To make this sort of argument, one must either be suffering from borderline personality disorder, or incapable of critical thought, dishonest, or just trolling. I vote troll, but then again, it's Friday !!!!!
Or he's actually trying to play devil's advocate as he claims. Proofs tend to be black and white with no shades of gray, that's how they work. The person you're responding to is correct in so far as it is possible to make a set of axioms to explain the universe involving a god of some sort (the axioms themselves are not proveable--hence axioms, all proofs involve axioms). He's also right that it would fail Occam's Razor since it isn't the simplest explanation and he's right yet one more time when he says that that in and of itself doesn't make it wrong since it really is just a rule of thumb.
He then gave a very solid effort for trying to play devil's advocate (more than I would have) and then you shoot him down as a troll. WTF?
Nobody other than people like Socrates or Plato use critical thinking and logical skills 100% of the time (heck, I'm sure they didn't either). That's an extremely tall order and unless you want to see a bunch of Vulcan-like people running around probably not a particularly good goal anyway.
This is going to provide great fodder for all the comedy shows and FOX News. Especially considering the judge was telling jurors that there were about 4 hours of video and he'd be watching it with them since it's part of his job.
It's not so much traction as power. I can't go the speed limit up I-70 into the mountains the whole way because I don't have enough power (I usually have to do either the speed limit or 5mph slower). My point was that even without turbo I can't get anywhere with a car with a small engine.
I agree about the lack of buttons. It's really a shame too since it should be trivial to allow USB keyboards to work with the Xbox 360. You'd probably need a larger hard drive to support new game data as it becomes available though.
I'd love to play something like LOTRO on a 360 if I had a keyboard. That way I could keep track of which of my friends are online playing other games and I could ask them to come over to help me or, for example, I could load up Halo 3 to play that with them a bit if I was just doing some grinding in LOTRO.
I think it was the same for me with my '90 900 Saab. I'm afraid my new car probably won't do quite as well even with snow tires just because it weighs more and isn't a manual. It has traction control though so hopefully that will compensate for it.
Well, you can prove it to yourself with a calculator if you like. It all depends on how much you can put down, how good your credit is (to determine the interest rate of financing) and how many years you want to use to pay the loan off. It also depends on how many miles you drive every year.
I just did the calculation for myself recently and decided that it would easily pay for itself even though I don't drive too many miles each year (about 8k-10k miles per year). The main thing that helped me decide is that the Prius retains its value really well so that if I changed my mind I wouldn't be out too much cash and could easily sell it.
I agree. Whenever I need a pickup I just head over to the local Home Depot and rent one for the hour or two that I need it (for about $30 + gas). If I need one longer then I'll head over to a car rental place and keep it as long as its needed.
I completely agree. I drove a 1990 Saab up until just a couple weeks ago through all kinds of weather in the mountains in Colorado and used it to get to the ski slopes every year without any trouble. Even though it's not a turbo, slap some good snow tires on it and it will take you wherever you need to go. The only places I wouldn't take it you wouldn't take most SUVs either (narrow 4 wheel drive rocky trails in the mountains).
I agree. Much of his influence was only very early in the program for the initial rocket designs. Much of the architecture for the moon mission did not use his ideas at all.
Your UID is only a bit lower than mine so I'd assume you signed up some time in 2000 or early 2001 which would be a couple years after the site went up.
I'm not sure if there's much you can do unfortunately. I don't think you're allowed to do exit polling since you're a precinct judge. If somebody was able to do some exit polling at your precinct you'd at least be able to see if those numbers are similar to the final tally to see if any tampering happened.
You should consider buying a real pedal modified for the game (see here for more info). You can also try the sock mod to make the drums more sensitive.
If it wasn't for a free press the US could quite likely still be a colony/protectorate of the UK or at least would have been a colony for much longer. The press was instrumental for spreading discontent in the American colonies. That seemed to work out for the US and eventually for the UK as well.
The negatives are true too. Take the Spanish-American War of 1898. The trigger for the war was a doubtful report of a US war ship being sunk by the Spanish (which was more likely sunk due to an accidental internal explosion from munitions). A less free press would not have been much better though since the government was itching for a fight with the Spanish due to a desire for more territory so a false report by the government would have had the same results.
