No, you and the GGP are wrong. You're defining the word "belief" as meaning "to think something is true without evidence". However, in the English language, "belief" can be based on evidence or logic, it is "faith" that cannot.
See, for example, legal terms such as "believe beyond a reasonable doubt" based on evidence presented in a court.
So scientists BELIEVE in evolution because they see EVIDENCE for it and see it as the LOGICAL conclusion.
I'm curious, if you think "believe" means "to think without evidence", what would you put in "Scientists __________ in evolution"? Or do you not have a word that encapsulates the concept of "see it confirmed over and over again, so accept it as a very good theory."?
IAA Lingustics dropout, btw.
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Then you made a error in phrasing the question. If you as someone "what is the definition of [insert acronym here]", the common response would be to give the words making up the acronym. Don't be a douche trying to look clever by pretending to ask for one type of answer when you want another.
"What's six plus six?" "twelve" "No, it's an arithmetic problem"
I may as well ask here... I'm looking for a 3D engine to make a game that's not a FPS, more of a creatures game like Nintendogs or The Sims.
What game engines are the most suitable for that kind of modding, and are there any F/OSS 3d engines that are good? I'm thinking in terms of AI programmability, ease of creating models and levels, etc.
That's an interesting scenario, and I hope someone with real physics background could step in and tell us if it's plausible.
But consider that the core of the Earth, as far as we can tell/estimate, is made of solid iron, because the pressure makes the iron solid even at very high temperatures.
This might mean an even more interesting scenario: Once the black hole reaches the very center of the Earth, it stops receiving new matter, because the iron around it forms a tight solid sphere, the hole it came through becoming sealed by the pressure. The earth is then left with a black hole at its center, surrounded by a small vacuum and a solid iron sphere.
Those are countries that don't allow their OWN citizens to exercise 2nd Amendment rights (at least not to the extent the US does).
But in the US of A, non-citizens ARE allowed to exercise them. You need a green card to own guns, but no restrictions on using your American friend's or renting them at a range for non-citizens. Plenty of foreigners come to the US to hunt, shoot recreationally, etc.
And the Constitution specifically says 'citizen' when citizenship is required, as in the requirements for the President or the settling of civil court cases with foreign citizens. I think we can assume that "people" means just that except for where you cite the part at the beginning.
If an application advertising itself as "Compatible with Windows" fails under Windows, it's natural to blame the app. If the same app fails under Linux + Wine, it's natural to assume the blame lies with the different environment you gave it.
What's more absurd is how they don't seem to mind the official US servicemembers' studio portraits, which are taken in front of a backdrop, frequently of an American flag. That is, a fake non-existant flag, like the one that's supposedly at issue here.
Or how about other people and press conferences photographed in front of backdrops, or blue-screened and televised with an alternate scene behind them? Or CNN's edited-in "hologram" during the election?
So are they against the photo because the background is fake? Which thy don't mind in other studio photos? Or because it was edited after the fact? Which they don't seem to mind when they do it themselves?
The same was true in other countries as well. My grandparents in Japan still have a rotary dial telephone from The Old Days. It's wire goes directly from the unit into the wall socket, there's not modular jack on either end. It's also lime green, because it was their second phone(normal phones were black).
It has NO logos or writing, not even a "Made in..." mark, because there was no need to put any markings on it. It's the Phone Company's phone, the standard household model. There was no other phone to differentiate it from.
Since the market's been deregulated there too, and they switched providers, I wonder if the phone still technically belongs to the old NTT.
What's really funny is that they're doing this for cigarette machines, but not alcohol vending...
They don't issue national photo ID cards, and driver's licenses are expensive to get(and they are strict about actual driving skills), so there are people who wouldn't have ID. Most people use their school or company ID if they don't have a license, but those are not standardized. A better idea might be to use cell phones, which everyone seems to have and are tied to a particular person.
