Christians and IDers don't disagree with entropy, and decay of constants, they do find it difficult to explain the lack of entropy that Evolution requires, and No, I'm NOT interested in rehashing the open/closed system discussion.
Many slashdotters spend years developing personalities that read real, and they've spent their lives, at least 12 hours every thursday, friday,saturday sunday learning to do that, its something we call playing roleplay games. Its no different than acting. You develop a character, put yourself in their shoes and make decisions as they would. Its not something that requires any particular degree of intelligence, look at Hollywood actors when they open their mouths off screen.
A geek sociopath who can't stay in character for 4 hours of the tests either isn't a geek or isn't a sociopath. I'm confident I could roleplay just about any personality type I selected for the 4 hours required for the test.
The big difference is a patch for Oracle 9.0.7, isn't going to change the functionality of your email client. Just as a patch for a Cisco 9320, isn't going to change how your flatbed scanner works. A MS Word patch could change how your email client works, or how your flatbed scanner works.
A proper chef understands the difference between Well done, and over done, YOU apparently do NOT. There are a variety of good reasons to order a steak done to well. Most people do not understand the difference between Done Well and Over. A good cut of meat will be just as good at Well as at Rare. But it is very difficult to serve a steak at exactly Well.
That depends on your level of intelligence and education. Educated and intelligent people are capable of entertaining themselves with reading, gaming(chess type or gambling), or dialogue.
A Pakistani, or Afgan in Afghanistan with a Kalishnikov != An Iraqi, Syrian, Chinese, in Afghanistan with a Kalishnikov. Thats why most of the Afghans and Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan weren't sent to Gitmo, and those that were sent by mistake have been released.
You mean Moussouai? The guy who is currently participating in a highly public trial? Who was put into pretrial confinement with access(which he refused) to several lawyers, but not to the press or anyone not identified as counsel?
Sony does it every day, the difference is, they don't need to blow their own horn, and they have an active appeal process for banned users, It would suck for them to announce that they banned 5k users, and they to have to oops, 2k of those weren't actually farmers.
We have multiple millions of acres in africa that aren't occupied, are sparcely farmed and could be made fertile with simple technology available over 100 years ago. who is that going to hurt? And what psuedo-science have you been reading that suggests that yield increasing science harms nutritional values? I challenge you to name one problem caused by the plow.
11 Billion is very low, possibly even order of magnitude low. We already have the technology to increase yields per acre by an order of magnitude, and we could be growing food in multi level warehouses if need gets extreme enough.
But that is largely immaterial, as we aren't using all the arable land we have available anyway.
Well, you don't last 120+ years as a Technology company without learning some corporate business smarts. IBM knows well when to settle and when to fight, this fight is one in which it would NOT have been cheaper to settle.
"I have also been offered a specfic amount of "hush-money" if I would just shut up and go away, but the amount offered would not even cover my most direct expenses."
I call BS, their letter writing lawyer is costing them more than the ~$10K(US) he claims to be out.
I suspect thats what he called an attempt at bribery. Seriously this is less than 10k worth of cost to him, and certainly DLInk is willing to pay more than that. The lawyer responding to his letters is likely costing them more than that.
The biggest problem with the shroud is now, and has always been, that it does not match the description of the grave wrappings of Jesus the Christ, as given in the writings of those who report having witnessed or participated in his burial or his return to life.
I remember 2 situations like that. In the first, I arranged to take the beating for my brother, in the second, I broke those involved in the assault, because thats what big brothers do.
You know, people have been claiming that violence is not the answer for less than 50 years. So far, they have ~1 example of nonviolence working. Get back to me with more data.
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This must be your first time on slashdot.
Christians and IDers don't disagree with entropy, and decay of constants, they do find it difficult to explain the lack of entropy that Evolution requires, and No, I'm NOT interested in rehashing the open/closed system discussion.
Slashdotters don't go to parties. See, there you are, playing a role, pretending you've been to a party, and seen someone talking smack.
Many slashdotters spend years developing personalities that read real, and they've spent their lives, at least 12 hours every thursday, friday,saturday sunday learning to do that, its something we call playing roleplay games. Its no different than acting. You develop a character, put yourself in their shoes and make decisions as they would. Its not something that requires any particular degree of intelligence, look at Hollywood actors when they open their mouths off screen.
Yes, Worf worked in the server room on TNG.
A geek sociopath who can't stay in character for 4 hours of the tests either isn't a geek or isn't a sociopath. I'm confident I could roleplay just about any personality type I selected for the 4 hours required for the test.
The big difference is a patch for Oracle 9.0.7, isn't going to change the functionality of your email client. Just as a patch for a Cisco 9320, isn't going to change how your flatbed scanner works. A MS Word patch could change how your email client works, or how your flatbed scanner works.
A proper chef understands the difference between Well done, and over done, YOU apparently do NOT. There are a variety of good reasons to order a steak done to well. Most people do not understand the difference between Done Well and Over. A good cut of meat will be just as good at Well as at Rare. But it is very difficult to serve a steak at exactly Well.
By my count there are at least 3 jokes in there trying to get out.
That depends on your level of intelligence and education. Educated and intelligent people are capable of entertaining themselves with reading, gaming(chess type or gambling), or dialogue.
A Pakistani, or Afgan in Afghanistan with a Kalishnikov != An Iraqi, Syrian, Chinese, in Afghanistan with a Kalishnikov. Thats why most of the Afghans and Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan weren't sent to Gitmo, and those that were sent by mistake have been released.
You mean Moussouai? The guy who is currently participating in a highly public trial? Who was put into pretrial confinement with access(which he refused) to several lawyers, but not to the press or anyone not identified as counsel?
According to dictionary.com its talking to other people. Better stay home, or you too could be pregnant.
Sony does it every day, the difference is, they don't need to blow their own horn, and they have an active appeal process for banned users, It would suck for them to announce that they banned 5k users, and they to have to oops, 2k of those weren't actually farmers.
Yeah, but this is slashdot, and nerds tend to work in tech centers for some reason.
And had xerox or HP had a visionary salesman such as jobs working for them, neither Apple nor Microsoft would be players in the market today.
We have multiple millions of acres in africa that aren't occupied, are sparcely farmed and could be made fertile with simple technology available over 100 years ago. who is that going to hurt? And what psuedo-science have you been reading that suggests that yield increasing science harms nutritional values? I challenge you to name one problem caused by the plow.
11 Billion is very low, possibly even order of magnitude low. We already have the technology to increase yields per acre by an order of magnitude, and we could be growing food in multi level warehouses if need gets extreme enough.
But that is largely immaterial, as we aren't using all the arable land we have available anyway.
Well, you don't last 120+ years as a Technology company without learning some corporate business smarts. IBM knows well when to settle and when to fight, this fight is one in which it would NOT have been cheaper to settle.
I suspect thats what he called an attempt at bribery. Seriously this is less than 10k worth of cost to him, and certainly DLInk is willing to pay more than that. The lawyer responding to his letters is likely costing them more than that.
The biggest problem with the shroud is now, and has always been, that it does not match the description of the grave wrappings of Jesus the Christ, as given in the writings of those who report having witnessed or participated in his burial or his return to life.
Yeah, once the DVD is out, there are better ways, but 0 day movie releases almost always exploit "the analog hole" in some way.
I remember 2 situations like that. In the first, I arranged to take the beating for my brother, in the second, I broke those involved in the assault, because thats what big brothers do.
You know, people have been claiming that violence is not the answer for less than 50 years. So far, they have ~1 example of nonviolence working. Get back to me with more data.