While you are correct that the burden of proof should be on those who claim a thing's existence, a "Supreme Power" or "Prime Mover"'s existence can be neither proven nor disproven.
Propositions which can be neither proven nor disproven are irrelevant and can be ignored. Which is what I tend to do.
It was, in fact, the very same Hero of Alexandria who invented the steam engine.
I did my Humanities project on Hero last semester. The professor tried to give me guff because I "didn't specify who the hero was."
Seriously.
Other fun facts about Hero of Alexandria:
He invented the first vending machine, a coin-operated fountain; the first pedometer, which tracked miles traveled with pebbles; and a primitive nickelodeon that performed an automatic play.
I couldn't get my model of his aeolipile to work. Oh well. No shame in being shown up by the ancient Greeks.
Just as communists were fundamentally different from anarchists, terrorists are fundamentally different from communists. The fundamental difference is that in each case, the latter has been so overused as a bogeyman as to lose its effectiveness.
It makes me wonder what monster will be trotted out next to justify military expenses. My best guess:
The War on Publishers. Dovetails nicely with the current trend to trade freedom of speech for intellectual property rights.
Although, if I knew anything worth listening to, I'd be rich. Feel free to laugh this off. Doing so costs nothing, after all.
Just be ready to defend your children when the publishers begin peddling their filthy traitorous smut in your backyard. You wouldn't believe what they wrote about our honorable Commander-in-Chief.
Yes, it's as though being raped lends a supernatural clarity to their vision. Maybe we should just get rid of SETI/FERMILAB and replace them with a squadron of freshly-raped 12-14 year-old girls.
I'm certain we would find ye little green men / god particle, and sentence them/it to death by hanging... with plenty of time for a commercial break and credits.
Israel protects "their land" which was taken from its previous owners* by a British Empire in its death throes, from what I hear. If only the bloody tea-drinking wankers had had the foresight to pay off the natives with some plague-infected blankets, we might not have such turmoil in the middle east today.
Here in the States, we call that "American Know-how".
To bring it back on topic, if the United States are the Beatles, then the Bush administration is Yoko. Go ahead and digest that one, I'll be waiting behind this lead shield while you self-destruct.
* I only respect claims of ownership to things which you have been stolen from you during your lifetime. So no talk of promised lands, chosen tribes, or Civil War slavery reparations, please.
First, the appropriate analogy is "eating the seed corn", which is a worse mistake for our metaphorical farmer to make.
Second, as a fellow Floridian, I am told that a majority of water usage/waste is from power plants, and is simply released as steam, with lawn watering being a relative pittance. Here, too, though, desalination and nuke plants would help.
We agree in spirit, but the devil's in the details.
Back on topic, if IP doesn't exist in China, then why does this matter? Contrariwise, if IP is recognized in China, why doesn't somebody tell the Chinese?;)
Actually, Windows versions as early as 2000 use a whitelist method of "protecting" processes: If the process name matches a hardcoded list, then task manager will refuse to kill it. This is so broken it's ludicrous- simply rename your process to any of the ones on the list, and it becomes unkillable. Programs such as PSkill will kill all processes, regardless of name.
He's not complaining about inability to host private games. He's complaining about having to pay for the privilege of hosting his own game. I happen to agree... but then, I mostly play quake, so I'm probably not in the demographic.
I believe there's program that lets you build with virtual Lego, but it's not a 'game' it's more of a modeling environment.
As mentioned above, for interactive building fun in a FPS environment, there's Blockland, or if you prefer, Blockland Mods. The former is the base game, with basic bricks; the latter contains lots of user-created additions.
For offline, more systematic virtual Lego, you can't go wrong with BlockCAD, which is just what it sounds like, and is perhaps what you're thinking of.
It seems that men who had Someone to pray to, something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
Plus, they had the benefit of sharing in any rations stolen from those hellbound atheists. Limpwristed heathens!
The website isn't that fast, and you don't have that kind of time to research anything. Sure, you can look up every arena player on every server in your battle group, and try to memorize it all (thousands of players on each of 8 or so servers)
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While you are correct that the burden of proof should be on those who claim a thing's existence, a "Supreme Power" or "Prime Mover"'s existence can be neither proven nor disproven.
Propositions which can be neither proven nor disproven are irrelevant and can be ignored. Which is what I tend to do.
It was, in fact, the very same Hero of Alexandria who invented the steam engine.
I did my Humanities project on Hero last semester. The professor tried to give me guff because I "didn't specify who the hero was."
Seriously.
Other fun facts about Hero of Alexandria:
He invented the first vending machine, a coin-operated fountain;
the first pedometer, which tracked miles traveled with pebbles;
and a primitive nickelodeon that performed an automatic play.
I couldn't get my model of his aeolipile to work. Oh well. No shame in being shown up by the ancient Greeks.
