Again, thanks for proving my point. Science does not work by simply accepting baseless conjecture as anything other than baseless conjecture. You wish to elevate your pet hypotheses to the level of substantiated fact, with no rationale. As I said, it's not up to the sceptics to prove anything, as until the believers prove anything, there is nothing to disprove. Science is scepticism.
It's a bullshit term, used to describe a wide-range of lunatic, misguided, or ignorant folks, with no agreed-upon meaning, who have so far managed to demonstrate absolutely nothing useful at all. If you don't realise that word is a joke, you're in too deep to be helped.
"At the level of"? What does that mean? Oh, right - nothing. You are guessing. Let me translate: "Agencies to weird things, so therefore they are capable of doing anything I can think of, and even more than that, because I don't differentiate between guesswork and reality, that means they are doing it". Awesome. The remote-viewing debacle was grasping at straws - they thought if it could work, it was worth the effort to try to get it to work. As it is, they failed massively, and not a single reported incidence of remote viewing working has ever occurred, which is strange, as there is untold wealth and fame for anyone who can demonstrate such abilities. You seem to be under the impression the US government is perfectly infallible, making no errors and capable of incredible feats in their on-going, entirely-successful campaign of information dominance. Which if was true, you (and all the folks who talk of such nonsense) would be dead by now. But you're not. So you're full of shit.
The Mexico incident has been thoroughly debunked. They are the flames of oil platforms, being picked up by an IR camera. No mystery there.
As for the Phoenix lights, the second wave have been explained (flares), and the lack of an verifiable explanation for the first wave doesn't mean they were exotic aircraft/spaceships/time-travelling reptilians. Fuck, migratory birds flying in formation cause massive illuminated Vs gliding silently across towns and cities all the time. The human propensity to see structure where there is none quickly extrapolates points of light into solid structures is well-documented, and has not been ruled out at all.
Thanks for proving my point. It's not up to the sceptics to demonstrate how the case files are not actual real UFOs, it's up to the believers to show how they are. So far that has not happened. Not even once. You are attempting to explain the unexplained without evidence. That's childish beyond belief. Carl Sagan's ghost would throttle you in your sleep for such specious reasoning. Your "logic" that because no one has said anything means that something is going unsaid is ridiculous. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you even know what "critical thinking" is? Apparently not. Shame.
Yup. I know about that. That does not, for one second, mean that any "craft" so highly exotic ever existed, or has ever been recorded. They were entirely concerned with the integrity of their airspace, and not with aliens or other such bullshit.
Surely the rational approach would be that until it can definitively be demonstrated as real it must be treated as a hoax. Unfortunately "ufologists" seem to think their pet theories are somehow immune to such an approach, for entirely bullshit reasons.
You're hilarious. Seriously. "Ufology" is a fucking joke. There has been absolutely no solid evidence for anything UFO-based, just conjecture backed by wishful thinking and a fanciful take on critical thinking. You provide a great example by posting a link about alleged CIA plan to destroy Wikileaks. That has nothing to do with MUFON. Nothing. Not one iota. Just because something somewhat similar has happened before does not mean claims it has happened again somehow have more credibility. That is not how critical thinking works. "Put up or shut up". The ball is solidly in the "Ufologists" court, as it always has been without exception. "Ufologists" are a dangerous mix of the ignorant, the paranoid, and the insane. The single common thread is a complete lack of willingness to accept reality for what it is, instead replacing demonstrable fact with whatever fantasy they want to believe, and treating them as of equal veracity. Hint: The X-Files was not a documentary.
Did you try using Microsoft's automated phone activation number? I've done that after installing retail Windows of the same version, and the OEM keys always work. For me at least.
He mentioned wanting to use Windows for testing. His problems are indeed down to using OS X to develop for Linux servers, but the Windows notebook is cheaper, and includes a license for Windows so he can test on it. It's not as if Windows and OS X are equally as bad for this role. One is cheaper by a large amount.
So he has to pay over the odds for hardware, and then buy a separate Windows license, instead of just buying the Lenovo? That doesn't sound too smart to me.
Wasn't it the tsunami, about twice the size the facilities were designed for, which caused the problem? It swamped the backup generators causing the cores to overheat.
A video proves nothing, which is why "scientific" types won't believe in it. It's simply not good science to take a video at face value.
At least some hauntings are allegedly reoccurring, meaning that they are in the realm of science, and are therefore open to investigation. The fact no one has yet to find anything concrete speaks against the likelihood of ghosts existing.
If women had the same status in society - the same pay, same chances of being attacked, the same future prospects, and the same level of domestic abuse that men have - you'd have a point. As it currently stands, it's far worse (in the terms stated above) to be a woman than a man, so it's not really unexpected for people to cry foul when someone does something that seems to suggest that imbalance is somehow acceptable. Pushed to more extreme positions, your argument carries the same logical weight that arguing for the Klan was fine during the civil rights movement would. "Hey! Black folks are all uppity about something, so why not white folks!"
I personally don't have a problem with Duke Nukem, but I'm not so arrogant as to wonder why other people do have a problem with it. Political correctness is not designed to protect people's feelings, but to stem the flow of people being inaccurate about other people, which admittedly is the source of a lot of bad feelings, but the correction of that is merely the result of the rational thinking introduced by being politically correct, and not the main aim. Don't think of it as "political correctness", but simply "correctness" or "accuracy in viewing other people".
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Again, thanks for proving my point. Science does not work by simply accepting baseless conjecture as anything other than baseless conjecture. You wish to elevate your pet hypotheses to the level of substantiated fact, with no rationale. As I said, it's not up to the sceptics to prove anything, as until the believers prove anything, there is nothing to disprove. Science is scepticism.
