"I seriously doubt that mate. A random armed rabble will not overthrow your government by force. You have invented the most powerful Military on the planet."
Actually an armed rabble overthrowing the U.S. government is quite feasible. Look at Iraq as an example of how well an armed rabble can stand up to our military. Throw the potency of guerrilla warfare on top of the fact that at least some of the military would refuse to shoot their own citizens in their homeland, and you have pretty decent odds of winning. Also there are limits as to the degree of force that would be used as no ruler wants to destroy their own infrastructure. I doubt even Bush would nuke Atlanta to maintain power.
Which is more likely?
The universe popped into existence from nothing, or
A complex, intelligent, powerful creature (presumably with a beard) popped into existence from nothing, then one day decided to create the universe from nothing.
This is fairly straightforward. We have two actions. Something from nothing and Something from God. The first choice is something from nothing. The second choice is something from nothing and something from God. Therefore the first choice is always more probable.
Religion and Science aren't opposites, and don't nullify each other.
That's partially true. What science does do is tell you what the limitations on god(s)(ess)(es) are, as in lightning doesn't come from Thor. As science advances, the gaps that possible god(s)(ess)(es) can hide in decrease, although there will probably always be a hole where god can be argued to exist.
"Why would this craft not just use a long current carrying wire instead?"
This is actually answered directly in TFA. The short anwser is that this has the potential to be much smaller.
Other methods of propellantless space travel have been suggested before, including solar sails and electrodynamic tethers. Like Peck's proposal, tethers are also designed to get a grip on planetary magnetic fields, but in a slightly different way, by sending an electrical current along a wire.
Tethers may prove hard to control, however; and both tethers and sails would have to be huge measuring at least 20 to 30 kilometres, says Peck. "We're proposing something much lighter and smaller." He thinks he can get similar performance with a stocking about 2 or 3 kilometres long, and because it could be made from lightweight carbon fibre, it would have a mass of only a few kilograms.
"Violation of the constitution" is such a vague phrase. The constitution was written to be a living document that is not immutable. So to prove that their was a violation of the constitution it would basically have to be a supreme court case, as you are setting precedence for the entire country. Since that would have to be done for every single case even if the accused turns out to be innocent, you end up wasting much of the justice's time. I know you want a reason to punish Bush, but this really isn't the way to do it. Bills for improved transparency would be a better solution.
Okay, it's a private company... so it's more like walking up to a security guard and asking whether they'd be willing to help you steal something from the store they're guarding.
It's more like going up to an undercover security guard, asking them to help beat up old ladies and then yelling PYSCHE before they can call the cops to arrest you.
As is oft-mentioned here, it's a better-sounding codec at lower bitrates, which is important for MMOs, since occasional updates are expected - and saving bandwidth wherever possible certainly matters.
If you were making an MMO wouldn't it make more sense to store the sound files on the client's computer, as you would only need to transfer a command telling it to "play the sound file for being hit" instead of transferring the actual file for being hit?
Why? Because since it's open source the more people that use it, the better it gets. Even if they don't actively code for it there's still bug reports. But more importantly, as marketshare increases companies are more likely to code for it.
"The BBC reports that following approval from the BBC Trust (an independent oversight body) they are now allowed to release their 'iPlayer', enabling the download and viewing of BBC owned content such as Doctor Who. Unfortunately the Trust also mandated the use of DRM to enforce a 30 day playable period"
Or you could use bittorrent. I'm not entirely sure of the legality of downloading things that you already pay a license for such as TV shows, but that's never stopped anyone before.
MySpace shouldn't have allowed their users to modify the pages so heavily. They shouldn't have allowed people to have music that plays when you visit the page. They shouldn't have made a system that can't talk to other stuff (like del.icio.us tags or RSS readers). They shouldn't have made it so freaking hard to use. (It takes three times as many clicks to do on something on MySpace than what it should take.)
Try facebook? It is essentialy the same social aspect of myspace except all you can do on your page is post a list of things you like, some stuff about yourself and photo albums (they load separately from main page). Oh and people's names are their real life names not Xxxx**8XxxStarry PrIncessEsssSSsXXXxxxxXxx. Oh yeah if you want there is an option to create an RSS stream out of your profile.
I personally think it is unlikely there is a siginificant difference in inherent aptitude, largely based on anecdotal observation that the gap is smaller in many european countries.
Thinking about it commonsensically and from an evolutionary perspective it would seem rediciolous to claim that men and women, are inherently the same in every aspect. This notion of inherent sexual equality becomes even more abusrd when you consider that men and women clearly have physical differences, so why should their not be mental differences as well? After all, the brain like every other organ is physical. Then moving on to an evolutionary perspective where men's genes and women's genes have competing "desires" insofar as men are able to father much more offspring than women. Then taking into account that women are also competing for male parental investment in their children you have at a minimium two brains that experencieng differing evolutionary pressure. Throwing everything we know about evolution out the window when discussing mental gender differences is absolutely absurd as it provides insight into every other area of biology.
However, I am highly confident that most of the differences we are seeing now are more the result of differing environments and not inherent differences. And even if I am wrong about that last point, social darwinism is definetly not the way to go.
This book goes into a lot of depth about child porn and the laws surrounding it. It essentially says that we have lost the "war on KP" as it is both readily and cheaplily available to anyone who wants some.
N.B. A theory is a more-or-less estabilshed explaination backed with observerational evidence.
I generally agree with this but how do you explain the term "String Theory"? As far as I know there hasn't been any observational evidience supporting it.
I've oft thought of this, but card numbers would have to be longer to make room for the influx of account numbers- not to mention the check digits and what-not.
