Ooh... Very third grade. Your president sucks, no yours does, no...
Politicians suck by nature. Stop defending one liar and acting like he was better than another. Anyone who looks to Presidents to get something accomplished is dreaming. I tend to go with the one who makes the least outlandish promises. Right now, that would not be the guy who rhymes with "No-bomb-a". Next he'll be saying "Read my lips, no new taxes..." Sheesh, wanting change is good, but do you really want to sell your soul for it? Change will happen whether you want it or not. Be careful what you wish for...
Do you have an example of this kind of "life" that does not reproduce? I will step toward your opinion and give you that it may be possible for some form of life to exist somewhere that does not reproduce. Maybe in a development process, something becomes alive but cannot reproduce. An evolutionary dead end of sorts, but alive. Even the lowest forms we know of reproduce. Is reproduction a sunflower's way of being a "modular mono-culture"? How about influenza virus or protozoans? I could argue that when a plant or animal "aggregates material and transforms it, thereby getting bigger and bigger" they are reproducing more cells. Reproduction is not limited to offspring, but applies to growth as well. Cells reproduce in your body constantly, each is individually alive on its own, they just can't stay that way without their environment.
Newton's Laws and the Laws of Thermodynamics and whatnot. What are the long-term effects of all these? Using tidal energy will give us lower tides. Use enough solar power and the Earth gets less heat. Use enough wind and weather patterns change. Energy and matter are both finite, and every system favors entropy.
Seems to me we can't really escape it and every option has the potential to adversely affect the entire planet, whether people acknowledge it or not. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something...
I have held two Systems Analyst positions that were more about understanding data structures, databases and applications and providing application, hardware and stupid user support, than they were about hard core programming. I have a jack of all trades personality and like to learn some of everything, but never really want to specialize. These positions have suited me well and depending on the employer the pay has been comparable to programming positions.
But hey, its really about doing what you enjoy. Me, I couldn't be happier...
Go out and read "Behold The Man" by Michael Moorcock. A classic sci-fi novella that explores the whole "Was Christ a real man or a myth" theme. The most blasphemous thing I have ever read. I absolutely love it!
I should think that this type of tactic being used against McCain would make him feel flattered. Apparently, at least one liberal blogger, doesn't think Obama can win without smearing (or at least skewing search results). Not sure what this says about Obama or his supporters, but its not likely to convince me to associate myself with them.
Too bad George Carlin just died (expired, passed away, etc), he would have been much better than either candidate. Of course he never would have accepted a nomination...
I'm too much of a cynic... anyone running for office is inherently dishonest and out for their own personal gain or agenda. Anyone running under the artificial premise of "change" is even more so...
Hey, I'm too damn practical to live that close to a stream, let alone a river or the damn coast. Had a boss who cried every spring that their basement flooded during the rainy season. I never would have lived that close to a creek, myself. Even if I hadn't realized at first, I would have gotten out of there rather than cashing in flood insurance checks to buy new furniture every year.
I remember back than, it was much more common then it is now two no the difference between your and you're. It really is to hard two keep track of. Most people can tell know difference between the too words.
You all have excellent points. But let me rebuff that in no way was I giving the US a free pass. We still have a long way to go as far as I am concerned, but are still light-years ahead of places like India, China, and the middle east.
And here, we USUALLY don't get arrested for voicing our opinions on the things we disagree with. Gotta love that, for what its worth.
Surely I am not the only one asking, "How is this a crime?" People who take offense of drawings of their immaginary friends not being the way they picture them are just childish. That's the kindest way I can put it. Mischief, maybe. Tasteless, possibly. Crime, no fucking way! People like this, living in the Dark Ages need to get with the program. And people have the gall to criticize the U.S.? Correct this crap, then maybe you have some right to criticize us. Glass houses? Hell, theirs are made of rice paper compared to ours...
Someone will invariably mistake my outrage for trolling. I'm OK with that, I can take it. They have a right to speak freely too...
