Sure, being number one goes back to primeval days. However, various research has shown that while the alpha male chimpanzees slug it out, the next guy down is getting more sex.....
It seems that if this were true then the alpha-male behavior would have been selected out a long time ago.
Does it look a little different now? I think we've all learned to never take the statements of a company under investigation at face value -- they've shareholders and executives to protect, after all.
Ok, how about taking the company statement with a teensy bit of logic:
Either Sony fixed prices for all companies all by themselves, or the investigation does comprise a signifcant portion of the manufacturing base.
My monkey brain selects number two. This knee-jerk Sony-bashing stuff is getting kind of weird.
I can understand Walmart not giving a crap about obesity (after all, the disease makes the company billions) but surely everyone else must be concerned that their obese friend/colleague/themselves/relative is going to die decades before they're meant to.
I am supposed to believe that the women voters in this country are to blame for our heavy handed, civil rights trampling, fear mongering, war-hawking government? That all the men voted to live dangerously and with uncertainty, and the women were all like, "No, we need a large, over powered, fascist government to protect us".
Not that I think we should roll back the vote for women or anything... but all the biggest supporters of Church (capital C there) that I know are women.
I wouldn't mind if the human race took itself out, but its unfortunate its going to take out the rest of the planet thanks to our rampant hubris and avarice.
I think imagining we can take out the entire planet is a bit of hubris in itself. It might take the earth a long time to recover from a global nuke-fest, but it's been here a long time, and through quite a bit already.
Yeah, black hole generators aside... we're getting there, but we're still pretty far away.
If you cannot be honest with your wife, then change that or get a divorce.
Spoken like someone with less than five years of marriage under their belt.
I can be perfectly honest with my wife. I'm just not interested in discussing how those pants make her butt look, or more specifically, discussing the incorrectness of my opinion of how those pants make her butt look.
Which is why the answer is always: "Just fine, sweetie. Just fine."
I think for me it is a matter of degrees. I don't think you can prove ID in general wrong any more than you can prove evolution wrong. Believe me, I WISH we could, but ranked in order of plausability (to me):
Evolution on this planet
Evolution on a different planet and carried here by chance
Evolution on a different planet and carried here intentionally
Creation by an alien intelligence
Creation by an all powerful super-being
sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure
In order to be intellectually honest I must at least allow that all of the above are possible and respect the views of those that do. Otherwise I risk being a flat-earther or phlogiston-pusher. Now, how I choose to live my life is entirely different.
Lastly, we've gotten completely off the point, and it's my fault for bringing up ID. Sorry about that, my bad. I suppose at this point I should admit that it's all my thinly veiled plot pushing Arkleseizure-ianism.
Do you really think anyone believes this? Why do all the people of slashdot that put up some religious point of view start out by lying about being religious?
You see, this is where you have stepped into your ideology -- which is to even QUESTION being anti-ID, one must come from a religious point of view. Do you see how that point of view traps you? That's what I'm trying to get at here. That is the ideology that disappoints me.
I didn't want to get embroiled in this but I say this to hopefully help you see where you're coming from. I haven't stepped in a church except as a courtesy (weddings/funerals) for decades. When I do go the friends who know me still joke about me struck down.
Public smoking bans have more to do with keeping cancer-causing poisons out of your body than putting morals in.
So you also support banning beach campfires and park barbecues?
Like I said, it's just morals. My morals say I have to put up with other people's carcinogens from time to time. I don't expect the government to keep me 100% safe. Not from the turrurists, not from smokers, not even from ManBearPig.
Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology.
Unless you can prove intelligent design incorrect then "Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology." is an anti-scientific ideology.
To get the God thing out of the equation, let's say I wanted to study whether we were put here by aliens. By your definition studying such a possibility would be anti-scientific and not worthy of further research.
Like I said, I don't believe in ID, but unfortunately keeping an open mind can be somewhat uncomfortable at times.
It said the government should not support science education programs that 'include concepts that are derived from ideology,' an apparent reference to creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design."
Since intelligent design is an ideology, then opposition to ID is also an ideology and the government should take care to avoid that as well? Don't they see the trap this falls into?
