The weird thing is WINE wasn't part of the last Ubuntu I installed anyway. Has it become part of the default install since then? If not then why is it a big deal if it won't be installed by default on Dell either?
Yes, yes, I've read many of Dawkins' books including "The God Delusion", and no I'm not Catholic or any other religion. But those things you mentioned are either not a part of the religion (e.g. exorcism) or aren't repeatable (e.g. the great flood, water to wine, resurrection), and so they can't be debunked. (Penn and Teller did a very funny bit on excorsism, but that hardly debunks Christianity since it's not a part of the official religion.)
Organized religions don't pretend to be able to demonstrate the paranormal, and so there's nothing concrete or repeatable for anyone like Randi to disprove.
Besides, if watching people like Randi debunk the paranormal should tell you anything it's that people will believe what they want; the people who fall for this stuff are one part ignorance, one part stupidity, and two parts wishful thinking.
Lawyer - Janet, I have a model of your avatar here. For the benefit of the jury will you point to the polygon that the defendant clicked on?
Janet - *Meekly points*
Courtroom - *Gasp! Shocked murmuring*
Defendant - *Sinks face into hands, goes pale*
Judge - "Order! Order!" *Bang Bang*
Oh no, we'll be invading the privacy of some dead/near-death OAPs! And we should shred Mozart's letters too, what would Mozart say if he knew we were reading his letters about ####ing his cousin?!
Dead people don't care too much about their privacy; they're dead. Ask yourself "will I care about my privacy after I'm dead?" If you said yes you probably don't understand what death means.
It's not all about money.. And damn we need some IT teachers who aren't completely clueless and out of touch. Where I study the contrast between your average physics/maths teacher and IT teacher is depressing, I could give example after example of their incompetence.
MS are hoping you won't notice, and thus convert you back to IE. They're probably all sitting there in Redmond right now with their fingers crossed, looking at Alexa browser statistics and saying "Oh God, did they notice? Was it too obvious?"
This is why mesh networks would be good; they'd scale much better than the current system, which has gotten this far based on individuals having thinner pipes than the people upstream.
I had the attention span to play through the entire game. I completed it and quite enjoyed it, but I couldn't even give you a gist of what the storyline was. In Halo 1 you storyline simply framed the game, but in Halo 2 you felt like they were trying to make you "play the movie".
Halo was great because it was so simple; it set up a simple world where you could run from cool looking scene to cool looking scene and kill some aliens.
Halo 2 sucked because it tried to have a rich storyline and character development that I don't think anyone cared about. One minute I'm killing some alien spider on earth, next minute I'm on some second halo or something, next minute I'm in a floating temple and there's some infighting amongst aliens for some reason.
In Halo 1 it's just "regroup, find the control center, go to the control center, save the captain, get the index, destroy Halo", none of this "prophesy" bullshit. K.I.S.S!
So someone commits a crime, crosses an ocean, and suddenly they can't be charged? At which point during their flight are their crimes mysteriously absolved?
Do they gradually fade into insignificance as they cross thousands of miles of ocean (a serial killer slowly becomes a murderer, then from murder to manslaughter, manslaughter to rape, rape to littering, in a steady continuum), or is there an imaginary line where the criminal is suddenly no longer a criminal?
Or to boost the hilarity:
So, someone, y'know, commits a crime, like, crosses an ocean, and, oh I don't know, THEY CAN'T BE CHARGED?
I don't like to comment on moderation, but how is being the only person who doesn't agree with the GP redundant, while everyone who says "I agree" is insightful? Notice that there is no "-1, Disagree".
If someone kills another person they shouldn't be able to be untouchable by crossing some imaginary barrier; the US doesn't "own" Australia, what does that even mean? We sell a lot of minerals to the US and the Australian government taxes the trade. That's not exactly being "owned", is it? Our economy is also very independent of the US; we have huge mineral deposits and we sell to everyone. How are we "owned" again?
We're a similar culture, a similar government, a common language, but the US doesn't "own" us any more than we "own" the US.
Just because we don't agree with the law being enforced doesn't mean we should complain about common laws being enforced across borders, it means we should be against that common law.
International cooperation is good, the law is bad.
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The weird thing is WINE wasn't part of the last Ubuntu I installed anyway. Has it become part of the default install since then? If not then why is it a big deal if it won't be installed by default on Dell either?
Yes, yes, I've read many of Dawkins' books including "The God Delusion", and no I'm not Catholic or any other religion. But those things you mentioned are either not a part of the religion (e.g. exorcism) or aren't repeatable (e.g. the great flood, water to wine, resurrection), and so they can't be debunked. (Penn and Teller did a very funny bit on excorsism, but that hardly debunks Christianity since it's not a part of the official religion.)
