Truth is truth regardless of points of view. Open discussions are great but science still places a large emphasis on empirical evidence. When it comes to evolution you can find the evidence everywhere. Half the time the evidence is found lying on he ground.
I have to admit that I kind of agree with this guy. I get the explanation and the switching but to me there are two separate problems. First you pick one door from three, a 1/3 chance of being right. Then you get to see a goat door. This eliminates that door. When you are asked if you want to switch you are in effect being asked to choose between two doors. The revealed goat is no longer a valid choice. The problem is no longer the original problem, it is now a new problem, the odds need to be calculated fresh for the new problem. It is now a 1/2 choice.
Mind you I may have just demonstrated my own cognitive dissonance.
Are you a better driver than others? I would say yes you are.
I see driving as requiring three different skill sets. Car handling skills, simply how well can you handle a car. Spatial awareness, reaction time, etc. Information processing skill, knowing how to read traffic. The last skill is attitude and it may be the most important of the three. I don't care how great your skills are in the first two skills if you have a crappy attitude you will never be more than a crappy driver. A good attitude will make up for shortcomings in the first skills.
You seem to have a good attitude towards driving. I wish everyone did.
The problem with a PS3 as an HD player is that it lacks discreet analogue audio outputs for 7.1 sound. This means that to get the 7.1 sound you have to have a receiver that does HDMI 1.3 and have the proper codecs to decode the audio.
My current amp has discreet analogue inputs and the BD players have the outputs. Four pair of audio cables later and I get the new HD 7.1 surround. With a PS3 I need to also drop about a grand on an amp. I consider the audio more important than the video so I wouldn't even consider the PS3 for movie playback. At this time. If I had a suitable amp I might.
It gets even better. Due to the falling American dollar it is harder for growers to sell pot to American dealers. So Canada is expected to have a glut of extra pot and probably falling prices.
Downloading copyrighted stuff is not wrong. In fact the internet relies on our ability to download copyrighted stuff.
The page you are viewing has a copyright. It was downloaded so your browser can display it. Some vendor's pamphlets could carry copyright yet the vendor wants as many downloaded as possible. The problem exists with copyrighted material that was never authorized for free distribution.
Downloading isn't even the real issue. The copyright violation on some piece of music occurred when it was copied and shared freely. Notice that the RIAA keeps going after the sharers, not the downloaders.
I do think that the incessant downloader who never ever buys any of the material is a bit of a scumbag. I like to purchase movies, music, games and whatever because it encourages them to make more.
If my ISP called and tried to warn me about downloading copyrighted material, I hope the poor schlep on the phone is prepared. I do download, I do use P2P and I do download copyrighted material. All with full permission from the copyright holder. If you think I'm breaking a law, call the cops.
"What's so cool about halting clean dvd edits? Do you find it morally objectionable to remove morally objectionable content from movies?"
Yes, I am deeply offended by people who censor art. If you think there is a facet to a piece of art that is objectionable then don't view any of the piece. Changing even the slightest detail is to take the work out of context. You might as well kick the artist in the nuts.
The Mona Lisa is a great piece of art except for that ugly chick. Let's replace her face with Paris Hilton. Better now?
Let's take all the sex and violence out of the Bible. That would leave us with a nice, if not substantial, notebook with a nice cover.
It's very important for people to encounter concepts that they find "morally objectionable" otherwise how do they understand their own morality? How can you grow as a human being if you live life in some sterile bubble of flowers, puppies and happy things? Someone has to challenge your morality to grow you has a human. How do you teach morality and ethics to children if they never encounter anything questionable? The world will turn out to be a big scary place if you never have your ideas challenged and then you suddenly find yourself faced with all the questionable morality and ethics we all deal with every day.
Oh right, I remember now. You give the little ones a bible. Tell them that's all they ever need to know and then stick your head back up your own arse.
Religion is actually just politics with an invisible leader. The power seekers in religion want to be second in command.
It works out great. By being second in command you get all the power and its trappings, great food, great sex, great place to live and the best part is you can pass the buck to the guy in charge if things seem to be going awry. It's actually a much better thought out scam than politics.
I'd be all for it if it wasn't for this demand of universal ignorance they call faith.
