Muhammad existed, however he wasn't a prophet because there is demonstrably no such thing. If people decide to call him a prophet or even if he did himself it doesn't make it so.
Beliefs are beliefs no matter where they arise from. Just because someone believes something written in a book of fairy tales 2000 years ago doesn't make it sacrosanct and above criticism.
What is it with religious types who think their beliefs are somehow special? I'd say it scientific beliefs that are based on things that can be proven - rather than just the witterings of peasents in the desert - have more of a claim to that.
No, didn't think so. I guess at some point Flash in firefox will just stop working because so many sites will require a more modern version. Funnily enough I don't think I'll care.
I've been running it for 20 years from laptops all the way up to servers. Ok, so to install stuff there's usually more manual intervention and you might - gasp! - have to use the tar command occasionally, but other than that its stable, it works, and best of all it doesn't come with the latest trendy rubbish such as systemd. Patrick tends to wait things out and see how they fly rather than including something because of the Oooo! Shiny!! mentality that other dists seem to follow.
"bunch of subjects that have spent their entire lives (minus the first year or so) "
And quite a long at uni when all totalled up while drunk and then waking up with some strange person the next morning and finding they can only communicate in grunts due to a mysterious headache and sudden revulsion which also prevents them communicating at an effective volume for most of the day.
Umm, no. If 1 cell takes more energy to replicate than another due to excess DNA that add nothing to its fitness in a survival situation then guess which genes will eventually win. DNA doesn't "care" at all, its simply a biological instruction list, nothing more. If its fit it'll survive, if it isn't it won't.
... its not too surprising. If something works evolution will generally use it no matter how convoluted it is. Its also highly unlikely that junk DNA would have remained in the genome if it had no purpose since a cell that dumped non working DNA would require less energy to reproduce.
Once thing the article isn't clear about when it talks about viruses - do they mean actual viruses are loose in the brain or are they simply refering to the viral DNA?
I heard some standard issue left wing apologist halfwit on the radio here this morning in the UK trot out the usual "it was society's fault" rubbish. Yeah, because everyone with a fucking grievance grabs an AK-47 and shoots up a magazine don't they love?
Just what the hell does it take to knock some common sense into these bloody liberals??
Given the exponential difference in volume between a gas giants inhabitable atmosphere and the small inhabitable part of earth on and just below the surface I'd debate whether a rocky planet is the best possible place.
..where you're not going to find any. Either in their book of fairy tales, sorry, "holy koran" or in their dimwitted brains. Religion - particularly islam - abhors logic and rationality since enables people to see it for the bunch of lies, fantasies and half truths that it really is.
They have all the chemical ingredients, saturn and jupiter both have water clouds containing droplets of water and since we don't know how life actually got going it could well be possible for it to start in a gas giant and at least sustain bacteria or virus sized lifeforms. Even in earths clouds there are bacteria floating about as we've discovered in the last decade or so.
... the stupid little cunt turns 18 while the investigation is ongoing and they can throw his loser backside in prison until he's worked enough hours in the prison laundry - or done enough "favours" for Big Brian - that he can payback for some of the damage he's done.
I'm honestly sick of these script kiddies thinking they can inflict their "fun" on everyone else, its really about time a *serious* example was made of some of them.
You know , you could always try being more careful and not treating the phone like a piece of junk. I've got a perfectly working phone from 2009 which I use every day.
"Well, it is, but my trip from home to my son's school to my office takes me about 20 minutes (give or take a few minutes with traffic). Via bus, that same trip would take me 35 minutes."
Wow. A whole extra FIFTEEN minutes! Poor ickle you, I feel your pain!
People like you are part of the problem sitting on your fat backsides in your pumped up 4x4s outside the school gates blocking the road, causing traffic jams and needless pollution. I could understand it if the bus took 2 hours but if your seriously whining about an extra 15 minutes then you're beyond pathetic.
Just fuck over 13K people who've done neither you nor anyone else any harm why don't you, you sorry little teenage dickheads. True hackers used to have either a moral or a technological purpose. Now its just a bunch of children vying for bragging rights on 4chan and screw anyone who gets hurt.
Yeah , I'm suuuure thats why they chose Ur. Nothing like retrofitting a reason is there? Also someone should tell them the difference between ancestor and descendent because clearly they have no idea.
Look no further than the web "development" industry which seems to be all the media and colleges can conceive of programming entailing. It generally employs people who've never even opened a half decent computer science book, never mind read one. More often than not they've done some irrelevant degree or qualification (social "science", graphics design, whatever) that just about proves they can walk upright and breath through their noses at the same time, and somehow they manage to end up "coding" HTML and eventually javascript.
""Ur" is a fairly common way to represent an origin or prototypical item of a set,"
Oh yeah , in which niche arena is this? I've never heard of it. Seems to me it was meant to be a hipster way of saying Your Web. And it failed. Miserably.
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Muhammad existed, however he wasn't a prophet because there is demonstrably no such thing. If people decide to call him a prophet or even if he did himself it doesn't make it so.
Good points well made
Mothers exist - prophets don't. Show me a prophet and I'll show you a smooth talking charlatan surrounded by a load of suckers.
