The problem is that the universe doesn't have the characteristics of a bagel. And we don't know all of its characteristics. Self-creation may be one of the unknowns.
cannot prove God to you, but personally, I'm betting on God.
What's the point of a bet you can't win or lose? Would you do anything differently even if you did know the outcome of that bet?
Well, glancing at the story, nobody actually got raped. The agents of God, the angels in question drove off the mob. And protecting invited guests was serious business in those days.
The problem is that this sort of whining is not about communication. The whiner rarely whines about new problems but rather about old, already solved problems. And they usually already know the answers too.
Instead it's mostly a psychological coping mechanism for dealing with stuff that they chose to take on (or believe) and will go through with no matter what anyone else says or does.
OTOH, I am here to communicate and am not hesitant to remind others what Slashdot is for.
When that mine is played out where will the raw material for new advances come from?
From the research that was just done which is how it's always been done. A common thing that is ignored is that most basic research comes from problems that crop up in research, basic or applied.
Well, I think this might have to do with the level of basic science funding
Conversely, I think it's the high level of public funding which has slowed scientific research by both pulling researchers away from more worthy pursuits, wrecking the status of donating to private non profit research, and by introducing a large degree of unaccountability into the field.
Yeah, I'll just apply to the company that doesn't treat employees like this.
There you go.
Oh wait, they all do... because their shareholder/owners are always trying to squeeze as much productivity as possible from people, to maximize profits and maintain Endless Growth.
So what? I'm tired of the pathetic victimhood you display. Just because your interests and those of your employer don't magically perfectly align, doesn't mean that you can't get a good deal. But you have to try first rather than whine on teh internets about how helpless you are.
Read the link. 2.6 million policies were cancelled according to the results of the survey. 1.6 million of those were eligible for subsidized health insurance and 1 million were not. 1,6 million seems very close to the two million people claimed in the grandparent.
See me in my office first thing tomorrow, Freeze. Security are boxing up your belongings and will escort you from the building. This is the last time you ignore my 1 a.m. emails.
Then get another job. You don't have to be a coward all your life.
If I'm off the clock, I should be able to completely ignore work and everything work-related. I should be able to leave my work smartphone in the office.
That's fine. And there certain jobs you shouldn't be hired for as a result. Employment is not one way. The employer or employee shouldn't be the only party that is able to make demands of the other.
But too often, what I see with this sort of talk is that the speaker wants the pay of a high paying job without the demands of a high paying job. I too want money without work from an employer, but I'm realistic enough to know that won't happen.
It might be worth determining why "sex discrimination" is an issue, and seeing whether the concept is a problem in this case for the same underlying problems, rather than simply jumping on it and implying it's wrong because it's discrimination.
I don't think so. There are large and growing disparities in higher education in favor of women. For example, this report showed that in the US schools it compiled records for, there were more than 30% more bachelor degrees awarded to women than men. That's a demographic disaster in the making. It's time to "re-examine the policies" now.
The problem here is that such regulation has a tendency to make part that category of business, French. If French businesses labor under this restriction and US/Chinese/Indian/etc businesses do not, then that's going to be rather poor outcome for the French businesses.
The solution here is a system of checks and balances, like most democracies have formally for the various parts of their government. That is already in place with the informal system of campaign donations and government regulation.
Had you actually STUDIED those oft-circulated talking points, you'd know how dishonest and false the list is.
Well, given that the site is called "evilbible.com", I guess we have to expect a little bias.
Give it a break already... probably no book you have ever read can look consistent if attacked in this dishonest way and it's always very telling that people who hate the Bible so often need to use deceit to attack it rather than legitimate analysis. Try not to pick up a copy of "Green Eggs and Ham"...
Because the word of God should be treated no differently than the words of Dr. Seuss? And just because you call it "deceit" doesn't mean it actually is, though I agree that there does appear to be some Bible hating going on in the link I provided earlier.
(Also, if Malaria is anything to go by, the statistical answer to 'how do you treat it?' is 'On average, you don't.
The statistical answer is drain the swamps, kill the mosquitoes, and malaria goes away. There's a reason malaria no longer has a presence in the developed world and it's not because nobody cared about it.
