It's like patients are treated as long as their hearts are beating, even though everything else has shut down.
And in the real world a lot of liberals say that just because everything but the heart is shutdown it would be okay to pull the plug and just get it over with. It's that whole quality of life (but still LIFE) issue. Yes this is offtopic.
This is why I love science,new and exciting discoveries every day and answers to so many interesting unanswered questions. A very welcome change to the religious people's "God did it! now go pray".
You are cynical.
I am sure that given enough time, scientists can plug holes in the theory of evolution and answer questions that critics throw at it like. Remember, a theory can always be changed and disproved by evidence unlike intelligent design which can't be disproved(and no one seems to have proved it either).
A lot of people, scientists and non-scientists, took the evidence that the universe actually was created from something at a point in time long ago (Hubble detecting the expanding universe) as evidence that the universe was created. The point being that sometimes the evidence that evolutionists find that is seemingly in their favor actually seems to backfire. Also, undisprovable ideas may actually mean they are the right ones and they are just so good you would even have trouble making up evidence to the contrary. Plus others may have too much pride and prejudice to admit to something that can't be disproved.
And before someone starts an intelligent design rant, please remember, unprovable assumptions like 'there's a naturally occuring ipod on the dark side of the moon, since you can't disprove it, it exists' have no place in science at all. Also remember, science is self criticizing and self correcting, read up on the criticism on string theory if you have any doubts.
I've never heard of the naturally occuring ipod theory but everything in our solar system exists for a reason and wasn't just put there by accident. The universe's complexity exists *for* us; it is incorrect to assume that we exist *because* of it.
A better question to ask is to consider that evolution is supposed to be based on the idea of the best specimen surviving from among the other animals but we have millions of species on this planet and none on other planets (complain all you want about the "fact" we just haven't found them but you can't find them if they aren't there to begin with) so why have all the extraneous organisms if evolution is really at work in only producing the best of every breed? To say the least it sounds like the non-best of every breed just makes it harder for the best to survive by eating the food that the stronger animals would need. Having extraneous species doesn't really help the evolution theory since the other species just proves that, at the least, evolution isn't efficient and doesn't actually allow survival of the fittest but survival of a lot of other things too.
Regarding how caterpillars/butterflies are related, evolution doesn't really provide any good way of explaining how some species need specific organic aspects in order to survive. Not having just one thing (humans need everything we currently have except our appendix; not having one of the our organs provides a relatively quick death) can kill off the species as it is just beginning. Evolution moves too slowly to provide all the requirements needed for various species to survive. In order for a human to survive we need all of our organs at once to be available and functioning. For a butterfly to exist a caterpillar must have existed beforehand. A caterpillar wouldn't have existed and then one day decided to build a cocoon and then later on emerged as a butterfly. That is too quick for evolution to have been at work. Had the caterpillar not had the genetic ability to stay in the cocoon without continuous nutrition to stay alive the caterpillar species would have killed itself off. For the genetic ability to have been there already due to evolution is just too risky of a situation for all other species who have the same requirement for the correct order of bodily functions to emerge(and in some cases order is not even enough as in the case of humans I mentioned earlier: everything has to be there at once). Something else is there that scientists don't want to admit or just can't find because evolution isn't providing it.
It might be entertainment for you (and I bet even if you consider it entertainment you probably don't even read it for such b/c otherwise it could be said you *gasp* read the Bible) but for countless (millions) of people in the US alone (majority of the US) the Bible is hardly entertainment but a tool/guide they can use to help them live their lives. Just because you do not have a similar tool does not make the Bible any less important. If anything, because of so many people like you, it makes the Bible more important due to the direction the US is going because of any lack of direction that the Bible used to provide to society until the courts removed it.
Why is it you totally ignored the original issue at hand which is to compare the violence in the Bible to the violence in GTA? The Bible isn't used for entertainment purposes whereas GTA is. *That's* the difference. I'm still wondering why you went off onto the tangent of talking about magic.