It doesn't matter if someone removes the watermark. The watermark is like having the original negative back in the bad ol' days of film.
You claim that a shot is yours. I claim it's mine. You produce some RGB file with fake metadata and I produce a raw image with my biometric watermark clearly identifiable. Guess who the judge believes?
You're right, those programs are merely a vehicle for carrying goods. Some of which may be illegal, much like the cars and trucks that might be used to mule illegal drugs. Cars aren't illegal just because they can carry illegal cargo.
Come on, you guys had to know there was going to be a car analogy in there somewhere.
I think you'll find that you are not the customer of airport security. The airlines and the airport are the real customers. You, the weary traveler, are simply a potential threat to the security of the father.... I mean, homeland.
Are you talking about ringing a bell, or ringing a bell? Because if you mean ringing, the passed tense is rang, unless you meant ringing, in which case the passed tense is ringed.
A bell is rang, Saturn is ringed. Of course the bell could have rings in which case it could be ringed and rang at the same time.
English is easy. There's no excuse for these mistakes.
I was getting the password for a new credit card terminal and the operator told me it was "1 Alpha Alpha 23456". Now with only a telephone keypad interface and a few extra buttons I could not for the life of me figure out how to enter 1AA23456. Turns out that I didn't see the key labeled "Alpha".
Even funnier to consider in 1983, Frank Zappa said the traditional model was dead. Except for some technical details he almost precisely predicted the next model.
Of course that is true on the surface. Gets more complicated in reality. The problem with calories from carbs is they leave you hungry. Most people eat when hungry. Diets with lots of carbs make reducing calories almost impossible. Fat and protein calories stay with you longer and without feeling hungry you eat less.
Tough to cut calories when you are hungry all the time. Easy to cut calories when you aren't hungry all the time.
I eat two slices of fried bacon and two fried eggs for breakfast everyday. That's about 260 calories. I'm not hungry again for about six hours. If I add two slices of toast it almost doubles the calories and I'm hungry again in an hour. That's the secret of low carb eating. Never feeling hungry.
Why does gaming always mean video games? I have a family legacy of being hardcore gamers. We were hardcore gamers before pong was popular. Road hockey, baseball, golf, cards, board games anything as long as there was somebody to beat. Let's face it a hard core gamer needs an opponent. Playing a solo video game alone for hours is to hardcore gaming what masturbation is to sex. You get the reward but really have nothing to brag about.
Consequently I played games with my kids and still do (they are now 18 and 21). All kinds of games, video games included. My son owned me at Quake and Star Craft. I owned him at road hockey, just like my old man would own me and my friends.
Funny thing is that my parents seemed unique for parents among my peers. I can't recall any of my friends parents grabbing their ball glove to came out and play with us. My guess is this non-gaming with kids extends well beyond just video games.
My old man is still a hardcore gamer. He may be close to seventy but can still shoot in the low eighties which makes him tough to beat on the golf course.
Go look in a mirror. Explain to me why you have traits of both of your parents.
Is this not descent with modification? What exactly do you think evolution is?
A change in allele frequency over time. If that isn't what you thought evolution is then you can now stand corrected.
Evolution is the fact that offspring get traits from both parents. Natural selection explains why this offspring will be successful in reproducing or not.
Ever wonder why your physician demands that you finish off all the antibiotics he is prescribing? That's right, evolution. You see, the drugs will first kill the weakest of the bacteria infecting you. If you stop, the strongest, least effected will survive and reproduce passing on this ability to withstand the drugs. Next thing you know we have antibiotic resistant bacteria. Evolution via natural selection. It's really very simple, isn't it?
To point out an error in your post. Evolution says nothing about life originating, that is abiogenisis. Evolution is what has been happening since life appeared.
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Truth is truth regardless of points of view. Open discussions are great but science still places a large emphasis on empirical evidence. When it comes to evolution you can find the evidence everywhere. Half the time the evidence is found lying on he ground.
I have to admit that I kind of agree with this guy. I get the explanation and the switching but to me there are two separate problems. First you pick one door from three, a 1/3 chance of being right. Then you get to see a goat door. This eliminates that door. When you are asked if you want to switch you are in effect being asked to choose between two doors. The revealed goat is no longer a valid choice. The problem is no longer the original problem, it is now a new problem, the odds need to be calculated fresh for the new problem. It is now a 1/2 choice.
