No, you should have over your money and when the thug turns to run, whip out a Glock and put a bullet through his skull. Then you can take your money back safely and with a warm fuzzy feeling of ridding the world of one more waste of oxygen.
Somehow, "Resistance is futile. You will be co-opted." just doesn't sound right, although in some ways, it still fails to lose its sinister tone when you think of who might possibly utter these words.
*looks up at the top of the page and gets a chill*
No one has had the balls to do a Battletech/Mechwarrior movie. Something based on the Blood of Kerensky trilogy to flesh out the story, possibly a series of movies, done as a trilogy. This could be the next Star Wars if the story was done right, and with today's special effects, it would have it all: story, effects, characters you'd care about. Wtf mate?
You still have that other option of not watching movies at all, having Netflix not get your money, and voting with your wallet. Doesn't seem you're willing to make that sacrifice though.
GP made a good point, but missed the detail that it isn't that it's provable, it's that it's falsifible. That's what science does. How can you disprove intelligent design when no matter what happens you can always say "God^H^H^HThe Intelligent Designer wanted it that way"?
This questions was brought up at the little 6 computer, 1 server company I work at. Trying to figure out a better way to backup our server's data than constantly writing to CD-RWs because they wore out too quickly. With Hurricane Katrina looming down on us, I realized that the day before it hit was not such a good time to find out that our backup practices weren't too ideal. Eventually bought a portable 40 gig USB harddrive, but before that I was using a 512 MB Sandisk jumpdrive for our backups, but I could never get an answer from the company on how reliable those sticks were and how many write cycles they were designed to handle. One source told me that they should be good for about 10 years worth of write cycles, but lately the stick seems to have started to be unreliable when being written to (it disappeared from the My Computer list while still plugged in or if it was there it showed 0 free space and 0 used space.) Thoughts? Comments?
...on a Saturday when your last full backup was Sunday? Takes some time!
Not a problem because you already have that flux capacitor working that let you get your Sunday's backup into Saturday! You have all the time you need!
This could mean the end of "but think of the children!" comments. You never know how they might be thinking of the children! That very post might be illegal!
If it's so full of holes and would be laughed out of the science community, why does it need something to replace it before that happens? If it's doing so well that you can't say "well, this looks stupid, this can't be right, it doesn't make sense" unless you have a better explaination, then it can hardly be said to have these huge holes in it. The only major holes in evolutionary theory are those of the people who know jack shit about it but are too ignorant to realize that maybe it goes beyond their common sense and hearsay knowledge.
Meteorology never answers why it rains, does that mean that we should completely throw it out? Cosmology doesn't answer why the universe behaves like it does. All it answers is the mechanics, the how. (Evolution does pretty good at answering how things evolve, despite your statement. That's what evolutionary theory is: the explaination of how things evolve.) Why should we posit intention (the why) where none exists or is needed?
Before you demand tolerance of others beliefs, question how tolerant you would be towards a Muslim extremist whose belief is that you are an infidel and must die, or the child molestor who believes that there's nothing wrong with sleeping with your 14 year old daughter. Can't you respect their beliefs too?
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that you think Intelligent Design should be taught. Can you please explain what topics of Intelligent Design theory should be taught and what should be covered? Can you come up with a tentative course curriculum on ID theory, what it emcompasses, it's principles and mechanics, predictions that it makes, and where future research in ID should be heading, and to do so by standing on its own merits, without being nothing more than an attack against evolutionary theory? Remember, this part of the biology course it would be in should probably take longer than the 20 seconds it would take to say "Some people think that Gawd did it." I'm truly interested to see what an Intelligent Design course would consist of.
The difference between semantics and arbitrary association of symbols is nothing more than a matter of scale and everyone agreeing on the same given patterns of association. Human minds are just big biological neural nets set up in very complex ways with some basic wiring programmed in at birth, but they learn to recognize patterns, rewire themselves to learn new patterns, and strengthen the connections that represent those patterns in a big feedback+feedforward mess of associations. We wouldn't know that the arbitrary symbol "mother" is associated with the female that popped you out if we weren't taught that.
Computers don't have the capacity or scale of complexity that the human brain has... yet. Hence, the lack of computers "understanding" so far. Remains to be seen. I have no doubt it will happen within the next 20 years.
Again, I would say let the quotation marks do the closing of the inside phrase ("We meet again") and let the period close the outside sentence. It's not correct English for some reason, but I think correct English is just wrong. Why it's correct with the period on the inside of the quotes, does anyone know?
