When I started playing System Shock, I was really impressed. The graphics were good, the story was good, the atmosphere was scary and oppressive, but I just started to find it frustrating after a while. For example, the "zombies" not only seemed able to use any weapon they could lay their hands on, they were also crack shots, whereas I could only use certain weapons when I'd acquired the skills to use them and even then seemed to be unable to shoot straight or with any power.
Maybe it gets better if you struggle through the plain annoying bits, but when a game stops being fun I can't be bothered with it much longer.
I guarantee you Universal doesn't understand that the average consumer has no idea what label an artist is on.
I agree entirely. I have hundreds of CDs, and neither know nor care what label any of them are on, and suspect few average consumers (i.e. the vast majority) actually do.
Agnostics are a sub-set of atheists. You are confusing "strong" and "weak" (or positive and negative) atheism, and agnostics are a type of "weak" atheist. So, welcome to the club, fellow atheist.:)
To clarify, positive atheists say "I believe there is no god". Negative atheists say "I do not believe there is a god". The two positions are not identical. Agnostics do not believe there is a god, and agnostics are not theists. In fact, in my experience, strong/positive atheists are fairly uncommon.
We accept that it is impossible to entirely rule out the existence of any of the thousands of gods which people believe in, but also say that the evidence for those gods is entirely unconvincing.
I can't 100% rule out the existence of giant purple monkeys on Saturn, but there's no good reason to think they might exist. Gods are just the same.
There is no evidence supporting ID.
It's not a theory, at least not in the scientific sense of the word. If you take "theory" the way creationists use it when referring to the theory of evolution, i.e. "a wild guess by a sleep-deprived idiot at a drunken party", then yes ID is a theory.
But where is this "evidence" of what you speak?
This is from the Daily Mail, who have a habit of blowing things out of all proportion (IMMIGRANTS ARE OVERRUNNING THE COUNTRY!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!! IT'S TONY BLAIR'S FAULT!!!). Take the story with a pinch of salt.
If all the students were given hammers, they would be able to defend themselves against the lone hammer-wielding maniacs.
Of course, they would need to be trained at responsible Hammering Clubs, and taught to respect their hammers and lock them up safely when not in use.
Unfortunately, this may not be a solution in the case of a psychopath with a screwdriver, so each classroom should have a couple of fully stocked toolboxes at all times.
Let's hope these concerned Christians keep the Bible away from their kids as well.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
"It's just like the red light cameras - which actually increased traffic accidents because of the unforeseen side effect that people would now stop at yellow lights if there was a camera at the intersection."
How did that increase accidents? If it's because people stopped on yellow and those following hit them, it's still not the fault of the cameras. It's the fault of the idiot in the car behind driving so close that he can't stop in time.
If you drive into the back of someone, no matter what caused them to stop, it's *your* fault for not allowing enough space to stop safely.
Just find a company which provides photogrammetry software. I worked for one once (Alias ltd. in the UK). They take a stereoscopic pair of photos of a site (with markup stickers here and there) and the software builds a 3D CAD model of all the pipes, vents, supports, walls etc.
Unfortunately, it seems hard to find two Christians who could agree on what those rules actually are. The rulebook itself is not exactly clear on a number of issues.
Oh, and the "golden rule" predates Christianity by a long, long time.
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When I started playing System Shock, I was really impressed. The graphics were good, the story was good, the atmosphere was scary and oppressive, but I just started to find it frustrating after a while. For example, the "zombies" not only seemed able to use any weapon they could lay their hands on, they were also crack shots, whereas I could only use certain weapons when I'd acquired the skills to use them and even then seemed to be unable to shoot straight or with any power. Maybe it gets better if you struggle through the plain annoying bits, but when a game stops being fun I can't be bothered with it much longer.
Photographers just need to learn to use hex editors, then they can simply tweak their photos at the bit level and get perfect results every time.
I agree entirely. I have hundreds of CDs, and neither know nor care what label any of them are on, and suspect few average consumers (i.e. the vast majority) actually do.
