Why? The supply and demand model is based on the idea of scarcity of a resource. The product they are selling, a digital copy of a piece of music, has no scarcity. You can make as many copies as you want for virtually no cost.
Microevolution and macroevolution don't exist. It's a false dichotomy created by creationists to use as a straw man. What creationists call macroevolution is actually millions of tiny variations (microevolution) adding up to big differences between species. They are one in the same. As always, creationists fail to understand that we are talking about processes that happen over billions of years down through trillions of generations for some organisms. The standard of proof they require, like seeing a dog give birth to a cat, can't happen. Evolution doesn't work that way, and biologists have never claimed that it has.
It's the German army. I don't think it's that difficult to figure it out from context for English readers, but I speak German so I'm probably not the best person to make that judgment.
Did you stop reading after the sentence you quoted? There was an "or" statement after it. The point I'm making is, if perfection is what is demanded by god then I don't think that's fair to ask, and I'd rather not spend eternity with someone so rigidly unjust. I don't care whether god enjoys my company or not because I don't WANT to come over and play! If the consequences of this choice are called "hell" then I say bring it on. I'm not calling god a liar. Hard to call something a liar that doesn't exist.. I'm saying if he existed as is described by most Christians then I find him to be hideously malevolent and I would like to be as far removed from him as possible.
And yes, I do know what is fair/right more than god does (if a god even exists), because god hasn't personally appeared to me and proven me wrong with appeals to logic and reason. Until that happens I'll continue exercising my freewill and free-thought and decide for myself what makes a person good and moral. And I decide that belief in god is not a requisite for me to be a good person. I'd rather be punished forever for living this way than rewarded for folding my hands and smiling every Sunday.
And why not simply make an exception for DNA? There's no reason why we can't, as a society, decide that the human genome doesn't follow the same rules as other forms of information.
Sounds like a great way to create thousands of new jobs. Think of all the technicians and office workers that would be required to process all that information. They could make it part of the stimulus package.
Do you know how many places I've left my DNA?! Because I don't!
It's only a matter of time before it would be falsely linked to a crime scene. I don't need the state to do this to protect me. My best defense against crime is my CCW. You can have my DNA sample when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
So if I try my best to live a good and moral life because it's just the right thing to do but am less than perfect I get punished for eternity because I don't believe the christ-myth, but a person who is a murderer and rapist all their life who repents and believes in Jesus gets a free pass into heaven?
I think I'll pass on the offer. Either god is fair and I'll be judged as a good person, or he is immeasurably cruel and I'd rather not spend even a moment with him. That's assuming their even is a god.
I just logically eliminated the need for your--or any--religion
I purchase a game through Steam and it downloads and is installed. It creates a directory containing all of the game data. If I want I can copy that directory to any other computer and play it as much as I want without logging in our validating or even installing steam at all. No DRM to speak of, no serial numbers, nothing. If I don't want a game anymore, I can remove it from my account and give it away or sell it to someone else.
When steam looks like that, then I'll use it. I know that will never, ever, ever happen but that's the minimum acceptable standard for me.
The difference is you can drag and drop files from ANY file manager (Windows, Linux, OSX) with those other MP3 players. You can't do that with an iPod, you MUST use iTunes to put music on it. Nobody is complaining that Apple made a music player/manager to go along with their product, the complaint is that they have locked it down so it's your only option.
Cars not only have personalities, they have souls! Every morning I beseech the machine spirit of my car to start the engine and have it run smoothly and reliably. It's worked so far.
Body type is mostly genetics. I eat a lot and barely exercise. I eat the same things every other stressed out, busy geek does (junk food, fast food, take out) and I'm barely at a healthy weight, close to being under weight. Strangely enough my parents were the same way, and their parents...
What class you are born into has more to do with where you'll end up than how hard you try in life. It's possible to move between classes, but the so called upward mobility we pride ourselves on in America is largely fictional.
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Why? The supply and demand model is based on the idea of scarcity of a resource. The product they are selling, a digital copy of a piece of music, has no scarcity. You can make as many copies as you want for virtually no cost.
You can now remove all of those things from the install (and more, including IE). You might be interested in reading this review of build 7048 by Paul Thurrott.
