I'm a liberal, but I respect most of the views of honerable, decent, respectable conervatives like john McCain. I disagree very much with alot of his views but I don't have any anamosity towards him. Arlen Specter is another good example. However, I can not stand bigotry. Gay people will never hurt you. They aren't asking you to come into their homes and watch them fuck. It is a matter of basic human rights that we no descriminate against them.
Whether there is a god or not, I don't believe the argument that the universe is too complex for there not to be a god is a valid one. Personally, I don't believe in the talking god of the bible that created the universe in 7 days. I do know what you mean about complexity, and that wis why I prefer to think of the universe itself as devine. That beautiful complexity itself is god. No need to seperate god out and say that he did it. You are still left with the same problem that way, becuase then god is so amazing that GOD must have had a creator. So I prefer to eliminate that problem entirly by allowing the universe to be its own spontaniously devine self.
Physicists usually use the word God metaphorically. There are some exceptions, but not many. Your argument that the world is just too good to have come out of evolution shows your lack of understanding of the concept, not any evidence for the existence of a designer. See "The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features" in the journal Nature for some good experimental evidence to the contrary. But really, such research shouldn't be necessary, as it is quite obvious that evolution has no limit in the complexity it can produce given enough time. And there has been enough time. The universe has existed for at least 11 billion years.
Maybe so, but intelligent design claims to be a scientific theory, and this is simply not true whether one believes in God or not. An agnostic should certainly see the unscientific nature of any theory that is not falsifiable. Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave I'm sure at the assertion that is it is scientific. If they want to be religious thats one thing, but science is science.
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Ah but those on the spot programming challenges can be so fun. Haven't you seen swordfish?
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But if those people aren't seeing the ads, then they might as well just not have them at all. Also, I think they expect people to leave their mail on the server for searching purposes. I bet it is free for beta, but they will charge for it later.
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My 15 year old friend was interviewed 3 times for a job a the "love sack" store. They sell bean bag chairs. He would just have been a sales clerk. They called him back for a forth interview but he just blew them off because he was sick of it.
Trust me the racers are real. The top sites are all legit connections. From there it goes to datacenters and EDUs. These number in the hundreds probobly. From there it goes to the so called "dumps" and alot of these are rooted boxes. From dumps releases go to BT and XDCC channels, and from there onto kazaa. The curries are mostly the people moving the releases from the top sites to the datacenter and EDU sites. There are some curries that race between topsites but most people that do this are in groups. It is accurate to say that the number of curries is in the thousands.
I do doubt though that "Frank" would give the name of the group he is in to an interviewer. That would just be stupid. It is practically suicide for his group. A "friend" told me that some people don't like matine. I bet someone trying to make them look bad claimed to be a member. They probobly were a member of a major group, just not that one.
I think there is alot of hype about bloggers over maybe not nothing, but certainly not anything substancial. The web has been used by individual people for a while now to express their views. Yes, there are now more people doing it, but it is not something that just came out of the blue this year. I consider myself to be pretty internet savy. And yet, when my dad asked me earlier this year if I had a blog, as he thought I must based on the hype he had heard, I told him no, I've mostly only heard about them on tv. I'm not saying blogging isn't a good thing, or that it isn't expanding, its just its not the explosion it is made out to be. And yes, as I'm sure someone will point out, I do now have a blog.
Because intellectual property is a bogus concept, that should be abolished all completly. Then again, im not too pro regular property either, so maybe I am an extremist.
In 8th grade, I used to ask people if they would consider themself to be an intellectual. The majority of the time the answer would be "What's an intellectual" which was as good as any answer.
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I'm a liberal, but I respect most of the views of honerable, decent, respectable conervatives like john McCain. I disagree very much with alot of his views but I don't have any anamosity towards him. Arlen Specter is another good example. However, I can not stand bigotry. Gay people will never hurt you. They aren't asking you to come into their homes and watch them fuck. It is a matter of basic human rights that we no descriminate against them.
Are you seriously suggesting that we have a freedom of sexual practice comparable to our freedom of religious conviction?
Yes.
For many years the majority of the population was pro-slavery. The abolitionist movement started with very few people, and grew from there.