Europe doesn't sensationalize sex and exploit females to the extent the US does. I'll use this post to tell the other guys above you in the thread that the reason nudity isn't looked upon in a good light in games/movies is due to how the US views and the media sensationalize it. If we didn't turn it into a situation where it is frowned upon if you don't have sex as soon as you get into junior high school and to yell and chant when women show their breasts then having nudity in the game wouldn't the big deal that it is. Get your facts straight and look at WHY nudity is frowned upon, not just the fact that violence is not paid the same amount of attention as nudity. Once you realize why it's frowned upon you will realize the bigger picture: sex is sensationalized more than violence and in fact kids are bombarded by sex starting in grade school and it never ceases for them.
The Bible did NOT have violence for the entertainment of the reader, unlike GTA where it is also sold for a profit. Don't be stupid with your irrational comments. Don't hold the Bible to a double standard and say it shouldn't be depicting the track of history through the Middle East and then say that it is a history book too(you or people like you are the type to do this I'm sure). History books depict what happened in history, no matter how gory it is because it happened whether you like it or not.
Christ, step outside and go for a walk, see a local band, read a book, play with your dog, have sex with your wife. This is your life, man, and its ending 1 minute at a time.
Christ didn't have a wife and why would he care about this topic anyway? Not to mention there isn't any of that stuff where he is right now.
Veritas charges you extra depending how many CPUs your system has. There can be possibly a $5k difference in pricing depending on how many CPUs you have. I consider it to be just money in their pocket because the software doesn't take advantage of the CPUs so it didn't cost them extra to develop it.
when they take it from our cold dead hands. What could possibly make the US give up what is theirs? Does the UN want to invade and steal the root name servers from their homes or hijack DNS?
AD from what I understand is accessible through LDAP.
It *is* accessible because AD supports both v2 and v3 of LDAP. It also supports v5 of Kerberos. I've already tested the LDAP compatiblity by using JNDI from Sun's JDK. We will be utilizing this fact at work for single sign on, in conjunction with kerberizing an in-house application that was developed a while back. We haven't tested the Kerberos compatiblity yet but I don't have any doubt that it will work as long as MS isn't lying when they say it's compatible with v5 of Kerberos and they didn't lie about the compatiblity of LDAP from what I already know. Remember AD is built on LDAP (replication, schema, directory structure, object entries, etc.) You could do everything you did with OpenLDAP with AD by modifying the schema in the same way. The only issue with AD is that any schema additions can't be deleted, only disabled, unlike other Directory servers which allow deletions.
I've taken up second hand smoking to get my smoke breaks in. I consider it a disadvantage to not smoke but then not get any breaks. Maybe I should lobby for a masturbation break.
Science changes a little, maybe you'd need to update the information every 10 years (barring creationist lies).
Since you couldn't say your sentence without introducing a sly comment I'll follow suit. Science books need updated every couple years so that liberals can update their evolutionary propaganda. You know damn well that science book publishers won't ever put anything in there that might belong due to any Creationists so what else would be left?; Liberalistic propaganda that doesn't present any evidence but casually mentions evolution to gradually induce students to believe it must be real since every liberal treats it as such instead of a theory with alternative theories.
Considering the school system and liberals consider it only a history book there shouldn't be any reason why it couldn't be used. The same people use the "history book" copout for books on teaching Islam so calling the Bible anything else would be a double standard, and we never have double standards do we?
The Slashdot search engine seems capable enough as it is to return a thousand results that have nothing to do with what you searched on. We need to do whatever we can to mitigate the occurrence of inaccurate results.
I personally find it uplifting to see a book getting this kind of treatement; I had long since gave up and figured that most people in the US were just illiterate.
