I'd rather have 500G (or 300G, whatever) in RAID1 than a single TB that's unmirrored.
*Boom* There goes your life's 'savings'.
What -I- want is a modular drive cage with the GigE, firewire, and USB 2.0 (or at least GigE and one of the other two). There'd be maybe 20Mb of flash memory of some kind for the system. The device would sit on a network and act as a file server. It would come without any drives, so you could pick and chose the drive config that you want: 1 drive, two drives RAID1, 3 RAID5, etc.
The device would then have a slick little web and/or terminal interface similar to what routers have to configure it. It could serve as a PDC, do roaming profiles for windows, and have the option to do NFS stuff.
There are more dire consequences to this whole scenario that most slashdot readers don't seem to care about, if in fact they are even aware of them.
SCO is making a mockery of the US legal system. They are basically bending over with their ass to the wind in the direction of the US judiciary branch saying, "Look at this, you swine, you can't touch us!"
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot more of this bullshit lawyerese. Granted, we've seen it in the past, but this is much more drastic. We're bound to see more completely incredulous claims as this.
And eventually, one might get through the cracks. What one court case might that be? Something removing further freedoms and handing them, wrapped in silver, to corporations?
1) Because humans are biologically tuned to a 24 (well, 25, but close enough) hour day. 2) It coincides 100% with the daily motions of the sun. 3) There's nothing wrong with standard time. 4) Having 24 hours a day makes much more sense than having 50, 10, or 100: Clocks look properly symetric, and figuring out precisely what time of the day it is is fairly straightforward. 5) Time, unlike distance or mass, changes. Our current method of metering it is a rough approximation that has been evolved over thousands of years - much like UNIX has evolved to be superior. 6) all the other reasons that have been mentioned 7) It's a stupid idea, it's amazing you actually thought of it. While we're at it, let's change the mass of the earth.
The only thing I can think of that makes sense is having 25 hours in a day for biological reasons; however, if you were to have 25 hours in a day, you'd have to change from base 60 or simply change the 'value' of a second to mean something that it is not.
It's kind of interesting how mechanical things seem to have much more value now than they did, say, 10 or 15 years ago.
I remember how, in the late 80's how it was the coolest thing to have a digital wrist watch. They were a -lot- more expensive than an analog watch of similar quality.
Now, digital watches are fairly dirt cheap. Sure, the newer ones are a bit more expensive, and they're always having some new, cool features, but...
They're nowhere near as expensive as, say, a high-quality Rolex. Not only that, but they won't last nearly as long: they'll either get wet, simply stop working, or wear out electronically long before a Rolex begins to stop keeping the correct time.
It seems to me that there's a large degree of anachronism going on in society in general right now - people want the simple, elegant mechanical watches instead of a wizz-bang digital watch. Or maybe they want a vehicle from the 90's tha doesn't have all the electronics and sensors that 'just runs', and costs less to maintain and own in general.
I wonder if this trend is due to people getting tired of shitty products always breaking, or something else. Personally, I'd much rather have reliability - I'm the kind of person that becomes "comfortable" with the things I have, they become familiar. I don't want to replace my steady Palm Pilot Pro, because I'm used to it, and it has a certain familiar aesthetic.
Er, buddy. Thinkpads are the best supported linux laptops out there, short of the crap you get from folks like the Linux Laptops people. I'm running a thinkpad x30, and it runs like a dream: everything has kernel support, nothing needs 3rd party modules (except for the software modem, which also works.)
Not only that, but IBM's thinkpad laptops have some of the best construction quality out there; I've not seen anything better myself. Sony and Apple don't come close.
IBM has their hands in so many honey pots, there should be no worries that the next ThinkPad you will get will be Linux-only.
Er, that's not a worry, that's a wish.
I just bought a thinkpad x30 in december. beautiful little machine, runs wonderfully with debian sid. The only problem? It had Windows. I wiped it, of course, but that was $100 in overhead - that IBM paid - and then passed on to me. I didn't ask for that (I actually tried to get a blank drie), but I got it anyway, because of MS's draconian licensing.
