> If god is all powerful, could he make a stone so heavy even he couldn't lift it.
Of course he could, silly! Lifting a physical stone requires physical force. For the question to be meaningful, God would have to enter the finite universe and take on a finite physical form. Having done so, the answer to the question is painfully obvious.
One could go further and point out that God has already done so, as a matter of historical record, rendering the question disingenious.
This idea is fine and good, but if they make you sign for it, then the customer ends up taking responsibility and eating the loss. Not at first but it could easily move in that direction. Why else go to the expense of putting it in there? They just want a way to shift the blame. Either force the customer to take responsibility by signing, or force the delivery company to take responsibility due to jostling. Either way the seller no longer has to eat the cost of damaged merchandise.
Do you sign if it took several medium bumps? Do you EVER sign? What if it was defective, or only took a mild jostle to break?
If you don't sign and send it back, but it turns out it wasn't broken, do you still have to pay the shipping?
This will lead to having to insure every shipment, or take your chances.
There are a lot of people who'll sign something as a joke, but I'm guessing that the 125,000 people who signed the Texas secession petition took it very seriously. Just because you don't like the idea doesn't mean it's stupid.
No I'm not from Texas, and yes I'd hate to lose them too.
If you define intelligence as neural connections, sure... but there are different qualities of intelligence. My wife has practically memorized every episode of Star Trek. That's a fair bit of neural connections, there, and it is a form of intelligence, but it is a useless one. How about the neural conditioning that Krispy Kreme donuts are yummy? It is learning and thus "intelligence" but is it intelligent? Then again who judges what is good intelligence and what is worthless intelligence?
> Really? Can they vote? Get married? Become elected officials?
Sure they can marry, marriage between corporations is called a merger, and marriage between a corp and a human is variously called a EULA or a anti-piracy treaty. Either way you get fucked, and if you break it you spend the rest of your life paying alimony.
Voting and getting elected? Who needs that when you control the media and have a bottomless bribe chest?
I was a faithful KDE user up until KDE 4. I couldn't care less how it looks, I want something that:
- mostly works as I expect it to out of the box, and isn't too hard to figure out when it doesn't
- is fast
- doesn't require a lot of fiddling to get stuff running, but is highly configurable so I can customize it to taste
KDE3 did that. It was virtually plug and play, worked a lot like Windows which was fine since I often had to switch backand forth, but let me configure everything. Controls and options were easy to find. I greatly preferred it to Windows, and gnome was horrible.
But KDE4 was so hideously ugly with huge space-wasting icons and frame borders so I didn't try it for a long time, plus at work everyone used gnome 2 on Ubuntu or Fedora and it was easier to go with the flow. And by all reports KDE4 was unstable. In the end I have to get work done, not futz around with a half baked alpha-ware. I never really liked Gnome 2, it was simplistic and unconfigurable, but I got used to it.
When Gnome3 came along I hated it, so last year I tried KDE4.I kid you not, I logged in and couldn't even figure out basic stuff. Just launching an app or configuring the screen background was a chore. The mouse seemed to trigger everything, making menus and windows popup and disappear seemingly at random. There were weird hot spots. It was frustrating jsut trying to shut the awful thing down. I tried maybe a half dozen times to log on and figure out what was going on, but in the end it was just way too hard to use, I had no real interest in figuring it out by trial and error, it is counter-intuitive as all heck, and it is horribly slow as well. So I said goodbye forever to KDE and decided to make a try with Gnome3.
I tried Mint after hearing they had improved Gnome3. I tried Gnome3 but it has a horrendous interface, not as bad as KDE but still really weird with hotspots and weird popups. The start menu is a multilevel fixed-size thing, like a retarded throwback to Windows 98 or something. So awkward. Cinnamon and MATE are awful as well, well maybe slightly better, but I always hated gnome 2 so thats not surprising. At this point I'm going to start exploring alternatives. Fvwm worked well for me in college, and there are others.
It's really sad. Linux used to be a breeze to use with KDE2 or 3, or fvwm, a much better experience than windows. Now Destktop Linux has self-destructed. WINDOWS 7 IS A FAR BETTER UI than current versions of Gnome or KDE, despite being annoying in its own right. Sorry but its true.
I still prefer Linux in many ways, and Windows 8 promises to be even worse than KDE4. The quest continues...
Toilet paper. I'll bet employers would jump at this, it would be even more useless than that awful waxed toilet paper. Employees would almost be forced to do their business at home, saving the company money. (And as a bonus, what little tissue they did use would be reusable!)
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> If god is all powerful, could he make a stone so heavy even he couldn't lift it.
Of course he could, silly! Lifting a physical stone requires physical force. For the question to be meaningful, God would have to enter the finite universe and take on a finite physical form. Having done so, the answer to the question is painfully obvious.
One could go further and point out that God has already done so, as a matter of historical record, rendering the question disingenious.