Hardly, there are 10^16 unique credit card numbers. There are about 10^6.78 people on earth. Assume that all 10^6.78 people need 100 of these temporary credit cards and that's 10^8.78 credit car numbers. This leaves about 10^15 credit card numbers unused. Considering that temporary credit card numbers should be reusable after a period of time there's no reason why there would be a shortage of credit card numbers without a massively larger population.
Sounds more like hyperbole, and not slippery slope as he is equating a video of animated flying dildos to a video of rape. It would be slippery slope if he said flying penis interruption leads to rape in real life.
If you really wanted to get information about your stepson's myspace account go make a myspace account and pretend to be a hot girl close to his age. Then send a friend request. If he accepts you now have access to his myspace account. If he doesn't accept then maybe he is following your advice because he is rejecting a complete stranger.
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So what do you make of this counter argument?
Actually an armed rabble overthrowing the U.S. government is quite feasible. Look at Iraq as an example of how well an armed rabble can stand up to our military. Throw the potency of guerrilla warfare on top of the fact that at least some of the military would refuse to shoot their own citizens in their homeland, and you have pretty decent odds of winning. Also there are limits as to the degree of force that would be used as no ruler wants to destroy their own infrastructure. I doubt even Bush would nuke Atlanta to maintain power.
This is fairly straightforward. We have two actions. Something from nothing and Something from God. The first choice is something from nothing. The second choice is something from nothing and something from God. Therefore the first choice is always more probable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy
That's partially true. What science does do is tell you what the limitations on god(s)(ess)(es) are, as in lightning doesn't come from Thor. As science advances, the gaps that possible god(s)(ess)(es) can hide in decrease, although there will probably always be a hole where god can be argued to exist.
This is actually answered directly in TFA. The short anwser is that this has the potential to be much smaller.
Not you to!
You could try teaching at a private school, much less bullshit there.
Why exactly would a naturalistic explanation of religion piss off an atheist? I don't see Dawkins going ape over this.
"Violation of the constitution" is such a vague phrase. The constitution was written to be a living document that is not immutable. So to prove that their was a violation of the constitution it would basically have to be a supreme court case, as you are setting precedence for the entire country. Since that would have to be done for every single case even if the accused turns out to be innocent, you end up wasting much of the justice's time. I know you want a reason to punish Bush, but this really isn't the way to do it. Bills for improved transparency would be a better solution.
It's more like going up to an undercover security guard, asking them to help beat up old ladies and then yelling PYSCHE before they can call the cops to arrest you.
If you were making an MMO wouldn't it make more sense to store the sound files on the client's computer, as you would only need to transfer a command telling it to "play the sound file for being hit" instead of transferring the actual file for being hit?
Oh, so a paid kick in the pants is better?
Why? Because since it's open source the more people that use it, the better it gets. Even if they don't actively code for it there's still bug reports. But more importantly, as marketshare increases companies are more likely to code for it.
Or you could use bittorrent. I'm not entirely sure of the legality of downloading things that you already pay a license for such as TV shows, but that's never stopped anyone before.
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
Hah. Once they go past "Zany Zebra", I can't wait for Anty Aardvark Ate Apples. Followed by Brown Bear Brings Beer.
Try facebook? It is essentialy the same social aspect of myspace except all you can do on your page is post a list of things you like, some stuff about yourself and photo albums (they load separately from main page). Oh and people's names are their real life names not Xxxx**8XxxStarry PrIncessEsssSSsXXXxxxxXxx. Oh yeah if you want there is an option to create an RSS stream out of your profile.
Thinking about it commonsensically and from an evolutionary perspective it would seem rediciolous to claim that men and women, are inherently the same in every aspect. This notion of inherent sexual equality becomes even more abusrd when you consider that men and women clearly have physical differences, so why should their not be mental differences as well? After all, the brain like every other organ is physical. Then moving on to an evolutionary perspective where men's genes and women's genes have competing "desires" insofar as men are able to father much more offspring than women. Then taking into account that women are also competing for male parental investment in their children you have at a minimium two brains that experencieng differing evolutionary pressure. Throwing everything we know about evolution out the window when discussing mental gender differences is absolutely absurd as it provides insight into every other area of biology.
However, I am highly confident that most of the differences we are seeing now are more the result of differing environments and not inherent differences. And even if I am wrong about that last point, social darwinism is definetly not the way to go.
This book goes into a lot of depth about child porn and the laws surrounding it. It essentially says that we have lost the "war on KP" as it is both readily and cheaplily available to anyone who wants some.
I generally agree with this but how do you explain the term "String Theory"? As far as I know there hasn't been any observational evidience supporting it.
Hardly, there are 10^16 unique credit card numbers. There are about 10^6.78 people on earth. Assume that all 10^6.78 people need 100 of these temporary credit cards and that's 10^8.78 credit car numbers. This leaves about 10^15 credit card numbers unused. Considering that temporary credit card numbers should be reusable after a period of time there's no reason why there would be a shortage of credit card numbers without a massively larger population.
Just translate from english to english. Although there isn't a dropdown menu for that option, it does work if you change it in the url. Example: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fslashdot.org&langpair=en%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Sounds more like hyperbole, and not slippery slope as he is equating a video of animated flying dildos to a video of rape. It would be slippery slope if he said flying penis interruption leads to rape in real life.
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If you really wanted to get information about your stepson's myspace account go make a myspace account and pretend to be a hot girl close to his age. Then send a friend request. If he accepts you now have access to his myspace account. If he doesn't accept then maybe he is following your advice because he is rejecting a complete stranger.