Very likely, but unproven. The Earth loves organisms, Mars not so much. If and when we find life elsewhere in the solar system you can say the solar system loves organisms and the galaxy probably does. If (big if considering the speed of light and distances between star systems) we find life in other solar systems, we can say the galaxy loves organisms. It will be a LONG time before we can say with certainty that the entire universe loves organisms.
It's far more likely we'll find extraterrestrial organisms than not, but to say "the universe loves organisms" is a bit premature.
So basically the projections were wrong, but the culprit is the evil consumer who does not recycle his soup can
If you'd said "beer can" you would have a point, as it takes five or ten times as much electricity to produce aluminum from ore as it does to recycle. Soup cans are mostly made of steel, and throwing them away does nothing to harm the environment. To nature, and old unrecycled soup can is just another rock, but an old unrecycled aluminum can causes global warming to worsen.
And by "earlier than expected" they mean earlier than science projected them to.
People like to invest in things that don't seem completely like magic
You mean like computers? A few years ago when my nephew was four, he asked my sister how computers work. She just shrugged and said "it's magic". Do you think the average person has a clue how a radio works? Or a TV? Or even an automobile engine? Sorry, but you're going to have to explain why you think people don't like magical devices, because damned near everything is non-understandable and just "magic" to the average person.
The problem is that the christians (ESPECIALLY evangelicals) don't want tolerance, they want to control everything.
Not Christians, just the evangelicals (and maybe not all of them), and the bozos in Kansas. Oh, and that truly evil little wolf in sheep's clothing from Florida who demonstrates at soldiers' funerals. The rest of us are perfectly willing to let you do any damned thing you want so long as it doesn't affect us and you don't rub our noses in it. But if you attack my religion, I'll defend it.
In the beginning it's free or really cheap... then you get hooked on it and then the costs keep going up.
I was thinking the same thing earlier this morning when I was making a JE about games. Back in the DOOM and Duke Nukem 1 days, they gave games away, or at least enough of the game that it was a full game. When I registered DN1, they not only sent two more levels (actually two more DNgames), but a third, unrelated game as well. By the time Quake came around the shareware model was almost gone, but you had free network play since DOOM (perhaps earlier but I hadn't heard of it). Now you have to give STEAM or Sony or MS a bunch of money and personal info to play online.
I wish there was a backlash against this, but today's young people seem to equate "free" with "worthless". Never mind that matches used to be free, there was no such thing as bottled water, etc. You're paying for shit that I used to get free.
Well, the sons and daughters of the rich and famous seldom go hungry. Would Charlie have succeeded without his father? There's no way to know. I do know that Donald Trump writing a book about how to get rich is hilariously stupid; what would a man born into wealth know about how to get rich?
No, athiests don't reason themselves into the position, but agnostics do. Agnosticism is the only logical position on God, barring him revealing himself to you. Athiests and most of the religious rely on faith; there's no proof of the existence or nonexistence of God, only the testimony of those of us who know him.
I can no more prove God exists than I can prove I'm sentient, and an athiest can no more prove God doesn't exist than you can prove a cat or an insect isn't sentient. Are you sentient? Prove it.
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion. It's everywhere in the U.S. culture.
That's true; the founding fathers were all religious men. However --
That fact alone tells that U.S. has never been about, or seek to know, science.
Incorrect. Christianity is not anti-science, and few religions are. Religion and science answer different questions. Science answers how, religion answers why. Most Christians I know believe that scientific laws, like thermodynamics or the speed of light, were created by God, that evolution was a tool of God.
Religion tends to tell the world has been made by some imaginary person in the sky
Your sentience is imaginary. It isn't? You're sentient? Prove it. The existance of sentience is no more provable than the existance of God. Your disbelief in God requires far more faith than my belief in him, because he's revealed himself to me, as he does for everyone who looks for him. But good luck finding something you not only aren't looking for but don't believe exists.
tells you to pray towards said imaginary person and completely disregards science in favor of what someone wrote on paper 1500-2000 years ago.
More like 2000-5000; the new testament was penned around 100 AD, the old testament mellinea earlier. And you've obviously never read the text yourself, since it decidedly doesn't tell you to disregard science. In fact, the scientific method didn't exist when the bible was written!
