They were planning on adding the Plus to the upcoming Super Serious Organized Crime Agency name that they're about to put into effect, but their CEO, ManBearPig, said that was going a little over the top.
Aubrey De Grey's SENS approach to fighting aging proposes just that and even proposes specific ways in which to accomplish it. Currently many of his solutions are technologically infeasable but are, in theory, possible. The "why it happens" seems to be known and the "how to fix it" part has the basics charted out. Once we are technologically capable of implementing it, what's stopping us?
You don't seem to comprehend what kind of timespan millions of years is. If you weren't able to convince him, it's probably because your argument is weak and unsupported, I'm just guessing. Please expound upon this.
What, do they have Precogs? I bet they have fancy gesture-based screen GUIs too. How can you be prosecuted for something that you were GOING to do, but didn't actually do? So ridiculous. *sigh*
It SHOULD have a negative score; it's off-topic, flamebait, and has nothing to do with the posted story. If you don't like the story, don't fucking read it.
You want as simplistic an experiment as possible. The simpler the experiment, the easier it is to rule out variables other than what you're testing for. IOW - good science.
This. This this this this. It is not the responsibility of the students, teachers, school boards, or government to determine what is and isn't science. Nor are the elementary school kids, high school kids, most of their teachers, usually none of the school board, or their pastors even equipped to determine the validity of any scientific argument. When there are entire graduate level degrees in something as complicated as evolutionary theory, the amount of arrogance to think that you have the evolutionary theory killing trump card that NO ONE else has thought of - and all without doing any research or experimentation of your own - is just astounding.
Cue arguments about a vast "pro-evolutionists" conspiracy to convert public schools to evil atheism.
You needed a one-time use code that came with the game to access the Back to Karkand expansion that you got if you preordered the limited edition version of the game, but I've never heard of anyone needing a code just to play the basic multiplayer. You do need an EA account linked to your XBL gamertag though, which I do agree is fucking retarded.
If their "shitty content" was really as crappy as you want to believe it is, people wouldn't be pirating it in the first place. Or is it just your douchiness that makes you think you have the most impeccable taste on the planet and everyone else is retarded?
The scarcity inherent in IP is time. People invest time to formulate an idea, do research, code a program, type out a book, write and record a song, whatever the intellectual pursuit is and put it into a communicable media. Time is something that people can literally never get back. Not only that, but it's even more than just the physical labor of creating the media, it's the time to get the education to code that program, the practice hours to learn to play that instrument and write that song, the education to learn how to use Pro Tools or Logic or Sonar and use EQ and mastering tools.
Think about what your time is worth to you, what your time should be worth to someone else, and what someone else's time is worth to you, too.
Maybe intellectual property should be renamed to reflect its real value. Perhaps intellectual work or intellectual investment. It won't stop jackholes who just want shit for free no matter what, that cat is out of the bag. What's missing is a respect for the work that other people do and what they've invested into it. [rant over] That's just my opinion, YMMV.
The computer you typed this comment onto would probably have something to say regarding the intrinsic value of science. At least, if it were sentient and could speak.:P
That's because there isn't anything to "know" about Creationism. It's a made-up hypothesis trying to kludge Biblical stories into pseudo-science and has no evidence for it except for supposed arguments "against" evolution, every single one of which has been shown to be false or erroneous. Post some positive evidence that Jesus created something. And make sure that it's unambiguously Jesus and not Thor. Or the FSM. We're waiting.
Wtf?! What "human right" is being violated by teaching your kids not to stick things in their mouths in an uncomfortable, slightly painful way? The right not to cry?
I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering who the fuck comes up with these absurd "rights" all the time. It's just a simple fact that young kids don't understand the reason and logic behind why they shouldn't do something, but they certainly do instinctively understand "Hey, when I do that, I get smacked/spanked/something else that hurts. Maybe I shouldn't do that because I don't like getting spanked." I don't even have to spank my son anymore, just the threat of it alone is enough. Fuck people without kids or parents who say "don't spank your child, that's abuse!". They're the assholes with the kids at restaurants screaming their heads off or running around stores like decapitated chickens and throwing seizure-like tantrums on the cereal aisle.
Define consciousness. Then provide evidence that you possess it. Then provide evidence that someone else possesses it. As an aside, explain how consciousness implies a theistic world-view.
It's not as if you're the first person to think "gotcha!" by pointing at consciousness.