I'd more than happily have taken $50 off the price tag to get a freshly imaged copy of the distribution of my choice (debian). Hopefully such things won't be too far off. Given IBMs history of being fairly cool about providing customers what they want, hopefully it won't be too long until they lay the smack down on MS and say, "We're going to give people linux if they want it, period."
You folks know how business people are - trendy. I don't imagine it'll be too long until Linux gets as trendy as Windows was 5 years or so ago in datacenters and other places: the Boss will want it on everything. Linux on the servers, desktops - and laptops.
IBM has never been big on selling software. They are fairly OS agnostic.
They see OSes for what they are: tools to get the job done with the hardware you have. This is why they have such a large girth of OSes that they deal with: MacOS, Linux, AS/400, Windows. They don't give a damn what their customers do with the hardware they purchase from IBM, they just want the customers to be productive with their products.
This is wrong for the following reason: there's nothing that they've done to advertise or provide informaiton about the branding being done for 'perceived' performance before people started complaining.
The only other instance that comes to mind is AMD's XP+ branding of CPUs. AMD isn't calling their CPU's 2000MHz Athlon XPs or suhc, the're calling them XP 2000+'s - the + is a huge difference in indication. Not only that, but AMD actually came out prior to the fact and bolstered the fact - "Hey, we're giving our CPUs a performance rating instead of a clock rating, because it's more accurate."
In the case of ATI, however, none of these things apply. They're the performance leader, yes, but their performance is fairly consistent with the branding that they've traditionally given them. This "9200" is simply a "9000" model. It has nothing to do with performance, it's just a mis-labeling - and false marketing.
Given all his work is evidently produced under educational grants, why isn't plans, instructions, and/or specifications made available to the public? If his dream is truely for a connected humanity and not for personal commercial profit, wouldn't that be what we'd see?
Also, I'd think that his mode of output would cause some fairly severe visual problems. Knowing a little bit about how the bifocality and other various functions or the human eye work, and having had visual disorders since a young child, it seems odd to me that such a contraption would not cause phenominal headaches and degrade the ability of that eye to focus properly, let alone in unison with the other eye.
I wonder if he uses solidstate storage (and thus "512Gb of memory"), if the AP writer didn't know what they were talking about (doing what many people do: calling the storage memory), carries around 2 large IDE drives, a dozen laptop drives, or if he does something else entirely?
Does anyone know if there are any other similar projects, or if there is documentation somewhere mentioning what components he is using? I would love to get my hands on osmething similar to this (but maybe with somewhat less expensive processing power driving it). Would it be conceiveable to (at least) have something that's maybe 500MHz, runs cool, uses a little amount of power, and 'only' has a gig or two of RAM? I imagine that the battery would be manageable then.:)
MechWarrior II: 21st Century Combat Commander Keen Scorched Earth/TANKS! Hugo Whodunit (wish I could find a copy of those!) Raptor: Call of the Shadows/Raptor 2 Descent Duke Nukem 3D Command and Conquer (Gold) Warcraft I and II
Oher than the games listed above, I pretty much missed out on the DOS gaming era - I didn't get a Nintendo until '93 or so, and quite a while longer until I got a PC ('96?).
what makes any of you think that the executives at google give a damn what anyone on slashdot things?
slashdotters are a minority in society. One, two, three years ago, we were their main 'customers' - not so now. FFS, "J-Lo" used a googlism in one of her braindead movies, I hear. Google is very, very mainstream now. Mainstream doesn't give a fuck as to whether or not google pays a licensing fee - and mainstream is what will launch google's IPO into financial profitability, not a couple hundred thousand out-of-work tech workers, high schoolers, and college students.
They used us and now they do not care. We're not the only ones that hate popup ads, you know.
$35/month for 512/128 down/up cable, with poor latency (online games are unplayable), frequent connection problems, and no ping/traceroute functionality. Sioux Falls, SD. And it's the only thing that's really available.
