agnosticism is the philosophy that no knowledge (gnosticism) can ever be drawn onto whether gods exist or not. Atheist is the disbelief in the existence of gods. Usually the two combine, you xan be a gnostic theist (believer ; but miracle and evidence of gods existence abund), agnostic theist (gods can only be believed as faith without evidence) , agnostc atheist (there is no evidence for gods), gnostic atheist (there is no god). Mind you,you can also be atheist and gave a faith (belief im buddah for example , animism, etc...).
if you look up infidel or belief poll you will see that gnostic atheist are about 30% the rest are agnostic atheist, which is a very strong and rational position in absence of evidence.
"So what you are saying is that a guy who pours significant amounts of time into developing an algorithm, making it space and time efficient, modelling it to resolve concurrency issues, etc... should not get patent protection and that you are 'entitled' to use his algorithm without compensating him for all his hard work? "
There is a whole branch existing around that same concept of not getting money for algorithm you think of : that's called mathematic. You might have heard of it. Try patenting any mathematic cocnept even advanced one. A software is actually only a mathematical application in the very end. What you should be entitled to is to protect a specific implementation of such algorithm and it is called copyright. What you ask for, aptent of software, is akin to selling your cake (copyright) and then eating it (patent).
Christian did riot and attack people due to the "last temptation of christ" , look back in the news from 88-89. Cocktail molotov were thrown at a cinema in France, and 14 people wounded. Granted it is not as bad as a RPG into a car, but the fact is that there are fundemmentalist everywhere, and in that country a lot ofn military hardware is floating around. I am not excusing the act of those nutcase, but jsut like I did not condemn the WHOLE christianity when tehy killed doctor, shown "god hate fags" sign, or thrown molotov cocktail onto cinema, I think one should not condemn the whole islam either.
30 second research and google would have told you this has been eliminated as explanation , what, a million time now ? Even in year of big eruption volcano don't even scratch the quantity CO2 we emit as human. As for sun it has so long been eliminated. Why do people ask question which are easily answered by a cursory google search (and I am not even speaking of reading peer reviewed article linked as primary source in case one don't trust real climate or whatever).
*placwebo* effect is more than giving a pill, for example the form of the pill and the color of the pill has an influence, heck even giving an injection has an influence. *placebo* is known to have an effect.
But homeopathy goes beyond that and tells us dilution of stuff works, that tapping a bible against a glass full of water works (read it up) these are the claim which we say do not work,. because they are not differentiable in a double blind against a given placebo. You cannot compare homeopathy against untreated, you have to compare in double blind against a placebo of similar form ! And then you get to understand why we say homeopathy does not work. We means by that it has no effect beyond a normal placebo of identical form/color/administration.
In other word , the dilution, the theory , the bible tapping is utter useless woo which has no effect, in other word homeopathy DO NOT WORK. Simple logic really.
Toddler have aches which can come and go. More importantly they get an important feedback from their parents face. You were probably not smiling which she was crying, generating more anxiety and more crying. Then somebody give you a pill to give, then your own anxiety decrease, the baby remark it from your face, decrease its own anxiety stop crying. The pill almost certainly did not work except by appeasing the parent (you).
Maybe the OP is a 75+ year old cogger which only like humphrey boggart film , and thinks that since 1947 there hasn't been anything worth watching. We should praise him for using tech at such an advanced age, rather than lambast him for poor taste;) hihi.
Whether history is cyclical or not, whether dictator or tyrant come and go, and whatever the founding father had in mind do not matter. At any time, a right which is not enforced and protected by a culture is a right you do not have. Heck one of the example is the recognition that free speech is an an absolute right and can be limited in some case. See for example yelling "fire!" in crowded theater, libel laws, limitation by the government to which category of people some speech type can be distributed (pornography) down to limiting downright some speech type (child pornography even in crayon/picture form). And if tomorrow the US went tyrannical and trampled everybody which pretended to speak freely, the free speech right would be lost (until and IF what replace the tyranny enforce that free speech right). heck if free speech was a natural right, why is it not existing for most of the history and most of the people ? Answer : it isn't. natural right are non existent. Only right given and enforced by government can be used. In the case of free speech it is an inclusive and self limit on the government.
