Isn't it though? I mean, according to Wiki - The modern understanding of evolution is based on the theory of natural selection - so it seems to me to BELIEVE it requires some FAITH. As an American I am bombarded with this debate, but both sides require faith - its just a matter what you put your faith in.
I wouldn't have anticipated someone saying cross-platform compability is a top priority while dumping a cross-platform compability tool for reasons of it being too hard.
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.
It is for this reason that I'm writing you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught in your schools, along with the other two theories. In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you do not agree to do this, we will be forced to proceed with legal action. I'm sure you see where we are coming from. If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.
Some find that hard to believe, so it may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don't understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease.
I'm sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory. It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia. I cannot stress the importance of this enough, and unfortunately cannot describe in detail why this must be done as I fear this letter is already becoming too long. The concise explanation is that He becomes angry if we don't.
You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s.
In conclusion, thank you for taking the time to hear our views and beliefs. I hope I was able to convey the importance of teaching this theory to your students. We will of course be able to train the teachers in this alternate theory. I am eagerly awaiting your response, and hope dearly that no legal action will need to be taken. I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.
It also shows that no scientific theory can be trusted to be valid past lunch, we just never know when we'll find something new that blows the standing knowledge out of the water.
Dinner? PaShaw! My source tell me if you forward this message to ten friends and they forward to ten friends that MS can track it, and when it hits a thousand we call get a case of beer. Yay Beer!
I ring my hands of you and your miopic state where my posting on "Full Body Dance Dance Revolution" somehow being helpful to fat American kids is an indictment of my lack of social responsability.
Where in the country are you? If you're in my neck of the woods I'll demostrate by taking you to the mission I volunteer at and then the rich suburbs where the kids are too lazy and spoiled to peddle their own bikes - damn motorized scooters!
Would you also face the assault charge that comes with punching me (or anyone) in the mouth?, or would you blame some disorder, extenuating circumstances, or maybe temporary mental deficiency
Believe me I see better then most, my faith is strong and I do appreciate my role in the grander scheme of things. I'm kind and charitable to those in need, I'm active in my community with local outreach programs. I see people who have nothing busting their asses to make something of their lives. But since when did being lazy become a disease? People become lazy because they are allowed to be, because someone has always come along and excused them from being held accountable. Yesterday I saw two instances of people with handicap parking placards with no obvious physical ailment other then weight (one was outside a Dairy Queen).
The thing about taking care of each other is that we need to share in the work load, that's how it's suppose to work... but now that I've met you, will you help me? Will you do my share? I'm going to go play video games and eat snacks.
Seriously, you think fat kids don't exercise because video games don't burn calories? If they didn't have video games they'd be playing board games, or reading, or eating, or sitting, or sleeping, or getting high, or making videos of themselves like they were in star wars, or watching star wars, or shooting people from highway overpasses, or drinking, or watching anime, or....
The point is, fat kids aren't fat because video games don't meet their daily allotment of exercise. Personal responsability and lack of parental teaching of personal responability is to blame. We live in a culture where nothing is ever our fault, not when I can take this pill to feel better. And since when is being fat justification for a handicap parking placard? Shouldn't we as a society force the obese to park as far away as possible?
Anecdotal? Are you a lemming who solely follows the opinions of others or do you occasionally make a decision based on your own experiences and knowledge?
Carefully designed studies tend to, not always mind you, but tend to support the hypothesis of those who carefully craft them (ie - Microsoft studies say their OS is more secure then others, but we wouldn't necessarily make a purchasing decision on that information would we?). I'd rather read reviews from actual users, sure they're not carefully crafted but they are usually more honest and a more accurate description of what kind of performance can be expected - especially for products sold direct to end users.
I don't need ratings, I drove a Passat for 3 glorious years and have kicked myself ever since I traded it in.
Of course, someone buying a BMW might have a different expectation then someone buying a Ford and as such it might skew how they rate things since much of it is against their own expectations and not a head-to-head comparison of the vehicle.
I live in Indiana and drive by 20 or so corn fields and no e85 pumps (that I know of) on my commute every day. Not sure what stations I've not visited offer, but I can tell you they don't advertise an e85 price on their signs.
