War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Americans have been using words to cloud meaning rather than enlighten since we changed the Department of War to the Department of Defense. Wiki classes the US as a constitutional republic, & it has some fairly good articles on forms of government. I suppose it doesn't sound as good to say we're exporting republics to Iraq.
the theist can argue that the direction towards worship is part of the Creator's plan. Trust god to implement WGA-on-steroids. If you don't phone in, you don't get to reproduce.
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That's how our bodies do it, anyway. Yeah but with the body you don't get the option of backing up documents & re-imaging. I don't dick around anymore when I get some malware. It just isn't worth the time/effort.
It's good to know that the record industry in the US aren't the only thugs in the business. Yeah, let's just assume everyone is a crook and charge them up front! The greed of these fuckers is absolutely endless. Call it by its real name. It's capitalism, not greed.
I'm not saying/. trolls are a bunch of commies & I'm not saying communism is bad either. My point is you need to be very sure of just what you're buying because nothing is perfect.
Google already is the next Microsoft. We just don't all know it yet. Oh please. Google has no power over what I do. I'm not forced to buy or use any of their stuff. They have many excellent free opt-in products & adblock takes care of any minor nuisances. This recent anti-google wave on/. sounds rather petty.
Are you kidding? I've been using Vista since RTM on my main work system and the UAC prompts are enough to either:
1: Drive one completely insane.
2: Insensitize one to the point where one clicks 'Yes' on any dialog that pops up.
3: Cause one to disable UAC prompting. Yeah I'm not much of a mac person, but I found this rather funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4mdcXa8B0
Hay guyz i hav this gr8 idea i tink i shud take a pikkchur of myself in da mirrur holding teh camerah at a weiurd angle isnt that original guyz? Amirite?
Has it ever occurred to you that many artists and consumers are shareholders?
How did this get modded up? It doesn't matter if the consumer & the shareholder are the same individual. Point here is the fees are targetted towards a specific group. The shareholder may end up buying something, but the hurt is aimed at the record prices, not his portfolio.
Huh? What? Threatens their beliefs? The Big Bang? Are you reading the same theory I am? The Big Bang is litterally a religious persons DREAM scientific theory. They couldn't have written it any better themselves. Not only is it the perfect theory explaining the moment of creation, but it also predicts that not only does everything happen, all of creation, in a single moment, at a single point, but it even predicts that our laws and rules and science cannot touch anything that happened before it. It, literally, points to a single moment/point and says the entire universe came from this point, at this time, and we can never hope to know what happened before that.
If that's not "biblical" in it's details, then nothing is.
What isn't? Seriously. Name me a theory that isn't compatible with the bible. You'd think copernicus could have killed the firmaments & heaven/hell but people just adopted a more liberal interpretation. That's all that happened. As some people have already pointed out, Darwin couldn't kill the adam/eve/original sin myth. Studying biology is now "the work of god".
The exact same thing that will happen again & again until someone catches on. You cannot disprove the bible. It is a constantly moving target, everyone with his own version.
I believe that many are missing a critical point in this discussion. The universe, by definition, encompasses all events which are causally connected, and therefore observable, at least in theory. As such, studying the universe falls within the realm of science. Discussion about what preceded the universe is, by definition, a discussion about things that cannot, even in principle, be observationally confirmed or refuted. As such, it is not science, but speculation. If you want to make such speculations, go ahead, but it shouldn't be passed off as science. I believe the Pope's comments were not intended to curtail legitimate science, but philosophy disguised as science.
Definitions don't carry much weight in science. A hundred years or so ago people thought the existence of atoms could not be verified.
See the 'problem' here is that theory is usually decades ahead of experiments. The modern idea of the atom goes way back to John Dalton, in the early years of the nineteenth century. It took Millikan until 1911 to determine the precise value of the electron's electric charge. And until Ernest Rutherford devised a clever experiment to probe the atom (also 1911), the picture of electrons orbiting a tiny nucleus was not known.
That hasn't changed. With very little experimental basis, theorists have constructed huge mathematical theories such as inflation & string theory. It remains to be seen how much of the latter is really correct, but it's almost certain that the tools they invent will be used. Science is almost as much a creative activity as a puzzle-solving enterprise.
But I digress. Speculation is science. Of course if you have any evidence that things "before" the big bang cannot be confirmed or refuted, you should publish it & get your richly deserved nobel.
Slashdot Mirror
Nuff said.
There are few things more satisfying to watch than CTS working slashdot.
They're flushing out the lowlives who actually read articles. Can't criticize if you don't read, or at least that's the prevailing theory.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Americans have been using words to cloud meaning rather than enlighten since we changed the Department of War to the Department of Defense. Wiki classes the US as a constitutional republic, & it has some fairly good articles on forms of government. I suppose it doesn't sound as good to say we're exporting republics to Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA
First idiot to mention a certain game with a protracted development schedule gets shot.
No one can be told what the Internet is. You have to see it for yourself.
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It looks a lot like Uranus (the black hole).
(Jeez, guys. Can we dial down the power-nerd a bit? At least no more star wars ok?)
Because everybody's playing with their Wiis.
Duh.
Trust god to implement WGA-on-steroids. If you don't phone in, you don't get to reproduce.
That's how our bodies do it, anyway. Yeah but with the body you don't get the option of backing up documents & re-imaging. I don't dick around anymore when I get some malware. It just isn't worth the time/effort.
Any of you 3 Womans on slashdot wanna give away some genetic research?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman
I'm not saying
1: Drive one completely insane.
2: Insensitize one to the point where one clicks 'Yes' on any dialog that pops up.
3: Cause one to disable UAC prompting. Yeah I'm not much of a mac person, but I found this rather funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4mdcXa8B0
I'm in ur tube... advertizing ur vid3oz
(A)ssimilate? (Y/Y)
Ask not what web 3.0 can do for you - ask what you can do for web 3.0!
Hay guyz i hav this gr8 idea i tink i shud take a pikkchur of myself in da mirrur holding teh camerah at a weiurd angle isnt that original guyz? Amirite?
War is fun when you hate both sides.
the software comments yuo out!
Hmm. Well that explains the rings around Uranus...
You guys managed to mod up all the wrong crap. As far as I can see nobody even read the article. Guess everyone with a brain ran out.
The King is dead. Long live the King!
The exact same thing that will happen again & again until someone catches on. You cannot disprove the bible. It is a constantly moving target, everyone with his own version.
Definitions don't carry much weight in science. A hundred years or so ago people thought the existence of atoms could not be verified.
See the 'problem' here is that theory is usually decades ahead of experiments. The modern idea of the atom goes way back to John Dalton, in the early years of the nineteenth century. It took Millikan until 1911 to determine the precise value of the electron's electric charge. And until Ernest Rutherford devised a clever experiment to probe the atom (also 1911), the picture of electrons orbiting a tiny nucleus was not known.
That hasn't changed. With very little experimental basis, theorists have constructed huge mathematical theories such as inflation & string theory. It remains to be seen how much of the latter is really correct, but it's almost certain that the tools they invent will be used. Science is almost as much a creative activity as a puzzle-solving enterprise.
But I digress. Speculation is science. Of course if you have any evidence that things "before" the big bang cannot be confirmed or refuted, you should publish it & get your richly deserved nobel.