Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
The Christian that realises Christianity is delusional and devotes the rest of his life to promoting critical thinking and rationality in his fellow man....And still volunteers in the soup kitchen after realising altruism is an intrinsic property of the human psyche, not an extrinsic edict from a supernatural entity.
Doctor... Venkman. The purpose of science is to serve mankind. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge... or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!
The relative sizes of cults and religions are a consequence of their nature, not the definition of it. A religions is a cult with sufficiently lax control over its adherents to avoid impeding its growth. Micromanaging the thoughts of followers doesn't scale very well.
Unless you've actually verified the studies yourself, you're just engaging in specialized groupthink -- you have faith that the group of people involved in OC are being truthful in their studies and that their assumptions are correct.
It's physically impossible for an individual to verify everything they're told. The key is to have an open mind about ad-hoc judgement calls, and be willing to accept evidence that refute those calls. Faith procludes open-mindedness, and eschews uncertainty. Science and critical thinking embrace uncertainty and work with it in a practical effective way, which naturally involves regularly adopting a position based on trusting what you're being told without running experiments yourself. The level of trust is proportional to how much you know about the background of the information in question.
Using judgement to make provisional decisions about the reliability of widely accepted information is not groupthink. Groupthink is total abandonment of autonomous thinking, which is an attribute of faith.
Nihilism and Faith operate at two unrealistic extremes. Science operates in the middle ground that reality occupies.
Media companies use DRM to control paying customers. They don't use it to control piracy, as it has zero effect on piracy. Pirates might make a convenient scapegoat/excuse for this practice, but that hardly makes it their fault. The media companies are the people you should be directing your ire at.
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Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
The Christian that realises Christianity is delusional and devotes the rest of his life to promoting critical thinking and rationality in his fellow man. ...And still volunteers in the soup kitchen after realising altruism is an intrinsic property of the human psyche, not an extrinsic edict from a supernatural entity.
How does a space shuttle launch inspire rape?
People don't need to know who you are to give you attention, anonymous attention is like being sucked off through a glory hole.
I'm curious - why do you print out all of wikipedia so frequently? (or at all)
that's the joke
The world is such a simple black and white place. Why hasn't this been solved from someone's armchair? I can't understand...
At what point could I have ever possibly been a corset?
Is this an actual thing, or just your juvenile wank fantasy?
I was too busy at the bog warming my feet
It's more likely they are referring to the Frank Zappa album "Apostrophe (')", since he never made an album called "Apostrophes (')". ;p
If only they'd built it with 6001 hulls!
Doctor... Venkman. The purpose of science is to serve mankind. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge... or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!
I'd love to see Gates demonstrating Ballmer's ability to perform "Puttin' on the Ritz" to a skeptical theatre audience.
The relative sizes of cults and religions are a consequence of their nature, not the definition of it. A religions is a cult with sufficiently lax control over its adherents to avoid impeding its growth. Micromanaging the thoughts of followers doesn't scale very well.
i read it a "massages of encouragement"
Whhhhyyyy is everyone starting their posts with a wierd stammer?
I know a fresh install has unity by default, but if you upgrade an existing installation, does it leave your desktop as regular gnome?
Question marks are for questions?
Another presumable flaw would be handling heavy batteries. Presumably joe public would not be allowed to / capable of self service replacements.
Quaaaaaaiiid.... Start.. the re..ac..torrr...
that scared me
So that it can finally disappear in a puff of fucking logic.
programming against the spec while ignoring the quirks means your site is likely to be broken on everything.
Unless you've actually verified the studies yourself, you're just engaging in specialized groupthink -- you have faith that the group of people involved in OC are being truthful in their studies and that their assumptions are correct.
It's physically impossible for an individual to verify everything they're told. The key is to have an open mind about ad-hoc judgement calls, and be willing to accept evidence that refute those calls. Faith procludes open-mindedness, and eschews uncertainty. Science and critical thinking embrace uncertainty and work with it in a practical effective way, which naturally involves regularly adopting a position based on trusting what you're being told without running experiments yourself. The level of trust is proportional to how much you know about the background of the information in question.
Using judgement to make provisional decisions about the reliability of widely accepted information is not groupthink. Groupthink is total abandonment of autonomous thinking, which is an attribute of faith.
Nihilism and Faith operate at two unrealistic extremes. Science operates in the middle ground that reality occupies.
Media companies use DRM to control paying customers. They don't use it to control piracy, as it has zero effect on piracy. Pirates might make a convenient scapegoat/excuse for this practice, but that hardly makes it their fault. The media companies are the people you should be directing your ire at.