Or you could actually try different cars instead of going directly for the SUV. I'm 6'5'' and 275 pounds. My lower legs are long so they tend to get in trouble with the steering wheel. I can't drive a corvette because my knee gets stuck between the door and the steering wheel. A Hummer is also out of the question there's no room. I've also tried driving an Escalade with hilarious result. However, i fit fine in a smart car(1) or my parents' toyota yaris verso(2).
So because you don't see it on the first page of a google search it doesn't exist?
Do you have any evidence that the doctors did not say it?
Now common sense dictates that when you use a particle cannon to destroy parts of the brain it will have an effect on the brain. A quick search and you'll see that radiation therapy has an effect on the pituitary gland, which is in charge of among other things growth hormones. Children are especially affected by this because the brain is not fully developed.
Why would any nation want to isolate itself the way the DPRK is isolated?
This question is nonsensical. It's the kind of rhetorical fodder to feed those who are incapable of actually engaging in logical analysis and thinking for themselves. Anyone who does so would immediately note that a nation cannot want anything, as it is a non-physical abstraction incapable of independent thought.
Instead of answering his question and refuting his argument you attack his choice of words by playing with semantics. Natural language is an imperfect tool for communication. It is ambiguous and it allows for sentences that are obviously meaningless. So in my eyes requiring somebody to write their statements perfectly logical is frankly stupid, because it is impossible. Instead you should try to understand the concept he is trying to convey and then refute that based on logic. Furthermore, his wording which you belittle, actually is correct when taken in the context of political philosophy. At least in Hobbes' Leviathan it is argued that the nation is the political entity vested in the soveraign(president/dictator/assembly/the people etc.) by the authority of the people in submitting to this soveraign. Thus the nation can have wants.
On the other hand I agree with you that there are plenty of reason for a nation(or it's leader(s)) to want to isolate itself. While the U.S. has not been very successful in its militaristic endeavours the last century it has been very effective at spreading its culture, which a country like NK might see as just as agressive.
I personally agree with the OP and don't think it's over the top at all. I also hope you die. I mean I'd hate if you didn't and turned into some kind of zombie trying to eat my brains.
The cosmic rays (CR) probably do not interact with the retina. A CR would only interact with a few cells not enough to be called a flash. Plus the cells in the retina are tuned to work with photons in a specific spectrum. We can't see IR or UV light even when very intense. So the interaction with the CR would probably not give a signal.
My bet is that it is cerenkov radiaton as a high speed charged particle breaks the speed of light in the fluid in the eyeball.
When I took my drivers test many a year ago, I had been so unlucky to draw the rush hour run. Plus, it was one of the worst routes. It starts in the suburbs with a lot of hidden traps then unto the highway and into town then one of the most trafficked routes until you get to the central police station. Plus that route at 7:30 takes about an hour of driving.
Halfway through I was feeling confident. I didn't think I had missed any of the yeilds or done anything stupid and I was off the highway, when the policeman adminestering the test turns to me and says: "Tell me, have you ever played Carmageddon?". That's definitely on the Top 10 things you do not want to hear on your driving test.
Turned out he was happy with my driving and just wanted to chat for the rest of the way. My relief when I passed was well over 9000.
Why does someone who wins a race deserve a gold medal? I have won a couple of races and never received a gold medal. Maybe it is deserved because in some races you have a contract(as in agreement not a necessarily a legal one) that the winner should receive a medal?
My point wasn't the awarding of the medal so much as what it signifies i.e. the recognition that they are the winner, and treating him as such. If after your race, the runner up was hailed as the winner, would you have thought that was right?
Yes, if that was the premise of the race. You only deserve something because there is a predetermined agreement. Whether that be by oral or written agreement, by the authority of your sovereing(be he a tyrant, king, assembly etc.), or perhaps by tradition when no other contract is made.
What contract?
But I have no contract with a supreme deity. I've never met one. But maybe i have received life and is therefore bound to the terms regardless of whether i accepted them or not? Some people here would call that a EULA and strongly immoral.
Updating a analogy in the Bible, that's like a set of lego demanding to know what right you have to build it.
I don't understand your analogy. Please expound. Because I through natural law have the right to do whatever is in my power and building of lego sets that are my property is not a right i had to give up to enter the social contract in my country.
What Deity?