The press in the US is in a way much less free than it was in the 19th century. Back then there were many more newspapers and almost no accountability so much of the information in the press was heavily biased and often based on rumor and libel was an afterthought here. Even major city newspapers that were considered serious then would be considered tabloids by today's standards.
Considering the US government has withstood such a free press for over 200 hundred years I don't think it's as dangerous as you seem to think it is.
That's not the reason why people in Japan are avoiding the tech field though. The main reason is quality of life. When they say the hours are bad in the tech fields, they don't mean bad from a European or North American point of view (say 50-60 hrs a week), but bad from a Japanese point of view (say 80-100 hrs per week).
I've been to Japan on a couple of business trips lasting from a week to several weeks for GPS related company. Each time we (the foreigners) worked from 9am to 10/11pm 6 days per week. The Japanese coworkers worked even longer. While even in Japan that is unusual, it isn't nearly as uncommon as it is here. Word gets around and soon nobody wants to train for such a job.
What about landing on its side? That's not impossible either:) Believe it or not, I think so math guru proved that a flipped coin cannot land on its side. I don't recall where I read that though.
That's a metaphysical question. Is the universe infinitely complex? Most physicists don't believe it is. If you try doing some google searches along the line of 'infinitely complex universe' you may find some interesting metaphysics debates on the subject.
Rock bands have speakers loud enough to kill people if you stand right in front of them. What's your point? Do you think the Chinese need our help to make lethal speakers? I don't. A device that doesn't kill but is also effective in dispersing crowds is more difficult to make and which is why they are buying the device from a US company.
I just want to point out that China has a long cultural history of obedience to authority I understand this. However, how does this conflict with my previous post? The Chinese government apparently want a non-lethal crowd control device. The alternative is that they use whatever they have. Either way, they will break up riots and groups of people either safely or not. It seems to me giving them the option to use a safe device for this purpose is a good idea.
What leads you to believe that the Chinese need a way to torture people without leaving any marks? If they want to do that I'm sure there's numerous ways they can achieve that (although I don't think they would care since they have such a tight control on the media).
All this device would allow them to do is to do crowd control (mainly breaking up crowds and riots). Compared to using bullets I do not see the downside and I'd like to hear your alternative. All forms of non-lethal crowd control involves some sort of pain since that's about the only thing that works to break up a riot other than pure force. Would it be better for the US to not sell them non-lethal devices that have surely been well tested and leave China with no choice but to use whatever devices they have (which most likely are more dangerous and perhaps even more painful).
I don't know if it's such a bad thing to provide China with safe crowd control devices. If China wants some form of crowd control they will use whatever they have, including deadly force (such as back in Tienanmen Square).
Giving them something safe to use is probably a good idea and could save peoples' lives.
I think the counterargument would be something to the effect that the US shouldn't help a government such as China's to maintain control over its people. It's a difficult moral dilemma to be sure. However, China is not Burma and by and large the population is content with their government.
That's interesting but it's like other rhythm games that don't use scored music and instead drop notes from the sky. I really wish they would have an option in these games to show the music on the staff sort of like good old Mario Paint so that people that know how to read music can benefit (and encourage others to learn how to read music).
I thought the way they're doing this is this is a minimal Linux distro and is embedded in the motherboard. At boot, you would have the option of booting off your hard disk as usual or you could chose to boot off of the embedded OS if you just want to check your e-mail, talk on skype or browse the web. Seems pretty neat to me, especially considering it would boot in just a couple of seconds.
I check on Blender about once per year. Once I'm satisfied that I'll be able to do what I would like to do in Blender and that it doesn't take long for someone familiar with Blender to do a complex task (as can be determined by the number of steps in a tutorial) then I'll dive in. So far that hasn't happened though--namely, I want to be able to do good cloth simulations, character animations (bipedal and with morph targets), complex textures including realistic skin and hair, etc. Something like 3Ds Max's Video Post would pretty much be a necessity too. Some specific tutorials I've looked at I determined that I could do with far fewer steps in 3Ds Max and I have yet to find an impressive organic animation done with Blender. I don't plan on making money with this, but if I'm going to sink time into it I want results at least as good as what I did back in college in the late 90s/early 2000s. I wasn't able to do cloth animations back in college but it is certainly possible with the current version of 3Ds Max so I want that too (I would have if I could have back then).
