They don't seem to close or kill small business in EU, isn't it ? Last time I looked the big conglomerate were not the main employer in many country, the small enterprise cover more than 50% of the jobs (66% for France for example), with an increasing tendency in the last few years (~60% 1985 for France up to 66+% today, I took the example of France because this is the first which came up in google). So REALLY if data protection law killed small enterprise, we would know by now.
PS: Although I must admit that there are dissenting voice saying that now big enterprise make the bulk of the economy near the 51% if you count small filial as belonging to the main big enterprise. See TUC report for UK for example.
I work in the airline industry now. I am getting a headache only thinking on the new nightmare this bring. APIS was already over the top, But that take it.
Orion nebula distance : 1500 light years. 10% of this : 150 light years. IF you suppose that it is getting closer by that distance, then it means roughly 5+ light years for every years for 25 years. Nothing goes at a speed of 5+ light years per year. At best all physical stuff can only goes at near c (1 light year per year;)...) with photon going at exactly c in vacuum. And we would remark the relativistic effect, at those speed with such an enormous mass... (is that even possible?)
So no, we are pretty sure the orion nebula has not been sneaking closer (sic) behind our back for such distance difference.
the way I see msot driver drive on road (seat belt ? why the govt is trying to impose law on me ? Speed limit ? They are for the others.... Orange/red light ? Come on I passed the crossing before the other road had their green. Bicycle ? Just let us ignore their right altogether, even if they come from the right side. Alchohol, drug and so on ? naturally I know my limit ! Phoning & driving ! That's ok I am good at it ! Turn light ? Are they decoration ? etc...etc...etc...). And before somebody tell us therre will be a "piloting" licence, well there is a driving one too, and cheer number statistic tell me that bad apple WILL get their pilot licence and do all the above, in the sky above your head.
In other word, not a chance in hell regulator even let this become mainstream even if cost are cheap (which I don't think it would be).
Why would god need a special stimulus ? How about visual stimulus ? Aural ? Touch ? Taste ? Pressure ? All of them together ? Not enough ? As for the colour example this is not what I would call a good example. We all get the photon in our retina and it get interpreted by the brain as colour. This interpretation can and certainly differ from individual to individual, and sometimes presented with the SAME wavelength the brain interpret it differently (remember the optical illusion of two checkered board one with light color one with dark color, the central quadrant being in both the same color, but the brain see it as different color due to the dark/light tone around it) so there is way more playroom than you let it on.
Anyway a non disprovable, non falsifiable entity like god is uninteresting for science. Philosophy want to bring god on the plate ? Then philosophy and theist better get logic not backward. One does not suppose the hypotheses that god exists then interpret everything that way saying "god exists and it is so", one does try to prove the existence of god using philosophical or natural arguments. Last time I was in a philosophy class back in 1989 this was done this way. And yes the above article is not uninterresting philosophically because it pause this quite HARD to answer question : Could it be that this sensation alone is enough to give birth of the idea of gods (along with other classical cognitive reinforcement, like the tendency of human to see causality everywhere, and the tendency to ignore engative reinforcement and concentrate on positive reinforcement) ? Or do we really need the existence of gods ?"
With movement, there is more associated than the brain (actually far more), all the nerve going from and to the muscle, and all the reflex system (lower brain?). One can demonstrably show that this part of the brain is used for movement. If there was no muscle, or no lower brain for reflex, the Parent would have a point. The same for the OP with his color example. If there was demonstrably no organ to sense color he would have a point, but there is the eye, the optic nerve, and the attachment thereof in the brain. Now if he could give the sensation of color to blind born people that would be something else... And here is the big difference again : there is no "godly" organ which seem to be associated with this stimulation. There does not seem to be any processus which use this sensation or generate it, or use it. Mind you, it could be that we did not find it, but at this point we can certainly say that it seems that feeling the divine is caused by stimulation of those part of the brain. That does NEITHER allow one to conclude that god exists or not. And that is all we can conclude.