What makes you think those stories weren't made up by either drunk persons, someone who wanted to tell a story or someone who just wanted to play with people?
The fact that I've seen similar miraculous occurrances with my own eyes.
On that matter, stories always change when they are passed from people to people.
Spoken stories, yes. Written accounts, no. I'm of the belief that the Greek and Roman gods were humans who did extraordinary things. Prometheus, for example, was the first cave man to be crazy enough to play with fire. Thor was the nerd who invented the hammer, perhaps the world's first engineer.
Why do you think the bible is a good representation of how things actually went?
I have little interest in the ancient Hebrew history in the old testament, but as it is mostly a written history (once you get past Genesis) I see no reason to doubt it any more than I doubt that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, or Brutis stabbed Ceasar.
But the old testament is valuable for its wisdom, and "fools despise wisdom and instruction."
"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? "
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
You were saying something about how religion is anti-science?
"Imaginary space Jew"? What's next, a GNAA troll? Why do you athiest zealots insist on bringing religion into every damned topic no matter how unwarranted? And what's worse, you injected anti semitism into it.
Nice. What annoys me about this is you're making my athiest and agnostic friends look bad with your hateful diatribes against Jews and the religious (whether Jew, Muslim, or Bhuddist).
As noted in TFS (TFA is firewalled off here), "whether a given food item is considered healthy may vary based on a number of factors, including 'individual health histories, family health histories, food intake, exercise routines, medications, and other health related factors".
The guidelines say we're eating too much salt and we're all going to die of heart disease and high blood pressure, but there's no heart disease at all in my family, and my own blood pressure has always measured either normal or low -- and I eat a LOT of salt.
It annoys the hell out of me. I'm genetically thin, and everything is low fat, low calorie, diet. Damn it, I'm too thin, not too fat. One size does not fit all!
My grandmother was born in 1903, back in the day they cooked with lard and butter and ate eggs and bacon every morning. Her doctor told her that if she didn't get her cholesterol down she was going to die. Well, the doctor died. So she got a new doctor who told her the same thing, then he died, too. Five doctors later she finally did die -- she fell down and broke her hip in 2003.
If you want to diet and exersize, more power to you. But keep your goddamned nanny state micromanagement out of my kitchen. I'm going to die from something, it might as well be eating unhealthy foods and having fun.
Having a majority doesn't mean its not a cult when the behaviours are deemed illogical by anyone with the capacity to reason and has not been brainwashed into the religion cult.
You refuse to accept the definition in the citation? Then link an authoritive one that suits your own, personal definition of "cult". If you say "cat" when you're referring to a dog, there isn't much communiaction.
As to logic, how is it logical that something just "came about" (the aformentioned dog/cat) that no engineer on earth can duplicate? The eyeball just happened? Illogical!
As to the different religions, at the core, most of them are very similar. The Catholic God is the same God as the protestant God, and in fact the Protestants began as Catholics but broke away when the church leadership became corrupted. Christians worship the same God as the Jews and Muslims (Hindus and Bhuddists worship life, Wiccans worship nature, very similar).
Most people worship the same God I do, they simply interpret him differently. I can't prove he exists, but then you can't prove you're sentient, and I can't prove I am either (and in 1982 I made a primitive chatbot on a TS-1000 that fooled most into thinking it was sentient). The only proof that anyone is sentient is that you are, so everyone else must be. Explain sentience; what is it and where does it come from? Prove its existance!
And the reason for all that? Income taxes. Income taxes, the 2nd worst mistake the USA has ever made, right behind slavery, has been making our manufacturing too expensive, so it has mostly all moved overseas, along with its high-paying jobs.
WTF are you smoking, son? The income tax was instituted a hundred years ago. If there were any cause and effect, the effect would have come more than a HUNDRED YEARS LATER.
The reason that jobs all went overseas is because different economies are different. I'm twice as rich as someone living 200 miles away in Chicago, because everything costs twice as much there. When you put your factory in a country that you can buy a meal for five cents and rent a house fof fifty bucks a month, you don't have to pay your workers as much.
The Fair Tax calls for the abolition of the income taxes, all of them, and replaces them with a consumption tax - a Federal sales tax.