I have a friend in BC, CA. He pays 20$/month for something like 768/386, and has no restrictions whatsoever.
What I did this past New Years: massive bonfire. Ingredients:
-38 free "day after Christmas" trees from shopping mall parking lot - one pickup truck with some rope (it looked like the grinch's sleigh) - 30 minute drive to a friend's house in the country - 1/2 a 5gal bucket full of gas - the rest of the bucket full of styrofoam - 35 trees stacked on top of the bucket (I think the other trees fell on the highway somewhere...)
End result: about 40 foot flames. Pine burns quickly.:P
Dude, I grew up in Carmel! Spent many an evening looking down on Oneida from the hill my house was on (Leaside Rd). Spent many a day skipping stones on Lake Gilead, not terribly far away (as the crow flies). My record: 23:P Though, that was in Goshen, VA.
It seems to me that they're missing several somethings that are fairly important (other than the physics of the stone): the velocity and spin of the stone (to say nothing of the water surface's dynamics).
That said, my personal record was achieved when I was 12 at a cub/boy scount camp. It was in a little river/creek (maybe 10 feet across, no deeper than 1' in most parts, with lots of smallish smooth disc-shaped stones perfect for skipping). My group was out hiking, and we had a competition. Everyone else was picking more roughly-shaped stones off the shore, and not venturing into the water.
Having grown up watching my uncles skip stones on their lake since I was very young, I probably knew a thing or two about stone skipping that the others didn't, simply by example. At any rate, I took a step or two out into the water, and grabbed the smoothest stone I could find.
This was all after the scout master said the person with the most skips gets a candy bar. IIRC, I was the last to have my turn at winning the candy bar. Everyone started bitching about how I was cheating because I didn't take the rock from the shoreline. (bah!) I got into the water, and got as close as I could to the water, and threw the stone upstream like a frisby.
The end result: 23 skips, at least half an hour of people trying to come close to half as many skips, and a candy bar for me back at camp. And a dozen pissed off cub scouts for 4 more days.:P
I'm still holding my breath for the ultimate linux distribution: auto-configuring, self-reparing, using state-of-the-art package management, with a killer GUI, full desktop integration, stability up the wazoo, that can take all preferences and settings from an existing windows or mac installation and import them into the new environment.
the obvious reason why he had a hard time understanding the humanities academics is because humanities majors are often not that far off from business majors. Both fields are (generally) contrived bullshit so as to try and create the appreance of actual substance. Most of the people in these specific fields of academics are worthless sacks of flesh, and don't have many, if any, redeemably qualities outside their field, let alone an independent, intellectual thought: they simply pick and chose from what the Greats have to say.
It has been my experience that those who maintain the "Evolution" meme as their object of idolatry generally assign attributes to this meme, such as survival of the fittest, or what have you. In literate societies these attributes are often gleaned from authoritative texts, such as the writings of Freud, Darwin, or whomever. One then proceeds to emphasize those attributes which suit them personally. That is to say, one's ideas about "evolution" are mirrors of one's preferences - those attributes which one finds valuable in one's own culture, such as personal freedom to do whatever they want, or their hatred of certain races or ethnic groups.
During adolescence, one's reasoning emerges as an extension of the metaphysical premises which they have uncritically accepted during their formative years - namely, the instruction of evolution in public schools, which is many times more prominent than any Christianized instruction that might be received. If one has been told by their preferred authoritative text that a force of "evolution" created goo from which man evolved after a great bang, as the parable of evolutionary creation describes, and furthermore eschews the deeper meaning of this parable in favor of a humanist, morally objective interpretation, then one will be inclined to consider the truth of creation as heretical, as you seem to.
*ahem* What makes you assume that I was raised in such a fashion as you describe above? I happen to have grown up getting the silt of evolution shoved at me with little or no evidence besides artists renditions, and later concluded that, based on lack of concrete evidence, that evolution is nothing more than some humanist hogwash to try and justify lack of theological belief in anything but Self.
