If you think it's cool to think about, definitely check out The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, which does exactly that. Tells a lot of great stories, I learned some fascinating stuff about species I had no clue about.
Instead, copyright is a government mandate that gives an absentee the right to interfere with the dealings of others. How can you tolerate that?
Isn't it because those dealings of others involve the work that I (in the general sense) created with my hard work and talent that it would be a good idea to be compensated for so that my ability to create future works, as in progression of the arts and sciences, is less hindered by needing to spend time making money other ways?
Well at least we agree in one area: if science could prove God, there would be no need for faith. Um... duh? The rest of what you wrote is simply an argument from ignorance and God of the Gaps: "we don't know, so it must be God."
Please provide some of that evidence of miracles based on the Bible. Something that hasn't already been discredited for a change, please. I won't even bother with the "missing link" and "monkeys to humans" strawmen arguments. Show where the Talk.Origins Index to Creationist Claims is factually incorrect. You might learn something about evolution beyond the strawman you seem to think evolution is.
Actually, your example just shows agreement with the parent's post. This is how theories are corraborated or falsified, thus furthering the pursuit of science. As new evidence becomes available, theories are changed and refined to more and more accurately reflect reality.
...he lets people play sometimes if they are a little short...
All I imagine is a little sign on the wall next to the computer that says "You must be this tall to play this game" and this really nice guy letting the little kids play anyway. Down will height discrimination!
When police officers make mistakes, they say "whoops, sorry, you're free to go now." When people who aren't police officers make mistakes, they go to jail. Police officers are people too, and they make mistakes just like we do. But that shouldn't exempt them from the consequences of making a mistake, just like I'm not.
Two reasons: choice and who benefits. Who would benefit from ATMs being easily hackable? Obviously not the bank customers (unless the ATMs were giving out extra cash, ha, that would last all of 2 seconds). It couldn't be good for the banks because they want people using their ATMs instead of having everyone only dealing with another person face-to-face for every transaction. People cost money to employ. The more people using ATMs, the less people going into the bank to need a person to help them out. Bank customers simply wouldn't use the ATMs because there is still a choice: use ATM or deal with a person. How much choice do you have when you go to vote? You either use the machines there or... you don't vote. Diebold wouldn't benefit from insecure ATMs because banks wouldn't settle for that.
Now, contrast that with EVMs and find out the chain of who benefits from their machines being broken and who gets to make the choices about them...
If you did a little research into it instead of dismissing it, you'd find that the test for sakki is done kneeling down, eyes closed, and faced away from the person with the sword. Usually these days the test is done with a shinai or a bokken instead of a real sword. You can say "oh they're just hearing the attacker move" or something along those lines, but if you've ever had a shinai or bokken swung at you from this position, by the time you hear the woosh of the "blade" through the air or the rustling of the clothes during the swing, you're already too late and the loud crack you hear when it connects with your skull confirms it.
Like I said, the skeptic in me wants to say "that's bullshit", but I find myself in internal conflict over the issue as a martial artist as well. I've looked to see if there have been any scientific tests done to monitor what, if anything, might be happening during this test to see if there might not be a physical mechanism for something like this (even if it does turn out to be some type of subconcious hearing of a sound that we don't normally hear or something "boring" like that, which I would be perfectly happy to accept) but alas, I have found none.
The duck-billed platypus has a strong sense of electroception and feeds pretty successfully using this sense. After reading about this originally in Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestors Tale", I found it fascinating and wondered if there wasn't some of that sense in us, albeit very weakly. I find a conflict in my skepticism about finding things like this in humans (although this could be plausible if a mechanism for it were found) and from hearing stories about other fellow martial artists in the Bujinkan and Genbukan ninjutsu organizations who regularly train for and pass the "sakki" test of sensing killing intention.
I seemed to have missed the point of your original post by focusing on that one point and missing your overall general point and I apologize because I agree. I wasn't necessarily disagreeing with you before, I just thought that particular fact should be made a little more clear.:)
Well, if the democratic process in a state leads to the adoption of "intelligent design" into the curriculum, then that's the way it should be. I'd rather have that sort of thing being debated in public at the state level, than to let every K-12 teacher make up their own curriculum.
This was already debated in federal court and found to be unconstitutional. And that's the way it should be.
Actually, wouldn't those 2 billion mobile phones be one of the reasons against that feature in an IM client? If I want to talk to someone voice-to-voice, why not just use my mobile phone that I can take with me everywhere and don't have to be rooted into my computer chair for?
International calling and airtime charges are some thing that you don't have to deal with using an IM client, but I would imagine (though I may be wrong) that if you're making a lot of international calls, you're probably someone who can afford both the international charges and aren't keeping track of how many minutes you use up.
What about online bill paying? If you were a phisher you could brake into someone's account and set yourself up as a vendor to be paid, get the check, cash it, and then delete yourself and your info out of the online bill payment section. Yeah, it leaves a pretty bad paper trail, but it's still doable.
