I hunt and peck every game. I also invariably end up trying to hump a corner for 5 mintutes while someone pumps nails into my calves before getting bored and blowing my head clean off.
Science is the one true source of knowledge about the *measureable* universe. Nothing more, nothing less. If it can be experienced and measured through our senses or through the tools we construct to augment our senses, its science.
Yet if you define science strictly
If we didnt define it strictly we'd end up talking about it more than actually doing it.
No, now you see you are furthering the line of thought that the bible is to be interpreted as science. It isnt. Its metaphor. Its valid, but it isnt science. Try to take the moral high ground, as it were, and argue scientific claims using the language of science. There is no reason to deny christians their religion while remaining scientific. Religion serves an entirely different purpose - maybe one that is even more important than science. The ultimate irony is that creationists have done more to undermine religion than to undermine science.
He would do all that just to foster debate on slashdot!? Seriously, are you creationist clowns not satisfied with rewriting the scientific literature that you must now rewrite the bible?
Dude, were it not for the fact that I'm not done trying, I would categorically state that I've tried everything. Reality has always bounced back before. If it didnt, mushrooms wouldnt be useful.
The mechanism by which evolution takes place is subject to revision. Evolution itself is an incontrovertible scientific fact. Incontrovertible scientific facts is what makes computers work, airplanes fly, and rockets land. Now, you may have philosophical objections to what constitutes science (who doesnt), but they are just that - philosophical.
And please stop equating evolution with "fossil records" or "anthropologists." The level of scientific proof for evolution extends well beyond the macroscopic level.
I say religion simply because it is a belief system that attempts to explain the world. There are plenty of ther such; I happen to think science is the best such
Science is not a "belief system." At the very minimum, argue from credible definitions of the words you seek to expound upon. Belief is not subject to evidence, science is.
the elections must be held
Science isnt subject to elections. The hoi polloi cant vote for evidence. If you're going to teach science, teach science - you know, bugs and shit. If you're going to teach religion, fine, religion is extremely useful as a metaphor for the human condition. But dont confuse the two and dont give up an inch when someone falsely obfuscates the difference between the two.
Watch the difficult to parse double negatives, troll, otherwise both sides of the arguement will chime in and you'll spontaneously combust from all the simultaneous orgamsm the replies induce in your little troll penis.
You vastly overestimate the power of trolls to affect useful people unlike yourself. Shut up. Your reasoning is incorrect. No one cares. People have better things to do than immerse themselves in the make believe world of trolls.
Every time I make the mistake of browsing below 0, I quickly realize why its such a mistake.
Osm never had any legal issues, you fucking moron. The whole thing was settled as a hoax barely one hour into its existence. I bet you believe what zik zak writes, too.
As long as we are off topic, let me just call the collective bluff of a significat percentage of people posting to slashdot. Prompted by your post and based on what I have to wade throgh daily on slashdot (that hotmail thread being particularly represantative) it is clear to me that most of you linux zealots do not and can not have the intellectual capacity to run linux even half competently.
So, between you an me, you're all a bunch of fucking losers running windows 98 arent you?
I'm using build 2000073104 now and it works just fine. Faster than IE. Instant rendering after a resize which is enough to replace Netscape on *this* machine.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there. What is important to understand in this discussion is that you are a fucking moron and Mozilla is great now, and getting better on a daily basis.
(Still rather ugly but we'll see if the frutti tutti or whatever skin doesnt fix that.)
Jerry Pournelle defined a 'dullard' as being someone who could pick up an encyclopedia, look up the entry in which they were interested, read just that one entry, and put the encyclopedia away again without reading anything else
You are making my point exactly. Hyperlinking demotes in depth coverage.
Slashdot Mirror
No.
I hunt and peck every game. I also invariably end up trying to hump a corner for 5 mintutes while someone pumps nails into my calves before getting bored and blowing my head clean off.
YOU BASTARDS!
Charles!
Yes, mumsy?
Release the attack corgis!
Science is the one true source of knowledge about the *measureable* universe. Nothing more, nothing less. If it can be experienced and measured through our senses or through the tools we construct to augment our senses, its science.
Yet if you define science strictly
If we didnt define it strictly we'd end up talking about it more than actually doing it.