Now if you really want to mix up religion with science, then you have to demonstrate that the feeling of god sensation is generated by something else, you ARE the one with the claim. I can demonstrate that stimulating for movement is linked to the muscle, and color sensation is linked to photon hitting the retina, in the absence of direct stimulation by electrode. You OTOH pretend there might be another explanation for the feeling of divine than random brain function, you pretend that a real god come into play. The burden of evidence to demonstrate it is on your side. It certainly is a good hypothese (but again no evidence) that the idea of god existing came AFTER human felt this sensation and thus gods were born. It does not need a special entity with all the additional question necessitating it.
The bottom line is that the original parent mixed religion and science, and got it backward, by stating it does not disprove god. If the original parent want to bring god in the play, then he has to demonstrate that just like the photon example, the stimulus is originated from outside the brain and from god.
Your argument would hold if within the cities of highest density you would get 100mbps or 25 mbps on premise without a problem and without selling your first born. That does not seem to be the case, ergo your argument is groundless and AT BEST only explain why there is no high bandwidth available in sparsely rural area.
Furthermore I keep hearing this argument for, how many years now ? In the mean time many sparsely dense country like your northern neighbors get a better bit rate in both more dense and sparsely dense area...
Are We There Yet?
The DX10 exclusive effects available in the five games we looked at were usually too subtle to be noticed in the middle of heated gameplay. The only exception is Call of Juarez, which boasts greatly improved graphics in DX10. Unfortunately these image quality improvements can't entirely be attributed to DX10 since the North American version of the game -- the only version that supports DX10 -- had the benefit of a full nine months of extra development time. And much of the image quality improvements in Call of Juarez when using DX10 rendering were due to significantly improved textures rather than better rendering effects.
Our test results also suggest that currently available DX10 hardware struggles with today's DX10 enhanced gaming titles. While high-end hardware has enough power to grind out enough frames in DX10 to keep them playable, mid-range hardware simply can't afford the performance hit of DX10. With currently available DX10 hardware and games, you have two choices if you want to play games at a decent frame rate; play the game in DX9 and miss out on a handful of DX10 exclusive image quality enhancements, or play the game in DX10 but be forced to lower image quality settings to offset the performance hit. In the end, it's practically the same result either way.
While the new DX10 image quality enhancements are nice, when we finally pulled our noses off the monitor, sat back and considered the overall gameplay experience, DirectX 10 enhancements just didn't amount to enough of an image quality improvement to justify the associated performance hit. However, we aren't saying you should avoid DX10 hardware or wait to upgrade. On the contrary, the current generation of graphics cards from both ATI and NVIDIA offer many tangible improvements over the previous generation, especially in the high-end of the product lines. With the possible exception of some mid-range offerings, which actually perform below last generation's similarly priced cards, the current generation of graphics hardware has a nice leg-up in performance and features that is worth the upgrade. But if your only reason for upgrading is to get hardware support for DX10, then you might want to hold out for as long as possible to see how things play out.
Not quite. This is calling examining the issue at hand, seeing the negative impact of being wrong, and the negative impact of being write, then choosing the one which is the least negative for us human. This has nothing to do with science per see, as science tell us what can be and what would be the effect with which confidence. The decision to act is then purely political. Your reaction OTOH show a lot of knee jerking and attempt at sarcasm, but you fail miserably at interpreting the post, and the context.
Maybe you will get it right next time, little scarab.
You know what, I would rather be laughed at by the world world for the rest of my life for some prediction I made which turn out dead wrong rather than very very dead.
I am not putting "word in your mouth" this was just a correction of your sentence. The GP point out (and my correction) was that rationally you cannot advance any argument that the bible has a source beyond human. No rational argument at all based on evidence. Sure you can argue on faith, as you did.
Furthermore your turn to put word in my mouth : I said within "the same timescale" Meaning there is no evidence that all those story point to contemporaneous events. Sure some story are similar. But mostly because we are all human. We all had a creation myth and god(s) (Heck some culture have no gods at all but still those stories). We all have catastrophic stories (earthquake, eruption, flood, eclipse and bad event happening during it) and legends with moral overtone. But you will be hard pressed to find anybody which scientifically says that there was a big flood a few thousand years ago which overflooded the whole earth as you argue with the chinese and amerindian example (except maybe young earther and other christian litteralist). There are absolutly no evidence of it. OTOH there are evidence as I said above that human culture follow some common sociologic principle.
