You have ANY idea how broken IE for Mac is broken already? A bunch of web sites don't work, some work only some of the time, and a few can actually crash it easily (like msn.ca for example -- no joke). A lot of people are coming to/calling our repair shop for these issues lately.
You cannot prove a negative from particulars. I'd have to point to everything that can exist and show you none of those corresponded to a given definition of God for me to prove there is no God. I would have to do the same thing regarding invisible pink unicorns.
Are you suddenly going to adopt a neutral position with regard to invisible pink unicorns too?
No, the judge didn't decide on what is Science. He read and listened to scientists define what science is, and he then decided that Intelligent Design, as explained to him, was NOT science, was in fact a veiled religious argument, and as such should not be taught in a SCIENCE public classroom.
He didn't decide what science was or make arguments or ruling that would affect any other scientific theory.
When some "weird" theory comes along, it can be evaluated along the same principles. Joe Nobody invents some theory that explains where ghosts come from, it's not a scientific theory. If a scientific argues against something being a scientific theory, we can use the exact same definition the judge used in this case, essentially the requirements of falsifiability, testability and basis on observation.
The sages won't give you the Canoe until the Earth Fiend is dead, and you need it to get to the Ice Cave and get the Airship. I also used to skip Kary, get my upgraded characters and better spells/items from later dungeons before coming back.
Whether a patent is accepted or not now hinges not on matters of innovation, novelty, or technology, but of its formatting, correct presentation and accepted correct legalese (read incomprehensible) wording.
Bureaucractic efficiency > correct application of law and common sense.
Remove "copy"-right and replace it with "profit"-fight.
Only the author can PROFIT from sale of his work. That would allow me to sell me book and allow anyone to copy it, but if someone else tried to sell it (excluding base reproduction cost), that wouldn't be legal.
Isn't every parcel of the universe an observer? Humans are maybe more complex and more conscious, but I don't believe we are on a different "plane" and that different from the rest of the universe, we're made from the same basic components as everything else. Aren't the electrons in my brain part of my consciousness? And what does being part of my brain make it so special and different than another electron? Nothing. Isn't a collision between particles an observation in itself?
Your first statement (that our consciousness creates the universe), that I believe is correct, doesn't imply the second.
The problem is that our creation of the universe is apparently restricted by limits that are intrinsic to it and necessary in order for that creation of the universe. Among those is the fabric of space-time which is necessary for perception to occur, and thus for specific consciousness to exist.
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Warning from Logic Central:
Singular events cannot be used as a basis for generalisations.
Thank you.
My iBook G4 is running very well. So far it's 50/50 and we do not have the numbers for a significant statistical analysis.
There is a "Commander" rank, and Cmdr is an obvious abbreviation of that rank name, so the change was in line with the policy.
About the name change policy, it is sometimes aggravating, but so would be seeing a number of people with stupid names running around. There's already too many who don't get changed, at least the worst of the lot we can do something about. I don't feel much immersion when I see 1337Dude rogue running around.
About the GMs, yes, Blizzard's customer service department in WoW totally and bluntly SUCKS. I've had good experiences with GMs in the past, and a couple bad ones, and I've read and been witness to a number of really bad experiences. When you get a bad GM, you can have to go through a harrowing experience, and the impossibility of escalating issues makes it worse. You feel like you were living in a totalitarian society.
About the recognition issue, it's a real problem. Some well-known ninjas have managed top get their names changed and started a new career of more bad behavior, and some really good players I've played with in the past vanished from the face of the game only to later inform me their name had been changed...
The American Congress has just voted, at the request of the RIAA, to outlaw biological recording devices from recording or reproducing any artistic performance distributed by a RIAA member. The law requires the government to hire "zombies" to remove any such biological recording devices left in the country.
A senator later declared: "We will not be deploying them in the Washington, D.C. area, as it's well known politicians and lobbyists don't possess or use such devices." RIAA executives are also perfectly safe, according to our sources.
"People were replaying our music inside their head, and even sometimes were 'humming' it aloud, which is a clear breach of our rights and should require payement of royalties. Since the current goverment's mind-control and mind-reading technologies aren't quite ready yet, we got this law passed to completely outlaw such biological recording devices." declared a RIAA spokesman.
So you are proposing that not all music executives are lying cheaters and extortionnists?
That's easy to prove, all you have do do is present to us a SINGLE major music executive who's honest and fairly rewards the musicians he contracts, all contracts having fair terms, and who charges reasonable prices for the music he sells.
I know the current American administration's reasons for doing this are probably wrong, and in their hands it might lead to some SERIOUS issues of racial/medical profiling, privacy issues, totalitarian uses and the usual problems surrounding any such measures.
But it doesn't change the fact that used well, such a measure could be an incredible boon to forensic science and crime solving and deterrence. It could also be used in medical research to better understand and know about the spread of various genetic defects in the population.
I know that people fear eugenics, seeing it as a measure to _remove_ certain people from the gene pool, or to differentiate "better" people and putting them above the regular ones.