Really, though, it can't be too hard for kids to get alcohol or tobacco - I look about 20-ish, and I've never been carded in Japan for alcohol at a store or bar, even for hard liquor. Whereas in the states I was carded every time. And yes I am Asian, and look kinda nerdy. The cultural assumption seems to be to look down on kids who are truant or delinquents, but not see it as something to step in and stop. It's "someone else's problem", I guess.
Drunk driving is seen as a problem and there's a campaign against it, but it's not connected to underage drinking since kids can't drive here.
Maybe the US is different because of their born-again christian mentality?
Anyone here know how good the CS/IT/EE curriculum in the military academies are? And do those members usually end up deployed where their expertise is useful?
I've heard the Air Force is the leading branch for network stuff, so I'm surprised the Army did well.
I agree with you that this particular case seems to be on JKR's side. However - I have encyclopedias covering fictional worlds from Star Wars, Dune, and other entirely fictional works. I see no problem with that as long as they summarize, instead of quote whole pages as this work apparently does.
If creating an encyclopedia of works created by others is infringement, where does that put Cliffs Notes, or Chilton manuals, or fan guides for any series?
Also an atheist here. I haven't read his books, but I have read overviews of his general ideas, and he seems to be too much of a biological determinist to me. Since he apparently argues that people believe in God because of genetics and attributes many social behaviors to genes, I think his ideas lends itself to a belief in social Darwinism.
A lot of people here seem to have misconceptions about why you spy on people, especially for industrial purposes.
You don't spy on people because you hate them, you spy on them because they have something you want to know.
The top 3 countries for spying on the U.S. are usually estimated to be France, Israel and China. The reason for the majority of that is because their defence industries compete with ours, and they want the latest technologies for themselves and their customers. Now, China does also have hostile intentions towards Taiwan and other U.S. allies, but this is far less dangerous than the cold war showdown with the USSR.
You know, you don't really know if her actions are based on past experience with people who really were condescending jerks.
One time at a computer lab, a black woman sat down next to me, and I thought I ws being polite by moving my bag out of the way and closer to me. But she interpreted it as something else, and she snorted, "I'm not gonna take your bag!" and started using the computer.
It would not surprise me if other people had acted like she was going to steal their stuff, and she had gotten more or less used to that mind set. It would then be hard to imagine that someone is doing something for your sake, instead of theirs.
I'm still mystified by the apparent belief that people can only know and use one language at a time. Diglossic situations are pretty common, what typically happens is that one language gets used in certain contexts and another in others. Do you think that Linus Torvalds doesn't speak Finnish at home with his wife and kids, just because all his work is in English?
And I LOL at your belief that preserving languages means forbidding or banning other languages - that has been the tactic of dominant-language monolingualists, not language preservationists. English, French, Arabic, and other dominant languages have been spread by hindering the teaching of or outright banning other languages. Typically minority language advocates want to have their own language preserved but do not wish to ban the dominant language, because it is more useful to have a bilingual population.
Ugh, it figures that a lot of people here seem to agree with you, Slashdot is basically a sewer when it comes to any of the social sciences.
This can only really be a bad thing, because languages themselves are important data, especially in historical linguistics. Look up "Proto-Indo-European" on google. Basically people figured out based on the similarities of languages like Snaskirt, Latin and German, that most of the languages of Europe and west to central Asia were derived from an early (bronze age) language spoken by one people, which later branched out into the Indic, Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families. The study of languages thus has an impact outside of the lanuage itself, it can contribute greatly to the knowledge of the human race. This however is not possible if ou keep destroying the data, i.e. the languages in question.
So unless you feel that history and archaeology are basically unimportant (probably not a uncommon opinion here), preservation of languages does have a rather important role in science.
Also, studying what is possible in real-world language syntax and grammar can teach us about the language faculties of our brain, and what its limits are.
