There are a number of British Isles, as well as mainland Brittany, but we know that the country of "Britain" is shorthand for the otherwise long-winded "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Irish Republicans are not offended, even though they are geographically British.
They are no more Swedish than the entire population of Switzerland is German.
Come on - the Swiss are even more German than the Germans. Swiss visitors to Germany complain about the inefficiency, lawlessness and excessive frivolity.
That was a bit flippant, so let me explain. "American" is a nationality, but Swedish is also an ethnicity. In North America you have borders with barbed-wire fences and long queues where you smile at idiot homeland security drones who can really ruin your day. In Europe there is a sign at the side of the road "Welcome to Finland" in 3 or so languages. Ethnicity and language there is more relevant than the nationality on your passport.
So it's not terrorism when anti-abortion activists assassinate doctors or firebomb clinics.
Of course. But look at the numbers. 11 dead from Abortion clinic attacks total - 7 in the 1990s. That's just an average morning in Baghdad. America, uniquely among developed countries, has a large number of religious nutters. The average American is unsure of evolution while even the Pope believes in it. But the various sects manage to mostly respect one another and get on peacefully. The US is the most violent developed Western country (not by a massive margin) but religious violence is a minuscule part of that.
Yes, Christians once behaved like Muslims do now, but that was centuries ago. I suppose that gives hope for our great-great-great-grandchildren.
But gravity waves are like elephants in your fridge compared to the problem of detecting gravity particles.
a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years,...
vote of the Wikileaks party in Australia to preference with the fascist Australia First party over the Greens
That's just a standard preference deal, like the Labor party has just done to preference Liberals over Greens. I'm sure their rank and file did not approve that, but it helps the party get seats.
Note: that Apple document says you can "remove a built-in app from your Home screen", not uninstall or delete it.
When you remove a built-in app from your Home screen, you also remove any related user data and configuration files
This sounds like Android, where system apps can be disabled, and updates removed, but the original version remains on the read-only system partition, and can be restored, e.g. by factory reset.
They do not say actually say you can free up 160MB, but implies it doesn't matter, because it would only be 160MB anyway if you could.
So, the fact that something exists instead of nothing, is undeniable proof that God exists.
I can't tell if you are saying that with a straight face. I could define dragons as the master beasts of the air, and therefore trivially prove their existence, but eagles are not what people normally have in mind.
Even the premise in your argument is silly. The idea of a "prime cause" makes no sense. But these arguments have been done to death, and in the end it comes down to faith. All irrelevant, because one does not need any understanding of philosophy to believe or disbelieve. Ignorance is in fact the friend of faith.
There was a Norwegian bloke who did a pretty effective job
Anders was an exceptional case - a lone mass murderer with no evidence of mental illness. He was not even religious. He spoke of "cultural Christianity", which like a "liberal Anglican" separates the ritual from actual belief in a deity. Anders claimed he was starting a revolution, but I think it looked more like a simple act of revenge against the political class who had permanently harmed his society - traitors in his eyes.
Perhaps it says something about the Norwegian society he lived in that he acted alone, rather than finding a group of like-minded people.
You cannot compare that to Orlando. I'm going with the closeted gay theory for now.
Many atheists treat the non-existence of god(s) like a fact
No, this is a misunderstanding. You cannot prove a negative. They treat the lack of evidence as a fact. The non-existence of a "God", in the sense believed by major religions, is simply a very reasonable assumption, like I don't believe there is a zebra in my backyard right now. If you make the definition of god broad enough, e.g. an intelligent instigator of the big bang, it becomes plausible. But a personal god who answers prayers? That goes in the category with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
Atheism is an absence of belief, not a belief in absence.
I think you are splitting hairs there. I *do* believe there is no god, in the usual sense of the word. But its still not a religion. I have believed lots of things in the past that have since been proven wrong by science, but I adjusted my belief, rather than stoning the scientists as heretics. Religion is a very special kind of belief, or set of beliefs. And it exists in the group or society, not the individual.
Though I don't think it's possible to be an Islamic extremist without also being mentally ill.
You'd be wrong. As a rule of thumb, lone attackers like this are crazy, but the extremist groups are made of perfectly sane individuals. Do not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Apart from trying to make a funny, do you have any grounds for disputing or refining the current definition of an "element" in a way that would leave these as not being "elements"?
