You don't have a right to scare people with your fucking penis substitutes on four legs.
Actually yeah, I'm pretty sure I do have the right to own a dog. So go fuck yourself with a cheese grater for trying to tell me what I do and don't have the right to do, you ignorant fuck. I'm more of a cat person though, so should I get rid of my cat too because some people might be allergic? My cat isn't even declawed! OMG furry death machine! What's the cat-to-penis exchange ratio? Fucking retard.
If you're seriously afraid of dogs, why would you take a job that requires you to travel to and on stranger's property where there's a pretty good chance you're gonna come across dogs pretty often?
Or you're just an idiot. I''m sure I could lace my breakfast cereal with the nuclear material... in the same percentage "dilution in the sea" amount that roman_mir mentioned in his first post, which is so small as to be completely inconsequential, which was his point. Please cite all the deaths by nuclear radiation from nuclear plants that you keep talking about.
Huh, 62. Quick, ban cars! Ban swimming in the ocean! Ban anything, anywhere that causes more deaths than nuclear power! Which is pretty much everything.
Please provide a few alternative theories to evolution that would be appropriate for a science class (meaning based on evidence and not religious superstition) and have enough scientific, evidential backing to possibly provide a better explanation for special variety than natural selection of random mutation.
Yes, we also like to belittle people that pretend to have imaginary magic omnipotent friends. Just like you would belittle someone who honestly believed they had a leprechaun buddy or pet invisible unicorn.
It also makes a difference which particular brand of mythology your politicians subscribe to when they decide to start making public policies because they believe the End Times are coming in their lifetime, so fuck long-term thinking.
Guess you won't be getting a new flu shot next year! Let me know how that works out for ya...
You may be ignorant about all those many things, but what you aren't is trying to convince everyone else that those many things work through magic rather than how we know they really do, and that the "electricity theory" of hybrid engines and computers is all a lie sent by the Devil to make you sin. It's one thing to think what you want about something, but it's totally another to try to convince everyone that the scientifically accepted explanation is a load of crap to try to insert your own particular brand of mythology in its place. I mean, who wants to major in biology? That's just silly!
Popper's objection to it was based on a strawman understanding of evolution, which he admitted to being wrong about and hence corrected himself. Counterexample fail.
The reason is because evolutionary origin of species is not in dispute scientifically, except among religious nutjobs. The loud religious nutjobs only want you to think it is because they keep saying so.
But you aren't describing random mutations and random evolution. You're more closely describing something that can be compatible with intelligent design. Or in this case, inadvertent design. Crabs "evolving" into Samori face looking creatures and new breeds being created happened through intervention of... in this case... man. It wasn't some random, scientific thing that precludes there being any interaction.
No, he's not. The fact that the selection mechanism of natural selection happened to be personal preference of men rather than poor eyesight of their predators or some other "natural" source doesn't make any difference to the genes in the crabs. The mutations that produce the bumps on their shells appear at random, producing more or less random patterns that get passed on to their offspring and further mutated. The filtering mechanism of natural selection determines which of those patterns survives (is selected to be) to be passed on or not.
A more correct comparison to intelligent design would be if man had directly genetically manipulated the crab's genomes through DNA splicing and other genetic manipulation to produce samurai looking shells.
By the way, back to evolution, shouldn't there be dozens... maybe hundreds... maybe thousands of fossils of creatures somewhere between monkeys and humans? Or did that evolution happen in one generation?
Sure. Exactly the same way you can find every single one of your ancestors' fossils going back to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather. Well, except for the fact that fossilization is an uncommon occurrence and not every single organism that dies is fossilized. In fact most aren't. If you actually tried to learn something about how the world works instead of repeating stupid sound-bite arguments that your preacher pounds out from the pulpit, you would begin to understand how ignorant you are and how much of an idiot you sound like. How many gaps would have to be filled before you would accept humans as being descended from other primates? Every time a new intermediate species is discovered, would you then say "Yeah, but what came between THOSE?!"
Also, humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Except maybe your line.
Because no programmer would ever, ever think to implement a required security response before completing the tranaction. I mean, asking for a user to enter a pin/password or even simply hit "allow" is just ridiculous, right?
I can't imagine that making a secure system for this type of payment could be so difficult. Each vendor has a unique identifier that is linked to their bank account. Even if an attacker could spoof the identifier, they couldn't change where the money is routed to. And even if THAT were to happen, that money has to go SOMEWHERE, to a bank account that could also be traced and tracked or even just electronically voided after the fact if a transaction is found to be fraudulent.
I would foresee this system working in such a way that if you wanted, you authorize a vendor the first time by entering your PIN/password, and after that payments would simply require an "allow" click. Even this should have a setting to let the user choose to store a vendor in the "allowed" list or have them enter their PIN/password each time.
I personally can't see any greater security risk here than with using credit cards. What am I missing?
You might wanna recheck your sources about the implied atheism of some of your examples. Not that it really matters since atheism, being a lack of belief in a deity, has no inherent dogmas, ethical or moral structures that tell people what to do or how to behave, all of which religion presumes to. You would find it pretty difficult to find people committing atrocities "in the name of atheism", whereas it's pretty commonplace to find people doing the same in the name of God. Coward.
