Half-Life was probably one of the buggiest games I've played at LANs. We always had issues with that one. Quake 3 ran pretty much flawless in comparison.
Is it faith to say "I don't know"? You said he should explain his understanding without admitting he doesn't know something, that task forces him to make shit up because he is not allowed to tell the truth. Do I know how the big bang happened? No. Do I believe in any particular hypothesis? No. Does considering the big bang valid constitute faith? No because it's a theory founded on evidence we have seen rather than just wild guessing.
Faith is when you take the unknown (i.e. something with no evidence pertaining to it), make a statement about it and consider that statement true, a theory is when you take evidence, look for a simple (or as simple as you can make it) explanation that fits the evidence and see if that explanation has evidence contradicting it. If you consider a conclusion based on evidence faith then of course everything is faith but that definition is useless just like saying everything that has four legs is an animal (which would include the table).
No, this is about nanoparticles that don't react nicely when it gets to some body tissues. Some of the particles are small enough to cause serious damage when inhaled IIRC.
Feel free to explain exactly which creation theory you subscribe to, and let's see how complete it is. Beginning to end, leaving nothing to "well, it just happens that way, and we're not sure why."
That is nonsense. We don't know it front-to-back, anyone claiming otherwise is a liar. If you are unwilling to admit that you don't know something you are compelled to make bullshit up just to fill the holes. You must first see the holes to fill them, then you must work on filling them. Hiding them won't help anyone, it'll just hurt when someone tries to rely on your explanation and steps into a hole you hid. This isn't a contest about being the first to build a claim without visible holes, it's about finding out how things work. When you know how things work you can manipulate them. Saying a man in the sky is causing the lightning did not bring us electricity, it just prevented us from understanding electricity.
I always thought the FSM was meant as an analogy/reductio ad absurdum. Someone who believes in some religion will not consider the religion silly (though it is silly by any objective standard) but everyone can agree that the FSM is silly. However, no religion (or pseudoscience) can show that their belief is true any more than pastafarianism is. The FSM is basically telling theists that their reasoning that justifies their deity can just as well justify a giant pile of noodles. Demanding that creationism gets taught in school is no more reasonable than demanding that the FSM is part of the school curriculum.
The problem is that when you let the majority decide the majority gets to impose their religious ideals on others. Would you want your townhall decorated with satanist art, possibly with "abandon all hope ye who enter" written on the front door? Separation of church and state means that the state will have NOTHING to do with the religion and will never endorse one over another. Representing one but not another in a public building is an endorsement.
That's nothing, I bought a pack of supposedly empty 5.25" disks for my C64 in a store, when I looked at them without formatting it turned out they were all filled with warez. Different warez, even, not the same for all disks.
A pentium 133 is recent compared to this. When I got my Gameboy my PC was a C64, a bit later we got a 386. Sure, we weren't cutting edge but the best you could get at the time was a really early 486 IIRC.
Yeah but according to the cult of the FSM pirates are cool and the lack of them is causing global warming. They're just being pirates in order to combat global warming!
Implicit or forced consent is still consent. Do you think North Korea would still exist if its whole population just rose up and fought the govt? Even if the govt would not get killed directly the whole infrastructure would collapse and be unusable.
The exact wording is probably something like applying electric shocks is torture and that definition includes the most common use of a taser.
Beating someone is torture too, doesn't mean police can't beat people to stop them but it allows torture claims if the action is used unnecessarily. Tasering someone for longer than necessary is torture, wouldn't you agree?
The wall is made of a crapload of atoms and whatnot, those do care which one of them is hit by the photon because it changes their kinetic energy. As such the photon cannot impact without having its waveform collapsed.
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EA has a crapload of dev studios, FIFA was made by a different one.
Half-Life was probably one of the buggiest games I've played at LANs. We always had issues with that one. Quake 3 ran pretty much flawless in comparison.
