But seriously, how come the bills from Scottland are so unknown in England? They're diferent notes for the same currency, right? So why don't they spread far and wide?
After a while you'd think they'd be pretty well mingled together. The UK is a relativly small island(s), afterall.
Never seen a piece of your own currency issued from a bank less than two hundred miles away? As an American I have a hard time believing that.
Has the automobile not yet been introduced to the UK?
Why don't the bills circulate more? I've got in my wallet two American notes, (A $10 and a $5), If the serial numbers still run the way they used to then neither of them was issued by the nearest federal reserve bank; One of them was issued by the next one over, and one of them was issued halfway across the country!
Do people go out of their way to segregate the money?
When you say "Still floating around", you mean "Still being issued by the treasury department" right?
Contrary to popular belief $2 bills are not some relic from the ancient past that needs to be cherished and protected. You can get them from banks at face value. (Although some smaller banks will make you buy an entire lot of them, because they can't get rid of loose $2s)
They print more whenever the Treasury runs out of them. They're not in high demand, so I think the last series was 1996.
" During the time it has taken for many theories to be considered "proven wrong" the old theory was religiously clung to until the mass of ideas revolving around the new theory was so great there was not much choice other than to let go of the old." Who came up with the mass of ideas revolving around the new theory if everyone was still religiously beliving the old theory? They didn't spring up out of the ground, did they?
Anyway, everyone knows human nature isn't perfect. Nothing involving a large number of people is ever executed as smoothly as it should be. That's just life.
"I'm referring to a more general tendency of self-righteous atheists feeling it is their moral (?!) obligation to berate religous people." Those show up in every group of people. It must be a common mental problem.
You see people who pounce on any innocuous mention of God and berate it as medieval superstition.
You see people who go out of their way to tell you that your problems all stem from not embracing Jesus.
You see people who go on tirades if you should dare question the Iraq War.
You see people who will strike a blow for freedom by vandalizing "Support our Troops" bumper stickers.
You get smokers who go out of their way to berate "anti-smoking Nazis" when they see a "no smoking" sign in a hospital or gas station.
You see people who are "anti-smoking Nazis".
You see people who will lecture you for hours if you should dare suggest that the energy fields of a crystal pyramid might not be the best way to sharpen a razor blade.
You see people who will cross a crowded room simply for the opportunity to make fun of someone wearing a crystal pendant.
I'm sure we could play this game all day and come up with a giant compendium of jerks and losers. But my point is just to illustrate that self appointed philosophy professors are not limited to the religion/anti-religion sort.
" Where is the physical evidence for the theory of common ancestry? " As everyone else already pointed out, there is a good deal of supporting evidence. None entirely conclusive, but I never said there was.
I said "... if the leading scientific theory is proven wrong then it is no longer the leading scientific theory."
Simply put, current evolutionary theory best supports the existing facts. Yes. There are gaps. But constantly demanding answers to those gaps does not constitute an argument. If you want to dispute evolutionary theory, A) Prove it Completely Wrong, or B) Come up with a theory that better matches the observable facts. Don't just keep screaming that evolutionary theory is not perfect. Because Science is not a religion imperfection, doubt, and uncertainty do not blow our minds, they are accepted as simply a natural part of the human condition.
"[the scientific method] also can't explain the 'Why am I here' question?." Standard answer : You are here because your genes were more successful at surviving long enough to propagate themselves than competing genes were. Alternate, philosophical answer : No reason. You're just walking meat cursed with life and consciousness. Don't worry, those curses don't last long.
"I'd have to say that most "Evolutionists" have as closed a mind as us "Jesus Freaks". " The difference between science and religion is not that the scientists are supposed to consider every crazy, unsupported idea that comes down the pike.
The difference is that if the leading scientific theory is proven wrong then it is no longer the leading scientific theory.
Only religious types think that a "Belief" is something you have to decide early then never change.
"If school was really about "learning to think" and "knowledge", why is cheating so rampant? 33% of all graduates cheated to get their bachelor's, at least here in Montreal in EE." Because some people don't want to learn, and have no interest in knowledge. This is no suprise. Just because some people try to cheat at the Marathon doesn't mean it's not about strength and endurance.
What slashdot needs is a toggle so you can flag posts as "SARCASTIC" and then users without a sense of sarcasm can have flaged posts displayed in a diferent color or something.
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It probably Depends a lot on how long they've been extinct.
Also, some extinct species would probably be brought back only for zoos and research. The Ecology arguments wouldn't be a big issue. (Especialy something like a mammoth that couldn't slip away unnoticed.)
" So if I park my own bike somewhere, I'm trying to convert this piece of city into my own private parking space?" I agree with your point, but your analogy is silly unless you own 1700 bikes. You're expected to park your own personal bike by chaining it to the nearest lamppost.
"If this is morally defensible is your own call." It's easy for me to say because I don't own the bikes, but it's worth noticing that they went to lengths to make sure the bikes were still usable. (Compared to all the other vandalism these bikes have apparently suffered.) Also, notice that they didn't give out their magic code on the Internet.
It's obvious that these people are just doing this for fun, not out of a strong desire for financial gain. Heck, for all the man-hours that went into this project, they could have worked at a minimum wage job and then purchased a bicycle.
When he says "buy a dell" he means that $800 of Dell is better than $800 of eMac.
"but Macintoshes cost more because they provide more value for their target audience." The only people who belive that are Apple cultists. The fact is that except for their very high end stuff, Apple computers are badly over-priced compared to their PC competitors.
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I keep trying to sell mine, but I can't find any buyers.
