Don't you love how Americans can only maintain their delusions of adequacy
Project much?
Here's the deal: stop saying that America is the greatest nation on Earth, the most advanced nation on Earth, the home of the free, the home of the brave, or any of that other bullshit
You know all that really matters is that when you die you better be right.
Only if you buy into that whole god-as-the-ultimate-bully school of theology. That "ha, ha, god's going to kick your ass when you die" line of argument is pretty fucking tedious.
. I mean really, if those of use that do believe in God are wrong what do we have to lose?
Well, I might say your rationality, but since you insist on asserting your superstition as fact, you've already abandoned that.
the USA aspires to be a world leader in almost every field
People have aspirations, countries don't.
Aspirations are really beside the point. The USA is the leader de facto in nearly every field of human endeavor, whether its technological, political, military, or economic. Religion is far stronger in the USA because our constitution prohibits government from interfering with it, leading to a great degree of religious diversity, unlike countries with an established religion which tends to make it either atrophy (Church of England) or fester and metastasize (Saudi Wahabbism.)
I know how fashionable it is to bash the USA, but if you think we're ahead in that race, then you need to visit a few more countries. I could tell you about places where people believe in witchcraft and have been known to hack their neighbors to pieces over it, and I'm not talking about things that happened centuries ago.
1: The existence of God is proven (or disproven) definitively to every dead human being.
This is a statement for which absolutely no evidence is available.
When you say that God is imaginary, you are implying that everyone who believes in God is intentionally stating a falsehood, which there is zero support for.
They are stating a falsehood; whether they do so out of malice or wishful thinking has no bearing on the falsehood of the claim.
But that couldn't possibly be related to poor science education, could it?
It's not just science education. History, english, geography, any subject you name has dismal standards at the elementary and high school levels in most schools in the USA. This is what we get for allowing a cartel of bureacrats to sieze a monopoly of a critical industry like primary education. The bible-thumpers wouldn't be getting any traction at all if the USA hadn't already been through several decades of dumbing-down by the fabian socialists of the NEA.
So far, the case is a laughingstock of what is wrong with the US courts.
Excuse me? Show me another jurisdiction where you can't get a default judgement if the defendant doesn't show up and present a defense. The same thing can hapen in any court in the UK, if a defendant in an action for (say) libel doesn't appear.
He wins, gets a judgment that sends the fuckers into bankruptcy, someone buys the judgement against Spamhaus from the recievers for $1, and donates it to Spamhaus.
Bashing the A380 isn't a nationalism thing, it's a luddite thing. There are plenty of people all over the world who want us all to just freeze in the dark.
As nasty as the RIAA is, they don't hold a candle to the tobacco companies: the only industry whose product, used as recommended, causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease.
They released another exploit (a DOS actually,again!) for my favorite browser, Omniweb and Omni Group fixed it in 2 hours, Sunday, Macworld time
I talked to Ken Case about that at MacWorld, BTW. He was not favorably impressed by their decision to publish it without even attempting to inform Omni about the bug first.
I think you're the one doing the squealing, sunshine. Apple Xserves are driving the cost of bioinformatics down drastically, particularly when it comes to running BLAST searches.
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There are quite a few Flying spaghetti monster believers out there.
If you can find even one person who actually believes in the FSM, then that person missed the point of the FSM.
-jcr
Don't you love how Americans can only maintain their delusions of adequacy
Project much?
Here's the deal: stop saying that America is the greatest nation on Earth, the most advanced nation on Earth, the home of the free, the home of the brave, or any of that other bullshit
You're so funny when you seethe with jealousy.
-jcr
You know all that really matters is that when you die you better be right.
Only if you buy into that whole god-as-the-ultimate-bully school of theology. That "ha, ha, god's going to kick your ass when you die" line of argument is pretty fucking tedious.
. I mean really, if those of use that do believe in God are wrong what do we have to lose?
Well, I might say your rationality, but since you insist on asserting your superstition as fact, you've already abandoned that.
