Put the keyboard and mouse down, back away from the computer..."... and wait for the applications for sex partner to roll in?
Well, put it this way, it couldn't hurt your chances if they see you've got two hands free to manipulate their bits, as opposed to the other sort of bits.
* If Jon Katz had written it, he'd do a global replace of "Orc" with "Jock" and "Mordor" with "High School"
* If CmdrTaco had written it, it'd be called "Lodr of the Rnigs." * Arwen would be played by Petrified Natalie Portman. * There'd be a scene where Sauron looks up from admiring his shiny new gold toy and says to his nine best friends "Imagine if we had a Beowulf Cluster of this!" * There'd be the Obligatory TokenRing Joke. * The opening credits would be replaced by FR1ST PS0Ts * The DVD would be released in "Page-Widening Spam" format instead of "Widescreen"
No, he meant omniscience. By definition, there cannot exist a universe containing both an omniscient being and free will.
Omniscience is defined as knowing everything, past, present and future, with zero possibility of error. If a god knows that you will eat pizza tomorrow, then you must eat pizza tomorrow. Since there is no possibility of error in the god's knowledge (that you will eat pizza tomorrow), then there is no possibility that you could choose to eat hamburger tomorrow instead. Thus, if omniscience existed, any idea you might have that you have free will to choose what you'll eat tomorrow (or make any other choices) is just an illusion of your limited mind.
Fortunately, no evidence has ever been presented of any being possessing anything remotely resembling omniscience.
"The US forefathers reiterated this: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident that all Men... are endowed by their Creator..." "
This is a blatantly dishonest use of ellipsis. The US forefathers were deists at most, not Christian. A lot of Americans at that time were fleeing persecution by Christians in England. Go reread the first amendment. While you're at it, read Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and Paine for their uniformly less-than-complimentary opinions of Christianity.
"The Bible states: The [empty-headed] fool says in his heart, "There is no God.""
What a very cute little [addition] of yours to that quote. But didn't the last verses of Revelations have some very nasty things to say about people who added things to your holy book? (Ooops. Better pack that SPF 30 Billion sunscreen.)...And gee, I wonder who it was who said "but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." (Watch that first step. I hear it's a lulu.)
"For 700 pages of extraordinary proof, I suggest that you read The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell [josh.org]."
Proof? Only of how easy it is to preach to the choirboys. *laughter* Dearie me, superyooser. There you go yet again with the broken-record touting of that greedy shyster McDowell and his website. Every time you keep hailing "the emperor", I'll keep pointing out that not only does he have no clothes on, but he's really not a pretty sight.
With power goes responsibility. With ultimate power goes ultimate responsibility. Your god supposedly created everything, including hell and the rules condemning everyone there.
The situation as described in your religion is analogous to a boy getting annoyed at a kitten because it couldn't talk, and setting it on fire. Only, of course, your god as described in your own book is far more evil than the boy. Because (a) the boy's nature was shaped by other influences i.e. he is not 100% responsible for his own sadistic tendencies, (b) the boy did not deliberately make the kitten incapable of speech, (c) the boy did not deliberately make the kitten capable of feeling pain, (d) the boy did not deliberately make the fire such that it would cause pain. And finally, (e) no boy is capable of keeping the kitten alive and suffering _forever_. Unlike your god.
Working from the premises of your own religion, it is no mischaracterisation at all to observe that, IF an all-knowing, all-powerful being (a) existed in the first place, and (b) wanted everyone in heaven, they would BE there.
Omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent: Reality says, pick a _maximum_ of two.
"For a God to be any use, He cannot fulfil your expectations of Him"
It's been a while since I've seen a neater little example of blatant illogicality. Nobody could possibly believe that. If it is not possible to have "expectations" i.e. understanding of something, then all discourse ceases. You have just stated that it is not possible to know anything about a God. Remarkably agnostic sentiments, coming from someone who's obviously some sort of Creationist....Oh and btw, while you're busy floundering around, why not list some of these "billions upon billions of miracles"?...BTW, here's a free clue. In the real world (the one outside your silly little sectarian fantasies) water doesn't flow uphill. And materialism, by definition, requires no miracles.
He's someone who used to use Pert shampoo, maybe? ObJoke: How did the programmer die in the shower? He read the instructions on the shampoo: "Lather, Rinse, Repeat."
Mediocre Intellect Twats. I mean, come on! This guy is supposed to teach CS? And not at some tinpot half-assed place either. Kind of thing that makes you shudder for the future of the field.
Pardon me while I laugh hysterically. Pedestal? Pedestal? Oh cry me a river, you smarmy hypocrite. Here's a free clue: real life !=/. Get back to me when there isn't a tax-free church on every street corner. Get back to me when there's an avowed atheist elected to any position of real political power. Get back to me when the mere word "atheist" isn't immediately accepted by the majority of people out there in the real world as a synonym for "immoral", despite the inconvenient facts that the incidence of divorce is lower in atheists than in fundamentalist Christians and the proportion of atheists in prisons is about 1/10 the proportion of atheists in the general population. People don't kowtow to your religion in this little forum the way they do everywhere else? Well isn't that just too fucking bad.
1): A double negative? Oh really? *yawn* Funny how you couldn't actually mention where it is.
2): A helluva lot of people apparently disagree with you.
Now, sod off and come back when you've grown enough of a spine to get an account, AC.
This Radlight guy is a total wanker
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What the hell makes him think he's got the right to piss around in other people's computers?
Newsflash, you scum-sucking sack of pus, AdAware wouldn't even exist if morons like you didn't install privacy busting crap in the first place. It's my machine, I paid for it, I get to say what does and doesn't get installed on it. Capisce? Oh, and one last thing, Ibore "NadSuckon" Anus, if you think your smug, semiliterate attempt at an "apology" is going to make even one user even one tiny bit less pissed off at you, then just take the crackpipe out of your hole and listen up. Just like a helluva LOT of people, I not only never heard of your pissant product before this, I now wouldn't use it if it was the ONLY media player out there. Sucks to be you.
Ooooops! Sorry, my mistake! I saw "punch-cards" and immediately thought "punch-card-reader" and *bam*, instant flashback to the days when big iron and paper teletypes were the only game in town. ...Now 'scuse me while I twitch and brush off imaginary chads 'till the fit passes.:)
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Pity so much of it is wrong.
Yeah, it's a theory. In EXACTLY the same way as the Theory of Gravity is a theory.
Put the keyboard and mouse down, back away from the computer..." ... and wait for the applications for sex partner to roll in?
Well, put it this way, it couldn't hurt your chances if they see you've got two hands free to manipulate their bits, as opposed to the other sort of bits.
You can do that now, you know.
Yes, you can.
It's called sex.
Put the keyboard and mouse down, back away from the computer...
Or they will be when they realise that:
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1. Lousy London Weather
2. Muddy Roads (or, maybe deliberately applied mud smears, shh)
3. Obscured number plates
n. _NO_ PROFIT!
Oops, meant to add...
:)
* Movie theaters worldwide would crash horribly on Opening night.
* If Jon Katz had written it, he'd do a global replace of "Orc" with "Jock" and "Mordor" with "High School"
* If CmdrTaco had written it, it'd be called "Lodr of the Rnigs."
* Arwen would be played by Petrified Natalie Portman.
* There'd be a scene where Sauron looks up from admiring his shiny new gold toy and says to his nine best friends "Imagine if we had a Beowulf Cluster of this!"
* There'd be the Obligatory TokenRing Joke.
* The opening credits would be replaced by FR1ST PS0Ts
* The DVD would be released in "Page-Widening Spam" format instead of "Widescreen"
It's Dragon.
http://www.lspace.org
...L-space?
*Oook!*
He already talked about size. He was asking what PPI = how many points _per_inch_.
Professional phototypesetters work at 1200x1200 dpi. I think visual acuity would pretty much bottom out at about 2000x2000 dpi.
Omniscience is defined as knowing everything, past, present and future, with zero possibility of error. If a god knows that you will eat pizza tomorrow, then you must eat pizza tomorrow. Since there is no possibility of error in the god's knowledge (that you will eat pizza tomorrow), then there is no possibility that you could choose to eat hamburger tomorrow instead. Thus, if omniscience existed, any idea you might have that you have free will to choose what you'll eat tomorrow (or make any other choices) is just an illusion of your limited mind.
Fortunately, no evidence has ever been presented of any being possessing anything remotely resembling omniscience.
This is a blatantly dishonest use of ellipsis. The US forefathers were deists at most, not Christian. A lot of Americans at that time were fleeing persecution by Christians in England. Go reread the first amendment. While you're at it, read Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and Paine for their uniformly less-than-complimentary opinions of Christianity.
"The Bible states: The [empty-headed] fool says in his heart, "There is no God.""