Is it faith to say "I don't know"? You said he should explain his understanding without admitting he doesn't know something, that task forces him to make shit up because he is not allowed to tell the truth. Do I know how the big bang happened? No. Do I believe in any particular hypothesis? No. Does considering the big bang valid constitute faith? No because it's a theory founded on evidence we have seen rather than just wild guessing.
Faith is when you take the unknown (i.e. something with no evidence pertaining to it), make a statement about it and consider that statement true, a theory is when you take evidence, look for a simple (or as simple as you can make it) explanation that fits the evidence and see if that explanation has evidence contradicting it. If you consider a conclusion based on evidence faith then of course everything is faith but that definition is useless just like saying everything that has four legs is an animal (which would include the table).
No, this is about nanoparticles that don't react nicely when it gets to some body tissues. Some of the particles are small enough to cause serious damage when inhaled IIRC.
Feel free to explain exactly which creation theory you subscribe to, and let's see how complete it is. Beginning to end, leaving nothing to "well, it just happens that way, and we're not sure why."
That is nonsense. We don't know it front-to-back, anyone claiming otherwise is a liar. If you are unwilling to admit that you don't know something you are compelled to make bullshit up just to fill the holes. You must first see the holes to fill them, then you must work on filling them. Hiding them won't help anyone, it'll just hurt when someone tries to rely on your explanation and steps into a hole you hid. This isn't a contest about being the first to build a claim without visible holes, it's about finding out how things work. When you know how things work you can manipulate them. Saying a man in the sky is causing the lightning did not bring us electricity, it just prevented us from understanding electricity.
I always thought the FSM was meant as an analogy/reductio ad absurdum. Someone who believes in some religion will not consider the religion silly (though it is silly by any objective standard) but everyone can agree that the FSM is silly. However, no religion (or pseudoscience) can show that their belief is true any more than pastafarianism is. The FSM is basically telling theists that their reasoning that justifies their deity can just as well justify a giant pile of noodles. Demanding that creationism gets taught in school is no more reasonable than demanding that the FSM is part of the school curriculum.
The problem is that when you let the majority decide the majority gets to impose their religious ideals on others. Would you want your townhall decorated with satanist art, possibly with "abandon all hope ye who enter" written on the front door? Separation of church and state means that the state will have NOTHING to do with the religion and will never endorse one over another. Representing one but not another in a public building is an endorsement.
So, Christianity it is, then?
Modern. We're talking about a Gameboy game.
That's nothing, I bought a pack of supposedly empty 5.25" disks for my C64 in a store, when I looked at them without formatting it turned out they were all filled with warez. Different warez, even, not the same for all disks.
A pentium 133 is recent compared to this. When I got my Gameboy my PC was a C64, a bit later we got a 386. Sure, we weren't cutting edge but the best you could get at the time was a really early 486 IIRC.
Or link to the past?
I think belief is even more dangerous when it is untouchable by logic. Religion pretty much requires doublethink these days.
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They can claim the sky is green. Just saying it's satire doesn't make it so.
Yeah but according to the cult of the FSM pirates are cool and the lack of them is causing global warming. They're just being pirates in order to combat global warming!
Implicit or forced consent is still consent. Do you think North Korea would still exist if its whole population just rose up and fought the govt? Even if the govt would not get killed directly the whole infrastructure would collapse and be unusable.
The exact wording is probably something like applying electric shocks is torture and that definition includes the most common use of a taser.
Beating someone is torture too, doesn't mean police can't beat people to stop them but it allows torture claims if the action is used unnecessarily. Tasering someone for longer than necessary is torture, wouldn't you agree?
Convince the media? They OWN the media!
I didn't vote for the two biggest parties and my party still got some representation. What about you?
See? It works!
Perhaps someone was hoping for Big Blue vs. Putin.
The wall is made of a crapload of atoms and whatnot, those do care which one of them is hit by the photon because it changes their kinetic energy. As such the photon cannot impact without having its waveform collapsed.
You forgot the part where the nazis were captured and punished.
Or these which have been in operation for quite some time?