All they are essentially saying "We want to make sure the government doesn't fund ideologies.... except ours 'cuz ours is right!"
I disagree with ID, but there has got to be a better way.
At the end of the day, the people voting are not scientifically founded. If they were, I wouldn't have to put up with commercials for The War at Home on TV
And at the end of the day, if you were more technically founded you wouldn't have to put up with commercials at all...;)
Conservative fiscal policy -- generally speaking -- has some economic basis, while social-program expansion is generally based on sob stories. I don't think the idea that one party is more scientific in their approach is *at *all tenable.
Exactly. I don't vote for either party at it irks me when I hear Dems say "Keep your morals off my body!" when referring to abortion or drugs and then demand universal healthcare or public smoking bans because it's the moral/humane thing for the government to do.
Sorry, you have to choose whether it's ok to legislate morality. I'd prefer to avoid it myself, but unfortunately I guess that's just another set of morals, right?
They will be forbidden by the law to pass the cost on to consumers, so this will NOT raise gas prices.
And for this reason I believe the Prop 87 tax is too LOW. I propose an eleventy-billion dollar tax on the oil companies which can be used for free balloons for EVERYONE!
You wouldn't have *calmly* done anything. FYI, Sean Connery is that cool--you are not. I just love it when some spastic slashdork pretends to himself that he's a smooth operator. Here's what actually would happen: you would ejaculate in your pants because it's the first time a decent-looking woman ever touched you. After the show was over, you would go back to your mom's basement where you live, lovingly place your pocket protector on the nightstand next to your filthy bed and have a wank.
Godamn man, lighten up. It was a joke. Here, replace "I would have" with "You should have". There, feel better? No? Have a valium, that's what the nice Doctor prescribed them for.
Now, I have to go, Mom says my Mac and Cheese is ready and I'm late for a raid on WOW.
At this point the poor unsuspecting geek was set upon by one of the very well endowed skimpily clad models hired to parade around and lure in the punters, who promptly slapped him across the face and berated the poor confused fellow (who had that mix of deer in the headlights and WHA!! look on his face) for being a "misogynist pig" etc etc.
I would have calmly explained to her that the device she was standing in front of was indeed called a rack, it was a very nice one, and many of the people seeing it would enjoy having one just like it at home. And then, just as calmly, I would have said as I turned to walk away "And by the way, just so you know, you've got a GREAT set of tits."
I still use IE as my default browser, simply because it loads *fast*. I don't have a brand new system, but when I click the little blue E, I have a browser window inside 2-3 seconds. When I click the little orange fox it often takes up to 8-10 seconds before the window has opened and loaded. I use 'about:blank' for the homepage in both browsers.
Interesting, I just did a test. Firefox: 2-3 seconds, IE: 5 seconds. Of course, I was just using and closed Firefox and restarted it again so that probably had an effect.
Consider your productivity beyond just the startup though... for example, Adblock with automated updater removes almost all advertisement. When I use IE I think I'm going to go crazy with everything popping up. Also I almost never CLOSE firefox because with tabbed browing I just hit CTRL-T and I've got a fresh page in less than a second. There's far more to it than that, but I feel like I'm going back in time ten years when I'm stuck with IE.
But, hey, it's whatever makes you happy I guess. I suppose if everyone used Firefox+Adblock then more advertisers would figure out workarounds.. so... maybe I should just shutup now.
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Sure, being number one goes back to primeval days. However, various research has shown that while the alpha male chimpanzees slug it out, the next guy down is getting more sex.....
It seems that if this were true then the alpha-male behavior would have been selected out a long time ago.
Does it look a little different now? I think we've all learned to never take the statements of a company under investigation at face value -- they've shareholders and executives to protect, after all.
Ok, how about taking the company statement with a teensy bit of logic:
Either Sony fixed prices for all companies all by themselves, or the investigation does comprise a signifcant portion of the manufacturing base.
My monkey brain selects number two. This knee-jerk Sony-bashing stuff is getting kind of weird.
I can understand Walmart not giving a crap about obesity (after all, the disease makes the company billions) but surely everyone else must be concerned that their obese friend/colleague/themselves/relative is going to die decades before they're meant to.
