And what does faith gain us? Why should I believe something "just because"?
Certainly you shouldn't go to the other extreme and not believe (have faith) anything... but even if we do decide that "having faith" is a good virtue, there are many other ways I can gain it (eg. love my girlfriend no matter what she does, believe that the insides of most apples are white without opening them all) without needing to make up a God.
Okay, I'm just begging to be marked off-topic since this endless line of bantering has probably been repeated many times on many usenet groups...
Hehe, I didn't think metacrawler would let me do a search this long. In any case, do you have a link to any info about this on the 'net? I can't seem to find anything.
There exist quite a few specialized shopping bots that search commerce sites or auction sites. Certainly the data they're pulling is dynamic.
Does anyone know how they do it? Certainly some have special deals with the sites they're search, I think PriceWatch does this mostly, but there's so many products on these sites that it seems like they'd have to be spidering...
Are these bots very specialized, or can their techniques be used for the rest of the 'net?
There's a difference between intentionally squatting on a domain name and taking a long time to develop a site because you're a student. A company with many employees working full time might develop the site faster, but the student isn't intending to make money off of it.
Hrm... could you extend that argument to say something like... "The only difference between a bacteria and an evolved lego bridge is only a matter time and a slight change in hardware"?
Not that I'm trying the same argument as: a pile of dirt is kind of like a pile of rocks, a pile of rocks is kind of like an abacus, an abacus is kind of like a calculator, a calculator is kind of like a computer, therefore, a pile of dirt is kind of like a computer.
Not that I agree with most religious stuff, but some statements from this article seem to make sense (or at least, it delays the argument for a bit):
"God creates human beings with intelligence and if they can use this intelligence to create a bacterium then that's fine," she said.
But she said the Catholic Church would not countenance the creation of higher lifeforms - or even of bacteria if the motivation was to do harm.
"In itself it's an interesting piece of scientific research. But it depends on your motivation. If you are trying to prove the non-existence of God that's one thing, but if you are just carrying out an experiment that is quite another.
"Obviously if you were trying to create bacteria for germ warfare that would be very wrong."
She added: "If it's just a bacteria, that's fine. But it's a long way from a bacteria to a human being."
Such a system requires an extra set of headlights to properly illuminate the road ahead.
supposedly IR headlights... Does anyone know if this is what Cadillac has done, or do they just detect what IR light is out there? The shockwave thing seemed to indicate that it just detected the heat of what is already out there, which would make more sense to me (a complete non-expert).
Get them while they last, goggles for Y2K. So when you drive around in your caddy on Jan 1, you'll know where to swerve in order to hit those nuts running around in the dark.
Finally, some (real?) statistics about how night vision in cars increases safety.
*shrug* I think it's a valid concern. (well, okay, that's partly cuz he agrees with me)
I've often thought that if a car were able to drive itself ("computer, take me to grand central station". "Doh! I was speaking into the mouse"), that even if it were safer than the average human... The company who sells the car would get sued for every wreck the cars were involved in.
If people have a chance to move the blame to someone/something else, they will, and few people are going to defend the machine, especially if a company is behind it.
Well, are there any emiters that give off EM waves in this wavelenght, or would the thing just get really hot? I was wondering if you have something like this, if you could concentrate it and burn holes in distant things, sorta like what microwave laser could.
(yes, I probably need to come back to earth, but shooting a turkey and cooking it all at the same time sounds kinda cool...)
d00d, it took TONS of money and a gymnasium full of vacuum tubes to make some of the first computers... thinking that everyone would eventually have a computer on their desk was unthinkable.
Once we find some profitable uses for space travel, spaceship development will go into the private sector, making things more efficient. There will also be concrete reasons for private organizations/individuals to put money into developing economical and reliable spaceships.
I'm not saying that we'll all have rockets in our backyards (that's kind of like saying "geez, planes were invented 50 years ago, we should all have personal jets or helicopters in our backyard by now"), but it should definitely become less costly as time goes on.
It's not a particularly bad thing to say things that are "against the grain". Once people get settled into one way of thinking, they can get stuck there, and sometimes it's helpful if they see things from another viewpoint (even if the other viewpoint is wrong?).
On the other hand, a lot of people like to blow smoke out their ass and think themselves big and cool by dissing groups of people. "Nya-hah... they're all wrong, they just don't realize it yet."
Of course, I'm thinking myself to be cool for dissing all those mindless naysayers, so don't take me too seriously.
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Certainly you shouldn't go to the other extreme and not believe (have faith) anything... but even if we do decide that "having faith" is a good virtue, there are many other ways I can gain it (eg. love my girlfriend no matter what she does, believe that the insides of most apples are white without opening them all) without needing to make up a God.
Okay, I'm just begging to be marked off-topic since this endless line of bantering has probably been repeated many times on many usenet groups...