Something similiar happened to the company I work for a few years back, except it was done by an inside employee from the bank who found a flaw in their online system. All current accounts (without informing any of the account holders) the bank had were given a username and the same default password when their online access system was set up. By getting a list of all the usernames, it was no problem for them to log in, set themselves up as vendors to be paid, and then have a check mailed to them from the bank automatically. They were caught when trying to cash the check and a suspicious bank clerk called for confirmation before cashing the check.
Is not hauling your ass down to a library merely a physical limitation? If you wanna live out in the boonies, don't complain that everything is too damn far away.:P
String theory seems to go some way towards an answer to this question of a "meta-particle" - that being, of course, the string - but as of yet provides no method of testing for it. Any theory that could answer that question satisfactorily would probably be our holy grail of a theory of everything.:)
In other words, you can't do it and won't admit to it. How do you expect to have an intelligent discussion over something you can't even properly define?
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If you think it's cool to think about, definitely check out The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, which does exactly that. Tells a lot of great stories, I learned some fascinating stuff about species I had no clue about.
Isn't it because those dealings of others involve the work that I (in the general sense) created with my hard work and talent that it would be a good idea to be compensated for so that my ability to create future works, as in progression of the arts and sciences, is less hindered by needing to spend time making money other ways?
A serious question, not being a smartass.
Please provide some of that evidence of miracles based on the Bible. Something that hasn't already been discredited for a change, please. I won't even bother with the "missing link" and "monkeys to humans" strawmen arguments. Show where the Talk.Origins Index to Creationist Claims is factually incorrect. You might learn something about evolution beyond the strawman you seem to think evolution is.
Please demonstrate your empirical evidence of God, kkplzthx.
Just curious, what would be your definition of "faith"?
Actually, your example just shows agreement with the parent's post. This is how theories are corraborated or falsified, thus furthering the pursuit of science. As new evidence becomes available, theories are changed and refined to more and more accurately reflect reality.
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Don't kill me, please. *ducks*
All I imagine is a little sign on the wall next to the computer that says "You must be this tall to play this game" and this really nice guy letting the little kids play anyway. Down will height discrimination!
>What's the sound of one hand fapping... wait... nevermind
Fixed.
Duh, rudder on the helmet.
When police officers make mistakes, they say "whoops, sorry, you're free to go now." When people who aren't police officers make mistakes, they go to jail. Police officers are people too, and they make mistakes just like we do. But that shouldn't exempt them from the consequences of making a mistake, just like I'm not.
Now, contrast that with EVMs and find out the chain of who benefits from their machines being broken and who gets to make the choices about them...
You missed the call by about 2 decades.
No, it's not.
Like I said, the skeptic in me wants to say "that's bullshit", but I find myself in internal conflict over the issue as a martial artist as well. I've looked to see if there have been any scientific tests done to monitor what, if anything, might be happening during this test to see if there might not be a physical mechanism for something like this (even if it does turn out to be some type of subconcious hearing of a sound that we don't normally hear or something "boring" like that, which I would be perfectly happy to accept) but alas, I have found none.
I sure hope they have some kind of disc-washing feature after all the hands that have touched those discs when done with them. Ewwww....
The duck-billed platypus has a strong sense of electroception and feeds pretty successfully using this sense. After reading about this originally in Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestors Tale", I found it fascinating and wondered if there wasn't some of that sense in us, albeit very weakly. I find a conflict in my skepticism about finding things like this in humans (although this could be plausible if a mechanism for it were found) and from hearing stories about other fellow martial artists in the Bujinkan and Genbukan ninjutsu organizations who regularly train for and pass the "sakki" test of sensing killing intention.
Solution: let's start making all cars out of mercury.
I seemed to have missed the point of your original post by focusing on that one point and missing your overall general point and I apologize because I agree. I wasn't necessarily disagreeing with you before, I just thought that particular fact should be made a little more clear. :)
This was already debated in federal court and found to be unconstitutional. And that's the way it should be.
International calling and airtime charges are some thing that you don't have to deal with using an IM client, but I would imagine (though I may be wrong) that if you're making a lot of international calls, you're probably someone who can afford both the international charges and aren't keeping track of how many minutes you use up.
Something similiar happened to the company I work for a few years back, except it was done by an inside employee from the bank who found a flaw in their online system. All current accounts (without informing any of the account holders) the bank had were given a username and the same default password when their online access system was set up. By getting a list of all the usernames, it was no problem for them to log in, set themselves up as vendors to be paid, and then have a check mailed to them from the bank automatically. They were caught when trying to cash the check and a suspicious bank clerk called for confirmation before cashing the check.
Is not hauling your ass down to a library merely a physical limitation? If you wanna live out in the boonies, don't complain that everything is too damn far away. :P
String theory seems to go some way towards an answer to this question of a "meta-particle" - that being, of course, the string - but as of yet provides no method of testing for it. Any theory that could answer that question satisfactorily would probably be our holy grail of a theory of everything. :)
In other words, you can't do it and won't admit to it. How do you expect to have an intelligent discussion over something you can't even properly define?