"God did it" is a cheat that merely pushes the creation question from wondering about how the universe came to be to wondering how God came to be. It is not the simplest explanation, also fitting Occam's Razor. It is one of the grossest violations of it (arguably the grossest. What, after all, is bigger and more complex than God?)
After all, if no one created God, then why couldn't it also be true that no one created the Universe?
> Everything other than your existence could be > an illusion.
Actually, there are two things you know for sure.
1. That you exist 2. That your perceptions are real.
The chair may or may not exist, but your perception of it definitely exists, and you do experience it (the perception) directly as a thing-in-itself (as philosophers are wont to say.)
Then Sartre concludes no one must read anything but what the Communist Party permits. Sigh.
> I think a strict agnostic is one who believes > it is impossible to prove or disprove the > existence of God.
I consider myself an athiest. Currently, I see no reason, nor a need to propose or suggest that a god exists. Therefore I conclude, reasonably, that there is none.
However, I also know that, given typical definitions of God, that such a god could indeed hide arbitrarily well from me. Therefore I may also conclude that such a god could not be proven to exist nor to not exist, lest that god allow it to be proven.
So why believe in (or even wonder about) something that deliberately makes itself and its activities indistinguishable from a random universe? (Deviations from random are provable.)
Proposing an infinitely powerful and all-knowing God is about as massive a violation of Occam's Razor as I can imagine. It even exceeds the physics idea that every possible quantum event measurement occurs, each splitting off into countless high exponent numbers of parallel words, each and every nanosecond.
It's also meaningless as "God made the universe" is absolutely mathematically indistinguishible from "I don't know how the universe came to be."
Y'alls do realize the original purpose of.dll's wasn't to save disk space, but was to make drag-and-drop copying of things like Word much more difficult, don't you?
> then you can write a simple XML file for each > one, that controls exactly which version they > get.
At this point, 999 out of 1,000 computer users slap you in the face.
It's real simple! All ya gotta do is go into the registry, go to Local User Machine->{128741-418fu2-21980-eat-me-2090dope}->so ftware->settings->setup->install->1.0->data->(your network login ID) and change the third byte's 3rd bit (do this on a calculator if you need to), then map a drive to the pseudo drive created by fuczkzzzzzzzzzzzzzz so very tired.
The only way for Gore to have won would be to interpret all the hanging chad crap for Gore as well as all the double punches, oops-Pat-Robertson votes, etc.
Time Enuf For Love : Fantasize sex with your gorgeous, red headed momma, whose beautiful hair goes down past her waist
To Sail Beyond The Sunset : Have sex with your gorgeous, red headed momma, whose beautiful hair goes down past her waist
The only sad thing was Lazurus never did get the chance to go back to that planet of telekinetic aliens who kicked the families out and show 'em what for.
Anyone who thinks the US ranks between Bulgaria and Estonia is on crack. It's called reality check, my friends.
These studies use subjective weighting to give importance to things socialist countries do well, like providing lots of bike paths and giving free, if substandard, medical care to everybody, while minimizing the value of things like simple freedom.
Presumably they caught the dissidents, sawed off their heads, then went to the country the dissidents came from and said, "Give up your leaders, or suffer their fate."
Then they went after Dr. Doom and Lex Luthor because they kinda helped, maybe, or might help again, and were real SoB's anyway.
Damnit, people, you just hook the earth end to a huge, powerful, fast winch. If it breaks, flip 'er on, and crank her down faster than she can fall. Have it pile up in a huge pile out behind the anchor, or just feed it down into the ocean, accordingly.
Quite honestly, I can't see a big honkin' cable doing all that much damage unless it falls thru some major cities as it wraps around, which would probably be stastically unlikely.
A hundred and six hours? 75 year old Supreme Court justices work 120 hours.
I once worked 145 hours in a week in crunch time for a telematics show in Europe, and 450 hours over a 5 week period that same time. Longest work day? 33 hours.
106 hours, I could do that with a malfunctioning pacemaker, a headache, and a snack machine out of everything but dry, oversalted pretzels and black licorice Good-n-Plenty.
An edit button would be nice, but Slashdotters would probably misuse it to craft and recraft their messages to make responders look like buffoons. I know I would!
Didn't they die out a long time ago, their precious New World knowledge being pretty much lost and thus of no good to anyone?
Much more interesting is that Columbus may have had an inkling of a New World from rumors floating around those islands (?) way east off the coast of Africa, and used "I'm goin' ta India!" as a cover story to get funding.
> but nobody would say we can't match the feats > of ENIAC, or that we're behind where we were in > the 40s.