That's regressive as hell. The poor man, the one working at WalMart or McDonalds spends every penny of his paycheck because he has to. 100% of his income is taxed. The middle class somewhat less, but the rich get off paying a tiny percentage of their income. That would be even worse than Cain's "Nein! Nein! Nein!" tax, which itself would be terribly regressive and unfair.
A regressive tax like that would make manufacturing even more expensive.
You get to keep all your money you earn, unlike the extremely regressive income taxes that, via the payroll taxes for social security and medicare, tax the poor at 15.3% from the 1st dollar they earn to the last, while Warren Buffet brags about paying a 10% income tax, and his share of the SS and medicare, taxes for which are capped at around $100K, amount to peanuts for him.
So fix the tax structure. Remove all deductions and remove the FICA cieling and you not only remove the regressiveness, you increase tax revenues, which would go a long way toward paying the national debt.
Then there's the regressive nature of the corporate income taxes
Regressive nature? I don't think you know what "regressive taxes" means. Corporate tax doesn't impact the poor.
And also people in the U.S. have spent more and more, as frills became essentials (cable TV, cell phones, satellite TV, game consoles) and other products have become increasingly expensive, like cars.
Dropped cable in favor of antenna+Hulu, my cell replaces my landline; can anyone really get away without a phone? My cell bill is lower than a landline bill would be. Never had satellite TV
other products have become increasingly expensive, like cars
In 1976 a twenty five inch CRT TV with no remote soct $600. Today I can buy a 55 inch flatscreen HD with surround sound and a remote for less. In 1982 and IBM-PC cost $4,000, I just bought a notebook for my oldest daughter that's a thousand times more powerful than an IBM PC for $250.
The problem isn't things like cars and computers, that you only buy every few years, or even every decade or two like a washing machine, but with things you must buy or pay for constantly, like gasoline (three times as expensive today than the year 2000), food, electricity... the REAL necessities.
You've never heard of janitors and housekeepers? Do you think the trash cans at your work empty themselves every night, or that your hotel room is cleaned every day by magic?
Teachers should be spending their efforts actually interacting with students rather than a one-way recitation of material, which can be accomplished through video lectures
Unless there's demonstration of something involved, the only difference between a video lecture and printed material is print is far more precise. Is that radio jingle "Pricilla's, where fun and fantasy meet" or "Pricilla's, we're fun and fantasy meat"?
The advantage of a live lecturer (in a smaller class, doesn't work in a 200 seat lecture hall) is that if something isn't clear, you can raise your hand and say "I don't get it. How does..."
I didn't bring religion up, the athiest did; I responded. BTW, over half of all Physicists in North America are Christians (and I'm sure there are some Muslims and Bhuddist physicists as well).
Come next April the 8th, Bhudda's birthday, are you ok with him badmouthing Bhudda in a thread about some secular aspect of Bhuddism like the little houses the Thais build to keep evil spirits out of their homes?
Well, if they did it wouldn't been the first time I was amazed at someone's skillful hack. I'm still trying to figure out how Aramok knows the lyrics to a song I sampled fron vinyl, burned to CD, then ripped to ogg; I would have thought that not possible either.
By "digital cable" and "analog cable" I'm referring to the signal going through the cable rather than the cable itself. A cable ending with RCA jacks generally doesn't send a digital signal, and an HDMI cable doesn't carry an analog signal. Of course an HDMI cable could carry an analog signal, but it's still a digital cabe, as transmitting bits was what it was designed for.
One of the more shameful errors I have seen is to assume a level of ignorance for people 2000 years ago (or more, or less) that is unfounded.
Well, we have learned a lot in 2000 years. We are ignorant compared to our decendants a hundred years from now will be (and you can't know how primitive things are now until you've been around long enough to see game-changing scientific and technological advancements). One of the more humorous errors I have seen is to assume a level of stupidity for people 2000 years ago.
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The universe loves organisms
Very likely, but unproven. The Earth loves organisms, Mars not so much. If and when we find life elsewhere in the solar system you can say the solar system loves organisms and the galaxy probably does. If (big if considering the speed of light and distances between star systems) we find life in other solar systems, we can say the galaxy loves organisms. It will be a LONG time before we can say with certainty that the entire universe loves organisms.
It's far more likely we'll find extraterrestrial organisms than not, but to say "the universe loves organisms" is a bit premature.
