The simplest of logic can point out that causality didn't need a cause. I don't need god to exist, I don't need him not to. Lacking any evidence of either case, I'll pick the version that requires I make up the least amount of stuff. "Nothing did it" sounds like the minimum.
With no scientific backing, I believe that the idea of God was first conceived of when trying to get a two-year-old to shut up and go to bed.
Well, yes, I do in fact believe that absolutely nothing created the universe. And a non-atheist believes that absolutely nothing created god, which then created the universe. Either God is not a fundamental part of the universe, or we already agree.
I admit that Bush won the Ohio election. That said, I'd just like the point out the irony in: "We have detected an irregularity!" => "Can't be! It is very unlikely such a thing would go undetected!"
I'd just like to say that while I agree fully with the above statements, I am not the one who posted them, and I think the person who did post them is a dickwad for logging out before doing so.
In all seriousness: Can you provide links to people claiming that European countries are "more free" than the U.S.? I'm an ignorant USian and have never heard such things.
Why would we hire human programmers instead of having a series of if/then statements do it for us? Should they have to learn how to use a computer while you're trying to give them things to do?
Biometrics will ultimately be a dead-end because their entire premise is based on the fallacy that the identity of the individual you want to allow access to your system is tied to a unique physical body. It's strange that in this computer-based age, people who obviously/use/ computers keep trying to allow people to authenticate with computers based on the assumption that only a single inalterable and non-transferable meat-being is involved.
"lolz! We'll worry about that when we have the ability to transfer consciousnesses!" => That's not what I'm talking about, but you raise a valid point about how this system will be even more flawed five minutes from now.
I notice that every political party wants to claim Lincoln for themselves: "He was a X!" "X and Y swapped, so he was a Y!" "Parts of X and parts of Y swapped, so he really would have been a Z!"
It seems that everyone tends to agree that Lincoln was an okay guy (okay, not everyone), but can't agree on anything else. I draw no conclusions, but find it fascinating.
Yeah! Public Apology! It's not like intentional denial of due process is worthy of prison time and never being allowed in a position of authority again or anything, he should say he's sorry, and he should mean it!
The universe, being rather on the largish-side, probably already contains at least two of everything possible within it, formed naturally through one way or another (such as the evolution of a species which is obsessed with lunch, and so designs and constructs the Free Sandwich button).
However, of the many infinite realities which do not exist, those in which Free Sandwich buttons were possible became filled with sandwiches soon after their initial springing-forth, nilling the potential for all other life, and so clearly the Anthropic principle takes over.
Of course, this is a flawed argument anyway, since as far as we know, and free sandwich button could probably not produce sandwiches at a rate which would cause a sandwich queue to expand at faster than the speed of light, and would probably collapse into a delicious but deadly black hole before expanding to reality-threatening magnitudes. I think the argument's concept is clear and reasonable, however.
A: "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care about being monitored?" B: "If your citizens are supposed to have rights, why are you setting up an infrastructure capable of eliminating them?"
moving all your mass forward/uphill vs basically just bouncing up and down. And of course, in space, you don't even have the resistance of bouncing up and down.
See, on the internet, I can look at one thing at a time through a pinhole, so if I don't want to see something, I can just reposition the pinhole and look at something else. In a 3d environment, I have to walk around without a box on my head. If I'm to be exposed to things in my peripheral vision, why would I even bother to stay online instead of going outside?!
I mean actually coming/with/ XP, not "You can install XP, which you probably already have, and then later you can install Vista", I mean "I'm running Vista, and I'm running XP", either through virtualization or, preferably*, a dual-boot situation- just like I did from 3.1 to 95, 95 to 98, 98 to 2000, and [of course] 2000 to Debian.
(*preferable would be perfect virtualization, but dual boot is much easier to imagine)
Though no, I don't already have XP. When I install Vista, though, I don't want to do it by a non-reversible ha-ha-now-nothing-works process that I need to re-stage the system to get back. And I want that by paying one price.
If I bought a million dollar laptop, it would be one that didn't have a diamond in it to artificially inflate the price. This is a laptop with a diamond strapped to it. An expensive one, yes, but if you are sticking diamonds to things, you've gone wrong somewhere.
don't tell me you wouldn't be right there with everyone else with a perl script and a while loop trying to be the one to register se.xxx, sex.xxx, teen.xxx, teens.xxx, asian.xxx, asians.xxx,...
Set for life. Let the morons who bid for it figure out that it's worthless next week
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The simplest of logic can point out that causality didn't need a cause. I don't need god to exist, I don't need him not to. Lacking any evidence of either case, I'll pick the version that requires I make up the least amount of stuff. "Nothing did it" sounds like the minimum.
With no scientific backing, I believe that the idea of God was first conceived of when trying to get a two-year-old to shut up and go to bed.