-jcr
Maybe you need to open your mind.
Oh, that's rich coming from someone arguing against the evidence. Hope you enjoy your superstitions, you're welcome to them.
-jcr
the USA aspires to be a world leader in almost every field
People have aspirations, countries don't.
Aspirations are really beside the point. The USA is the leader de facto in nearly every field of human endeavor, whether its technological, political, military, or economic. Religion is far stronger in the USA because our constitution prohibits government from interfering with it, leading to a great degree of religious diversity, unlike countries with an established religion which tends to make it either atrophy (Church of England) or fester and metastasize (Saudi Wahabbism.)
-jcr
I know how fashionable it is to bash the USA, but if you think we're ahead in that race, then you need to visit a few more countries. I could tell you about places where people believe in witchcraft and have been known to hack their neighbors to pieces over it, and I'm not talking about things that happened centuries ago.
-jcr
1: The existence of God is proven (or disproven) definitively to every dead human being.
This is a statement for which absolutely no evidence is available.
When you say that God is imaginary, you are implying that everyone who believes in God is intentionally stating a falsehood, which there is zero support for.
They are stating a falsehood; whether they do so out of malice or wishful thinking has no bearing on the falsehood of the claim.
-jcr
But that couldn't possibly be related to poor science education, could it?
It's not just science education. History, english, geography, any subject you name has dismal standards at the elementary and high school levels in most schools in the USA. This is what we get for allowing a cartel of bureacrats to sieze a monopoly of a critical industry like primary education. The bible-thumpers wouldn't be getting any traction at all if the USA hadn't already been through several decades of dumbing-down by the fabian socialists of the NEA.
-jcr
a sop to farmers and farm state congressmen.
No, it's much more about massive corporate welfare for ADM (price fixer to the world.)
-jcr
He is either an idiot or a troll.
These are not mutually exclusive options.
-jcr
Someone implemented genetic programming of FPGAs?
Sounds handy.
-jcr
Is if any manufacturer who set a limit on pricing were also obligated to take back any stock the retailer couldn't sell.
-jcr
So far, the case is a laughingstock of what is wrong with the US courts.
Excuse me? Show me another jurisdiction where you can't get a default judgement if the defendant doesn't show up and present a defense. The same thing can hapen in any court in the UK, if a defendant in an action for (say) libel doesn't appear.
-jcr
For the ruling to be reversed, Spamhaus would have to agree to US jurisdiction. That's not going to happen.
-jcr
Correction, what you meant to say is:
Are you always so presumptuous?
I say what I mean.
-jcr
He wins, gets a judgment that sends the fuckers into bankruptcy, someone buys the judgement against Spamhaus from the recievers for $1, and donates it to Spamhaus.
-jcr
Bashing the A380 isn't a nationalism thing, it's a luddite thing. There are plenty of people all over the world who want us all to just freeze in the dark.
-jcr
I've never seen anything like that.
I have
-jcr
It's a death trap.
Good thing we have people like you to denounce every improvement in transportation technology, going all the way back to the horse!
If you weren't here to provide the pessimistic outlook, we might actually enjoy reading about another great engineering achievement.
-jcr
Yeah, I'm sure Google was really sweating that one..
-jcr
I think RIAA is worse, because the tobacco companies aren't trying to force me to deal with tobacco.
Not force per se, but they did lie for decades about the effects of their product.
-jcr
As nasty as the RIAA is, they don't hold a candle to the tobacco companies: the only industry whose product, used as recommended, causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease.
-jcr
Does your car run WINCE?
-jcr
They released another exploit (a DOS actually,again!) for my favorite browser, Omniweb and Omni Group fixed it in 2 hours, Sunday, Macworld time
I talked to Ken Case about that at MacWorld, BTW. He was not favorably impressed by their decision to publish it without even attempting to inform Omni about the bug first.
-jcr
I think you're the one doing the squealing, sunshine. Apple Xserves are driving the cost of bioinformatics down drastically, particularly when it comes to running BLAST searches.
-jcr