Well, Thanks for correcting me. I remember hearing that a long, long time ago. Like Pre-web days. At least I was still right about Dean Paul Martin, though!
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10582 Where did you get this "fact" about who owns the website? Maybe you mean to say they CONTRIBUTE to the site? I would just like to know...honestly, I would. Maybe you can sue the site for lying if you are so sure?
If this site is owned by an oil company, they forgot to tell the site...
Does that mean that if Algore contributes to a cause, I can just claim it is false because of where the money came from?
Then again, there may be no spiritual side to anything. I think we all hope there is, just because it presents us with a possibility of continued existence. I believe we need to start with the simplest point and consider the possibility that there is no "creator" or guiding intelligence. Mankind may have started with that belief and it just scared them too damn much, so they created gods as explanations and security blankets. What if it just isn't so? Like it or not, I do not feel that we are not being true to scientific method if we do not consider this possibility. Just like many religious stories, there is no way to discount this option, so why do we seem to do just that by default? Anthropic principle is pretty hard to fight, but I try my best.
I saw enough Christian and Athiest views here. Just thought it was time for an Agnostic to chime in.
My inside view of the innards of academic scientific research has shown me that most professional research scientists are actually professional Grant Writers in disguise. They start out meaning well and searching for the truth, but eventually they write whatever they have to and spin things to get the grants they desperately depend on for their livelihood. Many end up so far from what they enjoy doing and what they originally set out to accomplish that they never find their way back.
Deal with it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, insensitive, blah, blah, blah, not fair, blah, blah, blah. Life is not fair, life is cruel and hard. Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
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George Costanza could pass it... "Its not a lie if YOU believe it!"
And what about delusional people who believe they actually did something wrong? John Mark Karr anyone?
Ooh... Very third grade. Your president sucks, no yours does, no...
Politicians suck by nature. Stop defending one liar and acting like he was better than another. Anyone who looks to Presidents to get something accomplished is dreaming. I tend to go with the one who makes the least outlandish promises. Right now, that would not be the guy who rhymes with "No-bomb-a". Next he'll be saying "Read my lips, no new taxes..." Sheesh, wanting change is good, but do you really want to sell your soul for it? Change will happen whether you want it or not. Be careful what you wish for...
Yeah, those big engine cars really affect those sunspots adversely. Damn Hummers...
Do you have an example of this kind of "life" that does not reproduce? I will step toward your opinion and give you that it may be possible for some form of life to exist somewhere that does not reproduce. Maybe in a development process, something becomes alive but cannot reproduce. An evolutionary dead end of sorts, but alive. Even the lowest forms we know of reproduce. Is reproduction a sunflower's way of being a "modular mono-culture"? How about influenza virus or protozoans? I could argue that when a plant or animal "aggregates material and transforms it, thereby getting bigger and bigger" they are reproducing more cells. Reproduction is not limited to offspring, but applies to growth as well. Cells reproduce in your body constantly, each is individually alive on its own, they just can't stay that way without their environment.
Newton's Laws and the Laws of Thermodynamics and whatnot. What are the long-term effects of all these?
Using tidal energy will give us lower tides.
Use enough solar power and the Earth gets less heat.
Use enough wind and weather patterns change.
Energy and matter are both finite, and every system favors entropy.
Seems to me we can't really escape it and every option has the potential to adversely affect the entire planet, whether people acknowledge it or not.
Anyone who says otherwise is selling something...
You're lucky! My deadbeat parents can't afford my old tech.
I have to sell it to my children.
I have held two Systems Analyst positions that were more about understanding data structures, databases and applications and providing application, hardware and stupid user support, than they were about hard core programming. I have a jack of all trades personality and like to learn some of everything, but never really want to specialize. These positions have suited me well and depending on the employer the pay has been comparable to programming positions.
But hey, its really about doing what you enjoy. Me, I couldn't be happier...
Go out and read "Behold The Man" by Michael Moorcock. A classic sci-fi novella that explores the whole "Was Christ a real man or a myth" theme. The most blasphemous thing I have ever read. I absolutely love it!
