perhaps you'd both be happier if you had mod points when there were some stories about homophobic bigots were posted, then you could mod up comments containing infantile terms like "faggotry".
The word science simply means knowledge.
False. The word science comes from the word "scientia" which is Latin for "Knowledge". It is a derivation, not a synonym. Science is a process, not an attribute.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that science must be practiced in a "naturalistic" context
False. It is a process that is inherently naturalistic by it's very definition. The scientific method precludes the supernatural as an hypothesis, since it is untestable, and therefore non-scientific. It logically cannot be investigated using a method that requires, at its very fundamental core, the ability to test.
That is simply your presupposition applied before you enter the ring.
False. You are the one bringing a presupposition to the ring. You false presupposition is that "Science" is just a technical term for "knowledge". It is far more specific than that. These are matters of fact that you simply fail to recognise.
Science has nothing in its toolkit to deny any supernatural claims you might have, so by that token, science cannot disprove the supernatural. However, by the same token, Science cannot be used to back up claims of the supernatural. The scientific method is totally divorced from the supernatural ("agnostic" if you will), by necessity of its design.
You're conflating an event with a process. The process of abiogenesis (generating life from non-living matter) is a perfectly valid scientific field, of which this experiment was a part.
The event(s) in the past that are hypothesised to be the initiation of life on the planet are a related, but ultimately independent claim that despite your objection can also be investigated scientifically. Learning about the processes of generating life from non living matter are simply a necessary precursor to investigating the actual event of the origin of life on the earth.
You don't need a time machine to scientifically establish past events. You simply need to be able to investigate the evidence that exists today. Applying your rationale to your own beliefs about the origin of life: presumably you have none since you don't have a time machine to travel back and see it for yourself. Presumably you believe that the claims of creationists are inherently empty, since they don't have a time machine to travel back and view the garden of eden for themselves.
With DMCA, and no copyright law, DRM becomes totally impotent. It only takes one crack and a mirror at say "freephotoshop.com" and its game over. You would have no legal recourse againt "freephotoshop.com"
Frequent updates you say? How is that supposed to be a problem? Simply dont update till the new crack is out. You must know as well as everyone else that DRM is just an arms race - hence the necessity for the DMCA.
I never heard anything about the Germans not having the resources to build an a-bomb, but the Japanese had been prosecuting a war for some years before the americans intervened. This left them at a disadvantage.
"Over the course of the Pacific War, the economies of Japan and its occupied territories all suffered severely. Inflation was rampant; prices in Japan in 1944 were 3.25 times higher than in 1936.[citation needed] Japanese heavy industry, forced to devote nearly all its production to meeting military needs, was unable to meet the commercial requirements of Japan (which had previously relied on trade with Western countries for their manufactured goods). Local industries were unable to produce at high enough levels to avoid severe shortfalls. Furthermore, maritime trade, upon which the Empire depended greatly, was sharply curtailed by damage to the Japanese merchant fleet over the course of the war. From a fleet of 6,000,000 tonnes of shipping in 1941, Japan was reduced to one of 2,000,000 tonnes by 1944.[citation needed]
By the end of the war, what remained of the Japanese Empire was wracked by shortages, inflation, and currency devaluation. Transport was nearly impossible, and industrial production in Japan's shattered cities ground to a halt. The destruction wrought by the war eventually brought the Japanese economy to a virtual standstill."
Of course, every sentence says "citation needed" after it, its up to you to either accept it at face value or google around and verify it, but that seems like a plausible explanation.
It seems wierd that money would really be a bar to making a nuke - i would have thought that the quantum physicists would be a more crucial resource than buildings and materials.
It would be cool if there was also another feed where the significant changes that were interesting to the general population of linux nerds was put out say once a month or something. Don't know how much work it would be for him to do that on top of the existing podcast.
What is the point of your post? He clearly knows he has a duty to avoid obstacles, and never said otherwise. He was talking about a situation where it was sheer good fortune that he was CAPABLE of avoiding someone actively thwarting his attempts to avoid a collision.
It's a matter of numbers. If the world were teeming with 7 billion lions, they would have a colossal influence on the world. The oxygen catastrophe was the most profound environmental change caused by a population of living organisms.
