Google has never moved past the leech stage, they dice up content sucked from anywhere they can find it. Their ads are spam. The user did not ask for them; GOOG gets paid for them. The Anti-leech http://www.customizegoogle.com/
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Were you aware of the (fewer) connections that were known before we invaded Iraq, including the trips Zarqawi made to Baghdad during the Saddam regime?
Oh, for fuck's sake, Donald Rumsfeld travelled to Baghdad during the Saddam regime! He shook hands with the man!
The White House has admitted that the Iraq-Al Qaeda connection is tenuous at best. Give it up.
You might want to read my past comments and blog before denouncing me as a Bush lover. I'm a former Dean supporter, strongly anti-Bush, and a strong liberal.
I merely think the "catapult the propaganda" phrase could easily have been Bush saying he felt that the Democrats were putting out propaganda and he had to lob what he sees as "the truth" over that propaganda "wall".
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?
If a guy shoots you non-fatally three times... are you going to go "SHOOT ME AGAIN! FINISH THE JOB!"?
Well, for one, as stated in the article it's a cash bounty for illegally redistributing the professor's intellectual property. Universities make a lot of money off taped lectures.
That's the point of the Associated Press, though. It's not plagarism, the newspapers pay to be able to run AP content so they don't have to have 300 international news reporters for a small town paper.
The concept of "irreducible complexity" does not address or postulate concerning who, or what, designed these systems. It only asserts that these systems are of a kind for which currently the only known plausible explanation is deliberate design, rather than random emergence.... while ignoring the fact that under the same logic, the designer cannot have come about by chance either.
Science doesn't claim to understand how the entire system started. ID claims to know, while ignoring the fundamental question of who designed the designer, and who designed that designer, and so on and so forth. Something capable of creating the universe, regardless of who or what that thing is, can hardly be termed a non-complex thing.
If you'll go back to my first post, you'll see that an element of "irreducible complexity" is exhaustive comprehension of a system, and all its components. This exhaustive comprehension very specifically includes identification of ALL the system components, AND understanding of each component's function.
Then it's an entirely useless term, as we cannot yet claim to have exhaustive comprehension of much.
Perhaps the argument from "irreducible complexity" is flawed, perhaps even fatally flawed. But, at least based on the public media discussions of ID which I've seen, there's is ZERO evidence that the opponents of ID have found any such flaw.
Um...
You don't find a supreme being to be irreducibly complex?
Uh, how many news stories have you seen them quote someone and then say "so-and-so cited _______ as a source for this assertion"?
The bee flight argument is common knowledge amongst people involved in the ID debate. It's an easily verifiable claim that he didn't need to back up, and the reporter wouldn't have put it in the article regardless.
Intelligent Design -- that idea that life was created by a Really Smart Thing, as opposed to life just randomly showing up -- is supporting by things being very complex, not by things being unknown.
That's precisely the point. Bee flight has been previously termed "too complex for science to understand" by IDiots. That contention has been proven false.
f you want to disprove ID, you need to show an organism evolving from non-living matter.
No, ID is not falsifiable. It can't be proven wrong, ever. That's exactly why it's not a scientific theory.
Plus, it sucks to be using the "God of the gaps" argument when science has pretty consistently filled in the gaps.
ID proponents seem to think science needs to explain everything for it to be valid, without realizing that being able to explain everything would mean we didn't need science any more. Heh.
2 days before 9/11 the building's security systems were shut down - never happened before - including calling off the bomb dogs
Verifiably a lie. They'd been on heightened alert for two weeks due to telephone threats. That alert was lifted, and with it the need for the dogs. The hysterical version of this is, of course, "WTC bomb dogs removed", which ignores the fact that bomb dogs apparently weren't standard there prior to the temporary alert.
What are your sources for the "special groups went through" and "the building's security systems were shut down"?
Sorry, but what was the motivation for taking down WTC7 again?
"Oh, the American people won't be angry with just the two WTC towers - we need to demolish another tower most people haven't heard of a couple hours later to get them really pissed off."
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And that, my friends, is a beautiful first post. :-p
If we're talking about serious users
How about you go define "serious users" before you talk about them.
All of which required a lot of insight, careful thought, and patient experimentation.
C'mon. Originally, someone accidentially dropped a rock on another rock and it set the pine needles under it on fire.
Yeah, EVE prides itself on a single world with everyone in it, versus a bunch of different game worlds like WoW etc.
Anything ran on Wordpress, Movable type...
Takes about five minutes to remove any indication that a site runs on Wordpress or MT.
They're also rather capable content management systems commonly used for small business sites in addition to blogs.