Then we have the problem which deity's implied contract should I honour? No deity has claimed to create me. There are plenty of cults around the world that claim their deity did it, but how do I determine who is right?
Well, you could look at the central claim of each one, which in Christianity's case is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not the timespan of Creation. Incidentally, there are ways of reconciling a literal reading with scientific evidence e.g. the world being created in a pre-aged state and some scholars argue that Genesis 1 is written as poetry in which case it isn't intended to be read literally. This doesn't require that all text be discounted as metaphorical, it just means reading each genre appropriately. Anyway, Christianity stands or falls on the historicity of the resurrection, not different interpretations of Genesis 1.
Fair enough. I have seen no proof of the resurrection of Christ. It says so in the bible written down as hearsay long after the death of Jesus. The four gospels are clearly propaganda. They are tailored to the beliefs already held in the area where they were used to preach. There is an enourmous difference between: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" and "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" Of course that is not proof that Jesus was not ressurected, but it cast doubt on the authority of the bible. That taken together with the amount of poetry, metaphor, and falsehoods and together with the Church's provably wrong statements through the last 2000 years and its inability to live up to the most basic tenets of Christ, makes it impossible for me to believe them.
"When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts
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Ahh yes, the sea, filled with saturated brine. Sea water is ~26% salt. Which is why it is impossible to put any more salt in there, it'll just gently float to the bottom.
What's that?? It's only actually ~50 ppt salt? And saturated brine freezes at around -7F/-23C? And harbour sea water normaly freezes at around -2C?
hmmm the first one. But maybe, just maybe you chose "cold" and "hot" to be such as to give an advantage to fahrenheit?
For me cold is below 0 C, i'm going to get ice in my beard and the roads will be slippery on my bike. Public transport will grind to a halt, because strange white fluffy water is falling from the sky(Amazing that it takes them by surprise every year). Anything above 25 C is Frikkin' hot and I want to lie naked in the shade.
so that would be 32 - 77 F. What's more logical now?
In order to accuse God of a low moral standard, you have to work off the premise that people are fundamentally innocent, or at least undeserving of death.
That's hardly a massive flaw. Even if he is "supremely worthy of worship" that doesn't imply that not worshiping him is a terrible wrong.
Actually it does. If he deserves it, then him not receiving it is wrong. The winner of a race deserves the gold medal - for him not to receive it would be wrong. An infinitely glorious being is infinitely worthy of worship - to not worship would be wrong, infinitely so.
Why do you deserve? Why does someone who wins a race deserve a gold medal? I have won a couple of races and never received a gold medal. Maybe it is deserved because in some races you have a contract(as in agreement not a necessarily a legal one) that the winner should receive a medal?
What contract? But I have no contract with a supreme deity. I've never met one. But maybe i have received life and is therefore bound to the terms regardless of whether i accepted them or not? Some people here would call that a EULA and strongly immoral.
What Deity? Then we have the problem which deity's implied contract should I honour? No deity has claimed to create me. There are plenty of cults around the world that claim their deity did it, but how do I determine who is right?
"The world was created ~6000 years ago and a all animals where created at the same time and the sun(light) was created after the earth" - So the Judeo-Christian-Islamic cults get that wrong so they cannot be trusted as a credible source.
"The world was created by the various body parts of Ymir the giant, and sparks from Muspelheim made the stars" - Wrong again. So Norse Mythology cannot be trusted either.
"In the beginning there was nothing but Nun the water waste, but from Nun came Ra, and Ra became the sun" - Hmm. Ancient Egyptian religion is also wrong. (But interestingly close to the Judeo Christian. It even ends with Ra becoming human and living as king among men.)
I have not heard of one single religion whose precepts are not contradictory and provably wrong when taken literally, and if they are taken metaphorically then their god must also be a metaphor.
Now that's not entirely true. You get to see what type of toilets they use in different countries. How business hotels are outfitted. How does the airport Pizza Hut differ from the Pizza Hut at home. What type of fun has the airport security cooked up?
Business travel, almost as fun as syphilis(at least that was fun to contract).
You find "Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless" to be USA bashing???? <sarcasm>Well I am truly sorry that someone outside the US is trying to do research. I'll stop mine immediately and wait for our benevolent super power for life to do the research and give me what I need. I'll just be over in this cave eating raw animals. I wouldn't want to be the reason for another US "bashing". </sarcasm> This post was tagged to comply with the Sarcasm-impaired Aid Directive (SAD)
Sociopathic behavior, afaik, is something animals are yet to exhibit. Hurray! We're still at the top of the food pyramid!
