That's a pretty inane comment...
Perhaps you meant anime meant for an older audience?
Anime simply = cartoons--animation. Nothing more. The only way it wouldn't be "real anime" is if it were live action.
And as those are probably Disney's two best (non-Pixar) animated films in the last five years, it should be clear to them that there are still plenty of opportunities for cel animation, in the right hands.
Ugh, asswits who make presumptions deserve no fairness. Regardless you are right, but I don't speak for myself anyways. Whenever I watch those guys on TV (like the guy with the bad mustache, what's his name again) they always love to point to Revelations. It's become something of a pop-culture icon. Also, if you're trying to prove something with lists of Bible passages, for god's sake man use the <br/> tag. It's your friend.
Well, to be fair to the "rapture" folk, the book of Revelations is just a thinly veiled political tract anyways, and I'm sure there are some who realize that, and don't actually believe in the biblical rapture. Granted, it's not directly relevant today, but it isn't irrelevant if studied appropriately. But anyone who takes it literally is just a moron.
Exactly. Neocons couldn't care less about this stuff. They just use it cynically to mobilize their "base," people for whom this stuff is the most important thing, but who are ultimately getting screwed because they don't realise that it's the economy, stupid.
And they say that the left doesn't share their "values." Hmph.
I think that the real problem that these people have with Evolution is not actually with the scientific evidence supporting it. That's just incidental BS that they come up with to try to sound scientific. Their problem isn't so much with the idea that Evolution even occurs--as it's been observed time and time again (at least on the micro scale).
I think that the main problem they have is with the whole "man evolved from ape" bit, because it destroys any notion they have about men being divine creatures designed in the image of God. They're not particularly imaginative folks I guess, because to them that seems to be the only reason for life to be worth living, and the only reason that people should even be good to each other. It's the very basis for their moral code, and as such it's quite sad.
Of course, most reasonable Christians don't derive their morals solely from the Bible, and are able to make Evolution work along with their faith just as you described. But these other sad sacks think that without the Adam and Eve story being true we might as well beat each other over the head with rocks and bones and whatnot. Of course, these are the same people who wage holy wars and kill gays, so I'm not so sure how mentally stable they are in general:/
Evolution explains the origin of species, hence the title of the book.
Nor does Evolution have anything to do with the age of the Earth or the formation of the Moon or anything else (though I doubt evolution would really have much noticeable effect in 6,000 years or however old these whackjobs think the Earth is).
Regardless, there's no reason the theory of evolution needs to contradict with their narrowminded biblical worldview, or any other creation myth they choose to believe in.
Evolution != biogenesis and has little to do with it ultimately. They can still believe that genetics and the evolutionary process were all started by some invisible intelligent force. What's wrong with that?
Oh, right, the whole man from ape thing contradicting the belief that humans are divine creatures designed to look God, right? Well, there goes any scientific credibility for "intelligent design"--it's just another way that this dying breed of biblical fundamentalists are grasping for straws as their beliefs crumble under 21st century scrutiny.
Sorry, this is becoming a rant. I haven't had my coffee yet.
I agree that there are corporations doing evil things with patents on crops, but that doesn't mean there's any less potential for them.
Others also complain that the use of such crops supports industrial farming over small, privately owned farming. In the U.S., where we have enough food to have a choice in the matter, I prefer to eat locally grown food.
But in some places there's little choice. I don't see how people can afford to be picky.
Profit-minded? Sure, no doubt that exists in corporate management.
But there are real scientists with philanthropic goals doing the actual work here. You don't think these guys know what they're doing? They're *very* careful now when introducing new strains to the environment, and don't just do so willy-nilly.
These are guys like Norman Borlaug, a Nobel peace prize winner, who've worked tirelessly to successfully introduce new strains of high-yeild, disease-resistant crops to needy people. Do you think *he's* profit driven? The man's more than 90 years old and hasn't even retired.
And regardless of effects on the ecosystem, it ultimately comes down to choosing whether or not to save millions upon millions of human lives.