I almost can't wait for Google's facade of goodness to slip.
Already done, in my opinion, the moment I first saw a Google Flash ad for McDonalds.
I use adblocking plugins and specifically left Google ads unblocked due to their nature. No longer. Ugh.
Were you aware of the (fewer) connections that were known before we invaded Iraq, including the trips Zarqawi made to Baghdad during the Saddam regime?
Oh, for fuck's sake, Donald Rumsfeld travelled to Baghdad during the Saddam regime! He shook hands with the man!
The White House has admitted that the Iraq-Al Qaeda connection is tenuous at best. Give it up.
Wow.
You might want to read my past comments and blog before denouncing me as a Bush lover. I'm a former Dean supporter, strongly anti-Bush, and a strong liberal.
I merely think the "catapult the propaganda" phrase could easily have been Bush saying he felt that the Democrats were putting out propaganda and he had to lob what he sees as "the truth" over that propaganda "wall".
In short, fuck off.
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?
If a guy shoots you non-fatally three times... are you going to go "SHOOT ME AGAIN! FINISH THE JOB!"?
Am I the only one who took "catapult the propaganda" to mean "get the truth over the other side's propaganda"?
The student is distributing the entire lecture, on tape, to the organization for money.
Well, for one, as stated in the article it's a cash bounty for illegally redistributing the professor's intellectual property. Universities make a lot of money off taped lectures.
Cash bounties seem a tad over the line, to me.
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Of all the species on this planet, only man receives more damage by wounds that do not physically impair him.
Other "higher" animals experience similar psychological issues. The great apes, dolphins, elephants, etc.
Mealworms don't get depressed simply because they can't realize that the world sucks.
That's the point of the Associated Press, though. It's not plagarism, the newspapers pay to be able to run AP content so they don't have to have 300 international news reporters for a small town paper.
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The concept of "irreducible complexity" does not address or postulate concerning who, or what, designed these systems. It only asserts that these systems are of a kind for which currently the only known plausible explanation is deliberate design, rather than random emergence. ... while ignoring the fact that under the same logic, the designer cannot have come about by chance either.
Science doesn't claim to understand how the entire system started. ID claims to know, while ignoring the fundamental question of who designed the designer, and who designed that designer, and so on and so forth. Something capable of creating the universe, regardless of who or what that thing is, can hardly be termed a non-complex thing.
If you'll go back to my first post, you'll see that an element of "irreducible complexity" is exhaustive comprehension of a system, and all its components. This exhaustive comprehension very specifically includes identification of ALL the system components, AND understanding of each component's function.
Then it's an entirely useless term, as we cannot yet claim to have exhaustive comprehension of much.
Your missing the point. Their evidence for it being too complex was often "science still doesn't know how it works!"
Perhaps the argument from "irreducible complexity" is flawed, perhaps even fatally flawed. But, at least based on the public media discussions of ID which I've seen, there's is ZERO evidence that the opponents of ID have found any such flaw.
Um...
You don't find a supreme being to be irreducibly complex?
Uh, how many news stories have you seen them quote someone and then say "so-and-so cited _______ as a source for this assertion"?
The bee flight argument is common knowledge amongst people involved in the ID debate. It's an easily verifiable claim that he didn't need to back up, and the reporter wouldn't have put it in the article regardless.
Intelligent Design -- that idea that life was created by a Really Smart Thing, as opposed to life just randomly showing up -- is supporting by things being very complex, not by things being unknown.
That's precisely the point. Bee flight has been previously termed "too complex for science to understand" by IDiots. That contention has been proven false.
f you want to disprove ID, you need to show an organism evolving from non-living matter.
No, ID is not falsifiable. It can't be proven wrong, ever. That's exactly why it's not a scientific theory.
Plus, it sucks to be using the "God of the gaps" argument when science has pretty consistently filled in the gaps.
ID proponents seem to think science needs to explain everything for it to be valid, without realizing that being able to explain everything would mean we didn't need science any more. Heh.
2 days before 9/11 the building's security systems were shut down - never happened before - including calling off the bomb dogs
Verifiably a lie. They'd been on heightened alert for two weeks due to telephone threats. That alert was lifted, and with it the need for the dogs. The hysterical version of this is, of course, "WTC bomb dogs removed", which ignores the fact that bomb dogs apparently weren't standard there prior to the temporary alert.
What are your sources for the "special groups went through" and "the building's security systems were shut down"?
Sorry, but what was the motivation for taking down WTC7 again?
"Oh, the American people won't be angry with just the two WTC towers - we need to demolish another tower most people haven't heard of a couple hours later to get them really pissed off."