There is no doubt the local politicians and some business people are revved up about building more e85 refineries and when the first pumps launched the e85 was cheaper then gasoline, not so anymore since the businesses behind e85 need more capital to build more refinineries. Course I can't bring myself to buy an American car, not after driving Japanese and German cars the past couple years. The American car (branded anyway, I know many 'foreign' cars are built/assembled here in the states) is just crap.
Seriously, if this thing really is an MECO then what are all of the things that we've thought were black holes?
Yeah, like man knows what the hell he's talking about. The knowledge is evolving, soon there will be new information and new set of knowledge to learn. I'm sticking with the world being flat, its simple, its easy to understand and its logical. I just feel bad for all those sailors that reach the edge... what happens to them anyway?
As a casual observer I've always wanted to ask... Do you feel better now? Do you feel empowered? Intelligent? Superior?
Sure, the poster made a grammatical error, but his thought/idea was communicated right? It's not like you read it and became so confused you couldn't understand his post. So I would really like to ask... What motivated you to point it out and offer nothing to the topic or discussion at hand?
Yes, this just in. The business does recognize this and will be compensating their outsource Indian partners handsomely whilst pocketing the difference of your bloated 'techy' salary ~ afterall, the kids need Beamers too.
About time... the MS lobby shows up to bury it with a couple dozen reports of their own, a couple dinners and a quick junket to the islands and we'll be back where we started.
The rub is, a user still running Windows 98 will never upgrade or switch to Linux. They're obviously skilled and talented technologists to have survived this long on Win98 why would they ever buy into any of your fancy *new* technology.
Of course Microsoft has dogfood in this area. They sell Microsoft branded networking gear. They sell an embedded OS that is suitable for appliances, including network devices.
Can you provide a link to Microsoft branded networking gear or any network devices that are running embedded Windows for a distributed enterprise environment? I've not seen them before.
How important could he be if I learned his name from your/. post? We're not talking about a President or Prime Minister, he's a department head and department heads are most concerned with being burned at the stake to protect their masters.
Truth is, it doesn't matter a bit how he answers, a court needs evidence - evidence it DID happen or evidence it DID NOT happen. I realize witness testimony is evidence, but we're dealing with a conflict of interest (see Lay, Ken testimony pertaining to Enron).
By being forthright and offering whatever it is (allegedly) captured, show it to the court - if you're worried about state secrets, make the court swear an oath & seal the records. That way, no one with an "ax to grind" can influence - documents and logs don't have an ax.
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Isn't it though? I mean, according to Wiki - The modern understanding of evolution is based on the theory of natural selection - so it seems to me to BELIEVE it requires some FAITH. As an American I am bombarded with this debate, but both sides require faith - its just a matter what you put your faith in.
I wouldn't have anticipated someone saying cross-platform compability is a top priority while dumping a cross-platform compability tool for reasons of it being too hard.
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.
It is for this reason that I'm writing you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught in your schools, along with the other two theories. In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you do not agree to do this, we will be forced to proceed with legal action. I'm sure you see where we are coming from. If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.
Some find that hard to believe, so it may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don't understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease.
I'm sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory. It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia. I cannot stress the importance of this enough, and unfortunately cannot describe in detail why this must be done as I fear this letter is already becoming too long. The concise explanation is that He becomes angry if we don't.
You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s.
In conclusion, thank you for taking the time to hear our views and beliefs. I hope I was able to convey the importance of teaching this theory to your students. We will of course be able to train the teachers in this alternate theory. I am eagerly awaiting your response, and hope dearly that no legal action will need to be taken. I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.
Sincerely Yours,
Bobby Henderson, concerned citizen.
Can it all really be random?
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Dinner? PaShaw! My source tell me if you forward this message to ten friends and they forward to ten friends that MS can track it, and when it hits a thousand we call get a case of beer. Yay Beer!
Where in the country are you? If you're in my neck of the woods I'll demostrate by taking you to the mission I volunteer at and then the rich suburbs where the kids are too lazy and spoiled to peddle their own bikes - damn motorized scooters!