The conclusion of the whole thread, is that you have faith that the message was brought from gods to human (the human told you so), you have faith the message was unchanged (the human told you so), you have faith that was it insinde is to be interpreted litterally I guess (again even then, the human told you so, or you as human came to this conclusion). And the whole time, you choose to ignore that human like to make up stuff.
MAJOR quibble : Minor quibble, God manifested himself directly to Moses (snipped for shortness)
What you meant was Human said and wrote later that , "God manifested himself directly to Moses "... In other word your faith is still in the human which said and wrote as the above, just as the GP said. Unless you will tell us that your version of the bible was handed to you by a burning bush (sorry for the sarcasm but I fear you need to get really the GP points).
Another Major quibble : not all culture on earth report a global flood. Mostly only those locally around the Mediterranean See and red See. The other flooding story from other culture are not comparable in time scale. Furthermore a story of flooding on a big surface (still a LOCAL flooding) could be acceptable, but a story of Noah and the ark... I am sorry, but you don't really see this as historic truth, isn't it ? Anyway were they 9 of kind or 2 of a kind... That clearly sound like a nice moral story.
The bottom line is : no matter what your faith is, FACT is that the bible was written, translated, changed, and composed by HUMANS.
Usually I never need to nap. But sometimes we had to migrate a client, wake up at 2am on saturday, and get it through until 11am monday. So at some point you nap while your colleague do the rest. It also happenned sometimes after having worked in a row more than one day 13 hours longs. IMHO this study is useless if it does not distinguish napping for night shift, medical condition, exceptionally long projects or simple 9*5 worker napping from time to time.
As for kissing, we are speaking about french kissing, right ? Just checking that my australian and american prude co-poster and me are on the same wavelength;). Just kidding. Anyway what was the point on asking if they kissed ? Too prude to ask if they had sex ? Because if it is the case, frankly I can eventually see the interest of knowing how much napping is done (loss of productivity). But inter-personal relationship like kissing, sex and other ? Come on ! It is none the business of anybody !
What most atheist (like me) hate, is not the theist themselves. It is their tendency :
1) to try to impose their law/will onto other by perverting the law and secularity of the state/school (see dover school and many more example from many countries) 2) to accuse the atheist of being the cause of the moral dilution/ lack of moral of the modern society 3) to contend that THEIR religion is the source of moral and atheist by definition cannot be a moral person 4) their hypocrisy at rejecting science, but using the fruit of thereof (rejecting evolution, using antibiotics to save their lives)
and so on and so no. In other word it is not the theist themselves which are hated, but the hypocrisy of some of them.
He is not entitled to own one, but ONCE he owns one, he is entitled to keep it in the state it is, or even burn it on a bonfire if he wishes. OTOH Apple cannot force an update on the iPhone on him, because Apple did not license the iPhone or Contract the iPhone usage to him, Apple sold it.
When you enter a value in a cell, it should start the auto-detection from scratch. Instead, it takes the decimal number and try to interpret it into a date, despite that the format used is obviously not a date format, and your cell is defined as "standard" format cell. The fact is, if you enter directly the 3,4 (, is used for floating "point" number) in a cell which was empty it correctly interpret it as 3,4 and not as 3rd January. Only in case you had a date previously in the cell it put 3rd January.
"English or Swedish date formats might cause trouble in German" there are specific format saved in windows configuration panel (regional coding) and it ignores the regional coding. Another bug.
They are using floating point number for multiplication of non integer numbers (unless I missed something one of the number he multiply to as ".1"). The Intermediate number of the calculation must be a floating point and THEN a floating-point-to-integer conversion happens because it sees "ohhhh I can convert this because the fractional part is.0000000000000 (i.e. all bit set to zero)". This only point to some weird behavior of the floating point to integer conversion, but not of the multiplication itself. Still this is a big one... I'll try it at work for a laugh.
Haptic free dictionary
"haptic Pronunciation (hptk) adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile."
Same page/Thesaurus (note that the thesaurus for tactile say the same definition !) :
"Adj. 1. haptic - of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex; Synonym : tactile,,tactual".
There is NOTHING about gesture in the definition and only tactile mention. In other word the parent post above me is NOT informative.
Sputnik was the first above. That is it. Since that race was lost, then the US kept redefining other race "first man up above" "first landing on the moon" etc... Never mind that in the end they "lost" also for the first habitable space station too if I recall correctly.
