So, like many others I'm sure, I can't be asked to watch the video... but I'm curious as to what these non-technical reasons are for buying a new TV before June. Anybody care to list them?
Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Congo, Nigeria: Did you mean all those countries where the majority of the population following Islam and/or Christianity? Or did you mean all those countries with low levels of literacy? Or did you mean all those countries where the vast majority of people affected are victims?
Children: If you weren't indoctrinated, then what's the harm in letting your children make that decision for themselves once they are 16 or so?
Valid ridicule/criticism: Sure.
Bread and Water: Unfortunately, that's not the stance of many Christians. In fact, the amount of poetic licence taken with the Bible is quite staggering. Until year X, Fact A was considered a fact. Once Fact A was disproved somehow, it ceases to be Biblical Fact and takes on a guise of Biblical Symbology. I could extend this to all religion as such. If an argument is made against Religion A, the retort is that Religion A is not the true religion and that it's Religion B. If an argument is made about a fact in Religion B, the retort will be about revisionism and that Book A is outdated and wrong. It's only Book B which should be seriously considered. If a fact is brought up about Book B, then some quote is made from Book A (which in the meanwhile has made a confession and is therefore forgiven for all sins) which has some semblance of twisted logic. If it's neither of them, then it's a particular edition that is brought up with a different translation to the problem. Frequently, there's also a segue into the different factions (and sub-factions) within Religion B, of which some are true and others not. Religion is like putty. You can twist it any which way as per your needs regardless of any inherent logical fallacy undermining its entire structure.
Hurting no one: Homosexuality hurts no one either. Most religions and the religious don't much care for it and actively oppose it.
Church and personal rights: I give you apostasy, heresy, proselytisation, forced conversions and blackmail.
Incidentally, my earlier question still stands: How long will the instruction manual for your faith be if distilled down sans all the frippery?
I should have emphasised the word particularly in my last comment. What fermion stated applies universally to just about any discussion between polarised parties.
I believe that there's also a big difference between atheism and antitheism. I'm also not convinced that a lack of belief in the irrational necessarily makes your position itself irrational. That's.. irrational:)
Most human beings do practice them. Many of them do it, as you do, apparently because their faith instructs them to do so. Many of them do it simply because it is morally right. Who do you believe do not practice them?... and how about those who do not practice them and are still devoutly religious? I'm not going to bother pointing fingers at paedophile priests and the like. But I guess I just did:|
Why does there need to be more to your faith? Why do your children need to be schooled in its doctrine right from a very young age? Can they not be schooled once they reach the age of reason and decide for themselves?
Nobody's questioning your personal right to do whatever you want with your life. But just because it's your "religion" or your "personal belief" does not mean that you are above ridicule or criticism. This is especially true when you eat bread and drink water apparently in the belief that you are eating Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood. Or would that apply only to bread and wine?... and even if your religion is your personal right, your Church (very likely) does not hold such rights in the same esteem.
.. and is that all that your faith instructs you to do? Did you need your faith to tell you that these are the right things to do? Are they not self-evident? Does your faith tell you that you will be punished if you stop following it or do not do what it states? Has your faith always been right? Is your faith factually correct?
How long will the instruction manual for your faith be if distilled down sans all the frippery?
... and how about your children? Will they be inducted into all the rites, rituals and other psycho-babble that very likely pervades through your faith? Will they be allowed to exercise their own freedom in choosing which faith, if any, they will follow? Will they turn into bad apples if they are not instructed in your faith? What will happen if you simply communicate these maxims that you have concluded are the core requirements for a healthy lifestyle without all the embellishments (including God)?
I'm not sure how your viewpoint is particularly pertinent to sceptics and religious fanatics. Civilised debate and courtesy is a universal requirement for productive discussion. There will always be idiots on the Internet and on your local radio station.
Your examples amount to very little without links.
IIRC, at the age of 120, Jeanne Calment claimed, "I have only one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it!":D Lots of olive oil, el vino tinto and cigarettes were apparently her secret:o
A lot of geeks around me regard FB and G+ with suspicion/derision. I wonder if there is a significant percentage within Google & FB employees who feel the same way. Or is it mandatory for them to have an account and use it?
