Actually, I've had descussions in the past about how the Declaration is a poor foundation now a days. It seems clear that there are quite a few people that do not believe this 'Creator' to be self evident anymore. Not to mention that he was only talking about white male land owners, but that doesn't really pertain to this. I still maintain that 'self evident' is not a proof. It would seem to many that it is self evident the world is flat until you think a little harder about it.
Your response doesn't really address my points though. To say that somebody widely regarded as intelligent a long time ago disagreed, isn't really usefull. It doesn't really address how one can jump from 'there must be something eternal' to 'all knowing, all powerful God.'
Granted, I haven't read Locke in a long time and haven't reviewed your link yet.
It is awesome though how Jefferson basicaly got away with plagarism.
Good Lord, that is a poor argument.
I understand that we aren't getting the full text, but how he makes the jump from something eternal to "most powerful and most knowing Being" doesn't appear to have any justification. Hell, you can't even justify that the eternal object is sentient in that argument.
Also, since when is it a valid to say that just because a human reasons somethin, it is a certain and evident truth? I think we can come up with lots of examples where reason can mislead.
IANAP but what about "cogito ergo sum" isn't provable. I'm not aware of how this implies a higher power. The basis is that if you think, you must exist. You may not exist in the way that you believe you do, but on a basic level something is doing the thinking and whatever that is, that is what you are.
I'll chuckle when the religions fanatics chew on that.
I think they probably already have. Considering that people have been revived after being legally dead after drowning in cold water. I know that they've succeded for up to at least 45 minutes without brain damage. I'm sure they have some excuse for this. Heck considering people's near death experiences and seeing white lights, they probably think this is proof.
That makes complete sense. Undercover cops shouldn't have to identify themselves in order for you to be prosecuted.
My understanding of entrapment was simply along the lines that the criminal needs to initiate the transaction not the cop. So the cop can't ask you if you want a blowjob or if you want to buy some crack or if you're sell him some crack. Instead the criminal needs to ask how much, or you looking to score or whatever.
Granted in this case it was a tabloid paper and not the cops so it doesn't really apply, but it does seem like a cheap way to get a story. Looking around to try to convince somebody to sell you data is not the same as having people selling it to begin with. It is likely that happens too, but you don't gain many points in my book by being the devil on somebody's shoulder trying to get them to do bad shit.
Good lord people, I was being serious. No I'm not interested in killing people. I think the question is a valid one, what do you do when you feel the country and the world are heading down the shiter? I'm not concerned about myself. I'm doing fine, I'm concerned about us as a society.
the most freedom and liberty of ANY government in the history of man.
Don't get down to Gitmo too often do you?
I've never been that patriotic, but I did believe that the US was in the top tier of nations that respected human rights and individual freedom. I think we've begun to fall in those regards.
I know it says manufacture, but I suspect that is the cost for developing the first one. The actual mass production of these would be much cheaper bringing the per unit cost down to something more reasonable.
If you were male, it is unlikely you could have gone into the Clergy. It was a good gig and generally was reserved for the non oldest sons of powerful people.
Women on the hand could become nuns easily, but it wasn't a good gig and was generally for women who had been tainted by having sex before marriage or were raped.
Not a lawyer, but at least in the US, wouldn't this be considered entrapment? I don't think we would be able to prosecute this here in the US if something similar occured with a local call center.
I have seen many claims that essentialy the drop in mental retardation matches the rise in autism. Essentially we've exchanged a generic diagnosis for a more specific one. Nothing in reality has changed, simply what we call it has.
Also, there is some cursory evidence to suggest autism is at least affected by something on the x chromosone. The rate of autism in boys is much higher than in girls, but when girls do have it, it tends to be much more severe. Essentially the belief is that if you have two x chromosones, and one of them is bad the other can compensate and you just end up on the low side of normal. If you are stuck with XY, it is more difficult to compensate and you end up diagnosed as autistic. If you have two bad X, you're just diagnosed as severely autistic.
It is likely that it is neither purely genetic nor purely environmental but some combination of factors needs to arrise. Hence it is so difficult to diagnose exactly what is going on.
Libraries are where it is at. As long as some people still know how to read, we can put stuff back together. I'm not saying we won't fall behind a few decades, mostly because the real cutting edge research will churn to a halt while we rebuilt the mundane stuff. There is no way that all of the books in the world would be destroyed even if every city center was entirely destroyed, you still have all of the libraries and books in small towns and rural universities would still be intact. There are also plenty of factories around the world not located in cities that would be able to run once local power issues were solved. I'm not saying I would want to live in that timeline, and investing in some shotguns and rifiles would be intelligent if you did, but I don't think we'd be blown back to Roman times.
Bravo, the more I learn, the more I am annoyed with the way things were taught to me in school. There are so many things that are taught as a complete and proven body of knowledge as opposed to pointing out the very interesting holes where we don't understand what is going on. Maybe students would be more interested if they understood not everything has been done.
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Granted the ANSI SQL standard isn't followed as closely as perhaps other standards are, but if Nested Queries are in the standard, then I would have to say the RDBMS is at fault and not the book.
That might work with joe homeowner but a business that spends several $k a month on your service will expect phone support....
What about all of the small mom and pop businesses that don't have any IT staff? The ones that have one or two computers to handle accounting and Office and that is all. Those are the companies I would be targeting first if I were them. The work is very similar to repairing home machines, but they have more money to spend.
Considering the "music" that seems to be most popular accoding to the charts, why would I want to listen to what anybody else thinks is good? ( When did dancing become enough to get a person a record contract anyway? )
Granted there are people with good taste out there, or at least taste similar to mine, but I suspect the crap to quality ratio is going to be way too high.
