For the picky and finicky this is annoying (and I am including myself amongst that illustrious crowd) however you have to remember that this has been aimed at the general public, most of whom would only penguins as those funny birds from Madagascar.
It is also human nature to ascribe human characteristics to non-human objects/species, hell even the great David Attenborough has been guilty of anthromorphism when dealing with everything from a pride of lions to the complex world of the army ants.
Define commercial. This is the problem, it could be argued that somebody sharing a file out to the however million users of the various P2P systems is doing it on a "Commercial" scale just due to the size of the potential download market.
Ahh a genuine astro turfer, I don't think I've seen such a perfect specimen before. Look he even has the fully formed natural blinkers around his eyes and a pretty solid cable running from the back of his head.
God is. To our preception He doesn't come from anywhere. Until you can understand why everything in the universe exists than this is true. God is.
Firstly this is a philisophical statement and thus has no scientific basis. Just saying "God is" does not prove that he exists, it is a statement of blind faith.
Intelligent Design is a theory that has been disproved time and time again, it's main premise - that anything sufficiently complex must denote Intelligent Design - falls down at the first hurdle. If there is a creator then by definition there must be a creator's creator and so on ad infinitum.
Evolution may not be perfect, and new ideas and changes are being postulated to this day, however the core theory has been proven by observation time and again. This is why Evolution belongs in the science curiculum and Creationism/Intelligent Design does not. One is a proven scientific theory supported by observation on the ground whereas the other is a blanket statement based on faith and twisting the observed facts to fit the "theory"
So what you are arguing for is a complete reversal of American foreign policy then.
One of the more rational reasons (there are plenty of irrational ones) that people get pissed off at the US is because for years the biggest democracy in the world has been preaching freedom while at the same time supporting the very bastards who have been crushing the people.
Saddam is a good example, it didn't matter that he was a bastard just that he was "our bastard". It was only when he started to threaten American interests that the US reacted.
The Saudis are another example. Instead of trying to steer Saudi Arabia towards a democratic and free state the US has been quite content to let them run riot of basic human rights as understood by all countries in the UN so that the US could be garaunteed an oil supply.
Yes there is much about the US that is laudable, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, civil rights and the idea that all men/women are equal. However if you are going to hold yourself up as THE prime example of the free world, expect to be called on to the carpet when you break your own rules.
Firstly if God created everything, who created God?
Secondly what you are suggesting would basically lead to a complete collapse of the education of your nation. You would have large areas quite happily going on believing that the Lord God made it all and man should be happy with the Bible as the answer to everything. This is not exactly conducive to advancing science.
And one other point, people who select christian at census time might be the majority, however fundamentalist christians make up a minority.
Just a quick question. If you are going to include God, which one?
The Judeo/Christian/Islamic God? One of the many Hindu Gods? Or maybe Buhda did it.
One of the major problems I see with Creationism and Intelligent Design is that they are both based on the Christian god being the designer leaving out most of the rest of the world.
I would just like to point out that it does not take an Einstein to pass a microsoft exam, kudos to the girl for passing the exam at such a young age and in a country that still allows honour killings, howeverit would have been more impressive if she had snagged a Cisco cert or one of the Unixes.
If there was any justice in the world that movie would have ended with Raphael in a homicidal rage spiking his daggers through Vanilla Ices eye while a couple of rat catchers from the original cartoon series munched on his testicles.
It comes down the doing and being seen to do the right thing. If you convict a murderer by using illegally obtained evidence today, the prosecutor after you can stitch up an innocent man tomorrow.
So you don't pay taxes? Okay then so when you get robbed or assaulted you won't be relying on the police to assist you in any way? Or if America ever gets invaded you'll be saying to the military "Don't worry about my patch of land I'll fight off the heathen hordes by myself" or maybe you'll be in a major natural disaster and seriously injured or left homeless but you'll say to the Federal emergency services "Not for me thanks, I'll just lie here bleeding, because I wouldn't feel right taking tax funded services"
No this is inherently dangerous as can be seen from the IE problems. Sure use html to render your config pages, not a prblem, just don't use the same system to allow the user access to a known insecure network.
When people talk about space stations and moon bases as potential arks in case of planetary catastrophe, they aren't talking about dinky toys like the ISS, instead they are talking about true colonies holding several thousand each. Building and launching several of these self contained colonies would definitely be better than just sitting at the bottom of the gravity well and waiting for some big chunk of rock to permanently lower the land values.
no other building in history have ever collapsed by fire
This sentence in itself shoots down any credibility to you might claim to have. Of course buildings have collapsed from fire, in fact large chunks of cities have been destroyed by fire. Remember, the world trade center towers were something in the orders of 110 stories tall, any weakness in the structure was going to lead to collapse.
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For the picky and finicky this is annoying (and I am including myself amongst that illustrious crowd) however you have to remember that this has been aimed at the general public, most of whom would only penguins as those funny birds from Madagascar.
It is also human nature to ascribe human characteristics to non-human objects/species, hell even the great David Attenborough has been guilty of anthromorphism when dealing with everything from a pride of lions to the complex world of the army ants.
Define commercial. This is the problem, it could be argued that somebody sharing a file out to the however million users of the various P2P systems is doing it on a "Commercial" scale just due to the size of the potential download market.
Ahh a genuine astro turfer, I don't think I've seen such a perfect specimen before. Look he even has the fully formed natural blinkers around his eyes and a pretty solid cable running from the back of his head.