Get your facts straight. Fossil fuels are never subsidized
Oh no?
http://www.atstrust.com/sn/oil-tank-removal/oil-tank-grants
Simple truth is that trying to decide what is hidden enough for an alien race that is capable of interstellar flight is a fools errand.
Especially since according to everything we know so far, interstellar flight is impoossible.
So basically the projections were wrong, but the culprit is the evil consumer who does not recycle his soup can
If you'd said "beer can" you would have a point, as it takes five or ten times as much electricity to produce aluminum from ore as it does to recycle. Soup cans are mostly made of steel, and throwing them away does nothing to harm the environment. To nature, and old unrecycled soup can is just another rock, but an old unrecycled aluminum can causes global warming to worsen.
And by "earlier than expected" they mean earlier than science projected them to.
People like to invest in things that don't seem completely like magic
You mean like computers? A few years ago when my nephew was four, he asked my sister how computers work. She just shrugged and said "it's magic". Do you think the average person has a clue how a radio works? Or a TV? Or even an automobile engine? Sorry, but you're going to have to explain why you think people don't like magical devices, because damned near everything is non-understandable and just "magic" to the average person.
The problem is that the christians (ESPECIALLY evangelicals) don't want tolerance, they want to control everything.
Not Christians, just the evangelicals (and maybe not all of them), and the bozos in Kansas. Oh, and that truly evil little wolf in sheep's clothing from Florida who demonstrates at soldiers' funerals. The rest of us are perfectly willing to let you do any damned thing you want so long as it doesn't affect us and you don't rub our noses in it. But if you attack my religion, I'll defend it.
In the beginning it's free or really cheap... then you get hooked on it and then the costs keep going up.
I was thinking the same thing earlier this morning when I was making a JE about games. Back in the DOOM and Duke Nukem 1 days, they gave games away, or at least enough of the game that it was a full game. When I registered DN1, they not only sent two more levels (actually two more DNgames), but a third, unrelated game as well. By the time Quake came around the shareware model was almost gone, but you had free network play since DOOM (perhaps earlier but I hadn't heard of it). Now you have to give STEAM or Sony or MS a bunch of money and personal info to play online.
I wish there was a backlash against this, but today's young people seem to equate "free" with "worthless". Never mind that matches used to be free, there was no such thing as bottled water, etc. You're paying for shit that I used to get free.
Well, the sons and daughters of the rich and famous seldom go hungry. Would Charlie have succeeded without his father? There's no way to know. I do know that Donald Trump writing a book about how to get rich is hilariously stupid; what would a man born into wealth know about how to get rich?
No, athiests don't reason themselves into the position, but agnostics do. Agnosticism is the only logical position on God, barring him revealing himself to you. Athiests and most of the religious rely on faith; there's no proof of the existence or nonexistence of God, only the testimony of those of us who know him.
I can no more prove God exists than I can prove I'm sentient, and an athiest can no more prove God doesn't exist than you can prove a cat or an insect isn't sentient. Are you sentient? Prove it.
Paul Christoforo has apologized to the customer and to Penny Arcade, and also asks them to please tell people to stop sending hate male
They're sending mysandrists?
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion. It's everywhere in the U.S. culture.
That's true; the founding fathers were all religious men. However --
That fact alone tells that U.S. has never been about, or seek to know, science.
Incorrect. Christianity is not anti-science, and few religions are. Religion and science answer different questions. Science answers how, religion answers why. Most Christians I know believe that scientific laws, like thermodynamics or the speed of light, were created by God, that evolution was a tool of God.
Religion tends to tell the world has been made by some imaginary person in the sky
Your sentience is imaginary. It isn't? You're sentient? Prove it. The existance of sentience is no more provable than the existance of God. Your disbelief in God requires far more faith than my belief in him, because he's revealed himself to me, as he does for everyone who looks for him. But good luck finding something you not only aren't looking for but don't believe exists.
tells you to pray towards said imaginary person and completely disregards science in favor of what someone wrote on paper 1500-2000 years ago.
More like 2000-5000; the new testament was penned around 100 AD, the old testament mellinea earlier. And you've obviously never read the text yourself, since it decidedly doesn't tell you to disregard science. In fact, the scientific method didn't exist when the bible was written!
What makes you think those stories weren't made up by either drunk persons, someone who wanted to tell a story or someone who just wanted to play with people?