I'm curious why you think that the destruction of language is a nessecary part of increasing communication, however. You seem to be assuming people can only speak one language? The greatest spread of English has been as a second or third language to various foreign groups, so it is clearly possible to have both lingustic diversity and a common communications medium.
ROFL My Waffles, I actually did a report in a college class on gender about gender selection in MMOs...
Out of about 6 or so people interviewed, the most common reasons given for playing as female were:
- Male characters are ugly in many games
- People (males) give you free stuff if you're a female character, especially a newbie
- People are more likely to help you if you're an attractive female character
- Females get better looking clothes
- Men want to look at an attractive avatar, and don't necessarily think of it as being themselves
- Females want to play an attractive character, or like the clothes a female char gets, but don't necessarily think of it as being themselves
Reasons people don't like playing female:
- Guys hit on you constantly
- Occasional stalkers
- Many female avas are overtly sexual or 'slutty'
- Female avas don't look tough or 'butch' even as warrior-types
One female gamer said that when asked her gender while playing her female char, she tells people she's a guy because that gets them to stop bothering her. WHen she plays as a male, she tells them her real gender because that also freaks them out. The people I talked to basically just want to play the game, and don't like having sexual or gendered attitudes imposed on them, so I wonder what they will think of this.
This move by the company really seems like implicitly supporting the idea of using MMOs as a hook-up site, instead of a fantasy realm, so I doubt it will be popular among the people I talked to.
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No, you and the GGP are wrong. You're defining the word "belief" as meaning "to think something is true without evidence". However, in the English language, "belief" can be based on evidence or logic, it is "faith" that cannot.
See, for example, legal terms such as "believe beyond a reasonable doubt" based on evidence presented in a court.
So scientists BELIEVE in evolution because they see EVIDENCE for it and see it as the LOGICAL conclusion.
I'm curious, if you think "believe" means "to think without evidence", what would you put in "Scientists __________ in evolution"? Or do you not have a word that encapsulates the concept of "see it confirmed over and over again, so accept it as a very good theory."?
IAA Lingustics dropout, btw.
Then you made a error in phrasing the question. If you as someone "what is the definition of [insert acronym here]", the common response would be to give the words making up the acronym. Don't be a douche trying to look clever by pretending to ask for one type of answer when you want another.
"What's six plus six?"
"twelve"
"No, it's an arithmetic problem"
I may as well ask here... I'm looking for a 3D engine to make a game that's not a FPS, more of a creatures game like Nintendogs or The Sims.
What game engines are the most suitable for that kind of modding, and are there any F/OSS 3d engines that are good? I'm thinking in terms of AI programmability, ease of creating models and levels, etc.
That's an interesting scenario, and I hope someone with real physics background could step in and tell us if it's plausible.
But consider that the core of the Earth, as far as we can tell/estimate, is made of solid iron, because the pressure makes the iron solid even at very high temperatures.
This might mean an even more interesting scenario: Once the black hole reaches the very center of the Earth, it stops receiving new matter, because the iron around it forms a tight solid sphere, the hole it came through becoming sealed by the pressure. The earth is then left with a black hole at its center, surrounded by a small vacuum and a solid iron sphere.
Is this possible?
Those are countries that don't allow their OWN citizens to exercise 2nd Amendment rights (at least not to the extent the US does).
But in the US of A, non-citizens ARE allowed to exercise them. You need a green card to own guns, but no restrictions on using your American friend's or renting them at a range for non-citizens. Plenty of foreigners come to the US to hunt, shoot recreationally, etc.
And the Constitution specifically says 'citizen' when citizenship is required, as in the requirements for the President or the settling of civil court cases with foreign citizens. I think we can assume that "people" means just that except for where you cite the part at the beginning.
If an application advertising itself as "Compatible with Windows" fails under Windows, it's natural to blame the app. If the same app fails under Linux + Wine, it's natural to assume the blame lies with the different environment you gave it.
Meanwhile, in Japan, they publish
Airport watching guides for obsessed plane nerds, covering most of the country's airports. I've seen ones for the US airbases there, though I can't find on Amazon atm.
