Let me also respond to my own post: Is personal responsibility compatible with religion. If, after all, a god created me who is omniscient and omnipotent, where is there any room for free will, and consequently personal responsibility?
Is personal responsibility compatible with atheism? Before you break out the troll mods, I ask this in seriousness. If we are nothing more than a chemical being, then where does personal responsibility come into play? I am the raw computer I was born with, influenced by external factors beyond my control. I would never blame a computer for a programmer's error. How do we blame a person for its hardware and programming?
Actually, if you look at the OP's history, his posts are always followed by an AC message asking it to be modded up. Either a big coincidence, or Trisexualpuppy is trying to draw attention and upmods to his own posts.
If you read even half the summary, you would see Balmer on the list. Believe me, I had the same thought on reading the title of the article, but Steve's inclusion certainly covers it.
I am not an atheist. I responded to this post criticizing the logic. However, Flamebait != I do not agree. Unfortunately the metamod system is so screwed that there is no way to make sure the mods don't get points again.
You can call it BS, but it is not. I have one room where my CFLs have been going on two years. In my kitchen, they don't last three months. I figure it is due to three things. 1) It is directly under my son's room. He still likes to jump off the bed (he's six). This is normal, but I am sure shakes the heck out of the bulbs. 2) Temperature from being close to oven. 3) Lights are turned on and off many times a day.
None of these items are particularly unusual. If CFLs can't handle this, then I will not use them where they won't return a positive ROI for me. It is particularly irksome when governments think they should mandate that I use something... let me make the choices that are right for me.
You are correct in the gender detail. However, if someone even MENTIONED pliers and my scrotum, I think I'd spill any secrets as soon as I saw the pliers coming toward me.
Is it a worthwhile read? I'm always looking for good storied to read, and have never heard of this one.
-- and to Slashdot. Your search engine sucks. i typed matrix into the search bar, chose stories, and this one doesn't come up. Matrix is in the submission title. It is in the body. Yet your search engine doesn't find it. It did find one about a Toyota Matrix ad campaign.
Seriously. I actually like iTunes, but damn is it a resource hog. Sometimes it will chew up 90%+ of CPU for no apparent reason. It will often be unresponsive to clicks for a couple seconds. I am not sure what is so complicated about a music player that causes this.
And then every time it asks me for an upgrade, it insists on installing Quicktime and other things that I don't want on my PC.
I don't use Macs, but wonder if all of Steve's apps behave this way...
Sure it is. My best guess is to simply think that you are using the near-universal strategy of believing data points the fit your preconception and throwing out ones that don't. Much like what I am doing here.
And imagine those brains that become "inelastic" and slower to learn. Imagine having a body that is immortal, but a brain that is slowly losing function.
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First off, atheism does not equal determinism.
How can atheism NOT equal determinism? What enters into the equation to allow free will?
Let me also respond to my own post: Is personal responsibility compatible with religion. If, after all, a god created me who is omniscient and omnipotent, where is there any room for free will, and consequently personal responsibility?
There. I've offended everyone. Mod away.
Is personal responsibility compatible with atheism? Before you break out the troll mods, I ask this in seriousness. If we are nothing more than a chemical being, then where does personal responsibility come into play? I am the raw computer I was born with, influenced by external factors beyond my control. I would never blame a computer for a programmer's error. How do we blame a person for its hardware and programming?
Actually, if you look at the OP's history, his posts are always followed by an AC message asking it to be modded up. Either a big coincidence, or Trisexualpuppy is trying to draw attention and upmods to his own posts.
Put down the bong, dude.
If you read even half the summary, you would see Balmer on the list. Believe me, I had the same thought on reading the title of the article, but Steve's inclusion certainly covers it.
Howdy,
I am not an atheist. I responded to this post criticizing the logic. However, Flamebait != I do not agree. Unfortunately the metamod system is so screwed that there is no way to make sure the mods don't get points again.
By that logic you should also convict atheists. Many of its adherents have done evil things that make 9/11 look like a minor event.
You can call it BS, but it is not. I have one room where my CFLs have been going on two years. In my kitchen, they don't last three months. I figure it is due to three things. 1) It is directly under my son's room. He still likes to jump off the bed (he's six). This is normal, but I am sure shakes the heck out of the bulbs. 2) Temperature from being close to oven. 3) Lights are turned on and off many times a day.
None of these items are particularly unusual. If CFLs can't handle this, then I will not use them where they won't return a positive ROI for me. It is particularly irksome when governments think they should mandate that I use something... let me make the choices that are right for me.
Hi,
ILDASM and .NET reflection are not low-level profiling. Anything built on the .NET framework can hardly be called low level.
Yup. I've used it. It is a very useful tool. Note that this is not something built into Windows.
In Windows, we avoid this vulnerability by giving you absolutely no fricking clue what dependencies exist for any given DLL. Suck that Unix fanboys!
You are correct in the gender detail. However, if someone even MENTIONED pliers and my scrotum, I think I'd spill any secrets as soon as I saw the pliers coming toward me.
Will it help me to understand why I read Slashdot instead of doing something productive with my time?
If someone wants your information that bad, they just need a pair of pliers to succeed with the attack.
1) Step one: apply pliers to target's scrotum.
2) Ask them once to access the laptop.
3) If any resistance is given, squeeze the pliers just a tad.
Now, leave it to a bunch of nerds to come up with technical workarounds and miss the real point.
Worse than that. It says the outfit is sold out. I am NOT going outside or answering the door this Halloween.
Is it a worthwhile read? I'm always looking for good storied to read, and have never heard of this one.
-- and to Slashdot. Your search engine sucks. i typed matrix into the search bar, chose stories, and this one doesn't come up. Matrix is in the submission title. It is in the body. Yet your search engine doesn't find it. It did find one about a Toyota Matrix ad campaign.
Then why does it ask to install the full freaking app every stinking time it wants to do an upgrade to iTunes?
Seriously. I actually like iTunes, but damn is it a resource hog. Sometimes it will chew up 90%+ of CPU for no apparent reason. It will often be unresponsive to clicks for a couple seconds. I am not sure what is so complicated about a music player that causes this.
And then every time it asks me for an upgrade, it insists on installing Quicktime and other things that I don't want on my PC.
I don't use Macs, but wonder if all of Steve's apps behave this way...
Sure it is. My best guess is to simply think that you are using the near-universal strategy of believing data points the fit your preconception and throwing out ones that don't. Much like what I am doing here.
The type of second hand story from someone you have never met in your life? This is the kind of reasoning that makes me doubt skepticism.
What?!
I think you illustrated the frail mind quite well :)
Nope. Metric cents.
And imagine those brains that become "inelastic" and slower to learn. Imagine having a body that is immortal, but a brain that is slowly losing function.