You are still wrong. It doesn't disprove creationism. Maybe to someone who has an axe to grind; say you, for instance.
You are welcome to your shortsighted opinion of the stupidity of creationists, but you yourself seem to completely ignore the fact that evolution is a theory, one disputed by a lot of scientific evidence. The laws of thermodynamics for instance.
In any case, your words are just that. Replace creationism with evolution and the tables are turned:
No, but it does disprove evolution. People who think that evolution = discredit of Christianity = no proof of God are rather stupid to begin with, unfortunately, so I'm afraid it won't help that much overall, but at least it's nice for the feel-good factor of people with brains:-)
See how you didn't really say anything important, you only unfairly attacked people who think different from you.
A hybrid plant, engineered through human intervention, somehow proves evolution?
I think you are taking an even bigger leap than you think creationists are taking.
It's amazing to me the vitriol that every day laymen will assume when they get all fired up about some new study that "proves" evolution and debunks all those hayseed creationists.
Rick Berman, YOU are the problem here. You ruined what Voyager could have been and you ruined what Nemesis could have been. You are the problem. You are a talentless fsck with not a creative bone in your body. It's hilarious that YOU would be wondering why the movie didn't do so well.
A simple answer to the question:
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Who gives a damn? XML is generally a pain in the ass, long winded, over-the-top way to store simple data. Simple comma delimited text files are more than sufficient enough for many data needs and serious people who need real data storage of complex relational data use a database engine of some sort.
The conclusion? There isn't much development of Perl XML tools because no one cares about them. XML, with the exception of a few specialized purposes, is a buzzword for marketdroids and the technically incompetent. Why should I spend hours working out an application to parse XML data when I can write a quick script in any language to parse a comma separated text file in a few minutes?
When will the greedy American public come to realize that they are wasting our precious phone number resources? Every single call you make helps evil American corporations funnel money to terrorist groups in Arab countries who supply the energy to power your phone. On top of that cell phones and fax machines are dangerous and can cause serious harm to others in an accident. Instead of using those piggish energy guzzling status symbols, a cheap Radio Shack phone in your home works just as well, without the dangerous depletion and dependence on our precious phone number resource.
What right do the few thousand people, who desire the work of art, have to obtain it? I'd like the Mona Lisa in my living room. Do I have a right to have it there even if it's owned by someone else? Is it the governments responsibility to take away that right of someone else just because I want it? A big fat no.
It amazes me that people like you walk around and spout this sort of garbage. The idea that checks and balances means that Republicans control the Congress and Democrats controll the Presidency or vise versa, is moronic. What did you even do in school? Take extra-curricular activities all day long?
I doubt you'd be bitching if the Congress and Presidency were controlled by your Democrat buddies and the Supreme Court controlled by liberals with an agenda, would you now? No, of course not. It's only the end of the world if Republicans are in control.
And on top of that, how the hell are we being screwed if the owner of a copyrighted material gets to retain that copyright? Mickey Mouse being Disney's property is hurting you exactly how?
You miss the point. The company that did the R&D spent a lot of money trying to develop the technology. If another governement or company can just come and steal the results of that work, eliminating the ability for the first company to make that money spent on R&D back, what is the incentive for any other company to do the R&D in the first place? None. Companies are not in business to provide charities with a steady income. They are there to make money for themselves, their stock holders and hopfully employ a lot of people in the process. Why do you work? When you get your paycheck, do you dream about the ways you can give it to someone else less fortunate? Or do you think about the food and clothing you and your family needs, or maybe the rent you need to pay?
I'll eat my hat if you can give me a good example of where a govermental agency came up with something even close to a cure for a cancer or desease without using a private company to do it.
Without those "evil" profit-mongering corporations you wouldn't have a fscking hell of a lot of lifesaving drugs, technologies and procedures at your disposal.
Seriously, in defense of Christianity, and I am agnostic, scant few Christians subscribe to creationism or intelligent design, so whatever you may believe be careful not to stereotype Christians based on it.
I seriously disagree with this comment and I defy you to prove this with any sort of even remotely reasonable statistical evidence.
Don't presume to substitute your own opinions for fact.
Contrary to most theory here, things are not free. Running a web site, especially one that can withstand the slashdot effect costs a good deal of money.
If ads are evil, greedy, wrong, blah, blah. How do you all propose that the sites you like to visit are funded?
