It's much less obvious to argue that Rowling actually loses anything because of this book. Sure, one could argue that she would lose sales, but actually most of the people who would buy this Lexicon would buy an official Lexicon by her in a heartbeat anyway. It's just not entirely clear-cut. And if it is someone she admits helped her in many ways in the creation and popularity of her books originally, then it becomes really gray, IMO.
Good point. I enjoy masturbating regularly. Why should I be unable to earn a dime just because I happen to be stroking my cock until I reach orgasm and not debugging code? Society is fucked up, man.
Whoever said anything about failing someone? I would grade each student on how well they do on the content of the course. If someone answered a question "God/aliens did it", then they would get that question wrong. If they answered every question that way, they would then get a zero.
In fact, that makes far more sense to me; why would He create this complex universe with its incredible mesh of physical laws, only to break them with miracles and supernatural occurrences? I'd think He'd work within the confines of what He had created.
Exactly. I think of God like a programmer. If you go through all of this effort to create a great object-oriented framework, that scales and adapts beautifully on its own, why would you suddenly start copying and pasting code to accomplish minute tasks?
There is no "evidence" for an untestable hypothesis. An argument like, "the eye can't be explained by evolution" would not be evidence FOR intelligent design even if it were true (which it isn't). All the ID arguments say essentially: "I don't think that the theory of evolution can explain this, or that", but they aren't giving any evidence FOR an intelligent designer, particularly not God, because... how can you? It's not possible.
Hey, we've got that Airborne stuff that brags on the box and in advertising about the fact that it was invented by a second grade schoolteacher (rather than some "scientist" in his "lab" up in his ivory tower)....
Two good examples, firstly my Biology class. If you even thought that Evolution was not a full on fact you'd fail it. We had a question on a test worth 10 points (probably 1% total grade, not too much, but still) which was "Evolution is a Fact T/F".
Another completely true passage would be to say, "Others believe that evolution is guided by aliens who seeded our planet with life and continue to live inside our bodies."
At first, I was going to say that you misspelled "indicted", but then I realized you are talking about the title for a Slashdot story, so it probably would be "indited".
The generalization that is described in the sentence is that humans in general aren't malicious people, but they can be very lazy and careless. The reverse has no bearing on people's experiences of reality.
Even if your facts about Amerigo Vespucci were indisputable, you do realize that West Virginia split from Virginia because of the American Civil War, right? The West Virginians couldn't very well tell the remaining portion of Virginia (whom they just split off from) that they now have a new name, now could they?
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In fairness, lax-i and schwa are extremely close, and in some dialects of American English they are probably identical.
Yes, we had it for the Mac. The graphics were vastly improved over the PC version.
WHOOSH!
.... People are going to lose the ability to produce language?
It's much less obvious to argue that Rowling actually loses anything because of this book. Sure, one could argue that she would lose sales, but actually most of the people who would buy this Lexicon would buy an official Lexicon by her in a heartbeat anyway. It's just not entirely clear-cut. And if it is someone she admits helped her in many ways in the creation and popularity of her books originally, then it becomes really gray, IMO.
Good point. I enjoy masturbating regularly. Why should I be unable to earn a dime just because I happen to be stroking my cock until I reach orgasm and not debugging code? Society is fucked up, man.
Whoever said anything about failing someone? I would grade each student on how well they do on the content of the course. If someone answered a question "God/aliens did it", then they would get that question wrong. If they answered every question that way, they would then get a zero.
Who would ever do that?
Exactly. I think of God like a programmer. If you go through all of this effort to create a great object-oriented framework, that scales and adapts beautifully on its own, why would you suddenly start copying and pasting code to accomplish minute tasks?
There is no "evidence" for an untestable hypothesis. An argument like, "the eye can't be explained by evolution" would not be evidence FOR intelligent design even if it were true (which it isn't). All the ID arguments say essentially: "I don't think that the theory of evolution can explain this, or that", but they aren't giving any evidence FOR an intelligent designer, particularly not God, because... how can you? It's not possible.
Hey, we've got that Airborne stuff that brags on the box and in advertising about the fact that it was invented by a second grade schoolteacher (rather than some "scientist" in his "lab" up in his ivory tower)....
Are you kidding?
It sounds like you'd actually get a 99%.
Another completely true passage would be to say, "Others believe that evolution is guided by aliens who seeded our planet with life and continue to live inside our bodies."
What do these things have to do with science?
At first, I was going to say that you misspelled "indicted", but then I realized you are talking about the title for a Slashdot story, so it probably would be "indited".
Agreed that "blog" is really annoying. But as for "faceboogle": yes, it really is that bad.
Their house is in Canada... you wouldn't know it...
Maybe they were just bored.
The generalization that is described in the sentence is that humans in general aren't malicious people, but they can be very lazy and careless. The reverse has no bearing on people's experiences of reality.
Dr. Koop, is that you? You weren't my favorite surgeon general, but it's nice to meet you nonetheless!
Even if your facts about Amerigo Vespucci were indisputable, you do realize that West Virginia split from Virginia because of the American Civil War, right? The West Virginians couldn't very well tell the remaining portion of Virginia (whom they just split off from) that they now have a new name, now could they?
Oh, the horrors of the American education system
"Hold on a sec, something fell out of the truck ahead of me and I need to swerve out of the--" *This call has been disconnected*
So was Dooku temporarily Palpatine's padawan or what?
Or: make the artist die when the copyright ends :)
Yeah, but in all fairness... as contributors to the production of reality TV, they *are* dirt.