I'd laugh my ass off if these law-enforcement-agent-impersonators were to approach some mexican, and the hombre were to whip out a gun and start threatening 'em with it. Then, they'd all run away. That'd be great.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed, being as everyone here is a tried and true athiest that believes in the "pure science and truth" of evolution, but...
Yet more "circumstantial" evidence that supports the idea that speciation is impossible: we see a loss of species at an incredible rate, and no new ones. What dillusion makes people think that anything could survive massive earthly upheavals when minor climate change fucks everything up?
Then again, it's not like things like the disproval of spontaneous generation, oh, several hundred years ago, does not already invalidate evolution.
Oh well. If you can't accept something, create a notion that contradicts and claim it as truth instead.
What does economic disparity have to do with international security? There will always be zealots with an agenda, religious, political, or economical. Shrinking the girth of disparity will simply provide such zealots with more tools for the job of zealotry.
Yes, you're right, you understand nothing at all about economy.
YOu do realize that, the more evenly wealth becomes distributed (on a global scale), the less peace stability the world will have, right? What happens when everyone is making just enough to get by?
Well, first off, then there's not a surplus in any one area, and thus innovation all but disappears due to lack of capital. Second, there's nobody in the lead, and thus there's a lot of head-butting and frontal confrontation due to the fact that nobody notices anyone else as their 'superior'.
A good example/representation of this is the Greek city-states. They were of similar power and resources for the most part, and were always waring with each other.
Being on the upper-hand, Imperialistic side of the equation is a bit more appealing to me than having to fight for food with everyone else. Don't you believe in "survival of the fittest"? I certainly don't want to be excluded from survival. Get with it, terrorist.
There's got to be someone out there to do the menial labor for the ruling class/nation. These same people shouldn't also be taking our high-paying jobs for roughly the same amount. In the end, we're only really hurting their economies by making them dependant on US dollars.
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I'd rather have 500G (or 300G, whatever) in RAID1 than a single TB that's unmirrored.
*Boom* There goes your life's 'savings'.
What -I- want is a modular drive cage with the GigE, firewire, and USB 2.0 (or at least GigE and one of the other two). There'd be maybe 20Mb of flash memory of some kind for the system. The device would sit on a network and act as a file server. It would come without any drives, so you could pick and chose the drive config that you want: 1 drive, two drives RAID1, 3 RAID5, etc.
The device would then have a slick little web and/or terminal interface similar to what routers have to configure it. It could serve as a PDC, do roaming profiles for windows, and have the option to do NFS stuff.
It would be -the- 'consumer product' of servers.
There are more dire consequences to this whole scenario that most slashdot readers don't seem to care about, if in fact they are even aware of them.
SCO is making a mockery of the US legal system. They are basically bending over with their ass to the wind in the direction of the US judiciary branch saying, "Look at this, you swine, you can't touch us!"
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot more of this bullshit lawyerese. Granted, we've seen it in the past, but this is much more drastic. We're bound to see more completely incredulous claims as this.
And eventually, one might get through the cracks. What one court case might that be? Something removing further freedoms and handing them, wrapped in silver, to corporations?
For several reasons:
1) Because humans are biologically tuned to a 24 (well, 25, but close enough) hour day.
2) It coincides 100% with the daily motions of the sun.
3) There's nothing wrong with standard time.
4) Having 24 hours a day makes much more sense than having 50, 10, or 100: Clocks look properly symetric, and figuring out precisely what time of the day it is is fairly straightforward.
5) Time, unlike distance or mass, changes. Our current method of metering it is a rough approximation that has been evolved over thousands of years - much like UNIX has evolved to be superior.
6) all the other reasons that have been mentioned
7) It's a stupid idea, it's amazing you actually thought of it. While we're at it, let's change the mass of the earth.
The only thing I can think of that makes sense is having 25 hours in a day for biological reasons; however, if you were to have 25 hours in a day, you'd have to change from base 60 or simply change the 'value' of a second to mean something that it is not.
It's kind of interesting how mechanical things seem to have much more value now than they did, say, 10 or 15 years ago.
