Sure, but I like my example better because you can see things growing and self organizing when you stop interfering, rather than "it works as long as the electricity stays on":-)
According to a recent study, 65% of Republicans reject evolution, while in Democrats and Independents, the numbers are approximately switched, with fewer Independents rejecting evolution.
So, while you might turn of 35% of Republicans by rejecting evolution, I doubt it would be enough to cause them to vote against you, as long as you subscribe to the other hot-button Republican issues: abortion, gay rights/marriage, national defense, etc.
You should really stop using such big words when you have only been taught the words, but don't understand the concepts.
Entropy is only guaranteed to increase in a closed system as a whole. ie, the universe. In local areas (say the Earth), order can increase. Think about when you've got a pot of boiling water on the stove and you pour in salt until it won't dissolve any more. Then you let it cool and you get crystal growth. Certainly that's a lot more ordered than before when the water was boiling. Have a problem believing the crystals exist?
You are going to die, and that is the end of it. Life, then, is utterly meaningless.
I disagree. Just because you don't see meaning in things that have endings doesn't mean they don't have meaning. Just because a sunset ends doesn't mean that it isn't beautiful while it's happening. If that logic worked, then if I could torture you by tickling the right receptors in your brain to cause you incredible pain, it'd be ok, because once it was over it'd be like it never happened...Oh wait, you'd still have memories of it. Sort of like how when I'm dead and gone, there will still be echoes of my existence in the minds of the people I've met and interacted with.
I never understood how someone could claim that life was _more_ meaningful when asserting it was basically a waiting room for the 'real' stuff (heaven/hell/whatever) to come later...
Belief in evolution is a dividing point between rational people and the 'faithful'. I believe there's no better yes or no question ["Do you believe that humans evolved from much simpler life forms over millions of years?"] for dividing people in the US these days.
Now, between a rational person and an irrational, person full of faith, I'd probably take the rational one I disagreed with over the irrational one I disagreed with. Because I'd have a chance of reasoning with the rational person. It's hard to change someone's mind when they ignore evidence and logic.
Yeah, I never needed to tie my shoes. I never learned how to tie my shoes and so I just go around barefoot. Teaching people to tie their shoes is just wasting their time.
I like the idea of having colored ones like the shuffle.
Of course what I really want is a 'maxi' or 'medium', which is like a Mini, but has (room for) two 3.5" drives (and can boot from a RAID mirror), and FW-800 and/or eSATA for fast external storage... Ideally, it looks like a Mini but is twice as tall or something...
the 24" has always supported VESA mounting. The last G5 iMac (the one I have) doesn't support VESA mounting... it's random, like a lot of stuff Apple does:-(
I think I understand what you mean, but I'd state that as "the spending was real, but the results were fake. That is, they were welfare for the military-industrial complex.":-(
Interesting idea, but where would the money go? Wouldn't it just go to a bureaucracy to manage and ensure that the copyright holders are paying? If it did turn out to be feasible, I'd say the percentage should go up over time, so that eventually the percentage would rise to 100% and the copyright holder would have no incentive to keep the work from the public domain.
Actually, as the primary developer, he does have that [rights to license his code], but so do all the other developers. If I write a huge project, open source it, accept ~200 lines of code from ~20 developers, I can decide to take future versions closed by stripping out those 200 lines and replacing them with code I wrote. The open source version could continue to be used, maintained, etc (forked), but _I_ can do what I want to the code I keep the copyright for.
I'm not a doctor either, but I'm smart enough to take all the antibiotics I'm prescribed. Trouble is, that may not be enough. I'm on my 3rd different perscription for a sinus infection right now. First was amoxicillin, then cipro, and now Avelox. I got 7 days into the 10 of amoxicillin and felt worse. Called the doctor and got a perscription for the cipro. After the full 10 days of cipro, I felt way better, but I still had a bit of 'color' in my snot, so I went back to see the doctor. That time they gave me a bunch more stuff for my allergies to help dry up my sinuses and open the passages so the new Avelox antibiotic would work better. I wonder if the bacteria was forming 'bacterial matts' like was talked about in a previous article. I guess my point is that even if you follow your doctor's instructions, if you aren't "on top of it" or don't use "common sense" you can still end up generating some resistant bacteria.
I can never be sure when watching someone type-click-type-click that the developer is at fault. Hell, even my wife does that sometimes, despite me harping on her that she can just hit return or tab...I think it's intellectual lazyness: "I'm too lazy to try to understand the tool I'm using so that I can use it better."
On the other hand, most of the expenses for yacht racing go solely to the boat owner... Sure you want some clothing, but other than that there isn't much crew has to spend money on...
but we don't accept the sort of change that can, say, make a dinosaur grow feathers and learn to fly. The latter sort of change is what we believe is impossible. He's doing both, as the above quote shows. He doesn't believe the non-living to living transitition, _and_ he doesn't believe that evolution happens.
I should have read the bit about the 'ark' and just blown off replying to the idiot.
Any experience with Xen, NetBSD as Dom0 and Windows? I've got a NetBSD server that I'd like to be able to run Windows on, but VMWare on NetBSD seems out of date. I suppose I could use Linux for Dom0, run my server stuff on NetBSD as a DomU, but getting familiar with YAOS seems a pain...
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Sure, but I like my example better because you can see things growing and self organizing when you stop interfering, rather than "it works as long as the electricity stays on" :-)
According to a recent study, 65% of Republicans reject evolution, while in Democrats and Independents, the numbers are approximately switched, with fewer Independents rejecting evolution.
