Germany started World War II under the leadership of a party that is banned in Germany today, and Germany did not start WWI--to tell the truth, the gears of war were prepped up long before even Gavrilo Princip shot the Austrian archduke. Comparing modern Germany to Nazi Germany is much, much worse than comparing modern Germany to the modern US.
I'm not a huge Apple fanboy, but part of the reason is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and another part of the reason is that Microsoft software is so horrible that only a masochist would want to be locked into it whereas with Apple it's a mixed bag.
How do you get your GMail out? Any mail client that allows POP.
How do your Google Talk friends reach you? Any Jabber account will do.
How do you stop being tracked by Google's tracking cookies (DoubleClick, Adsense, Analytics)? NoScript does that on Firefox, I'm sure there's something equivalent on most other browsers worth their own salt and also on IE.
How do your Docs and Spreadsheets get migrated? The Google apps allow you to export as.doc or.xls files. No ODF yet, unfortunately, but they have a track record of not making this sort of thing impossible for long.
Where do your Picasa photos go? I haven't used Picasa but I'm sure there's some way given that I've seen Picasa-edited photos on Facebook.
More importantly, how do you advertise online? How do you make money from online advertising? This, perhaps?
Microsoft never "stood up" to IBM. They went into a completely consensual business deal and then Microsoft made shady deals with OEMs to prevent OS/2 from taking off.
I'd pick #3, given that Saint Nicholas(in Dutch, Sinterklaas aka Santa Claus) was a real person who existed in the universe, so how could he create it, given that he's part of it?
Evolution says nothing about abiogenesis. All it says is what happened after the abiogenesis. Same with the Big Bang--all it says is what happens after the universe is created.
Sheep herd together because if there are a bunch of sheep there it's probably the good grass, and if there are any wolves the sheep they'll get to first are the ones on the edge.
I've only seen those sort of lessons about power plants in classes called "Earth Science" and "Environmental Science". In physics I learned physics, in biology I learned biology, and in chemistry I will learn chemistry. I also live in the United States.
I was not interpreting that statement as a criticism of the GPL, merely as containing incorrect statements. You mentioned people claiming that the GPL deprived developers of freedoms, which is exactly what BSD people do. You're the one reading into my statements using them as evidence for your silly cult hypothesis.
The Big Bang theory doesn't say what happened before. The Big Bang says things only about the progression of the universe after its beginning. The difference between the Big Bang and a literal reading of Genesis is that the Big Bang is based on natural laws that have been discovered.
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The Tunguska explosion happened because the American populace was sleeping while the Syndicate traded lives for Black Oil.
I thought God wanted his followers to follow them purely out of their hearts and not because they want to go to heaven/not go to hell.
Santa Claus does exist though. Go learn up on Saint Nicholas of Myra.
That would be me.
It's very hard to be worse than the current HMO system in the US. That is all.
How's Raelianism working out for you?
Bacteria have been trained to eat nylon.
In those cases we can just replace "God" with "The Cylons": "The Cylons have a plan".
Germany started World War II under the leadership of a party that is banned in Germany today, and Germany did not start WWI--to tell the truth, the gears of war were prepped up long before even Gavrilo Princip shot the Austrian archduke. Comparing modern Germany to Nazi Germany is much, much worse than comparing modern Germany to the modern US.
I'm not a huge Apple fanboy, but part of the reason is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and another part of the reason is that Microsoft software is so horrible that only a masochist would want to be locked into it whereas with Apple it's a mixed bag.
That was because Mac OS in the 90s was crap more concentrated than that of Windows. Doesn't make Windows good, makes Mac OS really bad.
Microsoft never "stood up" to IBM. They went into a completely consensual business deal and then Microsoft made shady deals with OEMs to prevent OS/2 from taking off.
But Microsoft already is dead :P
Well, yeah, if he's drunk the koolaid he'll probably be dying soon so it won't really matter what happens by then.
ID is about Christianity
I'd pick #3, given that Saint Nicholas(in Dutch, Sinterklaas aka Santa Claus) was a real person who existed in the universe, so how could he create it, given that he's part of it?
Evolution says nothing about abiogenesis. All it says is what happened after the abiogenesis. Same with the Big Bang--all it says is what happens after the universe is created.
The question is: will they industrialize before two generations? Because if they don't, the massive gender imbalance will make things interesting.
Sheep herd together because if there are a bunch of sheep there it's probably the good grass, and if there are any wolves the sheep they'll get to first are the ones on the edge.
And the hookers.
I've only seen those sort of lessons about power plants in classes called "Earth Science" and "Environmental Science". In physics I learned physics, in biology I learned biology, and in chemistry I will learn chemistry. I also live in the United States.
Haruspicy is a better form of divination anyway.
I was not interpreting that statement as a criticism of the GPL, merely as containing incorrect statements. You mentioned people claiming that the GPL deprived developers of freedoms, which is exactly what BSD people do. You're the one reading into my statements using them as evidence for your silly cult hypothesis.
The Big Bang theory doesn't say what happened before. The Big Bang says things only about the progression of the universe after its beginning. The difference between the Big Bang and a literal reading of Genesis is that the Big Bang is based on natural laws that have been discovered.