Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
This verse in the Bible is most likely referring to the coming flood and not how long they should live. There were a number of people after Noah's time that lived beyond 120 years old. Including Abraham that lived to 175 years. His wife Sarah was 127 years old as well.
Adam lived to 930 years old. My understanding is that people started to have shorter life spans than 900 years because of genetic degradation. That is also why there was no law, back then, against marrying your brother or sister. After a time, when genetics became an issue, God made it a law not to marry within your own family. This all lines up that we live in a cursed world that is subject to degradation.
I actually enjoyed SimCity more than Cities: Skylines. SimCity had much more polish than Cities: Skylines. I admit that if Cities: Skylines had as much development as SimCity it might have been a more refined product with higher production values and more polish. The lack of tutorial and polish meant for me that SimCity was much more enjoyable.
My 12 year old son thought the same. Saying that he couldn't figure out many of the Cities: Skylines "rules" which was all very straightforward in SimCity.
Here's a hypothetical story to illustrate a point.
"A recent report came out stating that as many as 1 in 4 people have sunpox. But is the world at risk? A simple bit of math based on some decent assumptions shows that there may be billions of people potentially infected. '... astronomers studied 166 people within 80 miles of New York, and did a survey of the people they found. What they found is that about 1.5% of the people have a terminal virus, 6% have a virus, and about 12% have people think they have a virus. This sample isn’t complete, and they cannot yet detect the sunpox virus as it is still being studied in the one reported case of it globally. But using some statistics, they can estimate from the trend that as many as 25% of the people have the sunpox virus!' Proving this directly has proven to be an issue..."
For those that may need me to connect the dots for you, how likely would you say that the world needs to be in fear, based on the story above, of the sunpox virus? Now read the headline and synopsis again. How likely are you to believe that there are habitable planets out there just because we live on one? I'm not saying there aren't any out there, though I doubt there are any that have developed with intelligence, but with this kind of thinking it makes science look like a young child trying to jam a piece of the puzzle into a hole that it doesn't fit into.
I'd like to see a comparison picture of another few houses in the neighborhood where he lives. From the picture in the article the yard doesn't look very green and if all the houses around it are very green I would think this one would be an eyesore.
Perhaps you should define as to what you think evolution is, before you say you don't see any.
I thought I did. E. Coli still remainds E. Coli. Perhaps I should have said I don't see anything significant about this study. I have no problem accepting that genetic mutations occur. However, it seems that this study is inferring that this is the first witnessed proof for evolution. I would be interested at the lead researchers definition of evolution.
It's a fair request that you ask. I looked it up. Good ol' Google:
I looked at other pages as well but it seems the most standard definition I could find was on the above page and read:
"Evolution is a process that results in heritable changes in a population spread over many generations."
Also reading further into other articles about this study it would seem that Richard Lenski and many other evolutionists hold this study as a holy grail (in comparison to other studies before it) in the debate of creation vs. evolution. If all evolution is defined as being is the heritable change in a population spread over many generations then why would there be any debate at all?
Perhaps the debate is mearly by what process did life evolve. If this study holds any significance in that debate I am not seeing one. If this study is of significance in the study of mutation then I suggest there are more clear and abundant examples elsewhere.
20 years of study for what?
I digress a bit from the original request of a definition but I believe you should now understand the point I am making.
I may be missing something and if I am I'm sure somebody will point it out but I fail to see the evolution in this article. From my reading E. Coli still continued to be E. Coli. It certainly mutated, but I do not see any quoted evidence of evolution.
I work as a Tier 1 agent for AppleCare and I can assure you that getting your hard drive back for a mail-in repair is an option; however, most Tier 1 agents do not know how to put this request in so it's not often done correctly. It's definitely not a standard, and if a hard drive is replaced through a mail-in repair the minimum price would be a flat-rate repair which is at least $249 but oftentimes it is more than that.
