The problem with intelligent design is that it is not falsifiable.
That's not a problem. The fact there's no fucking evidence for it means that you get to write it off as someone's fanciful imagination and give it no more credence than that.
I mean, I'm as big a fan of the flying spaghetti monster as anybody else, but the fact you can't prove he doesn't exist is not evidence that he does.
But I think it would be a great idea to provide a process by which ordinary citizens could get certified to carry on airplanes.
Great, then we could get the same rate of accidental deaths by firearm on aircraft that you get in your cities.
Except magnified by the concentration of people, the increased stress caused by flying, the increased effects on alcohol on aircraft and the blind panic of stupid fuckwits thinking someone standing up to go to the toilet might be a terrorist that needs shooting.
Good call, I'll vote for you at the next election.
I don't even make eye contact. If I've bought items I'm unlikely to return (consumables, cheap items, etc) then I usually leave the receipt at the till anyway.
If you actually believe this you need to stop reading so much Slashdot and shake off the group-think
Sorry, but many slashdot posters have an IQ of 140+. That puts them well into the top percentage of IQ across whatever country they live in, whatever race they are, whatever the race of the next person they bump into.
Odds are thus pretty damn high that a random person they bump into will be less intelligent than them. That's got fuck all to do with racism.
You ought to judge people based on specific facts pertaining to the individual--any thing less is lazy and, in some circumstances, racist.
I didn't suggest anything else. In fact, if you stop and read carefully what I wrote, I was challenging the assertion that you should base your attendance at events on the likely intelligence of the other people there.
even if you accept Derbyshire's assertion that whites have statistically higher IQs than blacks, it's still racist to assume that you, or any other random white, is smarter most black people you'll meet
Will you please learn how to fucking read. 1 - I didn't state that I accept that assertion 2 - I didn't make any assumptions about random people meeting random people, I made assumptions about intelligent Slashdot posters meeting random people 3 - the assumption I made was race neutral. At no point did I say what race the Slashdot posters were, and at no point did I say that the race of the random person they met was in any way relevant. In fact, I specifically made the opposite point.
If it helps any, it looks like the 'many Slashdot posters' I referred to doesn't include you.
Borderline. Three supermarkets, two chip shops, a post office, a butchers, a bakers, a couple of cafes but only three pubs. So really only a village - and described as such by the residents, the parish council and the name of the Village Hall.
you are almost certainly smarter than any random black person you're going to meet
Hmm. Many slashdot posters are almost certainly smarter than any random black person they're going to meet.
Almost certainly smarter than any random white, yellow, purple or green person too. That's an unfortunate downside of being intelligent.
Would Derbyshire recommend that Slashdot posters leave any event that anybody turns up at, on the realistic grounds that there'll be an intelligence gap?
Shrug, I don't mind being called 'nigger'. I don't generally use the word myself, and I strongly resent any suggestion that being allowed to use the word depends on race.
That's racism.
If I ever need to say 'nigger' then I will. Such as in this discussion. It's just a fucking word, and pretending it has some special power makes it taboo and gives it a power it doesn't deserve. Ironically its use in rap and general slang robs that power, but then plaintive cries of outrage when someone that isn't black uses the word immediately breaks all that and in a racist way.
So fucking pick: Either everybody can use the word, or nobody can. Don't be a racist cunt and allow its use only to people of one race.
I interpret it as "Someone that wants to be special and not just American".
Either you're American or you're not. If you want to be German or African, fuck off to Germany or Africa.
Meanwhile, people from Jamaica are Jamaican. They could be white or black, or a delicious milky coffee shade of brown, like a girl I know. Her skin tones are gorgeous in sunlight.
No, I think it has to do with system prejudice and ignorance in America.
I live in a village that has 9000 white residents and around 40 black, asian or Chinese ones. I've never seen any abuse to those 40, they're working in a variety of professions (from pizza delivery to dispensing chemist) and there's no friction. The Turkish looking lady that bought the chipshop seems to be popular amongst the locals too, and her son's on the local dance team.
20 miles away there's a major British city where a quarter of the population are of Indian background alone, let alone the people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries. Whole suburbs there are 90+% Asian. I've been out there at night: They're all friendly. I get invited into peoples homes, I can go into the restaurants and be treated as 'just another customer' even when I'm the only white person out of 300 in the building, I can walk down the street and go shopping.