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Or he's actually trying to play devil's advocate as he claims. Proofs tend to be black and white with no shades of gray, that's how they work. The person you're responding to is correct in so far as it is possible to make a set of axioms to explain the universe involving a god of some sort (the axioms themselves are not proveable--hence axioms, all proofs involve axioms). He's also right that it would fail Occam's Razor since it isn't the simplest explanation and he's right yet one more time when he says that that in and of itself doesn't make it wrong since it really is just a rule of thumb.To make this sort of argument, one must either be suffering from borderline personality disorder, or incapable of critical thought, dishonest, or just trolling. I vote troll, but then again, it's Friday !!!!!
He then gave a very solid effort for trying to play devil's advocate (more than I would have) and then you shoot him down as a troll. WTF?
Nobody other than people like Socrates or Plato use critical thinking and logical skills 100% of the time (heck, I'm sure they didn't either). That's an extremely tall order and unless you want to see a bunch of Vulcan-like people running around probably not a particularly good goal anyway.
Not all decisions in life need to be logical.
This is going to provide great fodder for all the comedy shows and FOX News. Especially considering the judge was telling jurors that there were about 4 hours of video and he'd be watching it with them since it's part of his job.
It's not so much traction as power. I can't go the speed limit up I-70 into the mountains the whole way because I don't have enough power (I usually have to do either the speed limit or 5mph slower). My point was that even without turbo I can't get anywhere with a car with a small engine.
I agree about the lack of buttons. It's really a shame too since it should be trivial to allow USB keyboards to work with the Xbox 360. You'd probably need a larger hard drive to support new game data as it becomes available though.
I'd love to play something like LOTRO on a 360 if I had a keyboard. That way I could keep track of which of my friends are online playing other games and I could ask them to come over to help me or, for example, I could load up Halo 3 to play that with them a bit if I was just doing some grinding in LOTRO.
I think it was the same for me with my '90 900 Saab. I'm afraid my new car probably won't do quite as well even with snow tires just because it weighs more and isn't a manual. It has traction control though so hopefully that will compensate for it.
Well, you can prove it to yourself with a calculator if you like. It all depends on how much you can put down, how good your credit is (to determine the interest rate of financing) and how many years you want to use to pay the loan off. It also depends on how many miles you drive every year.
I just did the calculation for myself recently and decided that it would easily pay for itself even though I don't drive too many miles each year (about 8k-10k miles per year). The main thing that helped me decide is that the Prius retains its value really well so that if I changed my mind I wouldn't be out too much cash and could easily sell it.
I agree. Whenever I need a pickup I just head over to the local Home Depot and rent one for the hour or two that I need it (for about $30 + gas). If I need one longer then I'll head over to a car rental place and keep it as long as its needed.
I completely agree. I drove a 1990 Saab up until just a couple weeks ago through all kinds of weather in the mountains in Colorado and used it to get to the ski slopes every year without any trouble. Even though it's not a turbo, slap some good snow tires on it and it will take you wherever you need to go. The only places I wouldn't take it you wouldn't take most SUVs either (narrow 4 wheel drive rocky trails in the mountains).
I agree. Much of his influence was only very early in the program for the initial rocket designs. Much of the architecture for the moon mission did not use his ideas at all.
Your UID is only a bit lower than mine so I'd assume you signed up some time in 2000 or early 2001 which would be a couple years after the site went up.
I'm not sure if there's much you can do unfortunately. I don't think you're allowed to do exit polling since you're a precinct judge. If somebody was able to do some exit polling at your precinct you'd at least be able to see if those numbers are similar to the final tally to see if any tampering happened.
You should consider buying a real pedal modified for the game (see here for more info). You can also try the sock mod to make the drums more sensitive.
If it wasn't for a free press the US could quite likely still be a colony/protectorate of the UK or at least would have been a colony for much longer. The press was instrumental for spreading discontent in the American colonies. That seemed to work out for the US and eventually for the UK as well.