Sociopathic behaviour is the standard behaviour for animals. For example almost all species practice infanticide. Among humans it's not normal for a new parent to kill the stepchildren.
Basically the major difference between human intelligence and animals is that we have the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes. This also means that we are a lot better at trickery and at being devious.
GÃdel proved that for any system of logic you cannot have both consistency and completeness. Basically that means that your system is either going to have true statements that it is unable to prove to be so or that some statements can be proven to be both true and false.
If you get a chance go see the roman ruins underneath placa del rei in Barcelona. you get a good feeling of how well developed the infrastructure in a roman town was. The ruins are from a smallish roman town, but it has a dyeing shop, a garum(fermented fish sauce) factory, and a wine factory spanning three separate buildings. One for pressing, one for fermentation, and one for storage/spicing, as far as I remember. They were connected underground via clay pipes for the wine. Combined with the aqueducts, closed sewers and public baths would give a society with less disease and more people free to take up other roles than mere subsistence farming/food gathering.
Not only did the romans have the economy to support a huge army. Life also looked a lot sweeter as a roman, in my opinion. It reminds me of the scene from life of brian:
"But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education,wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Maybe you should tell the relevant Swedish people thinking about those laws that Sweden is not a state of the USA.
Maybe those swedish people don't want to become a state of the USA?:-P
Or, maybe the Swedish government does not want to be the target of tariffs on lumber and iron, and sees this as relatively cheap way to remain friendly with the US?
Well, for someone not in the U.S. who does not own any oil... It is pretty funny.
I think one of the strangest things about US law is that the punitive damages is paid to the plaintiff(please correct me if im wrong). A court should not be a lottery. You should be compensated for the material losses you've had and maybe a bit extra for emotional distress but nothing more. The punitive bit should be paid to the state for the benefit of the entire population not the one random person who filed the case(or most like that person's lawyers)
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Yes, I hate myself too, why're you asking?
Because it saves me the trouble.
What I wouldn't have given for a mainframe on a horse. All we had was an Antikythera mechanism on a stone slab.
But, tell that to the young people today and they won't believe you!
because there are many ways to determine if it is winter, but the most reliable is looking for polar bears.
If you see one it's winter.
Do you see one?
Or you could actually try different cars instead of going directly for the SUV. I'm 6'5'' and 275 pounds. My lower legs are long so they tend to get in trouble with the steering wheel. I can't drive a corvette because my knee gets stuck between the door and the steering wheel. A Hummer is also out of the question there's no room. I've also tried driving an Escalade with hilarious result. However, i fit fine in a smart car(1) or my parents' toyota yaris verso(2).
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Vitz
I wonder what the Half-Life is, for Slashdot puns wrought like this?
I find it rather advantageous to be mysterious ( especially with women ;) ).
It makes you so much more difficult to identify in a lineup.
So because you don't see it on the first page of a google search it doesn't exist?
Do you have any evidence that the doctors did not say it?
Now common sense dictates that when you use a particle cannon to destroy parts of the brain it will have an effect on the brain. A quick search and you'll see that radiation therapy has an effect on the pituitary gland, which is in charge of among other things growth hormones. Children are especially affected by this because the brain is not fully developed.
See for example:
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?PG=thera-brain#part_four
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15518596 (Fifty percent to 80% of children treated with craniospinal radiation for brain tumors will experience growth failure)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1727109?ordinalpos=1 (2400 cGy patients had deficiencies in IQ and academic performance)
As happened with the 2000 millenium bug.
How is life in year 2'000'000? ;)
Why would any nation want to isolate itself the way the DPRK is isolated?
This question is nonsensical. It's the kind of rhetorical fodder to feed those who are incapable of actually engaging in logical analysis and thinking for themselves. Anyone who does so would immediately note that a nation cannot want anything, as it is a non-physical abstraction incapable of independent thought.
Instead of answering his question and refuting his argument you attack his choice of words by playing with semantics. Natural language is an imperfect tool for communication. It is ambiguous and it allows for sentences that are obviously meaningless. So in my eyes requiring somebody to write their statements perfectly logical is frankly stupid, because it is impossible. Instead you should try to understand the concept he is trying to convey and then refute that based on logic. Furthermore, his wording which you belittle, actually is correct when taken in the context of political philosophy. At least in Hobbes' Leviathan it is argued that the nation is the political entity vested in the soveraign(president/dictator/assembly/the people etc.) by the authority of the people in submitting to this soveraign. Thus the nation can have wants.
