I'm o.k. with Netflix quality (sure, could be a lot better), but the audio compression in the commercials on Hulu is nearly enough to make my ears bleed. Not so bad if using the TV's speakers, but on Bose... blech.
Likewise. I could see $10/mo for cable or possibly $20, assuming they had every channel I wanted to see & included a DVR. For just over 1/3 that, I get Netflix.
Every time I go to wikipedia.org, I see a request for money. When people donate, they are buying [into] wikipedia. Without these "sales," I suspect it would have withered & died long ago.
People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.
I don't even know why slashdot allows registered users to post as ACs.
The day they stop, I'll post less. I usually post under my login, but sometimes I know what I want to say will be either unpopular & I don't feel like (risking) burning karma or too personal to share in such a forum without anonymity.
That said, I agree with Mindcontrolled above & Monsanto is evil.
Whilst I certainly can't refute what you said based on his track record, you may be surprised on this one. Many Mormons do not believe evolution to be in conflict with their beliefs. Evolution does not preclude guidance and direction from a higher power.
His track record is that of almost every politician, in that he says what (he thinks or is told) people want to hear. In this case, however, I'd be surprised if it didn't also happen to be the truth.
I think we will chose to agree to disagree on that point as neither of us is apt to budge from our position on that particular topic. No worries, though; unlike the much (rightfully) reviled vocal right that people like me often get lumped in with, I don't believe in pushing my beliefs on others just as you do not come across (in this conversation, anyway) as pushy with your opposing view.
Now if only the very vocal on either side (esp the side I most closely align) could only learn from our example:)
I don't subscribe entirely to any particular theory, ID, etc. I do believe Man(kind) was created by a Creator. I also believe that either:
a) this creator is either working within confines of nature/physics (ie: evolution, gravity, etc) or
b) has organized them (math, physics, etc) Himself or
c) there is a third possibility I have not considered.
Either way, does not matter to me, just as convincing others I am right does not matter to me at all.
I have a healthy respect for what science has discovered and do not feel it in any way diminishes my beliefs as I am quite open to multiple possibilities (excluding the absence of a Creator, I have had personal experiences that preclude this possibility) and even the ones I do not subscribe to are no less valid for those that do. None of us know everything and most (if not all) of us get at least some of it wrong.
At the end of the day, except where someone is using their beliefs to infringe my (or others') rights, it really doesn't matter to me. If the school my children go to decides to teach something I believe to be either wrong or incomplete, I will supplement, but my oldest (not yet 8) knows (and her younger siblings will learn) that Dad (and other grown-ups, for that matter) does not know everything and that while I will gladly teach her to the best of my own understanding, part of her purpose for being is to discover the truth for herself. She does not have to agree with me on everything, although at her young age, she typically does. I do not expect this to last through high school, and this is ok. The only part I have a problem with are when people try to force their beliefs on others.
PS: Some possibilities to explain the appendix include:
a) The 'intelligent designer' wasn't all-knowing - think when a scientist creates something in a lab - it wasn't intended to cease to be useful
b) The original purpose was important enough to be worth the current risk
c) It will serve yet another purpose in the future that we cannot fathom at this time
d) It is serving an unknown purpose now
I do not subscribe to any of these theories as this is not a topic to which I have given much prior thought and the difference between b-d would be academic (to me) anyway. I don't personally think 'a' is very likely, but I cannot discount it completely. Given that there are so many possible reasons (4 off the top of my un-medically-educated head), the appendix simply isn't something that could cause me to discount believing in a higher power.
PPS: Thank you for challenging me to consider this, it was an enjoyable mental exercise. I'm happy to continue this thread if you like.
a) has a purpose now b) had a purpose in the past c) will have a purpose in the future.
I also do not know the function of the prostate, but I suspect I need one (if I were curious, I could Google it or ask one of my many med school friends - I am not).
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I'm o.k. with Netflix quality (sure, could be a lot better), but the audio compression in the commercials on Hulu is nearly enough to make my ears bleed. Not so bad if using the TV's speakers, but on Bose ... blech.
Comcast and Verizon are in collusion
Sounds like cooperation to me ...
With a sig like yours, you'd think you'd know better ;)
Likewise. I could see $10/mo for cable or possibly $20, assuming they had every channel I wanted to see & included a DVR. For just over 1/3 that, I get Netflix.
He's not suggesting competing with dvd, but with your (presumed) cable bill.
