Science and religion are not incompatible, but science and faith are
That applies only to religions that insist that their mythical stories be taken as fact. Not all religions do that. Try not to be so exclusive -- Christianity is not the only religion out there. Making sweeping generalizations like that makes you (and the others in this thread who did the same) look prejudiced.
Indeed. I have fond memories of Syberia. Don't get Syberia II, however, as it was another plague vector for Starforce (Yeah, I know I pretty much everyone who posts here knows what Starforce is, but I thought I should provide a link, just in case).
If that isn't a troll I don't know what is. Who modded this Interesting?
From the sound of his post, someone who got rootkitted by Sony. I would say it was more of a flamebait than troll, though. Me making a post about Windows ME's deficiencies would also be falmebait, but that doesn't make it any less true. A troll would have left it at the first line in his post.
Get real. Minimum wage workers in most places don't have to put up with being beaten on a regular basis, not to mention risking their life on daily basis to do their jobs.
Unless I missed something, he only wrote one sequel to Jurassic Park...The Lost World. And I liked it much better than the first. The movie version of that one was absolutely horrible.
Agreed. For one thing, they completely ignored what was an essential plot point of the book -- that studying resurrected dinosaurs to learn more about them was nearly pointless. They wouldn't act like dinosaurs did because they had no other dinosaurs to learn behavior from. The dinosaurs in the book were out of control, with raptors in a pack turning on each other over a meal; they'd never been taught better, essentially. That negated the idea that some good would come of the project and wasn't just a waste of both lives and money.
Good point, but if the ship never enters the atmosphere of a planet, does it really matter how thick the material needs to be? Of course, then you have to work out how the crew can get on a planet, if there is no "beaming" tech -- mini-ships? Space elevators? Hmmmm.
And the one thing people keep forgetting: a power source. Or are we going to have the crew constantly peddling a bicycle to generate electricity? Which raises a question no one seems to be able to answer; do we need to deflect cosmic rays and solar radiation, or absorb it for use as energy to power the ship's tech?
Normally I never reply to BS like this, but I have to point out the amusing contradiction in terms presented here. We're told that 5000 soldiers have died defending our freedom and then told who to vote for because he is "the only choice". That sounds an awful lot like Henry Ford saying that you can have any color you want as long as it's black (and I apologize for the car analogy). Did anyone actually chuckle a little at this or is it just me?
Bookmarking is obsolete? Since when? I and everyone I know who has a computer with internet access has some bookmarks.
Bookmarking would be obsolete for people who only do research on the internet (and not even for all of them) and only visit sites that are as popular as Slashdot or Digg. If they like any, even just one, slightly more unknown site than that they risk not being to find it again if they can't recall the exact url. How high on the list of results from a search engine a particular site would show up on changes day to day, even hour to hour. It might tenth in the results one day and not even on the first page of 100 the next. Anyone who tried to just use Google instead of bookmarking would quickly learn better. Seriously, how can you think Google made bookmarking obsolete and who modded up this nonsense? Google astroturfers, maybe?
A single, random good movie (Dark Knight) will not be enough to get people to move to this quagmire of technology.
Very, very aptly put. There are far too few good movies out on blu-ray that aren't available on DVD for me to make the move. Even if you gave me a blu-ray player, I'd still buy movies on regular DVD when possible. Why? Because the studios have made such a mess of this, with the heavy-handed DRM and high prices (blu-ray is high considering how not-so-hugely-better than DVD it is), that I'm not even convinced yet that blu-ray is here for good, not matter what corporate execs claim. To most geeks that sounds like an old fogie griping about new-fangled gadgets, but blu-ray isn't better enough to warrant upgrading and there is simply not enough good content available only in blu-ray to make enough people upgrade. It doesn't occur to most geeks that a new format that actually is superior might tank, but I'm starting to wonder. I think maybe the only reason it has survived this long is because of Sony pushing it so hard. Will that be enough three years from now, when people are still buying DVDs and downloading movies to their computers? I guess we have to wait to see, but I'm glad I don't have any money invested in blu-ray.
I'm just amazed that a criminal organization would file a legal TRADEMARK.
You seem to jumped to an assumption there. A biker gang is not, in of itself, a criminal organization. What the Mongols are accused of doing would make them a criminal organization, not the fact that they're a biker gang.
I've had the same dream for 7 nights in a row when I was sick with the flu. Each day the evil four foot witch with burnt skin, wooden claws, and broken gravel teeth chased me thru my house and got and got a few feet closer to catching me.
I have some really, really weird dreams, where I ride my bike and talk to large giant insects under puddles of water, through a clacking language. I don't tell people about these, 'cause I think they might think I'm doing drugs, which I don't do - just have a vivid, vivid imagination.
Vivid imagination? Definitely. You should write this stuff down. The first one sounds like a part of a horror novel for teens, the second part of a sci-fi story.
There is a fixed brain to boob ratio and it can't be violated.
BULLSHIT. What an outrightedly sexist and utterly wrong thing to say. I dare you to even attempt to prove it. Simply put, I know you can't, no more than I can prove that men with large penises all have IQs less than a hundred.
it's mainly users choosing to install viruses that cause problems.