Evolution is both a fact and a theory. That descent from common ancestors through the mechanism of random mutation and natural selection happens is a fact. It happens. The framework of explanation detailing this fact that has predictive power is the theory.
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That, too, was my first thought; my second involved him creating sidewalks with big square blocks of cobblestone and a pickaxe...
Actually yeah, I'm pretty sure I do have the right to own a dog. So go fuck yourself with a cheese grater for trying to tell me what I do and don't have the right to do, you ignorant fuck. I'm more of a cat person though, so should I get rid of my cat too because some people might be allergic? My cat isn't even declawed! OMG furry death machine! What's the cat-to-penis exchange ratio? Fucking retard.
If you're seriously afraid of dogs, why would you take a job that requires you to travel to and on stranger's property where there's a pretty good chance you're gonna come across dogs pretty often?
I wish I considered Mars my back yard!
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Huh, 62. Quick, ban cars! Ban swimming in the ocean! Ban anything, anywhere that causes more deaths than nuclear power! Which is pretty much everything.
The KEYS go in the KEY BOOOOWL.
Don't worry, I'll wait.
How is he an asshole?
Yes, we also like to belittle people that pretend to have imaginary magic omnipotent friends. Just like you would belittle someone who honestly believed they had a leprechaun buddy or pet invisible unicorn.
It also makes a difference which particular brand of mythology your politicians subscribe to when they decide to start making public policies because they believe the End Times are coming in their lifetime, so fuck long-term thinking.
You may be ignorant about all those many things, but what you aren't is trying to convince everyone else that those many things work through magic rather than how we know they really do, and that the "electricity theory" of hybrid engines and computers is all a lie sent by the Devil to make you sin. It's one thing to think what you want about something, but it's totally another to try to convince everyone that the scientifically accepted explanation is a load of crap to try to insert your own particular brand of mythology in its place. I mean, who wants to major in biology? That's just silly!
Popper's objection to it was based on a strawman understanding of evolution, which he admitted to being wrong about and hence corrected himself. Counterexample fail.
The teacher should mark the wrong answer with a "please show your work".
I live in New Orleans. Even in the cities, this level of ignorance is pretty prevalent. :(
The reason is because evolutionary origin of species is not in dispute scientifically, except among religious nutjobs. The loud religious nutjobs only want you to think it is because they keep saying so.
No, he's not. The fact that the selection mechanism of natural selection happened to be personal preference of men rather than poor eyesight of their predators or some other "natural" source doesn't make any difference to the genes in the crabs. The mutations that produce the bumps on their shells appear at random, producing more or less random patterns that get passed on to their offspring and further mutated. The filtering mechanism of natural selection determines which of those patterns survives (is selected to be) to be passed on or not.
A more correct comparison to intelligent design would be if man had directly genetically manipulated the crab's genomes through DNA splicing and other genetic manipulation to produce samurai looking shells.
Sure. Exactly the same way you can find every single one of your ancestors' fossils going back to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather. Well, except for the fact that fossilization is an uncommon occurrence and not every single organism that dies is fossilized. In fact most aren't. If you actually tried to learn something about how the world works instead of repeating stupid sound-bite arguments that your preacher pounds out from the pulpit, you would begin to understand how ignorant you are and how much of an idiot you sound like. How many gaps would have to be filled before you would accept humans as being descended from other primates? Every time a new intermediate species is discovered, would you then say "Yeah, but what came between THOSE?!"
Also, humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Except maybe your line.
I can't imagine that making a secure system for this type of payment could be so difficult. Each vendor has a unique identifier that is linked to their bank account. Even if an attacker could spoof the identifier, they couldn't change where the money is routed to. And even if THAT were to happen, that money has to go SOMEWHERE, to a bank account that could also be traced and tracked or even just electronically voided after the fact if a transaction is found to be fraudulent.
I would foresee this system working in such a way that if you wanted, you authorize a vendor the first time by entering your PIN/password, and after that payments would simply require an "allow" click. Even this should have a setting to let the user choose to store a vendor in the "allowed" list or have them enter their PIN/password each time.
I personally can't see any greater security risk here than with using credit cards. What am I missing?
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You might wanna recheck your sources about the implied atheism of some of your examples. Not that it really matters since atheism, being a lack of belief in a deity, has no inherent dogmas, ethical or moral structures that tell people what to do or how to behave, all of which religion presumes to. You would find it pretty difficult to find people committing atrocities "in the name of atheism", whereas it's pretty commonplace to find people doing the same in the name of God. Coward.
I've never understood how, with a straight face, they could continue to say "yes, it LITERALLY becomes flesh and blood."
"No, it doesn't. I'm looking at it. It's still a cracker and grapejuice."
"No, no, I'm telling you, it's now LITERALLY the body of Christ. It's his flesh and blood."
"....No. It's not..."
Then we'll finally be able to fuck Sony back? o.O
Depends on how high the bridge is and your aim!
That pre-assumes that "why" makes sense as a question to ask about particular subjects.
Religion answers no questions.
Evolution is both a fact and a theory. That descent from common ancestors through the mechanism of random mutation and natural selection happens is a fact. It happens. The framework of explanation detailing this fact that has predictive power is the theory.
Talk Origins.org: Only a theory.