I can't imagine an ATM development company not being able to control the hardware. Heck, half of it (from the check scanners to the bill dispenser) is likely custom built anyway.
It's taken several decades for them to get off of 110 switched baud over phone lines. But yes, I agree. What the hell does an ATM need a real operating system for anyway? It barely even needs a TCP/IP stack.
I think you're looking at the difference between a hard science (like physics! Now there's a science based on physicalism!), based on measurement, and a soft science, based on opinion polls (like psychology, sociology, and even theology), but both can fit into the scientific method.
As a rational theist who actually does believe in his religion- I can't find a darn thing wrong with anything of what you wrote.
And it makes me angry. Not at the atheists, or the agnostics, or even the fundamentalists.
At all of the lukewarm, go along to get along people who are perfectly willing to eliminate WIC funding and get into pre-emptive wars and use the death penalty (while claiming to be pro-life), as well as the type on the other side who doesn't care who dies as long as they can still fuck.
But like you say- I figure people like me are maybe.000001% of the vote. Last election, 98% of my co-religionists voted for the lesser of two evils. Guess what- the lesser of two evils is *still evil*.
Small minds rely on personal attacks rather than actual ideas based on observable evidence.
Yep, usually by bigoted generalizations, such as:
I think people who worship a deity through an organized religion are generally small minded, tribal, insecure, irrational and very often are being taken advantage of because that is what the evidence shows.
Shall we examine that evidence, using the same methodology used to "disprove" the Bible? Let's start by eliminating all the eyewitness evidence. Then all the evidence not from a study with appropriate statistically significant sample size and a control group. Then everything that didn't occur in controlled conditions in a laboratory.
"To anyone who has done even a cursory study of theology, the conflation is as absurd as confusing RAM for diskspace because both are measured in bytes."
I'm a rational Catholic software engineer, and I run into people *all the time* who will claim to me that a laptop's memory is now a TB, or at least, 750GB.
But if you believe random parts of the bible are just metaphorical, then why take any of it seriously?
Answer from a theist in an honest-to-God rational religion- we don't. It's a bunch of nice poetry and some history about a group of people who had experiences with the divine, that sometimes coincides with our experiences of the divine because reality is reality and truth is truth and history keeps repeating.
Hahahahaha- yeah, and with Atheists and Fundamentalists interpreting the Bible in exactly the same way, I'd say that reason is on the side of practically everybody else.
And your friends ads. And of course, selling the NSA the information they have, since the only real qualm they have with privacy is not being able to make money off of it.
In my case, most Europeans and Africans can. East Asians and Indians on the other hand, seem to struggle with it- and funny, those are the body shops that have a tendency to pay less and value my skills less.
I agree. Something about hitting 15 years in the industry, and suddenly, instead of me looking for jobs, I get 5-10 calls a day merely for updating my resume on Monster and Dice. I ignore the ones that want me to move out of state or can't say my name properly.
It's still a perfect skills match world, however, so the process can take up to two months.
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Mumbai. Haven't you heard of Medical Tourism?
I can't imagine an ATM development company not being able to control the hardware. Heck, half of it (from the check scanners to the bill dispenser) is likely custom built anyway.
Makes me want to design one out of Lego using Robotic C.
Seriously, WTF? This isn't rocket science.
It's taken several decades for them to get off of 110 switched baud over phone lines. But yes, I agree. What the hell does an ATM need a real operating system for anyway? It barely even needs a TCP/IP stack.
Replace "Garden of Eden" with "Cambrian Era" and it hasn't really changed that much.
Except the scientific method was invented by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, who was certainly not a physicalist.
I think you're looking at the difference between a hard science (like physics! Now there's a science based on physicalism!), based on measurement, and a soft science, based on opinion polls (like psychology, sociology, and even theology), but both can fit into the scientific method.
As a rational theist who actually does believe in his religion- I can't find a darn thing wrong with anything of what you wrote.
And it makes me angry. Not at the atheists, or the agnostics, or even the fundamentalists.
At all of the lukewarm, go along to get along people who are perfectly willing to eliminate WIC funding and get into pre-emptive wars and use the death penalty (while claiming to be pro-life), as well as the type on the other side who doesn't care who dies as long as they can still fuck.
But like you say- I figure people like me are maybe .000001% of the vote. Last election, 98% of my co-religionists voted for the lesser of two evils. Guess what- the lesser of two evils is *still evil*.
Small minds rely on personal attacks rather than actual ideas based on observable evidence.
Yep, usually by bigoted generalizations, such as:
I think people who worship a deity through an organized religion are generally small minded, tribal, insecure, irrational and very often are being taken advantage of because that is what the evidence shows.
Shall we examine that evidence, using the same methodology used to "disprove" the Bible? Let's start by eliminating all the eyewitness evidence. Then all the evidence not from a study with appropriate statistically significant sample size and a control group. Then everything that didn't occur in controlled conditions in a laboratory.
What have you got left?
"To anyone who has done even a cursory study of theology, the conflation is as absurd as confusing RAM for diskspace because both are measured in bytes."
I'm a rational Catholic software engineer, and I run into people *all the time* who will claim to me that a laptop's memory is now a TB, or at least, 750GB.
I wish I had mod points for this. Mod Parent Up!
But if you believe random parts of the bible are just metaphorical, then why take any of it seriously?
Answer from a theist in an honest-to-God rational religion- we don't. It's a bunch of nice poetry and some history about a group of people who had experiences with the divine, that sometimes coincides with our experiences of the divine because reality is reality and truth is truth and history keeps repeating.
Hahahahaha- yeah, and with Atheists and Fundamentalists interpreting the Bible in exactly the same way, I'd say that reason is on the side of practically everybody else.
And the atheists are also stuck on literal interpretations.
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The theological orthodoxy cuts both ways, I'm afraid.
Plus, this article points out that most peer-reviewed journals consider theistic evolution and intelligent design to be just forms of creationism.
Every single soap opera ever written.
The government is slightly different, but all one needs to opt out of it, is a good boat.
You actually believe that ToS is a contract?
And your friends ads. And of course, selling the NSA the information they have, since the only real qualm they have with privacy is not being able to make money off of it.
Yes, you can. But only by getting off the net completely. Don't forget, they also index Slashdot.
Isn't this a bit like the company that mines your data for profit is complaining about the government that mines your data for power?
Showing Jason, captain of the Whitestar?
In my case, most Europeans and Africans can. East Asians and Indians on the other hand, seem to struggle with it- and funny, those are the body shops that have a tendency to pay less and value my skills less.
I agree. Something about hitting 15 years in the industry, and suddenly, instead of me looking for jobs, I get 5-10 calls a day merely for updating my resume on Monster and Dice. I ignore the ones that want me to move out of state or can't say my name properly.
It's still a perfect skills match world, however, so the process can take up to two months.