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Your response doesn't really address my points though. To say that somebody widely regarded as intelligent a long time ago disagreed, isn't really usefull. It doesn't really address how one can jump from 'there must be something eternal' to 'all knowing, all powerful God.'
Granted, I haven't read Locke in a long time and haven't reviewed your link yet.
It is awesome though how Jefferson basicaly got away with plagarism.
Good Lord, that is a poor argument. I understand that we aren't getting the full text, but how he makes the jump from something eternal to "most powerful and most knowing Being" doesn't appear to have any justification. Hell, you can't even justify that the eternal object is sentient in that argument. Also, since when is it a valid to say that just because a human reasons somethin, it is a certain and evident truth? I think we can come up with lots of examples where reason can mislead.
IANAP but what about "cogito ergo sum" isn't provable. I'm not aware of how this implies a higher power. The basis is that if you think, you must exist. You may not exist in the way that you believe you do, but on a basic level something is doing the thinking and whatever that is, that is what you are.
I think they probably already have. Considering that people have been revived after being legally dead after drowning in cold water. I know that they've succeded for up to at least 45 minutes without brain damage. I'm sure they have some excuse for this. Heck considering people's near death experiences and seeing white lights, they probably think this is proof.
I'm also not a doctor, but considering the virus can be transmitted by other bodily fluids and not just blood, I'm guessing no.
But can it run... Eh, nevermind.
My understanding of entrapment was simply along the lines that the criminal needs to initiate the transaction not the cop. So the cop can't ask you if you want a blowjob or if you want to buy some crack or if you're sell him some crack. Instead the criminal needs to ask how much, or you looking to score or whatever.
Granted in this case it was a tabloid paper and not the cops so it doesn't really apply, but it does seem like a cheap way to get a story. Looking around to try to convince somebody to sell you data is not the same as having people selling it to begin with. It is likely that happens too, but you don't gain many points in my book by being the devil on somebody's shoulder trying to get them to do bad shit.
Good lord people, I was being serious. No I'm not interested in killing people. I think the question is a valid one, what do you do when you feel the country and the world are heading down the shiter? I'm not concerned about myself. I'm doing fine, I'm concerned about us as a society.
Is there a sad but true mod?
I've been showing up to vote for awhile now. It doesn't seem to stop the all out freefall of this country. Next suggestion?
Don't get down to Gitmo too often do you?
I've never been that patriotic, but I did believe that the US was in the top tier of nations that respected human rights and individual freedom. I think we've begun to fall in those regards.
I know it says manufacture, but I suspect that is the cost for developing the first one. The actual mass production of these would be much cheaper bringing the per unit cost down to something more reasonable.
Sure cure for insomnia.
If you were male, it is unlikely you could have gone into the Clergy. It was a good gig and generally was reserved for the non oldest sons of powerful people. Women on the hand could become nuns easily, but it wasn't a good gig and was generally for women who had been tainted by having sex before marriage or were raped.
I think he got caught because he was selling the data to a tabloid.
Not a lawyer, but at least in the US, wouldn't this be considered entrapment? I don't think we would be able to prosecute this here in the US if something similar occured with a local call center.
I'm sure you beat it more than once but what does that have to do with the game?
Also, there is some cursory evidence to suggest autism is at least affected by something on the x chromosone. The rate of autism in boys is much higher than in girls, but when girls do have it, it tends to be much more severe. Essentially the belief is that if you have two x chromosones, and one of them is bad the other can compensate and you just end up on the low side of normal. If you are stuck with XY, it is more difficult to compensate and you end up diagnosed as autistic. If you have two bad X, you're just diagnosed as severely autistic.
It is likely that it is neither purely genetic nor purely environmental but some combination of factors needs to arrise. Hence it is so difficult to diagnose exactly what is going on.
My father always said laughter was the best medicine. That's probably why all of my siblings are dead.
Libraries are where it is at. As long as some people still know how to read, we can put stuff back together. I'm not saying we won't fall behind a few decades, mostly because the real cutting edge research will churn to a halt while we rebuilt the mundane stuff. There is no way that all of the books in the world would be destroyed even if every city center was entirely destroyed, you still have all of the libraries and books in small towns and rural universities would still be intact. There are also plenty of factories around the world not located in cities that would be able to run once local power issues were solved. I'm not saying I would want to live in that timeline, and investing in some shotguns and rifiles would be intelligent if you did, but I don't think we'd be blown back to Roman times.
Bravo, the more I learn, the more I am annoyed with the way things were taught to me in school. There are so many things that are taught as a complete and proven body of knowledge as opposed to pointing out the very interesting holes where we don't understand what is going on. Maybe students would be more interested if they understood not everything has been done.
Granted the ANSI SQL standard isn't followed as closely as perhaps other standards are, but if Nested Queries are in the standard, then I would have to say the RDBMS is at fault and not the book.
What about all of the small mom and pop businesses that don't have any IT staff? The ones that have one or two computers to handle accounting and Office and that is all. Those are the companies I would be targeting first if I were them. The work is very similar to repairing home machines, but they have more money to spend.
Considering the "music" that seems to be most popular accoding to the charts, why would I want to listen to what anybody else thinks is good? ( When did dancing become enough to get a person a record contract anyway? )
Granted there are people with good taste out there, or at least taste similar to mine, but I suspect the crap to quality ratio is going to be way too high.
At least cars, houses and boxes provide something useful. I won't say the same thing about politicians or hunks of carbon.
Granted, people go overboard with all of the above, but there is some functionality there at least.