This is one issue that's always bugged the hell out of me about the wackier spectrum of environmentalists. GM crops have the potential, hell, they're *necessary* for a great number of third world countries to be able to grow enough food to feed their people. And these guys are trying to stop that for the sake of nonsensical political motivations. Then they go about using scare tactics, calling it "frankenfoods" and whatnot, as if there's something horrific about it. Excuse me, but we've been genetically modifying our crops for millenia. We've just gotten more sophisticated about it.
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And that user with mod points happens to be me, and I'm in a particularly bad mood right now, so -1 to you! Except in posting this that will be undone. Ah well.
Opera's a neat little package--does pretty much everything I want it to right out of the box. While it sorely lacks Firefox's extensibility, every time I install Firefox I find myself having to install at least 5 or 6 extensions to get it to work more like Opera (like getting tabs right).
Granted, Opera isn't free. But the fact that I was actually willing to pay $40 for it is a testament to its goodness. I don't think I would pay $40 for Firefox (granted, at $0 it's a bargain).
(Note: This is not a Firefox bash. I use it gladly anywhere that Opera is unavailable.)
While I agree that it's irritating that they're turning around and implementing these "features" in CSS, but I don't see why you think it's easier to disable these things if they're done with HTML.
Any decent web browser allows user style sheets--making it easy to disable blink, or any other annoying style.
It must either a configuration problem, not enough other people on the torrent, or a problem with the tracker or something--not bittorrent's fault.
I downloaded the first 10 episodes of BSG in just a few hours.
As for your second paragraph, I have the same concerns. But I don't get the sci-fi channel so downloading was the only way for me to see it.
While I'm sure that may be partially the case, I don't see how there's anything wrong with it.
While I'm for giving taxes, I wouldn't doubt it for a second that the foundation could spend that kind of money far better than the U.S. gubment.
As for leaving little for his family, Bill Gates himself has said that he doesn't intend to leave a massive inheritance for his kids, as he wants them to make it on their own. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they still got a few million, but not so much that they just get intellectually lazy.
Perhaps some sort of distributed note rating system would be in order--locations with multiple notes posted on it would show the highest-rated notes first, perhaps with priority given also to high-rated posters. Trolls and spammers would be modded down out of visibility, and would also receive negative karma that would limit their future note posting. Sound kind of familiar?
Actually, it's much simpler than that to be skeptical of the "miraculous virgin birth"
It's been long since pointed out, and biblical scholars won't deny it, that the word used in the original Hebrew scriptures is "almah", meaning "young woman", and not "bethulah" which actually means "virgin". But in an early translation to Greek they used "parthenos", meaning "virgin".
I mean, it's great and all that we've gotten pretty good at filtering spam. I use Opera quite a bit, and its spam filters work with 99% accuracy after sufficient training. But there's still a chance something can slip through. I still have to download all the spam, and occasionally go through it, deleting it all, while making sure something legit didn't accidentally get flagged as spam. It's rare, but it happens.
The most annoying thing is just that I get it at all. I'd be more impressed to see something like this running on the mail server, turning back spam. I even wouldn't mind if the rare legitimate message got bounced. The sender would just receive a message from the mail server saying that their mail was marked as spam, and that they should try again, or let me know by some other means. Heck, I wouldn't mind missing the occasional e-mail if I never had to download another spam again. That's what would impress me at this point.
No idea, but perhaps you should report that to them. Are you sure you have the latest version of the GTK+ runtime for windows? Gaim 0.77 needs GTK+ 2.2.4 rev c.
I don't suppose anybody already has a copy of this trailer to seed on bit torrent or somesuch?
Slashdot + 14.3 MB file = me having to wait a possibly infinite amount of time to download.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't? slashdot.jp of course lets you...but that's slashdot.jp. Let's test this:
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That's a pretty inane comment...
Perhaps you meant anime meant for an older audience?
Anime simply = cartoons--animation. Nothing more. The only way it wouldn't be "real anime" is if it were live action.
