Almost all my friends came out of the other side of our drug years fine. Several are in college now, others have solid jobs. Out of the 30 or so friends I had that were hardcore (hardcore meaning taking speed, mdma, acid, coke on a daily basis. ) druggies only 2 of them ended up wasting their lives. Ancedotes prove nothing. We all knew crack was addictive, you can feel it the very next day pushing you. Just have to realise that. If your weak, or don't see how dangerous it is sure it will go horribly wrong. I'd bet those are the same people who would subcome to other addictions just as easily. I know I'm incredibly susceptible to addictive things, just need to be careful. I'd get sucked into mmos as easily as drugs for example.
Yes I see no problems with eating humans, meat is meat. Lots of tribes are cannibals. If you bred and raised them and killed them with them barely being aware of it yes.
I never said anything about raising stuff in cages, most meat I'd eat at home would be free range. Im just saying there's nothing wrong with eating meat, we evolved to process it, hence it's totally natural for us. If they have good lives I see no problems. I don't see how this is any different from a bear hunting, we just do it in a more advanced fashion. I do have a problem with factory style farming, but that's a totally unrelated issue to whether killing animals is ok or not.
Still didn't explain why it's ok to kill plants and not animals, I see both types of killing as just as bad. Plants sure don't want to die either, if you try kill a plant on a timescale where it can react it will move out of the way. So why is it ok to kill them?
Not for everyone. I have to over eat a huge amount to put on weight, like 3.5k or 4k calories a day. And even then I'll only gain it really slowly and very evenly. I build muscle in the blink of an eye and fat just melts off naturally if I eat a normal amount of food without any effort. My ex is pencil thin no matter what she eats, literally doesn't gain mass. And she's uber unfit, contains no muscle.
So no, sedentary lifestyles do not lead to chair-butt in all people. It's actually a proven fact. There's a very good horizon documentary where they got people to eat 10k calories a day. Some of them gained lots of weight, some barely changed at all, and one group quickly gained and lost the weight naturally.
Explain why it's ok to kill living non sentient beings but not sentient ones? Vegetarians are idiots, they still eat living beings and somehow think they are better because of it. Life is life, if you eat a plant you should have no problem eating a cow logically. Whether its sentient or not should be irrelevant. Your killing a living being either way, that is just how nature works.
I didn't think you were really, but I just wanted to show how tiny the time dilation effect is, its barely noticeable until very high speeds. 86% light speed gets you only double the time dilation.
This is utterly stupid, ssd wear is vastly overblown. 6 months using my ssd, delta between least and most used blocks is still zero. 2000 hours powered on, 750 gigs written, 1.5 tb read. The ssd is 240 gigs, so each block has been used 3 times, only 99997 writes left... You do realise the disk controllers are smart enough to not just directly write each windows write operation to the disk right?
I'm in Ireland, attending college as a mature student, every single teenager uses chrome, as do all my friends. When someone complains about Firefox on Facebook everyone points them to chrome. Exact opposite experience, anecdotes are useless.
The gases boiling off the comet effectively give it a rocket engine. One of the proposed methods to deflect a comet on a collision with earth is to shine sun on it with giant mirrors.
I'm trying to play dark souls on the Xbox ATM, since it's amazing but console only. I would literally play double retail price for a pc version. I hadn't realised just how different the level between console and pc had gotten. The graphics are crap yet I get slow down all over the place.
There have been studies that show people spend more on live gigs and merchandising as piracy rises. I know that I have found more musicians I'm interested in through YouTube piracy and hence spend more money going to gigs to see them. I've never bought a cd, by the time I was 16 I could download anything I wanted already. But if I didn't have the option of easily trying new music and had to pay 20 for a cd, well I'd rarely buy any. I remember thinking CDs were way too expensive and never bought them. I'd probly copy them off friends and distribution would be much slower. That was what I did before mp3 really took off in 98 or so. The exact same thing apples to games and movies. I buy more games cause I can filter through the bad ones so easily.
Slashdot might not legally have to, but your ISP sure does. Standard data retention laws. I'd imagine slashdot does save ips just even for stats and tracking purposes.
I will try and debate with you, but from previous experience I'm pretty sure what will happen. It will get to a point where I will say, that doesn't exist any more, or that evolved away and we don't see it, and you'll say aha!, so you don't know it all, it was clearly god.:p But this disregards the fact that we don't need to know all the answers, we just need to use the simplest conclusion by extrapolating from known data. And god is not a simple conclusion because then we are just asking who created god.
