When Microsoft's idea of 'innovate' is to take something that works (at least in its limited realm) like SPF, bastardize it, break compatibility with it, and then patent it with claims to things that were in the original work I really don't cry much for them when people question their ability to 'innovate'.
Word was hung and using all the CPU. All Microsoft software I've ever dealt with has been crap. Luckily it seemed to just be a corrupt document, and the version is Office Mac: Vx from 2001, so it looks like I might be safe. And my wife isn't an administrator on her own computer so that makes me feel a little better.
Still, I really should get those backups running...
Yeah, that's a good idea. Whenever anyone tries to exercise their right to free speach, we can just claim they are disturbing the peace or something like that. That way there's no reason to actually do away with the first amendment (since you'll never get the public to go along with doing that formally), instead, we can just make it irrelevant.
Think about when most stores' entry/exit points have RFID readers to control 'lossage'. Think about the pervasive networking and the lack of security on those networks. Think about being able to track anyone with any RFID tag on their clothes.
Now I've been thinking about one of the Nike+ iPod devices, but I don't wear my running shoes all the time, they're too expensive to wear out like that.
Given that that's years of use for my computer that I'm using on a daily basis to make money, I'd say so. But then my wife and I probably blow $300 on Sushi & Indian food in a month...
Anything that will trip up attacks (different OS, instruction set) can help. Certainly if there were a determined attacker who cared about getting into my server in particular the 'oddness' of it wouldn't stop them, but for worms expecting the usual suspects it should be enough.
No. The variation of carbon 12 to 14 is already known and depends on the earth's magnetic field. That's not relevant given that the 1/2 life of carbon 14 is only ~6k years (5600 I think), so Carbon dating is only useful for living things and only upto about 40k years. Potassium -> Argon is just one of the radioactive decompositions used for longer time scales.
Bill Bryson's book "A Short History of Nearly Everything" has a good general overview of what we know about the age of the earth and the universe...
As for evolution not being the source of all life; praytell what other explanation do you have for it? That's the thing about science, it doesn't just throw up it's hands at the hard questions. It posits an explanation, comes up with tests that can be made to see if it works, and then refines the theory.
And as for this: there is equal amount of evidence for other possibilities regarding the origin of life on this planet
I didn't own a gun before 9/11. I didn't own a gun after 9/11.
I bought my gun after the Patriot Act was passed. I figured that given the legislation the government was passing, I needed to do more to _really_ be patriotic. That is, be willing (and ready) to stand up to a tyranical government.
If the secret torture prisions, NSA wire tapping, etc. haven't convinced you that a gun is a tool you should own, then by the time you really need it, you won't be able to get one.
Hey, I'm not the one labeling, you're self labeling "christian", and the wacky "christian right" self-identify as "christian". How am I supposed to tell _anything_ about you from your self-identification as a "christian"? (Or democrat, conservative, or anything...:-)
Actually, I'd be surprised if there were more than 5% "christians" who didn't believe that Jesus was the son of god, or at least a prophet spoken to directly by god..., but I've been surprised before.
As for me, I'm a "Radical Athiest" (thanks to Douglas Adams for the term), but I don't deny the possible existence of God, but I'd say it's no more likely than orbiting tea pots or invisible fire breathing dragons hiding in my closet.
This is going way off topic, and not directly applicable to the discussion, but, labels should mean something specific to be useful. If I start calling my neighbor a pedophile because he seems to love his kids, I imagine the other neighbors would start to treat both of us differently. The same with "Christian" and "God". Since the meanings of those vary so much, if you use them, don't be surprised if the reaction you get from someone doesn't agree with what you'd expect.
Nope, and you seem rational and inteligent and it seems that you've thought about your choices. The trouble is, when you label yourself "christian", you fall in with the "young earthers" and the "homosexuals are evil" people who (unfortunately) claim that that is at least partially what christianity is about. And they are the vocal ones, not the quiet, rational ones like you.
Hey, the loonies in charge here in the USA (at least until Jan 2007) don't represent me. And I think our foreign policy has pretty much always sucked, no matter who's been in charge.
