The video you link to is misrepresenting disputed material as fact. After researching the material myself, I can hardly watch more than the introduction.
The video begins rather innocently, explaining the zodiac and whatnot. Then it starts to list descriptions of the Egyptian god "Horus" that are suspiciously similar to descriptions of Jesus Christ. Depending on your disposition, you might immediately suspect Christianity of fraud (or at least of being unoriginal). The viewer is left with the impression that any Egyptian scholar would agree with these facts, and that these facts are damning to the Christian reputation.
Here is a different source which presents additional information conveniently left out of the video.
Crap. From their "about" page:
Additionaly everytime when you enter a non-md5 hash string into the search field, the md5 result for that search strings gets stored in our database for future use. Thanks for warning me. I tested to see if my password was in there... it is now!!!
This sounds completely crazy. Unfortunately, it's impossible to prove it's crazy since you will never know where the hurricane would have gone if someone hadn't introduced these relatively small temperature differences.
But I guess there's no harm in letting these scientists think they moved the hurricane. What's the worst that could happen, the universe slaps them?
For the record, most Christians believe that God "wrote" the Bible indirectly through inspired human authors. The New Testament, for example, was written by members of the early Christian Church. Luke wrote like a doctor and John wrote like a poet. These artistic styles weren't a part of God's multiple personality disorder.
Copyright dates, as you mention, belong to various translations. If the literal wording of the text were considered to be more important than its meaning, Christian churches would offer a lot more Greek and Hebrew classes.
But the Java pop-up you can't stop has been around FAR longer than that:
http://home.comcast.net/~wolfand/
"Little do you know, a real person made this page."
Now before we all cry bloody murder, why are we calling this a bribe? There was a report released on global climate change. One company is hoping that there were shortcomings and inaccuracies in that report. That company doesn't have the scientific capability to refute the findings, so they are hiring scientists to document any and all shortcomings for them.
As far as I can tell, there is no proof that they asked the scientists to lie. Unless, of course, you have already made up your mind that global warming is a fact and any attempt to refute it is corrupt and evil.
The company involved is obviously biased, but I don't see an attempt to refute a study as evil in and of itself.
Apparently the release candidate of Vista really stunk, because I just installed the official Ultimate version of Vista last night and it was a breeze. I timed it -- 31 minutes from start to finish. That includes online activation and downloading windows updates. The only hiccup I experienced during installation was a mistake on my part. It reboots several times, and during the first reboot I watched as the DVD said "press any key to boot from CD". Well I pressed a key and realized a minute later that that was the wrong choice. You're supposed to let it boot from the HDD. So I rebooted and let the installer do its thing. Overall I would definitely say that the installation is easier than XP. The user interface for selecting a partition was really nice. It recognized both my internal SATA disk and my external USB 2.0 disk's partitions and presented them in a nice GUI, showing each partition's label, total space, and free space. I haven't had the chance to actually use the system much, but I like the system performance evaluator. It ran a test on my PC and Vista rated it at a 5.6. I haven't done enough testing to say for sure, but I think there's going to be problems with video drivers. Vista recognized my Nvidia 7900 GTO and offered to download a driver update. My experience with driver updates in XP has been horrible, but what the hell, I decided to give Vista a chance. After the update I tried to test my system again with the performance tester, and the test ran for a while but failed with a really generic error message. Maybe it's because I'm running at 720p, but maybe the driver is broken. I'm planning on figuring out just how bad the video situation is tonight after work.
...possible damage to the ship? The change in momentum at firing time is greater than the change in momentum at impact time (due to wind resistance along the entire flight path). So if this thing can demolish buildings at impact, how do they prevent it from demolishing the ship, not to mention the weapon itself at launch? Even a really, really long launch tube isn't going spread the momentum over a very long period of time. I'd love to see what kind of dampeners they're considering.
Things I would use to measure techie density...
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Assuming we can measure these, of course: * PC boxes per capita * Bittorrent activity * Secured wifi networks per capita * Wikipedia contributors * Middle-aged men/women with same legal residence as parents * Slashdot accounts * Cowboyneal *...others?
You can't summarise decades of deep debate as a Wikipedia article. True, but you should be able to summarize a school of thought in a Wikipedia article, shouldn't you? I'm analyzing the validity of the Compatibilist's viewpoint, not studying the history of this debate. If the Wikipedia article is incorrect or misleading, please enlighten us. Heck, you could even update the article yourself if you really have the time to study decades of deep debate.