Parents can only control what their kids watch when the kids are home. As kids grow older they are more likely to go to a friends house or whereever and end up watching tv or a movie w/o their parents knowing about it. I'm not saying parents should should show no responsibility but on the contrary no responsibility is exactly what the media producers want and responsibility should be practiced on both sides. Obviously the media producers think that what they show on tv with sex and crude language is what the general population wants and that isn't the case but I sure don't see them stopping it, and in fact they are adding more and more of that content to their lineup. I find myself watching a lot of NickAtNite shows since I don't like having sexual connotations in every single new TV show that is on the air.
Sounds like the U.S. where we have a TV ratings system that is meant to offload any accountability from the media producers and put it onto the parents so as long as networks utilize the tv rating symbols, having advertising campaigns like "control your tv", and warnings about "viewer discretion advised" the media producers are able to put on tv whatever the hell they please because they warned the public about what was going to be seen. Lawmakers are making it okay for the producers to put the shit on tv and compensating by having a rating system in place instead of actually going after the people who make the crap.
So where is Microsoft to blame in all of that? Or the administrators who administered all of those systems? Nothing would have been shutdown had the administrators done their job as well as Microsoft had done theirs.
There is so many other ways to get broadband to even the most remote people that over the powerlines doesn't even need to be. Got a phone line? You should be able to get broadband.
Access to a phone line does not guarantee broadband access. If the house is too far from the CO with the way the phone lines are laid then DSL is out of the question. Most likely cable would be out too if it's really remote. The only option is satellite which isn't convenient or cheap and most likely you would still have to use your phone line as your upload line which would be slow probably in remote areas (33.6kbps if you are lucky).
why more "neanderthals" didn't "evolve" into more than just the human species. If evolution is real then there shouldn't have just been one current master species (humans) but multiple master species. Not to mention why there isn't more of these "neanderthal" remains that have been found if they were supposedly the beginnings of our species. At least with this test we'll finally have proof that their DNA is exactly like that of the human species and thus no evolution ever took place.
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It's like patients are treated as long as their hearts are beating, even though everything else has shut down.
And in the real world a lot of liberals say that just because everything but the heart is shutdown it would be okay to pull the plug and just get it over with. It's that whole quality of life (but still LIFE) issue. Yes this is offtopic.
making botnets from Comcast customers and firing AKA-47's at one another highly amusing.
What's their real name anyway? I've always wondered about that.
This is why I love science,new and exciting discoveries every day and answers to so many interesting unanswered questions. A very welcome change to the religious people's "God did it! now go pray".
You are cynical.
I am sure that given enough time, scientists can plug holes in the theory of evolution and answer questions that critics throw at it like. Remember, a theory can always be changed and disproved by evidence unlike intelligent design which can't be disproved(and no one seems to have proved it either).
A lot of people, scientists and non-scientists, took the evidence that the universe actually was created from something at a point in time long ago (Hubble detecting the expanding universe) as evidence that the universe was created. The point being that sometimes the evidence that evolutionists find that is seemingly in their favor actually seems to backfire. Also, undisprovable ideas may actually mean they are the right ones and they are just so good you would even have trouble making up evidence to the contrary. Plus others may have too much pride and prejudice to admit to something that can't be disproved.
And before someone starts an intelligent design rant, please remember, unprovable assumptions like 'there's a naturally occuring ipod on the dark side of the moon, since you can't disprove it, it exists' have no place in science at all. Also remember, science is self criticizing and self correcting, read up on the criticism on string theory if you have any doubts.
I've never heard of the naturally occuring ipod theory but everything in our solar system exists for a reason and wasn't just put there by accident. The universe's complexity exists *for* us; it is incorrect to assume that we exist *because* of it.
A better question to ask is to consider that evolution is supposed to be based on the idea of the best specimen surviving from among the other animals but we have millions of species on this planet and none on other planets (complain all you want about the "fact" we just haven't found them but you can't find them if they aren't there to begin with) so why have all the extraneous organisms if evolution is really at work in only producing the best of every breed? To say the least it sounds like the non-best of every breed just makes it harder for the best to survive by eating the food that the stronger animals would need. Having extraneous species doesn't really help the evolution theory since the other species just proves that, at the least, evolution isn't efficient and doesn't actually allow survival of the fittest but survival of a lot of other things too.
