As a species we're violent, irrational, deluded, greedy and self interested.
The occasional deviations from this norm in no way redeem us.
If I had a choice not to be involved with this disgusting species then I wouldn't either.
We are the product of evolutionary forces, while we may be violent, irrational, deluded, greedy and self interested we are also social, curious and empathetic.
I would suspect that any other life form that is a product of the same evolutionary forces would share a similar mix of these attributes.
I fight all the time with Labview weenies. It does have a place but for complex jobs interfacing with other programs or systems it becomes cumbersome. One old timer senior scientist where I work refers to Labview as programming for kindergartners.
I'm of the opinion that all driving while intoxicated laws are inappropriate. Either you're driving recklessly or not. If you are, go to jail. If not, go home and sleep it off.
Really! Sometimes the indication that someone is driving recklessly is when they plow into the side of a car, killing and maiming the occupants.
Drunk driving laws and enforcement do save lives and prevent many needless tragedies as they statistically highlight those that are most likely to be involved in an accident - they should be tougher if anything.
Slashdot sensationalistic reporting frequently uses "quietly" to give a sense of wrong doing or subversive action.
I suppose it strokes the ego of the reporter as it they feel they are uncovering some dirty laundry when typically the event or action wasn't quiet or just wasn't important enough to warrant a press conference. In this case both apply.
Same here and then I realized that good and semi-good ideas are a dime a dozen. Inspiration is about.1 percent and perspiration and capital is the other 99.9 percent of the value of any project.
I have had a similar thought... except human intelligence bootstraps intelligent machines that evolve so that and some day very far into the future and far from earth they would sit around argue about how "life" ever started started.
Maybe even some would claim it would be statistically improbable that a pieces of semi-conductor would ever arrange itself in any complex way necessary for "life"
Just like whatever bootstrapped biological life is largely unknown; intelligent machines not aware of a no longer existent warm hospitable blue dot would have no record of biological life kicking the process into motion.
So say you have a remote server no console access.
Usually yes.
One day you are messing around with httpd.conf and fat finger a entry and mess up the config. Some months laterthe NOC hosting your system has to do some quick machine maintenance and powers down your machine. Later in the day they finish and power up your instance, but wait the httpd.conf file has a error and apache refuses to start on boot......now what, yes you are screwed you cannot access your account.
I also have a fixed ip address (that I always have access to) added to the file like this.
In hosts.deny ----------------- sshd:ALL EXCEPT 187.190.10.1/var/www/html/allow.txt -----------------
Yes that really sounds more practical. A few years ago the Russians tried something like this and failed, but learn from that mistake and move on. It is really a good idea.
A broadly focused mirror could even provide additional light and heat to northern cold dark metro areas in the winter reducing fuel and lighting costs.
What are you talking about.
Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, Palin took 6 years to get a sports journalism degree. If you ask Bill what media helps form his world view he would probably rattle of a list recent books and articles, Palin couldn't even come up with a daily newspaper. Palin is lacking in insight, curiosity, diplomacy, and reasoning abilities and apparently is only good at delivering rehearsed insults.
1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds
While that is an impressive number why not just say "The power output of the Sun for.39 nanoseconds" or is 39 nanoseconds the duration of the nuclear reaction?
One major obstacle that must be overcome, he says, is the irritating nature of capsaicin, which causes burning sensations when one touches (not to mention eats) it.
Irritating... If you have ever had the pleasure to demo The Source at 7.1 MScovilles "irritating" is not the adjective you first reach for.
I have a friend who prides himself on this ability to handle heat and pain sample a bit too much one time. He became very quite but controlled although you could see his face turn red. He abruptly got up and left the room. The next when I saw him, there was no pretense, he used a few expletives but claimed that in the "after glow" phase he actually had what one might refer to as a religious experience.
Richard Dawkin's is very rational if you have ever had the chance to read his books or listen to him speak (better book writer than a speaker).
You need to understand the Dawkin's just claims that without any evidence the God as described by the various existing religions is non-existent. Just like you are an atheist with respect to the Greek and Roman Gods he is an atheist to the God of the Bible.
Here is a Dawkin's quote that illustrates the point.
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
Science follows the Bible, not the other way around.
What are you smoking. Not *one* discovery of the natural world has ever originated from the bible or even an inspired reading of the bible. It is always after the fact the people find the amazing facts in the bible.
It's the only ancient book that gets it right.
The earth is not suspended on nothing, does not have four corners, is not a circle and does not have foundations.
Genesis gets the order of appearance wrong and is based on a bronze age cosmology that includes a dome and a flat earth.
The sun does not "rise" and moon does not give her light. Shadows cannot go backwards, and the sun cannot "stand still". Stars cannot "fall from heaven".
There is *no* evidence of a world wide flood, dinosaurs did not live contemporaneously with humans.
This is just of the top of my head. You are fooling yourself.
They know it's wrong to kill this way...but they should also know it's not the Christian's job to make such decisions.
Exodus 32: "Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor."
Ezekial 9: Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all - old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they did read the book on "Universal Design for Printed Media" :)
No kidding...
The wildest amusement ride I ever experienced was a taxi ride from Cambridge to the airport.
As a species we're violent, irrational, deluded, greedy and self interested.
The occasional deviations from this norm in no way redeem us.
If I had a choice not to be involved with this disgusting species then I wouldn't either.
We are the product of evolutionary forces, while we may be violent, irrational, deluded, greedy and self interested we are also social, curious and empathetic.
I would suspect that any other life form that is a product of the same evolutionary forces would share a similar mix of these attributes.