What a very cute little [addition] of yours to that quote. But didn't the last verses of Revelations have some very nasty things to say about people who added things to your holy book? (Ooops. Better pack that SPF 30 Billion sunscreen.) ...And gee, I wonder who it was who said "but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire." (Watch that first step. I hear it's a lulu.)
"For 700 pages of extraordinary proof, I suggest that you read The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell [josh.org]."
Proof? Only of how easy it is to preach to the choirboys. *laughter* Dearie me, superyooser. There you go yet again with the broken-record touting of that greedy shyster McDowell and his website. Every time you keep hailing "the emperor", I'll keep pointing out that not only does he have no clothes on, but he's really not a pretty sight.
With power goes responsibility. With ultimate power goes ultimate responsibility. Your god supposedly created everything, including hell and the rules condemning everyone there.
The situation as described in your religion is analogous to a boy getting annoyed at a kitten because it couldn't talk, and setting it on fire. Only, of course, your god as described in your own book is far more evil than the boy. Because (a) the boy's nature was shaped by other influences i.e. he is not 100% responsible for his own sadistic tendencies, (b) the boy did not deliberately make the kitten incapable of speech, (c) the boy did not deliberately make the kitten capable of feeling pain, (d) the boy did not deliberately make the fire such that it would cause pain. And finally, (e) no boy is capable of keeping the kitten alive and suffering _forever_. Unlike your god.
Working from the premises of your own religion, it is no mischaracterisation at all to observe that, IF an all-knowing, all-powerful being (a) existed in the first place, and (b) wanted everyone in heaven, they would BE there.
Omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent: Reality says, pick a _maximum_ of two.
It's been a while since I've seen a neater little example of blatant illogicality. Nobody could possibly believe that. If it is not possible to have "expectations" i.e. understanding of something, then all discourse ceases. You have just stated that it is not possible to know anything about a God. Remarkably agnostic sentiments, coming from someone who's obviously some sort of Creationist. ...Oh and btw, while you're busy floundering around, why not list some of these "billions upon billions of miracles"? ...BTW, here's a free clue. In the real world (the one outside your silly little sectarian fantasies) water doesn't flow uphill. And materialism, by definition, requires no miracles.
This was IMO bloody insightful stuff. My kingdom for some mod points!
Mmm, not bad but I think it needs a bit of a tweak to make it a really suitable acronym: how about Self-rated High Intellect Twats? :)
He's someone who used to use Pert shampoo, maybe?
ObJoke: How did the programmer die in the shower? He read the instructions on the shampoo: "Lather, Rinse, Repeat."
Mediocre Intellect Twats.
I mean, come on! This guy is supposed to teach CS? And not at some tinpot half-assed place either. Kind of thing that makes you shudder for the future of the field.
Pardon me while I laugh hysterically. Pedestal? Pedestal? Oh cry me a river, you smarmy hypocrite. Here's a free clue: real life != /. Get back to me when there isn't a tax-free church on every street corner. Get back to me when there's an avowed atheist elected to any position of real political power. Get back to me when the mere word "atheist" isn't immediately accepted by the majority of people out there in the real world as a synonym for "immoral", despite the inconvenient facts that the incidence of divorce is lower in atheists than in fundamentalist Christians and the proportion of atheists in prisons is about 1/10 the proportion of atheists in the general population. People don't kowtow to your religion in this little forum the way they do everywhere else? Well isn't that just too fucking bad.
2): A helluva lot of people apparently disagree with you.
Now, sod off and come back when you've grown enough of a spine to get an account, AC.
Newsflash, you scum-sucking sack of pus, AdAware wouldn't even exist if morons like you didn't install privacy busting crap in the first place. It's my machine, I paid for it, I get to say what does and doesn't get installed on it. Capisce?
Oh, and one last thing, Ibore "NadSuckon" Anus, if you think your smug, semiliterate attempt at an "apology" is going to make even one user even one tiny bit less pissed off at you, then just take the crackpipe out of your hole and listen up. Just like a helluva LOT of people, I not only never heard of your pissant product before this, I now wouldn't use it if it was the ONLY media player out there. Sucks to be you.
So am I. ;>
Direct to Georgieboy.
Rectally. (Oh, for a _real_ one!)
Ooooops! Sorry, my mistake! I saw "punch-cards" and immediately thought "punch-card-reader" and *bam*, instant flashback to the days when big iron and paper teletypes were the only game in town. :)
...Now 'scuse me while I twitch and brush off imaginary chads 'till the fit passes.