Other people, like me, see the use of genetic research in advancing and improving the entire human race. The human race, to the point it has now evolved, is beyond those tools of evolution that would improve and evolve us. Our intelligence, our development of compassion and altruism, as well as our ability to remove almost all barriers to travel and gene dispersal is removing two factors which evolution requires to work (survival/reproduction of the fittest & a closed population). We have in our hands though, the means through which we can advance our knowledge and ability to better ourselves, not only psychologically and ethically, but also biologically. In the current world order, though, such a development would only lead to a eugenic-like situation where only the oligarchy of the ultra-rich could profit from such technology, or use it to increase their control of the general population. But cataloguing of our gene pool will be a necessary measure eventually.
So although I might oppose this kind of measure in the current view of what it might be used for, I cannot completely condemn it.
If someone were to talk about how it's annoying that gravity pulls things down, and you said "That's the way the world works", I'd agree. But the way our civilization works is the sum total of how we make it work, it's all artifical and built the way we want it to be. If you just take it the way others are making it to be, it's your loss. I tend to try complaining and trying to change things if they don't suit me.
No, that was editors/admins modding down all metadiscussions. They do that all the time, possibly hoping that people won't see people complaining about what's wrong with Slashdot (I enjoy browsing the site, but it doesn't remove the fact that there are issues).
But this time, they shot themselves in the foot, because it's VERY obvious there's a problem, and everyone will need to browse at very low settings to see any comments at all, and thus see these meta-comments and even notice the admin moderation done to them, especially considering the fact that no one else is getting mod points right now.
I got my brutality blade and core hound tooth Thursday and Friday. First hunter to get those items, as far as I know. I'm not going to lose them and just go on.
But, as others have mentioned, there will be no rollback. The WoW economy is surprisingly stable, and often reacts according to the rules of demand and offer, and there are as many outputs for currency as inputs. Most of my friends in-game (who play a lot) are not so rich as to be able to afford anything they want. It will shake the game economy for a few weeks, and everything will recover after, I'm sure.
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I'm sorry, but I can't trust your post, as its Md5 hash doesn't correspond to the one in your sig.
Most people don't argue against GM food per se, but against its use in consumer products.
For what it's worth, I'm in favor of GM food and genetic modifications on animals and human beings.
He will earn my respect when he stops trying to assert his horrible business practices.
Someone who does unethical things on one side and shows generosity on the other is still unethical. Only a show of ethics can remove the first tag.
You just TRY going through Blackwing Lair without a few rogues to disable Suppression Devices before broodlord.
You have ANY idea how broken IE for Mac is broken already? A bunch of web sites don't work, some work only some of the time, and a few can actually crash it easily (like msn.ca for example -- no joke). A lot of people are coming to/calling our repair shop for these issues lately.
You cannot prove a negative from particulars. I'd have to point to everything that can exist and show you none of those corresponded to a given definition of God for me to prove there is no God. I would have to do the same thing regarding invisible pink unicorns.
Are you suddenly going to adopt a neutral position with regard to invisible pink unicorns too?
No, the judge didn't decide on what is Science. He read and listened to scientists define what science is, and he then decided that Intelligent Design, as explained to him, was NOT science, was in fact a veiled religious argument, and as such should not be taught in a SCIENCE public classroom.
He didn't decide what science was or make arguments or ruling that would affect any other scientific theory.
When some "weird" theory comes along, it can be evaluated along the same principles. Joe Nobody invents some theory that explains where ghosts come from, it's not a scientific theory. If a scientific argues against something being a scientific theory, we can use the exact same definition the judge used in this case, essentially the requirements of falsifiability, testability and basis on observation.
The sages won't give you the Canoe until the Earth Fiend is dead, and you need it to get to the Ice Cave and get the Airship. I also used to skip Kary, get my upgraded characters and better spells/items from later dungeons before coming back.
Tell that to the Polish.
Stories about don't prove anything. Show me serious studies.
There is a difference between selling physiologically addictive products that will kill you and slightly psychologically additive entertainment.
Whether a patent is accepted or not now hinges not on matters of innovation, novelty, or technology, but of its formatting, correct presentation and accepted correct legalese (read incomprehensible) wording.
Bureaucractic efficiency > correct application of law and common sense.
Remove "copy"-right and replace it with "profit"-fight.
Only the author can PROFIT from sale of his work. That would allow me to sell me book and allow anyone to copy it, but if someone else tried to sell it (excluding base reproduction cost), that wouldn't be legal.
Isn't every parcel of the universe an observer? Humans are maybe more complex and more conscious, but I don't believe we are on a different "plane" and that different from the rest of the universe, we're made from the same basic components as everything else. Aren't the electrons in my brain part of my consciousness? And what does being part of my brain make it so special and different than another electron? Nothing. Isn't a collision between particles an observation in itself?
Your first statement (that our consciousness creates the universe), that I believe is correct, doesn't imply the second.
