Not trying to pick a fight here but your last statement is one reason the world today (and before) is a mess. Religion explains *nothing*. Religion is about belief without any substance whatsoever. You can not learn anything about the world from religion (you can learn alot about people however), certainly not *why*.
I couldn't agree more. It's frustrating that people stupid enough to not be able to tell the difference between "I can't understand how this could work", and "This can not work" are able to get so much attention.
I do take some comfort in the fact that this is only a big debate in the U.S. The rest of the (western) world seems to not care very much about the Creationists, thankfully.
btw, I dare ANY body who's watched a loved one suffer to deny that they said a few words to God 'Just in case'. It certainly can't hurt. I'm not religious, but I've been there.
I've done exactly that. My grandfather died of cancer last year. I didnt utter anything even remotely close to a prayer (and I did like my grandfather. I'm not an psycho). Prayer is the epitome of delusional thinking. I can understand that it might have a soothing effect on the one praying, but I can guarantee you it wont do shit for the person being prayed at (unless you tell them in which case they might experience some placebo)
Prayer to a god has just as much effect as asking the spirit that lives in the small stone on your lawn for help. If you believe otherwise you are retarded. No I take that back, you are not retarded but you are certainly sadly decieved.
Assuming your numbers are correct, your last conclusion is wrong. 7612609 J produced over 10 seconds means 761260.9 Watts == 761 KILOwatts, not megawatts. Quite a difference.
No. They said they where gay/lesbian-friendly. Cracking down on that is the same thing as cracking down on a guild being rp-friendly or danish-friendly or whatever. It's so ridiculous it's not even funny.
I actually canceled my wow-subscription over this. To be honest I was looking for a reason to cancel but whatever.
Someone who opposes homosexual relationships in any form based on his beliefs and morals is not a bigot. Bigotry is an intolerance towards those holding different opinions from oneself. You can be opposed to homosexual relationships and tolerant of the individual.
People often in a fury of over-emotional reactions blur the line behind accepting of the individual and condemning of their actions. Just like I can accept my friend for who he is as a person I don't have to accept what he does or condone his own beliefs. You can care and love for someone without accepting some of their choices as correct or right despite what people think.
That statement is bullshit. I cant believe you got modded insightful. If you oppose homosexual relationships you are an idiot, plain and simple.I ask the question I have asked so many times before and never gotten a good answer to: how can a relationship between two other people possibly affect you in any way? Why the hell do you care?
You should really ask that question as a submitted story or something, not bury it down here in the comments. However I'll try to give you my quick view of it:
Intel, despite having a virtual monopoly on the pc-cpu business, has never been as despised as for example Microsoft for the simple reason that they have always produced top quality. Sure you had to pay for their cpu's but they where generaly worth paying for. AMD always played catch-up technology and performance-wise, and therefore always had to sell their slightly worse performing cpu's at a slightly lower price. That changed with AMD's introduction of the original Athlon about 5 years ago or so (look up the exact dates if you like, I dont have the energy for it). It actually performed better than anything Intel had and was still slightly cheaper. It took a while for the market to realize this since the intel brand had a lot of momentum.
Most people with technical knowledge prefer AMD nowadays because a) everybody likes an underdog, and b) AMD has since the introduction of the Athlon kept their performance lead over intel. Because they've slowly but surely been gaining marketshare, AMD's prices has crept upwards to a point of almost matching Intels prices, but you still get a faster cpu for less money if you buy AMD. At the moment, Intel has nothing that can compete. Add to this the fact that AMD's processors also use less power than Intels Pentium 4-line and AMD has an even greater advantage.
Intel's lost a lot of credibility during the last years because of their attempts to out-market AMD despite the fact that their current netburst-based lineup has nothing on AMD's Athlon stuff. Everybody keeps waiting for Intel to pull an ace out of their sleeve and introduce somthing that kills AMD, but Intel has failed to deliver for many years now.
So basically, AMD is still the underdog that delivers the best *and* cheapest product, while Intel's marketing department is trying to save Intel.
Look around and note the up and coming providers for suborbital flight - there isn't but one serious contender outside of the US. The heavyweights are all in the US. The biggest single market is in the US.
Sure. But the fact that they do their developement in the US doesn't mean they have to launch from US soil, does it? US-based companies doing business in china aren't prosecuted in the US for what they do in china. Even the US government does some work (torture for example) in other countries to get away from US laws and rules.
There's also big issues with technology transfer and export regulation, and non-profliferation... It's virtually a certainty that any sub orbital provider will develop in the US or the rest of the West. It's almost impossible for a US based company (or any company based in the West) to go to some third world nation for a launch.
But they could launch from a European site maybe? The orbital boost will suck from those latitudes but still. Or south africa or australia or something. Of course if the US govt *really* want to prevent american companies from launching outside the US they can. It's just a matter of weighing public-opinion backlash vs. govt paranoia...