Here's a list of inconsistencies in the Bible backing the claim that it disagrees with itself. Now, to be honest, I have a low standard for religious works like the Bible or Das Kapital. But for these works to be applicable to the morals and ethics of the modern world, you have to filter them heavily. At some point, that becomes more work than it's worth.
Yeah, I suppose of late the whole mind-altering disease thing has horned in on the traditional risen from the dead definition of zombies.
It's been kicking around under that label for at least 40 years (with the movie, "Night of the Living Dead" kicking that off), so it's not that new an idea. And before that, there was "The Puppet Masters", a Heinlein book about parasites trying to take over humanity, which was published in 1951 more than 60 years ago.
Given that projected movies are around 120 years old and science fiction not much older than that, zombie parasitism is not a recent idea in these arts.
This is like the medical version of the broken window fallacy. Why do something that doesn't work and rely on the placebo effect when you can do something that does work and rely on the placebo effect?
Still seems a stretch to call it a "zombie" though.
You're missing the second part. The organism is transformed physically and behaviorally into a vehicle for spreading the parasite. That's classic zombie movie stuff.
The cold and flu doesn't shut down your reproductive system permanently and transform you into a vehicle solely for spreading cold/flu viruses. Read the summary at least.
I always find it interesting when people who believe in evolution get upset when instances of it take place in real life.
Why? I imagine most people believe to some degree that existence is unfair, capricious, and very painful. That doesn't stop them from getting upset when bad things happen. Nor are they "hiding" things.
Here, we have the capability to steer evolution. There is no reason to just accept that Amazon tribes have to die due to evolution. The selection process can be changed for the better. They don't need to be "failures".
Also, what's with this weird stuff about "people who believe in evolution" and "evolutionists"? Is it somehow better morally to pretend that evolution doesn't exist?
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cannot prove God to you, but personally, I'm betting on God.
What's the point of a bet you can't win or lose? Would you do anything differently even if you did know the outcome of that bet?
Well, glancing at the story, nobody actually got raped. The agents of God, the angels in question drove off the mob. And protecting invited guests was serious business in those days.
Whining, in the end, is speech.
The problem is that this sort of whining is not about communication. The whiner rarely whines about new problems but rather about old, already solved problems. And they usually already know the answers too.
Instead it's mostly a psychological coping mechanism for dealing with stuff that they chose to take on (or believe) and will go through with no matter what anyone else says or does.
OTOH, I am here to communicate and am not hesitant to remind others what Slashdot is for.
When that mine is played out where will the raw material for new advances come from?
From the research that was just done which is how it's always been done. A common thing that is ignored is that most basic research comes from problems that crop up in research, basic or applied.
Well, I think this might have to do with the level of basic science funding
Conversely, I think it's the high level of public funding which has slowed scientific research by both pulling researchers away from more worthy pursuits, wrecking the status of donating to private non profit research, and by introducing a large degree of unaccountability into the field.
Yeah, I'll just apply to the company that doesn't treat employees like this.
There you go.
Oh wait, they all do... because their shareholder/owners are always trying to squeeze as much productivity as possible from people, to maximize profits and maintain Endless Growth.
So what? I'm tired of the pathetic victimhood you display. Just because your interests and those of your employer don't magically perfectly align, doesn't mean that you can't get a good deal. But you have to try first rather than whine on teh internets about how helpless you are.
Read the link. 2.6 million policies were cancelled according to the results of the survey. 1.6 million of those were eligible for subsidized health insurance and 1 million were not. 1,6 million seems very close to the two million people claimed in the grandparent.
See me in my office first thing tomorrow, Freeze. Security are boxing up your belongings and will escort you from the building. This is the last time you ignore my 1 a.m. emails.
Then get another job. You don't have to be a coward all your life.
If I'm off the clock, I should be able to completely ignore work and everything work-related. I should be able to leave my work smartphone in the office.
That's fine. And there certain jobs you shouldn't be hired for as a result. Employment is not one way. The employer or employee shouldn't be the only party that is able to make demands of the other.
