Thanks for your considered post. Evolution has two main tenets both involving random mutation. Natural Selection, and Increase of Information. I have no problem with natural selection; I have a big problem with increase of information. The reason being, that for complex structures, the rate of non beneficial mutation that causes a decrease in reproduction (but not death) will far far exceed the rate of beneficial mutations. eg I have genetic abnormality that causes weak bones. It doesn't effect my reproductive capability by may shorten my life by 5 years. This suggests we started with a well designed system that is slowly collecting copying errors. It much easier to believe we started with a perfect operating system that is slowly collection errors over time, that starting with random molecules that have created this incredible order we see. As someone who designs complex systems, evolution seems a childish proposition that has a myriad of unsolved problems such as chirality and irreducible complexity.
As a Christian I have zero hate for Gay People, but I don't morally agree with their lifestyle. As a business person, I've employed gay people and it hasn't factored into whether they would be hired or not. In regards to dangerous ideologies, can you give an example. Jesus' opinion was 'render under ceaser what is ceasars' and 'Pray for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.' Not sure what is dangerous about that.
Healthcare? Jesus asked us to support widows and orphans. Sex Ed. I have no problem with that as long as abstinence outside of marriage is taught as a valid and preferred lifestyle.
Yep, and that's the problem with a free will being. The choice is there to love, hate or be a hypocrite. I would say the Catholic church has fallen some way into the 'pharisee' abyss where following a set of rules becomes more important than fostering a direct connection to God. That still doesn't discount the fundamental message the New Testament brings.
I've never really understood the hate for Christianity. I'm a practicing christian who also runs a company that develops hi-tech products employing over 50 people. To say that my faith is a 'murderer of intelligence' is non sequitur. About the only area where faith and science clash is evolution, and evolution science makes up a minuscule part of the sciences but seems to cause a reaction way out of proportion to its practical significance.
The modern christian church does a lot of good in society. I haven't seen many 'society of atheists' running soup kitchens, or micro finance banks, or free surgery ships, or child sponsorship programs, or crisis counseling centers, or refugee support programs.
Australia developed a technology to manipulate radioactive waste into a ceramic where the the radioactive material is locked into the crystal lattice of the material. The advantage of this process is once you bury it, it won't leach radioactive material into your ground water supplies. TFA wasn't clear if their new fancy concrete had this property.
So can I blame Jamie Condliffe for taking an IEEE article in metric and converting to imperial? After all, Gizmodo is a tech lite site; so you think they would want to culturally lead the way in dropping a unit of measure that no other country uses anymore.
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his successful campaign is a head-scratcher.
This has happened twice in Australias recent political history with Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer. It is a direct sign of frustration with mainstream politics. Most sane Americans know most of their politicians are bought by big business or controlled by a shadow government. Voting for buffoons is like a cry for help. Things aren't bad enough for an outright revolution, so the alternative is to 'stick it to the man' by supporting Trump.
You sound like a nutter. Evolution is not testable in the true scientific sense. Evolution has not been able to explain away chirality or irreducible complexity. Evolution claims to increase information due to random mutations due to natural selection. It is disingenuous to believe that the ratio of beneficial mutation to non beneficial mutation has produced the exquisite complexity and order we see today.
Not only that. I would expect enterprise systems to be configured to talk to a domain WSUS server, which should elimate almost all external traffic for updates.
Maybe you should move to Australia; it works here. We also have free health care, 'the metric system', less corrupt politicians, sane gun laws, chill work culture, and hot women!... Ohh And for you camel pilot, we have lots of them in our outback, so many in fact we shoot them on mass from helicopters, so come to Oz and be out Camel Pilot!
Wow. In Australia we have almost zero tolerance as most speed traps are now semi automated in mobile vans. 5MPH over will get you ticketed. As a consequence we have very little speeding in Oz.
Obsolescence is DELIBERATLEY limiting the lifetime of an object through design. I've designed electronic products for over 25 years, and not once have I ever purposely designed obsolescence into a product, nor have I known an engineer who has (We are talking industrial/scientific equipment), and I'm not sure how you would do it for an electronic product short of firmware date methods.