I have studied some biochemistry in university, I know how complex a modern cell is. The first cell could easily have been a simple replicator inside a lipid membrane. Lipids can naturally and spontaneously form cell like enclosures all on their own. The organelles that we see inside the current cell could have been separate entities. We see examples of this kind of symbiosis in our natural world, where one creature has taken up a residence inside another and provides benefits to the host. Originally it most likely worked like a colony using the lipids as substrate to build on and for protection rather than replicating the wall of the cell itself. The nucleus, and other internal cell structures and things like viruses are coated with a lipid membrane lending credence to this idea.
Your arguments that chemicals naturally move towards a lower state assume that there is no external introduction of energy. But there is a huge external energy source, the sun. This is the same as the argument that the second law of thermodynamics forbids evolution. It fails because the earth is not a closed system. Things didn't just start with dna and rna, we had precursors. Its likely the first replicators were literally just chains of acids. We know that amino acids even exist in space so they were here already anyway and didn't need to be created.
Mutations are random, they may be good or bad. 99.999% of the time they are gonna be bad, but there has been billions of years of chances. If mutations don't cause enhancement then how do you explain bacterial resistance? That requires beneficial mutations. Also what about the example of the bacteria we evolved to process citrus by exposing them to an environment full of citrate and low in their natural food source. What about how European humans have a mutation that makes them resistant to aids, because of the black death forcing a little bit of evolution on us. The same resistance to black death happens to also apply to the aids virus. Without evolution there is no mechanism to explain this, or genetic diseases for example. How do you explain hereditary characteristics without passing information from previous generation to offspring. If you accept that as fact, then your already doing evolution, all that's missing is the random mutations.
You talk about selling me the bits of the car dissembled. But this is assuming the first cell is a current modern cell. It certainly was not. It can be vastly more simple.
You say evolution is a religion in itself, which depending on how you are taking the statement could be considered true. Scientists such as myself do tend to "believe" things that we can't see, but are valid and logical extrapolations. However the major difference is, if you produce some clear evidence that evolution doesn't exist, scientists will change their minds straight away. Your examples of scientists getting things wrong such as junk dna and vestigial organs are great examples of where scientists were wrong but corrected themselves. If you could show me true evidence against evolution id change my mind in a second. A really advanced creature appearing in the fossil record at the time of vastly more primitive life would be a great one. But we never see anything like that. There is a noble prize out there waiting for the person who can disprove evolution and come up with a better model. The difference is that religious people will preform incredible levels of mental gymnastics of the kind you are preforming to maintain their cognitive dissonance. I cant fathom how you learned all this stuff, but just jump to magic as the answer when we hit a gap in our knowledge instead of trying to extrapolate a hypothesis.
Why would money make better software devs, that makes no sense. The best guys are the guys who do programming out of passion for computing. Did you forget about the flood of shit programmers and admins that appeared in the dot com bubble? Look at all the idiots getting busy degrees thinking its a quick money maker.
This fixation with money is the real issue. People need to realise money does fuck all for you once you have enough for the basics.
The first cell wasn't produced by randomness, that's clearly impossible, it's an incremental process. You've fallen into the usual creationists argument that cells sprang forth from nothing. If you study a cell there's clearly lots of different bits joined together that could easily have been separate pieces.
And please don't refer to anything to do with creationism as science. If you take the bible literally, you are an enemy of science. Religion is just a method created by the brain to deal with the fact that humans are aware of their own mortality. Weak people who can't deal with this fact hide behind religion. Leaders realised this fact and used religion to control the masses. You seem to be intelligent and well spoken and I hope you'll break your cognitive dissonance some day.
All you need to know is it's the daily mail, it's like turning to fox news for fair and balanced journalism. The daily mail has posted such ridiculous articles in the past it's a safe assumption.
How about genetic diseases? Don't believe in evolution there's no mechanism to explain generic disease as hereditary. Or how about bacteria, they grow quick enough they can evolve in a few years no problem. Your math comment really just hits home your shocking level of ignorance, I should probly assume your trolling.
