No. It doesn't. It works on a story of a creator. There's no evidence for one; there's no way to test to see if there is one; there's no way to test to see if there isn't one (it's not falsifiable); there are no predictions re effects upon reality that arise from the idea; etc. Theism is in no way qualified as a theory. Theism is speculation, no more than that, in terms of its value in quantifying reality.
You're only right if we're talking in the abstract about just any creator, but we're not, despite any the weasel wording, we're talking about the Lord God of christianity.
And that creator creates a strong expectation that there will be no dinosaur bones (and no Auswitch etc).
My predictions of the effects that should be observed may be wrong, but nothing that causes (significant) effects on this world is truly outside the purview of sience!
Secondly, it's a pointless, valueless question. It's on exactly the same level as "is there a Santa Claus?" There's zero evidence for such a thing, despite thousands of yeas of looking for same, so, other than writing fiction or cult-building, there's no reason to assume there is one, and therefore no reason to worry about whether there is one (or several.) When you concern yourself with it, you're simply self-identifying as a cultist or an intellectual lightweight.
Just because Santa is somebody's father in a suit doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
Or would you claim Officers of the Law do not exist? They, too, are just somebody's father in a suit
Yep, exactly. Most sites don't bother because only a small minority does it and that small minority tends to be disproportionately made up of the kooky anti-consumerist crowd anyway, who aren't worth advertising to due to their hatred of advertising in general. If ad blocking ever went mainstream you'd see more sites tying content to ads explicitly.
Freebies still give increased marketshare.
They hurt you little. They are only a serious problem for your would-be competitors.
. If the courts do not rule narrowly and uphold first sale doctrine for these EEE books, the publishers will simply stop licensing EEE books under cheap terms. Millions of Asian students will be affected.
How does that stack up against cheap ereaders from china and scanners?
Or rare meat. The core of the meat has to reach a high enough temperature to reliably kill the parasites. 145F for pork and fish. 165 for everything else. Note that chefs routinely go lower than these temperatures in order to avoid tough, leathery meat. I would imagine that fish tapeworms are the most common in the US since cooking fish too long will ruin it. And then of course there is sushi.
Here (Denmark, Europe) the local health authorities think freezing hard enough for long enough will render raw fish safe for eating.
Fish may be sold as safe for raw eating iff they have been frozen to below -21C for at least 24 hours.
My freezer can do -18C or - 30C, so here it's -30C for 24 hours. And I mostly use other things in stead of (raw) fish.
. As for literacy of the common people, are you sure anybody cared?
Actually, yes. If you read the history of Hangul, it was quite intentionally designed for that purpose, long before imperialism was an issue. As for commies, they've always had a penchant for improving literacy - among other things, that makes it easier to spread propaganda far and wide (newspapers and posters are cheap and efficient, but you must be able to read them in the first place).
Fascinating! Someone in 144331444 really cared that much.
Can you explain why (traditional/simplified) chinese is that bad?
Because ideograms are a particularly silly way of writing things down, very hard to learn (even for native speakers), and do not mesh well with computers, and generally any form of storage/writing other than scribbling them by hand.
It's no coincidence that there were numerous attempts in the history of countries who have adopted Chinese writing system to move away from it to improve literacy rates for common people. Koreans have done that with Hangul, and even Chinese themselves came up with a simplified script under commies to make learning more manageable. But it's still fundamentally a mess, and I see alphabetic and syllabic writing systems as vastly superior.
Then also, of course I'm biased towards my own culture, which means that I prefer Latin/Greek or something derived from them. Though I do find Hangul very neat, and wouldn't mind using it just because it's so well designed.
Very hard to learn - yes!
Mesh quite well with computers, provided you use an auxiliary input system. Seems to me most people learn an alpabeth script for that use.
And there are Hangul, and other systems in other countries, created to suplement chinese ideograms. As for literacy of the common people, are you sure anybody cared? More than they cared about being Modern (Western) and stopping Chinese imperialism?
Both Korea and Vietnam have abandoned Chinese ideograms in modern times, are there others? Do you have examples that precede western influence?
For those who don't know: Please note that the creation of Hangul, and in some sense the Japanese kanas, seriously predates western influence in the region, but they were (are) use intermixed with Chinese Ideograms. (I believe Vietnamese had some such system too, but now they use an alphabeth.)
Part of the subtlety is in the information you are required to give.
In German for example you can't talk for very long about someone without revealing their sex, or rather, it becomes very noticeable that you are avoiding revealing their sex.
Try to explain about the heart-shapeded carrot(s?) you are growing in your garden in English, without revealing wether it's one or several.
In Japanese the listener wouldn't notice that you are trying to avoid giving out that information. Can you do that in English?
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This is why there is such a thing as usb-condoms.
Thank you science and technology for giving me the chance to pursue a career in telemarketing.
One day I will tell my wide-eyed grand children about about my dashing adventures as an itinerant telemarketer.
Just buy a cultivator with an optional time trowel extension, and you'll be fine.
Obviously you need to ask at a petrol station in the US too!
This is Japan. They have PA systems all over the place to bring earthquake warnings.
Backing that up with whatever they can lay their hands on .
Apparantly that includes twitter.
Grandparent (and anyone else) is also free to repeat the experiment himself!
But China is also like anywhere else in so many other ways ...
Should I take that to mean that most countries have had incidents where somebody knowingly introduced poison in the food supply?
Or do you mean that China, as such, knowingly poisoned it's own people. (cite please)
Or are you trying to say that there are countries where something like this has never happened? In that case, please, name one!
I'll make it easier and let you name a country where nobody poisoned the food supply in this century. Should be easy, shouldn't it?
Can you please name a country that has not at some point introduced poison into the food supply?