Please look at the number of Veto the security council nation have done with the years. China is by far NOT one of the nation with the most veto. The one with the most veto for recent vote was the US (the S.U. had a record veto but only for the period around the 50-60). So before you accuse "tyrant" of abusing the veto of the security council, point finger first to the US. Which incidentely is THE TYRANT which hold the reign over ICANN if I remember correctly.
would place the importance of graphical detail as shown inside above gameplay. If you don't have a good gameplay, you can have 1000000000000 triangle per square inch of pixels, it won't make your gamer more happy. The Primary challenge of a good game is not graphism. it is a good idea which translate to a good technical gameplay.
You don't often have the time to make a proper long investigation in case of bomb threat. Oh, and his name was NOT dragged in the mud. had he not told himself he was arrested, nobody would have known.
But did ANY OF YOU read the frigging article ? Let me quote it for you with relevant part in bold.
The police were investigating a bomb threat posted to an online forum for German police officers. The police traced one of the objectionable posts on the forum to the ip address for Janssen's server. Up until his arrest, Alex Janssen's Tor server carried over 40GB of other random strangers' Internet traffic each day.
Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a different city, over 500km away.
Janssen's attempts to explain what Tor is to the police officers fell initially on deaf ears. After being interrogated for hours, someone from the city of Düsseldorf's equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security showed up and admitted to Janssen that they'd made a mistake. He was released shortly after.
Summary : somebody saw his server was the originator IP, somebody reacted quickly, a bit like the US homeland departement IMO could have done, and fell on the face because 1) they gathered the wrong PC 2) once the dust settled they recognized their error after being interrogated for horus. Not DAYS. Not MONTH. Hours. Sure it sucks but it was a bomb threat, in other word there was urgency, and they did not torture him, they did not water board him and pretend afterward it ain't torture. They interrogated him for hours and released him and admitted mistake.
And people here are taking comparison to loss of liberty and Nazi ? Hellllooo ? Knee jerk reaction ?
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They don't seem to close or kill small business in EU, isn't it ? Last time I looked the big conglomerate were not the main employer in many country, the small enterprise cover more than 50% of the jobs (66% for France for example), with an increasing tendency in the last few years (~60% 1985 for France up to 66+% today, I took the example of France because this is the first which came up in google). So REALLY if data protection law killed small enterprise, we would know by now.
PS: Although I must admit that there are dissenting voice saying that now big enterprise make the bulk of the economy near the 51% if you count small filial as belonging to the main big enterprise. See TUC report for UK for example.
I work in the airline industry now. I am getting a headache only thinking on the new nightmare this bring. APIS was already over the top, But that take it.
...in the past when the situation was reversed. So... You can't sell your bread and eat it at the same time.
At best it should be only funny.
;)...) with photon going at exactly c in vacuum. And we would remark the relativistic effect, at those speed with such an enormous mass... (is that even possible?)
Orion nebula distance : 1500 light years. 10% of this : 150 light years. IF you suppose that it is getting closer by that distance, then it means roughly 5+ light years for every years for 25 years. Nothing goes at a speed of 5+ light years per year. At best all physical stuff can only goes at near c (1 light year per year
So no, we are pretty sure the orion nebula has not been sneaking closer (sic) behind our back for such distance difference.
the way I see msot driver drive on road (seat belt ? why the govt is trying to impose law on me ? Speed limit ? They are for the others.... Orange/red light ? Come on I passed the crossing before the other road had their green. Bicycle ? Just let us ignore their right altogether, even if they come from the right side. Alchohol, drug and so on ? naturally I know my limit ! Phoning & driving ! That's ok I am good at it ! Turn light ? Are they decoration ? etc...etc...etc...). And before somebody tell us therre will be a "piloting" licence, well there is a driving one too, and cheer number statistic tell me that bad apple WILL get their pilot licence and do all the above, in the sky above your head.
In other word, not a chance in hell regulator even let this become mainstream even if cost are cheap (which I don't think it would be).