Quite a different attitude than India or Greece, where people have been arrested for taking pics of military bases.
What's more absurd is how they don't seem to mind the official US servicemembers' studio portraits, which are taken in front of a backdrop, frequently of an American flag. That is, a fake non-existant flag, like the one that's supposedly at issue here.
example:
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A106980
Or how about other people and press conferences photographed in front of backdrops, or blue-screened and televised with an alternate scene behind them? Or CNN's edited-in "hologram" during the election?
So are they against the photo because the background is fake? Which thy don't mind in other studio photos? Or because it was edited after the fact? Which they don't seem to mind when they do it themselves?
I have fond memories of my first boyfriend reading me the Watchmen
And they say comics are for illiterates...
Apparently, even that doesn't help.
Mortal Kombat background music (it's mostly ethnic-sounding drums)
That might be Juno Reactor's "Conga Fury". It was in the Animatrix as well.
The same was true in other countries as well. My grandparents in Japan still have a rotary dial telephone from The Old Days. It's wire goes directly from the unit into the wall socket, there's not modular jack on either end. It's also lime green, because it was their second phone(normal phones were black).
It has NO logos or writing, not even a "Made in..." mark, because there was no need to put any markings on it. It's the Phone Company's phone, the standard household model. There was no other phone to differentiate it from.
Since the market's been deregulated there too, and they switched providers, I wonder if the phone still technically belongs to the old NTT.
I Googled the term to see what it was a reference to, and the SLashdot comment was the 3rd hit...
I love the internet.
What's really funny is that they're doing this for cigarette machines, but not alcohol vending...
They don't issue national photo ID cards, and driver's licenses are expensive to get(and they are strict about actual driving skills), so there are people who wouldn't have ID. Most people use their school or company ID if they don't have a license, but those are not standardized. A better idea might be to use cell phones, which everyone seems to have and are tied to a particular person.
Really, though, it can't be too hard for kids to get alcohol or tobacco - I look about 20-ish, and I've never been carded in Japan for alcohol at a store or bar, even for hard liquor. Whereas in the states I was carded every time. And yes I am Asian, and look kinda nerdy. The cultural assumption seems to be to look down on kids who are truant or delinquents, but not see it as something to step in and stop. It's "someone else's problem", I guess.
Drunk driving is seen as a problem and there's a campaign against it, but it's not connected to underage drinking since kids can't drive here.
Maybe the US is different because of their born-again christian mentality?
Anyone here know how good the CS/IT/EE curriculum in the military academies are? And do those members usually end up deployed where their expertise is useful?
I've heard the Air Force is the leading branch for network stuff, so I'm surprised the Army did well.
I agree with you that this particular case seems to be on JKR's side. However - I have encyclopedias covering fictional worlds from Star Wars, Dune, and other entirely fictional works. I see no problem with that as long as they summarize, instead of quote whole pages as this work apparently does.
If creating an encyclopedia of works created by others is infringement, where does that put Cliffs Notes, or Chilton manuals, or fan guides for any series?
Also an atheist here. I haven't read his books, but I have read overviews of his general ideas, and he seems to be too much of a biological determinist to me. Since he apparently argues that people believe in God because of genetics and attributes many social behaviors to genes, I think his ideas lends itself to a belief in social Darwinism.
A lot of people here seem to have misconceptions about why you spy on people, especially for industrial purposes.
You don't spy on people because you hate them, you spy on them because they have something you want to know.
The top 3 countries for spying on the U.S. are usually estimated to be France, Israel and China. The reason for the majority of that is because their defence industries compete with ours, and they want the latest technologies for themselves and their customers. Now, China does also have hostile intentions towards Taiwan and other U.S. allies, but this is far less dangerous than the cold war showdown with the USSR.
You know, you don't really know if her actions are based on past experience with people who really were condescending jerks.
