How is it fairly clear he does not exist? My observations of the world tell me there is an ordering principle, and the boundary between order and consciousness is fine enough that it's entirely within the bounds of reason to conclude that there is a god. A great number of people agree with me, not that that means anything. Still, your assertion on the subject is unsound (at best).
Similarly, I think you mistake the reason people support bad government. It's usually because it isn't that bad. Most people don't demand perfection, and can tolerate differences between their opinion and government policy as the natural result of there being a national population of two or more.
Buy a house in an urban or suburban area of California. Your opinion on the importance of property value will change in approximately 1.5 seconds... if you have an exceptionally strong will.
Well, in defense of the Jesus story, he was a religious wanderer. Those guys were a dime a dozen back in the day, especially in the middle east. In all likelihood, no one would have really noticed him except his followers.
While, you're right, the historical people as described and named most likely didn't exist, they could have been and probably were based around real people, eh. Really, what author doesn't model his characters off of people he knows? And, frankly, who cares? Especially in the case of religious figures. It's the teachings that are important, not the people themselves.
I'll admit that it was one of the best movies i've seen in the past couple of years, but frankly, if you look at the movies i've seen in the past couple of years, that really isn't saying much. Dimmed the magic, right. Ok, I'm done complaining now.
So they don't really have to worry about large corporate government bodies. If a british secret agent gets involved, though, they'd better watch themselves.
Not really. Most of the big ideas got tossed around seven or eight labs in various countries before becoming really useful. The exception is the material stemming from early NASA back when its tech was restricted from everyone else for political reasons (and in all honesty the principles that those guys started out with were bounced around several countries as well).
This is why development engineers and researchers generally aren't too fond of wars. Half our brains are in other countries, and anything interrupting communication means we have to collect twice as much data (bleh).
Right. The counterargument "it's respected by a lot of australians" is even sillier than the "it's the scientific consensus" argument. I'll grant you the point about socialist-style research, though I feel obligated to point out that if the government didn't get involved at all it would save even more money in taxes (not that that's ever going to happen).
I'm fairly sure this isn't correct. My brother, sister and I are all born in the same state, and they were born in the same zip code, but we have different prefixes on our social security numbers.
Ability to quickly comprehend practical mechanics and evaluate physical danger from machinery of various kinds. People that don't have it are dying by the busload. I'm talking walk in front of cars, stick your hand up a turned-on lawnmower, buy really damned hot coffee and put it in your lap instead of the cupholder while driving. It's the line of evolution that's been tugging at us since the advent of industrial-scale engineering in the late 1700s.
Mild vision defects haven't been a real obstacle to survival since the invention of agriculture. Major defects continue to crop up because they're the result of combinations of minor defects.
I think they're looking at you funny because you just presented them the mental image of you as a cat-man frolicking naked in the forest. I doubt their political ideology has a lot to do with it.
Yes, because Christianity is the only religion in the world, and all Christian sects ignore the fact that the old testament is a poor translation of a poor translation of a poor transcription of an oral history.
To be christian, by the way, you just have to be a follower of the Christ. Crackbrained political activism to maintain the power of the political bodies representing groups of christians is not required, even when it uses plausible-sounding misinterpretations of scripture as an excuse.
Not really. Being restricted from nonacademic activities (such as sports and flying planes in the air force) increases the likelihood of an academic career. So myopia is correlated to education, which pretty much anyone can tell you is completely unrelated to intelligence. However, the fact that intelligent and educated people are the ones that become famous for academic work leads to the false impression that smart people have poor eyesight.
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To be entirely fair, he'll need to start with other people to keep up with the rate of birth.
The origin story I'm familiar with is: Diablo 2, contraction of "woo! loot!"
This is why all the nobel prize projects have two Japanese guys and an american guy.
And 'contains more smart people than most places on the web' is roughly equivalent to saying 'has a slightly higher gauge pressure than vacuum'.
How is it fairly clear he does not exist? My observations of the world tell me there is an ordering principle, and the boundary between order and consciousness is fine enough that it's entirely within the bounds of reason to conclude that there is a god. A great number of people agree with me, not that that means anything. Still, your assertion on the subject is unsound (at best).
