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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: Atheist's Thank You to the Tea Party
« on: August 28, 2011, 06:46:36 AM »
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Scott--I think you have Obtuser 2-3 times over. Scientists don't ask "what if." The ask what if and then formulate a test/experiment to find out and they stick with the results of that testing until some new test comes around===not the same question.
I also find it very irritating to call god "the universe." What a dodge. And yet it seems to hold weight in the theist community.
but I post to OBJECT to the slam you gave me. You act as if I post "new" definitions of words to play games. No. I post THE definition of words and ask others to stop playing theirs.
I'm sure you see the difference.
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: Atheist's Thank You to the Tea Party
« on: August 27, 2011, 02:49:18 AM »
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Good idea/post Scott. First time I have ever read about contextualizing atheism relevant to "evidence" as opposed to god. Very nice subtle shift there that should be appealing to many people.
And No--the notion of god doesn't even rise to the level of a hypothesis and even if it did, or was proven true, the position of self reverance and being anti-theist becomes even more relevant. Hard to be anti something that doesn't exist? And being anti-theist/anti-god is not in that god like way of wanting to punish him. No. I am just a hedonistic securlar humanist wanting my own freedom by leaving everyone else alone.
And that is my question to god: why not just leave other people alone? |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: Atheist's Thank You to the Tea Party
« on: August 26, 2011, 06:41:52 PM »
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Obtuser will answer for himself but when I was an agnostic it was because I bowed to the public pressure/animosity of proclaiming myself an atheist. Now, I am an evangelical anti-theist.
We find our own comfort levels as we do.
There is no "proof" as to the non-existence of god and the Epicurian Logic Trap is our liimitation, not gods==it is argued. |
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The Tech Section / Science / Space / Re: 13 Year Old Boy Makes Solar Power Breakthrough
« on: August 26, 2011, 06:36:27 PM »
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Wow. 13 yo. Pure observation? Or is his dad an engineer/biologist? Dads often have an influence on their kiddies==but I'm not suggesting this, just my first reaction. Even now, and I suspect the next time I go out and look at my local trees, I don't think anything is going to occur to me.
I think "something? must be left out. "Modern" solar includes tracking devices. Surely these focused panels collect more energy than this fractal model?
I had a good idea once. It didn't work out.
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Water Cooler / This and that / Re: Can we redefine the word/concept MONOPOLY?
« on: July 24, 2011, 05:45:56 PM »
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No. That concept is most likely a "barrier to entry" into the market. Hard to tell without details. Usually, it is monopoly power that prevents others from competing but usually that is for services actually being offered.
Its always in the details. |
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The Tech Section / Tech Rants And Raves / Re: Anyone here use a web IP Privacy service?
« on: July 24, 2011, 05:43:41 PM »
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Thanks Breetai. Link took me to an ad for the Anonymous Hackers group. Page did not show any links to privacy tools.
Many blogs do talk about losing download speeds when using a proxy. some say it settles down, others say it is permanent but worth the protection.
I thought there were laws, but evidently they were only proposals, that all ISP's had to keep logs of their activity. Seems to me the anonymous services would have to meet that but they advertise they don't keep records.
I wish the system would let me pay for what I want ((at the rate I want!)). I'm probably just being self centered.
EDIT==I went back to your link and found this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5r_TNE3eb4&NR=1
Very informative just on how the internet works which is always interesting. I understand the "explanation" on how Virtual Private Networks work, but I don't understand how the local ISP can't see thru it. Its their cables. Not to be able to "see" what you are doing in one way or the other just seems like magic to me. and isn't that the definition of anything we don't understand? |
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The Tech Section / Science / Space / Re: With DNA Discovery, 'Human Soup' Gets More Complex
« on: July 23, 2011, 08:33:13 PM »
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Obtuser--did you catch "Cracking the Ocean Code" showing Ventner finding millions of new dna code strings as he sampled the oceans on a long sample tour? It is about 3-4 years old but still seems cutting edge.
I assume those new coding bases are in the "junk" dna or junk material that turn out to be gene regulators---which is so often done by inhibiting one gene from expressing itself over another? Interesting indirect way to do things. Why would that be the plan for so many things?
Then one news feeder had a recent article on a lab in England creating 100's of human/animal combination proto cells. I didn't read those articles. Waiting for the commercial application.
The POWER of gene manipulation/creation. We've only just begun.
The future is so bright, I'm going to have modified eyeballs. |
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The Tech Section / Tech Rants And Raves / Anyone here use a web IP Privacy service?
« on: July 23, 2011, 07:43:02 AM »
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I've been noticing more and more flaky lawsuit activities being reported in the media. The cost of using an intermediary Server to hide your IP makes sense to me except when it comes to my own ISP. Seems to me Comcast would be able to "know" one way or the other exactly what I am downloading or streaming. Everyone agrees the ISP still knows the volume of your activity so they know you are doing "something."
Article here got me interested: http://torrentfreak.com/5-ways-to-download-torrents-anonymously-100819/
I installed anomos and everything seemed to work except in would not download anything. I'm running a 64 bit system and some of the files had 32 but drivers so that may be an incompatibility issue.
anyone have a service they like? |
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The Tech Section / Operating Systems / Re: Anyone else notice little things don't work in Win7/64 Ultimate?
« on: July 22, 2011, 09:13:39 PM »
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Yes, the gigabyte board came with driver disk and I loaded everything that was on it whether I thought I might want/need it at all just in case its function was different than what I thought it was.
Interestingly, last month I used that disk to create a reserved partition for Express Recovery2 that is supposed to image the C-Drive as a backup. After installation, clicking F9 on boot would bring up the Express Recovery function. Now, it doesn't work so I'm going to use the disk again to try and reactivate it. I have read that installing Ubuntu can sometimes interfere with dual OS booting systems but I only ran the Ubuntu from the live disk. Maybe that interfered with the boot process anyway?
So many "little" things. |
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Water Cooler / Tasteless or Not Tasteless / Re: discussion: what did the devil do??
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:50:31 PM »
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I was just reading about "monotheism" on the wiki. It blows me away how much deeper every subject is when I actually look it up. "Have no other gods before me." goes right at the heart of "God" being only one of many. Wipe away the BS, and in reality, I'm willing to bet that the devil is actually just one of the gods God vanquished to claim all reality. Its the Christian church that changes the story trying to make it as one and only one god ever recasting Satan as an Angel--but that doesn't pass the smell test, sulphur notwithstanding. Same with the Holy Trinity. I'll bet the reality for that is God didn't win the contest but rather tied with two other gods and they are ruling by compromise.
Thats why the shit doesn't work. |
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Water Cooler / GMOTW - M. Scott / Re: Liberal vs. Conservative Eating Habits
« on: July 21, 2011, 03:06:09 PM »
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ECA--- given even odds at a betting house, on those statistics your could be rich in short time. You must be thinking of some other mark of validity/usefulness? I for instance hit every one of the lib eating preferences.
How did you do? |
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