Regarding how caterpillars/butterflies are related, evolution doesn't really provide any good way of explaining how some species need specific organic aspects in order to survive. Not having just one thing (humans need everything we currently have except our appendix; not having one of the our organs provides a relatively quick death) can kill off the species as it is just beginning. Evolution moves too slowly to provide all the requirements needed for various species to survive. In order for a human to survive we need all of our organs at once to be available and functioning. For a butterfly to exist a caterpillar must have existed beforehand. A caterpillar wouldn't have existed and then one day decided to build a cocoon and then later on emerged as a butterfly. That is too quick for evolution to have been at work. Had the caterpillar not had the genetic ability to stay in the cocoon without continuous nutrition to stay alive the caterpillar species would have killed itself off. For the genetic ability to have been there already due to evolution is just too risky of a situation for all other species who have the same requirement for the correct order of bodily functions to emerge(and in some cases order is not even enough as in the case of humans I mentioned earlier: everything has to be there at once). Something else is there that scientists don't want to admit or just can't find because evolution isn't providing it.
If you know so much you must have a connection to Al Jazeera. If that is the case then what is your connection so we can verify your "evidence"?
It might be entertainment for you (and I bet even if you consider it entertainment you probably don't even read it for such b/c otherwise it could be said you *gasp* read the Bible) but for countless (millions) of people in the US alone (majority of the US) the Bible is hardly entertainment but a tool/guide they can use to help them live their lives. Just because you do not have a similar tool does not make the Bible any less important. If anything, because of so many people like you, it makes the Bible more important due to the direction the US is going because of any lack of direction that the Bible used to provide to society until the courts removed it.
Why is it you totally ignored the original issue at hand which is to compare the violence in the Bible to the violence in GTA? The Bible isn't used for entertainment purposes whereas GTA is. *That's* the difference. I'm still wondering why you went off onto the tangent of talking about magic.
Europe doesn't sensationalize sex and exploit females to the extent the US does. I'll use this post to tell the other guys above you in the thread that the reason nudity isn't looked upon in a good light in games/movies is due to how the US views and the media sensationalize it. If we didn't turn it into a situation where it is frowned upon if you don't have sex as soon as you get into junior high school and to yell and chant when women show their breasts then having nudity in the game wouldn't the big deal that it is. Get your facts straight and look at WHY nudity is frowned upon, not just the fact that violence is not paid the same amount of attention as nudity. Once you realize why it's frowned upon you will realize the bigger picture: sex is sensationalized more than violence and in fact kids are bombarded by sex starting in grade school and it never ceases for them.
The Bible did NOT have violence for the entertainment of the reader, unlike GTA where it is also sold for a profit. Don't be stupid with your irrational comments. Don't hold the Bible to a double standard and say it shouldn't be depicting the track of history through the Middle East and then say that it is a history book too(you or people like you are the type to do this I'm sure). History books depict what happened in history, no matter how gory it is because it happened whether you like it or not.
Christ, step outside and go for a walk, see a local band, read a book, play with your dog, have sex with your wife. This is your life, man, and its ending 1 minute at a time.
Christ didn't have a wife and why would he care about this topic anyway? Not to mention there isn't any of that stuff where he is right now.
Veritas charges you extra depending how many CPUs your system has. There can be possibly a $5k difference in pricing depending on how many CPUs you have. I consider it to be just money in their pocket because the software doesn't take advantage of the CPUs so it didn't cost them extra to develop it.
when they take it from our cold dead hands. What could possibly make the US give up what is theirs? Does the UN want to invade and steal the root name servers from their homes or hijack DNS?
AD from what I understand is accessible through LDAP.
