These other gods they just don't call by this name, preferring to call them "nature", "laws" and the like.
Are you saying that nature doesn't exist or are you just calling everything God? I define God to be the chair I am sitting on. Therefore, God exists, gives me much needed support, and definitely exists in concrete reality. My God also has a convenient swivel feature that your Christian God probably doesn't have.
Astrology is not a model, and can't be proven wrong as it is not evidence based, and makes no testable predictions.
You could easily study Astrology scientifically. Get a bunch of people of different signs and have them report the correspondence between the daily astrological predictions and a few randomized control predictions in their daily lives. Horoscopes are testable predictions.
Make no mistake, what I am saying here is that an open mind be kept on BOTH sides.
There aren't two sides; there are an infinite number of them. For instance, there is the third side that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe five minutes ago. Then there are the turtles all the way down. Then there are the invisible pink unicorns. Etc. There are an infinite number of non-falsifiable assertions. "God did it" is only one.
Computers and software as you know it today will be so antiquated You Newest and Fanciest Computer Today in a hundred years will be like those Machanical Adding Machienes 100 years ago.
I suspect computers 100 years from now will still be Turing-complete. Additionally, I suspect that 2 + 2 will still be 4.
"In a nutshell, Galileo thoroughly flamed the Pope. In public. In some of the most annoying ways possible. If someone did that on Slashdot, he'd end up at +5 Insightful in 5 minutes flat."
Yeah, no one's ever been murdered in the name of atheism.
Ha-ha, only serious. OTOH, lots of people died as a consequence of the religions of Nazism and Stalinism. All absolute ideologies are suspect and dangerous. Atheism is the acceptance of objective reality on an as-is basis.
I don't think it'll be downloads. I think it'll be pervasive high-bandwidth wire-ful and wireless on-demand access that will replace discs. I've been binging on Stargate Atlantis season 4 for the past couple of days. It's available on-demand from my cable provider on a pay-TV channel, with some of the episodes available in high-def. This arrangement works fine and I probably won't be buying it on disc. I don't even have to get off my couch to change discs; I just surf through some menus on my cable box and it starts playing immediately.
The extra features aren't available, but I think that within a single-digit number of years, the cable/satellite/phone/whatever companies will have a library of every piece of recorded entertainment ever made available in high definition with all the extras for an almost-reasonable price. Why bother collecting a bunch of discs that you probably won't really watch that many times when you can access whatever you want any time you want?
I think the future will be on-demand, not downloaded or disc.
and deserving of billions of dollars of tax investment
In reading that comment I am picturing you pronouncing the word as "beel-ions" while raising your pinky to the corner of your mouth while the people on the closed-circuit TV monitor stare blankly and then laugh hysterically.
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Yeah, I was saying that Russia is not a leading economy and does not deserve to be a member of the Gn.
+5 Funny. I think you mean the G7 group of leading economies.
And people say you can't make money by giving your software away.
The most important thing to remember is that Fox News offers opinion rather than news.
There is no greater predictor in all of social science than children with A.D.D. committing criminal offenses as adults.
False. The Soviets pledged to outlive the US. The translator mistranslated. There is no mistranslating what Hamas has said.
Are you saying that nature doesn't exist or are you just calling everything God? I define God to be the chair I am sitting on. Therefore, God exists, gives me much needed support, and definitely exists in concrete reality. My God also has a convenient swivel feature that your Christian God probably doesn't have.
You could easily study Astrology scientifically. Get a bunch of people of different signs and have them report the correspondence between the daily astrological predictions and a few randomized control predictions in their daily lives. Horoscopes are testable predictions.
False. Governments have the right and the duty to protect the relatively free market from abusive monopolies.
There aren't two sides; there are an infinite number of them. For instance, there is the third side that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe five minutes ago. Then there are the turtles all the way down. Then there are the invisible pink unicorns. Etc. There are an infinite number of non-falsifiable assertions. "God did it" is only one.
I suspect computers 100 years from now will still be Turing-complete. Additionally, I suspect that 2 + 2 will still be 4.
It shouldn't. "A + theist" = "without god". "Anti + theist" = "against god".
"In a nutshell, Galileo thoroughly flamed the Pope. In public. In some of the most annoying ways possible. If someone did that on Slashdot, he'd end up at +5 Insightful in 5 minutes flat."
There, fixed that for you.
Ha-ha, only serious. OTOH, lots of people died as a consequence of the religions of Nazism and Stalinism. All absolute ideologies are suspect and dangerous. Atheism is the acceptance of objective reality on an as-is basis.
You need to evolve your post to include more weasel words to make it a less blatant strawman. You only earn the rank of semi-educated juvenile.
Your analysis of Obama vs. Clinton vs. McCain is off-topic!
I don't think it'll be downloads. I think it'll be pervasive high-bandwidth wire-ful and wireless on-demand access that will replace discs. I've been binging on Stargate Atlantis season 4 for the past couple of days. It's available on-demand from my cable provider on a pay-TV channel, with some of the episodes available in high-def. This arrangement works fine and I probably won't be buying it on disc. I don't even have to get off my couch to change discs; I just surf through some menus on my cable box and it starts playing immediately.
The extra features aren't available, but I think that within a single-digit number of years, the cable/satellite/phone/whatever companies will have a library of every piece of recorded entertainment ever made available in high definition with all the extras for an almost-reasonable price. Why bother collecting a bunch of discs that you probably won't really watch that many times when you can access whatever you want any time you want?
I think the future will be on-demand, not downloaded or disc.
That is unpossible!
In addition to being superfluous, God is infinitely more complex than the system being described. Seems more like a situation for Occam's Machete.
They could always void all of Microsoft's copyrights in the EU. That would remove billions of dollars per quarter from Microsoft's revenue.
And now, by going for the $20K, he gets nothing.
We just need to get all the robots to vent their exhausts in a single direction. We can use nuclear winter to cancel out global warming.
I read about it in a 1960's science book.
Not to worry — there is no such thing.
In reading that comment I am picturing you pronouncing the word as "beel-ions" while raising your pinky to the corner of your mouth while the people on the closed-circuit TV monitor stare blankly and then laugh hysterically.