The fact that I've seen similar miraculous occurrances with my own eyes.
On that matter, stories always change when they are passed from people to people.
Spoken stories, yes. Written accounts, no. I'm of the belief that the Greek and Roman gods were humans who did extraordinary things. Prometheus, for example, was the first cave man to be crazy enough to play with fire. Thor was the nerd who invented the hammer, perhaps the world's first engineer.
Why do you think the bible is a good representation of how things actually went?
I have little interest in the ancient Hebrew history in the old testament, but as it is mostly a written history (once you get past Genesis) I see no reason to doubt it any more than I doubt that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, or Brutis stabbed Ceasar.
But the old testament is valuable for its wisdom, and "fools despise wisdom and instruction."
"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? "
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
You were saying something about how religion is anti-science?
http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/soon-seti-to-search-the-moon-for-alien-artifacts_749128.html
http://www.slashgear.com/seti-to-check-moon-for-signs-of-aliens-28204769/
http://news.discovery.com/space/seti-to-scour-the-moon-for-alien-tech-111227.html
I wonder if they'll find Daneel there?
"Imaginary space Jew"? What's next, a GNAA troll? Why do you athiest zealots insist on bringing religion into every damned topic no matter how unwarranted? And what's worse, you injected anti semitism into it.
Nice. What annoys me about this is you're making my athiest and agnostic friends look bad with your hateful diatribes against Jews and the religious (whether Jew, Muslim, or Bhuddist).
As noted in TFS (TFA is firewalled off here), "whether a given food item is considered healthy may vary based on a number of factors, including 'individual health histories, family health histories, food intake, exercise routines, medications, and other health related factors".
The guidelines say we're eating too much salt and we're all going to die of heart disease and high blood pressure, but there's no heart disease at all in my family, and my own blood pressure has always measured either normal or low -- and I eat a LOT of salt.
It annoys the hell out of me. I'm genetically thin, and everything is low fat, low calorie, diet. Damn it, I'm too thin, not too fat. One size does not fit all!
My grandmother was born in 1903, back in the day they cooked with lard and butter and ate eggs and bacon every morning. Her doctor told her that if she didn't get her cholesterol down she was going to die. Well, the doctor died. So she got a new doctor who told her the same thing, then he died, too. Five doctors later she finally did die -- she fell down and broke her hip in 2003.
If you want to diet and exersize, more power to you. But keep your goddamned nanny state micromanagement out of my kitchen. I'm going to die from something, it might as well be eating unhealthy foods and having fun.
Having a majority doesn't mean its not a cult when the behaviours are deemed illogical by anyone with the capacity to reason and has not been brainwashed into the religion cult.
You refuse to accept the definition in the citation? Then link an authoritive one that suits your own, personal definition of "cult". If you say "cat" when you're referring to a dog, there isn't much communiaction.
As to logic, how is it logical that something just "came about" (the aformentioned dog/cat) that no engineer on earth can duplicate? The eyeball just happened? Illogical!
As to the different religions, at the core, most of them are very similar. The Catholic God is the same God as the protestant God, and in fact the Protestants began as Catholics but broke away when the church leadership became corrupted. Christians worship the same God as the Jews and Muslims (Hindus and Bhuddists worship life, Wiccans worship nature, very similar).
Most people worship the same God I do, they simply interpret him differently. I can't prove he exists, but then you can't prove you're sentient, and I can't prove I am either (and in 1982 I made a primitive chatbot on a TS-1000 that fooled most into thinking it was sentient). The only proof that anyone is sentient is that you are, so everyone else must be. Explain sentience; what is it and where does it come from? Prove its existance!
And the reason for all that? Income taxes. Income taxes, the 2nd worst mistake the USA has ever made, right behind slavery, has been making our manufacturing too expensive, so it has mostly all moved overseas, along with its high-paying jobs.
WTF are you smoking, son? The income tax was instituted a hundred years ago. If there were any cause and effect, the effect would have come more than a HUNDRED YEARS LATER.
The reason that jobs all went overseas is because different economies are different. I'm twice as rich as someone living 200 miles away in Chicago, because everything costs twice as much there. When you put your factory in a country that you can buy a meal for five cents and rent a house fof fifty bucks a month, you don't have to pay your workers as much.