But too often, what I see with this sort of talk is that the speaker wants the pay of a high paying job without the demands of a high paying job. I too want money without work from an employer, but I'm realistic enough to know that won't happen.
It a government doesn't set working standards, employers abuse workers.
Which is adequately covered by choice c.
It might be worth determining why "sex discrimination" is an issue, and seeing whether the concept is a problem in this case for the same underlying problems, rather than simply jumping on it and implying it's wrong because it's discrimination.
I don't think so. There are large and growing disparities in higher education in favor of women. For example, this report showed that in the US schools it compiled records for, there were more than 30% more bachelor degrees awarded to women than men. That's a demographic disaster in the making. It's time to "re-examine the policies" now.
The problem here is that such regulation has a tendency to make part that category of business, French. If French businesses labor under this restriction and US/Chinese/Indian/etc businesses do not, then that's going to be rather poor outcome for the French businesses.
How about choice c), no tyranny? What did I win?
The solution here is a system of checks and balances, like most democracies have formally for the various parts of their government. That is already in place with the informal system of campaign donations and government regulation.
Because those are the only two possible choices we could make here.
Or Washington DC for that matter. I can't think of a better city to build in a swamp.
Had you actually STUDIED those oft-circulated talking points, you'd know how dishonest and false the list is.
Well, given that the site is called "evilbible.com", I guess we have to expect a little bias.
Give it a break already... probably no book you have ever read can look consistent if attacked in this dishonest way and it's always very telling that people who hate the Bible so often need to use deceit to attack it rather than legitimate analysis. Try not to pick up a copy of "Green Eggs and Ham"...
Because the word of God should be treated no differently than the words of Dr. Seuss? And just because you call it "deceit" doesn't mean it actually is, though I agree that there does appear to be some Bible hating going on in the link I provided earlier.
(Also, if Malaria is anything to go by, the statistical answer to 'how do you treat it?' is 'On average, you don't.
The statistical answer is drain the swamps, kill the mosquitoes, and malaria goes away. There's a reason malaria no longer has a presence in the developed world and it's not because nobody cared about it.
Because good hoaxes are hilarious.
Here's a list of inconsistencies in the Bible backing the claim that it disagrees with itself. Now, to be honest, I have a low standard for religious works like the Bible or Das Kapital. But for these works to be applicable to the morals and ethics of the modern world, you have to filter them heavily. At some point, that becomes more work than it's worth.
Yeah, I suppose of late the whole mind-altering disease thing has horned in on the traditional risen from the dead definition of zombies.
It's been kicking around under that label for at least 40 years (with the movie, "Night of the Living Dead" kicking that off), so it's not that new an idea. And before that, there was "The Puppet Masters", a Heinlein book about parasites trying to take over humanity, which was published in 1951 more than 60 years ago.
Given that projected movies are around 120 years old and science fiction not much older than that, zombie parasitism is not a recent idea in these arts.
What would maximize the placebo effect?
This is like the medical version of the broken window fallacy. Why do something that doesn't work and rely on the placebo effect when you can do something that does work and rely on the placebo effect?
Still seems a stretch to call it a "zombie" though.
You're missing the second part. The organism is transformed physically and behaviorally into a vehicle for spreading the parasite. That's classic zombie movie stuff.
The cold and flu doesn't shut down your reproductive system permanently and transform you into a vehicle solely for spreading cold/flu viruses. Read the summary at least.
I always find it interesting when people who believe in evolution get upset when instances of it take place in real life.
Why? I imagine most people believe to some degree that existence is unfair, capricious, and very painful. That doesn't stop them from getting upset when bad things happen. Nor are they "hiding" things.
Here, we have the capability to steer evolution. There is no reason to just accept that Amazon tribes have to die due to evolution. The selection process can be changed for the better. They don't need to be "failures".
Also, what's with this weird stuff about "people who believe in evolution" and "evolutionists"? Is it somehow better morally to pretend that evolution doesn't exist?
You are talking about an action that takes place to an individual by another individual.
So what? Kill someone who could have reproduced some more and that becomes a selection event, just like wiping out an Amazon tribe.