That is shockingly true, even if a bit contrasted. Why are people talking about the few thousand professional soldiers, that agreed to be in the army and willingly risked their lives and died, and not about the 650000 iraqi civilians that are dead?
Mention of Law +1 point - damn lawyers
Mention of intellectual property +1 point - imaginary, mindless term
Mention of Superhacker +1.5 points - popular usage of "hacker", plus a super tackled on it, also overloading Superuser - let me scream bloody murder k?
Mention of software and media stealing +1 point - you don't steal software and media
Mention of "The gist is that we need to start to police our rhetoric" +1 point - after overloading and misusing a lot of terms it is just hypocritical.
WTF! Mod my parent post down. I didn't preview so the closing blockquote tag had a spelling error in it, which caused what I've written to be included in the quote aswell. Seriously people, it wasn't a comment I'm especially proud of. There are many more posts that articulate the failure that is TFA way better than I did, although I guess the title of my parent post sums things up quite well. I think parent should be around +1, like it was for a long time after I've submitted it.
On the other hand I always wanted to do a "mod parent down" post referring to one of my own posts, so here it is...
This is what the RIAA has and demands. It is one thing to harass people with lawsuits and it is other to demand special powers for themselves to enforce their own interests. This is akin to the difference between a rich individual saying very stupid things and using the law to his own advantage and this.
Exactly. It is a fascinatic topic actually. This technological and economy success was named japanese wonder, signifying their development in the WW2-today period. Why is it that posters seem to think that china is doing some immoral thing by acquiring knowledge?
You can't fucking steal knowledge! Your post is not only ignorant and racist, but is characteristically showing what is wrong with the direction the USA is heading towards.
1. Buy a good PSU, one that is energy efficient.
2. Run powernowd (with AMD cpus, under linux), which scales down your cpu clock if not under heavy load.
The presence of ascorbate is required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and in plants and is made internally by almost all organisms.
The vast majority of animals and plants are able to synthesize their own vitamin C, through a sequence of four enzyme-driven steps, which convert glucose to vitamin C.
(...)humans have no capability to manufacture vitamin C. The cause of this phenomenon is that the last enzyme in the synthesis process, L-gulonolactone oxidase, cannot be made by the listed animals because the gene for this enzyme, Pseudogene GULO, is defective.
In 1959 the American J.J. Burns showed that the reason some mammals were susceptible to scurvy was the inability of their liver to produce the active enzyme L-gulonolactone oxidase, which is the last of the chain of four enzymes which synthesize vitamin C.
The biological halflife for vitamin C is fairly short, about 30 minutes in blood plasma, a fact which high dose advocates say that mainstream researchers have failed to take into account.
Humans carry a mutated and ineffective form of the gene required by all mammals for manufacturing the fourth of the four enzymes that manufacture vitamin C.[47] The inability to produce vitamin C, hypoascorbemia, is, according to the Online Mendeleian Inheritance in Man database, a "public" inborn error of metabolism. The gene, Pseudogene GULO, lost its function millions of years ago, when the anthropoids branched out.[48] In humans the three functional enzymes continue to produce the precursors to vitamin C, but the process is incomplete; these enzymes ultimately undergo proteolytic degradation.
You're right, and Dawkins does credit him in his book, although I have to admit that Dawkins' book was the first time I've heard about these stances that is why I referred to his book as a source of explanation. I've been just lazy to check before I've written my post.:)
The best case against any design claims of the human body I have found is vitamin C. Most mammals produce ascorbic acid for themselves (in way larger quantities than the official recommended human intake btw), but humans don't synthesize it for themselves. The really interesting part is that the body _tries_, but then 3/4th through the process, there is a damaged step that makes the body incapable of doing so. The process still repeats in the human body over and over again until 3/4th completion, and then the unusable in-between product is simply broken down by the body.
To be honest, if I were looking into the genetic betterment of the human race, this would be one of the first things I'd fix. It's well understood and studied, close primate relatives to the humans have the "good" genes to make the process work and it might extend life expectancy by years if not more, because digesting ascorbic acid can never be as effective as having it produced by the body, given that you don't normally eat while asleep and ascorbic acid has a very short lifetime until it is used up by the body. So well, no way in hell that this was a result of a sentient design.
Evolution is not intuitive. Richard Dawkins was showing a possible explanation why in his book, The God Delusion.
Basically according to the research he quotes, there are stances the brain takes of thinking. Like the "physical" stance, how an object will react to gravity, etc. But that is slow and not really useful in judging complex machines (like animals for example). So there is a "design" stance, where you judge the function of an object and determine it's expected behaviour. That is sometimes too slow, so there is the "intention" stance, which assigns intentions to things. That tiger over there is going to attack me not because it has sharp claws capable of killing, but because he intends to kill me so I better run. Get the point. Anyway, according to research, infants and young children are especially prone to think in an intent stance. Thus it is conceivable that the thinking that something must have a reason or intent, is something to be discarded through a conscious effort.
Because in an presumed emergency, you trust the authority figures who are tasked with dealing with them. If your an IT manager for a bank, and a child has just been kidnapped from the premises, do you really want to tell the police to go back to the station fill out a subpoena, and get it signed by a judge before you'll let them review the surveillance tapes to see if they show who grabbed the child. You could, but that delay might seal the kids fate.
I like to call this the 'Jack Bauer' defense. It is the "throw out the constitution to try some extremely unlikely 'save the day' scenario to work". The sad fact is that if you don't prevent a terrorist or organized crime from happening six to one month before it is planned to happen, you've already utterly failed at your job. Now this obviously doesn't relate to a kidnapping case, but a) A judge can be pretty fast b) The bank can choose to cooperate c) the FBI already has the power to request a judge's approval after the fact.