The Fair Tax calls for the abolition of the income taxes, all of them, and replaces them with a consumption tax - a Federal sales tax.
That's regressive as hell. The poor man, the one working at WalMart or McDonalds spends every penny of his paycheck because he has to. 100% of his income is taxed. The middle class somewhat less, but the rich get off paying a tiny percentage of their income. That would be even worse than Cain's "Nein! Nein! Nein!" tax, which itself would be terribly regressive and unfair.
A regressive tax like that would make manufacturing even more expensive.
You get to keep all your money you earn, unlike the extremely regressive income taxes that, via the payroll taxes for social security and medicare, tax the poor at 15.3% from the 1st dollar they earn to the last, while Warren Buffet brags about paying a 10% income tax, and his share of the SS and medicare, taxes for which are capped at around $100K, amount to peanuts for him.
So fix the tax structure. Remove all deductions and remove the FICA cieling and you not only remove the regressiveness, you increase tax revenues, which would go a long way toward paying the national debt.
Then there's the regressive nature of the corporate income taxes
Regressive nature? I don't think you know what "regressive taxes" means. Corporate tax doesn't impact the poor.
Ok, I know I'm wierd but
And also people in the U.S. have spent more and more, as frills became essentials (cable TV, cell phones, satellite TV, game consoles) and other products have become increasingly expensive, like cars.
Dropped cable in favor of antenna+Hulu, my cell replaces my landline; can anyone really get away without a phone? My cell bill is lower than a landline bill would be. Never had satellite TV
other products have become increasingly expensive, like cars
In 1976 a twenty five inch CRT TV with no remote soct $600. Today I can buy a 55 inch flatscreen HD with surround sound and a remote for less. In 1982 and IBM-PC cost $4,000, I just bought a notebook for my oldest daughter that's a thousand times more powerful than an IBM PC for $250.
The problem isn't things like cars and computers, that you only buy every few years, or even every decade or two like a washing machine, but with things you must buy or pay for constantly, like gasoline (three times as expensive today than the year 2000), food, electricity... the REAL necessities.
You've never heard of janitors and housekeepers? Do you think the trash cans at your work empty themselves every night, or that your hotel room is cleaned every day by magic?
No they weren't, they were time aliens from the future.
Teachers should be spending their efforts actually interacting with students rather than a one-way recitation of material, which can be accomplished through video lectures
Unless there's demonstration of something involved, the only difference between a video lecture and printed material is print is far more precise. Is that radio jingle "Pricilla's, where fun and fantasy meet" or "Pricilla's, we're fun and fantasy meat"?
The advantage of a live lecturer (in a smaller class, doesn't work in a 200 seat lecture hall) is that if something isn't clear, you can raise your hand and say "I don't get it. How does..."
I didn't bring religion up, the athiest did; I responded. BTW, over half of all Physicists in North America are Christians (and I'm sure there are some Muslims and Bhuddist physicists as well).
Come next April the 8th, Bhudda's birthday, are you ok with him badmouthing Bhudda in a thread about some secular aspect of Bhuddism like the little houses the Thais build to keep evil spirits out of their homes?
Well, if they did it wouldn't been the first time I was amazed at someone's skillful hack. I'm still trying to figure out how Aramok knows the lyrics to a song I sampled fron vinyl, burned to CD, then ripped to ogg; I would have thought that not possible either.
It's not trolling, it's a fact.
Prove it.
All religions are inherently cults
From wikipedia: "The word 'cult' in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre."
A huge majority of Americans are Christians, only a very small minority are athiests. So who's the cultist, again?
By "digital cable" and "analog cable" I'm referring to the signal going through the cable rather than the cable itself. A cable ending with RCA jacks generally doesn't send a digital signal, and an HDMI cable doesn't carry an analog signal. Of course an HDMI cable could carry an analog signal, but it's still a digital cabe, as transmitting bits was what it was designed for.
One of the more shameful errors I have seen is to assume a level of ignorance for people 2000 years ago (or more, or less) that is unfounded.
Well, we have learned a lot in 2000 years. We are ignorant compared to our decendants a hundred years from now will be (and you can't know how primitive things are now until you've been around long enough to see game-changing scientific and technological advancements). One of the more humorous errors I have seen is to assume a level of stupidity for people 2000 years ago.