I see, so your view is that if a theory can't explain everything, it cannot explain anything. That's interesting kind of nihilism you've adopted, mate. I do hope you apply that to all science. If you're going to be an anti-intellectual, you should be fair and reject pretty much everything.
The only thing more pathetic than clickbait are the fucktards who immediately turn up to shout "Clickbait!"
At any rate, this is a serious issue because these sorts of terrorists takes inevitably lead to governments making laws and policies that adversely affect our liberties.
This can be easily solved by directing lightning bolts at lawyers. Hell, even if we decide not to engineer the client, we should direct more lightning bolts at lawyers.
Fortunately the Enlightenment pulled Christianity's fangs. But I do remind you it took atrocities, unjust laws, and one of the worst wars in European history; the Thirty Years War, before the great Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke could convince the West that mixing religion and politics was as toxic a brew as one could imagine.
Ah, but you see, the big cable providers are going to spend unbelievable amounts of money to get lawmakers to kill streaming, so there won't be any alternatives.
Since Protestants largely reject the notion that there is any spiritual or temporal agency which can instruct them on their faith, it is literally your word against theirs,
Actually, the Crusades, whatever the religious justification, were about propping up the Byzantine Empire... well, except the 4th Crusade, which ultimately was about a bunch of rich Italians seizing Byzantium, looting it and sending the booty back to Italy.
Which explains why all manner of bigotry is justified by certain groups of Christians with the help of a delightful array of quotes from the Old Testament. That some Christians believe the Old Testament was sidelined by the New, that is hardly a universal belief, and certainly in many of the more modern evangelical Protestant churches, the Old Testament holds every bit as much weight as the New.
Khomeini was a clever bastard who tricked the Iranian reformists who wished to replace the Shah with a democracy. He promised before he got on a plane in France to be merely a figurehead. In short order he had co-opted the revolution (which was, by and large to that point, secular in nature). Khomeini was a bastard and an awfully good reason why, when such individuals flee their homelands, they be offered commodious and permanent exile; a gilded cage, but a cage nonetheless.
Let's be perfectly clear here that the Partition of India and all the violence surrounding it was by and large the parting gift of the British Raj, though I suspect within a few years even the most virulently imperialist Brits were wishing that Pakistan never existed.
The same would apply in many respects to other modern ideologies like anarchism, Libertarianism, and even to Capitalism. Fortunately few modern states are run purely on ideological grounds.
Religion is a special case of ideology, but that does not mean every ideology is a religion.
Don't be absurd. The universe is designed so that mankind, being God's chosen creatures, can do whatever the fuck they want without any risk whatsoever. Remember, Jesus loves profit, hates the environment, and wants us to cause fracking-related earthquakes. Jesus also wants us to up the amount of CO2 int he atmosphere, because it doesn't do anything at all to climate, and even if it did, above all else, Jesus loves profit.
God bless America, the Koch Brothers and the Wall Street Journal. And fuck everyone else.
You seem to be forgetting parsimony in all of this.
The simplest explanation for why the DNA is on the knife is because the knife was used to stab someone. It is conceivable that Thor put that DNA on the knife, but the Thor explanation is not parsimonious.
By the same token, angels appearing in the clouds could be explained as "God exists", but that's hardly the most parsimonious explanation.
If you're going to invoke an omnipotent being who has no limitations on his possible actions, then no, such a being could never be proven, since every possible observation would be compatible with his existence.
Special effects, no matter how elaborate, do not constitute a proof of God.
I don't need it on physical CD, but I do need to actually own the music files themselves, in an unlocked non-DRM fashion. Basically, if I can't buy it as at least an MP3 that I can play on everything from an iPod to an FreeBSD workstation, the record label doesn't get my money. And I could care less about streaming.
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I see, so your view is that if a theory can't explain everything, it cannot explain anything. That's interesting kind of nihilism you've adopted, mate. I do hope you apply that to all science. If you're going to be an anti-intellectual, you should be fair and reject pretty much everything.
And look who clicked.
The only thing more pathetic than clickbait are the fucktards who immediately turn up to shout "Clickbait!"
