If you believe that we were created by natural (just not terrestrial) being or their machines, and that everything in the bible can be interpreted as natural phenomena (possibly intentional, possibly extraterrestrial, but still natural), then you are probably an atheist, or at least agnostic. And I like you. I don't necessarily consider it a *likely* hypothesis, but I have always been fond of it as a hypothesis, anyway. (I've always wished I could write, cause I've always wanted there to be a good retelling of the old testament as hard sci-fi.)
Anyway, being theistic, necessarily requires belief in something *supernatural*.
As to your first sentence, if you think the evidence "doesn't support" evolution, you're probably getting definition of evolution from wrong and/or outdated sources.
You make me sad with your complete lack of either bel-airing *or* "that dog's not so shaggy" at the end of that. Don't you know long, rambling, pointless, off-topic posts are required to end with one of those memes?
You know what? It sounds crazy, but I would mod you up if I had mod points. And I might just use that service. You could call it, I dunno... megagoogle. Ok, you'd probably get sued for that. But they can't sue you for using a word that was coined in 1938, so maybe just use Googolplex?
Seems pretty obvious what it means: it is begging for someone to comment with that comment (exactly like the new definition for "begs the quest", which at least to my mind, makes way the frack more sense than the supposed correct definition). Read it the same way you would read "in before".
Yep, I was going to say that, too. I *love* my carrier, since I switched to Ting. I love it so much that I don't even feel the need to be an AC to say that.:p
It's one of a small handful of companies I go out of my way to tell people about. Fresh & Easy is another... I'm sure there are a few more. In every case, one of the main reasons why, is that the company actually treats customer service as an important part of their business, rather than something to pretend to do, while spending the absolute least amount possible and trying to get you to hang up in disgust.
And, 100 dollars? I got a phone through them (refurb, granted) for 78 dollars. And then they gave me a 50 dollar credit on my next bill. (Which turned out to actually be paying my next 3 whole bills.) Sadly, my understanding is they've since turned all the 50 dollar codes floating around into only 25 dollar codes, but still. Ting is cheap, and awesome. Let's just hope they can survive.
It really isn't. I'm not suggesting that people *shouldn't* get in trouble for it, I'm just suggesting that there will always be people who either won't know or won't care that it's dangerous and they could get in trouble for it, so if it's a real concern, those affected might also want to take precaution. How is that different from suggesting that people put on their seatbelts or wear bike helmets, because they might get hit? Yes, it would be nice if nobody ever hit anyone else with their car, but that's not likely to happen, at least not until cars are all self-driving. So until then, I will continue to wear a seatbelt, to protect me from serious injury in accidents, even those that I had no fault in.
(I do understand, though, that you wouldn't want to wear protective glasses all the time while piloting a long commercial flight, so it would only help if you could see that a laser was being shone on your plane *before* it got into the cockpit and into your eye. This is admittedly a more serious flaw in that plan.)
"The helicopter pilot was wearing protective gear and therefore did not suffer eye damage or vision impairment as a result of the laser, the FBI stated."
I have a crazy idea... how about airlines give pilots protective eyewear, and if some bored kid starts shining a laser around, the pilot grabs said eyewear and puts it on?
I'm at work right now. I should be programming. Instead, I'm being distracted with Springtime for Hitler (from The Producers) driving me crazy all morning. Get it out!
(Ok, yes, also I'm writing tests, which are boring, so his hypothesis probably *is* right: I could drive that song out if I were working on something that actually engaged my brain and made me want to devote all my brainpower to it.)
Yep, that was the first place I went after installing it, too. I especially liked the part about the Threats and opportunities of my Butt: "56% of European decision-makers estimate that my Butt is a priority between 2013 and 2014."
Epic! Googled it, there is indeed a Firefox version of that, too. Which is now installed. This rivals the Youtube Moronizer for hilarity in simplicity, text-modification-wise. (For context, see also: http://www.dorktower.com/2010/09/24/5585
Yeah, I definitely don't think it's a good idea to rely on any technology in my butt, either.