Oh, goodie, more "it's all the users fault!" crap. Suuuuuure, Windows itself isn't insecure. It wouldn't, say, have a service running in the background be default that lets remote computers alter the registry. It doesn't let viruses and trojans just install themselves when your computer connects to the internet without a firewall or antivirus, does it? Oh, wait, yes it does both of those things and more.
Of course, those who are so intent on shifting the blame from Microsoft will say that not having an AV, anti-spyware and firewall installed makes it the users fault. I use Windows and I use Linux and I will say this: It is fucking ridiculous to have to devote so much of your computer's resources to 3rd-party (or extraneous, in the case of MS's own security software) programs to protect the system because they designed it so shoddily to begin with. With any other operating system in the history of computing you just need a firewall and something to check for rootkits occasionally. Plus, you don't need to worry about what sites you visit. (Yes, that's another thing that bothers me: "don't do this or go to these sites and you'll be fine". Hey, pro-MS idiot, have you noticed that people using other OSes and go there and do this without their systems getting pwned?)
I've seen these statements here and at other sites and I'm sick unto death of this crap. I mean seriously, since you're peddling the only OS in computing history that has these vulnerabilities to begin with, or at least so many them, how dare you say it's the user's fault?
the goal of the classic Turing test is to force the computer to exhibit human intelligence in a back-and-forth interaction with an actual human.
I think the problem lies therein. Most of the people you meet online are going to fail a test for human intelligence. You'd have to test their DNA to conclusively whether or not they're human.
Rarely will the cause of the pneumonia be identified on the death certificate or discharge report
Exactly. I've seen this in action; they never bother to figure out what caused the pneumonia. I think you made a case for the statement you were trying to criticize there. From my experience, if a person gets sick and dies of pneumonia, they'd have to have some other remarkable symptoms for the doctors to ever bother trying to find out what actually caused the pneumonia. Otherwise they're going to assume it was one of the common pneumonia-causing diseases. They're probably right most of the time, but when it comes to any one particular case, it could be an alien virus for all they know.
I would be much more interested in hearing what the top ten Japanese or Korean ISPs have to say about U.S. broadband.
It would probably be something along the lines of, "Why do they [the US companies] get all the good suckers? Why can't our customer base be willing to pay so much for so little?"
Exactly. By that logic, we should abandon most of California and the eastern coast, not to mention a huge swath of Texas, and the towns in what's called "Tornado Alley". That's a hell of a lot the entire US when you add it up. And I'm only talking the areas as disaster-prone as New Orleans, not those that occasionally get hit.
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That applies only to religions that insist that their mythical stories be taken as fact. Not all religions do that. Try not to be so exclusive -- Christianity is not the only religion out there. Making sweeping generalizations like that makes you (and the others in this thread who did the same) look prejudiced.
Indeed. I have fond memories of Syberia. Don't get Syberia II, however, as it was another plague vector for Starforce (Yeah, I know I pretty much everyone who posts here knows what Starforce is, but I thought I should provide a link, just in case).
From the sound of his post, someone who got rootkitted by Sony. I would say it was more of a flamebait than troll, though. Me making a post about Windows ME's deficiencies would also be falmebait, but that doesn't make it any less true. A troll would have left it at the first line in his post.
Get real. Minimum wage workers in most places don't have to put up with being beaten on a regular basis, not to mention risking their life on daily basis to do their jobs.
I would say the same for Sue down the street. It's an insensitive, asshole thing to do when regarding the discussion of anyone's death.
Agreed. For one thing, they completely ignored what was an essential plot point of the book -- that studying resurrected dinosaurs to learn more about them was nearly pointless. They wouldn't act like dinosaurs did because they had no other dinosaurs to learn behavior from. The dinosaurs in the book were out of control, with raptors in a pack turning on each other over a meal; they'd never been taught better, essentially. That negated the idea that some good would come of the project and wasn't just a waste of both lives and money.
Good point, but if the ship never enters the atmosphere of a planet, does it really matter how thick the material needs to be? Of course, then you have to work out how the crew can get on a planet, if there is no "beaming" tech -- mini-ships? Space elevators? Hmmmm.
And the one thing people keep forgetting: a power source. Or are we going to have the crew constantly peddling a bicycle to generate electricity? Which raises a question no one seems to be able to answer; do we need to deflect cosmic rays and solar radiation, or absorb it for use as energy to power the ship's tech?
Normally I never reply to BS like this, but I have to point out the amusing contradiction in terms presented here. We're told that 5000 soldiers have died defending our freedom and then told who to vote for because he is "the only choice". That sounds an awful lot like Henry Ford saying that you can have any color you want as long as it's black (and I apologize for the car analogy). Did anyone actually chuckle a little at this or is it just me?
Yeah, that's kind of what I thought. Could? They could find some strange new form of life in my purse or any single man's refrigerator.
Bookmarking is obsolete? Since when? I and everyone I know who has a computer with internet access has some bookmarks.