I fail to see the relevance of the US drawing up rules for this. It's not like the passengers care where they launch *from*, hopefully the important thing is where they end up (say, in space). Thus any space tourism entrepreneur who dont like the US rules can just launch from another country.
Oh man, I barely know where to start. How about here:
We could unleash our nuclear arsenal and flatten Europe.
Indeed you could. And 1 minute after your missiles left the grund. France, England and probably Russia would retaliate, flattening the USA with their nuclear arsenals.
We could withdraw all our trade and let Europe flounder on its own
I suppose you could but are you aware of the trade balance between the US and Europe? I suggest you look it up before embargoing.
We could even invade and take control of Europe
Oh dear. Considering that your entire army cant control two 3rd world countries with a total population of around 50 million, where the governments are your puppets, I seriously doubt you could "invade and control" 400+ million people with high tech weapons, well organized armies, and fully developed infrastructure.
While we could shut the internet off at any time
Indeed you could shut down your root servers. And the internet would probably stop working outside of national nets for all of 30 minutes before everone had repointed their DNS.
When you develop "true AI" you dont make a press release about it, you phone the military of your country of choosing and wait for men to arrive with large briefcases full of money. Let me put it this way, true AI is not annouced by/., you will read about it in Janes about 10 years after it happens.
Not if I invent it man. I hate the military and all they've done to us. If I invent true AI you can expect to read about it instantly... maybe even on slashdot so stay tuned! =)
about 50 yes. Thats why i said *if*. My only supportive argument is that most researchers of religious history today define satanism as LaVey did, calling the other kind 'devil worshipers'. You may of course define it the old way if you like, wich would make you're original statement pretty correct (but i wont).
You are wrong. *If* you define satanists as believers in LaVey's (founder of "the church of satan") philosophy as outlined in "the satanic bible" (by LaVey). Executive summary: LaVey took the name Satanist in order to provoke and flaunt his contempt for the christian values of the USA in the 50's and 60's.
According to LaVey, a 'true' satanist has nothing but contempt for the silly people worshiping the christian entity called 'satan'. They should more properly be called 'devil worshipers'.
i try not to feed trolls but this time it's just too easy...
While you Europeans kill yourselves with tobacco and every other drug under the sun, at least some of us Americans still have morals.
Morals? What the hell did you get that from? You seem to confuse morals with religiously ordained values. Sadly your rulers are completely void of what is commonly known as morals. But OTOH morals can be anything as long as you stick to them so your point is worthless.
While you Europeans bash our country incessantly, why not take an economics class or two and realize that your method of artificially trying to create jobs just doesn't work.
Oh man... I suggest *you* take a class about european politics and society and not just listen Fox. There are of course a few of the EU countries (do you know how many member states the EU has) that has bad habits, just like the USA has Mormons...
Making 40 hour a week full-timers work 30 hours a week so that others can work is not sound economics.
I have no idea what you're refering to. In my country full time means 40-hours.
Oh, and the birth rate in Europe is much less than the 1-1 ratio needed to simply maintain the current population.
Finally a valid point! Oh my god what will happen next? Yes the birth rate in some parts of europe is too low (hopefully we've pushed the problem forwards abit into the future by accepting a bunch of new members from the old east block with better birth ratios). But seriously, this is a problem that has to do with the fact that we're generally *well* educated and thankfully not very religious. It's happening in parts of USA as well. Try to read up on it, you'll be suprised.
So, while we in the US will prevail fine, expect to see much of Europe continue to disappear over the next 100 years and be replaced by the stream of poor uneducated immigrants that are currently wrecking havoc in the UK and other places.
Ah! At least you admit it. 1) Immigrants are generaly good for any country *in a longer time perspecitve* . 2) You are stupid. 3) Your beloved USA was built by a stream of poor uneducated immigrants.
Give it up USA, You've already lost. It's inevitable, in one generation or so the american supremacy will have gone the way of the dodo bird.
Seriously, I'm absolutely not one of the US-haters common here, but I can see what way your contry is heading. Things like general education has a huge social inertia or whatever you want to call it. Changing the course of a society takes a huge, concentrated effort over a long period of time. Thats not gonna happen, more like the opposite.
Seriously it's been known for a long time that crocs have an awsome immune system capable of killing pretty much any bacteria including the modern penicilin-resistant human-killing ones. So it probably wasnt such a longshot...
Well while I love the elegance of a well designed functional implementation, functional languages are easy to abuse creating unreadable code (that might work but is hell do maintain)
Though i admit to never having used Erlang, I have used others.