Ghost in the Shell? Fullmetal Alchemist? These are all Good Things(tm).
Does this mean that gun companies can now be held accountable when third-parties commit crimes with a gun?
And as those are probably Disney's two best (non-Pixar) animated films in the last five years, it should be clear to them that there are still plenty of opportunities for cel animation, in the right hands.
Ugh, asswits who make presumptions deserve no fairness. Regardless you are right, but I don't speak for myself anyways. Whenever I watch those guys on TV (like the guy with the bad mustache, what's his name again) they always love to point to Revelations. It's become something of a pop-culture icon. /> tag. It's your friend.
Also, if you're trying to prove something with lists of Bible passages, for god's sake man use the <br
Well, to be fair to the "rapture" folk, the book of Revelations is just a thinly veiled political tract anyways, and I'm sure there are some who realize that, and don't actually believe in the biblical rapture. Granted, it's not directly relevant today, but it isn't irrelevant if studied appropriately.
But anyone who takes it literally is just a moron.
Exactly. Neocons couldn't care less about this stuff. They just use it cynically to mobilize their "base," people for whom this stuff is the most important thing, but who are ultimately getting screwed because they don't realise that it's the economy, stupid.
And they say that the left doesn't share their "values." Hmph.
I think that the real problem that these people have with Evolution is not actually with the scientific evidence supporting it. That's just incidental BS that they come up with to try to sound scientific. Their problem isn't so much with the idea that Evolution even occurs--as it's been observed time and time again (at least on the micro scale).
:/
I think that the main problem they have is with the whole "man evolved from ape" bit, because it destroys any notion they have about men being divine creatures designed in the image of God. They're not particularly imaginative folks I guess, because to them that seems to be the only reason for life to be worth living, and the only reason that people should even be good to each other. It's the very basis for their moral code, and as such it's quite sad.
Of course, most reasonable Christians don't derive their morals solely from the Bible, and are able to make Evolution work along with their faith just as you described. But these other sad sacks think that without the Adam and Eve story being true we might as well beat each other over the head with rocks and bones and whatnot. Of course, these are the same people who wage holy wars and kill gays, so I'm not so sure how mentally stable they are in general
Sorry, this is becoming a rant. I'll stop now.
Evolution explains the origin of species, hence the title of the book. Nor does Evolution have anything to do with the age of the Earth or the formation of the Moon or anything else (though I doubt evolution would really have much noticeable effect in 6,000 years or however old these whackjobs think the Earth is). Regardless, there's no reason the theory of evolution needs to contradict with their narrowminded biblical worldview, or any other creation myth they choose to believe in. Evolution != biogenesis and has little to do with it ultimately. They can still believe that genetics and the evolutionary process were all started by some invisible intelligent force. What's wrong with that? Oh, right, the whole man from ape thing contradicting the belief that humans are divine creatures designed to look God, right? Well, there goes any scientific credibility for "intelligent design"--it's just another way that this dying breed of biblical fundamentalists are grasping for straws as their beliefs crumble under 21st century scrutiny. Sorry, this is becoming a rant. I haven't had my coffee yet.
Exactly, but don't hate the science, hate the companies that are abusing it.
I agree that there are corporations doing evil things with patents on crops, but that doesn't mean there's any less potential for them. Others also complain that the use of such crops supports industrial farming over small, privately owned farming. In the U.S., where we have enough food to have a choice in the matter, I prefer to eat locally grown food. But in some places there's little choice. I don't see how people can afford to be picky.
Profit-minded? Sure, no doubt that exists in corporate management. But there are real scientists with philanthropic goals doing the actual work here. You don't think these guys know what they're doing? They're *very* careful now when introducing new strains to the environment, and don't just do so willy-nilly. These are guys like Norman Borlaug, a Nobel peace prize winner, who've worked tirelessly to successfully introduce new strains of high-yeild, disease-resistant crops to needy people. Do you think *he's* profit driven? The man's more than 90 years old and hasn't even retired. And regardless of effects on the ecosystem, it ultimately comes down to choosing whether or not to save millions upon millions of human lives.