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Almost all my friends came out of the other side of our drug years fine. Several are in college now, others have solid jobs. Out of the 30 or so friends I had that were hardcore (hardcore meaning taking speed, mdma, acid, coke on a daily basis. ) druggies only 2 of them ended up wasting their lives. Ancedotes prove nothing. We all knew crack was addictive, you can feel it the very next day pushing you. Just have to realise that. If your weak, or don't see how dangerous it is sure it will go horribly wrong. I'd bet those are the same people who would subcome to other addictions just as easily. I know I'm incredibly susceptible to addictive things, just need to be careful. I'd get sucked into mmos as easily as drugs for example.
Yes I see no problems with eating humans, meat is meat. Lots of tribes are cannibals. If you bred and raised them and killed them with them barely being aware of it yes.
I never said anything about raising stuff in cages, most meat I'd eat at home would be free range. Im just saying there's nothing wrong with eating meat, we evolved to process it, hence it's totally natural for us. If they have good lives I see no problems. I don't see how this is any different from a bear hunting, we just do it in a more advanced fashion. I do have a problem with factory style farming, but that's a totally unrelated issue to whether killing animals is ok or not.
Still didn't explain why it's ok to kill plants and not animals, I see both types of killing as just as bad. Plants sure don't want to die either, if you try kill a plant on a timescale where it can react it will move out of the way. So why is it ok to kill them?
Not for everyone. I have to over eat a huge amount to put on weight, like 3.5k or 4k calories a day. And even then I'll only gain it really slowly and very evenly. I build muscle in the blink of an eye and fat just melts off naturally if I eat a normal amount of food without any effort. My ex is pencil thin no matter what she eats, literally doesn't gain mass. And she's uber unfit, contains no muscle.
So no, sedentary lifestyles do not lead to chair-butt in all people. It's actually a proven fact. There's a very good horizon documentary where they got people to eat 10k calories a day. Some of them gained lots of weight, some barely changed at all, and one group quickly gained and lost the weight naturally.
Explain why it's ok to kill living non sentient beings but not sentient ones? Vegetarians are idiots, they still eat living beings and somehow think they are better because of it. Life is life, if you eat a plant you should have no problem eating a cow logically. Whether its sentient or not should be irrelevant. Your killing a living being either way, that is just how nature works.
Stop consuming media they will point to it as piracy
That is actually hilarious :)
Wow, only pay $50 a month in Ireland for unlimited contract.
I didn't think you were really, but I just wanted to show how tiny the time dilation effect is, its barely noticeable until very high speeds. 86% light speed gets you only double the time dilation.
Bah, too many 9's there, should be just 9997 writes.
This is utterly stupid, ssd wear is vastly overblown. 6 months using my ssd, delta between least and most used blocks is still zero. 2000 hours powered on, 750 gigs written, 1.5 tb read. The ssd is 240 gigs, so each block has been used 3 times, only 99997 writes left... You do realise the disk controllers are smart enough to not just directly write each windows write operation to the disk right?
I'm in Ireland, attending college as a mature student, every single teenager uses chrome, as do all my friends. When someone complains about Firefox on Facebook everyone points them to chrome. Exact opposite experience, anecdotes are useless.
The time dilation factor is 1.0000021136121362, so no.
The gases boiling off the comet effectively give it a rocket engine. One of the proposed methods to deflect a comet on a collision with earth is to shine sun on it with giant mirrors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I'm trying to play dark souls on the Xbox ATM, since it's amazing but console only. I would literally play double retail price for a pc version. I hadn't realised just how different the level between console and pc had gotten. The graphics are crap yet I get slow down all over the place.
There have been studies that show people spend more on live gigs and merchandising as piracy rises. I know that I have found more musicians I'm interested in through YouTube piracy and hence spend more money going to gigs to see them. I've never bought a cd, by the time I was 16 I could download anything I wanted already. But if I didn't have the option of easily trying new music and had to pay 20 for a cd, well I'd rarely buy any. I remember thinking CDs were way too expensive and never bought them. I'd probly copy them off friends and distribution would be much slower. That was what I did before mp3 really took off in 98 or so. The exact same thing apples to games and movies. I buy more games cause I can filter through the bad ones so easily.
Slashdot might not legally have to, but your ISP sure does. Standard data retention laws. I'd imagine slashdot does save ips just even for stats and tracking purposes.
I will try and debate with you, but from previous experience I'm pretty sure what will happen. It will get to a point where I will say, that doesn't exist any more, or that evolved away and we don't see it, and you'll say aha!, so you don't know it all, it was clearly god. :p But this disregards the fact that we don't need to know all the answers, we just need to use the simplest conclusion by extrapolating from known data. And god is not a simple conclusion because then we are just asking who created god.