Now: I have designed products, such a Alcohol Breathalyzers, that will refuse to work after a certain period of time because they need recalibration (this was to maintain a government certification), but re calibration restores functionality. The fuel cell wears out in those products; but again that is not planned obsolescence, but a limitation of the technology.
A cracked screen (user abuse), poor wifi (software driver, corrosion etc) are not Obsolescence. Failing batteries is about as close as you can get to obsolescence.
I'm sure there are examples (especially for mechanical consumer devices with moving parts), but for electronics, it is not a 'thing' we do.
Do government ministers check their brains into deep storage when they are elected?
There are sooo many things wrong with this concept; the first being grip. How do you make glass grip? You have severely roughen the surface which will make the light scatter severely reducing efficiency. They are not angled correctly. They will get damaged. Very expensive because they have withstand trucks... any anyway, next time France gets invaded, the tank tracks will rip them to pieces. Just go find a nice field to put them in,
Not sure why you were modded funny. Most of the over unity devices claim the extra energy comes from the 'ether', ie some unnamed, undiscovered energy force that their special energy device can harness. A lot of great science was by accident or tinkerers. Some will be scam artists, some mentally ill, but most are probably just drinking their own cool aid; but I'm ok with that, because one day one of them might discover the real deal.
As it does in Australia, but we know America is not the land of common sense, but of imperial measurements, gas guzzling autos and no basic public health care.
We got rid of the penny here in Canada. It was no big deal. I've hardly noticed the difference.
Well, Australia got rid of their 1c & 2c coins in 1992. We don't miss them.... but be prepared for old people to whine about having to round up/ down for cash sales.
What crazy logic you are using. Guns are dangerous. They make suicide easier, accidental shootings easier, anger shootings easier, and who says your little handgun is any match for a body armor wearing human with an assault rifle: It takes a lot more effort to use fists, knives, or clubs to kill someone vs a gun. The trouble is, you have SO MANY GUNS, it would take 50 -100 years to reduce your gun levels back to sane amounts, in which time criminals would have the advantage. I'm afraid your gun lobby has made you a servant to the gun for your lifetime.
The United States is the size of a continent, possesses vast tracks of low-population-density wilderness (very difficult to efficiently patrol/police), ethnically-diverse (which, honestly, is the cause of some of internal divisions/conflicts/paranoia/crime).
What, like Australia? When Iwas a kid, you buy a gun from KMart. Now all guns need to be locked in safes, and assault weapons are banned. We have 10% of the gun homocides you do. The street price for a hand gun can over $10k.
Does chrome support tree tabs as well as the firefox treetabs extension. (I dropped chrome because I could find no such functionality) I don't know how people browse without vertical tabs (I usually have 60+ tabs open at a time)
So if a/. Geek can barely understand it; what hope has a mere mortal. Microsoft has so screwed their whole whole unification Of desktop/tablet. At least Apple has had the sense of keeping iOS and desktop seperate do and are working slowly toward their unification (it may still never happen).
I wouldn't panic so much. Climate Science has become so politicized, that I think there is not much genuine science being done now.
- Journals refusing to publish papers that don't follow the warming meme - Trillions of profits to be made from selling carbon credits - Deliberate manipulation of historical temperature data. https://stevengoddard.wordpres... - The atmosphere having thousands of non linear coupled inter-dependencies which haven't been modeled and can't be tested.
Women always want diamonds because they are "beautiful". If their price drops to the floor, I wonder whether they will still like them on their wedding rings. Truth is, most women don't care about what they wear, as long as they have the feeling that you bought them something special. And if their friends envy them, then it's even better.
Good summary. A woman is actually looking to be valued which requires the man to suffer pain. Pain in researching, pain in the wallet. Flowers are similar. For example, flowers from a service station are much less valuable than flowers from a florist, even though the product might be very similar. The service station is convenient and cheap; so the woman perceives your love for her as convenient and cheap. I'm not saying this is bad thing; it is just the way most women are wired.
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Thanks for your considered post.
Evolution has two main tenets both involving random mutation. Natural Selection, and Increase of Information.
I have no problem with natural selection; I have a big problem with increase of information.
