The incoherent propoganda, lies, and lack of science that Greenpeace shouts to the world does very little benefit, and very much harm to actual, real enviromental concerns.
They're as mindless, cultlike, and factually wrong as PETA.
Which is terrible and unfortunate, because they are wealthy and powerful, and if Greenpeace actually cared for the enviroment, at all, in any way, they have the capability to actually do enviromental good.
And now you're saying that people who barely speak or understand English, let alone the subtlties of the language, being paid to transcribe English, is 'technically sound' and 'the best way to do it'?...
Frankly, I'm not sure anymore if you're serious, or just being sarcastic.
Next you'll probably tell me "Oh, see that motherboard made of flammable wood? Regardless of it's flammability, it's the best flame-proof way to make a motherboard."
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not. Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
If they survive, it means they were the most fit to survive. That is proven by the fact of their continued existance. Value judgements are irrelevant to evolution - it's a process, not a pathway.
What if a 'crafty wife' walks out on her family and 4 kids? If you're going to be speaking on hypotheticals, that's at least as common, if not more so.
Not to put too find a point on it, but you are an idiot.
Evolution does not have a direction.
Let me repeat that, in all caps:
EVOLUTION DOES NOT HAVE A DIRECTION.
There's no such thing as 'backward' evolution, or 'forward' evolution, or 'sideways' evolution. Evolution is the adaptation of species. That's it, that's all. Evolution is a process of change, evolution does not have 'progress'. Evolution isn't something you can 'give up on'.
As you say, 'just look at complexity of our bodies'. You cannot predict how every single gene will increace the odds of species survival in every single circumstance. Genetic diversity of a species is a strength, and by saving those people you want killed or left to die, we strengthen the genetic diversity of the species, and thus its survival strength.
What you want to do, just letting die those who cannot save themselves, would lessen genetic diversity, and weaken the species.
Not to mention, that what you are advocating is more commonly called 'eugenics', and is inherently morally evil, in the truest sense of the word 'evil'.
You want to let people die because you don't think they help this mystical 'forward evolution' you believe in? Then please, volunteer to be the first to die. I'm sure the millions of people who are alive today because people like you weren't in positions to kill them or let them die would be grateful.
'Some of which are near' - put dozens of lines and crosses on the body, OF COURSE some of them are going to be 'near' acturepuncture points/areas (which ever one you mean).
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You're a white-man drinking coffee?
You don't own the file-format.
Not to mention, the green paint poisoning the polar bears!
Sadly, that seems an entirely accurate metaphor for what Greenpeace does in the world today. Anti-enviromental bastards.
The incoherent propoganda, lies, and lack of science that Greenpeace shouts to the world does very little benefit, and very much harm to actual, real enviromental concerns.
They're as mindless, cultlike, and factually wrong as PETA.
Which is terrible and unfortunate, because they are wealthy and powerful, and if Greenpeace actually cared for the enviroment, at all, in any way, they have the capability to actually do enviromental good.
And now you're saying that people who barely speak or understand English, let alone the subtlties of the language, being paid to transcribe English, is 'technically sound' and 'the best way to do it'? ...
Frankly, I'm not sure anymore if you're serious, or just being sarcastic.
Next you'll probably tell me "Oh, see that motherboard made of flammable wood? Regardless of it's flammability, it's the best flame-proof way to make a motherboard."
Oh no, clumsy drivers! Well, that's it. Wind power is /doomed/.
What?
No.
Their service says that they keep user supplied data in house. They do not.
Their service says that they use advanced technological means to do the transcription. They do not.
How on earth do you take that to mean 'their service does what it says'?
You are wrong.
If they survive, it means they were the most fit to survive. That is proven by the fact of their continued existance. Value judgements are irrelevant to evolution - it's a process, not a pathway.
You don't know anything at all about feudalism, do you?
Yes, it /is/ progress.
What if a 'crafty wife' walks out on her family and 4 kids? If you're going to be speaking on hypotheticals, that's at least as common, if not more so.
And yet you provide not a single piece of proof or evidence to support your rant.
Hm.
What, you'd rather wait till it dies and creates another dead zone?
Slashdot: News for enviromental destruction loves, stuff you can mock.
Atheism has as much to do with faith as not collecting stamps has to do with stamp-collecting.
Not to put too find a point on it, but you are an idiot.
Evolution does not have a direction.
Let me repeat that, in all caps:
EVOLUTION DOES NOT HAVE A DIRECTION.
There's no such thing as 'backward' evolution, or 'forward' evolution, or 'sideways' evolution. Evolution is the adaptation of species. That's it, that's all. Evolution is a process of change, evolution does not have 'progress'. Evolution isn't something you can 'give up on'.
As you say, 'just look at complexity of our bodies'. You cannot predict how every single gene will increace the odds of species survival in every single circumstance. Genetic diversity of a species is a strength, and by saving those people you want killed or left to die, we strengthen the genetic diversity of the species, and thus its survival strength.
What you want to do, just letting die those who cannot save themselves, would lessen genetic diversity, and weaken the species.
Not to mention, that what you are advocating is more commonly called 'eugenics', and is inherently morally evil, in the truest sense of the word 'evil'.
You want to let people die because you don't think they help this mystical 'forward evolution' you believe in? Then please, volunteer to be the first to die. I'm sure the millions of people who are alive today because people like you weren't in positions to kill them or let them die would be grateful.
But.... why?
Paper ballots work better.
Not everyone has access to a computer or internet connection.
Paper ballots are cheaper.
Paper ballots are harder to forge.
Paper ballots /work now/, and work well.
The only 'blatant moronic racicm' here is coming from you. Or do you think that race alone is a determinor of qualification?
From your words, you do. That's racist, you blatant moronic racist.
What, you don't think boats use technology?
'Technology' is more than 'computers', you know. Or, I guess, you don't.
That's not amazing.
'Some of which are near' - put dozens of lines and crosses on the body, OF COURSE some of them are going to be 'near' acturepuncture points/areas (which ever one you mean).
Nothing to see here, move along.
You missed his joke!
He didn't say it wasn't a joke, just that it was a bad one.
Um... 'a legitimate business' unsolicited email' - IS SPAM.
The legitimacy of the business is irrelevant.
If the email is from a business, and unsolicited (that is, UNWANTED), then, it is, by its very nature, SPAM.
To put it even more simply: UNSOLICITED BUSINESS EMAIL = SPAM.
And in my mind, if the business is sending spam, they're not legitimate, period.
'Marvell' != 'Marvel'
For a bunch of so-called geeks, I'm surprised so many are missing that.
A rushed game will be bad forever.
Take the time to get it right, and it will /suck less/.
Please, before all the bitching and moaning, remember - what would you prefer? A good game, or a rushed game?
What money is there in vandalism? None.
The answer of your question of why anybody would do this: because they can.
Both of which, Apple making cheap computers, but especially Apple licencing OS X out to OEM's - would destroy the company.
It almost /did/ destroy Apple as a company, utterly, in the 90's. Thank god they put a stop to that, or things like iPod's wouldn't exist.
How does improperly publishing a lightcurve determine someone's political leanings?
I sense a troll.