Since when was anyone's mind generated "in such a precise way"? ... we are "irrational" or "emotional"
Exactly. That seems pretty precise to me. Note the difference between the words 'precise' and 'perfect'. Something can be done precisely and still be buggy. God made us with 'bugs' because He knew that we wouldn't feel the need to worship Him if we didn't have emotions.
Just for fun, let me ask all you evolutionists something: If we evolved into what we are today, why:
does love exist?
do we have free will?
are most of us more interested in creating than surviving?
do we have faith?
(and this is even simpler) do we have a sense of taste? does it serve some sort of necessary function, or is it just for our enjoyment? and if it's for our enjoyment, why did we evolve to be able to enjoy things?
Not to mention that the total amount of fossil, etc. evidence supporting evolution wouldn't even fill a human-sized casket. Not to mention that, for evolution to be true, there would have to be literally thousands of intermediate species fossilized somewhere in the Earth's crust; at least one per species that lived in the last few thousand years or so. Not to mention that we haven't found them. Don't bring up "Lucy", either; she was proven to be an ape. Not a human. Not an intermediate species.
God created man. Man created evolution. God was disappointed.
Where did god come from? He "just happened". Yeah. OK.
No. We never said that. God didn't "just happen". That would indicate that He had some sort of generating event. God has always been there. Quite simple, really. Don't think about the concept of eternity for too long. It doesn't make very much sense to us because we live in a universe driven by (as the Merovingian said in The Matrix Reloaded) cause and effect.
God had no cause, but He has effects. That's why people still believe in Him. He's always affecting us.
The theory of macroevolution came about as a hastily-thrown-together recombination of Darwin's theories. Darwin studied species of birds on an island and how the birds had changed to adapt to their environments. This is not macroevolution; it's microevolution, or species variation. He never said a single word about macroevolution. Macroevolution CANNOT be proven through observation! Mankind simply has not been around long enough to observe it taking place.
"I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them."
-- Charles Darwin
Logic, in itself, is fallacious, as it has been designed and worked-out by human beings, who are (I believe we can all agree here) not 100% perfect. Therefore, no argument can truly be proven - even this one - simply because logic falls short of proof.
Evolution can't be proven. Creationism can't be proven. Both are taken on faith. Believe what you will. Don't ridicule everyone else just because you think you're right. It's not logical;-)
The Architect is a program (machine?) with access to the entire English language, ERGO, THEREFORE, VIS-A-VIS, what have you, he repeats himself a lot. Anyone who watched Will Ferrell's 'Architect' bit on the MTV Movie Awards will understand perfectly.
the potential damages the source code he had might have been worth
Don't you mean the potential profits the source code could have made? Seeing how damages are a bad thing, and profits are a good thing...
It was Konami, not Capcom. There were a few variations on it: the original Contra, Super C (Contra 2), and the Game Boy game all had different codes, but the same basic pattern.
He's simply trying to point out that it should be a "15-liters water cooling rig", for the same reason as "a 50-dollar bill" should be "a 50-dollars bill". It's not a water cooling rig with 15 liter of water; it's a water cooling rig with 15 liters of water.
No, actually, price fixing is driving the prices of a CD up. The actual CD costs very little to make. This becomes obvious when you realize that you can buy 50 CD-Rs in the U.S. for $14.22 (best deal I've found). That's just over 28 cents per CD. Now if you want professional-quality CDs, you'll have to get some more expensive ones. The kind used by recording companies usually cost (I believe) about $2-$3 each. Still a far cry from the ~$15-$18 a CD costs in the US. Let's add in the packaging: 15 cents' worth of ink, 30 cents' worth of paper, and (let's go on the higher end here) $2 for plastic for packaging. Still only brings the cost of the CD to $4.45-$5.45 . Obviously, with an extra $9.55-$13.55 left per CD, they're making almost 200% profit per CD. Then you have to factor in just how much is going to the artists.
My point? The only reason CDs are so expensive is that record companies are gouging us for our money.