The problem is that our creation of the universe is apparently restricted by limits that are intrinsic to it and necessary in order for that creation of the universe. Among those is the fabric of space-time which is necessary for perception to occur, and thus for specific consciousness to exist.
Warning from Logic Central:
Singular events cannot be used as a basis for generalisations.
Thank you.
My iBook G4 is running very well. So far it's 50/50 and we do not have the numbers for a significant statistical analysis.
There is a "Commander" rank, and Cmdr is an obvious abbreviation of that rank name, so the change was in line with the policy.
About the name change policy, it is sometimes aggravating, but so would be seeing a number of people with stupid names running around. There's already too many who don't get changed, at least the worst of the lot we can do something about. I don't feel much immersion when I see 1337Dude rogue running around.
About the GMs, yes, Blizzard's customer service department in WoW totally and bluntly SUCKS. I've had good experiences with GMs in the past, and a couple bad ones, and I've read and been witness to a number of really bad experiences. When you get a bad GM, you can have to go through a harrowing experience, and the impossibility of escalating issues makes it worse. You feel like you were living in a totalitarian society.
About the recognition issue, it's a real problem. Some well-known ninjas have managed top get their names changed and started a new career of more bad behavior, and some really good players I've played with in the past vanished from the face of the game only to later inform me their name had been changed...
Morwen - lvl 60 hunter, Deathwing
The American Congress has just voted, at the request of the RIAA, to outlaw biological recording devices from recording or reproducing any artistic performance distributed by a RIAA member. The law requires the government to hire "zombies" to remove any such biological recording devices left in the country.
A senator later declared: "We will not be deploying them in the Washington, D.C. area, as it's well known politicians and lobbyists don't possess or use such devices." RIAA executives are also perfectly safe, according to our sources.
"People were replaying our music inside their head, and even sometimes were 'humming' it aloud, which is a clear breach of our rights and should require payement of royalties. Since the current goverment's mind-control and mind-reading technologies aren't quite ready yet, we got this law passed to completely outlaw such biological recording devices." declared a RIAA spokesman.
So you are proposing that not all music executives are lying cheaters and extortionnists?
That's easy to prove, all you have do do is present to us a SINGLE major music executive who's honest and fairly rewards the musicians he contracts, all contracts having fair terms, and who charges reasonable prices for the music he sells.
I know the current American administration's reasons for doing this are probably wrong, and in their hands it might lead to some SERIOUS issues of racial/medical profiling, privacy issues, totalitarian uses and the usual problems surrounding any such measures.
But it doesn't change the fact that used well, such a measure could be an incredible boon to forensic science and crime solving and deterrence. It could also be used in medical research to better understand and know about the spread of various genetic defects in the population.
I know that people fear eugenics, seeing it as a measure to _remove_ certain people from the gene pool, or to differentiate "better" people and putting them above the regular ones.
Other people, like me, see the use of genetic research in advancing and improving the entire human race. The human race, to the point it has now evolved, is beyond those tools of evolution that would improve and evolve us. Our intelligence, our development of compassion and altruism, as well as our ability to remove almost all barriers to travel and gene dispersal is removing two factors which evolution requires to work (survival/reproduction of the fittest & a closed population). We have in our hands though, the means through which we can advance our knowledge and ability to better ourselves, not only psychologically and ethically, but also biologically. In the current world order, though, such a development would only lead to a eugenic-like situation where only the oligarchy of the ultra-rich could profit from such technology, or use it to increase their control of the general population. But cataloguing of our gene pool will be a necessary measure eventually.
So although I might oppose this kind of measure in the current view of what it might be used for, I cannot completely condemn it.
If someone were to talk about how it's annoying that gravity pulls things down, and you said "That's the way the world works", I'd agree. But the way our civilization works is the sum total of how we make it work, it's all artifical and built the way we want it to be. If you just take it the way others are making it to be, it's your loss. I tend to try complaining and trying to change things if they don't suit me.
Look around for the author and read other stuff by him, Paul Thurrott is a well-known MS shill.
No, that was editors/admins modding down all metadiscussions. They do that all the time, possibly hoping that people won't see people complaining about what's wrong with Slashdot (I enjoy browsing the site, but it doesn't remove the fact that there are issues).
But this time, they shot themselves in the foot, because it's VERY obvious there's a problem, and everyone will need to browse at very low settings to see any comments at all, and thus see these meta-comments and even notice the admin moderation done to them, especially considering the fact that no one else is getting mod points right now.
Now, let's watch my karma go down - who cares.
I got my brutality blade and core hound tooth Thursday and Friday. First hunter to get those items, as far as I know. I'm not going to lose them and just go on.
But, as others have mentioned, there will be no rollback. The WoW economy is surprisingly stable, and often reacts according to the rules of demand and offer, and there are as many outputs for currency as inputs. Most of my friends in-game (who play a lot) are not so rich as to be able to afford anything they want. It will shake the game economy for a few weeks, and everything will recover after, I'm sure.
Damn, where's the +1 sarcasm moderation when you need it.