This idea is fine and good, but if they make you sign for it, then the customer ends up taking responsibility and eating the loss. Not at first but it could easily move in that direction. Why else go to the expense of putting it in there? They just want a way to shift the blame. Either force the customer to take responsibility by signing, or force the delivery company to take responsibility due to jostling. Either way the seller no longer has to eat the cost of damaged merchandise.
Do you sign if it took several medium bumps? Do you EVER sign? What if it was defective, or only took a mild jostle to break?
If you don't sign and send it back, but it turns out it wasn't broken, do you still have to pay the shipping?
This will lead to having to insure every shipment, or take your chances.
Oops, that was me, I didn't sign in.
Well, if that's what it looks like then the propaganda machine has done its work well. Because all either party cares about is money and power.
There are a lot of people who'll sign something as a joke, but I'm guessing that the 125,000 people who signed the Texas secession petition took it very seriously. Just because you don't like the idea doesn't mean it's stupid.
No I'm not from Texas, and yes I'd hate to lose them too.
Diablo 2. MS Train Simulator. RR Tycoon 3.
The future is now! It's called inflation...
If you define intelligence as neural connections, sure... but there are different qualities of intelligence. My wife has practically memorized every episode of Star Trek. That's a fair bit of neural connections, there, and it is a form of intelligence, but it is a useless one. How about the neural conditioning that Krispy Kreme donuts are yummy? It is learning and thus "intelligence" but is it intelligent? Then again who judges what is good intelligence and what is worthless intelligence?
Wow I never thought of that! But so true...
Oops. Wasn't logged in.
says the AC!
That's the voice of experience, folks.
Now the BSOD experience can be immersive!
Shouldn't that be the hatchback of Notre-dame?
> Really? Can they vote? Get married? Become elected officials?
Sure they can marry, marriage between corporations is called a merger, and marriage between a corp and a human is variously called a EULA or a anti-piracy treaty. Either way you get fucked, and if you break it you spend the rest of your life paying alimony.
Voting and getting elected? Who needs that when you control the media and have a bottomless bribe chest?
Ford also anticipates sales of new cars to increase...
Also lynx and bobcats, which are definitely wild.
I was a faithful KDE user up until KDE 4. I couldn't care less how it looks, I want something that:
- mostly works as I expect it to out of the box, and isn't too hard to figure out when it doesn't
- is fast
- doesn't require a lot of fiddling to get stuff running, but is highly configurable so I can customize it to taste
KDE3 did that. It was virtually plug and play, worked a lot like Windows which was fine since I often had to switch backand forth, but let me configure everything. Controls and options were easy to find. I greatly preferred it to Windows, and gnome was horrible.
But KDE4 was so hideously ugly with huge space-wasting icons and frame borders so I didn't try it for a long time, plus at work everyone used gnome 2 on Ubuntu or Fedora and it was easier to go with the flow. And by all reports KDE4 was unstable. In the end I have to get work done, not futz around with a half baked alpha-ware. I never really liked Gnome 2, it was simplistic and unconfigurable, but I got used to it.
When Gnome3 came along I hated it, so last year I tried KDE4.I kid you not, I logged in and couldn't even figure out basic stuff. Just launching an app or configuring the screen background was a chore. The mouse seemed to trigger everything, making menus and windows popup and disappear seemingly at random. There were weird hot spots. It was frustrating jsut trying to shut the awful thing down. I tried maybe a half dozen times to log on and figure out what was going on, but in the end it was just way too hard to use, I had no real interest in figuring it out by trial and error, it is counter-intuitive as all heck, and it is horribly slow as well. So I said goodbye forever to KDE and decided to make a try with Gnome3.
I tried Mint after hearing they had improved Gnome3. I tried Gnome3 but it has a horrendous interface, not as bad as KDE but still really weird with hotspots and weird popups. The start menu is a multilevel fixed-size thing, like a retarded throwback to Windows 98 or something. So awkward. Cinnamon and MATE are awful as well, well maybe slightly better, but I always hated gnome 2 so thats not surprising. At this point I'm going to start exploring alternatives. Fvwm worked well for me in college, and there are others.
It's really sad. Linux used to be a breeze to use with KDE2 or 3, or fvwm, a much better experience than windows. Now Destktop Linux has self-destructed. WINDOWS 7 IS A FAR BETTER UI than current versions of Gnome or KDE, despite being annoying in its own right. Sorry but its true.
I still prefer Linux in many ways, and Windows 8 promises to be even worse than KDE4. The quest continues...
My wife is weak and missing fingers? To think after all these years, she's still a mystery to me...
Toilet paper. I'll bet employers would jump at this, it would be even more useless than that awful waxed toilet paper. Employees would almost be forced to do their business at home, saving the company money. (And as a bonus, what little tissue they did use would be reusable!)
You put the toothpaste on your brush? I apply it directly to my teeth!
Which one does Disney fall under?
A mach 20 aircraft would be an awesome piece of technology. I'm sad to see this research end.
Slashdor is right between Gondor and Mordor...
Don't forget the "A problem has been detected" value.