I personally believe that ADHD or whatever you want to call it is the result of two factors (at least in my case):
1) Boredom and lack of challenge.
2) Lack of self-discipline
ADHD is caused by genetics, not boredom. ADHD has run in my family for generations. However, I will agree that you can overcome it as you get older.
The results came back that I was reading and doing math on a high school level and my IQ around 150.
It seems ironic to me that most people I have met who have ADHD tend to be smarter at reading and math and have above-average IQs. Take me, for example. My IQ was tested at ~175 in elementary school. I knew how to read before I was in kindergarten (at least my parents tell me I did). In second grade I began doing 6th grade math, and I took a couple college math courses in junior high. Why do I find it ironic? Simply because of the definition of ADHD. ADHD is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. There is a deficiency in the chemical that bridges the gap between neuron synapses, so that some signals are transmitted more slowly than others (or just aren't transmitted at all). Logically, this would seem to make it so that people with ADHD would think more slowly and less efficiently than others. It would seem that the case is just the opposite.
You do realize that you just said that a company whose major source of income is monthly fees would make MORE money by getting MORE subscribers to NOT pay those fees? That's like saying the government will make money by cutting all taxes.
Hmm, the conversation has died already? I've got an idea, let's throw out a controversial topic! How about abortion? Nah, not enough women here for a good argument... hey, religion is always good! Nah, that'll go on too long... politics! Yes! Politics will do nicely!
Gibbering idiots...
Yes. All the American education system does for you anyway is teach you to memorize facts, figures, formulas, etc. What we should *really* be learning is 1) how to apply our knowledge and 2) how to think intuitively.
Uh, guys, tell me how many people you know who have played Grand Theft Auto have gone out and shot people, run people over, killed cops, blew stuff up, etc. If you can even say *one*, you know some really f'ed-up people. Maybe one in a good ten million or so kids will become violent because of a video game. MAYBE. Maybe it's because their parents don't pay any attention to them (Columbine). Maybe it's because they're getting picked on all the time and want to get back (Columbine).
Maybe it's Doom. Yeah, that's it. Let's blame Columbine on Doom. Because we all know that reality is a pseudo-3D world filled with flat sprite people, the inability to jump, and explosives that don't instantly kill you when they strike you. We also all know that clicking a mouse button or pushing keys on a keyboard train you to be lethal with a shotgun.
>> Considering America's low participation in its own democracy, you shouldn't be surprised the American government is acting against its citizens' own best interests.
Why is there so little participation? I think it's for two major reasons:
1. The politicians could care less what individual people think (in most cases). Whatever constituent pays them the most money gets their way, no matter how detrimental their way might be to the world.
2. George Bush is president. Al Gore got the most popular votes. If our government was a real democracy (as we claim it is), Gore would be president now. The fact that we have an electoral college is like saying the average person is too stupid to pick a good president. In fact, I've seen a few people online who have said exactly that. Somehow they seem to think that "stupid people shouldn't be able to elect a leader of their choice" is a good part of a democracy.
What I find funny is that now whenever someone tries to speak out against someone's Constitutional rights being violated, they're labelled as 'traitors' or 'liberal idiots'. Violating the Constitution seems to be a favorite government pastime these days.
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that justifies our actions is that most Americans couldn't care less what the government does, as long as they don't have to pay more taxes.
Yeah, I tried skating once last year... still have a board... now I'm just waiting for summer to come around. I thought it would be easy to olly. Surprise!:-)
I totally agree. Even though I'm not a skater, whenever I walk around now I see things that make me think "wonder if I could grind that", or "wonder how big of a combo I could bust off of that". That game has taken over my brain.
White power, black power, yellow power, red power, woman power, girl power, gay power, fuck you ALL. Your causes are OLD and TIRED. Find something new to be angry about, and leave the rest of society the FUCK alone.
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we are "irrational" or "emotional"
Exactly. That seems pretty precise to me. Note the difference between the words 'precise' and 'perfect'. Something can be done precisely and still be buggy. God made us with 'bugs' because He knew that we wouldn't feel the need to worship Him if we didn't have emotions.