Thanks, nicely said.
I fight all the time with Labview weenies. It does have a place but for complex jobs interfacing with other programs or systems it becomes cumbersome. One old timer senior scientist where I work refers to Labview as programming for kindergartners.
I'm of the opinion that all driving while intoxicated laws are inappropriate. Either you're driving recklessly or not. If you are, go to jail. If not, go home and sleep it off.
Really! Sometimes the indication that someone is driving recklessly is when they plow into the side of a car, killing and maiming the occupants.
Drunk driving laws and enforcement do save lives and prevent many needless tragedies as they statistically highlight those that are most likely to be involved in an accident - they should be tougher if anything.
I would dispute
1) Not eating poison.
As that is a recent entry into their list of survival and propagation concerns. Then I would replace it with
1) Obsession with sex
Now the list looks a lot closer to what the human brain is concerned with.
Slashdot sensationalistic reporting frequently uses "quietly" to give a sense of wrong doing or subversive action.
I suppose it strokes the ego of the reporter as it they feel they are uncovering some dirty laundry when typically the event or action wasn't quiet or just wasn't important enough to warrant a press conference. In this case both apply.
Same here and then I realized that good and semi-good ideas are a dime a dozen. Inspiration is about .1 percent and perspiration and capital is the other 99.9 percent of the value of any project.
I have had a similar thought... except human intelligence bootstraps intelligent machines that evolve so that and some day very far into the future and far from earth they would sit around argue about how "life" ever started started.
Maybe even some would claim it would be statistically improbable that a pieces of semi-conductor would ever arrange itself in any complex way necessary for "life"
Just like whatever bootstrapped biological life is largely unknown; intelligent machines not aware of a no longer existent warm hospitable blue dot would have no record of biological life kicking the process into motion.
Just a thought...
Programming Perl
By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
On line I remember went something like this:
"I works exactly the way you think it should work, we just have a hard time writing the way you think"
So say you have a remote server no console access.
Usually yes.
One day you are messing around with httpd.conf and fat finger a entry and mess up the config. Some months laterthe NOC hosting your system has to do some quick machine maintenance and powers down your machine. Later in the day they finish and power up your instance, but wait the httpd.conf file has a error and apache refuses to start on boot......now what, yes you are screwed you
cannot access your account.
I also have a fixed ip address (that I always have access to) added to the file like this.
In hosts.deny /var/www/html/allow.txt
-----------------
sshd:ALL EXCEPT 187.190.10.1
-----------------
Yes that really sounds more practical. A few years ago the Russians tried something like this and failed, but learn from that mistake and move on. It is really a good idea.
A broadly focused mirror could even provide additional light and heat to northern cold dark metro areas in the winter reducing fuel and lighting costs.
Molten rock pushed back up the borehole several meters before solidifying, making it perfectly safe to study
When dealing with a pressurized body of molten rock with entrained gasses, I don't think one could ever say it is perfectly safe.
A few are probably prepared to bow to their alien intruders - there is a few in every crowd.
What are you talking about. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, Palin took 6 years to get a sports journalism degree. If you ask Bill what media helps form his world view he would probably rattle of a list recent books and articles, Palin couldn't even come up with a daily newspaper. Palin is lacking in insight, curiosity, diplomacy, and reasoning abilities and apparently is only good at delivering rehearsed insults.
Yet another highly evolved species endowed with an equally highly curious nature fires up a most ambitious particle collider.
I once consumed a chip full of this hot sauce and my tongue was numb for a day. A day later it payed the compliment to the other end.
Irritating... If you have ever had the pleasure to demo The Source at 7.1 MScovilles "irritating" is not the adjective you first reach for.
I have a friend who prides himself on this ability to handle heat and pain sample a bit too much one time. He became very quite but controlled although you could see his face turn red. He abruptly got up and left the room. The next when I saw him, there was no pretense, he used a few expletives but claimed that in the "after glow" phase he actually had what one might refer to as a religious experience.
This figures.... doesn't the brain use about 30% of the blood oxygen.
From this article
http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/software-linux-lawsuits-tech-oped-cx_dl_0919lyons.html
Daniel Lyons has some choice quotes
"I reported what they said. Turns out I was getting played. They never produced a smoking gun."
and
"It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right."
Not often you find a journalist reporting on their failure of foresight. Daniel gained a few points in my book.
You need to understand the Dawkin's just claims that without any evidence the God as described by the various existing religions is non-existent. Just like you are an atheist with respect to the Greek and Roman Gods he is an atheist to the God of the Bible.
Here is a Dawkin's quote that illustrates the point.
Hey if you are into intelligent design check out the awesomely designed tongue replacement parasite.
Roll down to "Friday Parasite #10: Tongue Rolling"
Now only a loving creator could create such a lovable creature such as that.
Or maybe just those Godless blue states.
What are you smoking. Not *one* discovery of the natural world has ever originated from the bible or even an inspired reading of the bible. It is always after the fact the people find the amazing facts in the bible.
The earth is not suspended on nothing, does not have four corners, is not a circle and does not have foundations.
Genesis gets the order of appearance wrong and is based on a bronze age cosmology that includes a dome and a flat earth.
The sun does not "rise" and moon does not give her light. Shadows cannot go backwards, and the sun cannot "stand still". Stars cannot "fall from heaven".
There is *no* evidence of a world wide flood, dinosaurs did not live contemporaneously with humans.
This is just of the top of my head. You are fooling yourself.
Exodus 32: "Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor."
Ezekial 9: Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all - old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark