I don't have any reasons not to believe that there is life out there in the universe other than our planet, but it's more than likely pond scum. There are hundreds of factors that are needed for complex life that our rock has, but with the odds- it may be a while before complex life can ever develop on other planets.
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Well I'll let your ad hominem attack on my post slide, here are some sources for starters-
taken from http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/desig n_evidences/designprobabilityupdate1998.shtml?main
which is a creationist site, but most of those sources are secular. Pretty narrowminded to not even consider those sources though. There is a list of about 89 sources in the bibliography for that site, and most of them are secular
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Lets look at the conditions needed to support life, then look at the number of systems that meet these conditions.
Right kind of Galaxy to support life? About One in a Thousand.
Right Kind of star? One in a billion in acceptable galaxies.
Right kind of solar system? 1 in a billion in acceptable stars
Right kind of planet? 1 in 10 quadrillion quadrillion in the universe (10^31)
likely number of actual planets? 10 billion trillion (10^22) in the universe
Probability of one good planet? 1 in a billion in the universe.
It is more likely given the data we do have that there isn't intelligent life, or life for that matter elsewhere in the universe. Granted there isn't an exact science for computing these probabilities, but the 1 in a billion number given for acceptable planets is a very conservative estimate. I think it's safe to say we are alone.
This is great and all, but what if the situation was reversed. What if say IBM was suing SCO, for SCO alledgedly stealing source from IBM. We wouldn't be cheering, whooping and hollering for IBM saying "crush SCO, use the might of your legal team" etc. I'm not by any means rooting for SCO, I actually respect IBM's decision. But if it were any different circumstances, we would all be ranting about how poor SCO was being crushed by Big Blue and that there was no justice in it because IBM had more legal guns in their stash. Just something to ponder.
Who can't wait to signup? I'm filing this in league with the PATRIOT Act. Everyone needs federally regulated standards on network indentification. I'm envisioning a future where my permanant v6 ip address is on the back of my living/driving/working/eating license, and I can thank the LIBERTY Alliance for that!!! Ahh, I can taste the freedom.
I had this book in my car, sitting on the panel above the backseats near the rear window, when a police officer stopped me. Granted my car was somewhat messy at the time (I was moving so it was full of boxes). The officer stopped me for a brake light, and decided that the book was probable enough cause to search my car. I laughed, said sure and let him go at it (I had nothing to hide). Ignorance, can be quite funny sometimes.
true, but the doom will be from a 3d first person perspective, as compared to the more 2d, top view perspective in wc3. This looks interesting. Gives me a reason to pull my old pentium 233 laptop with win98, fire up doom and load this new wad.
" What resources am I supposed to mine? Tolkien was about how awful industrialization and cutting down trees and mining stuff was. And here's a game that may end up glorifying it?"
Tolkien wasn't really about anything. He tried to make his story's as socially irrelavant as possible. You could say his story was about the the threat of nazism, communism, nuclear bombs, industrialization, mining, cartoons, the slashdot effect, or whatever else. Who knows if he was for or against these things. His stories definitely weren't about any of them though.
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They abandoned the TIA program where the government saved every record made ever because people cried "big brother". Now they want to "preserve" every record and all data ever made, and people cry "hell yea"
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Self censorship is what any sensible person would want over government censorship. The thing that bugs me though, is are they covering their asses? Are they censoring their publications for the good of all, or because they're scared that the government will. I'm for the most part against government censorship, and it would be a shame if it came down to that, so I guess these publications are doing the wise move for right now.
The RIAA/MPAA are finally getting what they want. Companies are bailing on cd burners. What's next, OS's designed without the 'copy' command for the sake of preventing piracy?
I agree. Democracy doesn't work.(sorry to double dip). I believe in power to the self, not power to the people. It's a foreign concept to most people though, who think pretty much in a very small box, be it from the left or right. (I'm a member of the Libertarian party, and agree with about 90% of the platform, though i consider my self an individualist anarchist in all essence)
I wrote my congresswoman, Sue Myrick, a republican from Charlotte, the second largest banking town in the US and a huge pool of ultraconservative cash...in regards to the consumer broadband act, and she vowed to vote in favor of my opinion, and take the consumer side instead of that of the corporations..point being, there are some decent people in public office, few and far between, but there are nonetheless.
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer."
Is that the law in most places? I used to work in a brewery and those were the ingredients we usually used, but I never knew it was for legal reasons.
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer."
Is that true in most places?
I had the dubious luxury of sharing an office with my boss. I was the jr. admin at a land surveying/architecture firm that employed about 50 autocad technicians. My boss, whose previous employment was a drill seargant in the marines for 8 years, sat about 2 feet from me. He didn't tolerate any extracuricular websurfing and expected some long days out of me. Needless to say I wasn't that depressed when I got the pink slip.....the owner of the firm actually commended me for being able to tolerate the marine. He even admitted it difficult working with this guy.
actually to be Linux, to use the Linux kernel, or use anything derived from the Linux Kernel, it has to be GPL. Therefore I don't consider it a Linux distribution.
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I don't have any reasons not to believe that there is life out there in the universe other than our planet, but it's more than likely pond scum. There are hundreds of factors that are needed for complex life that our rock has, but with the odds- it may be a while before complex life can ever develop on other planets.