I remember how, in the late 80's how it was the coolest thing to have a digital wrist watch. They were a -lot- more expensive than an analog watch of similar quality.
Now, digital watches are fairly dirt cheap. Sure, the newer ones are a bit more expensive, and they're always having some new, cool features, but...
They're nowhere near as expensive as, say, a high-quality Rolex. Not only that, but they won't last nearly as long: they'll either get wet, simply stop working, or wear out electronically long before a Rolex begins to stop keeping the correct time.
It seems to me that there's a large degree of anachronism going on in society in general right now - people want the simple, elegant mechanical watches instead of a wizz-bang digital watch. Or maybe they want a vehicle from the 90's tha doesn't have all the electronics and sensors that 'just runs', and costs less to maintain and own in general.
I wonder if this trend is due to people getting tired of shitty products always breaking, or something else. Personally, I'd much rather have reliability - I'm the kind of person that becomes "comfortable" with the things I have, they become familiar. I don't want to replace my steady Palm Pilot Pro, because I'm used to it, and it has a certain familiar aesthetic.
Anyone else feel that way?
What are you talking about, man?
That light does look like diffused sunlight... by a prism.
Er, buddy. Thinkpads are the best supported linux laptops out there, short of the crap you get from folks like the Linux Laptops people. I'm running a thinkpad x30, and it runs like a dream: everything has kernel support, nothing needs 3rd party modules (except for the software modem, which also works.)
Not only that, but IBM's thinkpad laptops have some of the best construction quality out there; I've not seen anything better myself. Sony and Apple don't come close.
IBM has their hands in so many honey pots, there should be no worries that the next ThinkPad you will get will be Linux-only.
Er, that's not a worry, that's a wish.
I just bought a thinkpad x30 in december. beautiful little machine, runs wonderfully with debian sid. The only problem? It had Windows. I wiped it, of course, but that was $100 in overhead - that IBM paid - and then passed on to me. I didn't ask for that (I actually tried to get a blank drie), but I got it anyway, because of MS's draconian licensing.
I'd more than happily have taken $50 off the price tag to get a freshly imaged copy of the distribution of my choice (debian). Hopefully such things won't be too far off. Given IBMs history of being fairly cool about providing customers what they want, hopefully it won't be too long until they lay the smack down on MS and say, "We're going to give people linux if they want it, period."
You folks know how business people are - trendy. I don't imagine it'll be too long until Linux gets as trendy as Windows was 5 years or so ago in datacenters and other places: the Boss will want it on everything. Linux on the servers, desktops - and laptops.
I relish the thought.
Erm.
IBM has never been big on selling software. They are fairly OS agnostic.
They see OSes for what they are: tools to get the job done with the hardware you have. This is why they have such a large girth of OSes that they deal with: MacOS, Linux, AS/400, Windows. They don't give a damn what their customers do with the hardware they purchase from IBM, they just want the customers to be productive with their products.
This is wrong for the following reason: there's nothing that they've done to advertise or provide informaiton about the branding being done for 'perceived' performance before people started complaining.
The only other instance that comes to mind is AMD's XP+ branding of CPUs. AMD isn't calling their CPU's 2000MHz Athlon XPs or suhc, the're calling them XP 2000+'s - the + is a huge difference in indication. Not only that, but AMD actually came out prior to the fact and bolstered the fact - "Hey, we're giving our CPUs a performance rating instead of a clock rating, because it's more accurate."
In the case of ATI, however, none of these things apply. They're the performance leader, yes, but their performance is fairly consistent with the branding that they've traditionally given them. This "9200" is simply a "9000" model. It has nothing to do with performance, it's just a mis-labeling - and false marketing.
My goodness that sounds cool. Several thoughts:
:)
Given all his work is evidently produced under educational grants, why isn't plans, instructions, and/or specifications made available to the public? If his dream is truely for a connected humanity and not for personal commercial profit, wouldn't that be what we'd see?