Cue screed re: Bush was only elected once.
Just as communists were fundamentally different from anarchists, terrorists are fundamentally different from communists.
The fundamental difference is that in each case, the latter has been so overused as a bogeyman as to lose its effectiveness.
It makes me wonder what monster will be trotted out next to justify military expenses. My best guess:
The War on Publishers. Dovetails nicely with the current trend to trade freedom of speech for intellectual property rights.
Although, if I knew anything worth listening to, I'd be rich. Feel free to laugh this off. Doing so costs nothing, after all.
Just be ready to defend your children when the publishers begin peddling their filthy traitorous smut in your backyard. You wouldn't believe what they wrote about our honorable Commander-in-Chief.
It could help... until they're crushed by a gas-guzzling SUV, piloted by a cellphone-distracted, overweight soccer mom.
With the aid of the Bose home theater, this stereotype sounds especially rich and authentic.
The current pope was a member of hitler youth. 'nuff said.
To sidestep your asinine semantic games (that someone mistakenly perceived as insightful)...
"Every generalization has at least one exception, and this one is its own."
Will that dog hunt for you?
Yes, it's as though being raped lends a supernatural clarity to their vision.
Maybe we should just get rid of SETI/FERMILAB and replace them with a squadron
of freshly-raped 12-14 year-old girls.
I'm certain we would find ye little green men / god particle, and sentence them/it
to death by hanging... with plenty of time for a commercial break and credits.
Then why'd you post anonymous coward? Nothing like winning a magic tourney to make you feel like King of the Nerds.
Israel protects "their land" which was taken from its previous owners* by a British Empire in its death throes, from what I hear.
If only the bloody tea-drinking wankers had had the foresight to pay off the natives with some plague-infected blankets, we might not have such turmoil in the middle east today.
Here in the States, we call that "American Know-how".
To bring it back on topic, if the United States are the Beatles, then the Bush administration is Yoko. Go ahead and digest that one, I'll be waiting behind this lead shield while you self-destruct.
* I only respect claims of ownership to things which you have been stolen from you during your lifetime. So no talk of promised lands, chosen tribes, or Civil War slavery reparations, please.
It's worse than you mention, on both accounts.
First, the appropriate analogy is "eating the seed corn", which is a worse mistake for our metaphorical farmer to make.
Second, as a fellow Floridian, I am told that a majority of water usage/waste is from power plants, and is simply released as steam, with lawn watering being a relative pittance. Here, too, though, desalination and nuke plants would help.
We agree in spirit, but the devil's in the details.
Yet, sadly, no idea who to vote for, and really no guarantee that your vote will matter, presidentially speaking.
Currently awaiting a decent implementation of TCP/IP over evergreens.
Seems the obvious thing to do is build it into a drafting table, and let the user adjust the slope of the surface as necessary.
Boston (as a hole) didn't know what the hell those little LED signs were
Oh, such accidental truth!
Whatever you do, Gillette is one step ahead...
The last word on Mac vs. PC.
Security through obscurity through wasted bandwidth, I say.
Since they claim to only analyze data in the aggregate, I doubt your "mountain of noise" makes much of a difference anyway.
It's easy to pass this sort of thing off as a childish prank, until it happens to you.
So, all you principals out there: when your disgruntled students exercise their right to free speech,
don't be a jackass and sue- Use this page, designed specifically for such an event.
Here's my suggestion.
;)
Back on topic, if IP doesn't exist in China, then why does this matter?
Contrariwise, if IP is recognized in China, why doesn't somebody tell the Chinese?
Actually, Windows versions as early as 2000 use a whitelist method of "protecting" processes: If the process name matches a hardcoded list, then task manager will refuse to kill it. This is so broken it's ludicrous- simply rename your process to any of the ones on the list, and it becomes unkillable. Programs such as PSkill will kill all processes, regardless of name.
He's not complaining about inability to host private games. He's complaining about having to pay for the privilege of hosting his own game. I happen to agree... but then, I mostly play quake, so I'm probably not in the demographic.
I believe there's program that lets you build with virtual Lego, but it's not a 'game' it's more of a modeling environment.
As mentioned above, for interactive building fun in a FPS environment, there's Blockland, or if you prefer, Blockland Mods. The former is the base game, with basic bricks; the latter contains lots of user-created additions.
For offline, more systematic virtual Lego, you can't go wrong with BlockCAD, which is just what it sounds like, and is perhaps what you're thinking of.
It seems that men who had Someone to pray to, something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
Plus, they had the benefit of sharing in any rations stolen from those hellbound atheists. Limpwristed heathens!
The website isn't that fast, and you don't have that kind of time to research anything. Sure, you can look up every arena player on every server in your battle group, and try to memorize it all (thousands of players on each of 8 or so servers)
:)
Or you could cache the pages locally