Only 7% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences believe in a personal god.
A general scientist category measures 40%, in contrast to the (american) general population of 90%. These are the american statistics
According to a survey taken on the atheism of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 78.8% strongly disagrees that a personal God exists and only 3.3% agrees strongly with that statement. Source is from Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion.
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That is shockingly true, even if a bit contrasted. Why are people talking about the few thousand professional soldiers, that agreed to be in the army and willingly risked their lives and died, and not about the 650000 iraqi civilians that are dead?
There are roughly 10000 people killed with guns in the USA yearly.
That's 27 deaths a day.
Curious that people get all worked up when those deaths happen at the same place, and the perpetrator is the same person. Human nature I guess.
That might be just the reason why is he still alive.
Mention of Law +1 point - damn lawyers
Mention of intellectual property +1 point - imaginary, mindless term
Mention of Superhacker +1.5 points - popular usage of "hacker", plus a super tackled on it, also overloading Superuser - let me scream bloody murder k?
Mention of software and media stealing +1 point - you don't steal software and media
Mention of "The gist is that we need to start to police our rhetoric" +1 point - after overloading and misusing a lot of terms it is just hypocritical.
Final score: 5.5 points out of the needed 4,
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They ARE open source. CVS access is available, sourcecode is GPL.
What you have to pay for is the convenient "snapshot" taken at a stable moment plus the packaging. You also support development that way.
WTF! Mod my parent post down. I didn't preview so the closing blockquote tag had a spelling error in it, which caused what I've written to be included in the quote aswell. Seriously people, it wasn't a comment I'm especially proud of. There are many more posts that articulate the failure that is TFA way better than I did, although I guess the title of my parent post sums things up quite well. I think parent should be around +1, like it was for a long time after I've submitted it.
On the other hand I always wanted to do a "mod parent down" post referring to one of my own posts, so here it is...
This is what the RIAA has and demands. It is one thing to harass people with lawsuits and it is other to demand special powers for themselves to enforce their own interests. This is akin to the difference between a rich individual saying very stupid things and using the law to his own advantage and this.
Exactly. It is a fascinatic topic actually. This technological and economy success was named japanese wonder, signifying their development in the WW2-today period. Why is it that posters seem to think that china is doing some immoral thing by acquiring knowledge?
You can't fucking steal knowledge! Your post is not only ignorant and racist, but is characteristically showing what is wrong with the direction the USA is heading towards.
I'm using the same debian installation for 5+ years now. It survived multiple computers, harddrives etc.
I'm still customizing it. There are a lot of tweaks that make my pc more productive, lots of scripts I've written over the years.
1. Buy a good PSU, one that is energy efficient.
2. Run powernowd (with AMD cpus, under linux), which scales down your cpu clock if not under heavy load.
You're right, and Dawkins does credit him in his book, although I have to admit that Dawkins' book was the first time I've heard about these stances that is why I referred to his book as a source of explanation. I've been just lazy to check before I've written my post. :)
Can omniscient God, who
/Karen Owens/
Knows the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change His future mind?
The best case against any design claims of the human body I have found is vitamin C. Most mammals produce ascorbic acid for themselves (in way larger quantities than the official recommended human intake btw), but humans don't synthesize it for themselves. The really interesting part is that the body _tries_, but then 3/4th through the process, there is a damaged step that makes the body incapable of doing so. The process still repeats in the human body over and over again until 3/4th completion, and then the unusable in-between product is simply broken down by the body.
To be honest, if I were looking into the genetic betterment of the human race, this would be one of the first things I'd fix. It's well understood and studied, close primate relatives to the humans have the "good" genes to make the process work and it might extend life expectancy by years if not more, because digesting ascorbic acid can never be as effective as having it produced by the body, given that you don't normally eat while asleep and ascorbic acid has a very short lifetime until it is used up by the body. So well, no way in hell that this was a result of a sentient design.
Evolution is not intuitive. Richard Dawkins was showing a possible explanation why in his book, The God Delusion.
Basically according to the research he quotes, there are stances the brain takes of thinking. Like the "physical" stance, how an object will react to gravity, etc. But that is slow and not really useful in judging complex machines (like animals for example). So there is a "design" stance, where you judge the function of an object and determine it's expected behaviour. That is sometimes too slow, so there is the "intention" stance, which assigns intentions to things. That tiger over there is going to attack me not because it has sharp claws capable of killing, but because he intends to kill me so I better run. Get the point. Anyway, according to research, infants and young children are especially prone to think in an intent stance. Thus it is conceivable that the thinking that something must have a reason or intent, is something to be discarded through a conscious effort.
Agent Orange
Posilac
There is more than enough evidence that Monsanto is willingly and knowingly putting human lives at risk.
Only 7% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences believe in a personal god.
A general scientist category measures 40%, in contrast to the (american) general population of 90%. These are the american statistics
According to a survey taken on the atheism of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 78.8% strongly disagrees that a personal God exists and only 3.3% agrees strongly with that statement. Source is from Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion.
13 years of fighting doesn't sound especially pleasant. I can't imagine what Randall had to go through to get his name cleared.
So when the bible says that you should kill your children if they are disrespectful of their parents, you do it?
If not (which I certainly hope), how can you base morality on the bible if you've got your own selective critera which parts to pick?
(I'm asking this, because you've said, "Christians, read your Bibles [..and act upon it]".)
"Okay buddy, you can have the top bunk, whatever, just leave me alone! I only killed my grandma so clearly you're the meaner!"
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