God is. To our preception He doesn't come from anywhere. Until you can understand why everything in the universe exists than this is true. God is.
Firstly this is a philisophical statement and thus has no scientific basis. Just saying "God is" does not prove that he exists, it is a statement of blind faith.
Intelligent Design is a theory that has been disproved time and time again, it's main premise - that anything sufficiently complex must denote Intelligent Design - falls down at the first hurdle. If there is a creator then by definition there must be a creator's creator and so on ad infinitum.
Evolution may not be perfect, and new ideas and changes are being postulated to this day, however the core theory has been proven by observation time and again. This is why Evolution belongs in the science curiculum and Creationism/Intelligent Design does not. One is a proven scientific theory supported by observation on the ground whereas the other is a blanket statement based on faith and twisting the observed facts to fit the "theory"
So what you are arguing for is a complete reversal of American foreign policy then.
One of the more rational reasons (there are plenty of irrational ones) that people get pissed off at the US is because for years the biggest democracy in the world has been preaching freedom while at the same time supporting the very bastards who have been crushing the people.
Saddam is a good example, it didn't matter that he was a bastard just that he was "our bastard". It was only when he started to threaten American interests that the US reacted.
The Saudis are another example. Instead of trying to steer Saudi Arabia towards a democratic and free state the US has been quite content to let them run riot of basic human rights as understood by all countries in the UN so that the US could be garaunteed an oil supply.
Yes there is much about the US that is laudable, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, civil rights and the idea that all men/women are equal. However if you are going to hold yourself up as THE prime example of the free world, expect to be called on to the carpet when you break your own rules.
Okay two things:
Firstly if God created everything, who created God?
Secondly what you are suggesting would basically lead to a complete collapse of the education of your nation. You would have large areas quite happily going on believing that the Lord God made it all and man should be happy with the Bible as the answer to everything. This is not exactly conducive to advancing science.
And one other point, people who select christian at census time might be the majority, however fundamentalist christians make up a minority.
Just a quick question. If you are going to include God, which one?
The Judeo/Christian/Islamic God? One of the many Hindu Gods? Or maybe Buhda did it.
One of the major problems I see with Creationism and Intelligent Design is that they are both based on the Christian god being the designer leaving out most of the rest of the world.
I already support an acronym - The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.
Slashdotted off it's motherfucker
This makes no sense,. I must be too tired but this really makes no sense.
Couple of Questions?
Anti-virus?
Browser Used?
Show me one example of massive centralization that ever made something better.
BSD!
Which one? Net, Open, Free, DragonFly or maybe OS X?
The BSD's may not have split as much as the Nix's however they are by no means an example of "massive centralisation".
I would just like to point out that it does not take an Einstein to pass a microsoft exam, kudos to the girl for passing the exam at such a young age and in a country that still allows honour killings, howeverit would have been more impressive if she had snagged a Cisco cert or one of the Unixes.
If there was any justice in the world that movie would have ended with Raphael in a homicidal rage spiking his daggers through Vanilla Ices eye while a couple of rat catchers from the original cartoon series munched on his testicles.
Not that Im bitter about it at all
It comes down the doing and being seen to do the right thing. If you convict a murderer by using illegally obtained evidence today, the prosecutor after you can stitch up an innocent man tomorrow.
Yeah because that Mp-5 is going to come in real handy against a Main Battle Tank!
So you don't pay taxes? Okay then so when you get robbed or assaulted you won't be relying on the police to assist you in any way? Or if America ever gets invaded you'll be saying to the military "Don't worry about my patch of land I'll fight off the heathen hordes by myself" or maybe you'll be in a major natural disaster and seriously injured or left homeless but you'll say to the Federal emergency services "Not for me thanks, I'll just lie here bleeding, because I wouldn't feel right taking tax funded services"
No this is inherently dangerous as can be seen from the IE problems. Sure use html to render your config pages, not a prblem, just don't use the same system to allow the user access to a known insecure network.
Umm they outsourced the invasion of Afghanistan to the local drug lords. And boy didn't that work out well.
When people talk about space stations and moon bases as potential arks in case of planetary catastrophe, they aren't talking about dinky toys like the ISS, instead they are talking about true colonies holding several thousand each. Building and launching several of these self contained colonies would definitely be better than just sitting at the bottom of the gravity well and waiting for some big chunk of rock to permanently lower the land values.
I suggest you check out this link
no other building in history have ever collapsed by fire
This sentence in itself shoots down any credibility to you might claim to have. Of course buildings have collapsed from fire, in fact large chunks of cities have been destroyed by fire. Remember, the world trade center towers were something in the orders of 110 stories tall, any weakness in the structure was going to lead to collapse.
I think we knwo what happened on 119. Fanatics flew into buildings killing thousands and giving the "neo-cons" just the excuse they needed.
Linux isn't competing with a monster with gaping flaws anymore. It's competing with a well-made product.
Granted but that is because OSX is based on FreeBSD. Oh sorry were you still talking about XP?
Am I the only one who read in that and immediately thought of Ali G?
For 90% of the target market, the only thing that matters is if it can display dhtml, flash , javascript, and multimedia as well as IE 6
You aim too high grasshopper, 90% of users just want pretty pictures and no pop-ups, the rest sounds too techinical for them.
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D-H-T-M-L? Sounds too complicated, I just want to see slideshows in my browser!
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