Mind you I may have just demonstrated my own cognitive dissonance.
Are you a better driver than others? I would say yes you are.
I see driving as requiring three different skill sets. Car handling skills, simply how well can you handle a car. Spatial awareness, reaction time, etc. Information processing skill, knowing how to read traffic. The last skill is attitude and it may be the most important of the three. I don't care how great your skills are in the first two skills if you have a crappy attitude you will never be more than a crappy driver. A good attitude will make up for shortcomings in the first skills.
You seem to have a good attitude towards driving. I wish everyone did.
Thank you for your clear and obvious understanding of the challenges of maintaining Fatherla^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Homeland Security.
Please find enclosed a fresh new brown shirt. (Sorry, they only come in extra large.)
The problem with a PS3 as an HD player is that it lacks discreet analogue audio outputs for 7.1 sound. This means that to get the 7.1 sound you have to have a receiver that does HDMI 1.3 and have the proper codecs to decode the audio.
My current amp has discreet analogue inputs and the BD players have the outputs. Four pair of audio cables later and I get the new HD 7.1 surround. With a PS3 I need to also drop about a grand on an amp. I consider the audio more important than the video so I wouldn't even consider the PS3 for movie playback. At this time. If I had a suitable amp I might.
It gets even better. Due to the falling American dollar it is harder for growers to sell pot to American dealers. So Canada is expected to have a glut of extra pot and probably falling prices.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Magic numbers? WTF?
Pi is simply the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter. Where's the magic?
The square root of two is the square root of two. But I guess it's magic.
Did this guy study math at a religious school or something?
Downloading copyrighted stuff is not wrong. In fact the internet relies on our ability to download copyrighted stuff.
The page you are viewing has a copyright. It was downloaded so your browser can display it. Some vendor's pamphlets could carry copyright yet the vendor wants as many downloaded as possible. The problem exists with copyrighted material that was never authorized for free distribution.
Downloading isn't even the real issue. The copyright violation on some piece of music occurred when it was copied and shared freely. Notice that the RIAA keeps going after the sharers, not the downloaders.
I do think that the incessant downloader who never ever buys any of the material is a bit of a scumbag. I like to purchase movies, music, games and whatever because it encourages them to make more.
If my ISP called and tried to warn me about downloading copyrighted material, I hope the poor schlep on the phone is prepared. I do download, I do use P2P and I do download copyrighted material. All with full permission from the copyright holder. If you think I'm breaking a law, call the cops.
"What's so cool about halting clean dvd edits? Do you find it morally objectionable to remove morally objectionable content from movies?"
Yes, I am deeply offended by people who censor art. If you think there is a facet to a piece of art that is objectionable then don't view any of the piece. Changing even the slightest detail is to take the work out of context. You might as well kick the artist in the nuts.
The Mona Lisa is a great piece of art except for that ugly chick. Let's replace her face with Paris Hilton. Better now?
Let's take all the sex and violence out of the Bible. That would leave us with a nice, if not substantial, notebook with a nice cover.
It's very important for people to encounter concepts that they find "morally objectionable" otherwise how do they understand their own morality? How can you grow as a human being if you live life in some sterile bubble of flowers, puppies and happy things? Someone has to challenge your morality to grow you has a human. How do you teach morality and ethics to children if they never encounter anything questionable? The world will turn out to be a big scary place if you never have your ideas challenged and then you suddenly find yourself faced with all the questionable morality and ethics we all deal with every day.
Oh right, I remember now. You give the little ones a bible. Tell them that's all they ever need to know and then stick your head back up your own arse.
I'm hopelessly addicted to looking out for everyone else's well being.
Religion is actually just politics with an invisible leader. The power seekers in religion want to be second in command.
It works out great. By being second in command you get all the power and its trappings, great food, great sex, great place to live and the best part is you can pass the buck to the guy in charge if things seem to be going awry. It's actually a much better thought out scam than politics.
I'd be all for it if it wasn't for this demand of universal ignorance they call faith.
Go look in a mirror. Do you have traits of both your parents? Why do you think that is?
Sounds more like 3.14 square miles.