Hehe, I didn't think metacrawler would let me do a search this long. In any case, do you have a link to any info about this on the 'net? I can't seem to find anything.
http://mc7.metacrawler.com/crawler?gener al=What%27s+interesting+is+that+there%27s+a+case+a gainst+the+Onandoga+nation%2C+in+upstate +New+York%2C+who+are+selling+non-taxed+cigarettes+ over+the+interent+and+making+a+bundle.+T he+Onandoga+nation+argues+that+the+sale+of+cigaret tes+occurs+on+their+ground%2C+so+it+is+o utside+the+US+tax+law+jurisdiction%2C+but+%28I+bel ieve+it+was+the+Syracuse%29+D.A.+says+th at+the+sale+occurs+on+the+users%27+side%2C+and+thu s+should+be+taxed.+Interesting+to+see+wh at+the+court+decides...&method=1®ion=0&rpp=20&time out=0&hpe=10&sort=0&power=0&format=regul ar
They also format it so that it's very easy to print the results in a script. This is the one I use.
Does anyone know how they do it? Certainly some have special deals with the sites they're search, I think PriceWatch does this mostly, but there's so many products on these sites that it seems like they'd have to be spidering...
Are these bots very specialized, or can their techniques be used for the rest of the 'net?
There's a difference between intentionally squatting on a domain name and taking a long time to develop a site because you're a student. A company with many employees working full time might develop the site faster, but the student isn't intending to make money off of it.
Not that I'm trying the same argument as: a pile of dirt is kind of like a pile of rocks, a pile of rocks is kind of like an abacus, an abacus is kind of like a calculator, a calculator is kind of like a computer, therefore, a pile of dirt is kind of like a computer.
But she said the Catholic Church would not countenance the creation of higher lifeforms - or even of bacteria if the motivation was to do harm.
"In itself it's an interesting piece of scientific research. But it depends on your motivation. If you are trying to prove the non-existence of God that's one thing, but if you are just carrying out an experiment that is quite another.
"Obviously if you were trying to create bacteria for germ warfare that would be very wrong."
She added: "If it's just a bacteria, that's fine. But it's a long way from a bacteria to a human being."
Is this broken in VNC?
Such a system requires an extra set of headlights to properly illuminate the road ahead.
supposedly IR headlights... Does anyone know if this is what Cadillac has done, or do they just detect what IR light is out there? The shockwave thing seemed to indicate that it just detected the heat of what is already out there, which would make more sense to me (a complete non-expert).
Military hardware with night vision, when they don't work so well, and admission that they do cause mishaps in some instances.
Now we'll know what sheets floating across the road are.
Get them while they last, goggles for Y2K. So when you drive around in your caddy on Jan 1, you'll know where to swerve in order to hit those nuts running around in the dark.
Finally, some (real?) statistics about how night vision in cars increases safety.
I've often thought that if a car were able to drive itself ("computer, take me to grand central station". "Doh! I was speaking into the mouse"), that even if it were safer than the average human... The company who sells the car would get sued for every wreck the cars were involved in.
If people have a chance to move the blame to someone/something else, they will, and few people are going to defend the machine, especially if a company is behind it.
(yes, I probably need to come back to earth, but shooting a turkey and cooking it all at the same time sounds kinda cool...)
Yeah, they hired some good graphic artists, woohoo. (actually, the oncoming car seems to slow down as it gets closer to you...)
I think it's going to cause more accidents than it prevents
Perhaps we should instead have something that goes "Warning! Warning! Crash imminent!" in a robotic voice while red lights flash...
Cuz you'd look kinda silly with a big ol' monocle on your head while you're driving? :)
Woohoo, my infrared spotlight finally has a use. Watch the yuppies swerve all over the road.
Once we find some profitable uses for space travel, spaceship development will go into the private sector, making things more efficient. There will also be concrete reasons for private organizations/individuals to put money into developing economical and reliable spaceships.
I'm not saying that we'll all have rockets in our backyards (that's kind of like saying "geez, planes were invented 50 years ago, we should all have personal jets or helicopters in our backyard by now"), but it should definitely become less costly as time goes on.
Damn, I'm waking up all my neighbors....
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It's not a particularly bad thing to say things that are "against the grain". Once people get settled into one way of thinking, they can get stuck there, and sometimes it's helpful if they see things from another viewpoint (even if the other viewpoint is wrong?).
On the other hand, a lot of people like to blow smoke out their ass and think themselves big and cool by dissing groups of people. "Nya-hah... they're all wrong, they just don't realize it yet."
Of course, I'm thinking myself to be cool for dissing all those mindless naysayers, so don't take me too seriously.
It isn't against the grain to say these things on slashdot.
Also, fadetoblack's awesome NOW page is mirrored here too. (vote for Molly, maybe she can catch up)
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