You disagree with ideas, not people.
Only 3.5 million? Don't they have tens of billions in the bank? They should donate maybe half a billion.
You, sir, have it backwards.
Whether there is a god or not, I don't believe the argument that the universe is too complex for there not to be a god is a valid one. Personally, I don't believe in the talking god of the bible that created the universe in 7 days. I do know what you mean about complexity, and that wis why I prefer to think of the universe itself as devine. That beautiful complexity itself is god. No need to seperate god out and say that he did it. You are still left with the same problem that way, becuase then god is so amazing that GOD must have had a creator. So I prefer to eliminate that problem entirly by allowing the universe to be its own spontaniously devine self.
Physicists usually use the word God metaphorically. There are some exceptions, but not many. Your argument that the world is just too good to have come out of evolution shows your lack of understanding of the concept, not any evidence for the existence of a designer. See "The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features" in the journal Nature for some good experimental evidence to the contrary. But really, such research shouldn't be necessary, as it is quite obvious that evolution has no limit in the complexity it can produce given enough time. And there has been enough time. The universe has existed for at least 11 billion years.
Maybe so, but intelligent design claims to be a scientific theory, and this is simply not true whether one believes in God or not. An agnostic should certainly see the unscientific nature of any theory that is not falsifiable. Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave I'm sure at the assertion that is it is scientific. If they want to be religious thats one thing, but science is science.
While you give some extreme examples, there is plenty of evidence to back up this assertion. See:
"Evidence from Biochemical Pathways in Favor of Unfinished Evolution rather than Intelligent Design"
Ah but those on the spot programming challenges can be so fun. Haven't you seen swordfish?
But if those people aren't seeing the ads, then they might as well just not have them at all. Also, I think they expect people to leave their mail on the server for searching purposes. I bet it is free for beta, but they will charge for it later.
My 15 year old friend was interviewed 3 times for a job a the "love sack" store. They sell bean bag chairs. He would just have been a sales clerk. They called him back for a forth interview but he just blew them off because he was sick of it.
Trust me the racers are real. The top sites are all legit connections. From there it goes to datacenters and EDUs. These number in the hundreds probobly. From there it goes to the so called "dumps" and alot of these are rooted boxes. From dumps releases go to BT and XDCC channels, and from there onto kazaa. The curries are mostly the people moving the releases from the top sites to the datacenter and EDU sites. There are some curries that race between topsites but most people that do this are in groups. It is accurate to say that the number of curries is in the thousands.
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I do doubt though that "Frank" would give the name of the group he is in to an interviewer. That would just be stupid. It is practically suicide for his group. A "friend" told me that some people don't like matine. I bet someone trying to make them look bad claimed to be a member. They probobly were a member of a major group, just not that one.
Distro channels are not top sites. They are a level below dump servers, and just slightly above public XDCC channels.
I think there is alot of hype about bloggers over maybe not nothing, but certainly not anything substancial. The web has been used by individual people for a while now to express their views. Yes, there are now more people doing it, but it is not something that just came out of the blue this year. I consider myself to be pretty internet savy. And yet, when my dad asked me earlier this year if I had a blog, as he thought I must based on the hype he had heard, I told him no, I've mostly only heard about them on tv. I'm not saying blogging isn't a good thing, or that it isn't expanding, its just its not the explosion it is made out to be. And yes, as I'm sure someone will point out, I do now have a blog.
Because intellectual property is a bogus concept, that should be abolished all completly. Then again, im not too pro regular property either, so maybe I am an extremist.
No, like that wieghts you put on either end of a series of books sitting on a desk. Like this.
I run Windows, get over it
Sweat, beautiful irony.
That was his stated goal. But yes, that makes the connection even more obvious.
Napoleon came after the revolution. Don't try to tell me he was all about surrendering. Bad guy? yes. Pussy? no.
The french people overthrew their own government partiatlly because they believed in the what france had helped fight for in the american revolution.
In 8th grade, I used to ask people if they would consider themself to be an intellectual. The majority of the time the answer would be "What's an intellectual" which was as good as any answer.
The week end should be thought of more as book ends. One on each side of the week.