I really should have expected this sort of thing on Slashdot.
You say that any scientific theory can lead to useful information. Great, call me when it does. I don't see any use to a theory (such as modern unification theories) that begin to operate only at energies so great that it would be completely impractical, possibly even dangerous, to achieve them under laboratory or technological conditions.
I'm really wondering what exactly your "stagnation and decay" are, since even stopping all investigations of the Big Bang wouldn't kill off the majority of experimental science.
Furtheremore, you claim that science allows us to predict and harness nature. This is perfectly true, but the more important question that you overlook is "for what?". There are good things to harness nature towards (shelter, elimination of deadly diseases, fun geek toys), and there are bad things (nuclear weapons, pointless holy wars on Slashdot, scientific pie in the future stories like those employed by Communist and Capitalist alike).
I fully expect that this post and my previous one will be modded down, but you and the rest of Slashdot need to face facts: Slashdot is disproportionally full of Diests and atheists of a particularly militaristic "our-way-is-the-only-way" variety, but commenting and modding in favor of each other isn't going to make your Holy Science Of Peer-Reviewed-Journals the state religion.
The simple fact is that nobody was around to tell whether God or the Big Bang or the Flying Spaghetti Monster "made" the Universe, or how life got to be. In a display of obviously selective intelligence, ID/Creationism supporters acknowledge this. In a rare display of selective stupidity, many Evolution supporters do not, and continue to claim that belief in anything other than the Literal Revealed Truth of the Big Bang, Earth being Formed From Space Dust 4 billion years ago and Life Evolving over 600 million Years makes you stupid. It does not, it merely makes you selectively intelligent on certain subjects, which they seem to be well-aquainted with being.
The really important conclusion to be drawn from the "We don't know" fact is this: It doesn't fucking matter. Whichever story is true, the Universe and Earth and the human race are still here today. What's important is what we do about that self-evident fact, and this is where each story has its own place and its own use.
I'm getting tired of these damned jokes as well. The only reason I can't manipulate a woman into having sex with me is because I consider manipulating people immoral, and manipulating them into casual sex moreso.
Yes, this means I'll never get a date, but I'll never get a date because I'm exactly what women want: Someone who cares more for the heart than what's in her pants. They just never realize that people like me don't bother to learn how to "pick up" women.
I would just like to note that I saw this guy's site over a year ago, and that I've been citing it whenever someone asks for a Completely New Thing in physics since then.
Yep. We're still exploring our ignorance of things that are many millions of miles away from Earth and will never have any effect on us for roughly as long as we could possibly expect the human race to survive without blowing itself up.
1.Patent the "storyline" of a people being led to freedom from slavery by a courageous leader. 2.Sue every church, synagogue, hotel chain, bookstore, and crappy historian I can. 3.??? 4.Profit!
To all those commenters who've asked why we need to find Copernicus's bones, here's an answer.
This is plain old idol worship, digging up the bones of a past cultural hero so that we can be even more reverant of him. Now if those stupid scientists would get back to science, ie: experiments we might make some kind of progress on humanity's problems.
The real question is whether an optical chip could be programmed like a normal chip, or we would all have to learn 2 or 3 new architectures when everyone comes out with optical chips.
To tell the truth, I didn't know that I could get pirated copyrighted material on USENET as well as operating system development advice. Thanks Slashdot!
Seriously, I'm too lazy to search through our local newsgroup server to find one that'll host binaries.
Way I always read it was that Anakin flipped sides because he was the Chosen One, whose job is to balance the force. The film seemed to show that the Light Side had become too dominant, even stagnant, and that balance could have to be obtained by tilting the see-saw the other way for a while. Hence, Anakin turned to save Padme and because the Force was acting through him.
Actually, it isn't. Unix was a cut-down (ie: neutered) Multics, which means that Linux is the Open Source derivative of a neutered, cut down operating system. Funny thing is, we now have all the processing power and hardware needed to make Multics itself worth reserructing, but nobody does it.
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I really should have expected this sort of thing on Slashdot.
You say that any scientific theory can lead to useful information. Great, call me when it does. I don't see any use to a theory (such as modern unification theories) that begin to operate only at energies so great that it would be completely impractical, possibly even dangerous, to achieve them under laboratory or technological conditions.
I'm really wondering what exactly your "stagnation and decay" are, since even stopping all investigations of the Big Bang wouldn't kill off the majority of experimental science.