Believe me I see better then most, my faith is strong and I do appreciate my role in the grander scheme of things. I'm kind and charitable to those in need, I'm active in my community with local outreach programs. I see people who have nothing busting their asses to make something of their lives. But since when did being lazy become a disease? People become lazy because they are allowed to be, because someone has always come along and excused them from being held accountable. Yesterday I saw two instances of people with handicap parking placards with no obvious physical ailment other then weight (one was outside a Dairy Queen).
The thing about taking care of each other is that we need to share in the work load, that's how it's suppose to work... but now that I've met you, will you help me? Will you do my share? I'm going to go play video games and eat snacks.
The point is, fat kids aren't fat because video games don't meet their daily allotment of exercise. Personal responsability and lack of parental teaching of personal responability is to blame. We live in a culture where nothing is ever our fault, not when I can take this pill to feel better. And since when is being fat justification for a handicap parking placard? Shouldn't we as a society force the obese to park as far away as possible?
Carefully designed studies tend to, not always mind you, but tend to support the hypothesis of those who carefully craft them (ie - Microsoft studies say their OS is more secure then others, but we wouldn't necessarily make a purchasing decision on that information would we?). I'd rather read reviews from actual users, sure they're not carefully crafted but they are usually more honest and a more accurate description of what kind of performance can be expected - especially for products sold direct to end users.
Of course, someone buying a BMW might have a different expectation then someone buying a Ford and as such it might skew how they rate things since much of it is against their own expectations and not a head-to-head comparison of the vehicle.
There is no doubt the local politicians and some business people are revved up about building more e85 refineries and when the first pumps launched the e85 was cheaper then gasoline, not so anymore since the businesses behind e85 need more capital to build more refinineries. Course I can't bring myself to buy an American car, not after driving Japanese and German cars the past couple years. The American car (branded anyway, I know many 'foreign' cars are built/assembled here in the states) is just crap.
Why would it? Most enterprising business will use the chance to cut licensing costs to boast the bottom line and increase profit margins. Eco101
Amen brother. I'm tired be labeled a zealot just because I sometimes choose an OSS solution, or a M$ lackey for choosing a particular desktop OS.
Yeah, like man knows what the hell he's talking about. The knowledge is evolving, soon there will be new information and new set of knowledge to learn. I'm sticking with the world being flat, its simple, its easy to understand and its logical. I just feel bad for all those sailors that reach the edge... what happens to them anyway?
In a related story, the available bandwidth on campuses around the world has suddenly freed up.
Sure, the poster made a grammatical error, but his thought/idea was communicated right? It's not like you read it and became so confused you couldn't understand his post. So I would really like to ask... What motivated you to point it out and offer nothing to the topic or discussion at hand?
Yes, this just in. The business does recognize this and will be compensating their outsource Indian partners handsomely whilst pocketing the difference of your bloated 'techy' salary ~ afterall, the kids need Beamers too.
About time... the MS lobby shows up to bury it with a couple dozen reports of their own, a couple dinners and a quick junket to the islands and we'll be back where we started.
Why not? Gun manufacturers have been sued for less.
The rub is, a user still running Windows 98 will never upgrade or switch to Linux. They're obviously skilled and talented technologists to have survived this long on Win98 why would they ever buy into any of your fancy *new* technology.
Don't be silly, /. would never buy into the whole AOL Keyword technology - that's for LUSERS!
Can you provide a link to Microsoft branded networking gear or any network devices that are running embedded Windows for a distributed enterprise environment? I've not seen them before.
Thank you
Truth is, it doesn't matter a bit how he answers, a court needs evidence - evidence it DID happen or evidence it DID NOT happen. I realize witness testimony is evidence, but we're dealing with a conflict of interest (see Lay, Ken testimony pertaining to Enron).
By being forthright and offering whatever it is (allegedly) captured, show it to the court - if you're worried about state secrets, make the court swear an oath & seal the records. That way, no one with an "ax to grind" can influence - documents and logs don't have an ax.
Would a set of cuffs and cell mate get you to take it down?
The headline asks the question if he is the leader, its not a statement but since you brought it up, whom would you declare the OSS leader? Al Gore?