Bookmarking would be obsolete for people who only do research on the internet (and not even for all of them) and only visit sites that are as popular as Slashdot or Digg. If they like any, even just one, slightly more unknown site than that they risk not being to find it again if they can't recall the exact url. How high on the list of results from a search engine a particular site would show up on changes day to day, even hour to hour. It might tenth in the results one day and not even on the first page of 100 the next. Anyone who tried to just use Google instead of bookmarking would quickly learn better. Seriously, how can you think Google made bookmarking obsolete and who modded up this nonsense? Google astroturfers, maybe?
Dude, "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" isn't an insult anymore, it's the plot to a pr0n .avi download.
Very, very aptly put. There are far too few good movies out on blu-ray that aren't available on DVD for me to make the move. Even if you gave me a blu-ray player, I'd still buy movies on regular DVD when possible. Why? Because the studios have made such a mess of this, with the heavy-handed DRM and high prices (blu-ray is high considering how not-so-hugely-better than DVD it is), that I'm not even convinced yet that blu-ray is here for good, not matter what corporate execs claim. To most geeks that sounds like an old fogie griping about new-fangled gadgets, but blu-ray isn't better enough to warrant upgrading and there is simply not enough good content available only in blu-ray to make enough people upgrade. It doesn't occur to most geeks that a new format that actually is superior might tank, but I'm starting to wonder. I think maybe the only reason it has survived this long is because of Sony pushing it so hard. Will that be enough three years from now, when people are still buying DVDs and downloading movies to their computers? I guess we have to wait to see, but I'm glad I don't have any money invested in blu-ray.
And therein lies the problem, regardless of which political party you are talking about.
I'm just amazed that a criminal organization would file a legal TRADEMARK.
You seem to jumped to an assumption there. A biker gang is not, in of itself, a criminal organization. What the Mongols are accused of doing would make them a criminal organization, not the fact that they're a biker gang.
I've had the same dream for 7 nights in a row when I was sick with the flu. Each day the evil four foot witch with burnt skin, wooden claws, and broken gravel teeth chased me thru my house and got and got a few feet closer to catching me.
I have some really, really weird dreams, where I ride my bike and talk to large giant insects under puddles of water, through a clacking language. I don't tell people about these, 'cause I think they might think I'm doing drugs, which I don't do - just have a vivid, vivid imagination.
Vivid imagination? Definitely. You should write this stuff down. The first one sounds like a part of a horror novel for teens, the second part of a sci-fi story.
BULLSHIT. What an outrightedly sexist and utterly wrong thing to say. I dare you to even attempt to prove it. Simply put, I know you can't, no more than I can prove that men with large penises all have IQs less than a hundred.
I'm pretty sure 16 is the age of consent here in KY, and has been a long time.
And if I'm wrong, well, it's way too late to matter now.
Oh, goodie, more "it's all the users fault!" crap. Suuuuuure, Windows itself isn't insecure. It wouldn't, say, have a service running in the background be default that lets remote computers alter the registry. It doesn't let viruses and trojans just install themselves when your computer connects to the internet without a firewall or antivirus, does it? Oh, wait, yes it does both of those things and more.
Of course, those who are so intent on shifting the blame from Microsoft will say that not having an AV, anti-spyware and firewall installed makes it the users fault. I use Windows and I use Linux and I will say this: It is fucking ridiculous to have to devote so much of your computer's resources to 3rd-party (or extraneous, in the case of MS's own security software) programs to protect the system because they designed it so shoddily to begin with. With any other operating system in the history of computing you just need a firewall and something to check for rootkits occasionally. Plus, you don't need to worry about what sites you visit. (Yes, that's another thing that bothers me: "don't do this or go to these sites and you'll be fine". Hey, pro-MS idiot, have you noticed that people using other OSes and go there and do this without their systems getting pwned?)
I've seen these statements here and at other sites and I'm sick unto death of this crap. I mean seriously, since you're peddling the only OS in computing history that has these vulnerabilities to begin with, or at least so many them, how dare you say it's the user's fault?
I think the problem lies therein. Most of the people you meet online are going to fail a test for human intelligence. You'd have to test their DNA to conclusively whether or not they're human.
Exactly. I've seen this in action; they never bother to figure out what caused the pneumonia. I think you made a case for the statement you were trying to criticize there. From my experience, if a person gets sick and dies of pneumonia, they'd have to have some other remarkable symptoms for the doctors to ever bother trying to find out what actually caused the pneumonia. Otherwise they're going to assume it was one of the common pneumonia-causing diseases. They're probably right most of the time, but when it comes to any one particular case, it could be an alien virus for all they know.
It would probably be something along the lines of, "Why do they [the US companies] get all the good suckers? Why can't our customer base be willing to pay so much for so little?"
If you're not in her area of Canada that means nothing -- it could be a local saying.
Because most nerds are men, and 90% of men are as insecure about their penis size as women are about their bodies in swimsuits. It's a gender thing.
Exactly. By that logic, we should abandon most of California and the eastern coast, not to mention a huge swath of Texas, and the towns in what's called "Tornado Alley". That's a hell of a lot the entire US when you add it up. And I'm only talking the areas as disaster-prone as New Orleans, not those that occasionally get hit.