This is one issue that's always bugged the hell out of me about the wackier spectrum of environmentalists.
GM crops have the potential, hell, they're *necessary* for a great number of third world countries to be able to grow enough food to feed their people. And these guys are trying to stop that for the sake of nonsensical political motivations.
Then they go about using scare tactics, calling it "frankenfoods" and whatnot, as if there's something horrific about it. Excuse me, but we've been genetically modifying our crops for millenia. We've just gotten more sophisticated about it.
And that user with mod points happens to be me, and I'm in a particularly bad mood right now, so -1 to you! Except in posting this that will be undone. Ah well. Opera's a neat little package--does pretty much everything I want it to right out of the box. While it sorely lacks Firefox's extensibility, every time I install Firefox I find myself having to install at least 5 or 6 extensions to get it to work more like Opera (like getting tabs right). Granted, Opera isn't free. But the fact that I was actually willing to pay $40 for it is a testament to its goodness. I don't think I would pay $40 for Firefox (granted, at $0 it's a bargain). (Note: This is not a Firefox bash. I use it gladly anywhere that Opera is unavailable.)
While I agree that it's irritating that they're turning around and implementing these "features" in CSS, but I don't see why you think it's easier to disable these things if they're done with HTML. Any decent web browser allows user style sheets--making it easy to disable blink, or any other annoying style.
It must either a configuration problem, not enough other people on the torrent, or a problem with the tracker or something--not bittorrent's fault. I downloaded the first 10 episodes of BSG in just a few hours. As for your second paragraph, I have the same concerns. But I don't get the sci-fi channel so downloading was the only way for me to see it.
While I'm sure that may be partially the case, I don't see how there's anything wrong with it.
While I'm for giving taxes, I wouldn't doubt it for a second that the foundation could spend that kind of money far better than the U.S. gubment.
As for leaving little for his family, Bill Gates himself has said that he doesn't intend to leave a massive inheritance for his kids, as he wants them to make it on their own. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they still got a few million, but not so much that they just get intellectually lazy.
Perhaps some sort of distributed note rating system would be in order--locations with multiple notes posted on it would show the highest-rated notes first, perhaps with priority given also to high-rated posters. Trolls and spammers would be modded down out of visibility, and would also receive negative karma that would limit their future note posting. Sound kind of familiar?
Actually, it's much simpler than that to be skeptical of the "miraculous virgin birth" It's been long since pointed out, and biblical scholars won't deny it, that the word used in the original Hebrew scriptures is "almah", meaning "young woman", and not "bethulah" which actually means "virgin". But in an early translation to Greek they used "parthenos", meaning "virgin".
That does sound really cool. Sounds like just the sort of solution I'd like to see =D
I mean, it's great and all that we've gotten pretty good at filtering spam. I use Opera quite a bit, and its spam filters work with 99% accuracy after sufficient training. But there's still a chance something can slip through. I still have to download all the spam, and occasionally go through it, deleting it all, while making sure something legit didn't accidentally get flagged as spam. It's rare, but it happens. The most annoying thing is just that I get it at all. I'd be more impressed to see something like this running on the mail server, turning back spam. I even wouldn't mind if the rare legitimate message got bounced. The sender would just receive a message from the mail server saying that their mail was marked as spam, and that they should try again, or let me know by some other means. Heck, I wouldn't mind missing the occasional e-mail if I never had to download another spam again. That's what would impress me at this point.
Gah! I'm a bit drnk*Q. Sorry.
No idea, but perhaps you should report that to them.
Are you sure you have the latest version of the GTK+ runtime for windows? Gaim 0.77 needs GTK+ 2.2.4 rev c.
I don't suppose anybody already has a copy of this trailer to seed on bit torrent or somesuch? Slashdot + 14.3 MB file = me having to wait a possibly infinite amount of time to download.