Couple of weeks ago in Manchester I went shopping late at night. Found myself in a major supermarket in a very poor part of the town, queuing amongst people wearing gang colours, 80% of them black, none of the white people had good teeth, the store staff were entirely non-white. Several people smiled in greeting at me, and one gay guy flirted with me, and then I paid for my shopping and went home.
Is there racism? Sure. Just because I'm not seeing it, not suffering from it, doesn't mean that it isn't there. But it's not systemic, it's not a generalised thing, and frankly the existence of a minority isn't the issue, it's other factors at play in the US.
I have noticed black people (in the southern u.s., in general) tend to (genetically) be more socially oriented and more artistic thinkers, less scientific. (Before someone starts fucking arguing: yes, large parts of culture are caused by genetics.) Well, this conflicts with me at the most basic of levels because at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker. I do not feel comfortable around huge numbers of black people because we are so different.
I can only interpret that as racist stereotyping.
I'm scientific too. I cherish my artistic friends, they think differently to me, they open my mind to new ways of thinking, new insights, new experiences.
They're of whatever fucking colour they happen to be. I've worked with black engineers and danced with white artists. I've gone out with a black nurse and lusted after several white ones. (I have a thing for nurses).
Writing off an entire race as "artistic not scientific" and then using that as justification for avoiding their company? Racism.
Not wanting to watch two men have sex is not homophobia. Demanding that a game doesn't include it while accepting two women or a man and woman having sex is.
After all, it would be no more acceptable to force a heterosexual relationship onto a player character being played by a gay person.
"No sex please" is a British response, not a bigoted one. "Only the sex I approve of" is a bigoted response.
Now you're making me want to write a game that springs homosexuality onto the player character in an unskippable cut-scene. I think I'll play a female character in that one;)
Frankly? Yes. After struggling through to page 2 of the article, its fragmented structure, glaring hyperlinks and low grade humour made me close that browser tab.
The only reason Android is pulling ahead is because manufactures can make cheap, low-quality handsets.
You mean, cheap, good-value handsets?
Comparing an iPhone to low-end Android handsets is like comparing to a completely different category of devices.
The irony being that if Apple cut its margins it could use its economy of scale, supply chain leverage and carrier exclusivity to undercut the Android market completely, giving its own customers excellent value for money.
Instead they've opted to give their shareholders a better ROI.
I don't have an issue with that, but I'm interested in value for money and I don't own Apple shares.
So you modded him down based on your own bigoted viewpoint.
No Android phone does what the iPhones do, even if individually, they have some specs that are better.
No iPhone does what my Android phone does. Shit, no iPhone does what my previous non-android non-iOS phone did. Even the ones that had a better spec.
No tablet of vaguely comparable specs is cooler, neither are most laptops.
"cool" is very very subjective. Apple products are to me about as 'uncool' as you can get - mass market, over promoted, horribly crippled and covered in a crass logo. If that's cool, count me out.
No single Andriod sells 20% of iPhone sales, indicating that even in the absense of sales spiffs, the hoi poloi know what they like, and it's not specs.
Yet overall over 50% of smartphones sold in the US are now Andriod. Even in the absence of sales spiffs, the hoi poloi do indeed know what they like, and it isn't the overpriced under-privileged apple advertisement.
Please, stop using your mod points to confirm your bias and instead post under your real name so we can point out how full of shit you are.
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Thanks, I needed a good 'net reference when people asked me for example of irony.
It's like a programmer saying he doesn't believe in electronics. It's absurd.
The young Miss Lovelace was joyfully intelligent, not absurd.
Evolutionism - belief in evolution.
What about
Science - acknowledgement that there's a fuckload of evidence for Evolution and very little evidence against it.
I don't "believe" in evolution. I get to see it in action.
The problem with intelligent design is that it is not falsifiable.
That's not a problem. The fact there's no fucking evidence for it means that you get to write it off as someone's fanciful imagination and give it no more credence than that.
I mean, I'm as big a fan of the flying spaghetti monster as anybody else, but the fact you can't prove he doesn't exist is not evidence that he does.