I've understood for years that I couldn't rely on anything in the cloud that was new, experimental, or not terribly well known. That makes perfect sense. I knew, too, that I couldn't rely on any particular *feature* of any software in the cloud, because an automatic update could remove or break the feature. Still, I thought it exceedingly unlikely that any software that *wasn't* new, *wasn't* experimental, and *was* quite popular, would just suddenly disappear, for any reason other than "the company went under or was bought", both things that I can't really imagine happening to Google. The fact that they decided to ax Reader, means they might decide to ax *anything*.
I am firmly in group 2. For any given application, depending on a number of factors, I might decide to buy it, or I might decide to purchase it. These days, the existence of DRM has pushed me into the former category more than the latter, as it seems like DRM has become an excuse to basically hijack your computer, and make it a royal pain in the buttocks to get the damn thing to run properly.
But all it takes is one determined person to put it up on the internet, and it'll spread immediately to all the other, lazier people. The only surefire way to avoid anyone pirating your software is to be so darn indie that nobody has heard of your software, and thus, nobody has heard of it to decide it would be fun to crack.
Going with the huge numbers of other people who say: a little bit of DRM (like a one-time key check, or looking something up in the manual or something) is infinitely better than none, but a lot of DRM (like phoning home randomly all the time, or analyzing the system's memory every time anything does anything, or anything that might break for legitimate users or force them to jump through a bunch of hoops to validate) is infinitely worse, and will drive people to piracy who might otherwise have paid, while not inconveniencing the serial pirates at all, because they would've pirated it anyway.
Who said anything about a bluetooth headset? How do you know I don't want to talk directly into my wrist, like an awesome movie spy? (Ok, fine, those probably exist already, and I'm just being silly.)
Indeed. If I could wear my cellphone, I totally would. (Assuming my cellphone also had about 2 years of battery life on a single charge, like my watch does...)
I have a feeling this is going to be downvoted because it happens to be the first post and people will think I'm just posting for that reason, but I totally misread this title as "Samsung also making a sandwich". Maybe someone sexist jerk told them to get in the kitchen, and they took it to heart?
And I read through the whole thread and there are still only three. I am a sad BSG fan. (Why I read all the fracking threads - there are usually some fracking funny comments. But frack that.)
(Where's my fracking wastewater? Over there, next to your regular one.)
Yep, that's how I read it too. That the Death Star created a supernova. I was going to point out that, no, the Death Star only destroyed planets; it was the *Sun Crusher* that created super novas. Yes, I am a huge nerd. >.>
Neat, glad to spread the word! (It's one of only a small handful of companies I have no direct affiliation with, but like telling people about, just because they do things right.)
I would tell you that if you want a 25$-off-your-first-bill coupon, you could poke me and I'd give you one (it's one of those things where I get a coupon when someone else uses one I generated). Let me know if you want one of those - but I would also say, in the interest of full disclosure, that when I got a phone from them a few months back, I googled around and found similar coupons floating around only for 50 bucks rather than 25. So use one of those instead, if they're still valid.;)
Ah, yeah, I suppose I am spoiled for wireless coverage - if Sprint doesn't cover your area, then that cuts out most of your options for prepaid. (I'm just saying, if Sprint *does* cover your area, you should look into Ting. I didn't really feel like paying the standard 50$/m for prepaid, let alone the crazy 90-100 Verizon and others of that ilk charge, so I just didn't have a smartphone for years after everyone else did. When I found out I could be paying 15-25 bucks a month, I jumped on it. I don't work for them in any way, I'm just happy with their service.:p)
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If you believe that we were created by natural (just not terrestrial) being or their machines, and that everything in the bible can be interpreted as natural phenomena (possibly intentional, possibly extraterrestrial, but still natural), then you are probably an atheist, or at least agnostic. And I like you. I don't necessarily consider it a *likely* hypothesis, but I have always been fond of it as a hypothesis, anyway. (I've always wished I could write, cause I've always wanted there to be a good retelling of the old testament as hard sci-fi.)