The reason being, that for complex structures, the rate of non beneficial mutation that causes a decrease in reproduction (but not death) will far far exceed the rate of beneficial mutations.
eg I have genetic abnormality that causes weak bones. It doesn't effect my reproductive capability by may shorten my life by 5 years. This suggests we started with a well designed system that is slowly collecting copying errors.
It much easier to believe we started with a perfect operating system that is slowly collection errors over time, that starting with random molecules that have created this incredible order we see. As someone who designs complex systems, evolution seems a childish proposition that has a myriad of unsolved problems such as chirality and irreducible complexity.
As a Christian I have zero hate for Gay People, but I don't morally agree with their lifestyle. As a business person, I've employed gay people and it hasn't factored into whether they would be hired or not.
In regards to dangerous ideologies, can you give an example. Jesus' opinion was 'render under ceaser what is ceasars' and 'Pray for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.' Not sure what is dangerous about that.
Healthcare? Jesus asked us to support widows and orphans.
Sex Ed. I have no problem with that as long as abstinence outside of marriage is taught as a valid and preferred lifestyle.
Yep, and that's the problem with a free will being. The choice is there to love, hate or be a hypocrite.
I would say the Catholic church has fallen some way into the 'pharisee' abyss where following a set of rules becomes more important than fostering a direct connection to God.
That still doesn't discount the fundamental message the New Testament brings.
I've never really understood the hate for Christianity.
I'm a practicing christian who also runs a company that develops hi-tech products employing over 50 people. To say that my faith is a 'murderer of intelligence' is non sequitur. About the only area where faith and science clash is evolution, and evolution science makes up a minuscule part of the sciences but seems to cause a reaction way out of proportion to its practical significance.
The modern christian church does a lot of good in society. I haven't seen many 'society of atheists' running soup kitchens, or micro finance banks, or free surgery ships, or child sponsorship programs, or crisis counseling centers, or refugee support programs.
If you want a great summary of Christianity, read this.
https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
Australia developed a technology to manipulate radioactive waste into a ceramic where the the radioactive material is locked into the crystal lattice of the material. The advantage of this process is once you bury it, it won't leach radioactive material into your ground water supplies. TFA wasn't clear if their new fancy concrete had this property.
So can I blame Jamie Condliffe for taking an IEEE article in metric and converting to imperial?
After all, Gizmodo is a tech lite site; so you think they would want to culturally lead the way in dropping a unit of measure that no other country uses anymore.
his successful campaign is a head-scratcher.
This has happened twice in Australias recent political history with Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer.
It is a direct sign of frustration with mainstream politics.
Most sane Americans know most of their politicians are bought by big business or controlled by a shadow government. Voting for buffoons is like a cry for help. Things aren't bad enough for an outright revolution, so the alternative is to 'stick it to the man' by supporting Trump.
You sound like a nutter.
Evolution is not testable in the true scientific sense. Evolution has not been able to explain away chirality or irreducible complexity. Evolution claims to increase information due to random mutations due to natural selection. It is disingenuous to believe that the ratio of beneficial mutation to non beneficial mutation has produced the exquisite complexity and order we see today.
Not only that. I would expect enterprise systems to be configured to talk to a domain WSUS server, which should elimate almost all external traffic for updates.
Maybe you should move to Australia; it works here. ... Ohh And for you camel pilot, we have lots of them in our outback, so many in fact we shoot them on mass from helicopters, so come to Oz and be out Camel Pilot!
We also have free health care, 'the metric system', less corrupt politicians, sane gun laws, chill work culture, and hot women!
Wow.
In Australia we have almost zero tolerance as most speed traps are now semi automated in mobile vans. 5MPH over will get you ticketed. As a consequence we have very little speeding in Oz.
Obsolescence is DELIBERATLEY limiting the lifetime of an object through design.
I've designed electronic products for over 25 years, and not once have I ever purposely designed obsolescence into a product, nor have I known an engineer who has (We are talking industrial/scientific equipment), and I'm not sure how you would do it for an electronic product short of firmware date methods.
Now: I have designed products, such a Alcohol Breathalyzers, that will refuse to work after a certain period of time because they need recalibration (this was to maintain a government certification), but re calibration restores functionality. The fuel cell wears out in those products; but again that is not planned obsolescence, but a limitation of the technology.