Why the hell else would you give a politician money? The point of giving them money is to try to influence what they do. Why is this all the sudden suprising to people? What other reason could you possibly have to give a politician money?
Would you like it if the janitors in your building complained that you made more than they ever will and fought for a salary reduction for you?
Hell no you wouldn't. Socialists are nothing more than envious elitists. You hate that someone else has more than you and have plenty of ideas of how to take that wealth from them, but you sure as hell aren't going to give up your own piece of the pie for someone else.
Every game worth playing Photoshop Outlook Express (have to have good IMAP support) Did I mention games? Testing my html code in IE easily mIRC (I know.. not the best reason.) I said games, right? A decent IM client. (Trillian is my choice)
Why is this an Ask Slasdot question? A simple google search will give you what you need.
You can easily buy a free standing rack that will support several units worth of servers. It looks like two large 'L' brackets joined at the base with a cross-piece and is tilted backwards to help support the weight.
"I don't know how to wipe my ass and I'm too lazy to do it even if I did. What are everyone's thoughts here on ass wiping theory?"
This is true. Our paper ballot is so simple. It's about a 11x17 sized card, clearly printed in large type. One simply draws a line to complete an arrow pointing to the candidate he wishes to vote for.
Excellent point. Without a paper trail to back up a vote, we have no way of knowing that an electronic system has not been tampered with. Sure, you can mark a paper ballot wrong, but you can mark an electronic ballot wrong too. So, what exactly do you get from an electronic system that you don't have now? Less credibility, IMO.
No electronic system is going to save the ignorant people who can not mark a ballot correctly. It will only worsen the problem. Ever stand in line at the grocery store for 10 minutes waiting on that goofball who can't use the ATM reader? Come on.. raise your hands.. I bet every single slashdot reader here has experienced that.
That's what the voting machines in Florida were like this year and that's how it will be around the country if even more electronic systems are implemented.
Your big fear in life should not be whether a techo-cracker-thief is going to intercept your private wireless communications with your vehicle.
If your car is stolen, you insurance company will take care of it. That's why you pay them so much money each month. You can just buy a new one. Consider that you are helping the economy and the thousands of assembly line workers in the car industry by buying cars often.
I have an ask slashdot question myself: do your inboxes not have any better "Ask Slashdot how to wipe my ass" questions than this?
Boy, that will get my post modded to troll for sure. (tee, hee hee)
Murder is unlawful. Rape is unlawful. Larceny is unlawful. Libel is unlawful. Owning an automatic weapon is unlawful.
These things still happen in this country on a daily basis.
Now, tell me how a law is going to stop teleco's from doing this? A law provides an avenue for law enforcement and the judicial system to apprehend and punish those who break it, but doesn't necessarily stop it from happening.
It's unfortunate that a few extreme sick-minded individuals advocate the murder of doctors, but it's unfair and ignorant to apply that to the entire group of people who believe that abortion is wrong.
How does this even have anything to do with my original comment? Did I say I support the murder of an abortion doctors? No, I thought I was clear in saying that murder was hate, did I not?
You are another perfect example of a narrowminded person, labeling people or causes with unfair stereotypes. It's amazing that a conservative pro-life individual would be accused of being the narrominded one in this country when you make ignorant comments like this.
Just an FYI here, Deadpool is no more. He was "killed" off, and the book was cancelled.
To be honest, good riddence, I say. The writing has been horrible every since Joe Kelly left the scene some 20+ issues ago. Deadpool just hasn't been Deadpool with out Kelly at the helm.
Deadpool has now been reborn as Agent-X with a new creative team and they've actually been doing a pretty good job since they started working with the title. The style feels like the old Deadpool even if the character doesn't look the same and it's fun to read.
A philosophical tenet of this country, and a constiutional duty of our government is to protect it's citizens from harm by foriegn entities. If it requires the need to topple a foriegn country, even a democratically elected country, so be it.
Of course, you can always debate whether or not certain countries are really threats to our security.
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You are welcome to your shortsighted opinion of the stupidity of creationists, but you yourself seem to completely ignore the fact that evolution is a theory, one disputed by a lot of scientific evidence. The laws of thermodynamics for instance.