Furtheremore, you claim that science allows us to predict and harness nature. This is perfectly true, but the more important question that you overlook is "for what?". There are good things to harness nature towards (shelter, elimination of deadly diseases, fun geek toys), and there are bad things (nuclear weapons, pointless holy wars on Slashdot, scientific pie in the future stories like those employed by Communist and Capitalist alike).
I fully expect that this post and my previous one will be modded down, but you and the rest of Slashdot need to face facts: Slashdot is disproportionally full of Diests and atheists of a particularly militaristic "our-way-is-the-only-way" variety, but commenting and modding in favor of each other isn't going to make your Holy Science Of Peer-Reviewed-Journals the state religion.
The simple fact is that nobody was around to tell whether God or the Big Bang or the Flying Spaghetti Monster "made" the Universe, or how life got to be. In a display of obviously selective intelligence, ID/Creationism supporters acknowledge this. In a rare display of selective stupidity, many Evolution supporters do not, and continue to claim that belief in anything other than the Literal Revealed Truth of the Big Bang, Earth being Formed From Space Dust 4 billion years ago and Life Evolving over 600 million Years makes you stupid. It does not, it merely makes you selectively intelligent on certain subjects, which they seem to be well-aquainted with being.
The really important conclusion to be drawn from the "We don't know" fact is this: It doesn't fucking matter. Whichever story is true, the Universe and Earth and the human race are still here today. What's important is what we do about that self-evident fact, and this is where each story has its own place and its own use.
Amein.
I'm getting tired of these damned jokes as well. The only reason I can't manipulate a woman into having sex with me is because I consider manipulating people immoral, and manipulating them into casual sex moreso.
Yes, this means I'll never get a date, but I'll never get a date because I'm exactly what women want: Someone who cares more for the heart than what's in her pants. They just never realize that people like me don't bother to learn how to "pick up" women.
Mod Parent Insightful.
I would just like to note that I saw this guy's site over a year ago, and that I've been citing it whenever someone asks for a Completely New Thing in physics since then.
Yep. We're still exploring our ignorance of things that are many millions of miles away from Earth and will never have any effect on us for roughly as long as we could possibly expect the human race to survive without blowing itself up.
This is such a great idea, you know the government will never do it.
1.Patent the "storyline" of a people being led to freedom from slavery by a courageous leader.
2.Sue every church, synagogue, hotel chain, bookstore, and crappy historian I can.
3.???
4.Profit!
To all those commenters who've asked why we need to find Copernicus's bones, here's an answer.
This is plain old idol worship, digging up the bones of a past cultural hero so that we can be even more reverant of him. Now if those stupid scientists would get back to science, ie: experiments we might make some kind of progress on humanity's problems.
You do realize that anyone who programs at a system level tends to care about architecture, and that is a significant group of people?
"Sheeple". I like that.
Was anyone on Slashdot planning to buy an M$ XBox 360 anyway?
Joy to the world! The Fox has come! Let Earth, browse oooo-pen sourrrrce!
The real question is whether an optical chip could be programmed like a normal chip, or we would all have to learn 2 or 3 new architectures when everyone comes out with optical chips.
No, it makes George W. Bush the natural, healthy and foretold counterbalance to Jesus Christ.
Especially because the Sith Cult restricts itself to only two members at once.
To tell the truth, I didn't know that I could get pirated copyrighted material on USENET as well as operating system development advice. Thanks Slashdot!
Seriously, I'm too lazy to search through our local newsgroup server to find one that'll host binaries.
The clones were genetically engineered to be extra-obedient.
Nature of redemption, my foot. Vader didn't t'shuvah for anything.
Way I always read it was that Anakin flipped sides because he was the Chosen One, whose job is to balance the force. The film seemed to show that the Light Side had become too dominant, even stagnant, and that balance could have to be obtained by tilting the see-saw the other way for a while. Hence, Anakin turned to save Padme and because the Force was acting through him.
So how soon before we can have a full Windows operating system "live", complete with BSODs and malware?
Actually, it isn't. Unix was a cut-down (ie: neutered) Multics, which means that Linux is the Open Source derivative of a neutered, cut down operating system. Funny thing is, we now have all the processing power and hardware needed to make Multics itself worth reserructing, but nobody does it.
Actually, current C (C99 standard, at the very least) allows declaring loop counters in the for statement.
So, yes, it would seem SCO is dumb enough to use antiquated C.
this is why we keep our cellular phones powered off whenever we're not using them. So the retarted tyrants can't find us.
Who owns the rights to the C language?