Similarly, I think you mistake the reason people support bad government. It's usually because it isn't that bad. Most people don't demand perfection, and can tolerate differences between their opinion and government policy as the natural result of there being a national population of two or more.
Not if the average is the median. Then I'd say it's pretty much precisely 50% above/ 50% below, not counting people on the line itself.
And spitting on every person who comes to buy a house in the neighborhood, then beating them over the head with a baseball bat, you forgot that part.
Which is why it's fortunate that no human broadcast device uses a wavelength shorter than UV. Orders of magnitude longer, in fact, at minimum.
Buy a house in an urban or suburban area of California. Your opinion on the importance of property value will change in approximately 1.5 seconds... if you have an exceptionally strong will.
Sleep: Save state, defragment. Yup, my computer seems to be the same computer. I'll go with that answer on my sleep cycle as well.
Well, in defense of the Jesus story, he was a religious wanderer. Those guys were a dime a dozen back in the day, especially in the middle east. In all likelihood, no one would have really noticed him except his followers.
While, you're right, the historical people as described and named most likely didn't exist, they could have been and probably were based around real people, eh. Really, what author doesn't model his characters off of people he knows? And, frankly, who cares? Especially in the case of religious figures. It's the teachings that are important, not the people themselves.
I'll admit that it was one of the best movies i've seen in the past couple of years, but frankly, if you look at the movies i've seen in the past couple of years, that really isn't saying much. Dimmed the magic, right. Ok, I'm done complaining now.
So they don't really have to worry about large corporate government bodies. If a british secret agent gets involved, though, they'd better watch themselves.
I'm looking forward to the caps on royalties that this case may result in, might make the patent system a bit easier to swallow.
Not really. Most of the big ideas got tossed around seven or eight labs in various countries before becoming really useful. The exception is the material stemming from early NASA back when its tech was restricted from everyone else for political reasons (and in all honesty the principles that those guys started out with were bounced around several countries as well).
This is why development engineers and researchers generally aren't too fond of wars. Half our brains are in other countries, and anything interrupting communication means we have to collect twice as much data (bleh).
Right. The counterargument "it's respected by a lot of australians" is even sillier than the "it's the scientific consensus" argument. I'll grant you the point about socialist-style research, though I feel obligated to point out that if the government didn't get involved at all it would save even more money in taxes (not that that's ever going to happen).
Yeah, but you won't hear about the penalty the system designers take because being downsized doesn't make the news, whereas being jailed does ;)
I'm fairly sure this isn't correct. My brother, sister and I are all born in the same state, and they were born in the same zip code, but we have different prefixes on our social security numbers.
Would anyone have listened to them if they hadn't gone public?
Probably, yes.
Well, that and engaging in criminal activity.
Ability to quickly comprehend practical mechanics and evaluate physical danger from machinery of various kinds. People that don't have it are dying by the busload. I'm talking walk in front of cars, stick your hand up a turned-on lawnmower, buy really damned hot coffee and put it in your lap instead of the cupholder while driving. It's the line of evolution that's been tugging at us since the advent of industrial-scale engineering in the late 1700s.
Mild vision defects haven't been a real obstacle to survival since the invention of agriculture. Major defects continue to crop up because they're the result of combinations of minor defects.
I think they're looking at you funny because you just presented them the mental image of you as a cat-man frolicking naked in the forest. I doubt their political ideology has a lot to do with it.
Yes, because Christianity is the only religion in the world, and all Christian sects ignore the fact that the old testament is a poor translation of a poor translation of a poor transcription of an oral history.
To be christian, by the way, you just have to be a follower of the Christ. Crackbrained political activism to maintain the power of the political bodies representing groups of christians is not required, even when it uses plausible-sounding misinterpretations of scripture as an excuse.
Not really. Being restricted from nonacademic activities (such as sports and flying planes in the air force) increases the likelihood of an academic career. So myopia is correlated to education, which pretty much anyone can tell you is completely unrelated to intelligence. However, the fact that intelligent and educated people are the ones that become famous for academic work leads to the false impression that smart people have poor eyesight.