Check, but IME 4&5 are usually a two-parter & streaming they combine them as 4. That, and sometimes they have DVD extras only avbl on disc.
Congrats, we can now use the Neal Cowboy option ... wait
"Apple, Samsung and Amazon get it, why doesn't Google?"
/. without a Apple vs Google story.
Heck, I bet there are a lot of companies in both camps, but it wouldn't be
Oh, I duhno.
You want them to pull a Charter?
Then they deserve the government they get.
But what about the rest of us?
Unlike the aforementioned Blackberry?
As always, XKCD has the answer.
(In other words, if you're too young for the rule's math to work on you, you're too young. Let children be children, for goodness sake!)
BTW: If a 30 y/o was propositioning my 13 y/o, I'd head the lynch mob.
Wait - there was an article?
Every time I go to wikipedia.org, I see a request for money. When people donate, they are buying [into] wikipedia. Without these "sales," I suspect it would have withered & died long ago.
Just a thought.
But then he'd miss his own comment!
You're calling the Doctor "to (sic) pedestrian"?
Pica much?
People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.
(Young) River Tam, Serenity
I don't even know why slashdot allows registered users to post as ACs.
The day they stop, I'll post less. I usually post under my login, but sometimes I know what I want to say will be either unpopular & I don't feel like (risking) burning karma or too personal to share in such a forum without anonymity.
That said, I agree with Mindcontrolled above & Monsanto is evil.
Whilst I certainly can't refute what you said based on his track record, you may be surprised on this one. Many Mormons do not believe evolution to be in conflict with their beliefs. Evolution does not preclude guidance and direction from a higher power.
His track record is that of almost every politician, in that he says what (he thinks or is told) people want to hear. In this case, however, I'd be surprised if it didn't also happen to be the truth.
I want .cmo - imagine the typo-squatting you could do with that!
I think we will chose to agree to disagree on that point as neither of us is apt to budge from our position on that particular topic. No worries, though; unlike the much (rightfully) reviled vocal right that people like me often get lumped in with, I don't believe in pushing my beliefs on others just as you do not come across (in this conversation, anyway) as pushy with your opposing view.
:)
Now if only the very vocal on either side (esp the side I most closely align) could only learn from our example
I don't subscribe entirely to any particular theory, ID, etc. I do believe Man(kind) was created by a Creator. I also believe that either:
a) this creator is either working within confines of nature/physics (ie: evolution, gravity, etc) or
b) has organized them (math, physics, etc) Himself or
c) there is a third possibility I have not considered.
Either way, does not matter to me, just as convincing others I am right does not matter to me at all.
I have a healthy respect for what science has discovered and do not feel it in any way diminishes my beliefs as I am quite open to multiple possibilities (excluding the absence of a Creator, I have had personal experiences that preclude this possibility) and even the ones I do not subscribe to are no less valid for those that do. None of us know everything and most (if not all) of us get at least some of it wrong.
At the end of the day, except where someone is using their beliefs to infringe my (or others') rights, it really doesn't matter to me. If the school my children go to decides to teach something I believe to be either wrong or incomplete, I will supplement, but my oldest (not yet 8) knows (and her younger siblings will learn) that Dad (and other grown-ups, for that matter) does not know everything and that while I will gladly teach her to the best of my own understanding, part of her purpose for being is to discover the truth for herself. She does not have to agree with me on everything, although at her young age, she typically does. I do not expect this to last through high school, and this is ok. The only part I have a problem with are when people try to force their beliefs on others.
PS: Some possibilities to explain the appendix include:
a) The 'intelligent designer' wasn't all-knowing - think when a scientist creates something in a lab - it wasn't intended to cease to be useful
b) The original purpose was important enough to be worth the current risk
c) It will serve yet another purpose in the future that we cannot fathom at this time
d) It is serving an unknown purpose now
I do not subscribe to any of these theories as this is not a topic to which I have given much prior thought and the difference between b-d would be academic (to me) anyway. I don't personally think 'a' is very likely, but I cannot discount it completely. Given that there are so many possible reasons (4 off the top of my un-medically-educated head), the appendix simply isn't something that could cause me to discount believing in a higher power.
PPS: Thank you for challenging me to consider this, it was an enjoyable mental exercise. I'm happy to continue this thread if you like.
IANAD(octor), I assume it either:
a) has a purpose now
b) had a purpose in the past
c) will have a purpose in the future.
I also do not know the function of the prostate, but I suspect I need one (if I were curious, I could Google it or ask one of my many med school friends - I am not).