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No, you should have over your money and when the thug turns to run, whip out a Glock and put a bullet through his skull. Then you can take your money back safely and with a warm fuzzy feeling of ridding the world of one more waste of oxygen.
Don't forget there are also some cyborgs that find your lack of faith.... disturbing.
"It comes in pints?!" :)
*looks up at the top of the page and gets a chill*
Hell, anchor the top part in space with a turtle, then we can have turtles all the way up too!
No one has had the balls to do a Battletech/Mechwarrior movie. Something based on the Blood of Kerensky trilogy to flesh out the story, possibly a series of movies, done as a trilogy. This could be the next Star Wars if the story was done right, and with today's special effects, it would have it all: story, effects, characters you'd care about. Wtf mate?
You still have that other option of not watching movies at all, having Netflix not get your money, and voting with your wallet. Doesn't seem you're willing to make that sacrifice though.
How many of those killings were Atheistically motivated?
"Why" as a question seperate from "how" implies intelligent intention. In that case, the question makes no sense.
And of course.... a tank big enough for the two friggin' sharks.
Why is anyone worried about the safety of a 400 lb person? They are already the biggest threat to themselves.
GP made a good point, but missed the detail that it isn't that it's provable, it's that it's falsifible. That's what science does. How can you disprove intelligent design when no matter what happens you can always say "God^H^H^HThe Intelligent Designer wanted it that way"?
This questions was brought up at the little 6 computer, 1 server company I work at. Trying to figure out a better way to backup our server's data than constantly writing to CD-RWs because they wore out too quickly. With Hurricane Katrina looming down on us, I realized that the day before it hit was not such a good time to find out that our backup practices weren't too ideal. Eventually bought a portable 40 gig USB harddrive, but before that I was using a 512 MB Sandisk jumpdrive for our backups, but I could never get an answer from the company on how reliable those sticks were and how many write cycles they were designed to handle. One source told me that they should be good for about 10 years worth of write cycles, but lately the stick seems to have started to be unreliable when being written to (it disappeared from the My Computer list while still plugged in or if it was there it showed 0 free space and 0 used space.) Thoughts? Comments?
Not a problem because you already have that flux capacitor working that let you get your Sunday's backup into Saturday! You have all the time you need!
Oh, you meant LAST Sunday...
This just goes to prove the point yet again that a technology won't take off until it's used by the porn industry.
This could mean the end of "but think of the children!" comments. You never know how they might be thinking of the children! That very post might be illegal!
Doesn't work, they can always just say "well it must be God's will, He wanted it that way."
Meteorology never answers why it rains, does that mean that we should completely throw it out? Cosmology doesn't answer why the universe behaves like it does. All it answers is the mechanics, the how. (Evolution does pretty good at answering how things evolve, despite your statement. That's what evolutionary theory is: the explaination of how things evolve.) Why should we posit intention (the why) where none exists or is needed?
Before you demand tolerance of others beliefs, question how tolerant you would be towards a Muslim extremist whose belief is that you are an infidel and must die, or the child molestor who believes that there's nothing wrong with sleeping with your 14 year old daughter. Can't you respect their beliefs too?
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that you think Intelligent Design should be taught. Can you please explain what topics of Intelligent Design theory should be taught and what should be covered? Can you come up with a tentative course curriculum on ID theory, what it emcompasses, it's principles and mechanics, predictions that it makes, and where future research in ID should be heading, and to do so by standing on its own merits, without being nothing more than an attack against evolutionary theory? Remember, this part of the biology course it would be in should probably take longer than the 20 seconds it would take to say "Some people think that Gawd did it." I'm truly interested to see what an Intelligent Design course would consist of.
Don't forget the monolith that will cause all of our Arcologies to blast off into space! You really enjoyed SimEarth didn't you? ;)
Computers don't have the capacity or scale of complexity that the human brain has... yet. Hence, the lack of computers "understanding" so far. Remains to be seen. I have no doubt it will happen within the next 20 years.
Kurzweil gives a pretty good argument against Searle's Chinese room in "Are We Spiritual Machines", with the chapter with this refutation available here.
Again, I would say let the quotation marks do the closing of the inside phrase ("We meet again") and let the period close the outside sentence. It's not correct English for some reason, but I think correct English is just wrong. Why it's correct with the period on the inside of the quotes, does anyone know?