I haven't read Earthsea, but George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire beats the crap out of Narnia. I'd say it's as close to Tolkien as anyone has ever gotten. Possibly better, if I were one to compare things to LOTR, which I'm not.
I've read a few interviews where he said that the ending had basically been written for years, so at least that's something. I hope they find someone to finish it. Despite losing a lot of focus in the middle it really has been a great series and was finally starting to look great again. It deserves an ending even if someone else has to fill in the gaps.
Which is clearly not the context in which we are discussing it. You know that. I know that. What I don't know is why you are trying to salvage your failed argument that you clearly had not thought all the way through by attempting to change the subject.
Furthermore, even in that context faith can be a form of superstition. If one has "faith" that a person will do some action (we can pretend that there is a "right" thing to do if that makes it easier for you to think about) then it is either based on one's observations of the past actions of that individual or it is based on wishful thinking. The latter I would argue is superstitious. In the former case the use of "faith" is a relic of the superstitious past and is basically a different word. But I'm pretty sure you already knew that too and are just trying to convince yourself, if no one else, that you didn't say something foolish in the first place.
I was thinking more of integrating a P2P client into a game and then claiming that the traffic was from the game, an application that they seem to think deserves priority over other uses of the Internet connection. I don't know how much bandwidth most online games use, but there are a few that do quite a bit of traffic. Probably not necessarily 85-120GB worth per month, but a considerable amount none the less.
Just seems a bit ridiculous to me to single out games as somehow more worthy of bandwidth allocation than other data transfer.
So comcast is only worried about people who play games? Does that mean that you can get a pass if you're playing a game that downloads songs and pictures to your computer?
The probability of him being religious is insanely high and I have yet to meet an atheist who has "doubts" about evolution, or in fact has trouble grasping the basics of it at the very least. There's actually quite a lot of evidence there if you think about it. But I'm going to doubt you did that on the evidence that you seem to think that the validity of truth is subjective to the thinking of an uneducated mind.
Where did you get the idea that "faith" in supernatural things is anything other than superstition. You most certainly do have a choice as to whether you want to be superstitious. At least as much choice as you have in anything. Obviously the superstitions you are raised with have an advantage but that's nothing to stop you from being reasonable anyway.
I'm not sure how that statement you made is any way insightful though. But the moderators around here are largely morons so I guess it's to be expected.
The jokes totally on you guys at the moment, though. Last I heard prices in Canada were still reflecting the lower exchange rate and you guys were getting raped. I'm sure that won't last, but HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA while it does.
Just as much proof, eh? Please outline for us how one would design a test to falsify the existence of your imaginary friend sky-beard? Just because you failed to understand the material, and it is very likely that the teacher was poorly trained and did not help, does not make it any less valid and most certainly does not make it on par with the nonsense of religion.
But then how would they find the time to roll around in all that slashvertising cash? There's only so many hours in a day. Do you have no sense of priority? Geez!
My fellow Americans, allow me to take this opportunity to encourage you to get in your last few "Canadian monopoly money" jokes while you still can. You may not get another chance.
So I was at work the other day reading some microsoft help file because their software doesn't make any sense (the help file didn't help either) and discovered that Clippy's xian name is actually Clipper. Did anyone else know this? I guess only his mom calls him that.
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Tell that to all the people on/. who keep saying that Global Warming is a settled question and that no more research on anything except profiting from the melting of the polar ice caps needs to be done.
Those bastards! Well I've got a trick for them. I'm going to distill their wine in water and sell it back to them. One bottle of wine has got to be good for infinite bottles of Jesus's Homeopathic Patriot Water.
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That depends, a lot of quackery going around these days is so unrealistic as to be untestable. Something that can't be tested is simply NOT REAL. Period.
You could test homeopathy, since it's just bottled water with funny names on the label, but what's really the point?
There most certainly are issues that are settled, but whether or not they are "settled issues in science" is open to interpretation depending on if you consider something that is settled before you even get to science an issue "in science."
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I haven't read Earthsea, but George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire beats the crap out of Narnia. I'd say it's as close to Tolkien as anyone has ever gotten. Possibly better, if I were one to compare things to LOTR, which I'm not.
I've read a few interviews where he said that the ending had basically been written for years, so at least that's something. I hope they find someone to finish it. Despite losing a lot of focus in the middle it really has been a great series and was finally starting to look great again. It deserves an ending even if someone else has to fill in the gaps.