Anyway, being theistic, necessarily requires belief in something *supernatural*.
As to your first sentence, if you think the evidence "doesn't support" evolution, you're probably getting definition of evolution from wrong and/or outdated sources.
You make me sad with your complete lack of either bel-airing *or* "that dog's not so shaggy" at the end of that. Don't you know long, rambling, pointless, off-topic posts are required to end with one of those memes?
You know what? It sounds crazy, but I would mod you up if I had mod points. And I might just use that service. You could call it, I dunno... megagoogle. Ok, you'd probably get sued for that. But they can't sue you for using a word that was coined in 1938, so maybe just use Googolplex?
Seems pretty obvious what it means: it is begging for someone to comment with that comment (exactly like the new definition for "begs the quest", which at least to my mind, makes way the frack more sense than the supposed correct definition). Read it the same way you would read "in before".
Yep, I was going to say that, too. I *love* my carrier, since I switched to Ting. I love it so much that I don't even feel the need to be an AC to say that. :p
It's one of a small handful of companies I go out of my way to tell people about. Fresh & Easy is another... I'm sure there are a few more. In every case, one of the main reasons why, is that the company actually treats customer service as an important part of their business, rather than something to pretend to do, while spending the absolute least amount possible and trying to get you to hang up in disgust.
And, 100 dollars? I got a phone through them (refurb, granted) for 78 dollars. And then they gave me a 50 dollar credit on my next bill. (Which turned out to actually be paying my next 3 whole bills.) Sadly, my understanding is they've since turned all the 50 dollar codes floating around into only 25 dollar codes, but still. Ting is cheap, and awesome. Let's just hope they can survive.
It really isn't. I'm not suggesting that people *shouldn't* get in trouble for it, I'm just suggesting that there will always be people who either won't know or won't care that it's dangerous and they could get in trouble for it, so if it's a real concern, those affected might also want to take precaution. How is that different from suggesting that people put on their seatbelts or wear bike helmets, because they might get hit? Yes, it would be nice if nobody ever hit anyone else with their car, but that's not likely to happen, at least not until cars are all self-driving. So until then, I will continue to wear a seatbelt, to protect me from serious injury in accidents, even those that I had no fault in.
(I do understand, though, that you wouldn't want to wear protective glasses all the time while piloting a long commercial flight, so it would only help if you could see that a laser was being shone on your plane *before* it got into the cockpit and into your eye. This is admittedly a more serious flaw in that plan.)
"The helicopter pilot was wearing protective gear and therefore did not suffer eye damage or vision impairment as a result of the laser, the FBI stated."
I have a crazy idea... how about airlines give pilots protective eyewear, and if some bored kid starts shining a laser around, the pilot grabs said eyewear and puts it on?
I'm at work right now. I should be programming. Instead, I'm being distracted with Springtime for Hitler (from The Producers) driving me crazy all morning. Get it out!
(Ok, yes, also I'm writing tests, which are boring, so his hypothesis probably *is* right: I could drive that song out if I were working on something that actually engaged my brain and made me want to devote all my brainpower to it.)
Yep, that was the first place I went after installing it, too. I especially liked the part about the Threats and opportunities of my Butt: "56% of European decision-makers estimate that my Butt is a priority between 2013 and 2014."
At this point, I'm just amused to watch the near-constant see-sawing between "off-topic" and "funny".
Epic! Googled it, there is indeed a Firefox version of that, too. Which is now installed. This rivals the Youtube Moronizer for hilarity in simplicity, text-modification-wise. (For context, see also: http://www.dorktower.com/2010/09/24/5585
Yeah, I definitely don't think it's a good idea to rely on any technology in my butt, either.
