Hell, in Birmingham (England) you can barely go a few kilometres without seeing a Cadbury-Schwepps or Cadbury-Trebor-Basset sign. Around the corner from where my Father lives is the Bournville "village" - and the train station is all decorated in Cadbury colours.
It's been a while since the city was owned by the Cadburys and the Chamberlaines - but the indications of that time remain.
It's referinng to Apples "Quad G5" (like the one I'm typing at right now) - which are actualy dual-dual-core-processor machines (ie. two dual-core G5 processors).
The Queen does have powers - powers she almost never uses (I think that's the only instance of teh royal veto being used during her reign, but I'm not sure). The fact that they aren't used makes them more important - since the threat of them hangs there.
And so speaks someone who doesn't understand the British governmental system very well. The sepearation of Head of State from Head of Government is important, and the fact that the former is someone who by dint of the hereditariness of the office is utterly un-coruptable and un-swayable by public opinion is a very important element of the way our system works.
Could it be done with someone other than the Windsors on the throne? hell yes. I'd be perfectly happy if the current head of state was Thomas Cromwell IV or somesuch - but someone needs to take that role for the system to work at all.
The real problem is that you are defining species as the equivalence classes under the relation "can mate with" - which fails the requirements to be an equivalence relation, and hence has no such well defined classes.
Your problem here is that the term "omnipotent" is not properly defined. One of the foundations of logic is a mathematical structure known as "Set Theory" (and no the word theory in this case does not mean the same thing as in "Scientific Theory" - but I digress).
The most common version of set theory (called "Naive Set Theory") is not self-consistent - it allows paradoxes, which essentialy disallow the logical idea of "The Law of The Exluded Middle" (nothing is both true and false at the same time) - and as such it is not mathematicly rigorous, and throwing around concepts like "Infinity" and "Omnipotence" is in many ways equivalent to this naive aproach. The more well-defined versions of set-theory (particularly "VonNeuman Set Theory") forbid the construction of certain "sets" (like the set of all things that can be done) and instead create the much weaker notion of "classes".
Essentialy I'm saying that omnipotence can only realy be dddefined as a limit condition, not as an actual property (ie. capable of doing anything one chooses as distinct from capable of doing anything).
Kids don't "discover their own faith", they're indoctrinated into whatever supertition their parents force-feed them.
Raising kids to believe in mythology is child abuse.
This needn't always be the case - my Father is a devout Bhuddist, yet raised me with no religion whatsoever.
To be honest in the current political climate it would be hard to find someone in Europe who wouldn't be considered liberal in the USA - the current US polirtics make Genghis Khan's wealth redistribution policies look positively progressive - and Mussolini would be considered practicaly a commie!
I don't disagree on any particular point (except the falling sea-level - you're wrong about that)- but simply because one side of the question is full of media-whore fanatics using bad science doesn't mean that that side is wrong.
Were that the case we'd have to conclude that both sides were utterly wrong...
Bill Gates may have other motives, but without a doubt he does care about the plight of third-world citizens. Whether this is due to genuine altruism or simple feelings of guilt is something that neither you nor I can tell - but whilst Bill's ruling passion may be the desire to dominate the computer industry completly and utterly (and it may not be) he most certainly has other motives for his actions also.
I may not agree with Bill Gates on anything technical or business related - but he is a decent humanitarian - of a sort.
My father is a 50 year old programmer - and I doubt anyone will employ him again when his current job downsizes (as I'm sure it eventually will) - this is because there is a (stupid) perception amongst people doing the hiring that all programmers should be 20-something recent graduates... the idea that computers are only understood by teh young has become a cliche in our society.
Plus that isn't the standard definition of the words. A hacker is a code-monkey, a cracker is someone who breaks encryption/copy protection - whether for good or bad reasons.
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I live in London, and it's pretty rare for me to sit ina tube carriage without seeing four or five other iPod users during off-peak times.
During rush-hour, naturaly, I can barely see anyone else who isn't presse dup right against me :(
It's been a while since the city was owned by the Cadburys and the Chamberlaines - but the indications of that time remain.
It's referinng to Apples "Quad G5" (like the one I'm typing at right now) - which are actualy dual-dual-core-processor machines (ie. two dual-core G5 processors).
Not because I'd liek a Gentoo/PPC64 install on my Quad or anuything ...
Yep, and new PCs don't ship with paralel ports ...
But, yeah, London is filthy. Manchester is Filthy, and Liverpool and Birmingham are only slightly better.
Milton Keynes is quite clean ;)
Does that mean they get cool powers and have to do good deads to regrow their soul-stuff in the Spirit World?
The Queen does have powers - powers she almost never uses (I think that's the only instance of teh royal veto being used during her reign, but I'm not sure). The fact that they aren't used makes them more important - since the threat of them hangs there.
... Think Different and Leap Ahead?
Could it be done with someone other than the Windsors on the throne? hell yes. I'd be perfectly happy if the current head of state was Thomas Cromwell IV or somesuch - but someone needs to take that role for the system to work at all.
What are AMD planning?
Coyote, Loki, Eris, ... YHWH?
The real problem is that you are defining species as the equivalence classes under the relation "can mate with" - which fails the requirements to be an equivalence relation, and hence has no such well defined classes.
You are making the common mistake of using the word theory when you mean hypothesis - evolution is a theory, ID is a hypothesis
Your problem here is that the term "omnipotent" is not properly defined. One of the foundations of logic is a mathematical structure known as "Set Theory" (and no the word theory in this case does not mean the same thing as in "Scientific Theory" - but I digress).
The most common version of set theory (called "Naive Set Theory") is not self-consistent - it allows paradoxes, which essentialy disallow the logical idea of "The Law of The Exluded Middle" (nothing is both true and false at the same time) - and as such it is not mathematicly rigorous, and throwing around concepts like "Infinity" and "Omnipotence" is in many ways equivalent to this naive aproach. The more well-defined versions of set-theory (particularly "VonNeuman Set Theory") forbid the construction of certain "sets" (like the set of all things that can be done) and instead create the much weaker notion of "classes".
Essentialy I'm saying that omnipotence can only realy be dddefined as a limit condition, not as an actual property (ie. capable of doing anything one chooses as distinct from capable of doing anything).
Damn our imprecise human language!
This needn't always be the case - my Father is a devout Bhuddist, yet raised me with no religion whatsoever.
Well - if the probe falls into a Canal then we'll know that it found previous life ...
A Fascist is someone who believes that society shoudl resemble a bundle of sticks! (possibly with an axe in it)
Were that the case we'd have to conclude that both sides were utterly wrong ...
Bill Gates may have other motives, but without a doubt he does care about the plight of third-world citizens. Whether this is due to genuine altruism or simple feelings of guilt is something that neither you nor I can tell - but whilst Bill's ruling passion may be the desire to dominate the computer industry completly and utterly (and it may not be) he most certainly has other motives for his actions also.
I may not agree with Bill Gates on anything technical or business related - but he is a decent humanitarian - of a sort.
Not that hard to understand is it?
Don't worry they'll have several million years to adapt to the new conditions once the environment has become uninhabbitable to humans ...
My father is a 50 year old programmer - and I doubt anyone will employ him again when his current job downsizes (as I'm sure it eventually will) - this is because there is a (stupid) perception amongst people doing the hiring that all programmers should be 20-something recent graduates ... the idea that computers are only understood by teh young has become a cliche in our society.
Plus that isn't the standard definition of the words. A hacker is a code-monkey, a cracker is someone who breaks encryption/copy protection - whether for good or bad reasons.