"The first thing to understand about human rights is it doesn't depend on the law of men to validate them"
A right which is not enforced by men , is a non existing right. You can spout around that you have the right of free speech, but if the governement decide you do not have it, then *pouf* it is gone. There is not such a thing as "natural right", there is only a things which is recognized as fundemmental right that a culture decide to enforce that right at the expanse of others. But should that culture "decide" as a whole that that right isn't needed or required anymore, be it in limited circumstance or as a whole, then no matter how much an individiual will yell "natural right" it will be gone. If there is no entity enforcing a right, then you do not have it, as simple as that.
A very good example of this are area where governemental force are gone, lawless as they are, the rights of the people living locally are decided by the whim of the local warlord. People can then yell they have rights , the one given by the gone governement, but then the local warlord can laugh all the way while trampling the right the locals think they have.
A "right" which is not enforced by an entity is a right you lost or do not have. Only when an enforcing entity help applying that right you got it. There is not such a thing as natural right, as natural law is the law of the strongest, and the only right you got then is the one which you can enforce yourself.
If the fact that finding out that a jury royally fucked up, does not lead to a judgement to be overturned, then I would rather never be judged by my "peer" like in the US system. Imagine that the judgement is not about patent law but a death penalty case. You would be on death row because of a fucktard in the jury decide you are guilty no matter the evidence.
Study of US women habitued to see circumcised male find it more pelasant. news at eleven.
If you scroll down you find this gem : "Frisch et al. (2011) studied participants in a Danish national health survey, and found that male circumcision was associated "with a range of frequent sexual difficulties in women, notably orgasm difficulties, dyspareunia and a sense of incomplete sexual needs fulfilment"
That alone warrant making a step back and thinking a bit more.
There was a puritan movement back 200 years ago in the US, and the goal was to prevent masturbation in young boy by circumcising them. Laughable, hu ? Imagine the same movement to circumcise women to prevent them feeling pleasure and thus making more likely to stay fidel. Well it is on the similar stupid level that it started. Nowaday it is more a cultural reason: mother/father did it, so son/daugher do it. Although it tend to decline , in the last few years it was only at about a 50% rate maybe 55%.
AFAIR it regenerate intestinal flora and paly a role against harmful bacteria. Just because sometimes it fails does not mean we should remove it *systematically*. By that call we should remove all teeth from everybody and replace by a metal or porcelane fake teeth , imagine all the cost spared ! No the bottom line is that when the illness is affecting so few people (they mention less than 1 kid out of 200) then you do not systematically practice an operation to the 200.
Circumcision started in the US only 200 years ago about as a way to stop masturbation in males. Since then out of cultural stutborness people have tried to FIND way to justify it. "it is my religious freedom to mutilate babies", "it may in some case spare a illness to a very low percentage of male". The bottom line is that mutilation of a kid which has no way to say NO. If you found out that putting vertical scare on the face of a baby spare him a 0.5% chance of getting ill later (99.5% chance of NOT getting ill anyway without scare) would you still scarify your baby for that 0.5% chance ? For fuck's sake I hope not.
I mean you would get the same result with various drug or even alcohol : active regular consumption of psycho active product during the formative years until adulthood has a chance to lower your IQ. So that does not seem very special.
Advertising on the basic level for me is a waste of my previous time on earth. Need to scroll past an advert ? Waste my time. Pause on TV ? Waste my time. Pop up I must close ? Waste my time. Spam or marketing in email ? waste my time. Need to turn a page because an advert is cutting an article in a paper magazine ? Waste my time. Telephone call from marketeer ? Waste my time. Spam in my snail mail box ? Waste a few precious second to go to the paper trash.
I am exagerating you say ? As single action All those do not taker much, some are 1/10 of seconds some a few seconds. But put all those seconds together, and consider how many hours of your life they will make you lose. Advertiser are evil. They probably "kill" enough people as big as a small country every year by the time wasted put together.
Do not tell me there is a good advertising. There is none. I do not want it. I will have at best a few more decades on earth if I am very lucky. I do not want to waste it with Bullshit from marketing people. Heck If I could ad block and skip ad for TV, Snail Mail, and the other media I put above I would do it. Sadly it works only for the internet. Praise to the adblock plus author, alleluja, may he live 100 years and get a saint statue.
I flew FRA-AMS more than once this year , and also FRA-ZRH, MUC-CDG, LON-FRA, not even counting a holiday trip to FCO and at no point whatsoever I ahd to go thru an x ray scanner. I did not even *see* one.