Exactly! In fact, the US's problem is that it dumps too much money into the fanciest, best equipment. For a human moon mission, the money might be better spent sending lots of low-cost supplies to the moon, using a robot or two to set up a base, then sending people there. Much safer and cheaper.
> Which was simply to establish "First Post" > bragging rights on the Moon. Which gives the > USA all the enduring value of "FP!" claim on > slashdot.
I don't know. "First dick" bragging rights on Britney is a comparably pretty awesome thing to getting to the moon. RESTRAINTS FAILING! NOTHING CAN HOLD HULK! MUST TROLL! Not that anyone around here would know about penis usage literally, not figuratively, vis-a-vis. HULK CALMING DOWN. CHANGING...Changing...Banner again...ahhh....
Anyway, remember that much of the cold war was a populist war with governments, improperly, defining who was greatest by which one could spend the most on the largest show projects. Robert Heinlein wrote of a trip thru the USSR in the 1960's and being shown stadium after stadium in the various cities. woo. hoo.
Of course, any freedom-loving capitalist worth their salt knows you don't define the success and goodness of a country based on how gigantic a project can be made from money taken at the point of a gun.
> Anyone who would say that Lexx and Cleopatra > 2525 held thier interest doesn't need my help.
Some day you'll go thru puberty, then you'll understand. I know an uberdork who didn't start liking girls until 10th damn grade! Theoretically, some must reach college or even beyond.
> before you have time to multiply
Looks like we need not worry about this for you, either (see above.)
Actually, they deserve it (assuming they thought it up.)
Remember that this was a time of command line goodness where you had to type in commands, and had no confirmation on things like "del *.*".
There were plenty of OSes where you had to "expunge" files that were merely deleted before they'd actually be erased, but to simply drag a file (or folder) into the trash, my goodness, how awesome that was.
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"God did it" is a cheat that merely pushes the creation question from wondering about how the universe came to be to wondering how God came to be. It is not the simplest explanation, also fitting Occam's Razor. It is one of the grossest violations of it (arguably the grossest. What, after all, is bigger and more complex than God?)
After all, if no one created God, then why couldn't it also be true that no one created the Universe?
> Everything other than your existence could be
> an illusion.
Actually, there are two things you know for sure.
1. That you exist
2. That your perceptions are real.
The chair may or may not exist, but your perception of it definitely exists, and you do experience it (the perception) directly as a thing-in-itself (as philosophers are wont to say.)
Then Sartre concludes no one must read anything but what the Communist Party permits. Sigh.
> I think a strict agnostic is one who believes
> it is impossible to prove or disprove the
> existence of God.
I consider myself an athiest. Currently, I see no reason, nor a need to propose or suggest that a god exists. Therefore I conclude, reasonably, that there is none.
However, I also know that, given typical definitions of God, that such a god could indeed hide arbitrarily well from me. Therefore I may also conclude that such a god could not be proven to exist nor to not exist, lest that god allow it to be proven.
So why believe in (or even wonder about) something that deliberately makes itself and its activities indistinguishable from a random universe? (Deviations from random are provable.)
Proposing an infinitely powerful and all-knowing God is about as massive a violation of Occam's Razor as I can imagine. It even exceeds the physics idea that every possible quantum event measurement occurs, each splitting off into countless high exponent numbers of parallel words, each and every nanosecond.
It's also meaningless as "God made the universe" is absolutely mathematically indistinguishible from "I don't know how the universe came to be."
Y'alls do realize the original purpose of .dll's wasn't to save disk space, but was to make drag-and-drop copying of things like Word much more difficult, don't you?
So, too, the system registry.
We now return you to your shared delusions.
> then you can write a simple XML file for each
o ftware->settings->setup->install->1.0->data->(your network login ID) and change the third byte's 3rd bit (do this on a calculator if you need to), then map a drive to the pseudo drive created by fuczkzzzzzzzzzzzzzz so very tired.
> one, that controls exactly which version they
> get.
At this point, 999 out of 1,000 computer users slap you in the face.
It's real simple! All ya gotta do is go into the registry, go to Local User Machine->{128741-418fu2-21980-eat-me-2090dope}->s
The only way for Gore to have won would be to interpret all the hanging chad crap for Gore as well as all the double punches, oops-Pat-Robertson votes, etc.
Heinlein had space elevators?
**Thinks**
Time Enuf For Love : Fantasize sex with your gorgeous, red headed momma, whose beautiful hair goes down past her waist
To Sail Beyond The Sunset : Have sex with your gorgeous, red headed momma, whose beautiful hair goes down past her waist
The only sad thing was Lazurus never did get the chance to go back to that planet of telekinetic aliens who kicked the families out and show 'em what for.