An open door does not give you permission to enter my house. He didn't enter your house. He told other people your address and mentioned that you leave your front door open.
I'm interested in reading that paper you linked to, but I'm getting completely lost. Could you at least introduce the paper to provide some context? What am I reading here? Thanks.
Where do our desires come from? If they come from the our bodies and ultimately the universe, then that's determinism. If they come from nothingness, then you have free will. It is not a false dichotomy. There is either causality or there is not.
The problem is that you equate free will with non-causality. Basically your argument makes free will into a non-deterministic random number generator.
Proponents of free will don't typically claim that their freedom comes from randomness. I think you can really only define free will it by what it isn't. It's not deterministic. It's not random. It's something else. For a lot of people, that means it's a mystery. But at least they acknowledge that there's something supernatural going on.
If you aren't going the supernatural or random route, then the only remaining answer is determinism. I'm reading this entire slashdot discussion and wondering why the hell it's so hard for people to choose an answer. I think it's because they really, really hate their choices.
The grandparent is still right. Compatibilists believe that there is causality. And they use a bogus definition of free will to reconcile the issue.
According to good ol' Wikipedia, a compatibilist defines free will as "a hypothetical ability to have chosen differently if one had been differently psychologically disposed by some different beliefs or desires." This is still strict determinism. Free will is the notion that you could have chosen differently regardless of your disposition and previous influences. In other words, your choices can be controlled internally (this is not the same as your internal state as determined by external inputs).
The article says the system also automatically backs up everything on your phone once per day. If your phone gets wiped, everything can be reloaded. I'm patting myself on the back now for reading TFA.
If cell phones made using email as quick and easy as text messaging, would texting have ANY advantages over email? It seems like texting was invented just so the cell companies didn't have to support REAL email. I wish they would abolish texting altogether and do it the right way.
Puting a stop to all tradable inventory pretty much kills any craft master.
A game based on trading will always be susceptible to people making real money trades. There are ways to make it less profitable, but it will always be a problem unless you limit trading to NPCs. You could still do well as a craft master, but inflation and scarcity would be totally controlled by the server (a good thing, considering the alternative).
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The video you link to is misrepresenting disputed material as fact. After researching the material myself, I can hardly watch more than the introduction.
The video begins rather innocently, explaining the zodiac and whatnot. Then it starts to list descriptions of the Egyptian god "Horus" that are suspiciously similar to descriptions of Jesus Christ. Depending on your disposition, you might immediately suspect Christianity of fraud (or at least of being unoriginal). The viewer is left with the impression that any Egyptian scholar would agree with these facts, and that these facts are damning to the Christian reputation.
Here is a different source which presents additional information conveniently left out of the video.
This sounds completely crazy. Unfortunately, it's impossible to prove it's crazy since you will never know where the hurricane would have gone if someone hadn't introduced these relatively small temperature differences.
But I guess there's no harm in letting these scientists think they moved the hurricane. What's the worst that could happen, the universe slaps them?
For the record, most Christians believe that God "wrote" the Bible indirectly through inspired human authors. The New Testament, for example, was written by members of the early Christian Church. Luke wrote like a doctor and John wrote like a poet. These artistic styles weren't a part of God's multiple personality disorder.
Copyright dates, as you mention, belong to various translations. If the literal wording of the text were considered to be more important than its meaning, Christian churches would offer a lot more Greek and Hebrew classes.
But the Java pop-up you can't stop has been around FAR longer than that: http://home.comcast.net/~wolfand/
"Little do you know, a real person made this page."
You've been bribed!
Now before we all cry bloody murder, why are we calling this a bribe? There was a report released on global climate change. One company is hoping that there were shortcomings and inaccuracies in that report. That company doesn't have the scientific capability to refute the findings, so they are hiring scientists to document any and all shortcomings for them.
As far as I can tell, there is no proof that they asked the scientists to lie. Unless, of course, you have already made up your mind that global warming is a fact and any attempt to refute it is corrupt and evil.
The company involved is obviously biased, but I don't see an attempt to refute a study as evil in and of itself.
