This is actually in response to all the other responses saying that we can say it is impossible because we haven't observed it. You should be very careful with the "I" word, since it is so absolute.
The 1900s folk that said everything was impossible although they could observe it were at least using mundane observation methods. Its possible that we could observe the stuff you are saying is impossible if we just knew HOW and WHERE to look.
I have all the respect in the world for Einstein and all the other pioneers throughout history that paved the road that leads to where we are in science, but they are only human. Just because they said this is how it is (general relativity, etc) and SO FAR it has been proven out, doesn't mean that it is set in stone. It just means it has worked so far. Who knows what is on the horizon.
In fact, I prefer to think of the laws of physics as... the guidelines of physics. We just haven't figured out how to circumvent the guidelines yet, but my guess is we will.
I very much doubt that. Why would anyone choose to be starving?
I wasn't going to bother replying since it wont be a very productive use of my time, but I did want to respond to this little bit. When I said "by choice" I thought it would be obvious I didn't mean "Oh I think I will starve now". It is generally the by product of other choices. Im not going to try to sugar coat it, most often its a result of people being unnecessarily stupid or lazy. The only ones I feel genuinely sorry for are kids who have to suffer because their parents are lazy.
Let me qualify this statement a little. Here in America not many people are as poor as I was a child. My step dad, or dad as I call him (the only one I needed, certainly not the sperm donor) dropped out of highschool at 9th grade and can barely read and write. He worked his ASS off however to feed his family of 6, 4 kids and my mom. 2 of us were not his naturally. We lived in HUD housing, ate government food handouts, and bought our 20 cheap hotdogs and pork and beans with foodstamps. We got the cheapest everything, and few of them, for christmas. Used bicycles that were spraypainted, etc. We wore hand-me-downs, I was the oldest so I started the cycle with my cousins old clothes. Long story short though, although I made a mistake of quitting school myself (went to a bad bad school, guns and such in the 80s, wasnt as prevalent as today then) I joined the Navy and got my GED. When I got out I bought a Commondore 128 computer in 1992 when they were already way outdated. I took it upon myself to learn a marketable trade. It cost me very little upfront, no schools. But today, while far from successful by many standards, I am not starving. Or living off government handouts. I make 33k a year at my 9-5 (Service Manger at a computer store) and I do some side jobs including server admin and some database/asp programming which I make decent money at. I have never considered myself anything other than average intelligence, after all what smart person would quit high school?:) If I can do that, at least those starving people can get a job chucking pizzas or flipping burgers, those places are always in need of someone that appreciates having a job. At least then they wouldnt be staving any longer.
Wow. That was a lot longer than I intended, thank goodness I didn't address any of your other points.
I use a little guy called EssentialPIM. http://www.essentialpim.com/ Its a free product, is very small, but only works on windows and isnt open source. Works really well for me.
Are you are making the assumption that the only way we can have a society where people arent starving is socialism? Thats quite the narrow view you have there. Case in point, while FAR from perfect, here in America most of the starving are starving by choice. Our poor are way better off than a lot of the world's middle class. Our poor lives in houses bigger than theirs, has air conditioning, probably like 1.5 cars.
No doubt, we have our problems, but we can live in a society where people can be individuals, where people can rise up above the average. But also in a society where the average "aint so bad".
Hate to douse you in cold water while you writhe in the throes of socialist joy, but true socialism, like true democracy, is an impossibility when you put humans in the equation.
And oh my GOD am I glad thats true. A socialist society is pretty close to hell on earth in my view. How bland and dull that society would be.
Its new because it is Microsoft that is doing it, considering their massive corporate dominance in the office app space. IF this is truely a step in the direction of opening their formats, its great. I am, of course, concerned that there might be some funny business in the works.
Perhaps I should further clarify my initial response to your post. My primary issue with it was not so much the fact that it quoted someone then went on to make a single liner that had nothing to do with the quoted section. What really got me going was the fact that people actually modded it "insightful", when it was anything but insightful.
And some people dont think at all. I maintain that your response to the QUOTED post was out of the blue. If you wanted to ramble about monopolies you could have found one that it would have even remotely applied to or started your own thread.
Not that I dont believe the RIAA is on crack, money hungry, and using financial leverage to basically force laws into the system that will protect their archaic and no longer sustainable business model. They are, and its got to be stopped.
How in the world did this statement warrant an "insightful"? It has nothing to do with the statement it was in response to. The guy was talking about finding the right price/sales volume ratio not monopolizing marketshare.
Some people miss an important aspect to reading... comprehension of the content.
Common misconception. Calories are NOT bad for you. Calories are just the units of energy that your body uses. Not expending more energy than your body takes in is whats bad for you. So go exercise.
I am an athiest, and I have often gotten offended by various religions, primarily the southern baptist door knockers that invariably come to my house on the weekends. While I agree that a lot of athiests go waaaay too far, you do have to keep in mind that religous folk can be so much more annoying than most athiests, and the religious folk that are content to let us "just live our lives". They feel the need to come to our doors, try to convince us that our souls are in danger of some eternal damnation, etc.