The analogy is that unstable elements are like the asteroids or Kuiper belt. When you discover the first ones, it is all very exciting, and their names become famous. Periodic tables get updated. But after a while it becomes apparent that there are thousands of them, and they just get numbers. Everybody knows Pluto and Plutonium, but after that it gets a bit fuzzy. Even nerds might know just one asteroid.
You can make Plutonium or Americinium in industrial quantities, but the "discovery" of #118 was indirect evidence of the death of just a few atoms, with a half-life of less than a millisecond.
-- Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs
There are countless books on the subject, but for an easy introduction and from the American perspective, I'd suggest starting with the excellent HBO miniseries "John Adams".
Its amazing for example, how many Americans think George III was some kind of tyrant, when in fact the dispute was with parliament, not the king. Over 100,000 dead, and it lead to the even bloodier civil war. Was remaining in the Commonwealth, like Canada such a horrible alternative? So unbearable that the colonial aristocracy could not wait for political reform? Maybe, but its worth thinking about.
The US was born out of rejection of the culture in which it had been living as colonies of the British crown.
Oh please stop swallowing the propaganda. US culture did not change overnight with the war of secession. Not even daily life was much affected, aside from the missing war dead and maimed. It was just a new set of masters, who mostly kept the same laws and institutions. Yes they were smart men, and used the opportunity to make some good reforms.
The poor commoners were told they were fighting for lower taxes, but taxes only went up after independence. Except for the elite.
[googles...] OMG! Why do you folks have to do everything differently? I sometimes wonder why you have not already dropped English for your own home-invented language. (I suspect Trump is planning that.)
I know why NTSC - the US implemented colour TV first, and by the time other countries adopted it, the technology had improved but NTSC was entrenched in the US. But why not DVB? Is it because it is specified in metric units?
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There are a number of British Isles, as well as mainland Brittany, but we know that the country of "Britain" is shorthand for the otherwise long-winded "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Irish Republicans are not offended, even though they are geographically British.
They are no more Swedish than the entire population of Switzerland is German.
Come on - the Swiss are even more German than the Germans. Swiss visitors to Germany complain about the inefficiency, lawlessness and excessive frivolity.
That was a bit flippant, so let me explain. "American" is a nationality, but Swedish is also an ethnicity.
In North America you have borders with barbed-wire fences and long queues where you smile at idiot homeland security drones who can really ruin your day.
In Europe there is a sign at the side of the road "Welcome to Finland" in 3 or so languages.
Ethnicity and language there is more relevant than the nationality on your passport.
According to your principal 50 million Americans are "actually Spanish".
The word you are looking for is "Hispanic", or "Latin American". But why have you been talking to my headmaster ?
So it's not terrorism when anti-abortion activists assassinate doctors or firebomb clinics.
Of course. But look at the numbers. 11 dead from Abortion clinic attacks total - 7 in the 1990s. That's just an average morning in Baghdad.
America, uniquely among developed countries, has a large number of religious nutters. The average American is unsure of evolution while even the Pope believes in it. But the various sects manage to mostly respect one another and get on peacefully. The US is the most violent developed Western country (not by a massive margin) but religious violence is a minuscule part of that.
Yes, Christians once behaved like Muslims do now, but that was centuries ago. I suppose that gives hope for our great-great-great-grandchildren.
. What radicalizes Muslims in the west is the behavior of the west.
Then explain why there are so few radical Muslims in the US (whose sins in the middle east need no repeating), and so many in places like Belgium?
He was actually Swedish, though born in Finland. (The name is a hint.)
OTOH, you know Nokia is (was) not Japanese?
Any lets not forget Finland's greatest technological achievement: Angry Birds.
But gravity waves are like elephants in your fridge compared to the problem of detecting gravity particles.
a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, ...
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vote of the Wikileaks party in Australia to preference with the fascist Australia First party over the Greens
That's just a standard preference deal, like the Labor party has just done to preference Liberals over Greens. I'm sure their rank and file did not approve that, but it helps the party get seats.
Note: that Apple document says you can "remove a built-in app from your Home screen", not uninstall or delete it.
When you remove a built-in app from your Home screen, you also remove any related user data and configuration files
This sounds like Android, where system apps can be disabled, and updates removed, but the original version remains on the read-only system partition, and can be restored, e.g. by factory reset.
They do not say actually say you can free up 160MB, but implies it doesn't matter, because it would only be 160MB anyway if you could.
So, the fact that something exists instead of nothing, is undeniable proof that God exists.
I can't tell if you are saying that with a straight face.
I could define dragons as the master beasts of the air, and therefore trivially prove their existence, but eagles are not what people normally have in mind.
