Burning a bible (or any of the other books for the other religions) have some use. Could be a first step for getting a life, gives you a community, could give some respect, all inside the people that understand its value. And bibles lose their value pretty fast, like when you can get them for free by just calling a phone number.
Minus the shit; javascript, forms, multimedia, etc.. pdfs are a more or less reasonable document format for exchange. Certainly better than microsoft documents which you can't even count on looking the same across computers, and PS files tend to get massive.
Of course, I tend to think that everyone should just be using latex already, but like that is ever going to happen...
You know, of all the things the military could be spending money on, I really can't bring myself to complain about this... Funding science is pretty much the only nearly universally accepted upside to having a military.
He's not doubting that this doesn't vindicate the vaccine conspiracy theorists ideas. He's saying that no matter how correct you are, these nuts will still point to this as a reason why they should be given money as well.
Anyone who can be irked to actually research it. These things are highly scrutinized by countless people during their development process. You might not understand it, but that doesn't mean you should try to burn it for being a witch.
But a rational examination and sifting through all the mountains of history and empirical evidence tells us that we simply cannot trust the people who make, promote, sell and administer these drugs.
Right. All that documented history of vaccines wiping out smallpox, and nearly wiping out polio, and all those mountains of empirical evidence showing no correlation between vaccines and autism really suggests that we can't trust vaccines. Gotcha.
Way to find a way to stretch this into an attempt to start yet another healthcare flamewar on slashdot.
Personally, I think I'll abstain, and not take your very obvious bate. I'll continue finding this settlement flat out absurd, but for none of the strawman reasons you suggest. I do not deserve that kind of money for a bullshit 'medical accident', and neither do they.
That's not how you properly challenge that claim. This is a subject that a lot of people care about, and have spent a lot of time (failing) trying to find studies that support a connection between Autism and Vaccination. If you want to do it correctly, you find a peer reviewed study that 1) shows a connection, and 2) hasn't been already shown to be a crock of shit. The ball is in your court.
No, I didn't. We know the Earth is capable of sustaining life. The moon does not sustain life and there is a good chance Mars doesn't either. Certainly not to the levels that earth does. Both of these bodies are more or less geologically dead. We have absolutely no indication that life can form on geologically inactive planets.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's not a terribly unreasonable assertion that being geologically active might have something to do with it. Are there other factors? Of fucking course. Are some of them far more important? Undoubtedly, nobody has argued otherwise. Does any of this change that geological activity might have something to do with it? Hell no. The only assertion being made here is that it might have something to do with it. All of the science we have to date indicates that life seems to like relatively warm planets with atmospheres. It is trivial to demonstrate that temperature/atmosphere and geological activity are very related. Volcanic activity can be trivially linked to millions of the uncountable factors involved here (your '9,499' figure is laughably low).
Here's the thing. We know that most of the planets and major moons in this solar system are geologically active.
How many of them harbor life?
Completely irrelevant. Just because something can be made "more likely" doesn't mean that it is suddenly "likely" in the layman's sense of the term. Being geologically active could improve the odds from 1 in a billion to 1 in 100 million, but that still makes it "more suitable".
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's not a terribly unreasonable assertion that being geologically active might have something to do with it. Is it the primary factor? Who knows, nobody is saying that it is. Are there other factors? Of fucking course. Are some of them far more important? Undoubtedly. Does any of this change that geological activity might have something to do with it? Hell no. The only assertion being made here is that it might have something to do with it. All of the science we have to date indicates that life seems to like relatively warm planets with atmospheres. It is trivial to demonstrate that temperature/atmosphere and geological activity are very related. Volcanic activity can be trivially linked to millions of the uncountable factors involved here (your '9,499' figure is laughably low, despite you foolishly thinking that was absurdly high).
In short, only an idiot would get try to start an argument over this. Hell, you've already demonstrated your stupidity by showing you didn't even know what terrestrial means, as was kindly pointed out by others. The more you try to weasel your way out of what you already said in a conveniently uneditable slashdot comment, the more you prove yourself an idiot. I believe we are through here.
You think cars don't have a shitton of software these days? A decent lawyer can probably dream up a way to apply this ruling to car sale (now car software licensing...) during his lunch-break!
And don't forget that the design of your next new house might be licensed from some architect...
As others have pointed out, the hypothesis states that the presence of volcanoes indicates geological activity. Geological activity can easily be shown to cause uncountable other phenomenon that can be shown to be essential to how life developed on earth. Earth is the only planet with life that we are able to study at this point. It is entirely reasonable to hypothesis that planets like earth are also able to sustain life.
For one thing, the upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 on a given PC costs money
Newsflash: keeping things maintained and safe costs money. Or let me guess, you are one of those people who also neglects to keep their car in good safe working order as well?
how well do VirtualBox and friends handle DirectX graphics or OpenGL?
If you want to use a decade old operating system to play your little games or whatever, then by all means go for it.
But don't check your goddamn email with it! Use a separate install with a secure operating system for that. Doing anything else is damned near criminal negligence.
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Who's being sarcastic? Electronic voting threatens the very basis of democracy: voting.
You have no idea what public key cryptography even is do you? Hint: PGP/GPG exists, works, and is currently used.
It doesn't matter if people know that you are using PGP, you are still secure. At least that's what I think you are trying to say...
