You are not a party to the contract. Dealing in stolen goods is a crime, a "do not sale before this date" is a contract violation, two completely different things.
Maybe that's why I didn't say they were the same thing. Nor do I believe that a person willing to pay $265 for Halo 2 a few days early is just some random bloke who hasn't heard something so hyped that even non-gamers have heard of it.
The store which had it in their hands did INDEED have a contract not to sell before the release date, which they of course violated. I don't know if it's a civil offense knowingly to buy goods on sale as a result of contract violation in the same manner that it's illegal knowingly to buy stolen goods; in either case, however, I'm sure Microsoft has enough money and lawyers to harrass the baka who bought this.
Don't worry, I patented marking people's right hands to indicate their allegiance to the Beast. If my lawyers are successful there will be no Apocalypse, or at least Satan/Nero/whoever will have to pay licensing fees. One third is a pretty popular Biblical fraction, doesn't sound bad to me.
I don't think Miller-Urey was a fairy tale, and they made amino acids in a week. This is very far short of something as complex as a virus, but it's not nearly as far of a stretch from amino acids to a prion.
The argument is that since real structure cannot sensibly arise from randomness...
Structure arises from randomness every day, look at a snowflake. The idea that something incredibly complex could arise at once is indeed ludicrous, but this is a straw-man argument. Scientists argue that something incredibly simple arose and that it became more complex exponentially over time.
What are the odds that the forces of nature will shape sand into something looking like a computer? Almost none. What are the odds that it will shape the sand into something that resembles a single logic gate? Pretty low. One in a trillion? One in a quadrillion? One in a quintillion?
But if you have billions of grains of sand and raindrops and millions of waves and lighting bolts and billions of years, the odds of something extremely simple happening once are not that low.
Regardless of whether you believe in determinism when it comes to the human mind, I don't think anyone would debate that the physical world affects our minds (for example, we have senses). Astronomy is not the result of a thousand monkeys typing randomly in a room, it is the result of observation. Here he is using "accidental" to mean "without a purpose." However, such "accidents" are not non-causal. I suppose it's an "accident" that we don't believe that the moon is made of cheese. This, however, does not invalidate the validity our knowledge that the moon is not made of cheese.
I have also been informed by reputable sources that the tidal force of the moon affects human behavior, in spite of the fact that monitor you are looking at right now has a greater tidal interaction with you than does the moon.
Near a train station where I live, somebody spraypainted the words: "STOP BUSH!" on a wall. A few days later, someone had painted "VOTE" over "STOP." Finally, some clever fellow painted "KODOS" over "BUSH."
Unfortunately it has since been removed. Though frankly, the manner of anonymous retorts reminds me a bit of/.
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Maybe that's why I didn't say they were the same thing. Nor do I believe that a person willing to pay $265 for Halo 2 a few days early is just some random bloke who hasn't heard something so hyped that even non-gamers have heard of it.
The store which had it in their hands did INDEED have a contract not to sell before the release date, which they of course violated. I don't know if it's a civil offense knowingly to buy goods on sale as a result of contract violation in the same manner that it's illegal knowingly to buy stolen goods; in either case, however, I'm sure Microsoft has enough money and lawyers to harrass the baka who bought this.
Don't worry, I patented marking people's right hands to indicate their allegiance to the Beast. If my lawyers are successful there will be no Apocalypse, or at least Satan/Nero/whoever will have to pay licensing fees. One third is a pretty popular Biblical fraction, doesn't sound bad to me.
Oh my God! They turned Steve Ballmer into a zombie!
I think a better choice for them would be Saeed al-Sahaf.
Shiny Apple GUIs be damned, I want a shell script to do it!
I don't think Miller-Urey was a fairy tale, and they made amino acids in a week. This is very far short of something as complex as a virus, but it's not nearly as far of a stretch from amino acids to a prion.
Structure arises from randomness every day, look at a snowflake. The idea that something incredibly complex could arise at once is indeed ludicrous, but this is a straw-man argument. Scientists argue that something incredibly simple arose and that it became more complex exponentially over time.
What are the odds that the forces of nature will shape sand into something looking like a computer? Almost none. What are the odds that it will shape the sand into something that resembles a single logic gate? Pretty low. One in a trillion? One in a quadrillion? One in a quintillion?
But if you have billions of grains of sand and raindrops and millions of waves and lighting bolts and billions of years, the odds of something extremely simple happening once are not that low.
Regardless of whether you believe in determinism when it comes to the human mind, I don't think anyone would debate that the physical world affects our minds (for example, we have senses). Astronomy is not the result of a thousand monkeys typing randomly in a room, it is the result of observation. Here he is using "accidental" to mean "without a purpose." However, such "accidents" are not non-causal. I suppose it's an "accident" that we don't believe that the moon is made of cheese. This, however, does not invalidate the validity our knowledge that the moon is not made of cheese.
I have also been informed by reputable sources that the tidal force of the moon affects human behavior, in spite of the fact that monitor you are looking at right now has a greater tidal interaction with you than does the moon.
- I am made of jelly. Do you see?
- I think you will find you are just inside a jelly.
MediaWiki 1.3 might not be the end-all be all of interfaces, but it hardly makes one's "eye bleed."
Oh but they do have a backstory. And quite an engrossing one at that.
Actually, it involves getting drunk and commenting on Cubs games.
The French invented the H-Bomb first, but since the H is silent, they thought it was just a regular bomb and forgot about it.
Of course not. How are the philosophers going to get booked on talk shows?
Oh yeah? I hear you're their best seller!
Unfortunately it has since been removed. Though frankly, the manner of anonymous retorts reminds me a bit of /.
In addition to using the computer efficiently, they will do quite well at playing Nintendo 64.
Korea called, they want their idea back.
Being a geek can indeed sometimes help you to win at roulette.
On a more pedantic note, if Comic Book Guy is so learned, why can't he use a damn adverb?
I think that Enterprise kind of contradicts this.