Why would god need a special stimulus ? How about visual stimulus ? Aural ? Touch ? Taste ? Pressure ? All of them together ? Not enough ? As for the colour example this is not what I would call a good example. We all get the photon in our retina and it get interpreted by the brain as colour. This interpretation can and certainly differ from individual to individual, and sometimes presented with the SAME wavelength the brain interpret it differently (remember the optical illusion of two checkered board one with light color one with dark color, the central quadrant being in both the same color, but the brain see it as different color due to the dark/light tone around it) so there is way more playroom than you let it on.
Anyway a non disprovable, non falsifiable entity like god is uninteresting for science. Philosophy want to bring god on the plate ? Then philosophy and theist better get logic not backward. One does not suppose the hypotheses that god exists then interpret everything that way saying "god exists and it is so", one does try to prove the existence of god using philosophical or natural arguments. Last time I was in a philosophy class back in 1989 this was done this way. And yes the above article is not uninterresting philosophically because it pause this quite HARD to answer question : Could it be that this sensation alone is enough to give birth of the idea of gods (along with other classical cognitive reinforcement, like the tendency of human to see causality everywhere, and the tendency to ignore engative reinforcement and concentrate on positive reinforcement) ? Or do we really need the existence of gods ?"
With movement, there is more associated than the brain (actually far more), all the nerve going from and to the muscle, and all the reflex system (lower brain?). One can demonstrably show that this part of the brain is used for movement. If there was no muscle, or no lower brain for reflex, the Parent would have a point. The same for the OP with his color example. If there was demonstrably no organ to sense color he would have a point, but there is the eye, the optic nerve, and the attachment thereof in the brain. Now if he could give the sensation of color to blind born people that would be something else... And here is the big difference again : there is no "godly" organ which seem to be associated with this stimulation. There does not seem to be any processus which use this sensation or generate it, or use it. Mind you, it could be that we did not find it, but at this point we can certainly say that it seems that feeling the divine is caused by stimulation of those part of the brain. That does NEITHER allow one to conclude that god exists or not. And that is all we can conclude.
Now if you really want to mix up religion with science, then you have to demonstrate that the feeling of god sensation is generated by something else, you ARE the one with the claim. I can demonstrate that stimulating for movement is linked to the muscle, and color sensation is linked to photon hitting the retina, in the absence of direct stimulation by electrode. You OTOH pretend there might be another explanation for the feeling of divine than random brain function, you pretend that a real god come into play. The burden of evidence to demonstrate it is on your side. It certainly is a good hypothese (but again no evidence) that the idea of god existing came AFTER human felt this sensation and thus gods were born. It does not need a special entity with all the additional question necessitating it.
The bottom line is that the original parent mixed religion and science, and got it backward, by stating it does not disprove god. If the original parent want to bring god in the play, then he has to demonstrate that just like the photon example, the stimulus is originated from outside the brain and from god.
Your argument would hold if within the cities of highest density you would get 100mbps or 25 mbps on premise without a problem and without selling your first born. That does not seem to be the case, ergo your argument is groundless and AT BEST only explain why there is no high bandwidth available in sparsely rural area.
Furthermore I keep hearing this argument for, how many years now ? In the mean time many sparsely dense country like your northern neighbors get a better bit rate in both more dense and sparsely dense area...
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Are We There Yet? The DX10 exclusive effects available in the five games we looked at were usually too subtle to be noticed in the middle of heated gameplay. The only exception is Call of Juarez, which boasts greatly improved graphics in DX10. Unfortunately these image quality improvements can't entirely be attributed to DX10 since the North American version of the game -- the only version that supports DX10 -- had the benefit of a full nine months of extra development time. And much of the image quality improvements in Call of Juarez when using DX10 rendering were due to significantly improved textures rather than better rendering effects. Our test results also suggest that currently available DX10 hardware struggles with today's DX10 enhanced gaming titles. While high-end hardware has enough power to grind out enough frames in DX10 to keep them playable, mid-range hardware simply can't afford the performance hit of DX10. With currently available DX10 hardware and games, you have two choices if you want to play games at a decent frame rate; play the game in DX9 and miss out on a handful of DX10 exclusive image quality enhancements, or play the game in DX10 but be forced to lower image quality settings to offset the performance hit. In the end, it's practically the same result either way. While the new DX10 image quality enhancements are nice, when we finally pulled our noses off the monitor, sat back and considered the overall gameplay experience, DirectX 10 enhancements just didn't amount to enough of an image quality improvement to justify the associated performance hit. However, we aren't saying you should avoid DX10 hardware or wait to upgrade. On the contrary, the current generation of graphics cards from both ATI and NVIDIA offer many tangible improvements over the previous generation, especially in the high-end of the product lines. With the possible exception of some mid-range offerings, which actually perform below last generation's similarly priced cards, the current generation of graphics hardware has a nice leg-up in performance and features that is worth the upgrade. But if your only reason for upgrading is to get hardware support for DX10, then you might want to hold out for as long as possible to see how things play out.