I can only assume you've never met any men.
Since when has that ever stopped anybody?
is for them to enter it for James Randi's million-dollar challenge.
Those guys are very good at designing test protocols to weed out scammers and the deluded.
Peer-review in physics journals by all means, but let a conjuror get his hands on it first.
Oh god yes. "Lose" seems to be most commonly mis-spelled word on the net.
Followed a close second by "rouge" instead of "rogue" in Warcraft, of course.
Extra points for combining the two - "don't duel that rouge, you will loose."
There will be software updates, you know. Wait a couple of months.
Which god?
It's not a safe bet if you risk going to the wrong hell.
Maybe magic fairies did it with Pixie Dust. Fact is, no one will ever really know for sure. Anyway just something to think about.
Agnostics are a sub-set of atheists. :)
You are confusing "strong" and "weak" (or positive and negative) atheism, and agnostics are a type of "weak" atheist.
So, welcome to the club, fellow atheist.
To clarify, positive atheists say "I believe there is no god". Negative atheists say "I do not believe there is a god". The two positions are not identical. Agnostics do not believe there is a god, and agnostics are not theists. In fact, in my experience, strong/positive atheists are fairly uncommon.
We accept that it is impossible to entirely rule out the existence of any of the thousands of gods which people believe in, but also say that the evidence for those gods is entirely unconvincing.
I can't 100% rule out the existence of giant purple monkeys on Saturn, but there's no good reason to think they might exist. Gods are just the same.
There is no evidence supporting ID. It's not a theory, at least not in the scientific sense of the word. If you take "theory" the way creationists use it when referring to the theory of evolution, i.e. "a wild guess by a sleep-deprived idiot at a drunken party", then yes ID is a theory. But where is this "evidence" of what you speak?
It needs the date so it knows when it is out of warranty and can disable itself.
This is from the Daily Mail, who have a habit of blowing things out of all proportion (IMMIGRANTS ARE OVERRUNNING THE COUNTRY!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!! IT'S TONY BLAIR'S FAULT!!!). Take the story with a pinch of salt.
Come on now, I really think that a helicopter in the cinema would be more annoying than the phones it blocks.
The plastic cup clearly says "milk chocolate" on it. I fail to see how they determined that she was drinking alcohol.
If all the students were given hammers, they would be able to defend themselves against the lone hammer-wielding maniacs.
Of course, they would need to be trained at responsible Hammering Clubs, and taught to respect their hammers and lock them up safely when not in use.
Unfortunately, this may not be a solution in the case of a psychopath with a screwdriver, so each classroom should have a couple of fully stocked toolboxes at all times.
"Why isn't anyone doing this?"
Well obviously it's cheaper, easier and more accurate to just use dowsing rods http://www.randi.org/library/dowsing/
I'm sure that the peer-reviewed medical journals would be interested in this knowledge.
Unless, of course, there's no actual evidence beyond warm, fuzzy feelings...
Let's hope these concerned Christians keep the Bible away from their kids as well.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
So you didn't investigate what the expansion offered before you bought it?
"It's just like the red light cameras - which actually increased traffic accidents because of the unforeseen side effect that people would now stop at yellow lights if there was a camera at the intersection."
How did that increase accidents? If it's because people stopped on yellow and those following hit them, it's still not the fault of the cameras. It's the fault of the idiot in the car behind driving so close that he can't stop in time.
If you drive into the back of someone, no matter what caused them to stop, it's *your* fault for not allowing enough space to stop safely.
Just find a company which provides photogrammetry software. I worked for one once (Alias ltd. in the UK). They take a stereoscopic pair of photos of a site (with markup stickers here and there) and the software builds a 3D CAD model of all the pipes, vents, supports, walls etc.
Unfortunately, it seems hard to find two Christians who could agree on what those rules actually are. The rulebook itself is not exactly clear on a number of issues.
Oh, and the "golden rule" predates Christianity by a long, long time.
...can I have all your gold?