I never claimed he said the human species was designed - but he did say evolution was designed - It is either a means of survival where the parent species is forced to adapt or die.
Sorry - the statement was probably out of line. I just get frustrated when zealots use false statements to back up their counter-arguments.
Evolution occurs through one of two means. It is either a means of survival where the parent species is forced to adapt or die. Or evolution occurs through random mutations being passed on.
There is no part of evolution that is by design. Evolution is random. If the mutation allows the offspring to be more 'fit' and occupy a niche better than their ancestors, then there's a chance an evolutionary mutation has occurred.
Take a look at ants. Ants have lived exponentially longer on this planet than us. Their lifespan is shorter, and in the same period of time, they have more generations than us. And they outnumber us.
Yeah, look at ants - there's over 8000 documented species of ants living today. Think that's all of them? And you think that's the total number that have existed? Guess what - each of the 8000 known species is ALL a product of some evolutionary adaptation.
Now, please, do us all a favor, and crawl back under your rock.
... Bill Gates's prediction from waaaay back in 1981. Wow, he really is a visionary.
Erm... wait... what's the difference between kb and gb again? It's not much, is it?
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It'd be awesome if Harry Shearer got together with Michael McKeon and Christopher Guest to reunite Derek Smalls, David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel in the movie... mabye Homer could be a roadie for them.
User community: the kids. You talked with them? Did you assess their wants / needs?
And, and what point did I not say Bill wasn't a pig-dog (isn't that the term I used?)... but you hardly regain credibility linking to Palast or UK periodicals. Palast will criticize Gates just because he's a capitalist, and the British are bitter just because Micro$haft is an American company.
Why can't you recognize how this will benefit the kids?
First - your retort loses any credibility it might have had with your Hitler analogy... and an incorrect one at that!
Second - you loose more credibility with generalized comments towards a user community you don't know that are prefaced with 'IMO'.
Third - you espouse strong generalizations on how MSFT will use this effort with very little knowledge about the initiative.
Fourth - you may prefer Linux, you may prefer a Mac, you may just hate MSFT - but the real truth is: most of these kids will probably use these core skills to get a desk job somewhere. If that's the case, what technologies are their future employers going to employ? Linux desktops running some open source word processing application? Most likely not. So, by educating these kids and restricting them from this Microsoft/Hitler world you paint, you're actually reducing their employment qualifications.
Finally - how many people here have always used non-MSFT products? Or how many here only use non-MSFT stuff? If these kids are armed with any IT knowledge, and if they select to continue with an education post-high school, most likely they're going to get exposure to any and every technology available, not just MSFT.
Yeah, Bill might be a rabid pig-dog, and he probably has ulterior motives for this donation, but these kids are going to benefit regardless of the technology that's taught to them.
incorrect analogy to drugs... the main difference being, illegal drugs are just that - illegal. There is no legal way to obtain them. If you want them, you have to use an illegal source. When supplies are cut, the source can charge whatever price he/she wants because the user has no other way of obtaining the product.
The apparent strategy of the RIAA is to make the "cost" of illegal P-P file sharing more than the cost of legally obtaining said product.
A correct analogy to the drug market would be legalizing drugs and establishing a price for use. Then you just make the black-market cost exceed the market price, and you have no use for the dealer.
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I never claimed he said the human species was designed - but he did say evolution was designed - It is either a means of survival where the parent species is forced to adapt or die. Sorry - the statement was probably out of line. I just get frustrated when zealots use false statements to back up their counter-arguments.
Evolution occurs through one of two means. It is either a means of survival where the parent species is forced to adapt or die. Or evolution occurs through random mutations being passed on.
There is no part of evolution that is by design. Evolution is random. If the mutation allows the offspring to be more 'fit' and occupy a niche better than their ancestors, then there's a chance an evolutionary mutation has occurred.
Take a look at ants. Ants have lived exponentially longer on this planet than us. Their lifespan is shorter, and in the same period of time, they have more generations than us. And they outnumber us.
Yeah, look at ants - there's over 8000 documented species of ants living today. Think that's all of them? And you think that's the total number that have existed? Guess what - each of the 8000 known species is ALL a product of some evolutionary adaptation.
Now, please, do us all a favor, and crawl back under your rock.
... were you showing off your camera, or the hotties you get to photograph with it?
That'd be in the ass, Bob.
... to install software to impede piracy. I think they've found another way to limit it; come out with an CD _so_ bad, no one will want to pirate it.
... Bill Gates's prediction from waaaay back in 1981. Wow, he really is a visionary. Erm ... wait ... what's the difference between kb and gb again? It's not much, is it?
It'd be awesome if Harry Shearer got together with Michael McKeon and Christopher Guest to reunite Derek Smalls, David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel in the movie ... mabye Homer could be a roadie for them.
User community: the kids. You talked with them? Did you assess their wants / needs? ... but you hardly regain credibility linking to Palast or UK periodicals. Palast will criticize Gates just because he's a capitalist, and the British are bitter just because Micro$haft is an American company.
And, and what point did I not say Bill wasn't a pig-dog (isn't that the term I used?)
Why can't you recognize how this will benefit the kids?
First - your retort loses any credibility it might have had with your Hitler analogy ... and an incorrect one at that!
Second - you loose more credibility with generalized comments towards a user community you don't know that are prefaced with 'IMO'.
Third - you espouse strong generalizations on how MSFT will use this effort with very little knowledge about the initiative.
Fourth - you may prefer Linux, you may prefer a Mac, you may just hate MSFT - but the real truth is: most of these kids will probably use these core skills to get a desk job somewhere. If that's the case, what technologies are their future employers going to employ? Linux desktops running some open source word processing application? Most likely not. So, by educating these kids and restricting them from this Microsoft/Hitler world you paint, you're actually reducing their employment qualifications.
Finally - how many people here have always used non-MSFT products? Or how many here only use non-MSFT stuff? If these kids are armed with any IT knowledge, and if they select to continue with an education post-high school, most likely they're going to get exposure to any and every technology available, not just MSFT.
Yeah, Bill might be a rabid pig-dog, and he probably has ulterior motives for this donation, but these kids are going to benefit regardless of the technology that's taught to them.
incorrect analogy to drugs ... the main difference being, illegal drugs are just that - illegal. There is no legal way to obtain them. If you want them, you have to use an illegal source. When supplies are cut, the source can charge whatever price he/she wants because the user has no other way of obtaining the product.
The apparent strategy of the RIAA is to make the "cost" of illegal P-P file sharing more than the cost of legally obtaining said product.
A correct analogy to the drug market would be legalizing drugs and establishing a price for use. Then you just make the black-market cost exceed the market price, and you have no use for the dealer.