Going to hospital with heartburn is actually very common, especially for people with angina. Heart attacks and heartburn have almost identical symptoms, so it makes a lot of sense to go to hospital when you've got an existing condition.
I'm a fan of home roasting coffee. I used to use a hot air popcorn machine to roast small batches,but I eventually shelled out for a domestic coffee roaster. The freshness just can't be beaten. I'd recommend buying a quality grinder and trying an Aeropress - you'll be amazed by the difference.
It's not relevant as to whether an omniscient being can control you or not. If a being has knowledge of all your future actions, then it is impossible for you to do anything different - all of your choices are already known by the omniscient.
Actually, as physics is understood more, we understand the limits of our knowledge. Quantum uncertainty is truly uncertain - we will never have a super-scanner that can read the exact state of a rat's brain, let alone a human one.
Your devil's advocate position doesn't work that well because there is evidence backing up the Big Bang and evolution, but no evidence for a creator mythos.
Rather than "I don't care if this exists or not because it doesn't provide me with any useful information", I'd go for the "that is meaningless as it doesn't provide me with any information, useful or not.". I'd say that it is relevant with regards to science - if a hypothesis doesn't make any (falsifiable) predictions, then it's not scientific.
If you tell me something insane (the universe popped into being all by its self and life evolved through no external design)
It looks like you were calling them insane theories to me.
The problem with invoking a creator is that it appears to explain things at first glance, but doesn't provide any more information. I could just as easily say that the universe was created by invisible pink unicorns, but it's obviously nonsense and explains exactly the same amount as "God created it".
There is plenty of evidence supporting the big bang and evolution, so they aren't "insane" theories. In fact, the huge amount of evidence supporting evolution makes any alternative theories seem like crackpot ideas (unless they've got substantial evidence to back them up - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof).
As an atheist, I believe that there is no god, which is a statement of faith, the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby. The whole god concept just doesn't make sense to me. How can a universe have an omniscient being and free-will? It just makes no sense at all.
I used to use Unison for that, but it's a bit sensitive to having the versions the same. I switched back to rsync as that allows me to upgrade one side and still be able to replicate.
I seem to remember a while ago that google published stats on their hard disk failures and that SMART wasn't particularly useful in predicting failure times of drives.
I've personally seen several drives fail with no warning whatsoever and that's without anything dramatic like a nearby electrical storm to fuse the drive controller. If you don't have your data replicated, then either you don't care about the data (easy to recreate) or you will eventually become wiser.
The "If it's not done the "True Microsoft way", I'm going to infect your computer with malware" attitude that keeps Microsoft office software in its own little ghetto.
Resorting to vandalism doesn't get anyone to adopt the software. Writing excellent software gets people using software.
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Maybe companies that make stupid "lock-in" decisions should reap the rewards of their own stupidity and short-sightedness.
No, it happened now, but it took 27,000 years for it's now to reach us.
Going to hospital with heartburn is actually very common, especially for people with angina. Heart attacks and heartburn have almost identical symptoms, so it makes a lot of sense to go to hospital when you've got an existing condition.
Sony explicitly advertised the original PS3 as allowing "OtherOS" installs alongside using it as a console with access to the gaming network.
Really? Any evidence of that, like a citation or something?
Where's my mod points when I need them?
Someone mod parent up please.
I'm a fan of home roasting coffee. I used to use a hot air popcorn machine to roast small batches,but I eventually shelled out for a domestic coffee roaster. The freshness just can't be beaten. I'd recommend buying a quality grinder and trying an Aeropress - you'll be amazed by the difference.
Me too!
If you don't like the price, don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
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What case does he have to answer to in America? Did he break any US laws whilst in the USA?
I always use "sudo -i" to get a root shell
After reading that, I'll have to adjust my stance: I am convinced that there is no god.
(I'd like to distance myself from Douglas Adam's views on joining the European Monetary Union - I'm very glad that we (UK) didn't).
That sounds like you're an agnostic rather than an atheist although the line between the two can get blurry.
It's not relevant as to whether an omniscient being can control you or not. If a being has knowledge of all your future actions, then it is impossible for you to do anything different - all of your choices are already known by the omniscient.
Actually, as physics is understood more, we understand the limits of our knowledge. Quantum uncertainty is truly uncertain - we will never have a super-scanner that can read the exact state of a rat's brain, let alone a human one.
Your devil's advocate position doesn't work that well because there is evidence backing up the Big Bang and evolution, but no evidence for a creator mythos.
Rather than "I don't care if this exists or not because it doesn't provide me with any useful information", I'd go for the "that is meaningless as it doesn't provide me with any information, useful or not.". I'd say that it is relevant with regards to science - if a hypothesis doesn't make any (falsifiable) predictions, then it's not scientific.
It looks like you were calling them insane theories to me.
The problem with invoking a creator is that it appears to explain things at first glance, but doesn't provide any more information. I could just as easily say that the universe was created by invisible pink unicorns, but it's obviously nonsense and explains exactly the same amount as "God created it".
There is plenty of evidence supporting the big bang and evolution, so they aren't "insane" theories. In fact, the huge amount of evidence supporting evolution makes any alternative theories seem like crackpot ideas (unless they've got substantial evidence to back them up - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof).
As an atheist, I believe that there is no god, which is a statement of faith, the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby. The whole god concept just doesn't make sense to me. How can a universe have an omniscient being and free-will? It just makes no sense at all.
"True" scientists - are they like true Scotsmen?
Surely scientists would be more likely to say that God provides no testable hypotheses and isn't even close to being a theory.
I used to use Unison for that, but it's a bit sensitive to having the versions the same. I switched back to rsync as that allows me to upgrade one side and still be able to replicate.
I seem to remember a while ago that google published stats on their hard disk failures and that SMART wasn't particularly useful in predicting failure times of drives.
I've personally seen several drives fail with no warning whatsoever and that's without anything dramatic like a nearby electrical storm to fuse the drive controller. If you don't have your data replicated, then either you don't care about the data (easy to recreate) or you will eventually become wiser.
Just zoom in further and enhance until you can see the atoms
The "If it's not done the "True Microsoft way", I'm going to infect your computer with malware" attitude that keeps Microsoft office software in its own little ghetto.
Resorting to vandalism doesn't get anyone to adopt the software. Writing excellent software gets people using software.
I've got an old motorola a780 somewhere that ran linux fine with only a 200MHz cpu in it.
PKD FTW!