I've understood for years that I couldn't rely on anything in the cloud that was new, experimental, or not terribly well known. That makes perfect sense. I knew, too, that I couldn't rely on any particular *feature* of any software in the cloud, because an automatic update could remove or break the feature. Still, I thought it exceedingly unlikely that any software that *wasn't* new, *wasn't* experimental, and *was* quite popular, would just suddenly disappear, for any reason other than "the company went under or was bought", both things that I can't really imagine happening to Google. The fact that they decided to ax Reader, means they might decide to ax *anything*.
Slashdot is basically Rasputin. ... Am I doing it right?
Err. That should read, "I might decide to pirate it, or I might decide to purchase it." >.>
I am firmly in group 2. For any given application, depending on a number of factors, I might decide to buy it, or I might decide to purchase it. These days, the existence of DRM has pushed me into the former category more than the latter, as it seems like DRM has become an excuse to basically hijack your computer, and make it a royal pain in the buttocks to get the damn thing to run properly.
But all it takes is one determined person to put it up on the internet, and it'll spread immediately to all the other, lazier people. The only surefire way to avoid anyone pirating your software is to be so darn indie that nobody has heard of your software, and thus, nobody has heard of it to decide it would be fun to crack.
Going with the huge numbers of other people who say: a little bit of DRM (like a one-time key check, or looking something up in the manual or something) is infinitely better than none, but a lot of DRM (like phoning home randomly all the time, or analyzing the system's memory every time anything does anything, or anything that might break for legitimate users or force them to jump through a bunch of hoops to validate) is infinitely worse, and will drive people to piracy who might otherwise have paid, while not inconveniencing the serial pirates at all, because they would've pirated it anyway.
Who said anything about a bluetooth headset? How do you know I don't want to talk directly into my wrist, like an awesome movie spy? (Ok, fine, those probably exist already, and I'm just being silly.)
Indeed. If I could wear my cellphone, I totally would. (Assuming my cellphone also had about 2 years of battery life on a single charge, like my watch does...)
I have a feeling this is going to be downvoted because it happens to be the first post and people will think I'm just posting for that reason, but I totally misread this title as "Samsung also making a sandwich". Maybe someone sexist jerk told them to get in the kitchen, and they took it to heart?
And I read through the whole thread and there are still only three. I am a sad BSG fan. (Why I read all the fracking threads - there are usually some fracking funny comments. But frack that.)
(Where's my fracking wastewater? Over there, next to your regular one.)
Yep, that's how I read it too. That the Death Star created a supernova. I was going to point out that, no, the Death Star only destroyed planets; it was the *Sun Crusher* that created super novas. Yes, I am a huge nerd. >.>
Sure. Only it should be spoken like "nooooooo..." As in, "noooooo... messing up what was once an *almost* decent UI even more, I'm sure..."
Yay!
Also more likely the first to say: its != it's. Yay for slashdot editors.
Neat, glad to spread the word! (It's one of only a small handful of companies I have no direct affiliation with, but like telling people about, just because they do things right.)
I would tell you that if you want a 25$-off-your-first-bill coupon, you could poke me and I'd give you one (it's one of those things where I get a coupon when someone else uses one I generated). Let me know if you want one of those - but I would also say, in the interest of full disclosure, that when I got a phone from them a few months back, I googled around and found similar coupons floating around only for 50 bucks rather than 25. So use one of those instead, if they're still valid. ;)
Ah, yeah, I suppose I am spoiled for wireless coverage - if Sprint doesn't cover your area, then that cuts out most of your options for prepaid. (I'm just saying, if Sprint *does* cover your area, you should look into Ting. I didn't really feel like paying the standard 50$/m for prepaid, let alone the crazy 90-100 Verizon and others of that ilk charge, so I just didn't have a smartphone for years after everyone else did. When I found out I could be paying 15-25 bucks a month, I jumped on it. I don't work for them in any way, I'm just happy with their service. :p)