Just for fun, let me ask all you evolutionists something: If we evolved into what we are today, why:
- does love exist?
- do we have free will?
- are most of us more interested in creating than surviving?
- do we have faith?
- (and this is even simpler) do we have a sense of taste? does it serve some sort of necessary function, or is it just for our enjoyment? and if it's for our enjoyment, why did we evolve to be able to enjoy things?
Not to mention that the total amount of fossil, etc. evidence supporting evolution wouldn't even fill a human-sized casket. Not to mention that, for evolution to be true, there would have to be literally thousands of intermediate species fossilized somewhere in the Earth's crust; at least one per species that lived in the last few thousand years or so. Not to mention that we haven't found them. Don't bring up "Lucy", either; she was proven to be an ape. Not a human. Not an intermediate species.God created man. Man created evolution. God was disappointed.
Where did god come from? He "just happened". Yeah. OK.
No. We never said that. God didn't "just happen". That would indicate that He had some sort of generating event. God has always been there. Quite simple, really. Don't think about the concept of eternity for too long. It doesn't make very much sense to us because we live in a universe driven by (as the Merovingian said in The Matrix Reloaded) cause and effect.
God had no cause, but He has effects. That's why people still believe in Him. He's always affecting us.
The theory of macroevolution came about as a hastily-thrown-together recombination of Darwin's theories. Darwin studied species of birds on an island and how the birds had changed to adapt to their environments. This is not macroevolution; it's microevolution, or species variation. He never said a single word about macroevolution. Macroevolution CANNOT be proven through observation! Mankind simply has not been around long enough to observe it taking place. "I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them." -- Charles Darwin
Logic, in itself, is fallacious, as it has been designed and worked-out by human beings, who are (I believe we can all agree here) not 100% perfect. Therefore, no argument can truly be proven - even this one - simply because logic falls short of proof. Evolution can't be proven. Creationism can't be proven. Both are taken on faith. Believe what you will. Don't ridicule everyone else just because you think you're right. It's not logical ;-)
The Architect is a program (machine?) with access to the entire English language, ERGO, THEREFORE, VIS-A-VIS, what have you, he repeats himself a lot. Anyone who watched Will Ferrell's 'Architect' bit on the MTV Movie Awards will understand perfectly.
... "I do."
"You'll like... being... a dude."
$6,000 per year is hardly insignificant, for the average person; although you are right in saying it is for a large company.
the potential damages the source code he had might have been worth Don't you mean the potential profits the source code could have made? Seeing how damages are a bad thing, and profits are a good thing...
It was Konami, not Capcom. There were a few variations on it: the original Contra, Super C (Contra 2), and the Game Boy game all had different codes, but the same basic pattern.
He's simply trying to point out that it should be a "15-liters water cooling rig", for the same reason as "a 50-dollar bill" should be "a 50-dollars bill". It's not a water cooling rig with 15 liter of water; it's a water cooling rig with 15 liters of water.
No, actually, price fixing is driving the prices of a CD up. The actual CD costs very little to make. This becomes obvious when you realize that you can buy 50 CD-Rs in the U.S. for $14.22 (best deal I've found). That's just over 28 cents per CD. Now if you want professional-quality CDs, you'll have to get some more expensive ones. The kind used by recording companies usually cost (I believe) about $2-$3 each. Still a far cry from the ~$15-$18 a CD costs in the US. Let's add in the packaging: 15 cents' worth of ink, 30 cents' worth of paper, and (let's go on the higher end here) $2 for plastic for packaging. Still only brings the cost of the CD to $4.45-$5.45 . Obviously, with an extra $9.55-$13.55 left per CD, they're making almost 200% profit per CD. Then you have to factor in just how much is going to the artists.
My point?
The only reason CDs are so expensive is that record companies are gouging us for our money.
