There is actually an answer for this: you compare your happiness before (belief in God/Following God's plan for you) and after (belief in God/Following God's plan for you). That answers the critical question, is it better to believe or not believe. (Technically not a test of God's existence - but why do you care? Newtons laws aren't known to be factual, they are merely helpful). This test is best performed individually, because the answer is highly personal.
I believe the evidence for God is larger than the evidence against, BTW. Mainly because there is circumstancial evidence for, and no evidence against.
That is common practice, in the form of stock options. Some companies don't do that, though, because if the CEO does well they can make a killing - and the investors think they are paying him too much.
Kind of silly, really - I believe in paying people a portion of what they make for the company. Align their interests with mine, and hope they get rich! The common critism is that engineers have no effect on sales, for example, and will get discouraged if sales cannot convert their work into cash. My answer is: then engineering better get on the phone and work with sales so that the product sells! Working in an information vaccuum is not worth paying for... and if the problem is sales, then work to solve that problem rather than the possibly more interesting purely engineering ones!
Hey, how about this idea - if you run a web site that gets hit by slashdot, just make your homepage into a coral redirect for all slashdot users. That way everybody is happy, and you can even track hits!
Technically, you are coating the crystal with something (typically a metal). They used to use electron beam evaporation (that's why it is in a vaccuum chamber), but I don't know what they do now.
The Pacific ocean is 60060700 square miles. The cost of deploying GPS is about $3B, give or take a few orders of magnitude. Assuming that you would need 1 tower per square mile, you could spend $50 per tower - which might actually be possible for something just floating around transmitting a position beacon.
There are 2 sources of drift in modern systems - timing tolerances and temperature variances.
The timing tolerance comes from inexactness in the manufacturing process. Most timing comes from crystal oscillators - essentially crystals grown in a vaccum chamber until the "correct" oscillation frequency is matched. For this, the more you pay the closer the tolerances are.
As termperatures change, the crystal's resonate frequency changes as well (as well as the current through the electronics). Modern systems try to use other electronics to limit the termperature variance (basically measure the temperature and apply an adjustment), but that has limits.
Right, because whe a guy says something to the effect of "The chemistry just isn't there", it means that he had an accident with a pair of scissors and cutting pants while wearing them...
Why would there be more pollution in the summer? The only noticable pollution that I ever lived in was in the mountains in winter, during an "inversion". Essentially, a heavy cloud layer would form about 200 ft up - and no air could escape through it, so all the pollution was trapped in the valley with the people.
You had some good points, but you went too far. The new native Java bytecode CPUs are just as "native" as x86 cpus are - all modern processors translate the executable machine language code given to them into microcode, and then execute the microcode. Even the 286 did this (really streching the meaning of modern, there)!
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you have still violated copyright and that is wrong
I believe that is the key issue - and while I personally agree with you, I can see the other position. Government is by the people, for the people, and of the people - and it is legitimate (albiet dangerous) to disobey laws that you consider immoral. I would definately consider using laws to prop up an entity that sue children immoral - but I think the lesser of two evils is still to maintain copyright laws (not the DMCA, mind you) and civil order.
But I guess to some people, music is more important than an ordered society - mainly young people! (Ah, youth!)
Seriously, though - I just didn't really know where most of the other theaters were, and I had a limitted window of opportunity (got out of work early, daughter in Day Care for a few more hours, etc.). I just couldn't risk going somewhere that I did not know travel time for.
Well, downtown is a big area... and the nearest theater showing Serenity is not downtown. Kind of strange, really - we tend to get a very wide selection here! (There is an AMC 30 screen theater two blocks from my house, and a Sony 8 screen 4 blocks away, and 2 smaller (4 screen and less) theaters about 8 blocks away...)
Of course, if you go far enough you can find one. But compare this list with this one.
Opening at $10 million at the number two spot doesn't seem all that bad to me.