Also, I'd think that his mode of output would cause some fairly severe visual problems. Knowing a little bit about how the bifocality and other various functions or the human eye work, and having had visual disorders since a young child, it seems odd to me that such a contraption would not cause phenominal headaches and degrade the ability of that eye to focus properly, let alone in unison with the other eye.
I wonder if he uses solidstate storage (and thus "512Gb of memory"), if the AP writer didn't know what they were talking about (doing what many people do: calling the storage memory), carries around 2 large IDE drives, a dozen laptop drives, or if he does something else entirely?
Does anyone know if there are any other similar projects, or if there is documentation somewhere mentioning what components he is using? I would love to get my hands on osmething similar to this (but maybe with somewhat less expensive processing power driving it). Would it be conceiveable to (at least) have something that's maybe 500MHz, runs cool, uses a little amount of power, and 'only' has a gig or two of RAM? I imagine that the battery would be manageable then.
MechWarrior II: 21st Century Combat
Commander Keen
Scorched Earth/TANKS!
Hugo Whodunit (wish I could find a copy of those!)
Raptor: Call of the Shadows/Raptor 2
Descent
Duke Nukem 3D
Command and Conquer (Gold)
Warcraft I and II
Oher than the games listed above, I pretty much missed out on the DOS gaming era - I didn't get a Nintendo until '93 or so, and quite a while longer until I got a PC ('96?).
what makes any of you think that the executives at google give a damn what anyone on slashdot things?
slashdotters are a minority in society. One, two, three years ago, we were their main 'customers' - not so now. FFS, "J-Lo" used a googlism in one of her braindead movies, I hear. Google is very, very mainstream now. Mainstream doesn't give a fuck as to whether or not google pays a licensing fee - and mainstream is what will launch google's IPO into financial profitability, not a couple hundred thousand out-of-work tech workers, high schoolers, and college students.
They used us and now they do not care. We're not the only ones that hate popup ads, you know.
$35/month for 512/128 down/up cable, with poor latency (online games are unplayable), frequent connection problems, and no ping/traceroute functionality. Sioux Falls, SD. And it's the only thing that's really available.
I have a friend in BC, CA. He pays 20$/month for something like 768/386, and has no restrictions whatsoever.
Heh.
:P
What I did this past New Years: massive bonfire. Ingredients:
-38 free "day after Christmas" trees from shopping mall parking lot
- one pickup truck with some rope (it looked like the grinch's sleigh)
- 30 minute drive to a friend's house in the country
- 1/2 a 5gal bucket full of gas
- the rest of the bucket full of styrofoam
- 35 trees stacked on top of the bucket (I think the other trees fell on the highway somewhere...)
End result: about 40 foot flames. Pine burns quickly.
Dude, I grew up in Carmel! Spent many an evening looking down on Oneida from the hill my house was on (Leaside Rd). Spent many a day skipping stones on Lake Gilead, not terribly far away (as the crow flies). My record: 23 :P Though, that was in Goshen, VA.
It seems to me that they're missing several somethings that are fairly important (other than the physics of the stone): the velocity and spin of the stone (to say nothing of the water surface's dynamics).
:P
That said, my personal record was achieved when I was 12 at a cub/boy scount camp. It was in a little river/creek (maybe 10 feet across, no deeper than 1' in most parts, with lots of smallish smooth disc-shaped stones perfect for skipping). My group was out hiking, and we had a competition. Everyone else was picking more roughly-shaped stones off the shore, and not venturing into the water.
Having grown up watching my uncles skip stones on their lake since I was very young, I probably knew a thing or two about stone skipping that the others didn't, simply by example. At any rate, I took a step or two out into the water, and grabbed the smoothest stone I could find.
This was all after the scout master said the person with the most skips gets a candy bar. IIRC, I was the last to have my turn at winning the candy bar. Everyone started bitching about how I was cheating because I didn't take the rock from the shoreline. (bah!) I got into the water, and got as close as I could to the water, and threw the stone upstream like a frisby.
The end result: 23 skips, at least half an hour of people trying to come close to half as many skips, and a candy bar for me back at camp. And a dozen pissed off cub scouts for 4 more days.