I personally believe that ADHD or whatever you want to call it is the result of two factors (at least in my case): 1) Boredom and lack of challenge. 2) Lack of self-discipline ADHD is caused by genetics, not boredom. ADHD has run in my family for generations. However, I will agree that you can overcome it as you get older. The results came back that I was reading and doing math on a high school level and my IQ around 150. It seems ironic to me that most people I have met who have ADHD tend to be smarter at reading and math and have above-average IQs. Take me, for example. My IQ was tested at ~175 in elementary school. I knew how to read before I was in kindergarten (at least my parents tell me I did). In second grade I began doing 6th grade math, and I took a couple college math courses in junior high. Why do I find it ironic? Simply because of the definition of ADHD. ADHD is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. There is a deficiency in the chemical that bridges the gap between neuron synapses, so that some signals are transmitted more slowly than others (or just aren't transmitted at all). Logically, this would seem to make it so that people with ADHD would think more slowly and less efficiently than others. It would seem that the case is just the opposite.
Can you say "Piltdown Man?" No? Perhaps "Nebraska Man?" I'd stake my nonexistent fortune on the bet that this turns out to be another fake.
That's totally irrelevant. His point is that MOST 12-year-olds would not be able to do it. You were obviously not the average 12-year-old.
You do realize that you just said that a company whose major source of income is monthly fees would make MORE money by getting MORE subscribers to NOT pay those fees? That's like saying the government will make money by cutting all taxes.
Hmm, the conversation has died already? I've got an idea, let's throw out a controversial topic! How about abortion? Nah, not enough women here for a good argument... hey, religion is always good! Nah, that'll go on too long... politics! Yes! Politics will do nicely! Gibbering idiots...
Yes. All the American education system does for you anyway is teach you to memorize facts, figures, formulas, etc. What we should *really* be learning is 1) how to apply our knowledge and 2) how to think intuitively.
Uh, guys, tell me how many people you know who have played Grand Theft Auto have gone out and shot people, run people over, killed cops, blew stuff up, etc. If you can even say *one*, you know some really f'ed-up people. Maybe one in a good ten million or so kids will become violent because of a video game. MAYBE. Maybe it's because their parents don't pay any attention to them (Columbine). Maybe it's because they're getting picked on all the time and want to get back (Columbine).
Maybe it's Doom. Yeah, that's it. Let's blame Columbine on Doom. Because we all know that reality is a pseudo-3D world filled with flat sprite people, the inability to jump, and explosives that don't instantly kill you when they strike you. We also all know that clicking a mouse button or pushing keys on a keyboard train you to be lethal with a shotgun.
Bullshit. Stop blaming video games. End of story.
Both the media and the government run off of their profits. End of story.
>> Considering America's low participation in its own democracy, you shouldn't be surprised the American government is acting against its citizens' own best interests. Why is there so little participation? I think it's for two major reasons: 1. The politicians could care less what individual people think (in most cases). Whatever constituent pays them the most money gets their way, no matter how detrimental their way might be to the world. 2. George Bush is president. Al Gore got the most popular votes. If our government was a real democracy (as we claim it is), Gore would be president now. The fact that we have an electoral college is like saying the average person is too stupid to pick a good president. In fact, I've seen a few people online who have said exactly that. Somehow they seem to think that "stupid people shouldn't be able to elect a leader of their choice" is a good part of a democracy.
What I find funny is that now whenever someone tries to speak out against someone's Constitutional rights being violated, they're labelled as 'traitors' or 'liberal idiots'. Violating the Constitution seems to be a favorite government pastime these days.
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that justifies our actions is that most Americans couldn't care less what the government does, as long as they don't have to pay more taxes.
Yeah, I tried skating once last year... still have a board... now I'm just waiting for summer to come around. I thought it would be easy to olly. Surprise! :-)
I totally agree. Even though I'm not a skater, whenever I walk around now I see things that make me think "wonder if I could grind that", or "wonder how big of a combo I could bust off of that". That game has taken over my brain.
You British people and your weird numbers. Jumping straight from thousand to billion. What happened to million?
White power, black power, yellow power, red power, woman power, girl power, gay power, fuck you ALL. Your causes are OLD and TIRED. Find something new to be angry about, and leave the rest of society the FUCK alone.