Scotland are Scots, not Scotch (which is a type of booze).
oh not just a type of booze, it's the ultimate booze! Liquid gold, nay liquid sunlight, nay liquid.... never mind, just drink it and be thankful you're alive...
Yes, the last parenthesis was what I meant. In hindsight I realize I could have been clearer:)
I was not aware of the Italian experts not signing the report (as i said i just scanned through it quickly). That fact certainly makes the report less interesting.
The report states that the soldiers weren't trained to build roadblocks and in some of the procedures used when setting up a checkpoint and didn't know how it is supposed to look.
Might be important when you consider the fact that the italians (yes they where speeding) didn't see it.
If you read my comment you'll see that I said if the US military is not lying... make your own conclusions, I dont have the energy to explain it to you.
The report states that the soldiers weren't trained to build roadblocks and in some of the procedures used when setting up a checkpoint and didn't know how it is supposed to look.
Might be important when you consider the fact that the italians (yes they where speeding) didnt see it.
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Not trying to pick a fight here but your last statement is one reason the world today (and before) is a mess. Religion explains *nothing*. Religion is about belief without any substance whatsoever. You can not learn anything about the world from religion (you can learn alot about people however), certainly not *why*.
I couldn't agree more. It's frustrating that people stupid enough to not be able to tell the difference between "I can't understand how this could work", and "This can not work" are able to get so much attention.
I do take some comfort in the fact that this is only a big debate in the U.S. The rest of the (western) world seems to not care very much about the Creationists, thankfully.
I've done exactly that. My grandfather died of cancer last year. I didnt utter anything even remotely close to a prayer (and I did like my grandfather. I'm not an psycho). Prayer is the epitome of delusional thinking. I can understand that it might have a soothing effect on the one praying, but I can guarantee you it wont do shit for the person being prayed at (unless you tell them in which case they might experience some placebo)
Prayer to a god has just as much effect as asking the spirit that lives in the small stone on your lawn for help. If you believe otherwise you are retarded. No I take that back, you are not retarded but you are certainly sadly decieved.
Assuming your numbers are correct, your last conclusion is wrong.
7612609 J produced over 10 seconds means 761260.9 Watts == 761 KILOwatts, not megawatts. Quite a difference.
No. They said they where gay/lesbian-friendly. Cracking down on that is the same thing as cracking down on a guild being rp-friendly or danish-friendly or whatever. It's so ridiculous it's not even funny.
I actually canceled my wow-subscription over this. To be honest I was looking for a reason to cancel but whatever.
That statement is bullshit. I cant believe you got modded insightful. If you oppose homosexual relationships you are an idiot, plain and simple.I ask the question I have asked so many times before and never gotten a good answer to: how can a relationship between two other people possibly affect you in any way? Why the hell do you care?
You should really ask that question as a submitted story or something, not bury it down here in the comments. However I'll try to give you my quick view of it:
Intel, despite having a virtual monopoly on the pc-cpu business, has never been as despised as for example Microsoft for the simple reason that they have always produced top quality. Sure you had to pay for their cpu's but they where generaly worth paying for. AMD always played catch-up technology and performance-wise, and therefore always had to sell their slightly worse performing cpu's at a slightly lower price. That changed with AMD's introduction of the original Athlon about 5 years ago or so (look up the exact dates if you like, I dont have the energy for it). It actually performed better than anything Intel had and was still slightly cheaper. It took a while for the market to realize this since the intel brand had a lot of momentum.
Most people with technical knowledge prefer AMD nowadays because a) everybody likes an underdog, and b) AMD has since the introduction of the Athlon kept their performance lead over intel. Because they've slowly but surely been gaining marketshare, AMD's prices has crept upwards to a point of almost matching Intels prices, but you still get a faster cpu for less money if you buy AMD. At the moment, Intel has nothing that can compete. Add to this the fact that AMD's processors also use less power than Intels Pentium 4-line and AMD has an even greater advantage.
Intel's lost a lot of credibility during the last years because of their attempts to out-market AMD despite the fact that their current netburst-based lineup has nothing on AMD's Athlon stuff. Everybody keeps waiting for Intel to pull an ace out of their sleeve and introduce somthing that kills AMD, but Intel has failed to deliver for many years now.
So basically, AMD is still the underdog that delivers the best *and* cheapest product, while Intel's marketing department is trying to save Intel.
Sure. But the fact that they do their developement in the US doesn't mean they have to launch from US soil, does it? US-based companies doing business in china aren't prosecuted in the US for what they do in china. Even the US government does some work (torture for example) in other countries to get away from US laws and rules.
But they could launch from a European site maybe? The orbital boost will suck from those latitudes but still. Or south africa or australia or something. Of course if the US govt *really* want to prevent american companies from launching outside the US they can. It's just a matter of weighing public-opinion backlash vs. govt paranoia...
