The way you worded that, it sounds like you're saying it's a bad idea to trust your mind if it's open to the possibility that it could be wrong. I think that's the best time to trust your mind, since you would be open to new experiences and information, as well as to accept scientific evidence.
I'm not going to get into a flame war with you. That's what Usenet is for. All I was saying was that having an open mind in a scientific investigation is not necessarily a bad thing.
Even if they were fires, lanterns or made up stories back then, the fact remains that the students only observed car lights on those nights. They didn't prove that everyone who ever observed lights at that location saw headlights. There is much that science doesn't know. Why assume that just because there is a possible way to explain phenomena using current scientific knowledge that it is the only possible explanation?
No, they concluded that the lights they saw were generated by traffic on the highway. And they still didn't explain how they could have been seen back in 1883.
Where is this generation's Duck Tales? Gargoyles? Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers? The non-anime version of Batman? Tale Spin? Hell, I'd even take Darkwing Duck over some of today's crap.
You're already seeing them. All you're doing is comparing yesterday's crap to today's crap. Just because you were younger when you watched those shows doesn't mean they didn't suck. They did. Big time.
You're right, of course. I was thinking of the "original" original poster (circletimessquare, not NerdSlayer who replied with the "girlfriend in Canada" remark).
You know...he doesn't hear from his g/f because of some spam filtering software he installed, so he looks for someone else to pin the blame on, i.e., "blames Canada".
Or did I reach too far for that one?
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, it's bad to close an open mind. :-)
The way you worded that, it sounds like you're saying it's a bad idea to trust your mind if it's open to the possibility that it could be wrong. I think that's the best time to trust your mind, since you would be open to new experiences and information, as well as to accept scientific evidence.
I'm not going to get into a flame war with you. That's what Usenet is for. All I was saying was that having an open mind in a scientific investigation is not necessarily a bad thing.
Even if they were fires, lanterns or made up stories back then, the fact remains that the students only observed car lights on those nights. They didn't prove that everyone who ever observed lights at that location saw headlights. There is much that science doesn't know. Why assume that just because there is a possible way to explain phenomena using current scientific knowledge that it is the only possible explanation?
No, they concluded that the lights they saw were generated by traffic on the highway. And they still didn't explain how they could have been seen back in 1883.
Where is this generation's Duck Tales? Gargoyles? Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers? The non-anime version of Batman? Tale Spin? Hell, I'd even take Darkwing Duck over some of today's crap.
You're already seeing them. All you're doing is comparing yesterday's crap to today's crap. Just because you were younger when you watched those shows doesn't mean they didn't suck. They did. Big time.
In another stunning series of events, Google used the money gained from selling more stock to buy Microsoft and fire Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
Yeah. Four posts.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
(Note: This comment is kind of funny, but you won't get it unless you read comp.os.os2.advocacy)
Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of...wood?
Right, because everyone knows pi to 112 places, and could easily see that you're using every 14th digit of pi for an 8-digit cryptographic key.
At another point, so was German.
No it wasn't.
I do. I have a cable modem and I don't notice any high bandwidth usage at all.
This is Slashdot. Do I *need* to remind you that everyone here knows you can type "Angelina Jolie" into a Google image search and see them?
Can you imagine the support for that. What if that code gets into Linux. Can you imagine the legal headache there?
Forget legal! What about the technical headache? Can you imagine Linux sullied with code from Win98? Talk about a nightmare!
This is the first non-beta release of Opera 7 for Linux.
However, if we did that, then we would be no better than they are.
Oh, what the hell, let's do it anyway! Remember Alan Ralsky?You're right, of course. I was thinking of the "original" original poster (circletimessquare, not NerdSlayer who replied with the "girlfriend in Canada" remark). You know...he doesn't hear from his g/f because of some spam filtering software he installed, so he looks for someone else to pin the blame on, i.e., "blames Canada". Or did I reach too far for that one?
I thought the "blaming Canadians" remark was in reference to the South Park movie.
>Shit, by the time her kids are teenagers I'm hoping Britney Spears will have moved on to porn. *fingers crossed*
She already has. Haven't you seen any of her music videos?
"You're definitely gay. And you're watching too much TV."
ROFLOL