If one redirect a site to 127.0.0.1 from the aforementionned double click, chance that it is a malware is nil. Before removing the entry windows defender should check the IP and leave it for those site at 127.0.0.1. OTOH if it is an anti virus site it should remove it if it is precisely 127.0.0.1. If they went the extra way to check for some specific web site, then they should have done the extra way and check for the IP. Or make a pop up windows warning of the behavior and how to stop it.
"Over time alternative energy WILL naturally overcome traditional sources just in cost benefit alone, there is no need to hurt the productivity of countries to make that happen."
And as asked to conservative when will that happen ? The best answer I got was "when alternative energy are cheaper than oil and coal". The problem is, by that time we have burn so many of both that climate change might be irreversible and well going thru. The problem is that conservative lacks UTTERLY in insight, they see their own generaztion only, and future folk are fucked, but who cares. The problem is, some of us see beyond the next year in econom,y and look at maybe 5 or 10 generation in future. Who cares if you lower economy strength by 5, 10% , if rather than take that you fuck up future generation that the climate get so chaotic that the damage long term is greater. The truth is that conservative don't care a shitty bit on the long term consequence. Which is why by the way they don#t care about pollution law in general.
Litteralism and creationism were long abandonned by mainstream catholic, hundred of years ago in europe. If you ask an european catholic he will probably tell you all those stuff including the eve story are jsut that, allegories, and that evolution happened. Both of those phenomenon (litteralism and creationism) are predominentely american phenomenon among christian (rather than protestan/catholic). In fact if I recall correctely they can be traced back to end of 18th start of 19th century in north america.
Woo imagine stuff, telepathy, speaking with the dead, chasing the bad spirit away, science and engineering instead find solutions : mobile phone, mass storage memory, medicine.
MA also had an incredible profit margin compared to PC, but PC were commodity and widespread. The end result was apple near bankruptcy until it was saved by MS. I don't expect a bankruptcy again, but I am pretty sure shareholder will not want a repeat, and will no be satisfied that they make more profit when the market share is obviously shrinking, just like it did for MACs.
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agnosticism is the philosophy that no knowledge (gnosticism) can ever be drawn onto whether gods exist or not. Atheist is the disbelief in the existence of gods. Usually the two combine, you xan be a gnostic theist (believer ; but miracle and evidence of gods existence abund), agnostic theist (gods can only be believed as faith without evidence) , agnostc atheist (there is no evidence for gods), gnostic atheist (there is no god). Mind you ,you can also be atheist and gave a faith (belief im buddah for example , animism, etc...).
if you look up infidel or belief poll you will see that gnostic atheist are about 30% the rest are agnostic atheist, which is a very strong and rational position in absence of evidence.
"So what you are saying is that a guy who pours significant amounts of time into developing an algorithm, making it space and time efficient, modelling it to resolve concurrency issues, etc... should not get patent protection and that you are 'entitled' to use his algorithm without compensating him for all his hard work? "
There is a whole branch existing around that same concept of not getting money for algorithm you think of : that's called mathematic. You might have heard of it. Try patenting any mathematic cocnept even advanced one. A software is actually only a mathematical application in the very end. What you should be entitled to is to protect a specific implementation of such algorithm and it is called copyright. What you ask for, aptent of software, is akin to selling your cake (copyright) and then eating it (patent).
age of consent in england in 16th-17th century for girl was *8*, there as no age of consent for boy.
And not 2 bajillon dollar as it would be in the US.
"You can say anything you want about Jesus and no Christian will kill you."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)#Attack_on_Saint_Michel_theater.2C_Paris
nobody was killed but it was not for trying.
Christian did riot and attack people due to the "last temptation of christ" , look back in the news from 88-89. Cocktail molotov were thrown at a cinema in France, and 14 people wounded. Granted it is not as bad as a RPG into a car, but the fact is that there are fundemmentalist everywhere, and in that country a lot ofn military hardware is floating around. I am not excusing the act of those nutcase, but jsut like I did not condemn the WHOLE christianity when tehy killed doctor, shown "god hate fags" sign, or thrown molotov cocktail onto cinema, I think one should not condemn the whole islam either.
That said the fundemmentalist silamist can rot.
30 second research and google would have told you this has been eliminated as explanation , what, a million time now ? Even in year of big eruption volcano don't even scratch the quantity CO2 we emit as human. As for sun it has so long been eliminated. Why do people ask question which are easily answered by a cursory google search (and I am not even speaking of reading peer reviewed article linked as primary source in case one don't trust real climate or whatever).