Anyone who thinks the US ranks between Bulgaria and Estonia is on crack. It's called reality check, my friends.
These studies use subjective weighting to give importance to things socialist countries do well, like providing lots of bike paths and giving free, if substandard, medical care to everybody, while minimizing the value of things like simple freedom.
Especially if you keep sabotage and attack away from it.
Presumably they caught the dissidents, sawed off their heads, then went to the country the dissidents came from and said, "Give up your leaders, or suffer their fate."
Then they went after Dr. Doom and Lex Luthor because they kinda helped, maybe, or might help again, and were real SoB's anyway.
Not you, just the naysayers in general.
Damnit, people, you just hook the earth end to a huge, powerful, fast winch. If it breaks, flip 'er on, and crank her down faster than she can fall. Have it pile up in a huge pile out behind the anchor, or just feed it down into the ocean, accordingly.
Duh.
Shit, I should probably patent that idea.
Quite honestly, I can't see a big honkin' cable doing all that much damage unless it falls thru some major cities as it wraps around, which would probably be stastically unlikely.
Even on Mars.
It's expanded into a ribbon 2 meters wide.
The ribbon is curved (in the space portion) to guard against edge-on meteor impacts that would sever the entire thing.
Red bars and I see the articles first?
Minus first post!
A hundred and six hours? 75 year old Supreme Court justices work 120 hours.
I once worked 145 hours in a week in crunch time for a telematics show in Europe, and 450 hours over a 5 week period that same time. Longest work day? 33 hours.
106 hours, I could do that with a malfunctioning pacemaker, a headache, and a snack machine out of everything but dry, oversalted pretzels and black licorice Good-n-Plenty.
West coast! West coast!
An edit button would be nice, but Slashdotters would probably misuse it to craft and recraft their messages to make responders look like buffoons. I know I would!
Vikings? Vikings?
Didn't they die out a long time ago, their precious New World knowledge being pretty much lost and thus of no good to anyone?
Much more interesting is that Columbus may have had an inkling of a New World from rumors floating around those islands (?) way east off the coast of Africa, and used "I'm goin' ta India!" as a cover story to get funding.
> but nobody would say we can't match the feats
> of ENIAC, or that we're behind where we were in
> the 40s.
Exactly! In fact, the US's problem is that it dumps too much money into the fanciest, best equipment. For a human moon mission, the money might be better spent sending lots of low-cost supplies to the moon, using a robot or two to set up a base, then sending people there. Much safer and cheaper.
> Which was simply to establish "First Post"
> bragging rights on the Moon. Which gives the
> USA all the enduring value of "FP!" claim on
> slashdot.
I don't know. "First dick" bragging rights on Britney is a comparably pretty awesome thing to getting to the moon. RESTRAINTS FAILING! NOTHING CAN HOLD HULK! MUST TROLL! Not that anyone around here would know about penis usage literally, not figuratively, vis-a-vis. HULK CALMING DOWN. CHANGING...Changing...Banner again...ahhh....
Anyway, remember that much of the cold war was a populist war with governments, improperly, defining who was greatest by which one could spend the most on the largest show projects. Robert Heinlein wrote of a trip thru the USSR in the 1960's and being shown stadium after stadium in the various cities. woo. hoo.
Of course, any freedom-loving capitalist worth their salt knows you don't define the success and goodness of a country based on how gigantic a project can be made from money taken at the point of a gun.
We set up a microwave link between two buildings several miles apart. We had to get a right of way from all the land owners inbetween.
I wasn't involved directly in that project, so I don't know if it was needed because it was microwaves, or just in general.
I wouldn't rush to think this is some sort of easy method to solve problems, though.
struct Client2ServerInternetLottoMessage {
short numBytes;
bool wonTheLotto;
double numDollarsWon;
bool hasToPayTaxes;
char [] internationalBankAccountIDToTransferCashTo;
};
Nah, no problems here.
> Anyone who would say that Lexx and Cleopatra
> 2525 held thier interest doesn't need my help.
Some day you'll go thru puberty, then you'll understand. I know an uberdork who didn't start liking girls until 10th damn grade! Theoretically, some must reach college or even beyond.
> before you have time to multiply
Looks like we need not worry about this for you, either (see above.)
Actually, they deserve it (assuming they thought it up.)
Remember that this was a time of command line goodness where you had to type in commands, and had no confirmation on things like "del *.*".
There were plenty of OSes where you had to "expunge" files that were merely deleted before they'd actually be erased, but to simply drag a file (or folder) into the trash, my goodness, how awesome that was.
Dang!
It'll take 10^47 men and a boy to lift that!