It doesn't matter if someone removes the watermark. The watermark is like having the original negative back in the bad ol' days of film.
You claim that a shot is yours. I claim it's mine. You produce some RGB file with fake metadata and I produce a raw image with my biometric watermark clearly identifiable. Guess who the judge believes?
You're right, those programs are merely a vehicle for carrying goods. Some of which may be illegal, much like the cars and trucks that might be used to mule illegal drugs. Cars aren't illegal just because they can carry illegal cargo.
Come on, you guys had to know there was going to be a car analogy in there somewhere.
I think you'll find that you are not the customer of airport security. The airlines and the airport are the real customers. You, the weary traveler, are simply a potential threat to the security of the father .... I mean, homeland.
Please don't take that personally. It was really intended to poke fun at the English language which can often be anything but easy.
I find that many, for whom English is a second language, actually write better than many native English speakers. At least they make some effort.
Have a great day, man.
Are you talking about ringing a bell, or ringing a bell? Because if you mean ringing, the passed tense is rang, unless you meant ringing, in which case the passed tense is ringed.
A bell is rang, Saturn is ringed. Of course the bell could have rings in which case it could be ringed and rang at the same time.
English is easy. There's no excuse for these mistakes.
I was getting the password for a new credit card terminal and the operator told me it was "1 Alpha Alpha 23456". Now with only a telephone keypad interface and a few extra buttons I could not for the life of me figure out how to enter 1AA23456. Turns out that I didn't see the key labeled "Alpha".
Even funnier to consider in 1983, Frank Zappa said the traditional model was dead. Except for some technical details he almost precisely predicted the next model.
http://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=719
They never did really listen to him.
Spammers, please take note that I actually have a large penis. Your assistance and concern, while appreciated, is simply not required.
How did that work out for them?
Of course that is true on the surface. Gets more complicated in reality. The problem with calories from carbs is they leave you hungry. Most people eat when hungry. Diets with lots of carbs make reducing calories almost impossible. Fat and protein calories stay with you longer and without feeling hungry you eat less.
Tough to cut calories when you are hungry all the time. Easy to cut calories when you aren't hungry all the time.
I eat two slices of fried bacon and two fried eggs for breakfast everyday. That's about 260 calories. I'm not hungry again for about six hours. If I add two slices of toast it almost doubles the calories and I'm hungry again in an hour. That's the secret of low carb eating. Never feeling hungry.
Why does gaming always mean video games? I have a family legacy of being hardcore gamers. We were hardcore gamers before pong was popular. Road hockey, baseball, golf, cards, board games anything as long as there was somebody to beat. Let's face it a hard core gamer needs an opponent. Playing a solo video game alone for hours is to hardcore gaming what masturbation is to sex. You get the reward but really have nothing to brag about.
Consequently I played games with my kids and still do (they are now 18 and 21). All kinds of games, video games included. My son owned me at Quake and Star Craft. I owned him at road hockey, just like my old man would own me and my friends.
Funny thing is that my parents seemed unique for parents among my peers. I can't recall any of my friends parents grabbing their ball glove to came out and play with us. My guess is this non-gaming with kids extends well beyond just video games.
My old man is still a hardcore gamer. He may be close to seventy but can still shoot in the low eighties which makes him tough to beat on the golf course.
Go look in a mirror. Explain to me why you have traits of both of your parents.
Is this not descent with modification? What exactly do you think evolution is?
A change in allele frequency over time. If that isn't what you thought evolution is then you can now stand corrected.
Evolution is the fact that offspring get traits from both parents. Natural selection explains why this offspring will be successful in reproducing or not.
It's really very simple.
Here are some links:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_fact-and-theory.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4161281,00.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/uor-nsf061203.php
Ever wonder why your physician demands that you finish off all the antibiotics he is prescribing? That's right, evolution. You see, the drugs will first kill the weakest of the bacteria infecting you. If you stop, the strongest, least effected will survive and reproduce passing on this ability to withstand the drugs. Next thing you know we have antibiotic resistant bacteria. Evolution via natural selection. It's really very simple, isn't it?
another link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance
To point out an error in your post. Evolution says nothing about life originating, that is abiogenisis. Evolution is what has been happening since life appeared.