that region had been called Palestine for about two millenia
But "Palestinians" as a group didn't exist until the PLO charter was signed in 1968. And "Palestine" was the always name of an area of land, not a state.
The uncomfortable fact remains that the current Palestinians were indeed living in Palestine (the original definition of it), and did have their land and their homes taken from them to form the Jewish state of Israel.
They did not. There were actually more Arabs living in the area that was to become Israel. But then Arabs attacked Israel from the outside, and from within. Israel responded by throwing out anyone inside its borders which seemed to be stabbing them in the back.
Well, except the UN safe house wasn't carpet bombed. Terrorists used it as a weapons storage, and to attack IDF troops. When the IDF troops returned fire, they killed the terrorists, and apparently the terrorists's weapon storage exploded as well, killing several civilians.
I don't know or care what SAM is, but just because some random guy posts about it on some site, including the typical signs of fraud ("WOW! It really helps, honestly!") doesn't mean that I should accept it. In fact, I want some peer-reviewed material as reference. Is this thing accepted through scientific consensus? Any research what so ever?
Anecdotal evidence is useless. As are claims about "lots of other people, honest!"
You are elitist if you don't accept any wild claim without evidence? Wow. I'd rather be an "elitist" than a closed-minded fool who derides anyone who doesn't accept his superstition without question.
You seem to want people to accept anything anyone claims. If they don't, they aren't "open minded". I'd say the opposite: You are the closed-minded moron for insulting people who demand a minimum of evidence for a claim.
Feel free to explain how it is impossible that holding the conflicting thoughts of "We're getting screwed by a politician again." and "This politician is the third coming[0]!" could not cause brain-breaking pain in the eyes of the Twuely Faithful, and thus "cognitive dissonance" was misused.
You can vote for someone without agreeing with him on everything, dear child. An alien thought to a young and naive mind, I know, but such is life...
I'm not calling him names because I disagree with him. I'm calling him names because he's misrepresenting science in a disgusting way. He's also spreading misinformation about Dawkins. Whether he is lying or merely ignorant, he's still evil and stupid. Refusing to educate oneself is evil and stupid.
If creatures have evolved enough intelligence to use tools and anticipate the future, then why aren't all animals intelligent?
That's assuming that intelligence is the end-goal of Evolution that it strives towards. It isn't. Intelligence is not necessarily the best trait for survival everywhere. In other environments, something else involved instead because that was more advantageous.
However, we deny that species evolve into other species. For example, fish do not become horses and cats do not become giraffes.
Observe: The reason why creationists are creationists is that they are ignorant of Evolution. Education might take care of this. In case this ignorant creationists checks back, here's a hint: This is not how Evolution works. Existing species don't evolve into existing species/predefined species.
I have a hard time accepting evolution in general due to the wild leaps it makes. For instance, Ben Stein asked Richard Dawkins about the origins of life in the universe and the possibility of intelligent design. The best answer that a practiced scientist and atheist can give on the spot is that some higher form of life evolved and then populated the earth with life. That is, aliens evolved & put life on earth. But, the aliens themselves would have had to evolved through some natural process. THAT is his answer to intelligent design.
No it isn't. This is a straw man, and misrepresents Dawkins' position to a degree that I'm having problems taking you seriously. Do you really beleve your own nonsense? If you do, you are simply stupid. If you don't but post it anyway, you are both evil and stupid.
I'm almost afraid to discuss it here on Slashdot. Then again, I hardly ever get around to spending all my 15 mod points, which I seem to get regularly.
The odd thing is that I stopped getting mod points for ages once upon a time. I don't quite remember what it was - maybe too many negative meta moderations?
In any case, I was very surprised when I suddenly got 15 mod points. And then I got it again. And again. And now I'm wondering what on earth is going on, since I was apparently banned from moderating for several years...
I never consciously abused any mod points.. Maybe the system picked up on that somehow. Who knows...:)
And yet I have never seen such huge obtrusive tutorial texts as in Wii games on any other console.
Really? I haven't seen it being any different from other consoles. Perhaps with the exception that there are even more casual gamers around, so it's a good thing to make sure they get it.
A company I once worked for once had a written policy that anyone who had ever worked as a direct employee could not be hired at a later date as a contractor
Can't blame them. Contractors are bloody expensive, right? And so they'd probably prefer to have employees that don't cost as much money. If employees started quitting just to become contractors instead, the company would lose a lot of money.
So yea, a workers society with common ownership of the means of production and freedom and all that stuff.
So they all invest their own money in the means of production (which you can do today if you wish)? What if I don't want to invest and just want a regular job with no ownership or responsibility?
It is actually not the Apple release cycles one should be concered about. As an example Chromium is on a continuous build cycle where each day they are around 5 to 10 builds made.
By "release cycle", I'm not referring to new builds, I'm referring to how WebKit is designed to meet Apple's needs, and whatever happens to it depends on what Apple needs for their next release.
I believe at one point Chromium developers will start to mantain a trunk that is a bit differnt from upstream.
Right, so what I'm saying is that other users of WebKit will either put up with this, or you will basically see a gradual fork of WebKit in multiple directions. And in the end you'll have several different engines again. I doubt that giants like Google will accept being "dictated" by Apple:)
In fact, didn't this already happen to Nokia? They had to fork WebKIt, and figured out that maintaining it on their own was a pain. So now they got TrollTech to do it. But in the end they'll be forced to maintain the whole thing for themselves again. It'll be expensive...