*placwebo* effect is more than giving a pill, for example the form of the pill and the color of the pill has an influence, heck even giving an injection has an influence. *placebo* is known to have an effect.
But homeopathy goes beyond that and tells us dilution of stuff works, that tapping a bible against a glass full of water works (read it up) these are the claim which we say do not work,. because they are not differentiable in a double blind against a given placebo. You cannot compare homeopathy against untreated, you have to compare in double blind against a placebo of similar form ! And then you get to understand why we say homeopathy does not work. We means by that it has no effect beyond a normal placebo of identical form/color/administration.
In other word , the dilution, the theory , the bible tapping is utter useless woo which has no effect, in other word homeopathy DO NOT WORK. Simple logic really.
Toddler have aches which can come and go. More importantly they get an important feedback from their parents face. You were probably not smiling which she was crying, generating more anxiety and more crying. Then somebody give you a pill to give, then your own anxiety decrease, the baby remark it from your face, decrease its own anxiety stop crying. The pill almost certainly did not work except by appeasing the parent (you).
Maybe the OP is a 75+ year old cogger which only like humphrey boggart film , and thinks that since 1947 there hasn't been anything worth watching. We should praise him for using tech at such an advanced age, rather than lambast him for poor taste ;) hihi.
Whether history is cyclical or not, whether dictator or tyrant come and go, and whatever the founding father had in mind do not matter. At any time, a right which is not enforced and protected by a culture is a right you do not have. Heck one of the example is the recognition that free speech is an an absolute right and can be limited in some case. See for example yelling "fire!" in crowded theater, libel laws, limitation by the government to which category of people some speech type can be distributed (pornography) down to limiting downright some speech type (child pornography even in crayon/picture form). And if tomorrow the US went tyrannical and trampled everybody which pretended to speak freely, the free speech right would be lost (until and IF what replace the tyranny enforce that free speech right). heck if free speech was a natural right, why is it not existing for most of the history and most of the people ? Answer : it isn't. natural right are non existent. Only right given and enforced by government can be used. In the case of free speech it is an inclusive and self limit on the government.
"The first thing to understand about human rights is it doesn't depend on the law of men to validate them"
A right which is not enforced by men , is a non existing right. You can spout around that you have the right of free speech, but if the governement decide you do not have it, then *pouf* it is gone. There is not such a thing as "natural right", there is only a things which is recognized as fundemmental right that a culture decide to enforce that right at the expanse of others. But should that culture "decide" as a whole that that right isn't needed or required anymore, be it in limited circumstance or as a whole, then no matter how much an individiual will yell "natural right" it will be gone. If there is no entity enforcing a right, then you do not have it, as simple as that.
A very good example of this are area where governemental force are gone, lawless as they are, the rights of the people living locally are decided by the whim of the local warlord. People can then yell they have rights , the one given by the gone governement, but then the local warlord can laugh all the way while trampling the right the locals think they have.
A "right" which is not enforced by an entity is a right you lost or do not have. Only when an enforcing entity help applying that right you got it. There is not such a thing as natural right, as natural law is the law of the strongest, and the only right you got then is the one which you can enforce yourself.
If the fact that finding out that a jury royally fucked up, does not lead to a judgement to be overturned, then I would rather never be judged by my "peer" like in the US system. Imagine that the judgement is not about patent law but a death penalty case. You would be on death row because of a fucktard in the jury decide you are guilty no matter the evidence.
Study of US women habitued to see circumcised male find it more pelasant. news at eleven.
If you scroll down you find this gem : "Frisch et al. (2011) studied participants in a Danish national health survey, and found that male circumcision was associated "with a range of frequent sexual difficulties in women, notably orgasm difficulties, dyspareunia and a sense of incomplete sexual needs fulfilment"
That alone warrant making a step back and thinking a bit more.
There was a puritan movement back 200 years ago in the US, and the goal was to prevent masturbation in young boy by circumcising them. Laughable, hu ? Imagine the same movement to circumcise women to prevent them feeling pleasure and thus making more likely to stay fidel. Well it is on the similar stupid level that it started. Nowaday it is more a cultural reason: mother/father did it, so son/daugher do it. Although it tend to decline , in the last few years it was only at about a 50% rate maybe 55%.