In related new, another bat-shit insane branch of PETA has come out against the so called "Mario Bros" for their anti-turtle behavior, unusual cruelty to Goombas, and seemingly unwavering hatred for princess-kidnapping reptiles. Predictably, the "Mario Bros" had no comment.
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Doesn't it take a medical degree? I'd call that expertise. Otherwise, why would you need to go to a doctor if medicine was "so easy"?
They were planning on adding the Plus to the upcoming Super Serious Organized Crime Agency name that they're about to put into effect, but their CEO, ManBearPig, said that was going a little over the top.
False.
Aubrey De Grey's SENS approach to fighting aging proposes just that and even proposes specific ways in which to accomplish it. Currently many of his solutions are technologically infeasable but are, in theory, possible. The "why it happens" seems to be known and the "how to fix it" part has the basics charted out. Once we are technologically capable of implementing it, what's stopping us?
You don't seem to comprehend what kind of timespan millions of years is. If you weren't able to convince him, it's probably because your argument is weak and unsupported, I'm just guessing. Please expound upon this.
What, do they have Precogs? I bet they have fancy gesture-based screen GUIs too. How can you be prosecuted for something that you were GOING to do, but didn't actually do? So ridiculous. *sigh*
It SHOULD have a negative score; it's off-topic, flamebait, and has nothing to do with the posted story. If you don't like the story, don't fucking read it.
You want as simplistic an experiment as possible. The simpler the experiment, the easier it is to rule out variables other than what you're testing for. IOW - good science.
Cue arguments about a vast "pro-evolutionists" conspiracy to convert public schools to evil atheism.
You needed a one-time use code that came with the game to access the Back to Karkand expansion that you got if you preordered the limited edition version of the game, but I've never heard of anyone needing a code just to play the basic multiplayer. You do need an EA account linked to your XBL gamertag though, which I do agree is fucking retarded.
If their "shitty content" was really as crappy as you want to believe it is, people wouldn't be pirating it in the first place. Or is it just your douchiness that makes you think you have the most impeccable taste on the planet and everyone else is retarded?
Think about what your time is worth to you, what your time should be worth to someone else, and what someone else's time is worth to you, too.
Maybe intellectual property should be renamed to reflect its real value. Perhaps intellectual work or intellectual investment. It won't stop jackholes who just want shit for free no matter what, that cat is out of the bag. What's missing is a respect for the work that other people do and what they've invested into it. [rant over] That's just my opinion, YMMV.
Good thing it had OnStar in it when it did!
The computer you typed this comment onto would probably have something to say regarding the intrinsic value of science. At least, if it were sentient and could speak. :P
That's because there isn't anything to "know" about Creationism. It's a made-up hypothesis trying to kludge Biblical stories into pseudo-science and has no evidence for it except for supposed arguments "against" evolution, every single one of which has been shown to be false or erroneous. Post some positive evidence that Jesus created something. And make sure that it's unambiguously Jesus and not Thor. Or the FSM. We're waiting.
Don't forget the effectiveness of shitting on police cars!
Better question, how do they taste?!
I'm not disagreeing with you, just wondering who the fuck comes up with these absurd "rights" all the time. It's just a simple fact that young kids don't understand the reason and logic behind why they shouldn't do something, but they certainly do instinctively understand "Hey, when I do that, I get smacked/spanked/something else that hurts. Maybe I shouldn't do that because I don't like getting spanked." I don't even have to spank my son anymore, just the threat of it alone is enough. Fuck people without kids or parents who say "don't spank your child, that's abuse!". They're the assholes with the kids at restaurants screaming their heads off or running around stores like decapitated chickens and throwing seizure-like tantrums on the cereal aisle.
Duh. It's his propitiatory(tm) spelling of propitiatory(tm).
How is a post that is so obviously about Zeus considered "anti-Christian"?
I don't know what universe you live in, but I'm touching the space-time fabric constantly. In fact, I happen to be a part of the space-time fabric.
It's not as if you're the first person to think "gotcha!" by pointing at consciousness.
Al Gore.
NASA, is that you?
In related new, another bat-shit insane branch of PETA has come out against the so called "Mario Bros" for their anti-turtle behavior, unusual cruelty to Goombas, and seemingly unwavering hatred for princess-kidnapping reptiles. Predictably, the "Mario Bros" had no comment.