One time at a computer lab, a black woman sat down next to me, and I thought I ws being polite by moving my bag out of the way and closer to me. But she interpreted it as something else, and she snorted, "I'm not gonna take your bag!" and started using the computer.
It would not surprise me if other people had acted like she was going to steal their stuff, and she had gotten more or less used to that mind set. It would then be hard to imagine that someone is doing something for your sake, instead of theirs.
I'm still mystified by the apparent belief that people can only know and use one language at a time. Diglossic situations are pretty common, what typically happens is that one language gets used in certain contexts and another in others. Do you think that Linus Torvalds doesn't speak Finnish at home with his wife and kids, just because all his work is in English?
And I LOL at your belief that preserving languages means forbidding or banning other languages - that has been the tactic of dominant-language monolingualists, not language preservationists. English, French, Arabic, and other dominant languages have been spread by hindering the teaching of or outright banning other languages. Typically minority language advocates want to have their own language preserved but do not wish to ban the dominant language, because it is more useful to have a bilingual population.
Ugh, it figures that a lot of people here seem to agree with you, Slashdot is basically a sewer when it comes to any of the social sciences.
This can only really be a bad thing, because languages themselves are important data, especially in historical linguistics. Look up "Proto-Indo-European" on google. Basically people figured out based on the similarities of languages like Snaskirt, Latin and German, that most of the languages of Europe and west to central Asia were derived from an early (bronze age) language spoken by one people, which later branched out into the Indic, Germanic, Slavic and Romance language families. The study of languages thus has an impact outside of the lanuage itself, it can contribute greatly to the knowledge of the human race. This however is not possible if ou keep destroying the data, i.e. the languages in question.
So unless you feel that history and archaeology are basically unimportant (probably not a uncommon opinion here), preservation of languages does have a rather important role in science.
Also, studying what is possible in real-world language syntax and grammar can teach us about the language faculties of our brain, and what its limits are.
I'm curious why you think that the destruction of language is a nessecary part of increasing communication, however. You seem to be assuming people can only speak one language? The greatest spread of English has been as a second or third language to various foreign groups, so it is clearly possible to have both lingustic diversity and a common communications medium.
ROFL My Waffles, I actually did a report in a college class on gender about gender selection in MMOs...
Out of about 6 or so people interviewed, the most common reasons given for playing as female were:
- Male characters are ugly in many games
- People (males) give you free stuff if you're a female character, especially a newbie
- People are more likely to help you if you're an attractive female character
- Females get better looking clothes
- Men want to look at an attractive avatar, and don't necessarily think of it as being themselves
- Females want to play an attractive character, or like the clothes a female char gets, but don't necessarily think of it as being themselves
Reasons people don't like playing female:
- Guys hit on you constantly
- Occasional stalkers
- Many female avas are overtly sexual or 'slutty'
- Female avas don't look tough or 'butch' even as warrior-types
One female gamer said that when asked her gender while playing her female char, she tells people she's a guy because that gets them to stop bothering her. WHen she plays as a male, she tells them her real gender because that also freaks them out. The people I talked to basically just want to play the game, and don't like having sexual or gendered attitudes imposed on them, so I wonder what they will think of this.
This move by the company really seems like implicitly supporting the idea of using MMOs as a hook-up site, instead of a fantasy realm, so I doubt it will be popular among the people I talked to.
Then why does it later specifically address citizens, if the whole document is intended for them?
and isn't Habeus Corpus from English common law, which predates the Constitution?
HAHAHA Oh wow.
Saying Microsoft, Sun and IBM are beating you is like saying "Our Yugos are being outsold by Ford, Honda and Toyota".
Fuck you guys, we do not need a 4chan-ized Slashdot. We need more posters like the ones above who actually know the math behind this story.
In short - GTFO.
Actually, it could be losing weight thorugh changes in the local gravity because the earth has an uneven, moving core and mantle.