Walmart has friends/colleagues/relatives?
I am supposed to believe that the women voters in this country are to blame for our heavy handed, civil rights trampling, fear mongering, war-hawking government? That all the men voted to live dangerously and with uncertainty, and the women were all like, "No, we need a large, over powered, fascist government to protect us".
Not that I think we should roll back the vote for women or anything... but all the biggest supporters of Church (capital C there) that I know are women.
All you'd do is sit around, twitch, and sweat all day.
Cool! I do that already!
Does tying = unbeatable?
Thinks for 2.3 microsends... Yes, yes it does.
I wouldn't mind if the human race took itself out, but its unfortunate its going to take out the rest of the planet thanks to our rampant hubris and avarice.
I think imagining we can take out the entire planet is a bit of hubris in itself. It might take the earth a long time to recover from a global nuke-fest, but it's been here a long time, and through quite a bit already.
Yeah, black hole generators aside... we're getting there, but we're still pretty far away.
... in fact its only social contact is through wierd blokes in brightly coloured bird costumes who sing a lot..
Ahah, there's your answer: They're fine -- we're just communicating incorrectly.
Most of us are pretty much resigned to the inevitable visit from a three-letter agency.
OMG! You got a visit! Everybody PANIC!
Really, the one I'm most afraid of is the IRS and they've been pushing people around for nearly a century now... this didn't start yesterday.
If you cannot be honest with your wife, then change that or get a divorce.
Spoken like someone with less than five years of marriage under their belt.
I can be perfectly honest with my wife. I'm just not interested in discussing how those pants make her butt look, or more specifically, discussing the incorrectness of my opinion of how those pants make her butt look.
Which is why the answer is always: "Just fine, sweetie. Just fine."
but what would be really useful^H^H^H^H^H^H heavy and short on battery life
There, fixed that for you.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
I think for me it is a matter of degrees. I don't think you can prove ID in general wrong any more than you can prove evolution wrong. Believe me, I WISH we could, but ranked in order of plausability (to me):
Evolution on this planet
Evolution on a different planet and carried here by chance
Evolution on a different planet and carried here intentionally
Creation by an alien intelligence
Creation by an all powerful super-being
sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure
In order to be intellectually honest I must at least allow that all of the above are possible and respect the views of those that do. Otherwise I risk being a flat-earther or phlogiston-pusher. Now, how I choose to live my life is entirely different.
Lastly, we've gotten completely off the point, and it's my fault for bringing up ID. Sorry about that, my bad. I suppose at this point I should admit that it's all my thinly veiled plot pushing Arkleseizure-ianism.
"I disagree with ID,"
Do you really think anyone believes this? Why do all the people of slashdot that put up some religious point of view start out by lying about being religious?
You see, this is where you have stepped into your ideology -- which is to even QUESTION being anti-ID, one must come from a religious point of view. Do you see how that point of view traps you? That's what I'm trying to get at here. That is the ideology that disappoints me.
I didn't want to get embroiled in this but I say this to hopefully help you see where you're coming from. I haven't stepped in a church except as a courtesy (weddings/funerals) for decades. When I do go the friends who know me still joke about me struck down.
Public smoking bans have more to do with keeping cancer-causing poisons out of your body than putting morals in.
So you also support banning beach campfires and park barbecues?
Like I said, it's just morals. My morals say I have to put up with other people's carcinogens from time to time. I don't expect the government to keep me 100% safe. Not from the turrurists, not from smokers, not even from ManBearPig.
Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology.
Unless you can prove intelligent design incorrect then "Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology." is an anti-scientific ideology.
To get the God thing out of the equation, let's say I wanted to study whether we were put here by aliens. By your definition studying such a possibility would be anti-scientific and not worthy of further research.
Like I said, I don't believe in ID, but unfortunately keeping an open mind can be somewhat uncomfortable at times.
It said the government should not support science education programs that 'include concepts that are derived from ideology,' an apparent reference to creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design."
Since intelligent design is an ideology, then opposition to ID is also an ideology and the government should take care to avoid that as well? Don't they see the trap this falls into?