WebKit is quickly becoming the default browser on the "Internet Device" market thanks to Google and Apple, and this will put more pressure on FireFox and Opera to adopt it. Or at least emulate it better.
Yeah right. As if Opera and Mozilla are going to accept being dependent on Apple's release cycles. It's either that or making a fork, which basically means that in a while you'd have several different engines again and you wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
but has then decided that the natural alone can explain everything
What exacly does "God did it" explain?
Science has come to be defined as dealing solely with the natural
Science has always been defined as dealing solely with what we can observe and measure. It's what makes science work. A basic principle of science is falsifiability.
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He's saying that they are keeping Hamas from hijacking the aid.
But "Palestinians" as a group didn't exist until the PLO charter was signed in 1968. And "Palestine" was the always name of an area of land, not a state.
They did not. There were actually more Arabs living in the area that was to become Israel. But then Arabs attacked Israel from the outside, and from within. Israel responded by throwing out anyone inside its borders which seemed to be stabbing them in the back.
It is not. Israel pulled out in 2005 or so.
Israel decides when Egypt is to open its borders?
Well, except the UN safe house wasn't carpet bombed. Terrorists used it as a weapons storage, and to attack IDF troops. When the IDF troops returned fire, they killed the terrorists, and apparently the terrorists's weapon storage exploded as well, killing several civilians.
Anecdotal evidence is useless. As are claims about "lots of other people, honest!"
You are elitist if you don't accept any wild claim without evidence? Wow. I'd rather be an "elitist" than a closed-minded fool who derides anyone who doesn't accept his superstition without question.
You seem to want people to accept anything anyone claims. If they don't, they aren't "open minded". I'd say the opposite: You are the closed-minded moron for insulting people who demand a minimum of evidence for a claim.
You can vote for someone without agreeing with him on everything, dear child. An alien thought to a young and naive mind, I know, but such is life...
Are you fucking retarded or something? Just because someone voted for him, they automatically see him as the Messiah?
Idiot. Fucking idiot.
You should stop using big terms like "Cognitive Dissonance" until you actually know what they mean :)
I'm not calling him names because I disagree with him. I'm calling him names because he's misrepresenting science in a disgusting way. He's also spreading misinformation about Dawkins. Whether he is lying or merely ignorant, he's still evil and stupid. Refusing to educate oneself is evil and stupid.
That's assuming that intelligence is the end-goal of Evolution that it strives towards. It isn't. Intelligence is not necessarily the best trait for survival everywhere. In other environments, something else involved instead because that was more advantageous.
Observe: The reason why creationists are creationists is that they are ignorant of Evolution. Education might take care of this. In case this ignorant creationists checks back, here's a hint: This is not how Evolution works. Existing species don't evolve into existing species/predefined species.
No it isn't. This is a straw man, and misrepresents Dawkins' position to a degree that I'm having problems taking you seriously. Do you really beleve your own nonsense? If you do, you are simply stupid. If you don't but post it anyway, you are both evil and stupid.
The odd thing is that I stopped getting mod points for ages once upon a time. I don't quite remember what it was - maybe too many negative meta moderations?
In any case, I was very surprised when I suddenly got 15 mod points. And then I got it again. And again. And now I'm wondering what on earth is going on, since I was apparently banned from moderating for several years...
I never consciously abused any mod points.. Maybe the system picked up on that somehow. Who knows... :)
Really? I haven't seen it being any different from other consoles. Perhaps with the exception that there are even more casual gamers around, so it's a good thing to make sure they get it.
Hype and novelty? After more than 2 years on the market, there is no "hype and novelty" anymore. Wii is now a well-established gaming platform.
Can't blame them. Contractors are bloody expensive, right? And so they'd probably prefer to have employees that don't cost as much money. If employees started quitting just to become contractors instead, the company would lose a lot of money.
What's the 15 mod points thing anyway? Any documentation on it?
So they all invest their own money in the means of production (which you can do today if you wish)? What if I don't want to invest and just want a regular job with no ownership or responsibility?
By "release cycle", I'm not referring to new builds, I'm referring to how WebKit is designed to meet Apple's needs, and whatever happens to it depends on what Apple needs for their next release.
Right, so what I'm saying is that other users of WebKit will either put up with this, or you will basically see a gradual fork of WebKit in multiple directions. And in the end you'll have several different engines again. I doubt that giants like Google will accept being "dictated" by Apple :)
In fact, didn't this already happen to Nokia? They had to fork WebKIt, and figured out that maintaining it on their own was a pain. So now they got TrollTech to do it. But in the end they'll be forced to maintain the whole thing for themselves again. It'll be expensive...
Chrome's UI is really ugly and hard to work with, though.
Why are you assuming that all the skins are ugly?
Opera has content blocking, and there's also stuff like this
Yeah right. As if Opera and Mozilla are going to accept being dependent on Apple's release cycles. It's either that or making a fork, which basically means that in a while you'd have several different engines again and you wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
What exacly does "God did it" explain?
Science has always been defined as dealing solely with what we can observe and measure. It's what makes science work. A basic principle of science is falsifiability.