I have studied some biochemistry in university, I know how complex a modern cell is. The first cell could easily have been a simple replicator inside a lipid membrane. Lipids can naturally and spontaneously form cell like enclosures all on their own. The organelles that we see inside the current cell could have been separate entities. We see examples of this kind of symbiosis in our natural world, where one creature has taken up a residence inside another and provides benefits to the host. Originally it most likely worked like a colony using the lipids as substrate to build on and for protection rather than replicating the wall of the cell itself. The nucleus, and other internal cell structures and things like viruses are coated with a lipid membrane lending credence to this idea.
Your arguments that chemicals naturally move towards a lower state assume that there is no external introduction of energy. But there is a huge external energy source, the sun. This is the same as the argument that the second law of thermodynamics forbids evolution. It fails because the earth is not a closed system. Things didn't just start with dna and rna, we had precursors. Its likely the first replicators were literally just chains of acids. We know that amino acids even exist in space so they were here already anyway and didn't need to be created.
Mutations are random, they may be good or bad. 99.999% of the time they are gonna be bad, but there has been billions of years of chances. If mutations don't cause enhancement then how do you explain bacterial resistance? That requires beneficial mutations. Also what about the example of the bacteria we evolved to process citrus by exposing them to an environment full of citrate and low in their natural food source. What about how European humans have a mutation that makes them resistant to aids, because of the black death forcing a little bit of evolution on us. The same resistance to black death happens to also apply to the aids virus. Without evolution there is no mechanism to explain this, or genetic diseases for example. How do you explain hereditary characteristics without passing information from previous generation to offspring. If you accept that as fact, then your already doing evolution, all that's missing is the random mutations.
You talk about selling me the bits of the car dissembled. But this is assuming the first cell is a current modern cell. It certainly was not. It can be vastly more simple.
You say evolution is a religion in itself, which depending on how you are taking the statement could be considered true. Scientists such as myself do tend to "believe" things that we can't see, but are valid and logical extrapolations. However the major difference is, if you produce some clear evidence that evolution doesn't exist, scientists will change their minds straight away. Your examples of scientists getting things wrong such as junk dna and vestigial organs are great examples of where scientists were wrong but corrected themselves. If you could show me true evidence against evolution id change my mind in a second. A really advanced creature appearing in the fossil record at the time of vastly more primitive life would be a great one. But we never see anything like that. There is a noble prize out there waiting for the person who can disprove evolution and come up with a better model. The difference is that religious people will preform incredible levels of mental gymnastics of the kind you are preforming to maintain their cognitive dissonance. I cant fathom how you learned all this stuff, but just jump to magic as the answer when we hit a gap in our knowledge instead of trying to extrapolate a hypothesis.
None of those things even appear in the front page of results
None of those things should be thought in school, school is not meant to teach you how to live life, that's the parents job.
Why would money make better software devs, that makes no sense. The best guys are the guys who do programming out of passion for computing. Did you forget about the flood of shit programmers and admins that appeared in the dot com bubble? Look at all the idiots getting busy degrees thinking its a quick money maker. This fixation with money is the real issue. People need to realise money does fuck all for you once you have enough for the basics.
The first cell wasn't produced by randomness, that's clearly impossible, it's an incremental process. You've fallen into the usual creationists argument that cells sprang forth from nothing. If you study a cell there's clearly lots of different bits joined together that could easily have been separate pieces.
And please don't refer to anything to do with creationism as science. If you take the bible literally, you are an enemy of science. Religion is just a method created by the brain to deal with the fact that humans are aware of their own mortality. Weak people who can't deal with this fact hide behind religion. Leaders realised this fact and used religion to control the masses. You seem to be intelligent and well spoken and I hope you'll break your cognitive dissonance some day.
All you need to know is it's the daily mail, it's like turning to fox news for fair and balanced journalism. The daily mail has posted such ridiculous articles in the past it's a safe assumption.
How about genetic diseases? Don't believe in evolution there's no mechanism to explain generic disease as hereditary. Or how about bacteria, they grow quick enough they can evolve in a few years no problem. Your math comment really just hits home your shocking level of ignorance, I should probly assume your trolling.
Indeed, one of my friends is an atheist with a degree in religion cause it was interesting and easy :p