On the other hand I agree with you that there are plenty of reason for a nation(or it's leader(s)) to want to isolate itself. While the U.S. has not been very successful in its militaristic endeavours the last century it has been very effective at spreading its culture, which a country like NK might see as just as agressive.
I personally agree with the OP and don't think it's over the top at all. I also hope you die. I mean I'd hate if you didn't and turned into some kind of zombie trying to eat my brains.
The cosmic rays (CR) probably do not interact with the retina. A CR would only interact with a few cells not enough to be called a flash. Plus the cells in the retina are tuned to work with photons in a specific spectrum. We can't see IR or UV light even when very intense. So the interaction with the CR would probably not give a signal.
My bet is that it is cerenkov radiaton as a high speed charged particle breaks the speed of light in the fluid in the eyeball.
When I took my drivers test many a year ago, I had been so unlucky to draw the rush hour run. Plus, it was one of the worst routes. It starts in the suburbs with a lot of hidden traps then unto the highway and into town then one of the most trafficked routes until you get to the central police station. Plus that route at 7:30 takes about an hour of driving.
Halfway through I was feeling confident. I didn't think I had missed any of the yeilds or done anything stupid and I was off the highway, when the policeman adminestering the test turns to me and says: "Tell me, have you ever played Carmageddon?". That's definitely on the Top 10 things you do not want to hear on your driving test.
Turned out he was happy with my driving and just wanted to chat for the rest of the way. My relief when I passed was well over 9000.
My point wasn't the awarding of the medal so much as what it signifies i.e. the recognition that they are the winner, and treating him as such. If after your race, the runner up was hailed as the winner, would you have thought that was right?
Yes, if that was the premise of the race. You only deserve something because there is a predetermined agreement. Whether that be by oral or written agreement, by the authority of your sovereing(be he a tyrant, king, assembly etc.), or perhaps by tradition when no other contract is made.
Updating a analogy in the Bible, that's like a set of lego demanding to know what right you have to build it.
I don't understand your analogy. Please expound.
Because I through natural law have the right to do whatever is in my power and building of lego sets that are my property is not a right i had to give up to enter the social contract in my country.
Well, you could look at the central claim of each one, which in Christianity's case is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not the timespan of Creation. Incidentally, there are ways of reconciling a literal reading with scientific evidence e.g. the world being created in a pre-aged state and some scholars argue that Genesis 1 is written as poetry in which case it isn't intended to be read literally. This doesn't require that all text be discounted as metaphorical, it just means reading each genre appropriately. Anyway, Christianity stands or falls on the historicity of the resurrection, not different interpretations of Genesis 1.
Fair enough. I have seen no proof of the resurrection of Christ. It says so in the bible written down as hearsay long after the death of Jesus. The four gospels are clearly propaganda. They are tailored to the beliefs already held in the area where they were used to preach.
There is an enourmous difference between:
"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" and
"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"
Of course that is not proof that Jesus was not ressurected, but it cast doubt on the authority of the bible. That taken together with the amount of poetry, metaphor, and falsehoods and together with the Church's provably wrong statements through the last 2000 years and its inability to live up to the most basic tenets of Christ, makes it impossible for me to believe them.
"When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts
Ahh yes, the sea, filled with saturated brine.
Sea water is ~26% salt. Which is why it is impossible to put any more salt in there, it'll just gently float to the bottom.
What's that?? It's only actually ~50 ppt salt? And saturated brine freezes at around -7F/-23C? And harbour sea water normaly freezes at around -2C?
Poppycock.
hmmm the first one.
But maybe, just maybe you chose "cold" and "hot" to be such as to give an advantage to fahrenheit?
For me cold is below 0 C, i'm going to get ice in my beard and the roads will be slippery on my bike. Public transport will grind to a halt, because strange white fluffy water is falling from the sky(Amazing that it takes them by surprise every year).
Anything above 25 C is Frikkin' hot and I want to lie naked in the shade.
so that would be 32 - 77 F.
What's more logical now?
You are sure that it's not because it needs that precission to work in the US also?