All they are essentially saying "We want to make sure the government doesn't fund ideologies.... except ours 'cuz ours is right!"
I disagree with ID, but there has got to be a better way.
At the end of the day, the people voting are not scientifically founded. If they were, I wouldn't have to put up with commercials for The War at Home on TV
;)
And at the end of the day, if you were more technically founded you wouldn't have to put up with commercials at all...
Conservative fiscal policy -- generally speaking -- has some economic basis, while social-program expansion is generally based on sob stories. I don't think the idea that one party is more scientific in their approach is *at *all tenable.
Exactly. I don't vote for either party at it irks me when I hear Dems say "Keep your morals off my body!" when referring to abortion or drugs and then demand universal healthcare or public smoking bans because it's the moral/humane thing for the government to do.
Sorry, you have to choose whether it's ok to legislate morality. I'd prefer to avoid it myself, but unfortunately I guess that's just another set of morals, right?
They will be forbidden by the law to pass the cost on to consumers, so this will NOT raise gas prices.
And for this reason I believe the Prop 87 tax is too LOW. I propose an eleventy-billion dollar tax on the oil companies which can be used for free balloons for EVERYONE!
Expect to see exploding laptops in movies long after we've solved that problem.
I knew there had to be another reason they wouldn't let me take my laptop into the theater.
Answer: 4 jets and 1 helicopter [aerospaceweb.org].
I know! My locks at home have prevented ZERO thefts by last count so I'm having them all removed! What a waste!
Also, I'm not fat, which makes all my exercise and healthy eating REALLY pointless. I'm wising up and switching to TV and twinkies!
You wouldn't have *calmly* done anything. FYI, Sean Connery is that cool--you are not. I just love it when some spastic slashdork pretends to himself that he's a smooth operator. Here's what actually would happen: you would ejaculate in your pants because it's the first time a decent-looking woman ever touched you. After the show was over, you would go back to your mom's basement where you live, lovingly place your pocket protector on the nightstand next to your filthy bed and have a wank.
Godamn man, lighten up. It was a joke. Here, replace "I would have" with "You should have". There, feel better? No? Have a valium, that's what the nice Doctor prescribed them for.
Now, I have to go, Mom says my Mac and Cheese is ready and I'm late for a raid on WOW.
At this point the poor unsuspecting geek was set upon by one of the very well endowed skimpily clad models hired to parade around and lure in the punters, who promptly slapped him across the face and berated the poor confused fellow (who had that mix of deer in the headlights and WHA!! look on his face) for being a "misogynist pig" etc etc.
I would have calmly explained to her that the device she was standing in front of was indeed called a rack, it was a very nice one, and many of the people seeing it would enjoy having one just like it at home. And then, just as calmly, I would have said as I turned to walk away "And by the way, just so you know, you've got a GREAT set of tits."
and purported experts who cry wolf regarding the edge cases get ignored by a public which sees solutions which work perfectly for 2.5% of the price.
They also ignore experts who imply that 5 is 2.5% of 2000.
Sorry, had to be said. Oh wait, no it didn't. Crap.
I still use IE as my default browser, simply because it loads *fast*. I don't have a brand new system, but when I click the little blue E, I have a browser window inside 2-3 seconds. When I click the little orange fox it often takes up to 8-10 seconds before the window has opened and loaded. I use 'about:blank' for the homepage in both browsers.
Interesting, I just did a test. Firefox: 2-3 seconds, IE: 5 seconds. Of course, I was just using and closed Firefox and restarted it again so that probably had an effect.
Consider your productivity beyond just the startup though... for example, Adblock with automated updater removes almost all advertisement. When I use IE I think I'm going to go crazy with everything popping up. Also I almost never CLOSE firefox because with tabbed browing I just hit CTRL-T and I've got a fresh page in less than a second. There's far more to it than that, but I feel like I'm going back in time ten years when I'm stuck with IE.
But, hey, it's whatever makes you happy I guess. I suppose if everyone used Firefox+Adblock then more advertisers would figure out workarounds.. so... maybe I should just shutup now.