At any rate, this is a serious issue because these sorts of terrorists takes inevitably lead to governments making laws and policies that adversely affect our liberties.
Which is odd, because almost every researcher in climatology say it is as close to a fact as anything in science can be.
But clearly /. id 3712517 knows more about climatology than the experts.
"the climate is always changing."
A statement about as useful to climatology as saying "the patient is going to eventually die" to medical research.
By fucking them over in the long run.
This can be easily solved by directing lightning bolts at lawyers. Hell, even if we decide not to engineer the client, we should direct more lightning bolts at lawyers.
Notions of property rights are hardly universal.
Fortunately the Enlightenment pulled Christianity's fangs. But I do remind you it took atrocities, unjust laws, and one of the worst wars in European history; the Thirty Years War, before the great Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke could convince the West that mixing religion and politics was as toxic a brew as one could imagine.
It does sound so good I'm suspicious that I must have seen it elsewhere.
Ah, but you see, the big cable providers are going to spend unbelievable amounts of money to get lawmakers to kill streaming, so there won't be any alternatives.
You are the standard ideologue... Everyone else's ideology is a baseless religion, but yours, well, it is merely the truth....
Since Protestants largely reject the notion that there is any spiritual or temporal agency which can instruct them on their faith, it is literally your word against theirs,
Actually, the Crusades, whatever the religious justification, were about propping up the Byzantine Empire... well, except the 4th Crusade, which ultimately was about a bunch of rich Italians seizing Byzantium, looting it and sending the booty back to Italy.
Which explains why all manner of bigotry is justified by certain groups of Christians with the help of a delightful array of quotes from the Old Testament. That some Christians believe the Old Testament was sidelined by the New, that is hardly a universal belief, and certainly in many of the more modern evangelical Protestant churches, the Old Testament holds every bit as much weight as the New.
Khomeini was a clever bastard who tricked the Iranian reformists who wished to replace the Shah with a democracy. He promised before he got on a plane in France to be merely a figurehead. In short order he had co-opted the revolution (which was, by and large to that point, secular in nature). Khomeini was a bastard and an awfully good reason why, when such individuals flee their homelands, they be offered commodious and permanent exile; a gilded cage, but a cage nonetheless.
Let's be perfectly clear here that the Partition of India and all the violence surrounding it was by and large the parting gift of the British Raj, though I suspect within a few years even the most virulently imperialist Brits were wishing that Pakistan never existed.
The same would apply in many respects to other modern ideologies like anarchism, Libertarianism, and even to Capitalism. Fortunately few modern states are run purely on ideological grounds.
Religion is a special case of ideology, but that does not mean every ideology is a religion.
I'd like to see AES256 encryption implemented in Brainfuck myself!
Don't be absurd. The universe is designed so that mankind, being God's chosen creatures, can do whatever the fuck they want without any risk whatsoever. Remember, Jesus loves profit, hates the environment, and wants us to cause fracking-related earthquakes. Jesus also wants us to up the amount of CO2 int he atmosphere, because it doesn't do anything at all to climate, and even if it did, above all else, Jesus loves profit.
God bless America, the Koch Brothers and the Wall Street Journal. And fuck everyone else.
Take my word for it, people will never go to the Moon. Just way too expensive...
Oh look, it's the rare and wondrous Idiom Nazi.
You seem to be forgetting parsimony in all of this.
The simplest explanation for why the DNA is on the knife is because the knife was used to stab someone. It is conceivable that Thor put that DNA on the knife, but the Thor explanation is not parsimonious.
By the same token, angels appearing in the clouds could be explained as "God exists", but that's hardly the most parsimonious explanation.
If you're going to invoke an omnipotent being who has no limitations on his possible actions, then no, such a being could never be proven, since every possible observation would be compatible with his existence.
Special effects, no matter how elaborate, do not constitute a proof of God.
I don't need it on physical CD, but I do need to actually own the music files themselves, in an unlocked non-DRM fashion. Basically, if I can't buy it as at least an MP3 that I can play on everything from an iPod to an FreeBSD workstation, the record label doesn't get my money. And I could care less about streaming.
Never had any substantial issues with Kit Kat. Now let's talk about Lollipop and my Nexus 7 2012 edition.