AFAIR it regenerate intestinal flora and paly a role against harmful bacteria. Just because sometimes it fails does not mean we should remove it *systematically*. By that call we should remove all teeth from everybody and replace by a metal or porcelane fake teeth , imagine all the cost spared ! No the bottom line is that when the illness is affecting so few people (they mention less than 1 kid out of 200) then you do not systematically practice an operation to the 200.
Circumcision started in the US only 200 years ago about as a way to stop masturbation in males. Since then out of cultural stutborness people have tried to FIND way to justify it. "it is my religious freedom to mutilate babies", "it may in some case spare a illness to a very low percentage of male". The bottom line is that mutilation of a kid which has no way to say NO. If you found out that putting vertical scare on the face of a baby spare him a 0.5% chance of getting ill later (99.5% chance of NOT getting ill anyway without scare) would you still scarify your baby for that 0.5% chance ? For fuck's sake I hope not.
I mean you would get the same result with various drug or even alcohol : active regular consumption of psycho active product during the formative years until adulthood has a chance to lower your IQ. So that does not seem very special.
Advertising on the basic level for me is a waste of my previous time on earth. Need to scroll past an advert ? Waste my time. Pause on TV ? Waste my time. Pop up I must close ? Waste my time. Spam or marketing in email ? waste my time. Need to turn a page because an advert is cutting an article in a paper magazine ? Waste my time. Telephone call from marketeer ? Waste my time. Spam in my snail mail box ? Waste a few precious second to go to the paper trash.
I am exagerating you say ? As single action All those do not taker much, some are 1/10 of seconds some a few seconds. But put all those seconds together, and consider how many hours of your life they will make you lose. Advertiser are evil. They probably "kill" enough people as big as a small country every year by the time wasted put together.
Do not tell me there is a good advertising. There is none. I do not want it. I will have at best a few more decades on earth if I am very lucky. I do not want to waste it with Bullshit from marketing people. Heck If I could ad block and skip ad for TV, Snail Mail, and the other media I put above I would do it. Sadly it works only for the internet. Praise to the adblock plus author, alleluja, may he live 100 years and get a saint statue.
I flew FRA-AMS more than once this year , and also FRA-ZRH, MUC-CDG, LON-FRA, not even counting a holiday trip to FCO and at no point whatsoever I ahd to go thru an x ray scanner. I did not even *see* one.
Or fly business / first class, and that from any point on earth except the US. The US is the only country AFAIK which use nude scanner.
If one redirect a site to 127.0.0.1 from the aforementionned double click, chance that it is a malware is nil. Before removing the entry windows defender should check the IP and leave it for those site at 127.0.0.1. OTOH if it is an anti virus site it should remove it if it is precisely 127.0.0.1. If they went the extra way to check for some specific web site, then they should have done the extra way and check for the IP. Or make a pop up windows warning of the behavior and how to stop it.
"Over time alternative energy WILL naturally overcome traditional sources just in cost benefit alone, there is no need to hurt the productivity of countries to make that happen."
And as asked to conservative when will that happen ? The best answer I got was "when alternative energy are cheaper than oil and coal". The problem is, by that time we have burn so many of both that climate change might be irreversible and well going thru. The problem is that conservative lacks UTTERLY in insight, they see their own generaztion only, and future folk are fucked, but who cares. The problem is, some of us see beyond the next year in econom,y and look at maybe 5 or 10 generation in future. Who cares if you lower economy strength by 5, 10% , if rather than take that you fuck up future generation that the climate get so chaotic that the damage long term is greater. The truth is that conservative don't care a shitty bit on the long term consequence. Which is why by the way they don#t care about pollution law in general.
Litteralism and creationism were long abandonned by mainstream catholic, hundred of years ago in europe. If you ask an european catholic he will probably tell you all those stuff including the eve story are jsut that, allegories, and that evolution happened. Both of those phenomenon (litteralism and creationism) are predominentely american phenomenon among christian (rather than protestan/catholic). In fact if I recall correctely they can be traced back to end of 18th start of 19th century in north america.
Woo imagine stuff, telepathy, speaking with the dead, chasing the bad spirit away, science and engineering instead find solutions : mobile phone, mass storage memory, medicine.
MA also had an incredible profit margin compared to PC, but PC were commodity and widespread. The end result was apple near bankruptcy until it was saved by MS. I don't expect a bankruptcy again, but I am pretty sure shareholder will not want a repeat, and will no be satisfied that they make more profit when the market share is obviously shrinking, just like it did for MACs.