No. It doesn't. It works on a story of a creator. There's no evidence for one; there's no way to test to see if there is one; there's no way to test to see if there isn't one (it's not falsifiable); there are no predictions re effects upon reality that arise from the idea; etc. Theism is in no way qualified as a theory. Theism is speculation, no more than that, in terms of its value in quantifying reality.
You're only right if we're talking in the abstract about just any creator, but we're not, despite any the weasel wording, we're talking about the Lord God of christianity.
And that creator creates a strong expectation that there will be no dinosaur bones (and no Auswitch etc).
My predictions of the effects that should be observed may be wrong, but nothing that causes (significant) effects on this world is truly outside the purview of sience!
Secondly, it's a pointless, valueless question. It's on exactly the same level as "is there a Santa Claus?" There's zero evidence for such a thing, despite thousands of yeas of looking for same, so, other than writing fiction or cult-building, there's no reason to assume there is one, and therefore no reason to worry about whether there is one (or several.) When you concern yourself with it, you're simply self-identifying as a cultist or an intellectual lightweight.
Just because Santa is somebody's father in a suit doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
Or would you claim Officers of the Law do not exist? They, too, are just somebody's father in a suit
Yep, exactly. Most sites don't bother because only a small minority does it and that small minority tends to be disproportionately made up of the kooky anti-consumerist crowd anyway, who aren't worth advertising to due to their hatred of advertising in general. If ad blocking ever went mainstream you'd see more sites tying content to ads explicitly.
Freebies still give increased marketshare.
They hurt you little. They are only a serious problem for your would-be competitors.
Let them try to solve it.
. If the courts do not rule narrowly and uphold first sale doctrine for these EEE books, the publishers will simply stop licensing EEE books under cheap terms. Millions of Asian students will be affected.
How does that stack up against cheap ereaders from china and scanners?
Take this and factor in the price hikes.
And realize that it could get much worse.
But I think that if we get back, so will society ... eventually!
Or rare meat. The core of the meat has to reach a high enough temperature to reliably kill the parasites. 145F for pork and fish. 165 for everything else. Note that chefs routinely go lower than these temperatures in order to avoid tough, leathery meat. I would imagine that fish tapeworms are the most common in the US since cooking fish too long will ruin it. And then of course there is sushi.
Here (Denmark, Europe) the local health authorities think freezing hard enough for long enough will render raw fish safe for eating.
Fish may be sold as safe for raw eating iff they have been frozen to below -21C for at least 24 hours.
My freezer can do -18C or - 30C, so here it's -30C for 24 hours. And I mostly use other things in stead of (raw) fish.
Section 2: ...may may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law...
Section 2 ... Of the explantion provided!
That's just like the little annotations to the US constitution that SCOTUS members have in their heads.
It's just that it's out in the open where you can see it!
I find that compared to hiring a native teacher over the internets Rosetta Stone is worth at most a tenth of the asking price.
In short: Even if it's ever so slightly useful, it's still a waste of money.
If you have time to burn and don't have to pay for it, Rosetta Stone can save you 2 or 3 hours of other learning.
More if you're slow ;-)
At least you know those people are just trying to be (unreasonably) nice.
It's worse when someone decides their incomprehensible English is better than your incomprehensible Japanese.
doesn't have a subject.
fixed!
Also, if you want to protect your children, try to protect them from meaningful threaths!
I keep an eye on what my children do online, but not for fear that they might see a nipple.
We even have mirrors in the house!
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. As for literacy of the common people, are you sure anybody cared?
Actually, yes. If you read the history of Hangul, it was quite intentionally designed for that purpose, long before imperialism was an issue. As for commies, they've always had a penchant for improving literacy - among other things, that makes it easier to spread propaganda far and wide (newspapers and posters are cheap and efficient, but you must be able to read them in the first place).
Fascinating! Someone in 144331444 really cared that much.
Thank you!
Can you explain why (traditional/simplified) chinese is that bad?
Because ideograms are a particularly silly way of writing things down, very hard to learn (even for native speakers), and do not mesh well with computers, and generally any form of storage/writing other than scribbling them by hand.
It's no coincidence that there were numerous attempts in the history of countries who have adopted Chinese writing system to move away from it to improve literacy rates for common people. Koreans have done that with Hangul, and even Chinese themselves came up with a simplified script under commies to make learning more manageable. But it's still fundamentally a mess, and I see alphabetic and syllabic writing systems as vastly superior.
Then also, of course I'm biased towards my own culture, which means that I prefer Latin/Greek or something derived from them. Though I do find Hangul very neat, and wouldn't mind using it just because it's so well designed.
Very hard to learn - yes!
Mesh quite well with computers, provided you use an auxiliary input system. Seems to me most people learn an alpabeth script for that use.
And there are Hangul, and other systems in other countries, created to suplement chinese ideograms. As for literacy of the common people, are you sure anybody cared? More than they cared about being Modern (Western) and stopping Chinese imperialism?
Both Korea and Vietnam have abandoned Chinese ideograms in modern times, are there others? Do you have examples that precede western influence?
For those who don't know: Please note that the creation of Hangul, and in some sense the Japanese kanas, seriously predates western influence in the region, but they were (are) use intermixed with Chinese Ideograms. (I believe Vietnamese had some such system too, but now they use an alphabeth.)
Part of the subtlety is in the information you are required to give.
In German for example you can't talk for very long about someone without revealing their sex, or rather, it becomes very noticeable that you are avoiding revealing their sex.
Try to explain about the heart-shapeded carrot(s?) you are growing in your garden in English, without revealing wether it's one or several.
In Japanese the listener wouldn't notice that you are trying to avoid giving out that information. Can you do that in English?
Which is why the tax code should be written in clear and understandable Sumerian.