Thankfully, you are in the minority it would appear.
BSG is a very good SCI-FI DRAMA. Whether you can deal with that concept or not doesn't change the fact thats what it is. You have a very narrow and closed minded view, and I feel sorry for you.
Well, actually Galactica travels FASTER than light, not at a very high percentage of light speed. That mass increasing exponentially thing only happens (that we know of mind you) as velocity increases towards c. There are a billion and one theorys about how an object with mass could actually travel faster than light, wormholes, etc. A lot of them deal with ripping a hole in our universe and popping over to another with totally different rules. Perhaps over there nothing can travel SLOWER than light speed?
* Copyright infrigements
* Privacy problems
* Theft of a memory card
I guess it's funny unless it happens to some Open Source product.
Problems with this comment:
* No statement of copyright, for all we know the original owner may have dedicated it to PD. We dont know either way
* I could argue with the privacy issue, but I wont. It would just be lame:)
* Finding something that is lost is NOT the same as stealing. Investigate a dictionary at least.
And yea, it is pretty funny. Get the stick out of your ass, they weren't designed to house such objects.
Tremendous sex appeal? Are you serious? That girl is FUGLY, almost as ugly as her last name. Dunst... I would have changed it. Nothing she can do about her face though.
I am not a conservative, liberal, democrat or republican. In fact, I willingly defy labelling. I think all politicians are corrupt and evil (tongue in cheek on that one people) by nature.
This movie is useless for anything other than entertainment, anyone that finds themselves "edjumakated" by it really should try to think for themselves once in a great while. This is the crux of the problem in our country today, people are TOO easilly told what to think by their pastor, priest, local politician, etc.
Personally, I think Bush has done an ok job with what he has to work with. The economy is looking up from MY perspective. Anyone who thinks we should have capitulated with those bastards from 9/11 are sad. I think the Bush response was completely the right thing, you dont just keep taking a beating from a bully. Eventually you kick his ass and make him go screw with someone else. There is NO excuse for terrorism, willfully killing civilians, women, children, etc is just absolutely horrific and evil (no tongue in cheek this time). The ONLY reasonable response to this kind of act is to absolutely destroy them. Notice I said willfully, as I know some of you may say that we are terrorists ourselves, but I refuse to believe our government would target civilians just to get a response from some other party.
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This is actually in response to all the other responses saying that we can say it is impossible because we haven't observed it. You should be very careful with the "I" word, since it is so absolute.
The 1900s folk that said everything was impossible although they could observe it were at least using mundane observation methods. Its possible that we could observe the stuff you are saying is impossible if we just knew HOW and WHERE to look.
I have all the respect in the world for Einstein and all the other pioneers throughout history that paved the road that leads to where we are in science, but they are only human. Just because they said this is how it is (general relativity, etc) and SO FAR it has been proven out, doesn't mean that it is set in stone. It just means it has worked so far. Who knows what is on the horizon.
In fact, I prefer to think of the laws of physics as... the guidelines of physics. We just haven't figured out how to circumvent the guidelines yet, but my guess is we will.
I wasn't going to bother replying since it wont be a very productive use of my time, but I did want to respond to this little bit. When I said "by choice" I thought it would be obvious I didn't mean "Oh I think I will starve now". It is generally the by product of other choices. Im not going to try to sugar coat it, most often its a result of people being unnecessarily stupid or lazy. The only ones I feel genuinely sorry for are kids who have to suffer because their parents are lazy.
Let me qualify this statement a little. Here in America not many people are as poor as I was a child. My step dad, or dad as I call him (the only one I needed, certainly not the sperm donor) dropped out of highschool at 9th grade and can barely read and write. He worked his ASS off however to feed his family of 6, 4 kids and my mom. 2 of us were not his naturally. We lived in HUD housing, ate government food handouts, and bought our 20 cheap hotdogs and pork and beans with foodstamps. We got the cheapest everything, and few of them, for christmas. Used bicycles that were spraypainted, etc. We wore hand-me-downs, I was the oldest so I started the cycle with my cousins old clothes. Long story short though, although I made a mistake of quitting school myself (went to a bad bad school, guns and such in the 80s, wasnt as prevalent as today then) I joined the Navy and got my GED. When I got out I bought a Commondore 128 computer in 1992 when they were already way outdated. I took it upon myself to learn a marketable trade. It cost me very little upfront, no schools. But today, while far from successful by many standards, I am not starving. Or living off government handouts. I make 33k a year at my 9-5 (Service Manger at a computer store) and I do some side jobs including server admin and some database/asp programming which I make decent money at. I have never considered myself anything other than average intelligence, after all what smart person would quit high school?
Wow. That was a lot longer than I intended, thank goodness I didn't address any of your other points.
I use a little guy called EssentialPIM. http://www.essentialpim.com/ Its a free product, is very small, but only works on windows and isnt open source. Works really well for me.
Are you are making the assumption that the only way we can have a society where people arent starving is socialism? Thats quite the narrow view you have there. Case in point, while FAR from perfect, here in America most of the starving are starving by choice. Our poor are way better off than a lot of the world's middle class. Our poor lives in houses bigger than theirs, has air conditioning, probably like 1.5 cars.