In any case, your words are just that. Replace creationism with evolution and the tables are turned:
No, but it does disprove evolution. People who think that evolution = discredit of Christianity = no proof of God are rather stupid to begin with, unfortunately, so I'm afraid it won't help that much overall, but at least it's nice for the feel-good factor of people with brains :-)
See how you didn't really say anything important, you only unfairly attacked people who think different from you.
oops. *must read article better next time* Not engineered by human intervention. *sigh* my comment isn't as funny now.
A hybrid plant, engineered through human intervention, somehow proves evolution?
I think you are taking an even bigger leap than you think creationists are taking.
It's amazing to me the vitriol that every day laymen will assume when they get all fired up about some new study that "proves" evolution and debunks all those hayseed creationists.
srand;
$junk_science = rand 1000000;
$evolution = $junk_science;
$evolution += $science_with_an_agenda*1000;
print $evolution;
Rick Berman, YOU are the problem here. You ruined what Voyager could have been and you ruined what Nemesis could have been. You are the problem. You are a talentless fsck with not a creative bone in your body. It's hilarious that YOU would be wondering why the movie didn't do so well.
Who gives a damn? XML is generally a pain in the ass, long winded, over-the-top way to store simple data. Simple comma delimited text files are more than sufficient enough for many data needs and serious people who need real data storage of complex relational data use a database engine of some sort.
The conclusion? There isn't much development of Perl XML tools because no one cares about them. XML, with the exception of a few specialized purposes, is a buzzword for marketdroids and the technically incompetent. Why should I spend hours working out an application to parse XML data when I can write a quick script in any language to parse a comma separated text file in a few minutes?
Maybe CSV isn't quite as kewl sounding as XML?
When will the greedy American public come to realize that they are wasting our precious phone number resources? Every single call you make helps evil American corporations funnel money to terrorist groups in Arab countries who supply the energy to power your phone. On top of that cell phones and fax machines are dangerous and can cause serious harm to others in an accident. Instead of using those piggish energy guzzling status symbols, a cheap Radio Shack phone in your home works just as well, without the dangerous depletion and dependence on our precious phone number resource.
What right do the few thousand people, who desire the work of art, have to obtain it? I'd like the Mona Lisa in my living room. Do I have a right to have it there even if it's owned by someone else? Is it the governments responsibility to take away that right of someone else just because I want it? A big fat no.
It amazes me that people like you walk around and spout this sort of garbage. The idea that checks and balances means that Republicans control the Congress and Democrats controll the Presidency or vise versa, is moronic. What did you even do in school? Take extra-curricular activities all day long?
I doubt you'd be bitching if the Congress and Presidency were controlled by your Democrat buddies and the Supreme Court controlled by liberals with an agenda, would you now? No, of course not. It's only the end of the world if Republicans are in control.
And on top of that, how the hell are we being screwed if the owner of a copyrighted material gets to retain that copyright? Mickey Mouse being Disney's property is hurting you exactly how?
You miss the point. The company that did the R&D spent a lot of money trying to develop the technology. If another governement or company can just come and steal the results of that work, eliminating the ability for the first company to make that money spent on R&D back, what is the incentive for any other company to do the R&D in the first place? None. Companies are not in business to provide charities with a steady income. They are there to make money for themselves, their stock holders and hopfully employ a lot of people in the process. Why do you work? When you get your paycheck, do you dream about the ways you can give it to someone else less fortunate? Or do you think about the food and clothing you and your family needs, or maybe the rent you need to pay?
I'll eat my hat if you can give me a good example of where a govermental agency came up with something even close to a cure for a cancer or desease without using a private company to do it.
Without those "evil" profit-mongering corporations you wouldn't have a fscking hell of a lot of lifesaving drugs, technologies and procedures at your disposal.
I got a Sony Clie. Beat that! =)
Seriously, in defense of Christianity, and I am agnostic, scant few Christians subscribe to creationism or intelligent design, so whatever you may believe be careful not to stereotype Christians based on it.
I seriously disagree with this comment and I defy you to prove this with any sort of even remotely reasonable statistical evidence.
Don't presume to substitute your own opinions for fact.
Contrary to most theory here, things are not free. Running a web site, especially one that can withstand the slashdot effect costs a good deal of money.
If ads are evil, greedy, wrong, blah, blah. How do you all propose that the sites you like to visit are funded?
