Hm. That's an interesting point; although that didn't really happen in my childhood I suspect the general trend you're identifying holds more often than not.
I was actually thinking of more direct passage of values. For instance, I have strikingly similar political and ethical values to my parents, but I doubt you'd want to say that was genetically passed to me.
> It doesn't matter if you're throttled. I barely use bandwidth, and I'm still throttled all to hell.
That's only true if your only IP traffic is via your throttled connection to the Internet. Who doesn't have a big media file server somewhere on their LAN these days?
Am I to understand it's your position that Christian churches do not often press their significant political weight against any movement for homosexual rights, or that they don't often cite the _exact_ words in Leviticus that I link to above as justification? How do you suppose it is that I, an atheistic liberal with an ax to grind, knew exactly which words to google for to turn up that quote then?
> So, in my experience, railing against gay people is a Conservative thing not a Christian one.
If you're a Christian that believes in Biblical literalism (or at least Biblical infallibility) then that position doesn't make very much sense. Leviticus specifically states that gays, or at least gay men, "must be put to death".
At that point it becomes a question about what forms of evidence you'll consider sufficient for a given claim. If you and I were debating and you expressed that the Bible was sufficient evidence for belief in God, then I would hold up a Calvin and Hobbes book as evidence that talking stuffed tigers exist. =)
Or, less frivolously any other "serious" religion's holy text would have to be accepted as evidence of the veracity of the supernatural claims put forth by that text, lest you commit a fallacy of special pleading.
5/If we don't use nuclear we'll be using *coal*, not wind or solar or unicorn farts. Those techs must be, and are being developed but we need power _today_.
> By that reasoning, nothing could ever count for paranormal because as soon as there is evidence for it, it is no longer paranormal.:-)
Randi is asked that question frequently. The response I've seen him give is that he'd be thrilled to pay out $1M under that circumstance, because it means there'd be an entire new field of knowledge opened to exploration.
If the data feed coming _from_ the drone is cleartext, what about the commands being sent to it? TFA says there's "no evidence" that insurgents have been able to commandeer the drones yet, but doesn't say whether that's because the channel is secure, or that they just haven't reverse-engineered the protocol yet. O_o
Putting aside for a moment the potential medical issues, I wonder how much money would be saved in the US economy if we just legalized the selling of Viagra over the counter?
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Hm. That's an interesting point; although that didn't really happen in my childhood I suspect the general trend you're identifying holds more often than not.
I was actually thinking of more direct passage of values. For instance, I have strikingly similar political and ethical values to my parents, but I doubt you'd want to say that was genetically passed to me.
DNA isn't the only way that traits are passed from parent to offspring. Socialized traits are also heritable.
> It doesn't matter if you're throttled. I barely use bandwidth, and I'm still throttled all to hell.
That's only true if your only IP traffic is via your throttled connection to the Internet. Who doesn't have a big media file server somewhere on their LAN these days?
At least link the the comic you're totally not ripping from. ;)
http://xkcd.com/619/
Here's another one I can recommend for pseudo-realistic hacking: Sneakers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
Ah, what a miracle, to witness the birth of a new Slashdot cliche.
Am I to understand it's your position that Christian churches do not often press their significant political weight against any movement for homosexual rights, or that they don't often cite the _exact_ words in Leviticus that I link to above as justification? How do you suppose it is that I, an atheistic liberal with an ax to grind, knew exactly which words to google for to turn up that quote then?
> So, in my experience, railing against gay people is a Conservative thing not a Christian one.
If you're a Christian that believes in Biblical literalism (or at least Biblical infallibility) then that position doesn't make very much sense. Leviticus specifically states that gays, or at least gay men, "must be put to death".
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=468306
If you're a Christian who does _not_ believe the Bible is divinely inspired... well, I'd be interested to hear how you manage that. =)
At that point it becomes a question about what forms of evidence you'll consider sufficient for a given claim. If you and I were debating and you expressed that the Bible was sufficient evidence for belief in God, then I would hold up a Calvin and Hobbes book as evidence that talking stuffed tigers exist. =)
Or, less frivolously any other "serious" religion's holy text would have to be accepted as evidence of the veracity of the supernatural claims put forth by that text, lest you commit a fallacy of special pleading.
Example of begging the question:
Q: Provide evidence that the Christian God exists.
A: The Bible proves that God exists. The Bible is a reliable source because it is the word of God.
Mock the Week?
> Funny, thats what they did here recently to ban public smoking.
When my broccoli jumps off my plate, runs over to your table and gives you cancer, then you'll have the shadow of a point.
And I'll have weaponized broccoli.
I still win.
>> 1/Nuclear energy does not make economic sense. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50308 (translation: it is expensive)
>> 2/Having to store waste for over 100000 years is not what someone with any common sense would call 'green'.
>> 3/limited liability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act
>> 4/fuel-dependency
5/If we don't use nuclear we'll be using *coal*, not wind or solar or unicorn farts. Those techs must be, and are being developed but we need power _today_.
For those who don't:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Darmok_(episode)
Temba, his arms wide.
So, we're now using lasers to control fusion? Are we sure Gillette doesn't already own the rights to this?
(Suggested keywords for reply jokes: excel, sensor, stealth)
It's called "inter-species erotica", fucko.
> By that reasoning, nothing could ever count for paranormal because as soon as there is evidence for it, it is no longer paranormal. :-)
Randi is asked that question frequently. The response I've seen him give is that he'd be thrilled to pay out $1M under that circumstance, because it means there'd be an entire new field of knowledge opened to exploration.
Hell of a guy.
It helps if it's a very small computer. =)
I huck my EeePC across the room (into soft landings) frequently.
> what benefit having a solid-state drive with a 10" screen will be
Perfect silence, negligible random seek time and I can lob it onto the couch without worrying about data loss.
Liquid penny.
Seems you're also a big Uncyclopedia contributer, too..
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAAAAAAA!
Many FOSS projects need lots of help on the documentation and art assets.
> So what, if anything, should the community be doing about it?
Ummm... writing good, foss apps to do the things you need/want to do? Seems obvious.
If the data feed coming _from_ the drone is cleartext, what about the commands being sent to it? TFA says there's "no evidence" that insurgents have been able to commandeer the drones yet, but doesn't say whether that's because the channel is secure, or that they just haven't reverse-engineered the protocol yet. O_o
Putting aside for a moment the potential medical issues, I wonder how much money would be saved in the US economy if we just legalized the selling of Viagra over the counter?