I don't know how this was rated as funny. Ironic maybe that science has so convoluted some people that the most logical answer must be the correct one. In this case the presence of an old mechanical device must mean the whale is at least that old. How's that for forensic science!
Of course the OP summed it up far better than I could have.
If they coded Rosetta properly it shouldn't really take much of a transition to go to AMD except the change in hardware. However, if they had PowerPC, intel, and AMD Apples on the market it would make it more like a PC. Something Apple doesn't want and something that other Apple users don't want. There was a lot of fuss over switching to Intel. I can just imagine it would be even worse if they switched again so soon.
Usually when companies craft a deal like Apple has done with Intel there is a contract that goes along with it. Term and Conditions associated with any kind of termination to that contract. On face value I doubt this would happen given that alone.
Obviously we have the processing key already mentioned. Now what is that supposed to do for the average person? Is there a program that takes advantage of it out yet?
From my perspective as an individual Google services are more reliable than any of my desktop apps. I think I've had about 2 times where I couldn't log in and check my email. I waited five minutes and was able to check it without any issues. From all I've read I haven't heard of outages much more than a few minutes so far. Lost data sometimes happens when working online, but that happens with desktop apps as well. I don't really see a drawback on an individual perspective.
It's on a group perspective that internet apps like Google's services are really noticed. If the service goes down it isn't just affecting you, it's affecting everyone that uses it. Besides that though there really isn't a downside to using this free service beyone that.
It's a wierd dualistic view that wouldn't always work from a business perspective, but for personal home use Google offers unsurpassed features per dollar.
I know this isnt' a news site by any means but I can't believe what makes it into news at Slashdot. There's no independant verification of the WoW poster being the owner of the iPod. I do believe the iPod story because I saw it on several news sites but seriously. Somebody posting on the WoW forums automatically gets written off as truth. I guess people believe what they want to believe. Truth doesn't matter anymore.
They rated you as insightful for your comment. Now that's funny! No seriously I would have rated your comment as halarious. I love the sarcasm!
The person that rated you as insightful should have their sight checked. 10 billion people in the world! There is little more than 6 billion now. And to think that all those people have purchasing power is ludacrious. Whoever rated your comment must be even funnier than you. Oh my god that's funny! I must be on drugs to think that!
How is the line "you make a grown man cry" prophetic? What prophecy did it fulfill?
Scratch that I just got it. Damn I feel stupid.
Can't say Windows 95 ever made me cry... feel pretty darn frustrated, but not cry.
Are there any plans for a Diablo II-esque system of socketing weapons and armor to make them more effective in combat which would increase the variety of equipment even further amoung other things?
I agree with you, but it also goes the other way around too. The article states that car jacking has decreased substantially and "isn't it conceivable that the would-be carjackers are now getting their thrills on the screen [in GTA] instead of the street." The writer of the opinion piece falls into the same sort of fallacy. Of course it is written as an opinion piece so he can say whatever he wants. Then again most of the posters on Slashdot love to play GTA so of course they are going to defend the writer of the opinion piece more than they would someone against such an argument.
What I don't understand is where is the threat if GTA and related games stand out as A-O rated games and irresponsible parents stop buying them because they now know what age group they are for? Any kind of media attention to issues such as this are beneficial in my opinion. Worst case scenario is that you have to go to a different store because Walmart or Best Buy won't carry A-O games. Big deal, you still get to play them.
Clearly not better than the honda commercial. If for now other reason than that the motion is not seemless. A slow controlled contraption is far harder to put together than a contraption that is done in a few seconds and looks out of control.
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Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
This verse in the Bible is most likely referring to the coming flood and not how long they should live. There were a number of people after Noah's time that lived beyond 120 years old. Including Abraham that lived to 175 years. His wife Sarah was 127 years old as well. Adam lived to 930 years old. My understanding is that people started to have shorter life spans than 900 years because of genetic degradation. That is also why there was no law, back then, against marrying your brother or sister. After a time, when genetics became an issue, God made it a law not to marry within your own family. This all lines up that we live in a cursed world that is subject to degradation.