Thousands of fourth- to eighth-grade students will select target areas on the lunar surface and send requests to the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission Operations Center in San Diego. Photos of the target areas will be sent back by the satellites for students to study. The MoonKAM program is led by Sally Ride, America's first woman in space. Her team at Sally Ride Science and undergraduate students at the University of California in San Diego will engage middle schools across the country in the GRAIL mission and lunar exploration. GRAIL is NASA's first planetary mission carrying instruments fully dedicated to education and public outreach.
"We have had great response from schools around the country; more than 2,500 signed up to participate so far," Ride said. "In mid-March, the first pictures of the moon will be taken by students using MoonKAM. I expect this will excite many students about possible careers in science and engineering."
Could everybody avoid posting links to articles on space.com? They never cite or link to sources and go overboard with interstitial, pop-up and video ads.
Gamba grass first appeared under cultivation in
Queensland in 1942 and trials and plantings in the
Northern Territory occurred as early as 1931. It was
bred as an improved pasture species and sold by
seed merchants.
Gamba grass has adapted extremely well to the seasonal
droughts, fires and low-nutrient soils of Australia’s
savannas.
Your situation explains why there are so many/.-ers obsessing over FPS rates. They're all wasting away from First-Post-Syndrome, a malaise that is triggered by the need to be the first to access a new/. post in order to experience functioning links.
While looking for more information about this Leonid guy, I came across this reference:
The doctor in Physics and Mathematics from Institute of Space Investigations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leonid Ksanfomaliti has come to an analogous conclusion: "I think, such could take place only under the influence of a radial instrument of a high technological level. Something like the future high-power laser. And for "artists" the lack of energy was not" - he has told at recent scientific conference "Horizons of astronomy: search of extraterrestrial civilisations" which was in the Special astrophysical observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences. L. Ksanfomaliti has calculated: the laser has been established at the altitude about 40 km above the ground.
It's interesting looking at how the minimum requirements for 3.6 and 9 compare. In just under 2 years, the recommended hardware for FF has effectively quadrupled in Windows. Macs have odd changes and Linux doesn't warrant minimum/recommended requirements.
Looking at the recommended requirements from a different angle, you need at most a 12 year old system to run FF on Windows and a 6 year old system for Macintosh. Linux's restrictions are solely software dependencies.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, thank you :)
So, like many others I'm sure, I can't be asked to watch the video... but I'm curious as to what these non-technical reasons are for buying a new TV before June. Anybody care to list them?
I'm just breaking everyone in gently :D
Novel by Miyazawa Kenji: Night on the Galactic Railroad
Manga & Anime: Ginga Tetsudou 999
yikes! That must be a real bitch.
(sorry)
Why would I care? I'd be dead :)
To quote Epicurus: When we are, Death is not; When Death is, we are not.
Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Congo, Nigeria: Did you mean all those countries where the majority of the population following Islam and/or Christianity? Or did you mean all those countries with low levels of literacy? Or did you mean all those countries where the vast majority of people affected are victims?
Children: If you weren't indoctrinated, then what's the harm in letting your children make that decision for themselves once they are 16 or so?
Valid ridicule/criticism: Sure.
Bread and Water: Unfortunately, that's not the stance of many Christians. In fact, the amount of poetic licence taken with the Bible is quite staggering. Until year X, Fact A was considered a fact. Once Fact A was disproved somehow, it ceases to be Biblical Fact and takes on a guise of Biblical Symbology. I could extend this to all religion as such. If an argument is made against Religion A, the retort is that Religion A is not the true religion and that it's Religion B. If an argument is made about a fact in Religion B, the retort will be about revisionism and that Book A is outdated and wrong. It's only Book B which should be seriously considered. If a fact is brought up about Book B, then some quote is made from Book A (which in the meanwhile has made a confession and is therefore forgiven for all sins) which has some semblance of twisted logic. If it's neither of them, then it's a particular edition that is brought up with a different translation to the problem. Frequently, there's also a segue into the different factions (and sub-factions) within Religion B, of which some are true and others not. Religion is like putty. You can twist it any which way as per your needs regardless of any inherent logical fallacy undermining its entire structure.
