The idea to draw from this is that if there IS a God, this God is absolutely nothing like the gods made up by the many human religions.
Then why call it 'God'? If it's so entirely different from all the hypothetical entities that have been called 'God' over the years, why not give it a different name entirely? Like, say... 'quantum fluctuation in a metastable false vacuum', or perhaps 'collision between two M-branes in a 26-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold'?
Evolution is fact everywhere. It's just more likely to be recognised as such in the UK.
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It's refreshing to read about police who aren't trying to taser everything that fails to conform.
It's a tank. You've got a taser. Good humour is the best way to handle this situation, don't you think? Unless you've got the facility to radio in an airstrike.
Note that Britain as basiclly out lawed self defense even in your own home today. Even if your daughter is being raped, in your home, you can be brought to charges for having any kind of weapon used to defend her if the attackers die.
Citation needed. You're entitled to use reasonable force against an attacker in situations such as this. If for instance an intruder is attacking a family member, and you bash him over the head with some heavy blunt instrument, you're unlikely to be charged even if he later dies of the injury you dealt him.
If on the other hand an intruder has finished attacking a family member, and he leaves, and you pursue him down the street and beat him to death in revenge, you'll rightly be up on murder charges. Shooting intruders in the back while they're fleeing is also frowned upon, as is the practice of filling your house and grounds with booby-traps in expectation of intruders.
A great many specific weapons are illegal in the UK, but the principle of self-defence remains very much in force.
Competitors complained that offering internet and media solutions with the operating system harmed competition in the marketplace (despite other operating systems such as Mac OS X and Linux apparently being immune from such criticism).
And despite MacOS X and Linux not being convicted abusive monopolists...
But.. we do need multiple squadrons of F-22 that were designed to fight the cold war, since the F-35 and Superhornet obviously aren't enough.
Actually, that might make sense. If not for the F-22, the best plane in the world would be the Typhoon, and you can rest assured we're going to sell lots and lots of those to every sheikh who turns up with the right money and mouths the right mantras about being the good sort of Muslim not the bad sort. We're going to make a fortune doing so.
Which means you lot have to spend a fortune on an even better plane, and not sell it to everybody who asks. Then you don't make any money on the deal, but you do get the ability to show those damn foreigners what's what when it comes to killing!
He interpreted the oath to mean that he would preserve, protect, and defend the office of President, and execute the Constitution. This may explain why he considers himself to be a great leader -- he has brilliantly lived up to the oath of office as he understood it.
And as a Texan, he's not going to be at all hesitant about executing things, is he?
That's the upper limit on the mass of a white dwarf before it collapses to form a neutron star. Electron degeneracy pressure can only support up to 1.4 solar masses.
We don't know the physics of neutrons quite as well as we do electrons, so we can't do the same calculation to find when a neutron star collapses to a black hole. There's an upper limit at about 5 solar masses - assuming neutronium is totally incompressible, that's when the pressure and hence the gravitational force approaches infinity - but the real critical mass is probably rather less. Finding lightweight black holes gives us a clue as to what it might actually be.
There's no way they can prove that the "defendant made an 'offer to distribute,' and that the offer was for "'the purpose of further distribution,'".
Er... what? Connecting to a torrent tracker and advertising what chunks of the data you have is an offer to distribute those chunks to anybody else on the tracker who asks. And on the balance of probabilities, that offer is genuine - unless she's a ratio cheat.
Same goes for other P2P systems. Listing a file as shared when a search request comes through is an offer to distribute that file, and unless you're one of those virus nodes that offers the same stupid VBS file to every search, the balance of probabilities is that you intend to honour that offer.
As I understood it, TorrentSpy were ordered to begin keeping logs. Not to hand over logs that didn't exist, but to begin logging and hand that over. NYC could do the same here, but that wouldn't get them the information from 2004.
It's a decryption key for HD-DVD. There was quite a fuss about it last year when some hackers derived and published it. That hexadecimal number is an illegal circumvention device, and telling you about it is a violation of the DMCA. That, of course, is censorship. Incredibly ineffective censorship, but censorship nonetheless. Censorship which is also why, having first installed an OS distribution, you have to download additional libraries from free countries before you can view DVDs.
We are very protected given our location in the universe (which it has been shown is the center given the concentric circles of variation within the CMB radiation)
It would be very amusing for the folks on the ISS though.
Fortunately, they'll be vapourised when the Earth collapses. All that mass falling through an infinite gravity well releases a whole lot of potential energy. The flash will far outshine the Sun, at least for a moment...
Can you guess which team is doing the Nazi salute? It's the England team.
Both teams are saluting - and indeed why should they not? In 1938, the war was still a year off, and Hitler, though decidedly unpleasant, was not yet the genocidal monster history records.