I thought that he was finally getting back into form toward the end, especially the second half of #11. I'm sorry to see him go.
Which is clearly not the context in which we are discussing it. You know that. I know that. What I don't know is why you are trying to salvage your failed argument that you clearly had not thought all the way through by attempting to change the subject.
Furthermore, even in that context faith can be a form of superstition. If one has "faith" that a person will do some action (we can pretend that there is a "right" thing to do if that makes it easier for you to think about) then it is either based on one's observations of the past actions of that individual or it is based on wishful thinking. The latter I would argue is superstitious. In the former case the use of "faith" is a relic of the superstitious past and is basically a different word. But I'm pretty sure you already knew that too and are just trying to convince yourself, if no one else, that you didn't say something foolish in the first place.
I was thinking more of integrating a P2P client into a game and then claiming that the traffic was from the game, an application that they seem to think deserves priority over other uses of the Internet connection. I don't know how much bandwidth most online games use, but there are a few that do quite a bit of traffic. Probably not necessarily 85-120GB worth per month, but a considerable amount none the less.
Just seems a bit ridiculous to me to single out games as somehow more worthy of bandwidth allocation than other data transfer.
So comcast is only worried about people who play games? Does that mean that you can get a pass if you're playing a game that downloads songs and pictures to your computer?
How about improving quality? At this point I wouldn't use either if they were free, Free, or less-than-free.
Creationists are TWATS!
You do realize that there is more to life than economics, right? Because if there wasn't I'd gladly kill you for a quarter.
Haven't you heard? They're just sending dupes to the RSS feed now.
The probability of him being religious is insanely high and I have yet to meet an atheist who has "doubts" about evolution, or in fact has trouble grasping the basics of it at the very least. There's actually quite a lot of evidence there if you think about it. But I'm going to doubt you did that on the evidence that you seem to think that the validity of truth is subjective to the thinking of an uneducated mind.
Where did you get the idea that "faith" in supernatural things is anything other than superstition. You most certainly do have a choice as to whether you want to be superstitious. At least as much choice as you have in anything. Obviously the superstitions you are raised with have an advantage but that's nothing to stop you from being reasonable anyway.
I'm not sure how that statement you made is any way insightful though. But the moderators around here are largely morons so I guess it's to be expected.
Well the PIMP does the smacking rather than receiving it. Sounds a lot better to me.
Superstition is belief without evidence. All religion is superstitious, though not all superstition is necessarily religious.
The jokes totally on you guys at the moment, though. Last I heard prices in Canada were still reflecting the lower exchange rate and you guys were getting raped. I'm sure that won't last, but HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA while it does.
Then you believe exactly what they want you to believe.
I use Linux because I think it's nice. If you don't agree you can fuck off.
Just as much proof, eh? Please outline for us how one would design a test to falsify the existence of your imaginary friend sky-beard? Just because you failed to understand the material, and it is very likely that the teacher was poorly trained and did not help, does not make it any less valid and most certainly does not make it on par with the nonsense of religion.
But then how would they find the time to roll around in all that slashvertising cash? There's only so many hours in a day. Do you have no sense of priority? Geez!
My fellow Americans, allow me to take this opportunity to encourage you to get in your last few "Canadian monopoly money" jokes while you still can. You may not get another chance.
So I was at work the other day reading some microsoft help file because their software doesn't make any sense (the help file didn't help either) and discovered that Clippy's xian name is actually Clipper. Did anyone else know this? I guess only his mom calls him that.
So did you walk to work or bring your lunch?
Tell that to all the people on /. who keep saying that Global Warming is a settled question and that no more research on anything except profiting from the melting of the polar ice caps needs to be done.
Those bastards! Well I've got a trick for them. I'm going to distill their wine in water and sell it back to them. One bottle of wine has got to be good for infinite bottles of Jesus's Homeopathic Patriot Water.
That depends, a lot of quackery going around these days is so unrealistic as to be untestable. Something that can't be tested is simply NOT REAL. Period.
You could test homeopathy, since it's just bottled water with funny names on the label, but what's really the point?
There most certainly are issues that are settled, but whether or not they are "settled issues in science" is open to interpretation depending on if you consider something that is settled before you even get to science an issue "in science."