Even the premise in your argument is silly. The idea of a "prime cause" makes no sense. But these arguments have been done to death, and in the end it comes down to faith. All irrelevant, because one does not need any understanding of philosophy to believe or disbelieve. Ignorance is in fact the friend of faith.
What kinda drugs did he take to create that crap?
I believe Larry indulges heavily in the opium of the masses.
There was a Norwegian bloke who did a pretty effective job
Anders was an exceptional case - a lone mass murderer with no evidence of mental illness. He was not even religious. He spoke of "cultural Christianity", which like a "liberal Anglican" separates the ritual from actual belief in a deity. Anders claimed he was starting a revolution, but I think it looked more like a simple act of revenge against the political class who had permanently harmed his society - traitors in his eyes.
Perhaps it says something about the Norwegian society he lived in that he acted alone, rather than finding a group of like-minded people.
You cannot compare that to Orlando. I'm going with the closeted gay theory for now.
Many atheists treat the non-existence of god(s) like a fact
No, this is a misunderstanding. You cannot prove a negative. They treat the lack of evidence as a fact.
The non-existence of a "God", in the sense believed by major religions, is simply a very reasonable assumption, like I don't believe there is a zebra in my backyard right now. If you make the definition of god broad enough, e.g. an intelligent instigator of the big bang, it becomes plausible. But a personal god who answers prayers? That goes in the category with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
Atheism is an absence of belief, not a belief in absence.
I think you are splitting hairs there. I *do* believe there is no god, in the usual sense of the word. But its still not a religion.
I have believed lots of things in the past that have since been proven wrong by science, but I adjusted my belief, rather than stoning the scientists as heretics.
Religion is a very special kind of belief, or set of beliefs. And it exists in the group or society, not the individual.
Though I don't think it's possible to be an Islamic extremist without also being mentally ill.
You'd be wrong. As a rule of thumb, lone attackers like this are crazy, but the extremist groups are made of perfectly sane individuals. Do not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
Explaining jokes to Aspies never ends well. :)
Apart from trying to make a funny, do you have any grounds for disputing or refining the current definition of an "element" in a way that would leave these as not being "elements"?
The analogy is that unstable elements are like the asteroids or Kuiper belt. When you discover the first ones, it is all very exciting, and their names become famous.
Periodic tables get updated.
But after a while it becomes apparent that there are thousands of them, and they just get numbers. Everybody knows Pluto and Plutonium, but after that it gets a bit fuzzy. Even nerds might know just one asteroid.
You can make Plutonium or Americinium in industrial quantities, but the "discovery" of #118 was indirect evidence of the death of just a few atoms, with a half-life of less than a millisecond.
--
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs
And all vertebrates are fish?
Its fascinating to see the moderation by time-zones.
The above comment goes from "Score 4: Insightful" to "Score 0: Troll" as the earth rotates and different continents start reading.
I guess we don't have so much in common after all.
They'll probably just get reclassified as dwarf elements one day.
[citation needed]
There are countless books on the subject, but for an easy introduction and from the American perspective, I'd suggest starting with the excellent HBO miniseries "John Adams".
Its amazing for example, how many Americans think George III was some kind of tyrant, when in fact the dispute was with parliament, not the king.
Over 100,000 dead, and it lead to the even bloodier civil war. Was remaining in the Commonwealth, like Canada such a horrible alternative?
So unbearable that the colonial aristocracy could not wait for political reform? Maybe, but its worth thinking about.
The US was born out of rejection of the culture in which it had been living as colonies of the British crown.
Oh please stop swallowing the propaganda. US culture did not change overnight with the war of secession. Not even daily life was much affected, aside from the missing war dead and maimed. It was just a new set of masters, who mostly kept the same laws and institutions. Yes they were smart men, and used the opportunity to make some good reforms.
The poor commoners were told they were fighting for lower taxes, but taxes only went up after independence. Except for the elite.
A shame there will be no Microsoft Zoom car, but we welcome their DrivesForSure certification program.
I use my antenna to watch the local network station morning news before I go to work
But can't you get that over the internet as well?
ATSC tuner
[googles ...] OMG! Why do you folks have to do everything differently? I sometimes wonder why you have not already dropped English for your own home-invented language. (I suspect Trump is planning that.)
I know why NTSC - the US implemented colour TV first, and by the time other countries adopted it, the technology had improved but NTSC was entrenched in the US.
But why not DVB? Is it because it is specified in metric units?