I agree - there's nothing to be confused about - its far more likely to be a simple case, as you say, of no apparent target audience to justify the effort. I do think though that the impression you have that there are thousands of "screaming" (got to love the mental image) fanpeople demanding that everything be GPL'd is a misconception. There are tons of people "screaming"(who actually ever screams?) on forums asking for tips to run Warcraft on wine. I think you've falling into the trap of overestimating the vocal minority. I would have thought that as the Linux user-base grows, the proportion of people indifferent to software licensing models will balloon, will the number of people committed to GPL only software will barely grow at all.
releasing it under the GPL would do more than appease FSF "fanatics", it would allow ZFS to be redistributed with the linux kernel. kind of a useful thing to do, don't you think?
starting a sentence with "hell" and dropping the g off of betting and describing the data as "this baby" makes it sound like "good ol' boy" style american to me. I'm english and it's affectatious to use those colloquialisms over here.
A religion is basically a de-fanged cult. They both attempt to control behaviour in return for emotional solace in the form of a comforting myth. There is something of continuum on which any particular religion/cult may fall in regard to how much control is exerted, and how much the member must be kept away from outside information or logical thought processes in order to maintain belief.
A full blown cult keeps it's members isolated from non-believers at all times and demands total slavery.
Contrast this at the other end of the scale with some kind of mainstream Christianity that is very watered down, all you need to do is show up for church for an hour a week, or confess your sins or whatever and you get to go to heaven. You don't even need deny evolution or be heterosexual.
Then there's the still-fanged fundamentalism like the westboro baptist church, which is the same religion just conducted more stringently, bringing out its cultish attributes.
Your arguments are jumbled and misinformed. You are conflating "young-earth creationists" with anyone who believes in a god. None of those scientists you mention believed in the god of the bible, or indeed any kind of god that requires willful ignorance of the scientific understanding of the world.
You saying that he's calling them idiots directly implies that you think they are all young earth creationists.
You keep perceiving an intolerance of the demonstrable lies of one small group as an intolerance of the very existence of all the other people who happen to share some unrelated religious beliefs with them.
You chastise him for judging a group as if they all think alike, but he has addressed a group BASED on their shared ideology, so that is the ONLY valid generalisation to make since it is defined into the terms of the argument.
its like saying that the claim that all white supremacists are rascist is somehow a bigoted generalisation. It doesn't work, because the definition of a white supremacist requires that all white supremacists are rascist.
You missed the point of the OP. Criticism is not the same thing as intolerance. He wasn't slamming jews muslims and christians. He was pointing out that science-denialists will present this information out of context to try and actively deceive people into thinking there is a scientific basis for the genesis flood. Do you think that criticising demonstrable misinformation is intolerant? Perhaps we should be more tolerant of HIV-denialists, and holocaust denialists? Oh wait, they aren't hiding behind a banner of religious tolerance...
Religious tolerance does not extend to allowing a minority of fundamentalists to spread lies about the scientific evidence. Tolerance cuts both ways. And extending that criticism is not any kind of attack on the religious majority who can happily reconcile there religious beliefs with scientific facts. If someone tells a lie, calling them out on it is intolerance of the lie, not intolerance of the person.
Second virtually every culture in the world has a record of a flood circa 8000 BC, from the Jews to the Eqyptians the Iraqis, Indians, and Chinese.
citation please? some cultures have flood myths but where did you get the idea that they all pin the date down to circa 8000BC? and how circa is circa? Indeed the dates seem to be all over the place. They also seem to involve their cultures surviving the flood, which isn't much use to people trying to prop up the Genesis flood story. Unless noah's family traveled the globe restablishing exact replicas all the cultures of the world and then carried on as if nothing had happened. Presumably noah had at least one black kid, and one asian kid, etc.
so it takes 5 mins rather than 5 seconds - that's still better than spending days or weeks scouring filing cabinets and book shelves for fewer useful results
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps you'd both be happier if you had mod points when there were some stories about homophobic bigots were posted, then you could mod up comments containing infantile terms like "faggotry".