No, now you see you are furthering the line of thought that the bible is to be interpreted as science. It isnt. Its metaphor. Its valid, but it isnt science. Try to take the moral high ground, as it were, and argue scientific claims using the language of science. There is no reason to deny christians their religion while remaining scientific. Religion serves an entirely different purpose - maybe one that is even more important than science. The ultimate irony is that creationists have done more to undermine religion than to undermine science.
He would do all that just to foster debate on slashdot!? Seriously, are you creationist clowns not satisfied with rewriting the scientific literature that you must now rewrite the bible?
The bible is 100% compatible with everything within the purview of human existence. That's its point.
Dude, were it not for the fact that I'm not done trying, I would categorically state that I've tried everything. Reality has always bounced back before. If it didnt, mushrooms wouldnt be useful.
The mechanism by which evolution takes place is subject to revision. Evolution itself is an incontrovertible scientific fact. Incontrovertible scientific facts is what makes computers work, airplanes fly, and rockets land. Now, you may have philosophical objections to what constitutes science (who doesnt), but they are just that - philosophical.
And please stop equating evolution with "fossil records" or "anthropologists." The level of scientific proof for evolution extends well beyond the macroscopic level.
I say religion simply because it is a belief system that attempts to explain the world. There are plenty of ther such; I happen to think science is the best such
Science is not a "belief system." At the very minimum, argue from credible definitions of the words you seek to expound upon. Belief is not subject to evidence, science is.
the elections must be held
Science isnt subject to elections. The hoi polloi cant vote for evidence. If you're going to teach science, teach science - you know, bugs and shit. If you're going to teach religion, fine, religion is extremely useful as a metaphor for the human condition. But dont confuse the two and dont give up an inch when someone falsely obfuscates the difference between the two.
Watch the difficult to parse double negatives, troll, otherwise both sides of the arguement will chime in and you'll spontaneously combust from all the simultaneous orgamsm the replies induce in your little troll penis.
Stifle it. Floyd is a well known troll. I guess you can say he isnt as highly evolved as you or I.
Jobs will take a hiatus as soon as the miniJobs prototype stops bumping into walls.
Er, no. I was replying to a troll. Right over your newbie head, obviously.
You vastly overestimate the power of trolls to affect useful people unlike yourself. Shut up. Your reasoning is incorrect. No one cares. People have better things to do than immerse themselves in the make believe world of trolls.
Every time I make the mistake of browsing below 0, I quickly realize why its such a mistake.
Osm never had any legal issues, you fucking moron. The whole thing was settled as a hoax barely one hour into its existence. I bet you believe what zik zak writes, too.
As long as we are off topic, let me just call the collective bluff of a significat percentage of people posting to slashdot. Prompted by your post and based on what I have to wade throgh daily on slashdot (that hotmail thread being particularly represantative) it is clear to me that most of you linux zealots do not and can not have the intellectual capacity to run linux even half competently.
So, between you an me, you're all a bunch of fucking losers running windows 98 arent you?
Its not so much the security I'm worried about as what happens when the sysadmin goes postal. Those BOFH stories were meant to remain apocryphal.
I'm using build 2000073104 now and it works just fine. Faster than IE. Instant rendering after a resize which is enough to replace Netscape on *this* machine.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there. What is important to understand in this discussion is that you are a fucking moron and Mozilla is great now, and getting better on a daily basis.
(Still rather ugly but we'll see if the frutti tutti or whatever skin doesnt fix that.)
You are more annoying than hair on soap.
SMalL ConSOLatION To mE bUT thANk FOr tHAT iNfORmATION!
If there isnt a "Cold call, scream FIRST POST!, hang up" module, it aint Open Source.
I've been informed that that my current ISP's sysadmins are all that.
The W2K update button on my start menu informs me only that I should update to Media Player 7.
Been there, done that, forgot to turn off the send myself a copy feature.
Oops. Didnt mean to post the above anonymously. I usually reserve AC for flames and trolls.
Jerry Pournelle defined a 'dullard' as being someone who could pick up an encyclopedia, look up the entry in which they were interested, read just that one entry, and put the encyclopedia away again without reading anything else
You are making my point exactly. Hyperlinking demotes in depth coverage.