So, while you might turn of 35% of Republicans by rejecting evolution, I doubt it would be enough to cause them to vote against you, as long as you subscribe to the other hot-button Republican issues: abortion, gay rights/marriage, national defense, etc.
...entropy and evolution...
You should really stop using such big words when you have only been taught the words, but don't understand the concepts.
Entropy is only guaranteed to increase in a closed system as a whole. ie, the universe. In local areas (say the Earth), order can increase. Think about when you've got a pot of boiling water on the stove and you pour in salt until it won't dissolve any more. Then you let it cool and you get crystal growth. Certainly that's a lot more ordered than before when the water was boiling. Have a problem believing the crystals exist?
You are going to die, and that is the end of it. Life, then, is utterly meaningless.
I disagree. Just because you don't see meaning in things that have endings doesn't mean they don't have meaning. Just because a sunset ends doesn't mean that it isn't beautiful while it's happening. If that logic worked, then if I could torture you by tickling the right receptors in your brain to cause you incredible pain, it'd be ok, because once it was over it'd be like it never happened...Oh wait, you'd still have memories of it. Sort of like how when I'm dead and gone, there will still be echoes of my existence in the minds of the people I've met and interacted with.
I never understood how someone could claim that life was _more_ meaningful when asserting it was basically a waiting room for the 'real' stuff (heaven/hell/whatever) to come later...
Belief in evolution is a dividing point between rational people and the 'faithful'. I believe there's no better yes or no question ["Do you believe that humans evolved from much simpler life forms over millions of years?"] for dividing people in the US these days.
Now, between a rational person and an irrational, person full of faith, I'd probably take the rational one I disagreed with over the irrational one I disagreed with. Because I'd have a chance of reasoning with the rational person. It's hard to change someone's mind when they ignore evidence and logic.
Not an economic weapon. You don't sell things to Protectors, they just kill you because they see you as a threat and they are 10x smarter than you...
Yeah, I never needed to tie my shoes. I never learned how to tie my shoes and so I just go around barefoot. Teaching people to tie their shoes is just wasting their time.
I like the idea of having colored ones like the shuffle.
Of course what I really want is a 'maxi' or 'medium', which is like a Mini, but has (room for) two 3.5" drives (and can boot from a RAID mirror), and FW-800 and/or eSATA for fast external storage... Ideally, it looks like a Mini but is twice as tall or something...
the 24" has always supported VESA mounting. The last G5 iMac (the one I have) doesn't support VESA mounting... it's random, like a lot of stuff Apple does :-(
I think I understand what you mean, but I'd state that as "the spending was real, but the results were fake. That is, they were welfare for the military-industrial complex." :-(
Just switch to emacs. Pointing devices, we have no need of pointing devices...
A friend and I have been talking about this. He's on the west coast too, but about 1000 miles away, so my backups would probably be safe.
http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/
Any one using this?
Interesting idea, but where would the money go? Wouldn't it just go to a bureaucracy to manage and ensure that the copyright holders are paying? If it did turn out to be feasible, I'd say the percentage should go up over time, so that eventually the percentage would rise to 100% and the copyright holder would have no incentive to keep the work from the public domain.
Oh sure, but what that commercial doesn't show you is the drug-addled teen that kid turned into!
Actually, as the primary developer, he does have that [rights to license his code], but so do all the other developers. If I write a huge project, open source it, accept ~200 lines of code from ~20 developers, I can decide to take future versions closed by stripping out those 200 lines and replacing them with code I wrote. The open source version could continue to be used, maintained, etc (forked), but _I_ can do what I want to the code I keep the copyright for.
Jesus, is there _nothing_ that Microsoft can't/didn't fuck up beyond all recognition?
I'm not a doctor either, but I'm smart enough to take all the antibiotics I'm prescribed. Trouble is, that may not be enough. I'm on my 3rd different perscription for a sinus infection right now. First was amoxicillin, then cipro, and now Avelox. I got 7 days into the 10 of amoxicillin and felt worse. Called the doctor and got a perscription for the cipro. After the full 10 days of cipro, I felt way better, but I still had a bit of 'color' in my snot, so I went back to see the doctor. That time they gave me a bunch more stuff for my allergies to help dry up my sinuses and open the passages so the new Avelox antibiotic would work better. I wonder if the bacteria was forming 'bacterial matts' like was talked about in a previous article.
I guess my point is that even if you follow your doctor's instructions, if you aren't "on top of it" or don't use "common sense" you can still end up generating some resistant bacteria.
Yeah, but not hitting 'return' after entering your search terms on the google home page, but rather clicking 'google search' is insane. :-)
No, it means the code has to be rewritten, not copied, since it's just a copyright thing, not a patent thing.
I can never be sure when watching someone type-click-type-click that the developer is at fault. Hell, even my wife does that sometimes, despite me harping on her that she can just hit return or tab...I think it's intellectual lazyness: "I'm too lazy to try to understand the tool I'm using so that I can use it better."
Hey, you weren't the guy who blew up that whale on the beach were you?
On the other hand, most of the expenses for yacht racing go solely to the boat owner...
Sure you want some clothing, but other than that there isn't much crew has to spend money on...
I should have read the bit about the 'ark' and just blown off replying to the idiot.
Interesting that you would claim that everything is analog, then reference _quantum_ mechanics...
Any experience with Xen, NetBSD as Dom0 and Windows? I've got a NetBSD server that I'd like to be able to run Windows on, but VMWare on NetBSD seems out of date. I suppose I could use Linux for Dom0, run my server stuff on NetBSD as a DomU, but getting familiar with YAOS seems a pain...