Surely all the people who've downloaded the downloadable content over the years can all band together and restore a large proportion of it?
False. The word science comes from the word "scientia" which is Latin for "Knowledge". It is a derivation, not a synonym. Science is a process, not an attribute.
False. It is a process that is inherently naturalistic by it's very definition. The scientific method precludes the supernatural as an hypothesis, since it is untestable, and therefore non-scientific. It logically cannot be investigated using a method that requires, at its very fundamental core, the ability to test.
False. You are the one bringing a presupposition to the ring. You false presupposition is that "Science" is just a technical term for "knowledge". It is far more specific than that. These are matters of fact that you simply fail to recognise.
Science has nothing in its toolkit to deny any supernatural claims you might have, so by that token, science cannot disprove the supernatural. However, by the same token, Science cannot be used to back up claims of the supernatural. The scientific method is totally divorced from the supernatural ("agnostic" if you will), by necessity of its design.
You're conflating an event with a process. The process of abiogenesis (generating life from non-living matter) is a perfectly valid scientific field, of which this experiment was a part.
The event(s) in the past that are hypothesised to be the initiation of life on the planet are a related, but ultimately independent claim that despite your objection can also be investigated scientifically. Learning about the processes of generating life from non living matter are simply a necessary precursor to investigating the actual event of the origin of life on the earth.
You don't need a time machine to scientifically establish past events. You simply need to be able to investigate the evidence that exists today. Applying your rationale to your own beliefs about the origin of life: presumably you have none since you don't have a time machine to travel back and see it for yourself. Presumably you believe that the claims of creationists are inherently empty, since they don't have a time machine to travel back and view the garden of eden for themselves.
I own a comic book/gaming store and spend all day serving nerds of one stripe or another, and trust me, neither you or I are the worst kind of nerd...
have you tried running the app straight from windows and using dos2usb?
With no DMCA
that should start...sorry
With DMCA, and no copyright law, DRM becomes totally impotent. It only takes one crack and a mirror at say "freephotoshop.com" and its game over. You would have no legal recourse againt "freephotoshop.com"
Frequent updates you say? How is that supposed to be a problem? Simply dont update till the new crack is out. You must know as well as everyone else that DRM is just an arms race - hence the necessity for the DMCA.
I never heard anything about the Germans not having the resources to build an a-bomb, but the Japanese had been prosecuting a war for some years before the americans intervened. This left them at a disadvantage.
From wikipedia:
"Over the course of the Pacific War, the economies of Japan and its occupied territories all suffered severely. Inflation was rampant; prices in Japan in 1944 were 3.25 times higher than in 1936.[citation needed] Japanese heavy industry, forced to devote nearly all its production to meeting military needs, was unable to meet the commercial requirements of Japan (which had previously relied on trade with Western countries for their manufactured goods). Local industries were unable to produce at high enough levels to avoid severe shortfalls. Furthermore, maritime trade, upon which the Empire depended greatly, was sharply curtailed by damage to the Japanese merchant fleet over the course of the war. From a fleet of 6,000,000 tonnes of shipping in 1941, Japan was reduced to one of 2,000,000 tonnes by 1944.[citation needed]
By the end of the war, what remained of the Japanese Empire was wracked by shortages, inflation, and currency devaluation. Transport was nearly impossible, and industrial production in Japan's shattered cities ground to a halt. The destruction wrought by the war eventually brought the Japanese economy to a virtual standstill."
Of course, every sentence says "citation needed" after it, its up to you to either accept it at face value or google around and verify it, but that seems like a plausible explanation.
It seems wierd that money would really be a bar to making a nuke - i would have thought that the quantum physicists would be a more crucial resource than buildings and materials.
It would be cool if there was also another feed where the significant changes that were interesting to the general population of linux nerds was put out say once a month or something. Don't know how much work it would be for him to do that on top of the existing podcast.
What is the point of your post? He clearly knows he has a duty to avoid obstacles, and never said otherwise. He was talking about a situation where it was sheer good fortune that he was CAPABLE of avoiding someone actively thwarting his attempts to avoid a collision.
It's a matter of numbers. If the world were teeming with 7 billion lions, they would have a colossal influence on the world. The oxygen catastrophe was the most profound environmental change caused by a population of living organisms.