I actually enjoyed SimCity more than Cities: Skylines. SimCity had much more polish than Cities: Skylines. I admit that if Cities: Skylines had as much development as SimCity it might have been a more refined product with higher production values and more polish. The lack of tutorial and polish meant for me that SimCity was much more enjoyable. My 12 year old son thought the same. Saying that he couldn't figure out many of the Cities: Skylines "rules" which was all very straightforward in SimCity.
Sounds familiar. While this is an intriguing find it does not mean that life outside our solar system is anymore possible than it was before.
This is similar to the buzz around finding possible water on Saturn's moon:
Saturn's Moon--Does Water Equal Life?
Here's a hypothetical story to illustrate a point.
"A recent report came out stating that as many as 1 in 4 people have sunpox. But is the world at risk? A simple bit of math based on some decent assumptions shows that there may be billions of people potentially infected. '... astronomers studied 166 people within 80 miles of New York, and did a survey of the people they found. What they found is that about 1.5% of the people have a terminal virus, 6% have a virus, and about 12% have people think they have a virus. This sample isn’t complete, and they cannot yet detect the sunpox virus as it is still being studied in the one reported case of it globally. But using some statistics, they can estimate from the trend that as many as 25% of the people have the sunpox virus!' Proving this directly has proven to be an issue..."
For those that may need me to connect the dots for you, how likely would you say that the world needs to be in fear, based on the story above, of the sunpox virus? Now read the headline and synopsis again. How likely are you to believe that there are habitable planets out there just because we live on one? I'm not saying there aren't any out there, though I doubt there are any that have developed with intelligence, but with this kind of thinking it makes science look like a young child trying to jam a piece of the puzzle into a hole that it doesn't fit into.
http://www.xpcgear.com/cdhomesblue.html
Love this idea. Wish there was a website that offered it that shipped to Canada by default.
I'd like to see a comparison picture of another few houses in the neighborhood where he lives. From the picture in the article the yard doesn't look very green and if all the houses around it are very green I would think this one would be an eyesore.
Results like this make Enceladus one of the most exciting places we've found in the solar system.
... besides planet Earth.
I rather like the perspective that Answers in Genesis takes about the search for alien life (see article):
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v4/n4/search-alien-life
Of course regardless of my belief, or anyone's lack of belief, what is will be and the truth will set you free.
Perhaps you should define as to what you think evolution is, before you say you don't see any.
I thought I did. E. Coli still remainds E. Coli. Perhaps I should have said I don't see anything significant about this study. I have no problem accepting that genetic mutations occur. However, it seems that this study is inferring that this is the first witnessed proof for evolution. I would be interested at the lead researchers definition of evolution.
It's a fair request that you ask. I looked it up. Good ol' Google:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-definition.html
I looked at other pages as well but it seems the most standard definition I could find was on the above page and read:
"Evolution is a process that results in heritable changes in a population spread over many generations."
Also reading further into other articles about this study it would seem that Richard Lenski and many other evolutionists hold this study as a holy grail (in comparison to other studies before it) in the debate of creation vs. evolution. If all evolution is defined as being is the heritable change in a population spread over many generations then why would there be any debate at all?
Perhaps the debate is mearly by what process did life evolve. If this study holds any significance in that debate I am not seeing one. If this study is of significance in the study of mutation then I suggest there are more clear and abundant examples elsewhere.
20 years of study for what?
I digress a bit from the original request of a definition but I believe you should now understand the point I am making.
I may be missing something and if I am I'm sure somebody will point it out but I fail to see the evolution in this article. From my reading E. Coli still continued to be E. Coli. It certainly mutated, but I do not see any quoted evidence of evolution.
Something I should add is that this option is for out of warranty work. Something we call either a flat rate repair or tier level repair work.
