May 21st supposedly marked 7,000 years since the Noah's Ark flood and 722,500 days since Jesus' crucifixion. By Camping's numerology, 722,500 represents (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17), or the square of atonement times completeness times heaven.
In case you were curious.
Now that I have seen the reasoning, I am fully convinced and eagerly await the time when these people jet off into the sky and humanity's average intelligence doubles.
There was a virus a while back that used an extortion scheme that was similar: Encrypt the data, wipe the original, then outright sell the key. That one's kind of scary. A simple disinfection wouldn't undo the damage, and since it wouldn't depend on permanent infection it might affect any platform. This one is less upfront about it, but won't fool anyone who has any clue about computers or hard drives.
On the other hand, maybe a lot of users are too clueless to be affected. "Help, there are all these error messages and files keep disappearing, do I have a virus?" "Yes, yes you do."
It was swamp gas from a weather balloon that got trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. Your Macintosh is fine. Trust Our Father Saint Jobs.
That's what the concepts of bad faith and abuse of process are for. Exploiting the letter of the law to deceive and harm people via the court system isn't legal.
Creationists: Come up with a real, actual experiment and a plausible outcome of it that will disprove the existence of an intelligent creator in your eyes. Sign a binding statement to shut the fuck up about God if that outcome occurs. Then people will stop laughing at you, at least until the experiment shows you wrong and you start whining about interpretations and ineffability.
You could be honest with yourselves and reject the scientific method outright - "don't trust your eyes, trust your faith." It's slightly ridiculous and nobody will take you seriously, but at least you'll be left alone. You want to play at being scientists? Then you'll play by the rules of science.
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Wow, we really have come full circle now. link
But... will it be backwards compatible with OS/2?!
Wait, which is it? Is the plant sterile, or is it cross-pollinating?
Oh shit, they are going to upgrade all of humanity. Where is the Doctor when you need him?
Ooh, burn.
The moon isn't exactly hard to find. It's right up there. Just go, break off a piece, and come back. :P
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It turns out that if you intentionally and explicitly put information into a public database, it will then be available in a public database.
You win the internet.
Justified or not, that is useless. There is no individual, or even number of individuals, whose death would help foster Chinese democracy.
1995 called; they want their bubble back.
In case you were curious.
Now that I have seen the reasoning, I am fully convinced and eagerly await the time when these people jet off into the sky and humanity's average intelligence doubles.
There was a virus a while back that used an extortion scheme that was similar: Encrypt the data, wipe the original, then outright sell the key. That one's kind of scary. A simple disinfection wouldn't undo the damage, and since it wouldn't depend on permanent infection it might affect any platform. This one is less upfront about it, but won't fool anyone who has any clue about computers or hard drives.
On the other hand, maybe a lot of users are too clueless to be affected. "Help, there are all these error messages and files keep disappearing, do I have a virus?" "Yes, yes you do."
There is no such thing as a greatest common denominator.
It was swamp gas from a weather balloon that got trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. Your Macintosh is fine. Trust Our Father Saint Jobs.
Scoff at the concept of democracy or freedom of information.
It was in the Daily Mail!
It's not MacOS yet.
Should be roughly the same thing.
That's what the concepts of bad faith and abuse of process are for. Exploiting the letter of the law to deceive and harm people via the court system isn't legal.
Just make it a third button next to "I'm Feeling Lucky":
"Google Search | I'm Feeling Lucky | Confirm My Opinions"
Maybe they'll have better luck fighting that kind of piracy.
A null hypothesis is falsifiable.
Creationists: Come up with a real, actual experiment and a plausible outcome of it that will disprove the existence of an intelligent creator in your eyes. Sign a binding statement to shut the fuck up about God if that outcome occurs. Then people will stop laughing at you, at least until the experiment shows you wrong and you start whining about interpretations and ineffability.
You could be honest with yourselves and reject the scientific method outright - "don't trust your eyes, trust your faith." It's slightly ridiculous and nobody will take you seriously, but at least you'll be left alone. You want to play at being scientists? Then you'll play by the rules of science.
Closing the barn door after the barn has been torn down?