I agree - there's nothing to be confused about - its far more likely to be a simple case, as you say, of no apparent target audience to justify the effort. I do think though that the impression you have that there are thousands of "screaming" (got to love the mental image) fanpeople demanding that everything be GPL'd is a misconception. There are tons of people "screaming"(who actually ever screams?) on forums asking for tips to run Warcraft on wine. I think you've falling into the trap of overestimating the vocal minority. I would have thought that as the Linux user-base grows, the proportion of people indifferent to software licensing models will balloon, will the number of people committed to GPL only software will barely grow at all.
you dont need to understand free licences - there's nothing to stop you releasing proprietary software that runs on linux.
releasing it under the GPL would do more than appease FSF "fanatics", it would allow ZFS to be redistributed with the linux kernel. kind of a useful thing to do, don't you think?
starting a sentence with "hell" and dropping the g off of betting and describing the data as "this baby" makes it sound like "good ol' boy" style american to me. I'm english and it's affectatious to use those colloquialisms over here.
Genetic disparity between populations of different regions is a no-brainer, way further back than 8000BC.
A religion is basically a de-fanged cult. They both attempt to control behaviour in return for emotional solace in the form of a comforting myth. There is something of continuum on which any particular religion/cult may fall in regard to how much control is exerted, and how much the member must be kept away from outside information or logical thought processes in order to maintain belief.
A full blown cult keeps it's members isolated from non-believers at all times and demands total slavery.
Contrast this at the other end of the scale with some kind of mainstream Christianity that is very watered down, all you need to do is show up for church for an hour a week, or confess your sins or whatever and you get to go to heaven. You don't even need deny evolution or be heterosexual.
Then there's the still-fanged fundamentalism like the westboro baptist church, which is the same religion just conducted more stringently, bringing out its cultish attributes.
Your arguments are jumbled and misinformed. You are conflating "young-earth creationists" with anyone who believes in a god. None of those scientists you mention believed in the god of the bible, or indeed any kind of god that requires willful ignorance of the scientific understanding of the world.
You saying that he's calling them idiots directly implies that you think they are all young earth creationists.
You keep perceiving an intolerance of the demonstrable lies of one small group as an intolerance of the very existence of all the other people who happen to share some unrelated religious beliefs with them.
You chastise him for judging a group as if they all think alike, but he has addressed a group BASED on their shared ideology, so that is the ONLY valid generalisation to make since it is defined into the terms of the argument.
its like saying that the claim that all white supremacists are rascist is somehow a bigoted generalisation. It doesn't work, because the definition of a white supremacist requires that all white supremacists are rascist.
You missed the point of the OP. Criticism is not the same thing as intolerance. He wasn't slamming jews muslims and christians. He was pointing out that science-denialists will present this information out of context to try and actively deceive people into thinking there is a scientific basis for the genesis flood. Do you think that criticising demonstrable misinformation is intolerant? Perhaps we should be more tolerant of HIV-denialists, and holocaust denialists? Oh wait, they aren't hiding behind a banner of religious tolerance...
Religious tolerance does not extend to allowing a minority of fundamentalists to spread lies about the scientific evidence. Tolerance cuts both ways. And extending that criticism is not any kind of attack on the religious majority who can happily reconcile there religious beliefs with scientific facts. If someone tells a lie, calling them out on it is intolerance of the lie, not intolerance of the person.
citation please? some cultures have flood myths but where did you get the idea that they all pin the date down to circa 8000BC? and how circa is circa? Indeed the dates seem to be all over the place. They also seem to involve their cultures surviving the flood, which isn't much use to people trying to prop up the Genesis flood story. Unless noah's family traveled the globe restablishing exact replicas all the cultures of the world and then carried on as if nothing had happened. Presumably noah had at least one black kid, and one asian kid, etc.
so it takes 5 mins rather than 5 seconds - that's still better than spending days or weeks scouring filing cabinets and book shelves for fewer useful results
so linux is a caterham 7?
whoooooooooossssshhh
Sun could have dual licenced ZFS under GPL and BSD. Why didn't they?