A cracked screen (user abuse), poor wifi (software driver, corrosion etc) are not Obsolescence.
Failing batteries is about as close as you can get to obsolescence.
I'm sure there are examples (especially for mechanical consumer devices with moving parts), but for electronics, it is not a 'thing' we do.
Do government ministers check their brains into deep storage when they are elected?
There are sooo many things wrong with this concept; the first being grip.
How do you make glass grip? You have severely roughen the surface which will make the light scatter severely reducing efficiency.
They are not angled correctly. They will get damaged. Very expensive because they have withstand trucks... any anyway, next time France gets invaded, the tank tracks will rip them to pieces.
Just go find a nice field to put them in,
Dave at EEVblog has already covered the concept in depth.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/b...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.eevblog.com/2015/05...
Not sure why you were modded funny.
Most of the over unity devices claim the extra energy comes from the 'ether', ie some unnamed, undiscovered energy force that their special energy device can harness. A lot of great science was by accident or tinkerers. Some will be scam artists, some mentally ill, but most are probably just drinking their own cool aid; but I'm ok with that, because one day one of them might discover the real deal.
As it does in Australia, but we know America is not the land of common sense, but of imperial measurements, gas guzzling autos and no basic public health care.
We got rid of the penny here in Canada. It was no big deal. I've hardly noticed the difference.
Well, Australia got rid of their 1c & 2c coins in 1992. We don't miss them.... but be prepared for old people to whine about having to round up/ down for cash sales.
What crazy logic you are using.
Guns are dangerous. They make suicide easier, accidental shootings easier, anger shootings easier, and who says your little handgun is any match for a body armor wearing human with an assault rifle: It takes a lot more effort to use fists, knives, or clubs to kill someone vs a gun.
The trouble is, you have SO MANY GUNS, it would take 50 -100 years to reduce your gun levels back to sane amounts, in which time criminals would have the advantage.
I'm afraid your gun lobby has made you a servant to the gun for your lifetime.
The United States is the size of a continent, possesses vast tracks of low-population-density wilderness (very difficult to efficiently patrol/police), ethnically-diverse (which, honestly, is the cause of some of internal divisions/conflicts/paranoia/crime).
What, like Australia? When Iwas a kid, you buy a gun from KMart. Now all guns need to be locked in safes, and assault weapons are banned. We have 10% of the gun homocides you do. The street price for a hand gun can over $10k.
Does chrome support tree tabs as well as the firefox treetabs extension. (I dropped chrome because I could find no such functionality)
I don't know how people browse without vertical tabs (I usually have 60+ tabs open at a time)
So if a /. Geek can barely understand it; what hope has a mere mortal.
Microsoft has so screwed their whole whole unification Of desktop/tablet. At least Apple has had the sense of keeping iOS and desktop seperate do and are working slowly toward their unification (it may still never happen).
Thanks for proving my point.
I wouldn't panic so much. Climate Science has become so politicized, that I think there is not much genuine science being done now.
- Journals refusing to publish papers that don't follow the warming meme
- Trillions of profits to be made from selling carbon credits
- Deliberate manipulation of historical temperature data. https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
- The atmosphere having thousands of non linear coupled inter-dependencies which haven't been modeled and can't be tested.
If you ived in the 70's you were about to freeze to death. https://stevengoddard.wordpres...
Americans still look batshit crazy. I suppose when you grow up in that culture, it is hard to see what the rest of the world sees.
It must suck to live in country where you feel you need to have a gun close by to feel safe.
Women always want diamonds because they are "beautiful". If their price drops to the floor, I wonder whether they will still like them on their wedding rings. Truth is, most women don't care about what they wear, as long as they have the feeling that you bought them something special. And if their friends envy them, then it's even better.
Good summary. A woman is actually looking to be valued which requires the man to suffer pain. Pain in researching, pain in the wallet. Flowers are similar. For example, flowers from a service station are much less valuable than flowers from a florist, even though the product might be very similar. The service station is convenient and cheap; so the woman perceives your love for her as convenient and cheap.
I'm not saying this is bad thing; it is just the way most women are wired.