True enough, but those are modern factors. Our brains haven't evolved as fast as our society, so at an instinctual level we still judge by stone-age criteria.
I noticed that too. I went to check out how we're doing here in Australia, and at the time, Iran had double our downloads. Their population may be triple ours, but I was under the impression we had significantly higher internet usage.
I can't think of a better example than changing the failure grade here in Australia from 'F' to 'E'. Someone decided that since 'F' actually stood for Failure, it was too demoralising to the students, so making it an 'E' wouldn't seem so bad. And has it made any difference? No.
True enough, but that's not the way it got reported here. I was most disappointed. Any news service worth its salt should be well aware of Spirit and Opportunity.
Well, according to the incredibly accurate news reporting here in Western Australia, the rovers never happened. The report on Phoenix said it was the first successful landing of a craft on Mars in 30 years.:P
I have to say, as an Australian, the one major aspect of US law that I wish we had here was the right to remain silent. Unfortunately here, you have to answer police questions, or you can be charged with perverting the course of justice.
I'm not sure what the law states about requesting legal representation here. I think you can have it, but they can't be present during questioning. You can only talk to them afterwards.
Bear in mind that copyright does not make it illegal to copy *any* music. It does here in Australia. It is illegal to copy anything from one format to another. If you buy a CD, you are only allowed to listen to it on that CD. If you want to keep it as an mp3, you have to purchase it online (which you could not do legally here until about 2 years ago).
The previous government here made no effort to modernise our laws. Hopefully the new one does.
I don't doubt that there are women who know exactly what they're doing when they pout at you, but you might be surprised by how many more don't And I think that herein lies the problem.
Women these days are so free with using sexual advances to get what they want, that men have learned that sexual advances are, most of the time, non-genuine.
So if a woman starts to flutter those eyelashes, and flash some cleavage, then as a guy, our instinctive reaction is that they have some sort of ulterior motive.
I think if women only came onto guys when it was due to genuine interest, and not just for manipulative purposes, we would start to pay attention to those clues again.
having a density of about 19.1g/cm3, it tends to be just over twice as heavy as sword steel (at 7.8g/cm3). Your 2kg sword would be 4.8kg and tire you and your four arms out quite nicely
But if you have 4 arms, then you'll have twice as much strength to heft the sword, so you will get tired at an equal rate as if the sword was a normal weight with only two arms. So by making you sprout those extra arms, the sword solves its own problems!
Not every story has to be about a specific technology.
This story is talking about Galileo, and his fate under the Inquisition, so I'd say it definitely counts as 'News For Nerds.'
Get back in your box, pembo.
I also popped my cherry on the Atari 2600 when I was about 4 years old. I remember many hours of Asteroids fun. When I was 7 I graduated to a C64, but it was never quite as much fun as those early days blasting those pink, blue and white asteroids with my little rotating triangle.:P
So basically, you can't prove the existence of god, but you can't disprove it either DISCLAIMER: I am an atheist, and don't believe in deities, but acknowledge that it's within the realm of possibility that I could be mistaken.
Yes you COULD prove the existence of a god. If that god did suddenly appear, as you postulated in your post, then it would be proof.
However, you are correct to state that you can't DISprove the existence of a god. No matter what experiment you devise, there would always be the possibility that a higher power had manipulated the outcome to hide their existence. And that is the root of the misunderstanding of the science/religion argument - many religious people feel that science threatens their beliefs, when it is simply not the case. If you believe in a god, then science simply explains how that god wields his/her/its power.
