At this point, I strongly suspect it will be a bubble of funerals, rather than retirements, 30 years after I should have retired but won't be able to afford to.
Exactly. See, we have all we need to survive within our own borders- the only thing sanctions cut off is the cheap slave labor. If the slave labor revolts, you kill it.
Science is useful- yes. Because of predictability. And that predictability, comes from an ordered and ordained universe, at least on the macro level.
Science is actually full of guarantees about an objective reality, and how that reality works- and the ability to have an objective reality.
Atheism, on the other hand, especially of the modern varieties based on unproven, untestable, and unobservable quantum mechanics, is not science. Chaos and randomness have no predictive capability.
And thus, if you believe there is no God, there is absolutely no reason to do *science* as such, because there's no guarantee that what you observe today will occur tomorrow. There is no way to make any sense out of the chaos, might as well just sit under your Bodhi tree and contemplate your navel for all the good your science based on chaos can do.
The evidence is that without God, there is no reason to believe that physical laws governing the universe would exist, and thus, we should all disappear in a puff of quantum fluctuation.
At present time "the universe is as we see it" means that due to quantum mechanics, you can't even be sure the gravity will be switched on when you get up in the morning.
"as we see it" may just be a local maximum reversal of entropy that is entirely overwhelmed by the chaos elsewhere in the universe.
Better yet, a comparison of Asimov's 3 Laws and Christ's two greatest commandments (is rule 3 really necessary? Given recent developments in Switzerland and Belgium, perhaps it is).
I should have said "Still smoking"- I'm pretty sure the brake pads *did* catch fire.
After hearing about that crash, my *normal* way of stopping became "shut off cruise control a block before I need to stop". But with this story, I am wondering about my methodology. Though, using the passive regenerative braking is great for my gas mileage.
A Prius does not. More than half the brake power is supplied by regenerative breaking, and if the register for throttle position is at 100, regenerative braking never kicks in, leaving you with the relatively whimpy disc brakes. A prius crash near me last year had the brake pads worn away and smoking when the police arrived.
So make it small. But this seems like it would be an incredibly lazy way to do my favorite comedian's marital advice: Go out today, buy your wife a present. Wrap it, hide it in the trunk of your car. Someday she'll look at you and you will know you have forgotten something. That's the day to give her the present. -- Red Green Show
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It explains iOS to me- got to be the most flamboyant operating system on the market today. Also all those pink i-devices.
Especially since 90% of the people who buy Apple products are gay.
I've been hearing that for the past 20 years.
At this point, I strongly suspect it will be a bubble of funerals, rather than retirements, 30 years after I should have retired but won't be able to afford to.
Exactly. See, we have all we need to survive within our own borders- the only thing sanctions cut off is the cheap slave labor. If the slave labor revolts, you kill it.
I'm saying perhaps humans need a 3rd law, since our instinct for self preservation seems to have gone haywire.
Indiscriminate warfare is pretty easy. Target on radar=engagement.
With enough misdirected violence, medical bills for survivors are not a problem because there are no survivors.
Yeah, but that's not science. It isn't prediction based on past observation. It's little better than guessing.
Especially when you have insufficient data for the other side of the dice- which may be a 7, but might be C.
New Atheism requires a non-deterministic universe. Go read "The God Delusion", it's a primary proof against God.
As for the Greeks- they killed atheists. That's why Socrates had to drink hemlock.
Science is useful- yes. Because of predictability. And that predictability, comes from an ordered and ordained universe, at least on the macro level.
Science is actually full of guarantees about an objective reality, and how that reality works- and the ability to have an objective reality.
Atheism, on the other hand, especially of the modern varieties based on unproven, untestable, and unobservable quantum mechanics, is not science. Chaos and randomness have no predictive capability.
And thus, if you believe there is no God, there is absolutely no reason to do *science* as such, because there's no guarantee that what you observe today will occur tomorrow. There is no way to make any sense out of the chaos, might as well just sit under your Bodhi tree and contemplate your navel for all the good your science based on chaos can do.
The evidence is that without God, there is no reason to believe that physical laws governing the universe would exist, and thus, we should all disappear in a puff of quantum fluctuation.
At present time "the universe is as we see it" means that due to quantum mechanics, you can't even be sure the gravity will be switched on when you get up in the morning.
"as we see it" may just be a local maximum reversal of entropy that is entirely overwhelmed by the chaos elsewhere in the universe.
Better yet, a comparison of Asimov's 3 Laws and Christ's two greatest commandments (is rule 3 really necessary? Given recent developments in Switzerland and Belgium, perhaps it is).
Especially if "in the image of God" has more to do with spirituality/place in the universe than say, the actual visual photons?
Can FMRI be used to program without keyboard or voice input?
That's what I really want to know.
I should have said "Still smoking"- I'm pretty sure the brake pads *did* catch fire.
After hearing about that crash, my *normal* way of stopping became "shut off cruise control a block before I need to stop". But with this story, I am wondering about my methodology. Though, using the passive regenerative braking is great for my gas mileage.
Yep, no ignition key in a prius either...next
There is no physical neutral in a synergy transmission. It is simulated by software, and if the computer has crashed, you can't engage it.
A Prius does not. More than half the brake power is supplied by regenerative breaking, and if the register for throttle position is at 100, regenerative braking never kicks in, leaving you with the relatively whimpy disc brakes. A prius crash near me last year had the brake pads worn away and smoking when the police arrived.
Tree ring data is better at predicting rainfall than temperature.
Pretty sure this could be done via the ODBII connector with the right kind of bluetooth dongle.
So make it small. But this seems like it would be an incredibly lazy way to do my favorite comedian's marital advice: Go out today, buy your wife a present. Wrap it, hide it in the trunk of your car. Someday she'll look at you and you will know you have forgotten something. That's the day to give her the present. -- Red Green Show
Interesting- especially since, that's only a .05 degree increase instead of the .07 others are claiming.
Sounds like one heck of an opportunity- start manufacturing thermocouples now, we can solve the energy crisis.