I am evolving on the supject- my sig line and my nick should be taken together. I am certainly NOT for the chaos that is the so-called "free market", but I recognize that there is little-to-no difference between a monopoly in capitalism and the state owning everything in communism. Thus, Tendance Chesterton. Learn your French.
Or somebody who actually gives a shit whether the species survives or not. I realize that maybe to you children and people younger than you are utterly useless and should be killed so that you can have the latest IPad, but in the real world, that's called exterminating the species.
And nobody even bothers to think about the talent we lost to the fact he was a homosexual. Intelligence *is* genetic, after all; it is the duty of the smart to breed.
"You are incorrect. Predictive properties are essential to test theories."
But theories aren't science. Theories help with science, but they aren't the science itself, because they tell you nothing about what actually IS, just what somebody thinks it SHOULD be. Or to put it another way, predictive properties are just one more way to ignore data that doesn't fit the theory.
*Direct Observation* always rules out theories and predictions. *Always without fail*.
"??? What kind of atheists do you spend your time talking to?"
The angry kind usually- the ones who demand that the First Amendment guarantees them a life never running into any believer for any reason, and that anybody praying within 3000 miles of them or even silently displaying a prayer on a wall is a tyrannical violation of their rights.
I also find that they're often the ones who insist that the Bible is contradictory to itself, as if anybody other than an American Christian Fundamentalist has ever claimed that the Bible is NOT contradictory to itself.
"Uhh...Ancestor worship.....meaning the spirits in reference were the progenitors of the living generations of a family. the God of Abraham was not a dead progenitor."
In that case, by those rules, the Spirits in the Great Bardo and the Spirits of the Native Americans are not ancestor worship either- unless you truly believe that human beings came from ravens and demons.
I cannot find any truly logical reason to deny Deus Ex Machina. Because there's no difference in the evidence, for or against, which is why I posted this.
Documentation counts for a lot. MSDN is the ONLY reason I'm still a Microsoft coder professionally, or I would have long ago jettisoned their crap for Open Source stuff that just plain works.
"I think VR done right has the potential to reboot the arcade industry. Get the kids off their parents couch and off to the mall where they belong."
Being a clautropile and autistic and generally suspicious of large crowds to begin with, I'd love one for my own home with a multi-directional treadmill. The Wii balance board is great, but I need to be able to push something with my feet.
" but it can disprove (with an extraordinarily high degree of confidence) the idea that the world is 10,000 years old."
A high degree of confidence is not absolute, however.
There still exist alternate explanations for the same data.
"I have a lot of respect for people who are sensibly religious (even though I suspect that they're wrong); I have no respect for anyone who persists in believing in a silly fallacy like creationism."
I have a tendency to resemble that remark, but am fighting the prejudice and bigotry behind it.
But you changed the definition of a God, remember? a personal family God like that you call a Spirit. There really is no difference between the two terms- I'd point out the Native American Shamanistic idea of the "Great Spirit" that rules all other spirits. At any rate, that means that the Buddhist claim to atheism, as the science worshipers define it, is patently false.
So basically, what you think we really need to make a better VR helmet isn't more pixels, but a wireless helmet with enough force feedback to make your inner ear movements match the screen.
After riding some of the arcade-sized VR roller coasters, I'd tend to agree. The real reason the ones that do work, work, is not because of the screen, but because of the giant robot arm throwing the cage around.
Which in turn, is an appeal to the rules of logic, which is also an appeal to authority. The problem is that human language itself is an appeal to authority, because somebody has to define words.
The fallacies go back to the fact that the human brain is simply incapable of actual understanding. EVER.
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I am evolving on the supject- my sig line and my nick should be taken together. I am certainly NOT for the chaos that is the so-called "free market", but I recognize that there is little-to-no difference between a monopoly in capitalism and the state owning everything in communism. Thus, Tendance Chesterton. Learn your French.
Or somebody who actually gives a shit whether the species survives or not. I realize that maybe to you children and people younger than you are utterly useless and should be killed so that you can have the latest IPad, but in the real world, that's called exterminating the species.
Not if he was exclusively gay, no. And I don't plug male connectors into male connectors either, do you?