I've never thought to myself: "if only it was .5 of a Kelvin warmer/colder here"
In order to accuse God of a low moral standard, you have to work off the premise that people are fundamentally innocent, or at least undeserving of death.
I believe god said it best: Thou shalt not kill.
Actually it does. If he deserves it, then him not receiving it is wrong. The winner of a race deserves the gold medal - for him not to receive it would be wrong. An infinitely glorious being is infinitely worthy of worship - to not worship would be wrong, infinitely so.
Why do you deserve?
Why does someone who wins a race deserve a gold medal? I have won a couple of races and never received a gold medal. Maybe it is deserved because in some races you have a contract(as in agreement not a necessarily a legal one) that the winner should receive a medal?
What contract?
But I have no contract with a supreme deity. I've never met one. But maybe i have received life and is therefore bound to the terms regardless of whether i accepted them or not? Some people here would call that a EULA and strongly immoral.
What Deity?
Then we have the problem which deity's implied contract should I honour? No deity has claimed to create me. There are plenty of cults around the world that claim their deity did it, but how do I determine who is right?
"The world was created ~6000 years ago and a
all animals where created at the same time and the sun(light) was created after the earth" - So the Judeo-Christian-Islamic cults get that wrong so they cannot be trusted as a credible source.
"The world was created by the various body parts of Ymir the giant, and sparks from Muspelheim made the stars" - Wrong again. So Norse Mythology cannot be trusted either.
"In the beginning there was nothing but Nun the water waste, but from Nun came Ra, and Ra became the sun" - Hmm. Ancient Egyptian religion is also wrong. (But interestingly close to the Judeo Christian. It even ends with Ra becoming human and living as king among men.)
I have not heard of one single religion whose precepts are not contradictory and provably wrong when taken literally, and if they are taken metaphorically then their god must also be a metaphor.
... and there won't be any time sightseeing.
Now that's not entirely true. You get to see what type of toilets they use in different countries. How business hotels are outfitted. How does the airport Pizza Hut differ from the Pizza Hut at home. What type of fun has the airport security cooked up?
Business travel, almost as fun as syphilis(at least that was fun to contract).
You find "Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless" to be USA bashing????
<sarcasm>Well I am truly sorry that someone outside the US is trying to do research. I'll stop mine immediately and wait for our benevolent super power for life to do the research and give me what I need. I'll just be over in this cave eating raw animals. I wouldn't want to be the reason for another US "bashing".
</sarcasm>
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Sociopathic behavior, afaik, is something animals are yet to exhibit. Hurray! We're still at the top of the food pyramid!
Sociopathic behaviour is the standard behaviour for animals. For example almost all species practice infanticide. Among humans it's not normal for a new parent to kill the stepchildren.
Basically the major difference between human intelligence and animals is that we have the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes.
This also means that we are a lot better at trickery and at being devious.
GÃdel proved that for any system of logic you cannot have both consistency and completeness. Basically that means that your system is either going to have true statements that it is unable to prove to be so or that some statements can be proven to be both true and false.
If you get a chance go see the roman ruins underneath placa del rei in Barcelona. you get a good feeling of how well developed the infrastructure in a roman town was. The ruins are from a smallish roman town, but it has a dyeing shop, a garum(fermented fish sauce) factory, and a wine factory spanning three separate buildings. One for pressing, one for fermentation, and one for storage/spicing, as far as I remember. They were connected underground via clay pipes for the wine. Combined with the aqueducts, closed sewers and public baths would give a society with less disease and more people free to take up other roles than mere subsistence farming/food gathering.
Not only did the romans have the economy to support a huge army. Life also looked a lot sweeter as a roman, in my opinion. It reminds me of the scene from life of brian:
"But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education,wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Maybe you should tell the relevant Swedish people thinking about those laws that Sweden is not a state of the USA.
Maybe those swedish people don't want to become a state of the USA? :-P
Or, maybe the Swedish government does not want to be the target of tariffs on lumber and iron, and sees this as relatively cheap way to remain friendly with the US?
Well, for someone not in the U.S. who does not own any oil... It is pretty funny.
I think one of the strangest things about US law is that the punitive damages is paid to the plaintiff(please correct me if im wrong). A court should not be a lottery. You should be compensated for the material losses you've had and maybe a bit extra for emotional distress but nothing more. The punitive bit should be paid to the state for the benefit of the entire population not the one random person who filed the case(or most like that person's lawyers)