I'm still holding my breath for the ultimate linux distribution: auto-configuring, self-reparing, using state-of-the-art package management, with a killer GUI, full desktop integration, stability up the wazoo, that can take all preferences and settings from an existing windows or mac installation and import them into the new environment.
It should be called Sexus Linux.
the obvious reason why he had a hard time understanding the humanities academics is because humanities majors are often not that far off from business majors. Both fields are (generally) contrived bullshit so as to try and create the appreance of actual substance. Most of the people in these specific fields of academics are worthless sacks of flesh, and don't have many, if any, redeemably qualities outside their field, let alone an independent, intellectual thought: they simply pick and chose from what the Greats have to say.
- an ex-English, ex-IT, CS major.
Ho hum. *yawn*
It has been my experience that those who maintain the "Evolution" meme as their object of idolatry generally assign attributes to this meme, such as survival of the fittest, or what have you. In literate societies these attributes are often gleaned from authoritative texts, such as the writings of Freud, Darwin, or whomever. One then proceeds to emphasize those attributes which suit them personally. That is to say, one's ideas about "evolution" are mirrors of one's preferences - those attributes which one finds valuable in one's own culture, such as personal freedom to do whatever they want, or their hatred of certain races or ethnic groups.
During adolescence, one's reasoning emerges as an extension of the metaphysical premises which they have uncritically accepted during their formative years - namely, the instruction of evolution in public schools, which is many times more prominent than any Christianized instruction that might be received. If one has been told by their preferred authoritative text that a force of "evolution" created goo from which man evolved after a great bang, as the parable of evolutionary creation describes, and furthermore eschews the deeper meaning of this parable in favor of a humanist, morally objective interpretation, then one will be inclined to consider the truth of creation as heretical, as you seem to.
*ahem* What makes you assume that I was raised in such a fashion as you describe above? I happen to have grown up getting the silt of evolution shoved at me with little or no evidence besides artists renditions, and later concluded that, based on lack of concrete evidence, that evolution is nothing more than some humanist hogwash to try and justify lack of theological belief in anything but Self.
Yes, I have. None of which do anything more than imply speciation.
I'd laugh my ass off if these law-enforcement-agent-impersonators were to approach some mexican, and the hombre were to whip out a gun and start threatening 'em with it. Then, they'd all run away. That'd be great.
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed, being as everyone here is a tried and true athiest that believes in the "pure science and truth" of evolution, but...
Yet more "circumstantial" evidence that supports the idea that speciation is impossible: we see a loss of species at an incredible rate, and no new ones. What dillusion makes people think that anything could survive massive earthly upheavals when minor climate change fucks everything up?
Then again, it's not like things like the disproval of spontaneous generation, oh, several hundred years ago, does not already invalidate evolution.
Oh well. If you can't accept something, create a notion that contradicts and claim it as truth instead.
What does economic disparity have to do with international security? There will always be zealots with an agenda, religious, political, or economical. Shrinking the girth of disparity will simply provide such zealots with more tools for the job of zealotry.
Yes, you're right, you understand nothing at all about economy.
YOu do realize that, the more evenly wealth becomes distributed (on a global scale), the less peace stability the world will have, right? What happens when everyone is making just enough to get by?
Well, first off, then there's not a surplus in any one area, and thus innovation all but disappears due to lack of capital. Second, there's nobody in the lead, and thus there's a lot of head-butting and frontal confrontation due to the fact that nobody notices anyone else as their 'superior'.
A good example/representation of this is the Greek city-states. They were of similar power and resources for the most part, and were always waring with each other.
Being on the upper-hand, Imperialistic side of the equation is a bit more appealing to me than having to fight for food with everyone else. Don't you believe in "survival of the fittest"? I certainly don't want to be excluded from survival. Get with it, terrorist.
There's got to be someone out there to do the menial labor for the ruling class/nation. These same people shouldn't also be taking our high-paying jobs for roughly the same amount. In the end, we're only really hurting their economies by making them dependant on US dollars.
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