Microevolution and macroevolution don't exist. It's a false dichotomy created by creationists to use as a straw man. What creationists call macroevolution is actually millions of tiny variations (microevolution) adding up to big differences between species. They are one in the same. As always, creationists fail to understand that we are talking about processes that happen over billions of years down through trillions of generations for some organisms. The standard of proof they require, like seeing a dog give birth to a cat, can't happen. Evolution doesn't work that way, and biologists have never claimed that it has.
It's the German army. I don't think it's that difficult to figure it out from context for English readers, but I speak German so I'm probably not the best person to make that judgment.
Did you stop reading after the sentence you quoted? There was an "or" statement after it. The point I'm making is, if perfection is what is demanded by god then I don't think that's fair to ask, and I'd rather not spend eternity with someone so rigidly unjust. I don't care whether god enjoys my company or not because I don't WANT to come over and play! If the consequences of this choice are called "hell" then I say bring it on. I'm not calling god a liar. Hard to call something a liar that doesn't exist.. I'm saying if he existed as is described by most Christians then I find him to be hideously malevolent and I would like to be as far removed from him as possible.
And yes, I do know what is fair/right more than god does (if a god even exists), because god hasn't personally appeared to me and proven me wrong with appeals to logic and reason. Until that happens I'll continue exercising my freewill and free-thought and decide for myself what makes a person good and moral. And I decide that belief in god is not a requisite for me to be a good person. I'd rather be punished forever for living this way than rewarded for folding my hands and smiling every Sunday.
Much of our legal system already doesn't make much sense. And we have a way to make collective decisions as a society, it's called government.
And why not simply make an exception for DNA? There's no reason why we can't, as a society, decide that the human genome doesn't follow the same rules as other forms of information.
Sounds like a great way to create thousands of new jobs. Think of all the technicians and office workers that would be required to process all that information. They could make it part of the stimulus package.
Do you know how many places I've left my DNA?! Because I don't!
It's only a matter of time before it would be falsely linked to a crime scene. I don't need the state to do this to protect me. My best defense against crime is my CCW. You can have my DNA sample when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
So if I try my best to live a good and moral life because it's just the right thing to do but am less than perfect I get punished for eternity because I don't believe the christ-myth, but a person who is a murderer and rapist all their life who repents and believes in Jesus gets a free pass into heaven?
I think I'll pass on the offer. Either god is fair and I'll be judged as a good person, or he is immeasurably cruel and I'd rather not spend even a moment with him. That's assuming their even is a god.
I just logically eliminated the need for your--or any--religion
Well, good think I disabled UAC then. Now I feel safe.
Sounds nice, but what about all the humans who are otherwise good and peaceful but don't believe Jesus is the messiah?
If aliens are discovered will all you Christians finally admit that you're wrong?
And in Vista they dropped the Windows branding entirely!
Don't you usually skip to the end when you're ready to finish? ...or is that just me?
Three words: I can't remember.
Ace combat isn't a flight sim. Try Lock On without a real joystick and full keyboard on a PC
Steam should work like this:
I purchase a game through Steam and it downloads and is installed. It creates a directory containing all of the game data. If I want I can copy that directory to any other computer and play it as much as I want without logging in our validating or even installing steam at all. No DRM to speak of, no serial numbers, nothing. If I don't want a game anymore, I can remove it from my account and give it away or sell it to someone else.
When steam looks like that, then I'll use it. I know that will never, ever, ever happen but that's the minimum acceptable standard for me.
The difference is you can drag and drop files from ANY file manager (Windows, Linux, OSX) with those other MP3 players. You can't do that with an iPod, you MUST use iTunes to put music on it. Nobody is complaining that Apple made a music player/manager to go along with their product, the complaint is that they have locked it down so it's your only option.
Cars not only have personalities, they have souls! Every morning I beseech the machine spirit of my car to start the engine and have it run smoothly and reliably. It's worked so far.
Body type is mostly genetics. I eat a lot and barely exercise. I eat the same things every other stressed out, busy geek does (junk food, fast food, take out) and I'm barely at a healthy weight, close to being under weight. Strangely enough my parents were the same way, and their parents...
What class you are born into has more to do with where you'll end up than how hard you try in life. It's possible to move between classes, but the so called upward mobility we pride ourselves on in America is largely fictional.
Offtopic, but I really liked Democracy.
Sucks for you, in California we have In-n-out.
Several hundred to a few thousand years might not be renewable, but it certainly gives us a bit of breathing room to come up with something better.
Let's bring them back to use as a subjugated slave caste doing jobs that are too hard or dangerous for humans.