This article sounds like it was written by someone who never actually tried online dating.
"Now you go online, select a partner, and you are immediately dating someone who is at least interested in you. Of course online dating is still work, but the emotional labor and risk of failure has been significantly reduced."
Dude, you're an idiot. After having spent a year and a half on numerous dating sites with absolutely zero success, I can attest that the emotional labor is every bit as trying as it is in the real world. Personally, I prefer being snubbed in person, at least then I can get the satisfaction of making the person uncomfortable.
Being originally from Small Town, Ohio, I can attest to the fact that people who live there have small minds and neither know nor care about things outside their own little world of shitty beer and Friday Night Lights. Quite simply, they make these dumb fucking children who have never been taught right from wrong into hero-figures because that is all they have. A few of those kids who are lucky/rich/smart enough will make it out, but for the majority of them, HS football is the peak of their lives, and they will spend their years after graduating living in the same town, working a shit job, and clinging to those days of "glory". Then when they have kids, they try to live vicariously through them, pushing them down the same path, and the cycle perpetuates itself. It's ridiculous and pathetic, but it's all these sad sacks of shit have.
Sure there is, it was there in the distant past. The thick atmosphere and oceans Mars used to have didn't just vanish, they condensed, froze out and became entombed in the planet's crust. It's all still there. The difficulty is in raising planetary temperature enough to release it and reestablish a self-perpetuating greenhouse effect. But that's for the terraformers.
Trace amounts? The entire northern polar cap of Mars is water ice, not to mention the sizable amount of ice locked up in Martian soil. There is enough water on Mars to fill the Hellas Basin and then some, possibly enough to turn the entire northern hemisphere into a swamp. As for the Moon, there is enough ice hidden in the polar areas to be useful as fuel for spaceships. In neither case is the amount so small as to be "meaningless."
Unknown (or unknowable) and uncertain aren't exactly the same thing, and I don't think Heisenberg's principle applies to the discussion. There's still plenty we don't understand about QM, but we will figure it out, given enough time. If the Universe is essentially "digital" as Planck would lead us to believe, that may just be an effect of the holographic principle. Once we start considering higher order dimensionality, damn near anything is possible.
Don't mix them, religion will never tell you how in a reasonable way, and science couldn't give two cents about why.
You're right, it's not an attack against God, it's simply the effort to make him unnecessary. Belief in the supernatural came about from primitive people trying to understand natural phenomena and lacking the tools to do so. As knowledge has grown, the importance of the supernatural has proportionally decreased. You yourself say that "Religion is about the mystery and that which can not be known." Science rejects the notion that there is anything which can't be known, there is only that which we do not understand yet. Unfortunately, the supernatural became institutionalized very early on when ambitious people realized they could use it to control others. "Do this because [deity] commands it! Else his wrath you shall suffer!" And they succeeded and grew powerful, so powerful that now there is a very large vested interest in maintaining that power, by whatever means. I admire that you see science for what it is, at the same time I am dismayed that you cling to the supernatural as well. The Universe loses none of its wonder when you understand how it works, and I for one don't feel any desire to believe in something "greater" than myself. I don't have to. I can observe greatness all around me at all times. Reality is much more impressive than magic.
One is part of a system of thought that espouses that everything can be understood and explained. The other specifically states that there are things which are unknowable. Sounds pretty separate to me.
It's not just depressing, it's downright disturbing. People that hold irrational views in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary are dangerous, pure and simple.
Humans were also meant to live in utter ignorance without any thought or contemplation, never questioning anything. To live forever like that? No thanks. I'll take knowledge and death. Thank you, Mr. Snake.
This, to me, shows that "God" is not all-good, he wanted a subjugated race of dull-witted worshipers. Speaks volumes about his mental state. And beyond that, it demonstrates to me why the entire concept of religion is a bunch of bullshit. From its very core it is simply about controlling people.
Why not come up with designs for a 3D printed bike? Or an ultralight airplane? Or agricultural tools? Or furniture? Or a cotton gin? Or houses? Or any of a million other things which have functions other than killing?
Fucking Texas... full of barbarians in stupid hats. You have in your hands the greatest revolution in fabrication since the assembly line and all you can think of to do with it is make guns. Just fuck off. Civilization doesn't need you.
How many ways are there to answer the same question? Sooner or later a couple of people are going to have the same thought about something, it's not plagiarism, it is nature. There are finite ways of expressing the same concept. That's where I see the big failing of these services like TurnItIn happening; sooner or later their databases will be so huge there's no way to NOT plagiarize something. You can't account for it and you can't prevent it. I think the larger issue is being completely ignored: does the student actually understand what he/she is talking about? Or are they just trying to pass the course with minimal effort?
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This article sounds like it was written by someone who never actually tried online dating.
"Now you go online, select a partner, and you are immediately dating someone who is at least interested in you. Of course online dating is still work, but the emotional labor and risk of failure has been significantly reduced."
Dude, you're an idiot. After having spent a year and a half on numerous dating sites with absolutely zero success, I can attest that the emotional labor is every bit as trying as it is in the real world. Personally, I prefer being snubbed in person, at least then I can get the satisfaction of making the person uncomfortable.