Steve Jobs is like the Pope. If he ever admits that he was wrong his following will lose faith.
The cyborg overlords will probably throw him for a loop though.
I can't remember the last time I even used a computer.
Yay! -1 Flamebait.
But seriously, how come the bills from Scottland are so unknown in England? They're diferent notes for the same currency, right? So why don't they spread far and wide?
After a while you'd think they'd be pretty well mingled together. The UK is a relativly small island(s), afterall.
Ooo! Ooo! I know! I Know! Your mod point was canceled when you posted in the same story as you moderated?
"when you've never seen the real one before?"
Never seen a piece of your own currency issued from a bank less than two hundred miles away? As an American I have a hard time believing that.
Has the automobile not yet been introduced to the UK?
Why don't the bills circulate more? I've got in my wallet two American notes, (A $10 and a $5), If the serial numbers still run the way they used to then neither of them was issued by the nearest federal reserve bank; One of them was issued by the next one over, and one of them was issued halfway across the country!
Do people go out of their way to segregate the money?
When you say "Still floating around", you mean "Still being issued by the treasury department" right?
Contrary to popular belief $2 bills are not some relic from the ancient past that needs to be cherished and protected. You can get them from banks at face value. (Although some smaller banks will make you buy an entire lot of them, because they can't get rid of loose $2s)
They print more whenever the Treasury runs out of them. They're not in high demand, so I think the last series was 1996.
"Unprovoked" attacks against "peacekeepers"?
How does that work, exactly?
England == Global?
No, but they might try to claim that nearly all ticket sales were to action movies.
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During the time it has taken for many theories to be considered "proven wrong" the old theory was religiously clung to until the mass of ideas revolving around the new theory was so great there was not much choice other than to let go of the old."
Who came up with the mass of ideas revolving around the new theory if everyone was still religiously beliving the old theory? They didn't spring up out of the ground, did they?
Anyway, everyone knows human nature isn't perfect. Nothing involving a large number of people is ever executed as smoothly as it should be. That's just life.
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Those show up in every group of people. It must be a common mental problem.
I'm sure we could play this game all day and come up with a giant compendium of jerks and losers. But my point is just to illustrate that self appointed philosophy professors are not limited to the religion/anti-religion sort.
(Personally, I enjoy taunting vegetarians.)
" Where is the physical evidence for the theory of common ancestry? "
As everyone else already pointed out, there is a good deal of supporting evidence. None entirely conclusive, but I never said there was.
I said "... if the leading scientific theory is proven wrong then it is no longer the leading scientific theory."
Simply put, current evolutionary theory best supports the existing facts. Yes. There are gaps. But constantly demanding answers to those gaps does not constitute an argument. If you want to dispute evolutionary theory, A) Prove it Completely Wrong, or B) Come up with a theory that better matches the observable facts. Don't just keep screaming that evolutionary theory is not perfect. Because Science is not a religion imperfection, doubt, and uncertainty do not blow our minds, they are accepted as simply a natural part of the human condition.
"[the scientific method] also can't explain the 'Why am I here' question?."
Standard answer : You are here because your genes were more successful at surviving long enough to propagate themselves than competing genes were.
Alternate, philosophical answer : No reason. You're just walking meat cursed with life and consciousness. Don't worry, those curses don't last long.
"I'd have to say that most "Evolutionists" have as closed a mind as us "Jesus Freaks". "
The difference between science and religion is not that the scientists are supposed to consider every crazy, unsupported idea that comes down the pike.
The difference is that if the leading scientific theory is proven wrong then it is no longer the leading scientific theory.
Only religious types think that a "Belief" is something you have to decide early then never change.
Yea, but they'd better be carefull. A lot of those parents would might take their money elsewhere if the school dared to teach about global warming!
"If school was really about "learning to think" and "knowledge", why is cheating so rampant? 33% of all graduates cheated to get their bachelor's, at least here in Montreal in EE."
Because some people don't want to learn, and have no interest in knowledge.
This is no suprise. Just because some people try to cheat at the Marathon doesn't mean it's not about strength and endurance.
What slashdot needs is a toggle so you can flag posts as "SARCASTIC" and then users without a sense of sarcasm can have flaged posts displayed in a diferent color or something.
17 year olds are supposed to be pissed at their parents.
Too bad it killed Doctor Atkins.
It probably Depends a lot on how long they've been extinct.
Also, some extinct species would probably be brought back only for zoos and research. The Ecology arguments wouldn't be a big issue. (Especialy something like a mammoth that couldn't slip away unnoticed.)
Why should the parent be modded down? Slashdot moderators do not exist to enforce Lowtax's silly little rules.
" So if I park my own bike somewhere, I'm trying to convert this piece of city into my own private parking space?"
I agree with your point, but your analogy is silly unless you own 1700 bikes. You're expected to park your own personal bike by chaining it to the nearest lamppost.
"If this is morally defensible is your own call."
It's easy for me to say because I don't own the bikes, but it's worth noticing that they went to lengths to make sure the bikes were still usable. (Compared to all the other vandalism these bikes have apparently suffered.)
Also, notice that they didn't give out their magic code on the Internet.
It's obvious that these people are just doing this for fun, not out of a strong desire for financial gain. Heck, for all the man-hours that went into this project, they could have worked at a minimum wage job and then purchased a bicycle.
When he says "buy a dell" he means that $800 of Dell is better than $800 of eMac.
"but Macintoshes cost more because they provide more value for their target audience."
The only people who belive that are Apple cultists. The fact is that except for their very high end stuff, Apple computers are badly over-priced compared to their PC competitors.