Nonetheless, legend has it that one of the England players has in fact rotated his hand 180 degrees, curled up most but not all of his fingers, and is giving Hitler the salute he deserves;-)
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Then why call it 'God'? If it's so entirely different from all the hypothetical entities that have been called 'God' over the years, why not give it a different name entirely? Like, say... 'quantum fluctuation in a metastable false vacuum', or perhaps 'collision between two M-branes in a 26-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold'?
Evolution is fact everywhere. It's just more likely to be recognised as such in the UK.
It's a tank. You've got a taser. Good humour is the best way to handle this situation, don't you think? Unless you've got the facility to radio in an airstrike.
Citation needed. You're entitled to use reasonable force against an attacker in situations such as this. If for instance an intruder is attacking a family member, and you bash him over the head with some heavy blunt instrument, you're unlikely to be charged even if he later dies of the injury you dealt him.
If on the other hand an intruder has finished attacking a family member, and he leaves, and you pursue him down the street and beat him to death in revenge, you'll rightly be up on murder charges. Shooting intruders in the back while they're fleeing is also frowned upon, as is the practice of filling your house and grounds with booby-traps in expectation of intruders.
A great many specific weapons are illegal in the UK, but the principle of self-defence remains very much in force.
You would make a machine to imitate a human mind?
I don't remember those, though it's been a while since I've read Dune. Got a page reference?
And despite MacOS X and Linux not being convicted abusive monopolists...
Actually, that might make sense. If not for the F-22, the best plane in the world would be the Typhoon, and you can rest assured we're going to sell lots and lots of those to every sheikh who turns up with the right money and mouths the right mantras about being the good sort of Muslim not the bad sort. We're going to make a fortune doing so.
Which means you lot have to spend a fortune on an even better plane, and not sell it to everybody who asks. Then you don't make any money on the deal, but you do get the ability to show those damn foreigners what's what when it comes to killing!
When you reign, you rule a country personally and in your own right. Reigning is what a King does, and it's something we'd like to see a lot less of.
George Bush needs to be reined in. That's what you do to a horse that's misbehaving and getting out of control.
Now there's a good way to encourage nuclear stockpile reductions!
And as a Texan, he's not going to be at all hesitant about executing things, is he?
We don't know the physics of neutrons quite as well as we do electrons, so we can't do the same calculation to find when a neutron star collapses to a black hole. There's an upper limit at about 5 solar masses - assuming neutronium is totally incompressible, that's when the pressure and hence the gravitational force approaches infinity - but the real critical mass is probably rather less. Finding lightweight black holes gives us a clue as to what it might actually be.
You misspelled 'IBM'.
Or possibly 'Screen Of Death'.
Er... what? Connecting to a torrent tracker and advertising what chunks of the data you have is an offer to distribute those chunks to anybody else on the tracker who asks. And on the balance of probabilities, that offer is genuine - unless she's a ratio cheat.
Same goes for other P2P systems. Listing a file as shared when a search request comes through is an offer to distribute that file, and unless you're one of those virus nodes that offers the same stupid VBS file to every search, the balance of probabilities is that you intend to honour that offer.
As I understood it, TorrentSpy were ordered to begin keeping logs. Not to hand over logs that didn't exist, but to begin logging and hand that over. NYC could do the same here, but that wouldn't get them the information from 2004.
In case you guys don't believe it: yes, we pay $20 for a music CD, and think it's cheap. Amazing, isn't it?
It's a decryption key for HD-DVD. There was quite a fuss about it last year when some hackers derived and published it. That hexadecimal number is an illegal circumvention device, and telling you about it is a violation of the DMCA. That, of course, is censorship. Incredibly ineffective censorship, but censorship nonetheless. Censorship which is also why, having first installed an OS distribution, you have to download additional libraries from free countries before you can view DVDs.
Citation needed.
You can call yourselves a bloc when you sort out that lumber thing.
Fortunately, they'll be vapourised when the Earth collapses. All that mass falling through an infinite gravity well releases a whole lot of potential energy. The flash will far outshine the Sun, at least for a moment...
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Both teams are saluting - and indeed why should they not? In 1938, the war was still a year off, and Hitler, though decidedly unpleasant, was not yet the genocidal monster history records.
Nonetheless, legend has it that one of the England players has in fact rotated his hand 180 degrees, curled up most but not all of his fingers, and is giving Hitler the salute he deserves ;-)
... behind their flood barriers.
Not always a terribly effective one, though. The phrases 'Did you threaten to overrule him' and 'Peter Mandelson is certainly gay' spring to mind.
The same is true of pretty much everybody in the world.
(the list is long and pointless to this argument)
Au contraire. Without the list, you have no argument at all.