It's a bullshit term, used to describe a wide-range of lunatic, misguided, or ignorant folks, with no agreed-upon meaning, who have so far managed to demonstrate absolutely nothing useful at all. If you don't realise that word is a joke, you're in too deep to be helped.
I hope that was a joke. I really, really do.
"At the level of"? What does that mean? Oh, right - nothing. You are guessing. Let me translate: "Agencies to weird things, so therefore they are capable of doing anything I can think of, and even more than that, because I don't differentiate between guesswork and reality, that means they are doing it". Awesome. The remote-viewing debacle was grasping at straws - they thought if it could work, it was worth the effort to try to get it to work. As it is, they failed massively, and not a single reported incidence of remote viewing working has ever occurred, which is strange, as there is untold wealth and fame for anyone who can demonstrate such abilities. You seem to be under the impression the US government is perfectly infallible, making no errors and capable of incredible feats in their on-going, entirely-successful campaign of information dominance. Which if was true, you (and all the folks who talk of such nonsense) would be dead by now. But you're not. So you're full of shit.
The Mexico incident has been thoroughly debunked. They are the flames of oil platforms, being picked up by an IR camera. No mystery there.
As for the Phoenix lights, the second wave have been explained (flares), and the lack of an verifiable explanation for the first wave doesn't mean they were exotic aircraft/spaceships/time-travelling reptilians. Fuck, migratory birds flying in formation cause massive illuminated Vs gliding silently across towns and cities all the time. The human propensity to see structure where there is none quickly extrapolates points of light into solid structures is well-documented, and has not been ruled out at all.
Thanks for proving my point. It's not up to the sceptics to demonstrate how the case files are not actual real UFOs, it's up to the believers to show how they are. So far that has not happened. Not even once. You are attempting to explain the unexplained without evidence. That's childish beyond belief. Carl Sagan's ghost would throttle you in your sleep for such specious reasoning. Your "logic" that because no one has said anything means that something is going unsaid is ridiculous. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you even know what "critical thinking" is? Apparently not. Shame.
The remote-viewing attempts yielded absolutely no useful results. So far *nothing* paranormal has ever been substantiated in any way, shape, or form.
Yup. I know about that. That does not, for one second, mean that any "craft" so highly exotic ever existed, or has ever been recorded. They were entirely concerned with the integrity of their airspace, and not with aliens or other such bullshit.
Surely the rational approach would be that until it can definitively be demonstrated as real it must be treated as a hoax. Unfortunately "ufologists" seem to think their pet theories are somehow immune to such an approach, for entirely bullshit reasons.
You're hilarious. Seriously. "Ufology" is a fucking joke. There has been absolutely no solid evidence for anything UFO-based, just conjecture backed by wishful thinking and a fanciful take on critical thinking. You provide a great example by posting a link about alleged CIA plan to destroy Wikileaks. That has nothing to do with MUFON. Nothing. Not one iota. Just because something somewhat similar has happened before does not mean claims it has happened again somehow have more credibility. That is not how critical thinking works. "Put up or shut up". The ball is solidly in the "Ufologists" court, as it always has been without exception. "Ufologists" are a dangerous mix of the ignorant, the paranoid, and the insane. The single common thread is a complete lack of willingness to accept reality for what it is, instead replacing demonstrable fact with whatever fantasy they want to believe, and treating them as of equal veracity. Hint: The X-Files was not a documentary.
It worked for me a few times. Using the phone number worked a treat.
Did you try using Microsoft's automated phone activation number? I've done that after installing retail Windows of the same version, and the OEM keys always work. For me at least.
Post-modern alliance? That's a rather strange way to look at it.
He mentioned wanting to use Windows for testing. His problems are indeed down to using OS X to develop for Linux servers, but the Windows notebook is cheaper, and includes a license for Windows so he can test on it. It's not as if Windows and OS X are equally as bad for this role. One is cheaper by a large amount.
Or get the Lenovo, be able to natively test IE, dual-boot Ubuntu, and spend the difference in price on some goodies.
So he has to pay over the odds for hardware, and then buy a separate Windows license, instead of just buying the Lenovo? That doesn't sound too smart to me.
Wasn't it the tsunami, about twice the size the facilities were designed for, which caused the problem? It swamped the backup generators causing the cores to overheat.
Which is ironic. Don't ya think?
A video proves nothing, which is why "scientific" types won't believe in it. It's simply not good science to take a video at face value.
At least some hauntings are allegedly reoccurring, meaning that they are in the realm of science, and are therefore open to investigation. The fact no one has yet to find anything concrete speaks against the likelihood of ghosts existing.
It's only "unusual" because your eyes don't see in IR. These things happen all the time, and are perfectly understood and perfectly mundane.
It's all bullshit.
Total protonic reversal.
What the fuck do the 1850s have to do with now? Colin is perfectly accurate in what he wrote.
If women had the same status in society - the same pay, same chances of being attacked, the same future prospects, and the same level of domestic abuse that men have - you'd have a point. As it currently stands, it's far worse (in the terms stated above) to be a woman than a man, so it's not really unexpected for people to cry foul when someone does something that seems to suggest that imbalance is somehow acceptable. Pushed to more extreme positions, your argument carries the same logical weight that arguing for the Klan was fine during the civil rights movement would. "Hey! Black folks are all uppity about something, so why not white folks!"
I personally don't have a problem with Duke Nukem, but I'm not so arrogant as to wonder why other people do have a problem with it. Political correctness is not designed to protect people's feelings, but to stem the flow of people being inaccurate about other people, which admittedly is the source of a lot of bad feelings, but the correction of that is merely the result of the rational thinking introduced by being politically correct, and not the main aim. Don't think of it as "political correctness", but simply "correctness" or "accuracy in viewing other people".
Sorry if I sound like a jerk.
FISSION.
I'd be more worried about the water-soluble uranium getting everywhere.