If MS Office 6.0 could run on a 100Mhz Pentium just fine, I see no reason why Office Apps can't run on Mobile phones,
But we have seen it's like before- the time share mainframe. The only difference is that the processor cost on a modern server is cheaper.
I know what the cloud is. it's a mainframe.
And nobody even bothers to think about the talent we lost to the fact he was a homosexual. Intelligence *is* genetic, after all; it is the duty of the smart to breed.
And if he hadn't have been homosexual, what might his children have accomplished?
And for those of use who believe in evolution and genetics influencing ability, robbing the world of future geniuses by refusing to breed.
And yet, his genetic legacy was wasted because he was gay- robbing us of future geniuses.
There is a reason why despite my being single-mindedly pro-life, he's the only Democrat I'll vote for.
"You are incorrect. Predictive properties are essential to test theories."
But theories aren't science. Theories help with science, but they aren't the science itself, because they tell you nothing about what actually IS, just what somebody thinks it SHOULD be. Or to put it another way, predictive properties are just one more way to ignore data that doesn't fit the theory.
*Direct Observation* always rules out theories and predictions. *Always without fail*.
"??? What kind of atheists do you spend your time talking to?"
The angry kind usually- the ones who demand that the First Amendment guarantees them a life never running into any believer for any reason, and that anybody praying within 3000 miles of them or even silently displaying a prayer on a wall is a tyrannical violation of their rights.
I also find that they're often the ones who insist that the Bible is contradictory to itself, as if anybody other than an American Christian Fundamentalist has ever claimed that the Bible is NOT contradictory to itself.
"Uhh...Ancestor worship.....meaning the spirits in reference were the progenitors of the living generations of a family. the God of Abraham was not a dead progenitor."
In that case, by those rules, the Spirits in the Great Bardo and the Spirits of the Native Americans are not ancestor worship either- unless you truly believe that human beings came from ravens and demons.
I cannot find any truly logical reason to deny Deus Ex Machina. Because there's no difference in the evidence, for or against, which is why I posted this.
Documentation counts for a lot. MSDN is the ONLY reason I'm still a Microsoft coder professionally, or I would have long ago jettisoned their crap for Open Source stuff that just plain works.
FTA, though, there are some interesting insights, such as
. Of course, after 16 years of professional coding, I could have told them that!
"I think VR done right has the potential to reboot the arcade industry. Get the kids off their parents couch and off to the mall where they belong."
Being a clautropile and autistic and generally suspicious of large crowds to begin with, I'd love one for my own home with a multi-directional treadmill. The Wii balance board is great, but I need to be able to push something with my feet.
That once Atheism becomes about Dogmatic Truth, it ceases to be Science and becomes a Religion. Same with Logic or anything else you can think of.
" but it can disprove (with an extraordinarily high degree of confidence) the idea that the world is 10,000 years old."
A high degree of confidence is not absolute, however.
There still exist alternate explanations for the same data.
"I have a lot of respect for people who are sensibly religious (even though I suspect that they're wrong); I have no respect for anyone who persists in believing in a silly fallacy like creationism."
I have a tendency to resemble that remark, but am fighting the prejudice and bigotry behind it.
But you changed the definition of a God, remember? a personal family God like that you call a Spirit. There really is no difference between the two terms- I'd point out the Native American Shamanistic idea of the "Great Spirit" that rules all other spirits.
At any rate, that means that the Buddhist claim to atheism, as the science worshipers define it, is patently false.
So basically, what you think we really need to make a better VR helmet isn't more pixels, but a wireless helmet with enough force feedback to make your inner ear movements match the screen.
After riding some of the arcade-sized VR roller coasters, I'd tend to agree. The real reason the ones that do work, work, is not because of the screen, but because of the giant robot arm throwing the cage around.
Looks like you, at a minimum, are incapable of understanding the word "authority".
Which in turn, is an appeal to the rules of logic, which is also an appeal to authority. The problem is that human language itself is an appeal to authority, because somebody has to define words.
The fallacies go back to the fact that the human brain is simply incapable of actual understanding. EVER.
And originally, by that definition, Jehovah was just the spirit of the family of Abraham.