But I think it would be a great idea to provide a process by which ordinary citizens could get certified to carry on airplanes.
Great, then we could get the same rate of accidental deaths by firearm on aircraft that you get in your cities.
Except magnified by the concentration of people, the increased stress caused by flying, the increased effects on alcohol on aircraft and the blind panic of stupid fuckwits thinking someone standing up to go to the toilet might be a terrorist that needs shooting.
Good call, I'll vote for you at the next election.
I don't even make eye contact. If I've bought items I'm unlikely to return (consumables, cheap items, etc) then I usually leave the receipt at the till anyway.
Surely you should offer to take them to court for fraud - they sold you what they claimed was a working TV.
First of all, 'many' is not 'most'
Indeed, which is why I used the term 'many' and not the term 'most'.
If you actually believe this you need to stop reading so much Slashdot and shake off the group-think
Sorry, but many slashdot posters have an IQ of 140+. That puts them well into the top percentage of IQ across whatever country they live in, whatever race they are, whatever the race of the next person they bump into.
Odds are thus pretty damn high that a random person they bump into will be less intelligent than them. That's got fuck all to do with racism.
You ought to judge people based on specific facts pertaining to the individual--any thing less is lazy and, in some circumstances, racist.
I didn't suggest anything else. In fact, if you stop and read carefully what I wrote, I was challenging the assertion that you should base your attendance at events on the likely intelligence of the other people there.
even if you accept Derbyshire's assertion that whites have statistically higher IQs than blacks, it's still racist to assume that you, or any other random white, is smarter most black people you'll meet
Will you please learn how to fucking read.
1 - I didn't state that I accept that assertion
2 - I didn't make any assumptions about random people meeting random people, I made assumptions about intelligent Slashdot posters meeting random people
3 - the assumption I made was race neutral. At no point did I say what race the Slashdot posters were, and at no point did I say that the race of the random person they met was in any way relevant. In fact, I specifically made the opposite point.
If it helps any, it looks like the 'many Slashdot posters' I referred to doesn't include you.
Borderline. Three supermarkets, two chip shops, a post office, a butchers, a bakers, a couple of cafes but only three pubs. So really only a village - and described as such by the residents, the parish council and the name of the Village Hall.
Well, I did decide 'many' was more honest than 'most' :)
I went to college
Odd, your references to white pigs and niggers mislead me on that front.
Do you always use racist terms or do you only bring them out when you want to emphasise differences in cultural background?
you are almost certainly smarter than any random black person you're going to meet
Hmm. Many slashdot posters are almost certainly smarter than any random black person they're going to meet.
Almost certainly smarter than any random white, yellow, purple or green person too. That's an unfortunate downside of being intelligent.
Would Derbyshire recommend that Slashdot posters leave any event that anybody turns up at, on the realistic grounds that there'll be an intelligence gap?
Shrug, I don't mind being called 'nigger'. I don't generally use the word myself, and I strongly resent any suggestion that being allowed to use the word depends on race.
That's racism.
If I ever need to say 'nigger' then I will. Such as in this discussion. It's just a fucking word, and pretending it has some special power makes it taboo and gives it a power it doesn't deserve. Ironically its use in rap and general slang robs that power, but then plaintive cries of outrage when someone that isn't black uses the word immediately breaks all that and in a racist way.
So fucking pick: Either everybody can use the word, or nobody can. Don't be a racist cunt and allow its use only to people of one race.
I interpret it as "Someone that wants to be special and not just American".
Either you're American or you're not. If you want to be German or African, fuck off to Germany or Africa.
Meanwhile, people from Jamaica are Jamaican. They could be white or black, or a delicious milky coffee shade of brown, like a girl I know. Her skin tones are gorgeous in sunlight.
She's never been to fucking Africa though.
No, I think it has to do with system prejudice and ignorance in America.
I live in a village that has 9000 white residents and around 40 black, asian or Chinese ones. I've never seen any abuse to those 40, they're working in a variety of professions (from pizza delivery to dispensing chemist) and there's no friction. The Turkish looking lady that bought the chipshop seems to be popular amongst the locals too, and her son's on the local dance team.