Not quite. This is calling examining the issue at hand, seeing the negative impact of being wrong, and the negative impact of being write, then choosing the one which is the least negative for us human. This has nothing to do with science per see, as science tell us what can be and what would be the effect with which confidence. The decision to act is then purely political. Your reaction OTOH show a lot of knee jerking and attempt at sarcasm, but you fail miserably at interpreting the post, and the context.
Maybe you will get it right next time, little scarab.
You know what, I would rather be laughed at by the world world for the rest of my life for some prediction I made which turn out dead wrong rather than very very dead.
I am not putting "word in your mouth" this was just a correction of your sentence. The GP point out (and my correction) was that rationally you cannot advance any argument that the bible has a source beyond human. No rational argument at all based on evidence. Sure you can argue on faith, as you did.
Furthermore your turn to put word in my mouth : I said within "the same timescale" Meaning there is no evidence that all those story point to contemporaneous events. Sure some story are similar. But mostly because we are all human. We all had a creation myth and god(s) (Heck some culture have no gods at all but still those stories). We all have catastrophic stories (earthquake, eruption, flood, eclipse and bad event happening during it) and legends with moral overtone. But you will be hard pressed to find anybody which scientifically says that there was a big flood a few thousand years ago which overflooded the whole earth as you argue with the chinese and amerindian example (except maybe young earther and other christian litteralist). There are absolutly no evidence of it. OTOH there are evidence as I said above that human culture follow some common sociologic principle.
The conclusion of the whole thread, is that you have faith that the message was brought from gods to human (the human told you so), you have faith the message was unchanged (the human told you so), you have faith that was it insinde is to be interpreted litterally I guess (again even then, the human told you so, or you as human came to this conclusion). And the whole time, you choose to ignore that human like to make up stuff.
MAJOR quibble :
Minor quibble, God manifested himself directly to Moses (snipped for shortness)
What you meant was Human said and wrote later that , "God manifested himself directly to Moses "...
In other word your faith is still in the human which said and wrote as the above, just as the GP said. Unless you will tell us that your version of the bible was handed to you by a burning bush (sorry for the sarcasm but I fear you need to get really the GP points).
Another Major quibble : not all culture on earth report a global flood. Mostly only those locally around the Mediterranean See and red See. The other flooding story from other culture are not comparable in time scale. Furthermore a story of flooding on a big surface (still a LOCAL flooding) could be acceptable, but a story of Noah and the ark... I am sorry, but you don't really see this as historic truth, isn't it ? Anyway were they 9 of kind or 2 of a kind... That clearly sound like a nice moral story.
The bottom line is : no matter what your faith is, FACT is that the bible was written, translated, changed, and composed by HUMANS.
Usually I never need to nap. But sometimes we had to migrate a client, wake up at 2am on saturday, and get it through until 11am monday. So at some point you nap while your colleague do the rest. It also happenned sometimes after having worked in a row more than one day 13 hours longs. IMHO this study is useless if it does not distinguish napping for night shift, medical condition, exceptionally long projects or simple 9*5 worker napping from time to time.
;). Just kidding. Anyway what was the point on asking if they kissed ? Too prude to ask if they had sex ? Because if it is the case, frankly I can eventually see the interest of knowing how much napping is done (loss of productivity). But inter-personal relationship like kissing, sex and other ? Come on ! It is none the business of anybody !
As for kissing, we are speaking about french kissing, right ? Just checking that my australian and american prude co-poster and me are on the same wavelength
What most atheist (like me) hate, is not the theist themselves. It is their tendency :
1) to try to impose their law/will onto other by perverting the law and secularity of the state/school (see dover school and many more example from many countries)
2) to accuse the atheist of being the cause of the moral dilution/ lack of moral of the modern society
3) to contend that THEIR religion is the source of moral and atheist by definition cannot be a moral person
4) their hypocrisy at rejecting science, but using the fruit of thereof (rejecting evolution, using antibiotics to save their lives)
and so on and so no. In other word it is not the theist themselves which are hated, but the hypocrisy of some of them.