Well, yes, I do in fact believe that absolutely nothing created the universe. And a non-atheist believes that absolutely nothing created god, which then created the universe. Either God is not a fundamental part of the universe, or we already agree.
I admit that Bush won the Ohio election.
That said, I'd just like the point out the irony in:
"We have detected an irregularity!" => "Can't be! It is very unlikely such a thing would go undetected!"
I thought pink kryptonite made superman gay... google it!
I'd just like to say that while I agree fully with the above statements, I am not the one who posted them, and I think the person who did post them is a dickwad for logging out before doing so.
In all seriousness: Can you provide links to people claiming that European countries are "more free" than the U.S.? I'm an ignorant USian and have never heard such things.
Why would we hire human programmers instead of having a series of if/then statements do it for us? Should they have to learn how to use a computer while you're trying to give them things to do?
Biometrics will ultimately be a dead-end because their entire premise is based on the fallacy that the identity of the individual you want to allow access to your system is tied to a unique physical body. It's strange that in this computer-based age, people who obviously /use/ computers keep trying to allow people to authenticate with computers based on the assumption that only a single inalterable and non-transferable meat-being is involved.
"lolz! We'll worry about that when we have the ability to transfer consciousnesses!"
=> That's not what I'm talking about, but you raise a valid point about how this system will be even more flawed five minutes from now.
Yes. You would be the 637,000th person to do so.
I notice that every political party wants to claim Lincoln for themselves: "He was a X!" "X and Y swapped, so he was a Y!" "Parts of X and parts of Y swapped, so he really would have been a Z!"
It seems that everyone tends to agree that Lincoln was an okay guy (okay, not everyone), but can't agree on anything else.
I draw no conclusions, but find it fascinating.
I'd say there's plenty of blame to go around.
and typos are the most annoying form of spelling error :/
Yeah! Public Apology! It's not like intentional denial of due process is worthy of prison time and never being allowed in a position of authority again or anything, he should say he's sorry, and he should mean it!
Sarcasm is the highest for of wit.
I already use the "put the alarm where you can't reach it" trick, and when I'm tired I just ignore the alarm
They found frequencies... they didn't even know existed?!
+1 funny
-8 bad movie
-9000 overrated
using an elevator made of carbon nanotubes, duh.
The universe, being rather on the largish-side, probably already contains at least two of everything possible within it, formed naturally through one way or another (such as the evolution of a species which is obsessed with lunch, and so designs and constructs the Free Sandwich button).
However, of the many infinite realities which do not exist, those in which Free Sandwich buttons were possible became filled with sandwiches soon after their initial springing-forth, nilling the potential for all other life, and so clearly the Anthropic principle takes over.
Of course, this is a flawed argument anyway, since as far as we know, and free sandwich button could probably not produce sandwiches at a rate which would cause a sandwich queue to expand at faster than the speed of light, and would probably collapse into a delicious but deadly black hole before expanding to reality-threatening magnitudes. I think the argument's concept is clear and reasonable, however.
A: "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care about being monitored?"
B: "If your citizens are supposed to have rights, why are you setting up an infrastructure capable of eliminating them?"
moving all your mass forward/uphill vs basically just bouncing up and down. And of course, in space, you don't even have the resistance of bouncing up and down.
See, on the internet, I can look at one thing at a time through a pinhole, so if I don't want to see something, I can just reposition the pinhole and look at something else. In a 3d environment, I have to walk around without a box on my head. If I'm to be exposed to things in my peripheral vision, why would I even bother to stay online instead of going outside?!
I mean actually coming /with/ XP, not "You can install XP, which you probably already have, and then later you can install Vista", I mean "I'm running Vista, and I'm running XP", either through virtualization or, preferably*, a dual-boot situation- just like I did from 3.1 to 95, 95 to 98, 98 to 2000, and [of course] 2000 to Debian.
(*preferable would be perfect virtualization, but dual boot is much easier to imagine)
Though no, I don't already have XP. When I install Vista, though, I don't want to do it by a non-reversible ha-ha-now-nothing-works process that I need to re-stage the system to get back.
And I want that by paying one price.
if it came with XP, so I could run all the software I want to use.
If I bought a million dollar laptop, it would be one that didn't have a diamond in it to artificially inflate the price. This is a laptop with a diamond strapped to it. An expensive one, yes, but if you are sticking diamonds to things, you've gone wrong somewhere.
don't tell me you wouldn't be right there with everyone else with a perl script and a while loop trying to be the one to register se.xxx, sex.xxx, teen.xxx, teens.xxx, asian.xxx, asians.xxx, ...
Set for life. Let the morons who bid for it figure out that it's worthless next week
Belief in a Christian apocalypse is non-secular, while belief in some other religion's apocalypse is secular?