Why is it acceptable to question every conceivable human idea EXCEPT for religious ideas?
It's not. You've been around here enough to realize that's not the case. The problem is that the average Slashdot poster opens a "discussion" with ad homs, straw men and other logical faux pas. And that's exactly what the GP poster has done. For example:
This just proves that religion is perverted and anti-progressive.
Negative tags that the poster does not attempt to qualify.
If we didn't have religion to occupy and dim peoples minds, there would be SO many more bright heads out there who would turn into scientists instead of working towards a goal of non-development and ideological inbreed.
Speaking of cause-and-effect, your argument depends on the fallacy of questionable cause. You argue that the prohibition against unclean animals arose because of human observations, while the opposite possibility of the prohibitions being written before an actual consequence was observed is just as valid with the evidence on hand.
These words have no place in a logical debate. Naturally, the Slashdotters who preach tolerance on one hand, then ignorance and bigotry on the other, modded you "Insightful."
You are right, the clouds are full of water. But I imagine the aliens have the same amazing anti-drowning technology our scientists use to keep us from drowning on airplane flights.
It's not that Creationists lack common sense. It's that they are so rabid about anything that might possibly in some world conceivably be a challenge to their beliefs, that they refuse to accept anything outside their little book.
That's pretty much how anyone who questions evolution is treated, as well. Why else would evolutionists fight tooth and nail to keep even a mention of creationism out of schools? After all, mythology and older scientific theories (remember "aether" and alchemy?) are given mention and their flaws are explained.
Another possibility: aliens have visited us but have not revealed themselves to us. If their technology is so far superior to ours that it allows for space travel over great distances, it is also possible that they have managed to evade our attempts at detecting them. I won't speculate as to why they would or would not want us to know about them, but I doubt stealth technology is beyond the abilities of anyone capable of traveling in space for years at relativistic speeds.
Poppycock! I suppose you're going to tell us next that these invisible aliens implanted the satellite dish in my rectum, when it was clearly Libyan terrorists!
Lets say for example, me a married white male happened to be burning/selling cds at my house. Do you think they would send a swat team with guns drawn or Briscoe and Greene types who will make wisecracks and maybe pursuade the da to indict me sometime in the next five months?
No. The TSA reserves the right to perform that kind of stupidity at airport security checkpoints.
Those desktops and laptops have disk space available, anyway.
And it's all backed up daily, I'm sure.
Outside of college, I've never really been in a situation where I've needed to log onto lots of random computers and still have network access to my files/email.
So I take it you never work from home or the road, and are never on call. Some people are.
16-20 MB is not unreasonable.
Yes it is. Maybe you can have some sort of draconian company policy that totally disallows attachments (even then, 16 MB is easily filled with mere days of email), but what about emails from vendors and customers? Do you just strip them out and say, "tough luck"?
You guys really sucked for forcing people to totally wipe their computers when all you needed to do was uninstall the Winmodem software (I assume that's what these junkers were), delete the USR infs from %systemroot%\inf, reinstall the software, and reboot. Clearly, those INFS were still hanging around.
The law was repealed within two years and disabling the seat belt interlock became legal. Basically, it was a bad idea even without taking account that the technology wasn't up to it and nearly every interlock mechanism didn't work properly. If you placed a heavy package on the passenger side, it had to be buckled in. Sometimes switches would stick, too. Basically, I imagine people just buckled the belts behind them.
If you do abolish DST, for the purposes of the bill (it's an energy bill) we would need to permanently set the clocks ahead one hour. The whole point is to reduce the usage of electric lighting (and heating to an extent). For example, during WWII much of Europe and the USA was in DST all year round.
The funniest part about that common Y2K javascript issue is that I found a site in 2005 (coin-gallery.com) that STILL had a broken date at the top! I just visited today and found that they finally fixed it, seven years later.
Search microsoft.com for "TZedit". I used it to change the time zones, then I exported only the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones key to a.reg file. You can then push the changes out to many machines.
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The so-called "two-party system" has no basis in law, it is just a fact. Once the people are tired of the two parties, others will become more viable.
Speaking of cause-and-effect, your argument depends on the fallacy of questionable cause. You argue that the prohibition against unclean animals arose because of human observations, while the opposite possibility of the prohibitions being written before an actual consequence was observed is just as valid with the evidence on hand.
Looks like you're part of the religion that calls every concept you don't agree with a "meme".
"Ridiculousness"
"illogic"
"cattle"
"mental enslavement"
"mass psychosis"
"mentally damaged"
These words have no place in a logical debate. Naturally, the Slashdotters who preach tolerance on one hand, then ignorance and bigotry on the other, modded you "Insightful."
You are right, the clouds are full of water. But I imagine the aliens have the same amazing anti-drowning technology our scientists use to keep us from drowning on airplane flights.
I think it's time we applauded Daikatana for not allowing the player to leave without his African-American buddy, Superfly.
Wow, I've never hear that before! *roll eyes*
Oh sure, you think robots are so safe you can let them assist stroke victims. Before you know it, they're pushing them down stairs!
That's frickin' laser beams. On their heads.
You guys really sucked for forcing people to totally wipe their computers when all you needed to do was uninstall the Winmodem software (I assume that's what these junkers were), delete the USR infs from %systemroot%\inf, reinstall the software, and reboot. Clearly, those INFS were still hanging around.
The law was repealed within two years and disabling the seat belt interlock became legal. Basically, it was a bad idea even without taking account that the technology wasn't up to it and nearly every interlock mechanism didn't work properly. If you placed a heavy package on the passenger side, it had to be buckled in. Sometimes switches would stick, too. Basically, I imagine people just buckled the belts behind them.
If you do abolish DST, for the purposes of the bill (it's an energy bill) we would need to permanently set the clocks ahead one hour. The whole point is to reduce the usage of electric lighting (and heating to an extent). For example, during WWII much of Europe and the USA was in DST all year round.
That's funny, my clock says it's 19107.
The funniest part about that common Y2K javascript issue is that I found a site in 2005 (coin-gallery.com) that STILL had a broken date at the top! I just visited today and found that they finally fixed it, seven years later.Search microsoft.com for "TZedit". I used it to change the time zones, then I exported only the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones key to a .reg file. You can then push the changes out to many machines.
MS has released patches for the supported OSs, and you can use TZEdit to manuall patch NT 4. Please don't be ignorant.
Or global cooling ...
You could try dictionary.com. They have all the spellings, so long as you only want the correct ones.