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  1. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Maybe a bull, or does she own all of those, too?

  2. Re:Other physical laws anybody? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."

    Wouldn't that merely require gravity, as opposed to a law?

  3. Re:God, god, god.... on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    One can believe a statement because one has evidence in favor of it. Belief does not have to be blind.

  4. Re:M-theory on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    So what are the experimental tests of string theory?

  5. Re:The true believer on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    But doesn't his version of NOMA presume that religion has a magisterium in the first place?

  6. Re:The true believer on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that the scriptures are not meant as a detailed how-to on the earth's history.

    Gee, I guess the priests who ordered the burning of Giordano Bruno didn't get the memo.

    Eppor si muove!!!

  7. Re:well duh. on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Spartacus died on the cross for me! Does that mean I should foment slave revolts?

  8. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Knuth is a theist. Are you that much smarter than he is?

  9. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    According to the sycophantic reviews from other Christian religious authors this book must provide bullet point arguments for the existence of God.

    Fixed that for you

  10. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Children are innocent and will go to heaven, receiving an eternal reward - or, at the very least, will not go to hell (and if you can find someone who actually believes that children go to hell by default, then they're basically a lost cause).

    Are the children baptized? Dante believed that unbaptized children ended up in limbo, which he viewed as part of Hell.

  11. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    How's that turning-into-a-swan trick to sleep with gorgeous women working?

  12. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Laws of gravity, as opposed to gravity itself, are created. Aristotle created one, as did Newton, as did Einstein, as may others in the future. And if you call those descriptions of gravity rather than laws, then what do you mean by "law"?

  13. Re:Unasked Question on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    Are there laws against looking up jurors on Facebook?

  14. Re:Blonde lawyer? on Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website · · Score: 1

    No, Reese Witherspoon is too good to make a mistake like that!

  15. Re:A Little more detail here on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    Well 2^14=16,384, so that's only 14 doublings over 40 years. Under Moore's Law, one would expect about 27 doublings.

  16. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 0

    Your legalism isn't impressing me. If Clinton had actually been blackmailed, you might have more of a point. If Clinton had perjured himself over something more substantive, I would feel your pain better.

    What did Matt Drudge report on the buildup to the second Iraq war?

  17. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    That's my point! He was famous for headlining the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- exposing abuse at the expense of the American interest.

    And how was Clinton's "dealings" with Ms. Lewinsky such an abuse? To Mrs. Clinton, perhaps, but the American people as a whole?

  18. Re:Atom? on Intel To Buy Smartphone Chipmaker Infineon For $2B · · Score: 1

    Oops. I didn't notice the funny mod until after I posted.

  19. Re:Atom? on Intel To Buy Smartphone Chipmaker Infineon For $2B · · Score: 1

    Just like Windows tablets will destroy the iPad,

    I'm no fan of the iPad, and wouldn't buy one myself, but what Windows Tablets are even getting a fraction of the sales (or buzz) of the iPad? Windows desktops/laptops/netbooks have 90%+ marketshare, but their Apple counterparts have hardly been destroyed.

    I often wonder how is it even legal to run non-Windows on a computer?

    Because the government hasn't gotten around to banning the practice? The statutes don't pass themselves.

    Even the government gets this and uses Windows and Office. Do you people think you are better than or smarter than your own governments?

    The NSA uses Linux. Are you smarter than the NSA?

  20. Re:just how much lower can we go on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    The person to whom you are replying isn't saying that people don't need to be taught; the person is saying is saying that being lectured to is not a good way to be taught: Lecture != education.

  21. Re:ZFS recap on Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month · · Score: 2, Funny

    But we're all slashdotters here, so who can read the article to do the recap? I believe this is a belling-the-cat problem.

  22. Re:Dear Slashdot... on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sir, I am an exiled Nigerian prince who needs some assistance in a financial transaction . . .

  23. Re:Blacks? on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's talking about the fact that some facial-recognition software works better on lighter-skinned people.

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34514093/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

     

  24. Re:Finally, something to do with this phone on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I'm not going to treat my phone as a subnetbook, then why do I need an iPhone in the first place? I can make calls onmy cell phone without having to pay Apple for a walled garden.

  25. Re:9 lines of Perl? on Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl · · Score: 1

    Do I get a cookie?

    No.