Beliefs are beliefs no matter where they arise from. Just because someone believes something written in a book of fairy tales 2000 years ago doesn't make it sacrosanct and above criticism.
What is it with religious types who think their beliefs are somehow special? I'd say it scientific beliefs that are based on things that can be proven - rather than just the witterings of peasents in the desert - have more of a claim to that.
Which part of the phrase "a more modern version" confused you?
I meant a new major version you halfwitted bell end!
No, didn't think so. I guess at some point Flash in firefox will just stop working because so many sites will require a more modern version. Funnily enough I don't think I'll care.
I've been running it for 20 years from laptops all the way up to servers. Ok, so to install stuff there's usually more manual intervention and you might - gasp! - have to use the tar command occasionally, but other than that its stable, it works, and best of all it doesn't come with the latest trendy rubbish such as systemd. Patrick tends to wait things out and see how they fly rather than including something because of the Oooo! Shiny!! mentality that other dists seem to follow.
You've falled for the common fallacy that any change is better than no change regardless or whether it improves things or not.
Thats odd, because my system which only has ALSA allows hot plugging of headsets no problem.
"bunch of subjects that have spent their entire lives (minus the first year or so) "
And quite a long at uni when all totalled up while drunk and then waking up with some strange person the next morning and finding they can only communicate in grunts due to a mysterious headache and sudden revulsion which also prevents them communicating at an effective volume for most of the day.
Umm, no. If 1 cell takes more energy to replicate than another due to excess DNA that add nothing to its fitness in a survival situation then guess which genes will eventually win. DNA doesn't "care" at all, its simply a biological instruction list, nothing more. If its fit it'll survive, if it isn't it won't.
Proper systems and apps developers wouldn't touch either of these noddy languages with a sterilised bargepole.
... its not too surprising. If something works evolution will generally use it no matter how convoluted it is. Its also highly unlikely that junk DNA would have remained in the genome if it had no purpose since a cell that dumped non working DNA would require less energy to reproduce.
Once thing the article isn't clear about when it talks about viruses - do they mean actual viruses are loose in the brain or are they simply refering to the viral DNA?
I heard some standard issue left wing apologist halfwit on the radio here this morning in the UK trot out the usual "it was society's fault" rubbish. Yeah, because everyone with a fucking grievance grabs an AK-47 and shoots up a magazine don't they love?
Just what the hell does it take to knock some common sense into these bloody liberals??
Given the exponential difference in volume between a gas giants inhabitable atmosphere and the small inhabitable part of earth on and just below the surface I'd debate whether a rocky planet is the best possible place.
..where you're not going to find any. Either in their book of fairy tales, sorry, "holy koran" or in their dimwitted brains. Religion - particularly islam - abhors logic and rationality since enables people to see it for the bunch of lies, fantasies and half truths that it really is.
They have all the chemical ingredients, saturn and jupiter both have water clouds containing droplets of water and since we don't know how life actually got going it could well be possible for it to start in a gas giant and at least sustain bacteria or virus sized lifeforms. Even in earths clouds there are bacteria floating about as we've discovered in the last decade or so.
... the stupid little cunt turns 18 while the investigation is ongoing and they can throw his loser backside in prison until he's worked enough hours in the prison laundry - or done enough "favours" for Big Brian - that he can payback for some of the damage he's done.
I'm honestly sick of these script kiddies thinking they can inflict their "fun" on everyone else, its really about time a *serious* example was made of some of them.
You know , you could always try being more careful and not treating the phone like a piece of junk. I've got a perfectly working phone from 2009 which I use every day.
"Well, it is, but my trip from home to my son's school to my office takes me about 20 minutes (give or take a few minutes with traffic). Via bus, that same trip would take me 35 minutes."
Wow. A whole extra FIFTEEN minutes! Poor ickle you, I feel your pain!
People like you are part of the problem sitting on your fat backsides in your pumped up 4x4s outside the school gates blocking the road, causing traffic jams and needless pollution. I could understand it if the bus took 2 hours but if your seriously whining about an extra 15 minutes then you're beyond pathetic.
Not.
Just fuck over 13K people who've done neither you nor anyone else any harm why don't you, you sorry little teenage dickheads. True hackers used to have either a moral or a technological purpose. Now its just a bunch of children vying for bragging rights on 4chan and screw anyone who gets hurt.
Yeah , I'm suuuure thats why they chose Ur. Nothing like retrofitting a reason is there? Also someone should tell them the difference between ancestor and descendent because clearly they have no idea.
Look no further than the web "development" industry which seems to be all the media and colleges can conceive of programming entailing. It generally employs people who've never even opened a half decent computer science book, never mind read one. More often than not they've done some irrelevant degree or qualification (social "science", graphics design, whatever) that just about proves they can walk upright and breath through their noses at the same time, and somehow they manage to end up "coding" HTML and eventually javascript.
And no , I'm not exaggerating.
""Ur" is a fairly common way to represent an origin or prototypical item of a set,"
Oh yeah , in which niche arena is this? I've never heard of it. Seems to me it was meant to be a hipster way of saying Your Web. And it failed. Miserably.