Oh, if only I had mod points. That's one of the funniest comments I've read on Slashdot EVER. Congrats - you sure gave me a good laugh to start my day.:D
All residential broadband accounts in Australia are metered unfortunately This is the main point that I think, as an Australian, needs to be pointed out to our American friends about the state of internet access here. For any complaints they may have about possibly being slowed down at soft limits like 100GB or more in the US, I do find it difficult to really feel bad for them when I am faced with the reality of a crappy limit of maybe 20GB peak, 40GB off-peak downloads, for which I'm paying $70 a month, plus having to bundle my phone with the same provider and pay another $25 a month for line rental. Or I pay Then I am shaped to the ridiculous speed of 64k. To be honest, 60GB a month is a good amount for me, and shaping would not be a problem, if it was to a usable speed. However, in this day and age, I just feel that 64k is simply too low. Even 128k would be a marked improvement, and would at least allow me to do simple things like checking email and general web browsing adequately while I waited to be unshaped.
PLEASE, Australian ISPs - someone cut your crazy profit margins and give us a reasonable download allowance, and usable shaped speed.
Ok, you have a point, I should have been more obvious. You are American, after all.
There are two instances of the letter 'u' in humour. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humour
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True enough, but those are modern factors. Our brains haven't evolved as fast as our society, so at an instinctual level we still judge by stone-age criteria.
I noticed that too. I went to check out how we're doing here in Australia, and at the time, Iran had double our downloads. Their population may be triple ours, but I was under the impression we had significantly higher internet usage.
While I agree that for a small car a smaller base engine wouldn't be a bad idea, I hardly think a 145hp engine classifies as a 'monster'.
I can't think of a better example than changing the failure grade here in Australia from 'F' to 'E'. Someone decided that since 'F' actually stood for Failure, it was too demoralising to the students, so making it an 'E' wouldn't seem so bad. And has it made any difference? No.
No link unfortunately - that's just what was read out on the news that night.
True enough, but that's not the way it got reported here. I was most disappointed. Any news service worth its salt should be well aware of Spirit and Opportunity.
Well, according to the incredibly accurate news reporting here in Western Australia, the rovers never happened. The report on Phoenix said it was the first successful landing of a craft on Mars in 30 years. :P
I'm afraid that bomb got dropped 28 years ago. And it was a stinker. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081249/
I have to say, as an Australian, the one major aspect of US law that I wish we had here was the right to remain silent. Unfortunately here, you have to answer police questions, or you can be charged with perverting the course of justice.
I'm not sure what the law states about requesting legal representation here. I think you can have it, but they can't be present during questioning. You can only talk to them afterwards.
If Gore was president, the military would be busy hunting for ManBearPig instead.
But if you have 4 arms, then you'll have twice as much strength to heft the sword, so you will get tired at an equal rate as if the sword was a normal weight with only two arms. So by making you sprout those extra arms, the sword solves its own problems!
And don't forget the all-important "youse guys" for referring to a company or some other structured group.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to risk being such a geek that you upgrade to a kernel version containing pi. :P
Not every story has to be about a specific technology.
This story is talking about Galileo, and his fate under the Inquisition, so I'd say it definitely counts as 'News For Nerds.'
Get back in your box, pembo.
I also popped my cherry on the Atari 2600 when I was about 4 years old. I remember many hours of Asteroids fun. When I was 7 I graduated to a C64, but it was never quite as much fun as those early days blasting those pink, blue and white asteroids with my little rotating triangle. :P
DISCLAIMER: I am an atheist, and don't believe in deities, but acknowledge that it's within the realm of possibility that I could be mistaken.
Yes you COULD prove the existence of a god. If that god did suddenly appear, as you postulated in your post, then it would be proof.
However, you are correct to state that you can't DISprove the existence of a god. No matter what experiment you devise, there would always be the possibility that a higher power had manipulated the outcome to hide their existence. And that is the root of the misunderstanding of the science/religion argument - many religious people feel that science threatens their beliefs, when it is simply not the case. If you believe in a god, then science simply explains how that god wields his/her/its power.
Oh, if only I had mod points. That's one of the funniest comments I've read on Slashdot EVER. Congrats - you sure gave me a good laugh to start my day. :D
PLEASE, Australian ISPs - someone cut your crazy profit margins and give us a reasonable download allowance, and usable shaped speed.
Ok, you have a point, I should have been more obvious. You are American, after all.
There are two instances of the letter 'u' in humour. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humour