The negatives are true too. Take the Spanish-American War of 1898. The trigger for the war was a doubtful report of a US war ship being sunk by the Spanish (which was more likely sunk due to an accidental internal explosion from munitions). A less free press would not have been much better though since the government was itching for a fight with the Spanish due to a desire for more territory so a false report by the government would have had the same results.
The press in the US is in a way much less free than it was in the 19th century. Back then there were many more newspapers and almost no accountability so much of the information in the press was heavily biased and often based on rumor and libel was an afterthought here. Even major city newspapers that were considered serious then would be considered tabloids by today's standards.
Considering the US government has withstood such a free press for over 200 hundred years I don't think it's as dangerous as you seem to think it is.
That's not the reason why people in Japan are avoiding the tech field though. The main reason is quality of life. When they say the hours are bad in the tech fields, they don't mean bad from a European or North American point of view (say 50-60 hrs a week), but bad from a Japanese point of view (say 80-100 hrs per week).
I've been to Japan on a couple of business trips lasting from a week to several weeks for GPS related company. Each time we (the foreigners) worked from 9am to 10/11pm 6 days per week. The Japanese coworkers worked even longer. While even in Japan that is unusual, it isn't nearly as uncommon as it is here. Word gets around and soon nobody wants to train for such a job.
That's a metaphysical question. Is the universe infinitely complex? Most physicists don't believe it is. If you try doing some google searches along the line of 'infinitely complex universe' you may find some interesting metaphysics debates on the subject.
Rock bands have speakers loud enough to kill people if you stand right in front of them. What's your point? Do you think the Chinese need our help to make lethal speakers? I don't. A device that doesn't kill but is also effective in dispersing crowds is more difficult to make and which is why they are buying the device from a US company.
What leads you to believe that the Chinese need a way to torture people without leaving any marks? If they want to do that I'm sure there's numerous ways they can achieve that (although I don't think they would care since they have such a tight control on the media).
All this device would allow them to do is to do crowd control (mainly breaking up crowds and riots). Compared to using bullets I do not see the downside and I'd like to hear your alternative. All forms of non-lethal crowd control involves some sort of pain since that's about the only thing that works to break up a riot other than pure force. Would it be better for the US to not sell them non-lethal devices that have surely been well tested and leave China with no choice but to use whatever devices they have (which most likely are more dangerous and perhaps even more painful).
I don't know if it's such a bad thing to provide China with safe crowd control devices. If China wants some form of crowd control they will use whatever they have, including deadly force (such as back in Tienanmen Square).
Giving them something safe to use is probably a good idea and could save peoples' lives.
I think the counterargument would be something to the effect that the US shouldn't help a government such as China's to maintain control over its people. It's a difficult moral dilemma to be sure. However, China is not Burma and by and large the population is content with their government.
Has anybody here using Joomla been hacked in this way? Obviously attacks happen all the time but I'm wondering how often they're successful.
That's interesting but it's like other rhythm games that don't use scored music and instead drop notes from the sky. I really wish they would have an option in these games to show the music on the staff sort of like good old Mario Paint so that people that know how to read music can benefit (and encourage others to learn how to read music).
I thought the way they're doing this is this is a minimal Linux distro and is embedded in the motherboard. At boot, you would have the option of booting off your hard disk as usual or you could chose to boot off of the embedded OS if you just want to check your e-mail, talk on skype or browse the web. Seems pretty neat to me, especially considering it would boot in just a couple of seconds.
I check on Blender about once per year. Once I'm satisfied that I'll be able to do what I would like to do in Blender and that it doesn't take long for someone familiar with Blender to do a complex task (as can be determined by the number of steps in a tutorial) then I'll dive in. So far that hasn't happened though--namely, I want to be able to do good cloth simulations, character animations (bipedal and with morph targets), complex textures including realistic skin and hair, etc. Something like 3Ds Max's Video Post would pretty much be a necessity too. Some specific tutorials I've looked at I determined that I could do with far fewer steps in 3Ds Max and I have yet to find an impressive organic animation done with Blender. I don't plan on making money with this, but if I'm going to sink time into it I want results at least as good as what I did back in college in the late 90s/early 2000s. I wasn't able to do cloth animations back in college but it is certainly possible with the current version of 3Ds Max so I want that too (I would have if I could have back then).