You can't because it's not reproducible. You can't "debunk" alien abductions because you can't be abducted under lab conditions.
It's on by default in my experience, and the most damaging queries often work outside of transactions
Organized religions don't pretend to be able to demonstrate the paranormal, and so there's nothing concrete or repeatable for anyone like Randi to disprove.
Besides, if watching people like Randi debunk the paranormal should tell you anything it's that people will believe what they want; the people who fall for this stuff are one part ignorance, one part stupidity, and two parts wishful thinking.
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Lawyer - Janet, I have a model of your avatar here. For the benefit of the jury will you point to the polygon that the defendant clicked on?
Janet - *Meekly points*
Courtroom - *Gasp! Shocked murmuring*
Defendant - *Sinks face into hands, goes pale*
Judge - "Order! Order!" *Bang Bang*
Lawyer - Janet, I have a model of your avatar here. For the benefit of the jury will you point to the polygon that the defendant clicked on? Janet - *Meekly points* Courtroom - *Gasp! Shocked murmuring* Defendant - *Sinks face into hands, goes pale* Judge - "Order! Order!" *Bang Bang*
Oh no, we'll be invading the privacy of some dead/near-death OAPs! And we should shred Mozart's letters too, what would Mozart say if he knew we were reading his letters about ####ing his cousin?!
Dead people don't care too much about their privacy; they're dead. Ask yourself "will I care about my privacy after I'm dead?" If you said yes you probably don't understand what death means.
It's not all about money.. And damn we need some IT teachers who aren't completely clueless and out of touch. Where I study the contrast between your average physics/maths teacher and IT teacher is depressing, I could give example after example of their incompetence.
MS are hoping you won't notice, and thus convert you back to IE. They're probably all sitting there in Redmond right now with their fingers crossed, looking at Alexa browser statistics and saying "Oh God, did they notice? Was it too obvious?"
This is why mesh networks would be good; they'd scale much better than the current system, which has gotten this far based on individuals having thinner pipes than the people upstream.
So VMWare makes calls to the Win32 API on the host machine on behalf of the virtual machine? Nonsense.
I had the attention span to play through the entire game. I completed it and quite enjoyed it, but I couldn't even give you a gist of what the storyline was. In Halo 1 you storyline simply framed the game, but in Halo 2 you felt like they were trying to make you "play the movie".
Firefox supports Java just fine. If you get a delay when you see a Java applet it's probably because Java isn't loaded into memory.
To "Powerful Supernova May Be Related To Death", which I thought was a bit weird.
Halo was great because it was so simple; it set up a simple world where you could run from cool looking scene to cool looking scene and kill some aliens.
Halo 2 sucked because it tried to have a rich storyline and character development that I don't think anyone cared about. One minute I'm killing some alien spider on earth, next minute I'm on some second halo or something, next minute I'm in a floating temple and there's some infighting amongst aliens for some reason.
In Halo 1 it's just "regroup, find the control center, go to the control center, save the captain, get the index, destroy Halo", none of this "prophesy" bullshit. K.I.S.S!
It's waive, not wave. (English is great isn't it)
Works fine here, and you can always tune to another frequency if the one you're on is used.
Get an iPod FM radio transmitter; you plug it into your 12V ex-cigarette lighter, and tune your radio to the right frequency.
So someone commits a crime, crosses an ocean, and suddenly they can't be charged? At which point during their flight are their crimes mysteriously absolved?
Do they gradually fade into insignificance as they cross thousands of miles of ocean (a serial killer slowly becomes a murderer, then from murder to manslaughter, manslaughter to rape, rape to littering, in a steady continuum), or is there an imaginary line where the criminal is suddenly no longer a criminal?
Or to boost the hilarity:
So, someone, y'know, commits a crime, like, crosses an ocean, and, oh I don't know, THEY CAN'T BE CHARGED?
I don't like to comment on moderation, but how is being the only person who doesn't agree with the GP redundant, while everyone who says "I agree" is insightful? Notice that there is no "-1, Disagree".
If someone kills another person they shouldn't be able to be untouchable by crossing some imaginary barrier; the US doesn't "own" Australia, what does that even mean? We sell a lot of minerals to the US and the Australian government taxes the trade. That's not exactly being "owned", is it? Our economy is also very independent of the US; we have huge mineral deposits and we sell to everyone. How are we "owned" again?
We're a similar culture, a similar government, a common language, but the US doesn't "own" us any more than we "own" the US.
Just because we don't agree with the law being enforced doesn't mean we should complain about common laws being enforced across borders, it means we should be against that common law.
International cooperation is good, the law is bad.
If there's a chance of starting a PostgreSQL vs MySQL flamewar, it's news.