Being originally from Small Town, Ohio, I can attest to the fact that people who live there have small minds and neither know nor care about things outside their own little world of shitty beer and Friday Night Lights. Quite simply, they make these dumb fucking children who have never been taught right from wrong into hero-figures because that is all they have. A few of those kids who are lucky/rich/smart enough will make it out, but for the majority of them, HS football is the peak of their lives, and they will spend their years after graduating living in the same town, working a shit job, and clinging to those days of "glory". Then when they have kids, they try to live vicariously through them, pushing them down the same path, and the cycle perpetuates itself. It's ridiculous and pathetic, but it's all these sad sacks of shit have.
Sure there is, it was there in the distant past. The thick atmosphere and oceans Mars used to have didn't just vanish, they condensed, froze out and became entombed in the planet's crust. It's all still there. The difficulty is in raising planetary temperature enough to release it and reestablish a self-perpetuating greenhouse effect. But that's for the terraformers.
Maybe if someone shoots up an NRA convention they'll start to realize how full of shit they are.
Trace amounts? The entire northern polar cap of Mars is water ice, not to mention the sizable amount of ice locked up in Martian soil. There is enough water on Mars to fill the Hellas Basin and then some, possibly enough to turn the entire northern hemisphere into a swamp. As for the Moon, there is enough ice hidden in the polar areas to be useful as fuel for spaceships. In neither case is the amount so small as to be "meaningless."
There is ice on both the moon and Mars. What is ice? Frozen water. What's it made of? Hydrogen and, you guessed it, oxygen.
It astonishes me that you pretend to speak so authoritatively on a topic about which you clearly know nothing.
There's a bit of air clinging to the moon as well.
I still have some but they're relics, haven't been played in years.
Good option if you have it, but optical media is dead to me.
flash is dead too, and about time
silence, fool! you will summon the wrath!
Until it runs in Linux natively, I'm not reinstating my subscription. Bite me, Netflix.
Unknown (or unknowable) and uncertain aren't exactly the same thing, and I don't think Heisenberg's principle applies to the discussion. There's still plenty we don't understand about QM, but we will figure it out, given enough time. If the Universe is essentially "digital" as Planck would lead us to believe, that may just be an effect of the holographic principle. Once we start considering higher order dimensionality, damn near anything is possible.
Don't mix them, religion will never tell you how in a reasonable way, and science couldn't give two cents about why.
I like that. :)
You're right, it's not an attack against God, it's simply the effort to make him unnecessary. Belief in the supernatural came about from primitive people trying to understand natural phenomena and lacking the tools to do so. As knowledge has grown, the importance of the supernatural has proportionally decreased. You yourself say that "Religion is about the mystery and that which can not be known." Science rejects the notion that there is anything which can't be known, there is only that which we do not understand yet. Unfortunately, the supernatural became institutionalized very early on when ambitious people realized they could use it to control others. "Do this because [deity] commands it! Else his wrath you shall suffer!" And they succeeded and grew powerful, so powerful that now there is a very large vested interest in maintaining that power, by whatever means. I admire that you see science for what it is, at the same time I am dismayed that you cling to the supernatural as well. The Universe loses none of its wonder when you understand how it works, and I for one don't feel any desire to believe in something "greater" than myself. I don't have to. I can observe greatness all around me at all times. Reality is much more impressive than magic.
One is part of a system of thought that espouses that everything can be understood and explained. The other specifically states that there are things which are unknowable. Sounds pretty separate to me.
They prefer the euphemism "faithful."
It's not just depressing, it's downright disturbing. People that hold irrational views in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary are dangerous, pure and simple.
And theres damm few other religions that can say that. The rest of them all love to preach to everyone and tell us we're all going to hell.
Or try to blow us up and send us there personally. Barbarism.
Humans were also meant to live in utter ignorance without any thought or contemplation, never questioning anything. To live forever like that? No thanks. I'll take knowledge and death. Thank you, Mr. Snake.
This, to me, shows that "God" is not all-good, he wanted a subjugated race of dull-witted worshipers. Speaks volumes about his mental state. And beyond that, it demonstrates to me why the entire concept of religion is a bunch of bullshit. From its very core it is simply about controlling people.
Why not come up with designs for a 3D printed bike? Or an ultralight airplane? Or agricultural tools? Or furniture? Or a cotton gin? Or houses? Or any of a million other things which have functions other than killing?
Fucking Texas... full of barbarians in stupid hats. You have in your hands the greatest revolution in fabrication since the assembly line and all you can think of to do with it is make guns. Just fuck off. Civilization doesn't need you.
Spot on, but you're pretty wordy for a Vorlon. Can't you be more enigmatic?
How many ways are there to answer the same question? Sooner or later a couple of people are going to have the same thought about something, it's not plagiarism, it is nature. There are finite ways of expressing the same concept. That's where I see the big failing of these services like TurnItIn happening; sooner or later their databases will be so huge there's no way to NOT plagiarize something. You can't account for it and you can't prevent it. I think the larger issue is being completely ignored: does the student actually understand what he/she is talking about? Or are they just trying to pass the course with minimal effort?
We should make it so Congress only gets paid when they actually accomplish something, make them work on commission. /pipedream
And yet they are anyway. It's government, they're all accountable to someone. They shouldn't be acting like they're in competition with each other.
Did you miss the part where it said "civilian agency?"