No doubt, we have our problems, but we can live in a society where people can be individuals, where people can rise up above the average. But also in a society where the average "aint so bad".
And what kind of morons modded the parent insightful?
Hate to douse you in cold water while you writhe in the throes of socialist joy, but true socialism, like true democracy, is an impossibility when you put humans in the equation.
And oh my GOD am I glad thats true. A socialist society is pretty close to hell on earth in my view. How bland and dull that society would be.
How awfully politically correct of you to bag the guy for being correct. God I hate PC twits.
Its new because it is Microsoft that is doing it, considering their massive corporate dominance in the office app space. IF this is truely a step in the direction of opening their formats, its great. I am, of course, concerned that there might be some funny business in the works.
Actually answering machines cost too much, they would use a call center in India instead.
Like I said, terms like 'Boxen' aren't really needed. They display their ignorance like a badge.
No, I love it. Makes it easier to identify the idiots. Well, I guess that is fairly easy anyway.
A slashdot thread that won't take an argument? Surely you jest.
On topic, on topic... Nope, can't think of a single thing to say to keep this post on topic.
Oh wait! No, that was just gas.
Perhaps I should further clarify my initial response to your post. My primary issue with it was not so much the fact that it quoted someone then went on to make a single liner that had nothing to do with the quoted section. What really got me going was the fact that people actually modded it "insightful", when it was anything but insightful.
And some people dont think at all. I maintain that your response to the QUOTED post was out of the blue. If you wanted to ramble about monopolies you could have found one that it would have even remotely applied to or started your own thread.
Not that I dont believe the RIAA is on crack, money hungry, and using financial leverage to basically force laws into the system that will protect their archaic and no longer sustainable business model. They are, and its got to be stopped.
How in the world did this statement warrant an "insightful"? It has nothing to do with the statement it was in response to. The guy was talking about finding the right price/sales volume ratio not monopolizing marketshare.
Some people miss an important aspect to reading... comprehension of the content.
Since when is the BSOD a dead horse? Its a evil satanic horse, but a living one, with glowing red eyes, just waiting to eat your data.
Common misconception. Calories are NOT bad for you. Calories are just the units of energy that your body uses. Not expending more energy than your body takes in is whats bad for you. So go exercise.
I am an athiest, and I have often gotten offended by various religions, primarily the southern baptist door knockers that invariably come to my house on the weekends. While I agree that a lot of athiests go waaaay too far, you do have to keep in mind that religous folk can be so much more annoying than most athiests, and the religious folk that are content to let us "just live our lives". They feel the need to come to our doors, try to convince us that our souls are in danger of some eternal damnation, etc.
Thankfully, you are in the minority it would appear. BSG is a very good SCI-FI DRAMA. Whether you can deal with that concept or not doesn't change the fact thats what it is. You have a very narrow and closed minded view, and I feel sorry for you.
Well, actually Galactica travels FASTER than light, not at a very high percentage of light speed. That mass increasing exponentially thing only happens (that we know of mind you) as velocity increases towards c. There are a billion and one theorys about how an object with mass could actually travel faster than light, wormholes, etc. A lot of them deal with ripping a hole in our universe and popping over to another with totally different rules. Perhaps over there nothing can travel SLOWER than light speed?
Grrr, i thought when you blockquoted a section of text it automatically did something besides indenting to indicate it was a quote. Live and learn.
Problems with this comment:
* No statement of copyright, for all we know the original owner may have dedicated it to PD. We dont know either way
* I could argue with the privacy issue, but I wont. It would just be lame
* Finding something that is lost is NOT the same as stealing. Investigate a dictionary at least.
And yea, it is pretty funny. Get the stick out of your ass, they weren't designed to house such objects.
Tremendous sex appeal? Are you serious? That girl is FUGLY, almost as ugly as her last name. Dunst... I would have changed it. Nothing she can do about her face though.
I am not a conservative, liberal, democrat or republican. In fact, I willingly defy labelling. I think all politicians are corrupt and evil (tongue in cheek on that one people) by nature.
This movie is useless for anything other than entertainment, anyone that finds themselves "edjumakated" by it really should try to think for themselves once in a great while. This is the crux of the problem in our country today, people are TOO easilly told what to think by their pastor, priest, local politician, etc.
Personally, I think Bush has done an ok job with what he has to work with. The economy is looking up from MY perspective. Anyone who thinks we should have capitulated with those bastards from 9/11 are sad. I think the Bush response was completely the right thing, you dont just keep taking a beating from a bully. Eventually you kick his ass and make him go screw with someone else. There is NO excuse for terrorism, willfully killing civilians, women, children, etc is just absolutely horrific and evil (no tongue in cheek this time). The ONLY reasonable response to this kind of act is to absolutely destroy them. Notice I said willfully, as I know some of you may say that we are terrorists ourselves, but I refuse to believe our government would target civilians just to get a response from some other party.
Is anyone else as confused by what he said as I am?