But then, I'm unelectable ("radical" atheist, like Douglas Adams), so I'm not doing a whole lot to change that:-(
My question to you would be, how do you select Jesus' teachings from any other teachings in the world? How do you know that his teachings are the "good" ones, and say Mao's are the bad ones? Is it because you were told by someone that Jesus was the bomb, or because humans have evolved a sense of morals since it's reproductively advantageous?
See, the way I see it, you can be a "good christian" (or, as I prefer just a good, moral person) without ever having to appeal to God or Jesus or any religion.
I think rules like: act in a maner which is most beneficial to people as a whole. Or: minimize suffering. Are sufficient.
Why is it so unbelievable that he was on the path to seminary? Darwin was as well before he came to understand why there was no need for a 'god' to explain the wonders of nature. As we learn more and more about reality, we begin to understand that order naturally assembles out of chaos.
However, upon fertilization, the normal trajectory for the egg will be to slowly develop into a sentient person, becoming one after about two years.
Actually, rates for spontaneous abortion range from 50% to 78% (not sure if that's from fertilization or implantation), but I'd say that means the 'normal trajectory' for a fertilized egg is to be aborted and flushed out of the woman.
You keep using the term "homosexual lifestyle". WTF is that? Is that like the heterosexual lifestyle? Or the Christian lifestyle? There's no such thing as a "homosexual lifestyle". I know gays who have been effectively married 20 years or more, and others who pick up whoever they like that night (to address their sex habits, since that seems to be what most concerns you about homosexuals, not that they dance well or have a good sense of style:-) To talk about a "homosexual lifestyle" comes off to me as profoundly ignorant.
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When Microsoft's idea of 'innovate' is to take something that works (at least in its limited realm) like SPF, bastardize it, break compatibility with it, and then patent it with claims to things that were in the original work I really don't cry much for them when people question their ability to 'innovate'.
Word was hung and using all the CPU. All Microsoft software I've ever dealt with has been crap.
Luckily it seemed to just be a corrupt document, and the version is Office Mac: Vx from 2001, so it looks like I might be safe. And my wife isn't an administrator on her own computer so that makes me feel a little better.
Still, I really should get those backups running...
how about cue the, "you should never run Microsoft software on any platform" comments...
the children using OLPC and I WinCE!
Yeah, that's a good idea. Whenever anyone tries to exercise their right to free speach, we can just claim they are disturbing the peace or something like that. That way there's no reason to actually do away with the first amendment (since you'll never get the public to go along with doing that formally), instead, we can just make it irrelevant.
Think about when most stores' entry/exit points have RFID readers to control 'lossage'.
Think about the pervasive networking and the lack of security on those networks.
Think about being able to track anyone with any RFID tag on their clothes.
Now I've been thinking about one of the Nike+ iPod devices, but I don't wear my running shoes all the time, they're too expensive to wear out like that.
Bush for a 3rd term first, and I _HATE_ Bush.
prefer
You use that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
To me, 'prefer' means if I offer you either at the same price, it's the one you take.
I think you might have better used 'can afford'.
Given that that's years of use for my computer that I'm using on a daily basis to make money, I'd say so. But then my wife and I probably blow $300 on Sushi & Indian food in a month...
Which is why you should bang your mistress in the back of the theater.
Anything that will trip up attacks (different OS, instruction set) can help. Certainly if there were a determined attacker who cared about getting into my server in particular the 'oddness' of it wouldn't stop them, but for worms expecting the usual suspects it should be enough.
I'll stop subjecting religion to scientific inquiry when religion stops saying things about the real world.
No. The variation of carbon 12 to 14 is already known and depends on the earth's magnetic field. That's not relevant given that the 1/2 life of carbon 14 is only ~6k years (5600 I think), so Carbon dating is only useful for living things and only upto about 40k years. Potassium -> Argon is just one of the radioactive decompositions used for longer time scales.
Bill Bryson's book "A Short History of Nearly Everything" has a good general overview of what we know about the age of the earth and the universe...
As for evolution not being the source of all life; praytell what other explanation do you have for it? That's the thing about science, it doesn't just throw up it's hands at the hard questions. It posits an explanation, comes up with tests that can be made to see if it works, and then refines the theory.
