ID is falsifiable if someone can demonstrate a creature evolving through chance with no intervention from intelligent beings
I am not surprised you get aggravated. You haven't got a clue. How the hell are we supposed to be able to disprove that a supernatural being has had NO intervention in evolution?
The default position is to assume that they haven't been involved and then look for evidence that they have.
If you can show specific evidence that an intelligent being has guided evolution, and this isn't evidence of the sort "it is too improbable that it could have just happened", it is evidence that that improbably event had an intelligent being behind it.
Evolution is a theory that has come about through people observing evidence. ID is based on religious zealotry.
That science helped us shape a better, more accurate, world view. Science didn't *believe* anything as such, it just allowed us to improve what we thought.
Doh! Scientists looked for evidence on how the niverse started. In fact they started from the premise that there wasn't a Big Bang but then found evidence to support the idea that there was. And as for evolution, nope we didn't start with this idea either, we found evidence that it had happened. In each case evidence helped shape theory. Now look at religion. Did we find evidence of the biblical accounts of how the world began? Er, no, we just read it in some really old book. Did we find empirical evidence that Jesus walked on water? Nope, again just stuff written in texts, the original versions of which were written many years after his death. Hmmm, surely it is better to actually observe and then make up ideas?
Er, it doesn't. Their profit margin has no reflection upon whether copyright infringement is good or bad. If you want free music and film go grab Creative Commons licensed stuff. That's what it is there for.
With respect this is nothing like a Porsche or even a neat monster truck. If I buy a Porsche I'll get years of enjoyment from it. But I'm going to buy a better system than this in 2 years for under half the price. You are absolutely right when you say that nobody concerned with money would buy this machine.
That's what happens when someone writes a browser to get around the crappiness we see on the Web. Can Links really not use the stylesheet to do something useful with the content?
You have to be JOKING!
Excuse the capitals but that's a hilarious suggestion.
Their company policy is to benefit Microsoft shareholders. Open source and open standards are not directly conducive to growing Microsoft's bottom line.
They make their big money on Windows and Office. These are the archetypal definitions of closed, proprietary platforms that become de facto "standards" through their sheer dominance.
Microsoft is not going to risk its bottom line so do not expect much to change in future.
They endeavoured to make IE7 standards-compliant because it helps steal marketshare and mindshare away from Firefox. They hired a guy to work with Linux so they can better understand how to crush it or at best absorb its best parts and take the spoils. They finally started addressing security concerns because they risked losing marketshare over it.
Sure they're doing a few things differently (thank goodness) but this is all with the aim of making greater profit. The moment they do not need to have an open platform they will NOT push one.
You obviously have some sort of issue because right now it will use 96MB after I have booted up and then closed down all my normal apps. You uninstalled applications but this doesn't mean there were not others still insatalled and running.
Interesting. I only had 128MB when I first got XP and now XP uses 96MB when first started and all applications closed down yet I have 6 times that amount now.
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Isn't PAL 720x576?
It is a play on words. Something automatic that appears to be "magical".
SVG has been around for years and years...
ID is falsifiable if someone can demonstrate a creature evolving through chance with no intervention from intelligent beings
I am not surprised you get aggravated. You haven't got a clue. How the hell are we supposed to be able to disprove that a supernatural being has had NO intervention in evolution?The default position is to assume that they haven't been involved and then look for evidence that they have.
If you can show specific evidence that an intelligent being has guided evolution, and this isn't evidence of the sort "it is too improbable that it could have just happened", it is evidence that that improbably event had an intelligent being behind it.
Evolution is a theory that has come about through people observing evidence. ID is based on religious zealotry.
Is this due to increased pillow usage?
Well the chances of us humans living in a sterile environment are nil. Clean what you like but you'll never ever escape pathogens sorry.
That science helped us shape a better, more accurate, world view. Science didn't *believe* anything as such, it just allowed us to improve what we thought.
Doh!
Scientists looked for evidence on how the niverse started. In fact they started from the premise that there wasn't a Big Bang but then found evidence to support the idea that there was.
And as for evolution, nope we didn't start with this idea either, we found evidence that it had happened.
In each case evidence helped shape theory.
Now look at religion. Did we find evidence of the biblical accounts of how the world began? Er, no, we just read it in some really old book. Did we find empirical evidence that Jesus walked on water? Nope, again just stuff written in texts, the original versions of which were written many years after his death.
Hmmm, surely it is better to actually observe and then make up ideas?
Exactly. If this was worth panicking over then why are we not all dying en masse due to the widepread use of pillows across the globe?
Not exactly. eMule is just a much much better client than eDonkey.
Paranoia, anyone?
Er, it doesn't. Their profit margin has no reflection upon whether copyright infringement is good or bad.
If you want free music and film go grab Creative Commons licensed stuff.
That's what it is there for.
Do not underestimate the power of the dark side.
Sorry, I'll leave now.
With respect this is nothing like a Porsche or even a neat monster truck. If I buy a Porsche I'll get years of enjoyment from it. But I'm going to buy a better system than this in 2 years for under half the price.
You are absolutely right when you say that nobody concerned with money would buy this machine.
That's what happens when someone writes a browser to get around the crappiness we see on the Web.
Can Links really not use the stylesheet to do something useful with the content?
Slashdot jumped the shark about 5 years ago.
Bloody hell you are slow.
Infecting the mother sounds so much better though. :)
Ah but will it be more Groucho than Karl?
Serves you right for not checking what you were downloading.
Did you think Mr Hands was a kiddies entertainer?
Don't talk nonsense. Courts rely on more substantial things than some web pages.
Well answered, although it requires a further two clicks and then to type out the whole shebang again to get to the Blog search. ;-)
Terrible.
Where does this originate from?
You have to be JOKING!
Excuse the capitals but that's a hilarious suggestion.
Their company policy is to benefit Microsoft shareholders. Open source and open standards are not directly conducive to growing Microsoft's bottom line.
They make their big money on Windows and Office. These are the archetypal definitions of closed, proprietary platforms that become de facto "standards" through their sheer dominance.
Microsoft is not going to risk its bottom line so do not expect much to change in future.
They endeavoured to make IE7 standards-compliant because it helps steal marketshare and mindshare away from Firefox. They hired a guy to work with Linux so they can better understand how to crush it or at best absorb its best parts and take the spoils. They finally started addressing security concerns because they risked losing marketshare over it.
Sure they're doing a few things differently (thank goodness) but this is all with the aim of making greater profit. The moment they do not need to have an open platform they will NOT push one.
You obviously have some sort of issue because right now it will use 96MB after I have booted up and then closed down all my normal apps.
You uninstalled applications but this doesn't mean there were not others still insatalled and running.
Interesting. I only had 128MB when I first got XP and now XP uses 96MB when first started and all applications closed down yet I have 6 times that amount now.