I fail to see the relevance of the US drawing up rules for this. It's not like the passengers care where they launch *from*, hopefully the important thing is where they end up (say, in space). Thus any space tourism entrepreneur who dont like the US rules can just launch from another country.
Oh man, I barely know where to start. How about here:
We could unleash our nuclear arsenal and flatten Europe.
Indeed you could. And 1 minute after your missiles left the grund. France, England and probably Russia would retaliate, flattening the USA with their nuclear arsenals.
We could withdraw all our trade and let Europe flounder on its own
I suppose you could but are you aware of the trade balance between the US and Europe? I suggest you look it up before embargoing.
We could even invade and take control of Europe
Oh dear. Considering that your entire army cant control two 3rd world countries with a total population of around 50 million, where the governments are your puppets, I seriously doubt you could "invade and control" 400+ million people with high tech weapons, well organized armies, and fully developed infrastructure.
While we could shut the internet off at any time
Indeed you could shut down your root servers. And the internet would probably stop working outside of national nets for all of 30 minutes before everone had repointed their DNS.
Not if I invent it man. I hate the military and all they've done to us. If I invent true AI you can expect to read about it instantly... maybe even on slashdot so stay tuned! =)
yes i know the difference between "your" and "you're"... never type faster than your fingers can follow =)
about 50 yes. Thats why i said *if*. My only supportive argument is that most researchers of religious history today define satanism as LaVey did, calling the other kind 'devil worshipers'. You may of course define it the old way if you like, wich would make you're original statement pretty correct (but i wont).
You are wrong. *If* you define satanists as believers in LaVey's (founder of "the church of satan") philosophy as outlined in "the satanic bible" (by LaVey). Executive summary: LaVey took the name Satanist in order to provoke and flaunt his contempt for the christian values of the USA in the 50's and 60's.
According to LaVey, a 'true' satanist has nothing but contempt for the silly people worshiping the christian entity called 'satan'. They should more properly be called 'devil worshipers'.
Morals? What the hell did you get that from? You seem to confuse morals with religiously ordained values. Sadly your rulers are completely void of what is commonly known as morals. But OTOH morals can be anything as long as you stick to them so your point is worthless. Oh man... I suggest *you* take a class about european politics and society and not just listen Fox. There are of course a few of the EU countries (do you know how many member states the EU has) that has bad habits, just like the USA has Mormons... I have no idea what you're refering to. In my country full time means 40-hours. Finally a valid point! Oh my god what will happen next? Yes the birth rate in some parts of europe is too low (hopefully we've pushed the problem forwards abit into the future by accepting a bunch of new members from the old east block with better birth ratios). But seriously, this is a problem that has to do with the fact that we're generally *well* educated and thankfully not very religious. It's happening in parts of USA as well. Try to read up on it, you'll be suprised. Ah! At least you admit it. 1) Immigrants are generaly good for any country *in a longer time perspecitve* . 2) You are stupid. 3) Your beloved USA was built by a stream of poor uneducated immigrants.
Give it up USA, You've already lost. It's inevitable, in one generation or so the american supremacy will have gone the way of the dodo bird.
Seriously, I'm absolutely not one of the US-haters common here, but I can see what way your contry is heading. Things like general education has a huge social inertia or whatever you want to call it. Changing the course of a society takes a huge, concentrated effort over a long period of time. Thats not gonna happen, more like the opposite.
(and spare me the comments about my spelling)
oh man.... you are one of those people who believe everything you hear on tv or read in the papers, aren't you?
Seriously it's been known for a long time that crocs have an awsome immune system capable of killing pretty much any bacteria including the modern penicilin-resistant human-killing ones. So it probably wasnt such a longshot...
Well while I love the elegance of a well designed functional implementation, functional languages are easy to abuse creating unreadable code (that might work but is hell do maintain)
Though i admit to never having used Erlang, I have used others.
oh not just a type of booze, it's the ultimate booze! Liquid gold, nay liquid sunlight, nay liquid.... never mind, just drink it and be thankful you're alive...
Yes, the last parenthesis was what I meant. In hindsight I realize I could have been clearer :)
I was not aware of the Italian experts not signing the report (as i said i just scanned through it quickly). That fact certainly makes the report less interesting.
The report states that the soldiers weren't trained to build roadblocks and in some of the procedures used when setting up a checkpoint and didn't know how it is supposed to look.
Might be important when you consider the fact that the italians (yes they where speeding) didn't see it.
If you read my comment you'll see that I said if the US military is not lying... make your own conclusions, I dont have the energy to explain it to you.
The report states that the soldiers weren't trained to build roadblocks and in some of the procedures used when setting up a checkpoint and didn't know how it is supposed to look.
Might be important when you consider the fact that the italians (yes they where speeding) didnt see it.