Especially when you consider that where I live (downtown Chicago, 4 theaters in wlaking distance) I will have to drive 20 miles just to see it (I don't normally even use my car!).
I don't really have strong disagreements with anything you say. My point is just that if you believe in evolution, then we evolved a belief in God for some reason, most likely linked to survival. So going around telling people not to believe in God is not nice - you are telling them to not believe in something that evolution has made them believe in (in their children's best interests).
Please, think of the children! (That's the only thing evolution cares about)
As for good/bad religions, that is non-sequitor to the point I am making. Yes, fight against any abuses - but at least some religions make some people happier (and according to evolution, live longer).
Hm... you seem to have missed my point. If you believe in God, well and good. If you believe in evolution, than you believe that the "belief in God" evolved, and is therefor useful (for reproduction, like anything else evolution selects). So either way you should advocate a belief in God.
Yes, and people wonder why we never went back - little known fact: on that last moon mission, Gene Cernan popped his helmet off and finally actually tasted the moon cheese (sort of a greyish cheese). It was awful! After spending billions, they couldn't really admit that to everyone - so they just claimed that "congress cut funding," and let the program die...
Either you believe in God (like most of the world) or you believe that humans evolved - and that therefor believing in God makes your procreation more likely.
Either way, what is the advantage of not believing in God? OK, choose a religion that doesn't cramp your style, perhaps, but either way, belief is provably better.
Why do you want to make people unhappy? (You do know that happiness commonly maps to religion, right?) Why do you want to make them more likely to die? (You do know that religious people (at least certain faiths) live longer, right?)
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Of course, they do have SEVERAL BILLION DOLLARS that they could spend on each patch!
how do you test for a god
There is actually an answer for this: you compare your happiness before (belief in God/Following God's plan for you) and after (belief in God/Following God's plan for you). That answers the critical question, is it better to believe or not believe. (Technically not a test of God's existence - but why do you care? Newtons laws aren't known to be factual, they are merely helpful). This test is best performed individually, because the answer is highly personal.
I believe the evidence for God is larger than the evidence against, BTW. Mainly because there is circumstancial evidence for, and no evidence against.
That is common practice, in the form of stock options. Some companies don't do that, though, because if the CEO does well they can make a killing - and the investors think they are paying him too much.
Kind of silly, really - I believe in paying people a portion of what they make for the company. Align their interests with mine, and hope they get rich! The common critism is that engineers have no effect on sales, for example, and will get discouraged if sales cannot convert their work into cash. My answer is: then engineering better get on the phone and work with sales so that the product sells! Working in an information vaccuum is not worth paying for... and if the problem is sales, then work to solve that problem rather than the possibly more interesting purely engineering ones!
Hey, how about this idea - if you run a web site that gets hit by slashdot, just make your homepage into a coral redirect for all slashdot users. That way everybody is happy, and you can even track hits!
Technically, you are coating the crystal with something (typically a metal). They used to use electron beam evaporation (that's why it is in a vaccuum chamber), but I don't know what they do now.
The Pacific ocean is 60060700 square miles. The cost of deploying GPS is about $3B, give or take a few orders of magnitude. Assuming that you would need 1 tower per square mile, you could spend $50 per tower - which might actually be possible for something just floating around transmitting a position beacon.
Not necessarily impossible... just unlikely!
There are 2 sources of drift in modern systems - timing tolerances and temperature variances.
The timing tolerance comes from inexactness in the manufacturing process. Most timing comes from crystal oscillators - essentially crystals grown in a vaccum chamber until the "correct" oscillation frequency is matched. For this, the more you pay the closer the tolerances are.
As termperatures change, the crystal's resonate frequency changes as well (as well as the current through the electronics). Modern systems try to use other electronics to limit the termperature variance (basically measure the temperature and apply an adjustment), but that has limits.
Right, because whe a guy says something to the effect of "The chemistry just isn't there", it means that he had an accident with a pair of scissors and cutting pants while wearing them...