20 miles away there's a major British city where a quarter of the population are of Indian background alone, let alone the people from Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries. Whole suburbs there are 90+% Asian. I've been out there at night: They're all friendly. I get invited into peoples homes, I can go into the restaurants and be treated as 'just another customer' even when I'm the only white person out of 300 in the building, I can walk down the street and go shopping.
Couple of weeks ago in Manchester I went shopping late at night. Found myself in a major supermarket in a very poor part of the town, queuing amongst people wearing gang colours, 80% of them black, none of the white people had good teeth, the store staff were entirely non-white. Several people smiled in greeting at me, and one gay guy flirted with me, and then I paid for my shopping and went home.
Is there racism? Sure. Just because I'm not seeing it, not suffering from it, doesn't mean that it isn't there. But it's not systemic, it's not a generalised thing, and frankly the existence of a minority isn't the issue, it's other factors at play in the US.
I have noticed black people (in the southern u.s., in general) tend to (genetically) be more socially oriented and more artistic thinkers, less scientific. (Before someone starts fucking arguing: yes, large parts of culture are caused by genetics.) Well, this conflicts with me at the most basic of levels because at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker. I do not feel comfortable around huge numbers of black people because we are so different.
I can only interpret that as racist stereotyping.
I'm scientific too. I cherish my artistic friends, they think differently to me, they open my mind to new ways of thinking, new insights, new experiences.
They're of whatever fucking colour they happen to be. I've worked with black engineers and danced with white artists. I've gone out with a black nurse and lusted after several white ones. (I have a thing for nurses).
Writing off an entire race as "artistic not scientific" and then using that as justification for avoiding their company? Racism.
The councillor herself stated "I can't be racist, because I'm black."
In the media frenzy following the Luis Suarez/Evra incident I was absolutely amazed by the number of people that expressed that viewpoint.
Fortunately many other people educated them, but the level of ignorance was distressing.
Back when it was released, it was a good UI on a Unix desktop OS, with good commercial software support.
Since then, Linux has improved considerably. Windows still has the PC gaming market though.
OSX did make me seriously consider switching to Macs. Then Apple went all controlling and I just don't like that.
Not wanting to watch two men have sex is not homophobia. Demanding that a game doesn't include it while accepting two women or a man and woman having sex is.
After all, it would be no more acceptable to force a heterosexual relationship onto a player character being played by a gay person.
"No sex please" is a British response, not a bigoted one. "Only the sex I approve of" is a bigoted response.
Now you're making me want to write a game that springs homosexuality onto the player character in an unskippable cut-scene. I think I'll play a female character in that one ;)
Frankly? Yes. After struggling through to page 2 of the article, its fragmented structure, glaring hyperlinks and low grade humour made me close that browser tab.
Those authors don't deserve paying.
The only reason Android is pulling ahead is because manufactures can make cheap, low-quality handsets.
You mean, cheap, good-value handsets?
Comparing an iPhone to low-end Android handsets is like comparing to a completely different category of devices.
The irony being that if Apple cut its margins it could use its economy of scale, supply chain leverage and carrier exclusivity to undercut the Android market completely, giving its own customers excellent value for money.
Instead they've opted to give their shareholders a better ROI.
I don't have an issue with that, but I'm interested in value for money and I don't own Apple shares.
So you modded him down based on your own bigoted viewpoint.
No Android phone does what the iPhones do, even if individually, they have some specs that are better.
No iPhone does what my Android phone does. Shit, no iPhone does what my previous non-android non-iOS phone did. Even the ones that had a better spec.
No tablet of vaguely comparable specs is cooler, neither are most laptops.
"cool" is very very subjective. Apple products are to me about as 'uncool' as you can get - mass market, over promoted, horribly crippled and covered in a crass logo. If that's cool, count me out.
No single Andriod sells 20% of iPhone sales, indicating that even in the absense of sales spiffs, the hoi poloi know what they like, and it's not specs.
Yet overall over 50% of smartphones sold in the US are now Andriod. Even in the absence of sales spiffs, the hoi poloi do indeed know what they like, and it isn't the overpriced under-privileged apple advertisement.
Please, stop using your mod points to confirm your bias and instead post under your real name so we can point out how full of shit you are.
It lacks configuration settings, at the very minimum. That tlels me it's not complete, without necessarily knowing what else is missing.