And as for this:
there is equal amount of evidence for other possibilities regarding the origin of life on this planet
What evidence and for what other possibilities?
I didn't own a gun before 9/11.
I didn't own a gun after 9/11.
I bought my gun after the Patriot Act was passed. I figured that given the legislation the government was passing, I needed to do more to _really_ be patriotic. That is, be willing (and ready) to stand up to a tyranical government.
If the secret torture prisions, NSA wire tapping, etc. haven't convinced you that a gun is a tool you should own, then by the time you really need it, you won't be able to get one.
Or is his liking for 'In the Line of Fire' related to a desire to see the President of the United States be shot?
Do you move items around in the store too, so the store has to hire another person to put the things back where they belong?
Personally, I'd rather have the store pay people to be helpful to me looking for stuff and check out myself...
Hey, I'm not the one labeling, you're self labeling "christian", and the wacky "christian right" self-identify as "christian". How am I supposed to tell _anything_ about you from your self-identification as a "christian"? (Or democrat, conservative, or anything... :-)
Actually, I'd be surprised if there were more than 5% "christians" who didn't believe that Jesus was the son of god, or at least a prophet spoken to directly by god..., but I've been surprised before.
As for me, I'm a "Radical Athiest" (thanks to Douglas Adams for the term), but I don't deny the possible existence of God, but I'd say it's no more likely than orbiting tea pots or invisible fire breathing dragons hiding in my closet.
This is going way off topic, and not directly applicable to the discussion, but, labels should mean something specific to be useful. If I start calling my neighbor a pedophile because he seems to love his kids, I imagine the other neighbors would start to treat both of us differently. The same with "Christian" and "God". Since the meanings of those vary so much, if you use them, don't be surprised if the reaction you get from someone doesn't agree with what you'd expect.
Nope, and you seem rational and inteligent and it seems that you've thought about your choices. The trouble is, when you label yourself "christian", you fall in with the "young earthers" and the "homosexuals are evil" people who (unfortunately) claim that that is at least partially what christianity is about. And they are the vocal ones, not the quiet, rational ones like you.
Hey, the loonies in charge here in the USA (at least until Jan 2007) don't represent me. And I think our foreign policy has pretty much always sucked, no matter who's been in charge.
:-(
But then, I'm unelectable ("radical" atheist, like Douglas Adams), so I'm not doing a whole lot to change that
My question to you would be, how do you select Jesus' teachings from any other teachings in the world? How do you know that his teachings are the "good" ones, and say Mao's are the bad ones? Is it because you were told by someone that Jesus was the bomb, or because humans have evolved a sense of morals since it's reproductively advantageous?
See, the way I see it, you can be a "good christian" (or, as I prefer just a good, moral person) without ever having to appeal to God or Jesus or any religion.
I think rules like: act in a maner which is most beneficial to people as a whole. Or: minimize suffering. Are sufficient.
Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." I really, really want you to explain to me how that idea is the root of all the badness you rant about.
I really don't think my neighbor would like it if I started wacking him off too...
Why is it so unbelievable that he was on the path to seminary? Darwin was as well before he came to understand why there was no need for a 'god' to explain the wonders of nature. As we learn more and more about reality, we begin to understand that order naturally assembles out of chaos.
However, upon fertilization, the normal trajectory for the egg will be to slowly develop into a sentient person, becoming one after about two years.
Actually, rates for spontaneous abortion range from 50% to 78% (not sure if that's from fertilization or implantation), but I'd say that means the 'normal trajectory' for a fertilized egg is to be aborted and flushed out of the woman.
You keep using the term "homosexual lifestyle". WTF is that? Is that like the heterosexual lifestyle? Or the Christian lifestyle? There's no such thing as a "homosexual lifestyle". I know gays who have been effectively married 20 years or more, and others who pick up whoever they like that night (to address their sex habits, since that seems to be what most concerns you about homosexuals, not that they dance well or have a good sense of style :-) To talk about a "homosexual lifestyle" comes off to me as profoundly ignorant.