You would have done well in the existentialism and materialistic philosophy courses offered at various universities in Soviet bloc countries two decades ago. However, your train of thought remains incomplete.
Let's say, hypothetically, there is a God who created all things, including the rules that govern how all things interact. Let's continue, hypothetically, and say that this God created humans with the ability to study, learn, and understand this universe and the laws that govern it. Now, hypothetically, humans proceed to understand all the things around them and how they work. This all leads back to some the original open questions that seem to have gotten lost with today's tunnel-thinking:
Can science test for the existence of God? (If not, can it comment on the existence of God?)
Does human affinity for understanding things imply there is no God? (If so, how?)
Is there an intersect between science and religion that can be confirmed and then tested?
Tell that to Beethoven, Mozart, and Tesla.
Did those cited sources, by any chance, take steps to rule out the obvious, that smart people who are financialy strapped and/or have family stresses are less likely to waste the time to take an IQ exam?
Arguably, for someone to take the time to indulge their ego when they have more basic problems to tend implies a certain level of stupidity... which is what the sources are more likely to have avoided saying.
The academics are guaranteed to agree on at least one point --that they are needed in this world.
We've been using the DupliDisk2 (and now DupliDisk3) by ARCO... does transparent mirroring between 2 drives. One end plugs into the MB's IDE controller, and the other two ends go to two separate drives. The whole thing is transparent to the system, unless I choose to install their Linux drivers (needed to transparently rebuild in a production machine).
They're more expensive, in the $200 - $250 range. But the nicest thing is that you can always take a non-mirrored system, slap a DupliDisk in there (w/ another drive), "rebuild" the new drive and be done w/ it.
Performance is good, and they've saved my boat more that once. Anybody else play with these things?
Oh yeah, they're at www.arcoide.com, but I generally their stuff from catalog resellers-- better prices.
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Over my dead laptop.
Not so loud!
With any luck, one of their planned security measures involves one or more honeypots.
Tell that to Beethoven, Mozart, and Tesla. Did those cited sources, by any chance, take steps to rule out the obvious, that smart people who are financialy strapped and/or have family stresses are less likely to waste the time to take an IQ exam? Arguably, for someone to take the time to indulge their ego when they have more basic problems to tend implies a certain level of stupidity... which is what the sources are more likely to have avoided saying. The academics are guaranteed to agree on at least one point --that they are needed in this world.
"We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
-Robert Frost
I couldn't resist. (6 to 12 months)
We've been using the DupliDisk2 (and now DupliDisk3) by ARCO... does transparent mirroring between 2 drives. One end plugs into the MB's IDE controller, and the other two ends go to two separate drives. The whole thing is transparent to the system, unless I choose to install their Linux drivers (needed to transparently rebuild in a production machine). They're more expensive, in the $200 - $250 range. But the nicest thing is that you can always take a non-mirrored system, slap a DupliDisk in there (w/ another drive), "rebuild" the new drive and be done w/ it. Performance is good, and they've saved my boat more that once. Anybody else play with these things? Oh yeah, they're at www.arcoide.com, but I generally their stuff from catalog resellers-- better prices.