Why the hell else would you give a politician money? The point of giving them money is to try to influence what they do. Why is this all the sudden suprising to people? What other reason could you possibly have to give a politician money?
Would you like it if the janitors in your building complained that you made more than they ever will and fought for a salary reduction for you?
Hell no you wouldn't. Socialists are nothing more than envious elitists. You hate that someone else has more than you and have plenty of ideas of how to take that wealth from them, but you sure as hell aren't going to give up your own piece of the pie for someone else.
You aren't a troll, just a selfish bastard.
Every game worth playing
Photoshop
Outlook Express (have to have good IMAP support)
Did I mention games?
Testing my html code in IE easily
mIRC (I know.. not the best reason.)
I said games, right?
A decent IM client. (Trillian is my choice)
Why is this an Ask Slasdot question? A simple google search will give you what you need.
You can easily buy a free standing rack that will support several units worth of servers. It looks like two large 'L' brackets joined at the base with a cross-piece and is tilted backwards to help support the weight.
"I don't know how to wipe my ass and I'm too lazy to do it even if I did. What are everyone's thoughts here on ass wiping theory?"
This is true. Our paper ballot is so simple. It's about a 11x17 sized card, clearly printed in large type. One simply draws a line to complete an arrow pointing to the candidate he wishes to vote for.
Excellent point. Without a paper trail to back up a vote, we have no way of knowing that an electronic system has not been tampered with. Sure, you can mark a paper ballot wrong, but you can mark an electronic ballot wrong too. So, what exactly do you get from an electronic system that you don't have now? Less credibility, IMO.
No electronic system is going to save the ignorant people who can not mark a ballot correctly. It will only worsen the problem. Ever stand in line at the grocery store for 10 minutes waiting on that goofball who can't use the ATM reader? Come on.. raise your hands.. I bet every single slashdot reader here has experienced that.
That's what the voting machines in Florida were like this year and that's how it will be around the country if even more electronic systems are implemented.
A computer that runs through public information looking for known/suspected terrorists. This is bad?
Exactly how? What's different than a team of investigators doing the same exact thing by hand, other than the difference in speed?
LET THE KNEE JERKING BEGIN!
Your big fear in life should not be whether a techo-cracker-thief is going to intercept your private wireless communications with your vehicle.
If your car is stolen, you insurance company will take care of it. That's why you pay them so much money each month. You can just buy a new one. Consider that you are helping the economy and the thousands of assembly line workers in the car industry by buying cars often.
I have an ask slashdot question myself: do your inboxes not have any better "Ask Slashdot how to wipe my ass" questions than this?
Boy, that will get my post modded to troll for sure. (tee, hee hee)
When has a law ever stopped a behavior?
Murder is unlawful.
Rape is unlawful.
Larceny is unlawful.
Libel is unlawful.
Owning an automatic weapon is unlawful.
These things still happen in this country on a daily basis.
Now, tell me how a law is going to stop teleco's from doing this? A law provides an avenue for law enforcement and the judicial system to apprehend and punish those who break it, but doesn't necessarily stop it from happening.
It's unfortunate that a few extreme sick-minded individuals advocate the murder of doctors, but it's unfair and ignorant to apply that to the entire group of people who believe that abortion is wrong.
How does this even have anything to do with my original comment? Did I say I support the murder of an abortion doctors? No, I thought I was clear in saying that murder was hate, did I not?
You are another perfect example of a narrowminded person, labeling people or causes with unfair stereotypes. It's amazing that a conservative pro-life individual would be accused of being the narrominded one in this country when you make ignorant comments like this.
Just an FYI here, Deadpool is no more. He was "killed" off, and the book was cancelled.
To be honest, good riddence, I say. The writing has been horrible every since Joe Kelly left the scene some 20+ issues ago. Deadpool just hasn't been Deadpool with out Kelly at the helm.
Deadpool has now been reborn as Agent-X with a new creative team and they've actually been doing a pretty good job since they started working with the title. The style feels like the old Deadpool even if the character doesn't look the same and it's fun to read.
THIS is funny.. keep modding this one up.
Which government are you refering to?
A philosophical tenet of this country, and a constiutional duty of our government is to protect it's citizens from harm by foriegn entities. If it requires the need to topple a foriegn country, even a democratically elected country, so be it.
Of course, you can always debate whether or not certain countries are really threats to our security.