Apparently the release candidate of Vista really stunk, because I just installed the official Ultimate version of Vista last night and it was a breeze. I timed it -- 31 minutes from start to finish. That includes online activation and downloading windows updates.
The only hiccup I experienced during installation was a mistake on my part. It reboots several times, and during the first reboot I watched as the DVD said "press any key to boot from CD". Well I pressed a key and realized a minute later that that was the wrong choice. You're supposed to let it boot from the HDD. So I rebooted and let the installer do its thing.
Overall I would definitely say that the installation is easier than XP. The user interface for selecting a partition was really nice. It recognized both my internal SATA disk and my external USB 2.0 disk's partitions and presented them in a nice GUI, showing each partition's label, total space, and free space.
I haven't had the chance to actually use the system much, but I like the system performance evaluator. It ran a test on my PC and Vista rated it at a 5.6.
I haven't done enough testing to say for sure, but I think there's going to be problems with video drivers. Vista recognized my Nvidia 7900 GTO and offered to download a driver update. My experience with driver updates in XP has been horrible, but what the hell, I decided to give Vista a chance. After the update I tried to test my system again with the performance tester, and the test ran for a while but failed with a really generic error message. Maybe it's because I'm running at 720p, but maybe the driver is broken. I'm planning on figuring out just how bad the video situation is tonight after work.
...possible damage to the ship? The change in momentum at firing time is greater than the change in momentum at impact time (due to wind resistance along the entire flight path). So if this thing can demolish buildings at impact, how do they prevent it from demolishing the ship, not to mention the weapon itself at launch? Even a really, really long launch tube isn't going spread the momentum over a very long period of time. I'd love to see what kind of dampeners they're considering.
Assuming we can measure these, of course:
* PC boxes per capita
* Bittorrent activity
* Secured wifi networks per capita
* Wikipedia contributors
* Middle-aged men/women with same legal residence as parents
* Slashdot accounts
* Cowboyneal
*...others?
I'm interested in reading that paper you linked to, but I'm getting completely lost. Could you at least introduce the paper to provide some context? What am I reading here? Thanks.
The problem is that you equate free will with non-causality. Basically your argument makes free will into a non-deterministic random number generator.
Proponents of free will don't typically claim that their freedom comes from randomness. I think you can really only define free will it by what it isn't. It's not deterministic. It's not random. It's something else. For a lot of people, that means it's a mystery. But at least they acknowledge that there's something supernatural going on.
If you aren't going the supernatural or random route, then the only remaining answer is determinism. I'm reading this entire slashdot discussion and wondering why the hell it's so hard for people to choose an answer. I think it's because they really, really hate their choices.
"there is either causality or there is not."
The grandparent is still right. Compatibilists believe that there is causality. And they use a bogus definition of free will to reconcile the issue.
According to good ol' Wikipedia, a compatibilist defines free will as "a hypothetical ability to have chosen differently if one had been differently psychologically disposed by some different beliefs or desires." This is still strict determinism. Free will is the notion that you could have chosen differently regardless of your disposition and previous influences. In other words, your choices can be controlled internally (this is not the same as your internal state as determined by external inputs).
If you don't want your content to be linked to, don't make it accessible through a URL!
The article says the system also automatically backs up everything on your phone once per day. If your phone gets wiped, everything can be reloaded. I'm patting myself on the back now for reading TFA.
Medievalist, you have a NAS serving a RAID in your basement? Do you have any suggestions for someone looking to build or purchase an external RAID?
Sorry, Nipple's already taken by the Nike+Apple co-op. All that's left is Appendo.
If cell phones made using email as quick and easy as text messaging, would texting have ANY advantages over email? It seems like texting was invented just so the cell companies didn't have to support REAL email. I wish they would abolish texting altogether and do it the right way.
You pay by the month, not the hour. They could have focused gameplay on long-term people that play an hour a day and gotten the same revenue.
This still leaves us vulnerable to all floating, invisible, cold-blooded eavesdroppers.
Unless they clear their throat!
"GIMP should be enough for anybody."
::ducks::
Puting a stop to all tradable inventory pretty much kills any craft master.
A game based on trading will always be susceptible to people making real money trades. There are ways to make it less profitable, but it will always be a problem unless you limit trading to NPCs. You could still do well as a craft master, but inflation and scarcity would be totally controlled by the server (a good thing, considering the alternative).