I work as a Tier 1 agent for AppleCare and I can assure you that getting your hard drive back for a mail-in repair is an option; however, most Tier 1 agents do not know how to put this request in so it's not often done correctly. It's definitely not a standard, and if a hard drive is replaced through a mail-in repair the minimum price would be a flat-rate repair which is at least $249 but oftentimes it is more than that.
I don't know how this was rated as funny. Ironic maybe that science has so convoluted some people that the most logical answer must be the correct one. In this case the presence of an old mechanical device must mean the whale is at least that old. How's that for forensic science! Of course the OP summed it up far better than I could have.
If they coded Rosetta properly it shouldn't really take much of a transition to go to AMD except the change in hardware. However, if they had PowerPC, intel, and AMD Apples on the market it would make it more like a PC. Something Apple doesn't want and something that other Apple users don't want. There was a lot of fuss over switching to Intel. I can just imagine it would be even worse if they switched again so soon.
Usually when companies craft a deal like Apple has done with Intel there is a contract that goes along with it. Term and Conditions associated with any kind of termination to that contract. On face value I doubt this would happen given that alone.
Obviously we have the processing key already mentioned. Now what is that supposed to do for the average person? Is there a program that takes advantage of it out yet?
From my perspective as an individual Google services are more reliable than any of my desktop apps. I think I've had about 2 times where I couldn't log in and check my email. I waited five minutes and was able to check it without any issues. From all I've read I haven't heard of outages much more than a few minutes so far. Lost data sometimes happens when working online, but that happens with desktop apps as well. I don't really see a drawback on an individual perspective. It's on a group perspective that internet apps like Google's services are really noticed. If the service goes down it isn't just affecting you, it's affecting everyone that uses it. Besides that though there really isn't a downside to using this free service beyone that. It's a wierd dualistic view that wouldn't always work from a business perspective, but for personal home use Google offers unsurpassed features per dollar.
So detail = truth? Your logic leaves something to be desired. Did you by chance vote for Bush?
I know this isnt' a news site by any means but I can't believe what makes it into news at Slashdot. There's no independant verification of the WoW poster being the owner of the iPod. I do believe the iPod story because I saw it on several news sites but seriously. Somebody posting on the WoW forums automatically gets written off as truth. I guess people believe what they want to believe. Truth doesn't matter anymore.
They rated you as insightful for your comment. Now that's funny! No seriously I would have rated your comment as halarious. I love the sarcasm!
The person that rated you as insightful should have their sight checked. 10 billion people in the world! There is little more than 6 billion now. And to think that all those people have purchasing power is ludacrious. Whoever rated your comment must be even funnier than you. Oh my god that's funny! I must be on drugs to think that!
Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext is a kernel extension and is not so much of a message as an extension designed to protect Apple's copyright.
How is the line "you make a grown man cry" prophetic? What prophecy did it fulfill? Scratch that I just got it. Damn I feel stupid. Can't say Windows 95 ever made me cry... feel pretty darn frustrated, but not cry.
Are there any plans for a Diablo II-esque system of socketing weapons and armor to make them more effective in combat which would increase the variety of equipment even further amoung other things?
I agree with you, but it also goes the other way around too. The article states that car jacking has decreased substantially and "isn't it conceivable that the would-be carjackers are now getting their thrills on the screen [in GTA] instead of the street." The writer of the opinion piece falls into the same sort of fallacy. Of course it is written as an opinion piece so he can say whatever he wants. Then again most of the posters on Slashdot love to play GTA so of course they are going to defend the writer of the opinion piece more than they would someone against such an argument.
What I don't understand is where is the threat if GTA and related games stand out as A-O rated games and irresponsible parents stop buying them because they now know what age group they are for? Any kind of media attention to issues such as this are beneficial in my opinion. Worst case scenario is that you have to go to a different store because Walmart or Best Buy won't carry A-O games. Big deal, you still get to play them.
Clearly not better than the honda commercial. If for now other reason than that the motion is not seemless. A slow controlled contraption is far harder to put together than a contraption that is done in a few seconds and looks out of control.