I should think that this type of tactic being used against McCain would make him feel flattered. Apparently, at least one liberal blogger, doesn't think Obama can win without smearing (or at least skewing search results).
Not sure what this says about Obama or his supporters, but its not likely to convince me to associate myself with them.
Too bad George Carlin just died (expired, passed away, etc), he would have been much better than either candidate. Of course he never would have accepted a nomination...
I'm too much of a cynic... anyone running for office is inherently dishonest and out for their own personal gain or agenda. Anyone running under the artificial premise of "change" is even more so...
All I have to say on the whole obvious=true issue is look up and read the old fable about the three blind men and the elephant.
The whole issue of what is or isn't obvious is not really obvious at all. Sometimes its about what people choose to see or even are capable of seeing.
Hey, I'm too damn practical to live that close to a stream, let alone a river or the damn coast. Had a boss who cried every spring that their basement flooded during the rainy season. I never would have lived that close to a creek, myself. Even if I hadn't realized at first, I would have gotten out of there rather than cashing in flood insurance checks to buy new furniture every year.
Point is, if you don't like the coast -- move!
I remember back than, it was much more common then it is now two no the difference between your and you're. It really is to hard two keep track of. Most people can tell know difference between the too words.
You all have excellent points. But let me rebuff that in no way was I giving the US a free pass. We still have a long way to go as far as I am concerned, but are still light-years ahead of places like India, China, and the middle east.
And here, we USUALLY don't get arrested for voicing our opinions on the things we disagree with. Gotta love that, for what its worth.
Surely I am not the only one asking, "How is this a crime?" People who take offense of drawings of their immaginary friends not being the way they picture them are just childish. That's the kindest way I can put it.
Mischief, maybe. Tasteless, possibly. Crime, no fucking way! People like this, living in the Dark Ages need to get with the program. And people have the gall to criticize the U.S.?
Correct this crap, then maybe you have some right to criticize us. Glass houses? Hell, theirs are made of rice paper compared to ours...
Someone will invariably mistake my outrage for trolling. I'm OK with that, I can take it. They have a right to speak freely too...
Well, Thanks for correcting me. I remember hearing that a long, long time ago. Like Pre-web days. At least I was still right about Dean Paul Martin, though!
And on top of that, Richard Anderson just happened to be his father.
Sorry, couldn't resist!
Let's just hope one of them finds that super-suit.
Mike Wazowski, of course!
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10582
Where did you get this "fact" about who owns the website? Maybe you mean to say they CONTRIBUTE to the site? I would just like to know...honestly, I would. Maybe you can sue the site for lying if you are so sure?
If this site is owned by an oil company, they forgot to tell the site...
Does that mean that if Algore contributes to a cause, I can just claim it is false because of where the money came from?
I see serious flaws in your logic...
Then again, there may be no spiritual side to anything. I think we all hope there is, just because it presents us with a possibility of continued existence. I believe we need to start with the simplest point and consider the possibility that there is no "creator" or guiding intelligence. Mankind may have started with that belief and it just scared them too damn much, so they created gods as explanations and security blankets. What if it just isn't so? Like it or not, I do not feel that we are not being true to scientific method if we do not consider this possibility. Just like many religious stories, there is no way to discount this option, so why do we seem to do just that by default? Anthropic principle is pretty hard to fight, but I try my best.
I saw enough Christian and Athiest views here. Just thought it was time for an Agnostic to chime in.
My inside view of the innards of academic scientific research has shown me that most professional research scientists are actually professional Grant Writers in disguise. They start out meaning well and searching for the truth, but eventually they write whatever they have to and spin things to get the grants they desperately depend on for their livelihood. Many end up so far from what they enjoy doing and what they originally set out to accomplish that they never find their way back.
Well said.
Deal with it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, insensitive, blah, blah, blah, not fair, blah, blah, blah.
Life is not fair, life is cruel and hard.
Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
Well, I always felt like I was recursive...
Even better question would be...
"What person with a life actually cares?"