It *is* accessible because AD supports both v2 and v3 of LDAP. It also supports v5 of Kerberos. I've already tested the LDAP compatiblity by using JNDI from Sun's JDK. We will be utilizing this fact at work for single sign on, in conjunction with kerberizing an in-house application that was developed a while back. We haven't tested the Kerberos compatiblity yet but I don't have any doubt that it will work as long as MS isn't lying when they say it's compatible with v5 of Kerberos and they didn't lie about the compatiblity of LDAP from what I already know. Remember AD is built on LDAP (replication, schema, directory structure, object entries, etc.) You could do everything you did with OpenLDAP with AD by modifying the schema in the same way. The only issue with AD is that any schema additions can't be deleted, only disabled, unlike other Directory servers which allow deletions.
what is the relationship between Thomson and Fraunhofer?
I've taken up second hand smoking to get my smoke breaks in. I consider it a disadvantage to not smoke but then not get any breaks. Maybe I should lobby for a masturbation break.
Science changes a little, maybe you'd need to update the information every 10 years (barring creationist lies).
Since you couldn't say your sentence without introducing a sly comment I'll follow suit. Science books need updated every couple years so that liberals can update their evolutionary propaganda. You know damn well that science book publishers won't ever put anything in there that might belong due to any Creationists so what else would be left?; Liberalistic propaganda that doesn't present any evidence but casually mentions evolution to gradually induce students to believe it must be real since every liberal treats it as such instead of a theory with alternative theories.
Considering the school system and liberals consider it only a history book there shouldn't be any reason why it couldn't be used. The same people use the "history book" copout for books on teaching Islam so calling the Bible anything else would be a double standard, and we never have double standards do we?
The Slashdot search engine seems capable enough as it is to return a thousand results that have nothing to do with what you searched on. We need to do whatever we can to mitigate the occurrence of inaccurate results.
I personally find it uplifting to see a book getting this kind of treatement; I had long since gave up and figured that most people in the US were just illiterate.
They still our.
Parents can only control what their kids watch when the kids are home. As kids grow older they are more likely to go to a friends house or whereever and end up watching tv or a movie w/o their parents knowing about it. I'm not saying parents should should show no responsibility but on the contrary no responsibility is exactly what the media producers want and responsibility should be practiced on both sides. Obviously the media producers think that what they show on tv with sex and crude language is what the general population wants and that isn't the case but I sure don't see them stopping it, and in fact they are adding more and more of that content to their lineup. I find myself watching a lot of NickAtNite shows since I don't like having sexual connotations in every single new TV show that is on the air.
Why aren't they to blame? Had they made the code correct the first time no patch would have been needed.
Sounds like the U.S. where we have a TV ratings system that is meant to offload any accountability from the media producers and put it onto the parents so as long as networks utilize the tv rating symbols, having advertising campaigns like "control your tv", and warnings about "viewer discretion advised" the media producers are able to put on tv whatever the hell they please because they warned the public about what was going to be seen. Lawmakers are making it okay for the producers to put the shit on tv and compensating by having a rating system in place instead of actually going after the people who make the crap.
So where is Microsoft to blame in all of that? Or the administrators who administered all of those systems? Nothing would have been shutdown had the administrators done their job as well as Microsoft had done theirs.
There is so many other ways to get broadband to even the most remote people that over the powerlines doesn't even need to be. Got a phone line? You should be able to get broadband.
Access to a phone line does not guarantee broadband access. If the house is too far from the CO with the way the phone lines are laid then DSL is out of the question. Most likely cable would be out too if it's really remote. The only option is satellite which isn't convenient or cheap and most likely you would still have to use your phone line as your upload line which would be slow probably in remote areas (33.6kbps if you are lucky).
why more "neanderthals" didn't "evolve" into more than just the human species. If evolution is real then there shouldn't have just been one current master species (humans) but multiple master species. Not to mention why there isn't more of these "neanderthal" remains that have been found if they were supposedly the beginnings of our species. At least with this test we'll finally have proof that their DNA is exactly like that of the human species and thus no evolution ever took place.