Well I'll let your ad hominem attack on my post slide, here are some sources for starters-g n_evidences/designprobabilityupdate1998.shtml?main
taken from http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/desi
which is a creationist site, but most of those sources are secular. Pretty narrowminded to not even consider those sources though. There is a list of about 89 sources in the bibliography for that site, and most of them are secular
Lets look at the conditions needed to support life, then look at the number of systems that meet these conditions. Right kind of Galaxy to support life? About One in a Thousand. Right Kind of star? One in a billion in acceptable galaxies. Right kind of solar system? 1 in a billion in acceptable stars Right kind of planet? 1 in 10 quadrillion quadrillion in the universe (10^31) likely number of actual planets? 10 billion trillion (10^22) in the universe Probability of one good planet? 1 in a billion in the universe. It is more likely given the data we do have that there isn't intelligent life, or life for that matter elsewhere in the universe. Granted there isn't an exact science for computing these probabilities, but the 1 in a billion number given for acceptable planets is a very conservative estimate. I think it's safe to say we are alone.
This is great and all, but what if the situation was reversed. What if say IBM was suing SCO, for SCO alledgedly stealing source from IBM. We wouldn't be cheering, whooping and hollering for IBM saying "crush SCO, use the might of your legal team" etc. I'm not by any means rooting for SCO, I actually respect IBM's decision. But if it were any different circumstances, we would all be ranting about how poor SCO was being crushed by Big Blue and that there was no justice in it because IBM had more legal guns in their stash. Just something to ponder.
he's more of a wimp then that, he was running BASIC!!!
scare any and all females from ever entering my bedroom again.
From reading the title of this article, that there was going to be a string of Homer Simpson references. Woohoo!
Who can't wait to signup? I'm filing this in league with the PATRIOT Act. Everyone needs federally regulated standards on network indentification. I'm envisioning a future where my permanant v6 ip address is on the back of my living/driving/working/eating license, and I can thank the LIBERTY Alliance for that!!! Ahh, I can taste the freedom.
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I had this book in my car, sitting on the panel above the backseats near the rear window, when a police officer stopped me. Granted my car was somewhat messy at the time (I was moving so it was full of boxes). The officer stopped me for a brake light, and decided that the book was probable enough cause to search my car. I laughed, said sure and let him go at it (I had nothing to hide). Ignorance, can be quite funny sometimes.
true, but the doom will be from a 3d first person perspective, as compared to the more 2d, top view perspective in wc3. This looks interesting. Gives me a reason to pull my old pentium 233 laptop with win98, fire up doom and load this new wad.
It's always fun to be using software with a name that coincides with my favorite sexual role.
" What resources am I supposed to mine? Tolkien was about how awful industrialization and cutting down trees and mining stuff was. And here's a game that may end up glorifying it?" Tolkien wasn't really about anything. He tried to make his story's as socially irrelavant as possible. You could say his story was about the the threat of nazism, communism, nuclear bombs, industrialization, mining, cartoons, the slashdot effect, or whatever else. Who knows if he was for or against these things. His stories definitely weren't about any of them though.
begin sarcasm string:>:/ They abandoned the TIA program where the government saved every record made ever because people cried "big brother". Now they want to "preserve" every record and all data ever made, and people cry "hell yea" end sarcasm string
Self censorship is what any sensible person would want over government censorship. The thing that bugs me though, is are they covering their asses? Are they censoring their publications for the good of all, or because they're scared that the government will. I'm for the most part against government censorship, and it would be a shame if it came down to that, so I guess these publications are doing the wise move for right now.
The RIAA/MPAA are finally getting what they want. Companies are bailing on cd burners. What's next, OS's designed without the 'copy' command for the sake of preventing piracy?
I agree. Democracy doesn't work.(sorry to double dip). I believe in power to the self, not power to the people. It's a foreign concept to most people though, who think pretty much in a very small box, be it from the left or right. (I'm a member of the Libertarian party, and agree with about 90% of the platform, though i consider my self an individualist anarchist in all essence)
I wrote my congresswoman, Sue Myrick, a republican from Charlotte, the second largest banking town in the US and a huge pool of ultraconservative cash...in regards to the consumer broadband act, and she vowed to vote in favor of my opinion, and take the consumer side instead of that of the corporations..point being, there are some decent people in public office, few and far between, but there are nonetheless.
Is it a law in most places that the only ingredients you can brew with are water, malt, hops, and yeast?
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer." Is that the law in most places? I used to work in a brewery and those were the ingredients we usually used, but I never knew it was for legal reasons.
"The priest brews in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot, the German beer purity law that dictates only water, malt, hops (and now yeast) shall be used in making beer." Is that true in most places?
I had the dubious luxury of sharing an office with my boss. I was the jr. admin at a land surveying/architecture firm that employed about 50 autocad technicians. My boss, whose previous employment was a drill seargant in the marines for 8 years, sat about 2 feet from me. He didn't tolerate any extracuricular websurfing and expected some long days out of me. Needless to say I wasn't that depressed when I got the pink slip.....the owner of the firm actually commended me for being able to tolerate the marine. He even admitted it difficult working with this guy.
well shit, I was just about to buy a $250 walmart pc with Lindows on it (literally) but if it means i have to pay for Lindows you can forget it :P
actually to be Linux, to use the Linux kernel, or use anything derived from the Linux Kernel, it has to be GPL. Therefore I don't consider it a Linux distribution.
i wouldn't put that beyond Lindows, as I never really considered them to be a true Linux distro in the first place.