And I don't think you read what he wrote:
Fixed that for you.
I'd pay you good money to do exactly that...
You catch on quick don't you?
Minus the shit; javascript, forms, multimedia, etc.. pdfs are a more or less reasonable document format for exchange. Certainly better than microsoft documents which you can't even count on looking the same across computers, and PS files tend to get massive.
Of course, I tend to think that everyone should just be using latex already, but like that is ever going to happen...
You know, of all the things the military could be spending money on, I really can't bring myself to complain about this... Funding science is pretty much the only nearly universally accepted upside to having a military.
Short version: You (the taxpayer).
He's not doubting that this doesn't vindicate the vaccine conspiracy theorists ideas. He's saying that no matter how correct you are, these nuts will still point to this as a reason why they should be given money as well.
Because as we all know, mere one-time correlation is the strongest form of evidence.
Anyone who can be irked to actually research it. These things are highly scrutinized by countless people during their development process. You might not understand it, but that doesn't mean you should try to burn it for being a witch.
Right. All that documented history of vaccines wiping out smallpox, and nearly wiping out polio, and all those mountains of empirical evidence showing no correlation between vaccines and autism really suggests that we can't trust vaccines. Gotcha.
Way to find a way to stretch this into an attempt to start yet another healthcare flamewar on slashdot.
Personally, I think I'll abstain, and not take your very obvious bate. I'll continue finding this settlement flat out absurd, but for none of the strawman reasons you suggest. I do not deserve that kind of money for a bullshit 'medical accident', and neither do they.
That's not how you properly challenge that claim. This is a subject that a lot of people care about, and have spent a lot of time (failing) trying to find studies that support a connection between Autism and Vaccination. If you want to do it correctly, you find a peer reviewed study that 1) shows a connection, and 2) hasn't been already shown to be a crock of shit. The ball is in your court.
Go ahead, we're waiting...
No, I didn't. We know the Earth is capable of sustaining life. The moon does not sustain life and there is a good chance Mars doesn't either. Certainly not to the levels that earth does. Both of these bodies are more or less geologically dead. We have absolutely no indication that life can form on geologically inactive planets.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's not a terribly unreasonable assertion that being geologically active might have something to do with it. Are there other factors? Of fucking course. Are some of them far more important? Undoubtedly, nobody has argued otherwise. Does any of this change that geological activity might have something to do with it? Hell no. The only assertion being made here is that it might have something to do with it. All of the science we have to date indicates that life seems to like relatively warm planets with atmospheres. It is trivial to demonstrate that temperature/atmosphere and geological activity are very related. Volcanic activity can be trivially linked to millions of the uncountable factors involved here (your '9,499' figure is laughably low).
Completely irrelevant. Just because something can be made "more likely" doesn't mean that it is suddenly "likely" in the layman's sense of the term. Being geologically active could improve the odds from 1 in a billion to 1 in 100 million, but that still makes it "more suitable".
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's not a terribly unreasonable assertion that being geologically active might have something to do with it. Is it the primary factor? Who knows, nobody is saying that it is. Are there other factors? Of fucking course. Are some of them far more important? Undoubtedly. Does any of this change that geological activity might have something to do with it? Hell no. The only assertion being made here is that it might have something to do with it. All of the science we have to date indicates that life seems to like relatively warm planets with atmospheres. It is trivial to demonstrate that temperature/atmosphere and geological activity are very related. Volcanic activity can be trivially linked to millions of the uncountable factors involved here (your '9,499' figure is laughably low, despite you foolishly thinking that was absurdly high).
In short, only an idiot would get try to start an argument over this. Hell, you've already demonstrated your stupidity by showing you didn't even know what terrestrial means, as was kindly pointed out by others. The more you try to weasel your way out of what you already said in a conveniently uneditable slashdot comment, the more you prove yourself an idiot. I believe we are through here.
You think cars don't have a shitton of software these days? A decent lawyer can probably dream up a way to apply this ruling to car sale (now car software licensing...) during his lunch-break!
And don't forget that the design of your next new house might be licensed from some architect...
As others have pointed out, the hypothesis states that the presence of volcanoes indicates geological activity. Geological activity can easily be shown to cause uncountable other phenomenon that can be shown to be essential to how life developed on earth. Earth is the only planet with life that we are able to study at this point. It is entirely reasonable to hypothesis that planets like earth are also able to sustain life.
Stop being wilfully dense, nobody finds it cute.
It's called "making a hypothesis". Coming up with new ideas, and trying to figure out ways of testing them is exactly what science is about.
As I said earlier, you're trying to hard. You're making a fool of nobody but yourself.
Who is saying that?
In other words, that statement not only isn't saying they are necessary, it's not even saying that they would help! Just that they might help.
I think you are trying way to hard to be argumentative.
Best twilight zone episode ever.
In both cases, the extreme negligence of the computer administrator is the present. Doesn't matter if this is in someone's home, or in an office.
Ignorance is the problem, not the excuse.
Newsflash: keeping things maintained and safe costs money. Or let me guess, you are one of those people who also neglects to keep their car in good safe working order as well?
Well.
If you want to use a decade old operating system to play your little games or whatever, then by all means go for it.
But don't check your goddamn email with it! Use a separate install with a secure operating system for that. Doing anything else is damned near criminal negligence.