The gp is in reality a taxi driver in Shanghai ;). I can imagine why he tell us not to take the maglev.
He is not entitled to own one, but ONCE he owns one, he is entitled to keep it in the state it is, or even burn it on a bonfire if he wishes. OTOH Apple cannot force an update on the iPhone on him, because Apple did not license the iPhone or Contract the iPhone usage to him, Apple sold it.
When you enter a value in a cell, it should start the auto-detection from scratch. Instead, it takes the decimal number and try to interpret it into a date, despite that the format used is obviously not a date format, and your cell is defined as "standard" format cell. The fact is, if you enter directly the 3,4 (, is used for floating "point" number) in a cell which was empty it correctly interpret it as 3,4 and not as 3rd January. Only in case you had a date previously in the cell it put 3rd January.
"English or Swedish date formats might cause trouble in German" there are specific format saved in windows configuration panel (regional coding) and it ignores the regional coding. Another bug.
They are using floating point number for multiplication of non integer numbers (unless I missed something one of the number he multiply to as ".1"). The Intermediate number of the calculation must be a floating point and THEN a floating-point-to-integer conversion happens because it sees "ohhhh I can convert this because the fractional part is .0000000000000 (i.e. all bit set to zero)". This only point to some weird behavior of the floating point to integer conversion, but not of the multiplication itself. Still this is a big one... I'll try it at work for a laugh.
Dictionary definition of haptic:
/Thesaurus (note that the thesaurus for tactile say the same definition !) :
Haptic free dictionary "haptic Pronunciation (hptk) adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile."
Same page
"Adj. 1. haptic - of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex; Synonym : tactile,,tactual".
There is NOTHING about gesture in the definition and only tactile mention. In other word the parent post above me is NOT informative.
Sputnik was the first above. That is it. Since that race was lost, then the US kept redefining other race "first man up above" "first landing on the moon" etc... Never mind that in the end they "lost" also for the first habitable space station too if I recall correctly.
Please look at the number of Veto the security council nation have done with the years. China is by far NOT one of the nation with the most veto. The one with the most veto for recent vote was the US (the S.U. had a record veto but only for the period around the 50-60). So before you accuse "tyrant" of abusing the veto of the security council, point finger first to the US. Which incidentely is THE TYRANT which hold the reign over ICANN if I remember correctly.
would place the importance of graphical detail as shown inside above gameplay. If you don't have a good gameplay, you can have 1000000000000 triangle per square inch of pixels, it won't make your gamer more happy. The Primary challenge of a good game is not graphism. it is a good idea which translate to a good technical gameplay.
You don't often have the time to make a proper long investigation in case of bomb threat. Oh, and his name was NOT dragged in the mud. had he not told himself he was arrested, nobody would have known.
But did ANY OF YOU read the frigging article ? Let me quote it for you with relevant part in bold.
The police were investigating a bomb threat posted to an online forum for German police officers. The police traced one of the objectionable posts on the forum to the ip address for Janssen's server. Up until his arrest, Alex Janssen's Tor server carried over 40GB of other random strangers' Internet traffic each day. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a different city, over 500km away. Janssen's attempts to explain what Tor is to the police officers fell initially on deaf ears. After being interrogated for hours, someone from the city of Düsseldorf's equivalent of the Department of Homeland Security showed up and admitted to Janssen that they'd made a mistake. He was released shortly after.
Summary : somebody saw his server was the originator IP, somebody reacted quickly, a bit like the US homeland departement IMO could have done, and fell on the face because 1) they gathered the wrong PC 2) once the dust settled they recognized their error after being interrogated for horus. Not DAYS. Not MONTH. Hours. Sure it sucks but it was a bomb threat, in other word there was urgency, and they did not torture him, they did not water board him and pretend afterward it ain't torture. They interrogated him for hours and released him and admitted mistake.
And people here are taking comparison to loss of liberty and Nazi ? Hellllooo ? Knee jerk reaction ?