Hurting no one: Homosexuality hurts no one either. Most religions and the religious don't much care for it and actively oppose it.
Church and personal rights: I give you apostasy, heresy, proselytisation, forced conversions and blackmail.
Incidentally, my earlier question still stands: How long will the instruction manual for your faith be if distilled down sans all the frippery?
P.S. AFK till Monday. :)
P.P.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandment_Alternatives
I should have emphasised the word particularly in my last comment. What fermion stated applies universally to just about any discussion between polarised parties.
I believe that there's also a big difference between atheism and antitheism. I'm also not convinced that a lack of belief in the irrational necessarily makes your position itself irrational. That's .. irrational :)
I believe that the fraud that he's alluding to is to do with the word "religious" rather than the term "religious organisation". ;)
Most human beings do practice them. Many of them do it, as you do, apparently because their faith instructs them to do so. Many of them do it simply because it is morally right. Who do you believe do not practice them? ... and how about those who do not practice them and are still devoutly religious? I'm not going to bother pointing fingers at paedophile priests and the like. But I guess I just did :|
Why does there need to be more to your faith? Why do your children need to be schooled in its doctrine right from a very young age? Can they not be schooled once they reach the age of reason and decide for themselves?
Nobody's questioning your personal right to do whatever you want with your life. But just because it's your "religion" or your "personal belief" does not mean that you are above ridicule or criticism. This is especially true when you eat bread and drink water apparently in the belief that you are eating Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood. Or would that apply only to bread and wine? ... and even if your religion is your personal right, your Church (very likely) does not hold such rights in the same esteem.
.. and is that all that your faith instructs you to do? Did you need your faith to tell you that these are the right things to do? Are they not self-evident? Does your faith tell you that you will be punished if you stop following it or do not do what it states? Has your faith always been right? Is your faith factually correct?
How long will the instruction manual for your faith be if distilled down sans all the frippery?
... and how about your children? Will they be inducted into all the rites, rituals and other psycho-babble that very likely pervades through your faith? Will they be allowed to exercise their own freedom in choosing which faith, if any, they will follow? Will they turn into bad apples if they are not instructed in your faith? What will happen if you simply communicate these maxims that you have concluded are the core requirements for a healthy lifestyle without all the embellishments (including God)?
I'm not sure how your viewpoint is particularly pertinent to sceptics and religious fanatics. Civilised debate and courtesy is a universal requirement for productive discussion. There will always be idiots on the Internet and on your local radio station.
Your examples amount to very little without links.
IIRC, at the age of 120, Jeanne Calment claimed, "I have only one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it!" :D Lots of olive oil, el vino tinto and cigarettes were apparently her secret :o
I'm curious as to why Google & Motorola need the permissions of only the US and the EU. What about the rest of the world?
A lot of geeks around me regard FB and G+ with suspicion/derision. I wonder if there is a significant percentage within Google & FB employees who feel the same way. Or is it mandatory for them to have an account and use it?
Source
Could everybody avoid posting links to articles on space.com? They never cite or link to sources and go overboard with interstitial, pop-up and video ads.
Links:
One stomp too many and those Caines will surely turn mutinous.
P.S. *whoosh*
From here [PDF].
P.S. Hear, hear for more Debian users!
Your situation explains why there are so many /.-ers obsessing over FPS rates. They're all wasting away from First-Post-Syndrome, a malaise that is triggered by the need to be the first to access a new /. post in order to experience functioning links.
Here's the link to the project. Very considerate of the OP and SoulSkill to not provide it with the post :S
hmm.
It's interesting looking at how the minimum requirements for 3.6 and 9 compare. In just under 2 years, the recommended hardware for FF has effectively quadrupled in Windows. Macs have odd changes and Linux doesn't warrant minimum/recommended requirements.
Looking at the recommended requirements from a different angle, you need at most a 12 year old system to run FF on Windows and a 6 year old system for Macintosh. Linux's restrictions are solely software dependencies.
Weird.