the equivalent of 2.5 airplanes, and none of those molds, jigs or clamps will be useful to anyone else.
Let there be no doubt. Massive manufacturing operations really do decrease the waste-stream volume on a per unit basis.
You built it yourself. Why would you be taking it to a repair shop?
And what is with the can't do attitude? A constant theme on /. is the "anti-science" or "anti-intelligence" attitude in the US. Why is an "anti-ability to bolt a few parts together" attitude any better?
Yes.
Laws that make sense. Limiting criminal charges to only people who have actually commited a crime. Limiting convictions to only those crimes that have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. These are some fairly radical ideas, but I think they just might work.
When you crawl out of your basement and see the real world for the first time since they stopped making you go to grade school, you will realize just how many people are out there, how many watch TV, and how many watch the same channel at the same time. At some point, you will come to realize how small the footprint of 500 broadcast channels is compared to what would be required for the millions of unicast channels.
Broadcast isn't just alive and well with a bright future, it is the only viable way to offer people the circus with their bread.
But if we get more efficient at that (e.g. by building machines that then do the work with fewer human hours involved), we _should_, on average, have more free time for a given level of prosperity, right?
And you most certainly could RIGHT NOW. You would just have to scale back your standard of living to the time when humans were doing all the work. Back to a family of 4 in a 1000sq.ft. home, with no AC and a max of one car per family. Going to see a movie would be an event. Most people prefer their McMansion with constant entertainment. "Stuff" cost money, and the level of spending generally outpaces the increases in pay scales.
You don't get Daiquiris where you work either, huh? Your job must suck as bad as mine. They want to stick us with kegs of Guiness here.
You're on the right track, but I wouldn't use MSFS in the comparison. It is still mostly a game.
I draw this distinction, because MSFS uses static profiles to draw the physical reactions of their models. This has the drawback of limiting the model to known configurations and conditions. They have a Cessna 182 modeled very closely, but the realism goes out the window if you try to alter the model to add a spoiler or clip a bay off the wings.
I would have used XPlane against Crimson Skies. XPlane builds a dynamic model based on pre-generated airfoil data. Extend or move the wings around and the plane's behavior changes accordingly. XPlane began life as on guys attempt to create a simulator to save him money in pursuing an IFR certificate.
However, in either case, your are correct. The realism based programs don't include such things as guns or targets. It's not a game, as much as a simulator. Go to an XPlane fly-in and continously fly around where you're not supposed to and they will eventually kick you off the server. Things are tied closely to the real world. I expect that this racing simulator is similar.
...contributing corporations.
As for your condemnation of the 'promote the general welfare' clause, I ask, why not have these programs? Part of the government's job is to provide a safety net, because, believe it or not, sometimes shit happens. Part of living in a society means helping out others in that society. If someone in your community is needing help, you help them out. Having programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and other programs is so that, when the times get rough, there is something there to help you get back on your feet. This is called COMPASSION for those in need.
Government enforced compassion? The problem with government enforced compassion is that it isn't compassionate. Compassion involves empathy. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc, involves following a byzantine bureaucracy to arrive at a government mandated payday. It involves politician using the redistribution of wealth as a carrot to attract votes. It involves some people promising other people that a third group is too successful and possibly have "excess profits".
Compassion goes from one human to another. The Federal government is never involved.
My brother in law was stopped by the police as he was rushing his wife to the hospital, because she was in labor. The policeman took note of the situation, allowed him to proceed, but followed him and wrote him a ticket at the hospital.
So, we make enough laws so that the police can harass whomsoever they damn well please. There's nothing you can reasonably do about the situation, and it is totally harmless, but you have to hope the policeman is nice and has some "common sense". You get to be all smiles, and maybe get your girlfriend to flash him a little.
That makes for a nice society.
No. The guy with 10 DUIs has the right to keep driving until he kills someone. Then he has the responsibility of facing the death penalty.
The roads are "state-provided" with money they took from me, and then they completely surrounded me with them, so that I have no way to travel except over them.
What about that inalienable right to be secure in our posessions?
Here in North Carolina, they hide behind "a misdemeanor does not have to rise to 'beyond a reasonable doubt' status". Translation: I'm the judge and I can do anything I damn well please.
Oh you can appeal...if you've got money, time and patience. I was flat out told by the lawyer that all they had was some hear-say, but that's all the judge needs. My son was convicted of carrying a Swiss Army knife to school. No official even saw the knife.
In some states, the prosecutor doesn't have to 'prove' anything. Someone just has to tell the judge what he wants to hear.