Why would there be more pollution in the summer? The only noticable pollution that I ever lived in was in the mountains in winter, during an "inversion". Essentially, a heavy cloud layer would form about 200 ft up - and no air could escape through it, so all the pollution was trapped in the valley with the people.
Don't be silly - they just store the image in the recycle bin. You know, so it doesn't take up disk space!
Woah! I was getting 100 Mb/s on that link! Too bad we both have all the same stuff.
Of course, if you have to have a fall back like that, why not just use that instead - and only write one application?
You had some good points, but you went too far. The new native Java bytecode CPUs are just as "native" as x86 cpus are - all modern processors translate the executable machine language code given to them into microcode, and then execute the microcode. Even the 286 did this (really streching the meaning of modern, there)!
Yes, your right... I have made millions due to my knowlege of how to write fast Java portals...
You can have both!
I thought for sure that you were about to explain how you can now write code that compiles in both gcc and javac...
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you have still violated copyright and that is wrong
I believe that is the key issue - and while I personally agree with you, I can see the other position. Government is by the people, for the people, and of the people - and it is legitimate (albiet dangerous) to disobey laws that you consider immoral. I would definately consider using laws to prop up an entity that sue children immoral - but I think the lesser of two evils is still to maintain copyright laws (not the DMCA, mind you) and civil order.
But I guess to some people, music is more important than an ordered society - mainly young people! (Ah, youth!)
Where were you in my moment of need!?!?
Seriously, though - I just didn't really know where most of the other theaters were, and I had a limitted window of opportunity (got out of work early, daughter in Day Care for a few more hours, etc.). I just couldn't risk going somewhere that I did not know travel time for.
I could have made it to Grand, though!
Well, downtown is a big area... and the nearest theater showing Serenity is not downtown. Kind of strange, really - we tend to get a very wide selection here! (There is an AMC 30 screen theater two blocks from my house, and a Sony 8 screen 4 blocks away, and 2 smaller (4 screen and less) theaters about 8 blocks away...)
Of course, if you go far enough you can find one. But compare this list with this one.
Amazing!
Opening at $10 million at the number two spot doesn't seem all that bad to me.
Especially when you consider that where I live (downtown Chicago, 4 theaters in wlaking distance) I will have to drive 20 miles just to see it (I don't normally even use my car!).
I will hopefully see it soon...
I don't really have strong disagreements with anything you say. My point is just that if you believe in evolution, then we evolved a belief in God for some reason, most likely linked to survival. So going around telling people not to believe in God is not nice - you are telling them to not believe in something that evolution has made them believe in (in their children's best interests).
Please, think of the children! (That's the only thing evolution cares about)
As for good/bad religions, that is non-sequitor to the point I am making. Yes, fight against any abuses - but at least some religions make some people happier (and according to evolution, live longer).
So the 60% of scientist are also stupid? The religious with IQs in the 200s are stupid?
Perhaps everyone except your illustrious self is stupid?
Hm... you seem to have missed my point. If you believe in God, well and good. If you believe in evolution, than you believe that the "belief in God" evolved, and is therefor useful (for reproduction, like anything else evolution selects). So either way you should advocate a belief in God.
green cheese
Yes, and people wonder why we never went back - little known fact: on that last moon mission, Gene Cernan popped his helmet off and finally actually tasted the moon cheese (sort of a greyish cheese). It was awful! After spending billions, they couldn't really admit that to everyone - so they just claimed that "congress cut funding," and let the program die...
Either you believe in God (like most of the world) or you believe that humans evolved - and that therefor believing in God makes your procreation more likely.
Either way, what is the advantage of not believing in God? OK, choose a religion that doesn't cramp your style, perhaps, but either way, belief is provably better.
Why do you want to make people unhappy? (You do know that happiness commonly maps to religion, right?) Why do you want to make them more likely to die? (You do know that religious people (at least certain faiths) live longer, right?)
Are you Darth Vader? Maybe you are a Jedi?